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So you have a Holy Door. It’s good to reflect a little on what it’s for. It reminds us, above all, that we’re on a journey – a journey from this life into the next. Jesus said, ‘I am the door’; and we long to be united with him in...
Jesus is preparing his friends for his departure. He tells them, ‘the time will come for the bridegroom to be taken away from them.’ I like the slightly irreverent story of how when Jesus ascended to heaven, the first person he met was the Ar...
There was a parish which invited a famous actor to come and recite some of their favourite writings. The actor recited all different kinds of texts. As the evening neared its end, he said he would recite just one more. They asked him to recite...
St Bernadette loved this place, as we all do. Years after she left Lourdes, she used to say, ‘I wish I could just fly to Lourdes in a balloon and be at the grotto!’ In many ways, our virtual pilgrimage has been just like that. With Bernadette...
All the saints of Ireland Each year we commemorate all the saints of Ireland. It is good that this year we celebrate in this chapel of St Patrick, the spiritual ancestor not only of all Irish saints but of Irish people. Only four of those Saints ...