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Patrick's first appearance on Irish soil was not as a conquering hero but as a trafficked slave. Later he seized an opportunity to flee from the land of his captivity to a place of safety. After several years of preparation, drawn by the Holy...
May I express my personal thanks to each and every one of you for being here, for spending this time today, and, more importantly, for contributing to and guiding this synodal process. Everything that we have done and heard today has to move...
Scripture records the encounter between St Paul and God which transformed him from a persecutor of the followers of Christ into a messenger of the 'Wondrous Word' of God per excellence. The Church celebrates the feast of this encounter on 25...
As a new year dawns, we look for hope. Surely this next year can't be as bad as the one to which we say 'Goodbye'? There are two versions of hope worth pondering. One is that hope comes when we can look forward to an uncertain future from the...
There is a poem by Frances Chesterton which opens with the words: 'Here is the little door'. Some of you may know it, more probably as set to music as a carol. It speaks of the visit of the Wise Men to the child Jesus with 'such tiny hands...