Month: March 2013

Reflection – Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday marks the culmination of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week. We are about to celebrate what is at the heart of our faith, the Paschal Mystery of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. The palms are…

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Saint Patrick and the mission today

Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. He was born in Scotland c.385. As a young boy he was taken to Ireland as a slave and forced to tend sheep. During his captivity he turned to prayer. Writing in his…

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Reflection – Fifth Sunday of Lent

In today’s Gospel we have the encounter between Jesus and the woman who was caught committing adultery. At the time the punishment for such an act was death by stoning. The scribes and the Pharisees treated her as an outcast…

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Reflection – Encountering Jesus in our hearts

Following Jesus isn’t always easy. We live in a consumer and media driven society which challenges us to believe what the culture is telling us rather than the Good News of the Gospel. Too often the world is an unequal…

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