Author: Patrick Muldoon

Knock – a special place of peace and hope

There is something precious about Knock Shrine that particularly resonates with me, I think it is the gift of serene peace which I usually receive while I’m there. The serenity and peace of Knock helps me to leave aside the noise and busyness of my day to day life and enter into the stillness and contemplative presence of God.

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‘A peace which the world cannot give’

The message of Easter is one of great joy. After the penitential season of Lent and Holy Week Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Christ on Easter Sunday, the most important feast on the liturgical calendar, beginning a season of fifty…

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The gift and joy of running during lockdown

                      Next month will mark a year since Ireland went into the first coronavirus lockdown. The country is presently going through a third national lockdown which has prompted people to…

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Look towards the light on the horizon

As the evenings get longer and the signs of Spring slowly surface, it is a good time to look forward in faith to the future. The scale of suffering brought about by the Covid-19 global pandemic has spread a heavy…

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Have faith in what will be

It has been widely acknowledged how the Coronavirus pandemic has changed our daily lives. For many Covid-19 has made life less frenzied, it has led society to seek answers to the bigger questions of life; and some individuals have used…

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