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July 2017
July 29, 2017

Joseph Hart Word on the Week 29th July 2017. Have you noticed that among the words which have dropped out of circulation or have lost much of their original meaning is the word ‘sin’. When it is used it usually restricted to trivia and is associated with excess or unwise eating or drinking. Joseph Hart […]

July 22, 2017

George Young, Missionary

A recent reading of the ‘High Priestly Prayer’ (St John Chapter 17) reminded me of the first time I heard it explained. It was back in the mid 1960ies and I had recently been converted when George Young, then a retired missionary, spoke on the Chapter over four evenings. I still have the notes from […]

July 15, 2017

Murphy’s Tactics

I was reminder this week of the pyromaniac who burned down the old mews house which formed part of our church complex in Pearse Street about 20 years ago. He then contacted the fire brigade to come and put the fire out! The antics of one of our TD’s were not all that dissimilar. The […]

July 8, 2017

Anne Sullivan

Anne Sullivan was a survivor. She was one of two children born in Massachusetts to famine immigrants from Co Limerick. Following her mother’s death when she was age 8 her father could not cope and placed both herself and her younger brother into an almshouse. The brother died shortly afterwards and Anne, who had developed […]

July 1, 2017

Pell’s Plight

This week the news broke of legal charges filed against Cardinal Pell, formerly archbishop of Sydney and Melbourne, but for the last three years has been in the Vatican dealing with its finances. During his time away from Australia there appears to have been multiple complaints lodged against the Cardinal of “historical sexual offences” but […]

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