Don’t worry; be happy these are the very first words of today’s mass: Be happy! Rejoice in the lord always; again I say rejoice. The Lord is near. This year […]

When you ask people today are they looking forward to Christmas you will get many different answers. There are many people in Ireland today and indeed in our families and […]

When we think of Advent, Christmas immediately comes to mind, to add a spiritual dimension, we think of the birth of Jesus. Advent we could say is a ‘space’ where […]

In his book The Christian Vision, John Powell, a Jesuit, recalls an old Irish legend. It goes back to the time when kings ruled Ireland. It seems that the reigning […]

The story in our gospel today is a beautiful story and is what we could call a hinge story, its right in the middle of Marks gospel and everything changes […]

A woman named Ruth was walking out of church one Sunday morning. She spotted an old man struggling to put on his coat. She walked over, smiled, and gave him […]

In the gospel story today we have this beautiful story of the rich young man who approached Jesus. This is one of the great sorties in the NT and a […]

Our first reading today is of pivotal importance in the Bible because it lays out some of the fundamentals of the relationships between human beings, especially in marriage. The Lord […]

The first reading and the gospel today focus on a problem that is mentioned a lot in the Bible. This is the problem of the church becoming its own worst […]

It’s amazing how many stories in human tradition are driven by jealousy and envy, we could look at the prominent role of jealousy in literature, some of Shakespeare’s plays (Hamlet, […]