As different as chalk and Cheese, as they say – These two priests of My Childhood Cool, hip and trendy Holy oil still wet on you. You wrestled us, boasting Fast Mass, Stale Beer, Faint hint of Unclean. In you strutted, pompous They said, plump in purple Bowed at crucifix Read more…
‘Are you going away with no word of farewell ‘Will there not be a trace left behind? Well I could have loved you better, didn’t mean to be unkind, You know it was the last thing on my mind’ In any experience of closure, of goodbye, of an ending, we Read more…
The notion of prayer and fasting is far from new. In fact, even though I am very interested in the role of both, prayer and fasting, in the life of Jesus, the reality is that both were being practised by others for many years before that. My initial idea of Read more…
There was a time when we all prayed for vocations. It was often billed just like that. ‘Let us pray for vocations’…. sometimes it went further and said ‘Let us pray for vocations to the priesthood’. Indeed now and again we said, ‘Let us pray for vocations to the priesthood Read more…