An Irish Bishop Who Died in Italy
Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy We kept today the commemoration of Blessed Thaddeus Machar (McCarthy). When we first began following the Irish Sanctoral, and I had to...
Martyrs Close to Home
The photograph shows statues of the martyrs Blessed Margaret Ball and Blessed Francis Taylor at Saint Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Dublin. We keep their feast today....
On the need for more Irish canonisations
Catholic Culture and Holiness Yesterday on his blog, Remembering Father William Doyle, S.J., our dear friend, Benedictine Oblate Pat Kenny, wrote a compelling plea for...
Saint Malachy’s Pastoral Plan for Ireland
Today is the feast of Saint Malachy of Armagh. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who counted Saint Malachy among his friends, describes the Archbishop of Armagh’s...
Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth
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To strengthen thee in the Testaments of God
Today is the feast of Saint Columba (Colum Cille), one of the three principal patron saints of Ireland, the other two being Saint Patrick and...
Restoring Ireland to Christ
In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from Whom is all authority and to Whom, as our final end, all actions both of men...
St Patrick’s Day Pilgrimage to the Hill of Slane
In celebration of the feast of Saint Patrick, part of the community made a little pilgrimage to the Holy Hill of Slane where, in 433...
Mother of the Churches of Erin
Today at Holy Mass, we will have the traditional blessings of Saint Brigid’s crosses. There are still many people here who know how to make...
The Sacred Heart in Margaret’s Kitchen
A Family Story My Irish grandmother’s Christian name was Margaret Mary. As one might expect, a framed picture of the Sacred Heart figured prominently in...
From a new found friend in Ireland
I just received this grand letter (in the form of a comment) from Eamonn Giblin, a native of Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, Ireland, a place dear...
For the Church in Ireland
After reading, in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, the Holy Father’s beautiful letter to the faithful of Ireland, I was moved to intercede in...
Winter Reading
What are you reading during these dark winter days? You may think me a glutton for gloom, given recent events in the land of my...
140 Years of Eucharistic Adoration in Ireland
Original Chapel of the Drumshanbo Monastery I had just finished the Invitatory at Vigils this morning when I heard the telephone ringing. Normally, I don’t...