You will have heard by now that Fr Paschal Scallon CM has been appointed Provincial of the Vincentian Province in Ireland and Britain, succeeding Fr Eamon Devlin CM. We take this opportunity on behalf of everyone in the community and parish to wish Fr Paschal (our former Parish Priest) every blessing in his new ministry and we ask you to support him with your prayers.
Sacred places and churches have an aroma of prayer; it’s almost as if the prayers and holiness of countless faithful over generations are clinging to the walls and columns.
So, when Jesus arrived in his Father’s Temple in Jerusalem (on the first of his three Passover visits in St John’s Gospel) he brings an urgent prophetic vision of true worship in that sacred place.
Certain abuses had crept in; the Temple precincts were being abused. Jesus, with untypical vehemence, vigorously drives [...]
Sacred places and churches have an aroma of prayer; it’s almost as if the prayers and holiness of countless faithful over generations are clinging to the walls and columns.
So, when Jesus arrived in his Father’s Temple in Jerusalem (on the first of his three Passover visits in St John’s Gospel) he brings an urgent prophetic vision of true worship in that sacred place.
Certain abuses had crept in; the Temple precincts were being abused. Jesus, with untypical vehemence, vigorously drives [...]