WELCOME TO PALLOTTINES IRELAND
Pallottine Fathers and Brothers
There’s a breeze that blows before the rain. It meets the resistance of the rhododendron, braced against the weather, not a trembling but more a stiffened shaking, a soldier standing to attention in a storm. This is a day of Continue reading Thou Art My Island
Holiness: A Path Travelled Together “Growth in holiness is a journey in community, side by side with others.” – Gaudete et Exsultate 141. Pope Francis, in this affirmation from his Apostolic Exhortation on the call to holiness in today’s world, Continue reading A Path Travelled Together – Pat Maguire
Back in the 1990’s I was involved in the formation of students for the priesthood who were being educated in what might be called a “liberal” institute, though I’m not at all fond of such labels but I don’t know Continue reading Always The Same Lord
Broken body restingOn my lap hiddenImage of the unseenGod in finite form frail God knows how to liveAnd how not to beAble to keep goingTo birth’s beginningsThe end of expectancy Eternal is the spaceBeyond end and beginningThe place of this Continue reading You Are Weeping Now
“Insomnia can become a form of contemplation. You just lie there, inert, helpless, alone, in the dark, and let yourself be crushed by the inscrutable tyranny of time. The plank bed becomes an altar and you lie there without trying to Continue reading INSOMNIA: They Who Fly Home To God
I see his face in every flower The quote above is a line from the poem ‘The Presence Of God’ by Joseph Mary Plunkett, one of the martyrs of the 1916 Rising whose marriage to Grace Gifford took place in Continue reading CORPUS CHRISTI: The Presence of God
Slowing to the pace of a pond, time away from mowing machines, a breeze too cool for June, a warm suntrap carved into the rhododendron bush, birdsong, rushes rustling and water lilies perfectly still. This is Ashburnham! There is no Continue reading TRINITY SUNDAY: Slowing To The Pace Of A Pond
The beginning of the year 1999 was marked by the retirement of Mick Timlin as Provincial Bursar and the first six months of the year were marked by his illness. He really hadn’t been well for the past couple of Continue reading Father Timlin Remembered
Knock Homily 2019 Our Gospel today is a heart wrenching scene. Our Lord is in agony on the Cross and at the foot of the Cross is Our Lady and St John. Very often, when we see films that Continue reading Into The Home of our Heart: Homily at Knock, June 2019 – Fr. Jaimie Twohig SAC
