by stpatricksoho | Nov 18, 2016 | Uncategorized |
A special Mass incorporating a performance of Marbhna 1916 – Requiem specially composed by Odhrán O’ Casaide and conducted by David O’ Doherty will be performed during Mass on Tuesday 29th November 2016 at 7.15pm. This performance is part of the closing events of the...
by stpatricksoho | Oct 25, 2016 | Uncategorized |
This weekend we celebrated the feast of Saint John Paul the second. He was a man of considerable intellect, great fortitude and extraordinary insight into the world’s problems both in his day and remarkably still so for our day. We do not know much of his...
by stpatricksoho | Sep 1, 2016 | News and Events |
Those of us who knew her feel a twinge of guilt writing about Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. Mother’s life was always about the other, about Jesus, and she did not enjoy being the centre of media attention. She accepted that for the sake of Jesus and the poor she would...
by stpatricksoho | Sep 1, 2016 | Weekly Sermons |
“When you have a party invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind – that they cannot pay you back means that you are fortunate”. Today’s Gospel calls us to a radical humility in the most stark manner. As we listen to the words of Jesus, inevitably I...
by stpatricksoho | Aug 15, 2016 | News and Events, Weekly Sermons |
“All men will be brought to life in Christ”. The words of St Paul in the Second Reading are an invitation to each of us to look for new life in Christ. That question that we need to ask of ourselves again and again, “What is the most overriding hope, desire and wish...
by stpatricksoho | Jul 29, 2016 | News and Events, Weekly Sermons |
“If you then who are evil know how to give your children what is good – how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him”. We ask ourselves – what is the most important activity for us as Christians? My answer would be it is to be a...
by stpatricksoho | Jul 19, 2016 | News and Events, Weekly Sermons |
“It is not to be taken from her”. Last week I had the great joy to stay at a Carthusian monastery of 40 nuns high up in the Austrian Alps. Carthusian nuns or monks live the strictest of all lives for they live an enclosure which is almost total. The sisters have a...
by stpatricksoho | Jun 20, 2016 | News and Events, Weekly Sermons |
“You have all clothed yourselves in Christ”. Paul today in the Second Reading invites the Galatians to be totally absorbed in Christ. Their speaking, acting, working, recreation and every part of their being, is called to be coloured by and orientated towards...
by stpatricksoho | Jun 14, 2016 | News and Events, Weekly Sermons |
“Her sins, her many sins must have been forgiven or she would not have shown such great love”. In today’s Gospel we hear one of the most beguiling, bewitching and challenging stories of the Gospel. Tradition tells us that the woman with the bad name may well have...
by stpatricksoho | Jun 6, 2016 | News and Events, Weekly Sermons |
“A great prophet has appeared among us – God has visited His people.” Picture and imagine the place of Nain that we read about in today’s Gospel. It was almost certainly a bustling and busy city and given the heat of the Middle East probably full of noise and dust. ...
