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Philip Joyce

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Liturgical Calendar for Ireland 2020

Easter Sunday Anno Domini 2021 will fall on April 4th.  This information – and much, much more – is included in the 2019/20 Liturgical...
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Living with Covid-19

Coronavirus emanated from China in December 2019. Its rapid escalation was reminiscent of the seed-distribution of a dandelion, and it had somehow travelled the...
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A ‘dreamer’ is celebrated on the first day of May – Saint Joseph the Worker

As Saint Matthew describes in his Gospel, Saint Joseph received an angelic message in a dream-state as he lay pondering the breaking of his...
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From the peace of Palm Sunday to the cruelty of the Crucifixion and beyond

How wonderful it would have been to have walked into the palm-strewn streets of Jerusalem alongside Jesus, with His exuberant followers 2000 years ago....
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International News

Saint Teresa of Los Andes, Chile – Centenary Feastday, April 12th

In this season of Irish State centenary  commemorations – many of them proving to be quite contentious – spare a thought for the Catholics...
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Monthly Meditations

The Ideas of March

There is something about the month of March - named after the Roman god of war - that definitely indicates change. Momentous change did...
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Religious Persecution – UK Report should be a wake-up call to Ireland

The Anglican Bishop of Truro, Rev Philip Mountstephen, recently...
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Insidious

Andrew Doyle, writing in The Spectator (August 8th), asks...
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