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Surge in Vocations in Spain
You'd be hard pressed to find a country which has been traditionally more Catholic than Spain. It's been at the centre of the story of the Church for hundreds of years, but in recent times it has faced many of the same challenges we have in Ireland and England. There...
Eucharistic Congress – there’s an App for that
There's an App apparently for everything. There is no aspect of our lives, no matter how obscure, how bizarre that doesn't have an associated smart phone feature that can make our lives more hassle free. Today I found out that these handy features now extend to our...
Emmaus Vocations Walk
Last Sunday, as part of our celebration of World Day of Prayer for Vocations, about sixty people gathered for an Emmaus walk outside of Muckross Abbey. It was to be a day of reflective prayer, where we walked in two or threes, thinking about the story of those...
Vocations Sunday
"God encounters us ever anew, in the men and women who reflect His presence, in His Word, in the Sacraments and in the Eucharist". Pope Benedict XVI This coming Sunday is the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. It's an annual event where the universal Church comes...
Pope Benedict’s Message for Vocations
World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2012 Pope Benedict XVI The source of every perfect gift is God who is Love - Deus caritas est: "Whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him" (1 Jn 4:16). Sacred Scripture tells the story of this original bond between God and...
What are you so happy about?
Not so long ago I wrote a blog on the New Atheist bus campaign which extolled the virtues of not worrying about God and getting on being happy in life. It presumed not only the absence of God, but that in the meantime all believers were a pretty glum, worrisome group....
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Fr Alan’s missionary work in South Sudan
In November 2020, during the covid pandemic, Fr Alan left the MSC Missions in Cork to aid the missionaries in South Sudan, since then he has documented his vocation….
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