BOOK PRESENTATION Fr Billy Swaw St Aidan’s Cathedral, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford Patick In His Own Words Joseph Duffy Veritas Publications, 2019 ISBN 9781847309372 pp. 152 • €12.99/£11.95 Patrick in his Own Words,’published in 1972, was one of the first titles issued by Veritas Publications. To mark fifty years since the Catholic Truth Society and the

NEWMAN A Short Biography Fr Michael Collins Dublin: Messenger Publications, 2019   A PERFECT PEACE Newman – Saint for our Time Bishop Fintan Monahan Dublin: Veritas Publications, 2019 Two short books, quite different in style and approach, but each one an excellent introduction to the life and thought of Cardinal – now Saint – John

This page can be reproduced in parish newsletters, or circulated for parish use. Please include the name of the writer and reference to this issue of Intercom.   Lectio Divina His mercy reaches from age to age (Luke 1:50)   Lectio: what the Word says in itself… This scripture verse is from what is known

Leathanach don Cheiliuraí An tEaspag Breandán Ó Ceallaigh Easpag na Gaillimhe   1 Samhain – Na Naoimh Uile Réamhrá Go mbeannaí Dia dhaoibh, a phobail Dé , agus céad fáilte ag an Aifrinn ar Fhéile seo na Naoimh Uile. Ár muintir féin ina measc, creidimíd, agus iad ag guí ar ár son … le go

The tattoos of God … In London, while doing ‘supply’ in a parish, I had a sad and tough funeral. A 24-year-old girl, an only daughter had taken an overdose, went into a coma and died three days later. What do you say in the face of indescribable tragedy? A young woman, full of life’s

Seeing your Life through the Lens of the Gospel   John Byrne osa Email [email protected]   Solemnity of All Saints 1 November 2020 The blessings in the Beatitudes are primarily future blessings, but there can be an anticipation of the blessings in the present. At first reading some Beatitudes may seem to describe circumstances that

The Deep End Jane Mellett [email protected]   Solemnity of All Saints 1 November 2020 Saints in the making There is a patron saint for almost every situation you could imagine. When we’ve lost something, we talk to St Anthony; faced with a hopeless situation, we pray to St Jude. We ask St Christopher to help

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BOOK PRESENTATION The Editor NEWMAN A Short Biography Fr Michael Collins Dublin: Messenger Publications, 2019 A PERFECT PEACE Newman – Saint for our Time Bishop Fintan Monahan Dublin: Veritas Publications, 2019 Two short books, quite different in style and approach, but each one an excellent introduction to the life and thought of Cardinal – now