The House was filled with the fragrance of the perfume
Our Lieutenancy Secretary, Confrère Mark Kane, KHS, has recently had the opportunity and pleasure to read the excellent publication The […]
Easter Reflection
I write these notes for Easter in mid-Lent and I have no idea how the painful and dispiriting events in […]
Reflections from the Holy Land: Mid-Summer Thoughts
by Sami El-Yousef, Chief Executive Officer. Unlike previous year’s summer reflections, this year for various commitments they come a bit later […]
Reflections on a visit to Jordan
by Bishop Martin Hayes I was included in this year’s pastoral pilgrimage to represent the Irish Episcopal Conference with Bishop […]
My Prayers for the Holy Land – Seán Cardinal Brady
RESPONSES TO QUESTIONNAIRE FROM MR RODNEY LEONARD 1. When you pray on, and for, the Holy Land, what are your main thoughts […]
Why are Holy Land Christians Called “Living Stones?”
The term living stones in 1 Peter 2:5 is used as a metaphor to illustrate the secure and intimate relationship believers have with Jesus, […]
Homily – 2023 Investiture by Vy Rev Dereck Darby, KCHS, EV Diocese of Meath
The text below is that of Fr Dereck’s homily on Saturday, July 22nd, 2023 My friends, as we gather to […]
The Empty Tomb
Christianity is the religion of the Empty Tomb for in it was buried the one who died a sacrificial death, […]
We are endowed with a missionary spirit
Vy Rev Derek Darby, KCHS, Adm, EV The Fifth Gospel Recently I attended a meeting of the ordained members of this […]
Homily by Archbishop Jude Okololo Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland
Investiture Ceremonies 2019 “And you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord would give”. […]
Investiture Ceremony, Maynooth College, Ireland
‘About Zion I will not be silent, about Jerusalem I will not grow weary, until her integrity shines out like […]
Homily, Investiture Ceremony, Maynooth College, Ireland
Fr. Derek Darby KHS ‘About Zion I will not be silent, about Jerusalem I will not grow weary, until her […]
Homily – Mass for World Day of Peace
Church of the Three Patrons Rathgar, Ireland Homily from Mgr. Eoin Thynne, Head Chaplain to the Defence Forces: “I wonder […]
Homily of Cardinal Grand Master Edwin O’Brien
20 July 2013, St Patrick’s College Maynooth, Ireland Investiture of Knights and Ladies I would like to begin by thanking […]
Easter Sunday Homily
Solemn Mass of the Resurrection of our Lord at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem – Patriarch Fouad Twal […]
Homily by Rev Fr Timothy Bartlett, KCHS
2012 Investiture Mass Your Eminence, Your Excellencies, Members and Postulants, esteemed guests, sisters and brothers in Jesus Christ, On this […]
Homily Notes of Bishop Noel Treanor
Mass for Northern Region ST PETER’S CATHEDRAL, BELFAST, SATURDAY, 5 MAY 2012 Readings : Acts 13.44-52; Jn 14.7-14 I welcome you […]
Homily at Knock Shrine, 28th January 2012
Ecclesiastical Knight Fr Francis Mitchell If you had the opportunity to attend daily Mass over the past couple of weeks […]
The House was filled with the fragrance of the perfume
Our Lieutenancy Secretary, Confrère Mark Kane, KHS, has recently had the opportunity and pleasure to read the excellent publication The […]
Second Vatican Council Memories – Bishop Michael Smith, KC*HS
In July 2022, a new book “Vatican Council Memories” written by Most Rev’d Michael Smith, Bishop Emeritus Diocese of Meath, […]
Ireland and the Crusades
In January 2023, an interdisciplinary volume of essays from leading scholars detailing Ireland’s connection with the Crusades was published in […]
