by Gerard Bennett | Jun 23, 2023 | Reflections from Fr Kieran
Today’s text from the Sermon on the Mount (Mt 6:1-6, 16-18) is well known to anyone who attends Mass on Ash Wednesday. It is a warning against showing off one’s good deeds, specifically prayer, fasting and almsgiving and is directed against the scribes and Pharisees...
by Gerard Bennett | Jun 21, 2023 | Featured, History
Following the rebellion of 1641 and the assertion that was it conceived in the Friary of Multyfarnham, it was no surprise the friary would suffer in its aftermath and in particular, during the Cromwellian campaign in Ireland (1649 to 1653.) Since 1641, the English...
by Gerard Bennett | Jun 11, 2023 | Reflections from Fr Kieran
The first readings at Mass this week come from the Old Testament Book of Tobit. It tells a rather quaint tale of a devout Jewish family suffering exile in the city of Ninevah in the Assyrian Empire. Strange things happen in this parable of...
by Gerard Bennett | Jun 6, 2023 | Homilies, Reflections from Fr Kieran
One of the major images we have of the Holy Spirit is found in the Gospel of John, where Jesus, at the Last Supper, promises His disciples that He will ask the Father to send them another ‘Paraclete’ (14:16) to comfort them when He goes. This term is often...
by Gerard Bennett | May 30, 2023 | Reflections from Fr Kieran
I have long been puzzled by the question the Rich Young Man asks Jesus in the tenth chapter of Mark’s Gospel: “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” (Mk 10:17) It sounds like the man is asking simply what he needs to do to get into heaven. Commentators tell us that...
