by Gerard Bennett | Jan 28, 2024 | Reflections from Fr Kieran
The readings for Mass on the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time draw on our common human experience of being in time and moving through space. I suspect that the Holy Spirit, with one eye on the coming of a special time, Lent – no ordinary time, is challenging us as...
by Gerard Bennett | Jan 22, 2024 | Stories
In December 1938, a decision was taken by the friars in Multyfarnham to construct an outdoor Way of the Cross with life-sized statues. Planning was done by Fr Camillus Courtney OFM then Guardian at the friary. The figures were designed and supplied by Neff Brothers of...
by Gerard Bennett | Jan 11, 2024 | Reflections from Fr Kieran
Having celebrated the birth of the Christ-Child at Christmas, and before that during Advent, John the Baptist’s birth, the Old Testament readings for the First Week of Ordinary Time centre on yet another special baby, Samuel, the first of the great prophets. In the...
by Gerard Bennett | Jan 8, 2024 | Stories
This photograph was taken circa 1949 at the outdoor Stations of the Cross at Multyfarnham Friary and shows a group of five men and one small child. The man standing on the far right is John Sweeney from Tullamore, Co Offaly. The man standing second from the left side...
by Gerard Bennett | Dec 29, 2023 | Reflections from Fr Kieran
Dear friends, before sharing a brief reflection on the liturgy of Christmas week, I would like to wish you all a blessed Christmas season and a hope-filled New Year in 2024. It has been a busy couple of weeks in the friary, especially in the office where the novena...
