As a child I was convinced that one day God would give me the grace of martyrdom. When quite small …
Ireland
July 1, 2021
Sunday and Monday last were days of wonderful grace for me, as if the Hunter of souls had run His quarry down …
June 20, 2021
Venerable Matt Talbot I do not want, in fact I forbid you, to be imprudent in the matter of corporal penances. …
June 7, 2021
Dear Sir — One is often struck, on glancing over the papers, at the numerous appeals made to provide ‘comforts for our …
May 26, 2021
I did not write because I had nothing but disappointment, opposition, cold shower-baths and crosses to chronicle…Your news about the success in …
May 20, 2021
Blessed John Sullivan Today is the feast of Blessed John Sullivan, a contemporary of Fr Doyle. Blessed John had a different personality …
May 8, 2021
Blessed Edmund Rice Having completed his course of philosophy, Willie returned to Clongowes in 1901 for another period of prefecting. Here he …
May 5, 2021
Sr Clare Crockett Sr Clare Crockett, a religious of the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother, died on this day …
April 16, 2021
St Patrick I beg of God whom I love to grant me that I may shed my blood with those strangers and …
March 17, 2021
John McGuinness Contrary to popular perception, there was an extraordinary flourishing of holiness in Ireland in the 19th and early 20th …
February 13, 2021