Fr. Paddy’s Blog

This Sunday we celebrate together the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, celebrating the moment when forty days after His Resurrection, our Lord Jesus Christ ascended in glory into Heaven, to return to His Home, triumphant and victorious in…

Despite the confinement and lock-down, not to mention the Corona virus, we have enjoyed great weather this spring. Nature and the environment, has offered us all a sense of hope and encouragement despite the most challenging of times we live…

Living through this pandemic, coping with isolation whilst managing our mental health is undoubtedly a challenge. It is completely normal to be feeling overwhelmed and worried during this time. We may also experience feelings of anxiety, powerlessness, fear, irritability and…

How can we use this time wisely? Perhaps the best use of time right now is, as Jesus said, to love one another. In times like these, words like his come alive to us. Love requires more of us than…

Who says that Christ is not Risen this year? When in fact he is dressed in a blue gown in green and white in our hospitals Who says that the Nazarene cannot do penance when all do penance by attending…

On Ash Wednesday we were reminded of our frailty, when we received ash on our foreheads. And we were advised by Jesus in the Gospel not to parade our faith in public but rather “when you pray go to your…

Yes there is fear. Yes there is isolation. Yes there is panic buying. Yes there is sickness. Yes there is even death. But, They say that in Wuhan after so many years of noise You can hear the birds again….

My friends, While the name of the virus we are struggling to control is known as COVID 19 – the entire experience that we are going through might best be named PANDEMIC 20 – simply because it is now a…

This is a particularly tough time in human history where the new coronavirus has many people worried, unsure as to how to act and often undermined by fear. There can be for some a tendency to behave in a selfish…

With cases of coronavirus rising each day, the challenges posed to health services, workplaces, vital national infrastructure, and the social and communal fabric of our lives come to the forefront of our attention. It is already apparent that the economic…