Posted on 01. Oct, 2008 in Chronic illness, Fundraising, Health, Young people
The MS READaTHON is a sponsored read for young people all over the country. Organised through schools and libraries, it encourages children to read books and raise much money for much needed services for people living with MS. Miriam Gormally spoke with two children, Milo and Síobhra from the Montessori Education Centre in Dublin who […]
Posted on 01. Oct, 2008 in Achievement, Health, Poverty
Sr. Maura Lynch is a Medical Missionary of Mary and Senior Surgeon at Kitovu Hospital in Masaka in Uganda. She spent the first twenty years of her missionary life in Southern Angola where most of the time the country was at war, and for the past twenty years she has been in Uganda. Last year […]
Posted on 01. Oct, 2008 in Church Teachings, Faith and Justice, Family
Earlier this year in a series in the Messenger, called ‘Passing on the Faith’ Michael Paul Gallagher S.J. noted that….”Faith in the future will need to be more mature to survive in a more complex culture, just as a plant in the ground can weather storms only if its roots are firm and strong.” Eileen […]
Posted on 01. Oct, 2008 in Faith and Justice, Lourdes, Pilgrimage
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Bernadette’s apparition in Lourdes, making it a place of special pilgrimage. Damien Fitzsimons has recently returned from a trip there as a volunteer, making it his tenth visit to Lourdes. On his return, he met Miriam Gormally who asked him whether his friends were surprised at his dedication […]
Posted on 01. Oct, 2008 in Charity, Faith and Justice, Poverty
As we celebrate Mission Month, Bishop Hyacinth Egbebo is in Ireland as a guest of the Irish Missionary Union to speak about Mission and Missionaries. A member of the National Missionary Society of St. Paul of Nigeria, Bishop Egbebo was superior general of the order prior to being ordained bishop in February of this year. […]
Posted on 18. Sep, 2008 in Church Teachings, Education, Vocation
Our pieces from this week come from 2008. Here Jonathan Tiernan talks about how it had always been his dream to working as a teacher in a Catholic school in America. Ever wanted to be a teacher or work in a Catholic school in America? ACE, the Alliance for Catholic Education offers a 26-month Master […]
Posted on 17. Sep, 2008 in Music
This week’s music piece As I Kneel Before You, is sung by Maria Parkinson, and taken from the Album Lourdes Where Miracles Happen.
Posted on 17. Sep, 2008 in Different abilities, Discrimination
We are all ageing and yet many of our images of older people are negative. Positive Ageing Week is running from 26 September to Saturday 4 October 2008. It is sponsored by ESB and organised by Age Action Ireland to celebrating ageing and highlight the fact that ageing can be an opportunity and not a […]
Posted on 17. Sep, 2008 in Charity, Music
Do you want to raise money and support people in need? Oxfam Ireland are organising Oxjam, a month long music festival taking place in October. People all over Ireland will put together concerts for their neighbours or their communities and donate the money raised to Oxfam. Miriam Gormally asked Michelle Hardiman – the organiser of […]
Posted on 17. Sep, 2008 in Faith and Justice, Saints
The feast of Saint Francis is October 4th and it is a time to remember the animals in our community. Fr. Brían (pronounced Breen) O’Sullivan is a parish priest in Glasthule and chairman of Peata, an organisation which promotes the relationship between pets and people. Every year on the first Sunday in October, Fr. O’Sullivan […]