Posted on 14. May, 2008 in Community, Festivals
May is a time for new growth and new beginnings. It’s also a time for Bealtaine one of the largest festivals in Ireland, Bealtaine is run by Age and Opportunity in order to celebrate creativity in older age. Events will be taking place all over the country and Miriam Gormally met Dominic Campbell (Artistic Director […]
Posted on 14. May, 2008 in Church Teachings, Festivals
For most people the Feast of the Sacred Heart and the Novena to the Sacred Heart belong in the month of June – however not so this year. This year, the Novena starts on Thursday May 22nd and the Feast day is celebrated on Friday May 30th. Eileen Good asked Fr. Barney McGuckian why it […]
Posted on 23. Jan, 2008 in Community, Festivals, Young people
Young people all over the country are preparing for World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney, through fundraising and group activities. Trish O’Neill is World Youth Day co-ordinator for the parish of Kildare and Laughlin and she is helping young people in her parish prepare for the day. She is also helping organise events for those […]
Posted on 19. Sep, 2007 in Church Teachings, Festivals, Spirituality
On the 24th of September, 11,000 Sisters of Mercy and their friends and colleagues around the world will celebrate Mercy Day. This is the day on which Catherine McAuley, founder of the Mercy Sisters first opened the House of Mercy in Baggot Street, Dublin. Miriam Gormally met Caitlin Conneely, a mercy Sister currently working there […]
Posted on 25. Jul, 2007 in Faith and Justice, Festivals, Spirituality
The Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures will take place during the last weekend in August, bringing together people from all around the country to celebrate the cultural diversity of Ireland. Christine Clear, author and teacher will be at this year’s festival. She will be giving people a sacred space in the form of a […]
Posted on 25. Jul, 2007 in Charity, Festivals, Music, Poverty
Oxjam is Ireland’s First music festival organised by Oxfam taking place this October in Ireland. Anyone can get involved and the money goes to a good cause. Miriam Gormally met Rebecca Emery, Oxfam’s Campaigns Co-ordinator and Ger Murphy, a musician and volunteer. She first asked Rebecca to explain what exactly is going to happen in […]
Posted on 02. May, 2007 in Church Teachings, Festivals, Irish - knock, Lough Derg, Croagh Patrick
Devotion to St. Therese was reinforced in Ireland with the outstanding success of the visit of her relics in 2001. 2007 marks the 80th anniversary of the proclamation by Pope Pius X1 of St. Therese as co-patroness of all missions and missionaries. Together with the Carmelite Sisters in Lisieux and the St. Therese Shrine there, […]
Posted on 24. Jan, 2007 in Church Teachings, Faith and Justice, Feminism/Women in the Church, Festivals, Saints, St. Brigid
Most people know that the 1st of February is St. Brigid’s day. But this year is particularly special because it is also the 200th anniversary of the Brigidine Sisters. Together with Afri they will be organising Féile Bríde, seeding a new springtime, a week-long series of workshops which will celebrate the coming of spring and […]
Posted on 01. Nov, 2006 in Environment, Faith and Justice, Festivals
The Celtic year begins at Samhainn, the Irish for November. It is a time when nature sleeps and when we need to focus on our Inner Journey. Dolores Whelan has been working as a spiritual guide for the past 20 years taking people around sacred spiritual sites in Ireland and guiding them on their own […]
Posted on 18. Oct, 2006 in Church Teachings, Different abilities, Environment, Faith and Justice, Festivals, Relationships
Sydney‘s Randwick Racecourse has just been announced as the location for World Youth Day 2008. The venue is just one of the many details currently being discussed by the organisers in Sydney. Bishop Anthony Fisher is coordinator of World Youth Day 2008 and he told Piaras Jackson of his hopes for the big event.