‘Let us walk in the light of the Lord’

  This Sunday we enter into the beautiful season of Advent.  Our attitude at this time is one of watching and waiting, and the graces to pray for are joy and hope.  Our weary world is in so much need of this spirit, and of the light and peace of the coming...

A few words from Fr Joe……………………

Patrick’s Kavanagh’s poem Advent speaks to and from the religious culture of his own time, an era when penance was practiced and heartfelt hope in the power of Bethlehem offered redemption. The Advent darkened room he recalls was a place of dry black bread and...