Fr. Lino Moreira: When Jesus proclaimed the Beatitudes at the beginning of his Sermon on the Mount he was speaking, first of all, about himself,

Fr. Jarek Kurek: “I Hate and I Love, Therefore I Am” is the title of the first major work by Canadian Anne Carson, the recently

Fr. William Fennelly OSB: There’s a story told about a cardinal who returns from a meeting in Rome to his own country and at a

Abbot Christopher Dillon: Jesus, we are told, frequently used parables to communicate his teaching, a parable being a story with a moral message. The gospel

Fr. John O’Callaghan: Today’s gospel is a parable about God’s people and their leaders, before and after the coming of Christ. The Old Testament reading

Fr, Luke Macnamara OSB: The kingdom of heaven doesn’t appear to be very just! If you work for twelve hours under a scorching sun, you

Fr. Henry O’Shea: The olive wreath, the palm of peace, Let child-like Faith hold fast, And bid the warring passions cease, And forgive the bitter

Fr. Cuthbert Brennan: Most of us don’t enjoy difficult conversations. Most of us would rather avoid them. We hope the problem will disappear. Or we

Abbot Christopher Dillon: “The way you think is not God’s way but man’s.” Just hear that again, “not God’s way, but man’s”; how else could

The month of September that we have just begun invites us to revisit our Christian and monastic identity lived here in Ireland. On the 3rd

Fr. Fintan Lyons: The gospel passage we have heard has, at its centre, the exchanges between Jesus and Peter, about who Jesus is, and then

Fr. John O’Callaghan: Today’s readings concern immigration, immigration into the kingdom of God! The  readings all highlight the porous nature of the borders of that

Fr. Mark Patrick Hederman OSB. Elijah bursts onto the Biblical scene without so much as a by your leave. We know nothing of his background