Posted on 30. Mar, 2012 by ntmcconnell in Bishop, News, Welcome
Feast of St. Macartan St. Macartan’s College 22 March 2012 My dear students, Your parents have sent you to St. Macartan’s College to further your education. During your six years here you will, they hope, learn skills which will begin to prepare you for the demands of life and work as an adult member of [...]
Posted on 30. Mar, 2012 by ntmcconnell in Bishop, News, Welcome
Dedication and Blessing of The Chapel Finner Camp 21 March 2012 Officers and members of the 28th Infantry Battalion, fellow priests and friends, It is a privilege for me to be with you this morning on this happy occasion to dedicate and bless your beautifully renovated chapel. It adds to the significance of the occasion [...]
Posted on 30. Mar, 2012 by ntmcconnell in Bishop, News, Welcome
Fourth Sunday of Lent Mother’s Day 18 March 2012 Homily My dear friends, Paul tells the Ephesians in the second reading of today’s Mass “it is by grace that you have been saved – by the gift of God - we are God’s work of art”. This is the Fourth Sunday of Lent; it is [...]
Posted on 30. Mar, 2012 by ntmcconnell in Bishop, News, Welcome
St. Patrick’s Day, 17 March 2012 Homily A chairde, An saol a bhí ag Pádraig, patron ár dtíre, ní saol bog a bhí ann. Like most people of achievement, Patrick did not have it easy. Taken captive in his nativeBritainat the age of sixteen, he was brought toIrelandwhere he worked as a slave. He worked [...]
Posted on 02. Mar, 2012 by ntmcconnell in Bishop, News, Welcome
Sixth Sunday of the Year 12 February 2012 Notre Dame Cathedral Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Homily My dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ in Vietnam It is a great privilege for me to accept an invitation to concelebrate Mass this morning in this fine Cathedral in Ho Chi Min City. I am also [...]
Posted on 06. Feb, 2012 by ntmcconnell in Bishop, News, Welcome
Fifth Sunday of the Year 5 February 2012 Homily My dear friends, In today’s First Reading we meet Job. The Book of Job tells us he had a loving wife, seven sons and three daughters. He also had the largest estate in the kingdom. We are told he lived an upright and blameless life, [...]
Posted on 01. Feb, 2012 by ntmcconnell in Bishop, News, Welcome
Fourth Sunday of the Year 29 January 2012 Homily My dear friends, We are told in today’s Gospel reading that as soon as the Sabbath came Jesus went to the synagogue and began to teach there. InGalileeat that time every town and village had a synagogue. It was a place for prayer, worship and instruction [...]
Posted on 26. Jan, 2012 by ntmcconnell in Bishop, News, Welcome
“Sex-offending priests are still paid by the Church” The Irish News, Thursday 12 January 2012 Priests and people of the diocese of Clogher could be forgiven for being shocked and dismayed to read the above headline on the front page of the Irish News of 12 January 2012, and to learn, on reading the [...]
Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by ntmcconnell in Bishop, News, Welcome
Third Sunday of the Year 22 January 2012 Homily A young Russian in previous times, through reading Tolstoy and the New Testament, had become a conscientious objector to war. He was brought before a magistrate. With great conviction, he told the judge that he believed in a life which loves its enemies, which does good [...]
Posted on 06. Jan, 2012 by ntmcconnell in Bishop, News, Welcome
The Feast of the Epiphany 6 January 2012 Homily My dear sisters, On Christmas Eve each year, a Service of Nine Lessons and Carols is held in King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England. This Service was first celebrated in 1918, just after the Great War ended. The Dean of the College, a man called Eric [...]
