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Death of Fr. Peter Ward, C.Ss.R., on Saturday November 1st:
Fr Peter Ward of Clonard community, Belfast, died at 4.15am this Feast of All Saints, 1st November 2014, in Our Lady’s Home, Belfast Fr Phil Dunlea was with him May Fr Peter rest in peace with all the saints of God and bless us with his enduring presence.
Fr Peter Ward’s…
What Blessed Pope Paul VI said spontaneously to a Redemptorist gathering, in 1973.
Recently, Pope Paul VI was declared ‘Blessed’, or beatified. It was he who was the ‘helmsman of the Second Vatican Council’, guiding it to its completion in 1965. Years later, in 1973, he met with a group of Redemptorists…
Death of Fr. Stephen McCabe, Redemptorist.
The Month’s Mind Mass for Fr. Stephen McCabe, Redemptorist, was celebrated on Sunday Nov. 30th at 3pm in Marianella Chapel,…
All Saints, and Holy Souls: November 1, 2: Also, Samhain Celebration.
Saturday next, November 1st, is Feast of All Saints, and a Holy Day of obligation. Masses in Esker on this coming Saturday will be at 8am and 11am, as with Sundays.
There will be an outdoor Celebration of Samhain on Saturday afternoon at 5pm. Come along, -dressed for the weather….
The Annual Healing Mission in Esker: December 8th to 12th, 2014.
The Annual Healing Mission in Esker takes place from December 8th to 12th, 2014. There will be 4 sessions each day, 10am, 5pm, 7pm, 9pm.
‘MORNING STAR, COME AND ENLIGHTEN US.’
THE ANNUAL HEALING MISSION IN ESKER DRAWS US INTO THE SPIRIT OF ADVENT, THAT TIME OF WAITING TO CELEBRATE THE…
Publication of Review of Safeguarding Practice in the Redemptorists, Ireland.
Review of Safeguarding Practice in the Redemptorist Congregation in Ireland- from the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCC).
Statement by The Redemptorists in Ireland (The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, Dublin Province), in response to publication of Review of Safeguarding Practice:
Today, Thursday 23rd October 2014,…
New Youth Ministry Coordinator in Esker.
New Youth Ministry Coordinator:
Lizzie Harrison has recently been appointed as Youth Ministry Coordinator in Esker Redemptorist Retreat Centre in Athenry Co. Galway. She has worked in the area of youth ministry and faith development since…
1 + 1 > 2 Project… an exciting initiative and call.
1+1>2 Project
Bishop John Keenan (Diocese of Paisley, Scotland) recently launched a discernment initiative for young Catholics.
1+1>2 project will encourage young people to engage with their faith and fully realise God’s…
School Retreats have begun again!
We’re up and running again with our school retreat team. We have a new leader who is the full-time co-ordinator and developer of Youth Ministry in and from Esker,- Mrs. Lizzie Harrison, who prior to coming here in August 2014 had worked for eight years as Chaplain in Loreto…
Feast of the Holy Cross,Sept. 14th.
The Cross was not some Hiccup
His passion and his dying
were not some hiccup
on the way to glory:
His hour of
Glory
is
upon the Cross.
One wheat-grain dies
and from that falling down,
-that earthing of divine,-
the fields are white with harvest
of new birth.
When He is lifted up,
the Prince of Glory on a wooden cross
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