Doing “Great” Things! November 21, 2022 Monday of the Thirty-Fourth Week in Ordinary TimeJan 24, 2023
When Jesus looked up he saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury and he noticed a poor widow putting in two small coins. He said, “I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from… Read more
Kiribati President Hosts State Banquet for Fr Donal McIlraithJan 24, 2023
On Mon Jan 16, the president of Kiribati, the Hon Taniti Mamau hosted a banquet in honour of Columban Father, Donal McIlraith, of Macroom. Fr McIlraith is a Columban who has taught scripture at the Suva Seminary for the past 34 years. In that time, he taught nearly all the present priests of Kiribati.… Read more
St Hilda of Whitby, St Hugh of Lincoln, the Martyrs of Paraguay Celebrated on November 17thJan 04, 2023
As a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon abbess, Hilda was one of the most influential Church
leaders of her day. At a time when the monasteries and their estates, rather than
parishes and dioceses, formed the basic ecclesial structures in Britain, Hilda exercised
largely the same administrative powers a… Read more
St Margaret of Scotland and St Edmund of Abingdon Celebrated on November 16thJan 04, 2023
Queen and patron of Scotland. Born in 1046, Margaret was educated mainly in Hungary,
where her family were exiled during the rule of the Viking kings in England. As one of the
last members of the Anglo Saxon royal family, she was in danger after the Norman
Conquest and took refuge at the court of… Read more
