September-Elderly

Below are some pics of the beautiful “Carlo Acutis Rosary”, handmade in Italy, which the parishioners of St. Mary’s, Largs, and of Our Lady’s, Millport, presented to Fr. Peter on Sunday 24th August. Children of the parish. handed the gift over to a somewhat emotional Fr. Peter along with a...

It’s hard for any relationship to work if you are not present to the other person, at least some of the time. That said, even if someone is there physically right in front of you, they can absent mentally or spiritually. You want them actually to be present to you,...

Well, from horror movies to walking, from exercise classes to new friends, from working hard to praying hard, Joan certainly lived a very full life outside the home – and she clearly got out of it the huge amount she put into it. But it was her husband, her son...

“Jesus went on his way through towns and villages teaching and journeying towards Jerusalem.” Journey describes a lot of things in our lives. The short journeys to the shops, to work or school; the longer journeys for things like business or holidays or family reunions; and then there are the...

The Gospel of St. Luke is the one which most tells us of Jesus at prayer. Jesus does not so much fit prayer into his busy schedule as fit his schedule into his intense prayer life. For prayer is not so much something we do as who we are. Jesus...

Article in The Catholic Herald regarding a recent news item on “mitochondrial babies.” The article raises and explains the ethical problems with this technology from a Catholic moral-doctrinal perspective. https://thecatholicherald.com/article/no-parent-babies-mitochondrial-replacement-and-the-birth-of-human-clones  

When I first went to see Rose a few days after Bob died, I remember thinking what a resilient person she was. Despite her profound grief, she showed an immense strength of spirit in the acceptance, in the steady eye contact and in her clear and calm manner of expression....

Martha welcomed Jesus into her house. How welcome is Jesus in myhouse, the one around me, and the one inside me, my heart and soul? Martha loved Jesus as Jesus loved her and Mary and Lazarus. Theirs was a second home to Him. But Martha and Mary teach us much...

The fourth in the series of our 12 Eucharistic Saints, Patrons and Patronesses of our Eucharistic Revival   The Eucharistic Testimony of St. Juliana of Liège St. Juliana of Liège, also known as St. Juliana of Cornillon, was a woman of strength and inner conviction. She is little known but...