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Annual Thanksgiving Service & Gift Day in Celbridge Parish

23 May 2019 in /by

We are delighted to invite you to our Annual Thanksgiving Service & Gift Day in Christ Church, Celbridge on Sunday 23rd June at 3.00pm. The Rector, Rev Stephen Neill will celebrate and Hilda Plant, a lay hospital chaplain, will preach. During the service there will be an opportunity for prayer with the laying on of hands […]

Meath & Kildare Diocesan Healing Service

20 April 2019 in /by

We would like to invite you to Meath & Kildare Diocesan Healing Service, with Bishop Pat Storey and Dean Paul Bogle, in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Trim on Sunday, 9th June 2019 at 6.30pm. Rev Lesley Robinson will preach. The service is part of ‘Mind Yourself’ project, which invites us to look after our mental health. During the […]

Wellspring in Carrigaline, Cork

26 February 2019 in /by

We are bringing Wellspring, our one day retreat, to Carrigaline parish in Cork. Wellspring is a day of rest, where we have an opportunity to meet God in a more intimate way, as well as get in touch with what is deepest within us.  There will be time to participate in guided reflections; to avail of one-to-one […]

A tribute to Rev Robert Lawson

29 January 2019 in /by

Robert was a friend. I met him first via Facebook, before ever meeting him in person. Later we would meet through the ministry of healing. He had a great online presence, and connected with many people that way.  Presence and gratitude are two realities that make me think of Robert the most. You could feel […]

Wellspring

16 January 2019 in /by

“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Jesus (John 4:13-14) Come to a day of reflection and rest on Saturday 23rd February 2019 in St […]

A gift of vulnerability

2 January 2019 in /by

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” Brené Brown Often we Christians think that we have to hold it all together, that we have to be happy and satisfied because if we are not there might be something wrong with our faith, or with […]

Remembering God who became a child

11 December 2018 in /by

In his book Seek That Which Is Above, published in 1986, the then Cardinal Ratzinger says that “Advent is concerned with that very connection between memory and hope which is so necessary to man. Advent’s intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who […]

Stop and let Advent happen

5 December 2018 in /by

“One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along, that while we need to be reassured of God’s arrival, or the arrival of our homecoming, we are already at home.” Michelle Blake  Tune in into your heart and recognise the sentiment you find yourself in […]

Sabbath, a discipline of rest

8 November 2018 in /by

Jesus thought us to pray, “Thy kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). Connecting with God through various moments of our day is when we can put this prayer into practice.  How would our life be different if we made a conscious effort to pause, a few times a day, in […]