Category: From Father Dermot’s Desk

Many spiritually dead people walk our streets today. We pray that the Christmas child may rekindle their spiritual life.  

We are a ‘Christ-Centred’ people. We remember the tweleve members of the Noamh Olaf’s GAA club who died in the past year. This club is a beacon of Hope for all, particularly young people; it has a strong ethic of support and care for people.  

“In the Autumn of our lives, we will be judged on the love we have shown.”

The Feast of all the Saints of Ireland, our ancestors who kept alive a deep Celtic spirituality and passed on to us the gifts of Faith, Hope and Love which inspire us still today.

Father Dermot states that the system of Direct Provision, in Ireland, is shameful. Thankfully there has been a commitment given to correct this situation by 2023. Everyone we come across is our neighbour, including all persons that have come to the country we call our own. May we hear the words of Jesus Christ anew,… Continue reading Readings and Homily: 25th October 2020

Father Dermot identifies our current, need to ‘go out’ and meet people. The Church’s mission is to bring all people to Jesus Christ. Currently, the world is seeing a very unique desire for solidarity in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. However, will this desire be realised? The world is at a crossroads; will we return to… Continue reading Readings and Homily: 18th October 2020

Father Dermot takes us through Pope Francis’ new encyclical ‘Fratelli Tutti’; human solidarity and human respect. He also remembers the Carrickmines Fire tradgedy, which occured five years ago and poses the question; has anything really changed for the Traveller community?  

Jesus chided the Apostles who wanted to know who were the greatest in Heaven, by selecting a little child and telling them they must be childlike, not personally ambitious but servants to others. Pope Francis regularly condemns “careerism” among senior clergy and stresses that service must be the key characteristic of their lives.

Safeguarding Sunday 2020: Archbishop Diarmuid’s communication; Uncertain financial situation Going online for Diocesan operations Thank you all for making the Dublin Diocese a safer place for all World Day for Migrants and Refugees: Concern at the operation of Direct Provision centres Finally, disfiguring creation is akin to disfiguring God. Hear ye the cry of the… Continue reading Readings and Homily: 26th September 2020

We have come to realise that current “disasters” in terms of storms, fires, floods and even the pandemic are not “acts of God” but are largely results of our own mistreatment of our home, our planet Earth.