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Christ is risen! Alleluia.
The Risen Christ stands beside you, calling your name and inviting you into the resurrection life.
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Stephen Farrell
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Stephen Farrell
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Dean of Ossory
Kilkenny, Ireland Katılım Haziran 2024
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@MichaelPTKelly That’s a really sad story. Had a lovely slice of simnel cake with the choir yesterday with home made hot cross buns. Have a leg of lamb ready for tomorrow. I tend to think of these as being particularly associated with passiontide and Easter.
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Spanish and Italian friends in Dublin today were full of chat to me about Easter food they’re preparing. They asked me about Irish Easter food. “Nothing,” I said, and told them how the reformation destroyed Christian culture. Imagine how lovely things were?
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“Had he died in a more merciful, less deliberately dehumanising way, it would not be possible to see in his death the sum of all horrors.”
@flemingrut on the theological implications of the fact that Jesus was not just executed, but crucified.
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@Madz_Grant Our children wouldn’t wake us as we would find them something to do. That said, I tend to wake long before they do so it’s a moot point.
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I mean, to be fair, my Dad would definitely have yelled at us and we were a bit scared of him, but I can see that there's something to be said for a bit of fear if it means a few more hours sleep on a Saturday morning
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I've noticed amongst friends who have little kids that they are basically forced into waking up when they do. When I was little I remember v clearly knowing that we shouldn't go and wake parents until at least 9am on a weekend, and generally entertaining ourselves in the morning
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Nothing--I think I mean that literally--compares with Holy Week to ground the Christian. Faithful attendance each day at some sort of gathering, however simple, however poorly attended, will make it work. Each day, with its appointed readings, is a dose of unfiltered gospel.
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Palm Sunday. To my mind, it's the day that has it all, so to speak--triumph and panoply in the first part of the service with everybody on their feet singing "All glory, laud, and honor," then the full Passion narrative, then "Ah Holy Jesus" and absolute silence at the end.
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@gerrylynch I can only add that I have seen several of the red variant in and around Kilkenny City in recent months but no greys.
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Is it really true that grey squirrels have been pushed back so dramatically in Ireland over the last 15 years or so? Really?
Amazing Maps@amazingmap
How grey squirrels are replacing red squirrels in the UK and Ireland Grey squirrels were introduced from North America in the late 19th century and have since spread widely, outcompeting native red squirrels across much of Britain.
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In this month’s editorial, the Editor, @ClarkBrydon, reflects candidly on the financial realities facing the Gazette — and why a genuinely independent Church paper cannot rely on central funding alone. Independence matters, but it comes at a cost.
coigazette.ie/the-cost-of-in…
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I’ve reached “I’m gonna take a few ibuprofen, just in case” years old.
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@paul__arbuthnot @stpatrickscath A fine hood in front of you. Happy Christmas!
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It may have been intended for another, but I’m claiming this Laphroaig to join with colleagues of the #clergymaltclub
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To all clergy, wardens, organists, vergers, choirs and volunteers, good luck with the next 24 hours. Rejoice in the Good News and be joyful in what the Lord is doing in those He is bringing into your churches. God bless!
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@MichaelPTKelly I wonder what the Irish statistics would be. I suspect the flow would be largely in the other direction.
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Extraordinary - great news. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/1…
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I am greatly looking forward to @davidrmmonteith preaching in Saint Canice’s cathedral tomorrow. As two people from the same part of the world I trust we can quickly satisfy the absolutely necessary Irish preliminary task of discovering a relative in common.
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This is an extraordinary contribution
Nikki da Costa@nmdacosta
Is Lord Brooke, sitting one seat along from the sponsor of the Bill, advocating for assisted dying as a tool of population control? An extraordinary contribution suggesting human life be actively sacrificed to prevent climate change. This bill drives utilitarian thinking!
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I think, for the foreseeable future, I am going to pray this prayer- one of the Prayer Book’s finest- every morning and evening.
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Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.
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