Outside a Metro Station in Washington, DC, on a cold January morning in 2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. The man playing the Bach pieces was Joshua Bell, playing incognito as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities, organized by the Washington Post.
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Every so often the Church across the world needs to renew itself. Over the last year, Pope Francis has been asking Catholic Christians across the world to look on the Church in a new way. The name he has given to this new way is ‘the Synodal Way’. The word ‘synod’ means ‘walking together’. What…
Jesus with His newly chosen apostles have just come down from the mountain. He is quickly surrounded by a large crowd who are interested in his teaching. The crowds want to know from Jesus, how they can live, how they can love, how they can be happy.
Because the people feel rejected, they think…
“We sing a song to Brigid, Brigid brings the Spring,
Awakens all the fields and flowers, and calls the birds to sing”.
We celebrate Saint Brigid’s Day on Tuesday 1st February, traditionally, the first day of Springtime. We have noticed the lengthening evenings and the increase of light in recent mornings. The old people…
Many people are attracted to silence and solitude. They find the peace and quiet of nature very much to their liking. Some people are attracted to the sea shore to gaze on the vast ocean. Others find their way to the great outdoors. Others again take up hill walking or mountain climbing. All these activities…
We have left the Christmas season behind for another year. We have entered the period in the Church’s Year known as Ordinary Time. These calm weeks until Lent provide us with time to strengthen our faith and to nourish our spiritual lives.
In the gospel this weekend we meet Jesus at the Wedding Feast of…
On Thursday, 6th January 2022 we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. We are celebrating how the Three Wise Men or Magi saw a new and different star in the sky and decided to follow it. Prompted by the Holy Spirit, that star led them on a remarkable journey to a humble stable where they…
Christmas is the season when we have time to be together, what we might call ‘family time’.
Bro Richard Hendrick OFM Cap has written a beautiful poem about how to enjoy a winter walk in nature and especially in the woods. The following is an extract from that poem and I hope you find it…
Rosbercon:
Friday – Christmas Eve, Vigil Mass: 8.00 p.m.
Saturday – Christmas Morning: 11.00 a.m.
Mullinarrigle:
Friday – Christmas Eve, Vigil Mass: 6.00 p.m.
Tullogher:
Saturday – Christmas Morning: 9.30 a.m.
While our stewards will do their best to accommodate as many people as possible in the Church, it is inevitable…
The Rosbercon-Mullinarrigle-Tullogher Christmas Draw took place in the Church of the Assumption on Sunday 12th December 2021. The Draw was very successful and realized €8,420.00. We thank all parishioners for your generous contribution and your continued loyalty to the Draw and to the Parish. Special thanks to the Promoters, and to those who sold and…
