by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Fr Billy Swan The summer of 2018 will be remembered in Ireland as one of the warmest and driest in many years. What struck me was the beauty of God’s creation that was on display – the glorious sunsets, the patchwork of colours decorating the landscape, the...
by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Fr Shane Sullivan Singleness of purpose. So might someone paraphrase the early Jesuit spirit. Everything was put at the disposal of the Jesuit’s singular purpose as laid out in the Spiritual Exercises’ First Principle and Foundation: “to praise, reverence, and...
by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Fr Marius O’Reilly Our Lady promises to assist at the hour of their death those who help her in this devotion. The practice of the First Saturday devotion was requested by Our Lady of Fatima in 1917. She said to Lucia, the oldest of the three children: “I...
by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Fr John Keane There are twenty one in my friend Joe’s family, he has twenty brothers and sisters. It is very difficult to keep tabs on them to know where they all are at any time. When he comes home to his dear Mam and asks her where is Eileen today she...
by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Fr Brian McKevitt OP The German Protestant pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who died in Auschwitz in 1945, wrote a lot about what he called “cheap grace”. He was fiercely opposed to it. “Cheap grace,” he wrote, “is the deadly enemy of...