Fr. Colm has recorded a reflection for Monday of the 2nd week of Eastertide . You can access it from the home page underneath "Thoughts from Fr. Colm" or by clicking the link below where there is also a typed transcript available.
Fr. Colm has recorded a reflection for Monday of the 2nd week of Eastertide . You can access it from the home page underneath "Thoughts from Fr. Colm" or by clicking the link below where there is also a typed transcript available.
Fr. Colm has recorded a reflection for the Second Sunday of Easter. You can access it from the home page underneath "Thoughts from Fr. Colm" or by clicking the link below where there is also a typed transcript available.
This has been the strangest of Easter experiences. Celebrating the lighting of the paschal candle alone almost negates its rich symbolisms. The Light Of Christ is the most important of gathering statements in our churches history. And sadly, there was no gathering. Alone, however, I did recall the many experiences of gathering on this night that took place in the three areas of what is now one parish of the Durham Martyrs. I thought of the St Leonard’s Masses at this time last year. The lighting of the great Candle under the obelisk. How wonderful that was. I then recalled each and every one of you at home unable to gather physically for this precious rejoicing. All seemed to enrich Saturday’s Vigil in isolation, greatly. And then there is the Hope it offers us at a time when we desperately need it, when perhaps the three churches of St. Godric’s, St. Bede’s and St. Joseph's never experienced uncertainty anything like this before.Â