Posts Tagged ‘Gerard Whiteford SM’

Ordinary time

Monday, July 5th, 2021

Ordinary Time. Lent and Easter well behind us, the Church is in Ordinary Time. Looking up the definition of the word ‘ordinary’ in the Oxford Dictionary its says “not interesting or exceptional; what is commonplace or standard.” Nothing really to write home about. The liturgical colour chosen for “ordinary time” is green and maybe here Read more

The absence of Golgotha

Monday, April 6th, 2020
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As we prepare to celebrate Holy Week and Easter within the Christian tradition and persons clamour to post and then log onto opportunities to experience a “virtual” Easter, I would like to offer an alternative and that is to do nothing. Or, rather, experience “absence” in a very real way. The absence that Mary and Read more