Becky Sheil Dance presents 'Back to the Beats' at the National Opera House on Sunday 24th at 7pm. A dance show that will bring you back through the years with some golden oldies and old school classics, that will be sure to have you dancing in your seat! The show will include a variety of dance genres, catering to everyone in the audience. Students from 3 years to adult dancers will take part in what will be a very exciting first time on the National Opera House Stage for everyone at Becky Sheil Dance to book tickets just click here Book Tickets | Becky Sheil Dance Presents | National Opera House
Máel Ísu Ua Brolcháin was the Abbot of Iona, a cleric, a poet, and a teacher from Donegal. He was described in the Annals of Ulster as “being eminent in wisdom and piety and poetry”. Those attributes are captured pithily in his hymn which has endured and is still sung almost a thousand years after Ua Brolcháin died in 1086.
That hymn is, of course, Deus Meus, the much-loved song of praise which is also an invocation, a plea for God’s help in realising the gift of faith. It is a macaronic hymn, written in Latin and Irish.
Ancient as Deus Meus is, older macaronic hymns are on record, such as that written by Colman Ó Cluasaigh, head master of the renowned seminary founded by St Finbar – Naomh Fionnbarra - in Cork who wrote a hymn of 27 stanzas in the 7th century also in Latin and Irish.
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Short Extract from Bishop Ger’s homily for the
Ordination of Eamonn Salmon
Dear Friends, it is a great privilege to be here this afternoon to confer on Eamonn the Sacrament of Priesthood, to welcome him as he joins us who are ordained and takes up the unique role of service to the people of God that priesthood is. Eamonn I welcome you sincerely not just to this sacred moment but to membership of a family, the family of the priests and deacons of the Diocese of Ferns. Eamon, I welcome your family who together with your late wife Antoinette was your first vocation. I welcome your sons, Brian, Edward, Terence, your daughter Gillian, your grandchildren who are here with us, Ralf, Alex and Heidi and family and friends who have travelled from Europe and the USA.
Eamonn, we thank you for your generosity of spirit and faith which encouraged you to take this path to priesthood after the death of Antoinette. It is a measure of your awareness that all lives are given to be lives of service of God and of others and by taking the road to priesthood, you affirmed your continued commitment to a life of service begun in marriage and family life and now continued in priesthood.
President Michael D. Higgins has led tributes to Brother Kevin Crowley of the Capuchin Franciscans, who passed away yesterday at the age of 90. The order said that Br Kevin, who devoted over five decades to serving the poor and marginalised, died at Mount Desert Nursing Home in his home county of Cork.
He founded the Capuchin Day Centre, a homeless service in Dublin, in 1969, which was visited by Pope Francis in 2018. Br Kevin’s funeral Mass will be held at St Mary of the Angels on Church Street in Dublin at 11 am on Saturday 5th of July.
‘In 1969, he founded the Capuchin Day Centre, where he worked selflessly and with good humour for 53 years, providing help to vulnerable people. He truly lived the gospel. His compassion, devotion, and non-judgmental approach to helping the marginalised was unwavering. May he Rest in Peace
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