Christmas 2021 Reflection by a Hospital Chaplain* – Fr. Paddy Cully C.S.Sp.
Cribs are a fascinating part of Christmas. Their empty manger in the lead-up to the Christmas Eve celebration is particularly fascinating. It is full of expectation of the coming of Jesus; it is full of hope. Confidence in something to come is an aspect of hope. Though we know that Jesus has come, we relive that time of waiting...
Author: - December 19, 2021
Fr Seán de Léis C.S.Sp. retires to Kimmage.
Fr. Seán de Léis C.S.Sp. (left) has recently retired to the Kimmage community. From Ard na Gréine in Waterford city, Fr Seán was ordained to the priesthood in 1981. Having already spent one year of his studies in Sierra Leone, he returned to west Africa, this time to Ghana where its first Irish Spiritans, expelled from Nigeria after the Biafran War, opened missions in the 1970s.
Author: - October 12, 2021
Happy 90th Birthday!
Four Irish Spiritans – Fr Hugh Boyle, Fr Tony Byrne, Fr Pat Doran and Fr Mick Reynolds – mark their 90th birthdays during August / September 2021.
Author: - August 31, 2021
Fr Raphael Annan C.S.Sp. marks the Silver Jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood.
From Ghana, Fr Raphael attended Bolgatanga Secondary School. He went on to do much his studies for the priesthood in Enugu, Nigeria. Ordained in Ghana, he returned to Nigeria as a young priest, serving in pastoral and vocations-related roles and he was Director of the Spiritan Postulancy in Yola. He subsequently spent over a decade...
Author: - July 6, 2021
