by Michael McG | Jul 6, 2022 | Voice Column, Bishop Terry
On July 7 I will have the privilege of being present at the Million Minutes’ Celebrating Young People awards in the House of Parliament and I will have the great honour of presenting the St Josephine Bakhita award, for celebrating human dignity.Young people are often...
by Michael McG | Apr 11, 2022 | Voice Column, Bishop Terry
The focus for us this April has to be the end of Lent, the celebration of Holy Week, the Triduum and Easter. The month begins with what we used to call “Passion Sunday”. Passiontide comprised of the last two weeks of Lent including Palm Sunday. For all of us, the...
by Michael McG | Feb 7, 2022 | Voice Column, Catholic Voice, Diocese
Most of us will know that February 11 is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. It is also, fittingly, the World Day of Prayer for the Sick.Each year, the Holy Father sends a message out to all of us on this occasion. In his message he first of all reminds us that it was...
by Michael McG | Jan 10, 2022 | Voice Column
Despite the fact that the Christmas and New Year holidays were a little bit longer this year – the bank holidays were transferred from the weekend to the Monday and Tuesday, then for New Year to the Monday – the Church likes to move us on quite swiftly.No sooner have...
by Michael McG | Dec 10, 2021 | Voice Column
“The Synod is a process of spiritual discernment, of ecclesial discernment, that unfolds in adoration, in prayer and in dialogue with the word of God. God’s word is “living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit,...
by Michael McG | Nov 17, 2021 | Voice Column
On the weekend of the First Sunday of Advent, November 27 and 28, the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation will be restored. Let me just share some thoughts on this with you. During the first and second lockdown there was a deep realisation...
