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Canon Brendan McGee: 'Thank you for your life and your kindness. You lived with vigour and died with hope' Canon Brendan McGee at prayer in St Patrick's Church in Donegall Street, Belfast. Picture by Hugh Russell 06 March, 2021 01:01 Screenshot ON the occasion of the death of someone who has lived so long, with such strength and so fruitfully as Canon Brendan McGee, sorrow and joy are inseparable companions: thanksgiving for such a life; sadness at its completion. Until recently Dean of the Cathedral Chapter and the most senior priest in Down and Connor by age ...

Part one of an article about two unpublished letters written by Nerik Mizzi while in Africa to the Governor of Malta. Dom Mintoff may have excelled in many fields but his virtues hardly included praising others, least of all his political adversaries. Yet, something once made him break his quite habitual contrariness. Enrico Mizzi in an internment camp in East Africa in World War II. Photo courtesy of the Fortunato and Enrico Mizzi Foundation When Enrico Mizzi died in December 1950, he gushed in overwhelming tribute: “The greatest of all Maltese,” he warbled in Parliament. Only the superl...

On December 8, 2020, through the Apostolic Letter Patris corde (With a Father’s Heart), Pope Francis recalled the 150th anniversary of the declaration of Saint Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church. The Pope describes Saint Joseph as a beloved father, a tender and loving father, an obedient father, an accepting father, a father who is creatively courageous, a working father and a father in the shadows. To mark the occasion, the Holy Father proclaimed a Year of Saint Joseph from December 8, 2020 to December 8, 2021. At the Gozo cathedral, the Year of Saint Joseph will be inaugurated on Su...

By as an owl and what's special about these gargoyles is that they have human faces and you. mention on the one side we have a nun and on the other side a monk i know none of that unless i thought i was. nine hundred monks the peasant and the prince they all had one thing in common in the thirteenth century make fear they would be condemned when they appeared before god on the day of judgment. the number of master depicts the cathedral founders waiting for that fateful day. their expressions reflect the state of their souls it is evident that they still need the prayers of the non-board clergy...

Minute you will populations because he'd rule was much more than a church. at the choir screen the cathedral chapter passed judgment the grilles served to separate the judge from the accused during a set separated the priests from the laity as well as old us. can and sat in the east choir or in the priests came down the steps to this side door these are the peter and paul door. to the common people who participated in the mass from here. on three types and this is where they dispensed holy communion to the common folk i mentioned i was of course that changed during the reformation. the distinc...