Details the numerous religious festivals that take place throughout the year and how they can be celebrated in the home. From Shrove Tuesday to Easter Sunday, pancakes to lamb, Celtic Bed Blessings to Prayers for Harvest, Tom Gunning lays out in an accessible and interactive fashion the ways in which we can take the spiritual into the personal. Also included are prayers, rituals and blessings for such occasions as the birth of a child or the passing of a loved one.

If youve never read the weekly column in The Irish Times in the health supplement which has ran for a number of years, you are sorely missing out. The articles contained are informative, funny, entertaining and you feel as though youve learnt something after reading a few. Its great for any woman trying to figure out her man, or for a man who can realise that he isnt alone in what he feels. I especially enjoyed the sections that dealt with relationships and self confidence, something that many men can lack. - Aine Toner, Womans Way Review - 26th August, 2008Irish Times columnist P?ídraig O Mor?íin last night launched his book, Thats Men, a collection of the best of his "Thats Men" columns which feature in The Irish Times HealthPlus supplement each week. The book contains more than 60 columns that have appeared to date on topics ranging from mens health and behaviour to fatherhood. It also includes the most popular of all his columns, which asked the question: "What are the four scariest words a woman can utter to a man?" - Steven Carroll, Irish Times, May 2008

This collection of essays and homilies touches on different aspects of the Christian view of reality. Often the human mind cannot seize truth in its fundamental heart or essence, but if one thinks of truth as a circle, the best we can hope is to be able to brush against or graze it momentarily, in the way a tangent touches the circumference of a circle. ""A read-worthy and readable book. He genlty touches many ordinary Christian topics with fresh truth."" Review for Religious

In 2006, over 4,000 Irish community and voluntary groups responded to a Trinity College survey of the sector. They described themselves as community or voluntary or non-profit organisations, as well as charities and non-governmental organisations. They worked in fields such as education, recreation, economic, social and community development as well as various artistic, social and environmental pursuits. . Since 2002, All Hallows, a College of Dublin City University, located in the heart of Dublins North Side, has offered a unique post-graduate programme for Management in the Community and Voluntary Sector. Students of that programme have examined the issues that arise when the skills and techniques of management , largely developed for businesses with a profit motive , are applied to questions of value and belief, ideal and spirit, service and mission, advocacy and moral principle. The articles in this book cover a wide area of activities, including education and training, food distribution, publishing, chaplaincy in shopping centres, youth work, poverty alleviation, and perennial management concerns such as decision-making, collaboration and liaison between organisations, spirit and ethos within organisations, strategic planning and motivational leadership.

Tracking the Tiger: A Decade of Change is a collection of papers presented at the Ceifin Conference 2007. It sets out to recall and trace what has been happening in keys areads of Irish life over the last decade. It explores the influence of the economic miracle, and the alues which have shaped us throughout. Tracking the Tiger also looks at challenges for the next decade. Who or what will be involved? Who or what will inspire us? Will it be education, religion, politics or the media? Or will the business worl and commerical values only continue to shape us?

Symbolism: The Glory of Escutcheoned Doors is about experiencing this world symbolically. The energy of God takes over as the operating fuel in human personality. This happens and perdures through a life of symbols. From such a perspective the most important symbol of all is you, as an active part in a greater whole. Our biological life from birth to death is bankrolled by counterfeit currency unless we consciously switch to the alternative energy of divine illumination. In light of this superior wattage we and everything that exists in our world are seen, heard, tasted, smelled, touched, breathed, not as discrete, self-contained things in themselves but as manifestations of a larger reality, signals from a vaster energy. ""A useful addition to a parish library."" Catholic Library World

An intelligent and accessible book that invites readers to sympathetically consider contemporary work and spirituality at individual and organizational levels. There is a wealth of wisdom waiting to be made available and made relevant to those currently at work. This book will help those interested in engaging actively with the wisdom within religious traditions to survive and grow in work, to get saner perspectives on work and to find power to act in new ways. This book is for those who are struggling to make more sense of their lives at work, whether with a Christian or other religious commitment, or with none. It will also be relevant for teachers, students, professionals and clergy with an interest in the area of work.

The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church gives a complete and up-to-date overview of the social teachings of the Catholic Church in a contemporary context. Tackling issues as diverse as the morality of the free market, poverty and workers' rights, and as topical as democracy, globalisation and the fight against terrorism, it is an invaluable resource for anyone searching for solutions to many of the social and ethical problems facing the modern world. This new Companion to the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church will be of use to parish adult education groups, schools and individuals who have little or no formal theological training. It is a user-friendly guide to the Compendium written in accessible language with discussion questions to enable further study and reflection.

This fascinating memoir traces one man's experiences of priesthood in Ireland over half a century from formation in the late 1940s and early 1950s, to ordination in 1956, through doctoral studies in St Patrick s College, Maynooth, followed by post-doctoral research in Rome during the heady days leading up to Vatican II. His academic prowess led to a teaching career spanning more than thirty years at his alma mater, where as Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Vice-President of the College he helped shape the growth and development of Maynooth at perhaps the most significant time in its history. Having nurtured the formation of countless students over three decades, upon retiring from Maynooth in 1986, Monsignor O'Callaghan took up the responsibilities of parish priest of Mallow with inexhaustible vigour. He also found time for prolific media involvement with both The Corkman and North Cork Community Radio, among a range of other pastoral and educational initiatives. In the pages of this book, we meet a man firmly committed to his vocation, his community and his Church. In telling the story of his own priesthood, he holds up a mirror to the Catholic Church at large, engaging with its travails in recent years, pointing out hopes for the future and offering wise observations to assist the quest to nurture collaborative forms of ministry in the years ahead.

This collection of some of the marvelous Biblical stories that have inspired generations of Jews and Christians makes them accessible for the twenty-first century reader. Stories are startlingly modern in the way they address and illuminate contemporary anxieties and preoccupations. The encouragement they provide is as rich and relevant to day as when they were written.

Raising a child brings many joys but also plenty of challenges! The ups and downs of parenting can push even the most resourceful parent to the limit. Written by established parenting author John Sharry and drawing on the ideas of the award-winning Parents Plus Programmes, Positive Parenting (a revised and updated edition of Bringing Up Responsible Children) aims to help parents raise emotionally secure, happy children who reach their full potential at home and at school. Targeted at parents of primary school age children, Positive Parenting provides a step-by-step guide to solving behaviour and other childhood problems including sibling rivalry, homework hassles, serious tantrums, bullying, poor self-esteem and anxiety.

Catherine Thornton has recorded her journey through and beyond illness, her hopes and fears, and the different lessons she learned on the way. She offers advice on how to cope with difficult situations such as dealing with the medical system, telling your children that you are ill and keeping your will to survive strong through the tough times. Although Catherine battled cancer, the journey described in this book could apply to any serious life-changing illness. It will be a help and comfort to anyone who has been diagnosed with a serious illness and to their friends and family.

This book includes Sunday readings for Cycles A, B and C, including Palm Sunday and the Triduum. The three separate cycles of meditations for each Sunday include a unique story that illustrates and enriches the message of each reading, showing how it can empower us.

Following his general audience in St Peter's Square on 17 October 2007, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI announced that Sean Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, was to be created cardinal in a consistory.

The search for the mystery of God as revealed in creation, in human beings and their relations, in the human processes of learning, artistic creation and political community has been a lifelong preoccupation of Enda McDonagh, one of the most eminent moral theologians of our time. In this book he draws together the fruits of fifty years of study and practice as priest and theologian. Part I of the book is a reflection on a life of learning, teaching and research, culminating in an essay which examines why the university needs theology. Part II examines the work of friends and fellow travellers, including Bernhard Haering and John Macquarrie, among others. Part III explores the radical call to communion in a globalizing world. ""The author establishes in the various writings that make up this volume the reasons for his place and role in contemporary theology. Recommended for those who are interested in the making of contemporary theology and ethics."" Catholic Library World

Epiphanies: Moments of Grace in Daily Life is a series of short reflections on the times of joy, laughter, deliverance, forgiveness and growth that are available to all in and through the events of ordinary living. With faith, insight, humour and a rich flair for communication, the author draws together the threads of tragedy, birth, loss and new beginnings into a beautiful tapestry which celebrates life and relationship, faith and friendship