Essential viewing for Holy Thursday in the National Gallery - Caravaggio’s The Taking of the Christ . One or our greatest national treasure filled with the drama of Betrayal .
All in the April morning, / April airs were abroad; / The sheep with their little lambs / Pass’d me by on the road’ .
Peter retweeted
'We belong to Jesus. Jesus is Risen. And we are risen with Him. No space to fear. No space for hatred. We have to remain Christian'
Cardinal Pizzaballa on Palm Sunday 2025
🌿 This is how the streets of Jerusalem looked during this year’s Palm Sunday procession!
Silent, empty of olive and palm branches and the faithful’s cheers,
Yet, the Patriarch invites us to welcome the King with hearts pondering the love that never gives up, but freely and faithfully gives of itself, trusting in …”The final word of God, the empty tomb…The Lord who goes before us…leading us toward a peace that is not an illusion, but the fruit of the cross”.
As we begin Holy Week, let us learn to not only mourn with Christ but hope with him, “ For the same Jerusalem that rejected the Prince of Peace has also witnessed the empty tomb”.
From Christchurch to the Dome of Adam and Eves to the site of the Viking era St Olaves Church beneath the civic offices and back to the Four Courts.
Dublin in the Springtime . Always in Spring there are beautiful spring flowers around James Clarence Managan
“O my dark Rosaleen,
Do not sigh, do not weep!
The priests are on the ocean green,
They march along the deep.
There’s wine from the royal Pope”
I Patrick- “I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through belief in the Threeness,
Through confession of the Oneness
of the Creator of creation.”



































