by Rev. Kevin O'Brien | Jan 13, 2021 | Blog posts, Online Sermon, Video
(Previously published in the Clare Champion) I wonder if you remember a scene from the 1970’s TV series ‘Brideshead revisited’ where Julia is reflecting on her failed marriage to Rex Mottram; a man of prodigious money-making powers but of utterly stunted spiritual...
by Rev. Kevin O'Brien | Jan 13, 2021 | Blog posts, Online Sermon, Video
(First published in the Clare Champion) Previously I have written about holiness and how it may be found in surprising places; in the beating heart of a scruffy cross-breed dog who knows the saving power of love, but who admittedly still bears significant malice...
by Rev. Kevin O'Brien | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog posts, Online Sermon, Video
(First appeared in Clare Champion, Friday, August 14, 2020) Sometimes you can be quite wrong and at the same time absolutely right; however in today’s digital world we seem to be so obsessed with ‘facts’ that we can find it hard to accept that many profound realities...
by Rev. Kevin O'Brien | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog posts, Online Sermon, Video
(First appeared in Clare Champion, Friday, July 17, 2020) The holy places of the world are not by any means perfect. They can be highly compromised, chaotic, corrupt; a place to fleece pilgrims and purvey artefacts of dubious authenticity. They can even at times be...
by Rev. Kevin O'Brien | Jun 23, 2020 | Blog posts, Online Sermon, Video
(First appeared in Clare Champion, Friday, June 12, 2020) When we first met Seamus he was shivering with fright, emaciated to almost a skeleton, he had been living rough for three months during which time he had crossed three or four counties in search of food and...
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