Rev Michael Cavanagh +353 (0)87 160 6312
So the commandment is a challenge. To love those who betray you. Those who jeer. Those who wield the whips embedded with flint, hammer in the nails, pierce your side.
On Pentecost Sunday in St Patrick’s Church, the Kenmare & Dromod Mothers Union received the RISE UP Gold award for their work in raising awareness domestic violence . Kenmare is the first parish in the Republic to achieve this level, and one of only three on the island of Ireland.

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Praying Together 25th September 2022

Praying Together 25th September 2022

Luke 16: 19-31  What will it take to convince you? With thanks to Anselm of Canterbury, and his inspiration Augustine of Hippo, there are two approaches to faith. (Excuse the Latin, but I had five years of it at school and I can’t help showing off sometimes as a...

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Praying Together 18th September 2022

Praying Together 18th September 2022

Luke 16: 1-13  To whom do we owe our allegiance?  You cannot serve God and ‘wealth’ Bah. If ever there was a misleading Biblical translation, that’s it. It’s bad enough when the translated phrase reads ‘You cannot serve God and money’. Neither of those words...

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Praying Together – 11 September 2022

Praying Together – 11 September 2022

Collect for Trinity 13  Almighty God, who called your Church to bear witness that you were in Christ reconciling the world to yourself: Help us to proclaim the good news of your love, that all who hear it may be drawn to you; through him who was lifted up on the...

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Mary’s Story

Mary’s Story

Hello little one. Pleased to meet you. It’s been an eventful few months while I’ve been waiting for you to arrive. Let me tell you all about it.
It started on an ordinary day. I was going about as normal, feeding the chickens, tidying up and that sort of thing.  I wasn’t really concentrating, I was thinking about my wedding to Joseph in a few weeks time.

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The Journey to the Cross

The Journey to the Cross

The Lent readings tell a familiar story.  The story of a journey.  A journey to the cross.  
Let’s remind ourselves of that journey. After his baptism, Jesus went into the wilderness for forty days and forty very cold nights.  The voices of Satan came whispering, tempting, but Jesus refuses to be distracted or tempted.

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