Come & See Inspirations

On this weeks podcast excerpt we are continuing sharing reflections from various contributors to the podcast in the last 12 months who share with us a reflection on the Christmas Season and a musical choice to provide us with some spiritual nourishment to accompany all the physical food and festivities. Text us at +353 874668950 or email at comeandseeinspirtaions@gmail.com

We are sharing individual excerpts from our Christmas Day podcast over the days of the Christmas Season to provide a pause moment for listeners throughout the days of this special time.On today's reflection, Juliann Moran shares with us some reflections on the journey of understanding synodality and how the message of Christmas adds to our understanding of the  process in the Spirit and what it means to be a synodal church embodied in the diversity of the figures of the crib.Text us at +353 874668950 or email at comeandseeinspirtaions@gmail.com

We are sharing individual excerpts from our Christmas Day podcast over the days of the Christmas Season to provide a pause moment for listeners throughout the days of this special time.On today's reflection, Martina Leehan Sheehan reflects on the Spirit of Christmas and how do we keep ourselves open to it once the big day itself is over. Text us at +353 874668950 or email at comeandseeinspirtaions@gmail.com

We are sharing individual excerpts from our Christmas Day podcast over the days of the Christmas Season to provide a pause moment for listeners throughout the days of this special time.On today's reflection, Fr Chris O'Donnell reflects on how the figurines from the Christmas crib - battered and bruised, chipped and broken, lost - all are metaphors for us in our lives and our relationships and also how we get on with God.Text us at +353 874668950 or email at comeandseeinspirtaions@gmail.com

From all the Come & See Inspirations podcast team, wishing you and yours every blessing of the Babe of Bethlehem for the Holy Season of Christmas and into the New Year 2025.Nollaig shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léirFromJohn, Ann & Shane*******************On this special podcast we celebrate this special day with reflections, favourite Christmas carols and hymns, readings & reflections and our regular reflection on the Gospel of the day. We are joined on the programme with a reflection by some very special guests.Fr Chris O'DonnellMartina Lehane SheehanJulianne MoranDixie Dillon LaneThese reflections will also be published as daily reflections over the Christmas Octave as well so listen to in bite sized parts.********************"In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from t

From all the Come & See Inspirations podcast team, wishing you and yours every blessing of the Babe of Bethlehem for the Holy Season of Christmas and into the New Year 2025.Nollaig shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léirFromJohn, Ann & Shane*******************On this special podcast excerpt we celebrate this special day with reflections, favourite Christmas carols and hymns, readings & reflections. We are joined on the programme with a reflection by some very special guests.Fr Chris O'DonnellMartina Lehane SheehanJulianne MoranDixie Dillon LaneThese reflections will also be published as daily reflections over the Christmas Octave as well so listen to in bite sized parts.Text us at +353 874668950 or email at comeandseeinspirtaions@gmail.com

On this weeks podcast on the 4th Sunday of Advent, John and Shane have a brief reflection on how embracing the darkness of Winter prepares us to welcome the Light of the World at Christmas. We have a run through the up coming liturgical odds ends for the coming week with the obvious note that Christmas is on Wednesday and we enter into the Octave of Christmas. A reminder that the Holy Year begins with the  ceremony of the opening of the Holy Door in St Peter's Basilica during the Christmas Eve Mass and also that the Urbi et Orbi is on Christmas morning from Rome. We have our reflection on the Sunday gospel which is Luke's account of the Visitation by Mary to Elizabeth at Ein Kareen and the encounter of witness with the unborn Herald John the Baptist.Embracing the darkness of Winter to welcome the Light of the WorldOn the weekend of the Winter Solstice here in Ireland, a time which has  been full of spiritual significance to Irish people for millennia due to the events at the neolithic passage tomb a

On this weeks podcast excerpt on the 4th Sunday of Advent, John and Shane have a brief reflection on how embracing the darkness of Winter prepares us to welcome the Light of the World at Christmas.Embracing the darkness of Winter to welcome the Light of the WorldOn the weekend of the Winter Solstice here in Ireland, a time which has  been full of spiritual significance to Irish people for millennia due to the events at the neolithic passage tomb at Newgrange. But for Christian's it is a mirror to the celebration of the Incarnation at Christmas. On this important date in our calendars, let’s look at the calendar more closely: The Church celebrates John the Baptist’s birthday on June 24th – the longest day of the year, when the sun is at its brightest. You might recall that John said that he must decrease, and Jesus must increase. Well, every day since June 24th, the days have indeed been ‘decreasing’. They’ve been getting shorter, right up until today. But with the Saviour’s birth, they become longer agai

On this weeks podcast, we are joined by Fr Frank Duhig who gives us a reflection on Advent looking at the call of the season to turn back to God echoing the message of St John the Baptist. We are reminded that Advent is a penitential season where we are reminded that Jesus came to save sinners and that the spiritual life is a response to the invitation of Christ and is a total gift of God.  The premier example of this response is Mary, the Advent saint par excellence. Mary's response at the Annunciation is an example of how we need to understand our response to the role of Mystery and our ability to ponder these things in our hearts. We have our regular run through the upcoming liturgical odds and ends for the week including the saints of the week in part one with our weekly prayer space.We have our reflection on the Sunday gospel (Luke 3:10-18) where Fr Frank helps us to reflect on the challenge of John the Baptist for his listeners but also for us as we hear again Johns questions and responses.Text us

On this weeks podcast, we are joined by Fr Frank Duhig who gives us a reflection on Advent looking at the call of the season to turn back to God echoing the message of St John the Baptist. We are reminded that Advent is a penitential season where we are reminded that Jesus came to save sinners and that the spiritual life is a response to the invitation of Christ and is a total gift of God.  The premier example of this response is Mary, the Advent saint par excellence. Mary's response at the Annunciation is an example of how we need to understand our response to the role of Mystery and our ability to ponder these things in our hearts. Text us at +353 874668950 or email at comeandseeinspirtaions@gmail.com

On this weeks podcast John and Shane are joined Pat Kenny, one of the two editors of a new book "The Rock From Which You Were Hewn: The Lives & Legacies of Holy Irish Men & Women". We have our regular run through the liturgical odds and ends for the coming week including the reminder that the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is still a holy day of obligation in Ireland despite it moving to the 9th! We have our regular reflection on the Sunday gospel in part three of the podcast where St Luke brings us the bridge between the Old and New Testament's - St John the Baptist.  The Rock From Which You Were Hewn: The Lives & Legacies of Holy Irish Men & WomenPat Kenny joins us on this weeks podcast to tell us about his new book which  he helped to edit. The book presents brief biographies of over 40 modern Irish men and women whose causes for canonization are in process, along with others who enjoy a strong reputation for sanctity. Written in response to Pope Benedict XVI’s call t

On this weeks podcast John and Shane are joined Pat Kenny, one of the two editors of a new book "The Rock From Which You Were Hewn: The Lives & Legacies of Holy Irish Men & Women".Pat Kenny joins us on this weeks podcast to tell us about his new book which  he helped to edit. The book presents brief biographies of over 40 modern Irish men and women whose causes for canonization are in process, along with others who enjoy a strong reputation for sanctity. Written in response to Pope Benedict XVI’s call to the Irish to renew the Church in Ireland by drawing on the legacy of holiness offered by their ancestors, this book details the heroic lives of more recent saintly models to encourage contemporary Catholics to seek holiness in their lives.Featuring chapters written by various contributors, including the postulators of some of the causes, the book offers moving insights into the subjects themselves and the times and places in which they lived. All are native-born Irish, some lived and died in

Welcome to the New Year here on C&SI and no, we havent mixed up  our calendars as today of course is the first Sunday of Advent and the beginning of the new liturgical year.On this weeks podcast we start the season of Advent with a reflection from Ascension Press entitled 'What did Mary do for Advent?' It was a series of four videos which they published in 2018 and was a free series (plus one introductory video), one for each week of Advent. These videos are available at rejoiceprogram.com, but will also on YouTube. In this weeks reflection which we are sharing, Fr Mark Toups, Sr Miriam James Heidland and Fr  Josh Johnson share their own encounters with Mary and the effect she had on their lives. The talk will put us in the frame of mind to see Advent through Mary's eyes as we wait with her for the birth of Jesus.We have our regular run through the up coming liturgical odds and ends for the coming week with the reminder that as December 8th this year is the second Sunday of Advent and takes

Welcome to the New Year here on C&SI and no, we havent mixed up  our calendars as today of course is the first Sunday of Advent and the beginning of the new liturgical year.On this weeks podcast excerpt we start the season of Advent with a reflection from Ascension Press entitled 'What did Mary do for Advent?' It was a series of four videos which they published in 2018 and was a free series (plus one introductory video), one for each week of Advent. These videos are available at rejoiceprogram.com, but will also on YouTube. In this weeks reflection which we are sharing, Fr Mark Toups, Sr Miriam James Heidland and Fr  Josh Johnson share their own encounters with Mary and the effect she had on their lives. The talk will put us in the frame of mind to see Advent through Mary's eyes as we wait with her for the birth of Jesus.Text us at +353 874668950 or email at comeandseeinspirtaions@gmail.com

On this weeks podcast C&SI team welcome back Julieann Moran,  General Secretary for the Synodal Pathway of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Julieann shares her thoughts with us on the experience of the Church's Synodal journey following on the conclusion of part two of the Synod on Synodality in Rome and the publication of the final document which Pope Francis immediately approved.Julieann's return to the podcast this week takes us through the updates from Rome from the Synod of Bishops which has been looking at the issue of Synodality over the last two Octobers. During the conversation she presented an outline of what Synodality might mean which can be viewed as "the baptised people of God walking together, discerning together, what it is that God is asking of us at this given time. So whether we are lay people, religious  or clergy - we are all called to take responsibility of the church and the spiritual gift of each of us of discernment so whatever we discern we need to be doing it toget

On this weeks podcast C&SI team welcome back Julieann Moran,  General Secretary for the Synodal Pathway of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Julieann shares her thoughts with us on the experience of the Church's Synodal journey following on the conclusion of part two of the Synod on Synodality in Rome and the publication of the final document which Pope Francis immediately approved.We have our regular run through the liturgical odds and ends of the coming week with some local notices in part one. In part three we have our weekly reflection on the Sunday gospel which is for the solemnity of Christ the Universal King where we are presented from the gospel of John with the contrast presented between the "kingship" of Pilate and that of Jesus. Update on Synod on Synodality and the Irish Synodal PathwayJulieann returns to the podcast this week to take us through the updates from Rome from the Synod of Bishops which has been looking at the issue of Synodality over the last two Octobers. During the

On what is the last Sunday in Ordinary time in the current liturgical year, here on the podcast we dip into one of the Alpha course resource material to share with you a presentation from Nick Gumbel asking the question, "How does God guide us?".

On what is the last Sunday in Ordinary time in the current liturgical year, here on the podcast we dip into one of the Alpha course resource material to share with you a presentation from Nick Gumbel asking the question, "How does God guide us?".We have a run through the liturgical odds and ends for the coming week including the up coming saints of the week as well as our prayer space in part one.In part three as always, we have our reflection on the Sunday gospel as we come towards the end of the journey this liturgical year with the gospel of St Mark (Mk 13: 24-32) where we have the reminder in this weeks gospel about the final things.

On this weeks podcast Shane and John share some thoughts on November as the month of the dead and reflect on how it can both challenge and console us. We have our regular reflections on the Sunday gospel (Mark 12:38-44) about the widow's mite. We have our weekly prayer space and a run through the up coming week's liturgical odds and ends. Memento Mori - Remembering the deadIn the Roman Catholic tradition November is the month of the Holy Soul's where we pray for those who have left this mortal world but may not enjoy full the vision of God. November can be a hard month for many people as we recall the memory of our beloved dead - for the dead can drive you hard. But with the darkening of days and the drawing in of nights it seems to be an appropriate time to reflect and pray for our dead as the year and seasons move towards the death of winter. It is the time of year when we can reflect on our encounters with Sister Death and ultimately an encounter which we will all have.This weeks programme w

On this weeks podcast excerpt Shane and John share some thoughts on November as the month of the dead and reflect on how it can both challenge and console us. In the Roman Catholic tradition November is the month of the Holy Soul's where we pray for those who have left this mortal world but may not enjoy full the vision of God. November can be a hard month for many people as we recall the memory of our beloved dead - for the dead can drive you hard. But with the darkening of days and the drawing in of nights it seems to be an appropriate time to reflect and pray for our dead as the year and seasons move towards the death of winter. It is the time of year when we can reflect on our encounters with Sister Death and ultimately an encounter which we will all have.This weeks programme we reflect on grief for those who have had an encounter with death and also a small reminder for us all to reflect that death comes to us all - one day.