Seamus Ahearne casts and eye over recent happenings.
"We celebrated St Patrick. Was his father a deacon and his grandfather a priest? I don’t know. The accretions of history have decorated the story and there is great unsureness. But it doesn’t matter really, the essentials of faith and mission have survived. His Confessions are delightful in their simplicity; evocative as a story; inspirational in how God works despite our own shortcomings."

1st Reading: 2 Samuel (7:4-6, 12-14, 16)

From David’s offspring will come the universal King

But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan: Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Are you the …