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St Nicholas Church, Adare, with Croom, Kilpeacon and Kilmallock

Four Church of Ireland congregations in the Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe, located just south of Limerick City .

Each of the four churches has a service every Sunday, plus a YouTube channel. With Sunday schools at Adare, Kilpeacon and Kilmallock.

30/05/2026

There is evidence that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit were ideas in circulation in the early part of the second century, but it wasn’t until the third century that agreement was reached, after competing factions had wrangled over Jesus and his precise relationship to God, and had labelled each other heretics for their theories.
But all this begs the question, if Jesus had been so clear about precisely who he was, then why was the intervention of the emperor needed in the first place? Why did a disputed explanation of Jesus and the divine exist in the first place?
The answer is that Jesus hadn’t been clear, or at least that he hadn’t claimed for himself, what others later came to believe of him.
Jesus had spoken of himself as the Son of Man, or a Son of God, but these titles could be applied at the time to others of holiness and devotion.
Certainly, others asked him whether he was the Messiah, and his answers were enigmatic,
What the early church was struggling to make sense of, was what the theologian Marcus Borg termed the pre-Easter and the post-Easter Jesus.

There is evidence that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit were...

16/05/2026

Video meditation - 'More love, more love'.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is an American poet, associated with Colorado. She was Poet Laureate of San Miguel County, Colorado from 2006–2010, and was named Poet Laureate of Colorado's Western Slope by the Telluride Institute from 2015–2017. This poem 'More love, more love' is taken from her collection entitled 'All the Honey' - (2023, Samara Press) ISBN 978-1955140027.
She is the author of many collections of poetry, including Hush (2020), which won the Halcyon Prize; Naked for Tea (2018), a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award; and The Less I Hold (2016), a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. She was the director of the Telluride Writers Guild for 10 years. She lives in southwest Colorado.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is an American poet, associated with Colorado. She was Poet Laureate of San Miguel County, Colorado from 2006–2010, and was named P...

09/05/2026

As human beings there is the very great danger that we can drift into error.
How many times have we heard people speak of the Spirit moving them to a certain course of action, only to notice that it is indeed fortunate that the Spirit and their own self-interest seem to be so neatly aligned?
And might claims to the authority of the Spirit sometimes reveal something even darker and more troubling?
Certainly, in some of the most recent and cruellest conflicts in our world, one can see politicians invoking the spirit of God as the sustainer, even the instigator of the violence. And there seem to be no shortage of clerics in their orbit, willing to vindicate and eulogize their political masters.
How are we to distinguish between competing claims each ostensibly moved by the Spirit?
I would suggest that part of the problem lies in the fact that it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to understand the Spirit, without first remembering where it belongs, within the context and the embrace of the Trinity.

As human beings there is the very great danger that we can drift into error. How many times have we heard people speak of the Spirit moving them to a certain...

02/05/2026

Jesus called and calls upon us to love, unreservedly, boundlessly, without restraint, without limit, abundantly.
Jesus didn’t say love one kind of Christian more than any other, they didn’t exist at the time. He most certainly did not say love Jews, his own people, a little less; that would truly be a bizarre sentiment for a devout Jewish rabbi to advance.
He didn’t call upon us to hate anyone, Muslims, Buddhist, atheist, agnostic, or any other of the variety of human creeds that seek to share compassion and forgiveness.
The Trinity is not a closed loop, it is not a self-absorbed or an inward-looking and exclusive company of three.
The Trinity is an invitation - to inclusion and participation, with arms that are open, welcoming and gathering-in.
The journey to unity with God, the divine, transcendent reality, is ultimately a journey within ourselves, to discover at our heart the essence of Jesus and the spirit that inspired him.
To find deep within ourselves the love that God is, and the love that Jesus showed and shared.

Love without boundaries - 5th Sunday after Easter 2026

25/04/2026

Aristotle speaks of virtue, or excellence of character, as something that a person develops, partly as a result of their upbringing, and partly as a result of their habit of action. He likens having an ethical character to a skill that is acquired through practice, such as learning a musical instrument or a language.
People sometimes wonder how they would act in a crisis, young men wonder how they would be in time of war, we might ask of ourselves, how would I react if I saw someone lying in the street – we hope that we know.
But if Aristotle is right, the answer lies in the small things, the everyday.
It is something that we need to practice every day, every chance we get. We can’t wait around for the big moments, the crisis; it is no use holding ourselves in reserve for the big push, the decisive act of generosity and kindness.
For if we do, that day will surely never come – we won’t be ready, we won’t be ‘psychologically prepared’.

We have to practice at virtue - 4th Sunday of Easter 2026

18/04/2026

What’s the expression, ‘There are none so blind as those who will not see’?
We see it in those who won’t even have a conversation about faith, and we can see it in ourselves.
It is a situation familiar to psychologists:
We tend to trust information more if it agrees with things that we already believe. It’s called ‘confirmation bias’; we screen out challenges to our beliefs, anything that makes us uncomfortable and uncertain, and more readily let in news and ideas that fit neatly alongside what we already think we know.
We listen to the politicians who tell us what we want to hear, we read the newspapers that tell us what we want to read, we dismiss the opinions of those who might help us flourish beyond our expectations and imaginations.
And this can sway us either reject information, that actually may be helpful to us, and that actually might be true, or we can only partially perceive, limiting the reality we experience to our preconceptions and pre-judgements, so bound up in our own expectations, our own wants and concerns, that we can’t see that the answers to our prayers and yearnings might be staring us in the face.
One of the tragedies of human experience is that we will not let go of our fixity of thinking until grief or trauma, or pain or shock force us to re-evaluate our world, our expectations and ourselves.

1 like. "Our own, road to Emmaus - 3rd Sunday after Easter 2026"

11/04/2026

Recent studies have found that the national and cultural stereotypes, that we hold of ourselves can be pretty wide of the mark.
And if we portray, even to each other, an inaccurate and dishonest image of our shared culture, are we any more honest in the way that we represent ourselves?
For in many ways it is true to say that we are all strangers, strangers to each other, but also to ourselves.
There is always something held back, something in reserve, something behind the mask that we have created, and which we wear to the world.
And if the mask begins to slip, we can go to enormous lengths to glue it back into place.
And whilst at times the mask may seem to comfortably fit, all too often we continue to wear it, long after it has failed to serve us, indeed even to the point where we can become disliked or made to suffer for projecting a personality that isn’t even ours.
So fearful can we be of showing our real selves, that we can protect the artificial mask at real cost to the person behind it.
And if the mask can hamper and sabotage the depth of our relationship with others, it can also serve to undermine, even more destructively, our spiritual growth, the growth of our soul.
As Paul says in his letter:
“But what we are is known to God….. I hope it is known also to your conscience.”

Recent studies have found that the national and cultural stereotypes, that we hold of ourselves can be pretty wide of the mark.And if we portray, even to eac...

04/04/2026

Throughout world history the fate of humanity has been blighted by one dictator after another, one regime after another, predicated on fear, violence and suffering to retain power.
For a while it can seem that they have won.
But in the end, despite all their ingenuity, for all their scheming, their planning and orchestrated violence, they fail. Not one of the regimes that perpetrated any of the atrocities even of the last few decades, let alone the last century – not one of them lasted more than a few years. For evil, in the end, consumes itself, evil is self-negating, self-destroying, self-denying.
Easter reminds us that despite it all, love endures, love never passes away, never fades or fails. First and last, beginning and end, alpha and omega; it is love, no matter the heartbreak along the way, that abides, that survives, that triumphs.
The young man Jesus lived his life based on the premise that ‘God is love, and those that live in love live in God, and God lives in them’.
The power of evil did all it could to destroy that life and that love. It failed.
It still does, and always will.

Throughout world history the fate of humanity has been blighted by one dictator after another, one regime after another, predicated on fear, violence and suf...

01/03/2026

The legendary story of Abraham and his son, Isaac, had always served as the example of radical change of heart and unconditional acceptance and faith without condition or reservation. Later John uses the story of Nicodemus as the contrasting example of those who hold something back, who partially understand and only partially commit.
As with Abraham, for whom faith was the gateway into a new life, a new nation and a legacy of countless generations, now a giant leap of faith is once again required. For Nicodemus this is not only too hard to achieve, but he can’t even comprehend the steps that he is being asked to take. He expects the expected; he can only evaluate Jesus and his teaching by past experience and inherited cultural values.
But Jesus is asking him to look with fresh eyes, with a mind open and receptive, he is asking him to allow himself to be surprised. You have to see beyond, Jesus says, beyond what you think you already know and regard as the way things are and should be.
And of course, John, the narrator of the gospel, implores us to take that same message to our own hearts as well.

The legendary story of Abraham and his son, Isaac, had always served as the example of radical change of heart and unconditional acceptance and faith without...

14/02/2026

Mountains are huge, daunting, immovable - even the weather bows to them. Sometimes shrouded in mist and cloud, they can also be shrouded in mystery and power. No wonder that ancient man was sure that God was to be found there, and to be feared there.
Because not only did mountains touch the sky, at a time when man felt rooted by his own feet to the ground….
But if you have ever climbed or driven up to the high places, and looked down…. The world suddenly looks both bigger and smaller at the same time.
Vast, stretching to the horizon, endless, but everything that is familiar? So much smaller. Psychologists speak of ‘peak experiences’ those often fleeting, intense moments of awe and wonder, sometimes joyful and uplifting, sometimes deeply challenging, making us re-examine ourselves and our world – always powerful.
What are the mountains of our lives, the peak experiences that can shake and remake us – do we hide from them, or seek them out?

Mountains are huge, daunting, immovable - even the weather bows to them. Sometimes shrouded in mist and cloud, they can also be shrouded in mystery and power...

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