Cathedral News

Relics of St Bernadette will be visiting Galway Cathedral this September.

The disciples were excited after their experience of preaching,healing and casting out demons. They naturally wanted to tell Jesus all about their experience.

Born in the 10th century, Saint Henry was King of Germany. He is remembered on 13 July.

Amos was the first Jewish prophet to have a book of the bible called after him. He lived in the eighth century BC and his writing is admired for its purity of language.

People generally see what they want to see. God chose to become human in every way except for sin. He also decided to be reared in a village that was considered a bit of a backwater. “Nazareth!

Sometimes people faced with pain or tragedy think that their suffering is somehow God’s will. Both the first reading and the gospel contradict this attitude.

We are reminded in today’s liturgy of the power of God, in the reading from the Book of Job, which is the story of a good man who has endured numerous tragedies and who wonders where God is when he

St Elizabeth of Schonau, abbess, mystic and visionary, is remembered on 18 June.

Ezekiel was born around 623, during the reign of Josiah. He became a priest and was exiled to Babylon, where he made a series of prophecies.

“Do not disturb. I’m disturbed enough already” (notice on Spike Milligan’s door, quoted by the late bishop of Galway, Martin Drennan).