Cathedral News

Jesus must have looked forward to going home to Nazareth. He had spent almost thirty years there.

Jesus gave help to all kinds of people. Jairus was a synagogue official, so he was probably an important person. Unlike the Pharisees he had respect for Jesus and fell at His feet.

The cathedral's annual series of summer concerts takes place on Thursday evenings in July, at 8:00pm each evening.

St Thomas More, who suffered martyrdom under King Henry VIII, is remembered on 22 June.

The apostles, who were fishermen, knew the Sea of Galilee only too well, and they were right to be frightened when a storm blew up.

In today’s gospel, Jesus speaks of the mustard tree, probably the black mustard which is not native to Ireland. He talks about it giving shelter to the birds of the air.

Both the gospel of John and the Apocalypse picture Jesus as the Lamb of God.

“[Allah is] the originator of the heavens and the earth. [There is] nothing like a likeness of him” (Koran chapter 42:11).

Founder of the Daughters of Charity, St Louise de Marillac is remembered on 9 May.

We might wonder where God is, what with the carnage in the middle east, the cyber attacks and the epidemic which has decimated our world.