Is This A Virtual Solemnity ?

I'm wondering if this is a solemnity on the internet?  Not that the internet is a diocese or ordinariate, but given that today is the feast of St Isidore of Seville, patron saint of the internet, one wonders where we stand liturgically in this virtual world.  There's one for the liturgists among us.  

Anyway, happy feast day to all of you.  I hope the holy bishop of Seville, Doctor of the Church, will watch over all of us as we use the internet, that it may be used for the glory of God and the proclamation of the Gospel and not the degradation of men and women.

We can celebrate this feast, according to the rules of Lenten commemorations, anything more solemn and any festive events may well have to be virtual, I presume.

Relics of St Isidore preserved in Leon

Communications Down

I am afraid that communications in Rathkenny have broken down!  On Sunday my telephone line and internet went down and despite my efforts to get help from our telecommunications company, there is no sign of anyone coming to fix the problem.  So this is why I have not been online.  I hope it will be fixed soon.  I am posting from an internet cafe! 

Just a reminder to all our members and friends in the London area - the St Genesius Eucharistic Holy Hour starts tonight in Corpus Christi Church, Maiden Lane, at 8pm - come one, come all, and spend time with the Lord in adoration, and join Genesius in offering prayer for those in theatre, cinema and the arts, and of course the sick.    Tuesday of next week - Dublin Film Club - we are watching Hitchcock's I Confess - that should get a discussion going.

Normal posting will resume when I catch the man in the white van.  In the meantime, may I do the Father Z (peace be upon him) and ask your prayers for a number of intentions?

Back Again...

Well, telephone company guy no 2 arrived about noon yesterday - Philip by name - nice guy. After a quick look around he told me the cable linking the telephone mast on the road with the one hidden in the woods beside my house was down.  I went out to a lunch meeting and when I got back - hey presto, phone and net back.  So thanks to Philip, Father is back on the net.  So be prepared for more drivel, ranting and the occasional insight (pure fluke).