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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:59:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 2006-2010 chancellor@kandle.ie (Kildare & Leighlin Diocese) chancellor@kandle.ie (Kildare & Leighlin Diocese) 1440 http://www.kandle.ie/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/KandLe_rss.jpg http://www.kandle.ie 144 144 A range of interviews and reflections about church life and social issues hosted by the Diocese of Kildare & Leighlin (RC Diocese in Ireland) kandle, church, diocese, parish, prayer, liturgy, music, communications, Kildare & Leighlin Diocese Kildare & Leighlin Diocese chancellor@kandle.ie no no http://www.kandle.ie/2012/02/02/schools-project-creating-altar-cloth/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/02/02/schools-project-creating-altar-cloth/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:55:39 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26682 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/02/02/schools-project-creating-altar-cloth/feed/ 0 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/02/01/kl-launch-diocesan-congress/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/02/01/kl-launch-diocesan-congress/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:00:56 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26624 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/02/01/kl-launch-diocesan-congress/feed/ 0 0:02:33 On 9th and 10th March, a Diocesan Eucharistic Congress will take place in Carlow.   See full programme – including parallel youth congress – and how to register. A Place at the Table 9 & 10 March 2012 Click on links below for Main[...] On 9th and 10th March, a Diocesan Eucharistic Congress will take place in Carlow.   See full programme – including parallel youth congress – and how to register. A Place at the Table 9 & 10 March 2012 Click on links below for Main Congress Programme ON-LINE BOOKING (main Congress) Postal Registration Form (main) Poster Youth Congress Programme Youth on-line booking (over 18s) Postal Registration Form (Youth) Podcast Main Congress Programme The Congress starts on Friday evening (9th March) and concludes on Saturday evening (10th March) with the celebration of the Eucharist in the Cathedral in Carlow. The main congress programme is built around three keynote speakers – Baroness Nuala O’Loan (Friday evening), Fr Michael Drumm (Saturday morning) and Fr Peter McVerry (Saturday afternoon) – that will take place in Carlow Cathedral. Between the two keynote address on Saturday, there will be two rounds of workshops.   Each round has 16 workshops (32 in total) which will take place in Carlow College and the Cathedral Parish Centre. There will also be opportunities for confession and Eucharistic Adoration on Saturday. Youth Congress Programme (16 -25) On Saturday, 10th March there will be a youth programme for young adults aged 16-25 in St Leo’s College Carlow. The programme for the day will include key speakers such as Baroness Nuala O ‘Loan and Fr Peter Mc Verry. Dublin All-Ireland Footballer Ger Brennan will share his story and Elation ministries will provide the music. There will be a range of workshops for young people to choose from and throughout the day there will be quiet time, prayer, games, catechesis and much more. The day will be a chance for young people across the diocese to come together to share their faith, explore their understanding of Eucharist and its relevance for young people and to discover how they might like to get involved in the Youth Plans for IEC 2012. The day will conclude with joining in the celebrationof the Eucharist in the Cathedral. Schools Project – Creating an Altar Cloth Registration and attending There is no charge for our Diocesan Eucharistic Congress but registration is essential on or before February 27, 2012. When registering, you can indicate the workshop(s) you would like to attend in order of preference.  You can register using the form that is included with the printed Congress programme or on-line (see above) Donations towards costs will be gratefully accepted during Congress and at the Concluding Celebration of the Eucharist. Tea and Coffee will be available in Carlow College and the Cathedral Parish Centre on Saturday. Soup and sandwiches will be available at a reasonable price in Carlow College and there are many, coffee shops, cafes and restaurants close by for lunch. You are welcome to bring a packed lunch also. Please call 059 9164084 if you have any queries.   Headlines, Podcasts Kildare & Leighlin Diocese no no http://www.kandle.ie/2012/02/01/war-horse-story-love/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/02/01/war-horse-story-love/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:01:00 +0000 Fr. Paddy Byrne http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26613 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/02/01/war-horse-story-love/feed/ 0 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/02/01/world-day-sick-2012-popes-message/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/02/01/world-day-sick-2012-popes-message/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:52:11 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26608 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/02/01/world-day-sick-2012-popes-message/feed/ 0 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/31/feast-st-blaise-3rd-february/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/31/feast-st-blaise-3rd-february/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:11:11 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26600 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/31/feast-st-blaise-3rd-february/feed/ 2 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/30/volunteers-wanted-iec-2012/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/30/volunteers-wanted-iec-2012/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:18:53 +0000 KandLe http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26593 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/30/volunteers-wanted-iec-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/30/iec-2012-uganda/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/30/iec-2012-uganda/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:59:10 +0000 KandLe http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26590 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/30/iec-2012-uganda/feed/ 0 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/26/kl-pre-marriage-care-courses-2012/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/26/kl-pre-marriage-care-courses-2012/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:00:19 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26571 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/26/kl-pre-marriage-care-courses-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/26/world-communications-day-2012-popes-message/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/26/world-communications-day-2012-popes-message/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:42:58 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26560 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/26/world-communications-day-2012-popes-message/feed/ 0 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/cate/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/cate/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:31:22 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26543 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/cate/feed/ 0 0:10:29 Listen to an interview with Brendan O’Reilly on Share the Good News – one year on from its introduction as the new National Directory for Catechesis   Podcast   Religion Matters on Kfmradio.com About Share the Good News – the first National Di[...] Listen to an interview with Brendan O’Reilly on Share the Good News – one year on from its introduction as the new National Directory for Catechesis   Podcast   Religion Matters on Kfmradio.com About Share the Good News – the first National Directory for Catechesis in Ireland – was launched on 6 January in the Mater Dei Institute of Education in Dublin by Cardinal Sean Brady, Archbishop of Armagh, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, and Bishop Bill Murphy, Bishop of Kerry, Chairman of the Episcopal Council for Catechetics along with writer and editor Rev Dr Gareth Byrne. Share the Good News is a ten year plan for evangelisation, for catechesis and for religious education in the Catholic Church in Ireland. It is available in Veritas shops throughout Ireland and on line at www.veritas.ie   Podcasts Kildare & Leighlin Diocese no no http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/gift-irish-spring/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/gift-irish-spring/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:20:42 +0000 Fr. Paddy Byrne http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26539 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/gift-irish-spring/feed/ 0 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/st-vincent-de-paul-2/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/st-vincent-de-paul-2/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:37:17 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26532 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/st-vincent-de-paul-2/feed/ 0 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/living-communion-vision-practice-parish-pastoral-councils-ireland-today/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/living-communion-vision-practice-parish-pastoral-councils-ireland-today/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:48:41 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26523 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/living-communion-vision-practice-parish-pastoral-councils-ireland-today/feed/ 0 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/diocesan-gathering-%e2%80%98catholic-schools%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-31-jan-2012/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/diocesan-gathering-%e2%80%98catholic-schools%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-31-jan-2012/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:37:06 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26520 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/25/diocesan-gathering-%e2%80%98catholic-schools%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-31-jan-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/23/primary-school-lent-easter-resources-2012/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/23/primary-school-lent-easter-resources-2012/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:27:11 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26511 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/23/primary-school-lent-easter-resources-2012/feed/ 2 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/23/st-brigids-day/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/23/st-brigids-day/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:47:04 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26501 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/23/st-brigids-day/feed/ 4 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/17/haiti-years/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/17/haiti-years/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:04:17 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26483 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/17/haiti-years/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Listen to a podcast where Eoghan Rice from Trócaire talks to Brenda Drumm about Haiti two years on from earthquake. Podcast kfmradio.ie Latest Blog from Trocaire.org Building a new Haiti from the rubble of tragedy In the labyrinth of narrow lanew[...] Listen to a podcast where Eoghan Rice from Trócaire talks to Brenda Drumm about Haiti two years on from earthquake. Podcast kfmradio.ie Latest Blog from Trocaire.org Building a new Haiti from the rubble of tragedy In the labyrinth of narrow laneways that cut through Villa Rosa, Saul Darbouze leads us to the place he calls home. The path changes from concrete to mud as we enter further into this tangled web of side-streets and alleyways. Eventually we arrive at our destination, a small white building fronted by a porch on which Saul’s three dogs sleep. Home sweet home. Saul is still settling in. His memories are still raw of his old house, which stood on the same spot, and of his wife who died when it crumbled to the ground. They had raised a family there together but when the earth shook on January 12th, 2010, the home they had worked so hard to build crashed to the ground, destroying everything. As a driver for his local parish, Saul was on the road when the earthquake struck. “I was driving the car when it started to shake,” he recalls. “The nuns who were in the car asked me, ‘what are you doing?’ and I said ‘it’s not me, it’s the ground’. I had to leave the car and walk home. I was very worried for my family. When I got home, everything was destroyed.” Homeless and grieving, Saul was forced to build a shack out of corrugated iron to live in. It was a pitiful existence, in no way suitable for a man of 74 years of age. “It was a very difficult life,” he says in his understating way. After 11 months in the shack, Saul was thrown a lifeline by people in Ireland. Through donations to Trócaire, a new house was built for Saul, allowing him to recover and get his life back on track. He looks around at the devastation that is still evident in the Villa Rosa district of Port au Prince and he says he feels “very lucky” to have a permanent roof over his head. He knows that in Haiti even something as basic as shelter cannot be taken for granted. “People should have access to the minimum they need to survive,” he says. “I am lucky because I can survive but many others cannot. People should be able to live with respect.” The Haiti earthquake was one of those disasters so big that it was almost too difficult to comprehend. At 4.53pm on the afternoon of January 12th, 2010, people were going about their daily routine. By 4.54pm everything had changed. Entire cities brought to the ground, 250,000 bodies lying lifeless under the rubble. The earthquake lasted just 33 seconds but during that time Haitians died at the rate of up to 7,500 per second. Thirty-three seconds that changed a country forever. People in Ireland opened their hearts to Haiti, donating €7.58m to fund Trócaire’s relief operation. Half of this money was donated at parish collections all over Ireland. The response was enormous, and so too was the relief operation. In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, Trócaire used donations to provide food for 1.5 million people, healthcare to 1 million people and shelter to 160,000 people. In the days and weeks that followed the earthquake, Irish donations were used to keep people alive. Having provided short-term emergency relief for people left homeless by the earthquake, we have now moved into long-term projects aimed at rebuilding Haiti and bringing real change to people’s lives. Two hours drive east of Port au Prince, Sauvah Anderson is preparing to do his bit to help with the reconstruction. Sauvah was trapped for two hours underneath the rubble of his school when it collapsed during the earthquake. Fortunately for him, he was on the top floor of the building when it collapsed – most of the pupils in the classrooms below were killed. He was rescued and left Port au Prince to return to his home town of Fonds Parisien, where Trócaire had teamed-up with the Carmelite Sisters to build a training centre and school for almost 300 young people. The centre, funded entirely by Trócaire, equips the students with skills needed in t[...] Podcasts, Trocaire Kildare & Leighlin Diocese no no http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/17/feile-bhride-2012-kildare-town/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/17/feile-bhride-2012-kildare-town/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:14:45 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26471 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/17/feile-bhride-2012-kildare-town/feed/ 2 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/17/kl-formally-receive-students-candidates-permanent-diaconate/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/17/kl-formally-receive-students-candidates-permanent-diaconate/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:42:22 +0000 KandLe Team http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26466 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/17/kl-formally-receive-students-candidates-permanent-diaconate/feed/ 4 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/12/prayer-hope-2012/ http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/12/prayer-hope-2012/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:58:04 +0000 Fr. Paddy Byrne http://www.kandle.ie/?p=26458 http://www.kandle.ie/2012/01/12/prayer-hope-2012/feed/ 1