- Written by: Fr Daniel O’Leary
Our keynote speaker at the recent meeting of diocesan representatives of ACTA was Fr Daniel O’Leary. It was indeed an inspirational talk.
He has now written up that presentation for publication under the title “Courageous Conversations” for the Irish Journal ‘The Furrow’
As it is not yet in the public domain, we are not in a position to publish it through our ACTA network in full. However Daniel has given us permission to offer extracts that might give some flavour of the direction of his thought to all of us.
- Written by: Val Farrell
Who invented the wheel? Whose idea was it?
Perhaps it wasn't invented at all, just discovered.
Someone, somewhere, sometime, noticed that round things could be made to roll and from then on, they did.
- Written by: Chris McDonnell
There are a few lines in one of Eliot’s Four Quartets, The Dry Salvages, where he refers to the edge between land and sea.
“…. The sea is all about us; the sea is the land’s edge also, the granite into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses its hints of earlier and other creation…”
- Written by: Valentine Farrell
The day thou gavest, Lord, is nowhere near ended, though it has been travelling steadily onwards since that first grey moment when you gave it leave.
- Written by: Teilhard de Chardin
"Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end without delay,
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way
to something unknown,
something new.