Father Frank’s Blog

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ytLWq-iW4   Father Frank Ryan OMI, our Parish Priest has given us his second reflection which can be found on our Youtube channel. Thank you, Father Frank!

Father Frank Ryan OMI celebrates Mass for Sunday, March 29th 2020 at Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church, Colwyn Bay, North Wales, UK. Fr Frank Ryan Mass 29/03.2020

The parish Priest of St. Joseph’s Catholic church, Colwyn Bay offers this reflection for our parishioners and the wider community.

Occasionally when I go into the hospital (Glan Clwyd) to visit some parishioners, I bump into Sheila Johnson. She is the R.C. Chaplain to the hospital, and is a parishioner at St. Mary’s, Rhyl.  I am extremely grateful for her dedicated service to the ill and indeed the dying in the hospital.  Trying to negotiate the frequent blockages on the […]

I always wondered why they called it ‘Good Friday’.  You look at the crucifix, and there depicted is the most horrible image of death that could be inflicted on a human being by the Roman empire.  Why should my desire to be justified require this kind of immolation?  What makes me worth it? Strange, how love and pain always seem […]

The mind of a child has the capacity to cut through the flotsam and jetsam of life and focus in a profound way on what is essential.  Their belief in God can not only be real but that conviction can be translated into feelings of confidence and acts of kindness.  Their sense of right and wrong can, when not tainted […]

The beautiful house that played such an important part in the life of the Ratzinger family is falling down. Situated in a beautiful part of Bavaria with the Alps as a background and Berchtesgaden just 33 miles away, it is in an idyllic part of the world. The house was built in 1726 and reflects the history and the culture […]

There were eight children in our family. We lived on the outskirts of Dublin and we were able to do a little farming to make ends meet.  My job was looking after the hens – all 72 of them.  I fed them, watered them, collected the eggs, and had a list of people who who would buy the eggs.  We […]

I well remember the 2002 referendum in Ireland on abortion. On the day before (5th March 2002) I was present at a meeting in which Cardinal Desmond O’Connell, leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, spoke to a gathering of Catholic School Administrators in St. Patrick’s Training College in Dublin. Addressing the subject of the Referendum he said “The referendum […]

I noticed just today a little crocus had emerged through the leaves of last fall, and I knew Winter was over and Spring was not far away. It had a white colour which was dominated by purple, that now glistened in a burst of sunlight that pierced the clouds. The glory of God was revealed. Purple is of course the […]