Come and See Inspirations

20/04/2025

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On this Easter Day, from the all on the C&SI teams we wish you and yours every blessing of this Blessed Day!On this weeks podcast excerpt we are delighted to welcome back our old friend Noirin Lynch to share with us some thoughts on Easter, ho...

13/04/2025

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We have come towards the end of our Lenten journey this year and with the celebration of Palm Sunday we enter into Holy Week and begin to accompany Our Lord towards his Passion, Death and Resurrection. On the podcast this week we take a sligh...

06/04/2025

Mary's Stations of the Cross

On this week's podcast excerpt we begin to turn our attention to the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus by prayerfully reflecting on the Stations of the Cross. For our reflection we are using Mary's Way of the Cross by Richard G. Furey C.Ss....

30/03/2025

Visit by Bishop Paul Dempsey

On this Laetare Sunday we are delighted to have + Paul Dempsey, one of the auxiliary bishops of Dublin join John and Shane on the podcast to share his journey to priesthood and to becoming a bishop but also what he learnt on a visit to Kenya in Ja...

23/03/2025

This week we have another special guest who joins us

On this weeks podcast excerpt, John and Shane are delighted to catch up with Fr Columba McCann, the recently elected abbot of Glenstal Abbey, one of the oasis of prayer in the Limerick region.Fr Columba McCann joins with us to share how things hav...

16/03/2025

From our archives (2018)

On this weeks podcast we dip into the archive from 2018 where Michael Keating joins us to reflect on the celebration of St Patrick's Day when all the world decides it is Irish and turns green for a day. But who was St Patrick? Like so many Ch...

09/03/2025

On this first Sunday of Lent podcast excerpt we are joined by  Fr Frank Duhig to reflect on our Lenten journey and looking at how the season provides an opportunity for spiritual renewal. Fr Frank Duhig reflects on our journey in Lent and the...

02/03/2025

This week's podcast from C&SI

Next Wednesday is the beginning of the season of Lent so on this weeks podcast we are joined by Jane Mellet from Trocaire who shares with us about the upcoming 2025 Lenten Campaign - the 52nd annual Lenten campaign by Trocaire since it was set up ...

23/02/2025

The start of the Emmanuel Community

On this week's podcast excerpt, Geraldine Creaton from the Irish branch of the Emmanuel Community introduces us to Pierre Goursat (1914-1991), the founder of the Emmanuel Community.  On 18 December 2024, Pope Francis approved the publishing o...

16/02/2025

This week we welcome back Bishop Brendan Leahy

On this weeks podcast we are joined by Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick who chats to John and Shane about various things including the Synod on Synodality in Rome and finding christian hope during the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope. The Bishop delves i...

09/02/2025

Sharing youth ministry in Limerick Diocese

On this weeks podcast we share a discussion with Fr Michael Liston who recounts his experience of establishing Muintearas Iosa in Limerick diocese 1974. Muintearas Iosa is the main vehicle for youth ministry in the diocese. Inspired by the communi...

01/02/2025

Another powerful talk by Fr Mike Smitz

So one of the things we try  to do on the podcast is bring you talks and reflections which we think might be of interest. And this week we bring you a talk by Fr Mike Smitz given at the SEEK conference held recently in Salt Lake City, Utah an...

01/02/2025

For the day that it is

On this weeks podcast we are marking Ireland's newest public holiday which is dedicated to St Bridget of Kildare on what is actually the 1,500th anniversary of her death in 524AD. We are exploring and sharing the culture and folklore around  ...

25/01/2025

On this weeks podcast we share a reflection from USCCB by Bishop Barron about Dei Verbum to mark the 6th Sunday of the Word of God.We have our regular liturgical odds and ends in part one and in part three we have our reflection on the Sunday gosp...

19/01/2025

Living attentively with Martina Lehane Sheehan

On this weeks podcast we welcome back Martina Lehane Sheehan to this weeks podcast where Martina leads us through her years of study & training and work with her beloved husband Pat who died in 2022 and how she continues to share inspirational...

12/01/2025

Our look at the year in review

So on this weeks podcast John and Shane take a look back at the events church-related in 2024. We have been trying to do this annual review for the last few years so hopefully it works (LOL) and we then see what the pundits have predicted for 2025...

05/01/2025

Fr Raphael shares our last Christmas reflection - Keeping Christ at the centre of Christmas

We are sharing individual excerpts from our Christmas Season podcasts over the days of the Christmas Season to provide a pause moment for listeners throughout the days of this special time.On today's reflection, Fr Raphael shares with us the remin...

05/01/2025

Happy New Year and Blessings from Come and See Inspirations

Happy New Year and Happy Christmas! We are still in the Christmas Season until the feast of the Baptism of the Lord so it is still appropriate to wish everyone a blessed Christmastide from the team here on C&SI! So this weeks podcast is a...