St Martin Magazine - August 2023

In this issue

The August cover of our Saint Martin Magazine is guaranteed to make you smile. It shows a photograph of baby Cillian Redmond and Fr Colm Mannion OP, taken at the Knock Shrine. Staying with Shrines, Fr John Harris OP in an article entitled, ‘Where Heaven Touches Earth, ‘writes about the blessed events of that wet Thursday evening, 21 August 1879 in Co Mayo. Our regular series on Echoes, Lectio, Evangelium, It Happened this Month, Famous Converts and The Life of Saint Martin continue and in his second gardening article Frater Fiachra looks in detail at the aromatic plant, Rosemary. Ray Hughes is in Leon as he progresses along the Camino and Maolsheachlann O’Ceallaigh writes about the famous convert, the American Apologist, Jimmy Aiken. Our Saint of the Month is Saint Jane Frances de Chantel and in Matters Medical, Br Chris Gault explains in a fascinating piece what was really happening when blood and water flowed from the side of Jesus on the Cross. We have an insightful new book by the director of the Dominican Retreat Centre in Tallaght, Fr Donagh O’Shea OP. ‘A Hundred Roads to Here’, which offers a 100 short ‘doors to meditation’ for those meditators who are struggling; an interesting read, even for those who are not!