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Normally the early potatoes get planted around St Patrick’s Day but I only got mine in during the week. I hope that planting them during Easter week will work out well. There is nothing like growing your own potatoes. The advantage of the early potatoes is avoiding potato blight.
My latest video🎥
What a lovely surprise to see a butterfly in April in between showers and gusts of wind yesterday. It’s called ‘The Small Tortoise’ butterfly but I have never seen them in early April before.
For me there was a spiritual angle too. The day before I celebrated the funeral Mass of Mary Kelly in Carrigaline and the theme was butterflies 
and her love of them and the beautiful colours she brought to so many people. For me it was a simple and beautiful sign of her presence. May she rest in peace
and her love of them and the beautiful colours she brought to so many people. For me it was a simple and beautiful sign of her presence. May she rest in peace
Amen
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Spiritual Thought For The Week
Easter Sunday is a celebration of light, hope and new beginnings. The Resurrection of Jesus has shattered the darkness. It has no escape. In its place is a great sense of hope. We are not on our own. The invitation today is to roll back the stones in our own lives and let the Easter light touch our darkness. We are Easter people and without the light of the Resurrection we have nothing to hold onto. Life is meaningless without it.
Jesus is our foundation, our compass, our light, our hope, our inspiration, our friend, our lighthouse and our anchor in times of trouble. He is everything we could possibly want him to be. He is completely on our side. It is this same Jesus that we turn to on this Easter Sunday
The Thought For The Week is updated each Monday
