Christ Our Anchor: Writings by Fr. James O’Kane

Christ Our Anchor: Writings by James O'Kane, Priest and Theologian, ed. Fiona Lynch, with a Foreword by Bishop Alan McGuckian (Shanway Press, 2025).

The previously unpublished sermons and some lectures of the late Very Rev James O’Kane, RIP, former Professor at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth and more recently priest of Ballintoy, Culfeightrin, and Cushendun parishes, have been collated in a new publication entitled “Christ Our Anchor” which is now available from Shanway Press.

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Three of the items in this collection are of particular interest. There is a highly lucid and comprehensive exposition of the Church's teaching on the Eucharist embedded in a series of six previously unpublished homilies delivered in St Patrick's Church, Culfeightrin. Then, in an article which appeared in L'Osservatore Romano, Fr O'Kane considers the nature of priesthood itself. Finally, in a conference paper, he discusses pastoral opportunities in relation to Baptism, Matrimony and Church funerals.