The Healing Power of the Sacraments – Loneliness Without Faith – Deacon Don and Aidan Byrne

About this episode

Deacon Don and Aidan Byrne discuss the impact of faith on loneliness and isolation in rural Ireland.

Deacon Don and Aidan open with what is replacing faith in many homes today — and what Aidan has found happens when those things are removed. The conversation moves into the epidemic of loneliness and isolation in rural Ireland, the culture of the closed gate, the “overboundaried” person who has shut off almost all possibility […]

People in this episode

Host: Deacon Don

Guest: Aidan Byrne

Topics covered

• faith
• loneliness
• isolation
• rural Ireland
• sacraments
• community

Keywords

• sacraments
• faith
• loneliness
• isolation
• rural Ireland
• community
• spirituality

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