ACP Zoom guest speaker, Julieann Moran, General Secretary for the Synodal Pathway, will discuss where the Synodal Pathway (Ireland) and the Universal Synod are at present. Julieann has just returned…
As we gather, we are challenged to be hospitable, welcoming people. We worship the God who always has a welcome for us.Penitential RiteSupported by this divine care, we call to…
The beautiful story of the Good Samaritan is told again at today’s Mass, with its challenge to us to look after others, as the Good Samaritan did. We gather to…
John Wijngaards is founder of the UK-based Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research, writing in the Irish Times: Pope Francis has unleashed a synodal process of consultations in the Catholic Church. It offers…
Towards October 2024 – Summary of Contributions from Dioceses and Groups of the Catholic Church in Ireland In response to the invitation from the Secretariat of the Synod in Rome…
Claire Giangravé – Religion News Service May 15, 2024 VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Nearly a year after the Vatican blocked an Italian theologian’s candidacy to become the dean of an…
Letter from Pope Francis to Parish Priests: ‘Without priests, we will never be able to learn how to walk together and to set out on the path of synodality,…
Tue 14th May – Mary’s Meals Three of the Gospels have the account of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes where Jesus takes something small that is offered and…
Today is Pentecost Sunday, the second climax of the Easter season. We celebrate ‘the great beginning of the Church’, the day the Holy Spirit first came to confused and frightened disciples.
Western People 7th May 2024 Recently, the once-well-known BBC literary pundit, Joan Bakewell, was asked: ‘How old is old?’ Now in her 90s, she dismissed the question as ‘old hat’….
We often use the phrase about a football crowd ‘raising the roof’ with noise at a match. It is an expression of excitement and enthusiasm that all can share. But apart…
By Christopher White Rome — May 8, 2024 Catholicism must rid itself of the “heresy of triumphalism” if it is to become more synodal and better able to evangelize in…
If the earliest Christians were given new life by Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, and a vision of a new creation in a violent world now passing away, why should…
Western People, 30.4.2024 When I was 13 or so and a boarder in St Muredach’s College I was given the honour of serving Mass every morning for the then bishop…
Newman Association, Monday 15 April, 2024 Mayfield Salisbury Church, Edinburgh The Bible: A Mosaic Introduction In art, a mosaic is a surface which has been decorated, beautifully decorated, with coloured,…
The Ascension of the Lord is celebrated today. The Church also calls this Sunday ‘World Communications Day’. As he left his disciples, Jesus sent them out to spread the Good News. This is our task too. We ask for the grace we need.
Note: The seminar on Healing the Family Tree scheduled for Friday May 17th in Lady’s Island is fully booked. Another is planned for Saturday June 15th and is filling fast….
A note from our website maintenance team: We are performing scheduled maintenance on our servers on Monday 6th May 2024. Most of the work can be done without any interference…
FIRST COMMUNION Here, I have it here! First Communion photo.Jenny looking out from ‘neath a veil:open-eyed… trusting… distrusting… unaware of what was out there, what lay ahead… in the world…
Two crucial post-Resurrection stories of Jesus are centred on the sharing of a meal, supper after the journey to Emmaus and breakfast by the lake of Tiberias . The offering…
The Leaving of Leo: Leo Varadkar was on The Late Late Show last evening. I never watch the Show but tuned in to see and hear, what Leo had to…
From this life to Life Eternal, 24.4.2024 Many will remember her as Ann Walsh. Friends, neighbours, family… A wife who saved her husband from himself, gave their Dad back to…
The next meeting of our Edinburgh Newman Association is on Monday evening next, May 6th. at 7.30pm at our usual venue, Mayfield/Salisbury Church of Scotland, 18 West Mayfield, Edinburgh EH9…
ROOT & BRANCH Community international grassroots community for an inclusive, just & safe Catholic Church. hello@rootandbranchsynod.org www.rootandbranchsynod.orgNo. 119 26/04/2024 FLOURISH AND THRIVEDear friends,We’re delighted to be able to announce…
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