A Voice to Reflect
The ACP is an association for Catholic Priests who wish to have a forum, and a voice to reflect on, discuss and comment on issues affecting the Irish Church and society today. We welcome any feedback you may have. If you are an existing member, you can pay your membership fee here. If you would like to support the ACP with a donation, you can do so here.
Today’s Homily Resources
07 March 2026 – Saturday of Week 2 of Lent
07 March 2026 – Saturday of Week 2 of Lent Memorial: St Perpetua, a young upper class married woman and St Felicity, a slave girl – both martyred in Carthage in 203. (1) Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 Israel’s God is a God of mercy Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock that belongs to you, which...
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SÉAMUS AHEARNE – TRIVIAL COMMENTS: MUSING AND BEING AMUSED
A STATE OF CHASSIS: ‘May you live in interesting times.’ There is no clarity about the origin of this statement. It appears to say something different to the obvious. It…
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Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Team weekly Sunday video homily
‘Surrounded’ 3rd Sunday of Lent Year A – 8 March 2026
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Statement of the Spring 2026 General Meeting of the Irish Bishops’ Conference
Members of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference gathered this week for their Spring 2026 General Meeting in Columba Centre of Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth. The President of the Conference is…
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Roy Donovan ACP Leadership Team responds to Bishop Coll on Synodality…
Bishop Coll is quoted in an Irish Catholic article (see below) Michael Sean Winters writes in NCR that ‘the documents and the historical event of Vatican II were the result…
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Presider’s Page for 8 March (Third Sunday of Lent)
Today’s readings about water and thirst remind us that this is a baptismal season. The holy water of baptism blesses and protects the faithful in every danger, it washes away…
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Jim Cogley’s Reflections: Tues 3rd March – Mon 9th March 2026
Note: Healing Mass in Lady’s Island this Wednesday 4th at 3pm Tues 3rd March – A Remarkable Story While facilitating a retreat in Ballyvaloo Conference Centre recently I was privileged…
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Brendan Hoban: Catholic Church change comes dropping slow
Western People 24.2.2026. Since the awkward amalgamation of Galway and Clonfert dioceses in February 2022 a different strategy has been adopted by the Catholic Church – a ‘merging’ rather than…
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Chris McDonnell: Edmund Pettus Bridge
For Jesse Jackson 1941-2026 We have lost a great American. Our ages span the same year of war, 1941, exactly six months apart. Significant years of conflict and political turmoil…
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Séamus Ahearne: Musings, Ruminations and Ponderings…
Casual Thought Provoked By The Cherry Blossom And Trump These are strange times. I must be dithering. Or dawdling around faraway days (which now seem wonderful but never were) or…
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Joe Coy, Tuam writes: THE IRISH RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS
For two centuries, after the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, the Irish people were persecuted for their loyalty to Catholicism as the British State converted to various forms of Protestantism….