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28 February. Wednesday of Week 2 of Lent

Wednesday of Week 2 of Lent

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27 February. Tuesday of Week 2 of Lent

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26 February. Monday of Week 2 of Lent

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Presider’s Page for 25 February (Second Sunday of Lent)

The gospel of the transfiguration is read on this lenten Sunday each year, to remind us to hold firm to a vision of glory, on dark days. Easter and its joy will follow this season of penance, just as the resurrection followed the passion and death of Jesus.

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25 February. Second Sunday of Lent

NB: Saints in the Liturgical Year 1st Reading: Genesis 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18 The Binding of Isaac shows Abraham’s complete obedience to God After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land…

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24 February. Saturday of Week 1 of Lent

1st Reading: Deuteronomy 26:16-19 Walking in the way of the Lord This very day the Lord your God is commanding you to observe these statutes and ordinances; so observe them diligently with all your heart and with all your soul. Today you have obtained the Lord’s agreement: to be your God; and for you to…

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23 February. Friday of Week 1 of Lent

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22 February. The Chair of St Peter, Apostle

The Chair of St Peter, Apostle

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21 February. Wednesday of Week 1 of Lent

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20 February. Tuesday of Week 1 of Lent

Tuesday of Week 1 of Lent

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19 February. Monday of Week 1 of Lent

First Reading: Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18 The commandments and practical guidance for worship and for social compassion The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. You shall each revere your mother and…

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Presider’s Page for 18 February (First Sunday of Lent)

Today we celebrate the first Sunday of Lent. All over the world today, people of all ages are beginning their preparation period for baptism at the Easter Vigil. Like them, we begin our own preparations for Easter, looking forward to renewing our baptismal vows and being blessed with Easter water.

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18 February. First Sunday of Lent

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17 February. Saturday after Ash Wednesday

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14 February. Ash Wednesday

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13 February. Tuesday of Week 6

1st Reading: James 1:12-18 God tempts no one, but is the giver of every good gift Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being…

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12 February. Monday of Week 6

1st Reading: James 1:1-11 The testing of your faith produces endurance My brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance; and let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in…

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Presider’s Page for 11 February (Ordinary Time 6 / World Day of the Sick)

‘Whatever you do at all, do it for the glory of God.’ The words are St Paul’s, from today’s second reading. We gather here to give glory to God, praying for the sick, marking the Day of Prayer for Temperance and preparing for the Lenten Spring.

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    August 12 2022
    Sean O’Conaill
    It's good, Paddy, to resume this here at last. Re. the difficulty over Luke 22: 20 : "This cup is the new covenant in my blood poured out for you" - and my earlier reference to 'a complete transformation of sacrifice'. Long before Rene Girard there were Christians who insisted that Jesus was non-violent, an advocate of 'suffering' - i.e. of putting up with the violence of others rather than reciprocating - and that teaching is quite explicit in 'turn the other cheek'. Yet maybe we need Girard now to unpack 'sacrifice' fully as a Christian concept. For me now the transition from a priesthood of 'evasion' - i.e. of the shedding of the blood of someone other than oneself - to the non-violent offering of oneself in service of, or defence of, others - is the clear trajectory of the biblical accounts. Never have I heard a priest point out the obvious stark difference between what Jesus did at the Passover in Jerusalem and what Abraham was on the point of doing to Isaac, but Girard makes that difference crystal clear. Is anyone else persuaded now of Girard's contention that the Gospel clearly illustrates the time-honoured political practice of scapegoating? That the powerful commonly combine at any time of crisis to blame some powerless individual or minority for 'all that's wrong' - and then to expel or exterminate those victims - happens over and over again in the historical record. Even following the holocaust of Jews and other minorities during WWII by the Nazis there was the pact between Churchill and Stalin at Yalta in 1945 which led to the handing over of thousands of 'White' Russians (those who had opposed the 'Reds', the Bolsheviks from 1917 and then allied with Germany in WWII) by the allies to Stalin's machine gunners. To read any detailed eye-witness accounts of that handover - which included women, children and infants - is to be turned to cold stone. See e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Yalta Yet Girard's related proposal - that the archaic and universal practice of ritual sacrifice actually originated in and emerged from scapegoating - is even more fascinating. The 'structure' of both phenomena - i.e. the many against just one or against a weaker minority - and the intended consequence - the reconciliation of the main actors - is, he points out, the same. What's different of course is that scapegoating events are one-off events that are not predictable and a matter of regular routine in the way that religious rituals are. Also they are not seen as religious events by the main actors. Pilate, and, to a lesser extent Herod and Caiaphas, are resolving a one-off political problem that is threatening their own status. It is unlikely that they saw the execution of Jesus as a religious event - yet that is what happened, apparently because Jesus 'ritualised' what was about to happen to him. This is not conclusive evidence that ritual sacrifice necessarily arose in all cases from prior scapegoating events, but it is fascinating nevertheless. So is the fact that in the West we do not now typically practise ritual blood sacrifice. However, can we normally expect an ordained Catholic priest to point out that Jesus was not crucified for initiating the Eucharist, the Mass, on Holy Thursday, but for challenging the injustices and hypocrisies of a religious system? Were we ever told that following Jesus could involve doing what Jesus did by way of protesting against religious hypocrisy? Or was it always about attending Mass, even though, for Jesus, that was by far the safest thing he did? Even when it came to 'taking up one's own cross', was that ever interpreted in terms of making our own religious elite accountable - or was the (clerical) church not Holy as well as One, Catholic and Apostolic? That our own religious elite might be collaborating to conceal the suffering caused by clerical abuse - replicating the scapegoating (the transfer of consequences to someone else) that seems always to accompany all concentrations of power - was never supposed to come to light. Nevertheless, from a priesthood of evasion - in which someone other than the main actor, the priest, is made to bleed and suffer - to a priesthood in which the priest is also the victim who suffers and accepts the consequences of the sins of others: that is the extraordinary transition that occurs in the scriptural record. And so our own priesthood-of-the-ritual has suddenly lost social status, and power, as the real sufferings of victims of clerical abuse - children and women - come to light. So why are we still thinking it's all about whoever 'says Mass' - when what made Jesus a Christian priest was not the easy bit, the performance of a ritual, but the challenging of abusive power, in solidarity with those who suffer? To see this is to wonder if we need to completely revise our understanding of 'the church', and to relativise the gatherings of prestigious clerics, such as the universal Vatican synod of October 2023. After nearly four decades of revelation of cover-up, globally, have our bishops made themselves directly accountable yet?
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    Reposting from May 2022: John Wijngaards: We need a more democratic process of electing bishops.

    August 12 2022
    Paddy Ferry
    Joe,@2, thank you for such an excellent and well thought out -- as always -- response to my serious concerns about Hebrews and the origins of our tradition of priesthood. However, my serious concerns remain.
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    Bishop Fintan Gavin publishes pastoral letter transforming parishes in Cork & Ross into mission-centred faith communities

    August 3 2022
    Sean Macken
    Matthew 9, 14-17 You cannot put new wind in old wineskins
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