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Ash Wednesday

06 March: Ash Wednesday

*We begin Lent by receiving the ashes of repentance on our foreheads, and plan to prepare well for Easter…

1st Reading: Joel 2:12-18

Return to me with all your heart. Spare your people, Lord

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Chris McDonnell: Permission to read
June 3 2023
Seamus Ahearne
Chris. It is so good to see you returning to the site. We missed you. Stay with us. We need your reflections. Seamus
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From National Museums Scotland: Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see one of the most important documents in Scottish history – the Declaration of Arbroath.
June 3 2023
Paddy Ferry
Eddie, I am surprised you didn't mention why Adrian IV was able to grant Ireland to Henry II. In those days the Popes "owned" the world after the first Christian Emperor, Constantine, gifted the world to Pope Sylvester after his miraculous cure from leprosy. I suppose he -- Constantine -- felt it was the least he could do -- The Donation of Constantine!!
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Brendan Hoban: Pomp and ceremony belong in another era
May 30 2023
Paddy Ferry
Another excellent article, Brendan, thank you. I do remember you describe the Burke Mass at Knock on this site in the early days of the ACP. I thought you had watched on TV. Anyway, "..the flamboyant cappa magna (great cape) of violet silk; the pre-Mass disrobing of the celebrant of his cardinal’s clothes; and the re-robing in medieval-type vestments, all of which was attended by a retinue of exclusively male clerics surrounding him with crosses and candles." How could anybody with a modicum of intelligence -- common sense, even -- ever imagine that such embarrassing nonsense could have anything to do with the simple message of love from a humble carpenter's son. Or that it could, in any way, help restore the standing or credibility of our discredited church. "They enlarge their tefillins and lengthen their tassels" (MT 23.5) You mention John Charles McQuaid and "his" retinue of clerical underlings. Fintan O'Toole tells a great story in his excellent book, "We Don't Know Ourselves". Fintan was an altar boy in his parish of St. Bernadette's on Clogher Road in Dublin. He was walking along the road one morning on his way to the church to serve at the requiem Mass of the deceased PP. Fr. Joseph O'Connor when he saw this grand Humber Pullman limousine parked outside the church and a man in a grey uniform kneeling on the cold pavement and leaning in towards the interior of the car. Then he saw two dainty feet poking out from the passenger compartment. These two dainty feet belonged to non other than Archbishop John Charles McQuaid and the poor chauffeur was on his knees polishing his shoes. How royal these guys must have felt. It is said that Prince Charles always had someone put toothpaste onto his toothbrush. I wonder did one of his underlings do the same for John Charles. You mention the winter years of John Paul and Benedict and what very bleak winter years they were! The piece from the NCR, recommended by an ACP subscriber, on the influence of the extreme right wing zealots -- culture warriors -- who lead some dioceses in America is well worth a read. And we should never forget who appointed these outrageous men and the damage they have caused.
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America Magazine: We can have both: Due process for accused priests and justice for sex abuse survivors
June 3 2023
Sean O'Conaill
In some cases false allegations of abuse can occur in cases of 'Munchausen by proxy' - i.e. the seeking of sympathetic attention by claiming illness in someone else, e.g. a child. It stands to reason that there could also be cases of false allegation from someone with a variant of Munchausen itself, the claiming of an illness or injury in oneself, for the very same reason of gaining attention - in that case not from medics but from the police. It's also called 'factitious disorder' - a tendency to invent circumstances that will evoke sympathy for and attention to oneself. See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1029260/ Even in cases where false allegation occurs merely out of malice, or in an attempt to extort, the person suffering false allegation is in a position very close to that of Jesus himself and needs to remember this. To have suffered a medieval theology that does not interpret the crucifixion as an expression of solidarity with all true victims, but as due to the Father's 'dissatisfaction', must add to the torture, by making false allegation an utterly lonely and inexplicable experience. Everyone in ministry these days therefore needs to read James Cone's 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree' - an account of how African American theology came to see the cross as God's identification with those lynched on the basis of false allegation. The Creed badly needs to be recited from that perspective also - as a prayer for resilience - and not as a recital of 'six impossible things before breakfast'. Its essence was composed not by theological fundamentalists but by people in danger of being accused of treason for calling Jesus 'Lord' (instead of Caesar) and of cannibalism in a secret ritual known as the Eucharist.
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