Presider’s Page for 30 May (Trinity Sunday)
We celebrate Trinity Sunday today. The feast gives us an opportunity to reflect on the mystery of God, who creates, redeems and makes us holy.
Year: 2021
Brendan Hoban: Church is not immune to dying local loyalty
Church is not immune to dying local loyalty Western People 25.5.2021 God be with the days when everything seemed so predictable. Apart from our notoriously changeable weather, life in…
Chris McDonnell: You’ve Got a Friend
You’ve Got a Friend Chris McDonnell CT May 28th 2021 In a song made famous by the singer James Taylor, Carole King wrote of friendship. The opening verse says it…
Séamus Ahearne: Blowin’ in the Wind…
Blowin’ in the Wind (Dylan) Where are all the flowers gone? My cowslip (outside the door) is beginning to fade. I feel lonely. That beautiful flower is like a guard…
Bob Dylan at 80
Chris McDonnell pens a tribute to Bob Dylan on his 80th Birthday. Drawing by Irish rock legend, Rory Gallagher. Copyright Strange Music Ltd. Dylan at 80 24 May 1941 We…
PENTECOST SUNDAY REFLECTION – Richard Rohr
We Turn Around One Thing Unity is not the same as uniformity. Unity, in fact, is the reconciliation of differences, and those differences must be maintained. We must actually distinguish…
Presider’s Page for 23 May (Pentecost Sunday)
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.
Pope Francis plans synodal shake-up
Pope Francis plans synodal shake-up by Christopher Lamb in The Tablet The next synod of bishops gathering in Rome has been postponed until 2023 so that an unprecedented consultation of Catholics can…
ACP letter to Bishops: Need for Conversation on the Pastoral Outreach to Gay Catholics
Earlier this week the ACP Leadership wrote to all the bishops calling for a conversation on the pastoral outreach to gay Catholics. The letter is attached: Tuesday 18 May…
Chris McDonnell: Prophecy in Our Time
Prophecy in Our Time. Chris McDonnell CT May 21. 2021 To continue after a brief interruption… My absence from this column happened to coincide with the passing of the theologian…
THIS EVENING! 8.00pm – Fri 21 May – ID and Password
Best Catholics in the World Zoom meeting invitation with Derek Scally Friday 21 May 2021 at 8.00pm (Irish time) Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97078974108?pwd=UndVbDlNYW9PbzlDK2lrM2svQy85QT09 Meeting-ID: 970 7897 4108 Password: bakRZ6 Links to articles…
Why the English Standard Version (ESV) should not become the Standard English Version
Mark L. Strauss, Bethel Seminary San Diego writes: Why the English Standard Version (ESV) should not become the Standard English Version – How to make a good translation much better…
Séamus Ahearne: Churches – people – back in action; New Lectionary; Indi and Houdini, and more…
NEW WORLD IN THE MORNING The missing Muses: The Muses have deserted me. My fingers are lost. The feet haven’t taken me to the Tolka these past three…
Presider’s Page for 16 May (Ascension Day)
The Ascension of the Lord is celebrated today, ‘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.
Brendan Hoban: Clerical grapevine flourishes as bishops retire
Clerical grapevine flourishes as bishops retire Western people 11th May 2021 A priest-friend remarked the other day that now that Catholics were disappearing from churches and priests were disappearing from…
ACI Synodal Pathway Talk Series
ACI Synodal Pathway Talk Series Association of Catholics in Ireland (ACI) Zoom Events In preparation for Ireland’s five-year Synodal Pathway for the Catholic Church in Ireland leading to a National Synodal Assembly,…
TODAY – Sat 15th May – Australia’s Plenary Council – Zoom with Peter Wilkinson & David Timbs
Peter Wilkinson & David Timbs “Australia’s Plenary Council” Followed by Q & A 11.00 – 12.30 pm Saturday 15th of May 2021 Online ZOOM event Peter Wilkinson and David Timbs…
VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH: Maynooth College Reflects on COVID-19 ‘New Realities in Uncertain Times’
Join us for the launch of Maynooth College Reflects on COVID-19! Messenger Publications in conjunction with St Patrick’s College, Maynooth invites you to join us for the VIRTUAL BOOK…
‘The Best Catholics in the World’ – Zoom with author Derek Scally, Fri 21 May 8.00pm – including link.
You are cordially invited to a Zoom presentation with Derek Scally Author ‘The Best Catholics in the World’ on Friday May 21st at 8.00pm …
AUDIO: Massimo Faggioli on The Church in America – The Fight for Hegemony of and Within US Catholicism – Zoom presentation last evening
Please click on the link for last evening’s ACP Zoom presentation by Massimo Faggioli on the Church in America – The Fight for Hegemony of and Within US Catholicism. Opening…
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