30 April 2022 – Saturday of Week 2
30 April 2022 – Saturday of Week 2 Optional Memorial: St Pius V, pope 1st Reading: Acts (6:1-7) Selection and ordination of the church’s first deacons Now during those days,…
Month: April 2022
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ Interview: Re-imagining the Church
At a recent symposium on synodality in Oxford University, a 70-year-old man exclaimed enthusiastically, “It’s the first time in my [church] life that I’ve been asked for my opinion!” So…
29 April 2022 – Saint Catherine of Siena
29 April 2022 – Saint Catherine of Siena 1st Reading: 1 John 1:5, 2:2 The message we have heard from him and proclaim to you This is the message we…
28 April 2022 – Thursday of Week 2 of Easter
28 April 2022 – Thursday of Week 2 of Easter Optional Memorial: St Peter Chanel; St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort 1st Reading: Acts 5:27-33 What Peter and the apostles…
ACI invitation to Zoom Synodal Gathering Thursday 5th May, at 8.00 p.m.
The ACI invites you to Zoom Synodal Gathering Thursday 5th May, at 8.00 p.m. “The synodal process is a time for speech. A time to let the voice of the…
Chris McDonnell: A time of greeting, a time of wonder
A time of greeting, a time of wonder Chris McDonnell April 22.2022 The days that follow Easter and the Resurrection share a common characteristic, they are days of wonder…
27 April 2022 – Wednesday of Week 2 of Easter
27 April 2022 – Wednesday of Week 2 of Easter Optional Memorial: St Asicus, bishop, Elphin 1st Reading: Acts 5:17-26 The Temple police arrest the apostles, but without violence Then…
26 April 2022 – Tuesday of Week 2 of Easter
26 April 2022 – Tuesday of Week 2 of Easter 1st Reading: Acts 4:32-37 The sharing spirit among the early Christians Now the whole group of those who believed were…
25 April 2022 – Feast of St Mark
25 April 2022 – Feast of St Mark 1st Reading: 1 Peter 5:5-14 Peter’s homily includes mention of Mark among the Christians in Rome (“Babylon”) When the chief shepherd appears,…
Presider’s Page for 24 April (Second Sunday of Easter)
Even though Easter Week is now behind us, today’s liturgy still overflows with the joy of Jesus’ resurrection. We continue to celebrate that great event for the next six weeks, until Pentecost Sunday on the 4th June, the fiftieth and final day of Easter.
Brendan Hoban: Integrity is at the heart of good leadership
Integrity is at the heart of good leadership Western People 19.4.22 No one can be in any doubt but that the Tony Holohan secondment (or appointment) to Trinity College…
24th April 2022 – 2nd Sunday of Easter, Year C
24th April 2022 – 2nd Sunday of Easter, Year C 1st Reading: Acts 5:12-16 High morale and healing influence of the early Christians Many signs and wonders were done among…
Monsignor John Kennedy, a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin, one of two Secretaries appointed to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Monsignor John Kennedy, a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin has been appointed by Pope Francis as one of two Secretaries to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith….
23 April 2022 – Easter Saturday
23 April 2022 – Easter Saturday 1st Reading: Acts (4:13-21 Risking their lives, Peter and John tell what they have seen and heard Now when they saw the boldness of…
22 April 2022 – Easter Friday
22 April 2022 – Easter Friday 1st Reading: Acts (4:1-12 Peter’s belief that there is salvation in no one else but Jesus While Peter and John were speaking to the…
21 April 2022 – Easter Thursday
21 April 2022 – Easter Thursday 1st Reading: Acts 3:11-26 Peter declares Jesus as the Holy and Righteous One, who is victorious over death While the man who was cured…
Bishop Paul Dempsey: The Lord doesn’t ask us to be successful, he asks us to be faithful.
This article was written for The Irish Mail on Sunday by Bishop Paul Dempsey, Bishop of Achonry. It is reprinted with his kind permission. The Diocese of Achonry has twenty-three…
Séamus Ahearne: Portlaw and Finglas cultures, online liturgy and Indi in Holy Week
‘Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, And through curtains, call on us?’ (John Donne) The music of nature: Does nature know it is Easter? There…
20 April 2022 – Easter Wednesday
20 April 2022 – Easter Wednesday 1st Reading: Acts 3:1-10 Calling on the name of Jesus, Peter cures the lame man at the temple gate One day Peter and John…
19 April 2022 – Easter Tuesday
19 April 2022 – Easter Tuesday 1st Reading: Acts 2:36-41 Since God wants all to be saved, Peter calls those who crucified Jesus to repent and be saved Peter said,…
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