2024 SEASON OF CREATION
Each year from September 1 to October 4 Catholics join Christians worldwide in celebrating the Season of Creation. Find out how you can get involved in 2024.
Link to website, which includes Season of Creation resources:
Each year from September 1 to October 4 Catholics join Christians worldwide in celebrating the Season of Creation. Find out how you can get involved in 2024.
Link to website, which includes Season of Creation resources:
Tide is turning in the battle against Covid Western People 20th April 2021 There was a buoyant, almost euphoric feel about the health centre, where I received (with nearly 200…
Western People, 30.4.2024 When I was 13 or so and a boarder in St Muredach’s College I was given the honour of serving Mass every morning for the then bishop…
Gerry O’ Hanlon S.J. writes in an article about the recent referendum on marriage and its aftermath
It was first published on
http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/.
“The atmosphere among the crowd in Dublin and elsewhere in Ireland was carnival like – rainbow flags flying, people smiling and embracing, a sense of delight. This, on the Vigil of the Feast of the Holy Spirit, was a kind of secular Pentecost, a communal experience of movement from fear to peace and joy.”
He quotes Archbishop Diarmud Martin in saying that the church ‘has to find a new language to get its message across, particularly to young people, and that if teaching isn’t expressed in terms of love then the Church has got it wrong.’
Gerry concludes that ‘Archbishop Martin and his colleagues here in Ireland – and further afield – need to take up with energy and enthusiasm the challenge of Pope Francis for a more collegial and dialogical church, in which the voice of all is heard. Then perhaps we can hope for an ecclesial Pentecost to correspond to the secular celebration last Saturday in Dublin, a joyful re-birth of our badly damaged church.’
America magazine posted this link to Pádraig Ó Tuama’s podcast. Our lives are shaped by language, even if most of us are not poets. But it helps to talk to one…
DELIRIUM: There is something mysterious and delightful about Stephen’s Day. Boxing Day. The old phrase from the distant past comes back: It is a ‘Dies Non.’ In the usual hurly…
Report from Papal flight to Rome from Peru by Junno Arocho Esteves
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