Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 7 May – Mon 13 May 2024
Note: The seminar on Healing the Family Tree scheduled for Friday May 17th in Lady’s Island is fully booked. Another is planned for Saturday June 15th and is filling fast….
Year: 2024
Scheduled ACP Web Server Maintenance – Monday 6th May 2024
A note from our website maintenance team: We are performing scheduled maintenance on our servers on Monday 6th May 2024. Most of the work can be done without any interference…
Seán Walsh: First Communion
FIRST COMMUNION Here, I have it here! First Communion photo.Jenny looking out from ‘neath a veil:open-eyed… trusting… distrusting… unaware of what was out there, what lay ahead… in the world…
Chris McDonnell: Come break and share
Two crucial post-Resurrection stories of Jesus are centred on the sharing of a meal, supper after the journey to Emmaus and breakfast by the lake of Tiberias . The offering…
Séamus Ahearne: I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there is any kindness I can show, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again. (William Penn).
The Leaving of Leo: Leo Varadkar was on The Late Late Show last evening. I never watch the Show but tuned in to see and hear, what Leo had to…
Seán Walsh: From this life to Life Eternal
From this life to Life Eternal, 24.4.2024 Many will remember her as Ann Walsh. Friends, neighbours, family… A wife who saved her husband from himself, gave their Dad back to…
Edinburgh Newman Association
The next meeting of our Edinburgh Newman Association is on Monday evening next, May 6th. at 7.30pm at our usual venue, Mayfield/Salisbury Church of Scotland, 18 West Mayfield, Edinburgh EH9…
Tony Flannery – guest speaker at Empowering Ourselves: Flourish and Thrive
ROOT & BRANCH Community international grassroots community for an inclusive, just & safe Catholic Church. hello@rootandbranchsynod.org www.rootandbranchsynod.orgNo. 119 26/04/2024 FLOURISH AND THRIVEDear friends,We’re delighted to be able to announce…
Brendan Hoban: Israel is alienating even its closest allies
Western People 23.4.2024 If memory serves me right, the song ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’ was issued as a single by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra in…
Presider’s Page for 5 May (Sixth Sunday of Easter)
We gather for this Easter celebration in the love of God, redeemed in the death and resurrection of Jesus. We are people with a mission, challenged to grow in love each day. We ask God for divine help with this mission, today and during the coming week.
ACP Meeting postponed
The ACP Leadership / Advisory Group meeting planned for Tuesday 30 April has been postponed to a later date.
Presider’s Page for 28 April (Easter 5)
Like branches of one tree, we are held together by our faith in Christ. Because we are all part of this one living plant, we come together in thanksgiving and praise.
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 23rd April – Mon 29th April
Note: The seminar on Healing the Family Tree scheduled for Friday May 17th in Lady’s Island is fully booked with a waiting list. Another is planned for Saturday June 15th…
Catholic Herald: New Catholic Lectionary for British churches arriving this Advent following approval by Vatican
The Catholic Herald Link: https://catholicherald.co.uk/new-catholic-lectionary-for-british-churches-approved-by-vatican/?swcfpc=1 April 18, 2024 at 8:30 am A new Lectionary will come into use in parishes in England, Wales and Scotland from Advent 2024. The Vatican’s…
Chris McDonnell: April, come she will
The names of the months of the year are in themselves evocative of mood, climate, event and experience. Yet depending on where you live on our planet, the same month…
Seán Walsh: Pen Pal
Pen Pal I lived a lot in my head, as a lad. Like, I was the last in the – brothers and sisters well ahead of me. They were stretching…
Vatican News: “Conversations in the Spirit” for women in a synodal Church
Around 1,400 people from all over the world are expected to gather online to put synodal methodology into practice, with a focus on the participation of women in a synodal…
Séamus Ahearne: ‘The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.’ (Thomas Gray).
DEMOCRACY MATTERS: On Tuesday 9th April 2024, the Dáil assembled to elect a new Taoiseach. There were many speeches. Leo Varadkar spoke in his farewell words as Taoiseach and did…
Irish Independent: Article by Sarah Mac Donald on a former Opus Dei member who spoke about her experience…
Link to full article: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-came-out-suicidal-the-women-speaking-out-after-leaving-opus-dei/a576273725.html
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