Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership – weekly Sunday homily – 4th Sunday (C) 2025
Homily for the 4th Sunday of the year, 2 Feb 2025 – Title is ‘Presentation’.
Homily for the 4th Sunday of the year, 2 Feb 2025 – Title is ‘Presentation’.
Western People 28.1.2025 A few weeks ago, tickets for the Irish Life Dublin Half-Marathon were thrown open to the public, and less than two hours later their website announced that…
Fr Tony Flannery is a priest who has stood his ground in the past. He says Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is to be commended for standing up to Trump this…
President Trump, 1. Much like those who do not want you to be president, you do not get to decide whether a bishop’s office is legitimate. She was chosen by…
Printed in tribute to Michael Longley 27 July 1939 – 22 Jan 2025. May his gentle soul rest in peace. Ceasefire 1Put in mind of his own father and moved…
It’s forty days since we celebrated the birth of Jesus at Christmas. Today we remember his Presentation in the Temple. This feast is also called Candlemas; candles are blessed because today Jesus was revealed in the Temple as the light of all peoples.
Burns Day. Thursday was the 25th January. It was Burns Day. I should have been in Scotland for a Burns Supper. His wit, his carelessness, his take on the foibles…
Maria Wiering – OSV News, January 26, 2025 (OSV News) — Vice President JD Vance questioned the motives of the U.S. bishops’ criticism of President Donald Trump’s new immigration policies…
Tues 28th Jan – The Curse of Perfectionism When we think back on the religion of our childhood much teaching centered around the pursuit of perfectionism. As a child serving…
The Prodigal Poet’s lyrics explore themes of salvation, damnation and the eternal quest for truth. By Luke Larson Last December’s Oscar-nominated film A Complete Unknown tells the story of how the budding…
A little bit of drama… THE TRAP EMPTY SPACE… ARENA. “IN THE ROUND” OR A STAGE IN A HALL… 0R TO ONE SIDE IN A CHURCH… JESUS IS NEITHER SEEN…
Western People, 21.01.25 It’s a busy time. Hard to keep up with everything. First, a new government with more of the same though garnished with some unexpected dressing in the…
Apologies for delays in postings the last couple of days. We were ‘stormed out’ and are still without power in many parts of the west. In prayerful thanks to all…
Some days ago, two of us agreed – how lucky and blessed we were, in our politicians in Ireland. We were contrasting them with the American scene. However on Wednesday,…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership Team weekly homily – 3rd Sunday of the Year – 26 Jan 2025 – ‘Inauguration’
The Episcopal bishop of Washington preaching at the inaugural prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral yesterday (Tuesday). Her final words were addressed directly to President Trump to have mercy…
Western People 14.1.2025 Some years ago on a bracing sunny day I visited Auschwitz concentration camp on the outskirts of Krakow in Poland, where more than a million Jewish men,…
Sarah Mac Donald A parish priest’s appeal to the country’s bishops to issue one standardised guideline on funeral eulogies that can be applied consistently in every diocese has been ruled…
My mother grew up in Ennistymon which is in Kilfenora diocese. Except Kilfenora diocese hadn’t really existed for over two centuries having merged with Galway diocese. She enjoyed sharing memories…
Tues 21st Jan – The Power of Words Not so long ago in postings we looked at the power of words to create our reality. This is a theme worth…
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