Annual General Meeting
Association of Catholic Priests
Annual General Meeting 2018
Wednesday 10 October 2018
The Bounty,
Athlone
Guest speaker
Dr John Feehan
Further details to be confirmed.
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“You will meet the formal church in your work. People will dress up. All the Liturgies will be done beautifully. You will be invited to a celebrating Church. I would suggest that the church you need to meet is the one on the ground; the informal one; the broken one; the hurting one; the one where most people have walked away; the one where lives are messed up totally.”
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