This Sunday’s Presider’s Page
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Author: Bernard Cotter
Presider’s Page for 15 May (Fifth Sunday of Easter)
Songs: Jesus Christ is Risen Today; This is My Will; Love is His Word; Walk in the Light; Colours of Day; [Bring Flowers of the Rarest]. Opening CommentWe gather to…
Presider’s Page for 1 May (Third Sunday of Easter)
We’re two weeks into the Easter season now, but the Good News of the season continues to reverberate in the Liturgy. Joyfully we worship God who raised our Saviour from the dead.
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.
Presider’s Page for 17 April (Easter Sunday)
This Easter morning we celebrate the central mystery of our faith, the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. He suffered on the cross and died for us, but now he is risen!
Presider’s Page for Saturday 16 April (Easter Vigil)
We gather around the Easter candle this night, celebrating the Lord’s resurrection. With that light to illumine our way, we remember how God has cared for humanity from the dawn of time. These readings remind us what happened at the highpoints of our history.
Presider’s Page for Thursday 14 April (Holy Thursday)
The liturgy that begins this Thursday evening continues until we reach Easter. We are at the start of a three-day celebration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. We journey from the Last Supper to Gethsemane tonight, from there to Calvary tomorrow, and from the tomb to resurrection and new life at the Vigil of Easter Sunday.
Presider’s Page for 10 April (Palm Sunday)
The events of Holy Week are laid out before us in this Sunday’s “Long Gospel”: as we gather, we prepare to enter in to the mystery of God’s love made visible in Jesus’ passion and death.
Presider’s Page for 3 April (Fifth Sunday of Lent)
We gather this Sunday to worship our compassionate God, who heals our sinfulness and challenges us to leave the past behind.
Presider’s Page for 27 March (Fourth Sunday of Lent – Laetare)
We have reached the midway point of the season of Lent. The joy of Easter is within our reach and the parent of the prodigal son encourages us to rely all the more on divine mercy.
Presider’s Page for 20 March (Third Sunday of Lent)
Today, as we gather to listen to the Lenten call to repentance, we worship our God of kindness who, like a patient gardener, always gives people a second chance.
Bi-lingual Presider’s Page for Thursday 17 March (Lá Fhéile Pádraig)
We pause from our lenten penances in Ireland, to honour Patrick, our national apostle. In our celebration of this solemn feast, we worship God, creator, redeemer and sanctifier, who brought our ancestors into the Christian fold through the preaching of St Patrick.
Presider’s Page for Sunday 13 March (Second Sunday of Lent)
In today’s Liturgy, we praise the Lord of glory, who leads us through the darkness of Lent to the light of Easter.
Presider’s Page for 6 March (First Sunday of Lent)
The 40-day pilgrimage to Easter that began on Ash Wednesday is just a few days old. We pray that God, who sustained Jesus in his 40 days of temptations and suffering, will support us on our journey also. And we continue to pray for and support the people of Ukraine in their struggle.
Presider’s Page for 27 February (Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Words matter. What we say has an effect on others, for good or ill. Our words can bring peace or make war. As we pray to use our words well, we pray also for the world to be spared from the madness of war in Europe.
Presider’s Page for 20 February (Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Loving the enemy and praying for those who make life difficult are two marks of a Christian, or so Jesus teaches us today. We gather, aware of how difficult love can be, yet united by the saving mercy of God, on which we rely.
Presider’s Page for 13 February (Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Happy are they who their trust in the Lord: worry will not come their way, their lives will bear fruit. The prophet Jeremiah’s words are reflected in the Psalm, as we are invited to trust in the one who never disappoints.
Presider’s Page for 6 February (Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Everyone who believes God’s word is called to pass on the Good News. Like many who have gone before us, including the prophet Isaiah and the apostles Paul, and Peter, we may not feel up to the task. But God helps us every day.
Presider’s Page for 30 January (Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
We gather as people loved by God, people called to pass on the love we have received. The love God has put into the world will never fail, but will last as long as humanity lasts. We praise God for the gifts lavished on us.
Presider’s Page for 23 January (Third Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Catholic Schools Week begins today in Ireland. ‘Sunday of the Word of God’ is observed in the universal Church, and so, the Word of God is the focus at Mass, read by Ezra the priest in the Old Testament reading, and by Jesus in the Gospel. By his Word, God reassures the people of his closeness, especially in the Word made flesh, Jesus of Nazereth.
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