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Séamus Ahearne – ADVENT TIMES:
December 19 2025
Soline Humbert
Seamus, that insightful reflection by Rachel Held Evans you mention reminds me of this equally profound poem: BEFORE JESUS WAS HIS MOTHER Before Jesus was his mother. Before supper in the upper room, breakfast in the barn. Before the Passover Feast, a feeding trough. And here, the altar of Earth, fair linens of hay and seed. Before his cry, her cry. Before his sweat of blood, her bleeding and tears. Before his offering, hers. Before the breaking of bread and death, the breaking of her body in birth. Before the offering of the cup, the offering of her breast. Before his blood, her blood. And by her body and blood alone, his body and blood and whole human being. The wise ones knelt to hear the woman’s word in wonder. Holding up her sacred child, her God in the form of a babe, she said: “Receive and let your hearts be healed and your lives be filled with love, for This is my body, This is my blood.” ~✨️ Alla Renée Bozarth: From Life Prayers (Note: Alla Renee Bozarth is a Russian, Celtic, Osage American poet and Episcopal priest. She has published numerous prose and poetry books.)
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21 Dec 2025 – 4th Sunday in Advent, A
December 21 2025
Thara Benedicta
Key Message: Become our God's trusted partner!! Homily: Friend 1: Why does God bless even the unrighteous with riches? Seems unfair! Friend 2: Who said God sees riches the way we do? To God, purity is gold, grace is currency, and holiness is the only true wealth. Your bank balance doesn’t show up in heaven! Our God plans all His projects around a righteous person only. So, if you are righteous, just be happy!! When God decided to enter the world as a tiny, fragile baby, when the time came for the greatest mission in all of history, God began with a simple, silent man named Joseph. We know that St. Joseph, was neither a king nor a scholar, only a carpenter. What was so special about St. Joseph? He was a righteous man!! Now, let us pause for a moment and think about it: To whom would you entrust your child?? You will choose only a righteous person. Similarly God looked all around Israel and chose a righteous person. When our Mamma Mary told St. Joseph about her vow of virginity to God, St. Joseph excitedly offered his virginity also to God. When St. Joseph came to know about Mamma Mary's pregnancy also, he didn’t act in anger or revenge. He resolved to protect her dignity even in his confusion. This is the kind of person God can use. And so… God wrote Joseph into the blueprint of His salvation plan. God is still searching for righteous hearts around whom He can build His plans. You may not be famous. You may never preach or travel far. But if your heart is pure, your life is faithful, and your decisions are just, God will trust you with something eternal. Perhaps it’s your family, a person in need or a hidden mission that no one sees. But you can be a St. Joseph in someone else’s salvation story. Let us ask ourselves today: Am I living in such a way that God would choose me? Do I act justly even when no one is watching? Would I obey God even if it cost me my reputation? Be energetic and enthusiastic!! God is searching for righteous persons to handle His projects!!You can become one of them!!
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Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership – weekly Sunday video homily
December 18 2025
Duane
Preaching points are clear and rather good.
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The Irish Catholic: Archbishop Martin hopes papal visit could form part of ‘lost’ Ireland’s spiritual renewal
December 18 2025
Sean O'Conaill
Archbishop Eamon Martin refers in that Irish Catholic interview to the church's 'credibility problem' in Ireland but not to the ignoring by the Vatican so far of the call in the 2022 Irish National Synodal Synthesis for a 'reckoning' on the hiding by Catholics bishops globally of clerical sex abuse in the last century, before victims and secular courts and media revealed that child safeguarding had until then been ignored by the magisterium. To invite a papal visit in the absence of such a reckoning - beginning with a persuasive historical explanation of this appalling disaster, based upon the Vatican's own records - would be simply to remind everyone that so far that reckoning has been denied, and therefore also to embarrass the pope by the obvious questions that would arise if he turned up. Is the archbishop supposing that we have already forgotten the 2022 National Synodal Synthesis - and what happened (and didn't) when Pope Francis came in 2018? Far too much is expected of papal visits in the continuing abysmal absence of magisterial transparency and integrity. Didn't even Pope Francis know that the era of papal mystique and infatuation is finally over? If Archbishop Martin were instead to remind Pope Leo of that call in Ireland's 2022 synodal synthesis - and to appeal also for a review of the scapegoating sanctioning of five Irish priests in the wake of the diversionary Vatican 'visitation' of 2012 - that could directly address the credibility issue and prepare the ground for a papal visit before the important millennial jubilee of 2033. To be calling for a papal visit now is to appear to be suffering from amnesia.
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Séamus Ahearne – ADVENT TIMES:

21 Dec 2025 – 4th Sunday in Advent, A

Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership – weekly Sunday video homily

The Irish Catholic: Archbishop Martin hopes papal visit could form part of ‘lost’ Ireland’s spiritual renewal