ACP Zoom guest speaker, Julieann Moran, General Secretary for the Synodal Pathway, will discuss where the Synodal Pathway (Ireland) and the Universal Synod are at present. Julieann has just returned…
As we gather, we are challenged to be hospitable, welcoming people. We worship the God who always has a welcome for us.Penitential RiteSupported by this divine care, we call to…
The beautiful story of the Good Samaritan is told again at today’s Mass, with its challenge to us to look after others, as the Good Samaritan did. We gather to…
John Wijngaards is founder of the UK-based Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research, writing in the Irish Times: Pope Francis has unleashed a synodal process of consultations in the Catholic Church. It offers…
Who celebrates the Eucharist and what are they celebrating? An exploration of the simple, yet tough questions that can deepen our understanding of this fulcrum of the Mass Who, exactly, are…
Following Pope Francis’ call for global peace and the unveiling of a Nativity scene designed to draw global attention to the suffering of Palestinians in the Holy Land, churches across Ireland…
We’re well over halfway through Advent. Traditionally, today is called Gaudete Sunday, which means ‘a day for rejoicing.’ The reason for celebration is that the day of the Lord’s coming is nearer.
Sign on is https://zoom.us/j/2429500175: Password is spirit. To find the time for you in your locale, click on Our Universal Calendar and scroll down to Dec. 14. CCRI website: www.catholicchurchreformintl.org Inviting Clergy to join…
David Crystal: History The idea for this site arose during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Priests were streaming Masses online and many were having to do the readings themselves, which…
Wood You Believe A seminar entitled: Getting the Past out of the Present – Healing our Damaged Emotions facilitated by Jim Cogley and Luba Rodzhuk will be held in the…
Western People 3.12.24 I remember well the famous election of 1977 when Jack Lynch led the Fianna Fáil party to a landslide victory with 84 seats and a whopping 21-seat…
MasterChef; Conor McGregor; Donald Trump: Gregg Wallace is in big trouble. After twenty years of being a central character on TV with MasterChef, he has been called out, for his…
2nd Week of Advent 2024 (C) – Theme: Patience
This issue was raised at the recent ACP AGM by Leadership team member Tim Hazelwood. Faith Leaders as Suicide Responders – UCC/National Office for Suicide Prevention seek a Survey assistance…
John the Baptist is the focus of the liturgy on the Second Sunday of Advent each year. His challenge to us to ‘prepare a way for the Lord’ is at the heart of the Advent message. We worship the one who will surely come to us.
More seeds for the sowing. Please pray that as they go out to the four winds that they will reach where they are meant to reach and touch the lives…
Western People 26.11.24 Last year when President Joe Biden visited Ballina and, from outside St Muredach’s Cathedral, addressed thousands of people encircled at every possible vantage-point around the loop of…
Haiku is a Japanese poetry structure of seventeen syllables, arranged in three lines. Here are four haikus for Advent set within a brief commentary, Four Advent haikus Advent -1- Fog found…
Video Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent. The title is ‘Intensity’ – Sunday 1st December 2024 Link to video:
BLAME IT ON THE STONES (Kris Kristofferson) Boris Johnson has blamed the Church of England for Britain’s obesity crisis. He said that the Church has failed to provide people with…
In the second chapter of his memoir ‘Well, Holy God: My Life as an Irish, Catholic, Agnostic Correspondent’ Patsy McGarry tells us of his loss of an early interest in the…
Tony Flannery Will give two talks in the Community Centre, Newport, Co Tipperary in December. Thursday, December 5th @ 7.00pm Science and our Image of God Thursday, December 12th @…
Advent begins today. During these days, we look forward, waiting in hope. We watch for the end times, when Christ will come in glory, Christ who was born for us just a little over 2,000 years ago.
Once again I invite you to pray that these reflections will be borne by the winds of the Spirit to where they are most needed. From feedback received many of…
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