Claremorris Meeting on the Voice of Women in the Church
A short report on the Meeting in Claremorris on the Voice of Women in the Church, which took place today (Saturday)
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Fifth Anniversary
Brendan Hoban reflects on five years of ACP.
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Pope Francis in poetical mood before the Synod
“Now falls the evening on our assembly. It is the time when you willingly return home to find themselves at the same table, in the depth of affection, the good done and received, meetings that warm the heart and make it grow, the good wine which anticipates in the days of mankind the celebration without sunset.”
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Presider’s Page for 5 October (Ordinary Time 27)
There are reassuring words for us in God’s Word, with Paul reminding us that there is no need for us to worry. If there is anything we need, we can pray for it and God’s peace will be ours.
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“Proven Women”
Brian Eyre: Catholic Married Priest, Recife, Brazil responds to the discussions at the AGM
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Association of Catholic Priests : Report of Annual General Meeting, 01 October, 2014
Report of Annual General Meeting, 01 October, 2014
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ACP AGM Wednesday 01 October 2014 – Married Priests – Liamy Mac Nally
Address by Liamy McNally to the AGM.
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Fortune Magazine and Pope Francis: Fr. Seán McDonagh, SSC
Sean McDonagh finds signs of hope in an unlikely place, the scandal ridden Vatican bank.
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16th October. Thursday of Week 28
Redeeming Blood
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Survey on permanent (male only) diaconate
Survey on permanent (male only) diaconate
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An Open Letter to Cardinal Pell
Canberra-Goulburn Catholic priest Peter Day quizzes Cardinal Pell about his outspokenness in reasserting the church’s longstanding exclusion of divorced and remarried people from communion ahead of October’s Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family. ‘Has a simple, inclusive and profound ‘family’ meal been overwhelmed by an impersonal and, often times, sterile institutional sacrifice; one that tends towards mass exclusion?’
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Annual General Meeting , 01 October, 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone,
Invitation to all members to AGM
The Vocations Crisis: will clustering work?
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CDF, Edinburgh, Kasper, and the local Church.
Seamus Ahearne, as usual, asks the pertinent questions about what is essential in belonging to church.
‘I feel so embarrassed that such nonsense (banning and silencing) is still going on. Robust discussion is essential in our faith. Anselm said: ‘Theology is faith seeking understanding’“If any of us are listening to the Christ of the Gospels in recent times – we would get something of these message: The Table is open. All comers are welcome. The outsiders are the insiders. The unlikely ones are the most acceptable ones. Never shut doors. Open hearts and open minds and open imaginations.”
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Can women’s voices be heard in Pope Francis’ Church?
Invitation to The McWilliam Park Hotel, Claremorris on Sat October 11th from 2.00 – 4.30pm. Admission is free and all are welcome.
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Interesting times in Limerick Diocese
Brendan Leahy, bishop of Limerick, has announced a Synod for the diocese of Limerick
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A civil war in the Church?
Brendan Hoban in his Western People column questions the commitment of the leadership of the Irish Church to follow Pope Francis on the issue of family.
“Ireland will be represented at the synod in Rome by an archbishop and a nun. In a way no more needs to be said about the response of the Irish Church. While both may well be up to speed on the realities of marriage and family life in Ireland today, neither is married or has children so the signals are all wrong. Isn’t it inexpressibly sad for our Church that there was in Ireland no one the Irish bishops could find to trust who was married and had children?” -
Presider’s Page for 28 September (Ordinary Time 26)
God’s love is displayed for us in the life and death of Jesus. We rejoice in this love, and celebrate the victory over sin and death won for us. As a community, we praise God’s holy name.
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Whatever ever became of the bronze serpent?
On Sunday 14 September we heard the story of the fiery serpents, and the bronze serpent set up by Moses as instructed.
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Young people and the Liturgy
I was never too happy with herding the entire school community into a church for a beginning of year or end of year liturgical extravaganza.
A youth liturgy group was set up; not a children’s liturgy group, by the way, as the members range in age from sixteen to the mid twenties. This group was given the responsibility of organizing liturgies on five or six occasions during the liturgical year. -
“The signs of the times which can offer us hope and courage.” Pope Francis
The pope said the enormous amount of work and demands being made on pastoral workers “make us run the risk of becoming frightened and withdrawing in on ourselves out of fear and self-defense.”
“And out of that springs the temptation of self-sufficiency and clericalism, that codifying the faith into rules and instructions, which the scribes, Pharisees and doctors of the law did during the time of Jesus. We will have everything exact and everything just-so, but the faithful and those who are seeking will continue to be hungry and thirsty for God,” Pope Francis explained.
If pastoral ministry uses the same approach the scribes and Pharisees took, “never, never will we be witnesses of being close” to people like Jesus was, he said.
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