Gathering together in the Lord’s house, we bring simple gifts into God’s presence – our love, our care for each other, our worshipping hearts and voices. We ask for the grace to continue to show love through the coming week.
• Today is Prisoners’ Sunday in Ireland.
“Either we stop it or it stops us.” COP26: The two young lassies were noisy. Vinisha Umashankar and Greta Thunberg. Vinisha said: “We’ll build the future, even if you are…
Vatican News reports: Pope Francis appoints Franciscan Sr. Raffaella Petrini the new Secretary General of the Governorate of Vatican City State. He also appoints as Deputy Secretary-General Italian lawyer Giuseppe…
ACP AGM 2021 Wed 10th November 2.00-5.00pm Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone Special Guest: Kieran O’Mahony OSA speaking about the Synodal Pathway and lay leaders on the Killala experience. Also,…
Catholics and COP26: Artists, Activists and Academics on Climate Justice and the Integrity of Creation is a series of five live zoom events and two vodcasts organised by Theology and…
On All Saints Day and today, we remember all the dead, those in heaven and those still be on the way there: God alone knows where each soul is. Today we pray for all souls, for the faithful departed still on the journey to their heavenly home.
Ten Commandments for Church Reform: Memoir of a Catholic Priest John Wijngaards, Acadian House, September 2021 Dr John Wijngaards, an 86 year Catholic priest and renowned theologian, is launching his…
ROOT & BRANCH inclusive lay-led Synod A grassroots forum for those working for an inclusive, just & welcoming Church. YOU’RE WARMLY INVITED TO OUR OPEN FORUM EUROPE & AMERICAS Sunday 14th November, 16.00…
Michael Maginn writes: Leaving aside much of the dramatic, colourful and unhelpful imagery that has come down to us concerning Purgatory, the essential teaching rings true: our sense of incompleteness,…
Association of Catholic Priests Statement Monday 1st November 2021 As an association founded to represent, and if needs be to defend, our fellow-priests, the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) is…
Today and tomorrow we remember all the dead, those in heaven and those still be on the way there: God alone knows where each soul is. Today’s feast celebrates the saints in heaven, the holy men and women of every time and place: we hope some of our people are among them.
In search of God in Sally Rooney’s novels Western People 26.10.2021 The novelist, Sally Rooney, Castlebar native and literary sensation of the last few years, is taking the publishing…
New World In The Morning (Roger Whitaker) The Dying Swan (ballet)! It happened a week ago. The Spire of the Annunciation Church in Finglas West, Dublin, came down. We saw…
What is asked of us is simple – to love God and our neighbour. But our love also extends to our common home, as all eyes are on Glasgow, where the UN Climate Change Conference begins in Glasgow this Sunday — that Planet Earth may be spared from destruction.
Thoughts on the Synodal Pathway by Tony Flannery, CSsR Taken from Tony Flannery’s Blog: http://www.tonyflannery.com/can-the-national-synod-of-the-irish-church-be-a-success/ Synods and synodality are very much in the news in Catholic Church circles at the…
The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on 31 October – 12 November 2021. The COP26 summit will bring parties together to…
Does this methodology (see below, taken from ‘The Problem Remains’ – Sex abuse and the French Catholic Church by Massimo Faggioli) not suggest that a bold creative approach is needed in preparation…
Further to her post on this site, On Consulting the Faithful (15th September), Soline Humbert was asked to expand on it in the context of the synodal path we are…
Listening to LGBTQ Catholics Kate Moynihan Zoom Thursday 28th October at 8.00 p.m. Pope Francis is inviting Catholics on the margins to voice their dreams, ideas and concerns in preparation…
This year’s Mission Sunday theme suggests that “We cannot remain silent”. Those were the brave words of St Peter and St John in the Acts of the Apostles, when even in the face of persecution, they insisted: “We cannot but speak about what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20). We pray to have their courage in our country, today.
In this Sunday’s Mass, we come to God, who gives the blind new sight.
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