Seán Walsh: It is expedient for you that I go away
“IT IS EXPEDIENT FOR YOU THAT I GO AWAY…” Master Eckhart sees Christian growth as a constantly deepeningattention to the pure, simple, singleness of God, an increasingreadiness to ‘let go’…
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Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Sunday Homily, Lent Week 3
Gerry O’Connor: ‘Doubling Down’ 3rd Sunday Lent Year C 2025:
Veritas: Free Downloads of Liturgical Publications
Pádraig McCarthy has advised that Veritas is offering free downloads of various liturgical publications. See details by clicking the link: https://www.catholicbishops.ie/liturgy-publications
Statement from the Association of Catholic Priests
Wed 19 March 2025 As people who value both our Irishness and our Faith, we wish to state clearly that Mr. Conor McGregor’s speech in the Oval Office, where he…
Presider’s Page for 23 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.
John Shea: Letter to the Bishops of Ireland
Dear Bishops of Ireland, Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In this season of metanoia, I write to you again about how women are treated in our church. It is, as you know, a sad…
Séamus Ahearne: So be amazed, all you people great and small who fear God! You well educated people in authority, listen and examine this carefully. Who was it, who called one as foolish as I am, from the middle of those who are seen to be wise? If I am the most looked down upon; yet he inspired me. The Confessions of St Patrick.
Lost in Space: Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore seemed ecstatic as the docking occurred. They went on a short trip to the International Space Station for eight days which turned…
Jim Cogley Reflections – Tues 18th March – Mon 24th March 2025
Tues March 18th – Telling the Story While reflecting recently on the story of Jesus curing the man born deaf who had a speech impediment, I was struck by both…
Lá Fhéile Pádraig – Happy St Patrick’s Day
Shamrock Blessing All-holy God: Father, Son and Spirit, St Patrick explained your mysterious being to the people of Ireland by means of the shamrock which you had created: send your…
Brendan Hoban: A narcissistic bully now leads the free world
Western People 11.03.2025 Instinctively, when a pack gathers to hunt down a quarry – whether hounds baying for a kill or a human being cornered by his or her critics…
Presider’s Page for Monday 17 March (Lá Fhéile Pádraig)
As the second week of Lent begins in other countries, we pause from our lenten penances to honour Patrick, the apostle of the Irish. 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.
Seán Walsh: First Communion
First Communion Jenny looking out from ‘neath a veil: open-eyed… trusting… distrusting… unaware of what was out there, what lay ahead… in the world beyond home and hearth and convent school….
Irish Daily Mail: Article on Soline Humbert and her call to serve as a priest
Link to article: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/irish-daily-mail/20250315/281904483953730
Synod Update: Letter on the Accompaniment Process of the Implementation Phase of the Synod
Letter on the Accompaniment Processof the Implementation Phase of the Synod Accompanying the Implementation Phase of the Synod Letter to the Bishops and the People of God of the whole worldVatican,…
Joe O’Leary – Mary at Cana: A Meditation
The first woman to appear in John’s Gospel makes her entry so modestly and unassumingly that she might seem insignificant: “On the third day there was a wedding in Cana…
Tony Flannery’s Speech in Newcastle
My talk in Newcastle Mar 13 I recently fulfilled an invitation I had received from the parish of The Holy Name Catholic Church in Newcastle (England). Me being invited to…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Team Weekly Sunday Homily
Video homily for 2nd Sunday Lent Year C 2025. The title is ‘Peak’.
Statement of the Spring 2025 General Meeting of theIrish Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Members of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference gathered this week for their Spring 2025 General Meeting in Columba Centre of Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth. The President of the Conference is Archbishop…
Jim Cogley Reflections – Tues 11 Mar – Mon 17 Mar 2025
Two Wood You Believe seminars involving Personal and Ancestral Healing are scheduled to be held in the Edmund Rice Healing Centre in Callan Co Kilkenny on Saturdays March 15th and…
Presider’s Page for Sunday 16 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.
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