Jim Cogley: Reflections – Tues 17 Dec – Mon 23 Dec 2024
Items of Interest: Next Thursday 19th Dec at 7.30pm in Our Lady’s Island Church we will have A Christmas Carols Evening featuring Ireland’s best female vocalist Celine Byrne along with…
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Brendan Hoban: General election campaign never caught fire
Western People 10.12.2024 In the pause after the election campaign concluded and the last seat was filled, politicians and public drew a collective breath. Assessments included Not very memorable and…
Final Appeal as Survey Deadline Looms…An appeal to priests to take part in a survey on suicide
Tim Hazelwood writes: A final appeal for Priests to take part in the Survey being Conducted by UCC/National Office or Suicide Prevention. Please take the survey as it is aimed…
Reflections on Pope Francis’ address to theologians – NCR article by Daniel P Horan
In an address to a gathering of theologians and academic administrators at the Vatican on Monday, Pope Francis spoke about the importance of theology, while also sharing his own desire for its future and…
Gerry O’Connor, CSsR, and ACP Leadership Team with his weekly Sunday homily.
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Advent from Gerry O’Connor, CSsR, and ACP Leadership Team – Unpicking Complexity. Link to homily:
New Book: THE PEOPLE’S CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST by Fintan Lyons OSB
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…
Brendan Butler: Crib Request…
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…
Presider’s Page for 15 December (Gaudete Sunday: Advent 3)
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.
Catholic Church Reform International: Zoom, inviting clergy to work with the laity in the selection of our bishops – 14 Dec 2024
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…
This Lectionary Readings site comes highly recommended…
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…
Jim Cogley: Reflections from Tues 9 Dec – Mon 15 Dec 2024
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…
Brendan Hoban: There are no votes to be got in truth-telling
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…
Séamus Ahearne: ‘Every revolution was once a thought in one person’s mind. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership weekly Sunday homily – 2nd Sunday Advent 2024
2nd Week of Advent 2024 (C) – Theme: Patience
Final Appeal as Survey Deadline Looms…An appeal to priests to take part in a survey on suicide
Tim Hazelwood writes: A final appeal for Priests to take part in the Survey being Conducted by UCC/National Office or Suicide Prevention. Please take the survey as it is aimed…
Presider’s Page for 8 December (Advent 2)
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.
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 3 Dec – Mon 9 Dec 2024
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…
Brendan Hoban: Cathedral is still the jewel in Ballina’s crown
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…
Chris McDonnell: Four Haikus for Advent
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…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership, Weekly Homily for First Sunday in Advent
Video Homily for the 1st Sunday of Advent. The title is ‘Intensity’ – Sunday 1st December 2024 Link to video:
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