Each service is recorded and available on ourladysisland.ie or Church Services. A seminar entitled: Getting the Past out of the Present – Healing our Damaged Emotions facilitated by Jim Cogley…
For two centuries, after the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, the Irish people were persecuted for their loyalty to Catholicism as the British State converted to various forms of Protestantism….
Irish Mail Fri 10 Jan 2025 Tony Flannery on RTÉ’s Drivetime Thurs 9 Jan 2025: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22479408 The Tablet magazine: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/nuns-vilified-but-afraid-to-challenge-unjust-portrayal-say-irish-priests Tony Flannery on Radio Kerry https://www.radiokerry.ie/podcasts/kerry-today/are-nuns-unfairly-vilified-january-9th-2025-416515
Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership – Sunday homily on the Baptism of the Lord, 2025 – ‘Leaven’. Link:
John (Hans) Wijngaards, (30 September 1935 – 2 January 2025) Check link for tribute: https://mailchi.mp/9e8bf7cb69d8/sad-news?e=3c5cccd6ee
Association of Catholic Priests The ACP critical of the way Nuns are being portrayed 8 January 2025 For the past two centuries nuns (sisters) educated people in their schools, and…
The ACP wishes to bring to your notice that Marie Keenan is standing in the forthcoming Irish Seanad elections, one of twelve candidates in the NUI constituency. Full list: https://www.nui.ie/elections/seanadelection2025/candidatesprofiles_2025.asp Marie…
Today we celebrate the feast of the Baptism of the Lord: it’s the last day of the Christmas season. The baptism of Jesus marked the end of his quiet years in Nazareth and the start of his public ministry.
Pope Francis appoints Sr. Simona Brambilla, an Italian-born religious sister from the Consolata Missionaries, as Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, along…
Is a word searching for somewhere to be used! Or someone to be used about. That word fits neatly into yesterday. I shouldn’t take pleasure in such events, or in…
Happy New Year and every good wish for 2025.! Apologies for not getting to send out my columns over the past few weeks. Christmas is that kind of time! But attached now are…
McElroy, known for a pastoral approach to migrants and the LGBTQ+ community, will lead an archdiocese still bruised by a sexual abuse and mismanagement scandal. By Michelle Boorstein, Anthony Faiola and Stefano Pitrelli The…
Hi everyone, In response to a huge interest in the area of regression that was sent out some months ago the following reflections were written. I hope you find them insightful…
We Are Church Ireland invites you to join a series of talks to be delivered by the theologian Diarmuid Ó Murchú on the subject of Being Adult People of God in the…
New Leaf A priest from the Redemp’trists gave us the School Retreat at the beginning of Lent. Hell or Heaven for starters, then the mercy of God that knows no…
Opening Comment
On this feast of the Epiphany we celebrate the revelation of who Christ is. The visit of the three wise men reminds us that Jesus came as the Saviour of all nations, including ours. We worship God who wants all people to be saved.
The ACP wishes to bring to your notice that Marie Keenan is standing in the forthcoming Irish Seanad elections, one of twelve candidates in the NUI constituency. (Full list: https://www.nui.ie/elections/seanadelection2025/candidatesprofiles_2025.asp)…
Miriam Duignan, Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the The Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research (WICR) has informed Tony Flannery, Patron of The WICR of the death of the Institute’s…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP leadership Team, Weekly Sunday Homily – Epiphany 2025, 5 Jan – Core Values:
We gather to celebrate the first Sunday of 2022, moving with gratitude into a new year of God’s grace. We thank God for the vaccines developed to protect humanity and ask for God’s continuing care and protection until everyone is safe and COVID variants no longer threaten us.
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