Clonfert Diocesan meeting of ACP
A meeting will be held in St. Joseph’s Centre, Killimor on Monday March 21st at 2.30pm for the priests of Clonfert diocese.
All are welcome
A meeting will be held in St. Joseph’s Centre, Killimor on Monday March 21st at 2.30pm for the priests of Clonfert diocese.
All are welcome
Seamus Ahearne writes about the necessity of the ACP.
“I think the ACP exists not just to make noise or to be prophetic but to add ballast and communion to the collective in ministry. We are at breaking point as priests. We will fall apart if we stay apart.”
” the ACP is to reach out and call attention to the tiredness and to the ageing of the diocesan priests. What is the support structure for them? Creating clusters and adding on more work to do cannot be the answer. Creative and imaginative ideas are necessary (as Francis said). We cannot go on as we are.”
“The ACP isn’t just a vehicle for the journalists to use or an association of renegades. The ACP cannot be about the big noisy issues – nor can we forever be fighting big causes. It is the essentials of faith that are our interests and the ordinary issues of day to day life.”
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