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  • 13 Jan. Friday of Week One

    January 13 2012
    Eileen

    Once again, thanks! I appreciate the input from the Old Testament, historical background etc. I like the point about Jesus showing how to cope with change and yet maintain peace. And, of course, the t

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Martin

    Come on Eileen! I know a couple seminarians in Maynooth. I hear that in the hot summer months they see young couples and immodestly dressed girls relaxing on the expansive lawns. Now those areas have

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    My understanding (as best as I understand the Catholic Church theology) of the term ‘PREVENIENT GRACE’ as used in the Prayer over the Offerings on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, … ‘Gr

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  • Priests and Pastoral Workers in Dublin – Paddy Moran

    January 1 2012
    Mary Burke

    Would you expect priests and bishops to work for nothing? (As it is priests are paid a pittance.) What about sacristans? Organists? Music Directors?

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  • A model which could help the Assembly of the Irish Church?

    December 16 2011
    Mike Waring

    Looking at this in Australia We have had our share of troubled priests including one that truly shocked me..... It appears a greater tightening of selection process(personality) needs to be looked at

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Joseph O'Leary

    PS, Trent uses the expression: "The Synod furthermore declares, that in adults, the beginning of the said Justification is to be derived from the PREVENIENT GRACE of God, through Jesus Christ, that is

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Joseph O'Leary

    I am delighted to hear that a community that embraced the new translations with enthusiasm are now feeling buyer's remorse. The cult of irritating obtuseness by the Vatican and its theologians or pseu

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Wendy Murphy

    Goodness Simmary, I'm so with you, Michael Commane and others and can only sympathise with the limitations of those who imagine we can't grasp the meaning of words we've been perfectly familiar with a

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Eileen

    'Collect' means 'gather,' doesn't it? Seriously, thanks Michael for trying to shed some light on this topic, once again. I would be interested to hear your views, as a theologian, on the response, "An

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  • Priests and Pastoral Workers in Dublin – Paddy Moran

    January 1 2012
    Martin

    Parish pastoral workers don't seem to fit with the idea of a poorer, humbler Church, one in which the services of its members will be voluntary. I fear pastoral workers feeds into a business model of

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