Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership Team weekly homily – 3rd Sunday of the Year
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“It asks us big questions: What am I about? What is important? Who matters to me? Do I matter to anyone? … For us as ministers, it is quite dangerous and can undermine our very existence. Do we need ‘them’ (them=our faith community) more than ‘they’ need us? We feel very ‘useful’ normally. We are very busy. Now many of us can do very little. We don’t like it.”