Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership Team, Weekly Sunday Homily
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP leadership Team, Weekly Sunday Homily – Epiphany 2025, 5 Jan – Core Values:
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Appointing, Selecting or Electing bishops; We can do better than this.
We welcome Brendan Hoban’s return and wish him a speedy return to full health and continuing good health in the future.
Brendan casts his historian’s eye over the current system of appointing bishops and concludes that there was far less secrecy in 1829 than today and that “Now no one at local level really knows by what process an individual bishop is appointed. While there is a process and the scaffolding is clear – consultation at local level, a list of three candidates, discussion among bishops of the province, proposal of Congregation of Bishops (Rome), decision by the Pope, with everything organised by the current Papal Nuncio – the detail is cloaked in secrecy.” This gives rise to the perception “that an inordinate stress on secrecy has allowed individuals exert undue influence in the whole process.”
Séamus Ahearne: “It’s obvious that he was a man from a different century and his values were not exactly what we would wish but at the same time he was a wonderful father to have. Of course he had his good days and bad days.” (Paloma Picasso on her father Pablo)
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Fr. Jim Sabak, OFM has a thought provoking article on praytellblog.com
“It is always God who acts in and through sacramental encounter, the ordained serving as instruments to gather the Church together for the purpose of encountering God’s activity. In these days, this experience must take place beyond the usual sphere of ritual and rubric. Anything else serves only to limit our vital experience of God’s forgiveness, mercy, and love.”
The Way of the Cross 2020
“This Holy Week we won’t be acting it out in a pageant, instead we will be living it out”