Gerry O’Connor, CSsR, ACP leadership Team, Weekly Sunday Homily, Week 2 (C)

Francis wants bishops who are pastors first                       Western People, Sept 8th 2020 Maureen Kelly, a native of Ballycastle, is a Mercy Sister, in Lima, Peru. She spent most of her…

Daniel P Horan in the NCR writes on the closure of churches and the suspension of public acts of worship in this time of pandemic.
“we are all called upon to care for one another by taking extraordinary measures that includes the suspension of public worship, means learning to see our love of neighbor not only as an assent to “worldly” or “secular” medical wisdom, but also an actual exercise of our love of God. Each of the manifold ways we are sacrificing to love our neighbors — self-isolation, quarantining, tending to the sick at home, supporting first responders, avoiding public places, not hoarding supplies, working remotely and even not going physically to church buildings — is itself an expression of our love of God.”

Western People 11.4.2023 On the cusp of a significant birthday, I’ve been reading the latest book of poems by Pádraig J. Daly, in Glimpsing More (Scotus Press, 2022). His day…

John (Hans) Wijngaards, (30 September 1935 – 2 January 2025) Check link for tribute: https://mailchi.mp/9e8bf7cb69d8/sad-news?e=3c5cccd6ee

Padraic McCarthy, on seeing that the Presider’s Page has greetings in various languages for visitors to our churches or celebrations, submitted a selection of greeting notices he has come across on his travels.
With some adaptations they might be useful to you.

Coming Events: A seminar entitled Personal and Ancestral Healing will be held in Lady’s Island Community Centre on Saturday31st May from 10am to 4pm. Cost €40 with refreshments included. Facilitators…