Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership weekly Sunday homily – 2nd Sunday Advent 2024
2nd Week of Advent 2024 (C) – Theme: Patience
2nd Week of Advent 2024 (C) – Theme: Patience
Fourth Sunday of Easter – prayers of the faithful Introduction (by the Presider) As Rome welcomes its new bishop, we pray a blessing on the Church and the whole world:…
Brendan Hoban, writing in the Western People, looks at the continuing fall out from the recent referendum on the eighth amendment and expresses concern at a ‘moral triumphalism and political totalitarianism (that) has no place in public discourse.’
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“if this is the new Ireland then God help those who disagree with the emerging consensus. It won’t hold a candle to the control and oppressiveness of the Catholic past, and that’s saying something.”
More seeds for the sowing. Please pray that as they go out to the four winds that they will reach where they are meant to reach and touch the lives…
Opening CommentThe fourth Sunday of Easter is often called Good Shepherd Sunday, because the readings are about the care we receive from Christ, our true shepherd. Today is also the…
In just a few weeks, delegates from across Ireland will gather in Kilkenny for the Pre-Synodal Assembly taking place on 18th October 2025. This is an important step on our…
Today is Pentecost Sunday, the 50th day of Easter. We celebrate the completion of the Easter mystery in the coming of the Holy Spirit — and ask for the gift of that same Spirit as we gather today.