Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership, Weekly Sunday Homily – 8th Sunday 2025

Chris McDonnell, in the Catholic Times, reflects on how we might beneficially use Lent this year.
“It is a time to ask questions, a pause time on a journey, a time when we might re-examine the baggage we carry from month to month, maybe a time to lighten the load.”
“So maybe there is a good question that we could all address this Lent, how might the Church meet the needs of the community without resorting to worn platitudes? …. We should encourage each other to face reality and trust that we might follow God’s Spirit as it moves in our hearts.”

Archbishop Martin: the Church needs to champion & promote the dignity of women Archbishop Eamon Martin addressing the IX World Meeting of Families in Dublin in August 2018 (Catholic Communications Office…

Haiku is a Japanese poetry structure of seventeen syllables,  arranged in three lines. Here are four haikus for Advent set within a brief commentary, Four Advent haikus          Advent -1-   Fog found…

“This Holy Week we won’t be acting it out in a pageant, instead we will be living it out”

A note from Seán Walsh about his latest publication… Seán Walsh writes: Just now published on  ebook or paperback… Did I say book? More like a booklet… Two readers/actors, two…

Seamus Ahearne casts his eye over recent happenings and imagines how the late Grumpy Cat might view matters. But despite his grumpy outlook there is always redemption. “Have a real sense of history and never make this moment and how I feel, too important. Celebrate the Liturgy of life without the pompous solemnity which kills the very soul of faith. Faith and God has to be celebrated with imagination and creativity. No stodginess. No boredom. No head only nonsense. The heart and body and the very soul has to be stirred. Explore beauty. Forget all the nonsense of passing fashion and fads. Don’t get stuck in mud of negativity”