Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Team weekly Sunday video homily

25th Sunday Year C 2025 Theme: Shrewdness Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4SV6p-t3yI

The editor of praytell blog writes about the forthcoming publication of the new Italian Missal.
“In September, 2017 Pope Francis issued Magnum principium, which called for translations which are both faithful to Latin and respectful of the characteristics of the receptor language……
More significantly, Pope Francis restored authority over translations to bishops’ conferences, as the Second Vatican Council had decreed, and rolled back the creeping centralism of previous decades at odds with the Council’s decisions.”

It seems the Italian bishops have taken their responsibility to heart and acted accordingly. We struggle on …..

Seamus Ahearne begins to cast his mind to the coming Easter. “Easter calls on us to accept the wonder and the challenge of today.”

From Julieann Moran, Irish Synodal Pathway: Dear friends, The first phase of the Synodal Pathway of the Catholic Church in Ireland is now complete. This two-year phase, interwoven with the…

A documentary by Vatican media about Robert Francis Prevost’s years of missionary work in the Latin American country. The film travels across Peru to Chiclayo, Chulucanas, Callao, Lima, and Trujillo…

HOGMANAY AND FIRST FOOTING: My Scottish Past: I may not be Tall, Dark and Handsome and therefore deemed  unsuitable to FIRST FOOT on Hogmanay, into the New Year. Being FAIR…