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

Association of Catholic Priests Statement Monday 1st November 2021 As an association founded to represent, and if needs be to defend, our fellow-priests, the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) is…

Tue 12th Dec – Exploring Depression Piece from shipwreck 200 years ago To even mention the word depression can put us into a bad mood. It’s that state of mental…

Seamus Ahearne reports from his cocoon. “I wonder will those of us cocooned emerge as beautiful butterflies or their equivalent?”
“‘bread is broken in many different ways and is done daily.   Even in the lock up days of the cocooned. … ‘Bread is broken’ on the phone.  In the papers dropped in the door. In the messages. In the shared videos. In the sheer goodness of people.”

Seamus Ahearne casts his eyes about on recent happenings.
“May all of us catch the light and begin our song.    May the chorus of life – dawn on us daily.  Let’s sing our song.”

Recommended by a member: Published in paperback, December 21, 2023, ‘Tarry Awhile: Wisdom from Black Spirituality for People of Faith’ by Selina Stone, is the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book…

Seamus Ahearne challenges us to think what the message of Christ is for us in current circumstances. “What might it be?  Now. Here. For us.  Might we be politically sensitive like Francis in regard to the Amazon? In regard to our own land. Might he demand of us, to be politically challenging in our local Church?  Might he drag our leaders away from the mind-set of praying for vocations towards being radical in what vocation, actually means today? How about a sensible deconstruction of how Liturgy has been imposed on the Church?  Much of the language in the Books should be censored.  Should we ruthlessly check,  if it is an obstacle to worship? “