Sunday’s Homily is the 5th Sunday of the Year (C) – Tittle ‘Craft for Mission’:
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Seamus Ahearne comments on three recent losses. On John Hume he says; “John was outstanding in our history. He spoke a different language. He never gave up. He talked and talked. He sang. He persisted. He wasn’t limited by a narrow view of history or confined/reduced by political blinkers. He only saw people. The Unity of people mattered. The future mattered. Living together mattered. Religion could not be a divider. ….. John Hume is a hero. He is an inspiration. So all leadership has to be about communication and not dictat.”
The European conference on synodality in Wels, Austria, identifies baptism, listening, relationships and a new culture of leadership as key areas for the Church’s path ahead. At the conclusion of…
(Philip Larkin- Church Going.) Blue Bells They peeped out at me or so it seemed. I wasn’t sure. They had vanished when I looked again. Was I imagining it? A…
Copied from the Waterford & Lismore diocesan website. The findings from the listening sessions and conversations which took place around the country in preparation for the Synod on Synodality in…
For your information: Statement from Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory regarding the planned visit from the president, Donald Trump, at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine:
Apparently the new liturgical texts were introduced prematurely in South Africa in 2008. This article is interesting, in that it gives some idea of how they were received in that…
