Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Weekly Sunday Homily: Pentecost Sunday

This article was submitted by John O’Laughlin Kennedy on behalf of ‘Christians United in Prayer’.
Christian Unity Week runs from January 18th to 25th, and the plan is to welcome people from other denominations to our churches or meeting places to pray for church unity, for peace, and for blessings on one another. The unity we are praying for is the unity that Jesus prayed for, the unity of caring love.

September 8. Mary’s birthday. Mary mother of  Jesus. ‘Held him for the very first time in a stable… ‘Held him in her arms when he was lowered from a cross….

Tony Flannery outlines his expectations of the papal visit in an article on his own website. The article also appeared in the Irish Independent.

Seamus Ahearne writes against the backdrop of current experience where “We can feel got at … we feel accused of sexual chaos  …. we are deflated … the Church is battered. …. the priesthood is in a mess.” and states that we still need to be “people who have a view of a bigger picture and can give a real context to every day and always have a broader outlook. We can’t be a slave to the News or to the Moment.” We can’t let life get us down.

By Michael Sean Winters Catholic social teaching is proverbially considered the church’s “best kept secret.” Why is that? And what can be done about it? These are among the questions…

Western People 19.9.2023 The memory of the summer months of 2023 could be summarised as a sandwich of two heatwaves interspersed with what seems in retrospect like an almost constant…