Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership weekly Sunday video homily
Homily for 16th Sunday of the Year C, 2025. Theme is Burnout.
Homily for 16th Sunday of the Year C, 2025. Theme is Burnout.
Seamus Ahearne reminds us that grace filled moments can come about in chance encounters, even in the sad and bitter memories from the past. “He still can’t grasp how those in the Institutions and those out on the farms, who were full of God and faith, never displayed anything of the God of love. That haunts him. He doesn’t feel bitter about anything else. It is the model of God presented, that hurts most deeply. Mass, Benediction and prayers were very important but there wasn’t any sign of the God of love.” ….. ” A new Church is needed. New worship is needed. New vision is needed. No one else is going to do it. We have to get on with it.”
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To the EDITOR: Please, commas, capitals etc below are deliberate. Many thanks. Brian Grogan SJ Madam, – Good friends, citizens, Romans all, a niggle deep assails my soul when…
The ACP Leadership fully endorses the statement of our (founding) member Seán McDonagh to reduce carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
Association of Catholics in Ireland in a press release call on Irish bishops to consider Lumen Gentium 37 at their autumn meeting on October 1st.