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

Chris McDonnell writes “The choice of where to pray and when to pray has come down to us through subsequent years; for now, this Spring, we have limited options.” and he reminds us of Teilhard de Chardin who found himself in the Ordos Desert in China in 1923, unable to offer the Eucharist and wrote “Since once again, Lord I have neither bread, nor wine, nor altar,
I will raise myself beyond these symbols, up to the pure majesty of the real itself. I your priest will make the whole earth my altar and on it will offer you all the labours and sufferings of the world.’

An interesting read from Michael Carter in The Tablet… Relics of the Holy Blood were (indeed, still are) venerated across Europe. They proliferated in the 12th and 13th centuries, a time…

O King of the Friday whose limbs were stretched on the cross, O Lord who did suffer the bruises, the wounds, the loss, we stretch ourselves beneath the shield of…

Mick Forgey reports in the National Catholic Reporter on Tony Flannery’ s involvement in the National Conference of the reform movement ‘Call to Action’ in Memphis, Tenn.

Interview on Midwest Radio’s Faith Alive programme by Brendan Hoban with Church of Ireland Bishop Michael Burrows, Bishop Elect for Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe. https://soundcloud.com/user-211747038/church-of-ireland-bishop-michael-burrows-on-faith-alive-sun-30-jan-2022?si=a331dd8a6c1e4ab28a1c71e800850c6b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing    

Neil Michael reports in the Irish Examiner: More than 21% of Ireland’s entire population of parish priests and brothers — both serving and retired — have died in just three…