Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership – weekly Sunday video homily
23rd Sunday Year C 2025 – theme: ‘Discipline’
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23rd Sunday Year C 2025 – theme: ‘Discipline’
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Easter Communion Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) Pure fasted faces draw unto this feast:God comes all sweetness to your Lenten lips.You striped in secret with breath-taking whips,Those crooked rough-scored chequers may…
Jo O Sullivan outlines the journey from ‘slumbering’ catholic to ‘revolting’ catholic, from agonising ‘over continuing to participate in shoring up the dysfunctional Institutional Church by continuing to give of my time and talent to the Church’ to the decision that ‘I could come back into the fold with all my heart and all my soul, provided I sought out every opportunity available to me to bring about change.’
‘I find that the passion that drives me these days is to open Catholic hearts and minds here locally into a welcoming acceptance of our LGBT brothers and sisters.’
Seamus Ahearne writes of Pentecost, among other topics that caught his attention. “A new Spring. Speaking all languages – care, love, heart, understanding, acceptance, respect. Get rid of formality and functionality. Drop the apathy, lethargy, torpor. Our Church should be bursting with life, with fire, with heart, with fun, with laughter, with hope, with excitement, with exuberance, with a sense of adventure.”
Link to We Are Church for full table: https://www.wearechurchireland.ie/my-post An analysis of National Syntheses (NS) from 28 countries shows Germany and Ireland top of the Reform Table with 83% each……
Even though Easter Week is now behind us, today’s liturgy still overflows with the joy of Jesus’ resurrection. We continue to celebrate that great event for the next six weeks, until Pentecost Sunday on the 4th June, the fiftieth and final day of Easter.
Far East magazine Book Review: Robots, Ethics and the Future of Jobs Columban missionary Fr Seán McDonagh is renowned for his leadership on climate change and care for the earth….