Gerry O’Connor CSsR, Sunday Homily video for 32nd Sunday of the Year, 10 Nov 2024

PILATE’S WIFE STANDS, HOLDING A SMALL, ORNAMENTAL DISH…  CALLING:          Zara?..    Zara!.. ENTER ZARA…          Coming, my lady… I was fetching water for your – WOMAN:    Such a commotion! ZARA: …

Brendan Hoban, in this reflection published in the Western People, explores what it is about Good Friday that  still resonates with our lives.

Irish Bishops Conference Wed 10 March 2021 Walking Together – A Synodal Pathway leading to a National Synodal Assembly for the Catholic Church in Ireland At our Spring General Meeting…

Brendan Hoban, in a recent Western People column, cast an eye over the opposition to Pope Francis. “When Benedict was pope, cardinals were falling over themselves hanging on to his every word, delivering reprimands to those who questioned papal tactics and giving sermonettes on loyalty and obedience to the pope. Now with a pope singing from a different hymn-sheet, for some of his cardinals loyalty and obedience seem to be less important.”

BIDDING PRAYERS for Sunday Mass Introduction (by the Presider) Let us bring our prayers to God, who has shown his salvation to the nations in the nativity of our Saviour. That those…

“Churches must speak with one voice in opposing occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Anything less is complicity, and silence now is a betrayal of both justice and faith.” Link: