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  • 23 July, 2020. St Bridget of Sweden, co-patron of Europe (Feast)

    23 July, 2020. St Bridget of Sweden,
    co-patron of Europe (Feast)

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  • 22 July, 2020. Saint Mary Magdalene (Feast)

    22 July, 2020. Saint Mary Magdalene (Feast)

    Read More 22 July, 2020. Saint Mary Magdalene (Feast)Continue

  • 21 July, 2020. Tuesday of Week 16

    21 July, 2020. Tuesday of Week 16

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  • 20 July, 2020. Monday of Week 16

    20 July, 2020. Monday of Week 16

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  • Editor's Choice | Liturgy | Presider's Page

    Presider’s Page for 19 July (Ordinary Time 16)

    We have been called together by the Spirit of God to celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. The Spirit teaches us to pray, and moves us to glorify the Lord’s name.

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  • Liturgy | Sunday Homily Resources

    19 July, 2020. 16th Sunday, Year A

    19 July, 2020. 16th Sunday, Year A

    Read More 19 July, 2020. 16th Sunday, Year AContinue

  • 18 July, 2020. Saturday of Week 15

    18 July, 2020. Saturday of Week 15

    Read More 18 July, 2020. Saturday of Week 15Continue

  • 17 July, 2020. Friday of Week 15

    17 July, 2020. Friday of Week 15

    Read More 17 July, 2020. Friday of Week 15Continue

  • 16 July, 2020. Thursday of Week 15

    16 July, 2020. Thursday of Week 15

    Read More 16 July, 2020. Thursday of Week 15Continue

  • 15 July, 2020. Wednesday of Week 15

    15 July, 2020. Wednesday of Week 15

    Read More 15 July, 2020. Wednesday of Week 15Continue

  • 14 July, 2020. Tuesday of Week 15

    14 July, 2020. Tuesday of Week 15

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  • 13 July, 2020. Monday of Week 15

    13 July, 2020. Monday of Week 15

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  • Editor's Choice | Liturgy | Presider's Page

    Presiders Page for 12 July (Ordinary Time 15)

    We gather as pilgrims on a journey, asking God to keep us steadfast until we reach our eternal home. In the Spirit, let us worship God who cares for us according to our needs.

    Read More Presiders Page for 12 July (Ordinary Time 15)Continue

  • Liturgy | Sunday Homily Resources

    12 July, 2020. 15th Sunday, Year A

    12 July, 2020. 15th Sunday, Year A

    Read More 12 July, 2020. 15th Sunday, Year AContinue

  • 11 July, 2020. (Saturday) Saint Benedict, patron of Europe

    11 July, 2020. (Saturday)
    Saint Benedict, patron of Europe

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  • 10 July, 2020. Friday of Week 14

    10 July, 2020. Friday of Week 14

    Read More 10 July, 2020. Friday of Week 14Continue

  • 09 July, 2020. Thursday of Week 14

    09 July, 2020. Thursday of Week 14

    Read More 09 July, 2020. Thursday of Week 14Continue

  • 08 July, 2020. Wednesday of Week 14

    08 July, 2020. Wednesday of Week 14

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  • 07 July, 2020. Tuesday of Week 14

    07 July, 2020. Tuesday of Week 14

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  • 06 July, 2020. Monday of Week 14

    06 July, 2020. Monday of Week 14

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    22 Feb 2026 – 1st Sunday of Lent (A)

    February 22 2026
    Sean O'Conaill
    "Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour..." This was very obviously a temptation to covet - to want something currently possessed by someone else - and therefore also a temptation to violence, since the current rulers of those kingdoms would not relinquish them readily. If we still so seldom hear warnings about the importance of Commandments Nine and Ten - and the word 'covetousness' is replaced by 'avarice' in the list of seven 'deadly' sins in Article 1866 of the 1994 Catechism, why is that? Given that avarice can be satisfied simply by amassing money legally it is not at all the same thing as covetousness - which fastens on something proudly owned by someone else and is therefore likely to be a cause of both enmity and conflict. Covetousness was often what drove Christian rulers into conflict with one another in the long centuries of Christendom but, beholden to those same rulers for protection and patronage, Christian churchmen could not easily point that out. Eventually, in the global conflict of World War 1 1914-18, this association of the churches with warring covetous empires disgraced those churches as well - and secularism burgeoned everywhere. That a 21st century US president might covet a large arctic island, the colonial possession of a small European country, makes that word indispensable again - because here too we see the potential for not only conflict but the destruction of an alliance that has lasted since the last Great War of 1939-45. This surely was why we were warned originally against covetousness, and why in particular we need to heed and cherish Jesus' renunciation of this temptation. Covetousness - allowing our more affluent neighbours to determine our desires - explains not only absurd fashion crazes but the global climate crisis, for it lies at the root of all insatiability, all futile consumerism. Can our ministers see and explain this to the young, before the churches disappear altogether due to perceived irrelevance - like the word 'covetousness' itself? You did not need what others possessed, O Lord. Teach us to seek what you had and still have - that closeness to the Father that puts an end to all wanting!
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    22 Feb 2026 – 1st Sunday of Lent (A)

    February 22 2026
    Joe O’Leary
    The Lenten Medicine of Mercy Pope Francis spoke of the Church as a field hospital, coming to the aid of the wounded. Every year, at a well-timed moment, the Church comes to our aid with the medicines of Lent. We are all wounded by sin, and the medicines the Church proposes include repentance, penance, prayer, holy discipline, good deeds, recollection (mindfulness), spiritual reading, the sacraments--all well-known homely remedies, which restore us to spiritual health. Psalm 50, the Miserere, strikes the keynote of Lent and is itself a vehicle of the graces that flow so freely in this season. The context of the psalm is mentioned in the words introducing it: ‘A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.’ In fact, David had also committed murder at the service of adultery, by having Bathsheba’s inconvenient husband, Uriah, placed in the front line of the battle against the Ammonites. (He wrote to Joab, his most brutal general: ‘Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down and die,’ 2 Sam 11:15). We may suppose that David committed both sins with no consciousness of sinning. But Nathan told a story that prompted David to condemn himself out of his own mouth: There was a poor man who ‘had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.’ But a rich man ‘took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man’ and prepared it for a guest of his. ‘David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die!”’ Nathan replies with two words that pierce the conscience of David like a sharp arrow: ‘atta ha-ish… Ýou are the man!’ Unanswerably convicted of transgression and guilt, David acknowledges the truth in two words: ‘chetati le Adonai... I have sinned against the Lord.’ As the chapter shows (2 Samuel 12), it is not only against the Lord that David has sinned. The human wreckage caused by his secret sin includes the disgraceful betrayal of his nation’s honour by having Uriah slain by the enemy. This aspect is not taken up in the psalm, which places the sinner before God, bracketing out all the concrete details of the sin and the damage it has caused. Another aspect not taken up in the psalm is the contrast between David’s shifty private behaviour and the public exposure of his crime ‘in broad daylight before Israel’ (2 Sam 12:12). The omission of concrete details makes the psalm one that any sinner can use. One might expect sinners to be crushed by the weight of their sins and to sit down in despair. But the psalm makes the sin an occasion of grace, and enables the sinner to discover the reality of God, not only as judge, but as one whose very nature is to have mercy. That is the first note the psalm strikes: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Relentless condemnation, often sweeping up the innocent as well as the guilty, is the favoured tone of our public discourse, and severe punishment is our remedy for every ill. We forget or reject Pope John XXIII’s stress on ‘the medicine of mercy’ in his opening speech at Vatican II. If we seek this medicine for ourselves at the beginning of Lent, should we not apply it to ‘those who trespass against us’? A second positive note struck by the psalm is cleansing: Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin… Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Lent will bring a daily inner cleansing and will culminate in healing waters: those of the Cross: ‘Wash me, ye waters, streaming from his side,’ and those of baptism, bringing the new life of Easter. A third positive note is knowledge of self, which goes hand in hand with knowledge of God: For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight. The prayer of repentance places us in an ‘I-Thou relationship’ with God, one in which we learn wisdom from God in the secret place of the heart. A fourth positive note is joy: Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. A fifth positive note is sanctification: Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Luther and Calvin carefully distinguish the free, unmerited justification of the sinner from the sanctification that follows upon it. ‘Son, your sins are forgiven’ (Mk 2:5) are the first healing gift of Christ, and the second is: ‘Stand up and walk.’ In Lent we may hope to hear both words and to receive both graces, lifted from the paralysis of sin by the Lord’s mercy and made able to walk in newness of life by his Spirit.
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    Brendan Hoban: US Catholics must give Trump a wide berth              

    February 19 2026
    M G-B
    Trumps Immigration policy "will harm the most vulnerable among us." American cousins told of their young son returning from school in a state of utter dejection. With head bowed and through tears he explained that his best friend would not be coming back to school. His friend's mother would be driving all six of her American born children to Mexico in the morning. Not to worry she told her children as we have a place to stay and family in Mexico. The mother is undocumented and the father incarcerated.
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    Reminder: Zoom today (Thurs @ 8.00pm) – A Divine Calling – Soline Humbert with Mary McAleese

    February 10 2026
    Soline Humbert
    The recording of my Root&Branch Conversation with Mary McAleese is now available to watch. https://youtu.be/Ott2zGO1L0Y?is=23OiErw272aCzgCD
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