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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    05 March 2025 – Ash Wednesday, Year A

    05 March 2025 – Ash Wednesday, Year A (1) Joel 2:12-18 Return to me with all your heart. Spare your people, Lord “Now, now,” says the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord, your God,…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    04 March 2025 – Tuesday of Week 8

    04 March 2025 – Tuesday of Week 8 Optional Memorial: St Casimir, 1458-84, patron of Poland. 1st Reading: Sirach 35:1-12 The wise person is generous to the poor and abhors extortion The one who keeps the law makes many offerings; one who heeds the commandments makes an offering of well-being. The one who returns a…

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  • Liturgy | Presider's Page

    Presider’s Page for Ash Wednesday (5 March 2025)

    Presider’s Page for Ash Wednesday (5 March 2025) Welcome to the season of Lent. Today we begin the journey of penance and reflection that will bring us to the celebration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus at Easter time. Let us pray for the grace to keep Lent faithfully… (Pause for silent prayer: the…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    03 March 2025 – Monday of Week 8

    03 March 2025 – Monday of Week 8 1st Reading: Sirach 17:24-29 Repent from sin while you are still alive. The dead cannot praise God Turn to the Lord, plead before his face and lessen your offence. To those who repent God permits return, and he encourages those who were losing hope. Return to the…

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  • Liturgy | Sunday Homily Resources

    02 Mar 2025 – 8th Sunday (C)

    02 Mar 2025 – 8th Sunday (C) Our Lord invites us to take the plank out of our own eyes before we try to take the splinter out of others’ eyes. It is good to take a hard look at ourselves and our own shortcomings (1) Sirach 27: 4-7 Three images about our ways of…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    01 Mar 2025 – Saturday of Week 7

    01 Mar 2025 – Saturday of Week 7 Optional Memorial: St David, patron saint of Wales. Taught many Irish monks and influenced monastic development in Ireland. He died in 603. 1st Reading: Sirach 17:1-15 God made us in the divine image, and looks with favour on us The Lord created human beings out of earth,…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    28 Feb 2025 – Friday of Week 7

    28 Feb 2025 – Friday of Week 7 1st Reading: Sirach 6:5-17 Let your friends be tried and trusted.A faithful friend is a tonic Pleasant speech multiplies friends, and a gracious tongue multiplies courtesies. Let those who are friendly with you be many, but let your advisers be one in a thousand. When you gain…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    27 Feb 2025 – Thursday of Week 7

    27 Feb 2025 – Thursday of Week 7 Optional Memorial: St Gregory of Narek, c 950-1003, a monk of the Armenian church, abbot, doctor of the church, mystic, poet. Best known for Lamentations, aka Narek, a collection of 95 prayers, each with the title Conversation with God from the depth of the heart. 1st Reading: Sirach 5:1-8 Rely not…

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  • Liturgy | Presider's Page

    Presider’s Page for 2 March (Ordinary Time 8)

    Presider’s Page for 2 March (Ordinary Time 8) Words matter. What we say has an effect on others, for good or ill. God’s word to us is spoken in Jesus, the Word made flesh, in whose name we gather each Sunday. • Today, the last Sunday before Lent, is Temperance Sunday. Penitential Rite At the…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    26 Feb 2025 – Wednesday of Week 7

    26 Feb 2025 – Wednesday of Week 7 1st Reading: Sirach 4:11-19 Seeking wisdom brings happiness and reveals life’s deepest secrets Wisdom teaches her children and gives help to those who seek her. Whoever loves her loves life, and those who seek her from early morning are filled with joy. Whoever holds her fast inherits…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    25 Feb 2025 – Tuesday of Week 7

    25 Feb 2025 – Tuesday of Week 7 1st Reading: Sirach 2:1-11 Those who hope in the Lord are not forsaken My child, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for testing. Set your heart right and be steadfast, and do not be impetuous in time of calamity. Cling to him and do…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    24 Feb 2025 – Monday of Week 7

    24 Feb 2025 – Monday of Week 7 1st Reading: Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 1:1-10 All wisdom comes from God and returns to him All wisdom is from the Lord, and with him it remains forever. The sand of the sea, the drops of rain, and the days of eternity, who can count them? The height of heaven,…

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  • Liturgy | Sunday Homily Resources

    23 Feb 2025 – 7th Sunday (C)

    23 Feb 2025 – 7th Sunday (C) Today’s Eucharist celebrates Jesus as Lord of compassion and love. If we carry hatred in our hearts against others, we cannot properly approach the Lord’s table. We ask him to heal us of our petty vengefulness 1st Reading:1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 Saul, jealous of the young…

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  • Liturgy | Presider's Page

    Presider’s Page for 23 February (Ordinary Time 7)

    Presider’s Page for 23 February (Ordinary Time 7) Loving the enemy and praying for those who make life difficult are two marks of a Christian, or so Jesus teaches us today. We gather, aware of how difficult love can be, yet united by the saving mercy of God, on which we rely. Penitential Rite As…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    22 Feb 2025 – Chair of St Peter the Apostle

    22 Feb 2025 – Chair of St Peter the Apostle 1st Reading: 1 Pet 5:1-4 Peter’s advice to his fellow Church leaders: feed God’s flock with loving respect Now as an elder myself and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory to be revealed, I exhort…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    21 Feb 2025 – Friday of Week 6

    21 Feb 2025 – Friday of Week 6 Optional Memorial: St Peter Damian, 1007- 72, teacher, hermit, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, church reformer. 1st Reading: Genesis 11:1-9 When people sought independence from God, their language is scrambled Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east,…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    20 Feb 2025 – Thursday of Week 6

    20 Feb 2025 – Thursday of Week 6 1st Reading: Genesis 9:1-13 The rainbow, a perpetual sign of God’s covenant with Noah and the human race God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    19 Feb 2025 – Wednesday of Week 6

    19 Feb 2025 – Wednesday of Week 6 1st Reading: Genesis 8:6-13, 20-22 The Lord promises never again to destroy the earth At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made and sent out the raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried…

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  • Presider’s Page for 23 February (Ordinary Time 7)

    Presider’s Page for 23 February (Ordinary Time 7) Loving the enemy and praying for those who make life difficult are two marks of a Christian, or so Jesus teaches us today. We gather, aware of how difficult love can be, yet united by the saving mercy of God, on which we rely. Penitential Rite As…

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  • Liturgy | Weekday Homily Resources

    18 Feb 2025 – Tuesday of Week 6

    18 Feb 2025 – Tuesday of Week 6 1st Reading: Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10 The universal flood; the Lord’s regret at creating the human race The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually. And the Lord…

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    Press Release: ACP Response to Vatican Decision on Women Deacons

    December 11 2025
    Alan McNamara
    Synodality is going nowhere and will die a death. The ACP must hate the last supper. Jesus ordained men and men only. Not because he dislikes women but because he specifically willed the ordination of men to the priesthood. This is all about control and under the guise of synodality, the ACP wants to become protestant. When has the ACP supported men in vocations to the priesthood???????
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    Seán Ó Conaill – Jaja’s Question: A Blasphemous Theology?

    December 9 2025
    Sean O’Conaill
    “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matt 10:28) "You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also." (Matt 5:38-39) Teachings such as these by Jesus surely raised the question of what he would do if and when faced with the reality of wrongful condemnation and death - and of how good could possibly triumph over evil if he offered no resistance. We need to take most seriously the conviction of the early church that Jesus did indeed triumph - without the use of force - that a 'new creation' had begun with his crucifixion - and that the Father and the Holy Spirit had revealed themselves in this sequence also, as the necessary guarantors of Jesus' victory and of our redemption. The following possibility then presents itself: that the Trinity were - and still are - intent on demonstrating the limits of the power 'to kill the body' that has always been wielded by 'Pharaoh' - i.e. 'the kingdoms of this world', the spirit of earthly domination - to open a horizon to human history that will always lie beyond erasure by that tyrannical spirit. To put this another way, the purpose of the crucifixion / resurrection sequence was probably to demonstrate that the Kingdom of God cannot be either built or erased by force - that it lives on always in the faith, hope and charity of the people of God - in communion with the ever-present Trinity. Constantine's claim after 312 to a divine mandate for the use of force is a challenge to such an understanding - but as far as I know that claim was never verified by the church. It was also implicitly rejected by Dignitatis Humanae in 1965, and we all are well aware of the connection between Christendom and today's alienation of so many from the Gospel - and the now obvious connection between political power and corruption. St Anselm of Canterbury at the zenith of the church's political power c. 1098 was far less aware of the problematic of a church resting on state patronage and the use of force. Instead his retributory theology of atonement helped to buttress that church-state alliance at the expense of a full grasp of Jesus insistence that 'I and the Father are one' - and of the call to non-violence. The couplet 'Christus vivit' so often used by Pope Francis needs now to be understood as the Father's intention also. Death has no dominion!
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    Seán Ó Conaill – Jaja’s Question: A Blasphemous Theology?

    December 9 2025
    Paddy Ferry
    An excellent piece, Seán. I haven’t really looked seriously at the present catechism (1994) but if it is still using Anselm’s idea of supstitutionary atonement then I am amazed. I was under the impression that modern scholarship had found it to be completely untenable. Even leaving the consensus of modern scholars aside, as an innocent, unquestioning Catholic, which I was well into adulthood, I was never convinced that we could or should be held responsible, inter generationally, for the sin of our (most likely mythical) ancient ancestor. As an exile in Scotland I often brag about the wonderful scholar priests - and lay scholars and women too - that we have at home in Ireland. And, Seán you must know that there are priests who will say that Jesus did not have to die to save us.
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    Brendan Hoban: Sr Stan’s style broke the religious mould              

    December 10 2025
    M G-B
    My friend too died recently. We could say he left for the carnival. He was a male social worker in the next office. After working many years in third world countries and rising to the top of his religious community, he requested laicization (pro gratia.) He was now laicized, married and the father of teenagers. After his client, a male teenage street youth left his office he came to tell me what had happened in the counselling session. The youth had looked him in the eyes and asked "Are you a Priest?" "No" he said. The youth responded "You sure have the vibes of a Priest!" We enjoyed a great laugh together. The carnival of life or the seminary, he was who he was a deeply spiritual wonderful human being.
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