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Brendan Hoban’s reply to Eugene Duffy’s ‘Furrow’ article (June edition) on the merging of dioceses in the west. Brendan’s article appeared in the July edition
There is little with which I would disagree in Eugene Duffy’s assessment (in the June Furrow) of the limited and unsynodal process that led to the recent decisions to move…
Fidgety Fingers
Seamus Ahearne reminds us that grace filled moments can come about in chance encounters, even in the sad and bitter memories from the past. “He still can’t grasp how those in the Institutions and those out on the farms, who were full of God and faith, never displayed anything of the God of love. That haunts him. He doesn’t feel bitter about anything else. It is the model of God presented, that hurts most deeply. Mass, Benediction and prayers were very important but there wasn’t any sign of the God of love.” ….. ” A new Church is needed. New worship is needed. New vision is needed. No one else is going to do it. We have to get on with it.”
Brendan Hoban: The Agony and the Anguish of the Famine Years
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Synod: Listening is key…
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Brendan Hoban: It’s back to the drawing board on Covid-19
It’s back to the drawing board on Covid-19 Western people 14.12.2021 With COVID-19, as the Barbara Streisand song has it, ‘There are lessons to be learned’. The demon of self-centredness…
This event today and yesterday gives a glimpse of a future of Christian community that constrasts tellingly with the ghastly shackles of our clericalism (as manifested especially in our frozen liturgy in which the expressive charisms of the faithful are stifled). “The old order changeth yielding place to new/ And God fulfils himself in many ways.”
Professor Tom O’Loughlin explains what “Synodality” is all about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6vjhh9cFog&t=38s