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Here’s the Thing! “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.” (Matt 6: 6) Unseen – but there for…

An interesting address by Dermot Farrell, Bishop of Ossory, at the Conference with Laity and Priests in the Diocese of Ossory;
“Pope Francis is constantly putting his synodal vision of the church before us. The question he is asking, and that we should ask ourselves, is what kind of church is God calling the priests and all Catholics to be in the longer term – perhaps less self-referential and more a community of missionary disciples, less clerical and more synodical, “……

“We have fallen off a cliff edge in regard to vocations to the priesthood.   Many speak of a crisis in this regard…….This time of reduced numbers may well afford us an opportunity to be creative and to reimagine the institutional church.”

SUGGESTED SONGS: All Peoples That on Earth Do Dwell; I Am the Bread of Life; Keep In Mind; Let the Earth Rejoice and Sing; How Great Thou Art. Opening CommentRemembering…

Seamus Ahearne writes of the God who is with us. “God gives us the kiss of life daily for us to revive, walk, sing, dance, love, enjoy, be aware, be grateful, appreciate, notice, wake up and see.     
‘Earth is crammed with heaven.’   (Elizabeth Barrett Browning).”

By Robert Mickens Published: May 30, 2025 Link to article: https://www.ucanews.com/news/wednesdays-with-francis/109181 Francis tenaciously clung to the challenging words of the gospel, which were the lens through which he viewed the…

The financial cost of a year of empty churches       Western People 13th April 2021 We’re warned that, after COVID, we won’t be returning to ‘normal’. That there won’t be ‘a…