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Passcode for ACP ZOOM: Synodal Pathway – What’s Next? with Julieann Moran, Tues 27 June 2023 @ 7.00pm. All welcome.
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Midsummer Night’s Dream
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He worries for Pope Francis “Why wouldn’t people leave him alone to get on with his business in Rome? We need him so badly and yet we waste his energy and time.”
But this mid-summer Seamus tells us. “We can stand back and let all this seriousness and pomposity of life be smiled at.”Séamus Ahearne: ‘Poems are made by fools like me but only God can make a tree.’ (J Kilmer)
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