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Today’s Homily Resources
25 May 2025 – 6th Sunday of Easter, Year C
25 May 2025 – 6th Sunday of Easter, Year C 1st Reading: Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 At this Council, the leaders made decisions with the consent of the congregation Then certain individuals came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And...
Read MoreGerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership Team – Weekly Sunday Homily
Gerry O’Connor: ‘Hinge Moments’ 6th Sunday Easter Year C 2025
Séamus Ahearne: WHAT THOSE POPES DID TO US: FRANCIS AND LEO.
THE VOICE: I was at a Parish Meeting (our Monday session). Pope Bob came up as he has frequently. I told the gathered 15 that there was a spot of…
Presider’s Page for 25 May (Sixth Sunday of Easter)
The Ascension of Jesus will be celebrated next Sunday. As the Easter Season moves towards its second climax at Pentecost, we take heed of the Lord’s final words to his disciples, and look forward to the coming of the Holy Spirit to the Church.
Julieann Moran: Synodal Pathway Update
A New Pope Committed to Synodality On 8 May, the Church welcomed Pope Leo XIV, whose Urbi et Orbimessage from the balcony of St Peter’s made an immediate and moving call to journey…
Brendan Hoban: New Pope will build on Francis’ great work
Western People 13.5.2025 What an extraordinary time the last few weeks have been for the overwhelmingly positive media coverage the Catholic Church has enjoyed. The illness and death of Pope…
Jim Cogley Reflections: Tues 20 May – Mon 26 May 2025
Coming Events: A seminar entitled Personal and Ancestral Healing will be held in Lady’s Island Community Centre on Saturday31st May from 10am to 4pm. Cost €40 with refreshments included. Facilitators…
The Tablet: A pope of communion: Leo XIV and the Francis legacy
Austen Ivereigh 15 May 2025, The Tablet Link: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/a-pope-of-communion-leo-xiv-and-the-francis-legacy/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Tablet%20newsletter%2015%20May&utm_content=The%20Tablet%20newsletter%2015%20May+CID_fb146b469f3a22d878e7c96285baf616&utm_source=SxTabNews_v1&utm_term=Austen%20Ivereigh The first pope from the United States has made it clear he will build on the ‘precious legacy’ he inherited from Francis…
America Magazine: Pope Leo XIV can bring Catholic social teaching into the A.I. age
Matthew Dunch May 15, 2025 Link: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/05/15/pope-leo-rerum-novarum-artificial-intelligence-250689?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2928&pnespid=5qU6VSkZZb9L2PzBrTflE8mNtRX1DZB0IvXhwuJlvgJmevtC4kOWG4ptUu4AF.0yvG9guCNI Pope Leo XIV meets the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican on May 10, 2025. In his remarks…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Weekly Sunday Homily
‘Glory’ 5th Sunday Easter Year C 2025
Invitation from Peadar O’Callaghan to Art Exhibition in Cobh Library, Co Cork
My paintings/images of the Earth are not framed but ‘boxed’. In this way I want to show that the Earth is a gift we receive, a ‘present’ from the Creator…