A Voice to Reflect
The ACP is an association for Catholic Priests who wish to have a forum, and a voice to reflect on, discuss and comment on issues affecting the Irish Church and society today. We welcome any feedback you may have. If you are an existing member, you can pay your membership fee here. If you would like to support the ACP with a donation, you can do so here.
Today’s Homily Resources
13 Sept 2026 – 24th Sunday, (A)
13 Sept 2026 – 24th Sunday, (A) It is inconsistent to celebrate our God as the Lord of compassion and love, unless we show mercy to those who have wronged us. Today’s Gospel calls us to forgive as Christ forgives us. Some of the finer minds among the Old Testament writers already perceived this connection:...
Read More-
Irish Times: ‘My proposal was to stop Confirmation’: Ireland’s ageing priests under pressure as numbers drop
Patsy McGarry Sat Sept 12 2026 – 06:00 Fr Seamus Ahearne. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Fr Seamus Ahearne is turning 80 in November but shows no signs of slowing down and…
-
Presider’s Page for 13 September (24th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Presider’s Page for 13 September (24th Sunday in Ordinary Time) Forgiveness is one of the great qualities of Christianity. We are challenged to forgive each other as readily as God…
-
Remembering 9/11 – 25th anniversary
Anything Can Happen Seamus Heaney 1939 – 2013 Anything can happen. You know how JupiterWill mostly wait for clouds to gather headBefore he hurls the lightning? Well, just nowHe galloped…
-
We Are Church
Members of We Are Church will join a protest in Dublin against the visit of President Trump. The No Welcome for Trump National Protest will take place outside the Hugh…
-
Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership weekly Sunday video homily
‘Forgiveness As Journey’ – 24th Sunday Year A – 13 Sept 2026
-
Tony Flannery: Cherish wisdom; allow doctrines to develop. What I have learned in the past fifteen years.
Taken from Tony’s blog: https://www.tonyflannery.com/cherish-wisdom-allow-doctrines-to-develop-what-i-have-learned-in-the-past-fifteen-years/ It is now almost fifteen years since I was forbidden to exercise priestly ministry, and I am on the verge of my eightieth birthday. The…
-
Vatican News: ‘Within Your Gates’ forum explores Jerusalem’s vocation to reconciliation and peace
File photo of Cardinal Pizzaballa holding a prayer service to mark Palm Sunday, in Jerusalem (ANSA) ‘Within Your Gates’ forum explores Jerusalem’s vocation to reconciliation and peace The Latin Patriarch…
-
Vatican News: Synod: Reports published on relations between bishops, consecrated life, and ad limina visits
The General Secretariat of the Synod on Tuesday released the Final Report of Study Group No. 6 on the review, from a synodal and missionary perspective, of the documents on…
-
Tina Beattie (from her Substack account): The Nativity of the Virgin Mary – A Neglected Tradition
The Nativity of the Virgin MaryA neglected tradition Tina BeattieSep 8Catholic and Orthodox churches celebrate the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (the Theotokos) today, 8th September. Last Sunday, I was…
-
From John Shea to Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity
Dear Cardinals and Members of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, Could it be that Gabriel Daly, O.S.A. in “How can this Man give us his Flesh to eat?” is a prophet…