While at dinner, Jesus ignored the Sabbath curfew and cured a man from dropsy, which scandalised some...

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Love will eventually win out

Tony Flannery continues his speaking tour in the U.S.A.
Margery Eagan, spirituality columnist with www.cruxnow.com, reports on the tour. Margery is a long-time writer and commentator on current affairs, politics, women’s issues, and Catholicism. She co-hosts “Boston Public Radio” with Jim Braude on 89.7 WGBH in Boston.

How narrow is that door that leads to life?

First Reading: Ephesians 2:19-22

(God has appointed apostles so that his people’s needs will be served.)

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, … Read the rest

Above all, to be a healer

There’s a reminder of the two great commandments in today’s celebration: we are called to love God and our neighbour: friend, visitor and stranger alike.

On October 1st 2014, The Irish Catholic Bishops Conference launched The Cry of the Earth: A Pastoral Reflection on Climate Change. It was meant to be a call to action, but In truth there has not been much discussion of the document. Sean McDonagh stresses that we need to be more urgent in our response to Climate Change.

First Reading: Exodus 22:10-16

Part of the Sinai commandments is the fairness they should show each other in practical matters

When someone delivers to another a donkey, ox, sheep, or any other animal for safekeeping, and it dies or is … Read the rest