Eucharist: Divine Presence or Divine Feeding?
Aidan Hart calls for more attention to church teaching on the Eucharist as both food for the journey and the assurance of God’s presence within us as Tabernacles of the Lord. One of the issues that has struck me powerfully during the current lockdown of Catholic...
Still Undiscussable – the Ryan Report – May 20th, 2009
1. Physical and emotional abuse and neglect were features of the institutions. Sexual abuse occurred in many of them, particularly boys’ institutions. Schools were run in a severe, regimented manner that imposed unreasonable and oppressive discipline on children and...
Lockdown Discoveries: What ‘Vocation’ Really Means
Are most of us without a ‘vocation’ to ‘the Christian life’? Thomas O’Loughlin protests this understanding of ‘Vocations Sunday’, as revealed by the global Covid-19 Crisis of 2020, and calls for a different way of...
“You Crossed the Seven Seas …”
“You have left your home and family and crossed the seven seas, you came from the other side of the world, from a rich country. You have taken the pains to learn our language. You come here to visit us again and again. You worked with us in the fields and shared our...
A Normal Church?
The BBC TV series Normal People, based on an Irish novel, argues for a ‘new normal’ in romantic relationships very different from the above – reflective of an idealised Catholic past. Does the ongoing coronavirus crisis herald a ‘new normal’ for the...ACI – Latest News
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In December 2019 we were waiting patiently for a response from the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference - to ACI's Report on lay Involvement in Parishes, in light of the vocational call to all of the baptised at Vatican II.
We had no idea of what would be hitting the whole world when this new 'Look' would launch. Or that intense prayer would be needed right now - to maintain serenity as family life is disrupted, and 'home schooling' may well be ongoing - and very close and dear loved ones may be in danger of leaving us without a proper 'goodbye'.
Conscious that all Minds and Hearts -across this whole planet, our only Home - will now be joined in the deepest prayer for those endangered, and for their rescuers - we await in confidence the Lord who crosses the deep to save us all - to lead us to the very different World - and different Church - that awaits.
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