by soconaill | Mar 8, 2024 | Catechesis, News
Here we have compiled a complete clickable directory to Pope Francis’s ten catchetical reflections for Lent 2024. In each case a short summary has been copied directly from the foot of the full reflection – while clicking the title, or the following URL...
by soconaill | Sep 10, 2023 | Faith Formation, News
Recorded on Thursday, June 1st 2023 Could the image of ‘rewilding’ offer hope to those concerned about adult faith development? In environmental terms rewilding is defined as a process that’s nature-led and human-supported. Would an analogous...
by soconaill | Jun 15, 2023 | Faith Formation, News
“The adult faith to which we are called … is a faith which is owned, which has been worked through.” So insisted Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin, in a recent homily for the feast of St Kevin of Glendalough. Insisting on the need for a...
by soconaill | Oct 7, 2022 | Education, Faith Formation, News, WithSidebar
No one should presume that they can ‘transmit’ their own faith to anyone else! This was the stark and yet encouraging message from Fr Michael Conway in a Zoom presentation to ACI on Thursday October 6th 2022. Emphasising the central importance of the grace...
by soconaill | Sep 16, 2022 | Faith Formation, Family, News
The ‘one big day and that’s it’ approach to First Communion for children is set to end in Ireland’s largest diocese. Instead Dublin archdiocese is to move to a parish-and-family led model of preparation, in which children approaching...
by soconaill | Aug 26, 2022 | Articles, Faith Formation, Featured, WithSidebar
The popular Alpha programme of video introductions to Christianity is itself a reflection of the troubled history of the church. As its designers intended, it provokes questions that need discussion – of where the church has been in the past and where it...
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