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Anniversaries
Dermot O’Sullivan, Sean O’Farrell.
The Year of St. Joseph and Quote of the Week
St. Teresa of Avila had great devotion to St. Joseph. Teresa was responsible for great reform in the Carmelite Order and she would pray to him for guidance. At the beginning of her book ‘The Way of Perfection’ she opens…
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Feast Days during the week

Tuesday, 13th April, Pope Martin I, also known as Martin the Confessor, was the bishop of Rome from 21 July 649 to his death. He was Pope Theodore I’s ambassador to Constantinople succeeded him as pope. He was the only…
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Bible Corner

Today’s Gospel sees Jesus appear in the presence of the disciples in the closed upper room. This is the first appearance to them since the night of his arrest. He comes with peace — Peace be with you he says…
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Fratelli tutti
We began Chapter 4 last week. We look at the first of the sub-sections in that chapter today: ‘Borders and their Limits’. In this sub-section, Pope Francis acknowledges that the ideal situation would be that “unnecessary migration ought to be…
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The Year of the Family
Year of the “Amoris Laetitia” Family finishes on 26th June 2022. Between now and then we have been given objectives to work on. One of them is to explore the content of ‘Amoris Laetitia’. At the moment we are exploring…
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Easter Message from Bishop William Crean Bishop of Cloyne
“Let not your hearts be troubled” My dear friends, The Pandemic has really rattled us all over this past year and we are not “out of the woods” yet. More patience and resilience is being asked of us. It is…
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Anniversaries
David Hogan, Seán Fitzgerald, Jack O’Keeffe, Bobby & Bina Hayes, Jerry Horgan, Louis Doyle, Annette Madden.
Fratelli tutti
Chapter 4 entitled “A Heart Open to the Whole World” contains nn.128 to 153 and is divided into three sections. The first is ‘Borders and their Limits ’which has four paragraphs. The second is ‘Reciprocal Gifts’ which has nine paragraphs…
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Bible Corner and Quote for the Week

Last week I took a quote from the Passion Gospel for Good Friday. This week I am taking a quote from the Gospel of the Easter Vigil. Mark’s account of the first Easter morning and doubling it as reflection for…
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