Our Newsletter and Irish Mass resources for July/August 2025 are available here.  We welcome you to use the following resources in any parish newsletter distributed free of charge.

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 6 July 2025   Henri Amyl, a Swiss philosopher, wrote about the importance of simplicity: ‘All of us are generally bound up with hindrances and duties that wind about us like a spider’s web that restricts our movements. In order to simplify our duties and our lives we must know

The Pope’s Monthly Intention July: For formation in discernment: Let us pray that we might again learn how to discern, to know how to choose paths of life and reject everything that leads us away from Christ and the Gospel. August: For mutual coexistence: Let us pray that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time  6 July 2025    One of the reasons we prefer to delegate our Lord’s evangelistic work to priests, religious and missionaries is that we fear rejection. When by our words and lifestyles we tell others about Jesus, we sometimes find ourselves labeled as ‘religious fanatics,’ ‘Bible-thumpers,’ or perhaps, simply as

Máirtín Mac Conmara MSC Blackrock, Dublin     6 Iúil 2025 Ceathrú Domhnach Déag Saor   Is mór an chabhair agus an inspioráid chun gnimh do náisiún nó don duine aonar fís faoin ré atá thart nó fós le teacht. Chum impearachtai de aoiseanna i bhfad ó shoin, nó níos gaire dár linn féin, sean-stair

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 6 July 2025   Reflection Jesus is preparing his disciples for mission. He leaves them in no doubt about the challenges, obstacles and dangers which will await them. They will succeed, however, because the power of God is working with them. Accordingly, ‘the seventy return with joy’. Do I experience

Entrance Antiphon (Cf. Psalm 138:9-10) If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, your right hand hold me fast. Collect Almighty God, who filled the heart of Saint Columba with the joy of the Holy Spirit and with deep

Our Newsletter and Irish Mass resources for June 2025 are available here. We welcome you to use the following resources in any parish newsletter distributed free of charge.

                                            The Ascension of the Lord 1 June 2025 • World Communications Day   Ascension No matter what suffering there is in the world and in our lives there is also beauty. We cannot