Seeing your Life through the Lens of the Gospel   John Byrne osa Email [email protected]   Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 7 November 2021 • Prisioners’ Sunday   1.  The scribes are presented as ostentatious and devious, acting more out of self-interest than the love of God or people. There can be a element of

Leathanach don Cheiliuraí Proinsias Ó Cuanaigh Dún Dealgan   Sollúntas na Naomh Uile 01/11/2021 Fáilte Fáilte romhaibh, a Chlann Dé, chuig Sollúntas na Naomh Uile.      Ceiliúraimid inniu na daoine beannaithe go léir atá imithe uainn ar Shlí na Fírinne agus atá anois i dteannta Íosa Críost i Ríocht na Glóire. Tá an chinniúint chéanna

The Scriptures teach that God creates and recreates, renews and makes new out of the same spirit of love that originally brought us into being. We see this renewing power at work as seasons change. The leaves fall, darkness gathers, and the earth grows cold until in springtime we see that what appeared to die

Prayers and Reflections for October Blessing For a Mother-to-be You know your life has changed for ever, For in all the days and years to come, Distance will never be able to cut you off From the one you now carry For nine months under your heart May you be blessed with quiet confidence That

This page can be reproduced in parish newsletters, or circulated for parish use. Please include the name of the writer and reference to this issue of Intercom. *Download link at the bottom of the page.* Lectio Divina Peace to this house (Luke 10:5) Lectio: What the Word says in itself… Jesus instructs the disciples in

Seeing your Life through the Lens of the Gospel   John Byrne osa Email [email protected]   Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 3 October 2021 • Day for Life   1.  Marriages do break down, but in this story Jesus appears as the wise person urging people to seek first the original harmony where possible, rather

Leathanach don Cheiliúraí Fr Donncha O hAodha, Dalkey, Co Dublin An Seachtú Domhnach Fichead Saor. Bliain B • 3 Deireadh Fómhair Réamhrá I véarsa an Alleluia inniu, iarrann muid ar an Tiarna, i bhfocail N. Póil, ‘go n-osclaí sé súile ár n-aigne chun go dtuigfimis cad é mar údar dóchais dúinn ár ngairm ag Dia’

Love Without Measure   St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) preached ‘the measure of love is love without measure’. The mission of the church as taught by St Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) is to love, and while it is a mission given to each one of us by virtue of Baptism the mission is radically fulfilled through

Prayers and Reflections for September World Day of Prayer for the care of Creation 1 September A Prayer for our Earth All powerful God, you are present in the universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that

Lectio Divina ‘I Am The Bread of Life’ (John 6:35) Lectio: What the word says in itself … We meet Jesus as the Bread of Life. He feeds the hungry. He shows the disciples that there is no scarcity to God’s abundance – represented in a nameless boy who has five loaves and two fish.