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Day 1 – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023
Learning to do the right thing Readings Is 1:12-18 Learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan; plead for the widow Lk 10:25-36 He asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbour?” Reflection According to Isaiah, God wants Judah not only to...
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has a history of over 100 years , in which Christians around the world have taken part in an octave of prayer for visible Christian unity. By annually observing the WPCU, from 18 - 25 January, Christians move toward the...
Pope Francis’ Prayer Intentions: January 2023
We pray that educators may be credible witnesses, teaching fraternity rather than confrontation and helping the youngest and most vulnerable above all. Pope Francis – January 2023 I would like to propose that educators add new content to their teaching:...
JPIC Advocacy and the UN Human Rights Mechanisms
An approach adopted by the Justice Desk of the OLA Irish Province The UN, Fratelli Tutti and Edmund Rice International We are reminded by Pope Francis in his encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, that the United Nations provides the best global framework...
Continued Success in HIV Treatment in Bugisi
Image via Gilead Sciences World Aids Day is marked on 1 December each year and falls during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. HIV disproportionately affects women and adolescent girls because of their unequal cultural, social and...
“Make It Your Business” – New Documentary Film Screening
Through our membership of the Africa-Europe Faith and Justice Network (AEFJN Ireland) – chaired by the OLA Justice Desk – the OLA are pleased to present two screenings of Trócaire’s new documentary film, “Make It Your Business”. The screenings – on the 30th November...
Pope Francis Prayer Intentions for 2023
The Pope’s Prayer Intentions for 2023 represent a wide array of challenges facing humanity and are the result of much prayer and discernment. Areas in need of prayer in 2023 will include: educators, non-violence, victims of abuse, World...
RIP Sr Helena O’Connell OLA
Sr Helena O'Connell was called home to God on Saturday 19 November. Sr Helena is deeply regretted by her sisters Kitty, Alice, Tess and Sr. Bernadette O.L.A., her nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews, her...
Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the Sixth World Day of the Poor
13 November 2022, Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time For your sakes Christ became poor (cf. 2 Cor 8:9) 1. “Jesus Christ… for your sakes became poor” (cf. 2 Cor 8:9). With these words, the Apostle Paul addresses the first Christians of Corinth...
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