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Ordinary Time in the Catholic Church
The season of Ordinary Time is a period of the liturgical year that follows the Christmas season, beginning directly after the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, and lasts until Ash Wednesday. It begins again on the Monday after Pentecost and ends on the...
Day 8 – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023
The justice that restores communion Readings Ps 82:1-4 Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute Lk 18:1-8 Will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Reflection The Book of Psalms...
Day 7 – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023
What is now does not have to be Readings Job 5:11-16 So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth Lk 1:46-55 He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly Reflection Job was living the good life and unexpectedly suffered...
Concerns/Recommendations Submitted to the Committee for the Rights of the Child
On 15 October 2022, the Justice Desk of the Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles, Irish Province, made a joint submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The submission outlined concerns and recommendations across five areas of concern: Human...
Day 6 – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023
Just as you did it to one of the least of these... you did it to me Readings Ezek 34:15-20 I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak. Mt 25:31-40 I tell you, just as you did it to one...
Day 5 – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023
Singing the Lord’s song as strangers in the land Readings Ps 137:1-4 For there our captors asked us for songs, and our tormentors asked us for mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” Lk 23:27-31 Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep...
Day 4 – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023
Look, the tears of the oppressed Readings Eccles 4:1-5 Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed – with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power with no one to comfort them....
Day 3 – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023
Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly Readings Mic 6: 6 – 8 And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Mk 10: 17-31 Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Reflection We – not me....
Day 2 – Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2023
When justice is done... Readings Prov 21:13-15 When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but dismay to evildoers Mt 23:23-25 Justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done Reflection From the beginning the Book of Proverbs sets out...
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