Balally Parish

Father Dermot states that the system of Direct Provision, in Ireland, is shameful. Thankfully there has been a commitment given to correct this situation by 2023. Everyone we come across is our neighbour, including all persons that have come to the country we call our own.

May we hear the words of Jesus Christ anew, today “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets also.”

 

Readings and Homily: 24th October 2020

Father John Delany tells us a wee bit about himself. He also explains that a person who lives according to a multitude of prescribed rules, for the sake of the rules, themselves, is in danger losing touch with the purpose and the meaning of the rules.

Father John finishes with a prayer for our times.

Bear with one another in complete charity. Become aware of the good way of life, how life should be lived, for you are all members of the one body, one spirit, and you are never truly alone.

Father Dermot identifies our current, need to ‘go out’ and meet people. The Church’s mission is to bring all people to Jesus Christ. Currently, the world is seeing a very unique desire for solidarity in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. However, will this desire be realised? The world is at a crossroads; will we return to the ‘old’ normal or will we, with the help of God, construct a ‘new world order’? Pope Francis calls for a new, more just, world order. Will we listen to his call? Will we help from a safe ‘distance’ or will we bring all hearts together, in Jesus?

 

 

Father Paul Ludden encourages us all to help bring about God’s Kingdom on earth through leading people to Jesus Christ, with the help of the Holy Spirit.

 

“Do not be afraid; you are worth much more than many sparrows”. Jesus tells us there is nothing to fear if we trust in God and live by His words.

 

Father Dermot takes us through Pope Francis’ new encyclical ‘Fratelli Tutti’; human solidarity and human respect. He also remembers the Carrickmines Fire tradgedy, which occured five years ago and poses the question; has anything really changed for the Traveller community?

 

Father Padraig reads the Word of God and offers and prayers to Him: 9th October 2020.

Jesus chided the Apostles who wanted to know who were the greatest in Heaven, by selecting a little child and telling them they must be childlike, not personally ambitious but servants to others. Pope Francis regularly condemns “careerism” among senior clergy and stresses that service must be the key characteristic of their lives.

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