lent 2022

Listen to Pastor Jason's Easter sermon, "The Easter Doorway."

Listen to Pastor Jason's Palm Sunday sermon called "The Victory Windows."

Easter is the high point of the Christian liturgical year and as we enter into Holy Week and begin the final preparations for Easter, John and Shane reflect on the days of Holy Week with brief reflections, music and some suggestions for devotions and prayers to help listeners enter more deeply into the days to come.

As Holy Week takes precedence there is saints for the week on this weeks podcast.

As this Sunday is Palm Sunday, we reflect on the gospel of the procession of the palms listening to Luke's account of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on the back of a colt - challenging then (and now) the understanding of leadership and kingship and asking ourselves the question - would we have been in the cheering crowd on Sunday and the jeering mob on Friday?

 

Easter is the high point of the Christian liturgical year and as we enter into Holy Week and begin the final preparations for Easter, John and Shane reflect on the days of Holy Week with brief reflections, music and some suggestions for devotions and prayers to help listeners enter more deeply into the days to come.

Pastoral Resident Andrea Huffman continues our Lenten series this week with her sermon, "The Windows of Influence and Incarnation."

Pope Francis has called for prayer and fasting during Lent seeking peace for Ukraine in these troubled times.  On this weeks podcast we share with you the Liturgy for Peace which was recorded on 27th March from St John's Cathedral in Limerick. A Liturgy of Peace took place in solidarity with people suffering in Ukraine and Russia. Led by Bishop Brendan Leahy, Sr Phyllis Moynihan, and the pastoral outreach team, join them in praying the Stations of the Cross.

On the podcast we also have our regular run through the liturgical odds and end for the coming week including the saints of the week. We also have our reflection on the Sunday gospel which this week is John's account of the Woman taken in Adultery (John 8:1-11). 

Pastoral Resident Emmitt Drumgoole continues our Lenten sermon series with his message, "The Scapegoat Windows."

Pastor Jason continues our Lenten sermon series with his message, "The Passover Window."

Pastor Jason continues our Lenten sermon series with his message, “The Recapitulation and Theosis Windows.”

Trócaire is the Irish language word for “compassion”. For almost 50 years Trócaire has put the compassion of Irish people into action. Trócaire is an agency of the Irish Catholic Church. They are the Irish member of the Caritas Internationalis federation.

On this weeks programme, Colm Hogan from Trocaire joins us to talk about the 2022 Lenten Appeal.

This Lent, Trócaire’s Appeal highlights the impact that climate change and Covid-19 has on people’s lives in Zimbabwe and how the love and generosity of the public can give families a chance to build a better tomorrow.

From Southern Zimbabwe, we hear this year the story of Thandekile and her two children -her daughter Nomatter who is 11, and her son Forward who is 8 and who are featured on the Trocaire box this year.

Last year, the generosity of the Irish public helped Trocaire to support 2.7 million people in 20 countries.

Resources and information on the 2022 appeal are available HERE including resources for home, schools and parishes. 

On this weeks podcast Colm Hogan from Trocáire joins us to speak about the 2022 Lenten Appeal.

We have our regular liturgical odds and ends including saints of the week and of course our reflections on the Sunday gospel which this week is Luke's account of the Transfiguration.

Trocaire Lenten Appeal 2022
Trócaire is the Irish language word for “compassion”. For almost 50 years Trócaire has put the compassion of Irish people into action. Trócaire is an agency of the Irish Catholic Church. They are the Irish member of the Caritas Internationalis federation.

This Lent, Trócaire’s Appeal highlights the impact that climate change and Covid-19 has on people’s lives in Zimbabwe and how the love and generosity of the public can give families a chance to build a better tomorrow.

From Southern Zimbabwe, we hear this year the story of Thandekile and her two children -her daughter Nomatter who is 11, and her son Forward who is 8 and who are featured on the Trocaire box this year.
 
Last year, the generosity of the Irish public helped Trocaire to support 2.7 million people in 20 countries. 

Resources and information on the 2022 appeal are available HERE including resources for home, schools and parishes. 

Listen to the first sermon in our Lenten series, "The House of Atonement: Exploring the Meaning of the Crucifixion." Yesterday, Pastor Jason introduced the series and taught about the atonement theory of substitution.

On this weeks podcast we are joined by Fr Frank Duhig (PP, Newcastle West) to reflect on the beginning of our Lenten journey for this year. In addition we go through some resources for Lent for people to consider as we take up this opportunity for a spiritual "operation transformation" to allow us to take our spiritual life in hand and get it back in shape.  We have our regular reflection on the Sunday gospel (Luke 4:1-13) and of course a brief run through the liturgical odds & ends.

Resources for Lent

1. Diocese of Limerick - "Live, Love, Lent" campaign
The diocesan pastoral outreach team (Fr Chris, Aoife, Rose, Dermot, Michael along with Sr Betty, Sr Phyllis and Sharon) have put together a programme to support you throughout Lent, this includes daily thoughts, images, reflections and prayers with a different theme each week.  These are posted daily on the Diocesan Facebook page; you do not need to have a Facebook account to access these resources.  The Facebook page is set up so that it is accessible to people who are not on Facebook; you can access the Facebook page on this link: https://www.facebook.com/dioceseoflimerick.  Be sure to check in every day.  There will be an introductory video at the start of each week explaining the theme, each day at 7am there will be an image with prayers, food for thought and/or ideas for action.  Fr Chris will then host a review of the week each Sunday evening at 8:30pm live on Facebook where we can chat and share our experiences and learning.  Fr Chris explains everything in this video if you would like to know more: https://fb.watch/bwt2KoKwbU/

2. Diocese of Limerick - Enviro-Lenten Films
Aoife and Betty are showing 3 films in the Diocesan Centre on 3 Saturday evenings, starting this Saturday 5th March evening at 7pm.  You will need to register for these films so that numbers can be managed. You can register at this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Enviro-LentenFilms

If you want to get sense of the films here are links to their trailers:

·       Here is a trailer for the ‘The Human Element’; https://youtu.be/k34FhplukXQ

·       Here is a trailer for ‘My Octopus Teacher’: https://youtu.be/3s0LTDhqe5A

·       Here is a trailer for ‘Living the Change’: https://youtu.be/x3d3rl6id_c

3. Knock Shrine - Stations of the Cross

4. C&SI - Stations of the Cross

3. Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Texas resource page

4. IgnatianSpirituality.com - Lent resources

5. Irish Bishops Conference

Liturgical odds & ends
March 7th - Ss Perpetua & Felicity
March 8th - St Senan (also St John of God)
March 9th - St Frances of Rome
March 10th - St Marcarius of Jerusalem 
March 11th - St Aengus
March 12th - Bl Beatrix of Engelport