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It features an image of Pope Francis in front of the Irish flag. Another emoji will feature the Pope in front of Knock Shrine.
Pope Francis “has huge energy at 81; he won’t spare himself a moment. He has chosen Dublin to host the World Meeting because he knows like St Clare’s family, no family is perfect.”
Allianz Insurance is the headline sponsor for the World Meeting of Families, but other companies and corporations in Ireland and the US have made donations towards the €21m cost of the Pope's visit to Ireland.
The survey of 875 adults took place at 64 locations across the country, between 23rd July and 6th August.
Bishop says priest had no knowledge that Bartholomew Prendergast was abusing children.
Famous singer speaks of forgiveness during a dark period in his life.
St Maximilian Kolbe was a Franciscan friar who volunteered himself to take the place of a man who pleaded to be spared in a death cell in Auschwitz. He was also a missionary, an evangeliser and publicist of note. Patrick Duffy tells his story.
In July 1941 a man from Kolbe’s barracks vanished, prompting the deputy camp commander to pick 10 men from the same barracks to be starved to death in a cell in Block 13 (notorious for torture), in order to deter further escape attempts. (The man who had disappeared was later found drowned in the camp latrine.) One of the selected men, Franciszek Gajowniczek, cried out, saying he had a family, Kolbe moved by his pleas,volunteered to take his place.
"A saint without relics!"
At his canonisation Maximilian Kolbe was proclaimed a martyr, which strictly speaking is not correct, since he was not put to death in odium fidei ("out of hatred of the faith"). He is one of ten 20th-century martyrs from across the world whose statues stand above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey, London. After his canonization in 1982 St. Maximilian Kolbe’s feast day was included on 14th August in the General Roman Calendar used of the Roman rite of the Catholic Liturgy (ordinary form).
I, Ezekiel, heard a voice speaking. It said, 'You, son of man, listen to the words I say; do not be a rebel like that rebellious set. Open your mouth and eat what I am about to give you.' I looked. A hand was there, stretching out to me and holding a scroll. He unrolled it in front of me; it was written on back and front; on it was written 'lamentations, wailings, moanings'. He said, 'Son of man, eat what is given to you; eat this scroll, then go and speakto the House of Israel'. I opened my mouth; he gave me the scroll to eat and said, 'Son of man, feed and be satisfied by the scroll I am giving you'. I ate it, and it tasted sweet as honey.
The disciples came to Jesus and said, 'Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?' So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, 'I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.Cuala mise Ezícéal, guth ag caint. Dúirt sé: “Ach tusa, a mhic an duine, éist lena ndeirim leat; ná bí ceannairceach mar an dream ceannairceach úd; oscail do bhéal agus caith siar a dtugaim duit.” Agus ar dhearcadh uaim, féach, bhí lámh ansin ag síneadh i mo threo agus scrolla inti. D’oscail sé é os mo chomhair agus bhí scríbhneoireacht ann ar thosach agus ar chúl, agus is é bhí [scríofa] air “caointe agus tuirimh agus marbhnaí”.Tháinig na deisceabail san am sin ag triall ar Íosa chun a rá: “Cé hé mar sin an té is mó i ríocht na bhflaitheas?” Ghlaoigh sé leanbh chuige, chuir ina sheasamh ina lár é agus dúirt: “Deirim libh go fírinneach, mura gcasa sibh arís chun bheith ar nós na leanaí, ní rachaidh sibh isteach i ríocht na bhflaitheas choíche. Mar sin, duine ar bith a dhéanfaidh é féin uiríseal ar nós an linbh seo, beidh sé sin ar an té is mo i ríocht na bhflaitheas. Agus cibé duine a ghlacfaidh a leithéid seo de leanbh ar son m’ainm, glacann sé mise. Ach
Be very careful about the sort of lives you lead, like intelligent and not like senseless people. This may be a wicked age, but your lives should redeem it. And do not be thoughtless but recognise what is the will of the Lord. Do not drug yourselves with wine, this is simply dissipation; be filled with the Spirit. Sing the words and tunes of the psalms and hymns when you are together, and go on singing and chanting to the Lord in your hearts, so that always and everywhere you are giving thanks to God who is our Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
CÉAD LÉACHT
Sliocht as Leabhar tSeanfhocail 9:1-6
Téanaigí, ithigí mo chuid aráin, agus ólaigí an fíon atá ullamh agam.
I. Beannóidh mé an Tiarna gach uile thráth,
beidh a mholadh ar mo bhéal de shíor.
Déanann m'anam mórtas as an Tiarna:
cluineadh lucht na huirísle is déanaidls lúcháir. Freagra
2. A mhuintir naofa an Tiarna, gabhadh a eagla sibh.
Bíonn easpa agus ocras ar leoin óga,
ach ní bhíonn easpa ar lucht iarrtha an Tiarna. Freagra
3. Teanaigí, a chlann ó, éistigí liom,
go múinfidh mé daoibh eagla an Tiarna.
Cé hé an duine a shantaíonn an bheatha
agus fad saoil faoi shéan agus shonas? Freagra
4. Coinnigh do theanga ón olc,
agus do bhéal ó bhriathra bréagacha.
Seachain an t-ole agus déan an mhaith;
bí ar lorg na síochána agus lean di. Freagra
DARA LÉACHTDúirt Íosa leo:
“Amen, Amen, a deirim libh
mura n-íosfaidh sibh feoil Mhac an Duine,
agus a chuid fola a ól,
ní bheidh beatha agaibh ionaibh.
An té a itheann m’fheoil
agus a olann m’fhuil,
tá an bheatha shíoraí aige,
agus tógfaidh mé suas é an lá deireanach.
Is bia go fíor mo chuid feola
agus is deoch go fíor mo chuid fola.
An té a itheann m’fheoil agus a ólann m’fhuil
cónaíonn sé ionamsa agus cónaímse ann.
Amhail mar a chuir an tAthair beo mise uaidh,
agus mar is beo mise tríd an Athair,
mar an gcéanna, an té a itheann mise,
mairfidh sé tríom.
Is é seo an t-arán a tháinig anuas ó neamh.
Ní ionann is an manna ar ith bhur n-aithreacha é
agus go bhfuil siad marbh;
an té a itheann an t-arán seo,
mairfidh sé go deo.”
