NEWSLETTER INSERTS FOR THIRTIETH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME
‘By the love of our neighbour we learn how to arrive at the love of God’.
Pope Saint Gregory the Great.
‘Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action.’
St Teresa of Calcutta
‘Love ought to be put more in deeds than in words’.
St Ignatius of Loyola
‘Our pastoral task, therefore, is not simply to hold up the Christian ideal and measure people against it, but to discern the movement of grace already present in their lives, to accompany it patiently, and to help them take the next steps towards the fulness of the Christian vocation’.
Address of Cardinal Grech to National Synodal Assembly, 17th Oct. 2026
‘Ireland possesses an extraordinary missionary inheritance. For generations, Irish women and men carried the Gospel throughout the world. Today, as you already know, Ireland itself is missionary territory. This should not discourage you. On the contrary, it calls Ireland once again to become a missionary Church’.
Address of Cardinal Grech to National Synodal Assembly, 17th Oct. 2026
‘The Church is called to be a voice of love and encouragement, a Mother Church, who recognises the enormous pressures on her families. At the same time, people look to the Church to offer stable stepping stones to help the children and young people of today find solid footholds amidst the many other confusing and complicated pathways offered them by society and the surrounding screen culture’.
Archbishop Eamon Martin
‘Loving God does not lead us away from people but draws us closer to them. His love moves us out of ourselves to connect with others, especially at this time where peace is so needed. May the beautiful words of today’s psalm be in our hearts this week: ‘I love you Lord my strength’. And may we communicate that strength by loving others in his name’.
Fr Billy Swan
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