23rd May ’99: New life in Church

Lay people took the stage again on the first anniversary of last year’s international meeting of ecclesial movements and communities in the Catholic Church with Pope John Paul II in Rome. The local follow -up meeting for people involved in movements and communities present in Ireland was on Sunday 23rd May (Pentecost Sunday) from 2 […]

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Charism and Institution working together

Charism and Institution working together by Brendan Leahy
Names such as Charismatic Renewal, Communion and Liberation, Cursillo, Faith and Light, Focolare, L’Arche, St. Egidio and other names of large and small communities are now becoming part of the Church’s vocabulary in Ireland.  On March 21st last twenty of these movements got together in Clonliffe college to prepare […]

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