Strokestown Parish

17/09/2026

Catholics across the globe will come together in prayer on October 22 for the Global Rosary for Peace. The worldwide Rosary will be prayed at 10 a.m. ET on the feast of St. John Paul II, bringing Catholics from different nations and cultures together in a shared prayer for peace.

The Global Rosary for Peace is organised by Holy Cross Family Ministries and the Congregation of Holy Cross. The initiative continues the work of Venerable Patrick Peyton, a Holy Cross priest who spent decades promoting family prayer and the Rosary.

More than 65,000 people from over 50 countries joined last year’s live prayer. Organisers are hoping for a much larger response this year. A 63-day prayer journey is also being held ahead of the event, with daily reflections on saints and others who promoted the Rosary and family prayer.

As wars, persecution and political instability continue to affect millions, organisers are inviting Catholics to unite in prayer for peace and for those suffering around the world. The initiative comes as Pope Leo XIV continues to encourage Catholics to pray the Rosary for peace.

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17/09/2026

B’Tselem joins dozens of civil society organizations in Israel in expressing solidarity with NAZA filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. We stand with them in the face of the incitement, threats and attempts to persecute them for their journalistic work and their insistence on documenting and telling the story of what is happening in the Gaza Strip.

The scale and intensity of the current attack on those seeking to investigate, document and expose Israel’s actions in Gaza are intended to intimidate journalists and sources, and to shut down public debate in Israel over the open-fire policy and the responsibility of Israeli policymakers and the top military command for the mass killing of Palestinians as part of the genocide in Gaza. This attack is part of a broader effort to block demands, in Israel and internationally, for accountability for these crimes.

17/09/2026

17/09/2026

Gospel of the Day (Luke 7,36-50)

A Pharisee invited Jesus to dine with him, and he entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table.
Now there was a sinful woman in the city who learned that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee. Bringing an alabaster flask of ointment,
she stood behind him at his feet weeping and began to bathe his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the ointment.
When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner."
Jesus said to him in reply, "Simon, I have something to say to you." "Tell me, teacher," he said.
Two people were in debt to a certain creditor; one owed five hundred days' wages and the other owed fifty.
Since they were unable to repay the debt, he forgave it for both. Which of them will love him more?"
Simon said in reply, "The one, I suppose, whose larger debt was forgiven." He said to him, "You have judged rightly."
Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give me water for my feet, but she has bathed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
You did not give me a kiss, but she has not ceased kissing my feet since the time I entered.
You did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with ointment.
So I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; hence, she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little."
He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."
The others at table said to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
But he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day/2026/09/17.html

17/09/2026

17/09/2026

Good morning