Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today’s gospel is about how we live today. Jesus is telling us that how we live today has consequences for tomorrow, not just for ourselves but for others too. Jesus is asking us, regardless of our income, to face the poverty in ourselves and the world. Lazarus doesn’t just represent poverty in the world, he also represents the rich man’s impoverishment. I suspect that’s one reason why we set gates between the rich and poor. We don’t want to look in the eyes of Lazarus and see ourselves. If we did, if we ever truly saw impoverishment in the world and in ourselves, it would ask something of us. Look at all the ways we set gates between ourselves and others; between rich and poor, the powerful and the powerless. What if we open the gates of compassion and concern for others, generosity and sharing, healing and wholeness, forgiveness and reconciliation, justice and peace, vulnerability and love? What would that take? And what would it mean for your life? Look at your life and world. What are the closed gates in your life today? What gates are separating you from yourself or another? What is impoverishing you today? It might be fear, anger, resentment, jealousy, indifference, guilt, grief, old wounds, loneliness, cynicism, prejudice, or a thousand other things. Our gates are being rattled. Every day our gates are being rattled. Lazarus is knocking, rattling your gate and my gate. Lazarus is knocking.
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Anniversaries This Weekend 28th September 2025
Borris-in-Ossory Mass 11.00 a.m.
Michael and Anastasia Murphy, Kilcoke
Knockaroo Mass 9.30 a.m.
John Comerford
Anniversaries Next Weekend 5th October 2025
Killasmeestia Mass 9.30 a.m.
Jack and Nora Moylan
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October Offering
October Offering Envelopes due back next Sunday 5th October. One of the six collections for the financial upkeep of the Priest
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First Friday
Friday 3rd October is First Friday Morning Mass 9.30 a.m. No Evening Mass.
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Information Evening in Kilkenny
Thursday, 2nd October at 5.30pm in The Set, Langtons, Kilkenny.
Teach Tom, in partnership with the South East Regional Drug & Alcohol Task Force and the DRIVE initiative, are hosting a FREE community event on Drug Intimidation, Violence & Suicide Prevention on This important evening will provide information on the supports available to families & communities affected by drug intimidation, where to turn for confidential advice & how local services can help protect loved ones. All are welcome. To confirm attendance, please email events.teactom@gmail.com
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St. Vincent de Paul
The monthly collection for St Vincent de Paul will be taken up at all Masses next weekend 5th October.
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Eucharistic Ministers next weekend 5th October
Borris-in-Ossory Sunday 11.00 a.m.
Elizabeth Kilmartin,
Sheila Phelan,
Julie Kirwan,
Noreen Hanrahan
Killasmeestia Eucharistic Ministers for October
Frank Wall
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Church Readers next weekend 5th October
Borris-in-Ossory Sunday 11.00 a.m.
Julie Kirwan
Killasmeestia Sunday 9.30 a.m.
Ellen Kilmartin
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Reflections
Encountering Christ:
- Wealth/Duty: In this parable, Jesus does not condemn wealth, per se, but reminds all of us that the wealthy have a serious moral obligation to help the poor. For generations, Catholic social teaching as Pope Leo XIV reminds us, has emphasised this responsibility: ‘Remember the aphorism of the Fathers, ‘Feed the man dying of hunger, because if you have not fed him, you have killed him’ (Gaudium et Spes, no. 69). ‘Love for others, and in the first place love for the poor, in whom the Church sees Christ himself, is made concrete in the promotion of justice’ (Centesimus Annus).
- Warn My Brothers: The rich man cared little for Lazarus, but he apparently loved his five brothers enough to ask that they be warned: ‘lest they too come to this place of torment.’ How many of us go about our day-to-day duties, forgetful of the poor, distracted, worried, or simply refusing to acknowledge the prophets of our time – saints, good priests, holy friends – who remind us daily that Jesus Christ came back from the dead to save us from our sins? epriest.com
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