“Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there”
For several decades many in the We Are Church movement have met regularly to celebrate the Eucharist together in our homes and at other gatherings. The arrival of the Covid pandemic led to a switch early in 2020 to holding these Eucharists online using ZOOM.
Soline Humbert wrote about this in Search (a Church of Ireland Journal, Spring 2021 (44.1):
Celebrating ZOOM Eucharists has brought We Are Church closer together as a movement.
We have gathered here some of the texts we have used for these Eucharists which we hope may encourage others to organise a house Eucharist or ZOOM Eucharist with a group of friends.
Colm Holmes
Chair,
We Are Church International
We would like to share with you in this celebration some insights from two wonderful gatherings we attended over the summer. The seminar organised by the Coordination of
Italian Women Theologians on Lake Garda centred on the theme: Guarding the Thresholds, and drew on this passage from Isaiah.
Our second point of inspiration comes from an ecumenical training week we attended between July and August at the picturesque Benedictine monastery of Camaldoli, nestled in a beautiful forest in Tuscany. The theme of the week was: Churches in a Secularised World: An Ecumenical Perspective.
"You [We] can now find the most ardent Christians lined up in the
most ridiculous, regressive, irrational parades. If they were concerned only with flying saucers and conversations with the departed, it would not be so bad, but they are also deeply involved
in racism, in quasi-Fascist nationalism, in every shade of fanatical hate cult, and in every semi-lunatic pressure group."
Thomas Merton, The Nonviolent Alternative
9 May 2026
11 April 2026
Fraternity/sorority is not primarily an ethic to be implemented, but rather a reflection of our relationship with God. It leads us to dare the impossible in trust. The relationship between human beings has the same sacred character as the relationship between God and human beings and is founded on agape love: whatever we do for others, we do for God. Fraternity, when lived, is capable of establishing a culture of encounter where each person respects the other for who they are.
English French German Spanish Shared Reflection The story of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus presents elements that can help s grow in the synodal life in the Church. The two were walking together, just as Jesus told those whom he sent to preach the Kingdom, walk together two by two. However, these disciples were walking away from Jerusalem, the community of the apostles, because they had lost hope: “we were hoping that he (Jesus) would be the one to redeem Israel.” Then Jesus walked with them, explained the Scriptures to them and broke bread with them. And they recognised Jesus.
Listening to the Word opened their minds, the breaking of the bread restored their hope!
The celebration of Jesus’s baptism gives us the opportunity to reflect and place in a modern perspective our own baptisms. Most of us, perhaps nearly all of us, were baptised a few days after our birth and our confirmations could have taken place at an early age.
What is the meaning today of our own baptism?
How should we define our membership of the community of believers and followers of Jesus, in the Roman Catholic Church?
What are our commitments? Looking back, we can also reflect on what we have received in the Church, what we have contributed and where we are now.
13th December 2025
In today’s Eucharist we focus on the theme ‘Intimacy with Innocence.’ Perhaps the expression could be provocative as both these words ‘Intimacy’ and ‘Innocence’ are loaded with connotations. In today’s world where those with cunning minds have the upper hand, ‘innocence’ does not have much market value. It is looked down as a state of being naïve, as a quality that marks those who are not sharp enough to sense
manipulation, which in turn makes them susceptible to exploitation.
4 October 2025
Holy One, you are present in the whole universe
and in the smallest of your creatures.
You embrace with your tenderness all that
exists.
You are with us this day and each day.
You are among us now,
we welcome you.
A distinction has to be made between the Mary of the gospels and Mary of the fictional stories that have been created about her in devotional tradition. She needs to be liberated from the images into which she has been formed. Following Mary as she is often depicted by tradition may deter rather than challenge the radical living out of the gospel. The lack of historical evidence in the Gospels has left the imagination of Christian devotion entirely unrestrained by information. During the Liturgy we will reflect on Mary based on her Magnificat.
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When we look at our planet today, we see that it is
seriously endangered in many ways by us humans: through our exploitation of the
earth, through wars and famines, through the way we treat each other, through
our economic activities, but also through the behaviour of people in positions
of power and leadership, who often cannot resist the temptation to abuse their
authority.
While we are keenly aware of this, we should not
overlook the fact that, fortunately, countless people dedicate their lives to
doing good, showing solidarity with the disadvantaged and promoting
life-affirming actions.
In order to find
sustainable paths for the future, we need leaders who are truly committed to
the good of the community and who serve it. Let us reflect on this today.
The various conflicts, and ecological crisis across the world have created refugees both internal and external all over the world. On Sept. 10th 2021 a puppet of a little Syrian girl “Amal” arrived in Rome, as part of a more than 8,000 kms ‘walk’ from Gaziantep, near the Turkish-Syrian border, to Manchester, England to highlight the plight of millions of refugees and migrants around the world. How does the issue of migrants and refugees concern us Catholics?
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