C&SI - Catching up with Bishop Brendan Leahy - 19 Oct 2025 (S05E45)

On the weeks podcast the C&SI team are joined by Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick diocese for a catch up on Jubilee year, the recent Diocesan Assembly and the upcoming Parish Consultation Meetings across all the parishes of the diocese. 

World Mission Sunday is the Holy Father’s annual appeal for spiritual and financial support so that the life-giving work of overseas mission and missionaries can continue. It always falls on the second last Sunday in October, meaning this year it will be celebrated over the weekend of Sunday 19th October. The theme for this year’s celebration of Mission Sunday is: “Missionaries of Hope Among All Peoples”.

• Popes annual message for Mission Sunday
• Pope Leo's appeal for Mission Sunday

We have our regular run through various liturgical odds and ends for the coming week including saints of the week.

In part three we have our reflection on the Sunday gospel which is from Luke 18:1-8 where Jesus is teaching us his disciples a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart.

Catch up with Bishop Brendan Leahy

John has a chat with Bishop Brendan this week where Bishop Brendan shares with us some thoughts on how the Jubilee Year is going both across the diocese but also various pilgrimages to Rome. He briefs us on the Diocesan Assembly which was held on 4th October.

Bishop Brendan also shares with us the plan to hold consultation meetings across the parishes of the diocese over the next number of weeks. Ten years after the diocesan Synod in 2016, post-covid our diocesan future looks very different and having looked at the facts and figures in the diocesan report in 2023 and again in 2025 the consultation is looking for peoples inputs to plans as to where parishes will be in 5 or 10 years time.