It is summer time both inside and outside of us. A time of possibility. An opportunity for the rhythm of our whole being to change. A time to seek for rest. Time maybe to discover and rediscover in these summer days how to rest in God who is indeed our rest, our locus of departure and our point of arrival. ...
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Plant dreams, awaken hope
The extraordinary synodal journey is not one that the Catholic Church is embarking on alone. The recently published Instrumentum Laboris – working document – for the forthcoming October assembly in Rome devotes a whole section to Christian unity and how the Catholic Church can learn from other traditions. Pope Francis has emphasised, the synod is not about producing documents but ...
Read More »We Are All IPA!
During this past week or so (18 to 24 June 2023) to all intents and purposes, our world continued to rotate on its axis and life to evolve and progress with all its wonder, challenges, catastrophes, sufferings, and joys, much as usual! However, with the 8th International Presentation Assembly taking place in St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador during this period ...
Read More »Do not turn your face away
On the 13th June (Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, Patron of the Poor) Pope Francis published his Message for the 7th Annual World Day of the Poor, on Sunday 19th November, 2023. The theme for this year’s Message is: “Do not turn your face away from anyone who is poor” (Tob 4:7) This Message is a reflection on the Book of ...
Read More »A love without measure
The image of a heart has a resonance with everyone – young and old alike. Poetically, and cross-culturally in the contemporary world of today the heart is a symbol of the human centre — our emotions, loves, passions, desires, a source and engine for life-giving actions. The heart has the capacity and potential to open us to care for all ...
Read More »Be the Heart of my heart
Spirituality grounds us and informs our daily experience of acting and reacting in relation to people, circumstances and things. For spirituality pervades the whole of life, affecting all life’s stages of development, and so is to be regarded rather as an inner energy than as a set of formalised practices. Nor can true spirituality be imposed from without. Rather it ...
Read More »Loving our neighbour in a digital world
How do we, as individuals and as an ecclesial community, live in the digital world “loving our neighbour”, genuinely present and attentive to each other on our common journey along the “digital highways”? “Towards Full Presence” is the title of a document released by the Dicastery for Communication that offers a pastoral reflection on people’s engagement in the digital world. ...
Read More »Our Lady of the Way
Today, May 31st 2023, we place the Church’s entire synodal process especially the work of the 16th ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (which will take place in Rome this October) under the protection of Mary, Mother of the Church, mother of all those who are companions and disciples of her son – ‘Our Lady of the Way’. ...
Read More »Let Justice and Peace Flow
On Thursday 25 May ahead of the 2023 celebration of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (on 1 September) Pope Francis chose the theme “Let Justice and Peace Flow,” inspired by the words of the prophet Amos: “Let justice flow on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream.” This Message by Pope Francis is a ...
Read More »Bee and flower rejoice
World Bee Day is celebrated on May 20. On this day Anton Janša, the pioneer of beekeeping, was born in 1734. The purpose of the international day is to acknowledge the role of bees and other pollinators for the ecosystem. The UN Member States approved Slovenia’s proposal to proclaim 20 May as World Bee Day in December 2017. Lessons from nature Bees ...
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