Tag Archives: Nano Nagle

Devotion to the Sacred Heart was popular in Nano’s day (18th Century Ireland).  It was central to her spirituality. “Nano Nagle contemplated in stillness, the fact that in Jesus the Word had become flesh and embraced our human condition.  He was vulnerable, wounded, rejected, and paid the ultimate price for self-donating love.  Once Nano was awakened to this mystery of ...

Sunday 11th May 2025 marks the 62nd anniversary of the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. Join us with your prayers. In his letter  ‘Pilgrims of Hope: The Gift of Life’ (released by Pope Francis from Rome, Policlinico A. Gemelli, 19 March 2025) Pope Francis shares some special signposts for those discerning the plan of God for them, and for ...

Nano Nagle was a prophet of love. Her dying words were: “Love one another as you have hitherto done”. Nano Nagle died on Monday 26 April 1784 aged 65 years. Her vision is still relevant Nano Nagle is not a figure confined to the past but someone whose vision is as relevant today as it was in her own time.  ...

St. Joseph teaches us to see and care for the those people overlooked by the world.  Jesus went in search of sinners, the suffering, the hungry, and the poor, while he walked the earth, and he continues to go to the “peripheries” in our lives.  God knows the peripheries of our heart, the peripheries of our soul, the peripheries of our ...

The early annals of the Presentation Congregation record that the Feast of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple was the date chosen by Nano in 1782, to receive two young women into the novitiate. Nano’s choice of this day for this ceremony, indicates that this Feast had a special place in her spirituality. Following Nano’s death, her fledging Congregation continued to ...

You are warmly invited to participate in our Justice/ Friends of Nano Conference 2024. The theme this year is “Hope in hard times … open to non-violent resistance …”.  Date:  Saturday 12th October 2024 Location:  Mount St. Anne’s Retreat & Conference Centre, Killenard, Portarlington, Co. Laois. Time: 10.30 am to 4.00 pm To find out further information and to book ...

Venerable Nano Nagle, founder of the Presentation Congregation died on the 26th April 1784. In her book Nano Nagle: Woman of the Gospel Sr. Pius O’Farrell includes a eulogy to Nano, attributed to Sr. Ursula Kavanagh: “What will become of the innocent orphans, hundreds of whom she drew from vice and ignorance? What will be come of the sick, naked ...

Today, 23rd April is a very special day, in a very special week that will culminate in celebration, prayer and thanksgiving for the life and charism of Venerable Nano Nagle, on her death anniversary on Friday 26th April. It is fitting that we also have a special coming together of Presentation people from Presentation schools in Australia and Ireland, to ...

It’s International Women’s Day 2024, and as the many messages and posts relating to this day arrive from friends and colleagues, and through social media, let’s stop to make some space to ask ourselves: What does this mean?  What thoughts and inspirations does this day invoke? What does this day call you to do? To give thanks for those precious ...

“ … true social justice is impossible if the human person is not the centre of concern.  God asks us believers to be God’s people, not ‘God’s elite.’” (Pope Francis – Dec 2020). Today is not a comfortable day! There is  no options to ‘opt out’! Today,  is UN World Day of Social Justice (20th February 2024).  As Presentation people ...