The Feast of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple takes place on Sunday, 21st November 2021. This is a Feast that is celebrated with great joy throughout the world, wherever there are Presentation people. The content of this year’s novena has been prepared by Sisters from the Conference of Presentation Sisters* who have put together these inspiring reflections. Together ...
Read More »Tag Archives: Nano Nagle
Speaking of what we have seen & heard
On World Mission Day, which we celebrate each year on the penultimate Sunday of October (this year on 24th October 2021) we recall with gratitude all those men and women who by their testimony of life help us to renew our baptismal commitment to be generous and joyful apostles of the Gospel. ‘We cannot but speak about what we have seen ...
Read More »My Voice, Our Equal Future
The International Day of the Girl Child (11th October 2021) focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls’ empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights. Girls are breaking boundaries and barriers posed by stereotypes and exclusion, including those directed at children with disabilities and those living in marginalized communities. As entrepreneurs, innovators ...
Read More »Building forward together
The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2021 is 17th October. The theme for this year is: “Building Forward Together: Ending Persistent Poverty, Respecting all People and our Planet”. International days and dates have a purpose, in that they can focus our attention and determination to inform ourselves of the reality for our ‘brothers and sisters’ across the globe ...
Read More »The Autumn Equinox
The Autumn Equinox has arrived, that subtle shift in light, in season and in the innate rhythm of Nature – a teacher, pointing towards the beat of our own lives. How can we open to, slow down, listen and respond with a different beat that allows us recognise and harvest the fruits of our lives, while at the same time ...
Read More »The 2022 Sabbatical Programme
The Sabbatical Programme at Mount St. Anne’s is a very particular experience, as the very beautiful and peaceful surroundings form the best backdrop possible to a 4-week programme that aims to provide just the right rhythm and space to reflect, refresh and renew, through a carefully structured programme of daily prayer, liturgy, and ritual built around formal inputs by the ...
Read More »Nano – Ablaze with God
At a time when the role of women in shaping society was severely restricted, [Nano Nagle] lived on the razor’s edge, a woman fearless before a tyrannical world. A woman ‘Ablaze with God’. ‘Nano Nagle, a woman ablaze with God, you daily walked the razor’s edge of life, witnessing to the divine conspiracy of love. Awaken within us the fire ...
Read More »Feast of the Sacred Heart
The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is today, Friday 11th June. Jesus specifically asked St. Margaret Mary Alacoque that “the Friday after the Octave of Corpus Christi be set apart for a special Feast to honour My Heart.” (Apparitions – 1673 & 1675) We know that the day to day ministry and social advocacy of Nano Nagle with ...
Read More »Heart speaks to Heart
June is a special month of particular devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, culminating on the June 11th the feast Day itself. It is a time when we can pray ‘Heart to Heart’, when ‘heart speaks to heart’. As Pope Francis said: “It is not us who first loved God,” it’s the other way around: “it is He who ...
Read More »Reflections for the journey
So we have started our virtual walk with a beautiful send off from Nano Nagle’s Birthplace, Ballygriffin. Thank you to Sr. Lois Greene and all Nano Nagle Birthplace | Facebook On each day of our journey from the 20th – 26th April we will share a Reflection as we undertake this pilgrimage of both gratitude and hope and we ...
Read More »