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Every vocation is inspired by hope!

Pope Francis has released his message for the 62nd World Day of Prayer for Vocations, which falls this year on May 11, 2025. Entitled “Pilgrims of Hope: The Gift of Life,” the Pope’s message recalls that every vocation—be it to ordained ministry, consecrated life, or the laity—should offer the world a sign of God’s hope for every person. The Holy ...

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To see and care for those overlooked

to care for those discarded

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 ...

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Patrick’s life in our times

As St. Patrick’s Day approaches this year with all the blessings and celebrations that it brings, we give thanks for the life of St. Patrick and the seeds of God’s presence that were sown here in the challenging social and historical landscape of  (c. 385 – c. 461) Ireland. However, Patrick’s life still speaks in our times. Patrick’s life  journey ...

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The Christmas of our lives

The Christmas of our lives

The Christmas of our lives is beginning again and again, in each moment, as we rediscover Jesus with us at each unfolding. Each moment a realisation, a one-off event of welcome and joy to this Divine Presence – God with us always.  Once born amongst us, the seemingly ordinary events take on a resonance and light far beyond ourselves if ...

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Presentation Day Novena 2024

Presentation Day Novena 2024

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 ...

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So I Send You: all synodal missionaries

Pope Francis’ three-year consultation on the future of the Catholic Church concluded on October 26, outlining the challenges and proposing ways for all the baptised to be involved in mapping the path ahead.  Part five of the Final Document “So I Send You”, “allows us to look at the first step to be taken: caring for the formation of all, of ...

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A Synodal Church on Mission

A synodal church on mission

October 2nd 2024, the Feast of the Guardian Angels marked the opening of the Second Plenary Session of the Synod: A Path of Listening.  On this, the second plenary session of the Synod there is a vibrant presence of religious life there, together with the voices of Sisters from around the world marking this significant ‘synodal’ journey in the life ...

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God walks with His people

God walks with his people

Reinforcing the lived reality of these challenging days, Pope Francis,  in his Message for the upcoming World Day of Migrants and Refugees (#WDMR) on Sunday 29th September, he reminds us “all of us, God’s people, are migrants on this earth”  on our way to the ‘true homeland’, the Kingdom of Heaven. Yes, God walks with His people. He speaks about ...

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Part of the plan

Happy International Day for Biological Diversity! Today (22 May 2024), we honour the profound interconnectedness of all life. We are a part of the plan of God for all Creation by virtue of our very existence.  Created out of Love, for Love. “Mary is mother of a love that is beautiful. She taught us, who were united with her, to ...

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Do not cast me off

Do not cast me off

“Do not cast me off in my old age” (cf. Ps 71:9): This sincere plea, taken from Psalm 71, is the theme of the Fourth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, which will take place on 28 July 2024. In his Message for the Fourth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, Pope Francis reassured the addressees that “God never ...

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