Tag Archives: Spirituality

The following is a brief extract from a reflection written by Fr. Yannick Essengue, SJ called ‘Hear Creation’s Cry’ as part of the Laudato Si’ Movement’s monthly prayer guide for May 2024.  You can read the full reflection at this link HERE Also included below are some beautiful and inspiring questions for reflection. All these days, we walk with the ...

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 ...

What do we know of Patrick – slave, shepherd, sinner and saint?  What do we know of any person but especially of someone whose life is wrapped up in myth and legend as well as in reality?  Someone perhaps, whose ‘brand’ is bigger than could ever have been imagined. The richest source of what we know about St. Patrick and ...

Thanksgiving is on Thursday, November 23, 2023.  Thanksgiving has been celebrated independently by colonies and states for more than 200 years.  However, in 1941, Thanksgiving was established as a federal holiday held on the fourth Thursday of November.  The first Thanksgiving celebration is believed to have occurred in 1621. The story, historically told from the pilgrim’s perspective, is that Plymouth colonists from ...

As this phase of the Synod on the future of the Church comes to a close on Sunday, 29th October, and the delegates prepare to return home, Father Timothy Radcliffe, OP, offered the following spiritual reflection on Tuesday 24th October, entitled:  ‘The seed germinates.’ This is a very apt and beautiful meditation that we too, as Church, can live together. ...

On Sunday morning, October 1, Dominican Friar and former Master of the Order of Preachers, Father Timothy Radcliffe’s gave a second meditation for those who would participate in the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops set to begin on Wednesday, 4 October.  This meditation focused on the theme “At home in God and God at home in us”. See ...

We are familiar with Thomas (recorded in John’s Gospel) asking Jesus “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”  and Jesus answering, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”.  There are many times in our lives when we need to understand well ...

In his beautiful Apostolic Exhortation ‘Gaudete et Exsultate’, Pope Francis spoke at some length about the call to holiness in today’s world. He reminded us that holiness exists not only in those whom the Church has beatified or canonised, but in those “saints next door”, who don’t appear in any book and whose names are known only to God. Such people are ...

The World Youth Day from the 1-6 August 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal was truly a moment of God for all of us who could connect with it in any way – there was no distance! When a lamp is put on the lampstand there is no limit to where the light can reach.  At his weekly General Audience in Rome on ...

In 2016, Pope Francis raised the celebration of Mary Magdalene from Memorial to Feast in the liturgical calendar.  Her Feast Day is 22nd July.  There is also a special preface to the Eucharistic Prayer included for this Feast Day Mass which is entitled “Apostle to the Apostles,” which is the honorary title bestowed upon Mary Magdalene. “Recalling that “apostle” means ...