Recently, I participated in a reflection day in our Convent in Newbridge on the theme Aging Gracefully presented by Maria Garvey (Founder / Leader L’Arche Belfast)Maria offered us many positive ideas in the course of the day, but it was the subject of what GIFTS we have to share with our world at this time…
The New Year beckons.It stretches out before usA precious gift given freelyReceived with gratitude.It is a year, as yet unmapped by us,but waiting for usinviting us to set out on a path that is full of promise and opportunity,The New Year is like a book.Its empty pages open and waiting to be written upon. May…
God so loved the world… loves the world …this world, our only home,ravaged by destructive floods, droughts, deadly wildfiresdevastating weather patternsthat are becoming more widespread, intense and persistent.The new normal!“We are in the fight of our lives, and we are losing”,“The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived,” (Guterres)And…
We celebrate Easter at a time of the year when Nature awakens from her long winter sleep and new life is beginning to spring forth. The early Spring flowers – snow drops, crocuses and daffodils- shyly make their appearance, adding colour and new life to an apparently dead winter landscape. Nature proclaims that death is…
Every culture and religion have their own creation story – a story that answers the big questions such as: Where have we come from? How did the universe begin? What is our place in it? What will happen when we die? Why is there suffering in the world? For most of the past 2000 years…
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” (Ecclesiastes: 3:1) We are coming into Spring, in the garden there are a few brave daffodils flowering in the shelter of larger plants. Trees are beginning to bud and we can see green shoots everywhere. The nights become lighter,…