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Helping others

By Default admin account on 15-Apr-10 21:29

When Iris Murdoch is exploring the Good in her marvelous novels, she can be obscure and at the same time inspiring. In the extract below, the Abbess...

Called and sent

By Default admin account on 03-Apr-10 19:28

Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbouni!’ (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, ‘Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them. “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” Mary Magdalen went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’, and she told them that he had said these things to her. (John 20: 16-18)

Gethsemane

By Default admin account on 28-Mar-10 11:25

At times when we feel ourselves to be under serious threat, then our prayer takes on a new quality. Somewhere in our being we know that we are safe, no matter...

Picnic at Mutemwa

By Default admin account on 07-Mar-10 15:12

The leper colony was not a regular venue for our rare picnic forays in the 1960’s. But any day’s outing was a treat, away from the busy hospital routine in Salisbury (Harare). And we all knew and liked John Bradborne, the aristocratic, English mystic...

Ag Criost an Siol

By Default admin account on 04-Mar-10 12:04

We kind of missed Feile Brid this year, because Sr Maura Wall died on Saturday night. A delightful Limerick woman, it was appropriate for her to be ‘planted’ in her native soil on the beautiful feast of St Brigid, just as the crocuses are appearing...

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