As I was reading “The Friendship Book,  2017” on 14th February, Norah Sindon was sharing her thoughts on Words – how they have a certain power or lure that demand a second look – how they conjure up feelings , memories, emotions and even movement.   I know exactly what she means. As we have passed through Lent, the Passion, and ...

 “In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience.” (Barach Spinoza) Habakkuk was one of the minor Prophets who lived in the 7th Century BC, when the Babylonians were in power.  He was deeply disturbed and angry by the violence of these people, ...

February ushers in the Spring, a bursting forth of growth and new life; a time of new beginnings and anticipation. “ Life stands before me like an eternal Spring, with new and brilliant clothes”(Carl Friedrick Gauss) However, not all Spring lambs feel like skipping happily over the mountains. One of my saddest memories was seeing a snowy- white, newly born ...

Walking into another year of life – leaving the old and welcoming the new, is an opportunity to pause and listen to the silent wisps of surprises that visited us in 2016; experiences of graced moments often forgotten and yet carried  within the crevices of our beings. It is a time to slow down and allow memories to come and ...

It’s Advent again, the time of year when we look forward to the celebration of Christmas and the promise of Love in the person of Emmanuel, God–with–us. As we prepare in “joyful hope” for the coming of Christ among us, we cannot journey through these weeks without the company of Mary, the woman of faith. In her company, Mary will ...

A Personal Reflection in November It is early morning and the dawn chorus faithfully rings over the cold earth.  How much there is to celebrate at the dawn of this new day! Though all is still and frozen there is certain vibrancy in the air, enticing one to peer through the window and embrace the gift out there. From my ...

“What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?” (W.H.Davies) At the beginning of October, someone jokingly remarked to me that “there are only 11 Fridays to Christmas”! That really took my breath away! We move so quickly from one season to another, one celebration to another. We talk of not having “enough” ...

“Why am I so favoured?” Luke 1:130 In Monica Brown’s chant, “Invisible Mystery”, she sings about “sacredness enfolding us here and now”. This enfolding conjures up for me the image of the Trinity, wrapped around my being, making me aware, once again, that I am part of the Trinitarian Mystery. God reveals Trinity in the depths of my being, yes, ...

A cloudless sky, sun-soaked and azure for a canopy. A vast expanse of surging sea and gleaming sand: a carpet for my feet. The cry of gulls my music, and cool whisper of a breeze, my fan. And all unseen, my God unfurls His Plan to captivate me! I hear Him breathing through the trees , see Him peering out ...

In Laudato Si, Pope Francis reminds us of how St. Francis of Assisi’s great admiration for nature inspired him to ask that a section of the Friary garden remain uncultivated, so that wild flowers and herbs could grow there undisturbed. Nature has a wonderful way of helping us to raise our minds and hearts to God, our creator, in praise ...