Create your own celebration of the following THE SEASON OF CREATION – 2020     The Spirit in Creation September 1      Creation Day September 6      1st Sunday in Creation –        Forest Sunday September 13    2nd Sunday in Creation –      Land Sunday September 20    3rd Sunday in Creation –       Wilderness/Ocean Sunday September 27    4th Sunday in Creation –       River Sunday October 1   ...

Since the beginning of August nine RNDMs from our provinces of India, Kenya, Myanmar and Vietnam have been following the Preparation Course for Perpetual Vows online hosted by the Balay Euphrasie Team in Davao, Philippines. Due to COIVID-19 no one could travel to Davao this year, consequently, all courses are presented online for the next three months. Some of the ...

                                        Parting after parting. Sore loss and gnawing pain; Meeting grows half a sorrow because of parting again. When shall the day break that these things shall not be? When shall new earth be ours without a sea, and time that ...

All of us have felt at times during this most unusual situation a sense of loss, floating from one day to next, wondering what has happened. No one can answer why we are all in this situation.  If we watch the TV News, any channel, we are flooded with information and statistics that really mean so little to the ordinary ...

Awakening “Clear days bring the mountains down to my doorstep, calm nights give the rivers their say. The wind puts its hand on my shoulder some evenings, and then I don’t think, I just leave what I’m doing and I go the soul’s way” John Moriarty. An Autobiography © 2001 “I go the soul’s way” drawn to a place of ...

After two months of dealing with this new and unprecedented way of living – it is good to look forward to “new rays” of hope – to see what could possibly be positive in this time of uncertainty. Just think: our communications with people have never been so intense and regular as it was this time last year! Even TV ...

As I begin to set my thoughts into words, nothing else springs to mind except “Corona Virus” or “COVID-19” (which sounds more threatening).  It is still Lent but it has turned out to be one in which our acts of penance have been imposed rather than voluntary. Praying the psalms one morning recently, the verse: “I will lead them in ...

It is with sadness we have learnt of the sudden illness and death of Archbishop Peter Smith. For some years Archbishop Peter has been the postulator for the Cause of our Foundress, Euphrasie Barbier for his diocese of Southwark. His support and contributions have been gratefully received and we will miss a great advocate for Euphrasie’s Beatification. On behalf of ...

The other Sunday I listened to “Something Understood” on Radio 4. The theme was on abstinence. The programme ended with a favourite poem by Robert Herrick written in 1648: To Keep a True Lent. Is this a fast to keep The Larder lean? From fats of veals and sheep. Is this to quit the dish of flesh, yet still To ...