Dear Friends, This week we have a seasonal theme – that of winter of course. For some it is a time ‘to get through’ in order to reach spring but for others it has a beauty & meaning that is positive & repays reflection. You will see that we have included two pieces by Joyce…
Dear Friends, I hope that the final days of this special time have been good for you & that you are settling into the routines again. Our theme this week is Beginning – the New Year is only in its first couple of weeks and we all experience ‘beginnings’ in many different ways – each…
Dear Friends, Happy New Year! We hope it has begun well for you & your families. This weekend we have the great feast of the Epiphany. There are many reflections focused on this feast & I hope the ones we have chosen this year are ones you will find helpful. Our blessing this week is…
Dear Friends, So here we are almost there. We hope these reflections each week have contributed to your readiness to celebrate Christmas. Our attachments this week close in a bit towards the celebration without anticipating it. The blessing this week is from the New Dawn CD, ‘The Repose Blessing’. We will pray it for each…
Dear Friends, The flavour of our attachments this week move a little nearer to Christmas. There is another John Betjeman poem which may be known to you, but also a very short piece from Ronald Rolheiser which begins: ‘Christmas isn’t automatic, it can’t be taken for granted’. It took me by surprise but it makes…
Dear Friends, We hope the first week of Advent has been a peaceful & fruitful one. In our attachments this week we continue to give you material that we hope will be good for reflection at this time. They include a John Betjeman poem with which you may already be familiar. The blessing this week…
The sisters are grateful to all those who give so generously through our Advent appeal, and at other times during the year. Treating young children with malnutrition and running the school for the disabled in Muhanga are just two examples of the work our sisters are involved in, helping the poorest of the poor, and…
Dear Friends, Advent is here again! This year, just because of dates, it is a ‘short’ advent – the 4th Sunday of Advent is Christmas Eve. So we better get on with it! Attachments in these weeks are all related to Advent and into Christmas & we are trying to give you a variety each…
Dear Friends, Gosh – end of November – Feast of Christ the King &, next weekend, the beginning of Advent. The Feast of Christ the King can be a bit ambiguous in our time. Monarchy and all that! Rather than try & imagine what the Kingdom of God might look like when, at an undisclosed…
Dear Friends, November always seems to me to be a long month! But we are now over half way through. But in these last weeks I have been haunted by the felling of that sycamore tree at Hadrian’s Wall earlier in the autumn. It was a landmark between two hills & was around 300 years…