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If you want the Virgin will come walking down the road pregnant with the holy, and say, “I need shelter for the night, please take me inside your heart, my time is so close.” Then, under the roof of your Continue reading If You Want – St. John of the Cross
Our dear confrere Ned O’Brien died very peacefully on December 11th at 11.25 pm in Acorn Lodge Nursing Home, Cashel. Ned had been in Acorn Lodge since April of this year and was cared for with great care and devotion by Continue reading Father Ned O’Brien SAC R.I.P. – Reflections On his Life
SILENCE! THE BEST WAY TO WELCOME CHRIST- Marcellus Okoth SAC Advent is a season of very special graces. It is time of waiting, hope and joy. Waiting for the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; Hope because Jesus Continue reading SILENCE! THE BEST WAY TO WELCOME CHRIST- Marcellus Okoth SAC
Memories surface in the stillness before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament – childhood, youthful, lovely memories. And a Word from the book of Revelation points me in the direction I need to travel on my spiritual journey this Advent, as Continue reading ADVENT: One Great Act of Giving Birth
My Lord and my God. My God and my All. My Lord, my Life and my Love, I adore you profoundly. O Lord, it is You who are my Portion and Cup. To You I surrender, give and offer my Continue reading To You I Surrender (My Lord and my God)
“…a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table. But the disciples were indignant when they saw this, and said, “Why this waste? “For this perfume might have been Continue reading AN UNCOMMON RESPECT
“Are you happy there?”, she asks on the phone from across the sea. Happy is a word I treat with a bit of caution because I read once that it comes from a word that means hap-hazard. And indeed, happiness Continue reading THE INTERIOR SANCTUARY
He turns up in the morning rain, without a jacket, carrying a sleeping bag. All wet. I don’t have much time. A funeral is about to begin. He looks pleased and I’m pleased to see him too even though he Continue reading Patient, Police and Priest
The tomb is not the end but the beginning On the third day of the Camino to Santiago I walked alone the 29km from Larrasoana to Zariquiegui via Pamplona and ended up being the only pilgrim in a private hostel Continue reading Graveyard of our Sorrows, A Place of Hope