Thought For The Week

What a confusing time we are in. While blessed with the opportunity to reflect on this piece of living history, we also face the challenge of navigating our way through uncharted territory and all we can do is place our hope in those who know best and put our trust in God… Lives have changed...

On Ash Wednesday, 26 February 2020,1,000 people came to Three Masses at Saint Joseph’s Church, just a few minutes’ walk from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. People, from all over the world, were signed with Ashes.  Since 1869 St Joseph’s has welcomed people wishing to worship in English in this diverse community. We listened...

As the present pandemic ‘lockdown’ continues apace and the days turn into weeks and then into months, I find myself remembering times past when life seemed so much simpler and communicating with others meant talking in person, writing a letter or using a phone. Upon deeper reflection, reality creeps in and reminds me that life...

In our thought for the week, Sr Deirdre Mullan, writes, ‘the pandemic has awakened in many a deep compassion and the need to reach out in a world where to even touch is now considered dangerous!’ As we get used to coping with the ‘new normal’ amidst the Covid 19 pandemic, one of the things...

Donal Walsh once wrote, “A few months left, he said. There it was, I was given a timeline on the rest of my life. No choice, no say, no matter. It was given to me as easy as dinner, I couldn’t believe it, that all I had was 16 years here and soon I began...

In our thought for the week, Finbar Madden, Principal of Saint Columb’s College, Derry, reminds us, at a time when understandably we may experience a sense of abandonment, that any journey that we have been on, Jesus has travelled before, and now travels again – but this time with us. The image, of Jesus, is...

In our thought for the week, Corinne Coyle, Principal of Saint Mary’s PS, Draperstown, invites us to reflect on how, during this Coronavirus Pandemic, we may, like Mary, allow God’s love to be celebrated through us. Corinne is also an Iconographer and the image is of her first Icon of Mary. Thought for the Week...