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...
With God on our side who can be against us?
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...
The Spirit Moulds us to Make Music for God!
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...
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, Who violently sweep your house Empty of its furniture, Still, treat each guest honourably. He may be...
Do You See This Woman?
The Glorious Abundance of the Almighty
Others have noticed it too: they’ve noticed the world’s obsessive insistence on scarcity. According to this worldview, there isn’t enough of anything to go around: not enough resources; not enough food; not enough water; not enough love; not enough forgiveness – not enough of anything we need. The world is in a constant state of...
