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Vocation? Ask God-He would be Happy to Help! -Hollie Frystal

Published: July 27, 2020 Category: Adult Faith Resources, Thought For The Week

How many young people are ever given the opportunity or take the time themselves to consider their lives in terms of a vocation? I am only seventeen and know how hard it can be for young people to decide what it is they want to do in life. We want guidance…so why not ask God!...

Allowing God to Give the Growth -Fr Paul Farren

Published: July 20, 2020 Category: Adult Faith Resources, Thought For The Week

Where did you spend the lockdown? What environment were you in? What environment are you in now as the lockdown eases? What have we been surrounding ourselves with? What do we surround ourselves with? If you think about a seed – a seed can be so small and apparently insignificant but it has such potential....

The Failure Paradox-Jim Deeds

Published: July 13, 2020 Category: Adult Faith Resources, Thought For The Week

The door of my parents’ home knocked and when my mother answered it she greeted an old gentleman with a warm smiling face. He asked her if this is where I had lived when I was a young man and if she was my mother. Slightly bewildered at this point, my mother replied yes to...

The Gift of a Blank Page – Dympna Mallon

Published: July 6, 2020 Category: Adult Faith Resources, Thought For The Week

While spring cleaning recently, I found boxes of schoolbooks belonging to my children going back over 20 years, many of which were only half used. As I flicked through the books I remembered how, in the 1970s, we were forbidden to tear out pages when we made a mistake because each book had only enough...

We are in this Together- Sr Anne Neylon

Published: June 29, 2020 Category: Adult Faith Resources, Thought For The Week

Teachers, this will be a summer holiday like none other! Covid-19 invites God’s people to look at life through a new lens. There is no going back to anything. There never was. Now, more than ever, people are cautious as they move forward. These words ‘we are in this together’ are regularly spoken during the...

Treasures from Heaven -Catherine McGonagle

Published: June 22, 2020 Category: 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...

A French Connection-Fr Aidan Troy

Published: June 15, 2020 Category: Thought For The Week

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...

The Gift of God in a Life Less Complicated -Mary O Boyle

Published: June 8, 2020 Category: Thought For The Week

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...

Comfort and Compassion-Sr Deirdre Mullan

Published: June 1, 2020 Category: Thought For The Week

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...

Nothing Normal about the ‘New Normal’! – Elma Walsh

Published: May 25, 2020 Category: Thought For The Week

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? -Finbar Madden

Published: May 15, 2020 Category: Thought For The Week

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!

Published: May 11, 2020 Category: Thought For The Week

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

Published: December 19, 2019 Category: Thought For The Week

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?

Published: December 19, 2019 Category: Thought For The Week

Luke CH7:36-50 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to share his meal, so he went to the Pharisee’s home and as usual reclined on the sofa to eat. And it happened that a woman of this town, who was known as a sinner, heard that he was in the Pharisee’s house. She brought a precious...

The Glorious Abundance of the Almighty

Published: June 21, 2019 Category: Thought For The Week

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...

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