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Terry Waite in an article  titled  You are not stuck at home, you are safe, (express.co.uk 4/4/2020) wrote about his five years in captivity (isolation) in Beirut  “ ….I now realise it was one of the most formative and creative periods of my life. It is not all... Read More

Vision 2020: Faith into the Future The feast of Pentecost has many layers and there is much to reflect on and to learn for today. Religious festivals most often have agricultural roots, in rhythm with nature, and this is pre-eminently true of the... Read More

Lectio Divina: When God Finally Responds (Job 38:1-4) a reflection by Sr.  Eileen O Connell OP, Belfast which is included in  this month’s  (April2020) edition of  Intercom A Catholic Pastoral and Liturgical Resource of the Irish Catholic Bishops’... Read More

We invite you to listen back to Sr. Geraldine Marie’s Prayer For The Day  recordings that were broadcasted on BCC Radio 4 during last week.  Congratulations  and many thanks to Sr, Geraldine Marie, for these prayerful moments.  To access recordings click... Read More

Our Sisters in Louisiana send us the Prayer Sevice below for reflection on recent events. the-rise-of-relativism Read More

Pope Francis’ first encyclical “Laudato Si: On the Care of our Common Home” is focused on the idea of ‘integral ecology’, connecting care of the natural world with justice for the poorest and most vulnerable people. Only by radically ‘reshaping our relationships with God, with... Read More

HOMILY AT SR. SABINE’S PROFESSION   Ephesians 3:14-21   Today we are all praying with and for Sabine as she crosses this important threshold in her life.  We can hardly do better than the prayer of  Paul for the Ephesians. We pray that ‘according to the riches of his... Read More

Baptism Sunday   Sr Edel O.P was asked to preach the homily on Baptism Sunday to share her reflections of her faith development in her home parish. Sunday, January 13th , 2013 , The Baptism of The Lord, St Michael’s Parish Last Sunday we celebrated the feast of the Epiphany.... Read More

On Losing Stephen   – A Sister Reflects on her Ministry as Hospital Chaplain   I trudged through the crisp January snow on route to the Haematology Ward in the Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, with the biting cold nipping my nose. When I arrived the warm blast of... Read More

It is Enough to Live the Questions I have been asked to write a reflection on my time at An Tairseach so this is not the story of the project, which has yet to be written, but a personal statement of a twelve year journey into, dare I say it, the mystery at the heart of the... Read More