Dear friends, Please pray with us for the eternal repose of the soul of our brother, Noel Winston, who passed peacefully to the Lord yesterday evening in St. Francis Hospice, Raheny in the presence of his sister Kay and the friars. May he rest in peace. Brother Noel (Athanasius) was born in Co. Roscommon, on…
Stormlight: Storms bring their own light; sharp lined and lightening cut, by which old truth assumes the beauty of the new and Mother Earth eden breathes again, if only for a moment. Their rain, drilling down, brooks no opposition, gives no quarter, and must be simply received and submitted to, abandoning any pretense at…
On Thursday we were delighted to welcome to our Church St. friary a group of Turkish Students here in ireland on cultural exchange. They had never visited a Catholic Church before and were interested in learning about the history and spirituality of the Franciscan Way. This continues a long Franciscan tradition of inter Christian/Muslim dialogue…
Today, (August 2nd), we in the Franciscan Family keep the Feast of Our Lady of the Angels! This is the patronal title of the Blessed Virgin under which St. Francis placed the Order. St. Francis had great devotion to Our Lady under this title due to his repairing of the little chapel of the…
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with colored flowers and herbs.” St. Francis. St. Francis always taught that our gardens should include a wild uncultivated place where the flowers and herbs of the field could find a home and where we…
We friars of the Irish Province recently welcomed a group of Young Franciscans (YouFra) who were on pilgrimage from Belgium. YouFra are a Catholic youth organisation under the spiritual direction of the friars that invites young people learn about and experience the spirituality of St. Francis. Led by Br. Kenny Brack, the Vicar of our…
Sacred Sunday Pause: Entering the eternal day of Christ; we enter Kairos, the place of encounter with the Divine, the place of freedom, compassion and mercy, the place of the sacrament of the present moment. Enter the today of Christ! Quote by Pope Francis.
Sacred Saturday Pause: We are remade in the Womb of the Mother when the Word is spoken into our world by her eternal “Yes!” Allow the little fallible yes of your being to dissolve in the Divine Matrix of Our Lady’s great “Yes”; (the only total Yes to the Divine in Human History), and…
On Saturday last our Church St. friary in Dublin was very privileged to host the annual commemoration service for Féileacáin: the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Asssociation of Ireland. Always a very poignant and powerful celebration, it concluded with a release of Butterflies in the friary garden: a beautiful tribute to all of the little ones…