Visit of Belgian YouFra to Kilkenny and Dublin
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: A decaf moment
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: A decaf moment…
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…
Féilacáin Commemoration in Church St. Friary
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…
1916 Papers of Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap digitised and online at last
Recently the Digital Repository of Ireland opened a call for expressions of interest from archives which held material relating to the Decade of Centenaries and which wished to digitally preserve their holdings. Our Capuchin Provincial Archives was fortunate enough to win one of the three awards. A meeting took place at the Archives where DRI…
Angels Are Everywhere: A Decaf Moment
Angels are everywhere, for those with eyes to see. Bestowing benediction, they mediate meaningful meetings, and, make miracles for sacred citizens of seemingly secular cities who, unaware, unknowing, unknown and, feeling franticly fearful, forget to stop still, pause peacefully and luminously look up from daily duty’s drive so as to glance at Grace’s gifts…
St Anthony Triduum and SFO Retreat, Raheny, 11th – 13th June 2015
Join the Friars and the Secular Franciscan Order in Raheny for their annual retreat and triduum of prayer in honour of St Anthony from 11th to 13th of June 2015. Mass each evening at 7.30pm. Sacrament of Reconciliation is available. Blessing of lilies on the Feast of St Anthony. Preacher is Capuchin Frair, Fr. Bryan…
Capuchin Vocation Discernment Weekend (26th – 28th of June 2015)
The Friars in our Kilkenny Friary are hosting a vocation discernment weekend for men aged from 21 to 40 who may feel that God is calling them, to follow in the footsteps of St Francis of Assisi, as a Capuchin Franciscan Friar. For further information contact our Vocation Director, Br Terence Harrington on 086 3230638…
St Anthony Novena Kilkenny (5th – 13th of June 2015)
You are invited to join the Friars of Kilkenny for the annual St Anthony Novena beginning this Friday(5th of June) and concluding on the Feast of St Anthony (13th of June). Mass at 10.30am each morning and 12 Noon on Sunday. The preacher is Capuchin Friar, Fr. Christopher Twomey OFM Cap. All are most welcome…
This week's Gospel reflection thanks to Br Silvester
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Today we celebrate the Feast of St Francis of Assisi. Francis was a man of God, a man of prayer and a man of peace. Enflamed by the fire of the Holy Spirit, he longed for us to live harmoniously as brothers and sisters in Christ. His vision remains not alone the remedy for a trouble heart but also for a troubled World. St Francis patron of peace, ecology and animals: Pray for us.
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Novena in preparation for the feast of St. Francis: Day 9
Thought for the day:
At the heart of the life of Francis, at the centre of his sanctity, is his desire to become one with Christ in Love. Through his meditation upon the humility of the Incarnation and the emptying of self in love that it implies in the Crib, the Cross and above all in the Eucharist, Francis finds his way to the heights of holiness by following Jesus into the depths of His love for all creation. To be one with Christ is to be one with Him in this self emptying so that he might be filled with His Love and become brother to all.
Meditation:
Today allow the meditation of Francis to be your meditation too. Allow his prayer of praise, love and longing to rest in your breath as we pray with him, “My God and my All.”
Prayer of the Companions of St. Francis:
Draw us to yourself, most worthy Father Francis, that we may run after your fragrance of holiness. As you know, we are lukewarm because of our sloth, languid because of our idleness, half-alive because of our negligence. This little flock is following you with hesitant steps. Our weak eyes cannot bear the dazzling rays of your perfection.
Renew our days as from the beginning, O mirror and model of perfection, and do not allow us, who are like you in our profession, to be unlike you in our lives.
Holy Father, remember all your sons and daughters, who surrounded by inextricable danger, follow your footsteps though from so great a distance. Give us strength that we may resist; purify us that we may gleam forth; fill us with joy that we may be happy. Pray that the spirit of grace and of prayer be poured upon us; that we may have the true humility you had; that we may observe the poverty you observed; that we may be filled with the charity with which you always loved Christ Crucified, who, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns world without end. Amen.
O Lady of the Angels hail! Keep us safe beneath thy Veil +
Br Richard
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Novena in preparation for the Feast of St. Francis: Day 8
Thought for the day:
Francis is known as the great peacemaker saint.
His ability to bring people together and resolve conflict arose from his awareness that real peace comes living in right relationship with God, with self and with all creation.
Today let us enter the way of peace together by seeking the peace that only God can bring.
Meditation:
Today let the greeting revealed by God to St. Francis, “The Lord give you His peace!” dwell in your breath as you meet others and above all as you meet your inner self.
Prayer of the Companions of St. Francis:
Draw us to yourself, most worthy Father Francis, that we may run after your fragrance of holiness. As you know, we are lukewarm because of our sloth, languid because of our idleness, half-alive because of our negligence. This little flock is following you with hesitant steps. Our weak eyes cannot bear the dazzling rays of your perfection.
Renew our days as from the beginning, O mirror and model of perfection, and do not allow us, who are like you in our profession, to be unlike you in our lives.
Holy Father, remember all your sons and daughters, who surrounded by inextricable danger, follow your footsteps though from so great a distance. Give us strength that we may resist; purify us that we may gleam forth; fill us with joy that we may be happy. Pray that the spirit of grace and of prayer be poured upon us; that we may have the true humility you had; that we may observe the poverty you observed; that we may be filled with the charity with which you always loved Christ Crucified, who, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns world without end. Amen.
O Lady of the Angels hail!
Keep us safe beneath thy Veil +
Br Richard
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Novena in preparation for the feast of St. Francis: Day 7
Thought for the day:
As Francis advanced in contemplative illumination he dwelt in the awareness that every being and all that exists has its origin from Love, is held in existence by Love, and has as its ultimate destiny the revelation of itself as a word from Divine Love. All created things became a ladder of love returning the one who contemplates them to their origin.
Dwelling like Francis in this sacramental vision of creation we too become aware of every being as a brother or sister in the Love that is God.
Daily Meditation:
Today allow the cry the heart of St. Francis that “Love is not loved!” to rest in your breath and so invite you to see every creature you meet as an expression of Divine Love to be received with love in return.
Prayer of the Companions of St. Francis:
Draw us to yourself, most worthy Father Francis, that we may run after your fragrance of holiness. As you know, we are lukewarm because of our sloth, languid because of our idleness, half-alive because of our negligence. This little flock is following you with hesitant steps. Our weak eyes cannot bear the dazzling rays of your perfection.
Renew our days as from the beginning, O mirror and model of perfection, and do not allow us, who are like you in our profession, to be unlike you in our lives.
Holy Father, remember all your sons and daughters, who surrounded by inextricable danger, follow your footsteps though from so great a distance. Give us strength that we may resist; purify us that we may gleam forth; fill us with joy that we may be happy. Pray that the spirit of grace and of prayer be poured upon us; that we may have the true humility you had; that we may observe the poverty you observed; that we may be filled with the charity with which you always loved Christ Crucified, who, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns world without end. Amen.
O Lady of the Angels hail!
Keep us safe beneath thy Veil+
Br. Richard
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