Entering Holy Week
We have entered Holy Week… All over the country our friaries are busy getting ready for the great events of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday, statues and crosses have been veiled, churches and friaries are being cleaned, all of the items necessary for the annual observance of this beautiful time are…
Feast of the Annunciation
Feast of the Annunciation today! This is our true Spring day, when the Winter dark and cold of selfishness and sin yields to the green shoot of Mary’s total yes to God. The whole cosmos pauses and stills to listen for the answer to the Angel as God makes Himself dependent on a young girl’s…
Brother Martin conferred with the Ministry of Acolyte
Brother Martin will be conferred with the Ministry of Acolyte at Mass in the Friary today (Saturday 07 March 2015) by Brother Adrian Curran (Provincial Minister). This conferral sees Brother Martin enter into the final stage of preparation for Ordination to Deaconate in the Autumn. ‘Destined as he is in a special way for the…
Child Safeguarding Audit March 2015
AUDIT BY THE NATIONAL BOARD 2015 The National Child Safeguarding Board of the Catholic Church in Ireland will, over several days, in the month of March, 2015, review the manner in which the Irish Capuchin Province has received and dealt with all allegations of child sexual abuse made against its members since 1975. The reviewers…
Novena of Grace: Halston St. March 4-12
The annual Novena of Grace in honour of St. Francis Xavier takes place as usual in our Capuchin run parish of Halston St. Dublin 7 from the 4th to the 12th of March. This wonderful occasion brings people together from all over the city to invoke the intercession of St. Francis Xavier in one of…
Brother Kevin receives the Freedom of Dublin City
Last night (28 February 2015) Brother Kevin Crowley, alongside footballer John Giles, received the Freedom of Dublin City for his work with the poor and homeless of Dublin. We thank Kevin for his tireless work and wish him well as this week he also celebrates his 8oth birthday!
Vocations Weekend: 20 – 22nd March 2015, Kilkenny
What is the Lord asking of you? Capuchin Vocations weekend, Capuchin Friary Kilkenny 20 – 22nd of March 2015. Have a look at our Vocations Blog for full details…http://capfrans.blogspot.ie/2015/03/discover-what-is-yours-to-do-capuchin.html
Live Long and Prosper! Star Trek & Franciscan Blessings
So sad to hear the great Leonard Nimoy has passed! May he rest in peace! His connection to the Franciscan tradition is interesting if a little oblique! The famous split fingered hand position of the “Vulcan Salute” came from his Jewish heritage. This is the position the Rabbis hold their hands in to impart…
Br. Kevin celebrates his 80th birthday!
We rejoice with Br. Kevin who celebrated his 80th Birthday today! After serving the homeless and poor of Dublin for nearly 30 years through our Capuchin Daycentre in Church St., it was Br. Kevin’s turn to (briefly) sit and be ministered to today as the other friars, the staff and the clients of the Daycentre…
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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