Decaf Moment: Entering the Desert
Entering the Desert: Go within, to the deepest place of your heart, and find there the lenten desert places; the spaces of non-beginning, perished growth, old wounds, and, sins… Once there, in the searing honesty of soul’s sight, feeling its unforgiving heat, drought driven and bowed by the burden of being, simply cry, “Mercy!” and…
Decaf Moment: First Friday of Lent
First Friday of Lent: In silence and stillness humble yourself and enter in to the Holy of Holies where, at the deep centre of your heart, Divine Love dwells. Once there, anchor yourself with the stability of breath and, with quiet tears of true knowing, invoke mercy from the One who IS compassion and love….
National Board Child Safeguarding Audit
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…
Decaf Moment: Following the Path of the Breath
Close your eyes and, following the ancient path of breath, come to rest within yourself, and, find there the still centrepoint of perfect peace where Divine Light dwells. Abide there, in open hearted attentiveness, and, make your dwelling in that infinite spaciousness that exists in the Eternal Now, between the in-breath and the out-breath, and…
Decaf Moment: Finding God in the Present Moment
It is only in the present moment that we truly encounter the other. The past and future are filtered through a fog of emotions, anxieties, guilts, regrets, plans, prejudices and fantasies. Only in the present moment do we truly meet the other… and this is especially true of the OTHER we call God. For God…
February 9th Blessed Brother Leopold of Alpandaire: A modern Capuchin Saint
Blessed Leopold of Alpandeire – February 9 (1864 – 1956) Religious Leopold was born on June 24, 1864 and was given the name Francisco Tomas of St. John the Baptist. He was the first born to Diego Marquez Ayala and Jeronima Sanchez Jimenez, simple industrious peasants. He was a hard worker, working in the fields…
Decaf Meditation Moment
“In books we seek God, in meditation we find Him!” Padre Pio Let us sit, breathe deep, and be still, and then we will find within us the presence of the One who IS Love and whose light filling our mind and heart transforms and blesses!
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