“And because I love this life,
I know I shall love death as well.”

 (Rabindranath Tagore)

We pray with the Church and the world

We remember and give thanks for so many ordinary good people “the unmentioned saints” who have touched so many lives.  May we learn from them to accept, as they did, our limitations, struggles, difficulties, joys and blessings, believing that their same God will accompany us always through life.
(1^st Nov: Feast of the Unmentioned Saints)

May God enlarge our hearts so that we may accept and celebrate different ways of seeing and doing things and allow others the freedomto be different from us; so that together we may build a “rainbow world”.
(16^th Nov: International Day of Tolerance)

God of tenderness, thank you for your strengthening presence.  Encourage us during this Advent season to continue in the sharing of your loving presence through our attentiveness in prayer and in deeds, convinced that ‘being’ is as important as ‘doing’.
(27^th Nov: First Sunday of Advent)

We pray with the Institute

For Mary’s visit to the Australian Province. May it be a time of openness and blessing for all.
(November-December)

 We ask Mary Ward for the grace of the Just Soul.  “The felicity of this estate was a singular freedom to refer all to God.  Being grounded in this (the virtues of freedom, justice and sincerity) we should gain at God’s hand  true wisdom and ability to perform all such other things as the perfection of this Institute exacteth of us.”
(1^st Nov. 1615: The Vision of  the Just Soul St. Omer) 

For all the artists, musicians, poets and writers among us.  We give thanks for their creativity and for the beauty, joy and wonder they share with us.
(22^nd Nov: Feast of St. Cecilia)

One Small Voice

Grief is great pain.
Love, speaking in silence, is the way
into the void of another’s grief.
Not the silence that is a pause in speech,
awkward and unwanted, but one that
unites heart to heart.

The best of all loves comes silently,
and slowly too,
to soften the pain of grief,
and begin to dispel the sadness.
It is the love of God, warm and true, which
will touch the grieving heart and heal it.

God looks at the grieving person and has
pity, for grief is a great pain.
Jesus came among us to learn about grief
and much else too, this Man of Sorrows.
He knows.  He understands.

Grief will yield to peace-in-time.

Cardinal Basil Hume