April - 2020

Starting Over

Over the last few days as we "stay at home" in this time of the Corona Virus pandemic, Sheila's Cassidy's poem "Starting Over " comes to...

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let...

The Camino de Santiago de Compostela

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the r

Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded

I have always loved this song. For me it depicts the beauty , dreams and desires of youth - dreams which will not be lived, hence this song

Steer Your Way....Leonard Cohen

Yesterday I attended a lecture given by Professor of Philosophy ,Phipipp Rosemann , in Maynooth NUI. Leonard Cohen as Philosopher and...

If It Be Your Will

I love this song and sing it as a prayer of strength, acceptance and surrender. "If It Be Your Will" by Leonard Cohen If it be your will ...

The Nature of Human Vitality

Thomas Moore an author and psychologist in New York says that "the soul presents itself in a variety of colours, including all the shades...

Witness to the lives of Syrian Refugees...

Refugee, a film shot over an eight-month journey showing the impact of war through the eyes of the people who live through it. “It was...

Portrait of woman and child

This pencil drawing was done by by sister Miriam O'Reilly.