Visit of Turkish Cultural Group to Church St. Friary
On Thursday we were delighted to welcome to our Church St. friary a group of Turkish Students here in ireland on cultural exchange. They had never visited a Catholic Church before and were interested in learning about the history and spirituality of the Franciscan Way. This continues a long Franciscan tradition of inter Christian/Muslim dialogue…
Feast of Our Lady of the Angels: The Blessing of the Portiuncula
Today, (August 2nd), we in the Franciscan Family keep the Feast of Our Lady of the Angels! This is the patronal title of the Blessed Virgin under which St. Francis placed the Order. St. Francis had great devotion to Our Lady under this title due to his repairing of the little chapel of the…
Caring for Creation: Caring for our soul
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with colored flowers and herbs.” St. Francis. St. Francis always taught that our gardens should include a wild uncultivated place where the flowers and herbs of the field could find a home and where we…
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…
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