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Cork Quiet Day

19 September 2014 in /by

Dr Iva Beranek will lead a Quiet Day on the theme of compassion in St Luke’s Home Education Centre on Saturday,  20th September 2014. This day is especially for those living a life of ministry, including clergy, readers, lay pastoral assistants, chaplains, healthcare works and others whose daily lives require a commitment to compassion. Coffee […]

Healing as ‘homecoming’

1 July 2014 in /by

“The mystery of God’s love is not that he takes our pains away, but that he first wants to share them with us. Out of this divine solidarity comes new life. Jesus’ being moved in the centre of his being by human pain is indeed a movement toward new life.” (Henri Nouwen)  If we look […]

Annual Thanksgiving Service & Gift Day

13 June 2014 in /by

You are warmly invited to our annual Thanksgiving Service & Gift Day, this year held in St Michan’s Church, at 3.30pm on Sunday, 22 June 2014. This is a Service of Wholeness & Healing with Holy Communion, and there will be an opportunity for prayer ministry with the laying on of hands and anointing with […]

A soothing summer touch

27 May 2014 in /by

Spring has turned into the summer, with summer showers still watering the flowers that blossomed earlier in the year; there are no more bare trees. Yet summer is not only sunshine, May blossoms and long bright nights, with occasional shooting star. Summer still has shadows too. In some places unlike Ireland the heat can consume […]

Lenten Reflection: A Compassionate Triduum

17 April 2014 in /by

As we embark on these three holy days of Jesus’ betrayal, death & resurrection, we participate in God’s compassion in the most literal sense, “suffering with” Jesus and those who loved him. Tonight, as we join Jesus and his disciples on the evening before his death, we note the tenderness with which Jesus washes our […]

Lenten Reflection: Compassion as Slowing Down

7 April 2014 in /by

Lydia is the Education Advisor for Bishops’ Appeal.  She wrote this piece as a spark piece, effectively ignited by a reflection given by Jessica Stone from the Church’s Ministry of Healing: Ireland on tapping into God’ infinite reservoir of compassion.  The result has been a joint Lenten reflection series on the theme of Compassion. Research […]

What is blossoming in your life this Spring?

25 March 2014 in /by

Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries, And daub their natural faces unaware. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) Everywhere around us flowers are blossoming, trees are blooming, birds are singing, the whole of creation carries a […]

Lenten Reflection: Compassion as De-framing

20 March 2014 in /by

Lydia is the Education Adviser for the Bishops’ Appeal.  She explores the theme of compassion in this the second reflection of the joint Lenten Series between Bishops’ Appeal and the Church’s Ministry of Healing: Ireland. Knowledge is Power.  This famous saying first attributed to Sir Francis Bacon has been unpacked and analysed from a multitude […]

St. Patrick, a missionary of God’s love

16 March 2014 in /by

Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ when I arise, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth […]

Tapping into God’s Compassion this Lent

13 March 2014 in /by

Traditional images for Lent often depict desert or wilderness, but this year, the image I’m carrying with me on the journey to Easter morning is this one, which for me has become a reminder of God’s compassion. Thirteenth century theologian Meister Eckhart said, ‘Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.’ We see this […]