2nd day of the session – Panels

Projets de l’Assomption avec Migrants – Refugiés – Déplacés – Victimes de Traite Assumption Projects with Migrants – Refugees – Displaced – Victims of Trafficking Proyectos de la Asunción con Migrantes – Refugiados – Desplazados – Víctimas de Trata. Panel 1 : « bateau Je sers » (Père Renaud Komabou – AA / France) Panel […]

Some Threads from Laudato Si Week

There were many different coloured threads woven together throughout the Week. Here are some to give you are glimpse of the tapestry it formed from the various Zoom meetings online, with participants from all round the globe; translations were miraculously available in several languages. Ditebogo, from the Youth Programme South Africa, described how the great […]

In a country once forested

The young woodland remembers the old, a dreamer dreaming Of an old holy book, an old set of instructions And the soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest And under the pavement  the soil is dreaming of grass.    (Wendell Berry) And we, what are we dreaming of? Dare we dream of a […]

The women of the Resurrection

Kitchen Maid with the supper at Emaus by Diego Velázquez (1599-1660)

Picture: Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emaus by Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) National Gallery of Ireland. LET ME SEE WITH THE EYES OF FAITH, LET ACT WITH A PASSION FOR JUSTICE. Be thou my vision: www.theirishblessing.com Introduction Mary Magdalen, who had eyes for Jesus alone, saw him and mistook him for the gardener. Two disciples […]

We are being deceived about plastics.

Plastic production is closely linked with the fossil fuel industry, and the production of petrochemicals. Plastic is a derivative of fossil fuel. Together fossil fuels, plastics and chemicals have been called a three headed monster. The production of new plastic is feeding the climate crisis. There is a campaign of misinformation going on. Most of […]

Choose life!

Widen the space of your tent, stretch out your hangings freely, your ropes, make your pegs firm’ Isaiah 54.2 One of the first readings in Lent reminds us to `choose life that you may live long in the land that the Lord your God gives you.’ ( Deuteronomy 30. v15 -20) It could not be […]