The following was written by the late Erma Bombeck after she found out she had a fatal disease.
If I had my life to live over, I would have talked less and listened more.
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the ….
The following contact information may be helpful to you or someone you know.
There are many individuals and young couples in our parishes who are in financial difficulties. In past years they would have contributed to the St. Vincent De Paul Society, but now circumstances have changed beyond belief and they themselves are in need of assistance. While we understand this may be difficult, if you are in this stressfull situation we encourage you to contact us in confidence. Any assistance offered by the Society is given in a non-judgemental spirit of compassion, based on the need of the individual or family.
Naas St. Vincent de Paul: Please contact us at 045 897 306
Sallins St. Vincent de Paul: Please contact us at 085 705 2294.
It is not I who pray but the Spirit of God who prays in me. Indeed when God’s glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar that it cannot contain and renew by its touch. Every time I recognise the glory of God in [...]
When one falls in love, life becomes suffused with new colour, new life, new energy and new hope. All this is experienced as an unexpected and unmerited gift. Some are content to revel in the gift, aware now that life is far richer and deeper than they had realised. Others experience the Giver in the [...]
An old schoolteacher used to bow to her students before each class. When asked why she did this, she said, “because I don’t know what one of my students might become.” This was something similar to the respect people had for John the Baptist. This mysterious respect for John is the kind of respect I [...]
A shoeshine boy was plying his trade in New York’s Grand Central Station. A silver medal danced at his neck as he worked his shine cloth again and again, across a man’s shoes. “Sonny” said the man curiously, “What’s the hardware around your neck?” “It’s a medal of the Mother of Jesus,” the boy replied. [...]
The Priory Institute is a Dominican Centre for Theological Studies. Do you have a vocation to be active in your church or parish? Do you wonder about the world and your place in it, how to make sense of it all? Do you seek a deeper understanding of God, your faith, and God’s call on your life? [...]
An angel appeared to Mary and said; “You shall conceive and bear a Son and shall name him Jesus…” “I am the handmaid of the Lord,” said Mary, “let it be done unto me according to your word.” Lk., 1:31, 38.
Mary’s response to the angel boils down to “Thy will be done.” It is the [...]
In Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus, Joseph takes the leading role. It might be a good idea to put aside the familiar picture of Joseph as a white-bearded old man leaning on a stick if we are to capture the human drama of his story! Marriage was arranged at the time in a [...]
You often hear people saying, ‘Christmas is for children’. Maybe they should be saying, ‘Santa is for children’. Because Christmas is definitely for adults. It is the celebration of our God sharing our humanity in all that entails. ‘God so loved the world, that he sent his only son, so that whoever believes in him [...]
‘The best things in life, are not things’. I heard these words spoken by a young mother who had experienced a lot of hardship and bereavement in her life. It struck a chord with me, and helped me to put some of life’s problems into perspective.
Thank you Lord for the gift of today, …
A man in his forties told me recently that he gave up going to mass about 10 years ago because he thought he was only going there out of habit. Now he is beginning to wonder is it also a habit to not go to Sunday mass. The mass is a community celebration of thanks to [...]
Yesterday someone said to me, ‘everyone I meet is in bad form’, – and many have good reason to be. But in this Advent season of hope I was reminded of something. You might like to try it. Take a blank piece of white paper and draw a large circle on it. Then put a [...]
In the snowy days of last winter I met an elderly lady who had braved the icy paths with the aid of her walking stick. I stopped to talk to her. ‘You know’, she said, ‘you are the third person to stop to talk to me in the past few minutes’. And she was delighted. She [...]
In these gloomy days it can be difficult to stay positive. But even in our struggles we must try to see the good in life. Every day I wake is a gift. There is so much goodness around; parents who give of themselves and their lives to their children, a neighbour who sits and drinks tea [...]
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