"There was a prophetess, too, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was well on in years. Her days of girlhood over, she had been married for seven years before becoming a widow. She was now eighty-four years old and never left the Temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayer. .She came up just at that moment and began to praise God; and she spoke of the child to all who looked forward to the deliverance of Jerusalem." Lk 2: 36-38 If God reall

The Dark Womb - God and Reproductive Loss What ‘in the name of God’ can you say to someone who has had a miscarriage? Can you honestly...

(Mt 17:11-8; Mk 9:2-8, Lk 9:28-36) A gentle touch on the hand Or a reassuring arm around the shoulder That’s how I imagine Jesus might...

I went to see them this morning These men who knew Jesus too He’d ask me to go to them They seemed like the obvious ones to share this amazing story with They couldn’t hear it though Wouldn’t hear it I don’t know if it was me or the message they were choosing to reject But they couldn’t take on board what I was trying to tell them And that so crushed the joy that had surged in me. They might have been more inclined to believe if it had been the witness of more than one But, i

I wonder What Mary thinks about the Nativity now And all that led up to it I wonder if she might want the Annunciation to have been a bit...

When we were struggling to start a family, I prayed a lot even though I wasn’t sure what the God I was praying to could do about it....

Published by Vita Poetica, a Washington based Arts & Faith Collective, in their online Advent Calendar, in Dec 2020 . They were looking...

'Doing' Lough Derg was a rite of passage in our house. The centuries old pilgrimage - sometimes referred to as the 'ironman of...

When I was seven, our teacher went off for a month to have an operation on her toes. The headmistress, a very gentle, quiet sister, ...

Published in The Furrow Journal, March 2018 like gorse a lot. This piece below explains why. It was published on International Women's...

How might Resurrection happen in our world and our lives today? This was a question a group of us reflected on as we 'gathered on zoom'...