Pause for Prayer

In case you thought otherwise, let me tell you that becoming a saint is a real hassle!
I had plans of becoming a saint before I made my First Holy Communion. By the age of 7, I had already decided that I wanted a place in Heaven and that I was going to do whatever I [...]

I’d been mentally preparing my programme for the broadcast on Wednesday, which also happens to be the feats of All Saints. Knowing that I had a short feature on the process of changing an ‘ordinary’ person into a saint, I wandered into the office this morning and happily tried to transfer the recording from my [...]

Travelling on over-crowded public transport is a wonderful opportunity for distractions. This morning was no exception. I’ve only been on one Italian bus where the driver has decided that it is really too full. On that occasion, he pretended that the bus had stalled, waited until another vehicle following the same route appeared behind him. [...]

I am very pleased to announce a new addition to the Pause for Prayer website. Abbot Timothy Wright OSB has very kindly joined us and has his own page, which I’ve called ‘Abbot Timothy’s Page’. Check it out at http://pauseforprayer.com/abbot.htm.God bless,Sr. Janet

One day, as a little six-year old girl and her grandfather were walking beside the lake, the child looked up at her grandfather. “Where is God?” she asked the old man.
Her grandfather turned towards his granddaughter. “Look in the water”, he said. “What do you see there?”
The child looked in the lake. “But all I [...]