Pause for Prayer

Do you have any idea of the agony I experienced in the garden tonight? Can you imagine what it was like to hear his voice whisper gently, “Judas, do you betray your master with a kiss?”
I tell you. Those words pierced me to the quick. That is why, at this moment, I am sitting in […]

In this season of Lent, as we draw, moment by moment, closer to Holy Week and Easter, can I offer anything more beautiful and real than this prayer by Michel Quoist?
God bless,
Sr. Janet
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To be here before you, Lord,
that’s all:
to shut the eyes of my body,
to shut the eyes of my soul,
and be still and silent,
to […]

The mighty gates of Lambeth Palace swung open this morning as I passed by, enabling a glimpse of the courtyard within. It was not difficult to imagine the court of Henry VIII staying there when his ‘old’ palace at Westminster burned down in 1512. Neither was it hard to imagine the cavalcade passing through those […]

Spring is just around the corner. In spite of frost and cold, delicate buds somehow manage to pierce the ground and produce flowers. Trees suddenly change from stark skeletons to magnificent bouquets of blossom. Bare ground is bare no more, becoming a carpet of yellow, white, purple, pink or whatever flower decides to paint the […]

She was about eight years old, chattering to her mother, telling her that now she was growing bigger and her legs were becoming stronger, she could walk for any distance. There was no need for the child’s mother to worry that they had quite a long distance to cover before they could sit down and […]