Pause for Prayer

Just to let you know that there will probably be no new reflections coming out until after 11th November, as I am to travel to Nigeria on Thursday 23rd October.
The Pontifical Mission Societies helps to support 194,855 schools, 5,246 hospitals, 17,530 dispensaries and 577 leprosy centres and 80,560 social and pastoral projects in the younger [...]

At a time when Zimbabwe is in the news, there is also the true story…
Below is something I received this morning.
God bless,
Sr Janet
The genuine poor do not mob you and try to twist your arm. They come up to you very quietly, shyly, embarrassed that they have to bother you, as those three women did [...]

 
The old lady has been washing clothes in a wooden tub, balanced precariously on a 3-legged stool. Soap-suds overflow the tub, dripping onto the stone floor beneath. Yet there is no peace. Three small grandchildren, with china mgs and clay pipes have decided that this is the ideal time for blowing bubbles. For a short [...]

October 22nd is the date when the proposed amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill go before the House of Lords. They could become law unless our actions and a miracle happen.
Follow this link for a range of pro-life videos produced by the Christian lawyers’ group, Christian Concern for our Nation (ccfon).
God bless,
Sr Janet

They were a young couple, leaving the hospital hand-in-hand. She was about six months pregnant …and she was crying. He spoke quietly to her as she reached for her handkerchief.
 
Who were they? What had made her cry? Did they have bad news about the baby, or about one of themselves, or about someone else?  Had [...]