As All Saints day approaches, here’s something I wrote about a woman who (while not officially a saint) helped me a lot about five years ago – although she died 100 years ago. I was in the city for a meeting recently and when it was finished I used the opportunity to visit St Patrick’s at…
The benefit of built-in weekly family time
My column from last week’s Catholic Weekly. “I’ve written my wish list for Santa,” one of my daughters informed me while we drove to school one day last week. It took me a second to remember that this was something they did towards the end of the year. I think it was someone’s classroom activity one…
Jealousy sucks – smother it with gratitude
Jealousy is a destructive anxiety and a poison which divides communities, said Pope Francis recently, and families too I would add. We see its impact in the first pages of the bible, as the reason for Cain’s murder of his brother Abel. And we see it in the news headlines every day. But what about within…
Can furniture be a sacramental, and a little about how the scapular wearing is going
I’m just popping in to say that I’m very happy about this: I know it’s just a dining table and chairs but it’s the first one we’ve bought for ourselves and before this we couldn’t all sit down together to eat at the same time. And the old chairs had a narrow centre of balance so every now…
Marilyn Rodrigues 