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IS CONFIRMATION A SACRAMENT OF FAREWELL ?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

THE COMING DOWN
of the Holy Spirit on Our Lady and the Apostles happened 50 days after Easter and is called the Feast of Pentecost or Whit Sunday.
I am a Daughter of the Holy Spirit.  Pentecost means a lot to us.  Convents which are with easy distance of each other always come together for a celebratory [...]

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I WANT TO RETURN !

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I JUST CAN’T WAIT to get back to my Bosnian refugees!  A sudden and unexpected opportunity came last Saturday night  and so with two wonderful friends, Anne and Ted, I fly out  on Thursday (21st May).   The refugees are in Tasovcici Camp only 8 miles from Our Lady’s Shrine in Medjugorje.
Sometimes they feel that [...]

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PROCLAMATION OF THE RESURRECTION

Posted in Liturgical / Spiritual Comment, tagged , on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

THIS MONTH  we are invited to join Pope Benedict’s prayer intention . . .

‘That Christians may not tire of proclaiming with their lives that Christ’s resurrection is the source of hope and peace’.
Straight after Jesus’s death, his closest friends, convinced that he had left them forever, turned back to their old lives in [...]

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FROM HELEN WITH LOVE

Posted in Helen's Church on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Hello again from Sr. Josephine!
To continue Helen’s little story about her lovely church she built in Bosnia, she
reported last time on some of her touching benefactors, I want to actually show you her church building, as it really is a gem, and thank all the other benefactors too of course.   You could go and [...]

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HE HAS NO HANDS BUT OURS . . .

Posted in Helen's Church on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

THE  NEXT  STEP was to send out the wonderful 3000 appeal sheets.
‘He has no hands but ours’.
The first 100 sheets were posted mainly to teachers (We thought we would get  an instant response from them!).  But life is not always like this;  sometimes we must be patient and wait God’s time.  However, after [...]

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ROSARY and THE MONTH OF MARY

Posted in Helen's Church on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

MAY  IS  THE  MONTH  OF  MARY
The wonderful refugees at the Tasovcivci Refugee Camp  (so close to Our Lady’s Shrine in Medjugorje)  teach us so much and never fail to inspire us with their strong faith.
God and Our Lady mean so much to them and some of them say the family rosary every night.   One can’t [...]

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