God’s Work

God’s Work

Sr Abbie O’Sullivan recalls how Lady Frances Moloney and twelve companions began their training one hundred years ago in February 1922 as members of the Missionary Sisters of St Columban. People’s activity is usually their response to the historical situations in...
Christmas Reflection from the Far East magazine

Christmas Reflection from the Far East magazine

She was a young Jewish girl who was engaged to the young village carpenter. Her parents, Anna and Joachim, were very happy with her choice. Mary loved Joseph who was an upright man, gentle, well known and well liked in the village. He made the best furniture and farm...
Reflection : September/October 2021 Far East magazine

Reflection : September/October 2021 Far East magazine

All you who seek a comfort sure in trouble and distress Whatever sorrows vex your mind or guilt your soul oppress Jesus who gave Himself for you upon the Cross to die Opens to you His Sacred Heart Oh, to that Heart draw near. If I could stand before the crucifixion of...
Reflection in May/June 2021 Far East magazine

Reflection in May/June 2021 Far East magazine

Jeremiah is one of the prophets of the Old Testament. He never wanted to be a prophet and he protested against the call of Yahweh/God. He lived at the time of the last days of Jerusalem’s monarchy and he reluctantly proclaimed a message of destruction. But in spite of...
Reflection for 2021

Reflection for 2021

We have now entered a New Year – 2021. It doesn’t seem long ago since we entered a new millennium, writes Sr Abbie O’Sullivan. How time has flown by. ‘Tempus fugit’ as the ancient philosophers proclaimed. How everything has changed during the past...