Born at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Dominican Margaret Mary Hallahan enriched Catholic Church in England in the fields of education of the young and care of the infirm, in the years following Catholic Emancipation. These pages provide evidence of Margaret's staunch faith as well as pointing to the energetic drive she brought to different ministries.
Prayerful, Bible-based reflections on God's fathomless love and mercy, to be pondered and prayed over as helps to plumb the depths of the mystery of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
In these pages, the reader will come to appreciate how the extended reading of passages from the Old Testament, in the light of the Paschal Candle, creates a sense of expectancy.
This book offers 26 funeral services, each on a specific theme – half of them written to refer to the phase of life at which a person died. The book also includes four Remembrance Liturgies, as well as four Rites of Committal, 12 Prayer Services, and 16 Reflections, many of which did not appear in the earlier work.
Two Dominican Martyrs: The Lives of Peter Higgins and Terence Albert O'Brien
This book details the lives of Peter Higgins and Terence Albert O’Brien, two Irish martyrs who were executed for their Catholic faith in the early 17th century. Beatified in 1992 by Pope John Paul II, their courage in the face of intense persecution remains a powerful testament to their steadfast faith. In their prefaces, Bishop Laurence Ryan and Archbishop Dermot Clifford highlight the enduring local devotion to these Blesseds in Kildare and Tipperary, while Bishop Walton Empey emphasizes the ecumenical significance of Peter Higgins’ life. Their story is an important part of Irish martyrdom, celebrated each year on November 1, alongside All Saints' Day.
'What is a Benedictine?' There are many ways to answer that question, but none of them is very clear-cut. In this book, Terence approaches the Benedictine Rule by employing a combination of literary-historical analysis of the text with reflection based on practical experience.
The Certainty of Being Loved traces the spiritual journey of Pierre Claverie op, born in 1938 in Algiers, the fourth generation of a family of European settlers.
Pierre joined the Dominicans in France and his conversion experience enabled him to cross the boundaries of difference and deepen his Christian commitment. It would eventually lead him to offer his life as a ransom for peace and reconciliation between Christians and Muslims.
"The Algerian martyr Blessed Pierre Claverie is one of the great witnesses of our time, deserving of a place next to Oscar Romero or Dietrich Bonhoeffer, yet is little known so far in the wider Church." - Austin Ivereigh
A Hundred Roads to Here is a book for struggling meditators.
The wish to meditate may be strong and persistent, but there are many impediments. Every meditator knows them. They present themselves in random ways, and this book is for dipping into at random. Though they are numbered, the sections are in no particular order. They are not points to ponder during meditation, because meditation is inner silence. They were written in response to requests from individuals and groups for brief inputs at the beginning of their meditation sessions; they are not meant to lead to further reflection, but to silence, and to the meditative state which is never more than a breath away.
‘Cleanliness is next to… impossible,’ said the little boy, struggling to remember the maxim. We learn to live with mess, because life is mostly messy, but we need to do so as thoughtfully as we can, with hope and with good grace.
In this book the author tries to gather for the modern reader some of the hard-earned wisdom of Christian writers, and others, who knew tragedy and chaos in their own time, and who can therefore credibly persuade us to go on.
Join Archbishop Richard Clarke on a journey of spiritual exploration as he invites readers to treat life as an adventure and break out of complacent faith. With sparkling insights and humour, he reflects on the importance of questioning, risk, and grace in being a disciple of Jesus, drawing on scripture, church history, literature, and more.
