April 29th 2012 – Fourth Sunday of Easter – Good Shepherd Sunday Day of Prayer for Vocations
In his poem Under Ben Bulben, Yeats advocates that we sing the holiness of monks. So we should. The holiness of monks, mothers, fathers, married, single, all the baptised. By our common baptism, we are called to be holy, to follow Jesus – whatever other, eventual Christian vocation path we choose to follow. The inscrutable monks who follow the Cistercian vocation rise in the middle of the night to…
April 22nd 2012 – Third Sunday of Easter
Three year old John had just heard his mother read his favourite bedtime story for the third time. Now John really loved this story and always listened in wide-eyed fascination when his mother read it to him. On this particular evening…