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CELEBRATE CREATION: Season of Creation Draws to a Close
As we continue our journey to an Integral Ecology, we share with you Pope Francis’s video which invites us to join the Laudato Si’ Action Platform. Caring for our brothers and sisters means caring for the home we share. This responsibility is “essential to a life of...
Eileen Cummins OLA Shares a Reflection for Mission Month
During the month of October we remember in our prayers all Missionaries and missions throughout the world. We also celebrate the Feast of the Holy Rosary on the 7th of October – the Mission Rosary which gathers the five continents together in prayer around Mary...
Organization Founded by Kathleen McGarvey OLA to Receive Aachen Peace Prize
Members of WIC in attendance at a recent executive meeting (photo courtesy of WIC Facebook page)‘Women of Faith, Mothers of a Culture of Peace’ When on mission in Kaduna, the now Irish Provincial leader of the OLA, Sr Kathleen McGarvey, founded the Women’s...
RIP Sr Catherine Devane OLA
Sr Catherine Devane was called home to God on Friday 17th September 2021 at Ardfoyle Convent. Formerly of Barrow, Ardfert, Co. Kerrym, Sr Catherine is deeply mourned by her nieces Anna Devane Porter and Elizabeth Hawkes, her relatives, friends and the Sisters of Our...
Announcing the Cork Conference on Intergenerational Climate Justice 2021
PRESS RELEASE The second CORK CONFERENCE ON INTERGENERATIONAL CLIMATE JUSTICE “Hope for the Future: System Change, Not Climate Change” An dara Comhdháil Chorcaí faoi Cheartas Aeráide Idirghlúine “Dóchas don Todhchaí : Athrú Córais, Ní Athrú Aeráide” Date: Thursday,...
Prayer for Season of Creation 2021
Creator of All, We are grateful that from your communion of love you created our planet to be a home for all. By your Holy Wisdom you made the Earth to bring forth a diversity of living beings that filled the soil, water and air. Each part of creation praises you in...
Joint Appeal for Care for Creation by Church Leaders
Pope Francis, together with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Justin Welby have for the first time come together to jointly appeal to people to do what they can for the future of our planet. They have called for us all to pray during this Season of...
Jubilee Celebration in Ardfoyle – September 2021
Pictured from left: Maria Lee OLA, Mairéad Hickey OLA, Eileen Cummins OLA, Stephanie Green OLA On Saturday we were blessed to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Sr Mairéad Hickey. Mairéad Hickey OLAKathleen McGarvey OLA and Mairéad Hickey OLAMaria Lee OLA and...
Nature Walks – Tracton Biodiversity Group
Tracton Biodiversiy Group is a local Cork Group collaborating locally to bring attention to biodiversity, identifying needs at local level and linking up individuals with other networks and organisations in support of the biodiversity agenda in Europe. Here they share...
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