The OLA Blog
Stories, reflections, and updates from our mission and community life. Here we share reflections, insights and experiences, believing that the simple act of sharing can inspire, connect, and open hearts.
OLA Sisters Co-Found New Irish Antenna of AEFJN
In July 2021, the OLA Sisters Irish Province, in collaboration with other Religious Congregations, co-founded a new Antenna, or branch, of the Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network - AEFJN. In September, the new Antenna decided to join the Irish Coalition on...
A Life of Mission is a Life of Love
“Mission is never the fruit of a perfectly planned program or a well-organized manual. Mission is always the fruit of a life which knows what it is to be found and healed, encountered and forgiven. Mission is born of a constant experience of God’s merciful...
The New Face of Mission
A reflection by Maria Agonoke MSHR. Maria is a Missionary Sister of the Holy Rosary, born in Nigeria and currently on mission in Kenya. Mission, Give and Take (Paradigm Shift in Mission) Introduction The Church by its nature is missionary. Very...
Great Things Happen when God Mingles with Human Beings
Great things happen when God mingles with human beings and prayer is that channel where this meeting of the Divine and the human comes alive. The story of the captivity and miraculous release of Fr Pierluigi (Gigi) Maccalli (SMA) from his abductors after two years of...
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,...
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