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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...
Biodiversity and Chemical Spraying
In this sobering video, Maria Young of Green Spaces for Health explains that the world has entered it's sixth major extinction event, unique, since it is caused by humans. The chemical spraying of crops has a devastating effect on pollination and while it isn't the...
Challenging Plans to Culvert the River Bride in Cork
The River Bride is a tributary of the River Lee on which the beautiful city of Cork is built. The River Bride flows through the area of Blackpool, traditionally a working class area that was, at one time, heavily polluted by industry. The Bride has been re-routed to...
Rewilding and Ecosystems
The common definition of rewilding is to ‘restore (an area of land) to its natural uncultivated state (used especially with reference to the reintroduction of species of wild animal that have been driven out or exterminated). It’s a relatively new word, but is...
Five Days of Action for Biodiversity – Facebook Challenge
To mark the Season of Creation, we are once again hosting the Days of Action for Biodiversity Awareness. The last one was a huge success and a lot of fun. This campaign is a joint effort in collaboration with the Society of African Missions, Elders for Earth, SHEP...
Blessing of the Graves 2021
The Corona-19 pandemic has forced so much change upon us over the last 18 months, not least of which is the gathering in person of our loved ones to mark the milestones of grief. One such milestone is the OLA Biennial Remembrance day that traditionally takes place in...
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