by admin | Jun 4, 2012 | Africa, Overseas Volunteering, Volunteering
You couldn’t have planned it if you tried. After a very long drive and a good night’s sleep I’m up and wandering around the Holy Family Centre with Sr. Susan. There are children running around, playing football or simply chatting with one another. As I turn the corner...
by admin | May 31, 2012 | Africa, Overseas Volunteering, Prophetic, Solidarity, Volunteering
There’s a clock on the office wall of the Tshwaranang Hospice and Care Centre that advertises the services of a local funeral director. It’s a sombre reminder of the reality facing South Africa in light of the HIV / AIDS crisis. But in a place that could...
by admin | May 26, 2012 | Africa, Our Different Ministries, Overseas Volunteering, Volunteering
By my very nature I’m not a nervous passenger. In fact I love travelling. I love the sights, trying the food, making new friends, and experiencing different cultures! But by any measure this trip has gotten off to a rocky start. I’m sitting in Cork Airport...
by admin | May 21, 2012 | Africa, Ireland, Our Values, Overseas Volunteering, Prophetic, Solidarity, UK, Volunteering
“If you don’t have it, don’t spend it.” As far as common sense goes it doesn’t get any more self evident than that. But are there certain things that are absolutely essential, things that we cannot abandon, without sacrificing values that...
by admin | May 4, 2012 | Africa, America, Ireland, UK
There’s an App apparently for everything. There is no aspect of our lives, no matter how obscure, how bizarre that doesn’t have an associated smart phone feature that can make our lives more hassle free. Today I found out that these handy features now...
by admin | Mar 20, 2012 | Africa, America, Ireland, UK
I remember living in our parish in St. Albans when the British Humanist Association’s bus advertising campaign came out. Eight hundred buses ran throughout the UK for a number of weeks with the slogan, ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and...