Category: Catholic Life Blog

Pause For Prayer Blog – Laudato Si Week – 21/05/2020

This week has been designated Laudato Si' Week.  We are asked to pray about caring for Our Common Home.  The weeklong celebration is to honour Pope Francis’ writing on ecology and climate change, and to encourage us to build a better world…

This Blog post is Strange Times by Fr Sean from Our Lady of Lourdes 

Strange Times” - words we have being hearing regularly over the past few months.  Our present times are indeed strange and unfamiliar - the coronavirus has changed our lives and our world. 

For myself here at Our Lady of…

Keeping Faith Alive

Before Pope Francis was Pope Benedict, and for the 27 years before that our Pope was John Paul the Second (JPII).

As with all Popes, he was an incredible human being and there are so many things about him that brought joy to my faith and which I would like to share with…

The Power of Prayer

During these times, I am finding that prayer is a vital part of keeping positivity up. If there are thoughts or struggles, I am having I offer them up to the Lord in prayer. This being said, I know that churches aren’t open for public masses, but this doesn’t mean the Church…

“Rosary and Significance”

Every Thursday in the chapel, we have a rosary club. Every week, we pray a different decade of the rosary and delve into its significance, so we truly think about what we are praying. We are guided through the rosary and it allows us to give the prayer its true value…