Prayer
Words from The Heart
August 30, 2015
It’s Autumn
It’s autumn again. I felt that “new breeze” a little while ago and knew autumn wasn’t far away. I look outside the window today, as I write this, and see the tall maple tree beginning to change colour.
September 1, 2015
Familiar Things
We celebrate the feasts of various Benedictine Saints throughout the year and they are always a source of great joy to me. I even like choir practice when we prepare for the liturgy of these great days!
January 9, 2016
The Empty Room
I had to clean a floor in an empty room at the Abbey a couple of months ago. The room is at one end of the building and since it was work time, no one was within co-ee. The rest of the nuns were all working in silence at the other end...
January 9, 2016
The Year of Mercy
What is mercy? What can we bring as we go through the year of mercy? Here's Sr Hilda Scott of Jamberoo Abbey sharing few messages you can carry with you into the Year of Mercy.
December 25, 2015
It’s Christmas
What are you doing this Christmas? Have you visited Jesus and given Him a birthday present?
December 11, 2015
Blessed are the pure of heart
Listen to Sr Hilda giving a reflection just before exposition of the blessed sacrament in ACYF (Australian Catholic Youth Festival) evening plenary on 4 Dec.
September 5, 2015
The Farm House
One of the things I really like to do, (and rarely ever do) is to amble along a back road in the country somewhere. Perhaps it is part of my own genetic makeup and a throw back to my droving forebears!
September 4, 2015
God Is Love
“God is Love” St. John tells us and we have many variations on what that might look like and mean. For some it appears as rain watering our lives. For others it conjures up the images of a ...
September 1, 2015
Lights in the Trees
I was sitting in our Church - it was morning and the sun was rising - the seasonal winds upon us. The sunlight was sparkling in the trees and the light was literally dancing in front of me as the winds threw the light from one leaf to another.
August 30, 2015
The Locked Room
If some of us have lived long enough, we can find that there is much in our lives to regret. Mistakes, sins, times when we have let the side down and the constant companion of our own weakness sometimes weigh heavily upon us.
