REFLECTIONS

The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress, like moving on.

LAUREN OLIVER

All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI

O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

PSALM 104:24

The entire material universe speaks of God’s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God.

POPE FRANCIS, LAUDATO SI’ §84

Everything is connected. Concern for the environment thus needs to be joined to a sincere love for our fellow human beings and an unwavering commitment to resolving the problems of society.

LAUDATO SI’ §91 The ecological crisis is a summons to profound interior conversion… Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.

LAUDATO SI’ §217

What kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us, to children who are now growing up?

LAUDATO SI’ §160

The climate crisis is a deeply spiritual crisis… Our faith offers us a wonderful vision to rekindle these relationships, to renew a childlike sense of awe, wonder and beauty and thus set out in living the first commandment God gave to us, to be guardians and protectors of this beautiful world, not its polluters and destroyers.

ARCHBISHOP DERMOT FARRELL

Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time.

HEBREW PROVERB

Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with it, we close our minds to our responsibility to ourselves – and to others – to keep on growing.

JOAN CHITTISTER Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.

BILL NYE

Children are not things to be moulded but are people to be unfolded.

JESS LAIR

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

FRED ROGERS

Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her.

WISDOM 6:12

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking… We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Our Pocket Prayer books are designed to be used in a wide range of occasions. Their compact size makes them ideal for use at any time and in any place, whenever you need a little bit of prayerful inspiration. Great prayer resources for church bookstands and repositories. Generous discounts on bulk purchases.

A wonderful companion for all who take part in Eucharistic Devotion and for those who like to visit to the Blessed Sacrament.

Meditations on the messages contained in the icon of the Mother of Perpetual Help and simple prayers after each meditation.

Prayers, scripture and quotations offering support for women moving through diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer.

Beautiful prayers and reflections based on the life of this wonderful saint, the patron of expectant mothers and babies. Ideal for family prayer.

St Gerard is the patron of expectant mothers and those who long to conceive. This booklet includes a variety of prayers, psalms and hymns. A popular collection of prayers and reflections for moments in the day and moments in life.

An updated version of the prayer and hymn booklet widely used at Redemptorist missions and novenas. Perfect for personal and communal prayer

Beautifully illustrated book which helps those praying the Rosary to reflect more deeply and meaningfully. Ideal for individual, family or group prayer.