Shared on 2025-10-30 16:20:42 AEDT by Marea Roberts
I feel deep gratitude for our Pilgrimage of Hope. The material is inspiring and challenging, (those with whom I have shared it feel likewise), and I will be 'mining' it for some time to come; it has touched me and, hopefully I have grown. In turn, may I strive to 'touch' and comfort the suffering in our world who reach out to me in their need. I know that nothing one does is 'small'.
Shared on 2025-10-28 11:14:50 AEDT by Caroline Coyle
Sister Caroline Coyle has written this wonderful reflection on Hope. She says that hope endures because of the mutuality of Love that prevails.
HOPE-ENDURES-003.pdf
Shared on 2025-10-03 17:17:04 AEST by Jo Dillon
Putting myself into the ditch with the victim and the Samaritan helps me identify my half - dead part that needs hope and new life.
Shared on 2025-09-27 10:22:14 AEST by Theresa Foley
Many thanks to the group young & not so young who have given us so much food for continued thought & reflection. I have extended the material to a number of people including are Mercy associates & friends. It is inspiring to keep being conscious of the glimpses of Hope as I did at a funeral yesterday. To see the beautiful grandchildren with so much life & promise of the future from the wonderful grandfather who was a great sign of hope.
Shared on 2025-09-10 12:34:47 AEST by Jenny Hildebrandt
I have been reflecting today on the 'hugeness' of going on pilgrimage - look too far ahead and it's daunting but focus in on the first step and then the next, it's easy, and eventually you turn around to see how far you've come. I'm trying to take this approach in life's journey and am deliberately stopping to take a photo everyday of some small thing that captures my attention. It could be the book I'm reading, the meal I've prepared, a member of my family or something in nature. I hope then I will look back at this year's daily photos and appreciate the journey it's been!
Shared on 2025-09-05 10:22:46 AEST by Margaret Scroope
This photo is of part of a full rainbow which appeared before us as we were driving through the NSW tablelands district a couple of weeks ago. It was a moment of breathtaking beauty taking me by surprise. How many pilgrims encounter nature’s wonders- the rainbow, the full moon, the small brook, the strike of lightening! The ‘heart leaps high’ and one is filled with gratitude for such simple yet profound gifts. And gratitude ‘becomes the ground in which hope blossoms into love’.
Shared on 2025-08-12 16:27:08 AEST by MARY NUTTALL
My reflection relates to a 'Pilgrimage' that I undertook some years ago on Gambier Island off the coast of Vancouver.
MY-PILGRIMAGE-ON-GAMBIER-ISLAND-OFF-THE-COAST-OF-VANCOUVER.docx
Shared on 2025-08-08 11:56:06 AEST by Helen Owens
The video 'easing a child's pain, one step (stitch) at a time' affected me deeply. Simply by viewing the video and entering into it, I was able to feel the children's pain. I chose to sit with the pain and found that I was blanketed by love. Karl Rahner tells us that "God's gift to us is God's self - which is LOVE." That gift to me today cannot be held tightly by me for too long. It can be felt deeply and treasured. Feeling the pain and the love must mingle together to somehow make the world a better place. How exactly this will happen is, on one level, the act of Divine Mystery. more to come.
Shared on 2025-08-08 10:56:11 AEST by Margie Abbott
Thanks so much to the team who produced the August resources for our journey together. Rich with images reflections songs and actions. Feeling blessed. Thank you.
Shared on 2025-08-01 10:34:31 AEST by Breda O'Reilly
When I read the question ‘What memories of your past pilgrimages or journeys are arising?’ I thought of what I wrote when I was invited to talk to a Yr 12 group at Mercedes College.
Memories-of-a-Past-Pilgrimage-by-Sister-Breda-OReilly-Updated.pdf
Shared on 2025-08-01 10:24:10 AEST by Mary Corkeron
This poem is by a friend in Grenfell. Came across it when getting rid of Cumber!!!
Letting-Go-of-Cumber.pdf
Shared on 2025-07-26 11:45:56 AEST by Margie Abbott
Reading the stories shared this month warmed me up to value that every step forward requires a letting go to what was. I am so moved to hear the stories of leaving Ireland and what that costs. My experiences of packing and moving remind me of being asked to shift house every year for seven years in a row when I left the novitiate. The wrench of getting to know people and then to move on does have a grief to it. Nowadays, I am aware of how many internal shifts I have made in my life. John O'Donohue says: "Every time you leave home, another road takes you into a world you were never in."
