CAFOD has launched an innovative Gap Year leadership scheme, supported by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, to offer ten-month placements to 18 to 30-year-olds. The new scheme is called “Step into the Gap” and is promoted as “a year out experience … that goes beyond the guidebooks.” Successful applicants work with communities first […]
A Love Full of Action: The Life and Work of Cornelia Connelly
The European province commissioned a DVD to mark the 200th anniversary of Cornelia Connelly’s birth. The DVD gives a clear and moving account of Cornelia’s challenging life before showing how her spirit and her educational vision are still very much alive today. The schools of the Holy Child network are featured as well as members […]
Review of A Love Full of Action
Professor Paul Crossley from the Courtauld Institute in London wrote of the DVD, A Love Full of Action, First, this is such a sympathetic and at times moving script, beautifully read by Sara Mohr-Pietsch – whose voice is not ‘posh’ but real and clear. And then the music! I hadn’t heard Britten’s Metamorphosis for solo […]
Monthly Meditation – September 2014
The Decree Declaring Cornelia
The Cause – where are we? To review briefly how the Canonization Process works – I. The Bishop of the Diocese where the person died asks permission of Rome to introduce the Cause for canonization. When permission is granted, the interested parties begin to collect all the writings of the Servant of God and identify […]
