1 January/Eanair
World Day of Peace: Theme for 2025: forgive us our trespasses:grant us your peace .
Today we start the new year by celebrating World Day of Peace.
In his 1 January message, Pope Francis
You might like to read the full message yourself, but here’s how it begins:
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All of January…’Have a Green January’
Action:
“Our Moral Imperative of Action on Climate Change-and 3 steps we can take”
An idea…Could you help to start a ‘Care of Creation Group’ in your parish during 2025?
There are plenty of ideas here.
and this wonderful booklet from Laois County Council
6 January/Eanair
Epiphany & Women’s Christmas
Action: Celebrate all women, young and old who are following the star of justice in our global village.
15 January/Eanair
Martin Luther King Day
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. Martin Luther King
Action: Be a voice for justice in your workplace, school, parish….
18-25 January/Eanair
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Theme: “Abide in my love and you shall bear much fruit”,
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in 2021 has been prepared by the Monastic Community of Grandchamp in Switzerland. The theme that was chosen, “Abide in my love and you shall bear much fruit”, is based on John 15:1-17 and expresses Grandchamp Community’s vocation to prayer, reconciliation and unity in the Church and the human family.
Today the community has fifty sisters, all women from different generations, Church traditions, countries and continents. In their diversity the sisters are a living parable of communion. They remain faithful to a life of prayer, life in community and the welcoming of guests. The sisters share the grace of their monastic life with visitors and volunteers who go to Grandchamp for a time of retreat, silence, healing or in search of meaning.
For 2021, the sisters are inviting churches across the world to enter into their tradition of prayer and silence that is rooted in the ancient traditions of the Church catholic.
Action: Why not accept this invitation and take time to pray for Christian Unity across the week.
19 January/Eanair
World Religion Day (Baha’i)
The aim of World Religion Day, held on the third Sunday in January every year, is to promote inter-faith understanding and harmony.
Through a variety of events held around the globe, followers of every religion are encouraged to acknowledge the similarities that different faiths have.
Action: Consider what you can do to foster harmony.
21 January/Eanair
Birth of John Main OSB
“We encounter the living Lord in our own hearts and then find him everywhere: in our lives, relationships, and in the living word of Scripture”.
“Learning to pray is learning to live as fully as possible in the present moment” John Main.
Action: Consider your own call to contemplative prayer, the prayer of the heart.
Visit www.christianmeditation.ie or www.wccm.org or www.thespiritualsolution.com
24 January/Eanair
Foundation Day, Sisters of Bon Secours
Action: Show compassion today.
19th-22nd January/Eanair
Diocesan Mission: Pilgrims of Hope
Action: Consider attending…don’t miss it!
25th January
Laudato Si’ Conference: Seeds of Hope
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25 January/Eanair
Conversion of St. Paul
“Blinded by the light Paul fell to the ground”. Acts 22
Action: Think about an area of YOUR life in need of conversion.
“This (ecological) conversion must be understood in an integral way, as a transformation of how we relate to our sisters and brothers, to other living beings, to creation in all its rich variety and to the Creator who is the origin and source of all life” Pope Francis, Jan 1st 2020
27 January/Eanair
Holocaust Memorial Day, or International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the day that the many governments worldwide, have designated as a day of remembrance for the millions that were murdered by Nazi persecution during the Holocaust. It also remembers those killed through atrocities committed during conflicts in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
From 2005, Holocaust Memorial Day has been commemorated each year on January 27th. This date represents the same day that the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated in 1945.
Don’t be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.