We have…

…some excess baby items that we’d be happy to give to a good home (we’re having some storage issues at the moment). These are: 2x baby carriers, 4x baby walkers, 3x door swings, also several toilet traing seats, potties, booster seats (for sitting at the dinner table) and bath seats.

If you’re in the Glasgow area and interested or know someone who might be, get in touch on 0141 433 2680.

Thank you and God bless.

UPDATE 26/06/08: All items are now gone.

Seven Last Words at St Mungo’s

Apologies for the somewhat intermittent nature of recent posting, we’re having some technical difficulties which will hopefully be resolved soon.

In the mean time here’s a link to the recently uploaded ‘Seven Last Words’ meditations fromGood Friday at  St Mungo’s in Townhead.  Sr Andrea joined members of the Passionist community, giving the reflection on “Today you will be with me in Paradise”. You can hear all of the meditations here, courtesy of Sermo Crucis.

 

Facebook

Some time ago, we (along with half the world it seems) signed up as something as an experiment. Unfortunately that experiment has come to an end.

This is not an ideological statement - we’re just not very good at this Facebook business, and as we don’t really spend that much time online, we don’t check it very often. This isn’t fair to those who attempt to contact us, so we’ve decided to return to more familiar means of communication.

Thank you to all who added us as friends and do keep in touch - the Initiative’s Facebook group will remain active and we’ll still be updating the blog (hopefully a bit more regularly!) so keep watching. If you want to get in touch it can be done either through this blog or using the contact details in the sidebar.

Would anyone like..?

Unusually, we’re not scrounging but rather have some things to give away. If you’re in Glasgow and have access to transport we have a knitting machine, an electric cooker and a computer (it’s not broadband-ready, it doesn’t have an ethernet connection) looking for good homes. If you’re interested, email us for more details. Thank you and God bless.

Belated Easter greetings…

He is risen!

 

We hope that this Easter has been a time of great joy and peace for all of our readers. You are all in our prayers. God bless!

Final talk

The final talk in the Meaning of Life series will take place tomorrow (Sunday 25 November). Alison Simith will give a talk entiltled ‘Called to discipleship’. As usual, 7pm, 104 Albert Road.

Busy, busy.

Apologies for the lack of recent posts - the last few days have seen a stepping up in preparations for our annual Advent Bazaar, which will take place on Saturday 1 December. The Initiative has been a hive of activity as we’ve been organizing the various elements of the day’s activities.

This has been our main focus of late, but here’s a quick summary of a few other things that have been going on.

Sr Andrea celebrated her thirty-third birthday on Sunday.  The count down has been a running joke in the office over the last few weeks and we’ve already started the next one - only 360 sleeps to go!

Sr Roseann left today for a visit to Rome, where she will be speaking to students at the Pontifical Scots College next week. She will then travel to London for a meeting of the trustees of the FAITH Movement.

We’ve started the process of assembling the various Christmas gifts we give to the families we work with - a considerable task that will continue throughout the coming weeks.

Birthday girl

Friends of the Cardinal Winning Pro-Life Initiative

Our work here at the Initiative relies very much on the constant goodwill and prayers of our many generous friends and supporters. It would be impossible for us to continue without the people who give us their time, their support and their prayers.

In recognition of this fact we maintain a database of contacts, to whom we send our news, notification of up-coming events and most importantly, requests for prayers.

As well as one annual mailing, we send occasional emails and text messages - usually detailing talks and other events here at the Initiative or asking for prayers for the women we work with.

Many of you will already be among those who receive these updates, by post, email or text message, but if you would like to be added please send your details to info@prolifeinitiative.org, stating the means by which you would like to keep in touch.

Thank you and God bless.

Knights of St Columba

On Sunday the Sisters attended Mass with delegates at the Supreme Council of the Knights of St Columba in Glasgow.

The Mass was celebrated by the Rt Rev. Bishop Malcolm McMahon OP.  At the end of the Mass, Bishop McMahon and Supreme Knight, Br John Doran presented Sr Roseann with the Michael Bell Memorial Award, a world-wide award of the International Alliance of Catholic Knights for ’Initiatives for Life’.

The award came as a complete, though extremely pleasant, surprise and and Sr Roseann was honoured to receive such a prestigious award from an organization that we hold in such great esteem - the Knights have been a constant source of support in the work that we do here.

Supreme Knight Brother John Doran, Sr Roseann, Sr Andrea and Mrs Margaret Doran.

Happy Birthday Joe!

Happy Birthday to Joe Reddy, Sr Roseann’s father, who turns 85 today!

Joe with Sr Andrea