Convent Life

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Ductus est in desertum

Ductus est Jesus in desertum a Spiritu Sancto ut tentaretur a diabolo. The Church solemnly launches the Holy season of Lent with the Gospel of Our Lord’s temptation in the desert, taking up where she … Read more

Foundresses’ Day

This year, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Irish Dominican nuns to New Zealand – from which our little Congregation takes its origin. It was 7:30am, 18th February 1871, when the … Read more

The Reality of Purgatory

Purgatory is a supernatural reality that exceeds our reason. We know about it because God has revealed it to us, but it remains very mysterious. We will only understand what Purgatory really is after we … Read more

Devotion to the Holy Souls

Mother Francis Raphael Drane, in her celebrated book The Spirit of the Dominican Order Illustrated from the Lives of its Saints, begins the chapter on Dominican devotion to the Souls in Purgatory as such: There … Read more

Christ is King, Now and Forever

Almighty and everlasting God, Who in Thy beloved Son, the King of the whole world, hast willed to restore all things, mercifully grant that all the families of nations now kept apart by the wound … Read more

Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces

Excerpts from the Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII: IUCUNDA SEMPER EXPECTATIONE, September 8, 1894 The recourse we have to Mary in prayer follows upon the office she continuously fills by the side of the throne … Read more

Loreto

In this poor room, now lavishly decorated by grateful pilgrims and devout Catholics, we recall to mind the great mystery of the Incarnation. “Hic Verbum caro factum est.” Thus are the words inscribed upon the … Read more

Moving

King St Louis has the distinction of being the only French King to be canonised (he was also a personal friend of St Thomas Aquinas!). His memory will no doubt be more dear to us, … Read more