Month: January 2020

On the 30th January 1645, Mary Ward died peacefully. At that time, the burial of Catholics in England was difficult. Mary’s companions found ‘a little churchyard, where the minister was honest enough to be bribed.’ This minister was an Anglican minister in the village of Osbaldwick, near Heworth. On her tombstone, we can read this

Receiving compassion from another is a human, life giving desire. We live in a world full of so many problems; illness, poverty, family struggles, natural disasters, war and social problems. We cannot change all of them, but if we responded, each one of us, even a little, with generous kindness, if we are compassionate, the

When I reflect on Mary Ward and the 21st century, I think of the gift of friendship. I feel her message to “let your love at all times be rooted in God, and then remain faithful to your friends, value them highly, even more highly than your life” will renew us in these times. At

We have often heard people say, ‘behind every successful man there is a woman.’ Did we ever stop to think about the vice versa – who is there behind every successful woman? No one. Why? The reason behind this is that from ancient times our society has been a male chauvinistic society. But then, there

Mary Ward had  courage  as  she  listened  to  God’s  dream  unfold  for  her.  She listened to God’s call and courageously responded. ‘Jesus’ she heard, ‘Jesus’ she repeated. She listened to His deep dream within her, courageously following where He led – over the seas to St Omer, seeking His will only, seeking His truth alone.

From time immemorial women wanted to be beautiful in order to be loved or to have power, but until the last century they had no right to express their inner beauty through art. That was an area reserved for men. Mary Ward was beautiful according to the description in her biography, but not only in

Mary Ward is a role model for modern social workers and all people who want to commit themselves to the path of support, advocacy, and re-socialization of the individual who has lost his/her way and needs assistance to find their true selves once again. The essence and the foundation of Mary Ward’s worldview is forgiveness,

Writing to the Ephesians St. Paul says… “to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and

The subject of this years Mary Ward week is: Mary Ward – a special gift to our world. In the introdocution to the booklet with input for each day of the Mary Ward Week 2020, Sr Prabina IBVM and Sr Manjusha CJ from India, who put the booklet together, write: Mary Ward is a special