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WELCOME
to the Holy Faith Network Ireland website |
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have much pleasure in welcoming you to this new
website for the Holy Faith Network. While we already
have an international Holy Faith website at
www.holyfaithsisters.net, it is hoped that this new
venture will strengthen the Associate and Prayer
Associate branches here in Ireland, and give them
an opportunity to share more easily and have news
of events more rapidly. |
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Index
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News |
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Focus & Direction |
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Reflection |
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Coming Up |
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Archives |
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As
we also have associates in Trinidad, the U.S.
and Australia/New Zealand, it is hoped that in
time all Holy Faith associates and prayer associates
will have the opportunity to be more aware of
each other's activities. |
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Many
visiting this website will know us already ...
some of you will be meeting us for the first time.
You are all most welcome and thank you for visiting
our website
and we hope you enjoy learning about our Holy
Faith spirit and heritage.
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Sr.
Evelyn Greene - Regional Leader |
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May the blessings of Pentecost abide in you! |
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Come, Holy Spirit,
transform my heart into
a Prayer Room,
an Upper Room,
a Pentecost Place! |
| [Pentecost Novena - Fr. Jack McArdle ss.cc] |
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Advance Notice: |
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Vocations Discernment
Gatherings |
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September 2009,
January and May 2010 |
| [Dates and venues will be announced later] |
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| Our Holy Faith Network Mission |
| Our Core Purpose |
We use our energies and resources to
develop and support ministries and activities
that make Faith relevant in the contemporary world
by providing meaningful opportunities for people
to connect Faith and Life
and deepen the
spiritual dimension and quality of their lives. |
| Our deeper Purpose in the World |
In the spirit of Margaret Aylward
we are inspired to live Gospel values in our time
to help create a just world
in which people are attuned to God's presence and
to the sacred interconnectedness of all creation. |
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Introducing Ourselves
The Holy Faith Network consists
of the Holy Faith Sisters, Holy Faith Associates,
our Prayer Associates, colleagues, past-pupils, family and friends. The bond which unites
us is the inspiration of the vision and charism
of Margaret Aylward, foundress of the Holy Faith
Congregation. |
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Faith Sisters
Margaret Aylward,
a Waterford woman, founded the Congregation of
the Sisters of the Holy Faith in the 1850s in
post-Famine Ireland. The mission of the congregation
finds expression in active compassion for the
poor, especially for children in danger of loss
of faith. Ministries at home and abroad are now
very diversified but all are inspired by the desire
to
"proclaim
the love and truth of Jesus to and with the people
of our day." |
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Faith Prayer Associates
The Holy Faith Prayer Associates
in Ireland were established in 1989 from among
the relatives, friends, past-pupils and colleagues
of the sisters. They remember the sisters and
their ministries in prayer.
All
Holy Faith communities too commit themselves to
pray for the intentions of the Prayer Associates. |
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Faith Associates
The inspiration to form the Holy
Faith Associates in 1992 came from a deeper awareness
of our common call, common mission and our responsibility
to work and grow together in faith.
Associates
meet together several times a year for prayer,
spiritual input, sharing and support and attend
many Holy Faith events with the sisters.
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Faith Past Pupils
The Holy Faith Past Pupils' Union was founded in 1934, its purpose being to bring together past-pupils of all Holy Faith Schools to foster a spirit of friendship and loyalty among them, to support the work of Catholic education and other Holy Faith ministries and to keep in touch with their former teachers.
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The Union have varied events during the year including a retreat, celebration dinners and socials, golf classic, fund-raiser table quiz for the Pearse Square Life Centre, annual Mass for deceased members and AGM.
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