Shannonbridge Pottery, a family-run business, has created, a beautiful ‘Calm the Soul’ tea set. It is now available for individual shoppers or retailers at:
https://shannonbridgepottery.ie/calm-the-soul/
The set is available in its entirety or as individual pieces.
Any or all of the pieces can be bought by retailers who will be listed here as they become known to us.
A percentage of every piece of pottery sold will contribute to the upkeep of our monastery. Our thanks go to Charlie and Maria for for using their skill and creativity to spread the Calm the Soul message!
Designed with input from the sisters and using our sister's original drawing, the set also includes a quotation from the end of St. Matthew's Gospel: "I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS", a message we need to hear over and over again. This word of the Lord sums up the substance of the 'Calm the Soul' book: God is near us and is for us. The idea of reading a book over a cup of coffee or sharing a cuppa with a friend very much evokes the idea of the warmth, closeness, love and friendship which is at the root of God's relationship with us and underpins the message of the book. The great Catholic social activist-and now candidate for sainthood- Dorothy Day understood this well when she said: “My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the Psalms.”
We pray that all those who encounter this word of God 'I am with you always' in the ordinariness of having a cup of tea or coffee may experience tha Lord's presence with them in a powerful and real way.
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, the truth;
Where there is doubt, the faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
