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.
Whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Pray then in this way:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one. For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
