Welcome!

London always had the inspirational and creative capacity and potential for uniting so many of Jesus Christ's flock, as God sent so many of His children to be able to share their gifts freely in this city, and from here to spread the good news through our own example also into the rest of the world that the kingdom of God is indeed near.

We all have to take up our responsibility by leading our lives in holiness, transparency and accountability, but foremost by selflessly serving God, as it is not enough just to be a good person but to surrender one's life as a Catholic to the truth and to justice for the one holy nation, which is so wonderfully represented in this city.

May this New Year be a year for all its citizens to offer their spiritual gifts voluntarily from their heart, wherever and in whatever way God needs them to be used. We only need to listen to Jesus Christ and open our eyes and ears with a truly loving heart, and we will see and hear, where His flock is in distress and needs us. Often we hear His voice but we choose to ignore it because what He has to say does not seem compatible with our life styles or situation. If we are not willing to give up our lives at a moment's instance, if He asks us to, we are not really following in His footsteps.

Instead of hoarding money and property out of greed, share them with those, who need it. We can only help each other to grow spiritually in our faith in society, if we are not blinded by narrowmindedness and selfishness, and we are called to stand up to corruption and lawlessness and notoriety,as they are against God's commandments. We have the duty to serve God in either blessed voluntary celibacy or in holy matrimony and to raise children as holy children in our community together as a family, and not to give into immorality.

Every thriving family blossoms under the caring love of a celibate sister, cousin, auntie, uncle and widows and widowers, as they can use all their gifts to shower selflessly upon Jesus Christ's family of holy souls, who gather in His Name to help also in the wider world, as, after all, to say it with St John Donne: 'No man is an island!!!'

I urge you to live your life in holiness in faith, hope and trust with all your heart and soul and to serve God in all ways you are being granted. Every skill and talent and dream and kind thought or the courage to stand up for truth and justice is a most precious gift of heaven, and everybody, who surrenders their life, will receive manifold gifts, in order to heal with them any man-made rifts and to each bring about in our own lives to holiness all necessary shifts, and thus all evil of the devil automatically into its own nothingness drifts. Don't give room for sin but wish for the best and do what you can and go any extra-mile for your next of kin, and that is every repentant soul, who wants to fulfill on earth as in heaven their holy role in the eternal community of saints.

God bless you!

Mother Sigrid ELIORA (OHR)
 

Mother Sigrid Agocsi
Mother Superior
Order of the Holy Rose (OHR)

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KATHOLIKOS: universal

KY RIAKE: belonging to the Lord

ECCLESIA: the gathering of the holy souls in the Name of Jesus Christ