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The Anchorage- A Sanctuary of Wisdom and Spirituality offers a whole person-centred approach to learning, growing and personal transformation-A place where we can become our true selves.

18/11/2025

As we move through November, the month when we remember the names of all who have passed over into eternity, let us be mindful of the "thin place" again and be grateful.

This poem by Naomi Shihab Nye pays tribute to all those who have touched our lives and shaped our hearts and invites us to slow down and take a minute to receive those "small baskets" of grace...

Small Basket of Happiness

It would never call your name.
But it would be waiting somewhere close,
perhaps under a crushed leaf
turned from pale green to gold
with no fanfare.
You hadn’t noticed
the gathered hush.
of a season’s tipping.
Shadows flowing past
before any light came up,
people whom only a few
might remember,
so much accompaniment
inside a single breeze.
All whom we loved.
In the quiet air lived
the happiness they had given.
And would still give, if only.
You would slow down a minute.
You would bend.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye

04/11/2025

SAI was founded by a representative group of
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03/11/2025

Monday Morning Reflection

You are the God of every human being
and, too dazzling to be looked at,
you let yourself be seen as in a mirror,
shining on the face of Christ.

We are eager to glimpse
a reflection of your presence,
so open in us the gates of transparency of heart.
Come and refresh
the dry and thirsty ground
of our body and spirit.

Come and place a spring of living water
in the lifeless regions of our being.
Come and bathe us in your confidence
to make even our inner deserts
burst into flower.
~ Br Roger of Taizé

02/11/2025

"Those whom we love and lose are no longer where they were before. They are now wherever we are.” -St. John Chrysostom
🎨 Artwork by: Sister Mary Southard | In the Shelter of Your Wing

02/11/2025

All Souls Day

Remembering and celebrating "those who walked with us" today...

For those
who walked with us,
this is a prayer.

For those
who have gone ahead,
this is a blessing.

For those
who touched and tended us,
who lingered with us
while they lived,
this is a thanksgiving.

For those
who journey still with us
in the shadows of awareness,
in the crevices of memory,
in the landscape of our dreams,
this is a benediction.
~ Jan Richardson

Today's image ~ The Eternal Choir by Australian artist, Di Bresciani, is a beautiful depiction of "the great crowd of witnesses" encompassing us.

01/11/2025

A beautiful rendition of the Catholic Litany of the Saints. This arrangement is perfect for the Rite of Baptism within the Easter Vigil. May all holy men a...

01/11/2025

All Saints
"..we are already the children of God, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been revealed!"

A day for rejoicing over all those who have left us a legacy of a life well lived;
who have made this world a better place.
A day for gratitude for what we have received from God.
A day for gratitude to those who gave us what they had,
did the best they could, perhaps against huge odds;
the forgotten multitudes who lived in quiet fidelity and unrecorded generosity.

A day, too, to be aware that there are so many saints rubbing shoulders with us day after day.
May we see and appreciate the beauty of their lives.

01/11/2025

All Saints Day

In Whom We Live and Move and Have our Being

Birds afloat in air's current,
sacred breath? No. not breath of God.
it seems, but God
the air enveloping the whole
globe of being.
It's we who breathe in, out, in, the sacred,
leaves astir, our wings
rising, ruffled - but only the saints
take flight. We cower
in cliff-crevice or edge out gingerly
on branches close to the nest. The wind
marks the passage of holy ones riding
that ocean of air. Slowly their wake
reaches us, rocks us.
But storm or still,
numb or poised in attention,
we inhale, exhale, inhale,
encompassed, encompassed.
~ Denise Levertov from The Stream and the Sapphire

May all the saints, named and unnamed, breathe in us today and lead us on their updraft to God.

31/10/2025

🎃Happy from the MOTA Team!
🎨 Artwork by: Sister Pat Willems | Pumpkins

20/10/2025

Monday Morning Reflection to celebrate the hours of this new day and week...

O Pilgrim of the Hours
Each morning
night's curtain
opens on a new day.
You are invited
to join the great opening.
Open your ears.
Open your heart.

Open your eyes
to the sacred path
you travel every day,
the path of the hours.

Greet the hours
with joyful awareness.
Greet the hours
with faithful presence.
Greet the hours
with a reverential bow.
Greet the hours
with a sacred pause.

Reverence each hour
as a small stepping stone
on your pilgrimage
through the day.
Receive the gift
of seven sacred pauses.
Practice waking up
seven times a day.

~ Macrina Wiederkehr osb from her book, Seven Sacred Pauses - Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day

15/10/2025

Today is the feast day of St Teresa of Avila.

St Teresa of Jesus was a Carmelite nun, a mystic and author of spiritual writings and poems. She founded numerous convents throughout Spain and was the originator of the Carmelite Reform that restored a contemplative and austere life to the order. Today she is celebrated as a Doctor of the Church and one of the great mystics and reformers in our history.

Blessings to our Carmelite sisters and to our oblates and friends who have taken her name and find inspiration in her life and teaching.

The focus of many of St Teresa's writings was to encourage us to "make many acts of love" and to be the "hands, the feet, the eyes and the heart" of Jesus in our families, communities and workplaces. We ask her today to grant us a share of her spirit and to pray for us and for our world.

With thanks to Mystic Prayers for the beautiful image and quote from St Teresa.

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The Anchorage Institute- Wisdom, Spirituality & Wellbeing.

The Anchorage Institute founded by Vincent O'Grady and Kathleen Keaney offers many unique and creative models of learning, leading to personal and organisational change.

With over 20 year experience in the areas of Theology, Spirituality, Pastoral Ministry, Education and Healthcare Chaplaincy, Vincent is committed to personal transformation and becoming the person we are meant to be.

As a trained cross-professional supervisor, Personal and Group Facilitator and Spiritual Guide, Vincent offers the space for reflective practice & authentic growing and living.

Kathleen comes from a background of Theology, Spirituality and Sociology and has almost 15 years experience working in the areas of Pastoral Ministry, Hospital Chaplaincy and Person Centred Soul Accompaniment.