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Thanks God that my daughter got the job she was looking for.
Thank you Lord for sending us the Holy Spirit. To the little ones,the poor in spirit…, open wide your hearts
and let the comforter IN. Dry your tears- for He is going to change your mourning into Joy,heal your brokenness which the intellectual could not mend but only confuse,and He is going to restore you again into the state of Grace. Let us run like Mary the mother of Jesus and tell others what the good Lord has has done for us and together with Her let us sing the magnificat.
I usually visit this site at times of crisis in my life and I have found it has helped me through tough times. I tend to not visit this site when things are going okay. This perhaps is true for other people as well. Well today I am trying to change this and pray to thank God for all the good things in my life. I also pray for all of you who visit this site and all our brother and sisters of every religion around the world who suffer. Thank you Sacred Space.
Who better than Mary Mother of God! Through her “YES”,we have salvation. We too can change the world bychanging ourselves, by saying our “YES” to Jesus, we become Light to those who are living in darkness, salt, seeds….The growth is not ours, it is the work of the Holy Spirit.
This site has has been a real gift for me. I only recently looked more closely at in when our grandson was having seizures and struggling with medication. It was out of desperation and Grace that I came across your site and requested prayer. Thank You and our dear Lord that our grandson is doing much better. No more seizures, allergic reaction to medication is getting better. Still praying that he will be completely healed of this and find out the truth of what triggered it.thanks for the prayers, insights and sharings on this site.
I thank God for Sacred Space and I hope I can be a blessing as well, thank you.
Thanks guys, I travel so much and will often open the sacred space site at the airport and get some perspective on the crazy schedule I live (I enjoy it though!). I found the comments in this week’s site (29 April) especially powerful-the Spirit speaks through imagination. GBU all Peace.
Thank you Lord for the gift of Eucharist the bread of life. We come with faith to receive Jesus the bread of life,and you can see the HUMILITY of Jesus in the form of bread. If we truly open our hearts to Him to come into our hearts. He will melt our doubts and pride and we shall become what we receive or eat and be reflection of Jesus to our brothers and sisters in our day to day life.
Let the poor in spirit, the little ones who are rejected by the society, the nobodies open wide their hearts to the Holy Spirit to use them for the glory of God.
Thank you for your Easter greeting. Our Saturday Easter vigil was filled with hope and joy. 4 adults and a child baptised, 4 adults confirmed and 2 adults received into full communion. Alleluia, Christ is risen indeed. Amen.
I want to thank all concerned for the wonderful Lenten Retreat provided over the holy season. As a regular reader of the Sacred Space site and everything associated with it, I would like to add my appreciation for the Lenten cycle of prayer and meditation given to us. I know that it has enabled me to ponder more deeply and prayerfully on this sacred season and enhanced my spiritual journey and pilgrimage through this most lovely time. It’s message is not restricted to the Lenten season, and I know that it will guide and support me me throughout the year ahead.
Thank you Sacred Space !
Surrexit Christus Alleluia – Cantate Domino Alleluia !
Thank you so much for this inspirational website. I am sure that you are pleased that the new pope is a Jesuit-the first, as well as calling himself Francis, also a first. I am not a Catholic but I am enormously inspired by the humble example that Pope Francis is demonstrating to all peoples, not just to more Catholics. Before the election of this pope I recall making a prayer that Jesus would take the seat at the Vatican and my prayer and the prayers of others appears to have been answered! Praise our Mighty GOD!
Thank you for this Lenten Retreat. I find it difficult to keep up praying on my own. The Sacred Space community has really deepened my appreciation of God’s love this Lent.
Sent on Good Friday 2013
Your website is an oasis in the hustle and bustle of daily life – a fabulous resource for the digital age. Immediately grounds you back to reality and makes one feel part of a community of prayer. Congratulations!
Thank you so much for this corner. At a time when I miss my dear ones it is so good to be able to pray like this. Also to remember all our brothers and sisters who have gone aheadof us. Thank you again.
Thank you so much for the music. It helps me relax and let God work with in me. My prayers go up for you and our new Pope.
Dear Jesus thank you for Pope Francis, give him the courage and strength to keep guiding us all to better ways of living and supporting each other. Let us too give example to those with wavering faith. Jesus keep us close to you in our struggles.
Congratulations on the election of Pope Francis. I am ashamed of how I have neglected this site in the past year.
Thank you so much for this website. I found it quite by accident….well, with God’s help. I read the daily prayer each morning to start my day. Very inspirational and done in a very calming, sacred way. Love it!
I love this week’s thought of climbing the mountain and uniting ourselves with the LORD but also, and it seems more importantly, that we climb back down in order to share that unity with the utter joy of the experience. Thanks so much Sacred Space, for all the gifts you give to us, every day of our lives!
Today, 10th March. Exquisite. I really felt the Lord’s tender understanding. Thank you.
Sacred Space has been one of the most inspirational and encouraging resources I have found. It has helped me particularly lately in the very struggles of life. Godd is good and met me in his word. Thank you sacred space for helping to make it special and real.
It is amazing what a good friend Sacred Space has become over the years
Thank you for the Lenten Retreat. I have just cried my way through every day. I pray that everyone at Sacred Space would be mightily blessed as I have been.
Sacred Space has literally been a Godsend in my life. I turn to it in the evening after a full day and read the prayers for the following day. In this way I feel I help myself adjust to the Gospel and corresponding prayers and be ready to take on the world in the morning. What a treasure the addition of music has been. I’m fond of the “heartsong” and like the nature inspired background. Also, the Lenten retreat is powerful, I plan on making this a tradition next year as well. May God bless the phenomenal people at Sacred Space.
I am a daily visitor to Sacred Space and have been for several years. I cannot adequately convey my wonderful feelings about the Chapels and Living Space. They bring me closer to our Lord and make me realize that we are bound together by faith, despite time and geography. No matter the day and my feelings, high or low, Sacred Space has a permanent place in my life. It lifts me up. Thank you to all those that operate this beautiful web site.
Thanks to God for answering the prayers for my mother who was suffering from dementia. A slight stroke was diagnosed, and she is being treated and is a whole heap better. It feels like a miracle has happened, and we all praise God.
I love this beautiful website with all my heart. I have the book of Sacred Space with all prayers, but I love everyday to listen to the beautiful music and reflect on what God is speaking to me each and everyday. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing all of us to be in touch with the Holy Spirit through this precious website.
The Lenten Retreat of 2013 is a real opportunity for grace gladly taken. Thank you.
Thank you for this beautiful website. The addition of music adds calmness and beauty to this time of quiet prayer and reflection.
Let us all pray for our Pope Benedict,he has mirrored Jesus in the church and he is now telling us like John the Baptist that he Jesus might increase and he might decrease.
Bless you all who have put up this wonderful website. I have been visiting this website for years now and truly has been an inspiration for me at the start of my day. Thank you for the addition of music. It makes the praying more solemn and gives you a more deeper moments with God.
Just to have a safe place to articulate our prayer requests knowing that so many good people will see and join us in prayer is an unbelievable privilege. I believe in the power of prayer and that God is present with us as we join in the fellowship of Sacred Space. I have no doubt but that the Holy Spirit has inspired the creation of this site to meet the needs of His people to day.
What a wonderful addition to the prayer site is the music in the background. It added an extra sense of peace and tranquility that I very much enjoy and appreciate. God’s speed and keep up the fine work you all do!
Sacred Space is a real oasis in my day. As a harpist, it was also a wonderful surprise to hear the addition of the lovely, reflective harp piece accompanying the text: a calming and inspirational feature. Thank you!
The music, the guide the daily living reflections are so very encouraging to start the day with. I now rise and look forward to having this friend sit with me. Thank you.
Thank you for the God-given inspiration of the musical accompaniment and choice of backgrounds to the text. These additions enhance our prayer life abundantly, knitting together all that we are, one with another in life, and with those who have gone before us, in the most glorious colourfully woven tapestry!
I have been trying to find words to describe what Sacred Space does for me, I found the word nourishment in some of the comment it is just the perfect word,I do feel nourish by this site please keep it going.
God Bless You all who work on this site to bring happiness to me and all the others.
Thank you for the music. It is a welcome addition.
With the addition of the music, I wouldn’t hesitate to call this the best site for holy thoughts and prayers and meditations.
Thank you for the addition of the music, and the option to mute it should I wish. The music helps me to slow down, quieten myself and my distractions and opens me to the different place and pace of being intimate with the Lord.
Thank you for this brief moment of peace and prayer at the start of my day. Now I can face the world, thanks be to God.
Thank you Holy Spirit, through the Jesuits you have brought me solace, strength and courage to face every day with renewed hope.
This site has changed my daily life.
Have been a follower of Sacred Space for many years now, but the addition of the music to the daily prayer is wonderful. It helps me to get grounded and focus much faster and more easily. Something about it puts me in God’s presence immediately. Thank you for this lovely interlude to complement the prayers and meditations. Blessings to you all for your ministry!
I appreciate the soft music that now accompanies the prayers. I am new to this prayer site and thank you for the peace it gives me the first waking moments of the day.
Awesome site. Thank you so much. I, too, enjoy the addition of the music. I find each day speaks to me in a special way I need to hear. I also like knowing that my prayer is linked with others around the world. We are the hope of the earth!
Thank you for incorporating music into the prayer. It helps me a lot in entering into a reflective mood. It calms my spirit and enhances my focus.
As a long time visitor to this website for my daily dose of spiritual nourishment, I find the addition of music to be a wonderful improvement. As a person of Irish heritage, I have a special fondness for things Irish. Keep up the good work!
Thank you many times over for the daily inspiration. I begin my day with Sacred Space. Each reflection on the day’s readings brings me closer to the God who loves me first.
My prayer is to bring Him to others, especially those I’m closest to.
The music and Novena to the Sacred Heart are most comforting!
Thank you , Jesuits.
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I am so thankful for finding Sacred Space, it has made me in love with our faith even more for the work of this website for so many. I look forward to the prayers, guides, and inspirations to help me with my walk with our Lord. I pray daily for the ministry’s work. There are no words I can say enough how grateful I am, God Bless Sacred Space I pray in Jesus name. Thank you.
Thank you so much for adding the music…just wonderful.
Love your site…for me the addition of music is perfect. It is new is it not? Have been visiting your site for many years – such a gift.
Thanks again for the nourishment I receive from this wonderful website! I cannot imagine my life without it! May God continue to bless all those who maintain this site.
I have been coming to Sacred Space for a number of years now, and I am very grateful for the site. It’s an oasis of calm and wisdom in days that are often rushed and difficult. Bless you for keeping the site up.
I really liked the addition of praying for prisoners and captives today. I would like to see that again as it helps put some context to my prayer. Great site and great work with the prayers, sacred space really is a blessing.
There is sometimes a prayer for the “prisoners and captives” in sacred space. Prison guards need our thoughts too, praying that they find compassion and forgiveness in the mindfulness of a loving father. From somebody here with nothing to do with prisons!
Thanks again for a great site.
Thank you – blessings for the new year
Jesus give us all the courage to do our best each day. Fill us with your love so we can pass it on to all we meet today.
Thank you to the Jesuits for providing us with this wonderful prayerful site? I have been experiencing difficulty in prayer and am finding help and support from all the resources made available here. It is very humbling to read the prayer requests from around the world and to be part of this community of prayer. It is only by God’s grace that we can survive the trials of this life and one of the sources of that grace is constant prayer. Thank you again for making this available to us. God continue to bless your work.
This beautiful site is such a joy to visit.
Thank you so much for giving me hope and inspiration. It is so good to be reminded how much our dear Lord loves us.
“Something to think and pray about this week” just does a beautiful job in translating the joyful message of Christmas by ay of an “analysis” of what happened, given by a child. It relates how The Child came to be with us in order to save us – and I especially enjoyed the part played by the rather shy Spirit! What a treat, thank you so very much. The feast of love can begin, may there be peace in the world from now on.
Yesterday, a friend gave me this website. It’s hard for me to meditate or concentrate on Scripture, and often I can’t find the words or thoughts to pray or I don’t think I’m praying correctly. When I read the daily prayer for the first time, I felt such peace and comfort. The thoughts were already there for me, and I felt encouraged to reflect. I think the Holy Family has sent me a wonderful Christmas gift. I no longer have to struggle with doubts– Am I getting this right? How do I make sense of this in my life? The Holy Spirit guides the Irish Jesuits, and I’m under your wing. God bless.
Thank you Mary mother of God and our mother for teaching me how to open my heart and respond to my “YES”to your son Jesus.Thank you for teaching me to say yes in my joy, sorrow pain day in and day out of my struggle and teach me how to see the reflection of your beloved son jesus in all my brothers and sisters that i encounter everyday.
Thank you for your advent retreat, I am finding so much reassurance and peace from and in God as I journey using it.
Praise God in heaven for your most meaningful and Spirit-filled daily devotionals! May God bless every person involved in this incredible mission and keep you in his loving care now and forever. This mission is a blessing from God and I have grown spiritually during the past two years of participation. May this Advent season fill you with the joy of Jesus Christ, God himself, come to earth! Again, thank you so much for a spiritual feast every single day of the year. In Jesus Christ’s name!
It’s amazing to have this space in my life.
I enjoy reading and praying with the reflections you share on the daily Gospel. It is a great help to live each day with greater enthusiasm and faith. Thanks a lot for all the time you take to help me to make my life more meaningful.
Wonderful introduction to my prayers and thoughts this week. I found this week’s words very profound and moving. Thank you so much for your work and your gifts. They enrich so many people beyond measure.
I am lucky to have an IPad so I can close my eyes and listen to some of the prayers and talks. I am in my seventies and find Sacred Space a blessing. It brings me so close to God that sometimes I must tear myself away and get on with things. God and technology, who would have believed it. Thank you.
I Thank Jesus for his healing mercy and answered prayer!
Today’s prayer, and the message:
Freedom
Everything has the potential to draw forth from me a fuller love and life. Yet my desires are often fixed, caught, on illusions of fulfillment. I ask that God, through my freedom may orchestrate
my desires in a vibrant loving melody rich in harmony.
Is one of the most beautiful and profound prayers and statements that I think I have ever read! Thank you so very much for putting this thought into words!
God bless you all and the Society!
Just used your site for prayer, including the chapel of remembrance.
Thank you for creating the site, helping me to pray for and with other
people, including yourselves.
Thank you so much, with the new graphic layout and functions I found this website so precious, is the only way I can pray for few minutes when I’m at work :)
Sacred Space just keeps getting better.
Thank you so much to the Sacred Space team (saints!) who run this site faithfully. Who would have thought a computer would connect us to God, but it is clearly the people of God who created and sustain this site. I would really like to make this part of my daily routine. Thank you!
Sacred Space has kept reminding me to pray even now that I am in the senior league.Thanks for all the much needed help!
I thank God for this site. May the lord richly bless the administrators and everyone behind the scenes. I find comfort and love in other people’s prayers, in the bible passages and inspiration on daily prayers.
You are indeed gifted Jesuits who plumb the depths of daily Scripture texts. My day is incomplete if I do not pray with Living Space! You also apply the daily readings and Saints of the day to our daily lives with practical examples. Thank you for your excellent ministry.
Thank you for this wonderful site. I began using it just a few days ago, but already I have received great blessings through it. I am not a Catholic, but it was recommended to me by a friend who is a Catholic. My eyes are being opened, my relationship with Jesus deepening. Thanks be to God.
Dear Brothers: I found your sacred space just when I needed it. I am not a Catholic but certainly appreciate your mission. I say the Rosary frequently and find it to be a powerful gift. And now turn to these prayers every evening before bedtime. It soothes and settles me from the worries of the day. Bless you and you work. Repectfully submitted.
Great prayer site – thanks so much.
Thank you to all inviolved in this wonderful site. I recommend it to as many people as possible. You are reaching out to so many including the housebound who ,through the site are aware of their link to a world wide community.
May God continue to bless your work for Him.
Thomas Merton said we have obscure calls from God…Henri Nouwen advises that when we surrender to God, we find safety in places of risk and uncertainty. I’m living this in the midst of health concerns–Sacred Space helps me listen, follow and and find what I need.
The sacred space is the answer to my question – how do I pray whilst at work and during the day? .. Sacred space is it. I have found that I can pray at my desk as I am trying to deepen my commitment to pray. Thank you so much for your work in this site and for the opportunity for all on the feedback to pray. xx
This is a beautiful and gentle resource that aids my contemplative practice. Thank you.
Thank you one and all, for Sacred Space. It truly is just that; A Sacred Place filled with indescribable Beauty.
I would like to dedicate this year of faith by thanksgiving. Thanking the smile of a child that melts anger. Thanking all my critics who made me to trust the Lord more. Thanking all the good shepherds who by their preaching brought me to the sheephold.
Above all, I would like to thank the Lord who by His mercy and patience never gave up on me, especially when I was hiding from him in my sins. I thank Him for forgiving my many sins and coming into my heart and making it a dwelling place. May He take the KEY of my will and bend my heart into His WILL. May He receive all glory and honour.
Whilst I am not a Catholic I have very much enjoyed praying using the prayers and guided reflections you have provided. They have really helped me to experience the presence of God in a more intimate way and have left me with a greater sense of awareness of Jesus word to me in my life now. This is a wonderful resource for all Christians who wish to walk as disciples and learn to live out God’s love for others.
Thanks for the continuing ministry you offer so freely and in such a readily accessible manner. May God indeed bless all that you do in His name.
Thank you for your continuing work on this site. It has been a blessing to me for many years now.
Today’s reading from Luke 9:46-50 reminds me of how easy it is for us to be led by ego, labels and percertions etc.
Might this word from Luke might be a daily mirror to remind us all of how human we are in how we see ourselves and others, and how differently God sees us. How amazing then that we are graced with the ability to become the person God sees us as being.
I love Sacred Space it is not hard to love. Jesus isn’t hard to love. He guides, explains, teaches, reassures us. He leads us into life ever lasting.
Thank you so much for this website. I have been praying your composed prayers for the last three years, and I thank you for them. I begin the day with them, and, in my mind, refer to them whenever I am faced with a difficult decision, or am being subjected to temptation. But of great interest to me are your briefs on the lives of the saints whose feasts are being celebrated on the particular day that I am looking at. Once again, thank you for the great work you people are doing.
I became catholic a little over 3 years ago to bring unity to my wife and kids, I was very reluctant in the years leading up to my conversion based on misconceptions that were inappropriately nurtured from my childhood.
I came accross your site a couple of years ago when I needed more help with understanding some of the daily readings. You are an undeniable blessing in helping me and others to see the God source of truth that he has gifted us all to know…you help bring us closer to him.
Thank you for abiding in him and doing what you do for us through this tool.
Thank you so much for your ministry at Sacred Space! It is such a blessing to me, and I plan to share it with others. It is also a wonderful example of how Christians can use the technology that is available to spread the Word of God and stengthen fellow believers in their walk of faith. God bless you!
I find Sacred Space inspiring.I went to a Jesuit school.They are the greatest people in the world. Thanks
I have recently found this wonderful praying sight. I look forward to spending a few minutes praying and reflecting each morning before I start my day. Thank you.
“Bloom where you are planted” – what a beautiful simple quote today. Each day you bring a heavenly hug, a forgiving insight, a thoughtful moment… You help the Lord help me. Thank you.
Thank you for this wonderful praying site. Not only is my faith increasing but I also find a deeper confidence in my faith. God bless all who work at this ministry and may He make it ever fruitful.
I am deeply calmed while engaging with the meditations and grateful for the presence of God in them. Thank you for this ministry.
Thank you for your comment on the Eucharist. Jesus does not force Himself on anyone. He invites us to share his deep relationship with him in the eucharist. And I thank Him for coming into my heart and forgiving my sins, healing my mind, body and soul and above all I thank
Him for LOVING ME.
Through revisiting your page following the recent death of my mother I am developing a more personal relationship with Jesus who I know is helping me through this time and giving me strength to help my younger brother.I value the privacy afforded and thank you sincerely for your help.
Thank you so much youve helped me to get closer to God. I say the daily prayer every day and am very thankful for this site.
I love your Living Space; I try to read it every night before I go to bed. The lives of the Saints are inspiring and I truly enjoy reading this. Today’s reading from the Old Testament was so fascinating. The visions of Ezekiel are described with such detail it took my breath away. Please don’t forget to keep the Living Space as you continue to make changes on your website. God Bless You.
Todays Reading is so fascinating and so mysterious I can hardly grasp any meaning out of it. But there is a couple of lines that stick to my mind such as “I am the living Bread come down from Heaven” and “your ancestors ate manna and died.” I know little about scripture but it is comforting to know that we share the Bread of life and it sustains us while we are here in this world. Our ancestors ate manna. My ancestors are Mexican and go back as far as the Basque country in Spain. Who were these people in the desert?
Sacred Space permitted me to find the true meaning of prayer, I am so grateful that I recommended that my fellow Vincentions all seek out the wonderful gift you have given me.
Having found it a struggle to engage with the Ignatian approach to scripture such as using imagination and putting myself within the Gospel I had given up on the old style Sacred Space. Revisited it this morning and the new style and format is superb. I have gained so much more from the commentaries. Thank you
Thank you all for the beautiful Morning Offering this month. Every day I am inspired by your site. I look forward every morning to accessing the prayers, scriptures and meditations. Thank you again and God bless.
Thank you for this wonderful website! I had been searching for a daily prayer/meditation website for quite some time now, and am very thankful that I ran into this one. The website is very easy to use, and I like how you guide the reader through prayer, with the option to delve a little deeper when wanted/needed. Thanks!
I am a retired pastor who is called on to officiate at worship now and again. Before each session of preparation, I use your website for the particular day and have been very blessed by the meditation. I consider my preaching abilities to be gifts from God and it is always great to reaffirm that reality through the use of your prayers and readings. God bless you.
Thank you for the prayers thro’ ‘Chapels’ which were answered – in gratitude for this great Grace.
I am so thankful that I found your website. Your daily prayer and living space has added so much to my daily meditations. It has helped me to understand the daily scripture readings and to understand what God is calling me to do in my own life. Thanks and God bless you all.
We are constantly bombarded with all the negative news in the world we live in. To me this website is like an island of tranquility in an otherwise stormy sea. From reading the messages from all over the globe, it is clear that this website is touching many many ordinary people. This can only be a good thing. Thank you for providing this service.
Your new website is excellent, so easy to use and the guides are a real help to go deeper, as are the commentaries. I gain much insight from the new reflection each week prior to the commencement of the prayer, i.e. Something to think and pray about this week. Thank you.
With heartfelt Gratitude to the Sacred Space team I want to let you know that every prayer which I posted here has been answered with an abundance of Grace and Blessings from God in each situation brought before Him.
This is a place of Fruitfulness in The Kingdom of God, and may our Shepherd King lead many more of His sheep and Lambs to take refuge here when they are in need of refreshment and encouragement in such a time as this.
May he also guide the lost to find Him and His deliverance here, at http://www.sacredspace.ie as they browse the virtual world of the internet.
I truly appreciate the effort you put into your website. I was introduced to this site by one of my seminary professors.
I had to leave seminary for a second for financial reasons, but I stay in bible courses as much as possible.
I find it refreshing to have a sacred space to go to where I can take 10-20 minutes or more to reflect on God and spend some quality time with Him. It is truly a life changing event. I especially appreciate Wednesday July 18, 2012 entry. The discussion on distractions and scripture as a searchlight really helped me today and I will definitely remember the lesson for future prayers and conversations with God.
It is wonderful how God brings scriptures to mind when you open your heart to Him about your concerns and His word calms and reassures you.
Thank you again for your efforts to bring us closer to God…you have succeeded!
A communion service is now substituted on many days in our village instead of Holy Mass. It is a real joy then to be able to turn to ‘sacred space’to spend time in prayer and have the certaintly of finding an explaination of the scriptures, especially the O.T. these days. Thank you for all your work. I am a ‘golden oldie’who soon will not be able to make it as far as the village, when ‘Sacred Space’ will be my only spiritual food. I thank Our Heavenly Father for you.
Thank you for Sacred Space, Its a beautiful site where I have come to pray just for praying and also for praying for my family. Thank you again.
Thank you Lord Jesus for lifting my burden and to all the people involved in this wonderful web site who pray for our intentions, may God Bless and keep you all. Let us pray for each other that we may remain close to the Lord.
What a great blessing this site is.
A joy to visit every time and a wonderful start to the day.
Thank you so much for Sacred Space. I miss my mum and dad dearly. Maybe they can hear me when I’m reading the daily prayer.
What a blessing to have this in front of the day. I read about this site in an International Mennonite newsletter. Your insight has been passed on to my older children living away from us now. Thank you so much for all you give away each day.
ONCE AGAIN, I THANK YOU FOR THIS SACRED SPACE. THIS IS THE PLACE I GO TO
WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY DISTRACTIONS AND CARES THAT OVERWHELM.
THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE I CAN RENEW AND FIND GOD’S VOICE
SPEAKING TO ME. VIVA CRISTO REY!
This site is such a blessing, helping me to stay close to the Lord through the daily prayers offered here. It is a wonderful service for our world and I deeply appreciate those who have worked to make this website available. God bless you all.
The Biblical reflections in Living Space are very useful for weekday and Sunday preaching.Thanks a lot.
Thank you again for the daily readings, particularly the “Need Inspiration” section – here I am more able to understand the message and teaching.
Thank you for the light of your embracing site. Whenever I turn to it for my daily meditation I stand revived as by a vivifying breeze. The shadows of this world draw back, diminished. In all that ails, confounds, makes visible the scars of loss, God, through your site, has granted me a sheltering wing.
I so appreciate your website. When I feel scattered, the reflections here bring me back to center. When it seems there is nothing else I can do for someone, I submit an intention and if I choose not to publish I know the petitions are lifted to God sincerely. I know my prayers are answered and even the way I would like them answered sometimes. So many are hurting these days and just a “Help them, Lord” is a prayer!
Thank you for Sacred Space. It has helped me start my work day with hope and courage and given me an opportunity to experience God’s word today. As always it has provided great insight into my life.
In August 2011, I just had remembered my college and its teaching, I went through its web site and found Sacred Space which has been my refuge since then. My life has changed, and I’ve realized I am not alone because God is with me.
Thank you for being a part of this beautiful change to be in communion with our Lord.
Thank you sacred space. It was through the presence of the Eucharist that I was able to face the deepest root of my sins, and I opened the door of my heart to Jesus to come in and heal me. With humility of heart I prayed to acquire a heart of child to have self-knowledge and to know and love Him who is our light, our way and our truth and to love in me my neighbor.
Everyday in the stillness of an early morning hour I read your message and am given wings. Thus, as the day rages in the tumult of our intersecting paths, I can rise above the maelstrom, borne into the empyrean on the strength of a quiescent heart.
Thank you.
First visit back in a while – Great to see the new website. Keep up the good work.
Today’s Living Space readings gives me the full and profound educational understanding of the Holy Eucharist in the Holy Mass. Wow! So enlightening. Thank you Sacred Space. God Bless you all in your wonderful works of evangelization.
You have such a beautiful prayer site.
You touch the hearts of people around the world by your unique simplicity in prayer. Thank you for accomplishing God’s work on this earth! The differences you make through the Holy Spirit will resound forever in eternity!
Bless You!
Thanks be to God for Sacred Space! Let us continue to glorify God through the use of his technology!
I have prayed with “Sacred Space” daily for well over a year. Though the prayers and readings have continually blessed me, over the past few months I’ve been stunned by the “commentaries on daily readings”. They are insightful, practical, and it seems uncanny how they repeatedly meet me exactly in what I am living. THANKS.
I’ve been coming on and off, through long and short seasons, to pray at this site in the last 10 plus years. This is the first time I can leave a comment (I pray) to express my gratitude to the Jesuit order and to Ireland. Thank God for both. Viva Cristo Rey y Santa Maria de Guadalupe
Thank you sacred space for sharing the word with us. A few years back I was afraid to open my heart to Jesus because He will upset and turn around my comfort zone back to him. By reading the sciptures and frequently receiving the sacraments, I started growing in the faith and gradually opened wide my heart to Him. He did not despise me but through His love and mercy forgave me my sins which had kept me in bondage. With humility of heart I can tell all my bothers and sisters in sorts of bondage to open their heart to Jesus(Trinity) healing love. With Jesus in your heart you can face anything because it is not you who lives but Jesus(Trinity) living in you, thinking in you, acting in you and loving in you. Amen.
I am blessed to have found this site. I find the info inspiring. I start each day by reading and praying along with your site. You help me bring peace and God to my soul. Very informative. Thank you. God bless.
I just realized that I have been coming to this space for at least seven years and have never given thanks for all the peace and wisdom it has given me. This site has blessed my time with God as it has blessed the lives of perhaps millions of others. Though practically every Catholic church in America now has its own website, none of them are like SACRED SPACE! God Bless you and it is my hope that if I am ever lucky enough to visit Dublin, Ireland that I will have the opportunity to meet the wonderful people who make Sacred Space possible.
Without Sacred Space in my day I am like a parched desert thank you all for your constancy and God bless you all
Thank you for “Sacred space” I find it of great spiritual help. It helps me go into meditation and and have direct contact with God for a while. It helps me spiritually and mentally as I feel really relaxed.
Thank you again, God bless you all.
Thank you all at sacred space for the prayers from which I draw my strength to overcome my ordeal for years. It is through my many many visits to this site that I find peace and consolations in my struggles. This is where I find Jesus our Lord talking to me in the readings. May our Lord Jesus Christ bless you all for all your wonderful works.
Sacred Heart thank you for the wonderful prayer, thanks also for the holy scriptures who guides us in what we do. Thank you so much for your inspiration.
Thank you sacred space for inspiring us with the word. During Easter season I have been so blessed with courage in the Lord. I have the reason to face another day. In this valley and hills of tears let us open our hearts to the Holy Spirit to guide us to perservere until we meet Jesus again.
This was my first visit to your site for my midday 6 minute prayer. I enjoyed the words of comfort and wisdom. I will return to this site everyday. It does my heart good to read about how Jesus and God do truly love and believe in us. Everyday as I pray more and more I feel closer and closer to them. Thank you.
I found this at a time when I was searching for a guide to a moment of quiet and morning prayer. It is an amazing site. Thank you.
Thank you for this wonderful prayer resource. There is a wealth of material for spiritual nourishment. The prayer guide is very effective in walking me through the prayer and teaching me important elements to add to my own prayers.
Thank you sacred heart for feeding us with the scriptures, and I feel strengthen to come before the Lord with my brokeness, humbly trusting in His love and mercy that He will bind our brokeness and weakness with His healing love so that we can bear fruits that will last.
Thank you for providing even the gentlest time for prayer for me. Thank you very much and more power.
Thank you so much for your prayers. I asked you to pray for someone who is recovering from cancer. She is well and looking forward to a new start in life.
Thank you for this simple support and resource for my prayer life. When I am tired at night before going to bed this makes it simple to end my day in the company of God.
Sacred Space is one of God’s many blessings in my life. There is such a welcoming feel to the site and the progression of the pages of the Daily Prayer. Being aware of being part of a world wide community as well as my local Church community is a new experience for me! Thank you.
Again this morning as I sit in His Presents I know what has seemed impossible for me is already done, with Faith I accept not my will
but His Will be done.
Sacred space is very comforting to me. It reminds me to spend time talking to Jesus and letting go of the situations I cannot control.
This site has been one of the best things that has happened for me spiritually. The daily prayers set me up for the day and I pray for all the intentions of this Sacred Space. I like its simplicity and yet it’s thoroughness for giving me much insight to the Word of God. I thank my dentist who told me in passing about this great site! Little did I know it would bring me such peace and happiness.
The world is becoming more and more complex and stressful, I am so appreciative of the simplicity of the prayer practice to start of my day on a positive note.
Thank you so much for a Sacred Space in the our busy lives. I always feel a sense of God’s Spirit when I enter your website. May God continue to bless you as you minister to our thirsty souls.
Being able to take these few moments to be with the Lord is wonderful! I have being helped so much on my journey.
Thank you.
I have used your site off and on for many years. I get so much out of it and I enjoy the simplicity of the layout. I do wish the mobile page still existed, and if you ever developed an app for ipad or blackberry I would find it very useful.
Many Thanks for what is a valuable gift to the online world.
A Brother who I took a retreat with told me about your website and its just beautiful. I know the power of prayer and so appreciate all those communities of religious praying for my intentions. Thank you and God bless you all.
Thank you sacred space. A few months ago I was taking a walk and I passed through some bushes which were very dry. I never expected them to ever have life again. Later these week as I was taking my usual walks, I was suprised to see the bush blooming with new leaves. I had a quick flash back on Elijah, when he was told by God to breath life to the dry bones.
Yes, during Easter the living Jesus is going to breath Life and strengthen us in our joy, sorrows, sufferings, and our day in and out routine until we meet him again face to face.
Thank you for making the font bigger! It is easier for me to read the page. I appreciate that very much. God Bless all of you who work on this Sacred Space site.
I have been familiar with the Jesuits for many years and have always received comfort and guidance through the many books written by Jesuits. My spiritual life has always been strengthened by these books. I was referred to your sites by my sister and thank God that she did. Being new to the site I wanted to thank you for creating such a power-filled ten minutes with the Lord. May God continue to bless each of you and your continued work in bringing many back to Him.
Thank you for your Easter message of joy and encouragement. Thank you to the the lad who sees things with a glass half full attitude. We all need that encouragement to be more positive.
Thank you so much for this Sacred Space which gives us much needed sacred space in our lives. I sometimes wonder what I would do without it! It is a glorious work of the Lord and I thank Him and all your team for it. Deo Gratias.
I am really enjoying the opening thoughts on things to think and pray about this week, especially the last one about taking the ‘wandering dog’ for a walk – sums me up well!
The format for the rest of Sacred Space is very helpful to me
Thank you and keep up the great work.
Thank you for these inspiring words, this is such a wonderful website, it’s a sheer pleasure to devote time to reading the word of God on a daily basis. Truly lovely.
I’m glad to have found this page…it’s truly really inspiring and I love the context….God Bless You
Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to connect with our Lord daily through Sacred Space.
“To see you more clearly…Love you more dearly…follow you more nearly…”
Amen
I was introduced to Sacred Space sometime in 2003/2004; its being about eight/nine years ago. I always find it refreshing each time I pray here. Thank you so much for availing this sacred space to us. Jesus be praised!
Our pastor memtioned this site during Lent a year (or two) ago, as a way to add prayer into daily life. I have been visiting every day since, and I find it is a wonderful way to start my day. Thank you so much to all who make this site possible! I do miss it on occasions when I am not near a computer!
The continueous kindness and compassionate efforts of your organization do not go un-noticed……I have often found words and sentiments at this site that have reminded me of how much that we are more alike as followers of the teachings of Christ Jesus, than not….Thank you for sharing, and may the grace of the Lord continue to be upon the essence of all who have shared in the development and creation of the Sacred Space Web Site.
Thank you so much for this wonderful prayer community. You comfort and inspire me to let go and move on during difficult moments. Truly, God’s Mighty Hand is at work here. God bless you all!
Thank you for this site. It has helped me get closer to God, find peace in my heart, and given me more hunger and thirst for the word of God.
God bless your work. I have enjoyed praying online and with the Sacred Space prayer books. In particular, I am grateful for the commentaries.
I wish you all God’s peace and joy.
Thank you sacred space. In whatever we are going through this lent, with tears of sorrow, struggles,pain……,that we may unite them with the suffering Jesus – who one day will wipe away all our tears and with joyful hearts sing amazing grace how sweet the sound…
Thank you for your “Something to think and pray about this week”item about the oncology ward. I accompanied my wife through surgery, chemotherapy and radio. Staff on the chemo ward, irrespective of their faith or none are, without God’s angels; they could not do what they do without the divine presence within them.
Thanks to their care five years on we are still together. Your piece this week – thanks be to God.
Thank you for such a powerful, Spirit-filled devotional program. Please convey our deepest appreciation to everyone involved in producing the material. May God continue to bless and keep you all in His loving service and to His everlasting glory!
My first visit to Sacred Space. It was recommended to me by someone on a Bible study meeting. I felt the need to attend these meetings during Lent. I wanted to do something extra for Lent other than the usual giving something up. I am grateful to that person for telling the group about this site because its the kind of inspiration I have been looking for. Its lovely to have ideas for prayer and different Bible passages to contemplate. Recently I have felt the need to deepen my faith and become closer to Our Lord. I believe the Holy Spirit is guiding me. Thankyou.
I would like to thank those behind Sacred Space for their effort is making this wonderful simple website available. When I pray with the help of Sacred Space I realize that God has helped me through the recent difficult times in my life. I now know it is his footprints and not mine that I see in the sand over these difficult times as he carried me through. I strive to be grateful for all the good things in my life. I think of the millions of people on our planet who suffer. I pray that their suffering will end. To you who are reading this, I also pray for you.
Although, Sacred Space is always a place to retreat and find peace and consolation. I must say this week’s “something to think about” really hit home how lucky we are to worship without the threat of persecution or death. We take for granted our freedoms. I will be adding to my prayers all those who are persecuted because of their faith as a reminder just how blessed I am. Thank you for providing this wonderful place of prayer!
Visited this site for the first time today. The prayer exercises reminded me of how I used to pray in high school. I had forgotten how to pray. This looks promising and I will come back to this site for prayer.
I have prayed with the Sacredspace website for a few years. It has helped me pray more easily and deeply. I am so grateful to all of you who work behind this website. The reflections are particularly helpful and insightful. I am aware that there are many people praying with me in the Sacred Space community and I am touched by the unity under God’s love. I have told many of my friends about this website. The Lent daily retreat is very good and I am praying with it too. Deeply grateful to your effort!
A friend recommended Sacred Space to me, and what a gift it has been. I have always found it difficult to enter into “prayer time” with the right disposition, but Sacred Space makes it easy to come into the presence of the Lord. Starting my day with the Lord in Sacred Space enriches my spiritual life and gives me such peace. I can’t express my gratitude enough for this beautiful prayer guide and companion!
Thank you sacred space for feeding us with the Word during these season of lent. With a humble and contrite heart, I am learning to open my heart to Jesus to increase in me and I decrease and allow the Holy Spirit to mould and remould me for His glory.
I used to pray at Sacred Space often. Then, “life got in the way” and I did not think I had the time to pray regularly anymore. Only when my life disintergrated into a total mess, did I make the resolve to add daily prayer back into my routine. What a difference it has made! The 40 extra minutes of sleep I gave up to send the first part of my day with the Lord, praying with the guidance of Sacred Space, has helped me regain my life. I have time once again to do all I NEED to do, as well as the things I simply ENJOY doing. Lord, by spending time with You at the start of each day, You have helped me realize my priorities – every day is better when I carry Your presence with me into the routine of my day. I am so grateful for this site, so grateful to still find the Lord still waiting for me at Sacred Space. I now understand that giving God some time every day is the only way I can truly live.
I visit sacredspace on as many mornings as I can, to read, listen, meditate on Gods word, and pray. The messages have helped me through some tough times in my life. It is clear that God led me to this site as part of his great plan, and I am forever thankful for every message. May God contine to bless you and everyone who helps with this ministry and has served God others in this way.
Thank you for addressing the older images of God. I still find it difficult to reconcile Jesus with the God I grew up with. We do need more on this subject.
I am new to Sacred Space and feel so blessed that a friend suggested it for part of my lenten journey this year. I will continue to come here daily as long as I am able. Thank God for you and bless your endeavor.
Thank you.
For longer then I’d like to admit I turned away from God.
I’ve returned and Sacred Space is part of the reason why.
Upon waking it’s the first thing I read. Before coffee, before the morning paper, before anything I pray with the guidance of SS.
Blessings to you,
R.
I have only just returned to ‘Sacred Space’ after some time away from it.
i am so thrilled with the ‘new’ format and the ‘extra’ help it provides for we pilgrims.
Thank you so much.
Deo gracias!
Have used Sacred Space on laptop intermittently since late 90′s & got present of 2012 book at Christmas 2011 so back in the space again.
Would be great to have mobile app versions for Apple & Android platforms. Would make Space even more accessible. I & my wife would use iPad version at home, I would use mobile version on commute/lunchtimes.
Keep spreading the Word, you’re doing a brilliant job!
The “inspiration” on today’s page really moved me as it spoke to the marginalization of women in the church and in most of the world religions. In this act, Jesus showed that he was willing to grow in understanding and acceptance and provide an example to us of how in God’s eyes we are all equally loved.
I have prayed on and off with sacred space. When I don’t, I really feel I have missed something in my daily routine.
Also found the area where I can post my private prayers very helpful. I thank all for your prayers as my son has come back to the faith.
Reading & being guided by the prayers and reflections in Sacred Space has given me much solace, strength and encouragement on many an occasion when I was in need of something to hold on to & to ignite faith and peace inside me. May the Lord continue to use this site as an instrument of His peace and never-failing presence. May God bless the persons who are doing this service.
I stumble into Sacred Space this morning wondering what God has to say to me. As often, it is much with few words. The prayer for the “gift of acceptance and forgiveness” where beautiful life links may be “twisted or broken” is pure grace. And I am grateful. And ready to move into my day with renewed spirit.
I just don’t know what I would do without Sacred Space. It has taken me to such a depth in terms of scripture I gain such insight. It is the only place that encourages me to meet with God even in the dark times and lets scripture show me the way out of the darkness. Thank you so much. I appreciate especially, the “guide” feature.
The Chapel of Remembrance prayers are a huge gift reminding us that we are not alone when we pray, even if we live in isolation!! Grateful thanks for this inspiration from our beloved Sacred Space and for the affirmation in our belief that we are all one, both the living and the dead, now and forever! God bless the work!
I bought my mom, sister and niece as well as myself the book “Sacred Space” as a gift when we celebrated my mom’s 80th birthday together in 2011. I pictured us all reading it daily…my mom and I still do so I got us this year’s version. One day I noticed on the back that there is this lovely website. It brings me such peace, leading me through a daily conversation with Christ and teaching me that my life is a lesson, too. I am grateful for all your offer and I thank you. I am often isolated by illness but using the site and the book, help me feel a part of God’s Community. I’ve always been a pray-er but the way I am taught to pray here has deepened my prayer life and I use the book and the site before I begin my centering prayer, my time to listen to God. Bless you all!
The Lord is at work through you. Your work allows me to walk closer to the Lord, to hear him more clearly, follow him more nearly, and love him more dearly day by day. And yes, those words are also his work through another. Bless you for helping me each day.
Thank you for Sacred Space, especially the “Thought for the Week” which I print and take out with me to feed on over the following seven days. Your “message” from Barcelona Cathedral (which my family and I visited some yars ago) is especially meaningful at the moment, as my congregation is going through the long process of calling a new minister. Every blessing on your encouraging words, which sustain us in our journey.
God bless you, and thank you for Sacred Space – it slowed me down and brought me into His Presence. I am recommending to my friends also. I particularly love how the words fade out slowly and go to the next page.
Your devotions are such a blessing! Your probing questions and reflections launch me immediately into the presence of the Lord, prompting me to go deeper within to reveal the true self, not only to the Lord but to myself as well. I have recommended your site to many and will continue to do so. Many thanks and may the Lord continue to inspire you and to bless and strengthen the faith of others through you.
Thank-you so much for these Prayers. I have only recently become Christian, and since I am only fifteen and am still living with the very-strongly-Atheist family I have been brought up by, I find it quite hard to pray on my own when I haven’t been learning about being a Christian for very long.
Thank you for the excellent “Something to think and pray about this week” section. For me, it does what it is designed to do — I look forward, everyday, to think on the meditation from a new angle. I’m finding it is sticking with me through my day and week as a true aid in prayer. Thanks
I loved the reflection about the Barcelona cathedral. I have always liked another image relating to cathedrals that I heard many years ago from Father Cantalamessa, the Pope’s private chaplain. He said that if you look at a cathedral from the outside, for example the rose window of Notre Dame in Paris, it looks like a jumble of grey stone tracery. However from the inside,that window is a beautiful picture of coulour, imagery and light. It all depends on where you are looking from.
Dear Sacred Place, you have been a part of my morning ritual. Thank you for helping me enrich my spiritual life and keep the connection and faith to God. This helps me a lot especially now that I am living in another country. Thank you and God Bless you always.
Thankyou for this space. It is such a welcome place to stop and to reassemble thoughts and wishes, particularly at this beginning of the year. I feel close to the Lord and it is such a help. Thank you for this website – it encourages and challenges each time I visit.
Thank you for this gift of this website. We have a prayer community who make use of the book for our daily prayer. But there are times when I travel and find that it is easier to go online. I read it first thing in the morning and I can feel God’s presence and His love as I pray. Thank you
Thank you ever so much for all that you provide here on Sacred Space. Your insight on each day’s Scripture readings always affects me in such positive ways; giving me a deeper understanding of the readings and providing me with thoughts to reflect upon that I may not have considered. I feel as if my faith in Jesus grows each day due in great part to your work. Thank you, and may the Lord bless you and keep you.
Thank you so much for your website. I love the commentary. I begin each day with your words and the Word. This site has been such a grace. Thank you.
It has been a wonderful year of experience for me to be visiting and praying at this web. I have enjoyed a spiritually fruitful day to day prayer visit with the Lord. Thank you with all my heart to all the peope of this web for all the help and guidance of souls all over the world with your wonderful works. God Bless.
Thank you for be a “place of prayer” for all…
Grateful for the ways the deeper walk with Christ is encouraged and supported through the thoughtfulness of the Sacred Space team. May the Spirit’s blessings be revealed in new and unique ways to all who serve with you.
Since the day I discovered sacred space my life and work has been so enriched and have learnt to keep in touch with my creator. Thanks for the good work and may God bless you always.
Thank you for today’s reflections and contemplations. I am 4 weeks into recovery from total knee replacement surgery and had drifted away from my spiritual reflection time. Sacred Space is always so profound for me, having been through the Ignatian Exercises, and today’s Awareness time and Talking with Jesus calmed me so profoundly.
Thank you for this ministry that you do for anyone from all over the world.
(NY)
I feel blessed with this site.
It’s amazing how God works can reach the internet
and strengthen our faith in a simple way: Prayer.
May God bless you.
I am a Protestant, but I am finding the prayer space here very meaningful. I am grateful for the work you do preparing this. My encounters with Scripture and with Jesus have been rich, personal and engaging – I find myself eager to return to prayer… after a long spiritual dry spell, this is refreshing. I am curious about the structure; does it have a name? Particularly the pausing to reflect on Freedom bit – I’m curious about the history of that stage of prayer.
Thank you so much for this indeed very sacred site. I am challenged, renewed and inspired. My soul has been longing to be fed. A friend gave me the advent booklet and my life has been enriched by the daily readings. It has been such a blessing to take time out for what matters. My awareness and responsibility to others has also grown. I am also part of a small group of women who meet for guided prayer. THANKS
Sacred Space is a daily treat for me alway offering fresh insights into the most familiar texts. Truly great and inspiring work, and a wonderful light in the world.
I was feeling overwhelmed. It is nearing Christmas and I had shopping to do. I had dinners to attend, I had gifts to wrap, decorations to put up and etc. I was ignoring my prayer time to rush around. Then while shopping on line I went into Sacred Space and there it was. Be Still And Know I Am God. It brought me back to Advent. It brought me back to the real reason we have Christmas and it brought me back to my prayer time, my time with my Lord. Thank you!
A huge thankyou
Having been given a prognosis back in June of a life expectancy of two more Christmases
This is an emotional time I’m really leaning on my faith and Sacred Space is always there
I am so thankful for this place of nourishment, reflection and contemplation on the web. Each morning I visit a regular list of web pages, but only this place gives me the nourishment I need to do my work for the day. Thank you for this ministry.
Although I am a practicing Catholic I sometimes feel like I am in a desert. No matter how I prayed, went to Mass, became a Euchristic Minister I still felt spiritually dry. I first encountered Scared Space when I bought the Advent book for 2010-2011. It opened my eyes and heart in a new and wonderful way I had not experienced before. The prayer “The Presence of God” is especially meaningful to me and I thank God that Sacred Space has helped me open my heart further than ever before. I am truly blessed my His presence in my life.
Although I have a close relationship with the Lord (most of the time) it occured to me today that joining Sacred Space very day is like finding the rain that will make my soul blossom. The pictures get better and better and to-days is breathtaking. Here I find God in an awesome way.
Thank you all so much.
Two particular recent reflections from “Need Inspiration” have been very ‘inspirational’ for me:
The one where Jesus wept over Jerusalem and I was able to put my arm around him and give him comfort in my imagination;
and today, where I “stumbled” after the two blind men and asked Jesus to touch my eyes.
Thank you. Please keep up this wonderful work.
I had been struggling to keep up my daily prayer life, until I came about Sacred Space. The time I spend with Jesus on this website sets my focus for my whole day. I love the way the prayers put thoughts into words I could’nt think of. I feel so at peace and close to Jesus through Sacred Space. Thanks to all who put it together. God bless.
HE led me to this site this morning after an absence. God is Good and always gently leads us to what we need
I value so much the time I spend with Jesus our Savior through Sacred Space. I feel my day is so rich, complete and guided when I journey with him during this precious minutes and moments. The reflection time I spend gives the directions for the rest of the day.
Thanks a lot to the team that puts this together. Mabuhay
Today, I return to this sacred space after a long absence. I puzzle over why its taken me so long. For here I find refreshment, beginning calm and a closeness to the living Jesus who helps me in my trials. Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
I came upon your site by chance. I have not belonged to any church for a long time but I have a belief and I still pray. After a long time of feeling alone I now know that God is with me and I am not on my own. I know that he is standing behind me with his arms outstretched… there to catch me if I fall. Todays prayer has kept me strong and more importantly it has made me strong for others… who need to feel God’s love through me. Thank you.
It was a shear miracle that I found this beautiful site.
I love the way the site is set up and the prayer pages move so seamlessly. Thank you so much.
I have been visiting Sacred Space every day for about nine years now and I love it. I also visit Living Space, usually on Sundays but also during the week sometimes and I find it invaluable. Continue with the good work
Thank you so much for Sacred Space. Many mornings it has enabled me to focus on my difficult current role as leader and to recognise my failings without falling back into bad habits.
Blessings on you all.
Love your beautiful site! May God bless your work mightily and give you the prayers to pray in Jesus’ Name.
First to Our Lord and second to this site, I don’t have anybody who will really reach deep down in my heart and soul. I always find sanctuary going in this site to find answers and consolations t and peace through the readings. In my loneliness I find comfort in the messages received from reading the scriptures and commentaries as if it was meant for me at the very moment in time. I cannot really find the right words or lines to express the satisfaction and assurance that overwhelmed my whole being after my visit. Thank you all for your good work.
Thank you for the comforting words for this week, on the Communion of Saints. I was so moved by them, I have felt the companionship of those who have left us, especially my mother, and two of my aunts. I never talk about these things, so it was so good to read that this is something many other people experience. It has taught me not to be afraid of death but to realise that those we love are indeed still with us and still love and care for us. Thank you for the daily prayers and readings, they are always part of my day.
I always read the “Need Inspiration” thought on the scripture passage and today it made me see things in a new light.
I also particularly liked the thought at the beginning of Daily Prayer today and I am glad you dealt with the subject of people feeling some sort of communication with the dead. I worry that not acknowledging these experiences can send people to consult mediums as they seek reassurance for those feelings of “connectedness”, and sometimes feel guilty about them.
Thank you especially for the prayer thought for today, 7 Nov., regarding the closeness of deceased family members. My son died in December 2008 and my daughter in August this year and I am very conscious of their presence especially at Mass. I talk to them but it is a real sense of them so close to me that I found a great comfort. It is reassuring to know that others have experienced the same. Thank you and God bless.
Thank you for Sacred Space. I have found the new version very helpful. Especially the Inspiration for the Gospel passages, the saints’ stories and the commentaries on the readings.
It has become part of my mornings now.
I would like to thank not only my friend P. for recommending this site for me, but of course “God” for being able to have a friend like P. to share all these wonderful things with. This site is very inspiring and wonderful. I read today’s verses, all of them from start to Amen and found it very peaceful. Now I know where to go when I need a great word of wisdom and peace. SJH
Visiting this website has been a regular part of my daily activity now. It seems not complete if I miss a day. The scripture readings are so enlightenning and I just love to read the different saints lifes. It is so humbling to know how little I know and how blest we are to have a site like this. Thank you for all your hard work and enlightenning the world through this site. I have been suggesting this to friends and families. God bless.
Thank you so much for Sacred Space. It’s been a really great source of spiritual support and encouragement.
I am a devoted follower of Sacred Space. Rarely a day goes by that I fail to enter into the realm of my fellow Christians. The inspiration that I receive from the chapels and the daily prayer is marvelous. It would be hard to convey adequate words to express my appreciation for the work that the Irish Jesuits conduct to make this web site what it is today. So I’ll just say God Bless you and Thank you !
I was deeply moved by the Chapel of Remembrance. I wish I had discovered it before. It brought tears of sadness and hope to my eyes as I prayed for my departed loved one, thank you!
I love how simple and thoughtful the ‘pray online’ section is. I have bookmarked it so I can read, reflect and pray every day with it. It is not at all laborious or difficult, and it is helping me to pause and thank and pray daily. Thank you!
I found the daily prayers really helpful. I had so many thoughts in my mind and they helped me to understand them and let them go. The exercises for brething and listening and living the world around us, helped me to relax and become focused again. I will definitely come look at them again.
I am glad this site exists – otherwise, I would have returned to an unexamined, sloth like evening, which I have been stuck in lately. Wanting more meaning in my life, or wanting more happiness . . . yet struggling to make the effort, today’s reading reminded me to have hope and to know he is PRESENT NOW, with me.
Since i started reading faithfully sacredspace, my life has not been the same again.I was a bitter and unforgiving person. The Holy Spirit convicted me and through his help i was able to face the painful wounds in my heart. It took me years to forgive thoes who hurt me. By His grace he has forgiven in me and now i am a better person who is learning to see the love of God in all people.
Thanks very much for making the Chapel of Remembrance available once more. I lost a friend last week and it was very comforting to email some of the prayers to other friends who knew her. God bless you in this ministry!
Sincere thanks to all at sacred space; in the society of Jesus and by opening my heart to the holy spirit i understand and experience my life changing for the better. Feelings of helplessness are replaced with serene contemplation and faith. We are together in the love of Jesus. Thank you, today I sat alongside my lord.
How uplifting and encouraging the prayer list and prayer of intentions section is. It is so powerful and faith building knowing that Godly people devoted to prayer are lifting up our prayers and it is good to pray for others on the list too, many of whom are dealing with very tough issues. Thank you to those whose dedication and hard work make this available.
I travel a lot and so I don’t have the luxury of my own physical “sacred space” or hermitage to which I can retire for a bit of contemplation. This web site affords me that little, travel size, private corner into which I can daily retreat and be refreshed. The reflections are superb and so helpful.
I just wanted to tell you how very much I appreciate Sacred Space. It is a touchstone for me and a way to shut out the constant internal noise. What a blessing God has given me through your website. Thank you so much.
I would just like to say that I believe your prayers and service this site provides are beyond any words that I can express, but I am glad god brought me here. I have looked for so long for something I could find that would give me some hint of connection to my faith in him. Thank you for everything you do.
This is just another thank you for the wonderful inspiration you give me to start my day. On occasion, I forward excerpts to my family. Thank you again and God bless each and every one of you .
M.
Due to computer issues, I have not been on this site in quite awhile and I am so pleased to see how it has changed with the ‘guide’ tab. I have missed my daily readings and now look forward to getting back on track again. Thank you for creating and maintaining this site!
This morning’s reading [Sunday 25th Sept] touches me not only spiritually but also physically as I am heading to the hospital for an open heart surgery…where I will be totally in the hands of the Divine physician and my trusted surgeon!!…I am here Lord ..and I know that you promised ‘even greater things’ to those who trust in You.
Amen….Alleluia!!
The tenderness and wisdom of Sacred Space always touch me in some special way. Thank you so very much for such a beautiful source of encouragement and a constant reminder of who we are in God’s eyes. I seem to always come away from this site with a warmer and more open heart. God bless you all and keep you in love.
Sacred Space provides a very special moment in each day – for serious reflection in a busy round – the right amount of words for prayer, reflection, consultation – conversation with God. The pondering moments.
Thank you for sharing your gifts of prayer and wisdom and thus drawing me away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life into the beauty and intimacy of Jesus in His Word. Thank you so much.
Thank you sacred space. From reading daily living space… i have been sensitve to the Holy Spirit guidace and i pray that the Lord may take the key of of my sturborn heart which like doing what i want and bend my heart to His will.
Sacred Space is a real refuge and source of comfort in my busy life. It gives me the space and time I need to rethink difficult issues whether they are family, work or health. Thanks so much for providing this wonderful resource and God bless those who make it possible.
I so love the guidance in prayer that you have been providing with the Ignatian spiritual exercises. It has deepened my prayer, as well as the paragraph on the first page with reflections for the week has. Thank you for the site and being a place I can come to be in a Sacred Space.
A very good friend introduced me to Sacred Space Daily Prayer and Reflection. I thank you for your prayers, support and encouragement in my time of need. I am both delighted and supprised with the outcome of my situation and I thank you again for your support.
I would like to take this day to express my enduring gratitude to Sacred Space, which I was blessed to find in the ensuing dark days after 9/11. I have visited this space ever since and it has been a font not only of healing then, but for each and every day of my life to the present. I have grown so much spiritually from you simple approach to understanding our shared faith. I know that I was blessed to have found you at a very dark time and to this day, blessed in every possible way by your gift.
Thank you for this Sacred Space and time. As I reflect on today’s prayer and reading, “forgive seventy times seven” on the 10th anniversary of September 11, my prayer is that I, as well as my nation and all nations, can be people of forgiveness. These moments with Sacred Space bring me closer to the Lord and his way. Thank you.
Thank you for a quiet place that seems to have no agenda other than to facilitate moments with Our Father in heaven. Please keep the to the same (zero) levels of distraction in the presentation on your new web site. Less is more! Your minimalism helps me find the inner place for Christian meditation – that is so rare in the noisy new churches. Wishing you His peace in your work and lives. Thank you again.
A very good friend introduced me to Sacred Space daily prayer and reflection and I now use it as a start to every day and find it very encouraging and comforting. Just to be reaffirmed every morning of God’s ongoing love and His constant presence in my life helps me to become more aware of how He is working in my everyday life.
Many blessings and thank you.
I love the new format, especially the guide to each prayer. I find the prayers so uplifting each day. My father showed me the Sacred Space and it has been such a help to my faith. God bless all.
Today is my first time to visit Sacred Space. I found out about this website from reading the Bulletin of St. Mary’s Cathedral Aberdeen website (www.stmaryscathedralaberdeen.org). I enjoyed todays 10 minutes prayer. I will share your website to my family and friends. Thank you for providing this website. May our Lord continue to be bless you for all your work.
Thank you for this inspiring site. I have been encouraged and refreshed many times after reflection here. I would like to suggest some soft music like instrumental versions of hymns as an option for the prayer reflection. Once again thank you for providing us with ‘SacredSpace’.
Thanks so much for this site, and for persevering through the server and IT challenges. I particularly like the flow of the prayers which brings us gently into a place to contemplate the Word. I find this very refreshing, and often visit the site on my lunch break. It’s great to have this peace in the middle of a hectic work day. Wishing you continued blessings.
Thanks for the reflections for today. It is always a time of great joy and peace for me do this prayer. Your insights and directions in the “Guide” make it so much \more centered. Thanks again as I always feel better at the end.
Blessings, peace and joy
In Christ, J
How wonderful it is to have Sacred Space! I confess it has been awhile since I have been on but I love the new format! Thank you for being faithful disciples of Jesus Christ and spreading His Love. I shall do my best to do my quiet time daily with the Lord and Sacred Space! God bless y’all!
I am truly grateful for the opportunity of having an access of this life altering website. Accidentally I came across the “living space” as I was surfing the internet.To me it was grace, God in a mysterious ways is trying to reach to me, during the most difficult days of my life. Reading the scriptures each day without failing is a heavenly gift, it open my mind and enable me to understand the journey of Jesus. Jesus the image of an invisible God, through his works of healing, of giving hope to us in a seeming dark days, and trust in time of confusion. The words of God are pills that coats the mind. It is amazing and very uplifting. Thanks a lot to the Jesuit priests and especially to Fr. Frank Doyle. May his soul rest in peace.
In reflection a prayer that came to me,when faced with darkness in my life. Thank You Father for my friends thank you for my enemies Thank You most of all for Your Son Jesus who saved me from myself
This site has been a part of my life for quite a while now. I have always come to this site when I needed strength and consolations. I feel Jesus always meet me here so I make it a habit when I woke up in the morning usually at 5 :00 A.M. I go through the whole site from the start while everyone was still asleep. I feel so refresh and full of energy to start my day prepare breakfast and go ahead with my chores saying to Jesus,”today, nothing is going to happen that You and I together will not be able to handle.”When He sends you His blessings you will be in awe. It’s so humbling and you will end up crying. We must always remember to share His cross which he carried for us. I for one have learned this lesson now which took me so long to realized to accept the cross handed to me. It is not heavy after all cause The Lord carry it with us. Bless this site and everyone involved in it.
How wonderful life is! To feel loved and cherished at home, and to be able to share our hearts desire for God with the community abroad. To listen to ones own feelings and imagining conversations with our most beloved Saviour, Jesus Christ, or just contemplating in silence the mystery of the cross, that is the sign of love that ever binds us together in great happiness.
This has become one of my daily meditation tools and is a part of my life. I never leave it the same as I went in. And like so many daily meditations I have used, it seems to ‘read my mail’ and lead me where I need to go.
Todays reading Tues 8/30 is about the mystery of the crucifixion and taking up our cross and following Christ. I know this concept and it is a method for carrying my suffering as an offering. But I don’t like being long suffering and feel offering joy and peace a better demonstration of my faith. And it’s partially ego as well, I want to look good of course.
But the idea that my suffering in some way joins Christ’s in healing and uplifting humanity? Wow. Completely new and takes me to my knees in tears. I’ve just physically collapsed at work because of stress and not being able to ‘handle it’. I just broke. And I have felt such a failure and low self esteem. But that carrying this and allowing God to transform it is actually gifting the world? Completely new and has filled my heart and allowed a completely new paradigm. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your ministry. You are truly changing the world and continue to touch my life.
I was recently introduced to your website and am very grateful. Today, I was struck with remembering that God is not just with me but also within me. Your prayers and exercises are healing. There is a real sense of centering oneself in God and having a long peaceful, spiritual experience. Thank you. Many blessings for providing such wonderful reflection experiences to God’s people.
My daughter introduced this site to me. Right now Life’s stages are happening & many decisions to be made … my prayers, morning & evening are always of gratitude but to be able to go a little deeper any time during the day … takes seconds, really, if need be, just to stop the ‘head chatter’. I feel blessed to have found this site. Thank you
I suffer from depression and have often found God’s solace through Sacred space. this morning I took time to pray through the new reources for the first time and I felt a peace and calm that has replenished and refreshed me. Thank you
A few words,but with a powerful meaning.Thoughts and feelings blend together in prayer,penance and pure joy for all the blessings of peace and sincere love and strength that are transmitted through the divine verses.
To get over a sad thought or a spot of loneliness during the day – I have now my “sacred 9.30 morning prayer” as I call it, I am very glad to have found such a source of inspiration and solace. Am pondering over the great love God has for us today, and I thank you for citing Psalm 138.
Thank you so much for providing Living Space. I have recently discovered it and I cannot tell you how much it helps me to focus my thoughts and prayers. The daily readings in the missal can sometimes seem obscure or one can be over familiar with them. Living Space puts all the readings into context and makes them come to the life that I feel the Spirit means them to have.
I needed to connect with the Lord today so desperately. Thank you for your site and the beautiful prayers and direction. May God continue to bless you in your work. Thanks again.
C
I found this Sacred Space by reading how it had helped someone else. It really helps me center myself when I pray. Thank You.
“He calls my name and I must go.
My life is His, as is my soul.
I am because He is, and nothing on my own.”
A truly peaceful site which I find enables quiet meditation and inner spiritual growth amid lifes chaos. In particular, thank you for sharing your insights which have helped me greatly over the years. God bless your work.
I was moved to tears by “Living Space” yesterday, when I was reading how God cannot NOT love us/me because God is just “LOVE”. It felt like a “wow” moment for me when I was feeling how can God love me?. Thank you. It touched me deeply.
What a tremendous work you have done in running this site! I have been blessed abundantly by it and can only awe at the multitude of blessings passed on to everyone else around he world.
It is so easy while I am working at my computer to come to this site and take some time in my day to let the Lord refresh me and lead me.
Thank you so very much! xo
How I love Sacred Space! My life entails a great amount of travel and how refreshing and life giving it is for me to open up my computer and Sacred Space, whether it be a hotel room or sitting at an airport. It creates that special quiet within, which at times, I so desperately need to keep myself centered. I pray with all those who visit Sacred Space, feeling a oneness with all God’s people.
Thank you to all you make this possible
I am so thankful that I was nudged along to encounter your site a few years ago. I appreciate the beauty and nurturing, from the shared photo to words of wisdom and insights. Your love truly touches the world. May you be blessed!
Thankyou for this site, it helps me greatly. It is so wonderful knowing that I can place prayers in the chapel of intention and know that the intention is being held up to god by others. keep up the good work
Thank you for today’s commentary. Living in an all-white suburb, I can at least donate more and hopefully feel less like th Rich Young Man.
The message about thinking of the stranger really spoke to me. Two days ago I heard an Aboriginal person refer to a group of us, both black and white, as family. They have shown us what I want to show to others.
Thank you for using this week as a time to think of others.
Thank you. The site is truly an immediate lift into God’s presence.
I like to thank each and everyone involved in the sacred space website for the wonderful and blessed work you all have endorsed in providing this service to the whole world. You have helped a multitude of souls to come and appreciate the Lord. God Bless and may you always find resources and tools to continue your good works.
Thank you so much for this valuable spiritual resource. It has inspired me for many years. I can always count on getting something from it. I have used this site far more than any other spiritual aid. Keep up the great work. God Bless!
I love the new layout of the website. I have becoming here off and on for over six years and missed having the “guide” as a part of it somehow for a while. The way it was brought back is excellent. It’s not distracting at all but really provides some help to the one praying. Thanks for all you do!
I have recently gone through a very unexpected divorce and feeling very down and depressed. I have felt as though God completely abandoned me through this whole thing because he did not fix the situation the way I felt he should have. Therefore I have felt angry and separated from the love of Christ and have not wanted to pray. Well something compelled me to pray this morning but I just didn’t have the words and I found this website and began to read the prayer slide show, it brought tears to my eyes followed by an incredible sense of calm and peace. I now sense Gods presence and know he is with me. Thank you for this website!
Thank you so much for Sacred space. The daily prayer helps me keep in touch with Jesus the living God. I find peace of mind every time I turn to your website. God bless you all.
Thank you Sacred Space for the daily nourishment and reinforcement of our Catholic faith. My trust in God waivers inexplicably and I find great comfort in knowing that there are so many others like me who seek unconditional faith in HIM through Sacred Space. Sacred Space offers that lifeline to those of us that work at home or who have access to a computer. Sacred Space is a treasure trove of help in so many ways.
Thank you for providing this site. I especially like the new addition of the “guide.”
Great site Sacred Space. Find it very helpful after the events of the day.
If parish priests could put the website in their newsletters it might enlighten and comfort many catholics.
I came across it in an article in The Catholic Times today.
To be able to read again the day’s readings quietly is very rewarding.
Thanks and God bless all involved
Thank you sacredspace for enlightening us with the scriptures,
It has enable me to open my heart and allow the seed of the word of God to grow and have relationship with Jesus and my neighbor.
I have found your daily Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to be an incredible journey…thank you..soooo much.
Your new Living Space site provides most helpful insights with the commentary on the daily readings; in particular I appreciate what is written about the First reading which is generally from the O T and which in the past I have found difficult to put into a meaningful context.
Your initiative is giving more depth and focus to my understanding of the sacred scriptures. I am most grateful.
I have been following and reading the daily commentaries on this web for a while now. I find the readings and commentaries very uplifting and love specially the saints’s life and biography. Always with great anticipation find joy and admiration to read about the different saints of the day and their life and gives me great knowledge and understanding of their different significant contributions and sacrifices they give to the world in the name of Jesus our Lord and how little I am in my own world. Quite an enlightening experience.
Once again may I thank all involved with Sacred Space. My visits to the site always leave me feeling more positive and ready to face the trails and tribulations of the world. May The Lord Bless you and keep you all in His tender care. God Bless.
This week (first week of August 2011) I have found that the writing in “Something to think and pray about this week” has been very pertinent and meaningful.
Thank you for the guidance and comfort that you give me every day
I discovered your website by accident this past week and really love the prayers and meditations. I live alone and go to the website in the evening before going to bed. It is soothing and calming. God bless you for creating this website.
Absolutely love the current format. The detailed instructional guides are a real blessing.
May the good God continue to empower and enlighten the people who established and continue to nurture sacred space in Jesus name Amen.
Thank you for your beautiful Sacred Space…more than words could ever say…
May God Bless you and yours, Always…
Thank you so much for your website! I am incredibly blessed every time I visit! God bless you!
Sacred Space has been a blessing to me, and I typically start my day with prayer from Sacred Space. My days are so much better when I just spend a few minutes in the presence of our Lord and am truly present. Thank you for all the work you do, the great insights and reflection. May you continue to receive many blessings for what you have brought to people.
Thank you for ‘Sacred Space’. I don’t use it as much as I should, but I always come away from it with a sense of fulness and satisfaction. I feel I’ve been ‘fed’.
Oh how precious the time spent in Sacred Space. It keeps me firmly planted in God’s reality which consoles, heals and brings calm to my anxieties and fears. I praise and thank You my Lord, God and King. I thank you at Sacred Space for such a beautiful offering of love.
I start every day with your prayer site, as I have for almost 9 years. It is such a blessing. I love your new format and find special blessing in the teaching in Living Space. Every morning He deepens and expands my understanding of Scripture. God has used you very significantly in my life and growth. May He bless you in return.
I am Indonesian Vincentian priest. I have been a weekly SS reader since four years ago. I appreciate your wonderful work. The reflections are so deep and understandable. I am convinced you have helped preachers around the world to deepen their intimacy with Jesus and sharpen their sermon. I wish you joy and health.
Sacred Space is an integral part of my day. The novenas, the daily prayer, the chapel of intentions is a must for those of us that embrace our Catholic faith. Thank you, the fine men and women in Dublin that promote Sacred Space. It’s truly a miracle and I will pray for those that keep this portal alive and operating to our heavenly father. God bless you !
Because of church camps and other commitments, I have been away from your page for the last two to three weeks. I was pleasantly surprised by the new layout. Thank you for the blessings you have shared in my life over the past several years.
I am A Nigerian staying in Italy. Sacred Space has been wonderful to me. Since I discovered it, it has helped to increase my Christian faith. I feel very relieved when am able to pray for few minutes right here at the screen and leave all my worries and thanks to God, believing with faith that he is standing here just by my side and listening to my heart. You are doing a wonderful job, Sacred Space is a cool and eloquent way of spreading the word of God to thousands and thousands of people all over the world on a daily basis. Thanks for being there for us. May God continue to straighten you to do more for him, Amen.
Sacred Space is a wonderful place to visit. I use your weekly thoughts at our local prayer group and daily you help me to grow closer to God. It is a blessed way to start the day. Thank you.
I find Sacred Space so uplifting. One experience I had recently was when I sought help from God to help me in a difficult situation I was finding myself in. Whilst I was praying with Sacred Space, my computer stopped for no reason at all. However, before it switched itself off, the last three words contained the message that the good Lord wanted to give me. The words were humility, patience and tolerance. These were in the first part of the Inspiration section. Yes, God does speak to us. Thank you, Lord, for Sacred Space and help those who are responsible for it.
I am thankful for the devotion and work of all those involved in creating and maintaining this site.
Dear Fathers, It has been years now that I come every night to your site: Sacred Space and meditate on your Daily Prayer.
I don’t seem to go to sleep without this. It is comforting and makes you think and try to change your life. Thank you for your help in showing us the Way to God.
God Bless You All
I have failed to spend daily prayer time recently and now, having done it again for a week, not only feel better but know I am a better person. The summary of the Beatitudes is wonderful.
I love the new changes on Sacred Space. The prayers and guide are wonderful. Sacred Space is a special place where you can meet the Lord and talk with Him. Thank you, and Blessings to all.
When the Holy Spirit is truly in your heart, your search for Christ has not ended but begun. My journey from being a “stagnant” Catholic to someone fully alive in their faith began over a year ago and a daily visit to Sacred Space has been a huge part in the change of faith I have experienced. Thank you for being the words I needed to hear every day to keep this Spirit in me alive.
Thanks you for the beautiful reworking of your web page. It’s such a blessing to have you and your help to understanding in our lives.
God prosper you always.
I was a bit flumoxxed when the format changed and slightly resentful – oh how the small things trip me up! Then I realised that God is ever present it is I that change and I that have to work a little bit harder sometimes to meet God (when I say that I mean it in my being complacent). So Sacred Space again you have prodded me out of my complacency and at a time in my life when “… and some fell on stony ground” has been creeping into my daily life. Thank you and God bless you and all that are suffering in today’s world.
I love the new format. Thank you for this opportunity to pray, I can laugh and cry and learn so much from it.
Thanks
I just found your site 4 days ago and what a blessing! It is exactly what I was looking for, only better. What a wonderful way to start my day. And it’s wonderful to know many people are enjoying the content of this site all over the world at the same time I am. Blessings to you who have created it and maintain it. Thank you.
I have been using your site for the last year or more. When ever I am in need of inspiration or just a lead prayer, Sacard space is always there, Just like Jesus! I have also used your site as a way of bringing teens closer to Christ through prayer. The new design is very good for that, I liked the inspiration part on the scripture part before, now you really bring more to the table with all the direction on every part of the prayer. i am a person who has read and studied Ignatius. And yes I struggle to live in his direction of prayer, this is why I like your site the most it helps me to better my prayer life and to help me direct others to do the same . Thank you for all you do, God Bless.
I love the Sacred space. Unfortunately, now with heavier workload I sometimes cannot even have the chance to spend precious moments with the Lord when I am in the office. I can only pray at home and in the silence of my heart.
I love this new format with all the guides and inspirations. Thank you for doing what you all are doing to help people like me. Keep up the good work and May all Glory and honour be to our God! God Bless
This site is a blessing. I read it every morning and it provides me with a great awe feeling that God is talking directly to me. I am taking care of my sick mom which has cancer and it has helped get me through the day. Thank you all who have spent a great deal of time designing this web site
God Bless
Thank you for providing a place that draws me nearer to God. A place to contemplate, think, pray, sit quiet and meditate upon God’s holy word. What a blessing.
I thank you from the depths of my heart for this magical website. I sense my Lord talking to me every time I pray with sacred space. Thank you once again. May God bless your good work of bringing His flock closer to Him. Jesus Bless!
Thank you for the added guides and selections from the Spiritual Exercises. They add an even deeper experience to an already cherished prayer time.
I was introduced to Sacred Space many years ago and have relied on it greatly over the years. It is my morning feast, although my visits have been sporadic of late. The ‘up-dated’ format is wonderful. Many thank you’s to those who create and maintain this site.
Thank you for providing this space to pause and listen to the Word of God. It helps me to be able to re-center and trust in God’s ultimate plan and eternal love. You do a wonderful work.
I love the new format. It is simple and easier to read; the prayers really stand out more.
Haven’t been on here for a little while, but plan to start daily reading this.
Thank you~
You might try to clear the cache of your browser. If Sacred Space works on another browser or another computer, this is almost certainly the reason. See http://content.sacredspace.ie/cache/
I look forward to Sacred Space every morning, however since the new format & changes I cannot go forward from” Presence”. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I miss my devotional time with you.God Bless.
The first time I visited the site in it’s new format was an almost shockingly real experience. The guides were brilliant to help me slow down and really think about what I was praying about. Even when I went for a walk the next day I was reminded to stop and listen to God every now and then. Thank you. My relationship with God is so personal and private, but I hope I show it in my actions, this is a real resource that enables me to have that relationship even deeper. Thanks again and much appreciated.
Thank you for the lovely changes. It is good to be united with all those praying together. I appreciate that I am included in their prayers and they in mine. A darker font would be appreciated by us who have poor eyesight.
Thank you for this beautiful prayer space. I have used it throughout the years. I like the changed format. I like the opportunity to draw deeper from so much inspiration and guidance. Thank you for helping us to draw nearer to God and for this quiet moment of prayer.
I have been enjoying Sacred space for some years, it is my home page. Beautiful photos with each introduction, a pleasure for me each morning. The new and updated format is so clear and is a joy to use. Thank you for Sacred Space being part of my daily dialogue with our Lord.
I have had this site as my homepage for over a year but have only accessed it intermittently. This morning i prayed meaningfully for the first time in ages using your guide. Thank you. I will get up earlier now to pray daily with your help.
The updated site is fabulous! Well done! The guides are especially helpful, and give fresh insights into Ignatian prayer. I was away from this site for a couple of months, and am so glad that the Spirit led me back. The Jesuits continue to do great work in God’s Kingdom! AMDG
The new format is a very good innovation, specially the additional guide at each step of the prayer. It enhances the whole spiritual experience. The navigation is also great. Thank you and God bless!
I like the new format, it’s clear and easy on the eye. you provide a great service, thank you.
Dear People of God, You are doing a great job!! Sacred space prayer is the breakfast at the start of my work day, giving my the necessary nutrients to last the day amidst the frustrations and joy of the day. When i encounter the former, i ask God for strength; and with the latter, i give Him thanks and praise. Thank you and God bless you all.
Before I begin my ”busy”’ day; it is always a joy and priviledge to be able to sit in this quiet place: a ‘spiritual oasis’ amidst the cyber desert and allow the Spirit to enter and fill my world.
Kudos to the Jesuits who have made this page a must read for me, and, it would seem, to many, many around the world……………..
as I begin my work and take the divine word with me throughout my day.
Blessings and Peace to all who enter here.
Good Morning! I LOVE the new format! It took me a couple of tries to realize that access to the entire site was different but I really enjoy the reflections and prayer aids. Thank you so much for all the work you do to aid us in prayer. I learned a long time ago that St. Ignatius’s method of prayer is the perfect one for me. God Bless you in your ministry.
I have loved this site and used it for several years now. Thank you for keeping it going. I am enjoying the new format very much. I would love to see the addition of pictures and music with each slide as well.
Thank you for giving us this wonderful tool for connecting with God. The additions to the daily prayer page are fantastic and provide a great extension to my way of praying, enabling me to reflect deeply on the Word and my own spiritual life. I have enjoyed sacred space for a long time now. It is a favourite, nourishing part of my day. I pray that all of us who use sacred space share God’s love with others. We freely receive and we should freely give. God Bless. JH
I am so happy to see the new format and the guides returned! I haven’t been using Sacred Space much recently and Wednesday decided that I should make an effort to return. Iamagine my delight to find the “Sacred Space” I originally became attached to. God bless you and your continued efforts to help us pray.
I find I am making Sacred Space more and more a part of my daily prayer life. Thank you for this site.
I like the new look!
I simply loved the new look, especially the ‘Guide” that has been added.
Thank you so much for this on-line facility to pray. I begin my day at work by visiting this site and am ever grateful for it. I also get a chance to know what the Sunday reading will be about and it helps alot.
Thank you again and may God bless the entire team that makes this possible.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU so much for bringing back the guide! I loved the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem and the freedom prayer. thanks again for bringing it back! -Dan
As fine as your site sacredspace was before it is a hundred percent better in its new form with Jesuit spirituality and scriptural commentary for those who want it and I do. God bless all who maintain and pray sacredspace.ie and those they all love
was at a Cursillio Meeting when SACRED SPACE was mentioned by one of our members and the next day i searched and got the website. I am impressed and feel Favored by GOD that there is such a wonderful site. Thanks Sacred Space.
Thanks for this wonderful site. I visit everyday. Today is my birthday. Today’s reading was my favorite. Thanks for making this day extra special.
I cannot thank you enough for the help I get from “Sacred Space” with which I begin the day receiving much help for my own ‘nourishment’ as well as for reflections during Mass. Often I wish I could have access to the same exegesis on the Sunday readings as the weekday ones. I feel I get a lot from the weekday notes than the homily notes. Wonder if such help is available. Thanks and God bless
Thank you so much for this site! I know it must take a lot of work to put it together, and I want to let you know that it makes such a difference to my faith journey each day. Thank you so very much, and God bless you.
Hi. I am being confirmed on the 26th June and my vicar who has been taking me through my course recommended this site. It is fabulous and keeps my faith fresh and really helps me stay connected to God. Thanks
I love the thought that Jesus has his arm around me at the same time he has his arm around you. God Bless.
I am very glad to have found this webpage. The exercises help to keep my faith fresh, some even help me to see a little further. This is especially important for me as I live in a foreign country and understand very little of the homily, can’t read the parish letter, etc. Thanks to God for the internet and for people like you. I do hope that you can continue this good work. Thank you.
The Lord talks through Sacred Space and guides us on what He wants from our lives. I nourish my love to the others.
Your site has had a calming effect on me and has allowed me to get into touch with God amidst a world of chaos and anxiety. Between theological headaches, troubled relationships and personal boredom Sacred Space has given me 10 minutes every day of just time to connect with God and ignore everything that is going on in my head. It got me into meditating and it has changed my life in terms of how I deal with my anxiety.
I really love “Living Space”, which a dear friend recommended. I have been reading the Mass readings every morning for the past 3 or so years, not always with much understanding, especially Old Testament. Now I have added the Living Space commentaries and find I get much more out of the readings. The Holy Spirit is truly alive in the work that you do. Thank you, Irish Jesuits, for making scripture understandable and relevant to my daily journey towards holiness.
Many thanks for Sacred Space, it really helps. God bless you and all visitors.
I was going through a hard week at work and had asked many friends for their prayers to get me through which helped a great deal. The following week I was still weary but better. One day I just felt that I needed more each day to help me on my way. I already pray daily and have daily prayers delivered to me by email but my heart and spirit desired more. In my search I came across this website. It reached my spirit. I sent the link to loved ones and I hope they have this added to their lives too. It’s so good to have the opportunity to do a few clicks on the computer and have God waiting for you!
Thank you for this space of prayer & meditation.
Today was my first visit to the site. I am very pleased that I found it. Just right, thoughtful, prayer provoking and inspirational.
Happy Feast Day to all. Thank you for this wonderful Sacred Space site. I am truly blessed every day when I pray with you. God bless all.
ADMG. God bless you mightily and richly.
Thank you for today’s notes on the reading from Scripture. Sacred Space often surprises me. I know God is a God of Surprises. It seems Sacred Space may be a channel for His power to amaze us all. Thank you for your human understanding, and for bringing your understanding of God to any who want to hear it.
I have come back after a few years absence and find it very refreshing. Glad you are still here and are providing us with a space during the day to tune up to Almighty God and that we are increasing in numbers and understanding. May we all have the Blessings we long for through the Love of God.
Thank you for Sacred Space. I find it uplifting and relevant to my everyday life. Almost always I hear God speaking to me through it. Sometimes stronger and louder than other times. I pray to God that your work will continue to inspire me (and other readers) providing divine guidance to all of us who struggle with life’s many challenges. God bless you and all of your readers!
Sacred Space is nice. I link in with it most days and it accompanies me on my journey. I always find something of personal relevance that I can relate to. It’s a great idea and I draw nourishment and strength from it. It’s not too preachy and it speaks directly to you. It gives me a bit of direction. I come back to it time and again.
Thank you so much to the Jesuit Community, and to dear Almighty God, for your beautiful ‘Sacred Space’
I am truly grateful to come across the “Sacred Space” website. It was accidental. In many ways GOD is guiding the path of people who seek knowledge and understanding on things that matters spiritually. It is through the daily commentaries that Fr. Doyle has presented a simple way for lay people to understand the scriptures thus walking me through the amazing and inspiring life of Jesus and those people who made history of Christianity alive to the present. My gratitude to Fr. Doyle and the Jesuit community.
Thank you so much for Sacred Space. When I lost my husband at a young age, Sacred Space brought me daily peace, comfort and centeredness. When I feel myself distant from God Sacred Space brings my focus and awareness back to Him, renewing my connection, calm, and peace.
This is a site to visit and for a little while have peace in my day. It has helped me to find calm and hope. Thank you for this lovely space.
Thank you. I have been praying with this prayer site for some time now and I love the peaceful way in which it is presented. The “need inspiration” section is one I always use. The best I can say, – the entire prayer speaks to me and is most helpful. Thank you for presenting the site to all peoples.
This is my first time in Sacred Space after a Week of Guided Prayer retreat. I find this an excellent reinforcement of the prayer life that I learned during the retreat. I intend to use it often, maybe daily.
This place is special. I found a lot of peace here and a marvelous opportunity to put this crazy world on hold for a few moments. Thank you.
Thank you for this ongoing ministry for prayer and Scripture reading. I started using the site some months ago and find it helps me to be quiet and spend time in the presence of Jesus in the midst of a busy day. May the Lord continue to bless this site for the enrichment of others.
Thank you for this wonderful possibility to pray and to be near Jesus!
Because of your beautiful prayers, I am now at peace with myself as I have never been before. Thank you.
Thank you for this wonderful site. I have found it to be the perfect complement and follow-up to the online 36 week retreat offered by the Jesuit Campus Ministries at their institution in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, http://www.creighton.edu May God bless you for providing these important opportunities for people like me who otherwise would be bereft of nourishing materials in this corner of the world.
As a protestant Christian (and an introvert), I frequently look for more contemplative moments. I just love this space!!! I love the images it conjures. I love the self-reflection it allows. I love the connection with the heart of God that is hard to find sometimes. I love the way I must reflect on one thought all week, so that it penetrates deeper each time. I love the scriptures and the inspiration questions. Thank you so much for this space!
This is one of the most peaceful ways, after morning exercise, to really feel the power of prayer. I can not completely describe the peaceful, clear feeling I get when done. Would recommend to everyone to take a moment each day and pray. This is a great way to keep us going.
Many thanks to Sacred Space. For a nuymber of years now I have visited the site (almost daily). Through dark times and times of blessing it is a comfort and wonderful injection of God’s holy Word in a busy day.
Thank you Sacred Space for being there, every day a moment of beauty in my journey! Wonderfully written and always what I am in need of.
Thank you Sacred Space for giving me the oppotunity to meditate on God’s word through the course of my workday.
The world seems so full of things that I have difficulty in having time to meet and know Jesus. He seems an outsider, these days, in this world, and Sacred Space is one of the few things that keep me trying not to let myself go. For some years now, I am really grateful for Sacred Space. Thank you.
I looked at the site today, after not getting around to it for a while. The message spoke precisely to my condition and has given me encouragement and strength.
Thank you for this wonderful site that works so easily. I have trouble experiencing Jesus as my friend, and the words here offer me a way to develop my side of the relationship. God bless you.
I check into Sacred Space as I eat my lunch at work, combining the necessary physical rest and refreshment with the even more essential spiritual nourishment and freedom.
Thank you
Thank you so much. I was alone in the house feeling overwhelmed with anxiety and knew I needed to pray, and praying with Sacred Space and the calm way the site is designed to help you move back and forth really helped me create a ‘sacred space’ in the midst of a lot of stress trying not to be depressed whilst caring for a young family, supporting elderly parents and looking for work. Thank you, and thank God.
Every morning when I come to Sacred Space and allow it to guide my morning prayer I just feel so grateful to the people who have put this site together and who maintain it. The internet has many things about it which we all could well do without, but here we have something precious which gets my day off to a proper start. Life is not easy, but still, I have many things to be thankful for and sitting high on my gratitude list is Sacred Space.
Thank you for this site. I frist learned about it several years ago from my sister in law. I now live overseas and come to it from time to time and always find that it rejuvinates me. Many thanks!
Thank you again and again for this site. I have visited here sporadically for many years, and I find it becoming more and more a part of my prayer life. It is a wonderful supplement to the readings and prayers in my church. You are my strength when I am weak, give me happiness when I am feeling down, and are a constant reminder that I live in communion with God.
I feel that this prayer explains the hesitance that we as humans face living in a world that God has created. I live in a huge city where it is hard to take express gratitude towards God for what he has given us. We ignore the gifts that He grants us and we take them for granted it. We need to be more observant of all of the little things in nature that God has granted us, and respond to each natural gift in a beneficial way.
I found that this prayer was very moving. Makes one notice that God will always be with us through the toughest times of our lives. As well, I can and will thank God for every time he has helped me and I will always be grateful and know that I am a son of God.
This prayer has inspired me to answer questions of my faith. I feel that this prayer helps me reflect about my past and whether or not I was able to fullfill some of the things the prayer is asking from the reader. It is true that lots of people know that God is above us but some do not acknowledge him. If I answer these questions again in the future, I can say that I really acknowledge him and my faith is stronger than before.
Thank you for such a nice site and also thank you for giving me an opportunity to think more about God. It feels that the Gospels everyday have a very personal connection to what’s going on in my life. God bless
This is a beautiful prayer that I feel speaks to everybody. Everybody has experienced times when they feel depressed or lonely and this prayer can really speak to such individuals. This prayer combines traditional prayers such as the glory be with prayers that speak to us personally.
This prayer is very beautiful. I think it is very difficult for anyone to recognize and notice God’s presence during everyday. This i s so because God is present in nature and in all the little things around us. God, I think, does not regurlaly appear so that we may notice him.
This prayer was very helpful. It let me see that I need to listen to what God might be saying to me, instead of earthly things that might bother me during the day. It’s a great way to relax and take time to pray.
Although I have only just discovered your website, I can see how touching it is and will be as I make it a part of my daily routine. This is truly useful to the many who would otherwise forget to make time for prayer in their day.
The prayer today was very moving. It was a bit like the examen and the rosary together. It had me examine my day and challenged me to take it step by step. It consisted of several different parts though and felt like the rosary especially at the end. This prayer had me try to realize where God was attempting to speak to me today and where it would have been a good idea for me to listen. It was extremely calming.
This is a truly unique website. It really helped me focus and concentrate on my response to God’s call and presense. Thank you for this interesting opportunity.
Thanks for this opportunity to pray and to help me teaching my high school students how to pray. Happy Easter.
It has been a while since I thanked you for the inspiration you provide in my faith walk. Thank you. Your ministry has become very important to me. His Peace. . .
I just want to say thank you so much for putting together the daily prayer online. It is such a help to me and reminds me that God does work in mysterious ways. God bless!
This space makes prayer very simple, short and sweet, which is great for those of us who are not yet very good at praying. I love the way the scripture leads you along day by day – so much easier than reading scripture in a random way or finding a missal. I like this site very much. It isn’t “holier than thou”. It is real. Thank you.
Thank you for the opportunity to respond to your survey. It made me think more about this wonderful site and to appreciate how important it has become in my prayer life. I pray a mighty blessing on all who are involved in providing this site that blesses so many around the globe.
Thank you for creating a virtual place for prayer and meditation. I begin my day with a visit to Sacred Space. Through the prayers and Bible readings I have found solace, peace and comfort in the midst of the busyness and materialism of my daily life. (I work in Finance.) Sacred Space has kept me rooted in what is essential in life — not wealth, not prestige nor fame, nor social position — but God’s unconditional love for us. You are doing a great service to me whose daily routine revolves around the internet and technology. It is my ardent prayer that with the help of Sacred Space and the prayers of those who use this service, I will be given the grace to always follow God’s will for me.
I just wanted to say that the weekly themes, “Something to Think and Pray About This Week” from Holy week to this week, conveying the climax of the Easter season, have been absolutely beautiful. I have meditated on those writings for the past few weeks and they alone have been sufficient. Thank you for all you do to keep Sacred Space available, I am so very grateful. May God Bless you.
I am now retired and find Sacred Space useful at home. It helps me find time to slow down and think of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit in the midst of housework and other things. I love the reflections and thoughts I get from it. May God bless you in this work.
Sacred Space gives me focus when I open my computer and continue with my day. It is so easy to “stray” and not keep my focus where it should be.
I want to thank you for your wonderful service, for always being there. It is a blessing for people like me to take part in this wonderful prayer community in this way. May God bless you and keep you in his care, always. Wishing everyone a very blessed Easter.
Thank you for making this available for me. I come to this cite every week day and it makes it possible for me to get closer to our Lord. Before finding you my prayer life was almost non-existent and now for the years I have come here I have begun to seek Him in so many more ways. Again, thank you for what you do.
Thank you for helping me to pray when I am lost. I have been an intermittent visitor for some years, always at times when I cannot get to my parish. You have become my spiritual home when illness, family crisis, or a “dark night” interrupts. Thank you especially for helping me find my way out of self-indulgence, back to God and to being able to reach out to others with a genuine smile.
A very good page that helps me stay in touch with God and the holy Bible.
Though I am not a regular visitor, I have been coming here for many years. When I first came across this site, I was new to the Internet, and so was Sacred Space. It was one of the best things I ever found here, and it still is. I’ve watched it grow, and every time I start visiting again, I am reminded that it is an amazing place to help me grow, too. I love the purity and flow of this space; it is, for me, an excellent place for meditation and contemplation. Thank you again for creating and keeping this prayer space sacred for me and for the many like me who want or need something to help us grow spiritually.
thank you for being here- although I have visited your site for many years I am a very sporadic visitor but all the same very grateful you are there- faithful and constant as the Lord-I pray to be more faithful as I find your site very helpful and inspiring and a great comfort- thank you. St. Ignatius pray for us. nella.
During Lent 2011, our Catholic high school Chorus class used this frequently for our morning prayer. Projected on a large screen in the lecture hall where we rehearse, 38 students age 14-18 read it in silent prayer. On squirmy days, individual students would read each page. Always, we prayed ‘Glory Be’ aloud. We would follow it with our daily intercessions for others and ourselves, singing the response “Lord, hear our prayer,” and chanting the Our Father. I think the simple use of technology, just clicking one page at a time when you are ready, the parchment background, everything about the layout is perfect. At first I missed music in the background, expecting some sort of Irish harp or flute, but later came to appreciate the quiet.
Thank you!
when I pray on Sacred SPace I feel so at peace and blessed. Thank you for the website.
Thank you for helping me pray. This website is truly a God send! It helps me get back on track when I find it difficult to pray with all lifes distractions. Thank you so much.
I have only recently discovered Sacred Space. It is a wonderful way for me to pray and meditate. Thank you and God bless you
I love scared space , I try to visit every day.I was introduced to this page about a month ago. I like going to the chapel of intentions ,I always pray for the intentions , and write mine. Just knowing many others are praying for and with me gives me a peaceful feeling . Thank you for this site.
Thank you for your words for me each morning. I especially appreciate the weekly introduction and have often copied the words into my journal.
Truly, I am so grateful that in the afternoon during my work day, I can find true spiritual refreshment in Sacred Space spirit led verses of inspiration.
Thank you sincerely for Sacred Space – it gives me great comfort and spiritual solace -drawing me closer to the presence of Jesus in our everyday lives. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for providing this prayer website! God bless you all!
What an awesome site with great verses and prayers! Always inspirational and calming. Keep up the good work
Thank you so much for Sacred Space – it never fails to refresh and inspire me.
I am very grateful for this website. It is a place to be and tune into the love of God. This particular Lent I have tried to remain in touch with the grace of God through out my day. This site has been a wonderful opportunity to do this. I especially love the inspirational piece after the Gospel. I don’t know who the person is behind this internet site but I hope and pray that you know that you are providing a service to busy me. Thank you and thank God.
Thank you for your wonderful website – a vehicle for God’s grace.
Thank you for this wonderful website. It is just what I need each day to have that personal time for prayer and to be in touch with our Lord & Savior. In this busy life that we all seem to be caught up in, the need for time out is just what the doctor ordered!
The insights, background information, symbolisms, and history you explain mean so very much to me. Every day I understand a little more. Thank you seven times seventy.
This is such a peaceful site. I find it to be the calmest place on the Internet. Thank you
This is my first comment on your site. A big thank you for all those that are involved in providing the material and regularily updating the site. I am currently studying and spend long hours in front of my laptop. Through Sacred Space I have such a convenient means to stop and pray, which I often do. May God bless you all.
Thank you for keeping this site up. I’ve been using this since 2004 on and off. I appreciate its great resource for those who needs it like myself.
I look forward to the daily readings. Always an inspiration! I also find the special retreats for lent and advent – such a great help during those important times of our Lord. Thank you.
I am so happy to have Sacred Space every morning in the quiet of my office before I begin my work. I love to read what to think about for the week and to read the ,”need inspiration” reflections on the bible verses. I find such comfort and enlightment. Thank you Jesuits for such a wonderful place to go. The photos bring peace and comfort as well.
What a beautiful thing to see a recognition that we are all God’s children. What a beautiful way to begin the day with Sacred Space. Many thanks!
Thank you for bringing me closer to the Holy Presence of God. In the stillness of Sacred Space I receive the blessings of the Loving Light of God as it restores my soul, heals me, and reveals truth and purpose to me. May God bless you abundantly and keep smiling at the work that you do.
Thank you for the Sacred Space, it is always a peaceful oasis in the middle of my busy days.
This is beautiful and inspiring. I’ve decided to use Sacred Space for my daily personal prayer. I will remember the Jesuit Fathers in my prayers. In this age and time the world certainly needs a spiritual boost like this and I hope that many people will benefit from Sacred Space. Continue the good work. God bless you.
Thank you so much for this wonderful site. Sometimes when I pray alone, I get scared – that I’m not doing it right, or something like that. This site not only reassures me daily in my walk with God but also provides a sense of community and “education” that I don’t usually get except on Sundays. Thank you! You provide such a service to so many people.
Thank you so much for Sacred Space. I have prayed on Sacred Space the past five years, and it has made a big difference in my life.
It has been years since I visited your site as well. It is now my homepage and I find it to be a soothing and inspirational way to open my internet. Thank you for allowing a Sacred Space to visit, when the day allows I follow the prayers; just knowing it is a mouse click away helps me.
I started the prayer for world peace and it is an excellent reminder of what most if not all of the world’s people really desire.
Thanks so much for having a place to reflect and think about the issues of the day, things that are bothering me. I often get answers to the many questions and frustrations of life.
I am so happy I found this website. It has helped me through the toughest of times. It gives me hope and inspiration during my darkest days. I love praying along with the prayers and meditating on the words. It really helps to lift my spirits.
It’s years since I visited your Sacred Space but it is a refuge in times of despair. Thank you.
Thank you so much for providing this space of hope and solace and spiritual guidance!
Thank you for your messages, and for giving me peace in a somewhat hectic day. I prayed, and I spoke to Jesus. Thank you for that. Life is a gift…I have to remember to cherish it.
Thank you for your website. I used your Lenten site a few years ago and was so glad to find it again. Happy St Patrick’s Day and God bless you all.
A wonderful website -many thanks for providing it!
A perfect way to ensure the meaning of Lent is remembered and valued every minute of every day until Easter Sunday arrives. It helps me end every day feeling closer to God. Thank you
I have been coming to Sacred Space for many years now, it was no accident that I stumbled upon, I know it was the Lord’s will. I cannot even begin to thank you enough, for the times this site has helped me through some extremely dark times. Its helped me to have even a mustard seed of faith, to grow as I got stronger and to lift me up when I was weak. May God continue to bless all of those that operate it, the praying communities that read our prayers that we post here, and all who come here, for whatever reason.
This site gives me a great and welcome opportunity to start my day with prayer. Up till now I did all kinds of trivial things when startinmg out my day. I postponed prayer for the day, and never got to prayer that day anymore. So this is the very opportunity to start my day differently. Thanks very much!
Thank you for providing this thoughtful prayer tool. I am so grateful that it is there for me each day, especially now during Lent, to help deepen my relationship to the Lord.
Thank you this site – helps to focus on the essential and to listen to The Word.
I just wanted to thank you all for your site. Whenever I find myself struggling to spend more time in prayer or just need to be uplifted I can always find inspiration on your site. I am a pastor and I really admire your work that encourages prayer, bible study and the fellowship of believers. I have been visiting your site for a long while – just wanted to say thank you, you encourage me to give my best in my own work. God bless you all.
It is comforting to know others are in fellowship as I read the lessons and reflect on the messages, we do not struggle alone with our faith.
It is enlivening to begin the day with the structure of Sacred Space. Thank you so much for your work in maintaining the website.
I just began using Sacred Space a few months ago and I find it very inspiring. I also just love the photographs that appear each day. They are very calming. Thank you for providing this wonderful service.
It is my first day to be here at Sacred Space. I’m glad that I finally gave it a try. This is exactly what I’ve always thought I’d like to have in my computer. I have other prayer links, but sometimes I get confused with so many other things that are added. This is what I need, and I know that I will continue using it. Thank you so much.
Thank you for giving us this opportunity while in office, at our work desk, or just having a few spare minutes to use this sacred space and lift our soul to the Lord. I thank God for doing so much for us and I thank you for your efforts. May each one of us grow closer to the Lord during this Holy Season of Lent.
Thank you very much. Praise you Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you, I love this page. I havent prayed like this in a long time – it was peaceful and lovely, God’s strength to all of you.
Reading the daily prayer and also reflecting on the verses was great. I am sure this will be the best page and also it is very inspiring. I feel nice. A heavy heart of mine has got reduced. Praise the Lord. Thank you everyone for creating this wonderful website.
Thank you for this faithful encouragement to faith and to my soul. To God be the Glory.
I gain so much from a daily visit to sacred space. Today every word was incredibly meaningful – As I was asked to pause, clear my mind and listen I heard the words of the Lord deep in my heart. I am humbled and thankful and feel 100% happier. Thanks be to God.
Thank you so much for the St Francis Xavier Novena on this website – I visit Sacred Space alot and it gives me comfort.
This prayer site has been a blessing to me; I pray that all prayers are answered. It is comforting to know that we are never alone.
Thank you! What a blessing this site is!
Thank you for the blessing of Sacred Space. It’s a time since I visited. The format is very inspiring and very leads to deep peace. Thanks to all the Sacred Space Team.
I’m thankful for the Sacred Space website. It has brought me back to knowing more about the Lord and to continue praying at the same time, reminding me of his presence. I am able to spend time each day to give my time for him.
Thanks for making it possible for us to get in touch with the Lord at any given time, even at the office, where it seems a prayer is always necessary in order to have a moment of peace and quiet, and to reload the spiritual batteries which kind of run empty quite quickly. God bless you all
It is always a comfort to access Sacred Space and know my heart is united in prayer with people around the globe. This gentle approach to the Truth of God (and the opportunity for meditating on it) strengthens me and is a wonderful way to start my day.
Thank you to all involved in Sacred Space. It was the first resource I turned to when I started praying again a few years ago and I often return to it. Today I needed a good word to get me through some hurt that I am experiencing and the daily prayer was just what I needed. God bless.
Sacred Space offers me a moment of peace and love everyday no matter where I am.
Thank you Sacred Space for for sharing the daily prayers. These daily prayers have helped me to meditate on the prayers and put my life into perspective. Thank you for helping to bring me closer to God, Our Father.
What a wonderful gift of peace in the middle of the day. I came across your website and prayed with all the people around the world and yet alone with God. Thank you for preparing this wonderful spiritual opportunity.
Again thank you for the calm and balance Sacred Space gives to me. I’ve been on a cancer journey since 1997 and one of my greatest supports has come via Sacred Space, I’m sure it has helped strengthen my faith through difficult times.
Thank you for today’s message, which is especially helpful. I am constantly anxious and easily panicked, and Sacred Space helps to put every day into perspective.
I found Sacred Space at a Jesuit Retreat in Los Altos, CA a few years ago and I find now that it helps me survive my really stressful work days after I moved to Texas. Thank you very much wonderful Irish Jesuits !
Sacred Space helps m a lot every morning to be in touch with God. Thanks a lot for your work. God bless you
Thank you sacred space. By reading your reflections every day, it has lead me to have a relationship with Christ- who is revealing to me that He is our Way ,Truth, and our Life.
This website is a God-send. I don’t read the messages every day, yet…but I am working on it. The words calm me and give me the peace that I need. And when I contemplate on the message, I feel God’s presence and guidence. Thanks and God blessings to all who have made this unique and fullfiling way of praying possible.
The interpretations of the scriptures in the “Need inspiration?” section are very helpful.
A friend recently shared your site with me and it’s been a daily blessing every since. I shared it with some of my co-workers and it is a perfect way for us to start our day. Thanks for this wonderful gift.
No matter what the heartache, concern, problem it seems that God is speaking to me and holding me up in Sacred Space. Knowing that so many are praying daily is truly a comfort. Draw me closer Lord.
My priest told me about this website. I really love the opportunity to pray first thing in the morning. It is a wonderful gift that you are doing with this website. The time I take to talk to God is precious.
We pray to know we are not alone. The commentary and presentation of your site is powerful simplicity itself in the word of the Lord. Knowing that there were many others reading, praying and contemplating at the same time, using the site, this amazing tool. All bathing in the love of God, shared through you. What more do we need? Thank you, thank you, wishing you many blessings, which you surely merit. With love in His name.
My brother who is an Anglican Priest directed me to this site as the ‘very best site of its kind’. Over the past few weeks it has proved to be that elusive missing link I have needed for years. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak: and I have lacked direction and focus for my daily prayer life – until now. The format of the prayers and the ability to ‘pace’ the sequence of pages as you want to is wonderful. I also share my thoughts later in the day with my partner who visits the site on arrival at work. Thank you so much for providing a real gateway to the living Christ.
Thank you for this haven of peace, of connection to God and for the feeling of being known and loved by Him that flows from these pages. I can turn again to the challenges of life and my work renewed and strengthened and able to look outwards with love, not inwards with frustration!
A friend of ours told us of your site at church this morning.We like it very much. Thank you.
This is a really wonderful site, thank you for putting it up and keeping it running. God does work through all sorts of ways.
I am a student and before i settle down to my school work, I take time to visit Sacred Space. Despite my busy life as a student, this webpage has helped me remain focused and realise that God is ever present in my daily activities.
Thank you so very much for this spiritual space. I came there many times when I needed solace and guidance.
This site gives me an opportunity to have a fresh start every single morning. Not only does it prepare me to face the day ahead of me, but it reminds me on a daily basis about God’s love and forgiveness. It gives me the opportunity to realize that no matter how distant I was from God the day before I can make ammends by trying to be a better person, starting from today. That’s what gets you closer to God and God is kind enough to have setup the framework for it.
I take a few minutes every day to read and contemplate the Daily Prayer. It is perhaps the only moment in my day where I free my mind of worries (real or imagined), stresses and concerns and feel truly connected to Jesus. It is lovely that whenever I do that I feel a peace and calmness coming over me that i cannot seem to generate alone…then I realise that it is in that moment that I am not alone and have support and love beside me.
This is a wonderful web page. It’s a real help for finding God on these busy present days. It’s also an example of how God manages to talk to us by using all means available. It’s really impossible to escape from Him.
I pray every night, but in my busy life I don’t get to reflect much…this is a lovely thing to help me. All I need do is put on some calm music, pray and meditate with this and I can truly find myself in the presence of God.
Was in hospital for the past seven days and on going to the Chapel was delighted to discover somebody had printed out each day’s Sacred Space message on the day’s reading. Thank you whoever it was. It kept up the continuity for me. Am back at home now and online!
Congratulations, this page is a very helpful guide for Spiritual Exercises in daily life, thank you.
I have found the messages so comforting today and found God in the Sacred Space. Thank you for this wonderful service.
This is a wonderful site with great reflection on prayers. It is very helpful to me as I always am searching for better ways to pray and reflect on Jesus and His life on earth and recognize His presence with us each day on this journey we are on. It is a way to recognize and appreciate our loving God and His closeness to us always…
Thanks so much for this space. For a long time I have found it difficult to sit in God’s presence and haven’t been able to find any words. This has helped me hugely. Blessings upon you.
I find Sacred Space an oasis in the spiritual desert. I have so much to be thankful for yet am struggling in the financial meltdown. Thank you for this forum where I come to share my thoughts and prayers, reading the chapel of intentions and praying for my fellow human beings who are suffering and despairing. We are one human family made in God’s image and if each person recognized God in every one we encounter, our world would be a lot better place.
I find a deep sense of peace whenever I log on to Sacred Space. it is a little bit of heaven in this earthly turmoil. May God bless those who are involved in bringing this wonderful connection to God’s love and word to us everyday.
Yes, I thank God and I also thank you! We are so much in need of quiet prayer time and personal meditation…even for just 10 minutes of our busy lives. Sacred Space does just that for me, I retire for some time and let the spirit inspire me and help me in every possible way. The world is in need of this wonderful prayer website. Thanks to you for hearing the call to create and administer it. I also thank the Lord for St. Ignatius and the inspired work of wisdom he left for us, the Spiritual Exercises.
May God bless you and keep you always…
Sometimes it is amazing how things that have worried me can be eventually resolved and it does seem that for a time I have been “carried through” in gentle arms. I thank God for his love. Thank you for this beautiful mission on this website carried out day on day, in his love.
Thanks again for your wonderful scripture commentaries. As a catechist I find them indispensable!
Sacred Space helps me to make sense of every step I take each day to feel nearer to God. It fills me with a purpose and love that allows me to hopefully make a difference in the world I inhabit.
Thank you for your wonderful work. God bless you all.
Thank you for the space.
Thank you for this inspiring website. Its simplicity and serenity helps me to connect with Jesus on a daily basis, and provides the encouragement that I need to look beyond the horizons of our daily lives.
I thank God for this wonderful site Sacred Space, I print the prayers and I take it on my way to work, and it makes such a difference to my day. I’d like to thank everyone who makes this possible, what a blessing to have this daily prayer, thank you for your work.
Today, I have come back to Sacred Space after a long absence. To be able to sit at my computer and pray is wonderful and uplifting.
Wasn’t able to buy the Sacred Space book this year so am grateful for this website. The benefit is that praying via the web gives me a sense of community in this daily prayer. Peace to all.
Thank you! This was a unique way of expressing a prayer. I should try this more often.
Thank You for the blessing of Sacred Space. In the evening before retiring to bed I have this devotion & it is so rewarding in Spirit & mind. God bless all that you do.
How dear to find God waiting here.
Thank you for inviting me to make a ‘Sacred Space’ in my day. I find my prayer so warm, so deep, peaceful and intimate. I have no words to describe the immense joy I feel when I pray and have the opportunity to talk and contemplate God. Thanks to Sacred Space for teaching me how to pray!
How awesome! Thank you for providing this space for the busy folks of the world. It brought a smile to my face and warmth to my heart and soul.
I have been without a computer for 2 years now and I am so happy that God made it possible for me to optain one and join Sacred Space once again each morning.Your website makes my day start in a very spiritual and peaceful way. I am once again feeling that I don’t “live alone” and that my lifelong companion, friend and Blessed Savior is always here for me. God Bless you all for creating and sharing this beautiful sanctuary for me and all of my brothers and sisters in Christ to come to.
Since Thanksgiving of 2010 I’ve made a committment to reading your Sacred Space every morning. Like so many others, my family and I are going through a very “challenging” time. Reading His word and meditations brings comfort which helps to keep focused on what’s really important: God’s love, our family and community. Thank you for your website. God is good!
Thank you for the reminder that the light of Jesus presence is always there and that He looks with gentleness on me.
I thank God for the devotion of Sacred Space at the end of the day. The comfort it gives is a blessing from God.
I thank you for this special place to have a 10 minutes of peace with God praying for all mankind and every beautiful and precious gift God gives us everyday.
The daily prayers and Scripture readings on your site touch the very essence of the Soul. It is amazing just how often the readings answer the concerns and worries that invade our daily lives. It is a constant reminder to me of God’s generosity and love to us all.
I am so happy with the reminder of God’s love….for me. So often I see God’s love as being very general or meant for others and not personal for me. Thank you for this great reminder.
Thank you so much for this site. I came across it today as I was looking for something to help me pray. I have an anxiety disorder and prayer is one way of making me feel better. This devotional really helped calm me. Please continue this ministry!
Thank you so much for maintaining this devotional aid. I am an evangelical finding the Catholic church in my mid 40′s. I have been lonely and it is wonderful to become aware of the presence of the universal church.
Thank you for you website, the daily readings brings peace to my soul, especially when I am troubled by the worries of life. God Bless your ministry.
Thank you sacred space for helping me to come out of my warmth and security of my cacoon and reach out to others.
Thank you for Sacred Space. I have the book, and share it in a small group. We find it enriches, beautifully challenges, gently reaches in to minister to our vulnerabilities, and places us in touch with the ‘always more’, in so many aspects, of our wonderful God. A marvellous ministry.
It always amazes me how Sacred Space often seems to speak to me about my everyday life. Today for me is about uncertainty: new beginnings, new directions and having the courage to embrace change. Thank you.
I thank you so much for Sacred space. I am a new immigrant to Canada and I have been feeling lonely. Your website has helped me be in touch with Jesus, the best friend of the lonely. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for this page, it reinforces my faith and connection to God every day.
I recently reconnected with Sacred Space after an absence of several years. Thank you to all concerned for your efforts in creating this wonderful site. I visit while I am at work and you help enormously in keeping God at the centre of my life while I sort through the ups, downs, and distractions of my workaday existence.
THis is the time of day 10.00 pm after work that I reflect on the greatness of God and the peace that he gives me even in hard times. Thanks for the prayers I always add them to this time.
I had drifted away from Sacred Space, and then was called back. With being a caregiver with a full time position sometimes it’s just hard to find time to pray. Thank you, Sacred Space.
I found the reference to your website a few days ago in Abbot Christopher Jamison’s book Finding Sanctuary. This is a wonderful resource. Thank you so much for all the care, study and prayerfulness that must go into the preparation of every day’s meditation.
I heard about you from U.S. Catholic, and have passed your site on to my friends. While I attend Mass and pray my rosary in the morning and spend an hour of prayer in the evening, I was looking for something during the day. Sacred Space is just right. Thank you for these moments to reflect on the really important things in our lives.
I discovered Sacred Space randomly while surfing on the Internet 5 years ago. Each time I visit and say a prayer consistently, I feel much closer to my God. It keeps me close to my creature.
I am delighted to find such a rich resource for deepening my faith – one that I can go to in that quiet time before bed, or whenever. Thank you so much.
What a beautiful way to start the day…A wonderful tool that enables a person to pray and meditate without the constraints of exacting times and places. Great for in the garden, at the kitchen table, or waiting for appointments. This is a gift I shall use daily and pass on to others. God bless you for your insight
Thank you so much for such a wonderful experience. I am starting on a path of returning to my Faith. Using your prayer meditation I truly felt the presence of Christ guiding me and calling me home. I feel Sacred Space will be an important part of my journey, however long it may take. God bless you.
It’s a great blessing for this new year that i discovered your wonderful site. it will be a great help for my prayer life. Thank you so much!
I’ve been away. New home, new community, new way of life. Things have been so busy, so full of conflicts and tensions. It’s good to come back Sacred Space. Immediately I feel better, held, like the child returning from a far country or the lost sheep being carried home. So glad you are there. I know that God is always with us and even manages to get my attention now and then – at night , in the car, sometimes even on my knees like I used to – but sometimes I just get washed away. So thank you, little website.
I have only discovered Sacred Space. It is so simple and so effective. It’s great to make use of the Internet to praise God. I will tell others. God Bless.
I never would have thought that one could experience God’s presence, feel a connection with scripture, and understand areas in my own life needing attention – all while sitting at the computer. It amazes me every day how easy it is to shut out distractions and feel peace at the start of a busy day. Thank you for this wonderful site.
Your site has brought me peace, love, and understanding of who God is. Thanks to everyone associated with this Ministry. May God answer our prayers and may the New Year bring Peace on Earth.
Sacred Space has become so important to me in a very short time. It is a refuge from the chaotic pace of life and gives me the peace and strength to follow the loving God with confidence. It is also wonderful to know how many people around the world are praying together with me in this way. Please continue to perform this vital ministry. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the gift you bring to my prayer life. I encounter the Lord due to your site, thank you. May you continue to do the good work which is begun here. I will continue to direct people to this site!
This last week of Advent is especially meaningful in my life. It is a difficult time, due to health issues, and I need the readings and reflections that Sacred Space offers me. Even while at work, I can stop, close my eyes and meditate on the words you offer. In the stillness come the answers I need for the present. Not yesterday, not tomorrow – but now. I thank you for your beautiful ministry and I ask God to bless your community as we welcome His Son into our hearts.
When I’m nervous at work, this site gives me peace and strength again, knowing that there are many people praying with me here. Thank you for this sacred space.
This website has led me back to my faith! Nothing more nor nothing less. When I first started with Sacred Space, I used to whizz through it. Sometimes I was bored! But something kept drawing me back. Today, I cannot begin my day without it. If I can’t get to it in the morning, I somehow find the time during the day. I pray that I may always have this space. I pray for the good people who keep it going and all the people throughout the world who, like me, keep coming back.
For a while now I have been reading the daily liturgy and then turn to Sacred Space as a further means of entering the words of God, and man is it effective in focusing and intensifying and inspiring me. I love the weekly words, as well as the daily “More Inspiration” and thank you so much for them, and this site, and the wonderfulness of joining others in prayer.
I have been using your resource for over a year now, and find it so helpful as a tool for connecting with God (and with my own feelings). I love the prayers, the ‘Need Inspiration’ reflections, and the gentleness and love that pervades this site. With gratitude.
We are frozen in here in Ireland at the moment. I am usually a frequent Mass goer, with community prayers beforehand. I want to thank you for Sacred Space which gives me a wonderful spiritual contact and keeps me going – until we thaw out. I will stay with “Sacred Space” even then as it has made a good start to my day for at least 2 years. I am now elderly and I hold on to the hope that you will be there for me in my old age.
Had a good break with your help in the midst of my work. Thank you for your service. Thank God.
Thank you so very much for the work that you do! It has helped me tremendously in my daily spiritual life and I have passed it on to many, many people in hopes that they will find it helpful as well. Please know how much your work has meant to me and countless others!
What a wonderful way to start your day with Sacred Space and going on with a short meditation focusing on the 2nd Sunday of Advent. Keep up the good work, it just inspired me more to live my priestly calling in a more dedicated way because people like you inspired me most in my vocation. Take care and have a very Merry Christmas to one and all.
I cannot tell you how helpful your beautiful and prayerful reflections are to my own personal prayer, as well as to my homily preparations. Keep up your most wonderful work! Advent blessings to all of you!
The communion of saints has taken on a new dimension in your web site. There is comfort in knowing that our longings and prayers are shared in an instant by the faithful all over the world. Thank you for your ministry. Indeed this is God’s work – and your vocation is giving the good news of God’s love as we share it with one another through your website.
Every evening I read the Gospel and the Living Space commentary for the following day. The next morning I say the Morning Office and then reflect on the Gospel passage using the Living Space commentary as a springboard for my ponderings. I’ve done this for a couple of years and it has been lifechanging. Before that, I found the Bible inaccessible. Now i love it and am so grateful to those who write the commentaries. Their wisdom and love shine through. Thank you.
Thank you for the blessing of this site!
I just wanted to say thank you for providing me with access to this site. It has reminded me of what is important. So just thanks!
I’ve used your book, but I prefer the website, because I read too fast and tend to rush through, instead of taking the time to reflect and pray over each part. Having each part on a different page is so much better for me. This is a wonderful way to start each morning!
The Lord is so great and merciful. He really provide for our needs, especially the needs of spiritual life. This site is an instrument of feeding our spiritual hunger. Thanks God for giving this Sacred Space in our daily lives. for me, it really helps to pray and meditate in God’s words and its inspire me in my my daily life. The fruit of my prayer will always be the light that guide me in my way in everyday in my life. Thank You so much Sacred Space.
I found this site two weeks ago by the grace of God and have visited every day since then. This is heaven to me, a place I can’t wait to get to every morning. Thank you and God bless you for your work here.
Thank you Sacred Space for providing me with a blessing every time I visit this site. I’m so inspired by it and through your devotions I’m discovering more of Jesus and his love for me.
A friend suggested I visit this site months ago. I spent the time today and went through the prayers. I feel calm and ready to go about my day in peace. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things that I can, and wisdom to know the difference, Amen.
I have Sacred Space as my homepage on my mobile phone so during a busy day I can pray when I get a few minutes to myself. It is really a blessing and thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your hard work.
The sacredspace is a much appreciated moment in my day. A space to recharge, refocus and refresh my relationship with God. The space allows me to stay connected with the world as she is and seek to honour Him in all that I do.
I came across your web site a few days ago. My life is going through dramatic changes and I started to browse the site. I firmly believe the spirit led me here and I thank you for the peace that it is bringing me. Thank you for your apostolate.
Thanks again for the Living Space pages. They are a wonderful resource for us catechists! May God continue bless this website.
I came back to Sacred Space this morning after a long, dry spell in my spiritual journey. I feel as though the hand of God led me here and the words I read today were exactly what I needed to hear; I am deeply grateful. This is a beautiful site.
It had been a while since I had been to your site but a crisis brought me back. I thank you for your wonderful work and I feel myself on the way to healing. Thanks be to you and to God.
Thanks for the words. I was going to look back but with the sacred words,I was filled with courage and kept going forward, with prayer on my mind, love in my heart and gratitude in my steps. These words I will always remember. With God, you can, yes you can.
As a second year law student, it is almost expected that one be constantly stressed and pressed for time. Sacred Space has been such a blessing; I can bring an effective space to be with God and to be refreshed and challenged, wherever I am, whether it is at my desk at home, or in a library carrel. I truly appreciate this resource. Unlike many online spiritual resources, it does not leave me feeling like my faith is insincere, gimmicky or shallow. Instead it brings the deep truths of my faith into the realities of my life.
While leading a discipleship group on formational reading of the Word, I discovered your web page. Words cannot express how much this page has helped me and I am hoping it is helping our group. I visit this site everyday and find it inspiring and uplifting. Thank you!
I feel very alone at times as I struggle with big changes in my life. I came across Sacred Space a few months ago. It joins me to the struggles of thousands of others in the same situation. I need and want to know that the Lord is with me but realise better now that I must slow down and listen to him attentively. Thank you Sacred Space for helping me to do this in the company of others. Bless everyone who is joined together in this way.
Thank you for this blessing. It’s a wonderful resource. I worry too much and a friend suggested daily guided prayer. I was so pleased to find this site, created with such care and love. Thank you and God Bless.
Thank you sacredspace for enlightening us with the word of God. For years i had stiff lips and could not smile, always looking bitter and angry. After reading the word of God, i invited Him into my heart to heal me and to open the eyes and ears of my heart. Now i feel like a woman in lukes gospel- who had lost a coin, light the lamp and sweep the house until she found it.
I can be able to smile again with the joy from the heart,because i have experience Him to the core of my heart. I do not put the agly look of bitterness and anger- but radiate the joy of experiencing the one who loves me to the point of risking all.
Thank you for providing this place to pause and reflect. Over the years Sacred Space has helped me to grow in faith, to continue my spiritual journey, and to deepen my relationship with Christ.
It is so wonderful to visit this page. More especially in the mid of the jungle in mining world where life is all about work 12 hours a day 7 days a week till your 6 weeks roster is done. This, I have found as my church where Presence of Jesus is felt a bit more closely; His Presence adored a bit more seriously and His Graces a bit more praised. Thank You Jesus for this piece of work.
Thank you for this website, it helps me take 10 minutes out of my day to use it for prayer and meditation and has helped me through good times and bad.
Thank you for your inspiring invitation to prayer. Thank you for the work and dedication and I offer prayers for all of you.
I love this site. I thank God for the Irish Jesuits that created this site. I pray from it and read the daily prayers as soon as I get in my office and log on to my computer. What a beautiful way to start my day. Thank you so much.
By reading “Finding Sanctuary” by Abbot Christopher Jamison, I have discovered your Sacred Space site. I am so grateful to have received this information, and have just finished my first day in Sacred Space. I have been asking God to further my prayer life in some way during the last couple of weeks, and this is probably how He has decided to do it. God bless your special work.
I love this website. I share it with everyone. I visit every morning at work before I get heavy into my day. Thank you for your hard work, guidance and inspiration!
Thank you so much for this wonderful resource so easily available on my favorites bar. Sometimes I just need that extra encouragement to pray now instead of later and you are there to help. I am taking a class at church on the Spiritual Exercises, and when I looked at Sacred Space this week, the message was about visualizing the gospel scene in doing comtemplation. What an encouragement. Thank you again and keep up the good work of helping so many stay in closer contact with our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you for the site. I have been in a state of constant desolation lately and your site has helped me through. I’m struggling with a mental disorder, which is not an easy thing to do, but this site can bring me closer to Christ each day, even if its just a little bit. God Bless whoever reads this.
Thank you for the ministry of Sacred Space. I have been away from prayer for a while and Sacred Space gives me the structure I need to spend time with Jesus. I give thanks for the Society of Jesus for the many and varied ministries they provide for the people of God. I pray that those God is calling to the Church and the Society will heed that call. With a grateful heart.
I, too, have “re-found” this site after an absence of a number of months. It is an oasis of serenity in my hectic world. What a blessing! I was also blessed to find Fr. Pat’s commentary on Dealing with Stress when I clicked on the audio link at the bottom of the page. Thank you for these wonderful resources!
This is a wonderful place to visit and I know in my heart that I will come often. The messages and thoughts that go with them may not always fit daily, but I am sure will at one time or another, if my mind will allow me to remember when I need to. Thank you for this wonderful spot, what a wonderful time away from the world as it is today, if only for a brief moment. Thank you.
I really enjoyed your website. It gave me a chance to come closer to God and really feel him. I thank you for the prayer guidence so that I may now have Jesus’ guidance. So again I thank you, you have given me space to connect with God. I will most positively recommend your site. Have a blessed day.
Just wanted to say thank you for Daily Prayer. I’m finding it really helpful for keeping me regularly in focus with God. The thoughts on the readings almost always speak to me and the emphasis on the personal prayer relationship with Jesus stops me just “going through the motions”. So thank you.
I feel blessed having found this space. It really has been a help in my day. It has helped me to thank God for everything He has done for me and continues to do for me. It’s a great way to start before work begins. Thank you so much!
I had lost the link for Sacred Space. For some reason God encouraged me today to “seek and find.” thankfully I was obedient and even though it took awhile I was able to find your site. Thank God I did because after reading it I remembered and recaptured the peace it had brought to me for so long.
Continued blessings on this ministry.
I treasure the gift of being able to spend time at this site! The pictures that are posted are so beautiful and helpful for meditation.
By chance someone gave a copy of your 2007 book. Now I read it whenever I need to go into “the silence of my innermost bieng and feel the presence of God” even if the dates don’t coincide. Very rarely have I found words that make me feel this. Your words have such deep meaning for me. I pray that you continue. I thank God you are here.
Today’s message is a consolation it gives a sense of hope in these difficult times, spirtitually and economically. Your Sacred Space is an oasis.
Thank you for being here on my computer bringing calm, reinforcing my faith. Times can be difficult but to come and sit quietly, and calm a troubled mind reassures me of Gods presence in my life.
I’m blessed with three wonderful children and a very good and interesting job to do. Now I know, it’s ok to feel weak sometimes, to let it go, because Jesus is near to me in everything I am and can be. I’m not alone – in deep trust. Thanks.
I just received this Sacred Space link 2 weeks ago, this is the best that I ever read. I changed my meditation site. Many thanks to my friend who sent me this space. Viva Cristo!! Viva la Virgen Maria, Viva Irlanda!! Many Thanks and God bless you.
So beautiful and perfectly set up to guide a prayer meditation. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for this site. It is truly a blessing in my life.
Wonder site. Like walking into a room where others sit and pray with me, all God’s children together. God bless your work.
I found your site while looking at a Saint Catherine Laboure site. It really made me feel better. Thank you.
Thank you to the people who put their efforts into this website. It is always nice to have somewhere to turn in a busy day, to remember what life is really about. It always helps me to put things into perspective. God bless.
I was moved to tears this morning when part of the meditation reminded us about gratitude. Thank you for a way to take a break from thinking about problems in my life!
I really enjoy this ‘sacred space’! I use it to bring peace and reflection to the end of my day.
As a frequent business traveler, I find Sacred Space to be a wonderful blessing, giving the opportunity to study God’s word and pray peacefully during hectic times in a contemporary medium. Especially when I am abroad and far away from home, Sacred Space always makes me feel close to the Lord and to home. Amen.
I work for myself in my house and I spend alot of time alone. I have a hard time leaving my work to go to places of peace. Sacred Space is always there as a reminder, a friend and a guide.
Thank you for that moment of quiet. I felt I could appreciate my own freedom today as a gift – more than I might if I hadn’t visited here. The words of the readings often speak personally – it is a special moment in the day to pay a visit here. To visit here is often to feel encouraged as the day opens before me. I thank you for that encouragement.
In a world with so much distraction and care I will always be grateful for this little heavenly spot to return -Sacred Space. Blessings!
Thank you so much for Sacred Space. It’s been an absolute lifeline. I really appreciate all the time and effort that goes into it. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for this website. Prayers bring a feeling of peace and comfort in my life. God bless you!
The commentaries are very insightful, and help me a lot in my reflection and prayer time. Thanks a lot for putting this together. To God be the glory!
Thank you so much for Sacred Space -have returned after too long a time. Realize how much I need to visit here every day – thank you and God bless.
Sacred Space helps me meditate and feel God’s presence in a tangible way. Thank you for providing us with such a helpful online tool. I am most grateful. May we all discover the true meaning of prayer and reap the benefits for ourselves and all our dear ones. Thank you most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
As a spiritual director, I have referred directees to this site. Also, I find it helpful to use for myself.
Heart speaks to heart was the theme of the Papal visit and so it is with Sacred Space, for, the Living Space comments on the daily readings speak thus.
We thank God for you and for ourselves for this divine inspiration.
I can never thank my friend enough for introducing me to Sacred Space. The help this site has given me in my search for Christ’s love has been immeasurable.
I just happened to stumble across this site and now it is part of my daily meditation. I am so grateful and thankful.
I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your words for us. I was delighted with the idea you shared of ‘savouring the joyful mysteries of our life’ – it really spoke to me. To see my life in terms of a ‘rosary’ somehow transformed the everyday into a gift of prayer. Thank you.
I find it very good…such a blessing to meditate with Sacred Space every morning before I start to work. Thank you for this space.
What a wonderful way to start my day! It gives one the feeling of belonging to a truly universal, interconnected faith. Thanks for this site.
Thank you for providing me the opportunity to seek guidance from God through prayer via my computer. I’ve recently taken on the task of integrated text, visual and audio files related to bible study and prayer into all of my portable devices.
I visit Sacred Space at least once each day. I find it a refuge where I can clear my mind and gain comfort in the words of wisdom. Like many, I struggle with my faith and constantly question what it is all about. Reading the messages left by others lets me know that I am not alone. I pray that all who visit this site find some peace. I ask God to give us all the strength and courage to continue to live each day. Thank you Sacred Space.
Your Chapel of Remembrance was a great help to me when my mother died. Thanks so much for this wonderful site!
I cannot tell you how grateful I am for Sacred Space. The prayers and inspiration say everything simply and beautifully. It has taken me through some most difficult times. Thank you so much for this wonderful site.
I began praying with Sacred Space in June 2010. In July my family experienced a terrible tragedy. My daughter-in-law was struck by lightning while working on the family farm. I’ve continued to be led into God’s presence through your devotions, and they have been a tremendous blessing to me. Every day I find reassurance that God is present and faithful in his love, that we are not alone but are surrounded by the body of Christ, and that I am free in Christ to chose how I respond to events as they unfold. Thank you!
This site is literally the anchor of my day. Although I start my day with a Bible reading and the Chaplet of Mercy, the word of the God is soon drowned in the rush of work. I have come to cherish the time I spent in God’s presence after lunch and Sacred Space help me to do it. I have found it quite trying to carry God in the heart while going about the doing my tasks. Hence the prayer brings everything back to focus. Great work team, and thanks a lot!
I thank God that I found this site when I was going through a tough week at work. May God bless you as you bless others.
I am new to the Sacred Space and I feel connected knowing that many people around the world are sharing this prayer space together for the glory of God.
Thank you for sharing inner peace with me.
In the midst of hectic work battling for human rights, I have come to cherish the 10-15 minutes I spend on Sacred Space in the mornings. Sitting at my desk, paperwork surrounding me, I am able to step into a haven of comfort, peace, and wisdom as I meet with our loving Father. Thank you for your diligent work in providing this source of encouragement and guidance. It is much appreciated and is bearing fruit of the Spirit in my life.
In the depths of despair I come back to Sacred Space and our Lord speaks to me through you. God bless your faithfullness.
I am so grateful for this site and the individuals that have made it possible for all of us to use. I will keep them in my prayers. I’m hoping that the Holy Spirit will help me learn to grow in my faith as it is not very strong at this time; however, when I go to this site I find that I feel more peaceful. God bless you all!
Thanks for your website – it has really been an awesome help – I needed the Holy Spirit back in my life and he really has come back.
Thank you. I find it difficult to pray. You guide my path and show me where to look. I am not alone in my prayer which gives me the courage to be open. God becomes close instead of far away. Thank you Father.
I truly love the Sacred Space prayer time. I find it so inspirational, I feel God speaks to me through the scripture and prayers. I have told our eldest son about it and asked him to try to take just 10 minutes from his busy work day. I am not sure if he does but I keep praying that he and his brother will return to Mass one day. I thank God for the Sacred Space web page and for those who write it.
God bless you.
It is such a joy to be able to pray with others and see their prayers and mine answered. Thank you for the sensitive prayers and the Sacred Heart Novena.
I am grateful to all you people working with our Lord in this Sacred Space. Every single prayer visit fills my heart with goodness and insight to the brim. May the Holy Spirit continue to guide your reflections and writes most vividly.
Thank you for creating this resource. God speaks in many ways, I pray I can do what he wants of me today. Lord touch all our hearts.
In todays reading there is a line that really moves me. ‘Knowledge puffs up, love builds up’. In the pursuit of knowledge, in meetings, business, politics I have often forgotton that. I will remember it in future.
This morning I thanked God for your website – it has given me a ‘voice of calm’ when I was litterally shaking with tiredness and stress. Thank you.
Pax et bonum. God is good. I haven’t visited Sacred Space in a long time, and as I was sitting at the computer today it suddenly popped into my head to go there. The focus of the prayer today was exactly what I needed. It tied in perfectly with a problem I am going through. Then, to top it off my wife and I had been talking this evening about how she could manage her stress, and there is a resource about that as well. God used your site to speak to me very clearly. Thank you for being his servants.
I’ve always had trouble imagining that Jesus was present when I prayed but when I use Sacred Space he seems to come alive. I sometimes feel that I can touch Him. Now when I read the bible I ask the Lord what he’s saying to me.
Sacred Space is helpful in not only teaching me the Scripture but in enhancing my faith as well. I am very thankful for this website. May God bless you and this site always.
Wonderful site. I found a link to it in a time of real personal crisis and it was so helpful. After reading the inspirational thoughts on the scripture, it gave me a new way of approaching passages that I had not already thought of, and it was no surprise therefore when I scrolled down to the bottom of the page and saw it was run by Jesuits. You are truly blessed to provide people with this daily guidance and it is great to see that people can use the WWW for such good.
I stumbled onto this fabulous website last week and immediately set it as my homepage. Everyday post lunch I visit the site and take a few minutes to place my mind at the feet of the Lord. And since it is my homepage, even if I forget to spend those precious moments in prayer, I am reminded to do it. My thanks to everyone who makes this website a reality; our prayers are with you. God bless you!
This simple, inspired place has changed my day to day life. Creating a real Sacred Space in which to quietly center my focus on God and my faith. I have a nightly ritual to read along with these prayers and thoughts before going to sleep, and it puts me in the perfect mindspace for ending my day in thanks, and starting my day with hope. Thank you so much to everyone involved in this site, you’ve really made a difference. In Gratitude.
Thanks for the wonderful commentaries on Living Space. They are insightful and thought-provoking. May God bless you all!
Thank you Lord for the company of others and the reminder of your presence.
Monday morning, dark, wet. A day to go back to bed and cover your head. I must not, so I open Sacred Space, after Matins and shared spirituality lifts me out of myself. The reminder to be present to others is timely for me. Thank you Lord for all these good people.
A beloved friend, now deceased, was very devoted to the Sacred Heart. I am happy to find this space and the novena, and hope to grow by coming here.
Thank God for the people who prepare this wonderful resource for us. Jesus is with His Church and praise God for His Holy Spirit. I am so grateful to have found this site which allows me to pray better and to know Gods Word and ponder on it so that I may keep it and live it. God Bless all of you and thank you so much.
In the middle of the day, when all within me is silence, I look for Sacred Space, to speak with God and pray for some minutes, and I abandon myself in him. That helps to transfigure my heart. And I pray for you too. God bless you all.
Thanks for Sacred Space. I find it a great inspiration when I most need a reminder that God loves me and always guides and inspire us if we but only ask.
Cheers, Victor.
In came across Sacred Space not long after I lost my husband. Sacred Space is the place I go first for my daily devotional and meditation. It centers me each day and helps me focus on what is truly important – giving thanks and serving the Lord through which all things are possible. Thank you for being here.
Thank you for your wonderful site, I thank God for being in my life. God bless you.
The minutes spent with Sacred Space are the ultimate in tranquility.
Thanks for this website. I’m glad because I can read these prayers in Hungarian. I think it’s good that you put these on the Internet. Thank you.
I pray for God’s blessing on those who make this wonderful Sacred Space possible. Without it my life would indeed be diminished, every time I visit it gives new direction to my prayers. A big thank you to everyone involved, and may the liberating grace of God be always with you and motivate you to do what you do best.
I feel the presence of God when I pray the prayers at Sacred Space. It is truly a sacred space. It’s such a comfort to know that my prayers are joined with so many around the world.
I want to thank you and any and all the individuals who make this site possible…it really has helped me to positively talk to and listen to the Lord and reflect in a healthy manner on the scriptures…a true and important aid to my prayer at this time…thank you…I’m assuming you are Irish Jesuits…God bless you whoever you are…
At some point someone gave me a card with your website adress on it. One day a few months ago I came across it and entered Sacred Space for the first time. I was amazed. It was so serene and calming ,and I was filled with a kind of joy that it existed, and that so many people were meeting with Christ among the everyday routines which affect our lives. It is wonderful that so many people across the globe can meet together and share God’s holy Word, and pray together. I am often deeply moved and strive to be a better person in my spiritual journey. I am also impressed by the simplicity of the site; its calm and peace. It seems to project an aura of holiness from the computer. Thank you also for the clear format of the daily readings and the inspiring commentaries. May God’s blessing be on you all, and on those who visit Sacred Space. Thank you for what you do.
Thank you for the beautiful prayer on “Sacred Space”. This is the first time I pray online with people in the world. May God bless you all.
Thank you. The effort I know someone goes through to prepare this is very much valued. I came in to work today feeling unaccountably oppressed, and these few minutes with God are precious indeed.
The reading today really struck me. It filled me with hope and reminded me that God will be there to support me. I am about to take a test tomorrow and am currently very worried that I will not do well in it. After reading today’s reading, I felt much better and motivated to do my very best. I’ll just focus on my test and let God to take care the rest for me. Thank you for your ministry.
Thank you for your comfort. I lost my father 4 years ago and miss him so much, and you remind me that my heavenly Father loves me and is with me always. I am never forsaken and never alone. Bless you.
Thank you for this sweet ministry. May the Lord bless you!
Good morning, and many thanks once again! Take care
My daughter leaves for college in a few weeks. One of the things that will connect us is Sacred Space. We both like the site and I’m looking forward to chatting with her about her own reflections as she visits you from time to time.
Today’s reading (18th Aug) seems so very relevant to me! I admit I feel on the side of the early workers. What stands out is the line ” are you envious because I am generous” – and sometimes I’m ashamed to say “yes”. I too am seeking employment (not worked for 22 months) but I am hoping and trusting in GOD and pray for patience whilst I await. I try to visit here most days and am grateful for the existence of this Sacred Space and to know that all over the world others join in with me. Many thanks.
I thank God you are here. Meditation on Sacred Space grounds me, orients me in the day with God in my world. I reach back for parts of the meditation throughtout the day. Keeps me thinking of God’s love for me, for all of us.
I’m so grateful to my Jesuit director for introducing me to Sacred Space. I have made it a habit to start with prayer using Sacred Space before I use the computer. These are grace-filled moments.
I am so glad that I have found this help for my life!
Today I woke up before writing inspired and I stopped to ponder how great it is God because I felt the need to give thanks and honor for all that until now has allowed me and it was his hand that was to open this page. I say thanks God, I praise and bless you for your glory and your power through.
Thank you Sacred Space, through the grace of God I have opened my heart to the Holy Spirit to heal my brokenness. Now I feel like a little plant growing that needs to be watered by prayers and reading the scriptures.
I am so grateful to God and to those who created this wonderful space. As my family and I are going through hard times, I am finding so much comfort in coming here daily. It is teaching me to pray, to have faith and to know that God is taking care of us.
As I read today’s reading on Ezekiel 16:1-15, 60, 63, I was puzzled from what I found in this particular passage. I could not understand the meaning of what Ezechiel was referring to. I was trying to find some answers on the internet when I found the meaning of this particular passage on this website, given so brilliantly. Thank you for this insight. I could understand the deep meaning of this passage so well. Thank you for your efforts. May God Bless you.
Just to say thank you so much for Sacred Space. Even though I might be away from it for a while, it’s good to know it’s there to come back to. I am grateful for its guidance and words of encouragement.
During the past week I have found Sacred Space again. For some reason I have a long pause while I have attended this web site only occasionally. It is nice to be back!
Although I pray daily and also read the daily scriptures even on those days when I cannot attend mass, I feel the Sacred Space also has a place in my daily life. It may be just the 10 minutes spend during a coffee break, but it is good ten minutes which give feeling of peace, guidance and direction in a business environment.
Many thanks for those, who have created this wonderful forum and who continue to keep it going. I have recoemmended the site also to many of my friends and will keep on doing that. I hope you will find many more readers (and prayers) for your site.
It’s been a while since I have come to pray, but every time I come I am glad I did. I am not a Catholic, but I am a follower of Jesus and your site helps guide my prayer life for the day. It’s also encouraging to know there are others praying along side with me.
Today, I returned to Sacredspace after a long absence. I am going through a difficult time in my life. But I know the Holy Spirit is with me and guiding me back to my Faith. Also today is the 100 years Anniversary of St Padre Pio’s Ordination into the Priesthood. I feel he is with me also. As he said often “Pray, Hope, and Don’t Worry”. That is very comforting for us all.
I discovered Sacred Space recently when a small group of us met to encourage regular prayer patterns throughout the day. I have been greatly helped by Sacred Space over the last weeks in the discipline of stopping to pray in the middle of the day. Have been blessed and blown away by how apt the scripture passages and thoughts to ponder on have been. Bless you for listening to God and encouraging His people. I’m a married woman in my 60s at an Anglican church in New Zealand.
Yes, the shade of the tree is wide enough for many to sit under it. I am a Baptist from Australia and I find Sacred Space a valuable way each day to start a day’s work. Thankyou.
A wonderful way to begin your day
Thirty-five years ago I was in the telecommunications industry. My company was the earliest to participate in the development of Internet and I played a very small role. Those early days were struggles with technology, marketing and ethics. How marvelous it is to realise that Sacred Space has evolved from that seemingly long ago work. Bless you for taking advantage of the technology. So often techlology is not used for the best ends. I read, and often meditate on, “something to think and pray about this week” daily.
I am a Lutheran pastor who feels like I have largely lost my faith. In the past week I have seen the spirit working strongly to restore me. I visited Sacred Space tonight for the first time in a long time. It providentially fit right in with the movement of the Spirit. May God grant me mercy and restore me fully to the faith.
I found your website today from a recommendation in a book, ‘Finding Sanctuary’ by Abbot Christopher Jamison. I thank God for you and intend to visit again. It sometimes, often, seems hard to find time to pray and read the Bible. I’m married with two sons, 4 and 17 months. I attend a pentecostal church. God Bless you.
This sacred space has helped me get through very stressful times in my life, thank God for providing this site for me.
I most thankful for Sacred Space. I begin each day in prayer and meditation beginning with Sacred Space. It has changed my life and brought me closer to God. Many thanks.
Only very recently I have discovered Sacred Space. At the end of the day – when I have finished my work at the computer – I go there to pray and find peace in my heart. I am most grateful to you for this “sacred space”. May God be with all who come here.
This is a wonderful idea, thank you for the inspiration!
This is the day I will never forget, the day I discovered Sacred Space.
Thank you for the inspiring site. I really do try to spend a few hours in prayer each day. Sacred Space has augmented my time of prayer and given me new insights to the Word of God. I intend telling many of friends about Sacred Space, so their lives may also be enriched like mine. May God be praised and thanked by us all every day. We are all on this journey together so any little helpful ways to get us to our Eternal Destiny is amazing.
Thank you all for this opportunity of prayer, I’m not alone. Alot of time I think the technology is destroying the world but once again I would take it back because it is great that I can pray with you all and thanks that God is in control.
I was comforted and touched to find your website one day by chance. I am going through a period of adjustment after losing a loved one. I have been wanting to pray and reflect daily,and return to the teachings of the Bible. I live in France and am bilingual,but feel the need to read prayer in my mother language. I am of Irish descent so I like this prayer connection to Ireland. Blessings to you all in Ireland and around the world who make this website possible.
Thanks to the Irish Jesuits for creating this website. Through recent tough times I have been able to make at least this space in my life for prayer and reflection. I have been comforted, challenged and encouraged.
I’d just like to say that I have found your daily prayer of great comfort over the past while. Due to the recession I now work alone and at times I feel very very low and lonely. It is at these times when I find your Daily Prayer gives me the strength to continue. Reading the messages left by others also lets me know I am not alone in my daily struggle. I pray that all who visit this site will find comfort and strength. Thank you.
Your thoughts for the week which introduce Sacred Space really moved me this week as I have just read Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning”. Well done to all who prepare Sacred Space I try not to miss it any day.
It was a beautiful experience praying over the net. I felt one with God through this time of prayer. Thank you so much.
I have prayed Sacred Space almost every morning for the past several years. Although I am no longer Catholic (now an Episcopal Deacon) I find a bit of my Irish-Christian heritage as I step though these beautiful prayers each morn while I sip on my coffee and begin my day. Thank you.
In a few hours I will reach 60 years of age -a time I never thought I would achieve because of my family medical history. I know my prayer life has helped make this possible. Sacred Space is the inner room for me where Jesus taught us to go and make our prayers. Your message is of comfort, joy and hope. Thank you.
Thank you for the site and the ease of use. It is nice to know that others are here too.
You are helping me enter a new stage of my life with encouragement to keep my Lord with me.
Sometimes it’s so hard that my mind needs focus and you provide the space to regroup and put my trust where it belongs, with The Lord. I can trust your words. I can trust your intentions. I pray that your day becomes joyful and blessed through your work in God’s love. God bless your day.
I’d like to thank you deeply all the Irish Jesuits for this new way of being in contact with God! You are very inspiring people, and in my four years in Ireland I’ve got to know many of you. I’ll pray for you and all the young people that make use of this website so that we may shine of his love and grace!
Thank you for this very helpful and substantial service. Be blessed.
Sacred Space is without a doubt the perfect place for daily prayer, scripture reading and commentary. I love to learn from the commentaries which give me a deeper understanding of the Word of God.
Thank you and God bless you and your work.
I have just discovered the Sacred Space site today and as I sat in the quietness of my room praying the prayers and reading the scripture I felt the loving presence of our Saviour Jesus Christ which moved me to tears as it always does when i think of how selfish and unloving i can be towards him. This site is wonderful as it gives you a piece of scripture and lovely prayers to recite daily, where you can spend a little bit of your day in praising your God and Saviour. God bless to all who read this message.
A wonderful blessing to me – thank you and continue the great work
The beautiful words in your Sacred Space are one of the precious moments of each of my days.The interaction between the words,the meanings,the silence for understanding and reflection and then the action that must be taken are things that I look forward to each day.God bless you all and may many others feel the peace that I find in Sacred Space spiritual scriptures.
For years i have been struggling to forgive my offenders, until i started reading the sacred space and the encouraging words from the Lord. I opened my heart to the Holy Spirit to forgive in and through me.Now i have experience the freedom,peace that words can not describe.
The questions help me to think about how I live my life. It helps me to not just let life go on and on without checking it up. Thank you for this page!
I just found your site on facebook, a friend had made a comment about it and a link to it. I found it wonderful and will be a big help in my spiritual growth. thanks so much, john
because of this site I have learned a great truth: God loves me. He really truly loves me. How profound!!! Many Thanks
This Easter I celebrated my 15th year as a Catholic convert. Your site has been a source of great help and encouragement to me. Reading the comments and prayer requests in the Chapel of Intentions reminds me that none of us is left alone in our struggles, and as we share in our Lord’s suffering, we also share in each other’s. It is such a relief to bring my burdens here and know that others will add their faith, hope and prayers to mine. Thank you, and may God richly and abundantly bless you for this powerful ministry.
Sacred Space is the highlight of my day, may God bless you all.
I am a disappointed, wayward, ex-Catholic, and probably not even a very good Christian, but I found your site to be inspiring and soothing. The prayer guidance and structure is helpful, but I am most grateful for the compassion and kindness that this site emanates. Thank you for your dedication.
Thank you for Sacred Space. I am after reading the Gospel how Jesus choose his disciples from the common people who did ordinary things, had no special advantages. Jesus wanted ordinary people who could take an assignment and do it extraordinary well. Now with humility of heart I say yes to my humble assignments and try to do them well.
The scripture reflections caused me to slow down and ask the deeper questions. The slow transition from page to page was an illustration to me of the need to slow down for a “wayside rest” of solitude and reflection. It has been renewing today.
Thank you for the opportunity to find a little peace and quiet. I am not a good with my faith, but today something urged me to have a look here. Already I have felt a little calmer.
This ‘Space’ has been such a blessing to me. Thank you for your service in the Lord.
Thank you for the prayer and inspiration to pray even when at work. This space helps me along the day, especially when I feel I have no other way – then this moment of time spent in prayer just lifts me up. God bless
I’m very happy to find your website. Every morning I visit this and pray, thank you very much.
I have only rediscovered this website again after about 5 years. Someone in my prayer group gave the commentary on Thursday of week 11 to all of us. As I read it the other night I thought how powerful it was and then I noticed the web address at the end of the page. So I have come back and hope to join you in daily prayer from now on. Thank you so much for this website.
Thank you for your ministry to the universal Church. The feedback from many places in the world make the reality of the worldwide Body of Christ more present.
By reading Sacred Space, my inner eyes and ears are opened and now I can understand the scriptures better and apply them daily in my life. God bless you and keep on enlightening us.
The more I read Sacred Space and the more frequently I attend mass and pray the Rosary the more I appreciate that faith is a growing virtue, nutrured by listening to the voice of The Holy Spirit within ourselves. May God the Father and Jesus bless all who are resposible for Sacred Space and all who visit.
Thank you for your wonderful ministry. I work at a small liberal arts college in the reformed tradition. A link to your site is listed on our Campus Ministries page. I discovered it when I needed really it, at a dark time. May the peace of the Lord bless you.
It is so remarkable to me that I can visit Sacred Space knowing that what I read and pray here will resonate in me, and help keep me focused where I need to be. Many thanks.
A parent told me about this site when I explained to her about how I feel and the problems I experience. Since then I visit regularly as I find a place to talk to God about my problems. It’s hard as I’m alone in a foreign place so Sacred Space allows me to talk although no one is there. No one who will laugh or repeat my fears and feelings.
I was led to Sacred Space 5 years ago. Since then I have moved often, travelled far and experienced great emotional turmoil. Through all those years both here and in South Africa the wisdom and teaching I have received from the Gospel through Sacred Space have been my rock. Right now I am facing a momentous decision. It is again through the medium of Sacred Space that I shall pray. Thank you so much.
Thank you Sacred Space. Today, as on so many days, the time I spent praying and reflecting on the scriptures through your website has given me peace of mind. Long may your work on this website continue. So many of us are grateful for your help reminding us to open our hearts to God when we feel we are drowning in the turmoil of daily life.
I am looking for a crucifix and the words today reminded me of the true symbol – I shall not buy an expensive or ornate one – but give the balance to charity. Thank you for the common sense and simple guidance from the Jesuits – I am nearer to the Lord because you have shown me He is always near me!
Thank you for this wonderful space I can visit whenever I feel the need of spiritual guidance and solace.
I use Sacred Space to begin my prayer each morning the first thing after I wake up. It sinks me into God’s presence. It is a great preparation for praying the Liturgy of the Hours very consciously.
Thank you for publishing the Gospel in the internet. I was lost in total darkness of life and the moment I started reading Sacred Space, the Holy Spirit drew me back to the church and to himself. And everyday he is moulding and remoulding me to himself. May God keep on using you to bring many souls like me who was lost to find Jesus who set me free for himself and others.
Amazing to me that today’s prayer was on the issue that was of concern to me since I woke up this morning. May God continue to richly bless this site and all those that visit it.
I just love this website! It is a wonderful, calming source of comfort for me. It can mirror what I am thinking, or bring up something new that I had not thought about before. It’s a soft place to fall, and inspiring in so many ways. Thank you.
I wish to thank all the kind people who made this website, and I thank The Holy Spirit for the real blessing that such a wonderful and peaceful place represents. I will be visiting this website on a daily basis from now on. Thank You
Thank you again and again for the beautiful daily blessings I find at Sacred Space. Such a comfort, Holy Spirit.
Thanks for your job here
It helps me to try to be near God
I’m amazed that praying while on the internet is spiritually engaging. Since leaving my role as pastor, I’ve felt spiritually dried up. This website has begun to rejuvinate me.
I’ve been finding the hidden treasures which Jesus said once…..Wow! That’s Amazing! Precious treasures! And this website has been helping me a lot and I’ve got better day by day! Thank you so much! Peace and Wisdom!
Thank you Sacred Space. The reflections DO help to slow me down in the morning and focus on the love of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit through the gift of the WORD. I just completed the 19th Annotation and this Sacred Space helps me to keep contemplative prayer ever present.
Thank you! You have been a blessing from God in some of my most difficult days and helped me believe that these are also days when I am blessed by God, in spite of all the pain. Thank you!
I went to Catholic school, I go to Mass frequently, but never have I had such spiritual help as from Sacred Space, It is though I have my own private time with the Presence, May you be blessed in all
your endeavors. Wow!!! we here in the USA think you are just so wonderful, thank you, thank you, We will be visiting your country next month. My Mom grew up on the Beara pennisula. God Bless you all every moment.
What a blessing indeed praying through your site,and its a great help in my spirituality just as we needed day by day to be our strength and assurance of his great love for us, giving us hope bloom. As we celebrate Trinity Sunday; You sowed the seed of Holy wisdom in every heart, your limitless love, that is You. Thank you for your Trinity, let us receive You. Let us who are loved, be still and know that You are God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Glory be to the Father ,To the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now & ever shall be world without end. Amen!
I am convinced no one finds Sacred Space by accident. The Holy Spirit directs us here. Thank you for this blessed site.
Your prayers have helped me to encounter the living God, and to focus upon what is truly important in life, that is, to remain close to Jesus every day. Thank you. May God bless you and strengthen you in your mission.
I pray for those who maintain this site that you will have the protection of God always and the courage and strength you need in continuing his work of evangelism.
Thank you for Sacred Space – it has been very comforting, encouraging and helpful in my spiritual journey. Sacred Space is the first page I see when I log onto the internet – a gentle reminder to make time for God in my life.
My mother sent me a link to your site the other day. I had not gone onto it until today. I have been going through a rough couple of days alone without family, much praying, and needed to hear some relavant words of encouragement. Today’s prayer / words of inspiration really hit the spot, and I wanted to express my thanks for you having this site. I will continue to use this webpage. Thank you again!
After a very deep loss – it can often be difficult to move ahead with courage and leave what is past in its rightful place – behind you. Todays words have helped me to see that opportunities remain here – in the here and now- and with his help – they can be enjoyed again too. Thankyou for todays words of encouragement. All our struggles can be accompanied – however painful, thank you that these words are helping me to realise that fact, and that loss can be calmed.
I have such joy in my heart everytime I visit the site. My life is not going so well, but the peace I receive from here is endless. Blessings on all who find a sacred space in their life to dwell in.
Thank you for creating Sacred Space. It’s one way of finding time to pray to Jesus. It kind of lifts your spirits when you know you have spoken to Him especially at a difficult time in your life when solutions to the problems are difficult to find. I pray that we all get the answers to our prayers and never forget to thank the Lord for the everyday blessings that come our way; even the trials and obstacles that we meet – it strengthens us more to face it and correct it. I think this will be the start for me to thank our Creator and find the time to silently pray to him. You have been a very big help to me. Thank you so much and God bless us all.
Thanks to the inspired vision that brought us Sacred Space. It has helped me through difficult times, and shown me that Jesus is with me always, even in the most trying moments of my life. For that I am eternally grateful.
Today I came back for the first time in many years to this site. It was waiting here like a good old friend: No question it is a great experience every time you come in contact with someone you already know. Thank God for you being here. Thank you for keeping it up and healthy.
Hi! I enjoy making Sacred Space part of my daily prayer life. This site is so very important – offering hope & inspiration to people all over the world. I always find meaning in the daily readings & explanations (in the “Need Inspiration?” section). Thanks to everyone who works diligently to bring the “Good News” to all people every day. God Bless everyone who prays using Sacred Space & especially Bless everyone who needs encouragement, hope & peace.
Thank you and God bless you for this wonderful site. What a wonderful way to begin and end each day!
Thank you for the gift of this site. I have visited almost daily for the last year during a very difficult time for my family. I have truly appreciated the thoughtful commentary on how to approach the week as well as the reflections on the readings. I am grateful for the opportunity to view other’s prayer intentions and include them in my prayers. I continue to pray for strength, direction and courage. It is evident that God’s presence is near in the content of this site. In gratitude for the blessings that it offers me and other visitors to the site.
I love this page. It really helps me be more close to God, it’s easier for me to hear what he has to say. Lately I’ve been more aware of His presence in my life. I also like the helpful comment that you write each week. Thank you.
I have to say that the commentaries before the prayer, this week and last week – about using your talent, and the one about religion being organic and real, respectively were outstanding pieces. They really hit home. I came on the site looking for inspiration and the two respective commentaries were unerringly relevant to what is going on in my life. Thank God for Sacred Space.
What a wonderful commentary on today’s reading! A lot to think and pray about all day in His presence. Blessings to all of you.
This website has been and still is a blessing to me and so many others. Helping me through many difficulties and helping me to come back to Christ when I’ve strayed. Thank you so much.
The daily prayers are really helpful. I find it hard to pray without a direction and these give you something to think about and take your mind off day to day problems. Thanks a million.
I try to start every morning with Sacred Space. It begins the day with a framework that keeps me grounded in the love of Christ. Each Monday a group of parents at our school meets to pray and reflect on the Sacred Space of the day. Please know what a source of strength and joy this website has been and continues to be!
Thank you and God bless.
Today’s message said that the Holy Spirit was like a breeze. When I sit quietly, I like to breathe in the air of the Holy Spirit, flowing through my being–my mind, my heart, my entirety. Thanks be to God.
My sincere thanks to Father Doyle (Living Space) for his insightful analysis each week. He speaks with great love and understanding of our completely human condition as we hear the words of Jesus. As a volunteer chaplain visiting inmates in the Santa Rosa, Ca jails,I take that love and try to offer it to those who need the hope that God offers. God bless you !
Many thanks for the little moments of peaceful prayer every day. Today I read:”To be aware of the beauty that surrounds me. The marvel of mountains, the calmness of lakes, the fragility of a flower petal. I need to remember that all these things come from you”. May I add: the smile and love of my children, the love of my husband, the life dedication of my parents and so many good people in my life, that of my family and society at large. God bless.
Thank you. This site is a beacon of light and hope. It’s wonderfully always present, and is so comforting to visit with prayer.
Knowing God is a personal adventure in allowing God be God in our lives. Thank you Sacred Space for your help along the way!
Thank you this is what I needed to help me pray again – I was lost to prayer – as I move closer to Jesus I can feel the grace that becons me forward. I have been deeply hurt by people and need healing. Again I thank you.
In the midst of a personal storm, today’s reading and inspiration have been enormously helpful.
I enjoy visiting this space during my work day to bring me back to what’s really important. Thank you Lord for this place.
I have been dipping in and out of this site for a long time. Its reassuring, its helpful and I feel its genuine and sincere. Its easy to feel down, life is tough out there, and at times I find it hard to keep going, but I’ve got to keep on believing. I have a lot to give thanks for. Peace to you all!
I recently converted to the Catholic faith and in doing so wanted to find help in developing a better connection to God. Having discovered your website has assisted me in doing this. Thank you.
I treasure this site because the focus is always on connecting with the measure of love in the gospels, on cultivating peace of soul and union with Jesus. It is very difficult to avoid letting the mind and spirit drift away to dispair amidst the many controversies and sadnesses which surround us in our time to say nothing of the personal trials which beset us all, but it is wonderful to know that you are a part of this wonderful “network” of prayer and belief. My thanks to those who work hard to make Sacred Space possible.
The inspirational thoughts presented at the beginning of each week have inspired and lifted me from the depths of desolation, lonliness and sometimes even a lack of purpose in my life. May God bless every mind and hand behind this blessed mission.
Thank you so much for this site! It blesses me more than you could possibly imagine.
Thank you so much for keeping this space where I found so often solace and hope.
Yet another opportunity to connect… Many thanks.
Thank you for being here! I teach kindergarten and when I have a quiet moment (such as when the children are outdoors for recess) I slip away to join you for some peaceful reflection. Bless you for helping me to be ‘there’ for my little ones.
Sacred Space seems to exactly meet my need of the moment. Thank you
Thank you so much for all of you who initiated the Sacred Space. This has been my escape from the business of life. I truly appreciate the readings and commentaries where I learn and truly made it easy for me to understand the meaning of the readings. I have made this moment to be a regular part of my day now. I consider myself one of the lucky ones for having a moment like this at work. I used to just waste my time taking a stroll at the mall for nothing during break times. Now I have my moments with the Lord and feel this unexplainable peace for the moment. It is awesome. I even showed the space to my co-workers and they were surprised we have this website. I actually don’t remember how I found this. Again thank you for helping me find a way to have a deeper faith in life.
Today I felt at pain for my failure to honor Our Father and then I saw this Sacred Space and took time to pray and reflect and a great weight was lifted off my shoulders. Thank you for this special place to come to and pray and feel safe.
What a wonderful and welcome way to begin my day. Thank you for the foresight to have created this place! May God bless you and your work.
Thank you, again, for being a place of respite in the midst of the increasing chaos in the world. The timing and content of your daily prayers, thoughts and comments are truly a breath of fresh air, that slow me down and help put the day’s troubles in perspective with the Gift of Life that God gives each day. Many, many thanks.
By the grace of Our Father in Heaven, I just came across your website this weekend. The meditation and scripture for April 18 seem customized for me. I work for a large organization and am concerned about losing my job. It meant so much to me to wake up very early Sunday morning and sense that the Lord is speaking to me. What a friend we have in Jesus! I will tell others about this website. Truly the Holy Spirit is our comforter. All of Our Father’s blessings to you.
Love it! What a wonderful discipline to develop and commit to. I just started back and hope to stay this time. This outreach reaches across denominations and connects all who come come.
Thank you for such a beautiful place to visit each morning as I pray and reflect on the beauty of life.
Thank you so very much for your dedication and work in creating and maintaining this wonderful website. I have used it for years off and on, but in the last few weeks, while going through some emotionally trying times it has really helped me focus my thoughts on God – and I am making it a point to use it every morning. I look forward each day, to logging on and spending some quiet time with God, and it helps me start my day in the best possible frame of mind. On behalf of all the users of Sacred Space ‘Thank you – we are truly grateful’
I want to thank you for creating and maintaining this website. I utilize the guided morning prayer as well as the daily Bible readings. I find the blog entries that go along with the readings to be very helpful and insightful – like getting a great homily every day. Thank you for providing me with resources that help me maintain my spiritual condition and my relationship with God.
Thank you very much for the reflections. It feels that the Gospels everyday have a very personal connection to what’s going on in my life. May God always give you the grace to reach out to as many people as possible. God bless!
I am starting to use the Sacred Space prayer and devotion in the mornings. It is very helpful and encouraging for me especially when I am alone without the presence of other brothers and sisters. It helps me to be closer to God as I feel connected in a different way through the use of the tool of the internet, who whould have thought in the 21st century that we would be bringing ourselves before God in such a way….
Thank you for the prayer intentions on Sacred Space. I visited the site a few years ago but am back this time with a better frame of mind. Mass and God’s help have called me back to your reflective space. God Bless all who visit this site.
I found this wonderful site on the back of an unexpected reduncancy and utter hopelessness in finding a job in this difficult global economic time. But in opening my heart & mind in the Easter teachings & prayers here, I have found renewed spirit & belief in the Word, The Spirit, Our Saviour and our Heavenly Father’s encompassing Grace. Through daily prayer and meditation presented on the site, I found the renewed inner strength and hope to face each day. Thank you.
Thank you to the Jesuits for the continued work on this prayer site. This site has helped me to get back to prayer & keeps me in touch with the readings and reflect on them. Even if I miss Mass or prayer, I can just access prayer for the day I need. I’m going to start reccomending it to others as a great way to get in touch with God’s Word and prayer, in an easy way. Everyone should hear about this great service. St Paul tells us to “pray without ceasing” Thess 5:17 and ” The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective” James 5;16. God Bless you for spreading His Word.
A nice why for me to finish my day is to visit this website even if I don’t always understand the full meaning of the gospel every day.
Happy Easter! I am at my computer all day and this site is such a gift to turn to when you need a break and not be able to step away from the desk. I am able to enter for a few moments into a place where my soul can be refreshed. It is a mini retreat from the hectic work place. It is awesome that the scriptures and reflections all tie in with the daily readings of the Mass. Thank you. God’s peace!
Thanks for the continued service – it is a great source of comfort to me to be able to go to Sacred Space every morning and to be bolstered by your words to face the challenge of another day. I hope you wil continue to find the resources that make it possible for you to do what you are doing.
Thank you for your site. I visit it regularly and it gives me some quiet time in my sometimes too stressful everyday life and it helps me to pray. God bless you all!
Thank you for providing a daily space of prayer. I don’t need a journal or can’t lose a prayer book. I don’t need to go anywhere. I can just visit as I ago through my day, which is mostly spent working at my computer, and use the resource to pray.
I am new to this wonderful website, thank you for this and God Bless.
Thank you so much for providing this wonderful site – an opportunity to connect with God and an aid in personal prayer. Keep up the good work!
What a wonderful use of the internet! Thanks to the Irish Jesuits for the time and effort they put in to this site. We can recognize God’s presence and have the opportunity to connect to him anywhere we are and in anything we are doing. Thank you again to the Jesuits for creating this space.
I have only just been told about this site and what a wonderful Easter gift it is. To be able to enter it at any time and have shared prayer is wonderful. Thank you for helping me not to feel so isolated when I return home from Mass. But especially for the times of dryness when it seems impossible to pray, I now have at my finger tips a source of strength and fellowship. Thank you for such a wonderful way of spreading God’s word.
Thank you again Sacred Space for help making my Lenten Season more meaningful. I came to you every day. My God continue to bless your ministry. Happy Easter.
Happy Easter! Thank you so much for such a beautiful and inspiring website! To touch base with my faith and prayer life when I am on the computer is truly a gift in this modern era. Thanks & Blessings.
Sacred Space provides such a unique method and focus for prayer! Your site is truly God directed!
Thanks for the scripture today. Thanks for the quiet space to sit with Jesus.
Sacred Space is an answer to prayer for me this Holy Week. I am isolated due to a physical injury. Thank you for your ministry. I so appreciate the layout and direction of the devotion. My life is enriched and blessed. May the Peace of our Lord be with you. With heartfelt thanksgiving.
I found this site only this year recommended by the Messenger of St Anthony and have been mightily blessed by it. I spend at least half an hour a day with my Lord in prayer and reflection thanks to all of you who provide such inspiration for us. My Lent this year has been greatly enhanced by the prayerful reflections offered each day. My relationship with Jesus has become much closer and more real every day. Thank you and God bless each of you.
This site is marvellous guiding you through a quiet time of prayer either as part of your daily routine or in those moments when you need to recentre yourself around God. I think it is invaluable to all Christians regardless of denomination and have shared it with my friends. God bless you for this gift.
I have used Sacred Space for a few years, have even bought the annual book. But this is the first time I have faithfully used it for Lent. Thank you for helping me be more resolute with my praying time and to be structured in a way that I could benefit from your meditations.
Thank you for Sacred Space. Since I started praying with Sacred Space, I continuously experience the presence of God in my daily life. I never feel alone now because I feel His presence every minute of the day. I deeply thank everyone who had worked on spreading the scriptures through Sacred Space.
Thanks be to God for this Sacred Space, and thank you to all who contribute to the site.This site helps me get back to prayer, the commentaries are great for keeping in touch with the days scripture readings. Thanks and Praise to God for the sacred mysteries of Holy Week. Wishing all who work and pray here a peaceful, prayerful and joyful Easter.
“Something to think about this week” is marvelous. I start nearly every day reading it and pondering its message.
Thank you for continuing to provide this sacred space. It helps me to read the Bible in a structured way when I am not in a position to go to Bible Study Group. It helps me to take time to pray – the pauses between and within the prayers are the most helpful part.
I used to access Sacred Space regularly when I was working. Until recently I did not have a computer at home – and until today had got out of the habit of praying in this way. I am happy to be back and remember now what was missing from my daily routine. Thank you for all the excellent work you do.
To stay fresh and filled with the Holy Spirit is the desire of the heart.I thank God I can recommend Sacred Space.Last summer at retreat Jesuit while standing in line.I just spoke to a need of a fellow traveller who was having a dry time of it how Sacred Space has helped me.I could see he grasped the hope as we went on our way.I thank God for the work youve been given. Have a Great Day!
Sacred Space helps me to find a lot of insights and inspirations from the Holy Scriptures.
The new (beta) presentation of SacredSpace & Living Space is excellent and user friendly. I wish all who partake in the work of this website a happy Easter and success in their lives. May God bless you and keep you in the palm of His hand.
I like the new way you have made the scripture commentaries. It flows more like the prayer for the day and allows for thoughts and feelings to move more easily in the excellent presentation of scripture study.
I just say thank you to your wonderful site. So I say thank you to Jesus, who helped me through a difficult time.
I think Sacred Space is a very beautiful website to log onto for prayer. I also like the pray as you go and the review of the day sections. This website has truly brought me a lot of peace and helped me pray better. Thank you.
Thanks for this Sacred Space. I have been using the site for the past four years and have been richly blessed by it. It brings Christ squarely into my workplace throughout the day.
What a great comfort it is to find this refreshing Sacred Space to turn to in to midst of a busy day, right in front of you on the screen. It was introduced to me by a friend and I will certainly pass it on to others. Praise Jesus our eternal friend who is always with us in everything we do in our daily life and ever ready to listen to us. Thank you
Not only is your website a welcome part of my morning, but the image that appears on the homepage. I look forward to it’s daily change and often just spend some time appreciating the beauty of the world which we have been given.
I have been browsing on this website for a while now during my lunch breaks but not religiously everyday. I find this space so refreshing especially when I am in a lot of stress. I am so blessed that I have a moment like this when I needed it. I just go in my little computer room, turn off the light and do my quiet moment with the Lord. It is so wonderful that this website was initiated. The phrase Sacred Space is so appropriate. Thank you.
This site reminds me of our trip to Ireland a few years ago. It embodies the grace and hospitality of the people we met. The gentle invitation to pause and pray is a gift I cherish. Thank you.
I am so thankful that this site is still around. I have used it in the past but felt too busy for it in recent years. However, I am now feeling too busy and stressed to not pray! When I pray by myself however, I find I am so easily distracted. This helps me to focus on the love and wisdom that God has to offer. Thank you.
Thank you for these prayers and meditations that I learned about through a book that inadvertently, accidentally came into my hands at the library. I have started to come in every morning to share in this prayer and it is wonderful.
Thank you dear Lord for the gift of this site. It has been a blessing to me and has helped sustain me through challenging times. I ask Lord that you continue to inspire the people who run this site and continue to bless them. Amen
What a lovely and inspirational site. This is a perfect way to give God a little space in my day and I will cherish the opportunity to do so.
Thank you for this opportunity you give me to pray; the way the prayers are organised encourages me to pray some time everyday. Although I often tried to pray alone, books and prayers often led my thoughts to wander from what I was supposed to be doing – talking and listening to God. This format helps keeps me focused. Thanks
Today’s prayer spoke volumes and will serve as a guide and reminder for me as I walk through the day and the week to come. Thank you again for this magnificent, uplifting, strenghtening prayer site. It is food for my soul. Have a blessed week.
I thank you Lord Jesus for this wonderful website where you are giving us the opportunity to pray and listen to what You want to tell us. Thank you my dear Jesus for the great love you have for each and every one of us.
Thank you for the prayers and meditations. I use The Lenten Devotions as part of my daily reflections on the assigned readings. Your site has been a blessing to me.
A special space, sacred names it well, to grow close to our Lord. Thank you for this gift.
Because I am not able to go the Sunday Mass due to my mother’s illness, and we are not receiving anyone from church here, I am grateful for this site – for today I did the Wednesday prayer and I am happy for it. I will continue to pray the rest of the Lenten Weeks ahead. Thank you.
Our pastor mentioned this site during his homily this past weekend, mentioning that it might be helpful during Lent. I am so glad to have found it! The daily prayers are a wonderful way to start your day, as well as the reminder that I often need that God is always with me. God Bless!
What a great idea to create a scared space for a quick reflection before the start of a day and when one switches on the power to the computer. In our busy lives this is a part of the missing link which has a calming effect. What a lovely way to commence the day. Thanks.
Thank you for providing this sacred space. The prayers are uplifting and I am looking forward to spending quality time at this site. I hope to make this a daily practice.
I want to thank you for creating this online prayer site. I was searching for techniques to help me keep my mind focused on prayers as my thoughts tend to drift off and I get discouraged. Google brought me a lot of choices to click on, but I clicked on Sacred Space and immediately followed the prayer online. It has helped me a great deal and I use it in my daily morning Quiet Time. Even though I am not Catholic, it didn’t seem to matter. I do have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and the use of Sacred Space helped me to focus in my morning prayers. Thank you for creating and maintainng this website.
Thank you for your site. I use it regularly as a way to connect with Jesus. Your work is bearing fruit in many lives, mine included. I couldn’t think of a better homepage. Keep up the good work!
Just “thank you for being there” when I need a little boost for my faith.
Thank you again for this wonderful resource. I have made visiting Sacred Space more frequently part of my Lenten devotions. I always find food for my soul here.
I look forward to meeting God through the words on Sacred Space. You open a door into God’s love and peace. Thank you.
Once again, I want to thank you for this site. I don’t visit everyday, but when I do I love it. Peaceful, comforting, in tune with modern day life and a real pick-me-up in the middle of our cold Canadian winter. Please continue! God Bless and continued blessings for your team.
I have used your Sacred Space prayers on and off for a few years now. I am so grateful for the simplicity, yet depth of the meditative attitude towards prayer and God’s Word. I am truly Blessed by your insights and preparation from the Holy Spirit. I pray for all of you and for all those who enjoy this web page. Continue on in God’s Love, Strength & Guidance. May Blessings abound in your ministry.
Sacred Space means a lot to me in that it provides an opportunity for a brief ten to fifteen minutes with our Lord. Thank you at Sacred Space for the time and effort to create our sacred space with God.
Many thanks to all at Sacred Space for this wonderful gift of prayer and inspiration for many people. The beautiful, inspiring and well thought out prayers,reflections and commentaries are a welcome and effective online resource. I would reccomend this site to all. May God bless all priests and religious, whose work connects people to prayer, spirituality and God’s Word in their lives.
Thank you for the gift of your ministry. It blesses me in every season of life – in times of joy and sorrow, anxiety and peace. I thank God for all of you who give yourselves to Him as vessels of His grace in order to create Sacred Space in the lives of those who visit here. May an abundance of grace be returned to you.
Sacred Space is an oasis of peace, reflection, thanksgiving and hope on the internet. Christ’s presence really is everywhere! When I visit the site I can forget about the world and my troubles and offer them all up. I find this very holistic and healing and nothing else in this world can give me this. I want to thank the Jesuits’ for their work on this site and say it is much appreciated.
I also want to thank you for the representation of lectio divina. This is the most beautifully clear and concise explanation of this way of prayer that I have ever encountered. It makes contemplation approachable to me for the first time. And I can’t thank you enough for Sacred Space. For lent, I have offered the first hour of my day to God, and this is where I come to meet Him.
Have been listening to some of the audio content. I will try and listen to one piece each day when I visit Sacred Space. Thank you for these, they are very informative.
I found out about this site just today from a friend and I am thankful! Thank you for providing such an opportunity to pray everyday, sometimes I find it hard to stop from my busy routine, grab a Bible and find time for God. But thanks to this website, it will help me pray everyday.
Your “Something to think and pray about today” section, presented lectio divina in four stages. I want to express my appreciation for clearly leading me in my time with God. I found it to be clear and easy to follow. God bless you in all the good work you do. In this year of the priest, you will remain in my prayers. Thank you again.
This is the first time I have visited this site. I had the wonderful feeling of God’s presence lifting up my heart in worship, the presence of Jesus and the Holy Spirit acknowledging their love for me. Thank you the opportunity to share this blessing of grace.
For nearly 3 years I have visited this site and have felt much comfort and reconnection with my beliefs through it. I thank you for the commitment and diligence it takes to maintain this site, and making it possible for people like me to visit it regularly.
I came across this website today looking for Lenten Prayers. Obviously the Holy Spirit wanted me find it. Thank you for putting this site together and for the beautiful prayers that are simple, yet powerful. God Bless.
I too found this site quite by chance -or was it? I so enjoyed the straightforward description of St Teresa and her life and even before coming to the prayers for today, felt comforted and enriched. May Your peace come Lord.
I thank you so much for this wonderful site, I truly feel God’s presence near by when I log off other internet distractions. Through Sacred Space instead of connecting with cyberspace it feels like connecting with God. An oasis of calm in a buzzing frantic world. Thank you, and I thank God for what he has done here through you.
This web site is wonderful, thank you for the goodness which is shared in the prayers provided. This site has inspired me and I will continue to visit this site. It has truely made a difference for me while I’m at work. Thank you.
Thank you for your ministry with Sacred Space. This site continues to be a truly sacred place for me to come while already working at my computer. This ministry is truly blessed – an amazing source of grace for me. May it continue to be so for all who need it.
Today is a Blessed day for me ’cause I accidentally landed in the Sacred Space site, while checking out a Retreat House for a non-catholic friend of mine at work. It is indeed a unique site where I could spend a couple of minutes during my break time at work on a daily basis to communicate with our Dear Lord. In our busy schedules, this is a blessing to take a few minutes to Pray. I’m so glad I discovered this site. May God Bless those minds that have created this unique SACRED SPACE !!!!
Your website is wonderful. I look forward to using it a regular basis in the future. Thank you for this ministry.
Praise be to God! May God bless Sacred Space and give more inspiration to reach more people. God is truly alive in you who are dedicated in proclaiming and sharing that love ang joy, the glory and majesty of Jesus, our Savior. God is good! All the Time!
Thank you for stirring my heart. I am burdoned by recognizing that at my age that my physicality is slowing more each day, that I cannot do what I did for others before, even my Church. But with inspiration like yours and all that my loved ones provide, and Scripture, Liturgy of Hours and our Blessed Sacrament, I know that Jesus is giving me the help to do His will for self and others. I pray – Thank you, dear brother, Jesus.
This is the first time I saw this website, and I have to say it’s really helpful. It’s really a calm, sacred space. I love the prayers and the Scriptures, so simple yet so refreshing and soothing for the soul. I am definitely going to visit this everyday. Thank you! Keep it up!
Thanks very much for the Chapel of Remembrance which enabled me to pray especially for my recently departed mother. I feel greatly comforted and strengthened by the prayers. May God continue to bless your ministry!
To all associated with this wonderful site – thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to reflect and pray during our busy days. It is a real blessing to have this ‘space’ at my fingertips and to again and again feel the healing touch of God. Bless you and all who visit here.
The daily prayer here is something I can cope with in this dry time. The image of Jesus listening beside me is especially helpful, opening. I find myself eager to settle in and begin. Much thanks.
I always start the morning reading Sacred Space. It gives me so much comfort and peace especially if I know the day ahead, as a mother and professional, will be very busy and often challenging. The words and liturgy always seem to have a relevance for the day. Thank you for the time you take to bring peace of mind and hope to so many.
“Seek and you shall find” I was just browzing around and bumped into Sacred Space. I’d like to thank all those involved in putting Sacred Space together. May God Bless You all. I look forward to all the days that I will be spiritually fed through your ministry. Thank you Jesus for bringing me here.
I have found that the Sacred Space is a good place to come to between lunch and the afternoons tasks and appointments. A time of quite prayer, and reflection on the Gospel heard at the morning Mass each day. A spiritually refreshing moment in the middle of the day.
I’ve recently come to this site and I have it on the desktop of my computer at work. As soon as I get in in the morning, I read the days prayer. It’s often the only quiet time I get there and it sets me up for the day, especially if things I read that morning come back into my mind later on when I need to get things in perspective.
I am grateful for this space and offer thanks to all who are involved in providing this resource.
Thank you so much for your site. I am currently going through a crisis in my life and find much encouragement by praying with Sacred Space each day. I am amazed how this calms my thinking and know that God will guide me through to a peaceful solution.
My love for Sacred Space grows with each passing year. It has been several years now, and I start each morning with the readings and prayers on your site. It is my personal time with God, and it fills me with peace and joy. I never hesitate to give the web address to my friends and acquaintances. Thank you so much for this wonderful oasis in my day.
I’m blessed and thankful for your Sacred Space website. The novena prayer and daily commentary on the liturgical readings is of great help in our Lectio Devina. May God continue to bless all of you at Sacred Space. Thank You.
This page is of great value to me. I use it when I am unable to spend as much time as I would like with the Lord. It always seems to meet me where I am. I recommend it to my friends. Thank you and may God bless you in this ministry.
It is such a welcome end to my day to have this blessed prayer thought out for me…I always seem to find the message intended for me even if not the first day. I enjoy the thoughfulness of your words.
Thank you for your wonderful website. I usually leave it open on my browser so I can refer to it several times a day. Your prayers bring me closer to God.
Thank you for your site, I am going to try to visit everyday. I want to become closer to God and I know I will as long as I spend time with him. This will help me visit with our Lord. Thank you
What a wonderful find is Sacred Space for me. I have been advised, comforted, pacified, encouraged and felt truly loved with peace and joy beginning my day and enabled to give thanks at the evening time. Thank you so much for this wonderful companionship in prayer. Today’s Prayer of a Hermit really touched my heart and again I thank The Holy Spirit for guiding me here.
This site is so valuable to me, may you continue to be blessed in this mission. You remain in my prayers.
I am a Catholic. I am an emergency medical technician and sometimes work can be so very stressful. I found your website and went through the daily prayer and I can just feel my spirit relaxing and I pray to my Lord. Thank you for creating this site…you have blessed my day
I feel so grateful for the peace and inspiration I find in Sacred Space, and for the reminder that God is with me at every moment. I have never yet turned to your website and not found comfort. Thank you so much for all the work that makes it a wonderful place, and a treasured gift. May God bless you.
Thank you for always being Christ in my life. Sacred Space is such a great site to visit on breaks in between classes or hospital rounds.
Thank you so much for the novena for peace. I loved the combination of readings from good Pope John and the people of other faiths who also long for peace.
Using the internet generally feels so frenetic – visiting your site is like stepping into an oasis of calm. The way the prayers are designed and paced is clever and thoughtful. Good on you!
Thank you for such an inspirational site!! I am using it on a daily basis, with the help of the Lord. May God richly bless your efforts to advance and enhance His Kingdom. In His Grace,
Thank You very much for all your works about http://www.sacredspace.ie. Normally I use Czech language version of your Sacred space – it mean: http://www.modlitba.net. I think so classical prayer is “base” for christian, but Your idea: prayer with PC help is perfect and useful. Thank You again.
I “do” classical prayer. “Your”= with PC help prayer and music prayer. It mean that I pray psalms.
God with You. (Sorry for my horrible english :-) )
Thank you all for sponsoring such a wonderful site! I was looking for somewhere on-line that would be a place of comfort and peace, and in Sacred Space, well, I have found it! As we say here in the USA…keep on keep’in on! Indeed, you are blessed! Slainte! (My grandparents were from Ireland)
Tom
yea i think this website is really good it’s taught me to have a lot more faith in Jesus than i used to. :)
I love “Sacred space” website and it’s daily devotional guide. The pages really feels sacred. I like especially it’s minimalist format. Immediately as I go into the page it calms me and unclutters my thoughts unlike many devotional sites that say so many words filling the mind but not the soul.
May God bless your efforts and may “sacred Space” feed more multitudes.
this is a beautiful site. have you created an application for smart-phones? it would be wonderful to have this site on a phone for morning train/bus commutes, in cafes, etc. (Sacred Space has a mobile version. A smart phone version will be available during 2010. Sign up for our newsletter to keep informed.)
It is a comfort to read the scriptures in a calm and inviting format and to know that people all over the world join me in prayer. This society of ours can be quite isolating and prayer, like song, is a universal and deeply felt yearning. As we reach out to our God we also reach out to, and pray for one another. Sacred Space is a gift and I am grateful.
Thank you so much for your inspiration. I learned to know your homepage this year, and I won’t miss it any longer. I’ve told many people about your homepage and I am happy to do that. God bless you all.
I thought that the “something to think and pray about” section was particularly striking today. It really challenged me. Thank you.
Englightening and refreshing. Thank you so much!
Fantastic – an oasis of spiritual refreshment. Thanks.
Thank you so very much for this blessed Ministry. I often send this daily to friends but I will be more faithful during 2010.May the new year be filled with countless as you continue to share your Sacred Space.
Thank you for another year of enlightenment. May God bless your work and sustain you throughout 2010
As 2009 draws to an end I would be remiss in not telling you what a difference Sacred Space has made in my prayer life since I became aware of your site. Consistancy in prayer has always been a problem for me as I am somewhat ADD and have always had a problem being able to sit still and concentrate. By making sacred space my home page I am able to devote the first ten to fifteen minutes of my day to prayer. When possible I also visit Living Space and I have probably done 5 or 6 Novenas to the Sacred Heart. For the first time in my life I can honestly say that I have a regular consistant and meaningful prayer life. Thank you for being here!
Dear Jesuits – Thank you for your Sacred Space. Many times these words have helped me make sense of my life in the last year and a half. Sacred Space has been there when I was afraid to pray or reach out because I settled down and found our Lord (with Him all things are possible). God bless everyone.
I found Sacred Space in 2005 at a low point in my life. Since then I have “lost” and found it over and over. Like many others, I too often neglect God and prayer when things are going well. Thank you, thank you for being here when I need you- God is truly working through you for His prodigal children. The peace and comfort you bring is priceless.
this remarkable website never fails to be a source of light and peace,and joy that comes there from.
Thank you for this resource – it is a wonderful respite from the demands of every day life and a great way to set aside cares and woes and focus on God’s messages and teachings. Many thanks to the Irish Jesuits for providing this valuable service. And a very Happy New Year to anyone who reads this!
Your site is so beautiful. The prayers give me so much peace. It never fails to touch my heart at it’s deepest place. God bless you with his richest blessings for all your work. With my thanks
Thank you for sacred space. I wish you all A merry Christmas!
Thank you so much for providing this site. It is always an inspiration. Your commentaries are always so helpful. I wish you a very joyful Christmas. May Godcontinue to bless this sacred space
Thank you. God Bless. Beannachtaí na Nollaig dhaoibh go léir.
I have just opened up the Advent resources. What a joy! The meditations in the wreath, the prayer resources have been inspirational. I truly believe my heart has been prepared more fully for Christmas than for many a year. Thank you for your ministry to us all. Joy indeed!
I love to read all of these other messages and to feel the depth of faith in them. All your hope and thanks are uplifting and give me great courage.
Thank you for offering Sacred Space. A friend of mine recommended this website to me. I read the Bible commentary which helps me to understand the scriptures. I spend considerable amount of time on the internet. So I am very blessed to have found your website. Your daily inspirations help me immensely and checks me from falling into depression. Thank you for providing these prayers. God bless you abundantly.
Sometimes I do not visit Sacred Space for a few days. When I do it is through the calling of God to my heart – and always, without fail, the prayer has direct and palpable relevance to my world. I am so fallible and weak, and the strength of God is always welcome. Thank you
This morning I feel gratitude and a stillness that makes room for God in my thoughts and plans for the day. Thanks for this quiet place.
Thank you for this website, a source of grace, inspiration and insightful meditations which helps turn the internet into a wonderful channel to God. I made it my homepage and it inspires me at the most unexpected times.
Thank you, Sacred Space for always being there for me. I have drawn spiritual sustenance from you every day for the last two years. Thank you and have a very blessed Christmas 2009.
Thank you so much for this site. I have neglected it lately. I feel it is so refreshing that I am now going to visit it everyday. Thank you very much. May this site and all who pray here be united in love, held in Jesus and may the Breath of the Holy Spirit cleanse, refresh and renew us all.
I have been using Sacred Space since I first found it on the website of Archdiocese of Dublin. I have not used it every day but I come back to it frequently. Today’s prayer was really uplifting. How often we need to be reminded who Jesus is and what he has done for us. May you continue to remind us where we are in our relationship with Jesus.
I became ‘hooked’ on this form of prayer and meditation after a friend gave me the 2007 copy of Sacred Space. Then, in an effort to be more environmentally friendly, I began to visit the Sacred Space site for my daily devotions. Now, every time I turn on my computer and get on the internet, Sacred Space is set as my ‘homepage’. It is the first thing I see everytime I get online. What a powerful message. Thank you for providing this wonderful resource!
Thank you so much for your insights into the word of God. I live alone and it is so comforting to be able to share the word of God in my home. I often find confirmation of what the Lord has said to me in my private prayer. God bless your work.
Well done. I really found this site helpful for my quiet time. Thanks a lot. God bless you all.
I’ve been visiting Sacred Space for a few years now after being introduced to it by a very special friend and now I feel that I have completely connected with God, and he continues to help me every day. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Sacred Space.
Upon entering the site I immediately felt better. As I read comments I felt so much at ease and better within myself…Praise God that we can turn to a place for inner peace. Thank God for the Jesuits who created and run Sacred Space. I will visit daily. God Bless.
Recently I read a little article in our newspaper. It was about Sacred Space. I wanted to get some peace before Chrismas and so I visited the website. I’m happy that there is a new prayer and some different words from the Holy Bible everyday. The time I spend at Sacred Space is always very contemplative. That does me good especially on stressful days. Thank you.
So glad I found your website, I’ll be sure to let others know. With so much garbage on the internet it’s nice when you see the Christian sites such as yours. God bless you in your work.
Only by accident I came across this site today, and I am very thankful for this. I love the prayers for the week, amazing just amazing, each prayer have lifted up my spirit for the day. Thank you so much.
God bless you in your internet ministry. Thank you for providing the means to take meaningful breaks throughout the day to spend time in prayer, with God who is Emmanuel. I have recommended this site on numerous occasions and will continue to as we draw closer to the Christmas season! Many thanks
We have just finished using the Sacred Space Prayers for the feast of the Immaculate Conception and it was very meaningful. The best in the internet yet! Keep up the great work. This is what the whole world needs. I have just found about you today and i will be tuning in from now on everday! May the Lord bless and keep you forever. Thanks so very much!
Thank you for this great site. I am a Pastor to Teenagers and with a family of my own find life to be somewhat hectic. It is great to pull away from it all to meditate on the love of Christ. This site is a great tool to help me do just that.
This site refreshes me each time I log on. I always get uplifted and amidst the busy life I am reminded of what is important and what matters. This is a good idea!. God Bless you all!
Thank you, Sacred Space, for your work and mission. I am in a special moment in my life and I feel Lord is touching my heart. Many years have been passed until this morning when I feel a deep need to pray and find Lord´s word on my life. Pray for me as I do for you, because I am into a conversion way that I have not even been in whole my life. God bless you.
Sacred Space has helped me get through everyday during this difficult and trying period in my life. I was laid-off in July, am getting worried now with my financial situation since I still remain unemployed, but I am hopeful that God will hear my prayers soon. He makes all things possible in His time. I just need to give all my Trust in Him.
My wife gave me a copy of the Sacred Space Advent booklet before I left her in London to work in Saudi Arabia . We have been following the daily prayers together. We have been married 30 years now and we share our love daily in our Sacred Space together, though many miles apart- a reliable source of inspiration and peace in a country where our faith is not publicly permitted. I hear the call to prayer every morning at 5 am, a beautiful wave of sound audible first in the far distance then graudually crossing the city to arrive through the amplifier at the mosque next door. Each voice is distinctive and different yet part of a great voice. I thank God for the loving gift of His Son and feel a small part of a perfect prayer being offered daily as a giant wave across the world, East to West.
I feel moved to know I pray with so many others at this sacred space, in front of this screen which links me with other women and men of prayer.
I am currently unemployed and sometimes get discouraged. Spending my first few minutes in the early morning hours with Sacred Space has been wonderful. In the quiet, reading these reflections, I can truly hear the Lord speaking to my heart! Thank you for this beautiful site and the work you do to maintain it.
I congratulate you for the work done on this website has been a profound experience of encounter with God. Follow animated carrying the Good News to all and as today’s reading says “How beautiful upon the mountains to see running the messenger who brings good news!”.
Thank you all at sacred space,I have just downloaded your Advent Retreat its so wonderful to have help at this special time.God bless your work.
Thank-you for this First Sunday of Advent commentary. It is deeply encouraging and helpful.
May you be richly blessed, both writer and readers.
I am not a very good Christian, too attached to the pleasures and worries of this life. I can cry out in need, I can give thanks, but I find it hard to speak to Jesus as a friend. This site is good for me and I am thankful.
I just went to a Joy of Discovery Bible study and am getting to learn more Scripture through the daily Mass readings. I really appreciate your commentaries because I not only learn more about the historical background of the readings but I also get a lot of insights which help me reflect better on them. Thanks for all the effort you put in this daily commentary on the liturgical readings! God bless your work!
Sacred Space has become that special moment in my hectic day. Thank you for encouraging me in prayer.
I’ve been apart from prayer for so long, thus far away from a correct way of living. For me these moments help me to go on walking with Jesus. Thank you, thank you Jesus.
Thank you so much for your site – i pray that God will enable it to continue indefinitely! I am refreshed whenever i come into God’s presence to pray and learn, and the guidance and inspiration of your site give me to do that are very much needed. God bless you.
I am here almost daily praying. Thank you for being here. In August I said we all need to keep praying. TODAY I just want to say it has been fourteen days since I have had a DRINK. PRAISE BE TO GOD and AA. We begin with a serinity prayer and end with the LORD’S PRAYER. we have a saying have you turned it over today. for we can do nothing alone we turn it over to GOD FOR HELP. Thank you Sacred Space. Pray for everyone suffering with addiction with me.
Thank you for this site and long may it continue. It’s just so incredibly important to myself and to so many others from all walks of life and all over the world. I thank God for guiding me to it. It’s so helpful in helping to strengthen my faith. May God bless everyone.
This sacred space, is indeed sacred. It has enhanced my spiritual life, in ways I have never dreamed of. thank you for sharing. i come here, when i feel alone and leave knowing God is always here with me.
God continue to bless this site! I carry this in my billfold: “The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour. Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still.” Live today to the fullest and give God praise for allowing you to share yourself with others in joy!
I have only recently been introduced to Sacred Space and I am finding it a huge blessing in my daily life. The gentle meditation and invitation to sit with the Lord is very powerful and is transforming my way of praying. Thank you! God bless you.
This site brings me such peace. It has been awhile since I visited. I’m having some problems with my heart and have a tracheoscopy scheduled on Friday. Today I was moved to come here – not by chance! The reading couldn’t have been more apropos. Praise God.
I discovered this site years ago and I always found nourishment for my soul. Had not visited for a while – it was great to rediscover it!
This is really helpful on the days when I have found my Daily Office hard to do. I feel like i am praying with others.
Discovered this site this evening. I find it feeds my spiritual journey well at this time. Bread appears in the wilderness unexpectantly.
The messages on your site are a true gift from God. I appreciate them whenever I come here, and I know that I am not alone in my gratefulness for this.
In preparing for Mass for Sunday, I found the commentaries on the readings were very thought provoking. God does not change. I hurt myself when I sin and my relationship with God. God loves me and that does not change even though I sin. God does not get back at me for what I do but wants me to have a good relationship with Him. God is always welcoming no matter what I do.
I was so pleased to finally get here, it has allowed me feel good about myself and how I feel about so much. Thank you for sharing the love of God with all who want and need it. I am hoping to begin a new form of life style, with your help I know I will.
I love Sacred Space! Sometimes I just need a bit of peace and quiet, especially at school. It’s great knowing that Jesus is with me always and that he is interested in whatever I do and want to do.
Scared Space is a beautiful oasis in my desert of occasional discouragement. It is so easy to look at and gain inner strength from all the other faithful follwers of Our Lord. He knows what we need before we ask. He knows what is in our heart and Sacred Spaces reinforces our desire to be closer to Him. Thank you for providing us a safe and confidential way of expressing our solidarity with the presence of our Lord. Truly a daily blessing.
Thank You! I’ve been needing and seeking something different. This site is different! Truly inspired. I am a director of Catechism and we are starting up several new clubs in which I now plan to use your site with the children.
This is my first visit to sacred space and it was a peaceful and restful time of meditation. Thank you for giving a place to rest in the Lord!
Thank you for providing a place of solace within today’s frenetic world. Having somewhere to turn for guidance and enlightenment has lifted my grief laden spirit. I am learning to let go and therefore am very grateful to you all.
Thank You – Jesuits! I find closure to my day each evening with your words within Sacred Space. You obviously have a great following around the world. May God continue to inspire and bless you all!
Thank you for these words of wisdom and comfort. May He always be with you and everyone everywhere! AMDG
I’ve been “away” for a while due to circumstances, and it’s great to be back. I love the new look and format. You are doing a wonderful job. Thanks. You are good for my soul. God bless.
Thanks for site. I meet with God through this website.
Thank you for this wonderful website. It just has turned my life around. God Bless you and your wonderful work.
Thank you for your words of scripture. I needed that today!
Thank you very much for your webside. God bless all of you. Thanks
I discovered Sacred Space some 3 months ago when I was in Ireland for a holiday. Now, back in the Philippines, I cannot go on with my day without Sacred Space. I believe it was part of God’s plan that I “stumble” on your website. Thanks a lot for putting this site together. God bless always.
This was my first visit to Sacred Space. I will be back for prayer tomorrow! I really like the site!
I have been coming to Sacred Space for about 10 years now and have suggested it to many people of different faiths. It is such a deep comfort to me to come here early every a.m. to start my day. When I awake feeling that “floating anxiety” over many problems of mine or those I care about. I feel very centered and in peace immediately after reading the day’s calming message. I especially love using the Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for specific prayers…a great reminder to pray for others. God bless you and thank you for this beautiful site.
Thank You for your continued clear words of guidance. Your words of “Love one another ” come through loud and clear. Life is not clear by any means, very confusing at times. But God’s words are.
That is to love, him, your neighbors (all people) and yourself. His Great commandment. How beautiful. Keep up the good work.
I often look for God in some way to guide my day and inspire me – I pray with this site first thing in the morning and always feel Gods presence with me as I start my day – thank you for being here Sacred Space – we don’t always know how or what to pray.
I came across this site by accident. What a great accident. I now
visit the site very frequently to pray and give thanks to God for
everything in my life. I feel in complete peace when I’m on this
site. Thank you and may God bless you all.
I have been suffering from deep depression due to a series of unfortunate events.
My brother told me about this site and suggested it may be helpful. It is. Thank You.
A few moments of quiet and solitude. A chance to reconnect with God’s ways during my busy, cultural, corporate day. A place I can return to whenever the daily stresses make me feel alone and too far from God.
Although I do not come to this page on a daily basis, I give thanks to the Lord for the great opportunity to reflect on His Word by reaching your Sacred Space. Praise to the Lord for this Space!
Praying is never being alone. Here I feel the presence of God and Jesus Christ is my friend leading me the way.
Thank you so much and congratulations for your wounderfull and useful page! It helps me alot in my daily prayer and in my journey towards God and my brothers and sisters. May God bless all the Jesuits!
Thank you so much, you have done good work. I can be ‘fed’ on this website as well as Pray As You Go.
Thank you for such a wonderful site especially the everyday readings of the Holy Bible, the Sunday readings most especially. Keep it up!
Using Sacred Space has helped me to get back to pray. Thank you everyone who put their efforts into creating such a beautiful and useful site.
Thank you Lord for this place. When the bookkeeping dries me out I will find some upfilling “water” here in this space.
I am having many financial and family problems. My comfort and refuge is Sacred Space. May God bless you.
I am a young mum and wife and am very busy looking after my lovely family. But at the same time I find it so hard to find time to pray – finding time, getting the bible out, then the question what to read… I am so glad my priest recommended this website to me! All I need to do is find a moment for myself, sit down with my laptop and meditate for 10 minutes with the help of Sacred Space. 10 minutes only and what a difference to how my day goes! Thank you so much for Sacred Space!!!
I like Sacred Space and have been printing the Gospel and readings. I thank you for all that you offer on your website. It is truly a blessing for me. God Bless you in all you do!
I try to meditate every day and I find it hard sometimes. Maybe this will be something that works for me. Thank you!
As a wife and mother, my days are filled with challenges and it is difficult to remember to re-connect with God in the busyness of modern Western life. I’m glad I stumbled across Sacred Space…may I keep stumbling on this site, day after day.
My prayer life has been stale lately. When that happens, I visit your site. I always come away refreshed and reinvigorated. God bless you and the work.
I was reading The Sacred Heart Messenger when I came across Sacred Space. It is wonderful, I will visit it every day from now on. Thank you for this beautiful site, the prayers are wonderful.
Since a friend in Ireland told me about Sacred Space a few months ago it has changed my life and my outlook. Coming every morning to convene with God is the best thing to do before the start of every day and I get so much out of each message. Sometimes I feel like a certain message is almost tailored for me. I appreciate Sacred Space and the strength it gives me to face the world each day.
Thank you for the opportunity to bring prayer into my work day.
Thank you for this website. I used to use it fairly regularly, but in the past couple of years, I slipped away, although when I bought a new computer last year, I still kept it on my list of favorites. I awoke very early this morning and thought that maybe I was being prompted by the Holy Spirit to pray. My mind was full of all my anxieties, and I could not focus. I came to the computer and pulled up the Sacred Space site. The reading was Luke 12:49-53. I prayed that I never understood this reading. Then reflected on all the divisions in my life, and what causes them. They are all caused by people not accepting the truth for one reason or another. It gave me hope, and also focus for my prayer. I am sure the Spirit would have led me to this understanding anyway, but thank you for being the vehicle that He chose. I will continue praying with this site again.
Thank you for your website. It gives me so much peace. I came across it by accident, but I believe it was Our Lord who led me here. Thank you for the wonderful prayers the scripture passage and inspirations.
In this world we live in, the noise pollution is unbearable, the secularism toxic. Sacredspace helps you connect with the most important person in our lives…Jesus…thank you, thank you, thank you, may God bless all you and Our Blessed Mother Mary protect you with her mantle protection.
i met with Jean Vanier today his words touched me and i realised i was missing God in my life i turn to sacred space and hope that this will help me in my journey
God bless all of you that support and operate this website. It’s awesome!
As a public school teacher, I must live a very secular life, especially at work. Sacred Space offers me an opportunity on break to reconnect and rejuvenate. As I learned in parochial school years ago: “You can’t give what you don’t have.” If I don’t have joy and a spiritual center, then I don’t have much to give to my students. Actually, I use the pattern of Sacred Space at times for reading classes. It reminds me of Lectio Divina from a retreat I went on in college.
Peace be with you. Thank you for Sacred Space. I have been praying with Sacred Space for a while now and the new Beta version is beautiful. Especially with the music added. It helps me to enter into prayer deeper. (The Beta version can be accessed at http://www.sacredspace.ie/dailyprayer_beta)
I want to thank you for keeping Sacred Space available. I find it offers spiritual renewal each day that I visit. Many, many thanks.
I will be 59 years old tomorrow, and I’m feeling tired. Your words on seeking respite from exhaustion really hit home tonight. I pray for a good night’s sleep and an ability to give myself to others tomorrow in gratitude for a wonderful life.
What a wonderful site. Thank you for all you do!
What a great thing this place is for me. I love coming here for the respite. The reading and prayers so spoke to me today. Thank you – but more, Thank God.
Sacred Space is there for me at all times. It is wonderful to know that there is a place for me.
Sacred Space frequently amazes me by bringing a message that meets my curent need. Feeling oppressed by too many people and their concerns, today I find the the opening short homily advises me to retreat to the presence of God. Thank you all who prepare this extraordinary daily nourishment that meets our human and spiritual needs.
Danke!
I felt God’s presence and happiness.
This was truly a “blessing” for me today!! I stumbled on to this site, very surprised and also “thankful”, said some prayers and hope to learn more. I’m very interested in all of our saints within our Church, hopefully I can do research on this site. “Bless all” Dear Lord
I lost my job 3 months ago and have been having an emotional and spiritual struggle recently. I was having a particularly rough day when I chanced upon Sacred Space. Thank you for the hope that you provide through Sacred Space. Not a day goes by that I don’t visit your site.
Wow, what an awesome website. I feel depth, tranquility and grace here. First site that has given me that feeling. And such a great resource to expand and enrich my spiritual journey with God.
Graces, blessings and love to you.
Im glad I found your daily prayers on your website. Now I can send a copy to my brother where he has no way of getting the internet. I am trying to help him get back to having a Christian faith. Thank you so much for what you are doing. With Love to you all people behind this website. God Bless You All!
I feel so blessed that my friend sent me your site. I now have you in my favorites so I can go to it any time. Thank you, for the work you do for this site and may God bless you and all who help with this wonderful site. Thank you so much.
I am so pleased to have found your site! I will keep returning. I am looking for peace and solace and I know God is the answer.
Due to a long battle with cancer, (not over yet) i have not been unable to use the computer. it is great to be back
I am truly blessed to have been led into Sacred Space. It really meant a lot to me that so many of us are touched by your prayers – both the daily reflections and the chapel of intentions. Thank you so much for this grace and blessing. God bless you all.
Thank you very much for your Homepage. I appreciate it and look at it in the morning before I am starting in the day at my office. God bless you
How very comforting today’s prayers were. Thank you
I am so thankful for this peaceful place you have created for the world. I share it often with others.
Bless you!
It is a nice way to come into contact with other people in the presence of God and to lean on, laugh with and love God.
Sacred place encourages me to pray at the end of the working day – it is not too demanding but gets me focussed on God, lifting me up from the things that embroil me to the things that really matter
Thanks for a wonderfully uplifting site. I’m living in Sweden with little chance to get to English Mass. I love to come to this site to get a little nudge towards God. Thanks
Just when I needed it most I found your wonderful space. It has changed and enriched my prayer life and helped to remember that God loves me when I felt ashamed and disheartened. It has given me hope. And I am slowly discovering Jesus.
I don’t visit Sacred Space regularly but when I do I find it most uplifting and a very helpful guide to devotions when my usual books are not available or I have not had time before leaving for work. Thank you to all those involved in it’s production and presentation.
I have been visiting sacred space now for about 7 years. I find the it both spiritually uplifting and informative and a real benefit to my Christian walk. Praise be to the Lord
I have felt the presence of God in my life and always feel Jesus is with me, guiding me, helping me to understand the meaning of true peace, love and happiness. I have much to learn but now I listen.
The daily prayers on your website are a gift from Him and a joy to read. Thank you.
Sacred Space is a place that I can stay a litle beet more closer of God. It helps me to stop and think about my life. Thank you a Lot.
This is so very nice – I’m usually not too good at praying but I’ve been opening your prayers every day. Thanks so much.
The days I skim the readings are the very days that the message is to nudge me to change of attitude and find that I go back in maybe a day or two later to that days reading to take on board what it is saying to me. May the Lord always inspire you to provoke change in such a gentle manner. Thank You
i have been using your Sacred Space Book almost daily for a few years and have found the depth of understanding immeasurable. Your words have given me permission to “picture” Jesus and to experience the change in attitude which that glimpse of understanding and tender love can bring. It is also helping me to allow myself to admit the truth that God is always present in acts of love, kindness and human affection. I belong to an Anglican evangelical church yet I find this dimension and the nourishment your site gives helps me to pray and ironically more attracted to and less fearful of reading the Bible (ironically because we are a very Bible-based church). May God continue to bless you and all of us everywhere in and through His loving influence in your work.
Thank you for your wonderful website. It is a blessing to me in so many ways. God bless you all in you mission.
Christ’s Peace! Sacred Space is a great blessing to me. Thank you for being with so many in prayer, in lectio divina, in giving glory to Jesus Christ. Sacred Space is a daily inspiration and I offer my gratitude!
I have just come across Sacred Space today and I will be back again. Well done to all involved in giving us a place to pray on line.
Sometimes, as a Christian, I feel very alone. Strange to say in a country as free as Canada. But in my world as people leave their faith and coast into the secular, my heart cries. Sacred Space lifts my spirit by helping me commune with God and joining me to those around the world who still reach for their Savior. This world needs the Savior very badly.
I happened to find your homepage at the very moment when I was looking for more…Since then I have not given up praying and thinking about the daily precious thoughts you offer in sacredspace – thank you
Sacred space is a great resource, especially now when i can sit at my office in the UK and tap into prayers in Swedish (my native country) in particular this morning 23rd September 09 i have found the bible readings and other prompts fruitful. Thank you so much.
Thanks you for this inspiring peaceful place. I’ve been visiting the site for two years. It provides me a fresh, calming way to experience God in my life. May God continue to bless those who provide these daily messages to all of us throughout the world.
What a wonderful site this is. I look forward to and begin each day here. Thank you for this “Sacred Space”
I’m back on sacred space again trying to carve out the time to sit down and be quiet with God each day. Thank you for this, the work and prayer behind it
Today’s Commentary on Luke 8:19-21. I see it like this. After Jesus has been told that His mother and brothers are outside the crowd opens up and Jesus is looking with love at His mother and brothers and affirming them “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it.” I hope this helps to dispel any thoughts of Jesus being thought of as disrespectful to His mother and brothers. It sure helps me.
Thank you for the beautiful nun’s prayer about those of us who are growing old– I needed to read that, which I suspected in myself and admitted to myself only briefly in moments when I really looked in the mirror. May God bless all of you at Sacred Space, continuously, as He pours out His Spirit on you, and, if she needs it, may He carry that saintly nun to Paradise…
Thank you for helping me pray when my own poor words won’t come by themselves
I have been in and out of Sacred Space over the past 12 months since one of my sisters told me about it.
For me it is a garden of peace. A place where it is possible to forget ones self and thnk of the wonders and graces, blessings and mysteries our gracious Lord puts before us each day.
Thank you for this golden opportunity!
May God Bless all those who are involved in keeping the sacred space alive. Since I started visiting my life has completely changed as I enjoy the presence of God, peace and mercy that I feel as I talk to our God. Thank you Lord for providing us with computers and the technology to spread Your word, Amen.
Thank you for Sacred Space. It is precious!
I have not been back to your page in a long time but when I came here on Tuesday its I believe the loving Lord that brought me here every word spoke into my life and the feeling of Lords presence next to me brought me to tears and closer unto him Thank You My Lord. It was what I desperately needed and you knew it…Thank you for the strength & comfort as I needed so so much right now…
This is a fantastic service. I am a lapsed Catholic and haven’t been to mass for 9 years or so, since leaving a Jesuit school. There is a powerful spiritual message avaialble here and the daily piece of scripture complements the small prayers superbly. I will bookmark the site and attend Mass this Sunday, imbued with a renewed optimism.
I am a new mother with an 9 month old little girl life sometimes gets quite hectic and overwhelming attempting to get through the day and keep up with life, the house, the husband, the baby. Sacerd Space enables you to check in with God in those few stolen moments you have free during the day or while the house is quiet.
Thank you for this resource and may Sacred Space continue to provide inspiration, reflection and quiet for those yearning.
A friend told me recently about Sacred Space. I have begun to access it on last Saturday, then yesterday and today. I find it gives me a new awareness of waqlking in God’s presence during the day.
Thank you.
some days my heart is so heavy with sadness. i come to this site for consolation and persepective. today i imagined god the father who so loved us he gave us is only son and we reject him all the time. how it must hurt god to see what we have done with this gift. then i give my sadness caused by rejection to god and ask him to take it away and help me deal with it.
I am so happy to have come across this site. I needed a daily reflection and it is no accident I found Sacred Space. My mom is Irish and I am a Canadian living in South Korea. As I head home in three weeks I am thankful to have found sacred space to help me with the stress of transition and change. The fact that it is run by Jesuits in Ireland is like having a connection to my ancestral homeland. Peace and Joy to all who enter here.
I got much nourishment out of today’s examen. Please pray for me as I continue to seek God in my currently unsettled life.
I’m very thankful for this space of peace, a time for recreating, like a little glance into heaven..
It’s like a top up for the day ahead. With sacredspace I become more aware of my surroundings. The day has a perspective. Without it (or some kind of prayer) I feel lost and directionless.
It was by accident that I happen to see this page and was immediately touched by the novena to the Sacred Heart. I continued to recite the novena with great hope and faith and was rewarded with my humble prayers been answered. I am most grateful to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for finding a solution to my financial difficulties. Now I could continue my daily work with a peace of mind and will always praise the name of Jesus. Thank you Lord once again for a great favour.
Thank you to Sacred Space and all who make this space possible. May God continue to bless you with his love and mercy.
I find such peace and strength from God by visiting this site. Thank you. I appreciate God’s word being utilised to touch people’s hearts and bring freedom, forgiveness and refreshing. May you be blessed to keep up this ministry for others.
I used Sacred Space a lot in the past but had “been away” from it recently, primarily because I was not in a position to access it at work. Having just been made redundant I was once again free to log on and, as so often in the past, the opening message was absolutely relevant and pertinent to my new situation: loss, change, new beginnings. I’ve left a job I enjoyed with people I love and it’s difficult to adjust. But concentrating on today’s message helped me realise I must build on what I have gained during the last year in order to move on in a positive way. Thank you again for your excellent website.
God bless you for providing this wonderful resource! It always says something to me! I don’t always make time for devotions so this gives me a thought for the day! Blessings on your ministry!
Thank you. I turned to this today after getting a disturbing phone call. I had forgotten how my daily prayers got me through my life’s experiences. I had felt myself coming back to a life of God’s presence and this confirms it.
I am awed by how much God used Sacred Space today to assure me that He is with me in my inner turmoil. Before logging in, I was reflecting on my dilemma on how to deal with my ageing and controlling mother (I have unresolved issues with her that turn into anger towards her). In my reflection I was able to confront certain realities that I need to accept without also compromising my health and sanity. I ended my reflection (which I wrote) asking God to teach me what to do. Then I logged on to Sacred Space and I was amazed when I read the gospel today (Jesus removing the unclean spirits) and the “need inspiration” part… They spoke to me so personally. I felt so assured… I felt Jesus’ powerful presence, a very presence that could remove “demons” (fears, anxieties, doubts, anger, …)… Thank you Lord! Thank you Sacred Space!
The best part of my day is spend on Scared Spaces. Every morning I can not wait to read and meditate on your site. I truly was lost and your site help me to know GOD better. It is the best thing that ever happened to me. Now I can be a better person in the world and spread love. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. May GOD bless you always.
Father God, Thank you so much for giving me the chance to wake up early and giving the wisdom to love you more and more. Thank you for this laptop that i have to learn more to search for you/ Keep me safe and my family
Sacred Space is a Blessing to me!I want to let you know that I’ll be praying for you and ask Our Lord to Bless you richly. I love you website!
God led me to this site. i am a busy person. I look forward daily to the readings of the day. this guides in my dealings with others in my work. I have finished the novena to the sacred heart. I am now in the prayer for peace. I have not fully browsed on the whole site. i thank the LORD MY GOD for bringing me here. please pray for me and my family. GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS
Thank you – I have visited Sacred Space at various times over the last 6 years or so. It is very calming, and a gift in many languages. I have shared with my international friends. Keep up the good work. God Bless you.
Thank you for reminding us that even in our busy lives, we need to have time for Jesus, for prayers.
I have not visited your website for a number of years while I’ve been living with nuns and shared their framework for prayer. I am now increasingly away from them for weeks at a time for work, and though I continue to say the office, returning to Sacred Space has been so important, like a returning home. Thank you and thank God!
God bless your website and thank you for sharing sacredspace its a sacred to all of us .Thank you fr.jun for sharing the website ,thank you for the novena of secredheart wich I’m praying everyday. To the webmaster and to all who shared in this website – GOD bless you all and may GOD continue giving you strength in sharing the word of GOD to all us.
Thank you for this sacred space… it was inspiring and changed my life!
Great service and Idea, i just used it for the first time and I’m all ready looking forward to it tomorrow. Perfect for work hours when we need to focus on the important aspects of life…and that’s living in God’s vision and preparing for eternal happiness.
Thank you for the blessing of this site. I have been using it for many years off and on. It is comforting to know that it is always there to help and guide.
I thank the LORD for this site and your commitment to it. I came upon it in a time when I needed Jesus. Now after several years hard and humbling. I realise Jesus has been there helping remove the baggage from my life. It may not seem like it as we go thru it but GOD knows what is needed. HE put me onto this site and back in touch with HIM. Praise and thanks to God and Sacred Space. WE ALL NEED TO KEEP PRAYING Thanks from Nebraska
Sacredspace truly brings me into God’s presence and into the prayerful silence of my own heart. It is a joy to be part of this praying community. Every time I visit I am inspired by the words of wisdom which often speak directly to my life. After spending time in Sacredspace I leave with a joyful heart. Thanks.
With gratitude I say how glad I am that Sacred Space is a part of my prayer practice. It is marked as one of my favorites and the time spent in prayer here is truly some fo the favorite moments of my day. For every person who works so diligently to maintain this site and invite so many to pray, know that what you do blesses others daily.
In every prayer I always find a line – a thought or a prayer – apt for me and my situation. Truly inspired by the Holy Spirit, this site gives my mind and heart guidance when it is sometimes an enormous task to just set aside the many pre-occupations of the day. Thank you and God bless each one behind this site.
I come to this site since two years ago, and everytime I find peace, hope and love. Thanks for building this road towards God. My prayers go to all who make this site possible. Thanks for this guide.
just found your site – courtesy of Stephen Hough [gave it out as one of his favourites in an interview with the ABC's radio guide.] Thanks to all who put it together
Thank you Lord for your sacred peace. Thank you for your thousands of blessings on me and on my family. Thank you for the wonder of your being. Let the people I meet see Christ in me.
I don’t know how you do it, but Sacred Space fills me with the feelings that I hope to experience in church every Sunday morning, but sadly do not. The feelings of love, hope, joy and peace in amongst all my anxieties. A profound sense that I’m in the presence of Jesus. Thank you so much, I only wish I’d found you sooner! God bless!
I too wish to add my sincerest thanks to all those who work & maintain this site. My faith is weak & I sometimes get impatient with God & the silence to my cries for help… but in your site I find comfort & finish my day with a visit & prayer at Sacred Space. May God bless you all and your work.
This is a wonderful site where you can leave intentions and remember the departed. Really enjoyed the prayers and readings. Thank you.
I am very grateful for discovering this Site. The commentaries from the Fathers are truly excellent and so well phrased – thank you. They have given me an opportunity to reflect on my own life, my ambitions and values. What my Mother and Father (RIP) instilled in me were and are the valid to the present day. I hope to visit this site daily and eventually return to my Church. God Bless You All
My father sent me here and I really enjoyed the quiet moments of prayer. My father assures me that “This space has been tested and found non-toxic to Protestants.”
I came across your site as it was posted as a link on a site about prayer for Ireland. I so very glad I did as your daily devotions have helped me grow closer to the Lord. Thank you.
I’m not Catholic, but all of the thoughts, prayers and scriptures I have found here are not denominational, but Christian and so are fulfilling the purpose of them which is to share the love of Christ.
I am grateful for your work on the website and elsewhere and will continue to pray for you. Together we are parts of “one body, one Spirit, called to one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”
May the Lord bless you and continue to provide for your needs, and grant you the desires of your heart.
I’m so glad to find this site, I was lead to it by love. You would not believe how much I need and crave God’s/Jesus’s help and guidance, deliver me from temptation, I’m so weak. I love the experiential approach, very deep. Namaste.
Thank you for this communion and sharing. God bless you for your unfailing guidance. Thank you Lord for your Peace in every storm.
Thank you very much for this wonderful possibility! I posted this link on my facebook and I hope, that many friends will join!
Shalom, I thank God for finding this website. May God bless you all. Thank you for making God words available to us. I declare that I am increasing in knowledge and understanding. 2 Timothy 2:15
In times of just working/sleeping this site helps me to remember that there is Jesus who can ease my sorrows. Thank you.
I praise you through Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. You are to be commended for developing a site such as this where one can pray and meditate. Please continue your excellent work! You have helped to make my day…scripture readings should be part and parcel of each thing we do for ourselves daily…may our Good Lord continue to bless you!-always my best regards.
I got away from Sacred Space, and just today, I decided to stop by. It is God’s grace at work that I stop by, for indeed, I am glad I deed and will surely make this daily stop from now on. God’s peace is in this Sacred Space. Thank you.
I broke my foot this week and I was asking God why had this happened to me and trying hard to find the positive in this latest hiccup in my life. Then I came to Sacred Space and God reminded me in today’s gospel that Jesus couldn’t perform miracles in his own home town because of the lack of belief he found in the people there and I began to realise that I also had a lack of belief for not putting my trust in God. Once again I thank God for the gift of Sacred Space for helping us to make sense of our lives.
Tomorrow I will in to church to join all who celebrate the day of Saint Ignatius. I have been supported by his followers in difficult periods and now still are by all you do. Thank you so much!
Thank you. You are my daily bread. I frequently recommend you to my fellow Anglicans. Again, thank you.
Bravo! bravo! and bravo! Irish Jesuits for this wonderful site. I will try to make it a daily devontional now that I am retired. God bless you all in your most important work. Halellujah to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!
Thank you, thank you for such a wonderful website! I so often have to be careful not to be on the computer too much because sometimes my precious time can be wasted on surfing the web looking at nonsense. I have made a conscious decision to only go on websites that don’t waste my time and have meaning to me in some way. The pastor of our church told us about this site today at Mass and I will be here every day from now on for sure!
Thank you for sacred space. I appreciate the site. It is a website/place I can go for some spiritual enlightenment. I am praying the novena and enjoy the daily prayer.
Sacred Space is a wonderful gift to all of God’s people. I find the meditations entitled “Something to think about this week” especially helpful. Do you have an archive of these meditations? Could you direct me to them? Thanks, Martin
I love “Sacred Space”. I use it to help me focus and pray. I have always stuggled with taking the time to pray with my whole heart.
Thank you for establishing “Sacred Space”. I recommend it to all of my friends. The deacon at our church recommended it to my husband and me. This site forces me to sit quietly and think of God (sitting quietly is the part that is difficult). Thank you so much.
You are a testament to God’s love and presence in this age of science and technology! Thank you for continually being God’s instruments.
30 mins after my first attempt to reconnect with God after a long period of drought, He has opened Himself in dialogue with me through your readings. Specific questions were answered through the day’s scripture and reflections! God is indeed great. I am in tears as I write this. Thank you once again.
I looked up Jesuits to find out aboiut retreats and came across Sacred Space. I just want to say thank you for creating sacred space, it touched me and I will use regularly in the future
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for providing this site to all. I have been coming to this site off and on for some years now to pray and seek inspiration and guidance. I have to say this has helped tremendously in my prayer life and faith, which has been sorely lacking in the last few years. I especially appreciate the work that’s been done on the mobile site which enables me to pray and read the day’s scripture where ever I can get a data signal on my phone. This is a great use of technology to bring people closer together and to God. Thank you again and God bless.
I am what some call an “Almost Catholic”; that is, I am an Episcopalian. I find great comfort in reading your prayers and other writings each morning. You write for all of us and give us food for thought. I particularly like the fact that you raise theological issues that cause us to question and challenge ourselves. All is not black or white, and each day you prove that faith supercedes certainty. Thank you for being there for all of us who question ourselves and our faith each day.
My mother’s extremely grateful for this wonderful website which daily nourishes the two of us on our journey. We are just wondering whether you would be kind to include the Vietnamese language in the near future so we can share it with our non-Christian friends and neighbors. There are many Vietnamese Jesuits, especially in California, USA, so we’re hoping to read the prayer in Vietnamese someday. Thanks again! Sacred Space in new languages
Thank you for this week’s opening reflection about carers and their great work and the people, like me, who now need some caring/help as my body slows down in all kinds of ways. I didn’t know it could slow down in just so many different ways! There is much letting go; sometimes just being resigned to finding yet another piece of me has given up or has been lost! And God is in it all.
Thank you for your ministry to so many in and through Sacred Space and may God bless and sustain you as you care (that word again!) for not just the healthy and youthful but those who are “old and grey and full of sleep.”
Thank you for enabling me to hear the whisperings of God more clearly. I am a new user of this site, and finding it very helpful.
Thank you for making it so easy to pray! it’s hard sometimes to find time to make a sacred space in one’s life, surrounded by one’s family, one constantly remembers to look after them – and neglects one’s own spiritual wellbeing. I really appreciate the effort you have made to make daily prayer and reflection so accessible.
I just love this website. It always lifts me up and takes me to God’s presence. Thank you so much for being there!
I am blessed to be able to open and surf and find a sacred space to help me gather myself and get in
touch with my silently passionately present God within.
Thank you for being ‘here’.
Thank you from my heart for your website. It provides silence to speak with and to hear our Lord. He comes into our life where we make space for him, even technologically. Grateful is my heart for your work. It touches so many around the world. It provides a tangible connection to others around the world who pray. We can lift our voices together in prayer, praying for each other. God bless you and the work you are doing.
I’m glad to have found this page. Today. The present never ends.
Thank you
Thank you so much for maintaining this site. I have become increasingly dependent on the nightly visit here for my daily examen and developing the practice of lectio. I pray that these exercises help move the gospel from my head to the heart thus empowering my becoming “another Christ” in my daily affairs. The only development that justifies being born at all!
Thank you so much for this website. It is a true blessing.
There are many times when I am urged by the Spirit to visit SacredSpace and break from my workday. Blessings always ensue. This place reminds me who I am grounded in and who my King is — not the CEO of my company, not my boss, not me. Thank you for your hard work on this site.
You have a wonderful site. In these times of Internet weirdness, you are a true refuge. The Jesuits taught me many years ago when I attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, of not just lessons, but of the Peace of God. Thank you, the lessons continue. God Bless all of you!
Thank you for this wonderful gift! A true Ignatian apostolate. It is wonderful to find a prayerful way to use the computer and techonology. Peace!
Thank you so much for your website. This has been so helpful. You have made it so easy for me to pray during the week. I very much like the simplicity of the design of the pages with text in Sacred Space. It is peaceful and more conducive to prayer. The Internet definitely needs this site. Keep up the good work! May the times of doubt and confusion be lifted from you in your work for this lovely site.
May God Bless you richly. It is positive to see that our prayers should include men,women and children of all faiths.
I want to thank you for a truly blessed website to help my daily visit with God. I always have time to login to my computer to check my mail but did not always have time to talk with the Lord. I am now making this website a part of my morning ritual of coffee and computer. Thank you!
This is an amazing and wonderful site. My prayer today is for God’s continued blessing on your work and ministry here. Thank you for the benefits of this site – the terrific resources, and all the love that is shown here.
I am really grateful for this site. The reflections of the readings for the day are truly enlightening especially for me working in the Lectors and Commentators ministry of our Parish. It has given me a deeper understanding of the Bible and growth in my faith. I also love your prayers for each day and related sites. God Bless and more power.
One of the favorite sayings of the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa’s sisters) is, “Stop complaining to God how big your storm is. Instead tell your storm how big your God is.”
Isn’t this beautiful!
Being educated by Jesuits, i love the way this site targets what we need the most in this times. Feel happy, comforted and ok to begin our day in a quick concise way. I’ve been using this website since 2006. It has been my refuge in times of sorrow and makes me very happy in times of joy. I thank you for helping me communicate with God and reassuring me that He really listens when i feel sad or empty.
Thank you Sacred Space for a wonderful site.
Thank you loving Holy Spirit Creator of my being – Your love washes over me like a cool afternoon June breeze – Yet it goes where it wills,a reminder to myself that I have no control – Your will for me is the gift of life – a love of this day that lays before me. Your loving presents renewed in the soft tender whispers of air that remind me to stay tuned – that all things you have created are the blooms of your love!
I have been using your daily devotional for months already since the day I was introduced by my friend. I have introduced this to my wife and keep introducing to friends. May all who trust HIM grow through this website. From the Philippines but have recently moved to the US to be with my wife.
Thank you Father God for all and various sacred spaces where Your Son, Jesus, our Lord and Brother stands in our midst. We gather here online, in thanksgiving, in atonement, in petition and You listen and comfort us. I have received tangible help, abundance and grace through technology which is your gift to mankind in these modern times.
Thank you for loving us back even if we struggle everyday to love you and our fellowmen. Thank you for understanding our weaknesses, forgiving our sins.
Thank you, Irish fathers for this beautiful space on heaven on earth’s internet.
Thank you for your Sacred Heart Novena. It has helped me come into terms with my feelings and with my relationship with Jesus. It inspired me so much that I had to share it to my husband who is unemployed for quite some time now. The prayers continue to give us hope everyday.
Peace be with you! I love to pray to Jesus, Gods only-begotten son! He is my saviour and i love to pray in The holy room (Sacred Space/Heligt rum)! God be with you! Amen
through the wcc pressnewsletter i learned about the daily prayer online programme and i needed to know how it works: I like it very much! it sure is a source of inspiration and I thank you for it.
My heartfelt thanks for this wonderful website SACRED SPACE. I only discovered it last week while watching a TV programme. Since than I have been praying with you everyday. I am going to recommend SACRED SPACE to all my family and friends. Thank You and May God Bless You and Your Good Work.
I have used and recommended Sacred Space for years. Recently, in a Bible study group, we prayed through the Prayers for Peace on Earth. In our discussion, each person read a Scripture that came to mind as we prayed together. The Prayers for Peace from various faith traditions helped us all to realize how profoundly all of humanity yearns for Shalom, the Peace of God. Thank you for providing this valuable resource.
I commend the Dedication of those who are responsible for SACRED SPACE. May God Richly bless you through prayer and supplication.
This site has moved people, many comments have been made in praise of it. It has helped, healed, motivated and consoled people.
It helps me.
May all who view it be gently reminded that it is run by priests, perhaps with a little lay help, I don’t know, but in the main it is the idea of the Irish Jesuits.
In these troubled times, when the appalling activities of many Priests, Nuns, Brothers Religious, Bishops, are being reported on it is important to remember that unreported, upraised, and unappreciated there are thousands who quietly tend His garden.
May He mind them all.
Thank you so much for these words in the ‘Need Inspiration’ for Thursday, June 18th . So very reassuring…
‘Maybe we pray best when we say nothing at all! Our words can be sparing. Often we don’t know what to say in our prayers, or we tire of saying the same things over and over. Maybe then we can go into silence before God, with each breath a grateful receiving of life and love; or just say some of the words of the Our Father, the prayer he uses to put words on our desire to pray. ‘
Just a quick word of appreciation. This web site – and the words of our Lord – are a welcome oasis in the daily noise. God Bless.
May God bless you richly for your love of Him expressed so well through this website. I know that prayer, scripture and inspired thoughts are only a click away… Thank you!
Beautiful. Thank you so much for this site. I am so happy that I found it. Exactly what I needed. May God continue to bless all of you.
Thanks so much for providing this reflective space on the Internet. I was told about it several years ago and keep returning to this site whenever I need to lift my heart to God and use a different daily devotional/meditation resource than I commonly do. Sacred Space feeds my soul, and I wish you continued blessings and financial resources to be able to provide this for years to come!
This is my first time to have entered this website which I got to know of through a T.V. programme. I must say that I do attend a prayer group, but in this website I have found a much larger community to pray with in the silence of my home. Thank you for all the good work and may GOD bless you all.
Blessed be the name of the LORD.
Thank you Sacred Space for the invaluable support you provide for me and dor so many others. I’m so glad and grateful I found you. Thank you also to all the friends of Sacred Space who have prayed for me and for my husband who was finally received in the Church last Easter after 32 years of marriage. He is now an enthusiastic Catholic and keen participant in our Communion. God bless you all!
I really adore this website and love coming here to just soak up the love of God through the words and prayers. I feel blessed each time I am here, feeling really close to God. I am always so deeply moved that I shed lots of tears and I feel happy that the words of our Lord Jesus penetrate so deeply into my heart and soul. May God’s blessings always be upon you, all visitors of this site and all mankind. Amen.
I love Sacred Space. I use to pray here very often, and I always feel involved by a peacefull atmosphere. It helps me a lot to concentrate in God’s love. I’m very happy because I could find this space. Thank you.
Thank you so much for always improving sacred space to reach out to more and more people like us. I hope it could even reach me through mobile phones especially in Japan where friends and everyone are always using mobiles and I would wish to share this with friends.
Thank You so much for existing! You make me smile, cry, feel great and miserable at the same time, but most of all this site is my inspiration for a real, true and deep prayer. I love it, it makes me be the real me and feel closer to HIM, and that´s the best thing that can happen to anybody.
A friend told me about Sacred Space recently.Since that time nearly every day I am here with gratefulness. Here I find comfort, hope, confidence and the feeling not to be alone. Thank you for it.
Thank you so much for the peaceful, comforting way you present the daily message. I love the brownish background, the simple font, and the automatic pauses for prayer built in. It’s perfect. Thank you, thank you.
Thank you for creating and sharing this wonderful portal. It has helped me keep my focus on God’s love and on my purpose here on earth as I start my day. The Lord bless and keep you as you endeavor to spread His word.
After a hard day your page provides food to my spirit. Clear and hopeful words you can’t do without. You are always there when I need them. Thanks God I can enjoy them
Sacred space makes me feel God the Holy Spirit within me. Thnk you God. It is such a comfort mentally. The freedom to be myself. Peace. And peace to all.
I give thanks for finding this site to day when I needed it so much. Thank you for all that you do in preparing this for us. I am so grateful.
9.30 Mass – no priest. Two Eucharistic Ministers (women) help us to receive our precious Lord – thank God for this gift of lay Eucharistic Ministers. Return home conscious of the ever present Lord in my life and yet I’m longing for more. There is still a vacant spot, and I remember Sacred Space. May the Lord ever bless you all and thank you from the bottom of my heart this day for your great website.
I’m replete. God bless.
I too have just gone thru a difficult time and if it was not for the support of my groups and surrendering all of me to the Lord I could not have made it to recovery, if you trust in HIM HE will always show you the way to his WILL not mine. Thank you Lord for all the graces you have given me.
Dear sisters and brothers, I really appreciate that you are always there for providing us the great platform for prayer.
Now, I am at my career crossroad in which I have no idea I should go. This problem makes me upset all day. I prayed in front of God, but I can’t see any signs from Father so far. I really hope you- my dearest sisters and brothers give me some ideas about this that how I can talk with God better. Thank you very much! God bless!
I am so grateful to have found the Sacred Space website. My wife and I emigrated to the UK two years ago leaving our two sons studying in South Africa , this was not easy. Our visa required us to start a business up to remain. We have gone through hard and lonely times. The Lord has been incredible, He has rolled each huge obstacle out of the way with a solution when all seemed lost , He has found us friends and a wonderful place to meet His people.Things are still tough, but The Lord is Great and he is looking after us.I pray that you too will be blessed.Thank you Father God.
Thank you for this website. I will endeavour to use it regularly now that I’ve found it.
Thank you for sharing your call to prayer with us. This site is a beautiful, peaceful, place filled with God. A rarity to find such a thing on the internet!
Your daily meditations bring much peace, joy and tranquility to my very busy life. The readings remind me to have the Lord, first and foremost in my thoughts, in my words and in my soul. May God continue blessing you and all who share this beautiful gift from God: A Sacred Space
Sacred Space has brought me great joy and inspiration and a belief that God is very much in our everyday lives all we have to do is ask for help and it shows up in unexpected ways to help us learn our life lessons. I always look forward to visiting this website.
It’s hard to tell what Sacred Space meant to me and still does. In a time churches are closed I feel like going to a cathedral, where people walk in and out to pray. I also repeat parts of Pray-as-you go and inspiration in different moments. Thank you so much and I keep telling others.
Thanks so much for your website. Our Anglican Bishop shared it with us recently and I find it so helpful to begin my day with the readings & comments.
I find this site offers a santuary from the troubled times we are experiencing. A truly inspiring site.
Thank you and God bless you all.
Thank you for providing Sacred Space to our world. You are an oasis, a place to find living water for the journey.
I am especially touched by your reminders of our freedom, in and through Christ.
What a great gift He has given us! What a great measure of His Love for us!
Thank you for sharing your faithfulness to His Word, and His Love for us.
Thank you for providing this space and the opportunity to focus on the presence of the Lord in my life – His love and grace, which give me freedom and peace.
Dear Sacred Space, It’s such a joy to have such an oasis as this! Also, I find it wonderful reading all the testimonies of faith on this page, we are all united in love. Best wishes
May Our God continue to give you Grace to propagate the nourishment you are giving us. May we be one in Christ. Thank you very much!
Thank you. I am a solicitor in London under enormous stress for the foreseeable future (recession, family commitments, etc.) who has just returned to Sacred Space after a few years’ absence. It grounds me in reality.
May the Peace of Christ be with you wonderful people…
Henri Nouwen and a former student had a conversation when the young man returned to visit and Henri said, “I will miss you and I don’t know if we’ll ever meet again.” To which his young friend responded, “It doesn’t matter if we ever speak, write, or see another ever again because from this point on all the space between us is sacred space.” After Mass this morning, I clicked onto your Sacred Space website and was prompted to send this to you…no coincidence, methinks! God bless…
What a wonderful find Sacred Space is! It is very user-friendly and spirit-filling. I may very well integrate this into my daily routine.
When I am overwhelmed and I don’t know where to turn, this site has been a great blessing. The simple guidelines and prayers help to center my heart in the love of Jesus. God’s blessings to all who participate, as workers and prayers on this site.
Thank you very much for this wonderful site…it helps me a lot in understanding the Word of God…once again, thank you. more power & God bless…
This is a wonderful find. I am happy this is available for me during the day. I need to stop and rest with Jesus. Your background and text is relaxing besides the beautiful words of Scripture. They are simple and peaceful. So many blessings God gives through this marvel of the computer. Thanks…
Sacred Space is providing words of comfort to me at a very difficult time – following the news that my husband probably has secondary cancers in his spine. We are waiting for an appointment with the oncologist. We both feel surrounded by the love of God in so many ways and now would ask all of you out there to pray that we continue to receive the strength to face whatever the future brings.
Sacred Space is truly a Godsend. I have been visiting for about two years. The beautiful words of God from the gospel. The words of wisdom from your people, the whole structure of the site is so wonderful and helpful to us all.
My wife of 43 years was called home to the Lord recently . My heart is hurting on the loss . But i know she is with God now. She was a wonderful woman, kind and compassionate to all. I have no doubts that the words of the bible will help me to heal in time.
Have to get going now, lots to do. I must not stand idly by , for life is so short. Were are here to Love God and our neighbors. LOVE ONE ANOTHER!
Thanks Sacred Space , keep up God’s good works !
Sacred Space is a beautiful gift from my sister who first mentioned this site to me. I have gone through some difficult times in recent years, losing a younger brother to ALS and problems with my teenage son and daughter. Late at night typically when I cannot sleep and I am anxious about my life, I have on many occasion been drawn to Sacred Space and been gently directed back to God. Through prayer I experience the peace and love and insight into the reality of God that puts everything in perspective. Thank you and right on for what you do.
Thank you for helping me remember who is Lord of my life. Your website brings peace to my work day.
At a time when our faith is being attacked by atheists, treated with flippancy by the media, made horrible by fundamentalism, and damaged by the sinfulness and hypocrisy within religious institutions, it is good to come to Sacred Space and be in place where the Lord’s Spirit says peace, peace, to all those troubled and burdened by the troubles of this world.
This is the work of the Holy Spirit and I just pray that all who come to you will feel His love, be challenged, comforted and enabled to follow Jesus in His strength.
Let us pray for each other!
I too want to add my words of thanks for the work that goes on behind the scenes to make Sacred Space happen. Our ministry works with Christian leaders around the world and we find their time constantly tugged on by s many needs. As a counter measure, we encourage them to visit here daily and absorb the intimate reflections on Jesus.
A few minutes a day can be life-changing as you enable leaders to enter a deeper walk with him and increase their faith as they come to know God more fully through the various scriptural verses daily.
May God bless and inspire you in your work.
Thank you so much for the Sacred Space. I find that when I pray with Sacred Space, I experience Jesus is very close to me and I feel his love. I also want to thank you for helping other people with their relationship with Jesus and with hearing the Word of God
It’s my first visit to Sacred Space and I am quite impressed by the thoughtfulness and the mode of outreach. I appreciate it a lot and will recommend it to people whom I believe will benefit from it.
More grease to your elbows and remain blessed!
The warm Light of a Candle in a dark, damp Cave….. is how I would best describe this place you call… a Sacred Space.
Yesterday at Mass we were given a little blue card titled “Spirituality on the Go” . On it are a list of websites where one might go to find meaning for, to reflect on, and reinforce their Faith in God. Sacred Space is exceptional. I spend endless hours on the Internet and it is my Hope and Promise to henceforth begin each day with a FIRST STOP at this site you call Sacred Space. Thank you and may GOD BLESS and REWARD YOUR EFFORTS.
Trying to form and maintain the habit of either formal or informal praying is challenging. I have now decided that before I open my emails on my computer or open my text messages on my telephone I take some time out and open Sacred Space to see what emails The Good Lord might have for me. On my telephone I do the same, I have some prayers stored which I read before I open my text messages. The busier I am at work the more important this is. This is a great habit which I have maintained over the past 30days and pray that I can continue.
Thank you for the support these pages of Sacred Space bring, especially when trouble comes, in this case, being laughed at for talking about them! I see from Living Space in today’s commentary that St. Ignatius prayed that his companions would suffer persecution for their Faith – well, it is good to be in their company! Man (or woman! does not live alone but on every Word that comes from the Mouth of God! – This is a great place to be first thing in the morning ! God bless Pat
This morning I prayed and spoke to Jesus with tears that washed away the tension, sadness and isolation I experience right now. These tears remind me that I am growing in Jesus’ love through prayer. Thank you Sacred Space for the creativity and beauty of your work. Praying with this site – in this space – brings me closer to an awareness of God everyday.
I am so consistently grateful to you for Sacred Space… I cannot count the times I have turned to your website when feeling utterly confused and have found myself back in a peaceful and right relationship with God after only a few minutes of quiet attention to your blessed words. Thank you so much that you are always there!
I am so glad I found Sacred Space… It has given me a quiet place to go and commune with my God. The prayer given on the audio interview for a departed friend opened my heart to comfort during a loss in my life. Thank you for being here.
I have truly found a Sacred Space here. Thank you and God bless your efforts. Mabuhay ang lahat ng sumasangguni sa Panginoon!
Religion was not part of my life growing up. I have recently started the RCIA process and I find that some of the readings can be hard to understand. I found sacred space website while I was researching a few weeks ago and have been back every week.
Thank you Sacred Space for your insights and wonderful commentary. It really helps me understand and open up my mind as I am going through this process.
I have terminal cancer and a kind friend put me on to this site and it has given me great comfort , I truly thank those who created this site as getting to a church is really difficult . My prayers to you all.
Thank you for your good service; also for the good translation of the texts proposed for meditation into German, which I used today, I think, for the first time. I pray that God may use your service to touch the life of many! With best wishes.
Yay! Sacred Space! I’m so incredibly grateful for the encouraging words, wisdom and insight I find here. Please continue the good work. Praise the Lord!
Just Thank you a million times over for the spiritual aid your wonderful Sacred Space has given me. God Bless You All.
Thank you for the time you provided through the reading.I was feeling very sad and despondent when I started my time with the Lord but as I arrived at the end of the study, burst into singing about the goodness of God to me and my family. Thank you for being an instrument of blessing in my life and in my family. I recommended this site to my sister yesterday.
“God’s grace rules by means of righteousness, leading us to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” How blessed we are that our Father in heaven sent His Son to bring us right with Him. His mercy and love for us is unconditional. Praise God.
Absolutely fantastic! I need daily prayer guidance and this really helps.
Peace be with you now and always. It is comforting to visit your site and feel a oneness in Christ. On one hand it comforts me knowing that I am one of many, but each one of us is special in God’s grace. Many thanks.
Thank you for the commentary on Living Space. I did not realize this was available. It never ceases to amaze me how well the Jesuits anticipate the needs of those who come to Sacred Space to pray. For a few years I’ve been having a very hard time praying, except when I go to Mass. There are many factors that landed me in this mess, for a life without talking to Jesus seems to be no life at all. I suffer frim severe clinical depression and I take many medications. When I started taking a particular medication, it seemed that my connection with God ended. I could no longer sense God’s presence, a presence that had been so powerful. This scared me so much, I just stopped praying. I am now trying to feel my way back to prayer and a closer relationship with Jesus. Sacred Space and all the resources on the site are helping me do this.
Thank you, Irish Jesuits, for making Jesus so readily accessible to God’s children. I just want you to know how meaningful your work is. May God continue to prosper your handiwork. And may the Lord bless you and keep you.
Thank you for making my life more complete through the power of prayer and the miracle of God’s work. This web site has been so important not only to my life, but also to my very special gift that God has blessed me with, my daughter. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for this blessed site. I have rec’d many insights & peace by using it. I do try to visit here daily. I also recommend this site to those who ask about Meditation. God bless each of you in your Ministry of providing the world with a Safe Haven. Thanks a million!
This site is blessed! Yesterday I came here to pray to receive and feel God’s love for me & just as I looked out the window a gentle rain started to fall – as if it were just for me. Calm, peace and joy truly emanate from this site. Its just so simple and peaceful to enter into God’s presence whilst sitting in my home office. thank you!! God Bless you all who visit.
As I face major surgery, leaving a lucrative career to live among the poor, leaving home, friends, colleagues, and parish, again, to walk in a new path, the whisper of God is always the same…BE STILL AND REST IN ME. Thanks be to God for His still small voice, and for the way this website and community lifts up His name, His compassion, His unfathomable depths. Thanks be to God.
Thank you for your faithfulness to the task given to you. As I have walked a challenged path recently, I have found support and comfort in the sacred space site. Our Father moves to provide for us in many ways and I have found blessings and reminders of His love so often when I visit Sacred Space. May God’s blessing be with you all as you do his will and bless others that you will not meet til in heaven. Amen
Thank you! for all your hard work, insight, and maintenance of the site. I’ve been praying here for over 3 years and the peace and wisdom I’ve gained is considerable. Keep up the good work!
An oasis of peace and spiritual inspiration awaits me every time I enter Sacred Space. Heart felt thanks.
Thank you Irish Jesuits for making me aware of the presence of Jesus in me everyday. You really are the friends of Jesus, the Society of Jesus.
“Come to me all who are laboring through life” said Jesus, “and I will give you rest.” There is so much peace and kindness in this beautiful website that encourages us to turn to God for what we need. I thank the Jesuit fathers for this wonderful work which must be so time consuming for them but which brings so much peace to our troubled planet. God bless all who pray here.
I would like to thank the Irish Jesuits for setting up this prayer site. Today is the second day in a row that I have used this site for my morning prayer and today was the first day in many years that I had such an amazing, powerful, and helpful solitude prayer. Over the last couple of years I had neglected to continue my prayers and it led me open to many negative thoughts, habits and personal demons. I recently had a big change in my life by getting out of a damaging personal relationship and learning to be true to myself. I feel my soul reborn and that I am able to start a new life and live a truthful and wholesome life that God intended. I am grateful for the good works put into building this site because I know that if you have helped me as much as you did on just my second day of prayer, then I am sure that many others have been helped as well. I believe that God intended me to discover this prayer site at this time in my life and for that I am truly thankful.
Many of us are on the computer daily for our jobs and as a way to keep in touch with those we love. Sacred Space has been a portable constant for me when I need to find as many experiences of “God with us” as possible. Your web presence is a visual reminder that He uses tools of all sorts to speak to us in our need. Thank you for the exact words I need to hear and meditate on each time my heart cries out for God to envelop and comfort me!
“To be able to say with Paul, “I live, no, it is not I, but Christ who lives in me.” “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.”” I once asked God to send just one more miracle to help me believe. A Voice answered me, saying, “If you want a miracle receive the Eucharist.” How simple, pure and profound is God’s message.
Thank you for giving me an even greater insight into the mind of God. We all need help and assistance every moment of our lives and Sacred Space is a great aid in focussing our thoughts to his Son. Keep up the good work. amdg tt
Thank you for Sacred Space. My first visit. Profound and beautiful prayer and reflection time. Will continue to visit Sacred Space.
This ten minute prayer and meditation is good for my soul especially in the office when things could sometimes be rough and tough. I’ve now placed this webpage as my home page so that upon turning on the PC, I could spend that time with the Lord. Thank you your dedicated work.
Life can be so difficult. Often I have difficulty understanding how to feel and appreciate the presence of God in my life. I want to understand how to connect, how to serve better… I thank you for the opportunity to connect, and I pray for the ability to better understand.
This site has given me a place to go in my spirit for renewal and refreshment in my Faith. Thank you very much for making this site available to everyone here on the internet. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Gee, what a simple concept? You’ve made it so easy to hear! God bless all of the Jesuits of Ireland!
Thank you so much for Sacred Space. It is such a precious gift and I am deeply grateful.
A Lutheran pastor gave me this website and said he starts each day with it because there is nothing better. I am Catholic and I agree. Thank you for this beautiful gift. I want more people to know about it. The part I love most is when I am advised just to tell God how I am feeling, like He is right here with me. That has always been such a difficult concept for me. I have tried it and it always makes me cry to think that I am really talking to a friend. Thank you and bless all of you.
Thank you for giving such a wonderful prayer group. I am praying for the men and women on our prayer list and hope others will keep them in their prayers also. Please keep me in your prayers. Thank God for such a wonderful site. May you prosper and grow as a flower blooms in spring.
What a wonderful inspirational site. To be able to break off from work and reflect is such a gift. Thank you
Thank you for this Sacred Space. It’s been my homepage for a while and I decided to actually click on the prayers and use them more often :) instead of passing by without taking a moment of silence before I use my computer. May God give us inner strength through his Holy Spirit to use the Internet wisely and become joyful instruments of his peace, truth and love.
Thank you, God, for scooping me up out of the darkness. I love you and need you.
Thank you so much for this opportunity to be still in front of the Lord. Christ is risen!
How wonderful that you offer this site. Just found it today (April 21) after my parish priest mentioned it to me last night. God Bless and see you tomorrow!
How very much I agree with the person who commented (on 19th April) that it is possible to become to dominated by the Internet.
I belonged to a cooking Forum and have found it very addictive, as was the Mahjong Solitaire!!
In his Easter letter, Father Laurence Freeman of the World Community for Christian Meditation said this
“The work of calming the mind (‘set your troubled hearts at rest’ as Jesus said) can arouse strong resistance in anyone anywhere. The noisier the mind and the more imbalance and disharmony it causes, the more diffi cult it is to take the initial step just to sit and stay still. There’s always an excuse not to, something else that needs to be done or read, or watched or listened to.
The seeds of the eight principal faults identified and analysed by the desert monks are always there. They can be germinated by daily activities, work, meetings, relationships and accidents. Our imagination, fantasy, addictive patterns or the shifting forces of our unconscious minds can equally
activate them. Even the ‘ideal’ conditions for meditation can arouse these forces and lock us into mental states that make the work of silence seem impossible – look at any monastery”
I am ashamed of how much “noise” there is in my life.
I have deleted the Internet sites from my ‘favourites’ and truly wish to give time and space to inner silence. Perhaps, as members of the Christian Community, you would give me a little of your time to pray for inner strength for me? I would be so grateful.
This site, which I come to every morning, is a wonderful encouragement.
Happy Easter Season to you all.
I have come to sacred space since its inception… and have invariably come out refreshed with a sense of peace which the world cannot give, a distinct fruit of the Holy Spirit. Thank you all and may the Good Lord bless you bountifully in all ways in the coming years. Namaste/amdg!
Thank you very much.
It came to me today that Jesus still says to US ‘put your hand into My wounds’, and we see the wounds of Christ everywhere around us, we will only find him in the wounds of His people now. So, when I do not see Jesus, I can just go to those many folk who are suffering in so many different ways now, and there He will be.
Many thanks for this remarkable website which has been a great comfort and support. I have been struggling with stress at work and at home-my wife is severely disabled due to a tumour. Previously the stress has resulted in inappropriate internet use-not pornography but “glamour” sites. Now I feel that Jesus is Lord of my internet use and a growing sense of his peace and his presence. I would recommend making this site your homepage. I believe I have renewed my relationship with God – which I did not believe could happen online.
Thank you for your insights into the Easter message.
A simple thank you! The verses and messages selected for each day, are used by the Lord to speak so deeply in to my heart. Keep up your obedience to our Lord, he is using the work you are doing. God Bless!
Thank You
I am a (non-fundamentalist) Jewish Christian. Sacred Space helps me pray when I am disconnected and distressed. Through the readings Jesus becomes real to me again and I open to Him. I feel fortunate to be part of this online prayer community.
Thank you for doing Sacred Space. I enjoy coming to this site to do the daily readings from mass. It brings me peace as I strive to grow closer to God.
I have used Sacred Space as a “launching pad” for prayer for a couple of years now. I had been hoping to find a “mentor” to help me along in my walk with Jesus, and I believe that prayer has been answered in the person of the writer/s of this guide. So often the comments have been “just what I needed”. I have appreciated the prayer guide for a long time, but really wish to thank you for your “something to think about this week” comment – truth so well expressed! The Lord bless you – each one who makes this site “happen”.
Easter Sunday’s Church Bulletin in our “Reflections from the Pastor”, quoted Sacred Space, and led me to you. Thank God for both our good Pastor and Sacred Space! Now I need to help spread the Good News!
Am on maternity leave at the moment, and with a young baby it’s not always easy to get out to mass…or some days even to find the quiet to pray,.. right now though my baby is asleep – long enough for me to find my ‘sacred space’ within my home. This is wonderful – and keeps me sane….
thank you and God bless you all this Easter
The readings and lessons put my mind at ease. I have many tasks to accomplish and spend much of my life running errands and working. Life seems so difficult and pointless. Yet, the prayers and scriptures envelop me with a sense of relaxation, of well-being, and my problems melt away.
Sacred Space has helped me find my way back to the catholic faith that I abandoned years back in an attempt to trial other faiths but realised that none other gave me the peace and quiet. I feel at peace and for the 3 months that I have regularly, almost daily, visited your prayer facility, I have found peace and I feel that I’m continually drawing back to God through prayer and my desire for His presence in my life has increased. Thank you for changing my life in this way. My the Lord sustain this good piece of work that you are doing for many people like me. Thank you.
Lent 09 with Sacred Space, Time away when we just can’t get away. Time to regroup and know I am not alone. Thank you
Whenever I visit Sacred Space it brings me moments of peace in my day. This is something that I long for.
I pray on Sacred Space daily. It is a great comfort to me, and in my hours of need, it has been a great help to me. Through Sacred Space, I was able to recognize an absolute miracle that God performed in my life and in my friend’s life.
This is my very first visit and I am pleased to have found it. We are on holiday and while searching online for location and time of the local Easter Sunday service, I came upon (was led to) the sacred space site. Thank you for this wonderful facility.
Thank you for this extra resource. Though I just attended mass, this site was a great way for me to meditate on what I just experienced at mass.
This is the day I foud Sacred Space – and I sure: not the last time I’m visiting here. Kenyan Way to the cross was wonderful.
I’m home again.. a few years ago I visited sacred Space every day and then the world caught me up and I forgot to take the time.. yesterday at the request of a friend who couldn’t find the quiet space in her life your site came into my mind. I said” try it” to her, and of course I needed to revisit again to make sure I remembered how valuable it was to me at that time, and I am so glad I did. I think God was saying to me YOU need to be in this sacred space in your life too.. and I am home again.
Thank you for your inspiring invitation to pray. I do it as much as possible. Thank you for the work and the life of prayer behind what is published.
Thank you so much for this website! I visit it everyday and it never fails to give me inspiration as i move on during the day.
May God bless you abundantly for the good works you are doing!!!
I use Sacred Space along with other readings to fill my soul with the good news, sacred space makes it so complete. I pray for all involve to make this happen, I also share this on Face Book, it is another way of reaching out to somebody in need of prayer. Thank You [Be a fan on Facebook]
I have found Sacred Space a place for peace practically daily and I have done some of the retreats. I did this year’s Lent retreat and this has helped me to have the day with our Lord. At the end it has helped me to centre my self as well as find a way through the daily problems. I look forward to my almost daily log-on to Sacred Space. Thank you.
I thank a friend who introduced me to this site which I visited for the first time today. Thank you very much for the “inspiration” part which touched me to tears because I relate to Peter. At one stage in my spiritual walk I was “floating/gloating” that I am where I want to be and nothing would move me. At present, I just love doing what my mind dictates – I spend time at the computer watching movies, giving in to whatever whim I have. The bold confident me is nowhere, I am faced with the true weak me. But, thank you for reminding me that God is constant, faithful, knows my weaknesses and waiting for me with open arms. What an awakening, a blessing for me before Lent 2009 ends. Praise be to God!
Thank you for sending the reminder email this morning (Latest Space newsletter). I did last year’s retreat whilst i ‘watched til midnight’ and i hope to do the same this year.
Thank you for your Lent book. My vital reading for Lent each year and so much appreciated. I carry it with me always. Thank you.
Thanks for the simplicity and challenge of your readings. I have been working with seven women who have been using your Lenten book as a guide to personal retreat these six weeks, and it has been both humbling and exhilarating to hear about the spiritual insights this has prompted. We plan to continue this discipline for the remainder of the year, but meeting as a group on a monthly basis rather than individual meetings weekly. I highly recommend using this resource to set aside time for a “Busy Person’s Retreat” at other churches. We will come to Easter with so much more soil tilled up in our souls because of the ministry of Sacred Space. Thank you!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for making me feel close to Jesus, like He still cares about me. I felt so comfortable and like God had guided those very words for me. I felt clean like a child. Thank you.
I am very grateful for inviting me to your site. Thank you very much. The prayers have given me so much hope in my trying times.
Our small Catholic college has just re-designed our website including hyper links to Sacred Space and Pray As You Go. It is a joy to be able to offer students the opportunity to access Sacred Space as part of their inner journey as they go through what are often the turbulent straights of late adolescence.
Many thanks to all the Jesuits who compile these sites: for the love and all the thought you put in. It must be a labour of love to keep sites this well updated. Have a peaceful and joyful Easter.
I’m very happy to find your web-site. This is what I was looking my whole life, the way you show me how to speak with God, how feel his presence, the way to touch him spiritually. You made feel like he was at my side, or in front of me, speaking like good friend, feeling his love in each word. Oh GOD you are always in my mind.
I found this site several years ago while going through a difficult time. It wasn’t “by accident”, as I feel I was led here to help me. When my counselor, who is a person of great Faith, surprised me by mentioning a phrase from one of your daily readings which had also stayed in my mind, I knew for sure this was a powerful site. I have been visiting it ever since. It gives me comfort and hope to see so many from so many countries desiring prayer. Thank you for this site.
It is incredible the way how this site helps us approach Jesus through small moments of prayer. I suggest the following exercise: Pray in your office through Sacred Space; then go to your church and kindly listen to the gospel. You will be surprised at the messages that Jesus offer us! God bless you all!
First, I share the thoughts of all who have written before me, thanking the Jesuits of Ireland for establishing and maintaining this site. I was formed at a Jesuit college, and the loving and patient influence and inspiration of those fine men is with me every day, if I only remember to recognize and respond to it. As importantly, I wish to thank those whose comments appear in this forum. Many of you have shared feelings that I also have, a continuing reminder that people around the world really are brothers and sisters; all we need to do to bring about a more peaceful world is to be mindful of it. Peace and joy in this season to all of us.
After listening to a lecture last week from Fr. Lawrence Freeman on how to meditate, I find Sacred Space helps me to prepare in the early morning before the silence of the day disappears. Knowing people all over the world also find comfort in this website is something else to ponder on.
Pax et caritas vobiscum, nunc et semper.
Thank you for being on the web. I am trying to read the Bible passages every day through Lent – but thanks to this site – I will try to do the readings all year. It makes me thankful to be able to start my day in prayer and helps me throughout the day to keep myself together. Have a Blessed Easter.
Great initiative! Thank you for the opportunity to be in the presence of our Lord, and stop the day at least ten minutes. I will pray for you to continue with this adventure of Love. THANK YOU! God Bless you all.
I have used your prayer site for many years and find it a great inspiration. It was recommended to me by a friend and I have suggested it to many others – who have appreciated it.
Thank you for all the prayerful dffort your team puts into it.
Wonderfully inspirational. Enlightened and at the same time firmly rooted in God’s Eternal Word. You are a spiritual blessing. Thank you.
Many thanks for your work. You always remind me that ultimately I must elect to follow the Gospel message because I have been given the freedom to make the decision. It places the responsibility where it belongs; it centers me, if you will. You also “hit the right spot” more often than not with your comment. This morning, for example, I felt very much at peace after meditating on the theme that Jesus can and will forgive me. Finally, asking me to dialogue with Jesus is a fantastic way to help me renew my daily relationship with Him, and through Him, with our God. Take care
I have been a regular visitor to Sacred Space. I find solace here whenever I feel alone and lost. Later when I became more active in the church I found the prayers and reflections a great help in my search for a deeper understanding of my faith. More power and God bless to all.
Once again, Thanks for the Sacred Space on this otherwise Cosmic WWW. To find solace here is second to none, as stress patterns deepen, my heart cries out for relief. As an infidel by some standards, the strength of my Baptism grows with time. This space and my Jesuit Brothers mend the weak, strengthen the downtrodden and ease the pain of increasing stress in the US heartland. Stay well, as shall I, Lord willing. Spread the Love…
Thank You for this great website. I discovered it three days ago and used it every morning since then. The German version is very good and authentic (not like a bad translation). Thank You. God bless you.
This is truly a wonderful ministry. It helps me to learn how to pray. I especially appreciate the inspiration you provide after the scripture reading. Sometimes the scripture is pretty hard to understand (like today’s) but the inspiration gets right to the point.
Thank you so very much!
Thank you for creating and holding this space.
A million thanks for this wonderful website – I know I can always enter it and reading the daily prayer has helped me on many difficult days, and given me solace and peace. It is a strange thing to pray looking at a computer, and I am astonished every time it works. with warmest regards
I found this site unexpectedly and it is a great blessing and inspiration. As someone who has been suffering from anxiety from the past year and a half, this site has brought me calm and strength. God Bless to all and Thank you for maintaining this site.
Thank you so much for the thoughtful writings for today. I will visit again and make this a part of my prayer time with Jesus. Giving hope and words of comfort to a world in such pain is truly God’s work.
I discovered the Sacred Space from my Boss and this is really great! I can now spend solemn moments in prayers while at work. It gives great feeling having to offer to the LORD my work schedule everyday, that whatever you do in office, youre doing it for Him. I also find in particular and of great help the Way of the Cross pages to be very very good. The audio is perfect too. Way of the Cross in the office? – YES, with Sacred Space! God Bless!
I was feeling heavy hearted and God opened up this wonderful web site to me. Thank you
I just want to thank you for this quiet corner of the web. We spend so much time these days on our computers to connect with others for work and pray, it’s nice you help us connect with the only thing that truly matters…God. Thank You!
Thank you so much for your commentaries. They are a real inspiration and help to understanding the Scriptures. May God continue to bless your work.
Thank you for your openess to share intimacy. Slowing down and reading the words published grow something beautiful from the inside out. I pray blessings upon all of you from that place of beauty growing inside of me.
THANK YOU for such a wonderful resource. It gets my day started on the right foot when I don’t make time to read my Bible. Keep up the good work and God bless!
Thank you so much for your help. God is Great.
Thank you so much for Sacred Space! I have already recommended it to many people, because it really helps us to be in touch with God in this world.
Thank you so much for creating this site. I’ve visited several times over the past few years and it’s helped to bolster my faith and get me through some very very difficult times when I thought I wouldn’t make it another day. It gives me a positive, sensible perspective on the life. I hope it helps many others in way it helps me.
Thank you for a few moments’ space. The format for the daily prayers pushes back against skimming in a hurry and made it easy to relax into the Sacred Space with God. (A friend on facebook posted a link and I took the opportunity.)
It was a year ago now since I discovered Sacred space together with some other websites. My heartfelt thanks to this wonderful website Sacred Space. I read and pray with you every day between 6 and 7 in the evening. It gives me the opportunity to spend time in prayer, and to appreciate what the Lord has done for me. Thank you for the wonderful work. Thank you again for sacred space it helps me meet Jesus in silence. May God Bless you and keep his hands on you all.
The simplicity of your prayers overwhelm my soul with comfort daily. Thanks for breaking bread with the world every day.
Greetings from Spain. This is a wonderful initiative. It helps me every day to find in the Word of God what we need to spend the whole day in his presence. Thank you
A friend recommended Sacred Space as a refuge during busy days at work, as something to use during my lunch break. I have lost my way and am struggling to get back on the narrow path; at the moment life’s distractions and temptations have pulled me away. I hope using Sacred Space will be a small step back onto the right path, and a focus during my day. Thank you for the meditations.
I found this site a while back through the Franciscan Monastery of St Clare and Sr Patricia felt it was a wonderful “Sacred Space” for people to visit ,meditate and hear God speak in the midst of our busy lives and work. I put it on the “back burner” for awhile but was again introduced to it at a retreat. I thank you for your dedication in bringing the scriptures to the masses in such an accessible and beautiful format. God’s word is challenging but a source of light and comfort shining forth from my computer. And your e cards are outstanding. Thank you ,thank you. Grace and peace to you all.
Dear Sacred Space, Thank you very much for this possibility. I can no more hear and my eyes get still down. So Information i can only have from special zoom PC. No radio, no mobile phone, no music, no reading normally, but Braille. I give your meditation to our group of deaf blind persons, they can’t see internet. We are very hungry for God’s word and so very happy to have it in your form of Sacred Space…and community, prayer together, also even in a “electronic way”! Most of us live in darkness (no more able to see) and stillness (no longer able to hear). Good bless you and your work.
Greetings from Florida! I discovered Sacred Space this week as part of a Lenten quest to incorporate the Scripture and prayer into my daily life in a more deliberate but accessible way. This site is wonderful, I try to start my day with the prayer, think about it throughout the day and then revisit it again in the evening, meditating on the passage and what God is trying to tell us. In just a few days, this has made a big difference in my life. Being the mother of a young son, these few moments of contemplation are a precious part of my day.
Thank you so much for making this site available to people all over the world, it’s very cool to think I’m connected to thousands of people praying the same prayers and to a group of dedicated Jesuits in Ireland who make all of this possible. I’ve visited your lovely country, spent a few days in Dublin and will definitely look into a retreat if I ever go back.
The way the prayers are split up into parts, so you can really think and meditate on the prayer is wonderful, then to add personal questions in is really helpful. Then to link scripture is of immense helpfulness. I needed a guide to my prayers and your site has provided an excellent one. I have much hard work to do over the coming months, if I continue to visit your site daily this time of trial will be lifted by your good selves and God.
On busy, hectic work days, I love to get my lunch, close my office door and log on to Sacred Space. It provides a wonderful respite for the weary soul.
Thank you. I get such a sense of peace from this site. I am visiting it every day in Lent.
You also helped me to touch others with the e-cards, which I never would have thought of or known how to send. God bless your work and thank you for feeding me with the Word of God.
Dear brothers, I have always found today’s passage a difficult one, but your Inspiration Point puts it in context that makes sense to me. Not only that, as an ‘evangelical non-conformist’ I could be tempted to despise the practices of the Catholics, though still loving you all deeply. But not now – ‘pray as you can, not as you can’t’ is the perfect answer to my concerns. Thank you for increasing the boundaries of my empathy and love.
This site was introduced by my former professor at a graduate school, a friend and “ninang”. I often visit this to start the day. I am not a Catholic but this site is helpful in spending some time with the LORD! Thank you! Blessings to you all!
I have only recently realised that Sacred Space is available to me here in Vietnam. I am so far from the familiar here I really appreciated being able to sit at my computer and pray knowing that there are many around the world doing the same thing. Thankyou.
Thank you so much for Sacred Space. I love the thought that I am part of a virtual “community” of faith. Praise God that the internet is being used for the good of His world. Blessings to all.
Thank you for this one of a kind electric retreat. May God bless you all. I am a Finnish citizen moved to Sweden few years back and you give me comfort, help and guidance of God via this marvellous site.
Thank you so much for this website. I’m just done with the Sacred Heart Novena and for a scared and probably scarred heart like me, it has penetrated my being. I also like the Lenten reflections. How I wish it also has an audio like the Novena.
My friends from other countries which I invited to join this via facebook were also grateful to have some prayers in their language. I hope that more will be blessed by your website. To the webmaster, more power and God bless!
I always start my day in the early hours, when my mind is at peace and the mobile phone is not ringing.
I found that time was missing something to allow me to move forward. I searched and found your site. The day now starts with a prayer, then my own words to God, then a coffee, now I am ready for the day.
Thank you for the tools to clear my thoughts and refresh my faith.
I have only recently found your space by surfing the net and it has helped me so much. I can easily get a bored feeling and long for something but don’t know what so I usually just put on a video or eat or sit in front of the TV and bomb out like a zombie. Sacred Space has really helped me to be spiritually refreshed and that is what I have needed all along. Thanks so much for making this available. God Bless You!
I was sorting through a pile of papers in my den when I came across a piece of paper with your link. What a wonderful site, l enjoy the readings/prayers and the fact that you have made web pages that are not filled with images to distract ones focus from the prayer. Pray for me that I will make it a habit to visit every day. Thank you and bless you for this ministry.
Thank you to whoever created this website and keeps it updated. It is a wonderful help for my prayer life.
After following the refleccions of Sacred Space I have been kind of absent from this beautiful place with only eventual coming backs. I am certainly glad you have kept this site so precious for a good daily spiritual life. It is still beautiful and I can see it is also greatly improved since I last attended here.
I have recommended Sacred Space to most of my friends and acquaintances for them to come and see how good is the Lord manifested through thee pages.
Thank God you’re here
Thank you for this oasis in the Internet desert. How blessed it is to go to your site rather than others I am tempted to! I visit daily and love your commentary on the Scriptures, which invariably point us back to prayer, which is as it should be. Visiting the Chapel of intentions day by day has increased my empathy and realisation of God’s mercy. Love and prayers
I am a frequent visitor to Sacred Space. Here I find strength, hope and courage which also gives me a sense of peace and a very calming effect. I am finding the way back to my faith and it feels wonderful! Sacred Space is helping me in every which way. For this, I am grateful.
Thank you for helping me in my personal relationship with Jesus. He is too wonderful for words and yet so accessible and ordinary. He always listens intently to me and answers instantly, as one in direct conversation! He is so understanding beyond our wildest dreams and I feel like I could willingly die for Jesus so that His Kingdom of Love, Justice and peace might be realised in the here and now.
Bless the work of Sacred Space. In a world where me, myself, I feature strongly you give us the guidance and voice of calm that says put Jesus first, others second and yourself last and by doing this you will know a joy and peace that has no limits.
Dear Sacred Space, thank you very much for this wonderful work. It really helps me to connect with Jesus every day. I thank you all, for making this site. I got introduced to this site around five years back, and since then I am a visitor of this site (not that frequent). Every time I come back to this site, I see something new and more relevant (reflections on fasting, recession). Now on, I will be a frequent visitor to sacred space and will refer it to all my friends and contacts. Thanks a ton again.
I want to thank you so much for this site! I feel that it is my link to God every day. Through the prayers and scriptures I find new strength and hope to continue our struggle in life. It makes me feel much closer to Jesus,like He is a friend to me.
Keep up the excellent work and may God bless you and this site and all the people who pray in this community.
I believe Sacred Space has been a huge part of how much my love for Jesus has grown. I only visit once in awhile, and every time I feel refreshed and renewed. I feel more in-tune with God and what He’s saying to me. I feel like I’m ready to go out and live today the best I can. Thank you so much.
Thank you Sacred Space for your service. Peace and God bless.
Early each morning when I walk, I like to take that time to reflect and give thanks to my heavenly Father for where I live and all I have. That’s not always easy with traffic and many other sounds intruding.
Recently being introduced to Sacred Space I found that I could read these lovely prayers without other sounds around me. I wasn’t distracted and I was in the peace and tranquility of my very own space. Now I can look forward to this special time each day. When reading these prayers I think often about the people who put them together, they’re saying the very things I need for that day. I’m very grateful for this opportunity. It’s wonderful to be able to access this website.
In the evening when I finsh my work at my computer it is so good to have this sacred room. It fills me with peace and it is easy to ask God for blessing of my day’s work. It is a holy way of living to account on God’s presence even at the computer. Let the Holy Spirit come into your heart!
I would like to thank all the people responsible for such a wonderful way of prayer they have devised. May God keep his hands on all of you and gives you the courage to continue with your mission.
This web site has been a Blessing to me.
I so appreciate this special site. It is a peaceful and prayerful place to go everyday. I have told many family and friends about it as well as shared the beautiful and powerful prayer and reflections of the Sacred Heart Novena. Thank you, thank you, thank you for spreading God’s love through this Space.
God bless!
Your Sacred Space website has added so much peace to my daily prayer routine. I look forward to taking time out of my day to sit quietly and use your website as a tool- to give thanks for all that the Lord has given to me and how I can give back to others. The format is great and you are truly helping so many people to take time to pray. What a wonderful service you are doing for so many people to help them find Jesus in a busy, hectic world. What could be better than a peaceful time to reflect and listen to what God is telling us. Thank you!
I recently have arrived as a user of this site. As a deeper exploration of my faith, I have been reading daily readings for the past two years, besides reading the bible from cover to cover for the first time in my life. In the past two months, also adding sacredspace.ie to this routine has added more of a thoughtful approach. Your site has helped me find a more personal connection with the gospels. I enjoy the site greatly, and also have purchased the 2009 prayerbook.
I am indebted to the Irish Jesuits for this great service you provide to the global Catholic community. I pray for your endeavors to be successful in opening more hearts to the word of the Lord.
I begin each day with a simple but meaningful conversation with God, and I would not be able to do this otherwise without Sacred Space. Thank you for all your hard work in assisting people like me on our spiritual journeys.
Peace and God bless.
What a wonderful site!!! I was referred to this a couple of days ago and in just the three days so far I can honestly say it is making this a more fruitful Lent for me than ever before. I love the format and the simplicity. You write powerful messages about love, sacrifce, redemption and God but without using langauge that requires a Ph.D to understand. I believe yours tyle of teaching here is very much akin to how Jesus would have taught. God Bless!
Sacred Space is amongst my ‘favourites’. Today Monday as I took it all in it was peaceful to be with the Lord. Amen
Thank you to all at Sacred Space for your daily gems for reflection and prayer which I have enjoyed on-line for some time now.
This lent I have purchased my first Sacred Space book for lent. It is a joy and a treasure.
Every morning I drive my children aged 11, 9 and 7 to school. For lent, the children are reading the Sacred Space book aloud every morning and chatting about what each days reflection might mean in the lives of all the family.
I was raised on a diet of evening rosary and I think this morning ritual is the 21st century equivalent that I intend to continue long after this Lenten season has ended.
We are only a few days into lent and the journey to school each morning has become a very special start to the day for all of us. My car has become a sacred space for 15 minutes every morning!
The book is very child friendly so far and as the days go by I see the children looking forward to deciphering the text in search of messages from Jesus to them. What a wonderful little gem of a book it is proving to be!
Thank you to all who work on Sacred Space! Beir bua agus beannacht!
Today’s reading saying we are a dwelling place for God, gives me courage. It gives me spiritual confidence so that I can face difficulties and offer more kindness and joy to others. Thank you Sacred Space for helping me stay close to God. Blessings to all involved.
Sacred Space is fabulous. I use it everday. I have recommended it to hindreds of people. Thanks in millions for your cyber service.
Blessings of Love and Light to you and this site. I found this site just recently and it was an answer to prayer. Thank you!
Ephesians 1:15 ‘For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.’ Love in Christ
I’m Mexican and feel happy and proud of having found you a couple of years ago. I’ve really enjoyed all the peace and meaningfullness of the prayer scheme you provide including the thoughts that you’ve delicately added in the inspirations supporting the gospel. The Ignatian spiritually has definetely renewed my life. I thank you for your time and love to keep this site updated. Congratulations on your anniversary!
I’ve just discovered this website and it’s really fantastic. I can see it’s balanced and caters to a wide audience. Thank you so much, i fully intend to use it more.
I think you guys are wonderful, absolutely wonderful! Thank you for being there, thank you for caring. The Irish Jesuits have touched and continue to touch my heart everyday of my life.
God bless and keep you always and forever! Your site has been a reliable source of serenity and reflection for me. Many friends I have recommended to you have found comfort and courage in Sacred Space meditations. God sees.
I am Spanish and live in Ireland. Since my first encounter with the Jesuits as a teenager in Spain, and subsequent encounters in Ireland I have always enjoyed the down to earth (or rather down to Jesus!) approach of the Ignatian spirituality.
Many thanks for giving me a fresh daily insight! It makes all the difference to my day to see it in the light of Jesus and feel in communion with his followers! A little daily insight into the peace of Christ. God bless you all!
Thank you to everybody involved in creating this wonderful resource, to help me journey further into God, to seek His presence, to join hands with other followers – from different denominations, from across the world in changing the way we live.
Congratulations on your 10th. Anniversary! Over the years praying through Sacred Space`s web site has provided me with a source of Reflection, Peace and Comfort. Many thanks.
Congratulations on 10 years of ministry and service to Catholic people worldwide. You provide manageable access to sacred scripture and a beautiful way to pray — Thank you and God Bless!
When I read that today was your 10-year anniversary I wanted to write to tell you it is an anniversary of sorts for me as well. On Ash Wednesday, 2007 I visited your website. I was struggling with an addiction to alcohol and feeling ashamed and unworthy. You message that day went something like this: “God hates to see you being pulled around by your nose by your weaknesses”. The image of being pulled in such a way combined with the thought of God feeling sorry for me, was catalyst enough for me to stop my destructive behavior and change for good. My life is immeasurable better. I thank God everyday but it occurred to me today that I never thanked you. Thank you.
The words and phrases that you use are right on. They are welcoming and encourage an open relationship with Jesus. You, at Sacred Space are truly led by the spirit and I pray that God’s will may be done in your lives and for the future of Sacred Space. I rarely hear such meaningful and relevant words from the pulpit and I feel that this site welcomes those from other faiths. You spread the truth and focus more on love than on laws. God Bless You All.
To all at Sacred Space.
Thank you for the wonderful work you do on this website. My visit to the site is a very important part of each day, as is meeting with all you wonderful souls across the world.
Long may this site continue to flourish.
God bless us all.
Congratulations on 10 years of service to all of us who like to work prayer into our work life.
Thank you for your wonderful site. Congratulations on ten years of giving personal inspiration to so many. Sacred Space has made my faith more REAL, strong, abiding and aided me in my practice of HIS presence. +
Your inspiration message help me every day, for I am weak. With the help of God, I can be strong for my family. Through prayer all things are possible
Congratulations on 10 years of Sacred Space today! Just think of all those for whom you have brought comfort, hope, and even salvation in that time! I know it has been a very important part of my day for most of that 10 years, and I imagine there are thousands out there who feel the same about it. God bless you all in your work!! When you tire (as we all do from time to time), take strength from God and remember that although you cannot see our faces and we don’t get to thank you in person, you have made a tremendous difference in many lives. Thank you on behalf of all those who go to your site each day.
Sacred Space is a wonderful place to visit for prayer – both at home and at work – every time God’s peace and presence fills my heart. Thank you all who make this possible with your efforts, prayers and thoughts. May God bless you all and fill your hearts with joy and encouragement and provide for all that is needed.
I have just found this site from the article in the paper today. What a lovely way to allow us to reflect and take time to pray for others and ourselves. I believe that everything we do in the day is a prayer and it is lovely to have this site to compliment this. Thank you so much.
Thank you to all who work on the content and the technology of Sacred Space. It is offering great blessings to many, and I am sure you will be blessed in return. “God works in wondrous ways his mercies to perform”. Thank you.
Congratulations to Sacred Space for ten years of amazing service to aching and seeking souls around the world! I love this site for its simplicity, its perspective and the sense of community it provides to all people around the world crossing barriers of every kind. God Bless each and everyone involved in maintaining this site, as well as those who make that little effort to get centred and connected through time spent with Sacred Space.
Happy 10th birthday Sacred Space! Thank you so much for this valuable resource. I have been using sacred space for a few years as my home page. I also find great pleasure and blessing from using sacred space most days as my devotion time. Even the photograph is part of the meditation. I appreciate the insights from ‘need inspiration,’ often quite other than where I am! I am pleased to refer others to sacred space too. A wonderful use of modern if technology. May you enjoy many more years of sacred mission – ‘vacare deo.’
Congratulations on ten years of great service, inspiration and support to many like me who look to Sacred Space for daily prayer. To all involved over the years, my heartfelt thanks for your care and dedication. It is so precious being able to share our common humanity and common divinity within God in such a global way. God bless.
I am so thankful for finding your space. Since I have found the site I have rarely missed one day of reading scripture. If I miss a day, I have to find time the next day to read the scripture I may have missed. Guess what else? I have been attending Sunday services again after being absent for seven years. This place has helped me through one of the toughest times in my life. I thank God for all of you who work so hard to give so many hope and understanding in God’s love for us. Congratulations on ten years of hope and faith for us all.
For several years I have felt the need to respond more generously to God’s love. I devote part of every day to prayer. I read and study daily scripture. I diligently attend Mass and regularly receive the Sacraments. I have become an ardent student of our faith. I volunteer in our parish. While all these activities strengthened my faith and no doubt brought me to the place I am now, something was missing. I had a yearning to be closer to God, but I didn’t know how! Then I realized that I was relying on my head instead of my heart. I realized that I needed to open my heart, listen with my heart and respond with my heart. But again, I didn’t know how. Then Sacred Space Site was recommended to me. Thanks to your website and the daily prayers I am learning HOW to truly open my heart and truly listen and respond with my heart.
I found Sacred Space only a few days ago. I’m doing the novena. I feel at peace when I pray with you, knowing that 1000′s must be praying with me. What a comfort it is. thank you for your sterling work. We need something like this to bring people together. Please keep it up. May God Bless you
Wow! I love it. This is my first to visit your site. May Our almighty Lord bless you always. God bless
My pastor sent this web site to me a few weeks ago. I have visited it several times since then. In my prayer time today I felt strongly led to enter the space again and I have to tell you, I was needing exactly what I encountered.
Thank you so very much! I cannot adequately express what this space means to me. The Scriptures and the prayers and all were exactly what I needed this morning. I needed to be reminded of Christ’s presence in my life in a tangible way. I am so thankful that God leads us where we need to go, especially when we are hurting and need a reminder of how in His grace and mercy He is always with us.
I rejoice with my “siblings in Christ” at the marvelous realization that Christ is Christ to all of us regardless of our denominational differences. In life, in death, in life beyond death, we are not alone. Thanks be to God!
Those who maintain this “Sacred Space” will be in my prayers as will all those who enter it with me on a daily basis.
Thank you so much! Sacred space is such a blessing. I am a Protestant and I rejoice in this opportunity to worship together with sisters and brothers in Christ, as one at heart, beyond the limits of our different denominations and Church structures.
It´s a quiet blessing. For us, working daily at our computers, the computer easily becomes a kind of “hostile environment” crowded with the griefs of the world, alarming news and all sorts of stress and bad impressions. Sacred Space offers an alternative to all that. It´s also good that the page so explicitly reminds us of the presence of our Saviour, ít´s too easy to forget his promise to be near us in everything.
Lutheran, Catholic, Orthodox, whatever, confessing Christians of all denominations need all possible encouragement in the faith in Jesus that we share. We are besieged by so many things in everyday life, we need the presence of Christ even in cyberspace. May God help you to continue your work in this site.
l always wants to do better when it comes to praying etc but never manage to quite achieve my aim because too often I let life get in the way. The daily scripture passages on the Sacred Space site, therefore, inspire me to try harder than I would do and in recent months I’ve been going to Mass during the week when possible. God bless you for your efforts.
Thank you so much for ‘Sacred Space”. It was a wonderful experience, I could feel the closeness of Jesus Christ. WOW! God Bless everyone at ‘Sacred Space”.
I have kept in touch with Sacred Space for a long time, it has taught me a lot is strengthening my faith and is supporting me on a long journey with a slow growing cancer; I see the Spirit working through it and am so glad the response to it continues to grow.
It is there 24hrs a day when things are difficult its there. THANK YOU
During a hectic and stressful workday, Sacred Space always manages to take me somewhere else and be aware of God’s presence again. Thank you so much!!
I often visit sacred space and am grateful,very grateful … Today I posted a prayer request for my sister’s well-being. She is very depressed . … Then i realize that as an act of gratitude to all who pray for us, I want to offer you my humble self-offering. Since I asked for your help, I want to offer my prayers also for all the intentions that appear on your list. I will join in spirit the sisters who will be praying for your intentions. I promise to spend at least 30 minutes every time i open the web on these intentions to read and send positive waves of peace and God’s blessings to all the afflicted ones on your list. Many thanks for allowing me to share this ministry. Those who wish to share with me this ministry, come…
Many thanks for the guided reflection. And especially for the inspiration message after the reading. Very short, concise but they always move me to accept the presence of the Lord. Thanks to the writers who lead us to pray…
thank u so much!! this place is truly unique. pax et bonum
I used to pray with Sacred Space very often, but have been away for a few years. Now, as I discern a vocation to ministry, I find that I am drawn back to your site. Thank you for being here for so many people all over the world. Blessings on your path.
Four years ago! I am still so glad my friend told me about Sacred Space. How is it that you keep on saying thing I’ve heard or discussed with someone during the day, or manage to touch that spot in my heart that needs to hear just that very thing that will bless or sooth it? It’s amazing, oh! That’s it, Amazing Grace. I love you guys.
I thank and praise the lord for all those people who made this sacred space, it is inspirational, helps me to pray and read the bible. I am deeply overwhelmed by this wonderful ministry and reaching the unreachable through this modern tech. od bless you, shouri, india
Dear Brothers, I hope that others open the “Need Inspiration?” portion of the daily prayers. I’ve let you know in the past of my admiration for your great insights but there is also nothing like your persistent and most welcome analysis of the dimensions and effects of prayers. It is often astonishing and unforgettable. I especially loved to read your deep understanding of Our Lord’s response to criticism of eating grain on the Sabbath, nothing escapes your appreciation. Thankfully, Michael
I have not missed a day since your name appeared in our church bulletin. I look forward to these few peaceful minutes in our very busy and troubled world, Just think if we all prayed for World Peace here at the same time – wouldn’t that be something? Have visited the home of our ancestors and love Ireland. Bless you for the work you do. And this is the first computer I have ever owned and it’s about time! So glad I found You. Blessings to all.
I find Sacred Space helps me talk to Jesus when prayer is difficult. I shut the door and meditate with the words… and peace envelops me for those few minutes.
I have visited the site for about 3 yrs, first coming across it by chance. I pray that God showers many blessings on you all!!! Thankyou.
Sacred Space has been my favorite place to pray for about two years, my dear friend Estela sent me your link by e-mail, that was a wonderful gift that I keep passing on to others. Keep on with your wonderful work! You spread the good news of love all around the world and you make me feel part of this loving community!
Greetings from Mexico, Cristina.
I’m really glad to find this website. It has everything I need to keep myself closer to God despite my busy schedule. In my previous jobs, I used to visit the chapel or the nearby church before I start my day at work. Unfortunately, in my present job, there isnt any chapel or church around. I missed my prayer time so much until I found this website which helps me to pray in my small work cubicle.
Thank you for this website. I access the site 1-2 times per week and every time, it gives me insight and strengthens me spiritually. I pray that you will be inspired to keep up your wonderful work.
Thank You very much for the peace and calm in the whole of my body and soul when I read your prayers.
May God bless you all. Many greetings from Marie in Sweden!!!
Thank you for the peace I’m beginning to find day by day.
Thank you for providing not just a Sacred Space but a safe place for me to go to when I feel troubled and anxious.
I have discovered your website through an article in one of our local newspapers about using the internet to communicate with God. Fr. Alan McGuickan, SJ, was being interviewed. Immediately, I was struck by it and immediately went on my PC to search. It is something really wonderful to start your day (and even throughout) with a wonderful prayer, lifting one’s heart up to God, in today’s hurry and lack of time, this is something really spiritual in which you can recollect yourself, just for a few minutes and think of the greatness of Our Lord and His ways of touching people’s hearts. If only the world would listen and turn to Him! He has given us so many things – just looking at Nature around us is enough for us to see God in his Magnificence. God is all Goodness, Mercy and Infinite Love. My heart cries out to Him when I see, read or hear about things going on around us, especially the young generation whose ears are deaf to His call. But God is Omnipotent, He is always ready to forgive and by prayer and through prayer we can help alleviate His sorrow to the sins of the world. His Blessed Mother is also there for us to turn to as She is our greatest intercession. She keeps His Hand whenever Our Dear Lord’s Heart is bleeding because of our sins.
God bless you for the spreading of God’s Word on the internet, and may He showers on all of you (and us too) His graces and blessings. Praise be the Lord.
My Sacred Space with you continues to grow daily, over the years since we have become spiritually connected, I have treasured the affinity that the writers so obviously have with Christ, the way, the truth and the light. But it is your insight, knowledge of the Bible, and of the people, places and customs that is so enlightening. Our parish has just published the first (of many we pray) magazine and Sacred Space, with pray-as-you-go info have pride of place for anyone wishing to deepen their faith and prayer life. God bless you all for your devotion to spreading the Word.
Deepest thanks to the wonderful Irish Jesuits who produce and maintain this site. My priest mentioned it at mass last weekend, Feb 8th and I have been a visitor ever since. I teach Christian Yoga in a Catholic and Presbyterian church here in Connecticut, and I have used the prayers from this site as Christian Meditations before and after the classes. Especially about God The Creator from Genesis and how we are called to be good stewards of our earth and its creatures. This site will be invaluable to me for my classes in putting my students (all ages from 25 to 70) in deeper touch with our faith. Thank you for making it available…in a time when so much negative and vulgarity surrounds us this site is an oasis for the soul…May God continue to bless you and the work that you do.
Thank you for Sacred Space – it makes a big difference to my working day. Being able to take a few minutes to pray, meditate briefly and recharge my batteries is vital. God bless you for your ministry.
This morning as I pray with Sacred space I take to my prayer these burnt out areas which surround me, and the people who have suffered so much. Where is God? I have an image of Jesus gathering all the burnt ones with gentleness and compassion, but the mystery remains strong and painful in my soul. i get consolation from the words “the Spirit hovered over the darkness” from that darkness came all of creation. Our God hovers now and will restore the beauty and life so terribly destroyed.
Thank you for providing us all with an opportunity to stop and appreciate our Lord on a daily basis. This website truly is a blessing!
Thank you so very much for this site. It is truly a blessing and a gift from the Holy Spirit. I find it so very hard to “come to the quiet” but Sacred Space is one place where the quiet comes to me. May God continue to bless you with the gift of inspiration and fill you with His choicest gifts.
The Sacred Space is exactly that for me – a sacred space where I can quietly remove myself from the push and pull of my daily life and take a moment to talk to my friend about the push and pull of my life. Deo gratias.
Regarding your theme for the last week (starting “As a therapist”) I read that several times to get the true sense of it. Rightly or wrongly I think I experience the same feelings because as a parent and grandparent I believe in “not stressing the God factor”. My whole life is governed by Christian principles and I hope that my children and grandchildren will some day know this through the love, help and commitment that I give to them. Conversely although none of my children attend Mass (I do have the blessings of the parents to take my grandchildren to Mass) I believe that they are all driven by love and integrity and that Holy Spirit is working in them in His own inimitable way.
I get great consolation from Sacred Space and when I press the “need inspiration” it always puts me thinking in a manner that is quite unexpected. Thanks for all the hard work. I also love the photographs and the messages that they evoke.
It’s a great way to start my day with prayers and sacred space is my daily source of inspiring prayers. Since I discovered your site a few months ago. I make it a point not to skip a single day to view and pray from your site. Anyways Thank you and More blessings to sacred space. And I will do my best to spread your wonderful site to all my friends and to everyone.
I have started using Sacred Space again. It gives great support but offers support as well. I find myself thinking of parts of each day’s prayers throughout the rest of the day. This week I have found myself dwelling on the love God gives us all the time. I find the section which offers me time to talk with Jesus very hard. It will sound odd, but I cannot start . I keep praying.
I have the Sacred Space icon on my desktop. It is amazing the sense of peace that comes over me when I click and come into this Holy Place. Even with the office sounds around me, there is a hush and a comfort!
Thank you for producing such a generous and relevant site. I know that I find it a wonderful addition to my day and always feel energised, humbled and proud to spend 15 minutes reflecting whilst viewing the daily prayers and teachings. I have only discovered the site on the advice of some local sisters who are currently preparing me for confirmation, and I find this site to be of great benefit.
I would just like to say thank you very much for your wonderful prayersite which I try to use everyday and which has become a really important, beautiful part of the day. God bless all of you, with love Judith
Thank you so much for this beautiful prayer website. As a high-schooler, I’m always stressed out and this website gives me structured prayer time every day, and is like the calm in the storm for me. All I can say is thank you so much!
4:00am and I typed prayer in Google, and here you are. A pure blessing. I would never have know about you. I must add this to our newsletter at St. Joe’s church, unless it’s on there already, I shall check. Thanks for your work in this ministry.
Thank You for Sacred Space, I was introduced to it by a priest as a way of relieving dreadful stress and in times of great difficulty. However, I am very forgetful and tend to forget to go on to this site before I go to work. I’m good at praying for others, but sadly, not for myself.
A very bright Sunday to everyone! When i woke up this morning, I immediately sit in front
of my computer and try to browse a site for any reading reflections of the Gospel. As I go through the different links, one I kinda noticed was this site of yours. I found it very amazing while browsing the pages. There I found the prayer reflection. I do like the way it was created, congratulations to the brilliant mind of coming up with it. Thank you so much! It adds beauty to my Sunday morning prayer-reflection. You have touched one life today with the work of art that God has given to you guys on sacredpace! God bless us all!
Thank you for the wonderful work, care, guidance and openess that you put into this prayer site. It always feels wholesome, and it feels like a way that the triune God can come and abide in me and I in Him. Blessings to all of your community.
I recently discovered Sacred Space. Now, each morning when I arrive at the office, I spend a few moments reflecting on the morning prayer. It puts me in the frame of mind to be grateful, to be kind, and to keep hope through these difficult times. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the ministry of Sacred Space. I find that when I pray with Sacred Space, I experience Jesus’ closeness and love. I used to have a Jesuit spiritual director. Praying with Sacred Space is like having a virtual Jesuit spiritual director. God bless your ministry. And thank you for making it your work to help others with their relationship with Jesus and with hearing the Word.
I’ve been visiting Sacred Space on and off for about 8 years now. I’m so glad I “re-discovered” it, thanks to your email just before Advent began. It’s been a blessing, and I’ve passed on the web address to some who are younger in the Lord than I am and they appreciate it very much. But I’m writing to thank you for providing Living Space, which I’ve only just discovered in the past month. The commentary about the Kingdom of Heaven for today’s reading from Mark 1 – about the beginning of Jesus’ ministry – was brilliant and it just so happens that just before I came on the site to pray, I was trying to explain the Kingdom in an evangelistic letter to my son who is “pre-Christian” at the moment. What I read here will help me very much. Thank you so much for the work and dedication you put into this site. It certainly is anointed!
It is always a special time of day when I access your “Sacred Space”. How wonderful it is to pray and know that I am also praying with so many people around the world.
I don’t know if you get much or little feedback, so I don’t know whether my opinion is important for you. What I want to tell you is just how valuable your lines are for me!! There have been months and more when I haven’t found time or energy to open your page, but there are others, especially long chilly winter nights like tonight with people being bombed and dying in Palestine and elsewhere, and my daughter too far away without letting me know if she’s okay, when I am so happy to have this space to turn to! I know a “real” Christian should be independent enough to take her bible and get along with it, but your help is unpayable and I want to thank you for it!!
First off: I desire to send my own “Blessings” to all who read this, and may my hope for your health, happiness and safety be a priority. It is such a warm feeling to tune in and read the daily writings, while knowing there are so many others who worship Christ (as I do). May Christ’s blessings follow “All” of you wherever you go. Keep up caring about Jesus, and He too; will remember you and “us all” in things done, (albeit for others especially). May we all get more Graces and Stronger Faith, as we “fight the good fight” as St. Paul says. Thank you for this site.
Thank you again for sacred space it helps me see what Jesus really wants from me. His love keeps me going in every part of my life and when I find things too difficult he is there guiding me like a kind and loving and sometimes stern father. I wish you a peaceful and joyful new year and please continue as I know the holy spirit is with you and helping you with every word.
The Lord led me to this website on a day that I was feeling horribly alone and as though He was no where to be found. Although we doubt, He always gives us exactly what we need. This site makes it so easy to begin each day in His Word, to hear Him, to know Him and to be transformed by Him. I am struck by the simplicity of the site – It reflects the truth of God’s love and availability to us. He is God, His Word is true, He makes Himself and His love known to us through the scriptures. It is that simple. No bells and whistles, no flash and hype. Simply Christ. May the Lord continue to bless you and everyone who visits this Sacred Space.
Thank you for the message that I’m not alone and other people are praying with me. Thank you for being there.
I “found’ Sacred Space a couple of years ago, and now enter nearly every day. My wife and I visited Ireland last September, and being in your beautiful, gentle country somehow made (and makes) your site more personal. Along with your book, Sacred Space has become a fundamental component of our praying.
This is a great site and you should be praised for your efforts in helping to bring people closer to God for the salvation of their soul. God bless.
A blessed and Happy New Year. I am so fortunate to have discovered Sacred Space, and I wish to tell you of the great and beautiful thing that you do. I so love the Hail Mary song. My day is only complete when I meditate with Sacred Space. God bless you for all your endeavours.
I just want to thank you for the Advent Retreat. Four of us, all members of the Christian Life Community, spent a weekend at a local convent and used the Retreat for prayer and sharing. We all found it very helpful and at least two of us were still praying it during the week following. Thank you
With every additional religion that I explore I find some gems of wisdom and beauty, some touchstones to the transcendent that I try to find a place for in my understanding of things. This journey began with acceptance of Jesus as bridge to God and I am not willing to let go of that. Yet, there are other bridges as well in the forms of people, places, religions, feelings and the natural world. Most recently, I am enamoured with the wisdom of those who follow the Tao. When I combined my long-standing love of Christ with my recent love of the Tao into the phrase, The Tao of Christ, and asked the Internet about it, there you were! Thank you for your expansive and encompassing worldview of the life and sources of the Spirit.
This is a great site and you should be praised for your efforts in helping to bring people closer to God for the salvation of their souls. God bless.
Thank you for this blessing each day that is introduced by such beautiful, sensitive photographs. They nurture my soul as do your guidance and words. You must have times of challenge and fatigue yourselves and I pray for God’s renewing grace for you all.
I started praying with Sacred Space about 8 years ago. Back then I used feel stressed and anxious on a fairly regular basis but gradually with the help of prayer online I have become a much more calm, peaceful and content person. This is a wonderfully thoughtful way to pray and at the end of each prayer session I feel the benefit of this peaceful time with the Lord. My thanks to all those who provide this wonderful service.
This beautiful site helped rekindle a love for God that was absent for a long period. The words of wisdom along with scripture really helped in connecting with what life really is about. Love God and Love thy neighbor. To know, love and serve the Lord, that’s why were all here, love, God bless you all.
I am an Anglican Priest in charge of a congregation in Mexico. I use Sacred Space regularly and also use it before Vestry meetings. I publish the link weekly for my parishioners to use also. I thank you for this space in which so many people can come together and reflect on the Word of God and it’s application in their lives. Our prayers for You…
Thank you so much for the ministry of Sacred Space. I find that when I pray with Sacred Space, I experience Jesus’ closeness and love. I used to have a Jesuit spiritual director. Praying with Sacred Space is like having a virtual Jesuit spiritual director. God bless your ministry. And thank you for making it your work to help others with their relationship with Jesus and with hearing the Word.
I’ve been visiting Sacred Space on and off for about 8 years now. I’m so glad I “re-discovered” it, thanks to your email just before Advent began. It’s been a blessing, and I’ve passed on the web address to some who are younger in the Lord than I am and they appreciate it very much. But I’m writing to thank you for providing Living Space, which I’ve only just discovered in the past month. The commentary about the Kingdom of Heaven for today’s reading from Mark 1 – about the beginning of Jesus’ ministry – was brilliant and it just so happens that just before I came on the site to pray, I was trying to explain the Kingdom in an evangelistic letter to my son who is “pre-Christian” at the moment. What I read here will help me very much. Thank you so much for the work and dedication you put into this site. It certainly is anointed!
We wish all of you a Happy, Peaceful and Successful New Year. Thanks so much for all the good work you have been doing and our prayers and good wishes are with you.
Thank you Lord. Let nothing be a stumbling block to knowing your love for me, and let me be more humble in any circumstance.
This is wonderful site. It starts me off for the day. I’m not a Catholic (I’m an Anglican). but I don’t think there is any other site like this and I find it so helpful.
Thank you so much for this beautiful website. Jesus spoke to me today in the readings and the reflections. I am a fallen away Catholic and planning to change that today by coming clean to my faults and given forgiveness so I can move on. It calmed my fears to read the readings and devotions. Thank you.
I don’t know if you get much or little feedback, so I don’t know whether my opinion is important for you. What I want to tell you is just how valuable your lines are for me!! There have been months and more when I haven’t found time or energy to open your page, but there are others, especially long chilly winter nights like tonight with people being bombed and dying in Palestine and elsewhere, and my daughter too far away without letting me know if she’s okay, when I am so happy to have this space to turn to! I know a “real” Christian should be independent enough to take her bible and get along with it, but your help is unpayable and I want to thank you for it!!
I am so glad to have discovered your wonderful website. When I start my morning with the prayers and meditations on Sacred Space it helps to keep me aware of the presence of God throughout the ensuing day. Your work is a blessing for all who are touched by it, and I am most grateful to be among that number.
As a widow with 2 young children, now aged 7 & 11, I have difficulty finding the opportunity to pray regularly. Sacred Space is a life line. I am able to pray the daily readings of the church, and know that I am not alone. Thank you for this gift.
I “found’ Sacred Space a couple of years ago, and now enter nearly every day. My wife and I visited Ireland last September, and being in your beautiful, gentle country somehow made (and makes) your site more personal. Along with your book, Sacred Space has become a fundamental component of our praying.
Thank you for the message that I’m not alone and other people are praying with me. Thank you for being there.
First off: I desire to send my own “Blessings” to all who read this, and may my hope for your health, happiness and safety be a priority. It is such a warm feeling to tune in and read the daily writings, while knowing there are so many others who worship Christ (as I do). May Christ’s blessings follow “All” of you wherever you go. Keep up caring about Jesus, and He too; will remember you and “us all” in things done, (albeit for others especially). May we all get more Graces and Stronger Faith, as we “fight the good fight” as St. Paul says. Thank you for this site.
Thank you again for sacred space it helps me see what Jesus really wants from me. His love keeps me going in every part of my life and when I find things too difficult he is there guiding me like a kind and loving and sometimes stern father. I wish you a peaceful and joyful new year and please continue as I know the holy spirit is with you and helping you with every word.
It is always a special time of day when I access your “Sacred Space”. How wonderful it is to pray and know that I am also praying with so many people around the world.
Thank you for the wonderful work, care, guidance and openess that you put into this prayer site. It always feels wholesome, and it feels like a way that the triune God can come and abide in me and I in Him. Blessings to all of your community.
My heartfelt thanks to this wonderful website. God is so awesome that he has made it possible for us to communicate using Sacred Space. So beautiful to witness the work of the Holy Spirit through Sacred Space, giving us the opportunity to spend time in prayer, and to appreciate what the Lord has done for his children. May God continue to shower his mighty blessings on this beautiful website as it brings in more and more of his children in Union with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Thank You Sacred Space and may God bless all who use this wonderful space.
The Lord led me to this website on a day that I was feeling horribly alone and as though He was no where to be found. Although we doubt, He always gives us exactly what we need. This site makes it so easy to begin each day in His Word, to hear Him, to know Him and to be transformed by Him. I am struck by the simplicity of the site – It reflects the truth of God’s love and availability to us. He is God, His Word is true, He makes Himself and His love known to us through the scriptures. It is that simple. No bells and whistles, no flash and hype. Simply Christ. May the Lord continue to bless you and everyone who visits this Sacred Space.
With all of the worries of our daily lives and the temptations of the internet always a click away, a computer is an unusual place to find solace, but that is exactly what Sacred Space provides for me. Oftentimes when I pray on my own, I really don’t feel anything. Perhaps that is because I am too easily distracted and I don’t really set aside the time to reflect on my relationship with God on a daily basis. Sacred Space is helping me change that. I sincerely feel that I am in Christ’s presence when I am reflecting on the pages of Sacred Space. I can’t put my finger on it, but there is a definite understanding that God is speaking to me.
A blessed and Happy New Year. I am so fortunate to have discovered Sacred Space, and I wish to tell you of the great and beautiful thing that you do. I so love the Hail Mary song. My day is only complete when I meditate with Sacred Space. God bless you for all your endeavours.
I only found Sacred Space a couple of weeks ago. I was at the depths of despair in my life because of a lot of things that had happened in my family; it was like the old saying – it was “the straw that broke the camel’s back”. I couldn’t pray or go to Mass. God has helped me through so many difficulties in my life. This time I found it so hard to reach out to him. I am so happy to have found this website. I started the Novena and now today I have been to Mass for the first time in years. I felt really happy at Mass; next week I am taking my grand daughter who is my Godchild. Thank you, God, for finding my way to this website. God bless all of you who maintain this site. I log on every morning before I go to work to give me strength and guidance for the day.
It was a long time since I last entered your page. I have anxiety problems and a few weeks ago some circumstances made me feel really bad, and didn’t know what to do. I think it was God´s Providence that reminded me of your page, I just needed one prayer to get back to calm. It was wonderful telling Jesus everything that was happening to me, and feeling Him beside me; better than any pill my doctor gives me. Thanks a lot.