The decision by one of the country’s main train operators to reduce services on the west coast mainline offers the latest evidence of deep malaise in the rail industry. Citing staff shortages and “the current industrial relations climate”, Avanti West Coast has put an emergency timetable in place, severely restricting the number of inter-city trains serving the north-west and Scotland. Aslef train drivers went on strike on Saturday. This week, the RMT union will resume its strike action over job security, pay and conditions, as the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, seeks to impose cuts of £2bn a year on a sector struggling to return to pre-Covid passenger numbers. It is a black picture and, given the vital role of public transport in reducing carbon emissions, a depressing one. But a glance at the rest of Europe suggests it really doesn’t have to be this way.
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It is my great hope that, during the course of this Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy , all the baptized may experience the joy of belonging to the Church and rediscover that the Christian vocation, identical to every particular vocation, is born from within the People of God, and is a present of divine mercy. The Church is the house of mercy, and it is the soil” the place vocations take root, mature and bear fruit.
This is the Spiritan Asylum Initiative situated within the heart of Dublin is a service which unfortunately has grown increasingly more through the years and might be at its busiest time ever. I say unfortunately not due to the great work being carried out but because the need for this service has grown on account of war and torture inflicted on so many human beings as we speak. This service was began by the Spiritan’s and is the only specialist centre in Ireland for the care and rehabilitation of survivors of torture and extreme trauma. Here we see Religious and lay professionals working together to supply holistic care.
Thanks in your interest in understanding extra about our Order. This is necessary for a correct discernment of God’s will for you in life.
Every person is known as by God, and it is this call which we frequently consult with as a ‘vocation’ (from the Latin vocare, which suggests ‘to call’).