Posted in on 28 November, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow we will have our first session of catechesis using Evangelium, the new resource for teaching the Catholic Faith to adults created by Fathers Marcus Holden and Andrew Pinsent and produced by the Catholic Truth Society. You can read more about the programme here. We will have three sessions before Christmas (29 November, 6 [...]
Posted in on 28 November, 2006 | No Comments »
This week we have graduations at Glasgow Caledonian University, where Sister Maureen and I are the Catholic wing of the University Chaplaincy. I attended two ceremonies today (morning and afternoon) and will take part in another one tomorrow morning. Most of today’s graduates were from the School of Nursing, whose academic year is different from [...]
Posted in on 21 November, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Today’s feast is of particular significance to Passionists and is known among us as the “Birthday of the Congregation”. This painting of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple, by the eighteenth-century Neapolitan painter Sebastiano Conca, was commissioned by the Grazi family (through Cardinal Lorenzo Altieri) for Saint Paul of the Cross’s new Church of [...]
Posted in on 20 November, 2006 | 4 Comments »
HT for this quiz to Mulier Fortis who, in spite of being fortunate enough to have had a Scottish father, was unable to score less than 90%.
You are 71% English.
You are either native and stupid, or you are foreign and knowledgeable.
“And did those feet
In ancient times,
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the holy [...]
Posted in on 18 November, 2006 | No Comments »
Today Passionists celebrate the feast of Blessed Grimoaldo (Santamaria) of the Purification, who was a member of the Passionist community at Santa Maria di Corniano, near Ceccano, south of Rome, where he died of meningitis at the age of nineteen. Father Gary has a number of interesting posts on Grimoaldo, including one on the [...]
Posted in on 17 November, 2006 | No Comments »
Yesterday, 16 November, was the anniversary of Pope Clement XIV’s signing of the Bull Supremi Apostolatus in 1769 (-apologies, as I have already shown the above photograph of the document in my post on the Passionist General Archives). This document is considered the Magna Carta of the Passionists by which our Congregation was solemnly approved [...]
Posted in Saint Charles on 15 November, 2006 | No Comments »
I had a meeting today at our provincial house, Saint Paul’s Retreat, Mount Argus (above). I left Glasgow at eight o’clock this morning and was back here at ten o’clock tonight. Today in Dublin was the feast of Saint Laurence O’Toole; it was also the ninety-first birthday of Father Andrew, who is the oldest man [...]
Posted in on 13 November, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Today in the Passionist Calendar is the feast of Blessed Eugene (Bossilkov) of the Sacred Heart, the first beatified martyr of Stalinism. As a young Passionist priest, he studied in Rome at the same time as Father Christopher (Coleman) who was vicar of our Crossgar community when I was a novice. After his studies, Eugene [...]
Posted in on 12 November, 2006 | No Comments »
My blogging has been light recently; my father had a heart attack two weeks ago and is still in Glasgow Royal Infirmary waiting until he is well enough for an operation for a pacemaker. In the meantime, I have been spending more time with my mother; this has been made possible by the generosity of [...]
Posted in on 9 November, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I have added a new section to the sidebar called “Soundbits” which is a series of links to talks given by me and other Passionists, including this year’s Novena of Hope at Mount Argus (which was on Blessed Charles) and this year’s Our Lady of Sorrows Novena at Saint Mungo’s.
 | berenike on Caterina |
 | Sanctus Belle on In paradisum |
 | Tom on Profession in Bavaria |
 | PF on Year of Vocation |
 | James Brent on Year of Vocation |
