Posted in on 28 December, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Patricia has placed a new page on our parish website with an extract from the Christmas newsletter in which I wrote about Blessed Charles of Mount Argus and the newly approved Miracle. You can find it here.
Katholiek Nederland has an interesting page on Blessed Charles Houben (in Dutch) which includes a podcast interview with [...]
Posted in Saint Charles on 26 December, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Here is part of a Christmas reflection I wrote last year, which Patricia has included on our parish web site this Christmas:
Saint Paul of the Cross, who founded the Passionists, often spoke about the link between Bethlehem and Calvary, the Crib and the Cross. When he would build the Crib each Christmas at the first [...]
Posted in on 23 December, 2006 | No Comments »
This picture (”borrowed” from Passio Christi) shows an eighteenth-century Neapolitan crib which will be on view at the Basilica of Saints John and Paul from tomorrow night. I don’t remember it from when I lived there, but I do remember the Bambino fasciato, a carved figure of the baby Jesus, very tightly wrapped in silk [...]
Posted in Saint Charles on 16 December, 2006 | 6 Comments »
Father Harrie Broers tipped me off (via the comments box) that the “miracle” has become the Miracle. That master of the quiet surprise, Pope Benedict XVI, had his meeting with Cardinal Saraiva Martins today, not next Wednesday as previously advised on this blog, and in the course of the audience, the Holy Father authorised the [...]
Posted in Saint Charles on 14 December, 2006 | 4 Comments »
What will Pope Benedict be doing next Wednesday? The following is a long answer to a short question.
Father Harrie Broers, parish priest of Munstergeleen (the birthplace of Blessed Charles), suggested in the comments box that I should phone Father Giovanni (Zubiani), who is the Postulator of the Cause of Blessed Charles (and of all the [...]
Posted in Saint Charles on 12 December, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I returned from Dublin this evening. We haven’t heard anything yet from their Eminences and Lordships (U.S. = Excellencies) about Blessed Charles (Houben)’s “miracle” (-I suppose I should use inverted commas until it is totally and definitively approved). In the meantime, here are some Blessed Charles photographs I took a while ago.
This is the main [...]
Posted in Saint Charles on 10 December, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow morning (6.30) I will leave here for Saint Paul’s Retreat, Mount Argus, Dublin, for what used to be called the Consulta (meeting of the Provincial Council), followed on Tuesday by related meetings. Tuesday is also the day on which the Cardinals and Bishops of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints are scheduled to [...]
Posted in on 9 December, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Today is the feast of Blessed Bernard Mary Silvestrelli C.P. Father Gary has a series of interesting posts on him at The Passionist Charism. He was beatified on the same day as Blessed Charles of Mount Argus, whom he had met when he made visitation (as Superior General) of the Retreats in Ireland, England [...]
Posted in on 6 December, 2006 | No Comments »
The Bavarian-Austrian Vice-Province of the Five Wounds has a new website. One of the images on the website(shown on the left) is this tapestry of the life of Saint Paul of the Cross, which was hand-woven for the Retreat of the Holy Trinity in Schwarzenfeld when Father Alban was rector. How many of the [...]
Posted in on 5 December, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday the Press Office of the Holy See issued a communiqué “Concerning the matter of the construction of a skyscraper near the historic Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Joseph in Bucharest, Romania”. Articles about this proposed “skyscraper” which could undermine the foundations of the Cathedral had already appeared on the Net last May (e.g. [...]
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