Posted in on 30 January, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Here’s the text of an e-mail I sent to Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, who is said to have led the Cabinet revolt against the exemption of Catholic Adoption agencies from the proposed Sexual Equality Regulations:
Dear Mr Johnson
You are quoted in today’s “Independent” as saying: “We reject discrimination in all its forms.” Do [...]
Posted in on 28 January, 2007 | No Comments »
I will be flying to Dublin tonight for Province meetings tomorrow and Tuesday, returning here on Tuesday night.
Posted in on 25 January, 2007 | No Comments »
On this last day of the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity, I want to recall the person who started it all. In an article in The Ecumenical Review, a publication of the World Council of Churches, Dagmar Heller writes: As far as we know, the first proposal for common prayer for Christian unity [...]
Posted in on 24 January, 2007 | 8 Comments »
We recently celebrated the Forty Hours Adoration at Saint Mungo’s. Nowadays, the adoration is interrupted for the usual public Masses during the day and again at night. Here are some photographs I took on the different days. I took them at times when I knew there were very few people in the church, so as [...]
Posted in Passionist Vocations on 23 January, 2007 | No Comments »
The next weekend retreat for young men who are interested in religious life in the Passionist Congregation will be held at Saint Patrick’s Retreat, Crossgar, County Down, N. Ireland, from Friday evening, 16 February, to Sunday midday, 18 February 2007. The theme of the weekend is taken from a phrase written by Saint Paul of [...]
Posted in Saint Charles on 23 January, 2007 | No Comments »
I have added a number of Blessed Charles links to the sidebar under two headings: Blessed Charles on Laus Crucis and Blessed Charles on other Sites.
Posted in Saint Charles on 23 January, 2007 | No Comments »
An e-mail from the Postulator General, Father Giovanni Zubiani c.p., informs us that the Consistory for the Canonisation of Father Charles should be happening soon; after this, the date for the Canonisation will be set by the Secretariat of State.
In the meantime, I received (via the Comments Box) a message from Raymond Frenken about a [...]
Posted in on 23 January, 2007 | No Comments »
My thanks to those who offered Mass or prayers or who sent messages of sympathy to me and my family on the death of my father. I have offered Mass for the intentions of all those whose support has been with us during these days.
Posted in on 8 January, 2007 | No Comments »
Please pray for the repose of the soul of my father, James Spencer, who died peacefully yesterday morning in Lightburn Hospital. He was eighty-two years old. The funeral Mass will be celebrated in Saint Mungo’s Church, Glasgow on Thursday, 11 January at 12.15 p.m. May he rest in peace.
Posted in Saint Charles on 4 January, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow (5 January) is the Feast of Blessed Charles of Mount Argus. He died on the Vigil of the Epiphany, 5 January 1893, at Saint Paul’s Retreat, Mount Argus. The Mount Argus Passionist Community has a summary of his life on their website, which I am stealing in order to post it here (see [...]
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