Posted in on 31 March, 2007 | No Comments »
“Of course, we must do all we can to alleviate suffering and prevent the injustice that causes the suffering of the innocent. However, we must also do the utmost to ensure that people can discover the meaning of suffering and are thus able to accept their own suffering and to unite it with the suffering [...]
Posted in Glasgow on 29 March, 2007 | 2 Comments »
At Saint Mungo’s we hear confessions every day of the week except Sunday. Each of us has a day “on duty”; my day is usually Tuesday, but this week I had to go with someone to the hospital on Tuesday, so I was hearing confessions today. As well as being well-constructed and moderately comfortable from [...]
Posted in on 28 March, 2007 | No Comments »
Father Nicholas Schofield, who is Archivist of the Archdiocese of Westminster, has added a fine Roman (and Passionist) picture to the top of his blog Roman Miscellany. He writes: I took the shot in Rome in January - it is the view from the Circus Maximus of the Celian Hill, including the facade of [...]
Posted in Saint Charles on 25 March, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This painting of Jesus Crowned with Thorns, which is in Livorno (known to John Henry Newman and his generation as Leghorn), is attributed to Fra Angelico. It was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2005, where one reviewer described it as the most arresting painting in the exhibition, and [...]
Posted in on 23 March, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I was at province meetings in Dublin yesterday, after waiting an hour at Glasgow Airport for the fog to lift. Our Passionist Charism and Spirituality group is preparing a Province Youth Assembly which will be held at the Emmaus Retreat and Conference Centre, near Dublin, from Friday, 6 July (evening) to Sunday, 8 July (afternoon). [...]
Posted in on 23 March, 2007 | No Comments »
Meetings in Sydney, the long journey home, jet lag and catching up have all conspired against this blog being updated. My apologies. Meanwhile, some people have been asking if I have any news about Father Kieran; here is a message I received this afternoon from our Provincial Office:
Good news today from Father Kieran; he was [...]
Posted in on 2 March, 2007 | No Comments »
Father Kieran’s condition has changed and he is now in surgery.
Blessed Charles, intercede for him.
Posted in on 2 March, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Please remember in your prayers Father Kieran Creagh C.P., founder of the Leratong Hospice in South Africa, who is in intensive care in hospital. Father Kieran received multiple gunshot wounds from a gang of youths on Wednesday night. One bullet is still in his lung. Otherwise he is stable but in pain. He is lucid [...]
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