Rome Tomorrow

Tomorrow afternoon we leave for Rome and the Canonisation of Father Charles. The Scottish group is going from Wednesday to Wednesday as there is a direct flight on Wednesdays from Edinburgh. The Irish contingent (=the main pilgrimage) will arrive on Friday.
Here is our Mass schedule for the week.
Thursday 31 May
10.00 a.m. Mass in the Church of [...]

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A Rare Jubilee

Yesterday, Pentecost Sunday, our community celebrated Father Hubert’s sixtieth anniversary of ordination. Father Marius had mentioned during the week that it was his fifty-fifth, and Father Eustace and Father Justinian will be celebrating their fiftieth in December, but a sixtieth of ordination is quite an achievement. Father Hubert decided that he would be able [...]

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To Heal the Broken Hearted

This weekend, Patricia has put up a web version of my life of Father Charles of Mount Argus. It includes the new preface for the canonisation edition which should be ready at the printers next week. The illustration shows the cover from the first edition. I will show the new cover when it has [...]

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Father Charles on TV

Sorry for the lack of posting in recent weeks. I’m very busy at the moment with preparations for the Canonisation of Father Charles of Mount Argus on 3 June. Meanwhile, Limburg’s T1 Television has made a short (eight minute) programme on Father Charles, starring both Father Harry Broers, parish priest of Munstergeleen, and our own [...]

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Foundation Day

Today, which was formerly the Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross, is the foundation day for the Passionist Contemplative Nuns. I was reminded of this yesterday before leaving the Monastery of the Passionist Nuns at Erlanger, Kentucky (-not to be confused with their monastery at Whitesville, Kentucky, which I mentioned earlier). After [...]

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