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Archive for July, 2007

Prayers please

Please remember my mother in your prayers. She was admitted to hospital yesterday, after a fall. Here is a photograph of her with Father Frank Keevins (right) and myself; it was taken about three weeks ago. I will be leaving Australia tomorrow and returning to Glasgow to be with her.

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Happy Birthday

Congratulations to Mother Catherine C.P., former superior of the Passionist Contemplative Nuns in England, who celebrates her 100th birthday today. In the early 1960s, Mother Catherine left Erlanger, Kentucky, with four companions to found a new Passionist community in England, marking in this way the Beatification of Blessed Dominic Barberi. A convert to the Catholic [...]

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Herald of Hope

Ovada, the new Passionist publisher based at Saint Mungo’s, has brought out in book form the nine sermons from last year’s Novena of Hope at Mount Argus, Dublin. These nine reflections on the life and spirit of Saint Charles of Mount Argus have been published under the title Herald of Hope. Copies (at £5.95 or [...]

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Preparing for the World Youth Day

I have been at Holy Cross Retreat Centre, Templestowe (Melbourne) this week for a meeting of the Passionists’ international committee for the World Youth Day. Before the World Youth Day in Sydney (2008), we will have a meeting of young Passionist priests, brothers and students here at Holy Cross, Templestowe, beginning on Saturday, 5 July. [...]

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Passionist Youth Assembly

(Photo: John Pole, Crucifix of Saint Paul of the Cross)
I’m blogging from the Emmaus Retreat Centre, Swords, Co. Dublin, where this weekend we have our Passionist Youth Assembly, attended by young people from Ireland (north and south), Scotland and Paris. The Passionists present are Sister Maureen McNally, Fathers Charles Cross, Patrick Fitzgerald, Frank Keevins, Victor [...]

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Congratulations, Joachim

Today at the Chapter of Holy Spirit Province (Australia), Father Joachim Rego was elected Provincial. Until now, he has been on the parish team at Saint Brigid’s, Marrickville; the parish has a short biography of Father Joachim here. His Consultors are Fathers Brian Traynor, Tiernan Doherty, Thomas McDonough and David King. Congratulations to all; [...]

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