Quies

I’ll be away for the next few days, enjoying some silence and solitude.

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Padre Santos

Passio Christi reports the sad news of the death of Monsignor Jose Ramon Santos Iztueta Mendizabal C.P., Emeritus Bishop of Moyobamba, Peru, who died yesterday in Lima, Peru. He was seventy-eight years old and had retired from his Prelature just over a month ago. I met him in Rome last year at Saints [...]

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Blessed Dominic

Today is Sunday. If it were another day of the week, we would be celebrating the feast of Blessed Dominic (Barberi) of the Mother of God, who brought the Passionists to England and later received John Henry Newman into the Catholic Church. Father Gary at The Passionist Charism has a series of posts on [...]

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Preparing for the World Youth Day

Where would we be without meetings? As an example of a worthwhile meeting, here are some of our Young Adult Group last Sunday afternoon discussing the preparations for next year’s World Youth Day in Sydney. At present it looks like there will be about ten young people from Saint Mungo’s taking part in WYD2008. Last [...]

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A New Priest, and a New Passionist

A member of our Province, Father Patrick Mphepo C.P., was ordained to the priesthood on July 21 at Limbe Cathedral, Blantyre, Malawi. Father Patrick is the first Malawian Passionist. He was deacon at the Mass of Thanksgiving for the Canonisation of Saint Charles of Mount Argus which was celebrated at the Basilica of Saints John [...]

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Bon Pasteur

Yesterday Cardinal Jean-Marie (Aaron) Lustiger passed from this world to eternity. He was one of the most outstanding pastors of our time. Sometimes bishops are good theologians or politicians or financial directors or, occasionally, even good preachers. Cardinal Lustiger taught by word and example what it means to be a pastor. He had great courage [...]

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Thank You

My sincere thanks to all who have been praying for my mother. She is still in hospital, has recovered well from her fall and from an infection, but has not been sleeping well and is quite tired. My brother and I hope and pray that she will be discharged soon. Thanks for all your prayerful [...]

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