Watch out, Ireland!

This is Father Gabriel Barros. On 19 October he arrived in Ireland with a (transitional) deacon, Harold Bumann, to take up residence in Kilmyshall, County Wexford, Ireland. Why is that so important? – Because Father Gabriel and his confrere are members of the Institute of the Incarnate Word, and Kilmyshall, a village of less than [...]

Read Full Post »

Life

On Thursday evening I went with a group of young people from Saint Mungo’s to the Torchlight Procession organised by Life to mark the fortieth anniversary of the passing of the Abortion Act. I remember well the passing of the act, although I was only thirteen at the time. Through the Union of Catholic [...]

Read Full Post »

Who are the Passionists?

(Stained Glass Window: Holy Cross, Ardoyne, Belfast)
The Jesuit Parish of the Sacred Heart, Lauriston, Edinburgh, does a bulletin insert once a month on different religious orders. The Parish Priest, Father James Henderson s.j., asked me to provide one on the Passionists, which he distributed with the parish bulletin last weekend. Here it is:
Founded in eighteenth-century [...]

Read Full Post »

Mass at the Tomb of Saint Gemma Galgani

During the recent pilgrimage, Father Kevin Tuitu’u c.p. was principal celebrant at our Mass at the Shrine of Saint Gemma in Lucca. Saint Gemma’s tomb can be seen under the altar. The shrine church is also the monastery church of the Passionist Nuns, who can be heard singing during this clip of the offertory of [...]

Read Full Post »

Father Gary’s Photos

Father Gary Perritt has posted a series of photographs from the recent “In the Footsteps pf Saint Paul of the Cross” Pilgrimage. You can see them at The Passionist Charism.

Read Full Post »

Saint Paul of the Cross – Canonisation Biography

(Stained Glass Window, Holy Cross, Ardoyne, Belfast)
Father Anthony O’Leary c.p. has sent me a link for an online text of Father Pius Devine’s Life of Saint Paul of the Cross, first published in 1867, the year of Saint Paul’s canonisation. I first read this book when I was a novice and remember it well. Father [...]

Read Full Post »

Where have I been?

Some people have been e-mailing or asking me on the telephone why Laus Crucis has been dormant for so long. Then today I found this comment from A Simple Sinner: I love St. Michael – truly I do – but for the past three weeks, I have been swinging by the blog hoping [...]

Read Full Post »