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Focus: The Year Of The Priest |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Editorial. |
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by Fr. Brian O’Connell sm
On the 19th of June, Pope Benedict inaugurated the Year of the Priest – a year of reflection and prayer on priesthood as a gift of God to the church and the world. Read more »
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Messenger Briefs |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Editorial. |
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“It’s no secret that these are not the easiest of times to be a Roman Catholic priest. Clergy shortages mean priests are pulled in a thousand different directions, the sexual abuse crisis has given the priesthood a black eye, and on and on. Read more »
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Benedict Speaks: During his Visit to the Holy Land |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Benedict Speaks. |
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On the plane
“Certainly I intend to contribute to peace, not as an individual, but in the name of the Catholic Church, of the Holy See. Read more »
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Mary Mackillop – ‘Keep On Keeping On’ |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Articles. |
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by Sr Eleanor Capper RSJ
Once in the Scottish Highlands, close to the place of Mary MacKillop’s forbears, a small group of people was talking about heroism. They were saying that everybody sooner or later had to display some kind of heroism. Read more »
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Ancient Churches- The Vanished Christian Civilisation of North Africa. |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Articles. |
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by Elizabeth Isichei
We easily assume that when a church is founded, it endures and expands- as indeed it often does. But some ancient churches – such as the seven (in modern Turkey) addressed in Revelations or the Christian communities of the Arabian peninsula did not survive. Read more »
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Saint John Vianney (1786-1859) |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Saints. |
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John Baptiste Marie Vianney was born at Dardilly, near Lyons, France, in 1786. A late starter, he had great difficulty studying. Conscripted into the army, a series of events led to his being, effectively, a deserter until his younger brother was sent to serve in his place. Read more »
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Blessed Jakob Gapp (1897-1943) |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Saints. |
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Jakob Gapp was born on 26 July 1897 in the Austrian Tyrol. After completing school, he entered Franciscan high school in 1910. Called to military service in 1915, he was wounded and received the silver medal of Courage Second Class. In 1918, he was interned as a prisoner of war in Riva del Garda and released the next year. Read more »
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Saint Louis IX, King of France (1215-1270) |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Saints. |
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The mother of Louis IX of France, Blanche of Castille, told him when he was still a child that she would rather see him dead than stained by a single mortal sin. He never forgot her words. Raised to the throne and anointed in the Rheims Cathedral at the age of twelve, he made the defence of God’s honour the aim of his life, particularly challenging the Albigensian heretics. Read more »
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Personal Prayer |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Articles. |
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by Fr John Kelly ocso
‘Personal prayer is essential for holiness’.
I once remarked to a Benedictine priest, ‘I was edified when I saw you praying for a half hour in the church, morning and evening’. He replied, ‘personal prayer is essential’. I am indebted to him for the quote, given above. His comment set me thinking, and after much reflection, I find that I wholly agree with him. I am convinced that personal prayer is essential for growth in holiness. This is the one point I wish to demonstrate in this chapter. Read more »
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Hey, God, Why All the Hush? |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Articles. |
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© By Bill Farrelly
DOES it seem strange to you that often, having miraculously cured someone, Jesus would say to them: “Tell no-one”? On other occasions, His miracles were very public. We are usually told that one reason He requested anonymity was that He did not want to be hounded for miracles because His mission was to proclaim the Kingdom of God. I wonder whether there were other reasons? Read more »
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Can You Bear It? |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Jokes. |
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A wild-eyed man on a train to Upper Hutt was peeling oranges and hurling them out of the window. Read more »
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The Children’s Page |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Children's Corner. |
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Click
HERE
to download the August Children’s Page
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A Minute or Two with Fr Paddy Cahill |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Articles. |
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Smiling Through Suffering
God uses many people to bring us to Himself in the beginning and sometimes to return us to Him when we have strayed. Read more »
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The Passing of Two S.M. Brothers – Andrew Cody & Lawrence Cole |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Marist History, Obituary. |
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Brother Andrew Cody SM
Riley T. Cody
20 Dec 1936 – 22 May 2009
Funeral St Mary’s Otaki, 26 May 2009
From the homily of Fr Allan Jones sm
In today’s gospel, Jesus reminded his disciples “Whoever serves me must follow me, and my servant will be with me wherever I am”. Andrew has now followed Jesus in death, in the hope of being with him in his resurrection. Andrew was like a grain of wheat which has to die so it can bear a rich harvest. Read more »
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Remembering Our Dead |
| August 1st, 2009 filed under Obituary. |
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Holy Mass is offered each month by the Editor for those whose names occur in this list. To add a name, simply write to the Editor.
Recently Deceased: Pamela Higgins, John Kelly, Sr Margaret Pedersen rndm,Sr Mary Aloysius rndm, Sr Mary Loretto rndm, Fr Alex Taylor sm,Tess Barry, John Douglas Golightly, Joyce Megan Dunmore, David Condon, Anthony Sirvid
In Memoriam: August 1st Michael Carrigan, Joyce Bailey, Joe Ryan, William Teahan, Walter Taylor, Margaret C Healy, Tom Clarke. Read more »
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