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Guest Editorial: St. Thérèse And Priests |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Editorial. |
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By Monsignor Bernard Lagoutte, Editor of Thérèse of Lisieux Magazine
“I will be really happy to work with you.”
Thérèse made this avowal in 1896 to a young priest, Adolphe Roulland, who was leaving to go to mission work in China, and she explained her reasons: Read more »
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Benedict Speaks |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Benedict Speaks. |
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Pope says lack of ethics wreaks ‘havoc’ on global economy.
Summary by Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY — A lack of financial ethics has wreaked “havoc” on the global economy, Pope Benedict XVI writes in a new encyclical released Tuesday 7 July, and calls for a “true world political authority” to ensure international cooperation, peace and environmental protection. Read more »
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Focus: Why I Voted Yes to the Referendum |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Editorial. |
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By Fr Brian O’Connell
In NZ during August, people have been voting on a Citizens Initiated Referendum on the controversial Anti-Smacking Law passed last year by Parliament. Read more »
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Leprosy Mission Celebrates the Canonisation of Fr Damien de Veuster |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Articles. |
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On 11 October, Father Damien of Molokai, Hawaii is to be raised to sainthood in a ceremony in Rome. Father Damien is renowned for his work with people affected by leprosy – a disease which continues to persist in many of the world’s poorest communities to this today. Read more »
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Messenger Briefs |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Editorial. |
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Blessed Damien
The Belgian missionary lived among lepers in the Pacific and died from leprosy in 1889. His canonisation, expected later this year, will draw hundreds of thousands of supporters to Rome because of the huge following that has grown around Father Damien since his death more than a century ago. The Belgian missionary, who died in 1889, became famous for living among lepers in the Pacific islands – only to die from leprosy himself. Read more »
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Mission Sunday Feature: Some Heroic Women in Zambia |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Articles. |
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By Paul Shannahan sm, National Director of MISSIONZ
♥ Free medical care is just a dream in many countries. Daniel, unfortunately, was born in such a one and with a club foot; fortunately he lives near some Irish Presentation Sisters who operate a fine Leonard Cheshire Home among the poorest of people in Mongu West Zambia. His mother like many others bring their sick and deformed children to the sisters and they do an amazing job in ‘repairing’ so many of them. Read more »
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“Do All You Can and That Will Be Enough” |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Articles. |
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Veteran Marist Missionary Fr Tony O’Connor reflects on his new mission project in Valencia, Venezuela. Read more »
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Saint Placid (515-541) |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Saints. |
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Little is known about Saint Placid. He was born in Rome, in the year 515, of a patrician family, and at seven years of age was taken by his father, Tertullus, to the Benedictine monastery of Subiaco, recently founded, to be educated. Read more »
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Saint Francis Borgia (1510-1572) |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Saints. |
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Saint Francis Borgia, born in 1510, was placed under the tutelage of his uncle, Archbishop of Saragossa, at age ten after the death of his mother. Read more »
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Saint Gaetano Errico (1791-1860) |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Saints. |
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Saint Gaetano Errico was born in 1791 in a small village near Naples, Italy, of a pious pasta factory owner and a weaver. As child, he was good and obedient. Read more »
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Praying with Great Love |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Articles. |
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by John Kelly
That prayer is best that is said with most affective love. But this raises an important question – how does one increase one’s affective love at prayer? How do we know that our love is intense? Read more »
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Ancient Churches: Persia |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Articles. |
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by Elizabeth Isichei
Imagine then with what joy I received information so accordant with my desire that the finest provinces of Persia are filled with.Christians.
Constantine to Shapur II of Persia, in 324.
The symbolic beginning of Christianity in Persia is clearly the story of the Magi, the Wise Men from the East who brought their gifts to the infant Jesus. Saint John Chrysostom, (347-407) said that the Gentiles had brought the Christian message to the Jews.:- Read more »
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How to be a Hypocrite and Still be OK |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Articles. |
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by Bill Farrelly
I AM embarrassed to talk about this but I’m going to anyway. You might prefer to make yourself a cuppa rather than listen to me prattle on. I think I would if I were you. Read more »
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Can You Bear It? |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Jokes. |
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Arthur is 90 years old. He’s played golf every day since his retirement 25 years ago. Read more »
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A Minute or Two with Father Paddy Cahill |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Articles. |
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Memories
As I write these lines I call to mind this day two years ago. I was waiting in hospital for the melanoma operation on my face; the following day was my birthday. Read more »
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Children’s Page |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Children's Corner. |
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Click
HERE
to download the September Children’s Page
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Crossword Clues |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Editorial. |
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There is a missing clue for the October Crossword. It is:
5 Down = Called ( Archaic)(6)
Our apology for the omission.
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Remembering Our Dead |
| October 1st, 2009 filed under Obituary. |
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Recently Deceased: Molly Daly, Peter Caulfield Bayley, John Joseph (Joe) Devoy, Emmy Richardson, Clare Holmes-Kinsella, Mrs. M Walsh
In Memoriam: October 1st Kathleen Wilson, Jerry McCarthy, Eila Kelly, Stewart Thomas Carlyle, Read more »
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