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Thursday, 18 March 2021 22:19
March 19th, St Joseph - and Pope Francis has proclaimed “Year of St Joseph”
March 19th, St Joseph - and Pope Francis has proclaimed “Year of St Joseph” A collection of different images of Joseph - perhaps a resource for offering something on him in his year. More on May 1st, St Joseph the Worker. With the Apostolic Letter “Patris corde” (“With a…
Wednesday, 17 March 2021 22:19
Death and funeral of Sir Michael Somare, the Grand Chief, ‘Father of the Nation’, PNG.
Death and funeral of Sir Michael Somare, the Grand Chief, ‘Father of the Nation’, PNG. Cardinal John Ribat MSC officiated at his funeral. A memorial Mass was held for Sir Michael Somare at Our Lady of the Rosary church, Kensington, on Sunday March 14th. It was organised by Paul Jennings…
Tuesday, 16 March 2021 22:18
An unexpected addition to the MSC Melbourne community
An unexpected addition to the MSC Melbourne community In these covid days, it has become very difficult for overseas students to come to Australia. This has meant that Tran Van Long is doing a pre-novitiate experience from home in North Vietnam. He is studying English online through the Yarra Theological…
Monday, 15 March 2021 22:11
RIP, Maureen Brazel OLSH
RIP, Maureen Brazel OLSH Our sympathies with our OLSH Sisters My soul is thirsting for God, the God of my life: when can I enter and see the face of God? These words summarise Sr Maureen’s lifelong journey of faithfulness and loving care for others. Also, her sense of…
Sunday, 14 March 2021 18:40
RIP, Harold Baker MSC
RIP, Harold Baker MSC Peter Hendriks writes: Sadly, I just heard from Steve Dives that Harold Baker died this afternoon at 4:30pm. At the time of his death he was in the company of John Walker, Barry Smith and Steve. Harold was the senior member of the Province. Concelebrating…
Friday, 12 March 2021 23:33
On Mission Hill, Kensington
On Mission Hill, Kensington The Kensington community knows Mission Hill. Perhaps some of the rest of us may not be too sure what it is or where it is. Mission Hill is one of the missions, mission alive, of Roger Purcell, Director of the MSC Mission Office. It…
Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:54
Miriam Rose Ungenmerr, Senior Australian of the Year, Her painting at Mingarra.
Miriam Rose Ungenmerr, Senior Australian of the Year, Her painting at Mingarra. When our seminary at the Croydon Monastery was sold to the archdiocese of Melbourne in 1991 and became the Croydon parish centre, the chapel extended to become the parish church, a flourishing primary school in the grounds…
Wednesday, 10 March 2021 22:20
Bulletin News, Darwin, Vicar General Malcolm Fyfe MSC
Bulletin News, Darwin, Vicar General Malcolm Fyfe MSC As some of you may know, Father Leo Wearden has been down South since early January, initially on Annual Leave from Wadeye and for a medical check-up. Covid-19 travel restrictions have complicated his movements and extended his time there. Father Leo has…
Tuesday, 09 March 2021 22:13
RIP, Joseph Heggelin MSC
RIP, Joseph Heggelin MSC Sad news from Issoudun Ad Vitam Aeternam... A few days ago, we received news that Fr Joseph Heggelin MSC,had contracted covid-19. P. P. Jozef Hegglin, MSC passed away tonight in Nitra, Slovakia. Born in 1946 in Lucerne. He studied philosophy in Freiburg and theology in Strasbourg,…
Monday, 08 March 2021 22:18
Chevalier College, RE and the Eucharist, John Mulrooney MSC
Chevalier College, RE and the Eucharist, John Mulrooney MSC Many of our students arrive at Chev without any experience of religious ritual or church involvement and so we slowly introduce them to our ways of doing things. At the beginning of the year, we take the Year 7 students through…
Sunday, 07 March 2021 22:21
New book on Paul Stenhouse, Kensington launch, author, Wanda Skowronska
New book on Paul Stenhouse, Kensington launch, author, Wanda Skowronska On February 27, 2021, MSC Superior, Fr Steve Dives welcomed around 70 friends to the launch of a biography entitled Paul Stenhouse MSC : A Life of Rare Wisdom, Compassion and Inspiration (2021) by Wanda Skowronska. MSC Provincial Fr Chris…
Friday, 05 March 2021 23:07
International Women's Day, March 8th, Chevalier Family
International Women's Day, March 8th, Chevalier Family Acknowledging the day and its challenges, a focus on some of the women in Australia and in the Trigeneralate, Rome. Margaret O’Loughlin Lay MSC, Melbourne, invitee to MSC General Chapter 1999 Alison McKenzie Secretary General, Lay MSC Rachel Davies Principal, Daramalan College Michelle…
Thursday, 04 March 2021 22:25
First Friday in Lent - re-imagining 'reparation'
First Friday in Lent - re-imagining 'reparation' We hope that many of us have come across Sister Gerardine Doherty OLSH and her important article on what reparation could mean in our 21st century world. Here are some reminders. We used the word ‘reparation’ in a sense of penance and…
Wednesday, 03 March 2021 22:45
Downlands MSC Pilgrimage 2021
Downlands MSC Pilgrimage2021 Each year Downlands College Leaders have spent the weekend on pilgrimage in Sydney and Douglas Park, furthering their understanding of the MSC mission and the role they have been called to play as leaders of our school. At Kensington At Treand House Vice-Captain Max Corfield sits in…
Tuesday, 02 March 2021 22:29
Annual gathering of MSC ordained in the last decade.
Annual gathering of MSC ordained in the last decade. Last week, under the guidance of Frank Dineen, there was a gathering for MSC’s who have been ordained within the past 11 years. They gathered at St Mary’s Towers, Douglas Park. Two speakers facilitated sessions on ‘transition’ as many are…
Monday, 01 March 2021 22:11
Some significant March days for the Chevalier Family, 2021
Some significant March days for the Chevalier Family, 2021 March 19th, Feast of St Joseph, MSC model and patron, in the year proclaimed by Pope Francis as the Year of St Joseph March 25th has many entries, a significant day. It includes the foundation of the Handmaids of the…
Sunday, 28 February 2021 22:59
Acknowledging Michael Sims MSC, 85
Acknowledging Michael Sims MSC, 85 Michael is from Melbourne, born March 1st 1936 (just avoiding a leap year birthday). Before entering the Apostolic School in 1956, he completed 2 year's Accountancy Course with Royal Exchange Assurance, Melbourne, and in 1955 - three months National Service Training – Puckapunyal. It is not…
Friday, 26 February 2021 22:44
Heart of Life Centre, at our new location, Kildara, Malvern.
Heart of Life Centre, at our new location, Kildara, Malvern. Our courses began this month at the new location for the Heart of Life Centre. We are leasing from the Brigidine Sisters for the next five years at their centre, Kildara, Malvern, adjacent to St Joseph’s parish church, a…
Thursday, 25 February 2021 22:40
February 26th, Profession Anniversary Day.
February 26th, Profession Anniversary Day. Up until 1966, the traditional day for religious profession was February 26th (with a mid-year date for Brothers’ professions, August 5th). The change, with more flexibility came in 1966, February, the day Australia changed to decimal currency. Bob Irwin and Roy O’Neill recently celebrated…
Wednesday, 24 February 2021 22:05
Some news of MSC Formation in the French African Union, from Kinshasa.
Some news of MSC Formation in the French African Union, from Kinshasa. Jonas HASSAN MOUCHI, our confrere from the French African Union, studied in Australia, at Sydney, at Marymount, in 2017, and visited a number of communities. On his return to Africa, he worked in formation. The Democratic Republic of…
Tuesday, 23 February 2021 22:37
MSC Mission Office Blessing
MSC Mission Office Blessing Roger Purcell MSC, Director of the Mission Office writes: New Office The Blue Room in CRC was offered to us in late 2019 and I immediately went and had a look. My response was, YYYYEEEESSSSS!! The potential was obvious and a great improvement on our existing…
Monday, 22 February 2021 13:17
RIP, Reyer Flapper MSC
RIP, Reyer Flapper MSC Peter Hendrix has sent out this news: St Joseph’s Nursing Home informed us that Rey died peacefully this morning. Peter Guy was with him last night for an hour and anointed him. The nurses came in this morning at 3:45am to check on Rey and it…
Sunday, 21 February 2021 22:14
Daramalan College. Opening of the school year 2021.
Daramalan College. Opening of the school year 2021. In recent years we have posted openings for Chevalier College and Downlands College. Today we are at Daramalan College, Canberra. There is special significance: the installation of the new Principal, Rachel Davies. Present, Chris McPhee MSC, Provincial Superior.
Friday, 19 February 2021 22:45
Darwin and NT News regarding Nungalinya College
Darwin and NT News regarding Nungalinya College (The combined Catholic, Anglican and Uniting Churches’ venture providing Christian education for Indigenous students in theology, community development and leadership skills and preparing our Indigenous Christians for Ministry). Nungalinya College is an adult education college based in Casuarina, a suburb of Darwin…
Thursday, 18 February 2021 22:47
News from MSC Ireland: the closing of Myross Wood, Leap.
News from MSC Ireland: the closing of Myross Wood, Leap. Many Australian MSC have visited Leap, Western Cork (on the tip of Ireland, next stop, America). Some visited when Myross Wood was the Novitiate – in the past and again, in 2017, as the international novitiate with Jim Miller…
Wednesday, 17 February 2021 22:23
Downlands College. Opening of the school year 2021.
Downlands College. Opening of the school year 2021. Something important happened during Downlands Investiture Mass. Yes - we recognised our 2021 School Captains and Senior Leaders. Yes - we recognised our 2021 Boarding House Leaders. Yes - we recognised our 2021 Performing Arts Leaders. Yes - we recognised our 2021…
Tuesday, 16 February 2021 22:15
Ashes in a time of covid
Ashes in a time of covid An American priest writes: "I would think in this time of COVID, the significance of Ash Wednesday is even greater because we have to come face to face with our weakness, our mortality and our need for one another.” The ashes symbolize both death…
Monday, 15 February 2021 22:25
The Breather Day before Lent
The Breather Day before Lent Around the Church and the world, Tuesday, today, is Shrove Tuesday, Carnival, Pancake Tuesday... a moment of breath and lightness before the penance of Lent. For us, a moment of levity as we look back at covid 2020 (and this is coming from Melbourne, Day…
Sunday, 14 February 2021 22:24
Lay Papuans turn against Indonesian Church 'sellout'. Critique of Archbishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi MSC of Merauke.
Lay Papuans turn against Indonesian Church 'sellout'. Critique of Archbishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi MSC of Merauke. Activists stage protest against Archbishop of Merauke signing deal with palm oil firm "at expense of environment" Papuan Catholic activists collect funds from those attending Sunday Mass at the Good Shepherd Parish Church…
Friday, 12 February 2021 23:30
St Mary’s Towers, Douglas Park, a visit to the Ashram, Part II
St Mary’s Towers, Douglas Park, a visit to the Ashram, Part II More recent photos of the Ashram, photos from Roy O'Neill MSC. Renovations. Interiors Outside and a tribute to Vyn Bailey
