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Sunday, 06 March 2022 20:15
Congratulations. Chris McPhee MSC, Silver Jubilee of Ordination
Congratulations. Chris McPhee MSC, Silver Jubilee of Ordination 7th March is the 25th anniversary of Chris McPhee’s ordination. From: Burwood, Melbourne, religious family, Carmelite and Benedictine uncles, sister a Marist Sister Work: During his 20s in the bank Formation: Novitiate with Terry Naughton, profession, 19th June 1993 - amazing what…
Friday, 04 March 2022 22:29
Kippax Parish Celebrates 50 Years
Kippax Parish Celebrates 50 Years In the introduction of his book on Kippax parish, Jim Littleton MSC wrote: …St John the Apostle Parish of Kippax is quite remarkable in that it started with nothing other than a rented house, a visionary pastor and many very young families struggling with mortgages…
Thursday, 03 March 2022 22:20
A Lenten First Friday, mindful of prayer and fast for the Ukrainian people under attack
A Lenten First Friday, mindful of prayer and fast for the Ukrainian people under attack “The one who makes war forgets humanity. He doesn’t look at the concrete life of people, but he puts before this all the partisan interests of power. He entrusts himself to the diabolical and perverse…
Wednesday, 02 March 2022 22:54
50th Anniversary of the Yarra Theological Union – the MSC were one of the founding cogregations.
50th Anniversary of the Yarra Theological Union – the MSC were one of the founding cogregations. At the inaugural Mass for the opening of the Jubilee year, Chris Monaghan CP, YTU President announced, formally, with Carmel Posa, Sister of the Good Samaritan, a proclamation of the year and celebrations.…
Tuesday, 01 March 2022 22:23
Ash Wednesday 2022, Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace – and close to the people of Ukraine.
Ash Wednesday 2022, Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace – and close to the people of Ukraine. “It is a day to be close to the suffering of the Ukrainian people, to be aware that we are all brothers and sisters, and to implore God for an…
Monday, 28 February 2022 22:28
Cheerful before Lent – the tradition of joy with Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Carnival
Cheerful before Lent – the tradition of joy with Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Carnival A smile before Ash Wednesday – which will be a day of prayer and fasting, urged by Pope Francis, for the suffering in Ukraine. Most of us enjoy wordplay - …
Sunday, 27 February 2022 22:29
Some Significant March Days for the Chevalier Family 2022
Some Significant March Days for the Chevalier Family 2022 March 25th has many entries, a significant day. It includes the foundation of the Handmaids of the Lord in 1918 by Archbishop Alain de Boismenu MSC. MSC Sister have quite a number of significant March days, including the foundation and some…
Friday, 25 February 2022 22:23
Remembering the longtime MSC Profession Date
Remembering the longtime MSC Profession Date From early years, the profession date for MSC student and brothers was February 26th, time to make a retreat, celebrate professions and then move to the start of the academic years. (There was another possibility for profession for brothers, August 5th – as Fr…
Thursday, 24 February 2022 22:14
Rest in Peace. Sr Margaret Jennings fdnsc (12.11.1934 - 5.2.2022).
Rest in Peace. Sr Margaret Jennings fdnsc (12.11.1934 - 5.2.2022) We Missionaries of the Sacred Heart offer sympathy and prayer to our Sisters – and to Paul MSC, John and the other members of Margaret’s Jennings family. "The love of the Heart of Jesus will be our light, our…
Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:18
Best wishes to Qui in Fiji.
Best wishes to Qui in Fiji Qui, one of the first of our Vietnamese confreres professed and ordained. After ordination, he went to Rome to study Scripture at the Angelicum University. He returned to Australia and an appointment to the Pacific Regional Seminary, PRS, in Suva. BUT… covid 19.…
Tuesday, 22 February 2022 22:29
MSC stories, the Pacific, Japan, Wurrumiyanga.
MSC stories, the Pacific, Japan, Wurrumiyanga Col Sinclair, Suva and Kiribati PRS Academic Year begins today. The Pre-Novitiate programme has also begun. Br Colin (Director of the Pre-Novitiate) gives first day class with two participants from Fiji and three participants from Kiribati who are attending the class on Zoom.…
Monday, 21 February 2022 22:24
Directors of Ministries and Provincial Council Meetings at St Mary's Tower
Directors of Ministries and Provincial Council Meetings at St Mary's Tower There was a gathering recently of the Directors of Ministries and the Provincial Council. The first day was a facilitated by Anne McAtomney, the Chevalier Institute Director, whereby she led a day of formation for the Directors and…
Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:14
Welcome to Long/ Long Tran.
Welcome to Long/ Long Tran Long arrived in Australia last month and we featured his welcome by Frank Dineen and Trieu at Mascot (and then his rapid doomestication washing up at Douglas Park). Long comes from a town 100 kms from Hanoi. He is 34 this year and has…
Friday, 18 February 2022 22:16
80 Years – remembering John McGrath MSC, Bathurst Island, warning Darwin.
80 Years – remembering John McGrath MSC, Bathurst Island, warning Darwin. And Ed Bennett MSC, Melville Island From John P McD Smith, ‘I Saw the Bombers’, Alice Springs News, February 22nd 2022. Bathurst Island lies 50 miles north of Darwin and on that fateful morning Father John McGrath, the priest…
Thursday, 17 February 2022 22:05
Martin Daubney, Chancellor of Australian Catholic University.
Martin Daubney, Chancellor of Australian Catholic University. The Honourable Martin Daubney AM was installed as Australian Catholic University's fifth Chancellor at an installation mass at St Stephen's Cathedral in Brisbane on Friday 11 February. Martin Daubney was a student at Downlands College in the 1970s, spent two pre-novitiate years…
Wednesday, 16 February 2022 22:27
MSC Education and Chevalier Institute
MSC Education and Chevalier Institute The Australian Province has had a strong history in Catholic education. 2021 saw the 90th anniversary of Downlands, 75th anniversary of Chevalier. This years is the 60th anniversary of Daramalan. Monivae will be 70 in two years time. Monivae College School Board had a Retreat…
Tuesday, 15 February 2022 22:28
Welcome to Australia, Hua MSC/ Hoa Tran
Welcome to Australia, Hua MSC/ Hoa Tran Hua has arrived from Vietnam to take up his theology studies at the Yarra Theological Union. Next week Hua will turn 30. He became an aspirant in 2010, made his novitiate in the Philippines, first vows in 2018. He took time off at…
Monday, 14 February 2022 22:17
Trieu Nguyen, after covid, isolation, negative test, flight to Vietnam after almost four years.
Trieu Nguyen, after covid, isolation, negative test, flight to Vietnam after almost four years. A photo record. Trieu with family, religious friends, MSC Community Some of religious people who were born and grew up in my parish. This is a special mass for vocation. In the photo also is Trọng…
Sunday, 13 February 2022 22:33
Monday memories – and some nostalgia…
Monday memories – and some nostalgia… Actually, it was Sunday February 13th 1972, beginning of the pre-Novitiate year: Peter Curry, Des Holm, John Mulrooney and Leo Wearden, They are still the largest group who have stayed as MSC in the history of the Pre-novitiate, 1969-1983. The 1969 group has three…
Friday, 11 February 2022 22:23
MSC Vows – from PNG to Brazil via Venezuela
MSC Vows – from PNG to Brazil via Venezuela As our congregation grows around the world. Some images from PNG Venezuela Congratulations to Miguel Ibarra and Yordy Blanco: Celebrations for the MSC Missionary Community of Venezuela The beginning of 2022 has brought great joy for the…
Thursday, 10 February 2022 22:32
Acknowledging Pat Power, retired auxiliary bishop, Canberra, 80.
Acknowledging Pat Power, retired auxiliary bishop, Canberra, 80. Pat Power is a Chevalier College Old Boy, friend of the MSC, especially in Canberra. He turns 80, 11th February. From the Wikipedia entry: Patrick Power grew up in Queanbeyan and was educated at St Christopher's School and St Edmund's College in…
Wednesday, 09 February 2022 22:29
Never too late. Bob Irwin and Roy O’Neill are still graduating: MSC Ongoing Formation Facilitator’s Training.
Never too late. Bob Irwin and Roy O’Neill are still graduating: MSC Ongoing Formation Facilitator’s Training. Bob writes: This is a first! Roy O’Neill and I and another 7 or so MSC around the world. Whilst I was at MONIVAE last year and a member of the Melbourne community! I…
Tuesday, 08 February 2022 22:13
RIP, 2 OLSH Sisters, Eileen van der Lee and Pauline Pitman.
RIP, 2 OLSH Sisters, Eileen van der Lee and Pauline Pitman. Our condolences to the Sisters, the 3rd and 4th deaths this year. Reading the Eulogies, we discover the talents and ministries – and get a strong sense of what it was like in PNG and the NT ‘in…
Monday, 07 February 2022 22:15
Some stories about Monivae Collegians
Some stories about Monivae Collegians Congratulations to Julie Weber-O'Bryan who recently won an award in the Northern Territory Human Rights Awards. Julie was the Monivae boarding house mistress through the 1980s and much loved by students from that era. Julie married John O'Bryan former MSC and Monivae teacher and boarding…
Sunday, 06 February 2022 22:32
Condolences to the Philippines Province, Fr Ad van Hest MSC, RIP.
Condolences to the Philippines Province, Fr Ad van Hest MSC, RIP. The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Philippine Province mourns the passing of our confrere, Fr. Adrianus van Hest, MSC, and prays for his eternal repose in the Heart of our Lord. Fr. Ad was born on January 19, 1941…
Friday, 04 February 2022 21:25
Omicron strikes. Chevalier College 75 years, delayed reunion, celebration, then cancelled. Regrets.
Omicron strikes. Chevalier College 75 years, delayed reunion, celebration, then cancelled. Regrets. The intention was to post the following on the occasion of the celebration. We now post it as a memento of Chevalier College and its 75 years. Photos from the 2021 celebration, Feast of the Sacred Heart (with…
Thursday, 03 February 2022 22:10
First Friday, February 2022,
First Friday, February 2022, The Chevalier Family Justice has sent this poster and theme for this month. Here is the full poster with theme, prayer and action.
Wednesday, 02 February 2022 22:42
Acknowledging Philip Malone MSC, 80
Acknowledging Philip Malone MSC, 80 Philip celebrates his 80th birthday in the Kew Community on February 3rd. He made his first profession on February 26th 1960, did his studies at the Sacred Heart Monastery, Canberra, ANU, and Croydon, ordained in Sydney on July 16th 1966. He taught for many…
Tuesday, 01 February 2022 22:14
January 2022 Professions in Vietnam
January 2022 Professions in Vietnam Hoàng brings us the good news that last Saturday week four MSC made their final profession, and two men were accepted as candidates into the pre-novitiate formation program. Providentially, despite covid, some isolation our website photographer, Trieu, was able to get a ticket and…
Monday, 31 January 2022 22:08
Some Significant February Days for the Chevalier Family 2022
Some Significant February Days for the Chevalier Family 2022 2 February, 1892 The title of Saint Joseph "Friend of the Sacred Heart" is changed to "Saint Joseph, patron and model of those of love the Sacred Heart". 5 February, 1900 Canonical Erection of the Congregation of MSC Sisters and approbation…
