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Sunday, 06 September 2015 08:07

PAX CHRISTI LETTER ON SYRIAN BOMBINGS

PAX CHRISTI LETTER ON SYRIAN BOMBINGS     PAX CHRISTI   International Christian Peace Movement                                                               National President: Father Claude Mostowik MSC 61+2+9550 3845 0411 450 953 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. September 1, 2015 To the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Tony AbbottThe Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Julie…
Saturday, 05 September 2015 09:25

WEEKEND MURPHY'S OTHER 15 LAWS

WEEKEND MURPHY'S OTHER 15 LAWS MURPHY'S OTHER 15 LAWS 1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. 2. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. 3. He who laughs last, thinks…
Thursday, 03 September 2015 22:35

HOMILY FOR THE FUNERAL OF BR STAN NEISSON MSC

Homily for Funeral of Br Stan Niesson MSC [Photo from December 2014] “Whatever your work is, put your heart into it as it were for the Lord and not for men, knowing that the Lord will repay you by making you his heirs. it is Christ the Lord that you…
Wednesday, 02 September 2015 22:00

RIP, FATHER TONY O'BRIEN MSC

RIP, FR TONY O'BRIEN MSC Fr Tony O'Brien died this evening, September 2nd.  He had been in St Joseph's, Kensington, for some months. He was born on May 16th 1933, studied at Downlands College, and was part of a large group of  novices, many from Downlands, and made his first…
Wednesday, 02 September 2015 07:57

A PNG MSC MISSION STORY: BROTHER ANTON FREITAS MSC

A PNG MSC MISSION STORY: BROTHER ANTON FREITAS MSC Captain of the Ship, Servant of the Lord: Remembering Br. Tony (from the US MSC Site) Brother Anton, Freitas, MSC, a member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, . . . This is a tribute to Br Anton Freitas MSC…
Monday, 31 August 2015 23:18

NEWS FROM THE GENERAL HOUSE, AUGUST 2015

  MISSIONARIES OF THE SACRED HEART GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN (Volume 4/No 12, August, 2015) MSC Generalate, Via Asmara 11, 00199 Rome         This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. MAY THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS BE EVERYWHERE LOVED APA (Asia, Pacific, Australia) – TEAM The newly elected APA Formation Team had their meeting at the MSC Generalate…
Some significant "September Days" for the Chevalier Family to recall   Mark McDonald MSC, Superior General (and friend).  See September 13th 1 September, 1897 The erection of the German MSC Province. Blessing of the first MSC house in Hiltrup, Germany. 1 September, 1899 First 8 candidates of the MSC Sisters…
Friday, 28 August 2015 16:08

RIP, BROTHER STANLEY NEISSON MSC

RIP, BROTHER STANLEY NEISSON MSC Br Stanley Neisson MSC died peacefully at the Sacred Heart Hospice at Darlinghurst this morning at 6.30am Fr Peter Guy was with Stan.   Brother Stan Neisson was born on 11th December 1930.  He was a 'late vocation', joining the MSC at the beginning of…
Friday, 28 August 2015 07:47

COMPASS THEOLOGY REVIEW 2015/3

COMPASS THEOLOGY REVIEW 2015/3 Compass Theology Review is now in its 49th year.  The editor is Barry Brundell MSC. This most recent issue contains a guest editorial on Pope Francis' Laudato Si, shorter articles on a range of topics including Church Teaching and Pastoral Practices and Priests as Servants or…
Wednesday, 26 August 2015 22:27

RIP SISTER PAULA CARDEN MSC

RIP SISTER PAULA CARDEN MSC A tribute in photos And, back in the past
CONTEMPLATIVE LIVING FORMATION FOLLOW-UP WEEKEND 15 – 16, August 2015 Chris Chaplin MSC works in the Spirituality Ministry and is based, living a hermit life at The Cliffs, Shoreham, on Westernport Bay Thirty people joined me for a formation workshop in Adelaide this past weekend (15-16 August). Most of those…
REVIEW: HOLDING THE MAN. PETER WOOD MSC AND MELBOURNE AIDS MINISTRY A review of the film - and, afer the review, some comments from Peter Wood MSC and his memories of this story while he was heading the Melbourne Archdiocese AIDS ministry in the first half of the 1990s.  …
Partnerships for peace and compassion   It may be hard to imagine how Fr Claude Mostowik msc could do more to build partnerships for social justice advocacy, but he’s aiming to do even more through Catholic Religious Australia (CRA). Fr Claude who recently took on the role of CRA Justice…
WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN STORY THE BUSHRANGER'S PRIEST By   Paul Stenhouse, M.S.C. This article looks back to a little known part of our Australian history: Fr Tim McCarthy's work to rehabilitate bushrangers and to restore them to society. Tim McCarthy began and ended his brief fifty years of life in County Cork. In…
BENEDICT DASWA We have had several items on the progress of the cause of South African layman, Benedict Daswa. He is to be beatified next month. Cardinal Angelo Amato to Preside Over Beatification Ceremony of Benedict Daswa on September 13th A new website has been launched ahead of the beatification of…
AUSTRALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL OLSH MINISTRY IN SOUTH SUDAN. Sister Rita Grunke FDNSC In February 2012, this site had an interview with Sister Rita Grunke FDNSC on the ministry in South Sudan. Last December, Sister Mary Batchelor FDNSC had an article on 20 years of the Sisters' work in the difficult…
Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:23

MSC INDIA NEWS ITEMS

MSC INDIA NEWS ITEMS Two Finals BENGALURU, India - On May 25th two confreres made their final commitment before P. John Peter, the delegate of the Superior General, P. Mark McDonald, msc. In the homily P. John Peter preached about the challenges which the consecrated people are expected to face…
Monday, 17 August 2015 23:05

AUGUST 17th, FIVE YEARS ON THIS SITE

AUGUST 17th. FIVE YEARS ON THIS SITE August 17th seems an ordinary day – but, it is a special day for this website. In 2010 on August 17th, a small group met at the MSC house in Kew to work on the development of the MSC Province website which had…
OPENING CEREMONY – Chevalier College Highlands Trades Skills Centre On Tuesday 28 July, the Chevalier College Highlands Trades Skills Centre was opened officially by Senator the Hon Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Services and Parliamentary Secretary to the Attorney-General, Senator for New South Wales. A Blessing of…
Friday, 14 August 2015 16:07

WHAT'S IN A WORD: WEEKEND WIT

WHAT'S IN A WORD: WEEKEND WIT You may have come across these before - but they are well worth looking at again.  Sharpens the mind!   Someone out there must be "deadly" at Scrabble.   PRESBYTERIAN: When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER   ASTRONOMER: When you rearrange the…
Friday, 14 August 2015 09:15

PHOTO CATCH-UP

PHOTO CATCH-UP Here are some photos from previous stories or from some new stories: 1. For those who want to catch up on the eulogy for Fr Tyson Doneley MSC, go to the headings above, click Join Us and find MSC Life Stories and click, and you will find it.…
PAN-ASIAN CONFERENCE FOR THEOLOGICAL ETHICISTS, PHILIP MALONE MSC Some of the Australian delegates   Bangalore Conference Report The first ever Pan-Asian Conference for Theological Ethicists: Doing Catholic Theological Ethics in a Cross-Cultural and Interreligious Asian Context was held in Bangalore, India from July 17 to July 21. There were 95…
Monday, 10 August 2015 22:34

FINISHED THE CAMINO, PAUL CASTLEY MSC

FINISHED THE CAMINO, PAUL CASTLEY MSC Paul has completed his Camino walk, diagonally across France and then across the top of Spain. His final notes.   July 30th I am at a reasonably sized village, Cacabelos, 5,500 here. That makes it sizable compared with the vast majority of villages we…
Monday, 10 August 2015 07:03

RIP, FR FRANK SHORTIS O.CARM

Fr Frank Shortis, OCarm. RIP Many would know Fr Frank Shortis O Carm, pioneer in Catholic Education in Melbourne, Provincial Superior, parish priest, a graduate of the Heart of Life's Siloam, Spiritual Directors Program. Fr Frank was born in Kyabram (VIC) on 10 July 1926, the son of Thomas Shortis…
MAKING A DIFFERENCE. SOME REMARKABLE MSC BY JAMES LITTLETON MSC This is the fourth booklet by Fr Jim LIttleton MSC in his series, Some Remarkable MSC. This time he goes back to one of the earliest MSC, Fr Arthur Goodman, his chaplaincy work in World War I, his ministry on…
ST MARY'S TOWERS, MOVIE RETREAT, TO THE HEART OF CONTEMPLATION   “Now Showing” – Movies that lead us to the HEART of Contemplative living Dominic Gleeson MSC The six day guided retreat began with a ‘how to’ in experiencing the experience of viewing various scenes from a movie. Participants were…
INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONFERENCE ON MINING: DELEGATE CLAUDE MOSTOWIK MSC Churches urged to play role in fight against mining Divestment is a tool to keep companies in check, activists say   Indigenous people from the Philippines join an international conference on mining that opened in Manila on July 30. (Photo by…
Wednesday, 05 August 2015 08:18

VOCATIONS AWARENESS WEEK

VOCATIONS AWARENESS WEEK This cross appeared in the recent issue of Kairos from Melbourne archdiocese on Vocations Awareness Week. It is based on words which emerged from a series of questions to Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Australian Province. What three words would you use to describe: 1) Your life…
Tuesday, 04 August 2015 07:11

SOME FOLLOW UP TO NEWS ITEMS

SOME FOLLOW UP TO NEWS ITEMS More on the eulogy for Fr Tyson Doneley MSC, Albert Yelds MSC 90th birthday in Kiribati, Peter Huan's Silver Jubilee in his home parish in Melbourne. 1. To read the eulogy for Tyson Doneley, go to the top bar and click 'Join us', Find…
MARTIN WILSON MSC AND PETER FLYNN MSC, 60 YEARS ORDAINED On August 1st, Martin Wilson and Peter Flynn celebrated 60 years of priesthood. Martin Wilson Peter Flynn After ordination, Martin Wilson studied philosophy in Rome, taught in the MSC scholasticate and also in MSC schools. His principal work was in…
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