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Albert Yelds MSC, Mission Letters – a Podcast

Recently, the MSC Mission Office received a donation of a cache of letters written by the late Albert Yelds MSC. Albert died last year at the age of 98, the doyen of the Australian Province, someone who was ill when young and not expected to live so long.

In recent decades, before retiring to Kensington, Albert spent many years in Kiribati.

Director of the MSC Mission Office, Roger Purcell, has been pioneering podcasts with the daily Mission Alive talks with a range of mission speakers.

Now, Letters from the Missions, A Memoir of Faith and Adventure, is a series available on Youtube, the texts of the letters are spoken by longtime member of the Mission Office staff, Sean Donovan. 

There are seven episodes.

Simply Google:Youtube Letters from the Missions.

 200th Anniversary of the birth of Fr Jules Chevalier MSC - one month to go

Stephen Hackett writes: You would be aware that the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of our Founder, Jules Chevalier, occurs on Friday 15 March this year. The Provincial Council discussed the anniversary at its last meeting in 2023 and decided that we should relate with the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, and Laity of the Chevalier Family to mark the occasion. Meeting with Sr Philippa Murphy FDNSC, Sr Tess Veenker MSC and Mr Fred Stubenrauch, we agreed that joint celebrations involving all branches of the Chevalier Family would be desirable wherever this is possible.

An extended form of Evening Prayer is being prepared and will be made available in early February. Each local community will be encouraged to celebrate this Evening Prayer at a suitable venue on Friday 15 March.

As well, to ensure senior members of the three congregations can participate in the celebrations, there will be morning Mass that day in Sydney and Melbourne. Invitations to these celebrations will be sent out next month.

The Melbourne Mass on March 15^th in Melbourne will be the 10.00 am Mass at St Thomas, Blackburn, where we will all gather. (Note, the Novitiate begins at Blackburn on the evening of the 15^th.)

Kenji Konda MSC, Ordination

This is a very happy weekend for the Australian province, the ordination of our confrere, Kenji. And, these years, it is a rare occasion.

Kenji was ordained in Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, Randwick, where he served on the parish council, by Bishop Terry Brady, with his memories of MSC life and his support as Bishop over the years.

Scenes of the ceremony

With thanks to John Walker for organising and supplying these photos.

The Bicentenary of Jules Chevalier’s birth, March 15^th 1824. Who MSC are…

This text is from the MSC entry to the book commissioned by the Congregations of Religious Australia, CRA, and is available from them.

You might like to copy and paste the material so that you could use it in full or in part for your forthcoming celebration of the Bicentenary.

Name of congregation:    Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.

Post-nominal initials:       MSC (in the early 20^th century in Australia, MSH). Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis in Latin; Missionnaires du Sacre Coeur in French.

Charism:                          “To be on earth the Heart of God.”

Founded by:                      Jules Chevalier, 1854, France. Learn more at the MSC website.

Ministries:                        Foreign missions and establishment of local Churches, Education, Pastoral and Spiritual Formation, Justice and Peace, Media and Communications.

Places of ministry :       54 countries throughout the world, all continents.

Beginnings in Australia: The MSC first came to Sydney from France in 1885. Cardinal Moran offered the first missionaries en route to Papua New Guinea the parish of Randwick/Botany as a mission base.

Notable events or historic turning points

Mission establishment and working with local churches. Missions of Papua New Guinea entrusted to the Congregation, 1881.

Establishment of the Australian Province 1905. Australian work in the Northern Territory from 1906.

Post-Vatican II renewal with Superior General, E.J. Cuskelly. Australian outreach to Asia, Japan 1949, India 1984, Vietnam 2003.

 Notable writings, documents:   

Founder Jules Chevalier wrote extensively, books and articles on Devotion to the Sacred Heart. Many MSC have published many books. After Vatican II, Superior General, E.J. Cuskelly of Australia, also wrote extensively, expressing a shift in perspective from “Devotion to the Sacred Heart” to “Spirituality of the Heart”. The Congregation has many websites containing this documentation.

Sayings of interest          

Vision: “May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be everywhere loved. Forever.

The Word coming from the Heart of his Father, made the world emerge from nothing; and from the Heart of the incarnated Word, pierced on Calvary, I see a new world emerging, the world of those he has chosen. And this creation, so fertile, full of grandeur and inspired by love and mercy, is the church, the mystical body of Christ, which makes his new creation present on earth until the end of time.” (Jules Chevalier, 1900)

Reflect on the image of the heart. MSC spirituality is grounded in the belief of God’s love for us: the heart of Jesus is the Heart of God. God in Jesus loves us with a human heart. With our own hearts we seek to heal the wounds of this world. Mary is the first missionary of Jesus’ heart. We stand with Mary who stood with Jesus at the foot of the cross. Image: Gemma Farrugia.

OUR STORY

Jules Chevalier was a 30 year old parish priest when he founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) in Issoudun, central France, 8 December 1854. Issoudun is 200km south of Paris.

Chevalier was saddened by the religious indifference in France after the Revolution, yet excited by the increasing foreign missionary spirit. He was inspired by the spirituality of the interior sentiments of Christ promoted by the Sulpician priests who taught him in the seminary, as well as by Devotion to the Sacred Heart. He was happy that his name meant “Knight”. His motto was: “May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be everywhere loved. Forever.” Devotion to Mary, the mother of Jesus, was also central to his vision and spirituality.

Initially a small group, the MSC established Apostolic Schools for aspirants (those who “aspire” to join a religious order).

However, anticlerical legislation in France and expulsions led to the Congregation spreading within 30 years. MSC moved to Belgium, Holland, Germany, England, the USA, Italy. The Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH Sisters) were founded in 1874. Meanwhile, Chevalier remained parish priest of Issoudun all his life, making it a significant centre of Marian pilgrimage.

Eager for his men (MSC priests and brothers) and OLSH Sisters to reach out to missions, Chevalier was happy when Pope Leo XIII entrusted Papua New Guinea and New Britain to the MSC in 1881. All the countries of Europe with an MSC presence went out to missions on all continents, eventually developing provinces in Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Korea, the Pacific Islands, as well as in Africa and South America. The Australian Province was established in 1905.

MSC work in schools, teaching, chaplaincy and parishes. They have had a long tradition in retreats and home missions. Social justice, especially motivated by the Heart Spirituality, is key to ministry. There are beatified martyrs from the Spanish Civil War and from uprisings in Central America in the 1970s and 1980s.

A number of missionaries established local congregations of sisters. In recent years, there have been worldwide developments for Lay MSC who, along with the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart [MSC], Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart [OLSH Sisters], Missionaries Sisters of the Sacred Heart [MSC Sisters], are part of the Chevalier Family.

Symbolically, some months before his death in 1907, Jules Chevalier was the victim of new anticlerical legislation. Evicted from his presbytery, he was taken to the home of a parishioner and later buried in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Paris). He had seen over half a century of mission that he had inspired – and more than a century was to follow.

MSC Writings

In 1865, Jules Chevalier established the Annals of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, a Journal of Catholic Culture. Each province had its own Annals (Australia in 1889),

He was also a prolific writer. Spiritual and theological writing has been a constant feature of MSC outreach (especially in Australia with Compass Theology Review, 1967-2016). This has led to developments in media and communication and social media.

Continue to explore the story of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. Visit misacor.org.au (with six postings each week since 2010).

Sources: Monastery on the Hill, A History of the Sacred Heart Monastery, 1897-1997, Nelen Yubu, 2000. Information supplied by Missionaries of the Sacred Heart is gratefully acknowledged.

Welcome, Tim…  Back from Rome

Tim Brennan returns from Rome today for medical treatment.

At the Provincial Chapter

Tim has had a very full ministry since his ordination in1976.  He spent decades in the Northern Territory, in Alice Springs, on Bathurst Island, in Darwin, Vicar General for many years, and studying Canon Law in Ottawa. He served as Provincial Superior, 2004-2010, then worked on Professional Standards for the Bishops Conference and in recent years in Rome making a significant contribution to establishing a culture of safeguarding throughout the Society, which was affirmed by the decisions of the General Chapter last year. He has also served on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

At the General Chapter

Tim has served the Province, the Australian Church, the MSC Society worldwide.

Some photos from Kensington Monastery, relaxing moments

 Some photos on the occasion of

a Christmas season morning tea hosted by the Chevalier Institute.

You may see some photos of old friends like

Jim Littleton, Michael Fallon,

Col Sinclair down from Fiji,

Greg McCann, Terry Herbert, Gerard Shanley, Isaac, John Bosman

Phil Hicks, Jac Boelen…

Celebrating the MSC Foundation Day, December 8^th – 169 years.

• Feast of the Immaculate Conception

From Raincy Church Facebook page, 2021

Homily: Celebration of Perpetual Profession, Daniel Magadia MSC & Quoc Trieu Nguyen MSC

Stephen Hackett MSC and a perspective on our spirit.

On the eastern outskirts of Paris in the town of La Raincy stands the Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy, Our Lady of Raincy. In a chapel behind the original high altar stands a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It isn’t a traditional statue of the Sacred Heart, with an extruded heart showing the piercing by a lance, bleeding droplets of blood, and flame atop, all surrounded by a crown of thorns. No, this statue of the Sacred Heart is all white and smooth, save for a finely etched heart which is all but imperceptible until standing quite close. I tried to photograph it, but without any success.

This statue of the Sacred Heart is quite unlike any other I have seen elsewhere. Instead of the heart going out, as it were, signifying an outpouring of God’s love and mercy through the human heart of Jesus, the statue of the Sacred Heart in the church at La Raincy appears to draw us in, signifying Jesus’ invitation to come to him, to enter into his heart, and there to contemplate the love and compassion of God in the human heart of Jesus; to enter deeply into his heart that we might come to know everything he chooses to reveal to us, which is nothing less than the ‘fulness of God’.

This being drawn into Christ Jesus, not just drawn to him but drawn into contemplation of his heart, Trieu and Daniel, is at the very centre of our vocation as Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. It is this intimacy with Jesus, this communion of our hearts with his heart, his gentle and humble heart, which makes it possible for us to discover in our own hearts the depths of God’s love for us, which is greater than we can imagine or desire. It is our response to this same experience of God’s love that impels us to mission, to sharing with others all that we have come to know of the Father’s love for us through what we have first received from Jesus.

St Paul recognises this in his own life, setting forth in his letter to the Philippians the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus, of forsaking everything else life has to offer so as to have life in Christ Jesus through the power of his death and resurrection; that is, through the paschal mystery. It is through baptism that we first enter into this mystery of Jesus’ dying and rising, making it possible for this same mystery to become the pattern of our own human and Christian living; and it is through our participation in the Eucharist that our life in Christ Jesus is nourished, strengthened and sustained.

Here, this morning, Daniel and Trieu, you will affirm through perpetual vows a choice you have already made, a choice like that of St Paul, to accept loss of everything so that you can have Christ Jesus and be given a place in him; that by embracing his dying and rising as the pattern of your own lives, you can pursue for the rest of your days and years what you have already come to know through him, which is nothing less than the love of God for you, and a glimpse of the totality of this love which is the very fulness of God.

The vows you will profess are a radical way – to use St Paul’s imagery – of capturing the prize for which Christ Jesus has captured you. Of the many disciples who are called by Jesus to follow him and learn from him, relatively few are chosen to live the consecrated life. By professing poverty, you are freely letting go of possessing the things of this world which might otherwise possess you. By professing consecrated chastity, you are freely letting go of the fullest expression of the gift of our human sexuality that you might have ever-deeper intimacy with Jesus and live out of the love with which he loves you. By professing obedience in fraternal charity, you are freely letting go of fulfilling your own will so that, by attentive listening and discernment, the will of Jesus for you can become you own will.

What you profess to Jesus Christ here in our midst today is graced by God; you can be sure of that. For those of us who have been on this journey for many years already, your profession gives us new heart. For those just beginning, or even discerning, this way of life, your profession serves to inspire. Yet what you are committing to for the whole of your lives is not always easy. Patterning our lives on the dying and rising of Jesus means accepting even death, dying to ourselves over and again, that we might share more fully in his life, the life that flows from his heart, pierced on the cross, the gift of his Spirit, poured out upon our Church, to bring salvation to all people.

So, come forth, Trieu and Daniel, in the presence of your families, your confreres and your friends, and entrust yourselves to the heart of Jesus, that you may come to know ever more deeply the fulness of his love and live wholeheartedly for him. Commit yourselves to him in the little Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart by the profession of perpetual vows, that you might share fully in the life and the mission to which you have been called and for which you have been chosen. And make your own in our common life and in our shared mission the motto given to us from our Founder, Jules Chevalier, ‘May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved everywhere’.

Melbourne MSC Photos this week

Getting to YTU and around Blackburn. Vincent and his scooter.

And Trieu and his scooter.

Meanwhile the Culture Night at YTU, September 1^st, organised by the Student Representative Council, Hoa is Secretary and editor of the weekly student Newsletter. Trieu is on the committee.

And at St Timothy’s, Forest Hill, the Vietnamese community, Khoi welcoming Archbishop Peter Comensoli.

And Stephen Hackett visited the Heart of Life Centre, Malvern, pictured with the fulltime Siloam participants (including Petrus, right, and John, left, our MSC confreres from Indonesia. Sister Relida, OLSH, PNG, next to John.

 Some Significant September Days for the Chevalier Family, 2023

Statue from Holland

NOTE:

this is an amplified version of Significant Days, combining the list made originally by Cor Novum, Issoudun, now with the addition of dates from Father Jan Bovenmars MSC’s book, Jules Chevalier, Daily Readings. His book was published in 1993 – so, more recent just from all around the congregation and the Chevalier family would be most welcome. 53 additions for September

Mother Marie Louise Hartzer appears quite a number of times this month, the death of her husband, memories of her two sons, her meeting with Jules Chevalier, her vows.

An observation: September seems a busy month for electing the MSC Superior General (and a caution about September 28^th, the day of death for two of them), as well as a busy month for appointments and ordinations of Bishops. And of the erection of Provinces and Sections.

1 September, 1860

The first Roman pilgrimage of Father Chevalier.

1 September, 1881

The first missionaries for Melanesia leave from Barcelona.

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 are received as postulants in Hiltrup.

1 September, 1900

Erection of the Italian MSC Province.

2 September, 1920

Arrival of the first MSC in Manado, celebrities, Indonesia, including Msgr Vesters, later Bishop.

2 September, 1956

Death of Brother Robert South, first Brother of the Australian province.

3 September, 1901

The Congregation of Bishops and Regulars grants and indult authorising Father Chevalier to announce his position as Superior General.

4 September, 1861

Father Maugenest becomes the first MSC to be parish priest of St. Cyr, Issoudun. He remains in this position until 31 December, 1871.

4 September, 1882,

Father X. Deidier leaves Issoudun for Madeley, England, to open the first MSC house there, and Apostolic School.

4 September, 1923

Mission apostolate of MSC Sisters commences in New Ireland, PNG.

4 September, 1945

The missionaries imprisoned by the Japanese during WWII in Ramale Valley, Papua New Guinea, are set free. The movie, entitled Sisters of War, produced in 2010 by an Australian film company, tells part of this story.

5 September, 1907

This date commemorates the opening of a 'special' MSC General Chapter which revised the Constitutions in the spirit of the "Roman Norms" of 1901. This Chapter occurred only a few weeks before Father Chevalier's death. He could not be present at the Chapter.

6 September, 1962

Father Karel Verwilghen, from the Netherlands, is shot in San José Nueva Ecija, Philippines. He died on 8 September in Quezon City, Philippines.

6 September, 1985

Foundation of the MSC Mission in Curaçao, Santa Maria parish.

7 September, 1978

Father R.Paglia, appointed Prelate Nullius and Bishop of Pinheiro, ordained in the Chapel of Villa Formosa, San Paolo, Brazil, the first MSC Bishop from Brazil.

8 September, 1869

The Archbishop of Bourges, Monsignor de La Tour d'Auvergne blesses Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Chapel in Issoudun and consecrates the altar. The coronation of the statue of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart takes place this day in the name of Pope Pius IX.

8 September, 1876

Father Chevalier meets Marie-Louise Hartzer for the first time.

8 September, 1877

First profession of the first Irish MSC, John Mary Neenan.

8 September, 1908

First General Chapter of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Thuin, Belgium.

9 September, 1860

Father Chevalier’s first Roman pilgrimage: audience with Pope Pius IX.

9 September, 1884

Five Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart make their first vows. Marie-Louise Hartzer is among them.

9 September. 1911

Erection of the Australian FDNSC Province.

10 September, 1892

The MSC General Council accepts 16 scholastics for perpetual vows, among whom M.Rascher, killed in the Bainings in 1906; K.Offermans, the first Dutch provincial; and J.Wemmers, the first Dutch general assistant (1905-1911).

11 September, 1958,

A group of Irish FDNSC nursing Sisters take charge of the mining hospital at Mangula, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

11 September, 1961

Ikela (Zaire) becomes a diocese and is entrusted to the South German MSC province, Father Joseph Weigl MSC becomes its first Bishop.

11 September, 1969

Beginning of a special MSC General Chapter of Renewal (September 11-November 14), during which the Documents of Renewal were written.

12 September, 1855

L'abbé Caillaud, the General Vicar at the time, blesses the humble chapel (barns) in Issoudun and gives to the first two members of the society, Jules Chevalier and Emile Maugenest, the name Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was on this very day that Jules Chevalier thought, for the first time, of the title "Our Lady of the Sacred Heart".

12 September, 1869

Opening of the first MSC novitiate at Montlucon, France. Father Guyot is the first Novice Master.

13 September, 1884

Father Navarre leaves New Pomerania (New Britain, PNG) for Thursday Island, gateway to Papua New Guinea.

13 September, 1891

Departure of the first FDNSC for New Britain.

13 September, 1901

Mother Marie-Louise Hartzer makes her application to the French Government for the authorization of the Congregation as exacted by the law of 1 July, 1901. This fact prevents the local authorities at this time during the political-religious unrest from affixing seals to the FDNSC mother house in Issoudun.

13 September, 1912

Father Franciscus Maria Victor Jouët dies in Rome. He is buried in Marseilles in the south of France, in his original diocese. On 2 July, 2003, his remains are interred in the Crypt in the Basilica in Issoudun.

13 September, 1947

Father Patrick McCabe (Australia) is elected Superior General (1947-1958).

14 September, 1902

Departure of the first seven MSC Sisters from Hiltrup for New Pomerania, New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

14 September, 1989

Erection of the PNG Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.

15 September 1925

A first group of Belgian FDNSC, together with five MSC, leave Antwerp as missionaries for the Belgian Congo (Zaire).

15 September, 1958

Father Joseph van Kerckhoven, Belgium, is elected Superior General (1958-1969).

15 September, 1970

The Dominican Republic becomes a provincial Administration of the MSC.

17 September, 1861

Father Maugenest is appointed Parish Priest of St Cyr, Issoudun.

17 September, 1932

Father Christian Jansen, Netherlands, is elected Superior General (1932-1947).

18 September, 1981

Father Kees Braun, Netherlands, is elected Superior General.

19 September, 1869

Victor Hartzer, husband of Marie-Louise Hartzer, dies in Vesoul, France, after being married 11 years. Together they had two sons: Marie Victor Fernand (born 1858) and Marie Léopold (born 1860). Both sons became MSC Priests.

20 September, 1900

The first MSC Superior, Father Field, arrives at Québec, to prepare for the arrival of the French scholastics.

20 September, 1905.

The Marshall Islands are erected as an independent Apostolic Vicariate separated from the Apostolic Vicariate New Pomerania, new Britain, PNG. They are entrusted to the MSC already working there.

21 September, 1886

Father Deidier and the Apostolic School moved from Madeley to Glastonbury, England. The English Annals will be published from there

21 September, 1930.

The first two Filipino MSC take their vows.

21 September, 1940

Father J.Vrakking MSC, Netherlands, appointed first Bishop of Surigao, Philippines, ordained Bishop at Cebu.

21 September, 1953,

Argentina erected as an MSC Section, entrusted to the Spanish Province.

21 September, 1987

Foundation in El Salvador by MSC of the Central American Region.

21 September, 1988

Father Luke Matlaterea MSC, PNG, appointed Bishop of Bereina, ordained by Bishop Bundevoert MSC.

22 September, 1889

Father Verius, appointed Vicar Apostolic of New Britain, ordained Bishop at Yule Island. On December 28 the appointment was changed to Episcopal Coadjutor to Msgr Navarre.

22 September, 1925

Translation of the remains of Msgr Navarre (1836-1912) to Yule Island.

23 September, 1924

The first Belgian MSC go to Belgian Congo (Zaire), leave Antwerp.

23 September, 1942

Death of Father Peter L’Esperance, Pro-Provincial of USA-Canada from 1910-1939.

24 September, 1881

The novices of Father Piperon, who arrived in the Netherlands, November 1880, after having been expulsed from France, make their first profession. Among them is Hubert Linckens, who will later become the historical founder of the MSC Sisters.

24 September, 1896

Brother Archibald Shaw (“ Brother Placid”, Australia) professed on Yule Island after Novitiate in the missions.

24 September, 1922

Last Spiritual Testament of the founder of the MSC sisters, Father H.Linckens MSC, for the members of the Congregation.

25 September, 1869

The first MSC General Chapter elects Father Chevalier as First Superior General. Fathers Piperon, Vandel, Bazire and Guyot are elected as his assistants.

26 September, 1864

Father Chevalier sends his booklet “Plan of the Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart “to Father LeBlanc.

26 September,

Mary Ryan, the sixth postulant and first Irish girl to enter the FDNSC Congregation, a teacher, arrives at Issouodun.

26 September, 1967

Venezuela is erected as MSC Section, entrusted to the Irish Province.

26 September, 1982

Father Joseph Tethool MSC (Indonesia) appointed auxiliary of Ambon, ordained at Ambon.
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26 September, 1889

Marie-Louise Hartzer makes her perpetual vows.

27 September, 1869

Jules Chevalier and his first companions make their perpetual vows at the end of a retreat preached by Father Ramière, SJ.

27 September 1869

The house at Issoudun is canonically erected.

28 September, 1972

Father Patrick McCabe, Australia, dies at Sydney, Superior General from 1947-1958.

28 September, 1974

Death of Father Joseph van Kerckhoven, Belgium, Superior General from 1958-1969.

29 September, 1882

The first three MSC, with Father Navarre arrive at Matupit, New Britain, PNG, after travelling for 13 months.

 29 September, 1936

Four Fathers and three Brothers, all from the community of Canet del Mar, killed, Spain, during the Civil War. Three other Fathers from Barcelona and one Brother were killed on other days.

30 September, 1927

The first three MSC leave Marseille for the mission of central Java, Indonesia.

This week, Mission Office visits, cooking pizza at Cuskelly House and two Kookaburras at Kensington Monastery.

MSC Mission Office, Roger Purcell visits Blackburn parish

With Khoi and Trieu

and his old school, Monivae.

The Monivae visit was featured this week on the Mission Office podcast, Mission Alive, as was an interview with Sister Rita Grunke OLSH who has worked in South Sudan for many years. Recommended viewing each day on the Mission Office site – well worth Bookmarking.

Formation Pizza,

From the Facebook page, MSC Vocations - Australian Province. What do you have for dinner tonight? Mark Hanns, post-noviciate director is making his own version of pizza for the community. (An apology to Italians! LoL )

 Check the MSC Vocations Australia Facebook page for MSC and Vocations promotion and news (From Cuskelly House)

And, in the St Francis’ vein.

Kookaburras at the Monastery:  Thank you, John O’Connor, for this, "…and it came to pass that two Kookaburras discovered the light in the monastic garden during the daylight time of the eleventh hour - how enlightening is that?” Perhaps over-reading the parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard!!