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Fr Barry Scannell sm – PP of St Mary of the Angels
MM: How have the parishioners coped with the closure of their church? Fr Scannell: The parishioners have been overwhelmingly supportive. It’s inconvenient because they now have to go to four different venues for Mass on Sunday, and we have Mass in the hall during the week, but overwhelmingly they support our decision to strengthen the […]
Mary and the Reformation
While in the UK I have tried to visit as many churches as I can. Most of the beautiful old churches are now Anglican, having been through the English Reformation which was a traumatic and destructive time. The lovely Adoration of the Magi illustrating this page is witness to this. It resides in the Anglican […]
Reflections on Marist Spirtuality (1)
Fr Denis Mahony, who died last year, presented these Reflections on Marist Spirituality at Marist Training Centre in Tutu, Fiji. They were published in Tutu – Another Way, written by Adele M.E. Jones with Michael McVerry sm, and published in 2012, and are reprinted with permission. Mary’s dream Two hundred years ago Mary shared her […]
Wednesday 01 January
solemnity of Mary Mother of God I am chosen As 2014 dawns it is an opportunity to pause from frantic festivity. In a quiet place each day stop to pray and be open each day to the Word of God. Starting now I open myself to identify with an ancient blessing from Aaron still used […]
Saturday 21 December
Songs 2:8-14 or Zeph 3:14-18, Ps 32:2-3, 11-12, 20-21, Luke 1:39-45 My beloved “I hear my love.See how he comes”. (Songs 2:8) These words from our first reading today echo Elizabeth’s words to Mary, in our Gospel, that, at her approach “… the child in my womb leapt for joy!” Words for us to reflect […]
Friday 20 December
Is 7:10-14, Ps 23:1-6, Luke 1:26-38 Mary our model Two things about the Annunciation are very clear. First, Mary had little, if any, understanding of what Gabriel was saying and no idea of its consequences. She was “deeply disturbed” and thoroughly confused: “How can this be?”. But secondly, despite her lack of understanding and confusion […]
Wednesday 11 December
Is 40:25-31, Ps 102:1-4, 8, 10, Matthew 11:28-30 Follow the leader “Shoulder my yoke and learn from me” are words which so perfectly and succinctly define what our daily relationship with Jesus must be if we are to live as his disciples. A more modern metaphor might be “You be the car and let me […]
Monday 9 December
The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Is 35:1-10, Ps 84:9-14, Luke 5:17-26 Co-operating with the divine will Devotion to Mary is devotion to one who draws us, more than any other Saint, to God, through her son Jesus Christ. Mary’s conception without original sin was God’s gift to the one he chose to […]
Mary for Today – Mary for the Third Millennium (2)
Mary, Model for the Church In an insightful comment Karl Rahner reminded us that it was the image of the woman Mary that enabled the church in past centuries to prevent society, with which it was too uncritically identified, from setting up a purely patriarchal domination. He adds that the Church had to learn slowly […]
On Mary, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church
The reflection given by Pope Francis to those who gathered in St Peter’s square on the weekend dedicated to Mary, the Mother of the Lord, 12 – 13 October 2013: This event of the Year of Faith is devoted to Mary, the Mother of Christ and the Mother of the Church, our Mother. The statue […]
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