Tag Archive for ‘missionary’
Setting out, and setting out again…
Fifty years of missionary service as a Missionary Sister of the Society of Mary 1962, 8 December — Sr Marietta Judith Parsons made her Religious Profession by taking the three vows of Chastity, Poverty and Obedience, at Heretaunga, Upper Hutt. by Sr Bertha Hurley smsm 2012, 8 December – fifty years later, Sr Marietta celebrated […]
Missionary Audacity – the Mission to Tibet
On September 29, 2012, an exhibition entitled ‘Missions on the Roof of the World’ was opened at the headquarters of the Paris Foreign Mission Society (Société des missions évangéliques de Paris MEP) in Paris. The following is a shortened version of the address given by Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation […]
December Saints
December Saints Blessed Marcantonio Durando (1801-1880) Marcantonio Durando was born in Mondovi, Italy, in 1801. He took after his pious mother, not his liberal, agnostic father. At age 15, he manifested a desire to go to China as a missionary and entered the Congregation of the Mission, making his perpetual vows in 1819 and being […]
A Nun Always
Edited by Thérèse Pickard DUNMORE PUBLISHING The amazing true story of a missionary sister captured and enslaved by Mahdist Islamists in the Sudan.The story is told through documents and letters edited by her grand-daughter Thérèse Pickard who lives in Christchurch NZ. Reviewed by Sister Teresa Hanratty RSM “A Nun Always” is a true story about […]
The Reluctant Missionary
Fr Peter Puthenkandam’s path to the priesthood began as a primary schoolboy in his native India where it took two hours to walk there and back to Mass every Sunday with his mother “without fail” – a journey that eventually took him as a missionary priest to Timor Leste, a country so undeveloped you can’t […]
Monday 20 August
St Bernard Cantivcle Deut 32;18-21 Ezekiel 24:15-24; Matthew 19:16-22 Appreciation The young man asked Jesus what he had to do – “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” He went away sad. Perhaps we could […]
Ascension Means No Plan B
Occasionally a legend surfaces which expresses a profound truth in an imaginative way and encourages those who hear it to get on with their Christian life with renewed energy. One I heard recently was a variation of an older one. It fits the Feast of the Ascension and goes like this. When Jesus returned to […]
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