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Post by hibernicus on Sept 15, 2012 19:46:03 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Fr Des Forristal, former parish priest of Dalkey, who died earlier this week. His obituary is in today's IRISH TIMES. Anyone of my generation will have encountered at least some of Fr Forristal's religious dramas and his RADHARC documentaries on the television in the 1980s and 1990s, and hopefully will have derived some benefit from them. He was on the liberal wing of the church, but I am informed that he was the sort of liberal who genuinely believed in free expression for conservative views even when he did not agree with them. He sought to follow after St Paul in preaching the Gospel; through the intercession of St Paul and all the saints and of all those who benefitted from his labours, may he be received into the everlasting glory of the Word Incarnate.
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Post by hibernicus on Sept 15, 2012 21:44:42 GMT
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Post by hythlodaye on Sept 16, 2012 17:00:35 GMT
Yes indeed. Fr Des Forristal was a GENUINE liberal, unlike the Hobans and Commanes and the rest of the ACPI shower. For years he stocked the Brandsma Review in his respository in the Church of Assumption, Dalkey, quoting Mao Tse-ting's dictum "Let a thousand flowers bloom". As Fr Des put it: "But he didn't mean it, and I do." Not long after his departure from the parish, the magazine was banned. Lux perpetua luceat ei.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Sept 18, 2012 9:47:53 GMT
I'll answer on Opus Angelorum in 'Weird New Movements'.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Oct 31, 2012 8:38:26 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the reposal of the soul of the late Fr Muredach Tuffy, CC, Ballina Cathedral and Vocations Director of the Killala diocese. I am informed he was the youngest priest of the Killala Diocese.
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 2, 2012 21:25:22 GMT
For reasons of my own I have been looking at some newspapers from the Famine era lately, and today when looking at them I came across coverage of the death in 1847 of William Riddell, Vicar-Apostolic of the Northern District of England. (Before the restoration of the Hierarchy of England and Wales in 1850 Catholics in England and Wales were ruled by Vicars Apostolic, titular bishops who ruled over "districts" rather than dioceses.) Bishop Riddell ministered in Newcastle-on-Tyne and died of typhus fever which he contracted while attending the sick poor during an epidemic. He was only 41, and at the time of his death all the priests in Newcastle who had not died of the fever were suffering from it. Many of those he attended would have been Irish people, suffering from the Famine. As I looked at the reports more closely, I realised that Bishop Riddell died 175 years ago today - on November 2nd, All Souls' Day. He lived at a time of trial, but also a time of hope, when Catholicism in Britain and Ireland was recovering from the Penal era, when new churches were being built, new missions undertaken, new religious orders were introduced, a new confidence arising; Newman had been converted two years previously, and three years later he would hail a "Second Spring" of Catholicism. Bishop Riddell was one of many priests in Britain and Ireland who during those years gave up their lives ministering in epidemics. Eleven priests died in Liverpool during the Famine years; the Liverpool Cathedral on the site of the old workhouse is their monument, and the monument of so many anonymous Irish Catholics who lost everything in this world and last of all life itself. What would Bishop Riddell and his fellow martyrs of charity think if they could see the Church in Britain and Ireland now? The holy city is desolate, through our own faults and failings. How few now come forward to take up the yoke of Christ as they did, and to offer hope as they offered hope to those who were dying like dogs in the worst slums. We are more prosperous now than those priests writing appeals to the public for relief, in rural parishes, in the city slums, could have imagined - and our public sphere is increasingly influenced by a culture of death which sneers at the Christian hope and exults in despair as an assertion of strength. Worst of all, those who claimed to carry on the Christian work of love and self-sacrifice for others, contributed to this despair by committing or serving as accessory to awful crimes which overshadow the Christian witness borne by so many like Bishop Riddell. Archdeacon Kavanagh of Knock seems to have believed that Our Lady came in answer to his prayers for the Holy Souls and as a sign that those whom as a young curate he saw dying like dogs did not perish but were received into God's love and mercy. This day and night are given to us to remember not only our own loved ones who have gone before us, but the anonymous dead who are not remembered and not prayed for. We must never lose hope, and never believe that the dead are lost to us. Of your charity, this All Souls' night, say a prayer for Bishop Riddell, for those priests who laboured like him and died like him, and of those nameless many to whom they ministered.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2012 16:58:09 GMT
Please remember the souls of Savita Halappanavar and her baby in your prayers, as well as her family and most especially her husband Praveen during this terrible time. He has lost his future, God help him, and her parents their child.
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Post by maolsheachlann on Nov 15, 2012 20:51:52 GMT
Amen.
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Post by Young Ireland on Nov 15, 2012 21:02:27 GMT
Amen.
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Post by annie on Nov 16, 2012 0:51:23 GMT
Amen.
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 21, 2012 21:53:59 GMT
Amen. Let us pray for all those involved in this terrible tragedy and the repercussions that are flowing from it.
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 24, 2012 16:42:34 GMT
Your prayers are requested for Mgr William Crean, the new Bishop of Cloyne, as he takes up his duties.
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 19, 2012 22:13:34 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Judge Robert H Bork, who has died. Judge Bork was unsuccessfully nominated for the US Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1987 and defeated after a smear campaign led by Teddy Kennedy. Had the nomination been successful, Roe v. Wade might well have been overturned in 1992. He converted to Catholicism some years ago, BTW.
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 22, 2012 16:42:22 GMT
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Shane McEntee TD
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Post by hibernicus on Dec 22, 2012 16:45:02 GMT
Your prayers are also requested for the repose of the soul of Dr Mary Lucey, whose pro-life work (especially with the Pro-Life Campaign in the 1983 referendum) many of you will remember. Her obituary is in the IRISH TIMES today. Apparently she died on 13 December but I missed the death notices. Condolences to her family and friends.
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