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Tuesday, 30 March 2021 22:28
MSC Lay Council, Vatican Response on Blessing Same-Sex Unions.
MSC Lay Council, Vatican Response on Blessing Same-Sex Unions. The communication that the Lay Council sent to the Tri-Generalate, MSC, OLSH, MSC Sisters, on the CDF statement. From the General Secretary, Alison McKenzie. Special Easter greetings to our dear friends. This email is to update you on our response as…
Monday, 29 March 2021 22:40
MSC Philippines, Happy News, Sad News, Good News
MSC Philippines, Happy News, Sad News Happy News Congratulations to our newly ordained MSC Priests! Featuring our media/Facebook confrere, Michael Angelo Acera Dacalos MSC. Sad News On this Solemnity of Saint Joseph, our dearly beloved confrere, Rev. Fr. Kees Swinkels, MSC has returned to our Father. He is 92…
Sunday, 28 March 2021 22:20
John Walker MSC, a creative ministry
John Walker MSC, a creative ministry John writes from Kensington Great news … I have returned to my Calvary roots, and my first love palliative care, but not as a nurse! I am engaged as a biographer; someone who sits with a person with a terminal illness over a period of time,…
Friday, 26 March 2021 22:45
Victoria - Tasmania Community, 2021 Who? Where?
Victoria - Tasmania Community, 2021 Who? Where? The second largest community in the Province: in Melbourne, in Hamilton, in Hobart, in Launceston, and online from Vietnam. BLACKBURN Cuskelly House Mark Hans, Formation Director, Heart of Life program, Spiritual Leaders Doan Nguyen Danh, Heart of Life program, Siloam, Spiritual Direction,…
Thursday, 25 March 2021 23:00
RIP, Sister Bernadette Koning OLSH
RIP, Sister Bernadette Koning OLSH Condolences in solidarity with our OLSH Sisters My Song will be for you forever you the music in my Heart. You, my love, my light my friend. You the way and path before me. You will lead and guide me home. These words from Bern’s…
Wednesday, 24 March 2021 22:34
Stories from around our MSC Colleges, Downlands, Chevalier, Monivae, Daramalan
Stories from around our MSC Colleges, Downlands, Chevalier, Monivae, Daramalan And not forgetting his one year at Daramalan doing his final secondary school year in2012! He's still hitting. From Monivae Congratulations Aaron Pederson (Class of 1988) on winning the peer judged AACTA Best Actor in a Series Award…
Tuesday, 23 March 2021 22:21
Doan Nguyen Danh MSC, A Grateful Year in the Tiwi Islands
Doan Nguyen Danh MSC, A Grateful Year in the Tiwi Islands The Australian province welcomes Danh to Melbourne after his year, 2020, in the Tiwi Islands. Danh made his profession on June 6th 2011 after his novitiate In the Philippines. He completed his studies in Vietnam, ordained July 27th…
Monday, 22 March 2021 22:09
Covid-19, a letter from the MSC Generalate.
Covid-19, a letter from the MSC Generalate. We have had a number of covid-19 infections and death around the congregation. At the moment, the Australian government is trying to assist PNG for vaccinations as infections rise. Over the weekend, there was news that the Philippines had the highest increase in…
Sunday, 21 March 2021 22:33
Harold Baker MSC, eulogy and tributes
Harold Baker MSC, eulogy and tributes Harold Baker was well esteemed by everyone. His friend and co-community confrere, Jim Littleton, offered this eulogy. Other tributes follow. Funeral photos courtesy of John Walker MSC. Harold Baker was born in November 1923, just over 97 years ago. He grew up in Rose…
Friday, 19 March 2021 22:23
Our MSC Brothers at St Joseph’s, Kensington
Our MSC Brothers at St Joseph’s, Kensington The celebration of the feast of St Joseph yesterday reminds us that 5 of our confreres live at St Joseph’s Home, on the OLSH grounds at Kensington. On Sundays and special occasions, they come to the Monastery - in the photo above, Bernie…
Thursday, 18 March 2021 22:19
March 19th, St Joseph - and Pope Francis has proclaimed “Year of St Joseph”
March 19th, St Joseph - and Pope Francis has proclaimed “Year of St Joseph” A collection of different images of Joseph - perhaps a resource for offering something on him in his year. More on May 1st, St Joseph the Worker. With the Apostolic Letter “Patris corde” (“With a…
Wednesday, 17 March 2021 22:19
Death and funeral of Sir Michael Somare, the Grand Chief, ‘Father of the Nation’, PNG.
Death and funeral of Sir Michael Somare, the Grand Chief, ‘Father of the Nation’, PNG. Cardinal John Ribat MSC officiated at his funeral. A memorial Mass was held for Sir Michael Somare at Our Lady of the Rosary church, Kensington, on Sunday March 14th. It was organised by Paul Jennings…
Tuesday, 16 March 2021 22:18
An unexpected addition to the MSC Melbourne community
An unexpected addition to the MSC Melbourne community In these covid days, it has become very difficult for overseas students to come to Australia. This has meant that Tran Van Long is doing a pre-novitiate experience from home in North Vietnam. He is studying English online through the Yarra Theological…
Monday, 15 March 2021 22:11
RIP, Maureen Brazel OLSH
RIP, Maureen Brazel OLSH Our sympathies with our OLSH Sisters My soul is thirsting for God, the God of my life: when can I enter and see the face of God? These words summarise Sr Maureen’s lifelong journey of faithfulness and loving care for others. Also, her sense of…
Sunday, 14 March 2021 18:40
RIP, Harold Baker MSC
RIP, Harold Baker MSC Peter Hendriks writes: Sadly, I just heard from Steve Dives that Harold Baker died this afternoon at 4:30pm. At the time of his death he was in the company of John Walker, Barry Smith and Steve. Harold was the senior member of the Province. Concelebrating…
Friday, 12 March 2021 23:33
On Mission Hill, Kensington
On Mission Hill, Kensington The Kensington community knows Mission Hill. Perhaps some of the rest of us may not be too sure what it is or where it is. Mission Hill is one of the missions, mission alive, of Roger Purcell, Director of the MSC Mission Office. It…
Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:54
Miriam Rose Ungenmerr, Senior Australian of the Year, Her painting at Mingarra.
Miriam Rose Ungenmerr, Senior Australian of the Year, Her painting at Mingarra. When our seminary at the Croydon Monastery was sold to the archdiocese of Melbourne in 1991 and became the Croydon parish centre, the chapel extended to become the parish church, a flourishing primary school in the grounds…
Wednesday, 10 March 2021 22:20
Bulletin News, Darwin, Vicar General Malcolm Fyfe MSC
Bulletin News, Darwin, Vicar General Malcolm Fyfe MSC As some of you may know, Father Leo Wearden has been down South since early January, initially on Annual Leave from Wadeye and for a medical check-up. Covid-19 travel restrictions have complicated his movements and extended his time there. Father Leo has…
Tuesday, 09 March 2021 22:13
RIP, Joseph Heggelin MSC
RIP, Joseph Heggelin MSC Sad news from Issoudun Ad Vitam Aeternam... A few days ago, we received news that Fr Joseph Heggelin MSC,had contracted covid-19. P. P. Jozef Hegglin, MSC passed away tonight in Nitra, Slovakia. Born in 1946 in Lucerne. He studied philosophy in Freiburg and theology in Strasbourg,…
Monday, 08 March 2021 22:18
Chevalier College, RE and the Eucharist, John Mulrooney MSC
Chevalier College, RE and the Eucharist, John Mulrooney MSC Many of our students arrive at Chev without any experience of religious ritual or church involvement and so we slowly introduce them to our ways of doing things. At the beginning of the year, we take the Year 7 students through…
Sunday, 07 March 2021 22:21
New book on Paul Stenhouse, Kensington launch, author, Wanda Skowronska
New book on Paul Stenhouse, Kensington launch, author, Wanda Skowronska On February 27, 2021, MSC Superior, Fr Steve Dives welcomed around 70 friends to the launch of a biography entitled Paul Stenhouse MSC : A Life of Rare Wisdom, Compassion and Inspiration (2021) by Wanda Skowronska. MSC Provincial Fr Chris…
Friday, 05 March 2021 23:07
International Women's Day, March 8th, Chevalier Family
International Women's Day, March 8th, Chevalier Family Acknowledging the day and its challenges, a focus on some of the women in Australia and in the Trigeneralate, Rome. Margaret O’Loughlin Lay MSC, Melbourne, invitee to MSC General Chapter 1999 Alison McKenzie Secretary General, Lay MSC Rachel Davies Principal, Daramalan College Michelle…
Thursday, 04 March 2021 22:25
First Friday in Lent - re-imagining 'reparation'
First Friday in Lent - re-imagining 'reparation' We hope that many of us have come across Sister Gerardine Doherty OLSH and her important article on what reparation could mean in our 21st century world. Here are some reminders. We used the word ‘reparation’ in a sense of penance and…
Wednesday, 03 March 2021 22:45
Downlands MSC Pilgrimage 2021
Downlands MSC Pilgrimage2021 Each year Downlands College Leaders have spent the weekend on pilgrimage in Sydney and Douglas Park, furthering their understanding of the MSC mission and the role they have been called to play as leaders of our school. At Kensington At Treand House Vice-Captain Max Corfield sits in…
Tuesday, 02 March 2021 22:29
Annual gathering of MSC ordained in the last decade.
Annual gathering of MSC ordained in the last decade. Last week, under the guidance of Frank Dineen, there was a gathering for MSC’s who have been ordained within the past 11 years. They gathered at St Mary’s Towers, Douglas Park. Two speakers facilitated sessions on ‘transition’ as many are…
Monday, 01 March 2021 22:11
Some significant March days for the Chevalier Family, 2021
Some significant March days for the Chevalier Family, 2021 March 19th, Feast of St Joseph, MSC model and patron, in the year proclaimed by Pope Francis as the Year of St Joseph March 25th has many entries, a significant day. It includes the foundation of the Handmaids of the…
Sunday, 28 February 2021 22:59
Acknowledging Michael Sims MSC, 85
Acknowledging Michael Sims MSC, 85 Michael is from Melbourne, born March 1st 1936 (just avoiding a leap year birthday). Before entering the Apostolic School in 1956, he completed 2 year's Accountancy Course with Royal Exchange Assurance, Melbourne, and in 1955 - three months National Service Training – Puckapunyal. It is not…
Friday, 26 February 2021 22:44
Heart of Life Centre, at our new location, Kildara, Malvern.
Heart of Life Centre, at our new location, Kildara, Malvern. Our courses began this month at the new location for the Heart of Life Centre. We are leasing from the Brigidine Sisters for the next five years at their centre, Kildara, Malvern, adjacent to St Joseph’s parish church, a…
Thursday, 25 February 2021 22:40
February 26th, Profession Anniversary Day.
February 26th, Profession Anniversary Day. Up until 1966, the traditional day for religious profession was February 26th (with a mid-year date for Brothers’ professions, August 5th). The change, with more flexibility came in 1966, February, the day Australia changed to decimal currency. Bob Irwin and Roy O’Neill recently celebrated…
Wednesday, 24 February 2021 22:05
Some news of MSC Formation in the French African Union, from Kinshasa.
Some news of MSC Formation in the French African Union, from Kinshasa. Jonas HASSAN MOUCHI, our confrere from the French African Union, studied in Australia, at Sydney, at Marymount, in 2017, and visited a number of communities. On his return to Africa, he worked in formation. The Democratic Republic of…
