The “Catacombs’ Pact of the Poor & Servant Church”

Catacombs of Domitilla  https://www.domitilla.info/idx.htm?var1=docs/pacten.htm On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the convocation of the Second Vatican Council, we remember fondly the Alliance of the Catacombs of the Servant and Poor Church. On November 16, 1965, a few days before the Council ended, forty Council Fathers celebrated Eucharist in...

Jesus is laid to rest

Stations of the Cross The first thing I think of is, “it is finished” and I say, thank God!!  The suffering is ended. Near Uspantan, Guatemala, Juan Alonso Fernandez MSC. Shot in the hand, knocked off his motorcycle, pushed down the slope into a gully, tortured, forced to crouch...

An Emergent Presence

Mindfulness and Contemplation: An Emergent Presence was a six-day retreat presented at St. Mary’s Towers Retreat Centre, Douglas Park, on the 5th – 11th June 2015. The daily program began with a guided morning meditation providing some teaching of the principles underlying meditation and mindfulness practice. The meditation was followed later in...