HARP Bulletin of the Divine Word Missionaries, Irish-British Province THE July - August 2009 Pictured at the recent English course in Maynooth were these young SVDs from Slovakia and Indonesia. From left: Kamil Kocan, (Bratislava), Publius (Vienna) Bro. Constantine, (Vienna), Severinus (Vienna), Francis, (Rome) and Igor Kral, (Bratislava). Kamil will be going to Zimbabwe after his ordination while Igor will remain in Slovakia. Zimbabwe gets an SVD Archbishop Our Indian confrere, Alex Kaliyanil SVD, the for- mer regional superior of the Society of the Divine Word in Zimbabwe, has recently been appointed the Archbishop of Bulawayo. The SVD began working in Zimbabwe in the year 1987. We are present in the diocese of Bulawayo and Huange with about 15 members who are engaged in parishes, administra- tion, communications, the biblical apostolate and in publications. The Archdiocese of Bulawayo has some 116,000 Catholics in a population of 1.9 million. The faith- ful are served by 87 priests, 21 permanent deacons and 203 religious. Some 50% of Zimbabwe's population follows a mix of Christianity and indigenous beliefs. A quarter are considered truly Christian, and about that same per- centage adhere to indigenous religions. Remember Archbihsop Alex in prayer. Annual meeting in Rome! Pope Benedict’s former doctoral and post-doctoral stu- dents, known as the Schülerkreis (Circle of Students), will gather for their annual meeting in Castel Gandolfo, from the 27th to 30th August. Vincent Twomey SVD will be among them. The theme of this year’s meeting will be the “Mission of the Church,” “its justification,” and “mission in dialogue with humankind and with the different cultures and reli- gions.” The main participants will be Professor Peter Beyerhaus, a Protestant theologian, and Horst Bürkle, an evangelical theologian who converted to Catholicism– now profesor emeritus at the Ludwig- Maximilians University of Munich. The Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, will also be pre- sent. No doubt, as world-wide missionaries, the SVDs will be looking forward to the results of the meeting. Some images from the meeting of 2008 at Castel Gandolfo
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HARPBulletin of the Divine Word Missionaries, Irish-British Province
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July - August 2009
Pictured at the recent English course in Maynooth were these young SVDs from Slovakia and Indonesia. From left: Kamil Kocan,(Bratislava), Publius (Vienna) Bro. Constantine, (Vienna), Severinus (Vienna), Francis, (Rome) and Igor Kral, (Bratislava). Kamilwill be going to Zimbabwe after his ordination while Igor will remain in Slovakia.
Zimbabwe gets anSVD Archbishop
Our Indian confrere, Alex Kaliyanil SVD, the for-mer regional superior of the Society of the DivineWord in Zimbabwe, has recently been appointed theArchbishop of Bulawayo. The SVD began workingin Zimbabwe in the year 1987. We are present in thediocese of Bulawayo and Huange with about 15members who are engaged in parishes, administra-tion, communications, the biblical apostolate and inpublications.
The Archdiocese of Bulawayo has some 116,000Catholics in a population of 1.9 million. The faith-ful are served by 87 priests, 21 permanent deaconsand 203 religious.
Some 50% of Zimbabwe's population follows a mixof Christianity and indigenous beliefs. A quarter areconsidered truly Christian, and about that same per-centage adhere to indigenous religions.Remember Archbihsop Alex in prayer.
Annual meeting in Rome!Pope Benedict’s former doctoral and post-doctoral stu-dents, known as the Schülerkreis (Circle of Students),will gather for their annual meeting in Castel Gandolfo,from the 27th to 30th August. Vincent Twomey SVDwill be among them.
The theme of this year’s meeting will be the “Mission ofthe Church,” “its justification,” and “mission in dialoguewith humankind and with the different cultures and reli-gions.” The main participants will be Professor PeterBeyerhaus, a Protestant theologian, and Horst Bürkle,an evangelical theologian who converted toCatholicism– now profesor emeritus at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. The Archbishop ofVienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, will also be pre-sent. No doubt, as world-wide missionaries, the SVDswill be looking forward to the results of the meeting.
Some images from the meeting of 2008 at Castel Gandolfo
Please remember in prayerBro Brendan Fahy, SVD (unwell)All who asked for our prayers and remembrance.Fr. Pat Hogan SVD (Papua New Guinea) (unwell)Fr. Dan Lynch SVD (Paraguay) (unwell)Mrs. Rita Howley, (Kiltymagh) RIP.Our students in formation.The clergy & people of Dublin Archdiocese.
The live mass on RTE for August came from LoughDerg in Co. Donegal and was filmed and produced byKAIROS under the direction of Fr. Finbarr TraceySVD. Like the mass from Croagh Patrick, one yearago, it was reported on in the media. It was a first forboth KAIROS and RTE. Lough Derg is a centre ofprayer and penance located on an island in a lake in theNorth of Ireland.
On the annual “Reek Sunday” climb in memory of St.Patrick, on the last week-end in July, around 25,000people climbed. Among the climbers were our ownTom Cahill SVD whose 204th climb it was and BrianO’Reilly SVD who was accompanied by our two stu-dents from China. To their surprise they also met threeof our Holy Spirit Sisters at the summit! No doubt,their first comment to each other was, “Well, well,fancy meeting you up here!”
On home leave: Liam Hayes, (Argentina) JackLedwidge & Eddie Elliott, (Mexico), Gary Roche &Patrick Hogan, (Papua New Guinea), TimothyLehane, (Rome), Frank Power, (Jamaica), PhelimJordan and John Shevlin, (USA). It has been good tosee you all!
Congratulations to our Slovakian confreres Igor Kral& Kamil Kocan, who will make their final committ-ment as Divine Word Missionaries on Sept. 8th andwill be ordained Deacons on October 10th. Duringtheir recent stay in Maynooth, improving theirEnglish, they also gave of their time to assist withMission Awareness.
Pete Madden SVD gave a retreat to the Sisters of theDivine Master in Foxrock in August. The sisters alsoopened a new Divine Master Centre at the same time.Here they will have rooms for priests to rest and pray.
They hope that it will be another Bethany.Congratulations to them!
Bro. Brendan Fahey SVD continues to be in relative-ly good form in the nursing home in Roscommon.
The Annual Open Day in Donamon went ahead onthe last Sunday of July despite the inclement weather.First reports suggested that the raffle, the books andplants stall did well. Well done to all concerned. Thetop Raffle prize this year was €1000.
The Superior General has asked the MissionSupport Office of the IBP to assist the Mumbai SVDProvince of India with its March subsidy, whichamounts to €30,000. The funds will care for the staffand teachers in two seminaries; fund their annualRetreat; purchase 16 bicycles for the seminarians andmore. I wish to thank the treasurers of the Provinceand of the British District and other people who makeit possible for the Mission Support Office to renderthis vital assistance to Divine Word Missionariesaround the world.
Vincent Twomey SVD recently chaired the Secondannual St. Colman’s International LiturgicalConference in the Sheraton Hotel on Fota Island, nearCobh, Co. Cork. In his opening talk, Vincent spokeon Benedict XVI on Church Art and Architecture.(A copy of the talk may be had by contacting myoffice). The guest of honour at the Conference wasH.E. George Cardinal Pell of Sydney, Australia.
Tom Morrison SVD was recently installed in his newparish in Brazil. It was an impressive ceremony - sim-ple - but, there is not even a church or a parish housein the place as yet! A good place to work. The parish isone of the first in the world dedicated to St. JosefinaBakhita, the ex-slave from Sudan who was taken toItaly and helped by nuns there. A good choice for Tom.(from Tom Hughes, SVD).
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A RUSSIAN STORYJerzy Jagodzinski, SVD
About 50 people had gathered in aCatholic chapel in the city ofGvardeisk for Sunday mass. Theywere mainly middle-aged andelderly women, sometimes accom-panied by a little grandchild. Suchparishioners are generally"marathon runners of prayer":people who are "fully charged up"with all the litanies and other rulesand observances of the order ofprayer for the day.
They seemed to feel a littleashamed that there were no youngpeople and extremely few men,and that so few of them had gath-ered for the Lord's day. It is thesame "faith no greater than a nutshell" which the Lord spoke of inthe Gospels, and which irritatesunbelieving men.
I've not been working verylong in Gvardeisk. The parish-ioners are glad to welcome all newrecruits, though they talk aboutFr. Edward Prawdzik SVD withnostalgia.
The two of us are united notonly by our roles in the successionof the parish, but also by our mis-sionarywork in the Philippines.We are reminded of this by a greatnumber of pictures by a Filipinoartist which adorn the four storeysof the parish building in the towncentre. This ancient building,built more than 100 years ago, isperhaps one of the prettiest inmodern Gvardeisk. But moreattractive still, without doubt, isthe huge gothic church from thebeginning of the 16th centurywhich was built by the Lutherans.When the bourgeois town of
Tapiau became the Soviet one ofGvardeisk, the church was used asa ware-house. It deteriorated intoa pitiful condition, until theOrthodox took it over during theperestroika period and made anattempt to bring it back to life andrestore it to its former use as ahouse of God.
One day, Sr. Stella fromGermany, who works in theparish, suggested that we go on atrip in order to view old churchbuildings in the region. "But", Iobjected, "what is there to see inthe ruins? The people's lives aremuch more interesting!" "Stonesalso have tales to tell", she replied.We compromised by doing both.
On Sunday morning, aftermass, we gathered with our peopleover a cup of tea and we all talkedabout ourselves. It was so interest-ing. The stories of the parishionerswere all very different, yet togeth-er they combined to make up asingle history of their country, onewhich did not at all resemble thehistory described in Soviet text-
books. The children of Germans,Lithuanians and Poles banished toSiberia and Kazakhstan, they nowfound themselves living in thewesternmost part of Russia, somehaving been recruited here, somehaving been assigned here, andsome having come in search of anormal life under an abnormalgovernment. All were migrants, allforeign to the region where theyhad been given the task of build-ing socialism. But they continuedto believe, some secretly, someopenly, some even after joiningthe Communist Party. That is thekind of people they were.
After the people went home, itwas time for sister and me to setout for a place with an old church,called Demianovka Our trip waswonderful. Demianovka has awarm, human-sounding name incontrast to the many places withnames like Leninsk, Gvardeisk,Sovietsk, Znamensk or Pravdinsk.The name of Demianovka is freefrom any sense of political over-tones, it has a sense of normalcy
Sr. Stella and some of the people in front of their chuch in Demianovka.
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about it. Judging by the road-signs we passed, weknew that we were close to our destination. So westopped the car. An intriguing landscape had openedup in front of us: an endless expanse of virgin landwith occasional low hills and clusters of shrubs wasbefore us. In the middle we thought we saw the sil-houette of an abandoned church.
We had brought a camera with us and so wedescended from the side of the road into a jungle oftall grass. The vegetation, blossoming and full ofchirping grasshoppers, turned out to be unexpectedlyhigh, and we could hardly make our way through theundergrowth. Sister had the idea of climbing onto thetop of a nearby hill. I hurried after her, realizing thatit would be a much better place to take a photo from.When she was almost at the top she called to me overher shoulder, without turning round: "I think we'veclimbed onto a house."
"What do you mean a house? " I hurried over tothe opposite side and found myself on the edge of aprecipice. Below me was a vertical brick wall with adoorway at the bottom, through which anyone whowants can get inside our "hill". We took some shots ofthe strange scene and the surrounding countrysideand drove on.
A distant sail in a sea of vegetation turned out tobe the church. We reached it. It is of Prussian origin,probably of the 15th century. We studied its bell-tower and it’s sanctuary. The steps leading upwardswere squeezed between thick brick walls. Sr. Stellatried to go up the narrow steps but it lead to a deadend! Everything has been destroyed! I tried to imaginehow much effort it must have taken to smash thismassive brick masonry. I tried to imagine that the
altar was once in this place! A congregation gatheredhere around it! And now, the place was covered bywild-flowers, lupins, clover and dens for hedgehogs.Saddened at the sight, I sighed! "Shall we drive on toDemianovka?" I asked Sr. Stella. "But this isDemianovka!" she replied.
"God has allowed this to happen to me so I could bear
witness to the faith of priests and solidarity towards all
the priests of the world who suffer in His name" said
Fr. Edward Sequeira SVD, who was one of the first
victims of anti-Christian pogram in Orissa during
2008. In July he celebrated the 25th anniversary of his
ordination. We should all rejoice with him that he has
reached this special day. For on 25th August last, 500
Hindus attacked the orphanage of Fr. Sequeira at
Padampur in the district of Kandhamal, where
Raphael Cheenath SVD is Archbishop, setting it on
fire. Rajni Majhi, a twenty-year-old who helped him
as an educator, died in the blaze and he himself suf-
fered serious injuries. In March this year, the senseless
destruction was repeated for a second time. Once
more, the orphanage was set alight, the structure was
destroyed, but luckily no one was killed. Let us offer
him our congratulations and prayerful support.
The people of the area begin the work of restoring their church.
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Typhoon causes heartbreak in TaiwanReporter: Fr Brian Lawless SVD
It was pretty bad over here during the recent Augusttyphoon. Sadly, we lost our gardener and his mother ina landslide. He lived on the side of a steep mountain,where he had betel nut palms which have very shallowroots. It was a dangerous location at the best of times.His younger brother who also lived there escaped.According to his story, the elder brother went back intothe house to try and bring out the mother, but then theside of the mountain came down and the whole placewas buried. After two days of digging, the bodies werefound and we accompanied the family to identify them.It was a horrifying business.
Another of our workers had no news of her father,sister and brother in law. They lived in another moun-tain village that was swept away in a landslide. Thismorning the news reported that 700 villagers werefound hiding in a tunnel, so hopefully, her people aresafe.
All our mission stations in the mountains were cutoff. The telephone lines have now been restored so wecan get in touch with them again. The army has beenflying in supplies by helicopter. However the roads areall closed because of landslides and in many places,bridges have been swept away, not surprising given theamount of rain that fell. Our highest mission station inAlishan recorded 2.7metres of rain during the typhoonand the Fenchihu mission station was not far behind.The highways department are usually fairly quick to getroads open again, so we expect to see our marooned con-freres again before the end of the week.
Here in the main mission house in Chiayi we werequite safe. For the first time in living memory we werenot flooded because a new municipal drain was inaugu-rated earlier this year and so now the water runs awayvery quickly. Our only threat came from leaves blockingthe drains on our flat roof. It was close to turning into aswimming pool when I went up to investigate. Luckily
the waterproofing held out and there were just a fewsmall leaks. Compared to the thousands of people whowere completely flooded out, we cannot complain abouta few soggy ceiling tiles.
On Sunday morning I checked the weather map andit looked like the typhoon had moved on and we wouldhave sunny skies by the afternoon. Then the heavensopened again and I drove rather than cycled to thechurch were I was doing supply. There was an inch or soof water on the ground when I parked outside thechurch and another inch pooled on the floor of thechurch after the three days of rain. After a bit of mop-ping up mass got under way and so did the rain. At theend of mass, the water was pouring back into the churchthrough a drain and I had to take off my shoes andsocks, roll up my trousers to my knees and wade backout to the car to get home.
At home, I checked the TV news and the full extentof the storm damage became clearer. However, the newscould only report on the places that could be reached sothere was quite a bit of worry about all the small placesthat were cut off and about which there was no news atall. And still the rain came down. By the afternoon,there was a slew of new flooding cases and the situationcontinued to get worse. Looking at the weather map, thetyphoon had by now moved on to China, but there wasa band of cloud reaching from Taiwan down to Vietnamand it was moving up and across the southern end ofTaiwan. The rain would continue for another few daysby the looks of things.
On Monday morning the rains was coming insqualls. I looked out at the garden where branches bigand small had been torn from the trees and littered theground. I wondered if the gardener would be in today tobegin the clean-up. It was not to be. At that verymoment, the army had already been called in and hadbegun the search. Only the tip of the roof was visibleabove the muddy clay. The gardener's little dog was sit-ting in one place and would not move from there, sothey decided to dig that spot first. By afternoon theyfound his body. It took another day to find the body ofthe mother. He was a good man!
PPPPaaaa iiii nnnntttt eeee rrrr rrrr aaaa iiii ssss eeee ssss ffffuuuunnnnddddssss ffff oooorrrr ppppaaaa rrrr iiii sssshhhhMrs. Rose Lee, the mother of Sr. Carmen Lee, SSpS, was in the Offaly news recently. Anamateur painter of note, she organized a sale of her paintings for the pastoral centre in herparish of Edenderry. Other local painters gave paintings too. The pastoral centre benefittedby several thousand euros as a result. Asked why she did it, Mrs. Lee said that it was “a smallway of saying ‘thanks’ to the Edenderry community who welcomed her and her husband sowarmly when they came to live there about 13 years ago”. Well done, Rose!
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NEW LIFE ON MONTSERRATas new church is opened
Reporter: Cathy Buffonge_______________________
There was joy on the West Indian Island of Montserrat,recently when the new Catholic church of Saint Patrick wasblessed and opened. On the island for the event wereApostolic Administrator, Bishop Gabriel Malzaire, whoconducted the service, and Archbishop Donald Reece ofJamaica, who delivered the sermon. Archbishop Reece wasfor many years Bishop of StJohn's Basseterre Diocese,which includes Montserrat,and was a charismatic figure,much loved in Montserratduring his years of service inthe Diocese. Several priestsbased in the diocese also cameover for the event. Of the three Catholic
churches on the island, twowere destroyed by the volcanoduring 1997. Montserrat hasa historical connection withIreland, and the Catholicchurch has kept up this con-nection, with the presentparish priest, Fr. GeorgeAgger SVD, and some previ-ous priests, being Irish. TheSt Patrick's name thereforehas particular significance, and the building of this beauti-ful church stands as a symbol of the island's regeneration,and of continuity with the destroyed St Patrick's churchand village.Lookout, the name of the area, is a new housing area, builton a "green field" site after the volcano forced over half thepopulation to relocate. The new church is the only one inthis new area. Several hundred people attended the opening service, not
only Catholics but persons from nearly every religiousgroup and more, including the Governor, parliamentarians,and other high profile officials. Highlights of the serviceincluded the dedication of the new church to the lastingservice of God, and the anointing with oil of the altar andpillars of the church by the Bishop, who rolled up hissleeves to give the altar a thorough rub with the sacred oil. In tune with the church's Irish connection, there was thepresentation of a unique cross from the people of Kinsale inIreland, which holds special significance since the village ofKinsale in Montserrat was among those destroyed by the
volcano. The cross, hand-madeof stainless steel, features asymbolic sail, representingChrist's ministry around theSea of Galilee, the Kinsale /Montserrat connection and themessage of Christ being carriedacross the ocean, blown by thewind which symbolizes theHoly Spirit. It was accepted onbehalf of the people ofMontserrat by GovernmentMinister, Mr. Charles Kirnon,who in turn entrusted the crossto the new St Patrick's Church. It was the Anglican priest inKinsale, Co. Cork, FrWilliams, a personal friend ofFr George, who was instru-mental in getting this very spe-cial processional cross, known
as the Kinsale Cross, for the new church.The new church was designed by Antiguan architectEdmond Blaize, and built by local contractor ClementCassell. All the woodwork in the church was done by localfurniture craftsmen. This included the doors, the altar, thelarge cross hanging behind the altar and many other items.The pews came from.Boston, USA (a labour of love by vol-unteers). Irish Apostolic Workers provided the chalicesand clothes for the altar.
The Kinsale Cross isin the centre of thepicture. Fr. George isstanding at the rightduring the openingceremony.
Come to the divineDelight….
Such was the name of an eveningof Indian liturgical dance presentedto the students of the July Englishlanguage School in Maynooth bySr. Pushpanjali Paul, SSpS, fromMadhya Pradesh and Bhopal inCentral India and Ms. RashiSingh.
It was an evening of graceful,prayerful and rhythmic movementsof the body, the face, the eyes andhands with the sound of soothingIndian music. It was the first timemany of the students, who werefrom Italy, Mexico, Spain, Slovakia,Angola and elsewhere, experiencedsuch a display of liturgical and spir-itual dance. Sr. Pushhpanjali, follows in the
footsteps of the legendary German
SVD missionary, Georg Prosch, apioneer in integrating Indian cul-ture into the liturgy. She is current-ly in charge of an Ashram in Bhopalwhere this work will be developed.She was in Europe attending herSVD brother's ordination inGermany.Expressing thanks on behalf of thestudents Chiara, from Italy, said itwas the first time she had seensomeone dancing with their eyes!
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Congratulations to The Gardai.
Garda Third World Fundraises over one million
Euros for the third world
It was twenty five years agothat a group of Gardai came
together wondering what they could do to offer someassistance to the poor of the world. It was a time whenworld poverty was becoming a familiar sight in Irishhomes due to the images of the effects of natural dis-asters being beamed into homes all over Ireland byT.V. & radio. This summer they are celebrating the fact that themembers of the Force throughout Ireland have raisedover one million Euros for the Third World during thepast 25 years.
At a lunch in the Officers Club at GardaHeadquarters, in Dublin's Phoenix Park, GardaCommissioner Facthna Murphy, spoke of the prideof the Garda Siochana in having been able to assist somany of the world's poor through their cooperationwith missionaries in many places over the past quarterof a century. He also praised and thanked the found-ing members of the GSTWF who were present, aswell as all those others who along with himself are car-rying on the work at present.
There were five missionaries at the lunch representingthe Society of the Afican Missions, the Spiritans andthe Divine Word Missionaries. Fr. Liam Dunne SVDexpressed the deep appreciation of all missionaries tothe Gardai for their admirable support and dedicationto the poor over the years and congratulated themupon their magnificent achievement.
The 2009 Elphin ApostolicWorkers display and distributionof goods to missionariestook place in the parish centre ofFourMileHouse, Co.Roscommon. It waspleasing to note howwarmly our two SVDvisiting priests were wel-comed.This year the display
moved from Sligo to therural parish which islocated nearRoscommon. Its pastorFr. Dan Brown, PP.warmly welcomed every-body and invited them to use andenjoy the excellent facilities of theparish. Fr. Liam Dunne SVD was
the main celebrant and homilist atthe mass which was attended bypriests, sisters and lay representa-tives of many missionary groups. Itwas a very pleasant afternoon for
all concerned. As always, we mis-sionaries were left marvelling at allthe good work being done by so
many generous people throughoutthe diocese of Elphin for churchesthroughout the world, from Chinato Ghana; from India to Brazil.The names of the Apostolic
Workers and their friendscontinue to resoundthroughout the earth. I would also like to expressthe thanks of the DivineWord Missionaries to thegenerous people of theKillaloe, Kildare / Leighlin,Castlebar, Dublin, Down /Connor and NavanApostolic Works for theirgenerosity to us through-out the year and to expressmy appreciation of theirwarm and friendly wel-comes while attending
their respective Display Days.
CONGRATULATIONSThe Apostolic Workers of Armagh Archdiocesewill be marking thier 70th anniversary with a spe-cial mass in Armagh Cathedral at 2pm onSaturday, September 12th. Cardinal Brady will
be the main celebrant. Lunch will be served after-wards in St. Patrick’s Grammar School. The prayersand good wishes of the SVDs are with PresidentJean Hanratty and her colleagues at this specialtime. Our picture shows Cardinal Sean Brady infront of Armagh Cathedral.
Pictured in the front row from left are: Kathleen Murray, Sr. BridMcLoughlin, Kitty McKay, Mary Doyle, (President) and MaryWilson. In the back row are Fr. Joseph, SVD (China), MargaretHaughey, Bridie Regan, Rosemary Black, Kitty Dwyer and Fr.Frans Ceufin SVD (Indonesia).
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Among those who attended the Jubilarians mass at the end of the retreat at All Hallowswere, from the left, Jim Perry, SVD; Richard Kelly, SVD; Norman Davitt, SVD andMichael Joyce, SVD.
Celebrating the variousJubilees of 2009 wereFrank Power, SVD;(Jamaica) ShaneFitzgerald, SVD,
(Pembroke Road): andNoel Ruane, SVD,
(Donamon).The two Indian dancers who entertainedthe Language students in Maynooth. Seereport on page 6.
Fr. Steve BevansSVD, of the ChicagoT h e o l o g i c a lInstitute, was theRetreat Master in2009. Fr. Bevans wasthe co-author withRoger SchroederSVD of the highlyregarded tome,Constants in Context:A Theology of Missionfor Today.
Fr. Tim Lehane, SVD, from Co. Cork, recently paid a visitto his family. He is pictured here with his sister, Mary, withBetty from South America and Bro. Constantine SVDfrom Vienna. Tim is currently the General Secretary of theCongregation for the Propagation of the Faith, Rome.
Pictured are a group of seminarians and priests from various Italian dio-ceses and from the Spanish Jesuits who studied English at our school inMaynooth during the summer. Fr. Paolo Rocca, second from left, wasthe Ping-Pong champion of the school during a school tournament.
Fr. Pat Byrne SVD(Shannon) has been reap-pointed to the IBP. He wasGen. Sec. of the HolyChildhood Assoc. in Romefor the past 11 years. Ahearty welcome, Pat!
Another picture from the opening of thenew church in Montserrat. Fr. George andBishop Gabriel Malzaire.
