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Leper Colonies, Coral Reefs and Pearl Farms

AMDG This last week in Culion has been a delightful experience.  A fascinating place with an impressive Jesuit presence, an important mission and a unique history.  The former leper colony on the edge...

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Paradise Lost? The need for Lent

AMDG One of my abiding memories of my time in Culion was staying overnight with a family in the remote village of TabukTabuk.  On the west of the island many of the villages are populated by...

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Is God Silent?

AMDG Wow – I have just finished reading Shusaku Endo‘s historical novel Silence.  I know that the story will stay with me for a long time. Powerful and haunting. I strongly recommend it as a good...

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A patron saint of bloggers?

AMDG As the Pope visits Mexico it will be interesting to see if he mentions a brave and inspiring woman – Maria Elizabeth Macias Castro who was tortured and beheaded by a drug cartel last September....

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Palms in the Villages

AMDG This Sunday was a very memorable Palm Sunday for me.  With about 200 villagers and 5 other Jesuits we processed from the recently built Health Centre (funded by a Spanish Jesuit University) to the...

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The Passion of the Dalits

AMDG The power of Jesus’s Passion and the message of the Gospel are heard in a unique way by the poor.  So to celebrate Good Friday with the villagers of Pannur, many of them ‘untouchables’ in the eyes...

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Temple Prostitutes

AMDG 96 Girls in our school come from the Devadasi community.  Their mothers were dedicated or ‘married’ to the Hindu Godess Yellamma at a young age.  They are not allowed to marry a mortal but ones...

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13 mackerel, 2 priests and a rabbi

AMDG My cousin has sent me an excellent joke related to the recent fishing trip - 2 priests and a Rabbi go fishing and haul in 13 mackerel. At the end of the day they start to argue about how much fish...

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Tom Cruise and Reversion

AMDG Now I am not turning this into a celebrity tittle-tattle blog but  I have to admit to having carefully read some of the reporting about Tom Cruise’s divorce, particularly the insights into...

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A rare and beautiful flower

AMDG There is an archetypal story of the flower or plant that is very rare but exceedingly beautiful, or has mystical healing powers. In order to pluck this treasure you have travel to a remote spot, a...

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Public Confessions

AMDG The student paper here, The Mancunion, claims to be the biggest student paper in the country.  Generally speaking it is well produced and well written.  It is also invaluable for me to read at the...

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Outward Looking

AMDG     We had a great evening at the chaplaincy on Friday Night – as the Faith and Politics series of evenings came to a climax.  With 4 guests, 2 current MP’s, a former MP and a prominent Catholic...

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When I met Pope Francis …….

AMDG On the historical night of the election of Pope Francis – the Jesuit community & guests Fr Dushan Croos & Br Guy Consolmagno Sj , were toasting the health of the new Pope – when we were...

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Small Acts with Great Love

AMDG “I would like [the message of Christ's resurrection] to go out to every house and every family, especially where the suffering is greatest…”The power of these words were matched by an encounter,...

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Last Interview of Missing Jesuit?

AMDG Fr Paolo Dall’Oglio SJ has been a leader among Christians in Syria.  In 1992 he re-founded an abandoned ancient monastery in  the desert North of Damascus as a place for reconciliation and...

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Heroic Faith (1)

AMDG Whilst I was on my retreat last week, I was able to do some spiritual reading.  I was inspired by a book called ‘The Flying Bishop’  Fifty Years in the Canadian Far North, by Gabriel Breynat OMI....

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Interviewing Pope Francis & Ignatius

AMDG Reading the wonderful interview that Pope Francis gave to Thinking Faith and other Jesuit journals last week – what comes across is the great freedom with which he speaks and also the humility...

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Students House Burnt Down

AMDG It’s reading week here in Manchester and one of our students ‘Eric’ has been sweeping up leaves for us after the storm.  Eric arrived in Manchester from Pakistan 4 years ago – he is a very hard...

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Not dot com but dot catholic

AMDG A piece of news that might have passed you buy a couple of weeks ago is that the Vatican has secured control of  the .catholic domain name.  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...

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Out of the Deep Freeze

AMDG Apologies to those who have been sending messages asking me what’s happened to the Blog.  Now that the University Semester has ended I think I have the time and energy to pull it out of the deep...

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