An Honour and a Responsibility blog (link) 20.9.2011
The admirable Reluctant Sinner, whose blog I heartily recommend, has posted this news from Peter Jennings, press secretary to the Archbishop of Birmingham.
Interesting, in view of the Apostolic Visitation last year at the Birmingham Oratory. Fr Harrison was the second Visitor (Fr Felix Selden being the first) and Fr Jones the canonical adviser to the Visitation.
I have a funny feeling that it won’t be long before Catholic and Loving it, and others, have something to say on the matter.
Showing posts with label Apostolic Visitation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apostolic Visitation. Show all posts
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Newman and his Nest: The Home of the Oratorian
Catholic and Loving It blog - James Preece - 18.1.2011
http://www.lovingit.co.uk/2011/01/newman-and-his-nest-the-home-of-the-oratorian.html
Home is a very important place to an Oratorian, as Blessed Newman wrote...
"The Congregation is to be the home of the Oratorian. The Italians, I believe, have no word for home - nor is it an idea which readily enters the mind of a foreigner, at least not so readily as into the mind of an Englishman. It is remarkable then that the Oratorian Fathers should have gone out of their way to express the idea by the metaphorical word nido or nest, which is used by them almost technically."
1848 Address (Newman the Oratorian by Placid Murray - Page 94)
Newman spoke a great deal about his home in the Oratory...
"...To come home again! in that word 'home' how much is included. The home life - the idea of home - is consecrated to us by our patron and founder, St Philip, for he made the idea of home the very essence of his religion and institute. We even have a great example in our Lord Himself; though in his public ministry he had not where to lay His head, yet we know that for the first thirty years of His life he had a home, and He therefore consecrated, in a special way, the life of home. And as, indeed, Almighty God has been pleased to continue the world, not, as angels, by a seperate single creation of each, but by means of the family, so it was fitting that the Congregation of St Philip should be the ideal, the realization of the family in it's perfection, and a pattern to every family in every town, and throughout the whole of Christendom. Therefore, I do feel pleasure to come home again... I feel I may rejoice in coming home again - as if it were to my long home - to that home which extends to heaven, 'the home of our eternity'..."
1879 Address (Newman the Oratorian by Placid Murray - Page 118)
Today marks 250 days since Fr Dermot Fenlon was ordered from his home at the Oratory. The Oratory spokesman assured me live on the radio that Fr Fenlon would be home "soon" but Fr Fenlon was not home soon. Fr Fenlon is still not home.
Fr Fenlon is "entirely guiltless of any wrongdoing whatsoever". It's official.
So can he come home now?
Please?
http://www.lovingit.co.uk/2011/01/newman-and-his-nest-the-home-of-the-oratorian.html
Home is a very important place to an Oratorian, as Blessed Newman wrote...
"The Congregation is to be the home of the Oratorian. The Italians, I believe, have no word for home - nor is it an idea which readily enters the mind of a foreigner, at least not so readily as into the mind of an Englishman. It is remarkable then that the Oratorian Fathers should have gone out of their way to express the idea by the metaphorical word nido or nest, which is used by them almost technically."
1848 Address (Newman the Oratorian by Placid Murray - Page 94)
Newman spoke a great deal about his home in the Oratory...
"...To come home again! in that word 'home' how much is included. The home life - the idea of home - is consecrated to us by our patron and founder, St Philip, for he made the idea of home the very essence of his religion and institute. We even have a great example in our Lord Himself; though in his public ministry he had not where to lay His head, yet we know that for the first thirty years of His life he had a home, and He therefore consecrated, in a special way, the life of home. And as, indeed, Almighty God has been pleased to continue the world, not, as angels, by a seperate single creation of each, but by means of the family, so it was fitting that the Congregation of St Philip should be the ideal, the realization of the family in it's perfection, and a pattern to every family in every town, and throughout the whole of Christendom. Therefore, I do feel pleasure to come home again... I feel I may rejoice in coming home again - as if it were to my long home - to that home which extends to heaven, 'the home of our eternity'..."
1879 Address (Newman the Oratorian by Placid Murray - Page 118)
Today marks 250 days since Fr Dermot Fenlon was ordered from his home at the Oratory. The Oratory spokesman assured me live on the radio that Fr Fenlon would be home "soon" but Fr Fenlon was not home soon. Fr Fenlon is still not home.
Fr Fenlon is "entirely guiltless of any wrongdoing whatsoever". It's official.
So can he come home now?
Please?
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
Statement from Fr Philip Cleevely, Birmingham Oratory
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=16675
Independent Catholic News - 6.9.2010
By agreement with the Apostolic Visitor and the Birmingham Oratory I shall be spending the coming year at the Toronto Oratory and preparing to begin doctoral studies in philosophy. I am very grateful to the Oratorian community in Toronto for receiving me, and greatly look forward to sharing fully in their life and work. I am also very thankful to the Apostolic Visitor and to my own community in Birmingham for the opportunity I have been offered to pursue further studies. I pray that in due course this will bear fruit both for the Birmingham Oratory and for the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
As a priest of the Birmingham Oratory in good standing I remain committed to the life and mission of the community founded and shaped by the soon to be Blessed John Henry Newman. So that the life and mission of the Birmingham Oratory may be protected and upheld, I hope and pray that adverse public speculation concerning the Apostolic Visitation, and above all personal attacks upon the Visitor himself and those who are assisting him, will now cease.
Fr Philip Cleevely, Cong Orat
Independent Catholic News - 6.9.2010
By agreement with the Apostolic Visitor and the Birmingham Oratory I shall be spending the coming year at the Toronto Oratory and preparing to begin doctoral studies in philosophy. I am very grateful to the Oratorian community in Toronto for receiving me, and greatly look forward to sharing fully in their life and work. I am also very thankful to the Apostolic Visitor and to my own community in Birmingham for the opportunity I have been offered to pursue further studies. I pray that in due course this will bear fruit both for the Birmingham Oratory and for the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
As a priest of the Birmingham Oratory in good standing I remain committed to the life and mission of the community founded and shaped by the soon to be Blessed John Henry Newman. So that the life and mission of the Birmingham Oratory may be protected and upheld, I hope and pray that adverse public speculation concerning the Apostolic Visitation, and above all personal attacks upon the Visitor himself and those who are assisting him, will now cease.
Fr Philip Cleevely, Cong Orat
Friday, 27 August 2010
The Birmingham Three protests harm the Church
The Catholic Herald - Jack Valero - 27.8.2010
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/
The Campaign to 'free' three Oratorians is based on bizarre conspiracy theories, says Jack Valero.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/
The Campaign to 'free' three Oratorians is based on bizarre conspiracy theories, says Jack Valero.
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