Blessed Antonio Rosmini

Rosminian Family

Christmas Blessings

From Father James Flynn

Father General sent his Christmas Letter to the Brethren and Ascribed members.  Anyone who did not receive the communication please request it via the email below. The file is too long to publish in full in these pages

News from around the Rosminian world :

 

Fr. General’s Christmas Letter

 

Fr Jim McKnight Golden Jubilee

 

Ordinations in India

 

New Provincial in India

 

Fr Anthony Meredith

Gives his farewell.

Father James McKnight presided at the Holy Eucharist on the feast of his Golden Jubilee.  The setting was the beautifully restored Saint Peter’s Church in Cardiff.

 

Fr. David Myers, Provincial superior, gave the homily and spoke of Fr Jim’s long years of service to the parishioners in the various parts of the world in which he had ministered.  Visiting brethren and Ascribed,  friends and parishioners gathered later in the St Peter’s Hall to enjoy a celebratory luncheon. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of the Brethren present at the festive Mass.  Fr Jim looks a little more relaxed once he has returned to the sacristy. 

 

 

Email:  chrisfuse@mac.com

To my dear Brothers and Sisters,

members of the Institute of Charity

and the Sisters of Providence (Rosminian),

to the Adopted Sons and to the Ascribed Members.

 

My Christmas Letter to you this year takes an unusual format, namely this

booklet containing the Diary (edited) that Fr Anthony Meredith sent out on a

daily basis during our General Congregation (October 9th - 23rd). The idea of reusing

it in this way came to us a short time ago on receiving a booklet from Fr

Gianni Picenardi (who had translated and circulated the Italian version of the

Diary) containing the unabridged text in both languages and with some relevant

photos. We liked it so much that we decided that I should send it (in separate

languages so as to reduce the size) as my Christmas gift to the Family.

 

What use will it serve? Hopefully, this Diary will help us Capitulars to relive

the spirit which prevailed at the Congregation whilst it will help you, the

brethren whom they represented, to appreciate the process which resulted in the

decisions that we took. For you, the other members of the Rosminian Family, it

will be a snap-shot of an important event in the life of the Institute. For all, it

will be a kind of a family album.

I would like to wish you all the joys of Christmas in the words of Father

Founder: “In accord with custom but not simply from that, but rather

from sincere cordial affection, I wish you ever happiness in the Christmas

season and in the New Year. As Jesus is born anew, let us pray that

he may be born in our hearts”.

Fraternally in that same Blessed Founder,

Fr James Flynn

Superior General