Dear Friends

 Arctic weather and events have combined to delay the dispatch of this Newsletter. For the end of November and the beginning of December I had planned three groups to Walsingham and had arranged to make two Mission Appeals. This would have been a tight schedule but the arctic weather made it, well interesting. I won’t bore you with the details but completing the schedule demanded a great deal of ingenuity. All is now well until the next arctic weather and I am due to take a group to Lourdes at Christmas.

 

Important news from around the world:

THE CAUSE OF FR JEAN‐CLAUDE COL

 

 

 

.

 

 

 

 

maristway.org    is definitely worth visiting on the internet. Recently a very interesting report of the Marist Day in Walsingham had been added and there should be a pictorial report of Swanwick. Also there is a link to that wonderful book “A Certain Way” by Fr Craig Larkin SM. and the website for the Province of Oceania.

 

Fr Norman Arkwright     Is making progress after the hospital operation to clear the infection from his hip and is in recuperation in Accrington.  He thanks you for all of your prayers.

The Provincial of Oceania, Fr Paul Donoghue, has asked our prayers to Fr Colin, seeking his  intercession with the Lord on behalf of Brother Mua Saurava. Mua made his first profession in the Society in December 2008, and has now been told he has cancer. Medical care is not an option, and Mua is being given palliative care. All confreres are invited to join the members of the Oceania Province in their prayer for Mua:

 

Most Holy Trinity, if it is in accordance with your Most Holy Will that your servant, our Founder Jean Claude Colin should be glorified by the Church, show us the favour he enjoys in Your sight by granting us the grace we now ask of you through his intercession, that you grant to our confrere, Brother Mua Saurava, a miraculous cure from his terminal illness and restore him to our community in good health and well‐being.ANONISATION OF MARY OF E CROSS (MACKILLOP)

 Can you circulate this around especially as Christmas is fast approaching - it has been confirmed by Royal Mail. The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following scam:

A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that you need to contact them on 0906 6611911 (a Premium rate number).

DO NOT call this number, as this is a mail scam originating from Belize .

If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed £315 for the phone call.

If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 020 7239 6655.

 

Marist Liturgical Calendar and Mass Intentions 2010

Date		Feast or Celebration	Mass Intention
Dec	25	Christmas Day
	26	Holy Family
	28	Holy Innocents

 

 

 

M. Coleman SM, Marist Way Regional Animator