Saturday, February 23, 2008

We had to put up one Brother in the bathroom

There is a nice little piece in the Catholic Herald on the growing Manchester Premonstratensions.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

They're a wonderful lot. I attended Mass at Corpus Christi Basilica, Miles Platting on a chance visit to Manchester for a meeting on the Feast of Corpus Christi a year or so before the feast was summarily translated to a following Sunday.

Miles Platting was some way from where my meeting was held, but for some unexplained reason I decided to go to Mass there. What a divine moment. Quarant Ore was to start that day and the floor of the basilica was covered with a carpet of flowers. At the time there were two young novices there. Please God this great order will get moroe vocations - and rooms to house them in their new home.

Anonymous said...

Didn't they close a church/community in Manchester two years ago and lose/disperse some men? It's not as if we have too many vocations.....

So maybe not quite so welcoming?

Jim

Anonymous said...

I attend Mass at St. Chad's quite often and they are a great bunch. I am sure some join and some leave - all monasteries have that - would be wrong if they didn't. They have four men in formation and a friend of mine wants to join but has been asked to wait, so all in all good news. Let's pray they find a good benefactor.

David

Anonymous said...

They did have some trouble at the beginning. They're a new community that has grown out of an old one, but at the moment they seem to be attracting people and they have four brothers in formation.

Fr Ray Blake said...

I have rejected a couple of rather unpleasant "Anonymouses".
If you are going to use such tactics supply an email address at least.

Anonymous said...

Anybody who lives surrounded by such appalling taste should be certified.

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