Fr Brendan Lovett Archives - Columban Missionaries

Far East marks 20th anniversary of killing of Fr Rufus Halley

by Sarah | Jul 29, 2021 | News

The current issue of the Far East magazine is devoted to Columban missionary Fr Rufus Halley who was killed twenty years ago in August 2001. The Editorial was written by Fr Brendan Lovett. In the past editors have often attempted to find a unifying theme for a given...

Holy Week Reflections: Saturday – Let God Easter in Us

by Sarah | Apr 3, 2021 | Reflections

We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and...

Holy Week Reflections: Friday – Kissing Evil On the Lips

by Sarah | Apr 2, 2021 | Reflections

We, for our part, have crossed over from death to life; this we know because we love our brothers and sisters. 1 Jn. 3:13 The Christian focus on the Cross has nothing to do with tragic consciousness. It is not a sick preoccupation with negativity in the place of an...

Holy Week Reflections – Thursday: Dying We Live

by Sarah | Mar 31, 2021 | Reflections

In truth, in very truth I tell you, a grain of wheat remains a solitary grain unless it falls into the ground and dies; but if it dies, it bears a rich harvest. The man who loves himself is lost, but he who hates himself in this world will be kept safe for eternal...

Holy Week Reflections – Wednesday: Sign of our Hope

by Sarah | Mar 30, 2021 | Reflections

It may sound paradoxical, but the fact that the cross of Jesus uncovers for us the mystery of iniquity is itself the demonstration that the basis of our hope is present in the cross. There was infinitely more happening on the rise of ground outside Jerusalem than the...