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Missionaries of the
Sacred Heart
Last Update:
22/01/2010
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Archived News from 2005
For current news from 2007 click here.
In the midst of the regular pace of day to day life there are
always certain highlights. These are some of the more special things that
happened for us in 2005. Events are listed in reverse order.
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The community celebrated Christmas together for the first
time at Princethorpe, joining with eight other MSCs from the Midlands of
England and South Wales. Ryan Holovlasky, one of the MSC students from the
formation house in Dublin, stayed with the community over the Christmas
period.
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Carl, Ton and Mark visited Kevin Caffrey and Andy Quinn at
the Fr. Hudson's Society, the Social Care
Agency of the Archdiocese of Birmingham (20th December 2005).
Read more...
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On 10th December 2005 Carl celebrated his 40th birthday with family, friends
and the local MSC community.
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During the first week of December 2005 Fr. Herman Van Holsbeek, a friend of Mark's from Belgium, visited the community
prior to beginning a new ministry as prison chaplain.
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In November the community visited the "Brushstrokes" Asylum Seekers
and Refugees
project in Smethwick, Birmingham. Read more...
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During October 2005 the community received several
visitors. Diarmuid O'Murchu MSC, a long-standing supporter of the
project and Mark Van Beeumen's Novice Master, was the first to visit us.
MSCs living locally (Alan Whelan MSC, Teddy O'Brien MSC and Joe McGee MSC)
have also been regular visitors from October onwards. We were also
pleased to welcome Mathieu Paradis MSC from the Belgian Province who was
visiting his sister, Nellie, who lives in the MSC Parish in Tamworth,
Staffordshire.
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In October 2005 the community was present at the annual English MSC
Assembly in Swanwick, Derbyshire and at the annual Irish MSC Assembly in
Waterford. While in Ireland the community stayed for
some days with the MSC formation community in Tallaght, Dublin.
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On September
28th 2005 Carl collected Ton from Birmingham airport and Mark from Coventry
airport as all three came to live together for the first time in Gardener's
Cottage, Princethorpe.
News from
other years is here: 2006, 2007
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