News and Events
News and Events... Updated regularly
Upcoming Parish Mission in Coatbridge
- Details
Upcoming Parish Mission in Coatbridge
Please click on the image to access the Parish Mission flyer
To learn more visit the parish website http://holytrinity-allsaintscoatdyke.co.uk/
Homily at Funeral for Fr Barrie O'Toole RIP
- Details
FUNERAL OF FR BARRIE O’TOOLE, CSsR (82 YRS)...
BISHOP ETON, TUESDAY 21 MAY 2019 at NOON
HOMILY - preached by Fr Timothy Buckley CSsR - Parish Priest
I first met Fr Barrie O’Toole on the evening of Monday, October 18th 1965. Andrew Burns and I were two of the seven newly professed students who had made their way from the novitiate in Perth to Hawkstone Hall, then our Redemptorist seminary. The tradition was that each of the new students was placed in the tender care of a senior student – his guardian angel. As luck would have it, Barrie had been deputed to look after me. I recall that even at the age of 29 his distinguished mop of hair was more white than grey. I do not recall much about this initiation process beyond the fact that on that first evening, when he had shown me to my room, he looked around and said something along the lines of: “you poor thing – I couldn’t possibly face starting here all over again!”
In fact Barrie was to prove a delightful confrère and life-long friend. He was ordained the following January and went to Rome to study Church History. A few years later he returned to teach at Hawkstone and I worked with him, catechising some of the children on the RAF station at Shawbury, where he was the chaplain. Until the last nine years that was the only time we were ever attached to the same community, but I enjoyed working with him on many occasions, including a memorable mission in Tudhoe and Spennymoor back in the spring of 1977.
Barrie enjoyed a rich and varied life as a Redemptorist priest. He coped with the transition of the students from Hawkstone to Canterbury in 1973 and was the first rector of that new student community. He moved from there to Hawkstone, where he built on the foundations laid by Jim McManus and helped to develop the Pastoral Centre into a place of international renown. During his fifty-three years of priesthood he had spells as a missioner and a retreat giver, two years in Brazil and three in Zimbabwe. He was part of two new experimental mission communities, one at Kiln Green near Reading and the other in Middlesbrough. His last years were spent here in Liverpool, where his cheerful and compassionate ministry was greatly appreciated.
Celebrating Fr Barrie O'Toole CSsR Life...
- Details
Celebrating Fr Barrie O'Toole CSsR Life...
A life well lived - many people have been ministered to by
Fr Barrie all around the world.
His life was celebrated in Bishop Eton Monastery Church, Liverpool.
A "NEW" Vocation Prayer
- Details
A "NEW" Vocations Prayer...
Our brand new Vocations prayer leaflet has a "new" vocations prayer -
new in that it has one new word added.
This is an important word for the prayer's success!
Novena Approaching...
- Details
Novena Approaching...
In June the Novena to
Our Mother of Perpetual Succour
will be celebrated in all our monasteries and churches around the world. This leaflet is advertising the one in
St Mary's Redemptorist Church, London.
Visit the parish website...
Our OSsR Nuns in Dublin...
- Details
Our OSsR Nuns in Dublin...
Our #OSsR #Nuns in Dublin sharing something of their spirituality and life.
#CSsR #Redemptorists #Redemptoristines #Vocations
Visit the Nuns here...
CSsR trip to OSB and Vepsers
- Details
CSsR trip to OSB and Vespers...
Some of our young adults from Clapham went with Br Royston CSsR to visit the Benedictine monastery at Farnborough, where Abbot Cuthbert kindly showed us around and told us about Benedictine life, concluded by Vespers and Benediction.
The Province Communities this Quadrennium 2019 - 2023
- Details
The Province Communities this Quadrennium 2019 - 2023...
Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer:
London Province Community Lists 2019
The Ordinary Provincial Council
Fr Ronald McAinsh CSsR - Provincial
Fr Richard Reid CSsR - Vicar Provincial
Fr Andrew Burns CSsR - 2nd Consultor
St Mary’s Monastery - Kinnoull Perth, Scotland 
Fr Ronald McAinsh CSsR – Provincial
Fr Charles Corrigan CSsR – Rector Prefect of Students pro tem
Fr James McManus CSsR – Missioner (Scotland)
Fr Gerard Mulligan CSsR
Fr Joseph Doherty CSsR
Fr Thomas MacCarte CSsR - Missioner (Scotland) &
Provincial Librarian
Fr Charles Randall CSsR - (Retreat House Director and Missioner)
Fr. Thomas Molloy CSsR (Edinburgh Chaplaincy)
Philip Jones CSsR - (Dysart Chaplaincy)
Bishop Eton Monastery - Liverpool
Fr Andrew Burns CSsR – Rector, & Provincial Bursar
Fr Kevin Callaghan CSsR
Fr James Casey CSsR
Fr Anthony Johnson CSsR
Fr Brian Russell CSsR
Fr Michael Henesy CSsR
Fr Anthony Hunt CSsR
Fr James Smale CSsR
Fr Timothy Buckley CSsR - Parish Priest
Fr Gabriel Maguire CSsR
Fr Martin Gay CSsR
Br William McDermott CSsR - Prison Ministry
Br Michael Duxbury CSsR - Prison Ministry & Asylum seekers
St Mary's Monastery - Clapham, London
Fr Richard Reid CSsR - Rector, Parish Priest, Vocations Director & Web
Fr Beverley Ahearn CSsR
Fr Jack Clancy CSsR
Fr George Webster CSsR
Fr Michael Creech CSsR
Fr Michael McGreevy CSsR
Br Thomas Lavery CSsR - Little Sisters, Oval
Fr Maurice O’Mahony CSsR – Retreats, RP. Mission Proc, Associates
Fr Caspar Mukabva CSsR - Parish
Fr Peter Morris CSsR - Missioner (South), Ass. Vocations’ Director
Br Michael Taylor CSsR - Professed Student, Company Sec. Ace of Clubs
Br Royston Price CSsR - Professed Student, Ass. Vocations’ Director
The Abbey, Erdington, Birmingham
Fr Andrew Burns CSsR – Superior, resident in Liverpool]
Fr Francis Dickinson CSsR - Parish
Fr Kieran Brady CSsR - Province Mission Coordinator (Missions, Midlands)
Fr Elias Gweme CSsR (Parish Priest)
St. Clement’s – Redemptorist Publications
Fr Denis Mc Bride CSsR - Superior & Director RP
Fr Terry Creech CSsR – Westlands House
Zimbabwe
Br Benjamin Posvo CSsR - Regional Leader
Fr Joseph Musendami CSsR - Regional Vicar
Fr Tryvis Moyo CSsR - Regional Consultor
The Zimbabwe communities will follow...
Please pray for all our men
- especially those who are moving to take up new ministry.
Upcoming Parish Mission in Hornchurch
- Details
Upcoming Parish Mission in Hornchurch
On Satuday 18th May 2019 the Redemptorist Mission Team (Kieran Brady CSsR & Helena Connolly) begin a Celebration of Faith in the large Essex/East London parish of St. Mary’s Hornchurch.
This week is dedicated to preaching the Word, working with the Schools, and enlivening the parish community. It can be a moment of grace, and of change, for many people. Keep us in your prayers. If you are in the area, feel free to come along…
For full details and to access the Parish Mission flyer click here
For more information visit the parish website at http://stmaryshornchurch.org.uk
Prayer for Vocations to the Priesthood and/or Religious Life...2019
- Details
Prayer for Vocations to the Priesthood and/or Religious Life...2019
4th Sunday of Easter is the World Day of Prayer
for Vocations to the Priesthood and/or the Religious Life
Pray for Vocations to the Priesthood and/or the Religious Life
Pray for Vocations to the Priesthood and/or the Religious Life
Pray for Vocations to the Priesthood and/or the Religious Life
Read more: Prayer for Vocations to the Priesthood and/or Religious Life...2019
Vocations Sunday 12th May 2019
- Details
Vocations Sunday 12th May 2019...
Pray for Vocations to the Religious Life and or the Priesthood
It is a great life!
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Fr Barrie O'Toole RIP... Funeral arrangements
- Details
Fr Barrie O'Toole RIP... Funeral arrangements...
Parish Mission in Muirhead
- Details
Parish Mission in Muirhead
Please pray for Fr Kieran and Fr Peter who are this week leading a parish mission in Muirhead.
Please click on the image to access the Parish Mission flyer
The parish Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/stbarbaramuirhead
Fr Barrie O'Toole C.Ss.R - Gone to the Father
- Details
Fr Barrie O'Toole CSsR - Gone to the Father...
Fr Barrie O’Toole RIP
Our confrere, Fr. Barrie O’Toole went to God to 4.40am today, 7th May, 2019 in the presence of his sister Pat and his niece, Kathleen.
Fr. Tim Buckley was with him yesterday afternoon and fortified him with the Rites of the Church.
I was blessed to be with Fr Barrie 10 days ago. May he rest in peace.
Funeral arrangements at Bishop Eton will follow.
Ronald McAinsh, C.Ss.R.
Provincial Superior
More news as it is available.
Fr Provincial writes 30th April 2019...
- Details
Fr Provincial writes 30th April 2019...
30th April 2019,
Dear Confreres and friends,
All good wishes for the month of May. When I look back over my letters for this month dedicated to Mary, I see quotations from Alphonsus, Augustine, Newman, Ephraim, Mother Teresa and Popes Benedict and Francis. Let me offer another from the Holy Father for this month - again from Evangelii Guadium (No. 285):
"At the foot of the cross, at the supreme hour of the new creation, Christ led us to Mary. He brought us to her because he did not want us to journey without a mother; and our people read in this maternal image all the mysteries of the gospel. The Lord did not want to leave the Church without this icon of womanhood."
I have another wonderful excerpt from Fr. Hans Urs von Balthaser in his book: "To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption". I find this quite touching and very, very apposite for the times in which we are living. It is taken from the chapter, 'Mary and the Church in the Redemption,' and you will find it in the fourth section.
