Funeral Arrangements for Br Benjamin Posvo CSsR RIP...

"The first Zimbabwean Redemptorist brother, a flagship of total surrender to God, who saw the congregation as his only home and its mission as his only mission, who knew the insufficiency of living in the congregation and for its mission but to die in the congregation faithful to His Word.

Having lived radically his vowed life he has embraced the consequence of this radical life being now embraced by the God for whom he gave up everything. The journey ended with a call to take and drink the cup of the master’s passion which James and John had said would drink.

He held it with both hands and drank it. He was no longer wanting anything to ease his pain but to fully embrace his cross and to drink the bitter cup . Like a lamb to the slaughter he died in silence.

We celebrated mass with him yesterday and what he could only receive was the cup. Soon after he received the oils. The end of his race and the good fight.

May he now receive the crown of glory awaiting him."

1970 - 2026

Let us pray for all those many people who are grienving Br Ben at this time. 

Br Benjamin Posvo CSsR RIP...

Our dear confrere

Br Benjamin Posvo CSsR 

returned to the Father's house this morning 

27th August 2026

Br Benjamin was 55 years old,

who gave his life to the Lord Jesus Christ,

our most Holy Redeemer.

Funeral arrangements will follow.

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Born 3rd September 1970.

Professed Vows 24th January 1998.

Born into eternity 27th August 2026.

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Copiosa apud eum redemptio.

Vivat in aeternum.

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St Gerard 300th - Erdington Abbey...

Please pass this information around,

the CSsR community at Erdington Abbey are preparing to celebrate

a Solemn Triduum in honour of our

St Gerard Majella CSsR

as we mark his

300th Anniversary of his birth!

St Gerard Majella - Pray for us!

Bishop Raymond Mupa CSsR...25 years a Priest...

Makorokoto to our confrere,

Bishop Raymond Mupa CSsR

as he marked his 25th Anniversary as a Priest.

We pray for him and his ministry as Bishop of Masvingo, Zimbabwe and

as President of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference.

A few cakes to mark the occasion...

Fr Tryvis Moyo CSsR, the Secretary of the Bishops' Conference and

the Papal Nuncio, His Excellency Janusz Stanisław Urbańczyk 

175 years of Redemptorists in Bishop Eton Monastery, Liverpool...

BISHOP ETON

This Georgian house, built in 1776, has been the home of the Redemptorist Fathers and Brothers since 1851.

We Redemptorists are a worldwide congregation of men committed to living and preaching the Gospel in ways that are meaningful to the place and culture in which we live.

OUR HOUSE

Originally called Eton House, it was built by Hezekiah Kirkpatrick, a Unitarian Minister, who wished to establish a school for boys. He was followed by a former teacher of Eton College, Mr. Fitzpatrick, who wanted to make it the "Eton of the North".

However, he too had departed by the turn of the century, and the house had several occupants before becoming, in 1843, the residence of the Roman Catholic Bishops, Brown and Sharples. From then on, the house came to be known as "Bishop Eton".

With the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in 1850, Bishop Brown became Bishop of Liverpool (Bishop Sharples died that year) and the house became vacant. Thousands of refugees from the Irish potato famine had flooded into Liverpool and were living in material and spiritual squalor. Many Catholic Religious Congregations of men and women were invited to the city to provide for their spiritual, material and educational needs.

At the special request of Liverpool's champion of the poor, Canon Nugent, the Redemptorists were invited to occupy Bishop Eton in 1851.

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