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From: Torrential Rains [mailto:torrential@hotmail.com]

Sent: Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:34 PM

To: church-mouse@lanuera.com

Subject: info about neocats?

Hi

Just seen your site about the Neocatechumenal Way….

Do you have a contact number?

I’d like to remain anonymous

Thanks.

From: “Church Mouse”

To: “‘Torrential Rains’”

Subject: RE: info about neocats?

Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:43:31 +1100

Hi anonymous –

Can you tell me something about what it is that … Continue reading →

This weekend’s church bulletin carried the following item:

Welcome Fr Clesio

We welcome back Fr Clesio who is replacing Fr Dennis. Fr Dennis will be reassigned elsewhere when he returns from the Philippines.

Clesio Mendes accompanied Prindiville as deacon when the Neocats were first imposed upon the St Vincent’s parish. He was replaced by Dennis Sudla when he left to be ordained in Perth, Western Australia.

The community keenly awaits for a display of the leopard’s new spots.

It seems that the Church Mouse’s good authority on this subject was not so well informed after all.

Here is Sudla (taking time out from his missionary work) officiating at a wedding (see the Hello World posting, on the couple’s weblog) on 22 December 2005 in the humble parish of Saint James the Great, Ayala Alabang Village, Muntinlupa, Philippines.

Original image

More photos: image1, image2, image3.

Thanks to the St Vincent’s supersleuth for locating this information.

PS:
Image removed at the … Continue reading →

Maureen Flood, Nun, 1935-2005

Sydney Morning Herald, January 13, 2006

ONE of Maureen Flood’s most vivid memories – and a defining experience in her life – came at St Vincent’s Church, Redfern, when a frail Aboriginal woman arrived, as if from a long journey.

She looked ill, tattered, torn, weak and hungry. She asked a nun: “Sis, do you reckon I could have a bath?”

“We ran a lot of hot water, carefully undressed Mary and lowered her thin, black body into the bath,” Flood wrote later. “She was smiling as if … Continue reading →

Take a look at More On NeoCats – But Now From Down Under on Robert Duncan’s Pelican Press weblog.

Sydney Morning Herald, January 7, 2006

MAUREEN FLOOD died 40 minutes after Kerry Packer. The timing of their deaths was the only thing they had in common, apart from their dyslexia and the fact that people they left behind are still talking about them, and will do so for a long time.

Packer died with an estimated fortune of $7 billion. A Christian friend in this secular Australia raised with me Jesus’s words, reported by St Matthew: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a … Continue reading →

Some years ago Sr Maureen Flood, SSS, reflected on the St Vincent’s community in SACRED SITE:

One of the reasons why I love this community so much is that the telling of stories is given considerable space. Be they sublime, terrible, funny, shocking, sad or too long, every story is received and honoured. The liturgy enfolds the stories of the day – the personal and the communal. This can be demanding. At St Vincent’s the liturgy is not always consoling or comfortable. The Mass is not ended until announcements have been made by anyone who wants to let us … Continue reading →

Just in case, gentle reader, you have been concerned about the Church Mouse’s recent inactivity, rest assured that the declining rate of Journal postings is not a barometer of Neocat activity in the parish.

The fact of the matter is that the Mouse has been somewhat distracted by other business, and has simply not had the time to keep the morsels coming.

This year’s Christmas Sharing of the Meal and distribution of hampers will be celebrated on Tuesday 20 December.

Offers of help or contributions of food for hampers will be gratefully accepted – please … Continue reading →

• September edition of Thoughts for the Month

• John Hill shared his Journey with us earlier this year. Read it here.

A graduation address by Father Frank Brennan SJ AO, friend of St Vincent’s and guest speaker last month at a UNSW graduation ceremony for the Faculty of Law and the Institute of Environmental Studies, during which he received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws.

Last December, I was in New Orleans, that most enchanting of southern US cities. Staying at Loyola University, I enjoyed the charming southern hospitality not only in the piano bars and at the university but also on the tramcars and in the streets, which had been invaded by football fans from all over the United States for … Continue reading →