Nappi sees his work as continuing the ongoing creation of a sanctuary that the
Passionists have nurtured for 60 years.
The recovering alcoholic said he was walking down a corridor when two
Passionist priests asked for the boy's help with a "party" at the other end of the country manor.
Fr D'Arcy also has an official role with the
Passionists as a consultor in the Irish, Scottish, Paris and Africa provinces.
One is the number of
Passionists available to staff the facilities.
Enright was teaching at Narrabri West Public School in 1890-1891, but entered the
Passionists at Mary's Mount, Goulburn, on 25 March 1891.
The
Passionist gift included two Strasbourg incunables, four sixteenth-century books, thirty seventeenth-century imprints, and seventy-eight eighteenth-century titles.
Indeed, priests as late as the 1940s evinced deep frustration at the stubborn conviction of certain Catholics "that there is no sin in what they do before life begins," in the words of an anonymous
Passionist preacher, who clearly had reference to birth control and not to first-trimester abortion.
After that meeting, the priest wrote a book on the life of St Paul of the Cross, an Italian mystic who founded the
Passionist Order, which has more than 2500 priests and nuns worldwide.
Laurent responded to protests on O'Gara's treatment in China from
Passionists in Toronto and other interested parties.
The sisters all agreed that while it was undoubtedly God who brought them to the
Passionists, it is difficult to explain the exact process of being called to religious life.
He served as consulter to the provincial and treasurer of the
Passionists from 1978 to 1982; was vice-provincial, administrative assistant to the provincial, and director of development for the
Passionist province of the eastern Unites States from 1986 to 1997; and rector, retreat director and administrator of Our Lady of Florida, North Palm Beach, Fla.
Born in Holland in 1821, he joined The
Passionists at Ere, Belgium, when he was 24 and in 1857 he came to Ireland.
