Edinburgh Jesuit Community
On Fri, 9/4/10,
From: Chris Boles SJ
Date: Friday, 9 April, 2010, 16:17
Fr. James Quinn SJ - R.I.P.
I am sorry to be writing to let you know that Fr James Quinn SJ died last night, April 8th, at the Little Sisters of the Poor in Gilmore Place . He was 90 years old, and had been ill for the last few weeks.
He was well known here in the archdiocese and throughout Scotland because of his hymn writing, his work in ecumenism, his work with ICEL, and his being vice postulator for the cause for canonisation of John Ogilvie.
He was born in Glasgow on 21 April 1919, educated at St Aloysius’ College and Glasgow University, and joined the Society of Jesus in 1939. After studying at Heythrop College , Oxfordshire, he taught at St Wilfrid’s School in Preston before being ordained in 1950. He also taught at Wimbledon College in South London, but served most of his working life here in Edinburgh, at the Sacred Heart, and a the old novitiate in Woodhall, Juniper Green. His time in Edinburgh was only interrupted by a few years serving as spiritual father to the Beda College in Rome .
His funeral will be on Thursday April 15th at 12.00 noon at the Sacred Heart, and his body will be received into the Sacred Heart on Wednesday evening at 5.15 p.m. prior to our evening mass. You are most warmly welcome to concelebrate at the requiem or at the evening mass, if you are able to do so.
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Please keep him, his family and the Jesuit community in your prayers.
Every blessing,
Chris Boles SJ
Superior of the Community
1 comment:
God be with him.
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