Friday 30 October 2015

Sr. Patricia FMM St. Joseph's Convent, Rush


  
   
   



Death Notice:
McGLYNN (Rush, Co. Dublin) - October 13, 2015, (peacefully), after a long illness, Sr. Patricia (FMM); 
deeply regretted by her religious community, 
her brothers Fr. Brendan-Nivard and, Fr. Donald (OCSO), her sisters Sr. Noreen, Sr. Mary, Sr. Josephine and Sr. Christina (FMM's), 
extended family and friends. 
R.I.P.
Funeral Mass tomorrow (Friday) in St. Joseph's Convent, Old Road, Rush at 11.30 o'c.  
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Obituary by Sr. Josephine McGlynn, FMM.


SR. PATRICIA MCGLYNN, F.M.M.
R.I.P.

Patricia was born On 27th February, 1937 in Glasgow. She was 'sandwiched' between myself, Jo, and the baby, Christina, so we became known as the three 'wee ones' while Brendan, Noreen, Mary and James were the 'four big ones'. In 1939, Mum and the seven of us had to move to West Donegal to avoid being split up and sent to different parts of Scotland during the war. Dad had to stay in Scotland to work and to help in the war effort. We lived in a simple two roomed cottage in the beauty, peace and tranquillity of a small village, Ballykillduff, not far from the breathtaking Atlantic coast. It had two essentials - a Church and a Primary School. We spent 6 very happy years there before returning to Glasgow in 1945 to continue our education.

As I reflected on Patricia's life, the Scripture passage which came to mind was Phil. 3:10-15.

" All I want is to know Christ and to experience the power of His Resurrection, to share in His sufferings and become like Him in his death, in the hope that I myself will be raised from death to Life. I do not claim that I have already succeeded, or have already become perfect, I keep striving to win the prize for which Jesus Christ has already won me for Himself. Of course, my brothers, I do not think I have already won it; the one thing I do, however, is to forget what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead. So I run straight towards the goal in order to win the prize, which is God's call through Christ Jesus to the life above."

For me this passage sums up Patricia's life and. her deepest desires and now- "IT IS FULFILLED", her  deepest desires have been granted. 

She was a lively, outgoing, high spirited lass but was also quick tempered and stubborn at times! She loved sports, games .athletics, dancing etc. I have a lovely photo of her proudly holding a silver cup she won in the championship High Jump at school. We never tired teasing her about an incident which happened when we were quite small.

"The local boys, including our 2 holy monks decided to collect stingy nettles and to chase the girls. We all scattered, helter skelter screaming - except one - our Patricia!! She bent down quickly started collecting pebbles and started pelting the boys with them! At this point they decided to give up and went away."

She had a beautiful voice and loved music and singing and was always the one who would lead us in song. When the Charisrnatic Renewal came much later, she was in her element. One day Mum realised that Patricia was missing and asked where she was. The answer was "Over the road with the Boyles entertaining them with singing and dancing!" While preparing for her First Holy Communion she was seen distributing 'Holy Communion' i.e. bread to a row of little friends! That , was a long time before Vatican II or mention of women's ordination.

As a late teenager, she was an enthusiastic member of the Legion of Mary and delighted in the opportunity to spread God's Word and to encourage people in their Faith. On finishing school, she helped Dad in his business for a few years before entering our Novitiate in Coldash in March 1957. After her First Profession, she did her Nurses Training in London and after her Final Vows, she was missioned to Pakistan. By nature Patricia was very caring and compassionate, so she was very happy nursing the poor in our Hospital, St Raphael's in Lyallpur and in St. Joseph’s Hospice for the seriously, physically handicapped of all ages. I believe these were among her happiest and most fulfilling years.

Sadly after twenty years in Pakistan, she had to return to the Home Province due to health problems. A new battle began, not a "battle with the boys" but a battle with ill health due to 'Bipolar' and depression which she faced with the same courage and determination.
visit to Sr. Patricia. Dec 2013
  She was determined to remain faithful to her life of prayer, the active Apostolate and the living out of her "Ecce and Fiat" - come what may! This was evident especially in her' years in Aberdeen. Helen, a good friend from there gave a beautiful testimony during the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the "three wee ones" in Nunraw Abbey in 2008. I don't remember her exact words but they went something like this:
"Patricia is a great Missionary. She regularly visits the elderly and helps them in many ways. She is active in our Parish, is a woman of prayer and is a great inspiration for all of us. She is not afraid to reach out to people, even strangers, if she thinks they are in need and often invites them to our Charismatic prayer. We love her. We treasure her. We need her. Please Sisters, whoever your superiors are, tell them not to move Patricia but to leave her with us in Aberdeen."

She did remain for a few more years but a time came when she needed care so she moved to our Rush Community four years ago and was very happy to do so - feeling she was COMING HOME. Only God knows how much she has suffered from her illness but a big consolation is that she was always surrounded by LOVE. She died very peacefully on Tuesday is" October. Deo Gratias. MAY SHE REST IN PEACE.
   
I can imagine Patricia saying to me now:- "Too many words Jo! It's not like you! Please say the words I want you to say for me, the ones I was not able to speak these past months, the ones I longed to say but could only express with my eyes or a smile!"
What are those words?
"THANK YOU, THANK YOU WITH ALL MY HEART!
                                                  THANK YOU MY BELOVED FMMS, THANK YOU MY BELOVED SISTERS, BROTHERS AND ALL
FAMILY MEMBERS! THANK YOU FAITHFUL FRIENDS!
A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO MY INCREDIBLE CARERS AND STAFF here in St Joseph's for you’re never failing thoughtfulness, your unbounded love and tender care and compassion Words cannot express how much I love you all!        I will certainly continue to pray for you all in Heaven".
In the race for eternal life, Patricia has crossed the finishing line, so as we praise and thank God for her life, we rejoice with her in winning the prize to which God has now called her and in her new found happiness - fully united with the Lord, the Saints, the Angels and of course our beloved Mum and Dad.

AMEN      ALLELUIA      ALLELUIA

   
 
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Thursday 29 October 2015

The Lord of History by Jean Danielou

Monastic Lectionary of the Divine Office, 
      
THIRTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
The Lord of History www.answersaboutfaith.com  
THURSDAY 26/10/2015
First Reading
Jeremiah 27:1-15
          Responsory Is 55:8-9; fer 27:5
My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. +As the heavens are high above the earth, so are my ways high above your ways and my thoughts above your thoughts.
V. It is I who by my great power and outstretched arm made the earth, with the people and animals that are on the earth, and I can give it to whomever I please. + As the heavens ...

Second Reading     From The Lord of History by Jean Danielou
If a missionary is to testify before the world concerning the mind of God, he must first enter into that mind himself, he must be led by the Holy Spirit into the depths in God's nature, he must contemplate with awe the scale and boldness of the divine plan. The soul of the Blessed Virgin was enlightened at the time of her visitation by such a spiritual vision of the ways of providence, so that she cried out, in the Magnificat, My soul magnifies the Lord ... because he who is mighty ... has wrought ... wonders. "Magnify" means to recognize the greatness of God's works, to stand amazed at the magnificence of his operations. Generally, people fail to see these things, being blinded by the spectacle of earthly grandeur, and unaware of the glory of God. They are readily moved to admiration of temporal achieve­ments: the power of the great nations opposing one another in our time, or the dynamic influence of the human mind evinced by such as Nietzsche, or Marx, fills them with astonishment, even while they forget the immeasurable might of God's activity.
What the Holy Ghost does for the apostle is to raise up his understanding from the plane of human activity to the level of the divine working. For, indeed, as the Lord said to Isaiah, he does not think as you think, deal as you deal. Men and women have their own ideas, but these are not God's; they would like to organize the world in a certain fashion, but this is not God's fashioning; they pursue a goal which is not God. There is some relationship between these two distinct worlds, but it is not one of identity. The apostle is a person whom the Holy Spirit has taken up into the ways of God, and whom he will help to cooperate in them, making him instrumental in their fulfilment, as we may see in the case of the prophets throughout the ages of Old Testament history.
Today the Holy Spirit still affords us the same religious understanding of the historical process, the same spiritual insight into the realities of our own time. Thus when we look at contemporary events we may see further than the children of this world, who perceive only the outward husk of things; we need not explain everything in terms of the conflicting material interests of classes and nations. Behind the scenes, another conflict is engaged, between Christ and the powers of evil, for the possession of nations and of souls. It is only the Spirit of God that enables us to transcend the limitations of human insight, and to read the unanswerable riddle of our times.

Responsorv Eph 6:10-12
Be strong in the Lord, with the strength of his power. + Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles
of the devil.
V. Our struggle is not against human adversaries, but against cosmic powers, against the rulers and governors of this dark age, against the superhuman forces of evil in the heavenly realms. + Put on ...

    

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Wednesday 28 October 2015

Rabanus Maurus 2. Interior Listening (Wm)

COMMENT from Donald
Fw: Six Rabannus Maurus entries
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Donald ...
To: "William ....

Sent: Wednesday, 28 October 2015, 6:03
Subject: Six Rabannus Maurus entries

Dear William,
Our continuing of "My forehead. Enter into my thoughts."
Thank you comment and below to follow the furrows in Rabanus Maurus at 'enlargingtheheart.wordpress.com', six Entries included. May not be in our library.

Angels.
Yesterday at Western General Hospital, Raymond and I went to visit 93yr Mary in the maze to search. At the Reception an elderly WWW voluntary aid kept us all the way of paths by buildings, lifts and wards!  'Angel' I called her as she realized. And Mary suffering shingles, herself an Angel too. Hospital staff all so kind.
...yours,
Donald
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COMMENT from William  - Thank you. D.
Fw: this interior listening

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From: William ...
To: nunrawdonald  ...
Sent: Tuesday, 27 October 2015, 19:30
Subject: Re: this interior listening

Dear Father Donald,
There is a practical snag here for me... "No one learns anything through speech... unless the mind is anointed with the Spirit" And yet, the spoken word does not always 'register' for me its full meaning, (first thoughts distracting me), and when I do realize the meaning of all that I have just heard, the echo is gone! Whereas the written word places its meaning before me to consider and reflect upon, and review the meaning of one phrase caught up into the next: Lectio is for me this "interior listening".
I need the text for the full value of the spoken word to register. I wonder if that was in the mind of the writers of the Gospels as they sought to capture the depth of the meaning relayed in the oral traditions?
Just William

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Date : 27/10/2015 - 07:34 (GMTST)
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Cc ...
Subject : Night Office
The mind has the wealth of thoughts.
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Monday, Nov 7 2011 

Early Latin Monks and MONASTIC and PATRISTIC and Rabanus Maurus grace, heart, Holy Spirit, interior life, mind, scripture Mark Armitage 8:55 am
(On Jeremiah 36)
In the Gospel he who is Truth himself says to his disciples:
When you stand before kings and princes, do not think how you are to speak, or what you are to say; what you are to say will be given you at the time, for it is not you who will be speaking but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
We must realise that the grace of the Holy Spirit is necessary not only for those who teach but also for those who are taught.
Unless the Spirit is present in the heart of the listener, the teacher is wasting his breath.
Unless there is a teacher within us, the teacher without works in a vacuum.
In Church we all hear the same voice speaking, but all do not understand it in the same way.
Since there is no difference in what is said, why is there a difference in our understanding of it, unless there is an interior teacher giving certain people special instruction through their understanding of words of admonition addressed to all?
Concerning this grace of the Holy Spirit, John says: His anointing will teach you everything.
No one learns anything through speech, therefore, unless the mind is anointed with the Spirit.
Because King Jehoiachim and his servants were not inwardly illumined by the grace of the Holy Spirit who inspired the Prophet, their bodily ears could hear the words of God, but the ears of the heart were deaf to them.
It is this interior listening which our Lord demands in the Gospel when he says: Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.
One has to marvel at the blindness of the human mind and the wickedness of the hardened heart.
Those whom salutary admonitions should have filled with compunction and sorrow for their sins were at pains to burn the scroll containing the words of the Lord.
They also took every opportunity to insult the Prophet whom they ought to have honoured for his inspired teaching and admonitions.
And why did they do this? Was it not because there was in them the sort of wicked spirit that always resists grace?
Yet human pride is impotent when it sets itself to resist divine sovereignty.
An earthly King gave orders for the Prophet and his scribe to be arrested and sent to prison;
the King of heaven shielded his blameless saints from human malice so that they came to no harm.
Rabanus Maurus (c.780-856): Commentary on Jeremiah, 13 (PL 111:1073-75); from the Monastic Office of Vigils, Tuesday of Week 30 in Ordinary Time, Year 1
The mind has the wealth of thoughts.
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Sts Simon and Jude Feast 2. Mass Apostles Intro Fr. Brendan,


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Tuesday 27 October 2015

Sts. Simon and Jude, apostles - Feast


Wednesday, 28 October 2015

SAINTS SIMON AND JUDE
Apostles
(Feast)

         The name of Saint Simonusually appears eleventh in the list of the apostles. Nothing is known of him except that he was born at Cana and is surnamed "The Zealot".
         Saint Jude, also called Thaddeus, was the apostle who asked the Lord at the Last Supper why he has manifested himself only to his disciples and not to the whole world (John 12:22).


Christian Prayer : The Liturgy of the Hours - Daughters of St. Paul * St. Paul Editions * 1976
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Rabanus Maurus: No One Learns Anything through Speech unless the Mind is Anointed with the Spirit

The mind has the wealth of thoughts.
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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Donald ....
Sent: Tuesday, 27 October 2015, 7:34
Subject: Night Office

Monday, Nov 7 2011 

(On Jeremiah 36)
In the Gospel he who is Truth himself says to his disciples:
When you stand before kings and princes, do not think how you are to speak, or what you are to say; what you are to say will be given you at the time, for it is not you who will be speaking but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
We must realise that the grace of the Holy Spirit is necessary not only for those who teach but also for those who are taught.
Unless the Spirit is present in the heart of the listener, the teacher is wasting his breath.
Unless there is a teacher within us, the teacher without works in a vacuum.
In Church we all hear the same voice speaking, but all do not understand it in the same way.
Since there is no difference in what is said, why is there a difference in our understanding of it, unless there is an interior teacher giving certain people special instruction through their understanding of words of admonition addressed to all?
Concerning this grace of the Holy Spirit, John says: His anointing will teach you everything.
No one learns anything through speech, therefore, unless the mind is anointed with the Spirit.
Because King Jehoiachim and his servants were not inwardly illumined by the grace of the Holy Spirit who inspired the Prophet, their bodily ears could hear the words of God, but the ears of the heart were deaf to them.
It is this interior listening which our Lord demands in the Gospel when he says: Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.
One has to marvel at the blindness of the human mind and the wickedness of the hardened heart.
Those whom salutary admonitions should have filled with compunction and sorrow for their sins were at pains to burn the scroll containing the words of the Lord.
They also took every opportunity to insult the Prophet whom they ought to have honoured for his inspired teaching and admonitions.
And why did they do this? Was it not because there was in them the sort of wicked spirit that always resists grace?
Yet human pride is impotent when it sets itself to resist divine sovereignty.
An earthly King gave orders for the Prophet and his scribe to be arrested and sent to prison;
the King of heaven shielded his blameless saints from human malice so that they came to no harm.
Rabanus Maurus (c.780-856): Commentary on Jeremiah, 13 (PL 111:1073-75); from the Monastic Office of Vigils, Tuesday of Week 30 in Ordinary Time, Year 1
   

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