OF YOU MY HEART HAS SPOKEN
Eamonn Monson SAC
Monday, April 25, 2022
STARING AT THE CEILING (Priest of the Hidden Life)
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
EVERLASTING JOY (Easter Monday 2022)
It's Easter Monday now. Eton Mess and a cappuccino in hazy sunshine by
the sea. Kind, comforting food. A feeling of tired contentment. Having
travelled to two funerals in the Manchester area in the space of five days has
taken its toll. It’s about a 500-mile round trip. But of course, worth it! Pallottine
Sister Hedwig whom I first met almost fifty years ago, Hedwig who went as a
missionary to Tanzania at the age of 62, spending 23 years there!
And my cousin Mary Monson who came into our lives in a meaningful way six years ago, bringing healing to misunderstandings of family history. A
brilliant solicitor, courageous and caring, who put herself out there for the
underprivileged, the unjustly treated of this world, many of whom became her
personal friends and attended the funeral. Of Mary the words of Jesus in
Matthew 25 can be said, “Come blessed of my Father!” I had the privilege of
anointing her a few weeks before her death. May they rest in peace.
Monday, April 4, 2022
ALONE WITH THE WOMAN
Saturday, March 5, 2022
MEMENTO
No thorns
No nails
No spear
An invisible Cross
On which hangs
The soul of a child's
Tormented mind
Sister
Nation
Brother
Bewildered
Be wilderness
Be wilder
Being tempted
Being victorious
Your head cradled
In my arms
Resting upon my heart
Wild-aired Mother
Of Christ crucified
Spouse
Of the wild-aired
Spirit
Resolute
Protecting
Presence
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Compassion! Compassion! Compassion!
Compassion! Compassion! Compassion! Three times this
word appears in the Responsorial Psalm of the seventh Sunday and four times we
respond, “the Lord is compassion and love” and this response is our act of
faith. We believe it, and when God says something three times He means us to
take particular notice, He wants us to experience His compassion.
Jesus indicates in the Beatitudes that compassion is
the perfect expression of who God is. In Matthew’s Beatitudes He calls us to “be
perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect”, while in Luke’s Beatitudes he
says, “be compassionate as your heavenly Father is compassionate.”
Sunday, February 13, 2022
TRUST: A Tree by the Waterside
Sunday, February 6, 2022
MOVE ON FROM HERE TO THE HIGHLANDS: (Assembly and other thoughts)
For some, this was the first experience of Zoom; others have had their fill of the platform and we wondered how it would all work. A virtual Provincial Assembly spread over six different time zones, six countries, four continents and twenty two men – ever conscious that we represent thousands of women, men and children whose lives we share in ministry.