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St. Joseph’s Advocate Mill Hill Missionaries Spring 2018 Spring 2018 1
Streams of love and mercy
flow from the heart of God
like streams of living water
(See John 7:38)
2 Spring 2018
Advocate
Spring 2018 Volume 58 No. 1
St. Joseph’s Advocate
Published by: Mill Hill Missionaries
Editor: Fr. Jim O’Connell
Printed in Ireland by: Modern Printers, Kilkenny
Contents
From the Editor 2 Nine Day Novena to St. Joseph 16
The experience of a life time 4 Jubilarians 18
Baptism at the age of 106 8 Knock 1879 – hard times 20
When a Maasai child is born 10 God’s own sailor 24
The women will carry your bags 13 Sustainable use of water 27
The reign of terror in Witu 14 All creatures great and small 30
Novena Prayer to St. Joseph 15 Obituary – Fr. Brian Coffey 31
Obituaries 32
Photos credits:
Front Cover: A Rural Scene, Kitale, Kenya. Photo: Fons Eppink
Inside Front: Waterfall at Glencomeragh. Photo: Jim O’Connell
Other Photos: Aidan Hart, Lawrence Otieno, Daniel Foley,
Fons Eppink, Donal Harney
Mission Offerings
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Mill Hill Missionaries, 50 Orwell Park, Rathgar, Dublin D06 C535.
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St. Joseph’s Advocate Email: St. Mary’s Parish
Mill Hill Missionaries organisingmhm@gmail.com 25 Marquis Street
50 Orwell Park Website: Belfast BT1 1JJ
Rathgar, Dublin D06 C535 www.millhillmissionaries.co.uk Tel: 04890 320482
Tel: (01) 412 7707
Spring 2018 1
From the
Editor
Fr. Jim O’Connell, mhm
I
t is not often that a modern film gets so Babette, who had been a chef in a
mentioned in a papal document. But famous Paris restaurant before she fled
this is what happened when Pope the French revolution, prepared a great
Francis published ‘The Joy of Love’. He feast.
referred to the film ‘Babette’s Feast’,
which is based o n a novel by t h e ‘A most joyful life-giving experience’
Danish writer Isak Dinesen – the writer At first, the friends and villagers who
who also gave us the book (and film) were accustomed to plain food were
‘Out of Africa’. Babette’s Feast is a story u n e a s y with the luxury of such a feast.
set in a remote village in Denmark in In their religious tradition, tongues were
the late nineteenth-century. Two sisters, made for praising God, not for tasting
Martine and Philippa, were the leaders exotic foods! They reluctantly decided to
of a small pious Protestant community go to the Feast. However, as they tasted
founded by their father as a young man. Babette’s food the room gradually
After their father died, the sisters and became filled with conversation and
members of the congregation continued laughter, hearts softened, old rows were
to meet to read the Bible and pray. resolved, and the feast turned out to be
a most joyful life-giving experience
The two sisters wished to celebrate what for everyone. Babette herself was
would have been their father’s 1OOth overjoyed. At the end of the meal one
birthday w i t h a simple supper for his of the guests spoke about love, mercy,
remaining disciples. However, their joy, gratitude and appreciation: “There
housekeeper Babette (a refugee from comes a time when our eyes are opened.
Paris they had taken in) asked if she And we come to realise that mercy
could prepare a French dinner for the (love) is infinite. We need only await it
celebration, and pay for it herself from with confidence and receive it with joy
money she had won in the lottery. The and gratitude. Mercy (love) imposes no
sisters, who were used to simple meals conditions”.
all their lives, reluctantly agreed, and
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‘An example of selfless love’ only Son to be our Saviour. He did not
In Babette’s Feast, Pope Francis saw a spare his own Son but gave him up for
wonderful example of selfless love that us all. Such selfless love is rooted in
brings joy to others: “The most intense the heart of God who reveals his love for
joys in life arise when we are able to elicit us in so many ways but especially in the
joy in others, as a foretaste of heaven. passion, death and Resurrection of Christ
We can think of the lovely scene in the our Saviour. There is no greater love
film Babette’s Feast, when the generous than this – to suffer and die for us and
cook receives a grateful hug and praise lay down his life for us. (See John 15:13)
in the words: “Ah, how you will delight This is our focus for Lent and Holy Week
the angels!” It is a joy to bring delight to when we will be drawn deeper into the
others, to see them enjoying themselves. great mystery of God’s infinite love for
This joy, the fruit of selfless love, is not us and, hopefully, we are able to accept
that of the vain and self-centred, but of this love with gratitude and share it
lovers who delight in the good of those generously with others, communicating
whom they love, who give freely to them it in our daily lives by giving of ourselves
and thus bear good fruit.” (The Joy of to help bring joy to others. This is ‘The
Love: 129) Joy of Love’ that Pope Francis wants us
to experience – a love beyond all telling.
Babette’s Feast is a modern parable
for the infinite, selfless love of God, [Note: The Novena to St. Joseph
who loves us so much that he sent his is on pages 15, 16 and 17]
Sorry for the delay
We are sorry that some of you had to wait so long for a reply to your letters in October,
November and December. With our move from Kilkenny to Dublin, we had problems
with the new setup here which led to a delay in replying to the letters as they came
in during that busy period. A breakdown in our computer system was the major
problem. This affected our data base and mailing list and it took time to get it sorted.
We are hopeful the problem is now solved.
As you will know from experience there can be a delay in replying to letters during
the busy period that runs from early October until the end of March. We do all we
can to keep the time you have to wait for a reply to a minimum. If you have an
email address or mobile phone number we would be grateful if you could send us the
details; this would help to speed things up with a reply and also save a lot on postage.
We want to say a sincere ‘thank you’ for your support which we deeply appreciate.
Fr. Maurice McGill, mhm
Spring 2018 3
(Aidan Hart was a student with Mill Hill for six and a half years. When he left Mill Hill in
1965 he trained as a teacher, specialising in Catholic Religious Education. He went on to be
an Inspector of Religious Education with the Northern Ireland Department of Education.
Aidan is retired and lives with his wife Margaret in Bangor, Co. Down. They have three
daughters and 5 grandchildren living locally. Aidan regards Mill Hill as his ‘spiritual home’
and since 2004, Mill Hill has benefitted greatly from Aidan’s experience and expertise.)
With the Parish Visitation Team Shauri Moyo: (left) Fr. Tom Keane, (centre)
Aidan Hart, (right) Anna Boomers, former Mill Hill Lay Associate
The Experience of a Life Time
By Aidan Hart
A few years ago I was sitting at my into order for the new arrival, alongside
computer answering emails when up a range of other responsibilities.
popped one from my old friend and Mill
Hill class mate, Fr. Bernard Phelan. I have always regarded the Mill Hill
He was working in a parish in Kotido, Missionary Society as my spiritual
northern Uganda, with two other Mill home, the place where my spirituality
Hill Missionaries – Fr. Philip O’Halloran was formed as a teenager and young
and Fr. Sylvester Odhiambo, a young man. Wanting to give something back
Mill Hill priest from the Luo tribe in to the Society which had given me
Kenya. Fr. Bernard told me about his so much, I emailed Fr. Bernard back
new appointment of being in charge of immediately, volunteering, with my
the local diocese until a new Bishop wife’s agreement and support, to go
would arrive. He mentioned struggling out for a few months and help put the
to put the diocesan financial accounts diocesan accounts in order while he got
4 Spring 2018
on with more important things. I was on old wooden planks. Water and
recently retired and not an accountant, sewage flowed down shallow rivulets
although my daughter is, so it was a big outside many of the huts. Mass in these
challenge. surroundings took on a new intensity
and meaning, reinforced by the obvious
Mass took on a new intensity and
joy of all those present at being able to
meaning
participate in Eucharist and praise God.
I flew into Nairobi airport in Kenya and
The singing was joyful and loud. Knife
spent some time with Fr. Tom Keane
crime and murder were commonplace
MHM in Shauri Moyo parish in the vast
in the slums; on one occasion Fr. Tom
slums outside the city. In the evenings
Keane and I were accompanied back
we often went out to various house
to the parish house surrounded by a
meetings, where Fr. Tom celebrated
tight circle of male parishioners for our
Mass for those present. Dire poverty
protection. Gunfire at night was not
stared me in the face. The ‘houses’
uncommon. One day I witnessed an old
were mostly a one room hut made
man digging desperately for food as he
of un-plastered concrete blocks and
lay amidst the stinking garbage at the
scraps of tin, cardboard and plywood.
local dump.
Clothes in plastic bags and cooking
utensils were stored on the bunk beds After a few weeks I flew on to Uganda.
lining one or two walls. Seating was Mill Hill Missionaries in Panyangara,
Watakau Village, Kotido, Northern Uganda
Spring 2018 5
Fr. Sylvester Odhiambo, mhm, with adults and children in Kotido
Kotido, in northern Uganda have a cockroaches and scorpions. Fr. Bernard
ministry to the Karimojong people. The Phelan MHM had been bitten previously
priests, to identify with the poverty of by a scorpion while lifting some fresh
the local people, lived in a compound of clothes from a drawer in his hut. For the
several simple huts with grass roofs, not same reason I was also advised to turn
unlike those used by the local people. my shoes upside down each morning
One hut was reserved as a chapel for before putting them on. I gave up trying
morning and evening community to pick the small ants from the home
prayer. made cake and just ate them with every
mouthful of cake like the priests did.
Terrible Poverty and the fierce
heat On two occasions during the night I was
Two things struck me immediately – the awakened by local gunfire, and felt I
terrible poverty of the people among was back in Northern Ireland during ‘the
whom the missionary priests lived and troubles’. It transpired the local police
laboured and the fierce heat during the and army had attacked cattle rustlers,
day. Dinner and bread were cooked a common occurrence in this part of
inside a tin box with a glass door, set Uganda. Many local warriors still carry
on the ground facing the mid-day sun! the now illegal spear and have modern
Bugs of all descriptions were another guns hidden in the thatched roofs of
problem. I was advised to roll back the their primitive huts. I also noticed on
sheet on my bed each evening before two occasions a boy of about 12 years of
lying down to check for large, black age walking behind his mother carrying
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a large gun to protect her from abduction left me in awe of the generosity of the
as she worked a primitive plough in a Mill Hill priests I met and the dedicated
field next to the Mill Hill Mission. work they were doing to establish the
Kingdom of God in faraway places,
The Karimojong are a warrior tribe and where people live in great poverty
fiercely protective of their cattle. They and suffering. They endured excessive
don’t hesitate to take by force of arms heat, deprivation, sickness, loneliness,
cattle belonging to other tribes. It is a frustration and having to learn a difficult
dangerous region. A Mill Hill priest of foreign language. But they never let
the same parish in which I was staying, it interfere with their work in making
Fr. Declan O’Toole MHM - aged 31 Jesus Christ known and loved by those
and from Headford, Co. Galway - was they served.
shot dead in 2002 by members of the
Ugandan army; the two Ugandans (News of the Mill Hill priests mentioned:
travelling in the car with him were also Fr. Bernard is still in Kampala, Uganda;
shot dead. Fr. Declan paid the ultimate Fr. Tom is a Chaplain at Knock Shrine; Fr.
price for striving for justice for the Philip is now the Irish Regional Superior;
local people and thus upsetting those in
Fr. Sylvester continues to minister in
power.
Kotido with great courage and dedication;
The experience of a life time the late Fr. Declan is fondly remembered by
I can honestly say that my time in his family, friends and Mill Hill colleagues,
Nairobi and Kotido was the experience and is sadly missed by the people of Kotido
of a life time, one I’ll never forget. It for whom he laid down his life.)
Youth Training Session in Fr. Declan O’Toole Memorial Hall
Spring 2018 7
Baptism
at the age of 106
By Fr. Lawrence Otieno, mhm.
(Fr. Lawrence is a young Mill Hill priest from Kenya, who works in Cameroon)
J
uly 3rd 2017 was a special day in a mission in the early morning and walk
village in St. Jude, Fundong Parish. to the remote village.
Members of St. Thomas the apostle
Small Christian Community prepared ‘Acceptance of hardship and
and assembled in a homestead in their their faith’
neighborhood to celebrate the feast of Soon after arriving, celebrations began
their Patron Saint with joy. It was made by visiting all homes in this Small
extra special as a 106 year old man Christian Community, blessing them
was being baptized. The roads in that and praying for the sick. Homes in
area are hilly, muddy, rocky and very this village are scattered but linked by
slippery after a night’s rain. Since there the rocky paths along the foot of long
was a heavy downpour the night before, hills. It was impressive to meet families
I had to set off on foot from the main living a very simple life style, united
8 Spring 2018by love and hard farm work. Neither
electricity nor solar power is found in “I felt very helpless when I
these homes. The gift of rain and fertile met those who were seriously
soil are precious to the inhabitants of
this village. Through hard farm work,
sick but had no way out to
the women plant corn which produces get better medical attention”
a good harvest.
Although visiting their homes provided the feast of St. Thomas brought joy
a precious chance for blessing their farm to him, his family, the Christians and
produce, it also enabled me to witness also adherents of African Traditional
and experience the effects of poverty in Religion in his village. They all
this village. I felt very helpless when I danced in procession around him and
met those who were seriously sick but congratulated him for receiving the
had no way out to get better medical Sacrament of Baptism. He received a
attention. There is no health centre or new name, Thomas Nyamsa.
hospital in this village. Due to poverty,
they turned to traditional healers and After the mass, there was food for all.
herbs but these have not improved their
It was amazing to witness the Christian
health. In spite of the hardship, they
were cheerful, not complaining, not community and other members in
begging. What is the source of their their neighborhood assembling as a
cheerfulness? Probably, it flows from family to celebrate the love of God. I
their acceptance of hardship and their witnessed their joy and felt humbled
faith in God. to be the channel of that joy through
baptising Mr. Thomas at the age of 106.
106 year old grandfather’s Though he cannot walk to the Church
Baptism due to his age, he is very grateful to his
The joy which was expressed by fellow Christians for enabling him to
members of the Community in their receive Christ through the sacraments
various homes reached its climax in of Baptism and the Eucharist.
the celebration of the Eucharist in the
last home. The Christians, a handful
of members of the African Traditional
Religion, Children and grandchildren
of a 106 years old man, assembled to
witness the baptism of their grandfather
at a very advanced age - he had lost his
sight due to his age. He was baptized
during Mass and he felt that he
encountered Christ in the sacraments
of Baptism, the Eucharist and in the
community of faith. His baptism on
Spring 2018 9When a Maasai Child is born:
A Sense of Belonging, by Fr. Frans Mol, mhm
From the day a Maasai child is born A number of families might share
he or she belongs to a variety of the homestead, mainly on the basis
social groups. The baby is born into a of friendship. These families may be
family and will be known as ole (son related, but need not be. Each family,
of) or ene (daugher of). Naserian headed by an elder, has its own family-
ene Lerionka is therefore Naserian, gate in the thorn-fence. That is the
daughter of Lerionka. The position gate through which the family-cattle
of the house (hut) where the child is go out to grazing in the morning and
born on either the right side or the left come back in the evening - one’s
side of the family gate will determine own cattle through one’s own gate.
his or her first status. This takes us to
the heart of the complex and beautiful Individual family structure
social system of the Maasai, which Each family has indeed its own gate
protects, surrounds and shelters each and the houses of the individual elder
individual. are grouped near his gate. The first
house on the right-hand side, as one
The women build and own the enters the gate from the outside of the
separate houses compound, belongs to the first wife of
Each family lives in an enkang, a the elder. The first house on the left-
homestead, consisting of a number of hand side belongs to his second wife;
small low houses, grouped in a circle. the second on the right-hand side to the
This circle of houses is surrounded by third wife; and so on, depending on the
a thorn-fence to keep out intruders, number of wives an elder has - in days
man or beast. The women build and gone by eight wives was no exception.
own the separate houses. One enters a How this worked out demographically
Maasai house only with the consent of I never quite understood, but perhaps
the woman who owns it. She can keep the fact that many young warriors
unwelcome visitors out, especially used to die in battles and cattle-raids
in times of drought when she has resulted in a surplus of women.
little food or drink to offer. It is good
manners to bring some gifts along such If the child born to the first wife is a
as tea, sugar, milk or biscuits, and boy he will be the senior boy of the
discreetly give these to her. village, irrespective of whether the
woman has one or two daughters, or
10 Spring 2018of whether the second wife or a third
wife may already have a son. The first
son born to the first wife is olbotor, the
senior. It is more a position of respect
rather than of privilege or power.
Childhood – free, happy, but
tough
Childhood traditionally is free and
happy, but it can also be tough.
Youngsters spend long days out on the
plains in the hot sun, herding cattle.
Even for those fortunate enough to
go to school there are hazards. I once
saw two young children surrounded
by a pack of wild dogs, which were
chased off. I met a boy whose back
had been scratched by the horn of
a buffalo, and two children who
had very quietly walked past a lion.
Needless to say, children prefer to
walk in groups!
There are other ceremonies during
early childhood. Six months after
birth, having proved that it can
survive, the baby is given its proper
name. Up to that time its hair and that
of its mother has been allowed to grow.
This black mop of hair gives them a
dark appearance, enhanced by their
black clothes - black being the holy
colour of God in his benevolence.
Besides being given a proper name by
its father, which has been approved by
two elders and two old women, the
hair of both mother and child is cut
off in a private ceremony. Until this
happens the baby has a nickname
Maasai mother and child
Spring 2018 11which sometimes is still used even liturgical life of the Church. Unaware
after a proper name has been given. but not unaffected by all this, the new
The child also belongs to the wider baby sleeps in its mother’s house on
world of the Maasai; besides the its mother’s bed, already accepted
family, it now belongs to the within a protective and caring social
enkang, the homestead, the elatia, system. And this is only the beginning.
the neighbourhood, and above
all to the olosho, an independent However, the child is officially not a
section of the Maasai people united Maasai, but a child of the Maasai. Only
by language and culture. at circumcision will he or she become
a fully-fledged Maasai.
Searching for points of beauty
and value [The author, Fr. Frans Mol, spent his
The missionary tries to keep all this missionary life with the Maasai and
alive and searches for points of beauty is considered an expert on Maasai
and value which can be incorporated life, culture, language, manners and
into the sacramental ceremonies and traditions. He is now retired and lives
in his home country – the Netherlands.]
12 Spring 2018The Women
Will Carry
Your Bags!
Fr. Peter Major out and about
by Fr. Peter Major, mhm
On the night of Passover, Jesus rose
from the table, took a basin of water
and began to wash the feet of his
disciples. 2000 years later during the
Holy Thursday liturgy, I washed the feet
of 12 people in the Nuba Mountains, in
Sudan.
On Good Friday morning, I packed the mountain, it struck me. In the
my bags and picked them up to go. liturgy of Holy Thursday the previous
“Father, these two women will carry night, I, the priest, represented Christ
your bags and will accompany you to the servant and washed the feet of the
the next village.” I objected, but they people. But now, in real life, these two
insisted. So off we went, four strong women represent Christ, the servants
men leading the way, two grandmotherly of the priest and of the people. It was a
looking women carrying my bags humbling experience for me.
and me coming behind them with my Why is it that so often there is no
walking stick. As we were descending connection between liturgy and life?
Spring 2018 13The Reign of Terror in Witu,
Kenya, continues,
By Fr. Philip Amek Adede, mhm. (Fr. Philip is the Mill Hill
Regional Superior in Kenya and he sent this update on the
situation in Witu - following on from what was in the Winter Fr. Cyprian
Advocate.) Taah
The coastal towns of Kenya are known for their beautiful beaches and wonderful
world class hotels that attract many tourists both local and international. But
the reality for the many locals in the interior parts of the coastal region is a tale
of terror, untold pain, death and destruction. The anguish, fear, loss, pain and
desperation are shocking in the camps that dot Witu Parish. Fr. Cyprian Taah,
one of our Mill Hill priests working in the parish of Witu, took me around to
visit three camps around the parish. I found it shocking to see the state of the
camps and hear the stories of those who lost close family members, relatives,
neighbours and all their property. Many are traumatised struggling to come to
terms with the loss. Fr. Cyprian had organised volunteers to help them. On our
way out we found people struggling to get drinking water which is delivered
only twice a week.
The media are not allowed to highlight the plight of these people in the camps.
Just before my visit, 15 people have been butchered to death, among them a 15
year old son of a catechist. Staying in the camp without basic amenities makes
an already difficult life unbearable. The long historical land issues, the threat
from Al-Shabab terrorists and the volatile political situation make it hard to see
a solution in the near future. For the children and women living in the camp,
they have to bear the pain, shame and loss. All they can do is to ponder why?
Witu Mission refugees collecting water
14 Spring 2018Novena
Novenato St.Joseph
to St. Joseph
Sunday March
Sunday, March 11
11 -- Monday
Monday,March
March1919
Please join the Novena by reading the short re-
flections given on pages 16-17, and saying the
Novena Prayer
Please join the to St. Joseph.
Novena by reading the short
reflections
In addition togiven
the on
ninepages
day 16-17,
Novenaand saying a
of Masses,
the Novena Prayer to St. Joseph.
Mass will be offered each day in March for your
intentions and the intentions of all our sub-
In addition to the nine day Novena of Masses,
scibers
a Massandwillbenefactors.
be offered each day in March for
your intentions and the intentions of all our
subscibersPrayer
Novena and benefactors.
to St. Joseph
Ever glorious St. Joseph, good and faithful ser-
Novena Prayer to St. Joseph
vant,
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glorious pleased to place
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humility andfor being
faith, of
such a wonderful example of humility
prayerfulness and courage, in your ordinary and
faith,life.
daily of prayerfulness and courage, in your
ordinary daily life.
Through your intercession, may God grant
us the blessing
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intercession, may God in his
grant
presence, and responsing
us the blessing to his lovein
of living continually inhis
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the great
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joy he gave you - that of entering eternal the great
joy he gave you - that of entering eternal life
life in the
in the company
company of Jesus
of Jesus andandMary.Mary.
Most
Most loving St. Joseph, accept
loving St. Joseph, accept our Novena our Novena
prayers
prayers
and obtainandforobtain for us through
us through your
your powerful
intercession,
powerful the favours
intercession, theand graces
favours andwe ask
for in this Novena.
graces we ask for in this Novena.
Pause to call to mind your special intentions ...
Pause to call to mind your special intentions ...
St. Joseph, Pray for us.
Add:
St. Our father...,
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Spring 2018 15NOVENA TO ST. JOSEPH
MARCH 11 - MARCH 19
Each day, please join our Novena: read and contemplate the thought for
the day, and then read the Novena Prayer on p.15 - same on leaflet.
Add: Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be...
March 11th Joseph took the child and his mother and left for Egypt. (Mt. 2:14)
When Cardinal Vaughan founded the Mill Hill Missionaries (St. Joseph’s
St. Joseph Missionary Society) in 1866, he chose St. Joseph to be the patron and
patron and protector of his missionaries - as he was for Jesus and Mary and is for us. He
protector also pointed to St. Joseph as a model for missionary life - steady, quiet work
in an unusual faith situation, always close to Jesus and Mary his mother.
March 12th Joseph was a just man who always did what was right (Mt. 1:19).
What a predicament Joseph was in when he discovered Mary was
Joseph pregnant. He was a just man. God would show him. He trusted in
the God’s guidance to show him the way. When we are troubled and
just worried, may we too learn to trust in God.
March 13th If you listen to me you will know what is right and just (Prov.2:9)
Joseph Joseph was one who listened. No spoken word is recorded of him.
the God’s word came to him in silence. Constant noise prevents us
listener from listening and hearing. We ask Joseph to help us carve out a
quiet time in our day to listen to God.
March 14th The Angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph (Mt. 1:20).
Joseph God spoke to him in dreams and visions, yet he was a very ordinary man.
man of God speaks to each of us ordinary people. We ask Joseph to help us to be
vision sensitive to God’s presence with us.
March 15th Joseph went to David’s town Bethlehem, because he was of the
house of David . (Lk. 2:4).
Joseph Though of the Royal family of David, Joseph was ordinary and faced
the many family problems such as Mary’s pregnancy, the threat to the life
family of Jesus, exile, how to make ends meet. We ask Joseph to protect our
man families too - and strengthen us in love.
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March 16th Every year the parents of Jesus went to Jerusalem for the
Passover festival (Lk. 2:41).
As husband and parent in the Holy Family, Joseph observed religious
Joseph feasts; he went to the Synagogue on the Sabbath and prayed the
man of Psalms at regular times during the day. We ask Joseph to help us to
prayer live prayerful lives, by spending quiet time in prayer each day, and
taking part in the church’s liturgy.
March 17th And Joseph named him Jesus (Mt. 1:25).
Joseph taught Jesus his prayers, brought him to the Synagogue,
introduced him to the Scriptures and taught him all the religious
Joseph practices of a devout Jew. Strong family guidance, setting
the Christian standards of behaviour and worship, are badly needed
teacher in families and society today.
March 18th Isn’t he the carpenter’s Son (Mt. 13:55).
Joseph taught Jesus his trade. Joseph was devoted to his work
and knew its dignity. He also knew what people suffer in times of
Joseph hardship and unemployment. Work is not just a means of making
the money. It is a service to others, a means of creating order and
worker beauty and making the world a better place. We ask Joseph to help
us appreciate the dignity of work and meaningful employment.
And we also ask him to care for those who cannot find work.
To Love and to serve - Our Mill Hill Motto
March 19th
‘To love and to serve’ is the motto that was chosen by Herbert
Vaughan in 1866 for St. Joseph’s Missionary Society. He pointed to the
example of St. Joseph’s life of loving service and wanted his future
Feast of missionaries to love and to serve. In 2016 the Mill Hill Missionaries
St. Joseph celebrated 150 years of missionary service. We are also very aware
that our mission continues: we now have around 100 Mill Hill priests
from Africa and Asia and 150 students preparing for the priesthood. So
we celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph with gratitude for the past and
hope for the future.
Please join us in our nine-day Novena to St Joseph, as we pray for
all our loved ones and for the intentions of those who have sent in
petitions to be included in the Novena.
Spring 2018 17Mill Hill
Jubilees 2018
We congratulate our Jubilarians, as they celebrate many years of Missionary
Service in: India, Pakistan, Kenya. Philippines, Cameroon. Some of them have
also spent time working in Ireland, England and the USA.
Fr. Pat Byrden – Diamond Jubilee
Fr. Pat Byrden is from Ranelagh in Dublin. After his ordination in
1958, Pat was appointed to India, where he spent 12 years in
Andhra Pradesh, teaching in the Diocesan Seminary. In 1970 he
was moved to Hyderabad, where he also taught in the Seminary.
Later he went as Chaplain to St. Martha’s Hospital in Bangalore. He
returned to Ireland in 1982 and spent a year on promotion work.
In 1983 he went to Kenya, where he also taught in a Seminary.
He returned to India in 2003 and was involved in pastoral work
as well as building up a network of Friends of Mill Hill, in the twin
cities of Hyderabad - Secunderabad. He came back to Ireland in
2016 and is now retired in St. Joseph’s House, in Dublin.
Fr. Hugh Lee – Diamond Jubilee
Fr. Hugh Lee is from Cootehill, Co. Cavan. Hugh was appointed
to the United States after his ordination in 1958. His next
appointment was to Pakistan, where he spent most of his priestly
life. In the late 1980s he returned to Ireland, where he did a
sabbatical, after which he was appointed to St. Mary’s Parish,
Belfast. He moved from Belfast to work in the Diocese of Elfin,
in the parish of Curraghboy, Athlone, Co. Roscommon. He has
had a long and fruitful ministry in Curraghboy. His energy and
enthusiasm for his ministry have been greatly appreciated by the
people of Curraghboy and the Diocese of Elphin. Fr. Hugh is a
brother of Fr. Terry Lee, who celebrated his Diamond Jubilee last
year.
18 Spring 2018Fr. Jim O’Donoghue - Diamond Jubilee Fr. Jim O’ Donoghue is from Caherciveen, County Kerry. Jim was ordained in Mill Hill on July 13th 1958. After studies in the United States, he was appointed to work in the Philippines. He served there in the Diocese of Antique from 1962 until 1980, when he was recalled to be Rector of St. Joseph’s College, Freshford. He then served in Holland and London in formation Work. He also spent some time back in Ireland on Mission Promotion work in Parishes and Retreat work. He returned to the Philippines in 2002. In 2005 he returned to take up pastoral ministry in St. Mary’s Parish in Belfast, where he remained until 2016. He is now retired and as he says himself ‘blissfully happy’ with his Mill Hill community in St. Joseph’s House, Dublin. Fr. James Anthony Boyle - Golden Jubilee Fr. James Anthony Boyle is from Inver, Co. Donegal. James Anthony was ordained together with Fr. Maurice McGill on June 30th 1968, by Bishop Anthony McFeeley. The ordination took place in St. Agatha’s church, Clar, Co. Donegal. After his ordination, Fr. James was appointed to the staff of St. Joseph’s College, Freshford. He taught there for a number of years, and was then appointed to the Cameroon. He returned from Cameroon in the mid-eighties and took up parish work in the Diocese of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. Over ten years ago he moved from England to central Belfast, where he has been the Administrator of St. Mary’s Parish - assisted by Mill Hill priests Fr. Jim O’Donoghue (now retired) and Fr. John Nevin and recently arrived Fr. Gerald Doyle. Fr. Maurice McGill – Golden Jubilee Fr. Maurice McGill is from Maghera, Ardara, Co. Donegal. After his ordination in 1968, Maurice was sent to Rome for studies in Theology and Sacred Scripture. He then taught in the Major Seminary in Bambui, Cameroon. In 1982 he was recalled and appointed Rector of St. Joseph’s College, Mill Hill, London. Having completed his six year term as Rector, he was elected Superior General of Mill Hill Society in 1988. After twelve years as Superior General, Maurice returned to Cameroon, and was involved in Retreat work. He was also the Society Superior there. In 2008, he found himself back in Ireland as Irish Regional Superior. When he completed three years as Superior, he moved to Kilkenny and was Rector of our house there. He has been Organising Secretary since Fr. Crean died over three years ago. He continues this work in Dublin since Mill Hill moved from Kilkenny in September 2017. Spring 2018 19
Knock: 1879 – Hard Times
By Fr. Tony Murphy, mhm.
(Fr. Tony is a Mill Hill priest who has worked in Uganda, Kenya, Sudan and
Cameroon. He now works as a Chaplain at Knock Shrine)
New mosaic of the Apparition in the re-furbished Basilica
20 Spring 2018I
t was August 1879. History tells that an all-out struggle. Weather forecasts
in Ireland, especially in the West, were made from observations of nature.
the late 1870s were extremely hard A dog eating grass was a sign of rain.
for the subsistence farmer. The famine Swallows flying high was a good sign,
that had devastated the country in the and you took the risk of cutting down
late 1840s, had struck again in 1877. your small field of hay. But often as not,
And in 1879, the year Our Lady came, as soon as you had it nicely dried, the
the potato crop had failed once more. wind would blow from the Atlantic, and
The situation was grim. In the following down would come the rain. You saw the
year (1880) General Gordon wrote the clouds coming of course, and you rushed.
following to Mr. Gladstone: “I believe Farm machinery as we know it now, was
that those people (in the west of Ireland) not even dreamed of in those days. The
are patient beyond belief, but at the same small farmer depended on a few tools
time, broken-spirited and desperate, like the fork and the rake. Even those
living on the verge of starvation.” were generally scarce. There was man-
power: the whole family, father, mother,
Hard times boys and girls all rushed as the rain
And the weather was dreadful those approached, forking the hay into cocks
years. Records tell that weeks and and roping it down against the wind.
even months went by, when the sun’s
appearance was too rare and too brief But in spite of the sweat and the strain,
to dry up the land or warm it. Saving there was not enough time. There hardly
the few acres of hay and corn became ever was enough time before the rain
Mill Hill Knock Pilgrimage a few years ago, l to r, Fr. Richard Gibbons, Administrator,
Fr. Pat Molloy, Fr. Tony Murphy (author) and Fr. Maurice McGill
Spring 2018 21Fatima, Knock is the only place that St.
Joseph ever visited. St. John certainly
has never come to any other place.
And that was not all, for there were
angels. These were not hovering around
Mary the Mother of God, but around the
Altar of Sacrifice, the Cross of suffering,
and the Victim of suffering, the Lamb of
came slanting down, soaking both you God (Jesus our Saviour). But there was
and your hay. So much of it lay there, no spattering of blood, and the Lamb was
sodden and hopeless, scattered out alive: all had been glorified. The Lamb
on the field. Then you made you way had already conquered. As they stood
homewards, dispirited and very, very there in the rain praying their rosary,
worried. If this bad weather went on Mary and her family stood with them.
and your bit of hay became spoiled, It was a Thursday evening, so it would
what would become of your cow and have been the Joyful Mysteries they
your few sheep during the long winter were praying. But an onlooker might
months ahead? What would become of describe the scene as a combination of
your family and yourself when the blight the Sorrowful and the Glorious. Because,
came down and destroyed the potatoes? for those people, it was an experience of
And on top of that, there was the ever- sorrowful earth and joyful heaven, come
present fear that if you failed to pay together visibly. No words were spoken.
the rent to the landlords, you and your No words were needed. The 15 people
family were going to be evicted without who stood there in the rain that evening
mercy from your small house and farm. saw a vision of heaven’s glory and its
nearness to them.
Mary had come with her family
It was on such an evening that she came Assurance of love and belonging
to them. The rain had come down and no After two hours the Vision disappeared
doubt the smell of rotting potatoes was but the reality behind the Vision stayed.
in the air. They were on their way home Each of those people must have realized
to their bit of supper when they saw her. they had been given the gift of a wonderful
From the earth with its worries and its personal message. For the Vision raised
miseries, they looked up, and Mother up, not only their eyes, but their hearts
Mary was there. She was there for her and their whole lives: the struggle for
children. She had come with her family: survival, the hardships of every day, were
Joseph, her husband and John her now given meaning through the Cross
adopted son. It was not the first time, or of the Lamb. And they saw how they
the last, that Mary had appeared on earth mattered. They belonged to the Family
to console her loved ones, or to warn of God, with Mary and Joseph, and the
them. But except for a brief visit later to Father who “fills the starving with good
22 Spring 2018The Apparition Chapel at the gable of the old church
things.” Mary had not come to promise other. The practice of love in suffering
material satisfactions on this earth, but to makes people more refined, altogether
assure her people of her love, and their finer people. As some preacher has
belonging. After that evening their lives remarked, “All those witnesses must
would never be the same again. If they have been holy people. Otherwise they
had been ‘broken-spirited’ as General would not have seen Our Lady.” It was
Gordon thought, they would no longer be the Mass (the Eucharist) that had made
so. The Lamb had suffered and the Lamb them holy. It was the centre of their lives
had conquered. Christ had suffered, died as it was the centre of the Apparition – a
and was now risen in glory. Eucharistic Apparition. The Mass had
sustained them and would continue to
Those years in Ireland were the worst of do so. It all suddenly became visible
times, but the best of times too. People to them that evening and remained with
were poor materially, very poor, but them, lifting their hearts and souls, if not
rich in love and kindness towards each their bodies, out of the wind and the rain.
Prayers
Our Loving Father has done great things for us through His Son Jesus and
through Mary’s powerful intercession. Let us bring our needs before Him with
great confidence and trust.
- Let us thank Mary for being our Queen and Mother, and for the special
love she has shown to her people in time of distress. We pray for a new
realization of how very precious we all are to her.
- That we may appreciate the Sacrifice of the Lamb for our salvation: that we
may adore our Saviour as he is adored by the angels.
- That all who visit Mary here at Knock may feel her love and peace, especially
those who are troubled in mind or body.
Spring 2018 23Br. Duncan in his working clothes
God’s Own Sailor
by Fr. Fons Eppink, mhm
‘Join Mill Hill and see the world!’ You the harbour was an absolute shocker. It
occasionally hear this take on a well- tore my heart out.”
known advertising slogan. But, in 1983,
when Duncan MacGilvray applied to The desire to do something about this
join the Mill Hill Missionaries at age tugged at his heartstrings. But what
37, he had already sailed the oceans and difference could he make? He wanted
travelled around the globe. to put himself wholeheartedly at the
service of others, not just for a brief stint
Last January, I had a chat with Duncan as a volunteer, but as a lifelong project.
at the Mill Hill Guesthouse in Bamenda, The strong religious faith inspired by
NW Province, Cameroon. He recalled his mother - a convert - gave further
calling into the port of Mumbai, direction.
India, on one of his journeys serving
as a mechanic in the engine room Back in England he started to take
of a freighter. “The sight of women concrete steps. Somewhere along the
prostitutes chained up in cribs and the way he picked up a leaflet of the Mill
sheer abject poverty in areas close to Hill Missionaries. He made contact and
24 Spring 2018in 1983, he received a letter from Mill
Hill to start his training to become a
missionary brother: the crunch time had
come. He had not yet cut his ties with
the merchant navy. “I still remember
it very clearly, that day on the quay
at Liverpool. I decided I had to cut
off other options and ‘burn my boats
behind me’. I made my definite choice”.
He sold the house he had inherited from
his mother and joined the Mill Hill
Formation Programme.
The joys and challenges of
missionary life
His first experience of mission was
with the Mill Hill Missionaries in the
diocese of Basankusu DR Congo.
Still a trainee missionary brother he
discovered the joys and challenges Br. Duncan with Mill Hill student
of missionary life in the depths of the Patrick Lonkoy and Fr. Fons Eppink
(author) in traditional dress
Congolese rainforest. He found himself
in an ocean of green in exchange for the
deep blue sea he so cherished. It was to off he sailed to a far distant Mission
become an experience he would have post without informing his missionary
loved to prolong. But after two years companion - with rather disastrous
he had to return to Mill Hill. His mind consequences. When he eventually
was made up. In June 1988 he made returned he found his belongings
his lifelong commitment as a Mill Hill outside the door of the mission house.
Missionary brother. Move! And move he did!
His next port of call was The More calls and a major exploit
Philippines. In this island nation he was After ten years of missionary service in
hardly ever out of earshot of the sound the Philippines a call came for him to
of waves. Accounts, maintenance work, cross the Pacific and the Southern tip of
odd jobs, trekking, he moved into a role the South American continent. “Come
of jack-of-all-trades. And he enjoyed and help us prepare our centenary
it. He learnt to sail a fisherman’s twin celebration”. The tiny Catholic
sail outrigger. Then, one day as he was community of the Falkland Islands
riding the waves off Caluya Island, he was readying itself for this memorable
felt the tugs of his seaman’s heart. And event which was due to take place in
Spring 2018 251999. The church at Port Stanley was heavy weather in an only marginally
badly in need of a facelift. Not unlike seaworthy vessel is a true miracle! They
St Paul on the shores of Asia Minor made it all the way to St Helena.
Duncan heeded the call.
His assignment in The
But you cannot chain Falklands completed
a seaman to the shore Duncan returned to
for too long! After all his roots. Not far from
Mgr. Anthony Agreiter Liverpool’s fondly
mhm at Port Stanley remembered quays
had charge of what is he took time off for
probably the largest a welcome spiritual
diocese in the world: renewal at St Beuno’s in
it included the island North Wales.
of Tristan da Cunha,
halfway across the Cameroon came calling
Southern Atlantic, and next and Duncan said
St Helena, close to the ‘yes’. That was in 2002
African coast. So when and he is still there.
one day a wandering, somewhat forlorn Duncan carries his 71 years gracefully.
sailor proposed to visit these two I sense a generous heart that yearns
islands in his lobster boat Duncan was for deeper human contact in a caring
hooked. He got the green light from Mgr ministry - the sick, the aged, the
Agreiter and off they sailed in Roger’s physically and mentally challenged. But
ramshackle vessel accompanied by for now there is an electricity failure in
the latter’s teenage son Jonathan and the kitchen and there is a leaking water
his dog. That they survived through pipe in the Convent. Yes, Lord!
26 Spring 2018Sustainable Use of Water,
Oceans and Marine Resources
No Life without water. Even more than food we
need it to survive. That is why access to water is
[Ireland and Kenya were a basic human right. Yet, around a quarter of a
appointed by the UN to Million people do not have access to clean water.
co-facilitate the final About a third of the world’s population lacks
stages of negotiations basic sanitary services. Polluted water and lack
for the new ‘Global of hygiene are the causes of many sicknesses.
Sustainable Development The oceans, too, are polluted by plastic materials
Goals’ for the years ahead and industrial and agricultural toxic wastes which
– up to 2030. The ‘Goals’ harm fish populations and destroy coral reefs
were approved by and marine ecosystems. Already now climate
the UN General Assembly change means for many regions of the African
in September 2015.] continent less rainfall, lower ground water
levels and lack of drinking water. The struggle
for diminishing water supplies is likely to cause
major conflicts in the future. The United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for
Spring 2018 27the conservation and fair and effective
management of all water resources.
In the drought areas of Africa,
missionaries have provided the
population with access to clean water
by digging wells, drilling boreholes and
constructing simple water reservoirs.
We can all contribute to avoid the
pollution of water resources and of
oceans by reducing our use of chemicals
and by avoiding as much as possible
plastic bags and packing.
What do the Development
Goals call for?
They demand that all people have access
to clean drinking water and adequate
sanitation. Means suggested to achieve
this aim are:
• Reducing chemical pollution;
improving wastewater treatment and
recycling and reusing water
• Protecting and restoring water-
related ecosystems, including
mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers
and lakes
• Manage, protect and restore marine
and coastal ecosystems
• Minimizing and addressing the
impacts of ocean acidification;
regulating harvesting and ending
over fishing, illegal, unreported and
unregulated fishing and destructive
fishing practices
Words to challenge us – from
Laudato Si’ (Pope Francis)
• “For human beings to destroy
the biological diversity of God’s
28 Spring 2018creation; for human beings to
degrade the integrity of the earth
by causing changes in its climate,
by stripping the earth of its natural
forests or destroying its wetlands;
for human beings to contaminate
the earth’s waters, its land, its air,
and its life – these are sins. To
commit a crime against the natural
world is a sin against ourselves
and a sin against God.” (Patriarch
Bartholomew, quoted in Laudato
Si’ - 8)
• One particularly serious problem
is the quality of water available to
the poor. Every day, unsafe water
results in many deaths and the
spread of water-related diseases.
… Even as the quality of available
water is constantly diminishing,
in some places there is a growing
tendency, despite its scarcity, to
privatize this resource, turning it
into a commodity subject to the
laws of the market. Yet access to
safe drinkable water is a basic and
universal human right, since it is
essential to human survival and, as
such, is a condition for the exercise
of other human rights. (Laudato Si,
29.30)
• An acute water shortage may occur
within a few decades unless urgent
action is taken. The environmental
repercussions could affect billions
of people; it is also conceivable
that the control of water by large
multinational businesses may
become a major source of conflict in
this century. (Laudato Si, 31)
Spring 2018 29ALL Creatures
Great & Small
In June 2015, Pope Francis issued his Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ –
On care for our common home. We had some short quotations from
the Letter on the previous page; here are some more:
‘Every creature is the object of the Father’s
tenderness, who gives it its place in the world.
Even the fleeting life of the least of beings is the
object of his love, and in its few seconds of existence,
God enfolds it with his affection.’ (77)
‘Each creature possesses its
own particular goodness
and perfection’ … (69)
‘There is nobility in the duty
to care for creation through
little daily actions’… (211)
‘Saint Therese of Lisieux invites us to practise the
little way of love, not to miss out on a kind word, Prayer
a smile or any small gesture which sows peace All-powerful God, you
and friendship. An integral ecology (respect for are present in the whole
the environment) is also made up of simple daily universe and in the
gestures which break with the logic of violence, smallest of your creatures.
exploitation and selfishness.’ (230) You embrace with your
tenderness all that exists.
Pour out upon us the
power of your love
so that we may protect
the life and beauty of all
creation, Amen.
30 Spring 2018In memory of
Fr. Brian Coffey, mhm
Fr. Brian Coffey died on Sunday morning, He was appointed to the Irish Region
22nd October 2017, in Hartsdale, New and found himself on the road preaching
York, aged 72. Almost two weeks later, he in parishes and visiting schools. He
was laid to rest in his beloved Beaufort, threw himself into this work with great
Killarney, on November 4th not far from energy and enthusiasm. In 1992, he was
where he was born on 1st March 1945. appointed Administrator and Organising
His parents James and Mary had a family Secretary in St. Joseph’s (Mill Hill)
of five girls and three boys. When Brian House, Kilkenny. This was followed
finished his primary education in the local by an appointment to North America in
National school, his journey with Mill 1999. The following year, he joined a
Hill began when he went to St. Joseph’s multi-faith chaplaincy team at the Good
College, Freshford, County Kilkenny, for Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, New York
his secondary education. From 1965 to State – an assignment which he found
1968, he studied philosophy in Dublin. highly rewarding. He also helped out
From 1968 to 1972, he studied theology in the nearby parish and did supplies in
at St Joseph’s College, Mill Hill, London. other parishes in Yonkers and New York
And on the 25th June 1972 he was City. He also found great satisfaction in
ordained to the missionary priesthood serving as chaplain to the ‘Kerrymen’s
with two Mill Hill companions in St Association’ in New York. He still had
John’s Church, Tralee. time to play some golf and spend holidays
in his native Kerry.
Following a period in France learning
Brian is greatly missed by his family,
French, Brian took up his appointment to
Mill Hill colleagues and many friends,
a busy mission station in the Diocese of
who are grieving his loss but also grateful
Basankusu in (then) Zaire – now D. R.
to God for the blessing of his life, which
Congo. There he served until 1979. This
was characterised by faithfulness,
was a happy time for Brian, serving a
enthusiasm, dedication to his ministry
church that he found to be “ever so active.”
that brought comfort and support to many
In 1979, he was back in Ireland because
people. He had a gift for making friends
of problems with his health. He worked
and keeping in contact with them – and
for a few years in vocations ministry
of course he always had a great interest
and preaching in parishes. He returned
in Kerry football!
to Basankusu in early 1983, but only for
a brief period, as his health problems
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.
surfaced again in the tropical conditions.
Fr. Jim O’Connell, mhm
Spring 2018 31Obituary List
(Up until 15/11/2017)
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
have mercy on the souls of:
Fr. Brian Coffey, MHM, who died in Hartsdale, New York
Sr. Patricia Dee, FMSJ, who died in Blackburn, England
Michael Hayes, brother of the late Father Bart Hayes, MHM
Mary Murphy, sister in Law of Father Tony Murphy, MHM
Members
Sadie Blaney, John Broderick, Margaret Meehan, James Miller, Mary Moran,
Cullen, Emily Cunningham, Nora Dillon, Bridie Murphy, Bernadette McCafferty,
Maureen Downes, Gerard Freeman, Eileen McCluskey, James McDonagh,
Anna Gribben, Patrick Harkin, Colm Mollie McLemon, Noel O’Brien, Breda
Harty, Christina Hoban, Rose A Hatton, O’Grady, Thomas O’Sullivan, Liam
Anthony Kilbane, Elizabeth Kilcullen, Phelan, Kathleen Reidy, Michael Rooney,
John Lafford, John Leogue, Marie Little, Hannah Spellman, Sally Sloan, Bridie
Seamus Maloney, Judy Maguire, John Stackpoole, Margaret Waldron.
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Missions in your will
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(Mill Hill Missionaries), 50 Orwell Park, Rathgar,
Dublin D06 C535, the sum of
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to be applied for the general purpose of the said Society,
and I declare that the receipt of the Rev. Director
shall be a sufficient discharge of the same.
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touch with our missionary work.
• It promotes devotion to St. Joseph - our
patron and protector
• There are three issues per year plus a
Calendar at Christmas. It is sent
to all our members.
• Membership is e10.00 per year, £7.00 for
those in the sterling area, $12 for the U.S.
• Members give generously to help
our missionary work and we deeply
appreciate their great support.
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contact: St. Joseph’s Advocate, Mill Hill Missionaries,
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