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Fr John S. Hogan, ocds
@jshocds
Priest. Secular Order Discalced Carmelite. Father Director of the Fraternity of St Genesius. Co-host of EWTN's Forgotten Heritage. Views my own.
Jan 26, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ss Timothy & Titus today. As a priest I find St Paul’s Second Letter to St Timothy rich & relevant to my life, particularly in difficult times.
Paul says to him & all priests: ‘I remind you to enkindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands’. (1:6) When we’re tempted to fear, Paul continues: ‘God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power & love & self-control’ (1:7). In this context, Paul urges St Titus & us, to teach sound doctrine, be models of good deeds, integrity, gravity & sound speech (Tit 2:1-11).
Jan 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
As you’ve heard me say: Ireland needs Saints. We’ve a number of Causes in process, little movement. We’ve two modern candidates whose Causes are starting: Fr Colm O’Brien & Sr Clare Crockett; we need to get Fr Willie Doyle started too. But we also need to identify lay candidates. In my ministry I knew a number of holy lay people: two I would class as possible Saints.
A woman who lived a life of quiet, hidden virtue: ‘elegant in sanctity’ as I saw her. She died of cancer, but endured it as she lived, quietly. She was anxious to offer it all for souls...
Sep 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
St Albert today, the Lawgiver of Carmel. Religious, Bishop, Patriarch of Jerusalem, reformer, murder victim. When St Brocard approached him for a Rule of life for the Carmelite hermits, Albert reflected on their life & wrote a new Rule rather than impose one already written. - - Albert’s Rule is very short, but profound. Steeped in Scripture, he draws on St Paul as well as the Gospels. Emphasising prayer, poverty of spirit & life, he uses the hermits’ previous experience as knights to help them order their lives by urging allegiance to Jesus Christ. -
Jul 6, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This feast of St Maria Goretti reminds me of a story from the life of the SofG Frank Duff, miracle of grace. Many of you may know of his & the Legion of Mary’s rescuing women from prostitution & closing down Dublin’s red light district, believed to be the worst on Europe. 1/ Frank & one of his heroic companions in the Legion, Josephine Plunkett, decided to enter the district, know as the Monto, to see what they could do. They were given the name of one woman there, Mary Tate, who lived in the Brothel at No 8 Elliott Place: ‘Mary Tate at No 8’ as 2/