Marist Vocations

AUGUST 2: FEAST DAY OF ST PETER JULIAN EYMARD, FOUNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

“bring all the world to the knowledge and love of our Lord; to preach nothing but Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ Eucharistic.”

St. Peter Julian Eymard is best known among the Society of Mary as the director of the Third Order of Mary and for his service as the provincial of the Society of Mary in Lyons, France. He served first as a diocesan priest, then as a Marist priest, and then as the founder of two congregations devoted to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. He founded the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament for priests and the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament for nuns. He died on August 1, 1868 and was canonized on December 9, 1962. His feast day is August 2nd.

For more information about St Peter Julian Eymard visit:
https://www.blessedsacrament.com/st-peter-julian-eymard/

Tears and gratitude: Bishop Donoghue retires after 13 years of service - Cook Islands News Bishop Paul Patrick Donoghue retired after over a decade of service as Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, paving the way for Bishop Reynaldo Bunyi Getalado’s installation as the new leader

GO AND BEAR FRUIT
"It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain" - John 15:16

Happy Feast Day!

JUNE 6TH (FEAST DAY OF ST MARCELLIN CHAMPAGNAT)

Today we celebrate a significant Marist Saint "St. Marcellin Champagnat" Founder of the Marist Brothers.
.. Deeply aware of the cultural and spiritual poverty of the children of the countryside, Marcellin felt a strong urge to include a branch of brothers for the Christian education of young people. "I cannot see a child without wanting to tell him how much Jesus loves him." (https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_19990418_champagnat_en.html)

To read a special message from Br. Ernesto Sanchez Barba, Superior General of the Marist Brothers
https://champagnat.org/en/message-of-the-superior-general-for-the-feast-of-st-marcellin-june-6-2024/

For more information about the Marist Brothers visit: https://champagnat.org/en/

"I want to urge Marist not think so much about themselves. Let us not always be coming back upon ourselves, let us not look at ourselves so much.... Rather, let us look to God, who is uncreated beauty. Let us walk in his presence. By always looking at him we shall become like him, we shall become perfect."

-Venerable Jean-Claude Colin (Founder Speaks 54:3 - What Marist Must Avoid - Jan-Mar 1842)

🇦🇺 ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE POSSESSED BY JOY
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"You must meet everyone with peace of soul, making yourself all things to all, bringing joy to the hearts of others... Always be joyful" - Venerable Jean-Claude Colin
- A Founder Speaks 45:3 (Feb 21st 1842 - Clothe yourself in our Lord - Advice to Father Eymard)

Blazing the Trail - Letters from the North Solomons
Fr Emmet McHardy SM

Emmet McHardy had volunteered for the missions in Oceania while doing his studies for the priesthood. Immediately after his ordination in 1928, he was appointed to Bougainville (North Solomons) which was sill in its early years as a mission.

His ministry lasted only 3 years. He contracted tubercular meningitis and died in 1933 at the age of 29.

In those three years on the mission Emmet McHardy wrote numerous letters to his family and friends. He records that when the boat passed by his mission station he had packets of 40, 50, or sometimes 60 letters to post. These letters were simple accounts of his day-to-day life on the mission, and they reflect the cheerfulness and generosity that he brought to his mission work. The letters were never written with the intention of being published; but after his death, some of them were published in a book entitled 'Blazing the Trail.'

The witness of Emmet McHardy’s life and work continued to have a profound effect many years after the publication of the book, both in his home country of New Zealand and beyond. There are priests and religious still alive who acknowledge the letters as a major influence on their
vocation.

Read the book on the Marist and Pacific Mission History Library
https://www.maristsm.org/marist-and-pacific-mission-history-library/

The caption above was sourced from the book 'Bearings' by Craig Larkin SM, 37- An Attractive Life pg 79

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BE A MISSIONARY OF PRAYER AND OF ACTION!

BE A MISSIONARY OF PRAYER AND OF ACTION
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"Let us awake, Messieurs, let faith put life into us. The Society of Mary is a pre-eminently active body; it will achieve nothing unless we unite in ourselves the man of prayer and the man of action: the man of prayer who is completely permeated with the glory of God and the salvation of souls, and the man of action, bent on securing this noble aim." - Venerable Jean-Claude Colin
- A Founder Speaks 161:3 (Sept 18th 1848 - Faith and Prayer - Exhortation in the refectory)

A few quotes of Fr Frank Bird SM who spoke to young adults in Wellington, New Zealand

Let's join Pope Francis this month praying for all young men and women in formation