SHAME ON YOU!

This is just a thought but were you wanting to close some Churches anyway? Did you see this abuse scandal as a good way of getting rid of some Parishes and letting the blame fall, not on the so called "Shepherds", but on the disgusting priests and Brothers who have caused so much pain and distress to so many? Just wondering?

Anyway, SHAME ON THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST JOHN'S FOR NOT DOING MORE TO HELP THE PARISHES THAT PEOPLE HAVE MADE GREAT SACRIFICES TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN.

SHAME ON YOU!

SHAME ON YOU WHO CAN HIDE BEHIND THE COST OF COMPENSATION AS AN EXCUSE TO CLOSE PARISHES THAT YOU WANTED TO GET RID OF ANYWAY.

SHAME ON YOU!

SHAME ON YOU!

MAY GOD FORGIVE YOU!

189 YEARS AGO

Today, 21 September, is the feast of St Matthew. It was on this day in 1883 that the brig, 'Ariel', under command of Captain William Staunton, sailed into St John's harbour with four Irish ladies, and the Bishop of Newfoundland, Michael Anthony Fleming, on board. The four Irish ladies were Presentation Sisters who had volunteered to accompany the Bishop from their convent in Galway. Sisters M Bernard Kirwan, M Xaverius Lynch, M Xavier Molony, and M Magdalen O'Shaughnessy, would go on to establish in St John's the first Presentation House in North America, in fact, the first outside Ireland.  Sr Bernard Kirwan, who was the Superior, was therefore the foundress of the Presentation Sisters in North America.

We, as graduates of St Patrick's Convent Schools, owe our education, and much else, to these four brave and selfless Irish Nuns who left their homes for a distant land 189 years ago.