Passionist Community, Salisbury Ave.

We want to share with you the brief submission that we sent to the Generalate in response to their recent request for submissions re: restructuring.

Salisbury Ave submission:

It is essential that any restructuring of the Congregation be it in a conventional or adaptive setting , be rooted in the Passionist Charism, more specifically as enunciated in the Memoria Passionis.

A memory that calls all who experience it to be agents of Hope where there is abject despair and human suffering of every kind. We recognise the suffering that flows from a profound sense of meaninglessness and its many symptoms such as the misuse of alcohol, some forms of depression, suicide and broken relationships.

Our presence, being a non-judgemental one within society, is to be "Hope awakeners" inviting people to discover a positive experience of the sacred that is within and outside themselves. We positively endorse the efforts of Passionists throughout the world to bring alive in fresh and dynamic ways the vision of Paul of the Cross as a remedy for the ills of the world today.

News

Since arriving we have had visits from Martin Coffey, Kenneth, Salvian, Angelo, Pat Sheridan, Nicholas, Paul Francis, as well as many friends and associates. Of course we extend a warm welcome to all members of the province. We have developed a website for Salisbury Ave, you can find us at www.passionists.co.uk

Work continues at Daneo where we provide a range of services and promote a spirituality of Hope. Daneo Services continues to develop and along with it we have a new website where people can keep up to date with our work. You can find it at www.daneo.org

Pat continues to co-ordinate the Focusing Institute in N. Ireland, and has many calls for his workshops.

John has recently been admitted to the Psychological Society of Ireland as a Registered Psychologist. Thus his US qualifications have been accredited by the PSI admissions board

We continue to reflect on Hugh's untimely death on this our year of jubilee. Hugh is greatly missed among us all, and we extend our sympathy to his family.

Regrards from the community at Salisbury Ave.