Blessed John Henry Newman and the The True Meaning of Christmas
Deacon Jack Sullivan who was miraculously healed through the intercession of Blessed John Henry Newman teaches us how the Servant of God can teach us about the true meaning of Christmas.
A Grief Observed
A few months ago I stood by my father’s grave and wiped the tears away as they lowered his coffin into the earth. But my tears weren’t for my father – he had lived a long life, and died a good death. The tears were for the other occupant of the grave, a person whose coffin was lowered into this same earth thirty-seven years ago. She was my sister Clare and, unlike our father, she had neither a long life nor a good death.
Christmas in Prison
It might be the happiest, most family-filled day of the year for most of Britain’s population – but for the 84,000 people who will spend it behind bars, Christmas will instead be an achingly painful twenty-four hours in which the punishment of being in prison was never more keenly felt.
Christmas Memories by Archbishop Vincent Nichols
‘The beautiful task of Advent is to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.’ This insight of Archbishop Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, holds out a hope and purpose for our journey of prayer through Advent.
Hope and Redemption - Prison's Grace
We receive many letters and much feedback from prisoners and their chaplains about how Bible Alive is a great source of encouragement and hope both to prisoners in serving their sentence and also to the prison chaplains who minister to them.
Among them we received the following remarkable and wonderful testimony from a prisoner who is currently serving his sentence in an English prison.
Jimmy Mizen
Christmas will never be the same again for the Mizen family. On Saturday May 10, a day after his sixteenth birthday, Jimmy Mizen, dearly loved son of Barry and Margaret and a beloved brother was murdered in the Three Cooks bakery in Lee, Kent. His death was the result of a senseless and totally unprovoked violent attack upon him. Jimmy was a son and brother to be so proud of, if you like he was everybody’s son and everybody’s brother.
Jimmy had gone into the bakery to buy a sandwich with his brother Harry. His attacker, intent on violence picked on Jimmy, three years his junior, and took the life of this gentle and loving giant (Jimmy was 6ft 4) in a violent and vicious attack. In doing so he unleashed untold grief on this loving family and shocked a nation already tired and weary by such acts of senseless and random violence.
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