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This is an on-line request for information regarding the late, great, Father Hugh Thwaites which could be used to aid the cause for his Beatification.
Please add your comments to this posting if you wish to share your memories of this holy son of Loyola.
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I can't be of help. I only knew Father Thwaites
ReplyDeletefrom reading about him here and there. In this way I came to love him. I will pray for his cause, daily. +
May God aid your efforts. I never knew him while he was alive, but he is now one of my heavenly intercessors. He kept the faith--and with boyish enthusiasm and charity--when so many others had lost it. Moreover, he became holy by walking by faith rather than by sight,and that pleases God immensely. He is one of God's "holy ones". God bless you!
ReplyDeleteI am Anonymous 27 April 2013 01:24.
ReplyDeleteI have kept my pledge and continue to offer a daily prayer for
Father Thwaites' cause.
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I lived with Father Thwaites before I was ordained and many years later he lived in my presbytery when I became a Parish Priest. He was thoroughly dedicated and prayerful man.
ReplyDeleteOne can find a further testimony and devoted written tributes commendations by Mary ORegan of The Path Less Taken. One of them is published in the Catholic Herald, with the inclusion of Fr Thwaites as ten of the most amazing priests
ReplyDeletehttp://thepathlesstaken7.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-priest-who-converted-thousands.html
http://thepathlesstaken7.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/mass-for-late-fr-thwaites-at-london.html
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/2012/07/04/meet-10-of-the-most-amazing-priests
He was my spiritual director towards the end of my sojourn in London in 1978 and continued when I returned to my country in 1980. He continued as my S/Director to my ordination as a religious priest 1992. We continued to communicate. I phoned the hospice where he stayed 2 days after his death to be informed by a Sister about his death. I participated in his funeral from my country on 31 August 2012. I will continue to pray for his canonization.
ReplyDeleteI was privileged to know Fr The sites when he was overseas students chaplain and mean a mission Stella Maris in South London.
ReplyDeleteHe brought me back to the church, and even recruited me to Legion of Mary before I resumed attending Mass.
He told us the stories of the wars in Germany, eating rats in jail. A very humble guy
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful priest. I miss him very much. I knew him well and his family. I helped him with his computer. He always said that if people want meet him again they must pray the Rosary daily. I saw him very frequently and his sisters. Below is Father Thwaites prayer:
ReplyDeleteI kiss the wounds of your scared head with sorrow deep and true. May every thought of my mind today be an act of a perfect for you. Amen
ReplyDeleteI kiss the wounds of your sacred feet with sorrow deep and true. May every step I take today be an act of a perfect love you. Amen
I kiss the wounds of your sacred hands with sorrow deep and true. May every touch of my hands today t be an act of a perfect love for you. Amen
I kiss the wound of your sacred side with sorrow deep and true. May every beat of my heart today be an act of a perfect love for you. Amen
I kiss the wound of your shoulder with sorrow deep and true. May every cross I bare today be an act of a perfect love for you. Amen
I remember Fr.Thwaite visiting our house and blessing the statue of miraculous Virgin Mary in our garden bought at a garden centre. He always had a beautiful loving smile. In his 90 years, he still remembered our family and repeatedly said to recite the rosary daily for protection. Very poignant words especially now. Thank you Fr.Thwaite.
ReplyDeleteI remember meeting Fr Thwaites as a 19 year old when visiting my uncle, Fr Richard Copeland SJ, who was in hospital recovering from a minor operation. Fr Thwaites came into my uncle's room to see him. I remembrr clearly those bright blue eyes and broad smile, but especially I remember the overwhelming sensation of holiness. I can't remember what was said, but after he left my uncle filled me in about this well known, holy and amazing priest.
ReplyDeleteLater in life I became friends with the large fervently-Catholic Clovis family who lived in Chislehurst, Kent. Aghi Clovis, mother of 10 (one of them a priest), had come to England as a young woman in order to convert people to Islam! After she got to know Fr Thwaites she left Islam and converted to the Catholic Faith. Her witness to the Truth of Catholicism has had an enormous impact in the Catholic world in England. She too is one of the nicest and holiest people I have ever met. Saints make saints... as the history of the Church had shown us through its 2000 year history.
May this wonderful holy priest, Fr Hugh Thwaites, soon be raised to the altars, where prayers for his intercession will bring countless blessings on the faithful.