Miracles on Tap (Paperback)

Frank Duff

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Number 76 Harcourt Street became home to the first Legion hostel, the ‘Sancta Maria’ which was operated by the second branch, or praesidium, of the Legion. The two women from the praesidium who took charge at the ‘Sancta Maria’, and who resided there, were Miss Plunkett and Miss Scratton. Miss Scratton’s father, a convert, had come to Dublin with Newman and had resided for a time at Number 76. The hostel continued to serve its purpose for over 50 years until 1974. When two girls left the hostel and moved to the north side of the city, their Legion friends went to visit them and the sequel was the visitation and closure of the entire ‘Monto’ network, a story which has been told by Frank Duff in Miracles on Tap (Duff, 1989).

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Quote of the Day

Where are we to look for this new evangelisation? Pope Benedict knows that it is not a question of tactics or programmes, nor of immediate success or sudden large numbers.

Both Popes Benedict and Pope John Paul II have looked instead to what has been called the Marian principle in the Church for the new life required for a new evangelisation.

Addressing the newly created Cardinals in 2006, for instance, Pope Benedict referred to Pope John Paul II’s emphasis on the Marian principle and then reminded the Cardinals that the Church’s Marian principle in the Church is “even more fundamental” than the Petrine principle to which it is united.

See his homily at the Eucharistic Concelebration with the New Cardinals on March 25th, 2006.

Most Rev. Brendan Leahy D.D. Bishop of Limerick