Newsletter for past alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 6 of September 2003. Circular No. 96
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Dear Friends,
I have the following on the spot information on the Event, Fr. Christopher has been kind enough to have sent the following report. This time the oldest e mail is in first.
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From: "the-mount" <the-mount@carib-link.net>
Date: 16 Aug 12:11 (PDT)
Dear Ladislao,
As you know the 1st Reunion and Dinner of the old Abbey Boys Association took place yesterday, 15th August 2003, at the Centre of Excellence. About 100 hundred people attended, including about 8 monks and some of the former teaching staff, among whom most prominent Miss Kitty Marcus (88). It was a most enjoyable evening. Several of those present commended the work you have been doing in sending out Newsletters. Some of us, including myself, feel your work and tireless efforts are not being appreciated enough. Thus this little note of encouragement. Keep it up.
Even if we do not respond as often as we should, many, I can assure you, do enjoy your regular newsletters, even the abbot who you took to task in your last one. By the way this same last one was inadvertently deleted from this computer before I had a chance to print it. Kindly mail it to us again.
Many thanks, very best wishes and hope to meet you in the living flesh at the 2nd Reunion (or before).
God bless.
Fr. Christopher
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Caracas, 29 of August 2003.
Dear Fr. Christopher,
Thank you for the email and the lines on the event.
Please my apology to Fr. Abbot. My worry from the first place was that there would be not enough publicity for the EVENT.
I had sent Miguel Gonzalez, the Circulars since I received his email address in March. First I thought it was a hoax, and after I sent out Circular No. 87 I got a reply, too late to make a decent publicity to the Circulars readers. With No. 91 I did get a lot of replies.
I always thought that there must have been interaction with the priests of the Mount, but no answer from there, so this was my complaint. This is the first email from MSB, after 93 Circulars, so you might gauge my worry.
Well, the important part is that the EVENT was successful and there is a hope for 2nd EVENT. God Willing.
Please ask Fr, Cuthbert for Fr.Francis and Fr. Paul´s address at their retirement home in Holland.
Also I ask you to have the circular passed to Fr. Benedict, Fr. Augustine, Fr. Cuthbert and all the others that have made these Circulars possible, thanks to have been part of MSB and the Abbey School.
Please inform me if you are needing old Circulars, and send me the number of the one that was deleted, so that it can be replaced.
Can you send me the name of the oldboys that you did recognize at the EVENT. Also the 8 priests that assisted, there were brothers also??
God Bless
Ladislao
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From: Henry Theunissen
To: the-mount@carib-link.net
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: reunion
Dear Ladislao,
Thanks for your message. Here are the names of the monks who attended the reunion:
Abbot Francis Alleyne;
Fr. Cuthbert van de Sande;
Fr. Benedict Simons;
Br. Camillus Culley;
Fr. Odo van der Heijdt;
Br. Gerard (Rupert) Alexis;
Fr. Christopher Theunissen,
Br. Marius Williams.
Caracas, 6 of September 2003. Circular No. 96
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Dear Friends,
I have the following on the spot information on the Event, Fr. Christopher has been kind enough to have sent the following report. This time the oldest e mail is in first.
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From: "the-mount" <the-mount@carib-link.net>
Date: 16 Aug 12:11 (PDT)
Dear Ladislao,
As you know the 1st Reunion and Dinner of the old Abbey Boys Association took place yesterday, 15th August 2003, at the Centre of Excellence. About 100 hundred people attended, including about 8 monks and some of the former teaching staff, among whom most prominent Miss Kitty Marcus (88). It was a most enjoyable evening. Several of those present commended the work you have been doing in sending out Newsletters. Some of us, including myself, feel your work and tireless efforts are not being appreciated enough. Thus this little note of encouragement. Keep it up.
Even if we do not respond as often as we should, many, I can assure you, do enjoy your regular newsletters, even the abbot who you took to task in your last one. By the way this same last one was inadvertently deleted from this computer before I had a chance to print it. Kindly mail it to us again.
Many thanks, very best wishes and hope to meet you in the living flesh at the 2nd Reunion (or before).
God bless.
Fr. Christopher
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Caracas, 29 of August 2003.
Dear Fr. Christopher,
Thank you for the email and the lines on the event.
Please my apology to Fr. Abbot. My worry from the first place was that there would be not enough publicity for the EVENT.
I had sent Miguel Gonzalez, the Circulars since I received his email address in March. First I thought it was a hoax, and after I sent out Circular No. 87 I got a reply, too late to make a decent publicity to the Circulars readers. With No. 91 I did get a lot of replies.
I always thought that there must have been interaction with the priests of the Mount, but no answer from there, so this was my complaint. This is the first email from MSB, after 93 Circulars, so you might gauge my worry.
Well, the important part is that the EVENT was successful and there is a hope for 2nd EVENT. God Willing.
Please ask Fr, Cuthbert for Fr.Francis and Fr. Paul´s address at their retirement home in Holland.
Also I ask you to have the circular passed to Fr. Benedict, Fr. Augustine, Fr. Cuthbert and all the others that have made these Circulars possible, thanks to have been part of MSB and the Abbey School.
Please inform me if you are needing old Circulars, and send me the number of the one that was deleted, so that it can be replaced.
Can you send me the name of the oldboys that you did recognize at the EVENT. Also the 8 priests that assisted, there were brothers also??
God Bless
Ladislao
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From: Henry Theunissen
To: the-mount@carib-link.net
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: reunion
Dear Ladislao,
Thanks for your message. Here are the names of the monks who attended the reunion:
Abbot Francis Alleyne;
Fr. Cuthbert van de Sande;
Fr. Benedict Simons;
Br. Camillus Culley;
Fr. Odo van der Heijdt;
Br. Gerard (Rupert) Alexis;
Fr. Christopher Theunissen,
Br. Marius Williams.
Here are the addresses that you requested:
Fr. Paul van den Eijnden, O.S.B., Huize Te Berg, Gasthuisstraat 45, 6416 AM Heerlen, The Netherlands. Tel.: 045-57 18 066
Fr Francis Friesen, O.S.B. Berchmanianum, Houtlaan 4, 6525 XZ Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Tel.: 024-3 55 33 44 E-Mail: berchmanianum@wxs.nl
I was surprised to hear that no one from the Mount ever send you anything. It must be some years now since you started to send out your circulars. I myself have only been at Abbey School for short periods and I know very few of the boys. I was there from 65 to 66 and again for some months in 1970.
Michael De Verteuil, now Msgr, and rector of the Regional Seminary, was there at that time. Unfortunately he never knew about the reunion until I spoke to him about it the morning of the same day (15 Aug.). He would have loved to go, but was unable to at that late point. The only one present at the Reunion who I know very well was Michael D'Ornellas and his wife, also Joe Berment and Robert O'Connell. I'd have to see the list of all present to remember other known ones.
Best wishes and God bless,
Fr. Christopher
(I have been sending the Circulars to Msgr. Michael de Verteuil, to the following addresses: Xtian@cablenett.net, since 2001 when he was editor of Catholic News. Maybe if I have had an actualized address he would have been informed. Ed.)
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From: "Fr. Francis" <abbfrancis@carib-link.net>
Reply-To: "Fr. Francis" <abbfrancis@carib-link.net>
Date: 2 Sep 08:38 (PDT)
Dear Ladislao,
I was reading the list of priests from the Mount. I sent the correct list to you since last Saturday. Did you receive it. I notice your e-mail address has a slight change from time to time, sometimes it's a 1, then again a 2, and now a 4. What's the difference? Please let me know if you got my e-mails.
Please note: Fr. Augustine and Br. Joseph did not attend the Reunion. Abbot Francis Alleyne and Fr. Christopher Theunissen did.
Miss Kitty Marcus is mentioned under priests from the Mount. She has not yet been ordained to the sacred priesthood, and it's not like to happen in the near future, certainly not under Pope John Paul II, and because of constraints of age and health.
Yours sincerely,
Fr. Christopher
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*****David Bratt´s article on the EVENT is going to be published in Circular No. 98, as it is being prepared at this moment.
*****I have included a photo of our Caracas reunion 4 of September 2003.
God bless
Ladislao
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Listado: C96.xls
Photo by Don: Clinton Ross
From Caracas, 030905 Mamamia
Wayne Vincent Brown's column can be seen at www.Jamaicaobserver.com,
Column: dbratt -no article for this week
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ATTACHMENTS
Listado C96.xls
| Names | Form V | Contact | nicknames | business address | Phone | |
| Gomez, Henrique Jose | glen | YV | min.defensa | |||
| Gomez, Michael (RIP) | roge | |||||
| Gonsalves, Anthony (RIP) | roge | |||||
| Gonsalves, Brent | 1962 | lk | small beaver | TT | younger brother graham | bregon@tstt.net.tt, ironworks@wow.net, |
| Gonsalves, Chistopher | roge | |||||
| Gonsalves, Graham | 1960 | lk | bir beaver | TT | Computer consultant | gourmet@tstt.net.tt, ggonsalves@wow.net, |
| Gonsalves, Uson (RIP) | roge | |||||
| Gonzales, Anthony (RIP) | alex de | monkey toenail | ||||
| Gonzales, Bernard | 1950 | Guyana | ||||
| Gonzales, Brian | Guyana | |||||
| Gonzales, Miguel | 1985 | cosca | calif | 310-534-8856 | GON1210@aol.com MSBC85@aol.com | |
| Gonzalez, Fransisco | glen | YV | ||||
| Gonzalez, Garvin | gon | TT | (868) 620 8740 | caliente@cablenett.net | ||
| Gonzalez, Manuel | glen | |||||
| Gorinski, Peter | alex de | BG boy | peterg2@racsa.co.cr, | |||
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