| Death of Fr Tim Cahalane MSC |
 It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Fr Tim Cahalane in Cork on 1st July 2009, just four days after the Jubilee celebrations in Cork at which Fr Tim was celebrating 50 years of priesthood. Fr. Tim was at heart and in spirit a true Missionary of the Sacred Heart who brought the compassion of the Heart of Jesus to many people over fifty years of faithful priesthood. May he rest in peace. Death of Fr Tim Cahalane MSC It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Fr Tim Cahalane in Cork on 1st July 2009, just four days after the Jubilee celebrations in Cork at which Fr Tim was celebrating 50 years of priesthood. Fr. Timothy Cahalane, son of Agnes and John Cahalane, was born in Newcestown, Co. Cork on 19th August 1935, one of a family of three boys and two girls. Having finished his years in National School he went to study at Sacred Heart College Secondary School at Western Road, Cork. Fr. Tim began his Novitiate with the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Myross Wood in 1952 where he made his First profession. After his Perpetual profession in Moyne Park, Co. Galway he was ordained there on July 14th 1959. Over fifty years of priesthood Fr. Tim exhibited a grandeur of scholarship and intelligence that is part of our Irish monastic tradition. He studied at the Gregorian University in Rome for seven years where he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy. He later returned to Cork where he lectured in this discipline in our MSC House of Studies and later for twelve years at University College Cork. From there Fr. Tim was assigned to Parish Ministry at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, in Sun Valley, California. In 1985 Fr. Tim ministered in Anson, West Texas and from there he returned to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles where he served in many parishes including St. John Baptist de la Salle, Granada Hills where he ministered up to the time of his death. Fr. Tim was truly Irish, and proud of it. He was a scholar, a linguist proficient in Irish, English, Italian, French and German and maybe more. He was outgoing, talkative and easily mixed with all peoples. Much of his charism derived from his parents, especially the spiritual wisdom of his mother. Fr. Tim was a deeply spiritual priest, steeped in bibilical spirituality and sustained by sound theology. He brought all this to bear in his own daily personal and spiritual life. In true Irish tradition he honoured Mary by praying the Rosary daily. Fr. Tim was at heart and in spirit a true Missionary of the Sacred Heart who brought the compassion of the Heart of Jesus to many people over fifty years of faithful priesthood. May he rest in peace. |