“Service above self.”
I saw this motto engraved on a WWI Memorial at a park beside Lake Wakatipu in New Zealand. This year, 2014, is the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. And as I stood on the beach watching the children enjoy the summer sun, I couldn’t help but think of all those young New Zealanders who perished in the beaches of Galipilli a hundred years ago. We lift them up to God in gratitude and continue to fight for peace by never allowing hatred to germinate in our hearts.
About Fr Simon Devereux LC
FR SIMON was born on February 4, 1979, in Dunedin, New Zealand, the seventh son of Marie and Michael Devereux. He entered the novitiate of the Legionaries of Christ in Cheshire, Connecticut, on September 15, 1997. After his novitiate and year of humanities in Cheshire, he studied a bachelor’s in Philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome from 2000 to 2002 and from 2005 to 2007, a licentiate in Philosophy. In between, he worked as a youth minister in Quebec, Canada, and he made his perpetual profession in Rome on October 4, 2005. In 2010 he completed a three-year bachelor’s degree in Theology and was ordained on Christmas Eve of the same year with 60 of his brother Legionaries by Card. Velasio di Paolis. Two of his brothers are also Legionary priests. Fr Simon is now based at the Legion of Christ seminary in Cheshire, Connecticut.
