Born: 24 September 1930, Glasgow, Scotland
Entered: 07 September 1960, Angliae Province (ANG)
Ordained: 01 July 1968, Holy Cross, Glasgow, Scotland
Final Vows: 02 February 1976
Died: 02 March 2019, Boscombe, Hampshire, England - British Province (BRI)

by 1966 came to Milltown (HIB) studying 1965-1969
by 2001 came to Milltown (HIB) studying
by 2002 came to Gardiner St (HIB) working

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Phelim McGowan

(Archdiocese of Glasgow) Born in Glasgow, 24th September 1930, the son of Michael McGowan and Mary Travers; left in ill health, 26th December 1950, entered Cardross, 22nd January 1951, entered Society of Jesus and ordained a priest by Bishop Ward, Holy Cross, Glasgow, 1st July 1968. (MT)

Fr Phelim McGowan SJ died in his sleep at around 2.30am on Saturday 2 March 2019, in the Corpus Christi community house in Boscombe, after a long illness. He was 88 years old, and was in his 59th year of religious life. Phelim was born in Glasgow on 24 September 1930, and was educated at St Aloysius College. Before joining the Society he had taken an MA in maths and physics at the University of Glasgow, studied for a teaching diploma, and also completed some priestly studies in Valladolid and at the diocesan seminary in Cardross. He entered the novitiate on 7 September 1960 in Roehampton, then after first vows studied philosophy at Heythrop in Oxfordshire. He taught as a regent in Wimbledon College from 1964 to 1965, then moved to Milltown Park in Dublin for theology. Phelim was ordained priest on 1 July 1968 at Holy Cross church in Glasgow, and after a fourth year of theology made his tertianship at St Beuno's under Paul Kennedy. In 1970 he joined the team at Loyola Hall as a director of the Spiritual Exercises, and was appointed socius to the novice-master in 1976, moving with the novitiate to Birmingham the following year. In 1979 he became part of the parish team at the Sacred Heart in Wimbledon and, apart from a year directing retreats at Craighead, stayed there until 2000, including time spent as chaplain to Atkinson-Morley hospital and to Donhead school. Following a hip operation in 1999, he had a sabbatical in Ireland, worked briefly at St Francis Xavier church in Dublin, and then went as chaplain to the Holy Cross community and hospital in Shottermill in Haslemere, Surrey, also assisting in the parish of Our Lady of Lourdes. He stayed there until 2011, when he moved to Mount Street, and then in 2014 joined the Corpus Christi community in Boscombe.

Born: 11 June 1930, Main Street, Dundrum, Dublin City
Entered: 07 September 1948, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 31 July 1962, Milltown Park, Dublin
Final Vows: 02 February 1965, Sacred Heart College SJ, Limerick
Died: 28 August 2007, Clover Well, Edgworthstown, County Longford

Left Society of Jesus: 14 August 1995

Parents were Charles and Josephine (Dillon)

Family lived at Cadogan Road, Fairview, Dublin, County Dublin. Fifth of eight boys.

Early education was at a North William Street Convent school and then at Scoil Iósep na mBratháir in Marino for nine years. He won a University scholarship

Baptised at Holy Cross Church, Dundrum, Dublin, 15/06/1930
Conformed at St Vincent de Paul, Marino, Dublin, 01/10/1940

1948-1950: St Mary's, Emo, , Novitiate
1950-1953: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate, UCD (BA)
1953-1956: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Philosophy
1956-1959: Coláiste Iognáid SJ, Galway,Regency
1959-1963: Milltown Park, Theology
1963-1964: Rathfarnham Castle, Tertianship
1964-1966: Crescent College, Limerick, Teaching
1966-1969: Coláiste Iognáid SJ, Galway, Teaching
1969-1973: St Francis Xavier’s, Gardiner Street, working
1973-1974: Rome, Italy (DIR) sabbatical at Il Centro Internazionale Pio XII a Rocca di Papa
1974-1979: St Ignatius, Leeson Street, National Promoter CLC
1979-1982: Gonzaga College SJ, National Promoter CLC
1982-1983: St Ignatius, Leeson Street, National Promoter CLC
1983-1990: Chaplain at Charles Lwanga Teachers’ Training College, Chisekesi, Zambia
1990-1991: John Austin House, studying at Syon House, High Street, Angmering, Sussex
1993-1995: St Aloysius Residence, Widside Place, Glasgow, Scotland (BRI) working

Leave of absence announced 22/06/1995. Dispensed by Rome from celibacy 22/09/1997. Married Marie McEvoy 2000

Adsdress 1996: Harcourt Road, Wood Green, London and Blessing Way, Barking, Essex, England
Address 2000: Rockfield Gardens, Maynooth, County Kildare & Blessing Way, Barking, Essex, England
Interfuse No 139 : Easter 2009

Obituary

Fr Val Mac Lochlainn (1930-2007) : former Jesuit

Paul Andrews (Interfuse Obituarist) writes:
Because Val died as a married man, in Edgeworthstown in August 2007, we never had an obituary of him in Interfuse. That was an oversight, because he was an Irish Jesuit for 47 years, and remained a close friend after he left the Society in 1995. What follows is a memoir put together with the help of Tom McGivern in Zambia,

Val's education took him from “Joey's” CBS in Fairview through Emo, UCD (BA in Latin and Irish), philosophy in Tullabeg, theology in Milltown and tertianship in Rathfarnham. He then taught for two years in the Crescent, and three in Galway, where he had done his Regency. There followed four years in Gardiner Street church, a sabbatical in Rome, and then the work for which he is probably best remembered, nine years as National Promoter for the Christian Life Communities. There were 310 CLC groups in Ireland, and Val worked assiduously to encourage them all. When he left the job in 1983 he wrote in his CV of “mental exhaustion resulting from over zealous commitment to study while at secondary school”.

At the age of 53 he volunteered for Zambia, and he worked there for seven years, mostly in Charles Lwanga Teacher Training College. He suffered greatly from the fact that his mother had fallen into dementia, and in 1981 had to be put into a home; she died in 1988.

For Val the 1990s were years of uncertainty. He returned to Ireland in 1990, and while working as a priest - mostly in Scotland - he went through a period of painful discernment, with strong help from his Irish Jesuit director. In 1995 he decided to leave the Society and the priesthood. Through the remaining twelve years of his life, in England and Ireland, he stayed in close contact with Jesuit friends, especially Michael O. Gallagher who now holds Val's old post in CLC. Val married an old friend in 2000, and contributed energetically to the parish of Edgeworthstown where they lived.

Val was a good man, a zealous priest, a brilliant footballer who might well have made the Dublin team, a cherished husband, and, above all, a searcher. May he rest in peace, having reached his goal.

Born: 0 November 1904, Apsley Place, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Entered: 31 August 1922, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 03 August 1928 (from Berchmanskolleg, Pullach, Germany)

Father was a Headmaster and lives at West Graham Street, Glasgow.

Eldest of two boys.

Early education at a local elementary school, then he went to St Aloysius College, Glasgow (1912-1920).

Considered joining the English Province SJ, but his parents were opposed and sent him to St Malachy’s College, Belfast in 1920 with the intention of preparing for priesthood. He then went to Queen’s University, Belfast in 1921.

During a retreat in 1922 with Henry Fegan SJ he decided to join the Irish Province SJ.

1922-1924: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Novitiate
1924-1925: Rathfarnham Castle, Juniorate
1925-1926: Milltown Park, Philosophy
1926-1928: Berchmanskollg, Pullach, Germany, Philosophy