St Thomas Becket (Tevington submission to Catholic 365)
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[Duff was a] civil servant and cycling enthusiast....close enough to Irish history to have served as Michael Collins' secretary. A "Pioneer", Frank Duff seems to have been instrumental in preserving the memory of Matt Talbot. Largely introduced to Dublin's poverty and social ills by the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Frank Duff's deep, deep love for God and His Mother led to his being instrumental in founding the Legion of Mary.
....Deeply prayerful and faithful to his religious practice, he also showed his love for God and His Mother through phenomenal apostolic endeavors....
As the life of "Servant of God" Frank Duff is in the early stages of investigation for canonization, his thoughts and writings will certainly receive very close examination.
(My own 10/23/2010 Amazon review of "Frank Duff: Founder of the Legion of Mary")
Before his death in 1990, Uncle Andy told me of how Dublin's early 20th century streets were filled with prostituion. In his time, Duff had an enormous positive impact on that situation.
Long before Vatican II, Frank Duff exemplified the role of Catholic laity in evangelizing the world for Christ.
Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.
On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, cinema, geography, history, Italian food, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.
