New Beginnings

A Weekend with Monsignor Michael Buckley. Experience the El Shaddai healing service and Mass at the

Scarborough Conference Centre Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th May

Monsignor Michael Buckley,  
born in Cork, Ireland in 1924 devotes his life to working for peace and Christian Unity.  He founded the El Shaddai Community for Inner Healing in 1983, and is one of the leading teachers in England on healing, not only for Christians but for everyone irrespective of whether or not they have any religious affiliation.  He was Director of the first Christian Unity and Pastoral Centre established in England in 1966, and was appointed as the English representative of the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity shortly after it was established by the Second Vatican Council in 1968.  He was a leading member of the Peace Movement for Northern Ireland in 1977 and Co-founder of the Maranatha Christian Movement which has Christian Unity and Peace in Northern Ireland among its principal aims.  His dedication to peace and unity is reflected in the El Shaddai Movement which has reached across the religious barriers to bring about closer understanding between people and churches.  In his pastoral centre in Yorkshire he convened the first National Conference of Catholic priests of England and Wales in 1970 which has become part of the Catholic dialogue between priests and bishops. 

He studied for the priesthood at the Venerable English College in Rome and was ordained a priest in 1950.  He was appointed Tutor in Philosophy at the College in 1954 and in 1957 became Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Beda College in Rome.  In 1954 he received a Doctorate in Pastoral Theology at the Gregorian University which gave him special insights into the working of the human person in the modern world.  He has written many books which are mentioned in this website, but there are many more which are not available at present but will be reprinted.  He writes a weekly page in The Universe, England's largest Catholic newspaper in which he answers people's problems whether sacred or secular.  He was Religious Advisor to Yorkshire Television from 1968 to 1977 and frequently gave morning reflections on the British Broadcasting Corporation Television and Radio.   

He writes an El Shaddai Newsletter twice yearly on topical religious and secular issues to over two thousand members of El Shaddai.  This will be available to you if you contact our website or our address 'El Shaddai'  9 West Ridings, East Preston, West Sussex, BN16 2TD, England.  His development of the meaning of healing the person has grown from his close involvement with thousands of people who come to his ministry for healing in which he encourages them to become more human and fulfilled.  This is the ultimate aim of the El Shaddai Healing Movement.