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Brief Mag Oct/Nov 04 St Anthony Brief IRISH FRANCISCAN MISSION MAGAZINE No.3 APR/MAY 2019 €2.00 ✣✣ Touching the Wounds of Jesus ✣✣ ‘Go and Announce!’ ✣✣ The Sultan and the Saint How Did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its Beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being, Otherwise, We all remain Too Frightened. – Hafiz (Persian poet, + 1390) translated by Daniel Landinsky. Spirit and Life St Anthony Brief SStt AAnthonynthony BriefBrief 2 Spirit and Life. 4 From the Editor. The Sultan and the Saint. This year marks the 800th Anniversary 5 of the encounter between St Francis and Sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil in 1219. Michael Perry OFM, Minister General of the Order, reflects on what that historic event means for us today. A Brother Seeking Peace. In February, Pope Francis went to the 7 United Arab Emirates (UAE), the first ever visit of a Pope to the Arabian Peninsula. Confessions of an Elderly Pastor. Walter Gallahue OFM shares a 8 personal odyssey, from an Irish Catholic childhood to a missionary life in Zimbabwe, bringing him ever-deeper into the mystery of God’s merciful goodness. An Endangered Species: Christians in the Middle East. Rhina 10 Guidos interviewed Francesco Patton OFM, the Franciscan Custos of the Holy Land. 11 Meeting in Jerusalem. 12 Church Brief. ‘The Risen Christ Embraces and Illumines All Things.’ Lomán 14 MacAodha OFM shows how the work of God’s love in all things is celebrated in the Easter Vigil. The Failed Knight. War and imprisonment brought Francis of Assisi to 16 his knees. Gerald Evans OFM continues to reflect on the saint’s life, and what it can teach us. Luke Wadding: Giant of the Hundred Hands. 400 years ago the 20 Franciscan Luke Wadding arrived in Rome; the rest of his life, spent in the eternal city, was wonderfully fruitful. Mícheál Mac Craith OFM writes of this extraordinary Irish friar. News from Around the Franciscan World. Volume 79 No.3 22 Missionary Magazine of the Irish Franciscans. Published bi-monthly by A Hidden Ecological Gem in Washington. John Luke Gregory OFM, the Franciscan Missionary Union, 23 4 Merchants Quay, Dublin 8. a member of the Holy Land Custody, based in Rhodes, writes of a project in the Holy Land Monastery in Washington DC. Editor: Br Stephen O’Kane OFM. Production: Fr Francis Cotter OFM. Subscription & Distribution Secretary: Touching the Wounds of Jesus. Pope Francis teaches, ‘The path to Helen Doran. Tel: (01) 6777651. 24 our encounter with Jesus-God is his wounds. There is no other.’ Francis [email protected] Cotter OFM ponders this momentous statement. Design, Layout & Printing: Corcoran Print & Design. ‘Go and Announce!’ From Cuba, Gearóid Ó Conaire OFM continues Tel: (053) 9234760. 27 Subscription including Postage: his reflection on the new Franciscan missionary initiative in that country. Ireland – €15.00 per annum Britain – Stg£15.00 per annum Mission Digest. South Sudan. Overseas – €18.00 per annum 30 April/May 2019 3 From the Editor What is Really Essential? Well, we have just had the experience of St Patrick’s Day here in Dublin and at many other locations throughout the country and internationally. What a spectacle! The event is certainly good for showcasing the country and ensuring that Ireland remains on the tourist destination map. And that is not a bad thing. Great credit is due to all who organise, finance and participate. However, I was left wondering, ‘What are we celebrating?’ The feast, in truth, is not about promoting Irish-ness but about Br Stephen O’Kane OFM acknowledging in gratitude the gift of Christianity which Patrick transmitted to our ancestors and which we in turn continue to value and believe and pass on to others, as best we can. I heard someone recently say that the display, as we know it now, is a sort of Spring Halloween, where people dress up in costumes and often drink too much. The secularisation of what are Christian occasions proceeds at a staggering pace! In this light, what Fr Walter Gallahue has written in his article in this issue is well worth reading. Many of us can identify with his recollection of his youth and the narrowness and scrupulosity that some- times was part of that time. Thankfully, experience taught him to look at the big- ger picture and out of that came a libera- tion, a freedom and a focus on what is really essential. And what is really essential? LOVE. Sometimes a warm Love of God: his love for us and our hello can make the love for him, made clear in the way we difference. relate to other people. As you will see from this issue, during 2019 Franciscans are marking a particular manifestation of that love. This year is the eight-hundredth anniversary of the meeting of St Francis with Sultan al-Malik al- Kāmil, in 1219. It was to communicate the love of God for us made manifest in Jesus Christ, that Francis risked his life to cross the enemy lines and speak with the Muslim Sultan. How very apt we recall this encounter at this time of great sadness after the recent madness in New Zealand. Let us pray always for those who reach out in love to the other, the person different from us. Even where we live, is there any small thing we can do to reach out and make that person feel a little more welcome? Something as small as a warm smile and hello can make the difference. All of us here at the FMU office wish you, our faithful supporters, a very happy Easter. We rejoice in the Lord’s love for us and his willingness to die for us. May we in turn love those around us, in our families and beyond, and when our time comes may we share in that marvellous resurrection in which we put our hope. – Stephen O’Kane OFM ([email protected]) St Anthony Brief 4 A 13th century painting of the famous meeting The Sultan and the Saint ight hundred years ago, our This year marks the 800th with al-Malik al-Kāmil at Damietta in 1219 Seraphic Father St Francis set beckons us to ask again what deeds and EEsail for Egypt, finally fulfilling a Anniversary of the encounter words, amid the pluralism and complexity long-held dream of reaching out to between St Francis and of the world today, would be pleasing to Muslims. He arrived at the camp of the God. crusading army, among Latin Christians Sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil in St John Paul II recalled this mission of who through years of preaching and the 1219. In a Letter to the dialogue, most especially when he called rhetoric of holy war had been taught to religious leaders of the world to our spiri- scorn Muslims. Those same Muslims had Franciscan Family and to tual home, Assisi, in 1986 to witness every reason to scorn Francis, assuming all our Muslim sisters and there the transcendent quality of peace. that he, like most in the crusader camp, brothers, Michael Perry He told those gathered that the ‘perma- was an enemy and not a bearer of peace. nent lesson of Assisi’ consisted in Francis’ We today celebrate what no one at OFM, Minister General of ‘meekness, humility, deep sense of God, that moment could have foreseen: that a the Order, reflects on what and commitment to serve all’. Popes Spirit-filled man with nothing of his own Benedict XVI and Francis likewise invited crossed the battle lines unarmed to that historic event means religious leaders to make pilgrimage to request a meeting with the Sultan, was for us today. Assisi and pray there for peace, and Pope received with grace by that Sultan, Francis invoked the intercession of the enjoyed an extended period of hospitality his brothers about how they could go Poverello during his own trip to Egypt, with the Muslim leader, and emerged from among the Muslims, about the things fri- praying that Christians and Muslims truly the visit to reflect anew on the mission of ars could do and say ‘that would please call one another brothers and sisters, liv- the Friars Minor. God’. ing in renewed fraternity under the sun of Francis returned safely to his home- the one merciful God. land profoundly moved by the encounter A Call from the Church It is thus the universal Church calling and crafted a new and creative vision for The anniversary of Francis’ encounter the Franciscan Family to animate this April/May 2019 5 Film: For a ‘docudrama’ on the famous meeting see www.sultanandthesaintfilm.com interreligious fraternity in the peaceful simple and concrete step: meet a Muslim. merely a humble Christian, but the experi- spirit of our Seraphic Father. The Church Get to know him or her, beyond the pleas- ence of a humble God. Unique in his age, calls us to raise up this seminal moment antries of a cup of tea and social nicety. Francis praised God by saying, ‘You are in our history, the journey of St Francis to Try to learn and appreciate what experi- humility,’ and spoke about the ‘sublime Egypt, to open ourselves anew to the ence of God animates him or her and humility’, the ‘humble sublimity’ of God. transformation the Saint of Assisi experi- allow your Muslim friend to see the love The Christian heart’s quest for God finds enced, and to walk together with Muslims God has poured into your heart through rest in the humility of the Crib and the and people of all faiths as fellow trav- Christ.
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