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THE NET | FEBRUARY 2021 1 ISSUE 62. FEBRUARY 2021 PRICE - £1.50 The NET /€2.00 Sharing fruits of faith in Derry Diocese See inside... Sr Clare Crockett - Vocation’s Prayer “Life is beautiful because of Mercy...and it Hollie Frystal - Youth Book Club turns sinners into saints” Fr Francesco Gavazzi CFR (p 24) Celebrating Grandparents - Long Tower PS Divine Mercy image on a gable wall in Galliagh, Derry Celebrating Catholic Schools - Ardmore Catholic Schools Week launch - St Eugene’s Gemma Gallagher - Carnhill Celebrating St Brigid Christian Unity Week - Ardmore in focus in People Sr Deirdre Mullan RSM Roisin McKenna – Ballinascreen Michael O’Kane – St Colmcille’s PS Claudy The late Bridget Carroll – Long Tower Sharon Mallett – Thornhill College Also featuring: Youth writers section, Youth Ministry update, Co Tyrone singer writes Sr Clare song, Strabane youth helping mark 125th anniversary of Church of The Immaculate Conception, Irish Page, Holy Spirit feature, Mercy feature, Ancient Celtic Church & Renewal of Faith, Children’s Catechism Club, Quiz...and much more... 2 THE NET | FEBRUARY 2021 Reflecting on Pope Francis’ prayer intention for February - “We pray for Contents women who are victims of violence, that they may be protected by society Parish deliveries Copies of ‘The Net’ will be available in parishes again and have their sufferings considered and heeded” – Sr Deirdre Mullan RSM after restrictions, as a result of Covid-19, are lifted. Reflection on protection of women by society by Sr Deirdre Mullan RSM ..........................................................p2 writes... St Joseph challenges men to embrace their role by Mary McMenamin ....................................................................p2 Ardmore Parish celebrates Catholic Schools by Fr Neil Farren .............................................................................p3 Prayer alone is not enough...we must ACT! Glendermott PS is one big family by Conor Duddy ............................................................................p 3 VIOLENCE against women While the call of Pope of personhood. Denying be infused with justice and Catholic Schools Week ............................................................p4-5 and girls is not a new tragedy, Francis is encouraging, the personhood means treating directed towards action that Celebrating the precious gift of grandparents ..................p5 and it is as prevalent today call alone is not enough. Until a person as a non-person. deals with root causes. as it was 100 years ago. all members of all societies are A person who is objectified Compassion is a powerful St Colm’s Draperstown school year a good faith diary ..p6 Studies, sponsored by the challenged and taught to look has no right of objection and response to human need St Colmcille’s principal helping colleagues navigate online classroom ........................................................p7 United Nations (UN) and out for violence occurring on becomes the commodity and human suffering. World Health Organization our very doorsteps, violence of the one holding power. Sometimes, however, an Young writers share thoughts on... - Lent (WHO) in the last 10 years, against women and girls So often, women and girls appeal to compassion can - Cherishing baptismal identity make it undeniably clear that will continue. WHY? In become ‘things’ to be used to remain an empty appeal – - Catholic Schools Week violence against women is a most societies, women are sell cars, washing machines, not because the experience - Christian unity perceived as the commodities jokes, and so on. of compassion is empty, but - St Brigid global problem of staggering - Pope Francis encouraging youth....................................p8-11 proportions. of men. Yet, while I agree with the call because recognition of what New Youth Online Book Club The UN defines violence Understanding the concept of Pope Francis that “we pray compassion entails is empty. by Hollie Frystal. .......................................................................... p11 against women as “any act of of commodification is key to for women who are victims Since the present Covid-19 Derry Youth Ministry update .................................................. p11 gender-based violence that this problem, and would go of violence, that they may be pandemic began, incidences Song released for WYD 2023 ................................................... p11 results in, or is likely to result a long way towards clarifying protected by society and have of sex trafficking and violence Derry Youth Community recruiting ...................................... p11 Horror, disgust and outrage Thornhill calendar offers creative Lenten ideas. ........... p11 in, physical, sexual, or mental and concretely dramatizing their sufferings considered against women and girls are are not enough. How did we as Is God asking big sacrifices for Ireland? harm or suffering to women, the plight of women in a world and heeded,” prayer alone is on the rise. With the eyes of a society respond? Did any of Remembering Sr Ruth O’Callaghan, Servant Sister .......p12 including threats of such that still fails to recognize fully not enough! law enforcement elsewhere, us engage with organizations Hopes high for opening of Sr Clare beatification cause p13 acts, coercion, or arbitrary the consequences of gender Compassion and respect are the people smugglers are very, which work to alleviate Co Tyrone singer pays tribute in song to Sr Clare ..........p13 deprivation of liberty, whether inequality, violation of human a powerful combination and very active. human suffering? Did we Sr Clare – All or Nothing by Gerry Loughran ....................p13 occurring in public or private rights and ignorance of the every human person deserves For example, most of us in learn or have we learned Strabane youth help mark 125th anniversary life.” depths of human suffering both respect and compassion. Northern Ireland remember how to recognize trafficked of Immaculate Conception Church by Hollie Frystal ....p14 Whether in the West or among us. Yet, when put to the test in with horror the recent Bridget Carroll’s legacy to Long Tower Church persons in our midst? by Ivor Doherty .............................................................................p14 the East, North or Global In many societies, this means certain situations, these two example of victims of human Prayer alone is not enough. May Lent be a time of prayer & discernment South, women are at high risk that as the commodities of imperatives can diverge from smuggling, which resulted in The God of Mercy knows – Bishop Donal ............................................................................p15 both at home and in society, men, women can be hidden, one another. While prayer 33 human beings dying in a that it is not enough to be Richness of universal church in intimate partnerships, disposed of or kept out of sight with compassion may evoke freezer lorry. The smuggler compassionate – we must evoked in week of prayer for Christian unity. ..................p15 the workplace and major for many varied reasons. warmth and caring, far too erased from his mind the Main churches in Derry collaborating for many decades ACT! by Bishop Donal ..........................................................................p15 institutions, large and small. What does commodification often it is disconnected from fact that the people he was However hard it is for any mean? When any person is in the clear-eyed regard for smuggling were someone’s A Reflection on the ‘Year of the Family’ (Sister Deirdre Mullan is a by Sharon Mallett ........................................................................p16 of us to understand this, it is a situation of unequal power, human rights and dignity sister, brother, son or daughter. native of Derry who currently Cuimhní Cóivide – Part 1 estimated that one in every there is vulnerability. Where demanded by respect. The 33 Vietnamese nationals works in the USA. She is the Irish Page by Fr Oliver Crilly..................................................... p17 five women faces some form there is vulnerability, there The victims of violence, were reduced to commodities, coordinator of the Mercy Girl Reflections on the Third Person of The Trinity of violence during her lifetime is always objectification, and trafficking and malnutrition which would yield a high Effect, an NGO in consultation - The Holy Spirit. ..................................................................p18-22 – all too often leading to when any person becomes surely need our pity and our monetary return for the series with UNICEF, which highlights St Joseph – His actions speak louder than words serious injury or death. an object, there is denial prayers, but such prayers must of lorry drivers involved. the plight of girls worldwide.) by Fr Joseph Varghese ...............................................................p23 Consecration to St Joseph .......................................................p23 Novena to Sleeping St Joseph ................................................p23 20 years, helping women in Blessed Virgin Mary. To you Memorare to St Joseph. ............................................................p23 unplanned pregnancies. A lot God entrusted his only Son; in Life is beautiful because of Mercy St Joseph challenges men to of these women did choose you Mary placed her trust; with by Fr Francesco Gavazzi CFR .................................................. p24 life