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THE new Bishop of Galloway intends to make his inspiration as he prepares to be ordained this Saturday. “The past few years, with the abuse scandals, have been very hard for many Catholics,” Bishop-elect told the SCO this week. “But Pope Francis has come in and changed the atmosphere. I’m reminded of the old saying ‘you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.’ At the same time, he’s a very challenging Pope who is asking a lot of us all to try and get back to the basic essentials I was called down to see the of our Faith.” [late last year].” Pope Francis greets Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow at the Vatican Despite this new positivity, To say that he was surprised the bishop-elect, 61, admits that to be named as Bishop John he was stunned to be chosen as Cunningham’s successor is an TOGETHER WE ARE ALL SCIAF AT 50TH ANNIVERSARY MASS the next Bishop of Galloway, understatement. admitting he knows there will be “I did think ‘why not just pound all donations to SCIAF’s Wee Box First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (centre) and hard choices ahead, but saying leave me alone!’” he said. “But THE SCIAF 50th anniversary Mass was Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy (second a bittersweet, international celebration campaign, effectively doubling contributions. from the left) joined SCIAF Director Alistair he is happy to take his new if this is what God is calling me that united Church and state. The vital work of SCIAF, an agency of Dutton at the reception following the SCIAF ministry on board. to do, I’ve been called to it for a Many of Scotland’s present and retired the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, and National 50th Anniversary Mass on Sunday at Galloway reason.” bishops joined new SCIAF President the generosity of Scotland’s Catholics were St Columbkille’s, Rutherglen. They are seen He is also aware that he may Bishop Joseph Toal of Motherwell and the highlighted by retiring SCIAF President here with main celebrant Bishop Joseph Toal The bishop-elect maintains he have to make tough decisions in clergy of St Columbkille’s parish in Bishop Emeritus Peter Moran in his homily (second from right) and Bishop Emeritus Peter was gobsmacked by the news of his new post over the future of Rutherglen, where the Scottish Catholic at the national Mass. Moran (left) his appointment to Galloway parishes and pastoral resources. International Aid Fund was founded, for “SCIAF represents the Catholics of PIC: PAUL McSHERRY and that he would be leaving the charity’s jubilee Mass on Sunday. Scotland reaching out to the needy in Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in I Continued on page 4 First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP and needy countries,” Bishop Moran said. “We Bishop Moran went on to say that East Kilbride. Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy MP now distribute 1000 times as much per although SCIAF has benefited from the “I knew my name had been represented the Scottish and Westminster year as we did in the first year… The generosity of corporate bodies, government mentioned in connection when Parliaments respectively. The Scottish growth is not just financial. We respond to donations and the like, ‘it has not become Bishop Devine retired, you do Government has supported SCIAF’s work emergencies but many projects are more too dependent.’ hear things,” he said. “But then through grants and, this Lent, the UK long term, educational and our work Bishop Toal was appointed and Government DFID is matching pound for includes advocacy.” I Continued on page 2 that was fine. Galloway was not remotely on my radar when

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I Continued from page 1 nine people in the world still go to be hungry every night. At SCIAF, we wish “We do not want to grow away from we were still not needed but we are.” our core support,” he said. The First Minister said: “Scotland There was a festival feel to Sunday’s can be proud that we have a fantastic Mass with music fromAfrican drummers international aid charity in SCIAF that and singers, an Indian choir and Latin helps millions of people to recover from America sounds in addition to hymns natural disasters and war—and work sung by St Columbkilles’choir. Bishop their way out of poverty in the long-term.” Toal said one of the most memorable Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy moments of the Mass was the African said: “SCIAF is a remarkable Scottish offertory procession, and the simplicity success story. of the gifts presented such as seeds and “For generations of Scots Catholics water. and many others, SCIAF has always During the Mass Bishop Toal lead been a big part of our lives. the congregation in a prayer of “I have seen first-hand the difference recommitment to SCIAF in which they that faith based organisations can asked for ‘a generous heart to share with make in some of the most troubled those who have nothing the grace to parts of the world. Last year I saw the live more simply so they can simply live.’ efforts of Catholic agencies rebuilding New SCIAF director Alistair Dutton communities and hope after a natural highlighted how bitter sweet Sunday’s disaster in the Philippines.” celebration was, however. The Mass is one of many events this “This is not time to celebrate,” he year marking the aid agency’s golden said at the end of the Mass. “One in jubilee.

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Archbishop of St Andrews and PICTURES OF THE WEEK Edinburgh joined former Primer Minister Gordon Brown, invited politicians and SCIAF staff at a recent reception in Westminster, hosted by Tom Clarke MP,as the charity celebrated its 50th anniversary. “Scots—and Scots Catholics in particular—are moved by their faith and inspired by their faith to do what they can for their fellow men and women who are in need of help,”Archbishop Cushley said. “They do it in a small way but that small way becomes something so much larger such that it is able to reach out in friendship and respect to people all over the world who need that help.” Mr Brown said:“I want to pay tribute to SCIAF. I feel I have grown up with SCIAF and come of age with SCIAF. It is a charity born out of people’s faith, founded on compassion, and driven forward by a determination that things can be different for the poorest people of the world. BEGINNING IN NEXT WEEK’S There has got to be hope and that’s what SCO, DR JOSEPH BRADLEY SCIAF gives” EXPLORES THE RELEVANCE OF FAITH TO POLITICAL LIFE IN A CHANGING SCOTLAND IN A NEW SERIES.

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WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER NEWS 3 Plan for St Andrews and Vatican expert advises on safeguarding Edinburgh parishes to By Ian Dunn include some mergers THE bishops of Scotland have met with a leading Vatican expert on ARCHBISHOP Leo Cush- our control so we must look, at prevention of clergy abuse of children ley has announced many least in principle, to self- as part of their efforts to learn from parishes in St Andrews and reliance.” past cases and continue to develop Edinburgh Archdiocese “Your draft proposal to me, best practice. could ultimately face closure therefore, must aim at the cre- Mgr Robert Oliver travelled to Salamanca under new draft proposals as ation of six parishes in each in Spain to address the bishops during an in- clergy numbers fall. deanery, so that, at the end of service session at the end of January. Bishop In a letter to the deans of the this exercise, we have a total of Joseph Toal of Motherwell said it was part archdiocese, Archbishop Cush- some 30 parishes or so through- of the bishop’s desire to ‘demonstrate to ley writes the re-allocation of out the diocese,” he said. “I am survivors a willingness to listen and an pastoral care will be a ‘painful all too aware how painful and expression of understanding in the context and unpleasant’ task, but the difficult it will be for us to of carefully prepared personal meetings.’ number of priests in the arch- arrive at this figure. But the “The in Scotland is diocese meant that by the end spiritual and pastoral advan- committed to learning from past mistakes, that the Church had failed victims of abuse Bishop Joseph Toal at the dedication and blessing of the process there would be tages would also be notable, in developing best practice and allowing in the past. of those who share the Ministry of Safeguarding just 30 parishes left by 2035. that we would have fewer, external scrutiny of our work,” he said. and Evening Prayer that took place in Our Lady However, these parishes could “We did not listen to victims and of Good Aid Cathedral earlier this month larger, stronger parishes with at “The priority principle must be assistance underestimated the extent of the problem; PIC: TOM EADIE encompass more than one least one priest at their heart.” to the victims of abuse. Such assistance must we missed red flags and warning signs; we church. The archdiocesan web- The archbishop said that this be person to person, and must demonstrate were conned by many offenders; and, site currently lists 113 active was ‘the most important dis- to survivors a willingness to listen.” believed often with professional advice child protection norms adopted by their parishes on its website. The cernment in the pastoral life of Pope Francis appointed Mgr Oliver as the that some offenders could be returned to bishops’ conferences and approved by the archbishop says in his letter that our local church for a genera- new secretary of the Pontifical Commission ministry,” he said. Vatican must face real consequences. since coming to the archdiocese tion’ so everyone involved the for the Protection of Minors last year. The Bishop Toal said he was moved by the Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston said he had found a ‘consensus close Church had to be involved. commission is tasked with laying out a session and the bishop’s decision to focus the commission was proposing new rules to unanimity’ that ‘we cannot A spokesman for the archdio- pastoral approach to helping victims and on survivors of abuse was in preparation that ‘would allow the Church to respond in continue to maintain the present cese said that the whole process preventing abuse. The Pope established the for Dr McLellan’s report into safeguarding an expeditious way when a bishop has not numbers of parishes.’ aims to to boost evangelisation commission to advise him directly and to ‘which we expect to receive in the first half fulfilled his obligations.’ “This is due to a lack of in the archdiocese. “Since 2008, propose initiatives to encourage local this year and whose recommendations we “We think we have come up with some priests, a drop in income and the 109 parishes of the Archdio- responsibility within the Church, have undertaken to accept and publish.’ very practical recommendations that the fall in numbers attending cese of St Andrews and Edin- highlighting best practice from around the The meeting chimes with a new push in would help to remedy the situation that is Mass,” he adds. “It is an burgh have been gathered into world and developing programmes of promoting safeguarding from theVatican, with such a source of anxiety to everybody [on unpleasant task, but it neverthe- 31 ‘clusters’ by which clergy training for the whole Church in this the president of the Pontifical Commission the pontifical commission],” he said. less falls to our generation to minister to several parishes important area. for the Protection of Minors warning last The recommendations will be presented look hard at our present situa- within a particular locality,” he Mgr Oliver told the bishops of Scotland week that prelates who do not comply with to Pope Francis. tion, to establish what may now said. “The Archbishop’s letter be done for the good of the dio- to the Deans of the Archdiocese cese as a whole, and how best asks them to begin a discussion to serve our people through the about how better to co-ordinate regular provision of the Sunday resources at a local level. This Scottish midwives face six-figure legal bill Eucharist and the celebration of could include, for example, the the Sacraments in a way that creation of larger parishes or THE Society for the Protec- suggests costs would be awarded avoid taking part in abortions our number of priests and our sharing church buildings or tion of Unborn Children has to the midwives resulting in a because of their conscientious finances realistically permit.” halls. The deans will submit vowed to raise funds for two bill of up to £300,000. He added objections—a right allowed The archbishop says his pro- proposals by Easter 2015. The Scottish Catholic midwives that his organisation would raise under the 1967 Abortion Act. jections suggests the archdio- discussion will then be opened facing a potential £300,000 the money through fundraising Despite appeal court judges rul- cese could count on having 30 further to clergy and lay repre- legal bill. efforts. ing in their favour, NHS Greater or so diocesan clergymen in sentatives from each parish.” Concepta Wood and Mary “Concepta Wood and Mary Glasgow and Clyde took the 2035 which ‘means that we will St Andrews and Edinburgh Doogan (left) lost a case at the Doogan have been extremely case to the Supreme Court, have an average of six diocesan Archdiocese is the latest Scot- Supreme Court at the end of last courageous in taking on this bat- which subsequently ruled last priests per deanery.’ tish diocese to face tough deci- year after judges ruled they do tle, and there is no way we December that staff involved in “I will of course be looking sions on future use of resources. not have the right to avoid super- would put them in the position of managerial and supervisory roles for ways to promote vocations Archbishop Philip Tartaglia vising staff involved in abor- having to face these costs on were not seen as ‘participating’ to the priesthood, inviting for- released draft proposals— tions. their own,” Mr Tully said. in abortion under the 1967 act eign priests to assist us,” he including potential parish clo- Paul Tully, general secretary The midwives had fought for and could thus not conscien- writes. “However, both ways of sures—for Glasgow of SPUC, said legal precedent three years for their right to tiously object. obtaining priests remain beyond Archdiocese last year. 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Galloway planning document. seminary and later Blairs Col- “It’s a sad job because all the “There’s only one Galloway lege. “There was a touch of the case are related to quite tragic By Daniel Harkins said the concerts would be an opportunity to ‘take seminarian at the moment, just Harry Potter about it ,you'd say cases, where marriages have Lentfest out of the traditional church hall context and one. So there will have to be now,” he added. “Going off to failed,” he said. “There’s a lot of GLASGOW Archdiocese’s annual Lentfest out into the secular world.’ change. But there are different boarding school just seemed like human suffering there, but of celebration is set for a new approach this year “In that sense it’s also a statement of brave faith,” theories on the best way to go a great adventure.” course not all meet the criteria as participants imitate the bravery of St John he said. “We are really hoping that our audience will about that. [Whether] it’s a sur- He followed that by going off for annulment so you have to be Ogilvie and take the faith into secular venues. come and support this concert and we really need that gical strike or more gradual, I to the Scots College in Rome quite diligent.” This year will see a number of events across Scot- core audience but we are also hoping that people will work with the priests as a and was ordained at the age of land mark the 400th anniversary of St Ogilvie’s from the local area and beyond will come. It might be team. You can’t be bishop on just 23. Community death, and Lentfest—an annual celebration organised people on the cusp of faith who might brave coming your own.” “There was a special dispen- It was 20 years ago when he by the Arts Project to this venue.” While he’s looking forward to sation given, but that wasn’t so returned to Our Lady of Lourdes (AGAP)—is taking part with a festival built around Mr Callaghan sees evangelisation as a big part of his Episcopal ordination tomor- unusual then,” he said. “When I parish. the theme Brave Faith. Lentfest andAGAP.“I would say about 85 percent of row, paying tribute to the ‘won- was ordained, I remember being “It’s been a great thing to have Held each year since 2007, Lentfest has used art the benefits ofAGAPare hidden form the public eye derful’ team in Galloway who a bit torn because I had prepared been here and see the genera- to explore the death and resurrection of Christ. In because they happen in the pastoral zone—people have organised it, he is aware so long for this moment yet it tions of people come through,” 2015,AGAPis introducing a condensed programme come at all different points in their faith journey and his life is about to change was still only the beginning.” he said, with great empathy for in three parts: a multifaceted concert, an art festival, they minister to each other,” he said. “It is a pastoral dramatically. the laity. “You are there through- and a nationally touring production of the play The initiative. We pray at every rehearsal but we never “It will be very different, a lot Bishops out many of the biggest Martyrdom of Saint John Ogilvie. Lentfest’s con- ask if someone is Catholic. If someone doesn’t want of travelling, a lot of time in the After his Ordination, he was sent moments of peoples lives, and certs—to be held on February 20 and 27—will fea- to pray then you leave them there because in a few car,” he said. to Our Lady of the Lourdes, the then their children’s as well.” ture a number of 20-minute performances based weeks they might pray, or realise they have been “But I was looking at the Vat- start of his long association with Over the years he has seen around the only post-reformation Scottish saint and praying all along.” ican’s guide for bishops and it the East Kilbride parish, where both ‘the parish and the parish- his bravery in practicing his faith.The concert will Mr Callaghan recounted a story about local chil- says the first job is to preach the he served alongside Bishop ioners have become more feature music from Heelster Gowdie, Martin Jones dren of different faiths working on stage sets and ask- Gospel. So that’s what I will do, Emeritus Maurice Taylor, who, mature.’ and Willie Sinclair, and poetry from Anne Murray, ing questions about Our Lady. “Someone asked: ‘See preach the word of the Lord by coincidence, would also go “I remember the oldest Jesuit Peter Granger-Banyard, Nell Brennan and Pat Protestants? Is it true they don’t believe in the Virgin wherever I go.” on to become bishop of mother on one of the street near McCarthy. Mary?’and I said ‘well, actually they do.’And imme- Galloway. the church was 24 and every Unlike in previous year’s when Lentfest events diately a wall has come down.” Vocation After two and a half years, he other house there had a young took place in parishes and church buildings, the two Such knowledge of the Faith will be spread during The bishop-elect’s trepidation is was sent off to St David’s Parish family in it,” he said. “A lot of concerts will be held in Barras Art and Design Cen- Lentfest 2015 by a production of The Martyrdom of understandable for, even though in Plains, a much more rural those people still live near the tre (BAaD), located behind the Barrowland Ball- Saint John Ogilvie—with Lentfest spreading out for he has been parish priest of Our parish, when he stayed for three Church in the same houses now room, not far from where St Ogilvie was executed. the first time to Motherwell, Paisley and Dunkeld Lady of Lourdes, East Kilbride, years he was summoned by but think know young people Stephen Callaghan, creative director of AGAP, dioceses, and a special performance funded by the for the last 20 years, his life in Bishop , then more around a lot more, stay in a the Church has been full of sur- newly appointed to Motherwell house only two or three years.” prises. Diocese, and told he was head- The change in generations has This started early, at his Con- ing to Scots College in Rome. also brought new attitudes to the firmation at St Luke’s in Moth- “It’s a fascinating place Church. Pope Francis grants plenary indulgences erwell, when one of his younger Rome,” the bishop-elect said. “People who have lived Faith- brothers, a toddler, caused con- “So many interesting people ful lives to the Church have seen TO MARK the 400th has invited everyone to their sternation by unexpectedly pass through, priests and laity their children drift away and that anniversary of St John parish for ‘a sort of mini- showing up at the Church on his and more, I have many friends is a source of sadness to them,” Ogilvie (right), the Vatican pilgrimage’ and will provide own during the service. from that time. he said. has announced that three cards with the relevant prayers in "I suppose he didn’t want to “I was mainly dealing with “That’s a hard thing and I parishes in Glasgow, includ- the church. be left out!" the Bishop-elect administration, plumbers and so can’t explain it. Yet in other fam- ing the city’s cathedral, will A number of events will take recalled. on but it was important work, ilies the next generations still go. celebrate 2015 as a Jubilee place across Scotland in 2015 in As the fourth of eleven chil- preparing men to be priests, and It is hard to understand.” Year, allowing parishioners to celebration of St Ogilvie, includ- dren, he knows such stories are you see the process have a very One of the things he is most obtain a Plenary Indulgence. ing a national pilgrimage to the stuff of large families but it set powerful formative impact on proud of is the great sense of As Scotland remembers the Keith on July 4. a pattern of the unexpected for a the men who go through it, even community still around the martyrdom of the saint—who The Jesuit saint and martyr priest who has always followed the ones who don’t go on to be parish. was executed in Glasgow for cel- was born in Scotland in 1579 and the Lord’s call no matter the sur- priests.” “If someone misses Mass due ebrating Mass—the Apostolic ordained in 1610 in Paris. prises it has brought. After six years, however, to illness, then someone will go Penitentiary, the Vatican body in honour of St John Ogilvie, or The priest celebrated the faith He spoke of growing up as part he was ready to come back to and check in on them,” he said. responsible for issuing indulgen- pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, during a period of persecution, of a bustling brood as ‘just some- Scotland. “People do care for each other, I cies, revealed that St Andrew’s Apostles’ Creed and a prayer in and was eventually arrested and thing you take for granted, obvi- “I wanted to come back can’t claim responsibility but its Cathedral, St Aloysius in Gar- honour of St Ogilvie, may obtain tortured in an effort to get him to ously it was hard for our parents because I didn’t want to be so a great thing to be part of and nethill and St Jude’s and St John a Plenary Indulgence, under the reveal names of other Catholics. but as a child you just get on with long away from the pastoral life there is a wonderful team of peo- Ogilvie’s in Barlanark would usual conditions of Confession, He was convicted of high treason it, the older children helping the here in Scotland because it does ple here.” receive the special honour. Communion and praying for the and hanged in Glasgow on younger ones and so on.’ change quickly and then you Anyone who visits one of Pope’s Intentions. what is now his feast day, March From an earlier age, he knew can’t pass knowledge of it on to I [email protected] these churches to attend a liturgy St Jude and St John Ogilvie’s 10 1615. Council committee backs Newton Mearns to host UK’s first joint FIND AND LIKE THE By Daniel Harkins room wings but will share outside World Religions are seen to co- school in October of 2013. An SCOTTISH CATHOLIC areas including playground and exist, to demonstrate to the world Education Scotland report pub- THE UK’s first joint-faith sports facilities. that a proper understanding of the lished last year found almost all OBSERVER PAGE ON school for Catholic and Jew- Scotland currently has a num- one true God does not lead to vio- parents and staff who met with ish children is to be built in ber of joint campuses for Catholic lence and division but to mutual inspectors to be in favour of the FACEBOOK Newton Mearns after the and non-demonational schools, respect and co-operation,” he said. plans. local council’s education but the new school—to be located “The lives and ministries of Pope Newton Mearns’ current committee voted in its on Waterfoot Road opposite John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI Catholic primary, St Cadoc’s, will favour. Mearns Castle High School—will and our present Holy Father Pope be maintained with plans for it to At a meeting last week, the East be the first between two different Francis can leave no doubt about be refurbished. Catholic pupils at Renfrewshire Education Commit- faiths in Scotland. Fr Thomas the esteem which the Church the new school will attend St Nin- tee agreed unanimously to give Boyle, the Catholic Church’s rep- holds for the Jewish people. One ian’s High School in Giffnock. 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Children at St Joseph’s in Faifley Young people at heart ACN asks youth acted out the Joy of the Gospel recently as the Archdiocese of to rally against Glasgow Arts Project brought of Lenten Catechesis persecution some faith-filled fun to the school. The youngsters took part in a BISHOP has AID to the Church in need number of games and activities said he wants young people to has invited pupils from as AGAP’s Creative Director be at the heart of the diocesan every secondary school in Stephen Callaghan sought to Lenten Catechesis and each Scotland to come together bring the Good News to life. week will feature school choirs this summer for a rally “The kids were amazing,” Mr against Christian persecu- Callaghan said. “I’ve been in and musicians, testimonies of tion. The Catholic charity quite a few primary schools faith from the young people of which works in conflict recently, all of them very very the diocese and youth to fill the zones and troubled regions good. The faith-based ethos just sanctuary leading Evening around the world has sent shines in a lot of our primary Prayers and Reflections at out the invitations in hope schools and that’s true of St Benediction. of raising awareness Joseph’s. The kids were really “We have been working with amongst Scotland’s youth into it... How do you get a five- all our Catholic high schools and about the difficulties faced year-old to engage with an their music departments are by their peers abroad. apostolic exhortation like The delighted to be able to put their The June 11 event will Joy of the Gospel? It boils down talents at the service of this dioce- see an expected 1000 peo- to if you are going to tell the san festival of faith,” Bishop ple celebrate their faith as Gospel, the Gospel is good news Keenan (right) said. they try to bring to the so be joyful, be happy” Before each bishop’s talk some added. “It is the way it should be.” media and politicians some young people will give a testi- Primary children are not being understanding of the plight PIC: PAUL McSHERRY mony of what it is like being a left out either. They will be there of many Christians. young Catholic in Scotland and to welcome everyone at the doors Pupils and students from Jesuits being held in the Scottish Youth Theatre in host future festivals. “I came recently to the conclu- others will give a short witness and to lead the guest bishops to the university chaplaincies will be joined at the rally by Glasgow.The play was first performed in 2012 with sion that while it is wonderful to have a big robust during Evening Prayer. sanctuary at the beginning of each Bishop of a closing night held in front of 200 people in StAloy- arts festival what we needed to do was to take a “I want to let our young people gathering. “Primary children are Dunkled and Bishop John sius Church, Garnethill. grassroots approach, catechising people in a way that speak,” the bishop added. “I want full of the joy of the Gospel and Keenan of Paisley and will Throughout the festival, an arts exhibition will be is fun and stimulating” Mr Callaghan said. “Hope- the gathering to hear them speak their happy faces at the entrances hear from a number of held in St Patrick’s Church in Anderston, similarly fully they will in turn evangelise their friends and honestly of what it is like for them of the Cathedral will set the spirit international speakers, with based around the theme of brave faith, with submis- generate new talent for Lentfest.’ to believe in God in the world of of this glad celebration of our ACN hoping to have some- sions from a number of different artists. today and what they feel about the Catholic faith,” he said. one make the journey to The Brave Faith concerts will take place on The condensed Lentfest programme is partly as a I Church in their journey of faith. It At next Sunday’s launch Scotland from a country result of a high workload for AGAP as they attempt February 20 and 27 at 7:30pm. Tickets cost £10 is time for them to speak and for Bishop Keenan will give Catech- where Christians are suffer- a new grassroots scheme working in schools. for one concert or £15 for both. The Martyrdom us to listen to their hearts,” esis on Believing in God in a Sec- ing under persecution. AGAP currently organises its many workshops, of Saint John Ogilvie will tour Scotland through- After Catechesis, it will be the ular Age. His idea is that the past Michael Robinson, ACN concerts and clubs out of the church hall in St out March. The Brave Faith art exhibition takes young people who will fill the generation of pronounced secular- communications officer, Michael’s in Parkhead. And all going well, Mr place in AGAP Gallery, St Patrick’s RC Church, sanctuary and lead the congrega- ism is weakening before an ever said the rally was organ- Callaghan hopes and prays that a successful festival, Anderston, daily from March 7 to April 5. Visit tion in Evening Prayer. “It will be more dominant religious global ised in reaction to the and the intercession of AGAP’s patron saint John www.agap.org.uk or call 0141 554 1333 a breath of fresh air for the people scene but world needs the Trini- worsening situation in Iraq Paul II, will see the arts team gain their own space to I [email protected] of the diocese to see a Cathedral tarian God who created a world of and Syria. led by the young,” the bishop Love and Truth. Donation subsidises Catholic youth festival Looking for Paisley Diocesan Synod THE participation cost of the phere of 2013 to Stirling Univer- aged 14-25, takes place from 2015 Scottish Catholic Youth sity’s Campus. July 30-August 2. Each young a Lenten Festival to be held in Stirling Elizabeth Millar from CYSS person is asked to pay £150 penance? Bishops’ Lenten Catechesis this summer has been reduced said she was encouraged by the toward the cost of the event, a to £150 per person thanks to a response to the youth festival so newly subsidised rate. Come to our For more information or to generous donation. far and thanked people for their Catechesis St Mirin’s Cathedral ‡ 2.00 - 4.00pm Catholic Youth Service Scot- ‘continued support and prayers register your interest please land (CYSS), who are organising during this period of preparation contact Elizabeth Millar on All welcome Talk, Evening Prayer and Benediction the July event, announced that the for the event.’ 01698 269114, by email at new funds would significantly [email protected], or visit the reduce the costs for those wishing I The 2015 Scottish Catholic Catholic Youth Service Scotland to attend and encouraged young Youth Festival, for young people website at www.cyss.org.uk 22 February Believing in God in a Secular Age catholics to get in touch. The Stirling festival follows Right Reverend John Keenan, Bishop of Paisley on from the success of Scot- land’s Rio in 2013—an event held to mark World Youth Day, 1 March which was celebrated in the Believing in the Uniqueness of Mankind Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in a Throw-away Culture that year. It is hoped the 2015 event will Most Reverend Charles Brown, Papal Nuncio, Ireland bring back the carnival atmos- 8 March Acknowledging Sin, the World Awakens -faith school to New Hope Right Reverend OSB, Bishop of Aberdeen necessary seek an entry criterion that ‘gives priority to the denom- inational nature’ of the new school. 15 March Jesus Christ is the Light of the World Fr Boyle added that he would Right Reverend Mark Davis, Bishop of Shrewsbury ‘like to commend the authority for the way in which it respects and builds relationships with local faith communities,’ and that the 22 March Can the Church Today Still be God’s Church ‘will co-operate fully in the planning of this campus with Instrument of Salvation? the Authority and the Jewish Right Reverend Philip Egan, Bishop of Portsmouth Community,’ and will work with the council in finding a name for the new Catholic school. “We are confident that such 29 March Mary ‘Yes!’ to Holiness an ongoing relationship will Palm Sunday ensure that the planning stage Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, Archbishop of Glasgow for the shared campus will be fruitful,” he said. WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK 6 WORLD/VATICAN NEWS SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015

Shadow Education Secretary criticised for his remarks about nuns who teach

THE Labour Party’s Shadow system having qualified teachers “When [people] make these Education Secretary has in the classroom.” sweeping statements it’s just so been criticised for his Sr Rosanne Reddy of the unhelpful. It shows an incredible seemingly derogatory Sisters of the Gospel of Life in amount of ignorance of the remarks against nuns Glasgow said Mr Hunt’s present day. I couldn’t tell you a who teach. remarks were ignorant and not single nun who is teaching who Tristram Hunt’s remarks worth air time. is not a fully qualified teacher.” during BBC Question Time’s “I think nuns are people as Mr Hunt (above) later sought debate have been condemned well—unbelievably!” she told to clarify his remarks on as an attack on religious teachers, the SCO. “We are actually just Twitter. “On BBC QT I was suggesting they are not suitably real human beings like anyone trying to make a generalised qualified. else and I think we can be as point about the use of unqualified The senior Labour politician good teachers as anybody else. teachers in schools,” he wrote. interrupted former Catholic “Many people have had a “I obviously meant no offence Herald editor Christina Odone fantastic education at the hands to nuns.” during a debate on education of religious sisters—and many On Saturday’s Andrew Marr on the BBC’s Question Time people have had a fantastic Show Mr Hunt was asked Bring the light of the world to show last week. education from non-religious repeatedly to admit that nuns Ms Odone had said that ‘the teachers.” could be good teachers. most inspiring teachers I’ve Sr Roseann added: “I think He kept avoiding a direct By Stephen Reilly “To preach and to heal: this is the principle ever encountered were not out most nuns who were teachers answer until eventually admitting: activity of Jesus in his public life,” the Holy of teacher training college.’ would be trained teachers ‘I am sure there are brilliant POPE Francis has called on Catholics to Father said. “By preaching, he announces the “These were nuns,” Mr Hunt anyway, certainly in this day teachers who are nuns who are ‘bring the light of the world’ to all those Kingdom of God, and by healing demonstrates interrupted. “These were all and age. doing a fantastic job.’ who are sick and for the world to end the that this is near, that the Kingdom of God is in nuns, weren’t they? I know “In the past they wouldn’t Mr Hunt’s initial remarks scourge of human trafficking. our midst.” about your religious schooling have been but in the past they drew heavy criticism on social At last Sunday’s Angelus, the Holy Father Having come to earth to ‘proclaim and bring and there’s a difference I think were giving children the only media and from a number of spoke about the World Day of the Sick, which about the salvation of all mankind,’ the Pope said between a state education education they were getting. Conservative politicians. took place on Wednesday, the feast of Our Lady Jesus demonstrates a ‘particular inclination’ for of Lourdes. the physically and spiritually wounded: ‘the In off-the-cuff remarks, the Holy Father asked poor, the sinners, the possessed, the sick, the 94-year-old Chinese bishop reportedly dies in prison for prayers for Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski ostracised.’ who is seriously ill in Poland. Archbishop Despite the scientific advancements today, A 94-year-old Chinese bishop Zymowski is the president of the Pontifical there remain existential questions surrounding the who had been imprisoned Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care existence of sickness, suffering, and death, he said. since Good Friday 2001 has Workers, which organises many of the events ‘The pastoral action of the Church must reportedly died, triggering surrounding World Day of the Sick. respond’ to these questions, the Pope continued, fresh condemnation of the Chinese Government’s assault on religious freedom. Relations of Cosmas Shi Enxiang, the underground Church of Scotland Moderator Christian radio Bishop of Yixian in northeast China, were informed last Friday is honoured to meet with Pope that he had passed away. No THE House of Commons is cause was given. He had not to hear a debate on the fact been seen in public since he was THE Moderator of the Premier Christian Radio detained 14 years ago. Church of Scotland will could be forced off the “My parents and the bishop’s meet with Pope Francis at British radio network. other siblings are particularly sad,” the Vatican on Monday. While it will still be available Shi Chunyan, the bishop’s great It will be the first time that a through televisions on Freeview, niece, told a local news agency. moderator and a Pope have had it faces losing its radio presence “They had been unsuccessfully since October 1997. with the Vatican. a private meeting in Rome for more than a year, with trying to discover his whereabouts Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin of He was arrested for the first since 2001. last had a private meeting in potentially serious consequences for many years. Now the answer Shangahi has been confined to a time that year and spent much “I am honoured to be able to Rome. On February 17, 2001, for its media operation. to their questions is that he is seminary outside Shanghai since of the following three decades meet with His Holiness Pope the then-Moderator Andrew Digital content is broadcast on dead.” using his ordination to denounce forced to perform hard labour Francis,” the Right Reverend McLellan was granted a short the Digital One network run by Bishop Shi, who was originally the party’s control of religion in in Heilongjiang and Shanxi John Chalmers (above right) said. private audience with Pope Arqiva, which is replacing Premier from Hebei province, was arrested 2012. provinces. “I hope to be able to discuss a John Paul II, as part of a three- with a music station on March 31. in April 2001 at the Beijing home Cosmas Shi Enxiang (above) He was ordained a bishop in range of issues including faith day visit to Rome. Premier has launched a of his niece and had been held was ordained as a priest in 1947, China’s underground Catholic in the 21st century. I will also During the meeting, the two publicity campaign aimed at ever since in a ‘secret location.’ two years before Chairman Church in 1982, but was share with His Holiness my sense men had discussed the two getting media regulator Ofcom The bishop spent around half Mao’s Communist Party seized imprisoned again between 1989 that for some years now ministers churches’ relationship, and Rev to step in and block the move, of his long life in prison or power and set about jailing and 1993 before his final arrest and priests have found new levels McLellan said that the Pope arguing that the decision to take labour camps. His death means Christian leaders, driving out in 2001. of friendship. People’s attitudes had ‘expressed his appreciation Premier off the air waves and that there is now only one Chi- missionaries and dismantling or Today there are an estimated have changed as they have come of the Church of Scotland in its instead have more non-stop nese bishop still being held in destroying churches. 12 million Catholics in China, to see in ‘the other,’ a shared commitment to reconciliation.’ music stations radically changes secret detention. His name is Bishop Shi’s troubles began in many of whom refuse to worship humanity and a shared faith.” Rev Archibald Craig was the the output of the national James Su Zhimin, from Baoding, 1954, three years after the within the Communist Party It is 14 years since a Moderator first moderator to meet a Pope network’and would be ‘a disaster a city around 90 miles from officially atheist Communist controlled Catholic Patriotic of the General Assembly of the when he visited Pope John for the nation’s major faith group.’ Beijing, and he has been held Party had formally severed ties Association. Church of Scotland and a Pope XXIII in 1962. An adjournment debate on the WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER WORLD/VATICAN NEWS 7

NEWS ROUNDUP US President attacks distortion of religion PRESIDENT Barack Obama denounced those around the world who distort religion to justify wars and violence as he addressed faith and political leaders at the National Prayer Breakfast last week. The Dalai Lama was one of the participants. “We see faith driving us to do right,” Obama said. “We also see faith being twisted and distorted, used as a wedge, or worse, sometimes as a weapon.” Christian militia vows to take on ISIS A CHRISTIAN militia of 4000 Holy Father pays visit to immigrant men has been formed to retake northern Iraqi territory from the community on outskirts of Rome Islamic State, according to reports. “The Assyrians want their POPE Francis surprised Fr Aristide Sana, the local land back and they—as well as residents of a shanty parish priest, reportedly the Turkmen and the Yazidis— town on the outskirts of said that a number of those are sending a message that we Rome by paying them a who greeted the Pope are are going to come back and we visit last Sunday. from Peru and Ecuador. are not going to leave our villages The Pope (above and “He got out of the car and towns and our cultures to be below) made an impromptu and people were shocked destroyed,” Sajad Jiyad, an Iraq stop in the Tiburtina area when they saw him in front analyst, said and was greeted by a number of their shacks,” Fr Sana of the town’s inhabitants, added. Pope appoints new many of whom are from According to Fr Sana, Swiss Guard head South America. people from Russia, POPE Francis has appointed He spoke to them in Eritrea, Ukraine and Poland Lieutenant Colonel Christoph Spanish, asking how many also live in the shanty Graf as the new commander of of them spoke the same town, which is inhabited by the Pontifical Swiss Guard. language as him. about 150 people Graf joined the military unit in 1987. He will take the place those who are sick, Pope says of Colonel Daniel Anrig, who retired last month, and had been commander since 2008. ‘with the light of faith, having before her eyes the “Each one of us feels committed to being the For more than 500 years, the Crucifix, in which appears the whole salvific mystery voice of these, our brothers and sisters, humiliated 110-man unit has been responsible of God the Father who, out of love for men, did in their dignity,” the Holy Father said. for the safety of the Pope, including not spare his own Son.’ The Day of Prayer coincided with the feast of St the security of theApostolic Palace. Pope Francis emphasised that caring for the sick Josephine Bakhita, the 19th century Sudanese nun has always been considered an integral part of the who as a child had been a victim of slavery, the Prince’s fears over Church’s mission. Pope noted. radicalisation “To care for the sick, to welcome them, to serve Pope Francis offered his encouragement to those THE Prince of Wales has them, is to serve Christ,” he said. working to end the trafficking of ‘men, women, described the extent to which The Pope concluded by saying that we are all and children’ who are ‘enslaved, exploited, abused young people are becoming called ‘to bring the light of the Word of God and as instruments of work or pleasure, and often radicalised as ‘alarming’and one the power of grace’ to all those who suffer, and to tortured and humiliated.’He then called governments of the ‘greatest worries.’ those who care for them. to action in ‘removing the cause of this shameful In an interview with Radio 2 The Holy Father also marked last Sunday’s Day of wound... a wound unworthy in a civil society.’ Prince Charles spoke of his Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking The United Nations estimates that as many as hopes to ‘build bridges’ between by calling on governments to remove this ‘shameful 2.5 million people are living as victims of human different faiths. He also spoke of wound,’ which has no place in ‘civil society.’ trafficking at any given time. his ‘deep concern’for the suffering of Christian churches in the Middle East. station faces battle to stay on air

reinstate it on the current Digital One network as it would compromise the application. At present, the station broadcasts to nearly 500,000 regular listeners and incurs costs issue was due to be moved in of more than £470,000 a month, parliament by Stephen Timms most of which is accounted for MP on Wednesday. by staff costs and the cost of the If Premier is unsuccessful in national digital licence fee. Pope ‘hangs out’ with disabled kids getting Arqiva to change its Peter Kerridge, Premier’s mind, it will have to wait for chief executive officer, said: “It POPE Francis held a Google that is bad for us.” more than a year before a new would seem, at best, highly Hangout last week with a Pope Francis said disabled network, set to be licensed shortly illogical to replace Premier with number of disabled kids youths have a ‘treasure chest,’ by Ofcom, comes on stream. yet another pop music station.” from around the world, in an that must be shared with others. Premier has signed up with He urged supporters to sign event sponsored by Scholas “If we keep it inside, it stays both of the applicants—Listen the petition to Ofcom asking it to Ocurrentes, a charity which there inside,” he said. “When 2Digital and Sound Digital, a back Premier’s efforts to stay on brings together young we share it with others, the consortium that includes Arqiva the digital network, adding: “As people via sports, art, and treasure multiplies itself, for 5RPDQ&DWKROLFSULHVWVDQGEURWKHUVVLQFH  —meaning that whichever wins, things stand today, we will leave technology. that treasure is for others… it will return to the airwaves. Digital One on March 31. We “When you communicate, Because of sharing, you receive We must never forget that the planet belongs to However, Arqiva’s application will come back, whoever wins you give the best you have from others and it multiplies.” to Ofcom to run the second the bid, but it is a big concern.” inside and you receive the best He also told them to ‘try, all mankind and is meant for all mankind. network is on the basis that 15 from others, and that is very [and] stay calm’ when they PopePope Francis I Sign the petition at http:// stations, including Premier, have important,” he said. “When we encounter difficulty, and to ‘not -HVXLWRUJXNHVXLWRRUJXN signed up to be part of it. This www.premierchristianradio.com don’t communicate, we stay be afraid,’ because ‘we can could mean that it is unlikely to /SavePremier-petition alone with our limitations, and overcome anything.’ WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK 8 SCIAF FEATURE SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 SCIAF is helping women who have suffered through the horrors of genocide, war, HIV and poverty in Rwanda. The charity helps them to farm their land through small business loans, to buy tools and develop their crops, which not only allows them to create a better life for themselves, but also to meet other women with whom they can share their experiences with ALL PICS: SIMON MURPHY

HOPE GROWS AFTER A LIVING HELL ON EARTH In the first of a series of special reports throughout Lent, IAN DUNN reports back from Rwanda where he visited a female farming project supported by SCIAF following the genocide in the country 21 years ago. 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the foundation of The Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund

N THE morning of April 15, 1994, more than 5000 Fearful of the threat from her Hutu neighbours, she and her family “I had to overcome my anger to him, who had killed my family,” men, women and children were crowded into a small fled into the bush. she said. “I forgave him. The future generations are more important Catholic Church in Ntarama, 30km from the Rwandan “Many died, the rest of us lived on berries and insects,” she said. but I still remember what happened.” capital Kigali. That morning several hundred soldiers “I thought we would all die.” and local militia arrived at the Church and got to work. Her newborn child did. Miraculously, her other six children Help and healing They threw grenades through the windows of the Church and gunned survived, and, when the genocide was ended by the advance of Tutsi Everyone in Rwanda has stories like this, of parents and children down those who tried to escape. Hundreds more were beaten to rebel forces, she and her family where able to return to their home. killed, of murder, of guilt and forgiveness. They don’t talk about death.O In the small brick hut that served as a Sunday school they took The cost of the conflict had been great, however, with many friends Tutsi and Hutu any more, only Rwandans. At times the government the youngest children, the toddlers, by the feet and one by one and family members lost, including her father-in-law. pushes this line with a type of almost religious fervour that can be smashed their skulls against the wall. The great miracle of Rwanda is that, while I was with her, she was unsettling, but it is hard to see what better outcome there could be. Today, Ntarama Church is a memorial to the victims of the Rwandan visited by her father-in-law’s killer, whom she welcomed into her Rwanda is healing. It has received a huge amount of international Genocide, one of the darkest moments of the 20th century. During home. aid in the 21 years since the genocide, but much of that has moved those 100 days, the Tutsi—the smaller ethnic group who had been Jean Baptiste Murangira is 59 and gaunt. He wears a white shirt on. The best and the smartest help, that is healing the country, is still favoured when Rwanda was a colony—were slaughtered in their and a black hat. He and Amina Gasengagire greet each other quite here. And it’s helping Rwandas by empowering those who need it hundreds of thousands by Hutu militia and soldiers. In that small hut warmly. most—its female farmers. that served as a Sunday school at Ntarama, you can still see that He speaks about the genocide. In the town of Nynaza in Southern Rwanda, I met one such group discoloured wall of brick where child after child had their skulls “We were like animals,” he said. “I cannot explain it.” of female farmers. These are the sorts of women who will be helped smashed and lost their lives. Small fragments of their brains still He tells of coming across Amina’s father-in-law grieving outside by the SCIAF 2015 Wee Box appeal, the total of which will be cling to the brick. his home over the body of his dead wife who had already been killed. doubled by The UK Government’s Department for International Twenty-one years ago this Church was hell on earth. Yet today’s “I hit with a machete and said two people who love each other Development (DFID) match scheme this year. The Scottish Catholic Rwanda, with its good roads, its thousand rolling hills covered in should die together,” he said. “He was handicapped, he could not get International Aid Fund-supported programme that is helping them crops and its friendly people, seems like a genuinely wonderful place away.” gave them a small loan as the seed for a self help group. They decide to live. There are other stories. He talks about being part of a killing which of their members to loan to, to set up small business and help Rwanda’s people got from that dark place to where they are today squad, leading it, but then becomes vague. After the genocide, he them farm. because they received the right sort of the help, and they helped fled to the Congo and later returned to Rwanda where he was These are strong women, who have suffered and survived by the themselves. arrested and served ten years in jail. At court he confessed to killing horrors of genocide, war, HIV and poverty.They have not been defeated. two people. Part of the cultural collective reconciliation Rwanda has It has not been easy. Fortuna Mukamasabo is 47 years old and has Horror come to is that if there is a partial confession then further details can four children. Six years ago, her husband died. Just up the road from Ntarama church, I met Amina Gasengagire. remain undisclosed. “I found from a neighbour that he had died of AIDs but had never A plump, middle-aged, self-confident woman, she is a Tutsi and, “I know I have done evil,” he said. “I believe God will judge me.” told me he had it,” she said. “When I went to get tested it was positive days after the genocide began she gave birth to her seventh child. However, Amina has forgiven him. for HIV. I went home to bed and stayed there for three weeks. I WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SCIAF FEATURE 9

Amina Gasengagire (left) has forgiven Jean Baptiste Murangira (right) for killing her father-in-law during the Rwandan genocide, even inviting him into her home (above)

Being part of the one of the farming groups has helped Isabelle Nyiranimani (left) to overcome the trauma she encountered when she was diagnosed with HIV and dream of a better future. SCIAF, through its programmmes have been pivotal in bringing the likes of Thamali Cyitegetse and Martha Mungantinka (below) together to share their experiences and hopes for the future SCIAF WEE BOX, BIG CHANGE APPEAL

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I though I would die, but then he said dig him up and kill him again. But I thought there was nothing I ‘Go! Someone else will kill you anyway.” Yes, I would like to donate £ could do.” For Martha it was very different, though members of her mother’s Her older sister came to her and convinced her to carry on for the family were killed, she said: “I was not in danger, I didn’t experience it.” to help families always have enough to eat. sake of her children. She got anti-retroviral drugs and became Despite that vast difference in experience, both women struggled I enclose a cheque/postal order made payable to SCIAF involved with the self-help group. in the years of hardship that followed. I would like to pay by Mastercard / Visa / Maestro / CAF / Delta “I’ve received a number of small loans from the group,” she said. Thamali tells me ‘we had nothing.’ “For seeds and to help me grow other produce. 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And the e \RX GRQDWH7D[HV VXFK DV 9$7 DQG FRXQFLO WD[ GR QRW TXDOLI\ were arbitrary, their impact was all too real. other women here have helped me so much. I have hope now. Hope Thank you! This is shown in the stories of Thamali Cyitegetse and Martha for my children and the future.” Please return this form in the FREEPOST envelope provided to: Mungantinka. Rwanda remains a place haunted by terrible slaughter and terrible FREEPOST RTHL-HABY-CSLB SCIAF, 19 Park Circus,Glasgow G3 6BE. Thamali is 39, her father was Tutsi and her mother Hutu, but she suffering. But these women have found hope and they will not let it go. To donate online please visit www.theweebox.org or call 0141 354 5555 is tall and has the finer facial features often associated with Tutsis. to donate over the phone. Martha, 42, had a Tutsi mother, Hutu father but looks more like a I 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the The Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund. The SCO is a media ,WőV FUXFLDO WR RXU ZRUN ŵJKWLQJ SRYHUW\ WKDW ZH NHHS LQ WRXFK ZLWK RXU VXSSRUWHUV Hutu is expected to look. ,I DW DQ\ WLPH \RX SUHIHU QRW WR KHDU IURP XVSOHDVH ZULWH WR XV DW WKH DERYH For Thamali, the genocide was a time of great fear. partner in this SCIAF’s Wee Box, Big Change campaign this year DGGUHVV RU HPDLO [email protected] “Because I had a ‘Tutsi face,’ I couldn’t leave the house for fear of being killed,” she said. “Once when I did, a man made me lie on I [email protected] WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK 10 NEWS FEATURE SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 Greens’ leader gives colour to views The second in a series of interviews with Scottish political party leaders sees SCO editor LIZ LEYDON ask the Scottish Green Party leader Patrick Harvie about crucial voting issues such as assisted suicide, faith schools and marriage

EETING Patrick Harvie MSP as controversial assisted suicide legislation reached the health committee of the Scottish Parliament, it’s difficult not to let the topic dominate. Like many of the pre-general election issues we discuss, Mr Harvie—who preferredM to be interviewed in his Glasgow offices rather than the SCO offices—is passionate about his stance and engaging in his arguments. The MSP, co-convenor of the Scottish Green Party, identifies himself as an atheist secularist who respects other’s right to believe. “We have to support, respect and recognise that people come to the issue, and the issues, from very different value systems,” he said. Assisted suicide Mr Harvie is behind the controversial Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill, the member’s bill he inherited when Margo Macdonald died in April last year. On the bill’s introduction, Mr Harvie was, under Rule 9.2A of the Parliament’s Standing Orders, designated as an additional ‘member in charge’ of the bill. It is not an uncommon move, he said, but carried particular significance as Ms Macdonald’s Parkinson’s disease progressed. “She had good and bad days even before the very end,” he said of the late Independent Lothians MSP’s commitment to the legislation, which the Church emphatically opposes, before she died. “I knew that might happened when I signed up on the bill.” Mr Harvie said prior to Ms Macdonald’s first failed bill on assisted suicide in 2010, he was already interested and behind Liberal Democrat MSP Jeremy Purvis’ suicide bill at Holyrood in 2005. He does not believe legalising assisted suicide would open the floodgates in the way it has done with abortion. “In countries where assisted suicide is already legal, only a small proportion of those wishing for that option actually exercise it,” he said. Nor does he see decriminalising assisted suicide as an alternative to investing in good palliative care, or foresee it placing a burden on the elderly or the sick. “People deserve to be informed, empowered... in their own lives,” he said. “No one wants a Glasgow Catholic midwives over conscientious would also like to make civil partnerships open to Scottish Green Party Co-Convener Patrick Harvie is at odds prolonged, painful death and a small minority of objection to supervising staff involved in abortion traditional male/female couples. with the Church on certain key issues people want the opportunity to take control.” was the ‘correct’ one. PIC: RIC LANDER Even fewer will choose to exercise the right to “The alternative would have been a huge barrier Consensus politics Harvie thinks the country’s abundance of natural die, he said, but to ‘avoid extreme levels of distress, to adequate service and women’s access to it,” he said. On paper, the Green Party and Catholic voters do resources would be better managed in an I hope we will see some progress’ be it through the Other subjects Mr Harvie and the Greens are at have topics in common too, including ethical independent Scotland current bill proposal, Lord Falconer’s efforts at odds with the Catholic Church on include faith economics, welfare, nuclear weapons and climate “There was a referendum, however,” he said. Westminster or in the future. schools and same-sex marriage. change “Yes did not win. That is the result we have to He added that there is also ‘a need for better “The Greens support an integrated secular “From a moral focus, our ‘zombie economy’ is work with for the foreseeable future.” palliative care,’ which he sees as the other side of education system,” he said, reconfirming what is dead, it just doesn’t know it yet,” he said. However, he sees the changing political landscape the ‘same coin.’ often seen as the party’s secular agenda. “Children When it comes to nuclear weapons such as Trident, in Scotland and the UK, with devolution and also “But even the highest standard of palliative care have the right to a neutral education.” Mr Harvie and the Greens are in favour of unilateral with traditional party ties in decline in heartlands, is not perfect as it cannot remove every part of He argued for a child’s right to challenge and disarmament, believing any other approach is fooling as advantageous for the Greens as more of the suffering,” he added. explore, not to be restricted to one particular belief no one. electorate vote on the issues not along party lines. As for abuse of legal assisted suicide if it were systems and he seemed unable to grasp that “Weapons of mass destruction are a relic of the He also sees the need for and benefit of consensus to be normalised in our society, ‘evidence does not Catholic schools already offer this opportunity. cold war mentality,” he said. “To stockpile such politics, using the example of the Climate Change bear that out,’ he said. He says Scottish society is increasingly secular weapons, never mind to use them, is morally Act which all parties at Holyrood agreed on. What “Assisted suicide has been legal in Oregon in and there are fewer examples of high levels of indefensible. Why would we want to buy another they couldn’t agree on was ‘what do to achieve the the US for 17 years and we don’t see the ‘nightmare ‘religious practice’even where there are ‘high levels generation of such weapons?” aims,’ afterwards he said. scenario,’happening there, ” he said. “People in this of religious identity.’ He sees alignment between faith groups and his country are already making these choices with DNRs.” While the Greens were ‘against the Scottish party over climate change, an issue that SCIAF, Pope Divides The health committee's final hearing on the bill Government’s The Offensive Behaviour at Football Francis and many eco-congregations are active in. The co-convenor of the Scottish Greens entered is scheduled for February 17. and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act “The effect of religious communities mobilising the Scottish Parliament in 2003. He is a persuasive 2012,’ they recognise sectarianism. can be profound, on the issue of climate change it yet moderate face of the party’s views but he has At odds “We were against this bill from the start as it was has real potential,” he said. ties with broader secular organisations. On other life issues, Mr Harvey is also at complete designed to accentuate the them and us,” he said. Mr Harvie plans to read the Pope’s upcoming In previous meetings with Mr Harvie, he was odds with the teachings of the Catholic Church, On civil unions and, later same-sex marriage, encyclical on the environment and has no qualms quick to suggest to the SCO that the Catholic which holds life as a sacred gift from God. Mr Harvie was at the forefront of pushing for with the Holy Father intervening for the Church, and religious communities generally, had In addition to supporting the push to legalise change in Scotland, although both issues were common good. political reach and influence disproportionate to assisted suicide, Mr Harvey sees abortion as ‘normal eventually passed at UK level. “If someone who believes in a higher power, a their minority status and alleged decreasing part of the health service’to avoid ‘additional stigma.’ “Family law is a devolved issue,” he said. deity, wants to argue that our world is a gift from numbers in a secularised society, yet he has no The former sexual health and equality support “Equality for the LGBT community is something God that needs to be protected, so be it,” he said. qualms when the Greens, secularists or the LGBT worker ‘respects the reproductive rights and choices I felt strongly needed and deserved to be debated. Mr Harvie made the moral comparison of need community win a hearing or battle disproportionate of women and men.’ However, he and the Scottish It is the right thing to do. for the global abandonment of fossil fuels to the to their even smaller minority in society. Green Party ‘respect individual conscience and the “It took a very long time... decades... to get the historic abolition of slavery, economic loss to do There is no doubt than there is an overlap in right to vote differently.’ same level of recognition and full equality,” he said. the right thing. concerns of the Church and the Greens, and a need He sees the advantage of abortion being a devolved “Even now there are those in the transgendered for mutual respect, but the issues that divide remain issue, deeming ‘appropriate’ control issues such as community still campaigning.” Future vast. What we must remember, in our political a reduction in the two doctor requirement for rural His views on marriage are at odds with Church The Scottish Greens—who backed the Scottish landscape, the smaller parties increasingly hold the places such as the Scottish Islands. teaching that marriage is the union between one Government in last year’s independence referendum balance of power, power disproportionate to their He believes the High Court ruling against two man and one woman to raise a family. Mr Harvie —still support independence for Scotland and Mr share of the vote. WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER COMMENT 11 Synod: Don’t confine We need to talk about our young responses to people who people and the future of parishes ‘give the right answers’ disagreement broke out among the bishops over such issues as whether and how to allow divorced and remarried people to access the Sacraments; what outreach and welcome the Church should show to gay people and their families and what could be done to simplify the process of annulment. For some, that disagreement was a source of scandal. But not for this Pope. At the end of the synod he thanked the bishops BY RONNIE for their openness and honesty BY CATH CONVERY in expressing often conflicting opinions. He said such DOHERTY discussion was healthy. Well, ladies and gentlemen, HIS month, I had CONSULTATION is one of now it’s our turn! intended to write those words which has the In preparation for the next again about Pope same effect as a duvet it Synod of Bishops, due to take Francis and the makes us feel warm and place in Rome in October, the way in which he is cosy and comfortable. wants to hear from reaching out to people, from All big corporations like to ordinary lay people. Catholics the six million who gathered to announce changes to customer who are daily communicants Tgreet him in the Philippines to rights and opportunities ‘after and Catholics who are lapsed; the little girl, a rescued street consulting widely.’ Catholics who are happily child, who, reading a welcome For the Catholic Church the married for 50 years and to him, was overcome by emo- situation is a bit different. Catholics twice divorced; tion and ran to him for com- Consultation—let’s be Catholics old and young, rich fort. Observers, religious and frank—is not something we are and poor, practising and non-believers alike puzzle particularly used to. For doubting. And the questions are over his unique ability to reach all aware that we have a serious Andrews and Edinburgh, this African clergy. Today, we have centuries obedience was the no mere theological niceties. out to people, to touch them, to and long-standing shortage of is to take place initially with a structure of lay participation watchword, while consultation They are honest questions motivate them by reminding priests. A very serious problem. the Deans of our particular which can place much of the smelled a little bit like heresy. about how ordinary Catholics them of the things that really A long time ago, when I was a diocese. A full and thoughtful running of a parish in the hands All of that changed in the experience the Church’s matter. He cannot be labelled very young teacher, there was a consultation process lies of committees of parishioners. 1960s when the Synod of teachings on marriage and either liberal or conservative in serious shortage of teachers. At ahead. I hope that this will Where this is used to the full, a Bishops was instituted by family life. No formal the religious sense, thus con- that time, in my youthful enthu- include information from local parish can grow strong, spiritu- Blessed Paul VI. This was theological training is needed founding those who would siasm, I was astonished to see councils on imminent building ally and in every other respect. envisaged as a body of bishops to respond, rather it is attempt to analyse his abilities. that while the shortage brought programmes in certain areas. People who ‘vote with their representing the whole world necessary to have lived a A recent biography The Great out the best in some, it also A certain small parish comes feet’ are attracted to such episcopate who would be called normal life with all the Reformer written by Austen brought out the worst in others. to mind, where a new Catholic parishes. Lessons can be upon to advise messiness and Ivereigh gives details of his The young have a very clear school is about to be built in learned from that. the Pope on the struggle and background in religious life idea of right and wrong… addition to an extensive hous- And vocations? We need role issue of the day. For centuries failure and which explain, in part at least, ing estate. models for the young, priests At a more awkwardness the impact he has made, less nd our Catholic legacy? In another area, extensive who can inspire and motivate local level obedience was the of that daily than two years into his Papacy. It is one constructed new housing development has them. parish councils watchword, existence. As I said, I had planned to painstakingly against been given planning permis- emerged which while consultation Across write about this when the first barriers of adversity. For exam- sion, in the vicinity of a few days ago, I was were seen as a smelled a little bit Scotland A grass roots forum dioceses and indication of possible church ple, in Penal times, we had only Catholic church. And in reflect- clearing out a file when closures arrived in St Andrews 12 priests in Scotland, most of ing on possible closures and I came upon a copy of to enable lay like heresy. archdioceses and Edinburgh Archdiocese- them Jesuits. The early seminar- mergers of parishes, three par- a paper written by a young people to have a are putting A say in the questionnaires came to light. These two sub- ies at Loch Morar and Scalan ticular parishes come to mind. priest in response to a consul- “ jects are connected, in my had to be founded in secrecy and One, in Perthshire, has a very tation Working Together for pastoral life of the Church in online to allow people to mind at least, by the sentence concealed. Later, help came to small congregation, swelled in the Future. It is at once schol- their own area and bring their respond honestly and frankly. I ‘…For Cardinal Bergoglio, rad- Scotland in the form of priests summer by visitors. It has lasted arly and direct, and, to me, an own experience and expertise to hope the response will be ical reform was ‘a going back in from Ireland, French émigré as a parish for upwards of half a accurate analysis of the prob- the service of the community. encouraging. And please… order to go forward.”’ priests in flight from the French century with one Mass a week, lems facing the church, of the But if truth be told—and I may don’t confine responses to As Cardinal Bergoglio, Pope Revolution, and in more recent but with a church lovingly cared flaws in the then suggested ini- be shot for saying this—we have those who ‘give the right Francis went back to the teach- years again from Ireland, when for. Another, nearer home, and tiative and it outlines the way been playing at consultation for answers.’” ings of the founder of the Jesuits that country had 12 seminaries. which I have mentioned once in which we must move ahead the last half a century. The Let the questionnaire be seen in the 16th Century, St Ignatius An integral and very important before, has made a bid to stay if the Church’s immediate synods of bishops have been by those who are living an Loyola. St Ignatius sent students part of our legacy are our open by being given one Mass problems are to be effectively tightly controlled, with limited unconventional family for the priesthood to work in parishes, our churches, many of a week, the parishioners offer- tackled… and here, I quote opportunity for real debate and life—those who are not hospitals, teach children cate- them built by people who ing to pay for and undertake the from it: ‘the deepest issue often a predetermined outcome. married, whose children are not chism, to serve at tables, was worked hard for shamefully low heating, repair and maintenance underlying our present crisis is Parish councils, while working born in the traditional confine clothes, embark on journeys pay, had large families to sup- of the church by return.At pres- that we as a Church, both well in some places, have not of wedlock, those who have with very little money, so that port, who had no more than the ent it remains closed. priests and people alike, are become the universal means of experienced divorce and they had to rely on the kindness strength of their Faith with I am reminded, too, of a saying and doing nothing that shared responsibility that might separation. It is important that of others… mundane and hum- which to meet the challenge. parish I visited nearly a decade provokes or inspires our young have been envisaged when they their experience be noted and bling tasks. Cardinal Bergoglio And even now, in this shallow, ago, which I have mentioned people to give up their lives for were created. their voice be heard. set his seminarians such tasks. consumer-driven age, these before. There the people lost Jesus Christ’ …and… ‘to Yet suddenly things have This period of listening is a He also forbade smoking among parishes are, in a manner of their priest very suddenly. The arrive at integral proposals for changed. Pope Francis has once in a generation the students at the Jesuit semi- speaking, our shelter from the people themselves kept the the way ahead, we must pro- arrived and consultation is being opportunity for Catholics to nary in Buenos Aires on the storm. parish running with one weekly found and open discussion and encouraged once more. Not the share their experiences with grounds that working men in Apart from being the focus, Mass. They were without a debate. But to have open ‘safe’ consultation of the last 50 their bishops and with the that particular area could not the centre of our spiritual lives, priest upwards of two years. debate means that all sides of years where people feel Pope. Let’s not waste it! afford to smoke, so those who they are a means of honouring a debate must be repre- encouraged to say what they were pledged to serve others those who have gone before us, he history of Catholi- sented…’ think is expected of them. Rather I The pre-synod questionnaire should not have that luxury. of keeping a fast-disappearing cism in Scotland shows The paper is to me a docu- the call is for open and honest on marriage and family life is He honoured that past and, in sense of community, a meeting that there have been ment of value in our present expression of opinion. At the last available at Glasgow Arch- that, reminds us today that we place. Avoiding closure, then, is shortages of priests in the past. circumstances, the writer a Synod of Bishops the Pope diocesan website: T explicitly told the gathered www.rcag.org.uk must do so too in order to face not mere sentimentality. Today, parts of Scotland have priest who proved to be a suc- our problems and go safely into At present, we would seem availed themselves of help cess both as a spiritual leader prelates that they were not to say the future with our Catholic to be on the threshold of the from Polish priests and more and as an inspiration to the what they thought the Pope I Ronnie Convery is the legacy intact. Of course we are consultation process in St recently from Indian and young. It is dated June 2001. might want them to say. communications director for So it was that open Glasgow Archdiocese. WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK 12 MISSION MATTERS SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER MISSION MATTERS 13

BUILDING A FUTURE STACEY CAMERON from MISSION MATTERS SCOTLAND explains how the organisation is helping to bring education to challenged Zambian communities in partnership with an Argyll charity and, in turn, how it will allow children there to dream of a brighter future

HE first cuts into the parched soil Mthunzi children as they reached secondary would also develop the school within the completed in May 2015. vocational classes that St Columba’s can offer. (Left) Theresa Sinclair, Mthunzi Project board member of the Mthunzi Children’s Centre school status. vibrant life of the Church in Zambia. Sr Veronica has explained that the Teresians Fr David Connor, parish priest at St leads a sewing class. (Above left) Zambian children play with water. (Above top) Building work begins were made as 2014 came to a With no secondary schools in the area, the Although the school would welcome children will run the school for the community, and will Margaret’s, Lochgilphead—the hub of MALI’s on the Lusaka West School. (Above) An artist’s close. It had been 12 years since boys were sent to schools so distant that it of all faiths and none, the ethos would be that work towards the Zambian Government paying support—who has visited local elementary impression of the finished school building the first children were brought could take a day to reach them. Marian visited of Catholic Social Teaching: human dignity, teachers’ salaries. But more classrooms will schools in the Mthunzi area, said: “It was here to run-down farm buildings from the the schools. Some were so remote they had no community and participation, care for creation, be needed and to achieve the high standard of tragic to hear the frustration in the voices of streets of Lusaka. Now a new school was to be electricity. Science labs lay dusty and deserted dignity in work, peace and reconciliation, education dreamed of by MALI and the teachers who had worked hard to get their of St Columba’s School, we are offering a Tbuilt—not only for those children’s successors because there was no funding for equipment. and solidarity. Teresians, a mobile science lab, text books, students good grades, only for the children to future to a country where 50 per cent of the but for the children living in the challenged There was a lack of books, and often a lack of An email dialogue between the Teresian computer labs and cyber classrooms in be thrown on the scrap heap because their population is aged 16 and under but where communities of this semi-rural area on the teachers. And so a dream was hatched. Sisters and MALI was initiated. The sisters neighbouring communities are on the bucket list. families couldn’t afford to send them on a 60- education provision still doesn’t meet the UN fringe of Zambia’s capital. administrate both elementary and secondary “The hard work doesn’t stop here,” Marian mile round trip to school every day. development goals.” At the turn of this century, the fall-out from hy send the Mthunzi children schools in Malawi and Zambia. All sounded Pallister said. “It has just started.” “St Columba’s will make it possible for Part of the work done by MALI is to organise the AIDS epidemic was most harshly affecting around the country? Why leave girls good, but electronic communication can’t these kids to achieve—and they’re so bright, cultural exchange visits—funded by the Zambia’s children. Increasing numbers were from the local communities out of replace the human touch, so when MALI he Mthunzi Children’s Programme is so desperate to learn.” Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council, Big orphaned. Grandmothers and extended families theW equation? Why allow 40 bright children board members Theresa and David Sinclair not equipped for mixed-gender residency, Lottery and others—with a view to broadening were too stretched in an unforgiving economic from just one local elementary school come travelled to Zambia last year to work with the but from the beginning, a home-based ALI has been a Scottish Registered horizons of both young Zambians and young climate to feed them, clothe them—certainly to a shuddering halt in their education because children at the Mthunzi Children’s Programme, Tcare scheme has put an outreach programme Charity since 2007 and is now applying Scots. Global citizenship is an outcome of send them to school, which even at elementary the government could only offer places 30 they met with Sr Veronica Nyoni and Provincial in place that has helped keep girls at elementary to the Office of the Scottish Charity Catholic Social Teaching and these visits have level had to be paid for. miles distant? Why not build a secondary Superior Sr Beatrice Phiri at a Teresian-run school. The new school will positively MRegulator to become a Scottish Charitable been life-changing. The Mthunzi Children’s Programme was school at Mthunzi? elementary school in one of Lusaka’s poorest discriminate in favour of girls achieving their Incorporated Organisation with the name One of the first visits by a group of young set up by Fr Renato Sessana, an Italian priest That was no mean undertaking. This small districts, Misisi. full academic potential. ZamScotEd. Scots to the Mthunzi Children’s Programme who had been gifted the old farm buildings charity in Mid Argyll could not achieve such “It was an island of calm and hope,” Mr MALI will seek to provide scholarships and This will allow us to grow and to work with resulted in an exhibition of photographs called and 100 acres for a peppercorn sum. In the a dream through coffee mornings and craft Sinclair said. hopes to go into partnership with other charities Mission Matters Scotland and the Teresian ‘Red Earth to Rainbows.’ first few years, around 60 boys were rescued fairs alone. Cultural exchange visits between But that wasn’t all. It was clear that this was to provide a daily meal for students. Statistics Sisters to bring secondary education to the “At the time, we were simply providing from the streets. Scotland and Zambia raised the profile of the educationally a beacon of hope for children of show that one in eight of the world’s population hundreds of youngsters who are being left imagery to help people in Scotland understand A Comboni missionary, Fr Dario Chaves, plan and the plight of the children and brought every faith and of all physical, intellectual and goes hungry, and the informal townships that behind in Zambia,” Marian Pallister explained. what we—and the children in Zambia— introduced Scottish journalist Marian Pallister in extra revenue. The Nesta Ferguson Trust emotional abilities. Theresa and David will be St Columba’s catchment area are “The name will reflect the wider scope of hoped to achieve,” Marian Pallister said. to the project, who began a mission of her own donated a generous sum. The charity sought confirmed that the Teresians were the ideal overflowing with families who survive on one our work. When she received a photograph of the first —to provide education for these disadvantaged funding from a number of sources—and then partners for MALI. Fortunately, the Teresian meal a day. “Mission Matters Scotland aims to continue sods cut for the base of St Columba’s—Zambia’s children. Support came from parishes across Mission Matters Scotland heard of the project Sisters and Mission Matters Scotland agreed, Although traditionally girls are seen as the mission of Jesus Christ in the world to red earth churning to form a firm foundation Argyll and the Isles and from Troon as Marian and stepped in to match fund. and very quickly things began to move. more useful in the home—and to bring a bride share faith, care for people in need, and act for for Zambia’s future—she said she felt that at spread the word and then founded a charity That meant working through Lusaka Plans were brought up to date, builders price to the family—and boys’ education is justice and creation. Without education, last, thanks to Mission Matters Scotland and called the Mthunzi and Lilanda Initiative Archdiocese and becoming partners with an were contracted, and the promise is that the favoured above that of girls, MALI has carried Zambia’s poorest children have no chance of the Teresian Sisters, the children of Lusaka (MALI). After elementary education was made organisation approved of by the archdiocese first phase of the school—to be called St out research in the local community and women justice, no chance of having a voice in the West really will reach those rainbows. free in Zambia, MALI paid school fees, pocket and by Mission Matters Scotland—partners Columba’s because of the saint’s strong links are anxious not only to have their children go development of their country. money and boarding expenses for all the who would be experts in education and who to Argyll and the Isles Diocese—will be to secondary school but to take advantage of any “Together, by supporting the development I http://www.missionmattersscotland.org WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK 12 MISSION MATTERS SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER MISSION MATTERS 13

BUILDING A FUTURE STACEY CAMERON from MISSION MATTERS SCOTLAND explains how the organisation is helping to bring education to challenged Zambian communities in partnership with an Argyll charity and, in turn, how it will allow children there to dream of a brighter future

HE first cuts into the parched soil Mthunzi children as they reached secondary would also develop the school within the completed in May 2015. vocational classes that St Columba’s can offer. (Left) Theresa Sinclair, Mthunzi Project board member of the Mthunzi Children’s Centre school status. vibrant life of the Church in Zambia. Sr Veronica has explained that the Teresians Fr David Connor, parish priest at St leads a sewing class. (Above left) Zambian children play with water. (Above top) Building work begins were made as 2014 came to a With no secondary schools in the area, the Although the school would welcome children will run the school for the community, and will Margaret’s, Lochgilphead—the hub of MALI’s on the Lusaka West School. (Above) An artist’s close. It had been 12 years since boys were sent to schools so distant that it of all faiths and none, the ethos would be that work towards the Zambian Government paying support—who has visited local elementary impression of the finished school building the first children were brought could take a day to reach them. Marian visited of Catholic Social Teaching: human dignity, teachers’ salaries. But more classrooms will schools in the Mthunzi area, said: “It was here to run-down farm buildings from the the schools. Some were so remote they had no community and participation, care for creation, be needed and to achieve the high standard of tragic to hear the frustration in the voices of streets of Lusaka. Now a new school was to be electricity. Science labs lay dusty and deserted dignity in work, peace and reconciliation, education dreamed of by MALI and the teachers who had worked hard to get their of St Columba’s School, we are offering a Tbuilt—not only for those children’s successors because there was no funding for equipment. and solidarity. Teresians, a mobile science lab, text books, students good grades, only for the children to future to a country where 50 per cent of the but for the children living in the challenged There was a lack of books, and often a lack of An email dialogue between the Teresian computer labs and cyber classrooms in be thrown on the scrap heap because their population is aged 16 and under but where communities of this semi-rural area on the teachers. And so a dream was hatched. Sisters and MALI was initiated. The sisters neighbouring communities are on the bucket list. families couldn’t afford to send them on a 60- education provision still doesn’t meet the UN fringe of Zambia’s capital. administrate both elementary and secondary “The hard work doesn’t stop here,” Marian mile round trip to school every day. development goals.” At the turn of this century, the fall-out from hy send the Mthunzi children schools in Malawi and Zambia. All sounded Pallister said. “It has just started.” “St Columba’s will make it possible for Part of the work done by MALI is to organise the AIDS epidemic was most harshly affecting around the country? Why leave girls good, but electronic communication can’t these kids to achieve—and they’re so bright, cultural exchange visits—funded by the Zambia’s children. Increasing numbers were from the local communities out of replace the human touch, so when MALI he Mthunzi Children’s Programme is so desperate to learn.” Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council, Big orphaned. Grandmothers and extended families theW equation? Why allow 40 bright children board members Theresa and David Sinclair not equipped for mixed-gender residency, Lottery and others—with a view to broadening were too stretched in an unforgiving economic from just one local elementary school come travelled to Zambia last year to work with the but from the beginning, a home-based ALI has been a Scottish Registered horizons of both young Zambians and young climate to feed them, clothe them—certainly to a shuddering halt in their education because children at the Mthunzi Children’s Programme, Tcare scheme has put an outreach programme Charity since 2007 and is now applying Scots. Global citizenship is an outcome of send them to school, which even at elementary the government could only offer places 30 they met with Sr Veronica Nyoni and Provincial in place that has helped keep girls at elementary to the Office of the Scottish Charity Catholic Social Teaching and these visits have level had to be paid for. miles distant? Why not build a secondary Superior Sr Beatrice Phiri at a Teresian-run school. The new school will positively MRegulator to become a Scottish Charitable been life-changing. The Mthunzi Children’s Programme was school at Mthunzi? elementary school in one of Lusaka’s poorest discriminate in favour of girls achieving their Incorporated Organisation with the name One of the first visits by a group of young set up by Fr Renato Sessana, an Italian priest That was no mean undertaking. This small districts, Misisi. full academic potential. ZamScotEd. Scots to the Mthunzi Children’s Programme who had been gifted the old farm buildings charity in Mid Argyll could not achieve such “It was an island of calm and hope,” Mr MALI will seek to provide scholarships and This will allow us to grow and to work with resulted in an exhibition of photographs called and 100 acres for a peppercorn sum. In the a dream through coffee mornings and craft Sinclair said. hopes to go into partnership with other charities Mission Matters Scotland and the Teresian ‘Red Earth to Rainbows.’ first few years, around 60 boys were rescued fairs alone. Cultural exchange visits between But that wasn’t all. It was clear that this was to provide a daily meal for students. Statistics Sisters to bring secondary education to the “At the time, we were simply providing from the streets. Scotland and Zambia raised the profile of the educationally a beacon of hope for children of show that one in eight of the world’s population hundreds of youngsters who are being left imagery to help people in Scotland understand A Comboni missionary, Fr Dario Chaves, plan and the plight of the children and brought every faith and of all physical, intellectual and goes hungry, and the informal townships that behind in Zambia,” Marian Pallister explained. what we—and the children in Zambia— introduced Scottish journalist Marian Pallister in extra revenue. The Nesta Ferguson Trust emotional abilities. Theresa and David will be St Columba’s catchment area are “The name will reflect the wider scope of hoped to achieve,” Marian Pallister said. to the project, who began a mission of her own donated a generous sum. The charity sought confirmed that the Teresians were the ideal overflowing with families who survive on one our work. When she received a photograph of the first —to provide education for these disadvantaged funding from a number of sources—and then partners for MALI. Fortunately, the Teresian meal a day. “Mission Matters Scotland aims to continue sods cut for the base of St Columba’s—Zambia’s children. Support came from parishes across Mission Matters Scotland heard of the project Sisters and Mission Matters Scotland agreed, Although traditionally girls are seen as the mission of Jesus Christ in the world to red earth churning to form a firm foundation Argyll and the Isles and from Troon as Marian and stepped in to match fund. and very quickly things began to move. more useful in the home—and to bring a bride share faith, care for people in need, and act for for Zambia’s future—she said she felt that at spread the word and then founded a charity That meant working through Lusaka Plans were brought up to date, builders price to the family—and boys’ education is justice and creation. Without education, last, thanks to Mission Matters Scotland and called the Mthunzi and Lilanda Initiative Archdiocese and becoming partners with an were contracted, and the promise is that the favoured above that of girls, MALI has carried Zambia’s poorest children have no chance of the Teresian Sisters, the children of Lusaka (MALI). After elementary education was made organisation approved of by the archdiocese first phase of the school—to be called St out research in the local community and women justice, no chance of having a voice in the West really will reach those rainbows. free in Zambia, MALI paid school fees, pocket and by Mission Matters Scotland—partners Columba’s because of the saint’s strong links are anxious not only to have their children go development of their country. money and boarding expenses for all the who would be experts in education and who to Argyll and the Isles Diocese—will be to secondary school but to take advantage of any “Together, by supporting the development I http://www.missionmattersscotland.org WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK 14 FR ROLHEISER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 Daydream believer: Good or bad escape?

various scenes of retaliation over and over again in your mind. Or an emo- tional or sexual obsession has you fan- tasising about various kinds of consummation. The other kind of daydream we escape into is not so much triggered by the hurts and obsessions of the present moment but takes its root in something deeper, something classically expressed by St Augustine in the opening lines of his Confessions (a hermeneutical key for his life and our own): You have made us for yourself Lord and our BY FR RONALD hearts are restless until they rest in you. Simply put, we are over-charged for ROLHEISER our lives, given infinite spirits and infi- nite appetites and put into this world GOOD part of our lives wherein everything is finite. That’s a are taken up with day- formula for chronic dissatisfaction. dreams, though few of us What is our escape? Daydreams. admit that and even fewer However these second kind of day- of us would own-up to dreams are somewhat different from the contents of those fantasies. We are the first. They aren’t so much focused ashamed to admit how much we escape on the immediate angers and tempta- intoA fantasy and we are even more tions in our lives but rather are the ashamed to reveal the content of those habitual imaginary lives that we have fantasies. But, whether we admit it or interiorly fashioned for ourselves, fan- the Kingdom of God. world within which we are not much within our daydreams and given our not, we’re all pathological daydream- tasy lives that we play over and over With that being said, we still need to the centre of anything. And there’s near-incurable propensity to escape ers; except this isn’t necessarily a again in our minds the way we might ask ourselves: How good or bad is it to more: Etty Hillesum, reflecting on her into fantasy, we need to be patient with pathology. Our hearts and minds, play and replay a favourite film. But escape into daydreams? own experience, suggests another neg- ourselves. Henri Nouwen suggests that chronically frustrated by the limits of there is something interesting and At one level, daydreams are not just ative consequence from habitually the struggle to turn our fantasies into our lives, naturally seek solace in day- important to note here. In these day- harmless but can be a positive form of escaping into daydreams. She affirms prayer is one of the great congenital dreaming. It’s an almost irresistible dreams we are never petty or small, relaxation and a way to steady us inside that because we make ourselves the struggles within our spiritual lives. temptation. Indeed the more sensitive rather we are always noble and grand, the frustrations of our lives. Sitting center of the universe inside our day- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin shares in his you are, perhaps the stronger will be the the hero or the heroine, generous, big- back in an easy chair and sinking into a dreams we often end up not being able journals that when he was young he propensity to escape into daydreams. hearted, immune from faults, drawing daydream can be little different than sit- to give anything or anybody the simple struggled a lot with fantasy but, as he Sensitivity triggers restlessness and perfect respect, and making perfect ting back and turning on your favourite gaze of admiration. grew older, he was able more and more restlessness doesn’t easily find quiet love. In these daydreams we, in fact, piece of music. It can be an escape that Rather, in her strong words, in our to stand in the present moment without inside ordinary life. Hence, the escape intuit the vision of Isaiah where he fore- takes the edge off of the frustrations daydreams we take in what we should the need to escape into daydreams. into daydreams. sees a perfect world, the lamb the lion within your life. be admiring and, instead, masturbate That is the task we need to set before And what about the contents of those lying down together, the sick being But there’s a potential downside to with it. For this reason, among others, ourselves. daydreams? healed, the hungry being fed, all rest- this: Since in our daydreams we are daydreams help block us from mind- We tend to have two kinds of day- lessness being brought to calm, and always the hero or the heroine and the fulness, from being in the present I Fr Ronald Rolheiser is a priest and dreams: The first kind are triggered God, himself, drying away every tear. centre of attention and admiration, our moment. When we are all wrapped-up member of the Missionary Oblates of more by the immediate hurts and temp- Isaiah too fantasised about perfect con- daydreams can easily stoke our natural in fantasy it’s hard to see what’s in front Mary Immaculate. He is president of tations within our lives; for example, a summation. His fantasy was a narcissism. Since we are the centre of of us. the Oblate School of Theology in San lingering hurt or anger has you fanta- prophecy. In our earthy fantasies we everything in our daydreams we can So where should we go with all of Antonio, Texas. Visit his website at sising about revenge and you play out might not prophesise but we do intuit easily become over-frustrated with a this? Given both the good and bad www.ronrolheiser.com

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remembers Fr Purnell he added about the Review OBITUARY as someone who ‘took Jesuit. “Not overly people through the aggressive or loud and FR PATRICK PURNELL threshold of faith would take the back 1923-2015 learning.’ seat, but he was a wee MARY BERGIN & KEVIN keyboard and, of course, tap tonight brought forth both “I remember the dynamo. He actually CONNEFF AND GRÁINNE dancing thrown in for good tradition and awe of the skills A JESUIT priest who made a opposition,” he said. became know as a BRADY & TINA JORDAN measure. It was a good start to on display. There may have significant contribution to “Because the world expert in REES what would be a lively night in been a few slips when ballads religious education in Catechism was ‘good Catechetics.” CELTIC CONNECTIONS the Piping Centre’s auditorium. were being sung but, in true Motherwell Diocese and enough.’ The Fr Purnell was also THE NATIONAL PIPING CENTRE The cabaret style seating’s showmanship, Kevin kept helped introduce Second resistance was that ‘it remembered by fellow January 30 2015 only exception to The Old Fruit playing until, as he said, found Vatican Council changes has will never work; it’s Jesuit Fr Jim Christie market was that there were the words again. died at the age of 91. not the way to do who said he was a GRÁINNE Brady and her candles on the table were real Then a roar came from the Fr Patrick Purnell, a Jesuit for things, what we do is ‘very impressive companions of Tina Jordan and the snug bar was a more back of the hall saying ‘a song 73 years, died in the order’s fine, we don’t need to person,’ and a leading Rees and their further travelled genteel affair due to the from John’ and the guitarist community house in Boscombe, change things.’ It was member of the team friend from Donegal Paul restricted capacity. boldly stepped into singing his Bournemouth, on February 2. a struggle. that devised a new set McClure; started the night in Come the second half, the own song, The Arabic, done in Born in Cardiff in 1923, Fr “He had a perseverance and of Catechetical books for schools fine form. They brought their crowd were more than tribute to his great grandfather Purnell joined the Society of incredible knowledge about alongside Fr Tom McGurk. own blend of home grown delighted that the two main who was aboard the White Star Jesus in 1941 at the age of 17 what he was doing for basically Fr Purnell went on to become tunes spun from their performers were joined by a liner boat when it was sunk and and was ordained in 1955, a community that hadn’t been national advisor for religious experiences of starting their third, John Doyle on acoustic lived to tell the tale. moving to Motherwell Diocese prepared for the changes that education for the bishops of musical careers on the 12 stringed guitar; a perfect All these elements of history, in the mid-60s. came with the Second Vatican England and Wales. colourful Glasgow music accompaniment to the tin folk and legend along with the Tasked by Bishop Francis Council.” In 1995 he became director to circuit and from Ireland. This whistle and bodhran. main performance on tin Thompson to introduce new Fr Kane said Fr Purnell the Novices and he retired in included stories of how their The performance given was a whistle of Mary Bergin, helped catechetics after the Second managed to bring in the 2007. tunes were named, Cooking 6/4 showcase of what range and make this a most memorable Vatican council, Fr Purnell met Second Vatican Council’s new A keen poet, Fr Purnell because Tina came up with it melodious sounds can come Celtic Connections night. And with much opposition. language of affirmation of produced many works for both when she was cooking, to from such humble instruments no one was tempted to sneak Fr Robert Kane, currently goodness—‘less condemnatory print and radio and will be Postman Pat as her Dad’s a as the bodhran and tin whistle, out early for fear of missing parish priest at St Teresa’s in and more grace than sin,’ he remember most in Scotland for postman. The lively fiddle often overshadowed when the sing-along at the end. Newarthill, was based in the said. helping Catholics through a mixed with the bodhran, playing in larger groups, CHRISTINE GLEN diocese at the time and “He was a gentle wee soul,” period of great change. WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER REFLECTION 15 EWTN PROGRAMMES

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15 3.30PM 9AM LIVE HOLY MASS WITH THE LIVE EUCHARISTIC BLESSING AND IMPOSITION OF CONCELEBRATION WITH THE THE ASHES NEW CARDINALS 5.30PM 11AM EWTN NEWS NIGHTLY WITH THE ANGELUS WITH POPE COLLEEN CARROLL CAMPBELL FRANCIS 9PM 1PM THE FAITHFUL TRAVELLER IN LIVE MASS FROM EWTN THE HOLY LAND 4PM THURSDAY FEBRUARY 19 CATHOLICISM 1PM 8PM LIVE DAILY MASS THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL 8PM 9PM EWTN LIVE SUNDAY NIGHT PRIME 9PM 10PM THE FAITHFUL TRAVELLER IN VATICANO THE HOLY LAND MONDAY FEBRUARY 16 FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20 1PM 1PM LIVE DAILY MASS LIVE DAILY MASS 9PM 8PM THE FAITHFUL TRAVELLER IN THE WORLD OVER LIVE THE HOLY LAND 9PM 10PM THE FAITHFUL TRAVELLER IN VOCATION BOOM THE HOLY LAND TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17 9.30PM 1PM LIFE ON THE ROCK LIVE DAILY MASS SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21 5.30PM 1PM EWTN NEWS NIGHTLY WITH LIVE DAILY MASS An awareness of God’s Presence COLLEEN CARROLL CAMPBELL 5.30PM 9PM EWTN NEWS NIGHTLY WITH THE FAITHFUL TRAVELLER IN COLLEEN CARROLL CAMPBELL means we are never truly alone THE HOLY LAND 7PM WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 18 CHRISTIANS IN TURKEY 1PM 9PM The latest article on our series on spirituality, ABBOT MARK CAIRA LIVE DAILY MASS EWTN THEOLOGY ROUNDTABLE from NUNRAW ABBEY says that God watches and supports us

HE awareness of God’s presence about ourselves, which happens from time to LAY READERS’ GUIDE is a dimension of life that the A SPIRITUAL time, we are inclined to see God as a kind of monastic life is meant to promote. policeman waiting for a chance to catch us We are never really alone. Solitude REFLECTION out and punish us. That’s a feeling we should doesn't make us lonely. It can, put in the rubbish bin where it belongs. No however, deepen our relationship with God. matter how far we wander off on our own, God SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15 When we enter into solitude, we go into a is not going to dump us. In times like these, we Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46. Response: You are Ttraining ground where we can get to know forget the meaning of the parable of the prodigal my refuge, O Lord; you fill me with the joy of ourselves and God better. God is the love son. We see ourselves as the prodigal son. salvation. 1 Corinthians 10:3-11:1. Mark 1:40-45. that underlies all our other loves. He purifies However,there are good scripture commentators us if we allow him and he makes good all who describe this parable as more a story of our other loves as well. a prodigal Father. God is the One who has MONDAY How is God present to us? Our usual squandered His riches, but on us—not on Genesis 4:1-15, 25. Response: Pay your understanding of that is in our times of quiet Himself! We lose the argument on every side sacrifice of thanksgiving to God. Mark 8:11-13. prayer, but there is a wider description. The comes to us from outside of us, from the when we try to dismiss ourselves as useless Liturgical Document produced at the Second created around us. He is also present within or not worth God’s patience or desire to have Vatican Council says that Christ is always us inside our very being. He is closer to us than us back home. The point about God is that TUESDAY present in the Church especially in its we are to ourselves, as St Augustine tells us. He always puts Himself out for us. God is Feast of the Seven Holy Founders of the Liturgical actions. He is present in the Mass, On the one hand, this is a very encouraging only being true to his nature. Servite Order. Genesis 6:5-8;7:1-5, 10, not only in the minister but especially in the teaching of the Church, because it means God our Father is not unfeeling. In some Response: The Lord will bless His people Eucharistic bread and wine. He is present by that God is always there for us. When we are periods of the Church’s history, God’s with peace. Mark 8:14-21 his power in the sacrament so that, when a at one with ourselves and not overtired or immutability was stressed perhaps in order man Baptises, it is really Christ who is stressed, what we do throughout our day can to emphasis the greatness of God—God was Baptising. He is there in his word: He be done in a spirit of prayer. Even when we other. God had to be seen to be different and ASH WEDNESDAY Himself speaks when the scriptures are read. are involved in some complicated work, somewhat remote from us. It was implied Joel 2:12-18. Response: Have mercy on us Christ is present, too, when the Church prays without consciously sensing God’s presence, that Christ’s coming on earth only helped to for we have sinned. 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2. or sings, for he promised:” Where two or we may have some general awareness in a soften the distance of the Father from us. Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18. three are gathered in my name, there am I in job well done that God was not very far However, Scriptures tells us that ‘God is the midst of them.” (Mt 18:20). away. That is genuine prayer! love’and that he loved us before we ourselves This passage describes the presence of our On the other hand, because God is always could learn to love in return. God, therefore, THURSDAY Lord in the official prayer of the Church. But present in whatever we do, this calls for a could not have been reluctant to come to be Deuteronomy 30:15-20. Response: Happy the teaching of the Gospels and the Church self-assessment regarding how we should be with us. He, the Father, took the trouble to the man who has placed his trust in the Lord. go further than that. They show that God is living. Our vocation as Christians calls us to give us his only Son in the flesh to give us Luke 9:22-25 really and truly present in all of our human live our lives in God and for the benefit of news that the Kingdom of God was at hand, activities, whether we do them alone or with others. If we profess to be good disciples of was present among us. That is hardly the others. God is in the human mix. Christ who teaches that we should live for work of a remote or distant God. FRIDAY This is a wonderful realisation because it others and die to our sins and yet don’t do When Christ died and rose again, he Isaiah 58:1-9a. Response: A humbled, means that God is never far away from any that in practice, we are really living a lie. We rejoined His Father in Heaven. This divine contrite heart, O God, you will not spurn. of us. He is there, not in an artificial manner, may not always live up to our ideals but we Son of God has now become the human but Matthew 9:14-15 where we may think we have to put God into have to be prepared to rise up from our risen Jesus and has brought our weak but what we are doing; God is already there failures and begin again. It’s this rising up now glorious humanity into the heart of God. from the beginning. God created the world. from the gutter that we’ve fallen into that is This is a good image of God for us to SATURDAY In a sense, therefore, He was outside it. But the stuff of sainthood. We cannot be ourselves have. It offers us everything we need to keep Isaiah 58:9b-14. Response: Show me, Lord, He also works from inside His creation, from or save ourselves on our own. The fact that us travelling God-ward as we journey on in your way so that I may walk in your truth. Luke within its very structure. In much the same God is always there for us is therefore our daily lives to the fullness of that Kingdom 5:27-32. way, God is present to us individually. He encouraging. However, when we feel bad in Heaven. WWW.SCONEWS.CO.UK 16 THAT’S LIFE SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 Are we being led down a dangerous path? THAT’S LIFE looks at the vote in favour of producing three-person-embryos and the future implications they may have

Mostly I find tradesmen reliable and trustworthy. Future generations were hailed as winners. The I make them nice cuppa, we have a chat and the success of the controversial technique is so far job gets done for a fair rate. Unnerved by my futile from certain that we are a long way off thinking in attempts to stem the torrents I made the fatal error those terms. And what of the losers? What happens of not asking the price before the swindling when the children born have defects greater than By Mary chancer opened his bag of tricks. I must be getting the ones the scientists have eliminated? These children too trusting in my dotage. would be at risk throughout their lives, particularly McGinty Two minutes later and the tap was fixed. So, it girls since the mitochondrial link is passed through appeared, was the non-negotiable hourly call-out the mother. KNOW my own worth. I am not sure that it rate of £101. That was including the two quid for the One ethicist warned that even if the technology amounts to all that much. I am just not in the washer. Reduced to a monosyllabic shell of myself helps some parents avoid mitochondrial disorders same league as the plumber who came to all I could do was treat him to a Scary Mary glower. ‘there is an equal or arguably greater chance that it replace a washer on the kitchen tap the other That’s a look that has long since stopped having will tragically produce very ill or deceased babies.’ day. He knew his worth and then some. I one iota of effect on my family, but it did the trick The parents of Lorenzo Odone (left)—the boy know all you DIYers are shaking your heads, and he backed down to the tune of half price. passed by the House of Lords it will be well on the whose suffering and whose parents’ heroic efforts wondering why I couldn’t change it myself. There There were serious questions raised last week way to becoming law.The UK will be at the forefront led to Lorenzo’s Oil—are both now dead so we do wasI even one languishing in the cupboard under about the worth of human life. Against all the ethical of science. No wonder there was whooping and not know how they would have reacted. Lorenzo’s the sink. But what, only the day before, was an concerns and the lack of scientific evidence MPs hollering in the House. Who could fail to give half-sister Christina Odone spoke of her concerns insignificant kitchen tap was now impersonating passed a vote in favour of three-person embryos. anything but a raucous welcome to such innovative saying: “Human beings are more than their bones… the Niagara Falls on a rainy day. It was hailed as a ground-breaking advance. If technology? Anyone with a modicum of respect more than their genes.” She and her parents knew for the worth of the two embryos so callously used this through their Faith, but also through Lorenzo. and discarded, that’s who. Or for the disabled who What she felt in Lorenzo’s presence showed her will be further marginalised as scientists aggressively that ‘the frail, disabled and unhealthy merit the pursue the eradication of all that is frail and vulnerable. same care and cherishing as the able-bodied and CROSSWORD Gordius No 181 The scientific community—so keen to push the healthy.’ boundaries—was immediately available to applaud Bishop John Keenan of Paisley raised a very the vote. A new world awaits. Also on hand were interesting point when he noted how incongruous 123 4 5 6 7 some of the families affected by mitochondrial it is that while we are a society that ‘increasingly defects. The marriage of the weighty opinion of the favours and supports natural and environmentally scientists and the moving testimony of the families friendly products and services,’ we are willing to 89 will surely raise the support of the public from the allow the genetic modification of human beings. mere 18 per cent at which it stood before the vote. Our worth is greater than our physical selves. Of course, it is a cynically stage-managed process Neither we, nor any human, can judge our value. It designed to manipulate public opinion. is not in what we can achieve or contribute. It is 10 11 12 First entry out the hat on FRI not in our intelligence or our abilities. The parents 13 14 FEB 20 will be the winner he plight of the most severely affected children who have put their trust in this technology and the and their parents make good copy but hard children who may be born as a result are merely cases make bad law. another experiment on the road to cloning. 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DEATHS HAMILL, Anne McCANN MacDOUGALL 4th Anniversary 46th Anniversary of our 11th Anniversary Please remember in your beloved dad, Richard Precious memories of Roder- MacDONALD prayers, Anne, who died Feb- McCann, who died February ick Joseph, a very much loved Peacefully on January 26, ruary 13, 2011. 17, 1969, also 36th Anniver- father and gen, who died on 2015, Joan, (Seonag) aged 75 St Anne, St Camillus and St sary of our dear mum, Mary February 16, 2004. Also in years. Beloved wife of Ernie, Pio, pray for her. McCann, who died February memory of my dear sister, loving mum of Mairi and Jesus I trust in You. 14, 1979 and also our beloved devoted nan of Darren and Mairi, who died on March 6, May she rest in peace. sister, Marie, who died 1976, aged 6, and great-aunt, Kerri. Inserted by husband Frank, December 22, 2007. May God grant her eternal rest. Dolina, who died February 14, family and friends. For their love, devotion and 2000 and uncle, Alexander, example we will never forget MacFARLANE who died January 14, 1988. RODGERS CZARNECKI them. R.I.P. In loving memory of our In loving memory of Philip, a 19th Anniversary Inserted by the family. Beautiful memories treasured beloved aunt, Margaret, who dear husband and dad, who In loving memory of my dear St Anthony, pray for them. forever. died January 4, 2015. died on December 11, 2001, husband, Karol, died February Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for Tous you were someone special, and whose birthday occurs on 17, 1996. McCONNACHIE them. Someone good and true, February 18. Memories are like threads of In loving memory of our dear Inserted by Mary Margaret You will never be forgotten, Our hearts are full of gold, father, Thomas McConnachie, and Andrew Roderick. Because we thought the world memories, They never tarnish or grow who died February 16, 1981, of you. With pride we speak your old, also our dear mother, Teresa, Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for name, Today, tomorrow, my whole life died April 25, 1990. McFADDEN her. Though life goes on without through, Eternal rest grant unto them, In memory of my dear and lov- From Irene, Jim and Colin. you, I will always love and remem- O Lord, ing husband, John (Iain), of It will never be the same, ber you. LUNDIE And let perpetual light shine Northbay, Barra and Glasgow, WOOD, Marion But with love and memories in Eternal rest grant unto him, O In loving memory of my dar- upon them, who died February 16, 1991. Peacefully at Ayr Hospital, on our hearts, Lord, ling husband, dad and papa, May they rest in peace. Inserted by Jean. January 29, 2015, Marion You will walk with us forever. And let perpetual light shine Jim, who passed away three Amen. Ponsonby, aged 80 years, of From Tricia and Martin. upon him, years ago today, February 16, Inserted by the family. McGACHEY Holmston Road, Ayr. Beloved May he rest in peace. Amen. 2012. Also our son, Jim, who 20th Anniversary wife of the late Peter Murray Quietly remembered every died July 20, 1984. In loving memory of Terry, Wood, much loved mother of RELIGIOUS MEMORIAM day. Sometimes when I am first beloved husband and father, Alan, Alison and Jane and a Anne. awake who died February 13, 1995. dear gran. Fr. RICHARD DUNNE I think that you’re still here, Forever in our thoughts and 12th Anniversary We think of you with love Fortified by the Rites of the And for a fleeting moment prayers. Former P.P. of St Gabriel’s, today, Holy Catholic Church. R.I.P. The clouds disappear, Inserted by Mary, Fr Francis, Merrylee, died February 17, But that is nothing new, For you brought endless sun- Philip, Leila, James, Yvonne 2003. We thought about you yester- shine and David. BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE May he rest in peace. day, And the day before that too, Until you went away, St Gabriel, pray for him. And now I miss you desperately BARR We will think of you tomorrow, McGLINCHEY As we will our whole lives Each minute of the day. 33rd Anniversary Remembering my best friend You would not like to see me and much loved wife, Audrey, MEMORIAM through, Please pray for the repose of For the day we fail to think of sad McDONALD the souls of a dearly loved whose birthday occurs on Treasured memories of my you, So what I try to do, brother, Flt. Lt. Tony February 15. Is live a bright and happy life dear husband, Ronnie, father, Is the day we’ll be with you. McGlinchey, R.A.F. died Feb- I keep you close within my In memory of you. grandad and great-grandad, Our Lady of Czestochowska, ruary 12, 1982, also my dear heart, For I will always miss you died February 11, 2007, also pray for him. mum, Ann Campbell And there you will remain, And it’s dreadful being apart, beloved son William, died From Tom, Anna, Michael, McGlinchey, died May 26, To walk with me throughout I haven’t really lost you December 14, 2009. Megan and Kieran. my life, You’re still here in my heart. It does not take a special day, 1969, and my dear dad, Until we meet again. Your loving wife Jean. For us to think of you, Thomas McGlinchey, died CZARNECKI Your ever loving husband We will always love you dad. Each Mass we hear, September 29, 1974. Precious memories of my dear Donald, Eochdar, South Uist. Daughter Jane, granddaugh- Each prayer we say, Our Lady of Lourdes and St uncle Karol, who died Febru- ters Jane, Kim and Cara and Are offered up for you. Anthony, pray for them. ary 17, 1996. CUTHBERTSON (née MacLeod) great-grandson Jayden St Roch and St Francis watch Inserted by Elizabeth and fam- Your name I often mention, Birthday remembrance on James. x over him. ily, Irvine; Ann and family, February 12 of my dear BROWN My thoughts are with you still, Your loving wife Bessie, Linwood. Precious memories of my dar- godmother, Mary, of Toronto You have never been forgot- mother and family. ling husband, Pat Brown, and and formerly of Barra. R.I.P. ten, beloved dad of Simon and McGUIGAN St Francis, pray for her. And uncle, you never will. MacDONALD Clare, who left us on February 5th Anniversary Inserted by Marie St. Anthony, pray for him. In loving memory of our par- Treasured memories of my 18, 2014. ents and grandparents, Mar- MacNeil/Lawrie, 76 Blarmhor Beatrice and boys. dear husband, William (Bill), a Will love you forever. garet, died February 18, 1996, Road, Caol, Fort William. loving father and grandad, and Michael, died April 4, 1965. (siconisossis) DONNELLY passed away on February 19, CONNOLLY In loving memory of Annie No longer in our lives to share, 2010. 7th Anniversary Donnelly (Tonner), who died But in our hearts you are Missed in the morning of In loving memory of our February 16, 1997. always there. every day, beloved mother and nana, Eternal rest grant unto her, O Our Lady of the Isles, pray for Missed in the evening as light Sarah Ellen, who died on Feb- Lord, them. fades away, ruary 14, 2008. Remembering And let perpetual light shine Clachan, Ormiclate, South Uist. LYNCH Missed for a thousand little also our dearest father, upon her, James, who died on July 4, In loving memory of my dear things, May she rest in peace. MacDONALD 1985 and our dear brother, wife, Renee, mother, grand- Amen. 13th Anniversary of John, Gar- Around every corner a mem- John, who died on July 30, mother, great-grandmother, rynamonie, who died February ory clings. 1963. who died on February 7, 2005. 23, 2002, also his loving wife, In our hearts you are always They are sadly missed in GARDNER (Whifflet) Fold her O Jesus in Thine arms, Marykate, who died February In loving memory of my dear there, every way, And let her henceforth be, 12, 1990. husband, Pat, who died Feb- Loved and remembered in Remembered in prayer every A messenger of love between, Our Lady, Star of the Sea, ruary 10, 2009. every prayer. LOGAN day. Our human hearts and Thee. pray for them. No matter how life changes, Our Lady of Lourdes and St Remembering with love my Sacred Heart of Jesus, have Sadly missed by husband Inserted by Julia, Iain and No matter what we do, Teresa, pray for him. husband, Tommy, who died mercy on them. James and family. family, Glasgow. April 27, 2013, and whose A special place within our Inserted by his loving wife Inserted by their loving family. Patricia and family. 80th birthday occurs on hearts, McCAHILL MacDOUGALL February 15, 2015. To Place an Is always kept for you. 16th Anniversary Please pray for the repose of One of the best this world Precious memories never In loving memory of John, a the soul of Flora K. Mac- MacINNES could hold, Intimation contact grow old Pat, great dad, husband and Dougall, who died on Febru- 10th Anniversary God’s gift to me was Tommy. Like autumn leaves they turn grandfather, who died Febru- ary 15, 2000. In loving memory of my dear Sacred Heart of Jesus, have Patricia to gold. ary 15, 1999. Sacred Heart of Jesus, grant husband, Angus Edward mercy on him. Sadly missed by his wife You will remain in our hearts her eternal rest. MacInnes, who died February Loving wife Sally. 0141 241 6106 Eileen and family, Shawhead, forever and your memory Please pray also for IAIN 13, 2005. Treasured memories. Coatbridge, daughter Coleen enriches our lives. McFADDEN, who died on Eternal rest. John, Lorraine, Jonathan and and son-in-law Paul in Cork, Inserted by his loving wife February 16, 1991. Inserted by his loving wife Julianna. [email protected] Ireland. Rena and all the family. St Joseph, pray for him. Mary, Inverness. FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS 19 FAMILYANNOUNCEMENTS

McKENNA, Anabel MORGAN O’KANE WATSON MacNEIL O ST. MARTHA, I resort to In loving memory of Anabel, Twenty Eighth Anniversary Please pray for the repose of 33rd Anniversary The family of the late Morag, thee and to thy petition and who died on February 8, 2014. Of your charity, pray for the the souls of my dear mother, In loving memory of my dear who passed away on January faith. I offer up to thee this Every day in some small way, repose of the soul of our dear Cecelia Trearty, died February aunt, Sadie, who died 9th, would like to thank most light which I shall burn every mother, Grace, formerly 16, 1968, my father Richard, sincerely Fr John Paul of Tuesday for nine Tuesdays. Memories of you come our February 10, 1982. way, Uršulė Vosilius, who passed died April 16, 1968, also my Barra for the amazing Gaelic Comfort me in all my difficul- St Anne, pray for her. Though absent you are ever from this world on Thursday, sisters and brothers, Margaret Mass and Mgr Cunningham of ties through the great favour near, the twelfth day of February, Walker, died January 7, 1984, Love Kathleen. St Thomas’ parish thou didst enjoy when Our Still loved and ever dear. nineteen hundred and eighty- Sheila Power, died January Neilston. Also thanks to Dea- Saviour lodged in thy Inserted by Michael, Joseph seven, shortly after dawn. 26, 2006, Richard, died WRIGHT cons Martin Matheson and house…I beseech thee to and Patricia. Fortified by the rites of the November 15, 2006, Brother 19th Anniversary Brian MacKenzie for spiritual have pity in regard to the Holy Roman Catholic Church. John SDB, died in Cape Town Remembering with love and comfort. Thanks to the staff of favour I ask… I intercede for my family that we may always McKNIGHT O gentlest Jesus, have mercy February 15, 2009. affection our dear sister, sis- the Acute Medical Unit RAH, In loving memory of our dear on the soul of Thy servant St John Bosco, pray for them. relatives, friends and neigh- be provided for in our neces- ter-in-law and aunt, Chrissie, sities. I ask thee, St Martha, dad, James, died February 15, Grace (Ursule), bring her to Ella and family. bours both in South Uist and who died February 7, 1996. to overcome the dragon which 1982, and also our mum, the bright home of Heaven, Neilston for cards, floral trib- Divine Mercy, pray for her. Thou didst cast at thy feet. Ellen, who died April 6, 2013. where we trust, Thou and Thy SMITH ute, support and kindness Blessed Mother have woven 36th Anniversary Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for shown at this sad time. One Our Father, three Hail Forever in our thoughts and Mary’s and a lighted candle prayers. for her a crown of unfading In loving memory of my dear her. Thanks also to the Hall Com- bliss. Amen. mother, Jane, who died Febru- Inserted by Effie, Donald John mittee of St Thomas’ for all every Tuesday and the above Inserted by all the family. prayer made known with the Ausros Vartu Marija – ary 15, 1979. and families. their hard work on the day of Mater Misericordia Sacred Heart of Jesus, grant the funeral and MacPhee’s for intention of spreading devo- MacLEAN Our Lady of the Dawn Gate, her eternal rest. excellent catering. A final tion to St Martha. 37th Anniversary Vilnius, Inserted by her son Joseph thanks to all who took part in In loving memory of my dear ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Sv. Kazimieras, pray for and family, Flat 8, 6A Mains the Gaelic Requiem Mass, NOVENA PRAYER TO ST mother, Mary, who died Ursule. Avenue, Glasgow, G46 6QY. BUCHANAN readers,singers (Sineag JUDE February 12, 1978. May the Sacred Heart of musu mylima motinele. The family of the late Katie MacIntyre and Govan Gaelic Fois shiorruidh thoir dhi Jesus be praised, adored, glo- Requiescat in pace. Mary Buchanan of 1 Ford Choir), musician Niall Thighearna, Her deeply loving daughters MacDonald and Moyra the rified and loved throughout the Terrace, Benbecula, would like Agus solus nach dibir and son, May, Margaret and Organist. world now and forever more. to sincerely thank relatives, dearrsadh orra. George. Mum had the perfect last day Sacred Heart of Jesus have Our Lady of Perpetual friends and neighbours for the and the most amazing ceilidh mercy on us. St Jude helper of Succour, pray for her. MULLEN kindness shown to them send off. the hopeless, pray for us. St St Anthony, pray for her. Of your charity, please pray following their sad loss. Our Jude, great miracle worker, Inserted by Elma and Duncan. for the repose of the soul of grateful thanks to all medical pray for us. Say nine times daily. our dear father, Archibald professionals, dedicated THANKSGIVING Mullen, died February 13, carers and social work dept, PRAYER TO THE HOLY 1974, also our brother, especially Debbie Wooton. A DEAR HEART OF JESUS Joseph, died February 18, Dear Heart of Jesus in the SPIRIT special thanks to all at 1998. R.I.P. TRAINER past I have asked you for Holy Spirit, you who solve all In our hearts they will always 14th Anniversary of our mum T.A.C.U.N. for the last 3 years many favours, this time I ask problems, light all roads, so stay, and dad, May and Tommy of loving care and companion- you for this special one (men- that I can attain my goal; You who gave me the divine gift to Loved and remembered every Trainer, who died three weeks ship. Special gratitude to the tion favour), take it Dear Heart forgive and forget all evil day. apart, Mum on January 16, Headmistress and staff at of Jesus, and place it within against me, and in all Inserted by Catherine, Janette 2001 and dad on February 12, Your broken heart where your Iochdar School. Thanks to Fr instances of my life you are and families. 2001. Father sees it, then in his mer- Ross Crichton for a very fitting with me. I want in this short January and February come ciful eyes it will become Your and special Requiem Mass prayer to thank you for all , Michael J with sad regret, favour, not mine. Amen. Say MULLEN supported by Catriona things as you confirm once MALLON 1st Anniversary The months and days we’ll for three days, publication again that I never want to be 7th Anniversary In loving memory of Michael, never forget, Garbutt, Morag MacSween promised. – A.F. separated from you, even in In loving memory of my dear who passed away on Febru- With tears in our eyes we and Willie Bauld. Also to spite of all material illusion. I husband, our dear father and ary 12, 2014. Also his dad, whisper low, Angus and Donald MacPhee DEAR HEART OF JESUS wish to be with you in eternal grandfather, Joseph, who died Michael, and mum, Catherine, God bless you Mum and Dad, for the funeral and cemetery Dear Heart of Jesus in the glory. Thank you for your (née MacNeil) and brothers we miss you so. past I have asked you for February 18, 2008. arrangements, Lachie and his mercy towards me and mine. Love and miss you both many favours, this time I ask Of your charity, pray for the Jim and Frank. team at the D.I. for the (Say this prayer for three con- always. repose of his soul. Inserted by Pat and Eunice. provision of refreshments after you for this special one (men- secutive days). Your loving daughter May, On whose soul, sweet Jesus, the funeral. Finally, special tion favour), take it Dear Heart Publication promised. Higgie, Barry, Brian, Michelle of Jesus, and place it within have mercy. love to Auntie Katie’s little Inserted by his loving wife Ann and Shannon. Your broken heart where your We often think of bygone carers, Jake and Craig. DEAR HEART OF JESUS Marie and family. Father sees it, then in his mer- Dear Heart of Jesus in the days, The sum of £525.04 was ciful eyes it will become Your past I have asked you for When we were all together, collected and donated to St favour, not mine. Amen. Say many favours, this time I ask MALLON The family chain is broken, Jeromes’ Centre, Nakuru, for three days, publication you for this special one (men- Of your charity, pray for the But memories live forever. Africa. promised. – M.G. tion favour), take it Dear Heart repose of the soul of our dear Frances, Gerry and GP. of Jesus, and place it within mother, Anne Tobin, who died Gone are two special people DEAR HEART OF JESUS Your broken heart where your February 21, 1961, and our we loved so dear, GALBRAITH Dear Heart of Jesus in the Father sees it, then in his mer- dear father, Daniel Mallon, Silent the voices we loved to The family of Domhnall Iain past I have asked you for ciful eyes it will become Your died June 1, 1969, also our Galbraith would like to thank hear, many favours, this time I ask favour, not mine. Amen. Say brothers, Edward, died April Fr John Paul and Fr Pat for O’HARE Their hearty laughs, you for this special one (men- for three days, publication the spiritual comfort given. 12, 1979, John, died February 13th Anniversary Their lovely smiles, tion favour), take it Dear Heart promised. 15, 1982, Patrick, died June Please remember in your Beautiful faces no one on this Thanks also to John James, of Jesus, and place it within earth will ever replace, 23, 1989, Daniel, died Decem- prayers, David, a wonderful the choir and all who attended Your broken heart where your NOVENA to St Therese of Until we meet again. ber 16, 2002 and Joseph, died husband, dad and papa, who and helped with his Funeral Father sees it, then in his mer- the Little Flower. Your loving son Paul, Jean February 18, 2008. R.I.P. died on February 13, 2002. Mass. To all at the Southern ciful eyes it will become Your Saint Therese, the Little Always in our thoughts, and Sophie. St Martin, pray for them. General Hospital, Glasgow, favour, not mine. Amen. Say Flower, please pick me a rose forever in our hearts. for three days, publication Inserted by the family. and who attended from near from the heavenly garden and Jesus, I trust in You. promised. – M.M. sent it to me with a message and far to be with us at this Inserted by his ever loving of love. Ask God to grant me MORRISON very sad time. The undertak- 5th Anniversary family. GRATEFUL thanks to St the favour I thee implore and ers from Barra and Glasgow In loving memory of our dear Joseph for answering our tell Him I will love Him each and to all that assisted in tak- mother, Lexy, who died O’TOOLE prayers. – E. day more and more. In loving memory of February 13, 2010. ing Dad home and also the The above prayer plus 5 Our Christopher O’Toole, aged 23 GRATEFUL thanks to the Fathers, 5 Hail Marys and 5 Sadly missed in every way, staff of the Craigard Hotel. To years, who died on February everyone who has sent cards, Sacred Heart, Our Lady of Glory Be’s must be said on 5 Quietly remembered every 15, 1974. visited and said prayers we Lourdes and St Anthony for successive days before 11 day. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for prayers answered. – a.m. On the 5th day, the 5th thank you all. Also remembering loved ones him. M.D.B.H.D. set of prayers having been gone before. Peace. Holy Mass will be offered for completed, offer one more set Our Lady of the Isles, pray for Inserted by his mother, broth- the intentions of all. GRATEFUL thanks to St Pio, – 5 Our Fathers, 5 Hail Marys them. ers and sisters, 57E Drumbat- Thank you from all the St Anthony, St Joseph for and 5 Glory Be’s. Publication Inserted by the family. hie Road, Airdrie. 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Our weekly series on Children’s Liturgy has lesson plans and activity suggestions for use with young people who are on the path to Christ Each week, Catechists will find readings and Psalm responses, complemented by prayer, reflection, FAITH discussion questions, and activities. Please feel free to use them as you wish The lessons are created by Adorer-theologians using the lens of the spirituality of St Maria de Mattias, which also embraces precious blood spirituality FIRST While this is the starting point for the lessons, readers are invited to approach them however the spirit moves you The Church is concerned with the availability and understanding of scripture for children who have their rightful place in the Church. In light of this SCO aims to provide a useful tool in drawing children closer to KIDS the Catholic Faith

understand Jesus’ death and resurrection in our He guides the humble to justice and He teaches lives. Amen. the humble His way. CHILDREN’S (R) Your ways, Lord, are faithfulness and love First Reading for those who keep your covenant. CROSSWORD 68 God’s covenant with Noah after he had saved him from the waters of the flood. A reading from the book of Second Reading Genesis 9:8-15. That water is a type of Baptism which saves you now. 1 2 3 4 5 God said to Noah and to his sons with him: A reading from the first letter of St Peter 3:18-22. “See, I am now establishing my covenant with Beloved, Christ suffered for sins once, the 6 7 you and your descendants after you and with righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that every living creature that was with you: all the He might lead you to God. 8 9 birds, and the various tame and wild animals Put to death in the flesh, He was brought to that were with you and came out of the ark. I life in the Spirit. In it He also went to preach to 10 will establish my covenant with you, that never the spirits in prison, who had once been again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed by disobedient while God patiently waited in the 11 12 the waters of a flood; there shall not be another days of Noah during the building of the ark, in flood to devastate the earth.” which a few persons—eight in all—were saved 13 14 God added: “This is the sign that I am giving through water. for all ages to come, of the covenant between This prefigured Baptism, which saves you 15 16 17 me and you and every living creature with you: now. It is not a removal of dirt from the body I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of but an appeal to God for a clear conscience, the covenant between me and the earth. When I through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, who 18 19 bring clouds over the earth and the bow appears has gone into Heaven and is at the right hand of First Sunday of Lent in the clouds, I will recall the covenant I have God, with angels, authorities, and powers made between me and you and all living beings, subject to Him. so that the waters shall never again become a The Word of the Lord 20 Reflection flood to destroy all mortal beings.” CAN you imagine a scene from a film The Word of the Lord Alleluia illustrating the first part of today’s Gospel Matthew 4:4. ACROSS story? Jesus is out in the desert where He is Responsorial Psalm (R) Alleluia, alleluia. 3 Run at top speed (6) put to the test or tempted by Satan. But He is Ps 24:4-9 r. 10. Man does not live on bread alone, but on every 6 It’s shot from a bow (5) also surrounded by wild beasts and angel (R) Your ways, Lord, are faithfulness and love word that comes from the mouth of God. 8 Someone who travels over snow for fun (5) 10 Sorrow (7) attendants. It must have been an interesting for those who keep your covenant. (R) Alleluia, alleluia. 11 Sat to allow a painter or photographer 40 days Jesus spent preparing to proclaim Your ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach make a picture of you (5) the Good News. “The Kingdom of God is at me your paths. Gospel 15 Insect which lives in a colony (3) hand,” He announced in Galilee, and He Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you Jesus was tempted by Satan, and the angels looked 17 Causing pain (7) called people to get ready for God’s reign by are God my saviour. after Him. A reading from the Holy Gospel according 18 Save from danger (6) reforming their lives. (R) Your ways, Lord, are faithfulness and love to Mark 1:12-15. 19 Sound a dove makes (3) Lent can be for us like a new day dawning for those who keep your covenant. The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert and 20 Money and jewels that have been buried —just like the one Noah and his family Remember that your compassion, O Lord and He remained in the desert for 40 days, tempted or hidden away (8) experienced when the flood was over. It is a your love are from of old. by Satan. He was among wild beasts and the DOWN time for a fresh beginning and a renewal of In your kindness remember me, because of your angels ministered to Him. 1 Go by (4) our covenant to live as God's people. goodness, O Lord. After John had been arrested, Jesus came to 2 A lady on her wedding day (5) (R) Your ways, Lord, are faithfulness and love Galilee proclaiming the Gospel of God: “This 4 You may have to show this when you go Discussion for those who keep your covenant. is the time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God to another country (8) G In what ways do you want Lent to be a new Good and upright is the Lord, thus He shows is at hand. Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” 5 Black substance poured onto the road (3) beginning in your life as a Christian? sinners the way. The Gospel of the Lord 7 Tiny (3) G What will you do to work towards these goals? 9 Natural ability an animal has without G having to learn how to do it (8) Who or what might help you to experience 12 Feed it to a pet that barks (3,4) Lent as ‘a new day dawning?’ 13 Long John Silver had this kind of bird as G Jesus stayed in the desert for 40 days, praying a pet (6) and preparing Himself for His mission. God has 14 Yells (6) a mission for each of us. What can you do to 16 Flavour (5) learn what that mission might be? G What might help you prepare yourself for that LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION mission? G ACROSS Wh at kind of ‘fitness training’ might you do 1 Hamburger 6 Note 7 Litter 9 Yelling 11 Blessed during Lent to grow stronger in resisting temptation 13 Panda 14 Disease 16 Dead 17 Tallest as did Jesus did in the desert? DOWN Activity 1 Handy 2 Metal 3 Going 4 Rattlesnake 5 Mermaid G In the First Reading, God gives Noah the sign 8 Sinbad 10 Engaged 12 Easel 15 Eat of a rainbow as a reminder of their covenant. G Give each child 12 inch pieces of red, blue, yellow, and green crepe paper. The Children’s Liturgy page is G Staple these together at one end to make published one week in advance to rainbows with the children. G Read the passage from Genesis to the children. allow RE teachers and those taking When the reading refers to the sign of the the Children’s Liturgy at weekly rainbow, have the children wave their homemade rainbows above their heads. Masses to use, if they wish, this Prayer page as an accompaniment to their Dear God, during this season of Lent, help us to teaching materials

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St Aidan’s cheques in with donation to Yorkhill Children’s Hospital

By Dan McGinty supported by teachers Jennifer O’Neill, Suzanne science with this entrepreneurship event,” a statement bombs and sold them to both pupils and teachers. Cochrane and Claire Walmsley, from the school’s from St Aidan’s said. “The Science Club of St “Miss O’Neill and the other teachers are very MEMBERS of the St Aidan’s High School science department—used their expertise to make Aidan’s High School provides pupils with a sense of proud of the pupils. Yorkhill Children’s Hospital Science Club handed over a cheque to bath bombs and Christmas decorations to sell at a belonging and achievement, as well as developing has a special place in each and every one of their Yorkhill Children’s Hospital as they saw the Christmas stall in the school dining area. their skills of scientific inquiry. hearts and it is fantastic to see young people work fruits of their Christmas fundraising efforts. A total of £250 was raised for Yorkhill, and the “These pupils used their creativity and scientific so hard in order to achieve something which they feel Pupils from the Wishaw school welcomed Gary Science Club members—who include more than 40 skills in order to make these items and worked as so strongly about. They are so happy about the money Donlin of Yorkhill Children’s Charity to Wishaw, S1 pupils—were delighted to hear of how their money a team in order to make sure that they had enough they have raised as they know that they are providing as he was presented with the cheque and had the will be used to help those children less fortunate time to sell the homemade products. Their dedication the children with support. They should be very chance to meet the energetic and enterprising than them who are required to use the hospital. and commitment has been very inspiring and proud of themselves. A fantastic achievement!” young pupils who had raised the funds (above). “These young scientists engaged in higher order excellent to see. The pupils even gave up their The money was raised after the Science Club— thinking skills and have enriched their learning in intervals and lunch times in order to finish the bath I [email protected]

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St Matthew’s Academy Burns Night raises funds for HCPT group

By Dan McGinty school’s HCPT group after St Matthew’s community unite night saw £1200 raised for HCPT. Mission Matters Scotland received a boost from the children of St their fundraising efforts on to support the work of the group. “Thanks to all in the HCPT Brigid’s Primary School in Newmains. A representative from the PUPILS from St Mathew’s Burns Night. With support from dancers group, Lizanne in the canteen, charity met with some of the pupils behind the remarkable fundraising Academy in Saltcoats made Organised by pupils Laura (above right) and entertainers as well as our dance and music effort, and was presented with a cheque for £3500 to help support a generous contribution of Jakes, the celebration saw pupils, (above left) from within the ranks entertainers and for all those their vital work more than £1000 to the friends of the school and the wider of the St Matthew’s pupils the who attended,” the school said.

GOLDEN JUBILEE ARCHIVE REPORT: SEPTEMBER 10, 1971 Educating people about the developing world

During 2015, the golden jubilee year of the In the advertising feature we found that 28 per Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund cent of 100 third-year boys from St Aloysius (SCIAF), the SCO will bring you highlights of College (right) believed that Britain was not the last five decades of the campaigns and generous enough in terms of international work of the Catholic aid agency, an agency of development compared with a third of the general public who believed that Britain was too the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, as its generous. For SCIAF, this meant that educating reach developed and it became a member of people about the Third World and why they Caritas Internationalis. should help raise money was part of their role. Elsewhere in the advertising feature, SCIAF IN THE run-up to their annual appeal day, revealed that the total aid budget at over £240 with special sermons and bidding prayers at million was dwarfed by defence spending at Masses across Scotland, SCIAF called on £2000 million; alcohol at £1000m and tobacco at Scottish Catholics to help with their work in the £1400 million. Here, SCIAF called on Catholics developing world. to ‘get their priorities right.’ E-MAIL CELEBRATING LIFE EVENTS TO DAN MCGINTY AT [email protected] FRIDAY FEBRUARY 13 2015 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER VOCATIONS 23 Priests followed their hearts, will you? DAN McGINTY tells the story of two priests from the US who are bringing their stories to young people to foster vocations

HE drive to increase Fr Josha Johnson (right), known as vocations has seen the rapping priest, has collaborated with fellow cleric Fr Mike Schmitz new media used to on a short film called I Will Follow, great effect by those aimed at encouraging vocations groups and individuals tasked with changing the tide. Two young priests in the US God. I had an amazing girlfriend Thave joined their number now, who I thought I was in love with. as they bring their stories to a “I had a best friend who could new website as part of a drive to talk to about anything. But over encourage and foster vocations the course of a summer she thanks to a groundbreaking short broke up with me and my best film I Will Follow. friend moved away. I remember The two priests, Fr Mike feeling alone. I was embarrassed. Schmitz of Duluth Diocese in “So I started to try to fill my Minnesota and Fr Joshua Johnson emptiness by partying more, by —who achieved online fame as hanging out more, by dating ‘the Rapping Priest’—from Baton more girls… I gave in to a lot Rouge Diocese in Louisiana, more sins thinking they would used the launch of the film to satisfy me, but nothing could. I outline their own road to the realised I was just empty inside, priesthood, as well as to answer and nothing satisfied that ache in the call of Pope Francis, made my heart.” when he was in Lourdes. The Holy Father spoke of the owever, thanks to the need to live in this world and intervention of a friend time but to conquer it at the same of his he soon found time at the grotto, and his words himselfH unwittingly on the path were echoed in the testimonies that led to his vocations. of the two priests. “A friend of mine saw how “We are afraid of the definitive unhappy I had become, so she and to choose a vocation, any invited me to come on a retreat vocation, including vocations with her, but I didn’t want to He was calling me to do. I said broken. I am so broken, but in that involve a ‘state’ such as go,” Fr Johnson continued. “I to Him, ‘Lord, I hear you calling the midst of that the Lord loves marriage, consecrated life, the didn’t want anything to do with me and I will follow you. I will me.’” priesthood, one must choose with the Church. I didn’t think the be your priest.’ FRANCISCAN a view to the definitive,” Pope Church could help me. “Before I entered the seminary I You can view the short film Francis said. “This is contrary to “But I went, and I remember I thought that all priests were and find out more about Fr MISSIONARIES the culture of the provisional. It telling God, ‘You better make perfect. Then I got to the seminary Johnson’s story at http:// OF ST. JOSEPH is a part of the culture in which we something happen on this and I quickly realised—‘I’m willyoufollow.com must live in this time, but we must retreat, or I’ll leave the Church Are you called like Francis of Assisi live through this and conquer it.” forever.’ “On the second night I felt to live the Gospel radically? r Johnson, who became an God spoke to me, saying, ‘I love Cistercian Monks internet sensation as a you,’ and it pierced my heart Want to know more? rapper, also runs Catholic because I always thought growing Email Sister Noel – Fhip-hop podcast, but outlined his up that you had to do something story in a more traditional fashion to earn someone’s love. Yet here in the film. God was, looking at me in my [email protected] He charted his development brokenness and my mess, with Do you feel called to seek God as a Cistercian monk within a www.fmsj.co.uk from a disinterested and all the junk and sins I had Reg. 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N JUNE 29 1868, Pope Pius IX identity. This was particularly true in France, but published his bull, Aeterni Patris, over much of Germany, too, the idea of the and made history: A new council was supremacy of the local bishop was deeply called at the Vatican, the first in engrained. Many had already begun to see the almost three centuries. Not only did Pope as the only source of authority, though, and the Church signal that the Council of Trent was not the heroic suffering of the Popes during the French going to be the definitive council in the Church’s Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods had history,O but it also showed that the Church was enhanced this Ultramontane (over the mountains) aware it simply had to address the challenges of a perspective of the Church. new era. The changes since Trent were vast, and To Pope Pius, who understood the threat to his the speed of change was accelerating. independence from Italian desires to conquer When the First Vatican Council was called, the Rome, the official affirmation of the role of the old world, of which Trent had been a mainstay, had Pope as the absolute centre of the organisational all but withered away. The French Revolution had Church was essential if the Catholic community swept away the arrangements, many dating back was to survive the onslaught of nationalism and all to the early Middle Ages, which regulated the the other ‘isms’that dogged the century. The council relationship between Church and State. The modus fathers were asked to design the First Dogmatic vivendi, which the Church had reached with Constitution on the Church of Christ, which was Europe’s monarchs, a sort of power-sharing deal, to pronounce on the infallibility of the Pope as the was collapsing as those monarchies were threatened head of the Body of Christ. by republican advances, Liberalism and secular Pope Pius provoked a hornet’s nest. The council ideologies formed by the Enlightenment. stated that it sought to ‘propound the doctrine con- Added to these intellectual challenges was cerning the 1. institution, 2. permanence and 3. Marxism, which had a faltering start in the 1840s, nature of the sacred and apostolic primacy, upon but was now gathering momentum. This was a which the strength and coherence of the whole symptom of the tectonic changes occurring throughout Church depends.’ the world in the decades before the council. Marxism The latter sentence makes clear that Pope Pius grew out of the total disenfranchisement of a understood that the external forces were not so completely new sector of society: the working much threatening the continuous existence of the classes. This was an urban phenomenon, created Church as its unity and coherence. by rapid industrialisation, the demise of ancient Yet the very forces that Pope Pius sought to economic patterns dominated by agriculture and combat ensured that there was little unity amongst localised trade. the bishops attending the council when it came to Nationalism replaced monarchy as the key notion the infallible nature of the Papacy. There was around which communities imagined themselves. almost not a single voice raising doubt that the If the old monarchies had been dubious about the Pope’s pronouncements on matters of doctrine role of the Church in their realms, the new states were, were, indeed, infallible. with a few exceptions, positively hostile. In addition, However, many saw ‘practical’ problems. Most through economic expansion and political conquest of the German and Austro-Hungarian bishops were of empire-building, a process of globalisation had worried about the reaction of non-Catholic begun which continues to this day. This did not Christians, and feared that the statement would cause too many problems for the Church, other invoke government interference with the Church than organisational: simply put, empire allowed the (The Germans were prescient: Papal infallibility Church to carry out its mission to places unreached. gave Bismarck the perfect excuse to launch his This was balanced by the gradual loss of the Kulturkampf in the 1870s.) Papal States, that part of central Italy ruled by the Popes since the end of Antiquity. The Pope’s he Germans and Austro-Hungarians were realms were reduced to a small area around Rome, joined by almost half the American bishops and his worldly powerbase depended on the dubious and around one third of the French. protection of the French. On the whole, the situation AmongstT the Oriental Rite Churches, the main for the Church was rather bleak. It was losing concerns came from the Melkites and Chaldeans, influence at an alarming rate, struggled to cope as well as quite a few Armenians, all worried about with new realities and was beset by forces hostile the reaction of the Ottoman authorities under to it. To British commentators, this new face of the whom they fell. Some of the British bishops, but Church merged with an older hostile perception not Cardinal Manning, objected because they felt and they came to a simple (simplistic) conclusion: they were finally becoming more acceptable to Catholicism equals backwardness; the Church was authority and this threatened to scupper this— a barrier to progress. Scottish bishops, still Vicars Apostolic at this Successive Popes were unsure of how to point, did not subscribe to this point of view. respond. Even the energetic and highly intelligent After some considerable debate, the notion of Pope Pius IX (right) was caught on the horns of a Papal Infallibility, limited by the role of bishops in dilemma: Embrace the modern world and translate their own diocese and by the subject—infallibility the Church’s teaching into a new language and lose applies to dogma only—was accepted. The Pope control over the Papal States, or join the camp of was accepted as the natural centre of the Church, conservative monarchs and their supporters and been subsequently lost: “Everybody knows that Pius IX had it easy compared to those contemporaries and not just the final tribunal in times of crisis. uphold the status quo in the hope that the new those heresies, condemned by the fathers of Trent, who set out to create nation states. This put an end to centuries of particularism, for challenges would go away. which rejected the divine magisterium of the He could draw upon the age-old notion of the example as expressed by French Gallicanism. As In the end, Pope Pius went for something different Church and allowed religious questions to be a Pope as being at the centre of the Latin Church and the Italian troops marched into Rome and abro- altogether. His first solution was simply to repeat matter for the judgment of each individual, have the primus inter pares of the global Church. (With gated the council, the Church, save a few so-called the statements from the Council of Trent on the gradually collapsed into a multiplicity of sects, regard to the latter, it is interesting that the Orthodox Old Catholic dissidents, was firmly united around Faith. The Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic either at variance or in agreement with one Churches were invited—sadly, they declined). the Vicar of Christ. Faith was little more than a renewed support for another; and by this means a good many people As we have seen previously in this series, the The Church escaped most narrowly the impact what Trent had endorsed, itself nothing more than have had all faith in Christ destroyed.” In terms of Council of Trent created a greater awareness of the of the centrifugal forces unleashed by modernity. a summing-up and possibly elaboration on what the Church’s teaching, the First Vatican Council Papacy as the centre of the Church than had already These did not abate at all, and would draw many had been believed for centuries. The council stated simply wished to give new momentum to the Faith, existed before. Catholics into their vortex. In many places, hostility this most strongly: “The advantages which have and it wished to emulate Trent in the success that As the chief implementer of the council’s would translate into violence and persecution. been secured for the Christian world by ecumenical that particular council had achieved. decisions, the Papacy had seen its role as the However, with the official affirmation of the councils, among which the Council of Trent requires arbiter of the Church strengthened. However, in Pope as the perpetual and natural centre of the special mention.” here Vatican I departed from Trent was many places the Pope was regarded as a faraway Church, the centre was made safe, and when the Yet the council and the Holy Father were under in its concern to cast in stone the proper authority, and the local or national Church was winds of change and war died down, the Faithful no illusion that what had been restored at Trent had focus of the Catholic community. 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