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GOD has written a love letter to you … treasure it and read it every day. That was the powerful message of Pope Francis as he marked the Church’s first ever “Sun- Archbishop Tartaglia and day of the Word of God”. Canon Hill check out progress

The new annual occurrence has been introduced by the Holy Father to encourage Golden cross will Catholics to read the scrip - tures on a daily basis. And the Pope has some crown St Matthew’s practical advice on how to do it. ARCHBISHOP Tartaglia more light, new aisles have Mass swapped his high hat for a been created, a new altar At a special Mass in Rome hard hat as he dropped in to and baptismal font installed, at which he distributed Bibles see the progress at St along with new seating and to people representing every Matthew’s Church, a new sound system and stage of life, he said: “Dear Bishopbriggs. And Parish new windows. brothers and sisters, let us Priest and Flourish A cross on the old church make room in our lives for the “Change your life,” Francis fered his enthusiastic backing tice of Lectio Divina – placing columnist, Canon Robert Hill roof has been gilded and will word of God! Each day, let us encouraged, “for a new way of to the effort. He said: “The oneself in the story described was on hand to show him be highlighted by a spotlight read a verse or two of the living has begun. The time Pope’s initiative is a very wel - in the pages of the Gospel and round the refurbished town during the hours of darkness Bible. when you lived for yourself is come reminder to us that we slowly absorbing the great centre building. creating a new and powerful “Let us begin with the over; now is the time for liv - should make more use of the richness of the Word while ap - Work is almost complete landmark at the very heart of Gospel: let us keep it open on ing with and for God, with and scriptures in our daily life. plying it to our daily lives. on the popular church, the town. our table, carry it in our for others, with and for love.” “There are many pocket- which has been closed for Archbishop Tartaglia pocket, read it on our mobile “That is why the Lord gives sized editions of the New Youth months to allow a £1.2m pronounced himself phones, and allow it to inspire you his word, so that you can Testament available and it has “I have worked with our refurbishment to go ahead. delighted with the progress us daily. receive it like a love letter he been calculated that by read - Youth Department in running The results are awesome and promised to be back “We will discover that God has written to you, to help you ing just one chapter a day, sessions on Lectio Divina for as Archbishop Tartaglia was later this spring when the is close to us, that he dispels realise that he is at your side. starting now, the whole New young people and they enjoy able to see for himself. church building will once our darkness and, with great His word consoles and en - Testament will be read by it, but it’s something that peo - The building has been more be open for worship. love, leads our lives into deep courages us.” October. ple of all ages can derive great opened up to provide much waters. Archbishop Tartaglia of - “I also recommend the prac - benefit from.”

Archbishop’s plea on Joy of our Syro-Malabar The Two Popes: global warming page 3 Catholics pages 4 –5 fact and fiction page 15 2 NEWS FEBRUARY 2020 • FLOURISH

Archbishop ’s Auschwitz: we dFEBRiUaARYr202y0 must never forget Mon 3rd: 10am – Mass for the Golden Jubilee of our Lady of the Rosary Primary School in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Cardonald Tues 4th: 9.30am – Catechesis on the Eucharist for P4 Teachers Thurs 6th: 7pm – Confirmations – St Mary Immaculate As the world paused to crease in selfishness and in - difference, lack of concern for Mon 17th: 7pm – recall the horrors of the holocaust last month, others and the attitude that Confirmations – Holy Cross, says life is good as long as it Crosshill Pope Francis issued an is good for me, and when appeal to the world to things go wrong, anger and Tues 18th: 7pm – learn the lessons of the malice are unleashed. This Confirmations – St past. creates a fertile ground for the Arts Project is all at sea in Bartholomew’s forms of factionalism and Addressing a group of populism we see around us, Wed 19th: 7pm – Jewish leaders the Pope said: where hatred quickly springs preparation for Lent 2020 Confirmations – Christ the “In 2016, I went to Auschwitz up. Hatred and the sowing of King to reflect and to pray in si - evil. Even recently, we have lence. In our world, with its witnessed a barbaric resur - I This AGAP rehearsal for the forthcoming production, ‘Star of the Sea’ was Thurs 20th: 12noon – whirlwind of activity, we find gence of cases of anti - made extra special by a visit from representatives of Stella Maris, including Fr Meeting of Glasgow Church it hard to pause, to look within semitism. Once more I firmly Bruno Ciceri from the Vatican, Martin Foley from London and Regional Scottish Leaders and to listen in silence to the condemn every form of anti - Chaplain, Deacon Joe O’Donnell. plea of suffering humanity. semitism. The play, written and directed by Stephen Callaghan, will be performed at Fri 21st: 10.30am – Our consumerist society Lentfest, Edinburgh Fringe and at the International Congress taking place in Education Liaison Meeting - also squanders words: how Victims Glasgow to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Stella Maris in October. SCES many unhelpful words are To tackle the cause of the spoken, how much time is problem, however, we must Sat 22nd: 1pm – Mass for 40 wasted in arguing, accusing, commit ourselves also to till - Days for Life – St Andrew’s shouting insults, without a real ing the soil in which hatred All Saints Cathedral Glasgow concern for what we say. grows and sowing peace in - St Nicholas Care Fund Silence, on the other hand, stead. For it is through inte - A charity of the Archdiocese of Glasgow Mon 24th: 11am – Flourish helps to keep memory alive. If gration and seeking to launch Board Meeting; 4pm – SCES we lose our memory, we de - understand others that we The Saint Nicholas Care Fund awarded a total of £42,528 to projects that support those in greatest need in our Executive Board Meeting stroy our future. May the an - more effectively protect our - A charity which works in niversary of the unspeakable selves. communities. Tues 25th: 7pm – cruelty that humanity learned Hence it is urgent to reinte - The next deadline for applications is 4th May. partnership with All Confirmations – Christ the of 75 years ago serve as a grate those who are marginal - If you know of any project or organisation that might Saints Secondary in King summons to pause, to be still ized, to reach out to those far benefit from our support please encourage them to Barmulloch has had its and to remember. We need to away, to support those ignored make an application. official launch after Fri 28th: 7pm – do this, lest we become indif - for lack of resources or funds, [email protected] · 0141 226 5898 · Scottish Charity SC029832 months of building up re - Confirmations – St Andrew’s ferent. and assist to those who are lationships in the school Cathedral It is troubling to see, in victims of intolerance and dis - many parts of the world, an in - crimination. which takes in young GLASGOW LOURDES HOSPITALITE people from Barmulloch, Glasgow Archdiocesan Lourdes Pilgrimage Balornock, Blackhill, 17–24 July 2020 Springburn and Milton. Have you ever considered coming to Lourdes? Youth Initiatives (Scot- land), is based on a model originally founded in Belfast in 1991 and aims to awaken hope, inspire initiative and mobilise young people to make a vital contribution to their communities. Charity chief Andy Jordan said: ”We worked with hun - dreds of people from All Saints over the past six months and everyone involved found the experience very positive. “We ran a two-week sum - The Glasgow Lourdes Hospitalite would welcome you to apply mer school, a help the home - to join us on Pilgrimage in July 2020. The Pilgrimage is open to all ages. less project and recruited over 60 students for various proj - We have a team of doctors, nurses and helpers who are assisted ects in the school. We also or - by the St Margaret of Scotland Youth Group to ensure your Pilgrimage is a wonderful spiritual and memorable experience. ganised a retreat for 52 pupils from four different schools Cumbernauld adoration plan If interested, please contact: who are taking part in the Elizabeth McKee Caritas award and it was great 125 Cortmalan Cres THERE’S a new opportunity for prayer for Sacred Heart Day Chapel at 6.00 pm, followed Price to be advised. The price does not to see their enthusiasm” Robroyston include insurance. Terms and Cumbernauld Catholics thanks to a new by Evening Prayer of the Church at 6.45 pm G33 1TD conditions apply. For more information, con - initiative by the parish of Sacred Heart in the and Benediction of the Blessed sacrament at Please note: The closing date for return tact Youth Initiatives Scotland Tel0141 558 0994 of applications is 31 March2020. town. 7.00 pm. Parish Priest Fr Campbell invites all by email at andyj@youthinitia - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will Catholics in the area to use the new initiative to “I am the Immaculate Conception” tives.com on their website henceforth take place every first Friday in the come along and pray for vocations. (Pastoral Theme 2020) www.youthinitiativesscot.com FLOURISH • FEBRUARY 2020 NEWS 3 Archbishop: global warming is also a spiritual issue

CATHOLICS need to see that we have to ‘acknowledge the challenge of global our sins against creation.’ Picture by Paul McSherry warming as a spiritual as What are these sins of which well as practical issue… we should repent? Quoting the that was the message of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartho- lomew, the Pope reminds us Archbishop Tartaglia as of these sins: ‘For human be - Glasgow prepares to ings to destroy biological di - host the next UN Climate versity… by causing changes Change Conference – in its climate… to contaminate known as COP 26 - in the earth’s waters, its land, its air and its life – these are sins.’ November. “How do we repent of these Archbishop Tartaglia of - sins? Pope Francis borrows a fered his reflections as he cel - term from Pope St John Paul ebrated the annual Choral II. We need to open ourselves Mass at Glasgow University. to a ‘global ecological conver - The Archbishop used his sion’, in which we renew and sermon to students and aca - maintain the inseparable bond demics to highlight the cli - between concern for nature, mate change emergency, justice for the poor, commit - setting it in a fully human – ment to society, and interior and spiritual – context. peace. He said: “It is beyond dis - “The response to climate pute that the subject of climate change and global warming is change and global warming is not just about reducing emis - relevant to the common good sions or about any other single of God’s children. To that ef - measure, but about living the fect, there will be a massive bond between care for nature, gathering here in Glasgow in justice for people, the com - perficial or reductionist… The Church needs to help favour an integral ecology of will rebel against them be - November to consider what mon good of society and a “The scientific consensus is everyone to maintain civil dis - the person, and a global eco - cause they are likely to be in - action the world should take to clear conscience in human be - that if the earth warms another course and respect different logical conversion that takes human. Forgetfulness of God mitigate against the worst ef - ings… few degrees, great harm will opinions. into account our relationship will lead as it always does to fects of climate change and to “So when COP 26 comes be done across the board to the with God, with each other, injustice against man and yet protect those who are most around, the task of the Church environment, to people, and Solutions with the human community more damage to the creation. vulnerable. will be to encourage the au - other species. There may be “The Church will also need and with the natural world. Only an integral ecology will “In Pope Francis’ encycli - thorities to seek solutions to monumental disagreements to encourage everyone to re - “Here’s my admonition to be a successful ecology. That cal, Laudato Si, on Care for climate change that avoid pro - about this at COP 26 and flect on the science in a way COP 26: Reductionist solu - is what I, as a Christian, hope our Common Home he says posals that are ideological, su - about what to do about this. that produces solutions that tions will not work. People for from COP26.” Documentary reveals Pope Benedict’s hidden life A NEW documentary for have become worldwide best- Memores Domini association German television has sellers, translated into numer - (which is an offshoot of the revealed for the first time ous languages. Communion and Liberation the private life of Pope “The life of the theology Movement) who have become professor Joseph Ratzinger is experts in Bavarian cuisine! Emeritus Benedict XVI in reflected in thousands of Among the memorabilia of the modern monastery books,” notes the author of the Bavarian origin that are found within Vatican City State documentary, Tassilo Forch- in the residence there are pho - where he now lives. heimer. He added: “Benedict tographs of Benedict's parents Ratzinger’s secretary from says that for him all the phases and siblings (his sister Maria The film, made at the end of 1978 to 1983, when the future of his life are contained in the died in 1991) and there is a last year reveals the great pope was Archbishop of books and he takes care of painting of Saint Augustine of Joseph Ratzinger as he is Munich. them every day”. Hippo which was given to him today, in all his fragility. Archbishop Gänswein The documentary is shot in 1977 when he was His lucidity has not faded, shows viewers round the for - with great respect for the pope Archbishop of Munich. but age has left its mark. Pope mer monastery of Mater emeritus and his current con - In the chapel there is a Benedict speaks with a low Ecclesiae, the residence of the ditions. Viewers are told that replica (the original is located voice and moves around in a pope emeritus, in the heart of Ratzinger still leads a regu - in the Marienplatz in Munich) wheelchair. He spends his the Vatican gardens. Here we lated life, starting with morn - of the statue of the patroness days in prayer and study, in see Benedict XVI in his study, ing Mass, celebrated every of Bavaria, the Madonna with the company of his faithful is no longer there,” explains The German Pope’s physi - surrounded by books and day with Monsignor Gäns- the Child Jesus and the scep - secretary Archbishop Georg Archbishop Georg Gänswein. cal appearance has deterio - memorabilia that remind him wein at 7:30 in his private tre in her hand, a gift from a Gänswein and his many and “His voice is simply broken, rated significantly over the of Bavaria, and then in the chapel. former Bavarian Prime beloved books. weaker”, but what is “impor - past two years, as is clear from chapel and on a bench in the We also learn that Joseph Minister. In the documentary broad - tant” for him is “good com - recent photos. Vatican gardens. Ratzinger is still fond of His homeland is very pres - cast by Bayerischer Rundfunk pany” that “raises his heart”. The documentary, entitled Filmed in his study, the for - Bavarian sweets and that tra - ent in the heart of Benedict the 92-year-old speaks only “His decision to resign,” – “The Little Bavaria at the mer pope explains that he has ditional German and Italian XVI. “I am always very close three times and his voice is says Gänswein – “was a long, Vatican”, also features the used it for 65 years and the dishes are served on separate to Bavaria and every night I hardly audible. “I had a great well-prayed and painful deci - brother of the pope emeritus, secretary specifies that pre - days, because all together entrust our state to the Lord”, voice, but it no longer works,” sion, which he never regretted. Monsignor Georg Ratzinger cisely at that desk the theolo - would be “too much” for him. explains the pope emeritus. says Benedict. The pope is completely at (who is now 95 years old) and gian Ratzinger wrote most of The meals are cooked by “In my heart, I am always tied “One sees that his strength peace with himself.” Father Bruno Fink, who was his works, many of which Italian women of the to Bavaria”. 4 FEATURE FEBRUARY 2020 • FLOURISH Faith with a smile Bernard Corrigan Ltd W HOLESALE FISHMONGER • POULTERER & GAME DEALER

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The arrival of which are notable for their re - who take their faith very ligious devotion and for the se - Catholics from India, Poland, the riousness with which they seriously but with such Philippines, Italy, China and many countries “LET US ARRANGE YOUR WEDDING RECEPTION” regard Catholic family life and an outpouring of joy that of Africa has led to a new enrichment of the transmission of the faith to We have a wide range of MENUS including Buffets and Finger Buffets it would take a heart of the faith traditions of Glasgow. In a new their young people and chil - Our FUNCTION SUITE also caters for: granite not to be uplifted. series, BRIAN SWANSON sets out to meet dren.” BIRTHDAY, CHRISTENING & ENGAGEMENT PARTIES the Archdiocese’s “new Catholics” and Devotion Funeral parties catered for Covered car parking It’s a Sunday afternoon in St Conval’s in Pollok, when I discover the truly universal face of the local The first members of the Telephone: 0141 944 6231 visit. The 2pm Mass is about Church Syro-Malabar Catholics came 20 DRUMCHAPEL ROAD, OLD DRUMCHAPEL, GLASGOW to begin and the southside to the Archdiocese 13 years church, opened almost exactly ago to work primarily in 64 years ago to cope with a the community originates, Catechism classes. health care and as that sector rapidly growing Catholic while the children incarnate The growth of the commu - grew so did their numbers community in the area, is the phrase ‘wearing your nity in Glasgow, as elsewhere which now stand at around thronged with families. Sunday best’. in the UK, has been so dra - 450. Here, faith is family and Some parishioners from matic in the past few years Because of that growth their faith is infectious. Oh yes… other parts of the Archdiocese that in 2016 Pope Francis cre - Bishop, Mar Joseph Sram- and everyone smiles. may care to skip the next sen - ated a UK-wide Eparchy, sim - pickal, who is based in Many in the several hun - tence: almost 150 children ilar to a diocese, for the Preston, contacted the Arch- dred-strong congregation are aged between 4 and 17 attend 40,000 Catholics of the Syro- diocese to help find a perma - wearing the national dress of Mass here each week then Malabar Rite living in Britain nent place of worship for the Standard Buildings, 94 Hope Street, Glasgow GPH Kerala, Southern India, where spend an hour afterwards at including those in Scotland. Syro-Malabar community Telephone +44 (0) 141 248 8111 Fax +44 (0) 141 221 8420 here in Glasgow. 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FLOURISH • FEBRUARY 2020 FEATURE 5 Archbishop’s praise for the ‘Green Blazers’

ARCHBISHOP Tartaglia minded, paranoid and laugh - has paid tribute to able that accusation is. “In fact, Catholic schools Glasgow’s famous St take very seriously the chal - Aloysius’ College at a lenge to educate and form national meeting of the young people to respect the UK’s independent dignity of every human being Catholic schools. and to contribute effectively to a diverse society.” Speaking at the closing Mass of the assembly, held in Wisdom Glasgow University Memorial In his sermon the Archbishop Chapel, the Archbishop said: exhorted the representatives “As a Glasgow boy born and of Catholic independent bred, I can tell you that St schools to keep their focus on Aloysius’ College is a truly their true raison d’etre . iconic Catholic educational in - He said: “In our first read - stitution in Glasgow in the ing today, wisdom is ex - Jesuit tradition, and everyone alted… Wisdom is amenable, recognises the famous green calming and altogether benev - and gold blazer, with the eagle olent… the personification of on the badge. wisdom is completed in the New Testament when it is re - Encouragement vealed that Jesus is the “The Ignatian motto: Ad Wisdom of God who was with However, the move to St leave it to their priest and a maiora natus sum (I was born God eternally and through Conval’s which was com - few others. That’s good be - to reach for greater things) is whom the world and all things pleted by Christmas 2018, cause it gives young people, certainly an encouragement to were made. could not have been achieved especially young guys, good the pupils to fulfil their poten - “In education, you try to im - without the enthusiastic back - role models.” tial and to strive for eternal part every kind and branch of ing of Parish Priest, Father Father Binu, who is the life.” wisdom to your pupils, and Martin Kane, members of St priest of the Syro-Malabar The Archbishop used his your attainment levels are un - Conval’s parish and the Mission in Glasgow, said: sermon to mount a wider de - doubtedly excellent. In a wholehearted support “Archbishop Tartaglia really fence of all Catholic schools Catholic school, the greatest throughout from Archbishop understood our need and was in Scotland. wisdom of all is God and his Tartaglia. kind enough to offer St. He said: “Catholic schools Christ, Jesus. Conval’s as our permanent across the world educate some “Just let me encourage you Prayers place of worship. His Grace 63 million boys and girls. to find every way to present to In a response to a report by always had a great apprecia - Only the governments of your young people the most Father Kane backing the tion, concern and care for the China and India educate more sublime wisdom of all, who is move, the Archbishop replied: Syro-Malabar community and children and young people. Jesus Christ our Lord, the wis - “The Syro-Malabar Catholics encourages us and supports us Here in Scotland, Catholic dom of God in person. in Glasgow are a young and not in mere words or presence schools are often – falsely – “This is the treasure and the lively community with 150 but helping us in all possible accused of being the source of pearl of great price that children gathering for Mass ways make things happen for social division and exclusion Catholic schools can offer and catechesis every Sunday the good and growth of this in our society. their pupils and the world we with their families. The pres - community. “The statistic that I just live in – an experience of the ence of the Syro-Malabar quoted shows how narrow- kingdom of God.” Catholic Community in St Grateful Conval’s Parish will be a “We are so happy that we blessing for St Conval’s and have a beautiful church, a spa - will help secure the future of cious house, a very useful hall the parish in times of some un - and a good atmosphere here in certainty.” St. Conval’s. JOEJOE WALSHWWAALSH TOURSTOUO RS Father Kane said: “The Joseph K. Joseph who PILGRIMAGESPILGRIMAGES 20202020 Syro-Malabar community put works in the food industry £ families at the very heart of with his wife Jessy, a nurse, MEDJUGORJE ANNIVERSARY OF APPARITIONS PILGRIMAGE everything they do. 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Pope Francis has written a powerful letter to those living with health problems and their carers to mark the annual World Day of the Sick which is marked on February 11, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Flourish offers readers an abridged version of the Holy Father’s letter below

JESUS DOES NOT make Church desires to demands of those who become… a home endure situations of where you can frailty, suffering and encounter his grace, weakness, but offers his which finds mercy and his comforting expression in presence. He looks upon closeness, acceptance a wounded humanity with and relief. In this eyes that gaze into the home, you can meet heart of each person. That people who, healed in gaze is not one of their frailty by God’s indifference; rather, it mercy, will help you embraces people in their bear your cross and entirety, each person in enable your suffering his or her health to give you a new condition, discarding no perspective. one, but rather inviting Dear healthcare everyone to share in his life and to professionals, let us always remember experience his tender love. that diagnostic, preventive and Why does Jesus have these feelings? therapeutic treatments, research, care Because he himself became frail, and rehabilitation are always in the endured human suffering and received service of the sick person; indeed the comfort from his Father. Indeed, only noun “person” takes priority over the those who personally experience adjective “sick”. In your work, may suffering are then able to comfort you always strive to promote the others. dignity and life of each person, and There are so many kinds of grave reject any compromise in the direction suffering: incurable and chronic of euthanasia, assisted suicide or diseases, psychological diseases, suppression of life, even in the case of situations calling for rehabilitation or terminal illness. palliative care, numerous forms of When confronted with the limitations disability, children’s or geriatric and even failures of medical science diseases… At times human warmth is before increasingly problematic lacking in our approach to these. What clinical cases and bleak diagnoses, you is needed is a personalized approach to are called to be open to the the sick, not just of curing but also of transcendent dimension of your caring… profession ... Let us remember that life In experiencing illness, individuals is sacred and belongs to God; hence it not only feel threatened in their is inviolable and no one can claim the physical integrity, but also in the right to dispose of it freely. Life must relational, intellectual, affective and be welcomed, protected, respected and spiritual dimensions of their lives. served from its beginning to its end: For this reason, in addition to both human reason and faith in God, therapy and support, they expect the author of life, require this. In some Teaching in Catholic Schools care and attention. In a word, love. cases, conscientious objection becomes At the side of every sick person, there a necessary decision if you are to be Would you like to be a Catholic teacher in the Catholic sector? is also a family, which itself suffers and consistent with your “yes” to life and to At the School of Education at the University of Glasgow you can is in need of support and comfort. the human person. take the Catholic Teacher’s Certificate as part of our teacher Dear brothers and sisters who are ill, When you can no longer provide a education degrees, Masters in Education (MEduc) or Post your sickness makes you in a particular cure, you will still be able to provide Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE). Your school placements way one of those “who labour and are care and healing, through gestures and will focus on the Catholic sector and you will benefit from the burdened”, and thus attract the eyes and procedures that give comfort and relief expertise of our professional and academic colleagues. You can heart of Jesus. In him, you will find to the sick. enjoy being part of the wider University community, particularly its light to brighten your darkest moments I think of our many brothers and and hope to soothe your distress. He sisters throughout the world who have lively Catholic chaplaincy. urges you: “Come to me”. In him, you no access to medical care because they Check out our website at: www.glasgow.ac.uk/education will find strength to face all the worries live in poverty. For this reason, I urge and questions that assail you during this healthcare institutions and government “dark night” of body and soul. leaders not to neglect social justice out In your experience of illness, you of a preoccupation for financial certainly need a place to find rest. The concerns. FLOURISH • FEBRUARY 2020 FEATURE 7 FOCUS ON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

FERNHILL SCHOOL Catholic schools: open to dialogue Bringing Gospel values to life through Catholic education of a piece with the commit - -LYUOPSS :JOVVS LUKLH]V\YZ [V By Dr Leonardo Franchi MVZ[LY HUK KL]LSVW [OL WV[LU[PHS University of Glasgow ment to offering a fine edu - cational experience to all [HSLU[Z HUK HTIP[PVU VM LHJO those who come through its VM V\Y `V\UN WLVWSL ^P[OPU H open door. JHYPUN *H[OVSPJ JVTT\UP[` TODAY’S Catholic The commitment to dia - JOHYHJ[LYPZLK I` H[[P[\KLZ VM school is home to logue requires a curriculum T\[\HS YLZWLJ[ O\TPSP[` HUK pupils of many differ - which reflects the insights WLYZVUHS YLZWVUZPIPSP[` 6\Y ZJOVVS L[OVZ ¶ PUZWPYLK I` .VZWLS of the Catholic educational ent religious tradi - ]HS\LZ ¶ PZ WHSWHISL HUK WLYTLH[LZ tradition. The Catholic tions. L]LY` JSHZZYVVT HUK ZVJPHS HYLH school values and teaches LUJV\YHNPUN HSS VM V\Y `V\UN WLVWSL We should be happy at the ‘best of what has been [V ISVZZVT HUK ÅV\YPZO WLYZVUHSS` this. 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This aspiration sits Courtyard model of beside the accepted mission Catholic education, freely ST LUKE’S to promote a robust proposes the treasury of Catholic identity. Are both music, art, literature and sci - GJAG — Goo] aims mutually coherent or do ‘Catholic schools must be prime examples ence which has emerged from, In St Luke’s Cluster we nurture every they offer an unacceptable and continues to inform, child’s unique God-given talents to enable tension which could unravel of Catholic social teaching in action.’ Catholicism. It is our respon - ŪĒöı ŪĻ ƙĻůŝĕţĒ ĕIJ Î êĪĕıÎŪö Ļċ ĒĕČĒ the culture of the Catholic sibility to pass on (transmit) expectations, innovation and creativity. school? prefer to say that it is a neces - teacher, worn down by a this vital cultural capital by An important document sary starting-point for discus - plethora of guidance and sup - encouraging the current gen - Head Teacher: Mrs Christine Downie published by the Congre- sion on how the Catholic port from various educational erations to open their hearts 0141 577 2400 gation for Catholic Education school responds to the chal - agencies? Do we need to add and minds to engage with the [email protected] in 2013, Educating to lenges of secularism. ‘grammar of dialogue’ to the voices of our fathers and —śŞĕijČƞöīð ‘ð ƺ ÎŞŞĒöÎð AƬƭ Ƨ—A Intercultural Dialogue in This vision is embodied in deadening list of key skills for mothers in faith. Catholic Schools: Living in the Vatican’s Courtyard of the assessment? I write this piece with The Harmony for a Civilisation of Gentiles initiative which seeks Our commitment to dia - Sixteen performing the Missa Love, offers some very useful the construction of spaces for logue must be evidence of Papae Marcelli in the back - guidance. It recognises the dialogue between Christians how Catholic schools go ground. I recall happy visits to tension noted above, and calls and atheists. Pope Benedict about their daily business. Rome observing people gaz - on Catholic schools to ‘de - XVI wisely saw the Courtyard Two points in particular are ing in wonder at Caravaggio’s velop intercultural dialogue in as an ‘extension’ activity to worth pondering: canvases in the Cerasi chapel NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL their pedagogical vision’ and draw together people of vastly Catholic schools must be of Santa Maria del Popolo. A Community of Faith & Learning to retain ‘courageous and in - different worldviews. Pope prime examples of Catholic Sadly, many of those who lis - novative fidelity to one’s own Francis, with equal wisdom, social teaching in action. Staff ten to sacred music and queue pedagogical vision’. In other describes this approach as the should be properly cared for for hours to see masterpieces words, be open to dialogue ‘grammar of dialogue’, to en - and their developmental and of Christian art are far from Celebrating while remaining faithful to capsulate the underpinning pastoral needs addressed in a the Church in terms of prac - your tradition. principle of Catholicism’s spirit of collegiality and open - tice: but perhaps they are Catholic Education Critics might say that this is mode of encounter with other ness. In other words, a closer than we imagine in Founded in 1897, Notre Dame High an unrealistic attempt to ap - cultures. Catholic school should be a terms of their love and appre - pear forward-thinking while What does all this talk of di - great place to work! For the ciation of Beauty. To them do School is proud to serve the community of appealing to a traditional view alogue and Courtyard mean school leader, promoting the we send the invitation: come Glasgow and beyond. of Catholic education. 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Robslee Road Thornliebank G43 2HNN · 0141 570 7280 west-dunbarton.gov.uk Website: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/gc/ndhs Email: [email protected]@ourladymissions.e-renfrew.sch.uk.e-renfreww.sch.uk.sch.uk www.olsp.org.uk Twitter: @ndhsglasgow 8 FEATURE FEBRUARY 2020 • FLOURISH FOCUS ON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS Early ecumenism paved the way for Cath THERE is a long history of Notre Dame Training College PROFESSOR STEPHEN MCKINNEY is the contribution of the Leader of Pedagogy, Praxis and Faith at the Christian Churches to ed - School of Education, University of Glasgow ucation in Scotland that and a member of can be traced back to St. the St Andrew’s Columba, to St. Ninian Foundation. and to St. Mungo. In this abridged version of a talk There were opportunities which was for boys to be educated in the delivered at the St. monasteries in the medieval monastic period and later Mungo Festival, he there were sang schools, reveals an amazing grammar schools and schools story of ecumenical attached to collegiate churches co-operation dating and cathedrals. back more than a The universities of St. century Andrews, Glasgow and Aberdeen were all initially ec - clesiastical institutions. University St. Lucy’s Primary Prompted by Glasgow’s Bishop Turnbull, King James Oak Road, II wrote to Pope Nicholas V to Abronhill request the establishment of a Cumbernauld university in Glasgow. The G67 3LQ Pope responded with a Papal Bull, a letter or proclamation Primary School and Nursery Class Tel: 01236 794852 named for the leaden seal (or Learning with love, Head Teacher: bull) which was attached to it. justice and hope Elaine Johnston Issued on 7 January 1451, the Head Teacher: Life with Christ is a Bull erected a new studium Marie R Murphy wonderful adventure generale for the teaching of law, as well as the arts and any educate the poorer children. A Notre Dame sister [email protected] “theology, canon and civil other lawful faculty”. He There were 15 Catholics Pope John Paul II @HolyCrossNLC granted the new University’s and 15 Protestants on the doctors, masters, readers and Board of the Catholic students all the privileges, ho - schools Society and the nours and immunities enjoyed President was Kirkman Supporting Catholic by their counterparts at the Finlay – a prominent busi - Education in Scotland University of Bologna. nessman and Protestant politician. Indeed it was Industrial widely reported that the The modern chapter in the President of the Catholic story of Christian education, Schools Society was an im - however, begins in 1817 portant public figure from which is a key year for school another denomination. education in the city of Glasgow. The parish school Eminent system did not appear to be Perhaps it is less well- the importance of play and functioning well in the indus - known that Dr Thomas having a comfortable play trial city. There was a great Chalmers who was a very area that was grassed, and the concern for the education of popular preacher delivered importance of a garden. He re - the children, especially the public sermons to help raise jected strict rules and corporal poor, in literacy, numeracy funds for the Catholic schools. punishment in favour of a and religious and moral edu - It is highly significant that two more civilised approach. cation. such eminent figures should Stow turned his attention to Three very important initia - be prominent in providing the preparation of teachers and tives were launched. The mag - support to the emerging under the auspices of the istrates of the city began to Catholic schools in the city of Glasgow Educational Society establish schools. The Glasgow. helped set up the first Catholic Schools Society was Thomas Chalmers’ influ - Seminary for teacher training set up and Dr Thomas ence was carried forward by in Britain. This was in Dundas Chalmers, a Church of one of his elders, David Stow. Vale in 1837 and the Scotland Minister, established Stow was very committed Seminary was firmly based on Sabbath schools associated to early years education and to Christian principles. The with his parish in the Tron to co-education. He understood Seminary was successful in KINDERGARTEN & JUNIOR SCHOOL OPEN MORNING Holy Cross St Paul’s St Cuthbert’s OPEN Primary School (Shettleston) Primary School Saturday 21st March, 11am - 1pm Primary School EVENING Curamus – and Nursery Class Kindergarten from age 3 | Junior School for Primary 1 - 7 | We care Out of school care and bus services available Head Teacher: Claire Gray Kindergarten | Junior School | Senior School Benview Campus For more information, please visit staloysius.org or email 85 Anwoth Street, Glasgow G32 7RR 100 Bilsland Avenue · Glasgow G20 9NY ursday 7th November, 7pm 316 Calder Street Tel: 0141 778 6227 0141 946 3476 [email protected] Govanhill G42 7NH Head Teacher: Geraldine A Millar Head Teacher: Ryan Delaney Email: Headteacher 0141 423 2538 Living the virtues of faith, hope and love; @st-cuthberts-pri.glasgow.sch.uk St Aloysius’ College is an educational charity registered in Scotland. Charity No. SC042545 [email protected] where all are welcomed and none are judged www.st-cuthberts-pri.glasgow.sch.uk

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St. Ninian’s St. Fillan’s 2150 GreatWestern Road Primary School GLASGOW G13 2AB 20 Crompton Avenue Glasgow G44 5AF Tel: 0141 959 3242 olic schools in Glasgow Tel: 0141 637 8750 Head Teacher: Mrs Mary McLachlan Head Teacher: Brian Bourke LEARNING Archbishop Eyre’s vision THROUGH Love for Life and FAITH AND A MAJOR development in KINDNESS Love for Learning teacher education in Glasgow was instigated by Archbishop Eyre, the first Catholic Archbishop of St Bartholomew’s Glasgow after the restoration of the hierarchy in 1878. He was anxious to ‘Let Our establish a Catholic teacher training college in Glasgow. Values Excel’ He had strong connections with Liverpool and sought Head Teacher: Angela Fitzpatrick the help of the Notre Dame 30 Castlemilk Drive · Glasgow G45 9TR Sisters at Mount Pleasant in Phone 0141 634 7114 Liverpool. He was very [email protected] conscious that the lack of blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/gc/stbartholomews/ certificated Catholic teachers and heavy reliance on pupil-teachers was impacting on the quality of schooling in many of the St Stephen’s Catholic schools. He negotiated with Namur, Primary the mother house of the Sisters of Notre Dame and Mount Pleasant, and it was agreed that the Sisters would establish a teacher training college in Glasgow. Second Avenue The College was formally Dalmuir G81 3LE producing teachers, but the opened in January 1895. Tel 0141 952 1491 numbers were not always When they arrived in Archbishop Eyre high, and a series of financial Glasgow, the sisters challenges meant that the received many visitors who management was transferred arrived to welcome them to The training of teachers in to the Church of Scotland in the city. This including Glasgow (and other parts of 1845. Canon Chisholm, a local Scotland) was still managed This created a major prob - Catholic priest, who invited by the Christian denomi- lem for Stow who had fol - Dr. Ross, the principal of the nations. This would not JohnJohn PaulPaul lowed Thomas Chalmers at Church of Scotland Training change till 1907 when the the disruption in 1843 in College, to meet them. Provincial Committees for breaking away from the estab - In 1895, then, the city of the Training of Teachers AcademAcademydemy lished Kirk to form the Free Glasgow had three colleges assumed control of the Church of Scotland, and he for teacher education. All Presbyterian Colleges and Goodness andd KnoKnowledgewledge and the vast majority of the three were operated by Notre Dame would come staff who seceded were asked Christian denominations: The under the control of the to leave their posts in 1845. Church of Scotland, The Free National Committee for the Undeterred, Stow helped to Church of Scotland and the Training of Teachers in 1920. At John Paul Academy,Acaademyy,, through service to the common good establish the Free Church of Catholic Church. The Catholic teacher education and recognition of the dignity and voice off each person, we Scotland Seminary in Episcopal Church had also continued in Notre Dame, commit to the pursuitpursrsuit of excellence throughh the development Cowcaddens in 1845. opened the Episcopal later St Andrew’s College Training Institution in and now in the University of of eacheacch person’sperson’’ss God-given talents.tallents. Scholarship Edinburgh in 1850 and there Glasgow. The other Christian Most of the Catholic teach - were Presbyterian colleges denominations continued to ers who were certificated (the in Edinburgh, Dundee and support students in the new vast majority of Catholic Aberdeen. This actually state Colleges of Education. teachers were uncertificated) created a very interesting All provided a Christian had to train in England. The anomaly. foundation for the teachers. Catholic women were trained The Education (Scotland) One of the aims was that the in Liverpool, Wandsworth, Act 1872 had attempted to students should know and and even a few at St. establish a state system of understand the teachings of Leonards-on-sea. The school education throughout the Christian Churches, but JohnJohn PPaulaul AcademAcademyy is a co-educational CathoCatholicolic comprcomprehensiveehensive Catholic male teachers were Scotland. Wisely this was to there was also strong schoolschool cocoveringvering ththee stages S1 to S6. It serservesvess the commcommunitiesunities trained at Hammersmith. be constructed around the emphasis on formation. The of the north wwestest oof Glasgow.Glasgow. Offering a brbroadoaad curriculum with best schools that already Sisters of Notre Dame had a There are at least two mar - close workingworking partnershipsparttnerships with businesses and charities,charities, wewe vellous exceptions. Lizzie existed and these included rigorous religious education Morgan, a Catholic woman the schools of the Church of programme for their areare committed to ensuring that all our youngyouung people gain a won a scholarship for the Free Scotland, the Free Church of students but also introduced wide rrangeange of skillsskillls and qualifications,qualifications enablingenaabling them to be Church Training College in Scotland and the Catholic young women to a deep successfulsucccessful in their cchosenhosen carcareers.eeers. 1872. And Brother Ezechiel, a and Episcopal Churches. The understanding of spirituality French-born Marist Brother vast majority of the Church of and a cycle of prayer. who became a highly influen - Scotland and Free Church There remains a great tial headmaster of St. schools transferred to the civic pride in the schools, in Mungo’s secondary school in state. The Catholic and Further Education and Higher Glasgow in the years Episcopal Churches did not. Education in Glasgow. That 1892 –1909, studied for two Most of these schools would, pride cannot ignore the years at the Free Church of course, be leased or sold history and the role of the JohnJohn PaulPaul Academy,Acaddemyy,, 2 ArrocharArrochar Street,Street, GlasgowGlasgolasgow G23 5LY5LLYY to the state under the Edu- Christian Churches in this Training College in the late Tel:Tel: 0141 5825882 0140 · Head Teacher:Teacher: JohnJohn McGhee 19th century. cation (Scotland) Act 1918. remarkable story.

10 FEATURE FEBRUARY 2020 • FLOURISH FOCUS ON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS St. Bride’s ST MARGARET MARY’S StSt Ninian’sNinian’s High SchoolS 83 Craigie Street SECONDARYSCHOOL Glasgow G42 8NB Tel: 0141 423 7733 Louise Kerr Acting Head Teacher

A school in the heart of the community St. Brigid’s Head Teacher: Mrs E M Seery 9 Birgidale Rd, Castlemilk, Glasgow G45 9NJ Primary Tel No: 0141 582 0250 Fax No: 0141 582 0251 4 Glenmore Avenue E-mail: [email protected] Glasgow G42 0EH Website: www.st-margaretmarys-sec.glasgow.sch.uk 0141 647 3952 A CatholicCatholic school ofof ambition Head Teacher: Paul Cassidy IN TRUTH supportinsupportingng CatholicCatholic educationeeducation St Roch’s RC Secondary AND LOVE Headteacher:Headteacher:
@StBrigidsPS www.st-brigids-pri.glasgow.sch.uk PaulPaul McLaughlin #FMMmFME 3PBE3PBE KirkintillochKirkintilloch G66 1DT1DT Tel:Tel: 0141 955 2386 www.st-ninians.e-dunbarton.sch.ukwww.st-ninians.e-dunbaarton.sch.uk St. Angela’s Pictures: Paul McSherry Primary School & Nursery Class QUALITYQUALITY INDICATORSINDICATORS EVALUATIONEVALUAATTION Education 227 Glen Moriston Road Scotland LeadershipLeadershiphip ofof Change EXCELLENTXCELLENT ‘alios adiuva’ – help others Darnley, Glasgow G53 7HT Learning,Learning, TeachingTeaching and AssessmentAssessment VERYERY GOODGOOD Tel: 0141 638 9646 Inspection 25 Rhymer Street Head Teacher Head Teacher: In Omnibus Caritas In Omnibus Caritas Raising AttainmentAttainmeent and AchievementAchievement VERYVERY GOOD Glasgow G21 2NR Stephen Stone 2018 www.st-rochs-sec.glasgow.sch.uk Mrs Bridie La Combre Ensuring Wellbeing,Wellbeingg, Equality and Inclusion VERYVERY GOOD Twitter & Instagram: @St_Rochs Delivering Catholic education for 92 years Sacred Heart Primary Saint Thomas Aquinas RC Secondary School St John Paul II Primary Our Lady of Loretto 29 Dunagoil Road Primary School Glasgow G45 9UR “Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly with your God” Tel: 0141 634 5219 31 Reid Street 112 Mitre Road, Glasgow G14 9PP Fax: 0141 634 9750 Tel: 0141 582 0280 Glasgow G40 4AR www.st-thomasaquinas-sec.glasgow.sch.uk Mrs Claire McInally Castle Square, Dalmuir G814HN (Acting) Head Teacher: Tel: 0141 554 5949 https://twitter.com/StThomasAqSec Head Teacher Damian Nicholas [email protected] Head Teacher: Michelle Diamond Telephone: 0141 952 0282 ST. MARY’S St Joseph’s    Twitter: @OLOLPrimaryWDC Proudly promoting   Gospel  Primary, Faifley Values and supporting  the aims of We grow  Catholic  Education  and learn together      S T MARY’S PRIMARY  St Constantine’s Faifley Road, Faifley Clydebank G81 5EY 2 Kilmun Street !"# $ Primary & Nursery Class Tel: 01389 872 068 Glasgow G20 OEL Email: % &'"(")*+++"'' Tel: 0141 946 6766 A community of faith, hope, love and joy [email protected] Head Teacher: Clare MacColl Headteacher:, - .Mrs / Linda $ Booth  Head Teacher: Madeline McGeachie

St Margaret of Scotland Primary, St Bernard’s Our Lady of the Holy Family Language Communication & Support Centre & Nursery Class Primary RC School Rosary Primary Broomlands Road South Carbrain Cumbernauld G67 2PT Head Teacher: Boghead Road Miss Marie Love Kirkintilloch “Serving the common good” GlasgowG66 4AT 45 Drumoyne Road, Govan G51 4AX Head Teacher: Mairi McColl 0141 955 2212 Head Teacher: Tel: 0141 445 6875 50 Tarfside Gardens Head Teacher: Mrs Elaine MacEachen Glasgow G52 3AA AndrewGallagher 14–16 Dove Street Head Teacher: Catherine Capanni Glasgow G53 7BP 0141 883 2010 FLOURISH • FEBRUARY 2020 FEATURE 11 FOCUS ON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS John Paul pupils’ film acclaimed FIVE pupils from John be done to raise awareness of Notre Dame Paul Academy in male suicide, and there isn’t Summerston have been enough funding or help for Primary people who are suffering. It hailed as “ambassadors 30 Havelock Street made sense because we were Lynn Raynal (YPI Regional of God’s loving mercy” a team of all boys as well.” Glasgow G11 5JE Facilitator) , Jack Knox, after donating £3000 to Paul Kierney, principal Tel 0141 357 0609 Cameron Sweeney, Kyle O’Neil, Brothers in Arms, a men - teacher of RE at the school, Head Teacher: Christina MacDonald Ross Rumsby and Mr John tal health charity dedi - said: “We are all so proud of McGhee, head teacher the compassion and creativity Notre Dame Primary is co-educational cated to preventing male of our senior pupils in their re - suicide. sponse to such a sensitive area of life. They’re ambassadors THE SPIRIT OF ST MAURICE’S Kyle O’Neill, Cameron of God’s loving mercy.” LOVE GOD, LOVE LEARNING, LOVE ONE ANOTHER Sweeney, Cameron Dutton, Jack Knox and Ross Ambassadors Rumsbay, all 16, made a film Dan Proverbs from Brothers highlighting depression in in Arms said: “We are proud young men and showing ways of these young men, not just to get help after being im - because of the funds raised, pressed by the work of the but also the message and Glasgow-based charity which awareness they create around Success was founded three years ago. male mental health.” Perseverance It was formed in response to The Aberdeen based Youth the increase in male suicides, Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) Integrity which is the biggest cause of offer an annual £3000 prize to Respect death of men under 45. the Scottish secondary school Inclusion Kyle said: “We made the whose project is judged to be Tr ust film as part of our Youth of greatest benefit to its local Philanthropy Initiative, where community and John Paul ST MAURICE’S HIGH SCHOOL ‘We are your soldiers we were to pick a charity Academy was this year’s win - Head Teacher: James McParland but are servants of whose mission meant some - ner. Under the rules of the West eld · Cumbernauld · Glasgow G68 9AG the true God’ thing to us. competition, the prize money Tel: 01236 794845 · Fax: 01236 728660 ST MAURICE “We picked Brothers in is donated to the winning Arms because more needs to school’s chosen charity. 12 NEWS FEBRUARY 2020 • FLOURISH Around the parishes St Robert’s parish Grandmother’s love story fund on target inspired Maura’s debut novel THE generous parish - letin Father Jim, who was ap - ioners of St Robert pointed to St Robert’s shortly after his ordination two years FROM the moment my Bellarmine, Househill - Picture by Paul McSherry ago, said: “On behalf of the grandmother told me her wood, have begun the Social and Fundraising Group new year as they ended story, I knew I had to I’d like to thank everyone for write it down. It was un - the old one – determined their generosity which has to hit their renovation been quite overwhelming. doubtedly a love story – fund target. “After 60 years, the church one that spanned a life - is very much in need of some time – and beyond. Challenged by Parish Priest TLC. The interior desperately Father Jim Dean to raise a needs re-painting, as well as a My faith of course is at the total of £70,000 they re - number of repairs so we de - root of this story. Now as a sponded magnificently cided that it would be fitting, grandmother myself, it is time through out 2019 and begin the in our 60th anniversary year to for me to let go of my own new decade with almost fund raise to help restore our grandmother’s story – to share £50,000 in the bank. magnificent church to its for - it with a wider audience, as And the fund will receive a mer glory. testament to the notion that further boost when a well-sup - “Regular fund raising ‘no light, no love is ever lost ported prize raffle, which in - events will take place through - from the universe’ and that’s cludes a signed Celtic top, is out the year and I’m confident what inspired me to write it. drawn later this month. we will reach our target.” I didn’t do it immediately – Writing in the Parish bul - I let it incubate for at least 10 years before I first put pen to paper. By then I was in my mid twenties, I had two young A teenage girl sitting at the foot of her grandmother‘s bed for hours Now hear this: children, and I wrote the first on end became enthralled by the old lady’s stories of her first love three chapters along with a synopsis, in historical fiction who was later to become a priest, writes Brian Swanson . And even at style, and sent it to a literary the age of 15 MAURA M cROBBIE, then caring for her grandmother in Church gets new agent in London. She immedi - the last few months of her life, knew that one day the stories she ately got back to me – could I heard would end up in a book. Her book. Now retired from a highly finish it in three months? It successful career in teaching, the former deputy head and parishioner sound system was a family saga-type novel of St Andrew’s, Bearsden, explains the background to her recently – this genre was selling like published debut novel Howth based on the stories she heard all those hot cakes in the mid 1980s, THE congregation of These included the restora - but I knew then, with two very years ago Immaculate Conception, tion of a stunning depiction of young children that this would Maryhill, will soon have Christ on the Cross, built as a prove to be an impossible memorial to Rev Michael task. But buoyed by her en - characters: Florrie and her this, to be free of constraints, without resentment or bitter - no excuse for missing Patrick Gordon who was the thusiasm, I put it in a top sweetheart Fitzgerald; they and domesticity, and most of ness – and at times with hu - out on Father Jim first Catholic priest killed in drawer, and knew one day I’d loved the Irish/Scottish fam - all she wanted financial inde - mour. Lawlor’s homilies as World War I. come back to it. ily-type genre and they sug - pendence. She broke away However, the strangest work begins to install a Parishioners also raised And as the years passed by, gested that I tweak it here and from her family and her irony of all, was when I asked new £7,000 state-of-the- money to resurface the car a teaching career and a third there and add a bit about the sweetheart to work in her what had happened to the park and install new lighting baby later, the millennium ap - Second World War, and with Glasgow, initially for a three- sweetheart that she had left art PA system. and signage. proached. I knew that I had to these adaptations, they con - month period. The only way behind her all those years ago It’s the latest in a number of And 2020 is a significant finish my book. So once I had sidered it to be extremely mar - she was allowed to do this, in Dublin, I learned that he ambitious improvements year for Father Jim who this 75,000 words completed, I ketable. Again, happy with was to stay with her mother’s had become a priest and had which have taken place over year celebrates 10 years as sent it to various publishers their feedback, I put the man - cousin who was Mother gone to work in the missions the past 12 months at one of parish priest at Immaculate Scottish and London-based, uscript back into my top Superior of a Convent in in South America. the busiest churches in the Conception. and I received very encourag - drawer – where it lay for years Glasgow. He had been imprisoned Archdiocese. Ad multos annos! ing feedback. They loved my while other forms of distrac - Florrie herself was captivat - and persecuted due to his tion took precedence. ing and charming, and she Catholic beliefs. It was then I soon came to the attention of realised, that both of them, in Influences a young Scottish chemist who their own different ways had In my final years teaching, I was from a successful family been persecuted on account of joined Weegie Wednesday in of entrepreneurs – and it was - their faith. And yes, she had New Mass times for Glasgow. This is a network of n’t long until they were mar - kept in touch with him over writers, publishers, screen - ried. the years. It was then that I writers and illustrators, who However, in turning her knew I had my story – of two Drumchapel churchgoers meet monthly – with invited back on Catholic Ireland, Christian saints of their day. guests – to share their literary Florrie unwittingly fell head- achievements, aspirations and first into the rigours and t I Maura will give a talk PARISHIONERS in St Benedict’s St Laurence’s talents. This was key to me ‘thou shalt nots’ of about her book and take Drumchapel are getting Under the new schedule St Laurence’s new times finishing my novel ‘Howth’ Presbyterian Scotland. She part in a Q & A in the used to a new schedule Mass will be celebrated at St are: Saturday Vigil Mass The powerful influences of was never allowed to forget Chapel House at St of Masses each week - Benedict’s as follows: 7pm; Sunday 10am religion were inescapable. My where she came from and she Andrew’s Church Saturday Vigil-Mass 5pm; Holy Day of Obligation: grandmother was brought up suffered deeply on account of Bearsden on Thursday end. Sunday 12 noon. Holy Day 9:30am in a Catholic family in Dublin her faith. 13th February from 4.30 – Following the retiral in of Obligation: Vigil Mass Confessions: Saturday the eldest of five children, and But she never gave up hope. 6pm. Copies of the book November of Fr John 7pm 6:30pm and weekdays after her future was set out for her Silently she prayed for her en - will be on sale with McGuire, of St Laurence’s, Confessions: Saturday Mass – to either marry a Catholic emies and found ways to over - proceeds going to the Fr Gerard Barnes was ap - 4:30pm and weekdays after and have several children her - come their actions. As a Parish Homeless Fund. pointed parish priest to St Mass self – or to stay at home and teenager, listening to her Copies of the book are Laurence in addition to St help her mother with the do - story, perched at the end of available on Kindle and by Benedict’s. mestic chores. her bed, she told me it with contacting: Florrie wanted more than such warmth and candour, www.mauramcrobbie.com FLOURISH • FEBRUARY 2020 FEATURE 13 At your service: the volunteers who help tackle loneliness IT is now widely ac - share stories, and to provide “It’s good to talk,” as cepted that social isola - emotional support in challeng - tion is a major public ing times. actor Bob Hoskins famously said in those health risk for people of We are also a safety-net BT ads, but do you all ages. alert scheme, alerting to po - tential health problems when - know just how good ? 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The celebrating is damp - Robert ened a bit when Simeon, a prophet, proclaims that this Hill I The Feast of the child will be the cause of the 2 Presentation of the rise and fall of many, and that IT may be a Leap Year, FEB Lord. the child’s mother, Mary will but February is still the Luke 2:22 –40 have her own soul pierced too. shortest month of the 12, The story of the 40 day old Already, after only 40 days in Jesus being presented to the this world, Jesus is identified even if it has an extra Lord in the Jerusalem Temple as the one who will redeem day added on, so there is being celebrated today be - humanity, but at the cost of his are only four Sundays for cause the Feast has always own life. Perhaps the Feast this month, and these been considered a major cele - being celebrated on a Sunday take us on a journey bration, and takes precedence helps us to remember the end over other celebrations that of the story of Jesus, even if which begins with the may fall on the same day. The his ministry is only getting Feast of the Presentation background is important. under way. of the Lord – important Early in the history of Israel, enough to displace the the custom of offering to God I Sunday 5, Year A. normal Sunday readings. the firstborn of any living 9 creature was introduced. This FEB Matthew 5:13 –16 The remainder of the month was done by offering the ani - A change of Gospel, change is dedicated to themes from mal for sacrifice, whereby it of location, and the ministry Matthew’s gospel, ranging was slain and burned. Humans of the adult Jesus take us to a from the follow-on from the were not exempt from this ob - whole new setting. Now on a Beatitudes which are normally ligation, but for obvious rea - mountain in Galilee, Jesus is read on the 4th Sunday. Yes, sons, the first human offspring teaching in the manner in you’ve guessed it: the beati - were not treated in the same which Moses himself taught. tudes fall foul of the way. As Luke tells us: “Every Matthew is careful not to sug - Presentation being on a first-born male must be conse - gest that Jesus does away with Sunday! For the remaining crated to the Lord”. Luke was the teaching of Moses. What two Sundays, gospel passages almost certainly the only he does is not to abolish the are taken from the section of Gospel writer who was not Law, but to fulfil it: that is, to selves light, but they – and we In these illustrations, he is with dignity and respect for the Sermon on the mount Jewish, but he had a great re - lay out the true meaning of the – can keep their light hidden! drawing out more clearly what life as a gift from God from Law which Moses received was the purpose of the law in the very beginning to the very from God. At the end of this I the first place. Jesus also end of a person’s lifespan. Gospel, Jesus will commis - 16 Sunday 6, Year A. stresses that not one tiny dot, Actually, the same principle sion his apostles to go out into FEB Matthew 5:17 –37 not one stroke of the written applies to peoples’ legitimate JERICHO the whole world and proclaim The Sermon on the Mount text of the Law would disap - relationships: these must the Good News. That will gives the evangelist Matthew pear until it is totally fulfilled. never be debased by another The Compassion of Jesus only happen after Jesus’ death a great platform for presenting This is a clever play on a fea - either. There are no excep - and Resurrection, and only Jesus as the one who fulfils all ture of the handwritten scrolls tions! Drug & Alcohol Rehabs., Refuge for Victims of Domestic after they have been thor - that Moses taught. The Law of of the Law. If a scribe made Violence, Supported Accommodation for the Destitute, I the Distressed, and all being ‘passed by on the other side.’ oughly instructed by Jesus Moses was and still is the core the slightest mistake in copy - himself. Meanwhile, he ap - of Jewish morality and reli - ing the text – even a small dot 23 Sunday 7 Year A. A COMMUNITY OF MEN OF PRAYER plies two wonderfully encour - gious practice. At the start of or a tiny dash missing, or in FEB Matthew 5:38 –48 aging parables to them. First, today’s gospel passage, Jesus the wrong place, the scroll Jesus continues to explore the FOR OUR TIMES (founded 1970) they are the salt of the earth. is careful to point out that he would need to be destroyed true meaning of the Law of Disciples in every age are to has not come to do away with and the process started again. Moses. This time he does not Vocation info. from Bro. Patrick Mullen, be the flavour which knowl - the Law of Moses. 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FLOURISH • FEBRUARY 2020 REVIEW 15 The Two Popes: between fact and fiction

BEFORE reviewing a film vility clashed so radically with about “The Two Popes” I the media-created image. feel a need to declare an I mention this personal an - ecdote only to justify one of interest… I have fond my (few) criticisms of this personal memories of rather good film. Namely that one of them. the characters are portrayed rather too starkly… Pope As a student of Italian lan - Benedict comes across ini - guage and literature in the mid tially as the almost machine- 1980s at Rome’s La Sapienza By Ronnie Convery like traditionalist attempting University I was being cultur - Communications to make small talk in Latin ally enriched but materially Director, Archdiocese during the tea break at a meet - impoverished. So poor in fact of Glasgow ing of Cardinals. He is seen as that I couldn’t afford to sit a stickler for protocol; some - down in a bar (it costs more in what elite in taste and rather Italy!) and so learned the joys was a well known and contro - negative in his view of the of al fresco eating by neces - versial figure even then, often world. sity. attacked in the papers for his Jorge Bergoglio – the future One of the nicer spots to alleged “panzerkardinal” ap - Pope Francis – on the other enjoy a panino con prosciutto proach to dissenting theolo - hand – is also impoverished e formaggio (a ham and gians and apparently harsh by the “good pope, bad pope” cheese roll sounds better in ways with liberal bishops. dichotomy. The complexity of Picture: Netflix Italian) was on the steps, Yet here he came, a small, his personality is somewhat under the colonnades of St slightly curved figure in a lost in his depiction as an al - Peter’s Square. And it was plain black soutane, with a most Forrest Gump-esque public almost every year since Papa Re – the Pope king – dinary time in which the film from there, every day without French-style beret covering character, happier to chat to his election and can be impa - who is not afraid to overhaul is set. fail, that I would see one of the his shock of white hair. Shyly the palace gardener than the tient with those who try to pull the apparatus around him to He cleverly uses two imag - two Popes walk past. raising his eyes only to those Cardinals of the papal house - him over during walkabouts, allow his own vision of the pa - ined conversations between Of course Cardinal who greeted him . hold. as was recently highlighted in pacy to take root. the Archbishop of Buenos Ratzinger wasn’t Pope at the Years later, I got to know The reality is that in many a YouTube video which went On the other hand, the ap - Aires Jorge Bergoglio and the time – he was the Prefect of bishops who had been re - ways in real life, Pope Francis viral) but also to his style of parently uber-traditional Bishop of Rome (Josef the Congregation for the ceived by the “German is a much tougher character government. Benedict is in fact an ultra- Ratzinger) to sketch the issues Doctrine of the Faith – and Shepherd”. Often they had at - than Pope Benedict. Francis is a rich and com - revolutionary – the first Pope facing the Catholic Church each lunchtime he would tended their first meeting in I refer not only to his capac - plex character. He is all for the to abdicate since Gregory XII and the wider world… issues leave his office and go home trepidation, only to be amazed ity to show displeasure in pub - devolution of power away in 1415. of poverty; the role of faith in for a mid-day break. Each day at the sweetness, gentility and lic (he has given the Vatican from the centre of the Church But these are criticisms of public life; church and politics I would see him approach. He humility of the man whose ci - curia a bruising ticking-off in but is also in many ways the ecclesiology perhaps, rather and human sexuality among than of cinematography. For others. in cinematographic terms While the conversations are there can be no doubt this is a not claimed to be true, they il - well-produced movie. lustrate in broad-brush terms It’s the Passionists’ Jubilee Year The sets are truly magnifi - the issues and the various pas - cent – Bernini helped of toral approaches the Catholic AT the end of 1999, and the beginning of the year, and arms linked for Auld Lang the couch by one o’clock, and up in the course in providing a magnif - Church employs to respond to 2000, I welcomed in the New Year, and Syne. Followers of this log may morning to head for St. Mungo’s to icent stage for this powerful them. They reflect more or the New Millennium, at St. remember that last year, celebrate the Mass of Mary, Mother of drama back in the 17th cen - less accurately the visions of Gabriel’s Church Hall in three beautiful desserts God, always a beautiful way to start a tury – but the two “big con - the two Popes. Prestonpans, where I was were dropped and left year. versations” of the film take And then there are the ac - parish priest at the time. splattered on the What had been a difficult year had place in the Vatican Gardens tors… Jonathan Pryce quite A great number of pavement by my ended on a good note anyway, with the at Castel Gandolfo and the simply is Pope Francis for the parishioners gathered in younger niece’s husband successful and beautiful completion of Sistine Chapel. duration of the film – the the hall from 11.00 p.m. We and, while the fault lay the refurbish ment in St. Mungo’s which, Knowing both spaces, I physical likeness is uncanny celebrated a prayer service more with the bags than it would seem, people are delighted with; found it impossible to decide, and he inhabits the role mas - to take us up to midnight Log with him (or so he says), and also, the ordination of Father Antony as I watched the film, whether terfully. Anthony Hopkins is and, once the bells had he wasn’t entrusted with Connelly. I was celebrating Mass in St. the cast had been given special also on top form as Pope rung, we celebrated in the the task this year, just in Roch’s the other day, and the lady who access or had just been lucky Benedict, although not quite traditional way. case. runs the repository there held up the enough to work with the best so convincing as his colleague Shortly after that I was Fr Frank Keevins CP The transition from latest edition of Flourish, and said, “it set-builders in the game (in in bringing the true character transferred to Dublin, and is parish priest of St 2019 to 2020 was, shouldn’t be called the Flourish this fact it is the latter). to life on screen. ever since then I have Mungo’s, Townhead however, slightly month, it should be called the St. The attention to detail is This is a film to be enjoyed greeted the New Year in different to previous Mungo’s Gazette! ” And true enough, spectacular: The coat of arms – as a film, not a documentary. with family, initially at the years, and not just there is ample coverage of both the on Benedict’s papal sash is It is full of gentle humour, house of my older brother and his wife, because there was no Jackie Bird. For refurbishment and the ordination for perfectly sewn; the text of the words of wisdom, beautiful and then, in more recent years, at the many of the family 2019 had been a which we are grateful. cardinals’ promise as they cast locations and ultimately two house of the older of my two nieces. difficult year due to sickness and What 2020 will bring, nobody knows. their vote in the papal election loveable and admirable char - Part of the thinking was that, seeing as bereavement. For a variety of reasons 2019 was the 150th anniversary of St. is pronounced in perfect Latin acters both of whom want how I was in Dublin and not able to be some well kent faces were missing. Mungo’s Church, and 2020 is the 300th and even the Pope Emeritus’ what is best for the Church with the family around Christmas, this Among those missing was my older anniversary of the Passionists. The St. predilection for Fanta orange and the world. was the occasion when the clan could all niece’s brother-in-law, a fellow priest in Mungo’s Jubilee brought many blessings, is included. And that is perhaps where gather and celebrate together, with me the Archdiocese of Glasgow, who drew light dispelling darkness, and I have no There will be some who the film succeeds… because included, and, even though I am now the short straw and was on call doubt that the Passionist Jubilee will criticise this film for simplify - for all the initial depiction of back home in Scotland this past three throughout the night for the Glasgow bring the same, and so I offer the same ing complex arguments. They Papa Ratzinger as the pan - Christmases, the tradition persists. Royal Infirmary. I was lucky as I was on little poem extract I offered at this time are right in a way, but to do so tomime baddy and Papa Scotch broth and steak pie are consumed call on the 30th. Also missing was my last year: is to forget that this is a Bergoglio as the knight in in abundance. Now, of course, there have younger brother who, after a lengthy I said to the man who stood at the gate Netflix film aimed at mass- shining armour, it ends with a to be vegetarian and vegan versions on period of sickness during the latter part of the year: “Give me a light that I may market audiences most of portrayal of two elderly men, offer as well. After dessert, glasses are of 2019, is, for the time being at least, tread safely into the unknown.” And he whom will have little insight sharing their experiences, filled, and we would normally head into house bound. This meant that, half an replied: “Go out into the darkness, and or interest in the minutiae of united by their love for what another room to join Jackie Bird, Phil hour before the bells, I left the put your hand into the Hand of God. That Vatican politics or doctrinal they hold to be true. Cunningham and Aly Bain, and then the celebrations, and went to be with him to shall be to you better than any light, and divergences. lone piper on Castle Mound in Edinburgh raise a glass of Irn Bru to greet 2020. In safer than any known way.” So, I went Director Fernando Meirelles for the final reflective moments, before many ways I enjoyed the quieter crossing forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod does a fine job to capture the This review first appeared in the bells and the fireworks resound, then of the threshold as I had found 2019 gladly into the night... issues, the worldviews, the the new online journal hugs and handshakes and kisses to greet quite difficult for myself. I was asleep on personalities of the two Popes Adamah . You can read more and the context of the extraor - at www.adamah.media 16 SCIAF FEBRUARY 2020 • FLOURISH Glasgow will have a chance to change lives worldwide

WHEN Pope Francis published By Ben Wilson for mass civil society his second encyclical in 2015, mobilisation for global justice Policy Officer, Scottish Laudato Si, he brought global since the G8 came to Gleneagles attention to something climate Catholic International in 2005. campaigners had been saying Aid Fund (SCIAF) And the story of Glasgow can for many years; we all must help shape our understanding of work together to look after our the crisis we are in. planet and stop global warming reaching Founded by St Mungo in the 6th century, irreparable levels. Glasgow takes its name from the Gaelic for He provided a unique and powerfully Catholic ‘dear green place’. But long after its patron argument to ‘Care for our common home’ – that saint had passed this ‘dear green place’ was we have as a Church a moral duty to conserve transformed into an industrial heartland. It and preserve this planet. became a centre of shipbuilding in the 15th Since then a string of terrible natural century when vessels from Glasgow were used disasters, have made the Holy Father seem like to transport slaves across the globe and a seer – Cyclone Idai, the Australian bushfires, transport the spoils of Empire. In the 19th huge swarms of locusts in Eastern Africa – and century, Glasgow became the heart of the increasingly the news is uncomfortably industrial revolution, processing the raw reminiscent of the Book of Revelations. materials brought back by ships from the The science suggests worse is to come – In Caribbean and from plantations in the US. October 2018, the UN published a landmark However, the wealth that the ships brought report that shows the devastating impact of back to Glasgow did not go toward feeding the At SCIAF our partners all over the world are for action. This technical theatre is shaped by exceeding 1.5ºC of global warming, and that we people who built them. In a time where telling us constantly that they are seeing the some of the richest countries who insist on could reach this level as soon as 2030. The Glasgow was known as the ‘second city of the impact of climate change, that it is making life being centre stage while side-stepping their consequences of missing that target are British Empire’ it was also a host to slums, poorer, hungrier and more precarious for responsibilities. millions of more people exposed to heatwaves, extreme poverty particularly among its growing millions. At the same time the poorest countries in droughts and annihilation of natural resources Catholic population. So this conference is a tremendous the world, who’ve done least to cause the upon which they rely. In the 20th century, Glasgow became a site opportunity for Scotland to show the world our crisis, cry out for justice as their people Now this winter tens of thousands of of resistance, with its people leading concern for the climate crisis, to engage and suffer most. politicians, diplomats, scientists and activists movements that would transform workers’ inform the Scottish public about this Around the central circus of the negotiations, will descend on Glasgow for COP26 – the UN rights across the country alongside Catholics emergency. there will be a huge carnival of events. At Conference on Climate Change. In short – it is a fighting for equal rights. And now in 2020 Every COP involves technical, often tedious SCIAF we want to ensure that the message of huge international climate conference, the Glasgow can again be a symbol to the world of negotiations when thousands of negotiators, Laudato Si, the story of Glasgow and the voice biggest conference of its kind that the UK will turning our backs on the old ways of politicians and policymakers meet to thrash out of the most vulnerable is at the heart of that ever have hosted, and the biggest opportunity exploitation and embracing justice for all. agreements and cobble together commitments carnival.

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