STOP PRESS! Issue 251 + July 2013 Results of the Consultation Exercise
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Altar Servers in Procession Tel No: 01772 704530 Mobile: 07941 554730 Fax No: 01772 798801 Address: K & M Maintenance Services Ltd, he diocesan annual altar servers gathering assumed Altar Server's Prayer Unit 9 Romay Way, Preston, Lancs PR2 5BB Ta different format this year. Instead of Mass in the More information: wwwkmmaintenance.co.uk Cathedral, the altar servers’ marked the Year of Faith with a Open my mouth, O Lord, Blessed Sacrament pilgrimage to our diocesan Marian shrine to bless your Holy Name. at Ladyewell, close to Preston. Cleanse my heart from all evil and distracting thoughts. A good number of altar servers from across the diocese with their Enlighten my understanding and parents and clergy gathered at the parish church of St. Mary´s, inflame my will that I may serve Fernyhalgh, and from there we processed to the shrine, reciting more worthily at your holy altar. the Rosary on the way, an easy walk lasting about half an hour. O Mary, Mother of Christ the High Before concluding with Benediction a litany was prayed and a Priest, obtain for me the most short homily given on the significance of Ladyewell in the story important grace of knowing of our Lancashire martyrs. my vocation in life. The idea of pilgrimage does resonate with us Catholics, and the Grant me a true spirit of faith and presence of so many altar servers and others at this lovely and humble obedience so that I may ever well-maintained shrine of Our Lady, suggests the ongoing behold the priest as a representative appeal of walking in pilgrimage. It was an excellent way both to of God and willingly follow him in the nourish the faith of our young people as well as to mark the Way, the Truth, and the Life of Christ. current Year of Faith. Courtesy of Bishop’s Blog Amen. Amen 2 + The Catholic Voice of Lancaster + July 2013 www.catholicvoiceoflancaster.co.uk EDITORIAL ay and June have seen a number of parishes around the Bishop of Kraków the Communist regime banned all processions Mdiocese hold processions in honour of Our Lady, and Cor - that displayed religious images. Every year the Archdiocese of pus Christi. Such processions used to be an important Kraków celebrated a feast of Our Lady when a sacred icon of dimension of being a Catholic in this country, but unaccountably Mary was carried in solemn procession through the streets of less so since the Second Vatican Council. The 1964 Rituale the city. Bishop Wojtyła got around the communists’ ban by Romanum describes the purpose of public processions: replacing the icon of Our Lady with an empty picture frame, so that the traditional procession could go ahead. In fact by ‘The sacred public processions and solemn rites of petition used in solemnly processing the empty picture frame the Catholics of the Catholic Church were instituted in very early times by the holy Kraków were able to publicly honour Our Lady and express their fathers. Their purpose is to arouse the faithful's devotion, to identity as Catholics in defiance of the State attempting to commemorate God's benefits to man and to thank Him for them, suppress their freedom of religion and freedom of expression. and to call upon Him for further assistance; hence they ought to be celebrated in a truly religious manner. For they are the bearers of The past couple of months have seen huge numbers of sublime and godly mysteries, and all who devoutly take part in them Catholics take to the streets of Europe to defend the family and receive from God the salutary fruits of Christian piety.’ the unborn child. In France, millions of Catholics, and others, have held marches and prayer vigils to protect the institution of Contact us The Catholic Voice of Lancaster respectfully asks the question, marriage from being corrupted by the nonsense of homosexual The Catholic Voice of Lancaster why have public processions, like other elements of our ‘marriages’ . And Ireland has seen the biggest pro-life march in is published on the last Sunday of the Catholic identity, quietly been dropped in many parishes from her history with 40,000 Catholics, and others, assembling in month previous to publication date. the practice of the Faith? Will some argue that they represent Dublin to defend unborn children from fellow Catholic Enda a ‘narrow ecclesiology’ that should be abandoned, even though Kenny’s abortion law. These public demonstrations in defence of The Catholic Voice of Lancaster is that ‘narrow ecclesiology’ represents the Tradition of the the moral doctrines of the Church honour God just as much as published by its owners. The Trustees Catholic Church going back to the New Testament, and beyond? the more traditional religious processions. of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster, a registered charity, The public processions of the Catholic Church have been The Catholic Voice of Lancaster is convinced that during this (No. 234331), and is wholly independent traced back to the processions of the Ark in the Old Testament time in our history when the British state is attempting to of and separate from any previous (II Samuel 6 and I Kings 8) and to Our Lord Jesus Christ’s marginalise the influence and role of Christianity in the public newspaper published by or on behalf triumphant entry into Jerusalem – and so are extremely life of the country it’s even more important that we seize the of the diocese. scriptural. opportunity to hold public processions celebrating the great feasts and saints of our Faith . By so doing, we honour God and EDITOR: When Karol Wojtyła, the future Blessed John Paul II, was auxiliary assert our right to exist in the public square. Edwina Gillett 01253 736630 / 07969 967268 [email protected] www.catholicvoiceoflancaster.co.uk h ast November the editorial team ADVERTISING: invited you to take part in a Caroline Gonella / CathCom Ltd. Results of the L Consultation about the future of the t 01223 969506 Catholic Voice . [email protected] Consultation www.cathcom.org We are very grateful to the many people i DESIGN & LAYOUT: Exercise who took the trouble to write, email or Rob Hotchkiss / Hot Creative telephone the Editor with their views. 01253 730343 And we were gratified by the many [email protected] complementary comments on the design www.hot-creative.co.uk and substance of our Diocesan Paper. a PUBLISHED BY: S However, one of the key reasons for CathCom Ltd. N2 Blois Meadow consulting our readership was to seek Business Centre, Blois Road, Steeple some constructive feedback on how we Bumpstead, Haverhill, Suffolk CB9 7BN might improve our distribution and S circulation of the Paper throughout the 020 7112 6710 / www.cathcom.org F Diocese. Unfortunately we did not receive Articles to: any constructive ideas. Therefore the future of our diocesan newspaper still E [email protected] hangs in the balance. Letters to: Unless there is a ground-swell of support at parish level from both laity and clergy [email protected] R alike for help in distributing the Paper it is f VoiceXtra: unlikely that publication can be sustained beyond July 2014. [email protected] P As a final effort to secure the help needed o Postal Address: a letter will be sent, in September, to the FAO Edwina Gillett chairperson of each parish council asking 99 Commonside, Ansdell, if they can identify people in their parishes Lytham St. Annes FY8 4DJ who would be prepared to help with P distribution of the Paper in their parish. Please send articles for publication on CD The support of Parish Priests in this regard or by email, supplying any photos separate is also vital. r to the text (i.e. in jpeg format). Otherwise please type double spacing or write very Unless we receive a positive response clearly. Last date for copy is the LAST O and support from every parish to help us DAY of the month prior to publication. distribute the Paper the Editorial Team Photographs will be returned if you will have no option other than to cease a remember to put your name and address publication with the last issue of the on the back of each and enclose suitable T Catholic Voice being July 2014. stamped and self-addressed packaging. This is a final appeal for your help – e please don’t let us down! S Edwina Gillett, Editor Y www.catholicvoiceoflancaster.co.uk July 2013 + The Catholic Voice of Lancaster + 3 Year of Faith - Carlisle City Centre or this Year of Faith the Neo that our meeting in the square was proof (David) . We were asking a few people in this Sunday, he said, here I am witnessing FCatechumenate all over the world of God's love for her. dialogue what they thought was the to the great love of Jesus Christ, and that he have been exhorted by the initiators of meaning to their lives and a young man still works miracles.