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No 5417 www.sconews.co.uk Friday May 27 2011 | 90p Bauchi’s new bishop is ‘home-made’ Cardinal O’Brien installs son of mission’s cook, Malachy John Goltok, to lead Nigerian diocese adopted by Scots By Liz Leydon CARDINAL Keith O’Brien had a very special reason to feel proud at the Episcopal Ordination of Bishop Malachy John Goltok of Bauchi, Nigeria. Cardinal O’Brien traveled to Nigeria to be the principal concelebrating bishop at the Episcopal Ordination last Thursday, to represent both the Holy Father and St Andrews and Edinburgh Archdiocese, which ‘adopted’ Bauchi in the 1950s and sent priests to work there. “It gives me great joy being at this wonderful ordination of the first African bishop of Bauchi to realise I am in a long line of wonderful people forging and strengthening those links which have been of so much benefit both to Africa and to Scotland,” the cardinal said. New bishop Bishop Goltok is the second eldest of a family of ten and his father John was the mission cook in St John’s, Bauchi for more than 20 years, until hi death last year. The newly appointed bishop was parish priest of St Finbarr’s and treasurer of Jos Archdiocese from 2004 before Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as the first Nigerian bishop of Bauchi this February. During the Episcopal ordination, held at the grounds of the Immaculate Conception Secondary School on the outskirts of town, Cardinal O’Brien read the appointment letter from the Vatican and installed the new bishop with a charge for him to lead the Church well and to ensure that justice is done for all. He said the choice of Mgr Goltok as the new bishop of (Inset) Cardinal Keith O’Brien lays his hands on new ary work. Several did so and served in Nigeria. John Moore as bishop of the new diocese. Bauchi Diocese would help ensure that the work Bishop of Bauchi, Nigeria, Malachy John Goltok. (Main) Funding for the Bauchi project and the support Bishop Moore died in Dublin, Ireland on started by the late Bishop John Moore continued. Bishop Goltok pictured after his Episcopal Ordination of the mission there was undertaken by one of the January 20, 2010, aged 68 years. In his homily, Archbishop Matthew M Mass with Cardinal O’Brien and his brother bishops Edinburgh priests, who had worked in Calabar, Ndagoso of Kaduna, called on Catholic priests to namely Mgr Daniel Foley. Remembering Scottish priests make evangelisation their driving force because Andrews and Edinburgh and Bishop John “He really made the name ‘Bauchi’ a name that Upon returning home this week, Cardinal there are many people who are yet to hear the Reddington of Jos,” the cardinal said at the instal- was on the lips of everyone in the archdiocese— O’Brien told the SCO that he hoped that the new good news of salvation. lation. “Those links so strongly forged have con- particularly concentrating in parishes and schools bishop would one day visit Scotland ‘to thank in Bishop John Goltok thanked the Pope for the tinued down to our own time.” on the necessity of Friday pence/penance for person many of the people responsible for the assignment with a pledge to preach the Gospel no The cardinal, who himself volunteered for mis- Bauchi,” Cardinal O’Brien said. early missionary endeavours in Bauchi.’ matter the difficulties that may arise. sionary work in Bauchi shortly after his ordina- Mgr Foley was later appointed national direc- He added that no visit to Bauchi would be com- Apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Augustine tion as a priest in 1965, made his first visit to the tor of Missio Scotland. plete without a visit to the Cathedral of St John Kasujja, a native of Uganda, was among the hon- region after his appointment as a bishop in 1985. In October 1983 Bishop Ganaka came to the Evangelist. oured guests at the Mass, as was Bishop Goltok’s He returned with one of the Scottish priests who Edinburgh to celebrate a great Mass of “There, with the new bishop we prayed silent- mother Margaret. had served in Bauchi, Canon Leo Glancy to Thanksgiving in Ingliston to mark 25 years of ly before the grave of Fr John Gibbons, one of the install the new bishop last week. archdiocesan missionary service since 1957. He first Edinburgh priests in Bauchi, who died after Cardinal’s message thanked Cardinal Gray for adopting Bauchi in its a road accident in Bauchi town; and also prayed During his visit to Nigeria Cardinal O’Brien Bauchi and Edinburgh infancy and took over responsibility for the financ- before the memorial stones in memory of the late spoke fondly of the strong ties between Scotland While initial evangelisation of the Bauchi area was ing and staffing of the Church in Bauchi. Scottish Mgr Danny Simpson and Bishop John Moore, the and Bauchi, and of the Scottish priests and reli- by SMA missionaries in the 1950s, in 1957 priests continued to minister in Bauchi until 1986. first bishop of Bauchi, erected nearby in the gious who volunteered as missionaries. Gordon Joseph Gray, then Archbishop of St Bishop John Moore was appointed to the grounds of the cathedral,” he said. “For almost 50 years now there has been a Andrews and Edinburgh, invited the young priests Apostolic Vicariate of Bauchi in 1996. Bauchi bond of love and friendship between our two dio- of the archdiocese to volunteer for temporary serv- Diocese was established on December 31 2003 To read Cardinal O’Brien’s first hand account of ceses—forged by two great bishops, both now ice on the Missions as a response to the earlier plea and formally inaugurated on March 11 2004 in a the visit go to http://www.sconews.co.uk/opinion/ dead, Cardinal Gordon Joseph Gray of St of Pope Pius XII for churches to help in mission- ceremony that included the installation of Bishop bauchi-cardinal-obrien/

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Nurses from across Scotland gathered at the National Shrine at Warm Scottish welcome for SSVP’s international president Carfin (above) to mark International Nurses Day. Chaplain Fr Denis Hurley celebrated Mass, during which members of the Catholic THE Scottish Society of St Vincent de Patrick’s Church, Cowgate, Edinburgh, the (Above left) Dr Michael Thio, international president Nurses Guild of Scotland, led by their President Isa Wilson, had their Paul (SSVP) welcomed the charity’s location of the first SSVP conference to be of SSVP, with national president Michael Balfour hands blessed (below) PICS: PAUL McSHERRY international president, Dr Michael formed in Scotland in 1845, before he at St Mary’s Cathedral Hall in Edinburgh. (Above) Thio, to the country last Sunday. attended Mass at the capital’s St Mary’s Dr Thio and his wife Rosalind and Carfin Ozanam Accompanied by his wife Rosalind, Dr Cathedral, followed by a question and Club president Paul Creechan and members of the club PICS: PAUL McSHERRY Thio, from Singapore, spent three days in answer session in the cathedral hall. Scotland meeting national president of the On Monday evening he visited Carfin’s speaking to local SSVP members and the SSVP, Michael Balfour, and conference Ozanam Club for people with learning diffi- president and members of the Association of members through a full itinerary. culties. Another busy day followed on International Charities (Scotland.) The visit began with Marian devotions at Tuesday with the international president find- Charles Ambrose, communications offi- Glasgow’s St Andrew’s Cathedral on Sunday ing out more about SSVP Scotland’s youth cer for SSVP Scotland, spoke positively afternoon, which was followed by a talk and development policy before visiting confer- about the impact Dr Thio’s visit had had on question and answer session at the Blessed John ence members in Perth at St John’s Church conference members. Duns Scotus Hall, where Dr Thio received Hall, a meeting that was also attended by “It was a very encouraging visit and he a very Scottish welcome (above inset). diocesan SSVP members from Dunkeld and was very eager to speak, both to groups and Dr Thio was greeted at the hall by mem- Aberdeen. individuals,” Mr Ambrose said. “His pre- bers of St Francis Pipe Band, having previ- The programme—into which Dr Thio also sentations have been very good and he has ously expressed his fondness for Scottish managed to include a visit to the Scottish spoken about the SSVP internationally, music from his memories of family holi- Parliament—concluded with a special Mass emphasising to conference members what days to our country. at Paisley’s St Mirin’s Cathedral on Tuesday they are involved in, and how they work Monday’s programme saw Dr Thio visit St evening, after which Dr Thio spent time with other charities.” AGNIFICAT M ® working in partnership with JULY 2011 subscription orders now available* Now distributed in Scotland through

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Frank Mulholland is named as new Support sought to tackle sectarianism Lord Advocate First Minister Alex Salmond hopes for cross-party backing; questions raised over bill’s focus and police action SOLICITOR General Frank By Martin Dunlop tainly a new area for us and we are put- regard to sectarian singing. Mulholland has been named ting more focus and more resources into “I cannot understand this statement the new Lord Advocate, SCOTLAND’S First Minister Alex it,” he said. “It’s the chatroom effect. It’s which they make: ‘We cannot arrest our- succeeding Elish Angiolini Salmond has said that he hopes to the legitimate fans’ website, whether it’s selves out of this situation,’” he said. It is who last year announced gain cross-party support for new the official one for the club or not, and almost to say that the only way to deal plans to step down. anti-sectarian legislation before the someone comes on and posts comments with this is by indirect means. He is only the second Scottish Parliament this week. that are sectarian—that’s what we need “But what you do is make sure that Catholic after Ms Angiolini to As the SCO went to press, the to deal with, and we need to publicise whenever that horror gets into the pub- hold the position. recently appointed Lord Advocate people being dealt with as a deterrent.’ lic domain, there is an effective and rig- Mr Mulholland was born in Frank Mullholland, was bringing the orous implementation of the law. The Coatbridge, Scotland on April proposals—which include increasing Ongoing concern laws are there—it is just that people are 18, 1959 to parents Charles the maximum jail sentence for those When the Scottish Government being allowed to get away with it.” and Jean Mulholland. He found guilty of sectarian behaviour at announced the sentencing proposals attended St Bernard’s Primary football matches or online from up to earlier this month, Peter Kearney, Police action School and Columba High one year to five years—to the cabinet. The changes in tackling sectarian director of the Catholic Media Office, Police officers in Scotland have, how- Secondary School. Mr Salmond (right) and his majority behaviour will fall into the remit of said that the recommencement of the ever, called for the docking of points to He graduated LLB with hon- SNP Government want to pass a bill to Roseanna Cunningham, the new Scottish Parliament would provide ‘a be introduced for football clubs whose ours at Aberdeen University in tackle sectarianism before the parlia- Minister for Community Safety and window of opportunity’ but that further players and fans are guilty of violent 1981. He was awarded a ment goes into recess, and the First Legal Affairs. Ahead of the new legisla- action towards tackling the problem of and aggressive behaviour. Diploma in Legal Practice in Minister hopes the new legislation can tion being introduced into parliament, anti-Catholic bigotry was required. Chief Superintendent, David O’Con- 1982 from Aberdeen be in place prior to the beginning of the Mr Salmond said: “We’ve got a particu- “We must seize the chance to adopt an nor, president of the Association of University. new football season in July. lar problem attaching itself like a para- ‘evidence-based’ approach from now Scottish Police Superintendents, said Mr Mulholland has been a The proposals follow increased tension site to our great game of football and that on,” Mr Kearney said. this week that points deductions would prosecutor throughout his this football season as two men appeared is now going to be eradicated, it’s over, Professor Tom Devine, a leading be popular with the general public. career, having joined the in court after Celtic FC manager Neil it’s finished.” Catholic historian, this week said that “There is only so much the police can Procurator-Fiscal Service in Lennon and two Catholic supporters of Police in Scotland are planning a Scottish police are still failing to use do and football authorities must do more 1984, working in Glasgow and the club were targets of letter bombs. Mr crackdown on individuals who spread their powers to tackle sectarianism. before things get worse,” he said. “The Edinburgh offices before tak- Lennon was attacked during Celtic’s sectarian hatred and incite violence on the Professor Devine, who on Monday current levels of punishments to clubs, ing up policy and managerial match with Hearts at Tynecastle stadi- internet by posting abusive comments on evening spoke at a debate on sectarianism such as fines, are having no impact on posts in the Crown Office. um earlier this month. Facebook, Twitter and football forums. at Edinburgh University, said that religious the behaviour of players or fans. We He was appointed the Up to 50 people are under investiga- bigotry went beyond football, and dis- believe that docking points will deter Procurator-Fiscal for Lothian New laws tion and could be prosecuted under the missed the idea that sectarianism was ped- future hooligan behaviour at games.” and Borders in January 2006, Under the new laws, people found guilty new legislation which would make dled by only a small number of supporters. The association also support closing before being selected by the of behaviour that is threatening, abusive, inciting violence online an indictable He said that SNP ministers ‘took their down grounds where there is persistent Scottish Government to be disorderly or offensive could face a max- offence. Strathclyde Chief Constable foot off the pedal’ with regards sectarian- trouble or sectarian singing. Solicitor General in 2007. imum jail sentence of five years. Online Stephen House warned that police have ism and were facing the most ‘explicit’ and The government’s new hate crime, such as comments posted on become adept at tackling internet ‘extreme’ religious bigotry in decades. For more on police action on Solicitor General has been social networking sites, will also be crime following child pornography Professor Devine also attacked the sectarianism, see page 13. named as Lesley Thomson, included in the legislation and would investigations. police’s handling of sectarianism Additional reporting by Ian Dunn who previously served as the carry the same maximum punishment. “Sectarianism on the internet is cer- at football matches, particulary in [email protected] Procurator-Fiscal for Glasgow and Strathkelvin. 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Tribute paid to the late David Cairns MP at his funeral Scottish nun to lead order By Dan McGinty opportunity and hope to oth- House of Commons (Removal SR ANN Gray, from the ers—the hope of a better tomor- of Clergy Disqualification) Bill Sacred Heart and St FR JOHN Morrison of St row, the hope of a fairer future. was required to be passed before Anthony’s parish in Patrick’s in Greenock paid “But, as David knew well, as he could take office. Armadale, West Lothian, tribute to David Cairns MP, his family knows, Christian hope “He was an effective repre- has been elected as the who died recently, as he cel- goes beyond this life, to the life of sentative of his constituents, new leader of the ebrated his funeral Mass in the world to come. In his political who was respected across the Missionary Sisters of St the parish. life, David was a dedicated parlia- political spectrum and far Columban for the next six The former cabinet minister mentarian, a committed minister beyond,” Fr Morrison said. years. (right) died suddenly after a and a passionate campaigner for “David had time for everyone Sr Ann (right) was elected short illness, aged only 44, and social justice.” and had a wonderful sense of by international delegates at his death was met with an out- Mr Cairns’ parliamentary humour. Politics in Inverclyde the recent General Chapter pouring of tributes from across career began in 2001, when he and Westminster will be the of the Missionary held in the political spectrum. was elected MP for Greenock and poorer without him. Ireland. The order—in three In attendance at his funeral Inverclyde, and required a change “I extend my sympathies to dioceses in Scotland, were Labour Party Leader Ed in legislation to allow him to take the people of Inverclyde for their Motherwell, Dunkeld and Milliband, John Bercow, Speaker his seat. Having being ordained as loss of David. He wasn’t just a Galloway and usually of the House of Commons, out- a priest in 1991, and serving in member of his family, he wasn’t known as the Columban going leader of Scottish Labour, both Scotland and London until just a friend to many people in Sisters—continues mission- Iain Gray, and former Home 1994, he left his ministry in order the House of Commons, he was ary work in China and Hong Secretary John Reid. to pursue his political career, someone who served his con- Kong, Pakistan, Philippines, Speaking to the large congre- becoming director of the stituents so well and he had such Korea, Myanmar (Burma), The three other new mem- gation which gathered for Mr was a man of hope. His public Christian Socialist Movement. affection for them. Peru and Chile, Scotland, bers of the international Cairns’ funeral, Fr Morrison service, his service to the wider However, because of a law “It’s very hard for many of us England and Ireland (where General Council are of Irish, said: “As a politician and a community was characterised by barring Catholic priests from to believe that David is no longer it was founded in the 1920s Filipino and Korean nation- member of parliament, David a sincere and deep desire to give being elected to parliament, the with us. It’s a very, very sad loss.” for mission to China). alities. Friday May 27 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER LOCAL NEWS 5 Historic island parish marks jubilee Our Holy Redeemer first parish in Stornoway since the Reformation, enters 50th year

By Martin Dunlop CARDINAL Keith O’Brien will join Bishop Joseph Toal of Argyll and the Isles and the community of Our Holy Redeemer’s Church, Stornoway, on Thursday June 9 to celebrate the golden jubilee of the parish. In 1961, Our Holy Redeemer’s was established as the first Catholic parish in Stornoway since the Reformation. Three church buildings have since stood on the site of today’s church. Priests from Dominican and Jesuit orders, who have previously served the parish, and priests from across Argyll and the Isles Diocese will join recently appointed parish priest Fr Roddy Johnston (above inset) at the Mass—to be Mary’s Meals lifts Loving Cup celebrated on the feast day of St Columba. SCOTTISH charity Mary’s the poverty trap. Very often, a Meals has picked up a top Mary’s Meals is the only meal Historic parish nous Catholics but have moved from Fr Johnston is the first diocesan priest award from Glasgow’s Lord which a child will receive that Fr Johnston, who was appointed to the Barra, South Uist and the main land.” to be appointed at Our Holy Redeemer’s Provost, Bob Winter (above day.” Western Isles parish in February, spoke to Church and he believes that this decision with supporter of the charity The Lord Provost’s Awards the SCO of Our Holy Redeemer’s first 50 Anticipation by Bishop Toal to place a priest from the Abeer Macintyre). are held annually to honour years. He noted that Bishop Stephen Although small in number, Fr Johnston diocese at Stornoway reveals the impor- The Loving Cup, which is men and women who have McGill founded the parish and the first said that the parish community have been tant role that the parish has in the diocese. the city’s highest honour, was dedicated their professional priest was the Jesuit Fr Joseph Ryland- looking forward to the jubilee with great The previous church building was presented to Mary’s Meals, lives to public service, worked Whittaker. The following two priests to anticipation and are keen to welcome the burnt out in a fire eight years ago, with which sets up school feeding selflessly for their communities serve the parish (Frs Capaldi and cardinal and their diocesan bishop to the new church building opening in 2007. projects in communities where or distinguished themselves in Hackett) were also Jesuits before Stornoway. “The new church building is beautiful poverty and hunger stop chil- business, the arts, sport or Dominican Fr Tom Cairns, the predeces- “The parishioners have been raking and we are very much looking forward to dren from gaining an entertainment. sor of Fr Johnston, took over as priest. through their homes for old photographs the golden jubilee,” Fr Johnston said. education. “It is a great occasion and a “I have been here since the beginning of of their Confirmations and First Magnus MacFarlane– wonderful way to honour peo- February and it has been a tremendous few Communions and we hope to have a dis- The anniversary Mass will be celebrat- Barrow, chief executive of ple from diverse walks of life, months,” Fr Johnston, who was previously play of parish celebrations,” Fr Johnston ed on Thursday June 9 at 7pm at Our Mary’s Meals, was thrilled to all of whom have one thing in parish priest at St John’s Church, Caol, said. Holy Redeemer’s Church. This will be fol- receive the award and spoke of common—a commitment to said. “It is a vibrant wee parish and the In addition to the jubilee Mass, a cele- lowed by a buffet reception at the local the good will of all who are Glasgow and its people,” Mr involvement of children and young people bratory barbecue is being planned for the Caladh Inn. involved in the charity’s work. Winter said. in the parish is tremendous to see. summer and an ecumenical service will “It never ceases to amaze me “It is entirely appropriate “Many of the people here are not indige- be held at Christmas. [email protected] how Mary’s Meals continues to therefore, that we publicly gain support throughout the express our gratitude to these world and we are delighted to outstanding men and women accept the Loving Cup in by celebrating their achieve- recognition of all these beauti- ments with a civic dinner.” ful acts of good will we are so Established in 2002, the lucky to receive and which has Scottish-based charity now made Mary’s Meals possible,” feeds more than 526,000 SPOTLIGHT ON... Mr MacFarlane-Barrow said. impoverished children every “It is only through this sup- day in 16 different countries Canon Leo Glancy, parish priest port and the innate goodness of across Africa, Asia, the at Christ the King and Sacred people who share our vision Carribean and Eastern Europe. Heart Churches, Grangemouth, that every child in the world The average cost of provid- once again led a successful should receive at least one ing Mary’s Meals for a child pilgrimage to Lourdes during the recent HCPT week. good meal in a place of educa- for a whole school year is Pilgrims attended from tion, Mary’s Meals is now able £9.40. Scotland, Ireland and to feed over half a million chil- The charity is committed to England and are seen here dren every day, and that we keeping its overhead costs low during their pilgrimage. continue to grow. and spends at least 93 per cent The group would like to thank “By providing a nutritious of donations on its charitable Alba Tours for a well-organised meal to children in a place of work. It relies on the involve- itinerary and also Parks of education enables and encour- ment of local volunteers in the Hamilton and their bus drivers ages them to learn and to make countries where it runs projects for a ‘most pleasant journey’ the most of the education that and wherever possible, uses is their best chance of escaping locally produced foods.

Celebrations for Poor Clares’ 800th anniversary ST BRIDE’S in Bothwell attached to St Bride’s Church, “We pray that women today played host to the Poor Clare in 1973. and in the years to come will community in the town as Speaking of the achieve- continue to respond to the call they marked the 800th ments both of the Poor Clares of God so that the Lord will be anniversary of the founda- and of the Bothwell praised and glorified for ever tion of their order. Community, Mother Angela, and ever.” Mass was celebrated by Abbess of the Bothwell com- Parish priest of St Bride’s, Fr Bishop Joseph Devine, who munity said: “This is a wonder- Thomas Doyle, said of the com- was joined by over 60 other ful celebration of the response munity: “The sisters are a con- clergy, including Bishop Philip to the call of God that thou- stant source of inspiration to the Tartaglia and Fr José Rodriguez sands of women, starting with local community in the simplic- Carballo OFM, the Minister St Clare, have given to God ity of their way of living and General of the whole Order of over the last 800 years. their commitment to living out Friars Minor who joined the “The life of prayer of the the Gospel in such a unique celebration from Rome. Poor Clares, which is rooted in way in the modern world.” The celebration remembered the selfless devotion of our the foundation of the Poor foundress, St Clare, is never out Clares in Assisi in 1212, with St of date. Clare being granted the “In fact the whole world is (Main image) The community of Poor Privilege of Poverty by the always in great need of prayer Clare nuns marking the order’s Pope four years later. The com- and we are so grateful to God 800th. (Inset) Bishop Joseph Devine munity in Bothwell was estab- for calling us to this way of life, of Motherwell accepting the gifts lished almost 60 years ago in to share in His Love and con- during the offertory procession at the 1952, with the sisters moving to cern for every person He has anniversary Mass their current monastery, created. PICS: BRENDAN MURPHY 6 SCHOOLS NEWS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 27 2011 An uplifting visit from Down Under Australian headteachers visit Catholic schools in Scotland to learn about faith schooling By Martin Dunlop

THE Scottish Catholic Education Service (SCES) last week hosted 32 Australian headteachers, who had come to Scotland eager to learn more about the country’s Catholic educa- tion system. Over the past six years, SCES have host- Cardinal Newman HS students help ed teachers from Ballarat Diocese, in South ACN to Save the Saveable in Sudan East Australia, who have visited schools here as part of a study programme focussed By John Newton The money raised this Lent by on leadership in Catholic schools. Cardinal Newman HS will enable “They contacted us a number of years A SCOTTISH Catholic up to 20 children in Sudan to be ago about visiting Scotland and have felt school has raised £500 to pro- educated for one year. very welcomed in their visits since,” vide education for Christian Many of the Christian chil- Michael McGrath, director of SCES, said. refugee children in Sudan. dren studying at Save the With a total of 52 parishes, Ballarat, Cardinal Newman High Saveable schools are from dis- covering the western third of Victoria School in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, placement camps around the state, is a geographically extensive dio- raised £500 for Aid to the capital, Khartoum, where people cese, and—following this year’s pro- Church in Need’s Save the fled in their millions during the gramme—each of their Catholic primary Australian headteachers William Hill and Michael to be kept indoors at lunchtime due to the Saveable project in North Sudan, civil war that ended in 2005. schools has had a representative visit McKenzie from Ballarat Diocese with pupils extreme heat, while at home it is the which supports up to 20,000 stu- Christian children have often their Scottish counterparts. from St Andrew’s Primary School, Bearsden heavy rain that can result in lunchtimes dents in 200 Church-run schools. been excluded from state PIC: PAUL McSHERRY spent indoors. Students from the school’s schools because of their faith Ideas exchange host William Hill and Michael McKenzie “The pupils had a host of questions for sixth year charity committee and their social background. The Australians spent two days visiting for two days last week. their visitors and many of them were keen presented the cheque (above) Not only does the Save the Scottish schools in pairs, where they “They were in and out of classes meet- to ask about sharks!” Mr Kerr said, to Lorraine McMahon, ACN Saveable programme provide exchanged ideas with our own headteach- ing with staff and children and it was very before adding that one young boys at St head of operations in Scotland, access to education, it is also ers and spoke to staff and pupils about how interesting to see and speak to people from Andrew’s found it difficult to grasp that at the sixth year’s leaving helping keep the Faith alive in the Australian education system shares another continent who are trying to achieve Australian football involved players Mass on Thursday May 12. North Sudan. many similarities with the Scottish setup. the same things we are,” Mr Kerr said. using their hands to control the ball. “It’s great that these young Christianity is not allowed to “They were extremely positive about Among other schools visited by the people have recognised how be taught in government the Scottish system and spoke of the great Similarites and differences Australian headteachers were, St lucky they are to be able to schools in the north, which is enthusiasm displayed by our headteach- Mr Kerr noted that there were a lot of Barthlomew’s Primary, Castlemilk, receive a Christian education under Islamic Shari‘a law. ers,” Mr McGrath said. similarities between the two school sys- Glasgow, St Joseph’s Primary, Busby, in Scotland and are in turn For girls in particular, who St Andrew’s Primary School, Bearsden, tems, but also many marked differences, Cathedral Primary, Motherwell and helping students in another part are often excluded from gov- was one of the Scottish schools participat- and commented that the St Andrew’s staff Turnbull High School, Bishopbriggs. of the world receive the ernment schools, the Save the ing in the programme and James Kerr, the and pupils found it ‘fascinating’ to hear Catholic schooling they Saveable programme represents school’s headteacher, was delighted to that children in Australia sometimes have [email protected] deserve,” Ms McMahon said. their only hope of an education.

SPOTLIGHT ON... St Ninian’s magnificent efforts for Mary’s Meals

ST NINIAN’S Primary School, Gourock, chose Mary’s Meals as their Lenten charity this year, a task to which pupils responded magnificently, enabling the school to send the tremendous total of 151 backpacks, filled to the brim with stationery, toys and toi- letries, to children in Africa. In addition to this, the chil- dren were involved in a num- ber of fund raising ventures, amassing the sum of £1000. During Lent, the St Ninian’s primary seven class organised Earlier this month, Cardinal a Friday Fun Day for the (Left to right) David Stevens, Freya primary five children collected Keith O’Brien celebrated Mass whole school with a wide Bowie, Mr Heuchan from Mary’s coins in confectionary tubes. at the newly re-opened range of fun activities, includ- Meals, Niall Smith and Robyn Kelly The primary six/five class Halyrude Primary School, at the cheque presentation Peebles, for Catholic primary ing a beauty salon, beat the had a daily collection of loose schools in the Borders. goalie, face painting, café, change—half of which was Attending the Mass, were bean bag challenge, guess the garments on the catwalk them- used to purchase stationery pupils from Halyrude, St number of sweets in the jar, selves and wrote their own items for the school in Africa Margaret’s, Galashiels, St gamezone, magic tricks and commentaries. The event was with the other half going to the Margaret’s, Hawick and St netball shoot. thoroughly enjoyed by all general fund. Joseph’s, Selkirk. The cardinal was joined in celebrating the The school’s composite pri- pupils, while, at the interval, an The St Ninian’s community Mass by Canon John Creanor mary seven/six class held a Easter egg raffle was held. have expressed their delight ‘to and Fr Robert Machingura. fashion show featuring clothes Primary six pupils contributed have been able to help those chil- PICS: PAUL SHERRY from a bygone era. all profits from their sandwich dren’ and they hope their dona- The children modelled the wrap enterprise project while tion ‘puts a smile on their faces.’

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SPOTLIGHT ON... PICS: PAUL McSHERRY PICS: PAUL Organisers of the chain said Organisers However, despite the wonder- However, After her Jubliee Mass, Sr (Main) Sr Margaret Watson with her Watson (Main) Sr Margaret friends and family after community, Thanksgiving Mass for the the golden jubilee of her profession. (Inset) Cutting her specially-baked cake they were giving ‘silent wit- to unborn babies as well ness’ as women hurt by abortion, and said the group hope to organise another local chain in the near future in order not only to con- tinue the fight against abortion but also to highlight the dangers suicide and of doctor-assisted euthanasia. which Sr Margaret was respon- which Sr Margaret sible for creating. ful past achievements by Sr supervising including Margaret, the building work at the Heritage Centre, fundraising for and even the hospice in Cardiff face, her abseiling down a cliff work will continue on behalf of the Little Company of Mary, following her election to the General Council this year. was joined by her Margaret many well-wishers as she cut a specially baked cake. SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER CATHOLIC SCOTTISH In her many years of service combined such Sr Margaret since the implementation of the Act, more than 7 mil- Abortion lion unborn children have lost their lives to registered abortion in Britain, although this figure does not include abortions caused by contraceptives and the morning after pill or embryos destroyed or discarded during and after in-vitro fertili- sation (IVF). practical nursing at St Raphael’s Hospital run by the religious order founded by Mother Mary Potter in Nottingham for the care of the ill and dying, taking her vows in 1961. cared Sr Margaret to the order, for patients at the Little hospice in Company of Mary’s care was avail- ensuring Cardiff, able to all who needed it, and carried out great work for the hospice, especially in securing Prince Charles as a patron after Thomas. the death of George wonderful work on behalf of the sick and dying with her own to chart the history of the efforts The Little Company of Mary. result today is seen in the Heritage Centre in Nottingham,

Pictured with Fr Kevin Golden are children from St Thomas Church in Arbroath, who received the Sacrament Arbroath, Thomas Church in Kevin Golden are children from St Pictured with Fr of Confirmation in the parish

The event was organised by The event was organised Participants stood in silence Planners said the protest took Sixty five women, men and Sr Margaret, who worked tire- Sr Margaret, entered the Sr Margaret

Friday May 27 2011 Friday A golden day for Sister Margaret A golden day for

PRO-LIFE supporters took to the streets of Uddingston to mark the 43rd anniversary of the introduction of the Abortion Act. Taking to the road to promote pro-life issues pro-life to promote to the road Taking the Parish Pro-life Group of St John the Baptist Church and was one of more than 40 similar pro-life chains held throughout the UK. holding placards with the aim of bringing home the reality of abortion. Estimates were that the messages were seen by almost 2000 vehicles during the two hour event. place to reinforce the fact that children formed a human chain stretching from Uddingston Cross towards Bothwell (right).

SISTER of Watson Margaret the Little Company of Mary celebrated with her friends, family and community at St in Ravelston as she Andrew’s marked the 50th anniversary of the profession of her vows. By Dan McGinty lessly for many years in Cardiff and in Nottingham, gathered her as well as her friends and family, colleagues in the Little Company together in the of Mary, as a thanks- church Edinburgh giving Mass was celebrated to mark her golden jubilee. The Little Company Novitiate of of Mary in Rome at the age of 18, having heard the call of her voca- tion after gaining experience in 8 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 27 2011

US President calls for a return to 1967 borders in setting up Palestinian state Queen’s Irish visit hailed a success US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has insisted that the Cardinal Seán Brady says the monarch’s visit can only help heal the hurts of the past ‘1967 border’ must be the ‘basis for negotiations’ to set By Dominic Lynch through history our islands have experi- up a future Palestinian state. enced more than their fair share of Speaking in a Middle East CARDINAL Seán Brady, the heartache, turbulence and loss. policy speech, ahead of his Catholic Church’s most senior cler- “These events have touched us all, European tour this week, which gyman in Ireland, has expressed his many of us personally, and are a painful included the UK and Ireland, hope that Queen Elizabeth II’s state legacy. We can never forget those who Mr Obama (right) said the visit to the country could lead to the have died or been injured, and their fam- issue was key to the resolution ‘healing of the hurts of the past.’ ilies. To all those who have suffered as a of the Israeli-Palestinian con- The queen’s four-day visit last week consequence of our troubled past I extend flict and thus became the first was the first by a ruling British monarch my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy.” US president to publicly call in 100 years and—in a speech at Dublin The queen added that it is ‘also true that for the 1967 lines to be the Castle—she spoke of the painful legacy no-one who looked to the future over the past basis of peace negotiations. between Britain and Ireland, expressing centuries could have imagined the strength of On Tuesday, however, her ‘deep sympathy’ for victims and the the bonds that are now in place between the Israel’s Prime Minister importance of acknowledging the past governments and the people of our two Benjamin Netanyahu, who had a Middle East expert, said that without being bound by it. nations, the spirit of partnership that we now a meeting with Mr Obama last the Israeli president’s meeting Despite protests, the queen’s visit passed enjoy, and the lasting rapport between us.’ Friday, told the US Congress with Mr Obama would hope- off without major incident and Sinn Féin that the 1967 borders are fully ‘advance the goal that is leader, Gerry Adams, said he believes the Papal visit ‘indefensible.’ on everyone’s mind.’ British monarch’s sympathy for those who Queen Elizabeth views St Patrick’s crosier in Following the success of the queen’s visit Mr Obama made the call for “Namely a peace treaty have suffered in the troubled past is genuine. the Hall of the Vicars Choral at the Rock of to the south of Ireland, Michael Kelly, Cashel, also known as St Patrick’s Rock, in The Irish Catholic negotiations on the borders of a between Israel and Palestine, County Tipperary, Ireland editor of newspaper, future Palestinian state to be with its promise of security and Remembrance said that it had made the prospect of Pope ‘based on the 1967 lines with prosperity to both sides, and to On the second day of her visit, the queen, guests was a refreshing sign of the times. Benedict XVI visiting Ireland ‘and partic- mutually agreed swaps, so that be complimented and made accompanied by President Mary “When you look around at people rep- ularly the north’ even more realistic. secure and recognised borders fully possible legally by a dis- McAleese, laid a poppy wreath at the resenting so many different strata of our “Of course, much focus has inevitably are established for both states.’ tinct resolution of the question Irish National War Memorial Garden in society, I found it a very moving ceremo- been on whether or not the Pope will trav- President Obama clarified of Jerusalem along the lines tribute to the almost 50,000 soldiers who ny,” he said. “I hope it will lead to other el to Dublin next June to participate in the his comments on Sunday as he advocated consistently by the died in the First World War. They also steps towards the final goal of reconcilia- International Eucharistic Congress,” Mr addressed America’s largest Holy See, namely an interna- visited the Islandbridge War Garden and tion and healing of the hurts of the past. Kelly said. “From a geopolitical point of Israeli lobby at the annual tionally guaranteed special Croke Park sports stadium to commemo- “It emphasises the need that we depend view, however, the prospect of Benedict Aipac conference. stature for Jerusalem,” Fr rate the 1920 ‘Bloody Sunday’ massacre, on each other in life for so many things.” XVI travelling to the North and complet- “By definition, it means that Jaeger said. when British forces opened fire on a ing the 1979 pilgrimage of Blessed Pope the parties themselves, Israelis “One hopes these few days crowd killing 14 people. The queen also Queen’s speech John Paul II is the bigger story. and Palestinians will negotiate will help advance this goal met with Irish Prime Minister, Enda Speaking at Dublin Castle, in her only “John Paul II always regretted that the a border that is different than because, as everyone has now Kenny, in Dublin during her visit. speech of the visit, the queen said that ‘so civil conflict in the North made his visit to the one that existed on June 4, seen, in the Middle East the Cardinal Brady was among the guests at much of this visit reminds us of the com- the region impossible in 1979. Up to the 1967,” he said. ground is shifting and the sta- the Islandbridge tribute where he was plexity of our history.’ time of his death in 2005 he had expressed Fr David-Maria Jaeger OFM, tus quo is not an option.” joined by members of the Orange Order “Of course, the relationship has not the desire to travel to the North. and nationalist and unionist politicians always been straightforward; nor has the “This week in Dublin has been an expe- from the North of Ireland, who chatted with record over the centuries been entirely rience of historic firsts. A visit to the North US report on abuse in Church met with each other and counterparts from the south. benign,” the queen said. by Pope Benedict next year could also be critical reaction, further report to come The cardinal said the diversity of “It is a sad and regrettable reality that the ideal space for another historic first.” A REPORT on the ‘causes the American bishops are blam- and context’ of the clerical ing society for the problem, Iraqi archbishop condemns the latest killing of a Christian in the country sex abuse scandal in the US, rather than admitting their own prepared by John Jay culpability for the failure to stop By André Stiefenhofer and Sako of Kirkuk condemned the sooner or later, there will be other faiths is still preached,” College and released last priestly abuse. John Newton killing, and went on to pay trib- divine justice,” he said. he said. week by the US Bishops’ The report said that potential ute to the strength and faith of Chaldean Catholic However Syrian Catholic Conference has been met sexual abusers of minors cannot AN IRAQI archbishop has his community despite the con- Archbishop Bashar Warda of Archbishop Boutros Moshe of with critical reactions—both be pinpointed through ‘identifi- condemned the killing of a tinuing threat of violence. Erbil, who visited the UK in Mosul told ACN that he from victims of abuse and able psychological characteris- 29-year-old Christian man, “In all these years, I have March to launch Aid to the thought the motive for the vio- from readers who question tics’ and there is ‘no single telling Catholic charity Aid never heard of a single Church in Need’s report on lence in the country was not the report’s treatment of con- identifiable ‘cause’ of sexually to the Church in Need Christian converting to Islam, Christian persecution, told the primarily religious. troversial issues such as the abusive behavior toward minors.’ (ACN) that ‘there is no reli- despite the many threats,” charity: “The murder was He suggested that it was influence of homosexuality Because of that, it encour- gious freedom.’ Archbishop Sako said. meant to intimidate Christians driven by criminal gangs trying and the responsibility of aged steps to deny abusers ‘the Ashur Yacob Issa was abduct- He added that Muslims regu- so that in the future they will to make money, adding that American bishops. opportunity to abuse’ by limit- ed on the weekend of May 13- larly go to his church seeking more readily pay ransom some radical political move- Dr Richard Fitzgibbons, a ing the ‘situational factors’ 14 before his beheaded body to convert, but he added: “I am demands.” ments were willing to use psychiatrist who has treated associated with it. was found on Monday May 16. not allowed to Baptise them. Archbishop Warda suspected criminals. “Some even say the many priests, said that the sta- Spokesmen for victims His family had been asked There is no religious freedom.” Islamist fundamentalists were criminals are paid by the par- tistical evidence in the John Jay protested that the report down- for a ransom but was not able Archbishop Sako also behind the recent act of vio- ties,” he said. report, the result of a five-year played the role of the hierarchy to pay the sum of more than appealed ‘to those who were lence and called on Muslim According to Archbishop investigation into abuse within in shielding abusers. £61,500 (€70,000) the kidnap- capable of committing such an clerics to make clear to their Warda, since the invasion of the Church in the US, clearly The ‘causes and context’ pers demanded. inhuman act’ to remember Mr faithful that such murders are Iraq in 2003 up to 573 indicated a connection with report was the second complet- Speaking to ACN, the charity Issa’s widow and the children crimes against humanity. Christians have been killed in homosexuality: a connection ed by the John Jay College of for persecuted and other suffer- they orphaned. “It is unacceptable that in religiously and politically moti- that the report itself denied. Criminal Justice, part of the ing Christians, Archbishop Louis “If there is no human justice, some mosques hatred towards vated attacks. Dr Fitzgibbons said that City University of New York, ‘analysis of the research on the sexual abuse of minors ing WYD to experience first hand The attack occurred during a Zambia last week accused demonstrates clearly that the by Catholic priests. The first, a NEWS IN BRIEF the many vocations that exist Mass last week in the central President Rupiah Banda’s gov- major cause of the crisis was the study of the nature and scope of within the Church and find Lithuanian town of Jonava, ernment of using state media to homosexual abuse of males.’ the problem, was published in WORLD YOUTH DAY 2011 WILL encouragement in their search for when a 42-year-old local resi- accuse it of supporting homo- He added that the John Jay February 2004. FEATURE A VOCATIONS FAIR God’s will in their own lives. dent sprayed Fr Kuprys with the sexuality and backing the oppo- College authors, who are Another report, consultant IN FOLLOWING with a tradition flammable liquid and set it sition in this year’s election. experts in criminology rather psychiatrist Dr Pravin begun in previous years, August’s CATHOLIC PRIEST IN LITHUANIA ablaze with a cigarette lighter. “Since all public media are than psychology, ‘lack the pro- Thevathasan’s Catholic Church World Youth Day in Madrid SET ALIGHT DURING ATTACK The motives of the assailant, owned and controlled by gov- fessional expertise to comment & the Sex Abuse Crisis, will be will feature a Vocations Fair. A CATHOLIC priest in identified by police only by his ernment, we can safely con- on causes of sexual abuse.’ published in the UK next The event will take place in Lithuania was sprayed with initials JD, were unknown. clude that these attacks on our Historian David O’Brien month. Early indications sug- the city’s Parque del Retiro, flammable liquid and set alight Police said that the priest had Church are sponsored by gov- questioned the study’s conclu- gests he claims in the report that where nearly 80 stands will be during Mass, police in the Baltic been released from hospital ernment,” Bishop George sion that social upheaval during the majority of clerical abuse set up, each representing a dif- state have said. after receiving treatment. Lungu, the Church’s top official the 1960s and 1970s was a cases since the 1970s do not ferent movement or institution Fr Remigijus Kuprys, 46, in Zambia said. major factor in the rise of cleri- involve ‘paedophile priests’ but in the Church. managed to extinguish the THE ZAMBIAN CHURCH ACCUSES “Whatever the case, this is not cal abuse. That explanation, he gay men attracted to adoles- The Vocational Expo 2011 flames with the help of worship- GOVERNMENT OF DIRTY TRICKS the way of winning the Catholic said, created the impression that cents and teenagers. aims to help young people attend- pers, but suffered facial burns. THE Catholic Church in vote in an election year.” Friday May 27 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER VATICAN NEWS 9 Holy Father speaks to astronauts Pope Benedict XVI makes history by contacting crews of Expedition 27 and STS-134 By Beth Thomson WHEN Pope Benedict XVI lifted his prayers to Heaven on Saturday they were heard by the International Space Station. In a historic first the Holy Father was connected live from the Vatican to the 12 members of the Expedition 27 and STS- 134 crews at around 12 noon GMT, and Pope Benedict XVI renews calls for spoke to them for 19 minutes via an audio-video connection. the elimination of violence worldwide And while, during his chat with the astronauts, pointing out that space explo- DURING Sunday’s Regina Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd ration is a fascinating scientific adven- Caeli Pope Benedict XVI gathered below in St Peter’s Square ture, the Holy Father also said it is a called for increased commit- as he prays the Regina Caeli at the powerful stimulus to reflect on the ori- ment to eliminate violence Vatican gins and on the destiny of the universe in families, in society and and humanity. Pope Benedict XVI speaks to astronauts on directed to the two Italian crew members international affairs. it proposes to us; that we believe “Believers often look up at the limit- the International Space Station from the present in the station, Roberto Vittori, The Holy Father made the in God and believe in Jesus. less heavens and, meditating on the Vatican via a video link. The Pope asked the who just arrived on Shuttle Endeavour’s remarks in a salute to the “Faith in Jesus means fol- Creator of it all, they are struck by the astronauts how science can help in the final trip, and Paolo Nespoli, who was International Ecumenical Peace lowing Him every day, in sim- mystery of His greatness,” he said. pursuit of peace and the need to protect a already aboard the space station. Convocation in Kingston, ple actions that make up our fragile planet The Pope conveyed his deepest condo- Jamaica-organised by the daily lives,” the Pope said Comfort lences to Mr Nespoli, who was in orbit World Council of Churches-in because “only by believing in The Holy Father was joined at the entific progress as well and expressed his when his mother died earlier this month. order to ‘eliminate all forms of Christ, abiding in Him, can His Vatican by ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, admiration for their courage as represen- violence.’ disciples, which include us too, who like Pope Benedict is German, tatives of humankind in a mission to Endeavour “The convocation is the cul- continue His permanent action Enrico Saggese, president of the Italian explore new spaces. The Pope’s link to the space station has mination of a decade-long pro- in history.” Space Agency and General Giuseppe “We are convinced you are inspired by been delayed from May 4 this month gramme aimed at combating all These ‘are not two separate Bernardis of the Italian Air Force. noble ideals and that you intend placing when what will be the Shuttle forms of violence,” Pope acts, but a single act of faith, The live link began when the astro- the results of your research and endeav- Endeavour’s final take-off from Kennedy Benedict said. “Let us join in full adherence to the salvation nauts from different nationalities, includ- ours at the disposal of all humanity and Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida prayer for this noble intention, enacted by God the Father ing Russian cosmonauts introduced for the common good,” he said. was postponed due to technical problems. and recommit ourselves to through His only Son. The themselves. The Pope also expressed his wish for the Endeavour will be moved to a museum eliminating violence in fami- New Testament put an end to Endeavour’s commander Mark Kelly continued recovery of Mr Kelly’s wife, on its return to earth. lies, in society and in the inter- the invisibility of the Father. greeted the Pope and said: “Welcome Arizona politician Gabrielle Giffords who The Papal call to space was arranged national community.” God showed His face, as con- aboard the International Space Station, was seriously wounded during an assassina- by the European Space Agency and the Before the Regina Caeli, firmed by the response of Jesus your Holiness.” tion attempt in Tucson, Arizona, in January. Italian Space Agency. NASA assisted commenting on Sunday’s to the Apostle Philip: The Holy Father acknowledged the sci- Much of the Pope’s conversation was with technical assistance from Houston. Gospel, the Holy Father reflect- “Whoever has seen me has ed on the ‘dual commandment’ seen the Father.”’ (Jn 14:9)

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Please also send a copy of the letter to us. 10 COMMENT SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 27 2011 Traditional Mass equal to Novus Ordo Universae Ecclesiae helps to reinforce the impetus of Summorum Pontificum on the Traditional Latin Mass

toral needs suggest it, the opportunity to learn the forma extraordinaria.’ That undermines the instruction’s declaration in Paragraph 8 (a) that the aim of Benedict XVI in Summorum Pontificum was ‘offering to all the faithful the Roman Liturgy in the Usus Antiquior, considered as a pre- cious treasure to be preserved.’

t is difficult to see how that aim can be realised if many priests are Inot trained to celebrate in the Extraordinary Form. Archbishop BY GERALD WARNER Vincent Nichols said, with regard to this provision: “Personally I don’t think it needs to be added to an HERE was never going to already crowded seminary pro- be the same level of excite- gramme because it’s a skill that can be ment attached to the publi- learned later in a priest’s life.” But cation of the instruction what about the Faithful who are Universae Ecclesiae on the deprived of the Traditional Mass while Tcontinuing provisions for access by they wait for priests to reach an age the Faithful to the Extraordinary Form where they might concern themselves of the Roman Rite as was attracted with learning it? Nobody would sug- four years ago by the motu proprio gest seminarians should be trained in Summorum Pontificum. Nevertheless, the sacrament of Baptism, but left to although the Instruction approved by learn how to officiate at Matrimony at the Ecclesia Dei Commission on May Cardinal Walter Brandmuller elevates the their decision can be made to the intrusion of such practices as com- a later age. It is all part of pastoral pro- 5, the feast of St Pius V the codifier of Eucharist during a Tridentine-rite Mass at Ecclesia Dei Commission, defined as munion in the hand, extraordinary vision and if a newly ordained priest is the Tridentine Mass, is a less historic the Altar of the Chair in St Peter’s Basilica the ‘hierarchical superior.’ Similarly, as ministers of communion and altar to be fully equipped to meet pastoral document, it would be foolish to at the Vatican on May 15. It was the first regards celebrants: “Every Catholic girls, all post-1962 innovations. Such needs he should be trained in the cele- underestimate its importance. time in several decades that the rite was priest who is not impeded by Canon a notion is not entirely fanciful: there bration of Mass in both forms. The chief consequences of celebrated at the altar Law is to be considered qualified for has recently been a controversy in For the most heartening aspect of Universae Ecclesiae will be to rein- the celebration of the Holy Mass in the Cambridge University chaplaincy Universae Ecclesiae is its unambigu- force the impetus the motu proprio forma extraordinaria.” over altar servers at the Old Rite. ous recognition of the Traditional gave to the widening revival of worship Old Mass. The much-debated question Beyond the Mass, the instruction Mass as being fully equal to the Novus through the medium of the Traditional of what constitutes a coetus fidelium states that Confirmation and the niversae Ecclesiae is not new Ordo, not some museum relic to Latin Mass and to tidy up issues that (group of the Faithful) to request an Easter Triduum in the old Liturgy are UChurch law: it is an authorita- which resort will be had only occa- have arisen during the past four years of Extraordinary Form Mass is now also to be made freely available, even tive interpretation of the law sionally, now offered ‘to all the its early implementation. Most of those resolved: there is no minimum in parishes where the Novus Ordo as set out in Summorum Pontificum, Faithful.’ There has long been a prob- issues are satisfactorily addressed, required number and the members Triduum is also observed. There is a to which it is a subordinate document. lem in describing the Old Rite. though the document is disappointing may be drawn not just from other particularly interesting rule laid down In a few instances it disappoints. Calling it the ‘Tridentine Mass’ under- in one or two respects. Its overall provi- parishes but even from other dioceses. in Paragraph 28, where the While its clear intention is to ensure stated its great antiquity; terming it sions, however, can only be helpful to That definition is so permissive as to Instruction declares that Summorum that seminarians henceforth are the ‘Extraordinary Form’ conveys a the restoration of traditional worship. leave no grounds whatsoever for Pontificum ‘derogates from those trained to celebrate both the Ordinary false impression that it is somehow a rejecting a request on the allegation that provisions of law… incompatible and Extraordinary forms of Mass, it is lesser option. Now, thanks to Pope he instruction stops several its originators do not represent a ‘stable with the rubrics of the liturgical somewhat woolly in imposing this Benedict XVI and Universae mouse-holes that were being group.’ Where bishops refuse celebra- books in effect in 1962.’ That ring- requirement, saying only that semi- Ecclesiae, the way is clear for its Texploited by opponents of the tion of the Old Rite, appeals against fences the Traditional Mass from the narians should be given ‘where pas- inevitable growth and expansion. What do you think of GERALD WARNER’S comments on the Traditional Latin Mass? Send your points of view to the SCO Write to Letters, SCO, 19 Waterloo St, Glasgow G2 6BT Or e-mail [email protected] Do not fear the Holy Spirit, it is one of life’s greatest surprises BOB Dylan is 70. It seems like probably the most obvious. My Pentecost and the gentle progress moment of clarity that would hear the reassuring words of only yesterday that Blowin’ in Fr Eddie parents have lived in the same into what we call ‘ordinary time.’ take them to a new place. Jesus addressed to all of us. the Wind and The Times They house for 60 years. In those Life for all of us inevitably con- If this was true at the time of How much change have you Are A Changing were begin- McGhee same 60 years their commitment tains some high moments but the death/resurrection of Jesus it seen in your lifetime? How much ning to offer a different per- to the parish community of St mostly we live very ordinarily. is equally true today. We may challenge in your lifetime? spective to the way that young John’s in Cumnock has been This is true of the ‘greats’ of have a greater degree of clarity Sometimes I think my own 64 people viewed the world. I unwavering. Handing on the society be they celebrities like but we certainly don’t have the years have been something of a know. I was one of them. They wanted Archie and Marie Faith to us was an integral part Bob Dylan, football stars, or whole picture. We would like to roller coaster ride. Just when I As Dylan grew and moved to be there. Uncle Bert came as of their parenting. What we did ambitious politicians. It is true of think that we know where we are though I had arrived it was time and changed so did his music. did an assortment of brothers and with it subsequently was up to those very ordinary people living going. We may even have a plan. to get up and go again. This is Not everyone approved but then sisters and nephews and nieces each one of us and we have all very ordinary lives, parents, We need to ask if our vision and almost certainly true of most of who needs approval for music and even a great niece. It was made our individual choices but grandparents, families, all trying plans match the vision and plans us. Life is full of surprises. Why and expression? Dylan chal- busy but not too uncomfortable. just in case you think you have to do their best in whatever the that God has for us. should we be afraid of being sur- lenges us in his words and music My parents don’t get out much stumbled upon some latter day mundane of life offers them. In the Gospel today we find prised by the Holy Spirit? to think differently. I suppose anymore so it was a wonderful ‘Holy Family’ think again. As a Much of our lives are spent Jesus reassuring His friends. that has always been the role of opportunity for as many of us as family we are no better or worse waiting. We wait from moment They will not be abandoned. I FR EDDIE McGhee has been the poet, artist and even jester, to possible to gather together to than any other. There are just to moment for the next moment Neither will we. It is all too easy a priest of Galloway Diocese make us think differently about pray. Coincidentally, it was more of us than most families. of significance. Today we are to look at our world, to look at since 1972. Currently serving the very ordinary. ‘Good Shepherd Sunday’ the day The one thing that did strike me waiting for the inspiration that our Church and to become dis- three parishes in the Kilmarnock I can’t say I was thinking dif- when we pray for vocations. It as we gathered to celebrate the the Holy Spirit will offer us to heartened. Whatever happened to area he helps on a part time ferently two weeks ago as I was a good opportunity to think. Eucharist was that this comfort- take us forward another few trusting the Holy Spirit? Perhaps basis with chaplaincy in HMP headed home to visit my parents. Many years ago when I was able family gathering was much steps on our journey of Faith. we have become so self reliant Kilmarnock. He holds a Diploma The only unusual thing was that studying in Boston there was an closer to the model of the early That is the theory. The reality is that it is easy to forget the Spirit. in Religious Education and a it was Sunday morning. on campus survey asking ques- Church that we discover in the that we get on with whatever Not only has the Church been in Masters in Education and has Normally on a Sunday morning I tions about what the significant scriptures. I’m not sure that the today brings—currently winds tough places before, it has been worked extensively in Catholic am busy. I stopped in Mauchline influences on our Faith forma- early Church would have had the gusting to 70mph and May feel- in much greater difficulties his- schools as advisor in religious to collect Archie and Marie Kerr, tion had been. Overwhelmingly, bacon sandwiches afterwards but ing like November. torically than the difficulties we education. A columnist for the close friends of my parents, to the most significant influenced it seemed the most appropriate The early Church did the face today. If we want to move SCO since 1991, his hobbies bring them to Cumnock with me. reported had been family. Of thing to do on a Sunday morning. same. They waited. They reflect- forward we must trust the Spirit. include fishing, pigeon-racing Being on holiday has it benefits. course there were a myriad of This week we continue the ed on the events that had taken We can all work to our own and poetry. He can be contacted I was going to celebrate Mass at other influences but the single movement from the ‘high’ of place that had so affected their agenda but as we read the by email: edwardmcghee home with my Mum and Dad. most significant influence was Easter towards the Feast of lives and they waited for the Gospel today we are invited to @btinternet.com Friday May 27 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER COMMENT 11 Put aside your pride and help the poor WIRED IN This month’s CARRYING THE CROSS sings the praises of the work of the St Vincent De Paul Society An SCO Diary

By Dan McGinty By Joseph ROMAN commuters have reacted with bewilderment to the unveiling of a statue McGrath honouring Blessed Pope John Paul II at Rome’s MAGINE for a moment that you Termini station. The statue was are a teenager (perhaps you are a commissioned to teenager) and have just moved coincide with the late out of care. Where are you going Pope’s Beatification. to live? The local authority gives However, the sculpture, youI a flat in a high rise block and you which records the moment in 2003 when the move in. You are now the tenant of an Pope jokingly wrapped a empty flat. The walls are bare, the child in his robes, has floors are bare and you have nowhere drawn criticism for its to sit or sleep. Life on the bare boards strange appearance, with is a reality for some. Blessed John Paul’s head perched on top of a 12ft Imagine again that you are a young high cloak structure. Polish worker and you have come to More than 87 per cent Scotland to find work. You arrive full of respondents in of enthusiasm and a determination to a poll in Italian newspaper work hard and make a go of it. You La Repubblica said they dislike the statue. have managed to rent an empty house “It’s hideous—you but you need the furniture for your can’t even recognise small family. Sitting on the bare floor him,” one commuter said. is not an option. Who can you turn to? Architect, Oliviero Rainaldi solved the mystery Many people in this situation turn to of the statue’s strange St Vincent De Paul. The Society of St design. Vincent De Paul has long been the “I didn’t even think about Catholic Church’s first stop for people resemblance,” he said. in need. You all know them. You have GGGGGGGGGGGGGG put a coin in their collecting box on the way out of Mass every week for as long FRIDAY September 16 as you can remember. I’ve met them as will be a momentous day far away as Northern Nigeria collecting for Catholics all over for the poor just as they do in Scotland. Britain, as they remember the visit by Pope In Motherwell Diocese the society Benedict XVI last year, recognised a problem years ago. Poor but it seems that it will people needed furniture to hold a grow- also mark an important ing family or furnish a house in a new change for Catholic area. At the same time people were dinnertables in England and Wales. enjoying some affluence and were fur- After an absence of nishing their homes with new, more more than 25 years, the comfortable, more fashionable furni- Catholic Church south of ture. Their problem was what to do the border is reinstating with the old furniture? the traditional abstention from meat on Fridays, The Society of St Vincent De Paul set with Archbishop Vincent up their furniture project about 20 years Nichols explaining that it ago with two centres in Coatbridge and will help provide Catholics in Motherwell. The idea was to take with a common sense of away the old, but still perfectly service- purpose and unity in remembering Christ’s able, furniture from those who were sacrifice each Friday. redecorating and make it available to Presumably, too, those in need. This was recycling John Montgomerie (left) with two SVDP John, Isaac and the other volunteers gry and feed you; when did I see you September 16 can’t come before it became fashionable. volunteers , taking charge of some donated I did not meet all carry their cross with naked and clothe you?’ How would we quickly enough for fish I’m looking for evidence that the furniture no thought of putting it down and live out our Christian responsibility for and chip shop owners up and down the country. Church is still carrying on the work that is unwell and had to leave to see to her. walking away. Here, just as Jesus did, our fellow man without them? Jesus began. I’m trying to find the peo- I was curious; how did this pair end up they encounter a convicted man and GGGGGGGGGGGGGG ple who have taken up the cross and running this project? John’s accent welcome him. Just as the thief who was onsidering the ages of these walked with it. I contacted the furniture betrays the fact that he originates from crucified with Christ attained salvation men I was tempted to ask them AN American Catholic project in Coatbridge and arranged to Dublin. He only came to Scotland dur- in his encounter with the cross, this how this work would continue has completed a C trans-continental journey go along to find out more. I arrived at ing his time in the merchant navy and it young man was now able to work when they are no longer able. How do with a difference, after an industrial unit which North was in Glasgow that he met his wife to towards his salvation. they go about recruiting new members praying the Rosary from Lanarkshire leases to the project for a be and he ended up in Coatbridge. It That let me see a deeper side of the and preparing them to take over the one coast to another. peppercorn rent. It is located in an was as a family man that he was recruit- work these men do. Not only are they reins? John told me that the society no Jeff Grabosky from New Jersey set-off from estate with a few small businesses ed into the St Vincent De Paul confer- helping the poor in a practical way, but longer has the numbers that it had in Oceanside in California and beavering away to ply their trades. ence in his own parish. When the they give others an opportunity to find the past. Attempts to recruit new mem- in under five months has I was met by John Montgomerie and society started up the project he was their way and their cross. Their dedica- bers by personal approach have had ran the 3700 miles across his colleague, Isaac Mitchell who man- asked to take part and he said yes. That tion to their task is an example to all of only a little success and an attempt to America to Smith Point in age the warehouse. They were happy to saying ‘yes’ is when he took up this us. Every one of us is asked to carry get young people involved by targeting Long Island, New York. However, his journey show me round. They have two vans cross. He is still carrying it after 25 their cross. What cross are you asked to the high schools came to nothing. was about more than just based here. One van serves the north of years. He is not alone. There are other carry? Do you have more than one Why are people not so interested in jogging, and he opened the diocese while the other serves the volunteers. Some drive the vans, col- cross? The great thing about your cross helping the poor? Are we all so caught up himself up to prayer Motherwell end to the south. John and lecting and delivering furniture. John is that you can choose to put it down in celebrity and affluence that we don’t requests as he said the Isaac take calls from people who want told me that one parish conference, St and walk away any time you like. Have want to be associated with poverty? Rosary throughout his journey and vowed to to donate their furniture. Monica’s takes over the warehouse on a you put down your cross or are you Perhaps this is just a sign of changing pray for those intentions The furniture is organised in different Thursday to help out. struggling on? times. Perhaps it is about changes in us. as he clocked up the areas of the warehouse. Three piece Then another thought struck me. Where will we be without men like miles across America. suites here and wardrobes over there. strange thing happened while I John and the other brothers and sisters John and Isaac and the volunteers who “I believe God can help Dining tables and chairs to this side and was listening to John. Two offi- of the society are not only helping the drive the vans and carry the furniture? us overcome and make it through anything if we bedroom furniture to that side. There is Acials arrived with a young man poor in material ways, important How will the ‘Big Society’ cope with only trust in Him,” he not a great deal of space but the two who had been sentenced to community though that is. They are helping those out the St Vincent De Paul branches said. “I tell people who men have things under control. service. He had agreed to work with of us who are more comfortable in a who respond to appeals for help from are in tough stretches John and Isaac are not in the first the furniture project carrying furniture. deeper and more important way. They those left behind? What about you and that this life is often flush of youth. John is 83 years old and It struck me that I have been searching remind us of the needy every time they me? Is it enough to put a coin in the box difficult, but God has a plan for us and if we let Isaac is 80. I felt like a youngster beside for people who carry their cross, fol- stand with their box at the church door. on the way out of Mass? Can we do Him in our hearts He can them, a boy being allowed to sit with low the Father’s will, rather than please They give us an opportunity to answer more or are we too proud to become and will do amazing the men. Isaac looks after his wife who themselves. the questions, ‘when did I see you hun- involved with the poor? things with our lives.” 12 PERMANENT DIACONATE SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 27 2011 Friday May 27 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SECTARIANISM 13

Y FIRST encounter Deacon Peter MacDonald Baptising his with the diaconate baby grand-daughter, Freya Grace—held by was in the early mum Alice Murray—a Sacramental duty 1980’s when we that brings him great joy moved to a parish in MSurrey. There was a deacon there and visiting any prisoners and staff who are he was very involved in all parish patients in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. activities. I knew he wasn’t a priest, I also carry out specific Catholic and I did wonder a bit about his role duties such as distributing Holy and ministry. Actually, I paid scant Communion to Catholic prisoners. attention, considering that I was to fol- Every month I lead the Sunday low suit 17 years later. Service, which is shared on a rotation- On returning to Aberdeen, I discov- al basis with chaplains from other ered that Bishop Mario Conti had intro- Christian denominations. duced the diaconate to Scotland and I HMP Peterhead, on the other hand, is met Rev John Futers, one of the first per- a specialised prison for convicted male manent deacons to be ordained in the sex offenders whose sentences exceed country. Deacon Futers was involved in four years. I lead a weekly Service of the establishment of a programme of the Word with Holy Communion assist- formation of deacons, not only from ed by Sr Vera Fox of the Franciscan Aberdeen Diocese, but also from Missionaries of Mary. I also arrange for Dunkeld Diocese and Motherwell Masses to be celebrated, ideally every Diocese. After a while, he came to serve ten weeks, after which the opportunity in my parish. He was a conscientious for prisoner Confession is available. I and hard working deacon and an excel- have had the support of a group of lent example. My curiosity about the priests who have generously given of Permanent Diaconate increased. Deacon their time to come to the prisons. One Futers is now retired and he and his important source of help and advice is wife, Margaret, live in the Borders. Fr Brian Gowans, Catholic Chaplaincy After much prayer and reflection, Advisor to the Scottish Prison Service. and with the agreement of my wife and When prisoners express an interest family, I embarked upon a period of in the Church, I catechise as appropri- study and training and I was ordained ate, and Bishop Peter has conferred the as a permanent deacon in 2000, by the Sacrament of Confirmation in then Bishop Mario Conti of Aberdeen. Peterhead Prison. Shortly after this, I took advantage of It is important for a prison chaplain an early retirement opportunity from to be both visible and available. my career as tax advisor in the oil Because of the size of the Peterhead industry, in order to serve as deacon on Prison site, I find that I can cover sev- a full-time basis. As the diaconate is a eral miles per day visiting in the resi- non-stipendiary role, this of course dential halls and walking round, talk- entailed financial sacrifice for the fam- ing with the inmates in the exercise ily, which they generously accepted. yard. This keeps me fit. Anti-sectarian law must be enforced Following my ordination, Bishop It may seem surprising that the Conti asked me to undertake the demands of pastoral care in the parish responsibility of RC Chaplain at Royal and in the prison can be similar. N LAST week’s article I men- It falls to the police to enforce the law at Aberdeen Children’s Hospital and Parishioners and prisoners can be tioned the fact that there needs As the Scottish Government moves to toughen existing legislation, football matches. While anti-sectarian Aberdeen Maternity Unit. He suggest- affected by the same highly stressful to be an acceptance of the exis- measures are in place (inset above), ed that this ministry would be appro- problems such as family troubles, ill- tence of anti-Catholicism and and the Church renews calls for a focus on anti-Catholic bigotry documented confusion over what amounts priate to me as a father and grandfa- ness and bereavement. Prisoners can anti-Irish racism as a major part to the offence is not helping matters in Scotland ther. Naively, I imagined that this feel particularly isolated and helpless ofI the sectarian problem in Scottish MICHAEL BRADY points out the need for enforcement by the police PICS: PA PHOTOS appointment would mainly involve in these circumstances as family con- football and society, and that education smiling at new babies. I could do that. tact is necessarily limited. is a key facet in tackling sectarianism. Then, as I walked through the corri- Recently re-elected First Minister Alex around Glasgow derby matches. when they sing of being ‘up to their ian in intent and that those who showed iday could make the derby match the dor on my first day at the Maternity n the last 11 years it has been a Salmond commented, on his first day The problem with such figures is, knees in Fenian blood,’ that is an out- support for it, real or rhetorical, were ‘perfect storm,’ for violence. Hospital, the sister approached me ask- privilege to administer the in parliament last week, of the ‘para- first and foremost, that there is a lack pouring of religious bigotry. not showing ‘malice or ill will towards “It is a bank holiday, it’s the last meet- ing if I could go to speak to a mother ISacrament of Baptism to many site of sectarianism.’ He has also prom- of clarity as to whether they are all Bizarrely, prior to the Rangers vs members of a religious group.’ ing of the season—which is crucial for who had just been told that her beautiful babies both in hospital and in the ised more robust laws to deal with directly linked to sectarian behaviour. Celtic match at Ibrox in April, Chief “To my knowledge, little of this case the result—and the weather forecast is baby had Down’s Syndrome. And that parish. It has been an honour to pre- bigots. Also a mere 34 arrests inside a stadium Superintendent Andy Bates, divisional was reported in the press, which is a hot,” he said. “That means people will has been the pattern. The chaplain often pare adults for the sacraments and to Given the criticism that has been lev- with close on 60,000 spectators hardly commander for Glasgow South and pity because its results have significant be drunk and they will get injured or tends to be sought only if things have conduct funerals outside Mass. elled at the police in Scotland—allega- points to a major problem. Perhaps the East Renfrewshire, in his promise to legal implications as to how Scottish raped, assaults go up and so does not gone as anticipated. I soon discov- Occasionally, I am called upon to tions of a lack of knowledge of what answer to the police’s seeming desire ‘blitz the bigots,’ brought Celtic sup- law officers and the police respond to domestic violence. We do not see the ered that, although this particular hospi- interview for the Marriage Tribunal, constitutes sectarianism; claims of turn- to highlight such figures comes from porters into the equation when he said: fan behaviour at these matches,” clubs as the enemy. We do not blame tal ministry can be the most joyful, it is and am one of the diocesan signatories ing a blind eye and a deaf ear to anti- Les Gray, chairman of the Police “If you sing Boys of the Old Brigade, Professor Devine said. Celtic or Rangers for the violence.” also the saddest, when things go wrong. for the disclosure process relating to Catholicism and anti-Irish racism; per- Federation, who said: “We simply do we’ll arrest you… If you sing anything The equality group Celebrate Despite the disclaimer at the end, the However, I have many times also the Safeguarding of Children and ceived inflammation of tensions with not have the money and resources to derisory about the Pope or the Queen, Identity, Challenge Intolerance was chief constable would have been better had the marvellous experience of being Adults at Risk. comments in the media; and claims of a do this.” He also went on to claim that we’ll consider that an arrestable also critical of the police in this regard. advised to omit the reference to Celtic confronted by a healthy, ‘wild’ toddler In my ministry, I have been blessed lack of transparency on arrests and fines Glasgow derby matches should be offence.” It commented: “From an equality per- and Rangers or just not made the com- who is introduced to me by a doting SERVING to meet so many good people, both in related to sectarianism—the question played behind closed doors or banned Leaving aside the fact that on the spective, there are no reasons whatso- ments at all, as they do, to an extent, mother or father, as the child I had bap- the parish and prison environment. remains: can we be confident that the altogether. second point—singing an anti-monar- ever for supporters attending football place blame on both clubs. tised in an emergency a couple of years Their prayers and support, in particular police will enforce effectively whatever With cuts to policing budgets chist song would see singers such as matches to be arrested for singing this Les Gray fared little better. In a radio previously. Prayers answered indeed. those of my wife, Bernadette, have legislation MSPs pass? (announced in the summer of 2010) John Lydon of The Sex Pistols and particular song, or any other patriotic show he seemed to suggest that people For a time I served as diocesan treas- encouraged me in my diaconal voca- perhaps the police’s focus is on self- Billy Bragg arrested, the first point songs that are a reflection of legitimate who have pictures of the Pope in their urer, being an accountant by profes- the Church with joy tion of service. Unsurprisingly, a great Police motivation preservation as opposed to tackling again suggests a lack of knowledge of pride in one’s cultural, national or eth- homes are, in some way, responsible for sion. This gave me an insight to the personal highlight in my life was to Over the course of this football season, sectarianism? what is and what isn’t sectarian. nic identity…the song Boys of the Old the continuation of sectarianism. When machinations of the organisation that is administer the sacrament of baptism to the police have been more vocal on the Brigade is a legitimate song relating to he was contacted on his position, his the diocese. I then discovered that, for As we continue our insight into the Permanent Diaconate, DEACON each of my three wonderful grandchil- subject of arrests and fines with Voicing objections Defining sectarianism nationhood.” comments continued to highlight a lack the first time since the Reformation, dren. Marvellous occasions. regards to matches involving Celtic This suggestion is given weight by the Chief Superintendent Bates and his of clarity on the issue. Aberdeen University was offering a PETER MacDONALD Certainly, there have been difficul- and Rangers—the sole arena that the fact that when Celtic and Rangers met colleagues would have been wise to Education “The Pope is the head of the Catholic course in Roman Catholic theology; explains how his varied role brings him great ties along the way, but that is the case force appear to focus on with regard to in the League Cup Final on March 20, heed the outcome of a court case, in In light of the fact that Queen Church and his image can be quite right- so, having enjoyed the core courses of in every walk of life, whether in the tackling sectarianism. the police, and indeed Justice Minister which Professor Tom Devine was Elizabeth II, on her state visit to Ireland ly displayed in people’s homes or wher- Theology and Sacred Scripture in my joy and how the constant support of his family is invaluable to him priesthood, religious, lay single or After the so-called ‘shame game’ on Kenny MacAskill, appeared to ignore called as an expert witness. last week, laid a wreath at the Garden of ever without an inference of bigotry or diaconal studies, I jumped at the married life. However, when times March 2, which saw three Rangers renditions of the anti-Irish ‘Famine The accused in that case had been Remembrance in Dublin for the IRA anything else,” he said. “I was referring chance to study for a degree of Master ices outwith Mass. parishioners to manage the project. No of the most fulfilling and enriching have not been easy, Bernadette and I players red carded, Celtic win 1-0 and Song’ by thousands of Rangers sup- charged under Section 74 of the members who had fought in the War of to the minority of people who hijack of Theology in Catholic Studies. I also prepare adults for the sacra- doubt this will involve an element of aspects of my diaconal ministry. have always been able to rely on the a touchline spat ensue between Celtic porters in their clamour to hail it as a Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003, Independence, the police’s grasp on images of his Holiness, the queen and ments, specifically Marriage, Baptism fundraising too. Obviously, people are imprisoned support of my brother deacons, their manager Neil Lennon and Rangers’ ‘showpiece final,’ adding weight to the with committing a breach of the peace what constitute sectarian singing seems other figures and display them in a fash- or the past nine years it has been and Confirmation and parents in the Since 2007, I have also been for a variety of reasons, ranging from wives and our bishop. Thankfully, the assistant manager Ally McCoist, allegations that the police are, at best, aggravated by singing Irish Republican tenuous at best. ion to taunt other people, in particular my privilege to serve as parish case of infant Baptism. It is always a Catholic Chaplain at HMP Aberdeen persistent anti-social behaviour, theft joy I have received in my service to the Strathclyde Police said that they had ill informed on what constitutes sectar- songs, which mentioned, in their lyrics, However, this is not the only area Old Firm fans.” Fdeacon in St Mary’s, Blairs on great delight to witness marriages and and HMP Peterhead. On completing and other offences often related to parish, prison and hospital communi- arrested 34 people inside Celtic Park ianism and at worst, simply ignoring it. the IRA, in much the same was as the where police could benefit from better Yet, the display of pictures of the the outskirts of Aberdeen. This was confer Baptisms. I never tire of it. In the my studies I had more time available drink and drug addiction, to some of ties has far outweighed any downsides. itself, 187 people throughout the day Critics alleged a prevailing attitude Boys of the Old Brigade does. education and understanding of the Pope or indeed the queen in someone’s formerly the National Junior Seminary. parish, at the moment, we are fortunate and asked Bishop Peter Moran if I the most serious crimes imaginable. for disorder offences, 40 people for within the police force of ignorance of However, the sheriff concluded that sensitivities regarding sectarianism. house is surely a private matter and not The beautiful Blairs Chapel is now that Fr Piotr Zielinski from St Mary’s could take on more work. The bishop HMP Aberdeen is a general prison, I For further information go online domestic abuse and that they had the problem, which is underlined by doubtless some members of the public Another field that needs work is the an attempt to taunt anybody. home to a lively young parish. At the Cathedral comes to celebrate Sunday suggested that I go to HMP Aberdeen where prisoners are serving sentences and visit http://www. scotsdea- issued 139 ‘fixed-penalty’ notices. their attitudes to supposed ‘sectarian might take offence at the songs being media. Education is a key facet in terms of moment I am administrator of the Mass for us and to undertake other to be interviewed for the vacant role of of less than four years. I am one of a cons.org.uk. Catholics interested in Shortly afterwards, the now infa- songs’ and again looking for sectarian sung in support of an organisation, Before the Rangers vs Celtic match tackling sectarianism, and given that parish, dealing with pastoral and priestly duties such as Confession. Catholic Prison Chaplain. Despite the team of prison chaplains, working finding out more about the permanent mous sectarian summit was convened parity, when none exists. When which the UK Government considered on Easter Sunday—April 24— the police are charged with this impor- administrative duties. I preach on alter- Shortly, Blairs Chapel will undergo fact that I would never have considered together to undertake general pastoral diaconate should contact their parish amidst calls that Strathclyde Police Rangers supporters sing a song calling to be a terrorist movement. Strathclyde Police Chief Constable tant task, providing the forces in nate Sundays, assist the visiting priest major refurbishment and I will be putting myself forward for such a role, care for prisoners and staff of any reli- priest or diocesan diaconate vocations was being stretched to the limit in try- for an ethnic group to ‘go home,’ that Nonetheless, he ruled that the IRA was Stephen House suggested that the com- Scotland with a clear focus must be a Liturgically at Mass, and lead all serv- working with architects and a group of prison chaplaincy has, in fact, been one gious denomination. My role includes director in the first instance. ing to deal with the situation in an is an overt display of racism. Similarly a military organisation, was not sectar- bination of alcohol, sun and a bank hol- priority. 14 LETTERS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 27 2011

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N TUESDAY, the day dedicated to prayer for China, the communist government’s treatment of Catholics loyal to the Pope in the country caused renewed concern. In 2007 Pope Benedict XVI chose May 24 as Othe annual day for prayers for China as it is the feast of the Blessed Mary, Help of Christians. The following year the Michael Lemetti, managing Holy Father composed a prayer to Our Lady of Sheshan. PICTURE director of Clan Italia, presents Cardinal Keith O’Brien with two On Monday night Chinese Government officials set OF THE Papal Tartan cummerbund’s, up security checkpoints around the shrine of Our Lady one for himself and one for Pope of Sheshan, discouraging Catholics from traveling there Benedict XVI, during the recent to mark the Pope’s special day of prayer for the Church WEEK CYSS forum at Carfin in China. In spite of the measure, Bishop Xing Wenzhi, PIC: PAUL McSHERRY an auxiliary of the Shanghai diocese, still hoped to cel- ebrate Mass at the shrine on the day of prayer on Tuesday as planned. China’s conflict with the Vatican stems from the exis- Thanks from SCO a spot check on these homes, tence of the Patriotic Church, which is controlled by the missionary reader pretend to visit these poor, Chinese Government. Its leaders continue to appoint GREETINGS from vulnerable people who have bishops without the authorisation of the Pope. In Kariobangi, Nairobi, where nobody to talk for them. December of 2010, 40 bishops, priests and Chinese lay the sun shines all day and Letters Most of the people who people who are faithful to the Holy See—often referred everyday. At the moment we SCO, 19 Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 6BT own these homes are only out to as the ‘underground’ Church—were forced by the are having some rainfall and to make money. They haven’t Chinese Government to take part in the Assembly of hoping for more as we are [email protected] got the older generations’ best Catholic Representatives, an institution controlled by supposed to be in the rainy interests at heart. the communist government. season. HM Yet hope, and help, for China’s Catholics is still very On behalf of the Franciscan Mary in 1962 on the west Finland. Legionaries also ADDRESS SUPPLIED much alive. Missionary Sisters for Africa, coast of Scotland. He notes come here from Ireland and Cultural Exchange with China (CEC), a UK-based I am writing to thank the that their work was not always reports on the work done and Blessed John Paul II organisation that builds links with the Catholic Church person who subscribes to the successful. love and respect they have and confession in China, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. SCO so that we receive it The normal work of the generated have been so very DAVID Bower (letters May 6) Columban Fr Eamonn O’Brien, the CEC’s director, here. God bless that generous Legion of Mary takes place at positive. claims that the late Pope John speaks of progress and hope. subscriber. One edition of this parish level with the Teresa McNeece Paul II participated in pagan “The CEC can now openly use its strapline ‘Building great newspaper carried the permission and approval of LEGION OF MARY worship in a visit to Africa in bridges between the Catholic Churches of Britain and photograph of our Pope, the parish priest. There is a 1985. China’ in all its communications at all levels of Chinese Benedict XVI. I had it great variety of work being Column on attitudes to The Pope was presented Church and Government,” he said. laminated and displayed in carried out and the members age hit the mark with a bowl of liquid, water Fr O’Brien told the SCO of the CEC’s our small office, as well as a of the legion are greatly With reference to Cath and flour. He made a slight

Renewed need for prayers China; Can Malta preserve the family? urgent need for support during his visit smaller photograph pinned on enriched as a result. At Doherty’s column in the SCO bow and dispersed the liquid to Scotland last year. For more on the the door. present there are 75 parishes on May 13, I was glad to see in all directions. The next Cultural Exchange with China visit I concur wholeheartedly which have a group she was bringing to the morning he performed the http://cecuk.org/ where donations can with the various writers who (praesidium) in operation. attention of many people the same action before the Mass. be made electronically, or send stand up for our Catholic There is also a group which plight of our old people in Mr Bower says he is deeply cheques to the Scottish Catholic principles and rights runs a club for the homeless nursing homes and hospitals. distressed at the ‘hasty’ Observer Charity Appeal, 19 especially with regard to in Glasgow called after Our In recent months I have had Beatification process. he Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 6BT. Catholic Education and the Lady of the Wayside. If the occasion to visit two asked has the Pope apparently Sort Code—805401, Account rights of the unborn. Abortion anyone would like to get in homes and what I have seen ignored all the justified Number—00946719. has to be the worst sin of this touch with their nearest caused me many sleepless concerns against his century. We pray that the third praesidium please contact: nights. I have witnessed predecessor being raised to alta faces a momentous secret of Fatima will reach Legion of Mary, Senatus of dinner beng served to a sick the honour. decision on Saturday many people. God bless your Scotland, 311 Roystonhill, person consisting of a sausage Has Mr Brower ever heard Mwhen voters go to the polls great work at the SCO. Glasgow, G21 2HN. roll, mashed potatoes and two of Confession? If Pope John in a referendum to decide whether or Sr Teresa Rafferty The legion also offers pieces of broccoli, no tray, no Paul II thought he had sinned not to allow the introduction of a law FRANCISCAN MISSIONARY active members the napkin, and the resident had or been mistaken in any way, permitting divorce. The predominantly SISTERS FOR AFRICA opportunity of going abroad to ask for cutlery. wouldn’t he go and confess Opinion Catholic island of Malta and the for one or two weeks in the On another occasion I them right away? Philippines are the only two countries in the Look to Jesus, all year to fulfil the desire of the found the resident quite dirty Mr Bower has no need to world that do not allow divorce. There is a sad else follows Lord to go out to all nations. and also the bed sheets and be distressed but he will never irony in the news that recent polls have shown that IN THE SCO on April 22 you The Scottish legion has been pyjamas. When I mentioned it know the answer. Confession Malta is almost split down the middle on the issue. asked for responses to assigned Finland for these to the manager he told me is secret. Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s call past 42 years. While we do they were just ging to freshen V Quinn for a new evangelisation. not measure success by the person up at 3.30pm. LANARKSHIRE Perhaps, the kernel of his appearances, we do take The second home was for comprehensive message ‘To encouragement from the residents suffering from Find your peace in the spread Easter joy’ lies in the growth of the Church in alzheimers and I cannot splendour of Faith SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER opportunity Easter affords us Finland. We are encouraged to believe such a place exists THE other day I overheard of an insight to God—the one hear that last Easter 40 people here in Glasgow. They looked two friends discussing the being who alone is able to were received into the Church so neglected and dirty. newly renovated cathedral in MAIN SWITCHBOARD transform us out of our in Helsinki, alone. Both of these people I Glasgow and, in keeping with Tel: 0141 221 4956• Fax: 0141 221 4546 self-centred mortal lives. He We take encouragement visited worked all of their Scottish negativity, their chat came to us in the form of from Bishop Teemu Sippo’s lives, held good positions and strayed from joy to costs and EDITOR Jesus Christ, His Son, and request that we continue this were pillars of the Catholic the recession, ‘value for Liz Leydon—Tel: 0141 241 6109 through Him can live in us evangelising apostolate in his Church. What a way to end money’ and ‘other causes.’ [email protected] forever, a truth we are all diocese and endeavour to their lives! I do not belong to Glasgow reminded of every week at establish legion groups in The comissioners should do Archdiocese but can I just say DEPUTY EDITOR Sunday Mass as pointed out how proud I am that Ian Dunn—Tel: 0141 241 6107 be Mgr Basil Loftus. All else something of such reverend [email protected] then follows. beauty has been created at St Julian B SCO reserves the right to edit letters to conform with space or Andrew’s Cathedral to lift the REPORTER ADDRESS SUPPLIED style requirements spirits of the Catholic This page is used solely for reader opinion and therefore views Martin Dunlop—Tel: 0141 241 6103 community in Glasgow and expressed are not necessarily shared by SCO beyond. And to the gossips [email protected] Work of the Legion of Mary needs support If you would like to share your opinion, send your and nay-sayers, don’t we get correspondence to the above address MGR BASIL Loftus in enough of that from outside SUB-EDITOR connection with the work of Whether you use e-mail or post, you must provide your full name, the Church? address, and phone number or your letter will not be used Gerard Gough—Tel: 0141 241 6115 evangelisation, writes about Mrs McNulty [email protected] the work of the Legion of BLANTYRE Friday May 27 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER FR ROLHEISER 15 Always keep in mind that Our God is a loving God GOD is non-violent. God may feel that the punishment as go. If you allow yourself even does not prescribe violence. coming from God, from God’s one drink you will eventually Violence should never be Fr Ronald anger, from God’s wrath, but it lose your sobriety. rationalised in God’s name. is nature’s wrath and our own Virtually every text in the That is clear in Christian rev- Rolheiser that we are feeling. God has no Bible which ascribes violence to elation. But that immediately need to extrinsically punish sin God or puts into His mouth a poses the question: What Two things need to be kept in because sin already punishes Despite violence command to do violence needs about the violence in scrip- mind. Firstly, whenever scrip- itself. Nature is so constructed. often eroneously to be read in that same way. The ture that is attributed to God ture speaks about God as being There is a law of karma. Sin is being attached to violence and killing are or to God’s direct orders? offended, as getting angry, as its own punishment. God’s name, He is metaphorical, even as the text is Doesn’t God, in anger, wipe wanting to wreak vengeance on But at the level of feeling, this in fact a loving asking the heart to do something out the entire human race, save His enemies, or as demanding is felt as if God is punishing us. God, that is which cannot be a half-measure. for Noah and his family? that we kill somebody in his However, as Jesus shows in for- something that is Walter Brueggemann once Doesn’t God ask Abraham to name, it is speaking anthropo- giving His own killers and for- set in stone commented that: “God is in kill Isaac on an altar of sacri- morphically, that is, it is taking giving everyone who betrayed Promised Land? means to have to kill all the recovery from all the violence fice? Doesn’t Moses have to our own thoughts, feelings, and Him, God forgives sin. God has In archetypal stories, killing Canaanites. To move into the that has been attributed to Him talk God out of destroying reactions and projecting them no need for vengeance or for a is metaphorical not literal. It is promised land of sobriety and and done in His name.” It is Israel because God is angry? into God. We get angry, God justice that extracts a pound of about a death inside the heart. remain there, something hard time that the churches entered Didn’t God give an order to doesn’t. Our hearts crave flesh for a pound of sin. Nature God’s command to kill all the and cruel needs to happen that the same recovery process. Israel to kill everybody and vengeance, God’s heart doesn’t. already does that. Indeed, given inhabitants of Canaan is simply can’t happen through half-mea- everything (men, women, chil- We demand that murderers be a proper understanding of God’s a hard metaphor for what Jesus sures: To move into the prom- I RONALD Rolheiser, a dren, and even the animals) as executed, God doesn’t. Scripture nature and transcendence, it is refers to when He says that you ised land of sobriety, you have Catholic priest and member of she entered the Promised Land? contains a lot of anthropomor- presumptuous on our part to have to put new wine into new to clean out (‘kill’) your entire the Missionary Oblates of Mary Didn’t the Mosaic Law, attrib- phisms that make for a bad and even believe that we can wineskins so that the new wine liquor cabinet, all the Immaculate, is president of uted to God, prescribe stoning a dangerous theology if read and ‘offend’ God. will not burst the old skins. ‘Canaanites’: All the beer, the Oblate School of Theology women to death for adultery? understood literally. To read More important still, the bib- Anyone who has gone whisky, bourbon, rum, vodka, in San Antonio, Texas. Visit Didn’t Jesus kick over the parts of scripture literally is to lical texts that attribute vio- through a 12-step addiction wine, cognac, and brandy, his website: www.ronrolheiser. tables of the money-changers in turn God into a tribal God in lence to God are also programme knows what it every ounce of alcohol has to com anger? And what about all the competition with other gods. archetypal, namely, they are wars and capital punishment When scripture says that we texts that teach us things about that have been done in God’s experience God’s wrath when the deep rhythms of the human name through the centuries? we sin, it doesn’t want us to heart but are not meant to be What about extremist Islam believe that God actually gets taken literally. Taken literally, CROSSWORD today, killing thousands of peo- angry and punishes us. There’s they are often the very antithe- ple in God’s name? no need. The punishment is sis of the revelation of God. God, it seems, has pre- innate, inherent in the sin itself. But still what do we do with 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 scribed and sanctioned a lot of When we sin it is our own the biblical texts that prescribe violence and killing from actions that punish us (the way violence to God? For instance, 8 ancient time right down until excessive use of alcohol dehy- how can we interpret God’s 9 today. How do we explain all drates the brain and the dehy- ordering Israel to kill all the the violence attributed to God? dration causes a headache). We Canaanites as she entered the 10

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IDH mòran agaibh eòlach air an Kilespikerill, Taigh an Uillt ainm Taigh an Uillt. Is e baile beag a th’ ann an ear air an Òban, taobh meachadh mar Kilespikerill. Tha feadhainn dhe Loch Èite. Ach, mar a dh’innse am na h-acadamagaich ag ràdhn gun deach an eaglais Brigadier Iain MacPharlain dhomh ainmeachadh as dèidh Naomh Cyril ach tha fead- b’B abhaist do dhaoine Muc Cairn ag ràdhn ris. hainn eile ag ràdhn gur e Cill Easbuig Arailt a Choimhead sinn air an sin air a’ mhìos sa chaidh bhathar a’ ciallachadh. Chaidh an àrd-eaglais a is sinne a’ gabhail sgrìob mun cuairt na sgìre. Ged ghluasad a Lios Mòr ann an 1236 AD leis mar a a dh’fhaodadh sgoilearan ag ràdhn gur e call a th’ bha sin nas sàbhailte aig an àm. Coimheadaidh ann gun deach an t-ainm a bh’ ann a dhìochuimh- sinn air an sin aig àm eile. Chaidh an tobhta de neachadh dh’innse Iain gun robh ainm eile air ro dh’eaglais a chìthear an-diugh a thogail dìreach na sin. ro àm an ath-leasachaidh mu 1500 AD. Is e an B’ abhaist manachainn a bhith air taobh thall an 7mh eaglais a tha air an làrach sin a tha san loch aig Àird Chatain agus tha na tobhtaichean eaglais stèidhichte san là an-diugh. Pìos beag air rim faicinn an sin fhathast. Air a chùlaibh tha falbh bho sin is coltach gun robh croise ri taobh eaglais a tha fada nas sine agus tha tobar cosrais- an rathaid far am biodh daoine a bha a’ dol gte suidhichte ri a thaobh cuideachd. Bha an seachad a’ dol sìos air an glùinean aig aon àm. teaghlach aig Iain beò san sgìre bho chionn Tha e sin a-nis ann an taigh-tasgaidh an Dùn ghinealaichean is thuirt e gun robh daoine a- Èideann ge-tà. riamh dhen bheachd gun robh comas leigheis aig an tobar sin. B’ abhaist do dhaoine “Baile ha Iain an-dràsta a’ cruthachadh stòr-dàta le Bhaodain” ag ràdhn ris an àite sin agus bhiodh ainmean-àiteachan na sgìre agus tha e “Sgìre Bhaile Bhaodain” a’ gabhail a-staigh an t- Tcuideachd an dòchas leabhran bheag a àite ris an canar Taigh an Uillt san là an-diugh. thoirt a-mach le sgeulachdan ceangailte riutha. Chan eil mòran eòlach air an ainm sin tuilleadh Fhuair sibh fhèin blasad dhen sin ach chan eil ach is e “Muckairn” an t-ainm a th’ air paraiste fhios fhathast cuine a thig an leabhar fhèin a- Eaglais na h-Alba an-diugh fhathast. mach. Nach eil e iomchaidh ma-tha gu bheil s ann ri taobh Eaglais na h-Alba a bha eaglais Aifhreann Ghàidhlig a’ gabhail àite anns a’ bhaile Chaitligeach aig aon àm. Bha i cuideachd na seo air an darna Dòmhnach dhen mhìos. Tha Ih-Àrd-Eaglais Sgìre-Easbuig Earra-Ghàidheal dithis de sheann mhinistearan an Eaglais na h- dar a chaidh a cruthachadh an toiseach sna mead- Alba air a bhith an làthair agus Iain fhèin air bhith han aoisean. ann ged a bhuinneas e do dh’Eaglais Easbuigeach Aig an àm bha an t-easbuig a bha stèidhichte an na h-Alba. Dùn Chailleann dhen bheachd gun robh an sgìre- Pàpa Innocent II gur e “rara avis” a bh’ ann—eun sgìre ùr seo. Chaidh a chur ann an dreuchd sa Sin e bhuamsa à Taigh an Uillt aon uair eile. easbuig aige ro mhòr agus chuir e sagart a-mach neònach—a bha ag iarraidh an sgìre aige a lugh- bhliadhna 1222 AD. Is coltach gun robh e Gus an ath-mhìos: Beannachd leibh. a dh’ionnsaigh na Ròimhe ag iarraidh air a’ Phàip dachadh. comasach an dà chuid anns a’ Ghàidhlig agus ann ga sgarradh ann an dà leth. Is coltach gun tuirt am B’ e Arailt ainm a’ chiad easbuig a thàinig don an cànan nan Lochlannach. Chaidh an eaglais ain- [email protected]

TAYNUILT, east of Oban, was once of the Visitation, Taynuilt, has suggested it known as Muckairn as the Brigadier could mean Cill Easbuig Earra-Ghàidheal or John MacFarlane told me when we had Ann am Beurla (In English) the Church of the Bishop of Argyll. The a walk around his home turf. The Church of Scotland, which is there today, is Church of Scotland parish is still called part of what was then known as ‘Baile his area of influence. But maybe it was felt the seventh church in this location. just that. But John also has ancestors Bhaodainn area.’ necessary due to the language barrier. Mr MacFarlane currently works on a from across Loch Etive where the ruins Next to what is today the Kirk there are The new Bishop Harald of Argyll is said to place-names database and also a wee book of Ardchattan Priory are still to be seen. the ruins of what used to be a Catholic have been fluent in Gaelic and Norse. The about it including some of the stories that At the back of it are the ruins of a much Church. It was the site of the first Cathedral bishop was not in Taynuilt for long before are associated with them, although he does- older church and the area there used to be of Argyll and the Isles when it split apart relocating to Lismore where it was felt to be n’t know when it will be published, yet. It known as Baile Bhaodainn. There is a well from Dunkeld Diocese in 1222. Pope safer at the time. Some academics believe the seems very appropriate that Bishop Joseph there which is thought to have healing Innocent II is believed to have said that it first church in Taynuilt, called Kilespikerill Toal of Argyll and the Isles has recently ini- power. Interestingly, what is Taynuilt today must have been a rara avis—a rare bird— was named after St Cyril others say it could tiated a Gaelic Mass to be held in Taynuilt on the other side of the loch, used to be meaning the bishop who wanted to downsize refer to Harald himself. Canon William Fraser on the second Sunday of every month. Catechesis on the Revised Mass Texts: The Lord Be With You be using some new greetings used as a simple greeting or a context of prayer when we use God’s spirit will enable him to at Mass as we gradually way of saying hello. the word spirit in reference to lead us prayerfully and well. introduce the Revised Mass This reminds me of holidays human beings we are referring So this greeting means much Texts from the 3rd Edition in Germany, and in particular to the whole person, because more than a ‘good morning’ or of the Roman Missal. When Bavaria where Pope Benedict we worship God with all of ‘hello,’ it is a ritual way of you hear the greeting ‘the comes from. There people do ourselves. drawing us into prayer. There Lord be with you’ what does not say ‘good morning’ but the This greeting also points is graciousness in this ancient it mean to you? everyday greeting is Gruss towards our belief that we are form of Hebrew greeting This familiar greeting draws Gott highlighting God’s good- made in the image and likeness where one person mentions the us into the prayerful action of ness. The Latin expression of of God, we are embodied spir- Lord’s presence and the other the moment but many of us do ‘the Lord be with you’ its with a spiritual destiny. So replies by reciprocating it. not realise that it was a familiar Dominus vobiscum becomes a this greeting reminds us of When you are next at Mass Jewish greeting and is found prayer that the presence of God who we are and what we are to notice the amount of times we many times in the Bible. In the is with others and at the same become. We believe that when use ‘the Lord be with you,’ and Old Testament it occurs in var- time a statement that he is we die our physical body is take time to connect to the ious contexts: present among us. when we pray the Eucharistic laid to rest but what will rise to presence of the Lord within Catechesis and During the celebration of Prayer and at the end of Mass new life is a spiritual, life- you, within others gathered The prophet Amos uses this Mass, ‘the Lord be with you’ is when we are sent forth to bring filled body as we share in the with you, in the priest, in Evangelisation as an expression of a guarantee used when there are important Christ’s presence to the world. resurrection of Christ. God’s Word and in the that God will be with someone. prayer moments or actions From September when we When we reply ‘and with Eucharist. by Patricia Carroll about to happen. This greeting hear this greeting our reply your spirit’ to the priest who is In the book of Joshua it is as a reminds us of the presence of will be ‘and with your Spirit.’ leading us in prayer, we are Patricia Carroll is the episcopal IN SEPTEMBER, when we prayer of protection or for help. the Lord when we gather at the This reply is part of the Jewish reminding him that the Lord is delegate for pastoral resources have returned from our vari- beginning of Mass, when we greeting prayer formulas found with him, just as he has greeted for St Andrews and Edinburgh ous summer breaks, we will And in the book of Ruth it is proclaim the Word of God, in the Old Testament. In the us. We are also praying that Archdiocese Friday May 27 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER CHURCH NOTICES 17

Our Lady of Fatima’s Peace Plan from Heaven Our Lady's Great Promise CHURCH NOTICES I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who on the First Saturday of 5 consecutive months, MONTHLY shall confess,receive Holy Communion, pray 5 decades of the Rosary and keep me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the Mysteries of the Rosary---all with the intention of making reparation to me. Our Lady to Lucy, Dec. 1925 MEDJUGORJE You are invited to do so at any of the following venues on: SATURDAY 4th JUNE, 2011 9.00am - Mill Hill Fathers, Cardonald, Glasgow EVENING 9.00am - St Columba’s, Renfrew, Glasgow 9.00am - St Francis, Port Glasgow 9.20am - St.Aidan’s, Johnstone Annual Gathering 9.30am - St Bernadette’s, Carntyne, Glasgow 9.30am - St Anne’s, Dennistoun ST JOHN THE BAPTIST’S CHURCH 9.30am - St Brigid’s, Toryglen Sunday 5th June 2011 9.30am - St Joseph’s, Tollcross 9.30am - St Lucy’s, Cumbernauld 3.00 pm at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Lower Millgate 9.30am - St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh 9.30am - St Mary’s, Calton, Glasgow Clyde Street, Glasgow UDDINGSTON 9.30am - St Mary’s Duntocher 9.30am - St Mary’s Greenock 9.30am - St Matthew’s, Bishopbriggs We are delighted that this year’s Annual Family Mass with on Monday May 30th 2011 9.30am - St Mirin’s Cathedral, Paisley Children’s Liturgy will be celebrated at the newly refurbished 9.30am - St Robert’s, Househilwood, Glasgow 9.30am - St Roch’s, Glasgow St Andrew’s Cathedral in Glasgow. Rosary at 7.15pm G Mass at 7.30pm 9.30am - Christ the King, Glasgow 10.00am - Christ the King, Howwood, Johnstone Light refreshments in the hall afterwards 10.00am - Christ the King, Pittenweem The St Margaret of Scotland Youth Group has kindly agreed 10.00am - St Columba’s Bridge of Don, Aberdeen 10.00am - Our Lady of Lourdes, East Kilbride to lead the Liturgy at Mass. ALL WELCOME 10.00am - Our Lady of Good Aid, Motherwell 10.00am - Our Lady Star of the Sea, Saltcoats As always there will be an opportunity to catch up after the 10.00am - Our Lady and St Anne’s, Cadzow Bridge, Hamilton 10.00am - St Sophia’s, Galston Mass at our social gathering with some children’s 10.00am - St Aloysius, Springburn The Sisters of the Gospel of Life 10.00am - St Brendan’s, Yoker, Glasgow entertainment laid on. 10.00am - St Patrick’s, Dumbarton Invite you to the Inaugural Monthly Mass for Life 10.00am - St Bride’s, Cambuslang This year we are planning to have a barbeque 10.00am - St Bride’s, East Kilbride 10.00am - St Cadoc’s, Newton Mearns (weather permitting), so please pray for good weather On the Feast of the Visitation & 10.00am - St Charles’ Paisley 10.00am - St Conval’s, Pollok, Glasgow so that we can spill out into the new Cathedral Cloister! The Bishops of Scotland Day for Life 10.00am - St Gabriel’s, Merrylee, Glasgow 10.00am - St Helen’s, Langside, Glasgow We look forward to welcoming all of our friends and 10.00am - St James’, Crookston, Glasgow Tuesday 31st of May 2011 10.00am - St John’s Barrhead supporters so please come along and join in our Annual 10.00am - St John the Baptist, Uddingston 10.00am - St Joseph’s, Helensburgh Gathering. If you have an interest in finding out more about at 7.30pm 10.00am - St Mary’s Irvine 10.00am - St Michael’s, Dumbarton adoption or if you have been affected by adoption this is an In Our Lady of Consolation Church 10.00am - St Paul’s, Whiteinch ideal opportunity to have an informal chat with one of our 10.00am - St Peter’s, Bellsmyre Inglefield Street, Glasgow, G42 7PZ 10.00am - St Peter’s, Livingston social workers. We look forward to meeting you on 10.00am - St Philip’s, Ruchazie, Glasgow Celebrant: Archbishop Mario Conti 10.00am - St Stephen’s, Dalmuir 5th June. 10.00am - The Holy Family and St Ninian, Kirkintilloch Followed by tea, coffee & time to chat. 10.00am - Sacred Heart, Bridgeton 10.15am - St Mary’s Star of the Sea, Leith 10.30am - St Athanasius, Carluke Thereafter a Mass for Life will be held in the same venue 12.15pm - Carfin Grotto 12.15pm - St Mungo’s, Townhead, Glasgow at the same time on the 3rd Wednesday of the month 1.00pm - St Mirin’s Cathedral, Paisley NB except for September 2011 when the Mass will be on the 2.00pm - Our Lady and St Patrick, Auckinleck, Ayrshire 4.30pm - St Patrick’s, Shotts 4th Wednesday 28th September 5.00pm - Immaculate Heart of Mary, Balornock, Glasgow 5.15pm - Immaculate Conception, Maryhill, Glasgow June 15th July 20th August 17th 7.00pm - Franciscan Convent, 92 Dixon Avenue, Glasgow JOHN O’HARA d. May 1905 For more information phone 0141 882 2254. THANK YOU. September 28th October 19th November 16th Co-Founder and First Secretary, Celtic FC December 21st Commemoration & Celebration of his life Please do all you can to support this initiative, bring a group The Marist Brothers Dalbeth Cemetery from your parish, make it your family pro-life activity, Sunday May 29th at 4 pm get involved and make a real prayerful difference. Mass will be celebrated to If you need further information please contact thank God for the life of Family and Friends welcome Sr Roseann on 0141 433 2680

Blessed John Duns Scotus, 270 Ballater Street St. Marcellin Champagnat Glasgow G5 0YT 0141 429 0740 Order Registered Charity No 232177. SCO39191 Monday, 6th June at 7.30pm Novena THE AGNIFICAT St. Mungo’s Church, Townhead Mworking in partnership with in honour of WONDER The Catholic Herald Group All welcome St Antony WORKER Direct from the Light refreshments will be served Saturday 4th June - Monday 13th June Preached by Seamus Mulholland ofm Times of services: Saturday 4th June 10am Mass with Novena Prayers & Homily Mill Hill 5.30pm Mass(Vigil) with Novena Prayers & Homily 8pm Novena Prayers, Homily & Benediction Missionaries Sunday 5th June Call 10am & 6pm Mass, Novena Prayers & Homily Steve (Special blessing of children & babies at 12 noon Mass) SUMMER FETE Monday 6th June to Friday 10th June 10am Mass with Novena Prayers & Homily on: 8pm Novena Prayers, Homily & Benediction Book Stall - Cosmetics - Saturday 11th June 0141 10am Mass with Novena Prayers & Homily Home Baking - Bottle Stall - 5.30pm Mass(Vigil) with Novena Prayers & Homily 241 Wheel of Fortune - Tombola - 8pm Novena Prayers, Homily & Benediction Sunday 12th June 6112 Bric-a-Brac - Burger Bar - 10am & 6pm Mass, Novena Prayers & Homily Tea Room - Raffle Tuesday 7th June or Blessing of sick after 10am Mass email: SATURDAY 4TH JUNE Special service for sick & elderly 2.30pm circulation@ LOURDES AVENUE, CARDONALD Close of Novena with Blessing of Lilies sconews.co.uk Monday 13th June: Feast of St Antony DOORS OPEN AT 1.15pm Mass at 10 am, 6pm and 8pm with Novena Prayers, ADMISSION 20p Homily, Blessing of Lilies & Benediction 18 FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 27 2011

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PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES Mass BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE will be offered for those buried in From Buchanan Street St. Peter’s Cemetery Bus Station local cemeteries Leaving Midnight 9th October and the or whose final Stopping in Orleans overnight committal was at 5 days Lourdes Daldowie Crematorium Returning 15th October Stopping in Paris overnight on Sunday 5th June way home on £499.50 £50 Cost: Deposit: MacNEIL PRETE at 3pm Contact: 0141 778 0727 Remembering Aonghas Iain, a Special memories are held close dearly loved son, brother, to our hearts of Annie (Tracey), For car parking enter by the Good Shepherd Gate. 02830 26 74 25 DOUGHERTY brother-in-law and uncle whose dear wife of the late John, Priests wishing to concelebrate Remembering with love, our birthday occurs on the 24th May. adored mother, gran and great- dear mother, Bridget, a loving Thinking of you Dian on your gran, who sadly died October 6, . gran and great-gran, who died please bring alb and white stole birthday, but that is nothing new, 2001, and whose birthday oc- KNOCK on April 21, 1998, and whose for no day dawns and no day curs on May 28. birthday occurs on June 2. IRELAND ends without a thought of you. If only we could meet you, Your memory is so precious, Just for a little while, Paisley CCR Sorely missed by us all, Your presence missed so much, To tell you how much we miss Celebrate Pentecost a time for Renewal B&B St Anthony pray for him. You will always be remembered, you, Life in the Spirit Seminars Rest in peace St Francis Church, Auchenbothie Road, Port Glasgow £30 p.p. And loved by all of us. Or just to see you smile, Sacred Heart of Jesus, grant her From his Father Eoin, Sister and To put our arms around you, Friday 10th June starting with Mass at 6.30pm Brothers home and away. Saturday 11th June 9.30am finishing with Holy Mass Airport pick-up eternal rest. But this we cannot do, Celebrated by Bishop Tartaglia St Joseph, pray for her. So until we meet again, All welcome Contact: 01505 342 690 service St Roch, pray for her. May God take care of you. St Pio, pray for her. Sacred Heart of Jesus, grant her Tel: 00353 Her loving family. McNULTY eternal rest. Remember today my twin Miss you so much mum. EXPERT SERVICES 949 388 178 cousins, Kevin and Michael, on Happy Birthday. their birthday on May 27. From your loving family. If I could have a single wish and A loving gran, kind and true, never ask another, One in a million gran, that was SCOT-COVER I’d have a day to spend it with you. 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BUCHANAN LITTLE MacNEIL SHARP In loving memory of Sarah 12th Anniversary 15th Anniversary Treasured memories of Isabella, Buchanan, died May 31, 1998, Please pray for the repose of the In loving memory of our dear fa- a wonderful wife, mother and also John Buchanan, died July souls of Bernard, a loving ther, Iain, who died May 30, Nana who sadly passed away 16, 1996. brother, uncle and great-uncle, 1996. on May 28th 2009. Loved and remembered every who died May 27, 1999, aged 44 We hold you close within our Remembering you is easy. day. years, also remembering our hearts, We do it every day. May they rest in peace. dear father, James, who died And there you shall remain, It’s the heartache of losing you Mairi, Tom, Sarah, Colin and June 27, 1979, also our beloved To walk with us throughout our that will never go away. Laura. mother, Susan, who died on May lives, Our Lady of the Isles, pray for 18, 2007. Until we meet again. CAMPBELL Divine Mercy, Our Lady of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, pray her. st Inserted by her loving husband 1 Anniversary Lourdes and St Bernadette, pray McGOUGH for him. PRENTICE, Mary David, Margaret and Iain, In loving memory of our dear for them. Please remember both :- Inserted by Frances Anne and 9th Anniversary mother and grandmother, Inserted by the Little family, Ellen (Grattan) 22.12.13 - Jennifer Louise. In loving memory of mum. Helena and Ronnie, Josephine Jessie, who died on May 31, Ardrossan. 01.06.05 Cambuslang. Today brings tears and and George and all her 2010 and also her beloved hus- James Grattan 08.08.42 - memories, grandchildren. MacASKILL band, Donald John, who died on 23.05.07 Perth W.A. Of sorrow and regret, South Uist rd March 11, 1990. R.I.P. 3 Anniversary 50/22 North Bridge, Edinburgh. A day filled with such sadness, Close to our hearts they shall re- Precious memories of a very EH1 1QN. It’s not easy to ever forget. main forever. special and greatly missed mum, For everyone whose lives you SHIELDS Loved and sadly missed. gran and great-gran, who died MacINNES touched, 43rd Anniversary Our Lady and St Joseph, pray June 8, 2008. 3rd Anniversary of our beloved Have always loved and missed In loving memory of our She lived her life for those she for them. mum and gran, Peggy, died May you so, dear mother, Catherine Quinn, Inserted by James, Margaret, loved, 31, 2008, also 22nd Anniversary And it was so hard to accept, who died June 4, 1968, and Mary, Lola and Catherine Ann. And those she loved remember. of Colin, devoted father and That you’d ever have to go. also our dear father, Thomas Our Lady of Fatima and St Pio, grandfather, died May 18, 1989. And so this message is for Shields, who died May 29, DRISCOLL, Elizabeth pray for her. MORRIS you, R.I.P. 1991. 23rd Anniversary of Elizabeth, Kirsty, Donald and Kirsty, 15th Anniversary Especially to say, The years we shared together On whose souls, sweet Jesus, who died May 27. Catriona, John Paul and Kate. are memories held dear, In loving memory of a dear wife We all lost someone special Also remembering my dad, have mercy. A loving wife now at rest, The happiness you gave us and mother, Isabella, died May ‘Mum’ Calum, who was lost at sea on Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for For everyone you did your best, keeps you ever near. 21, 1996. The day you went away. October 23, 1968. them. Never selfish, always kind, Our Lady of the Isles, pray for A wife who gave her undivided Love and miss you so much. Our Lady, Star of the Sea, pray Inserted by their family. With wonderful memories, them. love to her husband. A mother Mary Ann, David, Stephen and for him. You left behind. Inserted by Paul, Fay and family. who gave her all to provide for David. xxxx St Francis, pray for her. Kirsty. her children. From her loving husband. MacINNES St Martin de Porres, pray for her. SMITH McCABE PRENTICE, In loving memory of our dear Inserted by her husband John Mary Treasured memories of my DURNING In loving memory of our son and aunt, Peggy, who died May 31, and children, Christine, Mark, It’s nine years now Mum, since beloved husband, and dear 20th Anniversary brother, Paul Joseph, who died 2008. Eleanor and Alison. you left us, father, Patrick, died May 30, Please remember in your May 27, 1990, aged 19. Fondly remembered. But Mum, those we hold 1989. prayers Mary, beloved wife of Mum, Dad and family. O’BRIEN Sadly missed. most dear, never truly leave Rest in peace. the late James Durning, who The Gribbens family. In loving memory of our dear us, died May 26, 1991. McCAFFERY father, grandfather and You live on in the kindness you 7th Anniversary Mary Milarvie and family. MacKINNON great-grandfather, Edward showed, In loving memory of Dermot, O’Brien, who died May 31, 1970. The comfort we shared, and GALBRAITH who died on May 29, 2004, Fond and treasured memories of our dearly loved sister and aunt, Sacred Heart of Jesus, have the love you brought into my 4th Anniversary beloved husband of Kathleen, mercy on his soul. Chrissie, who died on May 27, life. Cherished memories of my dear dearly loved father of Nicholas St John Ogilvie, pray for him. Although no words can really 1997, also our dearly loved wife, Mary, (nėe MacDonnell) and Karen, dear father-in-law of Ever remembered by his loving help to ease the pain I bear, brother-in-law and uncle, Roddy, who died June 2, 2007, mother Patricia and loving grandfather family, Glasgow and Australia. Just know that you are very who died on December 31, of Sandy and Donald James, of Leo and Joseph. close, 2002. gran to Kenneth and Kirsty, Sadly missed. O’HENLEY In every thought and prayer. The years may wipe out many Australia, Alina in Canada. May he rest in peace. 1st Anniversary Missing you. things, Sadly missed. In loving memory of our brother, Your loving son Thomas and But some they wipe out never, May she rest in peace. MacDONALD Angus O’Henley, died May 11, wife Cathy. Like memories of those happy Inserted by Paul, Bracara, 21st Anniversary 2010. times, Morar. Of your charity, please pray for Always sadly missed. THOMSON When we were all together. the repose of the soul of my Inserted by Angus and Donald PRENTICE, Mary Treasured and happy memories Missing you always. GEDDES dear husband, and our father, Alaister. Mum you are gone from our of Annie Thomson, (McEvoy), St Anthony, pray for them. 31st Anniversary John Charles MacDonald, who sight, loving mother, grandmother Anna, Dons and family. In loving memory of our dad, died on May 30, 1990. R.I.P. PITCATHLEY But never from our memories or and great-grandmother, who William Geddes, died May 30, Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for 12th Anniversary MacLEAN our hearts, died on May 25, 2006, in 1980. him. Please pray for the repose of the Someone so special can never her 99th year and whose Inserted by his loving wife 3rd Anniversary Quietly today your memory we soul of Annie Pitcathley, beloved be forgotten. 104th birthday is on June 6, Theresa and family, Glasgow In loving memory of Katie (nèe treasure, wife, mother and grandmother, Please know how much we 2008. and Inverness. MacLeod), who died May 24, Missing you always, forgetting who died May 27, 1999. R.I.P. loved you, Inserted by Sheila, Leo, David you never. 2008, beloved wife of Donald, Our Lady of Good Aid, pray for And how deeply we are missing and all the family. Liz, Alastair and family. McGINNESS who died July 5, 1995. her. you. Ours is just a simple prayer, 17th Anniversary of James St Anthony, pray for them. Inserted by John, Caroline and You are gone from our touch Keep our grandma in Your HUTCHESON (Jimmy), dearly loved dad and Inserted by the family. the girls. but you will never leave our In loving memory of my dear grandpa, who died June 1, 1994. hearts. care. husband, and our dear father, Also our much loved mum, Sadly missed. From your grandchildren and William, who died June 2, 1970, Catherine (Rooney), who died Your loving son John, wife Sadie great-grandchildren. also his daughter Cathleen, October 24, 2001. and grandson John. March 16, 1990, his son Robert, On whose souls, sweet Jesus, July 2, 2007 and his daughter have mercy. WRIGHT Maureen, November 19, 2007. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for SCALLY In fond and loving memory Just a prayer from ones who them. 18th Anniversary of our dearly beloved parents, loved you, Inserted by the family. In loving memory of my our mother, Dolina, died May 28, Just a memory fond and true, dear husband, Tony, a dear 1973, and our father, Andrew, In our hearts you’ll live forever, dad, grandad and father-in-law, died April 18, 1964, also our Because we thought the world of died May 28, 1993. MacNEIL dearly beloved sister, Chrissie, you. Although you are not beside died February 7, 1996, and our Inserted by his wife Margaret Remembering my dear sister, us, dearly beloved brother, Roddy, and family. Margaret (Peggy), who died May You are never far away, died May 24, 2005. 25, 1999, at 11 Leanish, Isle of You are always in our hearts, On whose souls, sweet Jesus, JENKINS Barra. With every passing day, In loving memory of our beloved In the shelter of Thy Sacred As time goes by without you, have mercy. father, granda and great-granda, Heart, And days turn into years, Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for Donald, who died on May 22, Dear Jesus, may she rest in They hold a million memories, them. 1978. peace. And many a silent tear. Always in our thoughts and Queen of Heaven, pray for him. Our Lady of the Isles, pray for St Anthony, pray for him. prayers. Remembering also our loved her. Loving wife Margaret and Inserted by their loving ones gone before and after. 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S SEEN in last week’s article, the Church in France was particularly badly placed to provide a unified response to the Achallenges posed by the Nazi occupa- tion of their country. Liberal and con- servative groups within the Church had amalgamated with political factions within France’s body politic, making the notion of a ‘Catholic experience’ in war-time France almost nonsensical. In addition, there were, for most of the war, two ‘Frances’: the north and west which was occupied by Germany, and the south-east, where the right-wing Vichy regime held sway until its down- fall in 1942. In the occupied half of France, most of the country fell under the military, commanded at first by General Otto von Stülpnagel, and from March 1942 by his cousin, General Karl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, who was murdered by the Nazis in July 1944 for his role in the plot to kill Hitler. Alsace and Lorraine were reintegrated with Germany, and large areas in the east and north closed to refugees and readied for ‘Germanic’ set- tlement. Finally, the Italians occupied small regions in the south, the island of Corsica and some Alpine passes. The collapse of France in May and June 1940 was swift and surprising: the nation that had stood in the trenches and had almost been bled dry on battlefields like Verdun simply succumbed to the Nazis. Outfought, outwitted and unwill- ing to spill soldiers’ blood again, and confounded by internal divisions, the Republic simply imploded. Loyalties were divided after the collapse, too. In London, the Free French Movement under General de Gaulle con- Cardinal Emmanuel Suhard, pictured with in the campaign against the Soviet Jews from their persecutors. It did not Lubac would be raised to the purple by tinued the war. In Vichy, Marshall Pétain, Marshall Petain, was originally supportive Union. In the first two years of the war, have that effect on all of France’s Blessed John Paul II. Together, they hero of the First World War, established a of the pro-Nazi Vichy Government but soon the cardinal could even write that there Catholics, but rescued large numbers of founded Les Cahiers du Témoignage in state approved by the Action Française, protested openly against the anti-Semitism was no contradiction between Nazism Jews from the camps, a fact which Yad which they outlined a principled, theo- willing to work with the Nazis, but of the regime and Christianity, in flagrant contradic- Vashem, the Jewish Holocaust memori- logical opposition against Nazism, attempting to preserve some sense of tion of the Vatican. Anti-Semitism was al organisation, has recognised. It was much along the lines of Pope Pius XII’s French national identity. Others went fur- they were Catholic or not. Yet General rife in the circles in which Cardinal only the cardinal’s great popularity own thinking. ther still, and co-operated fully with the De Gaulle had little appeal in those Baudrillart moved, although the amongst the poor Parisians that pre- Fr Chaillet was a particularly strong Nazi invaders, frequently, but not early days of the occupation. Magesterium told him this was wrong. vented his deportation to Dachau: the supporter of General de Gaulle, almost invariably, on grounds of ideology. Cardinal Baudrillart died in May 1942, Nazis feared an uprising. Yet such were from the day that the leader of the Free For the Christian community in he reaction of Paris’s two cardi- when the tide was turning and resist- the divisions in France, that General de French made his famous radio broad- France, Catholic and Protestant alike, nals illustrates the journey taken ance against the Nazis was becoming Gaulle refused to meet Cardinal Suhard cast from London. In the Cahiers, he the decision on which camp to join in Tby the Church in France particu- more popular. when he entered Paris in 1944. would write: “As the French and as 1940 was very much determined by larly well. Cardinal Alfred-Henri-Maria His fellow cardinal and superior in Christians we oppose Hitler and fight Faith. If Faith had been adhered to in Baudrillart is frequently described as a Paris, Cardinal Emmanuel Suhard, he two Parisian cardinals repre- the fight.” Many of those involved in accordance with the Magisterium of collaborator. Like so many, he did wel- would protest openly against the Anti- sent two strands of action in the Cahiers paid with their lives, often the Church, the options would have come the collapse of the Third Semitism of the Vichy regime. Cardinal TFrance: outright collaboration caught and executed by fellow French been limited. Republic. Suhard was the opposite of Cardinal and a move from compromise towards Catholics who passionately believed The guidelines coming from the Cardinal Baudrillart belonged to the Baudrillart, much less cosmopolitan opposition. Yet some in France were that Vichy France was true to Catholic Vatican were unequivocal where Nazi French aristocratic world that lived in and deeply concerned with the labour- resisting the new order from the outset. teaching, just as the Jesuits in Lyons ideology was concerned: racism and permanent enmity with the Republic. ing poor of France. In the vanguard of the Resistance passionately believed that neo-pagan social Darwinism were off-limits for He distrusted its democratic principles, From the outset he proved to be a stood the Jesuits, often in close collabo- Nazism was an affront to Catholicism. the Faithful. Yet as we have seen all too disliked its insistence on freedom of thorn in the Nazis’ side. Appointed a ration with Protestant pastors. These men As in all the countries that we have frequently in this series, the teachings religion, and hated its laicism. The lat- couple of days after the invasion start- were theologically far removed from examined to date, French Catholicism from the Vatican were often ignored, ter is perhaps most easily understood: ed, he was suspected by the Germans to their fellow clergy in Paris, or, indeed, in reacted in a variety of ways to the and France formed no exception to this. the anti-clerical laws of 1903, expul- be Pope Pius XII’s placeman in France. much of France. As liberals, their think- Nazis. Some allowed their hatred of the Of course, Faithful adherence to the sion of the orders and confiscation of They were right, for Cardinal Suhard ing was to influence the outcome of the Third Republic and their love for a Magisterium would not necessarily Catholic schools were still a recent was the conduit through which Vatican Second Vatican Council profoundly, par- French Church to overcome the scru- have led Catholics to the resistance. memory. denouncements of the Nazis reached ticularly in the new attitude towards the ples of the Gospels; others were so Initially at least, resistance in France When Marshall Pétain restored what France. Yet he, too, initially supported Jews and their rejection of the close asso- scared of Communism that they were was rather limited. For most, the shock Cardinal Baudrillart would have the Vichy regime, and for much the ciation between Church and state. It was blind to the dangers of Nazism. Others of defeat had been overwhelming, and regarded as the natural order, with same reason as Cardinal Baudrillart. exactly this line of thinking that proved again stayed close to Christ’s message, Marshall Pétain was certainly regarded Church and state wedded together, he When, in the spring of 1942, Anti- abhorrent to Archbishop Lefebvre and and loyal to the Ultramontane tradition as a great hope. That this was the case in welcomed the Marshall’s rule and Semitic laws were passed by the Vichy caused the schism with the SSPX some that had dominated sections of French the German-occupied zone is somewhat offered open support, even though he Government, Cardinal Suhard protest- decades later. Catholic life for a century. All these startling. The loss of the Alsace and the lived in the occupied zone. ed vehemently and publicly. This gave The leaders of the Jesuit resistance motives were grafted on the bitter expe- demarcation of swathes of the country In 1941, he went a step further. He the start-shot for the massive move- movement were Fr Pierre Chaillet and riences and divisions of Catholic for future ‘Germanic’ settlement ought publicly supported the French volun- ment amongst Catholic religious orders Fr Henri de Lubac, professor of theolo- France in the century-and-a-half since to have worried Frenchmen, whether teers who joined the Wehrmacht and SS and in Catholic schools to conceal the gy at the Lyons University. Fr De the Revolution. 22 A GRAND LITTLE PARISH SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 27 2011

WEEK 21, VOLUME 2 No rest for the priests at St Aidan’s In KT BROGAN’S fictional series this week, a host of different preparations gather pace T’S ALL very strange, John efforts of St Aidan’s in recent months, he said said at last. “I mean…the people of the parish Paul,” the canon said, while the and had been very impressed. Indeed, he was were mostly miners, farm workers. They two of them were waiting to see so impressed that he intended to give a dioce- weren’t rich. And yet… just look at these beau- the bishop. “What’s strange?” Fr san loan to the parish so that the building of a tiful things…” John Paul nervously polished his smaller and more suitable hall could begin as The canon smiled. ‘Iglasses. “The way the big wedding has sud- soon as the centenary celebrations were over. “Ad majorem Dei gloriam,” he said quietly, denly failed to materialise.” “St Aidan’s won’t lose momentum… “For the people of St Aidan’s… only the best Fr John Paul shot a curious glance at his including their fundraising capacity… in the was good enough.” companion. year to come,” he told the two priests. “An exhibition central to the whole cente- A GRAND LITTLE PARISH “It’s just a postponement, according to the “The fact that the canon has agreed to post- nary celebration,” Fr John Paul was thinking bride-to-be. You devised that, didn’t you, pone his retirement yet again will help to provide aloud. “Set in the Lady Altar. We’ll call it The canon? Thought everything was being done in for the needs of St Jerome’s and St Aidan’s…” Heart of St Aidan’s.” too much of a rush…” “But…” the bishop peered severely over his “Good,” the canon replied. “And the young “No, I’m sure it’s a cancellation of the wed- glasses. ones will learn something of value from it…” ding. Bert’s left some bits and pieces with “The canon can’t be expected to stay indef- Bernard for safe keeping and has taken him- initely, so make your plans for the future with hat evening, the artefacts in the dining self off on a cruise, y’know… on his own. that in mind,” Fr John Paul managed a smile. room were moved to a side room in the “And Mrs Smythe has gone to visit her sis- TWelfare, thanks to Councillor Chirray. ter in Harrogate. She’s in need of a complete n inviting tea tray brought by the Edith had gone to Miss McIndoe’s for music rest, it seems,” Fr John Paul finished. housekeeper proved a welcome dis- practice again. She had decided on O For the “Mmm… and at the heart of it all lies the mys- Atraction for Fr John Paul. The canon Wings of a Dove as her principal song for the tery of the big row up at Mon Repos as reported made matters worse by remarking cheerily: concert and the canon had virtually begged the by the local Gossip Gazette, Nell Norton.” “Ah, yes… St Jerome’s. A parish that takes selection panel for the concert to allow her to The canon leaned forward and lowered his itself very seriously indeed… and is set in its sing, otherwise his life wouldn’t be worth liv- EWTN PROGRAMMES voice. ways to say the least. Another mountain for ing. The dining room cleared, Kitty and Netta SUN 29 MAY WED 1 JUNE “The row was about an oul’ chair belonging you to climb, John Paul. I think I’ll spend were giving it a quick vacuum and tidy up. 9AM 1PM to Bert, it seems. It’s stored in Bernard’s most of my time at St Aidan’s…” “I could just tell Edith that I did it, if she asks,” CANTOS GREGORIANOS DEL DAILY MASS garage at present… or so Nell Norton’s been The bishop smiled. the canon told Fr John Paul. “That way, she won’t CORO DE MONJES DE LA 7.30PM telling the ladies of the parish at every avail- “Now… instead of indulging in your usual feel that her territory’s being invaded…” ABADÍA DE SOLEMNES CONVERSION: FOLLOWING THE 11.30AM CALL OF CHRIST able opportunity. So… word of advice, John hobby of mischievous conversation, I suggest that “Tell the truth, canon,” was the severe FORGOTTEN HERITAGE: 10PM Paul. If the subject comes up, just stick to you finish your tea… and then you and Fr John reply, “Just smother it in blarney as usual and EUROPE AND OUR LADY HAIL HOLY QUEEN ‘postponement.’ And meantime, I hope that Paul can collect the treaures of St Aidan’s…” there won’t be any trouble…” 1PM THU 2 JUNE Bert recovers his status as a confirmed bache- “Bernard made an inventory nearly three The canon looked hurt. SUNDAY MASS LIVE 1PM 3PM DAILY MASS lor. We’ve altogether too much to do just now years ago, when St Aidan’s lost their parish “Right. That’s the room ready for the THE WORLD OVER 5PM to cope with all that kangaroo hoppin’ stuff.” priest. The people were anxious about securi- Reminiscence group meetin’,” Kitty said. “We 4PM MEDITATIONS ON THE Fr John Paul stared at his companion in ty and their treaures were brought here for can get goin’ again.” LIFE ON THE ROCK ASCENSION OF OUR LORD sheer perplexity. safe-keeping,” he explained. “I’ve laid every- Netta was just disappearing with Kitty, when 7PM 5.30PM “What…?” he began. thing out for you. Just look at this.” the canon remembered that Mozza hadn’t turned HARVEST OF SOULS ST THOMAS MORE: FAITHFUL 8PM STATESMAN At that point, the bishop made his entrance. A monstrance, sunburst of gold, was the up for his weekly instruction. He made inquiries. THE JOURNEY HOME 7.30PM Both priests stood up. centrepiece of an array of St Aidan’s treasures. “He was flittin’,” Netta explained, 10PM ST THOMAS MORE: FAITHFUL “Kangaroo hoppin’… a sort of mental pic- There were two chalices, an array of silver, “Announced his engagement… flung oot. VATICANO STATESMAN 11PM ture of what is meant by ‘on the rebound’…” including a very fine thurible, an engraved jug Much as expected. He’s wi’ me. Suits him BENEDICTION 9PM the canon muttered out of the side of his mouth, for use in the baptistery, silver candlesticks for fine. Suits me tae. Cooks a lovely big break- MON 30 MAY EWTN LIVE FRI 3 JUNE quite destroying Fr John Paul’s mental lost of the Lady Altar. fast, we’re getting’ along just grand.” 1PM matters he’d like to discuss with the bishop. For a long time, there was silence in the room, “Did you see that?” whispered the canon as DAILY MASS 1PM 7.30PM DAILY MASS The bishop, always a man in a hurry, took a sort of reverence which demanded that silence. Mozza’s Gran went out the door. “Netta was CONVERSION: FOLLOWING THE 7.30PM the initiative. He had studied the fund-raising “…This is surprising, canon,” Fr John Paul smiling…” CALL OF CHRIST CONVERSION: FOLLOWING THE TUES 31 MAY CALL OF CHRIST 1PM 8PM DAILY MASS FORGOTTEN HERITAGE: 7.30PM EUROPE AND OUR LADY Follow the lead of the Fathers of the Church CONVERSION: FOLLOWING THE 9PM CALL OF CHRIST THE WORLD OVER WE ALL know where to find 8PM SAT 4 JUNE LIVE CEREMONY FOR THE 1PM Scripture—in the Bible. But CONCLUSION OF THE MONTH LIVE HOLY MASS what of that other channel of Mgr Basil OF MAY 7.30PM Divine Revelation—Tradition? Zeal and Patience 9.30PM ROAD OF HOPE: THE SPIRITUAL It sounds much more vague and Loftus EUCHARISTIC JOURNEY WITH JOURNEY OF CARDINAL VAN POPE BENEDICT XVI NGUYEN THUAN nebulous—almost a kind of word-of mouth transmission. First and second generation Scripture and Tradition— the bishop, is not in good So where exactly is it? The Christians were then dispersed twin-channels of Divine conscience, and in truth cannot Catechism of the Catholic throughout the Roman Empire, and Revelation, flourished side by be called a Christian.’ LAY READERS’ GUIDE Church wanted us to be in no the initial cohesion of the Church side in different writings. Writing Ignatius testifies to a Tradition by Fr John Breslin doubt: “We know the Holy as a community was gravely to Polycarp, Ignatius of Antioch of the Church which reconciles Spirit... in the Tradition, to which threatened. Secondly, and at told him ‘dream about unity— the different emphases of St John the Church Fathers are always roughly the same time, the apostles there is nothing better.’ and St Paul in the Scriptures. SUNDAY MARCH 20 timely witnesses,” (n.687). and disciples who had personally Then, in the first recorded use of For John, unity was found in the Easter 7/A. Acts 1:12-14. Response: I am sure I shall So who are these Church known Jesus during His life on the term ‘Catholic,’ he told the invisible love of Jesus our see the Lordʼs goodness in the land of the living. 1 Peter Fathers who so faithfully earth—particularly those who were Christians at Smyrna what their Saviour. For Paul it was there in 4:13-16. John 17:1-11. transmit Tradition to us, so that witnesses to his appearances after unity was centred upon: “There, the hierarchical structure of the we can be sure of finding the the Resurrection—were almost where Christ is, there is the Church. Without adding anything MONDAY Holy Spirit there? all dead. Catholic Church.” He wanted this to Scripture, Ignatius synthesised Acts 19:1-8. Response: Kingdoms of the Earth, sing to The title was given fairly Consequently there was a very invisible unity of love to be made the complementary teachings— Lord. John 16:29-33. loosely to those who wrote about real threat to the unity of both visible through common prayer not as two distinct realities, but the Faith for about the first 1200 belief and practice in a Church and shared Eucharist, telling the as a single united Church, at the TUESDAY years of the Church’s history. now spread over many different Magnesians: “If the prayer of any same time external in its Acts 20:17-27. Response: Kingdoms of the Earth, sing They are a fairly nondescript and cultural enclaves of the Roman one of you is so powerful, how hierarchical structure—what he to Lord. John 17:1-11. motley crew, with not a few Empire, and with no-one to much more powerful is that of the called in Greek sarkikos—and heretics amongst them. But vouch personally for the Faith bishop and his Church?” And then internally invisible and spiritual WEDNESDAY much more importance is given they believed and practised. he reminded the Christians at in the love of Christ—what he Acts 20:28-38. Response: Kingdoms of the Earth, sing to what are known as the early Today we often think of Philadelphia that Christ, the source termed pneumatikos. to Lord. John 17:11-19. Fathers of the Church—writing Church Unity as something to be and focus of our unity, is found Today we find exactly this in the first three centuries after achieved—a goal for the future. in ‘a single Eucharist, because synthesis in the teaching of what THURSDAY Christ—and it is these who are But for the early Church it was the body of Christ is one, and there may turn out to be the latest Feast of St Columba. Colossians 1:24-29. Response: the main source of Tradition in something to be defended, a is one sole chalice of His blood.’ Father of the Church, Pope You are my inheritance, O Lord. John 15:9-17. the Church. precious possession that could And he was absolutely Benedict XVl. These early fathers enshrined not be surrendered or diluted. insistent on the role of bishop as FRIDAY Tradition in their writings at a time And it did not depend on cultural guarantor of the unity of the Mgr Basil Loftus is a priest of Acts 25:13-21. Response: The Lord has set His sway when the Church was facing two similarities, but was centred on Church—telling the Magnesians the Leeds Diocese now living in in Heaven. John 21:15-19. enormous difficulties. First of all, Christ and on the bishop. that not only should the Church retirement in the North of because the Infant Church was The early fathers wrote to one pray with the bishop, and Sutherland. He worked in SATURDAY centred on Jerusalem there was a another as well as to the scattered celebrate the Eucharist with him, secretariat for English and Acts 28:16-20.30-31. Response: The upright shall see huge Christian upheaval when that Christian communities—just as but ‘anyone who does anything Welsh bishops in Rome during your face, O Lord. John 21:20-25. city fell to the Romans in 70 AD. Paul did with his Epistles. which is not in conformity with the Second Vatican Council Friday May 27 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER CHILDREN’S LITURGY 23

Our weekly series on Children’s Liturgy has word lesson plans 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

wait until later to clean. Catherine loved G Ask the children to share their assignments The Ascension of the Lord that movie so she sat down to watch it. with the class. A little while later the babysitter —First Reading reminded them of their mother’s Prayer instruction. They continued to watch the Dear Jesus, please help us to spread your Why are you standing here looking at the sky? Jesus has film. They knew that their mum was message and carry on your work. In your been taken into Heaven. A reading from the Acts of the always gone for three hours when she name we pray. Amen. Apostles 1:8-11 went out so they thought they could watch the film for two hours and then Responsorial Psalm Jesus told His disciples: “The Holy Spirit will have an hour to clean. 47:1-2, 5-6, 7-8 come upon you and give you power. Then Suddenly, right at the part of the film (R) God mounts the throne to shouts of joy. where baby Jack is being taken into the All of you nations, clap your hands and you will tell everyone about me in sky, Catherine and Daniel heard their shout joyful praises to God. Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and mum’s car in the drive way. They both The Lord Most High is fearsome, the ruler everywhere in the world.” ran to their rooms and started throwing of all the earth. After Jesus had said this and while they things under their beds and into their (R) God mounts the throne to shouts of joy. were watching, He was taken up into a closets. As they heard mum’s keys in the God goes up to His throne, as people shout door, they shoved everything they could and trumpets blast. cloud. They could not see Him, but as He into their desk drawers. Sing praises to God our King. went up, they kept looking up into the sky. After mum set down her purse she (R) God mounts the throne to shouts of joy. Suddenly two men dressed in white clothes went to look at Catherine and Daniel’s God is ruler of all the earth! Praise God were standing there beside them. They said: Reflection rooms. She looked sad when she saw that with songs. “Why are you men from Galilee standing ONCE upon a time there was a girl they hadn’t finished cleaning and had not God rules the nations from His sacred named Catherine and a boy named done good jobs with what they had throne. here and looking up into the sky? Jesus has Daniel. One day as their mother was completed. Catherine and Daniel were (R) God mounts the throne to shouts of joy. been taken to Heaven. But He will come leaving the house she told them to make afraid they were going to be in big back in the same way that you have seen sure their rooms were cleaned by the trouble but instead of yelling, mum asked Second Reading Him go.” time she got home. them to keep working while she made God seated Jesus at His right hand in Heaven. A The Word of the Lord Catherine went right to work. She them all a snack. After they ate their reading from the letter of Paul to the Ephesians cleaned up all of her dirty clothes off of snack they tackled the mess in 1:17-21 the floor and put them in the wash Catherine’s room and then cleaned Brothers and sisters: I ask the glorious basket. She made her bed and threw Daniel’s room together. Father and God of our Lord Jesus Christ The Children’s Liturgy page is published one away all of the sweetie wrappers. Then We, and the disciples, are Catherine to give you His Spirit. The Spirit will make week in advance to allow RE teachers and those she started working on her Barbies which and Daniel. Jesus is the Mother in this you wise and let you understand what it were in a huge mess. Eventually she got story. As He was leaving, He told us to go means to know God. taking the Children’s Liturgy at weekly Masses to tired and bored so she decided to take a out and ‘clean-up’ the world by teaching My prayer is that light will flood you use, if they wish, this page as an accompaniment break and get a snack. On her way to the them about Jesus and how He wants us to hearts and that you will understand the kitchen she saw that Daniel was watching live. We need to decided what we are hope that was given to you when God to their teaching materials The Incredibles movie. He had decided to going to do now that we have been given chose you. Then you will discover the the task. Will we be like Daniel and glorious blessings that will be yours ignore it? Will be we like Catherine and together with all of God’s people. try very hard at first but then quit? We I want you to know about the great and hope that we will work as hard as we can mighty power that God has for us His to bring about God’s Kingdom and that followers. It is the same wonderful power when Jesus returns He will be pleased He used when He raised Christ from death with what we have done and will help us and let Him sit at His right side in Heaven. with the areas that we didn’t do so well. There Christ rules over all forces, authorities, powers, and rulers. He rules Discussion over all beings in this world and will rule in I Who do you think you are most like, the future world as well. Catherine or Daniel? The Word of the Lord I Who do you think the babysitter who reminds them of their task represents? Alleluia I What does the mother’s actions tell us Matthew 28:19a, 20b about God/Jesus? (R) Alleluia, alleluia. I What are some ways we can ‘clean-up’ Go and teach all people my Gospel; I am the world? with you always, until the end of the world. I What makes it hard to tell people about (R) Alleluia, alleluia. Jesus? I How can we handle some of the Gospel difficulties in telling others about Jesus? All authority in Heaven and on earth has been given to me. A reading from the Holy Gospel Activities according to Matthew 28:16-20 G Choose four children to act out the above Jesus’ 11 disciples went to a mountain in story as you read it. Galilee, where Jesus had told them to meet G To Do List. Materials: A4 cards or paper, Him. They saw Him and worshiped Him, pens, pencils or markers. but some of them doubted. G Preparation: Write or copy ‘To Do’ at the Jesus came to them and said: “I have top centre of each card/paper and ‘Love, been given all authority in Heaven and on Jesus’ at the bottom right side. earth! Go to the people of all nations and G Directions: Put the children in groups of make them my disciples. Baptise them in two. Give them each a card/paper and a the name of the Father, the Son, and the writing implement. Ask them to write their Holy Spirit, and teach them to do partner’s name on the top of the paper and everything I have told you. then write or draw a way for their partner to “I will be with you always, even until tell or show the world about Jesus and then the end of the world.” give the card to their partner. The Gospel of the Lord 24 RETREATS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday May 27 2011 Reduce the noise to hear Christ Finding time to hear God’s voice is a challenge of modern life, with its many demands on our time. That is why going on retreat can help tune out the myriad of other distractions

OPE Benedict XVI communication one of the hard- last week encouraged er things to do is to shut down young people to sift all the means through which through the ‘many people can contact you. This voices of this world’ will likely mean leaving your Pso as to be able to recognise the mobile phone and computer at voice of Christ. home. This can be hard to do. The Pope made the com- Many protest, ‘what if there is ments at the end of the general an emergency?’ But what did audience, when he offered his they do a hundred years ago traditional greeting to youth, the when there was an emergency? sick and newlyweds. Will a few hours of prayer with- “Dear young people I hope out disruption really mean that you will be able to recognise, in the world will fall apart if the midst of the many voices of someone cannot reach you? this world, the voice of Christ, who continues to address His etreat preparation can invitation to the heart of the one vary from person to per- who knows how to listen. Be Rson. generous in following him,” the First, a great deal of the ben- Holy Father said. “Do not be efit of spiritual exercises or afraid to put your energies and retreats is the ability to break your enthusiasm at the service from the day-to-day grind of of His Gospel.” life and spend dedicated time While aimed at young people, listening to God. Often, the this Pope’s message is good most challenging aspect of advice to all. The pace of life these retreats relates to our abil- the cares of the world for a their spiritual lives. The enemy additional five minutes a day to Youth retreats can help young we lead today often precludes ity to really break away from while. This preparation can be will do everything he can to pray a decade of the Rosary Catholics reconnect with their Faith time for God, unless we make a the routine of noise and busy- as simple as ensuring you have reach you, to keep you from the with the intention of a success- but taking time to hear what God is concerted effort. ness and to quiet our minds someone you trust to let the dog retreat, and to distract you as ful retreat, that would be a good telling us is something everyone can Going on retreat can be enough to hear God’s ‘still out and care for whatever mat- you seek to turn your heart and step in the right direction. You benefit from, no matter their age replenishing and can deepen small voice’ with any measure ters you might be leaving soul to God. Worst case, take might also increase your time of our relationship with Christ, but of clarity. So, often, a good behind for a few days. your cell phone with you if you scripture or other spiritual read- how do we effectively prepare? preparation is simply making Remember, you will likely must, but leave it in the car. You ing. Believe it or not, a few it should be a dry period, that In today’s world of hyper the commitment to set aside all have enough of a challenge can always leave the number of minutes here and there can pro- He will work in it. If it should finding peace within your own the retreat centre with family vide a great deal of insight into be a delightful time of consola- soul without having to fight off members in the case of a real your spiritual journey. It is also tion and peace, then praise be to external distractions. The more emergency. a good idea to pray a prayer to Him in His great mercy. 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Trust experience or don’t experience, [email protected] IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY CENTRE Him to give you whatever you keep your eyes on Him. www.emmauscentre.org.uk PROGRAMME 2010 – 2011 need in the retreat. Trust that if CATHOLIC SPIRITUAL DIRECTION Registered Charity RESIDENTIAL RETREATS July Notre Dame Apostolic Centre, Skelmorlie: 18-25 Preached Retreat: 16th – 18th September; 11th – 13th November Individually Guided Retreat Weekends WHITCHESTER “THINK OF THE LOVE THAT …” A Group Pilgrimage/Retreat to the Celtic Island of (1 John 3:1) Islay: 1st to 5th November 2011 CHRISTIAN (Silence) Sr Margaret Eason DMJ Visits to Celtic sites on Islay with time for prayer, reflection and sharing. (Transport provided from Glasgow). CENTRE August Maximum of 12 places. Borthaugh, Hawick, Scottish Borders,TD9 7LN 8-15 Preached Retreat: * * * * * Charity Reg. SCO11436 ***OUR NEW 2011-2012 PROGRAMME WILL BE THE ALMIGHTY WORKS MARVELS AVAILABLE MAY/JUNE*** A place to come apart and rest awhile. 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