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Pilgrimages Mark Two Great Welsh Martyrs Pilgrims Honour Saint David Lewis Newyddiadur Swyddogol Esgobaeth Caerdydd Issue 273 September 2019 Official Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Cardiff Pick up your FREE Catholic People copy today Pilgrimages mark two great Welsh Martyrs Pilgrims honour Saint David Lewis Archbishop George Stack delivered this homily at the Dedication of the Church Martyrs in Aberystwyth. The article also marks last month’s pilgrimages to the graves of Welsh Martyrs Saint John Kemble and Saint David Lewis Forty eight years ago I had the privilege of being present in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, when Pope Paul VI canonised the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. It was an amazing experience, made even more special in the fact that the choir of Westminster Cathedral was allowed to sing the Mass rather than the Sistine choir. Little did I know that thirty years later I would be responsible for that choir as Administrator of Westminster Cathedral. Neither did I know that forty eight years later I would be privileged to preach in Aberystywth at the re-dedication of the church in honour of Pope Paul VI - he canonised our martyrs the Welsh martyrs. “The blood of the martyrs is the seedbed of tragedy in the lives of these martyrs was that the Church” wrote St. Iranaeus in the second their honest and genuine loyalty came into century. And, indeed, there are as many conflict with their fidelity to God and the martyrs for the faith today as ever there were dictates of their conscience illumined by the in previous ages. Church”. (Homily – 25 October 1970). I think of St. Oscar Romero, canonised with Witness of their Faith Pope Paul VI in 2018. I think of the martyr The word “martyrion” simply means “witness”. monks of the Atlas mountains near Tyberine in And we often say the martyrs died in fidelity to, Algeria beatified on 8 December 2018. and in witness of, their faith. Seen through Speaking of the Welsh and English martyrs modern eyes and through the prism of forty eight years ago Pope Paul said: “The high • Continued on page 2 Bringing pupils into the body of our church INSIDE Page 8 2 CATHOLIC PEOPLE ARCHBISHOP Pilgrimages mark two of GEORGE’S ENGAGEMENTS SEPTEMBER 2019 our great Welsh Martyrs Tuesday Funeral of Fr Tom Quinn, Shepperton 12.00 • Continued from Page 1 Because the people were all in tears as they Wednesday Ordination to the Diaconate, Belmont Abbey 11.30 listened to the words of the Law. I am sure devotion, that seems a very clear and some of them were weeping tears of joy at the Friday Knights of St. Gregory Mass, Cathedral 12.45 straightforward description. But there was wonderful things they were seeing and Saturday Mass for Altar Servers St. Illtyd’s Dowlais 12.00 nothing clear about the age, and the experiencing. The new Temple rebuilt and circumstances and the politics of the time in active after the years of desolation. WEEK OF 8 SEPTEMBER which they lived. Others were no doubt weeping as they These were anything but straightforward. The reflected on their history, on their Sunday Our Lady of Mount Carmel,Lampeter 10.00 great dilemma, which is as present today as it unfaithfulness to the Torah, on the destruction Friday HCPT Gathering, Nazareth House 2.00 was in the 16th and 17th centuries, is that of Solomon’s Temple and on the exile and the spiritual questions and loyalties were often punishment of their forebears. They were no expressed and fought over in political terms. If doubt weeping for all that had been lost in WEEK OF 15 SEPTEMBER you were loyal to the Pope, and all that those painful years. One translation reads that Tuesday Department of Christian Life and Worship,London 12.30 signified, you could not be loyal to the King or “So loud were the tears that the people could Wednesday Retreat at Buckfast Abbey until Friday Queen. Papal alliances with continental Europe not distinguish between the tears of sadness meant that to travel to those countries to and the tears of joy”. prepare for the priesthood immediately The lessons for us are many and they are WEEK OF 22 SEPTEMBER labelled you a traitor. The great insight of St. deep. We are a pilgrim people. We do not Tuesday Meeting of Diocesan Trustees, Swansea 10.30 Thomas More spoken on the scaffold in 1535 belong to a church of Solomon’s Temple, but a Thursday Meeting of Patrimony Committee, London 1.00 summed this up: “I die the king’s good servant, Church of Abraham’s tent. More and more the but God’s first”. In the 1670’s our martyrs Church is being challenged to authentic Saturday Cardiff Catenians Jubilee Mass, Cathedral 5.00 repeated those sentiments and prayed for the witness and service not just within its own monarch as they pledged their loyalty to the walls and for its own people, but for a world crown even as they faced execution. and a people which has lost its way,cut off Your Catholic People… from its roots,lacking the framework to guide Religion and politics its decisions. It is a world without a father. Editorial Dr James Campbell-Editor. Archbishop’s House, 43 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11 9HD That sense of confusion between religion and Inspiration and support Tel: (029) 2022 0411 Fax: (029) 2037 9036 Email: [email protected] and Articles to be received politics has been present in our own day, We cannot learn the lessons and proclaim the by the 20th of the month for inclusion in the following month whether in South Africa, Northern Ireland or the faith simply as individuals, since we carry Advertising Tel: 0151 709 7567 tensions and agonies of the Muslim ‘martyrs’ in these treasures of faith and relationship with Designed & Produced Mersey Mirror, Suite 4, Pacific Chambers, 11-13 Victoria Street, Liverpool L2 our own country. They are willing to sacrifice Jesus Christ in earthen vessels. We need each 5QQ. Tel: 0151 709 7567 Fax: 0151 707 1678 Email: [email protected] their lives for what they see as a great cause. others’ inspiration and support. The Church is Submission of photographs Please note photographs submitted for publication must be in jpeg or pdf format. Those in Word format cannot be accepted When we see in the violence and havoc not a club of like minded members. We are wreaked on our streets we call them terrorist bound together, in communion with each other attacks . The perpetrators see them differently through Faith, Baptism and our Holy – as the gateway to heaven. We must not be Communion with the Body of Christ. We do surprised that this confusion is easily exploited, not use merely human words when we PHILLIP TOM & SONS when religious faith and life touch the very engage in these mysteries of faith. Because FUNERAL DIRECTORS deepest foundation of who we are as language can divide as well as unite. individuals and as citizens,exploited in racism The lesson of the Tower of Babel is as …a family business that cares and prejudice and injustice. “Render to Caesar important today as it was in the Book of the things that are Caesar’s and to God the Genesis. (Gen 11:1-9). So we use the • Owned and operated by a Catholic family with over things that are God’s”. (Mark 12:17) language of sign, and symbol and sacrament Confusion over loyalties when we come to worship. Cardinal Basil 25 years experience to understand your needs The People of Israel, God’s own people, were Hume used to say: “Churches are not just • Chosen Funeral Directors to the Sisters of St Joseph, themselves often confused as to where their places in which we worship God, but with Llantarnam Abbey for over 25 years religious and political loyalties lay. Despite the which we worship God”. That is one reason fact that their scriptures and their prophets, why this ceremony of dedication to the Welsh • We are Licenced by the British Institute of Funeral their history and their tradition, taught them Church Martyrs is of such significance and Directors that they were in a covenant relationship with importance. The walls were sprinkled with Holy God, revealed by God Himself. “I will be your Water – reminding us of our Baptism. They will • Offer free bereavement counselling God and you will be my people”. (Exodus 6:7) be anointed with the Oil of Chrism – as we Despite Abraham and Moses, despite the were in Confirmation. “You are a royal • Golden Charter Prepaid funeral plans available revelation in the Law that there is only one priesthood, a holy nation, a people set apart”. • Monumental Masonry Service God, that they were freed from the slavery of (1 Peter 2:9). worshipping the many pagan gods around Fire will be burnt and candles will be lit so • Serving all areas of South Wales them, what did they do? They worshipped a that the Light of Christ may shine into our Golden Calf. (cf.Exodus 32. and 1 Kings 12). hearts and through our lives into a darkened No wonder calamity fell on this people, not world. “Better to light a light than curse the just when Moses broke the Ten darkness” as a Chinese proverb says. And Commandments he brought down from the relics will be placed on the altar. “I saw on the mountain. Calamity too when, in 587 BC, Israel altar the souls of those who had been slain for was invaded, Jerusalem laid low, the Temple the word of God and for the witness they had of Solomon destroyed, and the people taken borne”.
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