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Mungo’s Bairns 2016 was a Scottish Sing-a-long Song’s, Performance on Friday January 15 2016, Wellington Church, University Ave, Glasgow as part of this year’s St Mungo festival for Glasgow’s patron saint. Pupils from St Monica’s Pri- mary, Milton (right), performed When Mandela came to Glas- gow. Kevin Baijonauth played Mandela with St Mungo (Szy- mon Matusiak) and St Enoch (Niomi Dysart) on either side. More on St Mungo Festival, pages 2, 9 and 22

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Pope invited to Scots College’s 400th

I Archbishop Leo Cushley extends invitation during private audience with the Holy Father

By Ian Dunn

He also gifted the Pope a copy of his the martyrdom of St John Ogilvie, the
2015 pastoral letter We Have Found the 16 students studying at the college Messiah in which the archbishop sets vowed to become priests and return to out a vision of how St Andrews and Scotland, just one year after the saint’s Edinburgh Archdiocese can better execution at Glasgow Cross.

POPE Francis has been officially invited to visit the Pontifical Scots College in Rome to help mark this year’s 400th anniversary of its foundation as a seminary.

evangelise the communities within its bounds. The archdiocese is facing college and for all the young men reorganisation at parish level. studying with us if Pope Francis is able
“It would be a great honour for the
Archbishop Leo Cushley issued the invitation on behalf of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland and the Pontifical Scots College during a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on Monday.
“Pope Francis has such a warm, to join us to mark 400 years of priestly kindly and supportive personality and formation,” Fr Daniel Fitzpatrick, rector he was clearly very informed and of the Pontifical Scots College, said. “I interested in how the Catholic Church am sure the Holy Father’s presence would in our part of Scotland is faring as we be a great blessing to the College, a attempt to preach the Gospel to our source of encouragement for our contemporary society,” the archbishop seminarians and an inspiration to other said. “In short, Pope Francis was Peter— young men to join them here in Rome the rock—such that during our discussion to continue the long tradition of the he continually confirmed my Faith by Pontifical Scots College.” his words and by his example.”
“The Pontifical Scots College has a truly remarkable history and, so, it would be wonderful if Pope Francis could join us as we celebrate that past with pride while looking to the future with great confidence and trust in the Lord,” the Archbishop of St Andrews

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Scots college

If the Pope was to visit the Pontifical Scots College in Rome it would be the

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highpoint in a year of celebrations.
During their 40-minute discussion, the archbishop discussed a wide range of issues with the Holy Father including
The college was officially founded in
1600 by Pope Clement VIII to provide an education for young Scottish the general health of the Church in Holy Father sent me to Scotland to wanted to brief him on how our Catholic men who—due to the laws Scotland and his predecessor Cardinal bring the joy of Christ’s Gospel to all archdiocese is progressing with that against Catholics—could not receive a

  • Keith O’Brien.
  • those who live within the Archdiocese important mission he has entrusted to Catholic education at home. It was on

  • “It’s now over two years since the of St Andrews and Edinburgh—so I me,” Archbishop Cushley said.
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I Youth Work Training day at St Mary’s Cathedral, Aberdeen. If you’re interested in Youth Ministry then this workshop, led by the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia, could be just what you’re looking for. January 23, Cathedral Upper Hall from 10.30am to 3.00pm.

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I PACT Christian Unity Taize Service in Paisley Abbey at 4pm. Please do come along to pray with other Christians.

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I A Burns Supper will take place on Friday January 29 in St Mirin’s Cathedral Hall, Paisley. Tickets are

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I Newman Association: Facing the Challenges of Laudato Si: Energy, environment and the human future. A talk by Professor Colin McInnes, The Ogilvie Centre, St Aloysius’ Church, Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RE at 7.30pm on Thursday, 28th January. All welcome. Non-members:
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This year’s Molendinar Lecture on January 14 was given by The Right Reverend Gregory Cameron, bishop of St Asaph of the Church of Wales.Asaph was appointed by Mungo as Bishop of the Diocese in Llanelwy which he founded during his exile from the Kingdom of Strathclyde. Bishop Cameron is seen here with members and friends of Glasgow Mediaeval Trust—Saint Mungo Festival. (Left to right) Dr Laurence Whitley, Bishop Gregor Duncan Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, Bishop Gregory Cameron, Catherine McMaster, organiser, Dr Gordon Wyllie Trustee, Bailie Josephine Docherty representing the Provost, Councillor Gordon Matheson and Archbishop Mario Conti.The lecture was held at Glasgow City Chambers

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I Celtic Roots Mass at St Aloysius, Garnethill, Glasgow. Gaelic and ScottishcChoirs will sing at this 4pm Mass. admission £3 including refreshments.

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SCIAF can double 2016 Wee Box total

MONEY given to SCIAF’s Wee Box Annual Lent Appeal will once again be doubled thanks to a UK Government aid match scheme that will give £1 for every £1 donated by supporters.

Last year’s Wee Box campaign, supported by the SCO and the Department for

  • International Development, raised
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record-breaking £3.4 million (right) in the charity’s 50th anniversary year thanks to the generosity of donors and the UK Aid Match scheme. This year the Wee Box appeal tells the story of cattle herders in Ethiopia.
“It’s fantastic that we’ve secured UK Government aid match funding again this year,” SCIAF’s Director Alistair Dutton said. “The donations we get will be doubled—so every £1 you give to the Wee Box appeal will equal £2.
“This will help us to give so many more people the help they need, such as seeds, favourite treat, like coffee or chocolate, for with UK Aid match we can offer a hand farm tools, cattle, training and small loans, the 40 days of Lent and putting the money up to many more people.

  • so they can work their way out of poverty saved in their Wee Box.
  • All donations given to SCIAF between

  • and have a better future. I would urge
  • The 2016 appeal will be launched on February 5 and May 4 will be matched

  • everyone to make the most of this amazing Ash Wednesday, February 10.
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offer and make sure the money you give goes twice as far!”
The very existence and way of life of will be helped. This means SCIAF will be cattle herders in Ethiopia is threatened by able to reach more people who need help

Storm damage bill reaches quarter of a million pounds for East Kilbride parish

The annual appeal raises vital funds for more severe droughts and floods. Carfi the most. SCIAF’s life-changing work in Africa, Sara and his family from Borana in southAsia and Latin America and helps some of ern Ethiopia are on this year’s Wee Box. I The SCO is backing the SCIAF Wee the poorest people in the world living with They lost all their cattle in a severe Box appeal again this year. Coming soon,

  • hunger, poverty, disease and disasters.
  • drought in 2011 and struggled to survive Ian Dunn’s reports on visiting Ethiopia

Thousands of supporters in schools and until they were given eight goats and a with the charity parishes across Scotland raise money for camel which now provide milk for the

ST LEONARD’s Church in East Kilbride is facing a repair bill of £250,000 after damage from Storm Frank.

Heavy winds and rain caused chaos and damage across the country in December and into the New Year.
Leonard’s Primary School, while weekday Masses will be celebrated in the side chapel, which is unaffected. the appeal every year by giving up a family and a source of income. This year I http://www.sciaf.org.uk/
Parish priest Fr Gerard Chromy thanked those who have helped the church over the last few weeks. “We have had great support from volunteers and I would really like to thank

Call for support for headteacher, staff at Edinburgh school

THE director of the Scottish since the new head teacher

  • difficult time.”
  • St Leonard’s suffered exten-

sive flooding after the roof was speak to staff.

Catholic Education Service has urged parents to support an Edinburgh high school after a newspaper report of complaints from some staff members about recent

  • took over.
  • Edinburgh City Council are

planning to write to parents with children at the school with regards to the reports.
“In addition an open staff

  • forum meeting has been
  • “I am aware of claims made

in an Edinburgh newspaper about recent events in St Thomas of Aquin’s RC High School in Edinburgh,” Michael McGrath, director of the Scotblown off the church in the first South Lanarkshire Council for planned so any issues can be raised. We also recognise that parents may have concerns and have written to them to highlight the action being taken by the council and how they can share feedback with us directly.
“St Thomas’ is one of the city’s leading schools with strong attainment and everyone is keen for the school to move forward so that all pupils can benefit from a first class learning environment.”

  • week of the year.
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  • The church is expected to be

closed for the next six months and Communions, Confirmations and weddings have been moved to St Vincent’s Church and Our Lady of Lourdes, with others postponed.
“The council is working with the head teacher and staff and has put in place a package of
A statement on the church website had previously called for parishioners to follow in the footsteps of those who worked with Fr Kieran O’Farrell to establish the parish in 1966. The damage comes at the same time as another church in the town, St Bride’s, has also closed for six months as

changes.

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tish Catholic Education Service measures to identify and
News reported last week that it had received a list of
(SCES), said. “I am confident that this Catholic school community, which is one of Edinburgh’s leading schools, will address areas for development within the school,” a council statement said. complaints compiled by staff at St Thomas of Aquins High that had been presented to the school’s headteacher Thomas Hughes. The alleged problems are reported to have occurred
Torrential rain flooded the ceiling and floors in the church resulting in the need for new electrics, pews and floors.
“Senior managers within the make a robust response to these schools team are working in anonymous allegations. I urge parents to support the school’s headteacher and staff at this partnership with St Thomas’s to tackle emerging concerns, and were at the school last week to
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St Margaret’s Malawi refuge centre project gets cash boost from St Bartholomew’s parishioners

By Daniel Harkins

they visit the country in June.
“I have studied the plans for the refuge and seen the profiles mud hut with her grandfather and a goat, is also being sponsored. Doris has suffered from malaria for two years and is now

KIND-hearted parishioners from St Bartholomew’s Parish of the females who will be the in Coatbridge donated over £700 to an Airdrie high school’s project to build a female refuge centre in Mulanje, Malawi.

first residents,” Steven Snee, acting headteacher at St receiving treatment for this. The walk to school for Doris will also be cut from more than an hour to five minutes.
Margaret’s, said. “All are orphans and have endured terrible hardships, only surviving their experiences through their faith and the support of the Parish at Mendulo, Malawi. I am
Also staying in the refuge will be Martha Mulole, an 18- year-old disabled girl who has returned to education after being hidden by her family for years, and Tsungi Phiri, a 21- year-old who suffers from HIV and diabetes, and is being put through university by the
The funds were collected at the funeral of parishioner Mary Mitchell, whose family sponsored Ruth Samson, one of the

Two Catholics nominated

delighted with the members of our community, who have come in off the street to put change in our collection box and to the families of our children who have sent their coin collections to the school.” females from the Makhosa Female Farming Catholic Cooperative, an organisation set up by St Margaret’s High School in Airdrie.

By Daniel Harkins

travelling to the country to lend a hand. The project supportsThe Buccama Clinic, which
TWO Catholics who support women with helps women suffering with uterine prolapse medical problems in Ethiopia have been after childbirth. While the medical problem can jointly nominated for Scotswoman of theYear. treated routinely in the west, in parts of Africa, Joe Middlemiss and Maureen Burnett (above) women can be left ashamed and ostracised with are among six women who will compete for the little understanding of the problem and unable to prize at a glittering awards ceremony in Glasgow even lift up their newly born children as a result City Chambers next month. They have been of the condition.
Healthy Lifestyle Project and the St Margaret’s community. Tsungi will act as the mother of the house.
The late 81-year-old (above right) was dedicated to her

Faith and bought The Scottish Catholic Observer every week,

despite being blind in her later years. Mary still attended Mass to the very end and said her Rosary daily.
The Million Penny Campaign is running alongside a Prayer Book project, where members of the St Margaret’s community make a donation to write their name, or the name of a loved one, into a book, which the residents of the
The refuge is known as

Maria Amayi Achifundo

  • Home of Compassionate
  • nominated alongside champion wheelchair racer
  • Money raised for the project is used to fund

Samantha Kinghorn, dementia academic Debbie the clinic which has a staff of 15, including Tolson, charity worker and quadruple amputee trained nurses, but operates on a shoestring Corinne Hutton, and Glasgow Women’s Library budget. The project also provides for operations, founderAdele Patrick. The awards are sponsored food, transport and recovery for the sick women.
Mary—and St Margaret’s Female Refuge Centre. It will provide the women for the first time with a room, a kitchen, electricity and running water. St Margaret’s Malawi project is run in cooperation with North Lanarkshire Council. Convener Jim Logue, who has met the women involved in the refuge, said he was delighted to support the project.
“My mum took great joy from her faith and loved the fact that we supported Ruth and her children Prisca and Mary,” Mrs Mitchell’s daughter, also Mary, said. refuge will then pray over

  • every night for a year.
  • by the Evening Times newspaper and the St
  • Ms Burnett and Ms Middlemiss raise money

  • for the charity by giving talks across Scotland,
  • Enoch’s Centre in Glasgow.
  • Zione Jianji, who gave birth

to a disabled child when she was 10 years old, is one of the women who will be staying in the refuge. Her son sadly died of malnutrition when he was 5. Zione is now sponsored by the St Margaret’s community. Staying in the refuge will cut her journey time to school from 90 minutes to just five.
The Catholic duo’s charity work began after visiting parishes and gathering donations and Ms Burnett visited Ethiopia and was introduced supplies. Last weekend, an event in Christ the to the work of a clinic run by a Franciscan nun. King parish hall raised £10,000, contributing to She joined forces with her cousin Joe Middlemiss the more than £100,000 raised over the years by and together the two began the Ethiopia Medical the two cousins.
The project was officially launched on December 14 with the Million Penny Campaign (above), which it is hoped will raise £10,000 towards the £14,000 total still outstanding. The St Margaret’s community has already purchased and prepared the land and hope to have the centre opened before

  • Project, fundraising for the clinic and regularly
  • Ms Middlemiss she was ‘really, really chuffed’

Anyone wishing to donate to the Million Penny Campaign or the Prayer Book can do so by contacting the school.
Doris Rodrick, a six-year-old girl who shares a four foot square

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    DUNKELD NEWS Diocesan Newsletter of the Bishop of Dunkeld No. 13 September 2018 A glorious summer of priestly celebrations in our diocese Dunkeld’s newest priest Mgr McBride retires after 56 “nurtured in the faith” years service The parish priest at St Ninian’s, Dundee, Mgr Ken McBride, has re- tired after 56 years of service in Dun- keld Diocese, but looks forward to helping out his fellow priests around the diocese for many years to come. Bishop Stephen led the tributes to Mgr Ken, for his great service to the di- ocese. “I know he will be sorely missed by his people. We thank him for the great priestly example he has always given and for his genial spirit which will be missed among the priests and his people. We wish him a very happy retirement .” unkeld Diocese welcomed a new ance. Fr Andrew was also invited to preach priest as they celebrated the or- at Dunkeld’s Annual Vocation’s Mass in St dination of Fr Andrew Marshall. Andrew’s Cathedral, earlier this month. DOn Thursday June 29, a packed St An- drew’s Cathedral in Dundee, saw hun- Fr Andrew recalled his emotions on his dreds gathered in prayer and thanksgiv- ordination day, “It was extremely uplifting ing for Fr Marshall, one of the country’s not just to receive the precious gift of or- newest and youngest priests. dination, that I’d dreamed of receiving my whole life, but also to celebrate that with all Mgr Ken looks back on his long and Fr Andrew, a seminarian at St Mary’s my closest friends and family, and to have rewarding ministry: College in Oscott, Birmingham, was or- everybody together under one roof sup- dained by Bishop Stephen Robson on the porting me and praying for me.” “I have had a marvellous life as a feast of Ss Peter and Paul, with many of his priest and it has been a pleasure and a family, friends, and fellow clergy in attend- continued on page 4-5 privilege to serve the people of God in Dunkeld.
  • Register of the Scots College in Spain Madrid Period 162~-1~6~

    Register of the Scots College in Spain Madrid Period 162~-1~6~

    APPENDIX I11 REGISTER OF THE SCOTS COLLEGE IN SPAIN MADRID PERIOD 162~-1~6~ ADMINISTRATORS/RECTORS ;r 1. HUGH SEMPLE August 1655; rector at Madrid, as (or HUGO SEMPILIO) above ; missionary in Scotland, (1627) :I633 1657 to 1665; rector of Scots Col- to 13th September 1654. lege, Douai, March 1666 to 8th born 1589, the son of Robert Sem- April 1668; died at Douai, 8th ple of Craigbait, Renfrewshire, and April 1668. Grizel Montgomery or Cunning- ham; nephew of Colonel William 4. FREDERICK MAXWELL Semple; joined Society of Jesus, (or ESCOTO) Province of Toledo, 1615; died in 18th February 1656 Colegio Imperial, M a d r i d, 13th to December 1659. September 1654. see Madrid Students' List, no. 2. 5. WILLIAM GRANT 2. ANDREW YOUNGSON 1659 to 1665. (or YOUNG or JUNIO) native of Strathspey? to Scots Col- September 1654 to April 1655. lege, Douai, 28th July 1620 (?); see Madrid Students' List, no. 13. joined Society of Jesus in Tournai or in Spain, c. 1626; missionary in 3. ADAM LAURENCE GORDON northern Scotland in 1641 and in April 1655 to February 1656. 1646 (and perhaps from 1635 to born in Auchmathy, Buchan (or in 1658); rector at Madrid. as above: Cults, Strathbogie), c. 1616, the died'.in Scotland, 8th 0ctobe; son of George Gordon and Isabel 1689 (?). Leesk; entered S c o t s College, Douai, 7th December 1627 (in 6. JAMES ANDERSON Poetry); in Scotland, April to No- 1665 to 1692. vember 1631; returned to Douai, born in Strathbogie, c. 1611; enter- 1631 (for Philosophy); soldier in ed Scots College, Douai, July 1632 France, in Lord James Douglas' (for Poetry); joined Society of Scottish regiment, p e r h a p s be- Jesus in Tournai, 1636; master, tween 1631 and 1635; to Scots procurator and rector of the semi- College, Rome, October 1635 (for nary (Douai ?); rector of the Scots Philosophy) ; entered Society of College, Douai, 8th May 1653 to Jesus, 1636; brought students to 8th May 1656; missionary in Madrid, 1647; rector of Scots Col- Scotland for many years (1656 to lege, Rome, 27th May 1652 to 1665 ?); rector at Madrid, as above.
  • The Seal of the Confession Relics of St Thérèse Visit Scotland Summer

    News from The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in Scotland www.ordinariate.scot Summer 2019 Issue The Seal of the Confession in this▸ issue... PPROVED BY He decided to involve the APope Francis, the Church, as a “necessary Holy See has recently instrument” in this work of released a “Note on the salvation, and, in her, those importance of the internal whom He has chosen, called, forum and the inviolability and constituted as His ? Whithorn Cave of the Sacramental Seal”. ministers.” Pilgrimage It upholds the absolute inviolability According to the Note, Priests of the Seal of Confession, meaning should therefore “defend the Seal that priests can never be forced of Confession even to the point to reveal what they learn in the of shedding blood, both as an act Sacrament of Reconciliation. of loyalty to the penitent and as a witness -martyrdom - to the unique It states, “The inviolable secrecy of and universal salvation of Christ and Confession derives directly from revealed the Church”. ? Canonisation of Blessed John divine law and is rooted in the very Henry Newman nature of the sacrament, to the point of In an interview with Vatican admitting no exception in the ecclesial or, Radio, Cardinal Piacenza said that even less so, in the civil sphere. the goal in releasing the note is “to instil greater trust, especially in these “In the celebration of the Sacrament times, in penitents who come to ? Saved by her of Reconciliation, in fact, the very confess themselves... and ultimately to Guardian Angel essence of Christianity itself and of advance the cause of the sacrifice of the Church is encapsulated: the Son Christ who came to take away the sins of God became man to save us, and of the world.” Relics of St Thérèse visit Scotland HE RELICS of St Thérèse have been on an Tinternational pilgrimage since 1994, and are to ? Before .
  • Bishops' Conference Meeting 3 December 2019 the Bishops

    Bishops' Conference Meeting 3 December 2019 the Bishops

    Bishops’ Conference Meeting 3 December 2019 The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland met for their final meeting of 2019 at the premises of the General Secretariat in Airdrie on Tuesday 3 December, apologies were received from Bishops John Keenan and Stephen Robson, who were unable to attend, otherwise the meeting was attended by all Conference members. ECUMENISM Archbishop Cushley reported on the progress being made towards winding up ACTS the national ecumenical body and in its place creating a new forum for ecumenical engagement. The new body will be the Scottish Christian Form (SCF) and will have a membership wider than the present membership of ACTS. There has been close liaison with the Church of Scotland, the Scottish Episcopal Church and the other members of ACTS on the particulars of the new body. It is hoped that SCF can be established and formally launched early in 2020. LITURGY In his capacity as Bishop President of the National Liturgical Commission (and Scottish Member of ICEL, International Commission for English in the Liturgy) Bishop Hugh Gilbert, updated the conference on new English texts containing hymns for the Liturgy of the Hours containing both texts and music for the sections of Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, Ordinary Time, and the Ordinary and the Psalter. The bishops welcomed the new versions and voted to accept them as part of a projected new edition of the Liturgy of the Hours. EDUCATION International Office for Catholic Education - Archbishop Tartaglia reported on the World Congress of Catholic Schools which he attended in New York earlier this year.
  • Annual Report & Accounts 2019

    Annual Report & Accounts 2019

    REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: SC010576 Report of the Trustees and Audited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2019 for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galloway The Roman Catholic Diocese of Galloway Contents of the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2019 Page FOREWORD 1 Report of the Trustees 2 Statement of Trustees Responsibilities 12 Report of the Independent Auditors 13 Statement of Financial Activities 15 Balance Sheet 16 Cash Flow Statement 18 Notes to the Cash Flow Statement 19 Notes to the Financial Statements 20 Detailed Statement of Financial Activities 39 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Galloway FOREWORD At the heart of the Diocese there are a great many volunteers who do so much good work. For the Diocese of Galloway to function and to carry out its mission of proclaiming the gospel and ministering to the poor, the goodwill of so many is involved. The people of the Diocese working in harmony with the priests and deacons put the gospel into practice for the spiritual and temporal good of many. A debt of gratitude is owed to all those who work in their parishes and throughout the Diocese with a selfless concern for others. The efforts of all those in parishes is sustained and aided by the employees of the Diocesan Curia who are to be commended for their professionalism and for their commitment in ensuring best practice is adopted by all. In presenting the Annual Report for 2019 I wish to acknowledge that beyond the facts and figures there are many individuals to whom the Diocese must be grateful and that much of the good they do cannot be measured and is often unnoticed.