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Bishop Logan: 30 years of service Cardinal Keith O’Brien leads the tributes to the Bishop of Dunkeld at anniversary Mass in Dundee

By Ian Dunn “Thank you all so much, not just for tonight, “Through the Commission Priests for Scotland we Bishop Vincent Logan, surrounded by his brother priests, but for 30 wonderful years.” are working hard to promote priesthood as a life including Cardinal Keith O’Brien, celebrates the 30th BISHOP Vincent Logan celebrated the 30th Bishop Logan told the SCO he very much appre- well worth living and my hope and my prayer is that anniversary Mass for his Episcopal ordination at St anniversary of his Episcopal installation as ciated the ‘kindness and support which has been more men will respond to God’s call to priesthood.” Andrew’s Cathedral in Dundee PIC: PAUL McSHERRY bishop at a packed St Andrew’s Cathedral in shown’ to him both from his own diocese and the And the one piece of advice he would give his remember one particular spring when a number of Dundee on Tuesday evening. wider Church in Scotland. The bishop also said he successor? ewes had died and Vincent and I were drafted in to Before and during the Holy Mass to mark the gave thanks to God that he had been ordained a priest. “Love your priests and your people and listen mother the baby lambs!” occasion the Catholic community, including “From an early age, I simply didn’t want to be to them,” he said. “As bishop you are nothing The cardinal also said he had fond memories of priests and people from every parish in Dunkeld anything else and if I had the chance, I would do without them.” the times the two of them had worked together as Diocese, paid tribute to the bishop who is set to it all again tomorrow,” he said. “I have had a won- young priests in St Andrews and Edinburgh retire this year after tendering his resignation on derful life as a priest.” Cardinal’s message Archdiocese, particularly when he was a curate in grounds of ill health last December. One of the main highlights of his time as a bishop Bishop Logan paid special tribute to Cardinal Keith Bishop Logan’s hometown of Bathgate. was the visit of Pope John Paul II, which he described O’Brien saying he was ‘delighted’ his old friend The cardinal described Bishop Logan’s 30 years in Bishop’s gratitude as a ‘marvellous occasion that will live with me had been able to attend the anniversary Mass as charge of Dunkeld Diocese as an ‘amazing record.’ To mark his 30-year anniversary Bishop Logan forever’ and he spoke of his deep sorrow that a bro- they had known each other for more than 50 years. “I know that his apostolate is not concluding but was presented with a cheque by Margaret Caswell, ken arm had prevented him from playing a more The cardinal returned the compliment telling the taking on perhaps something of a more relaxed nature a parishioner of Our Lady of Victory (St Mary’s), active role in Pope Benedict XVI’s visit last year. congregation that he and Bishop Logan had recent- now in the years which lie ahead,” he said. “God bless Forebank, Dundee. Looking to the future, the bishop said he ly marked the golden jubilee of their friendship. and reward you, Vincent, for those 30 years as a bish- Thanking the priests and people he said simply planned to remain in Dundee after he retired, as he “Bishop Vincent began seminary in 1958, some op; God bless and reward you for those 17 years as a ‘I have loved being your bishop,’ a remark that wouldn’t want to ‘live anywhere else.’ 53 years ago, while I began in that same seminary priest in our archdiocese; and may God also reward was met with a spontaneous, and heartfelt, sus- He also warned that the biggest challenge facing in 1959, some 52 years ago,” he said. “I am sure you in a special way for the priestly years of friend- tained round of applause. his successor would be the shortage of priests. you find it hard to imagine just what each of us ship which we have enjoyed and which you have He added: “I have been privileged to love and serve “Vocations to the priesthood and religious life are were like when we were teenagers. enjoyed with so many others over the years.” the priests and people of Dunkeld, and even more not nearly as numerous as they were and that is a “I well remember our late evenings before night privileged to be loved and served by them in return. matter of great concern and sadness to me,” he said. prayer, down by the riverside. And in particular, I continued on page 2

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Celebrating Bishop Logan’s 30 years of service to the Church

I continued from page 1 his very real pastoral qualities, his interest Bishop Vincent Logan pictured with Cardinal Keith in people, his care when times are tough O’Brien and his brother priests (main) after the Tribute and his amazing commitment to his ‘ain Mass at which many of the bishop’s own family During the Mass Mgr Ken McCaffrey, the folk’ in the Diocese of Dunkeld. I sense that members were present (inset) vicar general of Dunkeld Diocese, also paid he is very much considered a spiritual PICS: PAUL McSHERRY tribute to his long-serving bishop. father to the whole Tayside and Perthshire “You have carried on, throughout your area and although he will be greatly missed make themselves felt in new areas.” years as priest and bishop, the work of as Bishop of Dunkeld, I am sure his Christ, the eternal pastor,” Mgr McCaffrey energy and pastoral care will continue to I [email protected] said. “It is the splendid task of being faithful     to the teaching of the apostles and of build- ing up the Church as the Body of Christ. It In tribute to a bishop for all of Scotland     means being a witness to the light.”                         He added that Bishop Logan had been By Mgr Paul M Conroy, His work with Bishop of Scotland at the Synod Dunkeld’s ‘Good Shepherd’ and ‘we thank Secretary of the Taylor and Bishop of 1990 on Priestly you for that love. May God bless you Bishops’ Conference of Murray, at the time Rector Formation, which led to always.’ Scotland of the Real Colegio de the publication of Pope International Pro-Life Other tributes to Bishop Logan came Escoceses in Valladolid, John Paul II’s Apostolic from beyond his diocese. WHILE serving as a saw the historic and suc- Exhortation, Pastores Youth Conference Paul Chitnis, chief executive of the priest in Edinburgh cessful transfer of the dabo Vobis. Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund, Bishop Vincent Logan Royal Scots College from Bishop Logan also 18-20 March 2011 said the bishop had been one of the had a special interest Valladolid to Salamanca. chaired the committee Church’s most tireless servants. in Catholic Education In addition to his work which prepared resources Loch Lomond Youth Hostel, Scotland “Bishop Logan has been a tireless and and was given particu- for priestly vocations and events in Scotland to visionary servant of the Catholic Church in lar responsibility in Bishop Logan also over- prepare for and mark the Scotland for three decades. He has an incred- that field by the late sees the work of the great Jubilee of the Year ible ability to organise big events, for exam- Cardinal Gray. Commission for the 2000 in all eight dioceses. ple, the Church’s celebration at the turn of After becoming Bishop Permanent Diaconate and These aspects of the the new Millennium,” he said. “On a person- of Dunkeld, and certainly involves himself in the pro- bishop’s ministry draw al level, I have always valued Bishop without losing interest in motion of vocations and attention to only some of Vincent’s constant encouragement, unerring the wider field of educa- the formation of permanent the areas beyond the kindness and gentle wisdom. He will be tion, Bishop Logan was deacons for service in the boundaries of his diocese much missed and I wish him good health and entrusted by the other dioceses of Scotland. for which he has shown a much happiness in the future.” members of the Bishops’ During his time in these passionate concern during Ronnie Convery, a spokesman for the Conference with respon- posts Bishop Logan has his 30 years as a bishop. Glasgow Archdiocese, also shared fond sibility for Vocations to directed the publication of Even though his recent ill personal memories of Bishop Logan. the Priesthood and the the Norms for Priestly health has to some extent “I first got to know Bishop Logan in the Religious Life. He has Formation in Scotland restricted him, his pas- preparatory years leading up to the Great always taken a keen and the Norms for the sion for the priesthood Jubilee celebrations,” he said. “He chaired the interest in the work of Permanent Diaconate in and priestly formation preparatory committee and was a fantastic Vocations promotion and Scotland. He represented remains undiminished as motivator, organiser and manager of people. seminary formation. the Bishops’ Conference he looks to the future. “Over the years I have come to admire

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Glasgow Archdiocese was celebrating recently as two new monsignors were announced. The two priests in question are Mgr Paul Murray (above BIGGER NEWS SECTION STARTS THIS WEEK left) parish priest of St Helen’s Langside, Glasgow and Mgr Paul Conroy (above right), the general secretary of the Bishops’ Conference of Glasgow PICS: PAUL McSHERRY Friday March 4 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER NEWS 3

Disappointment at council’s decision Make the Wee Box a big success over right of entry to St Ninian’s High By Martin Dunlop ported the parents in asking Cardinal Keith O’Brien urges support for SCIAF campaign ahead of launch by Susan Boyle that priority should be given for THE Catholic Church has entry to St Ninian’s to Catholic By Ian Dunn people in need to have a better life.” expressed its disappoint- schoolchildren. This was the ment that East Renfrewshire basis of the Church’s response CARDINAL Keith O’Brien is urging Strong support Council is planning to to these proposals. It is disap- Scots to support SCIAF’s Lent cam- The cardinal will join thousands of Scots remove two Glasgow pri- pointing that the education paign ahead of international singing across the country who take part in the mary schools’ automatic department has not agreed with star Susan Boyle officially launching campaign every year together with a range right of entry to the coun- this. We will study the nearly the charity’s Wee Box, Big Change of Scottish celebrities from the worlds of try’s top performing state 150 pages of the report before appeal in Glasgow next week. music, sport, business and entertainment Catholic secondary school. the Education Committee on Ms Boyle will visit the Scottish such as The Proclaimers, Michelle Mone, It is expected the council’s pro- March 17. In its ongoing dia- Catholic International Aid Fund’s office Jackie Brambles and Kaye Adams. posals to cut St Angela’s and St logue with local authorities and on Ash Wednesday to take part in the Many of those taking part pledge to Vincent’s primary schools from the Scottish Government the campaign’s launch, meet staff, learn more give up a favourite treat during Lent such automatic right of entry to St Church will continue to press about SCIAF’s work, review a photogra- as coffee, cakes, wine or chocolate, put Ninian’s High School, Giffnock for priority access for Catholic phy exhibition, and meet with pupils the money they save in a SCIAF Wee will be ratified at a meeting of children to Catholic schools.” from Catholic schools. Box (a small cardboard fundraising box), East Renfrewshire’s education A spokesman for Archbishop and then donate the proceeds to the char- committee on March 17. Mario Conti of Glasgow said Call to help PIC: PAUL McSHERRY ity at Easter. The money raised enables East Renfrewshire Council that East Renfrewshire Cardinal O’Brien (right) hopes that SCIAF’s work to continue in some of the had previously held a consulta- Council’s education depart- Scottish Catholics and the wider commu- ‘Wee Boxes’ was huge. Our SCIAF Wee poorest countries in the world including tion process highlighting their ment has published a report on nity will back the Scottish Catholic Boxes help us to make big changes to the Haiti, Sudan and DR Congo. proposals to ease pressure on the future of St Ninian’s International Aid Fund’s Lent campaign lives of people living in extreme poverty SCIAF is an agency of the Bishops’ the highly oversubscribed ‘which rejects the views of which focuses on the emergency aid and across the world too. Conference of Scotland. Its Lent campaign is school by removing the two Glasgow Archdiocese, Paisley long term development work that the Helping people so that they can help Scotland’s largest annual international devel- schools that they argue should Diocese and all parent councils charity is providing in Haiti. themselves is the key to SCIAF’s work, he opment fundraising campaign and runs from be the responsibility of who made submissions and “SCIAF’s Wee Box, Big Change Lent said. “Families without enough food to eat March 9 to April 21 this year and will pro- Glasgow City Council. recommends removing from campaign is a great way for the Catholic are given the tools, seeds and training they vide long-term practical help to desperately The Church had responded to the children of St Angela’s community in Scotland to support the need to grow more food,” he added. “They poor people in developing countries. the consultation process back- Primary and St Vincent’s Church’s mission to combat poverty in can sell the extra helping to pay for essen- ing the viewpoint of many par- Primary automatic right of poor countries,” the cardinal said. “On my tials like school books and clothes. I To get a free Wee Box contact SCIAF ents of St Ninian’s that, in cases attendance at St Ninian’s.’ recent visit to Haiti I saw for myself the “I would encourage parishes, schools on 0141 354 5555 or email supporterser- of over subscription, rather than “This comes despite the fact hard work being done by SCIAF and its and the general public across Scotland to [email protected]. Special prayer removing the right of entry of that in the HM Inspectorate of partners to help thousands of people enter into the spirit of sacrifice during resources and posters for your school or the Glasgow schools, priority Education Report on the con- whose lives have been turned upside down Lent by giving up a favourite treat and parish are also available. for places should be given to sultation proposal it is stated by last year’s devastating earthquake.” putting the money you save in a baptised Catholics. This was a that ‘around three quarters of He added: “The impact made by these Wee Box, so that SCIAF can help more I [email protected] view shared by both Glasgow the responses [to the consulta- Archdiocese and Paisley tion document] did not support Diocese. St Angela’s and St the council’s proposal,’” the Royal couple mark 600th anniversary of St Andrews University Vincent’s primaries fall within spokesman said, adding that the boundaries of Glasgow ‘in its ongoing dialogue with By Paul Denney what we have accomplished Archdiocese while Our Lady of local authorities and the together and thank us for acting the Missions, St Joseph’s and St Scottish Government the HIS Royal Highness Prince to secure the future of this great Cadoc’s primaries, which will Church will continue to press William, returned to St university.” continue to have priority right for priority access for Catholic Andrews on Friday to offi- Professor Richardson estab- of entry to St Ninian’s, are all children to Catholic schools.’ cially launch the 600th lished a new scholarship as a in Paisley Diocese and under However, the latest consulta- anniversary celebrations of wedding gift to the Royal cou- the jurisdiction of East tion response from East his former university. ple ahead of their celebrations Renfrewshire Council. Renfrewshire Council, pub- Accompanied by his fiancée, on April 29. In an official statement Fr lished last week, states that ‘it Kate Middleton (right)—also an Prince William officially Thomas Boyle, Paisley is the considered view of this alumna of the university—the launched the 600th anniversary Diocese’s representative on East authority that the introduction prince described how proud he celebrations by the unveiling of Renfrewshire Council’s educa- of a high priority for baptised was to be asked to be the patron a plaque. tion committee, and Michael Catholic pupils... would not of the anniversary campaign, and PIC: PA PHOTOS In his speech, he spoke of McGrath, the head of the resolve the pressure on places.’ said that returning to St Andrews great fondness of his years as Scottish Catholic Education “It is recommended that the ‘feels like coming home.’ university, at her residence on move fast and we invite you to an undergraduate at St Service, condemned the decision. education department adopts St Andrews University’s The Scores, before being join us on a journey into the Andrews, and described it as “The parents of the children the proposal to change the 600th anniversary celebrations escorted to the university muse- future so that in 100 years and ‘far and away the best universi- affected by this set of recom- admissions arrangements… for will span three years from um where they were privileged in 600 years from now people ty in the world,’ a comment that mendations will be disappoint- the start of school session 2011 to 2013. These years to gaze upon the Papal Bull will come back to this place gained a rapturous applause ed in this outcome,” they 2012/13 and beyond,” the mark the anniversaries of the issued by Pope Benedict XIII and look back with pride on from those gathered outside. wrote. “The Church has sup- statement reads. formal charter granted by which conferred the full status Bishop Henry Wardlaw in of a university on St Andrews. 1411, and the Papal Bull issued The couple then proceeded by Pope Benedict XIII in 1413. to St Salvator’s Quadrangle MONTHLY  Friday was the first official where they were greeted by engagement for the royal cou- 600 staff and students. DRAW ple in Scotland. 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By Dr Joseph Bradley Catholic population of Scotland century, although this took off has changed dramatically over spectacularly from the 1840s IN 1755 Alexander Webster the past 150 years. and 1850s: the era of the Great estimated there were 16,490 The key has been the immi- Irish Hunger. Catholics in Scotland (and gration of Catholics ‘into’ From then, Catholic Churches 35 priests): just over one per Scotland over many decades were built by the immigrants in cent of the population. from the mid 19th century and Glasgow, Lanarkshire and to the After the Reformation, the resultant re-shaping of the west in Greenock and Dumbarton Catholicism persisted in small Catholic Church in this country. in particular. Only one Catholic population pockets in a strip of Church was built in the Glasgow land stretching from the Western Immigration Archdiocese (much of the west Isles of Barra and South Uist, Most Catholic immigrants to central population belt) prior to up the Great Glen to the Enzie these shores have been political, 1840 and four elsewhere. in Banffshire and parts of economic and religious refugees. However, from 1841 until 1850, Aberdeenshire on the east coast. They have come from various 15 were built including five in the The culturally and economically countries, Italy, Poland, Lithuania city. During the period 1851- discarded Catholic peasants of and others, but in the main, from 1890, 50 were erected and the the Western Highlands and Ireland. As with several other number of clergy more than Islands began, after 1770, to countries, Irish immigration has doubled: in 1878 the Catholic emigrate either to the ‘New been crucial to the revival and hierarchy was restored. World’ or migrate to the indus- sustenance of Catholicism in Irish immigrants to Glasgow trialising Lowlands. modern Scotland. and beyond that prospered It is doubtful if the numbers of From being a body geograph- assisted the financing and con- descendents of such a small num- ically and numerically limited struction of the new churches as ber of Catholics would have jus- to a few parts of the Highlands, well as Catholic schools, as did tified the Papal visits to Scotland the Catholic Church was trans- many of the impoverished Irish It is important that anyone with see its population in black and needs of Britain’s largest group in 1982 or 2010. However, these formed with the influx of Irish themselves. Irish ethnicity ticks the correct box white terms. It recognises that of immigrant origin and to ‘facil- visits did take place because the Catholics from the early 19th In addition, the St Vincent de on the upcoming census forms ethnicity has no basis with itate monitoring of social disad- Paul Society was founded in regards skin colour and seeks to vantage and discrimination.’ Scotland in 1846 amongst the accepted in the face of disad- allow those of Irish descent to If society ignores and margin- Irish Catholic poor of vantage and prejudice. In this accurately record their back- alises its Scottish and English Edinburgh before rapidly sense sometimes people have ground, heritage and cultural born Irish communities then that spreading throughout the hid or disguised their ethnic ori- identity as Irish. will be at odds with recognition Catholic population of the gins—religion, surnames, cul- In the census it is important of more recently settled ethnic urban west central belt. The ture—so as to be seen as more that people born in Scotland minorities as well as publicly Catholic Men’s Society was authentically Scottish or British. from an Irish background record expressed aspirations for a just introduced to Scotland from Others have integrated into themselves and their families and equal society where a sense Ireland in the 1850s while the Scottish and British societies accurately by ‘ticking the Irish of common citizenship can be League of the Cross was estab- while retaining features and ethnic box.’ As well as having a shared and celebrated alongside lished in the 1870s. practices associated with their range of needs similar to other national, cultural and communi- ethnic heritage and background: communities, people from Irish ty distinctiveness. Ethnicity evident via choice of music, heritage have specific social, The psychology of being This story is important with food, cultural habits, pubs visit- cultural, religious, economic able, being allowed, and being regards the forthcoming census ed, songs, sport, preference and health issues and require- confident enough, to say, ‘I’m of March 2011. A question in regarding holiday destination, ments. Studies show that: Irish,’ ‘my ethnicity is Irish,’ or the census refers to ‘ethnic’ their religion and of course in ‘I’m proud of my Irishness,’ is background. This question is their surnames and forenames Men with Irish surnames in so profound it is incalculable to EXPLORING CHRISTIAN LIFE not asking where you were born which are often obvious mark- west-central Scotland are 26 per the health and welfare of indi- or about how you see your ers of ethnic and cultural dis- cent more likely to die prema- viduals and communities. 15TH MARCH national identity—even if they tinctiveness. turely as a result of social and Without this right society is Let us Talents and Tongues Employ: might or might not be linked in With regards those from an health factors. The same group is damaged by sustaining the cul- On the New Translation of the Third Edition of some way. Irish background that make up 51 per cent more likely to die tural marginalisation of a sub- the Roman Missal. Everyone has an ethnic iden- Scotland’s largest ethnic minori- of heart disease than a number stantial number of its citizens tity; Irish, Italian, Pakistani, ty community, many are proud of others from a non-Irish largely ‘because’ of their Irish Father J-Glenn Murray S.J Chinese, English, Polish, of their Irish heritage and background. ethnicity. Associate Pastor, St Aloysius Gonzaga Church, Washington, Iranian, Scottish etc. Ethnicity expressions of this emerge in the Many second, third and In 2001 Bashir Mann of the USA. International speaker on liturgy. is not about skin colour. use of Irish forenames, enjoying fourth generation Irish in Asian community in Glasgow Ethnicity refers to past family Irish dance, playing and liking Scotland perceive injustice and recognised that the then omis- 22ND MARCH and predecessors; people such Irish music and singing Irish inequality in numerous walks sion of a religious question for as parents, grandparents, great- songs, supporting Gaelic sport, of Scottish life: not least of all his community could result in Why there almost certainly is a God. grandparents, and so on. visiting Ireland, political and in employment and sport. ‘obstructing the formation of Professor Keith Ward There are ‘at least’ half a mil- cultural interests, reading Irish Catholics from an Irish proper plans and policies, and Former Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford University, now lion people in Scotland with par- newspapers and magazines, lis- background form a dispropor- denying the equitable provision Professorial Research Fellow in Philosophy of Religion at ents, grandparents or often tening to Irish radio, participat- tionate number in Scottish pris- of services and distribution of Heythrop College, Fellow of the British Academy. several great grandparents that ing in St Patrick’s Day ons. resources to some deprived came to Scotland from Ireland: celebrations, and of course, in Related to this, Catholics of groups in Scotland.’ 29TH MARCH their ethnicity is Irish and they support for Celtic FC, an institu- Irish descent disproportionately The Scottish Government has Mother Church and her Rebellious are, in the main, the Irish in tion founded within and largely abide in areas of the west-cen- recognised that such informa- Scotland. Various areas of championed by Scotland’s his- tral belt where there are high tion is crucial in the pursuit of Daughters: Catholicisim and Feminism in Glasgow, Coatbridge, Hamilton, toric Irish community. levels of deprivation, and an equitable and inclusive soci- Dialogue and Conflict. Clydebank, Dumbarton, Port arguably degrees of religious, ety. Scotland is awakening to Professor Tina Beattie Glasgow, villages like Glenboig, Tick the right box social, economic and cultural many issues that form a series Professor of Catholic Studies and Director of the Digby Croy, Carfin, Chapelhall and Why is it important for those prejudice and discord. of social, economic and politi- Stuart Research Centre for Catholic Studies at Roehampton others in the west-central belt, Catholics—and of other faiths People of Irish descent in cal fundamentals. The resultant University in London. are partly characterised by the and none—of Irish descent in Scotland are offered virtually information is important in a Irishness of many of their inhab- Scotland to tick the correct box no identifiable funding from number of ways. itants: those with Irish ethnicity when it comes to the question government, community and All census information is for 19TH APRIL make up a majority in some of on ethnicity? public bodies. statistical purposes only and is What is Christian Love? these areas. Irish ethnicity and cultural completely anonymous. If you Professor Werner Jeanrond Sometimes people have identity have until now been An assessment of needs have great grandparents, grand- Professor of Divinity, Glasgow University. Author of mixed ethnicity; Scots-Italian, largely unaccounted for in offi- Research that looks at the multi- parents or parents etc who came ‘A Theology of Love’ (London: Continuum, 2009) Asian-Scots, Polish-Irish, Irish- cial statistics, a situation that generational Irish communities from Ireland to Scotland, you English and Irish-Scottish- offers an inadequate and limit- of Britain, carried out by univer- should tick the Irish box at Italian are some of the common ing picture of the multi-cultural sity based academics, Patricia question 15 which asks about All Lectures take place in St Aloysius’ Church, mixed ethnicities in Scotland. composition of society: in other Walls, Máirtín Mac an Ghaill, your ethnic group. If you are of commencing at 7.30pm. Scotland is multi-cultural. 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During the Holy Mass for Catholic Glasgow band to donate proceeds healthcare workers, Cardinal O’Brien used his homily to urge those present to of new EP to Mary’s Meals charity stand up for Catholic principles at a time when their basic moral principles were By Dan McGinty of people download the EP from being challenged. iTunes we can do just that.” “You yourselves are what we might A GLASGOW band has A spokesperson from the describe as the ‘cutting edge’ of morality decided to donate the pro- charity said they were delight- in our society,’” the cardinal said. “You are ceeds of their new EP to the ed that the band has decided to the ones who know of the increasing num- charity Mary’s Meals. donate the proceeds of the EP bers of abortions; you are aware of the The Feuds, a six-piece group to help them continue their ways in which sacredness of life is not formed in 2007 (above), excellent work. always respected either at the beginning of recorded The Feuds EP at “We are very grateful for the life or at the end of life; you can help form Riverside Studios in Glasgow offer of support for the money the consciences of those other members of in 2010, home to Scottish great raised from The Feuds EP,” the professions working with you who might such as Travis and Teenage spokesperson said. “We think be in doubt and in despair at what they are Fanclub. 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Archbishop Conti of Glasgow spoke of the years it will become as prominent a Mary’s Meals project. work online go to: www.myspace “In stirring words he indicated that ‘in his pleasure at the increased prominence feature of the calendar of Scottish Church “I was intrigued and inspired .com/thefeudsvstheworld or so many areas of life, the most funda- of the White Mass. life as the annual Red Mass in Edinburgh in equal measure. www.facebook.com/thefeuds mental principles of our Christian life are “It is clear that numbers are increasing for members of the legal profession.” “I decided a while back that I not only questioned, but ridiculed and year on year and it was good to be able to would endeavour to make a To find out more about the threatened with sanction.” recognise many of the nurses who care [email protected] sizeable donation to the charity work of Mary’s Meals visit: and hopefully if a good number www.marysmeals.org.uk St Eunan’s Primary School chaplain backs headteacher over theatre show cancellation

By Mary McGinty ‘explicit sexual references and given the age of the children. valuable council money by cates that it was suitable for a teacher to reimburse fully and sexualised dance routines’ Mrs “We want to support Mrs cancelling the trip as well as family audience it is the immediately all parents who THE chaplain to St Eunan’s Docherty cancelled the outing Docherty and her staff over the disappointing her son. responsibility of the head- were out of pocket. Primary School in and informed parents of the decision they took,” Fr Boyle Eileen Bell, a mother of two teacher to decide whether or “If the school secures a Clydebank and the West reasons for her decision. said. “It was the right decision St Eunan’s pupils said: “I don’t not the content of a show is refund from the production Dunbartonshire director of As parents had already paid and they have the full support want different show tickets— appropriate for her pupils and company the money will be education have sprung to the ticket price of £15 West of the parish. As a church we my 9-year-old wanted to see in this case she decided that it transferred back to the council. the defence of the head- Dunbartonshire Council had to have a duty of care to our chil- We Will Rock You and he has was not,” Mr Langan said. “As Alternatively, the Kings teacher after she cancelled a refund the money pending dren and when the content of been let down. Two thousand director of education I stand by Theatre has indicated that it school trip to see We Will talks with the Kings Theatre as the production became appar- pounds of council money has her judgement. She is an expe- will provide the school with Rock You at the Kings to whether a full refund or ent it was a decision that was been wasted to get her out of a rienced head teacher who tickets to another, more suit- Theatre. tickets to an alternative show required to be made. hole—how many books and always puts the interests and able, show. Ann Docherty attended a would be offered. Some parents phoned the pencils could that buy?” welfare of her pupils first. “If this occurs the school performance of We Will Rock School chaplain and parish school to express their support In response to the row the “Following discussions will be able to reimburse the You with several members of priest of St Eunan’s Church, Fr for Mrs Docherty although her director of education, Terry between the headteacher and council at this point. In any her staff prior to a planned trip Patrick Boyle said that he, decision was not universally Langan, issued a statement in the education authority a tem- case neither the school fund for 150 P4 to P7 pupils. After along with his parishioners, popular. One parent com- defence of Mrs Docherty and porary transfer of £2000 to St nor the council will be out of judging the show to be unsuit- was in full support of the plained to the Clydebank Post clarified the position. Eunan’s school fund was pocket as a result of the can- able for her pupils because of school's action, particularly that the school had ‘wasted’ “Although the publicity indi- agreed. This allowed the head- cellation of the trip.” 6 SCHOOLS NEWS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday March 4 2011

Pope Benedict XVI (far left) walks Lisa Summers, a Trinity through the gate of Auschwitz in May 28, High School, Rutherglen 2006. Lisa Summers (left) visited Auschwitz I and Auschwitz-Birkenau pupil, recalls her trip to while at Trinity High School, Rutherglen Poland and the profound walk on. For me this was a very real impact it had on her life indication of the pain and suffering the innocent, helpless people who, by AS SCHOOL pupils throughout no fault of their own, ended up there, the country held events to mark had to tolerate. Holocaust Memorial Day at the The final site we visited was end of January, Lisa Summers Auschwitz-Birkenau, a purpose built decided to share her thoughts on death camp. Before we walked a visit she made towards the end through the gates, we were allowed to of last year to Auschwitz I and enter the watchtower. I was in disbe- Auschwitz-Birkenau concentra- lief that when looking away from the tion camp. camp, you could see houses; however by simply turning around, there was MY VISIT to Poland on October 6 only an area of mass extermination as was somewhat a surreal experience. far as the eye could see. When walk- The highly organised nature and the ing around this gigantic mass of land, efficiency of how we moved from there was little sign of life, only the place to place made the day seem, at freezing cold wind and the sun, which the time, almost normal. However, it was beginning to set. It seemed more is only now, weeks later that I have peaceful here than in the work camp, had time to fully comprehend the hor- Lessons from Auschwitz camps perhaps because this was more of a rors which I witnessed. memorial than a museum which the The early start, constant moving, nary people living their own custom- this town was putting up a tough very lives snatched away by the first camp felt like. masses of people, thousands of miles, ary lives. To those unaware, there façade towards a tragedy still very Nazis, a group who were merciless. We ended our visit with a memorial lack of sleep seemed to be consuming were no signs that within a ten-minute raw. I think by visiting the town, it service, led by Rabbi Barry Marcus. I just about everyone in our group of drive, they could be outside the noto- humanised the whole term ‘the Auschwitz camps found it extremely reassuring that over two hundred people’s thoughts. rious Auschwitz-Birkenau. Holocaust’. Upon arrival at our next destination, Rabbi Marcus was able to stand up on Yet, the point of our visit was to look Before my visit, my first thoughts Auschwitz I, I was at first taken aback a bench and profess his faith in the beneath the surface and to see the Jewish population would have been six million by the number of people there. People proud way in which he did, and I hope truly ruthless and brutal way in which I was shaken when I was informed Jews/Gypsies and others killed. of all ages and all different nationali- that those who lost their lives are com- people, everyday, normal people like that the Jewish population in this Whereas by observing what pre-war ties. As we walked through the camp, forted by the fact that there are still you or I, were treated. small town, which had once totalled life may have been like for the Jewish with our headsets on, listening to our people out there who believe, and We arrived in the town of around 80 per cent, now stood at zero. community, the famous six million tour guide, I began to see the real dev- remember the pain that they went Oswiecim, more commonly know by But after absorbing the information it was no longer just a statistic, it was astation that took place exactly where through, and are trying with all their its German name of Auschwitz, to seemed as though this fact should six million human beings with their I was standing. What struck me most might to make sure such a disaster is find a typical Polish town, full of ordi- really go without saying. Obviously own families, jobs, houses, cars. Their was the ground—it was very hard to never heard of again.

KINNOULL REDEMPTORIST CENTRE OF SPIRITUALITY St Mary’s, Kinnoull, overlooking the historic city of Perth, is at the gateway to the Highlands of Scotland and, since the 1860’s, has been a place of sabbatical rest and spiritual renewal. Lenten Retreat 28 March—1 April 2011 Fr Thomas MacCarte C.Ss.R. Lent is a good time to stop for a few days to reflect on our life with God and allow his love to touch our minds and our hearts. The tranquil atmosphere of St. Maryʼs, with its spacious grounds overlooking the beautiful city of Perth, make it a place of rest. Retreatants can find themselves here and experience deep, inner peace. Many people leave St. Maryʼs with a new sense of the powerful presence of God in their lives. Edinburgh pupils delighted to become Holy Week Retreat Entangled in author’s publishing plot Healing in the Spirit: Spirituality of true self-esteem PUPILS from St adult fiction market. 18-23April2011 Augustine’s High School in During a question and answer Fr. Jim McManus C.Ss.R. and Miss Marie Hogg Edinburgh were thrilled to section of the visit, Ms Clarke spend time with new told the pupils how nervous she Celebrate Holy Week in the healing environment of St. Maryʼs and begin living more consciously a Scottish author Cat Clarke feels when she reads her own spirituality of true self-esteem. Self-esteem is often the missing dimension in a good personʼs life. (right) when she recently novel, and confessed that she Thousands of men and women have found in this retreat a time of deep spiritual renewal and inner visited the school to talk has never been able to read her healing. about her debut novel work in its final, published Entangled, and share her 10 form. This anxiety has not, steps to getting published. however, put her off writing, as Retreat for Religious and Priests The author talked about how she shared some information 12- 19 August 2011 her novel came to be published about her next two planned Fr. Andrew Burns C.Ss.R. and described the difficulties of novels with the group. the editing process. The pupils One of the teachers involved Fr. Burns spent many years in S. Africa, where he served as Provincial Superior, Novice Master and also found out that inspiration summed up the positive effect Director of Formation. He is an experienced retreat director. His retreat three years ago was greatly can come from anywhere: over- of the author’s visit, which was appreciated by all the participants. heard conversations; music, Entangled, to identify the differ- arranged with the support of the even your school textbooks. ences in text, and layout, between Scottish Book Trust, saying: As well as the literary ele- the original and the final pub- “Cat really engaged the pupils, Details: The Secretar y, St. Mar y’s, Kinnoull, Perth PH2 7BP ments, the pupils also learned lished version, and discussed the inviting comments and asking Tel: 01738 624075 more about the world of publish- importance of good jacket design, and answering questions, and ing, and the design considerations comparing Ms Clarke’s book many of the pupils are now E-mail: stmar [email protected] involved in every new title. The with some of the other titles that reading Entangled in anticipa- www.kinnoullmonaster y.or g group got to see a proof copy of currently dominate the young tion of Cat’s next book!” Friday March 4 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER NATIONAL NEWS 7 Charity: poverty makes Bishops back more devolved power life a ‘struggle’ for many Hierarchy says giving the Welsh Assembly more legislative reach is in line with subsidiarity AN ENGLISH Catholic By Ian Dunn charity has said new research highlighting that THE Bishops of Wales have said they more than a million British support more powers being given to children live in poverty the Welsh assembly. The Welsh voted shows what a ‘tremendous this week in the referendum on struggle; life has become for whether the assembly should have many. direct law-making powers over The analysis of local authority devolved policy as the Scottish data in Britain by Save the Parliament does. Children revealed that 1.6 mil- In a letter read out at parishes last lion children and young people Sunday, the Welsh hierarchy said they live in severe poverty. In the would welcome strengthening the ‘demo- London Borough of Tower cratic legitimacy’ of the assembly. Hamlets 27 per cent of children However campaigners for a no vote in live in extreme poverty, the high- this week’s referendum said it was a est proportion in the country. ‘inappropriate’ endorsement of the yes Dr Rosemary Keenan, chief argument. executive of the Catholic Children’s Society, said the Statement findings tallied with her experi- The statement was signed by Bishop ence. Edwin Regan of Wrexham, Bishop Tom “Working with poor families Burns of Menevia and Mgr Robert in Tower Hamlets we know ing inadequate clothing, includ- Reardon, diocesan administrator for the that daily life for many is a ing flip flops because they are Cardiff Archdioces. national assembly and any measures to Bishop Regan welcomed Pope Benedict XVI on tremendous struggle,” she said. unable to afford clothes and It said that having a Welsh assembly increase the accountability of the politi- behalf of the People of Wales at Westminster “Just to make ends meet moth- new shoes for themselves and was in line with the Catholic principle of cians elected to the assembly.” Cathedral, Chapel of St Paul, Saturday, ers had already pawned any spending time in the local subsidiarity, meaning that that decisions September 18, last year jewellery they may have had library because they cannot should be taken as closely as possible to Opposition and have run up expenses by afford to heat their home for the citizen. In response, Rachel Banner of True buying clothes from catalogues, more than the one hour before “We, as the current leaders of the Welsh Wales, the main group campaigning for a down the bay than subsidiarity.” because they cannot afford to their children go to bed,” she Catholic Dioceses, are not now recom- No vote, said she was unhappy with the Mgr Reardon later defended the pay cash up front for their chil- said. mending how to vote in the referendum,” Church’s intervention. Catholic statement. dren’s clothes. Increasingly the The Catholic Children’s the message read. “However, we broadly “I think it’s inappropriate they are “We would never tell people how to second hand shops are where Society (Westminster) was support the principle of improving the endorsing the Yes campaign,” she said. “I vote but we are pointing out that devolu- they purchase children’s established in 1859 and pro- functioning of the assembly and point out think that the churches are expressing too tion is compatible with the Church’s clothes and school uniforms.” vides child care services to that this would be in line with the princi- much of a view. If the current devolution social teaching,” he said. “We are just urg- She added that the recent assist children and families in ple of subsidiarity found in Catholic settlement we had respected subsidiarity ing people to vote because that is the harsh winter had also had a need, irrespective of race or social teaching. then there would be something in that. responsibility of a good citizen.” deleterious effect on many. faith, in the Catholic Diocese “We would welcome measures to But I don’t think we’ve got proper devo- The result of the referendum was “We have seen parents wear- of Westminster. improve the assembly’s decision-making lution at the moment and I think the bish- expected today, after the SCO had gone to process. ops are out of line with the churchgoing press. “We would also welcome a strengthen- public. The sort of devolution we are ing of the democratic legitimacy of the heading towards is more about Whitehall [email protected]

AND THE a Catholic priest. Isidore NEWS IN BRIEF Nnamdi Obi is originally from NEWMAN ASSOCIATION Nigeria and moved to England BISHOP OF BRIGHTON AND in 2006. He has spent two ARUNDEL ON NEW MISSAL years in Taunton and DO CATHOLICS HAVE FAITH IN BISHOP Dulverton where he learnt Kieran about the practical side of how Conry of the C hurch works. POLITICS? Brighton “I am so humbled to have A Discussion on Religion and Arundel the privilege of serving God will be giv- and humanity through the gift and Social Justice ing three of sacred priesthood,” he said. talks to He was ordained at Clifton reflect on Cathedral by the Bishop and discuss Declan Ronan Lang of Clifton the new last Saturday. Missal. In the diocese of Arundel and ANGLICAN BISHOP OPPOSES Brighton, Bishop Kieran and ACT OF SETTLEMENT CHANGE Humanists’ poster campaign all the clergy have had train- ANGLICAN Bishop Nigel PANEL ing with leading Liturgist, McCulloch of Manchester opposes religion in census Canon Alan Griffiths ahead of says he opposes any changes Rt Hon Lord McFall of Alcluith the new text’s introduction. to the Act of Settlement, Former MP for West Dunbartonshire THE British Humanist per cent of the population identify One attendee, Deacon Mark which bars Catholics from and Chair of the Treasury Select Committee. Association has launched a themselves as Christians, a figure Woods said it was a great ascending the throne, because poster campaign ahead of similar to the 2001 census data. experience. of Catholic attitudes to Mary Cullen this month’s upcoming cen- Question 13 on the Scottish “There were extremely posi- Anglicans. Former Head of Communications and Education at sus encouraging people not census, and question 20 on the tive conferences, “ he said. The bishop wrote in his SCIAF and Chair of the Network of International to identify with a religion. census for England and Wales, “We all came away knowing diocesan magazine, that any Development NGOs in Scotland During the last census in 2001, will ask: “What is your reli- much more about why the move to alter the 300-year-old 42 million people chose to iden- gion?” Answering the question changes are happening, how law could lead to the disestab- John Deighan tify themselves as Christians, is voluntary. we can present them to our lishment of the Church of Parliamentary Officer for the almost 72 per cent of the popula- The first option on the question parishes, and more importantly England. Bishops' Conference of Scotland. tion. The British Humanist is ‘no religion,’ followed by about the chance this gives for “As supreme governor, the Association (BHA) believes the options including Christian, a deepening of our under- sovereign should be able to David Kerr number of non-religious people Buddhist, Muslim and ‘Any other standing of the celebration of join in communion with Broadcaster and former SNP candidate is under counted in the census religion, write in.’ Mass.” Church of England members,” and the number of Christians is The Office for National The bishop is also leading a he said. Chair: Dr Gerry Carruthers over counted. Statistics, which collects the cen- working group which has “But, unless the Roman National President, Newman Association Campaigning under the slo- sus data, told the BBC: “The reli- arranged a whole series of Catholic Church is prepared to gan ‘If you’re not religious for gion question measures the events for the coming months soften its rules on its own SATURDAY 9 APRIL 2011 10AM – 12.30PM God’s sake say so,’ the BHA is number of people who self-identi- which will be open to parish members’ involvement with also calling on people to ‘Take fy an affiliation with a religion, leaders and parishioners. the Church of England whose SAINT SIMON’S the pledge’ to tick “No religion” irrespective of the extent of their orders it regards as null and 33 Partick Bridge Street NIGERIA DEACON ORDAINED on the census. religious belief or practice.” void it is hard to see how the Glasgow G11 6PQ Last year the Integrated In 2009 the BHA backed an PRIEST FOR SOMERSET Act of Settlement can be Household Survey, which advertising campaign that A DEACON based in changed without paving way (Nearest Underground: Kelvinhall) analysed the responses of almost declared ‘There’s probably no Somerset has been ordained as for disestablishment.” Admission free. Collection. 450,000 adults, revealed that 71.4 God.’ 8 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday March 4 2011

Libyan Christians Services held for NZ quake victims Bride’s debt of express future takeover fears Bishop Barry Jones leads mourning; Cardinal Keith O’Brien receives firsthand account gratitude to her CHRISTIANS in Libya are By Beth Thomson of the earthquake from ChristChurch British rescuer afraid that a takeover of the residents John and Roma Paton whom A BRIDE in New Zealand took country by Islamic funda- NEW Zealand observed a two- he visited in New Zealand on the way time out on her wedding day mentalists, should Libyan minute silence on Tuesday and back from World Youth Day in 2008. last Friday to thank the British leader Moammar Gaddafi be services have been held throughout “Can’t describe the noise, fear terror. rescue worker who pulled her driven out, would threaten the country for those who died in House standing, but inside mayhem,” from earthquake rubble of the their safety. the recent earthquake which devas- they said. “It was like a huge explo- Pyne Gould building in which A Franciscan priest who has tated Christchurch. sion, everything just crashed bang all she worked. served in the North African Many of the services at the weekend in around. A neighbour forced back door Emma Howard wed fiancé nation for seven years expressed Christchurch were held in the open air to let us out. Street broke up, all people Chris Greenslade at Christ the these concerns last week as the because of the large number of church- out and safe on other side. Managed to King Catholic Church after per- fall of Colonel Gaddafi looked es damaged or destroyed in the 6.3 get back in to grab a pair shoes, pass- sonally thanking Carl Stockton for increasingly likely. magnitude quake, including the 150- ports, birth certificates. All I remember saving her life. “Under Gaddafi, we’ve been year-old Blessed Sacrament Catholic thinking is ‘please God guide us.’” Mr Stockton, a builder from protected,” the priest said under Cathedral (right) that half collapsed in the The cardinal responded to their plea Wigan, near Manchester, could not the protection of anonymity earthquake. The iconic ChristChurch for prayers by writing: “Like so many go to the young couple’s wedding while outside the country prior Anglican Cathedral will need to be demol- other families, I am sure, you are sim- as he was busy working on the con- to attempting to return. ished. At least 20 people are believed “At this time, my thoughts turn espe- ply able to say: ‘Thank God we are tinued rescue effort. However, he The recent uprising in Libya to have been killed when the spire of cially to the people there who are being both alive.’ As you may know, I spent met the 23-year-old bride before is the most violent in a tide of the Anglican Cathedral collapsed. severely tested by this tragedy,” the about 10 days in Haiti near the beginning the ceremony to wish her luck. protests against autocratic lead- Bishop Barry Jones of Christchurch, Holy Father said immediately after the of the year with the Scottish Catholic “It was quite an emotional meet- ers in the region. Bombings of celebrated Mass at Our Lady of disaster. “Let us ask God to relieve International Aid Fund (SCIAF) and ing,” he said. “Emma had been so, so Libyan civilians have been Victories Parish, Sockburn, in their suffering and to support all who there experienced something of the effect lucky and I was very happy for her. I widely reported in the north Christchurch on February 23, the day are involved in the rescue operations. I of the earthquake there, but equally tragic went to her dad’s house this morning African country with over 600 after the earthquake. It was offered for also ask you to join me in praying for and even more tragic seeing the devasta- to say hello and give her a hug.” dead as the SCO went to press. the people of the city and region, that all who have lost their lives.” tion after one year, just as if the earth- Despite being trapped in the Hope remains, however, that they might know the love and peace of Archbishop Charles Daniel Balvo, quake had taken place a few days before.” rubble of her office just three days a secular and democratic Libya God in the midst of suffering. Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand, said before, trainee accountant Ms is possible. Mustafa Abdel Jalil, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand have that New Zealanders are grateful for the Caution Howard was determined to go the country’s recently resigned pledged NZ$25,000 in aid. Pope’s message of solidarity. Last Friday Bishop of Christchurch ahead with her marriage in the justice minister, described Barry Jones announced that no Catholic devastated New Zealand city. Libya as: “A democratic, free Papal prayers Firsthand account church or school in Christchurch was The wedding was celebrated by Fr state that is run by government Pope Benedict XVI has expressed Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who sent a to be used until consulting engineers John Adams, assistant parish priest at institutions with no religious sympathy and asks for prays and sup- message of sympathy and support to have declared it safe. Some churches Christ the King Catholic Church in character or nature.” port for victims of ChristChurch disas- Bishop Jones immediately after the have been severely damaged, but oth- Burnside, a suburb of Christchurch. He added: “As Muslims, we ter on February 22. disaster, has received a vivid account ers have escaped relatively unscathed. respect all faiths and all creeds, and the humanity of every- one.We will also respect and honour all our treaties and A diocesan welcome at WYD 2011 agreements with the interna- tional community.” AGNIFICAT MORE than 300,000 young The World Youth Day regis- International pressure on the people from all over the tration process, which is fast Libyan leader continued to M ® world will be welcomed by and easy, has opened. So far, grow as the SCO went to press. working in partnership with families across Spain prior 260,000 pilgrims have regis- Last weekend Britain revoked to the beginning of World tered and 12 of the 63 dioceses the diplomatic immunity of May 2011 subscription Youth Day 2011. that will be welcoming them are Colonel Gaddafi and his family The pilgrims will participate already completely booked. 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Friday March 4 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER VATICAN NEWS 9 Pope preaches providence and Abortion solves nothing, says Pope God’s rightful place in our lives Holy Father urges doctors to protect women from misinformation about abortion POPE Benedict XVI has highlighted the need to put By Beth Thomson God before wealth. The Holy Father told the POPE Benedict XVI has urged doctors 30,000 people who had joined to protect women from the misinfor- the Holy Father (right) in St mation that an abortion might be an Peter’s Square for the Angelus acceptable solution to social or eco- last Sunday that those who nomic difficulties or health problems. believe in God should trust in His warning comes as outrage builds Providence and put the search in the UK over controversial new for His will in first place, ahead advice from doctors that having an of the desire for wealth abortion is safer than having a baby. “In today’s Gospel Jesus invites us to trust in the provi- Strong opposition dent care of our Heavenly The Holy Father reaffirmed the Catholic Father and to seek first His Church’s firm opposition to abortion in a Kingdom and its righteousness. speech last Saturday to members of the May His words inspire us to of Matthew in which Jesus called Pontifical Academy for Life, the see all things in their true per- on His disciples to trust the Vatican’s bioethics advisory board, at the spective and to live our lives in providence of God the Father. end of their General Assembly, which joyful Faith and sure hope in “It is clear that a teaching examined post-abortion syndrome. Pope Benedict XVI reaffired the Church’s stance Christian groups, who say it forces an God’s promises,” he said. like this from Jesus, whilst The Pope said that women are often on abortion during a meeting at the Pontifical ‘absurdly liberal agenda’ on women in a Yet, he added this is not always true and valid for convinced, sometimes by their own doc- Academy for Life in the Vatican vulnerable situation. ‘fatalism.’ everyone, is practiced in differ- tors, that abortion is a legitimate choice Dr Peter Saunders, of the Christian Pope Benedict added, how- ent ways according to various and in some cases even a therapeutic act dence recently about serious physical and Medical Fellowship, accused the RCOG ever, that it ‘does not exempt vocations of people,” he said. to prevent their babies from suffering. psychiatric consequences for women. of ‘perpetuating a myth’ about the safety from the hard struggle for a A Franciscan friar might be Church teaching holds that human life The total number of abortions in the of abortion. dignified life,’ it should lead to able to follow it in a more radical begins at conception. UK continues to rise, now in excess of an existence based on ‘a sim- way, whilst a family man would Saying ‘abortion solves nothing,’ he 201,173 in England and Wales and a fur- Pontifical Academy for Life pler and more sober lifestyle, take into account his duties called on doctors not to give up their duty ther 13,081 in Scotland, bringing the total The Pontifical Academy for Life, the the hard work of every day and towards his wife and children. to defend the consciences of women from to a record 214,254. Almost one in four Vatican department dedicated to studying respect for creation, which God In any event, said the Pope, such ‘deception.’ pregnancies in England ends in abortion, issues related to bioethics and the protec- put into our care.’ Christians are recognisable by “It kills a child, destroys the woman, and it is widely acknowledged that one tion of life, met in Rome last month with The Pope’s words were drawn their absolute trust in the weighs on the conscience of the father and woman in three in England now has an experts from different cultures and reli- from a passage from the Gospel Heavenly Father, as did Jesus. often ruins family life,” the Pope said. abortion at some point. gions to talk about post-abortion trauma. He appealed to the moral conscience of However highly contentious new The academy invited Teresa Burke, all those considering an abortion, and advice from doctors advises that pregnant president of Project Rachel’s Vineyard argued that all of society should be dedi- women should be told that having an Ministries in the United States, and Justo cated to preserving the right to life. He also abortion is safer than having a baby. Aznar, from the Institute of Life Sciences called for all the women ‘who have unfor- The guidelines, from the Royal College in Valencia, Spain, to discuss the impact tunately aborted and thereby fallen into a of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, also an abortion has the psychology of women. moral and existential drama’ to be helped. say that most women who terminate a The academy was instituted by Pope pregnancy will not suffer any psychologi- John Paul II in 1994. It includes more Abortion in the UK cal problems as a result. than 70 members, representing the differ- Abortion is now more common than ever The guidance, which is still in draft ent branches of biomedical sciences relat- in the UK and there has been much evi- form, has horrified medical ethicists and ed to the promotion of life. Holy Father to visit Second World War massacre site POPE Benedict XVI will prison, it did not tally to 330 so this month mark the he added 75 Jews, political pris- anniversary of a brutal mas- oners, individuals in jail for sacre that took the lives of petty crimes and civilians pres- 335 Italians during World ent at the attack. The final count Italian police arrest six men suspected War II. was 335. The Pope will go to the site The victims were led into the of inciting hatred against the Holy Father (right), called the Fosse caves of a quarry by soldiers Ardeatine, on March 27 to who were driven by command- SIX Moroccan men were Italian Police arrested six Moroccan observe the 67th anniversary of ing officers to kill each of arrested last Friday, suspect- men suspected of inciting hatred the executions. It is very near 24, 1944, to exact revenge for a that 10 Romans be rounded up them, one-by-one, with a shot ed of inciting hatred against against Pope Benedict XVI the Catacombs of St Callistus surprise bomb attack in the heart for each Nazi casualty. While to the back of the head. Pope Benedict XVI. on the outskirts of Rome. of Rome that killed 33 of their the Nazi commander in Rome During their Papacies, Popes Police in the city of Brescia said a former columnist for Italian Nazi soldiers slaughtered hun- colleagues. When he heard of opted to execute all the prison- Paul VI and John Paul II, also the suspects had allegedly banded daily Corriere della Sera, was dreds of individuals on March the attack, Adolf Hitler ordered ers on death row in a military paid their respects to the dead. together to stir up religious hatred. baptised by the Pope in March The men were accused of ‘setting 2008 during an Easter vigil cer- up a group that aimed to incite dis- emony in St Peter’s Basilica. Mr laws which carry the death Bishop Mario Toso, secretary president and the Kurdistan crimination, racial and religious Allam was an known critic of NEWS IN BRIEF penalty for insulting Islam. of the Pontifical Council for Regional Government for hatred, violence and jihad against Muslim militancy and strong Justice and Peace, told partici- their support for the Christian Christians and Jews.’ supporter of Israel. VATICAN CONDEMNS MURDER SPIRITUAL HEAD OF LEBANON’S pants at the Dammi da bere (give community in Iraq, and com- Brescia police official Stefano Investigators say they found OF CABINET MINISTER MARONITES STEPS DOWN me something to drink) meeting, mended his leadership in pro- Fonzi, speaking on Italian radio, literature exhorting Muslim THE Vatican has strongly con- POPE Benedict XVI has promoted by the Catholic- moting peaceful coexistence said the plans included attempts immigrants against integrating demned the killing of the only accepted the resignation of the inspired Italian environmental and religious tolerance in to incite hatred against the Pope into Italian society. Christian member of Pakistan’s spiritual head of Lebanon’s association Greenaccord, that Iraq,” a statement from the after the Holy Father converted a They believe the group’s aim federal Cabinet, saying it Maronites, the largest Catholic water is a common good that KRG read. Violence against Muslim journalist to Catholicism. was to preach hatred rather than shows that Pope Benedict church in the Middle East. belongs to everyone, not a com- the Iraqi Christian population, Egyptian-born Magdi Allam, plan attacks. XVI’s warnings about the dan- Lebanese Cardinal Nasrallah mercial product. traditionally based in the north, ger to Christians in the region Sfeir was elected patriarch of Everyone has a ‘universal displaced as much as half of were fully justified. Antioch for the Maronites in and inalienable right’ to access, the ethnic minority community Vatican spokesman the Fr 1986. The 90-year-old cardinal a right that is so fundamental in 2008. Federico Lombardi said that the said his old age was the main that ‘governments cannot leave FIND THE NEW FRIENDS slaying was an act of ‘terrible factor in his resignation. The its management solely in pri- COURT RULES AGAINST OF THE SCO PAGE ON gravity.’ Shahbaz Bhatti, the Holy Father sent a message to vate hands,’ he said. VATICAN RADIO minister for religious minorities Cardinal Sfeir on Saturday that VATICAN Radio expressed FACEBOOK in Pakistan, a Catholic, was the cardinal’s decision was an HOLY FATHER HEARS ABOUT ‘sadness’ last Friday after Italy’s shot dead on Wednesday by ‘expression of great humility.’ IRAQ’S KURDISH MINORITY supreme court upheld an order gunmen as he left his parent’s POPE Benedict XVI met with for it to pay damages to a small house in Islamabad. In pam- VATICAN OFFICIAL SAYS CLEAN Kurdish President Massoud town near Rome because of EWTN CATHOLIC TV IS ON SKY EPG 589 phlets found at the scene of the WATER IS BASIC HUMAN RIGHT Barzani last Thursday in the electromagnetic pollution creat- shooting, Al Qaeda and the ACCESS to clean water is a Vatican City. President Barzani ed by its transmitters. 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rebuild the Faith in the ancient land of the prophet Abraham. Last month the archbishop announced plans for a new university and hospital. “We do not want Christians to leave Iraq,” he said. “It is clear that our soci- ety here needs schools, universities and hospitals and this provides us with an opportunity to encourage the Christians to build a future for them- selves here.” More worrying are those Arab coun- tries where unjust discrimination against Christianity is enshrined in law. In Algeria, for example, any Christian BY DAVID KERR found evangelising Muslims is liable to five years in prison and a fine of up to IBYA. Egypt. Tunisia. £9000. There was perhaps a time when Bahrain. Jordan. Algeria. we, reluctantly, shrugged our shoulders One by one, country by in resignation at such affronts to con- country, the Arab street science. Not now. Not here. And not, it has spoken and spoken seems, in the new Arab world either. Lloudly for change. Incredibly, within Take the heart-warming stories that only a few weeks, the widespread have been emerging from Christmastide Western assumption that ‘the Arab in Egypt. On January 7—Christmas world doesn’t do democracy’ now Day for Coptic Christians—as Mass- seems as outdated as it was flatfooted. goers in Cairo attended church they As the former UK Foreign found they had protection. Hundreds of (Above) A Muslim man holding the Qur’an Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind young Egyptian Muslims had come to and a Coptic Christian man holding a observed: “The demands of the offer themselves as human shields. cross are carried through demonstrators protesting multitude, most of them Only days previously 21 Egyptian in Tahrir Square in Cairo recently. (Right) young, in every Arab capital are for Christians had been killed by an Actress Natalie Portman in a scene from the rule of law, democratic govern- Islamist suicide bomber in the city of the film Black Swan ment, an open society and economic Alexandria. Now Muslims were risking opportunity. In other words, they wish their lives so that their Christian neigh- If you wish to attend contact to join the world.” bours could worship. They held plac- Lorraine McMahon at ACN by e- Now is the time to explicitly add ards, chanting ‘One People, One Blood’ mailinglorraine.mcmahon@acnuk. one more demand to that litany of as the church bells proclaiming the org or calling 01698337479. aspirations—religious freedom. birth of Christ rang out. Making that case on a visit to Many Arab lands were once cradles nd the winner is... social Scotland later this month will be one of Christianity. They could be again. liberalism.’ Well, that’s of the bravest bishops in the Catholic At very least this so-called Arab ‘Ausually who picks up the Church. Bashar Warda is the Spring offers some hope that the Faith prizes on Oscars Night isn’t it? Archbishop of Erbil in Iraq. There, of St Augustine of Hippo—ironically, Hollywood’s cultural elite just love persecution has seen one of the in modern day Algeria—will once donning best bib and tucker and dish- This year’s Best Actress award Church so accurately states: “The world’s oldest Christian populations again be respected in civil society and ing out the gongs to their latest social- went to Natalie Portman for Black alternative is clear: either man gov- dwindle from an estimated 1.4 mil- protected in law. ly liberal morality tale, often Swan—moral, ‘true freedom and cre- erns his passions and finds peace, or lion in 1987 to as low as 100,000 Archbishop Bashar Warda will be regardless of artistic merit. ativity is to be found through sexual he lets himself be dominated by them now. Three years ago the Catholic launching Aid to the Church in Need’s In recent years we’ve had American libertinism.’ Oh yeah? And how does and becomes unhappy.’ Bishop of Mosul was kidnapped and annual audit of human rights abuses Beauty—moral, ‘the traditional fami- that explain the life of Isadora That’s why Black Swan is nothing murdered by Islamist extremists against Christians, Persecuted and ly is an unliveable, right wing, sexual- Duncan? She was the greatest star of more than a beautifully crafted while last October saw 58 killed in Forgotten, at St Francis Xavier Church, ly repressed construct’—and Million early 20th century dance. A notorious canard. Social liberalism is a lie. The the bombing of Our Lady of Carfin, on Tuesday March 15. The Dollar Baby—moral, ‘hey, even libertine, she finished up drunk, facts of life are socially conservative. Salvation Cathedral in Bagdad. event will be hosted by Elaine C Smith. Catholics have to accept that euthana- broke, overweight and unhappy—‘a Rather than flee, though, Archbishop A drinks reception at 6.30pm will be sia is sometimes the merciful thing to vulgar mess’ as one critic observed. David Kerr is the presenter of Warda has opted to stay, pray and followed by Stations of the Cross. do, yeah?’ As the Catechism of the Catholic EWTN’s Catholic Lives

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The importance of being Faithful: tradition and other considerations

By Archbishop Mario Conti out that both were ‘counte- the altar versus populum is fre- is my body given for you... my the centre of the altar. there is any denial of the sacri- nanced’ in the Roman Missal quently chosen—as it was in blood shed for you.” On the day of the resurrec- ficial nature of the Mass and its FR JOSEPH Jungmann, SJ at the time of his writing, ie Aberdeen by one of my pre- On the eve of His Passion, tion, ‘the first day of the week, sacramental graces. in his monumental work prior to the Second Vatican cedessors even before Vatican ‘when the hour came’ to cele- when the disciples were togeth- The falling off of attendance The Mass of the Roman Council. II—this was a result of other brate with them the Passover er—as we are each Sunday— at Mass is due to other factors Rite: its origins and devel- The directives in the Missal considerations than those meal, ‘He took His place at Jesus came and stood among than the way and the language opment published before the published under the authority which justified the ‘back to the table, and the apostles with them; ‘peace be with you!”’ He in which the Mass is celebrat- Second Vatican Council, of Pope Paul VI following the people’ position, described by Him.’ [Luke 22-14] The versus said [John 20-19]. ed, though reverence is when considering the place Second Vatican Council, are Gerald Warner as the priest and populum position of the priest The faces of priest and peo- undoubtedly a matter to be of the altar in the church straightforward in permitting the people having ‘their faces at the table of the altar repli- ple are turned towards Jesus, considered. and whether the priest the versus populum position: to God.’ cates that. sacramentally present on the Gerald Warner’s imputation should stand versus popu- “The main altar should be free- It depends of course where we On Calvary ‘near the cross altar, when the priest acting in of guile on the part of the lum [facing the people] or standing so that the ministers visualise God being, ie where on which Jesus hung, His persona Christi, gives them the authors of the new texts and with his back to the congre- can easily walk round it and located or at least represented, Mother was standing... with the same blessing. particularly of the Secretary of gation, both he and the peo- Mass can be celebrated facing remembering of course that it is apostle whom He loved stand- Trying to be Faithful to all the Vatican Congregation deal- ple facing the same way, the people.” The virtually uni- to God the Father that Jesus ing beside Her... Jesus said ‘it these ‘considerations’ accounts ing with them, with its implicit noted: “History indicates versal practice in the Roman or offers His sacrifice through the is accomplished!’ then He for the historical differences in charge that bishops were hood- that both practices were in Latin Rite today is of Mass ministry of the priest. bowed His head and gave up the position of the priest at the winked into accepting ambigu- use from the very start, at being celebrated with the cele- In the Mass, Jesus is both the His spirit.’ [cf John 19: 25-30] altar. ous documents is not only least in the vicinity of brant facing the people and in priest and the victim, offering We can see ourselves with Gerald Warner has his pref- ludicrous but also grossly Rome.” Many ancient all likelihood will not be Himself in obedience to His Our Lady and the beloved dis- erences with respect to both the uncharitable to those who churches in the city and reversed, certainly in the fore- Father’s will: “Into your hands ciple facing the cross and it is position of the priest and the sought to implement the wishes environs still bear testimony seeable future. I commend my spirit.” He is clear that the Holy Father likes texts he uses but it would be of both the Fathers of the to this. Fr Jungmann acknowledged also nourishing His disciples to do so by always having the unwarranted of him to imagine Council and of a great Pope Fr Jungmann further points that if today, ie when he wrote, with His body and blood: “This crucifix placed before him on that in not following them acting on their behalf. Friday March 4 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER COMMENT 11 Be courageous, redefine Catholic education WIRED IN PROFESSOR JAMES ARTHUR discusses the role of Catholic education in his Cardinal Winning Lecture summary APPROACH this subject as one Catholic press as ‘groundbreaking’ and committed to Catholic education ‘courageous,’ it was also praised by the An SCO Diary and I have some very definite Holy See. convictions concerning the The bishop was an opponent of By Dan McGinty issues I am going to address. attempts to secularise the culture of II had the great privilege of knowing Catholic schools. He recognised that HOLLYWOOD star Glenn Fr Thomas Winning as a young boy— there is still a significant minority mak- Close may have landed having served hundreds of his Masses ing up the Catholic education commu- one of the biggest roles of when he was my parish priest in nity—teachers, administrators, trustees the year with reports that Motherwell. Fr Winning was most cer- and parents—who really do see their she has been cast to play tainly the most influential male figure work as living out their baptismal Susan Boyle in an in my early years at primary school vocation and engaging in furthering the upcoming biopic. after my own father mission of the church. With SuBo’s favoured After training to be a teacher and Some secularist critics, such as Barry choice of local actress teaching for around eight years I began Sheerman MP and organisations like the Elaine C Smith being my doctorate on the theme of Catholic National Union of Teachers, have overruled, it is thought education at Oxford University as a attacked the bishop for his advocation of that the producers will be member of Oriel College. My first a Catholic education in Catholic schools. relying on Close’s book was published in 1996 called The Clearly, for some, Catholic schools may wide-ranging appeal to Ebbing Tide—Policy and Principles of be tolerated as long as there is no aim at a global audience. Catholic Education. I, of course, sent a Catholic education in them. However, she might be copy to Archbishop Winning. Look at what has happened to less than impressed with Catholic hospitals, hospices and adop- some of the characters she Definition tion agencies—it could so easily hap- is now being compared to, We know that no institution can claim pen to Catholic schools—in fact I with one source saying: the name Catholic without ecclesiasti- believe that many Catholics are unin- “SuBo’s incredible story is cal approval—this is the official line in tentionally preparing the way for this so well-known across the Canon Law. However, it is not clear secularisation process. planet that the film is what the quality of Catholic is meant bound to go down a storm. to. My studies of Catholic education Conclusion Glenn has played some have therefore been concerned with the I believe that Catholic education is in a imposing women in the nature and the quality of what a specif- state of ‘mission confusion.’ What is past including Cruella de ically Catholic education ought to be Professor James Arthur delivered his full tions’ at stake in the political process. needed is a Catholic theological stance Vil and Alex Forrest, who and it is why I have written about this address at the Cardinal Winning Lecture The questions, he said, lead us directly that is shared, celebrated and is able to boils the pet rabbit in Fatal important area. PIC: PAUL McSHERRY ‘to the ethical foundations of civil dis- motivate the Catholic school community. Attraction, but Subo might The basic thesis of my first book course.’ Examination success is not the measure just be her biggest role yet.” concerned the tension I recognised largest non-governmental school sys- I do not believe there is a general of a child in a Catholic school. The goals, between what is today called the big tem educating over 50 million children. conspiracy against Catholic education purposes, values and ideals of a Catholic ‘C’ versus little ‘c’ Catholic education. They are popular and academically from government or from elements school are largely predetermined by On one side there is the urgency and successful. within society—the real issue lies the Catholic philosophy of life. ST ANDREWS hosted the need to emphasise Catholic identi- Some Catholic school systems are internally within the Church itself. But what would be distinctive, chal- Prince William and his ty in order to be faithful to our original supported financially by the state while lenging and supremely significant— fiancée Kate Middleton, purpose and founding mission. This is others are not. In the US Catholic Creeping secularism? well I offer six characteristics of what I on the couple’s first capital ‘C’ Catholic education and one schools are private institutions without It is true that the increasing numbers of believe would meet these conditions official engagement since that Cardinal Winning recognised and any state funding. In Holland the state non-Catholics and non-Christians in for a Catholic education: the announcement of desired for all Catholics. provides full funding as is the case here our schools has led a small number of their impending nuptials. But on the other side there is in Scotland—in fact the agreement in Catholic schools to close, but the real Catholic schools ought to be charac- The couple toured the Catholic education described as small Holland and in other countries is the problem is that the majority of young terised by the importance they attach to university where they first ‘c’ Catholic. This model is typified by same agreement negotiated between people in Catholic schools remain the Sacraments, ritual and tradition. met, launching the an increasing number of non-Catholic the Vatican and Britain that resulted in largely ignorant of the teachings and university’s 600th Christians in our schools, an increasing the 1918 Education Act for Scotland. It practices of the Catholic Church. Catholic schools ought to be charac- anniversary celebrations, number of non-Christians and secular- is an agreement the Vatican continues There are also more and more teach- terised by an incarnational pedagogy— which run to 2013, before ists who choose our schools for differ- to hold up as the ideal model of ers in our schools who are not really which means at the heart of the Catholic viewing the surviving ent reasons. This small ‘c’ Catholic State/Church relations in schooling. comfortable in sharing their Faith school is the incarnation—the Word Papal Bull, issued by education has many supporters, partic- The English Bishops were offered the because they have but a superficial made flesh, Jesus of the Gospels is the Pope Benedict XIII in ularly it seems among those who are same model, but refused it. understanding of our Catholic story. model of what it means to be human. 1413. They then met some responsible for policy in Catholic However, the picture in many specif- Indeed, the majority of teachers in staff and students, and schools, but I also strongly argued that ically Western countries is far from per- Catholic secondary schools in England Catholic schools ought to be charac- spoke about their plans as the Catholic system becomes more fect. Critics of the Catholic school are not Catholic. terised by a community of memory— for the royal wedding. secular, along the path of secularisa- system say that admission policies at We must not forget that the purpose which means that catholic schools No doubt the students tion, they might become so secularised Catholic schools are inconsistent. The of secular education is to socialise chil- offer their students stories of their tra- were more interested in that there will be very little difference Catholic response has always been that, dren into a powerful set of naturalistic dition—students must be exposed to the plans to extend between the Catholic school and an if a school is over-subscribed, then they political assumptions, affections and the breadth of Christian culture—liter- licensing hours by two ordinary public or state school. ought to insist on priority being given practices. I believe that many Catholic ature, history, music and art. hours over the wedding I asked ‘How Catholic is Catholic?’ to Catholic parents. schools effectively diminish or dilute weekend in celebration. and can small ‘c’ Catholic survive for What is essential is that a Catholic for- the integrity of the Catholic Faith and Catholic schools ought to be charac- long on its own without being renewed mation is offered to all in a Catholic function to undercut religious loyalties. terised by their fellowship and solidar- by large ‘C’ Catholic identity? I argued school whoever their parents are or what- Catholic schools are meant to offer a ity—which means the need to look that many schools are not deeply rooted ever the background they come from. true alternative to the naturalist orien- after the oppressed and marginalised in THE recent flurry of online in Catholic identity and have allowed tation of secular education models of society. activity by the Church their Catholicity to ebb away. I have British dimension schooling. The preservation of an looks to have claimed its absolutely no doubts that Cardinal Government legislation and market authentic Catholic education is going Catholic schools ought to be charac- first victim. Winning would have asked the same forces have fundamentally transformed to be difficult to maintain in the future. terised by their religious distinctive- Dominican Sr Maria questions and perhaps even have come the provision of Catholic education. There is a dearth of qualified religious ness—which means you must establish Jesus Galan used her to some of the same conclusions. But more important Catholics are educators and theologians now con- respect for your own religious tradition convent’s computer for The reaction to this thesis in England struggling to define their identity and nected with Catholic education. There before you can authentically respect many years to digitalise was hostility from some Catholic bish- to determine what it is that makes them are also increasing members of the other traditions convent records and to ops to an acceptance from others. different and what implications the dif- Catholic school community who are bank online. However, with Nevertheless, most English bishops ferences have for the delivery of raising uneasy questions about what Finally, Catholic schools ought to be the advent of Facebook, knew, and still know, that not all is well Catholic schooling. the Catholic difference really is and characterised by always keeping in the nun began to collect in Catholic education. We clearly have less religiosity in whether it is significant enough to jus- mind the end for which they were estab- hundreds of online friends, I did not address Catholic schools in public discourse and in public policy. tify two school systems. lished—which means that Catholic spending many hours Scotland or elsewhere. However, inter- The visit of Pope Benedict XVI schools are only truly useful insofar as communicating with them nationally the same themes arise when demonstrated this in what he had to say Positive signs they serve their purpose—they are pro- in spite of her vow to a we discuss Catholic schools together during his visit to Britain about the Some English Bishops have attempted bationary and always in need of revi- life of contemplation and with the same pattern of issues and prob- relationship between religion and poli- to address these issues head on, but sion. Long-term goals should never be prayer. lems. I believe there are some warnings tics. It was addressed principally in the they are the minority. sacrificed for short-term gains. Christ is She was eventually for Scottish Catholic education here. Pope’s speech to politicians, diplomats, In November 2007, the Bishop of the centre—Faith in the risen Christ, his asked to leave the order but academics and business leaders. Lancaster brought out his teaching Father and the Holy Spirit is the central within days of leaving, her International dimension The Pope approached his theme by document on Catholic education, Fit characteristic of the mission of the Facebook friends list had Catholic schools represent the world’s way of identifying ‘fundamental ques- for Mission?—Schools. Hailed in the Catholic school. leapt from 600 to over 5000. 12 POPE’S BOOK SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday March 4 2011 Friday March 4 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER POPE’S BOOK 13

The Scottish Catholic Observer debates questions such as: Was Jesus scribed for the Passover meal. Charles K Barrett sions. Jesus must experience the incomprehension evangelist merely says laconically: “Then after the offers a preview of Jesus of a political revolutionary or a prophet The Mystery of the Betrayer (extract explains the verse just quoted as follows: “Persons and the infidelity even of those within his inner- morsel, Satan entered into him” (13:27). Nazareth—Holy Week with whose message has been distorted?; from Chapter 3) taking part in a meal reclined on the left side; the most circle of friends, and in this way ‘fulfil the For John, what happened to Judas is beyond psy- extracts from the book this week When Jesus prayed for unity among and next. Christians what did he mean?; Can THE account of the washing of the feet presents us left arm was used to support the body, the right was Scripture.’ He is revealed as the true subject of the chological explanation. He has come under the religious violence ever be justified? with two different human responses to this gift, free for use. The disciple to the right of Jesus psalms, the ‘David’ from whom they come and dominion of another. Anyone who breaks off “Pope Benedict's new book offers exemplified by Judas and Peter. Immediately after would thus find his head immediately in front of through whom they acquire meaning. friendship with Jesus, casting off his ‘easy yoke,’ FOUR years after publishing his a profound reflection on the meaning the exhortation to follow his example, Jesus begins Jesus and might accordingly be said to lie in his John gives a new twist to the psalm verse with does not attain liberty, does not become free, but first acclaimed portrait of Jesus of of the death of Jesus Christ,” to speak of Judas. John tells us in this regard that bosom. Evidently he would be in a position to which Jesus spoke prophetically of what lay ahead, succumbs to other powers. To put it another way, Nazareth, Pope Benedict XVI Archbishop Kevin McDonald, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified: “Truly, speak intimately with Jesus, but his was not the since instead of the expression given in the Greek he betrays this friendship because he is in the grip trōgein returns to his theme. Archbishop Emeritus of Southwark, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me” place of greatest honour; this was to the left of the Bible for ‘eating,’ he chooses the verb , the of another power to which he has opened himself. Recognised by scholars as one of Chairman of the Catholic Bishops' (13:21). host. The place occupied by the beloved disciple word used by Jesus in the great ‘bread of life’ dis- True, the light shed by Jesus into Judas’ soul was the most learned and respected the- Committee for Catholic Jewish John speaks three times of Jesus’ being ‘trou- was nevertheless the place of a trusted friend”; course for ‘eating’ His flesh and blood, ie receiving not completely extinguished. He does take a step ologians in the Catholic Church, the Relations said. bled’: beside the grave of Lazarus (11:33, 38), on Barrett then makes reference to a passage from the sacrament of the Eucharist (Jn 6:54-58). So the towards conversion: “I have sinned,” he says to Holy Father guides the reader through “It provides a very fertile prepara- ‘Palm Sunday’ after the saying about the dying Pliny (The Gospel According to Saint John, p. psalm verse casts a prophetic shadow over the those who commissioned him. He tries to save the Easter story in his new book and tion for the celebration of Holy 446). Church of the evangelist’s own day in which the Jesus, and he gives the money back (Mt 27:3ff.). reveals the person and mission Week. wheat-grain in a scene reminiscent of Gethsemane Jesus’ answer, as given here, is quite unambigu- Eucharist was celebrated, and indeed over the Everything pure and great that he had received of Jesus. “As far as the Jewish question is (12:24-27), and finally here. These are moments Following on for the critically concerned, it is important to see these when Jesus encounters the majesty of death and ous. Yet the evangelist says that the disciples still Church of all times: Judas’ betrayal was not the last from Jesus remained inscribed on his soul—he acclaim of Jesus of Nazareth—From reflections against the background of rubs against the might of darkness, which it is his did not understand who He meant. So we must breach of fidelity that Jesus would suffer. “Even could not forget it. the Baptism in the Jordan to the the very positive approach that the task to wrestle with and overcome. We shall return assume that John retrospectively attributed a clari- my friend, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, His second tragedy—after the betrayal—is that Transfiguration, the Holy Father’s new book Jesus of Pope has adopted to Catholic-Jewish dialogue both in to this ‘troubling’ of Jesus’ spirit when we consid- ty to the Lord’s answer that it lacked at the time for has turned against me” (Ps 41:10). The breach of he can no longer believe in forgiveness. His Nazareth—Holy Week: From the Entrance into his words and deeds.” er the night spent on the Mount of Olives. those present. Verse 18 brings us onto the right friendship extends into the sacramental community remorse turns into despair. Now he sees only him- Jerusalem to the Resurrection will published in the UK Senior clergy within the Church have suggested that Let us return to our text. Understandably, the track. Here Jesus says: “The Scripture must be ful- of the Church, where people continue to take ‘His self and his darkness, he no longer sees the light of on March 10 by the Catholic Truth Society. readers should view the book as having been written by prophecy of the betrayal produces agitation and filled: ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel bread’ and to betray Him. Jesus that can illumine and overcome the darkness. “Only in this second volume do we encounter the the theologian Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and not by curiosity among the disciples. “One of His disci- against me’” (cf Ps 41:10; Ps. 55:14). This is Jesus’ agony, His struggle against death, contin- He shows us the wrong type of remorse: the type decisive sayings and events of Jesus’s life,” Pope Pope Benedict XVI. ples, whom Jesus loved, was lying close to the Jesus’ classic way of speaking: He alludes to His ues until the end of the world, as Blaise Pascal said that is unable to hope, that sees only its own dark- Benedict said. “I hope that I have been granted an “This distinction is not a matter of splitting hairs,” breast of Jesus: so Simon Peter beckoned to him destiny using words from Scripture, thereby locat- on the basis of similar considerations (cf. Pensées ness, the type that is destructive and in no way insight into the figure of Our Lord that can be helpful to said Cardinal Georges Cottier, the former theologian of ing it directly within God’s logic, within the logic VII:553). We could also put it the other way round: authentic. Genuine remorse is marked by the cer- all readers who seek to encounter Jesus and to believe in the Papal household. and said, ‘Tell us who it is of whom He speaks.’ So of salvation history. at this hour, Jesus took upon himself the betrayal of tainty of hope born of faith in the superior power of Him.” He added that even if it may be confusing in the case lying thus, close to the breast of Jesus, he said to In the new book the Pope offers a meditation on the of Pope Benedict, a renowned theologian before being Him: ‘Lord, who is it?’ Jesus answered: ‘It is he to At a later stage, these words become fully trans- all ages, the pain caused by betrayal in every era, the light that was made flesh in Jesus. person of Jesus from His triumphant entrance into elected Pope, it is important for people to understand whom I shall give this morsel when I have dipped parent; it is seen that Scripture really does describe and he endured the anguish of history to the bitter John concludes the passage about Judas with Jerusalem on the back of a donkey until His that theology is a human exercise, which is open to it’” (13:23ff). the path He is to tread—but for now the enigma end. these dramatic words: “after receiving the morsel, Resurrection, a brief and shockingly dramatic period debate and criticism. The cardinal went on to say that, In order to understand this text, it should be remains. All that can be deduced at this point is that John does not offer any psychological interpreta- he immediately went out; and it was night” encompassing the Last Supper, the agony in the Garden because of the Holy Spirit’s gift to the Church and to the noted first of all that reclining at table was pre- one of those at table will betray Jesus; it is clear tion of Judas’ conduct. The only clue he gives is a (13:30). Judas goes out—in a deeper sense. He of Gethsemane, the betrayal by Judas Iscariot and the individual elected, the teaching of a Pope requires a that the Lord will have to endure to the end and to hint that Judas had helped himself to the contents goes into the night, he moves out of light into dark- trial, torture and crucifixion. greater degree of assent. Pope Benedict says that Judas was moved out of the the last detail the suffering of the just, for which the of the disciples’ money-box, of which he had ness: the ‘power of darkness’ has taken hold of him He touches on difficult topics, such as the question of light and into the darkness by betraying Jesus psalms in particular provide many different expres- charge (12:6). In the context of Chapter 13, the (cf Jn 3:19; Lk 22:53). where the responsibility for the death of Jesus lies and I http://www.cts-online.org.uk

Jesus before Pilate (extract from ow we must ask: who exactly were Jesus’ from the world” (18:36). And yet on the other hand, what happens when his proper nature. God is the reality that gives being Chapter 7) accusers? Who insisted that he be condemned This ‘confession’ of Jesus places Pilate in an truth counts for nothing? What kind of justice is then and intelligibility. Nto death? We must take note of the different extraordinary situation: the accused claims kingship possible? Must there not be common criteria, which ‘Bearing witness to the truth’ means giving prior- ESUS’ interrogation before the Sanhedrin had answers that the Gospels give to this question. and a kingdom (basileia). Yet he underlines the com- guarantee real justice for all—criteria that are inde- ity to God and to his will over against the interests concluded in the way Caiaphas had expected: According to John it was simply ‘the Jews.’ But plete otherness of his kingship, and he even makes pendent of the arbitrariness of changing opinions and of the world and its powers. God is the criterion of Jesus was found guilty of blasphemy, for which John’s use of this expression does not in any way indi- POPE BENEDICT XVI’S the particular point that must have been decisive for powerful lobbies? Is it not true that the great dicta- being. In this sense truth is the real ‘king’ that con- the penalty was death. But since only the cate—as the modern reader might suppose—the peo- the Roman judge: no one is fighting for this kingship. torships were fed by the power of the ideological lie, fers light and greatness upon all things. We may Romans could carry out the death sentence, ple of Israel in general, even less is it ‘racist’ in char- If power, indeed military power, is characteristic of and that only truth was capable of bringing freedom? also say that bearing witness to the truth means Jthe case now had to be brought before Pilate and the acter. After all, John himself was ethnically a Jew, as kingship and kingdoms, there is no sign of it in Jesus’ making creation intelligible and its truth accessible political dimension of the guilty verdict had to be were Jesus and all His followers. The entire early case. And neither is there any threat to Roman order. hat is truth? The pragmatist’s question, from God’s perspective—the perspective of cre- emphasised. Jesus had declared Himself to be the Christian community was made up of Jews. In John’s This kingdom is powerless. It has ‘no divisions.’ tossed off with a degree of scepticism, is a ative reason—in such a way that it can serve as a Messiah, hence He had laid claim to the dignity of Gospel this word has a precise and clearly defined With these words Jesus created a thoroughly new Wvery serious question, bound up with the criterion and a signpost in this world of ours, in such kingship, albeit in a way peculiarly His own. The meaning: he is referring to the Temple aristocracy. concept of kingship and kingdom, and he held it up fate of humanity. What, then, is truth? Are we able to a way that the great and the mighty are exposed to claim to Messianic kingship was a political offence, So the circle of accusers who instigate Jesus’ death to Pilate, the representative of classical worldly recognise it? Can it serve as a criterion for our intel- the power of truth, the common law, the law of one that had to be punished by Roman justice. With is precisely indicated in the Fourth Gospel and power. What is Pilate to make of it, and what are we lect and will, both in individual choices and in the life truth. cockcrow, daybreak had arrived. The Roman clearly limited: it is the Temple aristocracy—and EASTER STORY to make of it, this concept of kingdom and kingship? of the community? Governor used to hold court early in the morning. not without certain exceptions, as the reference to Is it unreal, is it sheer fantasy, that can be safely The classic definition from scholastic philosophy et us say plainly: the unredeemed state of the So Jesus is now led by his accusers to the Nicodemus (7:50ff.) shows. ignored? Or does it somehow affect us? designates truth as ‘adaequatio intellectus et rei – world consists precisely in the failure to under- Praetorium and is presented to Pilate as a criminal In Mark’s Gospel, the circle of accusers is broad- Here we may agree with Joachim Gnilka, who new light from the perspective of faith, the same Jews was a serious one. Rome had no difficulty in In addition to the clear delimitation of his concept conformity between the intellect and reality’ Lstand the meaning of creation, in the failure to who deserves to die. It is the ‘day of preparation’ for ened in the context of the Passover amnesty argues that Matthew, going beyond historical consid- applies to Matthew’s reference to blood: read in the recognising regional kings like Herod, but they had of kingdom (no fighting, earthly powerlessness), (Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I q 21 a. 2c). recognize truth; as a result the rule of pragmatism is the Passover feast. The lambs are slaughtered in the (Barabbas or Jesus): the ochlos enters the scene and erations, is attempting a theological etiology with light of faith, it means that we all stand in need of the to be legitimated by Rome and they had to receive Jesus had introduced a positive idea, in order to If a man’s intellect reflects a thing as it is in itself, imposed, by which the strong arm of the powerful afternoon for the evening meal. Hence cultic purity opts for the release of Barabbas. Ochlos in the first which to account for the terrible fate of the people of purifying power of love which is His blood. These from Rome the definition and limitation of their sov- explain the nature and particular character of the then he has found truth: but only a small fragment becomes the god of this world. must be preserved; so the priestly accusers may not instance simply means a crowd of people, the ‘mass- Israel in the Jewish War, when land, city and Temple words are not a curse, but rather redemption, salva- ereignty. A king without such legitimation was a power of this kingship: namely truth. Pilate brought of reality—not truth in its grandeur and integrity. At this point, modern man is tempted to say: cre- enter the Gentile Praetorium and they negotiate es.’ The word frequently has a pejorative connota- were taken from them (cf Matthäusevangelium, ii, p tion. Only when understood in terms of the theology rebel who threatened the Pax Romana and therefore another idea into play We come closer to ation has become intelligible to us through science. with the Roman Governor outside the building. tion, meaning ‘mob.’ In any event it does not refer to 459). Matthew is thinking here of Jesus’ prophecy of the Last Supper and the Cross, drawn from the had to be put to death. as the dialogue pro- what Jesus meant with Indeed, Francis S Collins, for example, who led the John, who provides this detail (18:28f.), thereby the Jewish people as such. In the case of the Passover concerning the end of the Temple: “O Jerusalem, whole of the New Testament, does this verse from Pilate knew, however, that no rebel uprising had ceeded, one that came another of Saint Human Genome Project, says with joyful astonish- highlights the contradiction between the scrupulous amnesty (which admittedly is not attested in other Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those Matthew’s Gospel take on its correct meaning. been instigated by Jesus. Everything he had heard from his own world Now we must ask: who Thomas’s teachings: ment: “The language of God was revealed” (The attitude to regulations for cultic purity and the ques- sources, but even so need not be doubted), the peo- who are sent to you! How often would I have gath- must have made Jesus seem to him like a religious and was normally con- “Truth is in God’s Language of God, p 122). Indeed, in the magnificent tion of real inner purity: it simply does not occur to ple, as so often with such amnesties, have a right to ered your children together as a hen gathers her et us move now from the accusers to the judge: fanatic, who may have offended against some Jewish nected with ‘king- exactly were Jesus’ intellect properly and mathematics of creation, which today we can read in Jesus’ accusers that impurity does not come from put forward a proposal, expressed by way of ‘accla- brood under her wings, and you would not! Behold, the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate. legal and religious rulings, but that was of no concern dom:’ namely power – accusers? Who insisted firstly (proprie et the human genetic code, we recognise the language entering a Gentile house, but rather from the inner matio.’ Popular acclamation in this case has juridical your house is forsaken …” (Mt 23:37f.: cf. Gnilka, L While Flavius Josephus and especially Philo of to him. The Jews themselves would have to judge authority (exousía). primo); in human of God. But unfortunately not the whole language. disposition of the heart. At the same time the evan- character (cf Pesch, Markusevangelium, ii, p. 466). the whole of the section entitled “Gerichtsworte”, pp Alexandria paint a rather negative picture of him, that. From the point of view of the Roman juridical Dominion demands intellect it is present The functional truth about man has been discovered. gelist emphasises that the Passover meal had not yet Effectively this ‘crowd’ is made up of the followers 295-308). other sources portray him as decisive, pragmatic and and political order, which fell under his competence, power, it even defines that he be condemned to properly and deriva- But the truth about man himself—who he is, where taken place and that the slaughter of the lambs was of Barabbas who have been mobilised to secure the These words—as argued earlier, in the chapter on realistic. It is often said that the Gospels presented him there was nothing serious to hold against Jesus. it. Jesus, however, tively (proprie quidem he comes from, what he should do, what is right, still to come. amnesty for him: as a rebel against Roman power he Jesus’ eschatological discourse—remind us of the in an increasingly positive light out of a politically At this point we must pass from considerations defines as the essence death? We must take note et secundario)” (De what is wrong—this unfortunately cannot be read in In all essentials, the four Gospels harmonise with could naturally count on a good number of support- inner similarity between the Prophet Jeremiah’s mes- motivated pro-Roman tendency, and that they shifted about the person of Pilate to the trial itself. In Jn of his kingship witness verit q 1 a. 4c). And in the same way. Hand in hand with growing knowl- one another in their accounts of the progress of the ers. So the Barabbas party, the ‘crowd.’ was conspic- sage and that of Jesus. Jeremiah—against the blind- the blame for Jesus’ death more and more onto the 18:34f. it is clearly stated that, on the basis of the to the truth. Is truth a of the different answers conclusion we arrive edge of functional truth there seems to be an increas- trial. Only John reports the conversation between uous while the followers of Jesus remained hidden ness of the then dominant circles—prophesied the Jews. Yet there were no grounds for any such tenden- information in his possession, Pilate had nothing that political category? Or at the succinct formu- ing blindness towards ‘truth’ itself – towards the Jesus and Pilate, in which the question about Jesus’ out of fear; this meant that the vox populi, on which destruction of the Temple and Israel’s exile. But he cy in the historical circumstances of the evangelists: would incriminate Jesus. Nothing had come to the has Jesus’ ‘kingdom’ that the Gospels give to la: God is ‘ipsa question of our real identity and purpose. kingship, the reason for His death, is explored in Roman law was built, was represented one-sidedly. also spoke of a ‘new Covenant’: punishment is not by the time the Gospels were written, Nero’s persecu- knowledge of the Roman authority that could in any nothing to do with pol- summa et prima veri- What is truth? Pilate was not alone in dismissing depth (18:33-38). The historicity of this tradition is In Mark’s account, then, as well as ‘the Jews,’ that is the last word, it leads to healing. In the same way tion had already revealed the cruel side of the Roman way have posed a risk to law and order. The charge itics? To which order this question tas: truth itself, the this question as unanswerable and irrelevant for his of course contested by exegetes. While Charles H. to say the dominant priestly circle, the ochlos comes Jesus prophesies the ‘deserted house and proceeds to State and the great arbitrariness of imperial power. If came from Jesus’ own people, from the Temple does it belong? If Jesus sovereign and first purposes. Today too, in political argument and in Dodd and Raymond E Brown judge it positively, into play, the circle of Barabbas’ supporters, but not offer the new Covenant ‘in His blood’: ultimately it we may date the Book of Revelation to approximate- authority. It must have astonished Pilate that Jesus’ bases His concept of truth’ (Summa discussion of the foundations of law, it is generally Charles K Barrett is extremely critical: “John’s the Jewish people as such. is a question of healing, not of destruction and rejec- ly the same period as John’s Gospel, then it is clear own people presented themselves to him as defend- kingship and kingdom on truth as the fundamental Theologiae, I q 16 a. 5c). experienced as disturbing. Yet if man lives without additions and alterations do not inspire confidence An extension of Mark’s ochlos, with fateful conse- tion. that the Fourth Gospel did not come to be written in a ers of Rome, when the information at his disposal did category, then it is entirely understandable that the This formula brings us close to what Jesus means truth, life passes him by, ultimately the field is sur- in his historical reliability” (The Gospel According quences, is found in Matthew’s account (27:25) When in Matthew’s account the ‘whole people’ context which could have given rise to a pro-Roman not suggest the need for any action on his part. pragmatic Pilate asks Him: “What is truth?” (18:38). when He speaks of the truth, when He says that His rendered to whoever is the stronger. ‘Redemption’ to Saint John, p 530). Certainly no one would claim which speaks of the ‘whole people’ and attributes to say: ‘His blood be on us and on our children’ (27:25), stance. Yet during the interrogation we suddenly arrive at It is the question that is also asked by modern polit- purpose in coming into the world was to ‘bear wit- in the fullest sense can only consist in the truth that John set out to provide anything resembling a them the demand for Jesus’ crucifixion. Matthew is the Christian will remember that Jesus’ blood speaks The image of Pilate in the Gospels presents the a dramatic moment: Jesus’ confession. To Pilate’s ical theory: can politics accept truth as a structural ness to the truth.’ Again and again in the world, becoming recognisable. And it becomes recognis- transcript of the trial. Yet we may assume that he certainly not recounting historical fact here: how a different language from the blood of Abel (Heb Roman Prefect quite realistically as a man who could question: “So you are a king?” he answers: “You category? Or must truth, as something unattainable, truth and error, truth and untruth, are almost irre- able when God becomes recognisable. He becomes was able to explain with great precision the core could the whole people have been present at this 12:24): it does not cry out for vengeance and punish- be brutal when he judged this to be in the interests of say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this be relegated to the subjective sphere, its place taken trievably mixed together. The truth in all its recognisable in Jesus Christ. In Christ, God entered question at issue, and that he presents us with a true moment to clamour for Jesus’ death? It seems obvi- ment, it brings reconciliation. It is not poured out public order. Yet he also knew that Rome owed its I have come into the world, to bear witness to the by an attempt to build peace and justice using what- grandeur and purity, does not appear. The world is the world and set up the criterion of truth in the account of the trial. Barrett also says ‘that John has ous that the historical reality is correctly described in against anyone, it is poured out for many, for all. “All world dominance not least to its tolerance of foreign truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice” ever instruments are available to power? By relying ‘true’ to the extent that it reflects God: the creative midst of history. Truth is outwardly powerless in the with keen insight picked out the key of the Passion John’s account and in Mark’s. The real group of have sinned and fall short of the glory of God … God divinities and to the capacity of Roman law to build (Jn 18:37). Previously Jesus had said: “My kingship on truth, does not politics, in view of the impossibil- logic, the eternal reason that brought it to birth. And world, just as Christ is powerless by the world’s narrative in the kingship of Jesus, and has made its accusers are the current Temple authorities, joined in put [Jesus] forward as an expiation by his blood” peace. This is how he comes across to us during is not of this world; if my kingship were of this ity of attaining consensus on truth, make itself a tool it becomes more and more true the closer it draws standards: He has no divisions, He is crucified. Yet meaning clearer, perhaps, than any other New the context of the Passover amnesty by the ‘crowd’ of (Rom 3:23, 25). Just as Caiaphas’ words about the Jesus’ trial. world, my servants would fight, that I might not be of particular traditions which in reality are merely to God. Man becomes true, he becomes himself, in His very powerlessness, He is powerful: only Testament writer’ (ibid, p. 531). Barabbas’ supporters. need for Jesus’ death have to be read in an entirely The charge that Jesus claimed to be king of the handed over to the Jews; but my kingship is not forms of holding on to power? when he grows in God’s likeness. Then he attains to thus, again and again, does truth become power. 14 LETTERS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday March 4 2011

Papal Lenten Message George Haggarty, retired rector of St John’s High School, was Final part of two extracts from brothers and sisters. For Christians, presented with the Pro Ecclesia Pope Benedict XVI’s Lenten fasting, far from being depressing, et Pontifice Papal Award at the annual mass for those involved message opens us ever more to God and to the in the field of Catholic education ONLY this water can extinguish our needs of others, thus allowing love of in the diocese at St Peter and St thirst for goodness, truth and beauty! God to become also love of our neigh- Paul’s, Dundee. Only this water, given to us by the bour (cf. Mk 12: 31). Bishop Vincent Logan Son, can irrigate the deserts of our In our journey, we are often faced thanked Mr Haggarty for his restless and unsatisfied soul, until it with the temptation of accumulating many years of service to the ‘finds rest in God,’ as per the famous and love of money that undermine education community within the words of St Augustine. God’s primacy in our lives. The greed diocese and nationally The Sunday of the man born blind of possession leads to violence, throughout Scotland. The Mass was attended by presents Christ as the light of the exploitation and death; for this, the Mr Haggarty’s family, along with world. The Gospel confronts each one Church, especially during the Lenten his successor Fiona McLagan of us with the question: “Do you period, reminds us to practice alms- and his predecessor Br Bede. believe in the Son of man?” “Lord, I giving—which is the capacity to Mr Haggarty thanked all for believe!” (Jn 9: 35. 38), the man born share. The idolatry of goods, on the PICTURE attending and reminded blind joyfully exclaims, giving voice other hand, not only causes us to drift OF THE everyone of the great Marist to all believers. The miracle of this away from others, but divests man, tradition that he had inherited healing is a sign that Christ wants not making him unhappy, deceiving him, and had been conscious of only to give us sight, but also open our deluding him without fulfilling its WEEK passing on to all who passed through the school. interior vision, so that our Faith may promises, since it puts materialistic become ever deeper and we may goods in the place of God, the only recognise him as our only Saviour. He source of life. How can we understand illuminates all that is dark in life and God’s paternal goodness, if our heart leads men and women to live as ‘chil- is full of egoism and our own proj- The truth about the stated Catholic schools were dren of the light.’ ects? The practice of almsgiving is a Missal translation the ‘basis of sectarianism in On the fifth Sunday, when the res- reminder of God’s primacy and turns THE article by Gerald Warner Scotland.’ urrection of Lazarus is proclaimed, we our attention towards others, so that on the translation of the Contrast that with the SNP are faced with the ultimate mystery of we may rediscover how good our Missal (SCO 25.2.11) is full Letters Government’s pledge to our existence: “I am the resurrection Father is, and receive his mercy. of errors, half-truths and SCO, 19 Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 6BT support Catholic schools as and the life… Do you believe this?” During the entire Lenten period, negativity. So much of it long as people are sending (Jn 11: 25-26). For the Christian com- the Church offers us God’s Word with needs correction. [email protected] their children to them. munity, it is the moment to place with particular abundance. By meditating In particular, one point that As well meant as Jack sincerity—together with Martha—all and internalising the Word in order to he puts forward must be McConnell’s statements on of our hopes in Jesus of Nazareth: live it every day, we learn a precious firmly repudiated for it may the carpenter for giving me history? Firstly, it was combatting bigotry are, we “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the and irreplaceable form of prayer; by have dismayed and distressed the chance to be part of such a founded by a civilisation cannot honestly say there has Christ, the Son of God, the one who attentively listening to God, who con- many readers. To suggest that, spiritual experience and in which, in Christian extension been any real change for the was to come into this world” (Jn 11: tinues to speak to our hearts, we nour- in our present Missal, the having had Pearl as a friend. of its Jewish roots, rejected man on the street. 27). Communion with Christ in this ish the itinerary of Faith initiated on words of consecration of the John Woodcock the practice of usury against As a native Glaswegian, life prepares us to overcome the barri- the day of our Baptism. Prayer also wine may be invalid is quite MOTHERWELL its neighbour. The modern Church-goer and parent, I find er of death, so that we may live eter- allows us to gain a new concept of simply wrong. It is most practice of allowing banks to it incredible to read letters nally with Him. Faith in the time: without the perspective of eter- unfortunate that the Can we see sense usurp the right and duty of hailing the Labour party as resurrection of the dead and hope in nity and transcendence, in fact, time suggestion is made, even as a over sectarianism? Sovereignty by practicing not anti-sectarian when for 38 eternal life open our eyes to the ulti- simply directs our steps towards a possibility. WITH reference to the article merely usury but fraud, in years I have experienced and mate meaning of our existence: God horizon without a future. Instead, So much else in the article, on Peter Kearney in your creating ten times their witnessed sectarian attacks at created men and women for resurrec- when we pray, we find time for God, and indeed the whole tone of issue of Friday February 18 I deposits and lending them at many levels. I deeply distrust tion and life, and this truth gives an to understand that his ‘words will not it, is so biased and misleading would like to comment on one interest to the community Labour politicians who state authentic and definitive meaning to pass away’ (cf. Mk 13: 31), to enter that it is a pity that it saw the of the points made, vis. the would not have been they are Catholic but will not human history, to the personal and into that intimate communion with light of day. effectiveness of anti-sectarian countenanced by it’s vote as such when abortion social lives of men and women, to cul- Him ‘that no one shall take from you’ Maurice Taylor initiatives aimed at Scottish Founding Fathers. The whole laws are being debated. ture, politics and the economy. (Jn 16: 22), opening us to the hope BISHOP EMERITIUS OF school children. dismal fantasy would have Conversely, I feel no threat to Without the light of Faith, the entire that does not disappoint, eternal life. GALLOWAY, AYR I have been closely been laughed out of court. my Faith from the SNP who universe finishes shut within a tomb In synthesis, the Lenten journey, in involved with several of these Secondly, its own son, support and embrace a devoid of any future, any hope. The which we are invited to contemplate Never judge a coffin by initiatives, for example the Professor Frederick Soddy, Scotland made up of people of Lenten journey finds its fulfillment in the Mystery of the Cross, is meant to its colour work of Sense over the Nobel Prizewinner, was many faiths and those of the Paschal Triduum, especially in the reproduce within us ‘the pattern of his I WAS in hospital recently Sectarianism and at the himself a prophet of the return none. Great Vigil of the Holy Night: renew- death’ (Ph 3: 10), so as to effect a deep when short of reading moment with the Machan to an honest system of Carol Monaghan ing our baptismal promises, we reaf- conversion in our lives; that we may material, I came across the Trust who are targeting ten money-creation. He refused to BY E-MAIL firm that Christ is the Lord of our life, be transformed by the action of the Catholic Observer. The article schools in the Larkhall area pay that part of his taxes that life which God bestowed upon us Holy Spirit, like St Paul on the road to that caught my eye was on a with a specific project. which went to service the Time to act on when we were reborn of ‘water and Damascus; that we may firmly orient red coffin in the Cathedral It is my experience that unconstitutional National anti-Catholic act Holy Spirit.’ and we profess our com- our existence according to the will of Church, Motherwell. these have been extremely Debt. MR J LYNCH’S recent is mitment to respond to the action of the God; that we may be freed of our ego- I was there that day and the worthwhile and have had an MT Kielty rather silly, as neither M Grace in order to be His disciples. ism, overcoming the instinct to domi- lady in the coffin was Pearl. I enormous positive impact, to CLYDEBANK Smyth nor I stated that Alex nate others and opening us to the love knew her through my partner, the extent that they are used Salmond could ‘abolish the 3. By immersing ourselves into the of Christ. The Lenten period is a and she knew me as her as templates and examples of Actions speak louder Act.’ Furthermore, this is not death and resurrection of Christ favorable time to recognise our weak- joiner. good practice elsewhere. than rhetoric about party political scoring through the Sacrament of Baptism, we ness and to accept, through a sincere I saw love, a red rose and I do agree with many of the MICHELLE Smythe (letters points, as we have made it are moved to free our hearts every day inventory of our life, the renewing the blood of life, above all, a points Peter Kearney makes February 4) is deeply clear that no political party from the burden of material things, Grace of the Sacrament of Penance, lady who was a mother, a but with regard to this I find mistaken if she thinks the has done enough to apply from a self-centered relationship with and walk resolutely towards Christ. fighter and a friend. I saw her that I cannot, and I fear that previous Labour Government pressure for change. All of us the ‘world’ that impoverishes us and Dear Brothers and Sisters, through family proud and strong general negative comments confronted bigotry. Whilst are aware that abolition is not prevents us from being available and the personal encounter with our particularly her son, 18 years might undo the good work Jack McConnell has a devolved matter, but that open to God and our neighbour. In Redeemer and through fasting, alms- old. It reminded me of myself. that is being done. publically and rightly cannot prevent the SNP, or Christ, God revealed Himself as Love giving and prayer, the journey of con- I was 18 years old when my Theresa Breslin condemned bigotry, he any other party, from (cf. 1Jn 4: 7-10). The Cross of Christ, version towards Easter leads us to mother died. BY E-MAIL brought about no real change continuing to raise this the ‘word of the Cross,’ manifests rediscover our Baptism. This Lent, let The music was heartfelt, the for Scottish Catholics. enshrined bigotry at national God’s saving power (cf. 1Cor1: 18), us renew our acceptance of the Grace hymns were the same and the Glasgow University Catholic schools were level in order to push for that is given to raise men and women that God bestowed upon us at that only difference was a bigger and economic cuts attacked by Labour who repeal/amendment. anew and bring them salvation: it is moment, so that it may illuminate and venue, a cathedral, but there I AM surprised at the way openly defended this policy as As we now have an SNP love in its most extreme form (cf. guide all of our actions. What the was something different. Glasgow University, has not being the correct method to government and, as the ‘shame Encyclical Deus caritas est, n. 12). Sacrament signifies and realises, we I felt for Pearl’s family and responded to economic cuts. tackle sectarianism. Sam of Sectarianism’ is much worse Through the traditional practices of are called to experience every day by also my loss all those years Has it forgotten it’s own Galbraith former labour MSP in Scotland than in England fasting, almsgiving and prayer, Lent following Christ in an ever more gen- ago but in front of me was a and Wales, it is reasonable to teaches us how to live the love of erous and authentic manner. In this couple who I knew had lost expect Mr Salmond to ‘put his Christ in an ever more radical way. our itinerary, let us entrust ourselves to two babies but there they were money where his mouth is’ and Fasting, takes on a profoundly reli- the Virgin Mary, who generated the with their new baby son, SCO reserves the right to edit letters to conform with space or seek to pressurise the national style requirements gious significance for the Christian: Word of God in faith and in the flesh, beaming with love, proud coalition into taking action to by rendering our table poorer, we so that we may immerse ourselves— parents! This page is used solely for reader opinion and therefore views repeal or amend this ludicrous, expressed are not necessarily shared by SCO learn to overcome selfishness in order just as She did—in the death and res- It’s strange, I saw life in all constitutional bigotry, in the to live in the logic of gift and love; by urrection of Her Son Jesus, and its beauty, death, birth and If you would like to share your opinion, send your interests of everyone, including correspondence to the above address bearing some form of deprivation— possess eternal life. love so when I saw the red the long-suffering Catholics of and not just what is in excess—we coffin I smilled with joy that I Whether you use e-mail or post, you must provide your full name, Scotland. address, and phone number or your letter will not be used learn to look away from our ‘ego,’ to To read message in full visit knew Pearl, the mum, the H J Lynch discover someone close to us and to http://www.sconews.co.uk/news/lent friend and I thank my friend, LARBERT recognise God in the face of so many en-message/ Friday March 4 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER MUSIC COLUMN 15 Lighting up Lent with songs of praise uu In our fortnightly music column, we take a look at the songs and chants associated with the Lenten period ENT will soon be the context of the ‘return of the your people, Lord, spare them: we hear in the introit a sort of life and salvation: “He who medi- upon us- that six- bridegroom.’ Thus, the special do not silence, O Lord, the lips ‘official pronouncement’ that our tates on the law of the Lord day week preparation for preface of the First Sunday of which sing your praise—and sins will indeed be forgiven. and night will bring forth his fruit the Passion, death, Lent gives thanks to the Father finally Emendémus in mélius— In the Ordinary Form, however, in due season.” and Resurrection of through Jesus Christ, who Let us amend our lives, thought- the order has been slightly amend- LChrist during which we look ‘abstaining 40 long days from less sinners that we are, or the ed. Instead of beginning with the I Fr Gerard Byrne is the co- more closely at our own faults earthly food, consecrated by His day of death may come upon us blessing and distribution of ashes, ordinator of a weekly (Ordinary and failings and beg pardon for fast the pattern of our Lenten suddenly, demanding for a time Mass begins as normal, with the Form) Latin Mass in the them, and set our eyes on the sal- observance, and by overcoming for repentance, yet demanding blessing and imposition of ashes Glasgow University Chaplaincy vation won for us in Christ Jesus. all the snares of the ancient ser- in vain. taking place after the Liturgy of (Sundays, 4 pm). He is the In the words of the first Lent pent taught us to cast off the Only after the ashes had been the Word. Sadly, this means that director of the Schola preface (new translation) Lent is ‘a leaven of malice, so that, cele- imposed upon the foreheads of although the chants themselves Glasguensis, a small choir sacred time for the purifying and brating worthily the paschal all the Faithful is the opening remain unchanged, the order is dedicated to the study and renewing of our hearts, that freed Fr Gerard Byrne mystery, we might pass over at chant of Mass sung: “Your affected, and now the introit chant performance of the Church’s from disordered affections, we last to the eternal paschal feast.’ mercy extends to all things, O is now the first to be heard. patrimony of Liturgical music. may so deal with the things of this Lord, and you despise none of Arranged thus, it is difficult not He also runs the Associates of passing world, as to hold rather to Indeed, the third century f all the traditional prac- the things you have made. You to get the feeling that the impact the Schola Glasguensis for the things of the world to come.’ writer Tertullian particularly tices associated with overlook the sins of men for the of the introit has been somewhat anyone interested in learning to Lent originally comprised of noted the pagans’ praise of the OCatholicism, perhaps sake of repentance. You grant diminished or that the overall sing the chant. They rehearse six Sundays tout court. However, early Christians’ ‘willingness none is more known (certainly them your pardon, for you are message that the chants of the on Wednesday from 7-8.45 pm given that it was not customary even to die for one another’ few are more public) than the the Lord our God.” Mass intend to give has not been in in Our Lady of Lourdes to fast on the day of the Lord’s which ought to be understood in imposition of ashes on Ash The effect of this order is clear affected. Nevertheless, the com- parish, Glasgow. For more rising from the dead, the original light of their practise of fasting Wednesday. and beautiful: after having munion chant has the final word, details contact Fr Byrne on period was extended so as to in order that they were able to In the Extraordinary Form the begged the Lord’s mercy both in and makes clear the relationship [email protected] provide 40 fast days—in imita- provide for the poorest members ashes are blessed in a short cere- the opening prayers and songs, between conversion/holiness of .uk or call 0141 882 1024. tion of Christ’s own 40 days of of the community. mony at the very beginning of fasting in the desert after his Thus, the hymn sung every Mass. They are then immediately Baptism by John the Baptist, evening at Vespers from Ash distributed, during which several Moses’ fasting on Mount Sinai, Wednesday until Palm Sunday— chants are sung which beg God’s the Hebrew peoples’ 40 years in Audi, benigne Conditor— mercy. Mass continues as normal. CROSSWORD the wilderness, and so on— reminds strongly us of the The first text which is sung is whilst excluding Sundays. importance on fasting during the responsory Exáudi nos, Hence, from around the fifth Lent: “Give us self-control that Dómine—Hear us, O Lord, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 century onwards a ‘pre-Lent’ springs from discipline of out- according to your great mercy: began on the Wednesday before, ward things, that fasting inward according to the abundance of the caput ieunii—the first day of secretly the soul may purely your pity look down upon us. 8 9 fasting. dwell with thee,’ and the pref- This is followed by four prayers From the early Church aces of Mass extol that which of blessing, and then three other onwards, the Church has placed ‘gives God thanks, humbles sin- chants: Immutémur, Dómine— a great importance on the prac- ful pride, contributes to feeding Changed be our vesture, ashes 10 11 tise of bodily fasting during the poor, and helps us imitate the and sackcloth be all our wear: Lent, something that was recog- kindness of God Himself’ (pref- fasting and weeping let us come nised as a powerful weapon ace III), and ‘restrains our faults, into the Lord’s presence, our 12 13 14 15 against the Evil One, as a way of raises up our minds, and bestows God, so full of mercy and pardon Inter vestíbulum— freeing oneself up for prayer, and both virtue and its rewards’ for our sins— 16 particularly as a means of pro- (preface IV). Let the priests that wait upon the viding extra money to feed those It is true, of course that fasting Lord make their lament between 17 18 19 20 21 most in need. only finds its fullest meaning in porch and altar, crying ‘Spare First entry out the hat next TUESDAY will receive a copy 22 23 of THE NEW TESTAMENT SCO pages through the ages by Luke Timothy Johnson

24 25 Send your completed 25 years ago 50 years ago crossword entries—along ACROSS with your full name address and daytime phone 1 Shows one extremely quiet listeners (7) ON FRIDAY March 7, 1986, the TWENTY-FIVE years ago on Friday CROSSWORD Scottish Catholic Observer published a March 3, 1961, the SCO reported on the 5 Supports the defenders (5) number—to news story on Fr David Gemmell, the £40,000 debt incurred by parishioners of 8 Danger (5) CONTEST SCO 19 WATERLOO Edinburgh-based priest appointed as St Martin’s and St Ninian’s in Whithorn, 9 Ambition is to be seen in torn old clothing (7) ST GLASGOW G2 6BT 10 Granted (7) Catholic chaplain to the Commonwealth following the opening of their new The winner’s name will be Games. church the previous September. 11 Concur (5) 12 Wasteland (6) printed next week “It is an experience to which I am look- Accommodating its 290 parishioners, St 14 Cardiac Centres? (6) ing forward with pleasure and expectation, Martin’s and St Ninian’s was the first 17 Could possibly be obscure (5) The editor’s decision is final challenging in its way, and certainly in its Catholic church to be built in Whithorn fol- 19 Continued (7) setting, out of the run of my normal lowing the Scottish Reformation. 22 Authority to see chap before time (7) duties,” Fr Gemmell, an assistant priest at The article called for Catholics through- 23 Pathway (5) St Mary’s Cathedral in the city, said. out Scotland to contribute to the appeal 24 Great regal turnout (5) LAST WEEK’S “Many of the competing athletes are bound through the Friends of Whithorn. The 25 Indicates (7) SOLUTION to be Catholics.” Association of the Friends of Whithorn was He added that he had always had an established in 1959 in order to ensure that DOWN ACROSS interest in sport, from football days at St the church became a national shrine. 1 Sufficient (5) 1 Declare 5 Cocks Columba’s High School in Dunfermline to “The church at Whithorn is not just another 2 Shows off a spread that's vulgar (7) 8 Canal 9 Cabinet seminary years at Drygrange. parochial church,” the SCO reported, “but a 3 Confess to everyone with a painful cry (5) 10 Yielded 11 Range An official opening service of the Games memorial to the saint who brought Christianity 4 Way to go on horseback or step it out (6) 12 Ballad 14 Stress was held at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh. to Scotland long before St Columba came to 5 A lot of soldiers required to storm a bridge (7) 17 Grace 19 Admiral Fr Gemmell worked with the Rev William Iona or St Kentigern to Glasgow, and therefore 6 Applaud (5) 22 Attract 23 Pairs Wright of the Church of Scotland, religious something which should have a place in the 7 Dogs roaming in the streets (7) 24 Eerie 25 Report advisor to the games. Both men, with the heart of every Scottish Catholic. 12 Coming in tens for medical treatment (7) 13 help of Africam Bishop David Gitari, “It is up to everyone, therefore, whether Glow (7) DOWN 15 After first sign leave the fortification (7) became familiar figures in the Games he lives in the remote north, the far south, 1 Decay 2 Conceal 16 Pal (6) 3 Ailed 4 Escudo Village and at Meadowbank Stadium. the rugged west, or the east of Scotland, to 18 Proprietor (5) 5 Cabaret 6 Canon A pocket edition of the New Testament rally to the help of the tiny community at 20 Shiny material (5) 7 Sitters 12 Baggage was presented to athletes and officials by Whithorn and try to lighten the load which 21 Puppets (5) 13 Average 15 Earlier, the National Bible Society of Scotland. rests on their shoulders.” 16 Batter 18 Actor Last week’s winner: Mae MacDonald, Morar 20 Mop up 21 Lasts

Scottish Catholic Observer: Scotland’s only national Catholic weekly newspaper SCO pages through the ages printed by Cumbrian Newsprint, Newspaper House, Dalston Road, Carlisle CA2 5UA 16 MISSIO SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday March 4 2011 A Faithful presence in Sudan In our monthly feature from the organisation MISSIO SCOTLAND, Cameroonian Mill Hill Missionary FR DAMIEN FUH gives us an insight into his work in Sudan and talks about the positive effects of peace N MARCH 1922 the first four raging on in Darfur, while the South Mill Hill Missionaries arrived in has just had a referendum that should Cameroon. Their leader was lead to independence later this year. Mgr John Campling—a Scot— At the same time the central govern- from Partick, Glasgow. He ment in Khartoum has to deal with foundI a few abandoned mission sta- many discontented voices against the tions, and a few thousand Christians, present political establishment headed but faced immense problems as he set by President Omar El Bashir, who about planning new missions and himself has an arrest warrant hanging schools in the huge area of the country over him from the ICC for war crimes that had been entrusted to the Mill Hill committed in Darfur. Missionaries. After a few years John The referendum for the potential full Campling was made a bishop in independence of the south is seen by Uganda, but the work he began contin- many southerners as a unique opportu- ued, and has borne great fruit. nity to break the yoke of decades of Today the area of Cameroon where oppression and marginalisation by the Fr Campling began work has four dio- Islamic north. But considering the fact ceses, with hundreds of local priests that most of Sudan’s oil wells are in the and religious, a thriving major semi- south, the stakes are very high and this nary, dozens of Catholic colleges, and makes the referendum a very sensitive the beginnings of a Catholic university. issue. Many fear that the outcome Each of the dioceses receives financial could be easily manipulated in order to support from MISSIO, which helps maintain the present status quo. support maturing local churches. A sign Yet even if independence were to be of the maturing of this local Church is the legitimate outcome of the referen- that there are now Cameroonian dum, the southern government will MHM’s working in more marginal mis- Fr Damien Fuh with a parishioner (inset) ile, is having a direct and positive effect the best one in this area and the only have its plate overflowing with issues sion areas such as Southern Sudan. and the new church being built in his in our work and giving hope to our one in the whole county. But some- that have to be tackled immediately to parish in Sudan (main) Christian communities too. times we still go for several weeks make the south a viable state. It will ameroonian MHM Fr Damien It is also worth mentioning here that without clean water because of lack of have to deal urgently with issues like Fuh writes about his work in the for the primary school, a clinic, a mas- the changes achieved in Tonga are the fuel—ironically when Sudan is pro- promoting peace and reconciliation, Cdiocese of Malakal. sive water plant, sanitation facilities, results of the hard work and untiring ducing lots of it—or even a minute good governance, insecurity, stimula- After the Comprehensive Peace government offices and a mobile efforts of one of our prominent and mechanical problem. tion of development, etc. Agreement (CPA) signed in 2005 to end phone tower (not yet operational). devout Christians, Mr Daniel Odhok, The women have to resort to collect- In a recent statement issued by the over two decades of war between North These are tangible signs of hope for who was the commissioner in Tonga ing drinking water from the river, Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference and South Sudan, the southern region the people and we are looking forward from 2007-2010. which is very unsafe. In the mission in in the build up to the referendum, the has experienced some relative peace for to better days ahead hoping that the the rainy season, we collect rain water bishops have asked all Christians, men the past five years. This period of fragile war years are gone forever. We are nasmuch as we are happy to see from the zinc roof of our house for our and women of good will to keep the peace has been used to undertake some even more excited that from our these glimmers of hope emerging own use. The others cannot do the beacon of hope alive and to double vital post-war reconstruction projects in remote post here we shall soon (hope- Ifrom the gloom and darkness of the same because most of their houses are their efforts in praying for peace at this order to stimulate some kind of mean- fully) be able to reach out to the glob- past, I must say that south Sudan still thatched with grass. So when there is a critical moment so that the glimmers of ingful development in this war-ravaged al world by mobile phone, which is a has a long way to go. heavy downpour, the women also get hope witnessed so far will not be and marginalized region and to improve common means of communication In comparison with the actual need water from our small tank but it is squashed again by another conflict. I the lives of people. Most of these devel- nowadays. that there is, this seems just like a drop hardly enough to last for up to three hope you can join us too in this prayer opmental projects are funded by western The biggest sign of hope for us as a of milk in the ocean. The presence of days. So then our constant prayer in for a peaceful transition. governments through NGOs and the Christian community was at Easter in these facilities doesn’t mean that they the rainy season is for peace, our daily Government of Southern Sudan. 2009 when over 170 young Catechumens are actually providing the services that bread and our daily rain! I MISSIO is the only organisation to In this light, our small post here in in our parish received the Sacraments of they ought to. guarantee support for every one of the Tonga in Malakal Diocese, in southern Initiation after a successful year of A practical snag that persists is the e have taken one step but 1069 mission dioceses in the world. Sudan, has also witnessed some post-war instruction. This was impossible dur- inefficient running of these facilities several more steps still need To support MISSIO Scotland call 01236 reconstruction projects for the past few ing the war years. At the moment, we for several reasons including lack of Wto be taken to make a signif- 449774, email: national.office years. The noticeable changes include have an even bigger number enrolled. expertise. For example, our impressive icant difference. Politically, Sudan is at @missioscotland.org.uk or visit the a new secondary school, new classrooms The presence of peace, even though frag- and massive water purification plant is a crossroad now. In the west, war is still website www.missioscotland.org.uk Extend a warm welcome to those preparing to enter the Church THE season of Lent is here parish group will have people walk in God’s presence? and supported them, in many than what you give up. Ask already and all over the in it who would like to become I Have they shared the com- parishes there is no forum for yourself how have I faithfully world bishops will be gath- Catholic alongside those who pany of their Christian brother all those who are already bap- listened to God’s Word pro- ering in the First Sunday of are already Catholic. Those and sisters and joined them in tised to gather for reflection. claimed by the Church and Lent in their cathedrals for who are already Catholic prayer? What the newly Baptised how could you focus more the Rite of Election. This is accompany and support the experience during their prepara- intently on this during Lent, so one of the most important inquirers on their journey. The These questions are asked of tion is the support of a small that you have a sense of jour- moments in the Church’s main way they do this is by newcomers—now called Christian community, but when neying with those who are year, when the bishop pub- sharing their Faith, and this is Catechumens—because listen- they are fully initiated there is called by the bishop. licly calls adults to celebrate not so much about giving ing to God’s Word and no sense that the parish commu- How are you responding to the Sacraments of Initiation inquirers classes about Catholic responding to it and gathering nity is aware of its role to nur- God’s Word and walking in His at Easter. doctrine but about introducing with others for prayer and ture the neophyte. That’s why in presence? How often do you Many adults join the Church them to a way of life. reflection is supposed to be a the Western world there is a 45 gather to reflect and share the for a variety of reasons: some In the early Church this pattern of living which the per cent drop off rate in Sunday company of other Christians for are already married to a introduction into the Christian Christian community in the Holy Mass participation among prayer and reflection? Catholic and have come to a way of life lasted at least three parish is already engaged in. those who are newcomers. This Lent could be a great point in their lives where they Catechesis and years, so it was a long process, Feedback from those who So as we move into this sea- time to recover a basic sense of feel they are part of the Catholic for those who were joining the are newly baptised and con- son of Lent perhaps your what we are about and to family, others speak about their Evangelisation Church it sometimes meant firmed as adults affirms that parish might take time to enable newcomers to feel part search for God and how this has totally giving up another way actually, in many cases, there is review how newcomers are and parcel of the life of our culminated in a decision to be by Patricia Carroll of life. The connection with a big sense of being let down welcomed and supported, this a parish communities. This might part of the Church, many speak this ancient practice is reflect- after the Easter Vigil as they work of evangelisation. How begin by simply making sure about the living Faith witness of process of gradual incorpora- ed in the questions the Bishop come to terms with the reality will your parish community be that those preparing for the someone they know and how tion. Stages of growth are cele- asks Godparents at the Rite of of the parish community. Good News for newcomers Easter sacraments are named this has inspired them, and some brated in public Rites, which Election: Often there is no support this Eastertide, and how will each Sunday at Mass and talk about the quality of wel- we find in the Rite of Christian structure to welcome newcom- they set up structures that will prayed for. come they received when they Initiation of Adults. As well as I Have they faithfully listened ers and insert them more fully enable newcomers to partici- first entered a Catholic Church. building up the habit of gather- to God’s Word proclaimed by into the life of the community. pate in the life of the parish? I Patricia Carroll is the episcopal When an adult makes a ing for Sunday, this community the Church? Whereas before being Baptised And perhaps personally this delegate for pastoral resources request to become a Catholic process often involves gather- I Have they responded to that these adults met weekly with a Lenten journey could be more for St Andrews and Edinburgh they take part in a community ing weekly with a group, each Word and have they begun to group who reflected with them about what you can recover Archdiocese Friday March 4 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER CHURCH NOTICES 17

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Mass on the occasion of Months Mind ST ALOYSIUS’ CHURCH Mass will be celebrated in THE JESUIT CHURCH IN Motherwell Cathedral THE WEST OF SCOTLAND on 25 Rose Street Glasgow G3 (off Sauchiehall Street) Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 10am SUNDAY MASS: FEAST OF ST JOHN OGILVIE for the repose of the soul of Saturday Vigil 5.45pm; 9am; 10.30am (Family Mass); Mary (Ray) MacMillan 12noon (Sung); 9pm Vespers sung by the who died on February 13, 2011 WEEKDAY MASS: St Mungo Singers R.I.P. Inserted by family and friends Monday - Friday: 8am; 12.30pm; 5.45pm Saturday: 10am; 12.30pm Thursday, March 10th 2011 PILGRIMAGE CONFESSIONS: Monday - Friday: 11.30am - 12.15pm; 5.15pm - 5.30pm 7.30pm PILGRIMAGE TO NEVERS, PARAY-LE-MONIAL, Saturday: 10.30am - 12.15pm; 2pm - 3.15pm; 4.15pm - 5.15pm ARS & LOURDES. (8 Days.) 3rd till 10th September 2011 EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT: in St Aloysius Church, Saturday: 2pm - 5.15pm £490.00 CONTACT: Sunday: 1.15pm - 8.30pm 25 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 ANNE McMULLEN (01236-601-275) MICHAEL McALLISTER (028-302-67425) ROSARY: All Welcome LOURDES: (8 Days.) Monday - Saturday after 12.30pm Mass No overnight Travel in France. 8th till 15th October 2011 First Saturday Devotion to CONTACT: PAT WHITE (0141-778-0727) MICHAEL McALLISTER (028-302-67425) Our Lady of Fatima Scotland GGLASGOWLASGOW’’SS invites you to spend a EXPERT SERVICES Morning with Mary SSTT PPATRICKATRICK’’SS DDAYAY MMASSASS Mass, Blessing of the Roses, SCOT-COVER Rosary with the children, mix and SATURDAY,19TH MARCH 2011 meet, film and bookstall RE-UPHOLSTERY St Mary’s Greenock AT 12 NOON Freephone: 0800 389 8084 Saturday 12th March 2011 • Repairs • New Foams • Springs Repaired Mass 10am also MOBILE REPAIR SERVICE HOLY CROSS CHAPEL all over Scotland St Brendan’s Yoker DIXON AVENUE,GLASGOW Excellent choice of fabrics and Saturday 26th March 2011 quality leathers specialising in: Mass 10am Dykes • Reids • G Plan Celebrant: Parker Knoll • Cintique • Wade Please come and bring the children to pray ARCHBISHOP MARIO CONTI MTB Upholstery Family Business VOCATIONS Proceedings start before Mass with Michael T Boyle Estb: 1974 Gaelic Choir and Traditional Musicians Suites Recovered or Repaired JERICHO Loose Cover Service “The Do you feel that New foams/New springs God is calling HOUSE FOR SALE Compassion of you to the Verbal estimates free Jesus.” Missionary House for Sale Contact Michael Priesthood Mob: 07878156444 Drug & Alcohol Rehabs., Then we Immaculate, Spacious, Detached Land: 01698 827724 (ansa) can help Bungalow in Gretna Scotland Refuge for Victims of you Domestic Violence, 2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, Lounge-diner, HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION Supported Accommodation Laundry, Pantry, Kitchen-diner, Contact: Sun-lounge, Garage and Garden TENERIFE for the Destitute, the ClosetoM74andM6 (COSTA ADEJE) Distressed, and all being The Vocations Director In the region of £225,000 Superb apartment in holiday complex in SMA FATHERS idyllic Playa Fanabe, Costa Adeje ‘passed by on the other side.’ St Theresaʼs 01461 339 342 Clarendon Place, Dunblane A COMMUNITY OF Perthshire FK15 9HB • Sea view and balcony overlooking pool MEN OF PRAYER FOR Order the •100yardsfrombeach • Host of activities on beach OUR TIMES (founded 1970) PERSONAL AGNIFICAT Vocation info from Mworking in partnership with The Catholic Herald Group • Two golf courses nearby Bro Patrick Mullen, • Excellent restaurants and bars The Jericho Society, UNATTACHED? Direct from the • £39 per night for apartment Mater Salvatoris, Harelaw Farm, Join the • Sleeps four Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, PA10 2PY CATHOLIC Scottish Charity SC016909 UNATTACHED • Completely refurbished Tel: 01505 614669 DIRECTORY Call: 0141 241 6112 Telephone 0141 423 6778 Email: Tel: 01322 222 213 or email: circulation@ www.windsorflats.com for free brochure [email protected] sconews.co.uk Brochure on request 18 FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday March 4 2011 FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

KEARNEY MacDONALD DEATH RELIGIOUS MEMORIAM In loving memory of Monica In loving memory of my dear WOODS Kearney, who died March 10, husband, Andrew, who died on 1992, her parents, Thomas March 7, 2010. R.I.P. Suddenly but peacefully, on and Agnes, her brother, Quietly today your memory I Monday, February 21, 2011, at Thomas Townsend, who died treasure, Carnbroe Care Home, in Canada on December 8, Missing you always, forgetting Coatbridge, in the presence 1991, and her sisters, Norah you never. of a large contingent of her Graham, who died on May 24, Our Lady of the Isles, pray for family, Mary (nee Kasparytis) 2004, and Margaret, who died him. rd in her 103 year. Beloved on August 4, 2006. Inserted by his loving wife wife of Michael John and CARLIN Sacred Heart, have mercy on Mary Ann. last surviving child of her BROWN, Thomas Kevin 9th Anniversary them. MacDONALD Lithuanian parents, Yonas and 8th Anniversary Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for st GEMMELL, Mgr David In loving memory of Alex, who 1 Anniversary Ona. Mother to John, Precious are the beautiful them. 3rd Anniversary died March 9, 2002. Remembering with love, Celia, Josephine, Mary Frances memories of my darling Died March 6, 2008. A loving heart stopped LINDSAY our dear mum, granny and sis- (deceased), Michael, Sadly missed. husband and our devoted dad, beating as we watched you 19th Anniversary ter, who died on March 7, Margaret (deceased), Francis, Maranatha. Tommy, whom God called slip away, In loving memory of Neil Lind- 2010. Brian (deceased), Isabel, Inserted by his friends. home on March 5, 2003. Our hearts were truly broken say, beloved father and grand- To hear your voice, to see you Edmund, Colette and Loving you always, forgetting as you fought so hard to father, who died suddenly on smile, Geraldine. Grandmother to 26, MEMORIAM you never. stay, March 4, 1992. To sit and talk to you a while, great-grandmother to 44 AITON God saw that you were tired, a Deep in our hearts you will al- To be together in the same old and great-great-grandmother Your loving family. 1st Anniversary cure was not to be, ways stay, way, to 3. Our Lady, Queen of Peace, In loving memory of a dear He put His arms around Loved and remembered in Would be our dearest wish Mary will be greatly missed by pray for him. wife, mum and gran, Mary, you and whispered, every prayer. today. all who knew her. She was a who died on March 6, 2010. Come to Me. Also remembering all other You went so suddenly, remarkable woman who lived God saw you getting tired, Your loving family, wife Sadie, loved ones who have passed We did not say goodbye, BROWN a remarkable life and the fam- And a cure was not to be, daughter and son-in-law, away. But families can never be ily thank God for this gift. So he put His arms around Treasured memories of Yvonne and Gerry, and Our Lady of the Isles, pray for parted, Fortified by the rites of the you, Tommy, who left us on March granddaughters Donnamarie them. Precious memories never die. Holy Catholic Church. And whispered Come to Me. 5, 2003. and Danielle. Inserted by Marion, Cailean With all our love Mary, Helen and families and Our Lady of Perpetual Suc- With tearful eyes we watched Our hearts are full of memo- and family. cour, pray for her. your loving sister Mary. you, ries, McAULEY GALBRAITH Also remembering Donald, our And saw you pass away, With pride we speak your 15th Anniversary In loving memory of our dear dear dad, Seanair and brother- And although we loved you In loving memory of our dear name, aunt Floraidh, who died on in-law, who died on April 20, dearly, uncle, John, B.E.M., who died Though life goes on without March 2, 2009. 2003. 100TH BIRTHDAY We could not make you stay. March 6, 1996. you, St Theresa, pray for her. Your name is often mentioned, REMEMBRANCE A golden heart stopped beat- Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for It will never be the same. May she rest in peace. Our thoughts are with you still, ing, him. McGOVERN (Lizzy) And now at peace you rest, The special days will not re- Donald Joseph, Mary Anne, You have never been forgot- Inserted by the family. ten, In prayerful remembrance of God broke our hearts to prove turn, Michael Jamie and Domhnall McCORMICK And dad, you never will. our much loved mother, Lizzy, to us, When we were all together, Ailean. In loving memory of our dear All our love. whose 100th birthday is on He only takes the best. But with love and wonderful son and brother, Thomas An- March 6, 2011. Inserted by husband Robert MacDOUGALL memories, GALLACHER thony, who died March 9, Inserted by her loving family at and sons Paul, Kevin, Brian In loving memory of my dear You will be with us forever. 1987. home and abroad. and John. 11th Anniversary sister, Mairi, who died on Our Lady, Queen of Peace, In loving memory of our dear St Thomas and St Anthony, March 5, 1976, aged six years. pray for him. sister and aunt, Agnes, who pray for him. Beautiful memories treasured From Ian, Madge and Brian. died March 5, 2000. In loving memory of my sister- ever, R.I.P. in-law, Sr Agnes, who died Loving you always, forgetting BIRTHDAY REMEMBRANCE Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for March 22, 2005. you never. McBRIDE BUCHANAN her. St Clare, pray for her. Inserted by her loving sister, St Martin de Porres, pray for Inserted by Theresa and fam- John James, who died on Au- In loving memory of our Mary Margaret. her. ily. gust 4, 2010, and whose birth- beloved parents, Sheila McILROY day occurs on March 4, 2011. Inserted by Anthony and McCOURT Buchanan (nee Ronan), In memory of my beloved R.I.P. family. 6th Anniversary who died March 4, 2007 and husband and our dear father, Lovingly remembered in our In loving memory of Maureen Bill, who died on March 2, John Joseph Buchanan prayers and thoughts each BRESLIN Sherry, who died March 8, 2007 and our cherished (Dixie), who died April 14, GRAY day. In memory of our mother, 2005, beloved wife of the late and loving son and brother, 2006. In loving memory of my St John Vianney, pray for him. Mary, who died March 5, 2005, Jimmy McCourt, a much loved Alistair, who died August 9, beloved husband, JOHN, Ann Patricia and family. aged 99. Their memory is as dear mum and gran. 2010. and much loved Father Never more than a thought today as the day they passed Inserted by the family. Sacred Heart of Jesus have and Papa, died March 7, 2006. away. away. McDONAGH mercy on them. When thoughts go back as Till we meet again. Parents so giving and St Joseph, pray for them. they often do, 22nd Anniversary MacEACHEN From your loving family. From all the family. caring, We treasure the memories we Please pray for the repose of Remembering with love our MacINNES Who gave us nothing other have of you, the soul of our dear daddy and dear son, Alick Iain, who died than the best, In our hearts you are always papa, James, who died March In loving memory of our dear on February 20, 2002, and Who cherished our secrets, there, 10, 1989. mother, mother-in-law and whose 34th birthday occurs on our sorrows, our strife, Loved and remembered in Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for granny, Morag, who died March 5. him. March 5, 1989; also remem- Who taught us to love and every prayer. Happy Birthday. Inserted by Margaret, Jean, bering our dear brother, Alis- taught us to pray, Sacred Heart of Jesus and Always in our thoughts. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Jim and families. tair, whose birthday occurs on Our parents in heaven, God Mam and Lawrie. xx pray for him. McDONALD March 6. bless them today. Inserted by his loving wife 12th Anniversary Our Lady of the Isles, pray for O Sweet Jesus, for the sake Catherine, daughter Isobel and In loving memory of Charles, them. of Thy Bitter Passion and grand-daughters Tanya and beloved father and Inserted by the family. MacNEIL the sorrows of Thy Immaculate Stephanie. grandfather, who died March MacINTYRE/MacAULAY Treasured memories of our Mother have mercy on 3, 1999, also his loving wife, In loving memory of our dear dear son, brother and nephew, the souls of our mother and Anne, who died February 12, aunt, Mary MacIntyre, who Michael Iain, who died on July father and let the light of HILL 1975, loving mother and died March 19, 1986, our dear 14, 1999, whose birthday oc- Thy countenance shine upon 50th Anniversary grandmother. aunt, Sèonaid MacAulay, died curs on March 6. In loving memory of Until we meet again, may God March 3, 2002 and our dear them. A card we cannot send you, Margaret Carroll, who died hold you both in the palm of aunt, Catherine, died June 10, Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Your hand we cannot touch, March 10, 1961, also her His hands. 1972. R.I.P. But God will take this mes- pray for them. beloved husband, Sadly missed. Our Lady of the Isles, pray for sage, St Anthony of Padua, pray for Charles Hill, died November Inserted by Anne, Patricia, them. To the one we love so much. them. 11, 1954, late of 22 Annette John, Maureen, Eileen and all Inserted by the family, Smer- Mum, Dad, sister and aunt. Inserted by your loving family. Street, Glasgow, G42. the family. clate, Kildonan and Glasgow. Friday March 4 2011 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS 19 FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

MacLEAN NUGENT WILSON 7th Anniversary Treasured memories on the In memory of our beloved THANKSGIVING Treasured memories of my twenty second anniversary of mother, Margaret McGorry, GRATEFUL thanks to St dear brother, and uncle, our dear dad, John, who fell who died March 9, 1989. James MacLean, 5 Grean, With gratitude for the love, Teresa for prayers answered. asleep on March 9, 1989. Barra, who died on March 8, care and affection you gave us – J.F.L. 2004. Also his beloved wife and our all our lives. Always in our prayers. devoted mum, Rose, taken Inserted by John, Angela, Ger- GRATEFUL thanks to Saints Our Lady of Lourdes and St from us on September 4, ard and Karen. Anthony, Martin, Jude and St Pio, pray for him 2009. Pio for prayers answered. – Mary and family. Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray Mary D. WILSON McKEE for them. SMITH In loving memory of Elizabeth, PRAYER TO THE BLESSED 19th Anniversary All their loving family. xx 21st Anniversary MacLEAN who died on March 4, 2009. VIRGIN In loving memory of my dear Remembering with love, today 26th Anniversary Inserted by her son David and O Most Beautiful Flower of husband, Robert (Bob), who O’DONNELL and every day, our dear Treasured memories of a grandsons James, David and Mount Carmel, fruitful in the died suddenly on March 7, mother, Esther, who died loving mother and gran, Mary 4th Anniversary Alex. splendour of Heaven, Blessed 1992. R.I.P. March 4, 1990, and our dear Ann (MacInnes), who died In loving memory of Dominic, May she rest in He lived for those he loved, father, John, died January 15, Mother of the Son of God, Im- February 28, 1985, also our who died on March 4, 2007. peace. And those he loved remember. 1970. maculate Virgin, assist me in father, Donald, who died Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for May he rest in peace. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have this my necessity. O Star of January 29, 2002. him. Inserted by his family. mercy on them. the Sea, help me and show Always in our thoughts and Inserted by his loving wife From all the family. me herein You are my Mother. Eileen and family. prayers. REYNOLDS O Holy Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady of the Isles, pray for Please pray for the happy re- Queen of Heaven and Earth, I McKENNA them. SMYTH humbly beseech You from the Inserted by their loving family, pose of the souls of our dear 28th Anniversary Eugene Leo bottom of my heart to succour Glasgow and Millport. mother and father, Margaret In loving memory of my July 23, 1976 – March 2, me in my necessity. There are beloved husband, and our Dunne, died March 7, 1969, none that can withstand Your MacLEOD 1996 dear daddy, Desmond, who and Richard Reynolds, died To a much loved son, brother power. O show me herein You 3rd Anniversary died March 5, 1983. R.I.P. January 4, 1945; also our dear and uncle. are my mother. O Mary, con- Treasured memories of St Theresa, pray for him. sister, Lena O’Connor, died We lost a brother, son and ROUSE ceived without sin, pray for us Joseph, much loved husband, Inserted by his loving wife and March 31, 1994. uncle with a heart of gold, Treasured memories of our who have recourse to Thee father, father-in-law and children. How much we miss him can wonderful mum, Nan, who (three times). O thank you for grampa, who died on March 3, May they rest in peace. never be told. died on March 7, 2002. Your mercy to me and mine. 2008. Gerard and Bill. We think of you, dear Eugene, We reflect with such admira- Amen. Say for three days; MacKINNON Your life was love and labour, And our hearts are filled with tion and respect on the won- publication promised. – your love for your family true, In loving memory of a dearly pain, derful woman you were, Mum. You did your best for all of us, C.McK. loved and much missed uncle, This world would be a heaven, You stood with courage to we will always remember you. Alister, who died suddenly on Could we hear your voice meet the responsibilities that PRAYER TO THE BLESSED St Pio, pray for him. March 8, 2005. again. fell upon you and sacrificed so VIRGIN Eternal rest grant unto him, O Rest in Peace. much for the love of your chil- Years have swiftly passed, O Most Beautiful Flower of Lord, Inserted by Katie and family. dren. But still we don’t forget, Mount Carmel, fruitful in the And let perpetual light shine What you have accomplished MacNEIL For in the hearts that loved splendour of Heaven, Blessed upon him. is more than you will ever re- you best, Mother of the Son of God, Im- May he rest in peace. In loving memory of our dear alise. mother, Mary MacDonald, who Your memory lingers yet. maculate Virgin, assist me in Inserted by Joe, Teresa and Every day, in some small way, When we think of all that you family. died March 1, 1968; also our ROBERTSON have done for our family, and this my necessity. O Star of dear father, Jonathon MacNeil, Memories of you come our the Sea, help me and show 2nd Anniversary all the love you so generously died January 31, 1974, our way, me herein You are my Mother. Though absent you are ever poured from your heart, we MacKINNON dear brothers, Roderick, died Treasured memories of O Holy Mary, Mother of God, near, feel humbled. st February 19, 1991, and Priscilla O’Neill, a loving and Queen of Heaven and Earth, I 1 Anniversary Still missed, still loved and There will never be enough In loving memory of our dear Donald (Bro. Cyril), died March much missed mum, mother-in- gratitude to repay you, but our humbly beseech You from the ever dear. father and grandfather, Donald 17, 2004, our dear sister, law, gran and wee gran, who heart will always be filled with bottom of my heart to succour Our Lady, Queen of Peace, John, who died March 7, 2010, Marion Ann (Morag), died died March 6, 2009. the joy of knowing your love. me in my necessity. There are pray for us. and also remembering our March 29, 1999, and our It is the most precious gift that none that can withstand Your Because you were so special, Mum, Dad, Bridie, Michael, dear mother, Catriona, who beloved aunt, Marion we have ever received, for it is power. O show me herein You No words can ever say, Veronica, Martin, Angela, died July 24, 2004. MacDonald, who died at the one that you have so are my mother. O Mary, con- How much we love and miss Ross, Cameron, Gregor, Blair, Sweet are the memories Locheynort, South Uist, on wisely taught us to set free ceived without sin, pray for us you mum, Lauren, Hannah and Olivia. silently kept, March 18, 1974. and share with others. who have recourse to Thee Today and every day. Of our parents we loved and Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for We love you for being a caring (three times). O thank you for will never forget. them. St Martin, pray for my mum. person, a remarkable woman Your mercy to me and mine. Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for Inserted by the family, Your Jean and Jim. and an exceptional mum. This Amen. Say for three days; them. Glasgow. My gran lived for those she love that you have given will publication promised. Loved and remembered every loved, forever live within us. MELIA day by their loving family. And I will love you always Love always from Lesley, Vin- PRAYER TO THE BLESSED 6th Anniversary gran. cent, Audrey and Lorraine. VIRGIN MacKINNON Please pray for the repose of Loving memories of our won- O Most Beautiful Flower of the soul of Peter, beloved hus- Granddaughter Jane. In loving memory of our dear derful aunt and great aunt, Mount Carmel, fruitful in the band of Margaret, father and Kissed blown up to the sky so father, John MacKinnon, who Nanny Rouse. splendour of Heaven, Blessed grandfather, who died March blue, died March 4, 1983, also our Forever in our hearts and Mother of the Son of God, Im- dear mother, Annie 3, 2005. Also Peter John, died Catch them wee gran they are TOAL prayers. maculate Virgin, assist me in Mackinnon, died December March 18, 2007, a loving son just for you. Treasured memories of our Sadly missed, lovingly remem- this my necessity. O Star of 13, 1996. and brother. Sadly missed by maw, Nellie, who died March bered. Great-granddaughters Jane, the Sea, help me and show Uan Dhe, a tha a’toirt air falbh all the family. 4, 1998. Also our da, Charlie, All we ask of you, Nanny, re- Kim and Cara and me herein You are my Mother. peacannan a t-saoghail, thoir Sacred Heart of Jesus, have October 22, 1974, brothers, member us at the Altar of God. great-great-grandson, O Holy Mary, Mother of God, sith dhaibh. mercy on them. John, May 21, 1963 and From Angela, Brian, Ray, Vic- Jayden James. The family. Inserted by Margaret, children Tommy, November 17, 2007, toria, Claudia and Shauna. Queen of Heaven and Earth, I and grandchildren. sisters, Annie (Fyfe) February xxxxxx. humbly beseech You from the ROBINSON 5, 2002, Lizzie, August 2, Nanny. bottom of my heart to succour MacLEAN MOONEY Treasured memories of 2005. There are so many words we me in my necessity. There are In loving memory of my dear 17th Anniversary my dear husband, John, Your memory is a keepsake, could try to say to you to let none that can withstand Your power. O show me herein You husband, my darling Seamus, In loving memory of my (Jackie), a devoted husband With which we will never part, you know how much you are my mother. O Mary, con- died March 8, 2004. beloved wife, Elizabeth (Lily), and father, who died on March God has you in His keeping, meant to us. But really, the two Seventh year gone, tears dry who died March 5, 1994. We have you in our heart. most important feelings we ceived without sin, pray for us 7, 2000. up as life goes on. In our hearts you are always St Pio, pray for them. want you to know are, who have recourse to Thee Till we meet on the other side. there, Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for Inserted by the Toal family. Thank you for all your love, (three times). O thank you for Proud to be your loving wife. Loved and remembered in him. Annie, loved and remembered And we love you with all our Your mercy to me and mine. God Bless. every prayer. Inserted by his loving wife every day. hearts. Amen. Say for three days; Maggie. Husband James and family. Josephine and family. Husband John. From all your grandchildren. publication promised. - T.P. 20 FUNERAL DIRECTORY SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday March 4 2011 FUNERAL DIRECTORY BISHOPS ENGAGEMENTS CARDINAL O’BRIEN Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh www.archdiocese-edinburgh.org.uk THOS. McGUIGAN & SON est 1973 SAT MAR 5 7PM Knights of Malta Fundraising MONUMENTAL SCULPTORS Ball, Sheraton Hotel, Edinburgh. SUN 6 11AM AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY RUN BUSINESS Head Office: NEW STEVENSON Lenten Parish Mass, St John the Baptist, Tel: 01698 833924 JAMES Fauldhouse. 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O FAR in this series, we element was the abolition of the Italian have been examining specif- Catholic Party, a major obstacle to ic issues concerning the Mussolini, in 1923. Catholic Church and its his- tory during the Second here is no getting away from the SWorld War. Through an examination of facts: to many in the Church where the Vatican believed the Church TMussolini and Fascism were an stood, and by looking at the impact attractive option. We may even include made on Catholic thought by the vari- Pope Pius XI amongst these, at least for ous ideologies that dominated the later the first decade or so of Fascist rule. 19th and early 20th centuries, I hope to To these men the sacrifice of Catholic have painted a backdrop against which political freedom in Italy was worth it if the history of the Church in individual it brought the Church security and sta- countries can be explored. bility. Many were no strangers to Although Germany was the main nationalism either. The episode of instigator and protagonist of the Blessed Cardinal Schuster of Milan Second World War, from a Catholic praising the invasion of Ethiopia in perspective it is arguably more impor- 1935 as being a great Italian adventure tant to examine Italy first of all. and a great Catholic crusade are As we all know, Italy is a predomi- emblematic of this strand of thinking. nantly Catholic country. This was the The price was a great one: the case in the first half of the 20th century, Lateran Treaty of 1929, in which Italy but there was a complication. During returned the tiny Vatican enclave to the the long drawn-out process of Italian Holy See as sovereign territory, and the unification, the Catholic Church had concordat of the same year. This made proved a substantial opponent to the Catholicism the religion of state in liberals who wished to create a new Italy, and gave the Church control over country. For once, this was mainly for RE in schools. That, in particular, non-spiritual reasons: the Pope was proved a great victory as the Fascists also the monarch of a substantial slice had tried to exclude the Church from of central Italy, including Rome. the education of the young of Italy. It It was not until 1871 that the Italians appeared as if the losses of the past cen- managed to wrest control of Rome tury had been wiped out. It is in this away from the Papacy, which saw itself context that one has to read Pope Pius’ henceforth as ‘imprisoned’ in the exclamation of Mussolini as a ‘great Vatican. In retaliation, the new Italian Catholic statesman,’ the ‘man who state was effectively excommunicated, gave Italy back to God and God back to which prohibited Catholics from partic- Italy’ and as ‘the man of providence.’ ipating in its political process. This The Pope was, of course, being short- caused numerous problems, and lasted sighted. Then again, he did not have the until the outbreak of the First World benefit of hindsight. One of his conces- War. For Pope Benedict XV, the war sions was that the state could control the was a real headache, and never more so appointment of bishops— which would than with regard to Italy. This was his horrify the modern Papacy, as wit- homeland, and yet he had to maintain nessed by the situation in China. Yet the Holy See’s strict neutrality. When, another major problem was the attempt in 1915, the country joined the allies in by the Fascists gradually to remove all the war, the Papacy made sure that its Catholic organisations from public life. government realised that it had nothing This culminated in 1931 with a closing to fear from the Pope. down of Catholic newspapers and an The German-led coalition had attempt to end Catholic Action, the non- already made promises to restore the political social organisation. Papal States in the hope of eliciting the This first conflict between Vatican Holy Father’s support, but Pope and Mussolini since the concordat Benedict made it clear that he would showed that both Church and Fascists not accept a solution to the Roman were rather disappointed by what the question without the consent of the 1929 agreement had brought, regard- Italians. It was tantamount to a decla- less of what was said in public speech- ration of support for Italy. es. The Duce tried to suppress the Italian Catholics responded by a youth wing of Catholic Action, which whole-hearted participation in the war led to a de facto break in diplomatic effort, which ensured their re-integration relations. Only the services of the fer- into the Italian body politic. When the vently pro-Fascist, Fr Tacchi Venturi war ended in 1918, there had grown a Communism proffered a very real against which various Popes had Benito Mussolini and his Fascist Party had SJ, working for Pope Pius, kept nego- wide consensus that some sort of solu- threat to the survival of his Church. warned, and at the same time provide a complex and very strained relationship tiations going. Mussolini, of course, tion to the problem of the Church’s inde- an end to both the conflict between the with the Catholic Church in Italy was sorely disappointed that the con- pendence had to be found, well before he root-causes of the Fascist classes and the conflict between Italy cordat had not delivered a quiet and the Fascists took over power in Rome. coup d’état are too complex to and the Church. Once they gained power in 1922, the submissive Church, and vented his In Italy, Catholics began to partici- Texplore here in much detail. One This is odd in many ways, not least in Fascists quickly worked to ensure that anger by hitting the Church where pate in politics, urged on by the element that may be highlighted is the the virulent anti-Catholic stance of the Church did not become too much of Pope Pius felt it most: the young. Church’s teachings on social justice brutal aspects of class struggle in Italy, many Fascists, including Mussolini. He an obstacle to their grab for power. Pope Pius’ Non Abbiamo Bisogno, and worried by the inroads made by both in the towns and in the country- had frequently referred to the Vatican as “The Fascist state does not attempt, as the encyclical of 1931 on Catholic Marxism and other radical political side. In many ways, Italian Fascism ‘a nest of robbers’ and called priests did Robespierre at the height of the Action, would have enhanced his dis- ideas. It will not do to over-emphasise tapped into the utopian ideals of ‘black germs.’ Indeed, Pope Benedict Revolution, to efface God from the soul appointment. In the end, Mussolini the threats posed to the Church by these Socialism, whilst at the same time had personally protested against the lies of man,” wrote Giovanni Gentile on backed down and the honeymoon was movements in the years before the exploring the strident nationalism of and blasphemy contained within behalf of Mussolini in La dottrina del over. The Church, her position in Italy Fascist take-over: Mussolini’s support- the country’s liberal past. Mussolini’s newspaper, Popolo d’Italia. fascism. This was a clear peace offer- consolidated, would from henceforth ers, including far too many Catholic For some in the Catholic Church in Yet for all that the initial Fascist epoch ing, written by those at the very heart of battle to maintain that position. As we bishops, used it as an excuse for his dic- Italy, these were powerful incentives to brought a few small-scale benefits to the new ideology. And so it proved in shall see next week, She would also tatorship. But some threats were real, at least tacitly approve of the move- the Church, culminating in a big price: reality, for the new regime required the increasingly criticise elements of the and Pope Benedict knew all too well ment. It appeared that Mussolini man- the granting of a sovereign territory to support of the Church to consolidate its regime believed to be in conflict with from what had happened in Russia that aged to curb the excesses of Capitalism the Church on the Vatican Hill. hold on power. One particularly helpful Catholic teaching. 22 A GRAND LITTLE PARISH SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday March 4 2011 WEEK 9, VOLUME 2 Cupid and the canon In KT BROGAN’S series this week the priests at St Aidan’s discover that no sooner has one issue been resolved than another raises its head

R JOHN Paul was concerned ave you noticed that Bert telling me that this is the term when she and about the canon for the days fol- Mullaney’s taken to sitting with Mozza are given placements. The two of lowing Maeve Brannan’s phone ‘HMrs Smythe in Church?” he them are doing so well that they’ve been call. He was preoccupied and asked with a chuckle. “In fact, I also wit- given a fortnight’s work experience in that A GRAND LITTLE PARISH tetchy by turns, and worst of all, nessed that they were sharing a hymn book bistro place in town… you know the one by seemedF to have gone off his food. Even last Sunday…” the station. Edith was concerned. Clearing away the “You’re worse than Nell Norton for gos- “Mozza wants to give up his part time job remains of supper, she said: “You haven’t siping, canon. I don’t notice things like that at at the chip shop… says he’s now aiming eaten very much canon. Would you like me all,” Fr John Paul replied, trying hard not to higher than that but Kelly Marie won’t let to make you something lighter? A poached laugh. him.” egg, perhaps?” “Right enough… you’re not very obser- While Fr John Paul digested this informa- The other shook his head. vant, John Paul. You don’t even notice when tion, the canon added. “No, thank you. I’m just going over to the the whole congregation’s mad at you. You “She’s banking his wages from the part church for a visit. Need a bit of advice from know… when you’re being a bit conde- time job. And she’s keeping the bank book Himself,” he added in a whisper, as he passed scending…” from him so that he can’t squander the Fr John Paul. The young priest smiled. That Fr John Paul parried the canon’s remark. money.” was obviously meant as a hint. He took the “That’s because, unlike SOME PEOPLE, “It sound serious,” Fr John Paul agreed. bait. I’m not blessed with the blarney. Tell me, “See you later then,” he said. “I’ve got a canon,,, did you kiss the Blarney stone or did upid’s arrow strikes in the most EWTN PROGRAMMES phone call to make.” you swallow it whole?” he smiled. unlikely places.” “Yes,” was the SUN 6 MARCH 8PM Later, when he brought up a tray with cof- “Anyway…to return to the subject…I ‘Creply. 9AM BIBLICAL STORY OF THE MASS fee and some of the canon’s favourite choco- think there’s a whiff of romance in the air “Between that and the new alliance TAJCI: LET IT BE WED 9 MARCH late biscuits, he gave details of his phone call. between those two. Perhaps Mrs Symthe’s between Joanne Sythme and Bert Mullaney, 9.30AM 12.05PM “I took the liberty of phoning your sister, snared Bert while he’s on the rebound from I’d say the bad weather’s all but over,” the JOHN DECHIARO PRESENTS: ROME’S HIDDEN CHURCHES: A canon,” he smiled. the Holy Terror…” canon helped himself to another biscuit. PEACE LENTEN PILGRIMAGE “Explained about our heavy workload The two considered the possibility for a His companion looked puzzled. 11AM 3.30PM EWTN SEASON PREVIEW between now and Easter and reminded her moment. “A sudden outburst of romance is a sign of HOLY MASS WITH THE BLESS- that the with Edith now in residence, we’d “D’you think I should ask Nell Norton? If spring,” he was told. 1PM ING AND IMPOSITION OF ASHES have to take some time to arrange suitable there’s anything going on, she’ll have the “You know when a young man’s fancy LIVE FEAST OF ST FRANCIS OF 7.30PM ASSISI WILL YOU BE LEFT BEHIND? accommodation for a special visitor like a right way of it,” the canon said, chuckling. turns… and all that.” 4PM THURS 10 MARCH member of your family.” “But talking of romance being in the air, I There was a reflective silence then the LIFE ON THE ROCK 1PM “What was her reaction?” the canon asked, think Mozza might just fall victim to Cupid’s canon slapped his knees. 7PM DAILY MASS looking apprehensive. arrow if he’s not careful.” “You know, with this long winter and FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY 7.30PM “She was delighted that I’d taken the trou- Fr John Paul waited for the explanation being held up with the hall repairs, and all PRESENTS CATHOLIC VIEW FOR WOMEN ble to phone as she put it. She she’ll postpone which he knew would follow. we’ve to start come Lent… which is just 8PM 8PM BEST OF THE JOURNEY HOME her visit and come in Holy Week instead…” “I was dealing with the Sacraments at our around the corner… I think what we need is LIVING THE MASS: THE 10PM The canon looked heavenwards. last instruction and Kelly Marie seemed more an opportunity for the entire congregation to MISSIONARIES OF THE POOR ROME REPORTS “Thank you,” he said almost inaudibly. than usually interested in the Sacrament of come together and be refreshed, energised… FRI 11 MARCH 11PM “Phoning the Holy Terror was an act of brav- Matrimony,” the canon said. and indeed inspired.” BENEDICTION 12.05PM ery above and beyond the call of duty, John “They’re only teenagers… and Mozza He rose to his feet and to Fr John Paul’s MON 7 MARCH ROME’S HIDDEN CHURCHES: A LENTEN PILGRIMAGE Paul. Thank you. Now, I think I’ll have one isn’t exactly what you’d call ‘husband mate- alarm, began to swoop and dive round his 1PM of those biscuits.” rial,’” was the reply. armchair in a state of excitement. DAILY MASS 1PM LIVE DAILY MASS The crisis was over the both of them. The The canon laughed at loud. “We could do with the old batteries being 7.30PM canon recovered sufficiently to be in the “Maybe not, but he WILL be by the time recharged,” he said, pausing to catch his WILL YOU BE LEFT BEHIND? 7.30PM 9PM WILL YOU BE LEFT BEHIND? mood for a bit of gossip. Kelly Marie’s completed her project. She was breath. FR CORAPI: SURRENDER IS 9PM NOT AN OPTION THE WORLD OVER 10PM SAT 12 MARCH CATHOLIC LIVES 1PM TUES 8 MARCH DAILY MASS Change comes from a living Church 1PM 7PM DAILY MASS THE WAY TO LIFE NEXT Wednesday is Ash 7.30PM 9PM WILL YOU BE LEFT BEHIND? LIFE ON THE ROCK Wednesday. But it nearly wasn’t. Although Lent is not Mgr Basil mentioned in the Scriptures, Zeal and Patience it is known to have been Loftus LAY READERS’ GUIDE observed, for varying lengths by Fr John Breslin of time, since the very early “The Pope insisted that the first to the changes made after the centre of all Liturgical worship.” days of the Church. However, four days of Lent should not be council there used to be an The fact that every Sunday, it always began with the First eliminated—saying—‘it would introductory period to Lent, including the Sundays in Lent, is SUNDAY MARCH 4 Sunday of Lent. Then, when admittedly be difficult, and even consisting of three always a ‘little Easter’ meant that Sunday 9/A. Deuteronomy 11:18.26-28.32. Response: Pope Gregory the Great died questionable, to introduce them Sundays—Septuagesima, many Liturgists were in favour of Be a rock of refuge for me, O Lord. Romans 3:21-25.28. in 604AD he left on his desk for the first time in our day, but Sexagesima and Quinquagesima. Pope Paul’s insistence on retaining Matthew 7:21-27. a signed Decree putting an now that they have been accepted They marked, respectively, 70, Ash Wednesday, since the purely extra four days onto the by all the peoples who follow the 60 and 50 days before Easter. penitential character of the MONDAY beginning of Lent. Roman rite, it is not a good idea Pope Paul was keen to keep blessing and imposition of ashes Memorial of St Perpetua an St Felicity. Tobit 1:3;2:1-8. Response: Happy the man who fears the Lord. Previously Lent had been 36 to suppress them, especially if them, regarding them as like meant that it was not suitable for Mark 12:1-12. days in length, and this was the rite of the imposition of ashes church bells, which rang an hour, celebration within a Sunday Mass. generally regard as roughly is to be observed on the half-an-hour, quarter-of-an hour This short explanation of the TUESDAY one-tenth of the year—seen as a Wednesday before the first and then five minutes before history of Ash Wednesday and of Tobit 2:9-14. Response: With a firm heart he trusts in kind of penitential ‘tithe’ of the Sunday, as is now the case,’” Mass—with an ever increasing Lent itself can also serve to the Lord. Mark 12:13-17. year. But Pope Gregory the Great (The Reform of the Liturgy, sense of urgency. emphasise that changes to the was keener on the biblical Bugnini, pp 310-311—footnote). But it was pointed out to him Liturgy made after Vatican II were WEDNESDAY significance of the number This rite of the imposition of that such a pre-preparatory period not off-the-cuff, but carefully Ash Wednesday. Joel 2:12-18. Response: Have mercy ‘forty’—so he laid down that Lent ashes was itself something which gave too much importance to thought out, discussed, and part of on us, O Lord, for we have sinned. 2 Corinthians 5:20- should begin on the Wednesday had developed slowly after the Lent, and detracted from its an organic whole. The elements 6:2. Matthew 6:1-6.16-18. before its First Sunday. institution of Ash Wednesday by essential characteristic of being that were changed had in so many After the Second Vatican Pope Gregory the Great. At first itself a preparatory period for cases themselves been earlier THURSDAY Council there was a general only the public penitents, dressed Easter. In fact Pope Paul picked changes. The Church changes and Feast of St John Ogilvie. Isaiah 50:5-9. Response: I remember the deeds of the Lord. John 12:24-26. revision of the Liturgical in sackcloth, came forward to be up this same point when he develops because it lives. calendar, in accordance with the signed with the ashes. Later their published the new Liturgical FRIDAY council’s instructions, and the relations and friends joined them Calendar on 28 April 1969, Mgr Basil Loftus is a priest of Isaiah 58:1-9. Response: A humbled, contrite heart, O idea was floated of going back to to give them support, and writing: “The criterion for its the Diocese of Leeds now living Lord, you will not spurn. Matthew 9:14-15. the original idea of Lent starting gradually the whole congregation revision was that the elements in retirement in the North of with its First Sunday and having started to come forward. making up the individual parts of Sutherland. He worked in SATURDAY 36 days instead of 40. One change, however, did take each liturgical season would give secretariat for English and Welsh Isaiah 58:9-14. Response: Show me, Lord, your way so This met with implacable place, despite the initial clearer expression to the truth that bishops in Rome during the that I may walk in your truth. Luke 5:27-32. opposition from Pope Paul Vl. opposition of Pope Paul VI. Prior Christ’s paschal mystery is the Second Vatican Council Friday March 4 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

baptism, to fully open his heart to God, to Brothers and sisters: We use wisdom when choose only God’s will for Him and to lead speaking to people who are mature in their First Sunday of Lent the human heart along the path to God. faith. But it is not the wisdom of this world —First Reading To prepare His own heart for this great or of its rulers, who will soon disappear. mission, Jesus leaves all that is familiar to We speak of God’s hidden and mysterious Creation of our first parents, and sin. A reading from the Him to be alone with God. Prayer is the wisdom that God decided to use for our book of Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7 guiding power in the relationship with glory long before the world began. God, His Father. Jesus quickly learns the The rulers of this world didn’t know The Lord God took some earth and used it to make power that turns the human heart away anything about this wisdom. If they had a man. God breathed into the man’s nose and the from God. Jesus knows that the human known about it, they would not have nailed man started breathing. The Lord God had made a heart must rely on God’s grace. the glorious Lord to a cross. garden in a place called Eden, which was in the east But it is just as the Scriptures say: “What and He put the man there. The Lord made all kinds Discussion God has planned for people who love Him of beautiful trees and all kinds of fruit trees grow in Take a moment and take a look deep is more than eyes have seen or ears have the garden. Two other trees were in the middle of within your heart. Who are the heard. It has never even entered our the garden. One of the trees gave life and the other people you care the most about? minds!” showed the difference between right and wrong. What keeps you from moving closer to God’s Spirit has shown you everything. The snake was sneakier than any of the other wild that person? His Spirit finds out everything, even what animals that the Lord God had made. One day it Who are the people you need to forgive? is deep in the mind of God. came to the woman and asked: “Did God tell you not Who are the people you need to ask for The Word of the Lord to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?” forgiveness? The woman answered: “God said we could eat fruit Jesus cared more for His Father and for Verse before the Gospel from any tree in the garden except the one in the all God’s creation especially the human Matthew 4:4b middle. He told us not to eat fruit from that tree or Reflection heart. (R) Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus even touch it. If we do, we will die.” THE readings today remind us that we Christ. “No, you won’t die!” the snake replied. “God belong to God. As human beings created Activities No one Lives on bread alone, but on every understands what will happen on the day you eat in God’s image we always seem to want Draw a heart in the centre of a fresh word that comes from the mouth of God. fruit from that tree. You will see what you have done more than we are given. God creates the piece of paper. Print ‘God’ in the centre of (R) Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus and you will know the difference between right and human heart to make choices. Some your heart. Christ. wrong, just as God does.” choices bring us closer to God other Around the heart write the names of the The woman stared at the fruit. It looked beautiful choices keep us away from God. people you care the most about. Gospel and tasty. She wanted the wisdom that it would give Whatever we choose we still belong to Like spokes on the wheel of your bike, Jesus fasted for 40 days and nights and was her and she ate some of the fruit. She gave some to God. God desires for us to come closer, create lines going out from each name. On tempted. A reading from the Holy Gospel her husband Adam, and he ate it too. At once they but only we can make to choice to move the line, write a word, draw a picture or cut according to Matthew 4:1-11 saw what they had done, and they realised that they closer to God. a picture from an old magazine that The Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert, were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to When we remember the times we ask reminds you of a time you were hurt by this so that the devil could test Him. After Jesus make clothes for themselves. for more than we need this is when Jesus person or a time when you hurt this person. went without eating for 40 days and nights, The Word of the Lord invites us to take His hand and follow Look at each line you made. Did you He was very hungry. the path that leads to God. Jesus chose forgive the person for hurting you? Did you Then the devil came to Him and said: “If ask for forgiveness from the person who you are God’s Son, tell those stones to turn hurt you? Did you answer ‘no’ to any of into bread.” these experiences? Jesus answered: “The Scriptures say: Open your heart to God, invite Jesus to ‘No one can live only on food. People need walk with you on the path of forgiveness every word that God has spoken.’” and go to the people you care about to talk Next, the devil took Jesus to the holy about the hurt and forgiveness. city and had Him stand on the highest part Celebrate with the people you care about of the temple. The devil said: “If you are —the forgiveness of the human heart. For God’s Son, jump off. The Scriptures say: example: Share together some cookies and ‘God will give His angels orders about milk, some ice cream, a hot or cold drink. you. They will catch you in their arms, And you will not hurt your feet on the stones.’” Responsorial Psalm Jesus answered: “The Scriptures also 51:1, 10, 12, 15 say: ‘Don’t try to test the Lord your God!’” (R) Be merciful, O Lord, for we have Finally, the devil took Jesus up on a very sinned. high mountain and showed Him all the You are kind, God! Please have pity on me. kingdoms on earth and their power. The You are always merciful! Please wipe devil said to Him: “I will give all this to you, away my sins. if you will bow down and worship me.” (R) Be merciful, O Lord, for we have Jesus answered: “Go away, Satan! The sinned. Scriptures say: “Worship the Lord your Create pure thoughts in me and make me God and serve only Him.’” faithful again. Then the devil left Jesus, and angels (R) Be merciful, O Lord, for we have came to help Him. sinned. The Gospel of the Lord Make me as happy as you did when you saved me; make me want to obey! (R) Be merciful, O Lord, for we have The Children’s Liturgy page is sinned. published one week in Help me to speak, and I will praise you, Lord. advance to allow RE teachers (R) Be merciful, O Lord, for we have and those taking the Children’s sinned. Liturgy at weekly Masses to Second Reading use, if they wish, this page as God’s wisdom predestined our glory before the an accompaniment to their ages began. A reading from the first letter of Paul teaching materials to the Corinthians 2:6-10 24 CELEBRATING LIFE SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday March 4 2011 Sisters are doing it for themselves TRAVELLING from Minsk to Scotland in a van, three Belarusian nuns are touring Scottish Catholic churches in an attempt to raise funds for the crucial work under- taken at their convent. The Orthodox sisters, from the Convent of St Elisabeth have already spent time in the north of the country, visiting churches and selling Eastern icons, beautifully crafted by hand in the convent, in order to raise money for their projects working with drug addicts, alcoholics and the homeless. A central part of their work is with patients from the nearby SSVP fundraising concert hits all the right notes Republican Psychiatric and Municipal Clinical Hospitals, as By Dan McGinty Mass in Bellahouston last year, (Above left) Singer and TV presenter well as running boarding homes and got chatting to her about Michelle McManus performs at the for children and adults with AN eager crowd of over 600 our work and invited her along. concert, while (above) The Wilson psychological and physical dis- squeezed into the Woodside “She definitely helped draw Boys give a stirring rendition of abilities and mental handicaps. Halls in Glasgow to see the sell-out crowd.” Donald Where’s Yer Troosers Among those visited by the PICS: PAUL McSHERRY Michelle McManus perform at Speaking about the important nuns were the Sisters of St the annual St Vincent de Paul funds raised by the concert, Mr member of the society and was Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Scotland’s charity concert. Meehan continued: “The money the only one with any experi- Fort William, and the town’s The concert, in its 21st year, raised will go mainly to our home- ence of standing on a stage, and parish of St Mary’s, where Sr saw many acts came together to less unit, which helps so many each year I’ve said it’s my last, Olga (right) displayed an array help raise money for SSVP. people, providing men and women but I must be doing something of the various icons produced Headlining the concert was with clothes and hot meals. right because they keep asking by the Belarusians. Michelle McManus, presenter “It really gives us strength to me back,” he said. The funds raised on the of STV’s The Hour and one of know that there are hundreds of This year was particularly Scottish trip will provide much the show presenters at the Papal people willing to turn up and help special for Mr Meehan, with his needed financial support for the vent where the sisters help tals and foster homes,” the sis- Mass in Bellahouston. support our work in this way.” three grandsons performing as St Elisabeth Convent, which people get back onto their feet. ters said. “Sometimes it is not Terry Meehan marked his Having produced and organ- the Wilson Boys. currently consists of 72 women; “Next to the village of Bald easy to see that the results are 21st concert as compere. Mr ised the concert for so many “The boys performed a wee nuns, novices and lay labourers. Mountain, is a farmstead where still small, but the sisters try to Meehan, who also organises years, Mr Meehan has seen the novelty act, singing Donald The money is crucial to their many people have received a remember that they must serve and produces the concert each event change and grow. Where’s Yer Troosers,” he said. work among the poor and vul- new life and encountered God— and sow, not expecting an year, told the SCO: “I met “I was asked to compere the “It was a real surprise, but they nerable, with projects such as a people who formerly lived in immediate fruit or recompense.” Michelle McManus at the Papal concert in 1990 since I’m a went down very well.” farmstead 30km from the con- gateways, train stations, hospi- PIC: ANTHONY MACMILLAN

Glasgow Irish Heritage Group

St Patrick’s Festival 12 - 19 March 2011 Celebrate with the Glasgow Irish Community Family Fun Day Saturday 12th March 2011, Glenconner Park, Royston Road SPOTLIGHT ON... 1pm - 4pm Featuring Traditional Music, Irish Dancers, Irish Groups, Face Painting, Stalls

Bouncy Castles, Art Exhibition and loads of fun. Staff and students gathered in Opened by Deputy Lord Provost Allan Stewart and Irish Consul General Susan Conlon. Glasgow University’s Memorial Chapel as Archbishop Mario No weather worries, all activities in Marquee Conti and university chaplain Fr John Keenan celebrated the Choral Mass. St Patrick’s Festival Concert Also in attendance were Charles Glasgow City Halls, Candleriggs Kennedy MP, Glasgow University Rector, Professor of Divinity Monday 14th March 7.30pm Werner Jeanrond, the Rev Stuart The line up for the night includes song and music from MacQuarrie, Vice Chancellor The line up for the night includes song and music from Professor Anton Muscatelli and Aishling Gheal, The Friel Sisters, The Wakes, Bedellus George Hepburn, while the choral music was provided The Irish Minstrels branch of Comhaltas, St. James’ Comhaltas group, by the Glasgow University Sean Downes, The McLaughlin Dance School. Chapel Choir. The collection will Sean Downes, The McLaughlin Dance School. be donated to the Beatson Tickets available from Concert Hall and City Hall Box office. £12 Pebble Appeal, raising money for the creation of a Glasgow Tel: 0141 353 8000 Centre for Cancer Research PICS: PAUL MCSHERRY Mass of St Patrick Saturday 19th March 2011 12 noon Holy Cross, Dixon Avenue. Celebrated by His Grace Archbishop Mario Conti Celebrating Life Details of the full week’s programme are available at Do you have a special occasion from your parish or a www.irishinscotland.com and www.gihg.com celebration at your school that you wish to share with the SCO? If so, e-mail our local news editor Martin Dunlop: An sceal [email protected]