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Call for GAA clubs to helpNursing Sisters, Beaumont home by Patrick Leonard HRHA (1918-2005) parishes return to Mass problem in stepping up to Chai Brady and help the parishes,” he added. Aron Hegarty Mr Dempsey said that Wexford GAA stalwart Tony there are many prominent Dempsey has called on Gaelic young GAA stars who are clubs to team up with local regular Massgoers and would parishes to ensure a safe have “no problem” in getting return to public Masses. It involved. comes as the Church this week published guidelines for Challenge Masses to be open to a con- Meanwhile, Bishop of Derry gregation from June 29. Donal McKeown has called for Mr Dempsey – a former parishes to embrace the chal- Wexford hurling manager and lenge of rebuilding the faith member of the Dáil – told The community as public Masses Irish Catholic that people are are set to get underway. anxious to get back to litur- He said that most oppor- gies. “The sooner there is a tunities to celebrate identity safe return to Mass the bet- “have vanished” or being ter,” he said. forced to be “lived in virtual “We have to seriously con- form”. sider the psychological and “We face the challenge of spiritual consequences of building and rebuilding our people not being able to go to Church…we want to be able Mass for so long,” he said. to get back to gathering our He said that “there is a very parish congregations around good relationship between the table of the Lord,” he said. the local parish and [GAA] Dr McKeown said the Hope burns eternally club. I think it would be great “major need” is for parish- for the GAA to get involved ioners to look after church Henry Hutcheon lights a candle in St and give their time and exper- buildings and make them “the Columba’s Church in Long Tower parish in tise in terms of stewarding safest places in town”. Co. Derry on the day he was due to recieve and things like that,” he said. Archbishop Eamon Martin First Holy Communion, which was delayed “The clubs have a lot to due to Covid-19, over the weekend. offer and they will have no » Continued on Page 2

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Inside this week Rethinking First Holy Communion ne of the great hurts that Hierarchy publish checklist for Bairbre Cahill parishioners share with It’s important to me over a cup of tea when I speak at missions and Editor’s Comment remember novena (remember when we used Oto be able to do things like that?) is safe return to all Sacraments Page 33 Michael Kelly the disappointment that their adult and parishes and that, in spite number of people that can church and the needs of peo- encouraging people to attend can be omitted, or offered in Chai Brady children don’t bring their of the inevitable limitations safely be accommodated in ple with disabilities are asked Mass during the week. a manner which avoids any recent years. receive the Eucharist for the own children up in the life around the Eucharist – The hierarchy has published a to our celebrations, we may each church and how it will be to be taken into account. The guidelines state: “In physical contact. faith. Grandparents often the source and summit of the In many parts of first time with the rest of checklist for parishes to assist all be confirmed in Faith and managed and communicated Churches should be “as the interests of physical dis- the country, First Holy “For the time being, it is Fr Ron Rolheiser feel marooned with con- Christian life – and yet, for so the congregation? Perhaps the faithful in their prepara- in our ministry,” they said this to parishioners. It must also safe as any enclosed space”, tancing, parishes may wish, Communion day remains a recommended that Com- flicting emotions. On the many families it is little more a particular school could tions to ensure that the return week. be clearly indicated where the documents states, and for the time being, to limit beautiful and vital day in the munion should not be given A quite one hand, they dearly love than something to be ticked be allocated a Mass, but it to public worship “happens in people can sit and whether highlights the need to empty music ministry to a sin- life of the parishes. Parents their children and their off the list. would be part of the regular a safe and measured way”. Guidelines stewards are needed to assist Holy Water fonts, to have gle cantor and a single instru- under both kinds, and should magnificent work hard with priests and grandchildren. On the He told me he often feels Sunday Mass. After this, the With the restrictions set The guidelines include par- people entering and exiting hand sanitisers at entrances mentalist. be received in the hand. parents to ensure that it ishes establishing a ‘Covid-19 defeat other hand, they wonder under pressure to rush the family could gather with to lift on June 29, the Irish the church and direct people and exits, not to share mis- “Priests and Extraordinary is an uplifting faith-filled Support Team’ to organise to their seats. where they may have gone ceremony so that people can loved ones for a meal to Catholic Bishops’ Conference salettes and asks what mech- Supervision Ministers of Holy Commun- Page 30 event and the sacrament preparations. The securing of Particularly regarding wrong in the transmission get on with the rest of the celebrate. said the preparations would anism has been put in place “Altar servers should assist is kept at the centre of signage, cleaning/sanitising receiving Communion, it asks ion should visibly sanitise of the faith. day. A couple of years ago Perhaps, in trying to only be successful if there is for taking church collections. only when all physical dis- all the celebrations. But materials and other “items whether parishes have sup- their hands both before and They have borne the he told me that one little underline the importance “generous support” from vol- The dispensation from the tancing/hygiene considera- girl only made it to the Mass in too many places First unteers. necessary for protection” are plied markings to help people after the distribution of Com- heat of the day. of the reception of the Sunday and Holy Day will be tions have been taken into at the Our Father because Holy Communion day is “We hope that the return called for. maintain physical distancing. munion. Priests and ministers Personal Profile “Why don’t they sacrament, we have extended, with Archbishop account, and with careful the hair appointment her a symptom of something of communal worship will The bishops ask that con- This physical distancing must believe us?” a woman elevated the actual day of Diarmuid Martin of the Arch- supervision. should wear a face-covering parents had arranged for her that is broken in the give new heart to our priests sideration be made for the also be applied outside the Surviving Nazi said to me late last year. First Holy Communion to diocese of Dublin, speaking “At this time, the optional while distributing Commun- ran over. transmission of the Faith. bombing led to the It has stuck with me as a The day itself has often such an extent that what is on RTÉ Radio 1 this week, exchange of the Sign of Peace ion.” question. happening on the day has priesthood Perhaps...we become more important It’s an issue that causes than the milestone in the been obscured and seen as a Racecourse Mass called off as churches to re-open concern and debate ❛❛ one-off event. Page 34 have elevated the Faith life of the child. lockdown began – had planned grimages told The Irish Cath- in parishes all across One way to remedy Children receiving the Staff reporter the event for Leopardstown olic he was “delighted that the country. This year, actual day of First Eucharist at a regular this might be to abandon The organisers of an open- Racecourse on Sunday, June 14. public Masses will be return- due to the coronavirus Sunday Mass could be a Managing Editor: Michael Kelly, [email protected] Holy Communion to the tradition of First Holy air Mass set for the feast of Massgoers were to remain in ing sooner than expected. pandemic, we were powerful impetus to helping Communion days per se. Corpus Christi have decided their cars and the event was to “We had planned the event unable to celebrate First such an extent that them understand that in Northern Correspondent: Martin O’Brien, [email protected] Why, for example, couldn’t to call the event off after be streamed on a large screen. because we knew how much Holy Communion in our what is happening various classes be invited being present regularly at the Government announced However, following the people were longing to get Multimedia Journalists: parishes. It was a hugely Chai Brady, [email protected] on the day has been to be present at a particular Mass they are part of the a speedier than expected Government’s announcement back to Mass – now that is important day missing Mass on a Sunday and Body of Christ. on Friday and the bishops’ happening sooner than any- Aron Hegarty, [email protected] return to public Masses. from our calendar this obscured and seen Marian Pilgrimages – who publishing of new guidelines one expected, so we have year. And yet, a priest told Newsroom: [email protected] 01 6874026 as a one-off event” have been offering virtual it was decided to call it off. decided not to go ahead with me recently that he wasn’t GAA clubs can help with pilgrim experiences since the Niall Glynn of Marian Pil- the open-air Mass,” he said. Books Editor: Peter Costello, [email protected] too bothered as he finds it On another occasion in a one of the most dispiriting previous parish he recalls a Advertising: [email protected] 01 6874094 days of the year. man approaching him after return to public Masses to say that his son “didn’t » Continued on Page 1 Accounts: [email protected] 01 6874020 Problem get any” because by the also used a weekend homily to make a plea for volunteers: How, you might ask, time that family arrived, the Magnificat: [email protected] “I also call on the younger members of our parishes to step Leave a could such a joy-filled Mass was over because they forward in helping us manage the transition back to full day be so dispiriting for got delayed calling around Office hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday parish life and celebration of the sacraments. a priest? 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William of Orange on Destroying statues prompts Open doors are an bishop dies April figures Dublin’s College Green. Mary Kenny an uneasy link with the invitation to all ItT was ‘alternately daubed, iconoclasm of the Cromwellites, It will be great to be able to enter a mutilated and garlanded or the Republicans in the Staff reporter Aron Hegarty church again, when they open properly. with orange lilies’, according Spanish Civil War, who ritually The Bishop of Derry Following Mass online has been Two of Ireland’s charities tackling to Christine Casey’s brilliant destroyed religious statues, diocese has extended rewarding in its own way and also offered homelessness share differing views architectural study of Dublin. It as well as churches. There condolences after the a variety of different locations. And it on their forecast of homelessness survived several explosions, but is something shocking and death of Bishop Francis seems to have stimulated churches to in the aftermath of Covid-19. finally succumbed to dynamite offensive about it, as well as Lagan, who served as an advertise themselves, either in print Statistics from the Department in 1929. King Billy’s effigy, like culturally vandalising. auxiliary bishop of the or online, which I think they should of Housing, Planning and Local that of the Bristol slave-trader Secular statues or effigies diocese from 1988-2010, continue to do. Government show a reduction Edward Colston, was a marked have been attacked in Dublin saying he was a “gentle A chance mention on Twitter drew in the number of people in monument. in recent times – Luke Kelly pastor” and “caring brother my attention to St Brendan’s Cathedral, homelessness for April with 9,335 Similarly with Admiral in Sherriff Street has been Loughrea, last Sunday, and it was grand to priest”. The torn- – a decrease of 572 from March. Nelson, atop the Pillar in repeatedly vandalised. And the be able to ‘visit’ and participate, virtually. Bishop Lagan died down statue On one hand, the Peter McVerry O’Connell Street. As we know, effigy of Seán Russell, the IRA The diocese of Clonfert goes back to early on Monday of Edward Trust says it is optimistic about this the IRA blew him off his veteran who was in negotiation St Brendan the Navigator himself. The morning. He was born Colston. number dropping further in the plinth in 1966. There had been with the Nazis when he died, cathedral has some very famous stained- in Maghera and was coming months. “We are seeing discussions for decades about has also been attacked. glass windows by the artist Harry Clarke, ordained a priest in 1960 applaud, or, in some cases, bigger splash – as did the statue some small silver lining coming replacing Nelson with a more Perhaps keeping a although these were not visible via the in Maynooth. Bishop Donal from Covid-19,” says Pat Doyle, CEO appropriate figure, since the dissent, from the procedure. of Colston into the waters of the controversial figure in a discreet webcam – although maybe they should McKeown said: “Bishop of Peter McVerry Trust. And that is Doric column, erected in 1808, Surely that’s a better way of Bristol docks. place is also a solution. The be? Lagan had a keen insight a lot of tourist rentals are coming had architectural merit and was displacing a statue which no last statue to a British royal in into the reality of people’s l l l l l l l l back to us through HAP, long-term a much-loved hub for Dubliners. longer seems acceptable, or Pity the Irish Republic is enfolded lives and he never failed to leases or purchases. relevant, to the people among It was a pity that Dublin within the foliage of Leinster n I had a cup of coffee last weekend, bring his extensive pastoral Bishop Denis Nulty of the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin was joined by other clergy to celebrate Mass in the “If we can keep that up and whom it is placed? Corporation didn’t take action House’s grounds: behind the in the al fresco area of a cafeteria, with experience to bear on Church of the Assumption in the Heath which has reopened in Portlaoise parish, Co. Laois. Orderly removal continue to grow construction In 1947, a particularly ugly In Hungary and Romania, in the 1930s, when it was rich growth of plants, Prince three friends. After nearly 12 weeks of discussions at the Bishops’ delivery, and continue to deliver statue of Queen Victoria after the fall of Communism, suggested that Horatio Nelson Albert still stands. Occasionally, lockdown, we all agreed it did us all a Conference table. on the housing first targets we’d was removed from the front they opened instructive parks in be replaced atop the Pillar. there’s a call to pull him down, power of good just to meet and chat over “As a teacher in Derry be hopeful that numbers might entrance of Leinster House, and which to display old statues of The trouble was, there was but somehow, I don’t anticipate a coffee. Such a simple thing, that we had and Carndonagh, he Racism must be overcome, decrease further over the summer exported to Sydney, Australia, Stalin, Lenin and the rest of the no agreement on who should heretofore taken for granted. I hope I can an enraged Dublin crowd nurtured young people in months.” which volunteered to take it. infamous galere. replace him. St Patrick would storming the back lawns of the keep to my post-lockdown resolution of the faith and encouraged On the other hand, however, But Victoria’s statue was Admittedly, pulling down a have been the most suitable Oireachtas to remove a German appreciating all those simple things that them to make the most of Depaul fear there may be a surge removed in a calm and orderly statue dramatically, or blowing candidate, since he was prince who founded the first have been withheld from us during this their gifts and educational says Bishop Leahy in homelessness following the the fabric of any commu- Bishop Leahy noted the the public, as restrictions way, and in full view of the it up, is probably more exciting acceptable to all Irish people. organisation for the study of time. opportunities; this pandemic. Ruadhán Jones nity.” large gatherings in Irish cit- are being eased, not to think public who were allowed to to its opponents. It makes a Bristol city, too, had been Celtic languages… remained his message to “We must approach this good “The events of this past ies on Saturday and their we have beaten the Corona- the thousands of young Ireland is “not exempt from news with a degree of caution as week have prompted us all “references to direct pro- ADVERTORIAL people on whom he racism” and we must work virus. there is a distinct possibility of conferred the sacrament to overcome all forms of to examine the personal vision centres as a form of He said that resumption judgements we make in racism”. more people becoming homeless of Confirmation over many hatred, said Bishop Brendan of Masses post June 29th our hearts and the social “It remains a hidden post Covid-19,” says Dermot years. Leahy of Limerick. can only happen with this Murphy, Director of Services and Pope Francis: ‘What am I leaving behind? arrangements around us and troubling aspect of our “Bishop Lagan was a In his homily last week- in mind. whose injustice we perhaps society and one we must Development at Depaul. helping save lives long into ing items for the people suf- that somebody, somewhere fading fast. She was immedi- by gifts left in the Wills of strong advocate for peace end, Bishop Leahy described “From a Church perspec- Pope stresses neglect to notice.” address. We are surely “Vital measures that have been the future. fering the horrific famine in would reach out to help them. ately given therapeutic food people just like you. The and reconciliation, having Trinity Sunday as being tive, we all welcome that Bishop Leahy added that capable of a greater wel- put in place during this pandemic, And it’s clear many people Biafra. This single shipment With my legacy, I will be that sachets. As you can see after a booklet also answers many of witnessed first-hand the we are able to resume from importance of about the “celebration of we have “been far from come in this country of such as rent freezes, must remain do already generously give to was only the start of an aid person for somebody’s loved few months of receiving help, the common questions peo- terrible violence and heart- June 29 public celebration diversity in unity and unity exempt of racism here in ours. for a longer period of time if we are reflecting on your causes close to their hearts. mission which became one ones – you could be too.” Nala was thriving. ple have about leaving a gift break endured by people in diversity”. Ireland and it is a menace of the Mass and other sac- to prevent any post-Covid surge in The Irish Catholic’s own re- flight every day over the next If you join Fiona and in their Will. And explains during the Troubles. He raments. How we’ve missed ‘final farewell’ search shows 97% of readers 11 months. leave a gift to Concern, your how to start the process. Nat- “It’s a call to us all to that lurks in society today”. Collaboration homelessness. Charity is also understood the joys appreciate, in a new way, “We must all do our part “We will have to work on our public celebrations, but “Efforts must continue to regularly donate to charity. Since then Concern has legacy can help end hunger, ❛❛ urally, requesting your free and struggles of his brother how we are called to live to watch out for it and over- this together in a collabo- we will need to prepare provide adequate housing However, with so many helped transform lives in 48 for good. And will help peo- at the heart of the booklet does not oblige you priests who often had to the diversity of difference come it, in whatever form it rative approach involving carefully, ensuring our solutions, protect those currently different charities carry- of the world’s poorest coun- ple like Nala*. Church, it is the to support Concern in any minister in the midst of in love – and how only arises. There is always more Government, local commu- places of worship reflect in homeless accommodations ing out so much good work, tries, including: way or do anything else. great challenge, grief and love transforms,” he said. we can all do and it starts nities and listening to those the good advice given by and prevent any further rise in choosing one to support is • Rwanda, 1994: Concern was reason for its community unrest,” Bishop “Hatred, racism, sectarian- with the Golden Rule – love in direct provision centres.” public health guidelines,” homelessness as a result of Covid- certainly not an easy decision one of the first Irish chari- action, the soul I am proud McKeown added. ism of any type, destroys your neighbour as yourself.” Bishop Leahy also urged he added. 19.” to make. ties to respond to the Rwan- ❛❛ “Poverty in the world is dan Genocide. of its mission.” to know that even a scandal. In a world where • Haiti, 2010: Within 1 year there is so much wealth, of the earthquake, Concern – Pope Francis when I am gone, so many resources to feed had helped over 1,000,000 It’s people like you, leaving Before After by including everyone, it is unfathomable people in the country. Concern a gift in their Will,

ADVERTORIAL Pope Francis: ‘What am I leaving behind? helping save lives long into ing items for the people suf- that somebody, somewhere fading fast. She was immedi- by gifts left in the Wills of Pope stresses the future. fering the horrific famine in would reach out to help them. ately given therapeutic food people just like you. The And it’s clear many people Biafra. This single shipment With my legacy, I will be that sachets. As you can see after a booklet also answers many of importance of do already generously give to was only the start of an aid person for somebody’s loved few months of receiving help, the common questions peo- reflecting on your causes close to their hearts. mission which became one ones – you could be too.” Nala was thriving. ple have about leaving a gift The Irish Catholic’s own re- flight every day over the next If you join Fiona and in their Will. And explains ‘final farewell’ search shows 97% of readers 11 months. leave a gift to Concern, your Charity is how to start the process. Nat- regularly donate to charity. Since then Concern has legacy can help end hunger, ❛❛ urally, requesting your free However, with so many helped transform lives in 48 for good. And will help peo- at the heart of the booklet does not oblige you different charities carry- of the world’s poorest coun- ple like Nala*. to support Concern in any ing out so much good work, tries, including: Church, it is the way or do anything else. choosing one to support is • Rwanda, 1994: Concern was reason for its certainly not an easy decision one of the first Irish chari- action, the soul I am proud to make. ties to respond to the Rwan- ❛❛ “Poverty in the world is dan Genocide. of its mission.” to know that even a scandal. In a world where • Haiti, 2010: Within 1 year there is so much wealth, of the earthquake, Concern – Pope Francis when I am gone, so many resources to feed had helped over 1,000,000 It’s people like you, leaving Before After by including everyone, it is unfathomable people in the country. Concern a gift in their Will,

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Here she explains why: “I supported nutrition centre. cy lives on, while supporting supplies of powdered food, have two children and if they Nala was diagnosed with se- the charity you care for and medicines and other life sav- were in need, I would hope vere acute malnutrition and 6 | News || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 | Comment ||7 r1 Rebuilding communities is biggest Church SVP lose €2 million through Nuala O’Loan challenge, says The View bishop Aron Hegarty charity shop closures take a quarter of our annual income, “As well as a fundraising element, be a “hunger” for charity shops now The Bishop of Derry says the Ruadhán Jones biggest challenge facing the that’s several million we’re going to our shops are a gateway to SVP and that they reopened. Church in the immediate Almost a hundred St Vincent de Paul be down. provide a recreational hub as well,” “I do expect people to have a hun- Parliament must listen to the people ast week, the aftermath of Covid-19 will be (SVP) charity shops reopened this “Even when we open, it’s going to he said. “For an awful lot of people, ger for good brands at low prices,” he conscience. “It is not necessary or right require regulations. It NI Assembly “rebuilding” its communities. week, after 12 weeks of closure led be on a part-time basis. Shops won’t it’s not about coming in and spend- said, “but it’s really that community The NIO minister has to force people to do things specifies limited grounds to losses estimated up to a quarter of start trading until 10.30am, in line ing money, it’s about reaching out to engagement, which the country has voted to reject produced regulations which that they hold to be wrong.” upon which abortion should In his homily on Trin- the imposition, their yearly take. with Government regulations, and other people and reengaging with the been denied for the last 12 weeks, that discriminate against unborn These new laws have be introduced. It does not ity Sunday, Bishop Donal in Northern Ireland, of “Our shops are essential [to SVP’s will close early. It’s been such a trau- community. people are really crying out for. babies on the grounds of been the subject of serious require abortion on demand. McKeown said the Faithful’s Labortion legislation by the service],” said Dermot McGilloway, matic few months for volunteers and “When customers come in, it’s disability, since babies and significant criticism It does not require abortion sense of belonging has either British government, which “vanished” or is being “lived SVP national retail development man- managers that some shops simply Success grand if people want to come in for without a disability are by MPs and peers from to birth when a baby has a extends to all non-fatal protected from abortion NI and other parts of the in virtual form” during the ager, speaking to The Irish Catholic. won’t return.” “Whilst we judge success of our shops an hour to chat to volunteers or have foetal abnormality. Yet that disabilities including Down from 24 weeks of gestation, UK, by a Parliamentary pandemic. “There is a fundraising element to Mr McGilloway added that, while up to point on economic contribu- a browse. is what the NIO minister has syndrome. but babies with a disability Select Committee, and by He remained hopeful that it – SVP shops contributed €8 million the economic losses were hard, it was tions, there’s an intangible element “All we’re doing is taking the legislated for. What the British gov- can be aborted up to birth. a large number of people “community is possible” once last year,” he continued. “We’ve been the “intangible element” of commu- which you can’t put a price on and resources of the local community and The minister is wrong. ernment should do now is including eminent QCs and again, but believing trust closed now for 12 weeks, you’re talk- nity service that made the closures that’s where we’re really suffering.” we’re putting them at the disposal of He does not have to get repeal the law which was Church leaders in Northern ing about three months trading. If you especially difficult. Mr McGilloway expected there to that community,” he said. Discrimination these regulations through must be regained through forced through parliament The new law also Ireland. The Assembly has Parliament. 79% of the safe practices. last year using an emer- discriminates against voted to reject them. Tens people rejected these laws “We want to be able to get gency procedure designed medical practitioners and of thousands of our people Holy water of life when they were proposed back to gathering our parish to deal with things like ter- others who have a genuine have marched, protested, in the NIO Consultation. The congregations around the rorism. Then it should allow conscientious objection to written to the British prime Fr Thomas McHugh takes part in the Blessing of Table of the Lord,” said Bishop the NI Assembly to deal being involved in abortion, minister saying they do not NI Assembly voted to reject Graves in Tullysaran and Knockaconey, Co. Armagh. McKeown. with this matter. This was as protection is available want these laws. them last week. “But, as churches, we have not a matter for the British only to those who actually Despite all this the British It is time for Parliament 24 weeks if termination it approves the regulations to balance two values. On the government, it was always a participate in the act of government is determined to listen with respect presents less of a risk to as a whole or it rejects them. one hand, there is the right matter for the NI Assembly. abortion. This means that to force them upon the to the NI Assembly, to the health of the mother We now know, because to practice your faith that is That Assembly has been nurse managers who have people of Northern Ireland NI’s politicians sitting than the continuation of the the British government has a core value at the heart of sitting now for over five to organise theatre staffing against their will. Last in Westminster, to our pregnancy. In assessing this finally disclosed the fact, most societies. But there are months, and it has indicated rotas or pharmacists, for week in parliament the Church leaders across the there is no requirement that that 79% of respondents also the responsibilities that its views on what is being example, are not protected. NIO minister said he had community, and to all the the mother has a specific to the NIO consultation come with rights. done at Westminster by the As Lord Mackay, a former to do this because the law people who have called vote on June 2. It rejects it. mental health or physical rejected the government’s “Our challenge is to show Lord Chancellor of Britain required regulations to for the rejection of these The legisation which condition, and the minister proposals for the new laws. that our churches are able to said in parliament last year: be passed. The law does regulations. the British government has said, it would be a matter to I have had no explanation be as safe as any other place introduced was drafted be decided by the mother as to why this fact was where people gather. in secrecy – there was no and her doctor who can not made known, why discussion with Northern take into account the “wider the wording of the ASSOCIATION OF LEADERS OF MISSIONARIES Good practice Ireland MLAs, MPs or peers. social context”. This means new law was not made “If we show we can’t be Nobody knew what was in that we have abortion available for discussion AND RELIGIOUS OF IRELAND (AMRI) trusted to have consistently the regulations. I and others effectively on demand up and consideration or why good practice, who can blame asked the NIO minister for to 24 weeks for any reason, we were not allowed to WISHES TO RECRUIT A SECRETARY GENERAL others for not taking us seri- a meeting to find out what so that if the baby is a little see it until it was laid in ously? was going on, before the girl and the parents would Parliament. The Role “If we can’t be seen to deal regulations were tabled, and prefer a little boy, they can appropriately with the small eventually had a telephone abort the little girl. The minister is Association of Leaders of Missionaries and Religious of Ireland (AMRI) is currently numbers that are currently meeting on March 19, six Finally, we were told, ❛❛ recruiting a Secretary General on a fixed term period of three years. The Secretary General allowed to attend funerals, days before they were abortion would be available wrong. He does not will be responsible for coordinating the day to day operation of AMRI in an effective and who will trust us with larger introduced in parliament. to birth if the baby has “a have to get these efficient manner contributing significantly to the success and good standing of AMRI. numbers for other services At that stage we still didn’t severe foetal impairment or and sacraments?” know what was in the new a fatal foetal abnormality”. regulations through The Bishop concluded that law. We had also been When asked whether there Experience was a definition of “severe parliament” JOB DETAILS there will be a “major need” unable to get information on Can demonstrate experience of: for parishioners to look after how the people of Northern foetal impairment” or fatal Now the Northern Ireland Contract Type: Fixed-Term for a Period church buildings and make Ireland had responded to foetal abnormality the Assembly has voted to reject of 3 years • Strong leadership qualities with ability to them “the safest places in the NIO consultation about minister said that there the imposition of the new build and motivate a team was not. He declined to Location: Dublin town” when they are allowed the detail of the new law. law. • Strong organisational skills to reopen. answer when drawn about They had two votes Hours of Work: 9.00am – 5.00pm, Consultation whether Down syndrome, and altogether 75 of our Monday to Friday (and as required) • Having the ability to be decisive, whilst at the At that meeting on March a club foot or a cleft palate 90 MLAs rejected the same time demonstrating empathy constituted severe foetal 19, we were again refused provisions for abortion to Essential attributes • Awareness of the cultural, social and religious access to the regulations. impairment, saying that the birth in cases of non-fatal The bread of the Eucharist for the life of the world The NIO minister, his private doctor and mother would disabilities including Down Personal situation in Ireland “The bread that I shall give is my and the life. People who knew Jesus ascend to where he was before.” It come down from heaven. secretary and a member have to consider the level syndrome. • Strong commitment to the mission and • Strategic plan implementation of disability which would flesh for the life of the world.” from childhood found it hard to is the Risen Lord whom we meet in l The bread that I shall give is my of staff of the NIO all had The NI Attorney General, vision of AMRI • Working well within a corporate governance The Sunday the regulations in front of be present. He said that the the chief legal adviser Today is the Solemnity of the make this commitment. the Eucharist. flesh for the life of the world. structure Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Gospel After bread for the body and the On the night before he died, at l Anyone who eats my flesh and them, but refused to share wording was clear and it to the NI Executive has • Personable, honest and ethical Sadly, our churches are still closed bread of Faith, Jesus raised their the Last Supper, he gave the blessed drinks my blood lives in me and I them, even during the applied to severe cases. advised that in producing • Effective communicator in all aspects Desirable Attributes Normally when law but the good news is that they will Fr Silvester minds to the third bread. He spoke bread to the disciples, saying: “This live in him/her. meeting, which made it these regulations the NIO and has the ability to represent AMRI as • Preferably membership of or a familiarity with O’Flynn soon be open again. Have you shared in the future tense as this bread had is my body, given up for you.” And l For my flesh is real food and my difficult to have a coherent is being made there is minister has gone beyond OFM Cap. required one of the member organisations of AMRI in the Mass streamed on television not yet been given: “The bread that giving them the cup of wine, he blood is real drink. conversation. The minister consultation, impact the powers available him. assessment, consideration or radio? Are you looking forward to I shall give is my flesh, for the life said, “this cup is the new covenant l Whoever eats my flesh and did tell us that during The NIO minister could • Flexible whilst having a good sense of • Knowledge of the history and the journey of two fish. the NIO consultation the of the draft legislation, the only make any law which returning? Did you miss receiving of the world.” It is no surprise that in my blood poured out for you.” drinks my blood lives in me and I boundaries CORI/IMU discussions The following day he exhorted majority of people had opportunity to amend the the NI Assembly could the Lord in Holy Communion? Did the people were deeply puzzled live in them. the people to consider the miracle said that they did not want new law – none of this has make. The NI Assembly • Cares that AMRI is a good place to work • Experience of working with a membership this enforced absence make you ask by this. So, Jesus rephrased his l As the living Father sent me of the loaves as a sign to believe Banquet these regulations, but, he happened. None of this can can only make laws which organisation. yourself what the Eucharist really promise in six further statements. For some 30 years the son of god and I draw life from the Father, in him as the bread to satisfy the said, this was not what the happen. These regulations, are compliant with the means to you? Seven statements. Seven is always was on Earth in a human body of so whoever eats me will draw life hungers of the spirit: “I am the consultation was about. which none of our elected NI Act and European law Today’s Gospel is taken from the divine number in John’s Gospel. flesh and blood. Now he is embodied from me. bread of life. Whoever comes to In the course of the representatives had seen, obligations, among which To apply for this position, please send a cover John, Chapter 6 which is all about People were still puzzled but in the consecrated bread and wine. “The blessing-cup that we bless me will never hunger; whoever meeting we learned are a package. Parliament are the obligation not to letter along with your CV to [email protected] Jesus explained that they would bread, three kinds of bread in fact. believes in me will never thirst.” Prepare yourself for returning to is a communion with the blood of that abortion would be is being asked to approve discriminate on grounds With the first bread Jesus fed a To believe in Jesus means a understand this future bread in the the banquet of the Eucharist by Christ, and the bread that we break available on demand up them in the coming weeks. of disability or in the multitude through the miraculous commitment to follow his ideals light of the resurrection: “What pondering on the words of Jesus. is a communion with the body of to 12 weeks, and up to It has a stark choice – either protection of rights of Closing date for applications is 26th June 2020. multiplication of five loaves and and teaching…as the way, the truth if you should see the son of man l I am the living bread which has Christ” (1 Cor.10:16). 6 | News || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 | Comment ||7 r1 Rebuilding communities is biggest Church SVP lose €2 million through Nuala O’Loan challenge, says The View bishop Aron Hegarty charity shop closures take a quarter of our annual income, “As well as a fundraising element, be a “hunger” for charity shops now The Bishop of Derry says the Ruadhán Jones biggest challenge facing the that’s several million we’re going to our shops are a gateway to SVP and that they reopened. Church in the immediate Almost a hundred St Vincent de Paul be down. provide a recreational hub as well,” “I do expect people to have a hun- Parliament must listen to the people ast week, the aftermath of Covid-19 will be (SVP) charity shops reopened this “Even when we open, it’s going to he said. “For an awful lot of people, ger for good brands at low prices,” he conscience. “It is not necessary or right require regulations. It NI Assembly “rebuilding” its communities. week, after 12 weeks of closure led be on a part-time basis. Shops won’t it’s not about coming in and spend- said, “but it’s really that community The NIO minister has to force people to do things specifies limited grounds to losses estimated up to a quarter of start trading until 10.30am, in line ing money, it’s about reaching out to engagement, which the country has voted to reject produced regulations which that they hold to be wrong.” upon which abortion should In his homily on Trin- the imposition, their yearly take. with Government regulations, and other people and reengaging with the been denied for the last 12 weeks, that discriminate against unborn These new laws have be introduced. It does not ity Sunday, Bishop Donal in Northern Ireland, of “Our shops are essential [to SVP’s will close early. It’s been such a trau- community. people are really crying out for. babies on the grounds of been the subject of serious require abortion on demand. McKeown said the Faithful’s Labortion legislation by the service],” said Dermot McGilloway, matic few months for volunteers and “When customers come in, it’s disability, since babies and significant criticism It does not require abortion sense of belonging has either British government, which “vanished” or is being “lived SVP national retail development man- managers that some shops simply Success grand if people want to come in for without a disability are by MPs and peers from to birth when a baby has a extends to all non-fatal protected from abortion NI and other parts of the in virtual form” during the ager, speaking to The Irish Catholic. won’t return.” “Whilst we judge success of our shops an hour to chat to volunteers or have foetal abnormality. Yet that disabilities including Down from 24 weeks of gestation, UK, by a Parliamentary pandemic. “There is a fundraising element to Mr McGilloway added that, while up to point on economic contribu- a browse. is what the NIO minister has syndrome. but babies with a disability Select Committee, and by He remained hopeful that it – SVP shops contributed €8 million the economic losses were hard, it was tions, there’s an intangible element “All we’re doing is taking the legislated for. What the British gov- can be aborted up to birth. a large number of people “community is possible” once last year,” he continued. “We’ve been the “intangible element” of commu- which you can’t put a price on and resources of the local community and The minister is wrong. ernment should do now is including eminent QCs and again, but believing trust closed now for 12 weeks, you’re talk- nity service that made the closures that’s where we’re really suffering.” we’re putting them at the disposal of He does not have to get repeal the law which was Church leaders in Northern ing about three months trading. If you especially difficult. Mr McGilloway expected there to that community,” he said. Discrimination these regulations through must be regained through forced through parliament The new law also Ireland. The Assembly has Parliament. 79% of the safe practices. last year using an emer- discriminates against voted to reject them. Tens people rejected these laws “We want to be able to get gency procedure designed medical practitioners and of thousands of our people Holy water of life when they were proposed back to gathering our parish to deal with things like ter- others who have a genuine have marched, protested, in the NIO Consultation. The congregations around the rorism. Then it should allow conscientious objection to written to the British prime Fr Thomas McHugh takes part in the Blessing of Table of the Lord,” said Bishop the NI Assembly to deal being involved in abortion, minister saying they do not NI Assembly voted to reject Graves in Tullysaran and Knockaconey, Co. Armagh. McKeown. with this matter. This was as protection is available want these laws. them last week. “But, as churches, we have not a matter for the British only to those who actually Despite all this the British It is time for Parliament 24 weeks if termination it approves the regulations to balance two values. On the government, it was always a participate in the act of government is determined to listen with respect presents less of a risk to as a whole or it rejects them. one hand, there is the right matter for the NI Assembly. abortion. This means that to force them upon the to the NI Assembly, to the health of the mother We now know, because to practice your faith that is That Assembly has been nurse managers who have people of Northern Ireland NI’s politicians sitting than the continuation of the the British government has a core value at the heart of sitting now for over five to organise theatre staffing against their will. Last in Westminster, to our pregnancy. In assessing this finally disclosed the fact, most societies. But there are months, and it has indicated rotas or pharmacists, for week in parliament the Church leaders across the there is no requirement that that 79% of respondents also the responsibilities that its views on what is being example, are not protected. NIO minister said he had community, and to all the the mother has a specific to the NIO consultation come with rights. done at Westminster by the As Lord Mackay, a former to do this because the law people who have called vote on June 2. It rejects it. mental health or physical rejected the government’s “Our challenge is to show Lord Chancellor of Britain required regulations to for the rejection of these The legisation which condition, and the minister proposals for the new laws. that our churches are able to said in parliament last year: be passed. The law does regulations. the British government has said, it would be a matter to I have had no explanation be as safe as any other place introduced was drafted be decided by the mother as to why this fact was where people gather. in secrecy – there was no and her doctor who can not made known, why discussion with Northern take into account the “wider the wording of the ASSOCIATION OF LEADERS OF MISSIONARIES Good practice Ireland MLAs, MPs or peers. social context”. This means new law was not made “If we show we can’t be Nobody knew what was in that we have abortion available for discussion AND RELIGIOUS OF IRELAND (AMRI) trusted to have consistently the regulations. I and others effectively on demand up and consideration or why good practice, who can blame asked the NIO minister for to 24 weeks for any reason, we were not allowed to WISHES TO RECRUIT A SECRETARY GENERAL others for not taking us seri- a meeting to find out what so that if the baby is a little see it until it was laid in ously? was going on, before the girl and the parents would Parliament. The Role “If we can’t be seen to deal regulations were tabled, and prefer a little boy, they can appropriately with the small eventually had a telephone abort the little girl. The minister is Association of Leaders of Missionaries and Religious of Ireland (AMRI) is currently numbers that are currently meeting on March 19, six Finally, we were told, ❛❛ recruiting a Secretary General on a fixed term period of three years. The Secretary General allowed to attend funerals, days before they were abortion would be available wrong. He does not will be responsible for coordinating the day to day operation of AMRI in an effective and who will trust us with larger introduced in parliament. to birth if the baby has “a have to get these efficient manner contributing significantly to the success and good standing of AMRI. numbers for other services At that stage we still didn’t severe foetal impairment or and sacraments?” know what was in the new a fatal foetal abnormality”. regulations through The Bishop concluded that law. We had also been When asked whether there Experience was a definition of “severe parliament” JOB DETAILS there will be a “major need” unable to get information on Can demonstrate experience of: for parishioners to look after how the people of Northern foetal impairment” or fatal Now the Northern Ireland Contract Type: Fixed-Term for a Period church buildings and make Ireland had responded to foetal abnormality the Assembly has voted to reject of 3 years • Strong leadership qualities with ability to them “the safest places in the NIO consultation about minister said that there the imposition of the new build and motivate a team was not. He declined to Location: Dublin town” when they are allowed the detail of the new law. law. • Strong organisational skills to reopen. answer when drawn about They had two votes Hours of Work: 9.00am – 5.00pm, Consultation whether Down syndrome, and altogether 75 of our Monday to Friday (and as required) • Having the ability to be decisive, whilst at the At that meeting on March a club foot or a cleft palate 90 MLAs rejected the same time demonstrating empathy constituted severe foetal 19, we were again refused provisions for abortion to Essential attributes • Awareness of the cultural, social and religious access to the regulations. impairment, saying that the birth in cases of non-fatal The bread of the Eucharist for the life of the world The NIO minister, his private doctor and mother would disabilities including Down Personal situation in Ireland “The bread that I shall give is my and the life. People who knew Jesus ascend to where he was before.” It come down from heaven. secretary and a member have to consider the level syndrome. • Strong commitment to the mission and • Strategic plan implementation of disability which would flesh for the life of the world.” from childhood found it hard to is the Risen Lord whom we meet in l The bread that I shall give is my of staff of the NIO all had The NI Attorney General, vision of AMRI • Working well within a corporate governance The Sunday the regulations in front of be present. He said that the the chief legal adviser Today is the Solemnity of the make this commitment. the Eucharist. flesh for the life of the world. structure Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Gospel After bread for the body and the On the night before he died, at l Anyone who eats my flesh and them, but refused to share wording was clear and it to the NI Executive has • Personable, honest and ethical Sadly, our churches are still closed bread of Faith, Jesus raised their the Last Supper, he gave the blessed drinks my blood lives in me and I them, even during the applied to severe cases. advised that in producing • Effective communicator in all aspects Desirable Attributes Normally when law but the good news is that they will Fr Silvester minds to the third bread. He spoke bread to the disciples, saying: “This live in him/her. meeting, which made it these regulations the NIO and has the ability to represent AMRI as • Preferably membership of or a familiarity with O’Flynn soon be open again. Have you shared in the future tense as this bread had is my body, given up for you.” And l For my flesh is real food and my difficult to have a coherent is being made there is minister has gone beyond OFM Cap. required one of the member organisations of AMRI in the Mass streamed on television not yet been given: “The bread that giving them the cup of wine, he blood is real drink. conversation. The minister consultation, impact the powers available him. assessment, consideration or radio? Are you looking forward to I shall give is my flesh, for the life said, “this cup is the new covenant l Whoever eats my flesh and did tell us that during The NIO minister could • Flexible whilst having a good sense of • Knowledge of the history and the journey of two fish. the NIO consultation the of the draft legislation, the only make any law which returning? Did you miss receiving of the world.” It is no surprise that in my blood poured out for you.” drinks my blood lives in me and I boundaries CORI/IMU discussions The following day he exhorted majority of people had opportunity to amend the the NI Assembly could the Lord in Holy Communion? Did the people were deeply puzzled live in them. the people to consider the miracle said that they did not want new law – none of this has make. The NI Assembly • Cares that AMRI is a good place to work • Experience of working with a membership this enforced absence make you ask by this. So, Jesus rephrased his l As the living Father sent me of the loaves as a sign to believe Banquet these regulations, but, he happened. None of this can can only make laws which organisation. yourself what the Eucharist really promise in six further statements. For some 30 years the son of god and I draw life from the Father, in him as the bread to satisfy the said, this was not what the happen. These regulations, are compliant with the means to you? Seven statements. Seven is always was on Earth in a human body of so whoever eats me will draw life hungers of the spirit: “I am the consultation was about. which none of our elected NI Act and European law Today’s Gospel is taken from the divine number in John’s Gospel. flesh and blood. Now he is embodied from me. bread of life. Whoever comes to In the course of the representatives had seen, obligations, among which To apply for this position, please send a cover John, Chapter 6 which is all about People were still puzzled but in the consecrated bread and wine. “The blessing-cup that we bless me will never hunger; whoever meeting we learned are a package. Parliament are the obligation not to letter along with your CV to [email protected] Jesus explained that they would bread, three kinds of bread in fact. believes in me will never thirst.” Prepare yourself for returning to is a communion with the blood of that abortion would be is being asked to approve discriminate on grounds With the first bread Jesus fed a To believe in Jesus means a understand this future bread in the the banquet of the Eucharist by Christ, and the bread that we break available on demand up them in the coming weeks. of disability or in the multitude through the miraculous commitment to follow his ideals light of the resurrection: “What pondering on the words of Jesus. is a communion with the body of to 12 weeks, and up to It has a stark choice – either protection of rights of Closing date for applications is 26th June 2020. multiplication of five loaves and and teaching…as the way, the truth if you should see the son of man l I am the living bread which has Christ” (1 Cor.10:16). 8 | News || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 TheThe IrishIrish Catholic,Catholic, June June 11,11, 20202020 | | Advertorial | ||9 9

Bishop promotes Accord amid domestic More northern schools Gospel Reflections and Prayers violence calls increase Staff reporter abandon transfer tests Archbishop Eamon – a for- “I appeal to the whole sions criteria which do not made the call “from my heart Silvester O’Flynn writes of Highlighting the increase Chai Brady mer school principal – wrote educational community in rely upon the use of transfer on behalf of the current Pri- in domestic violence calls An increasing number of last month to 165 schools the Archdiocese of Armagh tests carried out under such mary 6 children, their families the joy of spreading the Good reported by An Garda Catholic grammar schools warning that children are to support a suspension of uncertain and challenging and all our school communi- News and how his book can Síochána over the last year, in the North are abandoning under enough pressure due the use of academic selection circumstances.” ties”. the bishop of Kildare and controversial transfer tests to the coronavirus pandemic. for entrance to post-primary At the time the 11-plus spark inspiration. Leighlin has pointed people to to select pupils for 2021. It schools in September 2021,” No desire was abolished, members of Accord’s counselling service. comes after Primate of Al- Anxiety he said. He added that he has “no the hierarchy were sharply Posting on social media, Ireland Archbishop Eamon Archbishop Eamon said he “I urge the Boards of desire to simply re-open the critical of Catholic schools Bishop Denis Nulty said Martin pleaded for the tests was aware of “anxiety” build- Governors of our Grammar arguments for, and against, that wished to retain aca- ometimes I am asked, the ordinary folk, so I try to Accord counsellors are to be set aside. ing over the tests. Schools to publish admis- the transfer tests” and that he demic selection. as a Capuchin Fran- use only words that any- trained to help those suffer- The 11-plus exams were ciscan, why do I wear body can understand. I keep ing from domestic violence. formally abolished in 2008. sandals and no socks certain people in mind and He said there has been However, some schools that Time to ‘rediscover even when the weather is ask myself could he/she cold.S I have a stock answer. a “25% increase reported in wanted to continue to select Cool way to celebrate summer in Dublin! understand what I have just ourselves as The Bible says “How beauti- incidences of domestic vio- children based on academic written. If I think it wasn’t ful on the mountains are the lence over the past year”, add- criteria set up their own pro- Church’ says clear enough it is dumped in feet of one who brings good ing that Accord “counsellors cess in defiance of the hier- the waste bin beside me. archbishop news.” For many years I have I believe that scripture is a are all trained to deal with archy’s opposition to such a Despite the coronavirus set out to bring the Good living word. It is God’s word domestic violence”. process. pandemic coming at a time News to people. So, accord- speaking to us today. I like “Contact today their Covid- There are several schools “of weakness unparalleled” ing to the Bible I must have what Jesus said to the people 19 Relationship Support Lines that will now not use trans- in the Church’s recent his- beautiful feet. Why then at Nazareth after he had operated by the three Accord fer tests including Abbey Christian Brothers’ Grammar tory, the “challenge has been should I ever hide them! read a sacred text. He put companies”. School, Our Lady’s Grammar met” according to Archbishop away the scroll and told the Gardai launched a crack- School, Sacred Heart Gram- Michael Neary. people, “This text is being down on domestic violence They passed mar School, and St Colman’s “Parishes organised Masses ❛❛ fulfilled today even as you in April. This was done due College which are all in on webcam and radio. Many listen”. In his last talk with to concerns it would increase on a method of Newry, and St Louis Gram- priests and bishops took to the apostles, Jesus promised during lockdown. mar School, in Kilkeel, all in personalizing them the light of the Holy Since April 1, gardaí made ministry via online and digital Co. Down. media with flair and creativ- Spirit. “I still have many 8,229 contacts with, or the gospel things to say to you but they ity. A tired Church, wearied attempts to contact, victims would be too much for you Tests by relentless change, found of domestic abuse as part stories by now. But when the Spirit of Mount Lourdes Grammar and new strength in a context of of the operation. Between St Michael’s College in Enni- truth comes, he will lead you general human emergency. urging us to tell publication it is such a relief “He excels in pithy but May 13-27, there were 107 skillen, Co. Fermanagh and to the complete truth” (John And now, like so many other when some kind readers let prosecutions in relation to Loreto Grammar School and 16:12-13). thoughtful soundbites.” organisations, it faces a slow, the story in our you know how the writ- domestic violence incidents. the Christian Brothers’ Gram- When people gather God enables us to see life with -Intercom Review tentative return to something Phase two of the opera- mar School in Omagh, Co. own words.” together to reflect on the ❛❛ ing touched them. Here are like normality,” Archbishop some of the reactions to the “We use your book for tion concentrates on arrests Tyrone also announced they I make no claim to be a gospel, it fascinates me how fresh eyes, challenging, inspiring, Neary said. first edition of this book, our prayer together every and prosecutions in relation would not be using transfer learned scholar, but I have they are moved in differ- consoling, questioning, shaping or to breaches of court orders. tests. always been attracted to the ent ways. I reminds me of known initially as Homily morning”. Resources Bible. It began in national a poem by the American directing.” Hints and Prayers. -Husband and Wife, Both The archbishop said that there school where we had two writer, E. E. Cummings, Retired “I am more than fifty is only one question worth teachers, my mother and about four sisters, Maggie, Composer dedicates with fresh eyes, challeng- Another person is touched asking despite dwindling father as it so happened. 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Each one had sents those people with a directing. is fed by a picture or a story. ing for.” to a trickle” and that is: “Do stories by urging us to tell a totally different experi- -Missionary Priest generous and noble heart who you believe?” the story in our own words. ence. “For whatever we When Pope Francis was The living word touches have heard the word and take Covid-19 victims Regarding the new frame- The first time I got a present lose (like a you or a me), a young priest he took the different people in personal it to themselves and yield a Many Irish Faithful “Your book takes the work published by Ireland of a book token, guess what I it’s always ourselves that advice of an experienced ways. rich harvest through their per- Aron Hegarty may already be familiar preacher that every homily burden off my shoulders hierarchy this week to prepare bought … a bible. I love read- we find in the sea.” That Writing can be a soli- severance” (Luke 8: 11,15). with Mr Sexton’s music should have an idea, a senti- tary occupation for long preparing for our weekly Dublin-based composer the faithful to return to wor- ing anything that broadens is exactly how the sacred Through the inspiration of with his songs Though We ment and an image. hours. Doubts creep in. Will meeting.” Bernard Sexton has written ship, Archbishop Neary said my understanding of it. word can touch a person the Holy Spirit may you have are Many featuring at the One person needs anybody read this? Am I -Leader of a Parish Prayer a new religious song of that the “enormous changes I see myself as a go- in a very personal way. the beautiful feet of one who comfort for the victims of International Eucharistic good substance…an idea. wasting my time? After Group brings the Good News. we had already experienced between the scholars and God enables us to see life Covid-19. 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ometimes I am asked, the ordinary folk, so I try to as a Capuchin Fran- use only words that any- ciscan, why do I wear body can understand. I keep sandals and no socks certain people in mind and even when the weather is ask myself could he/she cold.S I have a stock answer. understand what I have just The Bible says “How beauti- written. If I think it wasn’t ful on the mountains are the clear enough it is dumped in feet of one who brings good the waste bin beside me. news.” For many years I have I believe that scripture is a set out to bring the Good living word. It is God’s word News to people. So, accord- speaking to us today. I like ing to the Bible I must have what Jesus said to the people beautiful feet. Why then at Nazareth after he had should I ever hide them! read a sacred text. He put away the scroll and told the They passed people, “This text is being ❛❛ fulfilled today even as you on a method of listen”. In his last talk with the apostles, Jesus promised personalizing them the light of the Holy Spirit. “I still have many the gospel things to say to you but they would be too much for you stories by now. But when the Spirit of urging us to tell truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth” (John publication it is such a relief “He excels in pithy but the story in our 16:12-13). when some kind readers let thoughtful soundbites.” When people gather God enables us to see life with you know how the writ- -Intercom Review own words.” together to reflect on the ❛❛ ing touched them. Here are some of the reactions to the “We use your book for I make no claim to be a gospel, it fascinates me how fresh eyes, challenging, inspiring, first edition of this book, our prayer together every learned scholar, but I have they are moved in differ- consoling, questioning, shaping or always been attracted to the ent ways. I reminds me of known initially as Homily morning”. Bible. It began in national a poem by the American directing.” Hints and Prayers. -Husband and Wife, Both school where we had two writer, E. E. Cummings, Retired “I am more than fifty teachers, my mother and about four sisters, Maggie, with fresh eyes, challeng- Another person is touched father as it so happened. Milly, Molly and May who years a priest and this is “The seed is the Word of ing, inspiring, consoling, in the heart by a sentiment. They passed on a method went down to the sea to the book I’ve been wait- God and the rich soil repre- questioning, shaping or Another one’s imagination of personalizing the gospel play one day. Each one had sents those people with a directing. is fed by a picture or a story. ing for.” stories by urging us to tell a totally different experi- -Missionary Priest generous and noble heart who the story in our own words. ence. “For whatever we When Pope Francis was The living word touches have heard the word and take The first time I got a present lose (like a you or a me), a young priest he took the different people in personal “Your book takes the it to themselves and yield a advice of an experienced ways. of a book token, guess what I it’s always ourselves that burden off my shoulders rich harvest through their per- bought … a bible. I love read- we find in the sea.” That preacher that every homily Writing can be a soli- severance” (Luke 8: 11,15). preparing for our weekly ing anything that broadens is exactly how the sacred should have an idea, a senti- tary occupation for long Through the inspiration of my understanding of it. word can touch a person ment and an image. hours. Doubts creep in. Will meeting.” the Holy Spirit may you have I see myself as a go- in a very personal way. One person needs anybody read this? Am I -Leader of a Parish Prayer the beautiful feet of one who between the scholars and God enables us to see life good substance…an idea. wasting my time? After Group brings the Good News.

Seeking Let Silvester O’Flynn OFM Cap be your inspiration for guide through the Daily Mass Readings ORDER with Gospel Re ections and Prayers. your parish e weekly liturgy is food for the soul, YOUR COPY prayer group? providing optimism and hope. TODAY rough two short re ections on each day's Gospel, followed by intercessory prayers you can deepen understanding €19.99 Looking for FREE Postage of the scripture and focus intentions a way to through all three liturgical cycles. strengthen Gospel Re ections and Prayers is a revised edition of Homily Hints and Prayers (2018) your family’s 01 687 4096 23 Merrion Square North, Dublin 2 spiritual life? www.columbabooks.com 10 | Events || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 Out&About Beautiful by design...

Cayce wears Kayla her design. wears her ‘Fan the flames’ design.

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Year 7 pupils from St Theresa’s Primary School in Glebe in the Diocese of Derry Aimee. show off their t-shirts for the Fan the Flame Mass last week.

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Fionn and Cayce busy at work designing their t-shirts.

ARMAGH: Special prayers were made on Pentecost Sunday for children whose Confirmations were postponed until later this year due to Covid-19 in St Patrick’s Cathedral Armagh. The children prepared pictures that featured during the Mass. 10 | Events || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 | Events ||11

Edited by Chai Brady Events deadline is a week in advance of publication Out&About [email protected] Beautiful by design...

Cayce wears Kayla her design. wears her ‘Fan the flames’ design.

MAYO: Fr Richard Gibbons PP and Rector of Knock Shrine takes part in praying the Rosary in the Apparition Chapel with Georgia Pope Francis and shrines around the world at the same time to implore Our Lady’s intercession and protection during the Mae. current coronavirus crisis. The event was streamed live from locations around the world on the eve of Pentecost.

Year 7 pupils from St Theresa’s Primary School in Glebe in the Diocese of Derry Aimee. show off their t-shirts for the Fan the ARMAGH: Some of the pictures prepared by children Flame Mass last week. whose Confirmations were postponed due to Covid-19 which featured during Mass on Pentecost Sunday in Eoghan. Armagh parish.

DUBLIN: Parishioners from Ballyroan parish volunteer to collect Trócaire boxes.

Fionn and Cayce busy at work designing their t-shirts. DERRY: A T-shirt created by Emily in Year 7 from St John’s Primary School for the Fan the Flame Mass that took place last week.

CORK: Children from the Parish of Doneraile in the Diocese of Cloyne helped to decorate the church with their pictures for Pentecost. Events l In the current Covid-19 crisis, it is clear that most (and perhaps all) Church events, other than FERMANAGH: A one-way system will be in operation in Holy some Masses, are suspended. Consequently, we DUBLIN: The Peter McVerry Trust thanked Keogh’s for Cross Church in Lisnaskea in order to avoid people coming are withholding the popular Events Listing column their delivery of crisps and popcorn from Keogh’s Farm that into close contact while exiting and entering the church to until normal activities can resume in our parishes. ARMAGH: Special prayers were made on Pentecost Sunday for children whose Confirmations were postponed until later this year due to Covid-19 in St Patrick’s Cathedral Armagh. The came along with a letter to thank the homelessness service prevent the spread of the coronavirus in preparation for the However, please do email us if you know of any children prepared pictures that featured during the Mass. for their work on the front line during the current pandemic. full opening of Church life when deemed safe. parish event planned and we will publish details. 12 | News || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 Liturgy lessons from lockdown that will endure

As parishes begin to re-open for public Masses the virtual space is here to stay, writes Michael Kelly Guitarist Steve Warner plays hile Cardinal John sacred music while, left, Katherine Henry Newman’s Dunn and Maddie Loftin are at vision of a Catholic the controls while Fr Bill Dailey university in Dublin CSC celebrates Mass and Michele ultimately floundered, the church Warner looks on. heW built in the city centre remains “underlines the spiritual hunger of a jewel in Ireland’s ecclesiastical people”. map. In recent years, University Consecrated in 1856, it has Church has become particularly remained an important place of known as a centre for good worship in the capital ever since. preaching and quality music. Steve Like other churches the parish says that he gets huge reaction to faced a massive challenge as the homilies of the resident priest lockdown began in March. For the Fr Bill Dailey CSC as well as to the past four years, the church has music – his own speciality. But, was been stewarded by the University he concerned that with lockdown of Note Dame which uses the site restrictions and the unavailability on St Stephen’s Green as a base for of musicians and choir members the Notre Dame-Newman Centre that this would suffer? “I wasn’t for Faith and Reason. afraid at all about pairing down As coronavirus restrictions took musically so long as it had noble hold, the decision was quickly integrity to it and I think that we’ve made to migrate public worship been able to do that, so we planned to social media according to Steve on a repertoire that embraced the Warner, Associate Director of the sparseness”. centre. Almost three months on, he told The Irish Catholic that “when all of There has been a fair this started, my hope was that we’d share❛❛ of trial and error in come out of this on the other end with something to show for it”. getting the technical side Volunteers of the broadcasting right” Broadcasting liturgies and other Fr Bill like other priests has also events had not been something had to get used to preaching to that the centre had given serious an empty church. “It’s obviously thought to before the pandemic. here and follow us quite closely, as well as others who attended the reality is that some people – tougher to engage with people,” “We had already started so we were getting comments and events there before lockdown. particularly those who are older or he says. “But the feedback I have broadcasting out weekly Taizé [on views on our liturgies from all over “We see an increase because we vulnerable – will continue to avoid been getting is hugely positive from people, so I think we’re still a Tuesday evening],” says Katherine the US as well as Ireland,” says can see that people are sharing public gatherings for quite some communicating the message Dunn one of the House of Brigid Steve. the broadcasts and sending one time. volunteers who ministers at the virtually,” he adds. Like many parishes moving another the links,” she says. This is part of the reason why church. online has been a steep learning University Church is determined Katherine says that there has “It was only Facebook live, and curve for University Church. For that the virtual reach will continue. been a fair share of trial and error somewhat of an afterthought – but Maddie Loftin, another volunteer Steve believes that “Once we’re back to whatever in getting the technical side of because we had started that it was at the House of Brigid, these are the❛❛ huge numbers of normal is going to be, we’re still the broadcasting right, but she is helpful when all of this happened lessons that will remain. “It has going to have this request to have adamant that parishes should stick because we knew the basic things been a transition,” she says, “but people who have been things offered on the internet for with it when lockdown eases. “It’s and could build on that,” she adds. one that will be part of the future”. people who can’t travel for any totally worth it,” she says. “It is an The centre also started from a Steve says that the few dozen tuning in to watch online number of reasons,” Steve says. added dimension to the liturgy good place because it already had people who had been watching Masses ‘underlines Maddie agrees adding “there’s and it means that we can continue a Facebook page with a substantial Taizé before the lockdown meant an impetus there for us to push to reach people we can’t reach number of followers both in Ireland that there was already a familiarity the spiritual hunger of ourselves to continue using the physically”. and the US. with the church as a virtual place of equipment now that we have built “There are many people who worship. people’” it up”. i What has been your parish’s are associated with the University Katherine says that the virtual While there is overwhelming joy Steve believes that the huge experience of liturgy under of Notre Dame who are keenly congregation is made up of people at the prospect of public Masses numbers of people who have been lockdown? 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the friends of Jesus, safely passing on coronavirus. So people saying that we can- to think about who we are cocooned in the upper room. all those gifts, of wisdom, not simply return to what and who we are called to They must have wondered right judgement and rever- we previously thought of as be, what community means how they would ever ence come to the fore. normal. We need the future in this context and what venture out again. It is the I’ve been doing a tour of to be different, better, more it is to be a Christian in a outpouring of the Holy Spirit parishes lately. I’ve been to human. If that is to happen world where, at the moment at Pentecost which empow- Glenstal and Clonard, to the then we need to take the time the most powerful Gospel ers and liberates them. Augustinians and Redemp- to reflect. What have we dis- images are coming to us in Now, I’m not suggesting torists in Limerick. I’ve covered in the quiet simplicity the guise of doctors, nurses that Pentecost Sunday trans- popped into the cathedral in of our socially isolated lives? and other health staff, front- forms us and allow us to run Letterkenny and St Mel’s in What do we desire to do dif- line workers and volunteers. free, without a care in the Longford as well as my own ferently? What values have world. What I am suggesting parish here in Letterkenny’s been brought into focus? Communities As parishes we will have is that over these weeks we Irish Martyrs - all on the I find myself thinking about would do well to pray for laptop of course. I deeply What the Basic Christian Com- to invest a lot of energy in the gifts of the Spirit. Living appreciate the availability ❛❛ munities which developed through a pandemic creates of Mass online and yet, I resources are in Latin America. At the core community building as we anxiety – that’s natural – am concerned. It strikes me of these communities was but we cannot allow that that in partaking of Mass in we providing the willingness of people emerge from this time of social anxiety to dominate and this way we are becoming, for families to to reflect together on the so we need the courage to yet again, an utterly passive Word of God, to view the isolation and cannot take it for move out into the world laity. I know there is not enable them to scriptures through the lens again. While it is not good much we can do about it for grow in faith of their daily experience and granted that people will simply to spend too much time now but it concerns me. Yes, their lives through the lens watching the news or read- it is good to be able to ‘hear’ together? of the Gospel. These were Mass, there is certainly a return writes ing articles about Covid-19 For society in general and simple, ordinary people Bairbre Cahill sense of connection but we online it is essential that we for the Church it cannot sim- living their lives in challeng- ou’ve probably heard prospect of a cup of tea or a need so much more. have a realistic understand- ply be ‘business as usual’. We ing circumstance but it was the story of the hun- wee glass of wine and a chat, And indeed in order to do ing of the situation, that do not know how long this is this interaction of faith and gry caterpillar; well even sitting at a sensible two that, we need to take time we are not being driven by going to impact on our lives life which gave them vision I’m currently feeling metres social distance in the to listen. What has people’s rumours, half-baked stories but sitting at Mass, wearing and courage and the desire like the rather anxious cat- garden is wonderful. and hysteria. The threat is experience been during this to transform society. It takes erpillar.Y We are on a phased But I know I am not alone masks and at a two metre time? What have we learned? very real but there are clear distance from others will not courage to enter into the journey back into society. when I wonder how we will Online and in conversations steps we can take to mini- be business as usual. So we intimacy of faith sharing, We are emerging gradually relax with these gradually mise the risk of catching or we hear over and over again, to break open the word of from our cocoons. I delight at evolving freedoms, sources need to take this opportunity the prospect of getting back of joy and yet needing our to walking the Derryveagh ongoing vigilance. I suspect We do not know how long this is going to impact on our mountains. I long for the this is why I found myself ❛❛ chance to swim in the sea. I thinking a lot about Pente- lives but sitting at Mass, wearing masks and at a two metre want to meet up with those cost as the feast approached I have missed so much. The last weekend. I identify with distance from others will not be business as usual” 14 | Feature || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 | Feature ||15

needs nearness, proximity. here, at the heart of people’s I see the Church as a field lives that God is powerfully hospital after battle…Heal the and profoundly present and wounds, heal the wounds… so as Church we need to And you have to start from the listen to what is emerging, ground up.” How do we begin we need the capacity to be to heal those wounds? We with people, to acknowledge need first to listen, to create the woundedness we all It is easier to listen space for people to share their experience. experience. There is the trauma of I wonder all those who have been ❛❛ bereaved during this time, how we will when our usual Irish ways to Mass online have been set aside. We have relax with these not been able to gather at a gradually evolving wake, to hold each other in our grief, to gather to pray for freedoms, sources the departed and the broken hearted. We cannot go back of joy” than go out – we There is a very real sense in time. We cannot retrofit those supports but going in which we are being invited forward we need to explore into the paschal mystery – how we nurture and sup- cross, tomb and resurrection. port all whose grief has been We cannot simply jump to can’t let that be made more complex by this resurrection without contem- pandemic. plating and reflecting upon the cross and tomb experi- Schools ences. God, in the resur- There is a pervasive sense rection, is doing something of loss. Children moving radically new. What is God our new normal from primary to secondary doing now? How are we, as school this year have lost Church, being called to new- out on those final months ness of life, to resurrection? Capuchin Franciscan Bro. Andrew Corriente hands out food to those in need in Washington DC, during the of preparation, fun and a Pope Francis in his coronavirus pandemic. Christians are called by God to take part in the Church’s mission in the world to help process of closure to ease writings has consistently those impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: CNS / Tyler Orsburn their transition. Leaving asked us to reflect upon Cert students are living with the type of society we are God with others. There is an that we will be able to have into an unknown future with volunteers work together ongoing stress about their building, upon the exclusion openness and vulnerability – as in many larger towns – heads down, embroiled in to manufacture visors, sew exams and what the future of so many. He has invited involved but a richness too. over a hundred families plus a sense of anxiety and loss, masks and scrubs – holiness. will bring. Grandparents are us back to that radical It can truly be an encounter friends and relations gath- wanting everything to be the This is what Pope Francis has living with the loneliness of commitment to God’s with Christ which can trans- ered together for the cele- way we had once expected in mind when he speaks of missing grandchildren and in anawim – the poor and the form our lives and how we bration of First Communion. it to be. Or we could take the the universal call to holi- many cases the loss of those vulnerable. In Laudato Si’ we live out our faith. So, how could we do it time to look around us, we ness and yet we still reserve first few wonderful weeks are challenged to consider Surely that is what is being differently then? Is this the could risk that intimacy of the idea of holiness for that with a newborn, something our relationship with Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square on March 27. We are being invited by the asked of us by this whole situ- time to invite families to pick faith sharing, we could allow which is more conventionally they are very aware they creation and the damage Pope to contemplate anew what it means for us to be the body of Christ. ation, to be open to encounter any of the Sunday Masses ourselves to encounter Jesus sacramental. When will we will never recapture. Many being done by exploitation. Photo: Vatican Media Christ and each other in a new over a six week period and to in the goodness and generos- embrace a wider vision if not people have experienced a It strikes me that so much and life giving way. Going celebrate a smaller, simpler ity of others and respond to now? When will we nurture sense of being unmoored of what Pope Francis has forward, how do we want to First Holy Communion for the invitation to be the bread discerning hearts so that – disconnected from their written about is brought into the friends of Jesus, safely passing on coronavirus. So people saying that we can- to think about who we are live? Answers are not easy to a small group of children, of life for each other, broken people can comfortably speak normal routines and what focus by this pandemic. We cocooned in the upper room. all those gifts, of wisdom, not simply return to what and who we are called to come by. We need to develop their families and the par- and shared. Now wouldn’t of their daily lives as a place gives structure and meaning are being invited by our Pope They must have wondered right judgement and rever- we previously thought of as be, what community means contemplative discerning ish community? This was a that be a future rich in the of God’s presence and action, to their lives. Within that and by our circumstances how they would ever ence come to the fore. normal. We need the future in this context and what hearts. There may be a secu- recommendation by the Irish fruits of the Holy Spirit? a place of revelation? many have found a freedom to contemplate anew venture out again. It is the I’ve been doing a tour of to be different, better, more it is to be a Christian in a rity in ‘getting back to normal’ Bishops some years ago but Pope Francis has asked and greater sense of balance what it means for us to be outpouring of the Holy Spirit parishes lately. I’ve been to human. If that is to happen world where, at the moment but maybe we need the cour- has not been widely taken Eucharist repeatedly for the Church which they may now not want Church, to be the body of at Pentecost which empow- Glenstal and Clonard, to the then we need to take the time the most powerful Gospel age to find something better up. Is this an opportunity to And what of the Church in to be a field hospital, “I to relinquish. Big emotions are Christ. A caterpillar has no ers and liberates them. Augustinians and Redemp- to reflect. What have we dis- images are coming to us in than that. Yes, we are blessed embrace a new way of doing the midst of this? Yes, we see clearly,” the Pope says, being corralled and contained intention of emerging from Now, I’m not suggesting torists in Limerick. I’ve covered in the quiet simplicity the guise of doctors, nurses that Mass is available to us things? Is it an opportunity want to get back to celebrat- “that the thing the Church but at some point will need the cocoon still a caterpillar. that Pentecost Sunday trans- popped into the cathedral in of our socially isolated lives? and other health staff, front- online but perhaps this shared to recognise First Holy Com- ing the Eucharist together but needs most today is the ability to be spoken of – anxiety, Through the gifts of the forms us and allow us to run Letterkenny and St Mel’s in What do we desire to do dif- line workers and volunteers. reflection, the development munion as a celebration of our vision needs to be deeper, to heal wounds and to warm fear, frustration. What is Holy Spirit let us be open to free, without a care in the Longford as well as my own ferently? What values have of small groups committed to faith in family life, enabling wider, more than this. This the hearts of the faithful; it our pastoral response? It is transformation. world. What I am suggesting parish here in Letterkenny’s been brought into focus? Communities praying and sharing together parents and guardians to pandemic has provoked an As parishes we will have is that over these weeks we Irish Martyrs - all on the I find myself thinking about is what we also need at this take ownership of their vital existential crisis on a global to invest a lot of energy in would do well to pray for laptop of course. I deeply What the Basic Christian Com- time. Our parishes have in role as the first teachers level. What is the pastoral the gifts of the Spirit. Living appreciate the availability ❛❛ munities which developed so many ways and for many of faith? Change is nerve response to the trauma of through a pandemic creates of Mass online and yet, I resources are in Latin America. At the core years become service provid- wracking but resistance to this? Firstly I would have to community building as we anxiety – that’s natural – am concerned. It strikes me of these communities was ers allowing us to simply be change can be resistance to ask, are we open to being but we cannot allow that that in partaking of Mass in we providing the willingness of people consumers of these services. life itself. evangelised by the Gospel emerge from this time of social anxiety to dominate and this way we are becoming, for families to to reflect together on the We have paid lip service to goodness of so many all so we need the courage to yet again, an utterly passive Word of God, to view the the importance of adult faith around us, of every creed and laity. I know there is not enable them to Online and isolation and cannot take it for move out into the world scriptures through the lens development. So then, rather ❛❛ none? What have we learned again. While it is not good much we can do about it for grow in faith of their daily experience and than being simply passive in conversations about humanity? When you granted that people will simply to spend too much time now but it concerns me. Yes, their lives through the lens recipients where can we listen to a teenage boy saying watching the news or read- it is good to be able to ‘hear’ together? of the Gospel. These were come to, bringing our meagre we hear over and that he hasn’t seen his mum Mass, there is certainly a return writes ing articles about Covid-19 For society in general and simple, ordinary people offerings, our five loaves and since the beginning of lock- Bairbre Cahill sense of connection but we over again, people online it is essential that we for the Church it cannot sim- living their lives in challeng- two fish and allow them to down because she is a nurse ou’ve probably heard prospect of a cup of tea or a need so much more. have a realistic understand- ply be ‘business as usual’. We ing circumstance but it was be transformed into bread to saying that we and is staying away from the the story of the hun- wee glass of wine and a chat, And indeed in order to do ing of the situation, that do not know how long this is this interaction of faith and nourish others? family home in order to keep gry caterpillar; well even sitting at a sensible two that, we need to take time cannot simply we are not being driven by going to impact on our lives life which gave them vision Do we believe that the them safe we are witnessing I’m currently feeling metres social distance in the to listen. What has people’s rumours, half-baked stories but sitting at Mass, wearing and courage and the desire family is the domestic Church, return to what we the stuff of holiness – in the like the rather anxious cat- garden is wonderful. and hysteria. The threat is experience been during this to transform society. It takes erpillar.Y We are on a phased But I know I am not alone masks and at a two metre the place where faith takes actions of the mother and the time? What have we learned? very real but there are clear distance from others will not courage to enter into the root? If that is the case, then previously thought loving understanding of her journey back into society. when I wonder how we will Online and in conversations steps we can take to mini- be business as usual. So we intimacy of faith sharing, what are we doing in this son. When you hear of people We are emerging gradually relax with these gradually mise the risk of catching or we hear over and over again, to break open the word of of as normal” from our cocoons. I delight at evolving freedoms, sources need to take this opportunity time to nurture that? What who have retired but return resources are we providing We deeply need the gifts to work in order to be of the prospect of getting back of joy and yet needing our of the Spirit, not just as to walking the Derryveagh ongoing vigilance. I suspect for families to enable them to service – holiness. When you We do not know how long this is going to impact on our grow in faith together? individuals but as families, look at the sports clubs and mountains. I long for the this is why I found myself ❛❛ as society and as the people chance to swim in the sea. I thinking a lot about Pente- First Holy Communions community groups deliver- lives but sitting at Mass, wearing masks and at a two metre have been postponed all over of God. We could so easily be ing support to those who We are witnessing the stuff of holiness in this pandemic. Volunteers organise want to meet up with those cost as the feast approached like the two disciples on the I have missed so much. The last weekend. I identify with the country. Even come Sep- are vulnerable within the donated food next to a photograph of Pope Francis at the parish of San Ramon distance from others will not be business as usual” tember it is highly unlikely road to Emmaus, plodding community – holiness. When Nonato in Madrid on June 2. Photo: CNS / Susana Vera, Reuters 16 || FeatureComment || || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 Return to Mass strikes the right balance between safety The lockdown has caused huge damage and it’s simplistic to look at and normal life it only in terms of lives saved writes David Quinn ublic worship in Ireland is now due to return on June 29, not July 20, as originally planned. It’s still one of the latest dates in Europe even though ourP outbreak was not as severe as in countries such as France, Italy or Spain. It is a big, and sensible step in the right direction all the same. Here in Ireland we spend too much time comparing ourselves with Britain and America, probably because they are English-speaking countries and our connection with them is so strong. We believe Covid- 19 has caused carnage in both of those countries whereas we have managed things extremely well. In fact, at the time of writing this article, Ireland had experienced 345 Covid-related deaths per million people compared with 337 in the US. In other words, the outbreak has been worse so far, although it hit America later than here. In Ireland, almost two-thirds of deaths were in care homes, where the situation was appalling. In the US, New York was by far the worst hit city. Many other big cities in America have barely been Online Masses were widely watched, but a poor substitute for gathering together. Photo: CNS hit by comparison. When you went into lockdown is original timetable was no longer Notably, the Association of If you make 100% safety your The picture is worse in Britain relevant to when you start coming justified in view of how low Catholic Priests (how many priests goal, you would never return, and where there have been 609 deaths out. It indicates when the virus in a Covid-transmission has become in attacked those of us who ques- certainly you would have to cease per million at the time of writing. given country became sufficiently the general community and after tioned the slow pace of restoring public Masses again during every But the situation varies greatly bad to warrant the measure. We can looking at what other European public worship. That includes this flu season which can kill hundreds by region. Northern Ireland, for see that Italy went into lockdown countries are doing. writer and this newspaper. of Irish people. Some probably pick example, has had roughly the same about three weeks before us, This is all a matter of proportion- They attacked us for asking why up the flu at Mass. rate of death as the rest of Ireland. and France and Spain less than a ality. The lockdown was saving lives, Church leaders were not pressing Population density has a lot to do fortnight before us. but it has almost certainly cost lives for an earlier return, unlike practi- with how badly a place will be hit. as well. For example, an unknown cally every other sector in society. It is extremely Normality number of people have delayed What they left out was the fact simplistic❛❛ to look at Several hundred But they have been returning to cancer treatment. People with chest that everywhere else in Europe ❛❛ some semblance of normality pains and other life-threatening Church leaders were pressing for this only in terms of thousand students well before us. We won’t be back conditions were not seeing their GPs exactly that, and succeeding. lives saved by the have suffered to public Masses, with limits on or going into hospital. numbers and various other safety Many face financial ruin, Masses lockdown” lost educational measures, until 13 weeks after especially in the hospitality sector. Was Pope Francis being heedless lockdown was imposed. Increased poverty is always associ- of the common good in supporting Dr Tony Holohan told me at opportunities” In Italy, the gap was 10 weeks, ated with decreased life expectancy. a return to public Masses in Italy one of the press briefings that he For the record, other countries in France 11 weeks, and in Spain Others were trapped in situa- on May 18? Were the French knew of no cases of any customer with small populations have done about 10 weeks. That isn’t much of tions of domestic violence. We can bishops being reckless in seeking acquiring Covid-19 as a result of far better than Ireland. Austria a difference, but remember, July 20 expect to see an increase in divorce. a return on June 1, or the Austrian shopping for food during the whole has had 76 deaths per million. was the original return date, much Several hundred thousand students bishops on May 15? And so on. of the lockdown. This gives an Denmark has had 101 deaths per later than those countries. have suffered lost educational In fact, outside perhaps of indication of how small the risk is million. Ireland has not done as The July 20 date became opportunities. Britain, it is hard to think of any of becoming infected with Covid- well as either the Government or increasingly indefensible as time In other words, it is extremely groups of priests apart from the 19 at Mass, so long as numbers went on. It is why the Govern- simplistic to look at this only in ACP, and that included basically the media would have us believe. attending are limited and everyone ment has generally speeded up terms of lives saved by the lock- every hierarchy in Europe, who Bigger countries like France, socially distances and uses hand Italy and Spain have had, the easing out of lockdown for down. The lockdown has caused did not seek an earlier date than sanitiser before entering church. respectively, 434, 560 and 580 all sectors. The slowness of the huge damage as well. originally scheduled. A June 29 return date to Mass deaths per million that we know of. Those countries entered is proportionate. It strikes the lockdown on March 17, March 9 We won’t be back to public Masses, with limits right balance between safety and ❛❛ normal life. Kudos to all those who and March 15 respectively. Ireland entered lockdown on March 28, on numbers and various other safety measures, have made this possible, including although we went into semi- the bishops who worked behind lockdown in mid-March. until 13 weeks after lockdown was imposed” the scenes. 16 || FeatureComment || || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 Return to Mass strikes the

right balance between safety The The lockdown has caused huge Irish Spirit June 11th, 2020 damage and it’s Issue No. 5 simplistic to look at and normal life it only in terms of lives saved writes David Quinn ublic worship in Ireland is now due to return on June 29, not July 20, as originally planned. It’s still one of the latest dates in Europe even though ourP outbreak was not as severe as ‘The Art in countries such as France, Italy or Spain. It is a big, and sensible step in the right direction all the same. Here in Ireland we spend too much time comparing ourselves with Britain and America, probably because they are English-speaking countries and our connection with them is so strong. We believe Covid- of Faith’ 19 has caused carnage in both of those countries whereas we have managed things extremely well. In fact, at the time of writing A journey through art with this article, Ireland had experienced 345 Covid-related deaths per Sr Maureen’s selection of Irish Art. million people compared with 337 in the US. In other words, the outbreak has been worse so far, although it hit America later than Also discover Galway’s churches here. In Ireland, almost two-thirds of deaths were in care homes, via Urban Sketching. where the situation was appalling. In the US, New York was by far the worst hit city. Many other big cities in America have barely been Online Masses were widely watched, but a poor substitute for gathering together. Photo: CNS hit by comparison. When you went into lockdown is original timetable was no longer Notably, the Association of If you make 100% safety your AN ARTICLE FROM EMMA TOBIN The picture is worse in Britain relevant to when you start coming justified in view of how low Catholic Priests (how many priests goal, you would never return, and where there have been 609 deaths out. It indicates when the virus in a Covid-transmission has become in attacked those of us who ques- certainly you would have to cease per million at the time of writing. given country became sufficiently the general community and after tioned the slow pace of restoring public Masses again during every But the situation varies greatly bad to warrant the measure. We can looking at what other European public worship. That includes this flu season which can kill hundreds by region. Northern Ireland, for see that Italy went into lockdown countries are doing. writer and this newspaper. of Irish people. Some probably pick Religious Art: example, has had roughly the same about three weeks before us, This is all a matter of proportion- They attacked us for asking why up the flu at Mass. rate of death as the rest of Ireland. and France and Spain less than a ality. The lockdown was saving lives, Church leaders were not pressing Population density has a lot to do fortnight before us. but it has almost certainly cost lives for an earlier return, unlike practi- with how badly a place will be hit. as well. For example, an unknown cally every other sector in society. It is extremely Normality number of people have delayed What they left out was the fact simplistic❛❛ to look at An Expression of Awe Several hundred But they have been returning to cancer treatment. People with chest that everywhere else in Europe ❛❛ some semblance of normality pains and other life-threatening Church leaders were pressing for this only in terms of thousand students well before us. We won’t be back conditions were not seeing their GPs exactly that, and succeeding. lives saved by the have suffered to public Masses, with limits on or going into hospital. EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT numbers and various other safety Many face financial ruin, Masses lockdown” lost educational measures, until 13 weeks after especially in the hospitality sector. Was Pope Francis being heedless lockdown was imposed. Increased poverty is always associ- of the common good in supporting Dr Tony Holohan told me at opportunities” In Italy, the gap was 10 weeks, ated with decreased life expectancy. a return to public Masses in Italy one of the press briefings that he For the record, other countries in France 11 weeks, and in Spain Others were trapped in situa- on May 18? Were the French knew of no cases of any customer with small populations have done about 10 weeks. That isn’t much of tions of domestic violence. We can bishops being reckless in seeking acquiring Covid-19 as a result of Let Nothing Trouble You far better than Ireland. Austria a difference, but remember, July 20 expect to see an increase in divorce. a return on June 1, or the Austrian shopping for food during the whole has had 76 deaths per million. was the original return date, much Several hundred thousand students bishops on May 15? And so on. of the lockdown. This gives an Denmark has had 101 deaths per later than those countries. have suffered lost educational In fact, outside perhaps of indication of how small the risk is The July 20 date became opportunities. Britain, it is hard to think of any A reflection on St Teresa of Avila million. Ireland has not done as of becoming infected with Covid- well as either the Government or increasingly indefensible as time In other words, it is extremely groups of priests apart from the 19 at Mass, so long as numbers went on. It is why the Govern- simplistic to look at this only in ACP, and that included basically the media would have us believe. attending are limited and everyone ment has generally speeded up terms of lives saved by the lock- every hierarchy in Europe, who Bigger countries like France, socially distances and uses hand Italy and Spain have had, the easing out of lockdown for down. The lockdown has caused did not seek an earlier date than ....and much more! sanitiser before entering church. respectively, 434, 560 and 580 all sectors. The slowness of the huge damage as well. originally scheduled. A June 29 return date to Mass deaths per million that we know of. Those countries entered is proportionate. It strikes the lockdown on March 17, March 9 We won’t be back to public Masses, with limits right balance between safety and ❛❛ normal life. Kudos to all those who and March 15 respectively. Ireland entered lockdown on March 28, on numbers and various other safety measures, have made this possible, including although we went into semi- the bishops who worked behind lockdown in mid-March. until 13 weeks after lockdown was imposed” the scenes. Nursing Sisters, Beaumont home by Patrick Leonard HRHA (1918-2005) 18 | The Irish Spirit June 11, 2020 Religious Art: An Expression of Awe

Written by Emma Tobin The Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo, 1508-1512

hen I started thinking about art, I asked myself what makes Wart valuable? What separates a child’s drawing of God as a smiley face in the sky from the Pieta, from Rembrandt’s paintings, from The Book of Kells, the Ardagh Chalice? What separates hand-woven St Brigid’s crosses from beautiful gold and silver filigree crosses? The answer is nothing. These things are the same. Granted, gold has more value than riverside reeds. Granted, the liquid stone lines of the Pieta inspire awe. Granted, Rembrandt’s paintings are a demonstration of consummate skill and painstaking years of practice. A child’s drawing expresses something equally noteworthy, however. If you leave a child alone with the means to make art, they will. There is something about being human that drives us to create. For thousands of years, human beings have expressed their devotion and their awe through the creation of breathtaking sculptures, architectural marvels, jewellery and paintings and pottery and poetry. Art is, after all, very often an Like any great work done by human hands, expression of awe. And one gasp is as good churches are built on great love and great as another. suffering. They are places to celebrate the most Art is an expression profound joy and the most wretched grief. ” of feeling, of devotion, of passion. One could why we lived. Some of the greatest pieces the world. A church is not the only place to argue that religion itself of religious art that we possess today can be go and practice faith. It isn’t enough to stare seen a mile away by their steeples, stretching into the magnificent stained-glass windows, is a recognition of the into the air. The largest are the work of the soaring arches and stone edifices of our artistry inherent in life.” thousands of hands over decades, floors churches. In Ireland we have a long and storied full of small dark rivers of eroded stone history of incredibly gifted artists, from poets People make art about the things that where a million feet have passed, creaking to builders to painters to iconographers. matter most to them. Art is an expression and cracking benches where a million This history is precious, but we should never of feeling, of devotion, of passion. One could bodies have rested. In centuries past these argue that religion itself is a recognition of the buildings have been places of sanctuary, and forget that a church would mean the same artistry inherent in life. Christians believe that Book of Kells, Folio 32v, Christ Enthroned. the greedy have scented their power and thing if we made it out of sticks and stones © Abbey of Kells / Public domain what exists was created, that the seeds of shoved feet through the door. Like any great and rebuilt it after every storm. It is a place everything that is were set down by knowing Art, whether it is the work of a child with work done by human hands, churches are to pray, to listen to the words passed down hands, shaped towards a certain manner of half a box of crayons, or the work of a master built on great love and great suffering. They through generations. These words are a call to being. Life itself is, therefore, a work of art. on a marble block, is and should be about are places to celebrate the most profound action, a call to humbleness and compassion, This idea resonates though almost every intention. Religious art is an act of devotion. joy and the most wretched grief. a call to value life fiercely, especially the lives facet of Christian belief. Jesus was an artist, A church is just a building, of course. We are taught that faith is not something of those most oppressed in our world. a carpenter. The most pivotal story in the Just as a statue is an oddly shaped piece of you can touch, or see, or smell, but just as At its heart that is what religion is; a sense Christian tradition is about an act of creation. stone, and a painting is just a load of colours prayer is an attempt to capture faith, for a of awe at the beauty of life in all its forms. Many of the miracles that Jesus performed daubed together. None of these things matter moment, with a thought or a word, religious Great works of art remind us that nothing were acts of transmutation; turning water without people. None of these things can to wine. This is art, taking a blank canvas and art snatches at the stuff of devotion and tries matter more than people. It remains true beautiful or worthwhile can be achieved turning it into something that can reach right to give it shape. that we can create as many beautiful pieces without sacrifice and sweat and tears, but into the human soul and tug. Taking words Archaeologists can sift through the of religious art as we want, but the kind of they are also a reminder that the beauty and placing them just so, and those words hidden heaps of centuries and tell us how ‘art’ that faith calls us to create is the kind we create in the world will echo down the can paint landscapes in the empty air. we lived, but only historical art can tell us that starts in the streets, in our homes, out in centuries, and never be forgotten. June 11, 2020 The Irish Spirit ||19 A Dwelling Place Within Exclusive Excerpt from Let Nothing Trouble You by Eugene McCaffrey OCD

ife is a journey, and in the end it is the the inner journey. She is all too aware of journey itself that matters. The greatest the struggle between the first stirrings of an Ljourney of all is the journey within. It is awakened love and the welter of attractions not one of many steps but of deep longing. Not arising from a self-indulgent past. This is a knowing how close the treasure is, we seek time for planting seeds – seeds that in their it far away. Yet it is only a heartbeat away; the own time and place will flower and bear fruit. world within is more real and more beautiful There is a beginning of a relationship with than anything we can see without. God, however tenuous, and an awareness Teresa’s Interior Castle is a priceless of a deeper hunger and thirst which, up until guide in this great adventure of the soul’s now, has hardly been noticed. God is working inner pilgrimage to God. It is the last of her quietly in hidden and unexpected ways; a major works, written five years before she deeper providence and design is taking place. died. It was started, appropriately, on Trinity The Lord does not look so much Sunday and completed six months later. It at the greatness of our deeds was written against the background of what as at the love with which we do them. was undoubtedly the most difficult period of We have heaven within ourselves, her life: she herself was forbidden to leave her since the Lord of Heaven is there. convent and her life’s work was in danger of collapse. Yet, incredibly, despite all the hostility A Little White Butterfly and bitter opposition, she wrote what is now Essentially, this experience is an invitation to regarded as a literary and spiritual masterpiece. intimacy and personal friendship with God. The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Bernini, 1646. Love cannot possibly be content Nothing is more real than God’s love poured Source: Wikimedia Commons with remaining always the same. into the heart by the Holy Spirit. It is like the experience of ‘falling in love’ – being caught up Light and Darkness the sense of freedom and growth that she But at the heart of the castle, Teresa in an embrace of divine friendship. Horizons wanted to speak about. The soul has been discovered something she could never have Teresa is very conscious of the darker reality, expand, friendship deepens, and the soul is liberated, has shaken off the bonds and is imagined, not even in her wildest dreams. the negative side of the Christian experience. being transformed into an unshakable love: no longer earthbound. What was revealed was not just the presence To be transformed by the light of Christ love of God and love of neighbour. of Christ but an encounter with the living God involves a struggle with contrary and opposing The best place to find God is within yourself. Teresa is renowned for her use of graphic revealed in the very heart of the mystery of forces: the enemy within. She acknowledges the images. One of the most famous of all her the Trinity. difficulties, obstacles and hindrances, coming images, certainly one of the loveliest, is that Finding God at the The culmination of the great journey from what she calls ‘snakes and vipers and of the silkworm and the butterfly. The soul Centre inwards was for Teresa an entry into the poisonous creatures’. With such graphic images reborn in Christ resembles the caterpillar For Teresa the innermost and deepest centre triune nature of God: oneness hidden in the she acknowledges the inner forces pulling transformed into something that could never of the soul, the ‘second heaven’, is God’s heart of the Trinity. What she once accepted against the soul. have been imagined: a white butterfly – own dwelling place, an abode of peace. But by faith she now understood by inner sight. The battle is all too real; the emerging free, beautiful, yet fragile. Teresa needed it is not a surface peace, a state of bliss or light struggles with the inner darkness. Teresa this image. The image of the castle was not of unruffled calm. Love explodes in a surge Journey’s End has great sympathy for those setting out on creative enough for her. It did not allow of spiritual energy and unselfish service. For Teresa has shared with us not only a journey Teresa, her duty as foundress was far from but a dream: God’s dream for us. There is a Let Nothing Trouble You finished; there was still bitter opposition to call, an invitation; the only limitation is the by Eugene McCaffrey OCD her work, her health was in decline, she had horizon of our own vision. God’s dream for many more roads to travel, other convents to us is greater than anything we can imagine PRICE: €12.99 found, and endless administrative burdens. She for ourselves. We are the castle, it is real A 01 6874096 | M [email protected] was a pilgrim in the service of the Beloved, and it is within. We are called to grow, to www.columbabooks.com or send a cheque to: she was a fool for Christ. It is little wonder she explore the wonders hidden in our own Columba Books, 23 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, D02 XE02. speaks of Martha and Mary. They need each heart. The Beloved is waiting to be our guide other, together they express the fullness of and companion. All we have to do is want to Christian life: love in service, flowing from the want him, to take the first step, and to follow hands of Martha and the heart of Mary. Love the well-marked path through the darkness FREE POSTAGE ON ALL ORDERS cannot show itself apart from deeds of love. and into the light. 20 | The Irish Spirit June 11, 2020

Exclusive Excerpt from An Urban Sketcher’s Galway by Róisín Curé

ST NICHOLAS’ CHURCH, CHURCH LANE An Urban Sketcher’s A sign outside St Nicholas’ Church proudly declares it to be the oldest church in Ireland still in daily use. The first part of it was built in the 13th Century. I have received amazing hospitality in St Nicholas’, and my groups of sketchers and I have been warmly welcomed there over the last three years. This is invaluable to me: we can’t sketch in the rain, the church is full of amazing subjects to draw, and there aren’t too many public buildings in Galway that can fit more than a handful of sketchers. The church is beautiful inside and out, with a copper-clad steeple and four clocks around the base and rows of wonderful gargoyles. Galway There are guided tours of St Nicholas’ all day long, given by private tour guides. They are always very interesting and informative. Unfortunately, I have forgotten most of what I’ve overheard about the church, so I recommend you take one of those guided tours yourself. The church is lined with two rows of arches, which although beautiful are very hard to sketch, because the beauty is in the perfectly symmetrical arcs meeting at a point. Heaven knows how the craftsmen did it so perfectly back in medieval times. An arch on the left of the church leads to the organ, where recitals are regularly held. I sketched the choir practicing under the guidance of Mark Dooley. I haven’t done much by way of thanks for the welcome I’ve always had in the church, so I was pleased to hear that one of the caretakers of the church, Anne, has the picture on her hymnal. “Everyone knows which hymnal is mine,” she said, “thanks to the sketch on the front.”

1. St Nicholas’ Church exterior 2. St Nicholas recital The building of Galway Cathedral 3. Galway Cathedral mortuary 4. Galway Cathedral exterior was funded in part by levies on the 5. Galway Cathedral interior people of Galway and in part by Irish emigrants in

All paintings by Róisín Curé Boston, many of whom were of Galway descent. ”

GALWAY CATHEDRAL Galway Cathedral, or the Church of Our Lady Ascended into Heaven and St Nicholas to give it its full title, was completed in 1965 on the site of the old Galway Jail. It’s opposite the University. Brendan McGowan of Galway City Museum told me about an unfortunate man who had been wrongly executed there. In 1882 a Connemara man was murdered in Galway near the border with Mayo, along with four members of his family. His cousin Maolra Seoighe (Myles Joyce in English), was among those arrested for the murder. The trial was conducted in English, which Seoighe didn’t understand. He was sentenced to hang along with two other accused, but protested his innocence to the very end. Two days before he was hanged one of the self-described eye-witnesses to the murders (who had turned queen’s evidence due to a feud with that branch of the Seoighe family, and was apparently paid to do so) admitted Seoighe hadn’t been anywhere near the scene of the crime, as it turned out, and so couldn’t have known who did it. The Lord Lieutenant, Earl Spencer, was given all this new evidence, but was not minded to grant a reprieve. All the accused were hanged two days later. It didn’t end there: less than two years later the real murderer made a sworn statement that he had lied at the original trial in Dublin, and that he 2 was himself guilty of the crime. The British authorities still wouldn’t budge. 20 | The Irish Spirit June 11, 2020 June 11, 2020 The Irish Spirit ||21

Exclusive Excerpt from An Urban Sketcher’s Galway by Róisín Curé

This miscarriage of justice became known as the Maamtrasna Affair, and had far-reaching political consequences. 1 Maolra Seoighe’s ghost was said to haunt Galway Jail, appearing in the precincts of the prison immediately after his execution. It was kept quiet at first, being thought of as a delusion 1. St Nicholas’ Church exterior or a prank, but then two soldiers on guard in the prison said they were followed by a “tall, 2. St Nicholas recital The building of Galway Cathedral mystic figure” that, they said, touched them. The matron and the warders of the prison had 3. Galway Cathedral mortuary had enough, and asked for a transfer. I wonder did the ghost of Maolra Seoighe fade away 4. Galway Cathedral exterior was funded in part by levies on the with the demolition of the jail? Or is it only now, with an official pardon issued in 2018 by 5. Galway Cathedral interior people of Galway and in part by Irish emigrants in President Michael D. Higgins, that his spirit can rest? The building of Galway Cathedral was funded in part by levies on the people of Galway All paintings by Róisín Curé Boston, many of whom were of Galway descent. ” and in part by Irish emigrants in Boston, many of whom were of Galway descent. There is a mosaic of JFK in the mortuary chapel halfway up the left hand side of the church. I found it rather bizarre, and I’m told it was controversial at the time, but that it was a sort of thank-you for the financial contribution made by the Irish emigrants. GALWAY CATHEDRAL 3 “You can’t over-emphasise how delighted some elements of Irish society were that a Galway Cathedral, or the Church of Our Lady Ascended into Heaven and Catholic had taken the highest office of American political life,” Brendan McGowan told me. St Nicholas to give it its full title, was completed in 1965 on the site of the Pádraig Pearse is on the other side of the wall, with a figure of Christ in the middle. The old Galway Jail. It’s opposite the University. Brendan McGowan of Galway design is in keeping with a certain art style of the 1950s and 1960s, which can be seen in City Museum told me about an unfortunate man who had been wrongly religious buildings all over the country from that period. executed there. In 1882 a Connemara man was murdered in Galway near the border with Mayo, along with four members of his family. His cousin Maolra Seoighe An Urban Sketcher’s Galway (Myles Joyce in English), was among those arrested for the murder. The trial Róisín Curé was conducted in English, which Seoighe didn’t understand. He was sentenced to hang along with two other accused, but protested his innocence to the very PRICE: €22.99 end. Two days before he was hanged one of the self-described eye-witnesses A 01 6874096 M [email protected] to the murders (who had turned queen’s evidence due to a feud with that www.currachbooks.com branch of the Seoighe family, and was apparently paid to do so) admitted or send a cheque to: Seoighe hadn’t been anywhere near the scene of the crime, as it turned out, Currach Books, 23 Merrion Square, and so couldn’t have known who did it. Dublin 2, D02 XE02. The Lord Lieutenant, Earl Spencer, was given all this new evidence, but was not minded to grant a reprieve. All the accused were hanged two days later. It didn’t end there: less than two years later the real murderer made a sworn statement that he had lied at the original trial in Dublin, and that he 4 FREE POSTAGE ON ALL ORDERS 2 was himself guilty of the crime. The British authorities still wouldn’t budge. 22 | The Irish Spirit June 11, 2020 Sister Maureen’s Selection of Irish Art

aureen selects a number of artists and their creations and Mplaces them before us for our consideration. She gives us some significant information about the artist and takes us on a guided tour of the painting or sculpture as she sees it. She never preaches or bullies us, never suggests that there is only one way to respond to artistic excellence, but prompts us to see for ourselves and make the work of art our own by absorbing it into our sensibilities and storing it away in our hearts.

Nursing Sisters, Beaumont home by Patrick Leonard HRHA (1918-2005)

NURSING SISTERS, BEAUMONT HOME by Patrick Leonard HRHA (1918-2005) Artists live in the same world as the rest of us, but they see that Coolock, where he spent many happy years. Unfortunately his white uniforms are set against the silver-grey of the path and the world differently. We might look at the sky and think that it is work of painting and teaching were often interrupted by bouts dark bushes in the background. going to be a fine day or it is going to rain. The artist looks at of illness, but he never stopped sketching. Numerous trips to All of us needs to give ourselves ritual rest, to be still, relax, listen the same sky and marvels at the changing shapes of the clouds. the Beaumont Home to visit his mother there, gave him the and pray, to let the gentle wind of the spirit of God blow over Patrick Leonard saw beauty in a bus queue! His paintings were opportunity to study nurses in their daily lives and to appreciate us and through us, so that we may be open to that same Spirit. inspired by everyday events. He sketched the people and the their dedication to the difficult tasks of nursing. When he chose things around him, in a train, at the beach, wherever he was, at to depict them in paint he eschewed the glamorous image and Sister Maureen’s Selection of Irish Art with Reflections home or abroad, or even sick in hospital. These sketches were showed us their life in the raw. The three nurses here, escaping by Maureen MacMahon OP later used as starting points for finished oils. He painted because from the relentless round of dispensing drugs, dealing with he loved to paint, not to be acclaimed by others, and so remained recalcitrant patients, constantly on the go with bed pans and PRICE: €9.99 true to himself. He did receive acclaim when he was chosen to bed making, are women with sore feet and weary legs – solid, A 01 6874096 represent Ireland at the Olympic Games Exhibition in Helsinki caring, reliable women. The artist poses them with feet apart, M [email protected] in 1952, with an oil painting entitled Tennis Players. folded arms and bent backs, relaxing in the hospital garden, with His painting career began when he attended the Metropolitan the wind blowing through their headgears. Their place in the www.columbabooks.com or send a cheque to: School of Art and came under the tutelage of Sean Keating and composition might appear to be accidental; a closer look reveals Columba Books, 23 Maurice MacGonigal in 1936. A painting of his was accepted by an interesting arrangement. Merrion Square, the RHA as early as 1941. The following year he was offered an Two standing figures are placed at the golden section, while the Dublin 2, D02 XE02. honorary membership. third figure, stooping to admire the pink roses, leads the eye Between 1953 and 1982 he taught art in different schools across the canvas, cutting the curve of the flowerbed and linking and colleges around Dublin, ending up in the Mercy College in the two sides of the painting. To add sparkle and emphasis the 22 | The Irish Spirit June 11, 2020 Juine 11, 2020 The Irish Spirit ||23

SILVER LIGHT, CLIFFS OF MOHER, CO. CLARE Sister Maureen’s by Maurice C. Wilks RUA ARHA (1910-1984) Northern Ireland produced many notable painters during the 1930s and 1940s. One distinctive group excelled in landscape painting. While remaining distinctive in style they Selection of often used similar subject matter, were alike in the exactitude of their observation, and in the way they handled paint. Our present artist, Maurice Wilks, was one of these. Other familiar names were Humbert Craig, Frank McKelvey, Frank Egginton, Norman McCaig and Charles McAuley. Irish Art Born in Belfast in 1911, the son of a linen designer, Wilks received his education at Malone Public Elementary School. In the evenings he attended classes in drawing and painting at the Belfast School of Art. The family was of modest Silver Light, Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare by Maurice C. Wilks RUA ARHA (1910-1984) aureen selects a number of means, but a Dunville scholarship enabled young Maurice to pursue his artistic training full time. He studied every artists and their creations and painting gear, to capture variations of light, muted overcast nearest cliff in sharp focus, with bright colours and strong aspect of art, and painted some fine portraits. After college places them before us for our moments, or magical colour combinations, which resulted textured strokes, but he uses muted colours and diminished M when he went to live in Cushendun, landscape painting in his beautifully crafted, romantic, landscape paintings. In definition to suggest the cliffs as they move away into the consideration. She gives us some significant took precedence over other forms. He painted around the the late 1970s after an absence of nearly thirty years, he distance. All is calm here, but this part of the west coast can Belfast docks, in the glens of Antrim, in Donegal, Kerry, and information about the artist and takes us on returned to the Dublin scene and set up a summer studio be whipped into a frenzy of dark and treacherous angry Connemara. When he was only nineteen he exhibited for a guided tour of the painting or sculpture the first time at the Royal Hibernian Academy. He loved to in Sutton, Co Dublin. He died in his home in Belfast in 1984. waves. Nature’s moods are many. as she sees it. She never preaches or bullies paint, he never sought acclaim or renown and he gave and This peaceful painting of the Cliffs of Moher one of the We are part of the natural world and our moods too can wonders of the Clare coast in the West of Ireland was vary like the wind and the sea. Waves of anger, lust or envy can us, never suggests that there is only one continues to give, by his paintings, great pleasure to a great many people. They are still sought by collectors. commissioned in 1980 when the artist was there on a rise up suddenly and threaten to engulf us. Willpower alone is, way to respond to artistic excellence, but They evoke the moods of the Irish countryside, the mountains holiday with his wife. Wilks chose a day when the pearly- sometimes, not sufficient to stop the sudden surge. We need prompts us to see for ourselves and make and valleys, boglands and meadows and the all pervasive clouded sky cast streaks of light on the calm waters and God’s help. It is good to feel that need. In my weakness you ocean. He went out at dawn and at dusk equipped with his bathed the receding cliffs in a hazy mist. He painted the are strong, O Lord, in my troubles you are peace. the work of art our own by absorbing it into our sensibilities and storing it away in our hearts. LITTLE HARBOUR, DUN LAOGHAIRE by Kathleen Bridle RUA (1857-1989) study. She returned to Dublin to join the stained glass studios of Harry Clarke. Her stay there was brief, because she found the art of stained glass too confining for her liking. Nursing Sisters, Beaumont home by Patrick Leonard HRHA (1918-2005) A former teacher and friend, John Hunter, encouraged her to apply for the post of art teacher at the Enniskillen Technical NURSING SISTERS, BEAUMONT HOME by Patrick Leonard HRHA (1918-2005) School in Co Fermanagh. She got the job and travelled to the town one wet wintry night in January 1926. Her first impressions Artists live in the same world as the rest of us, but they see that Coolock, where he spent many happy years. Unfortunately his white uniforms are set against the silver-grey of the path and the were disastrous. “I thought it was a dreadful place”, she told world differently. We might look at the sky and think that it is work of painting and teaching were often interrupted by bouts dark bushes in the background. TP Flanagan in an interview many years later. However she going to be a fine day or it is going to rain. The artist looks at of illness, but he never stopped sketching. Numerous trips to All of us needs to give ourselves ritual rest, to be still, relax, listen worked hard, teaching part time in as many as five different the same sky and marvels at the changing shapes of the clouds. the Beaumont Home to visit his mother there, gave him the and pray, to let the gentle wind of the spirit of God blow over schools until she found full time employment in the Collegiate Patrick Leonard saw beauty in a bus queue! His paintings were opportunity to study nurses in their daily lives and to appreciate us and through us, so that we may be open to that same Spirit. School in Enniskillen at the age of 58! As her reputation as a inspired by everyday events. He sketched the people and the their dedication to the difficult tasks of nursing. When he chose teacher grew she shaped the careers of many young aspiring things around him, in a train, at the beach, wherever he was, at to depict them in paint he eschewed the glamorous image and Sister Maureen’s Selection of Irish Art artists, two of whom became important painters – William with Reflections home or abroad, or even sick in hospital. These sketches were showed us their life in the raw. The three nurses here, escaping Picture: Little Harbour, Dun Laoghaire by Kathleen Bridle RUA (1857-1989) Scott and Terence P. Flanagan. She took her teaching seriously by Maureen MacMahon OP later used as starting points for finished oils. He painted because from the relentless round of dispensing drugs, dealing with and never appeared tired or bored by her students. In her The first thing that strikes me about this painting is its Kathleen made great strides in oil painting under Sean Keating. he loved to paint, not to be acclaimed by others, and so remained recalcitrant patients, constantly on the go with bed pans and PRICE: €9.99 hands watercolour became an exciting medium. Somehow liveliness and freshness. It is achieved by the bold blobs of Her drawing tutor was James (Jimmy) Golden, and George true to himself. He did receive acclaim when he was chosen to bed making, are women with sore feet and weary legs – solid, she managed time for her own painting, exhibited widely and A 01 6874096 paint applied with short brush strokes, wet into wet, and Atkinson introduced her to watercolour painting. She was in travelled extensively. represent Ireland at the Olympic Games Exhibition in Helsinki caring, reliable women. The artist poses them with feet apart, M [email protected] the bobbing boats with the vertical thrust of their masts her element, having never wanted to do anything else but in 1952, with an oil painting entitled Tennis Players. folded arms and bent backs, relaxing in the hospital garden, with She was elected a full member of the RUA Academy in lurching in all directions against the horizontal lines of the hills. draw and paint and so her memories of Dublin were happy His painting career began when he attended the Metropolitan the wind blowing through their headgears. Their place in the www.columbabooks.com 1948 and continued to paint into her nineties. Her final or send a cheque to: The contrast of complementary colours contributes to the ones. It was here that she revelled in the freedom to develop School of Art and came under the tutelage of Sean Keating and composition might appear to be accidental; a closer look reveals years were lonely, following the death of her sister, who had Columba Books, 23 lively effect. The painter, Kathleen Bridle, daughter of an Irish her talents. She won two silver medals and a scholarship, come to live with her. She died in 1989. Maurice MacGonigal in 1936. A painting of his was accepted by an interesting arrangement. Merrion Square, coastguard officer, was born in Kent, England, in 1897, trained which enabled her to pursue her studies in London at the the RHA as early as 1941. The following year he was offered an Two standing figures are placed at the golden section, while the Dublin 2, D02 XE02. All her life Kathleen shared her love of painting unselfishly in Dublin and lived for most of her long life in Enniskillen Royal College of Art. In the city, she temporarily shared with others and in this sharing she found happiness and honorary membership. third figure, stooping to admire the pink roses, leads the eye in Northern Ireland. She chose to come to Dublin in her accommodation with Norah McGuinness. Money was always fulfilment. Saint Paul exhorts us to show our love by being Between 1953 and 1982 he taught art in different schools across the canvas, cutting the curve of the flowerbed and linking late teens to attend the Metropolitan School of Art there. a problem but a further scholarship gave her another year of helpful to one another. and colleges around Dublin, ending up in the Mercy College in the two sides of the painting. To add sparkle and emphasis the 24 | The Irish Spirit June 11, 2020 Woefully Arrayed John Skelton (1460–1529)

From the book The Outlaw Christ by John F. Deane

ohn Skelton is a shadowy figure hovering of the cross to speak. His language was also at the door of English literature. Little very much the daily language of the people Jis known about him apart from what and his rhyming skill made many of his verses his poems tell. He was clearly learned and a hugely popular. But he is one of the first reader, quoting in his work from an impressive early-modern poets to touch seriously on list of classical authors and mythic tales. He questions of faith. His work is predictable was of his time, secular, intelligent, rhetorical, and not very polished, but one poem stands and much of his writing aimed at getting him preferment at court. Perhaps another out. In ‘Woefully Arrayed’ there is heard a link with earlier literature is his awareness personal honesty and commitment and a of the use of a persona, similar to the way genuine pleading to his Christ. In this poem ‘The Dream of the Rood’ uses the ‘person’ it is Christ who speaks. Woefully Arrayed

Woefully arrayed, Unfeignéd I deignéd my blood for to shed: My blood, man, My feet and handés sore For thee ran, The sturdy nailés bore: It may not be nay’d; What might I suffer more My body blue and wan, Than I have done, O man, for thee? Woefully arrayed. Come when thou list, welcome to me, Behold me, I pray thee, with thy whole Woefully arrayed. reason, Of record thy good Lord I have been and And be not so hard-hearted, and for this shall be: encheason,(reason) I am thine, thou art mine, my brother I call Sith I for thy soul sake was slain in good thee. season, (since) Thee love I entirely – see what is befall’n Beguiled and betrayed by Judas’ false me! treason: Sore beating, sore threating, to make thee, Unkindly entreated, man, all free: With sharp cord sore fretted, Why art thou unkind? The Jewés me threated: Why hast not me in mind? They mowéd, they grinned, they scornéd me, Come yet and thou shalt find Photo by Fiore Bagatello / Cathopic (mouthed) Mine endless mercie and grace – Condemnéd me to death, as thou may’st See how a spear my heart did race, There is that personal touch, new and be heard. The Christ of this poem is pleading see, (wound) fresh and moving, ‘I love thee, then love with humankind for love, insisting that he Woefully arrayed. Woefully arrayed. me’; here already is George Herbert. This, himself is a great lover, willing to climb on Thus naked am I nailed, O man, for thy sake! Dear brother, no other thing I of thee desire in the context of the drama of the poem, is the cross, to wear that crown of thorns, to I love thee, then love me; why sleepest thou? But give me thine heart free to reward mine a teacher’s exquisite point, a Skelton move, die for the sake of love. In the late fifteenth awake! hire: a preacher’s trick. Yet its very immediacy and early sixteenth century, this awareness of Remember my tender heart-root for thee I wrought thee, I bought thee from eternal and simplicity give it honour and truth. In the love of Christ was rare; the emphasis was brake, fire: the rhyming power, in the swift onward more on human sin and divine punishment. With painés my veinés constrained to crake: I pray thee array thee toward my high movement of the verse, here is Hopkins With John Skelton, and with this real personal (crack) empire already. In the deep sorrow and genuine calling to the Christ, the dark door out of the Thus tuggéd to and fro, Above the orient, urgings of the poem, R.S. Thomas can already forge has begun to open. Thus wrappéd all in woe, Whereof I am regent, Whereas never man was so, Lord God omnipotent, Entreated thus in most cruel wise, With me to reign in endless wealth: The Outlaw Christ Was like a lamb offered in sacrifice, Remember, man, thy soul’s health. by John F. Deane Price: €16.99 Woefully arrayed. Woefully arrayed, A 01 6874096 M [email protected] Of sharp thorn I have worn a crown on my My blood, man, www.columbabooks.com or send a cheque to: head, For thee ran, Columba Books, 23 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, D02 XE02. So painéd, so strainéd, so ruefull, so read, It may not be nay’d; Thus bobbéd, thus robbéd, thus for thy love My body blue and wan, dead, (beaten) Woefully arrayed. FREE POSTAGE ON ALL ORDERS The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 | International analysis ||25 LetterfromAmerica

John L. Allen Jr he late US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously said that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their ownT facts. A Catholic equivalent might be that everyone is entitled to disagree with their bishop, but not to pretend he is not the bishop. Some years ago, whilst on a speaking tour of the US during the presidential election, I happened to be at lunch with a bishop in one battleground state. Just after ordering food, the bishop got a phone call from a local reporter seeking comment on news that one of the candidates, a Democrat with a pro-choice voting Demonstrators protest near the record, would be appearing the White House in Washington DC next day at the city’s major Catholic over the death of George Floyd. university. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP Completely blindsided, the bishop quickly ended the call. He then shook his head in exasperation and asked: “How the Hell is this the first time I’m hearing about it?” This was a great question then, and it remains a Making peace with the great question today. Rebuke All this comes to mind in light of a controversy that erupted this week when Archbishop Wilton Gregory Catholic pool lifeguard of Washington issued a sting- when the White House issued a of Columbus – the world’s largest Wayne-South Bend was caught off reached out to Archbishop Gregory, ing rebuke of a visit by President statement announcing it. Catholic fraternal organisation – guard, which became an important things might have played out Donald Trump to the city’s Saint No one associated with the are not under the ecclesiastical part of the subtext in what differently. John Paul II National Shrine, calling Shrine, including its owners the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of happened next. Perhaps they could have found a it “baffling and reprehensible” that Knights of Columbus, apparently Washington. way to package those events so that a Catholic facility would allow itself gave Archbishop Gregory a There is a big difference, There are more than the concerns of both the sponsor to be “egregiously misused and heads-up. however, between asking ❛❛ and the bishop were satisfied, and manipulated”. This seems to defy belief permission and showing respect. 5,000 Catholic bishops conflict avoided. The Archbishop’s objection was that officials at the shrine were If you are a political advocacy in the world, and the There are more than 5,000 that less than a day before, police not contacted prior to the organisation or a for-profit Catholic bishops in the world, and had used tear gas to clear away announcement to discuss the corporation, fine, do whatever you law of averages suggests the law of averages suggests they protestors outraged by the killing logistical details. A statement from perceive to be in your self-interest. they are not all going are not all going to be role models of George Floyd in Minneapolis, so the shrine indicated that President If you are Catholic, however, of enlightenment. that President Trump could walk Trump’s visit was originally then seeking the opinion of your to be role models of In those cases, an institution not across the street from the White envisioned as an opportunity to local bishop, and being willing to dependent on that bishop is well House to the Episcopal Church of St enlightenment” sign an executive order on religious make reasonable compromises in within its’ rights to press ahead. John in order to be photographed freedom, suggesting it had been in order to accommodate it, is just Of the dozens of American Still, you never know until you holding a Bible. the works for a while. part of the deal. bishops who publicly objected try, and no matter what happens, The heart of the story pivots on There had to be some gap of To put the point differently, to President Obama’s invitation, you will get points for having made Archbishop Gregory’s assertion that time, however small, in which being part of the family matters at causing lasting heartache and anger a Catholic venue should not lend the effort. Archbishop Gregory could have least as much as being right. on all sides, several said privately A legendary scholar at one of itself to such a photo-op versus When Notre Dame decided to been alerted. they were doing it less on the Rome’s pontifical universities, critics, who charged it was Arch- Although the shrine does award an honorary doctorate to merits than out of solidarity with often called upon by religious bishop Gregory who politicised not need Archbishop Gregory’s then President Barak Obama in Bishop D’Arcy. orders to help them negotiate their things by rebuking the President in permission to host President 2009, for example, then-Bishop Had Notre Dame reached out to relationships with the hierarchy, a moment of national crisis. Trump or anyone else, the Knights John D’Arcy of the Diocese of Fort Bishop D’Arcy, or had the Knights However, there is a critically said he would always counsel them important footnote that has noth- at least to notify the local bishop of ing to do with whether Archbishop If you are Catholic, then seeking the opinion what they were up to, and ideally Gregory, President Trump or any of ❛❛ to find a way to win his blessing. the commentators were right on “If you’re gonna swim in the the substance of the dispute. of your local bishop, and being willing to Catholic pool,” he would say, It has been widely reported “sooner or later you have to make that Archbishop Gregory was make reasonable compromises in order to your peace with the lifeguard.” not informed of the visit until late Tuesday night of last week, accommodate it, is just part of the deal” i John L. Allen Jr is Editor of Crux. 26 | International news || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 World Report IN BRIEF Indian priest and director to Church warns immigration law release new film l A priest and film director in India is to release a new film of someone living with HIV and their family. Michael’s Coffee will ‘drastically’ affect migrants House, by Fr Anil Philip, will soon be released in Indian Bishops in Britain have Lastly, their statement cinemas. insisted that a proposed new also called for changes to the Fr Philip, a member of the Congregation of Mary Immaculate immigration bill will “drasti- clergy visa system. (CMI), based his first film, Madhuram EE Jeevitham (‘This Life cally alter opportunities” for “Most Catholic dioceses is Sweet’), on CMI founder St Chavara Kuriakos Elias. migrants to “build their lives previously used Tier 5 Reli- The film won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the and contribute to society”. gious Worker visas for priests 34th International Kolkata Cultural Film Festival. In a joint statement sent to come on essential supply “I celebrate holy Mass and recite my prayers early in the to opposition party leaders placements, allowing Catho- morning,” he said. “On movie sets often, many actors and crew at Westminster, bishops from lics to continue attending members ask me for spiritual advice.” Scotland and England and Wales encouraged the Brit- Bishop Mass, the new Tier 2 visas South Arabia vicar named ish government to consider William have more than doubled the amendments to the Immi- Nolan. costs incurred by parishes north apostolic administrator gration Bill currently before arranging supply cover. l Msgr Paul Hinder, the vicar of southern Arabia, has been parliament. “Seminaries that conduct appointed apostolic administrator of the northern Arabia “The Church is working to formation in English are not following the death of Msgr Camillo Ballin in April. raise awareness of the settle- The bishops’ statement of when they might be reu- necessarily recognised by the The Archbishop has been entrusted with safeguarding and ment scheme and help those called for a time limit on nited.” Home Office as meeting the preserving the links between the Christians of Arabia during the who are at risk of losing their detention, together with “a English language requirement Covid-19 pandemic. status,” said Bishop William significant permanent reduc- Threshold under the Tier 2 route, mean- His priorities are the conclusion of the cathedral of Bahrain Nolan, Scotland’s lead bishop tion in the use of detention In addition, the bishops also ing that many priests who “by the end of the year” and to aid migrant communities in the for migrants and refugees. will allow us to properly proposed that the minimum have been educated to post- Gulf regions. “Around 60% of Europeans protect people’s health and income threshold for family graduate level in English are “We must stay close,” said Msgr Hinder of the Christian living in the UK are Catho- human dignity”. visas should be reduced. nevertheless required to take community, “and make our presence felt as a Church.” lics. However, no scheme will “The UK remains the only “The minimum income a language test with extra threshold for family visas reach all European citizens in European [entity] without a logistical and cost implica- the UK. time limit on detention,” said unjustly separates tens of African bishops ask multinationals tions.” “Even if a small proportion Bishop Paul McAleenan, Eng- thousands of couples, parents to make Covid-19 contributions The statement concluded: do not make an application land and Wales’ lead bishop and children. l “We strongly urge the govern- Bishops in Africa have “Africa is a major by the June 2021 deadline, for migrants and refugees. “This separation not only called on large multinational supplier of raw materials this could leave thousands of “This has devastating con- has serious implications on ment to accept amendments companies to do their part to industrialised countries,” people without legal status. sequences for the well-being family life, but also has a addressing these important to help the debt-ridden read their statement. “We encourage amend- of vulnerable individuals who direct impact on the devel- issues and hope that MPs continent during the “Therefore, we call ments to the bill that will cre- find themselves detained. opment and well-being of from all parties will take this coronavirus pandemic. upon large companies ate a meaningful safety-net “It also has a significant children who are isolated opportunity to help create a In a SECAM (Symposium which exploit these raw including options to extend impact on families who are from their parents in another more just and humane immi- materials to make significant of the Episcopal the deadline.” separated with no indication country.” gration system.” Conferences of Africa and contributions to the host Madagascar) statement, countries to enable them they called on businesses provide basic social services to “join in the efforts” in such as hospitals, schools, ‘Hong Kong will be another providing care for vulnerable adequate and affordable people. housing.” Flippino clergy oppose new Tiananmen’ warns cardinal A Church leader in Hong Kong has his blog. He wrote that the annual the ban to stage a candlelit vigil after anti-terrorist bill urged people to continue resisting commemoration and prayer is “not knocking down barricades around l Catholic clergy have launched a campaign to oppose a Communist repression from China only to mourn the deceased or comfort Victoria Park. controversial new anti-terrorism bill in The Philippines. after thousands defied the city their loved ones”, but also “to remind Lee Cheuk-yan, chairman of the Under the bill passed by congress last week, which is administration’s ban on remembering ourselves that we should pick up the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of pending final approval from President Rodrigo Duterte, the Tiananmen Square victims. flags left by the martyrs…and carry on Patriotic Democratic Movements authorities would be empowered to jail suspected terrorists Some churches in the region marked their mission”. of China, said police denying them without trial or an arrest warrant. the June 4 anniversary with Masses and permission was “politically motivated” Several Church leaders say the bill could “be abused prayers in memory of the young people Permission and a threat to Hong Kong’s freedom of by those who wish to dominate the people, canceling the who were crushed in the 1989 student- Authorities refused permission to hold assembly. opposition and also suppressing legitimate dissent”. led pro-democracy movement. the usual Tiananmen memorial in Lina Chan, executive secretary of the Fr Daniel Pilario, a priest and theologian from Manila, Cardinal Joseph Zen, former bishop the city-state; the only place in China Justice and Peace Commission of Hong of Hong Kong, said the massacre should where the anniversary was allowed. Kong, adds that the pandemic has been says the framework also “increases the probability of serious inspire others “to pick up the flags” that Police had claimed it could increase the used to “restrict” freedom of assembly impunity for misconduct by state forces”. fell in Beijing. risk of coronavirus infection and pose a and that the situation “will become “Hong Kong will be another significant threat to public health. even worse” once the new national Faith helps Bangladesh Tiananmen,” wrote Cardinal Zen in However, tens of thousands defied security law is enacted. Catholic doctor beat Covid-19 l A Catholic doctor in Bangladesh who battled successfully Catholic shrine in England enjoys biggest pilgrimage season against Covid-19 has credited his strong faith in God and The Catholic National Shrine grimages due to the Covid-19 sands upon thousands of peo- “But much more impor- unwavering hope for his recovery. of Our Lady in Walsingham, pandemic. ple every day joining us for tant,” he continues, “it’s given Dr Edward Pallab Rozario, 47, head of health programmes England has experienced the Despite this, Msgr John our programme,” says Msgr a spiritual framework for at Caritas Bangladesh, caught the virus in late April. “biggest pilgrimage season” Armitage said that people Armitage. those who’ve been in lock- Despite testing positive at the time, following 14 days of in its history, according to the from 135 countries had taken down for years. The elderly, isolation in May he later came back negative. shrine’s rector. part virtually in a 24-hour Lockdown the disabled, those who are “At a time of any massive crisis, we must have complete The shrine, established livestream programme and “There are those who have never going to come out faith and hope in God so that we can overcome it,” Dr Rozario by the noblewoman Rich- he had been inundated with been in lockdown, like the again. said. eldis de Faverches after she letters of gratitude. rest of the world. They’re “And I don’t say we forgot “The crisis has brought us closer to God, and I strongly experienced a series of Mar- “We’ve probably had the grateful that it’s given them them, but what’s happened is believe God will help us overcome this and humanity will start ian apparitions in 1061, was biggest pilgrimage season so a spiritual framework during that we’ve discovered a way all over again.” forced to close and cancel pil- far because we’ve had thou- this time. to connect.” The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 | International news ||27

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Vatican Santa Marta Paediatric Dispensary reopens l The Vatican’s Santa Marta Paediatric Dispensary has reopened after being forced to shut down for more than two and a half months due to the Covid-19 crisis. Despite the pandemic still being present at large, the Dispensary in the heart of the Vatican re-started its services for needy children and pregnant women last week. “In a few days everything will be back to normal as before,” said volunteers at the Dispensary. One of them, Valentina Giacometti, said: “The Dispensary must necessarily offer a sign of presence,” adding they are close to those who are currently experiencing the greatest economic and social difficulties. New mothers from all over the world come to Santa Marta Paediatric Dispensary, which is part of the activities of the Office of Papal Charities, the Holy See’s department charged with exercising charity to the poor in the name of the Pope. In the past few months under lockdown, the Dispensary has been providing assistance by phone. From now on though, access to the services will be regulated in keeping with health protocols, especially physical distancing. Vatican museums offer free entry to medical workers l The Vatican Museums Gandolfo, which reopened President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump pose outside the St John Paul II National Shrine in Washington DC on the 41st anniversary of the Pope’s 1979 historic visit to Poland. Photo: CNS are offering free entry for weekend visits on June to medical workers in 6. All visitors to the Vatican appreciation for their work Museums will be required on the frontline of Italy’s to make online reservations China makes churches preach Covid-19 outbreak. in order to limit the number Doctors, nurses and all of people in the museums other staff members of the and stagger entrance patriotism in order to reopen country’s public and private times. Catholics in China are concerned consider patriotic education.” a video conference on May 30 about health facilities will have Group visits are capped about a directive from the country’s Jacob Chung, a Wenzhou parish- plans to reopen religious places. free entry to the museums at a maximum of 10 people Communist government asking ioner, said the government’s move “has The notice asked churches to avoid on June 8-13. and visitors will only be priests to “preach on patriotism” as seriously interfered in the internal non-essential religious activities, The announcement admitted with face mask a condition for reopening liturgical affairs of religion”. reduce the number of participants and came as Italy opened its and a temperature check. services. One other parishioner said the Chi- shorten religious liturgies. regional borders, allowing Visitors will be able to The Chinese Catholic Patriotic nese government was forcing religious In some provinces such as Sichuan, doctors throughout the see the newly-restored Association (CCPA) and the Chinese leaders to add patriotism and siniciza- Christians were asked to seek authori- country to visit Rome. frescoes in the Raphael Catholic educational administration tion as part of religious teaching. ties’ permission to resume religious The Vatican is also Rooms’ Hall of Constantine, committee of Zhejiang province jointly Amid the ongoing trade war with classes. offering free entry to which were unveiled to the issued a notice on the resumption of other countries and an economic slow- Philip, a Shanghai parishioner, said the Pontifical Villas public when the museum activities. down, the Chinese Communist Party that local churches plan to reopen on and gardens at Castel opened its doors on June 1. “Religious places that meet the (CCP) “is afraid of a counter-revolution. June 13. conditions of epidemic prevention will So they want people to hold on to The Shanghai Diocese has issued a resume services,” it said while adding patriotism.” circular limiting the number of people Pope enacts new law for the patriotism requirement. He added that the CCP wants to attending services and outlining awarding public contracts Fr Liu of Hebei said that the “suppress and transform” the Church. preventive measures against the l The Holy Father has released an Apostolic Letter creating requirement to teach patriotism is Religious activities have been Covid-19 pandemic. legislation to govern the awarding of public contracts of the “wrong”. gradually resuming in China since June Mr Paul Fang from Wenzhou Holy See and Vatican City State. “As members of the universal 2 in Sichuan province, Shaanxi and Diocese in Zhejiang province said The Apostolic Letter, released last week, shall follow Catholic Church,” he said, “we cannot Shanghai after the Joint Conference of parishioners have been looking the principles of transparency, centralised control, and accept and glorify what Communists National Religious Organisations held forward to the resumption of Masses. competition to reduce the risk of corruption. The new regulations, according to Pope Francis, are aimed at “fostering transparency, control and competition in the procedures for the awarding of public contracts Churches in Indonesia set to resume Masses stipulated on behalf of the Holy See and Vatican City State”. The archdioceses of Jakarta activities...all places of wor- bishop Yustinus Harjosusanto “For parishes based in “The diligence of a good family father,” wrote the Pope, and Samarinda have reo- ship must obey health pro- of Samarinda said in a letter. municipalities and districts,” “is the general principal and of the utmost respect, on the pened their churches after tocols.” “Eucharistic celebrations he continued, “the report basis of which all administrators are required to perform local authorities began to ease The easing of restrictions can be held only at parish should be sent to mayors and their functions. social restrictions imposed to in East Kalimantan province, churches. To keep Massgoers’ district chiefs. For other par- “Good management of public goods,” he adds, requires combat the Covid-19 pan- which covers Samarinda hands clean, parishes must ishes, their report should be “faithful and honest administration.” demic. Archdiocese, included the provide hand sanitiser and sent to sub-district heads.” The text, composed of 86 articles, will serve as a single “Religious activities may reopening of places of wor- churches must also be disin- According to the archdio- reference point for awarding public contracts to external resume starting,” said Jakarta ship on condition that people fected prior to a Mass.” cese’s vicar general, Fr Moses entities and is in conformity with the United Nations governor Anies Baswedan in continue to wear face masks Archbishop Harjosusanto Komela Avan, nine of its 26 Convention Against Corruption. a live-streamed press confer- and maintain social distanc- called on parish pastoral parishes, including St Mary The legislation extends to all entities of the Holy See, ence last week. ing. councils to report on their of Perpetual Help Cathedral which up to now lacked their own laws governing contracts “All churches can be reo- “Parishes may resume preparations before holding in Samarinda, are ready to and public works. pened but only for regular public Sunday Masses,” Arch- their first Mass. resume Sunday Masses. 28 | Opinion || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020

Post to: Letters to the Editor, The Irish Catholic, 23 Merrion Square North, Dublin 2, Letters or email: [email protected] Letter of the week acebook community The Church’s beautiful teachings on sex Each week we publish a selection of comments Dear Editor, I would like to commend such should mirror the essence of our changes the call to greatness in the from The Irish Catholic Facebook page Maria Steen on an excellent article [IC creator, in whose image we are made. heart of the person. 28/05/2020] on why we should not God in himself is characterised by For those of us who find this ideal Archbishop asks churches to ‘adhere outsource the moral formation of our an indivisible unity, and in his activity difficult to live up to, we can take strictly’ to health guidelines after breach children. As a corollary to that article, by the begetting of the Son by the consolation in St Thomas Aquinas’ I thought it might be opportune to Father, and the procession of the Holy dictum that sexual sins are the sins Our churches are big. Our daily Mass attendances are low. succinctly summarise the Church’s Spirit from the Father and the Son. God finds it easiest to forgive. Or, as St Thanks to our poor forefathers, we have facilities for Mass beautiful theology of the body. For humans to realise their dignity Paul puts it, all have fallen short of the and the Sacraments. – James O’Connor This theology teaches that the and fulfil their destiny, the sex act glory of God because all have sinned. sexual act between a man and should be between a man and a Yours etc., It is all about care and safety, God is always with us, a woman is the highest form of woman, sacramentally married and Colm Fitzpatrick, now and wherever we are. We wait for him in peace and interpersonal relationship and as open to new life. Anything else short Castleknock, Co. Dublin. patience at this dangerous time, it will pass. – Matt Hilda McColgan

Toxic clericalism has People gathering near beaches and parks in large numbers. Would that count? I didn’t see any social distancing there. emerged once more – Rosemol Thomas Dear Editor, As we reach 10 weeks without any public Masses it seems 39 people attended Mass and RTÉ wagged their clear that no member of Govern- disapproving finger, so the church authorities buckled. ment or public official think there is Hundreds went to the beach at Sandycove and not a word any value to the Holy Mass beyond the said, sure people need to get out and socialise. Double fellowship felt by gathering together standard? – Martin Gillick and this must be forsaken for the sake of public health. Apparently, they do Reading some of these comments it appears there is very not believe in the Grace of the Sacra- little Christianity towards our bishops and priests who are ments. Our bishops seem to fall into trying to protect their congregations from this dreadful virus. two categories, those who might share – Kathleen Smith the opinion of the secular authorities and those who do not feel they can Well said archbishop, thank you. – Ann O’Loughlin contradict or criticise these colleagues. While a few priests soldier on doing The Church is trying to keep you safe. It’s a big sacrifice to what they can the old toxic clericalism close churches but is an effort to keep people safe. Please has emerged from the likes of the ACP don’t condemn the priests for trying to protect people. where priests are scolding the laity – Adrian Farrelly who dare desire the sacraments and priests who try to accommodate the Baroness O’Loan criticises ACP over laity are publicly criticised. It would Time to ‘shout out’ and cherish all life ‘offensive’ statement seem that talk about Vatican II and the Dear Editor, I agree with Sean and Mon- pening in our country. Could we not have laity really only counts when it syn- ica Hassett’s call [IC 28/05/2020] for the a ‘Year for Life’ with suitable reparation Typical of the clergy wanting to keep the sacraments the chronises with the ACP opinion. When right to life to be respected and restored for the taking of these innocent lives? If exclusive of the few male…called to serve God’s community this is over, I hope the laity gravitate to and it’s time for the silence on this issue not, we are allowing ourselves to be com- not their own interest...wonder why people are leaving the the priests, and parishes (and collec- to end. It is shocking to think that it is plicit in this great tragedy. It’s certainly Church? – Feidhlim Ó Seasnáin tion baskets) who did not forget their two years since abortion was legalised time to shout out that we will be silent vocation. here with the prediction that it would no more as we strive to cherish all lives. They follow the true message of Jesus. – Noel Watson Yours etc., result in up to 10,000 babies being killed Yours etc., Liam Ó Foghlú, annually to begin with, and few voices Mary Stewart, Where is a canon lawyer when we need one! Absolutely Kilcornan, Co. Limerick. are being raised in protest at what is hap- Ardeskin, Co. Donegal. ridiculous – ‘our’ churches are big enough to alternate Mass attendance. – Aoibheann Douglas

Chaplains must ensure virus victims are getting Last Rites Well done to Baroness O’Loan. The ACP do not represent Dear Editor, Perhaps the with personal protective a strong belief in an eternal would be dreadful if the Catholicism. – Peter Killeen most distressing feature of equipment to enable them afterlife. Yet this is often not legacy of this pandemic was Covid-19 is the fact that virus safely to minister to the possible if priest chaplains to be the loss in hospitals of What do you think? Join in the conversation victims are dying alone in spiritual needs of the dying. are not being issued with awareness and importance on The Irish Catholic Facebook page hospital wards with appar- Belief in supernatural life PPE and being permitted to of the spiritual dimension of ently only frontline medical after death is a core belief enter Covid-19 wards. death which for a Christian and nursing personnel suit- of Catholics. Consequently, It would be hugely believer in an afterlife is all Letters to the Editor ably protected with PPE in being anointed and receiving reassuring if priest chaplains important. Let’s hope that All letters should include letters. We do not publish attendance. the last rites of the Church in hospital could confirm does not happen. the writer’s full name, pseudonyms or other It is not clear whether during one’s final illness is that they have access to PPE Yours etc., priest chaplains are regarded the wish of most Catholics and attend upon request all Ann Kehoe, postal address and formulae to conceal the as frontline hospital staff and the desire of the family patients, including those Castleknock, telephone numbers (day writer’s identity, such and are being provided of a dying person who has stricken with the virus. It Co. Dublin. and evening). Letter writ- as “name and address ers may receive a subse- with editor”. We do not Documenting coronavirus’s cost to families quent telephone call from print letters addressed The Irish Catholic as Dear Editor, Two years ago, I wrote around them especially as my own son decided to record the impact of the to someone else, open imploring both State and Church to was hospitalised this time round. present fast-moving coronavirus on part of our authentication letters, or verse. Letters commemorate the centenary of the Back then, caught up in their personal our family, including children and process which does not to the Editor should worldwide 50,000,000 Spanish flu tragedy, like bereaved families all grandchildren. I hope that other parents amount to a commitment deaths. Little happened and a major around them, they did not have the and grandparents will do likewise and only be sent to The Irish opportunity to learn the lessons of his- luxury of recording how quickly it all to publish. so ensure that this time round lessons Catholic, and not other tory was lost. happened and how they felt. Of the few We regret that we are not forgotten. Today as I reflect upon the fact that, reminders we have of the impact on our cannot give prior notice publications. Letters Please God as Church and State this in the first wave of that pandemic, family are the memorial cards for the of a letter’s publication should not exceed 300 time round we will remember them! three of my father’s siblings died of children. Despite exhaustive enquiries date, acknowledge words and may be Spanish Flu. I have a clearer first hand we have not found where the children Yours etc., shortened for space appreciation of how my grandparents were buried. Alan Whelan, unpublished letters or must have felt and what was going on With all of this in mind we have Killarney, Co. Kerry. discuss the merits of requirements. The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 | The week in pictures ||29 Around the world

▲ IVORY COAST: A student wears a protective mask in a classroom in Abidjan. A parish in the country is selling cloth face masks to raise money to provide food and other necessities to retired bishops and priests.

▲ HONG KONG: Protesters take part in a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park to remember those who died in the 1989 military crackdown on a pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Photos: CNS

NETHERLANDS: A demonstrator wearing a protective mask takes part in a protest in RUSSIA: Orthodox Christians pray in the chapel of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Rotterdam following the death of George Floyd. Moscow as the country relaxes its Covid-19 restrictions.

TANZANIA: Elizabeth Mach, a Maryknoll lay missioner, poses with children at the Jipe SPAIN: A volunteer in a protective face shield holds a clipboard as men organise donated Moyo Center in Musoma. The facility cares for children who have been living on the street food at the parish of San Ramon Nonato in Madrid. or have been abused. 30 | Spirituality || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020

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Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) by Paul Gauguin. Photo: © Scottish National Gallery A quite magnificent defeat here’s the fairness former foe like a drowning man. force he unconsciously perceived in life? Why are Why? as someone or something to be your heart some people so Here’s Buechner’s explanation: overcome. undeservedly blessed “The darkness had faded just Eventually, after many years in this world while others are Fr Rolheiser enough so that for the first time he of struggle, he had an awakening. W can dimly see his opponent’s face. seemingly cursed? Why are Light dawned, through a crippling craftiness, self-serving ambition, And what he sees is something defeat. And in the light of that taking advantage of others, and more terrible than the face of death First, from a pragmatic point does what Jacob did and it brings defeat he finally saw that what dishonesty so frequently rewarded? – the face of love. It is vast and of view, the story of Jacob teaches him riches in this life, where is the he had been struggling with for This has no quick answer. strong, half-ruined with suffering its own lesson, namely, that as a moral consequence? The answer all that time was not someone or and fierce with joy, the face a man In his book The Magnificent matter of fact in this life people like comes to Jacob years later. He is something to be overcome, but the flees down all the darkness of his Defeat, the renowned novelist Jacob, who are intelligent, crafty, alone one night when a stranger very love he was wrestling for in all days until at last he cries out, ‘I will and preacher, Frederick Buechner, and ambitious often do end up leaps upon him and the two of his efforts to achieve and get ahead. not let you go, unless you bless takes up this question by focusing being rewarded in ways that people them end up wrestling silently with For many of us, this will also me!’. Not a blessing that he can on the biblical character, Jacob. like Esau, who are slower on the each other throughout the entire be the real awakening in our lives, have now by the strength of his He, as we know, twice cheated draw, don’t. night. Just as dawn is breaking waking up to the fact that in our cunning or the force of his will, but his brother, Esau. Catching him While clearly this isn’t the moral and it seems Jacob might win, ambition and in all the schemes a blessing that he can have only as hungry and vulnerable, Jacob buys teachings of the Sermon on the everything is suddenly reversed. we concoct to get ahead, we are any people are not in Dublin warns that a key starting 50% and further rises to approxi- a gift.” his birthright from him for a meal. Mount, other parts of scripture, With an infinitely superior strength not wrestling with a someone or seeing their family We can do a lot to point is knowing what exactly mately 75% in those over 65. More seriously, he poses as Esau, including some teachings of Jesus, that he seems to have deliberately something to be overcome by our doctor as regularly one’s blood pressure is. “Measure- “The importance of getting tricks their father and steals the do challenge us to be intelligent, to held back until now, the stranger It will undoubtedly strength and wit; we are wrestling as normal due to maintain a healthy heart ment of blood pressure, as we all your blood pressure checked is blessing and the inheritance that ❛❛ with community, love, and with Covid-19. Most general practition- know, is a fundamental part of the emphasised by the fact that in work hard, and indeed at times to touches Jacob’s thigh and renders take the defeat of our M up to half of cases hypertension was Esau’s by right. be crafty. him helpless. own strength (and a God. And it will undoubtedly take ers are offering consultation via writes Chai Brady routine clinical examination – and Everything about this seems God doesn’t necessarily help Something deeply the defeat of our own strength telephone or over the internet for good reason. is undiagnosed. The reasons wrong and calls for retribution, yet those who help themselves, but transformative happens to Jacob permanent limp) before (and a permanent limp) before and people who are on regular “This is because high blood underlying hypertension are Jacob’s life seemingly teaches the God and life seem to reward those in that experience of helplessness. we realise what we are we realise what we are fighting medication are continuing to often creep up on patients slowly over time and can be pressure or hypertension is for complex and not fully under- opposite. In contrast to his cheated who use their talents. But there’s a Now that he knows that he is against. prescribe this. There have been and there are often no symp- related to many causes. High the most part a silent condition stood but involve changes in brother, Jacob lives a very richly- fine moral line here and Buechner finally defeated, he no longer wants fighting against” Then we will give up trying some reports of people experienc- toms. High blood pressure – or blood pressure cannot be cured. which, over time, may have far- resistance to blood flow in our blessed life and is favoured by God draws it out brilliantly. to be free of the stranger’s grasp; There’s an entire spirituality to win and instead cling like a ing chest pains possibly related to hypertension – is often called But it can be managed effectively reaching health consequences,” arteries,” he says. Dr McCarroll says that the and by others. What’s the lesson? He asks: when someone who instead he clings fiercely to his here. The blessing for which we are drowning man to this face of love, heart issues not attending hospital the “silent killer”. Most of the through lifestyle changes and, according to Dr McCarroll. effects of high blood pressure are Are God and life really on the side forever wrestling can only come begging for its blessing, a blessing emergency departments due to time, it has no obvious symptoms when needed, medication. By He says that “to some extent, manifold. “It significantly acceler- of those who do this type of thing? to us as gift, not as something that we can have only as a gift. fears about coronavirus. The advice to indicate that something is increasing exercise and making an elevated blood pressure may ates atherosclerosis or hardening When someone who does what Jacob we can snatch through our own Believing that our blessing lies from the experts is clear: if one is wrong. Many people with high simple changes one can substan- be considered a normal part of ❛❛ experiencing symptoms then the blood pressure don’t even know tially reduce the risk of heart ageing. of the arteries, a process whereby talent, cunning and strength. By in winning, we strive to wrestle our Spiritual they become internally coated Buechner builds his answer by did and it brings him riches in this life, his wit and cunning, Jacob became lives away from others until one hospital is the place to be. they have it. Often the signs and attacks and strokes. “While below 40, hyperten- with plaque and narrowed. moving from the pragmatic and the a rich, admired man in this world. day, if we are lucky enough to be What can be frightening for symptoms are misunderstood. Dr Kevin McCarroll, a consult- sion is uncommon, by middle short-range to the spiritual and the where is the moral consequence? The But in struggling for all those defeated, we begin to beg others to people is that heart problems High blood pressure develops ant geritrician at St James’ Hospital age prevalence increases to up to » Continued on Page 33 long-range. answer comes to Jacob years later...” riches he was wrestling with a hang on to us. 32 | Family & Lifestyle || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 Family News

AND EVENTS What does GETTING SUPPORT FOR LOSS AND GRIEF An eight-week online support group will begin later this month to assist people dealing with loss. Coping with the loss of someone or something ‘peace’ really is challenging. Grieving can be associated with the death of a loved one—which is often the cause of the most intense type of grief—but any loss can cause grief. In response to HSE’s suggestions to engage in social distancing to limit the spreading of Covid-19, the organiser, Open Doors Counselling Services, is moving mean? to online meetings. They can use either videoconferencing or if the group agrees they can meet outdoors. The group is run by a qualified counsellor and costs €70. Those interested are asked to make contact for more details before deciding to purchase a ticket. Contact details: Monika 0857542579 or [email protected] Their website is: www.opendoorscounselling. com/ KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS COSTS LESS THAN ALTERNATIVES here’s a chant that group in a society is being people seeking radical systematically discriminated New research led by Queen’s University change have used for against or excluded from the Belfast has found that kidney transplantation decades: it was used in scope of justice, we might is the optimum treatment for people with Everyday the black civil rights movement have a peaceful society in chronic kidney disease, improving both their inT the US in the 1960s, and we’ve the thin sense, but not in quality of life and long-term survival, whilst heard it a lot from the protesters philosophy the thick, Catholic one. It’s also costing less than alternative treatments. in the past weeks. The chant is: no accident that there is so The research, conducted in partnership with “No justice, no peace.” much similarity between nephrologists from the National University Ben Conroy The statement being made by of Ireland Galway, University Hospitals the radical rallying cry and the chant is being read by some virtue of ‘honesty’ is an exam- respect for the dignity of Birmingham and The Belfast Health and a favourite phrase of Pope St people as a threat – a threat that ple of a thick concept: when persons and peoples, and Social Care Trust, has been published in the Paul VI: “If you want peace, until justice is delivered, the you call someone honest, you journal PLOS ONE. the assiduous practice of work for justice.” Or the words protestors will not allow there Based on the study findings, the researchers are in one sense just describing fraternity… Peace is the work of of Dr Martin Luther King: to be peace. conclude that transplantation is not only life them (‘she’s likely to tell the justice and the effect of charity.” “True peace is not merely changing for patients with chronic kidney truth even when it’s difficult or The ‘order’ being referred the absence of tension; is the disease, improving both quality of life and The Catechism costly’). But you’re also saying to means something like ‘the presence of justice.” ❛❛ something positive about them: good and proper functioning of long-term survival, but is also beneficial for quotes St Augustine ‘she’s really honest’ is a compli- a system’. A peaceful society is wider society as it is associated with lower and defines peace as I could call a costs than dialysis. ment, not an insult or a purely one in which things are working ❛❛ Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a long-term ‘the tranquillity of neutral description. harmoniously towards the goal society ‘peaceful’ in condition that affects over 10% of the global order’, which sounds I could call a society ‘peaceful’ that the society is pursuing. In the thin sense without population and is predicted to become the fifth in the thin sense without the Catholic tradition, that goal leading cause of death in the world by 2040. quite a lot like the thin necessarily saying that the society is the common good: which necessarily saying that concept” was good. It could be peaceful consists in the people of the the society was good” LOCKDOWN INCREASES but repressive, peaceful but society living flourishing lives: I think this reading rests miserable, peaceful but bland. the joint enjoyment of everyone I’ve written before in this OBESITY IN KIDS on a mistake: a philosophical in the society of goods like column about Ursula Le Guin’s Lockdowns implemented due to the mistake. The mistake arises There is so much friendship, conversation, and fantasy short story The Ones coronavirus have negatively impacted diet, because of confusion about the ❛❛ family and religious life. This Who Walk Away from Omelas sleep and physical activity among children meaning of the word peace. similarity between the is the point of thin peace and in which a city is magically with obesity across the world, according to That word is often under- radical rallying cry and order: it’s only good insofar as it preserved in utopian stability University at Buffalo research. stood just to mean something contributes to thick peace. a favourite phrase of by means of a spell which The study examined 41 overweight children like ‘the absence of war’, ‘the relies on the imprisonment and throughout March and April in Verona, Italy. absence of violence’, or ‘the Pope St. Paul VI: “If you torture of one innocent child. presence of a certain amount of Compared to behaviours recorded a year prior, This society is peaceful in the the children ate an additional meal per day; social order’. I am not going to want peace, work for thin sense: but is absolutely slept an extra half hour per day; added nearly argue that these uses of ‘peace’ justice.” not peaceful not in the thick five hours per day in front of phone, computer are wrong: it’s useful to have a one, no matter how calm or and television screens; and dramatically word that denotes these things. Peace in the thick sense stable it was. increased their consumption of red meat, I’ll call this ‘thin peace’. though, is a moral concept. sugary drinks and junk foods. But there is a different Certain ways that the Catholic A critic might say that this is Physical activity, on the other hand, concept of peace that I want to tradition describes it don’t too wide a definition of peace. decreased by more than two hours per week, discuss here: it’s the concept of make this immediately obvious. If we take it as true, there has and the amount of vegetables consumed peace that’s used in the philoso- The Catechism quotes St never really been a fully peaceful remained unchanged. phy and moral theology of the Augustine and defines peace society. But societies have been “The tragic Covid-19 pandemic has collateral Catholic tradition, and also, I as ‘the tranquillity of order’, and can be more or less peaceful effects extending beyond direct viral infection,” think, the one being appealed to which sounds quite a lot like in different ways. And if you says Myles Faith, PhD, UB childhood obesity by protestors chanting for racial the thin concept. But if you accept it, the thick concept expert and co-author on the study. “Children equality. read the surrounding passage Dr Martin Luther King shows the folly of attempting and teens struggling with obesity are placed This concept of peace is a in the Catechism you’ll see the to oppose justice and peace or in an unfortunate position of isolation ‘thick’ concept – a term used following. prioritise one over the other. Once you’re working with that appears to create an unfavourable by philosophers to mark out “Peace cannot be attained True peace cannot be achieved this concept of peace, ‘No environment for maintaining healthy lifestyle concepts that involve both on earth without safeguarding without justice being done. Any justice, no peace’ is not a threat behaviours.” description and evaluation in the goods of persons, free proposed solution to civil unrest – it’s just a definition. If some terms of good and bad. 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SYSTOLIC mm Hg DIASTOLIC mm Hg BLOOD PRESSURE CATEGORY (upper number) (lower number) AND EVENTS What does NORMAL LESS THAN 120 and LESS THAN 80 GETTING SUPPORT FOR LOSS AND GRIEF ELEVATED 120 – 129 and LESS THAN 80 An eight-week online support group will HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE 130 – 139 or 80 – 89 begin later this month to assist people deal- (HYPERTENSION) STAGE 1 ing with loss. Bairbre Cahill Coping with the loss of someone or something HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE ‘peace’ really 140 OR HIGHER or 90 OR HIGHER is challenging. Grieving can be associated with (HYPERTENSION) STAGE 2 he hippocampus, Our recent experience has the death of a loved one—which is often the deep within our taught us much about these and cause of the most intense type of grief—but HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS HIGHER THAN 180 and/or HIGHER THAN 120 brain, gathers and so it seems to me that remem- any loss can cause grief. (consult your doctor immediately) organises short term bering and reflecting in the In response to HSE’s suggestions to memories, laying down the light of Laudato Si’ could guide engage in social distancing to limit the “This can cause damage to the lifestyle changes, which may be Depending on the results of this T synaptic pathways for long term us into a new future. We have spreading of Covid-19, the organiser, Open enough to treat it, such as: arteries anywhere in the body test, the doctor may arrange for a fur- memories. Every time we recall spent these months listening Doors Counselling Services, is moving mean? including in the heart, kidneys, eyes, l Stopping smoking; ther test that will breakdown the HDL a memory we travel down that to reports of heartbreak and to online meetings. They can use either legs and brain, and can lead to coro- l Losing weight – and keeping the (good) cholesterol from the LDL (bad) synaptic pathway and the more heroism. We have heard of the videoconferencing or if the group agrees they nary artery disease, kidney impair- weight off; and it may be necessary to fast before we do so, the stronger and more devastation caused by poverty can meet outdoors. ment, visual problems and poor l this test. Patients should check with lasting the memory becomes. and inequality layered on top The group is run by a qualified counsellor Drinking less alcohol; circulation,” he says. their doctor. One raised reading does Memories have the capacity to of pandemic. We have listened and costs €70. Those interested are asked to l Cutting down on salt; Hypertension is also a major risk not mean you have high cholesterol, shape attitudes and behaviour. to each other, stories of simple make contact for more details before deciding l Eating more fruit and vegetables; factor for stroke and puts strain on the as levels may vary from day to day. Life experience does not just joys, loneliness, frustrations, to purchase a ticket. Contact details: Monika heart which can lead to impaired heart l Reducing fat in your diet; Many factors contribute to high wash off us like dust in the rain. new discoveries. What does our 0857542579 or [email protected] muscle function and heart failure. cholesterol. These include: Rather, through the action of listening tell us for the future we Their website is: www.opendoorscounselling. Doctors say that it is important to l Not taking enough regular memory, experience is layered want to build? com/ exercise regularly and recommend What can be a brisk walk for at least 30 minutes exercise; within us, shaping who we are. KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS COSTS frightening❛❛ for people most days of the week. l Too much fat in the diet; Over these months we here’s a chant that group in a society is being Sometimes medication, usually l Being overweight; have shared the profound and LESS THAN ALTERNATIVES challenging experience of living people seeking radical systematically discriminated taken long-term, is prescribed to treat l New research led by Queen’s University is that heart problems Family history of the condition; change have used for against or excluded from the the condition. This helps to prevent through a pandemic. For many, Belfast has found that kidney transplantation decades: it was used in scope of justice, we might often creep up on the risk of heart attack or stroke and A doctor may also prescribe drug that experience has devas- is the optimum treatment for people with Everyday the black civil rights movement have a peaceful society in it is important to take this medication treatment to reduce high cholesterol. tated their world. None of us chronic kidney disease, improving both their patients and there are inT the US in the 1960s, and we’ve the thin sense, but not in once prescribed. remain untouched. What has quality of life and long-term survival, whilst heard it a lot from the protesters philosophy the thick, Catholic one. It’s often no symptoms” Hypertension is also your experience been? What also costing less than alternative treatments. Cholesterol will you remember of this time? in the past weeks. The chant is: no accident that there is so ❛❛ In the past, high blood pressure The research, conducted in partnership with Another issue that affects heart a major risk factor for What have you learned about “No justice, no peace.” much similarity between was often not diagnosed until later nephrologists from the National University Ben Conroy health is high levels of cholesterol. yourself, your strengths and The statement being made by the radical rallying cry and in life, by which time it may have stroke and puts strain of Ireland Galway, University Hospitals Cholesterol is a fatty substance your vulnerabilities? What about the chant is being read by some virtue of ‘honesty’ is an exam- respect for the dignity of a favourite phrase of Pope St caused organ damage, or was only Birmingham and The Belfast Health and which is essential for a healthy on the heart which can your family, parish, community We have accompanied each people as a threat – a threat that ple of a thick concept: when persons and peoples, and Paul VI: “If you want peace, picked up incidentally. According to Dr Social Care Trust, has been published in the nervous system, good digestion and and nation? What have you other in a way that speaks of until justice is delivered, the you call someone honest, you the assiduous practice of work for justice.” Or the words journal PLOS ONE. McCarroll, “diagnosis and treatment the production of hormones. The lead to impaired heart learned about prayer, faith and love, respect and solidarity. protestors will not allow there are in one sense just describing fraternity… Peace is the work of Based on the study findings, the researchers of Dr Martin Luther King: of hypertension even later in life will body produces cholesterol and we your relationship with God? And We may have struggled with to be peace. them (‘she’s likely to tell the justice and the effect of charity.” muscle function” conclude that transplantation is not only life “True peace is not merely substantially reduce the risk of cardio- also get it from our diet, but too what of the society we live in, frustrations at those who have truth even when it’s difficult or The ‘order’ being referred Dr McCarroll warns that when it changing for patients with chronic kidney the absence of tension; is the vascular disease and events”. much cholesterol in your blood can locally and globally? What have seemed to disregard such costly’). But you’re also saying to means something like ‘the comes to blood pressure “if other risk disease, improving both quality of life and The Catechism presence of justice.” A doctor or nurse will be able to be dangerous as it builds up on the you seen and heard, read about things. It has demanded sacri- ❛❛ something positive about them: good and proper functioning of check if one has high blood pressure factors including high cholesterol, long-term survival, but is also beneficial for quotes St Augustine walls of the blood vessels and leads and thought about? What has fices – small ones and ones too ‘she’s really honest’ is a compli- a system’. A peaceful society is diabetes or smoking are present, there wider society as it is associated with lower I could call a and it is recommended that this is to narrowing or hardening of the challenged you, frightened you, enormous to fit into words. We and defines peace as ment, not an insult or a purely one in which things are working is a ‘snowball effect’ whereby the risk costs than dialysis. ❛❛ checked each time one visits the GP, or arteries. given you hope? have reassessed what is essen- neutral description. harmoniously towards the goal increases exponentially. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a long-term ‘the tranquillity of society ‘peaceful’ in at least once every six months. There are two main forms of On Pentecost Sunday tial in life and learned something I could call a society ‘peaceful’ that the society is pursuing. In “This is why a diagnosis of hyper- condition that affects over 10% of the global Blood pressure is measured by a cholesterol: our own bishop, Bishop Alan of simplicity. Remembering order’, which sounds in the thin sense without the Catholic tradition, that goal the thin sense without tension should always prompt a com- population and is predicted to become the fifth standard test, which is painless and l LDL cholesterol (low density McGuckian, spoke of how many urges to consider what sort of necessarily saying that the society is the common good: which leading cause of death in the world by 2040. quite a lot like the thin necessarily saying that only takes a few minutes. The doctor lipoprotein) - known as ‘bad’ choles- plete assessment for other vascular have begun to glimpse a new future we want. Will we cast was good. It could be peaceful consists in the people of the concept” or nurse will put a cuff around the terol. This attaches to the wall of the risk factors,” he says way for our lives, that the way it simplicity aside again? but repressive, peaceful but society living flourishing lives: the society was good” LOCKDOWN INCREASES arm above the elbow; air is pumped arteries and causes narrowing, which He insists that “while there are no always was is never as good as Have you ever been more I think this reading rests miserable, peaceful but bland. the joint enjoyment of everyone I’ve written before in this into the cuff and the measurement is may contribute to angina, heart attack natural cut-offs for blood pressure, the way God wants it to be into aware of birdsong? In remem- OBESITY IN KIDS on a mistake: a philosophical in the society of goods like column about Ursula Le Guin’s read as the air is let out. Two numbers or stroke; there are well defined treatment the future. Surely it is the case bering that, have we the poten- mistake. The mistake arises Lockdowns implemented due to the There is so much friendship, conversation, and fantasy short story The Ones measure the level of blood pressure. l HDL cholesterol (high density targets and even a small drop in blood that the future will only be better tial to live more environmentally coronavirus have negatively impacted diet, because of confusion about the family and religious life. This pressure can significantly reduce the similarity❛❛ between the Who Walk Away from Omelas The higher (systolic) number rep- lipoproteins) - known as ‘good’ if we remember, reflect and aware lives? Laudato Si’ urges sleep and physical activity among children meaning of the word peace. is the point of thin peace and in which a city is magically resents the pressure when the heart is cholesterol. This cholesterol collects risk of stroke and heart disease. If you learn from our experience. That us to listen to the cry of the with obesity across the world, according to That word is often under- radical rallying cry and order: it’s only good insofar as it preserved in utopian stability beating. The lower (diastolic) number extra, unwanted cholesterol and have diabetes, heart disease or end can seem like a daunting task earth and the cry of the poor, University at Buffalo research. stood just to mean something contributes to thick peace. organ damage then a tighter control a favourite phrase of by means of a spell which represents the pressure when the carries it to the liver where it can be whether for ourselves and our to stand with all those who are The study examined 41 overweight children like ‘the absence of war’, ‘the relies on the imprisonment and heart is resting between beats. broken down; of your blood pressure will be recom- families or for a parish, diocese oppressed and discriminated throughout March and April in Verona, Italy. absence of violence’, or ‘the Pope St. Paul VI: “If you torture of one innocent child. Blood pressure varies due to age, mended”. or community. Remembering against. Pope Francis invites presence of a certain amount of Compared to behaviours recorded a year prior, This society is peaceful in the emotion and activity and one raised Dr McCarroll says that if cases of may seem demanding, and eas- us to solidarity – and these the children ate an additional meal per day; social order’. I am not going to want peace, work for mild hypertension, paying attention thin sense: but is absolutely reading does not mean one has high ily set aside once we are busy months have given us a real slept an extra half hour per day; added nearly argue that these uses of ‘peace’ to the above factors may remove justice.” not peaceful not in the thick blood pressure. about other things. But maybe experience of that. In so many five hours per day in front of phone, computer are wrong: it’s useful to have a the need to go on anti-hypertensive the way forward has already ways this encyclical echo and Peace in the thick sense one, no matter how calm or and television screens; and dramatically word that denotes these things. Factors medication. “However, in practice at been given to us. calls forth our experience of though, is a moral concept. stable it was. There are a number of factors that usu- increased their consumption of red meat, I’ll call this ‘thin peace’. some stage during the course of your Pope Francis recently these past months. Certain ways that the Catholic A critic might say that this is ally combine to cause the condition, sugary drinks and junk foods. But there is a different hypertension you are likely to require invited us to engage in a year There are resources avail- tradition describes it don’t too wide a definition of peace. including: Physical activity, on the other hand, concept of peace that I want to medical treatment,” he says. of reflection and action on able also. SaltandlightTV.org make this immediately obvious. If we take it as true, there has decreased by more than two hours per week, discuss here: it’s the concept of l Smoking; Several medications are available Laudato Si’. This encyclical, offers a wonderful Laudato The Catechism quotes St never really been a fully peaceful and the amount of vegetables consumed peace that’s used in the philoso- l Not eating enough fresh fruit and to choose from and which one is used published five years ago is Si’ based documentary series Augustine and defines peace society. But societies have been remained unchanged. phy and moral theology of the vegetables; will depend on how high the blood about our relationship with God, “Creation”. The Global Catho- as ‘the tranquillity of order’, and can be more or less peaceful “The tragic Covid-19 pandemic has collateral Catholic tradition, and also, I pressure is, the presence of other con- with each other and with crea- lic Climate Movement offers which sounds quite a lot like in different ways. And if you l Drinking too much alcohol; effects extending beyond direct viral infection,” think, the one being appealed to ditions like diabetes or kidney/heart tion, which Pope Francis refers resources and invites us to the thin concept. But if you accept it, the thick concept l Taking too much salt in the diet; says Myles Faith, PhD, UB childhood obesity by protestors chanting for racial disease and the potential for side to in the title as Our Common pray with a global community. read the surrounding passage shows the folly of attempting l expert and co-author on the study. “Children equality. Dr Martin Luther King Being overweight; effects. Treatments are very effective Home. Urging us to build a Perhaps this Laudato Si’ Year in the Catechism you’ll see the to oppose justice and peace or and teens struggling with obesity are placed This concept of peace is a l Family history of the condition; and usually well tolerated. future which is good for the announced by Pope Francis is in an unfortunate position of isolation ‘thick’ concept – a term used following. prioritise one over the other. As with hypertension, there are no “High blood pressure is common Once you’re working with l Ageing; earth and all her people Pope just what we need to guide us that appears to create an unfavourable by philosophers to mark out “Peace cannot be attained True peace cannot be achieved symptoms to indicate if one has high and rarely gives rise to any symptoms. forward. If we fail to remember this concept of peace, ‘No l Stress’ Francis invites us to learn about environment for maintaining healthy lifestyle concepts that involve both on earth without safeguarding without justice being done. Any cholesterol, but a simple blood test at However, it is a ‘silent killer’ and justice, no peace’ is not a threat listening, accompaniment and nothing will change. The choice behaviours.” description and evaluation in the goods of persons, free proposed solution to civil unrest If high blood pressure is diagnosed, your doctor’s surgery will show your needs to be checked and monitored – it’s just a definition. If some sacrifice. – and the future – is ours. terms of good and bad. The communication among men, should recognise that fact. a doctor may first recommend some overall level of cholesterol. closely,” he says. 34 | Family & Lifestyle || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 Surviving Nazi bombing led to priesthood, says clergyman

“What prompted me? While we were in this lockdown it suddenly struck me that our own Personal Profile parishioners are confined to their homes could use a wee bit of entertainment. My mother went❛❛ upstairs and took myself and my sister out of bed right before the Aron Hegarty mill was bombed priest from Northern Ireland says a lucky escape from a Nazi and completely German bombing in 1941 pro- destroyed” pelled him on his faith journey into priesthood. “So I decided one Saturday A night to use the web cam in the Canon Sean Rogan from Belfast, who resides in Carryduff, Co. Down, nar- church and I play the piano for rowly avoided being bombed during the over an hour doing different songs, Second World War and was evacuated for example, ‘La Paloma’ - a tango with his family. piece in honour of Pope Fran- The retired 81-year-old clergyman cis who loves tango music, ‘The told The Irish Catholic how this harrow- Mountains of Mourne’ and so on. ing event set him on a pathway to being “The response I got was very Canon Sean Rogan plays the piano at his home in Carryduff, Co. Down. Photo: Diocese of in God’s service. good,” he adds, “parishioners told Down and Connor. “Our house was right beside a huge me that when I played swing, tango flax-spinning mill which took a “I remember saying to a La Salle Brothers at St Patrick’s Gram- sent to St Luke’s in Twinbrook, and jazz they danced at home direct hit during the Nazi Germany and they began to ring up and say raid on April 15, 1941,” Fr Rogan group of Germans one time that mar School in Downpatrick,” he says. Belfast where he built a parish in a I thanked the German pilot or “They inspired me and I wanted very deprived and troubled area. ‘could you do another one?’. explains. “So about three weeks ago, I did “My mother went upstairs bomber who dropped the bombs to do service for and be of service to The Canon also served as a and this time - which I didn’t real- and took myself and my sister there,” he jokes. “The reason for others, which is why I use whatever parish priest in Coleraine, Lisburn, ise at the time - it was on Facebook out of bed right before the mill that was because I probably would talents I have to sing and play the Kilcoo and Killyleagh until his and got about 3,000 hits. was bombed and completely never have been a priest had I piano, so that it might give people retirement. destroyed. Part of the mill came remained in Belfast because it was some help and joy. “I did another one on Satur- down through the roof of the a middle district and I would not “I started music in 1946 when I The Troubles day two weeks ago,” continues house, where we had been just a have had the opportunities that I was 7 years old,” adds Fr Rogan. “Some of them (parishes) were in Fr Rogan, “because people kept few minutes before. got from being in Co. Down. “I call myself a ‘piano player’ Belfast and one of the worst times asking me to and it went very well. “Perhaps it was fortuitous or rather than a pianist because I had was during The Troubles at I got a good response once again coincidental or maybe even provi- when I was at grammar school, St Luke’s, one of my parishioners Since the Covid-19 and I thought it was the best of the dential? The Lord does some strange there were different dance bands there was Bobby Sands, who was three I have done so far. ❛❛ things in some strange ways.” that I used to play just for amuse- the first of the hunger strikers and outbreak, Fr Rogan “I said I was doing this as a trib- ment on Saturday nights and I officiated at his funeral. ute to all the NHS workers in all has rekindled his love things like that.” “There were killings, bombings Music the hospitals, hospices and nursing Fr Rogan says clergymen in his Fr Rogan entered religious life and shootings; it was a terrible for music and taken adopted parish of Killough encour- at the age of 17 and was ordained time, but thanks be to God that homes to credit, praise and honour to social media on aged him to join the priesthood, a priest at St Peter’s College in Co. things are much better now.” them for their heroism. practice his gift of music and share Wexford on June 3, 1962 and has Since the Covid-19 outbreak, Fr “I also asked to pray for those Saturday nights” it with others. been involved in many parishes Rogan has rekindled his love for who are ill at this time and those “We were then evacuated down “What motivated me then to be over that period of time. music and taken to social media on who have died during the pan- to Killough, Co. Down the next day a priest was the clergy in my parish, He worked as a curate in Down- Saturday nights in an effort to boost demic and their families who are and there I was reared. the old Canon in Killough and the De patrick in the 1970s before being morale during difficult times. mourning them as well.” Strategies to tackle housework as a family One of the things myself and my wife everyone is juggling and working hard, so try to housework there is always more to do if there are finding really difficult to stay on top to make sure the load is spread fairly. For is time there you will end up filling it so keep it of is the housework. With the family at everyone in the house to adopt a ‘clean short. Set a time limit and prioritise what and go’ method, piling up dishes needs to be done. Once a week home all the time it is a never ending in the sink is the last thing you with your spouse, spend an hour merry go round of cooking and clean- want to have to deal with at the cleaning together, you will be ing and we are both feeling over- end of the day. Use your time amazed how much you will whelmed by it all. smartly where you can, rather get done as a team. Each than having to find hours evening, when the kids are t’s hard not to feel burdened by many to do a big clean, try your down set your clock work with aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic and best to clean little and often. your spouse together to do a having a house that feels more chaotic than Sorry to add to your online 15 minute clean, you will be calm can add to your stress. Keeping on shopping list, but a cordless again you will be pleasantly Itop of it all, for all of us, is difficult. Try to let go vacuum is an investment you surprised what the two of you Wendy of having your house sparkling clean (sure who won’t regret. can get done in such a short is visiting anyway!) but having some more order When it comes to bathrooms, space of time knowing a little might be just one less thing to fret about. clean the shower while you are relaxation is just a few minutes Grace Remember that your family is a team, sit down in it, and just pick one bathroom to away, it’s always much easier to deal all together and allocate various jobs to each clean every other day, have surface wipes with the mess in the evening than to wake family member, if it helps create a wall chart in every room, when you brush your teeth take up to it the next day and one small change that as to who has to do what job on what day. The an extra two minutes to quickly wipe down the makes a big difference is to never leave a room better your plan is the more efficient you will bathroom surfaces. empty handed. So work together, plan well and all be. A lot of research shows that women still One of the ways to be more efficient is to don’t aim for perfection and you should find things take on the majority of the household chores, actually give yourself less time, when it comes become much more manageable. The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 | Reviews ||35

TVRadio Brendan O’Regan Unsung heroes help with some feel-good n these strange and wearying times, I tend to PICK OF THE WEEK welcome feel-good programmes, perhaps too NEW! DEFENDING LIFE uncritically, and if they man- EWTN Saturday (night), June 13, 12.30am and Monday, Iage deeper meaning as well, June 15, 10.30pm it’s a bonus. Many who support the effort to protect children in the Unsung Heroes (RTÉ1) on womb are atheists. See how the Faith community can work Wednesday night of last week productively with them. was conductor David Bro- FORGOTTEN HERITAGE: EUROPE AND HER SAINTS phy’s third outing with spe- EWTN, Monday, June 15, 8.30am and 9.30pm cial focus choirs – previously Exploring how St Thomas More defended the role of there was the High Hopes conscience and how the state should not violate it. Choir (for people touched by SELMA homelessness), the Choir of David Brophy led the Unsung Heroes. Ages (for older people) and BBC2, Friday, June 19, 11.20pm (2014) Film chronicling the three-month period in 1965 now it was a choir for carers. have become tougher during gramme on BBC. But I’ll be complexity and diversity of Appropriately these ‘un- which saw Dr Martin Luther King Jr lead a march from lockdown. happy if they make more of the universe as showing the Selma to Montgomery in a bid to secure equal voting rights. sung heroes’ are now getting At one stage Brophy threw them. “extravagance…of a creator their chance to sing, and not in a dig at the HSE and also Other unsung heroes of God”. about the current upheaval in only is the singing giving said he was “ashamed to be mine are those scientists the USA following the awful them a well-deserved boost, Irish” because of the way who are also people of reli- Intelligent life killing of George Floyd. but now they are socialising carers were treated. I may at gious faith, who despite prej- As regards other life in the Both were very critical, with other groups away from times be ashamed of our Gov- udices and distortions keep universe, he made a cru- as I would be, of President the usual meetings to do with ernment, or of aspects of our the flag flying for a harmony cial distinction between life Trump’s ill-judged and awk- the needs of those loved ones culture, but never of being or complementarity between (which could be just bacteria ward gesture with the Bible they care for. As Brophy said Irish, which is such a com- science and religion. One of and microbes) and intelligent outside that Episcopal Church at one stage, their stories are plex identity, and one with so the foremost is Prof. David life. He reminded us that the and provided useful insights difficult but necessary to lis- much goodness. Wilkinson, astrophysicist and early Church fathers specu- into the polarisation in the ten to. I liked most of the music theologian. lated about the existence of USA, but for diversity I would Significantly most of the choices – Something Inside He gave a fascinating other worlds and found this a have liked to hear from a con- carers were women, and So Strong seemed particularly interview to Audrey Carvile “theological stimulus” rather tributor who had a different many of them were looking apt, and Aslan’s Crazy World, on last weekend’s Sunday than a problem. perspective, and someone after their mothers. “We’re hit the mark as well (boosted Sequence (BBC Radio Ulster) As regards intelligent life who would question why, lucky to have her,” said one by a surprise appearance by on the occasion of the discov- he thought we were alone Rev. Canon Stephanie as black (and all other) lives woman of her own mother the band at one of the prac- ery of the forming of a new in our galaxy, but with bil- Spellers. matter, such risks were taken who was in need of care. tices). planet, where scientists could lions of other galaxies out – “not an interesting conver- during the protests, there Those parents looking I was less enthused by John uniquely observe the process. there who knows? In fact sation”! and at home considering the after their children with dis- Lennon’s Imagine – “imag- Prof. Wilkinson found this he thought it might be the The conversation on last ongoing presence of the life- abilities had a particular ine there’s no heaven” – talk recent development “very nature of the universe that Friday’s Leap of Faith (RTÉ threatening virus. challenging task – there were about taking away a source of exciting” and more gener- we’ll never know. Radio 1) were certainly inter- some parents who were car- hope! Uplifting, and enjoy- ally saw “a reflection of He pointed out that a mes- [email protected], esting. Michael Comyn spoke i ing for two and even three able as these shows are, they God’s faithfulness in simple, sage from us to the nearest @boreganmedia children who had challenging are becoming a tad formu- elegant, beautiful laws of other galaxy would take a with Fr James Martin SJ and needs. This was filmed pre- laic – I was reminded as well physics”. He spoke about the few million light years, and Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers Covid and I’d say things must of the Dementia Choir pro- way God creates and saw the any reply would take as long of the US Episcopal Church Music Pat O’Kelly Great Irish houses will always welcome back finest musicians Had all gone according to Desmond Guinness. Laing David Laing continued as halfway through the 2020 on all counts.” [Evening Press, plan, I intended being in the suggested Castletown House artistic director until 1982 events when word came of June 21, 1982] National Botanic Gardens this in Celbridge, where Guinness when Judith Woodworth, the festival’s cancellation due Virtuoso pianist Vladimir evening (Thursday, June 11) was then living, as the venue then based in London, fol- to prevailing circumstances. Ashkenazy came to Killrud- listening to music by Webern, for a concert. lowed him. Judith remained However, as the BBC’s Mas- dery House the following Mendelssohn and Shosta- Guinness went one fur- at the helm for 18 years by termind question master says June. Raining heavily, the kovich played by the visit- ther with “why not a festival which time she had become when the two-minute signal glass roof in the orangery ing Novus Quartet – a group and let us bring Carton [near CEO of the National Concert sounds: “I’ve started, so I’ll leaked with raindrops landing of young Koreans creating a Maynooth, Co. Kildare] into Hall. Her successor was Hugh finish.” on player and piano. Besides, favourable impression wher- the picture”. As popular par- Tinney with the artistically While I have many great an ambassadorial spouse, in ever they perform. lance goes, ‘the rest is history’. astute Ciara Higgins follow- memories of the festival, one the front row, beat time with The Quartet’s visit was The first festival ran from June ing him in 2007. particular performance sticks her right foot! scheduled as part of the 2020 7-14, 1970 with Laing as artis- in my mind – that of Korean The unperturbed Great Music in Irish Houses tic director. Notes violinist Kyung Wha-Chung Ashkenazy valiantly carried Festival, which should be cel- In time a number of other While I had been reviewing and Polish pianist Krystian on without allowing either ebrating its golden jubilee. stately homes, north and festival performances for the Zimerman playing the César distraction to deter him from But to quote an old adage, south of the border, joined Evening Press from the mid Franck Sonata in Russbor- returning to the festival some “man proposes, but God dis- the prestigious venue list 1970s, Judith Woodworth ough. time later. poses”. Hopefully Novus can among them Russborough suggested I take a more active I dug out my review: But, for the moment, let be re-engaged for 2021. and Killruddery in Co. Wick- role and wrote programme “[This] was one of those us look forward to next year’s The festival began in 1970 low, Headford and Slane Cas- notes for the festival concerts. rare occasions where artis- Kyung Wha-Chung. event, which by then will following a casual meeting tle in Co Meath, Clandeboye This modest involve- tic temperament communi- heart of this sonata beat with have changed its name to the between young TCD gradu- in Co. Down and Stormont ment began in 1983 and has cated itself through gripping tempestuous and passionate Dublin International Chamber ate David Laing and the Hon Castle, close to Belfast. continued ever since. I was directness. The romantic urgency. It was magnificent Music Festival. 36 | Reviews || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020

BookReviews Peter Costello Of faith and poetry: a different aspect of Christ in every poet’s encounter The Outlaw Christ: The starting with the Christian – tend to response in poetry to the under-humanise us in the rareified question ‘Who do you say atmosphere of too lofty skies. that I am?’ “These religions are still system- by John F. Deane atically closed to the wide horizons (Columba Books, €16.99) and great winds of Cosmogenesis, and can no longer be said to feel with Gabriel Fitzmaurice the Earth – an Earth whose internal he Outlaw Christ, developed frictions they can still lubricate like from a series of talks and soothing oil, but whose driving ener- lectures delivered by John gies they cannot animate as they F. Deane while he was the should.” Teilhard de Chardin Fellow in Catho- Illa Delio, a Franciscan Sister of T Washington DC, offers the follow- lic Studies at Loyola University, Chi- cago in 2016, follows philosophers, ing: “Evolution suggests the univer- poets and poetry from the 8th sal is moving to a state of wholeness; Century through the metaphysical John F. Deane and, above, it is moving forward so we must see poets, Emily Dickinson and Gerard the cover of his new book. change as integral to evolution, and therefore to the Creator.” Reading Manley Hopkins to poets of our own (1582-1650), Deane laments that His Christ is a Christ who seeks phrase, Deane informs us, “filled day including David Gascoyne, Pat- her, Deane concludes that the new Fletcher’s emphasis on love, rather “mercy and not sacrifice” whose with a vibrant immediacy and a Christianity is to be a daring adven- rick Kavanagh and Pádraig J. Daly. than on a God of vengeful watchful- poetry is a direct and gentle insist- small suggestion of hope in the Deane informs us in his Foreword ture requiring a new language and a ness, did not remain among Chris- ence on love, not fear. development of the arts”. new poetry and this he finds in con- that his study has been Christ; his tians down through the centuries. In his essay on Thomas Traherne living has been love and poetry. In temporary poets like Pádraig J. Daly Amen say I! Like John Donne (1572- (1637-1674), he quotes the poet: John F. Deane and James Harpur who give a heart- these essays the poet-prophet con- 1631), Deane spends his life both in “Nature teacheth nothing but the ❛❛ tends that the whole of creation is delivers close readings, ening lift to those who try to pursue his poetry and in his prose works truth” and he concludes that by an the Christ through their daily lives. God’s work of art which appeals to preaching a sermon to himself. Like awareness of nature man comes to sermons in the the imagination rather than mere In The Outlaw Christ, John F. Donne, he seeks to satisfy the whole knowledge of God. Deane delivers close readings, ser- reason or intellect where faith pre- man. Reading Simone Weil (1909- best sense” cedes belief systems and may well mons in the best sense, on poetry’s 1943) he discovers that putting In Teilhard de Chardin he encoun- search for the true Christ, within or travel on after belief systems are Sermons Christ at the centre of her thinking, ters the mystical and cosmic Christ. without the official Church. He has lost. These essays are sermons directed to she makes him the exemplar of the Teilhard writes: “Something has chosen well from the canon and his In The Dream of the Rood, writ- himself as much as they are directed need for suffering and the destruc- gone wrong and so something, in book is as timely and it is welcome. ten perhaps in the 8th Century in to his readers and, like George Her- tion of the ego, her theology stand- the area of faith and religion must England, in Anglo-Saxon, Deane bert (1593-1633), he has them pub- ing and falling at the end of the be supplied without delay on this i Gabriel Fitzmaurice is a Kerry- finds that the outlaw Christ “instead lished that they might do good “to medieval world focusing too much planet.” based poet of international repute, of being brought forcefully to his any dejected poor soul”. In Herbert on the crucifixion and setting aside The neo-humanisms of the whose latest publications are A death, is…hastening to it, eager and he perceives “the personal response the resurrection. 20th Century, Teilhard believes, Farewell to Poetry: Selected Poems prepared, ready for the battle to win to the personal Christ [that] has not In David Gascoyne (1916-2001), de-humanise us “under their unin- and translation (Currach Press) and humanity back to God”. been sufficiently taken up by later he encounters the “Christ of Revo- spired skies, yet on the other hand for children Really Rotten Rhymes In his reading of Phineas Fletcher writers”. lution and Poetry”, a most telling the still-living forms of theism – (Mercier Press). Brilliant legacy of scholar priest: Thomas Finan, Christian humanist Thomas Finan, Collected He was Professor of Classics in May- wisest and most just of all the men of Writings nooth from 1959 to his retirement in his time”) and Christ. Not only Greek ed. D. Vincent Twomey 1996. A survey of the contents of this philosophy, but also Greek tragedy (Columba Books, €34.99) volume indicates the vast range of his foreshadowed Christ’s passion, the expertise. Part I deals with academic tragedies of Sophocles leading to Fran O’Rourke topics, ranging impressively from Gethsemane and Golgotha. Reading this delightful collection, Antiquity through to the Renaissance, Finan’s earliest passion was St the word that repeatedly came to with sections on St Augustine, Early Augustine (354-430). The four essays mind was the Latin for ‘wisdom’, Irish Christian Literature and Dante. included convey a deep learning that sapientia, in its original meaning of is imbued with a passion to match ‘sweet knowledge’, knowledge to be The volume is that of the African bishop. He later savoured. ❛❛ became fascinated with St Thomas As the editor Vincent Twomey completed with insightful More (1478-1535). Four essays on notes, Thomas Finan’s primary draw More and three on his contemporary was towards the sublime or mystical, review essays on art and Erasmus are included. his primal instinct was poetic. The literature...” Readers interested in Irish cul- 1st-century author Longinus defined ture will be delighted by the essay the sublime as “a certain elevation Part II, ‘Occasional Essays’, consists ‘Hiberno-Latin Christian Literature’. and distinction in the writing”, a qual- for the most part of what are entitled Written Irish literature began with St ity which derives not so much from ‘Controversial Essays’, among which Patrick, who himself became – avant style as the interior intensity of great are Fr Finan’s studied reflections on la lettre – more Irish than the Irish thought and strong emotion. catechetics, mortal sin, the future of themselves. Of his British opponents This volume is sublime in thought, Maynooth and the new liturgy. he remarked: “To them it is annoying emotion and style. A gentle enthusi- The section on Antiquity includes and unbecoming that we should be asm fills its pages, indicating that its perceptive studies on Homer, Greek the Irishry!” author was dealing with affairs not tragedy, and Gilgamesh. The author In an essay entitled ‘The Burn- only of the intellect but also of the deals in two essays with the relation- ing of the Books’, written in 1972 in heart. ship between Greek thought and response to the introduction of the Prof. Thomas Finan (1931-2012) Christianity. He expounds in detail vernacular into the liturgy, Fr Finan was a priest of the Diocese of Killala. the parallels between Socrates (“best, turns his linguistic skills to good use; 36 | Reviews || The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 The Irish Catholic, June 11, 2020 | Reviews ||37

Readers should note that The Irish Catholic circulates throughout the island of Ireland and the book prices listed are the retail price recommended by the Irish or British publishers, in either euros or BookReviews Peter Costello sterling, as a general indication of what purchasers may expect to pay. Lockdown literature • Chapter 4 Of faith and poetry: a different aspect Normal people, hidden of Christ in every poet’s encounter lives: ‘living faithfully’ The Outlaw Christ: The starting with the Christian – tend to response in poetry to the under-humanise us in the rareified in provincial England question ‘Who do you say atmosphere of too lofty skies. “These religions are still system- In this series some of our literary collaborators that I am?’ will be giving suggestions for lockdown reading, by John F. Deane atically closed to the wide horizons (Columba Books, €16.99) and great winds of Cosmogenesis, books of all kinds to amuse and raise our spirits. and can no longer be said to feel with This week, Felix M. Larkin writes of that ‘study Gabriel Fitzmaurice the Earth – an Earth whose internal of provincial life’ which deals with normal people and their hidden lives, George Eliot’s Middlemarch he Outlaw Christ, developed frictions they can still lubricate like soothing oil, but whose driving ener- (1871-72). from a series of talks and gies they cannot animate as they lectures delivered by John At a public lecture in Dublin in February, held under the auspices should.” F. Deane while he was the of Studies magazine, I heard Chris Patten, the former British Illa Delio, a Franciscan Sister of Teilhard de Chardin Fellow in Catho- Conservative MP and last Governor of Hong Kong, describe T Washington DC, offers the follow- lic Studies at Loyola University, Chi- Middlemarch as “the greatest English novel”. ing: “Evolution suggests the univer- cago in 2016, follows philosophers, That was not the first time that I heard it so described, but I had sal is moving to a state of wholeness; poets and poetry from the 8th never found time to read it. I decided that I should use the period of it is moving forward so we must see Century through the metaphysical John F. Deane and, above, seclusion required by the Covid-19 regulations to finally read this change as integral to evolution, and poets, Emily Dickinson and Gerard the cover of his new book. much admired work. therefore to the Creator.” Reading Manley Hopkins to poets of our own What constitutes a ‘great’ novel? For me, greatness in literature (1582-1650), Deane laments that His Christ is a Christ who seeks phrase, Deane informs us, “filled her, Deane concludes that the new day including David Gascoyne, Pat- is a function of its ability still to speak to us despite being the Fletcher’s emphasis on love, rather “mercy and not sacrifice” whose with a vibrant immediacy and a Christianity is to be a daring adven- rick Kavanagh and Pádraig J. Daly. product of a different era and/or a different than on a God of vengeful watchful- poetry is a direct and gentle insist- small suggestion of hope in the ture requiring a new language and a Deane informs us in his Foreword culture. By that standard, Middlemarch ness, did not remain among Chris- ence on love, not fear. development of the arts”. new poetry and this he finds in con- that his study has been Christ; his – first published in 1871-72 – is certainly tians down through the centuries. In his essay on Thomas Traherne temporary poets like Pádraig J. Daly living has been love and poetry. In ‘great’. Amen say I! Like John Donne (1572- (1637-1674), he quotes the poet: John F. Deane and James Harpur who give a heart- these essays the poet-prophet con- 1631), Deane spends his life both in “Nature teacheth nothing but the ❛❛ It is a novel about ordinary people – one ening lift to those who try to pursue tends that the whole of creation is delivers close readings, is tempted to say ‘normal people’, making a his poetry and in his prose works truth” and he concludes that by an the Christ through their daily lives. God’s work of art which appeals to genuflection to one of our currently popular preaching a sermon to himself. Like awareness of nature man comes to sermons in the In The Outlaw Christ, John F. the imagination rather than mere novels and television adaptations. The Donne, he seeks to satisfy the whole knowledge of God. Deane delivers close readings, ser- reason or intellect where faith pre- best sense” characters live “faithfully a hidden life”, to man. Reading Simone Weil (1909- mons in the best sense, on poetry’s cedes belief systems and may well quote from the famous final sentence of 1943) he discovers that putting In Teilhard de Chardin he encoun- search for the true Christ, within or travel on after belief systems are the novel. Sermons Christ at the centre of her thinking, ters the mystical and cosmic Christ. without the official Church. He has lost. This focus on the ordinary is something These essays are sermons directed to she makes him the exemplar of the Teilhard writes: “Something has chosen well from the canon and his In The Dream of the Rood, writ- that resonates with us today: there are no himself as much as they are directed need for suffering and the destruc- gone wrong and so something, in book is as timely and it is welcome. ten perhaps in the 8th Century in to his readers and, like George Her- tion of the ego, her theology stand- the area of faith and religion must heroes, just people whose lives are spent England, in Anglo-Saxon, Deane bert (1593-1633), he has them pub- ing and falling at the end of the be supplied without delay on this i Gabriel Fitzmaurice is a Kerry- “in channels which had no great name on finds that the outlaw Christ “instead lished that they might do good “to medieval world focusing too much planet.” based poet of international repute, the earth”. of being brought forcefully to his any dejected poor soul”. In Herbert on the crucifixion and setting aside The neo-humanisms of the whose latest publications are A There is, however, a villain – one whose villainy death, is…hastening to it, eager and he perceives “the personal response the resurrection. 20th Century, Teilhard believes, Farewell to Poetry: Selected Poems is familiar to us. Mr Bulstrode is a dodgy banker, with a dark secret of past malfeasance. He tries to compensate for his past with a prepared, ready for the battle to win to the personal Christ [that] has not In David Gascoyne (1916-2001), de-humanise us “under their unin- and translation (Currach Press) and Jesus and the scorpion, from Stanley stridently evangelical Christianity, leading one of the locals in the humanity back to God”. been sufficiently taken up by later he encounters the “Christ of Revo- spired skies, yet on the other hand for children Really Rotten Rhymes Spencer’s series Christ in the Wilderness. In his reading of Phineas Fletcher writers”. lution and Poetry”, a most telling the still-living forms of theism – (Mercier Press). town of Middlemarch to say of him after he is eventually exposed: “What’s more against a man’s stomach than a man coming and making himself bad company with his religion, and giving out as the Ten Commandments are not good enough for him, and all the while BrilliantBrilliant legacy legacy ofof scholarscholar priest:priest: ThomasThomas Finan,Finan, Christian humanisthumanist he’s worse than half the men at the tread-mill?” This could well be said of some of the evangelical zealots in Trump’s entourage. He was Professor of Classics in May- wisest and most just of all the men of Thomas Finan, Collected An insight from Thomas Finan Writings nooth from 1959 to his retirement in his time”) and Christ. Not only Greek It is long and moves at a stately pace, and ed. D. Vincent Twomey 1996. A survey of the contents of this philosophy, but also Greek tragedy “The Christian knows that God has become man, and has assumed the the❛❛ language is very formal – though beautiful” (Columba Books, €34.99) volume indicates the vast range of his foreshadowed Christ’s passion, the limitations of man’s own existence in time and the world. Time and eternity, expertise. Part I deals with academic tragedies of Sophocles leading to this life and the next, do not merely co-exist. Eternity has been inserted into At the core of the novel are certain ‘love problems’ – marriages Fran O’Rourke topics, ranging impressively from Gethsemane and Golgotha. time. The next life has been ingrafted in this. and courtships – which are every bit as tortured as Connell and Reading this delightful collection, Antiquity through to the Renaissance, Finan’s earliest passion was St “The next life begins by grace in this world. Death is not a break in Marianne’s affair in Normal People. Unlike Normal People, there the word that repeatedly came to with sections on St Augustine, Early Augustine (354-430). The four essays continuity. It is a raising up to glory, a transfiguration of the life that is already are no sex scenes in Middlemarch – but a definite frisson is evident mind was the Latin for ‘wisdom’, Irish Christian Literature and Dante. included convey a deep learning that in the Christian. But that life must be cultivated here. For time is the anvil on when Dorothy and Ladislaw overcome their reticence and admit sapientia, in its original meaning of is imbued with a passion to match which the Christian forges his eternity. Death is the point of intersection of the their love for one another at the end of the novel. ‘sweet knowledge’, knowledge to be The volume is that of the African bishop. He later two worlds. One of the problematic marriages involves a young doctor, savoured. ❛❛ became fascinated with St Thomas “But as such it is only the supreme among a lifelong succession of crucial Lydgate, who has wonderful plans for a new hospital in As the editor Vincent Twomey completed with insightful More (1478-1535). Four essays on points. For at every moment the Christian lives and acts in two worlds. Every Middlemarch and is, at one point, concerned with “preparing notes, Thomas Finan’s primary draw More and three on his contemporary moment incarnates a value in eternity.” a new ward in case of the cholera coming to us”. This adds a was towards the sublime or mystical, review essays on art and Erasmus are included. contemporary dimension to the novel, with the threat of Covid-19 his primal instinct was poetic. The literature...” Readers interested in Irish cul- he was not impressed: “There is too for the first time. hanging over us. 1st-century author Longinus defined ture will be delighted by the essay high an incidence of flattening out, The editor of the volume Vincent There was a cholera epidemic in Britain in 1831-32 – and Part II, ‘Occasional Essays’, consists the sublime as “a certain elevation ‘Hiberno-Latin Christian Literature’. levelling down, summarising para- Twomey writes: “Thomas Finan Middlemarch is set over a period of years ending in 1832. for the most part of what are entitled and distinction in the writing”, a qual- Written Irish literature began with St phrase rather than translation…and was a humanist, more precisely a And how could a curmudgeonly old bachelor like me not respond ity which derives not so much from ‘Controversial Essays’, among which Patrick, who himself became – avant sometimes just bad writing by any Christian humanist.” This volume sympathetically to Mr Brooke’s pronouncement on marriage: “I style as the interior intensity of great are Fr Finan’s studied reflections on la lettre – more Irish than the Irish never loved any one well enough to put myself into a noose for standards.” is a worthy monument not only to thought and strong emotion. catechetics, mortal sin, the future of themselves. Of his British opponents them. It is a noose, you know.” It would be interesting to know his personal legacy, but a valuable This volume is sublime in thought, Maynooth and the new liturgy. he remarked: “To them it is annoying compendium of that entire tradition. It has been many years since I last read a Victorian novel, and how he would judge recent revisions emotion and style. A gentle enthusi- The section on Antiquity includes and unbecoming that we should be Readers will find it sublime in I will confess that I found Middlemarch challenging. It is long and of the English translation. asm fills its pages, indicating that its perceptive studies on Homer, Greek the Irishry!” thought, emotion and style. moves at a stately pace, and the language is very formal – though author was dealing with affairs not tragedy, and Gilgamesh. The author In an essay entitled ‘The Burn- The volume is completed with beautiful. only of the intellect but also of the deals in two essays with the relation- ing of the Books’, written in 1972 in insightful review essays on art and i Fran O’Rourke, Emeritus Professor I am happy to acknowledge it as ‘great’ and am glad to have heart. ship between Greek thought and response to the introduction of the literature, two meditative homilies, of Philosophy at University College read it, but I have not changed my view that the greatest English Prof. Thomas Finan (1931-2012) Christianity. He expounds in detail vernacular into the liturgy, Fr Finan and an evocative recollection of the Dublin, is completing a book on Fr Thomas novel – pace Chris Patten – is Dickens’ Bleak House. was a priest of the Diocese of Killala. the parallels between Socrates (“best, turns his linguistic skills to good use; author’s schooldays, published here James Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas. 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Notebook Fr Conor McDonough Corpus Christi is a wonderful time to show unity or some Irish Catholics, together from the ends of the unity of his blood; one altar; as it’s hard to think of Corpus earth into your Kingdom.” there is one bishop, along with the Christi, the feast we presbyters and deacons.” celebrate this weekend, It is at such a time In 21st-Century Ireland, we Fwithout getting nostalgic about ❛❛ can no longer express Eucharistic the beauty of past celebrations, that we need to devote unity by means of dramatic public and even becoming resentful processions, for the reason that about the almost total absence of ourselves wholeheartedly a great many of our neighbours Eucharistic processions in the life to peace and harmony simply are not one with us in of the Church today. faith. But it is crucial that we I never experienced Corpus within the Church” don’t allow our disappointment Christi processions when I was And when St Ignatius of at post-Catholic Ireland to lead us growing up. Antioch was being brought to to snipe at each other, to snipe at For me Eucharistic worship was Rome in chains early in the second our priests and bishops, and to stir always associated with the relative century, his constant insistence up disunity in the community of privacy of Church buildings, rather from St Paul’s powerful teaching the bread on the altar, about in the letters he wrote to various believers. than the public spaces of towns in 1 Corinthians, we have the to become the Body of Christ: Churches was that their Eucharistic We may be smaller, our and villages, where all eyes could evidence too of the oldest “Even as this broken bread was celebrations be expressions of celebrations may be more private, see and all knees bend. surviving Eucharistic prayer, scattered over the hills [i.e. unity: “Take heed, then, to have but it is precisely at such a time But from its foundation, until from a 1st-Century document as wheat], and was gathered but one Eucharist. For there is that we need to devote ourselves recently, the feast of Corpus called the Didache. There we together and became one, so one flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, wholeheartedly to peace and Christi, at least in Catholic find the celebrant praying over let your Church be gathered and one cup to [show forth] the harmony within the Church, in countries, did indeed have this everything we do and say. public, corporate character. It Loving the Eucharist means was an opportunity to express a Well that’s one way of making your point! loving unity. key point of Eucharistic doctrine: One of the ways we visibly this peace in the Middle often presented to people sacristan with violence if the Eucharist unites people. You The Irish Catholic express the peace that Ages. on the basis of social rank, he wasn’t awarded this might not like your neighbour, this 2 4 comes to us from the Typically, it involved the which could sometimes honour the following week. neighbourhood might dislike that altar is by offering to one priest and congregation, cause tensions. Next Sunday he was neighbourhood, but on Corpus another the sign of peace. one by one, kissing a One Sunday in an still No.2 so, after devoutly Christi, all rivals might find a We don’t know when this round object called a pax, Essex parish in 1522, kissing the pax he – rather deeper unity in Christ. sign will be restored to the made of metal or ivory. a certain John Browne less devoutly – broke the Right from the beginning the liturgy, but it’s worth noting As historian Eamon Duffy declared himself worthy pax over the sacristan’s link between Eucharist and unity that there was a slightly explains in his Stripping of being given the pax head. Not exactly the spirit was clear to the Church. Apart different way of expressing of the Altars, the pax was first, and threatened the of Eucharistic unity... 9 7 7 1 3 9 3 6 8 3 0 5 7

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