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THE NET | SEPTEMBER 2020 1 ISSUE 57. SEPTEMBER 2020 PRICE - £1.50 The NET /€2.00 Sharing fruits of faith in Derry Diocese See inside... “It is important to accompany and encourage Sr Clare Prayer – Brandywell Grotto people” (Fr John McLaughlin SSC) Syro Malabar Video – Waterside Memorial Walk – Greencastle Fr Crilly’s 80th – Castlefin Covid Cross Blessing – Cranagh Grotto Blessing – Creggan JPII Reflection – Ballinascreen in focus in People Marie Lindsay – Iskaheen Fr John McLaughlin SSC – Moville Stella McGinley – Sion Mills Bishop Francis Lagan RIP John Hume RIP Also featuring: Youth News & Features, JPII Reflections, Loreto Coleraine reviews strangest academic year, Excellence award for St Finlough’s teaching assistant, 125 years of St Joseph’s Young Priests’ Society, Parish Feature Part II, Children’s Catechism Club, Irish Page and Quiz. 2 THE NET | SEPTEMBER 2020 Sr Nellie McLaughlin RSM reflects on Pope Francis’ prayer intention for... Contents Parish deliveries Copies of ‘The Net’ will be available in parishes again Respect for the planet’s resources after restrictions, as a result of Covid-19, are lifted. Respect for the planet’s resources – A reflection by Sr NellieMcLaughlin RSM ........................... p2 “I have come that you may have life, life in abundance.” (John 10:10) Ballinascreen children enjoy celebrating Season of Creation .................................................................... p2 IN outlining the universal Day marks the date when we create a dilemma. We cannot joined in a splendid universal Pandemic reflection .................................................................. p2 prayer intention for September (humanity) have used more live without fresh air, clean communion’ (LS 220). This Rosary on the Coast .................................................................. p2 2020, Pope Francis challenges from nature than our planet water, fertile soil, sunshine disconnection, the systemic Derry mural of smiling nun, Sr Clare, us to pray that ‘the planet’s can renew in the entire year. or the companionship of cause of so much devastation warming hearts near and far ................................................. p3 resources will not be In 1969 that crucial date was others in the community of and suffering in our world, Youth reflect on Pope John Paul II Award ......................p4-5 plundered, but shared in a just December 27. life. Yet many are prepared continues to have serious Grandparents - our first teachers and respectful manner’. Since then, especially in to cut down the rainforests, consequences for planet and by Hollie Frystal ..........................................................................p6 Our Common Home is the last 30 years, through the very lungs of the earth, to people: ‘What kind of world do Virtual Knock pilgrimage for grandparents ......................p6 Great response to Youth Ministry Scholarship ................p6 richly endowed for the good overfishing, overharvesting of deplete the soil through the we want to leave to those who Check out DYC for faith-based gap year ............................p6 of the whole community of forests and the alarming rise overuse of harmful chemicals, come after us, to children who Youth team back with more online fun .............................p6 creation. These resources,of CO2 in the atmosphere, to pollute the water beyond are now growing up’. (LS 160) Remembering John Hume – a good friend while abundant, are finite, and our ecological budget 2019 safe consumption and consign Let this be a wake up moment by Peter Grant ...............................................................................p7 therefore require responsible was spent by July 29. We are millions of people and species for us worldwide as Covid-19 Sr Nellie McLaughlin RSM. Pope Francis entrusts young to Our Lady’s intercession p8 stewardship in co-operation currently using 1.7 earths as to poverty and homelessness re-enforces what we already Nagasaki, let us commit anew The Virgin Mary with Earth’s processes. ‘Soil, we dig ever deeper into our for monetary gain. suspect, namely, we must by Oisin Mulhern .........................................................................p8 to respect for our common water, mountains: everything planet’s reserves built over Our Common Home is protect the more vulnerable home and more equitable Youth 2000 Festival online success is, as it were, a caress of God’ millennia. We urgently need struggling while ‘being among us: planet, people, by Hollie Frystal ..........................................................................p9 sharing of its resources. I Engaging young people in their faith (LS. 84). to move from fossil fuels to squeezed dry beyond every species and all vital resources. suggest that we make this by Tony Brennan .........................................................................p9 Planet Earth’s living systems: sustainable energy sources. limit’ (LS 106). Current The prayer intention is timely practical by choosing a Loreto Coleraine reviews strangest academic year the air we breathe; the water The Covid-19 pandemicestimates indicate that less in reminding us of what many specific key resource, for by Brenda Sweeney ..................................................................p10 we drink; the food we eat; offers a brief breathing space than 20% of people own and of us simply take for granted. example, sun, water, air, soil, Back to school! and the sunlight that nurtures for Earth to regenerate, with control over 80% of the Earth’s Key advice in these pandemic microorganisms, earthworms, by Mary O’Boyle..........................................................................p11 and sustains us, and all Overshoot Day 2020 estimated resources and generate over times is the insistence on hand insects, bees, birds, animals, Excellence award for St Finlough’s teaching assistant p11 beings, ultimately relies on as August 22. 80% of the planet’s waste. washing and staying apart as Warm welcome at Queen’s within oceans, coral reefs, forests, Columbanus community by Michael Ward ......................p11 biodiversity. I like to think Fundamental to responsible Earth has enough for the needs core preventative measures. wetlands, web of life. of biodiversity as the sacred stewardship and equitable of all but not for the greed of The alarming reality is that St Mary’s College tribute to outstanding leader – Looking to the future with Marie Lindsay ............................................................................. p12 leaven in God’s creative sharing of resources is the the few, whether individuals or over two billion people do not hope, may our chosen vital realisation that the cry of the multi-national corporations. have water to drink or for food Greencastle walk raises £21,000 for Trocaire extravagance – that stunning resource inspire us and others by Maria Bradley ....................................................................... p13 variety of life on earth in all its earth and the cry of the poor As in Laudato Si’, Pope preparation, not to mention to make the necessary life- Lockdown surprise for Fr Crilly ............................................ p13 forms, species and ecosystems are one and the same cry. Francis is calling us to hand washing, neither do style changes to enable its Remembering Bishop Francis Lagan ................................. p14 in the oceans, on land, in the Indigenous wisdom reminds conversion, to re-connect countless millions have homes preservation and dynamism in Creggan grotto and prayer stone blessed skies and sub-surface bacteria. us that what we do to the with our deepest roots in the in which to remain safe and the dance of life for the abiding in memory of Bishop Lagan It is sobering to realise that we earth we do to ourselves. community of creation: the well! health and wellbeing of the by Fr Joe Gormley ...................................................................... p15 humans comprise 0.01% of the When we humans put short- renewal and re-connection we During this Season of entire community of creation. God’s Friends – lost in translation totality of life on Earth, yet our term profits ahead of long- seek ‘entails a loving awareness Creation and mindful of the by Fr Oliver Crilly ....................................................................... p16 collective ecological footprint term needs and priorities that we are not disconnected 75th anniversary of the nuclear Ministering in times of tragedy ........................................... p16 ‘All it takes is one good person is enormous. Earth Overshoot of flourishing life for all, we from the rest of creatures, but bombing of Hiroshima and Focloir Nua to restore hope’. (LS.71). Irish Section by Fr Oliver Crilly ..............................................p17 A man of peace and strong faith – John Hume RIP ..........................................................................p18 Pandemic by Lynn Ungar (11-03-2020) Credit Union tribute to John Hume by Delma Boggs. ....................................................................... p19 What if you thought of it become still, of compassion that move, Pray for courage to be and share Good News as the Jews consider the Sabbath reach out with your heart. invisibly, - Bishop Donal ..........................................................................p20 — Know that we are connected where we cannot touch. Cranagh Covid Cross blessed ...............................................p20 the most sacred of