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©Nina Mattiello Azad Eh ©Nina Mattiello Azadeh EDITORIAL TEAM RECTOR’S FOREWORD much-loved priests and shepherds SUPPORT THE EVANGELIST questions are now coming to the We all know that words can of the faithful, Archbishops Michael THE WORD IN fore which speak to us about our build up or knock down. Words “TO BE A Bowen and Peter Smith, the latter a MAGAZINE AND VOCATIONS faith and will surely inform our can remain on the surface or former rector of St John’s. May they THE YEAR OF THE pastoral practice in the months they can penetrate our being. CATHOLIC rest in peace. We hope you will enjoy this - AND OF THE 2020 issue of The Evangelist. WORD and years to come. We need the language of silence, With much regret, we say farewell The magazine is free, but we CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC of prayer, to allow the Word TODAY IS A to Canon Brian Coyle who stood have invested in better printing I heard that to date over one of God to go deeper in us. The down as Rector in April. We thank and distribution so that we million people had accessed the priest and the deacon have the him for his total dedication and care Canon Brian Coyle, BEAUTIFUL can reach double the number live streaming of services from great privilege of preaching. But for our wellbeing and formation as Rector of St John’s St Patrick’s Cathedral in New what are we to preach? We give seminarians and future priests, of people than in the past: we THING” and for showing us how to live a hope this will promote prayer York. Here is a very obvious ourselves away when we preach: prayerful priestly life. We wish for vocations, and indeed actual FATHER, WHEN WILL WE HEAR way in which we have kept are we men of God or not? The him every grace and blessing. We vocations. If you wish to support YOU PREACH…? in contact with our parishes homily is the touchstone for congratulate our own Vice-Rector, the magazine and our work for and with each other, through judging the pastor’s closeness Monsignor Gerry Ewing, who has vocations, you are very welcome Events can overtake us; at times, the use of social media. In and ability to communicate to been appointed our new Rector. they can overwhelm us. This many cases numbers have been his people (EG 135). Is this God’s He will be supported especially by to make a donation: greater online than they have Word I am breaking open for the the prayers and good wishes of the article should have been written community and of the St John’s • online through our Just months ago with the focus on The been in the pews. There is a people or some other word? Association of priests, deacons and Giving page: God Who Speaks, the initiative hunger for the things of God in a Have I been captured by God’s former seminarians. https://www.justgiving. of the Church in England time of need. Priests, deacons, Word, so that it is no longer I com/campaign/wonersh- and Wales in 2019-2020 to seminarians, parish workers and who am preaching but Christ evangelist-2020 celebrate the tenth anniversary parishioners have used modern who is preaching in me because ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic means of communication to He is living in me (see Galatians exhortation Verbum Domini enable the Christian community 2:20)? The present devastating The Editors thank Canon Brian Coyle • by sending a cheque made to be in relation to the Word pandemic is questioning all of and Monsignor Gerry Ewing for their payable to “St John’s and the 1600th anniversary constant support and guidance, and Seminary” with “The of the death of St Jerome (the who is Life. The Word of God us: living more simply and doing seminarian Rev Thomas Lawes for Evangelist” written on the translator of the Bible into Latin is Good News and we need to with less, caring about the world his photography. We thank Gerry back. Please post it to The and who memorably stated that hear and experience that Good in which we live, a greater sense Kehoe, Special Events Operations Ignorance of the Scriptures News in ways both new and old, of neighbourliness and love of The words of Archbishop John Editor, St John’s Seminary, Director and CBCEW Events is ignorance of Christ). Pope individually and as a community. the human family. Wherein is Wilson in a recent interview well Adviser, and Jordynn Williams, Wonersh, Surrey, GU5 0QX. Francis has also spoken recently the real meaning of our lives? express the St John’s seminary Creative Designer at JumpDP, for ethos: “to be a Catholic today is a their unstinting work on design, • or by Bank Transfer (and about the Word of God in Father, when will we hear you Where is truth, goodness, beautiful thing” and indeed to be printing and distribution. Above Gift Aid). For details, the life of the Church in his preach…? These words were beauty and ultimate happiness a disciple of Jesus and a witness all, we thank our many writers who please e-mail the Editor apostolic letter Aperuit illis in spoken to me by a parishioner to be found? to his truth and love are pure joy. ably express the beauty, truth and which he declares that the Third thirty-five years ago, shortly We hope that in these pages you at: [email protected] goodness of our faith. Sunday in Ordinary Time will after I was ordained. They came Truth is a Person. The Christian will find the beauty of the Catholic henceforward be the Sunday as a shock. I replied: You hear believes that Person is Jesus Church, the Body of Christ, and the We acknowledge the work of the Word of God. The Holy me preach every Sunday. The Christ, the Word of God. That inspirational presence of the Holy of Edward Bulley, a St John’s EDITORIAL TEAM: Spirit in developing vocations to seminarian in the 1950s, for creating Rev Dcn Peter Sebastian; Father speaks, too, of the Word parishioner responded: No, we eternal Word became flesh in the priesthood. the beautiful manuscript known as Eddie Hopkins; David Hunter; of God, and of preaching, in hear you read out something… the Person of Jesus Christ, who the Bulley Missal. Some of its pages Frazer Bellfield Evangelii Gaudium (EG). It was a hammer blow. I spent suffered, died and rose from Locked down in the middle of the are reproduced here. hours each week preparing the the dead to save all humanity. Coronavirus crisis, we nonetheless homily, praying the Sunday The Word became flesh… know that beautiful things Our lives have been changed by Rev Dcn Peter Sebastian the Coronavirus pandemic and readings and looking up as There is an inextricable link have happened in the Church General Editor over the last year, including the the tragedy of so many people many commentaries as I could. between the Incarnation and canonisation of an English saint dying from Covid-19, including I thought I was doing a good the sacramentality of the Word and the rededication of England to family members and friends. job. The parishioner was right. of God when it is proclaimed or Our Lady. We report on these and Where is God in all of this and I was giving a mini lecture, when prayed by individuals or on the many graces experienced by does the Word of God have perhaps even showing off a bit. groups (the practice of lectio our community here at St John’s. We focus on such key themes as anything to say with churches The Word of God is just that: divina). In Christ we will find discipleship and the ordination of closed and no sacraments God’s Word. It is not my word. the meaning of our lives. He is three priests and six deacons from celebrated publicly? What But it can become my word if I’m longing for us to meet Him in our community; the healing hand about the many people living not careful. The Church teaches Word and in Sacrament. The of the Church, committed selflessly alone and priests, deacons and that Christ is truly present when Son of God, by becoming flesh, to helping the sick, the dying and laity who are not able to be with the Word of God is proclaimed. summoned us to the revolution the victims of abuse; and the them with Word or Sacrament The books of the Bible are of tenderness (EG 88). The patient work to rebuild the Catholic foundations of our land. We also or presence? And parishioners human words written by human Coronavirus pandemic is asking express our sadness at the loss not allowed into church to pray authors, but the real author is many questions of the Church of two former St John’s trustees, quietly and safely. So many the Holy Spirit. It is God’s Word! and her leaders, just as it is of 2 3 DISCIPLESHIP DISCIPLESHIP our political leaders. We cannot union with Christ, which is born pastorally, intellectually and and the effect it has on their be let off the hook – questions PRIESTS ARE DISCIPLES of, and nourished in, a particular spiritually - pivots on this emotions.’ Seeking to discern will be put to us as well. way by prolonged and silent primary relationship, without the ‘salutary promptings of prayer’ (Ratio 102). which we merely construct a the good Spirit who proposes house built on sand.
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