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INTERCOM A Catholic Pastoral and Liturgical Resource • May 2020 The Benemerenti Medal: Recognition of Faithful Service The Thirtieth Glimpses of the In the Time of Anniversary of Betrothal of Mary Covid-19: Cardinal Tomás and Joseph The Urbi et Orbi of Ó'Fiaich Pope Francis Paraic Maher Fr Michael Murtagh Volume 50 CONTENTS Number 4 Intercom magazine is a Catholic pastoral and liturgical resource of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference © Veritas Publications, 2020 Cover photograph: Jimmy & Maura Whelan, after receiving their Bene Merenti medals from Bishop Denis Brennan, in Annacurra, Co Wicklow. March 1st, 2020. Photo, John Jordan. ARTICLES Glimpses of the Betrothal 8-10 Message of Pope Francis for 23 of Mary and Joseph World Communications Day 2020 Paraic Maher Evangelisation/Catechesis: 25 Thoughts on the 11 Learning from Pope St Paul VI’s Re-dedication of a Church Evangelii Nuntiandi Archbishop Eamon Martin Emma Sisk Urbi et Orbi Message of 12-13 The Ongoing Task of 30 Pope Francis, 27 March 2020 Vocations Promotion in Ireland Fr Willie Purcell Marking the Thirtieth 14-15 Anniversary of Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Fr Michael Murtagh Winning the New Continent: 16-17 The Wisdom of Pope St John Paul II on the 100th anniversary of his Birth (18 May 1920) REGULARS Apologetics: Dr Sean O’Leary 28-29 Lectio Divina: Fr Thomas Casey SJ 24 Book Reviews 20 Liturgy Preparation (including newsletter resources) 32-41 Crossword 21 Milestones 26-27 Editorial 5 NAPDA 20 Gazette and Mart 44-45 New Resources: Fr Sean Maher 46 Get Connected 7 Irish Episcopal Conference: Spring Meeting 18-19 Prayers and Reflections for May 6 Leathanach don Cheiliuraí 42-43 The Liturgy Page 31 Intercom • May 2020 3 Editorial Fr Chris Hayden Chains, Webs and Covid-19 Editor Intercom is a Catholic pastoral and welcome you to this digital-only issue of Intercom; and I offer my sincere apologies liturgical resource magazine published for the abrupt development, which has been completely beyond our control. I by Veritas, an agency established by the Isincerely hope that most if not all of our readers will be able to access this resource Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference. without undue inconvenience. If you are aware of any less digitally able subscribers, Some of the content of Intercom, along with you might consider helping them to access their May 2020 issue of Intercom. occasional resources not published in the This magazine, like so much else, is the end result of a chain of collaboration. For a printed edition, can be accessed for free, on moment, I want to try to enumerate, in some detail, the links in that chain. They www.intercommagazine.ie. include: the Communications Council of the Irish Bishops’ Conference, the Editorial A full digital subscription is also available. 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How about the forester – I don’t even know in of the editor, nor do they necessarily express which country – who manages the forest that produces the timber that produces the the official views of the Irish Catholic paper? How about the mechanic who has serviced the van that takes the consignment Bishops’ Conference. of magazines to the building that is heated and lit by the power produced by plants engineered and equipped by an entirely different industry? And what about the roads Editor the van drives on? Or the ship the rolls of paper are shipped in? Fr Chris Hayden I could go on, but it would all start to get a bit obvious. On the other hand, it’s the Email [email protected] obvious things we can be most apt to miss. The fact of the matter, which becomes Assistant to the Editor obvious once we give it some sustained consideration, is that the analogy of a chain is Oisín Walsh inadequate. 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Intercom • May 2020 5 Virgin of listening and contemplation, Prayers and Reflections Mother of love, Bride of the eternal wedding feast, pray for the Church, whose pure icon you are, that she may never be closed in on herself for May or lose her passion for establishing God’s kingdom. Star of the new evangelization, Marian Prayers and Reflections of Pope Francis help us to bear radiant witness to communion, Along our path of welcoming thinkstock.com Photo: service, ardent and generous faith, God’s word into our hearts, the justice and love of the poor, Mother of the Lord that the joy of the Gospel accompanies us. She is the one may reach to the ends of the earth, who was called blessed because illuminating even the fringes of our world. she believed in the fulfilment of Mother of the living Gospel, what the Lord had spoken to her wellspring of happiness for God’s little ones, (cf. Lk 1:45). Mary’s own pray for us. beatitude is prior to all the Amen. Alleluia! beatitudes proclaimed by Jesus Evangelii Gaudium 288 about the poor and those who mourn, the meek, the 3 3 3 peacemakers and those who are persecuted, for it is the necessary condition for every other kind of beatitude.

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