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No 5376 www.scottishcatholicobserver.org.uk Friday August 6 2010 | 90p BBC strike threatens Papal blackout Television coverage in doubt as corporation staff will vote on industrial action on September 9

By Ian Dunn FEARS are growing that strike action at the BBC could prevent Scottish Catholics from watching the Papal visit live on television. The National Union of Journalists, Bectu, Unite, Equity and the Musicians Union are balloting members on strike action over the corporation’s plans to cut £50 million from staff’s pension funds. The result of the ballot is expected on September 9, just a week before Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Scotland to begin his four-day state visit. Strike repercussions If a strike goes ahead it could stop hundreds of thousands of Scots Catholics from following the Pope’s visit, which begins with his meeting with the Queen at Holyrood Palace, and could also affect transmission to the rest of the UK and overseas. Although it is anticipated that half of Catholics in Scotland will attend the parade to welcome the Pope in Edinburgh or go to the Papal Mass in Glasgow, some parishes had planned to watch the Mass live together on television. David Kerr, a spokesman for the Catholic Church in Scotland and former BBC journalist, said he hoped the BBC strike would not go ahead. “We’ll just have to keep a watching brief on this one,” he told the SCO. “As I know from my time at the BBC, rumours of strike action are not always followed by strike action itself. “I also know that the union leaders at the BBC are good and sensible people. So, hopefully, strike action won’t affect the corporation’s coverage of the Papal visit.” In England and Wales, the majority of Catholics will have to rely on television coverage to follow Papal events as demand is outstripping availability for parts of the itinerary, including the Cardinal John Henry Newman Beatification Mass at Cofton Park, Birmingham. Grievances NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear said that the decision of the BBC to cut pensions meant his members had a legitimate reason to strike. Those counting on watching the Papal visit on “We continue to believe that the proposals we dogged the Pope’s mission to combat western sec- “This is nothing short of a pensions robbery television could be sorley disappointed if BBC strike are making will deliver a pension scheme that is ularism. The programme features a rare interview which has provoked unprecedented anger and action goes ahead in September sustainable, affordable and flexible for BBC staff with the Pope’s brother, Mgr Georg Ratzinger, resentment amongst staff across the BBC,” he said. and the licence fee payer,” the spokesperson said. who speaks of how his brother has been affected “While managers can look forward to gold-plated settlement to address the BBC’s pensions short- “We know that staff have concerns about the pro- by recent scandals. Ann Widdecombe will be pre- pensions, thousands of BBC staff will be left sig- fall—but not at the expense of the value of pen- posed changes but we will continue to listen and senting a programme on the Road of Cardinal nificantly worse off in retirement. The BBC has sions already earned.” try to address these during the 90-day consultation John Henry Newman to Sainthood, while BBC broken its promises to staff and is undermining the period.” Four will be showing Vatican—The Hidden World value of people’s pensions. The BBC must with- BBC reassurances The BBC has also announced that it plans to air revealing the hidden treasures of the Vatican. draw these proposals or face the prospect of wide- A BBC spokesperson said that the broadcaster was a number of relevant programmes when the Pope spread strike action and industrial unrest over the committed to covering the Papal visit and that any is here. Chief among these will be Benedict: Trials Beatification Mass update, see page 4 coming months. strikes were, at this juncture, speculation they Of A Pope in which filmmaker Mark Dowd will “We remain committed to finding a negotiated would not comment on. explore how the current clerical abuse crisis has [email protected]

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SCO, 19 Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 6BT tel 0141 221 4956 fax 0141 221 4546 e-mail [email protected] 2 PICTURE NEWS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday August 6 2010 Relics help put St Pio’s name in lights MARIA DORRIAN, the Scottish delegate for the Sanctuary of St Pio of Pietrelcina reports on her recent trip to Las Vegas with the relics of Padre Pio and the connections between those with a devotion to the saint in the US and Scottish singer Susan Boyle “The people of Las Vegas need- Scotland-Nevada Rosary and As people were arriving for Mass, ed something like this,” Bishop Cardinal Keith O’Brien. they were met by a life size cut- Joseph Pepe. During our visit the Bishop out of Susan Boyle. was also presented with an oil Fr Robert Puhlman knew the S THE Scottish painting of Padre Pio by Angela story of how people throughout delegate for the Ciccone of San Giovanni the world had connected to Sanctuary of Saint Rotondo; its ‘partner’ had been Padre Pio through Susan Boyle. Pio of Pietrelcina, gifted to Cardinal Keith O’Brien He had told the story of how this I had accepted an in Scotland. amazing tour of Las Vegas Ainvitation to visit Las Vegas churches had come about as a with the relics of Padre Pio. Susan’s twin result of a chance meeting on Ms Bishop Pepe looked at the One of the extraordinarily beauti- Boyle’s official fansite between Scottish Catholic Observer we ful places we were to visit was in myself and Mirla Dissette of the had brought to show him the the desert—Mesquite and the Marian/Medjugorje Information story of Susan Boyle, the Parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Centre of Las Vegas. That led to an invitation from their spiritual director Mgr Benjamin Franzinelli—who himself had met Padre Pio in 1966—to visit Las Vegas with the hope of organising this present tour. This tour could have remained but a dream but for the ladies of the centre. They had asked their members to gift a bead from their own rosary so that a unique Rosary could be made for Susan. The Rosary Maria Dorrian (above left), accepted elled to the US twice in order to tor will be continuing, with the project, became known as the the invitation of Bishop Joseph Pepe pay for his son’s studies for the blessing of Bishop Pepe, the ‘Scotland-Nevada St Pio con- (above centre) to bring St Pio’s relics priesthood. visits to the sick, taking with nection’ and was completed to devotees in Las Vegas. Bishop In his homily Bishop Pepe her a relic of St Pio. Pepe enjoyed reading the story with the inclusion of a piece of featured in the SCO about the spoke of his grandmother’s The schedule was gruelling, Padre Pio’s blood-stained band- Scotland-Nevada Rosary given to meeting with Padre Pio in 1950 and the heat intense, and we age inside a silver locket. singer Susan Boyle who is as loved when she returned to Italy to were constantly on the go but it across the Atlantic (below) as she is confession. was so rewarding to connect Relics in US in Scotland The bishop spoke of a friend with people. To Bishop Pepe’s great delight, a facing an operation for a tumour Mirla had organised a veritable spiritual explosion had Ignatius’, Wishaw, and on the on her lung. She had asked farewell ‘SuBo’ lunch for me. It occurred during our two weeks second Monday of each month Bishop Pepe to pray for her as was here I meet Lauren Cazden, in the churches in the region. in St Alphonsus at the Barras, the doctor. Unknown to him, she an artistic photographer from He had agreed to a visit of the Glasgow—but this would be a had a devotion to Padre Pio. She Los Angeles. She had turned a relics after a meeting in March one-off for these people. had kept up the Novenas for photograph taken during our with Fr GianMaria Digiorgio The congregations have a real four weeks prior to surgery. meeting with Susan and the car- OFM Cap, a Superior of the understanding that it is not the Bishop Pepe recounted: dinal, now referred to as ‘The Capuchin Friary in San Giovanni saint who we worship, but God. “When the doctor went in on Hug,’ very cleverly into a paint- Rotondo in Italy where Padre Monday afternoon, he did not ing in which we were held in Pio’s remains now lie. Visit highlights operate,” the bishop said. “He the palm of Padre Pio’s hand. Having been present in On June 19, Bishop Pepe cele- walked away, took biopsies of One final surprise still await- March to translate for Fr brated Holy Mass in the Shrine her lymph nodes and there was ed me. When Mirla had request- GianMaria, I was now there to of the Holy Redeemer. This very little cancer there, very ed gifts of beads for a Rosary assist Fr Ermelindo Di Capua Mass concluded the Year of the very minor. for Susan, she had also request- OFM Cap, a 75-year-old Priest. The Knights of St “This woman would live to ed a bead to make a similar Capuchin who had lived for Columbus provided the guard 90. What a miracle, eh?” Rosary for Cardinal O’Brien. I three years with Padre Pio until of honour. Members of the US did not know she had also asked the saint’s death in 1968, and military escorted the relics of Connecting people for one for me. also to take care of the relics. Padre Pio in to the awaiting There is a huge Spanish com- While still in Las Vegas, we We visited various parishes congregation. munity in Nevada and Fr Di received requests from and each trip concluded with During the Second World Capua celebrated Holy Mass Minnesota, Salt Lake City, Los individual Veneration of the War, many American soldiers also in Spanish in some of the Angeles and Phoenix for a visit relics. The relics of Padre Pio climbed the mountain to visit churches. of the relics of Padre Pio. First are readily available at Masses Padre Pio, who had enlisted as a Each morning had been things first, our next plan is to here in Scotland—on the first soldier himself during the First organised for us with visits to get round the churches in Friday of each month in St World War. His father had trav- the sick. A non consulting doc- Scotland.

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Church pleased that finances to Mary’s Meals given Papal boost replace Trident have run aground THE Church in Scotland expected cuts of up to 20 per- Organisation is named as an official Papal visit charity and is aided by Duncan Bannatyne has welcomed news that the cent by 2015, putting staffing British Government is levels and major procurement By Ian Dunn struggling to pay for a programmes at risk. The MoD replacement for the Trident had thought the treasury would MARY’S Meals received a double nuclear weapons system. pay for Trident, but last week boost this week when it was named “Cardinal O’Brien has often Chancellor George Osborne one of the official charities of the Papal said having such weapons is a said the money must come visit to Scotland and Dragon’s Den foolishness and an unjustified from the MoD’s core budget. Star Duncan Bannatyne broadcast a expense,” John Deighan, the As a result former Army radio appeal on the charity’s behalf. Church’s parliamentary officer, chief General Sir Richard Mary’s Meals and Marie Curie Cancer said. “Stockpiling these Dannat has said it would be Care have been chosen as the official char- weapons of Mass Destruction included in a gerneral review ities of Pope Benedict XVI’s state visit to has to be looked at again in of defense spending. Prime Scotland on September 16. The visit is light of the current climate of Minister David Cameron has expected to net Glasgow’s economy around financial austerity. We would consistently said he wishes to £4.5 million and at least as much again in welcome anything that leads to retain the weapons system. publicity because of the global audience that happening.” “The problem of asking the watching on television and the internet. The comments come as it MoD to pay for it is that the Mary’s Meals has grown from its first emerged government ministries MoD budget is not going to get feeding operation of 200 children in are rowing over who should any larger. Indeed, it may get Malawi to a worldwide campaign, pro- will help provide school meals for hungry riences that he talked about about on air. pay the bill for renewing the smaller,” he said. “It is already viding free daily school meals to about children in some of the world’s poorest The three-minute broadcast focused on Trident nuclear missile system. under huge pressure and there- 400,000 children in countries including countries, enabling them to access educa- Mary’s Meals’ work providing some of The treasury and defence fore a lot of other projects— Albania, Romania and Uganda.Teams of tion that will help them to escape poverty the world’s poorest children with a meal a ministry are fighting over who some important projects will volunteers from Mary’s Meals and Marie in the long term.” day in their place of education. Listeners pays for the £15-20 billion have to get pushed out of the Curie Cancer Care will be collecting Paul Thompson, head of community also heard the sounds of children singing submarine-based system, just programme. donations before the parade to mark the fundraising in Scotland and Northern and playing at a school in Malawi. as other ministries are scram- “I think this strategic feast of St Ninian on Edinburgh’s Princes Ireland, for Marie Curie Cancer Care also “We want to thank Duncan Bannatyne bling for up to 40 per cent in defence review has to ask itself Street, prior to the Pope’s motorcade said they were delighted to be involved in for giving his time and energies to help savings for an October spend- two really key questions: What through the city centre. the Papal visit. Mary’s Meals, and the Radio 4 appeal ing review. is the character and nature of “With tens of thousands of people team for their advice and support,” said The Ministry of Defence future conflict, and what are Great opportunity expected to turn out for the parade and Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, Mary’s whose budget this year is £36.9 the threats to the security of Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, the founder the Pope’s journey through Edinburgh, Meals chief-executive. “Mary’s Meals is billion, is already facing this country?” of Mary’s Meals, said it was a great it’s a fantastic opportunity to raise sub- growing rapidly and this BBC appeal is a opportunity. stantial funds for the services we provide wonderful opportunity for us to share our “The St Ninian’s Day parade promises to to people with cancer and other terminal story with people across the UK.” be a wonderful event, bringing together illnesses here in Scotland,” he said. READ THE SCO BLOG CROSS people across Scotland to welcome the Duncan Bannatyne broadcast an appeal Donations to Mary's Meals should be WIRES AT Pope on his visit,” he added. “Mary’s Meals for Mary’s Meals on BBC radio 4 last sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, http://scobserver.wordpress.com is thrilled to have been chosen as one of the Sunday. please mark the back of your envelope charities to benefit from the celebration, The Glasgow-born entrepreneur and Mary's Meals. Credit cards: Freephone and our staff and volunteers are looking for- Dragon’s Den star is a long-time support- 0800 404 8144 ward to being involved on the day. er of Mary’s Meals and has visited its “Any monies raised by Mary’s Meals projects in Malawi and Romania—expe- [email protected] Thomas Marin James Scott Independent Funeral Directors Funeral Directors “Stay local... keep it in the Your local Independent Funeral Director SCIAF set for the silver screen ahead of Papal Mass family... offer a prompt Over eighty years of SCIAF launches and personal service 24 giving undivided attention, A SPECIALLY commis- hours a day... make it 24 hour care and a level of service sioned short film highlight- campaign to help second to none. The only independent, affordable.” ing SCIAF’s work with the the victims of the family-owned business in the area. world’s poorest people will Thomas Marin 1926 Let our family look after your family be shown ahead of the Papal Pakistani floods Three generations later, his words are just Mass in Bellahouston Park. as important to our family business today. 314 Portobello High Street, The film will highlight how SCIAF has launched a Edinburgh EH15 2DA 62-64 St Mary Street, Tel: 0131 556 7192 or Tel: 0131 669 6333 through SCIAF, the Scottish campaign to help the sur- Edinburgh EH1 1SX 0131 556 6874 (24 hrs) or 0131 669 1285 (24hrs) Catholic community provides vivors of the horrendous 7 Bridge Street, Musselburgh EH21 6AA practical help to people whose flooding in Pakistan. Tel: 0131 665 6925 lives are blighted by poverty all The agency is in contact over the world. with its Catholic sister agen- The four-minute film will be cies in Caritas Internationalis www.thomasmarin.co.uk www.thomasmarin.co.uk shown to the tens of thousands who are providing aid on the of pilgrims attending Mass and ground in the flood-hit areas will include footage from of Pakistan. SCIAF’s work around the world, An estimated 1400 peo- how they respond to disasters, ple have been killed and up help poor communities become to three million affected by  self-sufficient and care for peo- the heavy rains that have hit ple suffering from HIV and highlight the central role that the can work their way to a more Pakistan over the last week. AIDS. The organisation’s many Catholic community plays in prosperous and independent More rain is expected to fall campaigns lobbying businesses our work,” he said. “Without the future; those suffering from in the affected areas later   and governments to address the many thousands of people who HIV and AIDS can get the med- this week. underlying causes of global support SCIAF’s work through- icine and care they need; those The widespread flooding       poverty will also be highlighted. out the year, we would not be traumatised by war can have the has left an estimated 27,000          Paul Chitnis, SCIAF’s chief able to reach the hundreds of hope of peace and help to recov- people in isolated rural    ! 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BIRMINGHAM Archdiocese has said it has been over subscribed with ticket requests for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI next month for the beatification Mass of Cardinal John Henry Newman. Pope Benedict (right) will beatify Cardinal Newman at an open-air Mass in Birmingham’s Cofton Park on September 19, the final day of his four-day state visit to the UK. The archdiocese has admitted, howev- er, that some people may be left disap- pointed and will be unable to attend the over subscribed Mass. Pope to be presented with a lock Pilgrims attending of Blessed Mary MacKillop’s hair Around 70,000 pilgrims are expected to attend the celebration and Birmingham POPE Benedict XVI will Sisters of St Joseph, said it is Archdiocese, which covers more than receive a locket with strands the practice that a relic of the 3000 square miles, including counties of Mary MacKillop’s hair person to be canonised is pre- such as Staffordshire, Oxfordshire, was proved to be extremely high. The Holy Father will lead a prayer vigil during her canonisation sented to the Pope during the Warwickshire and Worcestershire, has “If they exceed the number that they at the London park on Saturday Mass, to be celebrated at the ceremony. been allocated some 14,000 tickets but (parishes) will be allocated then they will September 18 and The Priests —brothers Vatican in October. The relic is usually carried demand for places to attend the Mass is have to have a little raffle and draw and Eugene and Martin O’Hagan and their Blessed Mary MacKillop, forward by the Postulator of exceeding the supply. put names in a hat and take out the friend, David Delargy, who have previ- (above) the daughter of Scottish the Cause, meaning that Sr A spokesman for the archdiocese con- names,” Canon Browne said. ously performed at the Vatican—will sing emigrants from Roy Bridge to Maria Casey RSJ will have firmed last weekend that pilgrims Pilgrims attending the Mass will pay in front of an expected 80,000 pilgrims at Australia, will become the that honour in the case of Mary had three more days to apply for tickets £25 for their ticket, which goes towards the event. southern hemisphere country’s MacKillop. and that parishes would then have to the use of the park, travel costs and a ‘pil- Official merchandise and memorabilia to first saint later this year and the “We thought it would be decide on ways of selecting its attendees. grim pack’, the Catholic Church in celebrate the Papal visit to the UK has also hair will be presented to the nice to have something unique- Canon Pat Browne, administrator of England and Wales has said. recently gone on sale. Souvenirs includ- Holy Father as part of the cere- ly Australian for the reliquary Birmingham’s St Chad’s Cathedral and a ing Papal flags, baseball caps, prayer mony at St Peter’s Square. and we had the thought that the visit co-ordinator for the archdiocese, said The Priests cards, candles and T-shirts. Sr Campion Roche, RSJ— red gum from Penola would be recently that tickets had been allocated Meanwhile the platinum selling clergy The Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of the congregation of the Sisters nice,” Sr Anne said. across the country in accordance with trio The Priests, from the North of Scotland, England and Wales appointed of St Joseph, which was found- Sr Anne said it is not known Mass attendance but that it could be a case Ireland, have been lined up to perform at IVS Group the official merchandiser of ed by Mary MacKillop—kept a who originally took the strands of taking names ‘from a hat’ if demand Hyde Park during Pope Benedict’s visit. the commemorative merchandise. collection of Blessed Mary’s of hair and kept them in the belongings under her bed and locket, but they have been in the in her cupboards for safekeep- order’s archive since the 1960s. Archbishop Nichols ‘encouraged’ by coalition government’s echoes of faith ing, and the hair will now be “One of the sisters said her presented as official relics at family was given it by a sister ARCHBISHOP Vincent have contributed to a sense that ernment and added that he feels the canonisation Mass. (Sr Campion Roche) who Nichols, head of the we can leave social problems to encouraged, thus far, by the atti- It will be contained in a spe- guarded Mary MacKillop’s Bishops’ Conference of be solved by the government.” tude of the coalition towards cially designed and uniquely things—her letters and memen- England and Wales, has spo- The archbishop also spoke faith groups and that it is per- Australian reliquary—a cross tos which were kept after she ken out against the previous about the relationship between haps ‘more pragmatic than the made from Australian red gum died,” Sr Anne said. Labour Government and the previous government and previous administration was.’ from Penola, where Mary was “She kept a lot of it under said he feels encouraged at the Catholic Church and other Terry Sanderson, president of a governess and established her her bed and was instrumental the echoes of Catholic teach- faith groups. the National Secularist Society, first school house. in getting Mary’s letters tran- ing emerging from the new “I think the last government however, described Archbishop Sr Anne Derwin RSJ, con- scribed and pushing for the coalition government. required quite a high degree of Nichols’ comments as ‘deeply gregational leader of the cause (for Sainthood).” Speaking in a London news- conformity to its own theories undesirable’ paper Archbishop Nichols (right) and principles and practices,” “It is deeply undesirable for said that the Labour Government have highlighted the need for he said. “And if they clashed priests to interfere in politics in was too ‘overarching.’ society to not fall into the trap of with those of a faith community this way and even more danger- FIND THE NEW FRIENDS “In attempting to create a thinking that everything is to be then either the partnership came ous for politicians to be swayed state that provided everything, it provided and not live by the to an end or the faith group had by unrepresentative and OF THE SCO PAGE ON ended up losing touch with the myth that everything is some- to conform.” self-serving religious leaders FACEBOOK people it was trying to serve,” body else’s responsibility. Archbishop Nichols spoke of like Vincent Nichols,” Mr Archbishop Nichols said. “We “In recent years many factors a ‘fresh attitude’ of the new gov- Sanderson said.

programme before becoming a school, St Mary’s Church and a over a three-day period in the Warsaw and the scout group was ‘the increasingly strained NEWS IN BRIEF festival independent of the local supermarket. republican neighbourhood. that erected the cross. relationship between priests Fringe in 2007. It runs this Lech Kaczynski and his and their bishops.’ FESTIVAL TALK ON MIDDLE year from August 7 to 30. IRISH BISHOP CALLS FOR POLISH PROTESTERS’ PICKET wife Maria were killed in an EAST CONFLICT RESOLUTION For more on the festival MASSACRE ENQUIRY FOR FORMER PRESIDENT air crash in Russia last April CANADIAN ANGLICANS IN ARCHBISHOP Elias Chacour visit: www.festivalofspirituality. THE Catholic Church has PROTESTERS loyal to along with 94 others—includ- COMMUNION VOTE of Galilee will speak about org.uk backed calls for an independ- Poland’s late President Lech ing much of the country’s THE Anglican Catholic conflict resolution in the ent inquiry into the British Kaczynski are picketing political elite. Church of Canada (ACCC) has Middle East at this year’s WELSH CATHOLICS RAISE CASH army killings of 11 people Warsaw’s presidential palace voted with ‘overwhelming Festival of Spirituality and FOR POLISH BURIAL in west Belfast almost 40 over plans by the new admin- MOVE TO FORM ASSOCIATION support’ to unite with the Peace in Edinburgh. PARISHIONERS of St Mary’s years ago. istration to move a cross dedi- OF IRISH CATHOLIC PRIESTS Catholic Church in Rome— He will he speak on The Catholic Church, Flint, Wales The Bishop of Down and cated to their political hero. MOVES to establish an through the Apostolic Promise of the Promised Land have joined members of the Connor, Noel Treanor, urged Nationalist and Catholic Association of Catholic Priests Constitution created by Pope at St Mary’s Metropolitan local Polish community in the British Government to protesters are demanding that in Ireland have received sub- Benedict XVI in a recent Cathedral on August 20 at raising money so that the bod- apologise and declare innocent the cross remain at the palace stantial support from clergy, meeting of its leaders. 7.30pm. ies of a Polish woman and her those shot dead in the instead of being moved to a missionaries and members of The ACCC, part of the Archbishop Chacour is son, who died after an attack, Ballymurphy massacre when religious location. religious orders, according to Continuing Anglican working to create his own bib- can be returned to their home- he met bereaved families Poland’s President-Elect the group, which has been tak- Movement, is made up of lical vision of the Holy Land, land for burial. last week. Bronislaw Komorowski, who ing soundings on the idea. more than two-dozen in which people of all faiths Monika Wasko, 29, died in a He also handed the relatives takes office this month, wants It has planned a meeting of congregations. live together in peace. stabbing at her home in Cae previously undisclosed church the wooden cross moved first interested colleagues for mid- Its Eighth Provincial Synod The Festival of Spirituality Hir, Flint on July 11. Her son archive documents relating to to a church in Warsaw’s his- September in Portlaoise to and Thirteenth Diocesan and Peace (FoSP) made its Patryk, 11, died in hospital the deaths in August 1971. toric old town before going on decide whether a set of aims Synod were held simultane- debut in 2005, quickly estab- three days later. Catholic priest Hugh Mullan to a shrine in southern Poland can be agreed. ously at the Rosemary Heights lishing itself as an important Collections for an appeal was among the 11 civilians —a course of action agreed Among the factors that the Retreat Centre in Surrey, part of the Edinburgh Fringe fund have been held at Patryk’s shot dead by British soldiers with the Catholic Diocese of group says prompted it to act British Columbia. Friday August 6 2010 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER NEWS 5

SPUC Scotland takes to the streets Work of art puts parish in the picture to spread important pro-life message By Joe Lee Our Lady and St Bride’s historic painting goes on display at the National Galleries of Scotland THE SPUC Scotland Pro- By Martin Dunlop Life Revolution team recently hit the road for the A MUCH acclaimed and highly sig- inaugural Scottish Pro-Life nificant painting, owned by Our Lady road show. and St Bride’s Church, Cowdenbeath, The road show (right) aims now has pride of place amongst some to take the pro-life message out of the finest national and internation- onto the high street, to speak to al artworks in the world. those who are interested in Antiveduto Grammatica’s Christ pro-life so that they can hear Disputing with the Doctors in the Temple the facts on issues such as is on loan from St Andrews and embryo experimentation, abor- Edinburgh Archdiocese to the National tion and euthanasia. Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. In today’s culture where Cardinal Keith O’Brien recently visit- these practices are so main- ing the Cowdenbeath parish, where he stream and accepted, very was curate for five years, to present them often the pro-life message is with a separate copy of the painting. hidden from public view. SPUC Scotland took its Mystery find Cardinal Keith O’Brien with parishioners of street stall to Edinburgh, Grammatica’s painting has been at Our Our Lady and St Bride’s Cowdenbeath (above) Dundee and Montrose. Lady and St Bride’s for a number of years and with parish priest Canon Philip Doherty Unfortunately the weather con- but it remains unclear as to how it came (right) at the National Galleries with a copy of spired to prevent stalls being In a culture where life is into the possession of the parish. the painting PICS: PAUL McSHERRY set up in Perth and Aberdeen often treated as a commodity Canon Philip Doherty, who has been but overall there was a great to be disposed of when it parish priest at Our Lady and St Bride’s Jewish elders in the temple at Jerusalem. deal of interest, with people becomes inconvenient, the for 25 years, spoke of the significance the The painting was commissioned around generally being supportive but need for cultural change is evi- painting has within the parish. 1613 by the Roman nobleman Ciriaco often very shocked to hear the dent. Only by doing this grass- “The painting has been in the parish for Mattei, and formed part of a series of extent of the numbers of chil- roots level work can the many decades but we are still unsure as to scenes from the life of Christ that includ- dren aborted every day in pro-life movement: educate how it ended up here,” Canon Doherty ed Caravaggio’s Taking of Christ. Scotland. young people, successfully said. “I spoke with Cardinal O’Brien a few The many children who spread the pro-life message months ago and we decided it would be Homecoming came to the stall were very and ultimately secure protec- good to offer the painting for loan.We went Cardinal O’Brien, ahead of his silver interested in the foetal models tion for all human life, from to see the paining recently at the galleries jubilee celebrations as an archbishop, vis- that were on display and the moment of conception until and it looks excellent in a proper setting. ited the parish where he was a former “As a former curate, the cardinal has a instinctively knew that they natural death. “For the painting to be at the National curate on Sunday, celebrating Mass and special bond with the parish and he was were models of babies. Galleries means it must be something presenting the church with its own copy delighted to celebrate with us,” Canon However, even some of I SPUC Scotland has two special.” of the painting. Parishioners of Our Lady Doherty said. those who said they were events coming up which offer a In Grammatica’s depiction the 12-year- and St Bride’s have also received a post- against abortion said it might great opportunity for people to old Christ is shown debating with learned card with a copy of the painting on it. I [email protected] be acceptable in cases of rape learn more about the pro-life or disability. This shows how movement and get involved. successful pro-abortionists Firstly, its Yella’ Umbrella have been in permeating their Sponsored Walk is coming up agenda throughout society but on Saturday September 11 at pro-lifers can take solace from Strathclyde Country Park, the fact that truth is on their closely followed by its annual side: the truth that the deliber- conference, taking place on ate killing of an unborn child is Saturday October 23 at the always wrong, no matter how International Christian College

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BISHOP Philip Tartaglia of Paisley was celebrant of Mass in St John the Baptist Church Port Glasgow on the feast of St John the Baptist in a triple ceremony covering the actual feast itself, dedication of the restored Rose window and the blessing of a new organ. Bishop John Murdoch of the Western District of Scotland 1845-1865 founded St John the Baptist Parish in 1846 and dedicated the church in 1854, the year when the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception was defined by Pius IX as article of faith New & Reconditioned The recent dedication of the Rose Window was part of an extensive restoration for some years of the 156-year-old St John the Baptist Church, built by Fr John Carolan. The window depicts the Lamb of God flanked by the four Evangelists with Angels and cherubs joyfully and prayerfully Straight & Curved border the central figures. Figures from the Old Testament are depicted along the base including Moses, the Fiery Serpent and Christological Stairlifts and Eucharistic ‘types’ CANON BERNARD CANNING Wheelchair Lifts & PICS: PAUL MCSHERRY Climbers Step Lifts Dundee parishioners reassured over Papal Mass tickets External Ramps. ALL PRODUCTS By Martin Dunlop by Pope Benedict XVI on being excluded in any way. All parish committee to save St GUARANTEED September 16, the first day of those wishing to go to Francis’ Friary from closure, EASY TERMS AVAILABLE DUNKELD Diocese has his state visit to the UK—but a Bellahouston will be able to do said. reassured parishioners of a spokesperson for Dunkeld so. They will be informed, in “I have been a parishioner at SPECIAL DISCOUNT: soon to close parish that they Diocese said that they have due course, as will everyone St Francis’ for 40 years and feel Just quote SCO10 will have the opportunity to been included in numbers for else, of travel arrangements.” the whole situation has been to enjoy a special attend the Papal Mass at the diocesan allocation ‘from The news that St Francis’ was handled poorly,” she added. discount price Bellahouston Park next the outset.’ not given its own allocation has, “We all feel badly let down and with your free no obligation month. “They are being asked at every however, upset some parish- find it very demeaning.” survey. Parishioners of St Francis’ weekday Mass and every ioners who say they are unhappy The spokesperson for Call us today to find out more! Church in Dundee, which is set Sunday Mass to put their names at the handling of the situation. Dunkeld added that: “Anyone to close on August 15, have on a list at the back of the “This is a slap in the face to from St Francis wishing further Tel 01698-423632 Mobile 07771593720 received no allocation of tickets church,” the spokesperson said. the parishioners,” Maureen information is asked to contact Email: [email protected] for the Mass—to be celebrated “They have not, and are not, Murray, who is a member of the the diocesan office.” Website: www.caledonianstairlifts.com 6 NEWS FEATURE SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday August 6 2010

Friendships really can move mountains Climbing all 283 Munros is an almighty achievement. To do them all in three months at 66 years of age is almost unbelievably impressive but that is just what Dr Gerry McPartlin did. He told the SCO that the love of a good friend gone before his time drove him to this extraordinary feat

By Ian Dunn ground both on foot and on the blue and white Beauty and emotion Dr Gerry McPartlin (above left) conquered the camper van that served as a mobile base. He Though the landscape was occasionally hostile Munros, both on his own and with his summit team (above), as a tribute to his late friend Mgr David “I WAS at an ecumenical memorial service saw Scotland at its most beautiful but it was the its beauty left a lasting impression. Gemmell (inset) and to raise money for L’Arche for Mgr David Gemmell at St Kerntigern’s people he met that were most memorable. “Even though I’ve climbed on six continents, Church last year,” Dr McPartlin recalled. “I did 83 alone and 200 with other people,” he I gained a new appreciation for the beauty of “I saw some beautiful flowers and animals,” “And there was a lot of grief because he was said. “And 25 pupils from Sacred Heart Primary Scotland doing it all in one,” he said. I remem- Dr McPartlin said. “Once I was walking thought a hugely charismatic priest and a great friend came out one day with their parents so we had some deep heather and nearly stood on a deer to me and many others. He introduced me to nearly 60 up the hill. On a different day a fami- calf, initially it skittered away but then tried to hill climbing really and we finished all the ly of five from Leith came and did one with me, I wanted to do this in follow me up the hill and I had to shoo it away!” Munros together the first time I did it. I knew which was very nice. My three daughters all Now that it’s done he says relief is the main he was a great admirer of L’Arche and Jean made it out on various days and there were 25 Davie’s memory and I emotion. “I’m just glad it went so smoothly and Vanier so it seemed like a fitting tribute to try people on the last day, a great atmosphere. One think it’s a very good my body held up,” he said. and do them all again in his memory while hundred and thirty people came out in total, so “I wasn’t sure if it would at my age but I raising money for that cause.” it really felt like a community effort.” cause as the disabled seemed to get fitter as time went on. I had a fan- tastic response from people I met on the hills who Tribute to a friendship Hairy moments get a hard time and would just give me money when they heard what Dr McPartlin and his wife first met Mgr Despite his huge experience on the hills there there’s a real I was doing. We wanted to raise £50,000 and so Gemmell at a marriage encounter course in the were a few hairy moments. far we’ve got £26,000.” mid 1980s but it was the hills of Scotland that “There was a moment in Fisherfield, which is atmosphere of love Despite this achievement he said he has no plans bound them together. a really remote group of hills, when my foot was for similar escapades in the future. “I thought I was “He was a bit more experienced and we trapped between two boulders and I felt some- around L’Arche that past this kind of adventure to be honest but I want- expressed an interest so he took us out to do our thing tear but thankfully it got better as time ed to do this in Davie’s memory and I think it’s a first few Munros and we became good friends,” went on,” he said. “Another time it was late in needs help to flourish very good cause as the disabled get a hard time Dr McPartlin said. “I was his GP for a while and the evening and I was 4000 feet up on Ben and there’s a real atmosphere of love around he become the most popular visitor to our house MacDui. I was crossing a boulder field and leapt ber one night a friend and me camped in the rain L’Arche that needs help to flourish.” for myself, my wife and our three daughters. All onto a large rock that I thought was stable and near Ben Nevis and we woke to a beautiful of us were always delighted to see him.” instead ended up flying through the air thinking morning 2500 feet up and a quite astonishing For more information on donating visit Having discussed his plan with his wife he this is going to really hurt but was very fortu- view that you really couldn’t better. http://dglmf.wordpress.com/gerrys-munro-blog began his trek on April 10 and over the next nate to land on the only patch of grass for sev- It wasn’t just the landscape that was striking three months he covered a huge amount of eral hundred yards.” however. [email protected]

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AKING my first pilgrimage to Lourdes as part of the 1 annual GlasgowM Archdiocesan group was a truly memorable experi- ence; from the minute our plane left Edinburgh Airport and touched down there again seven days later. Flying is always an interest- ing experience but looking down from on high presents an obvious difficulty—there is no sign of life below. We may feel closer to God because we are higher up or when the plane hits turbulence but there is a sense of being far away from signs of life below and other people on earth. Lourdes draws people closer together again in Faith. I would spend most of my time around the basilica, grotto and even found time to visit the baths—all within five minutes of my hotel, St George. The theme for 2010 in Lourdes is with Bernadette, we make the Sign of the Cross. After becoming a nun, Bernadette was asked by one of her sisters: “What must one do to be sure to go to Heaven?” Without hesitating, Bernadette said: “Make the Sign of the Cross well. That in itself is already a great deal.” A few moments before her 2 3 death, Bernadette called on her remaining strength and made her last Sign of the Cross.

he strength of Faith in Lourdes is obvious and Tabundant. This is not just a place where the Faithful seek healing, pardon and peace. Its clear Marian focus and devotion characteristically seeks to draw pilgrims to Her son Jesus Christ the one who heals, brings for- giveness and grants us peace. The message of Lourdes is a simple one that brings no new revelation or teachings. It calls us back to the Good News of Jesus and can be summarised in four points: Poverty, prayer, penance and participation. I visited the Cenacolo Community near Bartres. Founded by Sr Elvira Petrozzi to help people with addiction prob- lems, this community has at its 4 core the four points mentioned and I was delighted to hear a member of the community inform me that its rehabilitation success rate is 90 per cent, ‘prayer really works,’ he told me. Our pilgrimage consisted of Archbishop Mario Conti, 12 priests, 57 sick, three doctors, 56 hospitalite, 71 from the St Margaret Youth Group of Scotland, 43 from St Aloysius College and 150 other pilgrims. To see so many volunteers, particularly the young, giving their time to meet the needs of others, is a tribute to their good will and generosity. New volunteers are always welcome to apply to the secre- tary of the Lourdes pilgrimage committee. They may find their first trip to Lourdes a truly mem- The Glasgow Archdiocesan pilgrimage group (1) enjoyed their trip to the Marian Shrine at Lourdes, which saw Archbishop Mario Conti leading (2) pilgrims and their helpers on procession orable one and you can expect to (3) before celebrating Mass at the grotto (4) with his fellow clergymen, including newly-ordained Fr Martin Kane see me there again next year. 8 COMMENT SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday August 6 2010 Bringing Faith to the Coby Ziggy Fleet

This week, in the first of two parts, FR JOSEPH SULLIVAN, of St Philip’s, Ruchazie, Glasgow responds—in a unique and entertaining way—to the suggestions that clergy are peddling a creed from the Middle Ages in deprived areas

FEW months ago a colleague The Faith-Reason rapport. Faith tran- dangerous. When druggies are using and one of Fr Joseph Sullivan (inset) speaks about the relationship alerted me to an article by 3scends reason but is conditioned by reason. them overdoses, then the rest scatter. There is a the Church, and its teachings, has with those living Guardian journalist Polly The call to faith includes the presupposition strong need not to get involved with authority. in deprived areas, using a number of interesting Toynbee. In her article on schemes of the human. A group of the ‘young team’ were Authority will ask questions like: ‘Where did anecdotes, including that of the graffiti artist (above) and church teaching, she said that around me chatting. One began hovering over you get the stuff?... Who sold it to you?... Is inA the sink estates the only professionals living the bins. There was a half used tin of paint at the there a warrant out for you?’ there are ministers of religion. She doesn’t bins. I couldn’t let this particular young one at God as authority figure is difficult for most don’t wake up, you vomit, choke and die.” At praise this however. Rather she accuses us of it. I shouted: “Don’t stay at the bins, that’s for on the edges, however there is a general respect least the girlfriend is there, however, though not ‘peddling a creed from the Middle Ages.’ rubbish and you’re not rubbish!” for something greater who is not just one who under the floorboards. As a graduate of the Gregorian University in There would be no possibility to engage with denies or causes more grief. Often on the street The Cross reveals that there is nowhere that Rome, I thought my License Thesis Sheet the divine dialogue if we were ‘rubbish.’ I will be asked to ‘pray for such and such a Christ is not. would be as good a place to start. How does a thing.’ Although this may be seen by some as a Dogma License engage with people and events Dogmatic development. One of the great reduction of God to a ‘Sugar daddy’ it does The analogy between the Church and the amongst the worst five per cent of the Scottish 4strengths of Ruchazie is its ‘hospitality.’ I betray an inchoate faith in something greater 8Mystery of the World Incarnate. To help Index for Multiple Deprivation. have often found people sleeping on couches than ourselves. Certainly a God who is person- us understand this I turn to one of the highlights (sometimes on the run from the police). ally involved in the lives of the young ones I of my time in Ruchazie. On the front page of the Scripture and Tradition. Early on, nine On one occasion a woman died who had been speak to, is important. I am thinking of the God local newspaper we have: ‘21st birthday party 1years ago, I was out jogging. Two of the an informal ‘foster mother’ of a really hard man. outlined in the ‘Our Father.’ person stabbed outside St Philip’s.’ Page three young team were breaking into the telephone Neither of his parents wanted him or were not of the same newspaper has: Speaker of the box at the shops. I asked them to desist as BT around. On being released one time from a Trinitarian theology. One impressive House opens St Philip’s Bazaar. would take the phone away and residents would young offenders’ institution he asked this 6Graffiti-maker explained: “I don’t do ‘J’s The analogy between the Church and the not be able to phone (this was years before woman’s sons if she would take him in. The you’ll have to ask Darren.” Divine Word is highlighted in the tension mobile phones). One remonstrates with the woman agreed. She told me that he never ever The Son is equal in the Godhead, except He between these two texts. The frailty of our other: “Don’t say anything, he’s the priest...” “I swore or raised his voice in the house. He was is not ‘Father’ in the fullest sense of the word. human nature brings us to places we would don’t care.” I am asked: “Do you live here, were convicted of armed robbery and sent to jail. She The apophatic tradition tells us about what is rather not be but it is precisely here that the you brought up here?... But this is Ruchazie!” asked him: “Why did you do this when you were not the case. This episode reveals the require- Church should be, pace Polly Toynbee. The Recent emphasis has been placed by Pope getting your life together.” He replied: “I wanted ment to highlight what is not the case about the Divine Word was always seeking out the poor, Benedict XVI on the Bible being the Church’s to thank you for your kindnesses and this was Divine Person. the lepers the sick, so the Church also copies book. We have to savour the life before we can the only way to repay you.” Dogmatic develop- Her Lord, quickened as She is by the Life of properly comment. ment is the proper use of a truth of Faith. This Christ, centre of the economy of salva- Divine Grace. young man misused the word ‘repay’ but we 7tion. Meaning of suffering in the event of the The Magisterium. The role of serving the understand the sentiments behind it. Cross... God-forsakenness, “My God... my I Next week: The Middle Class bias can be 2‘single sacred deposit’ of Sacred Scripture Development of doctrine shows internal God...” even to the suspension of the Beatific found in the church today but the people of and Sacred Tradition. Modern reading of the coherence with itself. It also shows real possi- Vision. Ruchazie, including the ‘young crew,’ can teach Bible has highlighted the preferential option for bilities of growth in understanding. It also high- A certain young man has warrant for his us many lessons. the poor. This has also been reflected in the lights false developments. arrest, he cannot go home. He ends up staying at Tradition especially in the lives of the saints. his girlfriend’s house but hides under the floor- I Fr Joseph Sullivan presented his talk at the Therefore in a very real way the Magisterium The Question of God. This is probably the boards. He dies and a 13-year-old boy explains International Theological Summer School in must listen to the lived Tradition in the poorer 5most difficult to harmonise. There is easily a that the dead man is ‘stupid.’ He explains: “You Dunblane and will speak again on the subject areas. sense of ‘superstition’ when it comes to God- don’t drink and take heroin. If you drink and at a meeting hosted by the Justice and Peace It is not sufficient to judge pastoral life in terms talk. Certainly for those who live right at the feel sick, you wake up. If you drink then take (Glasgow) at 7.30pm on Monday September 13 of ‘how many baptisms’ and ‘how many funerals.’ margins any authority figure may be seen as heroin and you feel sick you die because you in St Peter's Partick.

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Fr Eddie JUSTICE McGhee Try to look forward in Faith PEACE

THERE is a reassuring simplicity something of an art form. about representational art. When When Jesus spoke to the crowds, He Turner paints a landscape you know was an artist with His words. He painted what you are looking at. Or do you? the picture and He challenged the per- ‘The Hay Wain’ looks simple and ception of the people. Often He was met uncomplicated. Even ‘The Fighting with the same sceptical response that Temeraire’ with its broad sweep and artists are met with. ‘Who does He think bold colour seems manageable. He is?’ ‘We know Him and we know Nothing, however, in the world of where He comes from!’ Critics were as art is so simple. Every artist pres- alive and well then as they are today. ents his or her unique view. People flocked to hear what Jesus I am no art critic. I like what I like. had to say. He was challenging and He Many years ago I found myself fasci- was different and He offered a differ- nated by the paintings of El Greco. ent view of God. Jesus was also a real- Something in them touched something ist. He knew that potentially He could in me. I just like them and I don’t real- be rejected. He persisted. Jesus had ly try to analyse why. Analysis is for courage in abundance. He faced His experts and no doubt they would critics but He also understood the truth arrive at a different appreciation. of the message that He was bringing. Tour to raise On my walls there is an eclectic mix Artists challenge us to look at the world art in a different form and of novels, He would accept the consequences of of art. My office is adorned by a print of differently (above) while Jesus did like- art that challenges the imagination in a inviting people to see God differently. awareness of a Picasso entitled Mother and Son. It is wise with our idea of God and faith different way. My iPod is loaded with The Father was a loving Father. simple and beautiful. This painting con- music that I know is not to everyone’s There was no need to be afraid. His climate justice tains exactly what it says in the title, a If it was intended to provoke a taste but it invites me in and that is message was simple. It was, however, mother and son. It is representational response it certainly did but the good enough. In many respects, art be so different to the ‘traditional’ view of CLIMATE Justice art, but what it represents allows us to response was both limited and limiting. it visual, literary or musical, invites us God. His hearers initially astounded in Scotland are use our imagination. At the opposite For me, this particular artistic effort to celebrate our uniqueness and to and amazed, would soon take refuge organising a tour of end of the artistic spectrum I have a lacked not art, not initiative, not sensi- recognise the potential that is in us. in the very familiar. Safety first was to locations across the painting of former Celtic striker Henrik tivity, it lacked real artistic courage. When we are touched by art some- be their option. Sometimes I think country to discuss Larsson. This is plainly and simply a To choose the Bible was to choose a thing in us changes and in essence that ‘safety first’ is the favoured option for recent developments reminder of happier days and of a soft target. The Koran contains the is why art is so important. Art allows the Church today. We look back with in banking and the unique talent that graced our beautiful same proscriptive messages that the us to realise that we are a part of the what we call nostalgia. That is ok. fossil fuel industry. game. In between there are memories, artist believed were to be found in the creative energy that keeps us in touch Jesus invites us to look forward, to The organisation are of places I have visited, or of places I Bible. Had the Koran been chosen for with our God created selves. take the risk. We have nothing to lose concerned about the would like to visit, hung as reminders this particular artistic venture I doubt In Mauchline there is a statue of and everything to gain. Don’t believe impact of fossil fuel of times past and of future dreams. in the first place if the gallery would Mary Morrison. Lauded by Robert me, believe the words of Jesus. consumption and pro- There is no accounting for taste. It is have allowed it and I doubt if the artist Burns in poetry and song, she is cap- duction in Scotland, often said and it is surely true. The or artists could have lived with the tured in bronze. Also in Mauchline, FR EDDIE McGhee has been a using this tour to wonder of art is that it appeals to dif- consequences. there has been recently, a revival of priest of Galloway Diocese since 1972. develop grassroots ferent people, at different times, and in If art is a matter of opinion, we are ‘The Holy Fair.’ In the days before tel- Currently serving three parishes in the movements for climate different places. It often inspires us all entitled to ours. Vincent Van Gogh evision held such thrall in our lives, Kilmarnock area he helps on a part justice. with a sense of security, with a sense painted the way that he painted. In his the solid citizens of Mauchline would time basis with chaplaincy in HMP The series of events, of colour, or of beauty and sometimes lifetime no one bought his paintings. invite preachers to come and challenge Kilmarnock. He holds a Diploma in featuring films, presen- with a profound sense of awe. Public opinion was firmly against his the population to live more God fear- Religious Education and a Masters in tations and discus- Occasionally art is disturbing and artistic mode of expression. That they ing lives. In our own day, those of us Education and has worked extensively sions explores how challenging. It always invites us in. are so sought after now, says that our that are old enough remember parish in Catholic schools as advisor in communities across Like many, I was disturbed by the appreciation has grown. It took real missions, when for a week we too religious education. A columnist for the Scotland are resisting artistic efforts reported last week, courage for him to continue painting. would be encouraged and challenged SCO since 1991, his hobbies include new coal-mining which resulted in vandalism to the Courage and art go hand in hand. to do the same. It seems a bit of ‘hell fishing, pigeon-racing and poetry. He developments; the Bible. The explanation of the artist’s Art is not simply confined to the fire and damnation’ went a long way. can be contacted by email: impact of RBS invest- intent was, in my opinion, a bit naïve. visual. My shelves are full of poetry, Preaching, then, as it is now was [email protected] ment on developments at the Alberta Tar Sands and how to support workers in the Learning about yourself can be a rewarding experience energy industry during the onset of peak oil. RENOWNED theologian, Hans Urs aged, thinking that these surely were before, a huge crowd had gathered. But, “Scotland is an von Balthasar, once suggested that not the people to whom he had been just as he was about to step up to speak, important context for there are two different dramas we Fr Ronald called to minister. the elder tugged at his sleeve and said: the building of a can live out, an ego-drama or a So it went on, for a long time, a short “Someone else will speak tonight, not grassroots movement Theo-Drama. Rolheiser time, or for whatever time it was, each you.” And it was just as the night for climate justice,” We live an ego-drama when we draw day this cycle would repeat itself, he before, nobody came late and nobody Garry Glass of Climate our basic energies from our ego and from We are either too full of ourselves would go into a town, cry out, ask if left early and everyone listened intently Justice in Scotland said. “These info- the highs and lows that our ego under- when things are going well or too anyone was interested in hearing about and engaged the speaker in deep ques- goes in life, feeling good when things are God’s challenge and consolation, always tions long into the night. nights will be exploring going well and feeling depressed when discouraged when they are not an elder would step forward and take But the young man felt empty and lis- how communities and they are not. When we are living an ego- him to his house, each night a small tened without heart. When it was over, he activists can come drama we are easily, and often, discour- went into the deep woods and appren- group would gather, some would arrive returned to his lodging nursing an inchoate together to challenge aged, angry, and depressed. ticed himself to the elders who trained late and others would leave early, they frustration. The next morning, early, he the destructive profi- We live a Theo-Drama when we draw him and when they felt he was ready would listen to him politely, engage him packed his few belongings and began to teering of the banks our energies from something beyond laid hands on him, blessed him, and in polite questions, and he would leave walk out of the town when, just at its edge, and fossil fuel industry ourselves, from God. When we do this sent him out to preach God’s challenge feeling empty and discouraged. the elder stopped him and asked: “Why are and develop a demo- the highs and lows of our daily lives do and consolation. Until one day he entered a town just you leaving us?” The young man replied: cratic movement for not affect us so deeply and we are less And this is how he did it: Each day as he always did, cried out just as he “It seems you don’t need me to preach climate justice and prone to discouragement, anger, and he would enter a town just before noon always did, and an elder stepped forward to you, you have others.” community control.” depression because we are drawing when the market squares were most just as was the pattern, but this time The elder took him by his sleeve and The tour started in meaning and energy from something crowded and cry out: “Does anyone things were different. Instead of taking said gently: “Let me give you a counsel: Edinburgh’s Forest beyond the fluctuations of our own egos. want to hear about God’s challenge and him to his house, the elder took him to The person who was so full of himself Hall on July 29, before Nowhere is this truer than in ministry consolation?” There would always be the town square where a platform had two nights ago and the person who was moving to Inverness where, invariably, we are either too full someone, an elder, who would step for- been erected and a large number of seats so empty of himself last night—neither on August 4 and of ourselves when things are going well ward and say: “Yes, we will hear you set up. That evening the whole square of those persons is you. Stay with us Aberdeen on August 5, or too discouraged and angry when they speak on this.” And the elder would filled with people and no one arrived late and let us teach you who you are.” concluding next week are not. There’s a story inside the mys- take him to his house and after the sup- and no one left early, and they listened to Wise, wise words, carrying a mean- at Glasgow’s Electron tical tradition of Islam that brilliantly per meal some people would gather. him intently and engaged him in deep ing far deeper than first imagined. Club on August 11 illustrates this. It has different versions, But not many people would come, and questions long into the night. and Stirling’s Albion all making the same point, but here’s some would come late and others would He went back to his lodgings that RONALD Rolheiser, a Catholic priest Scullery on August 12. the one with which I’m most familiar: leave early, and he sensed they were lis- night filled with energy and all the next and member of the Missionary Oblates Once upon a time there was a young tening to him only out of politeness, day he worked enthusiastically at of Mary Immaculate, is president of More information about man, full of sincerity and idealism, who without real interest. So after each such preparing what he would say that night. the Oblate School of Theology in these events can be felt the call to preach God’s challenge session the young man would go back And when he got to the town square San Antonio, Texas. Visit found on climatecamp and consolation to the world. So he to his lodgings feeling empty, discour- that evening it was just as the night his website, www.ronrolheiser.com .org.uk. 10 COMMENT SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday August 6 2010

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HE suggestion that strike action at the BBC could jeopardise coverage of the Papal visit will come as quite a blow to hundreds of thou- sands of people who were counting on watch- ing the historic moments unfold on television. Fr Paul Kelly recently TIt is a timely reminder to anyone who can make it along celebrated his silver to the major Papal events—be it by lining the streets in jubilee at St Michael’s Edinburgh for what promises to be a spectacular St Church in Linlithgow. Cardinal Keith O’Brien Ninian’s Day parade or by attending what promises to be an and Fr Kelly’s brother historic outdoor Mass at Bellahouston Park—to make priests joined in the every effort to do so. For those who cannot be there in per- anniversary son, taking part by supporting parish representatives who celebrations can attend as pilgrims would show great solidarity. PIC: PAUL McSHERRY While around half of Scottish parishioners will have the opportunity of going to Bellahouston, and up to 150,000 people can line the streets of Edinburgh, spare a thought for the majority of English and Welsh Catholics who are count- Papal visit: better they can during the summer ing on following events on TV. The beatification Mass at get laity involved months, as June and July are Birmingham is already oversubscribed. THE details of the state visit the busiest time of the year. I So, with no disrespect to those who have a grievance by the Pope are so disjointed, will give credit to the priest as with their BBC employers, let’s hope that the powers at the and many people are at a loss Letters his sermon was very Beeb get their house in order in plenty of time ahead of as to the costing, buses SCO, 19 Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 6BT interesting, and the Mass was September 16. While no doubt other commercial stations time-tables and so on. [email protected] enjoyable. However, if they would pick up the slack, not having a public record of this Bellahouston numbers have want people to go back to this state Papal visit for prosperity would be a major loss for our now come down to 100,000. Church they should not national broadcaster and our society. Is health and safety so have the sin of pride by Papal visit: money require a minimum donation. stringent? refusing to ‘admit’ they better spent Felix Pereira akistan has dominated news reports over the past On this and other issues I cannot afford to attend, but CONCERN about the cost of GLASGOW week for all the wrong reasons. Following British wonder why not get us, the why put them in this position? the Holy Father’s visit in the PPrime Minister David Cameron’s widely perceived laity, involved? The time is If you are working and only autumn would be more than Our Lady’s request for faux pas (his warning about Pakistani support for terror coming up for the movement have to pay for one person to laid to rest with action to stop Russia yet to be met? made during a visit to India), watching the humanitarian of priests. The closure of attend the Mass, then £20 may the horrendous waste of IT WAS with interest that I crisis after extensive flooding in Pakistan has been harrow- several churches in Glasgow is not seem that much (£20 money on Trident. read M McDermott’s (SCO, ing. The fate of communities in the north-west of the coun- about to be announced. We could easily be spent on a Multilateral talks cannot July 2, 2010) comments on try, where the worst floods in almost a century have swept have no other option but to night out.) However, what succeed unless someone is the Message of Fatima. away entire villages, hang in the balance. Unicef said three close down and travel a little about the parent who has two, proposed to make the first M McDermott seems to million people had been affected and 1400 had been killed, bit more, to reach a Catholic three or even four children move to speed up progress in misunderstand the most

Doubts on broadcast of Papal visit; Pakistan hope amid crisis with 27,000 still trapped. church. On a different note, the who wishes to take them to negotiations. crucial part of Our Lady’s Howevere suffering in Pakistan goes Catholic newspapers should be the Mass? All told the horrendous cost request: the Consecration of beyond political slips and natural disasters. sold to every person at a And who thought of asking of the Iraq and Afghanistan Russia, not the world, to the Christians in Pakistan today find them- Sunday Mass. Every person for names in the middle of the conflicts and Trident’s Immaculate Heart of Mary. selves at the centre of a crisis, but, accord- must read a Catholic main holiday period in replacement amounts to a It is noted that Pope John ing to Aid to the Church in Need, there newspaper. We must take pride Scotland with so many people mind blowing one hundred Paul II called for ‘the is hope for the Christian minority in the in our Faith. away from their parishes? thousand million pounds and consecration of the world’ country, as can be seen on pages 14 and Joe Kearns Another sadness I have is counting. after the attempt on his life in 15 this week. GLASGOW that this visit by the Holy Andrew JT Kerr 1981. However, this could Since the charity filed that report, a Father is not able to be used JEDBURGH never fulfill Our Lady’s senior police official has admitted that Papal visit: why the by the Church to further request that Russia be security forces failed in their duty to last minute costs? evangelise or to ‘call back’ the Donation guidance in consecrated to Her protect the victims of anti-Christian vio- I HAVE heard all the blurb Faithful who have given up on Florida church Immaculate Heart. lence in Punjabi Gojra one year ago. about not being charged to the practice of their Faith as I HAVE recently returned Indeed, during the 1984 He was speaking to almost 2500 attend the Papal Mass at you cannot attend the Mass if from holiday in Florida in the consecration of the world, people who had gathered on Sunday to Bellahouston, that any costs you don’t have a pilgrim pack. United States, where I found Pope John Paul II added the mark the first anniversary of some of incurred are to cover the Margaret Gellatly Mass to be a totally different following unscripted prayer to Pakistan’s worst anti-Christian violence. Pilgrim packs. BY E-MAIL experience than that here in end of his consecration, Opinion Bishop Joseph Coutts of Faisalabad, While I do accept that the Scotland. I had noticed that in “Enlighten especially the who presided at the Memorial Mass held at the Church’s share of the cost of Papal visit: extending a America the Church cares a people whose consecration Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Gojra, told Aid to the visit has to found from proper welcome lot more about the money and entrusting you are the Church in Need of his ‘huge relief’ that the memorial somewhere, I think to ask BELLAHOUSTON being put into the Church, awaiting from us.” events had passed off peacefully. people seven weeks before the preparations are in full swing. instead of caring for the Clearly Pope John Paul II day to pay £20 for a pilgrim Hopefully we in Scotland parishioners. For example, knew that his consecration of pack is outrageous. I know at realise that it is a they took two collections at the world did not fulfill Our least one special collection multinational event. We tend one time, which meant they Lady’s request. Contrary to was made in Paisley Diocese to forget this. Ireland had, and got the most money out of the what M McDermott writes, to help with these costs. At no still has, a great influence in parishioners. most serious Fatima scholars SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER time was the idea of a ‘fixed our history and now it is I have no problem giving do not believe that Sr Lucia charge’ mentioned. Poland and the Congo and money to the Church but they ever ‘confirmed this solemn I know that it has been said probably other nations. Please had a recommended minimum and universal act of MAIN SWITCHBOARD that people who cannot afford include them in our donation, I felt that I had the consecration.’ Tel: 0141 221 4956• Fax: 0141 221 4546 the cost should approach their celebrations at Bellahouston. right to donate as much We must remember that Our priest as no-one should be Most of all, exclude alcohol money as I felt, without a Lady promised that Her EDITOR prevented from attending on and drugs from the picture so restriction on a minimum Immaculate Heart would Liz Leydon—Tel: 0141 241 6109 the basis of cost. Give some that these issues among the donation. The reason that this triumph, there would be peace [email protected] thought to those who are youth are not prevalent. was probably done was and Russia would be already marginalised by Joan Duffy because the parishioners were converted. I’m sure we can all DEPUTY EDITOR society such as the MOTHERWELL mainly tourists, so they need agree that we are not living Ian Dunn—Tel: 0141 241 6107 unemployed, single-parent to make as much money as through a time of peace, [email protected] families, those unable to work particularly peace promised through illness, the elderly. I SCO reserves the right to edit letters to conform with space or from Heaven. REPORTER think many will not ask for style requirements Our Lady’s requests have Martin Dunlop—Tel: 0141 241 6103 assistance to go to This page is used solely for reader opinion and therefore views not been fulfilled and She still Bellahouston. Instead, they awaits the Consecration of [email protected] expressed are not necessarily shared by SCO will follow events on their TV If you would like to share your opinion, send your Russia. 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angels feature prominently throughout the Mass propers for the Assumption. We should not LIFT YOUR VOICES, be surprised at this, for Mary is the Queen of Heaven, of angels and of saints, and of men. Finally, in the Communion RAISE YOUR HEARTS FOR antiphon (Ordinary form) the greatest song of all time rings out–the song of Mary Herself known as the Magnificat (‘My souls magnifies the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my salvation’)—yet this time placed in Her mouth after Her Assumption (right) into the OUR LADY glories of Heaven: “All generations will call me moved Jesus to grant the filled with the fruit of your In our fortnightly music column, we look at the hymns blessed, for the Almighty has woman’s wish and make her works, O Lord... that the heart done great things for me. Holy daughter well again. of man be cheered’ sung in a and chants associated with the Assumption of Our Lady is His name” In light of this, the introit, serene, confident, almost child- which opens, ‘Incline your ear like melody. HE solemnity of great rejoicing of both the n hearing this the introit to me, O Lord,’ almost sounds the Assumption of Church here on earth (“Let us for the 21st Sunday in like the song of one who has I Interested in learning more? the Blessed Virgin all rejoice in the Lord, celebrat- OOrdinary Time (15th pondered whether God, if He Fr Gerard Byrne is the director Mary—a celebra- ing a festal day in honour of Sunday after Pentecost in the hears the isolated cries of of the Schola Glasguensis, a tion of the doctrine the Blessed Virgin Mary”) as Extraordinary Form) we might someone even outside the small choir dedicated to the Taccording to which Mary at the well as the Church Triumphant feel as if we are listening to the House of Israel, will not then study and performance of the end of Her earthly life was in Heaven (where ‘the angels result of [the writer’s] lectio ‘incline His ear and have mercy Church's patrimony of liturgical assumed body and soul in to rejoice [at Our Blessed Lady’s divina on one of the Gospel on’ any faithful servant ‘who music. He also runs the Heaven to ‘be Queen over all Assumption] and give praise to passages appointed for that cries to Him all the day long.’ Associates of the Schola things’ (Vatican Council II)—is the Son of God’). Sunday. Of course, we know the Glasguensis open to anyone sadly one of the few ‘Holy One of the most beautiful The Canaanite woman who response to that question even interested in learning to sing the Days of Obligation’ left in polyphonic settings of this text begged Jesus to come to the aid before it is given. Nevertheless, chant, regardless of musical Scotland (the others are All is by the English Renaissance of her possessed daughter was it is answered for our reassur- experience. For further informa- Saints on November 1, Fr Gerard Byrne composer William Byrd a foreigner. It must have taken ance in the other propers of this tion contact Fr Byrne on Christmas Day, Ascension (c.1540–1623), which seems to great courage for that woman Mass. [email protected]. Thursday, and Sts Peter and perfectly capture the exhilara- to dare to petition Christ and Firstly in the offertory chant, uk, telephone 0141-882-1024, Paul on June 29). dogmatically and infallibly tion of the angels in heaven His disciples, as well as great which sings out in joy ‘with or go to www.schola.org.uk It is the only one which cele- defined by Pope Pius XII in who gaze on in wonderment confidence in Jesus’ power to expectation I waited for the brates Mary, Our Blessed 1950, it has been celebrated and awe as the Mother of God provide her with what she so Lord, and he heard the sound I The Latin Mass celebrated by Mother. The Sacred Liturgy is liturgically in the Western takes Her seat in Heaven. deeply desired. of my voice’ but also in the Fr Byrne is now off until the the usual means by which the Church since at least the sev- In fact, we see at the end of communion chant when we new university term begins in Faithful deepen their under- enth century and in the he introit in the Ordinary the passage that it was precise- hear the straightforward asser- mid-September—Sunday standing of the mysteries of the Churches of the East since the Form also looks to ly her profound faith which tion that ‘the earth shall be September 12 Faith, and in the history of the sixth century. The chants now THeaven, by quoting a Church liturgical formulae sung on the feast in the Roman passage from the Book of have often preceded dogmatic rite are a little more recent than Revelation which is also heard definitions, with the latter that, but they have still been in the First Reading of the LOOKING FORWARD TO THE appearing only when some sung for almost half the Mass: “A great sign appeared article of the Faith had been Church’s history. in Heaven—a woman clothed PAPAL VISIT TO THE UK, called into question. 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ARDINAL Keith O’Brien has just at St Mary’s College, Blairs, before becoming Bauchi in Northern Nigeria. finished a Papal visit security Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh in “I knew of Bauchi even before I was Cardinal Keith O’Brien began his briefing with police at St Bennet’s, 1985. Following the death of Cardinal Winning ordained a priest so mission work has always life in the coastal town of 3 4 his residence in Edinburgh, prior to in 2001, he was elected as president of the been on my mind,” he said. “And when I was Ballycastle in the North of Ireland sitting down to talk about his own Bishops’ Conference of Scotland. He was first ordained a bishop some of my priests were (1) before he and his family Csilver jubilee celebrations as Archbishop of St created Cardinal Priest of the title Ss Joachim already working in El Salvador and I wanted to moved to Scotland. After securing Andrews and Edinburgh. and Anne ad Tusculanum in Rome on October strengthen those links. a degree and teaching for five With Pope Benedict XVI’s arrival in 21, 2003 and concelebrated the Mass of the “Bauchi was my first trip abroad after being years, he entered the priesthood, where his life skills were soon put Edinburgh imminent, every detail is being Rings with the Pope the following day. appointed archbishop and I have made four vis- to good use and he was made triple checked, including security at St Bennet’s its to El Salvador too.” spiritual director of St Mary’s because the Holy Father will stop for lunch Changes From those visits the cardinal said he became College, Blairs (2) before being there before traveling to Glasgow to celebrate The cardinal said that in his 25 years as bishop increasingly aware of justice and peace work ordained Archbishop of St an open-air Mass at Bellahouston Park. he has seen many changes, both in society and and ‘the needs of the poor spiritually and the Andrews and Edinburgh by The cardinal is greatly looking forward to teh the ‘accelerated rate of change’ within the poor materially.’ He became more involved Cardinal Gordon Gray in 1985 (3). Holy Father’s arrival but good humouredly Church Herself. with SCIAF because he saw it as a ‘very impor- Since then he has devoted himself denied that the Papal visit was arranged to coin- “The Church changes have sometimes been tant part’ of his mission. And while travel has to Catholics at home (4) and been cide with events to mark his own 25th year as difficult but ultimately for the good,” he said. not always been easy, the compensations of a staunch supporter of the SCO (5). He has also travelled to places an archbishop—‘rather the opposite’ in fact. ‘The main change has been a reduction in the reaching people in dire need, to reassure them such as Kenya (6) and Egypt, (7) “The Papal visit hasn’t thrown it out of kilter number of priests, vocations and students for of God’s love, have made up for it. to see the work being carried out but there had to be a certain amount of reorgan- the priesthood.” He believes that these trips have helped his by the Church—with the help of isation of my jubilee celebrations because of He spoke of the closing of junior seminaries work, when he is called upon to speak on life Scottish support—among the the Pope’s arrival,” the cardinal said. “And I on the east and west coasts—in particular of the issues for example. poor and he is looking forward to was only too delighted to do so.” closure in his own archdiocese of the seminaries “People cannot just say ‘oh he is just on welcoming Pope Benedict XVI (8) at Drygrange and Gillis—of the closure of The about abortion again,’ when they see that I have to Scotland in September Papal visit Royal Scots College in Salamanca and of the experience of the suffering of poor countries ALL PICS: PAUL McSHERRY The cardinal spoke of the message he believes demise of Scotland’s last seminary, Scotus and seen the basic value of life,” he said. the Holy Father will bring to our country and the College, in 2009. impression he hopes the Pontiff will leave with. “The shortage of priests is an increasing Challenges and hopes 5 6 “I think in Scotland, where he arrives on the worry,” he said. “I thank God for priests who The cardinal has started to look ahead to his feast of St Ninian, he will remind us of our come into the diocese. I have ten priests from own retirement and his successor, and spoke of Christian roots and how we should live true to Poland. The positive result of this difficulty is the challenges that lie ahead. them,” the cardinal said. the great role that lay people have had to take “We have got to increase awareness in our He hopes that people will see how learned a on, and are willing to take on, in the Church. own Catholic community of its vocation, that man Pope Benedict is and also his great Faith in They have been an inspiration and raised Faith is not something that lay Catholics can entering the Papacy later in life, and in the foot- awareness of the lay ministry.” take up and drop whenever they want,” he said. steps of Pope John Paul II—‘a hard act to follow.’ He referred to the words of Pope John Paul II “They must be increasingly aware of the seri- The cardinal hopes that the Holy Father will to the lay Faithful: “Remember you have an ous commitment made in their name when they leave Scotland with a very good impression of a exalted vocation and there are many and varied were baptised.” Catholic community ‘aware of its responsibilities.’ of the Snow) he celebrated Mass for his ‘clos- cardinal’s personal travel arrangements came forms of mission open to you.” He sees the need for a greater commitment “We don’t always get everything right but we est collaborators’—staff at the Gillis Centre, a after news that Blessed Mary MacKillop would from the laity to Christ and the Church at parish do our best to live our Catholic lives and to hand place that the cardinal established as the arch- be canonised in Rome in October. Outspoken level, especially as some priests have more than on our Faith,” he said. diocesan offices and a pastoral and retreat cen- “I went to Sydney with the late Cardinal At Bishop Joseph Devine of Motherwell’s one parish to run and that the average age of The cardinal sees the Beatification of Cardinal tre. On August 15, the Feast of the Assumption, Winning for her beatification and I did not want golden jubilee Mass in June this year Cardinal priests is now older. John Henry Newman as one of the highlights of he will celebrate a silver jubilee Mass at St to miss out on what will be a unique event for the O’Brien admitted that by some he is seen as the “That is perhaps one of the greatest chal- the Papal itinerary. Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral with parish- people of Australia, in the canonisation of this ‘cardinal of controversy.’ lenges for us as a Church,” he said. “We are delighted that this world famous the- ioners and finally, on September 8, the Feast of their first saint, but also a wonderful event for the “As Christians we must be PC, not political- “While we respect other denominations and ologian, so respected by Pope Benedict XVI, is the Birthday of Our Lady, a thanksgiving Mass people of Scotland, particularly Argyll and the ly correct but Proclaiming Christianity and that faiths I would like to think we are never, ever going to be Beatified during this forthcoming will be celebrated at the cathedral with bishops, Isles in Roy Bridge and Lochaber,” he said. message, in the word of St Paul, must be going to forget our Christian roots.” visit,” he said. “As well as being a convert to priests and parishioners of the archdiocese. The cardinal also intends to join his family in preached in season and out of season, welcome When asked about the clerical abuse issue, the Faith he was also a very beloved priest On a lighthearted note, the cardinal has also December to celebrate his silver jubilee and his or unwelcome,” he said. the cardinal said: “I think that abuse has been working in an ordinary parish in Birmingham agreed to sing at a concert with Edinburgh’s brother’s golden wedding anniversary. Yet lobbying at Holyrood, Westminster, the one of the most horrible sins to have affected for 30 years. That is basically how Newman own Really Terrible Orchestra (RTO) on August European Parliament and the United Nations is the Church in the lifetime of my generation. For achieved his sanctity.” 28 in St Mary’s as part of his jubilee celebra- Early years not something the cardinal had anticipated he most bishops, priests and people it is unthink- 7 The cardinal recalled visiting Abbotsford in tions and the Edinburgh Fringe arts festival, to Cardinal O’Brien was born on St Patrick’s Day would have to do. able that there could have been such abuse the Borders, a place where Cardinal Newman which people of other Christian denominations in 1938 in Ballycastle, Country Antrim, in the “Twenty five years ago I did not anticipate going on underneath our noses in so many used to visit with Sir Walter Scott. and other faiths have been invited. North of Ireland, into a close knit family. His that I would meet with political leaders on countries worldwide. “In some ways I compared Newman to During the year there will be other celebra- father served in the Royal Navy during the major issues concerning our Church, life and all “Thankfully in Scotland there does not seem Blessed John Duns Scotus who came from Duns tions, such as an archdiocesan Mass on the Second World War and after the war ended the its aspects, the third world or moral issues here to have been so many cases of abuse but even in the Borders,” he said. “Just thinking of the Feast of St Andrew, to which the priests of the family moved to Glasgow before settling in in our own country,” he said. “It is almost as if one case is abhorrent, be it in a parish, institu- gently rolling countryside of the area and the archdiocese will be especially welcome. The car- Edinburgh. He attended St Patrick’s High we Catholics once felt we were not supposed to tion or family circle.” wonder of God and creation that inspired Duns dinal also intends to visit the ten Catholic sec- School, Dumbarton, and finished his secondary say too much, and if we did that no one would The Church in Scotland has done everything Scotus, I think similarly Newman must have ondary schools in the archdiocese to give each education at Holy Cross Academy. listen to us. We do have a legitimate voice and possible, he said, with regards to safeguarding been inspired there at Abbotsford near Melrose.” of them a vestment for their own oratory from Early seeds of a vocation to the priesthood a great deal to say.” children and vulnerable adults and will contin- his visits to previous World Youth Days. were hindered when he was deferred from jun- He added that: “The voice of the Church is ue to do so. Cardinal’s celebrations After his jubilee he had intended to go on a ior, and then senior seminary because of a heart being heard but is not always acted upon in the His hopes for the future include a desire for This year marks Cardinal O’Brien’s 45th year as holiday pilgrimage to Sorrento and Rome in the murmur. He was accepted by Cardinal Gray way we would wish on issues such as poverty, an ‘increased zeal’ amongst Scottish Catholics a priest, his 25th year as a bishop and his seventh middle week in September with a group of 45 after studying at university and trained for the Trident and the multi millions spent on it.” akin to the worshipping communities which he year as a cardinal. He was nominated people from the archdiocese. priesthood at St Andrew’s College, Drygrange. has seen in different parts of the world, often in Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh on “I did not want to be out of the country when Cardinal Gray ordained him on April 3, 1965. Working abroad very difficult circumstances. May 30, 1985 and was ordained to the episco- the Holy Father was here and consequently my He went on to undertake teacher training and Cardinal O’Brien said that he had been ‘very “I would like us to be that little bit more exu- pate by Cardinal Gordon Gray, then Archbishop travel agent was very good at rearranging taught in Fife for five years. blessed’ in his own archdiocese through the berant in our liturgies and a little more appre- Emeritus of St Andrews and Edinburgh, at St everything,” the cardinal said. After parish ministry in Kilsyth and efforts of his predecessor Cardinal Gray in ciative of the Faith which is a gift which we 8 Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh on August 5, 1985. Alba Tours was able to move the group’s trav- Bathgate, he was later appointed as spiritual establishing a very firmly outward link with the have received and for which we have a respon- Yesterday (August 5, the Feast of Our Lady el plans to mid October but a third change to the director of St Andrew’s College and then rector missionary work of the Church in adopting sibility,” he said. 14 ACN IN PAKISTAN SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday August 6 2010

Recent tragedy highlights that Christians in Pakistan live in the shadow of rishing violence and oppression. flou in And yet on a visit JOHN s sp PONTIFEX of Aid to the i it Church in Need found the h e country is experiencing a it o near miraculous growth a f both in terms of numbers F and Faith commitment

URNING off the main road heading east out of Lahore, we suddenly found our- selves travelling at a snail’s pace. The streets were Tpacked with people—some carrying chickens and other livestock, others with planks of wood perched precari- ously over their shoulders. Still more had children at their side and were tightly holding on to their hands for fear of losing them amidst the surging mass of humanity all around. Pakistan is a crowded country. And no more so than here in this Christian quarter on the edge of Lahore. Driving through Model Colony, Walton Road, we eventually came to a halt at St Mary’s School. Immaculately turned out, the children were lined up in neat rows all over the playground area. As a Catholic charity committed to helping persecuted and other suffering Christians, a top priority for Aid to the Church in Need is to help this growing number of young people—the Church of tomorrow. Over the course of sever- al years, ACN has provided 70,000 of its Child’s Bibles in the national lan- PERSECUTION IN PAKISTAN guage of Urdu, 10,000 more in Sindhi, spoken in the extreme south-east, as well as picture books based on Bible stories. In 2008, St Bride’s Church, Cambuslang, raised £9000 for Aid to the Church in Need to help print copies of the Catechism in Urdu for the Daughters of St Paul in Rawalpindi, near the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. Greeting us with a warm shake of the hand, Fr Emmanuel Asi, director of the National Catechetical Centre, told us: “Thank you for everything you have done to help our work. Without your assistance, we would be very restricted in what we could do. The Bible and catechesis are very important if people are to know and live their faith.” Test of Faith For Pakistan’s 2.5 million Christians, a tiny minority group in a country of 170 million, that faith is being tested as never before. On Monday, July 19 2010 the Church in Pakistan received its latest hammer blow. Two brothers, both Christians, were shot dead while in police custody. The incident took place in the Punjab province’s city of Faisalabad, outside a court house packed with onlookers. The men were the guilt of frequently innocent people. always appreciated, it is incumbent on unhappy about the direction many of of Pakistan’s Christian faithful. Partly under investigation after being Within a matter of days, a culprit is those in positions of responsibility to their co-religionists are taking. because of religious discrimination, accused—almost certainly falsely— of hunted down and attacked, with similar ensure that citizens of whatever faith Tensions persist between Sunnis and Christians rarely rise above the role of writing a leaflet denigrating the violence meted out to the victim’s are enabled to live in peace and Shias but—much to the shame of the road sweeper, sanitary worker, or fac- Prophet Mohammed, a crime poten- neighbours. harmony.” high proportion of moderates among tory worker. Up to 85 per cent of tially warranting death according to the It was another Blasphemy Law alle- their ranks—what radicals do agree on Christians live in rural communities. country’s infamous Blasphemy Laws. gation that led to the deaths of eight ACN response is a zero-tolerance policy towards They are often extremely poor and live Already, the case had sparked ten- people in the Punjabi city of Gojra Neville Kyrke-Smith, Aid to the ‘non-Islamic forces’. as bonded labourers. But despite their sion both in central Faisalabad but almost exactly a year ago. Their Church in Need’s UK director, Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of acute deprivation, the reports we more especially in the outlying district deaths—which included two young responded to the Gojra violence by Lahore, the President of the Bishops’ received showed that their response to of Waris Pura, the home of the two children—Musa Almas, seven, and his calling for the repeal of the Blasphemy Conference of Pakistan, told me: “We the increased intolerance was one of men. Police had to use tear gas to dis- ten-year-old sister, Umia—sparked Laws, a call the charity renews today. are experiencing a Talibanisation of quiet defiance. It was clear to us as we perse the crowds after Christian shops such huge grief and shock that many But doing no more than changing Islam. Even in the last two or three visited communities, such as Lahore’s and homes were attacked. Stones were believed momentum was at last build- the law is not enough. It is difficult to years it has happened. It is not so much Model Colony, Walton Road, that the thrown at both the local Catholic and ing for the repeal of the Blasphemy bring meaningful change given the that they are becoming more religious, faithful are deeply committed to their Protestant churches. Laws. As reported in the Scottish widespread radicalisation of Islam at rather that they are becoming more faith. Mass attendance in some parts The Blasphemy Laws are routinely Catholic Observer at the time (August grass-root level. intolerant of others. There is a big was reported to be between 70 and abused by extremist groups. 14 2009), Cardinal Keith Patrick The curse of extremism is on the rise difference.” even 90 per cent. In Model Colony, Regardless of official police and legal O’Brien of St Andrews and Edinburgh, in this part of eastern Pakistan, spilling Travelling around Pakistan, carrying Walton Road, we met the catechist, procedures following up allegations of said: “Action must be taken to prevent in from the notorious mountainous out project-assessment and fact-find- Paul Mangal, a man who lives with his blasphemy, extremists execute so- such incidents happening in the future. region bordering Afghanistan. A huge ing work, we were however surprised – wife and family in a small bungalow in called ‘summary justice,’ presuming Whilst messages of sympathy are number of moderate Muslims are or rather astounded – by the response the heart of the community. He simply Friday August 6 2010 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER ACN IN PAKISTAN 15

Previous page: Grief in Gojra in 2009; Bishop Joseph Coutts of Faisalabad, Pakistan and Bishop Joseph Devine of Motherwell at the open- ing of the ACN Scottish office in October 2009; women at prayer This page: Rector Fr Benjamin Shahzad at the new minor seminary under construction at St Jude’s parish, North Naziamabad, northern Karachi; priests from Pakistan at the Vatican for the end of the years for priests; children studying

said: “I thank the Lord that I am a cat- Joseph Coutts of Faisalabad, who Karachi, the seminary has doubled in account for the people’s strong faith friends and benefactors of ACN are echist.” His duties are many and vari- showed us round their training centre. number to 40 within just four years. commitment, he replied: “Our faithful ‘linked through prayer and support’ to ous. In a region suffering from a He said: I would like to thank Aid to Here again, ACN has been active, may not know much more than the Our the Church in Pakistan. shortage of priests, he leads morning the Church in Need for what you are refurbishing students’ rooms, the Father but the last thing they are will- As the charity launches a special and evening prayer services, visits the doing to help us. Your presence, your chapel and the library. ing to do is abandon Christianity. The appeal for Pakistan, calling for the sick, teaches the catechism and pre- prayers and your love—really When militants threatened to attack situation is becoming more difficult repeal of the Blasphemy Laws, and pares young couples for marriage. strengthen us.” the seminary, ACN helped build up the but we are becoming stronger in our asking for prayers and support for the Before coming, he has undertaken a An increase in the number of cate- perimeter wall to keep out the ‘miscre- faith.” faithful, ACN recalls its founder, Fr three-year training programme at the chists is, quite naturally, linked to a ants’. In an area where electric power Werenfried van Straaten. Catechists Training Centre, in similar rise in the number of seminari- frequently fails, ACN has provided a Scotland’s help The words of the famous ‘Bacon Khushpur, near Faisalabad. As well as ans across Pakistan. Here, the situation new generator. Now rector Fr In their experience of extreme poverty, Priest’ are so apt when we think of the supporting the day-to-day living costs is impressive. At St Francis Xavier’s Augustine Soares has turned to ACN intimidation, violence and even death, Pakistan faithful today: “They are of catechists out in the parishes, Aid to Seminary, Lahore, last year’s intake of for help for a new bore well in a region the Church in Pakistan identifies close- being tested in faith; we are being test- the Church in Need helps with their 23 was the highest since the complex where fresh water is in short supply ly with the passion of Christ. During ed in love.” formation at Khushpur and has now opened in 1994. and very expensive. this time of crisis they know they are been asked to help provide them with Last year, at St Pius X Seminary in The secure 18-acre site is used not not alone. Last year, Bishop Joseph I ACN is launching an appeal for the better living quarters at the training Karachi, rector Fr Benjamin had so only by seminarians but by faithful Coutts of Faisalabad, stood side-by- Church in Pakistan. Visit centre. many applicants that he had no choice from across the Karachi Archdiocese side with Bishop Joseph Devine of www.acnuk.org/pakistan ACN also but to turn down 20 of them. ACN is and beyond for youth rallies, Motherwell to open Aid to the Church invites you to send a message of sup- Support for catechists responding by helping to build a new, Eucharistic adoration days, festivals in Need’s Scotland office. port and prayer for the faithful in The importance of ACN’s support for much larger seminary. Meantime, at and fund-raising events. When I asked The charity’s Scottish administrator, Pakistan which will be forwarded to catechists was made clear by Bishop Christ the King Seminary, also in Archbishop Saldanha of Lahore to Dermot Lamb, spoke of how Scottish Church leaders there. 16 MISSIO SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday August 6 2010 Meeting charitable challenges FR PAT McGUIRE, national director of the charity MISSIO SCOTLAND, tells how the missionary work being carried out during a visit to Zambia helped him to understand the true meaning of the ‘Grace of State’ NE of those wise come into my mind, especially Missionary Children. Just after old priests that when I found myself undertaking three months in the post of blessed my early tasks for which I was in no way national director, with absolute- life used to speak qualified. One such moment was ly no prior experience of the of the ‘Grace of shortly after I had been appoint- work and a great deal of trepida- OState.’ I understood him to ed national director of MISSIO tion, I set out for Zambia to col- mean that whatever God asked Scotland. lect materials, photographs, of you, it was placed within Each year MISSIO supplies stories and whatever else I could your power to achieve. God Catholic schools with informa- find to promote Missionary enabled you to meet the chal- tion and materials about various Children amongst our own lenge or so I thought. countries and in particular the young Christians in Scotland. Many times since I was work of Holy Childhood—or as On arrival in Lusaka Airport I ordained that expression has it is becoming better known was to find that my contact there had not only left the coun- try but had made not a single arrangement for my visit. By some strange ‘coincidence’ one EWTN PROGRAMMES of the bishops with whom I had been in contact, had that very SUN AUG 8 MOTHER: GLORIOUS day tried to learn about my 9AM MYSTERIES schedule. On finding no one NANES HOLOCAUST SYMPHONY 7.30PM with any knowledge of my 1PM POOR CLARES: A HIDDEN arrival he had alerted a local SUNDAY MASS LIVE PRESENCE sister, who acted as the airport 3PM WED AUG 11 chaplain, to be on the look out THE WORLD OVER 1PM for me. As we say in Africa, she 4PM DAILY MASS was a powerful woman. LIFE ON THE ROCK 7.30PM The good sister took hold of 7PM POOR CLARE NUNS: A LIFE FOR the luggage while she had offi- THE HIDDEN GIFT: WAR & GOD cials see me through immigra- FAITH IN THE SUDAN 10.30PM tion and customs. The blessed 8PM FRANCIS & CLARE OF ASSISI lady also found me a bed for the BEST OF JOURNEY HOME: THU AUG 12 night and next day set me off, ENGLAND 1PM up country, to Ndola on a local 10PM DAILY MASS bus. Incidentally the bus had an ROME REPORTS 7.30PM armed security guard in case we 11PM CHURCH AND THE POOR: THE were stopped by robbers! The nutrition centre (above) run by difficult choices yet mange concelebrated Holy Mass with BENEDICTION CULTURE OF LIFE The ‘Grace of State’ saw a Sacred Heart Sisters in Zambia, them admirably. I left the com- the pupils. Fr Max and the chil- very nervous Fr McGuire provides food, medical care and pound with a heavy heart and dren ‘signed’ the Mass in a MON AUG 9 9PM loving for vulnerable children 1PM EWTN LIVE through many such moments, empty pockets. magnificent ballet of worship DAILY MASS FRI AUG 13 but there are two that I would that I will long remember. 7.30PM 1PM like to share with you. of survival. For 24 hours the he image of the child These are but a few moments FISHERS OF MEN DAILY MASS babies are assured of a highly stayed with me and pre- from a trip that helped form me ishop Noel O’Reagn nourishing diet, medical care occupied me long after I in my role with MISSIO and 9PM 7.30PM T took me on a four-day and a vast amount of loving. had returned home. I mentioned which aroused an enthusiasm FR CORAPI: IMMORTAL CHURCH AND THE POOR:THE tour of part of Solwezi, The mothers are trained in the incident to a group that I for the work that I and those COMBAT CULTURE OF LIFE B which was then his diocese. The making the best use of local accompany to Lourdes each who are blessed with a taste of 10PM 9PM first night we stayed at the con- natural resources and of course, December and at the end of the similar experiences can only CATHOLIC LIVES LIFE ON THE ROCK vent of Zambian Sacred Heart healthcare for their children. trip I was handed several hun- struggle to pass on to those who TUE AUG 10 SAT AUG 14 Sisters who introduced me to While they are with the sisters, dred pounds. So began the support us. 1PM 1PM their ministry. the mothers put into practice ‘nappy fund.’ DAILY MASS DAILY MASS I confess to being a little dis- what they have learned by Since that time, in addition to he trip always reminds 4PM 9PM mayed when they told me that a preparing food for all the the money raised by Missionary me of the vast amount of CHILDREN, BEHOLD YOUR THE WORLD OVER large part of their annual grant patients. Next day the process is Children, the Scots have sent Tgoodness that flows from from ‘Holy Childhood’ was repeated with another group of over £20,000 to help the babies Scotland to people throughout spent on medicine for the local babies and mothers. and take orphans off the streets the world because of our shared LAY READERS’ GUIDE government hospital. That I asked Sr Delilah, their supe- in Zambia—the consequences resources and personnel. changed when they introduced rior, if this could possibly have of HIV/AIDS are a story for There are moments when we by Fr John Breslin me to the hospital doctor. any success. To which she another time. must come to the help of those A Zambian trained in Europe, replied of course it does and The Good Lord that I know has in distress particularly when SUNDAY AUGUST 8 he had come home to look after called over a mother with her also a sense of humour. On the tragedy strikes. But far more Sunday 19/C. Wisdom 18:6-9. Response: Happy are his own. The government sup- triplets to show me. same journey the bishop took me frequently and on a daily basis the people that the Lord has chosen as His own. ported the hospital as best it “Look how well they are to visit a school for the deaf in the we simply partner people as Hebrews 11:1-2.8.19. Luke 12:32-48. could but they still desperately responding, at least these two village of Ikelenge. It is situated at they help themselves. required the sisters’ help are,” she said. “This little one a point where Angola, the Our Scots Missionary MONDAY because of the vast number of isn’t doing just as well.” Democratic Republic of the Children are wonderful in their Feast of St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) people who attended daily. I I was almost afraid to take Congo and Zambia meet. It is a support for other children Esther 14:1.3-5.12.14. Response: I will bless the Lord was over awed by the man’s the baby in my arms she looked very difficult area in which to live. throughout the world in time of at all times. John 4:19-34. dedication and the sisters’ so frail. It transpired that the As the bishop’s car drew up the need and even more wonderful TUESDAY valiant support. baby simply needed baby for- local priest came to welcome us. in the daily help that they afford Feast of St Lawrence. 2 Corinthians 9:6-10. Response: The good sisters themselves mula which, when available, After greeting the bishop he came always given calmly and quiet- Happy the man who takes pity and lends. John 12:24-26. run two ‘nutrition centres’ where was well beyond the financial over to me and as I said ‘hi,’ he ly in our own Scottish way they have a double task. Each resources of the sisters. replied, “That’s a rare Glasgow through MISSIO. WEDNESDAY day they bring a group of the It seemed to me that the loss accent you’ve got there.” It was The ‘Grace of State’ I’ve Memorial of St Clare. Ezekiel 9:1-7;10:18-22. most vulnerable children and of one baby was a personal Fr Max OFM (Conv.) from learned means that God not Response: Above the heavens is the glory of the Lord. Matthew 18:15-20. their mothers in from ‘the bush.’ affront to the sisters as indeed it Holytown in Lanarkshire. That only gives you the power to Often these are recently or new- is to the ‘Creator.’ They are ded- night our ‘brogue’ became deeper meet the challenge but gives THURSDAY born babies who have little hope icated women faced with very and deeper until the bishop you the opportunity as well. We Ezekiel 12:1-12. Response: Never forget the deeds of wondered what language we need but take it up. the Lord. Matthew 18:21-19:1. were speaking. FRIDAY When we visited the school MISSIO is the only organisa- Ezekiel 16:1-15.60.63. Response: Your anger has itself, now run by the tion to guarantee support for passed, O Lord, and you give me comfort. Matthew: Immaculate Conception Sisters, every one of the 1069 mission 19:3-12 the children welcomed us with dioceses in the world. To song and dance. With faultless support MISSIO Scotland call SATURDAY rhythm the children danced in 01236 449774 or email: national. Memorial of St Maximilian Kolbe. Ezekiel 18:1-10.13.30- response to the vibration of the [email protected] 32. Response: A pure heart creat for me, O God. Matthew 19:13-15. drumming on school desks. Later the bishop, Fr Max and I www.missioscotland.org.uk Friday August 6 2010 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER CHURCH NOTICES 17

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CARFIN LOURDES GROTTO ST ALOYSIUS’ CHURCH THE WHITE FATHERS SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF (Missionaries of Africa) OUR BLESSED LADY THE JESUIT CHURCH IN Saturday 14th August THE WEST OF SCOTLAND THE PARENTS & FRIENDS ASSOCIATION N 8.00 pm Marian Torchlight Procession. 25 Rose Street Glasgow G3 (off Sauchiehall Street) N 9.00 pm Invite you to join them for Opening of the All Night Vigil of Prayer in the SUNDAY MASS: their annual reunion on Glass Chapel Eucharistic Adoration from 9.00 pm until Saturday Vigil 5.45pm; 9am; 10.30am (Family Mass); 12noon (Sung); 9pm Sunday 29th August 2010 Sunday 7.00 am Rosary every hour from 10.00 pm until 6.00 am WEEKDAY MASS: Mass at 12.00pm The Xavier Centre will be open through the night for Monday - Friday: 8am; 12.30pm; 5.45pm in 9 Milrig Road, Rutherglen teas and coffees. Saturday: 10am; 12.30pm Followed by meal at 2.00pm Sunday 15th August CONFESSIONS: at the Kings Park Hotel, Rutherglen N 7.00 am Mass in the Glass Chapel to conclude the Monday - Friday: 11.30am - 12.15pm; 5.15pm - 5.30pm Price: £13.50 All Night Vigil Saturday: 10.30am - 12.15pm; 2pm - 3.15pm; 4.15pm - 5.15pm EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT: Those wishing to attend please contact: Paisley Diocesan Pilgrimage N Saturday: 2pm - 5.15pm 3.00 pm Mass with the Sacrament of the Sick Sunday: 1.15pm - 8.30pm The White Fathers, 9 Milrig Road, Presider: Bishop Philip Tartaglia Rutherglen, G73 2NG N 4.30 pm Blessed Sacrament Procession ROSARY: N 6.00 pm Marian Procession Monday - Saturday after 12.30pm Mass Tel: 0141 613 0209 / 0141 647 3800 before 20th August 2009 The Xavier Centre will be open from 2.00 pm until 6.00 pm serving teas, coffees and snacks EXPERT SERVICES

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GILLIES GOLDEN WEDDING 26th Anniversary REILLY – WRIGHT In loving memory of my James Reilly and Anne dear husband, Michael Wright were married on Gillies, died August 9, August 6, 1960, in St 1984. R.I.P Put Your arms around him Conville’s Church, Pollok. Lord, We are delighted to reach Shelter him with care, this 50th anniversary and Make up for all he suf- th look forward to our 60 . MacPHEE CAMPBELL COLAIZZO DAVIDSON, née MacNeil fered, Deo Gratias. Remembering with love Treasured memories of In loving memory of our In loving memory of our And all that was unfair. and prayers, John Alick, our dearly loved father beloved son and brother, darling daughter, and sis- Inserted by his loving ONE MONTH’S MIND my beloved husband, fa- and grandfather, Calum Carlo, who was acciden- ter, Christine, loving mum widow Nan and family, at ther and grandad, who Iain, who died August 6, tally killed on August 6, of Simone, who died sud- home and away. DONNELLY died on September 28, 1993, and of his wife, our 1997, aged 14 years, and denly on August 11, 1998, Peacefully at home on 2010, and whose 58th dear mother and grand- whose 28th birthday oc- aged 22 years. R.I.P. July 1, 2010, Arthur, much GRANT birthday occurs on August mother, Marion, who died curs on August 28, 2010. We mention your name, In loving memory of our loved husband of Frances 9. January 10, 1977. R.I.P. Although we smile and We think of you often, dear mum, Janet, who Sludden, devoted father A card we cannot send “Pray for me and live in make no fuss, God Bless you Christine, died August 4, 2009. of Fiona and Colette, fa- such a manner that we you, No one misses you more You will never be forgot- I know all our life we’ll ther-in-law of Erik and may be reunited forever in Your hand we cannot than us, ten. miss you, Derek. Ever loving pappy a Blessed Eternity.” – St touch, August comes with sad Inserted by Mum, Cather- For you meant the world of grandson Caleb. Bonaventure. God will bring this mes- regret, ine, Colin and Simone, to us, Fortified by rites of the Our Lady of the Rosary, Mosspark. sage, The month and day we We have such precious Holy Church. To you we loved so much. intercede for them. will never forget, memories, Our Lady of Lourdes and Inserted by the family, ‘Till the shades lengthen, It was a sudden parting DOCHERTY That others cannot see, St Martin, pray for him. Benbecula and away. In loving memory of our And evening comes, too bitter to forget, They are ours to keep for- His loving wife Annabella dear mother, Helen, who ever, And the busy world is But those who love you, and family. xx died August 10, 1992, From which we will never hushed, Carlo, also our father, Patrick part, And the fever of life is RELIGIOUS MEMORIAM Are the ones who won’t over, Daly, who died May 21, We hold them very close forget. 1955. And our work is done. MANNION to us, 17th Anniversary San Francesco d’Assisi, Grant them eternal rest. Then in His mercy may he Kept inside our heart. In loving memory of Rev- pray for him. Your loving family. give him, erend Thomas Canon Inserted by his loving FEELEY (Francis James) Until we meet again. A safe lodging and a holy Mannion, Parish Priest of mother, father, brothers In loving memory of Also remember our dear rest and peace at last. St Mary’s, Paisley, who Paolo and Marco, Frank. father and sister. , Matthew Amen. died August 9, 1993. CLUCKIE Giuliopoli, Chieti. Italy. Always loved and missed. As time goes by without James It is in dying we are born Our Lady, Star of the Sea, you, 1st Anniversary DEATHS to eternal life. COSTELLO pray for him. And days turn into years, Matthew was born on St Francis, pray for him. Please pray for the re- From Helen and Kathleen They hold a million mem- DOCHERTY March 26, 2009 and died On whose soul, sweet pose of the soul of my ories, Remembering my very August 8, 2009, aged 4 Jesus, have mercy. dear father, Liam, who FRASER And many silent tears. dear and courageous sis- months. Inserted by his brother died July 29, 1969. Also 12th Anniversary St Jude, pray for them. ter, Sheila, who is now at Our cherished memories Joe and family. my dear mother, Margaret In loving memory of my Your loving family and peace in God’s kingdom. of Matthew will last for- Our Lady of Lourdes, pray dear wife, Jane, who died grandchildren. St Peregrine and Blessed ever. (Peggy Taylor), who died for him. April 7, 2008. August 12, 1998. Mary Mackillop, pray for St Anthony, pray for him. Mary and Scott (Mum and As we loved them in life, In my heart you will al- KILCOIN her. Inserted by Agnes and Dad), Daniel and Adam We will not forget them in ways stay, In loving memory of Anne My thanks to Anne and Dan. (big brothers), all of Loved and remembered death. J. Kilcoin, died August 8, Ken for their care and de- Matthew’s grandparents, every day. MEMORIAM “I have fought the good 1919, aged 44 years; also votion to Sheila. uncles, aunts and Inserted by her loving fight to the end; I have run James Kilcoin, died Feb- Maire, Hallet Cove, Aus- AGNEW cousins. husband John. the race to the finish; I ruary 13, 1929, aged 62 tralia. In loving memory of our years. – Interred at Dal- have kept the faith.” St dear parents, Isabella GALBRAITH beth. Cassidy, who died August Paul 4:78. MacKINNON 18th Anniversary Please, dear Lord, grant Our Lady of Fatima and Peacefully at Uist and 5, 2000, and Bill, who Cherised In loving memory of my them eternal rest. St Anthony, pray for them. Barra Hospital, Benbec- died January 23, 1988, a beloved husband, and our Inserted by Reverend Fa- loving nana and papa; Memories Inserted by Anne Marie ula, on Thursday, June dear dad and granpa, Ru- ther G. J. Gerry, St also loved ones gone be- and family, Largs. 20, 2010, John, aged 79 Of Your aridh Galbraith, died Au- Peter’s, Budleigh Salter- fore and after. years. Beloved husband gust 8, 1992. R.I.P. ton, Devon. Merciful Jesus, grant Our Lady of the Isles, of Katie MacLean, a Loved Ones CRANIE them eternal rest. 4th Anniversary pray for him. dearly loved brother and From the family. In loving memory of our Inserted by his loving uncle. dear mother, gran and wife, Flora, family and Fortified by the rites of the BELL To place your great-gran, Cathie, who grandchildren, Glasgow. Holy Church. R.I.P. 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MacDONALD McGRORY MITCHELL POWERFUL NOVENA Remembering my sister, 11th Anniversary Treasured memories of Of Childlike Confidence Morag, who died on Au- Treasured memories of my darling wife, Eileen (This novena is to be said my beloved husband, gust 9, 2007, also her Teresa, who died on Au- at the same time, every Charlie, died August 11, gust 11, 2007. hour, for nine consecutive husband, Neil, who died 1999. All my love, Michael. hours – just one day). O on February 5, 2006, her Loving and kind in all his Too dearly loved to be for- Jesus, who hast said, ask son, Captain Lachie, M.N. ways, gotten. and you shall receive, who died October 17, Beautiful memories he left seek and you shall find, 2004, and her daughter, behind. MITCHELL knock and it shall be KILROY Fiona, who died May 15, McGILL I will never forget those 3rd Anniversary opened to you, through 7th Anniversary of my 23rd Anniversary precious years. In loving memory of our the intercession of Mary, dearly loved and loving 2005. Remembering with love, Inserted by his loving beloved sister, Eileen Thy Most Holy Mother, I wife, Maureen, a devoted May they rest in peace. our Dad and Grandad, wife Bridie and son Teresa (née McLaughlin) knock, I seek, I ask that mother and grandmother, Our Lady of the Waves, William (Bill), who died on Charles and brother-in- who died August 11, my prayer be granted who died August 3, 2003. watch over them. August 10, 1987. law James. 2007. (make your request). O To think seven years have Creagorry. Happy memories of days A day to remember, so You fell asleep without Jesus, who hast said, all come and gone. together, sad to recall, goodbye, that you ask of the Father The words are hard to Each of us in our own Without farewell you left MacDONALD But memories of you will in My name, He will grant find, way, us all. 22nd Anniversary never die. you through the interces- To express how much Have special thoughts of Son James and Anne, son In loving memory of my Inserted by Maureen, sion of Mary, Thy Most you’re sadly missed, you today. Jack and Anne. John and Charles. Holy Mother, I humbly and By the ones you’ve left beloved husband, and our Sacred Heart, pray for We love you, Papa. behind, dear father and grandfa- him. From Sean, Kim, Katy, urgently ask Thy Father, Inserted by his family. MULLEN in Thy name, that my Our thoughts are always ther, Angus, who died on Claire, Scott and Grieg. In loving memory of our prayer be granted (make with you, August 8, 1988. R.I.P. special mum, Annie, who your request). O Jesus, And our love will never In the shelter of Thy Sa- died August 11, 2003. who hast said, Heaven end, MacISAAC Also our special dad, cred Heart, and Earth shall pass away Times go by without you, In loving memory of our James, died October 23, Dear Jesus, may he rest. but My word shall not And days turn into years, dear mother, and grand- 1992 and our dear sister, Our Lady and St Joseph, pass, through the inter- Each moment holds a mother, Marion, who died Geraldine Quinn, died pray for him. memory, on August 9, 1990; also June 10, 2006. cession of Mary, Thy Most And many a silent tear. Sadly missed by his lov- our dear father, and Always in our thoughts. Holy Mother, I feel confi- St Anthony, pray for her. ing wife Mary and family. grandfather, Roderick, Sacred Heart and St An- dent that my prayer shall Love always who died on May 22, thony, pray for them. be granted (make your re- Tommy and family. McGREECHIN 1968. quest); publication prom- MacEACHEN 32nd Anniversary From all the family. Fois shiorruidh thoir ised. Remember in your Of your charity, please dhaibh a Thighearna, pray for the repose of the LAVAN prayers a dear granny, Agus solus nach dibir , apostle soul of our beloved HOLY ST JUDE 2nd Anniversary Margaret, who died Au- dearrsadh orra. and martyr, great in virtue mother, Christina THANKSGIVING Cherished memories of gust 12, 1990, aged 83 Inserted by all the family. and rich in miracles, near (Docherty), who died on our darling mum, gran years. DEAR HEART OF August 2, 1978; also our kinsman to Jesus Christ, and great-gran, Mary, who Our Lady of Lourdes, pray JESUS faithful intercessor for all died August 11, 2008. beloved father, Francis, Dear Heart of Jesus in the for her. who died on October 2, MacLELLAN who invoke and honour No longer in our lives to Remembering Mary, a past I have asked you for Missed so very much by 1971. your aid, special patron in share, much loved sister and many favours, this time I As we loved them in life, time of need. To you I But in our hearts you are granddaughter Ann Marie, auntie, died August 12, ask you for this special we will not forget them in have recourse from the always there. Iain, Richard and Paula, 2009. one (mention favour), take death. depths of my heart and Our Lady of Lourdes, pray 27 Ardivachar, South Uist. Our Lady of the Isles, it Dear Heart of Jesus, Eternal rest grant unto humbly beg you, to whom for her. pray for her. and place it within Your them, O Lord, God has given such great St Anne, pray for her. From Kitty Mary, John and broken heart where your And let perpetual light power, to come to my aid Maureen, Eileen, Dawn family. Father sees it, then in his shine upon them. and help me now in my and families. merciful eyes it will be- time of need. In return I May they rest in peace. come Your favour, not promise to make your Amen. mine. Amen. Say for Inserted by their ever lov- McNEILL name known and loved In loving memory of Tony three days, publication LONEY ing family. and cause you to be in- 24th Anniversary McNeill, who died August promised. – N.O. Glas- Our Lady of Lourdes, pray voked. Three Our Fa- Treasured memories of 7, 1994. gow for them. thers, Hail Mary’s and our dear brother, brother- Eternal rest grant unto Grandchildren and great- Glorias. Publication prom- in-law and uncle, Brian him, O Lord, McELROY grandchildren. ised. - P.C. Joseph, died August 8, 11th Anniversary And let perpetual light DEAR HEART OF 1986; also loved ones In loving memory of Mar- shine upon him. JESUS gone before and after. May he rest in peace. Dear Heart of Jesus in the GRATEFUL thanks to St garet, who died August 4, To us you were someone BIRTHDAYS Amen. past I have asked you for Clare for prayers an- special, 1999. CELEBRATIONS Pam and family. many favours, this time I swered. – A.D. Someone good and true, Along the road to yester- ask you for this special CONGRATULATIONS thanks to St You will never be forgot- day, MacNEIL one (mention favour), take GRATEFUL ten, That leads straight to you, 18th Anniversary it Dear Heart of Jesus, Jude for prayers an- For we thought the world Are memories of happy CALL In loving memory of our and place it within Your swered. of you. days, dear brother and beloved broken heart where your Our Lady of Lourdes, pray uncle, Angus John, who Father sees it, then in his an- Together we once knew. MANY PRAYERS for them. PATRICIA died August 1, 1992. merciful eyes it will be- swered. Thank you St Our Lady of Lourdes, pray St Joseph, pray for them. 0141 241 Our Lady of Lourdes, pray come Your favour, not Joseph. – M.S. Inserted by all the family, for her. for him. mine. Amen. Say for 12 Viewfield Road, Coat- Always remembered. 6106 Inserted by Isa and family, three days, publication THANKS to St Clare. – bridge. 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out. Today we celebrate when God for He is your Lord. brought Mary to Heaven before She died. (R) The Queen stands at your right hand, The Assumption of the Virgin She is the only person that has been given arrayed in gold. this gift, ever. God was so grateful for They are borne in with gladness and joy; Mary into Heaven—First everything that Mary had done for all of they enter the palace of the king. Reading us that He did this very special thing for (R) The Queen stands at your right hand, Her. arrayed in gold. A reading from the book of Revelations 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab Mary was a very young girl when she agreed to have Jesus. She was not Second Reading God’s temple in Heaven was opened, and the ark of married. It had to have been very A reading from the book of 1 Corinthians His covenant could be seen in the temple. A great frightening for Her, maybe as scary as 15:20-27 sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the encountering a dragon. Even though She Brothers and sisters: Christ has been raised sun, with the moon under Her feet, and on Her head was afraid, She still trusted in God and from the dead, the first fruits of those who a crown of 12 stars. She was with child and wailed did what was asked of Her. have fallen asleep. For since death came aloud in pain as She laboured to give birth. Then another sign appeared in the sky; it was a Once Jesus was born, She had to watch through man, the resurrection of the dead huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, him be criticised, hated, hurt, and killed. came also through man. and on its heads were seven diadems. Its tail swept She endured all of this so that Jesus could For just as in Adam all die, so too in away a third of the stars in the sky and hurled them show us how much God loves us. Because Christ shall all be brought to life, but each down to the earth.Then the dragon stood before the She helped show us God’s love, we love one in proper order: Christ the first fruits; woman about to give birth, to devour Her child when Her and honour Her. We know how then, at His coming, those who belong to She gave birth. special she is to God, so we also pray to Christ; then comes the end, when He hands She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to Her, asking Her to help us and to ask over the Kingdom to his God and Father, rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was God to help us. when He has destroyed every sovereignty caught up to God and His throne. The woman Herself fled into the desert where she had a place Reflection and every authority and power. prepared by God. Then I heard a loud voice in TODAY’S readings can be very Discussion For He must reign until He has put all Heaven say: “Now have salvation and power come, confusing. The first one sounds like How do you think Mary felt when His enemies under His feet. The last enemy and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of something out of a science fiction movie people were mean to Her because She was to be destroyed is death, for ‘He subjected His Anointed One.” with a woman clothed in the sun with pregnant? (Maybe this is why she needed to everything under His feet.’ The Word of the Lord stars on her crown. She is having a baby see Her cousin, Elizabeth, someone who The Word of the Lord. but there is an evil dragon waiting to eat would understand and be happy with Her) the baby. The second reading talks about How do you think Mary can help us Alleluia Heaven and the end of the world when now? Luke 1:28 The Children’s Liturgy page is published one Jesus destroys all of his enemies. Finally, (R) Alleluia, alleluia. week in advance to allow RE teachers and those in the Gospel, we hear about Mary Activities Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with visiting her cousin Elizabeth. Now, how Materials: Tissue paper, floral wire, you; blessed are you among women. taking the Children’s Liturgy at weekly Masses to do you put all of these together to figure scissors (Optional: Floral tape, rose (R) Alleluia, alleluia. use, if they wish, this page as an accompaniment out what God is telling us today? perfume). to their teaching materials If we think about the special event that Take several pieces of tissue stacked Gospel we are celebrating, it will help us figure it upon each other. Fan-fold it back and forth, The Almighty has done great things for me; about 1.5cm, until it is completely folded. the Lord has lifted up the lowly. A reading from Once you have the tissue folded into the Holy Gospel according to Luke 1:39-56 what looks like a long strip, fold the strip in Mary hurried to a town in the hill country half, matching the two short ends. of Judea. She went into Zechariah’s home, Take a 12cm piece of wire and tightly where She greeted Elizabeth. When twist it around the center of the strip. Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, her baby Cut the folded end. You can also cut a moved within her. The Holy Spirit came design in each end. upon Elizabeth. Peel the layers up, one layer at a time, Then in a loud voice she said to Mary: opening the flower. “God has blessed you more than any other If you like, wrap the wire with floral tape woman! He has also blessed the child you and mist with perfume. will have. Why should the Mother of my If your priest will allow it, have the class Lord come to me? As soon as I heard your place their flowers by the Mary statue in greeting, my baby became happy and Church when they process back in before moved with me. The Lord has blessed you returning to their parents. If not, ask the because you believed that He will keep His class to do so after Mass is over. promise.” If there is extra time, the class may also Mary said: “With all my heart I praise make a flower for their mothers. the Lord, and I am glad because of God my Saviour. He cares for me, His humble Prayer servant. From now on, all people will say Dear Mary, please say a prayer for us. We God has blessed me. God All-Powerful has know God particularly loves you and we do done great things for me, and His name is too. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen holy. He always shows mercy to everyone who worships Him. Responsorial Psalm “The Lord has used his powerful arm to 45:10, 11, 12, 16 scatter those who are proud. He drags (R) The Queen stands at your right hand, strong rulers from their thrones and puts arrayed in gold. humble people in places of power. He gives The Queen takes Her place at your right the hungry good things to eat and He sends hand in gold of Ophir. the rich away with nothing in their hands. (R) The Queen stands at your right hand, “He helps his servant Israel and is arrayed in gold. always merciful to his people. He made Hear, O daughter, and see; turn your ear, this promise to our ancestors, to Abraham forget your people and your father’s house. and his family forever!” (R) The Queen stands at your right hand, Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about arrayed in gold. three months. Then She went back home. So shall the King desire your beauty; The Gospel of the Lord. 22 MARIAN SERIES SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday August 6 2010 Messages from Mary MARY BLESSED VIRGIN are motivated by love DR HARRY SCHNITKER continues his extensive SCO series looking at the blessed figure of the Virgin Mary from many different perspectives (AUGUST) MARIAN APPARITIONS

F ALL the Marian ele- country into pro and anti-Catholic fac- ments of Catholicism Her tions. Many were uncomfortable with apparitions are the most the notion that France, popularly called well known. Everyone the ‘First Daughter of Rome,’ was no has heard of at least one, longer the solidly Catholic nation of Oand probably more, of the sites where the 18th century. Our Lady was seen or heard by a Revolution had brought persecution visionary, places such as Lourdes, and martyrdom, and, unfortunately, the Fatima or Knock. Indeed, for many, Church had allowed Herself to become Catholic and non-Catholic alike, these a vehicle for conservative tendencies. It sites are the epitome of Catholicism, is little wonder that most of the French iconic of the Church. apparitions contained messages on per- It will come as some surprise to secution, loss of faith, loose morals and many, then, that theologically and in renewal. Mary, the intercessor for the accordance with Canon Law, that is the faithful, is the most prominent feature law of the Church, Lourdes, Fatima and of the French apparitions. their like are actually considered of Two other apparitions occurred in rather limited importance. Amazingly, equally distressed countries. The it was not until 1978 that the criteria for apparition at Knock in Ireland took what constitutes a real apparition and place in a country that had suffered what makes one false were laid down. severe depopulation as a result of the As with so much in the Church, Great Hunger, and was experiencing apparitions may seem to have been political turbulence. with us forever, but in reality they are In Gietzwald, Our Lady appeared to relatively new. There were a few a Polish people living under foreign Marian apparitions in the early Middle rule, speaking Polish where that lan- Ages, but one has to question whether guage was banned from public life. these would be accepted as such today. Finally, and most famously, in Fatima, Apparitions by Our Lady come in Our Lady appeared in the most turbulent three forms: visual, oral or a combination period of all, in 1917, at the height of the of both. The medieval apparitions were slaughter of the First World War, and experienced mainly through dreams, with the spectre of Communism becom- such as that which gave rise to the legend ing a reality in Russia. of Our Lady of the Snows in Rome. At The two appearances in Belgium times, men, and they were mainly men, came against a background of increased did see Our Lady, but the circumstances atheist political posturing, both from were specific, the place circumscribed Communist and Fascist camps. and the message simple. We have The two most personal apparitions, at encountered one such apparition in last Akita and in Rome, are primarily con- month’s articles on Marian relics. cerned with healing and private conver- Yet they lacked that defining ele- sion, and do not really fit any ‘model.’ ment of later apparitions: the messages However, one is faced with the strange which Our Lady wishes to convey to fact that Mary tends to appear where the world. In the latter phrase there there is strife. Perhaps that need not sur- hides the problem inherent in all these prise: Our Lady’s role throughout the apparitions; the Church teaches that Church’s history is that of the consoling public revelations came to an end with mother, bringing relief to worried the death of the last Apostle, probably Christians, interceding for them and somewhere towards the end of the first warning them about dangers to come. century. Since then, the authority to teach has been transferred onto the he apparitions also highlight two Church, as the body of Christ. popular elements of Marian Tdevotion during the past two urs is, of course, also a Christ- centuries: the heavy emphasis on the centred Church, indeed, it Immaculate Conception and the pray- Owould have no validity were ing of the Rosary. that not the case. Any Marian appari- “I am the Immaculate Conception,” tion, is, therefore, fraught with prob- Our Lady tells St Bernadette Soubirous lems. Any revelation made during an in Lourdes, affirming what She had apparition cannot add to the teaching already revealed to St Catherine of the Church, cannot be taken as Labouré earlier on. So are these appari- authoritative, and when in contradic- tions merely wishful thinking? Are tion to the Magisterium of the Church, they the product of stresses and strains, has to be false. reflections of popular devotion and The rules for episcopal or Papal sentiment, and public acceptance is de Bac, 1830; Rome, 1842; La Salette, For many Catholics and non-Catholics alike, nothing more? approval are strict, and much attention usually much more readily bestowed France, 1846; Lourdes, 1858; Pontmain apparitions of Mary (above) are the epitome Well, no. Our Lady appeared to the is paid to the psychological profile of than episcopal or Papal approval. It in France, 1871; Pellevoisin in France, of Catholicisim, iconic of the Church lowly and not to the powerful. Indeed, the visionaries, to the moral content of may even be argued that Mary’s 1876; Gietszwald in Poland, 1877; in half of all apparitions, She appeared the revelation, the motives—including imprint on the modern Church is such, Knock, 1879; Fatima, 1917; Beauraing countries. Indeed, one may add the to children, hardly the vehicle for mak- financial or political gain—and the that Popes, too, are swept along by and Banneaux in Belgium, 1932-33 and apparition in Rome to these, for there ing political or ecclesiastical state- fruits of the apparition. Since coming their own love for the Mother of God Akita in Japan, 1973. Our Lady appeared to a French-speak- ments. The powers that be, including into being, these rules have prevented and blur the line between private and ing Jew. Also noticeable are the dates: the Church hierarchy, were usually less some apparitions from being recog- public revelation. There can be no efore we examine a number of only two of the 14 pre-date the 19th than pleased with Our Lady’s appear- nised speedily, unlike some of the doubt, for example, that the messages these apparitions more closely, century. It is on the modern apparitions ances, indeed, were frequently most apparitions in the past. of Lourdes and Fatima have been Bit will be helpful if we cast a I wish to concentrate. discomforted. That is the official line. In reality, as embraced with equal enthusiasm by critical glance. With the exception of Akita, all All this hardly points to some gigan- so often in the Church, things are a lit- both laity and episcopate. Several elements on the list of apparitions occurred in periods of great tic conspiracy, or to large-scale hyste- tle more complex. We live in a Marian For all that, only a handful of the approved apparitions are striking. One stress. The French apparitions, in par- ria. In the following three articles, we age, perhaps even the Marian age, and many Marian apparitions have received is the overwhelmingly Francophone ticular, all played out against a most shall examine just what Our Lady Our Lady is loved even by those who Papal approval. These are: Guadalupe element. Of the 14 apparitions troubled background. The country had wished to convey when she appeared at rarely, if ever, set foot in a church. She in Mexico, 1531; Saint-Étienne-le- approved by the Holy See, no fewer been convulsed by the Revolution and Lourdes, Fatima, and, more controver- is the embodiment of popular religious Laus in France, 1664-1718; Paris, Rue than eight occurred in French-speaking its aftermath, which had divided the sially, at Medjugorje. Friday August 6 2010 SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER A GRAND LITTLE PARISH 23 Party politics and the WEEK 24 VOLUME 1 Wisdom of Solomon Preparations for the parish party gather pace, which in turn sees many new tensions beginning to surface in KT BROGAN’S weekly parish tale A GRAND LITTLE PARISH

EACE at last,’ thought called Sylvester, after Victor urther conversation was prevent- The matter of Mozza’s two extra vol- or two of them were finding the jackets Fr John Paul as he Sylvester… you know…” Slow, slow, ed by the sound of the telephone unteers had been resolved as Tandy had an unexpectedly tight fit. leaned back in his quick quick, slow.” Fand the gong, followed immedi- growled at one and tried to bite the other. Mrs Joanne Smythe had returned chair and accepted a Fr John Paul stared at his companion. ately by the ringing of the doorbell. “Three will be enough this time, from the Welfare and was finishing cup of coffee from the “Sorry,” he said, “… You’ve lost me.” “Action stations, John Paul. Things Mozza but thanks for the offer,” Fr preparations of sandwich fillings to be ‘Pcanon. “I’d offer you cake, but I’ve “You’re much too young to know this, are hotting up…..” John Paul told him. The canon turned stacked in the fridge in neatly labelled been banned from the kitchen,” said of course, but Victor Sylvester was The canon sprang to his feet and made back to collect the dog’s lead. boxes. Now and then, she sneaked a the canon ruefully. He sighed. known as the King of Ballroom Dancing for the door of his sitting room. “Good decision,” he murmured. glance at the purchases she’d made in a “You should see the stack of home at one time. The Boys take their nick- Finn and Bernard were requesting the “That dog has excellent judgement very classy patisserie at the far side of baking in there… but Kitty says that the names from their musical heroes… for removal of Bert Mullaney from the when it comes to people. After all, he town. Three spectacular gateaux and a Holy Terror’s counted everything, so instance, there was Fats Waller, who Welfare because he was getting in every- attached himself to me, didn’t he?” giant tarte tatin reassured her that Mrs there’s no sampling allowed.” played up a storm on the piano by all body’s way and upsetting the band into Falling into step beside him, his Gildea and her friends from St Jerome’s The other didn’t answer. Then, accounts, Buddy Rich, a famous drum- the bargain by giving everybody orders. companion just had to laugh. would be suitably impressed. They’d “Listen to that,” he smiled. mer, and of course the one that every- Mrs Smythe was protesting about the “He’s not too keen on Bert Mullaney never know that the cakes were ‘shop- “What?” body knows… Satchmo Armstrong.” fact that some hostesses had arrived early as it happens. Just let Tandy off his bought’, she told herself, because she’d “The sound of silence…..at last. All Fr John Paul was staring at his com- to claim the best positions for their tables lead at the Welfare and we might well taken care to travel out of Mrs Gildea’s those band rehearsals over. Peace… ” panion in amazement. the following night and she had been left solve one of our problems,” he said. territory to purchase them. “I’ll miss the Rigghead Boys,” said “How do you know all that… that with a draughty place by the door. Linda Gilmartin regarded her array the canon thoughtfully. “…And the sight stuff… about jazz musicians and so Mozza had secured the services of ll over Rigghead, and up as far of baking with a satisfied smile. of Maeve and Kitty having a bit of a fan- forth? Did you have a mis-spent youth, two extra stewards who were waiting as Stanerigg, preparations had Tomorrow, cakes would be decorated, dango to the music when they thought by any chance?” at the presbytery door and who looked Abegun for St Aidan’s parish cream whipped, meringues made. nobody was watching…” he chuckled. The canon chuckled. “I know all that, slightly menacing. party, with just 24 four hours to go. Jack came into the kitchen. “Why are “I never could work out who was who John Paul, because the band told me… “This is going to require the wisdom Nell Norton’s pal, Sandra, was put- you smiling?” he asked, finding his with that lot,” Fr John Paul went on. “I when I used to look in for a chat at of Solomon,” said the canon, reaching ting the finishing touches to Nell’s wife’s smile infectious. mean… they had strange names. The breaks in their practices.” for his hat. home perm and was promising her a “I was just remembering a sugges- pianist was Fats Burke… and he’s a There was a reflective silence then. In the end, the two priests went over full makeover afterwards. “Just a prac- tion the canon made at our little ‘brain- skinny little man. Then there was Buddy “Why? The chats, I mean…” to the Welfare together. tice, mind. I’ll come back the morra storming’ meeting. He said I should go Carmichael on the drums, Satchmo “Because I’m interested in people, “Settling disputes is a very useful right an’ do it all again,” she said. into business for myself… and he men- Penman on clarinet and sometimes John Paul. Oh, you can spend your life experience for a new parish priest,” Miss McIndoe had ordered a taxi for tioned baking. And tonight, I was just trumpet… and he’s really called Harry. with your face in a book, right enough, explained the canon as he persuaded Fr seven o’clock the next evening in case thinking… well… I enjoy doing this… And there was Sylvester… at least I and you learn a lot from that… but John Paul to come with him. of inclement weather and was dither- baking.” heard that name mentioned but I don’t you’ll learn a great deal more from “You will experience what is called, I ing over plans for her party outfit. Jack Gilmartin laughed. “Could I know which one of them HE was.” being interested in people as well and believe, ‘a learning curve.” The Rigghead Boys had looked out have a job in quality control, then?” He The canon’s eyes twinkled. listening to them talk about the things “That’s what I’m afraid of,” was their red tuxedos with RB embroidered helped himself to a cake. “In fact… I’ll “No…Duke Mulgrew’s double bass is that matter to them…” the reply. in black on the breast pockets and one start right now.” Council set to right the wrongs of Faith forgeries

WHICH way should we face at purported to date from Apostolic Mass in church—East or West? times, and was later incorporated into And should the priest and people Mgr Basil yet another forgery called ‘The all face the same way, or should Loftus Zeal and Patience Apostolic Constitutions.’ The whole the priest face the people? I eight volumes claimed to have been suppose it’s all been clear to me written by Peter’s immediate since I was ten years old. This stressed the need for everyone at successor as Pope, Clement, and set In 1945 Britain was very slowly Mass to be united not only with the out a vast array of Church practices, emerging from wartime gloom. The priest, but with one another—‘a sense laws and teaching, including the rules Windmill Theatre in London may well of community should be encouraged’ of Church architecture. have remained open all through the (n18). “The church should therefore Although it is a fourth century fake, war, but children’s pantomimes in be suitable for the ceremonies, and and proves nothing of what happened in Yorkshire did not. So the first time I such as to encourage the people to Apostolic times, this work does prove went to the theatre was just after the take their full part” (n253). what was happening in the fourth century. war, at the age of ten. The charabanc So no more sitting silently behind the It gives details of how people worshipped which took us there from school was a driver—rather a whole-hearted then, when the book was forged. rather gloomy experience. Behind the participation, a ‘sense of community,’ Relics of the earliest known church, driver’s head was a large sign—‘Do people looking at one another and built at Tyre between 313 and 332 AD, not talk to the driver.’ So we silently talking to one another, ‘bodily gestures,’ show that at that time the celebrant studied the back of his head. ‘processions,’ and ‘signs of peace.’ had faced West, and the people faced But once in the theatre everything But just how were the churches to East. But when the Emperor was so different. We were all obviously be adapted and made ‘suitable for the Constantine started to build churches a bit at sea—nothing like this had ceremonies?’ some decades later he was fooled by featured in our young lives before. Two essential factors date from the the forged Apostolic Constitutions, Fortunately the whole affair was earliest years of the Church—the and in obedience to them had all brilliantly directed by a true thespian. celebrant always faced the people, and churches built with the people facing Before the curtain rose he wandered it didn’t matter who faced East or West. West, and the celebrant facing East. amongst us and involved us all in the Strangely enough we know this Which way they faced didn’t matter, entire production we were about to see. from fakes and forgeries. Towards the but they had always faced one another. We practised the ditties and learned end of the fourth century everyone This is what Vatican II set out to when to shout ‘behind you.’ through the singing and actions. Nor The Second Vatican Council (above) sought wanted to invoke the authority of the recapture in its document on Liturgical So when 20 years later our church was I disappointed. Vatican II’s to clear up some of the previous historical Apostles. But the Apostles had in fact reform. And that was most decidedly buildings stopped looking like buses, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy inaccuracies regarding the Mass decided very little. So some crook not a forgery. with passive passengers sitting behind —Sacrosanctum Concilium—was forged in Greek a tome called ‘The the priest-driver, looking at the back quite clear: “By way of promoting And at proper times all should observe Catholic Doctrine of the 12 Apostles Mgr Basil Loftus is a priest of the of his head, and not being allowed to active participation, the people should a reverent silence” (n.30). and the Holy Disciples of Our Lord,’ Diocese of Leeds now living in talk—when instead they started to be encouraged to take part by means Two years after the end of the and backdated it three and a half retirement in the North of Sutherland. look more like ‘theatres in the round,’ of acclamations, responses, psalmody, Council, on 25 May 1967, the Sacred centuries to 55AD. He worked in secretariat for English I began to look for the ‘warm-up’ man antiphons, and songs, as well as by Congregation of Rites issued its Shortened, understandably, to the and Welsh bishops in Rome during the who would involve us and lead us actions, gestures, and bodily attitudes. Instruction, Eucharisticum Mysterium. simpler title of Didascalia, this book Second Vatican Council 24 VATICAN NEWS SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday August 6 2010

between the two sides to full skirts to tell them that they A counter culture of abortion? NEWS IN BRIEF diplomatic ties, which raises were not dressed properly. the level of representation to Mgr Carrasco de Paula issues warning over easy access to abortion drugs apostolic nuncio and embassy. POPE WELCOMES BAN ON THE The two sides have main- USE OF CLUSTER BOMBS By Stephen Reilly Criticism of Spain tained representation below the POPE Benedict XVI has said In an interview with the Italian rank of ambassador since 1990. the international community A SENIOR Vatican official Catholic online magazine Il has shown wisdom in banning has warned that promoting Consulente Re, the monsignor NEW FORMAL DRESS CODE cluster bombs. easy access to drugs that criticised Spanish Prime Minister FOR VATICAN VISITORS Cluster bomb are packed by induce abortion risks creat- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero THE Vatican has imposed a the hundreds into artillery ing a culture where having and the new abortion law that crackdown on tourists’ cloth- shells, bombs or missiles, which an abortion is like having a went into effect in early July. NEW APOSTOLIC NUNCIO IS ing and imposed a formal scatter them over vast areas. cup of coffee. The Spanish Parliament APPOINTED TO RUSSIA dress code on visitors. The Holy Father said that Commercialising abortion approved a measure that allows THE Holy See has announced Inappropriately dressed visi- his first thoughts are for the medication can turn ‘an abortions without restrictions for the appointment of Archbishop tors to the Holy City have numerous victims who have unwanted pregnancy into being up to 14 weeks. The new law Antonio Mennini, until now the been told to cover up by Swiss suffered and continue to suffer almost like an annoying cold to allows 16 and 17-year-olds to Pope’s representative to the Guards or face a ban. physical and moral damage, be gotten ridden of with a pill,’ have abortions without parental Russian Federation, as the first Those entering St Peter’s including death, from the Mgr Ignacio Carrasco de Paula consent although the parents have Apostolic Nuncio to the country. Basilica have long been ‘insidious ordnance.’ (right) told the Vatican newspa- and emotional after effects of to be informed. It also declares The archbishop (above) pre- required to dress modestly. He welcomed a new treaty per, L’Osservatore Romano. abortion because ‘it is certain abortion to be a woman’s right. sented his letters of credence Since early this week the dress banning the weapons, which The Spanish monsignor, who that abortion, beside killing an The law ‘is foolishness, to Foreign Affairs Minister code has been extended to St took effect on August 1, call- is also a medical doctor, recalled innocent person, weighs heavi- absolute foolishness, and it goes Sergej Lavrov on July 15 in a Peter’s Square, which marks ing it an encouraging sign of working in Armenia after the ly on the conscience of the along with the mentality of ceremony that was followed the border between the city- the world’s capacity to make 1998 earthquake. He said many woman who resorts to one.’ Zapatero,’ who presents every by a ‘cordial’ meeting, report- state and Rome. From this progress on disarmament and of the women patients he The academy will study the issue in terms of human rights, ed the Vatican press office. point, shorts skirts and bare international human rights. worked with had already had impact and nature of the syn- Mgr Carrasco de Paula said. The Last December, Pope shoulders are not allowed. The Pope made the remarks more than 20 abortions and that drome more in-depth and prime minister promotes every- Benedict XVI and Russian The guards drew aside men after the Angelus prayer from ‘for them abortion had become release its findings and recom- thing as a human right, ‘but he is President Dmitry Medvedev in shorts and women with Castel Gandolfo, outside of like having a coffee.’ mendations in a document by incapable of understanding agreed to upgrade relations uncovered shoulders and short Rome, where he is vacationing. Such a blasé attitude ‘is a October 2011, he said. what a right is,’ he added. serious phenomenon’ that could “When abortion is being The same dangerous tendency easily spread to other parts of talked about, unfortunately, it can be seen in other countries in Europe, he said. Indiscriminate triggers many issues that which the relationship between use of the abortion pill may always spark a heated debate, patient and doctor is being erod- CROSSWORD increase the number of women sometimes even within the ed, he said. Medical decisions who experience post-abortion Catholic world,” he added. will no longer be determined by syndrome, he added. He said he believes the acad- a medical professional who acts 1 2 3 4 5 6 emy’s role is to ‘always go according to moral guidelines Effects of abortion beyond polemics in order to but by a judge, he said. 7 8 Mgr Carrasco de Paula, who reflect on every single aspect of “Such a development is very was named head of the life the issue, even if it is uncom- disturbing because it would also academy in June, said scholars fortable to face. Internal or mean an undermining of medi- 9 10 are working on a document external debate does not scare cine,” Mgr Carrasco De Paula focusing on the psychological us, rather, it enriches us.’ added.

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