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The Ocial Newspaper to Inside this month: the Diocese of Lancaster p3 Diamond Celebrations p11 Rev Deacon Kevin Hickey RIP Issue 242 + September 2012 p12 Local Thanks Ireland

- for a wonderful International Eucharistic Congress

I led a group of alking to members of the group there the Papal Legate, and attended by a thirty pilgrims Twas a common sense of wanting to congregation of over 80,000. A personal attend the International Eucharistic message from Benedict was broadcast K&M Maintenance from our diocese Heating - Electrical - Building Congress to show our solidarity with Irish at the conclusion of the Mass. Telephone: 01772 704530 Fax 01722 798801 to the 50th Catholics who have been going through Heating, Electrical and Building services across the North West of England International such a hard time in recent years. We There was a wonderful atmosphere of joyful Gas wanted to say ‘Thank you’ to the Irish celebration of being Catholic among the tens • Emergency Boiler Repairs for all makes Eucharistic • Boiler Installations & servicing Church on behalf of the Diocese of of thousands at Dublin’s Congress. There was • Central Heating System repairs/upgrades/leaks Congress held Lancaster for all the wonderful Irish also an exuberant sense of life among the • New fitted Central Heating Systems • Landlord Gas Safety Certificates (CP12) priests, religious sisters and brothers, who exhibition stands that displayed the work in Dublin. We Electrical joined 7,000 have ministered to us over the generations of hundreds of ministries in Ireland, the UK • New consumer units supplied and fitted as much-loved and respected parish and around the world. The Congress made it • All emergency breakdowns • Power tripping international • New lighting • Additional sockets priests, teachers and catechists. clear to everyone just how wrong the media • Faulty sockets • Rewiring pilgrims who had reports are in portraying the Church as • Outdoor lighting/sockets travelled from The reason why we’ve been able to celebrate exhausted and dying. Nothing could be Building • Extension work all over the world the Eucharist in many of our parishes over further from the truth. • Alterations • Driveways, paths and patios the past hundred years is because of the • Conservatories • Double glazing to celebrate with generosity of Irish priests coming over to I lost count of the number of nationalities • Fascias and Soffits the Irish Church serve the English Church. The International I met over the three days. You really get a Prices Boiler Service - £39 + VAT plus £10 for every additional appliance. Eucharistic Congress was a wonderful sense of just how huge the Church is when the heart of the Tel No: 01772 704530 Mobile: 07941 554730 Fax No: opportunity for the Diocese of Lancaster to Catholics gather in one place from all over Catholic faith – 01772 798801 say, ‘Thank you Ireland’. the world. It truly is a universal Church. Address: K & M Maintenance Services Ltd, Jesus’ continuing Unit 9 Romay Way, Preston, Lancs PR2 5BB and real presence Lancaster’s pilgrims came from the length There are so many highlights from the More information: wwwkmmaintenance.co.uk in the Most Holy and breadth of the diocese, from Carlisle and Congress that stand out in my memory: The Sacrament of Keswick in the north, Barrow-in-Furness in sound of thousands of rosary beads being the west, and Morecambe and Lancaster taken out of pockets and handbags; the the Altar. in the south. Our diocese’s pilgrim group sight of hundreds of pilgrims young and represented young and old, with the old receiving the sacrament of the sick; youngest member 18 and the oldest member listening to a teenage boy singing St. 89. Campbell and Fr. Billing, the Patrick’s Breastplate; hearing 80,000 Bishop’s Secretary, joined us for an evening’s Catholics praying the Our Father at Croke walk and dinner in Dublin. Park; seeing hundreds of priests and Thanks Ireland deacons stand up and applaud Cardinal for a wonderful During the three days of the Congress we Ouellet’s exhortation to listen to the Holy International attended workshops, lectures, and concerts, Father with great respect and gratitude, and participated in open-air Masses with trust and sincere obedience; the Eucharistic attended by tens of thousands of pilgrims reverence and hushed silence of thousands Congress. from around the world. receiving communion.

Deacon Nick Donnelly, Our time at the Congress concluded with the I’d like to thank all who joined our diocesan St Mary of Furness, Statio Orbis Mass at the famous Croke Park group and made our pilgrimage to Dublin Barrow. Stadium, presided by Cardinal Marc Ouellet, such an enjoyable and Catholic experience. 2 + The Catholic Voice of Lancaster + September 2012 www.catholicvoiceo ancaster.co.uk

EDITORIAL ope Benedict XVI has set aside a special year for Catholics homes and among our families, so that everyone may feel a Pthroughout the world to rediscover, and share with others, strong need to know better and to transmit to future generations the precious gift of Faith entrusted to the Church and the the faith of all times. personal gift of faith that we have each received. He also wants us to approach the Year of Faith as a time of The Holy Father has decreed that the will puri£cation for the Church and for individuals, a summons to an observe the Year of Faith between 11 October 2012 and 24 authentic and renewed conversion to the Lord. Pope Benedict is November 2013. The 11th October 2012 is the anniversary of clear that faced with the urgent need for the puri£cation of the two important events in the life of the Catholic Church: the 50th Church the ‘one thing that will be of decisive importance in this anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council and Year is retracing the history of our faith, marked as it is by the the 20th anniversary of the publication of the Catechism of the unfathomable mystery of the interweaving of holiness and sin.’ Catholic Church by Blessed John Paul II. What does Pope Benedict mean by this? It is easy to become Pope Benedict explains that though the Second Vatican Council discouraged, even heart-broken at the sins and abuses occurred half a century ago it remains ‘the great grace bestowed committed by some of our fellow Catholics. There seems to have on the Church in the twentieth century’ that is ‘a sure compass by been one scandal after another. The history of humanity’s Contact us which to take our bearings in the century now beginning.’ relationship with God is one of God’s faithfulness and man’s The Catholic Voice of Lancaster in£delity and sin, terrible, appalling sin. The wonder is that God, is published on the last Sunday of the The Holy Father is also convinced that the Second Vatican in His goodness and holiness, wants anything to do with us. month previous to publication date. Council, if interpreted and implemented according to the mind And yet, out of unfathomable and incomprehensible love, God of the Church stretching back to the Apostles, ‘can be and can became a man to redeem us from our sin. The history of the The Catholic Voice of Lancaster is become increasingly powerful for the ever necessary renewal of the people of God, the Church, is the history of God’s call to share published by its owners. The Trustees Church’. (Porta Fidei, 5). in His holiness and man’s sinful betrayal. This is why the Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of needs puri£cation, because she is made up of human beings who Lancaster, a registered charity, This is why an important component of the Year of Faith will be are in constant need of puri£cation. (No. 234331), and is wholly independent reŸection and rediscovery of the riches contained in the texts of and separate from any previous of Vatican II. During the Year of Faith Pope Benedict encourages us to focus on newspaper published by or on behalf the great £gures of our Faith who have answered God’s call to of the diocese. The anniversary of the publication of the Catechism of the holiness and struggled against humanity’s propensity to sin. So Catholic Church is also important because it is ‘a precious and during the Year of Faith we need to become more familiar with the EDITOR: indispensable tool. 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t a Mass celebrated by Mgr. AKirkham four Sisters of Charity of Magni—cat, magni—cat, Jesus & Mary, each celebrating 60 years Magni—cat, praise God! of their profession, renewed their vows. Sister Carmela, Sister James, Sister Magni—cat, magni—cat, Margaret and Sister Kathleen were joined at Mass by other members of their Order Magni—cat, praise God! and Sister Dympna who celebrates 75years of her profession in August.

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t Kentigern's Blackpool was pleased from his diocese. Fr Thomas is serving ark Menzies MP for South Fylde vis- learning and behaviour is exemplary’. Sto welcome Bishop Remigiose in Workington, and Fr Mathew is Mited St Peter’s in Lytham to Inchananiyil, Bishop of Thamarassery, resident at Christ the King, Blackpool. congratulate them on their outstanding Ofsted also commented that pupils’ Kerala, India. Bishop Remigiose celebrates his silver Ofsted report. achievement is outstanding and the main jubilee of ordination to the priesthood strengths of the school are the excellent He celebrated Mass in the Syro-Malabar later this year and so Bishop Campbell He talked to sta¡ and children and was teamwork between leaders and the rite for the Kerala community together was pleased to welcome the visiting able to see for himself what Ofsted meant governing body in driving improvement with Fr Thomas and Fr Mathew, who are bishop for a celebratory lunch earlier by ‘Pupils have excellent attitudes to their and the quality of teaching. on loan to the diocese of Lancaster that week. I'm Not Finished Yet

oung Ricco from Kerala was Ysinging his heart out at the end of the Diamond Jubilee at Holy Family parish, Blackpool; a hymn of thanks and praise to God above and he was singing beautifully.

BUT….His listeners applauded too soon whereupon Ricco called out, “I’m not yet ”nished yet”.

Perhaps without being aware of it, Ricco was also speaking for the Queen. She is clearly “not ”nished yet” either.

Fr Farrell distributes Altar Servers awards at Holy Family's Diamond Jubilee lunch. 100 n the occasion of his 100th Obirthday Bernard Jones attended Mass, (celebrated by Canon Bob Horn), with his son and daughter.

Senior altar servers also turned out in force as Bernard only retired from altar serving a few months ago. 4 + The Catholic Voice of Lancaster + September 2012 www.catholicvoiceo ancaster.co.uk

Being a Young Catholic Today walk for forty minutes to the nearest Ruth, 21, Castlerigg Manor Catholic Church for 8.30 Mass, returning just in time to have some lunch and jump in a powerboat to teach on the water.

Having to £ght for Mass and work hard to get there even when the walk seemed too long or it was raining really made me treasure the Eucharist. Underground I understood more than ever how precious our faith is. It was a very Catholic lonely time however. For much of it, my community of faith was found on the internet. Online, the young Catholic y name is Ruth, I’m 21 and I have world opened up in all its vibrancy and Mbeen at Castlerigg Manor since I knew I was not alone. I used articles, last August. What I have experienced music and apologetics from several during this year has changed my life. young Catholic websites in America and I have always been a Catholic. I am the UK to help sustain my day to day the youngest of six children and had faith. The world I was living in at the a very happy upbringing in the faith. time could not have been further from When I was 16 I left home for the ¢rst my faith. Whilst I loved those who time to go to college, where I studied I worked with, it was hard not to get Outdoor Education. It very quickly pulled into the di¡erences in our became apparent to me that I was lifestyles; the drinking culture which going to have to make a conscious was the norm. Through all of this decision over whether I kept my faith loneliness and often times, madness, or not. It was no longer something I developed a longing and love for God that I practiced just because my that brought me to the point where I parents expected me to. looked to leave my – and what I had hoped to be a long career – to apply At the time I honestly thought that at to do a gap year with the Lancaste the age of 16 I had no choice but to Diocese Youth Service. The Really Wild Show! lapse. To me, faith was something for children and grown adults. Faith was So, to cut a long story short, I arrived at incompatible with being a young Castlerigg Manor last August to begin Adventure Weekend at Castlerigg person and it seemed to me that my training. And what I have discovered lapsing was a sad but inevitable fact. in this time has been amazing. The ost young people that come to Her brother, Charlie, 12, added, ‘I was I had no young Catholic role models to young Catholic world is alive and MCastlerigg come through their quite nervous about Castlerigg at ”rst but look up to and I genuinely thought that kicking. It is small and ever so slightly schools in organized trips. But through everybody were so nice and friendly when we I had no choice but to let my faith underground but it's there! To have the the year there are opportunities for arrived that I soon forgot any worries. The dwindle away. No sooner than I had support of other people my age in our young people who have been on these only thing is that I wished we could have decided this, I knew I couldn't do it. I faith has been amazing. The young trips to make their own way to stayed for longer and done more things, but loved my faith too much! So I resolutely people who come through the centre are Castlerigg for open retreats. hope I will get a chance to come again. It was made the choice to remain a Catholic – able to see what I always wanted: a place good that we could get time to re ect even though I thought I would fail. I where faith is an integral part of our These experiences are particularly valued on our faith it has helped me a lot and would at least try. For many years daily lives, something to be rejoiced in by those young people in our parishes understanding more what being a Catholic afterwards, I was the only Catholic that and not judged, something that sustains who do not go to Catholic schools. At means to me’. I came in contact with in my day to day us rather than brushed o¡ as archaic Christmas and Easter we always run our life. Once I left college I began working and irrelevant. open retreats for those in Year 9 and Hannah and Rachel from Brampton, 14 as a watersports instructor teaching above, and for those in Years 7-9 we run and 12 years old, loved the scrambling sailing, windsur£ng and kayaking. I Please do not underestimate the an Adventure Weekend, an open retreat down the waterfalls: ‘Lots of high drops into lived at the centres I worked at and was challenges that young people have to with a twist. Here some of the young deep ponds. Thanks to Fr Philip for praying expected to work weekends. At my last face in this world when they turn against people explain what happened. Georgia, for a bit more rain than we had earlier in the centre I had to tell my boss at my the grain of society and seek God. It is a 13, from Claughton-on-Brock, writes, ‘I month the stream we scrambled down had interview that I would need the time o¡ struggle. Castlerigg Manor, for many, is loved my time at Castlerigg. I made some become a torrent. Returning to the Manor to get to Mass each weekend. She was the place that gave them their lives new friends and all the Castlerigg team were we were able to eat the bread we had made extremely taken aback by this and it back and supported and strengthened lovely and really helpful. I think it has helped earlier which had just come out of the oven. put her in a di¯cult situation but to her them. It is the place where they found me understand my faith a lot better. The The next day it was the feast of Corpus eternal credit she did her utmost to acceptance and love in an often times in the chapel were my favourite Christi and we celebrated Mass. We love make sure I had a couple of hours o¡ loveless world. because it was so peaceful, as I don't really Mass in the chapel. As it was the feast of each Sunday so I could get to Mass. I get that time anywhere else. All the games Corpus Christi there was adoration of the worked at this centre for 3 years Finally and most importantly, it is the were really good and tightened our bonds as Blessed Sacrament. Throughout the and in that time my faith increased place where they £nd Jesus and His love friends. Ghyll scrambling was one of the best weekend we were able to discuss our faith dramatically. It was incredibly hard at for them. I too have experienced that experiences of my life and I will never forget with each other. This is great because it is times. I didn't drive, so I would leave the this year and I know it will sustain me it. The instructors were really helpful and hard to do this with friends at school. Thank centre at 7.45 on a Sunday morning to wherever I go next in life. the friends I made calmed me down when I you to all the team from Castlerigg for an was scared’. amazing weekend’. www.catholicvoiceo ancaster.co.uk September 2012 + The Catholic Voice of Lancaster + 5

s part of the diocesan contingent that travelled to Dublin Afor the 50th Eucharistic Congress, ¢ve members of the Diocesan Youth Service were privileged to represent the One Bread diocese. Here, Rachel Turley, 21, o¦ers her reections of the experience.

“Well, what is a Eucharistic Congress? It is a place where people from all nations and ages gather together around a shared table to meet God present in the Holy Eucharist. We really did not know what to One Body expect when we booked our places for the trip as none of us had heard of the Eucharistic Congress before but by the time we left it is The Eucharistic safe to say we were all very glad that we had taken this opportunity! It was so inspiring and beautiful to see over 80,000 people gathered in one place through their love of the Eucharist. Through the week there were a lot of talks and workshops that you could visit with each Congress in Dublin day being led by a di¢erent theme. It was at times very busy but the beauty of God was to be seen everywhere. Wherever you walked, there would be someone who would come and say ‘hello’ and it was a fantastic experience to meet people with a shared faith from all over the world who were on ”re with their love of God.

One of the highlights was the celebration of the 3 Masses that we attended because it was the only time during the day that everyone would stop running around and going to di¢erent places and come together to celebrate Mass which is at the centre of our faith. We felt very privileged as young people on this trip, as everyone from Lancaster Diocese looked after us and made us feel very welcome.

By the end it felt as if we became like their children. There was a fantastic youth space at the Congress that helped us explore our faith on a deeper level and it was a place we could meet other young people from di¢erent cultures and share our views on how it is being a young person in the Catholic Church today. So all around it was an awesome experience and something that we will never forget! Thank you Lancaster Diocese”.

Paralympic Torchbearer Please support our was selected to be involved in the Paralympic Torch Relay Ibetween Stoke Mandeville and London. I got involved advertisers through being nominated by the charity that I have been working with for the past seven years. that support The charity is called Go Kids Go! and promotes independence for children in wheelchairs and as a wheelchair user myself I strongly the believe the best way to progress in life is to be independent, which, in my mind, as a young wheelchair user myself, gives someone who is coping with a disability the best and most Catholic positive step towards a happy and independent life. Voice of The charity is able to shape other people's futures, not just wheelchair users, but their families too. Independence is what motivates me to constantly try and empower myself and Lancaster celebrate victories, big or small because any step, even if it's just a little bit, can take you to a brighter more independent future.

It was an amazing honour for me to be part of such an momentous occasion. As a huge fan of the Paralympics, to be asked to be a part of it was just incredible for me. It's funny, because when I got the con£rmation e-mail to say I was a de£nite addition to the Paralympic Torchbearers I actually was on my way home from college and then when it £nally hit me that it was all real, I actually started crying to myself (but happy tears!) so it was an amazing moment for me.

For me to be able to be a part of such an occasion with so many inspirational people makes me strive to do more charitable and voluntary work. I now feel like everything is falling into place for me after some of the darkest times in my life, and my past belief that I couldn't get through it, I £nally realised what was important to me, which are three things:

• My faith in God and faith in everything that He has in store for me. • My drive and passion for helping others and being the best person I can possibly be. • My friends, family and the positive inŸuences that constantly remind me that life is precious, so you have to be grateful for the good things in life and focus on what is good in your life, and neglect the negative energy that may be thrown at you in your life. Maisie aged 18 from Fleetwood 6 + The Catholic Voice of Lancaster + September 2012 www.catholicvoiceo ancaster.co.uk Fr. Tad Pacholczyk - MAKING SENSE OUT OF BIOETHICS

hose who seek to justify abortion weeks of age, then taking a teratogen Toften try to minimize or deny the (causing embryo malformations) like humanity of the embryo. In a recent thalidomide would not raise any concerns, online forum, for example, one since no human being would be present to participant wrote: “I became a human be harmed by the drug. If there was no being at the point that my senses being that was human during the £rst functioned as those of a human being. trimester, then no disabilities would have Before that I was just a mass of cells.” occurred. But it is well known that the Another followed up: “A pile of cells in a most drug-susceptible time during woman's uterus is not a human being. It a pregnancy is the £rst trimester, lives o¡ of and is part of that woman's speci£cally between the 4th and 7th body.” The implication, of course, is that week of gestation. Most of the children a woman ought to be able to do what born without limbs were exposed to she wants with her body, including the thalidomide during this time, when removal of any particular “pile of cells” abortion advocates like to dissimulate that might pose a threat to her freedom. and pretend that no human being is actually present. Yet those cells are not posing a threat in the same way that cancerous tumor cells might. Instead, the cells of the embryo will upset her lifestyle by demanding that several months hence, she focus her The cells of‘ the embryo attention on a bubbly, gurgling baby, and then a few years later, on a young child are not “just” a pile of who needs an education, and then on a cells, but an orchestration boisterous and strong-willed adolescent of living humanity known transitioning into adulthood, and then, possibly, on grandchildren, and so on. as a human being, The cells of the embryo are not “just” a marvelously complex, pile of cells, but an orchestration of living humanity known as a human being, highly-ordered and marvelously complex, highly-ordered structured, growing, and structured, growing, expanding and expanding and developing developing in precise ways with each passing hour of intrauterine life. in precise ways with each passing hour of Embryos, of course, do not spontaneously transform into human beings at the intrauterine life. moment that their senses start to function, any more than they spontaneously transform into human beings at the moment that their kidneys ’ Each human being arises at fertilization start to purify waste, or their intestines and exists as a biological continuum start to process nourishment, or their thereafter: at the joining of the sperm heart starts to beat, or their limbs start to with the egg cell’s membrane, a move, or their brain begins to function, measurable depolarization occurs across each of which occurs at di¡erent that membrane that sets in motion a time-points along the embryo’s normal cascade of biochemical events and path of growth and development.

Bioethics changes that will continue in a stepwise, uninterrupted fashion leading to the adult The embryo’s growth and development taxpayer. Meanwhile, the egg, if simply The Embryo involves carefully choreographed left to itself in the absence of sperm, will biochemical steps and physiological manage to live but for a few hours, and changes that can be partially derailed by then die. Upon fusion with a sperm, That Grew Up certain drugs. In the late 1950s and early however, the egg qua egg no longer exists, 1960s, for example, the drug thalidomide and an embryo, a human being at the was prescribed to pregnant women as a earliest stage of his or her existence, cure for morning sickness, but was quickly genetically distinct from his or her mother, found to cause severe developmental will be simultaneously engendered and defects and malformations in the launched onto the trajectory of “growing newborn. Thalidomide's devastating up,” representing a new entity that can e¡ects resulted in the drug’s being live for more than a hundred years. Such banned worldwide, after more than embryos are £rst nourished in the 10,000 children had been born with major maternal womb, then at the maternal thalidomide-related problems, including breast, then at the family dinner table shortened or missing arms, hands and at fast food restaurants. Each of us extending from the shoulders, missing is precisely such an embryo who has been thumbs, and similar problems with the allowed to grow up. lower extremities, as well as abnormalities in the eyes, ears, heart, genitals, kidneys, and other organ systems. Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned his Philosophers and politicians will doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and sometimes argue that an embryo prior to did post-doctoral work at Harvard. He is a priest of the diocese of 8 weeks of gestation is not yet a human Fall River, MA, and being, and suggest that early abortions, serves as the Director embryo experimentation etc. should of Education at The therefore be acceptable. The thalidomide National Catholic drama of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s Bioethics Center. See makes it clear that if women were not www.ncbcenter.org pregnant with a human being prior to 8 www.catholicvoiceo ancaster.co.uk September 2012 + The Catholic Voice of Lancaster + 7

(Psalm 24.1) “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof ”

t’s just one year since Bishop “The way humanity treats the environment doing, she must defend not only earth, air The Celebrating Creation year has also ICampbell marked the start of in uences the way it treats itself, and vice and water as gifts of creation that belong to linked with the launch of CAFOD’s celebrating the richness of Creation versa. This invites contemporary society to a everyone. She must above all protect LiveSimply Award for parishes. Solidarity throughout Lancashire and Cumbria serious review of its lifestyle, which in many mankind from self-destruction” (CV51). is very much a Catholic principle. If you with a reection and walk at sunset in parts of the world is prone to hedonism and haven’t heard about the award have a Morecambe. Developed for the Diocese consumerism” (Caritas in Veritate [CV]51). Do we believe this? Would anyone know look at www.livesimplyaward.org.uk. It by its Faith and Justice Commission, the from our actions? encourages communities and individuals year has featured a wide range of talks, What does this mean for each of us here to commit to more sustainable living in indoor and outdoor events simply in Lancaster? These are big and challenging questions solidarity with people elsewhere and allowing us to be immersed in the that the diocese wants us to think about, with future generations. Might this be delight and splendour of God’s World. To help, we are warmly invited to hear and that it has to face itself. Lancaster something you could discuss in your Fr Sean McDonagh SSC, one of the world’s Diocese has already signed up to a joint parish? We all care about the planet, but the leading campaigners for justice on statement with Churches Together in challenge now is to reŸect on whether environmental issues, in Preston on Cumbria entitled God, Nature and Climate Sustainable Christianity is a free event there is a distinctive call to how Christians Saturday October 6th. His theme is Change. Some Catholic dioceses, notably on Saturday October 6th, 10am – think about the created environment. It Sustainable Christianity in which he will Westminster, have taken the next step and 1.45pm at Tabor, 169 Sharoe Green is so easy to be swept up in criticism of put Ÿesh on Pope Benedict’s assertion developed an environmental policy for its Lane, Preston PR2 8HE. Booking Vatican politics, yet there is much that is that “The Church has a responsibility leadership and individual parishes. Let us necessary: contact Maggie McSherry via thought provoking if only we look beyond towards creation, and she must assert this know whether you think Lancaster should e-mail at [email protected] or telephone the headlines. Pope Benedict himself says: responsibility in the public sphere. In so be following suit. 01524 383081.

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It's Lytham's om Ibison (Snr), President of TGarstang Catenians, hosted a Charity Barbecue at his home in Garstang on the evening of Friday, Trophy 29th June, 2012, to raise money the running of evening classes at the college for young deprived adults by or the ¢rst time in it's history Lytham the Christian Brothers College in FSt.Annes Catenian Circle has won the Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Province 10 Dennis Mather Trophy for 2011/12. Around 80 people, mainly Catenians and their ladies from Province 10 The Trophy which is keenly contested attended resulting in over £1000 being across the Province is awarded to the raised for the charity. Tom Rigby Circle with the best overall attendance and inter-circle visiting record during the year. Philip Scully

nder the spiritual leadership of Father Willie Moran, UPrior of Lough Rea Priory, Galway, and in the company of Sisters Mary Theresa and Mary Elisabeth of the Carmelite Convent, Preston, Fleetwood Circle 104 were joined by members of ‘The Friends of Carmel’ and Sister Marie of BBC’s ‘An Island Parish’ fame on their annual Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Fleetwoodians, Prestonians All present will treasure the memories of sharing and caring during the joyous week of prayer and Catenian fun. John Gildert and an Islander...

group of young people from the parish of St. John Athe Evangelist , Kirkham, recently visited Preston & District 144 Catenian brothers to receive their £40 grants from the Catenian Bursary Fund which helped towards their travel costs to Lourdes as part of the Lancaster Diocesan Pilgrimage.

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t Margaret Mary Parish, Carlisle, has was also in attendance. Unit 11, Robert Street, Scelebrated 50 years of worship, in Carlisle CA2 5AN their current parish church on Scalegate The weather was magni£cent and after Road, Carlisle The event was marked the celebration of Holy Mass the Bishop info @miltechelectrical.co.uk with the celebration of Holy Mass and the last surviving foundation member presided by Bishop Campbell. Current of the Parish Centre, Mr Billy McMillan, clergy were joined by 15 other formally opened the refurbished Parish Priests from around the Diocese and Centre surrounded by Past Parish further a¢eld. Priests, Parish Centre Management and members of the Knights of St Columba The Mayor of Carlisle his Worship with other guests. Wilson and his Consort also attended. It was the 1st o¯cial engagement of the A Hog Roast for 300 was then devoured Tel: 01228 594939 Mayor, who had been installed the while the adult throng were entertained Mob: 07856 686833 previous week. Councillor Stewart Young, and the children played on the parish and Deputy Leader of Cumbria County Council school grounds. Paul Lovell www.catholicvoiceo ancaster.co.uk September 2012 + The Catholic Voice of Lancaster + 9 Catholic Family History Society

Margaret Purcell, Chairman NW Group of the Catholic Family History Society presenting a copy of the new DVD to Dr Andrew Gritt, Director of the Institute of Local & Family History, UCLAN. Catenians Come Out To Play (And Pray!)

atenians from all over Province he NW Group of the Catholic Family History Society was were copied into a computer (very di¢erent to current models!) by C10 had a wonderful day out with Tdelighted to participate in a History Festival at the Christine and Stan Ackers. These books were later scanned by their families at Lisieux Hall, Whittle-le- University of Central Lancashire on June 23rd, organised by Mr & Mrs Ackers to produce a small number of CD. Woods, near Chorley, at their annual the Institute of Local & Family History. It was particularly Family Rally Day. appropriate as the Group was able to launch publically a DVD Over the last two years, the Catholic FHS has issued several CDs of the Parish Registers of St Mary & St Wilfrid’s RC Parish, of Parish Registers, which have been greatly appreciated by The day was blessed with sunshine and a Preston, 1768-1915 and to formally present copies of it to Dr family historians, with demand for more. For some time the NW cloudless sky, as Provincial President Tony Andrew Gritt, Director of the Institute and to Bruce Jackson, Group has wished that the Preston Registers could be made Halliwell and his wife Jenny welcomed a County Heritage Manager, Lancashire County Council. available in the same format. The wish has been granted in this couple of hundred participants and Guild Year through the outstanding work of Brenda & David Hustler. picnickers of all ages. The event started The Festival had been organised as part of the University’s with a Mass, followed by a drinks and contribution to the Preston Guild 2012 celebrations, so it was David was able to rescan the documents and Brenda undertook nibbles reception, and family picnics. most £tting that the DVD of the Registers of the oldest RC parish the mammoth task of compiling a new surname/events index. Children’s races and art competitions in in Preston was available on the day. The resulting DVD is a great tribute to the work of all the people the afternoon preceded a £ercely fought involved. Christine Ackers sadly died earlier this year and the adult contest, involving football, golf, The original transcribing of the Registers was commenced in publication is a £tting tribute to the work she did over many bowls and throwing the horseshoe, which 1988 by Margaret Purcell, Marie Sadler and Barry Frankland and years to make Lancashire RC records accessible to many people. was eventually won by Burnley Circle, with took over four years to complete. The transcriptions were Accrington a close second. eventually published as a series of soft-bound booklets which The new DVD is available on Genfair, price £7.50 +postage. Bernard Swarbrick

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he Preston Guild gives us the that the Guild is a perfect opportunity to Topportunities to unite when change preconceived stereotypical views working together. It also allows us to of young people. become part of a prestigious and long tradition. The Guild is the perfect time The Guild has been a signi£cant part of for young people across the whole of the Preston tradition for more than 800 the city to present their creativity and years, with famous and unique celebrations talents, in a way to help the rest of the held throughout the city. Because this is community with preparations to the our £rst Guild, we have been able to o¡er a forthcoming Guild. new perspective to an age-old tradition. The Guild has given us the opportunities Through Guild events, such as the to strengthen existing bonds with both Ecumenical service, we have made new our families and those in our church, who friends through recent teamwork. have celebrated previous Guilds. Teamwork is vital during Guild preparations, not just for young people, but for all The preparations to the forthcoming Guild citizens of Preston; as the Guild would not have been a huge eye-opener for us both, be possible without the cooperation of all as we have been able to witness the who are involved. The Guild gives young participation of the whole community, to people, like us, the opportunity to create another magni£cent procession. It celebrate our Catholic faith. To us, the has been encouraging to see our parish Guild means participation; enabling us to come together, to celebrate the festivities work together to spread our word, and at this time. It has been wonderful to see therefore have a voice. both old and young, Catholics and all other Christian faiths, working as one, to In today’s society, young people aren’t achieve a successful guild. For ourselves, it always presented or portrayed in the best makes us very proud to be Prestonians. of ways, in terms of the media. We believe Emily Read and Natalie Bonnick 10 + The Catholic Voice of Lancaster + September 2012 www.catholicvoiceo ancaster.co.uk DioceseAround the

L’Arche Communities are places where people can take time to explore who they are, not just what they can do. They are places of welcome where people are transformed by an intense experience of community life, relationship, disability and difference. To find out more about our life and how you can be part of our community in Preston contact: Brian Kelly, Community Leader, 71 Garstang Road, Preston, PR1 1LB 01772 251113 or [email protected] Welcome to Fr Masaki and Fr Osmond

r Osmond Aisbitt, Ulverston and Fr Masaki Narusawa, settled in the UK at the age of 17 years at which stage he did not FBlackpool have recently been ordained, in separate have any ‘faith’ at all. But working alongside a Baptist he was liturgies, by Bishop Campbell to the Catholic priesthood of invited along to fellowship meetings which ultimately led him to the of Our Lady of Walsingham (under being baptised into the . It was later whilst the patronage of Blessed John Henry Newman). preparing to do a dental degree that he discerned a vocation for priestly ministry, being ordained deacon in St Paul’s Cathedral The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was London in 1978 and as priest a year later and serving in North established in 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI through the Apostolic and West London for 6 yrs. “By the 1990’s I was ”nding that those Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus to allow Anglicans to enter aspects of the Church of England that originally had drawn me to- into the full communion of the Catholic Church whilst retaining wards it were now drifting away and the ordination of women raised much of their heritage and traditions. The Ordinariate, which issues in my mind”. From London Fr Masaki moved to Oldham and can be compared to a non-geographical diocese under its own later Fallow£eld where he served as an Anglican priest. In 2003 Ordinary, Mgr Keith Newton, a former Anglican bishop, exists to he resigned as a parish priest and moved to Blackpool where he promote the unity of all Christians with the Apostolic See, and was attached to St Paul’s, Marton. “The Catholic Church was faithfully to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the rich always calling me (and I spent a year as ecumenical student at Allen treasures of their own traditions. Hall Seminary while I was a theological student) but I just didn’t want to be ‘absorbed’, there are rich traditions within the Anglican church Both men had previously served as priests of the Anglican (liturgically, pastorally and spiritually) that are still very important Communion, both are married with children. to me. So the establishment of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham very much answered my prayers. We must always For Fr Osmond the £rst stirrings of a vocation came when he trust and be guided by the Holy Spirit”. Fr Masaki now leads a experienced the beauty of worship at St Nicholas’ Cathedral, small but growing Lancashire Ordinariate Group based at St Newcastle as a chorister then as an altar server and where he Bernadette’s Bispham, where he was ordained priest on June was later ordained to the Anglican ministry in 1962. From then 10th, and is hoping to become a bridge between Catholics on it has been ‘the gentle hand’ of God moving him on to the and Anglicans. ful£lment of his ministry with ordination to the diaconate in on May 26th and to the priesthood in The Catholic Voice welcomes Fr Osmond and Fr Masaki and St Mary in Furness, Ulverston on 2nd June. wishes them a long and fruitful ministry. And we thank their families for the love and support that they have provided “I had always prayed for the recovery of the unity of the Church and throughout their ministry and during their discernment and hoped for the day when corporate unity could be achieved. This formation for the Catholic priesthood. hope came true with the magni”cent action of the Holy Father in providing a way forward in Anglicanorum Coetibus” said Fr May He support us all the day long, Osmond. “Here at last, the Holy Father had opened a door through Till the shades lengthen N.D. which even married Anglican priests could be ordained in the woodland management-landscapes and trades Catholic Church (as Pope John Paul had done from 1992)”. and the evening comes, Based in Kendal, covering all areas in Lancaster Diocese “The church of England was no longer the church into which I was Fully qualified and insured All aspects of tree surgery undertaken ordained. The advent of women priests and the programme to make And the busy world is hushed, (tree felling, pruning, crown reduction, women would have made it impossible for me to function thinning, sectional felling, and the fever of life is over, windblown/damaged trees) any longer as a priest”. Fr Osmond is thrilled to be taking a full firewood available part in the life of the local catholic church, and has recently en- and our work is done. Nik: 07768321446 joyed the Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. What a ful£lment! No Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, wonder he says “I feel I have come alive again”. Diego: 07900616880 and a holy rest and peace at the last. The story is very similar for Fr Masaki who was born in Japan but Blessed John Henry Newman www.catholicvoiceo ancaster.co.uk September 2012 + The Catholic Voice of Lancaster + 11 DioceseAround the

Adams and Rev John Monk from Preston; while up North Bishop Rev Deacon Kevin Hickey RIP Pearson ordained to the permanent diaconate Rev Ron Dale 24-2-1923 to 22-5-2012 and Rev Kevin Hickey, The ‘MAGNIFICENT SEVEN’ were better versed in scripture and theology etc., than most of us priests evin was born in Orrell near Wigan and described himself and their dedication and spirituality gave a lot of priests (not Kas a product of St James’ parish. His accent still obviously all) a much needed ‘lift’. Vatican II brought to our diocese ‘Lanky’ took on a certain Cumbrian air due to his time in many graces and blessings through the permanent diaconate. Carlisle from 1947. He married Maisie at Our Lady and St Joseph’s, Carlisle, in that year and Kevin became a naturalised Kevin exercised his diaconate mainly in St Edmund’s parish in Cumbrian. Prior to his marriage he had joined a Lancashire Carlisle where his reliability, his care of the sick, the housebound Martin's regiment, the ‘Loyals’ in 1942 and served his country in North and those in any need became a source of many graces and The Funeral Directors 188, Tulketh Brow, Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston Africa and elsewhere in the ’39-’45 conict. blessings to north west Carlisle. His work was underpinned by a 1, Stonebridge Parade, Preston Road, Longridge profound prayer life. Tel. 01772-733007 or 01772-782121 Maisie was a tireless worker in the parish and drew Kevin into Proprietor W. Martin Wootton parish work while he was employed by British Rail before Kevin became more and more incapacitated and as his physical Dedicated and Blessed Chapels of Rest transferring to Carr’s Biscuits (later United Biscuits) where he was powers waned he was known for his resination and prayer life as Golden Charter Pre-Paid Funeral Plans a senior manager until his retirement in 1986. Apart from his also his support for Maisie and her colossal help and support to The complete funeral service work life his marriage to Maisie was a great encouragement to Kevin; what a sacrament they lived to the end! from a private family owned the parish of how to live out that great sacrament of matrimony. and run firm At our Mass this morning in front of the sanctuary Kevin is joined And so Kevin, keep any eye on Maisie and your family. Don’t by Maisie, his son Neil and wife Eleanor, their grandchildren forget to intercede for our diocese of Lancaster as we reorganise Joanna, Annabelle, Myles and great grandson Theo. in line with the recent review ‘Fit for Mission’ – Diaconate.

Kevin was fully involved in Catholic Action in various forms in the Epilogue City and spent many years in the KSC, Council 60, who were very A curious interest broke out in Cumbria into this new ‘thing’ in the active in Catholic Action in the ‘60s and ‘70s. About this time Roman Catholic Church. The local television ‘Border TV’ showed Kevin was part of the prayer groups organised by the Sacred great interest and interviewed the parish priest of Our Lady and St Heart of Mary sisters at St ’s Convent in Victoria Place. Joseph’s on the teatime programme ‘Border Lookaround’ which went The nuns between ’66 and ’68 were going through a drastic out at 6:15pm. It soon became obvious that the TV interviewer was examination of their own vocation in the light of Vatican II; a mysti”ed by this ‘historic event’ and wanted to know what deacons return to their original foundation by Pere Gaillac, and the new did, it was news to him: insights of the Council on religious life were an inspiration to the Church locally in Carlisle. The sister superior, Sister Gabriel Parish priest “you must have heard of the earliest deacons, people O’Reagan, was the person who spotted Kevin’s ‘potential’ to be a like the ”rst Christian St Stephen. great deacon and suggested that his name be forwarded to the Interviewer “Oh, I see, so Ron Dale and Kevin Hickey are going to be Bishop for training and ordination. martyred then?” Parish priest “I hope not just yet. You must have heard of some In the meantime Bishop Foley had put together a very talented famous deacons, people like St in Italy” team for the spiritual and intellectual preparation of men for Interviewer (face brightening) “O yes, was he one of the deacons, he service in the diocese, namely Mgr Paddy O’Dea, Fr Tom Hannon, preached to the birds didn’t he?” Fr Michael Tully and Sister Helen Moon. Then in one dramatic Parish priest (obviously a failure at conveying information on what week at the end of June 1983 Bishop Foley ordained to the deacons did) “Yes, but i hope to God our two are going to do more permanent diaconate Rev John Walton and Rev john O’Connell than preach to the birds!” from St Annes, Rev Terry Fagan from Morecambe and Rev Bill Rev Harry Holden

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CANONISED AND BEATIFIED MARTYRS LINKED TO THE PRESENT DIOCESE OF LANCASTER

CANONISED 1970 he persecution of Catholics in St John Boste, b Dufton, Westmorland TEngland and Wales in the sixteenth martyred Durham 24 July 1594 and seventeenth centuries came in Our St Edmund Arrowsmith SJ, b Haydock waves. The ¢rst wave started in Henry martyred Lancaster 28 August 1628 VIII’s reign when he created an Act of St Barlow OSB, b Manchester Parliament to make himself supreme martyred Lancaster 10 September 1641 head of the Church in England. From St John Plessington, b Dimples Hall, Garstang these years of his reign, there are seven martyred Chester 19 July 1679 canonized martyrs and thirty three St John Wall OFM, b Chingle Hall beati¢ed martyrs. Local martyred Worcester 22 August 1679 By a series of Statutes, successive BEATIFIED 1929 sovereigns and Parliaments from Bl Thomas Cottam SJ, b Dilworth Elizabeth 1 to George 111, sought to m 20 May 1582 prevent the practice of the Catholic Faith. Bl James Bell, b Warrington This persecuting legislation made its m Lancaster 10 April 1584 e¡ect felt in every aspect of human life. Martyrs Bl John Finch, Layman, b Eccleston Catholics lost, not only freedom of m Lancaster 10 April 1584 worship, but civil rights as well; their Bl William Marsden, b Goosnargh estates, property and often lives were at m Isle of Wight 25 April 1546 the mercy of an informer. Bl John Mason, Layman, b Kendal m Tyburn 10 Dec. 1591 It is chieŸy due to the labours of Cardinal Bl Thomas Somers, b Skelsmergh William Allen of Rossall, that the Catholic m Tyburn 10 Dec. 1610 Faith was not entirely stamped out in this Bl , Layman, b Skelsmergh country. Elizabeth I was £rmly committed m Tyburn 19 April 1602 to Protestantism and Allen himself, along Bl Thomas Tunstall OSB, b Whinfell, Kendal with many others, had been forced to m Norwich 13 July 1616 leave England in 1565. It became his Bl Richard Hayhurst, b Broughton intention to gather some of the English m Lancaster 28 Aug. 1628 Catholics who had been forced to scatter Bl William Ward, b Thrimby, Westmorland to di¡erent countries on the Continent m Tyburn 26 July 1641 and to provide them with facilities so that Bl , b Sedbergh they could continue their studies. When m Tyburn 7 Sept. 1644 the time came for the re-establishment of Bl John Pickering OSB, b Westmorland Catholicism in their home country, they m Tyburn 9 May 1679 would return. William Allen was convinced Bl William Harcourt SJ, alias (Waring, that the wave of Protestantism which m Tyburn 20 June 1679 had swept over the country was only Vere Barrow, b Weeton-cum Pres. temporary and that Catholicity would be restored. In order to supply this need he BEATIFIED 1987 founded the college at Douai (in modern Bl , b Cottam day northern France), since identi£ed with m Tyburn 12 Feb 1584 Bl John Sandys, b Lancashire m Gloucester 11 Aug 1586 Bl George Beesley, b Hill Chapel m Fleet St 1 July 1591 Bl Christopher Robinson, b Woodside, Carlisle m Carlisle March 1597 Bl Thomas Sprott, b Skelsmergh m Lincoln 1 July 1600 Bl OP, b Burnley m Lancaster 26 July 1600 Bl , b York m Lancaster 26 July 1600 Bl Thurston Hunt, b Rothwell, W. Riding m Lancaster 3 April 1601 Bl Robert Middleton SJ, b York m Lancaster 3 April 1601 Bl John Thules, b Whalley m Lancaster 18 March 1616 Bl Roger Wrenno, Layman, b Chorley m Lancaster 18 March 1616 Bl Edward Bamber, b Blackpool m Lancaster 7 August 1646 Bl John Woodcock OFM, b Clayton-le-Woods m Lancaster 7 August 1646 Bl Thomas Whitaker, b Burnley m Lancaster 7 August 1646 www.catholicvoiceo ancaster.co.uk September 2012 + The Catholic Voice of Lancaster + 13

his name. A constant stream of Boste denied being a traitor saying, “My days after sentence had been passed he Hall near Garstang. He was educated by Catholic literature appeared including function is to invade souls, not to meddle was taken through the Castle yard on the Jesuits at Scarisbrick Hall, then at the the Douay Bible in 1609 but these in temporal invasions.” According to way to his execution where St John Royal College of St Alban at Valladolid, works could not be printed in England Venerable Christopher Robinson, an eye Southworth, also imprisoned, placed and then at St Omer’s monastery in because of the penal laws. witness at the time, Boste recited the himself at a large window and gave him France. He was ordained in Segovia Angelus while mounting the ladder, absolution. Father Arrowsmith was then on the feast of the Annunciation 1662. It was not part of Allen’s original plan and was executed with extraordinary bound to a hurdle and dragged through to send over missionaries to England in brutality; for he was scarcely turned o¡ the streets to the gallows on the moor He returned to England in 1663 de£ance of the law but there were the ladder when he was cut down, so that overlooking the city where he was cut ministering to covert catholics in the practically no Catholic bishops left and he stood on his feet, and in that posture down after being brieŸy hung, drawn and areas of Holywell and Cheshire, often the clergy was rapidly dying out. In was cruelly butchered alive. His memorial quartered. After professing his love for his hiding under the name William order to save the catholic faith from is kept on the day of his execution, faith and allegiance to the Holy Father, his Scarisbrick. He was arrested in extinction he needed to send over 24th July. last words were Bone Jesu, Good Jesus. His Cheshire and imprisoned for two priests. The priests themselves knew it hand is now preserved as a in a silver months for being a catholic priest was a dangerous mission and they Edmund Arrowsmith was born at casket in St Oswald’s Church, Ashton-in- before his execution in 1679. could face persecution, the rack or Haydock, Lancashire in 1585. His parents Maker£eld. death. They could be convicted of high su¡ered for their faith in Lancaster Saint John Wall, O.F.M. was born in treason, for which the punishment was Castle and his grandfather died in prison. Saint Edward Ambrose Barlow was born Preston in 1620. He entered the English to be hanged, drawn and quartered. Edmund and his three other siblings were in 1585, the fourth son of Sir Alexander college at Douai in 1641, was ordained More than one hundred and sixty cared for by neighbours. It was di¯cult for Barlow, Knight of Barlow Hall, near a priest in 1645 and returned to his Douai priests are known to have been young men to escape abroad and many Manchester. He was educated at the homeland in 1648. In 1652, having put to death and many more su¡ered su¡ered hardship or were caught trying to Benedictine monastery of St Gregory, returned to Douai, he became a in prison as Confessors for the faith. reach the coast but in 1605 aged twenty, Douai and entered the English college at Franciscan friar, returning to the Yet such was the spirit which Allen Edmund was received into the English Valladolid, Spain, in 1610 but returned to mission in England in 1656. He laboured enthused in them that they rejoiced College at Douai. After his ordination Douai where his elder brother was a in Worchester where in 1678, after at the news of each successive in 1613 Edmund returned secretly to professed monk. Returning to England twenty two years’ ministry, he was martyrdom and sang a solemn Mass England and came back to Lancashire he resided mainly at Wardley Hall near arrested for refusing to take the oath of of thanksgiving. where he travelled the area on horseback Manchester and at Morley Hall in the supremacy and unsuccessful attempts and would stay overnight where there was parish of Leigh. He was preaching at the were made to implicate him in the Saint John Boste (Boast) was born at a hiding place, to bring the sacri£ce of the time when the Vicar of Eccles, clad in his supposed Titus Oates’ plot. He was Dufton in Westmorland about 1544. Mass to the people. During his mission surplice and accompanied by a mob of o¡ered his life if he would renounce his He became a Fellow at Queens’s work he baptised the future martyr St John around four hundred parishioners faith but John Wall refused and was College Oxford and converted to Wall. On the day of his capture he was armed with clubs and swords, came to executed at Redhill, Worchester for Catholicism in 1576. He left England warned of his betrayal and was caught as arrest him. Incarcerated at Lancaster being a Catholic priest. The long speech and was ordained a priest at he made his escape from the Blue Anchor Castle, he su¡ered the same fate as the he composed for his execution was in 1581. He returned as an active Inn on Hoghton Lane. He was taken to The other martyrs. Many of his have circulated among Catholics after his missionary priest to Northern England Boar’s Head and mistreated while his been preserved including his skull at death. Previously, his feast day was before he was betrayed to the authorities captors spent his nine shillings on drink Wardley Hall and a hand at Stanbrook observed within the Franciscan Order near Durham in 1593. Racked in the before the journey to Lancaster Castle the Abbey. on the date of his death, 22nd August. Tower, he was sent back to Durham next day. He was found guilty of being a It has been moved and is currently to be condemned by the Assizes. He priest and before his execution was put in Saint John Plessington, (also known as John observed on 12th July along with his was hanged, drawn and quartered at a dark hole and loaded with the heaviest Plesington, William Scarisbrick and William fellow friar and martyr, St John Jones, nearby Dryburn on 24th July 1594. irons so that he could not stand or lie. Two Pleasington) was born in 1637 at Dimple O.F.M. Jenny Phillips

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s I pulled the wrong way on the People are so grateful when we minister to Areins, and the poor mule carried me their needs. Sometimes a priest doesn’t The Joy of half-way into a big thorn bush in Peru, I even realize he has helped until a person thought “This is di¡erent!” As so often, mentions it years later. Providence and my guardian angel the Priesthood looked after me: the only things torn It’s humbling to have an insight into the were my trousers (slightly!) and my goodness of many parishioners, and dignity, and the trek to far-o¦ their generosity: some who want to be Canon Bob Horn villages continued. anonymous use you as a channel for their donations to others. You are accepted into Normally priestly life outwardly prosaic their lives and you make many lasting Ordained: 9th June 1963 (though not when you think what he really friendships. You become aware of how does at the altar or in other sacraments). many are praying for you as a priest. Currently: Parish Priest But there is nothing prosaic about the joy Thanks be to God. of being used by God to sustain people’s of Our Lady & St Edward, faith, hope and love when they are £nding Fulwood it hard, or reconciling them with God when they’ve carried a burden for years; their peace is part of the priest’s satisfaction. Visit of the relic of St John Vianney The Sacrament of Holy Orders: to Shrewsbury Cathedral

t John Vianney is better known as the Shrewsbury. The bishop’s intention was SCuré of Ars and is the patron saint of that it would promote the saint and lead Priesthood priests. He became internationally noted to increased numbers of vocations to the for his priestly and pastoral work in his priesthood. Bishop Davies preached on s a young priest I remember sitting and the ministerial priesthood are none the parish because of the radical the relevance of the Curé of Ars to the Ain the Church praying before the less ordered one to another, each in its own spiritual transformation of the world today and how Jesus Christ should Blessed Sacrament. The parish priest proper way shares in the one priesthood community and its surroundings. be the light of our lives. Over time, using had been on sick leave for some weeks of Christ”. the “words of absolution and healing that and suddenly it occurred to me that the This occurred because of his saintly life, only a priest can bring,” he became so Eucharist reserved in the Tabernacle The Sacrament of Holy Orders like all the his ongoing use of the sacrament of successful, that he had to spend up to 16 must have been consecrated at Mass by sacraments is a gift from God. It di¡ers confession, and his ardent devotion to the hours a day in the confessional just to £t me. This came as a shock. I suddenly in its very essence from baptismal Blessed Mary and Saint . in the numbers of people who wanted to realised that I had always just presumed priesthood and should in its own right be It was a great blessing and an honour to confess to him. “You have shown me the that one of the other priests was cherished and valued. To do otherwise is see the relic of his heart in Shrewsbury way to Ars. I will show you the way to responsible for this Real Presence of to fail to appreciate the Lord’s generosity. Cathedral on the 7th July. This had been heaven.” Saint John Vianney, Pray for us Christ. It may seem a little bizarre but I brought to the country at the request of and for our Priests. Amen. was ¢lled with an extraordinary sense of Whilst on pilgrimage in Lourdes I asked Mark Davies, Bishop of the Diocese of Christopher Massey, Kirkham wonder and unworthiness. This Real and some pilgrims to pray for vocations to the wonderful Presence of Christ had been priesthood. Afterwards, a good, practising brought about through my priestly Catholic mother came to me and said ministry. In fact if it were not for the that she felt that she couldn’t pray for presence of the priest in the community vocations. When I asked her why, she there would be no sacrament of replied that she wouldn’t want such a life reconciliation, no anointing of the sick for her son and so in conscience didn’t feel and no celebration of the Eucharist. that she could pray for this to be the life of some other mother’s son. Whilst I The priest has a unique and irreplaceable admired her honesty I was saddened by mission in the life of the Church. Indeed her inability to appreciate the greatness without the priest there would be no of the gift of priesthood and that the Church. Just as a human body needs to be sacri£ce involved was more than worth it. fed and nourished so the Eucharist feeds and nourishes the Church, the Body of This conversation crystalized my belief Christ. “The priest makes the Eucharist, the that the shortage of vocations to the Eucharist makes the Church.” To be a priest priesthood is essentially because of a is a great privilege and a gift from God. lack of faith. It is a symptom of our A gift for which no man, is worthy, and unwillingness to trust the Lord. When which reveals the great love and humility Jesus called The Twelve by the Sea of of Christ. Galilee he was calling them not only to a great adventure but also to great sacri£ce In the period after the Second Vatican and even martyrdom. Yet he still called Council there was a rediscovery of the them and he is still calling men today. priesthood of all the baptised. There was a greater realisation of the fact that When we pray for vocations we pray for we are all a priestly people called to generosity not just amongst our young communicate the presence of Christ to people but also in our own hearts, that we the world. This rediscovery was right and may all be open to the Lord’s call in every good. However it was accompanied by a aspect of our lives. To be able to say yes, perhaps unforeseen consequence, the regardless of who is being called. To devaluing of the ordained priesthood. The rejoice if a son or grandson has a priestly two priesthoods were perceived by some vocation. All of us must play our part as being in competition rather than being through prayer and sacri£ce to ensure complementary. Not everyone realised that the Lord of the harvest sends us that the ordained priest exists to help and workers to work in His vineyard. Priesthood enable all the baptised to live out to the is basically very simple. It is about prayer full their baptismal priesthood. and people, the love of God and the service of His people. What more noble The Vatican Council expressed this and ful£lling calling is there? Please pray relationship in its decree on the Church: and work for vocations to the priesthood “Though they di¢er essentially and not only and let us do so out of love for the Church in degree, the priesthood of all the faithful and with trust in Almighty God. Fr E Gribben www.catholicvoiceo ancaster.co.uk September 2012 + The Catholic Voice of Lancaster + 15

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3 children from the parishes of 1St Wulstan's and St Edmunds together with St Mary's recently received the sacrament of con¢rmation from Bishop Campbell.

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