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Ccrrryyyiiinnnggg Oouuuttt Tthhheee Ggooossspppeeelll Wwiiittthhh SSTT AANNTTHHOONNYY bbrriieeff IRISH FRANCISCAN MISSION MAGAZINE No.3 APR/MAY 2007 €1.00 CCrryyiinngg OOuutt tthhee GGoossppeell WWiitthh MMyy LLiiffee RReelliiggiioonn iinn tthhee CCrroosssshhaaiirrss LLiivviinngg LLiiffee oonn tthhee EEddggee TThhee TThhrreeee LLaawwss ooff tthhee UUnniivveerrssee On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. – Douglas Horton Spirit and Life 2 St Anthony Brief SSTT ANTHONANTHONYY briefbrief 4 From the Editor. Crying Out the Gospel with My Life. ANALENA TONELLI, an 5 Italian lay missionary, gives her extraordinary testimony of serving those most in need in Africa for many years. Living Life on the Edge. SR BOZENA STENCEL, FMM, chose 8 to live with those on the margins of society in Manaus, Brazil. The Light Shines Out in the Darkness. What has been taking 10 place in the Franciscan parish of Medjugorje has been the source of much discussion. FR THOMAS RUSSELL, OFM, believes the hand of God is there. 12 Church Brief. Prophets of Peace. JEAN VANIER, founder of L’Arche 13 Community, sees the way to peace marked out by the simple and humble. Religion in the Crosshairs. FR JOHN FLYNN looks at recent 14 attacks on religious belief. Religion is Good for You. FR FRANCIS COTTER, OFM, looks at 16 the benefits of authentic religion. 19 Pope John Paul on Mary’s Easter Joy. A Franciscan Treasure. Fr PAT CONLAN, OFM, continues the 20 story of St Anthony’s College, Louvain. 22 News from Around the Franciscan World. The Franciscan Contribution to Ireland’s Story. The Taoiseach, 23 BERTIE AHERN, praises the great contributions Franciscans have Volume 67 No.3 made to Irish culture and scholarship. Missionary Magazine of the Irish Franciscans. Published bi-monthly by the Franciscan Missionary Union, The Greatness of Silence. FR KIERAN CRONIN, OFM, reflects 8 Merchants Quay, Dublin 8. 24 on the richness of silence. Cover: Sr Paul, Poor Clare community, Cork. Editor: Fr Ulic Troy, OFM. The Three Laws of the Universe. FR GEARÓID Ó CONAIRE, Production: Fr Francis Cotter, OFM. 27 OFM, sees the need for a new vision of our place in the world. Subscription & Distribution Secretary: Helen Doran. Tel: (01) 6777651. Design, Layout & Printing: Mission Digest. Corcoran Print & Design. Tel: (053) 9234760. 30 Subscription including Postage: God and the Poor. FR ANDREAS MULLER, OFM, reflects on how Ireland – €12.00 per annum 31 the Christian response to the poor comes from our understanding of God. Britain – Stg£10.00 per annum Overseas – €15.00 per annum April/May 2007 3 From the Editor… SUFFERING SERVANT Lent is a special time in the life of a Christian and in the life of the Church. It is a time to be with Christ in a special way. It is a time to pray, to fast, and to follow Him on His way to Jerusalem, to Golgotha, and to the final victory over death. It is a time when we make a conscious effort to stop listening to those voices that speak about prestige, success, glamour, human respect, pleasure, power, and influence. It is a time when we strive to follow and choose the narrow road. Lent is also a time when we try to reach out to other people, to those who are sick and to those who are burdened with one trouble or another. On Holy Thursday we have the marvel- lous example of Christ Himself, at the Last Supper, taking a towel and washing the feet of Fr Ulic Troy His own disciples. In this simple act of washing their feet, He was pointing out the way and telling His disciples in very clear terms – men who at that time were wondering and arguing among themselves as to who would be the greatest in His kingdom – that this was the road to follow. The road of service was the correct, true and only road. On that Holy Thursday night when Jesus took a towel and started washing the disciples’ feet, He deliberately demonstrated humility (service) to be the mark of both the individual who followed Him, and of the Church that He established. There could be no room for arrogance or pride. He pointed out that there could be no ministry of reconciliation where arrogance is manifested, and there could be no ministry of healing possible if those seeking to be channels of God’s power lacked humility. Arrogance, whether encountered in a politician, preacher or any crusading group, is simply unacceptable. Some weeks back I visited our missionary friars who are ministering in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Lusaka (Zambia). Here, at first hand, I witnessed men who are ministering and collaborating with other religious sisters – Franciscan, Mercy, Charity and committed lay people, in bringing Good News to people who are suffering in one form or another. In the places that I visited, I witnessed people who are suffering from Hiv/Aids and other diseases receiving medical care and attention. I witnessed young orphans being cared for and educated. I saw, at first hand, how young mothers were being trained in different skills, in order to provide some form of income for themselves and their children. I looked at plans, in the making, to provide housing for people who cannot afford it. I witnessed the formation of young Franciscan men and Poor Clare sisters in the religious and priestly way of life, who will carry the message of Sts Francis and Clare to their own people. But above all else, I witnessed people receiving food, care, support, so that they could live. Sadly, many of these people are living in conditions and situations brought about by selfishness, arrogance and pride. All of those friars, sisters and lay people had simply one request to make. They asked that I would convey their sincere thanks to you, and to all who support their work by prayer and financial contributions. They are deeply conscious that the work they do could not take place without your help and support. In this issue of St Anthony brief I thank all of you for your financial and prayerful support of these men and women who are reaching out and who “wash the feet” of so many people. I thank you for your wonderful generosity and pray that the Lord will bless and reward you in many ways. – Ulic Troy, OFM Our cover photo: Sr Paul, a member of the Poor Clare community in Cork. It was sent by Sr Colette-Marie. Sr Paul is from Portumna, Co Galway. She joined the Poor Clares in 1940. A diamond jubilarian, she is still going strong! Our thanks to all those who sent photographs for this issue’s cover. 4 St Anthony Brief Crying Out The Gospel With My Life ANALENA TONELLI, an Italian lay missionary, gives her extraordinary testimony of SOMALIA serving those most in need in Africa for many years. y name is Analena Tonelli. I was born in Forli, Italy, on 2nd April MM1943. I left Italy in January 1969. Since then I have lived serving Somalis. These have been years of shar- ing. I have almost always lived with the Somalis, first with the Somalis of north- west Kenya, and then with the Somalis of Somalia. I decided to be for other people — the poor, the suffering, the abandoned, the unloved — when I was a little girl and this is what I have been and will continue to be until the end of my life. I wanted to follow only Jesus Christ. Nothing else interested me so strongly: He and the poor in Him. For Him, I chose radical poverty. I live at the service of others without a name, without the security of a religious order, without belonging to any organisation, without pension payments being paid on my behalf for when I am old. I did not marry because this is what I chose with joy to do when I was young. I wanted all of myself to be for God. I have friends in Italy and elsewhere who have helped me and my people all these years. Everything that I have done I April/May 2007 5 have been able to do thanks to them. made my life a heaven on earth during six months. I decided to invite the The needs are great. I thank God for my 17 years in the desert, left me after nomads to come to a piece of the having given such friends to me and for I was forced to leave Kenya. That was in desert in front of the Rehabilitation continuing to give them to me. 1984. The government of Kenya tried to Centre for the Disabled. We called it TB commit genocide against a tribe of Mamyatta. For six months the adminis- An Unconquerable Passion nomads who lived in the desert. They tration of the medicines was absolutely I left Italy after six years of service to wanted to exterminate 50,000 people; regular — something that was almost a the poor in one of the slums of my city they managed to kill 1,000. I of birth: the children of the local managed to prevent the foundling hospital, the mentally handi- massacre from being carried capped children and the victims of to its completion. For this major traumas in a family home, and reason, I was deported a year the poor from the Third World. I later. Some 16 years have thought that I could not give of myself gone by and the government totally if I stayed in my own country: of Kenya has publicly admit- the boundaries of my action seemed to ted its responsibility, has me so tight, so suffocating.
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