SINCE FEB 11,1869 THE CATHOLIC WEEKLY O F SRI LANKA NATIONAL LAITY SUNDAY 1ST MAY ST. JOSEPH DIVINE MERCY THE WORKER "REGISTERED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF POSTS OF SRI LANKA UNDER NO. QD / 17/ NEWS / 2011" MAY 1 Sunday 01 May 2011 Vol 144 No 17 16 Pages Rs: 20.00 Registered as a newspaper “Re-entry of Church Beatifies Worker-Pope on May Day God into atican City (CNS) - history….” VThe Vatican has the deceased pope’s praised his predecessor Christ’s death on the released a three-day Vaticanremains spokesman, will be in the said Benedict XVI warmly cross was not so much schedule of events for address, holding him up as physical death as much the beatification of Pope originally was buried in Popea example John ofPaul faith II in amid an as death to one’s self love, John Paul II and warned casket2005 and in which will not he be Western indifference to Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith people against buying visible. Christianity. said in his Good Friday counterfeit tickets to the Homily. “Indeed what Je- beatification liturgy, sus did was exactly that – reinterred in the Chapel of “For all the shame we feel which is free and open to die on the wood of the St TheSebastian casket on will the be main overPope our Benedict failings, saidthe that, to all. Cross in order to cause world must not forget the the death of death itself. in a “private” ceremony, radiant examples of faith.” preside over the levelwhich of will St Peter’s occur onlyBasilica after “His self abnegation Pope Benedict XVI will the large crowds have - stopped coming to pay tive re-entry of God into The Pope cited John beatificationSquare. Immediately Mass at 10after their respects, Fr historygives way and to ofthe eternity. defini Paul after reflecting in his a.m.,Mass, May the 1,faithful in St Peter’s can pray Lombardi said. - homilyWest seemed in St. Peter’s tired of their ter that sprouted from He said that a prayer faith, bored with their mortal remains, which Basilica that people in the His“The pierced Blood andside the[cfr. Wa Jn. vigil will be held the night Christian traditions “and beforewill be Popeset in John front Paul’s of the - tism and the Holy Eucha- faith in Jesus Christ.” The morning after the rist,19:34], the symbolisesacraments Bapthat before the beatification. no longer wish to know main altar in St Peter’s The veneration “will Basilica. in us life and love to their beatification, Cardinal “When Pope John Paul II stimulate us to make real- Tarcisiowill celebrate Bertone, a Mass the of is beatified on May 1, we sion. continuesaid. until the flow of Vatican secretary of state, shallas a great think witness of him withto God Waterfullest andsymbolising finest expres life faithful ends,” the Vatican Distributing the Square. heartsand Jesus full Christ of thankfulness in our and blood symbolisng programme, Jesuit Fr thanksgiving in St Peter’s love. Life and love are in- Federico Lombardi, the tertwined on the Cross. day,” Pope Benedict said. On Holy Thursday, Pope O Sacred Wood of the Cross, which bore our “Religious leaders doing Blessed Saviour, “Resurrection is the Take us to Him, our life their best under the and salvation. Amen. hope of everlasting joy” circumstances” Editor, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith at Easter Triduum Daily News fter all, the Cross “A was not the end of cause” of the world, be- the story. Indeed it was causewho is Hisnot aonly-begotten remote “first the beginning of a new Son has become man and History – the dawn of an of Him everyone can say: era of hope. The new com- “I live by faith in the Son munity of those called to of God, who loved me and discipleship in Christ, in gave Himself for me” [Gal. spite of the many suffer- 2:20]. ings and depravation it “In other words had to undergo became - God’s merciful love for is Eminence, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith a community of hope, be- dict’s encyclical on hope Haddressing the Inter-religious Council of cause in the resurrection Spereflected Salvi, onwhere Pope the Bene Holy suffered and died is that Jaffna, on a recent visit to the North, as part of a ynn Ockersz assumed of Jesus, there was hope Father states, “Through whichus which gives assumed us a true senseflesh, delegation from the Congress of Religions said, Lduties recently as Editor of the Daily News. Ockersz of an everlasting joy.” Him (Jesus) we have be- of hope. Else life itself that religious leaders were doing their best who counts almost 30 years This was stated come certain of God, a God under the circumstances to perform their duties (Continued on pg. 3) as a print journalist holds a by His Eminence Malcolm to the people with whatever freedom for action BA Special Degree in English Cardinal Ranjith presiding PRAYERFUL GREETINGS ! that was bestowed on them. with Sinhala as his at the Easter Triduum, last Subsidiary subject from the Sunday at St. Lucia’s Ca- After having listened to complaints from University of Kelaniya. thedral Kotahena. several displaced persons, families and members of He also holds a “It does not mat- the Council, His Eminence expressed that though he ter if the Christians lost ev- International Affairs from erything here on earth in- Post-graduate Diploma in cluding life itself but Jesus’ issuescould notraised make by any the promises different asgroups the situation met by wasthe for International Studies, delegationcomplex, he withwould thehowever, relevant take upauthorities the different in the Bandaranaike Centre the South. Fellow of Wolfson College evil and death re-assured Colomboof the andUniversity is a Press. of them,definitive of a newovercoming and eternal of Prayerful greetings on We record the Episcopal The delegation consisted of His Eminence, Cambridge. hope of something great, the Patronal Feast of Ordination of His Lordship Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, Most Rev. Dr. Ittapane greater even than anything His Lordship Bishop Rt. Rev. Dr. J. Kingsley website Emeritus, Rt. Rev. Dr. Elmo Swampillai Bishop of Emeritus, Most Rev. Dr. Oswald Gomis and members www.colombocatholicpress.lk earth, because Jesus, their Joseph Noel Perera Trincomalee/ Batticaloa ofDhammalankara the Muslim, Hindu Anunayake religions Thero, and the Archbishop Methodist belovedone could Lord find overand hereMaster on on 1st May. on 7th May. Email: had shown it to them.” (Continued on pg. 3) [email protected] Ad Multos Annos! [email protected] His Eminence then Church of Sri Lanka. The Messenger 01 May 2011 2 New Eight fishers of men for the shores of Colombo Cistercian In the year of his primary education born on 23 June 1981, and Hingurakdamana charist at St. Anne's the Eucharist, nine at Christ the King, Col- and educated at the Maha Vidyalaya. He Church, Weligampitiya Priest new priests will be or- lege, Tudella and his Pitipana Maha Vidya- joined St. Aloysius on Sunday 8 May 2011, dained from the Arch- secondary education laya. Seminary, Borella in at 8.00 a.m. diocese of Colombo. at De Mazenod College He joined St. 1999 and completed Aloysius Seminary, Out of the nine Rev. Kandana. his philosophical and Borella in 1996 and theological studies at Brothers, eight are He joined St. completed his philo- deacons from the Co- Aloysius Seminary, sophical and theo- the National Seminary, lombo Archdiocese. Borella in 1997. He logical studies at the Ampitiya. One other Brother is completed his philo- National Seminary, He will cel- from the Cistercian sophical and theo- Ampitiya. ebrate the First Eu- Order. logical studies at the He will cel- charist at St. Mary's They will be National Seminary ebrate the First Eu- Church, Matugama on ordained by His Emi- Ampitiya. charist at St. Mary's Sunday, 8 May 2011, at nence, Malcolm Car- He will cel- Church, Pitipana on 8.30 a.m. dinal Ranjith, at St. ebrate his First Eu- Sunday, 8 May 2011 at 5.00 p.m. Lucia's Cathedral, Ko- charist at St. Mary's Rev. Bro. Lawrence tahena on 7 May 2011, Church, Tudella on Lynslie Dileep at 9.00 a.m. Sunday, 8 May 2011, Rev. Bro. Don Terrance Edirisinghe at 8.30 a.m. Prasangaviraj Is the son of Is the son of late Prins Edirisinghe Kariyawasam Athuko- and Anasta Ediris- ralege Don John Jo- inghe of Dalugama. seph and Gamage Mary He was born on 21 Brenda of Hanwella. October 1976. He He was born on 13 Oc- obtained his prima- tober 1982. ry education at St. He obtained his Benedict's College, primary education at Kotahena and his Rev. Bro. Indunil the Roman Catholic Rev. Bro. Don Sajith Sampath Perera secondary education School, Pahathgama, Aruna at Royal College, Co- Hanwella and his sec- Is the son of Li- lombo. Rev. Bro. Priyanal Is the son of ondary education at yanage Joseph Michael In 2001 he Asantha Fernando Don Noel Linus and Constantine Perera and the John Bosco Col- joined the Holy Cross Rev. Bro. Ruwantha Sangapala Arachchi- Vitharanage Francis lege, Hanwella. Is the son of Kumara Fernando lage Dona Marie Swar- Fernando of Ja-ela. He He joined St. Cistercian Monas- Hettiyakandage Wil- nakanthi of Enderam- was born on 27 Febru- Aloysius Seminary, tery, Austria. In 2003 ulla. He was born on 3 fred Harold Fernando Is the son of ary 1982. He is an old Borella in 1998. He he took his First October 1983. and Muttuthanthrige Dodampahalage Alson boy of De Mazenod Col- completed his philo- vows. He completed He is an old lege, Kandana. Mary Margaret Fernan- Joseph Fernando and sophical and theo- his philosophical and boy of St.