September Intercom 2020 Part 1

September Intercom 2020 Part 1

Volume 50 CONTENTS Number 7 Intercom magazine is a Catholic pastoral and liturgical resource of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference © Veritas Publications, 2020 Cover photograph: Season of Creation © istockphotos.com. ARTICLES Covid-19 and an Ordinary Life 8-9 Mental Health 18 Orla Walsh Fr John Cullen The Cry of the Earth and 10-11 Post-lockdown, can the Church 20 the Cry of the Poor return to ‘business as usual’? Council for Justice and Peace Dr Aoife McGrath World Day of Migrants 12-13 Never Let a Crisis go to Waste 23 and Refugees Fr Michael Murtagh Fr Willie Purcell Belonging, Believing, Behaving 24-25 The End of Civil War Politics 14-15 Fr Billy Swan Barbara Walshe Radio Maria – Ministering 28 ‘Blessed are you when people 16-17 to a Digital Community insult you, persecute you and Fr Eamon McCarthy falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me’ Fr Paul Murphy REGULARS Apologetics: Dr Sean O’Leary 30-31 Lectio Divina: Fr Kieran O’Mahony 29 Book Review 19 Liturgy Preparation (including newsletter resources) 32-41 Crossword 21 Milestones 26-27 Editorial 5 New Resources: Fr Paul Clayton-Lea 46 Gazette and Mart 44-45 Parish Resource: Fr Chris Hayden 32 Get Connected 7 Prayers and Reflections for September 6 Leathanach don Cheiliuraí 42-43 The Liturgy Page: Fr Paddy Jones 33 Intercom • September 2020 3 Editorial Fr John Cullen A Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Shame Editor Intercom is a Catholic pastoral and istockphoto.com Photos: liturgical resource magazine published by Veritas, an agency established by the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Some of the content of Intercom, along with occasional resources not published in the printed edition, can be accessed for free, on www.intercommagazine.ie. A full digital subscription is also available. (Ten issues per year, including double issues for July-August and December-January.) Correspondence for the editorial board should be sent to the Chairperson, c/o Columba Centre, Maynooth, Co Kildare. The views expressed in the features, letters and book reviews are not necessarily those of the editor, nor do they necessarily express the official views of the Irish Catholic Hiroshima Peace Memorial Bishops’ Conference. ugust 2020 marked 75 years since nuclear bombs were detonated over Editor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombs, eerily codenamed Little Boy and Fat Fr John Cullen AMan devastated these cities, seared thousands of people to death and caused Email [email protected] life-long radiation damage. The bombing was called ‘a rain of ruin from the air’ by the Assistant to the Editor United States President, Harry Truman. Oisín Walsh Several countries continue to maintain, develop and enhance their nuclear Email [email protected] capability. The United States alone spent $35.4 billion on nuclear weapons in 2019. Catholic Communications Office, Pope John XXIII called for the disarmament of nuclear weapons in his 1963 Pacem in Columba Centre, Maynooth, Terris encyclical. Pope Francis firmly condemned the possession of Nuclear Weapons Co Kildare, Ireland Tel +353 (0) 1 505 3055 during a special Vatican conference on Nuclear Disarmament in 2017, saying that they Fax +353 (0) 1 601 6401 delayed and prevented peace on earth. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us how our health, environment and economics Design & Typesetting have suffered. The nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki give us a glimpse of the Colette Dower, Veritas Publications horror and consequences of the use of these weapons of mass destruction. Unlike the Printing: Walsh Colour Print, Kerry pandemic, we know what we have to do to prevent a nuclear attack. We are dilatory on this perilous issue. Circulation The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted by the United Subscriptions and change of address notifications should be sent to: Nations. 193 countries are members of the United Nations. 38 countries have signed Intercom Subscriptions and ratified the Treaty. Ireland joined the UN in 1958 and signed this Treaty in 2017, but 7/8 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1, Ireland has said that it will ratify it sometime in the future. This is unnecessary Email [email protected] procrastination. Ratifying this Treaty is Ireland’s call to stand tall with honour and Tel +353 (0) 1 878 8177 continue its unique contribution to world peace. Fax +353 (0) 1 878 6507 It requires that fiy countries ratify the treaty to have a normative standard of Annual subscription International Law against the possession and the development of nuclear weapons. Ireland: €70.00 (Each additional annual Maybe Ireland’s new role on the United Nations Security Council will be a voice of € subscription 24.50) influence on the necessity for nuclear disarmament in the world. Banks and financial € UK: stg £69.00 ( 77) (Each additional institutions also need to divest from supporting the huge network of companies that annual subscription stg£24.50/€27.25) produce or maintain nuclear weapons. Churches and all faith groups have a pivotal role Airmail: €87.00/US$90 (Each additional annual subscription €36.50/US$38) here as instruments of peace. ‘Whoever has ears to hear – let them listen’ (Mt 11:15). We Please make cheques payable to have failed this hearing test so many times … Veritas Company DAC Pope Francis visited Japan in 2019. He met two survivors of the Hiroshima nuclear attack at the Peace Memorial Park. The eloquent silence of his encounter with Yoshiko Advertising enquiries to Kasimoto and Kojí Hosokawo was profound. Pope Francis spoke a prophetic message [email protected] to an apparent deaf world: ‘The use of atomic energy for the purposes of war is a crime not Notices for Gazette to only against the dignity of human beings, but against any possible future for our common Email [email protected] home.’ 7/8 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1, Ireland Tel +353 (0) 1 878 8177 Fax +353 (0) 1 878 6507 Intercom • September 2020 5 Prayer for Grandparents Prayers and Reflections istockphoto.com Photo: for September Pope’s Intention for September Universal: we pray that the planet’s resources will not be plundered, but shared in a just and respectful manner Photo: istockphoto.com Photo: Lord Jesus, help families and society to value the presence and roles of grandparents. May they never be ignored or excluded, but always encounter respect and love. Help them to live serenely and to feel welcomed in all the years of life you give them. The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary – 8 September From the prayer composed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008 ‘Let all creation sing and dance and unite to make worthy for the Catholic Grandparents Association contribution to the celebration of this day. Let there be one common festival for saints in heaven and people on earth. Let 3 3 3 everything, mundane things and those above, join in festive celebration. Today this created world is raised up to the dignity Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Archangels – (John 1:47-51) – of a holy place for him who made all things. The creature is 29 September newly placed to be a divine dwelling space for the Creator.’ The three names of the Archangels end with the word ‘EL’ which St Andrew of Crete (650-740). Office of Readings means God. God is inscribed in their name and nature. They are God’s messengers. They bring God to us. 3 3 3 They remind us that God is closer to us than we are to ourselves. Angels always address us: Do Not Be Afraid. The Holy Name of Mary, (Luke 6:43-49) ‘A church that is a mother goes along the path of tenderness. It istockphoto.com Photos: knows the language of caresses and the gaze that knows compassion. Without this dimension it is solely a masculine church that sadly becomes a church of old bachelors, who live in isolation, incapable of love, incapable of fecundity. Without the woman, the church does not advance. This attitude of woman comes from Mary because Jesus willed it so.’ Pope Francis when he announced the new feast in 2018 of Mary, Mother of the Church 3 3 3 3 3 3 istockphoto.com Photo: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross – (John 3:13-17) – St Jerome – (Luke 9:57-62) – 14 September 30 September O faithful Cross you stand unmoved Jerome centred his life on God’s while ages run their course; Word. Jerome said: ‘Ignorance of foundation of the universe, the Scriptures is ignorance of Creations binding force. Christ.’ By carrying the Word of Liturgy of the Hours, hymn for the Feast, third verse God within us, we also carry eternity. Jerome said: ‘Seek to The Motto of the Carthusians learn on earth those truths founded in 1084 which will remain valid in Stat Crux dum in volvitur orbis . heaven.’ The Cross is steady while the world is turning. 6 Intercom • September 2020 Ms Brenda Drumm Communications Officer Catholic Communications Office Get Connected Columba Centre Maynooth Co Kildare Pointers on Being Parish on Social Media Email [email protected] ho is looking aer your parish social media and are you Wconfident that they know what they are doing? This is a question I have addressed in the past in this column but some recent postings on some parish social media accounts have promoted me to revisit the question again. When did you last take a look at your parish social media accounts? Do you check what content is being posted in the name of your parish? Do you have a posting policy for the platforms that your parish is on? Do those managing your Facebook page understand Church safeguarding policies when it comes to posting images of children? The reason I am coming back to this issue is because I have noticed a trend on some parish social media accounts in recent weeks and months.

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