Lord, Let Glasgow Flourish by the preaching of Thy Word and the praising of Thy Name FEBRUARY 2016 JOURNAL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GLASGOW 70p Royal’s SCIAF’s Face E D face of Wee Box of an I S mercy angel N I page 5 pages 6 –7 page 11 Don’t just give up, but live MERCY this Lent In the Year of Mercy, POPE FRANCIS calls for the season of Lent, which begins with Ash Wednesday on 10 February, to be lived more intensely as a privileged moment to celebrate and experience God’s mercy. Presenting Mary as the “perfect icon of the Church which evangelises” he invites the whole Church to listen more attentively to God’s voice and be prepared to put into practice the corporal and spiritual works of mercy GOD’S mercy transforms It is the unprecedented and scan - human hearts. It enables us, dalous mystery of the extension in through the experience of a time of the suffering of the Innocent faithful love, to become mer - Lamb, the burning bush of gratu - This illusion can also be seen in itous love. Before this love, we can, the sinful structures linked to a Jade Tobia of St Thomas ciful in turn. Aquinas Secondary, like Moses, take off our sandals, es - model of false development based Jordanhill, working on In an ever new miracle, divine pecially when the poor are our on the idolatry of money, which the banner which she mercy shines forth in our lives, in - brothers or sisters in Christ who are leads to lack of concern for the fate will help to carry at the spiring each of us to love our neigh - suffering for their faith. of the poor on the part of wealthier Catholic Education Week bour and to devote ourselves to what In the light of this love, which is individuals and societies. They close Mass in St Andrew’s the Church’s tradition calls the spir - strong as death, the real poor are re - their doors, refusing even to see the Cathedral itual and corporal works of mercy. vealed as those who refuse to see poor. These works remind us that faith themselves as such. They consider For all of us, then, the season of finds expression in concrete every - themselves rich, but they are actu - Lent in this Jubilee Year is a Creative art of Catholic teaching day actions meant to help our neigh - ally the poorest of the poor. favourable time to overcome our ex - bours in body and spirit: by feeding, This is because they are slaves to istential alienation by listening to AN urgent appeal for more Catholic The Archbishop, who is president visiting, comforting and instructing sin, which leads them to use wealth God’s word and by practising the teachers to apply for posts within of the Scottish Catholic Education them. On such things will we be and power not for the service of God works of mercy. Catholic schools has been issued as Service, also invited more young judged. and others, but to stifle within their the Church in Scotland marks people to pursue teaching “as a vital For this reason, I express my hope hearts the profound sense that they Touching Catholic Education Week. career choice”. that the Christian people may reflect too are only poor beggars. In the corporal works of mercy we Drawing attention to a shortage of Catholic Education Week runs from on the corporal and spiritual works The greater their power and touch the flesh of Christ in our teachers and headteachers, Sunday 31 January to Saturday 6 of mercy. wealth, the more this blindness and brothers and sisters who need to be Archbishop Philip Tartaglia stated: “I February. On Monday 1 February, deception can grow. It can even fed, clothed, sheltered, visited. In the appeal to Catholic teachers who are secondary schools from across the Reawaken reach the point of being blind to spiritual works of mercy – counsel, not currently working in Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow will be This will be a way to reawaken Lazarus begging at their doorstep. instruction, forgiveness, admonish - schools to seek an appointment in a represented at a Mass in St Andrew’s our conscience, too often grown dull Such blindness is often accompa - ment and prayer – we touch more di - Catholic school.” Cathedral led by Archbishop in the face of poverty, and to enter nied by the proud illusion of our rectly our own sinfulness. Inviting them to seek a transfer Tartaglia. more deeply into the heart of the own omnipotence. The corporal and spiritual works from their council employer, he Each school will carry a banner Gospel where the poor have a spe - This illusion can take social and of mercy must never be separated. stressed: “We urgently need created by their pupils illustrating cial experience of God’s mercy. political forms, as shown by the to - By touching the flesh of the cruci - committed Catholic teachers to be something of the rich diversity within For in the poor, the flesh of Christ talitarian systems of the twentieth fied Jesus in the suffering, sinners working in Catholic schools. This is a their learning community. becomes visible in the flesh of the century, and, in our own day, by the can receive the gift of realizing that critical issue which may have I tortured, the crushed, the scourged, ideologies of monopolizing thought they too are poor and in need. significant consequences if we Learning to be the malnourished, and the exiled… and technoscience, which would Let us not waste this season of cannot produce more teachers soon. Merciful – centre pages to be acknowledged, touched, and make God irrelevant and reduce Lent, so favourable a time for con - cared for by us. man to raw material to be exploited. version! 2 NEWS FEBRUARY 2016 • FLOURISH Archbishop ’s Pope invited to Scots College 400th POPE Francis has been FEBRUARY 2016 By Vincent Toal Archbishop Cushley enjoying his diary invited to the Pontifical chat with Pope Francis Monday 1st: Catholic Scots College in Rome to ing the Reformation, could not Education Week Mass for help mark the 400th an - receive a Catholic education at Secondary Schools, St home. There was no stipula - Andrew’s Cathedral (7pm) niversary of its existence tion of training to become priests. Tuesday 2nd: Feast of as a seminary. On 10 March 1616, on the Presentation Mass for The invitation was issued first anniversary of the mar - Religious, St Andrew’s on behalf of the Scottish bish - tyrdom of John Ogilvie in Cathedral (1pm) ops by Archbishop Leo Glasgow, its life as a seminary Thursday 4th: Meeting at Cushley of St Andrews & began. SCES (10am); Visit to St Edinburgh during a 40 minute Columbkille’s Primary, audience with the Pope on Oath Rutherglen (1.40pm) Monday 18 January. Having heard an account of Saturday 6th: Mass in “The Pontifical Scots the Jesuit priest’s death, some College has a truly remarkable 15 young men are said to have Turnbull Hall (9am); history and, so, it would be taken the mission oath, pledg - Cardinal Winning Lecture wonderful if Pope Francis ing to study for the priesthood (10am) could join us as we celebrate and return to Scotland upon Monday 8th: Meeting of the that past with pride while ordination. Episcopal Finance looking to the future with From then until today, hun - Committee (11am) great confidence and trust in dreds of seminarians have Friday 12th: Lenten Station the Lord,” said the passed through its doors with Mass, St Alphonsus, Calton Archbishop. many offering years of faith - The college was founded in ful service in Scotland and the historic milestone. celebration in the college and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (7pm) 1600 by Pope Clement VIII to elsewhere as priests. Fr Daniel Fitzpatrick, rector honours its special ties with (Pope Benedict XVI) gave Sunday 14th: Rite of provide an education for Celebrations are planned of the college, said: “It would the Jesuit community in talks at the college in the Election, St Andrew’s young Scotsmen who, follow - throughout the year to mark be a great honour for the col - Rome. 1990s but never visited during Cathedral (3pm) lege and for all the young men As this year’s feast falls on his papacy. Tuesday 16th: Lenten studying with us if Pope a Thursday when students Among today’s students are Station Mass, St Joseph’s, Francis is able to join us to have classes, the college will Glasgow seminarians Andrew Helensburgh (7pm) mark 400 years of priestly for - mark the anniversary formally McGowan and Edward Toner, mation. on Saturday 12 March. while Glasgow priest Fr Thursday 18th: Ordination “I am sure the Holy Father’s Gerald Sharkey is the college of Fr Brian McGee as Bishop presence would be a great John Paul II vice rector. of Argyll and the Isles, St blessing to the College, a In living memory, two Last year, on the 400th an - Columba’s Cathedral, Oban source of encouragement for popes have visited the college niversary of St John Ogilvie’s (7pm) our seminarians and an inspi - – Blessed Pope Paul VI, who death, Pope Francis sent Friday 19th: Lenten Station ration to other young men to formally opened the present Cardinal Cormac Murphy Mass, St Maria Goretti’s, join them here in Rome to building on the northern out - O’Connor as his legate to Cranhill (7pm) continue the long tradition of skirts of Rome on 16 Glasgow following an invita - Glasgow seminarian Edward Toner welcomes guests to the the Pontifical Scots College.” November 1964; and St Pope tion from Archbishop Philip Sunday 21st: Ecumenical Scots College Burns Supper with a portrait of John Ogilvie’s The Feast of St John John Paul II who made a pas - Tartaglia to attend the com - Service for Glasgow Old martyrdom in the background Ogilvie is marked with fitting toral visit on 3 June 1984.