Front cover 1:Layout 1 10/9/18 18:28 Page 1 September 2018 OzanamNews It is our vocation to set people’s hearts ablaze, to do what the Son of God did, who came to light a fire on earth in order to set it ablaze with His love. -Frederic Ozanam PAGE 2:PAGE @ 11/9/18 17:18 Page 1 September 2018 OzanamNews It is our vocation to set people’s hearts ablaze, to do what the Son of God did, who came to light a fire on earth in order to set it ablaze with His love. -Frederic Ozanam COUNCIL OF SCOTLAND SSVP national meeting Sr Agnes McGarvie Na+onal Spiritual Adviser See page 4 James McKendrick Who is Na+onal President Trustee Charles O’Neill James Heneaghan Na+onal Treasurer - Page 8 Trustee Richard Steinbach Trustee St Andrews & Edinburgh Twinning - Page 10 Joe Maguire GET INVOLVED! We want to bar and your full contact details. Trustee know what your conference is up Please provide full caption details Glasgow to. If you have a story, share it. for photos. We do not accept The Ozanam News relies on your paper submissions. Articles Daniel Collins contributions. Send articles and should be written by email or Trustee images (jpg or png format only, attached as a Word document. Paisley no PDFs) to communication@ If you need help please contact John Joyce ssvpscotland.com. Put the name the SSVP national office on 0141 Trustee of your conference in the subject 226 8833. Dunkeld Next publication deadline is Thursday 1 November 2018. Publishing Policy Elizabeth Herlihy 1. The objec+ve is to publish a new Ozanam News, which will be issued three +mes per Trustee year, May, September and November. To facilitate this, a publica+ons commi,ee has been formed and a member of the Na+onal Council has been made responsible for its opera+on. Aberdeen The publica+ons commi,ee will normally meet two months before going to the printer. As at present, the actual pu-ng together of the magazine will be the responsibility of the Na+onal Office staff, who will select the printer and liaise and coordinate with all Pat Carr preproduc+on func+ons. 2. In accordance with Na+onal Council requirements, the inten+on Trustee will be not to feature ‘editorial’ pieces. Any material deemed to detract from the Society’s broader aims will be approved by the Na+onal Council prior to publica+on. Hopefully these Motherwell arrangements will help the new Ozanam News develop into a more humorous, educa+onal and spiritual publica+on which will concentrate on bringing the Society, its Members and Associates closer together. With this Togetherness in mind, Na+onal Council Agenda VACANT business could well become a regular feature in the magazine. In the main, le,ers for Galloway publica+on will normally be from twinning par+es - regarded as reports. Other le,ers will be accepted for publica+on with an added footnote or returned for discussion by the Ian Tierney respec+ve council and/or president if thought to be more appropriate. Twinning Projects ON TWITTER @ssvpscotland Patricia McCartney @youthSSVP Social Jus+ce Coordinator @SocJustSSVPScot KEEP UP TO DATE ONLINE, VISIT ON FACEBOOK The Society of St Vincent de Paul ‘SSVP SCOTLAND’ Ozanam News Editor: James Farrell communica+[email protected] WWW.SSVP.COM OZANAM NEWS 2 PAGE 3 :Layout 1 11/9/18 17:20 Page 1 Na Nationaltional President’s President’s opening opening words words Following tthehe national meeting, Jim McKendrick calls for canonisation prayer push disadvantaged. of a new miracle, we Deeply committed to need to be faithful justice and human devotees of Ozanam, dignity, he is trust in his considered a intercession and precursor to the include him in our Social Doctrine of the daily prayers,” Church. recommends the The 16th President President General. ON August 22, Blessed Frederic General, brother 2018, the international Ozanam, apostle of Renato Lima de Canonisation Vincentian community charity, husband and Oliveira is making prayer celebrated the 21st exemplary father, a every effort to WE thank You Lord, for all anniversary of the great figure of the accelerate the the blessings that You beatification Catholic laity of the procedures for the have given to the Society ceremony of our nineteenth century, canonisation of of St. Vincent de Paul and to its members. By Your beloved co-founder was an intellectual Federic Ozanam, and Divine will, You have given Antoine Frederic and fervent Catholic, requests us to pray our founder Frederic Ozanam. dedicating all his life earnestly for the Ozanam that wondrous title and faith to the canonisation of of Blessed. May we be service of the truth Ozanam. inspired by his example of and the most “To reach the grace love and service to follow You more closely. Lord, continue to bless the News from Social Justice Society, its work and its members and grant that Co-ordinator, Patricia McCartney one day, Blessed Frederic Ozanam will be raised to the altars of Your saints. poverty . raise awareness - Blessed Frederic Ozanam Challenge Poverty about poverty and - Pray for us CHALLENGE Week is an demonstrates what Poverty Week will run opportunity for us as can be done about it. opportunity to 1 – 7 October and is individuals and Most of what we do showcase what we a Poverty Alliance Vincentians to raise as Vincentians fits the do. initiative. our voice against bill, so, getting behind - For more The main aims of poverty and to show this week is not a big information on how to the week are to: what is being done to ask. get involved: - Highlight the tackle poverty across The Poverty www.challenge reality of poverty and Scotland. Everyone is Alliance is asking that poverty.net challenge the strongly encouraged you let them know stereotypes that exist to get involved by what you are doing cpw@poverty about it. organising activities so that they can alliance.org - Demonstrate what or by taking part in promote it. Therefore is being done across activities organised registering any 0141 353 0440 Scotland to address either with or by activity with them not poverty. others. only raises the profile @CPW_Scotland - Increase public Activities can of the SSVP in - Check the SSVP support for more include almost Scotland but also website action to solve anything that helps serves as a superb www.ssvpscotland.com OZANAM NEWS 3 Page 4:Layout 1 10/9/18 19:21 Page 1 AyeAye we we ca cann ‘AYE we can’ — that was the way. There is much that we can social security. message on tackling poverty heard do,” Mr Kelly said. To really make a difference, he by hundreds of Vincentians at the “A very simple message for us is said, changes had to take place at St Vincent de Paul national meeting that poverty can be solved by the policy level to address child on Saturday September 1. boosting people’s incomes and by poverty, reduce the attainment gap The meeting highlighted the reducing their costs and I think and to ensure that those people incredible work of different SSVP when we put it in that way, it makes who have a right to social security conferences, councils and age the task perhaps a little more are having those rights fulfilled. groups from across Scotland. simple than we imagine it to be.” He also noted that at a local level Society members heard reports The Poverty Alliance will be St Vincent de Paul are already from Social Justice Co-ordinater running Challenge Poverty Week heavily involved with the fight Patricia McCartney, National from October 1-7, and as part of against poverty, and he urged the Twinning Officer Ian Tierney, and a that event Mr Kelly highlighted society members to keep up their showcase on youth projects. three of their aims: to increase work in foodbanks, work he Peter Kelly, director of Poverty recognition that poverty exists in emphasised as ‘really needed.’ Alliance, was the keynote speaker Scotland; to illustrate that, by SSVP members were also asked on the day and explained why he boosting incomes and reducing to look into Poverty Alliance believed that poverty could be people’s costs, a lot can be done to Campaigns such as the Living eradicated in Scotland and how the tackle poverty; and to argue that Wage Campaign and the Give Me SSVP can assist in that mission. ‘solving poverty is also about Five campaign to top-up child Mr Kelly began his talk by asking allowing people to participate in benefit. for a show of hands of those who society.’ Bishop Joseph Toal of believed that ‘poverty will always be Mr Kelly noted that we treat the Motherwell Diocese celebrated with us.’ He will have his work cut poor as ‘the other, not us’ and that Mass at the conference and out for him judging by the room of we need to recognise our common attended the entire day in support full pockets, but he optimistically humanity if we want to rid society of of the charitable organisation. The asserted that poverty could be poverty. liturgy held in the auditorium of the overcome. He said that there are many Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel “Poverty is something which we areas in which the SSVP can help served as the spiritual foundation have created. Through our combat poverty, including housing, for a day of reflection and coming decisions as a society collectively, the attainment gap, foodbanks, together to allow the society to we have ended up with our current payday loans, loneliness and move forward in its missionary state of affairs.