Wed 9 Jun S Columba Mon 7 Jun 10.30 and 19.30 @ SMMs 10.30 @ SMMs S Robert of Newminster (not S Columba (Gaelic Colm observed today) Robert was Cille) He was born in born Gargrave, Yorkshire, He Gartan, in County Donegal, joined the Benedictine and was of royal lineage. community at Whitby. In 1132 He studied under Finnian of he helped to establish Moville and Finnian of Fountains Abbey, which Clonard. He founded embraced the Cistercian rule of monasteries at Derry, St Bernard of Clairvaux, A Daughter House of was Durrow, and possibly opened at Newminster, near Morpeth and Robert Kells, before leaving became first Abbot in 1138. He died June 7 1159 Ireland as a missionary, “an exile for Christ.” His greatest foundation was Iona, from where he converted much of western Scotland, and his followers took the Walsingham Cell Day Gospel as far as northern England. He died at Iona in Making the best of the 597. He was renowned as a poet and scribe as well as a National Pilgrimage we spiritual guide. In Gaelic literature he appears as shared in the Installation Ireland’s most popular saint, noted for his great of Dr Sonya Gore as a personal love of all creatures, both human and animal. Guardian and in a beautiful celebration of Fr 11 Jun SACRED HEART OF JESUS the Mass from the Shrine, 7.30 @ SMMs and 19.00@ GS with Bishop Glyn To celebrate the Sacred Heart Webster, our bishop, of Christ means to go to the presiding. So sad that we inner centre of the Person of could not be there in the Saviour, the heart, the person to support him seat of the love that has and Sermon Rosary and Benediction in the afternoon, redeemed the world. If the with Fr Harri Williams, Vicar of Walsingham, preaching human heart is really an brought the day to a close. unfathomable mystery know Tue 8 Jun S William of York only to God, how much more 14.30 @ GS sublime is the heart of Jesus S William of York was of in whom the very life of The noble birth and a relative Word is pulsating. The Litany of the Sacred Heart that of King Stephen. He was we recite every Wednesday and Friday suggests that appointed Archbishop of we find in Jesus the source of all wisdom and the York 1140 -1147 and well treasures of wisdom and knowledge. That Heart is loved by the people now the pledge of hope for every man and woman. though his appointment Sat 12 Jun Immaculate Heart of Mary was hotly disputed by 10.00 @ SMMs and 11- 12 @ GS Cistercians and his consecration was Devotion to the Immaculate delayed for three years. While the dispute rumbled on Heart of Mary originated with St William took himself off to Winchester and led an John Eudes in the 17th century exemplary life of a monk at the abbey there. He came and developed in parallel to the to York. After his death 1154 demands for his devotion to the Sacred Heart of canonisation were quickly made. The Abbots of Jesus. Whereas the Sacred Heart Rievaulx & Fountains (Cistercian Houses!) were of Jesus shows the infinite love of charged to look into his canonisation. It was 1226 God for mankind, Mary’s before he was canonised! Nothing new under the sun. Immaculate Heart not only rightly acknowledges her unique privilege but also leads us to her Son. .