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Margaret Hagan: A class act calls it a day Nugent bring good news City honour for Church Leaders

A time of Pilgrimage World Youth Day and Lourdes

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contents Welcome As I write I have just returned from an early morning at St Mary’s, Lowe House, St Helens, where I went to wave off Coach 3 of the Lourdes Youth Pilgrimage. Just eight days ago I had an even earlier morning there as we said ‘bon voyage’ to our World Youth Day Pilgrims as they left for Rio to celebrate our faith with Pope Francis and young people from throughout the world. Our 450 young people will arrive in Lourdes just ahead of the main pilgrimage of over 1,300 people and after a long and arduous journey they will be only too eager to begin work with our sick pilgrims. It is truly a time of pilgrimage and a time of journeying for many, but also a time to learn from our pilgrims and especially from our young people as they share the faith in Brazil and France. Our cover this month shows our World Youth Day Pilgrims on arrival in Rio at the statue of Christ the Redeemer. Deadlines mean that we can only cover them leaving for Rio and our young people leaving for Lourdes...more on our journeys of faith next month.

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Main Feature New care home creates more jobs Nugent bring good news

News From around the Archdiocese

From the Bishop’s desk It’s that time of the year again. August. For teachers and children, a long break from school, for parents who work, a time for worrying about what the children are up to or how to entertain them, and for the Church, a time when the majority have a good excuse for not attending…on holiday, too good a day to not got out; any excuse under the sun (unless it’s raining). As an Archdiocese, it’s also our time for the Lourdes Pilgrimage, with 450 young people and a large contingent of Handmaids and Brancardiers and Pilgrims plus our Youth Service (or 30 of them) have already been to Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day, a real summer break, but also a time for prayer; not the sort of prayer that is full of ritual and pious words, but the prayer of raising the mind and heart to God, but in a new situation.

14 Spotlight A day for Clergy and Lay People 15 Sunday Reflections Liturgy and Life 16 What’s On Whats happening in the Archdiocese 18 Profile Margaret Hagan A Class Act

The reality is that these journeys are now very expensive, though worthwhile. You don’t have to go to Lourdes or Rio to pray, when you can just as easily visit your own Parish Church especially when it’s open. Yes, it’s your own. It’s on your own doorstep and it costs nothing to go there.

19 Animate Youth Ministry Reflections on a year at Animate

I hope many of you were able to attend the ‘Lourdes at Home’ this year. There were at least four events throughout the Archdiocese. Most who attend have found it a moving and prayerful experience, or simply go to the Sacraments during this Season. You may be pleasantly surprised how relaxed and rested you are when you return to the helter-skelter of your daily routine.

25 Justice and Peace Coping with the cuts

25 Cathedral Record All is set fair for a quiet August

26 Pic Extras Mums the word News from the KSC 28 Pic Life Playing the waiting game

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Nugent bring good news New Liverpool care home to open as charity’s campaigns kick on By Ann Todd he new James Nugent Court residential care home is set to open in Liverpool in November promising state-of-the-art care for 56 older people, in luxurious accommodation. And as an added bonus, the good news is that the new home on Ullet Road will create more than 50 jobs for local people.

The opening date is planned for 18 November, once the team of staff have undergone an extensive induction course and training programme. James Nugent Court will be a modern, purpose-built home close to many local amenities, including Sefton Park, and Nugent Care pledge that it will offer the highest quality of personalised care in a relaxed setting – and at an affordable price also. This forms the basis of a brand new venture for the charity, which is striving not only to provide the best possible service to individuals and their families, but to generate interest, awareness, and an understanding of the issues they face, and the impact of this on our wider communities. Moving into a care home is a big step, and the aim is to make it as smooth and enjoyable as possible. Hence Nugent Care’s promise to provide professional, highly-trained staff who will be dedicated carers, taking time to listen and get to know the new residents at the home, enabling them to deliver individualised care in an 4

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environment that promotes personal choice and independence. The James Nugent Court home will feature 56 bedrooms equipped with ensuite facilities, including showers. There will be a flat-screen television, DVD player, mini-fridge, telephone and internal points in every bedroom. There will also be landscaped sensory gardens with seating areas, on-site hairdressing facilities and a coffee shop. According to Nugent Care, those moving into James Nugent Court will find a place ‘where everyone will feel at home, be able to relax, enjoy the community, take part in stimulating activities and meet new friends’. It points out that central to its care philosophy is the wish to ensure that people are ‘treated as individuals, given choice, control and a sense of purpose in their daily lives’. These sentiments fit in with the goals of their Dignity in Dementia campaign. It may sound an elusive concept, but it is key to how we would all wish to be treated; following the values and ethos of Nugent Care, the charity’s staff are committed to ‘ensuring dignity is the thread running through all care’. During 2013/14 they have an ambitious plan to campaign on two major issues facing health and social care: Dignity in Care, and Dignity for people living with dementia. In combining both themes, the aim will be to raise awareness of the needs

of those living with dementia, and the rights of all to dignity in care. As the number of older people in care continues to grow, promoting Dignity in Care will enable Nugent Care to highlight the level of knowledge and standard of excellence they expect from all of their services. It will also help them to encourage other care home providers to work towards supplying services that offer Dignity in Care across their services. A spokesperson for Nugent Care said: ‘Alongside the consistent application of good practice and the rooting out of poor care, we need a major cultural shift in the way the system thinks about dignity , and we need to encourage other organisations to create care environments for people with dementia that promote independence, help reduce anxiety and distress, and help people feel safe.’ The Nugent Care campaign aims to: • Raise awareness of Dignity in Care. • Raise awareness of the needs of people living with dementia. • Raise awareness of the political agenda for Dignity in Care. • Inspire local people to take action. • Share good practice and give impetus to positive innovation. • Give people a voice. • Reward and recognise those people who make a difference and go that extra mile. The hope is that the year-long campaign of activities will raise the profile of dignity for people receiving care services, raise public awareness – and crucially raise the voices of people diagnosed with dementia which need to be heard. Nugent Care launched the campaign in April, with two important initiatives. The first was the Daisy Chain One Million Supporters Pledge, which aims to

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gather one million signatures to submit to the government in support of the Double D campaign: Dignity in Care, Dignity in Dementia. The signatures will be gathered during 2013 through existing contacts in business, schools, community groups etc, and a team of volunteers will be co-ordinating the push to gather new contacts to ensure the target is reached. Once collected, the daisy chain of signatures will be taken to the Houses of Parliament and presented to MPs. The second initiative involves a specially commissioned music composition, aimed at giving voice to people who have difficulty communicating due to dementia; people who may have only one or two words of phrases which they often repeat. The composer will record the voices of service users and their families and link particular phrases or words to a specific musical instrument. The result will be a unique composition based on taking the

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melody and the rhythm from the speech of people with dementia which Nugent believe will be an opportunity for giving expression to the often hidden feelings trapped within the person dealing with dementia. The musical composition will be premiered in Liverpool next spring with a plan in place for members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to play it at an event which will bring the campaign to a conclusion. • For more information on James

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Nugent Court, 14 Ullet Road, Liverpool L8 3SR, or to arrange a visit on completion of the home, call 0151 261 2000, email JNC@nugentcare.org or write to Head Office, Nugent Care, 99 Edge Lane, Liverpool L7 2PE. For all vacancies at James Nugent Care visit the website www.nugentcare.org. • For further details on the Dignity in Care Campaign, contact the above address, visit the website, phone 0151 261 2000 or email info@nugentcare.org.

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News diary If you’ve got any news from your parish that you’d like featured e-mail us with the details at: post@merseymirror.com

Checking in for Lourdes Young people from St Helens gathered for Mass after checking in for their journey to Lourdes on Coach 3. It was a scene replicated across the archdiocese as 450 young pilgrims boarded ten coaches to take them to the French Shrine ahead of the 1,300 pilgrim main party. After loading the coach the pilgrims joined their Chaplain, Father Dominic Curran, for Mass before a time of ‘goodbyes’ and a twenty-six hour journey through England and France. On arrival at Lourdes there’s no time for rest before the work of caring for our sick pilgrims begins. This year the Liverpool Archdiocesan Lourdes Pilgrimage celebrates its ninetieth year with the eighty-third journey to the French Shrine (pilgrimages did not take place for a number of years due to the Second World War). As the Church celebrates a Year of Faith the theme of this year’s pilgrimage is ‘Lourdes, a Door of Faith 1923-2013’.

Welcome at St Benet’s Father Sean O’Connor, Parish Priest of St. Benet’s Parish in Netherton, is pictured here with a group of children from the parish who were part of the new ‘With You Always’ programme writes Parish Catechist, Margaret Bridson. All together 38 children received the Sacraments of Reconciliation, Confirmation and Eucharist in beautiful celebrations throughout the year. Parents attended meetings on a regular monthly basis focused on helping their child understand and value the gifts that they were privileged to receive. The celebrations concluded with a special parish Thanksgiving Mass on 30 June when we thanked God for all the graces received by parishioners and families through the Sacraments this year. St. Benet’s Parish are now looking forward to next year’s programme when we will celebrate twenty years of preparing children and their families for the Sacraments.

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A Rio Bonito welcome for our pilgrims Liverpool’s World Youth Day pilgrims left Animate Youth Ministries headquarters at Lowe House St Helens on Wednesday 17 July to fly to Rio for World Youth Day with Pope Francis. After a short delay they arrived in Brazil on Thursday 18 July. Their flight, which had been due to arrive in Rio on Thursday morning, was diverted to Belo Horizonte due to fog but after it cleared they landed in Rio later in the day and, after a visit to the statue of Christ the Redeemer, travelled to Rio Bonito to stay with families in the Archdiocese of Niteroi and to begin their ‘Days in the Diocese’ preparation for the World Youth Day celebrations. Sarah Beatty writes: ‘In Rio Bonito we were greeted by our families and other people in the town. One of the host families had a party for our arrival so we were all then taken to her house where we were introduced to some Brazilian music and dancing, and some of their praise and worship songs and their dance routines. It was a lot of fun despite our tiredness. ‘On Friday 19 July we had our

“Solidarity” day in which the town shared with us how they work in solidarity with the poor and those less fortunate. They have Day Care Centres which are free for the parents to leave their children while they work. There are also an old peoples home, drug rehabilitation centre, and a parish run medical centre which helps around 4000 families a year. This day, as is typical with Brazilians, was opened by Mass and more music and more dancing. ‘On Saturday we had a “Family day” which meant we spent the entire day with our host families, some going to the local beaches, some played football with the locals and other activities. After this we went to a “quadrilha” dance party, which in English terms would be a Barn Dance. It was great fun and a good chance for the local people to gather with us and share their culture. The party itself was to celebrate the month of July.’ As the ‘Catholic Pic’ went to press the World Youth Day pilgrims had just moved over to Rio for the Opening Mass of the celebrations. There will be a full report in next month’s edition.

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news diary Father Martin’s First Mass at St Michael’s Congratulations from St Aidan’s As Canon Pat MacNally celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his Ordination to the Priesthood in June there were special congratulations from the parishioners of St Aidanʼs, Winstanley. Canon Pat took over as Parish Priest of St Aidanʼs in September last year, in addition to his Parish of St Jude in Wigan. Many parishioners from St Aidanʼs were able to attend the Jubilee Mass of Thanksgiving to congratulate Father Pat and celebrate with him.

Fr Martin Tate who was baptised at St. Michael's, Widnes in 1954 has been ordained priest for the Archdiocese of Westminster. After a career in teaching in London, he was accepted as a student for the priesthood and completed his training at the Beda College, Rome. On Saturday, 29 June, he was ordained a priest in Westminster Cathedral, and on Sunday, 30 June, the Feast of St Peter and St Paul, returned to the church of his baptism - St. Michael's, Widnes to celebrate his First Mass. Father Martin is pictured (right) with Parish Priest of St Michaelʼs, Father Joe Bibby.

Celebrating Family Catechesis with wine and cheese Over 140 catechists and clergy gathered at the end of a busy year to celebrate the successful first year of Family Catechesis in the Archdiocese of Liverpool writes Eleanor Lalley. Amid the trays of delicious cheeses, canapes, and fresh fruit, the large group mingled, chatted and enjoyed the evening reception with a glass of wine or cup of tea. Father John McLoughlin, head of the Pastoral Formation Department, welcomed the large assembly. He explained that catechists and clergy had been invited as

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a thank you for all they had done taking on so many new challenges in one year: Family Catechesis, the new resource, and new celebrations. All around were conversations about how ʻWith You Alwaysʼ had worked in very different parishes and settings and a sharing of successes and challenges. There was an opportunity for guests to speak to and to hear from other catechists about how the resource has been used over the last twelve months with some very interesting conversations.

A short presentation outlined the helpful feedback that had been sent in from parishes and schools. Hundreds of emails, written replies and verbal feedback helped to edit the resource and provided suggestions for the way forward. A short presentation detailing the feedback was well recieved and people were slow to leave at the end of an enjoyable evening. Thanks were expressed to all catechists, clergy, RE coordinators and schools for being Family Catechesis pioneers.

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City honour for Church Leaders The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor Gary Millar, hosted a Civic reception at the Town Hall for Archbishop Emeritus Patrick Kelly and Bishop James Jones to mark their retirement. Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson was also present along with Lord Lieutenant, Dame Lorna Muirhead, High Sheriff of Merseyside Ian Meadows and Bishop Tom Williams, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese. The Bishops were presented with paintings of their Cathedrals and Liver Bird cufflinks. Archbishop Emeritus Patrick Kelly said of his gift, ‘this wonderful painting will take pride of place when I retire to my new home in Southport while Bishop James Jones echoed the sentiments saying, ‘I’ve got just the place for this beautiful painting on my study wall in our new home in Yorkshire.’

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St Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary School, Liverpool has been awarded an outstanding grade in its recent Section 5 Ofsted Inspection. The result of the two day inspection in May means that the school is the first Catholic school in the City to retain its outstanding status and one of a small number of schools nationally to receive this recognition on three consecutive occasions. The Inspection team found that the achievement of pupils, their behaviour and safety, the quality of teaching and leadership and management were all outstanding. Inspectors cited the head teacher, senior leaders and governing body as ‘inspirational.’ The report also commented favourably upon the behaviour and attitude of the pupils which it described as ‘exemplary’. The inspection comes towards the end of the Academic Year and cements the school’s attainment data published earlier in the year which confirms St Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary as one of the highest achieving schools in the City. Headteacher Phil Stewart said, ‘this is an historic moment in the life of St Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary and reflects the ethos and Mission of the school community who, “Serve with Love and Strive for Excellence” in all that they do.’

Five new UCM members were enrolled at the July bi-monthly Mass which was celebrated at St Richardʼs, Skelmersdale. The five are Cathy Holden, Susan Hurlock and Caroline McMahon from St Richardʼs and Cathy Buck and Pat Tulloch from St George, Maghull. They were welcomed by UCM Chaplain Father Mark Madden and Parish Priest of St Richardʼs, Father Mike Thompson. St Richardʼs is the newest UCM Foundation and their new banner was blessed at the Mass. The banner was made by Caroline McMahon, a member of St Anthonyʼs team.

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news diary Bishop Tom opens new artwork in Widnes Bishop Tom Williams, the Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese, visited St Michael’s Catholic Primary School, Ditton, Widnes and officially opened the school’s new artwork. The children of St Michael’s have been very busy learning about their local history through art. The school employed artist, Phil Garrett, to draw and design a number of murals that are now on display. The local community, parents and parishioners were invited to share their memories of Ditton, Widnes, and from these memories, murals were designed and painted by the children and their parents to depict life in the past from the local area. The finished murals depict a timeline around the school from the ancient Celtic, Roman and Viking times to the agricultural age when Ditton was a farming community to the industrial age and the introduction of the chemical industries. Headteacher, Paul Loughran, said: ‘the

art work has really brought the community together. It has been a valuable learning experience for all involved and will be a lasting legacy for

generations to come. The school would like to thank the artist, Phil, and would highly recommend him to work with any schools or communities.’

Thanksgiving for the Salesians of Don Bosco When the Salesians of Don Bosco finally hand back responsibility for the parish of St Dominic in Huyton on the 12 August, it will mark the end of bond that stretches back 28 years. It was in 1985 that the Order first took responsibility for the Huyton parish. To mark the occasion the local community gathered together for a Mass of Thanksgiving celebrated by Bishop Tom Williams. ‘It is very sad time for us,’ said Father James Gallagher SDB. ‘But we have to look to the future. We are all reasonably elderly now, so we have to consider the needs of the parish.’ The number and age of professed Salesians has declined in recent years, so that the Province now only has just over 100 members, with an average age of over 65. ‘This process of change has been specifically addressed by the Province through a planning process, which aims to carefully use the scarce resources of personnel

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property and finance to serve the mission of the Province,’ said Father John Dickson SDB. The Salesians have forged a reputation for working with and educating the poor Catholic children of the inner cities for over a hundred years, despite lacking some of the resources and manpower of other Orders. They have had a presence in England since 1850, when they were first invited by the Countess Georgiana de Stacpoole to take over a parish at Battersea, London and to work with the City’s poor. After the Second World War, and the passing of Butler Education Act in 1944 the Salesians expanded some of their schools, which brought education and hope to children in some of the most deprived areas of the country. Later, St Dominic’s found itself a part of a more expansive attempt at parish ministry, as the Order strove to reach the young who existed outside the normal schools system.

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‘Go be a benign contagion wherever you go’ A day for Clergy and Lay People led by Fr Paul Philibert O.P. ver 80 people gathered at LACE to hear Father Paul Philibert share the main themes of his book: ‘The Priesthood of the Faithful: Key to a Living Church’ (published by Liturgical Press in 2005).

The description offered about the book by Liturgical Press is ‘The New Testament describes the baptised as a holy priesthood and a priestly people. Vatican II clearly taught that the baptised become a holy priesthood. Their personal fidelity and lives led in loving obedience to the Gospel become spiritual sacrifices offered along with the body of the Lord in the Eucharist. The Priesthood of the Faithful explores this key doctrine of Christian faith and examines its significance for the spiritual growth and revitalization of the church. It focuses on the prophetic, pastoral, and priestly roles of the faithful with the aim of helping people experience their own lives as the fruitful blossoming of Christ’s grace in the world.’ With a gentle yet commanding presence Father Paul both inspired and energised those present reminding them that there is only one priest: Christ. And the wonder of it is

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that, through baptism we are all called to share that priesthood. Using the documents of the Second Vatican Council, Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church he gave much to reflect on: Through the Sacrament of Baptism we are started on the pathway of integration into the Body of Christ; we are all incorporated into the qualities of Christ and into the priesthood of Christ which was a non-liturgical priesthood. This comes with implications: Christ can never be separated from his Body and Christian ministry is therefore fundamentally about ‘body–building’ (1 Corinthians 3:9). So he told those present, ‘Go be a benign contagion wherever you go’. Christ’s unique priesthood fulfils God’s desire for a people entirely God’s own and the incarnation is ‘the alphabet of God’s presence and action among us’. A developed understanding of the Baptismal Priesthood affords us new pastoral possibilities: It provides a key to interpreting the fundamental vision of Vatican II; It shifts the centre of gravity of the Christian life away from liturgy and on to Life; It offers

spiritual validation to the professional skills and personal talents of the faithful in the Church. And finally we were offered the characteristics of 'A Healthy Ecclesial Body’: a people, persuaded that life is filled with holiness; accustomed to meeting glory in the grace of creation; finding mystery in the diversity of minds and hearts; discovering God’s presence in a living Word of God and ‘kneading their “spiritual sacrifices” into the dough of the Bread of Life’ which means a daily (morning) offering so that all we do will be done in the name and power of the Holy Spirit. Father Paul offered a wonderful checklist for personal and community reflection.

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sunday reflections On a liturgical note If all goes well, and the weather plays ball, August should be a slightly more relaxed and temperate month – but there are a lot of ifs in that sentence! We never know exactly what is around the corner, either as regards the weather or more importantly the calls that will be made on us as part of that daily fidelity to the Gospel which we call ‘just getting on with things’. The fact that we call this the ‘Ordinary Time’ of the year does not mean there is nothing of interest going on; the Lord nourishes his people with Word and Sacrament and this in itself is pretty extraordinary and worthy of daily thanksgiving. Towards the close of this month we keep the memory of a figure who played an important but some would say quite ‘ordinary’ part in the life of the Church here – Blessed Dominic Barberi, whose Feast is on 26 August. Dominic, who is buried at St Anne and Blessed Dominic Church in Sutton, St Helens, was a Passionist priest who travelled from Italy to England in the middle of the 1800s. He is perhaps best known for having received into the Church a man named John Henry Newman

Sunday thoughts Some people turn first to the sports page whenever they take up a newspaper. As a sporting philistine I have never been one of their number. But increasingly I turn to the obituary page. Growing up I observed what I thought to be my parents’ morbid interest in the death columns of the Liverpool Echo. They competed with each other to spot those whom they knew. Fifty years on I am becoming like them. I do not see interest in the dead as morbid at all. As I begin to take the long view of my own life it is fascinating to see what others have done with theirs. The big question is what is their legacy? What have they left behind? How will they be remembered? Conducting funerals on a regular basis I spend time talking with the bereaved about the lives of those whom they have lost. I quickly pick

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– who was himself Beatified by Pope Benedict on his recent visit to England. Holiness is infectious. By simply living with integrity our everyday, ordinary fidelity to the Gospel and the life of prayer within the Church, we will not only grow in knowledge and love of the Lord ourselves, but will become missionaries of God’s love. As Newman wrote:

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes… I have a part in this great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

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up how loving a dead person was. If they have loved a lot then there is a lot of love around. Many have silently and without fuss loved others without any expectation of return. I am always moved by the words of Archbishop Romero of San Salvador in the weeks before he was assassinated in 1980: ‘If they kill me I will live on in the people of El Salvador.’ We live on in the lives of the people we love. ‘Try your best to enter by the narrow door,’ says Jesus. And again: ‘There are those now last who will be first and those now first who will be last.’ The life-giving choices we make will be our living legacy. The self-centred pursuit of wealth and power leaves no legacy at all.

Can you give everything? June and July is the season for nuns’ retreats. Many of the sisters are now elderly but I never come away from these retreats without an increased awareness of how incredible many of these women have been and often still are. Many of them have an openness and a desire to serve that puts me to shame and I am challenged all the time to ask myself how willing am I to give everything for the sake of the Gospel. This week I have been in the glorious sunshine in Filey on the North Yorkshire coast at a house run by the Sisters of Mercy. We have been reflecting on John's Gospel and yet again I have been amazed by the response and have been led to ask myself questions: Are you amazed by the God you meet in the Scriptures or are you so familiar with these ancient books that you have lost your capacity to allow them to transform you? Do you know so much about the Scriptures, so much information that you cannot let them transform you because you think information is all it is about? Or are you so amazed by the God you encounter that you begin to see with a new set of eyes? Apparently the word Gospel that we translate as Good News was a word taken from a culture where war and battles were accepted as the norm and a Gospel was a message of victory that announced a new beginning. These Scriptures are to so amaze us that we are to have a radical new beginning every time we read them. Can we really say that this is true? The relationship that the ancient peoples experienced is timeless. So their journey becomes our journey. It is about encountering God and about transformation. If you are not on a journey with God you will not understand the call the Scriptures are giving to enter into the process of transformation. So my challenge has been to ask myself whether I am still amazed by the reality of God or whether my relationship with God has become stale and pedestrian. I have been challenged by these sisters to open my eyes again to the power of the Word of God and to drink the Word in deeply so that it becomes the very source of life and the Gospel it proclaims becomes everything to me. Whether you are a priest, a religious or a lay person, the challenge is the same. Will you give everything for the sake of the Gospel and will you allow it to turn your life upside down? Fr Chris Thomas

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what’s on Saturday 17 August Organ Recital by Colin Porter (Mossley Hill Parish Church). 2.15 pm in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. Saturday 24 August Organ Recital by Carol Wareing (St Oswald, Ashton in Makerfield). 2.15 pm in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. Monday 26 August Thanksgiving Mass in honour of Blessed Dominic Barberi CP 12.00 noon at St Anne and Blessed Dominic, Sutton, St Helens, WA9 3ZD. Celebrant: Archbishop Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham. Tuesday 27 August Cursillo Ultrya 7.30 pm at St Michael and All Angels, Kirkby, L32 0TP. Saturday 31 August Organ Recital by Joshua Stephens (Royal Northern College of Music). 2.15 pm in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King.

Looking ahead: Saturday 7 September Organ Recital by Paul Delaney (St Paul, West Derby) 2.15 pm in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. Sunday 8 September Racial Justice Day Wednesday 11 September UCM Bi-monthly Mass 7.30 pm at St. Michael and All Angel's, Sidney Powell Avenue, Westvale, Kirkby, L32 0TP. Thursday 12 September Heritage Open Day 10.00 am-4.00 pm in the Lutyens Crypt of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. Friday 13 September to Sunday 15 September ‘Fanning into a Flame’ Reflections on the letters of Timothy. Scripture weekend led by Father Chris Thomas at Irenaeus, 32 Great Georges Road, Liverpool, L22 1RD. Bookings and further details: Tel: 0151 949 1199 or email: jenny@irenaeus.co.uk Saturday 14 September Car Boot Sale 8.00 am onwards in the Cathedral Car Park. Pitches £10. Details from Claire Hanlon 0151 709 9222.

Looking ahead:

Sunday 15 September Home Mission Day with the theme: 'Crossing the Threshold' Ministry and Outreach to Non-Churchgoing Catholics.

Support for Divorced or Separated from the Archdiocesan Marriage and Family Life Department, (Pastoral Formation).

Annual Community Mass 11.00 am in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King.

‘Recovering and moving on after divorce’. The next series of six weekly meetings starts on Monday 16 September in Liverpool 17, from 7.30 pm to 9.00 pm. A one-day meeting will be held on Saturday 14 September for those who cannot attend the six evenings. For more information or to make a booking (essential) contact Frances on 0151 727 2195.

Saturday 28 September Britten Centenary Concert 7.30 pm in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. Tickets and details Tel: 0151 707 3525 or www.cathedralconcerts.org.uk

‘Divorced or Separated?’ Friday evening, 27 September to Sunday 29 September 2013. A welcoming and affirming weekend offering a chance to reflect, share and pray together at Loyola Hall Jesuit Spirituality Centre, Rainhill, Merseyside, L35 6NZ. This can be attended on a residential or non-residential basis. Contact www.loyolahall.co.uk or phone 0151 426 4137

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Celebrate the Child The annual ‘Celebrate the Child’ Mass which brings together parishes from all over the archdiocese to celebrate the work done with and for children, took place this year on the feast of St Peter and St Paul. The Mass was celebrated in the Metropolitan Cathedral by Bishop Tom Williams with the Cathedral Youth Choir taking part in the music of the Mass. Parishes had been asked to bring drawings of their church with the names of children from the parish all over them, and rocks as foundations with the names of parents on them. This was to link with the Gospel reading in which St Peter was

told that he was the rock upon which the Church would be built. Many parishes have been running the ‘With You Always ‘ catechetical programme with children and their parents which enhances the role of parents in giving their child strong faith foundations. The pictures that were brought were a wonderful reflection of that work and were carried around the cathedral at the start of the Mass but also brought up with the offertory gifts. Altar servers from a range of parishes joined with those from the Cathedral to serve at the Mass and the young readers were from Holy Rosary parish in Aintree. The Mass has been celebrated every

year for the past decade and whilst the early ones were held in the Floral Hall theatre in Southport, the last few have taken place in the Cathedral. One aim of the Mass is to recognise and thank all the people, from across the archdiocese, who give so freely of their time and energy to help young people develop in their faith journey. The organisation of the Mass comes under the remit of the Safeguarding Department at LACE, but is carried out by a group of volunteers. If you would like to help with the next one or would like to receive advance publicity please email the organisers using celebratethechild@tesco.net

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Margaret Hagan

A class act calls it a day By Ann Todd Margaret Hagan is finally putting her feet up after four rewarding decades spent teaching pupils in Liverpool Catholic schools – and she can do so knowing she has helped shape the lives of so many grateful children. Margaret’s career, which concluded at St Sebastian's primary school in Fairfield, began in 1971, when she arrived in Liverpool to train at Notre Dame College, Mount Pleasant. She ended up spending her entire working life here. ‘In those days when you left college if you wanted to stay in Liverpool you could go into a ‘pool’ of teachers. I was appointed to Holy Trinity primary school in Garston,’ she recalls of the start of a journey that would continue at St Nicholas’ primary school on Brownlow Hill where, from 1975, she worked under the ‘wonderful’ Frank Davies. ‘He was an inspiration. He had a genuine love for inner-city pupils and wanted to raise their aspirations. This had a knock-on effect on all the staff.’ There were fondly remembered trips to Colomendy and the Isle of Man, often accompanied by husband Tommy, whom she married in 1977. There were also athletics and cross-country teams to look after. ‘We had to purchase PE kits

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for the children and take the teams on the bus to Our Lady’s in Belle Vale to use their facilities as we didn’t have any green space at all.’ In the classroom, meanwhile, Margaret took the ‘big’ step-up to junior four. ‘The eleven plus was still going strong and I was responsible for ensuring the children achieved as well as they could,’ she remembers. With the arrival of daughter Anna and son Peter in the 80s, Margaret taught part-time at St Nicholas’ and then at St Patrick’s on Park Hill, where she came across a future football star in Robbie Fowler. Then, in 1990, she took a fulltime post at St Sebastian’s, where Anna had been a pupil. Her initial five-year spell there ended when she took a deputy headship at St Matthew’s infant school on Queen’s Drive. ‘The literacy hour had just come into being in 1995 and I was responsible for implementing it with limited funds. This was quite difficult but using the expertise of staff and my own family we did manage to create a huge number of resources. We also did a lot of work to improve the school building.’ When St Matthew’s infants and juniors amalgamated, she became assistant

head before her appointment as deputy head back at St Sebastian’s – and the start of a ten highly productive years. As part of the Kensington Regeneration project, the school benefitted from additional funding to develop a creative curriculum and also established their own sports facilities – the ‘Field of Dreams’ opened by Lord Puttnam in 2003. There were notable successes – St Sebastian’s went through three Ofsteds and was awarded Outstanding on each occasion – and some unforgettable experiences, such as singing with the school’s successful choir at the O2 Arena, Philharmonic Hall and St George’s Hall. ‘I have had a wonderful career and worked with some very talented teachers and a remarkable head, Dennis Hardiman, who has given me the opportunity to flourish and develop more than I would have ever dreamed possible,’ she adds. Now some ‘quality time’ with husband Tommy beckons, and it is certainly richly deserved.

“I have had a wonderful career and worked with some very talented teachers”

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Reflections on a year at Animate By Fr Simon Gore And so the end is near, we have finished off our final mission... Not quite Frank Sinatra, but the point remains. As I write this, the Animate team of 2012-13 are tidying the house and getting ready to leave Lowe House to head off into the big, wide world. It has certainly been a busy year for the team. We have done four school missions – in Preston, St Helens, Orrell and Chorley. That last Mission was an interesting one for me as it was back at my old school, Holy Cross, and it proved a great way to end the year, and not just because it was a homecoming (of sorts). The response from both staff and pupils was fantastic. But all good things must come to an end and just as the Mission came to an end, so the year winds down as well. When I left seminary I did not think I would end up living in community again and I often get asked how this kind of work compares with parish life. I do not have the word count available here to get into that – suffice to say, it is different. Yet as the year reaches a close it seems appropriate to offer a retrospective on the past 12 months.

There can be an element of risk when sharing your house (and life) with anyone; when those people are aged between 18 and 23, that element of risk increases a little. Yet Animate is not the usual flat-sharing scheme of university or even the sharing of lives that marriage and family life entails. Animate is a community: a community of strangers who choose to live together for a year to grow in their relationship with God, and who,

through their work, attempt to help other young people in the Diocese do likewise. Maybe because of that shared goal, life in Lowe House is more often than not a life of joy: from dinnertable chats about the highs and lows of work that day, to a shared prayer life in the chapel, to evenings watching TV together. I am writing this in the week after hearing the Gospel proclaim – at Sunday Mass – that Jesus sent the 72 into the world to preach the Good News. And so, as strange as it may seem to think that these next few days are the last in the house for this year’s team, I am also reminded that the job of evangelisation is an on-going one. Those first 72 returned to the Lord rejoicing, but they went out again to continue their work in the vineyard of the Lord. It is now the turn of our team to take what they have gained from their time here and go out into the world and continue to spread the message of a God who offers a life fulfilled. So, to Ferg, Joe, Sarah and Rosie who leave for pastures new I say thank you for all the work you have done this year. And to Sarah, Becca and Dom who are staying on next year I pray that you continue to show the joy that only a true relationship with God can give. Please remember those members of the Team who are moving on, and the work of Animate and the young people of the Diocese in your prayers. For more information, go to: Facebook: Ani Mate Twitter: @AnimateYouth Web: www.animateyouth.org

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Introducing Margaret Duncan… We have often been asked at Come and See why the Saturday evening is free, so this year we have decided to do something different and have invited Margaret Duncan from Aberdeen to come and share her story with us. Margaret is originally from Barrow and her story will make you laugh and cry. It is a story of addiction and the brokenness it brings. The mess of her life is told with an honesty and a bravery that takes your breath away. It is an extraordinary witness to the power and the presence of God. Margaret has travelled widely

across India and Pakistan giving hope to those who thought there was no hope. She has spoken widely across this country and is very much in demand. She published her autobiography two years ago and called it ‘Freed to be me’. If you want to listen to Margaret or indeed any of our wonderful group of speakers, then put 5/6 October in your diary and get in touch with us at Irenaeus. Our address is 32 Great Georges Road L22 1RD, or contact us on jenny@irenaeus.co.uk or telephone 0151 9491199.

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Coping with the cuts By Steve Atherton, Justice and Peace fieldworker he date of this year’s assembly was 25 May and its purpose was to explore ways of ‘Coping with the Cuts’, structured on the model of ‘See – Judge – Act’. The morning was to clarify the problems, the middle of the day to stimulate reflection and the afternoon to think about actions and responses.

The day was chaired by Susan O’Halloran, chair of the Liverpool J&P Commission, and after an introduction from Fr John McLoughlin, Rev Ruth Stock from St Bride’s CoE ministry team spoke inspirationally about the scriptural call to act justly before Fr Tom Cullinan reflected on the day’s Gospel. The business of the day highlighted four central issues: housing, money management, energy use and wellbeing. Julie Martin Corkhill from Nugent Care spoke about crises in housing; Marie Gray of Lodge Lane Credit Union gave a talk on money; Kevin Duffy from Parish Power discussed energy use; and Pat Duffy, a health professional and counsellor, addressed the Assembly on wellbeing. Each speaker was given a short time to outline their

topic and provide examples of some of the current problems. This was followed by discussion among the delegates around the tables and points raised were captured on colour-coded post-it notes which were later grouped by topic and displayed during lunchtime. The last morning activity, ‘Just a Minute’, gave delegates a chance to speak to everyone present. Speakers were very disciplined and the whistle was only blown once for overrunning the allotted minute. After a lunch break that gave delegates the opportunity to browse the many information stalls on view, Fr Tom started the afternoon session with a reflection before the entertaining and informative main speaker, Sir Bert Massie, used his experience of campaigning on disability rights to make several telling points: • Be right! Be well-informed and wellprepared. Get your facts right. • Persevere. Persist. Don’t feel helpless. • Know the mindset of the ‘other’, your opponent. Think of mindset and priorities.

• Think of the objections to your case: provide solutions. • Letter writing, surgery visits, personal case narratives. • You will not be alone. There was then time for delegates to ask questions before the final group discussion about what responses they might make to any of the four topics which had been considered during the day. Again, coloured post-its were used to record the suggestions that emerged. A total of 80 comments were recorded, of which the following five were raised by every one of the groups involved: • Collect first-hand stories. • Raise awareness in your community. • Be well-informed. • Write to people who have influence. • Support and co-operate with others who share your concerns. The full range of comments is available on the J&P section of the diocesan website: www.liverpoolcatholic.org.uk/Justice --Peace

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A group of pupils from St John Bosco School, Croxteth Year 12 A level Performing Arts students gave a fabulous performance of 'Arabian Nights' to appreciative audiences from years 9 - 12, as well as teaching staff, family, friends and the A level examiner.

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Ordinations to the Diaconate Cathedral Record Canon Anthony O’Brien – Cathedral Dean

In recent weeks two students for the Priesthood in the Archdiocese of Liverpool, Roy Cooper and John Poland, have been ordained to the Diaconate. On 29 June Roy, originally from St Matthew's, Liverpool, was ordained Deacon at St Mary's College, Oscott and John, who is connected to All Saints, Anfield, although his family now live in Loughborough, was ordained Deacon on 14 July in Palazolla Rome. From September the Archdiocese will have four students for the priesthood studying at Oscott: Stephen Lee, from St Bernadette's Shevington; Matthew Jolley from St Joseph's Penketh and Dominic Risley, from St Mary's Wigan will continue their studies while Thomas Clarke, from St Charles, Aigburth, has completed a year of study at Valladolid and will join them. Also in September three men will begin formation for the Priesthood: Michael Barrett from Our Lady Help of Christains in Tarleton will begin studies

at the Beda College in Rome and Philip Carr from St Benet's, Netherton and Anthony Kelly from St Mary's Wigan will study at Valladolid. Please pray for all our seminarians and for more vocations to the Priesthood. If anyone has an interest in the Priesthood and wishes to discuss their calling they should contact: Father Stephen Maloney, Vocations Director, All Saints' Presbytery, 3 Oakfield, Anfield, Liverpool, L4 2QG. Tel: 0151 287 8787. Email: frstevemaloney@btinternet.com If they are under 18 they should contact: Father James Preston, St Charles' Presbytery, 224 Aigburth Road, Liverpool, L17 9PG. Tel: 0151 727 2493. Email: church@stcharles.org.uk or Father Simon Gore, Animate Youth Ministries, St Mary's, Lowe House, 99 Crab Street, St Helens, WA10 2BE. Tel: 01744 740467. Email: s.gore@animateyouth.co.uk

With school holidays underway and the Diocesan Lourdes Pilgrimage ending at the beginning of the month all is set fair for a quiet August here at the Cathedral. That doesn’t mean that the visitors stop coming, simply the lack of Diocesan events and celebrations. Our team of guides and volunteers will still have to welcome and cope with the thousands of tourists, the regular arrival of coach parties and a growing number of cruise ship day visitors. There are six cruise ships visiting the Port of Liverpool this month including the Queen Mary 2 (6 August). The clergy who are not on holiday are kept busy during the weekends with a considerable number of baptisms and weddings as well as the regular mass schedule. One thing I need to do this month is dust down some of the orders of services that we have in our archive for the installation of a new Archbishop. Not that we are expecting an announcement anytime soon but it seems a good opportunity to be au fait with the format of the rite and the choices and options that a new Archbishop can make to put his stamp on the opening service of his term of office in our Diocese. Our main doors of the Cathedral are opened and closed by an electronic mechanism and if a new Archbishop wanted to knock on the closed doors to be let in to his Cathedral he would have to wait about three or four minutes for the motorised doors to open by which time he could have gone off in a huff so we will have think around this. Anyway I hope you all have an enjoyable and restful August whether you are away on holiday or remaining at home.

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Pic extras Mums the Word Our bi-monthly Masses are always special and this was especially the case with our recent Mass at St Richard’s, Skelmersdale. This is our newest foundation and three new members were enrolled during the Mass and their new banner blessed. In his homily, Father Mark Madden returned to the subject of the 12 apostles; over the past two years the theme of each bi-monthly Mass has been a par ticular apostle and Fr Mark noted that if we looked at them in terms of their role within the group, they were all different. Perhaps the reason there is so little known about them as individuals is that is that as individuals they are not so impor tant. Jesus established them as a group and they are better together. This is an impor tant truth, and when we look at the mixture of men and women – clergy and laity – in the Church, we may be tempted to wonder at God’s wisdom in choosing people. Maybe they are not the people we would choose but God chose them. Individually we are weak but with each other we enjoy the strength of unity. This applies to the UCM. Our members are all different. We come from different backgrounds, we all have different jobs – some as high flyers in business, some as teachers, some as shop assistants, some just as mothers. As members of this large organisation, though, we make an impact together. The UCM is a member of both the Board of Catholic Women and the World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations (WUCWO). In 2012 we raised over £15,000 for local charities. We promote marriage and family life. We pray for vocations and suppor t our parish priests. We help families in distress and are involved with various charities. In brief, we are not just a group of women who meet for a 'cup of tea and a natter'. • Our next bi-monthly Mass will be on 4 September at St Michael's and All Angels, Kirkby. God Bless, Ann Hogg, media officer

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News from the Liverpool Province of the Knights of St Columba

Pilgrims mark St Columba’s arrival on Iona This year is the 1,450th anniversary of the arrival of our patron on Iona. One of the most western isles of Scotland, Iona lies just off the southwest coast of Mull. The early history of this tiny island is largely the history of Columba’s life there. It was his home for 34 years. He sailed over from Ireland in 563 and remained there until his death on 9 June 597. From this small island he carried the faith to the mainland and to many other parts of Scotland. To mark this anniversary, members of the order from all parts of England, Scotland and Wales took part in a pilgrimage to the island in May. The party included Bishop Joseph Toal of Argyll and the Isles who celebrated Mass for the pilgrims at the Abbey Church on Iona. In his homily, Bishop Joseph said that the example of St Columba was more relevant to Catholics now than ever before as we had become more of a pagan society than that which we knew in our younger days and Catholics had a mission to spread the word of God. He hoped the party would draw some inspiration from coming to Iona and praying together in this holy place. Addressing the party at the end of the pilgrimage, Brother Charlie McCluskey, the KSC’s director for membership and development, thanked all who attended what was a truly moving and wonderful occasion. • Last month we mentioned Southport council’s Sponsored Bike Ride in aid of Clumber Lodge (Nugent Care) Residential Home for Children and Young Adults. With donations still coming in, it is expected that over £1,000 will be raised for this worthy cause. Grand knight Tom Sammon would like to thank all who supported this event. If you would still like to contribute, please contact Tom Williams on tomwilliams62@gmail.com or Tom Sammon on 01704 214 030. Website: www.ksc.org.uk Email: DPOKeane@aol.com

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PIC Life Playing the waiting game By Moira Billinge Have you ever dared calculate the number of hours you have spent – or wasted – waiting for something to happen? For that matter, have you ever compiled a list of the occasions when you have waited for good or bad news, for traffic lights to change colour or for a supermarket cashier to finish dealing with the person in front of you? What about the times when someone promises to ‘phone back in a couple of minutes’ and leaves you waiting for several hours or even days before returning the call? The endless and exasperating list which constitutes the average ‘waiting game’ only serves to prove that we humans have a remarkable, if understandable, intolerance when it comes to coping with delay. Major businesses seem to think that the customer is at their service rather than the other way around. Take, for instance, the apparently straightforward task of engaging a workman for some simple maintenance task. First of all, there is the initial phone call. A computerised system apparently guarantees greater efficiency: the customer is directed to the correct extension and is saved the bother of waiting around… except that an electronic voice issues its instruction to press 1, 2, 3 or any other number programmed into the computer. After you have finished hearing the guidelines once, how often have you forgotten the options and have to listen to them all over again? (Incidentally, a recording company discovered that a woman’s voice was less likely to sound confrontational and demanding – hence the number of female electronic voices. It was different in Germany where men felt constitutionally unable to obey a

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woman and so a male voice issues the commands.) Be it an engineer, plumber, electrician or whoever else, the promise is often that he or she will arrive between certain specified times, arranged for the company’s convenience rather than the customer who must set aside those hours ‘just in case’ – with ear tuned to the doorbell and phone, and deaf to all other sounds. Forget about doing anything useful like using the vacuum cleaner or the washing machine. Don’t even consider hanging laundry on the line because that will be the very moment that they will arrive and you will not hear the doorbell… and don’t, whatever you do, go to the bathroom. That is a guarantee that the workman will come, realise you are ‘unavailable’ and go away having deposited a calling card through the letterbox. You must then arrange another appointment and begin the process all over again, forfeiting another tranche of your life which you will never ever get back – and perhaps losing the will to live in the middle of the whole frustrating process. Have you ever noticed just how often radio and daytime television feature doorbells and telephones? Just try waiting around for the real-life version and relaxing while you wait! Is it any surprise that when the workman finally arrives, you welcome them like a long-lost friend, to a rolled-out red carpet, a cup of tea, cakes, sandwiches, and, on completion of the job, undying gratitude and inclusion in your will when you update it? Lord, teach me to be patient – with life, with people, and with myself. Please help me to be more understanding when waiting for others to do things at their pace and not mine and make me forever grateful for all that you have given to me. Amen

Our Favourite Prayer Fear knocked at the door – Faith answered it – There was nothing there

From Pat Sharp Christ the King and Our Lady’s parish, Wavertree Please send your favourite prayer to: Barbara Catholic Pictorial, 36 Henry Street, Liverpool L1 5BS Please include your contact number (not for publication) and which parish you are from.

Worth a visit It seems appropriate to venture further afield in this column on occasion and this month we will explore one of the many charms of Malta, writes Lucy Oliver. The island is renowned for its beautiful churches and a personal favourite of mine is the Shipwreck Church of St Paul, so-called because it was here that Paul took refuge when his ship was wrecked off the coast, and here that the word of God first reached the Maltese people. In historic Valletta, just off St Paul’s Street on a steep hill, the church invites the visitor to explore the small grotto which was Paul’s home in AD60. The rest of the church, built later in the baroque style, features a gold reliquary holding St Paul’s wrist bones. In contrast with the splendour of the nearby St John’s CoCathedral, commissioned for the Knights of Malta, the grotto space allows for profound reflection. In the Year of Faith it is apt to consider St Paul’s mission, which took him far from the places he knew and the person he had believed himself to be. A man of words but also a man of action, he left Malta with its first bishop ordained and the faith established.

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Old Mrs Donnelly had been taken into hospital and Father Mullarkey was sitting beside her bed. ‘They’re looking after me very well, Father. The nurses are lovely and one of them knows me, because she went to school with our Bernadette. She sits and talks to me for ages.’ ‘Well that’s lovely,’ said the auld fella. ‘It must be a great comfort to you. Hospitals can be frightening places.’ And glancing across at a machine with tubes coming out in all directions, he added: ‘For instance, I wouldn’t like to be hooked up to that.’ ‘Yer certainly wouldn't, Father,’ old Mrs Donnelly replied. ‘It’s the carpet shampooer!’

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