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Issue 122 NOVEMBER 2014
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contents Welcome The Feast of All Saints, which we celebrate today, and the commemoration of all the faithful departed, very much set the scene for the coming month. November is a time for remembrance and at the very beginning we remember all those who have gone before us. Next Sunday is Remembrance Sunday especially significant in the 100th anniversary year of the outbreak of the First World War. We pray for all who have lost their lives in the two world wars and other conflicts. We remember others too this month: today is also LAMP Sunday, when we remember Father Denis Parry and Father Simon Cadwallader in Peru serving with the Liverpool Archdiocesan Missionary Project. We pray too for those they serve. Sunday 16 November is the Day of Prayer for prisoners and their dependants and Sunday 23 November; Youth Sunday, a time to remember all those who work with and for our Animate Youth Ministries with young people throughout our Archdiocese and beyond. Sunday 23 November is also the Feast of Christ the King, the titular Feast of our Metropolitan Cathedral. It is good to remember all who serve there and those associated with the Mother Church of our Archdiocese.
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Pastoral Letter From Archbishop Malcolm
From the Archbishop’s Desk As well as being the time of year to remember the Holy Souls, November is also a time to remember the Gunpowder Plot. Bonfires and fireworks remind us of the attempt by Guy Fawkes and his Catholic companions to blow up parliament and kill King James I. This is not an event in history of which English Catholics can be proud, but set against the background of the reformation and religious fervour of the age it is understandable. I have been reading ‘God’s Traitor’s’ by Jessica Childs, a recent book that tells the story of the Vaux family and their support of the Jesuit mission to England in the late 1500s and early 1600s. Even though it is not a novel it reads like one, and shows how that family among others, and especially its women, kept our Catholic faith alive during times which are much more difficult than our own. Having a readily identifiable enemy helped them focus their minds and their souls. Maybe that is what we are missing today. Passing on our faith to the next generation is never easy but in our modern age it is harder than ever because it is very hard to see why our precious faith is not valued. We are rightly proud of our martyrs who died for their faith, but we should also be proud of our fellow Christians, those unsung heroes, who quietly live their faith day by day. Spare them a thought and a prayer when you are enjoying your bonfire party on 5 November.
10 Sunday Reflections Liturgy and Life 11 Nugent News Christmas Appeal 2014 12 What’s On Whats happening in the Archdiocese 15 Archdiocese of Liverpool Summarised Annual Report 2013 19 Profile Caroline Hull Helping to ease the plight of the persecuted 20 Justice and Peace Prayers for Prisons Week 21 Animate Youth Ministry Animate team hit the ground running
Most Rev Malcolm McMahon OP Archbishop of Liverpool
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26 Pic Extras Mums the word News from the KSC 28 Pic Life Minding your own business 29 Holy Land Pilgrimage
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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: catholicpictorial@rcaol.co.uk
Unitapes go live
A priceless archive became available to the public with the launch of the Unitapes website at the Centre for Evangelisation last month. Over 800 tapes were produced of talks which were given at the Upholland Northern Institute in order to promote the teachings of the Second Vatican Council. Former Director of the Upholland Northern Institute, Father Kevin Kelly, remembered the night of the very first talk when a hall had been prepared for up to 100 people: 300 turned up and the talk was moved to the College Chapel on a ‘freezing cold night’. In thanking the IT team of Liverpool Hope University who undertook the project, Father Kevin spoke of his delight that the collection had found a home in the only ecumenical University in Europe. He went on to say, ‘our emphasis is not on a commercial venture but to share the ideas of the Second Vatican Council as widely as possible’. ‘Thank God for Unitapes’ said Archbishop Malcolm as he formally launched the project. He said the venture is, ‘something new, not nostalgic, an online resource of intellectual work done in a down to earth manner in order to spread all goodness throughout the world.’ He went on to say that the tapes form ‘a great contribution to the intellectual life of the Church with all of the thoughts bringing us closer to the one teacher, Jesus Christ’.
Pictured next to the statue of Our Lady which used to be at St Joseph’s College are Archbishop Malcolm, Father Kevin Kelly and Joe Kennedy from Liverpool Hope University.
The cassette recordings from the original 800 talks have been digitised and are available for download at the website www.unitape.org CD copies can also be ordered, a catalogue is online and also available from The Secretary, Department of Pastoral Formation, LACE, Croxteth Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool, L17 1AA.
Obituary of Rev Brendan O’Sullivan Former Parish Priest of Sacred Heart, Liverpool, St Elizabeth, Litherland and St Oswald, Longton, Father Brendan O’Sullivan, died on Friday 3 October aged 82; he had been a priest for 57 years. Brendan D’Arcy O’Sullivan was born on 30 January 1932 in Liverpool, the son of Alexander and Helen O’Sullivan. He attended Sacred Heart School, Ainsdale, and St Mary’s, Crosby, before going to Ushaw College to study for the priesthood. He was ordained priest at St Christopher’s, Speke, on 28 July 1957. Following ordination he supplied temporarily at St 4
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Clare’s, Liverpool, and St Francis of Assisi, Garston, before being appointed assistant priest at St Swithin’s, Gillmoss, in November 1957. He had three further appointments as assistant priest at St Oswald’s, Padgate in 1965; St Cecilia’s, Liverpool in January 1971 and St James, Orrell in February 1977. At Orrell he was also chaplain to St John Rigby Sixth Form College and St Peter’s High School. In October 1978 he was appointed parish priest of Sacred Heart, Liverpool, where the clergy also served as chaplains to the Royal Liverpool Hospital. After more than six years at Sacred Heart he was transferred to St Elizabeth, Litherland, in
April 1985. His final appointment as parish priest came in September 1992 with his transfer to St Oswald, Longton. He remained in Longton until his retirement in February 2007. From 1970 Father Brendan held office as a judge in the Metropolitan Tribunal and gave generously of his time to this aspect of archdiocesan life. Until quite recently he was still coming once a week to LACE to assist with the judgment of matrimonial cases. Archbishop Malcolm celebrated the Funeral Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes, Southport on Monday 13 October.
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54th Annual Rosary procession Over 200 people, including quite a number of young families took part in the 54th Annual St Helens Family Rosary Procession on Rosary Sunday, 5 October. Led by the Archbishop of Liverpool, the Most Reverend Malcolm McMahon OP and the Mayor and Mayoress of St Helens, Councillor and Mrs Geoffrey Pearl, together with Father Sean Riley, of Holy Cross church, the procession wound its way along a new route via Church Street, Ormskirk Street, Cotham Street, and across the Town Hall Piazza to Corporation Street and Parade Street, to Holy Cross and St. Helen church. During the Procession, decades of the rosary were recited for intentions including the family, youth, sanctity of
life from conception to natural death, relief of unemployment, relief from disease and famine and the progression of the Sainthood causes for Passionists Blessed Dominic Barberi and Mother Elizabeth Prout, both of whom are buried at St Anne and Blessed Dominic, Sutton. A special intention this year was for peace in the Middle East, especially in Syria, Iraq and the Holy Land. The Procession concluded with the traditional sung Benediction led by the Archbishop. During his short Homily, Archbishop Malcolm highlighted the importance of faith and tradition. Next year the 55th Annual Procession will take place on Sunday 4 October processing to St Mary’s church, Lowe House.
Dedication of new Notre Dame chapel A year after its relocation to Great Homer Street, Notre Dame Catholic College marked another milestone on 19 September with a dedication service for the new school chapel. The chapel is located at the very centre of the school and features four beautiful stained glass windows brought from the chapel in the old school building in Everton Valley. Mass was said by Bishop Tom Williams and concelebrated by Father Michael Fitzsimmons, from St John’s parish and Fr Graeme Dunne from St Anthony’s. The guests joining staff and pupils from the school’s 1804 Society at the service included Sister Maureen Lomax, Sr Pat Ellen Gribbin, Sr Elizabeth Grady and Sr Anne Byrne from the Notre Dame Provincial Team based in Parbold. After the service, Bishop Tom presented the school with the gift of a religious work of art depicting The Annunciation, which now hangs in the chapel.
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news diary VMM on issues of health in mission Volunteer Mission Movement (VMM) will host its second annual dinner on 6 December at the Creative Campus of Liverpool Hope University. The event will feature Professor Janet Hemingway, CBE, Director of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine who will address the ongoing health crises in Africa. In addition, newly announced CEO John Denny will share his views on mission work and the organisations impact and support to over 30 partners in Africa. Mission partners will also deliver a presentation. VMM was founded in 1969 by Edwina Gateley, an English laywoman, in response to Vatican II. There was and still is a need for lay people to become more deeply involved in the life and mission of the Catholic Church. Work began in education, health and pastoral projects in East Africa. As VMM became more widely known, it sent people further afield, throughout the continent of Africa as well as to regions of Asia and Latin America. VMM volunteers are members of a variety of Christian traditions. Today they work in many professional capacities as community development workers, teachers, health workers, nurses, doctors, accountants, builders, mechanics and other technical workers. In more recent times, VMM has concentrated its resources on a smaller number of countries so as to build community and be an effective witness. The VMM members provide a significant contribution to the Church. Their gifts from the Holy Spirit are conveyed to others through their faith in action. VMM Manager for England and Wales Van Garber stated, ‘Returned volunteers continue their mission in many ways, including becoming actively involved in their local church, communities and working for social change within their own societies.’ The December 6, event will offer an early reception beginning at 4.00 pm for mission and development volunteers, civic groups and congregations. This will be a chance to meet with others of similar background throughout Liverpool and the Northwest. For more information, contact the VMM Liverpool Office on 0151 291 3438 or email vmm@hope.ac.uk 6
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‘Outstanding’ Archbishop Beck campus opened
The official opening of the new Archbishop Beck Catholic Sports College campus took place on 3 October, attended by Archbishop Malcolm McMahon together with the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, and Baroness Estelle Morris, the former Education Secretary. The new £18m Archbishop Beck campus is home to 1,200 pupils and stands on the former Long Lane council depot in Fazakerley. Built as part of the Liverpool Schools Investment Programme, it also features a sports hall with six courts, a 3G
pitch, a theatre and recording and dance studios. Archbishop McMahon concluded the opening event by delivering a final prayer and reflection and blessing the school chapel. Head teacher Paul Dickinson said: “This is an outstanding new college campus that will benefit all the students and the wider community of north Liverpool.” Mayor Anderson described it as “a fantastic new facility which will provide thousands of young people with a fantastic education in great surroundings”.
Cathedral double for Southport artist’s icons An exhibition of icons by John Hart, a Southport artist and St Marie’s parishioner, went on view at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral in October – three years after a display at the Metropolitan Cathedral. The Pelikons 2 exhibition was opened by Dr Anne Merriman, founder of the Hospice Africa charity, on 20 October and included 25 new works in addition to those displayed in Hart’s 2011 Pelikons exhibition. The former art inspector for Liverpool schools developed his icons from a series of pen vignettes of the Sunday liturgy that he produced for St Marie’s parish newsletter. They offer reflections on faith, life and nature and feature places familiar to the artist, including Southport, Liverpool and the Lake District. The inspiration for the work was “a wish to re-emphasise the core Christian values” according to the 79-year-old, who was “fed up with the way the Church is being attacked in the media”. For more information, contact jonathanart@hotmail.co.uk.
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Pastoral Letter The following Pastoral Letter was read at all Masses on the Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time: 19 October 2014 Dear friends in Christ, During these last two weeks, Bishops from across the world have been gathered together in Rome with our Holy Father Pope Francis to discuss the pastoral challenges that face marriage and family life in the world in which we live, and how the Gospel of Jesus Christ can challenge us, teach us and console us.
one another as best we can, so too as Christians we should welcome one another, support one another and love one another, especially those who find themselves in distressing or difficult circumstances, whoever they may be.
The family is central to our lives. And yet the very existence of the family itself seems to be under pressure from a society that no longer exclusively values marriage as a unique, stable and lifelong relationship between one man and one woman, entered into for life, ordained by God as part of his creative and redemptive plan for his world, a living symbol of Christ’s love for his Church, and written in the laws of nature itself. We are all painfully aware of the multifaceted challenges that make family life very hard for many people today. We have all seen images in the media recently of refugees from Iraq and Syria having to flee their homeland and of many people dying in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe from northern Africa. Closer to home, we all know the challenges which face our families, both adults and young people, here in the Archdiocese of Liverpool; in a society in which marital breakdown means that many children do not live with both their parents, the question which many people ask is how can we bridge what they feel is a large chasm between Our Lord’s clear teaching that ‘What God has joined together, no one can divide’ (Mk 10:9) and the reality of many lives today. These are very difficult questions, and we are all aware that living according to the teaching of the Church, which is rooted in that of Christ himself, is not simple or straightforward. The Synod Fathers will have given much thought and prayer to them during this last fortnight, and we must also pray for them as they prepare themselves for a further meeting of the Synod next year so that the Church will be able to find new ways of deepening the way in which we care for families, whatever their circumstances. The task of the Christian is to conform our
lives so that they reflect Christ’s life more fully – giving ‘to God what belongs to God’, in the words of today’s Gospel, since we all belong to him. By God’s grace and with the love that is deep within a family, it is possible to live the Christian life, because that love which we share with one another is an expression of God’s love for us. This is why the self-giving love of husband and wife is at the very heart of family life, at the very heart of society. Pope Paul VI, whom Pope Francis is beatifying this Sunday, said that whoever really loves his husband or wife loves them not only for what they receive but for the sake of their spouse, content to be able to enrich the other with the gift of himself or herself. During these months since I became your Archbishop, I have visited and celebrated Mass in every deanery, and I have been inspired with the welcome that I have received, for which I am extremely grateful. During those visitations, I could see the hope that I have for family life in all those who gathered to celebrate Mass with me, just as you have all gathered in your churches today. Together, our families make the family of the Church; just as in our own families we support and welcome
Paul VI, whom I mentioned earlier, suffered much during his life – not just physically in old age but for his work in guiding the Church as a humble and kind shepherd during one of the most turbulent periods of her long history. Yet, through all this he was a man of great joy; in the words of a priest who knew him well, ‘he toiled for Christ and the Church but also and above all… he suffered for Christ and the Church. I always admired not only his deep inner resignation but also his constant abandonment to divine providence.’ In this, Paul VI is an example to us all: to radiate the joy of Christ even when times are difficult; to resign ourselves to the will of Christ even when we might want to do something else; and to abandon ourselves into the hands of Christ in everything that we say and do, so that we may carry him and be carried by him in every moment of our daily lives. I hope and pray that as we live our Christian calling to be ‘dead to sin and alive in Christ Jesus’ (Rom 10:9), we will welcome one another with the same love with which Christ welcomes us and that, by the power of the Holy Spirit, we will continue to conform our lives so that we more faithfully be Christ in the world in which we live. With my prayers and every good wish for you and your families,
Most Rev Malcolm McMahon OP Archbishop of Liverpool
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sunday reflections On a liturgical note November can be a dark month, when we begin to take into our hearts (and our bones!) that the longer evenings and warm days of summer and autumn are well past and that, with the fading of the leaves on the trees, the winter is upon us. Even as the colour of nature around us changes from the green of vibrant growth to the gold and russet of hibernation, the Liturgy seems to add to our despair by presenting us with thoughts of death and departure on the Feast of the Holy Souls on 2 November – a sense of sombre remembrance picked up again on the 11th of the month as the nation keeps its annual silence and the poppies fall once again. And yet November has opened with the solemn remembrance not of the power of darkness and decay, but the triumph of the light – the true Light of the World, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Solemnity of All Saints, or All Hallows as it is sometimes known (therefore making the last day of October All Hallows’ Eve, which eventually became Halloween), speaks of light, happiness and peace, and that
Sunday thoughts In the Peruvian Andes people get up with their animals and take them to graze on the mountain slopes. In the evening they bring them home and bed them down for the night. Then they retire themselves. Sheep and goats graze together. And they do so along with pigs. The pigs are small and black and hairy, like miniature wild boar. The three species are mixed up but seem to get along. When I lived in the Andes the baby lambs, kids and piglets were all cute and I enjoyed picking them up to play with them, though often the piglets squealed and wriggled off. My favourites by far were the baby goats. Their coats were silky. The lambs were, of course, woolly. And the goats were more intelligent. They had an amazing capacity to stand upright on even the steepest mountain side, as if they had Velcro on their legs. The sheep would get stuck, panic and start bleating. But
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blessedness which is the fruit and result of a close following of the way of Christ and of His Gospel. It not only invites us to reflect and be truly grateful for all those saints of God who have been in past generations (some of them canonised by the Church, others not); it is also a challenge and an invitation to us to be those saints in our modern world. Not the ‘plaster saints’ or holier-than-thou figurines which run the risk of putting us off rather than attracting us to the Way of Christ; no, we are called to be those people who actually believe the words that Saint John spoke in the Second Reading on the Feast of All Saints. ‘Think of the love the Father has lavished on us.’ And once we have thought, then we live accordingly. The old saying goes, ‘It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness’. May you light a candle of Christ-like goodness in your parish, community and family in these next weeks.
Mgr John Devine OBE
the kids could take care of themselves. The passage from Matthew’s Gospel for the Feast of Christ the King is about sheep and goats. Jesus would have been speaking from experience. Separating them would not be easy. It is telling that Jesus makes the goats the bad guys. The sheep are the helpless ones and that apparently makes them virtuous. Pigs do not feature in this story at all. They show up, however, in the account of the Gerasene demoniacs. In casting out devils, Jesus sends them to occupy a herd of two thousand grazing pigs who drown themselves in the lake. In this story of judgement day neither sheep nor goats recognise themselves as virtuous or wicked. Ignorance is no disadvantage or defence.
Let it begin with me I was recently in South Africa. On the first morning the lady who was cooking omelettes in the restaurant smiled and asked where I had come from. Her name was Mary and she was a black South African. The next day she told me about her children and how her youngest did not like school. She laughed as she told me some of the excuses she made to avoid going there. On the third day I asked her how her journey had been that morning. She told me that she had got up at 4am. An hour’s bus ride got her from the township where she lived into Cape Town for 6am and then she had a 30minute walk to the hotel where she began work at 6.30. She told me that she finished work at 4pm and then had to reverse the whole process, usually arriving home at 6.30. Then she said something that challenged me greatly. ‘You know, them say I’m just like the whites – now I can vote, I have civil rights. I don’t see any whites on my bus at 5am. Things ain’t that different than they used to be.’ Mary has led me to reflect on what makes real change happen. We cannot change people’s hearts by imposing laws on them. We cannot change attitudes by statute. Only the inner experience of grace really liberates human beings. It is the presence of the Spirit bringing an experience of unconditional love that enables us to challenge our internal viewpoint. The Gospel frees us to live in a world of broad horizons and abundant blessing but without that encounter we live in prisons of our own making. We can become narrow, judgemental people who blame and scapegoat others for their colour, sexuality, disability or religion. I find it a real sadness that that is where many human beings live, even some of us in the Church. The Gospel challenges us to face ourselves and open ourselves to the transforming power of the Spirit, not just for our sake but for the sake of the world. As I watch the horrors that have emerged in Syria and Iraq and Ukraine, I have become aware that many of the world’s problems begin with the unwillingness to accept difference and otherness. We might not live in war-torn areas of the world but there are times when we contribute to the injustice all around us by our lack of openness to the changing power of the spirit. So in the words of the old Tom Paxton song: ‘Peace will come but let it begin with me.’ Fr Chris Thomas
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nugent news Christmas Appeal 2014
The winter months can be a cold and lonely place for many people, but with help from donations last year look what you were able to do to help Steve. Steve was alerted to Nugent Care’s Housing Support Unit staff at crisis point and at a stage where he hadn’t eaten for four days. He was living and sleeping in one room, as he was unable to get upstairs due to his poor health. He had no heating or gas and was freezing cold and damp. Steve was sleeping on a chair and had no quilt or bed and there were no internal doors in the house making him feel the cold more. There were no basic appliances; he had no access to basic facilities and there was no hot water. He had previously received food vouchers but due to his memory problems would forget to go and get food. Steve had always worked until his health deteriorated which led to him having limited mobility. He lived in his own home, which had been his family home, but sadly had no living relatives to support him. His housing and health benefits had been stopped which meant that he had gone in to rent arrears. When our worker went to meet Steve, he had not eaten for four days. We were able to offer help instantly with food, basic kitchen appliances, bedding and a winter warmer pack, which made things a little more bearable for Steve. During the winter months one of our staff worked tirelessly to try and sort out the
benefit problems, which meant that Steve was able to get credit for his electricity meter. Recently as things were starting to improve Steve died because of his ill health, however the impact of your donations last year meant that we were able to make Steve more comfortable and help him through this difficult time. When we support someone like Steve, the basics: a bed, microwave, kettle etc. cost £150. A donation, no matter what size, will help a person out of poverty. £5 would provide toiletries; £10 a food pack; £15 a kettle and toaster; £35 a microwave and £80 would buy a new bed. During a parliamentary reception for Caritas Social Action Network of which Nugent care is a member, Bishop John Arnold said ‘We should judge the success of our society and our civilised living on measuring how we help those most in need, the most vulnerable in our society. Poverty is a challenge to the whole sense of justice, to the very fabric of our society … and among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.’ Donations can be sent to: Christmas Appeal, Nugent Care, 99 Edge Lane, Liverpool L7 2PE For more details visit: www.nugentcare.org tel: 0151 261 2000 or email: marie.reynolds@nugentcare.org
‘Have you put your heating on yet?’ That’s a question that I have heard a lot in these last few weeks. As the days become shorter and the weather colder we all look for comfort in heat and light, but many in today’s society no longer have that option. Homeless people have no heating to switch on and few, if any, belongings for comfort. Increasingly many vulnerable people are going without the basics of food, shelter, care and support due to cuts to funding and other issues. Looking at our social impact in the last quarter, July to September, Nugent Care gave out £1,535 worth of goods. This means we helped fifteen families in the quarter with essential items such as a special bed for someone with disabilities; a week's rent so that someone could move into their new home and resettle after having a history of homelessness; a bed and a wardrobe for a little girl who moved to be cared for by her aunt. These are just some of the people we have been privileged to assist thanks to the donations to last year’s Christmas Appeal. We continually receive applications for items for people who desperately need assistance with gas and electricity, rent and essential items. Unfortunately such requests have become the ‘norm’ rather than the exception and it is only through our fundraising we are able to make a positive impact on the lives of others. The last Christmas Appeal with other Agency contributions eventually assisted us to help 144 families. We have also since last October assisted with 382 starter packs, 225 families with bags of food (this does not include the food vouchers we have given for other foodbanks) and 265 pieces of donated or used furniture items. As our annual appeal begins I wanted you to know how essential it is to our work in helping others, not just at Christmas but throughout the year. We are grateful for all donations even the smallest of which can make a difference to a homeless person or a family in desperate need. Thank you for your help.
Kathleen Pitt Chief Executive Nugent Care
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what’s on ‘In Memoriam 1914’ Concert for Armistice Day 7.30 pm in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. Tickets and details Tel: 0151 707 3525 or www.cathedralconcerts.org.uk Thursday 13 November ‘Exploring the Infancy Narratives.’ Scripture Morning led by Father Chris Thomas. 10.30 am at Irenaeus, 32 Great Georges Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, L22 1RD. Details Tel: 0151 949 1199 or email: jenny@irenaeus.co.uk Saturday 15 November Ignatian Spirituality with Father Simon Bishop SJ 10.00am to 3.00 pm at St Francis Xavier's Church, Salisbury Street, L3 8DR. Bring your own lunch, hot drinks provided. Suggested offering £5. Booking required beforehand Tel: 0151 298 1911 or email: d.reynolds@sfxchurchliverpool.com
Sunday 9 November Sunday 2 November Feast of All Saints LAMP (Liverpool Archdiocesan Missionary Project) Sunday Service of prayer and thanksgiving With the premiere of a newly commissioned play, ‘Don Bosco-the magic saint’ performed by the Birmingham based RISE theatre group. 6.00 pm at St James Parish, Chesnut Grove, Bootle, L204LX. Monday 3 November All Souls Day Solemn Sung Requiem 5.15 pm in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. Wednesday 5 November UCM Bi-monthly Mass 7.30 pm at St Cecilia, Green Lane, Tuebrook, L13 7DT. Thursday 6 November ‘Exploring the Infancy Narratives.’ Scripture Morning led by Father Chris Thomas. 10.30 am at Irenaeus, 32 Great Georges Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, L22 1RD. Details Tel: 0151 949 1199 or email: jenny@irenaeus.co.uk Thursday 6 November to Sunday 9 November Liverpool 3 day Cursillo Liverpool Cursillo is a Catholic short course in Christianity. A three day residential course lived in Christian Community at St Joseph's Prayer Centre, Formby. Details www.liverpoolcursillo.co.uk or Tel 07542 642327.
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Friday 7 November Asylum Link Merseyside: Charity Musical Extravaganza 7.00 pm at St Anne's, Overbury Street, L7 3HJ. Hayley Kincade, Voices of Hope, Perri and Neil, Lissy Egan, Lol McLemens, New Era and others. Tickets £5 from info@asylumlink.org.uk Saturday 8 November Celebrating and Resourcing Liturgy of the Word for children Creative Workshops for Advent and Christmas with Sister Catherine Darby SND. 10.00 am to 1.00 pm at St Paul Multimedia, 82 Bold Street, Liverpool, L1 4HR. Donation £5.00 per person. Booking essential Tel: 0151 709 1328 or email: catherine@pauline-uk.org Sunday 9 November Remembrance Sunday Tuesday 11 November Celebrating 50 years of Catholic Ecumenism Seminar on Ecumenism: ‘The last 50 years; the next 50 years’. 2.00 pm in Wheeler Hall, St Anne’s Cathedral, Leeds. Celebrating 50 years of Catholic Ecumenism Ecumenical Vespers. 5.30 pm in St Anne’s Cathedral, Leeds. Preacher: the Most Reverend Sir David Moxon (the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome).
Sunday 16 November Day of Prayer for Prisoners and their dependants Thursday 20 November ‘Exploring the Infancy Narratives.’ Scripture Morning led by Father Chris Thomas. 10.30 am at Irenaeus, 32 Great Georges Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, L22 1RD. Details Tel: 0151 949 1199 or email: jenny@irenaeus.co.uk Newman Circle Talk Medieval Sanctity Speaker: Casey Beaumont. 7.30 pm at St Helen's Parish Centre, Crosby, L23 7TQ. ‘Days that shook the world.’ The Christmas Truce A film about the day in 1914 when the guns were silenced, the fighting stopped and the football started. 7.30 pm at Marine FC, The Arriva Stadium, College Road, Liverpool L23 3AS. Details: 0151 924 8674.
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november Saturday 22 November ‘In time of War’ Concert 7.30 pm in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King. Tickets and details Tel: 0151 707 3525 or www.cathedralconcerts.org.uk
Thursday 27 November Friday 21 November to Sunday 23 November ‘Go out into the world and preach the gospel to all creation.’ Reflections on the Gospel of Mark. Scripture Weekend led by Father Chris Thomas at Irenaeus, 32 Great Georges Road, Liverpool, L22 1RD. Bookings Details Tel: 0151 949 1199 or email: jenny@irenaeus.co.uk
Thursday 27 November Brothers of Charity Christmas Launch At Summerhill Garden Centre, Thingwall Hall, Thingwall Lane, Broadgreen L14 7NY from 4:30 pm to 7.00 pm. Mulled wine and Christmas snacks, pre-order a 2014 Christmas Tree or buy a festive Wreath or other plants.
healthcare. Boarbank Hall, Allithwaite, Grange over Sands, Cumbria, LA11 7NH. Details Tel: 01539 532288. Email: margaret@boarbankhall.org.uk. Web: www.boarbankhall.org.uk
Friday 28 November to Sunday 30 November Hope in Health: ‘Communication’. A weekend for Catholic under-40s in
Advent Sequence 5.00 pm in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King.
Sunday 30 November First Sunday of Advent
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Sunday 23 November Feast of Christ the King Titular Feast of the Metropolitan Cathedral Youth Sunday Solemn Mass for the Feast of Christ the King 11.00 am in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool.
Looking ahead: December Tuesday 2 December Dominican Spirituality A talk by Archbishop Malcolm McMahon OP. An evening, including dinner, organised by the Friends of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. 7.00 pm in the Gibberd Room. Tickets £16.50 from Cathedral House Tel:0151 709 9222. Thursday 4 December ‘Exploring the Infancy Narratives.’ Scripture Morning led by Father Chris Thomas. 10.30 am at Irenaeus, 32 Great Georges Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, L22 1RD. Details Tel: 0151 949 1199 or email: jenny@irenaeus.co.uk Saturday 6 December ‘Come and See’ Day. ‘Becoming Fully Alive’ led by Father Jim McManus CSsR. 10.00 am to 5.00 pm at Faith Primary School , Prince Edwin Street, Liverpool, L5 3LW. Bookings Tel: 0151 949 1199 or email: jenny@irenaeus.co.uk
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Caroline Hull Helping to ease the plight of the persecuted by Simon Hart CAROLINE Hull may have lived in England for almost a quarter-century but there is one thing she still misses from the world she knew on the east coast of the United States. ‘I grew up with big skies and you don’t really get them here,’ says Caroline, the recently appointed northwest regional manager for Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). Yet if the skies are greyer in her adopted home of Lancaster, thankfully they cannot dampen the ‘positive, pioneering American spirit’ that this New Jersey native is bringing to her work with ACN, a charity focused on supporting Catholics in places where they face persecution and oppression. ‘My philosophy is you have got to think big,’ she explains. ‘It doesn’t always work out but if you don’t try, it is never going to happen.’ Previously assistant dean at Lancaster Cathedral, she began working with ACN in April as the first representative of the London-based charity in the northwest. For her, ‘old Lancashire’ was ‘the obvious choice’ for ACN as the ‘recusant Catholic heartland where we have this big cache of benefactors’. Her role is to raise awareness across a wide area ‘from
Ludlow at the bottom of Shropshire all the way up to Carlisle’ and it is an important task given that ACN is not a Bishops’ Conference charity, but a pontifical foundation, meaning ‘we rely heavily on our appeals’. She adds: ‘The best thing to help us raise our regional profile is to have help on the ground in each parish so I am very keen to recruit parish reps.’ For those not aware of ACN’s work, Caroline offers the following explanation: ‘We help isolated and persecuted Christian communities keep the faith alive – we support seminarians and build churches and train religious sisters.’ ACN’s involvement with the Good Shepherd Sisters in Lebanon means it is engaged also in providing humanitarian aid for Syrian and Iraqi refugees and this work is the focus of her newly launched primary schools programme, ‘Prayers from our hearts’, which is now available to schools in Liverpool Archdiocese. ‘It is a day of activities centring round prayer and crafts and information about what it’s like to be a refugee.’ The upcoming events she has arranged in the northwest, meanwhile, include a
talk by Benjamin Kwashi, Archishop of Jos on ‘the state of the Church in Nigeria’ at Holy Name Church, Manchester on 6 November and a series of prayer vigils for religious freedom – one at the Metropolitan Cathedral on 6 February, with the Archishop of Rangoon, Charles Bo, as speaker, and others at St Mary’s, Chorley and St John’s, Wigan. Caroline’s work seems quite a contrast with her one-time life as an academic and medieval art historian. The mother of three first came to England to research her PhD in English medieval art and architecture at Yale University yet she sees the thread between the two. ‘I was a medieval art historian and have always been interested in the Church, history, faith and devotion,’ she says. As for the history of ACN, this ‘started right after the Second World War in 1947 to help displaced Germans who had no priests.’ Its mission then spread to behind the Iron Curtain but today, sadly, it is needed far and wide. • For information about becoming a parish rep for ACN, contact caroline.hull@acnuk.org. http://www.acnuk.org/
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Prayers for Prisons Week By Steve Atherton, Justice and Peace fieldworker ovember is a month of remembrance. In the case of Prisons Week, this helps us to remember all those affected by prison, that we may build a sense of hope in each other that life will in some measure be restored. The following prayers are for each day of this special week of prayer from 16-22 November.
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Monday For those who work in prisons Loving God, give to all those who work in our prisons your grace and strength, your courage and your peace. May they know themselves to be loved by you, may their work be fruitful, valued and affirmed. Build them up with faith and love so that they may know themselves to be people of light, following your command to love and serve. Tuesday For those who are prisoners Lord, you told us to come to you when we are heavy-laden and you promised rest and recreation. May those who are in despair, weighed down by guilt and without hope, be built up with faith and love and know for themselves that they are people of light, and learn to follow your command to love and serve. Wednesday For those who are victims of crime Lord, lead all those who have been the victims of crime from that deep darkness into the light of a new and restored life. Let the care and concern and the energy and encouragement of those who know and love them
restore them in your image, that they might find joy in love and service and your forgiving, transforming love. Thursday For all working in the Criminal Justice System God of perfect justice and mercy, we pray for all who work in our criminal justice system; transform their human inadequacy by the power of your Holy Spirit, renew and build up their strength, their hope and their joy in your service. Give them wisdom and understanding. Inform their judgement and build up their sense of calling and renew their understanding of grace and mercy. Friday For the families Let all those who are friends, parents or partners and children, supporting those in prison, hold on to the hope that change is possible and be built up by the encouragement of others. Pour out your healing spirit, O God, bring wholeness and healing to the families of all victims and perpetrators of crime and build up their hope for a restored and renewed future. Saturday For our communities Father of all, none of us is without sin and we all fall short when we rely on own strength. Forgive us our failings, reconcile us to you and to one another, and give us the grace to
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become warm and welcoming Christian communities that support both victims of crime and ex-prisoners on the journey to reconciliation. The Prisons Week Prayer: Lord, you offer freedom to all people. We pray for those in prison. Break the bonds of fear and isolation that exist. Support with your love prisoners and their families and friends, prison staff and all who care. Heal those who have been wounded by the actions of others, especially the victims of crime. Help us to forgive one another, to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly together with Christ in his strength and in his Spirit, now and every day. Amen • It seems very early to be mentioning Christmas cards but every year the J&P Commission produces two separate lists of people who would love to receive a greeting card at Christmas. One group is prisoners of conscience, the other is Catholic parishes in the Holy Land. We are producing the lists early to help people in parishes get organised and ensure that the cards get there before Christmas. For a copy of the lists, please contact the J&P office on 0151 522 1080 or email s.atherton@rcaol.co.uk.
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youth ministry
Animate team hit the ground running By Sarah Beatty THE weeks have flown by since the team started together back in September as we have worked with five high schools on day retreats here at Lowe House – hosting over 900 pupils – as well as staging a mission day outside of the diocese in Blackburn and a mission week in Wales. Our day retreats began in early September when, over the course of four days, we welcomed 60 Year Seven students a day from Hope Academy in Newton-le-Willows. Looking at their school principle of ‘We are Family’, we showed how we need to be able to work as a team, tolerate other people and their ideas, and make time for one another in order for the family unit at Hope Academy to flourish. The following week we were joined by the different form groups from
Year Seven at St John Fisher in Wigan to explore their school motto ‘Hold fast to that which is good’. Through various activities we looked at what is good – good actions, good deeds and good people – and how we need to hold on tight to these things, no matter what other people may say or think. Next to pass through our doors were the new Year Seven pupils from St Mary’s Catholic College, Crosby. With this group we focused on their hopes and fears as they entered this new stage in their education, asking what they might want to achieve during their time at St Mary’s and offering some reassurance from Jeremiah 29:11: ‘For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord.’ We were also joined by the Year
Seven pupils from All Hallows, Preston. They had invited us to be part of their retreat days taking place at Lowe House and so the team led workshops focused on team work and prayer, with a focus on the youngsters bonding as a new community. We have also hosted the Year Sevens from De La Salle in St Helens, starting with the pupils from Lindisfarne house and moving on to groups from Iona, Walsingham and Bardsey houses. We asked the question ‘What does it mean to be LaSallian?’ and considered the five LaSallian principles and how we can live these out in our communities. For our first mission day, meanwhile, we looked at what it means for us to belong to the Body of Christ with the Year Seven pupils of Our Lady and St John’s in Blackburn. The team had a great day working with the pupils in smaller class groups and developing the theme through different activities and whole year sessions. Ahead of the half-term break, the team also completed their first mission week of the year (and first international mission ever!) in St Alban’s, Pontypool in Wales, but it has not been all work and no play. We have celebrated three team members’ birthdays with evenings out in St Helens and Wigan and also had a weekend in Newcastle, where we joined our fellow youth ministers for a Mass to celebrate 20 years of YMT, Hexham and Newcastle’s Youth Ministry Team. Please continue to keep the Animate team in your prayers as we spread the Good News across the Archdiocese and beyond. Dates for the diary • 5 November – Lourdes Youth Pilgrimage Application forms will be made available from www.animateyouth.org • 30 November – Advent Youth Mass at St Mary’s, Lowe House (6.30pm) • Please note that application forms for the Youth Holy Land Pilgrimage, Flame II, and World Youth Day in Krakow are now available from www.animateyouth.org
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LET IT SNOW Sunday 14th December. 2.30pm Philharmonic Hall Liverpool Welsh Choral. Northop Silver Band. Metropolitan Cathedral Girls' Choir The BBC's favourite news reader HUGH EDWARDS narrates this fun-filled family concert with something for everyone. Traditional carols including A child is born and We three Kings, favourite tunes such as Walking in the air, Let it Snow, lively brass and a special guest to meet and greet all the children. Not forgetting your chance to sing Slade's So here it is Merry Christmas! Come and start your Christmas season with sparkle and glitter and feel free to dress for the festive mood! This is truly the best afternoon concert in town! Tickets £10, £15, £20, £22, Box £25. Children and NUS half price. T: 0151 652 6374 or mavis@lwcu.freeserve.co.uk or Philharmonic hall box office.
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cathedral
A very musical time Cathedral Record Canon Anthony O’Brien – Cathedral Dean
by Christopher McElroy As the liturgical year draws to a close, the Cathedral Choirs are gearing up for what promises to be a very musical December. The season of Advent begins on 30 November when we celebrate the beginning of the Advent journey with the ‘Advent Sequence.’ Rather than anticipate the feast of our Savior’s birth, the service recounts (through music, scripture and movement) the biblical narrative of preparation for the coming of the chosen one. The liturgy combines powerful choral music sung from all corners of the Cathedral with congregational hymns suitable for the Advent season. The legacy of Archbishop Worlock and Bishop Shepherd in fostering ecumenical relations in Liverpool lives on with a performance of Messiah jointly given by both cathedral choirs in the Metropolitan Cathedral on Saturday 6 December. The first ever ‘Two Cathedral’s Messiah’ held in the Anglican Cathedral last year was performed to a sold out audience and received a lengthy standing ovation. Tickets (£10) are available from lpoolmetmusic.ticketsource.co.uk or by phone 0151 707 3525 or in person at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Gift Shop. Ensure that you get your ticket early before they sell out. 12 December sees the recording of the BBC Radio Merseyside Carol Service
(transmitted on Christmas Eve) with music provided by the girl choristers, whilst Sunday 14 December sees the boy choristers annual performance of Benjamin Britten’s ‘A Ceremony of Carols.’ The last weekend before Christmas is especially busy, with the ‘Dickensian Christmas Concert’ and the ‘Festival Carol Service.’ The Dickensian Christmas on Saturday 20 December is the Cathedral’s Christmas concert for all the family featuring all of the Cathedral choirs performing seasonal favorites. Tickets (£5 or £10 for a family ticket) are available from lpoolmetmusic.ticketsource.co.uk or by phone 0151 707 3525 or in person at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Gift Shop. On the afternoon of Sunday 21 December we have our Festival Carol Service, which is very like the famous lessons and carols broadcast from Kings College Cambridge on the TV and Radio each year. In addition to special liturgies and concerts described above, the Cathedral choir sing seven choral liturgies each week in the Cathedral, radiating the glory of God in our amazing architectural space. Advent and Christmas are a wonderful time to experience the cathedrals liturgies and concerts, and to hear some of the most beautiful choral music ever written. Why not come along and experience it for yourself?
November begins with a full day Youth Conference at the Cathedral entitled ‘Embrace’. There will be keynote speakers, workshops, time for prayer and reconciliation and Mass with Archbishop Malcolm presiding, scheduled at 4.00 pm, as the final part of the day’s events. We keep the Feast of All Saints today, Sunday 2 November, this year, Solemn High Mass for the Feast is at 11.00 am and Sung Choral Vespers at 3.00 pm. All Souls falls on the Monday and there will be a Requiem Mass at the High Altar at 5.15 pm with an invitation to families who have experienced a recent bereavement to join us in praying for those who have died. There will be a book of Remembrance for names to be recorded and an opportunity to light a candle in memory of loved ones. The Cathedral Girls’ Choir will sing music from Faure’s Requiem during this Mass. The Cathedral Patronal Feast, of Christ the King, falls on 23 November. Archbishop Malcolm will preside at the Solemn Mass at 11.00 am and also at Choral Evening Prayer at 3.00 pm. Religious communities working within the Archdiocese have been invited to join us for Evening Prayer to mark the start of the Year of Consecrated Life. The following Sunday marks the start of the Season of Advent and instead of Evening Prayer there will be the Advent Sequence at 5.00 pm.
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Mums the Word
News from the Liverpool Province of the Knights of St Columba
Bootle brothers recognised for long service
November is not my favourite month. Summer clothes have all been put away and winter clothes brought out. Spring seems aeons away. All the plants have come to the end of their cycle, though the trees are still looking glorious in their autumn colours. It is the month when we remember deceased members of our families and our friends whom we have lost, those departed in the past year and those who left us over the years. They are with the Lord but are still looking after us (my late husband is very good at finding me parking places!). When I see roadside shrines I wonder if the families involved have any faith to help them cope and always say a quick prayer for them as I drive past. We are lucky that we have our faith to sustain us. No matter how bad we feel, there is always someone who is suffering and needs our prayers, such as the families of those who have died violently or have been killed; these prayers help us with our grief. Prayers for the dead and to the Holy Souls have always been part of the Catholic faith and I, no doubt like many of you, remember being taught the prayers and hymns in school. Although we no longer seem to sing the hymns, the prayers are still the same. We also remember those souls who have no one to pray for them. I sometimes think these prayers are more important than those for our family and friends. Eternal rest grant to all Souls, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine on them. May they rest in peace. • Our November bi-monthly Mass is on 5 November at St Cecilia’s at 7.30pm. I look forward to seeing you all there. God bless, Ann Hogg, media officer
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Members of Bootle council have been recognised for their impressively enduring commitment to the KSC.
obtain further information on joining the Order or to attend any of our monthly meetings can email the address below.
Brothers Gerry Maguire and Larry Feeney – who have served for 28 and 34 years respectively – received long service certificates at a KSCsponsored social evening at St Monica’s parish centre, Bootle. Father Pat Sexton, parish priest at St Monica’s and chaplain to council 12/13, made the presentations, while Bro John Donohue – who was unable to attend – received his own certificate for 40 years’ service in a later presentation. Our photo shows Fr Pat with Bros Gerry and Larry as well as Bro John Hamilton, provincial grand knight, and Bro Peter Cherry, grand knight, and wives and other members.
• The Annual Steve Dooley Memorial Walk organised by council 9 took place on Sunday 28 September. Last year the walk raised over £5,000 for Nugent Care and we are hoping for similar support for this year’s worthy cause – the Handicapped Children’s Pilgrimage Trust (HCPT). In the meantime we wish to thank the parish priests of all churches in south Liverpool for letting us distribute sponsorship envelopes and collecting the returned envelopes after the walk. We also thank the parishioners who have so generously donated already.
• We are always seeking new members and our latest recruitment appeal was made – with the kind permission of parish priest Fr Chris McCoy – at St Columba’s, Huyton and St John Fisher, Knowsley at all Masses on the weekend of 27/28 September. We are grateful to Fr Chris for his support and the warm welcome received from him and his parishioners. Anyone wishing to
• It is with regret that we report the death of our esteemed brother Cyril Callaghan, who for 44 years was a prominent and active member of Aintree council 584. His funeral Mass took place at St Benet’s, Netherton on 17 October. We extend our deepest sympathy to his widow Mary and all his family. Websites: www.ksc.org.uk and www.kscprov02.weebly.com Email: DPOKeane@aol.com
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join in Christmas Cards from Carmel
PIC Life Minding your own business By Moira Billinge
There are lovely Christmas cards as well as cards for all occasions on sale at the Carmelite Monastery Allerton
More Mullarkey From Johnny Kennedy Father Mullarkey and the young curate were watching a young singer on The X Factor. ‘He’s got long hair,’ said the auld fella. ‘He’s a real starve-the-barber.’
It is impossible to listen to the radio without being aware of what seems to be a constant diet of traffic and travel reports warning of long queues and advising drivers to use a different route to avoid being caught up in them. Unfortunately the bulletins all too often confirm what we already know as we sit in our cars, resigned to being rooted to the same spot for the next few hours surrounded by a sea of vehicles whose occupants are destined to share the same fate. The faces of the trapped drivers wear those pained expressions reserved for just such occasions. It is very frustrating to be in a traffic jam caused by road works, with rows of mocking cones stretching to the horizon without much evidence of work actually in progress. But, more often than not, the queues of static vehicles are the result of collisions caused by dangerous or careless driving. To make matters infinitely worse, the traffic on the opposite road or carriageway invariably slows down as drivers attempt to get a really good look
at the aftermath of a crash. It is called ‘rubbernecking’, a term dating back to the early 20th century when tourists riding in custom-made carriages around New York craned their heads to absorb the views along 44th Street in Midtown. (Locals even referred to that area of Manhattan as ‘Rubberneck Row’.) Curiosity – or nosiness – is a natural human instinct and it is understandable to want to find out what is going on when we spot something different or unusual happening. A television programme a couple of weeks ago, however, revealed that drivers are not only slowing down to gawp at a collision; some are actually taking photographs of the carnage with their mobile phones to post them on social media. Surely this is taking nosiness to a new low, even by today’s standards. We have gone from being the occasional ‘curtain-twitchers’, whose activities in the past were largely restricted to the confines of their local community, to an unashamed and unfettered voyeuristic society, obsessed with examining the minutiae of the lives of others.
‘I suppose you had long hair when you were young,’ said the young curate. ‘Yeah, you’re right. The parish priest was always tellin’ me to get it cut.’ ‘And did you?’ ‘No, but when I was older I got a crew cut.’ ‘And then what happened?’ asked the YC, gazing at the Father's bald dome. ‘The crew baled out.’
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Audio copy of the Pic out now An audio version of the ‘Catholic Pictorial’ is available free of charge, compiled by students, technicians and Chaplain, Helen Molyneux, at All Hallows RC High School, Penwortham Anyone interested in receiving the audio copy should contact Kevin Lonergan Tel: 01772 744148 or 01772 655433 (home).
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Our wonderful visit to The Holy Land where we walked in the footsteps of Jesus Holy Land Pilgrimage This pilgrimage was a blessing in so many ways for each of us who were privileged to attend. Led by Father Peter Morgan and Father Richard Sloan we were guided through a spiritual journey, walking in the footsteps of Jesus, which was most up-lifting and greatly faith enhancing. A most memorable moment for ourselves - having embarked on this pilgrimage in recognition of our 25th wedding anniversary - was the opportunity of renewing our wedding vows, along with four other married couples at Cana in Galilee. What a very special moment! Thank you to everyone! From Deacon Paul & Jan Whitehead Pilgrims re-newing their marriage vows were: Maureen and Patrick Murphy Maureen and David Murray Carol and Steven Pearson Kris and Stephen Reeds Deacon Paul and Janice Whitehead
Mass at Mount Carmel
Garden of Gethsemene
“Nothing on this earth could match it. A unique and wonderful experience� Presentation of stoles to Father Peter Morgan; Father Richard Sloan and Bishop Nkaijanabwo from Gabriel, Guiding Star
Carol and Steven Pearson
Sister Elaine chats with students from Bethlehem University
Maureen and Patrick Murphy, St Annes Church Overbury Street
Father Peter Morgan; Deacon Paul Whitehead; Bishop Nkaijanarwo; Father Richard Sloan and Sacristan at church in Bethlehem
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