“Let us allow the Child in the manger to challenge us, but let us also be challenged by all those children in today’s world who are lying not in a crib, caressed with affection by their mothers and fathers, but in squalid ‘mangers that devour dignity’. … Let us allow ourselves to be challenged by those children who are not allowed to be born, by those who cry because no one relieves their hunger, by those who hold in their hands not toys, but weapons.” Pope Francis Christmas 2016
The Mill Hill Missionaries in Scotland and throughout the world wish all our friends and helpers
A very happy Christmas and God’s blessings in the New Year. We pray that you and your families will allow yourselves to be challenged by the needs of the world’s poor, and that together we may work to alleviate their sufferings, and help them to experience God’s love.
Front Cover: Mother and Child, Cameroon. This page: The Flight into Egypt. Back cover: High Altar formerly in St Joseph’s College, Mill Hill, now in Farnborough Abbey.
Coming Events at St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald • March 10 – 18th: Novena to St Joseph • Easter Retreat Day : Saturday March 24th, 10.00 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.
‘God’s Love for us at Easter’ A day of talks, reflection, prayer, and quiet time led by Fr. Bernard Fox and Sr. Sally Hyland To book, phone: 0141 883 0139 • Mission Day: Saturday June 2nd: Mass followed by presentation by Fr. Jimmy Lindero of the General Council on Mission in Asia. • World Mission Day: Sunday October 21st • Tree of Life Mass: Feast of Christ the King – Sunday 25th November Regular Events • First Friday of the month: Mass for the sick with Sacrament of the Sick : 9.00 a.m. • Tuesdays: 10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. : Meditation Group • Wednesday Talks: 7.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m. : Explore your Christian Faith with the help of talks and discussions, usually accompanied by DVD’s or Power Point presentations.
Silver Circle Winners Note: Monthly quotations used in the calendar are from the Message of Pope Francis for the First World Day of the Poor.
October 2017 363 McGowan £25 16 McGuire £15 131 Fitzpatrick £10
November 2017 09 Williams £25 65 Conroy £15 215 Morrison £10
Photo Credits: Fr. Fons Eppink mhm; most were taken in Cameroon.
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Who are the ‘Mill Hill Missionaries’? • St. Joseph’s Missionary Society is Britain’s own missionary Society, founded by Cardinal Herbert Vaughan at Mill Hill, London, in 1866. • We are an international fellowship of Priests and Brothers, bound together by our missionary oath, committed for life to Mission. We also have Associates – both lay (men and women) and ordained, who make a temporary commitment to work along with us.
Cardinal Herbert Vaughan.
• Since our foundation about 2,000 missionaries have gone out from Mill Hill to proclaim the Good News throughout the world. “Go, make disciples of all nations...” said Jesus. • Acting on the Lord’s command, Mill Hill Missionaries are ready to Entry Procession, Turda, Philippines. leave their own country and culture, and go to where the need is greatest, to the people “most abandoned and poorest in the means of grace.” By preference we go to the poor and the oppressed. We seek to allow the Gospel to become rooted in every culture and nation. • Our earliest missions were in India and Borneo, and from the end of the 19th century in East Africa. Today Mill Hill Missionaries are found in India, Pakistan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, among the Maoris in New Zealand, in Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Cameroon, Congo, South Africa, Brazil, and China. • Until recent decades most of our missionaries came from Europe, but today they include Kenyans, Ugandans, Congolese, Indians, Filipinos, and Cameroonians.
What do we do? • As followers of Christ we seek to dialogue with people different from ourselves. • We proclaim the Gospel in the witness of our lives, in the proclamation of God’s Word, in the celebration of the Sacraments, and in the promotion of justice and peace. We believe that the Kingdom of God is present in all cultures, and has been revealed in a unique way in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. • We seek to establish deeply spiritual, Christ-like communities everywhere. • We wish to promote within society the basic values of the Kingdom: love, justice and peace, forgiveness and reconciliation, global solidarity and respect for human rights.
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“’Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in deed and in truth’ (1Jn 3:18). These words of the Apostle John voice an imperative that no Christian may disregard.”
January 2018 1 Monday
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
2 Tuesday
Sts Basil and Gregory Nazianzen
3 Wednesday 4 Thursday 5 Friday 6 Saturday 7 Sunday 8 Monday
The Epiphany
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
9 Tuesday 10 Wednesday 11 Thursday 12 Friday 13 Saturday 14 Sunday 15 Monday Baptism of Jesus, Oku parish.
St Kentigern
2nd Sunday of the Year
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention: That Christians, and other religious minorities in Asian countries, may be able to practise their faith in full freedom.
16 Tuesday 17 Wednesday 18 Thursday
St Anthony
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins
19 Friday 20 Saturday 21 Sunday
3rd Sunday of the Year
22 Monday 23 Tuesday 24 Wednesday
St Francis de Sales
25 Thursday
Conversion of St Paul
26 Friday
Sts Timothy and Titus
27 Saturday 28 Sunday
4th Sunday of the Year
29 Monday 30 Tuesday 31 Wednesday
St John Bosco
Mill Hill Missionaries, Scotland Laying the foundation stone of a new church.
St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald, Glasgow
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“This is certainly one of the first signs of the entrance of the Christian community upon the world’s stage: the service of the poor. The earliest community realized that being a disciple of Jesus meant demonstrating fraternity and solidarity, in obedience to the Master’s proclamation that the poor are blessed and heirs to the Kingdom of heaven. (cf. Mt. 5:3)”
February 2018 1 Thursday 2 Friday 3 Saturday 4 Sunday
St Brigid Presentation of the Lord World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life
St Blaise
5th Sunday of the Year
5 Monday
St Agatha
6 Tuesday
St Paul Miki and Companions
7 Wednesday 8 Thursday
St Josephine Bakhita of Sudan (Day for Victims of Trafficking)
9 Friday 10 Saturday 11 Sunday
St Scholastica 6th Sunday of the Year World Day of the Sick
12 Monday 13 Tuesday 14 Wednesday 15 Thursday The 12th Station.
Ash Wednesday (Fast and Abstinence)
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention: That those who have material, political or spiritual power may resist the lure of corruption.
16 Friday 17 Saturday 18 Sunday
1st Sunday of Lent
19 Monday 20 Tuesday 21 Wednesday 22 Thursday
Chair of St Peter
23 Friday
St Polycarp
24 Saturday 25 Sunday
2nd Sunday of Lent
26 Monday 27 Tuesday 28 Wednesday
Mill Hill Missionaries, Scotland Visiting the Fon (King) of Kom.
St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald, Glasgow
Tel: 0141 883 0139
“Over these two thousand years, how many pages of history have been written by Christians who, in utter simplicity and humility, and with generous and creative charity, have served their poorest brothers and sisters. The most outstanding example is that of Francis of Assisi, followed by many other holy men and women over the centuries.�
March 2018 1 Thursday 2 Friday 3 Saturday 4 Sunday
3rd Sunday of Lent
5 Monday 6 Tuesday 7 Wednesday 8 Thursday
St John of God
9 Friday 10 Saturday 11 Sunday 12 Monday 13 Tuesday 14 Wednesday National shrine to St Joseph now at Farnborough Abbey.
15 Thursday
St John Ogilvie First day of Novena to St Joseph
4th Sunday of Lent
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention: That the Church may appreciate the urgent need for formation in spiritual discernment, both on the personal and community levels.
16 Friday 17 Saturday
St Patrick 5th Sunday of Lent Last Day of Novena to St Joseph
18 Sunday 19 Monday
Solemnity of St Joseph, Patron of MHM’s
20 Tuesday 21 Wednesday 22 Thursday 23 Friday 24 Saturday 25 Sunday
Passion (Palm) Sunday
26 Monday 27 Tuesday 28 Wednesday 29 Thursday 30 Friday 31 Saturday
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday (Fast and Abstinence)
Holy Saturday
Mill Hill Missionaries, Scotland The Flight into Egypt.
St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald, Glasgow
Tel: 0141 883 0139
“We may think of the poor simply as the beneficiaries of our occasional volunteer work, or of impromptu acts of generosity that appease our conscience. However good and useful such acts may be for making us sensitive to people’s needs and the injustices that are often their cause, they ought to lead to a true encounter with the poor and a sharing that becomes a way of life.”
April 2018 1 Sunday
Easter Sunday
2 Monday 3 Tuesday 4 Wednesday 5 Thursday 6 Friday 7 Saturday 8 Sunday 9 Monday
2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday)
The Annunciation
10 Tuesday 11 Wednesday
St Stanislaus
12 Thursday 13 Friday 14 Saturday Communion to the sick.
15 Sunday
3rd Sunday of Easter
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention: That leaders in financial affairs may have the courage to reject economic measures that exclude people and rather seek new inclusive approaches.
16 Monday 17 Tuesday 18 Wednesday 19 Thursday 20 Friday 21 Saturday 4th Sunday of Easter World Day of Prayer for Vocations
22 Sunday 23 Monday 24 Tuesday 25 Wednesday
St Mark
26 Thursday 27 Friday 28 Saturday 29 Sunday
5th Sunday of Easter
30 Monday Mill Hill Missionaries, Scotland Entry procession for Mass.
St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald, Glasgow
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“If we truly wish to encounter Christ we have to touch his body in the suffering bodies of the poor, as a response to the sacramental communion bestowed in the Eucharist. The Body of Christ, broken in the sacred liturgy, can be seen, through charity and sharing, in the faces and persons of the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters.�
May 2018 1 Tuesday 2 Wednesday 3 Thursday
St Joseph the Worker
St Athanasius
St Philip & St James
4 Friday 5 Saturday 6 Sunday
6th Sunday of Easter
7 Monday 8 Tuesday 9 Wednesday 10 Thursday
The Ascension of the Lord (Holy Day of Obligation)
11 Friday 12 Saturday 13 Sunday 14 Monday 15 Tuesday Choir mistress at work.
7th Sunday of Easter (Papal World Day of Communication)
St Matthias
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention: That the lay faithful may fulfil their specific mission, by responding with creativity to the challenges that face the world today.
16 Wednesday 17 Thursday 18 Friday 19 Saturday 20 Sunday
Pentecost
21 Monday 22 Tuesday 23 Wednesday 24 Thursday 25 Friday 26 Saturday
St Philip Neri
27 Sunday
Trinity Sunday
28 Monday 29 Tuesday 30 Wednesday 31 Thursday
The Visitation
Mill Hill Missionaries, Scotland Monk at prayer, Mbengwi Abbey.
St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald, Glasgow
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“We are called, then, to draw near to the poor, to encounter them, to meet their gaze, to embrace them and to let them feel the warmth of love that breaks through their solitude. Their outstretched hand is also an invitation to step out of our certainties and comforts, and to acknowledge the value of poverty itself.�
June 2018 1 Friday 2 Saturday 3 Sunday
St Justin
Mill Hill Cardonald Mission Day
Corpus Christi
4 Monday 5 Tuesday
St Boniface
6 Wednesday 7 Thursday 8 Friday
Sacred Heart
9 Saturday
St Columba
10 Sunday
10th Sunday of the Year
11 Monday
St Barnabas
12 Tuesday 13 Wednesday 14 Thursday Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, Founder of Mill Hill Missionaries.
15 Friday
St Anthony of Padua
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention: That social networks may work towards that inclusiveness which respects others for their differences.
16 Saturday 17 Sunday
11th Sunday of the Year
18 Monday 19 Tuesday 20 Wednesday 21 Thursday
St Aloysius Gonzaga
22 Friday 23 Saturday 24 Sunday
Birth of St John the Baptist
25 Monday 26 Tuesday 27 Wednesday 28 Thursday 29 Friday
St Irenaeus St Peter and St Paul (Holy Day of Obligation)
30 Saturday Mill Hill Missionaries, Scotland General Superior Fr. Corcoran with Archbishop Esua of Bamenda.
St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald, Glasgow
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“Let us never forget that, for Christ’s disciples, poverty is above all a call to follow Jesus in his own poverty. It means walking behind him and beside him, a journey that leads to the beatitude of the Kingdom of heaven (Mt 5:3; Lk 6:20) Poverty means having a humble heart that accepts our creaturely limitations and sinfulness and thus enables us to overcome the temptation to feel omnipotent and immortal.”
July 2018 1 Sunday
13th Sunday of the Year
2 Monday 3 Tuesday
St Thomas
4 Wednesday 5 Thursday 6 Friday
St Maria Goretti
7 Saturday 8 Sunday 9 Monday
14th Sunday of the Year (Sea Sunday)
Our Lady of Aberdeen
10 Tuesday 11 Wednesday
St Benedict
12 Thursday 13 Friday 14 Saturday 15 Sunday Making music for the Lord.
15th Sunday of the Year
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention: That priests who experience fatigue and loneliness in their pastoral work, may find help and comfort in their intimacy with the Lord and in their friendship with their brother priests.
16 Monday 17 Tuesday 18 Wednesday 19 Thursday 20 Friday 21 Saturday 22 Sunday
16th Sunday of the Year
23 Monday
St Bridget
24 Tuesday 25 Wednesday 26 Thursday
St James
St Joachim & St Anne
27 Friday 28 Saturday 29 Sunday
17th Sunday of the Year
30 Monday 31 Tuesday
St Ignatius Loyola
Mill Hill Missionaries, Scotland Mill Hill students play traditional instruments.
St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald, Glasgow
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“If we want to help change history and promote real development, we need to hear the cry of the poor and commit ourselves to ending their marginalization. At the same time, I ask the poor in our cities and our communities not to lose the sense of evangelical poverty that is part of their daily life.�
August 2018 1 Wednesday
St Alphonsus Ligouri
2 Thursday 3 Friday 4 Saturday 5 Sunday 6 Monday
St John Mary Vianney
18th Sunday of the Year
Transfiguration of the Lord
7 Tuesday 8 Wednesday 9 Thursday 10 Friday 11 Saturday 12 Sunday
St Dominic
St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
St Lawrence
St Clare
19th Sunday of the Year
13 Monday 14 Tuesday 15 Wednesday MHM Jubilarians in Cameroonian attire.
St Maximilian Kolbe The Assumption (Holy Day of Obligation)
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention: That any far-reaching decisions of economists and politicians may protect the family as one of the treasures of humanity.
16 Thursday 17 Friday 18 Saturday 19 Sunday
20th Sunday of the Year
20 Monday
St Bernard
21 Tuesday
St Pius X
22 Wednesday
Queenship of Blessed Virgin Mary
23 Thursday 24 Friday
St Bartholomew
25 Saturday 26 Sunday
21st Sunday of the Year
27 Monday
St Monica
28 Tuesday
St Augustine
29 Wednesday
Passion of St John the Baptist
30 Thursday 31 Friday Mill Hill Missionaries, Scotland Waterfall, Oku district.
St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald, Glasgow
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“Blessed therefore, are the open hands that embrace the poor and help them: they are hands that bring hope. Blessed are the hands that reach beyond every barrier of culture, religion and rationality, and pour the balm of consolation over the wounds of humanity. Blessed are the open hands that ask nothing in exchange, with no ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’ or ‘maybes’: they are hands that call down God’s blessing upon their brothers and sisters.”
September 2018 1 Saturday 2 Sunday 3 Monday
22nd Sunday of the Year
St Gregory the Great
4 Tuesday 5 Wednesday
St Teresa of Calcutta
6 Thursday 7 Friday 8 Saturday 9 Sunday
Nativity of Bl. Virgin Mary 23rd Sunday of the Year Vocations Awareness Week
10 Monday 11 Tuesday 12 Wednesday 13 Thursday 14 Friday Planting the Cross for a new Church.
15 Saturday
St John Chrysostom
The Exaltation of the Cross
Our Lady of Sorrows
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention: That young people in Africa may have access to education and work in their own countries.
16 Sunday
24th Sunday of the Year
17 Monday 18 Tuesday 19 Wednesday St Andrew Kim Tae-gon & Paul Chong Ha-sang & Companions
20 Thursday 21 Friday
St Matthew
22 Saturday 23 Sunday
25th Sunday of the Year
24 Monday 25 Tuesday 26 Wednesday 27 Thursday 28 Friday 29 Saturday 30 Sunday
St Vincent de Paul
St Lawrence Ruiz and companions
Sts Michael, Gabriel and Raphael
26th Sunday of the Year
Mill Hill Missionaries, Scotland Monument recording church growth in Kom area of Cameroon.
St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald, Glasgow
Tel: 0141 883 0139
“Let us not forget that the Our Father is the prayer of the poor. Our asking for bread expresses our entrustment to God of our basic needs in life. Everything that Jesus taught us in this prayer expresses and brings together the cry of all who suffer from life’s uncertainties and the lack of what they need.”
October 2018 1 Monday
St Thérèse of the Child Jesus
2 Tuesday
The Holy Guardian Angels
3 Wednesday 4 Thursday
St Francis of Assisi
5 Friday 6 Saturday 7 Sunday
27th Sunday of the Year
8 Monday 9 Tuesday 10 Wednesday 11 Thursday
St John XXIII
12 Friday 13 Saturday 14 Sunday Altar of new Mill Hill Formation House chapel being incensed.
15 Monday
28th Sunday of the Year
St Teresa of Jesus
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention: That consecrated Religious men and women may actively seek to be present among the poor, the marginalised, and those who have no voice.
16 Tuesday 17 Wednesday 18 Thursday
St Ignatius of Antioch
St Luke
19 Friday 20 Saturday 29th Sunday of the Year World Mission Sunday
21 Sunday 22 Monday
St John Paul II
23 Tuesday 24 Wednesday 25 Thursday 26 Friday 27 Saturday 28 Sunday
30th Sunday of the Year
29 Monday 30 Tuesday 31 Wednesday Mill Hill Missionaries, Scotland Relics of Uganda Martyrs inserted in the altar.
St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald, Glasgow
Tel: 0141 883 0139
“I wanted to offer the Church a World Day of the Poor, so that throughout the world Christian communities can become an even greater sign of Christ’s charity for the least and those most in need” a day which provides “an exquisitely evangelical fullness, that is, Jesus’ preferential love for the poor.”
November 2018 1 Thursday 2 Friday 3 Saturday 4 Sunday
All Saints (Holy Day of Obligation)
Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed
St Martin de Porres
31st Sunday of the Year
5 Monday 6 Tuesday 7 Wednesday 8 Thursday 9 Friday 10 Saturday 11 Sunday 12 Monday 13 Tuesday 14 Wednesday
Archbishop Esua with MHMs after blessing of new Formation House Chapel.
15 Thursday
Bl John Duns Scotus
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
St Leo The Great
32nd Sunday of the Year
St Josaphat
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention: That the language of love and dialogue may always prevail over the language of conflict.
16 Friday
St Margaret of Scotland
17 Saturday
St Elizabeth of Hungary
18 Sunday
33rd Sunday of the Year
19 Monday 20 Tuesday 21 Wednesday 22 Thursday
Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
St Cecilia
23 Friday 24 Saturday
St Andrew Dung Lac and Companions
Christ the King: Tree of Life Mass, Cardonald
25 Sunday 26 Monday 27 Tuesday 28 Wednesday 29 Thursday 30 Friday
St Andrew
Mill Hill Missionaries, Scotland Mill Hill student gardener.
St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald, Glasgow
Tel: 0141 883 0139
“The Our Father is a prayer said in the plural: the bread for which we ask is ‘ours’, and that entails sharing, participation and joint responsibility. In this prayer, all of us recognize our need to overcome every form of selfishness, in order to enter the joy of mutual acceptance.”
December 2018 1 Saturday 2 Sunday 3 Monday
1st Sunday of Advent
St Francis Xavier
4 Tuesday 5 Wednesday 6 Thursday 7 Friday 8 Saturday 9 Sunday
St Ambrose
Immaculate Conception
2nd Sunday of Advent
10 Monday 11 Tuesday 12 Wednesday 13 Thursday 14 Friday Fr. Dominic checking his vehicle.
15 Saturday
St Lucy
St John of the Cross
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention: That in their dialogue with culture, people involved in the service and transmission of faith, may find a language that is appropriate to the present time.
16 Sunday
3rd Sunday of Advent
17 Monday 18 Tuesday 19 Wednesday 20 Thursday 21 Friday 22 Saturday 23 Sunday
4th Sunday of Advent
24 Monday 25 Tuesday
Christmas Day (Holy Day of Obligation)
26 Wednesday 27 Thursday 28 Friday
St Stephen
St John the Evangelist
Holy Innocents
29 Saturday 30 Sunday
The Holy Family
31 Monday Mill Hill Missionaries, Scotland Traditional instruments in monks’ choir, Mbengwi.
St. Joseph’s House, Cardonald, Glasgow
Tel: 0141 883 0139
St. Joseph’s House, 30 Lourdes Avenue, Cardonald, Glasgow G52 3QU. Tel: 0141 883 0139. Email of Editor: tollanmhm@yahoo.co.uk Mill Hill Website: www.millhillmissionaries.co.uk Registered Charity Number: SCO39809