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DIOCESE
Contents So, why do bad things
happen to good people?
DIOCESE
News from around the Diocese including:
A letter from Bishop Hugh OSB.......................................... 3 hy do bad things happen to good people? It’s the
Diocese progresses along the synodal path...................4 perennial question which, as Christians, we are
New season at Blairs Museum ............................................ 8 Woften challenged with, and no more so than at
the present time: the Covid Pandemic, the war in Ukraine,
OBITUARY Afghanistan, the growing world food shortage; both
Tony Milnes ................................................................................9 natural and man-made disasters on a barely imaginable
St Joseph's windows to a better world ..........................10 scale destroying lives and causing untold suffering. It is
The Apostolic Sisters of St John ................................................... 12 in many ways an impenetrable question; one for which
WITNESS there is no easy answer.
10 Urodziny Wspólnoty „Credo” .......................................14 One thing we can say is that we have been given the
FAITH IN ACTION freedom not only to love but also to destroy our fellow
Running Alpha at St Mary's Cathedral ..............................17 human beings and our surrounding environment. Indeed,
EDUCATION AND FORMATION there are times when we could be tempted to think, judging
The joy of Lectio Divina......................................................19 by what we see day after day on our television screens, that
The God who sees..................................................................21 evil is stronger than the power of good.
But, and it’s a big but, Easter is upon us and on the
FAITH AND CULTURE cross, Jesus not only embraced human suffering in an
Holy Stones and St David ...................................................23 incomparable way, but also made it redemptive. He
The Church of St Peter's, Buckie .................................. 25 conquered evil with good. He accomplished our salvation
Life of a church musician ........................................................ 29 from sin and death by His own agony on the cross. In
Hidden churches of Amsterdam ..................................... 30 suffering voluntarily and innocently, Christ gives the answer
Dishes from the Diocese - Inverness .............................. 32 to the question about suffering and its meaning. Real
Some enlightening teaching of St Benedict ............... 33 suffering exists; we all experience it and when we are faced
Flipper finds a good Samaritan ................................................... 34 with specific examples of affliction which are personal to us
MISCELLANY it can still be hard to deal with; to be consoled. Nevertheless,
ALLSORTS of Everything .................................................... 36 if God is able to take the death of Jesus, the most tragic
event in history, and use it to bring about our redemption,
CROSSWORD AND SUDOKU ............................................ 37
then surely we can trust Him with the mystery of the things
we do not understand.
Easter is of course the most important event in the year
This issue's cover features a work by of the Church. Hopefully you'll find plenty in this issue of
up the Czechoslovakian engraver, Alois the Light of the North to help you celebrate this "life-saving"
Petrak (1811-1888) from a painting
event, not least Bishop Hugh Gilbert's letter (p3). Then,
front by Joseph Ritter von Fuhrich. Petrak Sister Imelda Ann OP gives us an update on the synodal
was himself a painter but also a
process which is taking place in the Diocese right now (p
draughtsman and engraver. Born in 4), and the Polish Credo Community give thanks on their
Kumzak, Petrak studied in Vienna and 10th anniversary (p14). You can also discover the joy of
produced very fine copies of works by artists like Dürer. Lectio Divina (p19), find out what it's like to be a church
This engraving, "Jesus is condemned to death" is just one musician (p29) and how Flipper the tortoise found a good
of fourteen prints which form a new exhibition currently Samaritan (p34)!
running at Blairs Museum. You can find out more about A Very Happy Easter!
the exhibition on page eight.
Cowan
Managing Editor Advertising
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Editor
Cowan Watson The Light of the North
07816344241 St Mary’s Cathedral
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