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DIOCESE

Contents Here be dragons!

DIOCESE ack in the 1700s the phrase, "Here be dragons"
News from around the Diocese including: was used by map makers to warn travellers of
A letter from Bishop Hugh OSB.......................................... 3 Bareas remaining unexplored which might well
Diocesan ordinations .............................................................7 be inhabited by monsters of one sort or another.
WITNESS Interestingly, I discovered recently, the Hebrew word for
Pokorna zgoda na wolę Bożą .................................................11 snake, nawkhawsh, could be interpreted as dragon, thus
Humbly consenting to God's will the Bible begins with Genesis and the struggle with the
serpent or dragon and ends with the Book of Revelation
EDUCATION AND FORMATION with the dragon of St John representing the power of the
The Resurrection, a feminine reality.............................14 anti-Christian Roman Emperors.
The Seven Joys of Mary ...................................................... 15 In 2007, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, in a homily at a
Seating the Faithful: St Gregory's, Preshome ............. 17 Mass to celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
FAITH AND CULTURE Mary, spoke of the power of these anti-Christian emperors
Tracing the path of Pictish Saint Ethernan .......................18 as seemingly boundless, "such that before it, faith, the
The Church of Saint Gregory, Preshome ...................... 20 Church, appeared as a defenceless woman with no chance
of survival and even less of victory.” However, we know now
St. Andrew’s church, Antwerp and the Scottish that "in the end it was the defenceless woman who won
connection ....................................................................................... 24 and not egoism or hatred; the love of God triumphed and
Anglican psalms in a Scottish Catholic church?! ........ 25 the Roman Empire was opened to the Christian faith."
Tobar Mhoire: Revisiting Mary's wells of grace .......... 26 The Pope Emeritus believes we face the same challenges
The Prayer of Abbé Gaston Courtois .............................. 27 now; that the dragon of Revelation exists today in the form
If pigs could fly they'd need jackets! .............................. 28 of a materialist ideology which claims that belief in God
is absurd and “Life is only worth living for its own sake …
Food and Faith - The Community Garden at St Consumerism, selfishness and entertainment alone are
Andrew’s Church, Braemar ............................................... 29 worthwhile." As in the early days of the Church, when it
Summer read with papal seal of approval! .................. 31 must have been nearly inconceivable that the forces of
Book Review - Poems in memory of Jonny .................. 33 the time could be defeated, we are faced with a dominant
MISCELLANY materialist mindset which also seems invincible.
However, on a note of triumph, Benedict XVI tells us that
ALLSORTS of Everything .................................................... 34 the Feast of the Assumption is a reminder to "Take heart, it
CROSSWORD ........................................................................ 35 is love that wins in the end!"
And there's plenty of evidence for that in this summer
The photograph on our front cover was
up taken by Matthew Lukowski during the issue of the Light of the North which carries Glen Reynolds'
report on the ordinations of Christopher Doig and Malachy
priestly ordinations of Deacon Christopher
front Doig and Deacon Malachy Eze. The Eze (page 7) and also some inspirational features. These
include Lidia Konar's interview with a Polish family faced
with a life affirming test of faith (page 11), Eileen Grant's
photographer catches the striking moment
when the two candidates prostrate article on a lesser known devotion,"The Seven Joys of Mary"
themselves as the congregation prays the Litany of the Saints (page 15) and Fr Domenico Zanrè's "Summer read with
on their behalf. Prostration, which means lying face down papal seal of approval" (page 31).
before God, is an ancient posture showing both the donation
by the candidates of their lives to God and His Church, as Happy Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary!
well as supplication, which is asking God the grace to live
their lives for God and His Church. Cowan

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