tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-227279592024-03-13T09:20:52.293+00:00Oxford University Newman SocietyPromoting the Catholic faith in the tradition of Blessed John Henry Newman since 1878Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-17293791511165882102011-11-07T19:40:00.002+00:002011-11-07T19:48:22.827+00:00FIFTH WEEK: Science, Religion, Priesthood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hH3d__3X79M/TrgzqzTceRI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/hrTCAW7hDyk/s1600/AndrewPinsentLibrary.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" ida="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hH3d__3X79M/TrgzqzTceRI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/hrTCAW7hDyk/s400/AndrewPinsentLibrary.png" width="400px" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Our Fifth Week Event MT11 will be a talk by the Rev. Dr. Andew Pinsent (Oxford University) on 'Science, Religion and Priesthood'. Come along and find out more!</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #660000;">Tuesday 8th November 2011, The Old Palace (Catholic Chaplaincy), Rose Place, St. Aldates, 8.30pm. Ring the general door bell. Drinks afterwards. All welcome.</span><br />
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<strong>About the Speaker ...</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fr. Andrew Pinsent is Research Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Religion and Science at Oxford University, a Research Fellow of Harris-Manchester College and a member of the Faculty of Theology at Oxford. He is also a priest of the diocese of Arundel and Brighton in England.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Fr. Pinsent has a doctorate in particle physics from Oxford, a degree in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and a doctorate in philosophy from St Louis University. He is a named author on thirty-one papers of the DELPHI experiment at CERN, Geneva and a member of the United Kingdom Institute of Physics. His licentiate dissertation in philosophy examined the specifically divine nature and end of the Christian virtuous life, especially in the spiritual anthropology of Thomas Aquinas. His doctoral dissertation continued this work by examining the unity of the non-Aristotelian virtues, gifts, beatitudes and fruits in Aquinas's work, drawing an analogy between Aquinas's virtue ethics and the findings of contemporary experimental psychology, especially joint attention and the second person. He has published articles, reviews and popular books, including a critically acclaimed catechetical course Evangelium. </div>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-57933645984985485402011-10-23T08:58:00.000+01:002011-10-23T08:58:19.147+01:00THIRD WEEK: Newman's Pastoral Idea of a University<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j_2n0-aPsCQ/TqPHSu5QpZI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/0YnQRr2Pasc/s1600/New+Oxford+Costume.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="197px" rda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j_2n0-aPsCQ/TqPHSu5QpZI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/0YnQRr2Pasc/s200/New+Oxford+Costume.JPG" width="200px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><strong>Dr. Paul Shrimpton </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><strong>‘Newman’s Pastoral Idea of a University’ </strong></span></div><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">The Old Palace (Catholic Chaplaicny), Rose Place</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">Tuesday 25th October, 8.30pm</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Shrimpton is a member of Opus Dei and has taught at Magdalen College School for twenty-four years. He has published <em>A Catholic Eton? Newman’s Oratory School</em> and is currently working on a book on Newman’s pastoral idea of a university education. He will examine how the idea of human flourishing underpins Newman’s conception of education, influencing his idea of the university in which the true object is not instruction in a particular subject, but the development of a mature human individual.</div>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-26440217715177490902011-10-21T11:15:00.000+01:002011-10-21T11:15:45.146+01:00LMS Oxford Pilgrimage<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">LATIN MASS SOCIETY</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">OXFORD PILGRIMAGE</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER 2011</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Mass</strong> in Blackfriars at 11am.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Procession</strong> from St Michael at the North Gate in Cornmarket, </div><div style="text-align: center;">leaving at 2pm, to the site of the martyrdoms of 1589 and back to Blackfriars.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Benediction</strong> at Blackfriars at 3pm.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>As a special incentive this year the Mass will be a Solemn Mass in the Dominican Rite: the first time we've had this at the Oxford Pilgrimage, and one of the first such Masses in the country since the 1970s.</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The preacher will be Fr Guy Nichols, Cong Orat.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Fr Thomas Crean OP will lead the procession and Benediction.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Schola Abelis will provide polyphony as well as Dominican Chant for Mass, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and will lead the singing for the Procession and Benediction.</div>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-48421105491731743222011-10-19T09:53:00.000+01:002011-10-19T09:53:28.171+01:00St Frideswide's Day Evensong<div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Today is the feast of St. Frideswide, patroness of the University and City of Oxford. The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham will be celebrating Solemn Evensong and Benediction in honour of the feast. This will be the first occasion on which the Order of Evensong, newly approved by the Holy See, will be used solemnly in Oxford.</em></div><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">Thursday 20th October, 7pm</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-size: large;">Danson Room of Trinity College </span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-size: large;">(ask at the lodge for directions)</span></em><br />
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- A joint event with Oxford University Orthodox Society and Oxford University Catholic Society -Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-91881054832293470712011-10-04T17:48:00.000+01:002011-10-04T17:48:07.102+01:00Term Card: Michaelmas Term 2011<em>Unless otherwise stated, meetings start at 8.30pm and are held in the Blue Room at The Old Palace (Catholic Chaplaincy), Rose Place, just off St. Aldates. Please ring the general door-bell for admission.</em><br />
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<em>The dates and times of some events are still to be confirmed (‘TBC’). Details will be posted on the website in due course.</em><br />
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FIRST WEEK<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Freshers’ Drinks Party -</span> Tuesday 11th October, from 8pm<br />
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We have reserved the Wadham Room at the King’s Arms, Broad Street, for drinks from 8pm. The President will say a few words of introduction about the society. Wine will be served at the start and afterwards drinks can be purchased from the bar. <br />
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SECOND WEEK<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Professor Andrew Louth </span><br />
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‘Aquinas and Eastern Orthodoxy’ - Date & time TBC<br />
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Porf. Louth taught theology at the universities of London and Oxford, before taking up a post at Durham University, where he currently holds the chair in Patristic and Byzantine Studies. His writings include Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition and Discerning the mystery: An essay on the nature of theology, as well as books on Dionysios the Areopagite, Maximos the Confessor and John Damascene. <br />
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Eight years ago Prof. Louth was ordained a priest of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchal Diocese of Sourozh and he currently serves a parish in Durham. He will provide an assessment of St. Thomas Aquinas, Western Christendom’s greatest theologian, from an Orthodox perspective. - A joint event with the O.U. Catholic Society and the O.U. Orthodox Society -<br />
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Wednesday 19th October, Blackfriars, St. Giles, 7.30pm<br />
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The Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham was created by Pope Benedict as a means of enabling Anglicans to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church. The service of Evensong forms an essential part of what the Holy Father has called ‘Anglican patrimony’ and the Vatican, in an historic move, has authorised its use by the Ordinariate. This service of Evensong for the feast of St. Frideswide, Patroness of the University and City of Oxford, will be one of the first occasions in which the new liturgy is solemnly used. The Celebrant will be Monsignor Andrew Burnham (who will speak to the society later this term) and the Preacher will be the Rt. Rev. Aidan Bellenger, Lord Abbot of Downside. The service will be followed by a drinks reception, to which all are invited.<br />
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THIRD WEEK<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Paul Shrimpton </span><br />
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‘Newman’s Pastoral Idea of a University’ - Tuesday 25th October, 8.30pm<br />
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Dr. Shrimpton is a member of Opus Dei and has taught at Magdalen College School for twenty-four years. He has published A Catholic Eton? Newman’s Oratory School and is currently working on a book on Newman’s pastoral idea of a university education. He will examine how the idea of human flourishing underpins Newman’s conception of education, influencing his idea of the university in which the true object is not instruction in a particular subject, but the development of a mature human individual.<br />
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FOURTH WEEK<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Speed Dating!</span> <br />
- A joint event with the O.U. Catholic Society - Date & time TBC<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Roger Litten</span><br />
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‘Psychoanalysis and the Church’ - Tuesday 1st November, 8.30pm<br />
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Dr. Litten has a degree in Research Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He came to England in the early 1990s to complete a doctorate in Psychoanalytic Studies and a Postgraduate Practitioner Diploma in Counselling Psychology. He is currently is chairman of the London Society of the New Lacanian School. His talk will examine Roman Catholicism from a psychoanalysist’s perspective.<br />
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FIFTH WEEK<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Rev. Dr. Andrew Pinsent</span><br />
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‘Science, Religion and Priesthood’ - Tuesday 8th November, 8.30pm<br />
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Fr. Pinsent is Research Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Religion and Science at Oxford University and a member of the University’s Faculty of Theology. He has a doctorate in particle physics from Oxford, a degree in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and a doctorate in philosophy from St. Louis University. He is a named author on thirty-one papers of the DELPHI experiment at CERN, Geneva, and has also published articles, reviews and popular books, including a critically acclaimed catechetical course, Evangelium. Drawing on his own experience as a Catholic priest and as a scientist, Fr. Pinsent will speak to us about ‘Science, Religion, and Priesthood’.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Rev. Monsignor Andrew Burnham and others </span><br />
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‘One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic: Possibilities for Church Unity’ - Date & time TBC<br />
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Two years ago the Right Rev. Andrew Burnham, Anglican Bishop of Ebsfleet, visited the Newman Society and spoke about the possibility of re-union of Anglicans with the Roman Catholic Church. This term he returns as one of four former Anglican Bishops now ordained for service as priests within Pope Benedict’s newly-created Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. <br />
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Pope Benedict has been described as the ‘Pope of Christian Unity’. His dialogue with the Orthodox Churches, with Anglicans, and with the followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is recognised as one of the hall-marks of his papacy. In conversation with a panel of experts drawn from the church’s Religious Orders, Fr. Burnham will discuss how Christ’s injunction ‘That they may all be one’ can be realised today. - A joint event with the Catholic Society -<br />
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SIXTH WEEK<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ambrose Hogan & Rashad Ali Merton College -</span> 15th October, 8.30pm<br />
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‘Religion in the Media: Misrepresentation of the Church and Islamic communities in Britain’<br />
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A Christian and a Moslem will lead a discussion on the presentation of religious groups in the British media. Does our media have a secularist bias, or is its religious reporting balanced and impartial?<br />
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Ambrose Hogan is an Education specialist and is Programme Co-ordinator of a Master’s Degree in Moslem Societies and Civilisation at London University’s Institute of Education. He also writes regularly for the Jesuit’s on-line journal ‘Thinking Faith’.<br />
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Rashad Ali lectured and taught in Saudi Arabia and has an interest in Islam related issues. He was also involved with non-violent Islamist extreme political parties for several years, before renouncing these views for a more traditional version of Islam. He currently works for CENTRI, a counter-extremism consultancy specialising in issues related to Islam, faith, cultural diversity, and integration.<br />
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SEVENTH WEEK<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Very Revd. Dr. John Drury </span><br />
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‘The poetry and religious significance of George Herbert’ - Tuesday 22nd October, 8.30pm<br />
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Dr. Drury is an Anglican clergyman and holds Oxford University’s highest degree, that of Doctor of Divinity. Since 2003 he has been Chaplain and Fellow of All Souls’ College and he previously served as Dean (Head of House) of Christ Church. He is an expert on the poetry of the seventeenth century Anglican Divine, George Herbert, and has a particular interest in Herbert in his historical context and his poetry’s relevance for the present-day.<br />
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EIGHTH WEEK<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Termly Mass and Dinner</span> - Date & time TBC<br />
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The termly Mass will be a Sung Mass in the extraordinary form. In his Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontifcum Pope Benedict encouraged re-engagement with the Church’s ancient Latin liturgical tradition. Writing to the world’s Bishops the Holy Father identified the tradition’s relevance for young people, saying ‘it has clearly been demonstrated that young persons have discovered this liturgical form, felt its attraction and found in it a form of encounter with the Mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist’. <br />
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Following the Mass there will be the society’s termly black-tie dinner. Details about dates, venues, and times will be announced in due course (check the website).<br />
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<strong>MEMBERSHIP</strong> – Membership forms are available at meetings or upon request from one of the Society’s officers. The rates are: life membership: £20; university membership: £12; annual membership: £6. <br />
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<strong>SPEAKER DINNERS</strong> – Members are invited to dine with the speaker before meetings. Places are limited and there is a small charge. To enquire about attending e-mail the President: sofia.abasolo@merton.ox.ac.uk.<br />
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<strong>COMPLINE & DRINKS</strong> – We conclude each Speaker Meeting with drinks. When the meeting takes place at the Catholic Chaplaincy, there is also Compline or another form of prayer in St. Thomas More’s Chapel.<br />
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<strong>ELECTIONS</strong> – Nominations for the positions of President-Elect (to be President in Trinity Term), Treasurer, Secretary, Social Secretary, and Publicity Officer can be submitted to the Returning Officer at the above address until 1pm on Friday of Sixth Week. See the website for the full Constitution.<br />
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<strong>THE ‘FAITH IN OXFORD’ APPEAL</strong> – Our Patron, Cardinal George Pell, has launched an appeal to raise an endowment to support the society. See the appeal section on the website for further details.<br />
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<strong>TIES</strong> – Society ties (gold, red & blue) can be purchased at Walters on Turl Street. Ask at the counter.<br />
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<strong>PATRONS</strong><br />
HRH The Duchess of Kent <br />
His Eminence George Cardinal Pell<br />
The Rt. Rev. Arthur Roche <br />
The Rt. Rev. Peter Elliott<br />
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<strong>EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE</strong><br />
President: Sofia Abasolo, Merton<br />
Senior Member: John Eidinow, Merton & St. Benet’s<br />
Past-President: Emeric Monfront, Christ Church<br />
President-Elect: Krishan Nadesan, Christ Church<br />
Treasurer: Richard Pickett, Exeter<br />
Secretary: Timothy Sherwin, Merton<br />
Social Secretary: Charlotte Irwin, St. Anne’s<br />
Publicity Officer: Michael Towers, Christ Church<br />
Junior Officer: Thomas Treherne, St. Catherine’s<br />
Returning Officer: Gregory Stacey, TrinityCamino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-75531563549456360882011-05-20T04:42:00.001+01:002011-10-11T04:44:32.380+01:00Lawrence England at the societyJoe Shaw has a post about Lawrence England's recent talk to the society on his blog. <a href="http://www.lmschairman.org/2011/05/lawrence-england-at-newman-society.html">Click here to read it</a>.Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-79711589251957470802011-05-17T11:20:00.000+01:002011-05-17T11:20:30.852+01:00Fr Timothy Finigan: 'Jansenism, Dissent and the Liturgy'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q_wUi70ZBAU/TdJL4u3I26I/AAAAAAAAAIQ/NgVObf9yfEo/s1600/FatherZ-Hermeneuticalness-Longenecker-Vincenzo-Sancte-Pater.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q_wUi70ZBAU/TdJL4u3I26I/AAAAAAAAAIQ/NgVObf9yfEo/s400/FatherZ-Hermeneuticalness-Longenecker-Vincenzo-Sancte-Pater.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><br />
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</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>for the Newman Society’s termly Mass, 8th February 2011</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Oriel College</em></div><br />
Our Cardinal has now been beatified. So it’s important for us to ask: what is a saint, and why should we want Newman to be raised to the altars of the Church? To have a saint of our own is not just a feather in our cap, or even an excuse to promote the different causes to which Newman devoted his life. It is about much more that that: the Church beatifies and canonizes men and women from among her number in order to glorify their sanctity. Holiness – that is what it is all about. The saints show us that heroic sanctity is possible and necessary for us as Christians. They remind us of that call to holiness which is addressed to each of us, and they encourage us on our journey towards that perfection for which God has created us. Whatever the value of Newman’s theology, or his prose, or the interest of his many letters; all this is as nothing in comparison with the importance of his holiness – the extent to which he imitated Christ in his earthly life.<br />
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St Philip [Neri] used to say that we should never marvel at what the saints do, but rather at what God does in His saints. So here is the first qualification for holiness. If a person is merely a human marvel, that is no doubt a good thing, but it is not enough. He must point us beyond Himself to the God who is the source of all holiness. So to make someone a saint is not the equivalent of giving them the Nobel Prize or a kind of celestial knighthood, it is done for the glory of God alone.<br />
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The deep wish to do God’s will and to pursue holiness marked out John Henry Newman from a young age, in a way that he saw very clearly to be a mark of Divine Providence. The Calvinist religion in which the young Newman began his spiritual journey attached great importance to God’s grace but very little to personal holiness. Yet his inner conversion at the age of fifteen was accompanied by an unusual conviction that God was calling him to a celibate life. St Paul said, “The world as we know it is passing away. I should like you to be free of all worries. The unmarried man is busy with the Lord’s affairs, concerned with pleasing the Lord”. So the young Newman, while still a Protestant, made that sacrifice of himself in witness to the transience of this world and the endurance of the kingdom of heaven. Celibacy is certainly not the only route to holiness of course, but for Newman, it was part of his conviction that God had a mission for him, a definite service, a work committed to him not given to any other.Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-43660700588305002452010-07-26T00:01:00.002+01:002010-07-28T19:28:39.096+01:00Loss and Gain: The story of a convert's chapel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">After yesterday's article about Our Lady of Oxford, readers might be interested to see how her chapel has developed over the years. Here is the first Oxford chapel, as it stood up until 1907 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwell_de_la_Garde_Grissell">Hartwell de la Garde Grissell's</a> house at Number 60, High Street, in Oxford. Many of the features still observable in today's chapel can be seen: the lavish baroque frame with the picture of Our Lady of Oxford, the altar (carved in Rome) and its canopy, and the reliquary cupboards. Under the altar is the body of the boy-martyr St. Pacificus.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TExHquPAQSI/AAAAAAAAAbE/11PU1rJhMVQ/s1600/Top-1.bmp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" hw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TExHquPAQSI/AAAAAAAAAbE/11PU1rJhMVQ/s400/Top-1.bmp.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">Grissell kept a register of the clergy who celebrated Mass in his chapel. They included Fr. Bowles (who had been at Littlemore with Newman), Henri Brémond, abbé Loisy, Dom Bede Camm, the future Cardinals Mercier and Gasquet, Bishops Hedley and Ilsley, and the great Dominicans Bede Jarrett and Vincent McNabb.</div><br />
<div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">1900s - Foundation</span></strong></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEy4TFI5TMI/AAAAAAAAAcE/rii0CDC74fo/s1600/Top.bmp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" hw="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEy4TFI5TMI/AAAAAAAAAcE/rii0CDC74fo/s200/Top.bmp.jpg" width="141" /></a>The fate of Grissell's collection preoccupied him. He contemplated the foundation of a 'Newman Memorial Chapel' in Oxford and corresponded with Cardinal Vaughn, who was eager to obtain the collection for Westminster Cathedral. However, Grissell was determined that the collection should remain in Oxford and, when he died in 1907, his will stipulated that it be enshrined in a chapel of St. Aloysius' Church, Oxford. This next photograph shows the chapel as it was fitted out to receive the collection in 1908. Grissell's original relic cubboards were reconstructed to right and left of the altar. The paintings on the ceiling are by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Pippet">Gabriel Pippet</a> and depict iconography from the Roman catacombs, alluding to the relics of many of the Roman martyrs housed within the chaepl. A sacristry was erected to the epistle side of the chapel and was accessed through a door where St. Aloysius' statue stands today. Here were kept a valuable collection of vestments, books, objects from the catacombs, and other artefacts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">1950s - Grey</span></strong></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TExH_f-8YJI/AAAAAAAAAbc/TbpcA7E_lLk/s1600/SCAN0016+(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" hw="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TExH_f-8YJI/AAAAAAAAAbc/TbpcA7E_lLk/s200/SCAN0016+(2).JPG" width="146" /></a>The next stage of the chapel's development came in the 1950s. The florid Victorian stencilling of the chapel had fallen out of fashion and the ceiling was painted battleship grey, leaving Pippet's paintings floating in mid-air. The iron railings seen in the previous picture were removed and the bottom of the relic cupboards were cut away to house radiators for a new heating system.</div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">1970s & '80s - Loss</span></strong></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;">The 1970s and 1980s witnessed the saddest period in the chapel's history. The cult of relics did not chine with the spirit of the age. Despite Grissell's fastidiousness in ensuring that all his relics were authenticated by ecclesiastical authorities, the entire collection was declared to be 'inauthentic' and was dispatched to the local crematorium. The physical remains of St. Pacificus had survived the Roman persecutions of the church, but did not survive the twentieth-century. The top of the altar still bears the marks of an asiduous 'recker' who chiselled out a relic of St. Peter's altar enshrined there. The other artefacts of Grissell's collection were dispersed and the sacristry was turned into a public conveniance. The chapel stood empty and Mass was no longer said there. Thankfully, the image of Our Lady of Oxford survived in place above the altar.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">1990s - Gain</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TExH2zh5lvI/AAAAAAAAAbU/EkbKkDnugck/s1600/OL+Oxford+chapel.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hw="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TExH2zh5lvI/AAAAAAAAAbU/EkbKkDnugck/s320/OL+Oxford+chapel.bmp" /></a>With the arrival of the Oratory Fathers in the 1990s efforts were made to restore the chapel. In late 1994 a new collection of relics, most of which were given by the Carmelites of Chichester, was installed in the chapel. The Carmelites also gave a cast iron screen, which can be seen in the above picture. Happily, the present screen is rather finer than the original one. Visible on the altar is the inscription announcing the indulgences granted to Our Lady of Oxford by Blessed Pius IX in 1869. A statue of St. Aloysius was placed in the chapel and its walls (which had become damp and were in a poor state) were draped with temporary hangings of red damask.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">2000s - The threshold of hope</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In 2009 the chapel was restored as part of the Oxford Oratory's '<a href="http://campaign.oxfordoratory.org.uk/">Reaffirmation and Renewal</a>' campaign. The original ceiling stencilling was reinstated, contextualising Pippet's paintings in their original artistic setting. The relic cupboards were given state of the art lighting, showing off the new relics on display.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Among the relics on display is a first class relic of Blessed Lucy of Narnia, given by the C.S. Lewis scholar Walter Hooper! The ashes from the relics of Grissell's collection have be re-enshrined in a glass urn, bearing an inscription which translates as 'From the ashes of ten thousand martyrs'. Thus, St. Pacificus and his celestial companions continue to interceed upon supplication of the faithful!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">There follow some photographs of the newly restored chapel and of Pippet's paintings.</div><a name='more'></a><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEy7oZa-UCI/AAAAAAAAAck/zl0A7klWzbM/s1600/relic_chapel_(10).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hw="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEy7oZa-UCI/AAAAAAAAAck/zl0A7klWzbM/s320/relic_chapel_(10).jpg" /></a></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEy7MJBkzgI/AAAAAAAAAcc/e0TzLdc_Vvw/s1600/relic_chapel_(12).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hw="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEy7MJBkzgI/AAAAAAAAAcc/e0TzLdc_Vvw/s320/relic_chapel_(12).jpg" /></a></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">See <a href="http://www.oxfordoratory.org.uk/news.php?id=46">Oxford Oratory</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesbradley/sets/72157622817738168/">James Bradley</a>.</div>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-15825043539172372012010-07-24T10:21:00.003+01:002011-10-21T19:57:34.983+01:00Society's Patronal Feast Day of Our Lady of Oxford<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEqrglaCH0I/AAAAAAAAAa8/MaaqA7NoXgo/s1600/our-lady-of-oxford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" hw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEqrglaCH0I/AAAAAAAAAa8/MaaqA7NoXgo/s200/our-lady-of-oxford.jpg" width="152" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today - the Saturday before the fourth Sunday in July - is the feast of Our Lady of Oxford and is the patronal Feast Day of the Newman Society. The image of Our Lady of Oxford depicts the Madonna under the title <i>Mater Miserecordiae</i> ('Mother of Mercy') and is enshrined in a chapel at the Oxford Oratory. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border: medium none; text-align: justify;">The image was originally brought from Rome by the Newman Society's co-founder, Hartwell de la Garde Grissell (wikipedia article <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwell_de_la_Garde_Grissell">here</a>), who housed it together with his vast collection of relics in a private chapel on the High Street. Upon his death Grissell left the image and relics in trust to the Archdiocese of Birmingham, with the proviso that they be enshrined in a special chapel at St. Aloysius' Church in Oxford. The church's former baptistery was hastily prepared to receive the collection and was opened to the public in 1908. A number of <i>ex voto</i> offerings, including several silver 'miracle hearts', are preserved in the parish and attest to miraculous favours attributed to the intercession of Our Lady of Oxford. </div><div style="border: medium none; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEqpDbnEg_I/AAAAAAAAAac/77F4uRCy4fs/s1600/070320091347.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" hw="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEqpDbnEg_I/AAAAAAAAAac/77F4uRCy4fs/s200/070320091347.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Newman Society was formally dedicated to Our Lady of Oxford by Cardinal George Pell on 7th March 2009. After a Mass said at Our Lady of Oxford's altar the Cardinal consecrated the society to her and placed its members under her special patronage. The photograph on the right shows His Eminence celebrating the Mass. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Click on the images of the prayer card below for information about the indulgences which Blessed Pius IX gave to Our Lady of Oxford and for the special prayer to her: <i>O Blessed Virgin Mary, whom we venerate in this thy Sanctuary under the sweet title of Mother of Mercy: thou who wast of old so loved and honoured in this University and City ...</i> </div> <br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The society has a new section of its website dedicated to Cardinal Newman's forthcoming beatification. The society is planning a number of events to mark the occasion and details will be posted on the site shortly. Visit the site by clicking <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~newman/newman.htm">here</a>.</div>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-3695536266116518302010-07-10T11:21:00.003+01:002010-07-21T18:22:34.109+01:00'Are you in the club?' The Newman tie featured in Country Life magazine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TDhFQWgnLFI/AAAAAAAAAZs/bFRFmK9NWyc/s1600/Top-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" rw="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TDhFQWgnLFI/AAAAAAAAAZs/bFRFmK9NWyc/s400/Top-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The people at <strong>Country Life</strong> magazine have kindly written to us about an article which they recently published on tie fashion, <strong><em>'Are you in the club?'</em></strong>. The Newman tie - which is a broad stripe of Papal gold, Oxford blue, and Cardinal red - is featured in the article and is pictured above. Members will be pleased to learn that the Newman tie makes the top twenty in the list of 'Notable neckwear' appearing in the article, whereas the Bullingdon tie does not! To read the article click on the image below and then click again to zoom in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEcpNyzaXcI/AAAAAAAAAaM/z1OkBQ9l-IY/s1600/countrylifearticle.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEcrciKHstI/AAAAAAAAAaU/sOzucG1RNWk/s1600/countrylifearticle.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" hw="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TEcrciKHstI/AAAAAAAAAaU/sOzucG1RNWk/s400/countrylifearticle.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TDhFAqG6oEI/AAAAAAAAAZk/-LhGc_Z4sck/s1600/Top-1.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="70" rw="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TDhFAqG6oEI/AAAAAAAAAZk/-LhGc_Z4sck/s400/Top-1.bmp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Members may purchase the Newman tie from Walters of Oxford on Turl Street.</div>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-29416776511251505132010-07-01T12:10:00.004+01:002010-07-02T00:22:32.204+01:00'Loyal to Peter' - The Newman Society's lost statue of Saint Peter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TCx1z2hNJVI/AAAAAAAAAZE/-EPmRoYjqsg/s1600/St_Peter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" rw="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TCx1z2hNJVI/AAAAAAAAAZE/-EPmRoYjqsg/s400/St_Peter.jpg" width="307" /></a></div>The Newman Society gave a bronze statue of St. Peter to St. Aloysius’ church in 1893. The gift commemorated the departure of the much loved Fr. Walter Strappini SJ, who had served as Rector of the parish for eleven years and had been a formative influence in those early years of the society’s history.<br />
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The statue was a scaled replica of the famous statue of St. Peter which stands in the Vatican Basilica and is attributed to the thirteenth century sculptor <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01750a.htm">Arnolfo di Cambio</a>. The original model for the sculpture can be seen in the Basilica’s crypt, where there can be found a classical sculpture of a seated philosopher which has been transformed into a christianised image of the Prince of the Apostles teaching from his cathedra.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TCx18VrxITI/AAAAAAAAAZM/p4LICp1O6lI/s1600/StPeter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" rw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TCx18VrxITI/AAAAAAAAAZM/p4LICp1O6lI/s200/StPeter.jpg" width="142" /></a></div>On Ss Peter and Paul’s day the bronze statue is vested with a cope, Episcopal ring, and Papal tiara. A special indulgence can be obtained by kissing its foot, which has been worn down to a smooth surface by the veneration of pilgrims over the centuries. The gesture has a two-fold meaning: it is an act of veneration of St. Peter and - as the traditional gesture of obeisance upon meeting a Pope - is also an expression of loyalty to the person of the Holy Father as successor of 'the Fisherman' Peter. <br />
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In St. Aloysius’ parish records there survives a papal grant giving this same indulgence to the Newman Society’s statue and Fr. Martindale’s history of the parish records that it was much venerated by people entering and leaving the church.<br />
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The statue was removed from the church and decapitated (!) several decades ago. The head was rescued by a parishioner and has recently been returned to the parish. It can now be seen in the Oratory House, where it serves as a sad reminder of the reprehensible destruction of so much of our Catholic patrimony falsly carried out in the name of the Second Vatican Council (see below).<br />
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The above photograph has recently come to light. The astute observer will notice that the marbled base of the sculpture is now used as a plinth for St. Joseph’s statue in the church.<br />
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<strong><u>The Fathers of Vatican II on sacred art:</u></strong><br />
<blockquote><em>Very rightly the fine arts are considered to rank among the noblest expressions of human genious. This judgment applies especially to religious art and to its highest achievement, which is sacred art. By their very nature both of the latter are related to God’s boundless beauty …</em><br />
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<em>The practice of placing sacred images in churches so that they may be venerated by the faithful is to be firmly maintained …</em><br />
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<em>Ordinaries must be very careful to see that sacred furnishings and works of value are not disposed of or allowed to deteriorate; for they are ornaments of the house of God.</em><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">(Vatican II, <em>S.C.</em>, 122, 125, 126)</div></blockquote>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-67078892728379416182010-06-15T14:40:00.001+01:002010-07-21T17:48:02.652+01:00Archbishop Diarmuid Martin's address to the Newman Society<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TBeCJGt3i-I/AAAAAAAAAY0/xa-EMETWQwg/s1600/28957_10150208979480221_878445220_12811495_2630890_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TBeCJGt3i-I/AAAAAAAAAY0/xa-EMETWQwg/s320/28957_10150208979480221_878445220_12811495_2630890_n.jpg" /></a></div>“THERE ARE MANY YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING TO FIND A REASON TO REMAIN IN THE CHURCH” <br />
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Speaking Notes of Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin<br />
Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland<br />
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Newman Society, Oxford, 4th June 2010<br />
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The title that I have chosen for my reflections this evening – There are many young people who are struggling to find a reason to remain in the Church” – may seem slightly puzzling to some of you. Let me explain its origin. It is a line taken from the comment of the Parish Pastoral Council of one Dublin parish sent to me in the light of the publication of the Murphy Report into the sexual abuse of children by priests within the Archdiocese of Dublin.<br />
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The Murphy Report was a very significant examination of how allegations of sexual abuse by priests were managed by Church and State authorities in Ireland. The Report was the fruit of a Government instituted Commission which was established to examine a representative sample of how abuse cases were managed in the period of time between 1975 and 2004.<br />
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The findings of the Murphy Report were disastrous. Certainly much of what was dealt with took place in different times and in a different culture. Medical science and juridical reflection may have underestimated the damage done to children who were sexually abused. But what the Murphy Report narrated was nonetheless catastrophic. I have repeated on numerous occasions that for me the only honest reaction of the Church to that Report was to publicly admit that the manner in which that catastrophe was addressed was spectacularly wrong; spectacularly wrong “full stop”; not spectacularly wrong, “but…” You cannot sound-byte your way out of a catastrophe.<br />
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The cultural situation was different; abuse takes place in many other sectors of society. This is all true. But it cannot be used as an excuse to down-play the gravity of what took place in the Church of Christ. The Church is different; the Church is a place where children should be the subject of special protection and care. The Gospel presents children in a special light and reserves some of its most severe language for those who disregard or scandalise children in any way.<br />
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It is hard to understand why, in the management by Church authorities of cases of the sexual abuse of children, the children themselves were for many years rarely even taken into the equation. Yes, in the culture of the day children were to be seen and not heard, but different from other professions Church leaders should have been more aware of the Gospel imperative to avoid harm to children, whose innocence was indicated by the Lord a sign of the kingdom of God. Where innocent children are failed, the Kingdom of God and the message of Jesus Christ have been distorted.<br />
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It is not my intention this evening to enter deeply into the question of the management and cover-up of the problem of sexual abuse by priests. It is a question which has influenced me deeply over the six years in which I have been Archbishop of Dublin. I have dedicated a great deal of time to the question and I do not regret that. I have met with and listened to survivors; I have been often so angry when I witness the horrendous damage that was done to people’s lives. I have worked to ensure that we have sound child safeguarding procedures in all our parishes. I have cooperated in three investigations and am now engaged with two others. <br />
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I often feel that he Archdiocese of Dublin will turn out to be the most investigated diocese in the world: It has dealt with the Murphy Commission – for which I submitted almost 70,000 documents; it has dealt with two large scale police investigations, one currently on-going; it has responded to a detailed audit by the State’s Health Service Executive. The Church’s National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland is due to conduct a further audit and an Apostolic Visitation of the Diocese have been announced for the coming months.<br />
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The Church must recognise the failings and cover ups of the past but it cannot be imprisoned in its past. That is the challenging dilemma which I have to face as Pastor of a diocese of about 1,200,000 Catholics, by far the largest diocese in these islands.<br />
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The Catholic Church in Ireland is coming out of one of the most difficult moments in its history yet the light at the end of the tunnel is still a long way off. The Catholic Church in Ireland will have to live with the grief of its past, which cannot and should never be forgotten or overlooked. There is no simple way of wiping the slate of the past clean, just to ease our feelings. Yet the Catholic Church in Ireland cannot be imprisoned in its past. The work of evangelization must if anything takes on a totally new vibrancy. <br />
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I would not however like what I say about moving onwards to be in any way interpreted as turning my back on the survivors of sexual abuse. They had their childhood stolen and the words of Jesus about his special care for children will apply to them until that day, whenever and if ever that will be, when the hurt of their stolen childhood will be healed. In my years as Archbishop I have learned enormously from survivors as they allowed me to know something of their pain and of their hopes and also of the spiritual void which many experience as a result of betrayal by their Church. I use the term spiritual void because it is an expression which some survivors have used to express how they feel in their lives. In my encounters with survivors, however, I have found their spiritual fragility somehow has given them in a deep spiritual strength, from which I have profited. For that I thank them. <br />
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I have begun my reflections by looking at some aspects of the effects of the abuse scandal within the Archdiocese of Dublin. I do so to situate the context in which young people in Ireland today engage with their faith and with their Church. <br />
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There are indeed many young people in our parishes who are struggling to find a reason to remain in the Church. There are many more who have long since made their decision not to remain. There are those for whom the Church is totally off their radar screen. <br />
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This is not just the common situation in which the young people of each generation question or even reject the Church at a particular moment in their personal development. I believe that the crisis today goes much deeper. For many young people who were already doubting their faith, the abuse scandal was just the ultimate confirmation that they had been looking for of the fact that the Catholic Church in its current expression is for them much more than a wounded organization, but a failed organization if not indeed a hypocritical organization. <br />
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Parents who go to Church tell me that the have to listen to the comments of their children regarding why they keep going “to those people”. This is very frustrating for parents who themselves may be still hanging in there by what a seventy year old wrote to me this morning “the fingernails of faith”.<br />
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There is no way then that we can underplay the effect that the abuse scandals have had on young people. But it must be said very clearly that the crisis of belief among young people has far deeper roots and roots which were there well before the abuse scandal.<br />
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I visit parishes where I encounter no young people. I enquire what is being done to attract young people to parish life and the answers are vague. Everyone knows that there is a missing generation in our Church attendance and perhaps more than one, yet there are very few strong pastoral initiatives to reach out to young people. Parishes offer very little outreach to young people and I feel that an increasing number of young people find parishes a little like alien territory. <br />
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There are structural and cultural factors which are unique to the Irish Church which have contributed to this alienation of our young people. The Irish Church has traditionally stressed the central role of Catholic schools. In the nineteenth century, after Catholic Emancipation, the Irish Church was determined that it would have an education system not just open to Catholics, as had hitherto not being the case, but which gave the strongest possible guarantee of being truly Catholic. <br />
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The only Irish bishop who took a strong strand in favour of Catholic participation in the initial National School system or in the Queens University system was the Archbishop of Dublin, Daniel Murray. His successor in Dublin, the first Irish Cardinal, Paul Cullen, on the other hand strongly supported the idea of specifically Catholic education in schools and universities and definitively won the Holy See’s support for his views. <br />
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It was Cullen who invited Newman to come to Dublin to establish the Catholic University of Ireland. There is a fascinating temptation for me to ask the “What if” question: what if the model of Archbishop Murray had been followed with Catholic children attending public schools and secular universities? Might the faith in Ireland have been stronger and less parochial? <br />
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Newman’s University, in fact, was not a great success; its degrees were not recognised and apart from the medical school failed to attract public interest. I have to be careful not to make many critical comments about the effectiveness of Newman’s University, not just because I am addressing a Newman Society, but because I am actually the current Rector of the Catholic University of Ireland which still exists in law. It exists in law but it has little more than Trustees, a Rector and a beautiful University Church designed in great part under the direct influence of Newman. I will come back to that Church later.<br />
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The particular religious history of Ireland led to great emphasis being placed on the school as the principal vehicle for religious education. The school in Ireland then became a rather authoritarian school system, with Victorianism, Jansenism and older Irish penitential spirituality combining. Questioning was not encouraged. Questions of faith were to be accepted in obedience. It was presumed that all students in Catholic schools were believers and that they would make the First Communion and Confirmation when they reached the appropriate class. In my younger days parents were not even allowed to be in the Church for Confirmation. In more recent years, due to the drop in the number of priests and the increase of their work load, the link between sacramental preparation and school deepened and the link between sacramental preparation and parish diminished. <br />
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A form of religious education which is separated from the parish or some other non-school faith community will almost inevitably cave in the day that school ends. Sacramental formation belongs within the Christian community which welcomes and supports each of us on our journey. We need a more demanding catechesis, within a parish framework, for those who wish to come forward for admission to the sacraments. Admission to the sacraments is not something which is automatically acquired when one reaches a certain class in school. I have just begun a long term pastoral project in the Archdiocese of Dublin to find new solutions to this challenge.<br />
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The curious demography and history of the Irish Church meant also that the Church developed and pioneered all sorts of valuable services within the community. This was often done at no expense to the State. As Irish society became wealthier, it was rightfully claimed that such services deserved appropriate support from public authorities because of the social benefit they provided. <br />
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This resulted in two consequences. Today to many who have no understanding of the historical roots of this situation it can easily appear that the Church uses its role in social services because it wanted to and still wants to maintain dominating control of many aspects of society. This is another source of alienation for young people. Secondly as the years went on and salaries were paid by the State, many of these Church services lost something of the Christian concept of gratuitousness and became little different to any other professional service. A Church which looses that sense of gratuitousness looses something of the essential dimensions of its witness to Jesus. I believe that it is no coincidence that the consistent generosity people show towards the Saint Vincent de Paul Society comes precisely because of the gratuity of its witness.<br />
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A further problem emerged as the Catholic Church in Ireland, which was provider of many services, began to be blamed as responsible or co-responsible for the defects of these services. The situation emerged in which rather than being an uncompromising witness to the values of the Gospel, Church-run institutions became embroiled in all sorts of disputes which were not really matters for the Church. Again in this context the Church, even in those areas where the it was seeking to provide care and support to the poor, appeared to many young people, as a Church seeking power.<br />
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The Church will continue to provide services for the poor and recognises the need for professionalism in its services. Hopefully the Church has learned the lesson that it should not allow itself to be involved in providing poor quality services for the poor. When Church services become simply ancillary to State then they run the risk of loosing their ecclesial originality and will one day end up being incorporated into the public service structure and subordinated to its goals. Already the structures of some Catholic services are being altered to respond to financial policies of the State. <br />
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The Catholic Church in Ireland has to adapt itself to the changing society within which it lives. My reflections this afternoon are principally about the Catholic Church in Ireland. I am not an expert in nor would I presume to talk much less to lecture to the Church here in the United Kingdom. For that I have neither the mandate nor the competence. The pastoral situation in Ireland is quite different to that in the United Kingdom.<br />
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The Catholic Church in Ireland has to adapt itself to the changing society within which it lives. One non-Catholic observer, speaking at a recent meeting of the Dublin Council of Churches, noted that all of our Churches were today “wearing the wrong clothes”, clothes that were measured in times when we were all a lot fatter and when styles were very different. In the future the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland will have to find its place in a very different, much more secularised culture, at times even in a hostile culture. The Catholic Church has to look again at the dominant role it assumed in Irish society, while at the same time not renouncing its prophetic role in society and in the formation of consciences through opening to the teaching of Jesus Christ. <br />
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This will involve a much greater degree of parish-based catechesis and evangelisation within our parishes. Our parishes are changing. In Dublin we are now preparing a third cohort of lay pastoral workers who have brought new charisms and dynamism in to the ministry of our parishes. It has not been easy. Parishes are often not yet ready and willing to face the radical nature of the change that is inevitable. The introduction of full time lay parish pastoral workers has had a number of important effects. The clearly lay character of the mission of these Parish Pastoral Workers has opened up new possibilities of encounter and welcome to enhance lay charisms both directly within the Church and in the presence of lay Christians in the world in which they work. Their presence challenges any remnants of a culture of clericalism. Lay pastoral workers have found ways of involving more lay people in Church activities and above all in formation in theology and spirituality. Lay pastoral workers are called not to bring volunteerism to an end, but rather to enhance the participation of lat people in the life of the Church. Parishes must become real centre of on-going faith formation. <br />
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Renewal in the Church requires more involvement of lay people. Involvement requires also formation and not just structural changes. Looking at the Churches, especially the Orthodox Churches, which have a long tradition of synodality one sees that synodality is lived out within deep theological, ecclesiological and historical roots. The tradition of synodality has not been as strong in the Western Church, yet it is quite developed in the current Code of Canon Law. However for synodality to function at the service of evangelization it requires a deep ecclesiological sense. Synods are not parliaments; synods are not talking shops. <br />
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Stressing renewal of the sacramental and spiritual dimensions of the Church does not mean that the Church intends to retreat into the sacristy. The Irish Church may once have dominated social reflection. Those days are gone and the Church must recognise that the weight of its voice in a much more secular society has changed. To return to my friend’s analogy, the Church must change its clothes, not just as cosmetic change or to look more fashionable, but to have clothes which make us more agile for the task that is ours. <br />
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There are as I have said certain structural challenges in the Irish Church which must be faced, some of which are unique to Ireland and its social and religious history. But the challenge of helping you people to remain active members of the Church is not simply a structural one. It is much more about the quality of the faith of young people and the very manifestation of the Church itself. I am struck by the comments I had quoted earlier from parents whose children ask them why they are still going “to those people”. The alienation of young people is not with the message of Jesus but with “those people” – which means me – which means the current structures and culture of those with responsibility within the Church. Their alienation with the Church is not that “Mass is boring” which we have all felt at some stage or other. It is that young people fail to find in their experience of Church the experience of a lived and living Gospel community. New evangelization will only take place within a Church which is purified and renewed. There will be no renewal without purification and purification is never a half measure. <br />
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Young people today are as idealistic and generous as any generation of young people if not even more so. The Church in Ireland has failed to capture that generosity and idealism as the foundation for building up a renewed Church. The generosity and idealism of young people hesitates in the face of remnants of a culture of authoritarianism in the Church. Such authoritarianism was inappropriate even in the past. It is especially alien to the culture of young people. There is no way in which faith can be imposed. Young people need to be led into the fundamental question about God, within a culture where there are many other very attractive gods with which young people encounter day by day. <br />
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One can only be led into the question of God through a process of dialogue and reflection. To face the question about God, young people have first of all to ask the question about God, to be aware that this is a question which does not just belong to the pre-scientific past past, but needs to be addressed today and in the concrete today of our lives. They need to see that such dialogue between faith and science, faith and culture are not just taking place here and there but are characteristic of the culture of the Church today at all levels.<br />
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There is no way in which the process of engaging with the question about God can be developed on the basis of simple dogmatic imposition. The process is a much more difficult one where we are all called to be witnesses which attract others to the message of the Risen Lord. Dialogue between faith and science, faith and culture can only take place outside the framework of ideological pre-conditions and in terms of real honesty and integrity. <br />
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The question about God is a fundamental question within our modern Western societies and addressing it is vital if we wish to find ways of rooting the values which should underlie our interaction as individuals and as society. <br />
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But young people need to be initiated into the search for God in another manner, through encountering the God who is revealed in Jesus Christ. They have to be led to encounter Jesus Christ as a person with whom they can enter into a relationship and who will lead them to understand that God is not just an ultimate cause, but that God is love. The Catholic Church in Ireland needs new form of evangelization which involves strong scriptural renewal. I have had 250,000 copies of the Gospel of Saint Luke printed this year and distributed in our parishes. I hope that this will be one contribution to such a biblical renewal. Each month a group of biblical and pastoral scholars prepare an “e-good news letter” helping priests and people to know how to use and interpret the scriptural texts that will be found in the liturgy in the month ahead. We have interactive link ups between parish scripture and lectio divina groups. <br />
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I am happy that we are finding good use for new communications technology to reach out to young people. We need a new dynamic of catechesis which meets people where they are and leads them into the mysterious presence of God in their lives. <br />
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Let me come back to Newman’s’ Church. I do not know if any of you may ever visited Newman’s University Church. Walking along Saint Stephen’s Green in the heart of Dublin you would hardly notice that there was a Church there. There is a small porch with a cross on it. If you enter into a porch you find yourself in a long, nondescript corridor which gives little indication where it might be leading. Then you suddenly enter a quite unique Church, of great beauty and mystery, quite unlike other Churches built in its time, very much Newman’s Church.<br />
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I often link that experience of entering Newman’s Church with the challenge of evangelization. The task of evangelization is to challenge these who walk our cities to stop and be curious about this small signs of God’s presence which are all around us but which so often we chose to ignore. We need to stimulate the curiosity of those who walk directionless or just going about day to day activities. But we have to realise that such curiosity will not provide immediate results. There is still, for all of us, the long, nondescript corridor which gives you no indication of what you might expect if you journey onwards. This is the challenge and the risk of faith But through perseverance and especially through the helping hand of other people of faith we can be led to enter into the surprising, into a presence of God which brings us way beyond the sphere of normal human imagination.<br />
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Experiencing the beauty of faith is not something that will happen to us every day. There is no way however we can expect young people to remain in the Church if we do not at least attempt to open up that experience for them or at least glimpses of it which can enlighten and encourage them in the ups and downs of their life within their culture and the characteristics of their generation.<br />
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As a Bishop there are many reasons for me to be disillusioned and discouraged. Yet there are many reasons for being optimistic and hopeful and indeed for being motivated myself to work with others who wish to make that journey from living in the pure day-by-day to finding beauty and love in an encounter with Jesus Christ.<br />
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There are many reasons why young people would not remain within the Church. There are many reasons why they should remain, should feel a part of the Church and should enrich the Church with the charisms that they have received.<br />
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We all have reasons to be discouraged and to be angry. There is a sense, however, in which true reform of the Church will spring only from those who love the Church, with a love like that of Jesus which is prepared also to suffer for the Church and to give oneself for the Church.<br />
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Thank God there are many who love their Church: lay persons, religious and clergy. We love the Church because the Church is our home, the pace where we encounter the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ and where we gather in love to break bread in his memory.Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-91979290190116578322010-06-15T14:19:00.000+01:002010-06-15T14:19:43.128+01:00Visit of the Archbishop of Dublin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TBd7ZblLGZI/AAAAAAAAAYs/LRlkdJAdrMg/s1600/28957_10150208979480221_878445220_12811495_2630890_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" qu="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/TBd7ZblLGZI/AAAAAAAAAYs/LRlkdJAdrMg/s400/28957_10150208979480221_878445220_12811495_2630890_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, the Most Rev. <strong>Diarmuid Martin</strong>, visited the society earlier in the term. He gave a lecture at the Catholic Chplaincy, which was followed by Ecumenical Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral and the society's termly black-tie dinner, which was also held in Christ Church.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Here is Patsy McGarry's report on the Archbishop's lecture, which appeared in the Irish Times (click here for <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0605/1224271905626.html">original article</a>):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said it was hard to understand why in the church’s dealing with the sexual abuse of children, “the children themselves were for many years rarely even taken into the equation”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Speaking last night, he said: “Yes, in the culture of the day children were to be seen and not heard, but different from other professions church leaders should have been more aware of the Gospel imperative to avoid harm to children, whose innocence was indicated by the Lord as a sign of the kingdom of God.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Archbishop Martin was addressing Oxford University’s Newman Society.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last month the Catholic primate, Cardinal Seán Brady, withdrew from a lecture he had been invited to deliver to the same society at Oxford on May 12th when authorities there expressed concerns about his attendance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was feared his presence might provoke protests following recent revelations about the cardinal’s handling in 1975 of canonical investigations into allegations of child sex abuse by Fr Brendan Smyth.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Newman Society at Oxford did not want negative incidents associated with Cardinal Newman as he is to be beatified by Pope Benedict during the papal visit to England and Scotland in September.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The findings of the Murphy Report were disastrous,” Archbishop Martin continued last night. “The cultural situation was different; abuse takes place in many other sectors of society. This is all true. But it cannot be used as an excuse to downplay the gravity of what took place in the church of Christ.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the church was a place where children should be the subject of special protection and care; and that the Gospel reserved “some of its most severe language for those who disregard or scandalise children in any way”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said he felt that the light at the end of the tunnel for the Catholic Church in Ireland was still a long way off.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the grief of the past could and should never be forgotten. “There is no simple way of wiping the slate of the past clean, just to ease our feelings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Yet the Catholic Church in Ireland cannot be imprisoned in its past. The work of evangelisation must if anything take on a totally new vibrancy,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There was no way “that we can underplay the effect that the abuse scandals have had on young people. But it must be said very clearly that the crisis of belief among young people has far deeper roots and roots which were there well before the abuse scandal.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There were “structural and cultural factors which are unique to the Irish church which have contributed to this alienation of our young people”, he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The particular religious history of Ireland led to great emphasis being placed on the school as the principal vehicle for religious education.” This “became a rather authoritarian school system, with Victorianism, Jansenism and older Irish penitential spirituality combining. Questioning was not encouraged. Questions of faith were to be accepted in obedience.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He added: “In more recent years, due to the drop in the number of priests and the increase of their workload, the link between sacramental preparation and school deepened and the link between sacramental preparation and parish diminished. A form of religious education which is separated from the parish or some other non-school faith community will almost inevitably cave in the day that school ends.”</div>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-22863470440608188812010-05-12T20:11:00.003+01:002010-07-25T11:24:53.979+01:00Presidential league table!If you become President you have over a one in four chance of becoming a priest! Over the past fifteen years twelve of forty three Presidents have gone on to be ordained or are currently training for the priesthood. The number soon looks set to rise still further … <br />
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Since 1995 the top three colleges in the presidential league table are St. Benet’s, with eight Presidents, Keble with five, and Exeter and Merton in joint third place with four each.<br />
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Here is the list:<br />
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TT10 - Conor Ganon (Wolfson)<br />
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HT10 - Hubert MacGreavy (St. Peter’s)<br />
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MT09 - Emeric Monfront (Christ Church)<br />
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TT09 - Jocky McLean (Christ Church)<br />
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HT09 - Patrick Milner (Keble) [second term]*<br />
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MT08 - Patrick Milner (Keble)*<br />
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TT08 - Mark Hamid (Corpus) [one day Presidency]<br />
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TT08 - Paul Fleming (Mansfield)<br />
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HT08 - Yaqoob Bangash (Keble)<br />
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MT07 - Michael Ryan (Brasenose)<br />
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TT07 - Laura Barrosse-Antle (St. John’s)<br />
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HT07 - Darren Collins (Keble)*<br />
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MT06 - Alexander Morrison (Oriel)*<br />
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TT06 - Matthew Allen (St. Benet’s)*<br />
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HT06 - Alexander Stafford (St. Benet’s)<br />
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MT05 - Samuel Jacobs (St. Benet’s)<br />
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TT05 - Katherine Shaw (Merton)<br />
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HT05 - Sinead Doyle (Trinity)<br />
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MT04 - Sede vacante<br />
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TT04 - Patricia Boon (St. Hilda’s)<br />
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HT04 - Francis Murphy (Trinity)<br />
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MT03 - Richard Pickett (Exeter)<br />
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TT03 - Richard Eschwege (Balliol)<br />
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HT03 - Jonathan Gress-Wright (Merton)<br />
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MT02 - Edward Davies (Oriel)<br />
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TT02 - James Mearns (Keble)<br />
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HT02 - Dom John Wisdom (St. Benet’s)*<br />
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MT01 - Edmund Lovett (St. Benet’s)<br />
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TT01 - Christopher Guyver (Keble)<br />
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HT01 - Br. Hugh Allan, OPraem (St. Benet’s)*<br />
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MT00 - Julian Waterfield (Exeter)<br />
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TT00 - Richard McCarthy (Oriel)<br />
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HT00 - Emily Boon (St. Hughs)<br />
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MT99 - Lee Barrett (Queen’s)<br />
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TT99 - Gregory Flash (St. Hugh’s)<br />
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HT99 - Marcus Williams (Christ Church)*<br />
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MT98 - Francis Lee (Merton)*<br />
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TT98 - Adam Fimister (Exeter)<br />
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HT98 - Marcus Holden (St. Benet’s)*<br />
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MT97 - Alexander Anderson (St. Benet’s)<br />
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TT97 - Uwe Lang (St. John’s)*<br />
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HT97 - Marie Cabaud (LMH)<br />
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MT96 - Alexander Master (Corpus)*<br />
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TT96 - Mark Richmond (Balliol)<br />
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HT06 - Nicholas Schofield (Exeter)*<br />
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MT05 - Ashley Paver (St. Hugh’s)<br />
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* Priest or seminarianCamino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-40785381522461156772010-05-08T10:46:00.001+01:002010-05-12T20:00:30.241+01:00Cancellation of Cardinal Brady's lecture<em>Oxford University Newman Society regrets to announce that Cardinal Seán Brady has cancelled his visit to Oxford, which was scheduled to take place on 12th May 2010. The following message has been received from Cardinal Brady’s Office:</em><br />
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<blockquote>As he continues a gradual return to normal duties following a short period of illness Cardinal Brady has, with deep regret, decided to cancel his proposed visit to Oxford.<br />
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He was due to deliver a lecture to the Oxford University Newman Society on the subject of the ‘Challenges Facing the Church in Ireland in the Twenty First Century’; in addition to celebrating Mass in Trinity College and attending a Dinner in St Benet’s Hall, on Wednesday 12th May before travelling to Lourdes with the Armagh Diocese.<br />
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Cardinal Brady expressed the hope that he would be able to visit the members of the Oxford University Newman Society in due course and conveyed his good wishes and prayers for the work of the Society and the University, especially for those students preparing for examinations at this time.</blockquote>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-6224731475126948392010-05-05T17:30:00.000+01:002010-05-05T17:30:02.928+01:00Cardinal Seán Brady to visit Newman Society and deliver major lecture on Irish Catholicism - Wednesday 12 May<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<div> </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/S-Gacr5SVRI/AAAAAAAAAYU/O-OjXRS8V9M/s1600/brady1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/S-Gacr5SVRI/AAAAAAAAAYU/O-OjXRS8V9M/s400/brady1.jpg" tt="true" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, will be visiting Oxford at the invitation of the Newman Society on Wednesday 12th May 2010. The Cardinal will deliver the society's termly Thomas More Lecture in the Divinity School of Oxford University on the subject of "The Challanges Facing the Church in Ireland in the Twenty-First Century". After the lecture His Eminence will celebrate a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Chapel of Trinity College, the College where Newman studied as an undergraduate. Following this, the Cardinal will attend a dinner hosted by the society at St. Benet's Hall. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"></div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Press release: <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~newman/cardinal-brady.pdf">click here </a><strong></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"></div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><strong>Programme for the visit - Wednesday 12th May</strong></div><ul><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Thomas More Lecture, Divinity School, Bodliean Library, 5pm </div></li>
<li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Solemn Pontifical Mass, Trinity College Chapel, 6.15pm </div></li>
<li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Dinner in honour of His Eminence, St. Benet's Hall, 7.30pm </div></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Members of the public are welcome to attend the lecture and Mass. <br />
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Members of the society wishing to attend the dinner should contact <a href="mailto:newman@herald.ox.ac.uk">newman@herald.ox.ac.uk</a>. <br />
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<div> </div><div> </div><strong>Further information about the lecture</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cardinal Brady's lecture tales place in the wake of the Holy Father's recent letter to the Catholics of Ireland on the issue of sexual abuse of children. The Cardinal will use his speech as an opportunity to respond to the issues raised by the Holy Father and to reflect on how the church can move forward seeking healing, forgiveness, and renewed dedication. <br />
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<div> </div>The Cardinal's lecture will be the last in the 2009-2010 series of Thomas More Lectures, which have examined the subject of 'Religion in the Public Square'. The previous lecturers in this series included Cardinal George Pell (Archbishop of Sydney), Francis Campbell (HM Ambassador to the Holy See), and Paul Murphy MP (Former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/S-GayXGN7KI/AAAAAAAAAYk/JDWKbkRVV3k/s1600/brady2" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/S-GayXGN7KI/AAAAAAAAAYk/JDWKbkRVV3k/s320/brady2" tt="true" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-56928391220446776122010-04-25T19:26:00.001+01:002010-04-25T19:38:31.371+01:00Hartwell de la Garde Grisell, co-founder of the Newman Society<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/S9SHXQNRNGI/AAAAAAAAAX8/mujaM5n0HN8/s1600/220px-Hartwell_de_la_Garde_Grissell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/S9SHXQNRNGI/AAAAAAAAAX8/mujaM5n0HN8/s320/220px-Hartwell_de_la_Garde_Grissell.jpg" tt="true" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hartwell de la Garde Grissell was born in 1839 as the son of Thomas Grissell, a prosperous public works contractor. He was educated at Harrow School and in 1859 matriculated to Oxford University as a commoner of Brasenose College.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">During his time at Oxford Grissell came under the influence of the leading tractarian, Dr. Henry Parry Liddon. He became increasingly involved with the Anglican High Church movement and was admitted to the Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity, a movement existing to promote High Church principles within the University.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was at also Oxford that Grissell developed a strong interest in ecclesiastical ritual. He came to believe that the Book of Common Prayer had its roots in the Catholic liturgy and argued for greater ritualism in Anglican worship. In 1865 he published a work called 'Ritual Inaccuracies', in which he attempted to 'bring the rubrics of the Protestant Communion Service into line with those of the Roman Missal'.[1] Reminiscing about this period of his life he was to write:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">I soon came to the conclusion myself that this exhumation of scraps and snatches of an ancient rite, and the profane distortion of the rubrics of the Roman Missal for the disguise of Protestant worship was little better than an imposture.[2]</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Whilst working on his book Grissell came into contact with a number of Catholic priests and developed a leaning towards Roman Catholicism. Under the direction of Fr. Edward Caswall, a priest of the Birmingham Oratory, Grissell began to read Catholic works. Writing in the year of his death, he recalled his conversion:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">I came, after careful study of the question, to the conclusion that the Church of England, being purely a national Church, could hardly be considered Catholic and universal, in the sense of its being the Divine teacher of all nations, and that it was in schism … Prayer at length obtained for me the inestimable happiness of submitting myself to the Church, and of obtaining thereby the full certitude of my possessing undoubted and valid sacraments, and the enjoyment of that peace on earth which the true old faith can alone assure.[3]</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Grissell was received into the Catholic Church on 2 March 1868, at the hands of Henry Edward Manning, the Archbishop of Westminster.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1869 he moved to Rome, where he served as Cameriere (a Chamberlain of Honour) to Pope Pius IX. The Cameriere wore a Spanish-style costume with cape and sward and had the duty of attending upon the Pope during ecclesiastical and state functions. With his love of ritual Grissell relished life in the Papal Court, and writing in later life he reminisced:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>Having had the privilege for a period of some thirty-five years of being Chamberlain to three successive Pontiffs, [I have] many diaries … These many interesting reminiscences include an Œcumenical Council, four Jubilees, three Canonizations, two Papal Consecrations of Bishops, many Consistories (including those at which Cardinals Manning, Howard, and Newman received their hats), a Blessing of the Golden Rose, and of the Ducal Sword and Cap, an 'Anno Santo,' two Conclaves, and two Coronations, as well as many pilgrimages and visits of Sovereigns to His Holiness.[4]</blockquote>The temporal power of the Pope came to an end in 1870, when Victor Emmanuel II seized Rome, but Grissell nonetheless continued to serve under Pius IX and his two immediate successors, Leo XIII and St. Pius X. He was rewarded for his service, being created a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and, in 1898, one of the four Papal Chamberlains 'di numero' (an honour usually reserved to the Roman nobility). Writing from Rome in 1900 Oscar Wilde referred to Grissell as a stalwart of the conservative Papal Court:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">We came to Rome on Holy Thursday ... and yesterday, to the terror of Grissell and all the Papal Court, I appeared in the front rank of the pilgrims in the Vatican, and got the blessing of the Holy Father - a blessing they would have denied me. He was wonderful as he was carried past me on his throne--not of flesh and blood, but a white soul robed in white and an artist as well as a saint-the only instance in history, if the newspapers are to be believed. I have seen nothing like the extraordinary grace of his gestures as he rose, from moment to moment, to bless-possibly the pilgrims, but certainly me. [5]</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Whilst residing in Rome Grissell amassed a vast collection of relics and sacred curios, including a portion of the Crown of Thorns and the entire body of St. Pacificus. The centrepiece of the collection was the reputedly miraculous image of the Madonna called 'Mater Misericordia' (now housed in the Oxford Oratory and popularly known as 'Our Lady of Oxford'), to which Pius IX granted indulgences at Grissell’s request. Besides being an expert in matters liturgical, Grissell was a noted numismatician and was elected to a fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[6]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When not serving at the Papal Court, Grissell resided at 60 High Street in Oxford. Here he set up a private oratory, which was frequented by many early convert members of Oxford University. In 1877 he suggested the possibility of establishing a society for the University's Catholics and in the following year this idea came to fruition with the foundation of Oxford University Newman Society (which prior to 1888 was called Oxford University Catholic Club). Grissell was also to be influential in persuading Leo XIII to lift the papal ban on Catholics attending the English universities; this was to result in the foundation of Oxford University's Catholic Chaplaincy.[7]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Grissell died in Rome on 10 June 1907, leaving his relic collection to the parish of St. Aloysius Gonzaga in Oxford.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To mark the centenary of his death in 2007 the Newman Society mounted an exhibition commemorating his life and times, which was held in his Oxford alma mater, Brasenose College. Details were posted <a href="http://newmansociety.blogspot.com/2007/11/society-honours-founding-member.html">here</a> on the Newman Society's blog. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> By Richard Pickett</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Exeter College</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/S9SIoHiF5kI/AAAAAAAAAYE/D57E9weVKkQ/s1600/280px-Founders_of_the_Oxford_University_Newman_Society_%25281878%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/S9SIoHiF5kI/AAAAAAAAAYE/D57E9weVKkQ/s320/280px-Founders_of_the_Oxford_University_Newman_Society_%25281878%2529.jpg" tt="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>The founders of the Newman Society </em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>outside St. Aloysius' Church, Oxford, 1878; </em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>standing, second-from-right, Gerard Manley Hopkins, </em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>fourth-from right, Grissell </em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>This article has been </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwell_de_la_Garde_Grissell"><em>posted</em></a><em> on wikipedia.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Notes:</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">[1] Hartwell de la Garde Grissell, Ritual Inaccuracies (J. Masters & Co, 1865) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[2] 'Hartwell de la Garde Grissell, Esq, MA, Brasenose College, Oxford' in J. Godfrey Rupert, Roads to Rome: Being Personal Records of Some of the More Recent Converts to the Catholic Faith (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1908). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[3] 'Hartwell de la Garde Grissell, Esq, MA, Brasenose College, Oxford' in J. Godfrey Rupert, Roads to Rome: Being Personal Records of Some of the More Recent Converts to the Catholic Faith (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1908). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[4] Hartwell de la Garde Grissell, Sede Vacante, being a Diary written during the Conclave of 1903, with additional Notes on the Accession and Coronation of Pius X (James Parker & Co, 1903). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[5] http://www.readbookonline.net/read/9873/23977/ </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[6] John Evans, Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society Vol VII (Read Books, 2006, p.35) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[7] Alberic Stackpoole OSB, 'The Return of Roman Catholics to Oxford' in New Blackriars, vol. 67, issue 791, p. 225 </div>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-51820784694403562602010-04-25T16:20:00.000+01:002010-04-25T16:20:05.540+01:00Term Card TT10<strong>FIRST WEEK </strong><br />
Tuesday 27th June from 8.30pm <br />
The Rev. Fr. <strong>James Pierero</strong> (Opus Dei) <br />
<em>Reflections on the Beatification of John Henry Newman: An Historical Perspective </em><br />
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<strong>SECOND WEEK </strong><br />
Tuesday 4th May, 8.30pm <br />
The Very Rev. <strong>Richard Duffield</strong>, CongOrat (Postulator of Newman's Cause and Past-President) <br />
<em>Preparing for the Beatification of John Henry Newman </em><br />
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<strong>THIRD WEEK </strong><br />
Wednesday 12th May <br />
<strong>THOMAS MORE LECTURE </strong><br />
His Eminence <strong>Sean Cardinal Brady</strong> (Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland) <br />
<em>The Challanges facing the Irish Church in the Twenty-First Century </em><br />
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SOLEMN PONTIFICAL MASS AND TERMLY BLACK-TIE DINNER IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS EMINENCE <br />
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<strong>FOURTH WEEK </strong><br />
Tuesday 18th May, 7-9pm <br />
Newman Society Jazz Evening at the Oxford Union <br />
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Saturday 22nd May<br />
Pilgrimage to Newman's 'College' at Littlemore <br />
<em>A joint event with the Catholic Society. Depart from the Catholic Caplaincy at 9.30am. Mass to be celebrated by Fr. Daniel Seward, CongOrat (Past-President) </em><br />
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<strong>FIFTH WEEK </strong><br />
Tuesday 25th May, 8.30pm <br />
The Rev. Fr. <strong>Antoni Uccrler</strong>, SJ <br />
<em>Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of Matteo Ricci: Missionary and Scholar in the Middle Kingdom </em><br />
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<strong>SIXTH WEEK </strong><br />
Tuesday 1st June, 8.30pm <br />
Mr. <strong>Damian Thompson</strong> (Blogs Editor of the Daily Telegraph) <br />
<em>Universtanding the Relationship Between the Church and the Media </em><br />
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Friday 4th June<br />
SOLEMN PONTIFICAL VESPERS <br />
Celebrated by The Most Rev. <strong>Diarmuid Martin</strong> (Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland) <br />
Followed by dinner and lecture at the Catholic Chaplaincy <br />
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<strong>SEVENTH WEEK </strong><br />
Tuesday 12th June <br />
Meeting with The Most Rev. <strong>Vincent Nichols</strong> (Archbishop of Westminster) <br />
<em>Leaving Oxford Railway Station at 7.30am. Morning Coffee with Archbishop Nichols. Lunch in London and a tour of Westminster Cathedral in the afternoon. </em><br />
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<strong>EIGHTH WEEK </strong><br />
Tuesday 15th June <br />
The Rev. Fr. <strong>Jerry Hughes</strong> SJ and The Rev. Fr. <strong>Philip Endean</strong> SJ <br />
<em>What is the Point of Being a Jesuit Today? </em><br />
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Saturday 20th June <br />
Garden Party (A joint event with the Catholic Society) <br />
Campion Hall, 3-6pm <br />
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<em>Unless otherwise stated meetings take place at The Old Palace (Catholic Chaplaincy), which is located in Rose Place, just off St. Aldates and opposite Christ Church Memorial Gardens. </em><br />
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<em>Speaker dinners are held at 7pm prior to Tuesday evening speaker meetings at a cost of £10 (three courses and wine). Please contact the President by the preceding Monday if you wish to dine. </em>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-70432951625088755752010-04-24T09:33:00.000+01:002010-04-24T09:33:37.814+01:00Trinity Term 2010The programme for Trinity Term is now up on the <a href="http://users.ox.ac.uk/~newman/events.htm">web-site</a>!<br />
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A highlight of the term with be the visit of His Eminence Sean Cardinal Brady, who will deliver this term's Thomas More Lecture, celebrate Pontifical Mass, and be present at the termly black-tie dinner.Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-14217799820213314312010-03-17T15:47:00.005+00:002010-03-19T22:15:16.606+00:00Paul Murphy MP delivers Thomas More Lecture<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">‘The Apostle Paul’ on making politics dull: </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Paul Murphy MP reflects on peace in Ireland</span><br />
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<em>From The Catholic Herald, 19 March 2010 (click <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/life/cl0000712.shtml">here</a> for the original article):</em><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/S6D4lUjdW5I/AAAAAAAAAXs/c4AFTOI0df4/s1600-h/Paul+Murphy+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/S6D4lUjdW5I/AAAAAAAAAXs/c4AFTOI0df4/s200/Paul+Murphy+1.jpg" vt="true" width="170" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As an architect of the Good Friday Agreement, and subsequently as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Paul Murphy MP played a pivotal role in bringing an end to violence in the province, writes Richard Pickett. <br />
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Despite being a practising Catholic he has succeeded in gaining respect from across the political and religious divide and has even won the nickname "the Apostle Paul" from arch-Unionist politician Ian Paisley. <br />
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In a recent lecture given to the Oxford University Newman Society Mr Murphy spoke about his role in driving forward the Northern Irish peace process. He told his audience: "My mission is to make politics as dull in Northern Ireland as they are everywhere else."<br />
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He said that he hoped the continuing process of devolution of power would bring about a situation in which schools, hospitals, policing and other bread-and-butter concerns would become the principal focus of political activity in the province.<br />
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Mr Murphy told the Newman Society that over a 30-year period 3,500 people had been killed out of a population of just one and a half million.<br />
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But one of the most remarkable things about recent Northern Irish politics, he said, had been the willingness of age-old enemies to come together in the face of this trauma. <br />
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As an avowed Labour politician Mr Murphy joked that he could never bring himself to enter into coalition with the Conservatives. <br />
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Despite this, he said that he felt privileged to have worked alongside people who had been able to set aside a painful and often very personal history for the sake of achieving a lasting peace.<br />
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The former Secretary of State observed that the role of religion in the conflict has often been mischaracterised. <br />
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Although the names Catholic and Protestant are employed as a common shorthand, the real divisions giving rise to violence have always been political. <br />
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Differences over national identity, and not religion, he said, have presented the most significant bar to achieving lasting stability. <br />
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Mr Murphy then turned to examine the positive role played by the churches in driving forward the desire for peace. <br />
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With Sunday church attendance at around 70 per cent of the province's population Northern Ireland remains the most religiously observant part of Britain and the churches wield a significant moral influence. <br />
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Mr Murphy said he felt privileged to be part of the Northern Ireland story, but that the real credit must be given to the people [of the province] themselves. His speech was part of a series of lectures put on by the Society [to examine the role plaid by religion in public life. Cardinal George Pell and Francis Campbell, British Ambassador to the Holy See, have given previous lectures in the series].</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Photographs by James Bradley </em><em> </em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Click here for the full </em><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesbradley/sets/72157623590965410/"><em>flickr set</em></a><em>.</em></div>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22727959.post-1608997649535878162010-03-16T16:03:00.000+00:002010-03-17T10:10:30.361+00:00Newman's beatification confirmed to take place during Papal State Visit to Britain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/S6Cpdd1Py0I/AAAAAAAAAXk/3-T_CzEd0kM/s1600-h/Papal+visit.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="87" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oDr_TCfwMZ0/S6Cpdd1Py0I/AAAAAAAAAXk/3-T_CzEd0kM/s400/Papal+visit.JPG" vt="true" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>PRESS RELEASE FROM THE ENGLISH ORATORIES</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong></strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></strong><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>16 MARCH 2010, 12 noon</strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></strong><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>BEATIFICATION OF CARDINAL NEWMAN</strong> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>BY POPE BENEDICT XVI CONFIRMED</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Fathers and many friends of the English Oratories are delighted by the official announcement that our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI will beatify our founder, the Venerable John Henry Newman, in the Archdiocese of Birmingham during his visit to Britain in September. Newman made his home in the Archdiocese for all his adult life, first in Oxford, where he lived as an Anglican and was received into the Catholic Church, and later in Birmingham itself where he founded and worked in the Birmingham Oratory for over forty years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Holy Father's life-long devotion to Newman has made a profound contribution to understanding the depth and significance of our founder's legacy. His decision to beatify Newman in person confers a unique blessing upon the English Oratories and all who have drawn inspiration from Newman's life and work.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We joyfully look forward to welcoming the Holy Father, as well as the many pilgrims and visitors who will come to the Beatification ceremony and visit Newman's shrine at the Birmingham Oratory.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We also look forward to the challenging work of preparing for the Beatification in conjunction with Church and civil authorities. We pray that the Beatification will fittingly reflect both Newman's significance for the Universal Church and the honour paid to our Archdiocese and our country by the Holy Father's presence among us.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Very Rev. Richard Duffield</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Provost of the Birmingham Oratory<br />
and Actor of the Cause of John Henry Newman</div>Camino Pilgrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15670067623228804806noreply@blogger.com0