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The Anglican Bishop of Birmingham, the R ght Reverend Hugh Montefiore, said that th Reverend John Hay h d /eh his p ish d. y her announcing his dep ure a d tntention to a stunned congregation. r Hay was known as a strong opponent of the ordination of omen.

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Mr Hay, ged 43 nd a bachelor, believed that clergy should be celibate.

Bishop Montefiore said: "He came to see me saying that he was thinking of becom · g a Roman Catholic.

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"lsn 't Brother Robert Stewart a beaut bloke?!" someone said to me the other day. He's more than "beaut" he's special.

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Exploring their life through faith Some friends of mine observed their 25th wedding anniversary recently. There was a special liturgy and a warm reception to celebrate the occasion. I attended and enjoyed seeing old friends.

As I was driving home, I recalled a journey that this couple began about 1 0 years ago. At that time I was associate pastor of the parish where the couple

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and their children lived. They and three other couples were interested in exploring ways to share their faith with their children while at the same time persona I isi ng their own sense of belonging to a church.

So these eight persons, a nun and myself started a journey

together. We did not travel in any geographical sense; it was a pilgrimage of faith.

The starting point was simply a desire to respond to our own vocations.

We were not sure where we were headed. But somehow we knew that the act of journeying together was as important as any destination. We, as a church in miniature, were sharing the burdens and joys of the trip.

The 10 of us met with fT'equency. On occasion the children, mostly of elementary

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When the adults met alone, we prayed, discussed Christian mission, shared hopes and fears, and relaxed.

All pilgrimages have certain components.

Our travels as a group included the neces-

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First there needs to be an act of faith in the value of the journey.

The faith is seen as a motivator, serving as a

guide to keep the people going.

In the case of these couples, faith was expressed as a certainty that their voca-

tion was to create homes where Christlike love and trust could be experienced.

The time the couples

spent together often offered them reassu-

rance, especially during difficult times, that God was at their side as a pa� in their labors.

As a result of this element of faith in the pilgrimage, the travellers become fTee to place more emphasis on the journey itself than on the journey's end. Often the pilgrim doesn't know what he or she is going to find.

Instead there is a deep hunger to travel,

matched by a willingness to be open to the signs along the way.

another Reflecting component of a pilgrimage, our group concentrated on the Pl esent moment. This meant that we cherished the daily experiences of each member and we brought to prayer the struggles and successes found each day. Actually, I don't recall discussing it. but I think that we simply tried to find a better way to live and not any particular key to happiness or secret of

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Father John Castelot The early Christians were great travelers. In fact, Christianity's astonishing spread during the first century of its existence was largely the result of this mobility. One reliable estimate has St. Paul logging (not jogging!) almost 10,000 miles.

He was extraordinary but by no means unique. He also sent out personal emissaries on various errands, mostly as troubleshooters, such as Timothy to Thessalonica.

Paul's communities returned the favour by sending representatives to him for various reasons: Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus from Corinth to Ephesus; Epaphroditus from Philippi to Ephesus with gift packages when Paul was imprisoned there.

Others just dropped in on him although perhaps not altogether accidentally, like the Corinthians from Chloe's housechurch who brought him disturbing news of the situation at Corinth.

means that1nm church, It means discovering that centre must keep that has within And a dwelling become were Pllrt Qiur· ney Werethe p1aee of Jesus. move. lhat,ery These families were on evident to hen a pilgrimage toward a several of 1tmes Christ who is truly reconvenl!lthe amonQ us and part of wedding 11\ry. our daily experiences.

The childltlad grown, �iles Our recent gathering now �ost was an Importantof us and flfew reminder to me of the were stil Ill\:! in pilgrimage that four the same or families, a nun and a capacity. Bureal priest began 1 0 years Travelling movement N8S ago. taking l)iaaand together in faith still is - ves enabled us to respond around theney to God's invitation to inward, illlper- us to continue a pilson each d1and grimage wherever we

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The night before setting out on a journey that would take them 1,000 miles from home and 100 years back in time, a mother and father packed suitcases, pil- relatives who lived lows, snack foods, a nearby, to ask yet again what hfe was camera, the child- "really like" for grandren's headphone- father as a child.

This family was on polradios, gnmage. a Journey of equipped s,gndicance jackets in case the special Though their p1 lgnmage weather turned cool, was not exphc1tly rehg1ous, 11 did reflect a trust umbrellas, two - a fa,th - that Ide has sleeping bags and a meaning and purpose first-aid kit into the DOD And the journev had back of their station some mar1<s of a rehg,ous wagon; then, after at pilgrimage The family traveled to a special least two discussions place. along the way they about how it "should were jomed by other older community have been done in members, for example helped them redisthe first place," they who cove, their hentage; w,th packed it all in again. hospitality, they were received by relatives they The next morning, knew only shghtly It was expenence of sp1ntual after a restless an refreshment, us effect sleep, was nounsh1ng night's The image of pdgrms mother, father and travehng barefoot to a is largely a relic of their children shnne the past, as modem pdsqueezed into the car gnms Jet or travel rn wagon to the and headed down stanon destination But the the highway with an church's ancient tradition of p1lgnmage rs very air of expectancy and much ahve Of course. polgnmages a touch of nervous don't always involve a away from long journey anticipation.

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In the last chapten letter to the Romans, Paul extends g� 26 individuals and a number of groups. rthough he has never been in Rome himse'is time. In all likelihood he had known thel111here before they had moved to the capfl Outstanding amle early pilgrims were Prisca and Aquila. a'ld couple who really got around. Originallyfontus on the Black Sea. they made their wa,ome.

When the edict dldius expelled all Jews from the city, Pnsa Aquila went down to Con nth and formed sting 8SSOClation with Paul Later, writing fron)esus to Corinth, Paul sends greetings fr the couple to the

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Finally when PatJ • to the Romans. they are back in the captae more.

Not all of this� pleasant.

People underto,jfor various reasons: occupational, COf1V11I evangelical.Travellers were in constant felattadt by brigands in sprte of the R� Js' vigilance.

Going by sea was� and easiest.

A good ship C()lid� 100 miles a day and piracy had been w,pi by the authorities. , Most people wiK . plodded along on mules, averagingati,.milesaday. Overnight lodging presented a �m. There were inns of a sort but they offelllle more than shelter from the elements. Sdlle tried to travel when the weather was� they could camp by

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Ultimately their Journey would take them through towns they'd never visited to the place where the child� ren's great-grandparents had begun to raise a family

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finding a weicOf114l � lOSpi tality is trequentfy IP.5 an important Christia"-.,:

Helena lived long long :igo, about 200yean. after Jesus. She grew up in 2 far-off land c:aJled B1thynia ( now known as Turkey). Her father owned an inn beside a husy highway and people from near and far stopped here to eat and to rest, Helena liked meeting the lraveUers and helped her parents serve them.

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Onec!ay:ifamous Roman. (,c:neral Constanuus. Stopped at the inn. He liked the 20-yearold Helena very much He and Helena fell in lo,e 'and married Th lived together happily for about 20 ''Cl" and had a son !lamed Constantine ' By then Constanuu " second only to the emperor in power and lmporuncc. Friends �OW whispered to Constannu: that a man of s high posruon needed a noble wife, After all, Helena had been a servant girl Th"} con'1nced · him to divorce Helena and marry Theodora. the emperor stepdaughter Now Helena wa all alone Her son, Constantine, w ahout 20. He loved and

admired his mother and was sad about the divorce.

'hen the emperor died Constantine became emperor. One of the fir.t things he dsd was declare that all "ere, to honor his mother Ile placed her picture on the empire's coin In 31 3 AD Constanune made it a law that Christian. for the fir<t tune could live and wo"hiP freely. Before that Chrtsuans at umc were arr ted, tortured and killed for li\ing :iccordmg to Jc u, teachinl(' Helena hec:imc a Chri,tian and wa, l>.1pt1scd at ahout the ,ge of 63. She no" spent much of her ume and money helping the poor and the <t< J. She also had man}

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churches built -o Christians could worship together pubhd .

Then Hel na decided to visu the places where Jesus lived. She made one of the first pilgnrnages to the Hol} Land. It was a long joumq- for an old woman. She visited Bethlehem where Jesus was born and iazareth where he grew up with Mary and jo-eph, she enjoyed being h} the Sea of Galilee where Jc us taught and healed people.

But most of all <h liked bemg in Jerusalem where Jc us suffered. died and rose agam Helena oversaw the hu1lding of a large church on the pot where Je us was <.TU · Ied. �he directed a search for the cro s on whichjc us died. It, d <he found the cross In a dncd-up CL'1cm on Calvary; People all over the Hol) Land loved Helena because <he was <o kind, e,,pcc1ally toward the poor !>h rued a ,el'} old woman m the land of her pilgnmage The church honou � fl lena on Augu.� Ill

home. Sometimes the pilgrim journeys close to home, perhaps setting out to consult a sp1ntual director in the effort to resolve a problem. to do penance or to find help with a major decision that must be made

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In such cases. we are deahng with p1lgnmage that rs focused on Ide· s present reality. As Trappist Father Thomas Merton, who died tn 1968. once wrote. "Our rea: Before returning JOUrney in Ide rs intenor home, the family It rs a matter of growth. would V1s1t the site of deepening and of an ever their great- greater surrender to the creative action of love grandparents' home and grace'" our hearts •• _ a site known to II modern pilgnms are them through numer- not mere tounsts or ous old photographs. sightseers, they are not They would spend a nomads either - happy leisurely afternoon in wanderers What makes an old cemetery read- their journey a pdgnm1ng the weather- age rs us purpose As Bened1C11ne Fathe< beaten headstones for that clues might �n Main once wrote any 'There is all the d,tferbe offered to what life • ence ,n the world was hke rn the area between the polgnm and 1 00 years ago. the nomad The polgnm The family would stays on the Journey. listen attentively as steadily and selflessly, focused not on emotl0081 memories were or 1ntellectual satrstacsha red by several tion but upon the goal elderly natives of the that leads us. the goal area And they would who rs Christ" ('"The be welcomed into the Present Christ," homes of a few elderly Crossroad) The Record, February 12. 1987

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Also full o admiration for Brother Robert, saying that his transfer would be a loss o the school as well as to the archdiocese becau e o the contribution he had made, Mons Keating went on to say that "Brother Robert 1s autiful Reli IOUS. "A very humble sort of man and yet a 'hum n o has ood

his contribution to the Church of Perth as well as La Salle College and the idland Parish," ons eating said.

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Sir, Father Jim O'Brien (The Record, February 5) raises a number of curious propositions.

The designation of a priest whom divorced and remarried couples may approach is surely one of the reasons why a Judicial Vicar is appointed. He is assisted by a number of trained personnel who form the staff of the Matrimonial Tribunal.

Their services ould be invaluabl for those couples whom Father O'Bri n says, "may be convinced that their first marriages were null and void". The Tribunal's tas u d be to establish that very fact, according to th Church's law and procedure.

The parish priest ex rcis s pastoral care of th community, (Canon 519), nd so by virtue of his epoomtm nt, h ls the d s·gnated pri st locally. H is o h to ensur th t he married stat

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The priest in the parish, the divorced and remarried Catholic, the Catholic married too eeping company with a divorce and the Tribunal judg are all aware that h only teaching worthy of he sacram nt of marri comes from Christ Hims tf.

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The encyclical "Cesti Connobli" is a classic exemp! of the clarity of Ch ist's te ching on the sacra nt of marriag as expressed by the teaching authority of the Catholic Church, and its u er. anding of the probli ms fa ed by coup« nd as pointed out by F. h r O'Bri n.

However the Church mu remain faithful to it Hand th efore to Ch ist in upholding Its te ching on the indissolubility of m trie II a the admin · ing of th r Sacra nts

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