Letter to the Messengers

of
Mary, Immaculate Queen

Christ
Our Hope

N 61 July 2014
 The dove
came to him
toward evening,
and behold,
in her beak
was a freshly
picked
olive leaf.

So Noah knew that the water

was abated from the earth.

Genesis 8: 11

Noahs Ark, XV c.
unknown artist,
Getty Museum,
2 Los Angeles
 Feast of St Mary Magdalen, 2014

Editorial
Dear friends,

The theme for this newsletter is: Christ our hope!

We are preparing this newsletter as we celebrate Mary Magdalen, and you will receive it
as we approach the feast of Mary Queen. And so, in this month that spans between
these feast days, we can recognise ourselves in Mary Magdalen as repentant sinners
and turn our eyes towards Mary, Queen, venerated throughout the ages, Mother of Hope,
who shines out for us as a sign of sure hope on our pilgrim path.
Pope Francis speaks of the need for a personal encounter with the saving love of Jesus
and receiving his gaze of love.

The story of Jonathon Nobles shows this in a powerful way and shakes us in our
lukewarm existence! Forgiven, he in turn became a witness to Gods mercy to the pris-
oners on Death Row and to all of us who hear his story. How inspiring too is the mother
of the girl he killed, who had the courage to forgive him.
The time of renewal of our own community, begun in 2011, of which I spoke in the last
newsletter editorial continues.
In an effort to put into practice the many lessons we have learned and to dispose things
to allow this renewal to really take root, we are looking at how the Irish community can
have a greater autonomy from France, eventually leading to independence. Our hope is
that this will enable us to progress in all we have learned over the last years and that our
community here in Ireland will be more available to focus on the mission in the local
Church and in the English-speaking world.
The Carmelites are selling Hampton and so its future is uncertain. We have lived here
and had a blessed mission for the last two and a half years, for which we are grateful. We
hope to continue in the archdiocese of Dublin even if this is not to be in Hampton and we
are looking at different possible projects at the moment. We include here some articles
on the many activities of the last months.
We confide this to your prayer and will keep you updated. Thank you once again for all
your help and encouragement .
As the dove came back to the ark bearing the olive branch that signified that the deluge
was over, so too Mary Magdalen returned to tell her brothers that the Lord had risen,
that the power of death had been destroyed and that new life was offered to mankind.
May each of us personally encounter the saving love of Jesus and urged to ever greater
love of Him, go out to others bearing witness to what we have seen and heard!.
Christ our hope is truly alive, and through him, with Him and in Him we are reconciled
with the Father!

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 Mary Magdalen, apostle of the apostles
Saint
"And all who heard her were in admiration at her beauty, her eloquence, and the sweetness
of her message...and no wonder, that the mouth which had pressed such pious and beautiful
kisses on the Saviour's feet should breathe forth the perfume of the word of God more
profusely than others could." Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend, Readings on the Saints.

Here Fra Angelico shows us the body

of Jesus taken down from the Cross. He
shows us Mary the mother of Jesus, John the
beloved disciple and Mary Magdalen, each
one beholding the body of the Saviour with
their own gesture of tenderness. Today it is in
San Marco, Florence. It was originally des-
tined for the church of Croce al Tempio,
where those condemned to death passed
their last hours before being executed outside
the city walls. Surely, the tenderness of Mary
the Mother of Jesus, and John the beloved disciple spoke to them as they waited. Surely,
Mary Magdalen lovingly kissing the feet of the Saviour brought them special consolation.
Mary Magdalen's experience is that of all Christians. We meet Christ and discover that
we are loved by Him. We come to know and acknowledge our sin, are pardoned and invited to
new life in Him. At baptism we are buried with Christ! We too enter into the paschal mystery,
descending into the tomb with him, in order to live a new life (CCC 628).
Very few of those Jesus loved were standing at the foot of the Cross. Mary Magdalen
was there representing all of us: repentant sinners throughout the ages who come to Jesus
and find in the sacrifice of Christ the source from which the forgiveness of our sin pours forth
inexhaustibly (CCC 1848). As the light of the resurrection breaks through the darkness of the
world, Mary Magdalen is setting out. Her love for Christ urges her to go in search of Him. It
leads her to the empty tomb. When the disciples go back to their homes, it is her love for Je-
sus that urges her to stay. So she remains there, alone, weeping It is here that the Author of
Life, risen from the dead, reveals himself, to Mary (cf. John 20:11-18).
From the Cross Jesus said to John: Behold your mother and to Mary: Behold your
Son. However, he spoke no word to Mary Magdalen. It is when he has conquered death and
risen that he speaks to her: Woman why do you cry? Whom are you seeking? ...Mary! ...Do
not hold me... This is the first time in the Gospel that Jesus speaks directly to Mary Magda-
len. He calls her by her name. He commissions her to go and tell the brothers. He sends her
as the witness to his resurrection, to tell of his ascension and that he goes before them to
Galilee.
The victory of Life over death is revealed to Mary Magdalen and she is to tell the others
of the work of redemption until then hidden from their eyes. And so, according to his word, she
returns urged by her love of Him whom her heart loves and has found. She breathes forth
the perfume of the Word of God more profusely than others could. She who kissed the feet of
the Saviour becomes the apostle of the apostles directing their feet to Galilee.
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 Fruits of Redemption

Witness
On 13th September 1986, Jonathon Nobles stabbed 21 year
old Mitzi Johnson-Nalley and 24 year old Kelley Farquhar to
death. He was 25 years old and high on drugs when he
committed this terrible crime. In 1987 he was sentenced to
death. He was executed on October 7th 1998 in Texas.
But there is more than this to the Story of Jonathon Nobles.
Jonathan Nobles began to change
Country singer Steve Earle corresponded with
Jon and through his letters witnessed a transformation:
Somehow, somewhere along the line, in what is arguably
the most inhumane environment in the "civilized" world,
Jonathan Nobles began to change. He became interested in Catholicism and began to
attend Mass. He befriended the Catholic clergy who ministered in the prison, including
members of the Dominican Order of Preachers. He eventually became a lay member of
the order (1989) and ministered to his fellow inmates.
Jonathan sought reconciliation with those he had injured. He accompanied those
who wished, praying with them, talking with them through his own brokenness, the
experience of his conversion and his coming to the faith. He grew to love the rosary. He
had a special devotion to St Catherine of Siena, who had accompanied to the guillotine
a young man condemned to death. Jonathan found strength in the story and a friend in
Catherine.

Sentenced to a life of bitterness unless she forgave

Paula Kurlan heard a message on Christian radio about forgiveness and realized
she would be sentenced to a life of bitterness unless she forgave her daughters
murderer and placed him in God's hands. " You forgive because it frees you," she said.
"It became important for me to visit him to tell him he was forgiven ... Meeting with him
was the hardest thing I ever did, second only to burying my child."
When Paula learned that Jonathan had become a Roman Catholic while in
prison, she had said: " I had shared the last 12 years with him. Now I had to share my
God with him...No way!" When she met him face-to-face, Paula recognized the depth of
Jonathans remorse for his crime, and she believed his newfound faith was genuine.
The next time Paula saw Jonathan was on the day of his execution. For his last meal
he said he would like the Eucharist, calling it spiritual food for the journey home.
Paula recalled the scene as they brought him into the death chamber. " He addressed
each of us - the victims' families - individually. He died singing 'Silent Night.' And I
know that my daughter ... greeted him."
References:
-Earle, S., Prison made a new man out of Jonathan Nobles (Tikkun.org).
-Camp, K., Two mothers found grace to forgive the men who killed their daughters.
-Roche, S. (OP), The story of Jonathon Nobles.
-Letter T273: St Catherine of Siena to Raymond of Capua.

Left page illustration: Lamentation over the dead Christ , Fra Angelico

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Pope Francis

Personal encounter
with the

saving love of Jesus

On 19th October 2014, Pope Francis will beatify
Pope Paul Vl at the end of the extraordinary
synod on the family. This was a synod the late
Pope wanted and promoted. In his apostolic
exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel), Pope Francis
quotes the following extract from Pope Paul Vls exhortation Evangelii
Nuntiandi (Proclaiming the Gospel) and goes on to re-emphasise that
essential message that the Churchs mission is to evangelise.

And may the world of our time, which is searching,

sometimes with anguish, sometimes with hope, be enabled
to receive the Good News not from evangelizers who are
dejected, discouraged, impatient or anxious, but from
ministers of the Gospel whose lives glow with fervour, who
have first received the joy of Christ, and who are willing to
risk their lives so that the kingdom may be proclaimed and
the Church established in the midst of the world.
Pope Paul Vl (Evangelii Nuntiandi.)

The Gospel offers us the chance to live life on a higher plane, but
with no less intensity: Life grows by being given away, and it weakens in
isolation and comfort. When the Church summons Christians to take up
the task of evangelization, she is simply pointing to the source of
authentic personal fulfilment. For here we discover a profound law of
reality: that life is attained and matures in the measure that it is offered
up in order to give life to others. This is certainly what mission means.
Consequently, an evangelizer must never look like someone who has just
come back from a funeral! Let us recover and deepen our enthusiasm, that
delightful and comforting joy of evangelizing, even when it is in tears that
we must sow.
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Personal encounter with the saving love of Jesus
The primary reason for evangelizing is the love of Jesus which we
have received, the experience of salvation which urges us to ever
greater love of him. What kind of love would not feel the need to
speak of the beloved, to point him out, to make him known? If we
do not feel an intense desire to share this love, we need to pray
insistently that he will once more touch our hearts.
We need to implore his grace daily, asking him to open our
cold hearts and shake up our
lukewarm and superficial
existence. Standing before him
with open hearts, letting him
look at us, we see that gaze of
love which Nathaniel glimpsed
on the day when Jesus said to
him: I saw you under the fig
tree (Jn 1:48).
How good it is to stand
before a crucifix, or on our
knees before the Blessed
Sacrament, and simply to be in his presence! How much good it
does us when he once more touches our lives and impels us to
share his new life! What then happens is that we speak of what
we have seen and heard (1 Jn 1:3).
The best incentive for sharing the Gospel comes from
contemplating it with love, lingering over its pages and reading it
with the heart. If we approach it in this way, its beauty will amaze
and constantly excite us. But if this is to come about, we need to
recover a contemplative spirit which can help us to realize ever
anew that we have been entrusted with a treasure which makes us
more human and helps us to lead a new life. There is nothing
more precious which we can give to others.
(Extracts from the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis Evangelii Gaudium ).
Illustration : The Meeting Between Christ and Nathanael, Canterbury Cathedral

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 The Earliest Images of
Queenship of Mary

Mary as Queen
From the earliest ages of the catholic church a Christian
people, whether in time of triumph or more especially in
time of crisis, has addressed prayers of petition and hymns
of praise and veneration to the Queen of Heaven.1

The first Christian images, representing scenes

from both the Old or the New Testament, which sprung
from the faith of the people around the third century,
celebrated the radical newness brought by Christ the
Saviour. The interpretation of the sacred texts by the
Church Fathers, based this on the greetings of the angel
and Elisabeth who called the Virgin Mother of the Lord,
very early on gave the Virgin Mary titles such as Sovereign or Queen, and paralleled
the development of the images.
Yet, it is particularly after the dogma of the Mother of God (Theotokos)
proclaimed in Ephesus in 431, that a specifically Marian art emerged. This followed
on two existing models. In the first, drawn from the scene of the Adoration of the
Magi which appeared at the end of the third century in the Catacombs, the Virgin
Mary is on a throne with the Divine Child on her knees. The fact that she be
associated with the homage of the pagan people (represented by the Magi) helped to
show more clearly the great dignity of the Mother of the Saviour. In the second
schema, Mary is standing, her arms raised towards the Heavens in a sign of
intercession. This gesture, immediately adopted by the Christians, was once used by
the Romans to figure the virtue of Piety, as a veiled woman with her arms
outstretched. In this way, the supremacy of Christ Lord of Lords, and the
recognition of the dignity of Mary as Mother of God and Advocate, was the basis for
the representation of the Virgin Mary as Queen.
The building of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome, just after the
council of Ephesus, marked an important step. The mosaic decoration of the
triumphal arc that borders the choir is made up of four scenes from the Childhood of
Christ, where Mary is dressed as an imperial princess. Under the direction of Popes
and bishops, churches became the support for a visual catechesis where the images
of Christ the Emperor to which those of Mary Empress referred were reminders
of the supremacy of His Empire over that of the Byzantine sovereigns. But it is only
during the sixth century that the title of Queen accompanies the images of the
Virgin, in which she wears a diadem or a crown, in addition other insignias of
royalty.
The oldest example can be found on a fresco in the Ancient Church of Saint
Mary in the Roman Forum c. 500-550. The original fresco had been covered over
by a scene of the Annunciation painted two centuries later; the original fresco was

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 thus undiscovered until the beginning of the
twentieth century, when a piece of the second
painting came off during archaeological
excavations. The juxtaposition of the two
paintings unfortunately causes the fresco to be
difficult to make out, but we can get a close idea
of the pattern from different studies and
sketches.
The Sovereign Virgin is seated facing us,
on a throne in the form of a lyre with gems. She
is clothed with luxurious attire like an oriental
princess and crowned with a diadem of precious
stones. The Christ Child, sitting on her knees and clothed in a golden tunic, holds the
Book of Life. Two angels surround them, bowing down, carrying an ambassadors
stick and presenting a crown. The inscription Maria Regina above the throne
confirms the title. This first model, taken up again with a few variants, was to last
well past the end of the Middle Ages.
Later on, during his short reign (705-707), Pope John VII had an oratory dedi-
cated to the Virgin Mary constructed in the old Constantine basilica, the Old Saint
Peters Basilica in the Vatican. The one that we see today replaced this building,
which was destroyed during the Renaissance. However, we know what the mosaic
decoration of the oratory was like, thanks to a description and to a sketch by someone
who witnessed its destruction. Among a few fragments still conserved in different
places, is that of Mary Queen in the Monastery of St. Marco in Florence.
Standing with arms outstretched in prayer, there is no
doubt that an icon greatly venerated in Constantinople, called
Madonna of the Blachernes, inspired the Virgin in this image.
Wearing a heavy crown with pendants, and a large necklace, she
is clothed with a ceremonial dress belted at the waist. John VII
had himself represented at Her knees, holding the model of the
chapel. The whole reflected a kind of spiritual contract: in return
for the intercession and protection of his Queen, the Pope
offered Her the gift of an oratory.
During the first millennium, these two types of royal
images of the Virgin were disseminated first in areas attached to
the Church of Rome, and then throughout Western Europe. The
attributes of Byzantine royalty were faithfully reproduced:
throne, crown, ceremonial dress, long sceptre surmounted by a
cross, globe in hand, the royal guard being replaced by two or
four angels. Such details, known through the circulation of
official portraits of the imperial couple (especially on coins),
made evident and comprehensible the high degree of elevation
of the Mother of God: at the summit of the celestial hierarchy, just below Her Son.
Marie Therese
Top left and top right: Maria Regina, Right page below: Maria Regina,
Santa Maria Antiqua, frescoVI c - Rome; mosaic from the Old St Peters in Vatican
Sketch from same fresco by Josef Wilpert, 1916. 99 San marco, Florence.
 The past months in Hampton...
Fraternity Activities
Welcome and hospitality is part of our mission and our daily life of prayer is open to those
who wish to come and join with us. In our last newsletter we spoke of our regular Marian
Days of Prayer, here are some examples of the Hampton programme .
A couple of examples.
Liturgy of the Hours
The Fraternity sings the Liturgy of the
Hours each morning and evening. In
this way the day is rhythmed by
hearing the word of God, praying the
psalms and offering praise to God.
At the heart of the Church, this prayer
is the voice of a bride speaking to her
bridegroom, it is the very prayer that
Christ himself, together with his Body,
addresses to the Father (Principles and
Norms for Liturgy of the Hours, III, 15).
Lectio Divina
Lectio Divina is a prayerful reading of
Sacred Scripture. In small groups, we
take the Gospel of the coming Sunday
and allow the Word to penetrate our
hearts and our lives. We propose this
once a fortnight throughout the year,
and on our days of recollection or
retreats.
For more information about the
method we use for Lectio Divina and
dates: http://www.fratmiq.com/lectio
-divina.html
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A new hearing of Gods Word
Our own time, then, must be
increasingly marked by a new
hearing of Gods word and a new
evangelization.
Pope Benedict XVI Verbum Domini 122
Scripture Series
How do we know we are reading the
Bible as it was meant to be read? How
can we allow the Lord to speak to us
personally through the Sacred texts?
These are some of the many questions
that Fr Chris Hayden, priest of Ferns
Diocese and Scripture scholar discussed
over three sessions. He opened our
understanding and gave helpful hints as
to how best to go about reading Sacred
Scripture.
DVD & Discussion
Following on from the Catholicism
series we watched last year, the three-
part series New evangelisation
examined in some depth this concept
and looked at the ways we can transmit
the faith. Seven deadly sins, seven
lively virtues is a lively and very
enlightening retreat. Robert Barron
has done it again: they are both very
worthwhile series!
 Places of prayer and silence
Urban people are mobile. They are on the move. They need places of silence
and prayer; they need places where, perhaps with a certain degree of
anonymity, they can seek reconciliation; they need opportunities for faith
formation and especially for prayer, contemplation and holiness
Extract from Archbishop Diarmuid Martins homily of 22nd October 2013 at the International Meeting
of Discalced Carmelite Provincials.

I have a stronger desire now to dive into the I really enjoyed the vigil, getting
depths of Scripture and the CCC, to grow up in the middle of the night
more deeply in faith and understanding of and making a holy hour. It was
Gods love. really special and beautiful.

I was deeply Some comments left by

young people after a I love praying with a
touched by
Adoration.
weekend retreat with the community.
Fraternity in Hampton
that echo the great need Renewal, refreshment,
Beautiful to for places of silence and a time to rest in the
have time out prayer. Spirits love and then
with God. share the joy of Christ
with others.
The adoration vigil was amazing !

Enthronement of Mary as Queen

Through the ceremony of the enthronement of Mary as queen, the faithful are
invited to take Mary into their own homes. Do not fear to take Mary home (cf
Mt 1,20).
Like St Joseph in Nazareth and Saint John at the foot of
the Cross, they welcome the Mother of God into their
homes and their daily lives, so that She can help them
to sanctify all areas of their existence under the
guidance of the Holy Spirit.
It is a joy for the Fraternity to accompany people as they turn to Mary asking her
to walk with them, teach them, intercede for them and lead them to her Son .

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Fraternity Activities
These past months in Hampton, we have been happy to collaborate
with other Church organisations involved in the new evangelization, be
these parish groups, national groups or other apostolates. There is a great
joy in being able to work together as labourers in the one vineyard.
A couple of examples.

Dead Theologians Society

The Dead Theologians Society
(DTS) is a Catholic apostolate for teens
and young adults which began in the U.S.
Through the Saints of yesterday, the
Dead Theologians Society inspires the
youth of today to become the saints of
tomorrow. A special charism of the Dead
Theologians Society is to pray for the
Souls in Purgatory.
Establishing the DTS apostolate in
Ireland has been a particular focus of
DTS Founder, Eddie Cotter, Jnr. for the
past two years, beginning with Eddie Cotter Jnr, founder of the
Dead Theologians Society.
participation with a stand at the
International Eucharistic Congress in
Dublin.
There are currently DTS Chapters Vittorio Mechelli
in Moyross, Athlone, Derry, Letterkenny,
and Belfast.
In association with Aid to the
On his recent trips to Ireland,
Eddie has stayed with the Fraternity in
Church in Need (ACN), a
Hampton. He especially likes the
worldwide organisation, founded
"history of holiness" of the place and the by Fr Werenfried Von Straaten, we
fact that it continues to be a place of had the privilege of welcoming
peace and prayer and all with genuine Vittorio Mechelli to Hampton in
Christian hospitality. May this year. The official 63rd
For more information about the miracle of Lourdes, Vittorio
Dead Theologians Society and its Mechelli was healed of sarcoma of
mission in Ireland, please feel free to the pelvis in 1963. This man gave
contact Eddie Cotter at: a wonderfully simple and down to
earth testimony, accompanied by
Eddie@DeadTheologiansSociety.com his doctor who delivered the
and/or visit their website at: medical facts and allowed them to
www.DeadTheologiansSociety.com speak for themselves.
A true witness to hope.

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 ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
FOR CHILDREN
This Fraternity apostolate has evolved to better collaborate with
organisations already promoting this kind of activity. While working
with our local parish pastoral worker, we have been able to offer
Adoration to children in the local schools, particularly those preparing
for First Holy Communion. We have also been asked to provide
this in another local Parish and have had requests from other parishes in Dublin who
are interested. We also assisted another group who wanted to get Eucharistic
Adoration started in a children's fun and prayer group they had started in their parish.
In Hampton, during various family days organised in conjunction with the Legion of
Mary, we provided a faith programme for children of different ages, including
introducing them to Eucharistic Adoration.
Through hosting the meetings of the Dublin Diocesan Apostolate for Perpetual
Adoration in Hampton, we have been able to share experiences and resources and
have also been involved with the Children of the Eucharist. endeavour. We look
forward to continued collaboration and development of this particular apostolate in the
coming year.

Nightfever is an initiative of young people, which grew out of the 2005

World Youth Days in Germany. It takes place in many
cities in Europe and has been held a number of times here in Dublin, based in
Clarendon Street, in Galway and in Cork. Like many other church groups, the
Fraternity is happy to participate in this joint evangelisation initiative.
Kate describes one such evening in Galway recently:
Would you like a free candle? ....Would you like
to come and light your candle in the Church?.
This was the invitation given to the passers-by on the
streets of Galway City. Some people were too busy to
stop, or not interested, but many others took up the
challenge and followed the volunteers into the Franciscan
Abbey.
Coming off the dark street they came into a Church
aglow with the gentle light of candles everywhere,
especially hundreds of candles burning in front of the Blessed Sacrament
exposed on the altar. Many people were adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament
and praying for the people being brought into the Church.
Young and old were led up to the altar where they were invited to leave
their candle and to say a prayer. Two priests sat near the altar welcoming people
for confession or just a chat. There was a continual stream of people and
someone said they had the impression that that must be what its like at the gates
of Heaven. Many took time to pray for a while and peoples faces were lit up with
joy when they were leaving. Maybe for some it was their first time in a Church.
What a gift for us to experience as Pope Francis called it, that delightful
and comforting joy of evangelizing (Evangelii Gaudium).
Visit www.nightfever.org for more information. Kate

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Cathechism

IS THE CHURCH HOLY?

We know that all the members of the Church are sinners, so how can we say that the Church
is holy? Or what do we mean when we say that the Church is holy? The Catechism of the
Catholic Church examines this in Part 1, The Profession of Faith. Below are some extracts.
The Church . . . is held, as a matter of faith, to be unfailingly holy. This is
because Christ, the Son of God, who with the Father and the Spirit is hailed as
alone holy, loved the Church as his Bride, giving himself up for her so as to
sanctify her; he joined her to himself as his body and endowed her with the gift
of the Holy Spirit for the glory of God (Eph 5: 25-26).1 The Church, then, is the
holy People of God,2 and her members are called saints. (Acts 9: 13; 1Cor 6:
1;16: 1).
United with Christ, the Church is sanctified by him; through him and with
him she becomes sanctifying. All the activities of the Church are directed, as
toward their end, to the sanctification of men in Christ and the glorification of
God.3 It is in the Church that "the fullness of the means of salvation"4 has been
deposited. It is in her that "by the grace of God we acquire holiness.5
Christ, holy, innocent, and undefiled, knew nothing of sin, but came
only to expiate the sins of the people. The Church, however, clasping sinners
to her bosom, at once holy and always in need of purification, follows
constantly the path of penance and renewal (Heb 2:17; 7:26; 2 Cor 5: 21).6 All
members of the Church, including her ministers, must acknowledge that they
are sinners.7 In everyone, the weeds of sin will still be mixed with the good
wheat of the Gospel until the end of time.8 Hence the Church gathers sinners
already caught up in Christ's salvation but still on the way to holiness:
The Church is therefore holy, though having sinners in her midst,
because she herself has no other life but the life of grace. If they live her life,
her members are sanctified; if they move away from her life, they fall into
sins and disorders that prevent the radiation of her sanctity. This is why
she suffers and does penance for those offenses, of which she has the
power to free her children through the blood of Christ and the gift of the
Holy Spirit. (Paul VI)9
But while in the most Blessed Virgin the Church has already reached that
perfection whereby she exists without spot or
wrinkle, the faithful still strive to conquer sin and
increase in holiness. And so they turn their eyes to
Mary:10 in her, the Church is already the "all-holy".
(CCC Articles 823-824; 827)

Notes: 7 Cf. 1 Jn 1: 8-10.

1 LG 39. 8 Cf. Mt 13: 24-30.
2 LG 12. 9 Paul VI, CPG 19.
3 SC 10. 10 LG 65; cf. Eph 5:26-27.
4 UR 3 5. Arcabas Anastasis
5 LG 48. Oil on canvas.
6 LG 8 3; Cf. UR 3;

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HAMPTON, DUBLIN

Fraternity Diary
Marian Days of Prayer: Saturdays (see website for dates) devoted to deepening our
appreciation of the mystery of Mary according to Church teaching and tradition. Each
Saturday looking at a particular aspect of Marys identity. Ending with a rosary
procession. You are warmly invited to join us for our next Marian Day of Prayer:
Saturday 23rd August Celebrating The Queenship of Mary
Beginning at 9am with Mass and ending at 5.30pm with a rosary procession. Please
bring a picnic. Tea and coffee available. For details of the full program please consult
our website: www.fratmiq.com
KNOCK, CO. MAYO
17th-19th October: Celebration of the faith
The Fraternity will be participating in a special weekend being organised by Aid to the
Church in Need this autumn. Fr Michael Shields, who ministers in a former gulag in
Siberia and who has been with us on a couple of occasions in Hampton, will be
celebrant at the masses over the weekend. The Liturgy of the Hours will be celebrated
and led by the Fraternity and the event will finish with a screening of the Beatification
Mass of Pope Paul Vl on Sunday 19th October. For further details, keep an eye on our
website or consult the organisers ACN on http://www.acnireland.org.
OTHER EVENTS
For Faith Formation, Spirituality Series talks and events this autumn, please consult
our website.
Sacred Scripture: Join us again with Fr Chris Hayden in the autumn for a look at the
New Testament as we continue to explore Sacred Scripture.
Lectio Divina Group: Every second Friday 8-9pm. Cracking open the Scriptures
together. Prayerful reading of the Gospel, followed by a cuppa and a chat.
Family Retreat Days: including childrens adoration and activities. See website.
Oasis Days: 10am-5pm: Come and spend a day of rest and prayer away from it all:
possibility of adoration, confession, sharing in the life and prayer of the community, or
time of solitude.
If youd like to be informed of events at Hampton/Barna, please send an email to:
miq.hampton@gmail.com. If you do not have the possibility of receiving emails or accessing the
internet and would like to receive a paper copy of our program of events, please write to us in Barna
or phone 087 1949552.
Letter to the Messengers by email: We can send you this magazine by email (pdf attachment, 3.8
MB approx.). If you opt for this format instead of the print edition, this saves us postage! Just email:
miq.newsletter@gmail.com. If youd prefer a low resolution version (800kB), please put Low
res in subject box.
This Newslettter is produced by the Fraternity of Mary, Immaculate Queen, an Association of the
Faithful in the Roman Catholic Church. The Fraternity has been present in the diocese of Galway since
1995 and in Dublin Archdiocese since 2012.
Suggested subscription: Europe 12, GB 10, other countries US $15 (3 issues a year). Donations
appreciated! Cheques payable to Fraternity of Mary, Immaculate Queen Ministries.
Front page illustration: Back page:
Christ the Redeemer at dawn, Rio de Janeiro. 15
11 Jesus and the Lamb Charcoal by Katherine Brown.
 There will be more joy in heaven
over one sinner who repents
than over ninety-nine righteous persons
who have no need of repenTance.

Luke 15: 7

Fraternity of Mary, Immaculate Queen

Monastery of the Incarnation, Hampton,
Grace Park Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland
Tel: +353-(0)1 837 7657
Sol Dchais, Ballard, Barna, Co. Galway, Ireland
Tel: +353-(0)91-592 196
Website: www.fratmiq.comemail: miq.hampton@gmail.com
Charity No: CHY 20195 (Republic of Ireland)

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