Text Version:
Rachel’s Vineyard UK will be running an awareness presentation to the priests, deacons and chaplains of the Hexham and Newcastle diocese on Thursday 7th July 2016 at St Cuthbert's chaplaincy, Durham City. It will take place 1 - 3 pm. Food and drink will be provided.
If you are unable to attend please feel free to
nominate a lay representative.
Rachel's Vineyard provides weekend healing retreats for women (and men)
suffering from post-abortion trauma. This trauma manifests in so many ways:
self loathing, addictions, abusive relationships, PTSD symptoms, emotional and
spiritual paralysis. The purpose of this presentation is to help give you
insight to this ministry and to help you respond with confidence to those who
are suffering in this way. You will be glad to hear that we will be running a
weekend in the North-East for the first time this October and would like your
help to reach out to those in desperate need. Your prayers for the continued
success of this work are appreciated greatly.
For further details and testimonies from those who
have attended the weekend please visit our website: www.rachelsvineyard.org.uk
To book your place or for more information please
contact Helen Salomon on 07786 505577 or email: helen@rachelsvineyard.org.uk
This was not in the diocesan news? How strange...or not
ReplyDeleteIt is sad that is was not in the Diocesan news yet, but one hopes it will be since there are many who are scarred by abortion. Perhaps someone is trying to avoid having those scarred by abortion experience further guilt, yet guilt encourages repentance and repentance leads to healing.
DeleteGod Bless.
Do we presume that the 'chaplains' will be the laity nominated for this clerical role? When were the laity permitted to use this clerical title & under whose authority?
ReplyDeleteI think we have to resume that 'chaplains' refers to laity and religious. However, it is forbidden that this title is applied to laity (QUESTIONS REGARDING
DeleteTHE COLLABORATION OF THE NON-ORDAINED
FAITHFUL IN THE SACRED MINISTRY OF PRIEST, Vatican, 1997) and is in fact restricted to priests and Bishops. Even deacons may not assume this title since a chaplain is to have the faculty to absolve and anoint (Can. 566 §1).
Thank you Father, that is what I understood but not doubt you will have seen (even within the Northern Catholic Calendar) the number of laity named as 'chaplains' to schools, universities etc.
DeleteI have; it reflects what is fund in the Catholic press nationally. I do wonder how the Bishops can expect us to give them their loyalty when they fail to give that loyalty to Rome. On a related note, they do nothing to prevent Extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion (the only title by which they are to be known according to Rome) being called Eucharistic Ministers; Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist; ministers of Holy Communion etc. This is yet another indicator of the clergy being a law unto themselves. When I was in seminary there was great mocking of priests who expected to be obeyed and believed just because they are priests; it was variously called 'creeping infallibility' and 'clericalism'. It seems to me this has increased tremendously since Vatican II in that priests of both ranks, episcopal and presbyteral, now feel at ease breaking the law and questioning the Catechism and Tradition. If that is not clericalism and creeping infallibility I don't know what is.
DeleteGod Bless.
Father when I did my training for extraordinary minister of Holy Communion this was the title used during the training session along with the instruction that ONLY the priest should purify the sacred chalices. It seems sadly that its some priests and Bishops who call the role, Communion ministers etc. and allow these ministers to purify the sacred vessels So the lay people follow suit God Bless
ReplyDelete