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Bishops celebrate the religious and the Year of Consecrated Life
The Bishops of Scotland celebrated the religious and the Year of Consecrated Life last Sunday with a Mass held in Edinburgh’s Gillis Centre.
Archbishop Leo Cushley of St Andrews and Edinburgh was principal celebrant at the Mass attended by religious from across Scotland.
Archbishop Cushley said it was moving to see ‘hundreds of religious there as a ‘moving example of loving service of God and neighbour.’
The archbishop was joined by Bishop Hugh Gilbert of Aberdeen, who gave the homily, and Bishops Joseph Toal, Stephen Robson and John Keenan.
The Year of Consecrated Life officially began on St Andrew’s Day, November 30, the first Sunday of Advent, and will finish on February 2, 2016, the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life.
Pope Francis has declared 2015 will be a year dedicated to the promotion of consecrated life, and is asking the Church’s religious sisters, brothers and priests to ‘wake up the world’ with their testimony of faith, holiness and hope.
Archbishop Cushley said last year that the religious are ‘a shining witness to the love of Christ in our midst’ and that is was important to remind ‘ourselves of the call to Holiness and above all the call made by our Holy Father, Pope Francis, to make consecrated life attractive so as to attract people to God and to the religious life
PIC: PAUL McSHERRY
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