Post Graduate Diploma in Chaplaincy Studies

Graduation Day Sat 7th June 2008.

Cardinal O'Brien with the new Chaplains and some members of the Chaplaincy team at Gillis.

Chaplaincy Awards at Gillis Centre, Edinburgh

On the afternoon of Saturday 7th June 2008, Cardinal O’Brien presented Post-Graduate Diplomas in Chaplaincy Studies to a cross-section of teachers and other interested parties at Gillis Centre.

The Diploma is awarded by the Education Department of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, in collaboration with Maynooth University, Ireland. Speaking to the Graduates themselves, the Cardinal asked them how authentic they were in terms of being witnesses to their faith – asking them to think as to whether or not their knowledge of the faith had grown over the years; and also if their practice of the faith had increased in relationship to their knowledge, as they realized the importance of their mission at the heart of the Church.

Speaking of the pupils with whom they would come into contact, the Cardinal also reminded the Graduates that home conditions were not as they once were; social conditions in our cities and towns had deteriorated dreadfully and he indicated that we know from the mass media of the numbers of very young people almost immediately caught up in the drink and drugs culture and the abuse of their gift of sex.

He wished the Graduates every blessing as they continued their valued apostolate in Chaplaincy in schools, both secondary and primary.

His Eminence Celebrates Mass in the Oratory at Gillis with the Chaplains.

The New Chaplains are,

Angela Burgess - St Davids Pr Edinburgh.

Graeme Campbell - St Mungo's High Falkirk.

Sr Kathleen Curran - Napier College.

Sr Jeannette Mc Glone - Telford College.

Lesley Lynch - St Augustine's High Edinburgh.

Yvonne Lynch - St Andrews High Kirkcaldy.

Anne Marie Macnamara - St Davids Dalkeith.

Gillian O'Neill - St Margarets Pr Dunfermline.

Roseanne Ryan - St Modan's Stirling.

Photographs by Paul Mc Sherry

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