Madeleine McCann: Let Us Pray, Light The Way, It’s A Year Today
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
THE SUN (front page): “MADDIE: 1 YEAR ON”
A year of headlines, sensation and speculation. A year of Watching The Parents.
DAILY MIRROR (front page): “LIGHT A CANDLE FOPR OUR MADDIE”
And leave a chair empty at the dinner table, too? And when should the candle be lit?
“9:15 tonight… A YEAR ON”
Did you light a candle a year after 7/11, the end of the Falklands War, the Hillsborough disaster?
Did the Mirror forget to tell you to?
It is “A DAY TO PRAY”.
FIONA PHILLIPS: “A year ago today Madeleine McCann’s mummy and daddy, Kate and Gerry, became victims of the most colossal crime.”
Mummy and daddy… Are Mirror readers being asked to empathise with Madeleine? The fact is, it could. It could happen to any of us.
Grip hands tighter. Avoid Portugal. Spread the anxiety. The rare crime of a chid abduction, as Phillips supposes, might find a victim in your child.
I fill my car up with petrol and sometimes leave the children in the back when I go and pay for it. It could happen to me.
I’ve seen mums chatting to friends in supermarkets and on busy pavements while their children wander off. It could happen to them.
It happened to the McCanns in a child-friendly, family holiday village. It could happen to you.
YORKSHIRE POST: “The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has written a special prayer to mark the first anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance.”
Church of England PR?
Father God, we pray for Madeleine McCann Keep her safe and take away her fear and anxiety May your holy angels guard and protect her We pray that she may be reunited with those who love her Give hope to all her loved ones And hear our cry for her safe return We offer our prayer in the name of the Good Shepherd Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord. Amen.
DAILY TELEGRPAH: “McCann haters - the lowest of the low”
SIMON HEFFER:
Just when one thinks one’s capacity for shock is exhausted, one reads some of the charming, expletive-rich comments sent to Kate and Gerry McCann in the last year since their daughter Madeleine evaporated in Portugal. I know some nutters are convinced they killed her, which I am equally convinced is balderdash: but what shocks me is that even those who accept that someone else abducted her cannot resist delving into the still-open wound the McCanns have, and attacking them for their supposed negligence on that evening last May.
I try to envisage the sense of smug satisfaction these people have when the letter is posted or the send button pressed on the email: but, despite a long study of human degeneracy, I simply can’t.
THE SCOTSMAN: “In the shadow of the bogeyman”
There is no such comfort for my children’s generation. They know the worst can happen because it did. The bogeyman came and took Madeleine from her bed. And for weeks on end they could not turn their heads nor take a breath without being reminded that he had. The press picked up our fear and shone it back at us.
THE GUARDIAN: “Services to mark year since Madeleine vanished”
His wife added: “It’s funny in some ways, because you kind of think it’s just another day, really, almost like a media landmark than anything else. But I think we’ve maybe underestimated it, and it’s probably more significant than we felt. I don’t think we’ll know until the morning really what feels right.”
NEWSWEEK: “TABLOID FODDER - One year after Madeleine McCann disappeared in Portugal, lurid reporting continues to cash in on her disappearance.
She’s so famous that she only needs one name: Maddie.
Or Maddy?
Her image—those trusting eyes, that innocent grin, the shiny blond hair—haunts Britons, who may think that by now, they’ve heard everything about Madeleine McCann, the young British girl who vanished from a holiday resort in Portugal’s Algarve one year ago Saturday. Her disappearance is probably the most intensely followed mystery in modern British history. Tabloid sales skyrocket with coverage of even the most minor details, which could be why Kelvin MacKenzie, the former editor of The Sun, has called it “the most significant story of my lifetime.”
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May 3rd, 2008 at 10:22 am
Does anyone remember the girl who was murdered whilst camping out in the back garden of her family home with her siblings.
The parents blamed themselves entirely for letting her sleep in the garden. Wonder if they kick themselves for not blaming the tent manufacturer, or the police for not issuing warnings about camping or even Millets for suggesting camping was fun. I think not.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:20 am
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Matt. Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:18 am
45…chenier
Yet.
Don’t tempt fate.
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Oh, ye of little faith…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:20 am
53…Noseycow
Nightshifts are the pits, aren’t they.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:20 am
51 Ferdinand
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 am
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Noseycow Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 am
Chenier - it has a certain scientific ring to it…
It will be a headline tomorrow.
off to bed now be good all
x
Oh and Mic - sodd off and get a life
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Sleep well, Nosey…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 am
44 Chloe Spain Says:
” Perhaps because it psychologically helps you to be careful? Perhaps because the mind is much more powerful than we think? But, at least for me, that’s not god. ”
There’s an anecdote about the physicist Werner Heisenberg. He had a horseshoe nailed above the front door of his house.
One day somebody asked him: “But Mr Heisenberg, you are a scientist! - Do you really believe a horseshoe will bring you luck?”
He answered: “God forbid, of course I do NOT believe it! …but I have been assured it also works when you don’t believe in it.”
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:18 am
Morning Matt
Goodnight Matt
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:18 am
45…chenier
Yet.
Don’t tempt fate.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:17 am
46 Nemesis
I wonder if the Catholic priest in Luz refused to give them Communion or something like that.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 am
Chenier - it has a certain scientific ring to it…
It will be a headline tomorrow.
off to bed now be good all
x
Oh and Mic - sodd off and get a life
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 am
48
Noseycow Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 am
Chenier - get withthe programme girl - global warming is soooo passe!
Its global cooling that is the problem now.
Whatever happened to the good old hole in the ozone layer?
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Good point.
Our daughter was evaporated by the hole in the ozone layer!
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:11 am
Chenier - get withthe programme girl - global warming is soooo passe!
Its global cooling that is the problem now.
Whatever happened to the good old hole in the ozone layer?
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:10 am
44 Chloe (i.e. mysefl)
Sorry, I only wrote half of what I wanted to. Obviusly, I meant that maybe candles and prayer can help to keep people safe or even to cure people for the reasons I say. But, for me, that is not a divine intervention.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:10 am
Good Morning Chernier. It is being reported that the McCs may attend a service at Rothleys Anglican parish church of St Mary and St John-it intrigues me as to why they dont go to their Catholic church??
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:08 am
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Ferdinand Says:
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:03 am
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I pray every day that I won’t be eaten by a tiger. Obviously it works because I have not been eaten by a tiger…
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:08 am
441 Ferdinand
Perhaps because it psychologically helps you to be careful? Perhaps because the mind is much more powerful than we think? But, at least for me, that’s not god.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:05 am
I blame it on Global Warming.
If it hadn’t been for Global Warming our daughter would not have evaporated!
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:04 am
If we’d had a buggy she would not have evaporated!
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:03 am
27 PeterMac Says:
” Can anyone, anywhere, religious or not explain to me what lighting a candle actually does to assist in the search for a girl missing in Portugal a year ago ? ”
I light a candle in a chapel nearby my home every time before I travel to the UK.
I feel particular endangered as a pedestrian, not being used to left-hand traffic - I tend to look automatically to the left first when crossing a road - but that’s obviously wrong in Britain and can be fatal. In fact every time I am in the UK I have at least one “near accident”.
So it’s better to take some precaution.
So if it protects me from being run over in Britain, why shouldn’t it also help in the search for a missing british girl?
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:03 am
’since their daughter Madeleine evaporated in Portugal’
Evaporated?
Well, it’s novel.
Good morning all!
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 am
33
Chloe Spain
Tell me about it!
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:56 am
Perhaps candles should be lit for Elisabeth Fritzl and children- God knows how they will ever be able to lead a normal life
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 am
There is a lot of child abduction going on all over the world. I ask why was that man in Austria did what he did. Why wasn’t his daughter and children found as Elizabeth prayed.
Why are the Mcs worried re what people say about them and have taken legal action and won-now they are interested in posters. Do they want to rule the world or something. They should not have left those children, that’s what. Or, better still, why not try telling the truth and put this matter to rest.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 am
I am going to lock the back door tonight in honour of the memory of Madeleine Mccann.
And tomorrow I am going to open it again in honour of Shannon Matthews.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 am
Thanks for those vid links, Jo. The breathtaking cheek of the McCs never loses its impact.
How they can threaten bloggers, who make justifiable criticisms and speculations, always covered with ‘allegedly’ and IMO, when they themselves repeatedly tell blatent lies, is beyond belief.
The clear implication is that ‘our crimes’ will eventually be prosecuted, but they can continue with impunity to give out a telephone number to solicit info on what witnesses have told to the police! Can only hope they will be plagued by hoax callers, as anybody who has genuinely aided the police will surely have been warned against divulging info elsewhere?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:51 am
Peter mac/ Noseycow -Has anything more been reported about the state of mind of the Catholic father at PdL who befriended them and then was given the elbow without so much as agoodbye?
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:47 am
Good morning.
27 PeterMac
And the same god who allows millions of children of Madeleine’s age to die of hunger and disease, often with their bodies eaten by worms while still alive. Yeah - it’s a cliché, but it’s true.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:46 am
27 PeterMac- Re: Prayer -Agree I think that practical Christianity is more appropriate- they should have been and should be getting off their butts and going out looking for her if she is ,indeed, still alive.IMO
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 am
Why wasn’t prayer thought of in the first place by the Mcs.A candle for a missing one should be left burning don’t you think. What are these Mcs up to and their “friends”. In one of the recent photos of Kate, I must say, Maddie looked like Kate around the eyes. I do wonder about Maddie’s parentage. Is she Kate’s and not Gerry’s. Or is she someone else’s child. Has she been sent back to where she came from? (after an accident). Why haven’t the Mcs asked for a day a year be set aside, with candles, prayers and names, to remember those missing. So one sided they are IMHO.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 am
PeterMac
There have been a few scientific studies done on the power of prayer.
It has been shown that patients who are prayed for, even without their knowledge, recover quicker and have a better prognosis that those who are not prayed for.
I’m not aware that they have done a similar study to know whether mass prayer would affect the chances of an ‘abducted’ child being returned.
Perhaps this is what G McC is researching at the moment.