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Jubilarians honored Celebrating priests’ decades of service to the Church

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Concerned voices Catholics protest, mobilize to help separated families

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catholicnewsherald.com | July 6, 2018 CATHOLIC NEWS HERALD

Catholic Q&A To lead a moral life, is it enough to follow your conscience?

A banner of St. Kateri Tekakwitha hangs from the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica during the canonization Mass for her and six other saints in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in this Oct. 21, 2012, file photo.

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St. Kateri Tekakwitha, ‘Lily of the Mohawks’ Feast day: July 14 On July 14, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American to be canonized.

Known as the “Lily of the Mohawks,” Kateri lived a life of holiness and virtue, despite obstacles and opposition within her tribe.

Kateri was born in Auriesville, N.Y., in 1656 to a Christian Algonquin woman and a pagan Mohawk chief. When she was a child, a smallpox epidemic attacked her tribe and both her parents died. She was left with permanent scars on her face and impaired eyesight. Her uncle, who had now become chief of the tribe, adopted her and her aunts began planning her marriage while she was still very young.

When three Jesuit fathers were visiting the tribe in 1667 and staying in the tent of her uncle, they spoke to her of Christ, and though she did not ask to be baptized, she believed in Jesus with an incredible intensity. She also felt called into an intimate union with God as a consecrated virgin.

Kateri had to struggle to maintain her faith amid the opposition of her tribe who ridiculed and ostracized her for refusing the marriage that had been planned for her.

When Kateri was 18, Father Jacques de Lamberville returned to the

Mohawk village, and she asked to be baptized.

The life of the Mohawk village had become violent, and debauchery was commonplace. Realizing that this was proving too dangerous to her life and her call to perpetual virginity, Kateri escaped to the town of Caughnawaga in Quebec, near Montreal, where she grew in holiness and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament.

Kateri lived out the last years of her short life there, practicing austere penance and constant prayer. She was said to have reached the highest levels of mystical union with God, and many miracles were attributed to her while she was still alive.

She died April 17, 1680, at the age of 24. Witnesses reported that within minutes of her death, the scars from smallpox completely vanished and her face shone with radiant beauty.

Devotion to Kateri began immediately after her death and her body, enshrined in Caughnawaga, is visited by many pilgrims each year. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1980, and she was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.

— Catholic News Agency

Your daily Scripture readings JULY 8-14

Sunday: Ezekiel 2:2-5, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Mark 6:1-6; Monday (St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions): Hosea 2:16-18, 21-22, Matthew 9:1826; Tuesday: Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13, Matthew 9:32-38; Wednesday (St. Benedict): Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12, Matthew 10:1-7; Thursday: Hosea 11:1-4, 8-9, Matthew 10:7-15; Friday (St. Henry): Hosea 14:2-10, Matthew 10:16-23; Saturday (St. Kateri Tekakwitha): Isaiah 6:1-8, Matthew 10:24-33

JULY 15-21

Sunday: Amos 7:12-15, Ephesians 1:3-14, Mark 6:7-13; Monday (Our Lady of Mount Carmel): Isaiah 1:10-17, Matthew 10:34 - 11:1; Tuesday: Isaiah 7:1-9, Matthew 11:20-24; Wednesday (St. Camillus de Lellis): Isaiah 10:5-7, 13-16, Matthew 11:25-27; Thursday: Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19, Matthew 11:28-30; Friday (St. Apollinaris): Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8, Isaiah 38:10-12, 16, Matthew 12:1-8; Saturday (St. Lawrence of Brindisi): Micah 2:1-5, Matthew 12:14-21

JULY 22-28

Sunday: Jeremiah 23:1-6, Ephesians 2:13-18, Mark 6:30-34; Monday (St. Bridget): Micah 6:1-4, 6-8, Matthew 12:38-42; Tuesday (St. Sharbel Makhluf): Micah 7:14-15, 18-20, Matthew 12:46-50; Wednesday (St. James): 2 Corinthians 4:7-15, Matthew 20:2028; Thursday (Sts. Joachim and Anne): Jeremiah 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13, Matthew 13:10-17; Friday: Jeremiah 3:14-17, Jeremiah 31:10-13, Matthew 13:18-23; Saturday: Jeremiah 7:1-11, Matthew 13:24-30

Q: I’ve been told the only thing necessary for a Catholic to live a moral life is for him to follow his conscience. But what if your conscience tells you something that’s wrong is OK? A: In determining what is right and wrong, conscience doesn’t work by magic.

You first have to form your conscience. This means learning about good and evil, and that’s the job for the intellect.

Many people mistakenly think that conscience is the faculty that tells us what is right and what is wrong. Conscience is better thought of as an alarm.

With your intellect you learn what’s right and wrong, and then conscience “sounds off” when you are about to violate the standards your intellect has learned. If you have no standards, you’ll never hear the alarm.

But you need to make sure not just that your conscience is formed but that it is formed correctly.

If it is, the moral judgments you make will be reliable.

If your conscience is formed poorly, then your moral judgments won’t be trustworthy.

For example, if you’ve been taught that there’s nothing wrong with stealing – or if you’ve never been taught that stealing is wrong – you won’t have any inhibitions against stealing. Your conscience won’t bother you when you steal because it isn’t reliable when it comes to the immorality of stealing.

In other words, it’s been formed – but formed incorrectly.

It’s true we have an obligation to follow our conscience, but we also have an obligation to form our consciences properly.

For Catholics, this means following what Jesus teaches in Scripture and Tradition through the magisterium of the Church.

— Catholic Answers

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Bishop Peter J. Jugis celebrated Mass June 21 at St. Patrick Cathedral in Charlotte to honor nine priest jubilarians commemorating special anniversaries this year. More than 44 priests of the Diocese of Charlotte were in attendance at Mass.

Celebrating priests’ decades of service to the Church SUEANN HOWELL SENIOR REPORTER

CHARLOTTE — Nine priests, who together have 462 years of service to the Church, were honored June 21 at St. Patrick Cathedral. Bishop Peter J. Jugis served as main celebrant.

He himself marks 35 years of priesthood and 15 years as the bishop of Charlotte this year.

Bishop Jugis was joined at the altar by five of those priests being recognized for jubilee anniversaries or retirement this year.

The nine priests honored at Mass include: Father Richard Benonis and Benedictine Father David Kessinger (60 years); Father James Hawker and Father Edward Sheridan (55 years); Father George Kloster (50 years); and Father Eric Kowalski and Father Carmen Malacari (25 years).

Father Wilbur Thomas (45 years of priestly ministry) and Father Carl Del Giudice (37 years of priestly ministry) are retiring.

These distinguished priests, many of whom who were asked to build new parishes, create vital ministries and initiate ecumenical outreach efforts over the past 46 years since the Diocese of Charlotte was created, are a reflection of the Body of Christ. They come from different backgrounds and cultural heritages – all of them unique shepherds called

by God to serve His flock.

The Mass at St. Patrick Cathedral was part of the annual Priests’ Colloquium held in Charlotte June 21-22. More than 44 priests of the diocese were at the Mass to hear the words of encouragement from their shepherd.

Drawing upon the first reading from 1 Thess 2:2b-8, Bishop Jugis gave a lighthearted interpretation of the Scripture, illustrating how the jubilarians and retirees present could use this passage as content for a letter they could pen to their parishioners: “Dear parishioners, I drew courage from God to speak to you the Gospel of God. My exhortations over the years were not delivered from improper motives or for purpose of flattering you or manipulating you, but rather in order to please God who is the One who is going to judge me,” Bishop Jugis said.

“I was judged worthy by God to be entrusted with the Gospel. I was gentle while I was with you, as a mother cares for her children. With such affection for you, I was determined to share with you, not only the Gospel of God, but my very self as well, so beloved are you to me.”

Bishop Jugis pointed out two elements that stand out from St. Paul’s writing – to speak the Gospel of God and to share one’s very self – all undergirded by affection for the people of God. “It turns out that is really a great, concise summary of the ministry of a priest,” he explained. “To teach by word and by example those who are so beloved by the priest: his JUBILARIANS, SEE PAGE 10

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Graduates of the Diocese of Charlotte’s Lay Ministry Formation Program receive their certificates from Monsignor Mauricio West, vicar general and chancellor, during a Mass and graduation ceremony June 30 at the Catholic Conference Center. Through this two-year formation program, laypeople learn more about the faith so they may better fulfill their baptismal call to participate in the Church’s mission to spread the Gospel message.

Lay Ministry graduates respond to the Lord’s call PATRICIA L. GUILFOYLE EDITOR

HICKORY — “Somos el cuerpo de Cristo. We are the body of Christ. Hemos oído el llamado; we’ve answered ‘yes’ to the call of the Lord.”

That verse from the recessional hymn “Somos el Cuerpo de Cristo/We Are the Body of Christ” summed up the graduation celebration June 30 for 80 graduates of the Diocese of Charlotte’s Lay Ministry Formation Program. The day was the culmination of a two-year journey for the graduates, who were joined by over a hundred friends and family members at the Catholic Conference Center for Mass and a celebration of their commitment.

Through this two-year formation program, laypeople learn more about the faith so they may better fulfill their baptismal call to participate in the Church’s mission to spread the Gospel message. It focuses on four areas of formation: human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral. The program is comprised of 150 hours of classes – everything from Scripture, Church history and Church councils, Christology, liturgy and the sacraments, to Catholic moral and social teachings, prayer and gift discernment.

This year’s celebration featured the graduates from the diocese’s new Spanish-language Lay Ministry program, which was piloted in 2008 and established in Charlotte in 2016.

For everyone who completed the program, June 30 was a day of celebration and anticipation about where God will lead them next. The past two years of study were worth the effort, graduates agreed, because they learned more about their Catholic faith than they ever expected.

Dennis Bowie of Greensboro was among the graduates who said they appreciated being introduced to praying the Liturgy of the Hours.

“This gave me a formalized way to approach my daily prayer life – very, very beneficial for me,” Bowie said.

Learning about the history of the Church also fed a “strong desire to grow closer to Our Lord,” he added.

“The most surprising thing was how much I learned from my fellow classmates,” said Robert McCarson, a member of Sacred Heart Church in Brevard. “We all come to the Church with different experiences and knowledge and I found our discussions to be very enriching. The most profound discovery I made was when one of my classmates, David Mayeux, said that everything changed for him when he read paragraph 460 of the Catechism and everyone asked, ‘what is the paragraph 460?’ ‘God became man so that man could become God,’ he said. That is our challenge. That crystallizes the call to holiness and is why I believe all adults should take the Lay Ministry classes whether they plan to be a lay minister or not. Being a well-formed Catholic is an important step on the road to sainthood.”

McCarson began the Lay Ministry program because it is a preliminary requirement for the permanent diaconate program, but even though he did not realize his hope of joining the aspirancy program for the diocese, he decided to complete the Lay Ministry program anyway.

“I believe it is important for us to always be in the process of formation of our faith, and I trust in God’s will to lead me to the right place,” he said.

Learning about Catholicism was also just the stepping-off point for Ron Groover, a member of St. Matthew Church in Charlotte.

“I loved the educational aspects (i.e., learning about the Catholic faith and Holy Scripture in a deeper way),” Groover said, “but what occurred to me towards the end of the program was that I had become much more firmly committed – not only to Jesus Christ, but also to the idea of serving in and evangelizing the people in my parish in the unique ministerial way God was calling me to serve. But I must remember that the ministry is His, not mine. I am there as His catalyst. He is the true servant and evangelizer. It’s about Him, not me.”

Monsignor Mauricio West, diocesan vicar general and chancellor, was the celebrant at the Mass and presented LAY MINISTRY, SEE PAGE 10

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Bishop Peter J. Jugis will participate in the following upcoming events: JULY 7 – 4 P.M. Sacrament of Confirmation St. John Baptiste de la Salle Church North Wilkesboro JULY 9 – 6 P.M. Sacrament of Confirmation St. Aloysius Church, Hickory

JULY 11 – 6 P.M. Sacrament of Confirmation Christ the King Church, High Point JULY 15 – 12 P.M. Sacrament of Confirmation Holy Infant Church, Reidsville

Diocesan calendar of events July 6, 2018

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TALLERES DE ‘EDUCACIÓN PARA TODOS’: 10 a.m. domingo, 15 de julio, en la iglesia Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, 6212 Tuckaseegee Road, Charlotte; 6 p.m.

Viernes, 27 de julio y 10 de agosto, en la Iglesia San Gabriel, 3016 Providence Road, Charlotte. Talleres para padres que están considerando una escuela en el sistema MACS. Los talleres guiarán a los padres con la solicitud y el proceso de asistencia financiera. Para más detalles, comuníquese con Angélica Hurtado al 704-3703221 o aahurtado@charlottediocese.org.

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NFP INTRODUCTION AND FULL COURSE: 1:30-5 p.m.

Saturday, July 21, St. Vincent de Paul Church, 6828 Old Reid Road, Charlotte. Topics include: effectiveness of modern NFP, health risks of popular contraceptives and what the Church teaches about responsible parenting.

Sponsored by Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte.

RSVP to Batrice Adcock, MSN, RN, at 704-370-3230.

PRAYER SERVICES & GROUPS EXPOSITION & ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT IN DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS: 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. July 6, Holy Spirit Church, 537 N.C. 16 Business, Denver. This devotion consists in attending Mass and receiving Communion for consecutive first Fridays, in reparation for those who do not receive Our Lord. For details, call the parish office at 704-483-6448.

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WNC RESPECT LIFE MONTHLY PRAYER GATHERING: 12:10 p.m. Mass, first Friday of each month at St. Lawrence Basilica, 97 Haywood St., Asheville, then drive to Planned Parenthood, 68 McDowell St., Asheville. Please join us for the recitation of the rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet and silent prayer at this peaceful gathering.

For details, call Don DeLauter at 828-980-8033 or email ddelauter1@yahoo.com.

ADVERTISING: Reach 165,000 Catholics across western North Carolina! For advertising rates and information, contact Advertising Manager Kevin Eagan at 704-370-3332 or keeagan@charlottediocese.org. The Catholic News Herald reserves the right to reject or cancel advertising for any reason, and does not recommend or guarantee any product, service or benefit claimed by our advertisers.

PRO-LIFE ROSARY: 10 a.m. Saturday, July 7, at 901 North Main St. and Sunset Drive, High Point. Come and help pray for the end of abortion. For details, call Jim Hoyng at 336-882-9593 or Paul Klosterman at 336-848-6835.

SUBSCRIPTIONS: $15 per year for all registered parishioners of the Diocese of Charlotte and $23 per year for all others.

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LAY CARMELITE COMMUNITY TO MEET: Nine people will make their temporary profession of vows with the Our Lady Star of the Sea Lay Carmelite community at St. Mark Parish during a 7 p.m. Mass on Monday, July 16, the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, at St. Mark Church, 4740 Stumptown Road, Huntersville. Refreshments will follow the Mass. All are welcome to attend. For questions, contact Donna Fodale at 704-574-9403 or dfodale@ roadrunner.com.

‘HUMANAE VITAE’ 50TH ANNIVERSARY MASS: 7 p.m.

Wednesday, July 25, St. Vincent de Paul Church, 6828 Old Reid Road, Charlotte. Celebrant will be Father Joshua Voitus, pastor. Hors d’oeuvres reception afterwards.

ST. PEREGRINE HEALING PRAYER SERVICE: 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 27, at St. Matthew Church, 8015 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy., Charlotte. St. Peregrine is the patron saint of cancer and grave diseases. The healing prayer service is offered for all those suffering with cancer or other diseases. For details, call the parish office at 704-543-7677.

POLISH MASS IN HONOR OF OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA, ST. JOHN PAUL II, ST. MARIA FAUSTINA KOWALSKA AND BLESSED FATHER SOPOCKO: 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 1400 Suther Road, Charlotte. Polish Father Matt Nycz will be celebrant and Deacon James Witulski will assist. The seventh-annual Mass will be in Polish with the homily given in both English and Polish. This Mass will fulfill your Sunday obligation. Confessions in Polish and English will be heard beginning at 1 p.m. After Mass, the faithful will have the opportunity to venerate the first-class relics of the three apostles of Divine Mercy: St. John Paul II, St. Maria Faustina Kowalska and her spiritual director, Blessed Father Sopocko. This is the first time that Blessed Father Sopocko’s relic will be present for this Mass. Light refreshments after Mass. Your donation of these refreshments is appreciated and can be dropped off before Mass at Aquinas Hall. Everyone is invited. For details, call Mary at 704-290-6012.

CHARLOTTE AIRPORT SUNDAY MASS: The Airport Chaplaincy at Charlotte Douglas International Airport offers Mass at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m., each Sunday in the airport chapel. All travelers and visitors are welcome.

SUPPORT GROUPS & RETREATS RACHEL’S VINEYARD RETREATS: Rachel’s Vineyard can help men and women who have experienced abortion begin their healing journey. It creates a healing environment of prayer and forgiveness. The retreat works to reconnect people to themselves, their friends and family after having an abortion. For details, email Jackie Childers at jackie.childers1@gmail.com.

SAFE ENVIRONMENT TRAINING ‘Protecting God’s Children’ workshops are intended to educate parish volunteers to recognize and prevent sexual abuse. For details, contact your parish office. To register and confirm workshop times, go to www.virtus. org. Upcoming workshops are: ASHEVILLE: 9 a.m. Saturday, July 7, and 9 a.m.

Saturday, Aug. 4, St. Lawrence Basilica, 97 Haywood St. CHARLOTTE: 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 17, and 10:15 a.m.

Sunday, Aug. 19, St. Gabriel Church (Ministry Center Room D), 3016 Providence Road

SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS

INFORMATION SESSIONS ON ‘JUSTFAITH’ SMALL GROUPS: 7 p.m. Monday, July 9 or 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 25. Afternoon session also available at 2 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 5 at St. Matthew Church, 8015 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy., Charlotte in the New Life Center Room 203.‘JustFaith’ is a mind and heart opening journey that invites participants to encounter the Spirit of Jesus in our midst, especially in the lives of people who are poor and vulnerable. Have you heard Pope Francis say he wants a poor Church for the poor? He also says that true power is found in service, especially to the poor, the weak and the vulnerable. Open to all Charlotte area parishes. For details, contact Bruce Mlakar at brucemlakar@gmail.com or Adult Faith Formation Director Michael Burck at 704-543-7677, ext. 1020, or mburck@stmatthewcatholic.org.

‘EDUCATION FOR ALL’ WORKSHOPS: 10 a.m. Sunday, July 15, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 6212 Tuckaseegee Road, Charlotte; 6 p.m. Fridays, July 27 and Aug. 10, at St. Gabriel Church, 3016 Providence Road, Charlotte. Workshops for parents who are considering a school in the MACS system. The workshops will guide parents through the application and financial assistance process. For details, contact Angelica Hurtado at 704370-3221 or aahurtado@charlottediocese.org.

‘YOU’NIVERSITY, AN ADULT FAITH FORMATION PROGRAM: Summer is a great time for learning! St. Matthew Church offers an interesting array of classes this summer. If you have a thirst for more knowledge and a greater understanding of our faith, take advantage of these wonderful educational opportunities. For details about class times, dates and locations, and to register online, go to www.stmatthewcatholic.org/faithformation/adult/summer-forum. For details, contact Michael Burck at 704-543-7677, ext. 1020, or mburck@ stmatthewcatholic.org.

MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER WEEKEND: 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 20, to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, July 22, with Mass. This weekend is often just the remedy a couple needs. Join us at St. Philip Neri Church in Fort Mill, S.C., for the weekend with no overnight stay. For details, call 803-810-9602. To register, go online to www.scmarriagematters.org.

YOUNG ADULTS ‘TAPROOM TALKS’ WITH ST. MATTHEW CHURCH YOUNG ADULT LIFE: 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14, Taproom & Wine Bar, 213 N. Trade St., Matthews.

The events are free and open to all. For details, visit www.stmatthewcatholic.org/taproom-talks or contact St. Matthew Young Adult Ministry Coordinator Francis Ahn at 704-543-7677, ext. 1193, or fahn@stmatthewcatholic.org.

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Twenty-five youth participated in activities and workshops during the annual Faithful Servant Leadership Institute June 17-22 at Belmont Abbey College.

‘Faithful Servant lights a fire in your heart’ Youth take part in leadership institute SUEANN HOWELL SENIOR REPORTER

BELMONT — Surrounded by more than 140 years of Church history, 25 youth of the Diocese of Charlotte spent five days learning how to be effective Catholic leaders during the annual Faithful Servant Leadership Institute held June 17-22 on the grounds of historic Belmont Abbey College.

Mary Help of Christians Abbey Basilica, built by the Benedictine monks who moved to North Carolina in 1876, provided a temporary spiritual home for the young men and women who participated in the conference.

“Since 1981, the Diocese of Charlotte has maintained an unbroken and strong commitment to the formation of missionary discipleship of our youth, first as a pilot diocese for Christian Leadership Institute and now through Faithful Servant,” said Paul Kotlowski, diocesan youth ministry director.

Twenty-five participants, five youth mentors and eight adult team members participated in activities and workshops during the week-long event that focused on current leadership skills and Catholic teaching and practice.

“It’s always such a rich reward to see how this program transforms lives, emboldens commitment to Our Lord and His Church – giving them skills to face life’s challenges that lie ahead,” Kotlowski said.

Topics covered during the event included: Christian leadership and leadership styles, communication skills, negotiation and consensus building, morality and natural law, group dynamics, the New Evangelization and “The Eucharist – Our Source and Summit.”

“Faithful Servant lights a fire in your heart that burns with a passion for leadership and service for Jesus,” said participant Victoria Yercheck of St. Luke Church in Charlotte. “You make loyal, steadfast friends to help you on the journey through life and towards sainthood.”

First-time participant Joanna Cloutier of St. Michael’s Church in Gastonia admitted that she arrived at Faithful Servant 2018 praying that she would find one single

person to bless, lean on, help and love. “I left Faithful Servant with not just one, but 38 people to lean on, help, love and have them love me back. Never before have I experienced the pure, strong, burning love of friends in my life.

“I have received the gift of another family – a family so beautiful, honest, generous, and selfless that words fail me.”

Andrew Torres of St. Barnabas Church in Arden looked forward to attending the leadership institute after seeing some of his siblings attend prior events.

“I experienced authentic Catholic community and beautiful examples of how to live a Catholic life of servant leadership,” Torres said. “Now I am applying the skills I learned at Faithful Servant to being an active college student, taking initiative on campus and in the local Catholic community to serve those around me and do the work of the Kingdom.”

“I just completed my second Faithful Servant Leadership Institute week as a team member,” noted Christie Silvestri of St. John Neumann Church in Charlotte.

“Last year’s week was a life-changing week for me. I had looked forward to this year since leaving Belmont Abbey College Campus last year.”

Silvestri shared that, for her, Faithful Servant 2018 was every bit as powerful an experience as last year’s event.

“To see the youth come in on Sunday a little bit hesitant, a little nervous and very unsure of what to expect, and then grow into confidant leaders on fire with the Holy Spirit ready to share their faith with their friends and all they meet – in the space of five days these groups become family,” Silvestri said.

“There are no words that can explain the bonds forged there,” she continued.

“My heart is full. If I have so much love for them, how much greater is the Father’s love for all of us.”

Participant Katelyn Meyer of Holy Cross Church in Kernersville summed it up: “Faithful Servant isn’t just somewhere you go to meet wonderful brothers and sisters of Christ. Faithful Servant is where you go to transform your life and focus your life on Christ.”

More online At www.catholicnewsherald.com: See video highlights and more testimonies from participants in the 2018 Faithful Servant Leadership Institute

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The Diocese of Charlotte Office of Vocations offered the third-annual Duc In Altum young women’s retreat at Belmont Abbey College June 25-29 at Belmont Abbey College. Bishop Peter Jugis (center) celebrated the closing Mass for the retreatants on June 29 in the abbey basilica.

‘Put out into the deep’ Young women share faith journey at Duc In Altum SUEANN HOWELL SENIOR REPORTER

BELMONT — Authentic femininity is rarely discussed in today’s culture. But for young women on the Duc In Altum retreat at Belmont Abbey College June 25-29, living a life of authentic holiness based on the dignity and grace of their baptismal call was at the center of their time together.

This year, the Diocese of Charlotte Office of Vocations hosted 71 young women for the discernment retreat. More than 200 young women have participated over the past three years.

Open to high school freshmen to college freshmen, the five-day retreat is designed to give young women the tools to listen to the voice of God in their lives.

“Duc In Altum” is Latin for “put out into the deep.” It refers to the words Jesus spoke to Peter in the Gospel of Luke, encouraging him to let down his fishing nets for a catch.

Bishop Peter Jugis offered the closing Mass of the retreat June 29 at Mary Help of Christians Basilica.

“As we come to this last day of Duc In Altum for 2018, I hope you also have been aware of the Lord’s loving care and concern for you during this week,” he said. “It’s the same Lord who shows His care, His concern, His affection for all of His followers.”

The foundation of this retreat was set down many years ago at their baptism, he told participants.

“When you were baptized, you became a child of God. When you were baptized, you became a new creation in Christ.

That baptismal grace created a new creation in the Lord.

“You were adopted into the family of God – a great spiritual family of the Church, 1.2 billion members strong.”

And because of their baptism, he continued, they entered a deeply personal and grace-filled relationship with God the Father.

“You are His daughters. He claims you as His chosen ones because of your baptism and because of the choice that you continue to make for Him, ever since

the day of your baptism up to the present.

“Like St. Paul, no doubt you can also Both the Faithful Servant say, ‘The Leadership Institute and Duc Lord stands In Altum retreats for young by me and Catholics are funded in part gives me by the Diocesan Support strength.

Appeal. Learn more about He rescues the DSA and donate online me from at www.charlottediocese. every evil org/dsa. threat,’” Bishop Jugis said.

Drawing from the writings of St. John, Bishop Jugis said we are reminded to “see what love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called children of God.” “And so indeed we are. It is a great dignity, a great privilege bestowed on every one of us, especially on all of you as you participated in this retreat this week.

“As you have been going along in life, He has been providing you with nourishment at His altar – the Body and Blood of Christ – so you are continuing to grow in that love of Christ in holiness, and constantly being reminded: ‘See how much I love you. I continue to give you my Son who is sacrificed for your redemption for the salvation of the world,’” Bishop Jugis said.

During the week-long retreat the young women had an opportunity to dive deeper into their prayer lives, in their vocations as daughters of God, and considering what vocation God has for each of them – whether to religious life, holy matrimony or consecrated single life.

A goal of the retreat is to help young women develop an authentic femininity based on the role model of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

First-time participant Alivia Tettinger, 16, a parishioner of St. Matthew Church in Charlotte, said she enjoyed the retreat.

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Eucharistic Congress volunteers receive more than they give ANNETTE K. TENNY CORRESPONDENT

CHARLOTTE — St. John Paul II once said, “Man cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself.” He called this universal truth “the Law of the Gift.”

To see this in action, look no further than the volunteers who staff the Diocese of Charlotte’s annual Eucharistic Congress.

The Eucharistic Congress – this year to be held Sept. 7-8 at the Charlotte Convention Center – relies greatly on volunteers from parishes across the diocese to be a success.

And a success it has been, with attendance each year growing by leaps and bounds. Last year’s event attracted an estimated 20,000 Catholics.

In the earliest years of the Eucharistic Congress, most of the volunteers came from the Charlotte Catholic Women’s Group, which is how Mary Catherine Surface first became involved.

Now, Surface oversees volunteer recruitment for the congress and is a pivotal member of the event’s organizing committee. And the majority of volunteers, about 90 percent, now come from parishes and about 10 percent come from the women’s group.

“Over the last eight years, the Congress has grown, and the need for volunteers has grown vastly,” Surface says.

Volunteers are grouped into more than a dozen areas of responsibility, such as the Eucharistic Procession or greeters at the convention center’s entrance. Captains of each group recruit volunteers for their group – from their parishes or ministry groups, by word of mouth and through personal testimony.

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Volunteers such as (from left) Lynn Efird, Rosemary Woods and Pat LaRose, pictured in this file photo from the 2014 Eucharistic Congress, are crucial to making the two-day Eucharistic Congress a success each September.

This year’s congress is set for Sept. 7-8, and more volunteers are always welcome. For details on how to volunteer, go online to www.goeucharist.com or contact Mary Catherine Surface at mcsurface@gmail.com.

Some people learn about the Eucharistic Congress from the event’s website, www. goeucharist.com, but many more hear about it from personal visits that Surface and many other volunteer captains make around the diocese.

“It’s surprising how many people don’t even know about the Congress,” Surface notes, and the personal invitation they hear from previous volunteers really serves to inspire people to try it themselves.

“Once someone volunteers the first year, they love it!” she adds.

Eighty percent of the volunteers each year are repeat volunteers. This return rate is so high, Surface believes, because volunteering at the congress gives people a sense of being involved in something that glorifies God and is larger than themselves.

They join planning committees, they offer

suggestions on increasing inclusion and improving the congress for the following year.

Volunteers work a two-hour shift at the congress. They get free parking at the convention center for the event, and preceding the start of the congress on Friday they attend Mass and enjoy a free lunch with their fellow volunteers.

It is amazing, Surface adds, that in just a two-hour time slot, a volunteer can touch so many other lives and their own lives can be touched, too.

Volunteering for the congress is a great way to get to meet other Catholics from around the diocese, Surface says. “It’s really a small commitment of time with a huge reward.”

It’s a sentiment that many other volunteers share.

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Bea Madden has been an EC volunteer for more than 10 years. She registers the kids in the K-5 Track on Saturday morning, then works as an usher during the closing Mass. Over the years, she has watched many of the children grow in their faith.

They come to the congress year after year and she has been blessed to watch their faith in Jesus bloom.

When she speaks to others about volunteering, Madden always says the same thing: “I tell them about the joy it gives you.”

Silvia Echeverria has been serving as a volunteer for seven years.

“Thank God I am serving in many places, helping others to become a volunteer,” Echeverria says. “I still help everywhere they need me. Now my husband and I are on the diocesan committee as volunteer recruiters. We visit other churches to invite them to the congress.”

She likes every part of the congress, but the closing Mass is special, Echeverria says. “Especially when the bishop raises the Body and the Blood of Christ, that is the most wonderful thing for me. And I am also very happy to see that each year we have more and more people getting closer to the Lord.”

Like so many other people who give of themselves, Theresa Isibor is very busy. She teaches public health at UNCCharlotte, runs an after school non-profit for inner city kids, volunteers at St. Thomas and St. James churches, and for several years has been a volunteer at the congress.

“I’m originally from Nigeria,” she notes.

“It’s a little different here. In Nigeria, you are expected to be of service; they sign you up. Here, you have to actually volunteer!”

When Isibor first learned about the Eucharistic Congress, she knew she had to be involved, she says. She has volunteered with the children’s tracks and as an usher.

Now, she recruits people to be greeters.

“When people come to the congress, they are the first people you see,” she says.

“We help them find their way to where they want to go. We welcome them to the Eucharistic Congress, to the convention center. If they are not from Charlotte, we are prepared to tell them where to go for parking and hotels.”

Since the minimum time commitment is just two hours, the volunteers have a lot of time to enjoy the congress themselves. For Isibor, the best part of the congress is “the Mass, the Mass!”

“I know a lot of people say the Eucharistic Procession, but I don’t really get to experience the procession due to my work,” she says. “You get to see all kinds of people (at Mass) – the faithful lay minister, the families, the children, and all the priests from all over.”

Volunteering at the congress makes it a special experience for that person, she notes. She hopes more people will consider volunteering, and if someone is unsure of which area they might like to volunteer in, the congress organizers will help them find a good fit.

“You form a network, a Catholic family and people will share things with you… even people who are not Catholic,” Isibor says. “It’s a human thing, a human contact to share with them. It’s a blessing for me, a blessing.”

For more information

At www.goeucharist.com: Get details about the upcoming Eucharistic Congress Sept. 7-8, plan ahead for your parish’s group to attend, and find out how to volunteer.

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“Surrounded By So Great A Cloud of Witnesses Catholics Striving To Become Saints” IHM Respect Life contest essay winners named

First Latino Knights council created in WNC MARION — Our Lady of the Angels Parish celebrated the creation of western North Carolina’s first Latino Knights of Columbus council on June 26.

Our Lady of the Angels Council 17058 was established by the Knights of Columbus with Dan Lange, state secretary for the North Carolina Knights of Columbus, present for the historical event.

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HIGH POINT — Winners of the annual Immaculate Heart of Mary School 8th Grade Respect Life Essay Contest were recognized during the school year-end Mass and closing ceremonies June 5. Essayists presented papers on a variety of topics this year, which were judged by a panel of five judges, who awarded Culler Combs, first place for an essay on human trafficking; Cameron Martin, second place for an essay on gun control; and Sarah Truskolaski, third place for an essay on dyslexia and disabilities.

Organized by the parish’s Respect Life committee, under the guidance of Dr. Maryann Leonard, chair of the English Department, the contest is sponsored by the Bishop Haley Council 4507 Knights of Columbus. The annual contest encourages graduating eighth-graders to give early thought to life issues as they transition from middle school to high school.

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Francis Cardinal Arinze “The Church as the School of Saints”

Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke “Building Catholic Families Passionate for the Gospel”

Father Matthew Kauth, S.T.D. “Serving God and Country and Church vs. State”

Father Patrick Winslow “Apologetics and Evangelization”

Father Roger Arnsparger “The Canonization Process – Why and How the Church Recognizes Saints”

Religious liberty march held CHARLOTTE — About a dozen Catholics took part in a march and prayer vigil through uptown Charlotte June 22, coinciding with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Religious Freedom Week campaign June 22-29. Stopping in Independence Square during their march through uptown Charlotte, speakers prayed and spoke about the threats to religious liberty, then proceeded to the Charles Jonas Federal Courthouse where they prayed the Litany for Religious Liberty, the rosary and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.

— Patricia L. Guilfoyle, editor

C-PLAN offers penance for Irish vote at Vigil of the Two Hearts CHARLOTTE — The Catholic Pro-Life Action Network of Charlotte (C-PLAN), a coalition of parish Respect Life ministries, hosted its 10th monthly Vigil of the Two Hearts June 1 at St. Patrick Cathedral. Father David McCanless, parochial vicar, offered the First Friday Mass and Deacon Paul Bruck led the Holy Hour of Reparation. C-PLAN dedicated the intentions of both the Mass and Holy Hour in reparation for the decision by Irish voters the prior week to legalize abortion. Organized around First Friday and First Saturday Masses and united by nocturnal Adoration, the vigil’s mission is to pray for families, offer penance for sins, and pray for the United States’ conversion back to God. — Mike FitzGerald, correspondent

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JEFFERSON — Members of St. Francis of Assisi Church’s Hispanic community hosted a fiesta June 24 on the church grounds as a fundraiser to help reduce the parish’s building debt. Music, dancing, games and much authentic fare created a festival atmosphere.

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Former St. Ann parishioner becomes Carmelite nun ELYSBURG, Pa. — Jyllian Carter, a former member of St. Ann Church in Charlotte, took her first step toward becoming a Carmelite nun on the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus June 8 with her profession of temporary vows, taking the name Sister Gabrielle of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Mass in the Extraordinary Form was offered by her former pastor, Father Timothy Reid, at the Carmelite Monastery of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in Elysburg, Pa. The daughter of James and Jennifer Carter joined the Carmelite Monastery of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in 2016. The traditional community of cloistered Discalced Carmelite nuns exclusively follow the Mass in the Extraordinary Form and accompanying Rites.

Sister Gabrielle is among three former Diocese of Charlotte parishioners at the Elysburg convent. Sister Bernadette of the Angels (formerly Sara Foreman of St. Michael Parish in Gastonia) joined in 2011, and Sister Mary Guadalupe (formerly Emma Rivas, also of St. Michael Parish) joined in 2017.

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Camp SOAR another success CHARLOTTE — Nearly 100 students from Charlotte Catholic High School were among the more than 400 volunteers who helped make the 18th annual Camp SOAR a success at the Levine Jewish Community Center.

Working with the volunteers, also called “buddies,” Camp SOAR campers

participated in sports including soccer, basketball, tennis, and swimming as well as fitness, bingo and art projects.

The men and women of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department were honored for their outstanding community service. More than a dozen officers engaged with both campers and volunteers throughout the week.

Bob Bowler, Camp SOAR’s founder and director, noted one of the most important objectives during the weeklong camp was to have camp attendees feel more comfortable around police.

Charlotte Catholic High School and Appalachian State University graduate Sara Schuler received the annual Victoria A. Bowler Volunteer of the Year Award. A nine-year Camp SOAR volunteer, she is now a middle school special education teacher.

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We will be looking at a new way to see kings in the Old Testament, not as monsters with the occasional angelic ruler, but in a more nuanced way. We will consider the original concept and context of kingship before concentrating on some individuals.

Fr. Garrett Galvin, OFM a Franciscan Friar and Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Franciscan School of Theology in Oceanside, CA. He has degrees from the Graduate Theological Union and Catholic University. His topic comes from his most recent book, David’s Successors: Kingship in the Old Testament.

New Testament Fr. George Smiga

Surprise, Shock and Gospel: The Parables of Jesus Jesus preferred to teach in parables. The gospels are filled with these images and stories that are both elusive and powerful. They engage, delight and disturb those who hear them. We will explore what parables are, how they work and what they reveal about the Kingdom of God. Fr. George Smiga is a priest of the Diocese of Cleveland. He is the pastor of St. Noel Parish in Willoughby Hills, OH. His Doctorate in Biblical Theology is from the Gregorian University in Rome.

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Receiving their first Holy Eucharist MURPHY — Eight children at St. William Church celebrated the sacrament of first Holy Communion May 6, during Mass offered by Father Alejandro Ayala, pastor. Pictured are: (from front left) Jayden Rivera Garcia, Alexa Ceberek, Sarah-Kaylee Rivera Garcia, Estrella Garcia Vasquez, Edwardo Garcia Vasquez and Yasmin Rivera Garcia; and (from back left) Father Ayala, Edhy Garcia Vasquez and David Llovera. Edhy Garcia Vasquez also crowned a statue of Mary during the celebration.

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FOREST CITY — Thirteen young people received the sacrament of first Holy Communion at Immaculate Conception Church May 20, during the 9 a.m. Mass celebrated by Father Herbert Burke, pastor. Also pictured are Deacon Andy Cilone, Deacon David Faunce, and their sacramental preparation teacher Brian Cilone.

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JEFFERSON — Thirteen children from St. Francis of Assisi Church received their first Holy Communion on the Feast of Corpus Christi. Eleven of the children are pictured with their pastor, Father James Stuhrenberg, and their teacher, Celia Cabrera.

GREENSBORO — Children at Our Lady of Grace received the sacrament of first Holy Communion during two Masses celebrated June 3 by their pastor, Father Paul Buchanan. They prepared for the sacrament with the optional Spanish-language faith formation program offered by volunteers in the parish’s Hispanic Ministry.

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O Holy St. Jude!

Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor for all who invoke your, special patronage in time of need; to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart, and humbly beg you, to whom God has given such great power, come to my assistance.

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The Diocesan Office of Lay Ministry offers a two-year program designed to help you understand more fully your baptismal call to minister to your family, to others in the Church, and to those in your daily life.

Sites include Arden, Smoky Mountain Region, Charlotte, Greensboro and Lenoir.

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Bishops of Atlanta Province hold annual meeting in Charlotte CHARLOTTE — The Catholic bishops of the Atlanta Province gathered for their annual meeting June 25-27, this year held in Charlotte. The Atlanta Province encompasses the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the four dioceses of Charlotte, Raleigh, Charleston and Savannah. Pictured after Mass June 26 at St. Patrick Cathedral are (from left): Bishop Luis Zarama, Bishop of Raleigh; Bishop J. Kevin Boland, Bishop Emeritus of Savannah; Bishop Robert Guglielmone, Bishop of Charleston; Archbishop Wilton Gregory, Archbishop of Atlanta; Bishop Bernard Shlesinger III, Auxiliary Bishop of Atlanta; Bishop Joel Konzen, S.M., Auxiliary Bishop of Atlanta; Bishop Gregory Hartmayer, OFM Conv., Bishop of Savannah; and Bishop Peter Jugis.

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parishioners.”

Recalling the recent celebration of Father’s Day, Bishop Jugis spoke of how they had probably all been wished a happy Father’s Day by their parishioners.

“They consider you to be their spiritual father. They call you ‘Father.’ The faithful are formed and grow in holiness by what their spiritual father speaks to them,” he said.

In the Gospel, at the Mass, in the sacraments and by the example of their lives, Bishop Jugis said, all priests should live with a genuinely Christ-like attitude of

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the graduates with their certificates.

In his bilingual homily, Monsignor West described the African American tradition of preaching known as “call and response,” a form of dialogue in which the preacher speaks and the congregants reply.

“Employing call and response encourages the congregation not to be passive, but to involve themselves much more deeply in the liturgy or the worship experience,” he said. “In so doing, the community of believers more readily sees the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior, and it deepens their awareness of what God wants them to do with all of the gifts that He has given them.

The congregation must make a decision: what am I going to do in response to the

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“I thought it was a great experience for all of us as women to get together to know Christ more as a community. I loved getting to know the ladies more and growing in our faith.”

She encouraged other young women to attend. “If you ever feel some sort of calling for God, try to experience it and see what He is asking you to do.”

Cecilia Murrey, 16, of St. John the Baptist Church in Tryon, came to Duc In Altum for the third time.

“One of my favorite experiences was the silent retreat,” Murrey said. “Just because our world is so loud and noisy, the encouragement of our own personal silence within our lives is so important, I think, for everybody. We just get pulled in so many directions by everything that is going on in our lives. To just sit down and have no distractions – it was a relief. I didn’t know I needed it so badly.”

Elara Viens, 16, of Our Lady of Grace Church in Greensboro, is also a three-time participant.

“I love being together with all the girls, that we can all support each other in our walk of faith and in our journey of holiness and being able to pull so much good from the talks and bring that into Adoration.

And really have Our Lord expand your heart and tell you what you learned and to bring that into your life.”

The world needs virtuous women and a society that supports them, she said. “We have a particular and special role in that.

We have to pursue that as our vocation, regardless of what vocation that is.”

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Viens said she is contemplating a religious vocation, possibly an order in the Philippines where the religious sisters offer themselves as victims of God’s love, the Alliance of the Two Hearts.

She appreciates the support she received from the religious sisters and priests during Duc In Altum.

Her mother, Lucy Viens, is thankful her daughter has found the retreat an enriching experience.

“This is a super blessing for all of us,” she said. “I just see these girls are just blossoming in their faith. I do believe it is due to the Duc In Altum experience.”

Sister Mary Raphael, abbess of the Daughters of the Virgin Mother and coordinator of the Duc In Altum retreat, acknowledges the week is grace-filled for all who experience it.

“The sisters love taking five days away from the normal schedule to make the dive with the young women of our diocese to ‘come and see’ where Our Lord is drawing each of them.

Whether it is deeper into a life of prayer, or a step closer in vocational discernment, I feel humbled and blessed to walk alongside these youth – the future of our Church.

“I am grateful to Bishop Jugis for allowing the camp to take place, and to all of our priests for their time and spiritual paternity that encourages life into young vocations. I am also grateful for all in the diocese who prayed for the success of this retreat. It makes a difference!”

Sister Mary Raphael added, “To the young women who participated we say, ‘We love you and believe in you!’”

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affection for people, treating them as God’s beloved.

“There is a lot of love at the foundation of the priest’s ministry,” Bishop Jugis noted.

“We offer our prayers that our brothers who are celebrating special anniversaries of ordination, and our brothers who are entering retirement, will receive that love which they have given to many, many parishioners through the years,” he concluded.

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call of the Gospel?”

Likewise, the Lay Ministry graduates have heard a call from the Lord, he said.

They have responded, and they will continue to respond.

At the end of the celebration, Frank Villaronga congratulated the graduates for their achievement and thanked all of the teachers who taught the various classes in locations around the diocese.

New classes starting The 2018-’20 Lay Ministry Formation Program begins this fall, with sites in Arden, Lenoir, Greensboro, Charlotte and the Smoky Mountain region. Classes meet 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on designated Saturdays. All Catholic adults are welcome to apply. For details, contact Frank Villaronga, director of the diocesan Evangelization and Adult Education Office, at 704-370-3274 or frankv@charlottediocese.org.

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serving his time and raising his young daughter, Cassie. Instead his predecessor as size-shifting Ant-Man, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), and Pym’s daughter, Hope (Evangeline Lilly), aka the Wasp, draw him into their quest to rescue Hope’s mother, Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer), the original Wasp, from her decades-long captivity in the Quantum Realm, a kind of subatomic limbo. To achieve this, the trio will have to do battle both with a petty gangster (Walton Goggins) out to profit from Pym’s technological breakthroughs and a victim of Pym’s past misdeeds. Altruism and family bonds are showcased in director Peyton Reed’s Marvel Comics adaptation, which also sends a clear message about ends not justifying means. But viewers of faith will be less impressed that the central romance between Scott and Hope comes in the wake of his split from Cassie’s mom. Possibly appropriate for older teens.

Couple of uses each of profane, crude and crass language, several milder oaths, occasional wordplay.

CNS: A-III (adults); MPAA: PG-13

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ There’s plenty of humor and action in this fast-paced sci-fi adventure. What’s lacking is any exposition or guidance for those not already familiar with the characters and their relationships from 2015’s “Ant-Man” and 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War.” Approaching the end of a sentence of house arrest, Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), is anxious to focus on

Follow-up to the 2015 reboot of a franchise that began with Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster 1993 screen version of Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel “Jurassic Park.” With the last of the cloned dinosaurs at the heart of the series facing extinction due to a volcanic eruption, the former head (Bryce Dallas Howard) of the theme park that once featured them and an extrainer (Chris Pratt) from the same facility agree to help transport them to an isolated sanctuary.

But there’s a conspiracy afoot to abduct the

out-sized critters and use them as weapons.

Beyond the refreshingly innocent, on-again, off-again romance between the two leads, and the dubious appeal of watching dinos run amok and chow down on the occasional extra, director J.A. Bayona’s action adventure has little to offer.

Much animal violence with occasional gore and a few gruesome images, some gunplay, a couple of profanities and milder oaths.

CNS: A-III (adults); MPAA: PG-13

‘Gotti’ A crime saga about mobster John Gotti (John Travolta) who, director Kevin Connolly and screenwriters Lem Dobbs and Leo Rossi would have the viewer believe, was mostly a misunderstood family man, attentive, according to his own lights, to his wife (Kelly Preston) and two sons (Spencer Lofrano and Nico Bustamante). Other than the occasional murder, his first was in 1973, he might as well be any other striver on the corporate ladder, hoping to impress his mentor in the Gambino crime family and earn a promotion. Impatient, he eventually felt the need to have the lugubrious head of the syndicate whacked in a sordid yet theatrical rub-out that set the pattern for his long career as a tabloid celebrity. Much gun and physical violence, pervasive rough language.

CNS: A-III (adults); MPAA: R

Other movies: n ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’: CNS: O (morally offensive); MPAA: R n ‘Uncle Drew’: CNS: A-III (adults); MPAA: PG-13

On TV n Saturday, July 7, 8 p.m. (EWTN) “The War of the Vendee.” Deeply rooted in their Catholic faith, as preached generations earlier by St. Louis de Montfort, the people of the region of Vendée rose against the French Revolution, clamoring for their Faith and throne. n Sunday, July 8, 10:30 p.m. (EWTN) “St. Kateri Tekakwitha: A Pilgrimage Into Her Heart.” Stories of St. Kateri, a miraculous healing and her 2012 canonization, with members of every Indian nation present, are intertwined portraying her as a model of the New Evangelization and a call for all people to treat God’s creation responsibly. n Wednesday, July 11, 4 p.m. (EWTN) “St. Benedict of Nursia.” This original EWTN docu-drama presents the life and spirituality of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the great Doctor of the Church and founder of the Benedictine Order. n Saturday, July 14, 8 p.m. (EWTN) “Kateri.” After witnessing the atrocities of war, a young, orphaned Mohawk girl embarks on a fervent journey of faith as a Catholic missionary for her people. An EWTN original movie. n Friday, July 20, 8 p.m. (EWTN) “I Shall Serve you: The Life of St. Camillus of Lellis.”

From 16th Century mercenary soldier, gambler, and beggar, St. Camillus of Lellis eventually became a priest and founded the Camillians, an order dedicated to caring for the sick. To this day, their nursing practices are still used.

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Cientos de personas de todas las edades reiteraron su rechazo a la política migratoria de ‘cero tolerancia’ del actual gobierno. “Jesús está en la frontera. Jesús está llorando en la frontera. Jesús está clamando por misericordia y llamándonos a hacer algo”, dijo uno de los oradores en la vigilia organizada el pasado sábado 20 de junio por una coalición de organizaciones.

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CHARLOTTE — Una multitud colmó el parque First Ward del Uptown de Charlotte el sábado 30 de junio para protestar por la política migratoria del gobierno que ha causado la separación de más de dos mil niños de sus padres en la frontera sur del país.

La manifestación, convocada por un grupo de organizaciones defensoras de los derechos civiles de los inmigrantes, fue parte de los cientos de protestas que se realizaron de manera coordinada en todo el país bajo el nombre de ‘Terminemos la guerra contra los inmigrantes’.

Familias completas se presentaron antes de las seis de la tarde, muchas de ellas vistiendo camisetas con lemas y portando cartelones que reclamaban, con diversos argumentos, el fin de la política de ‘tolerancia cero’ establecida por el presidente Donald Trump.

Algunos de los carteles, con citas tomadas de la Biblia, reflejaban la verdadera enseñanza cristiana de amor al prójimo, en especial a los niños y los menos protegidos, como los inmigrantes.

En el pequeño estrado principal tomaron la palabra diversos representantes de las entidades organizadoras, líderes políticos, religiosos y artistas.

José Hernández París, director ejecutivo de La Coalición Latinoamericana, dijo que el propósito de la vigilia era demostrar que, como comunidad, “ya no toleramos más el trato que se les está dando a nuestras familias, el trato que se les está dando a nuestros migrantes y el ataque a nuestra sociedad”.

Luego señaló que con estas acciones se envía un mensaje a la administración del gobierno, tanto local, estatal y nacional, “que la comunidad está unida en contra de estas normas que están afectando tanto a nuestras familias”.

Más tarde, al hacer uso de la palabra, señaló que una persona que se ofreció como voluntaria le comentó que

“estaba cansado de tener rabia”, por lo que sugirió a todas aquellas personas que “sienten rabia”, tomen conciencia y vayan a votar.

con propósitos malignos”.

“No creo que Jesús esté aquí. Jesús está en la frontera.

Jesús está llorando en la frontera. Jesús está clamando por misericordia y llamándonos a hacer algo. Porque cuando se trata de inmigrantes, Jesús no nos dice exclúyanlos, tolérenlos, ni tampoco solo denles la bienvenida. Jesús dice ‘urge que vengan, los queremos, los amamos, ellos son uno de nosotros, ellos son nuestra familia’”, concluyó.

Dos representantes de la comunidad religiosa judía expresaron saber de propia experiencia “lo que es ser discriminados y no bien recibidos bajo pretextos de cualquier tipo”. Luego, tras reclamar la falta de apoyo de los Estados Unidos de América en el año 1939, cuando el gobierno se negó a recibir niños judíos que sufrían de persecusión, se preguntaron “América, ¿dónde está tu humanidad? ¿Cuántas veces nos lo vamos a preguntar?.

APOYO CATÓLICO Hernández París apuntó que en Mecklenburg County, en las pasadas elecciones, votaron 1.200 latinos, lo que indicó es el triple del número de votantes que se acercaron a votar en la anterior elección.

“Y a pesar de eso, somos 28.000 votantes hispanos registrados en el condado. ¿Cómo es posible que cuando nuestra comunidad está siendo atacada, de la manera que está siendo atacada, nosotros, los que podemos votar, no salgamos a votar en apoyo a nuestra propia comunidad?”

Luego reclamó encontrar una mejor solución que la detención para los niños de padres indocumentados capturados en la frontera con México cuando buscaban asilo. “¡Tenemos que reaccionar como comunidad!”, exclamó, “¡no podemos dejar que eso ocurra!”.

El pastor de la iglesia Metodista, James Howell, reclamó al Fiscal General Jeff Sessions, de quien dijo “es un amigo metodista que ha estado más involucrado en la politiquería que asistiendo a la iglesia”, el haber “secuestrado la Biblia

Por su parte, como se recuerda, la Conferencia de Obispos de la Iglesia Católica de los Estados Unidos, ha condenado en numerosas oportunidades la separación familiar que se está ejecutando en la frontera.

El domingo 1 de julio una delegación de prelados llegó al área de Brownsville-McAllen, Texas, cerca de la frontera sur para reunirse con los afectados por la política migratoria del presidente Trump.

“Esta es una señal de que los obispos de Estados Unidos están preocupados por la situación y las circunstancias que afectan a las personas, no solo a los que viven en Brownsville sino a lo largo de la frontera”, dijo el obispo local, Daniel E. Flores de Brownsville, durante una entrevista con el servicio de noticias católico. “Este es un momento para comprender completamente la realidad de la situación, para reunirnos, hablar con personas que están viviendo esta realidad. Es un mensaje para la HUMANIDAD, PASA A LA PÁGINA 14

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Graduados del Ministerio Laico responden el llamado del Señor PATRICIA GUILFOYLE EDITORA

HICKORY — “Somos el cuerpo de Cristo.

We are the body of Christ. Hemos oído el llamado; we’ve answered ‘yes’ to the call of the Lord”.

Ese verso del himno de despedida ‘Somos el Cuerpo de Cristo / We are the body of Christ’ resumió la celebración de fin de curso de 80 graduados del programa de formación del Ministerio Laico de la Diócesis de Charlotte el pasado 30 de junio.

La fecha fue la culminación de un periodo de dos años para los graduados, a quienes se unieron más de cien amigos y familiares en el Centro de Conferencias Católico para la celebración de la Santa Misa y su compromiso.

A través de este programa de formación, los laicos aprenden más sobre la fe para poder cumplir mejor su llamado bautismal de participar en la misión de la Iglesia de difundir el mensaje del Evangelio.

Se enfoca en cuatro áreas de formación: humana, espiritual, intelectual y pastoral.

El programa consta de 150 horas de clase, desde las Escrituras, la historia y concilios de la Iglesia, Cristología, liturgia y sacramentos, hasta las enseñanzas morales y sociales católicas, la oración y el discernimiento de los dones.

La celebración de este año contó con graduados del nuevo programa de ministerio laico en español de la diócesis, proyecto que se probó originalmente en 2008 y se estableció en Charlotte en 2016.

Para todos los que completaron el programa, el 30 de junio fue un día de celebración y cuestionamiento sobre dónde los guiará Dios en sus próximos pasos.

Los graduados estuvieron de acuerdo que los últimos dos años de estudio valieron la pena porque aprendieron más de su fe católica de lo que esperaban.

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Tras dos años de formación, la primera promoción de egresados del programa del Ministerio Laico en español celebró su graduación con una Misa a la que asistieron familiares y amigos. A través de este programa aprendieron más sobre su fe para responder al llamado de propagar el Evangelio. fe católica fue lo que motivó a Lourdes Báez, parroquiana de San John Neumann, a inscribirse en el programa de formación del ministerio laico.

“Siendo servidora en mi parroquia, quería saber cómo aportar con mi servicio, entregando lo mejor de mí al Señor, y así ofrecer los talentos que Él me ha dado para seguir construyendo una comunidad eclesial cada día mejor”.

Báez destaca el beneficio personal que le ha proporcionado conocer La Liturgia de Las Horas, que considera el encuentro personal con Cristo Jesús, y que la lleva a una interiorización como nunca antes había experimentado, “ni en ningún retiro anterior”.

Blanca Leticia Díaz decidió participar en el programa “para conocer más sobre la religión católica y la Biblia”, con el interés de “llevar a lo aprendido a personas que no conocen todavía sobre la Iglesia y La Palabra de Dios”. “Aprendí cosas muy bonitas que no sabía”, añadió, agradeciendo a todos los instructores que “nos enseñaron muchas cosas”.

“Lo más sorprendente fue lo mucho que aprendí de mis compañeros de clase”, dijo Robert McCarson, miembro de la Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón en Brevard.

“Todos venimos a la Iglesia con diferentes experiencias y conocimientos, y encontré que nuestras discusiones fueron muy enriquecedoras. El descubrimiento más

profundo que hice fue cuando uno de mis compañeros de clase, David Mayeux, dijo que todo cambió para él cuando leyó el párrafo 460 del Catecismo y todos preguntaron: ‘¿cuál es el párrafo 460?’.

Dios se hizo hombre para que el hombre fuera semejante a Él, dijo. Ese es nuestro desafío. Eso cristaliza el llamado a la santidad y es por eso que creo que todos los adultos deben tomar las clases del ministerio de laico, ya sea que planeen o no ser ministros laicos. Ser un católico bien formado es un paso importante en el camino hacia la santidad”.

McCarson había comenzado el programa de Ministerio Laico porque es un requisito preliminar para el programa de diaconado permanente pero, a pesar de que no pudo concretar su esperanza de unirse al programa de aspirantes al programa de diaconado de la diócesis, decidió completar el programa de ministerio laico de todos modos.

“Creo que es importante para nosotros estar siempre en el proceso de formación de nuestra fe, y confío en la voluntad de Dios para llevarme al lugar correcto”, dijo.

Monseñor Mauricio West, vicario general diocesano y canciller, fue el celebrante de la Misa y entregó a los graduados sus certificados.

En su homilía bilingüe, Monseñor West describió la técnica afroamericana de predicación conocida como “llamada y respuesta”, una forma de diálogo en la que el predicador habla y los feligreses responden.

“Emplear el llamado y la respuesta alienta a la congregación a no ser pasiva, sino a involucrarse mucho más profundamente en la liturgia o la experiencia de adoración”, dijo. “Al hacerlo, la comunidad de creyentes ve más fácilmente la gloria de Dios en el GRADUADOS, PASA A LA PÁGINA 14

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CHARLOTTE — Con desconfianza y reserva, un grupo de más de 10 niños, algunos de ellos en compañía de sus padres, se congregaron en un espacio al aire libre el pasado lunes 2 de julio para participar, por primera vez, en un campamento bíblico de verano.

El ‘hielo’ se rompió pronto, después que un grupo de jóvenes hermanas de Apóstoles de la Palabra se acercaran a ellos y los invitaran a participar en divertidos juegos, en los que cantaron y rieron al tratar de seguir las poco a poco más y más complicadas indicaciones de las hermanas.

Luego, ya mas serios, pero siempre en un ambiente entretenido, los niños aprendieron en un abrir y cerrar de ojos los conocimientos básicos sobre la Biblia, sus partes, libros y cómo buscar citas en la Sagrada Escritura.

Los ojos adormilados y rostros serios del inicio se transformaron en sonrisas y miradas de atención, a medida que descubrían los conocimientos básicos de su fe.

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Cumpliendo con el compromiso de llevar la Palabra a los lugares donde más se necesita de ella, el Ministerio Hispano del Vicariato de Charlotte, en asociación con la fraternidad misionera Apóstoles de la Palabra, llevan a cabo una serie de campamentos bíblicos de verano en diversos parques de casas móviles de la región.

Del 2 al 13 de julio estarán presentes en el parqueadero de trailas West Bloomfield, ubicado en las cercanías del aeropuerto, cumpliendo con la tarea de evangelizar a niños y adultos que residen en la zona.

Este es el tercer y último campamento de la temporada, aunque debido al éxito del mismo se espera que la experiencia se repita el próximo verano.

Margarita, ama de casa de origen mexicano y parroquiana de la Iglesia Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, señaló que “con mucho gusto” prestó su casa como punto de encuentro para esta actividad. “Estando en la Iglesia, conversando con el Padre Gregorio y Eduardo Bernal, coordinador del Ministerio Hispano del Vicariato, surgió la inquietud de poder realizar este campamento aquí, algo que ya habíamos conversado hace un tiempo pero no habíamos podido concretar”, dijo, para luego expresar su alegría por haber reunido un buen número de niños y padres que, gracias al programa, podrán conocer más de su fe católica.

Según asegura Bernal, por diversas razones, solo uno de cada diez católicos asiste a la iglesia. Gracias a estos programas de proyección a la comunidad, “en conjunto con las hermanas de los Apóstoles de la Palabra, estamos trayendo aquí, donde ellos viven, el campamento de Biblia de verano, que es regularmente una semana nomás. Pero en una semana se están sirviendo no solo a los niños sino también se está atendiendo a los adolescentes y a los padres de familia”, aclaró.

La hermana María Velázquez Díaz, quien provisionalmente apoya la Misión local de Apóstoles de la Palabra por la ausencia temporal de la hermana Eri Rodríguez, llegó desde la República Dominicana, donde habitualmente reside desde hace más de tres años

Gracias a un programa que lleva la Palabra a donde más se necesita, decenas de niños aprenden como jugando a conocer sobre su fe. Muchos padres, al acompañarlos, descubren el hermoso mensaje del Evangelio que imparten los Apóstoles de la Palabra.

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conduciendo la Misión de esa área. La hermana señalo que, aunque a veces la misión es dificil, “como nos lo ha asegurado Jesús”, sin embargo, al saber que la órden viene de Él, estamos acostumbrados a todo”.

La hermana precisó que con el curso bíblico para niños se pretende que “desde muy pequeños los niños tengan conocimiento de la Biblia, se familiaricen con la Palabra de Dios”.

El curso, según explicó, tiene catorce etapas que cubren toda la historia de la salvación. Como guía se valen de textos producidos por la misma fraternidad misionera, los que tienen un precio muy módico “para que la gente CAMPAMENTOS, PASA A LA PÁGINA 14

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(Derecha) Si a los niños les queda lejos la escuela, los almuerzos saludables llegan a diversas localidades de ‘lunch express’ ubicados en complejos de apartamentos, parques de casas móviles, piscinas públicas, sedes de servicios sociales y locales religiosos.

(Abajo) Padres y niños están felices. Comidas saludables, balanceadas y de calidad para niños de sectores de bajos recursos, ofrece gratuitamente el sistema de escuelas públicas de Charlotte Mecklenburg en este verano.

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CHARLOTTE — Los padres se sienten tranquilos y los niños contentos en estas vacaciones pues, gracias al sistema escolar público del condado Mecklenburg, desde el pasado 13 de junio en más de cincuenta escuelas se sirven desayunos y almuerzos de manera gratuita.

Gracias al programa “Summer Hot Meal” (Comidas calientes de verano), patrocinado por el Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos, niños y adolescentes hasta los 18 años de edad, reciben gratuitamente desayuno y almuerzo, sin necesidad de estar registrados ni mostrar ningún tipo de identificación.

Como aseguran los funcionarios del Departamento de Agricultura, los centros abren “las puertas a todos los niños independientemente de su raza, color, origen, sexo, edad o discapacidad”.

Para aquellos a quienes les quede lejos la escuela, se han establecido ‘Lunch Express sites’, lugares de almuerzo rápido, en catorce complejos de vivienda, incluyendo parques de casas móviles, una iglesia bautista, albercas públicas y los centros de servicios sociales del condado ubicados en las calles Freedom y Billingsley.

El programa de servicio de comidas calientes proveerá comidas deliciosas, nutritivas y gratuitas a los niños en áreas de bajos ingresos hasta el 10 de agosto próximo. El servicio se ofrece únicamente de lunes a viernes, no durante los fines de semana.

Las escuelas reiniciarán sus actividades educativas del año lectivo 2018-2019 el 27 de agosto, aunque los maestros han sido convocados a presentarse en sus puestos de trabajo desde el jueves 16 del mismo mes.

En el desayuno los niños pueden elegir tres diferentes alimentos de cuatro ofrecidos, mientras que en el almuerzo las opciones de selección serán cinco.

Entre las alternativas se ofrece fruta, vegetales, granos, carne, cereales y una alternativa de carne, además de lácteos, entre otros. El Departamento de Agricultura asegura que los alimentos serán de calidad, bajos en grasa y, en el caso de jugos, cien por ciento naturales.

En algunos casos, de existir la posibilidad, se ofrecerá alimentos a los acompañantes de los niños. Igualmente, según el manual de procedimientos, en caso de servirse a todos los solicitantes y no agotarse los almuerzos, se podrá entregar segundos platos a quienes así lo soliciten.

Para beneficiarse del programa, los niños solo deben presentarse a las escuelas o ‘lunch express

sites’ a las horas indicadas. Los desayuno se sirven regularmente desde las siete de la mañana y los almuerzos desde las once de la mañana. Conviene revisar las tablas de horarios que se han publicado.

Para encontrar una escuela participante visite www. goo.gl/ KKyDgt. Para información sobre los “Lunch express sites” visite www.goo.gl/gCnXPp. En caso de requerir atención personal puede llamar al Servicio de Nutrición Escolar al 980-343-6041.

Lugares y horarios donde se sirve ‘Lunch Express’ n Fieldridge Acres MHP: 7800 Wilkinson Blvd., de 11 a 11:30 a.m. n Interstate Mobile Home Park: 3541 Scott Futrell Dr., de 11:45 a.m. a 12:15 p.m. n Stonewall Jackson Homes: 5751 Airport Dr., de 12:30 a 1 p.m. n Berryhill Baptist Church: 9801 Walkers Ferry Road, de 1:15 a 1:45 p.m. n Bellhaven Estate Homes: 7115 Bellhaven Blvd., de 2 a 2:30 p.m. n Kingswood Mobile Home Park: 15 Malcolm Ln., de 11 a.m. a mediodía n Tanglewood Apartments: 3200 Dale Crest Dr., de 12:15 a 12:45 p.m. n Woodstone Apartments: 4826 Woodstone Dr., de 12:55 a 1:25 p.m. n Little Rock Apartments: 5712 Leale St., de 11 a 11:30 a.m. n Elmsley Grove-Stop 1: 148 Tyvola Dr. Charlotte, de 11:55 a.m. a 12:25 p.m. n Elmsley Grove-Stop 2: 148 Tyvola Dr., de 12:35 a 1:05 p.m. n Double Oaks Pool: 1200 Newland Road, de 1:30 a 2 p,m. n DSS-Billingsley: 301 Billingsley Road, de 11 a 11:30 a.m. n DSS-Freedom: 3205 Freedom Dr., de 11:50 a.m. a 12:20 p.m. n Cordilla Pools: 2100 North Davidson St., de 12:40 a 1:10 p.m. n Nevins Splash Pad 6000: Statesville Road, de 1:40 a 2 p.m.

iglesia”.

El Obispo Flores recibió a la delegación encabezada por el presidente de la USCCB, el cardenal Daniel N. DiNardo de Galveston-Houston, durante una misa matutina en la Basílica de Nuestra Señora de San Juan del Valle, santuario nacional cerca de McAllen.

Refiriéndose a la lectura del Evangelio dominical (Mc 5, 21-43) donde Jesús sana a la hija de Jairo, el obispo Flores, dijo que lo que los obispos estaban haciendo cerca de la frontera era similar. Jesús estaba atento a la mujer que lo tocó y quería ser sanado. Jesús era capaz de detenerse por un momento y escucharla y atenderla para poder sanarla. La historia le proporciona al pueblo de Dios un ejemplo de lo que Dios quiere, dijo.

“Los obispos están de visita aquí para que puedan detenerse y mirar y hablar con la gente y comprender, especialmente el sufrimiento de muchos que están entre nosotros”, dijo, cambiando de inglés a español.

“Eso es lo que el Señor nos enseñó: escuchar y luego responder al plan, el plan cristiano, y dar esperanza a los más pobres y necesitados, para decirles que los cristianos no los han olvidado”.

Ambos Obispos de Carolina del Norte también se han manifestado en contra de las políticas migratorias inhumanas. En su primera carta conjunta emitida en abril pasado, el Obispo de Charlotte Peter Jugis y Luis Zarama, Obispo de Raleigh, llamaron a la inmigración un tema “moral que impacta la dignidad humana y los derechos humanos de cada persona”, instando a los líderes a promulgar una reforma migratoria que ampare a los Dreamers, brinde a los inmigrantes un camino hacia la ciudadanía, defienda la inmigración basada en la familia y proteja a los niños migrantes no acompañados.

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sencilla pueda adquirirlos”.

Lo que se desea es que “todos tengan y que nadie, por el aspecto económico, se quede sin tener el libro”.

Respecto al trabajo iniciado, dijo que una vez que concluye el campamento “los padres deben de continuar con la tarea de formar a sus niños”.

“Hay muchos de los trabajos que encargamos a los niños que dicen ‘pide a tus papás que te ayuden’. Entonces hay muchos papás que se involucran y les surge la idea a ellos mismos de también conocer la Biblia pues, como nos han compartido, desde que los hijos participan, algunos padres aprenden mucho de ellos y también se interesan por estudiar la Biblia”.

“Para mí es muy importante que mis niños asistan a este campamento”, dijo la señora Ernestina, quien llevó a sus tres hijos al primer día del campamento bíblico de verano. “Empiezan a absorver todo el conocimiento ahora que están pequenõs y, para empezar, eso los va a hacer, desde chicos, muy seguros de su fe y va a mejorar su educación cristiana”.

La ama de casa, originaria del estado de Durango, México, reconoce que en casa no incentiva mucho la lectura de la Biblia en sus hijos pero, a partir de ahora, “es un buen paso porque empezamos un compromiso y ya ellos van a verlo de otra manera. Más adelante ellos tomarán su camino y, gracias a esta formación, sabrán elegir qué ruta tomar y para dónde crecer”.

Finalmente, recomendó a los padres de familia que se involucren directamente en la educación religiosa de sus hijos como una forma de compensar la falta de formación espiritual en las escuelas públicas del condado. “Ahí no les enseñan nada de formación católica, de valores, por eso los papás y mamás estamos llamados a preocuparnos de ello”, puntualizó.

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rostro de Jesucristo, Nuestro Señor y Salvador, y profundiza su conciencia de lo que Dios quiere que hagan con todos los dones que Él les ha dado.

La congregación debe tomar una decisión: ¿qué voy a hacer en respuesta al llamado del Evangelio?”

Del mismo modo, los graduados del ministerio laico han escuchado un llamado del Señor y han respondido y continuarán respondiendo, dijo.

Nuevo curso por empezar El Programa de Formación del Ministerio Laico 2018-2020 comienza en septiembre, con las clases programadas en Charlotte y otros posibles lugares. Cualquier adulto católico interesado puede inscribirse.

Para más detalles, contáctese con Frank Villaronga, director de la Oficina Diocesana de Evangelización y Educación de Adultos, al 704-3703274 o frankv@charlottediocese.org.

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La Virgen de Chiquinquirá Una devoción que trasciende fronteras CONDENSADO DE ACIPRENSA

Cada 9 de julio se celebra la advocación mariana de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Chiquinquirá, que fue proclamada por el Papa Pío VII en 1829 como Patrona de Colombia otorgándole su propia fiesta litúrgica, y que posteriormente en 1919 fuera coronada canónicamente luego que el Papa Pío X firmara su decreto.

Patrona y reina de Colombia, del Estado Zulia en Venezuela y de la ciudad de Caraz en Perú, la devoción de la Virgen ha llegado hasta Madrid, España, en donde desde 2004 se celebra una fiesta a ‘la chinita’ cada 18 de noviembre, con Misa y serenata gaitera.

El Santuario de la Patrona de Colombia, declarado Basílica en 1927 por el Papa Pío XI, es visitado todos los años por miles de fieles, en especial durante esta fecha.

En esta Basílica se encuentra el lienzo con la imagen de Nuestra Señora custodiado por los dominicos. La imagen muestra a la Virgen María en su advocación del Rosario y la acompaña San Antonio de Padua y San Andrés el Apóstol.

El lienzo pertenece al arte colonial colombiano más antiguo y es una manta de algodón de más de un metro en un marco con placas del escudo nacional, las diócesis del país y de los padres dominicos.

La palabra Chiquinquirá significa lugar de nieblas y pantanos. Esta ciudad se ubica en el departamento de Boyacá en la región andina del país, a más de dos mil metros sobre el nivel del mar.

Los recientes pontífices canonizados San Juan XXIII y San Juan Pablo II tienen una cercanía a esta advocación. San Juan XXIII por ejemplo con la intención de pedir por la buena realización del Concilio Vaticano II, en 1960 ofrendó por medio del Nuncio Apostólico del país, un cirio de purificación para ser encendido frente a la imagen mariana.

En 1986, San Juan Pablo II visitó la Basílica y consagró Colombia a la Virgen María, pidiendo que conceda “el don inestimable de la paz, la superación de todos los odios y rencores, la reconciliación de todos los hermanos. Que cese la violencia y la guerrilla. Que progrese y se consolide el diálogo y se inaugure una convivencia pacífica. Que se abran nuevos caminos de justicia y de prosperidad”.

El siete de septiembre de 2017, durante su visita pastoral a Colombia, el Papa Francisco oró frente a la patrona de Colombia, a la que dedicó diez minutos de oración en silencio y luego recitó junto a los fieles las Letanías a la Virgen María.

En el libro de visitas a la Catedral escribió: “Desde esta catedral primada le pido a la Inmaculada Virgen María que no deje de guiar y cuidar a sus hijos colombianos y que siempre los mire con

El lienzo de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Chiquinquirá, Patrona y reina de Colombia, del Estado Zulia en Venezuela y de la ciudad de Caraz en Perú, pintado por el español Alonso de Narváez, se encuentra en su propia Basílica en el estado colombiano de Boyacá.

En Venezuela se le rinde culto en Maracaibo. Su fiesta patronal es el 18 de noviembre.

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sus ojos misericordiosos. Francisco”.

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La historia de la imagen se remonta a hace cuatro siglos, cuando don Antonio de Santana, encomendero de los pueblos de Suta y Chiquinquirá, solicitó al español Alonso de Narváez que pintara una imagen de la Virgen del Rosario para colocarla en una pequeña capilla.

La pintura fue realizada sobre una tela de algodón de procedencia indígena. Media 44 pulgadas de alto por 49 de ancho.

Alonso de Narváez usó colores al temple, realizó una imagen de la Virgen del Rosario con el Niño Jesús, y a los lados puso al Apóstol San Andrés y a San Antonio de Padua.

El cuadro fue ubicado en la capilla que tenía don Antonio en Suta. Estuvo allí durante más de una década, pero la capilla tenía el techo de paja, lo que provocó que la humedad deteriorara la pintura hasta dejarla borrosa.

Tras la muerte de Santana, su viuda se trasladó a Chiquinquirá entre los años 1577 y 1578. La imagen fue llevada a ese lugar, pero se encontraba en tan mal estado que fue abandonada en un cuarto, una habitación que tiempo atrás había sido usada como oratorio.

Al comenzar el año 1586, se estableció en Chiquinquirá una piadosa mujer, María Ramos, nacida en Sevilla, España. La señora reparó el viejo oratorio y colgó en el mejor lugar de la capilla la deteriorada

pintura de la Virgen del Rosario.

El día 26 de diciembre de 1586, María salía de la capilla cuando pasó frente a ella una mujer indígena llamada Isabel y su pequeño hijo. En ese momento Isabel gritó a María “mire, mire Señora”. Ella dirigió la mirada hacia la pintura, la imagen

aparecía rodeada de vivos resplandores.

Sin explicaciones, los colores y su brillo original reaparecieron, mientras que de los rasguños y agujeros de la tela no quedaban rastro.

Con este sorprendente episodio se inició la devoción a la Virgen de Chiquinquirá.

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Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, praised the ruling as “an important victory for the free speech rights of pro-life organizations.”

Abuse allegation against Cardinal Justice Anthony Kennedy McCarrick found credible to retire from high court WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, said he will no longer exercise any public ministry “in obedience” to the Vatican after an allegation he abused a teenager almost 50 years ago has been found credible.

“While shocked by the report, and while maintaining my innocence, I considered it essential that the charges be reported to the police, thoroughly investigated by an independent agency and given to the Review board of the Archdiocese of New York,” the cardinal said in a statement June 20. “I fully cooperated in the process.”

Cardinal McCarrick, who turns 88 July 7, said that “some months ago” he was informed of the allegation by New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan. Cardinal Dolan, in a June 20 statement, said it was “the first such report of a violation” against Cardinal McCarrick “of which the archdiocese was aware.”

In separate statements, Bishop Checchio and Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J. – where Cardinal McCarrick served inbetween his appointments to Metuchen and Washington – said this was their first notice that Cardinal McCarrick had been accused of sexual abuse of a minor.

Court says requirements on pregnancy centers violate free speech WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 June 26 that a California law placing requirements on crisis pregnancy centers that oppose abortion violated the First Amendment. In its decision in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, the court found that the law changes the content of the clinic’s speech “by compelling petitioners to speak a particular message,” and that the law went further than being a mere “regulation of professional conduct that incidentally burdens speech.”

The state law in question is the Reproductive FACT Act, which says pregnancy centers must post notices in their facilities about where lowcost abortion services are available and also

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced June 27 that he is retiring July 31. Less than an hour later, President Donald Trump said he would move quickly to nominate a replacement, saying he would review a list of candidates from the list he had to fill the seat now held

by Justice Neil Gorsuch after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Kennedy is one of five Catholic justices on the Supreme Court along with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor. Kennedy, who turns 82 in July, is the second-oldest member of the court after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is 85. He also is the longest-serving justice currently on the court, appointed in 1988 by President Ronald Reagan.

Pew report: Young adults worldwide less religious than older adults WASHINGTON, D.C. — A study by the Pew Research Center found that young adults worldwide are generally less religious than older adults by a variety of measures. The study, which drew upon previous surveys by Pew, concluded that this was true regardless of the predominant religion in the country, its level of economic development, or its level of religiosity. It defined young people as those under 40 years of age and older people as those 40 or older. The study noted projections indicate countries whose populations are growing fastest are very religious, while countries projected to have shrinking or stagnant population levels tend to be less religious. In addition to determining the differences between the rates of religious observance of younger and older people, the study, published in mid-June, attempted to identify possible causes for those differences.

As life expectancy, the average amount of schooling, income equality, and gross domestic product increase, the study found that religious observance decreases, with very few exceptions.

— Catholic News Service

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Catholics protest, mobilize to help separated families RHINA GUIDOS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some have taken their indignation all the way to the border between the U.S. and Mexico, while others have taken action closer to home, protesting while accompanied by their children and fellow parishioners in cities and towns across the U.S. Others are volunteering their services to counsel or visit immigrant children separated from a parent or are publicly advocating against the practice.

From coast to coast, Catholics have been among some of the most public and vociferous voices around the country in defense of immigrants. That defense has gone into overdrive in efforts to reunite migrant families and to call for their humane treatment.

In Charlotte, hundreds of people showed up June 30 at First Ward Park in uptown to protest the government’s actions at the U.S.-Mexico border that have caused the separation of more than 2,000 children from their migrant parents.

The demonstration, organized by a group defending immigrants’ rights, was one of hundreds of protests across the United States using the themes of “Keep Families Together” and “End the War Against Immigrants.”

Entire families came out to the protest, many of them wearing T-shirts with slogans and carrying posters featuring Scripture verses.

José Hernández París, executive director of the Latin American Coalition, said the purpose of the rally was to demonstrate that, as a community, “we no longer tolerate the treatment that is being given to our families, the treatment that is being giving our migrants and the attack on our society.”

“We have to react as a community!” he exclaimed. “We cannot let that happen!”

Another speaker said, “Jesus is on the border, Jesus is crying on the border, Jesus is crying out for mercy and calling us to do something. Because when it comes to immigrants, Jesus does not say exclude them, tolerate them, nor just welcome them. Jesus says it is urgent that they come, we want them, we love them, they are one of us, they are our family.”

“Some of these episodes are downright inhumane, unbiblical and un-American,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan before a crowd of reporters in New York City during a June 28 news conference aired on Facebook by CBS New York. “I’d like to think that America has just experienced

a wake-up call. That we’re getting a little bit away from our roots, of a posture of welcome and hospitality and embrace to the immigrant.”

Though the Trump administration said it would temporarily stop separating children from their parents at the border, Catholics advocating for the migrants worry about the administration’s imminent plans to detain the children and their family members at camps on military bases in Texas.

On June 28, the U.S. Department of Defense released a statement saying it had received a request “to house and care for an alien family population of up to 12,000 people” for the Department of Homeland Security, which deals with immigration detention, since it oversees U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The request, it said, was for “soft-sided camp facilities capable of sheltering up to 4,000 people at three separate locations” in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico or California.

Some of the children who already have been separated have ended up in places such as New York, with foster parents or in shelters, where organizations such as Catholic Charities are providing legal support to try to reunite them with family, or to provide emotional comfort while awaiting reconnection with family.

In Pennsylvania, Chris Zurawski, a secular Franciscan, said she was heartened to hear her pastor’s Sunday homily address the immigration issue as a pro-life issue.

The priest started the Sunday homily June 24 with a reference to St. John the Baptist and spoke of standing up for what people believed in.

The U.S. bishops have repeatedly asked Catholics to contact their representatives to back issues that the Church supports, and that includes a stance against abortion as a pro-life issue, but also immigration as a pro-life issue.

Though many Catholics, like Zurawski, are voicing support of migrants, some are going against the Church’s official stance on welcoming them. Some in her parish, she said, didn’t like their pastor’s approach in tying immigration to the pro-life issue and walked out during the homily asking them to get involved.

“There are people, they don’t want to hear that stuff,” she said. “I’m coming from a different angle because I’m a secular Franciscan.”

And that means accepting everyone into the Church, she said.

— Cesar Hurtado of the Catholic News Herald contributed.

What can you do to help?

At www.ccdoc.org/services/immigration: Learn about the range of direct support services being provided

by Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte to immigrants in western North Carolina. Also at www.ccdoc.org, find resources on praying and advocating for immigration reform as well as how you can donate to support their work on assisting legal immigrants, people applying for citizenship, and refugee families At www.justiceforimmigrants.org: Learn more about the root causes of the current immigration crisis, what the Church is doing to aid people in need, and how you can take action At www.catholicextension.org: Donate to a new Family Reunification Fund set up by Catholic Extension to benefit existing ministries on the U.S.-Mexico border that are actively sheltering, defending, and caring for immigrant families At www.kinoborderinitiative.org: Donate to the Jesuit-run, binational organization that works in the area of migration in Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, providing direct humanitarian assistance to migrants

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In Brief German bishops ignore pope’s request, resume Communion debate WASHINGTON, D.C. — The German bishops’ conference said when the bishops meet in September, they will continue to examine the issue of Communion for Protestant spouses of Catholics. The bishops published an “Orientation Guide in the Responsibility of Individual Bishops” June 27. According to DomRadio, the official news site of the Diocese of Cologne, the guide is the same handout that the bishops’ conference developed in February, but with a changed title. Although it is published, the document is not readily available for public viewing. German bishops met with curial officials at the Vatican in early May and, afterward, Pope Francis asked them not to publish the guidelines. Pope Francis clarified his position on the matter during a flight from Geneva to Rome June 21. He said the problem was not the subject matter of the debate, but rather the bishops’ approach to create new norms for the German Catholic Church at a national level. He said the guidelines the bishops were attempting to create went beyond what is foreseen by the Code of Canon Law “and there is the problem.” The code does not provide for nationwide policies, he said, but “provides for the bishop of the diocese (to make a decision on each case), not the bishops’ conference.”

Pope tells cardinals: Credible leadership serves others VATICAN CITY — Defending the weak or hopeless and becoming a servant to those most in need is the best promotion one can ever receive, Pope Francis told new and old cardinals.

“None of us must feel ‘superior’ to anyone.

None of us should look down at others from above. The only time we can look at a person in this way is when we are helping them to stand up,” he said during a ceremony in which he elevated 14 bishops and archbishops from 11 different nations to the College of Cardinals

June 28. The formal ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica began with Pope Francis, wearing a miter and carrying a pastoral staff of retired Pope Benedict XVI, leading a procession of the soon-to-be cardinals – in their new red robes – while the choirs sang, “Tu es Petrus” (“You are Peter”). Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako of Baghdad approached a microphone to give thanks on behalf of all the new cardinals who have been “called to serve the Church and all people with an even greater love.” The 69-year-old patriarch, whose country has lost an estimated 1 million of what had been 1.5 million Christians over the years of war, violence by extremist militants and economic insecurity, thanked the pope for his special attention to the plight and struggle of “the tiny flock” of Christians throughout the Middle East.

The day after the consistory, on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope Francis celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Square with the new cardinals and other prelates.

God wants His disciples to bring his mercy and love to everyone, everywhere on earth, which means it may cost them their “good name,” comfort and their life, Pope Francis said. Following Christ requires “that we open our hearts to the Father and to all those with whom He has wished to identify,” particularly the downtrodden, the lost and the wounded, “in the sure knowledge that He will never abandon His people.”

Pope: Faith is lived with joyous gratitude, not slavelike duty VATICAN CITY — God always loves and generously gives first before asking for fidelity to His commandments – which are the words of a loving father showing people the right way to live, Pope Francis said. “Christian life is above all the grateful response to a generous father,” not a forced, joyless compliance to a series of obligations, the pope said June 27 at his general audience in St. Peter’s Square. It was to be the last general audience before a brief suspension for the month of July.

protocol is in response to what’s happened the last two years, the increase in murders, not only of priests, (but) there’s also a surge in this pain that is impacting our country,” Auxiliary Bishop Alfonso Miranda Guardiola of Monterrey, the Mexican bishops’ conference secretary-general, said June 19. “This protocol is meant to be a strong prevention tool.”

Mexico suffered its most murderous year in memory in 2017, recording more than 29,000 homicides, as the country’s crackdown on drug cartels and organized crime showed few signs of success. Crimes such as kidnap, extortion and robbery with violence have harmed ordinary Mexicans and, increasingly, priests. The Catholic Multimedia Center has counted 24 priests murdered since December 2012.

in quest of unity and peace,” for a one-day journey celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the World Council of Churches – a fellowship of 350 ecclesial communities, including many Orthodox churches, who represent some 500 million Christians worldwide. The Catholic Church, which cooperates extensively with the council, is not a full member. Celebrating Mass at the city’s enormous indoor expo center, the pope pointed to the essential lessons contained in the Lord’s Prayer, which Jesus teaches His disciples in the day’s Gospel reading.

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Forgiveness turns evil into good, pope tells Catholics in Geneva GENEVA — At the end of a day dedicated to celebrating 70 years of an ecumenical fellowship forged by the World Council of Churches, Pope Francis turned to the region’s Catholics, reminding them of what lies at the heart of the faith. The Lord’s Prayer “offers us a road map for the spiritual life” by reminding people they are part of one human family, that they should live a simpler, more caring life and that forgiveness works miracles in history, he said. “There is no greater novelty than forgiveness, which turns evil into good,” he told 40,000 Catholics from Switzerland, France and other nations not far from this landlocked country, whose history was built on the values of peace and neutrality.

The pope was in Geneva June 21 “as a pilgrim

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We must pray to the Archangel Michael

Steven Richardson

The fifth prayer of the rosary: ‘Hail, holy Queen’ Editor’s note: When she appeared at Fatima, Our Lady asked us not only to pray the rosary, but also to meditate on its mysteries. In the final installment of this fivepart series, writer Steven Richardson explores how the mysteries of the rosary are reflected in the rosary prayers themselves.

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ail, holy Queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope…”

After three days apart from His parents, Jesus is discovered in the temple by Mary and Joseph.

Jesus converses specifically with Mary, His mother, after she tells Him that she and His father had been anxiously looking for Him. As we begin the great prayer that concludes the rosary, the prayer of conversation and supplication to the Holy Queen, we enter the temple along with Mary to find Jesus. As we do, we address her as our queen – the lady who can bring us with her into the temple, along with St. Joseph, to find Jesus waiting for us there.

Mary is the mother most merciful, and both mother and Son here display their most perfect love and mercy. Just as at the wedding feast, Mary and Jesus speak to each other with the utmost sweetness and respect, even in a situation of deep anxiety. Mary has lost her son. The couple has lost their supply of wine. But the way to remain peaceful in times of trial is to have the constant Christian hope displayed by Mary and Jesus in both cases. At the wedding feast, Mary tells those gathered, “Do whatever He tells you” (John 2:5). At the Finding of Jesus in the Temple, the fifth joyful mystery, even though Mary didn’t understand what her Son said to her, she “kept all these things in her heart” (Luke 2:51). Through her mercy, she continues to intercede for us, helping us to react in the same way. “…to thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears…”

St. Irenaeus described Mary’s relationship to Eve in this way: “The knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. What the virgin Eve had bound in unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosed through faith” (“Against Heresies,” 3:22). This means that we, the “poor banished children of Eve,” have recourse to Mary for her help in undoing the damage done by Eve in the garden. As Jesus is the new Adam, Mary is the new Eve. And Jesus achieves that victory over death, for our sake, at the Crucifixion, which is the fifth sorrowful mystery.

Like Mary, we are at the foot of the cross, staring up at our crucified Savior. As St. Augustine said, “The cross and nails of the Son were also those of His mother; with Christ crucified the mother was also crucified.” We who unite our sufferings to His are partakers in that sorrow, but also in that redemption.

Even still, through those sufferings, we sometimes despair. We do cry for the fact that we are banished.

Often we find that along our own personal way of the cross, mourning and weeping is all that we can do.

This reminds us that we are not of this world, that we are made for something greater, that our bodies are meant to be elevated and glorified. Death is not natural, but it will be our end. In the face of this dark certainty, instead of losing hope, we look to Mary. We send her the sighs that overtake us.

Out of a great evil, God can bring a great good.

From the crucifixion of Jesus, God brought about the redemption of all mankind. However, it’s sometimes difficult to see how any good can come from our sorrows and afflictions. When we are overcome, we can look to the Mother of Holy Hope, our Holy Queen, to whom we send those sighs.

“Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us…”

In our hours of darkness, when we feel that God is far away, we can rest assured that our mother is looking down upon us. She is crowned as queen of heaven and earth, and from her throne she is our advocate. The fifth glorious mystery is the Coronation of Mary, the mystery that reveals that Mary will reign both in heaven and in our hearts for all ages. She is full of grace, as the Angel Gabriel revealed, and this was the case even before she held Jesus in her womb.

But above all, she is the “mother of mercy.” Even her very eyes, as the prayer suggests, are eyes of mercy. She has come again and again in apparitions – more and more so in the past 150 years, in fact, to plead with her people. Her message is often that God’s mercy is available to us. Yes, we are surrounded by our sighs in this valley of tears. But there is a world beyond this one, one into which the King and Queen are waiting to welcome us.

“And after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus…”

The whole of the prayer that we are examining seems to point to a world beyond ours. It acknowledges that it is difficult to be in the world and not of the world, and further that living as a true Christian will cause pain and suffering. The fallen human condition itself creates pain and suffering. To avoid trials, we must avoid the cross. And Jesus told us that in order to follow Him, we had to take up our cross daily. This is our exile. We are here not because it is our home, but because we are traveling through this world to reach our home.

We get a foretaste of heaven, our real home, every time we go to Mass. At Mass, we receive the fruit of the fifth luminous mystery, the Institution of the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the sacrament that nourishes us during this exile, along the path of tears that we have to travel to reach heaven. When we receive Jesus – Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity – it gives us the strength to continue to pray, to continue to hope, to continue to love.

We could not have received this blessed gift from above without Mary. The Blessed Mother carried Jesus in her womb not for herself, but for us. He is now present in all the tabernacles of the world, in monstrances for adoration, on the tongues of the faithful, because she brought Him forth from her blessed womb. Just as she did when she laid Him in the manger the first time, when He was shown to be the fruit of her womb, she gives Jesus to us. This is her message. She points to Him. She guides us home.

“O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. Pray for us, Most Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.”

STEVEN RICHARDSON is a Lay Dominican and a member of St. Ann Parish in Charlotte. Learn more about this series at www.bornofwoman. net.

We are living in a very “testing” time. As we read the history of our world, this has been going on since God created Adam and Eve. I feel as though so many people are angry, and this is what is causing so much discord. This is my reason for writing in our Catholic newspaper.

Do you know where the devotion to Archangel Michael originated? He is referenced in the Bible. Pope Leo XIII encourated devotion to Archangel Michael. Realizing by divine enlightenment the present and future struggles of the Church against the powers of hell, the pope felt convinced that through the intervention of Archangel Michael, hell would be conquered and the Church restored to peace and liberty. He therefore composed a prayer in honor of the warrior archangel, and ordered it to be recited after low Masses each day in all the churches throughout the Christian world, according to the website www.saintmichaelusa.org. Now I ask: Why and when did this stop?

As St. John Paul II said 1994, “Although this prayer is no longer recited at the end of Mass, I ask everyone not to forget it and to recite it to obtain help in the battle against forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world.”

On July 4, 2013, Pope Francis was joined by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the Vatican for a ceremony during which the Holy Father blessed a statue of Archangel Michael and consecrated the Vatican to the archangel’s protection. Following a brief ceremony, Pope Francis addressed those present, noting how St. Michael defends the People of God from the devil. He said even if the devil attempts to disfigure the face of the archangel and thus the face of humanity, St Michael wins, because God acts in him and is stronger. (Source: www.catholic.org) LINDA BEHR is a member of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Franklin.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The decision to recite the St. Michael Prayer is made in each parish.

Immigration battle is exploitative Once again, Catholic Church leaders make the shortsighted mistake of siding with a socialistic agenda.

Atheistic socialism always begins with an illusionary appeal to altruism. The present immigration battle is another crisis manufactured and exploited for political gain. Illegal immigrants are just the latest to be used as pawns. Socialism, though, continually fails to provide the new order of an earthly utopia; it does not work. The current administration is only enforcing the existing law. If America becomes a lawless country, we will be in no position to help anybody.

Aligning with this type of ideological activism always comes back to bite the Church. Consider the legalization of abortion and of homosexual unions, and the marginalization of Christianity.

The objective is the liberation of principle by collective tyranny, resulting in much destruction and many deaths. And the Church wonders where religious liberty has gone.

MICHAEL COYLE lives in Charlotte.

Catholics must speak out on immigration The Catholic News Herald has done a good job informing the faithful of the tragic “zero tolerance” policy by the Trump administration on our nation’s southern border. These stories have originated from the Catholic News Service, and many U.S. bishops are quoted, as well as immigration policy experts.

A glaring omission is the local or diocesan angle, with little reaction from our own clergy and parishes. This is the precise moment that our leaders should employ Catholic social teaching to shine a diocesan spotlight on the plight of these undocumented migrants. The overriding principle of this teaching is the dignity and rights of each person, with emphasis on the most vulnerable.

As a result of public uproar, the White House has rescinded its child separation policy and a judge has ordered families to be reunited within 30 days. But as Catholics we must keep vigilant of social injustice and describe it for what it is – immoral. We need to urge Bishop Peter Jugis and our pastors to remind us that the Gospel means less when we don’t bring it to action in today’s world.

As the Catholic News Herald’s June 22 front page headline exclaims: “We must do better.”

GEORGE BURAZER lives in Charlotte.

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Bishop Robert Barron

Fred Gallagher

My poor people…

Sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind

’ve been reading a lot lately about the “Great Hunger” as the Irish call it – that is, the Famine of the 1840s and 1850s that killed a million or more Irish and sent as many emigrating to the United States, Canada and many other places about the world. It is a pitiful, heart-wrenching story wherein, either out of ignorance, racism or an infamous sense of superiority, the ruling English not only did little to help but actually made matters much, much worse.

Without going into a detailed history lesson, suffice it to say that most of the landowners in Ireland by the 1840s were either English-born or one generation removed. The Penal Laws and other legislation prohibited Irish Catholics from voting or owning land had been repealed years earlier, but what remained was a landowner class of English and Anglo-Irish. The crops grown by the Irish tenant farmers, the butter and honey that they made, the fish and shellfish that they harvested from the sea, the sheep and the cattle, the horses and ponies – they were all exported to England, even, and in spite of, the Famine. While the Irish were starving to death and dying from malnutrition-related diseases and infections, the landowners were sending the food produced on Irish land over to England, and they stationed armed guards at the export harbors. Meanwhile in some villages and country lanes, dead bodies were at times lined up in front yards. Churches that had no more land to bury their dead dug mass graves to accommodate the overwhelming need.

My people came out of that time. From Sligo and Donegal they came. The memory of oppression was passed down, the family anthem being the everso-beautiful “Galway Bay,” with an especially pointed lyric:

A reflection on the Irish referendum

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Oh the strangers came and tried to teach us their ways.

They scorned us just for bein’ what we are.

Well, they might as well go chasin’ after moonbeams or light a penny candle to a star.

Perhaps one of the reasons the Catholic faith was passed on with such passion is that corporate memory of the cruelty during the time of the Penal Laws, when priests roamed the countryside looking for a lighted window signaling to them that they could gather a few faithful in secret to hear Mass. Perhaps the faith landed with such force because of hunger, from the physical desperation and the witness of death to the deep spiritual longing for transcendence.

In the unfolding years for immigrants and their families, there is the inevitable look back to the homeland with, as some call it, “the delicious misery of the Gael.” Home to an Irish-American Catholic is at least in part made up of the county or counties from whence their forebears came. It recalls in the generational consciousness the bigotry and oppression, the Great Hunger and finally the attempt to tear Holy Mother Church from our collective embrace. But as hard as they tried, they could never do it.

It turns out, however; they didn’t have to. All it took was a few generations of secularism and European “modernity” and voilà – the faith that saved us is gone. The same people whose babies died in their arms from the cruelty of foreign oppressors have now voted to legalize the killing of their own babies by their own choice, in the supposed security and intimacy of the mother’s womb. The hearts of the Irish people have become as black as the potato blight that once forced their starving ancestors from their homeland.

And the same stench of death that has putrefied our own country is coming. The bodies once again will line the ground outside cottages (though they won’t let us see them) but the children of Ireland will not even be afforded a mass grave. With heads raised, we used to speak proudly of the Irish Revolution which brought life to the Republic; now we will drop our heads and speak of the Irish Referendum which planted one of the last faithful holdouts squarely amid the culture of death.

My poor people: ones who struck out on their own for a new world, ones who said their tearful goodbyes knowing they would most likely never see their loved ones again. They yearned not only for food, but for the love of God they found in the sacramental life of the Roman Catholic Church.

My poor people: now, in the name of feminism, in the name of freedom, in the name of modernity, in the name of being able to keep up with the godlessness of their former oppressors and of a de-Christianized Europe, they vote to legalize abortion.

My poor people! Now they join the ranks of all those trying to teach us their ways, scorning us just for bein’ what we are. The Famine has returned.

FRED GALLAGHER is an author and editor-in-chief with Gastonia-based Good Will Publishers Inc.

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will confess that as a person of Irish heritage on both sides of my family, I found the recent events in Ireland particularly dispiriting. Not only did the nation vote, by a 2:1 margin, for the legal prerogative to kill their children in the womb, but they also welcomed and celebrated the vote with a frankly sickening note of gleeful triumph. Will I ever forget the unnerving looks and sounds of the frenzied crowd gathered to cheer their victory in the courtyard of Dublin Castle? As the “right” to abortion now sweeps thoroughly across the Western world, I am put in mind of Gloria Steinem’s mocking remark from many years ago to the effect that if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. I say this because abortion has indeed become a sacrament for radical feminism, the one, absolutely sacred, non-negotiable value for socalled progressive women.

One of the features of the lead-up to the vote – and this has become absolutely commonplace – was the almost total lack of moral argument on the part of the advocates of abortion. There

‘What Ireland most needs at this moment – and indeed for the next hundred years – are saints and mystics.’ was a lot of political talk about “rights,” though the rights of the unborn were never mentioned; and there were appeals to “health care,” though the lethal threat to the health of the child in the womb was a non-issue. There was, above all, an attempt to manipulate people’s feelings by bringing up rare and extreme cases. But what one hardly ever heard was a real engagement of the moral argument that a direct attack on a human life is intrinsically evil and as such can never be permitted or legally sanctioned.

Accompanying the entire process, of course, was the subtext of the Catholic Church’s cultural impotence, even irrelevance. Every single story that I read in advance of the vote and subsequent to it mentioned the fact that overwhelmingly Catholic Ireland had shaken off the baleful influence of the Church and had moved, finally, into the modern world. How sad, of course, that being up-to-date is apparently a function of our capacity to murder the innocent. But at the same time I must admit – and I say it to my shame as a Catholic bishop – that, at least to a degree, I understand this reaction. The sexual abuse of children on the part of some Irish priests and brothers, not to mention the physical and psychological abuse of young people perpetrated by some Irish

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nuns, as well as the pathetic handling of the situation by far too many Irish bishops and provincials produced a tsunami of suffering and deep injustice.

And we must remember a principle enunciated by my colleague, Father Stephen Grunow – namely, that the abuse of children in any society, but especially in one as insular and tight-knit as Irish society, has a tremendously powerful ripple effect. When a young person is sexually abused, particularly by a figure as trusted as a priest, that child is massively and permanently hurt; but once the abuse becomes known, so are his siblings, his parents, his friends, his extended family, his parish. Now multiply this process a dozen times, a hundred times, a thousand times – again, especially in a country as small as Ireland – and you will find that, in very short order, the entire nation is filled with anger, indignation and a legitimate thirst for setting things right. I do believe that what we witnessed last week was a powerfully emotional reaction to the great crimes of the past several decades. The deeply sad truth is that the abuse of young men and women has given rise to an even more dramatic abuse of unborn children. When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.

Is there a way forward for Ireland? I think a significant sign of hope is the considerable number of people who took the extremely unpopular stance against this legislative innovation. Knowing full well that they would likely lose and that they would be subject to ridicule and perhaps even the loss of their professional positions, they courageously argued for life. On that foundation, much of value can be built. But what Ireland most needs at this moment – and indeed for the next hundred years – are saints and mystics. Moral arguments can and should be made, but if the Church wants to recover its standing as a shaper of the Irish culture, it has to produce men and women who give themselves radically to the Gospel. It needs figures in the mold of Teresa of Calcutta, Oscar Romero, Francis of Assisi, Dorothy Day – indeed of St. Patrick, St. Brendan, St. Columbanus and St. Brigid. And it requires men and women of prayer, like the founders of the great Benedictine, Franciscan, Dominican, Cistercian and Trappist houses that still dot the Irish countryside – and like the strange denizens of Skellig Michael, who for six centuries clung to the edges of the world off the coast of Ireland and lived in total dependence upon God. Finally, only prayer, witness, radical trust in divine providence, honest preaching and the living of the radical Gospel will undo the damage done.

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He is also the host of “Catholicism,” an awardwinning documentary about the Catholic faith.

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“I Am The Living Bread”

John 6:51

14th Eucharistic Congress

September 7 & 8, 2018 Charlotte Convention Center Bishop Peter Jugis - Celebrant and Homilist - Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Trent Horn - The Beginner’s Guide to Defending the Faith Fr. Cassian Folsom - Transformed: Patristic Teaching On The Effects Of The Eucharist Sr. Johanna Paruch - The Catechism: A Gift to Prayer and Catholic Life Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers - Truth, Freedom, and the Human Person: Understanding Our Life in Christ FRIDAY EVENING: Byzantine : Vespers • Trent Horn - The Beginner’s Guide to Defending the Faith • College nighT • EUCHARISTIC ADORATION • Eucharistic Procession SATURDAY: Eucharistic Procession through the streets of Charlotte • Holy Hour • Confession • English and Spanish Tracks for Adults • K-12 Education Tracks for Students - Register online • Sacred Music Concerts • Religious displays • Vendors of Sacred Art • Vocation and Education info • Holy Mass – Concelebrated by Bishop Peter Jugis and the priests of the Diocese of Charlotte

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