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Serving The Multicultural People of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe

Ad Limina Visit to Rome ................................................................... 2, 14 Archbishop’s Letter: Our Lady, Our Mother........................................... 3 Victory Noll Sisters Celebrate 90 Years ................................................. 6 Celebrating Mothers ................................................................................ 8 Solving the Bully Problem ...................................................................... 9 Catholic Education ................................................................................ 10 Confirmations ......................................................................................... 13 Religious Liberty .................................................................................... 16 Bioethics: Hidden Power in Suffering .................................................. 19 The Blue Nun ......................................................................................... 28

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Pope Benedict XVI greets Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan of Santa Fe, N.M., during a meeting with bishops from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming at the Vatican May 4. The bishops were making their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican to report on the sta tus of their dioceses. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano)

Greetings to our Holy Father On Behalf of the Bishops of Region XIII

by Most Rev. Michael J. Sheehan, Archbishop of Santa Fe May 2012 Beloved Holy Father, We are the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Provinces of Santa Fe and Denver in the Southwest and West of the United States.

We are from the States of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming. We express our love and obedience for you as Successor of St. Peter and our desire to be faithful Successors of the Twelve Apostles in leading the Catholic Church in the Dioceses entrusted to us. We also bring the love and support of our lay faithful who hold you in high regard.

We are grateful to you, Holy Father, for your leadership of the Universal Church and your emphasis on the New Evangelization which confronts the secularism and relativism of the present day. Thank you for calling for the Year of Faith to challenge us all to an authentic and renewed conversion to the Lord. We are grateful that the Synod of Bishops this year will give new energy to the Church for evangelization. We look for ways to reach out to inactive Catholics and unchurched people and to strengthen the faith lives of our Catholics.

Despite the challenges we face in our Di-

oceses, we see great strength and energy in our local churches. We are building new churches and parishes, and we are seeing a goodnumberofnewseminarians,although we still suffer the need for more priests.

We see in our Priests, Deacons and Church leaders a growing commitment to Catholic identity and fidelity to Church teachings and the Liturgical norms. We reach out to the immigrants, large numbers of Hispanic Catholics providing for Masses and ministry in the Spanish language. We have in our Dioceses a significant number of Native American Catholics and are grateful

that on Sunday, October 21, you will canonize Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha for whom there is great love and devotion. We thank God for your recent pastoral visit to Mexico and Cuba.

As we celebrate Mass in the Basilicas of St. Peter, St. Mary Major, St. John Lateran and St. Paul Outside the Walls, we will pray for you and your collaborators that God will keep you healthy and give you the wisdom and holiness you need to lead the Universal Church. We ask your blessing on our Ad Limina Visit and our ministry in our Dioceses. Praised be Jesus Christ!

Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions for MAY 2012 General: The Family That initiatives which defend and uphold the role of the family may be promoted within society.

Mission: Mary, Guide of Missionaries That Mary, Queen of the World and Star of Evangelization, may accompany all missionaries in proclaiming her Son Jesus.

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Our Lady, Our Mother – The Blessed Virgin Mary

Nuestra Señora, Nuestra Madre – La Santísima Virgen María

Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan

May is the month of Our Blessed Virgin Mary. She was daughter of St. Anne and St. Joachim, wife to St. Joseph, and mother of not only Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but mother of us all!

As Catholics, we DO NOT worship her, but we honor and venerate her.

Everyone is happy when their mother is honored and respected, Jesus is no different. He is happy when we show our respect to his Mother.

St. Thomas Aquinas once said, “As sailors are guided by a star to the port, so Christians are guided to Heaven by Mary.” How true this is! Mary will always turn your gaze away from herself towards her son, Jesus. She will cover you with her mantle and protect you from all evil so that you can see the goodness of her Son. She will pull you close to her Immaculate Heart so that your love for the Sacred Heart of Jesus can grow abundantly. She will gather you in her arms and wipe your tears away as she directs you to the passion of her Son; then leads you to his resurrection. She will take you by the hand, just like she took Jesus’ hand when He was learning to walk, and lead you on the path to Heaven.

Most Catholics and many non-Catholics have great devotion to Mary. She comes to us under many titles and here are just some of them: Our Lady of Guadalupe; Our Lady of Fatima; Our

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Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of the Annunciation; Our Lady of the Assumption; Our Lady of Sorrows; Our Lady of Perpetual Help; Queen of Heaven; Queen of Angels; Mystical Rose; Salve Regina; Theotokos; Queen of Peace, La Conquistadora; Our Lady of Palestine; Immaculate Conception; Our Lady of the Rosary.

The list is almost endless!

As I say, same Lady, different dress!

Although it is not part of our Creed and you are not required to believe in Mary’s appearances on earth, you are required as a Catholic to believe that Jesus was born of her virgin womb. I ask that you pray a rosary in thanksgiving to God for Mary’s “Yes” to his Divine Will. It was through her virgin womb that our Lord and Savior walked this earth and it might be through her intercession that we will enjoy the beatific vision in Heaven.

Sincerely yours in the Risen Lord,

Most Rev. Michael J. Sheehan Archbishop of Santa Fe

Arzobispo Michael J. Sheehan

El mes de Mayo es el mes de Nuestra Santísima Virgen María. Ella fue hija de Santa Ana y San Joaquín, esposa de José y madre de no solamente Nuestro Señor y Salvador Jesucristo, ¡sino de todos nosotros!

Como católicos, nosotros NO la adoramos, sino la honramos y veneramos. A todos nos gusta que nuestra madre sea honrada y respetada, Jesús no es diferente. A Él le agrada que mostremos nuestro respeto por su Madre.

Santo Tomás de Aquino una vez dijo: “Así como los marineros son guiados por una estrella al puerto, los cristianos son guiados al cielo por María.” ¡Qué cierto es esto! María siempre dirigirá nuestra mirada hacia ella hacia su hijo, Jesús. Ella nos cubrirá con su manto y nos protegerá de todo mal para que podamos ver la bondad de su Hijo. Ella nos acercará a su Inmaculado Corazón para que nuestro amor por el Sagrado Corazón de Jesús pueda crecer abundantemente. Ella nos acogerá en sus brazos y limpiará nuestras lágrimas mientras nos dirige a la pasión de su Hijo, para luego llevarnos a su resurrección. Ella nos tomará de la mano, como lo hizo con la mano de Jesús cuando él aprendía a caminar, y nos guiará por el sendero al cielo.

La mayoría de los católicos, y muchos otros

no católicos tienen una gran devoción hacia María. Ella viene a nosotros bajo muchos títulos, algunos de ellos son: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe; Nuestra Señora de Fátima; Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, Nuestra Señora de la Anunciación; Nuestra Señora de la Asunción; Nuestra Señora de los Dolores; Nuestra Señora del Auxilio Perpetuo; Reina del Cielo; Reina de los Ángeles; Rosa Mística, Salve Regina; Theotokosl Reina de Paz, La Conquistadora: Nuestra Señora de Palestina; Inmaculada Concepción; Nuestra Señora del Santo Rosario. ¡La lista es prácticamente incontable! Como comúnmente lo digo: ¡Es la misma Señora, con diferente vestido!

Aunque no es parte de nuestro Credo y no es necesario creer en las apariciones de María en la Tierra, como católico, es necesario creer que Jesús nació de su vientre virginal. Les pido que recen un rosario en acción de gracias a Dios por el “Si” de María a su Divina Voluntad. Fue a través de su vientre virginal que nuestro Señor y Salvador caminó en esta tierra y podría ser que a través de su intercesión podamos disfrutar de la visión beatífica en el cielo.

Sinceramente suyo en el Señor Resucitado,

Reverendísimo Michael J. Sheehan Arzobispo de Santa Fe

Catholic Foundation Funding Aids in Developing Workforce Ready

BY CHRISTINA SPAHN, Pastoral Associate for Outreach Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Community

Martin is a 36 year-old construction worker who, since he was 18, has held a number of jobs as varied as operating heavy equipment, house painting and bridge building.

Early on, he would simply show up at a construction site or company office, describe his skills and experience and, within just a few hours, begin working for his new employer.

But now things are different. There are resumes and cover letters to write, on-line applications to complete, formal interviews to attend and, because of these requirements, there is a good chance Martin will be judged on his computer skills, communication, and social skills that have little to do with the construction work he seeks.

It is in the light of this reality that last year, Albuquerque Interfaith applied for and received a $4,000 grant from the Catholic Foundation. This money helped fund a series of meetings at four Albuquerque parishes and in several South Valley schools. During these meetings participants described the challenges they were facing and their frustration at not being equipped to deal with the demands of searching for employment in today’s technological world.

They also brainstormed solutions and, resulting from the

creative dialogue that continues to this day, Albuquerque Interfaith’s Labor Market Intermediary, a three-part strategy, was designed.

The first program to be developed was Workforce Ready, a three-week intensive course (24 hours) that covers such “soft skills” as resume writing, cover letters, interview skills, online applications, where and how to look for jobs, and financial literacy. In addition, participants routinely respond to a round of questions each evening which aid in furthering self-confidence and speaking skills.

Thus far, five courses, alternating in English and Spanish, have been offered, and almost one hundred people have graduated from this program. It is obvious from the very low drop-out rate that people are both motivated and committed. In one recent course, 21 individuals started the program; one couple dropped out, and the other 19 completed it – with perfect attendance!

Workforce Ready leaders and participants are also forming relationships with employers who are impressed by the

expertise, desire for further learning, and reliability that Workforce Ready graduates exhibit. Several Albuquerque companies are hiring Workforce Ready participants in a win-win process that benefits all involved.

In addition to the above, Workforce Ready has developed an entrepreneurial class designed to help participants learn business-related skills. Planning, budgeting, financing, market strategies, licensing and taxation are included in this very practical program which people describe as very useful.

Two other programs are currently being designed. One will develop basic computer and English language skills and prepare participants for taking the GED. The other is alongtermprogramthroughwhichparticipantsaretrained to develop specific skills needed by local businesses.

Albuquerque Interfaith’s Labor Market Intermediary strategies were discussed in late April during a site visit by Marta Santiago, Program Manager of the Catholic Foundation, and 10 AI leaders and Workforce participants. All expressed gratitude to the Catholic Foundation and to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. It was agreed that current programs are working and that future programs are needed.

For further information, contact AI lead organizer, Kip Bobroff at 505.459.4227 or kipbobroff@gmail.com

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Archbishop Sheehan has made the following priestly assignments: • Effective Friday, April 13, 2012 – Rev. Francisco Alanis, OSB, a Benedictine Priest currently at the Abbey of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, has been appointed as parochial vicar at San Clemente Parish in Los Lunas under the direction of the pastor, Fr. Jim Marshall.

• Effective Friday, April 13, 2012 – Rev. Msgr. Richard Olona, pastor of the Santuario de San Martin de Porres in Albuquerque, has additionally been appointed as dean of the Albuquerque C Deanery.

• Effective June 1, 2012 – Rev. Robert Campbell, O.Praem, Norbertine Priest currently assigned to hospital ministry, has been appointed as half time parochial Vicar at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Parish under the direction of the Pastor, Fr. Joel Garner, O.Praem, and half time vocations director for the Norbertine Community.

• Effective Friday, June 8, 2012 – Rev. Flavio Santillanes, currently assigned as pastor of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Valle de Pojoaque will officially retire from parish ministry.

• Effective Friday, June 8, 2012 – Rev. Msgr. Jerome Martinez y Alire, currently assigned as rector of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, canonical pastor of Cristo Rey Parish in Santa Fe, and Dean of Santa Fe Deanery, he has been appointed as pastor of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Valle de Pojoaque Parish in Pojoaque and its Missions. This will end his assignment as dean of Santa Fe Deanery.

• Effective Friday, June 8, 2012 – Rev. Franklin D. Pretto-Ferro, currently assigned as pastor of San Isidro-San Jose in Santa Fe, has been appointed as Dean of the Santa Fe Deanery. This assignment is in addition to his present duties at San Isidro-San José.

• Effective Friday, June 8, 2012 – Rev. Adam Lee Ortega y Ortiz, currently assigned as pastor of Santa María de la Paz Catholic Community in Santa Fe and rector of the Santo Niño Regional Catholic School also in Santa Fe, has been appointed as rector of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi and canonical pastor of Cristo Rey Parish. He will continue to serve as rector of the Santo Niño Regional Catholic School.

• Effective Friday, June 8, 2012 – Rev. Donatus Onyeke, CSSP, currently assigned as parochial vicar at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Peralta, has been appointed as parochial vicar at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, under the direction of the rector, Fr. Adam Lee Ortega y Ortiz.

• Effective Friday, June 8, 2012 - Rev. Daniel M. Balizan currently assigned as pastor of St. Patrick’s- St. Joseph’s Parish in Raton and Dean of the Northeast Deanery, has been appointed as pastor of Santa María de la Paz Catholic Community in Santa Fe. This will end his assignment as dean of the NE Deanery.

• Effective Friday, June 8, 2012 – Rev. Glennon Jones, currently assigned as pastor of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Clayton, has been appointed as dean of the Northeast Deanery. This assignment is in addition to his present duties at St. Francis Xavier.

• Effective Friday, June 8, 2012 – Rev. John Trambley, currently assigned as parochial vicar at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, has been appointed as pastor of St. Patrick’sSt. Joseph’s Parish in Raton.

• Effective August 1, 2012 – Rev. Bijoy Francis O. Praem, Norbertine Priest currently assigned as parochial vicar at Our Lady of Belen Parish, has been appointed to full-time hospital ministry under the direction of the Director of Pastoral Outreach, Deacon Steve Rangel.

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Stations of the Cross

BY DEACON STEVE RANGEL, Director of Deacons & Pastoral of Outreach

In April at the State Prison in Santa Fe, Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan prayed the Stations of the Cross with over 70 inmates, correction officers, and volunteers. Every year since coming to New Mexico, the archbishop has been going to different facilities taking his time to reach out to those who are incarcerated, and living out the gospel of Matthew 25:31-36, “For I was…in prison, and you visited me.” The archbishop’s presence has touched those he has met. They tell him how grateful they are that he hasn’t forgotten them and they appreciate his prayers.

As I witnessed the archbishop interact with the men at the State Prison on Good Friday for the Stations of the Cross, it gave me a moment to reflect on Jesus’ willingness to give Himself to us. Jesus gives His presence to us at

Mass, while we’re in prayer and when we meet with people in our daily lives.

Each Station of Jesus’ Passion was a window to look into our own lives. We can also have sufferings, and like Jesus, we may have been falsely accused, whipped and beaten, had our friends abandon us and had to carry crosses in our lives. Life, at times, can seem more than we can handle. Yet, because of our faith in Jesus, we know that when our cross gets too heavy, He will help us as we carry our cross, and sometimes even carry it for us.

When the archbishop met with the men on Good Friday, he said that he would pray for them and their families at the Easter Vigil Mass at the Cathedral. As we prayed the Stations of the Cross, I could see the emotion in the faces of the inmates. I knew they were touched as the archbishop shared with them faith in Jesus, hope that their lives can change, and the love that lets them know they are not alone.

Blessings of Age Retreat

BY DEACON STEVE RANGEL, Director of Deacons & Pastoral of Outreach

Blessings of Age is a ministry which focuses on the needs of seniors in our community. Twice a year, we have a retreat for seniors, once in Santa Fe and once in Albuquerque. At these one day retreats we bring in guest speakers to talk about a subject meaningful to our seniors. In April at St. Anne Parish in Albuquerque, the Blessings of Age speaker was Deacon Keith Davis, Director of Ministry Resources and Formation at the Catholic

Deacon In-Service

BY DEACON STEVE RANGEL, Director of Deacons & Pastoral of Outreach

Each spring, Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan schedules time to meet with his deacons and their wives at the annual Archdiocese of Santa Fe Deacon In-Service.

This day provides part of the continuing formation required of deacons in order for themtocontinueministeringtothepeople of God. The yearly topics are selected to meet the needs of the deacon community and those they serve.

This year, 177 deacons and wives met in April at the St. Pius X Stage II Auditorium. Msgr. Douglas A. Raun, pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, spoke on homiletics. Msgr. Raun provided those in attendance with an enjoyable, insightful, and inspirational learning experience about ways to approach the preparation of homilies and the skills needed for their effective delivery.

The archbishop shared with the deacons

and wives providing them with information, instruction, and encouragement. He spoke of how our religious freedoms are being attacked and asked us to be aware of the issues facing our world, nation, and communities in order to be well-informed.

He told the deacons that, while we should never promote or attack a candidate or party, we need to be able to help explain issues and the church’s stand on them when asked. The archbishop told the deacons that we have the responsibility for our continuing formation, and he was happy to seethoseinattendancetakingthisrequirement seriously. He once again reminded the deacons and wives of his love for us and our ministry and thanked us for all we do to help the priests and parishioners of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. It was a blessed day for the deacons and wives to come together in community, to be taught and inspired by Msgr. Raun, and to celebrate Mass with each other and with our archbishop.

Center. He spoke to the 165 people in attendance about spirituality in the modern age. He told them that spirituality is meant to be lived, not analyzed, and what is important is for people of all ages to enter into the process, for we are all called to grow and mature in our faith. It was a fun, faith-filled day with lively conversations and great food.

If you would like to be a part of the Blessings of Age task force, or if you would like more information about our ministry to seniors, call the Pastoral Outreach office at 505.831.8174.

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OLVM Sisters to Celebrate 90th Anniversary

BY PAUL SIEGFRIED Communications Coordinator, Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters

As they approach the 90th anniversary of their founding, Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters have taken the opportunity of the milestone to recall their history while still keeping an eye on their future.

Also known as Victory Noll Sisters, their mission continues as they proclaim the Word of God, foster justice, stand in solidarity with the poor and promote the development of leaders.

“We have been blessed to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ by our lives and our ministries,” said OLVM President Sr. Beatrice Haines. “And we have been so enriched by the countless people whose lives we’ve touched and who have touched us these past 90 years.”

The sisters will gather for their annual community meeting from

July 29 to August 5 at Victory Noll, home of the Sisters located in Huntington, IN. This year, the gathering will include celebration of their 90th anniversary: a special Mass with Bishop Kevin Rhoades, displays and programs highlighting the history of the community, and ceremonies to install the new OLVM Leadership Team.

Chicago priest John Joseph Sigstein founded the community in 1922. While visiting in the southwestern United States, Fr. Sigstein was distressed by the poverty and by the many problems and needs of people that were not being addressed by any existing religious congregation. He founded the new congregation to meet some of those needs in the areas of religious education, social services and health care among the poor from a personal, non-institutional

perspective.

Growth of the new congregation was advanced by Archbishop John Francis Noll, through the national publication he founded and published, Our Sunday Visitor. Through his generosity, the Victory Noll Motherhouse was built in Huntington and named for Our Lady of Victory and Archbishop Noll. Construction on the motherhouse began in 1923 and was completed late in 1924. The building was officially dedicated in 1925, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

Over the years, Victory Noll Sisters have served across the United States and in South America. Their strength is in their diversity. As women religious they have lived counter-culturally and serve in multi-faceted ministries, including pastoral associates, parish coordinators, directors of religious education, social workers, para-

legals, chaplain, Hispanic ministries, spiritual directors, and peace and justice advocates.

There are also several centers where sisters reach out to communities in need, including Julia Center in Chicago and the Sr. Evelyn Mourey Center in El Centro Calif. These centers provide educational and enrichment opportuni-

D+E+I’s Lumen Awards

Ursuline Sister Celebrates Golden Jubilee

BY JENNIFER KAMINSKI Communications Specialist, Ursuline Sisters of Mt. St. Joseph

Lumen Gentium Awardees

representedparishesandorganiBY KRIS COFFEY Vice-chair, Board of Trustees, D+E+I zations throughout the diocese: April 29, 2012 was a day of honor for adult faith formation leaders in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. The Dominican Ecclesial Institute (D+E+I) hosted their 16th Annual Tea and Lumen Awards at the newly renovated Sheraton Uptown, Albuquerque, withrecordregistrationstopping 200.

Wardene Crowley, noted professor, retreat and spiritual director, received the esteemed Lumen Ecclesiae (“Light of the Church”) Award. She gave the opening invocation on the feast of St. Catherine of Siena, Dominican woman and Doctor of the Church.

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Albuquerque, Arroyo-Seco, Española, Rio Rancho and Santa Fe. Together with their families and fellow parishioners, they celebrated the importance and diversity of the adult faith formation efforts in New Mexico.

Fun was had by all, as their faith was deepened, through the amazing, interactive musical preaching of Fr. Jim Marchionda, OP: “The Power of Preaching through Music.” Tunes are still weaving their way into the prayer life of attendees, calling them to greater service to the common good Catholic principles, as well as to lives of justice and peace.

Thanks to the dozens of volunteers and generous donors who enable the success of the special

ties to immigrant and low-income individuals and families, promoting self-esteem, leadership and life skills.

The sisters also support Victory Noll Center in Huntington, which provides programming for those seeking personal and spiritual growth, and helps advocate social justice awareness.

adult faith formation of D+E+I. Check out their new website at www.deiabq.net, and enjoy listening to recent presentations, as well as marking your calendar for future events. Contact Kyle Kemp, Executive Director, 505.243.0525, to schedule one for your parish or your group – or with your ideas for future events.

Sr. Sheila Anne Smith, a resident of Albuquerque, is celebrating her 50th anniversary as an Ursuline Sister of Mt. St. Joseph, Maple Mount, KY. She has worked as a tutor in Albuquerque since 1994.

From 1982 to 1985, she served as religion coordinator for St. Charles Borromeo School in Albuquerque.

She was on staff at the Dominican Retreat House in Albuquerque from 1993-94.

Her ministry has included teaching, parish and Native American ministry and retreat work in Arizona and New Mexico, including St. Joseph School in San Fidel, and St. Anthony School in Zuni. Beginning in 1992, she was a writer for various children’s magazines for 16 years. She was also a consultant

for Loyola Press from 1994-2010.

Sr. Sheila also taught in schools in Kentucky and Nebraska. She is a graduate of St. Thomas School (now Sacred Heart) in Farmington and of Sacred Heart Academy in Waterflow. She grew up in Farmington.

She joins 20 other Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph who are celebrating jubilees in 2012.

Jubilarian congratulations may be sent to Mt. St. Joseph, 8001 Cummings Road, Maple Mount, KY 42356.

Founded at Maple Mount in Daviess County, KY., in 1874, the Ursuline Sisters of Mt. St. Joseph currently minister throughout Kentucky and in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Tennessee; and in Washington, D.C., and Chillán, Chile, South America. This community of women religious is celebrating its Centennial in 2012.

Reservations for The 2012 Serra Club Priest Appreciation Dinner Closing Soon Reservations for The 2012 Serra Club Priest Appreciation Dinner will close Sunday, June 10.

The event will take place Monday, June 18 at the Hotel Albuquerque, near Old Town, beginning at 6:00 PM with cocktails, followed by dinner at 7:00 PM. Rev. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, noted Catholic

apologist and scholar, will speak on “The Priesthood Today.” All are invited to come and show appreciation for our priests.

The easiest way to reserve seating is via the Serra Club website at www.serraclubalbuquerque. org. People can also make reservations by sending a check for $75

per person along with their names and the names of the guests of their party to: The Serra Club, P. O. Box 3971, Albuquerque, NM, 87190. Questions concerning the dinner can be answered by calling 505.239.9314. Proceeds from the event support vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

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Processes – Part I

BY REV. KEVIN NIEHOFF, O.P., J.C.L. Adjutant Judicial Vicar

Book VII of The 1983 Code of Canon Law focuses on processes. I will not spend a lot of time on this book because one can get bogged down in detail. Though there are canon lawyers who have a specialization in this Book of the Code, what is important is an overview of the fact that the Roman Catholic Church has processes. This Book is used for reference as the information is needed by Tribunal personnel.

The Code defines the objects of trials as the pursuit or vindication the right of physical and juridical persons, or to declare juridical facts and to impose or to declare penalties in regard to offenses. Administrative issues are addressed to the Superior or to an administrative tribunal (canon 1400).

The church declares its right to hear cases which are spiritual in nature or linked with the spiritual, and the violation of ecclesiastical laws and whatever contains an element of sin, to determine guilt and impose ecclesiastical penalties (canon 1401). The canons in the Code govern all tribunals except those of the Apostolic See (canon 1402); and, all cases dealing with canonizations of saints are governed by special pontifical law (canon 1403).

Following the philosophical principle of moving from the universal to the particular, the Code defines which tribunals may hear cases – referred to as competence (canons 1404 – 1416). The different grades and

types of trials are and the seeking of assistance are listed next (canons 1417 – 1418).

There are first instance and second instance tribunals in the church. The officials of the Tribunals and their functions are defined (canons 1419 – 1445).

Canons 1446 through 1457 define the duties of the Judges and other Tribunal officials. The order of the hearing is delineated in canons 1458 – 1464. Like our experience of American civil and criminal law, there are time limits and postponements and these are labeled in canons 1465 – 1467. The place of the trial is characterized in canons 1468 – 1469. The individuals who need to be present for the trial as well as how they are to be deposed are listed in canons 1470 – 1475.

The parties in the case as well as those who represent them and how the evidence is to be collected from them are listed in canons 1476 – 1490. The last section of this part of The 1983 Code of Canon Law discusses actions and exceptions in general and in particular. These give insights into how evidence is to be used once it has been collected.

Book VII of The 1983 Code of Canon Law provides a lot of detail on how trials are to be conducted in general. This first part of Book VII provides the general principles for trials, including the personnel as well as the processes. However, there are other matters that will be addressed in future articles regarding contentious trials, the oral contentious process, the penal process, the procedures for administrative processes and recourse to these, and lastly, the procedure for removal or transfer of a parish priest.

Support Groups for the Children of the Divorced and Marital Separated Divorce and marital separation affects the entire family. When parents divorce or separate, children are caught in the middle.

The Family Life Office of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe is sponsoring a support group for children of the divorced and separated, thanks to the financial assistance of the Catholic Foundation. These sessions are designed for children from 1st to 6th grade. Parents

attend a separate session at the same time.

It will be held at the office of Myrna Fraker, LLPC 2403 San Mateo NE, S-5 in Albuquerque. The support group will be six consecutive Thursday evenings, starting June 7 through July 12, 2012, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.

There is no cost. To register, please call Family Life, 505.831.8117 in Albuquerque. Space is limited.

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Santa Cruz de Mayo

Photo by Leslie M. Radigan

May 2012

BY HEDDY LONG Director, Family Life

“Santacruzan” is the word Filipinos use to refer to “Santa Cruz de Mayo,” a procession in honor of our Blessed Mother. The procession commemorates St. Helen and her young son Rey Constantino’s finding the Holy Cross, which had been taken away from the Christians by the infidels. The Santa Cruz de Mayo is a pageant about this historic event. Throughout the procession, which will begin right after the May 19th 5:30 Mass at San Felipe de Neri Church in Albuquerque Old Town, the song, “Dios te Salve” is sung. The congregation is asked to join. They sing the song as a recessional hymn and continue singing it throughout the procession.

During the month of May in the Philippines, there is a town somewhere celebrating the Santa Cruz de Mayo. A town usually does it for nine consecutive evenings like a novena.

On the ninth evening, the whole town has a “fiesta.”

It has been a tradition in our Philippine community that we have a Santa Cruz de Mayo at San Felipe de Neri Church in Albuquerque Old town every year. Nine consecutive evenings is not very practical here in Albuquerque, May 19th will be like the ninth evening in the Philippines. After the procession, free food will be served around the gazebo, courtesy of the Filipino American Foundation of New Mexico. There will then be a program in the gazebo, consisting mainly of a variety of Philippine folk dances and songs.

Santa Cruz de Mayo is also referred to as “Flores de Mayo,” because May

is the month when flowers of all kinds are blooming in the Philippines. The procession is adorned with colorful gay flowers. For this reason, one of the queens in the procession is called “Reyna de Las Flores.”

The main participants in the procession are called, “sagalas.” They will be representing either the important individuals during the expedition, or the angels and saints that were called to intercede for them. The highlight of the procession will be “Reyna Elena,” her young son, “Rey Constantino;,” Reyna de las Flores,” “Reyna Sheba,” and “Reyna Esther.”

This tradition in New Mexico was started in May 1976 by our dearly departed Mr. Eugenio Zafra and his wife, Consuelo during Mr. Zafra’s term of office as president of then, “Filipino-American Association, presently called, “Filipino-American Foundation of New Mexico. Consuelo Zafra continues to be active and supportive of this event. We will always remember them for this wonderful tradition.

We also want to dedicate the Holy Mass to our dearly departed members of the association, especially, Mr. Zafra and to those that have gone home to heaven like Karing Sabay, Manoa Jojola, Robert Young II, Day Galbiso, and Dick Long, to name a few.

We are grateful to the officers and members of the Filipino-American Foundation of New Mexico who are sponsoring this event.

We would like to thank Fr. Dennis Garcia for his hospitality in allowing us to be at San Felipe for this our 36th celebration. And to you, parishioners of San Felipe, we thank you for your hospitality and for allowing us to share a part of our culture.

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The Vocation of Motherhood

BY SR. MARGIE LAVONIS, CSC Office of Communications, Sisters of the Holy Cross

es like novenas. There is no doubt in my mind that her devotion and dedication was a great influence on my formation in the faith and ultimately my becoming a Sister of the Holy Cross.

Another attribute of motherhood is their lifetime concern for their children. Even though a component of motherhood is letting go of their grown children, mothers never cease to love and support them in good times and in bad.

Sometimes a mother can do everything right and a child may not respond well.

There are families who have one child with problems and another who has entered religious life, yet both were brought up the same way. Children can cause much sorrowanddiscouragement,butparents,especially mothers, continue to bestow faithful love. Consider Saint Monica who prayed many years for the conversion of her wayward son who eventually became Saint Augustine and a doctor of the Church.

And there are those who are spiritual mothers. They may not give physical birth to children but serve as important mentors.

These are often those who step in when a mother dies or is ill, or they can be women who befriend children who lack mothering in their own families.

Often we take our mothers for granted and neglect to show them our gratitude.

It is important to show our thanks every day not just once a year. The vocation of motherhood is not always easy and of-

Photo by Leslie M. Radigan

May is traditionally dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Besides honoring Mary in May, we also single out and thank our own mothers on Mothers Day. It might be a good time to reflect on what it means to be a mother.

First of all, the biological conceiving and birthing of a child doesn’t automatically make a woman a mother in the true sense of the word. Most of us have read or heard stories of women who give physical birth to children, only to neglect or abandon them.

Like our Blessed Mother Mary, a mother is someone who says yes to the call to raise her children in love. The primary role or vocation of a mother is to nurture and protect her children. She helps to form their values and is a major influence on their emotional and spiritual development. The instruction in the rite of baptism tells parents that they are the first and primary educators of their children in the faith. Being a parent, a mother, is an enormous gift and responsibility.

When I was growing up I remember my mother being very involved in our parish. She belonged to the Sodality and the Altar and Rosary Society. She did everything from washing altar linens to becoming a Eucharistic minister, when the laity began distributing Communion. Even into her late 70s she still brought Communion to patients in the hospital. She often went to daily Mass and took us to special servic-

All mothers are honored in special ways on Mother’s Day, which is May 13 this year. Pictured here is Dalia Delgado Baca and her four children who all attend St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School in Rio Rancho.

ten mothers make great sacrifices for their children. Flowers and candy are nice, but most mothers would just like a thank you once in awhile throughout the year. There

are many ways to show our appreciation.

And if you never knew your mother or she is deceased, remember that Mary is also your mother and loves you very much.

A Mother’s Love Shows Us the Way

BY DR. CAROLYN Y. WOO President & CEO, Catholic Relief Services

Mother. It’s such a powerful word, a powerful image, a powerful reality.

As Christians, we know that there is no one or no one thing above the Lord, our God. But we also have special veneration for Mary, the Blessed Mother, because we know that, as the Mother of Jesus, she had such an exceptional role in his life, as she does in all of our lives.

At this time of year, we all think of our own mothers, and grandmothers, and great-grandmothers and all the wonderful women who came before us, who nurtured the generations, who made us quite literally what we are today.

My family originated in China. My grandmother had her feet bound, that cruel practice—now long discontinued—of using tight bandages to restrict growth, because small feet were thought to be attractive. It is unclear where that aesthetic judgment originated, but one of the reasons is certainly that such feet were not that useful. Bound feet meant you were wealthy enough not to have to work in the fields or paddies. That made you a good catch. Eventually, some daughters in poor families had their feet bound in the hope they might attract a rich husband.

My own mother did not have her feet bound. Although she had lost a great deal of wealth when she fled China for Hong Kong, she did still live in a world of servants and household help. That was quite different than what my children experienced with a mother who went off to work every morning and often returned late at night.

At Catholic Relief Services, we know so well that there are many different styles of mothering—we see them in the nearly 100 countries around the world where we work. But we also see something that is so clear and evident: that all mothers want the same things for their children.

We want them to be healthy. We want them to be safe. We want them to be educated. We want them to have the freedom

and ability to live full and meaningful lives. That’s what my grandmother wanted for my mother, what my mother wanted for me and what I have always wanted for my children.

Because of your generosity, CRS is able to help mothers realize their dreams in many ways. Working through local partners, often through the local Church, you bring health services to remote villages and poor urban neighborhoods.You bring women prenatal care and better childbirth facilities. You help emphasize nutrition in the critical first 2 years of life.

You pay school fees. You allow women to pool their resources in savings communities that they then use to start businesses so they can support their families. You bring clean, fresh water, saving mothers from backbreaking labor and their children from dread intestinal diseases. The list goes on.

There’s something else you realize when you do this kind of work: It does take a village to raise a child. Think of all the women who were important in your life. I had a wonderful aunt, a caregiver who helped my mom and those wonderful Maryknoll Sisters who showed so much courage because they were led by love.

It takes the community to support a school, to follow up on the work of health clinics, to spread the word about proper nutrition. And sometimes a village must band together to look after orphans and other vulnerable children. Many of the programs you support help these kids, whose live have been disrupted by disease and death. You help give them a future, give them hope, give them what their mothers wanted for them.

We do this work for one simple reason: a variation on the Golden Rule. All of these mothers want for their children what we all want for ours. We do it in the name of the Blessed Mother and her son, because it is from them we learned true compassion.

We learned that we all make up the village that helps to raise the world’s children.

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How to Solve the Bully Problem embrace of his family, but because he’s a bit uncoordinated,

geeky, and odd-looking (his bruFr. Robert Barron is the found- tal nickname is “fishface”), his er of the global ministry, Word on fellow students mercilessly pick Fire, and the Francis Cardinal on him. Alex’s daily ride on the George Professor of Faith and school bus is like something out Culture at University of St. Mary of Dante’s Inferno. of the Lake in Mundelein. He is What would be funny; if it the creator of the documentary weren’t so tragic, is the cluelessseries, “Catholicism,” airing on ness of the school officials (and PBS stations and EWTN. The of the adults in general) who series has just been awarded an should be doing something about esteemed Christopher for excel- the problem. We get to watch the lence. Learn more about the se- vice principal of Alex’s school ries at www.CatholicismSeries. as she deals with aggressive stucom dents, and as she tries to mollify

Alex’s parents. What we hear is a pathetic mixture of bromides, It is very difficult indeed to self-serving remarks, boys-willwatch the new documentary“Bul- be-boys platitudes, and worst of ly” without experiencing both all, a marked tendency to blame an intense sadness and a feeling the victim. When the parents of helplessness. The film opens complain about the bus that Alex with the heartbreaking rumina- rides, the vice principal vapidly tions of a father whose son com- comments, “Well, I rode that bus mitted suicide after being brutally once, and the children were like bullied by his classmates. We angels.” I mean, is she really hear a number of similar stories naïve enough to think that their throughout the film, and we also behavior in the presence of the are allowed to watch and listen as vice-principal is even vaguely very real kids are pestered, belit- typical? I will admit, however, tled, mocked, and in some cases, that I sympathized with her conphysically assaulted; just because fusion when, at one point, she they are; in some sense; different. gazed into the camera lens and The most memorable figure in the sighed, “I just don’t know what movie is a young man, around to do.” A lot of the adults in the 12, named Alex. He seems to be documentaryseemedtosharethat a good-natured kid, happy in the sentiment.

BY REV. ROBERT BARRON

“Bully” (Weinstein) Poignantdocumentaryrevealing the victimization of a trio of teens from different parts of the country who have endured verbal and physical abuse from their peers at school and recounting the stories of two other students whose sufferings apparently led them to commit suicide. Filmmaker Lee Hirsch sheds light on a widespread and tenacious social problem and provides a potential starting point for important family discussions. Parents should be aware, however, that in addition to the small-scale brutality on display, the narrative also focuses on the fact that one of those being profiled -- a 16-year-old girl -- is enduring persecutionforbeinganavowed

lesbian. So younger viewers will need sufficient maturity -- or guidance -- to distinguish between the individual rights of the homosexually oriented and a broader social agenda out of keeping with Scripture and sacred tradition. Possibly acceptable for older adolescents.

Scenes of cruelty and petty violence, adult themes, including suicide and homosexuality, at least one use of the F-word, numerous crude and crass insults.

The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

Well, I know someone who knows what to do. Some time ago, I reviewed a book by Dr. Leonard Sax called Why Gender Matters, an incisive study of why boys and girls benefit from very different approaches to education and character formation.

Just recently, Dr. Sax sent me a copy of his 2007 study titled Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men. As the subtitle indicates, the book examines the problem of the “slacker dude,” the teenager who would rather watch video games than attend class, or the 20-something who would rather lounge around his parents’ home than start an ambitious career. To get all of the details, please peruse Dr. Sax’s informative and eminently readable book in its entirety.

But with the problem of bullying in mind, I would like to focus on one chapter of Boys Adrift; titled “The Revenge of the Forsaken Gods.” Echoing in many ways the reflections of Joseph Campbell and Richard Rohr, Dr. Sax bemoans the fact that our culture has largely forgotten the subtle art of transforming boys into men. Despite (or perhaps because of ) our scientific predilection, we think that this process just happens naturally. Our

“primitive” ancestors knew that it did not and this is why they developed sophisticated rituals of initiation, designed to shock boys out of their natural narcissism and habits of self-protection into moral and spiritual maturity.

Whether we are talking about the Navajo, Masai warriors, or Orthodox Jews, traditional cultures understand that boys have to be brought through a period of trial—some test of skill and endurance—during which they learn the virtues of courage and self-sacrifice. Sometimes; these initiation rituals are accompanied by a kind of ceremonial scarring, for the elders want the boys to know, in their bodies, that they’ve been tested and permanently changed. Sax astutely observes that many of the great American authors—Faulkner, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Studs Terkel, James Dickey—wrote passionately and persuasively about this very topic. Any great films, from The Hustler, On the Waterfront, and Rebel Without a Cause to Braveheart and Gladiator, dramatically display the process by which a boy becomes a heroic man of selflessness and courage. The principal element in the initiation process—whether real or fictionally presented—is a mature man who embodies the virtues to which the boy aspires. Finally, men of val-

or, charity, ambition, and grace transform boys into men of valor, charity, ambition and grace.

When this mentoring dynamic is lost, Dr. Sax argues, the result is boys adrift and young men taking their cues from Eminem, 50 Cent, Akon, and the Situation.

Now, you might be wondering what all this has to do with the phenomenon of bullying. One reason why boys turn into bullies is that they have no one around to turn them into men. Boys are filled with energies meant to be channeled in a positive direction, toward protecting the innocent and building up the society.

Without strong male role models, and without a disciplined process of initiation into maturity, these energies remain either unfocussed (as in the case of slackers) or directed toward violence and the exploitation of the weak (as in the case of bullies). Dr. Sax comments that you might not be able to turn a bully into a flower child, but with the right male mentoring, you could certainly turn him into a knight.

If a son of yours is either bullied or becoming a bully, I would strongly recommend that you read Boys Adrift and, above all, that you introduce your son to a strong, morally upright, focused and courageous male mentor— fast.

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May 2012

CATHOLIC EDUCATION Holy Ghost Catholic St. Thomas Aquinas Students School Cares for Creation Receive National Honors

2012 New Inductees to the National Junior Honor Society

STAS administrators and staff proudly announce the induction of 37 of the school’s highest achieving students for admittance into the National Junior Honor Society and the National Latin Honor Society.

Students nominated and selected for induction into the NJHS (National Junior Honor Society) have met the following five criteria: Scholarship: Minimum cumulative grade point average of 85%, B, 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) Service: Voluntary contributions made by a student to the school or community,donewithoutcompensationand with a positive, courteous, and enthusiastic spirit.

Leadership: Student leaders are those who are resourceful, good problem solvers, promoters of school activities, dependable,andpersonswhoexemplify positive attitudes about life.

Character: Upholds principles of morality and ethics, is cooperative, demonstrates high standards of honesty and reliability, shows courtesy, concern, and respect for others, and generally maintains a good and clean lifestyle.

Citizenship: Demonstrates citizenship, understands the importance of civic involvement, has a high regard for freedom, justice, and democracy, and demonstrates mature participation and responsibility through involvement with such activities as scouting, community organizations, and school clubs.

NLHS (National Latin Honor Society) inductees have consistently scored 90% or higher for a minimum of three consecutive quarters in Latin studies. Researchers document Latin being spoken as early as 735 BC in and around Rome. The Latin alphabet traces its origins to the Greek and Phoenician scripts.

Please join us in congratulating the following students and their families: Inductees for the Saint Thomas Aqui-

nas School Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society 6th Grade Anthony Abeyta Andrea Almodovar Sophia Beckett Cassandra Campanozzi Gabriel Garcia Noa Gonzales Andrea Griego Niklaus Orosco Katiana Otero Christopher Padilla Nikalus Skipp Heath Skroch Kristin Strosnider Daniel Urrutia 7th Grade Emily Benford Grace Cairo 8th Grade Vanessa Hernandez Jonathan Skroch Inductees for the Saint Thomas Aquinas School Chapter of the National Latin Honor Society Jonathan Arnett Madison Baca Nicholas Campbell Jennifer Casaus Nicholas Christman Natasha Dark Aryanna Dominguez Thomas Donlin Augustin Eichwald Marcus Gibson Mitchell Hayden Vanessa Hernandez Arianna Marquez Mikayla McMillen Samantha Mora Isabella Murphy Lindsey Paboucek Matthew Sedillo Teresa Valdez

BY L-A GABRIELLA SALAS Holy Ghost Parish

“We are all responsible for the protection and care of the environment. This responsibility knows no boundaries. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity it is important for everyone to be committed at his or her proper level, working to overcome the prevalence of particular interests.” (Pope Benedict XVI, Message for the Celebration of the World Day of Peace, January 1, 2010) Holy Ghost Catholic School students and faculty celebrated a special Mass in April in observance of Earth Day (April 22), bringing to a close a week of lessons on the earth, its environment, and how consumerism affects the welfare of all people across the globe. Msgr. Leo Gomez was the presider.

Michaela Bruzzese, coordinator of the school’s new initiative focus on Catholic social teaching and caring for creation (“Holy Ghost School Cares for Creation” launched April 16), put together a curriculum to teach the students about the church’s

many teachings regarding our responsibility as Catholics to care for one another by caring for all of God’s creation. “It is such an exciting project,” said Bruzzese. “I feel so fortunate to be involved with it (Catholic social teaching and caring for creation).”

“Students learn to appreciate how fragile our natural resources are, and that they must help to keep the air, water and earth healthy, as God commanded us (Gen 1:28),” added Bruzzese.

Students were also challenged to find ways to conserve water, be less wasteful with electricity, and to be satisfied with fewer material possessions -- to share more instead of wanting more.

Included in the curriculum was a scripture reading about creation and also making time to appreciate the beauty of God’s creation.

Immediately following the Mass, an array of beautiful plants, blessed by Msgr. Gomez, were planted by the students in front of the school for all to enjoy the beauty of God’s work.

St. Pius Alumni Invited to Extravaganza St. Pius X Alumni Council will hold the first annual Sartan eXtravaganza on June 9-10 on the St. Pius X campus.

All alumni, former teachers, teachers and staff are invited to the two-day gathering. Saturday will feature campus tours, open volleyball, free throw competitions, horseshoes, a bouncy castle, kickball, and competitions for soccer kick and Frisbee toss. The Noms, an acoustic local indie band of St. Pius X alums from the mid-2000s, will be the musical entertainment. Barbeque and drinks will be provided.

Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Sunday in the fine arts center. Priests who are alumni of St. Pius X are invited to assist with the celebration of Mass.

“We hope to bring our alumni back to

reconnect with the campus and with fellow alumni of all years in a relaxed atmosphere that is fun for the whole family,” said Becky Montoya-Ballou, assistant director of advancement.

The weekend will be special for the members of the class of 1992. The class will be holding its 20 year reunion and will attend the eXtravaganza as part of its reunion activities.

The Sartan eXtravaganza committee is Ed Larranaga, Allison Pieroni, Kara Kupper, Lonny Hurley, Dwayne Pino, Joe Menicucci, Phil Pettit, Jennifer Maldonado and Marie Schwaner.

Tickets are $3 per person before June 1, and $5 for late registration. Please call 505.831.8406 or register online at www. saintpiusx.com for the event.

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Santo Niño Gets “Jazzy”

BY LISA S. VAKHARIA, Director of Advancement Santo Niño Regional Catholic School

Flapper dresses and feathers were worn to raise money for the 13th annual Mardi Gras “Jazz It Up” dinner held in February for Santo Niño Regional Catholic School at Historic Hilton of Santa Fe. This year’s event was attended by 250 guests who adorned themselves in jazz attire to benefit Santo Niño. The Hilton was decorated with jazz themed, homemade life-like cutouts.

The evening kicked off with a silent auction that ranged from gorgeous baskets filled with garden packages, art, jewelry, designer purses and wine. While the guests strolled through the silent auction, they heard the wonderful sounds of Los Alamos Jazz Band. Fr. Adam Lee Ortega y Ortiz (Santa Maria de la Paz) gave our introductions to start the evening.

The guest of honor, Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan, led the guests in prayer before we broke bread and listened to the Santo Niño Children’s Choir sing the tunes of Michael Bublé and “Brother Where Art Thou”. Guests enjoyed a Cajun meal of mixed greens with a Creole mustard dressing, stuffed flounder topped with Cajun crawfish and shrimp sauce and ended with a scrumptious dessert of warm apple crisp with a bourbon crème sauce.

The evening would not be com-

plete without the help of our many corporate sponsors; this year the grand marshall was John G. Rehders General Contractors Inc. (Santa Maria de la Paz). The Mask Mystique was Capitol Plumbing & Heating (St. Anne’s Parish), Santa Maria de la Paz, Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, Beads and Throws and First National Bank of Santa Fe. The live auction was called out by Santo Nino’s Director of Advancement, Lisa S. Vakharia. The bidders had many choices to choose from on the live auction block. The most anticipated was dinner for six at the private residence of Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan which was purchased by Berardinelli Family Funeral Service.

If you wanted a trip to Italy, France, or travel in a luxury motorhome like a rock star or maybe a gorgeous “Sapphires and diamond” necklace, it was here!

A huge thanks to the awesome committee: Ray and Helen Quintana (Santa Maria de la Paz), Lee and Lucia Garcia (Santa Maria de la Paz), John, Leslie, and Molly Fields (Cathedral Basilica), Lisa Morrison (St. Anne’s), Carol and John Gravel (Santa Maria de la Paz), Maria McMahon (Cathedral Basilica), and Doreen and Eric Padilla (Santa Maria de La Paz).

Vacation Bible School 2012 Come and join us for a sizzling summer!

Aquinas Newman Center, Albuquerque June 11-15 from 9am - noon 4 Years old – 6th grade Contact Holly Filener 505.865.4122 Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Albuquerque June 4-8 Contact Deacon Michael Illerbrun n 505.898.5253x3 Prince of Peace Catholic Community, nity, Albuquerque June 4-22 Grades 1-5 from 8:45-noon.

Call Irma at 505.797.9115 St. Joseph on the Rio Grande, Albuquerque June 18-22 from 8am - noon 4 Years old – 6th grade Contact Mary Creech vbs@sjrgparish.org St. Thomas Aquinas, Rio Rancho June 11-15 from 9am – noon Ages K-5th grade Contact Laura Smith 505.892.1497 97 San Miguel Catholic Church, Socorro orro July 9-13 Ages K-6th grade Contact Bernadette Zamora 575.835.2846 835 2846 To find a Vacation Bible School near you, please contact your parish.

Have a super summer!

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Pope Tells American Colleges to Strengthen Catholic Identity What percentage of Catholic high school students graduate?

How many go on to college? The national Catholic school graduation rate is 99.1% of high school students (New Mexico’s public schools have a graduation rate of 63%. Down 4% from last year. Of these graduates, 84.7% go on to college (At SPX, 98% of graduates go on to college), compared to 44.1% of public school graudates.

By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI called on America’s Catholic colleges and universities to reaffirm their Catholic identity by ensuring orthodoxy in theological studies and accepting the oversight of bishops.

The pope made his remarks May 5 to U.S. bishops from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming, who were making their periodic “ad limina” visits to the Vatican.

While he acknowledged recent efforts by America’s Catholic institutions of higher education to “reaffirm their distinctive identity in fidelity to their founding ideals and the church’s mission,” Pope Benedict said that “much remains to be done.”

The pope emphasized the need for compliance with canon law in the appointment of theology instructors, who are required to possess a “mandate” from the “competent ecclesiastical authority,” ordinarily the local bishop.

The requirement for a mandate was underscored in 1990 by Blessed John Paul II in his apostolic constitution “Ex Corde Ecclesiae,” but many Catholic theology departments in the U.S. have yet to comply.

Pope Benedict said that the need for a mandate was especially clear in light of the “confusion created by instances of apparent dissidence between some representatives of Catholic institutions and the church’s pastoral leadership.”

“Such discord harms the church’s witness and, as experience has shown, can easily be exploited to compromise her authority and her freedom,” the pope said.

U.S. bishops have clashed with the administrations of Catholic colleges and universities on a number of occasions in recent years, with some of the most prominent cases involving invited speakers who dissent from Catholic moral teaching.

In March, Anna Maria University in Worcester, Mass., retracted its invitation to Victoria Reggie Kennedy, widow of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., to speak at the university’s commencement, after Bishop Robert J. McManus objected to Victoria Kennedy’s support for legalized abortion, contraception and same-sex marriage.

On May 4, Jesuit-run Georgetown University announced that Kathleen Sebelius, secre-

tary of the Department of Health and Human Services,willgivethecommencementspeech at the university’s public policy institute on May 18.

Sebelius, a Catholic, is currently at odds with U.S. bishops over the Obama administration’s plan to require that the private health insurance plans of most Catholic institutions cover surgical sterilization procedures and artificial birth control. Chieko Noguchi, director of communications for Washington’s Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, said the cardinal had no comment on Georgetown’s announcement.

In his speech to U.S. bishops, Pope Benedict said that preservation of a university’s Catholic identity“entails much more than the teaching of religion or the mere presence of a chaplaincy on campus.”

“Ineveryaspectoftheireducation,students need to be encouraged to articulate a vision of the harmony of faith and reason capable of guiding a life-long pursuit of knowledge and virtue,” the pope said.

The pope contrasted the Catholic ideal of education with a current trend toward academic overspecialization.

“Faith’s recognition of the essential unity of all knowledge provides a bulwark against the alienation and fragmentation which occurs when the use of reason is detached from the pursuit of truth and virtue,” he said. “In this sense, Catholic institutions have a specific role to play in helping to overcome the crisis of universities today.”

Pope Benedict said that reaffirming Catholic identity in education is part of a broader effort to build a distinctively Catholic “intellectual culture” in the U.S., and a “society ever more solidly grounded in an authentic humanism inspired by the gospel.”

Although his remarks principally concernedhighereducation,thepopealsopraised the “generous commitment, often accompanied by personal sacrifice” of teachers and administrators in America’s Catholic elementary and high schools.

Pope Benedict acknowledged the schools’ efforts to ensure that Catholic education “remains within the reach of all families, whatever their financial status.”

In a possible reference to proposals for greater public funding of religious education, the pope said that Catholic schools’ “significant contribution ... to American society as a whole ought to be better appreciated and more generously supported.”

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Gathering of Nations The Archdiocese of Santa Fe Native American Ministers for Religious Education and Youth Ministry made history for the annual Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque this past April.

Our ministers had a booth at the celebration at the Pit during the gathering. Hundreds of people stopped by to visit and see all the great Catholic materials and asked for information on our Catholic Church: Another great evangelization moment in the archdiocese.

The archdiocese is blessed to have ministers for the Native American Catholics. These min-

isters will bring many fruits to our Catholic Church with their faith and evangelization events.

Other upcoming events for our Native American Ministry will be the Annual Native American Market and Mass in Santa Fe during the month of August, Blessed Kateri Celebration and Youth Gathering in November. Watch for more information on dates, times and places for these gatherings and others new ventures.

For more information on Native American Youth Ministry 505.831.8142 or visit our website at asfym.org. For Religious Education call 505.831.8127.

(L to R) Lenora Moquino- San Clara Pueblo, Youth Participate, Shirley ZuniNative American Religious Education Coordinator, Lee Moquino- Native American Youth Ministry Coordinator, Not available for picture – Savannah Trujillo Native American Youth Ministry Coordinator

Jon Will’s Gift

BY GEORGE F. WILL Washington Post

WASHINGTON -- When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago -- on May 4, 1972, his father’s 31st birthday -- the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was about 20 years.

That is understandable.

The day after Jon was born, a doctor told Jon’s parents that the first question for them was whether they intended to take Jon home from the hospital. Nonplussed, they said they thought that is what parents do with newborns.

Not doing so was, however, still considered an acceptable choice for parents who might prefer to institutionalize or put up for adoption children thought to have necessarily bleak futures. Whether warehoused or just allowed to languish from lack of stimulation and attention, people with Down syndrome, not given early and continuing interventions, were generally thought to be incapable of living well, and hence usually did not live as long as they could have.

Down syndrome is a congenital condition resulting from a chromosomal defect -- an extra 21st chromosome. It causes varying degrees of mental retardation and some physical abnormalities, including small stature, a single crease across the center of the palms, flatness of the back of the head, a configuration of the tongue that impedes articulation, and a slight upward slant of the eyes. PULLOUT In 1972, people

with Down syndrome were still commonly called Mongoloids.

Now they are called American citizens, about 400,000 of them, and their life expectancy is now 60. Much has improved. There has, however, been moral regression as well.

Jon was born just 19 years after James Watson and Francis Crick published their discoveries concerning the structure of DNA, discoveries that would enhance understanding of the structure of Jon, whose every cell is imprinted with Down syndrome. Jon was born just as prenatal genetic testing, which can detect Down syndrome, was becoming common.

And Jon was born eight months before Roe v. Wade inaugurated Living Well with Down Syndrome. Jon Will, who turned 40 now in May, demonstrates how it’s possible to live with Down this era of the casual destruction syndrome and live well. Pictured above is Jon, his sister Victoria, his father George and his brother Geoff. Down syndrome of pre-born babies. is a congenital condition resulting from a chromosomal defect -- an extra 21st chromosome. It causes varying degrees of This era has coincided, not just mental retardation and some physical abnormalities. coincidentally, with the full garish flowering of the baby boomers’ society’s complexities. They have The players, who have climbed haps this is partly because, given vast sense of entitlement, which no choice but to be trusting be- to the pinnacle of a steep athletic the nature of Down syndrome, encompasses an entitlement to cause,withlimitedunderstanding, pyramid, know that although hard neither he nor his parents have any exemption from nature’s mishaps, and limited abilities to communi- work got them there, they have ex- tormenting sense of what might and to a perfect baby. So today cate misunderstanding, they, like traordinaryaptitudesbecausethey have been. Down syndrome did scienceenableswhattheethosrat- Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar are winners of life’s lottery. Major not alter the trajectory of his life; ifies, the choice of killing children Named Desire,”always depend on leaguers, all of whom understand Jon was Jon from conception on. withDownsyndromebeforebirth. the kindness of strangers. Judging what it is to be gifted, have been This year Jon will spend his That is what happens to 90 % of by Jon’s experience, they almost uniformly and extraordinarily birthday where every year he thosewhoseparentshaveprenatal always receive it. welcoming to Jon, who is not. spends 81 spring, summer and testing.

Two things that have enhanced Except he is, in a way. He has autumn days and evenings, at NaWhich is unfortunate, and not Jon’s life are the Washington the gift of serenity, in this sense: tionals Park, in his seat behind the just for them. Judging by Jon, the subway system, which opened in The oldest of four siblings, he home team’s dugout. The Phillies world would be improved by more 1976, and theWashington Nation- has seen two brothers and a sister will be in town, and Jon will be peoplewithDownsyndrome,who als baseball team, which arrived surpass him in size, and acquire wishing them ruination, just anare quite nice, as humans go. It is in 2005. He navigates the subway cars and college educations. He, other man, beer in hand, among said we are all born brave, trusting expertly, riding it to the Nationals however,withanunderdeveloped equals in the republic of baseball. and greedy, and remain greedy. ballpark, where he enters the club- entitlement mentality, has been PeoplewithDownsyndromemust house a few hours before game equable about life’s sometimes George Will’s email address is remain brave in order to navigate time and does a chore or two. careless allocation of equity. Per- georgewill@washpost.com.

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Francesca Amor Gonzales is a 2012 Confirmandi from Our Lady of Guadalupe in Villanueva. She is the daughter of Joshua and Melissa Gonzales. She is 15 years old and a freshman at West Las Vegas High School. Her family (parents and brothers, Joshua Cristobal and Jonathan) belong to Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Villanueva. She has been an altar server since she received her First Holy Communion. While preparing for her confirmation, she was been inspired to become a catechist and would also like to become a lector. The day after her confirmation, her brother, Joshua Cristobal, received his First Holy Communion. The next Sunday, she told him he would begin serving Mass and she would instruct him and any other children willing to learn. She is a good student (4.0 GPA) and athlete. Her family prays the Holy Spirit confirmed in her will inspire her to serve Jesus Christ in whatever way He wills. Photo by Mellie Gonzales.

Candidates from San Clemente Church in Los Lunas and San Juan Diego Mission in Meadow Lake. Very Rev. John Cannon conferred the sacrament on these 76 Candidates at San Clemente Church.

2012 Confirmation Class at Church of the Ascension parish, Albuquerque. The candidates were: Abran James Ramos, Carisse Francis Enriquez, Rachel Cecilia Baca, Inez Elizabeth Garcia, Christopher John Hoefler, Angelina Alix Tachias, Elida Marcella Alvidrez, Kyanna Ann Turrietta, Jocelin Julia Padilla, Chris James Vega, Brandon Michael Madrid, Tristan Patrick Vigil, Robert Peregine Lopez, and Luis Francis Saenz.

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2012 AD LIM

Region XIII – Archdiocese of Santa Fe, A Cheyenne, Colorado Springs, Gallup,

Pope Benedict XVI listens as Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan of Santa Fe, N.M., speaks during a meeting with bishops from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming at the Vatican May 5. The pope called on American Catholic universities to preserve their Ca tholic identity by ensuring orthodoxy in theological studies. (CNS photo/ L’Osservatore Romano)

US bishops discuss LCWR reform, visitation with Vatican officials

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Recent Vatican investigations of religiouswomenhavecreatedopportunities for growth through reflection and for dialogue with their bishops, two U.S. bishops said after discussing the matter with Vatican officials.

Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan of Santa Fe, N.M., and Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., told Catholic News Service May 2 that they had discussed the Vatican visitation of U.S. communities of religious women and the more recent order to reform the Leadership Conference of Women Religious earlier the same day with officials from the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Archbishop Sheehan said that during the meeting, attended by bishops from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming, who were making their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican, “the point that was made was that although some people were unhappy with the decision to make corrections” in the LCWR, it would be “an opportunity for dialogue” between the religious and the bishops.

The archbishop said he told Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, congregation prefect, “that if this would have happened some years earlier, it might have been better. But, anyway, it’s going on now and I think it will be the occasion for some dialogue.”

It also should help “some of the orders to pull back a little bit from

some areas they have gone that maybe they shouldn’t have,” he said.

Citing “serious doctrinal problems” revealed in an assessment originally ordered in April 2008, the Vatican announced April 18 a major reform of the LCWR, a group which includes about 1,500 leaders of U.S. women’s communities, representing about 80 percent of the country’s 57,000 religious women.

The Vatican appointed Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle to provide “review, guidance and approval, where necessary, of the work” of the LCWR and to ensure fidelity in conference programs and meetings to Catholic teaching in areas including abortion, euthanasia, women’s ordination and homosexuality.

Religious women in the United States also are awaiting the results of an apostolic visitation of their communities; the congregation for religious ordered the visitation in 2008, particularly in light of the steep decline in the number of religious women in the country. The visitation’s final report was submitted in December but has not been made public.

Bishop Kicanas said that during the May 2 meeting, congregation officials made clear “the profound respect they have for the work our religious women, and I certainly share that. Our religious women in the diocese are doing a phenomenal job in our prisons, in our hospitals, in our schools, in our religious education programs, in our parishes, in our retirement homes. I don’t know what we would do without our religious women.”

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US bishops offer prayers for wo

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) -- A group of U.S. bishops began their “ad limina” visits to Rome praying for workers and for families.

The bishops of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming concelebrated Mass in the Basilica of St. Mary Major May 1, marking the beginning of the month traditionally devoted to Mary, the feast of St. Joseph the Worker and the Worker’s Day public holiday in Italy and many other countries.

Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M., the main celebrant and homilist at the Mass, said that on the holiday, “our thoughts turn to workers everywhere. We should pray for workers today, especially those who are having a difficult time in their job, for those who are not paid a just wage or a living wage, for those single moms who try to raise their children” by working both outside and inside the home.

The bishop also prayed for those who work “in sweatshops, who are paid just a pittance, who may be working standing, maybe for 18 hours a day.”

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Archdiocese of Denver and the Dioceses of Las Cruces, Phoenix, Pueblo, and Tucson.

Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan of Santa Fe, N.M., concelebrates Mass with bishops from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming at the Altar of the Tomb in the crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican May 2. Also pictured around the altar are: Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., Bishop Fernando Isern of Pueblo, Colo., Auxiliary Bishop James D. Conley, apostolic administrator of Denver, and Bishop Michael J. Sheridan of Colorado Springs, Colo.. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

05 POPE GREETS BISHOP WALL DURING MEETING WITH BISHOPS DURING 'AD LIMINA' VISITS Pope Benedict XVI greets Bishop James S. Wall of Gallup, N.M., during a meeting with bishops from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming at the Vatican May 4. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano) 03 POPE GREETS BISHOP RAMIREZ DURING MEETING WITH BISHOPS DURING ‘AD LIMINA’ VISITS Pope Benedict XVI greets Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M., during a meeting with bishops from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming at the Vatican May 4. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano) ( 06 BISHOPS FROM ARIZONA, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO AND WYOMING BEGIN VATICAN MEETING DURING ‘AD LIMINA’ VISITS

Pope Benedict XVI greets Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M., during a meeting with bishops from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming at the Vatican May 4. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano)

5 bsihops photo crop After celebrating Mass at St. Peter’s the bishops from Region XIII met with Cardinal Koch at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Cardinal Koch is pictured above greeting Archbishop Sheehan and other Region XIII bishops. (Photo by Bishop Paul D. Etienne/Diocese of Cheyenne)

Pope Benedict XVI greets Bishop James S. Wall of Gallup, N.M., during a meeting with bishops from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming at the Vatican May 4. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano)

orkers, families on May 1 holiday rible time when “people work so hard for so little and they suffer so many injustices. So we pray for them and their families.”

Focusing first on Mary and Joseph, Bishop Ramirez praised their role as parents “who welcomed Jesus into the world and taught him good manners and taught him how to be a good Jewish boy.”

The bishop said the virtue he admired most in Mary and Joseph is meekness.

“Meekness is not a weakness,” he said. Rather, “it connotes strength and courage because it has to do with surrendering to the will of God.” Bishop Ramirez said he’s sure there never has

been a household as peaceful as the Holy Family’s because “there is a serenity connected to surrendering to God’s will.”

The 10 bishops at the Mass were the 13th group of U.S. bishops to come to Rome since November to make their “ad limina” visits, which the heads of dioceses are required to make periodically to report on the status of their dioceses. The visits include celebrating Mass at St. Peter’s and the major basilicas of Rome, meeting with Pope Benedict XVI and holding discussions with officials from Vatican congregations and councils.

Bishops from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming begin a meeting at the Congregation for Catholic Education at the Vatican May 4. The bishops were making their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican to report on the status of their dioceses. (CNS photo/ Paul Haring

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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY THE MOST CHERISHED OF AMERICAN FREEDOMS

Past and Present USCCB In 1634, a mix of Catholic and Protestant settlers arrived in Southern Maryland from England aboard the Ark and the Dove. They had come at the invitation of the Catholic Lord Baltimore, who had been granted the land by the Protestant King Charles I of England. While Catholics and Protestants were killing each other in Europe, Lord Baltimore imagined Maryland as a society where people of different faiths could live together peacefully. This vision was soon codified in Maryland’s 1649 Act Concerning Reli-

gion (also called the “Toleration Act”), which was the first law in our nation’s history to protect an individual’s right to freedom of conscience.

Maryland’s early history teaches us that, like any freedom, religious liberty requires constant vigilance and protection, or it will disappear. Maryland’s experiment in religious toleration ended within a few decades. The colony was placed under royal control and the Church of England became the established religion. Discriminatory laws, including the loss of political

rights, were enacted against those who refused to conform.

Catholic chapels were closed and Catholics were restricted to practicing their faith in their homes. The Catholic community lived under this coercion until the American Revolution.

By the end of the 18th century our nation’s founders embraced freedom of religion as an essential condition of a free and democratic society. So when the Bill of Rights was ratified, religious freedom had the distinction of being the First Amendment. Religious liberty is indeed the first lib-

erty.

This is our American heritage, our most cherished freedom. If we are not free in our conscience and our practice of religion, all other freedoms are fragile. If our obligations and duties to God are impeded, or even worse, contradicted by the government, then we can no longer claim to be a land of the free.

Is our most cherished freedom truly under threat?

Among many current challenges, consider the recent Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate requiring almost all private health plans to cover contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. For the first time in our history, the federal government will force religious institutions to facilitate drugs and procedures contrary to our moral teaching, and purport to define which religious institutions are “reli-

gious enough” to merit an exemption. This is not a matter of whether contraception may be prohibited by the government. It is not even a matter of whether contraception may be supported by the government.

It is a matter of whether religious people and institutions may be forced by the government to provide coverage for contraception and sterilization, even when it violates our religious beliefs.

What can you do to ensure the protection of religious freedom?

To learn more about our first freedom, and to send your message to HHS and Congress telling them to stand up for religious liberty and conscience rights, go to www.usccb.org/concience today! Thank you for joining the effort to end this unprecendented government coercion of conscience and intrusion in religious affairs.

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La Parroquia de San Antonio de Pecos St. Anthony’s on the Pecos

The dust is flying and no corner is being overlooked as St. Anthony’s Parish in Pecos, New Mexico prepares for its 150th anniversary. The history of this parish is long and colorful, dating back to 1862 when the parish was officially established.

During the 1800’s the population of Pecos had increased to 369 and had attained enough importance to be named a parish in its own right by Bishop Lamy.

Fr. C.M. Munnesom was installed as the first parish priest and the original church of Saint Anthony of Padua was constructed where the current church is located. The building served the village inhabitants until fire ravaged it around the turn of the century. The Federal Census of 1870 indicat-

ed that the church served a congregation of 800 residents and the building, itself, was valued at $500.

Construction of a new church began in 1903 under the supervision of Fr. Maxime Mayeux and was later supervised by Fr. Edward Paulhan. Credit is given to both Fathers Mayeux and Paulham for the design and supervision in the construction of the church. It took two and a half years for the parishioners to complete the church which was dedicated in the summer of 1906. Fr. Paulham not only saw to the completion of the building, but remained with the parish until his death in 1940. His grave can still be found in the campo santo situated alongside the church. During that period, the church was described as one of two most beautiful churches in New Mexico along with the Cathedral (Basilica) of St. Francis.

Today, St. Anthony’s Parish continues to play an integral role in the lives of its members as the parish continues to grow. The 150th celebration is scheduled to take place over two weekends. The annual parish bazaar begins the festivities on June 3, beginning with the celebration Mass at 8:00 a.m. and a procession to the Pecos Gym where a large variety of entertainment, food and games will be provided for the public. The following Sunday, June 10, Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. with the Corpus Christi procession to Our Lady of Guadalupe Benedictine Monastery where a community meal with live music will await the parishioners. Students who attended St. Anthony’s Catholic School and all former parishioners are invited to join in the celebration. For additional information, contact Suzette 505.757.6345.

Missions: Sagrada Familia, Rowe, NM; Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Glorietta, NM; Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, El Macho Canyon; Santo Niño, Colonias, NM; Nuestra Señora de la Luz, Cañoncito (Apache Canyon)

You are invited to attend Evenings of Renewal at Queen of Heaven Church 5303 Claremont Ave., NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 7-8 PM • 505.881.1772

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Sharing the Gospel The Holy Eucharist Prayer Our Blessed Mother Why We Can Trust In Sacred Tradition Why Jesus Was Executed Being Thankful for God’s Love

Invite friends and family for a renewal of truth, faith and love!

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Legion of Mary Celebrates 90 years worldwide-1921-2011 80 years United 1931-2011 Raton, New Mexico 1931-2011 The first praesidium (parish unit) of the Legion of Mary was established in Raton on November 27, 1931 by Fr. Nick Schaal at St. Patrick’s Church.

The 80th Anniversary Celebration was held in October 2011 at St. Patrick-St. Joseph’s. It was with great joy that our Pastor/Spiritual Director the Very Rev. Daniel M. Balizan and Our Lady Queen of Angels Praesidium, president Sr. Viola M. Rose, vice-president Sr. Barbara Morrow, secretary Sr. Jeanne Pagett, treasurer Sr. Judith Ortiz and members welcomed Legionaries who came from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and one from Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico.

Registration was from 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. followed by Respect Life Rosary and Mass on Thursday, October 27. The first activity on Friday, October 28 was Morning Prayer, light breakfast followed by talks and presentations, lunch and more activities. Our Anniversary Mass was at St. Patrick’s Church where the Legion of Mary had its beginnings in the United States. Fr. Michael Jordan S.O.L.T. from Robstown, Texas was the homilist. St. Patrick’s Church was so full there was standing room only. The music was by Deacon Eloy and Anita Roybal from Mora, New Mexico. Our Legion altar was in a prominent place, our Lady, so beautiful flanked

by vases full of red and white roses.

On Saturday after Morning Prayer at St. Patrick-St. Joseph’s Church and breakfast, thereweretwomorepresentations,oneon the Brown Scapular by Sr. Molly Esquibel and one on Religious Freedom given

by Fr. Michael Jordan S.O.L.T. This last presentation was followed by lunch after which everyone was treated to a bus tour of the Raton area. At 5:00 P.M. we prayed the Respect Life Rosary at St. Patrick-St. Joseph’s, attended Mass after which we had our Anniversary Banquet attended by approximately 130 persons.

Our entire celebration was marked by deep prayer, wonderful presentations and the exuberant joy one experiences when children of Mary come together. None of this would have been possible without the wholehearted work and commitment of our Pastor/Spiritual Director Fr. Balizan and member of our faith community who cooked,cleaned,helpedsetupandcooked and cleaned some more.

Acies for Nuestra Senora del Valle Curia was hosted by Our Lady of Queen of Angels Praesidum on March 24, 2012 Raton, New Mexico. Nuestra Señora del Valle Curia is the northeastern curia in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. We served a delicious brunch at 10:30 a.m. followed by Acies.

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Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda, The Blue Nun Blue Threads in the Fabric of Time The Sor Maria de Agreda Roundtable Symposium was an eye opener and a magnificent success. Over 150 people packed into Salón Ortega at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in April to learn more about one of the most unrecognized major events in New Spain, the 500 bilocations of the cloistered 17th century abbess, Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda of Soria, Spain aka the “Blue Nun”. Her four volume masterpiece, Mystical City of God, has had more than ten editions printed in a number of languages and is a very popular work in Spain and throughout Europe.

It was the second special roundtable held in a series. Dr. Henry J. Casso, coordinator of the roundtables, uses the metaphor “needle and thread”to describe the unfolding historical events. He portrays Fray Antonio Margil de Jesús, the subject of the first round table symposium, as the needle and Sor Maria as the thread. Dedicated to preaching the Word of God, Margil journeyed on foot throughout New Spain and was embraced by natives. He walked from Mexico City to Venezuela, Peru back to Queretero, and founded the Apostolic College of Zacatecas which he dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Apostolic College, a new concept created by the Vatican’s Propagation of Faith, was initiated

to prepare the Franciscan friars for their return into New Mexico after the expulsion. Fray Margil returned to New Mexico with DeVargas. He then traveled south to Juarez and El Paso then headed east to San Antonio, Texas. There he continued his evangelization of natives and in San Antonio built the San Jose Mission, Queen of the San Antonio Missions. In a unique turn of events he said “I was made aware of the oral history Blue Nun by the St. Alice Parish high school students from Mountainair, who had traveled to Madrid, Spain for the Holy Father’s World Youth Day.“ Mountainair is a small village located next to the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument NM. Sor Maria’s biographer, Marilyn Fedewa writes that by bilocation, Sor Maria visited over 500 times into West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona evangelizing the natives, the Jumano Indians. It is believed that among the five missions in the Salinas Park is where the Blue Nun interacted with the Jumanos and it is reported one of these missions is the result of the Blue Nun’s instruction for the Jumanos to go to Isleta and have a mission built Marilyn H. Fedewa, author of Maria de Agreda, Mystical Lady in Blue, said of the roundtable,“It was my privilege to participate alongside Dr. Casso and the other distin-

guishedpresentersaswediscussed New Spain’s/New Mexico’s significance in our country’s early history. I wholeheartedly agreed with Dr. Casso’s compelling vision of the needle and the thread. It drew me from Michigan to Albuquerque to participate.”

Gabriel Carrasco (chief) and Enrique Madrid (tribal historian) of the Jumano-Apache People of Texas traveled from Texas to attend. “It was like a homecoming for us,” Carrasco said, “visiting Las Humanas at Gran Quivira with Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument Park Superintendent Glenn Fulfer and Marc LeFrancois (Chief of Facility Management), We enjoyed the roundtable and appreciated what the scholars presented. Their work is very important to all of our understanding.”

His thoughts were echoed by many others.

“It was very interesting to be there and to meet the Jumanos,” said Marina Ochoa, Archdiocesan Director of Patrimony, Archives, and Museum. “The archdiocese supports the effort to make people more aware of the history of the Lady in Blue and her importance in our area.”

There is so much interest everywhere I go,” said Juanita Chavez, manager of MyBank in Mountainair. “People are talking about

AACC Celebrates 20 Years as an Archdiocesan Ministry

BY VERONICA LEWIS, Publicity Chairperson ABQ African American Catholic Community

The Albuquerque African American Catholic Community (AACC) invited Rev. Msgr.

Raymond East from St. Teresa of Avila Church in Washington, DC to be the homilist for their 20th Anniversary Mass in April. A luncheon was held after Mass to celebrate the AACC and its accomplishments over the last two decades.

The AACC celebrated its first Mass in the Chapel of the Catholic Center in January 1992 with Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez as celebrant and Rev. Albert McCoin, a Baptist minister, as speaker. At this point, the AACC was established by Steven Woodbury, present St.Thomas Aquinas minister of liturgy/ music and Brenda Dabney, present part-time coordinator of the ASF African American Ministry. Joan Leahigh, then director of Social Justice and Peace

for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, was instrumental in encouraging them to develop an Afro-centric Mass.

Through Mrs. Leahigh, they were introduced to Fr. Rollins Lambert, an African American priest from Chicago who had recently moved to Albuquerque to retire. Little did Fr. Lambert know he would become the spiritual directorandcelebrantforthemonthly Masses for the next 10 years. Fr. Lambert passed away in 2009 but in his honor we have established the AACC Lambert Scholarship awarded annually as well as the Fr. Rollins Lambert Family Picnic celebrated each June.

The AACC celebrates Mass the last Sunday of April, June, August and October at St. Joseph on the Rio Grande Catholic Church. Our annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Mass celebration is in January of each year on the MLK Jr. weekend, also at St. Joseph on the Rio Grande. Congratulations to the AACC on 20 years of dedicated service throughout the archdiocese.

the Lady in Blue, and now we’re learning her importance as a historical figure in this area. My own push to learn more about her came from reading what she wrote about Our Lady in Mystical City of God.” “I enjoyed the roundtable thoroughly,” said Wardene Crowley, retired UNM professor for Religious Studies, and 2012 recipient of the Dominican Ecclesial Institute Lumen Ecclesiae Award. “The history and theology of Sor María is invaluable to the understanding of Spain and New Spain, the Southwestern United States, the Jumano people, the Franciscan Order, the understanding of Mary, Mother of God, and the roles of mystical spiritualexperiencesandwomenin history and theology.”

Each of these topics, many later commented, was worthy of further study, discussion, and publication, a taste of which will be forthcom-

ing in Dr. Anna Nogar’s upcoming book Sor María de Ágreda: Impact on the Southwest (University of Notre Dame Press).

“It was a successful venture, a continuation of our earlier discussions, and a magnificent gathering of kindred spirits”, said Dr. Felix Almaraz, President of the Texas Catholic Historical Society and Distinguished Professor (retired) of the University of Texas representing Most Rev. Gustavo GarciaSiller, Archbishop of San Antonio.

A fifteen minute DVD is being professionallyprepared,alongwith a transcript of the presentations.

For information, call Dr. Casso at 505.294.4157 or email ProjectUplift02@msn.com.

Marilyn Fedewa and Dr. Henry J. Casso were contributors to this article.

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Eight Best Practices that Catholic Parishes Can Do To Encourage Stewardship (A four-part Stewardship Series) (This 4-part stewardship series is taken from the research of Dr. Charles Zech, Professor of Economics and Villanova University and Director of the Center for the Study of Church Management).

1. Be a welcoming parish that takes community-building seriously.

People give to people. Unless a parish is viewed as a welcoming place, a place where there is a real sense of community – a place where people want to be – they are wasting their time talking about stewardship.

We found a few welcoming and community-building activities that were especially successful. Having greeters at Mass conveyed a welcoming atmosphere. Sponsoring functions like a parish picnic and potluck dinners gave parishioners from all segments of the parish community the opportunity to interact with those whom they might never otherwise have the opportunity to meet. (Parish fiestas are a NM version of this!)

But the best course is to try a variety of approaches. The most successful stewardship parishes were those that sponsored four or more welcoming activities and those that sponsored four or more community-building activities.

2. Appoint a parish stewardship council.

Everyone who has studied stewardship has emphasized the importance of leadership. Successful parish stewardship begins at the top.

But the pastor can’t, and shouldn’t, do it all by himself. He needs a competent stewardship council that will carry out the activities needed to create and maintain a sense of stewardship in the parish.

We found that the specific organizational form that the stewardship council takes is less important than the characteristics of its members.

Among other things, they should be spiritually motivated and living a life of stewardship. They need to have a vision of where stewardship can take the parish, be comfortable in talking about money, and recognize the importance of accountability.

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M AKING SENSE OUT OF BIOETHICS Powerlessness, or the Hidden Power in Our Suffering?

In a 1999 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, patients with serious illness were asked to identify what was most important to them during the dying process. Many indicated they wanted to achieve a “sense of control.” This is understandable. Most of us fear our powerlessness in the face of illness and death.

We would like to retain an element of control, even though we realize that dying often involves the very opposite: a total loss of control, over our muscles, our emotions, our minds, our bowels and our very lives, as our human framework succumbs to powerful disintegrative forces.

Even when those disintegrative forces become extreme and our suffering may seem overwhelming, however, a singularly important spiritual journey always remains open for us.

This path is a “road less traveled,” a path that, unexpectedly, enables us to achieve genuine control in the face of death. The hallmark of this path is the personal decision to accept our sufferings, actively laying down our life on behalf of others by embracing the particular kind of death God has ordained for us, patterning our choice on the choice consciously made by Jesus Christ.

When asked about the “why” of human suffering, Pope John Paul II once stated, with piercing simplicity, that the answer has “been given by God to man in the cross of Jesus Christ.”

He stressed that Jesus went toward his own suffering, “aware of its saving power.” The Pope also observed that in some way, each of

us is called to “share in that sufferingthroughwhichthe Redemption was accomplished.”He concluded that through his only-begotten Son, God “has confirmed His desire to act especially through suffering, which is man’s weakness and emptying of self, and He wishes to make His power known precisely in this weakness and emptying of self.”

The Holy Father echoes St. Paul’s famous passage: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

The greatest possibility we have for achieving control, then, is to align ourselves in our suffering and weakness with God and his redemptive designs. This oblation of radically embracing our particular path to death, actively offered on behalf of others and in union with Christ, manifests our concern for the spiritual welfare of others, especially our friends and those closest to us. We are inwardly marked by a pro-

BISHOPS from page 14 “It was good to hear the congregation for religious be so positive about the work religious women are doing and I hope that the publication of the visitation reports will be beneficial,” he said. Review processes like the visitation, he said, are helpful because they give “an idea of what you can do better to accomplish what you are trying to do.”

The bishops of the region began their day by celebrating an early morning Mass at the tomb of St. Peter in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Archbishop Sheehan was the principal celebrant and homilist and told his fellow bishops that the gift of the unity and universality of the Catholic Church sometimes requires that people accept decisions -- like the new translation of the Mass or the reform of the LCWR -- they may be uncomfortable with or not understand.

“There are small prices to pay” for the unity and universality of the church, he said.

“Some Catholics dislike this decision of Peter and his successor (the pope) or that decision,

whether it is in the area of translations or texts or whether dealing with the issue of the LCWR in the United States,” he said.

Differences are “part of the reality of being a human being,” but accepting the pope’s authority “is a small price to pay for our unity with our mother church,” Archbishop Sheehan said.

St. Peter’s Basilica, he said, offers people a concrete experience of the reality of Catholic Church: it was built on the rock of St. Peter, who is buried under the main altar; the church has beenstrengthenedbythebloodof the martyrs; it is universal and its members come from every language, race and nation; and “the church is one in the Eucharist that is celebrated throughout the entire world, one in the sacraments, one in the official teachings, one under the guidance of Peter’s successor, Benedict XVI.” “The church is one and this basilica shouts it out,” the archbishop said. Contributing to this story was Francis X. Rocca at the Vatican.

found need to sacrifice and give of ourselves, a need that manifests our inner capacity to love and be loved.

As no one had ever done before, Jesus charted the path of love-driven sacrifice, choosing to lay down his life for his friends. He was no mere victim in the sense of being a passive and unwilling participant in his own suffering and death. He was in control.

He emphasized, with otherworldly authority, that, “nobody takes my life from me: I lay it down, and I take it up again.”

Yet we see that his life was, in fact, taken from him by those various individuals and groups who plotted his death and sought his execution. His life was taken from him by evil men, even though, paradoxically, nobody took his life from him, because nobody had power over his being, unless granted from above.

We experience a similar paradox in our own deaths: while it may seem that our

life is being taken from us through the evil of a particular ailment or the ravages of a particular disease, we can reply that nothing takes away our life, because nothing has power over our being, except what is ordained from above. In his providence and omniscience, years before the fact, God already knows and foresees that unique confluence of events that will constitute our death, whether it be by stroke or cardiac arrest, liver failure or Alzheimers, or any other means. By spiritually embracing in God that specific path to death, our freedom is elevated to new heights; indeed, we “achieve control” in the most important way possible, through willed surrender and radical gift in our innermost depths.

Jesus foresaw that his greatest work lay ahead as he ascended Calvary to embrace his own powerlessness and self-emptying. Although we may feel

condemned to our powerlessness as we receive help from others in our sickness, and although we may feel supremely useless as we are “nailed” to our hospital bed, our active, inward embrace of the cross unleashes important graces for ourselves and others, and reveals a refulgent light beyond the obscurity of every suffering. Jesus’ radical embracing of his Passion and our radical embracing of our own - marks the supreme moment of a person who achieves control over his or her destiny through immersion into the hopefilled and redemptive designs of God. Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and did post-doctoral work at Harvard. He is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, MA, and serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

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Awarding Volunteers for Service, Dedication, and Inspiration Each year, over 300,000 individuals lend their hearts and hands at local Catholic Charities agencies.Volunteers are the backbone of the Catholic Charities network, providing critical support to agencies on the forefront of human need.

The spirit of compassion, brother/sisterhood, and dedication shines brightly in the remarkable men and women who have been named finalists for the Catholic Charities USA 2012 National Volunteer of the Year Award.

Two of the National Volunteers who received awards are from our own backyard! Here are their stories: Ellen Buelow Newcomers/School Readiness Program Coordinator & CommunityAdvocateNewcomers/School Readiness Program Archdiocese of Santa Fe After 30 years of teaching, Ms. Buelow retired and in April 2007, Ms. Buelow began volunteering with our Catholic Charities program in Albuquerque, tutoring Mexican immigrants in ESL (English as a Second Language) in our Education department. In 2009, Ms. Buelow moved over to our Refugee Resettlement and Support Program. She was one of the founding volunteers in our Conversation Partners program.

In 2009, Ms. Buelow began tutoring an Iraqi student one-onone, and became a tutor in our After School Program for refugee youth. Beginning in summer of 2011, Ms. Buelow lead a new program called Newcom-

ers/School Readiness Program, which fills a vital need for our newly-arrived refugee youth who have a month between arrival and enrollment in school. As cofounder and lead volunteer of this program, Ms. Buelow meets with the newly-arrived children at our offices, or in their homes, to provide backpacks, to review school vocabulary and important English phrases, and to get them excited about starting school. Her assistance in these programs leads to higher levels of achievement for these children in school. For the adults with whom she works, improved English ability means the differencebetweenobtainingand keeping a job - and falling into poverty. Ms. Buelow, through her friends and church, has spread the word about our volunteer opportunities, referring at least two acquaintances to our programs, who themselves have given many hours to our refugees. Outside of her direct work with our needy population, Ms. Buelow is a tireless advocate for legislative change and support for poor people in New Mexico. She is a member of Bread for the World, an inter-faith group that advocatesmethodsandlegislationthat will alleviate poverty. As the coordinator for the local group, Ms. Buelow regularly meets with our representatives to advocate for education initiatives on behalf of our disadvantaged families.

Ms. Buelow is also a member of the social justice action committee at her church, Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Community. Their most recent

project is called “Offering of Letters” and is an event to bring various people and groups together to write letters to our representatives on issues affecting the poor in our community (including food stamp benefits cuts). Finally, Ms. Buelow is also a member of Albuquerque Interfaith, a legislative action group that advocates on behalf of the poor, addressing issues of just wages and the importance of early childhood education.

Sr. Rose Therese Wich, SC Transporation CoordinatorCenter for Community Involvement - Senior Transporation Services Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Santa Fe Sr. Rose Therese Wich, Sisters of Charity; Teacher, Principal, Volunteer no matter what the title she holds, she performs her duties, “Giving Glory to God”.

Sr. Rose Wich brings a sense of peace and tranquility where ever she is present. Her 64 years in the field of education has earned her a celebrity status. At Catholic Charities, our staff is influenced by her kindness, sincerity and professionalism, our program participants are the recipients’ of her many blessings. In 2005, after serving as principal at Annunciation Catholic School for 15 years, Sister retired at the age of 80.

When she returned to New Mexico she sought a place to continue to fulfill her mission of service from the heart, for the Lord, by helping those less fortunate. This desire led her to Catholic Chari-

Sr. Rose Therese Wich, SC and Ellen Buelow, National Volunteers of the Year 2012.

ties to serve as a volunteer in the Center for Community Involvement as a Senior Transportation Coordinator for a volunteer based program. A transportation coordinator’s primary duties are to respond to and coordinate rides for seniors in the community who are homebound. This seems to be a relatively easy task but, the need for transportation is greater than the number of volunteer drivers available. It pains Sister terribly if she cannot make a match, but rarely do volunteers not accept an assignment from her. She just beams and offers prayer for them. She murmurs “Thank you Jesus for our drivers”, daily. Sis-

ter is the consummate professional. Her work ethics and devotion to serving others is immeasurable. As Mother Theresa wrote, “We can do no great things only small things with great love”. Sr. Rose models these words as she responds to seniors requests for rides with patience and respect.

The mild mannered tone of her voice reflects love. She always ends her phone conversation with a blessing. The duties she performs are necessary to meet the needs of seniors who may otherwise lose their ability to remain independent. HOW, she performs them is the key that enhances and enriches all our lives.

Fighting for Justice

BY DIANE KAY Catholic Charities

In March, Catholic Charities received a special award from the Mexican American Law Student Association (MALSA).

The award is called the “Fighting for Justice” award, and was presented in front of a group of approximately 250 members of the Legal Community at the

Hotel Albuquerque. For over 16 years, MALSA has honored organizations and individuals in our community for work benefiting the Latin/Hispanic community in New Mexico and abroad. The award represents a tradition of recognition of those who make a difference. This is what MALSA said about Catholic Charities: “Throughout its broad com-

mitmenttoprovidingsupportfor low-income families, Catholic Charities Legal Services create hope and inspire life-changing outcomes for immigrant clients supported by family reunification services and protections for immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and/or other related crimes.”

Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan accepted the award on

behalf of Catholic Charities.

It was a beautiful cut-glass plaque, which is currently on display at Catholic Charities’ Bridge office in the Center for Immigration and Citizenship Legal Services. Attending the awards banquet were seven additional representatives of Catholic Charities: Carol Tonihka, Michael Puccetti, Cathy Aragon, Melissa Ewer, Isabel

Molina, Olivia Jones, and Lisa Burns. A video was shown at the event which included a message about the work of Catholic Charities featuring Teri Wimborne, education director at Catholic Charities. This event was an important opportunity for members of our local community to understand and appreciate the hard work of Catholic Charities’ employees.

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Courses in Social Justice (Bible, Service, and Social Mission) Offered in June!

Don’t miss the Summer Certification Institute June 4-8 in Albuquerque, June 11-15 in Santa Fe! Courses on The Bible and Social Justice (Fr. Rafael Garcia), Implementing the Church’s Social Mission in your Ministry(Anna Huth, CRS), and Service and Catholic Social Teaching (Rosie Shawver, Catholic Charities) will be offered to anyone interested in the

social mission of the Church, including catechists, Deacons, JustFaith graduates, parish social ministers, St. Vincent de Paul volunteers. One time registration fee: $20 allows you to attend ALL courses offered during the two weeks. Call Dawn at 505-831-8129 for more information or to register! Some courses offered in both English and Spanish.

Join Us to Confront Global Poverty!

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) call on one million Catholics in the United States to confront global poverty. Advocate with us to end hunger, disease, conflict, and other issues that affect the lives of our brothers and sisters worldwide. Catholics Confront Global Poverty encourages Catholics in the United States to pray, learn, share, and advocate on key issues affecting poor and vulnerable people in developing countries. Join this exciting initiative and be one in a million Catholics raising your voice for peace and justice worldwide Go to http://crs.org/globalpoverty/ index.cfm

That Campaign has engaged Catholics in advocating for U.S. policies to reduce poverty throughout the world by focusing on three areas of U.S. economic policy: just trade policies, effective foreign aid, and debt relief for the poorest countries. The Campaign asked Catholics to • pray for people throughout the world seeking to rise from the indignities of poverty; • learn about Catholic social teaching, U.S. economic policies, and the world’s poor; and • advocate by contacting elected officials to make the case for trade, aid and debt policies that overcome poverty and promote development.

JustFaith and Justice Walking Groups Forming for Fall 2012 In JustFaith (adult) and Justice Walking (youth) parishioners experience a spiritual journey into compassion. Here is a chance to learn Catholic social teachings in a deliberate and engaging way.

Offered in hundreds of parishes across the country, with a lively, challenging format, you will read, view, discuss, pray, experience and be formed as committed disciples of Jesus Christ in the Catholic

justice tradition. See lives change, give a faithful witness, and transform the world!

Groups start in September. Albuquerque parishes that will likely be hosting JustFaith in the Fall include Risen Savior, Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, St. Joseph on the Rio Grande and others. If interested, contact the Office of Social Justice and Respect Life 505.831.8167.

Interested in being a domestic or international volunteer? Take a look at the RESPONSE booklet from Catholic Volunteer Network!

Catholic Volunteer Network, established in 1963, is a non-profit membership organization of 200 domestic and international volunteer and lay mission programs. Currently, more than 19,000 volunteers and lay missioners serve in these programs throughout the U.S. and in 112 other countries. It partners with the Catholic Church Extension Society and the U.S. Catholic Mission Association. Catholic Volunteer Network publishes and distributes RESPONSE, the

most comprehensive handbook of lay mission volunteer opportunities, with 200 programs and thousands of placement options.

RESPONSE is distributed free of charge to persons interested in faith-based service and those who promote such service. To request hard copies of RESPONSE, you may call toll-free 1-800-543-5046 or e-mail info@ catholicvolunteernetwork.org. RESPONSE is also available in the Ministry Resource Center at the Catholic Center.

The Archdiocese of Santa Fe African American Catholic Community Mass and Annual Picnic June 24 The AACC Cordially invites all to the Annual Fr. Rollins Lambert Mass and Picnic Sunday June 24, 2012. Mass is at 12 noon at St. Joseph on the Rio Grande Catholic Church, 5901 St. Joseph’s Dr. NW, Albuquerque. Potluck Picnic following Mass on Catholic Center grounds, 4000 St. Joseph’s

Place NW, Albuquerque. Bring a side dish to share. Main dish provided. Awardees of the Fr. Rollins E. Lambert Scholarship will be announced at the Mass. For more information please call (505) 836-3627 Sponsored by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Office of Social Justice & Respect Life and the AACC.

Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award – nominate a young adult now!

Do you know a young faith-filled Catholic between the ages of 18-30 who has demonstrated leadership against poverty and injustice in the United States? The Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award is given annually to a Catholic young adult between the ages of 18-30 engaged in efforts to end the root causes of poverty in the United States. The award is an excellent opportunity to recognize a deserving young Catholic from your diocese. The annual winner is recognized at the bishops’ meeting each November, providing an important opportunity for the bishops to celebrate the contributions of young people

and the work of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). Go to http://www.usccb.org/about/catholic-campaign-for-human-development/cardinalbernardin-new-leadership-award.cfm for more information, view the brochure and nomination form and to watch a video of the 2010 winner.

We need your help identifying deserving young adults! Please help by nominating young persons from your parish and getting the word out about the award to other potential nominators! View the brochure and nomination form now. Nominations are due July 31.

For advertising information please call Leslie at 505.831.8162 or email lradigan@archdiosf.org

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Anniversaries Mr. Joe S. Quintana and Miss Viola E. Archuleta were married on March 3, 1962 at St. Pius Catholic Church in Moab Utah.

They recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Their marriage was blessed by Fr. John Plans at Santa Cruz de la Cañada parish where both of them have

been parishioners for the last 50 years.

Joe and Viola were blessed with five daughters Suzette (dec.), Therese (dec.), Elaine, Caroline and Angel, five granddaughters, Esperanza, Elizabeth, Miranda, Anna (raised as child), and Layla, five grandsons, José, Jared, Justin, Jason and Lucasandtwogreatgranddaughters,Ayan-

na and Jadyn. Both Joe and Viola are retirees from the Los Alamos Laboratory. Joe was employed for 28 years and Viola for 20 years.

Joe and Viola were joined by family and friends to a celebration and anniversary dinner given to them in honor of their anniversary by their children and family at the New Creations Hall in Española.

Viola and Joe enjoy spending time with all their grandchildren and Viola enjoys her activities of straw appliqué art and painting in her leisure time and Joe is presently employed as a security guard and enjoys working on home projects in his spare time.

Helping Hands Margarito Richard Cordova and Rosemary Stella Gutierrez will renew their vows in honor of their 60 years of marriage on Sunday, June 10, 2012, at the 9:30 am Spanish Mass at Queen of Heaven Church to be officiated by Fr. William Young, pastor. A reception will be held the following evening at the Moose Club.

Richard and Stella have been highly involved with their children at both Queen of Heaven School and in parish ministry.

They have been faithful Spanish choir members since its establishment and both are also devout Guadalupanos. Stella and Richard were chosen to be the first padrinos of our Lady of Guadalupe Society at Queen of Heaven, serving cheerfully to this day.

Stella was one of the first Eucharistic

Ministers, served as President of the Altar & Rosary Society, was in charge of the Liturgy Ministry for over 20 years, was instrumental in starting the Altar & Rosary Society at the San Antonio Parish in Cedar Crest, NM, and is a member of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas.

Richard has been a member of the Knights of Columbus since 1952 and served as District Deputy. He worked extensively with the St. Vincent de Paul Society, where he was the first manager of the 4th St. location. He was elected President of the Queen of Heaven Parish

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Stella met her future husband in 1948 at Albuquerque High School. Richard was originally from Dawson, New Mexico. After graduation, he served in the United States Air Force for three years in

Portugal, while Stella attended Albuquerque Beauty College. They were married on June 9, 1952 at Sacred Heart Church in Barelas, NM. They have three children Rick, Joe and Rosemarie, ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Richard worked at the VA Hospital for 25 years and after retiring from the Department of Histopathology, has been self-employed in the chemical industry. Stella worked for 15 years as a hair dresser. Together they built up the concession business established by her father, transforming it to Casa de Cordoba and jointly created the Floral Concepts, a flower business.

Richard and Stella, along with their family and friends are happy to announce and celebrate their seldom achieved 60 year milestone, thanking God for His many blessings!

How to Deal with Same Sex Attraction

BY REV. WILLIAM E. YOUNG, Pastor Queen of Heaven Catholic Church

There is a positive way of support and help along this journey for Catholics who deal with same sex attraction (SSA) and strive to live a chaste life. Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan has invited the Courage ministry to establish a chapter in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. He has initially entrusted the guidance of the ministry to me.

In 1979, Terence Cardinal Cooke, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, asked Fr. Benedict Groeschel to suggest a way of providing pastoral care for Catholic men and women with SSA. Fr. Groeschel immediately contacted Fr. John Harvey, a sensitive and caring priest, who had helped many in this area of life. I worked with Fr. Harvey and Courage for several years as a seminarian and newly ordained priest in New York.

Soon, Courage was founded. Fr. Harvey’s concept was shaped by many years of pastoral care of people with SSA. He had come to the conclusion that a supportive group of fellow Catholics with SSA who had the same commitment to chaste living would be a basis of growth in the ability to better accomplish this goal.

tial in a Christian life and Courage is a spiriproviding encouragement tual program. It offers a and support in sustaining spiritual plan to redirect that life; and finally, living one’s life, spiritual diin a manner to give good rection, association with example to others. others for support, and The Twelve Steps of regular meetings where Courage makes use of the confidentiality is a main Twelve Steps of Alcoholprinciple. Discussion of ics Anonymous and has the specific personal matAA World Service, Inc., ters and the identity of permission to adapt them participants are not dito the particular needs of vulged outside of the Courage. meetings.

Courage DOES NOT reBriefly stated, the Have patience with all quire that men and women “Five Goals of Cour- things, but chiefly have age” are: to live chaste with SSA attempt to or patience with yourself. lives in accordance express a desire to change Do not lose courage in with the teaching of sexual orientation; nor proconsidering your own the Catholic Church; vide a format for debate imperfections but dedication to Christ and aboutChurchteaching;nor instantly set about living that dedication affirm any behavior conthrough service, prayer, remedying them - every trary to the moral teaching meditationandfrequent day begin the task anew.” of Jesus in the Catholic Church. reception of the Sacra... St. Francis deSales Courage DOES affirm ments; fostering a spirit the God-given dignity of of fellowship in trust so that no one will have to face the problems every human person and engages each perof homosexuality alone; being mindful of son on that level without labeling anyone the truth that chaste friendships are essen- according to sexual orientation; make refer-

ral to a well qualified Catholic psychologist whenneededorrequested;providesupport and compassionate pastoral care to men and women with SSA struggling to live a chaste life, and all aspects of spiritual care to anyone making a sincere effort to live that commitment; support and encourage people with SSA who of themselves want to attempt to change orientation to seek the therapy necessary to do that.

There is also a component in the Courage ministry for parents and family and friends of loved ones with SSA. This is called Encourage and has been a great help to many.

The Courage Handbook is in the final stages of revision and should be available soon. This is a reference for all members to “live by” and interested people to learn from.

You will find a wealth of information on the Courage website which includes more about Courage, a listing of various sources and books, Church teaching, and personal testimonies. Visit www.couragerc.org to learn more.

Courage is getting started in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. To make inquiries, please contact me, Fr. William Young, at Queen of Heaven Parish, Albuquerque, 505.881.1772.

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Summer Programs at The Santa Fe Institute for Spirituality

BY BRO. BRIAN DYBOWSKI, FSC, PH.D Professor, Lewis University

The Santa Fe Institute for Spirituality invites everyone to its 26th summer program.

This year, we offer four sets of talks, and a retreat. As Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan noted last year in his keynote address for our 25th anniversary, our programs help many people come closer to God. That’s especially true of this year’s presentations on How to Pray the Psalms, St. Bonaventure’s Seraphic Spirituality, St. Therese of Lisieux’s Astounding Love of God, and a Healing Retreat, co-sponsored by the Pecos Benedictine monastery. Come for emotional, spiritual and physical healing through the Sacraments. Everything except this retreat will occur at Santa Fe’s St. Michael’s High School. (You can find Archbishop Sheehan’s talk on the video tab at www.sfis.org.)

Starting Saturday June 16, at 9:30am, with an inspiring review of God’s gift of Psalms, Rev. Bob Patterson provides dynamic interpretations of the unending glories of our Church’s favorite prayers. What treasures do the Psalms present? How can we find them? These are the questions that Rev. Bob launches for our inspiration. From King David on down to our time, Psalms have riveted our attention and lifted our hearts. Full of riches, Psalms enliven our imagination with powerful images and exalted sentiments. Learn how to sail to God on the Psalms. Discover what inspired so many saints, and why the Psalms survive centuries of competing prayers, because God sent them to us to draw us to Him. Rev. Bob Patterson is a graduate of Wesley

Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C., and is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He is serving as pastor of Bethany Christian Church in El Paso, Texas. His rich ecumenical experience includes earning a MA in Theology from Denver’s St. Thomas Theological Seminary (Roman Catholic). In addition to his pastoral responsibilities, Rev. Bob teaches in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Texas in El Paso. We have enjoyed his dynamic teaching for many years, and we bet that you will also.

June 17-22 Bro. Brian Dybowski, FSC, Ph.D, sketches St. Bonaventure’s Spirituality of Christ’s Love. In St. Francis’ image, St. Bonaventure let Jesus shine through him to enlighten the world. Starting Sunday at 7pm, evening sessions run through Thursday.TwomorningsessionsMondaythrough Friday, 9:30-noon round out the presentations. As college professor, preacher, and Franciscan leader, he enlightened and enlivened people in Christ. That’s how he earned the title: Seraphic Doctor. Seraphs are the highest angels, devoted to loving God perfectly. In 15 talks, Bro. Brian reviews St. Bonaventure’s inspiring message. Come, enjoythesepresentations,withhandoutsfor lasting review.

Bro. Brian earned Ph.Ds in Philosophy and Psychology, and two Theology MAs, one in Scripture and the other in Spirituality. He taught all three disciplines at the late College of Santa Fe, and now teaches Theology and Philosophy at Lewis University’s Albuquerque branch, and at the Spirituality Institute, www.sfis.org .

June 23 Fran Renda, Ph.D. reviews the

BOOKS This is the cover of “The First Crusade: The Call from the East”

by Peter Frankopan. The book is reviewed by Brian Welter. (CNS)

astounding spiritual teaching of St. Therese, who is a Doctor of the Church because of that great message. Come learn from St. Therese’s luminous writings. Fran’s four talks this Saturday review doctrine, poems, and letters. During the following week, Fran will speak at parishes in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and surrounding cities.

Frances Renda, Ph.D. is a clinical Psychologist in New York City. She shares St. Therese with people all over the world.

Because of her vim and vigor, the late Cardinal O’Connor appointed her to offer St. Therese’s teaching at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in New York City. She arranged for St. Therese’s relics to travel around the world to inspiremillionsofpeople.Shebroughtthese relics to Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Fran contributed to “I Thirst”, which illustrates the influence of the spirituality St. Therese on Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Dr. Renda also edited the newly published book on Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin: “A Call to a Deeper Love”. It is the family correspondence of St. Therese’s parents. Fran recently completed a new translation of Bishop Guy Gaucher’s biography of St. Therese.

June 29-July 1 HEALING RETREAT offered by the Santa Fe Spirituality Institute and Our Lady of Guadalupe Benedictine Monastery in Pecos, NM, Friday afternoon through Sunday lunch. Along the Pecos River, you can blend emotional, spiritual and physical healing with scenic delight, as you rejoice in the Lord. Maryanne Lacy will instruct us, and implore Christ’s healing for all. Experience Christ’s healing in sacraments of Reconciliation, Eucharist, and Healing. With all this grace flowing, resting in the Spirit is also possible at our Saturday

night healing service.

If you’d like to attend this retreat, please register by June 11 by calling 505.757.6415 or 505.757.6600, extension 0. You can check the monastery website for accommodations and monastic schedule: www. pecosmon-astery.org. The retreat schedule is on the Spirituality Institute site: www.sfis. orghttp://www.sfis.org.Maryannewillgreet us Friday evening, address us Saturday morning, and our Saturday evening healing service. Both these mornings start with Mass with the Benedictine community. Friday and Saturday afternoons are quiet time for prayer, reflection, marveling at God’s scenic miracles along the river, hiking, fishing in the Pecos River or Monastery Lake.

The Pecos Monastery welcomes early arrivals Friday after 2pm. Our first retreat event is supper at 5:30pm. Welcoming remarks will be at 8pm in the library. All rooms have private bath rooms. Costs for retreat: single room $180; couples $320; commuter $100. Scholarships are available.

For further details, contact Bill O’Donnell at 505.438.1809.

Maryanne Lacy is a Catholic laywoman, mother of five, and grandmother of nine.

She awakened to God’s call to prayer and healing ministry, which has now run successfully for 30 years. Her work with Fr. Peter McCall, OFM, Cap, at The House of Peace Prayer Center in New York touched countless people. Forty-eight Hours, The Learning Channel, CNN, and Headline News featured this Prayer Center work.

Maryanne offers charismatic retreats, and prayer ministry, especially in her new book “There Is Nothing But Love in God”.

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Catherine Abeyta-Sena A First-Class Catechist

By Father Joel Garner, O.Praem, Pastor Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary

Our gospel at Catherine’s funeral is the very last passage in Matthew’s Gospel. It is called the great commissioning. For me the last two lines, Jesus’ last words after his resurrection, characterized Catherine’s life.

“Teach them to carry out everything. I have commanded you. And know that I am with you always until the end of the world.” –Matthew 28:20 Catherine taught them. Her fundamental vocation was that of a teacher. She was a first class catechist. She was a woman steeped in the message of the Gospel.

As a Hispanic woman who grew up in West Texas, she experienced the prejudice which many Hispanics of her day knew. But that did not deter her. While initially desiring to be a nurse, she responded to the need for teachers.

With the support of her religious community of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate she pursued her education at several universities, climaxed by an MA in Theology at Fordham, the Jesuit University in New York City.

In 1987 she brought her passion for teaching the Gospel from her ministry as Director of Religious Education in the Diocese of Lubbock to a similar role in our Archdiocese of Santa Fe. And that passion as a catechist was accompanied by a tireless energy and enthusiasm for the task before her.

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As a catechetical leader, she was inspired by creative work that had emerged in religious education and faith formation as a result of the Second Vatican Council.

She encouraged people not only to read the documents of that Council but also to absorb the catechetical documents that gave rise to fresh approaches to passing on the faith through new curricular designs. She was among those that were convinced that adult faith formation was critical for our future. For if parents were not growing in their faith understanding, it could not easily be passed on to their children.

Her commitment to the whole catechetical enterprise led her to make a broader contribution to the church. She was a Board Member of the National Conference of Catechetical Leaders in Washington, D.C. as well as the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio. She was also a member of the National Organization of the Catechesis for Hispanics. These experiences were a springboard for her participation in numerous conferences, seminars, and workshops throughout the Southwest.

The last words of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel are: “And know that I am with you always until the end of the world.”

I am convinced that Catherine internalized Jesus’ words.

And because she did, she was able to continue her ministry despite serious health problems. In the mid 1990’s she contracted a liver disease that led to her liver transplant in 1996. But despite that major set-back she was able to resume her leadership ministry among us, perhaps not with the same energy but certainly with no less passion.

Many of us participated in the joyous celebration of her wedding, in this church, to Joe Sena as the new millennium began. Beside her loving family of origin in Texas,

Catherine was warmly embraced by Joe’s family in New Mexico.

And our parish family of Holy Rosary was enriched too.

For shortly after her marriage she resigned her position at the Archdiocese and became the coordinator of the RCIA program for our Spanish speaking members. For almost a decadeshepreparedchildrenandadults for the sacraments of initiation. She loved them and they loved her.

Twenty-five years ago Catherine had initiated a Catechetical Affirmation Day for the Archdiocese. On May 23rd of this year she was to give the keynote address to celebrate that anniversary. A week before she passed, her last good day, she had a lively conversation with her friend and former colleague at the Archdiocese, Frances Vogel-Montano, telling her what she had planned to say in her talk. Catherine planned to build it around one of her favorite church documents entitled “To Teach as Jesus Taught.” She said she wanted to speak about Vision, Values, Vitality, and a Preferred Future. She was a catechist to the very end.

Catherine loved being with family and friends and will be greatly missed by the many who knew her and whose lives she touched. She was preceded in death by her parents, Emilio and Louisa Abeyta and brother Patrick. She is survived by her loving husband of 11 years, Joe I. Sena; his son, Tommy (Nicole) Sena and daughter, Juanita (Len) Tartaglia; seven grandchildren; brother Emilio (Eloisa) of Lubbock, TX; sisters, Molly (Robert) Martinez of Littlefield, TX and Maxine of Lubbock TX and many nieces and nephews. The family wishes to express their sincere gratitude to all for their kindness and support. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made in her honor to Catholic Charities or the Organ and Tissue Donor Program. Catherine’s obituary may be located at www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/509667/Abeyta-SenaCatherine.php.

She was among those that were convinced that adult faith formation was critical for our future.

Seamus (Dolores), 21 nieces and nephews and the members of his religious community.

Bro. Brendan served the poor and homeless population in Canada, England, Philadelphia, Miami, New Orleans and Albuquerque. He also cared for homeless children at Bercail du Bon Berger (Sheepfold of the Good Shepherd) The Brother’s orphanage in Haiti.

Bro. Brendan Scully Bro. Brendan Scully, age 76, in the 27th year of his religious life as a Little Brother of the Good Shepherd passed into eternal life on Holy Thursday, April 5, 2012.

Bro. Brendan was born in County Westmeath, Ireland. He was preceded in death by his parents James and Mary Scully. He is survived by his sister Frances Rice (Jim) his brothers Vincent (Terry), Desmond,

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Gran Quivira, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, Mountainair, NM

Interior of the Larger Church

Standing in the entry of St. Augustine’s Church in Isleta Pueblo are (L-R) Enrique Madrid (Jumano Apache tribal historian), Gabriel Carrasco (Jumano Apache chief), Allen Cherino (Committee Co-Chair for the St. Augustine Church Preservation Committee), and Marilyn Fedewa, author. In the 17th century, the Jumanos journeyed annually to this Pueblo mission, then St. Anthony’s, to appeal for a mission in their territory, at the urging of the Lady in Blue through the gift of her mystical bilocations. Photo courtesy Marilyn Fedewa.

Gran Quivira - A Larger Church: 1659-1670. Work on the massive walls of this complex started after a new priest, Diego de Santander, was assigned to live here in 1659. Men of this pueblo carved and placed the wooden beams. Women and children mixed mud mortar, laid stones, and plastered walls. The convent rooms to your left were finished by 1670, when all work came to an abrupt halt.

Gran Quivira, called Las Humanas by early Spanish explorers, was the largest of the Salinas pueblos. From its beginnings as a nearby cluster of pithouses 1,2000 years ago it grew into a thriving village of more than 20 masonry house blocks and 1,500 to 2,000 people. Situated here, at the frontier between Pueblo and Plains Indian worlds, it was an important trade center for man years, both before and after the arrival of the Spaniards.

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Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument