Apr il 2013 • Volume 31 • Number 4 • www.archdiosf.org
Ser ving The Multicultural People of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe
His Holiness Pope Francis, We humbly send you our prayers and gratitude as you commence your ministry as our shepherd of the Roman Catholic Church. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen. May God bless you with wisdom, good health and strength. The people of God of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe
This is a high-quality artist’s reproduction of the coat of arms of Pope Francis. The insignia borrows much from his former episcopal emblem. On the blue shield is the symbol of the Society of Jesus. Below it is a star and the buds of a spikenard flower , which represent respectively Mary and St. Joseph. The papal motto is the Latin phrase “Miserando atque eligendo,” which means “having mercy, he called him.” The phrase refers to a line in a homily by St. Bede: “Because he saw him through the eyes of mercy and chose him.” (CNS graphic/Tim Meko)
Inside this Issue Season for Ordinations......................2 Archbishop’s Letter Welcome, Pope Francis....................3 NMCCB Statement on Marriage....... 5 NMCCB 2013 Legislative Report...... 7 Vocations.............................................8 Catholic Education.......................... 10 Children & Youth Protection ...........13 Habemus Papam! ............................14
“We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninetynine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.” —Pope Francis
For Your Marriage.............................18 Social Justice....................................20 CNS photo/Paul Haring