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With great joy and gratitude we present our new priests ordained by Archbishop John C. Wester for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe following their ordination Mass on Saturday, June 3, 2017 at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe, NM. The newly ordained pictured in the front row with Archbishop John C. Wester and Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan are: Reverend Francisco Carabajal Barajas, Reverend Robert Bustamante and Reverend Christopher Hallada. Also pictured are Reverend Michael DePalma, ASF Director of Vocations; Reverend Clement Niggel, Associate Director of Vocations; and our recently ordained Transitional Deacons Christopher Martinez, Tai Pham and John Kimani. See page 8.
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With praise and thanksgiving to God, we announce the ordination to the transitional diaconate of our seminarians John Kimani, Christopher Martinez, Jason Pettigrew, and Tai Pham by the Most Reverend John C. Wester, Archbishop of Santa Fe. The ordination took place at Our Lady of LaVang Parish on May 31, 2017. Also pictured here are Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan, Rev. Michael DePalma, Director of Vocations and Rev. Clement Niggel, Associate Director of Vocations. See page 10.
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Table of Contents
2 Diaconate Ordinations 4 Abide in Christ: Catholic Principles of Migration 8 Priest Ordinations 11 Jubilarians 12 Vocations 14 V Encuentro 15 USCCB: Paris Agreement 16 Social Justice 19 Catholic Schools 26 How Faith Drives Hope 30 Promise to Protect 31 Archbishop’s Calendar Official Magazine of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe
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National Leaders. That national leaders may firmly commit themselves to ending the arms trade, which victimizes so many innocent people.
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Lapsed Christians. That our brothers and sisters who have strayed from the faith, through our prayer and witness to the Gospel, may rediscover the merciful closeness of the Lord and the beauty of the Christian life.
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Universal: Eliminar el comercio de las armas. Por los responsables de las naciones, para que se comprometan con decisión a poner fin al comercio de las armas, que causa tantas víctimas inocentes.
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Los alejados de la fe cristiana. Por nuestros hermanos que se han alejado de la fe, para que, a través de nuestra oración y el testimonio evangélico, puedan redescubrir la cercanía del Señor misericordioso y la belleza de la vida cristiana.
2017 Special Collection June 25, 2017 Peter’s Pence
The Peter’s Pence Collection enables the Holy Father to respond with emergency financial assistance to requests to aid the most needy throughout the world—those who suffer as a result of war, oppression, and natural disasters. It likewise provides the faithful with a tangible opportunity to not only empower the weak, defenseless, and voiceless, but also sustain those who suffer.
Seminary Burse The following parishes have sent in excess Mass stipends to the Archdiocesan Finance Office for seminarian education. These receipts are for April and May 2017. Excess Mass stipends are from multiple Mass intentions celebrated at parishes. The archdiocesan policy is for excess Mass stipends to be used for seminarian education. Parish Name/City
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Anonymous 3,540.00 Holy Child – Tijeras 3,000.00 Immaculate Heart of Mary – Los Alamos 2,460.00 Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Albuquerque 180.00 Our Lady of Sorrows - Bernalillo 2,000.00 Our Lady of the Annunciation – Albuquerque 2,037.50 Sacred Heart of Jesus – Espanola 1,200.00 Mision de San Diego Mission – Meadowlake 85.00 San Francisco de Asis – Ranchos de Taos 500.00 Sangre de Cristo – Albuquerque 500.00 Shrine of St. Bernadette – Albuquerque 15,000.00 St. John the Baptist – Santa Fe 1,000.00 St. Joseph on the Rio Grande – Albuquerque 1,110.00 Total $ 32,612.50
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Catholic Principles of Migration: The Foundation of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
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s we continue exploration of Catholic teaching on migration, it is important to know the basic principles and teachings that ground our response to the issues before us regarding immigration. Often, I am asked why our Church stands so strongly for immigrants. They are often surprised to hear the depth of the Church’s response, and our history of advocacy on behalf of all immigrants. Our approach to migration is rooted in the Gospel and in the rich tradition of Catholic social teaching. All we advocate for as Catholics begins with recognizing the basic, God-given dignity of each human person. A recent example of this teaching is in Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope (2003), a pastoral letter concerning migration from the Catholic Bishops of Mexico and the United States. I. Persons have the right to find opportunities in their homeland. All persons have the right to find in their own countries the economic, political, and social opportunities to live in dignity and achieve a full life through the use of their God-given gifts. In this context, work that provides a just, living wage is a basic human need. II. Persons have the right to migrate to support themselves and their families. The Church recognizes that all the goods of the earth belong to all people. When persons cannot find employment in their country of origin to support themselves and their families, they have a right to find work elsewhere in order to survive. Sovereign nations should provide ways to accommodate this right. III. Sovereign nations have the right to control their borders. The Church recognizes the right of sovereign nations to control their territories and their borders. However, wealthier nations, which have the ability to better protect and feed their residents, have a strong obligation to accommodate migration flows. IV. Refugees and asylum seekers should be afforded protection. Those who flee wars and persecution should be protected by the global community. This requires, at a minimum, that migrants have a right to claim refugee status without incarceration and to have their claims fully considered by a competent authority. V. The human dignity and human rights of undocumented migrants should be respected. Regardless of their legal status, migrants, like all persons, possess inherent human dignity that should be respected. Often they are subject to punitive laws and harsh treatment by enforcement officers from both receiving and transit countries.
Government policies that respect the basic human rights of the undocumented are necessary. Based on these five principles, the bishops of the United States have been tirelessly advocating for comprehensive immigration reform. We know that the current immigration system is broken. The “lines” for legal immigration are often decades long. Federal legislators need to prioritize and pursue comprehensive immigration reform in lieu of enforcement-only measures, including E-Verify, and “the wall” to address the issues of unauthorized immigration in the United States. This reform includes five major goals of the Bishops that we believe are attainable with the proper political will and a sense of compassion for people on the move. We encourage our federal legislators to work with these principles as they discuss comprehensive immigration reform. In summary, they are: I. Family unity. Adopt immigration standards that keep families together. The Church has always recognized the foundational unit of the family. It currently takes years for family members to be reunited through the family‐based legal immigration system. This leads to family breakdown and, in some cases, illegal immigration. II. Earned Legalization. An earned legalization program would allow foreign nationals of good moral character who are living in the United States to apply to adjust their status to obtain lawful permanent residence. Such a program would create an eventual path to citizenship, requiring applicants to complete and pass background checks, pay a fine, and establish eligibility for resident status to participate in the program. This would help stabilize the workforce, promote family unity, and bring a large population “out of the shadows,” as members of their communities. III. Future Worker Program: A worker program to permit foreign‐born workers to enter the country safely and legally would help reduce illegal immigration and the loss of life in the American desert. Any program should include workplace protections, living wage levels, safeguards against the displacement of U.S. workers, and family unity. IV. Due Process and Judicial Discretion: Return power to immigration judges so they can adjudicate issues more fairly and more humanely, restore due process protections for immigrants, such as elimination of the 3 and 10-year bars to re-entry. This would help to prevent the separation of families. Also, ending the practice of incarcerating men, women and children in the immigration system as if they were criminals is key. V. Identify and Solve the Root Causes: Congress should examine the root causes of migration, such as under‐development and poverty in sending countries, and seek long‐term solutions. The antidote to the problem of illegal immigration is sustainable economic development in sending countries. In an ideal world, migration should be driven by choice, not necessity. We will explore this point more deeply in a later article.
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His mercy endures forever While we work at the national level for comprehensive immigration reform, here in New Mexico, we can positively influence the tone of the immigration debate by our local actions and policies. When I was in Utah, I worked with a coalition of groups on the Utah Compact. The Utah Compact was developed by and had broad support from community leaders, business associations, law enforcement officers and members of Utah’s religious community, all of whom were concerned about the tone of Utah’s immigration discussion as they address the complex challenges associated with a broken national immigration system. The Compact expressed our values as community as they relate to specific policy issues that have become central to the immigration discussion. I offer these as a place to begin our discussions in charity and love. These principles included the following: LAW ENFORCEMENT: We respect the rule of law and support law enforcement’s professional judgment and discretion. Local law enforcement resources should focus on criminal activities, not civil violations of federal code. FAMILIES: Strong families are the foundation of successful communities. We oppose policies that unnecessarily separate families. We champion policies that support families and improve the health, education and well-being of all our State’s children. ECONOMY: Our state is best served by a free-market philosophy that maximizes individual freedom and opportunity. We acknowledge the economic role immigrants play as workers and taxpayers. Our State’s immigration policies must reaffirm our global reputation as a welcoming and business-friendly state. A FREE SOCIETY: Immigrants are integrated into communities across our State. We must adopt a humane approach to this reality, reflecting our unique culture, history and spirit of inclusion. The way we treat immigrants will say more about us as a free society and less about our immigrant neighbors. Our state should always be a place that welcomes people of goodwill. Our exploration of the Church’s stance on immigration takes us from principles to goals to a local application of dialogue on immigration. As we continue dialogue on this challenging issue, I acknowledge the complexity of the debate on immigration reform. However, the key for the Church is the sanctity of all human life and the dignity of each person before God. I encourage all people of good will to work to reach our goals of a just and human immigration system, one that honors our God given dignity and rights and recognizes that we are one family before God, brothers and sisters in Christ. In this way, we may respect our nation’s borders, but also acknowledge that God’s love transcends borders; our love should do the same. Sincerely yours in the Lord,
Most Rev. John C. Wester, Archbishop of Santa Fe
Faces of Migration Edith is a 19 year old undocumented immigrant with D.A.C.A. status. Edith, is a sophomore at the University of New Mexico (UNM). She has a double major in psychology and math, maintains a 4.02 grade average, and works in the university library. Her passion is helping others and volunteers at the Campus Agora Crisis Center, which handles crisis calls from the Albuquerque citywide area. Seventeen years ago, Edith, who was two, along with her mother and father immigrated to Santa Fe from Mexico. She has two younger sisters who are both U.S. citizens. Edith attended Santa Fe public schools. Her high school grades were outstanding and she graduated with a 4.28 average. She was the senior class valedictorian and awarded several local scholarships. Edith gained D.A.C.A. status in 2012. Edith’s dream is to work as a behavioral analyst for the F.B.I. which will only be possible when she becomes a U.S. citizen. She hopes to do private consulting for them until then. Her plans after UNM are to do graduate studies to further her career goals. Edith states: “America is my home. I have always considered America as being a place of freedom and acceptance. Despite being born in Mexico, I had always felt at home here, where I have grown up since arriving as a twoyear old. Right now it’s heartbreaking to see the division and oppression that has emerged and is consuming the hearts of so many. Still, I hold on to hope. I am glad to see that a lot of people still have light in their hearts and are willing to fight with us to keep America a free and accepting home for all who seek one.” Information obtained with permission from Justice for Immigrants, USCCB. justiceforimmigrants.org
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Principios Católicos de la Migración: Los Cimientos de una Reforma Migratoria Integral
l continuar explorando la enseñanza católica referente a la migración, es importante conocer los principios básicos y las enseñanzas que fundamentan nuestra respuesta a las cuestiones que enfrentamos en relación a la inmigración. A menudo me preguntan por qué nuestra Iglesia defiende tan enfáticamente a los inmigrantes. Se sorprenden luego al escuchar la profundidad de la respuesta de la Iglesia y nuestra historia de defensa en favor de todos los inmigrantes. Nuestro enfoque de la migración está arraigado en el Evangelio y en la rica tradición de la enseñanza social católica. Todo lo que defendemos como católicos comienza con el reconocimiento básico de la dignidad otorgada por Dios a cada ser humano. Un ejemplo reciente de esta enseñanza se encuentra en Juntos en el camino de esperanza: ya no somos extranjeros (2003), una carta pastoral conjunta de los obispos católicos de México y los Estados Unidos sobre la migración que expresa que: I. Las personas tienen el derecho a encontrar oportunidades en su tierra natal. Toda persona tiene el derecho de encontrar en su propio país oportunidades económicas, políticas y sociales, que le permitan alcanzar una vida digna y plena mediante el uso de sus dones. Es en este contexto cuando un trabajo que proporcione un salario justo, suficiente para vivir, constituye una necesidad básica de todo ser humano. II. Las personas tienen derecho a emigrar para mantenerse a sí mismas y a sus familias. La Iglesia reconoce que todos los bienes de la tierra pertenecen a todos los pueblos. Por lo tanto, cuando una persona no consiga encontrar un empleo que le permita obtener la manutención propia y de su familia en su país de origen, ésta tiene el derecho de buscar trabajo fuera de él para lograr sobrevivir. Los Estados soberanos deben buscar formas de adaptarse a este derecho. III. Los Estados soberanos poseen el derecho a controlar sus fronteras. La Iglesia reconoce que todo Estado soberano posee el derecho de salvaguardar su territorio; sin embargo, rechaza que tal derecho se ejerza sólo con el objetivo de adquirir mayor riqueza. Las naciones cuyo poderío económico sea mayor, y tengan la capacidad de proteger y alimentar a sus habitantes, cuentan con una obligación mayor de adaptarse a los flujos migratorios. IV. Debe protegerse a quienes buscan refugio y asilo. La comunidad global debe proteger a quienes huyen de la guerra y la persecución. Lo anterior requiere, como mínimo, que los migrantes cuenten con el derecho de solicitar la calidad de refugiado o asilado sin permanecer detenidos, y que dicha solicitud sea plenamente considerada por la autoridad competente.
V. Deben respetarse la dignidad humana y los derechos humanos de los migrantes indocumentados. Independientemente de su situación legal, los migrantes, como toda persona, poseen una dignidad humana intrínseca que debe ser respetada. Es común que sean sujetos a leyes punitivas y al maltrato por parte de las autoridades, tanto en países de origen como de tránsito y destino. Es necesaria la adopción de políticas gubernamentales que respeten los derechos humanos básicos de los migrantes indocumentados. Basados en estos cinco principios, los obispos de los Estados Unidos han abogado incansablemente por una reforma migratoria integral. Sabemos que el sistema actual de inmigración está roto. Las “líneas” de la inmigración legal significan a menudo décadas de espera. Los legisladores federales deben dar prioridad a una reforma integral de inmigración en lugar de a las medidas de cumplimiento de la ley, incluyendo E-Verify (verificación electrónica que determina elegibilidad para trabajar legalmente en el país), y “el muro” para abordar las cuestiones de la inmigración no autorizada en los Estados Unidos. Esta reforma incluye cinco metas principales de los obispos que creemos, con la voluntad política adecuada y un sentido de compasión para las personas en movimiento, son alcanzables. Animamos a nuestros legisladores federales a trabajar con estos principios mientras discuten una reforma migratoria integral. En resumen, estos principios son: I. La unidad familiar. Adoptar normas de inmigración que mantengan a las familias unidas. La Iglesia ha reconocido siempre la unidad fundamental de la familia. Actualmente toma años para que miembros de familias se reúnan a través del sistema de inmigración legal basado en la familia. Esto conduce a la ruptura familiar y, en algunos casos, a la inmigración ilegal. II. Legalización ganada. Un programa de legalización ganado permitiría a ciudadanos extranjeros de buen carácter moral que ya viven en los Estados Unidos solicitar un ajuste a su estatus para obtener la residencia permanente legal. Tal programa crearía un camino eventual a la ciudadanía, requiriendo que los aspirantes completen y pasen revisiones de antecedentes, paguen una multa, y establezcan elegibilidad de residente para participar en el programa. Esto ayudaría a estabilizar la fuerza de trabajo, promover la unidad familiar y sacar a una gran población “de las sombras”, como miembros de sus comunidades. III. Programa de Trabajadores Futuros: Un programa de que permita a trabajadores nacidos en el extranjero ingresar al país de manera segura y legal ayudaría a reducir la inmigración ilegal y la pérdida de vidas en el desierto americano. Todo programa debería incluir protecciones en el trabajo, salarios dignos, protecciones contra el desplazamiento de trabajadores de los Estados Unidos y unidad familiar. IV. Debido Proceso y Discreción Judicial: Devolver el poder a los jueces de inmigración para que puedan juzgar los asuntos de manera más justa y humanitaria, restaurar las garantías
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Su miseracordia perdura para siempre del debido proceso para los inmigrantes, como la eliminación de las prohibiciones de los 3 y los 10 años para volver a ingresar al país. Esto ayudaría a prevenir la separación de las familias. También es fundamental poner fin a la práctica de encarcelar, como si fueran criminales, a hombres, mujeres y niños en el sistema de inmigración V. Identificar y resolver las causas fundamentales: El Congreso debería examinar las causas fundamentales de la migración, como el subdesarrollo y la pobreza en los países de origen, y buscar soluciones a largo plazo. El antídoto contra el problema de la inmigración ilegal es el desarrollo económico sostenible en los países de origen. En un mundo ideal, la migración debería ser impulsada por la elección, no por la necesidad. Exploraremos este punto más profundamente en un artículo posterior. Mientras trabajamos por una reforma integral de inmigración en el ámbito nacional, aquí en Nuevo México podemos influenciar positivamente el tono del debate migratorio con nuestras acciones y pólizas locales. Cuando estuve en el estado de Utah, trabajé con una coalición de grupos en el desarrollo del Utah Compact, una declaración ampliamente apoyada por líderes comunitarios, asociaciones empresariales, agentes de la ley y miembros de la comunidad religiosa de ese estado, todos ellos preocupados por el tono de la discusión de inmigración de Utah ante los desafíos complejos asociados con un sistema de inmigración nacional roto. La declaración expresó nuestros principios como comunidad en relación a pólizas específicas que se han convertido en el centro de la discusión sobre inmigración. Ofrezco estos principios como un punto de partida para nuestra conversación en caridad y amor. Estos principios incluyen: APLICACIÓN DE LA LEY: Respetamos el imperio de la ley y apoyamos el juicio y la discreción profesional de las fuerzas del orden. Los recursos locales de la aplicación de la ley deberían centrarse en las actividades delictivas, no en las violaciones civiles del código federal. FAMILIAS: Las familias sólidas son la base de comunidades exitosas. Nos oponemos a pólizas que separan innecesariamente a las familias. Favorecemos pólizas que apoyen a las familias y mejoren la salud, la educación y el bienestar de todos los niños de nuestro estado. ECONOMÍA: Nuestro estado se beneficiaría de una filosofía de mercado libre que amplifique la libertad individual y la oportunidad. Reconocemos el papel económico que desempeñan los inmigrantes como trabajadores y contribuyentes. Las pólizas de inmigración de nuestro estado deben reafirmar nuestra reputación global como un estado acogedor y favorable a las empresas. MIGRACION Continued on page 27
Rostros de la Migración Edith es una inmigrante indocumentada de 19 años quien se ha amparado bajo el programa DACA (Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia). Ella es estudiante de segundo año en la Universidad de Nuevo México (UNM) en las áreas de psicología y matemáticas, mantiene un promedio de 4.02 y trabaja en la biblioteca universitaria. Su pasión es ayudar a otros y ofrece sus servicios como voluntaria en el Centro de Crisis Agora de la universidad, el cual atiende llamadas de crisis de toda la zona de Albuquerque. Hace 17 años, Edith, quien en ese tiempo tenía dos años, junto con su madre y padre emigraron de México a Santa Fe. Ella tiene dos hermanas más jóvenes que son ciudadanas de los EEUU. Edith asistió a las escuelas públicas de Santa Fe. Sus calificaciones en la escuela preparatoria fueron excepcionales y ella se graduó con un promedio 4.28, lo que le otorgó el lugar de honor como valedictorian de su clase y recibió varias becas locales. Edith obtuvo la protección de DACA en el año 2012. El sueño de Edith es trabajar como analista de comportamiento para el F.B.I. Lo cual sólo será posible cuando ella sea una ciudadana estadounidense. Ella espera hacer consultoría privada para ellos hasta entonces. Sus planes después de UNM son continuar sus estudios de postgrado para avanzar las metas de su carrera. Edith dice: “Estados Unidos es mi hogar. Siempre he considerado a los Estados Unidos como un lugar de libertad y aceptación. A pesar de haber nacido en México, siempre me sentí como en casa aquí, donde he crecido desde que llegué a los dos años. En este momento es desgarrador ver la división y opresión que ha surgido y está consumiendo los corazones de tantos. Sin embargo, me aferro a la esperanza. Me alegro de ver que mucha gente todavía tiene luz en sus corazones y están dispuestos a pelear con nosotros para mantener a los Estados Unidos siendo el hogar libre y acogedor para todos los que lo buscan.” Información obtenida con permiso de Justice for Immigrants, USCCB - Campaña Justicia para Inmigrantes de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos. Visite: justiceforimmigrants.org
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n reflecting on the Gospel for today’s Ordination Mass, I couldn’t help but think of Archbishop George Niederauer, the former Archbishop of San Francisco, a wonderful bishop and priest who passed away a few weeks ago. I thought of him in reading the Gospel because in the middle of the last sentence his episcopal motto emerges: To Serve and To Give.
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globe in newspapers, magazines, books, TV and radio shows, blogs and even around water coolers. But in the midst of all these words, there is only one WORD that is eternal, that has existed before time and that transcends all time: the FIRST word and the LAST word, the alpha and the omega, Jesus Christ, THE WORD of God, the one who has called you, my brothers, Francisco, Christopher, and Robert…and the WORD you are to proclaim through your priestly ministry and in your lives As Jeremiah proclaims today, the WORD of GOD calls you to proclaim Christ who in turn proclaimed the Kingdom of God. Like Jeremiah, not only are you called but today you are given the power and the grace to proclaim the WORD as your lips are touched by the hand of God in ordination and as He places His words in your mouths
It was very typical of the archbishop, lifting these words from two clauses and forming an episcopal motto. He was very clever with words, which he loved. He was a master of witty ripostes and clever phrasing. It probably did not hurt to have a Ph.D. in literature, a love for movies and good books. However, all of that was at the service of the Word. The archbishop served by giving the WORD of God a central place in his life. His life, his ministry, was truly an embodiment of the WORD, a WORD he served faithfully for 55 years of priesthood, an anniversary he celebrated shortly before his death.
Today you are called to follow Christ as priests, whose first duty is to proclaim the WORD and in so doing, to bring the Good News, the Gospel, to a world so desperate for good news. Today, God puts His word into your mouths, words not of dominance but of self-surrender, not of greed but of selflessness not of revenge but of mercy, not of anger but of peace, not of exclusion but inclusion, not of hate but of love. Your words are rooted in Him who is the way, the truth and the life. You are to bring the “WORD made flesh” into the world, our world, our local Church.
We live in a world crammed with words: There are 183 billion e-mails sent and/or received every day in the world with five billion e-mail accounts worldwide. There are six billion SMS messages exchanged per day worldwide. Snail mail is declining, but still in 2014, about 140 billion letters were sent worldwide. And of course, there are still trillions and trillions of words that circulate around the
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Today in the Liturgy, you will notice this thread weaving its way throughout its symbols and words.
Archbishop John C. Wester lays hands upon Reverend Christopher Hallada.
The Church today proclaims that you are “…consecrated as true priests of the New Testament, to preach the Gospel, to shepherd God’s people, and to celebrate the sacred liturgy, especially the Lord’s sacrifice.”
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Blessed be God forever. The newly ordained join Archbishop Wester and the priests of the Archdiocese at the altar of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi during the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
Archbishop Wester anoints the hands of newly ordained Reverend Robert Bustamante.
The Church echoes the theme of Jeremiah in our first reading: “To whomever I send you, you shall go; whatever I command you, you shall speak.” These same themes found throughout the Church’s history. For example, Karl Rahner, the famous theologian said, “This efficacious word has been entrusted to the priest. To him has been given the word of God and that makes him a priest. For that reason, it can be said that it is he to whom has been entrusted the word.” Also, the theme is noted in the wonderful Vatican II document, Presbyterorum
Archbishop Wester presents the chalice and paten to Reverend Francisco Carabajal Barajas saying, “Understand what you do, imitate what you celebrate, and conform your life to the mystery of the Lord’s cross.”
Ordinis: “Priests…have as their primary duty the proclamation of the Gospel of God to all.” My dear brothers, for the WORD to be effective in you, you must be one with the WORD, Jesus Christ our Lord. You are those mature disciples in John’s Gospel who have responded to Christ’s invitation to come and see where he dwells. And like them, you come to see that Christ dwells in the heart of the Father; and like them, you move from dwelling WITH Christ to dwelling IN Christ and therefore, in the Father through
the Spirit. As St. Paul says in Galatians 2:20: “I have been crucified with Christ and the life I live now is not my own. I still live my human life but it is a life of faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.” You are called to follow the example of John the Forerunner, the Friend of the Bridegroom whose Magnificat proclaimed: “I must decrease, he must increase.” David Michel Stanley, SJ, once entitled Mark’s Gospel: “How I fell in love with Jesus Christ.” Brothers, your priesthood is nothing short of that: falling in HOMILY Continued on page 18
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Archdiocese of Santa Fe Welcomes Four Seminarians to the Transitional Diaconate Archbishop John C. Wester ordained four seminarians to the transitional diaconate in the Roman Catholic Church, Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at Our Lady of LaVang Parish in Albuquerque. The newly ordained transitional deacons are Rev. Mr. John Kimani, Rev. Mr. Christopher Martinez, Rev. Mr. Jason Pettigrew, and Rev. Mr. Tai Pham. Seminarians are first ordained to the transitional diaconate where they will serve as deacons for a short time before being ordained to the priesthood. These men have now been given the authority to baptize, witness marriages and preach the Gospel. During the ordination to the diaconate, the new deacons will serve under Archbishop Wester’s authority or his successor’s authority. In the Catholic Church, the diaconate is the first of three ranks in the ordained ministry. Deacons preparing for the priesthood are transitional deacons. Those not planning to be ordained priests are called permanent deacons. Married men may be ordained permanent deacons, and single men may be ordained with a commitment to celibacy. For more information contact the Office of Vocations 505.831.8143
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2017 Priesthood Jubilarians Rev. John Plans Santa Cruz, Holy Cross
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Rev. George Salazar Immaculate Conception, Las Vegas
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Rev. Frederick Brand, retired
Reverend Robert L. Sullivan SJ, parochial vicar, Immaculate Conception, Albuquerque
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Very Reverend John C. Daniel, Moderator of the Curia, Vicar General, Vicar for the Clergy
Rev. Adam Lee Ortega y Ortiz, rector, Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe
Rev. Robert Lussier, OSB oliv, Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey, of Our Lady of Monte Oliveto, Pecos
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Tribute to Fathers
Luke Malone For Dad: Thanks dad for showing me how to be a selfless man through your many examples! I am constantly reminded how to treat others when I recall the care you show people.
Christopher Martinez Dad, you mean a lot to me. I thank God that He has given me such a wonderful father. Thank you for all the sacrifices you have made for me in your life. You are the best.
Jacob Romero Timothy Meurer My father has taught me how to be a true man in this day in Dad, You always challenged me to achieve better things in my life and gave me the necessary tools to age. He always showed compassion and love but at the same do so. I have always seen you as my biggest influence. time taught me how to be a hard worker and never back down from a challenge. I pray that I will be as strong and determined as Thank you for your tireless support. he is as I continue on my vocation to priesthood.
Jordan Sanchez Dad, I decided to write you a haiku: Dad, you’re pretty rad! You are alright in my book! You taught me to cook!
Darrell Segura My dad is my role model and one of my best friends. He taught me how to sacrifice for others and how to trust in our Lord. He has been there for me throughout my life, and I can rely on him for anything. He is truly a man with the heart of Christ.
Michael Villavicencio My dad is my coach and teacher, who taught me all the skills I needed to play baseball, fly fish, and, of course, be a good Catholic. His strong faith is a major influence on my life. Thank you for supporting me during my vocation towards priesthood.
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Archbishop John C. Wester has made the following assignments: Effective Sunday, April 9, 2017 – Rev. Thomas Joseph Paickattu, O.M.I., currently in residence at Our Lady of Annunciation Parish in Albuquerque, has been appointed as parish administrator for Holy Ghost Parish and Catholic School in Albuquerque. Effective Monday, April 10, 2017 – Rev. Leon Vigil, currently parochial vicar for San Martin Parish, has been appointed as parochial vicar for Immaculate Conception Parish in Las Vegas, under the guidance of the pastor, Rev. George Salazar. Effective Monday, April 24, 2017 – Deacon Victoriano CeballosMoreno, previously assigned at St. Francis Xavier in Albuquerque, has been appointed to diaconal ministry at St. Edwin Parish in Albuquerque, under the guidance of the pastor, Rev. Peter Muller, O.Praem. Effective Tuesday, April 25, 2017 – Rev. Jonas Romea, is no longer parochial vicar for Our Lady of Belen and no longer has faculties in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Effective Sunday, April 30, 2017 – Deacon Gregorio Henderson, previously assigned at San Martin de Porres Parish in Albuquerque, is moving outside the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Effective Tuesday, May 30, 2017 – Deacon William C. Hoefler has been granted retirement after serving 41 years at Church of the Ascension in Albuquerque. Effective Thursday, June 15, 2017 – Rev. Joseph Tin Manh Bui, currently pastor of Our Lady of Lavang in Albuquerque, will be retiring. Effective Thursday, June 15, 2017 – Rev. Douglas Mitchell, currently pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows in Las Vegas, will be retiring. Effective Thursday, June 15, 2017 – Rev. Juan Mendez, currently pastor of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Albuquerque, will be retiring. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Rev. Hoi Tran, currently pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Peralta, has been appointed as Pastor for Our Lady of Lavang in Albuquerque. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Rev. Emmanuel Izuka, currently pastor of St. Joseph in Springer and Immaculate Conception in Cimarron, has been appointed as Parish Administrator for Our Lady of Guadalupe in Peralta. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Rev. Benoit Trieu Van Vu, currently parochial vicar of Our Lady of Sorrows in Bernalillo, has been appointed as pastor for St. Joseph in Springer and Immaculate Conception in Cimarron. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Rev. Rob Yaksich, currently parochial vicar at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, has been appointed as pastor for Our Lady of Sorrows in Las Vegas. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Rev. Nathan Libaire, currently pastor of St. John the Baptist in Santa Fe, has been appointed as pastor for Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Albuquerque. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Rev. James Sanchez, currently pastor of St. Thomas Apostle in Abiquiu, has been appointed as pastor for St. John the Baptist in Santa Fe. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Rev. Valentine Phu Ngoc Au, currently parochial vicar of Santa Maria de la Paz in Santa Fe, has been appointed as pastor for St. Thomas Apostle in Abiquiu. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Rev. Christopher Bernabe, currently pastor of St. Anthony of Padua in Fort Sumner and St. Mary in Vaughn, has been appointed as pastor for St. Rose of Lima in Santa Rosa and will remain pastor for St. Mary in Vaughn. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Rev. Sotero Sena, currently pastor of St. Rose of Lima in Santa Rosa, has been appointed as pastor for St. Anthony of Padua in Fort Sumner. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Rev. Albert Mutebi Ssekabembe,
currently pastor of San Juan Nepomuceno in El Rito, has been appointed as parochial vicar for Our Lady of Belen in Belen. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Rev. Joseph Van Tao Nguyen, currently parochial vicar of San Juan Bautista in Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, has been appointed as pastor for San Juan Nepomuceno in El Rito. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Newly ordained Rev. Robert Bustamante has been appointed as parochial vicar for San Juan Bautista in Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo under the direction of the pastor, Rev. John Trambley. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Newly ordained Rev. Francisco Carbajal has been appointed as parochial vicar for Our Lady of Sorrows in Bernalillo under the guidance of the pastor Rev. Clarence Maes. Effective Friday, June 16, 2017 – Newly ordained Rev. Christopher Hallada has been appointed as parochial vicar at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe under the guidance of the pastor Rev. Adam Ortega y Ortiz. Effective Friday, June 30, 2017 – Rev. Scott McKee, currently pastor for St. Patrick in Chama, San Jose in Los Ojos, and Santo Niño in Tierra Amarilla, has been appointed as parochial vicar for St. Thomas Aquinas in Rio Rancho, under the guidance of the pastor, Msgr. Douglas Raun. Effective Friday, June 30, 2017 – Rev. Ted Butler, currently parochial vicar for Estancia Valley Catholic Parish in Moriarty, has been appointed as pastor for St. Patrick in Chama, San Jose in Los Ojos, and Santo Niño in Tierra Amarilla. Effective Friday, June 30, 2017 – Rev. John Paul Afuecheta, currently parochial vicar for St. Thomas Aquinas in Rio Rancho, has been appointed as parochial vicar for Estancia Valley Catholic Parish in Moriarty, under the guidance of the pastor, Rev. Robert Lancaster.
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The Fifth Encuentro: The Joy of Being Missionary Disciples! By Rocío Gonzalez, Co-Chair for the V Encuentro in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe
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everal parishes in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe are now engaged in the V Encuentro Process—a process of reflection, consultation and evangelization that invites us all to offer our insights and be missionary disciples who bring the Good News of Jesus to our brothers and sisters wherever we encounter them. We are deeply grateful for the support of our pastors, facilitators and parish teams who have come to the orientation sessions and facilitator trainings and who are currently engaging their parishes with this worthwhile and important process of pastoral activity and consultation. Thank you! Members of the following parishes have participated in orientations/facilitator trainings: Albuquerque Church of the Ascension Holy Family Holy Ghost Immaculate Conception Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Our Lady of the Annunciation Our Lady of the Assumption Our Lady of Guadalupe Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Prince of Peace Queen of Heaven San Felipe de Neri San José Santuario de San Martin de Porres Shrine of the Little Flower / St Therese of the Infant Jesus St. Anne St. Edwin St. Francis Xavier
St. Joseph on the Rio Grande St. Jude Santa Fe Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi San Isidro Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe St. Anne St. John the Baptist Our Lady of Sorrows, Bernalillo St Anthony, Dixon Sacred Heart, Española San Diego Mission, Jemez Pueblo Misión San Juan Diego, Los Lunas Estancia Valley Catholic Parish, Moriarty San Antonio de Padua, Peñasco Our Lady of Guadalupe, Peralta St. Helen. Portales St. Thomas Aquinas, Rio Rancho San Juan Bautista, Ohkay Owingeh Holy Cross, Santa Cruz St. Rose of Lima, Santa Rosa San Miguel, Socorro St. Joseph, Springer St. Anne, Tucumcari If your parish has not yet started the process of the five parish sessions on missionary discipleship and consultation, it’s not too late!! Our office is prepared to provide materials to make your V Encuentro experience a great success: Facilitator guides, V Encuentro reflection Journals, prayer cards, bracelets and keychains are provided at no cost to you! Missed the orientation or facilitator training? Individual parish trainings can also still be scheduled through our office. Questions about the process? Call the Office of Hispanic Ministry—we will be happy to assist you. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to experience a Church that “goes out” to reach those on the margins with the Good News of Christ! To pick up your parish materials contact Elvia Becerra at 505.831.8147 or ebecerra@archdiosf.org To schedule a training/address questions about the V Encuentro process contact Rocio González at 505-831-8152 or rgonzalez@archdiosf.org SAVE THE DATE: The archdiocesan Encuentro, a day of reflection and consultation for all who have participated in the parish sessions in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe will take place on October 14, 2017 in Albuquerque. Stay tuned for more information. Visit: www.vencuentro.org for more information
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The joy of being Missionary Disciples. Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi participates in the V Encuentro.
8:00am – 2:30pm Santuario de San Martin de Porres 8321 Camino San Martin, Albuquerque, NM 87121 For more information, contact Marie Carmen Baca at 505.977.5518 or mcbacas@msn.com
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Church Leaders Keep Asking for Compassion Toward Immigrants By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In early May, after the archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, made a statement about an executive order dealing with immigration, he seems to have received more than a few unhappy responses. “A few wrote to me to say, among other things, that they are dismayed at my apparent lack of respect for our immigration laws,” said Archbishop John C. Wester in a May post on the archdiocese’s website titled “Laws are meant to protect human beings, not break them.” Sometimes people say, “What don’t you understand about illegal?” he continued. He said he also has heard others talk about “those illegals.” But “it is important to establish that no human being is ‘illegal’”, he wrote, and “how we refer to one another makes a difference.” At the national and local level, church leaders have been trying to comfort immigrant Catholic communities, while at the same time responding to criticism from other Catholics about their outreach to immigrants. “The issue of immigration continues to raise controversy at both the national and state level, often spurring passionate debate that offers little hope for reconciliation and resolution,” said a May 30 statement from the Maryland Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the Baltimore and Washington archdioceses and the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware. The statement urged Catholics and “all people of faith and goodwill to come together in a spirit of compassion, prudence, and cooperation to address the challenges faced by immigrants, elected officials, law enforcement and our communities as a whole.” The Maryland conference statement asked local elected officials and lawmakers to “respect the spirit of our country’s Fourth Amendment protection against apprehension and searches of persons or homes without probable cause,” and to prioritize “the integrity of families and the
ability of working parents to support and care for their children.” It also asked Catholics and others to respect differences of opinion, to listen and not resort to name-calling, “nor to allow partisan and hyperbolic factions to dominate the political debate on immigration.” Archbishop Wester, whose archdiocese May 25 issued a memo to employees on what to do if federal immigration officials show up to carry out a raid or other activities on church property, urged others “not to be taken in by political sound bites or rhetoric that instills fear. Rather, let us take the time to hear the stories of those immigrants coming to our shores and borders.” He said that while he respects immigration laws, it’s fair to say that the country’s “immigration system of laws is broken and completely inadequate to deal with the immigration reality we face in our country and in our world.” That’s why the Catholic bishops of the United States have been advocating for immigration reform, he said, but “labeling people ‘illegals’ who are here without proper documentation dehumanizes immigrants,” he said. Similarly, the Maryland conference statement urged others to learn about the root causes of immigration, the challenges immigrants face in navigating the country’s complex immigration system, and to develop relationships with immigrants and learn about their “hopes and dreams, fears and sorrows.” Archbishop Wester said in his post that he respects immigration laws “in principle, even though they are terribly flawed just now.” “However, at the same time,” he continued, “I am obliged by my conscience to welcome the strangers in our midst, particularly if they are fleeing economic, political or religious persecution or if they are sure to become victims of violent and organized crime. To simply call some of them ‘illegals’ does not do justice to the ethical and human reality of their situation.”
U.S. BISHOPS CHAIRMAN REGRETS THE PRESIDENT’S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PARIS AGREEMENT June 1, 2017 WASHINGTON—President Donald J. Trump announced today that the United States will not honor the Paris agreement on climate change. The United States and China, the two largest carbon emitters, and 195 other nations, signed the agreement that was ratified in November 2016. The Paris agreement establishes that nations must reduce their carbon dioxide emissions in order to keep global temperatures well below a two-degree Celsius increase in relation to pre-industrial levels. In the following statement, Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces, Chairman of the USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace, stresses that, although the Paris agreement is not the only possible mechanism for addressing global carbon mitigation, the lack of a current viable alternative is a serious concern. Full statement follows: “The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), along with Pope Francis and the entire Catholic Church, have consistently upheld the Paris agreement as an important international mechanism to promote
environmental stewardship and encourage climate change mitigation. The President’s decision not to honor the U.S. commitment to the Paris agreement is deeply troubling. The Scriptures affirm the value of caring for creation and caring for each other in solidarity. The Paris agreement is an international accord that promotes these values. President Trump’s decision will harm the people of the United States and the world, especially the poorest, most vulnerable communities. The impacts of climate change are already being experienced in sea level rise, glacial melts, intensified storms, and more frequent droughts. I can only hope that the President will propose concrete ways to address global climate change and promote environmental stewardship.” The USCCB has voiced support for prudent action and dialogue on climate change since its 2001 statement: “Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence, and the Common Good”. In a letter to Congress in 2015, the U.S. Bishops, along with the presidents of Catholic Charities and Catholic Relief Services, encouraged the United States to sign the Paris agreement. They have since reiterated their support on several occasions. Pope Francis and the Holy See have also consistently voiced support for the Paris agreement.
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CRS Fair Trade Is Now CRS Ethical Trade: What’s In the Name Change? By Anne Avellone, Director, Office of Social Justice and Respect Life
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atholic Relief Services’ (CRS) Fair Trade program has transitioned to CRS Ethical Trade. The program builds upon the strong principles of fair trade while also engaging with other business models that have a positive impact on workers, the environment and local communities. This expanded vision is the reason for the name change to the “umbrella” of Ethical Trade. So what is Ethical Trade? Ethical purchasing is a type of consumer activism where conscientious shoppers purchase products based on the company’s fair treatment of workers and suppliers, care for the environment and community involvement. From the U.S. Bishop’s letter Economic Justice for All to Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, the Church continues to highlight matters of the economy. Catholic social teaching is filled with guidance on how people of faith can transform the world through acts of economic justice. This is done through the daily decisions we make as consumers. Every purchase we make has the power to contribute to a system that supports and protects the dignity of workers or a system that disregards the value of the human person and human work. This increased social consciousness of globalization and its effects on vulnerable producers has led to the creation of a number of socially conscious business models. These models often
align with fair trade principles yet have products and practices that are vetted through alternative systems. In looking at the global landscape, CRS wanted to build upon our strong foundation of fair trade business partners and include other businesses that are trading fairly and meet CRS criteria. This helps CRS to focus more broadly on the faith connection and advocacy issues associated with the dignity of work and the rights of workers. With a new website, faith formation resources and an on-line ethical shopping directory featuring everything from apparel to religious gifts, CRS continues to be a useful tool for your ministry. CRS inspires Catholics to act on their faith and values by building on the principles of fair trade and moving beyond its boundaries to include other models of ethical trade. The CRS Ethical Trade program provides seamless access to information about ethically traded products from companies and organizations that meet CRS’s high standards, compelling content that connects shoppers to their faith and to the world, and opportunities to champion a more just workplace for the most vulnerable producers. All of the companies/organizations CRS works with are trading fairly and have a third party verification system in place. In choosing new partners, a set of criteria was established based on the principles of fair and alternative trading models as well as Catholic social teaching. The CRS Ethical Trade program mobilizes the Catholic community to live their faith through
The Storehouse New Mexico provides free food to people in need. Customers are able to choose their own food through a “retail, grocery shopping experience” or “pop up market” once each month. At least 30% of meals contain fresh fruits and vegetables, are healthy and well balanced. The Storehouse operates a fixed pantry site at 106 Broadway SW in Albuquerque. One of the largest obstacles for those in need to access food is a lack of transportation to distribution sites. In an attempt to meet that need, The Storehouse, in partnership with the Sandia Foundation, began the first Storehouse Mobile Neighborhood Pantry. This is held at the Westside Community Center on the first Saturday of the month. Each mobile pantry provides 150200 people with approximately 25 meals per person each month. Last year, The Storehouse fed 50,000 hard-working families and children, people who would otherwise go to bed hungry without the support of the community and corporate donors. There are three specific ways to help The Storehouse fight hunger: Make a financial contribution. This allows the purchase of food at wholesale prices. Call Glenna at 505.449.4021. Start a food drive. Food donations are a critical part of the work of The Storehouse. Collection bins will be dropped off and picked up by Storehouse staff. For more information email:
practicing ethical purchasing grounded in Catholic social teaching with a global focus. CRS works with more than 20 companies to promote fair and ethically traded products such as: coffee and tea, home décor, chocolate and candy, religious items, jewelry, and products for special occasions for use by Catholic individuals and institutions. CRS offers an online directory of fair and ethically traded products from companies that meet CRS’s high standards and opportunities for parishes, schools and universities to host fair trade sales. In addition to inviting folks to purchase fair and ethically traded products, CRS provides opportunities to reflect and advocate on issues affecting the most vulnerablehuman trafficking, climate change and livelihoods for refugees. When you purchase fair and ethically traded items from CRS partners, a donation is made to the CRS Fair Trade Fund. The fund supports CRS projects CRS FAIR TRADE Continued on page 17
info@thestorehouseabq.org. Volunteer. There are various opportunities to volunteer at The Storehouse. Volunteering as a group can also be a fun, teambuilding experience. Groups of up to 30 can be accommodated. The Storehouse would love to match you with the perfect use of your time and talents. For more information, email: info@ thestorehouseabq.org If you are in need of assistance, please contact The Storehouse New Mexico at 505.842.6491 or via email at info@ thestorehouseabq.org.
Save the Date: Feed the Hungry Day September 30, 2017
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Celebrate World Refugee Day! Local Events Held in June
CRS Responds to the Hunger Crisis in Africa As you may have seen in the media, the hunger crisis in Africa is growing worse with 23 million people on the brink of starvation because of sustained drought compounded by violence and insecurity. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is on the ground responding to this crisis on behalf of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS is providing emergency food, water and cash grants for the most vulnerable people, including those who have been displaced from their homes. Join with us as CRS responds in Kenya, Somalia, Uganda and South Sudan with emergency food aid, water and vocational training for the most vulnerable people, including those who have been displaced from their homes. For information on what you can do (learn, pray, act, give) go to http://www. crs.org/get-involved/learn/resourcecenter/respond-hunger-crisis-africa
AACC Fr. Rollins Lambert Family Day Mass Sunday, June 25, 12 Noon Please join the Archdiocese of Santa Fe African American Catholic Community for Mass on June 25, 2017, 12 noon at St. Joseph on the Rio Grande Catholic Church, 5901 St. Joseph’s Dr. NW, Albuquerque. Rev. John Paul Afuecheta will be the celebrant. For more information, please call (505) 836-3627 or (505) 831-8167. CRS FAIR TRADE Continued from page 16
overseas and provides an opportunity to strengthen farmer and artisan cooperatives, products and access to markets. Additionally, the fund supports education, advocacy, and engagement efforts in the U.S. CRS’s traditional parish and school-based fair trade consignment, community orders, coffee sales and fundraisers will continue. CRS added additional faith formation resources to enhance these events, as well as opportunities for Catholic institutions to purchase large orders at wholesale prices from companies featured in the CRS on-line directory. Go to ethicaltrade.crs.org to learn more!
For decades, the Catholic Church has responded to the plight of vulnerable refugees through advocacy, education efforts, and service provision. On June 20, we celebrate World Refugee Day, which is an opportunity to reflect on the vulnerable situation of refugees. Please use USCCB Migration and Refugee Services’ World Refugee Day Toolkit in your parish and local community to educate others and take action. Locally, Lutheran Family Services and Catholic Charities are teaming up to host a number of activities around World Refugee Day. All are encouraged to attend! June 15, 5:30 - 7pm Know Your Rights: ACLU Presentation for Immigrants and Allies Both events at St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church: 211 Jefferson St NE ABQ, NM 505. 933. 7032 June 17 World Refugee Day Celebration: Saturday, June 17th, 5-9pm Music, dance, food, & culture 5pm - 6pm Citizenship Ceremony 6pm-9pm Activities & meal honoring Ramadan Highland High School, 4700 Coal Avenue SE ABQ, 505. 933. 7032 facebook.com/ ABQrefugee
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A Prayer for Migrants and Refugees Good and gracious God, we thank you for the gift of families. We are grateful for all of the joy and love that they bring into our lives, and we ask that you provide special protection for all families, particularly those who face hardships as they move in search of a better life. Show mercy to those who travel in danger, and lead them to a place of safety and peace. Comfort those who are alone and afraid because their families have been torn apart by violence and injustice. As we reflect upon the difficult journey that the Holy Family faced as refugees in Egypt, help us to remember the suffering of all migrant families. Through the intercession of Mary our Mother, and St. Joseph the Worker, her husband, we pray that all migrants may be reunited with their loved ones and find the meaningful work they seek. Open our hearts so that we may provide hospitality for all who come in search of refuge. Give us the courage to welcome every stranger as Christ in our midst. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen
Fortnight for Freedom: Freedom for Mission, June 21-July 4 In the statement, Our First, Most Cherished Liberty (April 2012), the USCCB’s Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty announced the first Fortnight for Freedom – a call to fourteen days of prayer, education, and action for religious freedom in the United States and abroad. The theme of this year’s Fortnight is Freedom for Mission. The theme seeks to complement the USCCB-hosted Convocation of Catholic Leaders, which includes a focus on missionary discipleship and will take place in Orlando from July 1 to July 4. The Fortnight for Freedom will again take place from June 21 to July 4. This two‐week period is a time when our liturgical calendar celebrates a series of great martyrs who remained faithful in the face of persecution by political power, including St. Thomas More and St.
John Fisher, St. John the Baptist, SS. Peter and Paul, and the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome. In past years, people have participated in the Fortnight in diverse ways, including interfaith prayer services, special Masses and holy hours, and other events where speakers have highlighted the various threats to religious liberty, including at home and abroad. This year, we encourage Christians to use these two weeks to reflect on the importance of religious freedom so that the Church might have space to carry out her mission of service and mercy. We also invite Christians to pray for our brothers and sisters who face intense persecution in other parts of the world. For more information or for sample prayers and reflections about the Fortnight, see www.fortnightforfreedom.org
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love, day after day, with Jesus Christ. You are one with Christ in this way, Jeremiah’s words ring truer than ever: “Do not be afraid, for I am with you.” Today, you are called to what poet George Herbert called that “glorious and transcendent place” where you will preach the word of God, becoming a window through which God’s grace will flow. Dear brothers, for the WORD to be effective in your ministries and in your lives, you must be one, not only with Christ, but with Christ’s people, His Church. In today’s second reading, Paul reflects beautifully: “We commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience.” In other words, Paul is one with those he serves, not above them. Reginald Fuller once said: “Jesus entered the deepest consequences of human sin – our alienation from God. He takes His stand where we are as sinners, under the wrath of God, alienated from Him, so that we may become what He, Jesus, is – the righteousness of God.” The Greek fathers asserted the same: “Christ partook of our human nature in order that we might become partakers of His divine nature.” This is your call, my dear brothers, to follow Christ’s example and be one with your people. You are called from among the people of God to serve the people of God. As the Church instructs you, “For by your ministry the spiritual sacrifice of the faithful will be made perfect, being united to the sacrifice of Christ, which will be offered through your hands in an unbloody way at the altar, In Union With The Faithful, in the celebration of the sacraments. Remember, when you gather others into the people of God through baptism, and when you forgive sins in the name of Christ and the Church in the sacrament of penance; when you comfort the sick with holy oil and celebrate the sacred rites, when you offer prayers of praise and thanks to God throughout the hours of the day, not only for the people of God but for the world – remember then that you are taken from among the people of God and appointed on their behalf for those things that pertain to God.” Pope Francis spoke of the urgency of your being among the people of God in this Holy Thursday address to priests several years ago: He spoke of the sacred robes of the high priest Aaron. Just as he had the names of the children of Israel engraved on the onyx stones mounted on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, the ancestor of our present-day chasuble, so you carry on your shoulders the people entrusted to your care, bearing their names on your hearts. Today, when you put on your chasubles, Pope Francis is reminding you, you might well feel upon your shoulders and in your hearts, the burdens and the faces of our faithful people, our saints and martyrs of whom there are many in these times.” Pope Francis also spoke of the precious oil that flowed over the head of Aaron and will flow over your hands as they are consecrated to the service of the Lord. This oil is not meant to simply lend fragrance to your person but to overflow, figuratively, down to “the edges” of Aaron’s cloak, that is, to the poor, to the immigrant, to the prisoners and the sick; to those sorrowing and alone, to the children with not enough to eat. The pope reminds us that when people have been anointed with the oil of gladness, they know it. They will thank you because you have prayed over the realities of their everyday lives, their troubles, their
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joys, their burdens and their hopes. And when they feel that the fragrance of the Anointed One, of Christ, has come to them through us, through you, they feel encouraged to entrust to you everything they want to bring to the Lord. I’m looking at the faces right now and I know that they agree. Pope Francis reminds us priests and you, my dear brothers, that this is a two way street. You being one with your people will nourish them and YOU. He says, “…the priest who seldom goes out of himself, who anoints little…misses out on the best of our people, on what can stir the depths of his priestly heart…This is precisely the reason why some priests grow dissatisfied, become sad priests, lose heart and become in some sense collectors of antiques or novelties – instead of being shepherds living with ‘the smell of the sheep’, shepherds in the midst of their flock, fishers of men.” Find yourself not only at home with Christ, dear brothers, abiding in the heart of the Father but at the same time in the hearts of your people. For the WORD to be effective, you must always remember that you carry that word in an earthen vessel. Paul reminds us today in the second reading that Jesus ushered in a new era not as a miracle worker but as one who died humbly on the cross. The Word is proclaimed from the cross, not from some lofty, ivory tower. Never lose sight of Hebrews 5:1-3 which states that the priest “…is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness; and because of this he must offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people.” Jesus, crucified in weakness and risen in glory, sends you His Holy Spirit from the Father, so that throughout your priesthood you will be forgiven, guided and strengthened to do the will of the one who sent you. It is in this light that the prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours will be your mainstay: “…where sin has abounded, grace may more abound so that we can become holier through forgiveness and be more grateful to God.” And so, we give thanks today to your parents, your families, your seminaries, your parish families, and to all those who have helped to form you, to shape you and to mold you into the heart of Christ. It is through these various “seminaries”, formal and informal, that, in the words of St. John of the Cross, the love of Jesus so tenderly becomes your own. We give thanks to you Robert, Christopher and Francisco, for your generous response to Christ the Priest, who calls you today from the believing community to be formed more perfectly into his likeness. May you always abide in the inner recesses of Christ’s heart as He looks with love upon you, deep within His eyes imprinting grace and calling you to come to Him and to drink of His life giving water. (Cf. John of the Cross) Your fulfillment is not in rewards, sitting in places of honor. No, your joy is found in placing yourself at the service of the WORD that flows from the heart of Christ to yours. Praise be to Jesus Christ, the Great High Priest, the WORD of God, who calls you friends and now today, His priests. To Him be the glory and the honor and the power both now and forever. Amen.
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St. Pius Academic Decathlon Team Takes Sixth at National Finals By Melissa Sais, St. Pius X High School The St. Pius X High School Academic Decathlon Team earned a sixth place national finish and multiple individual medals at the Academic Decathlon National Finals held April 19-22 in Madison, WI. The team won the New Mexico State Championship in March to earn their entry to national competition. The St. Pius team was composed of all rookie members, in that no student had ever been on a State Champion or Nationals team prior to this school year. The most veteran team members were juniors Bryan Martinez, Jasmine Day and Margaret Carpenter. Rounding out the team were seniors Sam Torres, Tim Tran and Caitlin Vigil; and sophomores Kayla Moehn and Dominic DeBlassie. About 600 total students from 35 U.S. States, Great Britain, China, and Canada competed. Team members brought home three national medals: Moehn and Day both won the Gold Medal in Interview in their respective divisions. Martinez took the Silver Medal in Science and was a scholarship winner for overall score. Day was the scholarship winner for Team MVP. The competition prepares students in 10 subject areas which are art, music, literature, history, economics, math, science, essay writing, speech and personal interview. Teams may be composed of up to nine total students, two each from high, medium, and lower GPA categories. This year’s topic of focus was World War II. Additional awards in the Honors Division include Carpenter, fourth place in Mathematics; Moehn, fifth place in Essay; and DeBlassie ninth place in History.
In the Scholastic division, Martinez, fourth place in Art, fifth place in Interview, sixth place in Mathematics, and sixth place in overall score; Day, sixth place in Art; and Tran, sixth place in Essay. And in the Varsity division, Torres, fourth place in Art, fourth place in Speech, sixth place in History and sixth place in Interview; and Vigil, sixth place in Mathematics. The St. Pius X Academic Teams have won 16 State Championships over the last 20 years of competition, and have ranked as high as fourth in the nation.
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Promise for Our Future 2017 Archbishop’s School Fund Dinner Friday, September 22, 2017 • Sandia Resort & Casino
In May, San Felipe de Neri Catholic School was one of 11 New Mexico schools to receive a CenturyLink Grant. SFdN was awarded $1,700 to purchase new math software. The math software will be used PreK-8th and will help support students’ math fluency. We are proud of our two teachers, Ms. Rafi and Ms. Romero who wrote the grant and we are grateful to CenturyLink for their support in education.
The Archdiocese of Santa Fe Catholic Schools Office is proud to celebrate our 34th Annual Archbishop School Fund Dinner, “Promise for Our Future”. We invite you to be a part of our event on Friday, September 22, 2017 at Sandia Resort & Casino in Albuquerque. The Archdiocese of Santa Fe is a mission archdiocese serving a large Hispanic and Native American population. In a state that is ranked 50th in education and 48th in state poverty rate, our Catholic schools provide a quality education for the children of New Mexico regardless of their race, religion or economic status. Our students score above the national average on standardized achievement tests and our high schools have a 99% graduation rate with 98% of the students going on to college. Many of our graduates are leaders in our community and across the country. The dinner was established to help provide for families who want to take advantage of this quality education through tuition assistance. As you can imagine, this is not near enough to cover the requests we receive each year. Mark your calendars and join us for this special evening, as we make a “Promise for Our Future”.
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Notre Dame Golf Tournament Honors Hugh Reilly and Benefits Local Catholic Charities
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By Joe Carney, Notre Dame Alumni
Newly elected New Mexico State Regent Angelina Romero (center) and IPSR Delfinia Schmitt (right) gave St. Elizabeth Shelter for the homeless in Santa Fe, NM $500. A check for $1,000 was also given on behalf of all the Catholic Daughters of the State of New Mexico to Our Lady of Guadalupe Gift for Life Center (also in Santa Fe) which helps unwed mothers with necessities for their babies.
New State Officers of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas elected at the State Convention in Santa Fe. State Secretary Dr. Catherine Collins from Ranchos de Taos, Second Vice State Regent Yvette Griego from Santa Rosa, State Regent Angelina Romero from Rio Rancho, First Vice State Regent Angela Herrera from Las Vegas and State Treasurer Rosie Duran from Las Cruces.
Now Hiring! Accountant/business manager needed for Catholic parish with large retail operation. Must have accounting degree or 10 years experience with retail and non-profit accounting and bookkeeping, including payroll. Familiarity with Intuit Inventory or other inventory control software a must. Additional familiarity with Connect Now accounting software a plus. Located in beautiful northern NM, this is the perfect position for a meticulous, experienced person who is a team player, visionary and can work independently as well as supervise staff . Salary & benefits DOE. Applicant will be required to take bookkeeping and drug tests, including a background check. All interested applicants are encouraged to apply by e-mail or in care of the following address: Kim Montaño Archdiocese of Santa Fe Director of Audits 4000 St. Joseph’s Pl NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120 kmontano@asfcca.org Please send cover letter, resume, and salary requirements.
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he Notre Dame Club of New Mexico will hold its annual Hugh Reilly Memorial Golf Tournament at 8am on Friday, August 25, 2017 at Paa-ko Ridge Golf Club. This event is open to all Notre Dame fans and supporters of the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God and St. Martin’s Hospitality Center. The event is named for former club president and cancer victim, Hugh Reilly. Hugh was a devoted father, a loving husband and a proud Catholic, committed to serving the Albuquerque community. His work at Dismas House, Habitat for Humanity and Casa Esperanza inspires the Notre Dame Club to continue his mission of service through support of the University’s Summer Service students. Proceeds from the tournament support Notre Dame students volunteering at the Hospitaliers of St. John of God Good Shepherd Center and at St. Martin’s Hospitality Center. These students are participating in the University’s Summer Service Learning Program which allows the students to work with and learn from those in our community often marginalized by society. At each location, the students will provide food, clothing, shelter, health services and community resource referrals to help individuals become self-sufficient and break the cycle of homelessness. A portion of the proceeds of this year’s tournament will also go towards a scholarship fund to help students from New Mexico attend Notre Dame. The tournament will be a four person scramble with a shotgun start at noon. There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams, closest to the pin, and longest drive, silent auctions for Notre Dame tickets and memorabilia and a wide variety of door prizes for all participants. Hole sponsorships and prize donations are welcome. For more information, check the website (newmexico.undclub.org/ HughReillyGolf) or contact Joe Carney at (505) 553-3612 or by email at josephpcarney@yahoo.com.
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Deacon Keith Davis, Director of the Ministry Resource Center and Formation for Christian Service, presents Rosalie Romero with a beautiful silver cross at her retirement celebration. Rosalie worked in the archdiocesan Ministry Resource Center for 26 years, six months and three days. We miss you, Rosalie!
PEOPLE of GOD Joseph Contreras, Business Manager for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, presents Bette Jean Stephens with a plaque celebrating her 26 years of service in the Finance Office. A beautiful celebration was held in her honor. You will be missed, Bette!
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Calling all Catholic Men! By Dave Meurer, Men Under Construction
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egistration is now open for the 11th annual “Men Under Construction”, being held on Saturday, August 12, 2017. Preregistration is a great bargain at only $30, which includes breakfast and lunch. Like last year, the day’s activities are at the National Hispanic Cultural Center at 4th and Bridge SW. Last year, we sold out, so please pre-register now to guarantee your place. In addition to a homily from our host, Archbishop John C. Wester, we have nationally renowned speakers Tim Staples from Catholic Radio, and Deacon Keith Strohm from Chicago. This incredible lineup of speakers will target men exactly where we most need their motivating messages. Men Under Construction is for all men who want to invest a day with hundreds of others learning and praying about their own faith journey. Sometimes, being a Catholic man can seem lonely, and this is a chance to meet other men who have felt the same way. Bottom line – you are not alone! Along with over 700 other guys, you will develop ideas and tools to be better men, strong fathers and sons, and confident leaders. We start with breakfast at 7 am, and the program at 8 am. We conclude at 4 pm. We make sure we have many priests available for the sacrament of reconciliation, if you seek that. Invite a friend, relative, or fellow parishioner to join you on August 12. Your encouragement could be an opening for God to soften their proud and stubborn heart (sound familiar?). If you are a woman who cares for men in your life, encourage him to attend or go ahead and register him, and then tell him! Just get him there that morning, and with the Holy Spirit’s inspiration, we’ll do the rest. Register now at www.mucNM.com, or call 505.831.8253. Scholarships are available if you have financial difficulty. Join us for this life changing day! Preregister now so you can be part of what will be a “sold out” event.
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Receive the Body of Christ
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St. Augustine Parish in Isleta Pueblo
Thirty-four students from the Religious Education Program at St. Augustine Parish in Isleta Pueblo received the sacrament of Holy Communion on April 29, 2017 and May 6, 2017. Posing with the students are Rev. George Pavamkott, and teachers Carmen Lucero and Victoria Johnson.
Jose Andrade
Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in La Joya The celebrant was Rev. Eli Felipe Valadez. L-R back row-Christopher Gonzalez Jr., Rev. Eli Valadez, Atzsel Jacob, Hugo Gonzalez, Lesly Gonzalez, Eirete Gonzalez. L-R front row-Johanna Almeida, Jerilynn Suarez, Camila Ornelas, Sashenica Perez Rilee Chavez, Augustine Griego.
St. Charles Borromeo in Albuquerque
Korrie Lopez
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Gathered here with Fr. Jerome D. Mueller and Deacon John Rasinski are St. Charles Borromeo religious education’s first communion class.
St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Abiquiu Rev. James Sanchez celebrated First Holy Communion at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Abiquiu on April 30, 2017.
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CONFIRMATIONS Come Holy Spirit
St. Charles Borromeo in Albuquerque
San Miguel Socorro Pictured here are San Miguel’s (Socorro) confirmandi. Celebrants were Very Rev. John Daniel and Fr. John Anasiudu, pastor.
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Fr. John Daniel and Fr. Jerome D. Mueller, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo, presided over confirmation in April.
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CONFIRMATIONS STA (ST. THOMAS AQUINAS) St. Charles San Miguel OLOS La Joya St. Anthonys Questa
St. Thomas Aquinas in Rio Rancho Confirmation Class 2017 at St. Thomas Aquinas Celebrated by Most Rev. John C. Wester and pastor Msgr. Douglas A. Raun
St. Anthony’s Parish in Questa Archbishop John C. Wester and Rev. Andrew Ifele, pastor, concelebrated the confirmation Mass at St. Anthony’s Parish in Questa.
The celebrant was Very Rev. John C. Daniel, V.G. and pastor is Rev. Eli Felipe Valadez. From left to right- Rev. John Daniel, Ulises Corral, Jaime Barragan, Sebastian Sanchez, Jorge Hernandez, Roman Garcia, Rev. Eli Valadez.
Jose Andrade
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Anniversaries
Lujan Lucas and Jane Lujan were married on May 25, 1957 at St. Anthony’s Church in Pecos, NM. They have resided in Las Vegas, NM since then, and have five children: Joseph (deceased), Leroy, Joanne, Raymond, and Joyce (husband Martin Garcia). Lucas was born in Cañoncito de las Manuelitas, NM in 1935 and attended Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School in Las Vegas. Jane was born in Pecos, NM in 1937 and attended the Loretto Academy in Santa Fe, NM, graduating in 1956. Mr. and Mrs. Lujan are members of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Las Vegas, NM. Through the years, they have served the parish as mayordomos, members of St. Vincent
de Paul, with Lucas also serving on the parish council and with the Holy Name Society, and Jane serving as an officer and member of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas. Both have sung in their parish choir since 1979, and both made the cursillo.
Archuleta, Valdez Mr. Gregorio J. Valdez and Miss Irma Archuleta were joined in holy matrimony on May 27, 1967 by Fr. Pacien, OFM at St. Rose Church in Cebolla, NM. They are presently members of St. Mary’s Church in Bloomfield, NM. They have been blessed with six children Greg Valdez, Jr. and wife Tanya, Pauline Newton and fiancé Steve, Loretta Austin and husband Jeff, Angela Valdez, Patricia Valdez and Reba Garner and husband Earl. They have 15 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Mr. Valdez and Mrs. Valdez are now retired and presently living in Blanco, NM.
Mr. Valdez is a Vietnam Veteran, now he and his wife do a lot of traveling and are planning a cruise to the Caribbean for their 50th anniversary together with their children and grandchildren.
Vallucci, Trollinger Mr. Clifford E. Trollinger and Miss Bertha Vallucci celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on April 11, 2017. They were married at St Patrick’s Catholic Church in Raton, NM. The wedding party consisted of her cousin, Rose Gabriele and her brother, Frank Vallucci. Their children are Vincent and wife Danice, Julie and husband Pete Bachechi, Everett and wife Tammy, as well as grandchildren, Ryan and wife Mandi Trollinger, Jeffrey and wife Ellen Trollinger, Emily and Tyler Trollinger, and two great grandchildren, Alexander and Lunaria Trollinger. Clifford and Bertha have been members of St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Albuquerque since 1954. Both were active in past years. She volunteered with Ladies Auxiliary and he volunteered wherever needed. Bertha retired from Sandia Lab-
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oratories. Clifford is a World War II Veteran and served in the Navy as a metalsmith on the repair ship USS Agenor in the Battle of Iwo Jima. He then retired from General Electric Aircraft. The couple feels very blessed in many ways. The family will gather together later this summer at their cabin in Northern New Mexico.
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Going On, Ahead
Can I Donate My Body to Science? Some people may wish to “donate their body to science” after they die. Such a gift of themselves can be objectively good and praiseworthy provided that their body would contribute to meaningful research or study, and that it would not be used in a disrespectful or otherwise inappropriate manner. There are number of potentially laudable projects that can benefit from a person’s decision to donate his or her body to science. A human cadaver can be useful for anatomical studies, to help train medical students to save lives later. It can be of assistance in carrying out basic biomedical research or in developing new medical instruments. It can be used as a forensic tool to help solve crimes, such as studying advanced states of bodily decay. It can assist with the training of surgeons, and can even help with the development of various types of safety or protective gear, like helmets, automobile airbags or bulletproof vests. In 1956, Pope Pius XII noted that consenting to “damage to the integrity of the corpse in the interest of those who are suffering, is no violation of the reverence due to the dead.” St. John Paul II wrote in a 1995 encyclical that one way of nurturing a genuine culture of life “is the donation of organs, performed in an ethically acceptable manner, with a view to offering a chance of health and even of life itself to the sick who sometimes have no other hope” (EV 86). The U.S. Catholic bishops have given similar guidance in their policy document called The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services: “Catholic health care institutions should encourage and provide the means whereby those who wish to do so may arrange for the donation of their organs and bodily tissue, for ethically legitimate purposes, so that they may be used for donation and research after death” (No. 63). Although there are not any fundamental moral objections to donating our bodies to science, certain details of how the donation is carried out are important. First, bodily remains should be properly interred in the earth at the conclusion of their use. The body should not be surrendered to researchers and then merely “left in limbo.” Often a university or research institution will oversee and pay for the cremation of the body after the research is completed, so the family can then be given the ashes. This may be specified in the agreement signed by the individual ahead of time. Assuring appropriate respect and reverence for the body would thus include arranging for burial in consecrated ground afterwards. A second consideration of importance for Catholics involves the offering of prayers, and particularly the sacrifice of the Mass, on behalf of the deceased. Rev. Edward McNamara, a well-known writer and liturgy professor in Rome, offers some practical guidance in this regard: “Since it is usually impossible to have a funeral with the remains shortly after death, as this would render the body unsuitable for research purposes, a memorial Mass without the body can be celebrated so as to entrust the soul of the deceased to God and offer the family the opportunity of mourning together. When the remains are released to the family, another Mass may be offered.” A third potential area of concern involves the possibility that certain cells or tissues derived from the human body may be inappropriately used in research. To consider one instance, it is possible to harBIOETHICS Continued on page 27
By Rev. Ronald Rolheiser, OFM
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go on ahead to prepare a place for you!” Jesus speaks those words to his disciples on the eve of his death as he sits at table with them and senses their sadness as they grapple with his dying, his going away. His words are meant to console them and give them the assurance that they aren’t being abandoned. It’s just that he is going on ahead to prepare a place for them to come and join him later. That story speaks to me very personally because of how one of my sisters died. She was young, the mother of a large family, and seemingly too young to leave her young children behind. She was dying of a cancer that, while relentlessly doing its deadly work, mercifully left her relatively pain-free and clear in mind and heart to the very end. The cancer eventually took her to a point where she could no longer eat, but could still be nourished for a time by intravenous transfusions. But these too eventually no longer worked and, once unhooked from the intravenous needles, she was told that she had roughly a week still to live. She chose to spend those last days in a hospital rather than at home, with her family having easy, 24-hour, access to her hospice bed. The days leading up to her death were a sacred time. I took her communion several days before she died and, with her head still very clear, she told me what I should say at her funeral liturgy. She had chosen that exact text where Jesus, on the night before he dies, tells his heavy-hearted disciples that he is going ahead, to prepare a place for them. She shared how, before every one of her children was born, before she went to the hospital to give birth, she had carefully prepared everything at home for the new arrival, the crib, the diapers, the clothing, the room. She brought each of her children home to a place she had carefully prepared. And now she was going on ahead of them again, to prepare another place for them. I preached those words at her funeral and despite our grief and despite the fact that in moments like these there is nothing really that can be said that takes away the pain, her raw testimony of faith left us with an image that placed us all, not least her husband and children, inside
a bigger story, a faith-narrative, that highlighted two things. First, the image of her going on ahead of her children awakened our grieving faith to the truth that a mother can go on ahead to prepare a place for her children in much deeper ways than simply bringing a new-born home from a hospital. Second, her “going ahead” was also showing her children, and the rest of us, how to die, how to do that act that we all someday must do. After you watch a good person die, you become less afraid to die yourself because you see how it can be done in an ordinary way, by an ordinary person, in a way that you can also do. In her dying, she prepared a place for us. But this isn’t a lesson only about dying. This image, I go on ahead to prepare a place for you, is a metaphor which defines the essential task of our adult, mature years. Our task of as “elders”, whether that be as a mother or father, an older brother or older sister, an uncle or an aunt, a teacher, a clergyman, a nurse, a worker, a colleague, or a friend, is to live in such a way so as to create a place where the young can follow. Our task as adults is to show the young how to live at a place where they’ve never been as yet. And it is both a noble and humble task. Most of us cannot live up to the lofty ideals we see lived out in the lives of the great saints, though their lives have created an ideal place for us. However, while not everyone can live as Mother Teresa did, perhaps they can live like you do and your life can be their exemplar for meaning, wholeness, anonymous sanctity, and dying without unnecessary fear. I’ve been graced to be at the deathbed of a goodly number of ordinary people who died very ordinary looking deaths, with no choirs of angels silently chanting in the background, no alleluias on their lips, with pain and thirst dominating their concerns, with their hands being tightly grasped by loved ones, and their hearts still very much focused on the pain of leaving this world. And that’s not a bad way to die. In how they managed their deaths they prepared a place for me. Looking at how they died, I am far less fearful and can more readily say: I can do this! What a grace to have someone go on ahead to prepare a place for you!
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How Faith Drives Hope
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Our new columnist, Rev. Jack Wall, will offer a unique perspective on Catholicism in America
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he hope that fueled the young Lakota at Standing Rock can show us a way. Recently a group of young Native Americans on Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota did the improbable: They made the world stop and listen. On the sheer power of a sense of purpose, they formed a movement. Made up of a ragtag ensemble of youth — most under age 25 and many in deep personal pain — they came together because they cared about the environmental and cultural fate of their homeland. The group, primarily Lakota, were sounding the horn about the Dakota Access pipeline that would tunnel under the Missouri River, their main water source, and pass through sacred burial grounds. In December 2016 there was a temporary halt in construction. But by February that ban was lifted and the onsite camps that had been home to the youth and their followers, totaling more than 10,000, were cleared. One may agree or disagree with the issue the Lakota took their stance on, but perhaps there is something that matters more — we saw young people take stunningly bold and heartfelt action. Their actions said loud and clear that they care. During that pipeline standoff, they cared about their future. They cared about their community and its traditions. They organized a peaceful resistance. They showed compassion. They formed prayer circles. They built friendships. They disallowed alcohol, drugs and weapons on the premises. They forgave. They may have had a few missteps along the way, but deep within themselves, they found the power to affirm hope and create change. At Standing Rock, we saw hope. At Catholic Extension, we are hope seekers. We are always looking for the flickers of light. We look for people who can see that we are more than our circumstances, that God is calling us to something larger that will make our fragile, frayed, disengaged lives better. We understand that what drives hope is faith and even in Native American communities, who face so many challenges, we have found channels of hope and people of faith who have experienced that faith can upturn any and every sense of hopelessness. For example, at St. Francis Mission on Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, we are honored to walk with beacons of hope such as its director, Jesuit Father John Hatcher;
Deacon Ben Black Bear Jr. serves the Lakota people at St. Francis Mission on the Rosebud Reservation in the Diocese of Rapid City, South Dakota. A beacon of hope, he is dedicated to preserving the language and heritage of the Lakota people, and he is the diocese’s 2017 nominee for Catholic Extension’s Lumen Christi Award. (Photo by Rich Kalonick, Catholic Extension)
Geraldine Provencial, who heads addiction and recovery ministries, and Ben Black Bear Jr., who has been a deacon for 40 years, preserving Lakota culture. In Montana, we work with Father Ed Kohler, pastor of Little Flower Church on the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning. Each one is changing the life trajectory of many Native Americans. On the Native American lands nationwide, we need a movement of faith that inspires hope and ignites change. At Standing Rock, we saw individuals who believe that the world can be different. We saw young people energized and empowered. At Catholic Extension, we live for these sparks of passion. We know these sparks often get clouded by the struggles of everyday life, but when people are open to God’s invitation to build a better world, we see a place to help. We know that faith is taking root. Let us not miss the enormity of what happened at Standing Rock when young people formed the International Indigenous Youth Council and more than 500 Indian tribes and other allies joined them: In a culture where the elders typically lead, the youth took the initiative. In a place where it is so easy to become dispirited, they were electrified. While the hurts of several centuries are very real, they found healing.
One young participant told ABC News, “As an indigenous person you sometimes feel that nobody sees you…, that people don’t want you around. You feel like if you disappeared, everybody would be happy. It feels good to be acknowledged as a human being.” Standing Rock was transformative. How powerful it would be if this energy could now be directed to other challenges these young people face — substance abuse, violence and suicide — that also call for massive transformation. Catholics are an “Easter people.” We believe in transformation and new life and that faith is the basis for these seismic changes. At Catholic Extension, we see how faith communities connect hurting and seemingly powerless people and help them create change. Faith communities raise the human dignity and sustainability of civil society. They restore and rehabilitate. Faith communities ground hope and propel change. The youth of Standing Rock stood up. Let’s help keep them standing. Father Jack Wall is the president of Catholic Extension, a papal society that builds churches and the Church in America’s poorest places. Catholic Extension provides about $1 million annually for Native American ministries in 24 U.S. dioceses.
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Honor Your Loved Ones With An Engraved Brick In Our Meditation Garden
Building Blessing & Community Open House Saturday, July 22
Join us this July for a very special celebration with Archbishop John C. Wester, Catholic Charities staff, volunteers and board of directors, and our surrounding community to bless and celebrate our new home at Casa de Corazon! The morning will consist of a formal blessing and recognition of all who helped make this dream a reality. The afternoon celebration will feature delicious fare from food trucks, entertainment by local bands and other fun summer festivities. We hope you will join us! Please visit our website for additional details: www.ccasfnm.org
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Bricks are still available for purchase online (www.ccasfnm. org) or by calling 505.724.4637. These will complete our Community Courtyard and Meditation Garden, which is graced by a beautiful tile mosaic of Our Lady of Guadalupe, created by artist, Lisa Domenici. Bricks are $50 each, and each brick can have up to three lines, with 14 characters each (including spaces and punctuation). All who purchase
bricks will be invited to an open house and celebration of our new building after your brick(s) have been engraved and installed.
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UNA SOCIEDAD LIBRE: Los inmigrantes están integrados en comunidades en todo nuestro estado. Debemos adoptar un enfoque humanitario de esta realidad, reflejando nuestra singular cultura, historia y espíritu de inclusión. La forma en que tratemos a los inmigrantes hablará más sobre nosotros como una sociedad libre y menos sobre nuestros vecinos inmigrantes. Nuestro estado debe ser siempre un sitio que acoge a las personas de buena voluntad. Nuestra incursión en la postura de la Iglesia en asuntos de inmigración nos lleva de principios a objetivos y luego a una aplicación local en el diálogo sobre la inmigración. Reconozco la complejidad del debate sobre la reforma migratoria, sin embargo, la clave para la Iglesia es la santidad de toda vida humana y la dignidad de cada persona ante Dios. Animo a toda persona de buena voluntad a trabajar para alcanzar nuestros objetivos de un sistema de inmigración justo y humanitario, que honre nuestra dignidad y derechos otorgados por Dios y reconozca que somos una familia ante Dios, hermanos y hermanas en Cristo. De esta manera, podemos respetar las fronteras de nuestra nación, pero también reconocer que el amor de Dios trasciende las fronteras; nuestro amor debería hacer lo mismo. Sinceramente suyo en el Señor,
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vest sex cells, or their progenitor cells, from corpses even up to a few hours following death. Some researchers might be tempted to use these cells, for example, to create human embryos in the laboratory for biomedical research. Although such practices are uncommon, if an individual believed that his or her cells were likely to be used in this unethical way by a research institution, they should not agree to donate their bodies after death. Those contemplating the possibility of donating their bodies to science should weigh a fourth consideration as well, namely, whether others in their family are open to their body being utilized in this way. They should find out whether their spouse, children, or others close to them would have any objections or concerns. At the end of the day, there may be some family members who, in the words of one commentator, can’t quite get past the idea, “that you will be dissected over a period of months in anatomy class, or cut up and divided among different programs (brain to an Alzheimer’s study, joints to an orthopedic surgery training).” Careful vetting of the details ahead of time helps avoid resentment, pain and surprises after a loved one passes on. With these caveats and considerations in mind, donating a body to science can indeed allow someone to “give back” or “contribute to society” after death. 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. See www. ncbcenter.org
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“should have stayed with the original travel ban.” On June 1, the U.S. Department of Justice asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn decisions by lower courts blocking the travel ban. The Justice Department is seeking a way to implement the president’s troubled executive order, which the other lower courts have blocked saying it unfairly targets Muslims, despite a revision -- one that the president criticized as “watered down” on Twitter. The Supreme Court of the United States has given opponents of the travel ban until June 12 to respond to the government’s request to allow immediate implementation of the executive order. It’s hard to say what impact the president’s words -- and tweets -- will have on any decision by the high court, but he vented his frustrations against the courts calling them in tweets “slow and political.”
Bishops: Senate health care bill must respect life, be ‘truly affordable’
Vigil Charismatic Renewal Pope Francis gestures as he attends a Pentecost vigil marking the 50th anniversary of the Catholic charismatic renewal at the Circus Maximus in Rome June 3. Pictured next to the pope are Michelle Moran, president of International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services, and Patti Gallagher Mansfield, a participant in the 1967 Pittsburgh retreat that marked the beginning of the Charismatic renewal. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
U.S. Catholics Join Pope in Praying for Victims of London Attacks
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- U.S. Catholics joined Pope Francis and the rest of the world in expressing sorrow for those killed and severely injured in the latest terrorist attacks in London the night of June 3. “The vigil of Pentecost had barely begun when the world was burdened yet again, this time by the sinister attacks on innocent men and women in the heart of London,” Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in an early June 4 statement. “In such tragic hours, we implore the Holy Spirit to pour out his gift of comfort on those who grieve the loss of loved ones and on the dozens who were so tragically injured in this horrible attack,” he said. “At the same time, we see in the courage of the first responders the true and courageous spirit of our brothers and sisters, the people of Great Britain.” After celebrating Mass on Pentecost, June 4, with an estimated 60,000 people in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis offered public prayers for the victims of the attacks in London that left seven people dead and 48 others injured. “May the Holy Spirit grant peace to the whole world,” he said. “May He heal the wounds of war and of terrorism, which even last night in London struck innocent civilians. Let us pray for the victims and their families.”
President Takes Travel Ban Battle to U.S. Supreme Court -- and Twitter
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a series of tweets June 5, U.S. President Donald Trump seemed to express frustration with his own lawyers’ efforts to push forward with a revised version of a plan that seeks to temporarily ban travelers and refugees from certain majority Muslim countries, and said the lawyers
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Members of the U.S. Senate “have a grave obligation” to make sure their health care reform bill respects life, provides access to adequate health care “for all” and is “truly affordable,” the chairmen of four U.S. bishops’ committees said in a letter to senators released June 2. As the Senate takes up health care reform, it “must act decisively to remove the harmful proposals from the House bill that will affect low-income people -- including immigrants -- as well as add vital conscience protections, or begin reform efforts anew,” the chairmen said, reiterating key moral principles they urged be in the U.S. House bill to replace the Affordable Care Act. By a four-vote margin May 4, the House passed the American Health Care Act to replace the Obama administration’s health care law. Senate Republicans have been urged to pass health care legislation before the congressional recess at the end of July. After House passage of its measure, the U.S. bishops “noted the positive aspects” of the bill, including “critical life protections” for the unborn, the letter said, but the measure “contains many serious flaws” the Senate must act to change, it added. It was signed by New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, chairman, Committee on Pro-Life Activities; Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, chairman, Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty; Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman, Committee on Domestic Justice Chairman and Human Development; and Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas, chairman, Committee on Migration.
Hispanic students express fear, uncertainty amid immigration clampdown
PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) -- Countless immigrants across the country live in a climate of fear sparked by actions in the new administration, including President Donald Trump’s plan to build a U.S.-Mexico wall, his executive order on immigration enforcement and several highly public raids. Alongside the concerns of adult immigrants are the worries of their children. At dinner tables and in classrooms, young Latinos are trying to make sense of overheard conversations, the onslaught of immigration-related stories disseminated by news outlets and activists, and -- foremost -- the instability in their families. “Students are on edge, often distracted, occasionally distraught because they fear for their family’s wellbeing,” said Tim Joy, principal of De La Salle North Catholic High School in Portland, which is nearly 40 percent Latino. “We’ve had many students in tears.” He said some parents are too fearful to leave the house to shop for food, “so students are the ones running
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family errands.” Over the past several months, Joy and fellow Catholic school administrators in the Archdiocese of Portland have been trying to find ways to support Latino students and their parents. “Our teachers and counselors do what they can to comfort, forbear with missed assignments -- helping in any way possible,” Joy told the Catholic Sentinel, newspaper of the Portland Archdiocese.
Medieval traditions used by Luther to form his stance on justification
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Martin Luther used two medieval traditions to form his position on justification -- a stance that nearly 500 years later ultimately found acceptance among Catholics, according to a German Lutheran theologian and pastor. In theological terms, justification is God’s act of removing the guilt and penalty of sin while at the same time declaring a sinner righteous through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. Luther absorbed the work of 15th-century philosopher Gabriel Biel but ultimately rejected it, according to the Rev. Theodor Dieter, director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Germany. Luther, though, accepted the ideas of an author whose name was never made known but whose work Luther himself published in 1516 and again in 1518. Rev. Dieter made his remarks May 31 during the May 30-June 1 conference “Luther and the Shaping of the Catholic Tradition,” marking the 500th anniversary of Luther posting his 95 theses. It was held at The Catholic University of America in Washington. Luther’s “Disputation Against Scholastic Theology” “has at its core a short text of Gabriel Biel,” Rev. Dieter said. “Nearly two-thirds of the 95 theses of this early disputation deal directly or indirectly with this.”
Mercy toward others implies taking risks, suffering, pope says.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Works of mercy are not a way of easing one’s conscience but are acts of suffering with those who suffer, Pope Francis said. Being merciful toward others means not only sharing in their pain but also taking risks for them, the pope said June 5 in his homily during morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae. “Think about here in Rome in the midst of war. How many, beginning with Pius XII, took risks to hide Jews so that they wouldn’t be killed, so that they wouldn’t be deported! They risked their skin! But it was a work of mercy to save the lives of those people!” he said. The pope’s homily focused on the day’s first reading, from the Book of Tobit, which tells how the author, one of many Israelites in exile, mourns the death of an unknown kinsman who was murdered and buries him, an act forbidden at the time in Assyria. A work of mercy, like the one performed by Tobit, isn’t just a “good deed so that I can be calmer, so that I can take a weight off,” but it is a way of “sympathizing with the pain of others,” the pope said.
Dialogue with Muslims, Defend Human Dignity, Pope Tells Missionaries
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Missionaries are entrusted with bringing hope to poor Christian communities while building bridges with Muslims and protecting human rights, Pope Francis told a group of men and women missionaries. Meeting with members of the
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Consolata Missionaries at the Vatican June 5, the pope also encouraged them to push the boundaries of their missionary activity, especially in “defending the dignity of women and family values. You are called to further your charism, to project yourselves with renewed zeal in the work of evangelization, in view of pastoral urgencies and new forms of poverty,” he said. Founded by Blessed Giuseppe Allamano, both the men’s and women’s congregations aim to evangelize in remote areas of the world and form Christian communities. Consolata missionaries want to bring the world true consolation, which is found in Jesus and his Gospel, according to the order’s website. They carry out their mission by being with marginalized and abandoned people, comforting the suffering and the afflicted, caring for the sick, defending human rights and promoting justice and peace.
As school year ends, pope tells students: Don’t fear goodbyes, unknown
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Life is a long series of hellos and goodbyes, so don’t be afraid to let go of the past; remember old friends, but keep moving and be open to the new, Pope Francis told students as the school year was coming to an end. “We have to learn to see life by seeing the horizons,” not the walls that can make people afraid because they don’t know what is on the other side, he told thousands of adolescents during a 45-minute encounter at the Vatican June 2. The middle-schoolers were part of Communion and Liberation’s “The Knights of the Grail” educational initiative. In the informal Q-and-A, a teen named Marta told the pope how scared she was to be leaving middle school and most of her best friends as they head on to high school next year. “Why do I have to change everything? Why does growing up make me so afraid?” she asked him. “Life is a constant ‘Good morning’ and ‘Farewell,’” he said, with the goodbyes sometimes being for forever. “You grow by encountering and by taking your leave,” he said. “If you don’t learn to say goodbye well, you will never learn how to encounter new people.”
Vatican official urges use of language that builds trust among nations
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Cardinal Peter Turkson, a top adviser to Pope Francis, questioned how well President Donald Trump’s declarations of “America first” serve understanding across the broader global community. “That’s a language that I think is not useful to speak because it makes the others say, ‘Who are we?’” Cardinal Turkson, prefect of the Vatican’s new Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, said in an interview with Catholic News Service May 31. The Vatican, he said, defers to local bishops’ conferences -- in this case the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops -- to respond if it so chooses. But he said leaders in other countries could question why the U.S. sets itself above others. “I don’t think it makes for the atmosphere of trust,” Cardinal Turkson said. The cardinal was at Georgetown University in Washington to attend a three-day meeting of leaders of U.S. academic centers focused on Catholic social thought. The gathering was designed to allow center directors and faculty to discuss ways to more broadly share Catholic social teaching and advance the message of Pope Francis in the universal church, said John Carr, director of the university’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life.
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Archdiocese of Santa Fe 2017 Abuse Awareness Training for Adults: Creating a Safe Environment for Our Children (formerly known as the Sexual Abuse Misconduct Prevention Workshop) Rev. 05/10/2017
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Rest Sr. Nadine Foley, OP Sr. Nadine Foley, OP, Prioress of the Adrian Dominican Sisters from 1986 to 1992, died on May 13 at the age of 93. For much of her religious life, Sr. Nadine figured prominently in religious circles as a leader both for the Adrian Dominican Congregation and for women religious throughout the nation. She served for two terms as a General Councilor for the Adrian Dominican Sisters, in 1974-1978 and 1978-1982, before being elected as the Congregation’s Prioress in 1986. “Nadine was an outstanding ecclesial woman of the Gospel, Dominican to her very core,” said Adrian Dominican Prioress Patricia Siemen, OP. “Nadine’s pursuit of truth through her scholarship and writing was a signature hallmark. Her acerbic wit was legendary, her friendships loyal and undeterred, her love of music and beautiful contralto voice vibrant to the end,” Sister Patricia said. “We will miss Nadine immensely; she left her mark on the U.S. Church, religious life, and each of Sr. Penny McMullen A memorial Mass for Loretto Sister Penny (formerly Sr. John Elizabeth) McMullen was celebrated May 11 at the Church of the Seven Dolors on the grounds of Loretto Motherhouse in Nerinx, KY. Sr. Penny served as a longtime math teacher, paralegal and social justice advocate, ministering in Colorado, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, New York and in Bolivia. She died May 8 at Loretto Motherhouse. She was 75 and in her 56th year as a Sister of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross. The daughter of Sylvia P. (Brisbin) and Beirne V. McMullen, Sr. Penny was born Sylvia Penelope McMullen on Jan. 26, 1942, in Minneapolis. She entered the Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross from St. Andrew Parish in Rock Falls, IL in 1960. On May 31, 1961, she was received into the Sisters of Loretto. Sr. Penny made her first vows
Sr. Iliana Valdes, OP Sr. Iliana Valdes, OP was born in Havana Cuba in 1944. She died May 16, 2017 in Albuquerque. She was a Dominican Sister for 54 years. During the political upheaval in Cuba, she was one of thousands of unaccompanied minors to arrive in Florida at the age of 15. Sr. Iliana ministered at Dominican Retreat Houses in Miami, FL and Albuquerque. She also worked among the poor, the farm workers in Florida and served as an ambassador encouraging organ donations after she herself received a kidney
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us. We now turn to her for guidance as one of our wisdom women in the eternal realm.” During her tenure as Prioress of the Congregation, Sister Nadine was elected to the presidency of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), an association of the leaders of congregations of U.S. Catholic women religious, representing nearly 80 percent of the Sisters in the United States. She also was elected to serve as U.S. delegate to the International Union of Superiors General. A prolific author of articles on religious life, Sister Nadine also was editor of three books, Preaching and the Unordained, Claiming Our Truth, and Journey in Faith and Fidelity; and wrote two volumes of Adrian Dominican history – Seeds Scattered and Grown and To Fields Near and Far – and a biography of the Congregation’s longestserving Prioress, Mother Mary Gerald Barry, OP: Ecclesial Woman of Vision and Daring. Under Sister Nadine’s leadership as Prioress, the Adrian Dominican Sisters focused on personal
transformation for the sake of the mission, as well as on social justice issues. The General Council endorsed the sanctuary movement that provided safety for people from Central America fleeing to the United States; promoted the development of the role of women in the Church; and opposed apartheid and racism in South Africa.
May 31, 1963, and her final vows August 6, 1968. At about age 50, Sister Penny was diagnosed with autism, which became another focus of her activism and a wellspring from which she developed spiritually. She wrote, “Learning how autism has affected my life … has helped me to put my experiences in perspective. I am more understanding of both myself and others. … I also have learned to find the diamonds among the coals.” Sr. Penny incorporated her personal experience into her passionate work for justice, lobbying in New Mexico for legislation to support awareness of and services for people with autism, reaching out to assist many families dealing with autism-related issues. From 1986 to 2012, Sister Penny served in Santa Fe, as a teacher, social justice advocate and paralegal. She worked for the Women’s Center, the Loretto Tutoring Lab, where from 1992 to 2012 she served as its director, and as a community organizer.
During this period, Sister Penny advocated for nuclear disarmament and world peace, was active in civil rights, sought justice for farmworkers and lobbied for renewable energy.
transplant in 2000. Since 2008 she volunteered at Misíon San Juan Diego in Meadowlake, San Ignacio Church and Risen Savior Catholic Community in Albuquerque. Sr. Iliana earned certificates for retreat work, pastoral ministry, and spiritual direction from both the University of Notre Dame and St. Joseph’s Center in Albuquerque. Sr. Iliana is survived by her sisters Maria Carlota Valdes and Dania Goicoechea, both residing in Miami, FL, as well as nieces and nephews, many friends and members of her Dominican Community.
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This summer explore nature, poetry, saints with new children’s books By Regina Lordan, Catholic News Service The following books are suitable for summer reading: How to be a Hero: Train with the Saints by Julia Harrell, illustrated by Chad Thompson. Pauline Kids (Boston, 2017). 176 pp., $14.95. This summer elementary-school readers can take a timeout from preparing for the next grade or athletic event, and train to become a saint by using the virtues as a guide. Organized by mini-biographies, reflections and questions, “How to be a Hero” explores the virtuous lives of St. John Paul II, St. Josephine Bakhita and St. Charbel Makhlouf among many others. The book includes discussions on the cardinal, theological and “little” virtues, and can be read daily or weekly as a part of a summer religious curriculum. Ages 9-11. The Blue Hour by Isabelle Simler. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2017). 42 pp., $19. Rarely does a book so beautifully capture with images and prose the majesty that is God’s creation of nature. “The Blue Hour” journeys through dusk when all is still and quiet. Animals of all shades of blue are cloaked in the blue shade of night as they creep through forests, climb amid trees and dive into the ocean. The illustrations are stunning, and the language
is calming. The animals featured, such as the bluetailed damselfly, indigo bunting and blue racer snake, highlight the gorgeous shades of just one color that appear in nature. Ages 4-8. Mary and The Little Shepherds of Fatima” by Marlyn Monge and Jaymie Stuart Wolfe, illustrated by Maria Joao Lopes. Pauline Kids (Boston, 2017). 48 pp., $14.95. This sweetly illustrated book tells young readers about the story of Our Lady of Fatima and the three young children who, unbeknown to them at the time, radically inspired many in their devotion to Mary. As told in the book, a sister, brother and cousin were shepherding their flock of sheep when an angel appeared to them. Then, on May 13, 1917, Mary appeared to the children for the first of several times. A timely read, “Mary and The Little Shepherd of Fatima” honors of the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparitions in Fatima. In May, Pope Francis visited the Portuguese city and declared as saints Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto, both of whom had died from illnesses as young children. Ages 5-8. A Muslim Family’s Chair for the Pope: A True Story from Bosnia and Herzegovina by Stefan Salinas. Camelopardalis (San Francisco, 2017). 48 pp., $16.99.
How did a Muslim carpenter from a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina come to make the chair for the papal Mass during Pope Francis’ visit there in 2015? A brave idea, a skilled worker and more than 2,000 hours of hard work led to a collaborative masterpiece. Written from the perspective of Salim Hajderovac, the cheerful and humble carpenter, this book is a wonderful story about interreligious teamwork. Working closely with his good friend the local parish priest, Hajderovac’s brazen idea came to fruition. Within the context of a true story, children will learn a few basic truths about Catholicism and Islam. Ages 6-10. “I Like, I Don’t Like” by Anna Baccelliere, illustrated by Alessandro Lewis and Alessandra Panzeri. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2017). 28 pp., $16. Topics such as child labor, poverty and slavery BOOKS Continued on page 34
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are not readily addressed in children’s literature or easily discussed, but they are a part of the church’s teachings and work for social justice. “I Like, I Don’t Like” uses two strikingly different perspectives on the same object to show how children from the same world face very different realities. Told in images and only a few words, the book shows how one child plays freely with a soccer ball while another distressingly sews the balls together. On another page, a child leisurely stretches out on a rug while another child weaves a rug together. An astute child with guidance from an adult can use this book to open up discussions about solidarity and compassion. Ages 5-9. Brigid and the Butter by Pamela Love, illustrated by Apryl Stott. Pauline Books and Media (Boston, 2017) 25 pp., $13.95. Pamela Love retells the legend of St. Brigid in this brightly illustrated hardcover book. As a young servant girl, St. Brigid heard St. Patrick, then just a local bishop, preach about Jesus feeding an entire crowd with just a young boy’s lunch. Inspired by the boy’s generosity but with no substantive food to share herself, St. Brigid gave all that she had to a poor woman. As the legend goes, God blessed St. Brigid’s
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selfless generosity by giving her two heaping bowls of butter. For young lads also interested in Irish legends and saints, “Patrick and the Fire” by Cornelia Mary Bilinsky and illustrated by Maggie Coburn, also by Pauline Books and Media, is a short story about St. Patrick’s explanation of the Holy Trinity to a king. Ages 4-8. Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, illustrated by Ekua Holmes. Candlewick Press. (Somerville, Massachusetts, 2017). 48 pp., $16.99. Colorfully illustrated by award-winning fine artist Ekua Holmes, this book celebrates 20 poets with works inspired by the poets’ unique styles. “Out of Wonder” highlights legendary writers including Robert Frost, Rumi and Emily Dickinson as well as contemporary poets, such as Terrance Hayes and Judith Wright. The book is a treasure of inspiration, art and wonder to educate and inspire children to write poetry. A brave undertaking masterfully achieved, Alexander and his colleagues successfully pair poetry with beautiful artwork while teaching the reader about the poets themselves. All aspiring poets, young and old, should add this one to their bookshelves. Ages 7 and up. Jesus’s Story illustrated by Virginia Noe. Paraclete
Press (Brewster, Massachusetts,2017). 18 pp., $14.99. Reminiscent of the tender Precious Moments dolls, the illustrations in this sturdy and sweet board book for young children are darling. Gentle pictures and simple narration cover the story of Jesus, from the Angel Gabriel’s visit to Mary through Jesus’ ministry, death and resurrection to Pentecost. Ages 1-3. The Suitcase -- A Story About Giving by Jane G. Meyer, illustrated by Chiara Pasqualotto. Paraclete Press (Brewster, Massachusetts,2017). 32 pp., $16.99. Thomas was a little bit different. Energetic and typically untypical, Thomas would interview his pet goat and line up blocks one after the other after the other. But one day Thomas did something stranger than usual. He showed up for dinner with a suitcase in hand and declared that he was going to the kingdom of heaven. What Thomas packed inside was a loving and generous expression of faith that will leave an impression on readers. The main character is influenced by the everyday experiences that author Jane G. Meyer has as the mother of a child with highfunctioning autism. “The Suitcase” was published in April for National Autism Awareness Month. Ages 7-9. Lordan, a mother of three, has master’s degrees in education and political science and is a former assistant international editor of Catholic News Service.
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2017 National Conference St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church 7412 Paradise Blvd NW Albuquerque, New Mexico www.womenofgrace.com
“Bloom Who You Are” Celebrate 30 years of ministry with Women of Grace® and celebrate your gift of authentic femininity as we learn to be an ‘aroma for Christ’ right here, right now, in this our state in life. Discover the blessing of your femininity and how to follow Our Blessed Mother’s example in the world today! Come be restored, renewed, and refreshed as we journey through this transforming weekend together! Spanish Translation, Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Healing Service, Young Women of Grace (12-17 years old) Break Out Sessions, Musical Presentations, Adoration, Confession, Preceded by a Benedicta Leadership Enrichment Seminar on September 7th & 8th, 2017 led by Johnnette Benkovic. Presenters Include:
Johnette S. Benkovic Johnnette is Founder and President of Women of Grace®, a Catholic apostolate for women featuring a number of outreaches including conferences, media, study groups and more. She is also Founder and President of Living His Life Abundantly® International, Inc. a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit corporation. After years of being a non-practicing Catholic, in 1981 Johnnette experienced a deep conversion back to her Catholic faith. Her conversion sparked a new vocation: that is, one of sharing the Gospel message through the utilization of media. She has been an inspiring and consistent presence on Catholic radio (1987) and in Catholic television (1988) ever since. Her Women of Grace program airs on EWTN television Mondays-Fridays at 9:00 AM and repeats at 9:30 PM Fr. Phillip Scott, FJ Fr. Philip Scott, F.J. is the Founder of Family of Jesus, a family of priests, brothers, and sisters dedicated to Christ and His Church, bound by private vows of obedience, chastity, poverty and martyrdom; praying to be healed and formed into a family by the Divine Family (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) in order to live out in a prophetic manner their baptismal calling to follow Jesus Christ and to be His instruments of healing for families, including not only the individual domestic family, but also the broader family of the Church and of society. They were founded by Father Philip Scott in 1998 under the auspices of Bishop Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg. They have been missionaries in Chaclacayo, Peru, since January 10, 2003. Kitty Cleveland Singer/songwriter and inspirational speaker Kitty Cleveland began her professional career as a lawyer, university instructor and career counselor. But in an adoration chapel one day in 1998 during a devastating family crisis, she clearly heard the Lord call her to become a “music missionary.” Kitty enthusiastically heeded the call and has since released 11 CDs of music and prayer--including two CDs with Lighthouse Catholic Media. She has appeared numerous times on television, on the radio, in concert and as a keynote speaker throughout North America and in Europe sharing her message of hope, healing and encouragement. Carol Marquardt Carol is a convert to Catholicism. She developed the “Our Fiat” materials and Mantle of Mary Association. She served as adult education director, catechumenate director, retreat house director and charismatic prayer group leader. She has worked in inner healing ministry and spiritual direction. More information coming soon regarding registration and details at www.womenofgrace.com Contact : Fran @ 505.550.7688 or feathers4life@yahoo.com
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S t. Pius X High School is a Catholic
college preparatory School of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
St. Pius X High School Valedictorian Catherine Collins receives her diploma from Archbishop John C. Wester at the 58th Baccalaureate Mass and Graduation Ceremony celebrated May 23 at Sandia Resort Amphitheater. Chase DeGuio, Salutatorian Morgan Lucero and Andrew Sinclair, all members of the class Top Ten, await their diplomas. The 164 members of the Class of 2017 provided more than 25,000 hours of community service over their four years of high school and upon graduation were offered more than $12.7 million in college scholarships. Photo courtesy St. Pius X.
S t. Michael’s High School, with a college preparatory curriculum, has as
its mission to educate each student in the spirit of faith and academic excellence according to Roman Catholic principles of the Christian Brothers. It is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico.