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Year of Mercy

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Join us on Sanctity of Life Awareness & Unity Day Wednesday, January 20, 2016 in Santa Fe See Schedule of Events Page 24

INSIDE THIS ISSUE 2016 Legislative Session

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Archbishop’s Letter: Year of Mercy

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Corporal Works of Mercy

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January is Poverty Awareness Month

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“I want a Church which is poor and for the poor.”

- Pope Francis, The Joy of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium) Page 11

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Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi Holy Doors, Santa Fe, NM

Pray for Christian Unity

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Healthy Families Honored

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New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops

Tuesday, January 20 Marks the Beginning of Our 2016 30-Day New Mexico Legislative Session and the public about those issues and encourages all to advocate for those issues and the betterment of humanity.

This year is the 30-day session, beginning January 19 and ending February 18 and is limited to dealing with budgetary matters, bills on the “governor’s call,” and bills vetoed in previous sessions by the governor. The 2016 Legislative agenda of the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops is

MAJOR HOLY DOOR ROME

Pope Francis opens the Holy Door before celebrating Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome Jan. 1, 2016. The Holy Doors of Rome’s four major basilicas are now open. (CNS photo/Maria Grazia Picciarella,)

Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions for January 2016 UNIVERSAL: Interreligious Dialogue That sincere dialogue among men and women of different faiths may produce the fruits of peace and justice.

EVANGELIZATION: Christian Unity That by means of dialogue and fraternal charity and with the grace of the Holy Spirit, Christians may overcome divisions.

ENERO: Diálogo interreligioso.

Que el diálogo sincero entre hombres y mujeres de diversas religiones, conlleve frutos de paz y justicia.

POR LA EVANGELIZACIÓN : Unidad de los cristianos Para que mediante el diálogo y la caridad fraterna, con la gracia del Espíritu Santo, se superen las divisiones entre los cristianos.

as follows: Life, being the greatest gift from God, is top priority, as is concern for the poor. The bishops are asking the governor to put on the “call” a bill to ban late term abortion. Because conditions have worsened for our children and so many are living in poverty, the bishops support the “Invest in Kids Now” campaign to have a constitutional amendment to use a portion of the interest on the permanent fund for early

childhood education without increasing taxes. The bishops also wish preserve Drivers’ Licenses for undocumented immigrants, and oppose proposals for merely a “permit” for undocumented drivers. Sign up to receive the latest information from the NM Conference of Catholic Bishops and the 2016 legislative session by calling the Office of Social Justice and Respect Life, 505.831.8167.

African American Catholic Community Annual Martin Luther King Mass & Celebration Join the AACC for the Annual MLK Mass Sun Jan 17, 2012 at Noon— St. Joseph on the Rio Grande Church, 5901 St. Joseph’s Dr. NW in Albuquerque, Presider: Archbishop John C. Wester.

For more information please call Brenda at 505.375.0153 or 505.831.8167.

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Allen Sánchez, Director of the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops, presents the concerns of the three Catholic bishops of New Mexico at our New Mexico legislature in Santa Fe. The purpose of the conference is to promote the greater good of humankind by addressing issues of moral concern and social justice as seen through the eyes of the Catholic faith. The conference informs and educates its members

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Merciful Presence

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s we begin this new calendar year, we also continue our journey into the Year of Mercy that Pope Francis inaugurated last December 8th. Our archdiocese joined with the universal church in beginning this year of grace by opening holy doors throughout the archdiocese and gathering in prayer to ask God’s blessing as we begin this holy year. While there are many themes that weave their way through the Year of Mercy, one of them strikes me as particularly compelling: to be merciful is to be present. A synonym for mercy is compassion. This nuance reminds us that to be merciful, to be compassionate, is to “suffer with” someone, or more broadly, to journey with someone, especially during a painful moment.

I believe that being present to each other, as God is to us, is a key feature of mercy.

Having just concluded the Christmas season, we are keenly aware of the lengths that God took to become one of us by sending us His only Son. He wants to be present to us

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and so became one of us. We also reflected on Mary who was present to God as she accepted his will and became the handmaid of the Lord. God is always present to us; He loves us with an unfathomable love and wishes to be present to us in every moment of our lives.

Sadly, we do not respond to God in the same way nor do we offer our presence to others as we should. Quite often we find ourselves caught up in busy lives that find us running from pillar to post with little time to really attend to God or others, to be with them on a deeper level. To make matters worse, we are often caught up in our technological devices, fascinated by the ease with which we can stay in touch with others and yet, ironically, missing out on so many precious moments to be present to those in the room with us. Furthermore, we are more and more self-conscious, not that we are shy but that we are concerned more with what we want than with what others need. We are reticent to give people the time needed to be truly present to them.

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Most Reverend John C. Wester, Archbishop of Santa Fe

This Year of Mercy gives us an opportunity to see that our ability to be present to others is a gift of compassion, a gift of mercy, in their lives and conversely, in ours as well. God made us in His image and likeness, an image that is grounded in presence: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit who relate to each other in an ontological bond of love. God is a community of persons and we are created to be a community of persons in His image. The more we are present to one another as the persons of the Trinity are to each other, then the more we are true to our very nature and the more we reflect God in whose image we are created. This presence is more than a nicety. It is vital to our very well being.

Many studies have shown that infants require love, touch and the presence of others.

Without these, the loving presence of parents or care givers, they are inclined to diminish and even die. One of our Carmelite sisters recently told me a new-born infant was abandoned on the steps of a hos-

La Presencia Misericordiosa Año de la Misericordia

l comenzar este nuevo año en el calendario, también continuamos nuestra jornada dentro del Año de la Misericordia que el Papa Francisco inauguró el pasado 8 de diciembre. Nuestra arquidiócesis se unió con la Iglesia universal al comenzar este año de gracia abriendo puertas santas en la arquidiócesis y reuniéndonos en oración para pedir la bendición de Dios al comenzar este año santo. Si bien hay muchos temas que entrelazan su camino a través del Año de la Misericordia, uno de ellos me parece particularmente contundente: ser misericordioso es estar presente. Un sinónimo de misericordia es compasión. Esto nos recuerda que ser misericordioso, ser compasivo,

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es “sufrir con” alguien, o más estar presente para nosotros ampliamente, caminar con al- en cada momento de nuestras guien, especialmente durante vidas. Lamentablemente, noun momento doloroso. Creo sotros no respondemos a Dios que estar presente el uno para de la misma manera y tampoco el otro, como Dios lo está para ofrecemos nuestra presencia a nosotros, es una característica los demás como debiéramos.

Muy a menudo nos enconclave de la misericordia.

Habiendo recién concluido tramos atrapados en una vida la temporada de la Navidad, ocupada en la que corremos de comprendemos la magnitud de un lado a otro con muy poco lo que Dios realizó para llegar tiempo para realmente atender a ser uno de nosotros al en- a Dios o a otros, para estar con viarnos a su unigénito Hijo. Él ellos en un nivel más profunquiere estar presente para no- do. Para empeorar las cosas, sotros y por ello se hizo uno de estamos a menudo atrapados en nosotros. También reflexiona- nuestros dispositivos tecnológimos sobre María, quien estuvo cos, fascinados por la facilidad presente para Dios al aceptar su con la que podemos estar en voluntad y se hizo la esclava del contacto con otras personas Señor. Dios siempre está pre- y, sin embargo, irónicamente, sente para nosotros; Él nos ama perdiendo tantos momentos con un amor ilimitado y desea MISERICORDIOSIA Continued on 20

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pital. The nurse who cared for the infant cuddled her and cared for her as if she was her own. When the nurse went home for a two day break, the baby began to get sick and her vital signs were plummeting.

When the nurse returned and realized this, she resumed her loving touch and the baby recovered. (The nurse went on to adopt the baby and raised her as her own!) Clearly, it is important for us to connect with

each other and to be present on all levels: physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual.

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Pilgrimage Churches Designated by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Presbyteral Council by Deanery Iglesias de peregrinación por Decanato designadas por el Consejo Presbiteral del Arquidiocesis de Santa Fe Santa Fe Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe 505.982.5619 NW Santuario de Chimayo #10, Route 76, Chimayo 505.351.4360 NE St. Patrick-St. Joseph 105 Buena Vista St., Raton 575.445.9763 SE St. Rose of Lima 439 South 3rd Street, Santa Rosa SW San Miguel 403 El Camino Real St NW, Socorro 575.835.2891 ABQ A Shrine of the Little Flower

/St. Therese of the Infant Jesus 3424 Fourth St NW, Albuquerque 505.344.805 ABQ B Shrine of St. Bernadette 11401 Indian School Rd NE, Albuquerque 505.298.7557 ABQ C Santuario de San Martin de Porres 8321 Camino San Martin SW, Albuquerque 505.836.4676

Santa Maria de la Vid Abbey 5825 Coors SW, Albuquerque 505.873.4399x201

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CONVERSION OF PAUL THE APOSTLE

First Century FEAST January 25

When the Jewish Pharisee Saul set out from Jerusalem to Damascus, his aim was to persecute the fledgling Christian community. The dramatic story of St. Paul’s miraculous conversion is told several times in the Acts of the Apostles and New Testament letters. Paul became the Apostle to the Gentiles and carried Christ’s message around the Roman Empire.

He shares a feast with St. Peter on June 29. The January feast was known as the “translation” in the martyrology of St. Jerome; it may originally have commemorated the moving of Paul’s relics. Now, it appropriately closes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Paul is the patron saint of Greece, Malta and the Cursillo movement.

Archdiocese of Santa Fe 2016 Abuse Awareness Training for Adults: Creating a Safe Environment for Our Children (formerly known as the Sexual Abuse Misconduct Prevention Workshop) Rev. 01/04/2016 Attendance at the workshop is MANDATORY for all clergy, employees, and volunteers in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Pre-registration is necessary. These workshops are sponsored by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Contact: Annette the Victims Assistance Coordinator 505.831.8144.

Note: Do not bring children. No one under age 18 is allowed in the workshop. If you are late you will not be allowed to enter the training January 9, 2016 9:00 am – Noon Saturday

Catholic Center 4000 St. Joseph Pl. NW, Albuquerque, 87120 Call Rose or Annette 505.831.8144

February 11, 2016 6:00 – 9:00 pm Thursday

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March 5, 2016 9:00 am – Noon Saturday

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ASSIGNMENTS

• Effective Friday, October 30, 2015 – Deacon Rudolph F. Baca, previously assigned at Our Lady of the Annunciation in Albuquerque, has been granted retirement.

• Effective Sunday, November 1, 2015 – Deacon Jose Ayala, previously assigned at St. Francis Xavier Parish in Albuquerque, has been appointed to diaconal ministry at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary in Albuquerque, under the direction of the pastor, Very Rev. Robert Campbell, O.Praem.

• Effective Sunday, November 1, 2015 – Deacon Victoriano Ceballos-Moreno, previously assigned at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary in Albuquerque, has been appointed to diaconal ministry at St. Francis Xavier Parish in Albuquerque, under the direction of the pastor, Rev. Sean Garrity, CSB. • Effective Sunday, November 1, 2015 – Deacon Daniel O. Kennedy, a deacon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, has been appointed to diaconal ministry at Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Bernalillo and its missions under the direction of the pastor, Very Rev. Clarence Maes.

• Effective Sunday, November 1, 2015 – Deacon Jesus Medina, a deacon of the Archdiocese of Chicago, has been appointed to diaconal ministry at St. Anne Parish in Albuquerque under the direction of the pastor, Rev. Irby Nichols.

• Effective Friday, November 6, 2015 – Deacon Thomas E. Van Valkenburgh, previously assigned at Cristo Rey Parish in Santa Fe, has been granted retirement.

• Effective Friday, November 20, 2015 – Rev. Ronald J. Bowers has been appointed as adjutant judicial vicar for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe under the direction of the judicial vicar, Very Rev. Oscar Coelho.

• Effective Friday, January 1, 2016 – Rev. William Sanchez, currently pastor at St. Edwin Parish in Albuquerque, has been appointed chaplain to the Discalced Carmelite Monastery in Santa Fe. The current chaplain, Rev. Monsignor Robert Calles, will be returning to the Diocese of El Paso.

• Effective Friday, January 1, 2016 – Rev. Bijoy Francis, O.Praem, currently serving in hospital ministry in Albuquerque and Rio Rancho, has been appointed as pastor of St. Edwin Parish in Albuquerque.

• Effective Monday, February 1, 2016 – Very Rev. Franklin D. Pretto-Ferro, currently pastor at San Isidro Parish in Santa Fe and its Mission of San Jose in La Cienega, has been granted retirement.

• Effective Monday, February 1, 2016 – Very Rev. John Cannon, currently Chancellor / Vicar for Clergy / Vicar for Religious / Moderator of the Curia for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, and Parochial Vicar at San Isidro Parish in Santa Fe, has been appointed as pastor of San Isidro Parish in Santa Fe and its Mission of San Jose in La Cienega. At that time he is released from his current assignments.

• Effective Monday, February 1, 2016 – Very Rev. John Daniel, currently pastor at St. Jude Thaddeus Parish in Albuquerque, has been appointed Vicar General / Vicar for Clergy / Vicar for Religious / Moderator of the Curia for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. • Effective Monday, February 1, 2016 – Mr. Thomas P. Macken has been appointed as chancellor of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. The position of chancellor will include his current responsibilities as property manager for the archdiocese.

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The Corporal Works of Mercy

he Corporal Works of Mercy are found in the teachings of Jesus and give us a model for how we should treat all others, as if they were Christ in disguise. They “are charitable actions by which we help our neighbors in their bodily needs” (USCCA). They respond to the basic needs of humanity as we journey together through this life.

The seven Corporal Works of Mercy are listed below:

Feed the hungry

There are many people in this world who go without food. When so much of our food goes to waste, consider how good stewardship practices of your own food habits can benefit others who do not have those same resources.

Give Drink to the thirsty

Many of our brothers and sisters in Christ do not have access to clean water and suffer from the lack of this basic necessity. We should support the efforts of those working towards greater accessibility of this essential resource.

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There are many circumstances that could lead to someone becoming a person without a home.

Christ encourages us to go out and meet those

without homes, affirming their worth and helping them seek a resolution to the challenges they face.

Visit the sick

Those who are sick are often forgotten or avoided. In spite of their illness, these individuals still have much to offer to those who take the time to visit and comfort them.

Visit the prisoners

People in prison are still people, made in the image and likeness of God. No matter what someone has done, they deserve the opportunity to hear the Word of God and find the Truth of the message of Christ.

Bury the dead

Funerals give us the opportunity to grieve and show others support during difficult times.

Through our prayers and actions during these times we show our respect for life, which is always a gift from God, and comfort to those who mourn.

Give alms to the poor

Donate money to organizations that have the ability to provide support and services for those in need. Do research and find organizations that put people in need first, rather than profit.

Information courtesy of USCCB.

Holy Year of Mercy

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s part of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, which begins December 8 and ends Nov. 20, 2016, Pope Francis has granted a Plenary Indulgence for the year in order that all the faithful experience true moments of God’s profound and unending mercy in their lives.

“An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church#1471) In his letter dated September 1, 2015, Pope Francis explains: “To experience and obtain the Indulgence, the faithful are called to make a brief pilgrimage to the Holy Door, open in every Cathedral or in the (pilgrimage) churches designated by the diocesan bishop…as a sign of the deep desire for true conversion…”

Prescribed conditions for gaining a Plenary Indulgence during the Jubilee year include: • Be a Catholic in communion with the pope • Make a visit to a cathedral or designated pilgrimage church • Perform an act of mercy • Receive the sacrament of reconciliation with true repentance for one’s sins • Receive the Holy Eucharist • Pray for the intentions of the Holy Father (see page 2)

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Daniel Dupre

Gary Vigil

Jordan Sanchez

Francisco Carbajal

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Servant of God Sr. Blandina Segale, SC

By Allen Sánchez, Petitioner of the Cause On November 13, 2015 the Diocesan Inquiry of the Heroic Virtues of the Servant of God Sister Blandina Segale, SC was completed and officially closed. At the same time the documents of the inquiry known as the Acts were closed and sealed for delivery to the Congregation for the Cause of Saints. The Most Rev. Ricardo Ramirez, Bishop Emeritus of Las Cruces, the Postulator for the Diocesan Inquiry was appointed the carrier of the Acts and ordered to deliver them to the Pontifical Offices of the Congregation for the of Cause of Saints and to be accompanied by the Inquiry Board and the Petitioners. On December 10, 2015 the appointed delegation delivered the Acts to the Vatican, in the group was Most Rev. Ricardo Ramirez Postulator, Most Rev. Michael Sheehan Episcopal Delegate, Fr. Oscar Coelho Promoter; Petitioners: Allen Sánchez, Sr. Patricia Sabourin, Sr. Juanita Gonzales, and Sr. Peggy Deneweth. Also joining the group was Sr. Joan Cook the President of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati.

The group was received by the staff of the Congregation in a very hospitable manner.

This presenting of the Acts now opens the Roman Phase of the Cause of Canonization and Beatification of the Servant of God Blandina. The presentation was a very emotional event for all attending.

We were told that the Holy Father Pope Francis likes the work CHI St Joseph’s Children is doing for first time families, this organization was begun by the Servant of God Blandina. The Vatican staff said that this inquiry was very interesting and that the “little one of New Mexico” who did big things story is now being offered to the world for inspiration. When the Acts were officially placed in the vault

by Bishop Ramirez with the group gathered around him the group became emotional overcome with hope and God’s love for His people. It

Sister Blandina Segale photo courtesy of Palace of the Governors - Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA) Negative #67735 Congregation for the Cause of Saints to pray the prayer for the Canonization of the Servant of God Sister Blandina Bishop Emeritus Ricardo Ramirez, Diocese of Las Cruces, Postulator for the Diocesan Inquiry; Fr. Os- Segale. The process of canoncar Coehlo, Promoter; Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Episcopal ization is one of recognizing Delegate, and Allen Sánchez, Petitioner of the Cause, in Rome for the Diocesan Inquiry of the Heroic what already exists. We don’t Virtues of the Servant of God Sister Blandina Segale, SC. make Saints rather we recogwas so meaningful to be pres- doesn’t make sense. It is in the tion to determine her holiness. nize them. As we pray for each ent at this event in a place communion of Saints that we As we prepared to depart we other while we are alive Saint surrounded by the stories of find hope and Jesus’ promise were asked that as we work to continue to pray for us after holy persons lives. As I have of resurrection. We now leave make a Saint that we remem- their death and while they now said be for if the Church is not the story of the Servant of God ber to be saints. As we left we live in resurrection one with making Saints then the Church in the hands of the Congrega- were invited together with the God.

A new report on U.S. religious sisters commissioned by FADICA says that religious life is becoming not only more multiethnic but more international as well. (CNS graphic/Karen Riccio)

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Celebrating Lives of Mercy: Consecrated Religious in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Join Archbishop Wester, religious sisters, nuns, brothers, and priests in celebrating the close of the Year of Consecrated Life.

Thursday February 4, 2016 Mass begins at 6:30 pm and will be followed by a reception.

Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Community 5415 Fortuna Road NW Albuquerque, NM 87105 Contact the Office of Christian Discipleship and Religious Vocation at Santa Maria de la Vid Abbey for

St. Basil School of Chant

January 30-February 5, 2016 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat Center in Santa Fe A master class will be held on Saturday, January 30 in Albuquerque. For anyone interested in chant. For more information go to www.chantschool.org.

Jamie Drew, a St. Therese parishioner attends the 12 Noon Mass every Sunday at St. Therese. She put her plastic chair in the outdoor scene and rearranged the figures. Joseph got moved and she sits between the figures and has a real conversation with them. Beauty surrounds us!

Native American Ministry The Native American Ministry works to build strong Catholic leaders within the pueblos by bridging the two faith traditions together to create and nurture faithful members of the Church.

Shirley Zuni Rita Lucero Coordinator Assistant 505.831.8104 505.831.8126 szuni@archdiosf.org rlucero@archdiosf.org

About Us • Our understanding of the pueblos is unique as we have personally experienced the two paths in which the native people walk. With open and grateful hearts we value the traditional faith we were born with and our Catholic Faith which was gifted to us. As our ministry continues to grow, we vow to stand in solidarity with our Native brothers and sisters as the two paths meet and become one.

• Native American Ministry serves 50,000 Native American Catholics in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe • Provides continuous support and assistance in the areas of leadership development and catechesis in the Pueblos • Coordinates with the offices of the Catholic Center, particularly with the office of the Pastoral Ministries Division, to bring these services to the pueblos

What We Do

• Meet with the ASF Native American Ministry Advisory Board on a regular basis to discern, address and bring forth the spiritual needs of the community • Monthly Native American Ministry meetings which discuss, address and support the progress of each pueblo. There are 19 pueblos in New Mexico each with its own distinct cultural traditions and languages. They are: Aco-

ma, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambe, Picuris, Pojoaque, Sandia, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan), Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Kewa (Santo Domingo), Taos, Tesuque, Zia, and Zuni. All except: Acoma, Laguna and Zuni reside within the boundaries of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. • Developed with the ASF Native American Advisory Board, The Guidelines for Visiting a Pueblo Village. The guidelines are available through the Native American Ministry office.

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• Attend annual pueblo feast day celebrations • Host the Archbishop’s Annual Luncheon with Tribal Leaders and Pueblo Governors • Plans and coordinates with the Cathedral Basilica staff, the Annual Native American Mass which is held at the Cathedral Basilica in Santa Fe • In attendance with our Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan, we actively participate in the annual Gathering of Nations (Pow Wow) by hosting an evangelization booth to promote the ministries of the Archdiocese • Hosts the annual Native American Ministry Christmas celebration • Acts as staff to the Native American Advisory Board and liaison to the Tekakwitha Conference and local Kateri Circles

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The Family: the School of Love and Mercy

By Beth Lukes Director Family Life Office

January is the time to look back as we plan for the year ahead. Looking back on 2015, three events stand out in the life of the Church: the World Meeting of Families, the Holy Synod on the Family, and the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy inaugurated on December 8, 2015. If recent past events portend the direction for our immediate future, then it is clear our future as people of faith should center on the family and mercy.

Few words encompass more aspects of human life than these. Family entails all stages, styles, circumstances of human relations, and “mercy” involves the most personal and profound expressions of love.

There are no human relations more intimate, personal, and

consequential than those lived in family and no emotion more expressive of selfless love than mercy. St. John Paul II dubbed the family to be the “school of love.” With Pope Francis’ dual focus on the family and mercy, the Church is calling us to a deeper understanding of the love God intends for us, namely the kind of love that puts mercy before judgment.

For Pope Francis, mercy is the “very wellspring of joy, serenity, and peace, upon which our salvation depends.” It is, he writes, “the ultimate and supreme act by which God comes to meet us; the fundamental law that dwells in the heart of every person who looks sincerely into the eyes of his brothers and sisters on the path of life; and the bridge that connects God and man, opening our hearts to the hope of being loved forever despite

our sinfulness” (Misericordiae Vultus, #2).

By declaring this year to be a Jubilee Year of Mercy, the Church is inviting us to enter the mystery of love more fully by being merciful as the Father is merciful. By focusing on the family, the Church is telling us that the family is also the school of mercy. For her part, the local Church, our family of faith, has developed several new support and enrichment opportunities to assist families be better schools of love and mercy.

If you are looking to improve family, couple, or your parent/child relations, consider going on a Married Encounter or Marriage Enrichment, taking a Love and Logic Parenting or a Healthy Relationships 101 Course. If you are grieving having had an abortion, help is available

to you through Project Rachel Ministry by calling 505831-8238. If you have a loved one in the throes of addiction, the Mariposas support group offers helpful information, companionship, and prayerful support. If you are grieving the loss of a loved one or the loss of a job or health, consider attending the Journey of Hope retreat, this February 26-28, at the Pecos Monastery. If you are a pastor and would like to improve parish bereavement ministry, the family life office offers bereavement ministry training that covers the full spectrum of grief ministry and equips ministers to be the face of mercy to the sick and bereaved. If your marriage is troubled, there is help for you in Retrouvaille, a weekend retreat led by couples who have returned from the brink of divorce and improved their rela-

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tionship through it. If you are recovering from divorce, there are several Parish Divorce Recovery Groups that have helped others get past the feelings of anger, loneliness and helplessness brought on by the divorce. More information on all of the above programs is available online at the family life office web page at www. archdiosf.org or by calling the Family Life Office at 505-8318208. May the coming year be a time your family experiences the mercy of the Father more deeply by encountering Him through your siblings in faith at home and in parish life.

Family Life events

Parenting the Love and Logic Way Love and Logic Parenting Classes provide practical tools and techniques that help adults achieve respectful, healthy relationships with their children.

Classes are every Tuesday night for six weeks. First class begins January 12, 2016 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

Call the Family Life Office to register or to arrange for a course to be offered for your parish or school group 505.831.8117.

Mariposas is a Catholic prayer support group for families suffering the addiction of a loved one. The group will begin meeting on January 12, 2016, Tuesday evenings from 7 to 8:30 at the Catholic Center.

Call the Family Life Office to register 505.831.8117.

St. Jude Thaddeus Divorce Recovery group They will meet on Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. The group will meet in Room 2 of the St. Jude Parish Center beginning January 21 for 10 weeks. Call Family Life to register 505.831.8117.

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Speech by pope.

6:55 p.m. (7:55 p.m.) Departure by plane for Mexico City.

8 p.m. (9 p.m.)

Arrival in Mexico City.

Wednesday, Feb. 17 (Mexico City, Ciudad Juarez) 8:35 a.m. (9:35 p.m.) Departure by plane to Ciudad Juarez.

10 a.m. (12 p.m.)

Arrival at Abraham Gonzalez International Airport in Ciudad Juarez.

10:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m.) Visit to Cereso prison. Speech by pope.

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Meeting with workers and employers at the Colegio de Bachilleres of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Speech by pope.

4 p.m. (6 p.m.)

Mass at the fairgrounds of Ciudad Juarez.

Homily and greeting by the pope.

7 p.m. (9 p.m.)

Departure ceremony at Ciudad Juarez International Airport.

7:15 p.m. (9:15 p.m.) Departure by plan for Rome.

Thursday, Feb. 18 (Rome) 2:45 p.m. (8:45 p.m.) Arrival at Rome’s Ciampino Airport

He aquí el itinerario del viaje del papa Francisco a México en febrero Pilgrims hold up images of Our Lady of Guadalupe during an annual pilgrimage in her honor at the cathedral in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Dec. 12. The Vatican announced Dec. 12 that the pope will visit Mexico from Feb. 12-17. His trip will include a stop in Ciudad Juarez, the city across from El Paso, Texas, that is known for drug-related violence. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

By Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) Here is the itinerary for Pope Francis trip to Mexico Feb. 12-17, 2016.

Times listed are local, with Eastern Standard Time in parentheses. The places the pope will visit are on Central Time except Ciudad Juarez, which is on Mountain Time.

Friday, Feb. 12 (Rome, Mexico City) 12:30 a.m. (6:30 a.m.) Departure from Rome Fiumicino Airport.

7:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m.) Arrival at Benito Juarez International Airport, Mexico City.

Officials to greet pope.

Saturday, Feb. 13 (Mexico City) 9:30 a.m. (10:30 a.m.) Welcome ceremony at National Palace. Courtesy visit to President

Enrique Pena Nieto.

10:15 a.m. (11:15 a.m.) Meeting with government, civilian and diplomatic representatives.

11:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m.) Meeting with Mexican bishops at cathedral.

5 p.m. (6 p.m.)

Mass in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Homily by pope.

Sunday, Feb. 14 (Mexico City, Ecatepec, Mexico City) 9:20 a.m. (10:20 a.m.) Helicopter travel to Ecatepec.

10:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m.) Mass in the area of the “study center” of Ecatepec. Homily by pope.

Pope recites Angelus.

12:50 p.m. (1:50 p.m.) Transfer by helicopter to Mexico City.

1:10 p.m. (2:10 p.m.) Arrival in Mexico City.

4:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m.) Visit to the Federico Gomez Children’s Hospital of Mexico.

Greeting by pope.

6:00 p.m. (7 p.m.)

Meeting in the National Auditorium with representatives of culture.

Speech by pope.

Monday, Feb. 15 (Mexico City, Tuxtla Gutierrez, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico City) 7:30 a.m. (8:30 a.m.) Departure by plane to Tuxtla Gutierrez.

9:15 a.m. (10:15 a.m.) Transfer by helicopter to San Cristobal de Las Casas.

10:15 a.m. (11:15 a.m.) Mass at the city’s sports center with the indigenous community from

Chiapas. Homily by pope.

1 p.m. (2 p.m.)

Lunch with representatives of the indigenous community and the

papal entourage.

3 p.m. (4 p.m.)

Visit to the cathedral of San Cristobal de Las Casas.

3:35 p.m. (4:35 p.m.) Transfer by helicopter transfer to Tuxtla Gutierrez.

4:15 p.m. (5:15 p.m.) Meeting with families at the Victor Manuel Reyna Stadium at Tuxtla

Gutierrez. Speech by pope.

6:10 p.m. (7:10 p.m.) Departure by plan for Mexico City.

8 p.m. (9 p.m.)

Arrival at the Mexico City airport.

Tuesday, Feb. 16 (Mexico City, Morelia, Mexico City) 7:50 a.m. (8:50 a.m.) Departure by plane for Morelia.

10 a.m. (11 a.m.)

Mass with priests, religious, consecrated laity and seminarians.

Homily by pope.

3:15 p.m. (4:15 p.m.) Visit to the city’s cathedral.

4:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m.) Meeting with youth at Jose Maria Morelos Pavon Stadium.

Por Catholic News Service

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) He aquí el itinerario del viaje del papa Francisco a México del 12 al 17 de febrero de 2016. Los horarios enumerados son locales, con la Hora de Verano entre paréntesis. Los lugares que el papa visitará están en la Hora Central, excepto Ciudad Juárez, que está en la Hora de la Montaña.

Viernes 12 de febrero (Roma, Ciudad de México) 12:30 a.m. (6:30 a.m.) Salida de Aeropuerto Roma Fiumicino.

7:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m.) Llegada a Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez, Ciudad de México.

Sábado 13 de febrero (Ciudad de México) 9:30 a.m. (10:30 a.m.) Ceremonia de bienvenida en el Palacio Nacional. Visita de cortesía al

presidente Enrique Peña Nieto.

10:15 a.m. (11:15 a.m.) Encuentro con autoridades, sociedad civil y cuerpo diplomático.

11:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m.) Encuentro con obispos de México en la catedral.

5 p.m. (6 p.m.)

Misa en la Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Domingo 14 de febrero (Ciudad de México, Ecatepec, Ciudad de México) 9:20 a.m. (10:20 a.m.) Traslado en helicóptero a Ecatepec.

10:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m.) Misa en área del Centro de Estudios de Ecatepec.

12:50 p.m. (1:50 p.m.) Traslado en helicóptero a Ciudad de México 1:10 p.m. (2:10 p.m.) Llegada a Ciudad de México 4:30 p.m. (5:30p.m.)

Visita Hospital Pediátrico Federico Gómez 6 p.m. (7 p.m.)

Encuentro con Mundo de la Cultura en Auditorio Nacional Lunes 15 de febrero (Ciudad de México, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Ciudad de México) 7:30 a.m. (8:30 a.m.) Vuelo a Tuxtla Gutiérrez.

9:15 a.m. (10:15 a.m.) Traslado en helicóptero a San Cristóbal de Las Casas.

10:15 a.m. (11:15 a.m.) Misa con comunidades indígenas en Centro Deportivo Municipal.

1 p.m. (2 p.m.)

Almuerzo con representantes indígenas.

3 p.m. (4 p.m.)

Visita a Catedral San Cristóbal de Las Casas.

3:35 p.m. (4:35 p.m.) Traslado en helicóptero a Tuxtla Gutiérrez.

4:15 p.m. (5:15 p.m.) Encuentro con familias en Estadio Víctor Manuel Reyna.

6:10 p.m. (7:10 p.m.) Vuelo a Ciudad de México.

8 p.m. (9 p.m.)

Llegada a Ciudad de México.

Martes 16 de febrero (Ciudad de México, Morelia, Ciudad de México) 7:50 a.m. (8:50 a.m.) Vuelo a Morelia.

10 a.m. (11 a.m.)

Misa con Sacerdotes, religiosos, consagrados y seminaristas.

3:15 p.m. (4:15 p.m.) Visita a catedral.

4:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m.) Encuentro con jóvenes en estadio José María Morelos y Pavón.

6:55 p.m. (7:55 p.m.) Vuelo a Ciudad de México.

8 p.m. (9 p.m.)

Llegada a Ciudad de México.

Miércoles 17 de febrero (Ciudad de México, Ciudad Juárez) 8:35 a.m. (9:35 a.m.) Vuelo a Ciudad Juárez.

10 a.m. (12 p.m.)

Llegada a Aeropuerto Internacional Abraham González, Ciudad Juárez.

10:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m.) Visita a Centro Penitenciario Cereso.

12 p.m. (2 p.m.)

Encuentro con Mundo Del Trabajo en Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado

de Chihuahua.

4 p.m. (6 p.m.)

Misa en área de feria de Ciudad Juárez.

7 p.m. (9 p.m.)

Ceremonia de despedida en Aeropuerto Internacional de Ciudad Juárez.

7:15 p.m. (9:15 p.m.) Vuelo al Aeropuerto Roma Ciampino.

Jueves 18 de febrero (Roma) 2:45 p.m.

Llegada a Aeropuerto Roma Ciampino

January 2016

January is Poverty Awareness Month

“I want a Church which is poor and for the poor.”

- Pope Francis, The Joy of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium)

The Population of Poverty USA

In 2014, 47 million people lived in Poverty USA. That means the poverty rate for 2014 was 15%.

The 2014 poverty rate was 2.3 percentage points higher than in 2007, the year before the 2008 recession.

This is the fourth consecutive year that the number of people in poverty has remained unchanged from the previous year’s poverty estimate.

Source: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2014, U.S. Census Bureau; Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014, U.S. Census Bureau

Poverty in New Mexico

State Ranking Ranking estatal de la pobreza: 50 Overall Poverty Rate / Tasa de pobreza general: 21.3 Deep Poverty Rate / Tasa de pobreza extrema: 9.4 Child Poverty Rate (under 18) / Tasa de pobreza infantil: 29.5 Senior Poverty Rate (65+) / Tasa de pobreza de los mayores de edad: 13.2 Poverty Rate for People with Disabilities / Tasa de pobreza de los discapacitados: 26.5 Poverty Rate for Women / Tasa de pobreza de las mujeres: 23.0 Poverty Rate for Men / Tasa de pobreza de varones: 19.6

Courtesy Poverty USA

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atholic Schools Week begins on Jan. 31 this year. During that week, students will join with Catholic Schools across the country in celebrating the success of our Catholic schools. Each of the 17 Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe has planned a variety of activities to commemorate this week. Hundreds of students from our schools will gather for the All Schools Mass in Santa Fe at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi on Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 10:00 am.

Fifth graders at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School in Rio Rancho learn about the sacrament of baptism.

ALBUQUERQUE Annunciation Catholic School 2610 Utah St NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 505-299-6783 • www.annunciationcatholicschoolabq.org Holy Ghost Catholic School 6201 Ross Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108 505-256-1563 • www.holyghostcatholicschool.com Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School 4020 Lomas Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 505-255-6391 • www.fatimaschoolabq.com

St. Therese students in Albuquerque harvesting crops.

Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School 815 Guaymas Pl NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108 505-256-3167 • www.olacs.org Queen of Heaven Catholic School 5303 Phoenix Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 505-881-2484 • www.queenofheavennm.com Risen Savior Catholic School 7701 Wyoming Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109 505-821-1571 x112 • risensaviorcc.org/64

St. Mary’s students in Albuquerque are eager to learn from Mrs. Dana Karaskiewicz.

San Felipe de Neri Catholic School 2000 Lomas Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104 505-242-2411 • www.sanfelipedenerischool.org St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School 1801 Hazeldine Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106 505-243-5788 • www.stcharlesabq.org St. Mary Catholic School 224 7th St NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102 505-242-6271 • www.saintmaryscatholicschool.com

Christmas Around the W

By JoAnne Rickard, St. Thomas Aquinas Mid-School Language Arts/Literature Teacher, Rio Rancho

This photo from Annunciation Catholic School in Albuquerque represents knowledge through use of technology.

Holy Ghost Pastor, Rev. Mark A. Schultz, blesses Holy Ghost School students and teachers before they board the bus to

deliver and hand out more than 300 “Merry Bags” to those in need at St. Martin’s Hospitality Center (a nonprofit agency serving the homeless in Albuquerque). For the fourth year in a row, HGS students, faculty, and parents have come together to fill “Merry Bags” with special items and cold weather necessities.

Funding for this project comes strictly from donations by students, parents, staff, school fundraisers, and the generosity of local businesses.

St. Thomas Aquinas students, teachers, principal Sr. Anne Abascal and pastor Msgr. were delighted with a worldwide Christmas tour. Each class brought a different country doors and surrounding classroom entry walls. They were asked to create a brief overview mas traditions in their country, from which a tour guide manual was compiled. The S Executive Board, and a few class representatives, armed with the ‘official tour guide,’ hats, pennants raised high in the air, guided the ‘tourists’ through each country. From Israel to S France, and Poland to Mexico, 18 countries were represented on this fabulous Christmas Tourists were introduced to the Christmas customs of each country, met a few of the l who shared personal memories of their homelands, like Ian and St. Brigid of Ireland, an Christmas had, for a time, been banned in Scotland for 400 years. Each tourist was issu filled with informational facts, activities to complete, and an official passport stamp. Thou are home again, they will take with them many treasured memories.

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As we prepare for this important week, we reflect on the mission of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Catholic Schools; Fostering the unique gifts of each child and preparing students for leadership in school, church and global community, the Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe offer a Christ-centered, academically challenging Catholic education.

If you have an interest in Catholic education, you are encouraged to contact one of the schools and witness students firsthand during one of the many Open House Events.

St. Pius X High School 5301 St. Joseph Dr NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120 505-831-8400 • www.saintpiusx.com

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2016 St. Pius X All State Students

St. Therese Catholic School 311 Shropshire Ave NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107 505-344-4479 • www.stthereseschoolabq.org BELEN St. Mary Catholic School 101-B N 10th St, Belen, NM 87002 505-864-0484 • www.stmarysbelen.com EAST MOUNTAIN Holy Child Catholic School PO Box 130, Tijeras, NM 87509 505-281-3077 • www.holychildcatholicschool.org RIO RANCHO St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School 1100 Hood Rd SE, Rio Rancho, NM 87124 505-892-3221 • www.stthomasaquinasschool.org SANTA CRUZ Holy Cross Catholic School PO Box 1260, Santa Cruz, NM 87567 505-753-4644 • www.hccatholicschool.org SANTA FE Santo Nino Regional Catholic School 23 College Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87508 505-424-1766 • www.santoninoregional.org St. Michael’s High School 100 Siringo Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505-983-7353 • www.stmichaelssf.org

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Assessment of Catholic Religious Education (ACRE) is administered annually to 5th & 8th grade students. It is used by Catholic Schools throughout the nation to assess how well the programs of religious education are doing in forming committed Christian disciples. The percentages below represent the results for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Catholic Schools in comparison to the national percentile.

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Paid CCHD Internship Available!

Catholic Campaign for Human Development’s (CCHD) Archdiocesan office in Albuquerque is looking for Catholics who have a passion for service and justice, to apply for a paid position, approx.18-20 hours/week, $12/hr for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017. The internship is a great opportunity to learn more about social justice education, poverty relief, community development, economic development and Catholic social teaching. Job skills needed include bi-lingual, English/Spanish, good organizational skills, leadership experience, community service experience and effective writing and communication skills and computer skills. CCHD has a particular interest in helping low-income Catholics to participate in a practical learning experience that ordinarily would be out of their reach due to financial limitations. Applications can be requested by e-mail at justice@archdiosf.org . Contact Anne Avellone in the Office of Social Justice and Respect Life for more information. Applications must be received by March 4, 2016. Don’t pass up this wonderful opportunity!

January 2016

To Praise, To Bless,To Preach!

By Ian Wood, D+E+I Chief Administrator “Arm yourself with prayer, rather than a sword: wear humility rather than fine clothes” -Saint Dominic Continuing religious formation is an important aspect of the Dominican charism, and by extension at the Dominican Ecclesial Institute (D+E+I). It is the goal of D+E+I to assist in the adult faith formation of Catholics through living the Dominican life pillars of study, prayer, preaching/ministry and communal life.

In my new role as the Chief Administrator at D+E+I I am looking forward to assisting D+E+I continue to engage Catholics here in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe with a collaborative ministry of education and adult faith formation. Coming into the D+E+I fold at this time is a joyful occasion for me as 2016 will not only be the 20th anniversary of D+E+I, but also the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Order of Preachers by St. Dominic! For 20 years D+E+I has been proclaiming and preserving the breadth and depth of the Dominican charism in New Mexico by meeting people where they are and helping them get to where they want to be. Our goal is to help our brothers and sisters in Christ deepen their relationship with God, and to strengthen their relationship with each other.

Moving into 2016 D+E+I has some grace-filled programming, beginning on Sunday, January 31.

Father John Markey, OP, from the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas, presents “Aquinas in America: Inculturating the Catholic Tradition in a Society That is ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’” and is sure to be timely, and thought-provoking. Join us at 1 pm at the UNM Continuing Education Conference Center, 1634 University NE, just south of Menaul and I-40 and north of Indian School. Due to popular demand after his amazing July presentations in several venues, Fr. Markey returns for this Annual Aquinas lecture honor.

D+E+I’s second program will be a Lenten Mission led by Father Nathan Castle, OP, from the Catholic Community at Stanford, Palo Alto, California.

Plan to join us in prayer the fourth week of Lent. In addition, D+E+I will be hosting its 20th anniversary Gala Tea April 10 at the Hotel Albuquerque.

For more details on our programs please visit our website at www.DEIabq.org/upcoming-programs/.

Join us at our programs. Consider becoming a member of D+E+I as well. D+E+I is a ministry of the Dominican Friars, Central Province of St. Albert the Great. D+E+I operates in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe through the approval and ecclesial authority of the Archbishop of Santa Fe. It is funded solely through the support and generosity of its members and friends with all donations used solely for the works of D+E+I.

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Pray for Christian Unity!

By Jennifer Murphy-Dye & Beth Lukes Archdiocesan Ecumenical and Interreligious Commission

At least once a year, many Christians become aware of the great diversity of ways of adoring God. Hearts are touched, and people realize that their neighbors’ ways are not so strange.

The event that touches off this special experience is called the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Traditionally celebrated between January 18-25, between the feasts of St. Peter and the Conversion of St. Paul, the Week of Prayer enters into congregations and parishes all over the world. Pulpits are exchanged, and special ecumenical celebrations and prayer services are arranged.

The theme for the 2016 Week of Prayer is: “Called to proclaim the mighty acts of the Lord” (1 Peter 2:9). Here, St. Peter tells the early Church that in their search for meaning prior to encountering the Gospel they were not a people. But through hearing the call to be God’s chosen race and receiving the power of God’s salvation in Jesus Christ, they have become God’s people. Baptism opens up an exciting new journey of faith, uniting each new Christian with God’s people throughout the ages. In the shared sacred texts of the Bible, we hear of God’s saving acts in salvation history: leading his people out of slavery in Egypt, and the great mighty act of God: the raising of Jesus from the dead, which opened new life to all of us. As Christians seeking the unity of the Body of Christ we are all called to recognize the mighty acts of God in our own lives and the life of the Church.

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity gives us the opportunity to approach God in humility and ask for help in bringing about visible unity. Why is this important? Because only together can we effectively witness to the Gospel message and fulfill the Great Commission: to go and make disciples of all the

world. Until then, we dialogue with members of other Christian traditions; we work with each other for social change; and we PRAY for unity, participating in spiritual ecumenism with our brothers and sisters in faith. When so many forces come against people of faith, we must all the more be united for freedom of religion and the common good. The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is a most opportune time to unite with fellow Christians to pray for peace and reconciliation among ourselves.

Catholics are encouraged to join fellow Christians in proclaiming the mighty acts of the Lord by participating in the following ecumenical events scheduled for the 2016 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: • Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 6 PM, Taize Prayer Service in the Santo Nino Chapel at the Santuario de Chimayo. Please contact Joanne Dupont Sandoval at 505.689.2404 or Rose Garcia 505.831.8243 for more information.

• Saturday, January 23rd: 6-8:30 PM, Circo and Dinner, an ecumenical banquet and fund-raiser with NM Conference of Churches, NM Interfaith Power and Light, the Albuquerque Aerialist Collective and La Mesa Arts Academy. The event will be at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Albuquerque and feature a meal (likely a mix of international cuisine), circus performance (aerial fabrics, lyra, trapeze and more), and brief videos about each organizations. Tickets are $40 and will go on sale Jan. 4th at www.nmchurches.org .

• Monday, January 25th at 7 PM, an Evening Prayer Service at Our Lady of the Annunciation Parish, 2621 Vermont Street, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110, with Reverend Doctor Hal Nielson, retired Lutheran pastor as the featured Speaker.

Please call Rose Garcia 505.831.8243 or Our Lady of the Annunciation 298-7554 for more information.

Pope Benedict XVI visits the main synagogue in Rome in this Jan. 17, 2010, file photo. Pope Francis will visit the same synagogue Jan. 17, 2016. Pictured near the pope are Cardinal Walter Kasper, then-president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then-Vatican secretary of state; and Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, then-chief rabbi of Haifa, Israel. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Most Common Marriage Issues Illness: Caring for a sick spouse or child, or coping with a serious

Romero Mr. Rosalio Romero and Miss Dolores Romero were joined in holy matrimony on December 27, 1965 at La Sagrada Familia in Lemitar. After attending Socorro High School, Rosalio served in the Army. He worked and retired from ABF (Navajo) as a truck driver.

After attending UNM for her B.S. and Masters, Dolores worked and retired from Albuquerque Public School as a teacher.

They currently belong to St. Edwin’s Parish.

They have three children: Nick Romero and John Antoniades, Diego Romero and wife Mackenzie, and Maggie Romero. They have three grandchildren: Elijah, Bella and Gabriella.

illness yourself, can take a toll on a marriage.

Pornography: Pornography use or addiction is, sadly, widespread. It can have devastating effects on married couples. But there is hope.

Finances: Strained finances, or disagreements about money, can lead to a strained marriage.

Domestic Violence: Women (and men) experiencing domestic abuse need to know that they can seek safety.

Infertility: Couples who are unable to conceive (or conceive again), or who experience miscarriage, face a difficult trial and need support.

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Looking Toward November 8, 2016 The Catholic Difference

By George Weigel

To redeploy a phrase from President Ford, our “long national nightmare” – in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign – will be over in eleven months, or at least suspended for a year or so. It’s not been an altogether edifying show to date; one may hope that, as the fields get winnowed down, a measure of the serious debate that befits a great republic might emerge. With a view to encouraging that, here are two suggestions for what Catholics in America might ponder before November 8.

The most important numbers to keep in mind between now and Election Day are “78,” “80,” and “83.” Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will be 78 by November 8; Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy will be 80 by then, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be 83. If the actuarial tables mean anything, those numbers suggest that the next President of the United States is likely to get two, perhaps three, and just possibly four nominations to the Court.

This demographic reality creates

an opportunity, unprecedented since the disaster of Roe v. Wade, to make significant advances in rebuilding the structure of legal protection for human life from conception until natural death in the United States. It also creates the possibility of reversing more than a half-century’s jurisprudential malpractice in the matter of Churchand-state and reaffirming the truth about the First Amendment, which is that “no establishment” serves the goal of “free exercise.” And it just might mean getting the question of what “marriage” is, and who may “marry” whom, reconsidered as a matter of constitutional law, not public policy preference.

It will thus make a vast difference who makes these nominations, and how the Senate that will advise and consent on them is configured. For if real progress on reaffirming the right to life, securing religious freedom, and defending marriage rightly understood is possible under one scenario, it just as possible that the alternative scenario will produce a Court that deals potentially fatal hammer-blows to these causes for the foreseeable fu-

ture.

(2) When the new president gets his or her first intelligence briefing in the Oval Office on January 21, 2017, he or she may wonder what demon possessed him or her to want the job. For the world is almost certainly going to be more dangerous that day than at any point since the height of the Cold War, and perhaps as long ago as 1947.

The dismantling of the international security architecture that has guided the North Atlantic democracies since 1949 has proceeded apace for the past seven years; those responsible for that dismantling stubbornly refuse to consider the evidence before their eyes and hold steady to a lemming-like march toward disaster; the new president will thus face a challenge unlike any since Harry Truman confronted the consequences of the collapse of British power after World War II. There are lots of reasons to think America should be ashamed of itself if it considers what taking a holiday from history has done to the world since 2009. The government has failed to take the measure of a newly aggressive Russia that operates by stealth ag-

gression and lies before it gets down to the real aggression; meanwhile, the United States sends military junk to a Ukraine that is begging for help in building democracy and prosperity.

The Middle East is a boiling cauldron of violence, murder, and ideological madness, in no small part because the United States decided that it had had enough of maintaining order there.

Meanwhile, the State Department has gutted the notion of “religious freedom” in U.S. international human rights policy, preferring to emphasize the export of American lifestyle libertinism while threatening to withhold foreign aid if poor countries decide that they’d just as soon not imitate western decadence – which seems to them (and not without reason) to have caused an awful lot of unhappiness.

The campaign consultants will tell candidates that, when it comes to what we might call the Presidentiad, it is, was, and always will be about the economy. Serious Catholics will know better. It’s about our national character. It’s about building on, not wasting, the victory of freedom in the Cold War. It’s about responsibility.

Prayer Before An Election

Lord God, as the election approaches, we seek to better understand the issues and concerns that confront our city/state/country, and how the Gospel compels us to respond as faithful citizens in our community.

We ask for eyes that are free from blindness so that we might see each other as brothers and sisters, one and equal in dignity, especially those who are victims of abuse and violence, deceit and poverty.

We ask for ears that will hear the cries of children unborn and those abandoned, Men and women oppressed because of race or creed, religion or gender.

We ask for minds and hearts that are open to hearing the voice of leaders who will bring us closer to your Kingdom.

We pray for discernment so that we may choose leaders who hear your Word, live your love, and keep in the ways of your truth as they follow in the steps of Jesus and his Apostles and guide us to your Kingdom of justice and peace.

We ask this in the name of your Son Jesus Christ and through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

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New Mexico Deacon, 92, Mugged by Assailants Who Stole Christmas Offerings

By Joseph J. Kolb Catholic News Service

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (CNS) -- A 92-year-old deacon at an Albuquerque church was physically and emotionally recovering after being mugged by three individuals who stole the Christmas offerings from his car’s trunk.

Sgt. Sean Frick, Albuquerque Police Department spokesman, said Deacon Ruben Barela was walking across the snow-shrouded parking lot of Queen of Heaven Parish Dec. 28 carrying a bag with Christmas offerings when a man ap-

At the Heart of the Tragedy of Addiction Addiction can be extremely harmful, and in some cases, fatal for those individuals ensnared by it. It can be seriously disruptive and damaging to those around them. Who is to blame when it comes to addiction? Family and friends may think to themselves, “Why can’t Jane just stop drinking?” Or, “Doesn’t Joe understand that his gambling addiction is bankrupting the family?” Or, “Can’t Bob see how his pornography habit is destroying his marriage and his relationships?”

For those facing addiction, it seems they ought to be able to recognize their behavior as harmful, and turn away from it by a resolute decision. Fam-

proached him from a Jeep asking directions. After providing the man an answer, Deacon Barela put the bag in the trunk of his car.

“As he was backing out the Jeep drove up and blocked

ily and friends, however, can face years of frustration when they see their loved ones fall into a slow motion “crash and burn,” spiraling downwards as they remain unwilling or unable to step away from their addiction.

The individual caught in the web of addiction objectively falls prey to a loss of personal freedom. His will becomes weakened, and he becomes enslaved in a way that limits his ability to recognize the right order of goods in his life. By repetitively choosing the addictive behavior, it becomes ingrained, and the ability to choose better, alternative behaviors becomes enfeebled, if not seemingly impossible. For these reasons, there is almost always diminished personal responsibility in situations of addiction. To be accountable for our acts, we must freely choose those acts, but the internal pressure and downward spiral of the addiction may have already co-opted the individual’s ability freely to choose otherwise. Eventually this bondage can appear to be permanent, and addicted individuals can imagine themselves pathetic and hopeless to such a degree

him in,” Frick said.

Frick said one of the three male suspects, all in their 20s, reached into the vehicle and took the keys out of the ignition. He then went to the trunk and stole the bag of money.

Deacon Barela sustained a minor injury in the altercation and later sought medical attention at a local hospital, Frick added.

Father William Young, Queen of Heaven pastor, estimated that up to $20,000 was taken by the thieves.

An angered Father Young did not couch his feelings when speaking with KOBTV.

that they almost give up. In the words of a formerly-addicted individual: “I believe that I did not have a choice to stop…. It never became clear to me that I could live another way until a medical intervention from my physician and friends took place. Willpower plays a small role here, but it too cannot work if one has a malfunctioning brain. I speak for myself here… I could not stop. Period. Now, I have stopped. Not just because of the intervention, but because I have turned my life and my will over to the God of my understanding. That is something 12 step programs have taught me.”

This radical loss of freedom lies at the heart of the tragedy of addiction. Because we are creatures of habit, the choices we make, either for good or for evil, form us in one direction or the other, so we become individuals who are either capable or incapable of choosing the good freely. Virtue is a habit of good, while vice is a habit of evil.

Early choices leading down the road towards addiction, freely made, can quickly snowball into vice, addiction

“I don’t have a high opinion of these losers,” Father Young said. “These people are really cowardly to do that to an elderly man.”

Father Young also expressed disappointment in a society that failed to embrace the spirit of Christmas.

“Generally speaking, the values of our society (are) crumbling to the point where, sadly for some people, nothing or no one is safe and sacred,” he said.

Christina Manley, a fourthgrade teacher and Queen of Heaven parishioner, said the attack against Deacon Barela demonstrated the senselessness of a growing violent

and a loss of freedom. As one recovered addict graphically described it: “My beef is with those who claim that they never chose to become an addict or never chose to hurt their families….

While we likely didn’t intend to end up helpless, dysfunctional people who [hurt] our loved ones, the choices we made put us at risk of ending up in a sorry state where we were capable of doing things we would have never dreamed of. Unless you were raised on Mars, we all deep down knew the risk of our choices, especially if you’re talking about coke, crack, meth, or heroin but we chose to roll the dice anyways. At a certain point, when I was starting to do coke almost every weekend, I knew that it would be wise to stop, but I chose not to because I was having fun and I told myself it will never happen to me. By the end, I was going on solo three day benders with alcohol and cocaine, and I landed in treatment.… my point is that I made the choice to try the substance, the choice to begin to use the substance more regularly, and the choice not to quit when I could have.”

crime rate in Albuquerque.

“I am not shocked that this happened here in Albuquerque because of the high crime rate, but I am extremely saddened and disgusted with the growing lack of human decency that our beautiful city seems to far too often display,” Manley said. “The new year is already causing us to practice forgiveness.”

Fueling parishioners’ frustration is the fact that the church was robbed of a symbolic artifact during the Thanksgiving holiday. Two crowns valued at $7,000 were stolen from the heads of statues of Mary and the infant Jesus.

While there may have been significant moral culpability at the beginning of an individual’s descent into addiction, it is still critical for us to never stigmatize, patronize or abandon those who are in the throes of addiction. They may feel they are defined entirely by their addiction, unlovable and wretched, rather than seeing that they are, in fact, human beings who are precious to God and those around them, and even now endowed with some tiny space of remaining freedom. That tiny space will become key to determining whether they ultimately choose the behavioral changes needed to improve their situation and recover the human freedom that is rightfully theirs. We should support, encourage and love them in ways that will help lead them toward those good choices and successful outcomes.

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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Ten ASF Families Honored at the 2015 New Mexico Healthy Family Award Banquet

By Irene El Genk, St. Thomas Aquinas Rio Rancho parishioner & Mary Pepper, Our Lady of the Annunciation, Albuquerque parishioner

ideologies reflect closing remarks of Pope Francis at the October Synod on the Family: “It was about urging everyone to appreciate the importance of the institution of the family and of marriage between a man and a woman, based on unity and indissolubility, and valuing it as the fundamental basis of society and human life.” (http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/10/24/pope_francis_addresses_synod_of_bishops_at_conclusion/1181854) A critical need within our communities is support for healthy parents to nurture and guide

children with the fundamentals that help them succeed in every aspect of their lives Research shows the following to be traits of a “healthy family: Nurturing Relationships, Stability, Adapting to Challenges, Commitment, Value Religion/ Spirituality, and Community Involvement. Each of the nominated families displayed these characteristics; they model for us what is at the heart of a strong community.

To learn more about the New Mexico Coalition for Healthy Families and to view photos of the the event, please visit www.NMCHF.org

The 2015 New Mexico Healthy Family Award Banquet recently celebrated healthy, committed families in our communities. This annual event is sponsored by The New Mexico Coalition for Healthy Families whose mission is to improve the well-being of New Mexico’s children by supporting, expanding, and coordinating programs that strengthen healthy family relationships. The fourth annual award celebration brought together families from across the state for fun, good food, and an opportunity to be recognized as role-model families in New Mexico.

Ten of the 17 nominated families are Catholic and members of the following parishes: Joseph & Sarah Ryan, Dennis & Laurie Roach, and Pat & Kerry Sena of Annunciation, Mike & Teresa Hogan of Risen Savior, and John & Betty Eichenseer of St. Charles, Albuquerque; Caleb & Anna Kerr, and Damien & Kathleen Ocampo of San Miguel, Socorro; and Mark & Helen Johnson, John & Ann Marcelli, and James & Yvonne Montoya of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rio Rancho. Sister Anne Louise Abascal, MPF, who nominated three families, remarked after- The Hogan Family, Risen Savior Catholic Community, The Sena family, Our Lady of the Annunciation, Albuquerque wards, “Our families were honored to be recog- Albuquerque nized by the New Mexico Coalition of Healthy Families. They were most grateful for the kindness and hospitality shown to them. They were deeply touched by the comradery expressed by those in charge of the event.” Mark Johnson’s family lauded the event saying: “It is a blessing to have been chosen to be a part of the NM Coalition for Healthy Families. God is the center of our family, and we are grateful for the gift that He has given us!!! PS We had a wonderful time; the snowy night made it memorable for sure!! Thank You!” Although the event sponsor is secular, it’s The Roach family, Our Lady of the Annunciation, Albuquerque

Photos by WinstonFoto

The Ryan family, Our Lady of the Annunciation, Albuquerque

The Montoya family, St. Thomas Aquinas, Rio Rancho

The Johnson family, St. Thomas Quinas, Rio Rancho

The Kerr family, San Miguel, Socorro

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God’s mercy knows ‘no limits,’ frees people from despair, pope says VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- God’s ability to forgive “knows no limits” as his mercy frees people from bitterness and despair, Pope Francis said. “The church’s forgiveness must be every bit as broad as that offered by Jesus on the cross and by Mary at his feet. There is no other way,” he said after opening the Holy Door of the Basilica of St. Mary Major Jan. 1, the feast of Mary, Mother of God, and the World Day of Prayer for Peace. On the first day of the new year, Pope Francis opened the last holy door in Rome as part of the extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy. “The door we have opened is, in fact, a Door of Mercy,” he said in his homily, referring to the Roman basilica’s large bronze doors depicting Mary presenting her resurrected son, Jesus. “Those who cross its threshold are called to enter into the merciful love of the father with complete trust and freedom from fear; they can leave this basilica knowing with certainty that Mary is ever at their side,” especially during times of trouble and sorrow, he said.

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Christ. Our presence to each other will be a genuine present that can last a lifetime. Pope Francis has given a great gift to our church and we receive it with joy as we make his prayer our own in the Year of Mercy: “In this Jubilee Year, may the church echo the word of God that resounds strong and clear as a message and a sign of pardon, strength, aid, and love. May she never tire of extending mercy, and be ever patient in offering compassion and comfort. May the church become the voice of every man and woman, and repeat confidently without end: ‘Be mindful of Your mercy, O Lord, and Your steadfast love, for they are from of old.’” (Psalm 25:6) Sincerely yours in the Lord,

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preciosos para estar presentes para quienes se encuentran en la misma habitación con nosotros. Además, estamos cada vez más consciente de nosotros mismos, no que seamos tímidos, sino que nos preocupamos más por lo que deseamos que por lo que otros necesitan. Somos muy reservados al dar a la gente el tiempo necesario para estar realmente presentes para ellos.

Este Año de la Misericordia nos ofrece una oportunidad de ver que nuestra capacidad de estar presentes para los demás es un don de la compasión, un don de la misericordia para sus vidas, y por ende, para las nuestras también. Dios nos hizo a su imagen y semejanza, una imagen basada en la presencia: el Padre, el Hijo y el Espíritu Santo, relacionándose entre sí en una unión ontológica de amor. Dios es una comunidad de personas y hemos sido creados para ser una comunidad de personas en su imagen. Cuanto más estamos presentes unos a los otros, como las personas de la Trinidad están presentes uno para el otro, entonces más fieles seremos a nuestra propia naturaleza y más reflejaremos a Dios, en cuya imagen hemos sido creados. Esta presencia es más que una sutileza. Es vital para nuestro bienestar.

Muchos estudios han demostrado que los bebés necesitan del amor, el contacto y la presencia de otros. Sin esta presencia amorosa de los padres o de quienes cuidan de ellos, se deterioran e incluso mueren. Una de nuestras hermanas carmelitas hace poco me dijo que un recién nacido fue abandonado en las escaleras de un hospital. La enfermera que se hizo cargo de él lo abrazó y se preocupó por él como si fuera su propio hijo. Cuando la enfermera tomó un par de días de descanso, el bebé comenzó a enfermarse y sus signos vitales empezaron a decaer. Cuando la enfermera regresó y se dio cuenta de esto, reanudó sus caricias tiernas y amorosas y el bebé se recuperó. (¡La enfermera terminó adoptando al bebé y lo crio como propio hijo!) Claramente, es importante que nos conectemos con los demás y que estemos presentes unos a otros en todos los niveles: físico, emocional, psicológico y espiritual. El aliento de Dios nos trajo a la existencia y nuestra presencia de unos a otros, de una manera

God’s breath brought us into being and our presence to one another gives life in a similar fashion.

With these thoughts in mind, I believe a fitting way to celebrate the Year of Mercy is to commit ourselves to be more present to God and to one another. Families can find ways to pray together, eat together, recreate together and just be in each other’s presence. We can single out people we work with, worship with or relax with and focus more on their needs, trying to attend to them and really respond to the unique presence they bring to our lives. We can reach out to those who are routinely alone: shut-ins, those in assisted living facilities and hospital patients.

They would relish a short visit, a comforting word and the assurance they have not been forgotten. The way we approach the homeless, new Most Rev. John C, Wester, arrivals, immigrants and strangers Archbishop of Santa Fe can reflect our desire to journey with them as they make their way in difficult times. We can never overestimate the imNOBODY DELIVERS FASTER portance of a friendly smile, a welcoming handshake or an assuring word. I know our parishes have many ministries that put people in touch with OFFICE SUPPLY each other and that allow us to bring Christ’s loving presence to the lonely and the forgotten.

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Con todo esto en mente, creo que una manera apropiada para celebrar el Año de la Misericordia es comprometernos a estar más presentea para Dios y para los demás.

Las familias pueden encontrar maneras de orar juntos, comer juntos, divertirse juntos y simplemente estar presentes uno para el otro. Podemos identificar a personas con las que trabajamos, con quienes rezamos, con quienes nos divertimos y enfocarnos más en sus necesidades, tratando de darles nuestra atención y realmente responder a la presencia única que aportan a nuestras vidas. Podemos visitar a aquellos que rutinariamente están solos, que residen en instituciones de cuidado, a pacientes del hospital. Ellos agradecerán una visita corta, una palabra de consuelo y la seguridad de que no han sido olvidados. La forma en que nos acercamos a las personas sin hogar, a los recién llegados, inmigrantes y extranjeros puede reflejar nuestro deseo de caminar con ellos a medida que ellos se abren camino en los momentos difíciles.

No subestimemos la importancia de una sonrisa, un apretón de manos, o una palabra tranquilizadora. Sé que nuestras parroquias tienen muchos ministerios que ponen a las personas en contacto con los demás y que nos permiten llevar la presencia amorosa de Cristo a los que están solos y olvidados.

Este Año de la Misericordia es un tiempo magnífico para caminar con nuestro prójimo, mostrar compasión real y preocupación por nuestros hermanos y hermanas en Cristo. Nuestra presencia de unos a otros será un verdadero regalo que perdura toda la vida. El Papa Francisco ha dado un gran regalo a nuestra iglesia y lo recibimos con alegría mientras hacemos propia su oración en el Año de la Misericordia: “En este Año Jubilar, (pidamos) que la iglesia haga eco de la palabra de Dios que resuena fuerte y clara como un mensaje y un signo de perdón, fortaleza, ayuda y amor. Que no se canse de extender la misericordia, y que siempre sea paciente al ofrecer la compasión y el consuelo. Que la iglesia se convierta en la voz de cada hombre y mujer, y repita con confianza y sin fin: “Acuérdate, Señor, de tu misericordia y tu bondad, que son eternas.”

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Mark Your Calendars

TV Mass Schedule January 10, 2016 Is 42:1-4, 6-7 Baptism of the Lord Ps 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 Rev. Ronald Bowers Acts 10:34-38 CF Mk 9:7 Lk 3:15-16, 21-22

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January 17, 2016 Is 62:1-5 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time Ps 96:1-2, 2-3, 7-8, 9-10 Rev. Ronald Bowers 1 Cor 12:4-11 CF 2 Thes 2:14

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January 2016 Rev. Thomas Pesaresi, MM 1/29 15 St. Paul the Hermit Rev. Oren Key, SJ 1/31 16 St. Berard and Companions

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History of Religious-Themed Books a Tough Read but Worth the Effort

By Daniel S. Mulhall Catholic News Service “What Would Jesus Read?

Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America” by Erin A. Smith. University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2015). 410 pp., $39.95.

Several years ago, the “Left Behind” series of books, which described the fate of the earth and its inhabitants following the rapture, sold millions of books and made numerous best-seller lists. At the time, many commentators expressed amazement that religious-themed books would sell so well.

But as Erin A. Smith, associate professor of American studies and literature at the University of Texas at Dallas, describes in her comprehensive work “What Would Jesus Read? Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America,” this should have come as

This is the cover of “What Would Jesus Read? Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America” by Erin A. Smith. The book is reviewed by Daniel S. Mulhall. (CNS) no surprise: Religious books aimed at a popular audience have been the backbone of the American publishing industry since the late 1800s.

The focus of Smith’s work is on those religious books that were looked down upon by

scholars and theologians who complained that the books lacked aesthetic values, and were filled with theological and historical errors. Distained they might have been, but these books sold wildly among believers looking for stories that would strengthen their faith. Smith provides numerous examples of letters sent to popular authors that praised their work for making Jesus real for them.

Smith organizes her work chronologically, starting with the best-selling Social Gospel novels that promoted Christian missionary work among the poor and uneducated, moves to the self-help era of the 1940s-’50s, and then to “The Late Great Planet Earth” phenomena of the 1970s with its emphasis on end-times prophecy, into the modern day.

While most of the books Smith addresses were intended for a Protestant audience, Bishop Fulton Sheen is included in the chapter that Smith describes as

the self-help era.

In many of her chapters, Smith focuses on a particular author, as she does with Bruce Barton, whose 1925 book “The Man Nobody Knows” was a commercial success as well as a religiously inspiring book. Barton presented to the world a “muscular” Jesus, both a manly man and a strong business leader. According to Smith, Barton promoted both a “muscular” Christianity and a faith that provided strong support for capitalism. She also spends a great many words on the success of the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale and his work on positive thinking and the promotion of business from a religious perspective.

What the writers Smith studies showed is that the American audience is very interested in growing in faith, even if they are only tenuously connected to a particular church and religion. By providing us a detailed examination of the message presented and peo-

ple’s response to that message, Smith helps us to better understand the spiritual hungers of the Christian masses. For that reason alone, this work will be of great interest to anyone interested in evangelization.

The key is simple, bringing Jesus to life for the people of this time and helping them to identify with him.

One of the book’s strength’s is also a major weakness: Smith unpacks some books in such detail and provides so many examples of comments from readers that it is easy for the reader to get bogged down.

While the books that inspired this work were written for the mass market, Smith’s work is seriously academic. While she has done a tremendous service to the field by this project, its readership will almost certainly be limited to a particular audience, which is unfortunate for it is worth the time and effort to read carefully.

Mulhall is a catechist. He lives in Laurel, Maryland.

Pope Recognizes Miracle Needed to Declare Mother Teresa a Saint

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, thus paving the way for her canonization.

Pope Francis signed the decree for Blessed Teresa’s cause and advanced three other sainthood causes Dec. 17, the Vatican announced.

Although the date for the canonization ceremony will be officially announced during the next consistory of cardinals in February, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Vatican office organizing the Holy Year of Mercy events, had said it would be Sept. 4. That date celebrates the Jubilee of workers and volunteers of mercy and comes the day before the 19th anniversary of her death, Sept.

5, 1997.

The postulator for her sainthood cause, Father Brian Kolodiejchuk of the Missionaries of Charity, said the second miracle that was approved involved the healing of a now 42-year-

old mechanical engineer in Santos, Brazil.

Doctors diagnosed the man with a viral brain infection that resulted in multiple brain abscesses, the priest said in a statement published Dec. 18

by AsiaNews, the Rome-based missionary news agency. Treatments given were ineffective and the man went into a coma, the postulator wrote.

The then-newly married man’s wife had spent months praying to Blessed Teresa and her prayers were joined by those of her relatives and friends when her dying husband was taken to the operating room Dec. 9, 2008.

When the surgeon entered the operating room, he reported that he found the patient awake, free of pain and asking, “What am I doing here?”

Doctors reported the man showed no more symptoms and a Vatican medical commission voted unanimously in September 2015 that the healing was inexplicable.

St. John Paul II had made an exception to the usual canonization process in Mother Teresa’s case by allowing

her sainthood cause to be opened without waiting the usual five years after a candidate’s death. He beatified her in 2003.

The order she started -- the Missionaries of Charity -- continues its outreach to the “poorest of the poor.”

Among the other decrees approved Dec. 17, the pope recognized the heroic virtues of Comboni Father Giuseppe Ambrosoli, an Italian surgeon, priest and missionary who dedicated his life to caring for people in Uganda, where he also founded a hospital and midwifery school before his death in 1987. His father ran the highly successful Ambrosoli honey company.

The pope also recognized the heroic virtues of De La Salle Brother Leonardo Lanzuela Martinez of Spain (1894-1976) and Heinrich Hahn, a German surgeon.

Born in 1800, the lay Catholic doctor was the father of 10 children and dedicated much of his activity to providing medical care to the poor. He was also involved in public service, even serving in the German parlia-

Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, paving the way for her canonization in 2016. A file photo dated March 2, 1993, shows Mother Teresa in Hong Kong. (CNS photo/ Thomas Cheng, EPA) ment. He founded the St. Francis Xavier Mission Society in Germany and the “Giuseppino” Institute for those suffering from incurable illnesses. He died in 1882.

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Happy Anniversary!

Shown here are those celebrating anniversaries at the Catholic Center for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe: Joseph Contreras (25 years), Bernadette Lucero (5 years), Deacon Keith Davis (5 years), Rosalie Romero (25 years), Robin Prawdzik (10 years), Dr. Dolly Sokol (15 years), Archbishop John C. Wester, Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan, Ceci Grant (5 years), Monica Justice (5 years), Esther-Marie Nagiel (5 years), Carol Elliott (5 years). Not pictured: Fr. John Cannon (5 years), Jeff Snodgrass (5 years), Bette Jean Stephens (25 years).

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Sanctity of Life Awareness & Unity Day Wednesday, January 20, 2016 in Santa Fe

Join us as the three Dioceses of New Mexico prayerfully mark the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalizing abortion with a Sanctity of Life Awareness and Unity Day on January 20, 2016.

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Noon Mass at Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis in Santa Fe: The three Bishops of New Mexico, Archbishop John C. Wester (Archdiocese of Santa Fe), Bishop Oscar CantĂş (Diocese of Las Cruces) and Bishop James S. Wall (Diocese of Gallup) will be concelebrating Mass at noon.

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***Participants are asked to bring baby items like diapers, blankets, bottles, etc. and/or socks and toiletries for the elderly to be collected at the Mass and distributed to organizations that provide support to expectant mothers in need or nursing homes.

For more information, call the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Office of Social Justice and Respect Life, 505-831-8167.

Note: Other groups may be hosting events surrounding the Mass, march and rally.

For more information, call the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Office of Social Justice and Respect Life, 505-831-8167.

Note: Other groups may be hosting events surrounding the Mass, march and rally.