May 2018 Vol. 36, No. 5
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Mary, mother of all life help us to respect human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.
A statue of Mary and the Christ Child is seen in 2017 at St. Rafael the Archangel Church in Quebradillas, Puerto Rico. Mary, Mother of the Church should be celebrated this year the Monday after Pentecost, and take precedence over any other possible liturgy that day, said Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) See page 12
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Mass of Ordination: Priesthood Archbishop’s Letter: Embracing the Risen Christ In All Diaconate Ordinations Priestly Ordinations 50th Anniversary of Restoration of the Permanent Diaconate In Church Mother’s Day Is for Every Mother Catholic Charities 2018 Confirmation Schedule Distinguished Disciples Hermitage Retreat Experience at the Norbertine Community World and National News Archbishop Wester’s Calendar Blessing of Age Conference Mass of Ordination: Transitional Diaconate Mass of Ordination: Permanent Diaconate
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Embracing the Risen Christ In All By Most Reverend John C. Wester, Archbishop of Santa Fe
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s we continue to celebrate Christ’s resurrection during this Easter season, our hearts echo with the words from Luke’s Gospel, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” (Luke 24:5). Luke is proclaiming to his community and to us that Jesus Christ is alive. Not only that, but He has passed into a completely new mode of existence. This is not a resuscitation, as incredible as that is, such as in the case of Jairus’ daughter, the widow of Naim’s son, or Jesus’ friend Lazarus. No, this is the beginning of something completely new; not only for Jesus, but for all of us since Jesus made us heirs of His Father’s love when He became one of us in the Incarnation. Like Lazarus, Jesus was also set free from His burial cloths and escaped from the tomb. However, unlike Lazarus, Jesus entered a new life, resurrected life, where He now sits at the right hand of the Father. Although you and I cannot completely comprehend this, like the women at Christ’s tomb in Luke’s Gospel, we can perceive with our earthly eyes and come to believe what the angels tell us. With Mary Magdalene, Joanna and Mary, the mother of James and the other women, the Scriptures challenge us not to look for Jesus among the dead but among the living. Furthermore, we are able to experience even now the first installments of the eternal life Jesus makes possible through the Church and the sacraments. In other words, Luke is telling us that we are called to live our faith. That is, we are not to waste our time looking for Jesus in the tomb, but rather we are to go and report, to evangelize, and to give witness to our faith just as the women in the Gospel did. While this has many implications, one clear message is that we are to rid ourselves of our assumptions, of our biases, of our often-erroneous perceptions and in the process come to embrace the risen Christ. The women in the Gospel of Luke were not able at first to make sense of what was happening. They had to abandon their mistrust of strangers and believe in the two men in the tomb. They had to abandon their conviction that dead people do not come back to life, much less a resurrected life. They had to resist the social mores of the time that would mock the idea that the risen Christ, the Messiah, would speak to women before men. Luke’s message for his community and for us is clear. The resurrection of Jesus Christ moves us to see things in a completely different way, moving us from the tomb to the light of day where
we are called to live our faith by finding Christ among the living rather than wallowing in our numbing and often deadly biases. Yet, this conversion is not easy! For one thing, we cling to those beliefs and assumptions that help us to make sense of the world and of our lives, even if they are erroneous. For another, it is not easy to discern what biases we have since they are so deeply ingrained in us. (I read the other day that a Swedish and U.S. study determined that 80% of drivers surveyed ranked their driving skills as above average. Think about that for a minute!) Sadly, there are many modern-day examples of how our biases keep us apart and make it difficult for individuals or groups to realize their full potential. We recently read about the two black men who were arrested at the Starbucks in Philadelphia. We also know that women often face obstacles to success in our society. A report by an early-stage investment firm, Female Founders Fund, found that only 8% of startups funded by venture capitalists in the San Francisco Bay Area last year were led by women. Katherine Hays, the cofounder and CEO of venture backed Vivoom, an ad tech startup, said that she sometimes believes that if she were a 21-yearold male with a hoodie, her company would be even more appealing to venture capitalists. Her observation leads to another study that determined that males over 6 feet tall and who are handsome are consistently hired more, paid more and perceived as more powerful and successful. What I am talking about is our call to moral formation, shaping our hearts and minds to a new life in Christ. While there are a myriad of examples of personal biases, there are also institutional biases that affect us as members of a society, a family, a company or an organization. For example, in his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis laments that economic structures often keep people enslaved. Speaking of trickle-down economic theories, the Pope rightly commented that these structures push people to the periphery and quite often relegate them to a life of poverty and misery. As we witness the decimation of the Rohingyan people of Myanmar, the massacres in Syria, the never ending tensions in the Middle East and the abysmal prospects for so many of our children here in New Mexico, we cannot help but realize that institutional and systemic biases are at play. These are the sins of omission we commit out of ignorance and neglect. Whether our prejudices and biases are personal or institutional, they keep us apart and they fragment the body of Christ. Christ’s resurrection calls us to move beyond these biases and to embrace a new way of being in which we treat people with mutual respect, dignity and affirmation. Jesus taught us in His ministry and in His personal example that we are to break down the walls that divide us. For example, He was respectful and affirming of women in a society where they had little or no standing whatsoever. In Jesus’ time, it
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was truly a man’s world. Yet, Jesus’ parables often spoke to women as He used examples that gave them a voice and with which they would identify. As Fr. Jose Pagola states in his book, Jesus: An Historical Approximation (2014), “Jesus does not restrict Himself to an androcentric language that considers everything from the man’s viewpoint. He also puts Himself in the woman’s place and makes them protagonists of His parable.” Of course, repeatedly, Jesus shows us by His example that we are to break through our biases as we reach out to the poor, the ill, the marginalized and the downtrodden. Moreover, Jesus not only gives us an example of moving from the tomb of our biases to the light of day but He also sends us His Spirit whom we anticipate this coming Pentecost to enable us to shed our burial cloths of prejudice. The Holy Spirit enlivens our faith and enables us to unite with Christ and each other. The gifts of the Holy Spirit (wisdom, courage, prudence, knowledge, understanding, piety and fear of the Lord) help us to break down the walls that divide us. The Holy Spirit sends us forth to find Christ among the living. As St. John Chrysostom, the second patriarch of Constantinople (344 - 407 A.D.) said so beautifully and alarmingly even for today, “Do you want to honor Christ’s body? Then do not scorn Him in His nakedness, nor honor Him here in the Church with silken garments while neglecting Him outside where He is cold and naked. For He who said, ‘This is My body,’ and made it so by His words, also said, ‘You saw Me hungry and did not feed Me and inasmuch as you did not do it for the least of My brothers, you did not do it for Me.’ What we do here in the Church requires a pure heart, not special garments; what we do outside requires great dedication.” We must be dedicated to removing our burial cloths; removing the biases that prevent us from embracing the risen Christ in all His brothers and sisters. We will not find Christ in the tombs of our biases and prejudices but only among the living. It is when we treat each other with mutual respect, honoring the dignity inherent in each human being and seeing Christ reflected in them, that we are truly free. We are truly an Easter people who hope one day to live with Christ forever in the Kingdom He opened up to us in His Resurrection, and manifests daily in our love and care. Sincerely yours in the Lord,
Most Rev. John C. Wester, Archbishop of Santa Fe
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Encontremos a Cristo entre los vivos
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medida que transcurre la temporada de Pascua y continuamos celebrando la resurrección de Cristo, hacen eco en nuestro corazón las palabras del Evangelio de Lucas: “¿Por qué buscan entre los muertos al que vive?” (Lucas 24:5). Lucas le está proclamando a su comunidad y nos proclama a nosotros que Jesucristo vive. No solamente eso, sino que él ha pasado a una modalidad de existencia completamente nueva. No se trata de una resucitación, tan increíble como eso es, como en el caso de la hija de Jairo, el hijo de la viuda de Naín, o el de Lázaro, el amigo de Jesús. No, este es el comienzo de algo completamente nuevo no solo para Jesús sino para todos nosotros, ya que Jesús nos hizo herederos del amor de su Padre cuando se hizo hombre en la Encarnación. Como Lázaro, Jesús también fue liberado de su mortaja y escapó de su sepulcro. No obstante, diferente a Lázaro, Jesús entró a una vida nueva, una vida resucitada, donde ahora está sentado a la derecha del Padre. Aunque usted y yo no podemos comprender esto completamente, como tampoco comprendieron las mujeres que acudieron al sepulcro de Cristo en el Evangelio de Lucas, podemos percibir con nuestros ojos terrenales y creer lo que nos dicen los ángeles. Con María de Magdala, Juana y María, madre de Santiago y las otras mujeres, la Sagrada Escritura nos presenta la difícil tarea de no buscar a Jesús entre los muertos sino entre los vivos. Además, aun ahora podemos experimentar los primeros episodios de la vida eterna que Jesús posibilita a través de la Iglesia y de los sacramentos. En otras palabras, Lucas está diciéndonos que hemos sido llamados a vivir nuestra fe. Es decir, que no debemos perder tiempo en buscar a Jesús en el sepulcro, sino que debemos más bien ir y reportar, evangelizar y dar testimonio de nuestra fe, así como lo hicieron las mujeres que nos describe el Evangelio. Aunque esto tiene muchas repercusiones, un mensaje indiscutible es que debemos librarnos de nuestras predisposiciones, de nuestros prejuicios, de nuestras percepciones a menudo erróneas y, en el proceso, llegar a abrazar a Cristo Resucitado. Las mujeres que menciona Lucas en su Evangelio al principio no entendían lo que estaba pasando. Tuvieron que dejar de creer que los muertos no vuelven a la vida, mucho menos a una vida resucitada. Ellas tuvieron que resistirse a las costumbres y convenciones sociales de la época que hacían burla de la idea de que Cristo Resucitado, el Mesías, estaría más dispuesto a hablarles primero a las mujeres que a los hombres. El mensaje de Lucas, dirigido a su comunidad y a nosotros, es transparente. La resurrección de Jesucristo nos mueve a ver las cosas de una manera completamente diferente, trasladándonos de las tinieblas del sepulcro a la luz del día, donde somos llamados a vivir nuestra fe al buscar a Cristo entre los vivos en lugar de sumirnos en nuestras
predisposiciones que a menudo nos insensibilizan y nos agobian. Empero, esta conversión no es fácil. Por un lado, nos aferramos a aquellas creencias y suposiciones de las que nos valemos para entender el mundo y nuestra vida, aunque ese entendimiento sea erróneo. Por otro lado, no es fácil discernir qué prejuicios tenemos, ya que están tan profundamente arraigados en nosotros. (El otro día leí que, mediante un estudio conjunto realizado por Suecia y Estados Unidos, se logró determinar que el 80% de los conductores encuestados catalogaron su pericia ante el volante por encima del promedio. ¡Pensemos en eso por un momento! Tristemente, en el mundo moderno hay muchos ejemplos de cómo nuestras predisposiciones nos mantienen separados y dificultan que grupos o individuos se den cuenta de todo su potencial. Recientemente leímos acerca de los dos individuos de raza negra que fueron arrestados en una cafetería Starbucks de Filadelfia. También sabemos que las mujeres a menudo enfrentan obstáculos para triunfar en nuestra sociedad. En un informe que en sus inicios presentó Female Founders Fund, una empresa inversionista, se indicaba que, el año pasado, solamente el 80% de las empresas de tipo startup dotadas de capital por capitalistas de riesgo del sector de la Bahía de San Francisco estaban lideradas por mujeres. Katherine Hays, la fundadora y Directora General Administrativa y Financiera de Vivoom, empresa de tecnología de la información respaldada financieramente por capital de riesgo, dijo que si ella fuera un varón de 21 años de edad que se vistiera con una sudadera con capucha, su compañía les resultaría más atractiva a los capitalistas de riesgo. Su observación conduce a otro estudio mediante el cual se determinó que los varones bien parecidos que miden más de seis pies de estatura constantemente son los más contratados, reciben mejor pago y son percibidos como más poderosos y prestigiosos. Me refiero a nuestro llamado a la formación moral, a moldear nuestro corazón y nuestra mente de acuerdo con una nueva vida en Cristo. Aunque existe un sinfín de ejemplos de predisposiciones personales, también hay predisposiciones institucionales que nos afectan porque pertenecemos a una sociedad, a una familia, a una compañía o a una organización. Por ejemplo, en su exhortación apostólica Evangelii Gaudium, el papa Francisco indica que es lamentable que las estructuras económicas a menudo mantengan a las personas esclavizadas. Hablando de las llamadas teorías económicas de la filtración, el papa correctamente comentó que esas estructuras empujan a las personas hacia la periferia y muy a menudo las relegan a una vida de pobreza y de miseria. Conforme somos testigos del exterminio del pueblo Rohingya de Myanmar, de las matanzas en Siria, de las interminables tensiones en el Medio Oriente y de los pésimos prospectos para tantos de los niños de Nuevo México, no podemos evitar darnos cuenta de que hay en juego predisposiciones institucionales y sistémicas. Estos son los pecados de omisión que cometemos debido a nuestra ignorancia y negligencia. Nuestros prejuicios y predisposiciones, ya sean personales o institucionales, nos mantienen separados y fragmentan el cuerpo de Cristo. La resurrección de Cristo nos llama a movernos más allá de esas predisposiciones y a integrarnos a la nueva manera de ser en la cual nos tratamos con respeto mutuo, dignidad y afirmación. Jesús nos enseñó
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en su ministerio, y mediante su ejemplo personal, que debemos derribar los muros que nos dividen. Por ejemplo, él trataba a las mujeres con respeto y de un modo afirmativo en una sociedad donde ellas ocupaban un lugar de poca o ninguna importancia. Jesús vivió en un mundo donde sin duda predominaban los hombres. Sin embargo, en sus parábolas Jesús se dirigía a las mujeres cuando usaba ejemplos en los que ellas tenían voz y con los cuales ellas podían identificarse. Como indica el padre José Pagola en su libro Jesús. Aproximación histórica (2014): “Jesús no se limita a usar un lenguaje androcéntrico que considera todo desde un punto de vista masculino. Él también se pone en el lugar de las mujeres y las hace protagonistas de su parábola”. Por supuesto, repetidamente, Jesús nos muestra mediante su ejemplo que debemos atravesar las barreras de nuestras predisposiciones y tenderles la mano a los pobres, los enfermos, los marginados y los oprimidos. Además, Jesús no solamente nos demuestra cómo salir desde los sepulcros que son nuestras predisposiciones hacia la luz del día, sino que también nos manda su Espíritu, al que esperamos con expectación el día de Pentecostés que se avecina, para que nos permita deshacernos de la mortaja de nuestras predisposiciones. El Espíritu Santo reanima nuestra fe y nos permite unirnos con Cristo y los unos con los otros. Los dones del Espíritu Santo (sabiduría, inteligencia, consejo, fortaleza, ciencia, piedad y temor de Dios) nos ayudan a derribar las barreras que nos dividen. El Espíritu Santo nos envía a encontrar a Cristo entre los vivos. Como dijo san Juan Crisóstomo, segundo patriarca de Constantinopla (344 - 407 d. de C.) de una bella y alarmante manera hasta para nuestra época actual: “¿Quieren honrar al cuerpo de Cristo? Entonces no lo despreciemos en su desnudez ni lo honremos aquí en la iglesia con vestiduras de seda, mientras que lo abandonamos allá afuera, donde él tiene frío y está desnudo. Porque aquél que dijo: ‘Este es mi cuerpo’ y lo hizo así por sus palabras, también dijo: Me vieron hambriento y no me alimentaron y puesto que no lo hicieron por el más humilde de mis hermanos, no lo hicieron por mí’. Lo que hacemos aquí en la iglesia requiere un corazón puro, no vestiduras especiales; lo que hacemos afuera requiere gran dedicación.” Debemos dedicarnos a remover las mortajas de nuestras predisposiciones; a remover las predisposiciones que nos impiden abrazar a Cristo resucitado en todos sus hermanos y hermanas. No encontraremos a Cristo en los sepulcros de nuestros prejuicios y predisposiciones sino entre los vivos. Es cuando nos tratamos mutuamente con respeto, honrando la dignidad inherente en todo ser humano y viendo a Cristo reflejado en ellos, que estamos realmente libres. Somos en verdad un pueblo de Pascua que espera un día vivir con Cristo para siempre en el Reino que él nos abrió en su Resurrección y se manifiesta diariamente en nuestro amor y en nuestro interés por los demás. Sinceramente suyo en el Señor,
Arzobispo John C. Wester
Traducción voluntaria de: Anelle Lobos
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Ordination to the Transitional Diaconate May 23 at 10:00 a.m. Santa Maria de la Paz 11 College Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87508
Paul Chavez
Nathan Lopez
Timothy Meurer
Paul Chavez is 26 years old. Paul was born and raised in Pecos, NM. He has one sister. His family is very supportive of his decision to become a priest. He enjoys sports as well as spending time with his friends. He felt called to the priesthood when he was in 3rd grade. He became involved in his parish by serving as an altar server and loved every minute of it. He studied for the priesthood at Pontifical College Josephinum in Ohio. He served in various parishes in the archdiocese during his summer months including St. Anne’s in Santa Fe; Our Lady of Guadalupe in Peralta; and St. Anthony’s in Peñasco.
Nathan Lopez is 28 years old. He was born in Santa Fe, NM. He has one brother and two sisters. His family are devout Catholics. With his family, he was able to attend a pilgrimage to Rome and Medjugoje. His family encouraged frequent Mass and Eucharistic Adoration, both of which influenced him to seek the will of God in his life. He felt the call to the priesthood when he was 16 years old. He studied for the priesthood at Holy Apostles Seminary in Connecticut and then Mt. Angel Seminary in Oregon. He served in various parishes in the archdiocese including Shrine of St. Bernadette in Albuquerque, San Juan Bautista in Ohkay Owingeh and Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Alamos.
Timothy Meurer is 28 years old. He was born in Brookfield, WI. He has three brothers and two sisters. His family raised him and his siblings Catholic. He moved to Albuquerque when he was nine years old. His first serious call to the priesthood came to him when he was eight years old. However, once he entered high school, he dropped the idea to date. While in his third year of college with many problems in his, life he turned to a deacon friend for help. It was through this friendship he found himself attending a discernment weekend. It was because of this weekend he knew he was called to be a priest. He attended Holy Trinity Seminary in Texas and Mt. Angel Seminary in Oregon. He served in various parishes in the archdiocese including: Shrine of St. Bernadette in Albuquerque, St. John Vianney in Rio Rancho, St. Thomas Aquinas in Rio Rancho and Sacred Heart in Clovis.
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Archdiocese of Santa Fe
Priestly Ordinations
May 26 at 10:00 a.m. Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Place Santa Fe, NM 87504
John Kimani
Christopher Martinez
John Kimani is 37 years old and was born and raised in Kenya. His family is a very devout Catholic family. He has two brothers and two sisters. They support his desire to become a catholic priest. He studied to become a computer analyst after high school and worked in that field for about two years. He then joined a Benedictine Community in Kenya until he could join the Christ in the Desert Community in Abiquiu, NM. He greatly desired to become a priest and through the guidance of his superiors joined the Benedictine Monastery in Pecos, NM. But still he had a great desire for the diocesan priesthood. So in 2013, he entered the Archdiocese of Santa Fe priestly program and went to Holy Apostles Seminary and then Mt. Angel Seminary to study to become a priest. He has served in many parishes around the Archdiocese including: St. Charles Borromeo and St. Anthony’s in Penasco, NM.
Christopher Martinez is 36 years old and he is from Questa, NM. Christopher was raised in Catholic family and he is the oldest. He has one sister and one brother. His family supports his decision to become a priest. Christopher admits that he got away from the Church as a teenager, but returned with the help others who gave him the hint that he might be called to the priesthood. He felt drawn to the idea. At his parish, Christopher taught 9th grade confirmation as well as lecturing at Mass. He loves sports such as basketball and baseball. In 2013, he started his formation at Holy Apostles Seminary and then Mt. Angel Seminary. He has served in a various parishes around the archdiocese: Our Lady of Guadalupe in Peña Blanca, St. Jude in Albuquerque and St. Anne’s in Santa Fe.
Jason Pettigrew Jason Pettigrew is 48 years old and is from Our Lady of Guadalupe in Clovis, NM. Jason did not grow up in a religious home, but when he was about 30 he decided to visit various churches of different denominations. He would find himself really drawn to the Catholic faith. Through the help of a parish priest from Gunnison, CO he started RCIA and become a Catholic in 2005. Jason’s work was a cowboy and this parish priest would come to him out in the range to teach him about the faith. This inspired Jason that he might be called to become a priest. He tried various communities in searching for the where God might want him and he ended up here in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. He started seminary in 2013 at Holy Apostles Seminary and transferred to Mt. Angel in 2016. He has served in parishes around the archdiocese including Our Lady of Guadalupe in Taos, Our Lady of Guadalupe in Clovis and San Clemente in Los Lunas.
Tai Pham Tai Pham is 36 years old and was born in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. He moved to the United States when he was nine years old. He was raised in a Catholic family and he has two brothers. His father passed away but his mother is still alive and doing well. He has Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from UNM. About nine years ago, Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan gave a talk about vocations at his parish, Our Lady of Lavang, and he felt an inner calling to become a priest. He contacted the Vocations Director at the time, Fr. Michael DePalma and went to a discernment retreat but was uncertain. He waited one more year and finally decided that this was God’s will for him to become a priest. He entered seminary in 2013 at Holy Apostles Seminary and transferred to Mt. Angel in 2016. He has served in various places around the archdiocese including Annunciation Parish in Albuquerque, St. Anthony’s in Peñasco and Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Alamos.
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Archdiocese Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Restoration of the Permanent Diaconate in Church, Deacon Tom Perez Celebrates 40 Years of Permanent Diaconate By Deacon Manny Robles
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ermanent deacons and their families will gather on Thursday, August 9, 2018 at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi for a 5:15 p.m. Mass celebrated by Archbishop John C. Wester in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the permanent diaconate. All are welcome. The diaconate, the third in rank of the three orders of ordained ministry (including bishop, priest and deacon), traces back to the ordination of St. Stephen and his companions, as it is related in the Acts of the Apostles. Early deacons assisted the apostles who were the first bishops in the distribution of food and charitable assistance to the poor. The diaconate actually predates the emergence of the priesthood, but in time in the Western church it simply came as a step along the way to priesthood and survived as such in the transitional deacons usually ordained a year before priestly ordination. But in a nod to the practice of the early church, Pope Paul VI restored the permanent diaconate on June 18, 1967. His apostolic letter, Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinum, following up on the Second Vatican Council’s constitution Lumen Gentium, took note of the historic role of deacons.
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eacon Tom was ordained at St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral in Santa Fe on May 20, 1978. He was assigned to San Felipe de Neri Parish as their first deacon, where he still serves today, 40 years later. He has had many assignments in the parish and outside of the parish. He has served as director for many diocesan organizations such as Cursillo Leadership School and Cursillo Weekends as well. He also was assigned for short and long periods of time to neighboring parishes that had great ministerial needs. In a recent interview Deacon Tom shared these thoughts: “I am so thankful for the many pastors I have served God’s people with and for the many wonderful relationships that Gloria and I have developed through these 40 marvelous years. I also am very grateful to my former pastor and formation mentor, Fr. George Salazar. I am most appreciative of my supportive, loving and considerate wife, Gloria. She has never left my side. Our motto is, ‘together we serve God’s people.’” We warmly congratulate Deacon Tom on his 40th anniversary of diaconate ordination. Through your faithful diaconate ministry you have touched countless people by your teaching, preaching, example and leadership. The abundant grace within you inspires, enriches and nourishes us. Well done good and faithful servant. The permanent diaconate is a life-long commitment and very few leave before age 75, except for family or health reasons. Deacon Tom and Gloria are a fine example of what the permanent diaconate looks like today.
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Among the norms of Sacrum Diaconatus was that training for deacons should be at least three years. In Archdiocese of Santa Fe at this time, the period from initial contact to ordination is five years including a year of discernment, a year of aspirancy and three years of formation.
One difference between the role of the deacon today as opposed to the early church is that it was then limited mostly to the corporal works of mercy. The modern deacon serves in many additional ways, for example assisting at liturgies, preaching, performing baptisms, catechesis, sacramental preparation and funeral services, just to name a few. One difference between the role of the deacon today as opposed to the early church is that it was then limited mostly to the corporal works of mercy. The modern deacon serves in many additional ways, for example assisting at liturgies, preaching, performing baptisms, catechesis, sacramental preparation and funeral services, just to name a few. Unlike priests, most permanent deacons serve part time, and usually have other family and employment obligations. Although Sacrum Diaconatus was issued in 1967, it wasn’t
ST. STEPHEN MURAL VATICAN St. Stephen the Martyr is seen in a mural painted by Lorenzo Sabbatini during its restoration in 2007 at the Vatican. During a noon blessing Dec. 26 at the Vatican, Pope Francis spoke on the feast of St. Stephen, the first martyr, saying that by choosing truth, St. Stephen also “became victim of the mystery of wickedness present in the world. But in Christ, Stephen won.” (CNS photo/courtesy of the Vatican Museums)
until 1971 that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued guidelines for implementation in this country. In 1972, while volunteering in ministry at San Felipe de Neri Parish, Tom Perez was approached by then pastor Fr. Robert Sanchez about considering the Permanent Diaconate Formation Program. Shortly after their discussion about a possible yes, Fr. Robert Sanchez was appointed Archbishop of Santa Fe. When Fr. George Salazar was appointed pastor of San Felipe de Neri Parish, he too asked Tom to consider the diaconate program. Tom and Gloria said yes and they began the journey
50th Anniversary of Restoration of Permanent Diaconate in Church Thursday, 5:15 p.m., August 9, 2018 Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi Santa Fe, NM 505.831.8246
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Mary, Mother of the Church Should be Celebrated This Year, Cardinal Says By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Reminding bishops, pastors and Catholics around the world that all Latin-rite Catholics should celebrate the feast of Mary, Mother of the Church on the Monday after Pentecost this year, Cardinal Robert Sarah said the celebration should take precedence over any other possible liturgy that day. The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, headed by Cardinal Sarah, had announced in early March Pope Francis’ decision to add the feast to the church’s calendar as an “obligatory memorial.” The Monday after Pentecost is May 21 this year. Although there are a few specific cases in which the rector of a church or pastor of a parish could choose to celebrate a different Mass that day, Cardinal Sarah said in a note released March 27 that “all else being equal, the obligatory memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the
Church is to be preferred.” In addition, he said, the list of Mass readings published with the pope’s decree “are to be held as proper because they illuminate the mystery of spiritual motherhood.” The Vatican gave two options for the first reading: Genesis 3:9-15, 20, which recounts God questioning Adam and Eve in the garden after they had eaten the forbidden fruit; and Acts 1:12-14, which tells of the disciples gathering in the Upper Room with Mary after the Resurrection. The Gospel reading is John 19:25-34, which recounts Jesus telling his beloved disciple to take Mary into his home as his mother. In cases where a local or national church calendar has another saint or blessed on the calendar May 21, Cardinal Sarah said, “following the liturgical tradition of pre-eminence amongst persons, the memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary is to prevail.”
A Marian Glossary ANNUNCIATION: The visit of the angel Gabriel to the virgin Mary to inform her that she was to be the mother of the Savior. After giving her consent to God’s word, Mary became the mother of Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. ASSUMPTION: The dogma which recognizes the Blessed Virgin Mary’s singular participation in her Son’s Resurrection by which she was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, when the course of her earthly life was finished. HAIL MARY: The prayer known in Latin as the Ave Maria. The first part of the prayer praises God for the gifts he gave to Mary as Mother of the Redeemer; the second part seeks her maternal intercession for the members of the Body of Christ, the Church, of which she is the Mother. IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: The dogma proclaimed in Christian Tradition and defined in 1854, that from the first moment of her conception, Mary--by the singular grace of God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ--was preserved immune from original sin. MAGNIFICAT: The title commonly given to the Latin text and vernacular translation of the Canticle (or Song) of Mary that she recites at the time of the visitation. The canticle begins with “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord.” MARY: The mother of Jesus. Because she is the mother of Jesus--Son of God and second Person of the Blessed Trinity--according to the flesh, she is rightly called the Mother of God (Theotokos). Mary is also called “full of grace,” and “Mother of the Church,” and in Christian prayer and devotion, “Our Lady,” the “Blessed Virgin Mary,” and the “New Eve.” PRESENTATION: The presentation and dedication of Jesus to God by Mary and Joseph in the Temple (Lk 2:22-39), in accord with Mosaic Law concerning the first-born. At the Presentation, Simeon and Anna sum up the expectation of Israel for the long-awaited Messiah, the light of the nations and the glory of Israel, but also as a sign of contradiction. The presentation of the gifts, especially of bread and wine, is a preparatory rite for the liturgy of the Eucharist at Mass. ROSARY: A prayer in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which repeats the privileged Marian prayer Ave Maria, or Hail Mary, in “decades” of ten prayers, each preceded by the Pater Noster (“Our Father”) and concluded by the Gloria Patri (Glory Be to the Father), accompanied by meditation on the mysteries of Christ’s life. The rosary was developed by medieval piety in the Latin church as a popular substitute for the liturgical prayer of the Hours. VIRGIN BIRTH: The conception of Jesus in the womb of the Virgin Mary solely by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Church’s confession of faith in the virgin birth affirms that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit without human seed. VIRGIN MARY: The mother of Jesus, who is honored as “ever-virgin” for her perpetual virginity. VISITATION: At the annunciation, the angel Gabriel told Mary that she would be the mother of the savior. Gabriel also told Mary that her barren cousin, Elizabeth, had conceived a son in her old age. Mary went to visit her cousin and confirmed the truth of the angel’s words. The time she spent with Elizabeth is referred to as “the visitation”
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Mother’s Day is for Every Mother By Carol Feeney, Project Rachel Coordinator “Thus says the Lord: In Ramah is heard the sound of sobbing, bitter weeping! Rachel mourns for her children, she refuses to be consoled for her children. They are no more!” Jeremiah 31:1517 As we celebrate our mothers in May, let us also consider the many mothers who, on this day, are remembering their own children who have passed. Well-intentioned Mother’s Day greetings remind them of children who are not with them for reasons that may include unplanned singleness, adoption, illness, miscarriage, infertility, infant death, estrangement, and abortion. A gentle and sincere Mother’s Day blessing from the pulpit for women remembering their lost children can be a great kindness to many childless mothers sitting in the pews. Couching the blessing to include mothers who have lost children for any reason will soothe the broken hearts of post abortive mothers without drawing attention to them. Any woman who feels grief from loss on Mother’s Day feels it because she has the nurturing heart of a mother. However, many women who have decided to have an abortion do not feel entitled to grieve a loss that has come about because of something they themselves chose. If you are someone who fears Mother’s Day because of an abortion, give yourself permission to feel sad on this day. Acknowledge your motherhood and reflect on your unborn child in Heaven. Make time to grieve alone or with someone you trust. If you do not intentionally experience your grief, it can affect nearly every aspect of your life. If this day is a painful trigger for you and you feel you cannot face your grief, you may need help. Project Rachel is a ministry of mercy which can connect you to therapists and spiritual directors who want to help you on your journey to forgiveness and resolution. You are still a mother. Claim your motherhood today and every day. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before Him. In love, He destined us for adoption to Himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of His will… “ Ephesians 1: 3-5 Project Rachel help line: 505.831.8238
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PovertyUSA.org and PobrezaUSA.org Feature: Stories of Hope On the Stories of Hope page of the new PovertyUSA. org and PobrezaUSA. org mobile-friendly websites, learn how communities around the country are creating affordable housing, removing barriers to employment, and helping people with disabilities advocate on their own behalf.
Save the Date! African American Catholic Community Mass June 24 Please join the Archdiocese of Santa Fe African American Catholic Community for the Fr. Rollins Lambert Family Day Mass on Sunday, June 24, 12 noon at St. Joseph on the Rio Grande Catholic Church, 5901 St. Joseph’s Dr. NW, Albuquerque. For more information, please call (505) 836-3627 or (505) 831-8167.
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Calling all Parish Social Ministers! Register now for the Social Action Summer Institute in Philadelphia, PA July 15-19 Cultivating Creativity in Social Justice Ministry: ‘Love requires a concrete, creative response.’ -Pope Francis is the theme for this year’s Social Action Summer Institute (SASI). The theme was inspired by a Tweet from Pope Francis: “Love requires a creative, concrete response. Good intentions are not enough. The other is not a statistic, but a person to take care of.” Social justice ministry is dedicated to serving those individuals on the margins of society and within our Church, yet the way in which we minister must evolve. Servant of God Dorothy Day had a vision of God’s kingdom of justice and peace that radically challenged the times in which she lived. Her youngest granddaughter and author, Kate Hennessy will offer one of SASI’s keynote addresses that will provide some insight into her grandmother’s vision and how social action directors can continue to inspire and challenge all of us. Other featured keynote speakers include the Most Reverend Jamie Soto, bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento and Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS with diocesan and parish skill-building workshops! Scholarships are available! For more information or to register, please go to https://www.catholicroundtable. org/ or contact the Social Justice and Respect Life Office 505.831.8205
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The Archdiocese of Santa Fe African American Catholic Community awarded nine scholarships to students at Catholic Schools at their 26th Anniversary Mass in April. This year’s Fr. Rollins Lambert Scholars pictured above are Kennedy Kiptoo Baiywo, Jr., Asante and Daisia Cole, Brayden Hollis, Matthew Portee and Judah and Victoria Rodrigues. Not present were Corbin and Emery Hill. Deacon Leon Jones of the AACC awarded the scholarships along with Fr. Chike Uba, Chaplain of St. Pius X High School. Congratulations to all the recipients! Scholarships are awarded annually. Information on scholarships for the 2019-2020 school year will be available after January 2019 in the principal’s office of each Catholic elementary school in the archdiocese.
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Social Justice and Social Mission Courses at the Institute for Formation for Christian Service, June 4-8—Register now! Classes in basic Catholic social teaching, the social mission of the Church, service and justice will be offered for catechists, teachers, social justice and parish social ministers at our upcoming Formation Institute on June 4-8 Albuquerque: For a full list of classes and to register visit: https://form.jotform.com/kdavis5430/2018-SummerInstititute or contact Deacon Keith Davis, 505-831-8187 SI-12 Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and the Catholic Church: What our History Can Teach us about Challenging Hatred and Bias in Today’s World (Advanced Social Justice Skills) This course will examine the history of Jewish/Catholic relations, specifically the Catholic Church’s participation in/encouragement of anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism throughout the history of our faith. Special attention will be paid to the events of the Holocaust, Vatican II, Nostra Aetate, and the many ways our Church currently partners with Jews in an effort to identify and combat all forms of hatred and bias in today’s world. Presenter: Michaela Bruzzese, Class Schedule: 3 part series: Mon, June 4, Tues, June 5 and Thurs, June 6 from 1:30pm-4:30pm SI- 24 Catechizing for a Just World - ACL-8/AFF-8 (Advanced Catechetical Leader/Adult Faith Formation Skills) Our Catholic faith is rooted in Biblical justice and calls us to transform the world through the social mission of the Church. In this skills workshop, catechetical leaders will review the social teachings of the Church, learn ways to assist catechists and families to integrate the social teachings of the Church into religious education and family life through practical models of reflection, service, justice and action. Links will be made to the National Certification Standards for Catechetical Leaders. Presenter: Anne Avellone, LMSW, Class Schedule: Tuesday, June 5 from 9:00am-12pm only SI-36 Share the Journey - A Migration Experience (Advanced Theology – Morality) Share the Journey: A Migration Experience will look at how we ‘welcome the stranger’. It will provide an overview of the refugee experience allowing time for education, prayer and action. Presenter: Kathy Freeze, Class Schedule: Thursday, June 7 from 9am-12pm only SI-38 Living and Teaching Mercy 19-C (Basic Catechist Skills) An in depth look at the virtue of Mercy and how to incorporate into our lives and teach others the Corporal and Spiritual works that make mercy a visible reality. Presenter: Connie Smith, Class Schedule: Thursday, June 8 from 9am to 12pm only SI-14 Blessed are the Poor (Who? How? What?) A First Step in Discipleship (Advanced Theology – New Testament) Blessed are the Poor. We will look at what is a beatitude, using this first one. And look at the kingdom (since they already have it!) and what is poverty: the virtue, the scourge in reality, the vow, the call to ‘preferential option’ and the Poor Man, Jesus Crucified and Risen. We will use Scriptures, Gospels and Prophets, stories experience/ statistics and connections between theology, spirituality and reality—economics, life-styles. Presenter: Dr. Megan McKenna, Class Schedule: 3 Part Series: Mon, June 4, Tues, June 5 and Wed, June 6 from 1:30pm-4:30pm
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Congratulations to John Cunningham: Finalist for CCUSA Volunteer of the Year! John Cunningham’s three years of bringing Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe into the 21st century is being recognized by Catholic Charities USA. Out of the more than 300,000 volunteers who dedicate their time and talents to the Catholic Charities network each year, John was selected as one of six national finalists for their 2018 Volunteer of the Year Award. Thanks to John’s impressive professional skills as a retired computer software engineer and his generous spirit, Catholic Charities continues to move into the modern world of technology in departments that could not otherwise afford this type of innovative progress.
Thank You St. Charles Borromeo Church Once again, parishioners of St. Charles Borromeo Church and students at St. Charles School collected food during their Lenten Food Drive to help fill the food pantry in our in-kind donation center. Led by the Knights of Columbus organization, they collected 1,280 items with an estimated value of $2,016.35 to help us feed the hungry in our community. Thanks to all for your generosity and to the Knights for delivering all of the food to our In-Kind Donation Center.
John’s contributions include: • Improving our senior transportation scheduling by replacing the outdated spreadsheet with a database • Introducing a barcode system for signing in and out, creating a paperless method of recording all volunteers’ hours • Upgrading our method of matching in-kind donations to families in need His work has elevated our productivity by saving us time and money while increasing our job performance. “I have not had this much fun since I retired,” John tells us. We will continue to keep it fun for John!
Catholic Charities Adult Education Prepares New Workforce This year, our adult education program has had the exciting opportunity to assist the workers building the Los Lunas Facebook facility. Candace Lamb is teaching and reinforcing the specific skills needed to construct projects their employers need done at the Los Lunas Facebook worksite. This month, students are learning to prepare for underwater insulation with PVC pipes, spray insulation, and tools. Throughout the class, the students are using English for Special Purposes to explain each of the tools they use, demonstrate their techniques and skillsets, and fill out requisitions and work orders. Candace is using an Integrated Education and Technology rubric to assess the terminology, technology, lesson plans, student participation, and student learning. Our students and teachers are working very hard to be a part of this new and educated workforce!
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Community Partners Make it Possible to Serve We are so grateful for the many community partners that help us provide services to more than 12,500 individuals and 5,400 families in need throughout central New Mexico. As we near the halfway point through 2018, we would like to thank the following organizations for providing support and improving the lives of those in need. • Rio Grande Credit Union and their members raised $2,100 for Catholic Charities programs through an icon sale at their branches. • We were recently the recipient of generous grants from Presbyterian Healthcare, Sisters of St. Francis, and Catholic Charities USA to support our services. • Our refugee families and their volunteer mentors partnered with Returned Peace Corp Volunteers and the City of Albuquerque for a beautiful morning of planting trees in the Bosque. • Last month, Village Pizza kindly provided pizzas for our refugee parent engagement group. • Catholic Charities is glad to help bring food to those in need by participating in the monthly Mobile Food Pantry hosted at St. Francis Xavier Parish (every third Friday from 12pm to 2pm)
and sponsored by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, CRS Rice Bowl, and Roadrunner Food Bank. • Albuquerque’s local Papa John’s franchise partnered with us to offer a 40% discount to our supporters while giving 10% to Catholic Charities (use promo code CCNM at papajohns.com). • St. Brigid’s Brew is coming this summer to a brewery near you thanks to a partnership with Abbey Brewing Co. and Admiral Beverage Co. This brew will make its debut on June 10th from 1pm to 4pm at the Monk’s Corner Taproom, 205 Silver Ave SW G, Albuquerque, NM 87102. Named after St. Brigid known for her charity and special brewing capabilities, portions of the sales of this ale will benefit Catholic Charities’ programs. We hope to make St. Brigid’s Brew a popular brand offered throughout New Mexico and beyond! This should be another great year of promoting self-sufficiency, strengthening families, fighting poverty, and building community. We are always excited to work with community partners to accomplish our mission. If your organization is interested partnering with Catholic Charities to further our mission, please contact us at 505.724.4637 or development@ccasfnm.org.
Catholic Charities Honors Fr. Frederick Brand and Thanks Brick Donors Last month Catholic Charities held a touching ceremony dedicating a corridor of our building in memory of Fr. Frederick Brand in honor of his commitment to the vulnerable and impoverished. This was followed by a lovely prayer service in our Meditation Garden for donors who purchased bricks in our garden. We would like to thank Fr. Mike Shea from Prince of Peace for leading these services.
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“Remember, then, that you received a spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear. Keep safe what you received. God the Father sealed you, Christ the Lord strengthened you and sent the Spirit into your hearts as the pledge of what is to come.” — St. Ambrose Revised 5/1/2018
We invite you to keep our confirmandi in prayer.
Archdiocese of Santa Fe 2018 Confirmation Schedule Deanery Parish
Location
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Date
Time
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St. Jude Thaddeus
Albuquerque
Tue
May 8
6:00 p.m.
Celebrant
Very Rev. John C. Daniel, Vicar General
SF
San Isidro
Santa Fe
Tue
May 8
6:30 p.m.
Archbishop John C. Wester
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St. Thomas Aquinas
Rio Rancho
Tue
May 8
7:00 p.m.
Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan
NW
Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Pojoaque
Wed
May 9
6:30 p.m.
Very Rev. John C. Daniel, Vicar General
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Our Lady of Fatima
Albuquerque
Wed
May 9
7:00 p.m.
Archbishop John C. Wester
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St. Francis Xavier
Albuquerque
Thu
May 10
6:30 p.m.
Archbishop John C. Wester
NW Holy Cross
Santa Cruz joined by Holy Family, Chimayo
Thu
May 10
6:30 p.m.
Very Rev. John C. Daniel, Vicar General
SW
San Miguel
Socorro
Fri
May 11
6:30 p.m.
Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan
NW
San Juan Bautista
Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo
Fri
May 11
6:30 p.m.
Very Rev. John C. Daniel, Vicar General
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San Jose
Albuquerque
Fri
May 11
7:00 p.m.
Msgr. Lambert Joseph Luna, Episcopal Vicar
NW
Sacred Heart
Española
Sat
May 12
10:00 a.m.
Very Rev. John C. Daniel, Vicar General
SW
San Clemente
Los Lunas
Tue
May 15
7:00 p.m.
Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan
NW St. Anthony of Padua
Dixon Wed joined by San Antonio de Padua, Peñasco
May 16
6:00 p.m.
Msgr. Lambert Joseph Luna, Episcopal Vicar
B
St. Charles Borromeo
Albuquerque
Wed
May 16
6:30 p.m.
Archbishop John C. Wester
SW
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Peralta
Wed
May 16
6:30 p.m.
Very Rev. John C. Daniel, Vicar General
SF
St. John the Baptist
Santa Fe
Thu
May 17
6:30 p.m.
Very Rev. John C. Daniel, Vicar General
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St. Jude Thaddeus
Albuquerque
Fri
May 18
6:00 p.m.
Msgr. Lambert Joseph Luna, Episcopal Vicar
SF
St. Anne
Santa Fe
Fri
May 18
6:30 p.m.
Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan
SF
Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi Santa Fe oined byCristo Rey, Santa Fe
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May 20
12:00 Noon
Archbishop John C. Wester
SF
Santo Domingo
Fri
May 25
8:30 a.m.
Archbishop John C. Wester
Santo Domingo Pueblo
Confirmation was not requested for 2018 Confirmation not needed in 2018 A B NE NE
Our Lady of the Assumption Estancia Valley Catholic Parish Holy Family – St. Joseph Santa Clara
Jemez Springs Moriarty Roy Mosquero Wagon Mound
C San Ignacio NE St. Francis Xavier SE St. Mary
Albuquerque Clayton Vaughn
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Confirmandi of Our Lady of Guadalupe and San Miguel de Vado Newly confirmed young people from the parishes of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Villanueva and San Miguel del Vado in Ribera, NM with Deacon Juan Martinez, Rev. Moses Nwankwo and Very Rev. Michael Demkovich, OP, Episcopal Vicar for Doctrine and Life.
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n April 8, five children at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Villanueva received First Holy Communion. For two years their catechist, James Gallegos prepared them. On Tuesday of the same week, Very Rev. Michael Demkovich, OP, Episcopal Vicar for Doctrine and Life, visited Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish to celebrate confirmation. Our Lady of Guadalupe had five families participating and was joined by two families from San Miguel del Vado. Of the five families from Our Lady of Guadalupe, one family had two daughters and one family had a son and a daughter. It was a joyous day. Fr. Mike graciously filled in for Archbishop Wester. The families were very grateful to have Fr. Mike celebrate and join in the reception that followed. First Communion children of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Villanueva.
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Confirmandi of Our Lady of Belen with Archbishop John C. Wester
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Distinguised Disciples By Elizabeth Dominick, Director, Office of Stewardship
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nnually, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe hosts the Distinguished Disciple Dinner. This year’s awards took place at the Catholic Center on Friday, May 4, 2018. Students, teachers and volunteers were nominated by their school communities as examples of Christ-like character. The archdiocese recognized 32 individuals from 16 schools who genuinely emanate distinguished disciplehood. Awardees regularly reach out to those who are less fortunate, volunteer for projects to help the school and larger community, are compassionate and caring to all, and live out Catholic faith on a daily basis. According to this definition, Distinguished Disciples: 1) Make a conscious choice to be followers of Christ 2) Live that choice through actions regardless of the cost to themselves
3) Treat all they have - both talents and possessions - as blessings to be shared with others 4) Build the kingdom of God though their example of joyful generosity and sacrifice
Bridget DeLancy San Felipe
Kyle Kraft St. Mary’s - Belen
Brooke Landavazo St. Pius
Aaron Acosta Our Lady of Fatima
Ian Carroll Assumption
Yvette Groves St. Mary’a - Albuquerque
Sela Boswell St. Thomas
Bob Coburn Holy Child
Mia Hernandez St. Mary’s - Albuquerque
William and Sandra Brown Holy Cross
Sasha Hindi San Felipe
Matthew Legits St. Michael
Crystal Megofna Annunciation
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Santiago Montoya St. Pius
Claudia Noedel St. Michael
Ariana River Holy Ghost
Bianca Rossell Queen of Heaven
Christine Smith St. Mary’s - Belen
Geoff Stamp St. Thomas
Josh Vigil Annunciation
Mary Wentworth Assumption
June Ortiz St. Therese
Priscilla Ruble Queen of Heaven
Joli Tavenner Holy Child
Rebecca Pacheco Our Lady of Fatima
Leandro Salazar Holy Cross
Leo Valdez St. Therese
Helen Quintana Santo Niño
Leah Schierloh St. Charles
David Velasquez Santo Niño
Florence Velarde Holy Cross
Mya Yannoni St. Charles
Thank you, Distinguished Disciples, for bringing the kingdom of God nearer through your role model in our communities. Congratulations on your awards!
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Fatima Students Reach Out to Help Homeless Veterans
By Paula Domino DeHaas, Principal, Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School During Lent, Fatima students collected 152 gallon-size bags filled with personal care items for distribution to homeless Veterans. Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School students took to heart the words of Pope Francis who said, “A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.” Student Council and eighth grade students stand on either side of Wendy Webber (center), Outreach Coordinator for the Veterans Integration Centers (VIC). They are holding gallon size-bags containing personal care items, new socks and snacks. An Air Force Veteran, Ms. Webber visited Fatima back in November during a Veterans appreciation assembly and spoke about the number of homeless and vulnerable veterans here in Albuquerque. Our students were touched by her message and decided to do something to help. Fatima has several active military members, and many more veterans. It was a very popular service project, and one which will surely be repeated. For more information on their mission of Veterans Integration Centers, visit www.vic.org.
Left to right: Casey Finley, Allie Lackey, Rebekah Carpenter, Angelina Acosta, Wendy Webber, Sophia Kassam, Cali Deprest, Vicente Martinez, Tashina Parker
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Risen Savior Catholic Preschool Walks with Jesus
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By Mary Parker, Director, Risen Savior Preschool, and Angelica Lucero, Teacher Holy Week is such a special time and is a learning opportunity for children. During Holy Week at Risen Savior Catholic Preschool (RSCP), the children journeyed with Jesus and learned how He lived the last days of His life before He died and rose again. The preschoolers met with Fr. Tom Noesen, OP in the church to look at and talk about the wooden figure of the Washing of the Feet. Then, during a reenactment of the Last Supper, the teachers washed the feet of the children, just as Jesus washed the feet of His disciples. They talked about how Jesus wants us to serve others. The teachers broke bread with the children and the children learned that Jesus left us a special kind of picture of Himself for us to remember Him by (in the bread and wine) which becomes the Eucharist. Pope Francis once said, “The Eucharist is essential for us; it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with grace.” Just like Jesus fills the RSCP’s staff’s hearts with grace, so do our precious preschoolers. Jesus has gifted and entrusted us with these children and we hope they see Jesus through us in return.
San Felipe de Neri Parish held a Mass and a luncheon for the healing and anointing of the sick. The San Felipe de Neri School Kindergarten class made cards and decorations for the luncheon. The school work closely with the parish to care and pray for the parishioners. During Lent, it was important to remember those who are in great need of prayer. San Felipe is building a strong community through giving from the heart.
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St. Pius X Feeds the Hungry By Melissa W. Sais, SPX Communications
The St. Pius X Making a Difference Against Hunger effort packaged 212,900 meals during Holy Week for families in New Mexico and Haiti. St. Pius X students were helped by elementary and middle school students from Albuquerque-area and Grants parochial schools in the day-long event that drew 2,147 student volunteers. Over the past year, St. Pius X students raised about $20,000 to fund the effort. This year’s sponsors of the effort include the Catholic Foundation, Sunbelt, Construction Technology Specialists Inc.,
Black Duck, Donut Mart, and Nothing Bunt Cakes. Of the food packaged, 70% will stay in New Mexico to be distributed through St. Felix Pantry, Rio Grande Food Pantry, the St. Vincent de Paul Societies of Nativity, Queen of Heaven, Holy Ghost, Sacred Heart, and St. Francis X parishes; Wherry Elementary School, The Storehouse and Catholic Charities. The other 30% will be sent for distribution in Haiti. Area schools participating included St. Therese, San Felipe, Holy Ghost, Annunciation, Assumption, Queen of Heaven, Holy Child, St. Thomas Aquinas, and St. Terese in Grants.
A Special Afternoon at the Convent for STAS St. Lucy Club him that she followed him to Montefiascone. Under the guidance of Cardinal Barbarigo, St. Lucy helped to fulfil the generous, ardent and profound mission of faith and charity through schools for young ladies. The community she was establishing was so fruitful that in 1707 Pope Clement XI called St. Lucy to Rome to start schools. Fifty-two schools were established during St. Lucy’s lifetime. For the young ladies of STAS St. Lucy Club, it was particularly special to realize that Sr. Anne, Sr. Diana and Sr. Roseann and their own school at St. Thomas Aquinas are the continuation of this divinely inspirational mission that began over 300 years ago and is now spread throughout Europe, Brazil, Ethiopia, and India! Sr. Diana and Sr. Roseann answered many
questions the young ladies had about Religious Life and discernment. They also shared photographs of the magnificent Villa Walsh, the Religious Sisters St. Lucy Filippini Motherhouse, in Morristown, NJ. St. Thomas Aquinas School is so blessed to have the Filippini Sisters who not only teach in the classrooms but also by their joyful life example being living memories of Jesus’ way of being and acting. They truly embody the educative-apostolic mission of their order’s founders by their commitment to making the life and teachings of Jesus and His Church relevant in the life of each student, so that they come to know and experience their true identity as sons and daughters of God, and be empowered to be Jesus for others, nurturing them to life in the Lord, enabling them to help build a world where justice and peace prevail.
By Kelly Jo Haddad, STAS Parent Club Member During Holy Week, the St. Lucy Filippini Religious Sisters graciously opened up their hometo host the St. Thomas Aquinas School St. Lucy Club meeting. After lunch and visiting the convent’s chapel, the members learned more about the life of St. Lucy, whose Feast Day is March 25. They learned that a short seven years after her birth, on January 13, 1672 in Corneto, Italy, she was orphaned and sent to live with her aunt and uncle. Even as a small child, St. Lucy was a very pious child and prayed devoutly at the small altars she, herself, would prepare. A special love and devotion to our Heavenly Mother sustained her throughout her life. When Cardinal Mark Anthony Barbarigo made a visit to her small town, St. Lucy was so inspired by
In April, 16 New Mexico Lobo football players joined students at San Felipe de Neri School to spend time with students in a positive way. Lobos and students played multiplication games, read books together and shared tips on how to promote positive sportsmanship. It was a memorable day for all.
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Hermitage Retreat Experience at the Norbertine Community The Abbey of Santa Maria de la Vid is home to ten Norbertine priests and brothers, but it is also a temporary home for those seeking a period of spiritual renewal and retreat. The Norbertine Hermitage Retreat/ Spirituality Center draws visitors from New Mexico and around the country who are seeking the solitude and quiet of the desert. The Abbey grounds encompass seventy acres of desert on the secluded west mesa in Albuquerque’s South Valley and offer space for individuals and groups in an atmosphere of quiet, solitude, and contemplation. For decades, people of diverse faith traditions have come to this holy ground to pray, experience the beauty and simplicity of the desert, and be renewed in spirit for the journey ahead. Many guests find that the energy of the Abbey grounds—the silence, natural environment, resident animals, sunny days, and starry nights— become spiritual directors for them during their retreat. Over the years, people in various life situations have been welcomed to the Abbey: • Caregivers who need time and space to rest and be renewed • Individuals who are in life transitions and discerning the next step in their journeys • People who may not know what they are looking for but know they need more silence and space to discover what they are seeking • Religious women and men, lay and ordained ministers, rabbis, people in healing professions, educators, writers, and others who need time away from their busy lives of service • Persons who feel something is missing—or are experiencing emptiness—and want to explore ways to live a more creative and fulfilling life Since retreats are generally not “directed” at the Abbey, the possibilities of what one might do on a retreat are only limited by the retreatant’s imagination: • Discover a book or CD in the library as a guide for the journey • Meet with a spiritual director to explore how the Holy One might be inviting one to grow
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• Walk a meditative path— enjoying the beauty of creation —or experience the outdoor Way of the Cross • Join the Norbertine Community for Morning and/or Evening Prayer and Eucharist • Spend time in the chapel, church, or great outdoors in reflective stillness & solitude In addition there are numerous spiritual practices which can enrich one’s retreat experience: • Following the lead of the Holy One into the desert • Listening for the voice of God • Relaxing, there’s absolutely nothing that must be accomplished while on retreat • Enjoying a slower and simpler way of being • Trusting one’s own experience; following one’s intuition • Experimenting with new ways of praying or conversing with God • Embracing the grace available in each and every moment • Delighting in a surprise of nature, a poem or scripture passage, a stranger’s comment, or a dream • Being attentive to one’s breathing, and the wisdom of one’s body To check on the availability of hermitages or to learn more about the Norbertine Hermitage Retreat/Spirituality Center, please contact the Abbey at (505) 873-4399 or visit the Abbey’s website: www. norbertinecommunity.org.
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Pope Francis greets a recruit during an audience with Swiss Guard recruits and their family members in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 4. The audience was held two days in advance of the annual swearing-in of new guards. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Announce Publishing of 50th Anniversary Edition of Blessed Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae WASHINGTON—In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical letter, Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth), the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is making available a special 50th anniversary edition that includes reflections from succeeding popes on the prophetic teaching that honors the spiritual and sensory elements found in conjugal love. Recognizing the fullness of the marital union as total, faithful, and exclusive, the encyclical proclaims the path of grace and true happiness
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis and Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, pose for a photo during a pre-synod gathering of youth delegates in Rome March 19. A new document from the International Theological Commission explores the pope’s call for the church to be “synodal” and emphasizes the role of the laity in the mission of the church. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
for married couples under the abiding yoke of Christ. Originally published in 1968, Blessed Paul VI’s letter promotes the whole human person in the context of marital love that respects both the spiritual and physical dimensions of man and woman. Considering the human person as a whole, it also presents the practical social implications if the document’s conclusions— based on the full respect of the totality of persons—are ignored. This 50th anniversary edition includes the full encyclical, with excerpts from Blessed Paul VI’s successors affirming the teachings of Humanae Vitae. Also included are selections from the 1968 US Catholic bishops’ statement, Human Life in Our Day. The 50th anniversary edition of Humanae
Vitae can be ordered online at http://store. usccb.org/humanae-vitae-50th-anniversaryedition-p/7-596.htm. Additional books and resources pertaining to marriage and family life, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Vatican, ministry and more can be found by visiting the USCCB’s online bookstore at https://store.usccb.org/
Catholic groups decry end to Temporary Protected Status for Hondurans WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholic leaders were angered and disappointed by the Trump administration’s May 4 decision to end Temporary Protected Status, popularly known as TPS, to more than 57,000 Hondurans living in the United States. Hondurans who arrived in the United States after their country was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 now have until Jan. 5, 2020, to return home. “The administration’s decision to end TPS for Honduras is untenable. Returning tens of thousands of people to a country with a staggering unemployment rate, high rates of violence, and few available resources to support them could quickly become a tipping point for communities,” said Conor Walsh, the country representative in Honduras for Catholic Relief Services. He said those who are forced to return will be separated from family and could be targeted by gangs for extortion. “This decision, as well as previous determinations made for El Salvador and Haiti, will undermine ongoing efforts to address the root causes of migration and violence, and in doing so, lead to more,” he added.
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W O R L D A N D N AT I O N A L N E W S Faith groups care for refugees in ways governments can’t, group tells U.N. UNITED NATIONS (CNS) -- Faith-based organizations are uniquely able to care for migrants and refugees because they employ a holistic, person-centered approach that respects the human dignity of each individual, and they have established networks throughout the world, according to panelists at a May 3 United Nations event. Archbishop Bernardito Auza, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, said faith-based organizations provide “much of the infrastructure for immediate and longterm hospitality and accommodation, defend the rights and dignity of refugees and migrants independent of legal status, ensure through education, professional and social inclusion that they are able to achieve their potential as human beings, and enrich them and the societies that embrace them through the exchange of talents and culture.” They are unique in their reach and presence at all points of the migratory journey, often filling gaps in services to migrants that governments and other civil society groups are incapable or unwilling to fill on their own, he said. Archbishop Auza said six of the nine agencies that assist the U.S. State Department in resettling refugees in 190 communities throughout the U.S. are faith-based organizations. They are motivated by faith but granted resettlement responsibilities by the government because of their proven effectiveness, he said.
Update: Trump signs order to give faith groups stronger voice in government WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In front of a small crowd of cabinet members and religious leaders at the White House Rose Garden May 3, President Donald Trump announced, and then signed, an executive order giving faith-based groups a stronger voice in the federal government. “It’s a great day,” he said after signing the order and passing out pens to religious leaders who surrounded him outside on the spring morning for the National Day of Prayer event. No details about the order were given at the ceremony, but religious leaders were reminded of the work they do in caring for those in need and were assured by the president that their religious freedom would continue to be protected by the federal government. A White House document posted online after the order was signed said its purpose was to ensure that faith-based and community organizations “have strong advocates” in the
White House and the federal government. It said the “White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative” would provide recommendations on programs and policies where faith-based and community organizations could partner with the government to “deliver more effective solutions to poverty.”
announced it was going to rescind it. Until it can do so -- the administration was given 90 days to justify its action -- the Department of Homeland Security, which administers the program, must continue to accept new applications and renew documents for those already enrolled, the judge said.
States file lawsuits to end DACA
Vatican issues instruction on improving canon law studies
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Continuing the legal drama against a program that protects some 800,000 young adults brought into the country without legal documentation as minors, seven states have filed a lawsuit attempting once more to end it. Joined by Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and West Virginia, the state of Texas is leading the charge in a lawsuit filed May 1 that says then-President Barack Obama and his administration unlawfully and unilaterally granted what amounts to “citizenship” to “otherwise unlawfully present aliens” when it approved in 2012 the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Popularly known as DACA, the program grants a renewable work permit and other temporary documentation to the young adults if they meet certain conditions. Saying it was unlawful, President Donald Trump announced the program’s end in September and asked Congress to hash out a legislative solution by March, but lawmakers have not done so. Since Trump’s announcement, DACA has been on a legal roller coaster. Most recently, a federal district judge from the District of Columbia ruled on April 24 that the Trump administration did not explain why DACA was “unlawful” when it
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The changes in canon law Pope Francis made to ensure that marriage annulment cases were handled more quickly, more pastorally and with less expense mean that some changes should be made in the way church law is taught, said the Congregation for Catholic Education. The congregation published an instruction May 3 urging Catholic universities to strengthen their canon law programs and urging bishops to send more of their priests “and, if possible, laypeople” to Catholic universities to earn canon law degrees. The new rules, which go into effect for the 2019-2020 academic year, require all students in what is known as the “first cycle” of studies for church licenses in theology to take at least three semesters of canon law courses, including at least one devoted exclusively to church law regarding marriage and the process of recognizing the nullity of a marriage. The instruction also strongly encourages schools and faculties of canon law to offer courses designed for bishops, who have greater responsibility in determining the nullity of a marriage under the rules introduced by Pope Francis in 2015.
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Moral Outrage By Rev. Ron Rolheiser, OMI Moral outrage is the antithesis of morality. Yet it’s everywhere present in our world today and is everywhere rationalized on the basis of God and truth. We live in a world awash in moral outrage. Everywhere individuals and groups are indignant and morally outraged, sometimes violently so, by opposing individuals, groups, ideologies, moral positions, ecclesiologies, interpretations of religion, interpretations of scripture, and the like. We see this everywhere, television networks outraged at the news coverage of other networks, church groups bitterly demonizing each other, pro-life and pro-choice groups angrily shouting at each other, and politics at its highest levels paralyzed as different sides feel so morally indignant that they are unwilling to contemplate any accommodation whatever with what opposes them. And always, on both sides, there’s the righteous appeal to morality and divine authority (however explicit or implicit) in way that, in essence, says: I have a right to demonize you and to shut my ears to anything you have to say because you’re wrong and immoral and I, in the name of God and truth, am standing up to you. Moreover, you’re immorality gives me the legitimate right to bracket the essentials of human respect and treat you as a pariah to be eliminated – in the name of God and of truth. And this this kind of attitude doesn’t just make for the angry divisions, bitter polarizations, and the deep distrust we live with today within our society, it’s also what produces terrorists, mass shootings, and the ugliest bigotry and racism. It produced Hitler – someone who was able to capitalize so powerfully on moral outrage that he was able to sway millions of people to turn against what was best inside themselves. But moral outrage, however much it tries to justify itself on some lofty basis, religion, morality, patriotism, historical hurt, or personal injustice, remains always the opposite of genuine morality and genuine religious practice? Why? Because genuine morality and religious practice are always characterized by the opposite of what’s seen in moral outrage. Genuine morality and genuine religious practice are always marked by empathy, understanding, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, respect, charity, and graciousness – all of which are glaringly absent in virtually every expression of moral outrage we see today. In trying to draw us into a genuine morality and religiosity, Jesus says this: Unless your virtue goes deeper than that of the Scribes and the Pharisees you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. What was the virtue of the Scribes and Pharisees? On the surface, theirs was a very high virtue. To be a good Scribe or Pharisee meant keeping the Ten Commandments, being faithful to the prescribed religious practices of the time, and being a man or woman who was always just and fair in your dealings with others. So what’s lacking in that? What’s missing is that all of these things (keeping the commandments, faithful religious observance, and being fair to others) can be done with a bitter, accusatory, unforgiving heart just as easily (and perhaps even more so) than with a warm, empathic, forgiving heart. Keeping the commandments, going to church, and being a just person can all be done (as is only too clear sometimes) out of moral outrage. To paraphrase Jesus: Anyone can be gracious to those who are gracious to you. Anyone can love those who love See OUTRAGE on page 29
Cowboys, Infertility and Deeper Moral Questions By Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. Most people still remember the story of Nadya Suleman, dubbed “Octomom,” a single woman who used in vitro fertilization to become pregnant with eight babies simultaneously. Suleman had asked her fertility specialist, Dr. Michael Kamrava, to implant at least a dozen embryos into her uterus, leading to the birth of the famous octuplets in 2009. Dr. Kamrava’s medical license was later revoked by the California Medical Board. In commenting on the case, Judith Alvarado, Deputy Attorney General in California, concluded that Dr. Kamrava had acted “like a cowboy” in ignoring fertility industry guidelines. When it comes to the “wild west” of infertility — a field of medicine with little oversight and unbridled profit margins — there are a lot of cowboys out there. Recently there was the case of Kelli Rowlette who, after having her own DNA analyzed in 2017 through a genealogy website, shockingly discovered that her biological father was actually a fertility specialist who had once treated her mother. Without her mother’s knowledge or consent, the specialist had used his own sperm to impregnate her, while falsely claiming he was using a mixture of sperm from her husband (who had low sperm count) and a donor who was supposed to have been an anonymous university student with features similar to her husband. Another infamous case involved Bertold Wiesner who, back in the 1940s, established a fertility clinic in London to help women struggling to conceive. His clinic supposedly relied on a small number of highly intelligent men to serve as sperm donors for artificial insemination, with more than 1500 babies being born. More than seventy years later, based on DNA testing of people who had been conceived at the clinic, it turned out that as many as 600 of the babies born may have relied on sperm from Mr. Wiesner himself. There was also the troubling story of Dr. Cecil Jacobson of Fairfax County, Virginia. He was accused of a “purposeful pattern of deceit” during the 1980’s when he fathered up to 75 children using his own sperm for artificial insemination with his female patients. He was eventually sentenced to five years in prison and had his medical license revoked. Another notorious episode relied on DNA testing and other evidence gathered by police in Brazil. They discovered that many of the 8,000 babies born after IVF treatments at the clinic of Dr. Roger Abdelmassih in Sao Paulo were not genetically related to the couples who were raising them. Authorities believe that Abdelmassih misled many of his clients during the 1990s and early 2000s and impregnated them with embryos formed from other people’s eggs and sperm, in a bid to improve his clinic’s statistics for successful implantations and births. Yet another nefarious incident involved Doctors Ricardo Asch, Jose Bulmaceda and Sergio Stone, three fertility specialists and faculty members at the University of California at Irvine who ran a campus fertility clinic during the 1990s. They were accused of fertilizing eggs they had harvested from women and implanting See QUESTIONS on page 29
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Mata, Rodriguez Mr. Rueben Rodriguez and Miss Helen Mata were united in holy matrimony on June 15, 1968 at the Santo Niño Catholic Church in Aragon, NM. Their current parish is Our Lady of Assumption in Albuquerque. Rueben retired in 1997 after 34 years Federal Service. The time noted includes four years of active duty during the Vietnam Crisis (1962–1966) with the U.S. Air Force at Blythville AFB, AK for two years and two years in Europe at RAF Bentwaters/ Woodridge in England. He also served two years in the inactive reserves with the U.S. Air Force. His work during this period was in the business administration career field. During his civilian career he worked for the Forest Service with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for 17 years in the procurement field where he served as Procurement Specialist and Contracting Officer
in various parts of New Mexico and Arizona. He then transferred to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) where he worked for 13 years as a Research and Development Contract Administrator for the Air Force Operation Test and Evaluation Center (AFOTEC) at Kirtland Air Force Base. Helen retired having served in various business administration industries for several years in New Mexico and Arizona. She was the County Treasurer for Catron County, worked with the banking industry, hotel industry, insurance industry and real estate industry. They have three children, Mario Rodriguez, Tyra Rodriguez and Aaron Rodriguez, two grandchildren, Mitchell and Caroline. They are active with the Cchurch and the family is proud to recognize this wonderful commitment to their marriage and their demonstrated love, faith, and devotion to each other and their family.
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you. And anyone can be good to those who do good to you … but can you be gracious to those who are bitter towards you? Can you be loving towards those who hate you? And can you forgive those who kill you? That’s the litmus test for Christian morality and religious practice – and nowhere inside of anyone who passes this test will you still find the kind of moral outrage where we believe that God and truth are asking us to demonize those who hate us, do us evil, or try to kill us. Moreover what we do in moral outrage is deny that we are ourselves morally complicit in the very things we demonize and pour our hatred out on. As we watch the world news each day and see the anger, bitter divisions, violence, injustices, intolerance, and wars that characterize our world, a deep, honest, courageous
scrutiny should make us aware that we cannot fully separate ourselves from those things. We live in a world of longstanding and present injustice, of ever-widening economic inequality, of endemic racism and sexism, of countless people living as victims of plunder and rape in history, of millions of refugees with no place to go, and in a society where various people are branded and ostracized as “losers” and “sickos”. Should we be surprised that our society produces terrorists? However sincere and innocent we might personally feel, how we’re living helps create the ground the breeds mass killers, terrorists, abortionists, and playground bullies. We’re not as innocent as we think we are. Our moral outrage is not an indicator that we are on the side of God and truth. More often than not, it suggests the opposite.
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the resulting embryos into unrelated women, as well as selling some of the embryos to scientists and researchers. Dozens of women and couples filed lawsuits against the doctors and the university. One of the reasons these acts of deception by fertility specialists are so offensive to us is that we realize how the procreation of our own children is meant to involve a strict exclusivity between husband and wife. Whenever we violate that exclusivity by hiring outsiders to produce our offspring in clinics, or engage strangers to provide their sex cells for these procedures, unthinkable outcomes become possible. The plethora of these cases also reminds us how many of the cavalier approaches to human procreation being promoted by the fertility industry are unethical at their core. We are witnessing an unprecedented burgeoning of laboratory techniques for manufacturing human life, many of which are deeply antagonistic to human dignity and contrary to the parental obligations assumed by spouses when they marry. The natural exclusivity intended in parenthood is meant to afford
protection, security about our origins, and the safety of the home hearth. In the headlong rush to achieve a pregnancy at any price, many couples, regrettably, are allowing hawkish businessmen to manipulate their sex cells, create their children in glassware, store them in frozen orphanages, and even discard them like medical waste. The tragic fallout of these decisions should reignite our natural moral sensibilities, and point us back in the direction of the Creator’s plan for human procreation. Our children are truly safeguarded in the dignity of their origins when they are brought into the world exclusively within the marital embrace of husband and wife. Turning to the lawlessness of modern day fertility “cowboys,” meanwhile, is a quick study for violation and heartache. 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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A Mission to the Poor Tim Muldoon
The clearest statement of Christ’s mission comes early in Luke’s gospel. Jesus unrolls a scroll of the prophet Isaiah and reads from it in order to announce what he is up to. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.” Rolling up the scroll, … [Jesus] said to them, “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing” (Lk 4:18-21) Jesus says to the people in the synagogue that his mission is to the poor, prisoners, the blind and the oppressed. Jesus’ mission comes from the Father. John’s gospel states it even more clearly: “I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me” (Jn 6:38). The mission of the Church is to carry on Jesus’ own mission from the Father. The clearest statements about the Church in the modern era are in the documents of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). One of its central documents, Lumen Gentium, describes the dual missions of Christ and his Church. Just as Christ’s mission of redemption unfolded in the contexts of poverty and persecution, the Council fathers write, so too the Church must follow the same route. Quoting the beautiful Philippians hymn (2:5-7), the document reminds us that Christ “emptied Himself, taking the nature of a slave,” becoming poor for our sakes. So too must the Church embrace those who are poor and afflicted, seeing in them the image of their Founder. Catholic Extension exists to support the Church’s ministry to the poor. Our life blood as an organization is to fulfill this mission. But there is more: we hope and pray that others will join us in this mission. Our founder, Father (and later Bishop) Francis Kelley, wrote of a desire to “awaken the missionary spirit” among U.S. Catholics, because he saw firsthand as a missionary priest how easily forgotten people on the margins can be. What was true when he founded Extension in 1905 is even more true today—people pay attention to newsmakers in the public eye, but often lose sight of those who live quiet, desperate lives away from the camera or journalist’s pen. Every day, we witness stories of men and women who quietly but heroically respond to Christ’s invitation to serve the poor. There is Sister Princess Mary Dawson of the Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart, who serves in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where the poverty rate is at 24 percent of the population. She runs a food pantry that feeds some 200 people each week, and wondered at our visit why anyone might want to know about her corner of the world. There is Franciscan Father Carroll Mizicko, the pastor of St. Augustine Parish in East Saint Louis, Illinois, where 46 percent of the population live in poverty. He has served the parishioners, many of whom are old, for 16 years, very aware of the difficulties they face. In the midst of great despair he is quick to point to what gives him hope: “Well, the Lord, of course.”
There is Antonio Trujillo, the principal of St. Joseph Mission School in San Fidel, New Mexico, a part of the state where about a third of the population live in poverty. The school serves primarily Native Americans of the Acoma and Laguna Pueblo reservations, and is a beacon of hope amidst widespread despair. Catholic Extension has supported these and hundreds of other ministries, through education of leaders, training of seminarians, contributing to the construction of facilities, and many other ways. Continued on page 31
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Corrales San Ysidro Church Celebrates 52nd Fiesta By Jovita Kelley, San Ysidro Parish The San Ysidro Catholic Church in Corrales will be celebrating its 52nd anniversary from May 19-20, 2018. The church located at 5015 Corrales Road was built by the parishioners and finished in 1961. Father James McGowan, assigned in July
2014, is the parish pastor. Some historical facts about the church include how the church in 1961 was a mission church being served by Fr. Paul Baca, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows in Bernalillo. It remained a mission church until the Canonical Erection as a parish of San Ysidro in Corrales which occurred on September 1, 1966. The first pastor assigned was Right Rev. Tito Melendez. It is believed the Virgin Mary statue, the wooden bulto of St. Margaret, and the San Ysidro statue were all brought to this church from the old church on Old Church Road across from the historic Casa San Ysidro in Corrales. The white statue of San Ysidro that stands in the nicho above the front door of the present church was presented to the church at the occasion of Fr. Paul Baca’s parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. The church was enlarged in 2013 to the current cruciform structure which added room for approximately 100 more parishioners. Like most parishes, San Ysidro will have a fiesta queen crowned and participating in the fiesta activities. Unlike many parishes, San Ysidro fiesta queens do not earn the title through fundraising activities. The
San Ysidro fiesta queens are nominated by and voted in by the parish catechetical teachers and students for their good example in living the faith. Fr. James McGowan and the San Ysidro Parish community invite the public to share in the festivities for its celebration. The Knights of Columbus of the parish will sponsor a bingo on Saturday, May 19 at 6:30 p.m. in Hendren Parish Hall. Fiesta Day, May 20, 2018 starts with an outdoor Mass at the old church at 10 a.m. followed by a procession with the Matachines dancers to the new church on Corrales Road. Transportation is provided to and from the Mass. Participants may park at the new church on Corrales Road and enjoy a hay ride to the old church or hop a ride on a handicapped accessible van from the new church parking lot. Fiesta day activities include food, raffle prizes, music, fun and games for children, a cake walk and arts and crafts. There will also be a historical presentation with past pictures of the church and a silent auction. For questions about the fiesta call the parish office at 505.898.1779. All are welcome!
Continued from page 30 From its earliest days, the Church has recognized the necessity of raising funds for those who carry on the ministry of Christ. During his missionary journeys, for example, Paul collected money for the “saints in Jerusalem” (Acts 20: 1-5; 1 Cor 16:1; Rom 16:26), recognizing that all in the one Body of Christ must support one another. Today the story is no different: The whole Church serves the poor both through its men and women in ministry, and through the generosity of all who enfold the poor in loving embrace. We at Catholic Extension are humbled to be part of that ongoing mission. Tim Muldoon, Ph.D., is the author of Living Against the Grain and other books, and serves as director of mission education for Catholic Extension.
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Mother Killed on Southwest Flight Was Firm Believer in Catholic Schools WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Tributes from business leaders and politicians alike described Jennifer Riordan -- the 43-yearold passenger who died April 17 from injuries suffered on Southwest Flight 1380 when its engine exploded -- as a devoted mother, community leader, mentor and volunteer. Riordan, a Wells Fargo executive from New Mexico, was a “thoughtful leader who has long been a part of the fabric of our community,” said Tim Keller, the mayor of Albuquerque. Susana Martinez, governor of New Mexico, described her as “an incredible woman who put her family and community first.” But statements about Riordan that were closer to home for the parishioner of Our Lady of the Annunciation Catholic Church in Albuquerque and mother of two children at Annunciation School were issued by her family, who called her their “bedrock,” and her children’s school, which described Riordan as an “integral member of our school community.” Riordan, who grew up in Vermont, attended Christ the King Elementary School in Burlington and graduated from Vermont’s Colchester High School in 1992. She married her high school sweetheart, Michael Riordan, in 1996 at Christ the King Church, according to the Burlington Free Press daily newspaper. She was returning from a business trip in New York when the plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia after its engine exploded in midair and shrapnel hit the plane breaking the window beside her. Riordan was pronounced dead at a hospital from blunt trauma to her head, neck and torso, a spokesman for the Philadelphia Department of Health announced April 19.
Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Linda Chavez Sister of Charity of Cincinnati Linda Chavez (formerly Sr. Leo Margaret) died April 19, 2018, at the age of 91 in Mother Margaret Hall, the nursing facility of the Sisters of Charity. Sr. Linda was born Erlinda Elisa Jeraldine Chavez on May 31, 1926, to Leonardo and Leonor (Perea) Chavez in San Ysidro, NM. She entered religious life on Sept. 7, 1947, and was a Sister of Charity of Cincinnati for 70 years. From an early age Sister Linda knew she wanted to become a teacher, and the desire never left her. She met the Sisters of Charity as a student at St. Vincent Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but instead chose to attend the University of New Mexico at the age of 17 before entering religious life in 1947. Sr. Linda’s love for teaching provided her with 40 years of classroom memories. For 20 years, from 1969 until 1989, Sr. Linda ministered at St. Pius X High School in her hometown of Albuquerque. She had found a welcome place. Recognizing the school’s lack of emphasis in the humanities, Sr. Linda introduced “Spirituality through the Arts.” She once said she would run into former students on occasion who would tell her, “Every time I see a Monet or a Chagall, I think of you.” Sr. Linda cherished her years at the school, and appreciated the dedicated, committed faculty and staff. During that time, in 1970, Sr. Linda was appointed the Associate Vicar for Religious for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, the second woman in the country to hold that Continued on page 33
Sr. Marie Amada Garcia, OP Sr. Marie Amada Garcia, formerly known as Marie Concepta Apodaca Garcia, died on April 10, 2018, at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, MI. She was 98 years of age and in the 78th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation. Sr. Marie Amada was born in Albuquerque to Eduardo Apodaca and Ramoncita Luna Apodaca. After the death of her father, Sr. Marie Amada’s mother married Charles Garcia and Sister was adopted by him. Sister graduated from St. Vincent Academy in Albuquerque and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin from Siena Heights College (University) in Adrian, MI and a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan. Sister spent 45 years ministering in education in Chicago and Joliet, IL; Winslow, AZ; Tucumcari and Albuquerque, NM; Des Moines, IA; Detroit, MI; Oakland and Santa Cruz, CA; and Las Vegas, NV. Sister was an Immigration Counselor from 1985 to 2001 in Catholic Community Services of Nevada in Las Vegas. Sister became a resident of the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan, in 2009. Sister Ministered in New Mexico 3 years: St. Ann, Tucumcari 1942-1943 - Elementary Teacher Queen of Heaven, Albuquerque 1960-1962 - Elementary Teacher
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office. She remained in the position for 13 years, performing her duties along with her full-time teaching assignments. Following Vatican II, Sr. Linda was graced with being actively involved in serving on two committees introducing significant changes to the Sisters of Charity congregation: the habit committee in 1965 and the Constitutions Committee in 1983. In addition, she was a charter member of the National Assembly of Women Religious and of Las Hermanas, an organization which fostered leadership among Hispanic women religious. In 1989, she was elected to Congregational leadership, managing SC activities in the western region; she was honored to be the first Hispanic Sister of Charity elected to leadership. “My four years in Congregational leadership were very special for me,” she once wrote. “I learned to know my Sisters as no other experience could have afforded me. For this time I shall always be grateful.” In 1993, Sr. Linda found herself in
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a new ministry serving the poor in Albuquerque through S.E.T. (Service, Empowerment, Transformation). She served as the organization’s executive director from 1994 until 2002, during that time establishing well-being clinic sites for low-income seniors and educating poor families to improve the quality of their health through clinics and self-care programs. Among her awards and honors, Sr. Linda was inducted into the Albuquerque Senior Foundation’s Hall of Fame in 2000, and the St. Pius X Wall of Recognition in 2004. She also received the Senior Foundation’s Special Achievement Award in 2000 along with the 1998 Sr. Mary Lea Mueller Award from the College of Mount St. Joseph (Cincinnati). Following her retirement from S.E.T. in 2002, Sr. Linda continued her board and committee participation for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and volunteered for many organizations throughout Albuquerque, including St. Joseph Community Health, Bernalillo County Detention Center, and Good Shepherd Center for the homeless.
The Catholic Cemetery Association is in the ending stages of construction at Mt. Calvary Cemetery. When complete, the project will add 168 ground spaces, 8 Family Estates, 28 cremation spaces and 624 cremation niches. In addition, the project added xeriscape landscape and additional parking. The cremation and casket ground space section has been named, The Garden of Serenity. This unique section offers both casket and cremation burial spaces in a intimate, well-designed area. It also offers families the opportunity to purchase a Family Estate for up to 8 burial rights. This option allows for an upright headstone, memorializing the family’s surname. The cremation niche section is called, The Garden of Hope. This area has been designed with 13 quaint columbariums. These columbarium buildings provide families with distinctive memorialization opportunities and a peaceful atmosphere. The entry into the garden will have a water feature, bringing to mind God’s promise to a new life. During the months of April and May, the CCA will be offering a “10% construction discount” on pre-purchases in these new areas. For more information contact Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
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