People of God, September 2015

September 2015 • Volume 33, Number 8 • www.archdiosf.org

Serving The Multicultural People of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe

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Rosary Rally.............................................................................................. 2 Archbishop’s Letter: Homily for Franciscan Ordinations........................................................................... 3 2015 Apostolic Journey of Pope Francis............................................... 5 “Homeless Jesus”.................................................................................... 7 Blessed Junipero Serra........................................................................... 9 Year of Mercy.......................................................................................... 12 Year of Consecrated Life: Grand Rapids’ Dominicans....................... 14 Catholic Education................................................................................. 18 Synod....................................................................................................... 20 Parish Social Ministry Conference....................................................... 28

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A 225-foot tall mural featuring an image of Pope Francis is seen in New York City Sept. 3, the day painters put the finishing touches on the artwork. The mural, which took 10 days to paint, faces Madison Square Garden, where Pope Francis will celebrate Mass on Sept. 25.

(CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

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First Inquiry Session of the Cause for Beatification and Canonization of The Servant of God, Sister Blandina Segale, S.C. Archbishop John C. Wester has appointed Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan as Episcopal Delegate for the Cause of the Servant of God, Sister Blandina Segale S.C. Archbishop Sheehan called for the First Inquiry Session of the Cause to take place Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at the Catholic Center in Albuquerque.

This session of the Cause was open to the public.

At the First Inquiry Session of the Cause, oaths were taken by those performing key roles.

There are recordings of the documents and decrees that make the process possible. Historic evidence was introduced along with testimony to the holiness and spirituality of the Servant of God. Evidence to her heroic virtue was also introduced with documents confirming the occurrence of events recorded in the Servant of God’s book At the End of the Santa Fe Trail.

For more information contact the Petitioner, Allen Sánchez at 505.319.3334.

(Left). David Muir, anchor of ABC’s “World News Tonight,” talks with Pope Francis at the Vatican during a virtual town hall meeting with Catholics in Chicago, Los Angeles and McAllen, Texas, Aug. 31. The meeting via satellite link was arranged and hosted by ABC News. If you missed it, the interview is posted on our FACEBOOK page at ASFOfficial. (CNS photo/courtesy of ABC News).

Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions for September 2015

UNIVERSAL: That opportunities for education and employment may increase for all young people.

EVANGELIZATION: That catechists may give witness by living in a way consistent with the faith they proclaim.

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Homily

Once again I want to say what an honor it is to be with you today as our entire Church rejoices at these two ordinations of Jorge Hernandez Jurado and Andres Gallegos Jimenez. I know that this is a very happy day for our Franciscan Brothers and we join you in thanking God for this wonderful ordination.

Sometime ago I heard a story of a famous king, let’s call him King Louie the Great.

He died in the Middle Ages when there was no television or theaters or computers. In fact, people often would walk many miles simply to hear a sermon by one of the great European preachers. They found these sermons engaging and exciting. When Louie

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the Great died, a very famous preacher came to preach his funeral homily at the great Cathedral.

Everybody was looking forward to it. When Father got up to the pulpit, he looked out over the vast throng in the Cathedral and this famous preacher said, “Louie the Great, Louie the Great.

Only God is great.” And then he sat down.

While this great preacher may have disappointed his listeners on one level, he certainly gave them spiritual nourishment and underscored a profound principle: only God is great. And yet, it would seem that our world is not aware of this fact! It seems that many people run around thinking that they are great. Of course, it is an understandable human trait that we would like to leave a legacy. We would like to be known for our good deeds. We would like to make our mark on the world. But in our efforts to become “great” we sometimes take the wrong path and forget that only God is great. We are his children,

Homilía Una vez más quiero decir que es un honor para mí estar con ustedes hoy cuando toda nuestra Iglesia se alegra por estas dos ordenaciones de Jorge Hernández Jurado y Andrés Gallegos Jiménez. Sé que este es un día muy feliz para nuestros hermanos franciscanos y nos unimos a ustedes dando gracias a Dios por esta maravillosa ordenación.

Hace algún tiempo escuché una historia de un famoso rey, vamos a llamarlo Rey Louie el Grande. El murió en la Edad Media, cuando no había televisión, teatros o computadoras. De hecho, en esos tiempos la gente a menudo caminaba muchas millas simplemente para escuchar un sermón de alguno de los grandes predicadores europeos.

Estos sermones les parecían interesantes y emocionantes.

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his sons and daughters, who achieve greatness only through him. When we seek greatness on our own we are going to fail. And even those who have made significant contributions find that their greatness fades very quickly. Truly, it is only in God that we are great and that we stay great.

Our Gospel today reminds us of this fact. It is interesting to note that at this very important and sacred meal – even then – the disciples are engaging in an argument as to who is the greatest. Jesus quickly intervenes and reminds them where true greatness lies. True greatness lies in being humble, in serving, in caring for others and allowing Christ to work in us. Notice that Jesus says to his disciples, “I am among you as one who serves.” I am among you, Jesus says, I am with you. In other words, it is only through me that you will achieve greatness. It is only when you are one with me, surrendering yourself to my will, serving others that you will truly be great because I

will be working in you and I will make you great. Jesus says to his disciples, “You will eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones to rule over the twelve tribes of Israel.” That is true greatness; a greatness that we could never achieve on our own.

Jorge and Andres, I am sure that you, like all of us, have had moments when you wanted to be great. In fact, I am sure, like us, you still want to be great.

It is only natural. But we give thanks to God that the path to greatness that you have chosen is the path of service. As a Deacon, Jorge, you will serve the people of God, humbling yourself in their midst and allowing Christ to work in you.

And Andres, you will serve God’s people by proclaiming the Word as Priest. Allowing God’s Word to work in you and live in you and to breath in you and to bring people consolation and joy and encouragement and grace.

Both of you have chosen to follow in the footsteps of your patron, Saint

Francis, who himself knew the path of true greatness. He gave up all signs of greatness for his day: fancy clothing, money, prestige, power and honor.

Instead, he became one with Christ, so much so that he was given the gift of the stigmata.

By surrendering everything of himself he provided a space for Christ to fill him completely and in that fullness Francis became great. You are not becoming sons of Louie the Great, you are becoming sons of Francis the Great because he did not seek greatness but only Christ.

It is instructive and critical to note that the path of greatness, that is the path of discipleship, means that we follow the example of Christ. Notice that in Luke’s account of the Last Supper, Jesus tells the disciples, take this cup, take this bread and share it among yourselves.

Share it among yourselves.

Christ is giving himself to all and he instructs his disciples to do the same: share who you are, share Christ, with Continued on page 27

Ordenaciones Franciscanas

Iglesia de la Sagrada Familia, Albuquerque, NM - Domingo 15 de agosto, 2015

Cuando Louie el Grande murió, un famoso predicador fue a predicar la homilía fúnebre en la gran catedral. Todos esperaban esta gran homilía.

Cuando el gran predicador se paró ante el púlpito, recorrió con la mirada a la gran multitud en la Catedral y dijo: “Louie el Grande, Louie el Grande. Sólo Dios es grande. “ Y entonces se sentó.

Si bien este gran predicador pudo haber decepcionado a sus oyentes, sin duda les dio un alimento espiritual y subrayó un principio profundo: sólo Dios es grande. Y, sin embargo, ¡parece que nuestro mundo no está consciente de este hecho!

Parece que muchos van por el mundo pensando que son geniales. Por supuesto, es una rasgo humano el querer dejar un buen legado y ser conocidos por nuestras buenas obras. Nos

gustaría dejar nuestra marca en el mundo. Pero en nuestros esfuerzos para convertirnos en “grandes” a veces tomamos el camino equivocado y nos olvidamos de que sólo Dios es grande. Somos sus hijos e hijas, y alcanzamos la grandeza sólo a través de él. Cuando buscamos la grandeza por nuestra cuenta, vamos a fallar.

Aún quienes han hecho grandes contribuciones se dan cuenta que su grandeza se desvanece muy rápidamente. En verdad, es sólo en Dios que somos grandes y permanecemos grandes.

Nuestro Evangelio hoy nos recuerda este hecho. Es interesante notar que en esta comida tan importante y sagrada - desde entonces - los discípulos están discutiendo sobre quién es el más grande, el más importante. Jesús

interviene rápidamente y les recuerda dónde reside la verdadera grandeza. La verdadera grandeza consiste en ser humilde, en servir, en cuidar de los demás y en permitir que Cristo obre en nosotros. Noten que Jesús dice a sus discípulos: “Yo estoy entre ustedes como el que sirve.” Yo estoy entre ustedes, les dice Jesús. En otras palabras, es sólo a través de mí que van a lograr la grandeza. Es sólo cuando están conmigo, entregándose a mi voluntad, sirviendo a los demás que serán verdaderamente grandes porque yo estaré obrando en ustedes y los haré grandes. Jesús dice a sus discípulos: “Ustedes comerán y beberán a mi mesa en mi Reino, y se sentarán en tronos para gobernar a las doce tribus de Israel.” Esa es la verdadera grandeza; una grandeza que

nunca podríamos alcanzar por nosotros mismos.

Jorge y Andrés, estoy seguro de que ustedes, como todos nosotros, han tenido momentos en los que han querido ser grandes. De hecho, estoy seguro que, al igual que nosotros, ustedes todavía quiere ser grandes. Es natural.

Pero damos gracias a Dios de que el camino a la grandeza que ustedes han elegido es el camino del servicio. Como diácono, tú, Jorge, servirás al pueblo de Dios, humillándote a ti mismo en medio de ellos y permitiendo que Cristo obre en ti. Y tú, Andrés, servirás al pueblo de Dios proclamando la Palabra como Sacerdote.

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Archbishop’s Schedule

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Vacation USCCB Committee Meetings, Washington, DC Mexican Consulate Event, Santa Fe Office Appointments Papal Visit, Washington, DC Mass, Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe Presbyteral Council, Madonna Retreat Center, Albuquerque Deans Meeting, Madonna Retreat Center, Albuquerque College of Consultors, Catholic Center Office Appointments Northwest Deanery Meeting, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Pojoaque Listening Session, San Francisco de Asis, Ranchos de Taos 200th Anniversary Mass, San Francisco de Asis, Ranchos de Taos Annual Rosary Rally Mass, Isotopes Stadium, Albuquerque Archbishop’s St. Francis of Assisi Awards Mass & Imposition of Pallium, Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe Santa Fe Deanery Meeting, Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe Homecoming Mass, St. Michael’s High School, Santa Fe Villa Therese Clinic Board Meeting, Santa Fe Gathering of Retired Priests, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Albuquerque Listening Session, Sacred Heart, Española Install Rev. Dominic Pierson as pastor, Sacred Heart, Española Install Rev. Daniel Gutierrez as pastor, Nuestra Señora de

Guadalupe, Taos Listening Session, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Taos

All inquiries regarding the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of Sr. Blandina Segale, SC (aka Maria Rosa Segale) should be sent to the Postulator of the Cause, Most Rev. Ricardo Ramirez, Bishop Emeritus of Las Cruces c/o the Petitioner of the Cause, Mr. Allen Sánchez, 1516 5th St. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102 505.319.3334 or AllenSanchez@stjosephnm.org. For more information, go to www.sisterblandinasegale.com.

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The following parishes have sent in excess Mass stipends to the Archdiocesan Fi-

nance Office for seminarian education. These receipts are for July 2015. Excess Mass stipends are from multiple Mass intentions celebrated at parishes. The archdiocesan policy is for excess Mass stipends to be used for seminarian education.

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Anonymous..........................................................................................................335.00 Holy Child – Tijeras ........................................................................................ 3,000.00 Holy Ghost – Albuquerque .................................................................................800.00 Immaculate Heart of Mary – Los Alamos..........................................................1,980.00 Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Albuquerque..............................................240.00 Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe – Taos................................................................800.00 Our Lady of the Annunciation – Albuquerque...................................................1,260.00 Risen Savior Catholic Community - Albuquerque ...........................................4,838.66 San Diego Missions – Jemez Pueblo....................................................................90.00 Sangre de Cristo – Albuquerque......................................................................2,180.23 St. Joseph on the Rio Grande – Albuquerque . ..................................................330.00 In Celebration of Rev. Timothy Martinez – 25th Anniversary of Priesthood.........100.00 Total $15,953.89

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From the Office of the Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Case Name: RIVERA-MARTINEZ; Prot. Num.: 2014-0128M Notice of Annulment Proceeding. Gloria Esther Martinez is hereby notified that Gilbert Ray Rivera has filed a petition for a declaration of ecclesiastical nullity of the marriage contracted by both of you.

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By: Very Rev. Oscar Coelho, J.C.L., Judicial Vicar

Assignments

Archbishop John C. Wester has made the following assignments:

• Effective Monday, July 27, 2015 – Rev. Liam Hoare sP, has been appointed as pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Jemez Springs. Rev. Hoare will also serve as the canonical superior of the House for the Servants of the Paraclete.

Very Rev. David T. Fitzgerald sP, former canonical pastor, continues to be in residence. The former administrator Rev. Benedict Livingstone sP will be leaving for an assignment in Siena, Italy in October.

• Effective Friday, August 7, 2015 – Rev. Christopher Kerstiens, OFM, has been granted all the faculties of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. He will be in residence at the Holy Family Friary under the direction of the provincial, Very Rev. Jack Clark Robinson OFM. Rev. Kerstiens will continue to work in prison ministry under the direction of Deacon Robert Vigil, Director of Pastoral Outreach.

• Effective Tuesday, September 1, 2015 – Rev. Erasmo Romero OFM, has been appointed as temporary administrator of Holy Family Parish in Albuquerque. The former pastor, Rev. Gerald Steinmetz, OFM has received a new assignment from the Franciscan Order.

• Effective Tuesday, September 1, 2015 – Rev. Graham Golden O.Praem has been appointed as halftime parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary in Albuquerque under the direction of the pastor, Very Rev. Robert Campbell O.Praem. He will also serve as the vocation director for the Norbertine Community and will be in residence at Santa Maria de La Vid Abbey in Albuquerque. Rev. Peter Muller O.Praem previous parochial vicar has received a new assignment from his religious order.

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• Effective Tuesday, December 1, 2015 – Rev. Peter Lechner sP, has been granted all the faculties of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. He will serve as director of Mary Queen of All Nations Retreat Center in Jemez Springs.

• Effective Thursday, January 1, 2016 - . Rev. Patrick Schafer OFM, has been appointed as pastor of Holy Family Parish in Albuquerque.

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2015 Apostolic Journey Of Pope Francis To The United States Of America Here is the schedule for Pope Francis’ September 2015 Apostolic Journey to the United States of America as released by the Vatican on June 30, 2015. All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 (WASHINGTON, DC) 4:00 p.m. Arrival from Cuba at Joint Base Andrews WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 (WASHINGTON, DC) 9:15 a.m. Welcome ceremony and meeting with President Obama at the

White House 11:30 a.m. Midday Prayer with the bishops of the United States,

St. Matthew's Cathedral 4:15 p.m. Mass of Canonization of Junipero Serra, Basilica of the

National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 (WASHINGTON, DC, NEW YORK CITY) 9:20 a.m. Address to Joint Meeting of the United States Congress 11:15 a.m. Visit to St. Patrick in the City and Catholic Charities of the

Archdiocese of Washington 4:00 p.m. Depart from Joint Base Andrews 5:00 p.m. Arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport 6:45 p.m. Evening Prayer (Vespers) at St. Patrick's Cathedral FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 (NEW YORK CITY) 8:30 a.m. Visit to the United Nations and Address to the United Nations

General Assembly 11:30 a.m. Multi-religious service at 9/11 Memorial and Museum,

World Trade Center 4:00 p.m. Visit to Our Lady Queen of Angels School, East Harlem 6:00 p.m. Mass at Madison Square Garden SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 (NEW YORK CITY, PHILADELPHIA) 8:40 a.m. Departure from John F. Kennedy International Airport 9:30 a.m. Arrival at Atlantic Aviation, Philadelphia 10:30 a.m. Mass at Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia 4:45 p.m. Visit to Independence Mall 7:30 p.m. Visit to the Festival of Families Benjamin Franklin Parkway SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 (PHILADELPHIA) 9:15 a.m. Meeting with bishops at St. Martin's Chapel,

St. Charles Borromeo Seminary 11:00 a.m. Visit to Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility 4:00 p.m. Mass for the conclusion of the World Meeting of Families,

Benjamin Franklin Parkway 7:00 p.m. Visit with organizers, volunteers and benefactors of the World

Meeting of Families, Atlantic Aviation 8:00 p.m. Departure for Rome (Courtesy USCCB)

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Delegates leave U.N. General Assembly chamber in New York City, pope to discuss global responsibility for others

In this 2011 file photo, delegates leave the U.N. General Assembly chamber in New York City. The pope will address the U.S. Congress and the U.N. General Assembly during his September visit and will discuss the idea of one human family and shared responsibility for others and the world. (CNS photo/Jason Szenes, EPA)

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Pope to celebrate ‘simple weekday Mass’ for 20,000 at Madison Square Garden NEW YORK (CNS) -- A “simple weekday Mass” is in the works when Pope Francis celebrates the liturgy with 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden during his U.S. visit.

“Simple” takes on a new dimension when the pope is the celebrant and the congregation clears security checkpoints hours before the opening notes of the entrance hymn at the Sept. 25 celebration. “In substance, every Mass is the same. This one is a little bit more elaborate,” New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said of the archdiocese’s planning effort Sept. 2.

Trip through Central Park added to pope’s New York itinerary

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Pope Francis will get a glimpse of leafy Central Park and thousands of waving New Yorkers Sept. 25 when he makes “a historic procession” through the urban landmark, according to the city’s mayor. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sept 1 the pope will ride along the West Drive of the park on his way to celebrate Mass

at Madison Square Garden, which is set for 6 p.m. “We are grateful to the archdiocese for their cooperation in giving even more New Yorkers a chance to join in this historic visit,” de Blasio said in a statement. “The procession through Central Park will give thousands of New Yorkers an opportunity to come face to face with Pope Francis.” Admis-

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sion to the route will be limited to New York state residents and tickets will be distributed through an online giveaway contest. The mayor’s office said people interested in applying for a pair of tickets can visit the city’s website at nyc. gov/papalvisit or call 311 in New York from Sept. 3 to Sept. 7 to enter the contest. Winners will be notified Sept. 10.

Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba and the United States will be his 10th trip outside Italy. (CNS graphic/Karen Riccio)

The liturgical option for the day is the Mass for Peace and Justice, Cardinal Dolan said, explaining that the choice reflects the “high emphasis Pope Francis puts on this, and because that day he will be at the United Nations and also visit two sites in the archdiocese devoted to that. The readings and prayers are a given,” Cardinal Dolan said. But the music, the gifts, the intercessions, the readers and other elements have been carefully selected to represent the diverse “languages, families, apostolates, parishes and ministries of this vast region,” he said.

Observers expect Pope Francis to affirm and challenge politicians during visit WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) -- Flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner -- two high-profile Catholic politicians -- the visual of Pope Francis’ Sept. 24 address to Congress will signal an evolving narrative. The improbability of a pope standing before a joint meeting of Congress comes in an era of wider acceptance of the Catholic faith as it intersects with public life and U.S. politics, and indicates a comfort level between the two that wouldn’t have been imaginable several decades ago, observers said.

Times have changed whereby politicians do not have to wall off their faith from the office they hold, unlike how President John F. Kennedy had to defend his Catholic faith more than half a century ago, said Jesuit Father Christopher Collins, assistant professor of theological studies and head of mission and identity at Jesuit-run St. Louis University. “More and more there seems to be a willingness for people being out front with their religious commitments while in public office, for both Democrats and Republicans,” Father Collins told Catholic News Service. “We are in a new phase of that and that is a good thing,” he said. “It is a kind of a moving along the spectrum from privatization to a coherent synthesis of the faith of those who serve in public office.”

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Pope Francis to see ‘Homeless Jesus’ during U.S. visit

By Chaz Muth Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON -- When Pope Francis approaches the Catholic Charities building in downtown Washington during his U.S. visit in September, he will encounter a “homeless person” covered in a blanket laying on a park bench.

The scene actually is a sculpture. And it’s not a work of art depicting any homeless person; it’s the bronze image of “Homeless Jesus.”

“I hope Pope Francis blesses our ‘Homeless Jesus’ when he’s here,” said Roland Woody, a Washington resident who was homeless until earlier this year.

“It’s kind of a symbol of hope for the homeless in D.C. If the pope blesses it, it will be even more special.”

If the pope does bless the 7-foot-long statue, it will be the second one of its kind that he’ll have done that for.

Pope Francis blessed a smaller version of the “Homeless Jesus” sculpture during a late November, 2013, general audience at the Vatican in front of thousands of pilgrims.

Afterward, the pope told the sculptor, Timothy Schmalz of Toronto, that he thought it was a “beautiful piece of art” and a wonderful representation of Jesus.

Schmalz also created the “Homeless Jesus” statue in Washington, as well as similar sculptures in place in Toronto and several U.S. cities that include Denver, Phoenix and Chicago.

The arrival of “Homeless Jesus” in Washington came last winter after Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl witnessed the pope’s 2013 blessing of the smaller such statue, said Msgr.

John Enzler, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of the Washington Archdiocese.

“It’s deceiving when you first look at it, because it looks like a homeless person wrapped in a blanket laying on a park bench,” Msgr. Enzler told Catholic News Service during a recent Wednesday evening Catholic Charities-sponsored dinner for the homeless, held just a few steps from the statue.

“When you get up closer you realize it’s a sculpture,” he said.

On more than one occa-

“Homeless Jesus” is pictured in this July 29 photo of the seven-foot-long bronze sculpture that sits in front of a downtown Washington building occupied by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington. Pope Francis is expected to pass by the statue Sept. 24 during the Washington-leg of his U.S. visit. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth)

sion, a homeless person has approached the priest and told him they could tell it was a statue of Jesus, because of the holes in the feet.

“They recognize it right away,” Msgr. Enzler said. “It’s very special.”

Such reaction is what Schmalz envisioned when he began working on his first “Homeless Jesus” sculpture in 2011.

Viewers are forced to take

a second look at the sculpture of a human wrapped in a blanket, face covered, with only the feet exposed, to recognize that it’s actually depicting Jesus, Schmalz said.

“I can imagine some people walking on a city street, walking by thinking it’s another homeless person, and then they’ll realize it’s actually a representation of Jesus,” he said in 2013. “They will have that moment of reflection.”

Church leaders, other advocates expect pope to address migration issue WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) -- Pope Francis will arrive in the U.S. in September at the close of what could be called the “summer of immigration.”

Asylum-seekers landed on Greek beaches and traversed the Franceto-England Channel Tunnel, while Berlin announced a plan for moving refugees into container-based

housing. In the U.S., with the 2016 presidential campaign debates underway, domestic immigration controversies pop up with regularity, including there were renewed calls for a security wall at the U.S. border with Mexico, and fingers pointed at some incidents of violent crime attributed to immigrants. It’s widely expected that at some point

during his first papal U.S. visit, Pope Francis will address the issues of human migration. He has spoken out against the “globalization of indifference” about the plight of migrants. During his Latin America trip in July, migration was in a long list of problems he said must be addressed jointly by governments and the wider society.

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Msgr. Enzler said Washington’s “Homeless Jesus” has inspired some to have a more compassionate view of the homeless and has provided the poor with a little dignity.

“People who are homeless here say, ‘That’s our monument, that’s our Vietnam Memorial. That’s our Lincoln Memorial. That’s our place,’” he said. “They love it. They’ll come by and they’ll touch it.

They’ll say a prayer by it.”

Pray for Pope Francis Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ

Born: December 17, 1936 Ordained Priest: December 13, 1969 Ordained Bishop: June 27, 1992 Elected Pope: March 13, 2013

O God, shepherd and ruler of all the faithful, look favorably on your servant Francis, whom you have set at the head of your Church as her shepherd; Grant, we pray, that by word and example he may be of service to those over whom he presides so that, together with the flock entrusted to his care, he may come to everlasting life.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

Copyright © 2013, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC. All rights reserved. Excerpt from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Cuban bishop: Pope’s visit comes at time of hope for people

By Ezra Fieser CNS SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (CNS) -- Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba is a sign of his closeness to the nation’s people at a time they “breathe the air of hope” that relations with the U.S. will improve, said Bishop Wilfredo Pino Estevez of Guantanamo-Baracoa.

“It’s not easy to live at odds with your next door neighbor,” Bishop Pino wrote in a Sept.

1 pastoral letter. “That’s why it’s very important what the pope is coming to do, as the universal pastor of the church, in the search for reconciliation and peace among all peoples of the earth.’’

Pope Francis will celebrate Mass in three Cuban cities during a Sept. 19-22 visit to the Caribbean island before flying to Washington. He is credited with helping broker a historic thawing of relations between the U.S. and Cuba by sending letters to Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama last year and hosting delegates from the two countries at the Vatican.

Obama and Castro simultaneously announced a diplomatic rapprochement in December. Since then, the historic adversaries have re-opened embassies in Havana and Washington that had been shuttered for more than five decades and have announced they will launch a new round of diplomatic talks.

During his visit to Havana to reopen the U.S. Embassy Aug. 14, Secretary of State John Kerry thanked Pope Francis for “sup-

porting the state of a new chapter in relations,” while acknowledging that the two countries are far from realizing fully normalized relations -- including lifting the economic embargo against Cuba.

“Having normal (diplomatic) relations makes it easier for us to talk, and talk can deepen understanding even when we know full well we will not see eye to eye on everything,” Kerry said, according to a transcript of his remarks.

Pope Francis is expected to meet with Castro, young people, church leaders, families and religious, in Havana, Holguin and Santiago de Cuba. It will be his first visit to the communist country as pope.

“Now we are going to receive Pope Francis as the ‘missionary of mercy,’” Bishop Pino wrote, reiterating a term Cubans have used.

Many hope the pope’s visit will help heal Cubans strongly divided on ideological terms since a 1959 revolution that installed the communist government and led to tensions with the U.S. “At times, it seems we live in a heartless world. Everywhere we find moral, spiritual, social, intellectual, mental and material miseries, and we find people that are desensitized to human suffering,” Bishop Pino wrote.

“Pope Francis, missionary of mercy, wants to invite us not to tire of practicing mercy.”

Pope Francis will be the third pope to visit Cuba in the past 17 years, after Pope John Paul II’s 1998 trip and Pope Benedict XVI’s 2012 visit.

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Catholic Colleges Gear Up for U.S. Papal Visit with Special Programs, Volunteering

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Many U.S. Catholic colleges are well prepared for the pope’s visit to the United States and have been gearing up for it with spiritual programs, discussions, service projects and social events that almost always include a Pope Francis cardboard cutout. The colleges located in the three cities where the pope is visiting -- Washington, New York and Philadelphia -- are particularly pulling out the stops by donating their parking spaces, rescheduling classes and sending groups of students as volunteers to help at papal events. For The Catholic University of America in Washington, the pope couldn’t get much closer. When Pope Francis celebrates an outdoor Mass Sept. 23 on the east portico of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the crowd will be assembled on the 3.6-acre outdoor space where the university holds its annual commencement ceremony. A number of students received some of the 25,000 tickets allotted for the Mass and at least 500 students will be volunteering. No classes will be held that day.

During the university’s annual Mass of the Holy Spirit Sept. 3, Catholic University students were encouraged to walk with Pope Francis through their prayers and actions. Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl told the students that the pope wants them to be “missionary disciples” who will “take the love and mercy of God and share it with others.”

Archdiocese of Santa Fe Catholic Radio Celebrates 10th Anniversary “It’s hard to believe that it has been 10 years since Catholic Radio started to be broadcast in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.” Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan

By Ed Gomez, ASF Catholic Radio Committee Chair With all due respect, that statement by Archbishop Emeritus Sheehan, isn’t exactly correct. In reality, Catholic Radio in the archdiocese began many decades ago. Granted, not on the current scale and no question but that the archbishop is proud, as well he should be, for it is one of the preeminent accomplishments of his tenure. However, the entire history of Catholic radio is venerable and in need of telling.

IN THE BEGINNING: A number of radio stations, particularly in smaller, more isolated communities, have been airing Catholic programs, principally the daily Rosary and Sunday Mass, for more than 50 years. The majority of those broadcasts were, and still are, in Spanish. The stations that have traditionally aired these very special Catholic programs include: K-SUAVE-Santa Fe, KDCEEspañola, KFUN and KNMX-Las Vegas, KRDD-Roswell and the former KABQ-Albuquerque.

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BLESSED JUNIPERO SERRA’S LEGACY

Serra’s legacy complicated by practices, conflicts of his time

By Nancy Wiechec and Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNS) -People with ties to the California mission system see the canonization of its founder as a moment for reflection and reconciliation with native people.

“The canonization of (Blessed Junipero) Serra has really encouraged us, as well as the diocesan bishops, to seriously look at the place of the California mission Indians and our history and heritage,” said Franciscan Father Ken Laverone, co-postulator in Blessed Serra’s cause. He’s a California-born descendant of Spanish colonizers.

“It’s getting us to look at our relationships with the Native Americans and to reopen the doors of our mission in a greater sense.”

The mission system, Spanish colonial rule and the settlers who came later had profound and lasting effects on native life across the region. Blessed Serra was a highly visible figure inextricably linked to societal changes that led to a 90 percent decrease in the native Indian population in California, even though those effects didn’t fully play out until well after his death in 1784.

Before Spanish colonization, Indians in California numbered more than 300,000. By 1860 there were just 30,000, a consequence of diseases that had been unknown there before Europeans arrived, assimilation, the influx of gold miners and other factors.

Mission Indians were very near extinction by the early 1900s, according to California Lutheran University sociologist Jonathan Cordero, a California Indian who traces his family back to the missions. Cordero’s research has focused on Indian social structures within the missions.

He said mission priests baptized about 80,000 Indians. By 1834, 60,000 had died. By 1900, the number of Indians who had been associated with missions was down to about 800 people, or 1 percent of the number before colonization. Cordero said it would be difficult to pinpoint the number of descendants of mission Indians today.

“Who’s left? We don’t really know.

No one’s done a census,” he said.

Spanish explorers were the first Europeans known to reach what they called Alta California. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, on a quest for the legendary Northwest Passage, sailed along the coast from Mexico into San Diego Bay

in 1542 and then to San Francisco Bay later the same year.

Spain did little to sustain its claim to the region until the late 18th century, when British, French and Russians were colonizing in the North Pacific.

“In 1765 Visitor General Jose de Galvez arrived in Mexico, and three years later with Viceroy Carlos Francisco de Croix, submitted a plan for the colonization of California,” said a 1978 article in the San Diego Historical Society Quarterly by Robert Heizer, an archaeologist who studied Native American people of the Southwestern U.S. “This in turn was presented to (Blessed) Serra, president of the declining Franciscan missions of Baja California which recently been taken over from the expelled Jesuit order.”

Relatively quickly, Heizer wrote, military expeditions from Mexico, which included Blessed Serra and other Franciscans, left for Alta California.

By July 16, 1769, they had founded the first of the California missions, at San Diego.

The missions had a twofold objective, to bring Christianity to the native people and to assimilate them into Spanish culture as citizens of New Spain.

The Spanish erected presidios (walled forts) in San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey and San Francisco to protect their interests Although the number of coastal Indian Catholics today are few, Father Laverone said the faith Serra and his friars instilled is still being lived out in the missions, 19 of which are active churches.

“Lives have been changed in these missions, lives have been healed in these missions, lives have been hurt in these missions. … But faith is alive in these places.”

Andrew Galvan, a descendant of mission Indians and curator of Old Mission Dolores in San Francisco, agrees, but said more needs to be done to invite Indians back to the missions and include their voices in mission affairs.

“This is the opportunity for the Roman Catholic Church in the United States of America and the state of California … to reach out to Serra’s Indians and to bring them into the missions, to open the doors wide, to sing that song that we sing everywhere -all are welcome.”

He said he would like to stand on the steps of Mission Dolores, “open the Continued on page 22

Highlights of the missionary path taken by Blessed Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Spanish Franciscan friar. (CNS graphic/Frida Larios)

California Catholic Leaders Commit to Reconciliation Process with Mission Indians; 18-month Project Aimed at Enriching the Mission Experience and Enhancing School Curriculum The Most Rev. Jaime Soto, Bishop of Sacramento and president of the California Catholic Conference, announced on September 4, 2015 an ambitious 18-month program to review and revise the cultural content and displays at the California missions under Church authority and to undertake a similar effort to review the Third and Fourth Grade curriculum in Catholic schools to better reflect modern understandings of the Mission Era and the relationship between Spanish civil authority, the Catholic Missions and local Indian tribes.

“The Mission Era gave rise to modern California, but it also gave rise to con-

troversy and to heartache when seen through the eyes of the First Californians,” said Bishop Soto. “For many years, the Indian experience has been ignored or denied, replaced by an incomplete version of history focused more on European colonists than on the original Californians.”

“Today, on the verge of Blessed Fr. Serra’s canonization, the time has come to confront that incomplete history and to work with Native American educators, respected historians, Catholic school officials and others to change that and to reflect the best scholarship we can about that era,” said Fr. Ken Continued on page 23

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By Very Rev. Jack Clark Robinson, OFM, Fransican Provincial Minister, Provincial Curia

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n August, several hundred people gathered at Holy Family Church in Albuquerque’s South Valley for the first ordinations in the archdiocese by Archbishop John C. Wester. The archbishop ordained Andres Gallegos as a priest and Jorge Hernandez as a transitional

deacon.

Both Andres and Jorge are both natives of Acambaro in the State of Guanajuato in Mexico, Franciscan friars, and members of Our Lady of Guadalupe Province headquartered in here in Albuquerque.

Among those celebrating the ordinations were many Franciscan friars, religious sisters and parishioners from Holy Family, Roswell, Gallup, and the Navajo Reservation. The parents of Andres, Francisco Gallegos and M. Soledad Jimenez, and the

Photo by Andrew O. Koon

Rebuilding the Church One at a Time

(l to r) Newly ordained Fr. Andres Gallegos, O.F.M., Archbishop Wester, newly-ordained Deacon Jorge Hernandez, O.F.M., an acolyte, Minister Provincial Jack Clark Robinson, O.F.M., and Vicar Provincial Charlie Martinez, O.F.M. during the Eucharistic Prayer during ordinations, Saturday, August 15th, Holy Family Parish, Albuquerque

parents of Jorge, Hernandez Salazar and Rosa Maria Jurado Calderon, as well as his brothers Enrique Hernandez, a diocesan priest from Mexico and Andres Hernandez, another Franciscan friar and member of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Province were also present.

Fr. Andres joined the Franciscans in Albuquerque in August 2001 and graduated from the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio this past spring. Deacon Jorge came to the Albuquerque Franciscans

in February 2011 and is now in his last semester of studies there, while also serving a diaconate internship at St. John the Baptist parish in Roswell.

Fr. Andres is currently serving as parochial vicar of St. Francis parish in Gallup.

What About Native Americans, Franciscans and New Mexico?

By Very Rev. Jack Clark Robinson, OFM, Fransican Provincial Minister, Provincial Curia

Franciscan friars had come to Cincinnati and St. Louis in the middle of the nineteenth century to serve German Catholic immigrants. Not only were these The association of Native Americans and Fran- immigrants economically poor, they were also often ciscans in New Mexico divides into two eras. From despised for being foreigners and Roman Catholic. the 1540s to the 1840s, Franciscan friars from Spain The Franciscans who came to New Mexico in the and later Mexico served as missionaries to bring the late 1890s and early 1900s were used to being part Roman Catholic faith to the Native Peoples of the of a persecuted minority. After World War I began, Southwest. The first European to look upon present they were often also ashamed of their own ethnicity day New Mexico was a lost Franciscan, Fray Marcos because of what others said about them. When they de Niza. He was followed by friar missionaries who went among Native Americans and Mexican immicame as part of the Oñate entrada in 1598. Francis- grants, they recognized kindred spirits.

The association of Franciscans with Native Amercans reached out to the Pueblo Indian villages, and in 1680, many were killed during the Pueblo Indi- icans in the Southwest over the last 115 years inan Revolt – the first successful revolution against a cludes many moments when working together, they colonizing power in the history of North America. achieved great things: 1) The Navajo language was first put in written The Franciscans of this first era, being men of their times and sometimes the unwitting agents of foreign form by Franciscans, who also produced the first Nanations, while good intentioned, made many of the vajo dictionary, using a specially designed linotype same mistakes missionaries everywhere (including machine with “Navajo” letters the friars created.

2) The territory of the Navajo Reservation grew Junípero Serra) make when they think that superior worldly power somehow bestows spiritual superior- when Navajos with the help of Franciscans went to ity, too. Even while doing much good, they often the U.S. Congress seeking the return of their tradifailed to recognize the truth and beauty of the deep tional lands.

3) In the 1930s and 1940s, the people of the outfaith already present among New Mexico’s Native lying villages of Acoma and Laguna, encouraged by Americans.

The last Franciscan missionary of the colonial and far-sighted Franciscans, built chapels to serve their Mexican era died about 1850. Some fifty years later, community needs incorporating their traditional art Franciscan friars arrived on the Navajo Reservation and architecture. The use of Native American artand returned to New Mexico. These Franciscans did work and architecture remains a hallmark of Francisnot come with a “top down” attitude as had the pre- can missions.

4) In the 1950s, as Native Americans moved from vious friars, but instead, they came as people used to working their way from the “bottom up.” German the reservations to Albuquerque, Franciscans fol-

lowed them and established an urban Native American ministry near the present-day Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

5) In the 1980s, Native Americans began to express their pride in being both Native and Catholic with the annual Indian Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis undertaken with the help and encouragement of the Franciscan friars working there and on the reservations.

6) The first Native American permanent deacons in the Archdiocese, Pat Toya of Jemez Pueblo and Albert Arquero of Cochiti Pueblo, were ordained upon instruction by Franciscan friars.

Today, Franciscan friars continue to serve at the Pueblos of Jemez, Santa Ana, Zia, Laguna and Acoma. While this is a far cry from less than fifty years ago when Franciscan friars also served at Tesuque, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Cochiti, Santo Domingo, San Felipe, Zuni, the Albuquerque Indian Chapel and briefly Isleta, it marks a continuing commitment to Native American ministry, even as the Franciscans themselves face diminishment. Franciscan Education Fund scholarships support Catholic education for Native Americans and others throughout the state. In short, Franciscan friars first came to the Southwest in the 1500s to serve Native Americans and returned to New Mexico after a fifty year absence in 1900 again to serve Native Americans. Their current Minister Provincial was ordained a priest at Jemez Pueblo.

Native Americans are a vital part of the identity of Franciscans in the Southwest, just as the Franciscan heritage is important to the history of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and New Mexico.

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A Prayer for our Priests and Seminarians

By Sister Cory Woodcox

We thank you, God our Father, for all our priests and seminarians of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, who have responded to your call of priestly ministry. Accept this prayer that we, the faithful of Christ, offer on their be-half. Fill them with your love, your grace, and your strength. Open their hearts to the power and the fire of the Holy Spirit. Increase in them profound faith in the Sacraments they celebrate as they nourish, strengthen, and heal us.

Lord Jesus Christ, grant that all our priests and future priests, will become holy priests. And may through their holiness inspire us by their example; men of prayer who ponder your Word and follow your Will. Protect them from all spiritual darkness and all forms of evil by placing them in the center of your Most Sacred Heart.

Holy Spirit, come upon all our priests and seminarians and fill them with your light. Guide their steps as they guide us—the people of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe—to the gates of heaven by their teaching and their ministry.

O Mary, Mother of Christ and our Mother, guard with your maternal care these chosen ones, our priests and future priests of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Intercede for them, that offering the Sacrifice of the Mass; they may be transformed more each day to the image of your Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Agustin Henderson Joseph Baltz 3rd Year College—Holy Trinity 1st Year Theology—Mt. Angel Seminary San Martin de Porres—Albuquerque St. Thomas Aquinas—Rio Rancho “I want to be a priest because “I want to be a priest to I truly believe God has called carry out God’s will in saving me to be one and I find joy His people through the in doing God’s will.”

Sacraments.”

Holy Hour for Priests and Seminarians Aquinas Newman Center, located at 1815 Las Lomas St. NE; is hosting a Holy Hour with Rosary and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for all our priests and semi-narians of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Please join us, First Friday October 2nd at 6 AM. There will be music, Rosary, and Chaplet of Divine Mercy. The Holy Hour will end with Mass at 7 AM.

Joseph Archuleta 2nd Year Pre-theology—Holy Apostles St. Thomas Aquinas—Rio Rancho “I want to be a priest to show people the dignity Christ has bestowed on us.”

Jason Pettigrew 2nd Year Theology—Holy Apostles Our Lady of Guadalupe—Clovis “I want to be a priest so I can show the people and help them find the love and mercy God has given to me.”

Timothy Meurer 1st Year Theology—Mt. Angel Seminary “I want to be a priest to bring God to his people and bring God’s people back to God.”

John Kimani 2nd Year Theology—Holy Apostles St. Charles Borromeo—Albuquerque “I want to be a priest so I can help many souls get to heaven.”

David Gallegos 2nd Year Theology—Mt. Angel Seminary Immaculate Conception—Cimarron “I have felt the call to become a priest my whole life.”

Jordan Sanchez 4th Year College—Holy Trinity St. Thomas Aquinas—Rio Rancho “I want to be a priest because I continue to fall more and more in love with the Sacraments of the Holy Church.”

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For Year of Mercy, pope extends possibilities for absolution

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In an extraordinary gesture for the Year of Mercy, Pope Francis has extended to priests worldwide the authority to absolve women for the sin of abortion and has decreed the full validity during the year of the sacrament of confession celebrated by priests of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X. “This jubilee Year of Mercy excludes no one,” the pope wrote in a letter to Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of New Evangelization, the office organizing events for the holy year, which opens Dec. 8.

Pope Francis said one of the

most serious problems facing people today is a “widespread and insensitive mentality” toward the sacredness of human life.

“The tragedy of abortion is experienced by some with a superficial awareness, as if not realizing the extreme harm that such an act entails,” while many other women believe that “they have no other option” but to have an abortion, the pope wrote in the letter, released Sept. 1 by the Vatican.

The pressures exerted on many women to abort lead to “an existential and moral ordeal,” Pope Francis said. “I have met so many women who bear in their heart the scar of this agonizing and painful decision.”

When such a woman has repented and seeks absolution in the sacrament of confession, he said, “the forgiveness of God cannot be denied.”

Although church law generally requires a priest to have special permission, called faculties, from his bishop to grant absolution to a person who has procured or helped another to procure an abortion, the pope said he decided “to concede to all priests for the jubilee year the discretion to absolve of the sin of abortion those who have pro-

cured it and who, with contrite heart, seek forgiveness for it.”

Pope Francis urged priests to welcome to the sacrament women who have had an abortion, explain “the gravity of the sin committed” and indicate to them “a path of authentic conversion by which to obtain the true and generous forgiveness of the Father who renews all with his presence.”

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, told reporters the pope’s letter “highlights the wideness of God’s mercy” and is “not in any way minimizing the gravity of the sin” of abortion.

In his letter, Pope Francis also granted another exception to church rules out of concern for “those faithful who for various reasons choose to attend churches officiated by priests” belonging to the traditionalist Society of St Pius X. Although the society is no longer considered to be in schism and the excommunication of its bishops was lifted in 2009, questions remain over whether the sacraments they celebrate are valid and licit.

The pope’s decision was “taken with the Continued on page 16

Pope calls on Europe’s parishes, religious houses to take in refugees

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Given the ongoing crisis of people fleeing from war and poverty, Pope Francis asked every parish and religious community in Europe to take in a family of refugees as a concrete sign of hope and God’s mercy. “The Gospel calls us, asks us to be near the least and the abandoned. To give them concrete hope, not just say ‘Hang in there, have patience!’” he said in an appeal after praying

the Angelus with those gathered in St. Peter’s Square Sept. 6. “Christian hope has a fighting spirit with the tenacity of someone who is heading toward a sure goal,” he said, while he encouraged all of his “brother bishops of Europe -- true shepherds,” to support his appeal in their dioceses. “In the face of the tragedy of tens of thousands of refugees, who are fleeing death because of war and hunger” and are seeking

Join us in celebrating the 5ooth Anniversary of the Birth of St. Teresa!

Three October Evenings at 7:00 p.m.

Monday October 12th "Whispers from Castile"

Msgr. Jerome Martinez y Alire Music by Hermanos Penitentes

Tuesday October 13th "A Determined Determination" Fr. John Carney Music by the Cathedral Basilica Choristers Wednesday October 14th "Castle Walk" Fr. Jose Herrera Music by Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe

THURSDAY OCTOBER 15TH AT 9:00 a.m.

St. Teresa's Portrait at Iglesia de Santa Cruz de la Canada

Carmelite Monastery 49 Mt. Carmel Rd. Santa Fe

FEAST DAY MASS OF ST. TERESA OF JESUS WITH PROFESSION OF FINAL VOWS Archbishop John C. Wester, Principle Celebrant Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan and Concelebrating Priests

a new life, the pope called on “parishes, religious communities, monasteries and sanctuaries all across Europe to give concrete expression of the Gospel and receive a family of refugees.” God’s mercy is expressed through the works of regular men and women, he said, reminding people that Christ taught that “whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.”

Pope simplifies annulment process, asks that it be free of charge VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While a juridical process is necessary for making accurate judgments, the Catholic Church’s marriage annulment process must be quicker, cheaper and much more of a pastoral ministry, Pope Francis said. Rewriting a section of the Latin-rite Code of Canon Law and of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, Pope Francis said he was not “promoting the nullity of marriages, but the quickness of the processes, as well as a correct simplicity” of the procedures so that Catholic couples are not “oppressed by the shadow of doubt” for prolonged periods. The Vatican released Sept. 8 the texts of two papal documents, “Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus” (“The Lord Jesus, the Gentle Judge”) for the Latin-rite church and “Mitis et misericors Iesus,” (“The Meek and Merciful Jesus”) for the Eastern Catholic churches. The changes, including the option of a brief process without the obligatory automatic appeal, go into effect Dec. 8, the opening day of the Year of Mercy.

September 2015

Catholic Charities In-Kind Donation Center

God said, “Let there be light.” We can use your help in providing light! Our Catholic Charities’ Donation Center sets up approximately 10 apartments a month for refugee and homeless families. Visualize an empty apartment, and then think about ALL the items you would need to have in the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room.

This requires a great deal of organization and effort along with numerous household items. We always have a need for pots and pans but currently, we are down to three lamps. That is where you can help us provide light!

Did you know that most apartments don’t have a ceiling light in the living room and even some bedrooms? In our Donation Center, we have about 30 lamp shades and no lamp bases. Here is a “bright” idea: Maybe you like to go to garage sales and find a working base that we can use to create a lamp? Or you might have an extra lamp or base somewhere in your house or garage. Take time and look around; your discovery can help us to provide much needed light. Donation items can be brought to our Donation Center on 3301 Candelaria, NE, Suite B, Monday – Friday from 8 am to 5 pm (note: closed for lunch 12 to 1).

We are so blessed to have the support of our parishes and individuals who donate to Catholic Charities’ In-Kind Donation Center. Your donations allows us to serve our community. For more information, please contact Kathy Freeze at 505.724.4678 or email at freezek@ccasfnm.org

St. Nicholas Ball

An Enchanting Evening of Charity, Dining & Dancing Saturday, November 21, 2015 5:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Hyatt Regency Hotel 330 Tijeras Avenue, NW Albuquerque, NM 87102

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In August, Archbishop John C. Wester and Archbishop Emeritus Michael J. Sheehan donned hard hats and golden shovels to break ground for Catholic Charities’ new Casa de Corazon. Joining in on the fun were Bernalillo County Commissioner Art De La Cruz, Catholic Charities board members and leaders and more than 300 community members. Casa de Corazon will be able to assist more of those in need with greater efficiency. Refugees escaping brutal conditions in their homelands, adults striving to learn English and further their education and job opportunities, families with basic housing needs and assistance in becoming self-sufficient, immigrants in need of services and assistance to unify families, victims of domestic violence, and seniors in need of transportation are all provided help through the services at Catholic Charities.

Contact Liz Lopez for Sponsorship Information (505) 724-4693 or lopezl@ccasfnm.org

New Mexico bishops laud court decision barring assisted suicide SANTA FE, N.M. (CNS) -- The Catholic bishops of New Mexico in a joint statement welcomed a ruling by the state’s Court of Appeals that reversed a lower court’s approval of physician-assisted suicide.

“The Catholic Church strongly believes that life is a gift from a loving God, which extends from conception to natural death,” they said. “Only God can give or take life and the state does not have the competency to shorten this precious gift, even for seemingly laudable purposes.” Two years ago, ruling in the case of a woman who had been diagnosed with life-threatening uterine cancer, the Bernalillo County District Court said that aid in dying “is a fundamental liberty interest.” On Aug. 11, the state appeals court said the opposite, that assisting someone to die is “not a fundamental liberty interest under the New Mexico Constitution.” The bishops, in their Aug. 13 statement, said that “while each stage of life is sacred, the end of life is filled with special meaning and opportunities.”

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From the Grand River to the Rio Grande Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids In 1925, the Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids received a request to teach, minister, and serve in New Mexico.

They embraced the challenges, loved the work, and formed lifelong bonds with the people of New Mexico.

Four Sisters went to New Mexico at the invitation of Father Peter Kuppers. Many more Sisters were to follow. By the 1960s the Sisters had lived and ministered in New Mexico stretching from Socorro in the south to Ranchos de Taos in the northern region and Bloomfield in the northwest corner. The people and the land influenced and changed the Sisters who served in and came to love this enchanted land and its people. Well over 400 Sisters have ventured to and from the Grand River in Michigan to the Rio Grande to serve in New Mexico.

Enrollment in schools grew rapidly, and the number of schools and Sisters teaching grew too. Most new schools began with the invitation of a local leader or priest and a simple two to three-room adobe structure containing classrooms and living quarters for Sisters.

Books and other teaching materials were often scarce. Yet communities came together as people heard the call to faith and opportunity.

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History Snapshot of the Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids in New Mexico

At the request and with the help of Father Peter Kuppers of Dixon, New Mexico, four Grand Rapids Dominican Sisters arrived in Dixon and opened a school. They struggled to provide basic educational materials.

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Four Sisters arrive in Dixon.

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St. Anthony School, Penasco opens with ninety-three students, 215 were enrolled by year’s end.

1928

Four sisters arrive to set up school in Santa Cruz.

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Four sisters begin school in San Juan Pueblo Indian reservation.

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Five Sisters taught at St. Mary’s in Belen. In 1940, more than 400 students attended; by 1975, 800 students were registered for CCD classes from the Belen and neighboring missions, served by 86 Sisters.

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Four sisters began school at St. Francis Parish in Ranchos de Taos.

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Sisters begin teaching at Our Lady of Fatima and San Ignacio in Albuquerque.

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Sisters staff Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, Alameda.

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Five Sisters establish a house of prayer, presence and hospitality on Adams Street in Albuquerque.

1926: Penasco After gaining permission from State and County officials, the people of Penasco joined in constructing a four-room building which replaced the old district school. Enrollment increased rapidly and a high school/community center was erected. Eighty-six Sisters served in Penasco.

Shown above is Sister Seraphine Wendling with her Penasco 6th grade students—“my bachelors” she called them.

1928: Santa Cruz In 1928, the Dominican Sisters arrived in Santa Cruz. The Superintendent of Santa Fe County Schools, wrote: “When the Dominican Sisters arrived in Santa Cruz, I felt the soul had returned to the community.” Ninety-eight Sisters served in Santa Cruz.

FROM GRAND RIVER TO RIO GRANDE, WE ARE

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The mountains with their strength and constancy give sense of God’s presence in all of life. The expansiveness of the sky and land, as far as the eye can see until the Earth and sky meet, leaves one with wonder and awe of the majesty of all creation and the unfathomable goodness of the creator.

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2015 Year of Consecrated Life

1930 Nazareth Hospital In March of 1930, construction began on the site that was to become Nazareth Hospital.

Originally intended as a treatment center for tuberculosis patients, the hospital was converted to a psychiatric care facility in 1947. In 1948, the facility became an affiliated school for the training of psychiatric nurses. By 1965 there were 26 sisters on the staff. 125 Sisters performed their mission of love and mercy at Nazareth Hospital.

1955-1970: Santa Rosa From 1955-1970, eight Sisters ministered at Guadalupe Hospital. Twenty-seven Sisters continued their health care mission here until 1970.

1940s The Dixon Case...dramatically changed New Mexico’s education

system, but it didn’t change the Sisters commitment to teaching the children of New Mexico. Sr. Carmella Conway, now 92, taught 7th-8th graders in Ranchos de Taos, San Juan Pueblo, Santa Cruz, and Belen. Walking down the dusty roads, Sr. Carmella made her way every morning to painted, adobe schools, where she taught the children. She treasured them for their dedication to education and their loyalty to the Sisters and one another. In the spring of 1947, the Sisters were alerted to rumors and complaints that the Sisters in Dixon were teaching Catholicism in public schools. Sr. Carmella distinctly remembers the day she was subpoenaed. Praying in a tiny chapel one evening, the doorbell rang. The sheriff asked for Sr. Carmella Conway. She answered, “I am she.”

He responded, “You are hereby subpoenaed to appear in the district court in Santa Fe on Wednesday.” Eight Sisters testified. The trial ended shortly before the new school year only to deliver a heartbreaking verdict that barred all Sisters from teaching in New Mexico’s public schools. Yet, through prayer and loyalty from the children and their families, the Sisters persevered and built new parochial schools.

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Mergers, such as that between the Methodist Mission School and Holy Cross Catholic School made heretofore unheard of collaboration possible.

Sr. Bernice Garcia wrote: “I use a beautiful Lutheran text on Old Testament history...We teach an ecumenical religion, with no doctrine as such, two days a week. On the third day we hold ecumencial services. Last week...several boys and girls led prayers and one boy even played a trumpet solo. It has been just beautiful...I don’t believe either of the schools can exist alone. We’ve found we have much in common.”

The Sisters continue to make an incalculable contribution in schools, hospital, parishes, and a number of public agencies and institutions, both in salaried and volunteer positions. Ten Dominican Sisters now serve in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Eight live in Albuquerque, one in Espanola and one in Santa Cruz. Pictured above, left to right: Srs. Dolores Abeyta, Emilia Atencio, Ada Dominguez, Bernice Garcia, Angelina Gonzales, Eileen Jaramillo, Dolorita Martinez, Therese Rodriguez, Eva Silva, and Ann Thielen.

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By Bernadette Lucero Director (Curator/ Archivist)

Spanish Market artist Gilbert Montoya received the Annual Archbishops Award during the 64th Annual Traditional Spanish Market. Gilbert attributes learning traditional Spanish Colonial artistry from his grandfather who is his greatest inspiration, and whose artwork is world renown in collections such as the Smithsonian and Vatican. Gilbert’s artwork is in private and public collections and has been displayed at the New Mexico State Capitol, public museums and also Japan.

The Archbishops Award was presented to Gilbert Montoya on Sunday, July 26, 2015 on the Santa Gilbert Montoya and mother Vickie and Most Fe plaza bandstand following the Rev. John C. Wester Archbishop of Santa Fe annual Spanish Market Mass and with the retablo of Our Lady Queen of Heaven procession of artists to the plaza.

Most Rev. John C. Wester, ArchWester blessed artwork made by Spanbishop of Santa Fe presided over ish Market artists who participated in the annual Spanish Market Mass. Rev. Adam Lee Ortega y Ortiz, rector of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assis and pastor of Cristo Rey requested a blessing of the large retablo depicting Our Lady of Light by Spanish Market artist Lorrie Garcia. The image of Our Lady of Light is made of ponderosa pine and traditional pigments and will be at the parish of Cristo Rey in Santa Fe. Spanish Market artist Catherine Lorrie Garcia with her husband Andrew Garcia and Robles-Shaw presented the the retablo of Our Lady of Light. annual Spanish Market Poster which features her retablo of Nuestra the Spanish Market Señora de Guadalupe Mass and presentduring the offertory ed the Archbishops of the Spanish Market Award. Gilbert’s reMass. tablo depicting Our The Cathedral BaLady Queen of Heavsilica of St. Francis en was selected as the of Assisi youth award annual Archbishops was presented to Mai Award winner and Ly Torres-Baker for received honorable her retablo entitled mention in the large La Natividad. Mai Ly retablo award categohas been a participant ry; the retablo is made of sugar pine and tra- Mai Ly Torres-Baker with her retab- of the annual Spanish Market for many years ditional pigments. lo La Natividad and has won numerous During the annual Spanish Market Mass, Archbishop awards, her mentor is Nicolas Otero.

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YEAR OF MERCY continued from page 12 faithful in mind” and is limited to the holy year, which runs through Nov. 20, 2016, Father Lombardi said.

The Society of St. Pius X responded with a statement later in the day thanking Pope Francis for “this fatherly gesture,” but also saying that its members have been certain that the absolution they grant always has been licit and valid.

Father Lombardi confirmed that the Vatican’s contacts with leaders of the Society of St. Pius X have continued. Pope Francis wrote in his letter that he hoped “in the near future solutions may be found to recover full communion with the priests and superiors of the fraternity.”

Pope Francis’ letter also explained expanded opportunities for obtaining the indulgences that are a normal part of the celebration of a holy year. An indulgence is the remission of the temporal punishment a person is due because of his or her sins. In a holy year, it is offered to pilgrims who cross the threshold of the Holy Door at the Vatican or in their local diocese, confess their sins, receive the Eucharist and pray for the pope’s intentions.

The celebration of God’s mercy, he said, is “linked, first and fore-

most, to the sacrament of reconciliation and to the celebration of the holy Eucharist with a reflection on mercy. It will be necessary to accompany these celebrations with the profession of faith and with prayer for me and for the intentions that I bear in my heart for the good of the church and of the entire world.”

Those who are confined to their homes can obtain the indulgence by offering up their sickness and suffering, he said.

Pope Francis also included special consideration for people who are incarcerated, touching on the Old Testament tradition of a jubilee year as a time for granting prisoners amnesty.

Those who, “despite deserving punishment, have become conscious of the injustice they committed,” may receive the indulgence with prayers and the reception of the sacraments in their prison chapel, he wrote.

“May the gesture of directing their thought and prayer to the Father each time they cross the threshold of their cell signify for them their passage through the Holy Door, because the mercy of God is able to transform hearts, and is also able to transform bars into an experience of freedom,” he wrote

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San Miguel Socorro CONCLUDES San Francisco de Asis Church, Ranchos de Taos, NM Celebration of 400 years of Celebrates 200 Anniversary Mass Faith, Culture and History on Saturday, October 3, 2015 th

By Rev. Andrew J. Pavlak, pastor, San Miguel and its Missions, Socorro

It seems hard to believe that nearly one year ago, on September 26, 2014 the community of San Miguel & Missions of Socorro County BEGAN their yearlong 400th anniversary. Each month, some event took place over this past year and now we come to the final celebrations to conclude this most historic time for all the people of Socorro.

Hopefully, you will be able to join the people of San Miguel for one of these events.

First, on Friday evening, September 11, 2015 at 7 pm, Msgr.

Jerome Martinez Y Alire, pastor of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Valle de Pojoaque and Missions will be speaking at San Miguel on “The History of the Roman Catholic Church in Socorro and through the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.” This lecture was originally planned for January and had to be rescheduled due to inclement weather. Msgr. Jerome is not only a scholar of the history of the archdiocese but through his many years of being a pastor all around the archdiocese, he has a keen sense of the culture, history, traditions and the faith of the people that continues to thrive all around our many churches.

Secondly, the last event being planned for San Miguel’s 400th Anniversary is the closing fiestas on the last weekend of September. The fiestas weekend for San Miguel happens just about the same time each year near the actual feast day of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Rafael, September 29. This year we will have the three-days of celebration on September 25, 26 and 27 filled with prayer, music, food, dancing, raffles and lots of joy. The fiesta committees are diligently working to insure all the aspects of this year’s celebration will be truly

worthy of the 400th anniversary. Some special highlights will include the coronation of our Senior King and Queen Seles and Margaret Padilla. These royal folks were the chairpersons for the fiestas last year, have agreed to be the lead chairpersons this year and will culminate 48 years of staffing the drinks booth. Clearly, this fiestas family has dedicated great amounts of time, effort and energy to insuring our annual celebration is truly special.

Music from various bands from around New Mexico will ring all throughout Socorro for this weekend as the dancing, food booths and games all round out these days of praising our God and honoring the patron San Miguel. Saturday evening will feature a Mariachi/Blue Mass at 5 pm with very special music and a blessing of all officers who serve in the police, sheriff and fire departments all around Socorro. Sunday will start with the 10 am fiesta Mass with Very Rev. John Cannon, Chancellor for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe presiding followed by a procession around the City Plaza. The Mass/procession will be followed by more music, a BBQ, more games and the final events at 7 pm with pulling of the last raffle ticket for $1,500.00 for the regular raffle as well as the five additional prizes for the super raffle that has been going on for the whole last year. Certainly, the people of San Miguel & Missions all throughout Socorro County want to thank the whole of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe for joining us for the many celebrations over this past year. There might still be a few things the community will want to share over the next months so, stay tuned and keep watching these pages in the People of God for more information. If you have immediate questions about either of these September events, please contact the San Miguel Office at 575.835.2891.

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an Francisco de Asis Church, Ranchos de Taos, NM will celebrates its 200th Anniversary Mass on Saturday, October 3, 2015 on the feast of St. Francis, their patron saint. The special liturgy will be presided by Archbishop John C. Wester.

Celebrations include a museum–like historical display in the parish hall and an eight week long historical lecture series. Previous lectures have included: A Short History of San Francisco de Asis Church by David Maes; The Penitente Brotherhood in Northern NM by Rev. Jerome J. Martinez; Spanish Colonial Folk Art and Ranchos Church by Gustavo Victor Goler. Upcoming lectures will take place at San Francisco de Asis Church. They are: • Sunday, September 13, 2 0 15 2 p m - New Mexico State Historian Dr. Rick Hendricks “The Catholic Church in Northern New Mexico in the earl y 180 0 s” • Sunday , September 20 , 2015 Annual St. Francis Bazaar

St. Francis School parking lot and gym • Sunday , Sept 27, 2015 2 pm-Enrico and Roberta Velasquez “The Chapel of Our Lady of San Juan , Talpa , New Mexico” • Saturday, October 3 , 2 0 15 Mass and Feast Day of San Francisco de Asis and the official 200th anniversary, Archbishop of Santa Fe to celebrate the anniversary Mass • Sunday, October 11, 2015 Catherine Collins “History of the Los Cordovas Chapel” • Sunday , October 18, 2015 Charles Hawk, Bob Romero “History of the Llano Quemado Chapel”

Pro-Life Speaker Coming to Cristo Rey Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller, a prominent pro-life advocate will speak on Saturday, November 14, at 10:00 AM in the Gymnasium at Cristo Rey Parish, Santa Fe, NM .

The title of her talk is “The Three Lessons of Abortion.” The talk, which is free and open to the public, will focus on events and themes developed in her book, Abandoned: the Untold Story of the Abortion Wars.

Seating will be available for 300 attendees.

Send an email to CathTeoStudyGrp@comcast.net for more information.

Dr. Miller (Ph.D., Theology, Marquette) has a long career as a pro-life advocate. She first came to national prominence when, as part of a group of pro-life advocates, she discovered aborted babies in trash bins behind an abortion center in Chicago, causing a national scandal. Later, she came to national prominence again when she was jailed for a sit-in at an abortion center in Milwaukee. She has arranged for funeral Masses and burials of thousands of aborted children in Chicago and Detroit.

She has appeared on EWTN several times, most notably during a five-part series on

Women of Grace; she has also been a guest and guest host on Teresa Tomeo’s radio show, Catholic Connection.

In addition to Abandoned: the Untold Story of the Abortion Wars, Dr. Miller has written two books: Sexuality and Authority in the Catholic Church and The Theology of The Passion of the Christ. The latter is an examination of the theology in the Mel Gibson movie.

Dr. Miller is currently a professor of theology at Madonna University in Detroit and Director of the Citizens for a Pro-life Society.

Dr. Miller’s appearance is sponsored by the Catholic Theology Study Group, which meets at 10:00 AM on the second Saturday of each month at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. In the past two years, the group has studied works by such authors as Hans Urs von Balthasar, Josef Pieper, Cardinal Charles Journet, and Henri Nouwen.

Most recently the group has been discussing Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Sí.

Dr. Miller’s appearance marks the first time the group has sponsored a speaker.

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EEK! A Mouse!

By Paula Domino DeHaas, Principal, Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School Thomas Gulley from Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School proudly displays his painting “Eek a Mouse” (right) which took 1st Place at the 54th New Mexico Arts & Crafts Fair Youth Division this summer. He won a blue ribbon as well as a cash prize.

His other entry, a 100 Days Project won an honorable mention. Each student was permitted to enter two pieces and he won with both of his entries. Thomas will be in 1st grade at Fatima.

His brother, James also won an Honorable mention for his entry, a 100 Days Project. He will be in kindergarten this year.

Our Lady of Fatima 6th Grade Science Student Racks Up the Awards

By Paula Domino DeHaas, Principal at Fatima

Our Lady of Fatima student, Brendan Salceies had quite an introduction this past year to his first science fair. His research project was entitled “Can Temperature Affect Magnetism?” He confesses that he was “a bit apprehensive and nervous because this experience was new”. He adds, “The judges asked invigorating and challenging questions about the scientific process as well as the scientific data I gathered from the trials during my experiment.”

Brendan won 1st place at Our Lady of Fatima’s Science Fair in the Physics and Astronomy category. He went on to Regionals held at UNM where he won 1st place. At the State Science Fair at NMSU the 6th grader won an Honorable Mention Award.

There was one more award.

Brendan won the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History award at the 2015 Central New Mexico Science & Engineering Research Challenge.

Brendan comes from a family of scientists. Both his mom and dad majored in biology, and his grandmother is a medical technician. His mom also

has an MA in Speech Pathology. Brendan is, at least for now, taking a different path because of his interest in magnetism. Asked what he plans for his next Science Fair project, Brendan responded that he “would like to take this project a little further”, and is already thinking ahead for this next year.

Family Comes First at Santo Niño Regional Catholic School, Santa Fe Free Family Guidance Program for Santa Fe Parents

By Barbara Salas, Director of Advancement, Santo Niño Regional Catholic School Santo Niño Regional Catholic School and the Pastoral Counseling Center are teaming up to provide a Free Family Guidance Program for parents.

Santo Niño’s mission has been to educate the whole child in a safe, service oriented environment together with families and parishes. “Santo Niño is committed to providing families with the support they need to raise happy, healthy children that are prepared for success in all areas of life: emotional, social, spiritual and physical arenas, as well as the academic,” said Teri Vaisa, Principal at Santo Niño Regional Catholic School.

The Family Guidance Program was designed to create a non-profit hub for family education focusing on the

south-side of Santa Fe. When Joshua D. Cantrell, Director of Advancement, and Victor Nelson, Executive Director of the Pastoral Counseling Center, sat down for the first time to discuss the concept, it was quite clear that a mutually benefitting arrangement for the two organizations, and the community was possible.

“It was clear from the beginning that the opportunity to provide our Santa Fe families with programs for various aspects would be something that both our organizations wanted to provide. After exciting discussions, A LOT OF FAITH, and generous grant possibilities, we realized that we had the opportunity to provide this support for free. At that point we became very enthusiastic about the program.” Josh said.

The foundation of FGP is made up of four sessions available to the public. There are (two) five class sessions in the

spring, and (two) five class sessions in the fall. The program provides parents with an exceptionally well rounded parental training. The main goal is to educate current and future parents to assist them be the best parents their chil-

dren deserve. The program also provides abuse awareness classes, CPR training, prenatal coaching, birth coaching, dealing with divorce guidance, and even marriage counseling.

Please join us!

Santo Niño Regional Catholic School Josh Cantrell, Director of Advancement 23 College Avenue Santa Fe, NM 87507 505-428-7913

Catholic Daughters Annual Arts and Crafts Fair Please join us at the St. Jude Parish Hall at 5712 Paradise Hills Blvd. NW on Sat. October 17 from 9 am to 2 pm and Sunday, October 18th, from 8 am to 2 pm for our annual holiday fair. Many handcrafted items will be available: jewelry, glass, pottery, ceramic tinwork, quilted, crocheted, and knitted items. We will have a food court featuring Indian tacos and more. Get a head start on holiday gift shopping. All proceeds will support the Catholic Daughter’s scholarship program.

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CATHOLIC EDUCATION St. Thomas Aquinas School Bids Farewell St. Thomas Aquinas’ Mrs. Abigail Walden Honored and Godspeed to Our Graduates Congratulations to our entire 8th grade Class of 2015 as they begin a new journey in high school. Pictured are the graduates from St. Thomas Aquinas who are now freshmen at St. Pius X High School. The theme for the St. Pius X 2015/2016 school year is God

is Good ALL THE TIME God is good. We are so proud of all of our Pelicans that have grown into responsible, moral and devout young men and women. Let us pray for all of our alumni as well as all of our children that are returning to school this week.

Annunciation Catholic School Deploys 1:1 iPad Program for Middle School Students

By Elizabeth Dominick, Development Director, Our Lady of the Annunciation

Annunciation Catholic School (ACS) is excited to announce the roll out of a 1:1 iPad initiative for all middle school students in the 20152016 school year. As the first school in the archdiocese to deploy a 1:1 program, the ACS team spent a significant amount of time evaluating different options. This included speaking with teachers, administrators, ACS Consultative Council, Technology Committee and other Catholic Schools from around the country.

ACS is moving swiftly in this direction because the 21st century classroom is rapidly becoming a far more collaborative and interactive environment. Instructional technology will never replace excellent teaching, but it can certainly enhance teaching and learning in profound ways.

“We are very pleased to offer this to our middle school students which will seamlessly

integrate technology into curriculum. The middle school staff is excited that students are being provided this tool,” said Principal Cindy Shields.

The iPad was chosen because of its ease of use, sophistication, educational resources (apps) and professional development opportunities for staff. ACS has implemented a Mobile Device Manger (MDM) to enroll all devices in a secure education environment, configure and update settings, set restric-

tions, and install apps. iPad Program Goals: • To capitalize on the merging of academic resources such as textbooks, teacher sources, content rich media, and best practices • To facilitate mobile learning across the school campus and beyond • To promote leadership in one’s own learning by establishing access to educational resources and providing tools to support specific curricular areas

By Jennifer Maldonado, parent, St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School, Rio Rancho

Every year since 1998, The Catholic Foundation has honored an average of five teachers at their annual Grants Award Luncheon in S e p t e m b e r.

Recipients are nominated and selected by a committee, awarding $1,000 to the honorees and $100 to their school’s endowment fund at The Catholic Foundation.

The award is made possible by an anonymous donor through an endowment, going to a teacher who has touched the life of a child because of his or her dedication to Catholic education.

This year, St. Thomas Aquinas School is proud to announce that Abigail Walden is one of those honorees. Mrs. Walden teaches third grade at St. Thomas Aquinas School and has been with the school since its opening in 2000.

She began as a substitute teacher and became full-time one year later. Mrs. Walden credits her appreciation of Catholic education to her modest childhood and her mother, who worked several jobs to put her though Catholic school as a child. To Mrs. Walden, working in a Catholic environment is a way of life, and she feels blessed to be surrounded by Catholic values daily, “In Catholic education,

there is more freedom to teach what you want and be able to use Mary and the saints as examples.”

Mrs. Walden began her career in education at California State, Fullerton as an interpreter for the deaf. When she moved to New Mexico, she served as an educational interpreter and early language interventionist for the deaf and for bilingual families. Mrs. Walden loves living in New Mexico with her husband of 22 years Larry, and their four sons, Larry, Peter, Ben and the youngest Matthew, who was born while she was employed at St. Thomas Aquinas School.

All four boys have or, are, currently attending St. Thomas Aquinas School. Larry ‘13 and Peter ’14 are graduates of St. Pius X High School.

Ben is a current sophomore at SPX and Mathew is in the 6th grade at St. Thomas Aquinas School. According to Mrs. Walden, “To be part of the lives of families and to teach children I have known since their birth is a blessing.” Mrs. Walden will receive her award on September 23rd at the 2015 Grants Award Luncheon at the Sandia Resort and Convention Center. St. Thomas Aquinas School wants to thank Mrs. Walden for the last 15 years of dedication and touching the lives of the many students who have been blessed to have her as their teacher.

• To apply the technology to create a content-rich, engaging, and individualized, diverse learning environment The ACS 1:1 iPad program will afford students greater opportunities to be productive students and citizens in a meaningful way as they en-

ter a global environment that will require greater technology skills, collaboration, and teamwork. ACS looks forward to this exciting program and the promise it brings to help create independent and dynamic 21st century learners and leaders.

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2015 Synod of Bishops on the Family

On October 8, 2013, Pope Francis announced that in October 2014 there would be an Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on topics related to the family and evangelization. Subsequent communications made clear that the Extraordinary General Assembly would be followed by an Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2015, on the same topics. This information is provided by the USCCB webpage which provides a brief overview.

The dates of the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops are October 4-25, 2015. This Synod will mark the 50th anniversary of the Synod of Bishops.

The theme is “The vocation and mission of the family in the Church and in the contemporary world”.

The Synod will continue the work of the III Extraordinary General Assembly by “reflect[ing] further on the points discussed so as to formulate appropriate pastoral guidelines” for the pastoral care of the person and the family (Instrumentum Laboris, III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops) and will take place in Vatican City.

The bishop delegation from the United States includes Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz (Louisville, USCCB President), Cardinal Daniel DiNardo (Galveston-Houston, USCCB Vice President), Archbish-

op Jose Gomez (Los Angeles), and Archbishop Charles Chaput (Philadelphia). Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone (San Francisco) and Archbishop Blase Cupich (Chicago) have been named as alternates.

The following are documents released in advance of the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.

December 2014: The Lineamenta, “The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and Contemporary World”. . . contained the Relatio Synodi (final report) of the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, together with an explanatory preface and a series of questions “aimed at knowing how the document is received

and to generate an in-depth examination of the work initiated during the Extraordinary Assembly” (from the preface).

As the Lineamenta explains, the results of the consultation based on the questions contained therein “will serve as the basis for the Instrumentum Laboris” for the Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2015.

June 2015: The Instrumentum Laboris «The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and Contemporary World». . . serves as the “working document” for the Ordinary Synod.

It contains the Relatio Synodi text from the conclusion of the III Extraordinary Synod, along with a summary of the

responses to the questions in theLineamenta (see above).

As explained by Cardinal Baldisseri in the Presentation, the three sections of the Instrumentum Laboris «illustrate the continuity between the two Assembles»: the first part, «Considering the Challenges of the Family» draws more directly from the Extraordinary Synod, the first phase of the Synodal process, while the second and third parts, “the Discernment of the Vocation of the Family” and “The Mission of the Family Today” introduce the topic of the Ordinary Synod, which has the “intention of offering to the Church and the contemporary world pastoral incentives to spur renewed efforts in evangelization.”

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By Beth Lukes, Director, Family Life Office When St. Paul tells us that when any one of us suffers, the whole body of Christ suffers (1 Corinthians 12:26), he speaks of collateral suffering that comes with being family. Rarely is collateral

suffering more intense or more debilitating than in cases where the cause of the suffering is the addiction of a loved one.

Thankfully, organizations like Al-Anon and Al-Ateen exist to offer support for friends and families of addicts. These programs help

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RADIO continued from page 8 came together with a plan.

The New Mexico Catholic Media Coalition’s inaugural of Catholic radio was a tenuous attempt to play catch-up with our separated brethren, who at the time had 1,500 Protestant radio stations nation-wide to our big “goose egg.” Today, there are more than 300 fulltime Catholic radio stations in the U.S. Clearly a long way to go to catch up, but the growth is on-going. Several hundred applications for new stations are currently in process at the Federal Communications Commission.

With few fulltime Catholicowned stations anywhere in 2001, alternatives had to be investigated. NMCMC members took the first steps. Programming began locally with two hours of air-time being purchased on a Protestant station, KKIMAM in Albuquerque. Initially, the flagship of the two-hour segment was Catholic Answers, Live, which, at the time, aired for only one hour. The second local hour was populated with a variety of recorded national programs, including Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s hit series The Catholic Hour.

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We are forever grateful for their financial backing.

Heartfelt gratitude is due these radio pioneers, NMCMC members, who labored immeasurably to bring this needed programming to the archdiocese: Boleslo Baca, Lupe & Norbert Baca, Barbara Charrette, Gilbert de la Cruz, Martha Garza, Ray Saccoccia, Linda Bartolucci Scanlon, Marcia Scott and Geneva Trujillo. Sadly Martha and Norbert have gone to their eternal rewards but remain in our memories and prayers.

Four years later, September 15, 2005, Catholic radio began in earnest when Immaculate Heart Radio (IHR) came on the scene. This month marks the 10th anniversary of fulltime Catholic radio in the

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IHR had extended its network coverage from California and Nevada into New Mexico.

THE HISTORY: In 2004, Doug Sherman, president of IHR, contacted Archbishop Sheehan to inform him of the availability of an FM radio station licensed to Milan, NM. KXXQ, 100.7 FM was for sale and Doug’s idea was to purchase and convert it into the main station for a network of New Mexico translators that would bring Catholic programming to most of the state. Archbishop Sheehan began the process.

The first order of business was to raise the funds to buy KXXQ. Archbishop, with the collaboration of the Archdiocesan Development Council and a newly established Radio Campaign Committee, scheduled a series of meetings with pastors and lay Catholic leaders. Within a short period sufficient funds were pledged that provided the go-ahead to IHR to apply to the FCC for a transfer of KXXQ’s license.

Next step was for IHR to begin applying for translator frequencies. A “translator,”

St. John’s Thrift Store

By Robert Sanchez, Plant Manager, St John the Baptist Catholic Church

Here at St John’s, we are proud to publicize the addition of a new ministry to the list of other ministries performed here at the parish.

The call began over a year ago in response to Pope Francis’ call to become more aware of those most needy among us. We chose a very worthy organization, (NPH USA) which works to transform the lives of more than 3,400 children living at the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos homes throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Visit nphusa.org From left to right: Thrift Store Board members Marissa Earp, Libby Gonzalez, Carolyn Wuofor more information.

We were fortunate enough to have an emp- rinen, Carol Gravel, Fr. Nathan Libaire, and ty building which we could transform into a USA. thrift store. We were able to make changes Our store hours are from 10 am to 3pm, to the inside of the building at minimal cost every Thursday through Saturday. Donations using the talents of the staff and volunteers. are accepted seven days a week by dropping Parishioners, as usual, responded to the call them off at the store located on the St. John for help by far out exceeding our expectations the Baptist Catholic Parish campus located at for donations needed to begin the ministry. 1301 Osage Ave, Santa Fe NM 87505. We The operation as a whole is run by volunteers. accept gently used household items, clothing Work commenced in early April of this year and furniture as well as monetary donations. and by June 28th (the day of our parish fies- By coming by and purchasing items from the tas), we saw this ministry come to fruition. store, not only do you complete your shopGod has blessed our efforts and sales have ping, you are contributing to the awareness been very successful. All monies from the and service to the poor, making Pope Francis’ sales of donated items go directly to NPH call a reality.

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sometimes called “repeater,” is essentially a small FM station that rebroadcasts the signal of a larger station. KXXQ in Milan would serve as the mother ship of the network while translators would air its programming in as many New Mexico communities as possible. The immediate crucial need was to provide service to the population centers of Albuquerque and Santa Fe. KXXQ’s power was, and is, strong enough to cover most of the northwest quadrant of the state, but not sufficiently adequate to blanket Albuquerque and Santa Fe with a quality signal. Thus, the need for securing translators for the two bigger markets so as to reach the largest number of Catholics as quickly as possible.

THE BLASTOFF: On September 15, 2005, when IHR launched New Mexico service, only Albuquerque’s translator, 98.9 FM, had been approved by the FCC. Santa Fe’s 104.5 would come a few months later and still others would be added as licenses were nailed down.

Today IHR has repeaters in Clovis, Portales, Socorro and Tucumcari in the Archdiocese.

In the Diocese of Gallup, additional repeaters are serving Farmington and Shiprock. The Diocese of Las Cruces, IHR operates a translator in Roswell.

In addition, low power FM stations, utilizing programming from the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), now deliver the same Catholic radio programming to the communities of Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz/Española and Clayton. A construction permit for an LPFM has been approved for St. Patrick-St. Joseph parish in Ratón and should be on the air in the near future.

BENEFACTORS: Gratitude is due many who worked so hard and contributed much to this grand accomplishment.

The initial benefactors were: Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan, Jim & Joanne Burns, Roberto & Rose Espát, Bing & Carmoline Grady, Scott & Laura Grady, John & Monica Heer, Bill & Jan Keleher, Michael & Peggy Keleher, Jerry & Barbara Landgraf, Jim & Kay Magovern, John & Cindy Mechenbier, Armand Ortega, Vincent & Melanie Pizzonia, Don & Vicki Power, Larry & Dorothy Rainosek and Al & Rosemary Vaio. Supporting parishes: Our Lady of the Annunciation and Our Lady of Belen. Special recognition is due Celine Baca Radigan,

Director of Communications and Linda García, former Archdiocesan Development Director. In addition, grateful recognition is given to Scott Chapin and Fr. Scott Mansfield for their generous contributions.

In like manner, the Encuentro Prison Ministry built and donated the radio studio at Lourdes Hall from which the Archbishop’s Hour originates at noon, and rebroadcasts at 8:00 p.m., M-F. Those skilled volunteers are: Dan Gonzáles, Vincent Mora, Gerald Montoya, Carlos Sánchez, Chris & Zack Sánchez and Reyes Solís.

ARCHBISHOP’S HOUR: People have occasionally asked, “Why is it called the Archbishop’s Hour if he isn’t there every day?” Simple answer: He can’t be there daily because of his busy schedule.

The radio committee decided the program should bear our shepherd’s sobriquet because the title reflects his canonical authority and philosophy on church teaching. Archbishop Sheehan’s policy was to appear in person at least monthly.

When important church issues arose, he made time to call in or be on the program. The daily routine of the one-hour program lies in the hands of a host and a producer. A number of professionals have guided the path of Catholic Radio’s local presence over the last ten years.

They include: Msgr. Bennet J. Voorhies, ASF ChancellorEmeritus, Cary Kangas, the first host and Tony Wilimitis, the original producer and currently Mary Woods, host and Abad Archuleta, producer.

IN MEMORIUM: We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the contributions of Doug Pearson, a Catholic convert, instrumental in the building of our radio station, as well as many others for Immaculate Heart Radio and Guadalupe Catholic Radio in Texas. Doug served as the technical director for both networks for the past 15 years.

He often said he became a Catholic because he listened to Catholic Radio. Doug departed this life in June, leaving his wife Tricia, nine children and 11 grandchildren. He will be sorely missed.

And so, 60 years have come and gone, the last 10 in intensive growth for Catholic Radio in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and nation-wide. May this, God’s grand tool of evangelization, continue to spread and serve the spiritual needs of all who listen.

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SERRA LEGACY continued from page 9 doors and ring the bells like Junipero Serra … and cry out, ‘Love God, my children. Love God. Amor a Dios!”

The difficulty he said is that native people today are saying, “We’re not welcome. We don’t like what we see. We’re uncomfortable.”

Critics charge that the missions were places of forced labor, that Indians were whipped and shackled, and that baptisms and confirmations were coerced.

University of California at Riverside history professor Steven Hackel, who has written a biography of Blessed Serra, told Catholic News Service that the friar was very much a product of his times.

sionary to South America, who talked about “correcting” Indians with corporal punishment. It seemed to Blessed Serra to be “something he has to do to save Indians’ souls.

Indians, of course, resent this and the soldiers think Serra has gone rogue, essentially.

He has taken their authority from them. So there’s lots and lots of controversy over this. “ When the military tries to tell the missionaries that they can’t use corporal punishment anymore, the Franciscans complain that “if we can’t discipline Indians, if we can’t punish them, they will drift away … they’ll become libertines. They’ll forget everything we taught them and go

“I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offenses of the church herself, but also for the crimes committed against the native peoples…” Pope Francis “In his world almost certainly a good father would have punished him with spankings or with blows if he got out of line,” Hackel said. “A good husband punished a wayward spouse. …That was the way in which he believed he should behave with Indians in the missions. The missionaries believe they are the spiritual fathers of Indians, so they take on the responsibility for punishment, with corporal punishment, with blows and various types of beatings.”

One problem was “this was entirely alien to California Indians,” Hackel explained. “It’s not how they lived. It isn’t something they fully understood. So that creates tension in the missions.”

There also was tension between the friars and the soldiers, who believed it was up to them, and only them, Hackel said, to “correct Indians with blows. … But Serra believed he was an apostolic missionary and he and his other Franciscans were somehow exempt from this kind of military oversight. “ The friar also looked to the example of his favorite saint, St. Francis of Solano, a 16th-century Spanish Franciscan mis-

back to their savage state. This is always an issue in California. When missionaries lose the ability to correct Indians, they lose the sense that they can control the mission environment.”

There also were conflicts with the soldiers over Indian labor, which the military needed to build the presidios. Blessed Serra told them no. “We are baptizing Indians to save their souls and to teach them to be good Catholics, not to be your peons,” Hackel said the priest responded.

Despite the contemporary criticism, the Spaniards’ records of his time suggest Blessed Serra was thought of as a man of mercy and forgiveness.

He pleaded for leniency for the Kumeyaay Indians who murdered Franciscan Father Luis Jayme in at San Diego de Alcala Mission during an uprising. Later, he would bestow the sacrament of confirmation on three of the five Indians who took part in the killing.

He also wrangled with Spanish authorities about how soldiers assigned to missions were mistreating Indians. In one case, an unrestrained soldier killed the principal chief

of a tribe, “cut off his head and brought it to the mission in triumph,” Hackel wrote in “Junipero Serra: California’s Founding Father.” “Serra was horrified by the soldiers’ violence.”

The Spanish missionaries also made little effort to understand the culture and beliefs of the California Indians. Hackel said this was typical of the evangelists of the 18th century. Although their 16th-century predecessors made a point of learning about local beliefs “so they could overturn them,” he said, Serra and his contemporaries didn’t think the Indians had complicated cultures or full-blown religious beliefs.

“What they have, according to Serra and others, are inherited superstitions from their parents and grandparents,” Hackel said. “Things that aren’t rooted in real spirituality, they’re just naive customs about how the world works.

So Serra does not spend much time at all trying to investigate native religion. He’s aware of it. He believes they pray to birds, or in some instances, idols. ... He essentially dismisses it as childish superstition and he doesn’t really respect their beliefs.”

It actually wasn’t the case that the missionaries wanted to sweep aside all Indian culture, according to Hackel.

Even Blessed Serra thought some aspects of Indian culture -- notably its music, singing and dancing -- could be incorporated into Catholic practices, he said.

Also of lasting impact on the tribes was the secularization period that followed Mexico’s independence in 1821, further separating mission Indians from their culture and also from the church.

The Mexican government that then controlled California removed mission lands from Franciscan oversight. Territory that had been intended for Indians was divvied up among Mexican ranchers. The Franciscan missionaries returned to Mexico and mission Indians worked on the ranches or went out to fend for themselves.

Some mission Indians mixed in with Spanish colonists. In some cases the Catholic faith survived among the mission Indians. Such was the situation for Galvan and his family.

The Spanish intention that missions would become parishes did not come to pass until much later. Several of the missions fell into ruin following secularization. After California became a state in 1850, mission properties were returned to the church following an appeal by Joseph S. Alemany, the first archbishop of San Francisco.

Both Pope John Paul II, who beatified Blessed Serra, and Pope Francis, who will canonize him, have spoken of the difficulties and the harm colonization and church’s evangelization efforts had upon native lives and culture.

“I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offenses of the church herself, but also for crimes committed against the

native peoples during the socalled conquest of America,” Pope Francis told a crowd in Bolivia in July.

It was an unexpected preface to his September visit to the U.S. The canonization will take place in Washington Sept.

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Father Laverone said sainthood recognizes a man who, despite all odds, spread the Gospel message where it had not been heard before. And he did so in a “radical” way.

“Serra, with all his limitations, with all his physical ailments, saw the good news as something that had to be proclaimed, and he went to the extreme ends to do that,” said the priest.

He said people may think that was a good thing or a bad thing, but that was his commitment, to bring people who had never known Christ to the Redeemer.

“He was a man of perseverance without a doubt. And maybe sometimes a little bit too much perseverance,” he said.

The Spanish missionary’s own motto, “Siempre adelante, nunca atras” (“Always forward, never back”), speaks to that spirit.

“The Gospel is so important you have to move forward,” said Father Laverone.”We have something to share, we have the good news. People need to learn about God’s mercy and God’s love and the salvation that Jesus brings to us.”

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CALIFORNIA CATHOLIC LEADERS conrtinued from page 9 Laverone, provincial vicar of the This initiative will not be limited to Franciscan Province of Santa Barbara, history, however. It will also advise (formerly known as the Sexual Abuse Misconduct Prevention Workshop) Rev. 09/02/2015 a partner with the Catholic bishops of on ways to make the Missions releAttendance at the workshop is MANDATORY for all clergy, employees, California in this effort. vant and inviting for tribal members and volunteers in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Pre-registration is necessary.

The committee overseeing the cur- today.

These workshops are sponsored by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. riculum review will be led by the Most “By definition, ‘reconciliation’ isn’t Contact: Annette the Victims Assistance Coordinator 505.831.8144.

Rev. Edward Clark, Auxiliary Bishop just about the past, it’s also about the Note: Do not bring children. No one under age 18 is allowed in the workof the Archdiocese of Los Angeles future,” said Bishop Soto. “And the shop. If you are late you will not be allowed to enter the training and a long-time liaison with Califor- future of California’s Missions won’t Tues, Sept 8, 2015 Thurs, Oct 15, 2015 nia’s Native American communities. be complete until tribal members feel 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

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The curriculum review will consider welcomed and included in Mission Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Center culturally-sensitive and historically life today.”

3700 Canyon Rd. 4000 St. Joseph Pl. NW accurate enhancements to the Third The initiatives on Curriculum and Los Alamos, 87544 Albuquerque, 87120 Grade portrayals of Indian life, as Cultural Review are a joint project of Call 505.831.8144 Call 505.831.8144 well as to the traditional Fourth Grade the Franciscan Province of Santa Bar teaching on the Missions themselves. bara and the California Catholic ConSat, Sept 19, 2015 Mon, Oct 19, 2015 The purpose of the Curriculum ference. The Franciscan Province of 10:00 am – 1:00 pm 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

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Bishops of California. Representing Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Sat, Oct 24, 2015 The cultural study of the Missions the Archbishops of Los Angeles and 205 Don Fernando St. 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. will be led by Andrew Galvan, curator San Francisco, and the Bishops of Taos, 87571 St. Anne of Mission Dolores in San Francisco Fresno, Monterey, Oakland, Orange, Call 505.831.8144 306 West High and a member of the Ohlone tribe. It Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Di Tucumcari, 88401 will include a review of displays and ego, San Jose, Santa Rosa and StockMon, Sept 28, 2015 Call 505.831.8144 signage, updates to materials used to ton, it is the official voice of the 10 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. train docents and guides, and similar million Catholics and their many par**SPANISH** Mon, Oct 26, 2015 updates to artwork and presentations ishes, schools, universities, and social Catholic Center **SPANISH** on Mission and related websites. service agencies in California.

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ANNIVERSARIES Duval, Gebeke Mr. David Gebeke and Miss Judith Duval celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on August 21, 1965 at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Fargo, ND together with three other couples, two sisters and their husbands all married in the same year. With the exception of one sister, all couples met each other through a catholic young singles club.

50 years later, together, we will celebrate our anniversaries.

David and Judy have two sons and a daughter, living in Alabama, Nevada and New Mexico. After their marriage, they lived in Fargo for 28 years and raised their happy family. They relocated to New Mexico in January of 1993. They presently worship at St. Joseph on the Rio Grande Catholic Church.

David and Judy will share their 50th wedding anniversary with the five other couples along with families and friends during a week-long celebration at a lake home on Pelican Lake near Detroit Lakes, MN.

Griego Jimmy and Emily Griego were joined in holy matrimony on July 17, 1965 at Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Santa Fe and presently belong to San Isidro, Tesuque, NM/ Mission of Our Lady of Guadalupe. They are both retired, Jimmy from the Santa Fe Opera and Emily from the State of New Mexico. They have three children, Lisa, Stephanie & Manuel with four grandchildren and one great grandson. They are both active in their mission church; Jimmy is an usher and helps with the maintenance of the grounds and the building. Emily is in the altar society, is a Eucharistic minister, lector, and sings in the choir. She also volunteers at church office of the main parish. Both are members of the Sagrada Familia de Jesus, Maria Y Jose. Jimmy is also an Hermano with the Cofradia de Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno in Abiqiu. Both enjoy fishing and boating. They enjoy spending time at their ranch. They celebrated their anniversary with a trip to Gran Morelos, Mexico with members of the family and friends. They were honored with a special 50th anniversary certificate from his Holiness, Pope Francis presented by the pastor, Rev. Tien-Tri Nguyen.

Lujan Jacobo (Jake) and Cecilia (Pie) Lujan were united in holy matrimony at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Santa Fe on August 28, 1965. From this union came four children – Yleneana Baca, Mark (Laura) Baca, Jerrold (Ranada) Baca and Meredith Baca. In years to come, they were blessed with five grandchildren – Derick, Tawny, Anelia, Kaley, and Thomas.

From Santa Fe, they relocated to Chamita, NM where they have resided in 1972.

They are currently parishioners at San Juan Bautista in Ohkay Owinge3h where Rev. Larry Brito is the pastor.

Jake and Cecilia both retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory and have since enjoyed spending time with each other gardening, a bit of traveling and spending time with the family; especially enjoying camping excursions with the kids.

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with the Sisters of Charity. From an early age, Maria wanted to join the Presentation Order. After finSr. Maria Griego, PBVM ishing her high school education, has recently celebrated 50 she decided to head out to San years with the Sisters of the Francisco to join the order. She Presentation of the Blessed taught kindergarten, and first and Virgin Mary. Maria was born second grade for many years at St. in Pecos, NM to parents HerVianney School in San Jose, CA man and Valentina Griego.

Sr. Maria Griego, PBVM and most recently has been the reShe was taught by the Sisters celebrates 50 years with ligion coordinator at St. Vianney of The Presentation during her the Sisters of the Presen- School. She truly loves her prograde school years when the tation of the Blessed Vir- fession and enjoys doing the jobs sisters came to Pecos to open a that are entailed. Maria loves her gin Mary. school at St. Anthony of Padua home town of Pecos and visits at Parish. She attended high school at St. least twice a year. She calls it “God’s Special CounMary’s High School in Albuquerque try”.

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By Phillip Herndon, Interim Administrator, D+E+I

The Dominican Ecclesial Institute (D+E+I) is happy to announce a series to reflect on Pope Francis’ visit to the United States for the 2015 World Meeting of Families in September. He will also address a Joint Session of the United States Congress and will meet with President Obama.

D+E+I is offering this series to help participants learn about, reflect upon, and imagine the future of the Catholic Church under the inspiration and leadership of Pope Francis. These sessions are led by Professor Richard L. Wood, UNM Department of Sociology (and former director of the UNM Religious Studies Program). Dr. Wood is an active Catholic and serves as a pro bono advisor to the U.S. Bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

D+E+I invites anyone who is interest-

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ed in learning about and influencing the path of the Catholic Church in the future.

D+E+I members, college students, parish council members, faculty, religious, deacons, priests, religious leaders from our sister congregations in the city and state are all encouraged to participate and influence this experience.

This series will be on Tuesdays, September 8, 15, 22, and 29 from 6-7:30 pm at the UNM Continuing Education Center at 1634 University Blvd, NE, Albuquerque.

There will be presentations as well as dialog to start a conversation about the Pope, his challenges, and our Church in New Mexico and the United States.

Please register by emailing your name and contact information to D+E+I: contact@DEIabq.org; or call Shirley Theriot 505.243.0525. There is no charge to register and participate. Donations are accepted.

Admission to Candidacy

By Deacon Steve Rangel, Director of Deacons/Formation

In August, at the Shrine of St Bernadette in Albuquerque, 17 men in diaconate formation were admitted into candidacy. The men have been in deacon formation for a year and a half going from inquiry to aspirants to candidacy.

They were joined by their families, friends, priests, and deacons who shared this joyous occasion.

In his homily for the Rite of Candidacy with the diaconate community, Archbishop John C. Wester compared a frequent comment from one of his favorite movies, “The Princess Bride,” to the readings of the Mass. The comment was given by the hero of the story, a farmhand, to the princess, whom he loved, whenever she asked him to do something for her. He always replied, “As you wish…”

Archbishop Wester compared that comment with the decision made by the 17 men mov-

ing forward as candidates in their formation process to be ordained as a deacon. In the readings from Isaiah 6:1-2a, 3-8, God asked of Isaiah, “Who will go for us? And Isaiah answered, “Here I am, send me.” Each man is answering a call from God. Also, the reading from 2 Timothy 10-12, 14-15, which assures Christians that their strength to persevere in faith comes from the study of the Scriptures, relates to the new candidates.

These men will spend much time studying the scriptures and the tenants of their faith.

The Gospel from Matthew 9:35-38 has Jesus asking his disciples to ask God for laborers for his harvest. The candidates are answering that call to labor for the Lord; they are saying, “As you wish.”

We are so happy and grateful for the men who are willingly answering God’s call to ministry and ask that you continue to pray for these men and families as they continue their journey to the diaconate.

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Rev. Lucian Hendren

Sr. Mary Angela Gawlik, CSSF

Fr. Hendren was ordained in 1963 for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. He served as secretary to Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne, as faculty at Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary, as Chaplain to St. Michael’s High School, as chancellor from 1967 – 1980, as judicial vicar and archdiocesan officialis, concurrent to assignment as pastor, at Our Lady of Fatima in Albuquerque. Fr. Hendren also served as comptroller for the archdiocese and as pastor of San Ysidro Parish in Corrales until he retired in 1996.

Sr. Mary Angela Gawlik passed away on Saturday August 15, 2015 at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Convent, following an extended illness. The daughter of Anthony and Cecilia Mika Gawlik of Cestohova, TX, she was given the name Florence at her Baptism. It was in Cestohova that she received her grade school education.

Upon graduation in 1952, she entered the Felician Sisters Convent on Peterson Avenue and began her period of formation.

In 1953, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Province was formed in Ponca City, OK to which Sister Mary Angela was transferred. A lover of children, it was no surprise that Sister chose teaching as her ministry and in 1955 began her teaching career as a teacher of kindergarten and grade one in Blackwell, OK. Sister became a master teacher of grades one and two and in the years to follow taught in Birmingham, AL, Midwest City OK, Kansas City, MO, Tulsa, OK, Anaheim, Pomona and Claremont, CA, St. Margaret Mary, San Antonio and St. Rita, Fort Worth TX, and Albuquerque, NM. She ministered in some locations more than once, to the joy of students and parents. In her final years in the classroom, Sr. Angela served as a teacher’s aide and mentor.

Needless to say, wherever Sister went the children loved her as much as she loved them and in her affirming way won over those who did not like school.

Rev. Casimiro Roca-Toscas, S.F. Rev. Casimiro Roca-Toscas, S.F., former rector of the Santuario de Chimayo, N.M., died August 4, 2015. At the time, he was at home in the rectory at Holy Family Church, with his brother Sons of the Holy Family and caretaker, who have been helping him for several years. He had celebrated his 97th birthday day 11 days earlier.

Fr. Roca was ordained in 1943, after 33 active years living in Spain and Italy, Fr. Roca came to Chimayo in 1954.

For 52 of the next 60 years, he worked at restoring the Shrine, greeting pilgrims, hearing their confessions, and blessing their religious articles. He contributed to the shrine becoming a Registered National Historic Landmark. Along the way, he founded Holy Family Parish in Chimayo, N.M. He also spent more than seven years serving Our Lady of Peace Parish in Greeley, CO.

Sr. Juanita Ortega, M.M.S. Medical Mission Sr. Juanita Ortega, M.M.S., a graduate of Loretto Academy in Santa Fe, died on August 28 at the age of 83 in Philadelphia, PA. Born in Santa Fe in 1932, Sr. Juanita entered the Medical Mission Sisters in 1950 and made her Final Profession in 1958. She then attended the University of San Francisco and graduated in 1961 with a B.S.N. Sr. Juanita spent 55 years of her missionary life ministering to the poor and suffering in Venezuela, and also served twice in Medical Mission Sisters’ leadership in Latin America.

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Project Rachel Ministry Training Project Rachel is the post-abortion healing ministry of the Catholic Church Presenter: Vicki Thorn, Founder of Project Rachel and Executive Director of the National Office of Post Abortion Reconciliation and Healing Mon Nov. 2 for lay ministers, spiritual directors, high school guidance counselors, crisis pregnancy center staff, grief counselors, etc.

Tues Nov 3 for priests and deacons only Wed Nov 4 for hospice chaplains, hospital chaplains, mental health professionals, doctors, nurses, prison chaplains, Protestant pastors For more information call 505.831.8117

TV Mass Schedule The Catholic Center St. Joseph/St. Francis Chapel Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on KRQE TV-13, KBIM TV-10, KREZ TV-6 and FOX 2 American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreted TV Mass Donations may be sent online to www.archdiosf.org or mailed to: Chancellor’s Office/ TV Mass, 4000 St. Joseph’s Pl. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120

For TV Mass schedule, please go to www.archdiosf.org

Weekend of Christian Living Come and spend a weekend with Jesus at a Weekend of Christian Living. It will be held at Queen of Heaven Parish, 5311 Phoenix Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110. You will have the opportunity to learn more about the Catholic faith.

Experience a weekend of faith, hope and love, to strengthen and renew mind, body and soul. Date/Time Friday October 2,2015 6 pm-10 pm, Saturday October 3, 2015 9 am-9 pm and Sunday October 4, 2015 930 am-4 pm. To register for the weekend, call Deacon Pilar Garcia 505.884.3922.

The Archdiocese of Santa Fe African American Catholic Community Mass Sunday, October 25, 12 noon The AACC Cordially invites all to Mass on Sunday, October 25, 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. Sponsored by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Office of Social Justice & Respect Life and the AACC.

Roman Catholic Saints Calendar

“May the Dear Lord Bless You”

“May the Dear Lord bless you...”

September Rev. Edgar Sanchez 9/15 Rev. Francis Malley 9/16 Rev. Rob Yaksich 9/16 Rev. Malachy Obiejesi 9/17 Rev. Dennis Dolter 9/19 Rev. Luis Jaramillo 9/21 Rev. Ramon Smith OFM 9/25 Very Rev. Jerome Plotkowski 9/30

October Rev. Frank Prieto 10/2 Rev. Simeon Cook, OSB 10/5 Rev. Michael J. Shea 10/6 Rev. Daniel Williamson, CFR 10/8 Rev. Valentine Phu Ngoc Au 10/10 Rev. Benoit Trieu Van Vu 10/10 Rev. Joseph Van Tao Nguyen 10/11 Rev. Paul Dao Ming, SOLT 10/14

September 15 Our Lady of Sorrows 16 St. Cyprian 17 St. Robert Bellarmine 18 St. Joseph of Cupertino 19 St. Januarius 20 Sts. Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang and Companions 21 St. Matthew 22 St. Thomas of Villanova 23 Blessed Pica Bernardone 24 St. Pacifico of San Severino 25 Blesseds Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin 26 Sts. Cosmas and Damian 27 St. Vincent de Paul 28 St. Wenceslaus 29 Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael

30 St. Jerome October 1 St. Thérèse of Lisieux 2 Feast of the Guardian Angels 3 St. Theodora Guérin 4 St. Francis of Assisi 5 St. Maria Faustina Kowalska 6 St. Bruno 7 Our Lady of the Rosary 8 St. John Leonardi 9 St. Denis and Companions 10 St. Francis Borgia 11 St. John XXIII 12 St. Seraphin of Montegranaro 13 Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher 14 St. Callistus

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Continued from page 3 each other. This tells us that the path of greatness means we follow Christ and that we share that same Christ with one another. It means that we surrender ourselves, give of ourselves, by sharing ourselves with one another.

Jorge and Andres, you are called then to greatness by following Christ and by giving completely of yourselves to others. Whether you are baptizing, proclaiming the Word of God, witnessing weddings or officiating at funerals.

And Andres, you by anointing the sick, absolving sins in the Confessional or celebrating the Holy Eucharist with the people. You are bringing Christ to others as you bring yourselves. Again, Saint Francis Continued from page 3 alegría, y ánimo y gracia a la gente. Ustedes dos han escogido seguir los pasos de su santo patrón, San Francisco, quien conocía el camino de la verdadera grandeza. Él renunció a todo signo de grandeza de su tiempo: ropa elegante, dinero, prestigio, poder y honor. En lugar de ello, se hizo uno con Cristo, tanto así que recibió el don de los estigmas. Al entregar todo de sí mismo, abrió un espacio para que Cristo lo llenara completamente y en esa plenitud Francisco se hizo grande. Ustedes no se están convirtiendo en hijos de Louie el Grande, se están convirtiendo en hijos de Francisco el Grande porque él no buscó la grandeza, sino solamente a Cristo.

Es formativo y fundamental tener en cuenta que el camino de la grandeza, que es el camino del discipulado, significa que seguimos el ejemplo de Cristo.

Noten que en el relato de Lucas de la Última Cena, Jesús dice a los discípulos: tomen esta copa, tomen este pan y compártalo entre ustedes. Compártanlo entre ustedes. Cristo mismo se está dando a todos e instruye a sus discípulos a hacer lo mismo: compartan lo que son, compartan a Cristo, con los demás. Esto nos dice que el camino de la grandeza significa que seguimos a Cristo y que compartimos al mismo Cristo unos con otros. Significa que nos entregamos, que damos de nosotros mismos al compartirnos con los demás.

Jorge y Andrés, ustedes entonces son llamados a la grandeza al seguir a Cristo y a entregarse por completo a los demás. Ya sea que estén bautizando, proclamando la Palabra de Dios, siendo testigos de bodas u oficiando en funerales. Y tú Andrés, al ungir a los enfermos, absolviendo pecados en el confesionario o en la celebración de la Santa Eucaristía con el pueblo. Ustedes llevan a Cristo a los demás cuando se entregan a sí mismos. Una vez más, San Francisco es su guía para seguir a Cristo.

Así como él por completo se entregó a sí mismo para los pobres, los enfermos, los despreciados, los marginados, ustedes son llamados a hacer lo mismo. Hemos sido bendecidos en esta Iglesia local por

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is your guide in following Christ. Just as he gave so completely of himself to the poor, the sick, the despised, those on the margins, so are you called to do the same. We are blessed in this local Church by the presence of the Franciscan Priests and Brothers and Sisters. Your presence reminds us of what greatness truly is and reminds us of how we can achieve true greatness as we see your example in our midst.

I believe that there is a common understanding that to achieve greatness one must sacrifice much. The path to greatness is seen as a very difficult, arduous and painful road. It many ways, this is true. But never forget, dear brothers that your greatness lies in Christ, in following Christ, in being

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consumed by Christ. This means that while there will be times of suffering and pain it will be a suffering and pain that you endure with Christ, through Christ and for Christ. As he himself has told us, my yoke is easy, my burden is light.

Because Christ is journeying with you, your path to greatness will be one that will be eased by Christ’s grace, mercy and love. And through your ministry as Deacon and Priest you will help us achieve greatness as you accompany us and minister to us ad Deacon and Priest. There will be great joy along this path, Jorge and Andres. I can honestly tell you that the path that you are embarking on is a path filled with great and deep happiness, knowing that you are constantly being transformed

la presencia de los sacerdotes y hermanos y hermanas franciscanos. Su presencia nos recuerda lo que realmente es la grandeza y nos recuerda cómo podemos lograr la verdadera grandeza al ver su ejemplo entre nosotros.

Creo que es hay un común entendimiento que para lograr la grandeza uno debe sacrificar mucho. El camino a la grandeza es visto como un camino muy difícil, arduo y doloroso.

Es muchas formas esto es cierto. Pero nunca olviden, queridos hermanos, que su grandeza reside en Cristo, en seguir a Cristo, en ser consumidos por Cristo. Esto significa que aunque habrá momentos de sufrimiento y dolor, estos serán soportados con Cristo, por Cristo y para Cristo. Como él mismo nos ha dicho, mi yugo es fácil, mi carga es ligera. Porque Cristo está caminando con ustedes, su camino hacia la grandeza será uno que será facilitado por la gracia, la misericordia y el amor de Cristo. Y a través de su ministerio como diácono y sacerdote, ustedes nos ayudarán a alcanzar la grandeza al acompañarnos.

Habrá gran alegría en este camino, Jorge y Andrés. Honestamente puedo decirles que el camino en el que se están embarcando es un camino lleno de una grande y profunda felicidad, sabiendo que constantemente estarán siendo transformados por Cristo y que a través de él ustedes estarán ayudando a otros a hacer lo mismo. Tendrán su cuota de dificultades, pero en general se darán cuenta de que cada día de su ministerio será pleno y lleno de gozo.

Mi querida gente, recen por Jorge y por Andrés y pidan al Señor de la mies que los llene siempre de gozo. Oren por ellos para que les sirvan por completo a ustedes y lo hagan con una gran devoción y entrega. Oren para que sean ejemplos para todos nosotros de dónde reside la verdadera grandeza. Yo no soy un gran ni famoso predicador, ni voy a decir ¡Jorge el Grande! ¡Andrés el Grande! No, yo voy a decir que sólo Dios es grande y que en Cristo, nuestro gran Sumo Sacerdote, también lo son Jorge y Andrés. De hecho, también lo somos todos nosotros.

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by Christ and that through him you are helping others to do the same. You will have your share of difficulties but all in all you will find that each day of your ministry will be fulfilling and joyful.

My dear people pray for Jorge and Andres and ask the Lord of the Harvest to fill them with this joy always. Pray for them that they may serve you completely and with great devotion and surrender. Pray that they will be examples to all of us of where true greatness lies. I am not a great and famous preacher, and I am not going to say Jorge the Great! Andres the Great!

No, I am going to say only God is great and in Christ, our great High Priest, so are Jorge and Andres. Indeed, so are we all.

SPIRITUAL RETREAT Continued from page 20 many in the Body of Christ who yearn for the grace Christ promises whenever two or more gather in His name.

The weekend of September 18 20, Catholics and Christians of all denominations, who have a friend or relative suffering an addiction, will have the opportunity to receive guidance in the context of the Christian faith at the Father Fitzgerald Retreat and Renewal Center in Jemez, NM. The retreat will be conducted by Father David Fitzgerald, sP, Servant General of the Servants of the Paraclete. Father David will lead retreatants through the 12-step re-

covery principles, as they relate to relatives of the addict, in the context of the Catholic faith. The retreat will begin with an introduction and dinner at 6:30 pm on Friday evening and end on Sunday at noon. Mass will be offered Sunday morning at 9:00 am.

Check-in will open at 3:00 pm Friday for those interested in arriving early to unwind in the Center’s tranquil setting.

The cost of the retreat is $170 per person for private accommodations and $120 per person for double occupancy rooms. The cost includes meals. Prior registration is required.

To register, call the family life office at 831-8117. Space is limited to 24.

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35th Annual Archdiocesan Youth Conference The 35th Annual Archdiocesan Youth Conference sponsored by the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. This year Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary will be hosting us.

The conference is scheduled for October 23-24, 2015. Friday is 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm and Saturday is 9:00 am – 8:30 pm.

The fee is $40.00 for both days. The registration deadline is Tuesday October 13, 2015.

Our keynote presenter for Saturday is Fr. Eric Ramirez, SJ. We will also be honored by the presence of our newly appointed Archbishop John C. Wester for Mass and he will also be joining our youth for dinner.

This is a top conference for High School youth (14-18 years old) in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. The excellent speakers and workshops will deal with issues that affect young people in everyday life. Faith and catechetical experiences will also be included such as Mass and the sacrament of reconciliation. This is an excellent kick off for confirmation.

For more information and or to register please contact Della 505.831.8142 or dmontano@archdiosf.org.

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PARISH SOCIAL MINISTRY CONFERENCE SEPT. 19, 2015

September 2015

Sowing Seeds of

Love in Action

How does your faith call you to change the world?

“An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world...”

What: This Parish Social Ministry Conference will feature national speakers from Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and St. Vincent de Paul, along with local speakers for a day of prayer, learning and action. Join together with others throughout the Archdiocese of Santa Fe as we cultivate our understanding of charity, justice and our call to be “love in action.”

Workshop topics include Global solidarity, the new Encyclical, Laudato Si, keeping your spiritual center, consistent ethic of life, using media and technology for social mission, engaging youth and young adults solidarity, exploring Communities of Salt and Light, how to be a voice of the poor, immigration and migration, Catholic social teaching, how to form a social concerns committee, and more! Workshops offered in Spanish and simultaneous translation offered.

- Pope Francis We are all called to action & we need you!

Who: All interested in the social mission of the church including parish social ministers, teachers, youth ministers, young adults, catechists, St. Vincent de Paul volunteers, outreach volunteers, Deacons, JustFaith grads and more!

When: Saturday, Sept 19

Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Community (5415 Fortuna Rd. NW, Albuquerque) 8:00 am Registration 8:30 am - 4:45pm Light breakfast and lunch included

PLEASE REGISTER ON LINE AT www.archdiosf.org or call 505-831-8205 or email justice3@archdiosf.org

by September 14th Cost: $10 Scholarships available

5:00 pm Mass @ Holy Rosary

To what do we compare the Kingdom of God?...

It is like a mustard Seed… (Mk 4:26-34) Sponsored by Archdiocese of Santa Fe Office of Social Justice and Respect Life and the Annual Catholic Appeal