VISION TheNew
of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson
Volume V - Number X October 2010 • $15 per year • Tucson, Arizona Visit www.newvisiononline.org
My invitation to all of you is to prayerfully consider sponsoring a “treasure” in our Cathedral in honor of your family or as a memorial to a loved one. —Bishop Kicanas
St. Augustine Cathedral legacy campaign begins That gift was God’s love, and in his “Confessions,” St. Augustine wrote with vivid words As you approach the entrance to St. about this gift: Augustine Cathedral, you can’t help “Your gift sets us afire and we are borne but to gaze upwards to the statue of our upward; we catch this flame and up we go. In our hearts we climb those upward Diocese’s patron saint. paths, singing the songs of What is St. Augustine See more about the ascent. By Your fire, Your benefholding in his right hand? It is a heart topped with ‘Treasures of the Heart’ icent fire, we are inflamed!” (Confessions 13,9) campaign on Page 24. flames! I have to thank St. AugusThat heart symboliztine for the inspiration he es how St. Augustine’s heart seemed to gave me when I walked through our Catheburst into flames with the gift that led to dral recently to see the progress of the interihis change of heart and the beginning of or renovation that has been going on for close By BISHOP GERALD F. KICANAS
his life of love and service for others.
See LEGACY on page 3
Connected
The New Vision photo by Bern Zovistoski
During an impromptu visit to Casa Hogar, a Catholic orphanage in Nogales, Sonora, Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas was greeted last month by one of the residents.
Marriage celebration Mass draws 163 couples Marriage was celebrated in a big way on Sept. 19 at St. Augustine Cathedral as 163 couples joined Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas for the diocese’s fourth annual Celebration of Marriage Mass. Three of the couples had been married for 65 years, one couple for 63 years and seven other couples for 60 years. Among the rest were 97 couples who were celebrating
50 years or more of marriage. Cumulatively, the celebrants represented 6,929 years of marriage. “How blessed are each one of our anniversary couples,” said Bishop Kicanas. “You are a great example to us of self-giving without See MARRIAGE on page 14