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Pop e calls fo r giving unreservedly Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CN S) — Pope John Paul II exhorted Catholics to observe Lent b y "the giving of ourselves unreservedly to God and neighbor." "What better time is there than Lent for offering this testimony of gratuitousness which the world so badly needs?" the pope said in his annual Lenten message. "In the very love which God has for us, there lies the call to give ourselves freely to others in turn . " For Latin-ri te Catholics, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which is Feb. 13 this year. The theme of the pope 's message is "Freely You Have Received, Freely Give. " '"What do you have, ' St. Paul asks, 'that you did not receive?'" the pope said, quoting from 1 Corinthians. "The demand which follows this recognition is that of loving our brothers and sisters, and of dedicating ourselves to them. The more needy they are, the more urgent the believer 's duty to serve them. " Pope John Paul added, "As believers, we must be open to a life marked by ' gratuitousness, ' by the giving of ourselves unreservedly to God and neighbor." He said, "The world prizes human relationships based on selfinterest and personal gain, and this fosters an egocentric vision of life, in which too often there is no room for the poor and weak. Every person, even the least gifted , must be welcomed and loved for themselves, regardless of their qualities and defects. "

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Pope John Paul IPs p lea f o r g enerosity during Lent has sp ecial meaning f o r peop le such as this Afg han g irl who carefull y carries her food ration from a distribution center in a refugee camp outside Herat , Afg hanistan. Catholic Relief Services and Caritas International are among the agencies providing food and other assistance to Afg hans who have been disp laced by more than 20 years of war, four yea rs of severe droug ht and the rep ressive rule of the Taliban.

Such a stance is based in the Gospels, the pope said. "It is highly significant that Jesus spoke the words 'You received without paying, give without pay ' as he sent the Apostles out to spread the Gospel of salvation , which is his first and foremost gift to humanity," he said. "Christ wants his kingdom, which is already close at hand, to be spread through gestures of gratuitous love accomplished by his disciples. " He added, "In our own day too the good done by believers becomes a sign, and often an invitation to believe. When, like die Good Samaritan, Christians respond to the needs of their neighbor, theirs is never merely material assistance. It is always a proclamation of the kingdom . as well, and speaks of the full meaning of life, hope and love." LENTEN PLEA, page 9

Catechist's role: Baking bread, feeding hungry By Patrick Joyce

JL hink of your work as the sowing of seed, baking of

bread and feeding the hungry, Sacred Heart Sister Gretchen Mailer told catechists at the archdiocese's Religious Education Institute. '"The kitchen and dining room — that' s where we

find the God who is bread broken and shared , " Sister Gretchen , a consultant on faith formation and spirituality, said in her morning keynote talk on "Finding God at Home. " One theologian has long insisted that the two disciples who met the risen jesus on the road to Emmaus were a husband and wife , she said. "They welcome him into their home. He breaks bread with them and he becomes their bread. "

"When you think of the kitchen, think of die God who is bread broken and shared for us — and how are we bread broken and shared for others," said Sister Gretchen, whose talk dealt with "everyday spiritualities" — the theme of tire institute — in each room of the house. "Think of your role as catechist as making bread, " she said, using images from the parables of Jesus. In FEEDING HUNGRY , page 10

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Check out the new Web site of Star of the Sea Elementary at www.starsf.net. Thanks to school mom, Christine Sellai, for the update... Paula Spackman, youth ministry director at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, Redwood City, was one of three guest hosts on a recent online talk show called KLN Live! Paula and representatives of the Jewish and Islamic faiths took to their keyboards on questions about Christmas, Hannukah and Ramadan. Paula said she enjoyed the 30-minute or so chat session and the interesting questions put out by the youngsters. For more info go to www.klnuve.com....Happy birthday to Msgr. Alvan Heuring who was 86 years old on Jan. 23. A priest for 57 years, Msgr. Heuring retired from the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa in 1985'and moved to San Mateo where he now lives with his sisters, Alberta Heuring and Joan O'Rourke. Guided by his promise "to help as long as I'm able" he is often a guest presider at St. Gregory Parish....A double scoop of kudos for St Gregory Elementary 8th grader, Brian Dunn, who was a winner in a recent Elks Club-sponsored essay contest. Brian will be honored Feb. 20 at the group 's San Mateo Jason Cutler, an 8th grader at San Rafael's St. Raphael Elementary, poses with the Lego Statue of Liberty he built and sold on Ebay's Auction for America. Sale of the Ellis Island replica brought $282 to the Sept 11th Children's Fund. Jason 's Lady Liberty took more than 2,800 Legos to construct and stands 33" tall. Mighty proud are his folks Denise and Trent.

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Cemeteries director, Kathy Atkinson, and the staff of Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma were happy hosts to the 6th grade class of San Bruno 's St. Robert Elementary in October. Kathy called the group "delightful and inquisitive " saying they "posed terrific questions. " Students enjoying the experience included, from left, Joseph Wright, Joseph Frank , Francesca Oliva , John Cuddy, Danica Smerdei. Thanks to Kevin Carey, 6th grade teacher at St. Robert 's, for lettin' us know he enjoys this column. Princi pal at St. Robert 's is Patricia Bordin. Pastor is Father Vincent Ring. Also in October, the cemetery celebrated its annual Todos Los Santos Mass with Father Alex Legasp i, pastor, St. Andrew Parish, Daly City, presiding, and the parish choir, under the direction of Lori Ventura, leading song. A rainy Veterans' Day welcomed priest chap lains including Army Col. Edward McTaggart, retired pastor, St. Brendan Parish; Navy Lt. Cmdr. Felix Namocatcat, parochial vicar, St. Charles , San Francisco; Navy Lt. Eduardo Dura, pasto r, St. Anne of the Sunset for a prayer service at Holy Cross remembering deceased members of the Army Forces.

Students at the Sunset District 's Holy Name of Jesus Elementary responded to the Sept. 11th tragedy with a Prayer Wall where the student body wrote or drew a "Prayer" for those affecte d by the heinous acts. In addition, donations to wear "free dress " for a day raised more than $1,500 for Catholic Relief Services. Kindergarte n aide, Diane Preble, with, top from left, Susan Vidalon, Ryan Glenn, Kalie Chan, Josep h Martinez, Tatiana Spisz; middle from left, Kevin Shim, Clarissa Ali, Swayam Suri, Saideh Herrera; bottom from left, Daniel Fong, Isabella Alcaraz , Maegen Hoover. Hats off again here for "Kids for Safe r Streets " poster contest winners, Kristina Low, Karen Young, and Geoffrey Yep. Thanks to teachers, Rita Nolan and Judy Cosmos for fillin' us in. Principal is Noreen Murphy. Pastor is Father Don D'Angelo.

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lodge. Very proud are his mom, Anne, and dad, Pat....Congrats at San Francisco's St. Brendan Elementary to 8th grader Kathryn Gianaras on her gold medal win in last year 's Sprint Sportsmanship for Life Essay Contest The good writing won her and her family, including folks, Vi and John, and older sister, Kristen, a trip to Utah and the site of the soon to happen Winter Olympics. The art of 5th grader Michelle Lee, with a theme of "Use water wisely," graces a 2002 calendar distributed by the SF Public Utilities Commission. Michelle 's work was submitted by art teacher, Phyllis Ciment Thanks to Suzanne McCarthy, school development director, for the items.. ..It's welcome back at Holy Name of Jesus for Father Edward Inyanwachi who will be helping out at the Sunset District parish while studying at Berkeley's Jesuit School of Theology....The Excelsior District's Corpus Christi Parish is "saddened" by the recent ending of the ministry of The Auxilian Society that for many years helped with church environment....St. Paul of the Shipwreck says thanks to parishioners Gertrude Morris for decorating the Advent Wreath, and Dinia Wright and Bernie Maxie for decorating the vestibule... .Welcomed at St Matthias was Father Dan Galas who recently filled in for, pastor, Father John Glogowski, who just happens to be his nephew. Father Dan is from the -

Happy 50 years married to Lynn and John Drocco who renewed their vows Dec. 16 at the Presidio Chapel,which in some ways simulate d the Army barracks in Hawaii where they originally married in 1951. John is a retired SFFD Captain and longtime coach at schools including Presentation High School where the coup le's daughters, Michelle, Maryann, Patricia and Pamela are alums. Sons, Richard and John, Jr. are Sacred Heart grads.

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Msgr. Kennedy, founding St. Raymond's pastor Msgr. Edwin J. Kennedy, retired pastor of St. Raymond Parish, Menlo Park, died Jan. 27 at St. Mary's Medical Center. He would have been 94 years old on Jan. 28. Ordained in 1932, he was named Monsignor by Pope Pius XII in 1949. A San Francisco native , Msgr. Kennedy earned a doctorate in canon law from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. in 1935. In 1942, following several l years' of ministry as parochial vicar at Holy Name of Jesus Parish, San Francisco and assistant chancellor of the Archdiocese , Msgr. Kenned y went to Hawaii as assistant to the Vicar Delegate of the Armed Forces in the Pacific Ocean. On his return in 1950, he was named founding pastor of St. Raymond's, where he served until his retirement in 1978. He served as chaplain to the cloistered Dominican Sisters of Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park for the next 18 years when he became a resident of the Little Sisters of the Poor 's St. Anne 's Home in San Francisco. At the monastery, Msgr. Kennedy presided at Mass every morning at 6:45 a.m. and Benediction every afternoon. "He was wonderful ," said Dominican Sister Maria Christine. "We were so fortunate to have him with us." Sister Maria Christine said Msgr. Kennedy was "very congenial" and that "even last minute changes were never a problem for him." Father Ray Zohlen succeeded Msgr. Kennedy as pastor of St. Raymond's in 1978. "He was very good to me

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and the European Union election observer mission supported the parties ' calls for an audit and verification of the results. The bishops stressed the need for constitutional reform and said there is a "perceived acceptance of corruption as a norm , not onl y in government but in the psyche of our people." The bishops urged "immediate action " to create an agricultural policy "that ensures food security and marketing facilities for our small-scale farmers. "

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Thousands p rayf or victims of war during Bloody Sunday service LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — Some 2,000 peop le prayed for the victims of war in Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, the Middle East and New York at a remembrance service marking the 30th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Retired Bishop Edward Daly of Deny led the prayers Jan . 30. In 1972, as a priest, he anointed some of the 13 unarmed people killed when British soldiers opened fire on a peaceful protest in the city known to Catholics as Deny. "Here we are, 30 years later, and those terrible sights and sounds are still etched indelibl y on our minds," Bishop Daly said. "I am wearing the stole that I wore on this day 30 years ago. For the last 30 years, it has rested beside a picture in my study, a picture of Jackie Dudd y. It is one of my most treasured possessions." This year 's Jan. 30 commemoration rededicated a memorial to the victims. "Almighty God and Lord, we dedicate this memorial to the memory of those who lost their lives here 30 years ago today," Bishop Daly said. "We pray for victims everywhere — here in our own country and in Afghanistan , in the Middle East and in New York. We identify with all people who have suffered ... whatever race or religion or nation," he said."

Ang olan government and rebels want church to help p eace talks

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The government and UNITA rebel group in Angola have expressed willingness for the church to facilitate negotiations to end the 27-yearold civil war. "The government has said that we can take the initiative to consult with UNITA in our efforts to stop the war," Father Francisco Eurico, said in a telephone interview from Angola's capital, Luanda. "They have also asked us to use our influence to call on people to work for peace," Father Eurico, executive secretary of the Angolan bishops' conference, said. "Things have changed in recent months, in that there are more statements by government leaders saying that they are in favor of dialogue," Father Eurico said, but no time or place for peace talks has been decided. "The government has indicated that it will accept the facilitation of the church and other parts of civilian society," he said, noting that the government and UNITA are "more open to talks and want it to be made possible for dialogue."

German church loses 200,000 members f rom 1999 to 2000

WARSAW, Poland — Germany 's Catholic Church lost 200,000 members between 1999 and 2000, said new bish1 ops conference data .

Phili p p ine bishops welcome U.S. supp ort for pu rsuing Abu Sayyaf

MANILA, Philipp ines — Philippine bishops welcomed the U.S. government 's support in pursuing the extremist Abu Sayyaf group. "We are supporting the will of the people in this regard," Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato told a Jan. 28 press conference in Manila. "If (the people) wish that some help be given by a friendl y force upon the invitation of the government and with the constitutional and legal issues resolved, we don 't think we should go against our own suffering people," the s archbishop said. o However, Archbishop Quevedo said U.S. forces should serve only in the background as advisers, and he said the bishops would "protest against indiscriminate bombing of civilians. Attack operations should only be against the kid : nappers," he said. Officials from the two countries have said the exercises Participants in a memorial service gather in aim to free two U.S. missionaries and a Filipino nurse kidfront of a mural in Londonderry depicting napped last year by the Abu Sayyaf in Palawan and a scene from Bloody Sunday. Basilan . The extremist Abu Sayyaf rebels have been fighting for an independent Muslim state in the southern "This trend has been evident for years now, so we don 't Philippines. see it as new or dramatic," said Martina Hohnf, a spokesArchbishop Quevedo said that though the bishops woman for the German bishops' conference. "Many pas- would have wanted a more peaceful solution to the Abu toral projects are under way to save the situation by per- Sayyaf problem , years of negotiations and ransom paysuading people to see the church as an open place where ments have only led to more kidnappings. they can talk and reflect." The bishops ' conference figures showed Catholics currently make up 32.6 percent of Germany 's population of 80 million, although fewer than one in six Catholics attend church. The data also confirmed a drop in adult ROME — Pope John Paul II, visiting a Rome univerbaptisms. sity campus , said the academic world' s search for the Hohnf said, "The fact the churches were full , if onl y for truth must include space for religious and moral values. a few weeks, shows people still need to find answers to "Why be afraid to expose knowledge and culture to ultimate questions It could be Germans need a crisis to the faith? The passion and rigor of research have nothbring them back to religion. But that can be said of other ing to lose in a wise dialogue with the values held by Western countries, too." religion," the pope told students and faculty Jan . 31 at "Rome Three," the third campus of the city 's public university. The pope made the visit to help inaugurate the 10th academic year at the university branch, and he was welcomed CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Zambia's bishops have by a standing ovation as he walked slowly, cane in hand, to urged the country's new president Levy Mwanawasa to his seat at a podium in the Great Hall of the literature and work on healing a deeply divided country. p hilosophy department. In a statement after they met with Mwanawasa Jan. In a speech delivered in a quavering voice, the pope said 25, the bishops said the president "will need great wisthe university should be a place where truths are sought at dom and resilience to bring the country out of the state it every level: the most simple material certainties, complex is in," noting Zambia's "deep-rooted social and economtruths about human relations and the use of science, and the ic problems ," including poverty, unemployment and truly profound truths about the meaning of human activity AIDS. "There are deep divisions in the country, which need and human values. It 's enough to take an objective look at history to underhealing," they said. Zambia's 10 opposition parties stand how important religion has been in the formation of accused the ruling Movement for Multi party Democracy of rigging the polls in favor of Mwanaw asa, cultures and how much its influence has shaped the entire human milieu," he said.

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Catholic leader calls for action on health care By Nancy Frazier O'Brien Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although President Bush showed "strong leadership " on health care issues in his State of the Union message, it is no longer enough to "promise partial solutions," said the head of the Catholic Health Association. Father Michael D. Place, CHA president and CEO, said Bush' s speech "laid the foundation stones" for building a "health care home" for the nation 's 39 million uninsured. "Now it is up to Congress to build it," he added. In his address to a joint session of Congress , Bush asked for new tax credits to help people buy health insurance, more money for community health centers and the return to states of $3.2 billion not spent in an earlier allocation to expand government-funded health care for lowincome children and their parents. Father Place said the growing number of uninsured Americans is "the great injustice found within our national health policy." "In expressing support for prescription drug benefits for seniors, insurance subsidies and other key measures, President Bush has shown strong leadership by bringing critical focus to important health care issues," he said in a statement. "But we have been here before. And it is no longer enough to promise partial solutions." Father Place said CHA "believes that any incremental health care legislation must be part of a deliberate and sequential strategy to expand coverage to all uninsured. Building blocks for such a strategy should include

improving Medicaid and the State Children 's Health Insurance Program." In addition to the prescription drug benefit, improving Medicare will require "fair and equitable provisions of financial resources in order for hospitals and caregivers across the continuum to provide needed services to people and communities," he said. "Too often the cost of providing care exceeds government reimbursement rates ," he added.

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The Archdiocese 's new deacon formation program is moving out of infancy and preparing for a third class to An information evening for men interested in begin in the fall , according to Father Gregory Ingels , becoming permanent deacons, and their wives and director. pastors, is scheduled for Feb. 20, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 Father Ingels expects about 10 to 12 men in the new p.rn., at St. Mary 's Cathedral in San Francisco. For diaconate class to be ordained in 2007. The class of 2006, more information, call Father Gregory Ingels at currentl y in its first (aspirancy) year, has eight partici(650) 323-1703, e-mail: Deacon.Formation @ att.net. pants while the class of 2005, the first under the new program , has 20. The difference in numbers does not reflect a drop in vocations , Father Ingels said. The first class was about Archdiocese 's School of Pastoral Leadership. In addidouble the number expected because several years had tion , seminars and discussions with aspirants and their wives address specific issues. gone by since a class had been formed. By conclusion of the year of aspirancy, a decision will The formation program recently split from the diaconate office and underwent some changes, according to be made whether the aspirant should be admitted to the formation program. This is based on interviews , testing, Father Ingels, who is also a canon lawyer. One difference between the formation program when and feedback from SPL teachers . This year 's class has eight aspirants , six of whom are it was part of the diaconate office, and the new one is that diaconate formation is now ongoing yearly, said Father married , who are expected to enter the formation proIngels. Another difference is that the previous formation gram in the fall. If they go on , aspirants become candidates in their program was four years long rather than the current five, explained Deacon Leon Kortenkamp, director of the first of four years of formation. In response to the expectation expressed in the Basic Norms for the Archdiocesan Diaconate Office. ' :- -The structure of-the new program has been guided by ^Formati on of Permanent Deacons, which calls for a the% tha .Basic Norms for the Formation of Permanent ological formation of a thousand hours , the second Deacons from the Congregation for Catholic Education , phase has two stages: scriptural formation , again using and the Directory for the Ministry and Life of Permanent SPL courses, and theological formation at St. Patrick's Deacons in the United States. The latter has been Seminary. The formation program has 20 students , 12 of whom approved by the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops and is being reviewed by the Vatican, according are married, who are completing their first year of formation and who will be formally inscribed as candidates to Father Ingels. The formation program has two phases. The first is a for the diaconate in May. Most candidates are married, Father Ingels said, and a period of aspirancy in which persons seeking to enter diaconate formation go throug h a period of discernment deacon may not marry either during his formation or and are evaluated for admission . Although the aspirancy after ordination. In fact, an applicant must be married for period's emphasis is not intellectual , there is an academ- at least five years before admission and must have the ic component to review basic teachings of the Catholic complete support and consent of his wife to pursue the Church. program. This phase uses programs offered by the Father Ingels said being a deacon is "really a chal-

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NEW YORK (CNS) — Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington said religious leaders could play a useful role in the World Economic Forum but that this potential was not realized at this year 's Jan . 31-Feb. 4 meeting in New York. The role of religious leaders is to "get ethical and religious points of view into these discussions" with business and political leaders , he said. Many business and political leaders "would be open to that," he added. The cardinal said that because forum organizers had "a special track" for religious leaders, they spent much of then time talking with each other. An interreligious panel at one plenary session was the only formal opportunity for interchange, he said. At that session, Cardinal McCarrick said .

Lenten p- l e a . . . ¦ Continued from cover Lent, Pope John Paul said, is "a return to the roots of our faith, so that by pondering the measureless gift of grace which is redemption, we cannot fail to realize that all has been given to us by God's loving initiative." He said, "May Lent, recalling the mystery of the Lord 's death and resurrection , lead all Christians to marvel in their heart of hearts at the greatness of such a gift. Yes!

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Cardinal Francis Arinze, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreli gious Dialogue, made significant comments about freedom of religion and freedom to evangelize. The cardinals were among some 3,000 partici pants who gathered at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York for what has become the world's foremost unofficial gathering of leaders from business, politics and civil society. Cardinal McCarrick said Archbishop Diarmuid Martin , Vatican nuncio to U.N. agencies in Geneva , was the only other member of the Catholic hierarchy attending. In connection with the forum , Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, organized a visit by an interreligious delegation Feb. 3 to offer prayers at Ground Zero. Those participating in the'"show of solidarity against terrorism in the name of religion" were Cardinal Arinze, Anglican Archbishop We have received without pay. Is not our entire life marked b y God' s kindness?" . Because it is a gift , the pope said, "life can never be regarded as a possession or as private property, even if the capabilities we now have to improve the quality of life can lead us to think that man is the 'master ' of life. The achievements of medicine and biotechnology can sometimes lead man to think of himself as his own creator, and to succumb to the temptation of tampering with 'the tree of life.'

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"What else is in our bones as Catholics?" she asked. The word of God in Scripture , the living tradition of the church , its teachings, the litu rgy, prayer, sacraments and the creed "we proclaim eveiy Sunday." "In response to our proclamation of faith : the world answers so what?" she said and offered a reason for that response. ^ "If there was a persecution of Catholics today, would there be enough evidence to convict us. " Ms. Eipers said. "It seems to me we need parish leaders who would be arrested immediately . . . not simply \ because we say the creed but because we live as Jesus dreamed. "

arole Eipers spent months preparing her talk for lasl week's Religions Education Institute, Then came Sept. 11 "when all we had said and thought about the spiritualities of everyday life was sud4 "Jesus dreamed of the Kingdom of God among us. He dreamed that fishermen become fishers of denly impacted dram atically." ,J Now, she said, the question is "How do we deal with this new world?" men, that the spirit would speak through his followers... If we hold to the whole dream of the reign of God, we can touch others as Jesus touched others." "Faith is more needed than ever Never before have we been called to live and share our beliefs M ¦ "You and I dream — what?" she asked. "The measure of our spirituality and our relationmore courageously as individuals and communities , " Ms. Eipers, a longtime catechist and college teacher, said in her afternoon keynote on "The Heart and Mind of Jesus." ship with Jesus is how we share his dream . " "In times of crisis, what is on the inside shows on the outside, " she said. "It is a good time Prayer is essential, Ms. Eipers said , and "The central conviction of prayer is that we are heard. Prayer doesn 't rise or fall on the granting of a wish." for us to get in touch with our beliefs as Catholics and, more importantl y to get in touch with the person we follow, Jesus — to remember all he taught us of the Father 's love, to open our hearts to From her apartment on the 37th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper, Ms. Eipers ' can see the ruins the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It's a good time to turn ourselves inside out. J of the World Trade Center two blocks away. "Some friends of mine who were visiting said, 'How can " ' "We need to be cardiologists to examine Jesus heart, said Ms. Eipers, who punctu ated her talk you look out there?'" she said. She replied, "No , I don 't see it as Ground Zero but as holy ground. " with humor and wore a surgeon 's gown to make her point. The audience erupted in applause. . And, she said after taking off the gown to reveal a skeleton shirt. " "Perhaps we need to be orthope- Ms. Eipers spoke of an e mail that asks "Where was your God on Sept. 11?" Then she quoted some of dists to examine our spiritu ality, the underlying structure , foundation of who we are as discip les of Jesus. Like the responses: "He was very busy. He was ttying to discourage anyone from taking these fligh t s . . . giving terri^^GKBBKW our skeletons , our spirituality gives shape, enables our movements, is the strength beneath the surface." fied Red passengers the ability to stay calm.. . giving strength to passengers to try to overtake the hijac k e r s . . . holding p ~ In thinking about "everyday spiritualities, " the theme of the institute, Ms. Eipers suggested that particiup two 110-story buildings so two-thirds of the workers could get o u t . . . and when the buildings went \ ,n IS in pants ask themselves the question asked on some pizza commercials: "What do you want on your tombstone?" down, my God p icked u p . . . his children and carried them home... So when someone asks 'Where was 'Carole Eipers: 'What is _ , S?' "The question for us parish leaders, " she said , "is not about mushrooms and anchovies but about our bones as Catholics?' your God on Sept. II?' you can say — as the Baltimore Catechism always says — "God is everywhere."' what and who do we want to have been when we are on the threshold of eternity. To focus on the end of Again the audience broke into app lause. our life on earth , to focus on eternal life , helps us to live each day more faithfully as disciples. " "The question really is: where is our God today?" she said. "When the inside is strong that is only half the story of "Spirituality for everyday life for you and me in this new world we live in must first of all, be Catholic spirituality, spirituality. There is an equally important second half: the witness of faith: to go to others where our words and deeds can "she said. give glory to God and evangelize others. We need to be converted inside and out. "

Dancers lead the procession at the conclusion of Mass. At a reunion , Ms: Eipers said, an ex-student told her and fellow teachers: "You saved my life " when his life was being ripped apart by his parents ' divorce. "That , " she tells the audience , "is what you do: save lives. " "Greeks told the Apostle Philip, 'We wish to see Jesus. ' That is what modern people ask you," she told the catechists, urging them to live "So people can see in us the heart of Jesus. At the heart of catecheticsis the person of Jesus of Nazareth.'

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Jesus' time, farmers scattered or "broadcast" the seed widely, some landing on good ground, some bad, she said. "It is sown everywhere. " "As catechists you are constandy sowing.... You might think you are sowing only for the second graders but you are sowing for the parents, -the grandparents, everyone they meet." "Jesus used a wonderful image with the yeast" in one of his parables , she said. The woman in the parable used an extravagant amount of yeast, she said, and similarly catechists should be generous in spreading the gospel. "We are asked to be leaven '— so much leaven mat the world will be a different place, " Sister Gretchen said. "We can make a difference For whom are we called to be leaven? How are we bread broken and shared for others? How many loaves are we going to share? . "Are we very skimpy or do we share all the bread, knowing that we will always have bread because the God who is bread broken and shared will always provide, that God will supp ly all th at is needed. " Finally, she said , catechists who feel "ground down" at the end of a difficult day should remember that wheat must be ground down to make bread — and that "Jesus was ground down but rose. " "Take time out to realize who God is and where God is -who we are and whose we are, " Sister Gretchen told the gathering Feb. 2 at San Francisco's MercyHigh School. "Whenever we

m he Beatitudes are "challenging and very difficult to apply," Archbishop William J. Levada told participants in the Religious Education Institute , but they are a lesson th at must be lived out. "When we hear them proclaimed, we must know that we are at the heart of the message of the new law, " Archbishop Levada said "We are looking at Jesus himself who is inviting us to follow him , and we must find a way in our own lives to help each other find a way to imitate him. " The archbishop 's homily at the REI's concluding Mass Feb. 2 was based on the day 's Gospel reading, Matthew 's account of the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. "The Gospel proclaims the Beatitudes... a wonderful opportunity for us to contemplate what Jesus has in mind, in gathering his disciples about him and beginning his instruction with a beautiful but somewhat mysterious and certainly challenging message, " Archbishop Levada said. " He pointed out that the Catechism of the Catholic Church begins its section on Christian morality "with the Beatitudes, not the Ten Commandments. " "In many ways it is not just high spirituality but basic Christian doctrine that we look first to the Beatitudes to see the face, and the person and the work of Jesus who invites us to follow him — and gives us this model," he said.

The word "beatitude , " the archbishop said, comes from a Latin word "meaning happy — Happy are those who are poor in s p i r i t . . . happy are those who mourn, happy are the meek , happy are those who are persecuted. " "So it is a challenge. The commandments are concrete and real in many ways that the Beatitudes are n o t . . . . the Beatitudes seem uncompromising: Happy are the peacemakers. Can we not defend ourselves when we are attacked . . . ?" After the attacks of Sept. 11, "is meekness the recommendation Jesus gives to our president , our Congress, our-military, to us?" he asked. "These are important issues for us as catechists, educators , as Christians , as discip les of Jesus. To put these together in some form that we can know wh at Jesus wants us to do. " "The Beatitudes, first o.f all , show us the image of Jesus. " Archbishop Levada said. "Spontaneously we recognize the he fits everyone of them. He lives them out in his life , and invites us to follow him "We must be an example and a witness to each other when we hold up the poor and the meek as objects of our love and concern , as friends , as brothers and sisters."

where we become healthy and renewed, " should remind day Christians of their Baptism. In the early Church, she said, candidates for Baptism were immersed in water "naked and in the dark. " When they rose out of the water, they were given a garment and a candle," to symbolize their new life. Sister Gretchen also pointed out that in the bath room , men and women adjust their appearance — women putting on makeup , men shaving. "What kinds of mask do we wear?," she asked , "Or are we 'What you see is what you get. '" the interior and exterior match up, she said, in "people of integrity and authenticity. " remind us that our "The door or the entry of the house should The bedroom, she said, is the room where "die God of loving relationGod is the God of hospitality, welcome and inclusion , " she said. "When ships and compassion resides... a sacred space where spouses make love, Sister Gretchen Hailer: most children are conceived a place of comfort. It is the place where you look at the door of your house and when you look at the door of v your heart , are you hospitable , are you welcoming? Does everyone who You are constantl y sowing' children are not only conceived but comforted — you take them in bed _ __««. comes to you find the place as the desired guest?" »;___ ,._ with you and calm down their fears. It is the place where you remind them In the living room, Sister Gretchen said, "We display our treasures - the photos of babies, God is with them.... It is where the tired are renewed, a place where the ill are re-created. ... wedding pictures... The living room gives us a clue of what our life values are, This is where where we become lovers, become compassionate, reveal secrets, ask pardon, place trust" " the God of abundant life lives. . .. where life questions can be grappled with. The family room should be the "place of the God of community and reconciliation ," "The living room is where our values are, our treasures, " she said. The question is Sister Gretchen said, but contemporary society has turned it into "the entertainment center." "Do they reflect the values of God's kingdom or of another kingdom?" "What is the center of our family room — our family?" she asked. "Or do we stare at The bathroom, as "the place where we are washed clean and made ready for a new of television.... What vigilance do we use to keep the family focused on God?" altar the

were naughty,my grandmother told us, 'Sit down and remember who you are.' We would sit down and remember who we were and in a little while we would get up and she would give us a big embrace." Because Catholics are "a sacramental people," she said. "Everything speaks of God. So when we need to find God we don't have to go far, because we know Christ is in us — but we also don 't have to go far because we know God is at home wherever we are. God is at home wherever you l i v e . . . God is present there because you are there. " Sister Gretchen then took the audience on a trip through the rooms of a house , "so we can learn abou t the God who can be found there."

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'Each of y ou is a gif t ' Some 1,300 people parti cipa t ed in the annual Religious Education Institute sponsored by the archdiocesan Office of Religions Education and Youth Ministry. "Each ot you is a gift to us," said Sister Celeste ArbucHe, director of the office , said in her welcomin g remarks at the conference, which had as its theme: "Seek.. , Consider... Go: Spiritualities for Everyday life." "You seek the Lord always and you consider the lord's call each and every day of your lives. And with that calling you go out to spread the Good News. And remember, the Good Newsis: Jesus loves you. And he has something special for you to share * with oth ers in the world. "Today hopefull y as we gather to bear about spiritualities for everyday life seek, consider, go -we will find much to share with people we meet in our everyday lives." At the beginning of the institute, Enghsh-laoguage participants sent a bouquet of roses, representingOur Lady of Guadalupe, to Spanish-language participantswho sent their own gift In return: a conch shell sjmbolizing listening to the voice of Go<L

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_ I CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO Protection of children must be our f i rst concern The great wish of the Catholic Church in America is that the Geoghan case in the Archdiocese of Boston will become the last example of priest pedophilia overshadowed by "tragically wrong" judgments of Church officials. In a January 26 public letter, notable for its extraordinary candor, compassion and commitment, Cardinal Bernard Law, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Boston, said: "In the terrible instances of sexual abuse, the Archdiocese of Boston has failed to protect one of our most precious gifts , our children. As Archbishop, it was and is my responsibility to ensure that our parishes be safe havens for our children, places where they can experience all that the Church is called to be. In retrospect, I acknowledge that, albeit unintentionally 1 have failed in that responsibility. The judgments, which I made, while made in good faith, were tragically wrong. Because of this, some have called for my resignation. I do not believe that submitting my resignation to the Holy Father is the answer to the terrible scourge of sexual abuse of children by priests. Rather, I intend to implement a comprehensive and aggressive child protection program in order to better uncover and prevent the sexual abuse of children. This program will focus on our children. In going forward and responding to this horrible reality, the number one priority of the Archdiocese and me personally will be to ensure the safety of our children and to make every conceivable effort to see that no more of our young people become the victims of such abuse. I am committed to do all in my power to implement a policy of zero tolerance for the sexual abuse of children by priests or any agent of the Archdiocese." The leaders of Catholic archdioceses and dioceses across the nation share in this commitment. In a 1995 Statement entitled "Walk in the Light: A Pastoral Response to Child Sexual Abuse," the U.S. Catholic Bishops said, "We state firmly and clearly that any act of child sexual abuse is morally evil.... As the tragedy of child sexual abuse has come to light, we as pastors believe it is important to speak on this ... difficult issue, to offer a word of hope, and to help families touched by this tragedy. We are compelled to speak even knowing that the Church carries a heavy burden of responsibility in the area of sexual abuse. Some ordained ministers and religious brothers and sisters, as well as lay employees and volunteers have sexually abused children and adolescents. We are acutely aware of the havoc and suffering caused by this abuse and we are committed to dealing with these situations responsibly and in all humility. ... We are fully committed to preventing child sexual abuse and to restoring victims to health." Nearly two years ago (March 10, 2000), this page noted in an editorial that Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles had called clergy sexual abuse "one of the tragic scourges affecting the Church in the latter part of the last century." In his Lent 2000 message, the Cardinal apologized to victims of these crimes - individuals, family members and parish communities. He then went on to say, "Thorough and firm policies and procedures are in place to deal with the misconduct of any kind among our clergy and those in ministry, and I promise to continue our vi gilance against violating that needed trust between our people and those who serve them." In the Archdiocese of San Francisco last year, more than 1,000 clergy and administrators from throughout the archdiocese participated in seminars that introduced updated policies and procedures related to child abuse and sexual harassment. These seminars, held in conjunction with local child protective agencies, reviewed in depth expanded clergy and administrator responsibditi.es for reporting to authorities any instances of possible child sexual abuse. The seminars also highlighted the creation by the Archdiocese of San Francisco of an independent fact finding committee that is charged with reviewing allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor and any adult employee or person otherwise involved in ministry of the Church. This fact finding coinrnittee currently is composed of six members, four lay persons, including two child psychologists, a retired jud ge and a former police inspector, a religious sister who also is a registered nurse, and a priest who is a nationally known expert on child protective issues.This focus on protection of children is exactiy where the Church should be. Indeed this is the crucial point made by Cardinal Law in a January 23 meeting with priests of the Archdiocese of Boston. "I wish it were possible to go back in time and to undo some of the decisions that I made," the cardinal said. "I now see that these were wrong decisions. What I have come to learn with a much more vivid clarity during the past weeks is that our singular focus must be the protection of children." MEH

God sense vs. human sense

In response to E.F. Sullivan 's views (Catholic San Francisco , Jan. 25), historical references may make for good human sense. I submit a simple but absolutist point of view as taught by the Incarnate Christ Himself: "To love one another" (or perish). This is not merely a suggestion , albeit a difficult and toug h command to follow without options. I do not believe that Christ would have so lived and taught if He did not know that such was possible, that we humans are capable of using the very best of our God-given human sense(s). The command is applicable to all nations and their institutions, as well as to each individual living within the same. I believe that each era of human history and evolution demands the ultimate good in us. Rejection of the divinely therapeuti c power of history is to return to barbarism. P. Marie Malveaux San Francisco

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In the Jan. 25 Catholic San Francisco, your obituary of Sister Noel Riley did not mention that she taught at St. Peter 's Academy at 24th and Alabama Streets in this City. We, members of the Class of 1952, had the good fortune of being in her class in the seventh grade , 1946-47 , and sophomore year at St. Peter 's in 1949-50. While teaching us, she left to receive her final vows. She was/is indeed a special person to us. We are lucky to have shared those wonderful , memorable years with her. Mary Franco (Valencia) Nadeline Chiodo (Gaul) Norma Castro San Francisco

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The first snow: Not a spectator sport

'It s snowing !" The word spread quickl y, through the crowd at the Exhibition Center. Gabe slipped from the line and ran to the glass doors to see. He'd been stud ying the weathei page in the newspaper for weeks, hoping to see the umbrellas turn into snowmen. "It 's starting to stick!" he cried. It wasn't a serious snow by Midwest standards. But here in Seattle, where winters can pass with nary a flurry, it was enough to get everyone excited. "Is it snowing at our house?" asked Lucas. "I don 't know," I replied. When we'd headed for the sports fair in Seattle earlier that afternoon, the roads had been dry. "Is there anything else you want to see here?" He shook his head. "Let's just go home. " We walked back to the car and began the 30 minute drive north. It was getting colder, the streets were getting icy, and traffic was backing up. I knew we really should go strai ght home. But the snow was calling. When we passed the city park at Green Lake, I turned off and pulled into the parking lot. "You've got 10 minutes," I said. "Let's go!" The boys tumbled out of the car and ran across the field to the lake. Heavy white flakes drifted down, sticking to our hair and eyelashes. A layer of white covere d

the jogg ing path . Chickadees chattered in the tree above me. Out on the lake, ducks paddled unperturbed. I gazed out at the peaceful scene. Thunk! A snowball slammed into my back. "Got you , Mom!" "Oh, yeah?" I picked up the snowball and threw it back. "Missed me!" The boys squealed with laughter. They climbed up a small hill and slid down. They tossed their stuffed animals—Chickadee (the walrus) and his friend Seal—into the air, caught them, and rolled them along the ground. "It's snowing ! It's sticking!" sang out Gabe. "Chickadee loves it!" On the drive home, the streets and houses we had passed only hours before were transformed. The tall conifers were decked out with garlands of white. At last, we reached our house. It, too, sported a new look. "Looks like we got about an inch here," I said. "And it 's still coming down. " "Can we go outside and play?" "Sure." An hour later, they came back inside, cheeks red , eyes shining. "It's cold." "I made you some hot chocolate." "Thanks , Mom!"

We sat at the table and sipped our drinks. Outside , the snow continued to fall. "Seal will never forget this day," said Lucas. "He got a little more real today." There's something about that first wondrous snow of winter. You can 't just watch it , you have to go out and experience it. Adults may be content to enjoy the snow from the warmth of the living room, but kids know that looking at a snowman is no substitute for making one. It 's the same with our faith . It's not a spectator sport; God beckons us to jump right in. When we do, our world is transformed , and we get a little more real, a little more like the people God intends us to be.

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Christine Dubois is a widely published freelance writer who lives with her family nea r Seattle. Contact her at: chriscolumn@juno.com.

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Truth and freedom: Not mutually exclusive Kevin Hasson of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonpartisan , public interest law firm that defends the free expression of all religious traditions , is one of the legal stars of Catholicism in the United States. For Hasson and his Becket Fund colleagues , religious freedom is fundamentally a matter of human dignity, a recognition of the fact that human beings have a built-in thirst for the truth. To drive the expression of religious truth s out of public life is both undemocratic and inhumane. As with many other aspects of American life after September 11, there was actually a serious argument raised about the relationshi p between religious conviction and public life during "the holidays." Not surprisingly, it was raised b y Kevin Hasson. Writing in the Washington Post, Hasson took on three men who had been fretting about an imagined parallelism between Christians convinced of the truth of their faith and Af ghanistan 's Taliban: former President Clinton, and columnists Andrew Sullivan and Thomas Friedman. Clinton had suggested at Georgetown University that the only secure foundation for democracy was a robust uncertainty about the truth of anything; Sullivan had written that "in a world of absolute truth....there is no room for dissent" and Friedman, convinced that onl y relativistic religion is safe for the world, had decreed that Islam must recognize "that God speaks

multiple languages and is not exhausted by just one faith." Hasson quickly pointed out that Clinton, Sullivan and Friedman actually agreed with the Taliban on the crucial point. Advocates of radical skepticism and the Taliban both "assume that truth and freedom are irreconcilable opposites. The difference is that the Taliban happily sacrifices freedom for truth, while Clinton and the others obligingly sacrifice truth for freedom. Both agree, however, that you are either a truth-owning jihadi or a freedom-loving relativist. Choose your corner, and come out swinging." The way out of this seeming conundrum , Hasson proposes , was scouted by the Second Vatican Council' s Declaration on Religious Freedom." Vatican II, Hasson writes, "refused to divorc e truth and freedom. " Vatican II "grounded freedom in a great truth: that we humans come with a built-in thirst for transcendence, an innate desire to seek and embrace an ultimate truth that lies far beyond the horizon of ourselves." We can know the truth , but we can only adhere to the truth authentically when we adhere to it freely: "The truth about man is that man is born to seek freel y the truth about God. " That 's the most compelling argument for freedom , and for the human dignity; that 's the strongest moral warrant for freedom. Freedom isn 't secure when radical doubt about our capacity to know the tru th of anything is made into the first principle of democracy. Freedom is

secured by an unshakable commitment to the di gnity of every human being 's quest for the truth. And freedom is ennobled by the conviction that the only truth we full y embrace is the

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: That 's why religious freedom is the first of human rights, as John Paul II has frequentl y insisted. Catholicism finall y got this right at Vatican II , with immense consequences for the freedom revolution in central and eastern Europe , Latin America, and East Asia. If Islam could get it right — if Islam could find ground in the Koran to affirm what Hasson calls the "absolute truth of human dignity" — then islamic societies could evolve specificall y Islamic arguments for religious tolerance, and ultimately for pluralism. A lot of 21 st century history depends on whether that happens , and when.

George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Sp irituality

Sexuality and creativity: No easy answers

A friend of mine recently left the priesthood. He loved being a priest and was a good one. His problem? He was a man who fashioned beautiful things out of wood. At a point, rightly or wrongly, he felt that he couldn 't be creative if he remained celibate: "1 can 't be creative without sex!" is how he put it. He was an artist, with an artist 's temperament. Most artists, I suspect, will understand what he is saying, even if they don 't agree that this necessitates his particular decision. There 's a creativity that is released by sex, just as there's a sterility ("dried-upness") that can come about by .its suppression. Artists know this — too well, in fact. It's one of the reasons they 're so prone to artistic license in this area. Countless artists have expressed this; creativity and sexuality are linked at the very source of things. This is not a simplistic thesis. Artistic license in the area of sex is fired by more than hormones, ego, or irresponsibility, though one would have to be blind not to see that these often play a role, as well. What drives artists here is the connection between sex and creativity. There is a powerful link. And why shouldn't there be? All life is, after all, created through sex, in some fashion or other of that word.

Given this background, we see that Mary s question to the Angel Gabriel, is more than a simple query in biology: "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" She had just been told that she was to be the most creative of all artisans, the artist of artists, the mother of the fountain of creativity itself. So her question is a good one, a deep one: " "From what source can this life spring, given the limited way that I am living out my sexuality ?" This is, indeed, the real meditation for celibates like me: "How can I be creative without sex?" It is also just as crucial a meditation for everyone else, even for those who do enjoy healthy sexual lives. There 's no easy answer to that question — for artists, for married people, for celibates, or for anyone else. Sometimes, in terms of Christian spirituality, we have been simplistic in our answer. We're paying the price for that. Too prevalent is the artist who finds our theology of sexuality stifling and anti-life and has walked away from the church (and sometimes the faith) for just that reason. What is the answer? How can any of us be creative, given that we may not give ourselves irresponsible license in the area of sex?

I m not sure that there is a clear spiritual formula that can be articulated , canonized, and then applied in each case. We have, of course, a few non-negotiable principles, like the Ten Commandments, but these only define the outside parameters. Inside, innate within the very concepts of love, sex, respect, and responsibility themselves, lies a deeper set of moral principles that are much less easy to name and codif y. We leam these more by living morally than by studying anything. So how should we live so that our sexuality properly fuels our creativity? The answer to that, I suspect , will involve three things: a certain grieving, a certain mysticism, and a certain trust. Grieving: We can't be God, either in our talents to*create FR. ROLHEISER, page 14

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SCRIPTURE ©L ITURGY Rave reviews and doing what we were made to do Rare is the play or film that can survive unfavorable, initial reviews. People stay away in hordes from what is pronounced a "turkey" or a "bomb." We are constandy receiving reviews about our performance as disciples of Jesus from people where we live, work, shop, recreate, and drive. If these people seem so hostile, uncaring, bottomlessly angry, and untouched by Jesus' love, perhaps they sdently review our conduct as disciples where they have found no "salt" or "light." The Scripture, chosen for this Sunday's liturgy of the Word, shows us the way to rave notices when we do what we have been made to do. Isaiah puts the cards on die table with disarming directness: Do you want to have your prayers answered? Do you want to see light in our dark world? Then do the deeds of God. Allow the prophet to have his say: "Thus says the Lord: Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless; clothe the naked when you see diem, and do not turn your back on your own." This living as members of God's restored People produces wonderful fruit: "Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed; your vindication shall go before you, and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry for help, and he will say: 'Here I am!'" Matthew 's Sermon on the Mount continues in the same vein yes, but more emphatically. Because Jesus has come as Son of Man in his ministry, his death and resurrection, and in his presence to Church communities in their action and ministry, something happens to us: we are made "salt of the earth" "light of the world." Matthew underscores the fact that what we are (and can do) is precisely what the world needs; without our "salt" our world is dull and flat; without our "light" our world is dark. "Your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father." Matthew insists that we can do these needed deeds — healing, forgiving, including, outreaching—which are lived out alternatives for our world's salting and illumination. Register the fact that Matthew 's version of the Lord's Prayer (6:9-13) includes the phrase: "Your will be done on earth as in heaven," whereas Luke's version of the same prayer does not (cf. Luke 11: 1-4). While Luke has us pray in longing for

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 58:7-10; Psalm 112; / Corinthians 2:1-5; Matthew 5:13-16.

Father David M. Pettingill the kingdom's coming on the final day, Matthew has us pray to make it present here and now. Matthew concludes the Sermon on the Mount with bold insistence on deeds of discipleship and not merely bold words: "Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the wdl of my Father in heaven . ... Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them wdl be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock." Matthew goes on to describe disciples as colaborers with Jesus in God's harvest (9:37-38) and as coshepherds with him (10:6). For Matthew the disciples' deeds draw their power from Jesus the Lord and are the way our world receives its much needed "salt" and "light." I Corinthians makes certain we get it right. The deeds we perform do not originate from our strong wills, forceful personalities, or human strategies. They come from our hearing and welcoming the preaching of Christ crucified. The power our deeds have originates in the exhibition of God's power at work

in the crucified Jesus giving life and salvation to the People this event has gathered. Our mere human gestures acquire their transcendence from the touch of this saving deed of God. Let Paul express it as only he can: "When I came to you. .. proclaiming the mystery (plan) of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified." This is a different Paul from the one who tried the Madison Avenue approach at the Areopagus in Athens and, to put it rmldly, laid a big egg (Acts 17:22-34). Chastened by his abject failure, Paul displays a new perspective when he writes, "I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling, and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of Spirit and power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God." Good reviews await us if we realize the importance of our contribution to the world as its "salt" and "light." While our deeds are all too human and limited, they derive an on-target power from the celebration of Word and Eucharist which make present the exhibition of God's power in the death and resurrection of Jesus — the undoubtable deed for all time. Questions for Small Communities 1. Why are we weak on "deeds," especially in the area of justice? 2. Why is our "light" and "salt" so needed? In what way can we offer them?

Father David M. Petting ill is assistant to the moderator of the curia and parochial vicar at St. Emydius Parish, San Francisco.

Ministry of the choir and the rite of preparation The rite of preparation can be a fruitful time for the choir to sing a choral anthem, which will serve to free the assembly to both experience the rite and receive the gifts of the choir 's ministry. Even if a liturgy is laden with vocal music this can be a refreshing way to use vocal music without continuing to tire the singing assembly. This is particularl y important when considering the centrality of the acclamations of the eucharistic prayer to follow. The princip le of "internal participation" which is never to replace the value of "external participation" is important in this discussion. The prayerful listening of which internal participation consists is of value in considering the various types of shared communal prayer. We must first consider that the entirety of the liturgy is a dialogue — a dialogue ultimately between God and the Church, the people of God. In a dialogue one person speaks and the other listens before responding. Likewise the response that follows does not escape the scrutiny of the other demanding the listening of the partner in dialogue. The prayerful listening of the assembly during the rites of preparation while consciously offering their gifts of bread, wine, water and the gift of themselves leads to the external vocalization of, "may the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name, for our good, and the good of all his Church." This moment of the entire assembl y 's response to its dialogue partner (God) can be fmitful even if their participation during much of the preparation is internal. The choir can assist in this ritual of preparation of the gifts of God including the gift of God's people given and offered to God in the liturgy. In essence, this preparation should involve a preparation of minds and hearts who have received the Word and who are now to offer the

Fr. Rolheiser . . . ¦ Continued from page 13 or in our capacity to sleep with the universe.At a certain point, we have to accept limits. We're creatures, not God. And what we can't have must be grieved or it will make us bitter. Mysticism: Sex is earthy, real, and produces life. But there are other, real forms of love-making. These, too, pro-

Father Jim McKearney, S.S. great prayer of thanksgiving and who will receive the gift of Holy Communion. There are many compositions to illustrate how the choir can facilitate this ritual with its ministry, but consider the following as one of many examples. "With what shall I come before the Lord?" This beautiful opening line of the choral piece entitied "Offertory " by John Ness Beck and published by the Beckenhorst Press is a powerful line from the book of the prophet Micah, wonderfully set to music for SATB choir and keyboard. This flowing piece with a simple pulse in four can easily be sung by an average church choir and was very popular for the preparation rite for ordination ceremonies in the East in the mid 1990's. duce life. The Body of Christ is, at one and the same time, radically physical and radically mystical. Even as sex plays such a life-producing role in this world, there are deep, invisible embraces inside the Body of Christ where seed and womb also meet and produce life in ways beyond what we can phenomenologically trace. Trust: Maybe, as we see in Mary's response, the real answer is trust — faith that if we live out our lives according to what we deeply believe, no matter how far from

This piece soars with the touching sentiment of the heart of a prophet moved by the desire of God for a pure sacrifice to be offered. The choir sings with Micah: "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow before God most high? Shall I come before him with holocausts, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be p leased with thousands of rams, with myriad streams of oil? Shall I give my firstbom for my crime, the fruit of my bod y for the sin of my soul? You have been told, 0 man, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do right and to love goodness, and to walk humbl y with your God."[Micah 6:6-8] This piece can wonderfull y accompany the rites of preparation freeing the assembly to receive the choir's offering, pray with their hearts these sentiments and offer their gifts. This through-composed piece is not too long for most preparation rites and is easily improvised upon should the rite include an incehsation. In addition to this piece there are many other examp les of choral pieces both from contemporary composers and the great composers of the past. This richness is just waiting to be explored. In light of this richness we need a creative approach to the musical plan for the rite. Ignoring this opportunity by singing a through-composed hymn with the entire assembly every Sunday short changes not only the rite, but also the choir which is a group of musical disciples called to minister to, as well as lead the people of God in the Church' s prayer. ¦i i—

Suplician Father James McKearney is director of music fo r St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park. human fertility that may seem at times, God will make us creative in ways that we cannot now imagine. m i

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, a theolog ian, teacher and award-winning author, serves in Rome as genera l councilor fo r Canada for the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Ref lections

Torture: What is the moral person's answer? Time magazine ' s Charles Krauthammer wrote an astonishing article in the December 26 issue, "In Defense of Secret Tribunals." He offers his "paradi gmatic ethicsclass scenario: 'There is a nuclear bomb hidden in New York City. It is set to go off in 30 minutes. You have captured a terrorist who knows where it is. To find out , are you allowed to torture him?'" Krauthammer 's answer: "Only a moral idiot would say no." In a recent edition of "60 Minutes ," Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz joined this Krauthammer ethic by also claiming that torture of terrorists is certainly permissible and necessary in certain circumstances. As a civilized nation, do we want to favor the torturing of terrorists in order to gain critical information? Krauthammer's and Dershowitz 's replies indicate that only a "moral idiot" would answer no. Are we moral imbeciles or not? Here's the simple question: Do we favor the use of torture under certain circumstances?" I purposefull y add "under certain circumstances" as I would guess that those who say "yes" would want to refine their reply in at least some fashion. After all, we surely would not favor torturing just anyone. Let's take a careful look at this question. In 1975 and 1984 the United Nations defined torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionall y inflicted by or at the instigation of, or with the consent or acquiescence of, a public official on other persons acting in an official capacity for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or confession, punishing him for an act he has committed, or intimidating him or other persons. . . Torture constitutes an aggravated and deliberate form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Torture can take various forms: deprivation of food, water or sleep; forcing one to stand for long periods of time; confining persons in positions that cause acute muscle strain; depriving persons of the use of a toilet; humiliation. Examples are many: forcing a person to eat unmentionable items, riding persons as if they were horses; covering a person's head with urinary and fecal matter; forcing a person to stand naked; beatings; deprivation of washing one 's self; mock executions; isolation; covering a person with cold or hot water, filth, or live or dead animals; severely changing the temperature; electric shock; the sane given insane cell mates. Often a doctor is present to lend a certain professional sanctum to what goes on. What reasons are traditionally offered in justification of torture? The usual answer is something like this: to save

innocent lives by locating the bomb. In other words, preserving civilization . Torture, after all. is the fastest and most economic way of getting information. When a society or regime justifies it, torture becomes institutionalized and the torturer is given impunity because this is his 'job. The infamous 1960 research of Yale psycholog ist Stanley Milgram demonstrated the fact that ordinary and even good people will not necessarily shrink away from torturing others , even when the amount of administered pain is believed to be severe . The torturer then becomes a victim of torture. Milgram concluded , "With numbing regularity good people were seen to knuckle under to the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe. Men who are in everyday life responsible and decent were seduced by the trappings of authority, by the control of their perceptions, and by the uncritical acceptance of the experiment 's definition of the situation into performing harsh acts... " As a nation, if we approve of torture under all or some circumstances, then, we institutionalize terror and create a climate where the torturer (and his advocates) become insensitive to the harsh and dehumanizing acts which receive social legitimacy in order to protect the nation and its people. In 1929 the Encyclopedia Britannica proclaimed that torture is "only of historical interest" This is a widely inaccurate statement. In 1931, for example, the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (the Wickersham Commission), a blue-ribbon committee reporting directly to the President of the United States, reported that "the inflicting of pain, physical or mental, to extract confessions or statements is widespread throughout the country." More recent examples demonstrate that these practices continue in the U.S., and clearly in other countries such as Brazil , Haiti and Guatemala. Prison inmates in Arkansas' Tucker State Prison Farm were tortured in the late 1960s, police in New Orleans and New York were convicted of torturing suspects in the 1980s, and more than 900 people were deliberately allowed to be bitten by police dogs in Los Angeles and Chicago in the 1990s. We should not think, then, that we are far from the social approval of torture. How should we think about all of this? While Scripture pays little attention to the question of torture, and the New Testament mentions it only incidentally when St. Paul points to the fact of his own Roman citizenship in order to avoid being tortured (Acts 22:24ff),

classical writers (e.g., Tertullian, Lactantius and Augustine) wrote extensivel y against torture. In 382 the canons of the Roman Synod taught that those who administered torture cannot be considered as free from sin. This level of teaching did not remain constant, however, as Pope Innocent IV in 1224 allowed torture in order to force wrongdoers to reveal their own sins. During the Inquisition, torture was commonly accepted and approved by the Church for use against heretics. It was not until 1624 that one finds growing moral arguments against torture as a sin against nature, Christian charity, justice and proportion. From the 19th century onward, the manuals of moral theology stopped all references to torture by simply naming it "a sign of barbarism." Rabbinic scholars have traditionally condemned all forms of torture based on the assertion that human beings are made in God's image, and the need to love one 's neighbor forbids human degradation. In this regard, one rabbinic penal axiom is instructive: "If anyone destroys a man it will be reckoned to him as if he had destroyed a whole world. And if anyone preserves a man's life, it will be reckoned to him as if he had preserved a whole world." The teaching of the Catholic Church on torture is clearly and irrevocably stated in Vatican II's "Gaudium et Spes": Torture is against life itself, offensive to the dignity of the human person and a shameful practice. It is one of a group of actions which poison human society, though torture does even more harm to those who practice it than it does to those who suffer from the injury; torture, moreover , is a supreme dishonor to the Creator, (no. 27; see also Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2297) Is it morally permissible, then, to torture the terrorist who knows the location of the nuclear bomb which is to explode in New York City in 30 minutes? Any moral person would answer no.

Father Gerald Coleman, S.S.

Sulpician Father Gerald D. Coleman is president and rector of St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

Dulles backs pope's teaching on death penalty; Scalia dissents By Michelle Martin Catholic News Service CHICAGO (CNS) -Cardinal Avery Dulles supported Pope John Paul IPs teaching that the death penalty should be imposed rarely, if ever, while U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said he has g iven the teaching "careful and thoughtful consideration and rejected it. " The pope 's position represents "a continuity with tradition rather than a reversal ," Cardinal Dulles said Jan. 25 at a conference here on the death penalty. "The classical position has been modified, not reversed," the Jesuit theologian said. "It has been a legitimate development of doctrine," the cardinal said of the church's teaching on capital punishment. "Self-defense of society continues to justif y the death penalty." Defending society includes preserving moral order, not just physical safety, Cardinal Dulles said. "One could conceive of a situation where, if justice were not done by executing an offender , it would throw society into moral confusion," he said. "I don't know whether that requires any more than that it (the death penalty) remain on the books, symbolically, that it be there for society to have recourse to." "Evangelium Vitae," John Paul IPs 1995 encyclical on the "Gospel of Life," and the most recent edition of the "Catechism of the Catholic Church," say that given the improvements in modem penal systems, situations calling for the death penalty are "very rare, if not nonexistent." Justice Scalia told the conference that this position "is not one the Christian church has consistently maintained. " He said that Thomas More, the patron saint of lawyers and politicians, was considered to have imposed the death penalty too quickly, even by 16th-century standards. Since the pope 's teaching on capital punishment in "Evangelium Vitae" did not come "ex cathedra," Scalia

said that as a Catholic, he is not obligated to believe it, only to give it serious consideration. "I do not find the death penalty immoral. I am happy to reach that conclusion , because I like my job, and I would rather not resign." The teaching of Pope John Paul is based on a number of factors that do not affect the basic legitimacy of state-sponsored executions assumed in Paul's Letter to the Romans or throughout the Old Testament, Cardinal Dulles said. Such legitimacy was assumed throughout the Western worl d until the middle of the 20th century, Cardinal Dulles said. At that time in history the gross abuse of capital punishment by the Nazis and by the Stalinist Soviet Union — regimes with which John Paul II had personal experience — demonstrated how horribly it could be misused, he said. Since then, he said, opponents have used arguments about the inequitable use of capital punishment against minorities and poor people; the lack of adequate legal defense for poor people; the possibility of a miscarriage of justice; the impossibility of assessing the true culpability of a criminal; and the tendency of executions to "feed an unhealthy appetite for revenge" and cheapen human life. "I think the pope and the bishops feel we should go to the extreme of respecting human life, even guilty human life," he said. Thus, even though the death penalty continues to serve the valid purposes of punishment, using it rarely is "a merely prudential application of the classical doctrine to current circumstances." Cardinal Dulles' argument was echoed at the conference by scholars from Protestant, Jewish and Muslim traditions, who all said that any move away from supporting the death penalty represents a refinement , rather than a repudi ation, of their earlier teaching. Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, a Catholic, told the conference that the death penalty as used in the United States is not immoral. What's more, he said, given that the ratio of

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Cardinal Avery Dulles executions to murders in the United States is less than half of 1 percent, this country meets the pope's standard for the death penalty to be "extremely rare." In support of the death penalty, Keating raised the example of Roger Dale Stafford , the first man executed in Oklahoma after Keating took office. Stafford killed a family of three, including an 8-year-old boy, during a highway robbery and then killed five teen-agers during a restaurant robbery. Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, killed 168 people, 19 of them children. For them, what other penalty would be just, Keating asked. "I don 't lose any sleep at night," he said. The conference "A Call for Reckoning: Religion and the Death Penalty," was organized by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Lenten Opportunities Feb. 15: The Gospel ol Matthew presented by Michael Reardon at St. Robert Church, 1380 Crystal Springs Rd., San Bruno at 7 p.m. Directed by Patrick Lane , the dramatization has been seen more than 1,000 times in cities across the U.S., Canada and Asia. No admission charge but a free will offering will be accepted. Call (650) 589-2800. Feb. 16: The Blessing Seed, a Lenten Day of Prayer with Sister Toni Longo at Vallombrosa Center 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. In this Lenten time , be the " new soil in which our God plants a Blessing Seed lull ol life and hope for ourselves as individuals and for the world." Day includes Mass and opportunity for sacrament of Reconciliation. $35 fee includes lunch. Call (650) 325-5614. Feb. 17: Open House at Our Lady of Fatima Eastern Catholic Church beginning with Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m. followed by Parish Potluck. Experience and learn more about the Eastern Church. 101 20th Ave. at Lake , SF. Call (415) 7522052. March 6: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and a cappella Passion Music at St. Dominic Church , 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF at 7:30 p.m. Features the voices and instruments of The Musicians of St. Dominic 's under the direction of David Schofield. Tickets $8/$10. Call (415) 567-7824. March 22-24: He has come to his people to set them free , a silent Palm Sunday weekend retreat for men and women with Father Thomas Madden at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. $160 single/$140 shared room. Begins with dinner Fti. at 6 p.m. and concludes after lunch on Sunday. Call (650) 325-5614. March 23: Penance Service sponsored by Deanery One with Bishop John C. Wester presiding, at St, Anne of the Sunset Church 850 Judah St. at Funston, SF beginning at 9:30 a.m. People from all deaneries are invited.

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3rd Tues at 8:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., SF. Call Delia Molloy at (415) 5634280 3rd Thurs. at 7:30 p.m. at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park with Sister Toni Longo 1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 3223013. 3rd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Call Dean Miller at (650) 328-2880 1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Delia Molloy at (415) 563-4280.

Young Adults The Young Adult Ministry office of the Archdiocese can be contacted by phone at (415) 614-5595 or 5596 and by e-mail at witcoxc@sfarch diocese.org or jansenm @sfarchdiocese. org. San Francisco 's St. Agnes Parish, 1025 Masonic , SF and St. Agnes Spiritual Life Center, 1611 Oak St., SF announces talks and prayer opportunities. Call Chad Evans at (415) 487-8560.

Prayer/Devotions 2nd Fri.: Holy Hour for Priests at St. Finn Barr Church, 10:30 a.m. Includes talk by priest from Opus Dei with silent prayer and Reconciliation if desired. Followed by simple lunch in rectory. Call (415) 333-3627.

Family Life Feb. 23: Languages of Love , a day for married couples at Holy Name of Jesus Church , 38th Ave. and Lawton, SF. Contact Mary and Bob Hawkins at (415) 564-4838 or register at http://santrancisco.ca.wwme.org.

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March 23, 24: St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Class of '52 reunion. Contact Dick Wall at (415) 434-3323, owwm@pacbell.net or Jack Mona at jem ona@aol.com April 5, 6, 2002: Class of '52 , Notre Dame High School, San Francisco. If you have not been contacted , please call Patty Moran at (415) 861-2378. Oct. 5: Presentation High School , Class of '52 reunion. Contact Dolores MacDonald Bagshaw at (916) 369-0235 or Lorraine Denegri D'Elia at (650) 992-2076. Holy Angels Class of '70 please contact Peggy McEneaney Hart at (650) 875-0793 or 877-8925. Class of '62, St. Anne of the Sunset, call Steve Geramoni at (650) 637-1055/spgeramoni@aol.com or Mary Maher Balestriere at (650 593-3508/frankbal @aol.com.

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Marc h 8 - 1 0 : Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend: A Weekend of Discovery, a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 568-3018 or at the e-mail address above. Introductory instruction for married or engaged couples about Natura l Family Planning, Billings Ovulation Method, is available by appointment from NFP consultant Gloria Gillogley. Call (650) 345-9076. Natural Family Planning classes on the Billings Ovulation Method of NFP are offered at St. Brendan Parish, Ulloa and Laguna Honda Blvd., SF. Call instructor, Jodi Mendieta, at (415) 285-3036.. Retrouvaiile, a program for troubled marriages. The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heal and renew their families. Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or edgleason @ webtv. net. The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers two free information meetings on adoption and foster care on the 2nd Tues. of each month in San Francisco and on 1st Mon. in San Mateo at 7 p.m. Call (415) 406-2387.

Consolation Ministry Groups meet at the following parishes. Please call numbers shown for more information. Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Louise Nelson at (650) 343-8457 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel , Redwood City. Call (650) 366-3802. St. Andrew , Daly City. Call Eleanor and Nick FesunoH at (650) 878-9743; Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call (650) 589-2800. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont. Call Ann Ponty at (650) 5980658 or Mary Wagner at (650) 591-3850. St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at (415) 4725732. Our Lady of Loretto, Novate Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171 .St. Gabriel, SF. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Finn Barr, SF in English and Spanish. Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823; St. Cecilia, SF. Call Peggy Abdo at (415) 564-7882. Epiphany, SF in Spanish. Call Kathryn Keenan at (415) 564-7882. Ministry for parents who have lost a child is available from Our Lady of Angels Parish , Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Young Widow/Widower group meets at St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 5647882. Information about children 's and teen groups is available from Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

Food & Fun Feb. 9: The Marin Cursillo Community announces a Celebrate Life, Wlardi Gras Variety Show at Blessed Sacrament Hall, 150 North San Pedro Rd. San Rafael. Program features local talent. Bring beverage and finger food to share. Free will donations accepted. Everyone welcome. Call Madeline at (415) 479-5208. Feb. 9: First Purple and Gold Gala, a dinner, dance, silent auction benefiting Archbishop Riordan High School Scholarship Fund at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Burlingame. Music by the school's Jazz Ensemble. Tickets $125 per person. Call (415) 586-9190. Feb. 15: Queen of Hearts -2002 Card Party and Luncheon of the San Mateo County Catholic Charities Auxiliary, 11:30 a.m. at San Mateo Garden Center, 605 Parkside Way, San Mateo. Ticket s $22. Call (650) 349-4399 or (650) 6971724.

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Feb. 16: In the Spirit of Friendship, a luncheon and fashion show benefiting St. Ignatius College Prep, 2001 37th Ave., SF, sponsored by the Loyola Guild of SF. Tickets $40. Call Janet Underwood at (415) 751-0248. Feb. 17: Chinese New Year at St. Finn Barr Parish hall, 415 Edna St. at Hearst , SF, 5 - 8 p.m. Entertainment , lion dance and food. Contact Father Dominic at (415) 333-3627 for ticket information. March 2: St. Robert' s Women 's Guild announces its annual dinner dance at Burlingame's Marriott Hotel. Evening includes entertainment , live art auction , raffle. Benefits the children of St. Robert' s. For ticket information , call (650) 589-2800. March 2: Spring Event Dinner and Auction benefiting St. John Elementary School , SF at the Italian-American Social Club of SF beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets $75per person$125 per couple. Call (415) 584-8383. March 2: Annual Crab Bash, sponsored by Serra Club of the Golden Gate, and benefiting the vocations mission of the group, at St. Anne of the Sunset Parish hall, 850 Judah St. at Funston , SF. Cocktails at 6 p.m., dinner at 7:15 p.m., dancing from 8 - 1 1 p.m. For ticket information , call Tom O'Donnell at (650) 349-2489. Most 1st Fri.: Join the Marin Catholic Breakfast Club for prayer, dialogue and a catered breakfast beginning with 7 a.m. Mass at St. Sebastian Church , Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd., Greenbrae. Members $5/non-members $10. Dues are $15 annually. Reservations necessary. Please respond to sugaremy@aol.com or (415) 461- 0704 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. 3rd Sat.: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 584-5823.

Help a child succeed in school and in life by serving as a tutor for two hours a week at Sacred Heart Elementary School , 735 Fell St., SF. Sessions take place Mon. - Thurs. from 3:30 5:30 p.m. Help welcome in a variety of subjects. Call Doug Pierce at (415) 621-8035 or Mary Potter at (415) 876-4811. St. Joseph's Village, a homeless shelter for families at 10th and Howard St., SF, is looking for dedicated office volunteers to answer phones and greet residents. If you are interested in volunteering, call Dewitt Lacey at (415) 575-4920. San Francisco 's St. Anthony Foundation needs volunteers as well as canned goods and other staples. Non-perishable foods may be taken to 121 Golden Gate Ave. M - F from 8"30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Volunteer candidates should call (415) 241-2600 or visit the web site at www.stanthonysf.org. Seeking enthusiastic men and women for the volunteer team at Mission Dolores Gift Shop. Welcome visitors from around the world, distribute brochures , accept donations and assist in gift shop sales. You'll also have a chance to practice additional languages you may speak. Call Theresa Mullen at (415) 621-8203 , ext. 30. SF's Laguna Honda Hospital is in need of extraordinary ministers including Eucharistic ministers and readers as well as volunteers to visit with residents and help in the office and with events. Call Sister Miriam Walsh at (415) 6641580, ext. 2422. Raphael House, a homeless shelter for families in San Francisco 's Tenderloin District , is in need of volunteers to help with various tasks. Hours are 5:45 p.m. - 9 p.m. Call Carol at (415) 345-7265. California Handicapables, which provides a monthly Mass and luncheon to handicapped persons , needs volunteers including drivers , servers , donors, and recruiters of those who might benefit from the experience. Call Jane Cunningham at (415) 585-9085. St. Francis Fraternity, a secular Franciscan organization, needs volunteers to help with their 20 year old tradition of serving breakfast on Sunday mornings to their Tenderloin neighbors. Call (415) 621-3279. Maryknoll Affiliates: Bay Are a chapter meets 3rd Sat. for two hours at Maryknoll House , 2555 Webster St., SF to share community, prayer, and action on social justice and global concerns. Members occasionally do short periods of mission service around the wo rld at Maryknoll locations. Call Marie Wren at (415) 331-9139 or mwren48026@aol.com.

Returning Catholics Programs tor Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes : St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288 or Dominican Father Steve Maekawa at (415) 567-7824; Holy Name of Jesus , SF, Dennis Rivera at (415) 664-8590; St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336 , Elaine Yastishock at (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame , Dorothy Heinrichs or Maria Cianci at (650) 347-7768; St. Dunstan , Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 7264337; St. Peter, Pacifica , Shirley Bryant at (650) 355-5168.

Reunions Mater Dolorosa Elementary School , South San Francisco is updating its alumni mailing lists. Call (650) 588-8175. St. Stephen Elementary School celebrates its 50th anniversary in the fall and alumni are being sought. Update your name , address , phone number and/or volunteer to help by calling Ann Nagel Tittiger at (650) 991-2519. Feb. 10: 50th Anniversary reunion of St. Gregory School, San Mateo. School is seeking alumni from all 50 years. Contact Cindy Stuart at (650) 570-0111 or Linda Schulz at (650) 3458098 or schulzcl@aol.com. Marc h 23: USF's Golden Alumni Reunion recognizing classes of '52, '47, '42, '37, '32 on the school's main campus from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Call (415) 422-6431 or reunions@usfca.edu.

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Manager for tlie Abbey Kitchen feK Mount Angel Abbey and Seminary is in search of a manager for the Abbey Kitchen. Necessary qual ifications include: education in food service, culinary certified , hospitable and service oriented , organized , good communicator and team player, flexible and creative, with a pleasant personality. Ability to direct cooking of all meals for 250 people. Knowledge of procurement , preparation and distribution. Catering experience a plus. Significant knowledge of Cadiolic organizational structures and philosophies preferred. Supervisory skills required to manage 12 employees. Please send your resume to: Mount Angel Abbey, Lynn Morris , Human Resources, fax number 503-845-3594 or mail to One Abbey Drive, St. Benedict, OR 97373 EOE

O erra Catholic School is a tri!_ .sponsored parish, WCEA/ § WASC accredited Catholic School located in South Orange County serving approximately 800 students in grades K through 8. The school is an inclusive school , meaning that Serra accepts students with diverse learning needs. The school currentiy consists of temporary buildings and is now in the beginning stages of a second campaign to raise funds to build the permanent campus. Construction is expected to begin in die summer of 2002. Qualifications • A practicing Cadiolic who is dedicated to the ministry of Catholic school education • A minimum of five years of principalshi p on the elementary level • Current Reli gious Certification • A-master 's Degree with emphasis in supervision , curriculum and instruction or other educational administrative courses • A current Standard Teaching Credential • Extensive knowledge of the use of technology in a school

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Valley Catholic Respected college prep school, 480 students in grades 7-12; coed. Admin, certif. or M.A.; practicing Catholic. See www.valleycatholic.org for info & application. Send applications: Sister Rita Watkins

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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-6375

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 94903 415-479-9020