March 18, 2005

Pro-life Democrat calls for faith in action for all life

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hough still smarting from his recent defeat as a prolife candidate for chairman of the Democratic Party, former Indiana Congressman Timothy Roemer said the experience and the debate it engendered has brought “more progress in the last 30 days on the issue of abortion than the last 30 years.”

Roemer addressed faith and its role in public life at the Ninth Annual Quinn Colloquium held at the University of San Francisco March 9. The event is named for former San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn and sponsored jointly by the Archdiocese and USF. “For the first time in 30 years we have the opportunity to change the debate of abortion” in the Democratic Party, said Roemer. In articulating a “new vision” for the party Roemer said Democrats should be able to agree not to “tolerate a situation where the number of abortions in this country each year exceeds the number of people killed due to war and terrorism.”

The former 9-11 Commission member and chairman of the Center for Policy Studies proposed a four point program to reduce the number of abortions by 70 per cent over ten years, which he is hoping fellow Democrats will buy into. His suggestions are aimed to “support both the mother and the baby.”

The program aims first to reduce unwanted pregnancies by increasing support for pregnancy prevention, abstinence, and family planning programs, as well as contraception and “appropriate sex education.”

Second, he said that government programs should reflect the view of Pope John Paul II who, he said calls for “a more radical solidarity with women to prevent abortion.” This would mean rolling back recent budget cuts in the federal Women, Infants and Children program, increasing health care and other forms of support for unwed mothers and supporting an adoption tax credit. “We must provide personal and economic security for women to bring that life into the world,” he said.

Roemer also hoped “we could find agreement in the Democratic Party” for a ban on partial-birth abortion and parental notification initiatives crafted like one soon expected to be on the ballot in California.

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Holy Week liturgies include Chrism Mass San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada has invited all of the faithful to join with him and priests of the Archdiocese at the Chrism Mass,Tuesday, March 22, at 5:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

The Chrism Mass is a major liturgical event of Holy Week, attended by many priests renewing their priestly ordination vows. The Archbishop especially invites those who are to be initiated into the Church and those who are to be confirmed. At the Chrism Mass, holy oils that will be used in the sacraments of the Church are prepared. The ritual usually is connected to the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, but is separated from that liturgy so more priests are able to attend.

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Same-sex marriage ruling . . . 5 Senior living . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9 Science and dignity. . . . . . . 15

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Editorial and letters . . . . . . 16

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Scripture and reflection . 18-19

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Holy Week and Easter Liturgies ~ Pages 11-14 ~

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by Tom Burke Happy 59 years married January 19th to Frances and Jim McGill of St. Luke Parish in Foster City. Jim’s recently returned from his 60th reunion at the United States Merchant Marine Academy often known as King’s Point on Long Island. He served seven months as a merchant seaman and a year and a half as a navy junior officer across WWII war zones in the North and South Pacific. Tamer was his subsequent almost 40 year career with Hallmark Cards. “I was the last salesman approved by company founder, Joyce Clyde Hall,” Jim told me, noting that J.C. not only approved every salesperson but every card as well. “He had his ‘Okay Committee’ that met every Monday to compose verses that later were matched with jackets for various occasions,” Jim recalled adding that Hallmark has grown to employ the world’s 3rd largest art department after Disney and an ad agency whose name he couldn’t recall. Biggest sellers through the years have included the Peanuts line, of course.

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time for us to put the brakes on the areas of our life where we might be self-absorbed and put the petal to the metal on our relationship with God,” said Father Jack O’Neill, pastor, Sacred Heart Parish in Olema….Thanks to St. Paul of the Shipwreck for reminding in a recent bulletin that “our Lenten journey” might also work very nicely under the title, “Destination Easter.” It’s also “thanks” here to Jovita Abriam who has been pitchin’ in while parish secretary Dinia Wright was on vacation… “Get well soon,” says Corpus Christi Parish to sacristan Daniel Romero…All hats off at Serra Club of the Golden Gate for former president and District Governor Joe Puig, who has died. “We will all miss him,” the club said in a recent newsletter….At Our Lady of Mercy, it’s “Happy 75th birthday to wonderful volunteer and parishioner, Alex Petroff.”…St. Peter’s in Pacifica wishes a happy anniversary to parish Deacon Peter Solan who was ordianed10 years ago…. Congrats to Star of the Sea

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Lastly, he said, there is a need to recruit and fund pro-life candidates in the Democratic Party. He said this required the financial assistance of pro-life Democrats and others of good will. “Hollywood should not be allowed to define and defeat these pro-life candidates in Democratic primary campaigns.�

The main part of Roemer’s speech concerned lessons of commitment to faith acquired through family, school and church; reflections on the 2004 election; and the need for a new doctrine of faith and public service to guide Catholic politicians.

The importance of putting faith into action was impressed upon him by his parents who served between them more than 55 years at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He recalled that immediately following Mass, while the family was living in San Jose, his parents had taken him to join in a march with farm-worker organizer Cesar Chavez. The message, Roemer said, is “what you learn in the pew, from your prayers, in the Church must be mobilized outside in the community to help the least of your brothers and sisters.�

He compared a faithful public service vocation to that of the Good Samaritan who stopped to help when others wouldn’t.

Christians must ask themselves, “If I do not stop to get involved in the public arena, what will happen to the poor, the homeless and the unborn?� “Being pro-life is more than just opposing abortion,� Roemer said. Drawing on the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s image of the “seamless garment� Roemer said, “Democrats must give voice to additional

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core values – for the unborn and the born – from the delivery room to the classroom.�

Roemer said he was troubled by the “enduring impression� left by the 2004 election that the Republican Party had “laid claim to being the home of moral values and religious faith.� Roemer complained that Republicans have “to often staked the ground without pitching the tent,� and that “compassionate conservative rhetoric cannot drown out the cries of the poor, the number of homeless living in our streets or the outsourcing of quality jobs oversees.�

On the other hand, he said, the Democratic Party “evacuated the religion and values territory.� Quoting Winston Churchill, he said, “You cannot win wars by evacuation.� Roemer lamented that “to many voters, Democrats became broadly identified with secularists who are some-

Archdiocesan Choral Festival celebrates importance of music programs More than one thousand students participated in the 17th annual Archdiocesan Choral Festival held earlier this month at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco. Choirs represented 26 Catholic elementary schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said Holy Names Sister Marianne Viani, associate superintendent of the Department of Catholic Schools.

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times hostile to religious interests and values,� and that Democrats were broadly painted by Republicans “as being less committed to the institution of marriage and advocating abortion on demand.�

These impressions do great harm to the Democratic Party, particularly in contestable and rural districts, he said.

Democrats must demonstrate they hold values “that tie together the common threads of the seamless garment for economic and social policies affecting everyday lives.�

Roemer said that while Republicans have narrowed the values agenda to only the issues of gay marriage and abortion, Democrats have had a too narrow vision of the abortion issue. “Democrats cannot have Karl Rove or NARAL define our position on abortion. We cannot allow the far left or the extreme right to argue and prevent us (Democrats) from coming up with our own answers on the abortion question.� Roemer said “there is an ocean of room� between the extremes of positions on abortion.

Roemer said it was fair that the National Abortion Rights Action League “vigorously and relentlessly� opposed his candidacy for chairman of the Democratic Party.

However, he argued, that the “party that had advocated for women’s suffrage and civil rights for African Americans was shutting the door on pro-life Democrats.� He urged “the party I love� not to apply “litmus tests� for presidential candidates, party chairmen or speakers at national conventions.

Saying litmus tests were unfair, Roemer also urged the Catholic Church “not to apply litmus tests to political candidates on any single issue, but look at the seamless garment of their entire voting records.�

Looking at the evolution of secularism

in public life, Roemer said the Democrats have become “libertarian on abortion and other social issues, while segments of the Republican party hold a libertarian ground on economic issues.�

The failure of Americans to bring the fullness of faith to the public arena leaves them in danger of living two lives, “one spiritual and one secular,� Roemer said.

However, he has noticed there are now “many Catholics out there who are struggling to connect what they celebrate on Sunday with what they do on Monday.�

Two unfortunate occurrences in modern times have drawn many Catholic politicians away from bringing their faith into public service, he said. The first was John F. Kennedy’s speech to Baptists worried that a Catholic president would take orders from the Pope. In order to deflect that criticism, Roemer said, “he bent over backwards to make the strong case for absolute churchstate separation.�

In the 1980s, Mario Cuomo’s speech at Notre Dame was popularized and turned into the Catholic politician’s mantra, “I’m personally opposed to abortion, but . . . “ On the other hand, Roemer said Cuomo’s “caveat that politicians opposed to abortion had a responsibility to change public opinion� has been largely ignored. “We have seen a very little and meager effort, until the last month, to change public opinion on abortion, especially from my Democratic Party,� Roemer said. “It is time for a new doctrine to guide Catholic politicians,� Roemer said. The 1960s Kennedy Doctrine “built a wall between Catholics and public expression,� while the 1980s Cuomo doctrine “is no longer adequate PRO-LIFE DEMOCRAT, page 6

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Trials proceed in abuse claims; efforts to reach settlement continue (CNS PHOTO FROM REUTERS)

ALAMEDA —- Civil trials have started in San Francisco and Hayward involving lawsuits brought against northern California dioceses by plaintiffs alleging Church authorities were on notice of clergy sexual abuse. The lawsuits are among about 150 claims against Catholic dioceses and religious orders in northern California. Jury selection has begun in a trial involving a lawsuit brought against the Diocese of Oakland by two brothers who allege that Church officials negligently exposed them abuse by Rev. Robert Ponciroli, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A civil trial in San Francisco Superior Court trial, also in its early stages, involves a lawsuit filed by Dennis Kavanaugh, a former student and parishioner at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in San Jose. He has sued the Archdiocese of San Francisco for alleged child abuse by the late Rev. Joseph Pritchard. The lawsuits are the first to come before a jury under a 2002 state law that temporarily lifted the statute of limitations on damage claims against employers of alleged abusers. Even as the trials proceed, however, parallel efforts continue to reach a settlement of the cases.

Pope John Paul II waves as he arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after being released from the hospital March 13. The pope spoke briefly from his 10th-floor room at Gemelli hospital before returning to the Vatican.

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New president named for St. Mary’s Archbishop sees double standard MORAGA — Christian Brother Ronald Gallagher has been named the new president of St. Mary’s College of California. He in efforts to separate church, state

DENVER — Although the separation of church and state is frequently cited as a reason why religious leaders should stay out of politics, the same standard does not apply when the state wants to impose its view on Catholic hospitals, said Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput. “It’s often the same people who clamor about ‘separation’ and ‘choice’ who take the lead in that coercion,” he said during a speech early this month at the City Club of Denver. The archbishop cited a bill in the current legislative session that he said would force Catholic hospitals to violate Catholic teaching because the measure would require all Colorado hospitals to notify rape victims of the availability of an emergency contraception pill to prevent pregnancy. He said the problem with the bill is that it “mandates a form of so-called ‘emergency contraception’ that could amount to early-term abortion and that is always very gravely wrong.”

succeeds Christian Brother Craig J. Franz, who is to assume the presidency of St. Mary’s University of Minnesota June 1.

Brother Gallagher, 58, is an alumnus of St. Mary’s of California and has chaired the department of English and drama there since 2002. He also holds a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Washington. He served from 1993 to 1997 as vice chancellor of Bethlehem University in the Middle East and

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Madrid marks anniversary of al-Qaida bombings MADRID Spain — The railway carriages were packed full of rush-hour commuters just after 7 a.m. March 11, but no one made a noise. Spanish media showed silent passengers with heads bowed, some crying, remembering exactly one year before when nearly 200 people traveling on the commuter train from Alcala de Henares and three other trains became victims of the deadliest al-Qaida attack in Europe. The train passed through stations that 12 months ago had been full of twisted metal, bodies and dazed survivors. At a little before 7:40 a.m. — the time last year when the first of the 10 bombs planted in backpacks exploded — 650 churches in and around Madrid started pealing their bells. Organized by the Archdiocese of Madrid, the peal signaled the official start of Spain’s day of remembrance. Addressing the friends and relatives of the victims gathered for a memorial Mass, Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela of Madrid said that terrorism “will never have the final word.”

Vatican official says displaced Africans, refugees need help VATICAN CITY — Facing hunger, rape and death, refugees and displaced people in Sudan’s Darfur region and throughout Africa must be given greater assistance by the international community, a Vatican official said. “The precarious and tragic condition of these millions of persons forcibly uprooted from their villages and their lands calls for concrete and prompt decisions,” Msgr. Fortunatus Nwachukwu told the executive committee of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Msgr.

Nwachukwu, a staff member at the Vatican’s observer mission to U.N. agencies in Geneva, spoke to the committee March 10. On March 11, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the U.N. Security Council that the Sudanese government and rebels had not made any serious attempt in the past month to resolve the Darfur conflict.

New Yad Vashem museum designed to keep memory of Holocaust alive JERUSALEM — A New Israeli museum was designed to be personal and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, officials said. As the last of the elderly Holocaust survivors die, there will be almost no opportunities to learn about the Holocaust at a personal level, said Avner Shalev, chief curator of the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem and chairman of the Yad Vashem directorate. “Our main challenge was how to build a pattern of meaningful remembrance for the third and fourth generation (after the Holocaust) without the support of the very personal encounters between those eyewitnesses who are able to deliver their experiences ... to youngsters around the world,” said Shalev. Vatican archivist Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran was among the hundreds of international leaders and dignitaries scheduled to attend the inauguration of the museum March 15-16.

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San Francisco judge’s ruling on same-sex marriage draws Catholic criticism

By Catholic San Francisco Staff Catholic officials and lay Catholics reacted with disappointment to the March 14 ruling by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer, striking down a ban on “same-sex” marriage as unconstitutional.

Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, expressed his disappointment in the ruling in statement released March 15.

“Judge Kramer made the surprising statement that ‘It appears that no rational purpose exists for limiting marriage in this state to opposite-sex partners.’ Yet marriage, by both custom and biology, is the source of family and children. That union of a man

and a woman is sacramental to the Church, traditional to the public, and fundamental to civil society - all rational reasons to preserve the definition of marriage,” Dolejsi said.

Dolejsi also said Judge Kramer’s ruling appears to invalidate the judgment of the California electorate just five years ago when voters passed Proposition 22 - limiting marriage to one man and one woman.

Bill May, chairman of Catholics for the Common Good, a non-partisan and independent lay Catholic organization, said, “The people of California spoke loudly and clearly when they voted to define marriage as between a man and a woman and the judge’s actions not only disregard the democratically expressed will of the people but fly in the

face of centuries of common law understanding of the meaning and purpose of marriage.”

May called marriage between a man and a woman a fundamental building block of society which has always been protected and encouraged by laws. He said, “This ruling attempts to redefine marriage as something solely for the benefit of adults and dilutes the understanding of the special place marriage holds for the birth and nurturing future generations of citizens.”

Catholics for the Common Good, May noted, acknowledges the right of gays and lesbians to live as they choose. However, he added, “We believe interest groups representing a small segment of society do not have the right to redefine marriage and the family for all of society.”

Dolejsi and May said that the ruling by

Judge Kramer would be appealed and they both expressed hope that the ruling will be overturned by the California Supreme Court.

San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada, who was in Washington, DC this week, said at a marriage rally last year that today there is “a push that looks at personal choice,” rather than the “bedrock of society” which is marriage and the family.

Speaking at the marriage rally held in April last year at Sts. Peter and Paul Church and Washington Square in San Francisco, Archbishop Levada said opposition to same-sex marriage and support for the family “should not be associated with hostility to homosexuals, but the need to preserve the bedrock institution of society.”

New Catholic lay group formed to promote better church management

By Jerry Filteau WASHINGTON (CNS) — A group of U.S. Catholic bishops and lay church and business leaders March 14 announced formation of a National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management.

Its goal is to help Catholic dioceses and parishes improve administrative practices and financial and human resource management as the church confronts clergy shortages and the challenges of training effective lay leadership.

At a press conference in Washington the group also issued an 80-page “Report of the Church in America,” reporting the proceedings and recommendations of last July’s national leadership round table at Wharton, the prestigious business school of the University of Pennsylvania.

That session was a two-day meeting of lay and church leaders from diverse perspectives who came together in Philadelphia to analyze how church leadership can respond more effectively to leadership problems that surfaced in the clergy sexual abuse crises and, more broadly, to the rapidly changing realities in American Catholicism.

Geoffrey T. Boisi, a Long Island, N.Y., businessman long prominent in the worlds of business and Catholic philanthropy,

introduced the report and new organization to journalists in a 90-minute session at Washington’s National Press Club.

Among the initial projects of the group are: — A program with six DVDs and a workbook that the round table plans to distribute to all Catholic parishes and dioceses in the country later this year to initiate a national dialogue on leadership and church management at the parish and diocesan level.

— Creation of Catholic advanced management degree and certificate programs at key educational institutions around the country.

The report concluded with 27 priority recommendations — nine each at the national, diocesan and parish level — and 21 more longterm recommendations. Each set of recommendations was divided into three areas of management — governance or administration, finances, and human resources or personnel.

Many of the recommendations focused on greater use of Catholic lay expertise from business and professional fields in consultative or advisory capacities to pastors, bishops and other church leaders.

Many involved spreading more widely programs or policies already in place in some or many dioceses, but not in all.

A major component of the report was a call for research to help identify best man-

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Archbishop Levada appoints Father Steven Lopes to post Father Steven Lopes has been appointed priest-secretary to Archbishop William J. Levada. He also will serve as Director of Continuing Education for Priests beginning July 1. Father Lopes, who has served as a Parochial Vicar at St. Patrick and St. Anselm in Marin County, currently is completing a doctorate in theology at the Gregorian University in Rome.

He was ordained in 2001. Father Lopes succeeds longtime priest secretary, Msgr. Thomas Merson, who died suddenly in May of last year.

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■ Continued from page 3 to the momentous decisions our nation faces in this century of abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, drug addiction, poverty, terrorism, climate change and others.”

“One only has to say ‘I’m personally opposed to poverty, but . . .’ to understand the dangers and difficulties if this mantra for so many Catholic politicians in the public square continues,” he said.

Roemer said religion has always shaped American politics with both good and sometimes ill effects, but “Catholics and

others of religious faith should not be forced into the sidelines of the public arena.”

In opening remarks, Representative Roemer said he looked to Archbishop William J. Levada and former Archbishop John R. Quinn, both present, as men who had brought faith actively into public life.

Roemer commended Archbishop Levada for actions including his recent “bold” and “brave” leadership and participation in the Walk for Life, and Archbishop Quinn for actions including his public witness to the violence and intimidation of the Salvadoran government during Quinn’s tenure as president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Church management . . .

■ Continued from page 5 Boisi stressed that organizers of the round table recognize that the church is not a business. That does not mean, however, that many successful business practices cannot be adapted to the church’s management approach to help the church carry out its mission, he said.

In response to a question during the press conference, Boisi said several academic institutions have begun actively exploring the possibilities of some form of church management institutes or programs as a result of last July’s church leadership round table at Wharton.

He said these include Wharton itself, Yale University, Boston College and the University of Notre Dame.

Panelist Frederick W. Gluck, a vice chairman of the Bechtel Group, asked Charles Zech, an economics professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania and one of the country’s leading researchers in Catholic fund raising and finances, to describe the new program there.

Zech — who was in the audience and not part of the press panel — said that after the Wharton meeting he approached Villanova officials with a proposal, and they are now establishing a new program offering a master’s degree in business administration in church management or a certificate in the field.

Boisi said the new church management

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The round table will have its headquarters in Washington at the offices of FADICA — Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities — an agency whose members are among the major U.S. foundations supporting church projects and programs in the United States and around the world.

The round table’s director is Ana Villamil Kelly, a former staff member of the bishops’ Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth.

The round table has established a Web site at www.nlrcm.org. The Web site contains the text of the report on the Wharton meeting, information on the structure, background and mission of the organization, and news about the round table’s formation.

Still under development, the round table said its mission is “to promote excellence and best practices in the management, finances and human resources of the U.S. Catholic Church by greater incorporation of the expertise of the laity.”

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Failed suicide said to show how procedure can increase suffering

By Ed Langlois PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) — When an Oregon man’s attempt at assisted suicide failed, the case showed the procedure can sometimes increase the suffering it aims to relieve, according to those troubled by the state’s assisted suicide law.

On Jan. 30, 42-year-old former logger David Prueitt of Estacada ingested a legally prescribed overdose of 10 grams of the barbiturate Seconal — five times what is commonly considered lethal — mixed with applesauce. The emaciated lung cancer patient soon slipped into a coma, but awoke almost three days later.

The man was alert enough to ask why he had not died. He spoke to his brother on the phone and asked for water and cigarettes.

Prueitt lived until Feb. 15, when he died of cancer. His family then went public with the incident.

“The best thing about this case is that the man survived; he lived another two weeks and could relate to his siblings and thank God that he still existed and come to terms with his life,” said Dr. Gregory Hamilton, a Portland psychiatrist and member of Physicians for Compassionate Care, a group that opposes assisted suicide.

Hamilton told the Catholic Sentinel, Portland’s archdiocesan newspaper, that it was a tragedy for any physician to respond to a patient’s fear and despair with a prescription for an overdose.

Compassion & Choices, the advocacy group that helped Prueitt obtain the suicide drugs, plans to convene an independent panel to investigate the case.

“Statistically, the Prueitt case was likely to occur someday,” said George

Eighmey, director of the group’s Oregon chapter. Eighmey said a pharmacist will test whether a sweetened laxative added to the applesauce mixture may have affected the outcome.

“For Compassion & Choices to offer to investigate is like the fox offering to investigate the break-in at the chicken house last night,” said Hamilton, a member of St. Pius X Parish in Portland.

The Associated Press reported that Prueitt’s case was the first known example of a failed doctor-assisted suicide.

The Catholic Sentinel described the case of a man in 1999 who took a lethal prescription and reportedly had such disturbing symptoms that his wife called 911 and had her husband revived.

The newspaper also noted that in 2001 a patient took 37 hours to die after taking a lethal overdose, and in 2003 a patient took 48 hours to die. In both instances, the patient regurgitated some of the drugs.

The public would never have known about the Prueitt complication but for the family. Neither the doctors who fill out the state assisted-suicide logs nor groups such as Compassion & Choices have initiated reporting on cases that go awry.

In a 2000 New England Journal of Medicine article, a physician who backs assisted suicide criticized the Oregon reporting system as inadequate.

The Prueitt failure comes to light just after the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would take up a case involving Oregon’s decision to decriminalize assisted suicide. The U.S. Department of Justice has tried to bring Oregon’s practice on the use of barbiturates in line with the rest of the nation, but the state sued in an attempt to continue using fed-

erally regulated drugs for the purpose of assisted suicide.

Catholic-run Providence Hospice was caring for Prueitt, but the nurse was not aware of his plan for assisted suicide.

Prueitt was enrolled in the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s medical coverage for low-income residents, which pays for assisted suicide.

The Oregonian, a Portland daily newspaper, reported that the Prueitt fam-

ily is divided on the suicide attempt. The wife supports the Oregon law, and Prueitt’s older sister opposes it on religious and moral grounds.

Lynda Prueitt, the widow, told the Oregonian that Prueitt told her he had been in the presence of God, who sent him back to die a natural death. Steve Prueitt, the patient’s brother, told the newspaper God chose his brother to show that assisted suicide is wrong.

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Father Filemon Ojeda Father Filemon Ojeda died in Sinaloa, Mexico on March 8, 2005. He was 81 years of age. Father Ojeda had been suffering from deteriorating health in recent years, and was no longer able to see or walk on his own. Father Ojeda had returned to Mexico three years ago to be closer to his relatives and friends, including a niece, Jackie, who said her uncle’s death was very peaceful.

Father Ojeda was ordained for the Diocese of Culiacan, in Sinaloa, Mexico on March 3, 1945. After ministering in Mexico in various parish assignments and at the Seminary at Culiacan, and following the completion of post-graduate work at the Angelicum and at Gregorian University in Rome, he came to San Francisco in 1964.

He became a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in October 1991.

Father Ojeda spoke Spanish, Italian, French, German and English and served as a parochial vicar at parishes including Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Daly City, All Souls in South San Francisco, and St. Teresa, St. Emydius and Epiphany in San Francisco.

In 1989, he was appointed chaplain at San Francisco General Hospital, and resided at Most Holy Redeemer and later Saint Peter parishes in San Francisco. Father often returned to Mexico between assignments, and maintained very close ties there.

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Florida woman, or other patients in a similar condition However, he said, keeping a patient clean, warm, amounts to “direct euthanasia,” a “cruel way of killing fed and hydrated is not the same thing as “therapeusomeone,” said the Vatican’s top bioethicist. tic obstinacy” or the refusal to accept death.

Bishop Elio Sgreccia, president of the Feeding and hydration are “signs of respect Pontifical Academy for Life, said the academy for the human person,” whether young or old, usually does not comment on specific cases healthy or sick, he said. before courts, but “silence in this case could be Other Catholic leaders around the world have interpreted as approval.” also made strong statements opposing the starvaThe bishop told Vatican Radio March 11 that tion of Terri Schiavo in recent weeks including withdrawing Schiavo’s gastric tube would not be Cardinal William Keeler of Baltimore, Cardinal a matter of allowing her to die, but would “inflict Justin Rigali of Philadelphia and Cardinal Renato death.”

Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Judge George W. Greer of Florida’s Pinellas Justice and Peace.

County Circuit Court ruled Feb. 25 that Michael Cardinal Martino said, “How can anyone who Schiavo, Terri Schiavo’s husband, could order claims to speak of the promotion and protection Franciscan Brother Conrad Richardson leads intercessory prayers doctors to remove the feeding tube March 18. of human rights – of human life – remain silent?

Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have Is this not a question of the right to life? I believe during a rally for Terri Schindler Schiavo March 12 across from the opposed their son-in-law’s efforts. that I must speak out about this in the same way hospice where the 41-year-old woman resides in Pinellas Park, Fla. Bishop Sgreccia spoke to Vatican Radio the that I would speak of the protection of the unborn day after Greer ruled the state’s Department of Children “As far as we are concerned, denying someone access to and just as I would concerning any injustice.” and Families could not intervene in the process.

Cardinal Keeler who also serves as chairman of the U.S. food and water is a cruel way of killing someone,” he said.

Schiavo, 41, has been impaired for the past 15 years.

Bishop Sgreccia said he did not want to get into questions Bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities said the proviShe can breathe on her own but requires nutrition and about Schiavo’s husband, parents or economic situation. sion of food and water to Terri Schiavo and other disabled hydration through a feeding tube.

“Taking into account only medical and anthropological persons in similar circumstances was “morally obligatory.”

Bishop Sgreccia told Vatican Radio, “Terri Schiavo considerations,” he said, “we feel an obligation to affirm Cardinal Rigali said the Schiavo case had “grave implimust be considered a living human person, deprived of full that such a decision violates the rights of Terri Schiavo and, cations for the future treatment of those who are vulneraconsciousness, whose juridical rights must be recognized, therefore, constitutes an abuse of judicial authority.” ble.” He urged members of his archdiocese, where Ms. respected and defended.

Bishop Sgreccia said he also was concerned about the Schiavo used to live and attended high school, “to pray she “The removal of the gastric tube used for nourishing her precedent the court’s decision could set in the United States, receives the nourishment, hydration and loving care she cannot be considered an ‘extraordinary’ measure or a ther- creating a situation in which euthanasia is seen “as a right.” needs until the Lord of Life calls her to His eternal home.” apeutic measure,” he said. “It is an essential part of the way “For these reasons we consider illicit the decision to in which Mrs. Terri Schiavo is nourished and hydrated. remove Mrs. Terri Schiavo’s gastric feeding tube,” he said.

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Year of the Eucharist

More than a Play At the beginning of the Palm Sunday liturgy we reenact the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. We then listen to the Gospel of the Passion, proclaimed in a dramatic way by three readers. These departures from our customary celebration of the Eucharist usher us into the great events of Holy Week. We are invited to experience the final, climactic days of Jesus’ life: the Last Supper, His arrest, passion and death, and His glorious resurrection. Over the centuries many Catholic cultures, inspired by the drama of the Holy Week liturgies, have developed colorful and moving ceremonies to commemorate these events.

Might we think of the Mass itself as a kind of Passion Play? People in the Middle Ages did. They could not hear or did not understand many of the prayers; gestures which had lost their practical purpose had become mysterious.

What did it all mean? What they knew was that the Eucharist was intimately connected with the death of Jesus, so they interpreted the mystifying words and actions as a dramatic re-enactment of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. For example, at the Offertory the priest washes his hands. Originally, this was a functional action: after handling all the produce which had been brought to the altar along with the bread and wine, the priest had to wash his hands. The gesture remained after the procession was discontinued, and was interpreted spiritually as an expression of the desire to approach the Eucharistic sacrifice in purity of heart. But for the medieval churchgoer it symbolized Pilate washing his hands, one of many details in the Passion Play of the Mass.

Whatever the merits of this understanding of the Mass for piety, it falls far short of the true relationship between the Eucharist and the sacrifice of Christ. The Mass does not “represent” the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus, it re-presents them. That is, it makes those realities present here and now sacramentally, so that we can enter into them.

We are not spectators watching the drama of the passion, we are plunged into Christ’s death and resurrection. We are near the cross, not the like soldiers observing the tragedy unfold, but like Mary, uniting ourselves to Christ’s sacrificial offering of love.

Does this re-presentation mean that Jesus is being sacrificed again? That was what the Protestant Reformers believed, and they rejected the doctrine of the Mass as a sacrifice because it implied that the self-offering of Jesus on the cross was insufficient. They were right to reject such an understanding of the death of Jesus; but they were wrong to think that this is the teaching of the Catholic Church. The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice; Christ offered His life once on the cross, but He continues to make that same offering in an unbloody way through the ministry of His priests. (CCC 1367) The Eucharist is the “memorial” of the death of Christ in a very specific way. It is not a drama which calls those events to mind, but a sacramental celebration in which those events become truly present. When Jews celebrate the Passover, they are not simply remembering the deliverance from Egypt, they are participating in the

experience. At the Last Supper Jesus intentionally and irrevocably linked the Eucharist to the great Passover event of His death and resurrection: “This is my body which is given for you” and “This cup which is poured out for you is the New Covenant in my blood.” It is His body which He offered on the cross and the blood which He shed that we receive in the Eucharist. (CCC #1365) To be present for this offering is a great privilege. To receive the Body and Blood of Christ is a tremendous honor. But God goes even further in His generosity, and invites us to offer ourselves together with His Son. We are not simply witnesses of the sacrifice, nor are we only recipients of the Holy Gifts: we are truly members of the Body of Christ, and we unite our imperfect, limited offerings to His perfect sacrifice. (CCC 1368) As we enter into this Holy Week, by all means we should let ourselves be moved by the great events we celebrate. It is fitting to meditate on Our Lord’s Passion, and to participate in the various pious traditions which make these events so vivid to us. But let us also pray for the grace of a deeper understanding of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Part of a series presented by the Liturgical Commission of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The Human Side

Why humility is such an attractive virtue

By Father Eugene Hemrick Catholic News Service Humility is an attractive quality, isn’t it?

The word “humility” comes from the Latin “humus,” meaning “earth.” Humble people are down to earth. To avoid becoming too lofty, they plant their feet firmly on the ground by knowing who they truly are and admitting that without God they wouldn’t be here or have what they have.

They unabashedly submit to a higher power.

Part of the reason for humility’s outstanding attractiveness is its honesty, a virtue that has been revered by all great civilizations. Take, for example, the Romans. During Rome’s golden age, senators customarily had marble busts made of themselves. Artisans employed the time-consuming task of hand polishing the marble until it was smooth.

As the demand for busts increased, artisans learned they could speed up the process by filling in flaws with wax rather than polishing them smooth. This worked well until one hot Roman summer. The baking sun began melting the wax, and all of a sudden young, handsome-looking senators lost their youthful, smooth looks.

The senators immediately employed their legal powers to rectify the situation, passing the law that said: “All marble works of busts must be sculpted without wax.” The word for “without” in Latin is “sine,” and for “wax,” it is “cera.” This is where we get our word “sincerity.”

When we are sincere there is no waxing over what we say or do. We tell it as it is and don’t try to make ourselves out to be something we’re not. We humbly admit limitations, especially our own, and accept them.

So humility begets honesty, and vice versa.

There is something else to mention about humility.

When we are humble, we aren’t afraid of what others think of us. We are ourselves without pretenses. What others see in us is authentic; they can take it or leave it.

Today’s society is becoming increasingly concerned about the games so-called reputable people play. So people are crying out for the virtue of humility in the church, government and, for that matter, society as a whole. There is a

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Jesus praised the humility of the tax collector who confessed his sins. He did not wax over things when teaching, and he asked us to follow him as the way, the life and the truth.

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Holy Week The Catholic Church is about to enter into the most sacred days of the Christian year, in which Catholics immerse themselves in the events which have brought us life and salvation: the saving death and glorious resurrection of Christ. The ceremonies of this week are among the most ancient and moving celebrations of our tradition. In every liturgy we encounter Christ, but it is above all in these most sacred rites that He shares Himself with us. ~ HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ~ The first Christians were Jews, and much of our liturgy is patterned on Jewish worship. Along with the weekly celebration of the sabbath, the Jews celebrate certain festivals annually, the most important of these being Passover, which commemorates their deliverance from slavery into the Promised Land.

The early Christians gathered weekly for their own “sabbath”, rejoicing in the resurrection of Jesus. Since Christ rose from the dead on the first day of the week, our weekly holy day is Sunday. By the second century, there is clear evidence of an annual Christian “Passover” — no longer celebrating deliverance from Egypt, but liberation from sin and death and entry into the Promised Land of heaven with the risen Christ. In the third century, Christians also began holding a special gathering on the Friday before Easter, and spent Friday and Saturday fasting to commemorate the death of Jesus. Thus the “Holy Triduum” consisted of Good Friday, Saturday and Easter Sunday in the early Church.

An evening celebration of the Eucharist on Holy Thursday was added in the seventh century. Influenced by the liturgies of Jerusalem, where the events in the last week of Jesus’ life were memorialized in the very places they occurred, the tendency was growing to see the liturgy as a kind of drama, commemorating separate events in the life of Jesus. In reality, every celebration of the Eucharist makes present the entire mystery of Christ — His Incarnation, ministry, Last Supper, death, resurrection and ascension and the sending of the Holy Spirit.

After the Council of Trent, the “Triduum” was understood to comprise Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, and all of the liturgies for these days were celebrated in the morning. In 1951, Pope Pius XII restored the Easter Vigil to its proper place in the evening, and the other liturgies soon returned to their proper times. The liturgies of Holy Week were somewhat simplified in the reforms of Vatican II. The “Easter Triduum” now begins with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Thursday evening and concludes on Easter Sunday. ~ THE LITURGIES OF HOLY WEEK ~ PASSION (PALM) SUNDAY The different names for this day highlight two distinctive ways of beginning Holy Week in the early centuries. In Rome, on this Sunday the Passion of the Lord was proclaimed. In Jerusalem, Christians naturally focused on the triumphal entry of Jesus into the HOLY WEEK, page 12

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We are entering the most sacred days of the Christian year

Jesus and his apostles at the Last Supper.

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HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE

The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption 1111 Gough St., San Francisco, California

PALM SUNDAY 5:00 p.m. Saturday Palm Sunday Masses: 7:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and 5:00 p.m.

Blessing of palms at all masses.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: 12:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

SACRAMENT OF PENANCE Saturday, March 19 – 3:30 P.M. Saturday, March 26 – 3:30 P.M.

HOLY WEEK & EASTER SCHEDULE 2005

HOLY THURSDAY, MARCH 24

Palm Sunday, March 20

HOLY THURSDAY 8:00 a.m.

Morning Prayer 7:00 p.m.

Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper with washing of feet.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 11:00 p.m.

6:30 P.M. Parish Soup Supper – Bedford Hall 8:00 P.M. Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the School Library until 10:00 P.M.)

GOOD FRIDAY 8:00 a.m.

Morning Prayer 12:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross 1:00 p.m.

Seven Last Words 2:00 p.m.

Solemn Liturgy and Holy Communion with dramatization of the Passion by our eighth grade students.

4:00-5:00 p.m.Confessions CONCLUSION OF ALL COMMUNAL LITURGIES

GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 25 Noon – 12:45 P.M. Quiet Reflection 12:45 – 1:15 P.M. Stations of the Cross (Presented

by St. Gabriel School Students) 1:30 – 3:00 P.M. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 7:30 – 8:45 P.M. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion

HOLY SATURDAY 8:00 a.m.

Morning Prayer 11:00-Noon Confessions 3:30-5:00 p.m.Confessions

EASTER SUNDAY MASSES 7:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and 11:30 a.m. NO 5:00 p.m. Mass.

Chrism Mass, March 22 5:30 pm (Annual Archdiocesan Celebration of Renewal of Priestly Ministry by the Clergy, Blessing of Oils of Catechumens, Sick and Sacred Chrism by the Archbishop)

HOLY SATURDAY, MARCH 26

Lent ends at Sundown on Holy Thursday and begins the Celebration of the Easter Tridium

3:30 P.M. Sacrament of Penance 8:00 P.M. Celebration of the Easter Vigil

Holy Thursday, March 24

EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 27

EASTER VIGIL 8:00 p.m.

Vigil Mass – Saturday, March 19 – 5:30 pm Sunday, March 20 – 7:30 am, 9:00 am 11:00 am Archbishop William Levada, Principal Celebrant 1:00 pm misa en Español.

EASTER SUNDAY MASSES 7:00 A.M., 8:30 A.M., 10:00 A.M., 10:05 A.M (Bedford Hall) 11:30 A.M. and 5:30 P.M. There will be a 5:30 P.M. Mass on Easter Sunday

7:30 pm Archbishop William Levada, Principal Celebrant Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Washing of the feet followed by Vigiling and Adoration of the Blesssed Sacrament in St. Francis Hall (Lower Level) until 11:45 pm 11:45 pm - Night Prayer in St. Francis Hall

Good Friday, March 25 12:00 noon–Stations of the Cross

Our Lady of the Pillar Church 400 Church Street, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019, (650) 726-4674

Holy Week Mass Schedule 2005 Saturday March 19: 5:00 pm Vigil 6:30 pm Paschal (Seder) Meal in the New Hall 7:00 pm Vigilia de Palmas Palm Sunday March 20: 7:45 am, 9:00 am, 11:15 am Mass 12:45 pm Misa de Palmas

ST. ANTHONY’S, PESCADERO Saturday March 19: 5:00 pm Vigilia de Palmas Palm Sunday March 20: 9:00 am Mass Holy Thursday March 24: 8:00 pm Bilingual Mass – Misa Bilingue Saturday March 26: 8:00 pm Vigilia Pascual Easter Sunday March 27: 9:00 am Mass

Monday March 21: 7:30 pm Parish Reconciliation OF REFUGE, LA HONDA Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 11 p.m. OUR LADY Saturday March 19: Holy Thursday March 24: 7:30 pm Tri-lingual Mass, Washing of Feet, Good Friday March 25: 1:00 pm Stations of the Cross 2:00 pm Friday Liturgy 7:00 pm Liturgia de Viernes Santo Saturday March 26: 8:00 pm Vigil Easter Sunday March 27: 7:45 am, 9:00 am, 11:15 am Mass 12:45 pm Misa de Resurrección

6:30 pm Paschal (Seder) Meal Palm Sunday March 20: 10:45 am Mass, Reconciliation Holy Thursday March 24: 7:30 pm, Washing of Feet Good Friday March 25: 12:00 noon Stations of the Cross 7:30 pm Liturgy, Reconciliation Saturday March 26: 8:00 pm Vigil Easter Sunday March 27: 10:45 am Mass (Breakfast will follow)

Led by the students of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City, CA

12:30 pm – Music in the Cathedral 1:00 pm – Liturgy of the Passion and Death of the Lord Archbishop William J. Levada, Principal Celebrant Reconciliation (Confession) – 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Holy Saturday, March 26 Our Paschal Vigil continues throughout the day and night Reconciliation (Confession) – 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm The Easter Vigil – 9:00 pm Archbishop William Levada, Principal Celebrant Blessing of the New fire and Paschal Candle, Liturgy of the Word, The Celebration of the Baptism, Confirmation of our Elect and celebrationof the Eucharist

Easter Sunday, March 27 Masses – 9:00 am 11:00 am - Archbishop William Levada, Principal Celebrant 1:00 pm en Español 3:30 pm Easter Concert Allan Blasdale, Organ Recital 4:15 pm – Easter Vespers and conclusion of the Easter Tridium

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Holy Week . . .

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■ Continued from page 11 holy city. Gradually this custom spread to other places, so our worship on this day combines the practices of Rome and Jerusalem. This gives a powerful impact to the liturgy: we move from the festive mood of the crowds hailing Jesus to the sober and dramatic proclamation of His rejection. The second reading unites these two contrary movements — it is precisely by obediently accepting death on a cross that Jesus is exalted by the Father in His triumphant resurrection.

HOLY THURSDAY We gather in the evening to commemorate the Lord’s Last Supper with His friends. The first reading reminds us that they met in the context of the Passover; just as the blood of the lamb spared God’s chosen people, so Christ by shedding His blood has freed us from slavery to sin and death. In the second reading, we hear the most ancient account of the institution of the Eucharist. The Gospel of John proclaims the mutual love which must be at the foundation of Holy Communion. This love is illustrated by Jesus in the gesture of washing His disciples’ feet — ordinarily the work of a slave. This is dramatized in an ancient ceremony called the “Mandatum,” from the Latin word for “command”. Jesus says, “I give you a new command: love one another as I have loved you.” The priest puts

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Holy Thursday, March 24

Kiss of Judas – Giotto di Bondone, c. 1304.

8th Grade Stations of the Cross – 9:30 a.m.

Soup Supper – 6:00 p.m. Borromeo Hall Mass of the Lord’s Supper – 7:30 p.m.

Silent Adoration, Altar of Repose – Chapel Until 10:00 p.m.

aside his vestments and imitates the gesture of Jesus, a reminder that any truly Christian leadership must be a leadership of service.

At the end of the liturgy, the Holy Eucharist is solemnly carried to the altar of repose. Until recent centuries, it was customary to reserve the Eucharist in HOLY WEEK, page 13

Good Friday, March 25 Stations of the Cross, 9:00 a.m.

Prayer and Reflection, 12:00 p.m.

With Monsignor Harry Schlitt Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 1:30 & 7:30 p.m.

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Holy Saturday, March 26 Celebration of the Easter Vigil – 8:00 p.m.

Easter Sunday, March 27 Masses – 7:30, 9:00, 10:45 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.

No Evening Mass

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HOLY THURSDAY, MARCH 24 Mass of the Lord’s Supper 8:00 PM Bi-Lingual Adoration until 12:00 Midnight

HOLY THURSDAY -March 24 Masses: 12:05 p.m.

7:30 p.m.Tri-Lingual Mass of the Last Supper to the Altar of Repose Adoration until Midnight

GOOD FRIDAY , MARCH 25 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. Three Hours – English 2:00 p.m. Solemn Liturgy – English 5:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross – Spanish 7:00 p.m. Solemn Liturgy – Spanish

GOOD FRIDAY - March 25 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. “Seven Last Words” 2:00 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (English) 7:00 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (Spanish)

HOLY SATURDAY, MARCH 26 8:00 PM Easter Vigil – English 10:00 PM 1st Mass of Easter – Spanish

HOLY SATURDAY - March 26 8:00 p.m. Bilingual Celebration of Easter Vigil

EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 27 7:30 AM – English 9:30 AM – Spanish 12:30 PM – Bi-lingual

EASTER SUNDAY - March 27 Masses: 6:30, 7:30, 9:00 (Spanish), 10:30 a.m., and 12:30 p.m.

SACRED HEART CHURCH 10189 STATE ROUTE ONE OLEMA, CALIFORNIA 2005 Holy Week Retreat Schedule Fr. Jude Siciliano, O.P. & Sr. Patricia Bruno, O.P. 7:30 PM 9:00 AM

Retreat Talk Prep. for Triduum

Holy Thursday, March 24

7:30 PM

Bilingual Mass

Good Friday, March 25

12 Noon to 3:00 PM 7:30 PM 9:00 AM 7:30 PM 8:30 AM 10:45 AM

Easter Sunday, March 27 Easter Sunday, March 27

Bilingual Communion Service Brief Prayer Service The Easter Vigil

RECONCILIATION (Confessions)

Easter

GOOD FRIDAY, March 25, 2005 12:00 noon – Stations of the Cross 1:15 p.m. – Solemn Liturgical Service of the Lord’s Passion & Death 7:30 p.m. – Stations of the Cross INRI HOLY SATURDAY, March 26, 2005 No 8:00 a.m. Mass – No 5:00 p.m. Mass 8:00 p.m. – Easter Vigil Mass EASTER SUNDAY, March 27, 2005 Masses: 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and 12:00 noon.

No Evening Mass

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Holy Thursday

Confessions: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Lord’s Supper Evening Mass at 7:30 p.m.

Adoration until Midnight

Good Friday

12:00 noon 1:00 p.m.

1:30 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Holy Saturday

Confessions: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Easter Vigil:

8:00 p.m.

Stations of the Cross Liturgy of the Word Veneration of the Cross Communion Service Stations of the Cross

Easter Sunday Masses 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 a.m.& 12 noon

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Holy Week Schedule

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HOLY THURSDAY, March 24, 2005 No 8:00 a.m. Mass – No 5:00 p.m. Mass 7:30 p.m. – MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER – Visit to Repository until 10:00 p.m.

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The Sacred Triduum

Holy Saturday, March 26

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2005 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE

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Holy Week Retreat Tuesday, March 22 Thursday, March 24

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Weekly: Weds 7:10pm - 7:50pm Sat 4:00pm - 4:50pm HOLY THURSDAY: March 24 - 7:00pm GOOD FRIDAY: March 25 Stations of Cross - 11:50am Seven Last Words - 12:00 noon Liturgy of the Word, Adoration of the Cross and Holy Communion - 2:00pm HOLY SATURDAY VIGIL: March 26 - 7:00pm EASTER SUNDAY: March 27 7:00am, 8:00am, 9:30am and 11:00am

Saint Agnes Parish Welcomes You! Wednesday, March 23, 9 am - 7 pm – All Day Reconciliation Various Confessors will be available throughout the day for those wishing to celebrate this Sacrament.

Holy Thursday, March 24 Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30 pm with liturgical movement, strings, & woodwinds Good Friday, March 25 Stations of the Cross: Noon - Outdoors along Haight Street and 2:00pm in the Church Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, 7:30 pm Saturday, March 26 Great Vigil of Easter, 8:00 pm with brass & woodwinds Easter Sunday, March 27 Liturgies 8:30 am & 10:30 am; no 6:00 pm Liturgy with brass & woodwinds 1025 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco (415) 487 - 8560 www.saintagnessf.com Parking is available in our lots on Oak Street.

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Church and our world. While it is always fitting to respond to the proclamation of God’s word by confidently bringing our needs before Him, it is especially apt on this day when the pierced Heart of the Crucified proclaims the depth of God’s love for us.

The Veneration of the Cross which follows is a custom which began in Jerusalem. There on this day the people venerated the relics of the True Cross found by Saint Helena. Hence, the invitation to pray originally had a literal meaning: “This is the wood of the Cross, on which hung the Savior of the world.” We venerate the Cross today as the great sign of God’s love for us and as the instrument of our salvation.

The liturgy concludes with Holy Communion. Why no Mass on this day? Again we find the survival of an ancient practice, still observed in the East, where Mass is not offered daily. Today and tomorrow we “fast” from the joy of celebrating the Eucharist, until the resurrection of the Lord.

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Holy Week . . .

■ Continued from page 12 a chapel apart from the place where the community gathers to celebrate the liturgy. At the end of Mass, what was left of the consecrated bread was reverently carried to this chapel. When the practice developed of placing the tabernacle on the main altar, this procession was no longer necessary, and it was dropped — except on Holy Thursday, since the Holy Week liturgies have a “long memory.” The reforms of the Second Vatican Council have restored the earlier practice of reserving the Eucharist in a separate place when possible, but this procession has since taken on a symbolic meaning: we accompany Jesus as He leaves the Upper Room, and “watch and pray” with Him. GOOD FRIDAY This liturgy preserves some of the most ancient traditions of our Church. Its simplicity proclaims with eloquent understatement a combination of sobriety and quiet confidence in God. The introductory rites manifest their antiquity by the prostration performed by the celebrant, an ancient gesture which has survived only in this ceremony and in the liturgies of ordination or religious profession.

We might expect a penitential rite on Good Friday of all days, but there is none — the penitential rite only becoming a fixed part of the Mass in the middle ages, long after the shape of today’s liturgy was set.

The Liturgy of the Word concludes with the General Intercessions, prayers for the various needs of the

ST. STEPHEN CHURCH Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Ave., San Francisco

Holy Week Schedule 2005 HOLY THURSDAY (no 8:00 a.m. mass)

7:30 – 10:00 p.m.

Mass of the Lord’s Supper Veneration of the Blessed Sacrament & Taize music

GOOD FRIDAY (no 8:00 a.m. mass)

12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.

Good Friday Devotions 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 7:30 p.m.

Prayer Around the Cross

HOLY SATURDAY (no 8 a.m./4:30 p.m.)

3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Reconciliation 7:30 p.m. Easter Vigil Mass

EASTER SUNDAY

Masses: 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. & 6:45 p.m.

The Crucifixion – El Greco, c. 1596.

EASTER SERVICES Holy Week at Saint Cecilia Vicente St. & 17th Avenue, San Francisco (415) 664-8481 Live Church Broadcast : www.stcecilia.com

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, March 20th Saturday Vigil Mass – 5:00 p.m.; Sunday Masses – 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and at the 11:30 a.m. Mass we will have a solemn Procession.

Palms will be blessed at the beginning of every Mass.

Holy Thursday, March 24th 7:30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper with Mandatum and Eucharistic Exposition until 11:00 p.m. – All the priests

Good Friday, March 25th 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. – Sacrament of Penance (Confession) 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. – “Witnesses to Christ” led by Fr. Joe Landi 1:45 – 3:00 p.m. – Solemn Liturgy – Fr. Vito Perrone (The Passion will be chanted and acted out

by Eighth graders, Holy Communion and Veneration of the Cross)

Holy Saturday, March 26th 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Sacrament of Penance 8:00 p.m. – Easter Vigil Mass – Msgr. Michael Harriman (with Choir and Orchestra)

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LENTEN SCHEDULE Tuesday, March 15 7:30 p.m. Lenten Reconciliation

Palm Sunday, March 20 8 a.m. & 10 a.m Palm Sunday Mass 9:30 a.m. Chorus Concert Prelude

Holy Thursday, March 24 8 a.m. Sung Morning Prayer 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper Adoration until midnight

Good Friday, March 25 8 a.m. Sung Morning Prayer 7:30 p.m. Lord’s Passion Noon - 3 p.m. Church open for private devotion

Holy Saturday, March 26 8 a.m. Sung Morning Prayer 7:30 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter

Easter Sunday, March 27

Easter Sunday, March 27th

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2005 Holy Week Schedule Reconciliation Service (Confession) March 21 - 7:30 pm Holy Thursday, March 24 – 7:30 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper Good Friday, March 25 – 12 noon – 3:00 pm Holy Saturday, March 26 – 8:00 pm Vigil of Easter Easter Sunday, March 27 8:00 am and 10:00 am

8 a.m. & 10 a.m. Easter Sunday Mass followed by Reception

7:30 a.m. – Fr. Vito Perrone with Anna Maria Mendieta, Harpist 9:30 a.m. – Msgr. Michael Harriman (Family Mass) 11:30 a.m. – Fr. Joe Landi (with Choir and Orchestra)

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6:25, 7:30 & 9:00 A.M. Masses

HOLY THURDAY, MARCH 24

Holy Week 2005

7:30 P.M. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Unitl 11:00 P.M. in the Flanagan Center

Palm Sunday - March 20 12:15 pm - Blessing of Palms and Solemn Mass* 3:15 pm - Solemn Vespers* 4:00 pm - Concert - Music for Holy Week*

GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 25

No morning service 12:00 to 1:00 P.M. – Meditations on Christ’s Passion & the Eucharist 1:15 to 2:00 P.M. Stations of the Cross performed by the 8th Graders of Holy Name School 2:00 P.M. Solemn Liturgical Service includes Veneration of the Cross and Communion

Holy Thursday - March 24 7:15 pm - Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper* Most Reverend John C. Wester presiding

3:00 pm - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion*

Holy Saturday - March 26 9:15 pm - Easter Vigil* Most Reverend Ignatius C. Wang presiding

Easter Sunday - March 27 12:15 pm - Solemn Mass* 3:15 pm - Solemn Vespers* 4:00 pm - Concert - Saxophone recital by Collin Stetson *The Shrine’s Schola Cantorum sings at all of the above liturgies

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Good Friday - March 25

HOLY NAME OF JESUS CHURCH HOLY WEEK SERVICES 2005

The National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi 610 Vallejo - At Columbus

St. Raymond Church

Good Friday Service in Vietnamese 7:00 – 9:00 P.M.

Catholic San Francisco wishes you a happy Easter!

HOLY SATURDAY, MARCH 26 No morning service (No 5:00 P.M. Mass) 8:00 P.M. – Solemn Easter Vigil Mass Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults Parish Choir & Instrumental Accompaniment

EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 27 7:30 A.M. Cantor & Organ Accompaniment 9:30 A.M. Family Mass with Children’s Choir 11:30 A.M. Solemn Mass with Parish Choir and Instrumental Accompaniment

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Holy Week . . .

■ Continued from page 13 HOLY SATURDAY On this day the Church waits at the Lord’s tomb, pondering His Passion and Death. The readings and prayers of the Liturgy of the Hours meditate on the Lord’s rest, and look forward in hope to the Resurrection. There are no sacramental celebrations on this day.

EASTER SUNDAY The feast of the Resurrection begins with the central celebration in the Church year, the ceremony which Saint Augustine called “the mother of all vigils”. This ushers in the fifty-day Easter feast which culminates in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

This liturgy is rooted in the Passover celebration, in which the chosen people kept vigil for the Lord. The early Christians would gather this night in expectation of the return of Christ, and they passed the time reading through the great events of salvation history, beginning with creation and leading up to the victory of Christ over the grave.

The Service of Light proclaims the Risen Christ to be the true light of the world scattering the darkness of death. In the Liturgy of the Word we proclaim the principal events in God’s dealings with His people: we share in the experience of the first disciples, who were instructed by the risen Lord about the meaning of all that had been written in the Old Testament. The Vigil concludes with the celebration of the sacraments of initiation: Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. It is through these sacraments that the elect are incorporated into Christ in His death and resurrection, and so become part of His Body, the Church. On Easter Sunday we are all invited to renew our baptismal commitment and to rejoice in the presence of the risen Christ whose Body and Blood we share in Holy Communion.

EASTER SEASON The fifty days of the Easter Season — from Easter

The Resurrection of Christ – Hendrick van den Broeck, from the Sistine Chapel.

Sunday to Pentecost — are celebrated in joyful exultation as one feast day, one “great Sunday.” These above all others are the days for the singing of the Alleluia.

When we accept the reality of the Resurrection of Jesus it lifts us up in spirit. It inspires us to go beyond the ordinary; to soar beyond the expected. It moves us beyond the understandable. This is what the Resurrection did for the Holy Women, the frightened Apostles and the scattered, hiding disciples.

The Resurrection empowers our faith as Christians today. From the moment of the Resurrection everything in life is transformed and enlivened. The trammels of death are broken for us all. It takes us Christians fifty days until Pentecost Sunday to celebrate the reality of the Resurrection of Jesus.

Geary Boulevard at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco

Easter 2005 Holy Week Schedule

HOLY SATURDAY, March 26 Confessions - 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.

The Great Vigil of Easter Mass - 7:30 p.m.

EASTER SUNDAY, March 27 Sunday - 8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. (Cantonese) 10:30 a.m. (Choir) 12:00 noon No Evening Mass

ST. ANNE OF THE SUNSET CATHOLIC CHURCH 850 Judah St. (b/t Funston & 14th Ave) (415) 665-1600 2005 EASTER SCHEDULE HOLY THURDAY, MARCH 24 8:45 a.m. Mass 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 11:00 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 25 12 noon: Reflections by Rev. Daniel Nascimento 1:30 p.m.: Liturgy of Good Friday

HOLY SATURDAY, MARCH 26 8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer – Sung

EASTER VIGIL, MARCH 26 8:00 p.m. Mass

EASTER SUNDAY MASSES, MARCH 27 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 a.m. in English 12 noon in Cantonese

Holy Thusday, March 24, 7:30 p.m.

Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Washing of Feet Good Friday, March 25, 12:15 - 3:00 p.m.

Liturgy of Good Friday (Communion Service) Scripture and Prayer, Stations of the Cross Holy Saturday, March 26, 7:30 p.m.

Easter Vigil Liturgy, Light Service, Eucharist

St. Dominic’s Catholic Church staffed by the Dominican Friars

PALM SUNDAY Masses: 7:30, 9:30, and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 (En Español), 5:30 and 9:00 p.m.

HOLY THURSDAY 7:30 a.m. – Tenebrae 7:30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Night Prayer

286 Ashton Ave. / 415-587-7066

THE TRIDUUM Mar 24 Holy Thursday Dinner in the Fr. O’Reilly Center Mass of the Lord’s Supper and procession to Church

6:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

HOLY THURSDAY, March 24

GOOD FRIDAY, March 25

Lenten Reconciliation Service Monday, March 21, 7:30 p.m.

(DeMonfort Ave. / 1 Block from Ocean Ave.)

PALM SUNDAY, March 20

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion with Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion 12:00 noon Confessions - 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

Prayer Around the Cross - 7:30 p.m.

An Invitation to take part in the Church Services of Holy Week and Easter

ST. EMYDIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH

ST.MONICA PARISH

Mass of the Lord’s Supper; Procession and stripping of the altars - 7:30 p.m.

(Veneration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m.)

390 Missouri Street, San Francisco, (415) 285-5272

Easter Sunday, March 27, 10 a.m.

Easter Mass

EASTER SERVICES Saturday Evening Vigil - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday - 8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. (Cantonese) 10:30 a.m. (Choir) 12:00 noon (Palms will be blessed and distributed at all masses) 4:00 p.m. Evening Prayer & Benediction

ST. TERESA’S CHURCH

Mar 25 Good Friday Morning Prayer Liturgical Service Proceded by quiet prayer Mar 26 Holy Saturday Morning Prayer Easter Vigil Mar 27 Easter Sunday Salubong Mass Masses

8:30 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

8:30 a.m.

GOOD FRIDAY – 7:30 a.m. – Tenebrae 12:15 - 12:45 p.m. – Stations of the Cross 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. – Preaching of Jesus’ Seven Last Words 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. – Confessions 7:30 p.m. – Celebration of the Lord’s Passion and Death HOLY SATURDAY – 8:00 a.m. – Tenebrae 4:00 - 5:00 – Confessions 8:00 P.M. EASTER VIGIL EASTER SUNDAY – Masses: 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 (en Español), 5:30 and 9:00 p.m. no confessions on Easter Sunday 2390 BUSH STREET (at Steiner) San Francisco 415.567.7824 www.stdominics.org parking available

8:00 p.m.

St. Thomas More Church 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd.

6:30 a.m.

at Brotherhood & Thomas More Ways

8:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

San Francisco (415) 452-9634 www.stmchurch.com

ST. PHILIP THE APOSTLE PARISH at Diamond Street and Elizabeth Street, (415)282-0141

Holy Week Services 2005 Palm Sunday March 20: The Blessing of the palms (outside) before the 10:00 a.m. Mass with procession into the church. (Masses: Saturday 5:00 p.m., Sunday 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. and noon.)

Holy Thursday March 24: Soup Supper 6:00 p.m. in the parish

Good Friday

PALM SUNDAY Masses at 8:00 AM 10:00 AM 12:00 PM 8:00 PM

(Portuguese-Brazilian) (English) (Arabic) (English)

PENITENTIAL SERVICE Wednesday of Holy Week (March 30), 7:00 PM

hall. Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 p.m. Mass concludes with Eucharistic Procession and adora tion of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:30 p.m.

PASCHAL TRIDUUM Holy Thursday

March 25: Confessions available from 10:15 to 11:15. Good Friday service begins at Noon, which includes the Good Friday Liturgy.

Good Friday

Holy Saturday March 26: The Easter Vigil Service at 8:00 p.m. with the Blessing of the Fire and Lighting of the Easter Candle. The Vigil Mass also includes the blessing of the Easter Water, the celebration of adult baptisms and the renewal of baptismal promises.

Easter Sunday March 27: Masses are: 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 Noon.

COME AND JOIN US FOR EASTER The Priests and Parish Community of Saint Philip the Apostle Parish wish you a Happy and Blessed Easter

7:30 PM

Mass of the Lord’s Prayer (all communities together)

12:00 PM Way of the Cross 1:00 PM Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion (English) 9:00 PM Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion (Arabic)

Holy Saturday 7:30 PM Easter Vigil (English) 10:00 PM Easter Vigil (Arabic)

EASTER SUNDAY 8:00 AM Portuguese-Brazilian Mass 10:00 AM English Mass, followed by Easter egg hunt by the Peace Statue on Brotherhood Way.* 11:45 AM Arabic Mass 8:00 PM English Mass *Parents must accompany their children.

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Cardinal, others challenge science to preserve human dignity

By Michelle Martin CHICAGO (CNS) — Science in itself cannot justify a belief in human dignity, but scientists can justify such a belief precisely because of their own humanity, Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George said.

The cardinal offered his remarks in the introduction to “Science, Faith and Law,” the 2005 Human Dignity and Health Science Conference Feb. 28 at the University of Illinois at Chicago hosted by the Integritas Institute, a program of the university’s John Paul II Newman Center.

Science is concerned with the material world, with things that can be observed and quantified, the cardinal said. Human dignity falls outside those boundaries, he said.

“The definition of human dignity and the scientific method belong to different realms of thought,” Cardinal George said.

“On the one level, science; on the other, philosophy and theology.”

But as human beings, he said, scientists must grapple with the question of their own existence.

“Scientists pursue a hypothesis with the instinct that it is true, but without definitive proof,” the cardinal said. “Only if you accept that there is truth can science exist.”

The Christian concept of human dignity is based, he said, on the perceived truth that “there is a Creator, and human beings reflect that, without definitive proof and without the possibility of definitive proof.”

Conference speaker Pia de Solenni took up that argument.

“Science is not about human dignity,”

said Solenni, director of life and women’s issues in government affairs for the Family Research Council. “No one expects scientists to study human dignity. The question is whether we can have meaningful science without human dignity. ... Science starts with the human person and is done in the context of the human person.”

embryonic stem-cell research, the cardinal said. (Tuskegee was a 40-year project in which researchers allowed poor African-American men who had syphilis to go untreated so they could study the effects.)

Nigel M. de S. Cameron talked about the current state of bioethical thought.

While science cannot, on its own, justify a belief in human dignity, the cardinal said, it does much to contribute to that dignity, and not only in the cures for diseases, protection from natural disasters and other benefits. The attitude required for science — the willingness to observe the natural world with an open mind and let nature speak for itself — is the same “contemplative attitude” required of theologians and philosophers, he said.

But science can also be used against human dignity, when it uses human beings as means to an end, as happened in Nazi Germany and in the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, and is happening in

Cameron leads the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future, which is affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology and housed at the institute’s Chicago-Kent College of Law. The biotechnology institute brings together thinkers from both sides of the political spectrum.

Many people have similar concerns about the impact of biotechnology on human dignity once they move past the abortion debate, Cameron said, noting that many socially liberal Western democracies — including Germany, France and Australia — have already taken firmer positions against human cloning than the United States has.

“If we can ... frame these questions in a way that spans the divide (over abortion), we will find a context to have a common conversation,” he said.

Peter Lawler, chair of the department of government and international studies at Berry College, Mount Berry, Ga., and a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, argued with Cardinal George’s contention that science is the study of material things.

“Science is the study of the way things really are,” he said. As such, it supports a belief in human dignity because of all the ways humans differ from animals, he said.

“There are no chimp priests, there are no chimp physicists, there are no chimp poets, there are no chimp philosophers.”

Those differences matter in the decisions undertaken by those who review proposals for clinical research involving humans, said Dr. Paul S. Heckerling, chair of the Biomedical and Behavioral Science Institutional Review Board at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

“In scientific research, the ends can never justify the means,” Heckerling said. “For the science to be right, the ethics must be right.

But the converse is also true: For the ethics to be right, the science must be right.”

A similar intersection exists between science and theology, Cardinal George said.

“What contribution does science make to faith? ... The two disciplines need each other,” he said. “Theologians should not hesitate to call on the conclusions of science. Science can purify religion from idolatry and false certainty.”

Pope reminds Catholics of need to go to confession

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholics must remember that they may not receive Communion if they have committed a serious sin and have not gone to confession, Pope John Paul II said.

In the year the church has dedicated to the Eucharist, it is important to remind people of the importance of going to confession, the pope said in a message sent from Rome’s Gemelli hospital.

The pope’s message, released at the Vatican March 12, was addressed to priests

taking a course at the Apostolic Penitentiary, a Vatican court dealing with matters related to confession and questions of conscience.

“Only one who has a sincere awareness of not having committed a mortal sin can receive the body of Christ,” the pope said in his message.

The prayers of the Mass underline the need for “purification and conversion,” he said, citing the initial penitential rite, the sign of peace and the prayers immediately before the reception of the Eucharist.

The pope said the Gospel readings of

Lent “help us to better understand the value of this unique priestly ministry.”

“They show the Savior while converting the Samaritan woman, becoming a source of joy for her; he heals the man born blind, becoming a source of light for him; he raises Lazarus from the dead and shows how life and resurrection defeat death, the consequence of sin,” the pope wrote.

“His penetrating gaze, his word and his judgment of love enlighten the conscience of those he meets, provoking their conversion and profound renewal,” Pope John Paul said.

The pope said that in an age when people seem to forget about God and ignore the reality of sin priests and religious educators must work even harder to help people understand that Christ is calling them to conversion, “which presupposes a conscious confession of their sins and the request for forgiveness and salvation.”

The pope also told the priests that people will not approach them unless they model their lives and behavior on Christ, “the teacher and pastor, healer of souls and bodies, spiritual guide and just and merciful judge.”

Culture of Life

Assisted suicide: unneeded, unwanted, wrong Two numbers – 64,706 and 208 – tell it all. This is what people really believe about assisted suicide: In the past seven years, 208 Oregonians killed themselves with the aid of a doctor. In the same period, 64,706 Oregonians died naturally of the same underlying diseases.

So much for the “popularity” of physician-assisted suicide, the bizarre legal experiment that has been under way in Oregon since November, 1997.

No matter how they vote or what they tell pollsters, the facts are clear: when faced with death, people choose life. Sixty percent of Oregon voters supported physician-assisted suicide when it was on the ballot in 1997. In seven years of having this option available, a minuscule number of Oregonians have exercised it. Last year, one in 800 deaths in Oregon was an assisted suicide.

Suicide activists often try to build support by describing long, lingering and painful deaths from cancer, AIDS and Lou Gehrig’s disease. In fact, people suffering from these diseases seldom kill themselves. For every Oregonian who commits suicide with a drug prescribed by a doctor, 300 people with the same underlying diseases choose to live out their lives.

What motivates a tiny minority to kill themselves?

Not pain. “The most frequently reported concerns included, a decreasing ability to participate in activities that make life enjoyable (92%), losing autonomy (87%), and loss of dignity (78%),” according to the Oregon Department of Human Services report on the state’s 37

assisted suicides in 2004. Only eight of the 37 were worried about pain.

Those results are not surprising. Pain management is a growing field in medicine. Medications are available that control even the most severe pain, and board-certified doctors now specialize in easing not only physical pain but emotional suffering as well.

Contrary to the claims of the suicide lobby, not even cancer patients who are in pain want to kill themselves.

They are, in fact, less likely than the general public to support assisted suicide, according to a 1996 report of research involving 155 cancer patients and 355 cancer physicians. “Patients in pain want the pain killed, not the patient,” Dr. Kenneth Stevens, a leading assisted suicide opponent says, in commenting on the research by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

“Cancer patients in pain were more likely to find euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide unacceptable,” Dr. Stevens says. “Patients with pain were more likely to trust a doctor less if euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide were mentioned as part of a discussion of care at the end of life. . . . Cancer patients in pain may be suspicious that if euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide are legalized, the medical care system may not focus sufficient resources on provision of pain relief and palliative care.”

Assisted suicide advocates tell us we shouldn’t try to force our morality on others. In fact, that is exactly what they are doing. They don’t promote assisted suicide as sound science but a moral imperative, an act of “compassion” – actually their own peculiar interpretation of

that time-honored virtue. Historically, compassion has meant “suffering together with another.” Among Oregon’s suicide advocates, “compassion” means handing desperate Patrick Joyce strangers a glass filled with lethal medication, watching them die, then calling the coroner.

Pope John Paul II calls on Catholics to offer the dying something quite different. Assisted suicide is one of many contemporary “manifestations of the culture of death,” the pope said in a 1999 address to the Pontifical Academy for Life. It is the duty of the Church to speak out for life, the pope said, and “summon all the forces of the community and of people of good will so that with renewed warmth they will embrace the dying in a bond of love and solidarity.”

What do the dying really want – a warm embrace of love or a lethal dose of drugs? In Oregon, they have made their choice clear: 64,706 to 208. It is, as it has always been, the right choice. “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today: I set before you life or death, a blessing or a curse. Choose life . . .”

Patrick Joyce is senior writer and contributing editor at Catholic San Francisco.

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Same-sex marriage neither right nor progressive Established California law mandates, in Family Code 300, that a marriage in this state is a union between a man and a woman. Family Code section 308.5, which was put in place by an overwhelming electorate approval of a ballot initiative, states that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

On Monday of this week, however, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard A. Kramer ruled that these laws are unconstitutional. In his tentative decision, Kramer said the denial of marriage to same-sex couples appears impermissibly arbitrary, and therefore the state laws above violate the equal protection clause of the California constitution.

The ruling by Judge Kramer certainly will be appealed, and the issue very likely will be decided by the California Supreme Court, perhaps in the next two years. We should use this time for dialogue and discussion among friends and family to help others understand the Catholic position on same-sex marriage.

We should clearly state our belief in the God-given dignity of every person, whatever the person’s sexual orientation. Our starting point should be the example of Christ’s love and compassion for all. We also should demonstrate respect for the views of others and a presumption of goodwill in those with whom we talk.

It is entirely appropriate for Catholics to oppose same-sex marriage on religious grounds. In virtually every area of public policy, the laws of the nation and the state have benefited from people holding a perspective shaped by religious beliefs. We should not be attacked for our opposition to same-sex marriage, based on the teachings of our Catholic faith Those kind of attacks are intolerant and unjustifiable.

It also is entirely appropriate for Catholics to oppose same-sex marriage on the basis of societal or cultural beliefs. Marriage between a man and a woman has been a bedrock of society, fostering and nurturing families and children.

The experience of the Netherlands is but one example of the effects of same-sex marriage on a society’s wellbeing. Since the Dutch approved same-sex marriage laws, the rate of marriage in the country has decreased, while out-of-wedlock births have sharply increased. Marriage has become further devalued, and is largely considered irrelevant. This situation certainly is dangerous for women, children and society.

Yet, San Francisco Judge Richard Kramer said in his ruling, “It appears that no rational purpose exists for limiting marriage in this state to opposite-sex partners.” Rightly taking Judge Kramer to task, Ned Dolejsi, head of the California Catholic Conference, said, “Marriage by both custom and biology is the source of family and children. That union of a man and a woman is sacramental to the Church, traditional to the public, and fundamental to civil society – all rational reasons to preserve the definition of marriage.”

The ruling by Judge Kramer seems to open the door to equal protection arguments by a variety of applicants. Why should not two fourteen year-olds be allowed to marry? Why should not a man with five wives be allowed to marry? Why should not a woman living with her aunt be allowed to marry? Why should not three sisters or four brothers be allowed to marry?

Same-sex marriage advocates characterize their opposition as antiprogressives who want to uphold “traditional marriage.” But “tradition ” is used by same-sex marriage advocates as a straw horse, which they try to knock down. The society’s support for marriage as a union between a man and a woman is based on a great deal more than polite tradition.

In viewing Judge Kramer’s court-imposed decision, same-sex marriage proponents argue that in 30 years time we will look back and ask, “What was the fuss all about?” This rose-colored glasses perspective simply is more huckstering of an idea that does not and will not have popular acceptance. One only has to look at another court-imposed decision, Roe v.

Wade, to realize how false the promise of “What was all the fuss about?”

Hopefully, in the months ahead, clearer minds will prevail. There are legislative remedies to assure fair treatment for citizens involved in whatever union they choose, without tampering with the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. Such tampering would be much more than mischief, it would be destructive to our society. It is our task to persuade others – even some Catholics – that the definition of marriage should not be changed.

MEH

Not a war zone Regarding Sharon Abercrombie’s article, “Mission Day Care is a window on the work of Catholic Charities CYO” (CSF – Mar. 11), I was stunned to learn that St. James Parish sits, with Mission Day Care, “in the midst of chaos.” Our parish, like Mission Day Care, sits in fact, in the Noe Valley, according to City Records (sorry, St. Paul and St. Philip, but it’s true!).

While it is also true that St. James is only two and one half blocks from Mission Street and 23rd Street, we are one block from Dolores Street and drive-by shootings are not a regular occurrence! Drug dealing, prostitution and gangs are not particular to any neighborhood in our City; they are most certainly not lurking around our church, school or property or our immediate neighborhood. If you check the average sale price for condominiums or homes you will also realize we ought not to be painted as a “poor” neighborhood.

I was almost afraid to venture out my front door after reading the article’s overly dramatic exaggerations concerning our neighborhood.

We are ministering neither in the “midst of chaos” nor in a war zone.

Saint James has the best of Noe Valley and the Mission. Great weather too.

Fr. Jerome P. Foley St. James Parish San Francisco

God-fearing reader

L E T T E R S

I disagree with letter writer Margy Sheehy’s take (Letters – Mar. 11) on Fr. John Catoir’s commentary “Toxic thinking” (CSF – Mar. 4). I thought his article was written well and to the point, without any sugarcoating, whatsoever. Many people cannot accept the truth in their lives and instead find ways to make external reasons and excuses for their attitudes and behavior. This will only delay healing in their lives.

This article made so much sense, actually common sense, which society needs more of these days.

Please continue to have more reasonable articles by Father Catoir and others who are not afraid to handle the truth and say it like it is.

Whether others like it or not, the truth must not be hidden from God-fearing people.

I love Catholic San Francisco. It is so enlightening.

Samuel Balocating San Francisco

Abortion approaches As someone who contemplated having an abortion, and could not go through with it - many years before becoming a Catholic - I read with interest commentaries on the subject. Abortion is immoral, and social policies that harm the poor create a disrespect for life that can lead to abortions. I do not believe that legislation will curtail abortion. Nor can I, as the close friend of someone who was raped many times by her father, support parental notification until

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we live in a society that protects girls and women from violence. The good news about my friend is that she now has a supportive husband, a child, and a career that enables her to afford excellent therapy.

The issue of rape is as complex as that of abortion. The Beliefnet website recently ran an extraordinary story by a man whose daughter came into this world after her mother was raped before marriage.

Immediately loving her unborn child, but understandably unwilling to live in the community in which she was raised, she moved far away and was eventually tracked down by the author of the story - who had fallen in love with her and loved her even more on learning of her tremendous grace and courage. They were married, and raised the girl with brothers that came later. The daughter is now happily married.

Until such stories become commonplace, every Catholic and person of goodwill must work to end abortion in whatever way he or she sees fit. I choose to support faith-based programs that serve poor children and mothers. I cannot in good conscience vote for any candidate solely on the basis of a single, admittedly exceptionally important issue.

This view should not mean I am ineligible to receive Communion.

I know a number of priests who believe that abortion is murder and who voted for John Kerry. Every thinking Catholic should be encouraged to do all he or she can to bring about a “culture of life” in all aspects of society. How he or she chooses to do so should not be a basis for denial of the Eucharist.

Barbara Berman San Francisco Ed. note – Most parental notification proposals, including the one in process of gathering signatures for the California ballot, offer judicial bypasses to the parental notification requirement in cases where incest, violence or other serious domestic problems are a factor. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research branch of abortion provider Planned Parenthood, less than one percent of abortions are performed for reason of rape.

Protestant deathbeds Regarding Father Ron Rolheiser’s comments (Gethsemane as the place we are put to the test – Mar. 11) on deathbed reactions, which I suspect may be very chilling and discouraging to some faithful Catholics, I’d like to share another view by Billy Graham in his book “Unto the Hills” under the title, “The Dying Words of Christians.”

First he states that most Christians have a triumphant spirit in the way they face death. Then he records statements from deathbeds of well-known preachers: Martin Luther: “Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation. God is the Lord by whom we escape death.”

John Knox: “Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.”

Augustus Toplady (author of ‘“Rock of Ages”) was jubilant and triumphant as he lay dying at the age of thirty-eight. “I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.”

Joseph Everett: “Glory! Glory! Glory!

- which he continued exclaiming for over twenty-five minutes.

In Billy Graham’s own life, he witnessed the death of his grandmother. She sat up in her bed, smiled, and said, “I see Jesus, and He has His hand outstretched to me. And there is Ben and he has both of his eyes and both of his legs.” (Ben, his grandfather, had lost a leg an and eye at Gettysburg).

An old Welsh grocer, who lived near to Billy Graham and his father, said at his deathbed, “Frank, can you hear that music?

I’ve never heard such music in all my life the orchestras, the choirs, angels singing?”

- and then he was gone.

Mary Pecci San Francisco

March 18, 2005

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The Catholic Difference Many Americans still think of their Catholic fellow-citizens as white urban ethnics making a hardscrabble living, raising large families, and cutting themselves into the action through big-city political machines. That’s part of the mosaic of Catholicism in the United States. But it isn’t the whole picture — or even the dominant reality.

Like virtually everything else in American life, Catholicism in America was dramatically changed by the post-World War II G.I. Bill: which, by vastly expanding the middle class, led to the creation of suburbia — and, eventually, “exurbia.” You can still find parishes across America that look something like the cinematic Shangri-La where Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman tried to turn boys into men; but they’re the exception, not the rule. Catholic America is also, even predominantly, suburban America, exurban America, and (thanks to the latest wave of Catholic immigrants) Hispanic America. Moreover, in an amazing transformation of old patterns, Catholicism is becoming a real factor in the Old Confederacy — now better-known as the “New South.”

If there was ever a part of the United States that seemed as “non-Catholic” as non-Catholic gets, it was the Old South. Not any more. What caused this dramatic change? Catholic “snow birds” have migrated to warmer climates from the northern and midwestern United States, while new Hispanic and Vietnamese immigrants have flavored the southern Catholic mix. Catholics who attend prestigious southern schools like Duke and Wake Forest often stay to work in the New South’s booming indus-

tries and to raise families. Then there are the conversions — every year, one parish I know in South Carolina receives dozens of converts (and baptizes numerous others) at the Easter Vigil.

And it’s all adding up: according to a recent Time story, the Charlotte diocese is growing at a 10% annual clip, while Catholics in Atlanta and Houston have tripled since the mid1990s. While Catholics are still only about 12% of the South’s total population (we’re about 25% of total U.S. population), Catholics grew in numbers in the New South by 30%, while the long-dominant Baptists grew by less than 10%.

The Time story noted that Southern Catholicism tends to be “more orthodox” than the Catholicism on tap in other regions of the country. But I wonder if that adjective quite captures the reality of the thing. My own experience with the vibrant parishes and campus ministries in the New South is that this “growing end” of Catholicism in America (as John Courtney Murray would have put it) is growing precisely because it’s not an heir to many of the post-Vatican II battles that have sapped the strength of Catholicism in the Northeast and Midwest. In the wake of the crisis caused by clerical sexual misconduct and failed episcopal leadership, the Church in New England is now replaying all the hoary battles of the past forty years, further sapping its evangelical energies in the process. That is emphatically not the situation in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and elsewhere in the New South, where the vitality of evangelical Protestantism is a daily reminder that the Church is not about turf wars, but rather mission, evangelization, conversion, and service.

Alas, some Catholics in the New South don’t get it.

The new president of Loyola University-New Orleans, Fr. Kevin William Wildes, S.J., fretted in Time that Catholicism in the South might simply George Weigel become “another form of evangelical Protestantism with incense.” Perhaps eager to show that that manifestly wasn’t the case at his school, Father Wildes recently defended his decision to allow The Vagina Monologues to be produced on his campus — thereby demonstrating that “evangelical Protestantism with incense” isn’t the only thing unwelcome at Loyola-New Orleans; neither, it seems, are good taste, common sense, and presidential courage.

Caving in to the more rancid aspects of contemporary culture is a good example of fighting the wars of forty years ago today. Catholics in contemporary America don’t have to prove their intellectual seriousness by aping the corruptions of others. Most of the new Catholicism in the New South understands that. That’s why it’s growing. Perhaps Loyola-New Orleans will catch up some day.

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

Family Life

A little joy in sick days When my four year old son woke up sick on a recent Monday morning, I could see the plans I had made for the day go up in smoke before my eyes. I remember feeling so frustrated-instead of thinking “my poor sick son.” I was thinking about all the phone calls I had to make to change our plans. And at that point, I didn’t even know we would be home together all week.

He was too sick to go to school, but not sick enough not to run a few errands with me. “If you’re going to be home with me you have to do the things I do,” I warned him gently. One of the things I’ve been trying to do is go to daily Mass during Lent. It had not been going well at all, and I had been averaging about two days out of seven, and that included Sundays.

So we started going to Mass around lunchtime. After a few days I gave him the choice of going to a church near where we live or St. Mary’s Cathedral. He always picked the Cathedral.

Some might complain about its lack of adornment or statues, but I’ve always found it to be restful, a good place to clear your mind and spend some time in silence and prayer. I thought my son thought like me, and I asked him, “Why do you like going to mass at the Cathedral?” His reply? “Because it’s short...”

One day, we arrived at the Cathedral a little early and so we knelt down before one of the beautiful altars at the back of the church. It was a depiction of the Wedding Feast at Cana. My son asked who the people were and what was happening, and I tried to explain, as best I could, that Jesus was performing his first miracle, at his mother’s request, to turn the water at the wedding party into wine, because they didn’t have any wine left. He looked deep in thought for a few moments and then turned to me and whispered, very seriously, “Mom, could he change it into coke?”

I had to bite down hard on the inside of my cheek to keep from smiling. Yes, I answered, I think he could have.

“What about 7-Up? Apple Juice?”

How parents keep straight faces over this stuff, I don’t know.

The last thing happened one day during the consecration. He was playing with a couple pieces of loose change he had found in his pocket, and I didn’t think he was paying much attention. All of a sudden he looked up and whispered to me, “Mom, what is the priest doing?”

“He’s changing the bread and the wine into the body and

blood of Jesus Christ,” I whispered back to him.

“How does he do that?’ he asked, again, so earnestly. I was trying to think fast.

“Well,” I whispered, “When a man becomes a priest he’s given special Lynn Smith powers to do that.”

He thought for a second and then whispered back, “He must have had to practice a lot.”

Thankfully, he’s now on the mend, and I can’t say I’m not glad to get back into our regular routine. But I see now that his flu gave us a chance to step off what sometimes feels like a carousel that’s spinning too quickly.

Lynn Smith lives with her husband and four year old son in San Francisco.

Spirituality

Gethsemane - The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak “Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you!” Leonard Cohen coined that phrase in a melancholic poem, Hallelujah, and it reflects how certain things can seduce us so that we end up breaking our word, our commitments, and even our integrity. Lot of things, it seems, can overthrow us.

Beauty, sex, ambition, jealousy, fear, anger, despair, impatience, hatred, and even misguided religious fervour can overthrow us. The spirit is willing, says Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, but the flesh is weak.

And it is! The simple fact is that too often we cannot actualize ourselves as we would like. We’re never as good as we’d like to be, never as stable as we’d like to be, never as much at peace as we’d like to be, and never as beautiful as we’d like to be. We always fall short somehow.

One shortfall is moral: When we’re honest we know the truth of St. Paul’s words: “I cannot understand my own behaviour. I fail to carry out the things I want to do, and I find myself doing the things I hate.” (Romans 7, 15-16) How true! We’re a mystery to ourselves and, often, a disappointment as well. There’s a universal truth in the old Protestant dictum: “It’s not a question of are you a sinner, it’s only a question of ‘What’s your sin?’”

But it isn’t always about sin. The flesh is also weak in terms of simple adequacy. A generation ago, Anna Blaman put it this way: “I realized that it is simply impossible for a human being to be and remain ‘good’ or ‘pure’. If, for instance, I wanted to be attentive in one direction, it could only be at the cost of neglecting another. If I gave my heart to one thing, I left another in the cold. ... No day and no hour goes by without my being guilty of some inadequacy. We never do

enough, and what we do is never well enough done. ... except being inadequate, which we are good at, because it is the way we are made. This is true of me and of everyone else.”

Henri Nouwen, speaking more for our generation, has a gentler, though not-less clear, expression of this: “One of the most obvious characteristics of our daily lives is that we are busy. We experience our days as filled with things to do, people to meet, projects to finish, letters to write, calls to make, and appointments to keep. Our lives often seem like over packed suitcases bursting at the seams.

In fact, we are almost always aware of being behind schedule. There is a nagging sense that there are unfinished tasks, unfulfilled promises, and unrealized proposals. There is always something else we should have remembered, done, or said. There are always people we did not speak to, write to, or visit. Thus, although we are very busy, we also have a lingering feeling of never really fulfilling our obligations.”

We’re weak and we fall short, not so much in intention as in execution. Generally it’s not because of ill will that we end up experiencing what St. Paul, Anna Blaman, and Henri Nouwen so accurately describe. We don’t want to be unfaithful, unreliable, neglectful, irresponsible, or inadequate. What’s truest inside us wants to keep watch with Jesus in Gethsemane, wants to possess the moral greatness of a Mother Theresa, and wants to be known and respected for fidelity, reliability, and adequacy. The spirit, mostly, is willing, but, as Jesus warns in the Garden of Gethsemane, “the flesh is weak”.

What’s to be learned from this? What does the Garden of Gethsemane have to teach us as we struggle with weakness and inadequacy?

That we don’t overcome our inadequacies by willpower

alone, by simply willing that we might be better.

We change our lives through grace and community. In the Garden an angel came and strengthened Jesus. That same angel has to come and strengthen us.

In Gethsemane, Father Jesus didn’t just warn us Ron Rolheiser about the never-ending struggle between goodintention and good execution, between desiring to be good and actually being so. He underwent the struggle himself. His spirit was willing, but his flesh, like ours, was full of resistance. Ultimately he triumphed.

However that triumph did not come about simply because he willed to remain faithful but because “an angel came and strengthened him”, that is, divine power eventually did for him what he could not do for himself.

A lot of things can, and do, overthrow us, despite the fact that we want to be good. One of the lessons of Gethsemane is that we cannot overcome this simply by renewed willpower and good intention. We need, in the struggle, to surrender to grace and community in such a way that God’s angels can come and give us what we can’t give ourselves, namely, goodness, wholeness, and adequacy.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX.

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PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION Matthew 21:1-11; Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24; Philippians 2:6-11; Matthew 14-27 or 27:11-54 GOSPEL AT THE PROCESSION WITH PALMS (MT 21:1-11) When Jesus and the disciples drew near Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass tethered, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them here to me. And if anyone should say anything to you, reply, ‘The master has need of them.’ Then he will send them at once.” This happened so that what had been spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled: Say to daughter Zion, “Behold, your king comes to you, meek and riding on an ass, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.”

The disciples went and did as Jesus had ordered them. They brought the ass and the colt and laid their cloaks over them, and he sat upon them. The very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and strewed them on the road. The crowds preceding him and those following kept crying out and saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is the he who comes in the name of the Lord; hosanna in the highest.”

And when he entered Jerusalem the whole city was shaken and asked, “Who is this?” And the crowds replied, “This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee.”

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH (IS 50:4-7) The Lord God has given me a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them.

Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back.

I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting.

The Lord God is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24) R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

All who see me scoff at me; they mock me with parted lips, they wag their heads: “He relied on the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, if he loves him.”

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

Indeed, many dogs surround me, a pack of evildoers closes in upon me; They have pierced my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones.

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

They divide my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots.

But you, O Lord, be not far from me; O my help, hasten to aid me.

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

I will proclaim your name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you: “You who fear the Lord, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him; revere him, all you descendants of Israel!”

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS PHIL 2:6-11 Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped.

Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (MT 14—27:66 OR 27:11-54) One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over.

On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples approached Jesus and said, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, ‘The teacher says, “My appointed time draws near; in your house I shall celebrate the Passover with my disciples.”’” The disciples then did as Jesus had ordered, and prepared the Passover.

When it was evening, he reclined at table with the Twelve. And while they were eating, he said, “Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” Deeply distressed at this, they began to say to him one after another, “Surely it is not I, Lord?” He said in reply, “He who has dipped his hand into the dish with me is the one who will betray me. The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born.”

Then Judas, his betrayer, said in reply, “Surely it is not I, Rabbi?” He answered, “You have said so.”

While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples said, “Take and eat; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, from now on I shall not drink this fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it with you new in the kingdom of my Father.” Then, after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Then Jesus said to them, “This night all of you will have your faith in me shaken, for it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be dispersed; but after I have been raised up, I shall go before you to Galilee.”

Peter said to him in reply, “Though all may have their faith in you shaken, mine will never be.” Jesus said to him, “Amen, I say to you, this very night before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.” Peter said to him, “Even though I should have to die with you, I will not deny you.” And all the disciples spoke likewise.

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to feel sorrow and distress.

Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch with me.” He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will.” When he returned to his disciples he found them asleep. He said to Peter, “So you could not keep watch with me for one hour? Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Withdrawing a second time, he prayed again, “My Father, if it is not possible that this cup pass without my drinking it, your will be done!”

Then he returned once more and found them asleep, for they could not keep their eyes open. He left them and withdrew again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing again. Then he returned to his disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Behold, the hour is at hand when the Son of Man is to be handed over to sinners. Get up, let us go. Look, my betrayer is at hand.”

While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived, accompanied by a large crowd, with swords and clubs, who had come from the chief priests and the elders of the people. His betrayer had arranged a sign with them, saying, “The man I shall kiss is the one; arrest him.” Immediately he went over to Jesus and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and he kissed him. Jesus answered him, “Friend, do what you have come for.” Then stepping forward they laid hands on Jesus and arrested him. And behold, one of those who accompanied Jesus put his hand to his sword, drew it, and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his ear. Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its sheath, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot call upon my Father and he will not provide me at this moment with more than twelve legions of angels? But then how would the Scriptures be fulfilled which say that it must come to pass in this way?” At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple area, yet you did not arrest me. But all this has come to pass that the writings of the prophets may be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

Those who had arrested Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. Peter was following him at a distance as far as the high priest’s courtyard, and going inside he sat down with the servants to see the outcome. The chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward who stated, “This man said, ‘I can destroy the temple of God and within three days rebuild it.’” The high priest rose and addressed him, “Have you no answer? What are these men testifying against you?” But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I order you to tell us under oath before the living God whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said to him in reply, “You have said so. But I tell you: From now on you will see ‘the Son of Man seated at

the right hand of the Power’ and ‘coming on the clouds of heaven.’” Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has blasphemed! What further need have we of witnesses? You have now heard the blasphemy; what is your opinion?” They said in reply, “He deserves to die!” Then they spat in his face and struck him, while some slapped him, saying, “Prophesy for us, Christ: who is it that struck you?”

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. One of the maids came over to him and said, “You too were with Jesus the Galilean.” But he denied it in front of everyone, saying, “I do not know what you are talking about!” As he went out to the gate, another girl saw him and said to those who were there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazorean.” Again he denied it with an oath, “I do not know the man!” A little later the bystanders came over and said to Peter, “Surely you too are one of them; even your speech gives you away.” At that he began to curse and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately a cock crowed. Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken: “Before the cock crows you will deny me three times.” He went out and began to weep bitterly.

When it was morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. They bound him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.

Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, deeply regretted what he had done. He returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? Look to it yourself.”

Flinging the money into the temple, he departed and went off and hanged himself. The chief priests gathered up the money, but said, “It is not lawful to deposit this in the temple treasury, for it is the price of blood.” After consultation, they used it to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. That is why that field even today is called the Field of Blood. Then was fulfilled what had been said through Jeremiah the prophet, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of a man with a price on his head, a price set by some of the Israelites, and they paid it out for the potter’s field just as the Lord had commanded me.

Now Jesus stood before the governor, and he questioned him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus said, “You say so.”

And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he made no answer.

Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?” But he did not answer him one word, so that the governor was greatly amazed.

Now on the occasion of the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the crowd one prisoner whom they wished. And at that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had assembled, Pilate said to them, “Which one do you want me to release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had handed him over.

While he was still seated on the bench, his wife sent him a message, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man. I suffered much in a dream today because of him.” The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas but to destroy Jesus. The governor said to them in reply, “Which of

March 18, 2005 the two do you want me to release to you?” They answered, “Barabbas!”

Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” But he said, “Why? What evil has he done?”

They only shouted the louder, “Let him be crucified!” When Pilate saw that he was not succeeding at all, but that a riot was breaking out instead, he took water and washed his hands in the sight of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. Look to it yourselves.”

And the whole people said in reply, “His blood be upon us and upon our children.” Then he released Barabbas to them, but after he had Jesus scourged, he handed him over to be crucified.

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the praetorium and gathered the whole cohort around him.

They stripped off his clothes and threw a scarlet military cloak about him.

Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head, and a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” They spat upon him and took the reed and kept striking him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him off to crucify him.

As they were going out, they met a Cyrenian named Simon; this man they pressed into service to carry his cross.

And when they came to a place called Golgotha —which means Place of the Skull—, they gave Jesus wine to drink mixed with gall. But when he had tasted it, he refused to drink. After they had crucified him, they divided his garments by casting lots; then they sat down and kept watch over him there. And they placed over his head the written charge against him: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.

Two revolutionaries were crucified with him, one on his right and the other on his left. Those passing by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself, if you are the Son of God, and come down from the cross!” Likewise the chief priests with the scribes and elders mocked him and said, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. So he is the king of Israel! Let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

He trusted in God; let him deliver him now if he wants him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” The revolutionaries

who were crucified with him also kept abusing him in the same way.

From noon onward, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And about three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Some of the bystanders who heard it said, “This one is calling for Elijah.”

Immediately one of them ran to get a sponge; he soaked it in wine, and putting it on a reed, gave it to him to drink. But the rest said, “Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to save him.” But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice, and gave up his spirit.

And behold, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, rocks were split, tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

And coming forth from their tombs after his resurrection, they entered the holy city and appeared to many. The centurion and the men with him who were keeping watch over Jesus feared greatly when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, and they said, “Truly, this was the Son of God!” There were many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him. Among them were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who was himself a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be handed over. Taking the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the tomb and departed. But Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained sitting there, facing the tomb. The next day, the one following the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, “Sir, we remember that this impostor while still alive said, ‘After three days I will be raised up.’ Give orders, then, that the grave be secured until the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead.’ This last imposture would be worse than the first.” Pilate said to them, “The guard is yours; go, secure it as best you can.” So they went and secured the tomb by fixing a seal to the stone and setting the guard.

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Scripture MARK SHEA

End Game Jesus, at the moment of the Triumphal Entry, appears to be about to win the Game of Worldly Success. The Prophet rides into the Big City to thunderous applause. “From Humble Manger to National Religious Leader” scream the headlines in the Palm Sunday edition of the Jerusalem Herald.

The Galilean is a sensation! Rumor has it he’s healed the sick, walked on water and even raised the dead! God himself smiles on him. Not only that, the crowds are wild for him. Polls indicate he is among the Most Admired Jews for the week of April 3, 30 AD. By general consensus, he is already being hailed as the Son of David. A word from him in this atmosphere and he could muster an army (and who knows what sort of exciting supernatural phenomena). The Romans would be out and a new Davidic Golden Age upon us. Jerusalem is on tip-toe waiting to see how this will play out.

But Jesus blows his chance to Win the Game. He is rude to Top People in the Jerusalem intelligentsia. He trashes the nice little shopping mall in the Temple Court.

Even worse, he appears to be making nice with Roman centurions, as well as painted ladies and weasely tax collectors. And in the middle of it all, he utters some spooky mumbo-jumbo about destroying the Temple in three days and raising it up again.

By mid-week, polling results show a distinct drop in numbers for the Galilean and Leading Spokesmen for the Jerusalem establishment are decrying “extremism” from “certain so-called prophets”. Some pundits are wondering aloud about the Nazarene’s sanity. Meanwhile, Jesus’ “support base” begins to break down and a certain Judas Iscariot goes to the Authorities with an offer to help them “deal” with this threat to regional stability.

From there, collapse happens with breathtaking speed. Jesus is betrayed and arrested on vague charges of being a public nuisance. Friends either stab him in the back, run off into the night or chicken out lest they be exposed as his acquaintances.

One by one, every escape hatch is closed, sometimes by malice, sometimes by Jesus’ own mysterious disregard for the political delicacies of the situation and sometimes by what appears to be exasperatingly bad luck. Witnesses use his remark about destroying the Temple against him, but there is some confusion about the accuracy

of their testimony. So Caiaphas gives Jesus the chance to disavow it all and go back to the carpenter’s shop. He instead reiterates his messianic claim and ups the ante by acting as though they are responsible for a rather serious injustice (not a sharp political move).

Pilate looks for an out too, but receives no help from Jesus who seems to be agreeing with the charge that he is some sort of rival King in competition with Caesar.

Pilate’s superstitious fears of Jesus (inflamed by his wife’s creepy dreams about this strange preacher) look as though they might get Jesus off the hook, but this goes sour when Pilate’s appeal to the Wisdom of the Voters results in Barabbas’ polling numbers shooting above those of the star-fallen Messiah.

And so, five days after being lionized as the Son of David, an improbable complex of events and personalities (who look worrisomely contemporary) winds up voting a two-bit hood the Most Fascinating Person of April 8, 30 AD and crucifying the Son of God. But Jesus, “though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.” In other words: Christ betrayed, denied, seemingly outmaneuvered and crucified was not the Loser of the Game. More wonderful still, Jesus was not the Winner of the Game. Rather, Jesus ended the Game of self-seeking strategy and conniving. So far from running to save his skin, he ran to save ours and enfleshed the words of Isaiah: “I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; My face I did not shield from buffets and spitting.”

Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Mark Shea is Senior Content Editor at CatholicExchange.com.

Prayer for this Sunday Christ so loved the world that he set his face like flint and gave his back to those who beat him, and his cheeks to those who plucked his beard.

He did not shield his face from the pounding and spitting and did not answer when they blindfolded him and jeered, “Who struck you?” but rather he humbled himself and emptied himself.

Jesus, we are deeply touched.

Thank you for showing us who God is, what divine love is, who we are.

From you all love gets its meaning.

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Lenten Opportunities Through March 23: 9-Day Novena for Word Peace at Immaculate Conception Church, 3255 Folsom St., SF. Josyp Terelya, imprisoned in Russia for 20-years for his refusal to renounce the Catholic faith, and Wayne Weible popular author, are two of the speakers. Each day, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. includes speakers, Mass, the rosary, Divine Mercy Holy Hour and Reconciliation. Registration is throughout the day, and the cost is $25 per day, payable on arrival.

For questions, please contact Christine Watkins (415) 931-5517, christinew@runbox.com.

Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 3:30 p.m. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Open to the public. Admission free. March 20: California Baroque Ensemble with Ruth Onstad, soprano.

Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public. Admission free. March 20: Holy Week Concert by Schola Cantorum.

March 18: A dramatic performance of the Gospel of Matthew with Michael Reardon and Patrick Lane at St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Rd., Redwood City at 7 p.m. Experience a contemporary translation of Scripture in a new and fresh way with music, lighting and costumes. A reception to meet the artists follows.

March 19: Day of Recollection sponsored by SF Guild – Catholic Medical Association in the Green Room of St. Cecilia Church, 17th Ave. and Vicente, SF, beginning at 9 a.m. Talks focus on Christ’s Passion with Philip Calanchini and Richard Sonnenshein. Tickets $35 per person include lunch. Father Mark Taheny, chaplain, will guide the day. Call (4150 219-8719.

March 20: Palm Sunday Mass commemorating 80th anniversary of the death of Father Peter C.Yorke.

Relatives of the celebrated priest from New Zealand, New Jersey and Canada are expected to attend.

Mass is celebrated in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma at 10:30 a.m. Rite includes procession to Father Yorke’s gravesite and reception. Call Kathleen Manning at (415) 664-0828.

Sponsored by United Irish Societies of San Francisco.

March 20: Palm Sunday Brunch at St. Mary Church in Nicasio, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Enjoy fresh fried eggs, hash browns and a ration of ham plus raffle and silent auction.

Tickets $15 adults/$5 under 12. Call (415) 662-2191.

March 21: San Francisco Council of Catholic Women “Evening of Recollection” at Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco beginning with Mass at 6 p.m.

March 22 and 24: Holy Week Retreat with Dominican Father Jude Siciliano and Dominican Sister Patricia Bruno at Sacred Heart Church, 10189 State Route One in Olema.Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., “an evening to lift your spirits,” Thursday at 9 a.m., “Scriptural Reflection to prepare for Easter.” Call (415) 663-1139.

St. Anthony Padua Dining Room in Menlo Park needs volunteers Wed., Thurs, and Sat. from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. to help prepare and serve noon meals. The program helps more than 500 people daily. Call (650) 365-9664.

St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco.

Call (415) 567-2020 for more information.

April 2: Spring Dinner Dance, in Patrons’ Hall. A fund-raising event for the Cathedral. Proceeds bene-

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Datebook The S. F. Chapter of Notre Dame Alumnae will hold its annual Mass and Luncheon on April 2, 2005. This year’s theme is “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”. The day begins with mass at 11:00 AM at Mission Dolores Basilica – across from the old school site - followed by lunch at the S.F. Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton Street, S.F. Honorees are the Golden Belles of 1955 and the Silver Belles of 1980.

Call Debbie Calgaro at (650) 583-1102 for more Pictured are last year’s honorees the Golden Belles of 1954. information and reservations. Notre Dame High School, San Francisco, closed in 1981. fit St. Mary’s Cathedral.No Host Cocktails: 6.00pm.

Dinner 7-9 p.m. Dance 9pm-1am. Semi Formal Attire.

Donation: $25.00 Inquiries call 567-2020, ext. 205.

for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for information.

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St. Paddy’s Day Events March 19: Traditional Irish fare accompanied by song and dance from Ireland at St. Francis of Assisi Church Hall, 1425 Bay Rd., East Palo Alto. Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner prepared by former chef of Woodside’s Village Pub. Evening also includes presentation from noted historian Robert Senkewicz. Call (650) 322-2152 for ticket information.

Food & Fun March 19: Fiesta Fever takes hold of St. Cecilia’s Durocher Pavilion for the parish Mothers’ Club’s annual dinner dance and auction beginning with theme oriented appetizers at 6 p.m. Music by Ben Hunter and the Celtic Scandal. Tickets are $75 per person. Proceeds benefit parish school. Call Tanya Bolshakoff at (415) 759-8582.

March 27: Easter Bake Sale at Star of the Sea Church, SF, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Assortment of homemade cakes and baked goods for Easter table beautifully gift-wrapped for family and friends. Sponsored

by Chinese American Assoc. of the parish.

April 16: Come and celebrate with us! St. Isabella School in San Rafael announces its annual Spring Auction and Dinner Dance, “OLE!” Fantastic Silent and Live Auctions, a Flamenco show, dancing, and a 2005 MINI Cooper Convertible to raffle! Many more items to see and bid on! 5p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Marin Civic Center, Exhibition Hall, San Rafael. For Tickets and Reservation requests pls. call Michele Ugarte at 415.499.1202 ASAP! Dinner tickets $75 per person. MINI Cooper tickets $100 per chance (only 500 to be sold!) visit www.winacooper.com.

Single, Divorced, Separated March 18: Potluck Supper at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral conference center. Sponsored by Divorced and Separated Ministry of the Archdiocese. Call Vonnie at (650) 873-4236.

Separated and Divorced support group meets 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452.

Catholic Adult Singles Assoc. of Marin meets

Groups meet at the following parishes. Please call numbers shown for more information.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame. Call (650) 344-6884; 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; 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) 598-0658 or Mary Wagner at (650) 591-3850.

Marin County: St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171.

San Francisco: St.Gabriel. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Finn Barr in English and Spanish.

Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823; St. Cecilia. Call Peggy Abdo at (415) 564-7882 ext. 3; Epiphany in Spanish. Call Kathryn Keenan at (415) 564-7882. St. Dominic. Call Margaret Passanisi at (415) 931-5241.

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) 564-7882.

Information about children’s and teen groups is available from Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

Returning Catholics Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, call (415) 4532342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 461-7060; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea at (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949.

San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call

(415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, (415) 664-8590.

San Mateo County: St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336; 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) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Chris Booker at (650) 738-1398.

Meetings 2nd Wed.: Men’s Evening of Reflection: Being Catholic in the Modern World at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, SF beginning at 7 p.m. Call (415) 983-0405.

Courage, a Catholic support group for persons with same-sex attraction, meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Call Father Lawrence Goode at (650) 322-2152.

Taize Prayer 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in their Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont across from Ralston Hall on the campus of their Notre Dame de Namur University. Call (650) 5932045, ext. 350 or www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

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) 322-3013.

3rd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Call Dean Miller at (650) 474-2882.

1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Catherine Rondainaro at (415) 713-0225

Respect Life/ Family Life March 18-20: Rachel’s Vineyard, a weekend retreat for women and men seeking healing from an abortion in a supportive and non-judgmental environment. Call Mary Peter at (408) 426-7343 or (888) 467-3790. For information about additional Project Rachel services, please call the Archdiocese of San Francisco at (415) 717-6428.

Are you in a troubled marriage? Retrouvaille, a program for couples with serious marital problems, might help. For information, call Tony and Pat Fernandez at (415) 893-1005.

Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available from the Office of Marriage and Family Life of the Archdiocese, Chris Lyford, director, at (415) 614-5680.

Sat. at 9 a.m.: Pray the Rosary for Life at 815 Eddy St. between Franklin and Van Ness, SF. Call (415) 752-4922.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 568-3018.

The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers free adoption information meetings twice a month.

Singles and married couples are invited to learn more about adopting a child from foster care. Call (415) 4062387 for information.

Datebook is a free listing for parishes, schools and non-profit groups. Please include event name, time, date, place, address and an information phone number. Listing must reach Catholic San Francisco at least two weeks before the Friday publication date desired.

Mail your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, S.F. 94109, or fax it to (415) 614-5633.

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Lenten Movie Series Romero Following is part of a series of movie reviews for Lent. Romero (1989) is available on DVD and VHS.

Review by Steven D. Greydanus “A good compromise choice� is how one observer describes the 1977 appointment of Oscar Romero (Raul Julia) — a conservative, orthodox, apolitical bishop of a small rural diocese — to the archbishopric of San Salvador, the highest ecclesiastical office in El Salvador.

By the time Archbishop Romero’s tempestuous three-year tenure comes to its violent end, “compromise� is a word no one will ever again think of in connection with him.

The first feature film from the Paulist Fathers’ moviemaking division, John Duigan’s Romero tells the true story of Latin America’s best-known and most revered modern martyr, Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Goldamez, a man whom John Paul II described as a “zealous pastor who gave his life for his flock,� and at whose tomb in San Salvador the Holy Father has prayed when visiting El Salvador.

Where Romero excels as a film is in its depiction of its subject’s gradual transformation. Like Richard Burton in Becket, Raul Julia’s Romero is a man morally transformed by office and responsibility. Yet whereas Becket becomes a new man virtually overnight, Romero goes through a more organic, gradual process, responding to specific crises.

Romero comes to the archbishopric at a time when El Salvador is torn apart by violence and injustice. El Salvadoran military forces — aided and equipped by the United States as a defense against Communism — oppose the country’s Marxist guerrilla resistance. However, much of what is done in the name of “fighting Communists� is really just repressing the poor, or anyone who speaks out on their behalf.

As played by Julia, Romero seems at first a man singularly unsuited for high office, partic-

ularly in such a time of crisis. By nature timid, bookish, and retiring, he has no presence, no political instincts, no sense of moral authority.

He doesn’t even have a decent pair of shoes.

He does, however, have one important virtue in the eyes of El Salvador’s wealthy European oligarchy, military controllers, and complacent bishops: He’s uncontroversial. At least he’s not on the side of the country’s guerrilla resistance movement, and that’s good enough for the ruling classes. Certainly they’re sure he’s a man who won’t rock the boat.

What no one anticipates — including Romero himself — is how he will respond when someone else rocks the boat. Less than a month into his office, demonstrators in the main plaza of San Salvador are surrounded by police forces, and some are killed. Days later, Romero is stunned when a popular priest friend of his known for advocacy of reform and social justice is assassinated, along with an old man and a young boy accompanying him to Mass.

Romero’s response to this atrocity — presumably the work of a military death squad — is a dramatic proposal: Cancel all Sunday Masses that week throughout the archdiocese except for a single memorial Mass at the cathedral, to unite the faithful in this time of crisis.

The proposal meets with resistance from other bishops. “It will be interpreted as a political statement,� one protests. Romero, a reasonable man, feels the weight of this objection; yet in the end he grasps that the decision must be his. The Masses are canceled.

Slowly, the archbishop is revealed as a man of growing courage. At times he exhibits physical bravery, as when he climbs into a van with armed and masked thugs, or refuses to be intimidated by the guns of a hostile military force occupying a parish church.

But other, quieter acts require a form of courage as well. Told that his appointment with the fraudulently declared president-elect must be rescheduled, Romero unflinchingly replies, “I will wait,� and makes himself comfortable in the waiting room. On a subsequent

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occasion, he strides into the president’s office unannounced, and refuses to be satisfied with political niceties. He doesn’t even shy from calling the president (also named Romero, coincidentally) a liar to his face.

The archbishop’s moral crusade earns him enemies, not only among the ruling alliance of military powers and aristocracy, but on two other fronts as well: the Marxist resistance movement, and even some of his fellow priests and bishops who fear the wrath of the establishment, and even accuse Romero being a Marxist himself.

Romero repudiates Marxism, but will not allow anti-Marxism to be used as a LENTEN MOVIE SERIES, page 22

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■ Continued from page 21 weapon to quell moral criticism. He preaches a theology of liberation, but a liberation “rooted in faith” that is “so often misunderstood” in merely political terms.

Like Roland Joffé’s The Mission, Romero raises the issue of “liberation theology,” but rejects what is unacceptable in some forms of that school of thought: class warfare, guerrilla tactics, priests taking up arms. Certainly the film has no sympathy for the Marxist resistance, which it depicts as brutally lawless.

Even so, Romero’s real opposition comes not from the guerrillas, but from El Salvador’s controllers — especially the military, which ultimately overthrows the fraudulent presidency and establishes a series of military juntas operating with continued U.S. support.

Unfortunately for the film, none of Romero’s enemies, even among the military, emerges as a knowable or compelling character. Eddie Velez plays a callous officer who opposes Romero at several turns, and the archbishop also has a couple of runins with members of the aristocracy as well as the fraudulently elected president; but the film has no true antagonist.

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EWTN will broadcast the following live liturgies from Rome during Holy Week: Chrism Mass with the Holy Father from St. Peter’s Basilica airs live at 12:30 a.m., with 12:00 p.m. encore on Mar. 24.

Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion from St. Peter’s will air at Noon on Mar. 25 and the Solemn Way of the Cross at 5:00 p.m.

Easter Vigil Mass with the Holy Father from St. Peter’s will broadcast live at 11:00 a.m., with 9:00 p.m. encore on Mar. 26.

Solemn Mass of Easter Sunday will air 12:30 a.m. with 9:00 a.m. encore on Mar. 27. The Holy Father’s Easter Message and Blessing, Urbi et Orbi, is carried live at 2:00 a.m. with 10:30 a.m. encore.

EWTN will also broadcast liturgies from the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., including the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Mar. 24 at Noon and the Easter Vigil Mass on Mar. 26 at 2:00 p.m.

EWTN is carried on Comcast Digital Channel 229; RCN Channel 80; DISH Satellite Channel 261; and Direct TV Channel 422. Comcast Cable customers receive EWTN on Channel 54 in Half Moon Bay and Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County.

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earthly expression of that divine solidarity with which the Lord himself challenged one of the church’s earliest oppressors: “Why are you persecuting me?”

It’s a question that continues to apply to all who persecute God’s children anywhere in the world.

Note: Some viewers used to the American custom of using the honorific “monsignor” only for specially honored priests may be thrown by references in the film to Romero as “Monsignor” both before and after his appointment as archbishop, but in Latin America the honorific extends also to bishops.

Romero is a bishop (not just a “monsignor”) at the time of his election to the archbishopric.

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church cannot remain silent before such an abomination… In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cry rises to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you: Stop the repression!

The day after delivering that speech, Oscar Romero was assassinated. Soon afterward, El Salvador descended into a decade-long civil war that claimed the lives of upward of 60,000 El Salvadorans.

Archbishop Romero was killed in the very act of offering the sacrifice of the Mass, almost in the act of elevating the Eucharistic elements. Simply by portraying this event essentially as it happened, Romero presents the archbishop’s life and death as a sacrifice in union with the sacrifice of Christ.

This final sacrifice is foreshadowed by other Masses offered under threatening or difficult circumstances. The Mass, we see, is a bold and radical act, even in a way a revolutionary act: for in the Mass Jesus is with us and in us. The Mass is the fullest

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Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked.

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The school cultivates an environment where students are encouraged to become service-oriented leaders. De Marillac maintains a commitment to tracking students beyond graduation and supporting them to achieve their goals through high school and beyond.

De Marillac operates under a President/Principal model of leadership. The Principal is the educational leader of the school, directly responsible to the President for the daily operations of the school and the teachings/learning process.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: ● Practicing Roman Catholic who sees his/her commitment to Catholic education as a ministry ● Teaching credential and Master’s degree or higher ● Eight or more years of experience as a teacher and/or administrator ● Passion for students, faith formation, community building, character development, learning, and excellence ● Excellent oral and written communication skills ● Experience working in and with underserved communities ● Familiarity with current educational research POSITION AVAILABLE: June 2005 COMPENSATION: Competitive salary with full benefits.

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March 18, 2005

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA Announces

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Marble niches for cremated remains are also available.

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Please call (650) 756-2060 for an appointment or additional information.

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