March 23, 2010

Efforts to insert abortion Catholic san Francisco funding ban into health care bill fall short

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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives passed massive health reform legislation March 21 but rejected a last-ditch effort to send a package of legislative fixes back to committee in order to insert language on abortion supported by the U.S. bishops.

The votes were 219-212 in favor of the Senate-passed health reform bill, and 232199 against a motion by Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., to recommit the reconciliation package to committee with instructions to substitute language that would codify the Hyde amendment, which forbids federal funding of most abortions.

The vote on the reconciliation package, which concluded shortly before midnight, was 220-211. Twenty-three Democrats joined all 178 House Republicans in opposing the measure.

See U.S. Bishops March 23 statement, page 4

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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had said in a March 20 letter to the House that the Hyde amendment must be included in the final health reform

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measure. The bishops also had urged enhanced conscience protections.

Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity who is president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, praised the legislation, saying it “represents great progress in the long effort to make health care available and affordable to everyone in the United States.” She urged the Senate to take quick action to pass the reconciliation package.

The House votes came only after Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., obtained a promise from the White House that President Barack Obama would sign an executive order stipulating that the Hyde amendment would apply to the health reform legislation.

Obama signed the health reform bill into law March 23. The White House has not indicated when Obama will issue the executive order.

Stupak, a Catholic, had led a group of pro-life House Democrats in opposing the Senate health reform bill unless if were amended to include abortion language passed by the House last year. The U.S. bishops had backed those efforts, saying the Senate-passed bill’s abortion HEALTH CARE BILL, page 4

Annual Chrism Mass will take place at St. Mary’s Cathedral, March 30 San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer will be the principal celebrant and homilist at the Archdiocese’s annual Chrism Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral March 30 at 5:30 p.m. Priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and Religious Order priests will concelebrate.

All Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco are invited to attend the liturgy. The cathedral is located at 1111 Gough St. at Geary Blvd.

Archbishop Niederauer will bless the oils to be used in baptism, confirmation, ordination of priests and anointCHRISM MASS, page 10

A ministry of listening

By Liz Dossa A man came to see Sister Mary Ann Scofield in her office at Mercy Center in Burlingame one recent afternoon with a puzzled expression. A frequent visitor, he sat down on the chair opposite her and said, “Something odd keeps happening to me. I am awakened in the night often, several nights a week. That’s not strange, but I have the feeling that God is very close, and I am supposed to pray then at that moment. Why? Why not at some reasonable time during the day?”

“Tell me about the experience,” Sister

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Scofield responded. “What exactly happens?”

“I just feel that God is very near and loving me,” the man responded. “But, in the middle of the night? Am I supposed to do something?”

Sister Scofield has sat with hundreds of faithful people seeking to unwind the threads of the holy in their lives. “The person has come to me because he knows God is nudging or calling him,” she said, “but he needs help figuring out what to do. I would typically tell the person to stay with the experience.

There is always more to unwrap in an inner MINISTRY OF LISTENING, page 11

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Mercy Sister reflects on her 30 years in the art of spiritual direction

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Volunteers are key to the Handicapables’ monthly - every third Saturday except October - Mass and luncheon, where people from all walks of life and challenges meet for prayer, fellowship and breaking bread at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

“We are in need of those who are willing to help on a monthly basis in this worthy work,” said longtime supporter Olivia Fisher. The group is independent and maintained by prayer, she said. “Our board is aging and we need replacements because they can’t last forever.” If you can lend some time or want to know more about Angela Alioto Handicapables, call Jane Cunningham at (415) 585-9085….Angela Alioto, a secular Franciscan for 41 years, and a major force in the building of the Porziuncola Nuova in the heart of San Francisco’s North Beach, was honored March 13 with the Tau Award from the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley. “The Tau Award, named after the favorite representation of the Cross so beloved by St. Francis of Assisi, is given to a person or an institution who embodies the core Franciscan values of peace, justice, and the sacredness of creation,” the school said in an announcement of the recognition. In a letter to the former San Francisco Supervisor, Archbishop George Niederauer said Angela has built “a spiritual edifice in public service, advocacy for the poor and efforts to protect the environment.” Previous recipients of the Tau Award include actor, Martin Sheen, retired Oakland Bishop John Cummins, and San Francisco’s St. Anthony Foundation.

Angela has become a regular guest on the Archbishop’s Hour and counts Immaculate Heart Radio among works she is happy to support. In a recent interview, she told me how St. Francis stole her heart on a visit to Assisi when she was a young and wild teen and how she proudly and humbly now

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By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – By bus from across the country and on foot from across town, an estimated 200,000 people flocked to the National Mall March 21 to press Congress and the president – with signs, banners, T-shirts, chants and prayers – to make good on promises to fix the immigration system.

U.S. citizens, legal immigrants and some who admitted they are in the country illegally covered a six-block stretch of the Mall to make their case for reforming a system that keeps families apart, limits students’ education prospects and causes millions of people to exist “in the shadows,” because they lack legal papers.

Before marching three miles past the Capitol to RFK Stadium, where their buses waited, the exuberant, hopeful crowd waved flags and signs as dozens of speakers took to the stage to tell their personal immigration stories.

Other speakers pledged the support of their churches, unions and human rights groups.

A videotaped message of support from President Barack Obama brought a hush to the crowd, turning to cheers as he pledged “to do everything in my power to forge a bipartisan consensus this year on this important issue. You know as well as I do that this won’t be easy, and it won’t happen overnight. But if we work together – across ethnic, state and party lines – we can build a future worthy of our history as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws.”

A few blocks from the Capitol at St. Aloysius Church shortly before the rally, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony spent 30 minutes greeting people arriving for a special Mass. In a homily that invoked the late labor leader Cesar Chavez, with whom the cardinal worked for many years for farmworkers’ rights, he noted that after the events at the Capitol that day it would be time for immigration reform to take the political stage.

In a phone interview with Catholic News Service the next morning, Cardinal Mahony said passage by the House of a health care reform bill hours after the rally “is

helpful to immigration reform efforts,” given the current political climate.

“The president made a very firm commitment during the campaign and again recently that immigration reform is one of his top priorities,” the cardinal said. Now that a health care bill will help millions of uninsured people receive affordable medical care, he added, it’s time for the government to address the millions of people who are living in the shadows because they lack legal immigration status.

“This is unfinished business,” Cardinal Mahony said, adding that bringing those immigrants into the system for paying taxes and tapping into assorted public services will help the U.S. economic recovery.

Among the crowd on the Mall estimated by organizers at 200,000 people, Jose, described his motivation for making a 15-hour bus ride with Holy Cross and St. Cecilia’s parishes in Clearwater and St. Petersburg, Fla. A U.S. citizen who was born in Mexico, Jose explained that his wife lacks legal immigration status.

He lives in constant fear that she will be arrested and deported before the current years-long process it would take to get her legal residency status.

They have three young U.S. citizen children. While he works 13- to 14-hour days to support the family, his wife manages the household, gets the children to and from school, doctors and other activities, he said.

But next year, a change in Florida law will require her to show proof of legal immigration status to renew her driver’s license. Lacking that license, the family’s way of life will have to change in order to adapt.

Of bigger concern to Jose, who asked that his last name not be used, is that “I’m afraid, every moment, that she will get arrested and taken away from me and our children.”

He doesn’t believe that either he or his wife can safely return to their native Mexico, mostly because of the pervasive violent crime in his home state of Zacatecas and her state of Michoacan.

“My family there already is threatened because the criminals know they receive help from me,” Jose said.

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Bishops urge vigilance to keep abortion funding out of health reform

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – Here is the text of a statement from the U.S. bishops on health reform signed into law March 23 by President Barack Obama. The statement, by Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George, president of the bishops, was approved by the Administrative Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and released March 23.

For nearly a century, the Catholic bishops of the United States have called for reform of our health care system so that all may have access to the care that recognizes and affirms their human dignity. Christian discipleship means “working to ensure that all people have access to what makes them fully human and fosters their human dignity” (U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults, p. 454). Included among those elements is the provision of necessary and appropriate health care.

For too long, this question has gone unaddressed in our country. Often, while many had access to excellent medical treatment, millions of others including expectant mothers, struggling families or those with serious medical or physical problems were left unable to afford the care they needed. As Catholic bishops, we have expressed our support for efforts to address this national and societal shortcoming. We have spoken for the poorest and most defenseless among us. Many elements of the health care reform measure signed into law by the president, address these concerns and so help to fulfill the duty that we have to each other for the common good.

We are bishops, and therefore pastors and teachers. In that role, we applaud the effort to expand health care to all.

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■ Continued from cover language was morally unacceptable because it contained “no relevant provision to prevent the direct use of federal funds for elective abortions.”

Rep. Joseph R. Pitts, R-Pa., said the House language was needed in the Senate measure despite the promised executive order because “an executive order does not trump a statute.”

“The courts will look to the legislative statute to interpret the law,” he said.

In a March 21 memo to congressional staffers, Richard Doerflinger, associate director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, said that “the statutory mandate construed by the courts would override any executive order or regulation.”

“This is the unanimous view of our legal advisers and of the experts we have consulted on abortion jurisprudence,” he said. “Only a change in the law enacted by Congress, not an executive order, can begin to address this very serious problem in the legislation.”

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Nevertheless, for whatever good this law achieves or intends, we as Catholic bishops have opposed its passage because there is compelling evidence that it would expand the role of the federal government in funding and facilitating abortion and plans that cover abortion. The statute appropriates billions of dollars in new funding without explicitly prohibiting the use of these funds for abortion, and it provides federal subsidies for health plans covering elective abortions. Its failure to preserve the legal status quo that has regulated the government’s relation to abortion, as did the original bill adopted by the House of Representatives last November, could undermine what has been the law of our land for decades and threatens the consensus of the majority of Americans: that federal funds not be used for abortions or plans that cover abortions. Stranger still, the statute forces all those who choose federally subsidized plans that cover abortion to pay for other peoples’ abortions with their own funds. If this new law is intended to prevent people from being complicit in the abortions of others, it is at war with itself.

We share fully the admirable intention of President Obama expressed in his pending executive order, where he states, “It is necessary to establish an adequate enforcement mechanism to ensure that federal funds are not used for abortion services.” However, the fact that an executive order is necessary to clarify the legislation points to deficiencies in the statute itself. We do not understand how an executive order, no matter how well intentioned, can substitute for statutory provisions.

The statute is also profoundly flawed because it has In introducing his motion to send the bill back to committee, Camp referred to the proposal to codify Hyde in the measure as the “Stupak-Pitts amendment,” but Stupak spoke against it, saying it “purports to be a right -to-life amendment” but was actually an attempt to “politicize life.”

“This is nothing more than an opportunity to continue to deny 32 million Americans health insurance,” Stupak said. “It does not promote life. The executive order ensures that the sanctity of life will be protected.”

The text of the draft executive order released by the White House said its goal was to “establish an adequate enforcement mechanism to ensure that federal funds are not used for abortion services (except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered), consistent with a long-standing federal statutory restriction that is commonly known as the Hyde amendment.”

“The purpose of this executive order is to establish a comprehensive, governmentwide set of policies and procedures to achieve this goal and to make certain that all relevant actors – federal officials, state officials (including insurance regulators) and health care providers – are aware of their responsibilities, new and old.”

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failed to include necessary language to provide essential conscience protections (both within and beyond the abortion context). As well, many immigrant workers and their families could be left worse off since they will not be allowed to purchase health coverage in the new exchanges to be created, even if they use their own money.

Many in Congress and the administration, as well as individuals and groups in the Catholic community, have repeatedly insisted that there is no federal funding for abortion in this statute and that strong conscience protection has been assured.

Analyses that are being published separately show this not to be the case, which is why we oppose it in its current form. We and many others will follow the government’s implementation of health care reform and will work to ensure that Congress and the administration live up to the claims that have contributed to its passage. We believe, finally, that new legislation to address its deficiencies will almost certainly be required.

As bishops, we wish to recognize the principled actions of the pro-life members of Congress from both parties, in the House and the Senate, who have worked courageously to create legislation that respects the principles outlined above. They have often been vilified and have worked against great odds.

As bishops of the Catholic Church, we speak in the name of the church and for the Catholic faith itself. The Catholic faith is not a partisan agenda, and we take this opportunity to recommit ourselves to working for health care which truly and fully safeguards the life, dignity, conscience and health of all, from the child in the womb to those in their last days on earth.

Correction Matt Nichol is the Junipero Serra High School pitcher who signed a letter of intent to play baseball with UC Davis. Nichol’s name was misspelled in the March 12 issue of Catholic San Francisco. Nichol also is a member of the National Honor Society and compiled a 6-1 record for the Padres during his junior year, with a 3.23 ERA. He had 36 strikeouts in 39 innings.

Obama had “said from the start that this health insurance reform should not be the forum to upset long-standing precedent.”

“The health care legislation and this executive order are consistent with this principle,” Pfeiffer added.

The U.S. bishops in their March 20 letter not only called for changes on abortion language but also urged changes that would allow new immigrants to get Medicaid and illegal immigrants to buy health insurance with their own money.

“After a year of divisive political combat, members of the House are told that they can advance health care reform only by adopting the Senate legislation as is, including these fundamental flaws,” the letter said. “The House leadership is ignoring the pleas of pro-life members for essential changes in the legislation. Apparently they will not even try to address the serious problems on abortion funding, conscience protection and fair treatment of immigrants.”

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WASHINGTON (CNS) – The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops praised new health reform legislation for expanding health care to more Americans but said the bishops and the Catholic community will be watching closely to ensure that the new law does not expand federal funding of abortion.

Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, talks with Catholic News Service in Washington March 23, shortly after President Barack Obama signed the new health reform package into law.

“We are apprehensive as we look to the future, even as we applaud much of the increased care that will be available,” Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago told Catholic News Service March 23, shortly after U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. “So we will watch basically and try to continue to enter into conversations as a

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moral voice – never as a political voice; we’ve been very careful to insist upon the moral principles that everybody should be cared for and no one should be deliberately killed,” he added.

Cardinal George acknowledged in the interview that “the unity of the Church has been wounded” in various political actions and conversations surrounding the health reform debate. The USCCB opposed the Senate bill that passed the House March 21, while some Catholic groups and members of Congress supported it.

“We are certainly concerned about division in the church, because bishops have to be the people who are concerned about its unity, about keeping people together around Christ,” he said.

“The bishops know that they don’t speak for every one of the 61 million Catholics in the country, but what we do is we speak for the Catholic faith itself,” he said. “And those who share the faith will gather around.”

The cardinal said it remained to be seen whether the executive order promised by Obama would be adequate to keep the status quo on federal funding of abortion.

“The president’s executive order puts in some administrative protections that we are very grateful for, but an administrative order doesn’t substitute for a statute,” he said.

Asked whether he expected church agencies to face difficulties related to abortion in the health reform law, the cardinal said, “We’ll see how that plays out in the courts.”

“I suspect that there will be court challenges to Catholic medical practice,” he added.

Cardinal George also rejected claims by some that the USCCB had allied itself in the health reform debate with groups that were primarily interested in advancing the Republican agenda.

“I really don’t think that’s true,” he said.

“The principles are twofold – everybody taken care of, nobody killed. And I think that moral voice, while it doesn’t correspond politically to either party, has been consistent.”

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Dr. C. Alan Wall and the late Dr. Robert Wall and their families are sponsors of the new Rev. P. Carlos Rossi, SJ Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of San Francisco. From left: Michael Duffy, Dean, USF Business School; Jesuit Father John LoSchiavo, former USF President; Sacred Heart Sister Diana Wall, Dr. C. Alan Wall, Mark Hanson and Elizabeth Hanson.

Charles Geschke, Ph.D., has been named the inaugural Rev. P. Carlo Rossi, SJ, Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of San Francisco. As the Rossi chair, the Adobe Systems co-founder will serve as a guest lecturer in undergraduate, graduate and executive business classes during the coming year. The endowed chair is funded through gifts from Dr. C. Alan Wall, the late Dr. Robert Wall and their families and friends.

“We are immensely grateful to the Wall family for their generosity and commitment to the Father Rossi Chair in Entrepreneurship,” said Michael Duffy, dean of the USF School of Business and Professional Studies. “The family’s gift ensures excellence in teaching and research for our students today and in the future.”

“We couldn’t be more honored to name Dr. Charles Geschke as the first Rossi Chair in

Entrepreneurship,” Duffy said. “Dr. Geschke is not only a successful inventor, innovator, entrepreneur, business leader and philanthropist; he is also a man of sincere faith. He will serve as a mentor for our students and faculty, illustrating that high achievement in business and in society stems from a solid foundation of faith and ethics.”

Dr. Geschke, who co-founded Adobe Systems in 1982, is a graduate of the Jesuits’ St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio, and Xavier University in Cincinnati. He completed his post-graduate work in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a former chair of the USF Board of Trustees.

The chair honors late Jesuit Father P. Carlos Rossi, uncle of the Doctors Wall, both USF alumni. The priest became an important figure in the boys’ lives after their father’s death when they were very young.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) – Nuclear deterrence – the concept that possessing nuclear weapons will thwart an enemy from attacking – is preventing the much-needed goal of disarmament from being achieved, said the papal nuncio to the United Nations. Archbishop Celestino Migliore also told an audience hosted by the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University March 16 that the conditions that prevailed during the Cold War and that provided the basis for the church’s “limited toleration of nuclear deterrence” no longer exist.

The nuncio’s comments came during a panel discussion on nuclear deterrence, disarmament and human security that also featured Maryann Cusimano Love, associate professor of international relations at The Catholic University of America, and Douglas B. Shaw, an expert in nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament at George Washington University. Not hiding their views that nuclear disarmament is necessary in a world where the threat of a nuclear attack by rogue nongovernmental players is rising, the panelists outlined steps that the world’s powers – and its citizens – can take to create a more peaceful and secure planet. Panelists cautioned against citizen apathy, urged the formation of worldwide networks to push for nuclear disarmament and counseled that religion can play an important role in achieving the eventual goal of dismantling all nuclear weapons. They called for new international treaties that specify the depth of weapons cuts, especially between the United States and Russia, the world’s foremost nuclear powers.

Study finds Latinos who leave their churches are choosing no faith WASHINGTON (CNS) – A new analysis of religious identification data finds that contrary to popular belief, U.S. Latinos

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are not leaving behind Catholicism for Protestant churches, but instead are becoming more secularized, affiliating themselves with no faith at all. A study released March 16 by the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College, a secular liberal arts school in Hartford, Conn., reported that although Latinos remain predominantly Catholic, those who have left the church since 1990 have shifted more than expected toward secularism as they become more Americanized.

It also reported on shifts of the Latino population away from the Northeast and to Southern states, and from urban to suburban communities, among other information. The study compared changes in the Latino population’s responses to questions about faith between 1990 and 2008.The analysis of the American Religious Identification Survey of 2008 echoes many of the findings of previous studies of Latinos and their faith, such as that the influx of Latino immigrants continues to be a factor in maintaining the size of the Catholic population in the United States. “Over the 18-year period, the influx of 9 million Latino Catholics accounted for most of the 11 million additions to the U.S. Catholic population and, as a result, Latinos comprised 32

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Those who said they identify with no faith grew from 6 percent in 1990 to 12 percent in 2008, they found.

Annual audit shows reports decline WASHINGTON (CNS) – Reported cases of child sexual abuse in U.S. dioceses and religious institutes declined between the 2008 and 2009 audits to evaluate how church institutions are complying with the U.S. bishops’ 2002 “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.” The 2009 annual report also showed that costs to dioceses and religious orders for lawsuits and other allegation-related expenses also decreased.

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Church announces beatification date for Italian teen Badano corresponded for years with Chiara Lubich, founder of the movement.

Born Oct. 29, 1971, in northern Italy, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a bone malignancy, when she was 17. According to her biography, the diagnosis came after many painful examinations and operations.

When she was given the news, she vowed to accept it as God’s will.

“If you want it, Jesus, so do I,” she was reported to have said during a painful therapy session, adding that “embraced pain makes one free.”

She also reportedly declined to take the morphine doctors offered because, she

said, “I want to share as much as possible the pain of Jesus on the cross.”

“I feel that God is asking me for something more, something greater,” she said, according to her official biography.

“I could be confined to this bed for years, I don’t know. I’m only interested in God’s will, doing that well in the present moment: playing God’s game,” she said.

Badano, who was nicknamed “Luce” or “Light,” died Oct. 7, 1990, and her funeral was attended by hundreds of young members of the Focolare Movement from throughout northern Italy. Devotion to her has spread, so the rather isolated Diocese of Acqui asked that her beatification ceremony be celebrated in Rome to make it easier for more young people to attend, said Mariagrazia Magrini, the vicepostulator of her cause.

said the Charity Commission misinterpreted Regulation 18 and criticized its thinking as “neither logical, rational, purposive nor responsive to any reasonable linguistic interpretation.”

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They also reviewed the outcome of the 23rd special session of the General Assembly held in 2000 on women and “gender equality, development and peace for the 21st century.”

By Joeun Lee VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Chiara Badano, an Italian who died of bone cancer just before her 19th birthday, will be beatified Sept. 25 at a shrine outside of Rome, said the bishop of the diocese where she lived.

The beatification ceremony will be held at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Divine Love and will be presided over by Archbishop Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, said Bishop Pier Giorgio Micchiardi of Acqui.

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■ Continued from page 6 against 346 people who were under the authority of dioceses or religious orders. The vast majority of those allegations related to incidents dating back decades, the report said. The U.S. bishops adopted the charter in response to a wave of reports of sexual abuse of minors involving church personnel and criticism of how the church had handled allegations of abuse in the past.

British court rules in favor of Catholic adoption agency LONDON (CNS) – A Catholic adoption agency prevailed in a legal battle to continue its policy of assessing only married couples and single people as potential adopters and foster parents. The ruling in the High Court in London means that the adoption agency, Catholic Care, is exempt from dealing with same-sex and cohabiting couples who present themselves as prospective parents. The charity, which covers the northern English dioceses of Leeds, Middlesbrough and Hallam, is the only one of 11 English and Welsh Catholic adoption agencies to fight the country’s 2007 sexual orientation regulations through the courts. Unable to comply both with Catholic teaching that gay adoption is “gravely immoral” and the regulations compelling them to assess gay couples who may apply to care for children, the other agencies have either closed their adoption services or established them as secular charities with no church control. Leeds-based Catholic Care, however, challenged a ruling by the Charity Commission, the body which regulates the activities of charities in England and Wales. The commission ruled that Catholic Care could not use one of the regulations – Regulation 18 – to continue to offer its services.

Overall, the regulations ban discrimination against gays in the provision of goods and services, but Regulation 18 allows a charity to practice limited discrimination in the course of its work. Justice Michael Briggs published his ruling in favor of the agency March 17, two weeks after hearing arguments. Briggs

Status of women improving but many still face hardships UNITED NATIONS (CNS) – The status of women around the world has improved in the last 15 years with better educational opportunities, less discrimination and more laws against domestic violence, but women continue to suffer, Archbishop Celestino Migliore said March 8. The progress of women also can be seen in their promotion as “key to eradicating poverty and fostering development” and the growth of their participation in civil society, the Vatican’s U.N. nuncio told leaders of the world body. But women and girls remain victims of various forms of violence, including “female feticide and infanticide,” and account for a significant number of those infected by HIV/AIDS, he said. They also make up the majority of those who are trafficked across international borders and sexually exploited, he said. Archbishop Migliore’s statement was delivered during a session of the Commission on the Status of Women, a body of the U.N. Economic and Social Council.

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By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) – In a letter to Irish Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI personally apologized to victims of priestly sexual abuse and announced new steps to heal the wounds of the scandal, including a Vatican investigation and a year of penitential reparation. “You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated,� he told victims in his letter, released March 20 at the Vatican.

The pope told priest abusers that they would answer to God for their sins. He said bishops had made serious mistakes in responding to allegations of sexual abuse, and he encouraged them to implement new church norms against abuse and cooperate with civil authorities in such cases. “Only decisive action carried out with complete honesty and transparency will restore the respect and good will of the Irish people toward the church,� he said.

The 4,600-word letter was to be distributed at Masses across Ireland March 20-21, and priests there were preparing homilies on the text. The letter came in response to the disclosure last fall that Irish church leaders had often protected abusive priests over the last 35 years. Similar allegations have since come to light in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland.

Pope Benedict, who met with Irish bishops to discuss the problem in February, began his letter by saying he shared in the sense of betrayal Irish Catholics felt when they learned of these “sinful and criminal acts� and the “often inadequate response� by church authorities in Ireland.

He said he was convinced that the church, having adopted strict new measures against sexual abuse, was now on the right path.

But the healing process for Irish Catholics will take time and requires a deeper spiritual renewal, he said. “No one imagines that this painful situation will be resolved swiftly,� he wrote.

The pope pointed out that he had met with sex abuse victims before and said he was ready

to do so again. Many in Ireland have called for a papal meeting with those who suffered abuse at the hands of priests.

To the victims of abuse and their families, the pope offered sympathy and understanding.

He noted that many victims found that, when they had the courage to denounce the abuse, “no one would listen.� Those abused in Catholic residential institutions must have felt that there was no escape from their sufferings, he said. “It is understandable that you find it hard to forgive or be reconciled with the church.

In her name, I openly express the shame and remorse that we all feel. At the same time, I ask you not to lose hope,� he said.

Addressing priests and religious who have abused children, the pope declared: “You betrayed the trust that was placed in you by innocent young people and their parents, and you must answer for it before almighty God and before properly constituted tribunals.�

Priest abusers, he said, have “violated the sanctity of the sacrament of Holy Orders in which Christ makes himself present in us and in our actions.� He said those who have abused should openly acknowledge their guilt, try to atone personally for what they have done and “do not despair of God’s mercy.�

The pope urged bishops to fully implement the church’s new policies against abuse and to “continue to cooperate with the civil authorities in their area of competence.� “It cannot be denied that some of you and your predecessors failed, at times grievously, to apply the long-established norms of canon law to the crime of child abuse. Serious mistakes were made in responding to allegations,� he said.

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A woman holds rosary during Mass at a Church in Armagh, Northern Ireland, March 21. Pope Benedict XVIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letter to Irish Catholics was a pastoral not a disciplinary document, aimed more at spiritual rebuilding than establishing a chain of accountability for the priestly sex abuse scandal.

penalties against abuse. He also pointed to inadequate selection of priesthood candidates, poor formation programs and a tendency in society to favor the clergy and other authority figures.

At the same time, he said priestly sexual abuse was linked to more general developments, including the secularization of Irish society and of Irish clergy and religious themselves, and misinterpretation of the Second Vatican Council.

In addition to the apostolic visitation, the pope announced two other â&#x20AC;&#x153;concrete initiativesâ&#x20AC;? to help Irish bishops repair the damage in the church:

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A yearlong period, from Easter 2010 to Easter 2011, of penitential and devotional practices with the intention of strengthening holiness and strength in the church in Ireland.

In particular, he said, eucharistic adoration should be set up in every diocese, so that â&#x20AC;&#x153;through intense prayer before the real presence of the Lord, you can make reparation for the sins of abuse that have done so much harm,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A nationwide â&#x20AC;&#x153;missionâ&#x20AC;? to be held for all bishops, priests and religious, to promote a better understanding of their vocations by drawing on the expertise of preachers and retreat-givers, and by studying Vatican II documents and more recent teachings.

The pope cited Irelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s immense past contributions to the church, and the great sacrifices made by Irish Catholics. That sense of faith needs to be renewed, even in the face of the recent scandals, he said.

Addressing young people in Ireland, he urged them not to give up on the church. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are all scandalized by the sins and failures of some of the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s members,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it is in the church that you will find Jesus Christ, who is the same yesterday, today and forever,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The pope told Irish Catholics he was sending his letter â&#x20AC;&#x153;with the care of a father for his children and with the affection of a fellow Christian, scandalized and hurt by what has occurred in our beloved church.â&#x20AC;?

He closed the letter with a prayer that said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;May our sorrow and tears, our sincere efforts to redress past wrongs, and our firm purpose of amendment bear an abundant harvest of grace.â&#x20AC;?

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Note: The full text of the papal letter is available on the Vatican Web site at www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_ xvi/letters/2010/documents/hf_ben-xvi_ let_20100319_church-ireland_en.html.

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March 26, 2010

Chrism Mass Celebrating and understanding the priesthoods of Jesus Christ, of the faithful, and of priests in the Year for Priests This coming Tuesday, March 30, at 5:30 p.m. in the afternoon, Archbishop George Niederauer will preside at the annual Chrism Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral. In this Mass, he will be joined by all the priests and various ministers serving in the Archdiocese and representative lay faithful coming from all the parishes. In spite of its name, the blessing of the sacred oils (of Chrism, of the Sick, and of Catechumens) is not the only aspect of this liturgy. This Mass is also the celebration of the priesthood of all the baptized participating in the priesthood of Jesus Christ.

The various ways and degrees by which the priesthood of Jesus Christ is shared with his people constitute the impressive scenario of the liturgical celebration: the general priesthood of the faithful present, the ministerial priesthood of the presbyters, and the fullness of the priesthood represented by the Archbishop and other bishops.

As we celebrate the Chrism Mass during this “Year for Priests” proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI, we take this opportunity to reflect in more depth about the priesthoods of Jesus Christ, of the faithful, and of presbyters, that is and most particularly about the ordained priests.

The first is the priesthood which the Letter to the Hebrews expounds profoundly, the priesthood of the risen Jesus Christ (4:14-5:10). His priesthood is unique in that as the priesthood of the Son of God he can share it with no one. Furthermore, while the former priests were many in number, Christ is the only priest of the New Covenant that is as mediator and having offered himself as sacrifice on the cross (9:15; 10:14).

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) explains the uniqueness of Christ’s priesthood declaring: “Everything that the priesthood of the Old Covenant prefigured finds its fulfillment in the Christ Jesus, the ‘one mediator between God and man’” (1544). That sacrifice on the cross is made present today in the Eucharistic sacrifice realized through the ministerial priesthood without diminishing the uniqueness of Christ’s priesthood (1545).

The priesthood of the faithful unfortunately is often confused to simply mean that of the non-ordained, like in the term and exposition in the CCC, “priesthood of the faithful,” (1546) when this should mean the priesthood of all the baptized shared by the lay and the ordained alike. The

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First Letter of Peter addresses the people of God: “You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,” (2:9) called to manifest God’s wonderful works by “offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God” (2:5). Christians are to live offering sanctified lives so that by their good deeds people seeing them will glorify God (2:12).

By virtue of baptism, the heart of the believers’ priesthood in which both the lay and the ordained share is the giving of our whole lives to God, not only in the Eucharist but in everything we do. The Catechism teaches about this saying that “the faithful are ‘consecrated to be…a holy priesthood’ … exercised by the unfolding of baptismal grace – a life of faith, hope, and charity, a life according to the Spirit” (1546-1547).

Today, when most speak of priests, they usually mean the identity and role of the most common of the ordained ministries. While the New Testament recognizes divinely mandated authorities in Christian communities, it does not designate as priest any who hold such roles. It was only by the end of the first century when Christians began to see themselves as distinct from Judaism and the Eucharist as an unbloody sacrifice did they begin to appropriate the idea of priesthood to Christian community leaders.

During those early centuries, community leadership and

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Though the Mass commemorates the priesthood and is directed to be celebrated Holy Thursday morning or on an earlier day near Easter, it is distinct from the Mass of the Lord’s Supper celebrated in parishes on Holy Thursday evening.

Priests and deacons are invited to a

day of recollection held previous to the Chrism Mass and join in dinner after the Mass. The speaker at this year’s retreat is Sulpician Father Gladstone “Bud” Stevens, Dean at Saint Patrick’s Seminary and University, in Menlo Park.

A choir comprised of singers from parishes throughout the Archdiocese will lead song at the Chrism Mass. Interested choristers can contact Joseph Murphy at (415) 614-5505 or murphyj@sfarchdiocese.org.

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worship among Christians was centered on the bishop. When the Christian population grew rapidly, presbyters increasingly began functioning as community leaders and presiders at Eucharist and in this manner they were also called priests. In the various developments for almost two thousand years leading to the Second Vatican Council, the role and identity of the priest that was frequently emphasized was that of presider of the Eucharist. This diminished the priest’s community leadership role and deepened his isolation from the lay faithful.

The Second Vatican Council brought back the identity and role of the ordained priest to its ancient roots. In its “Decree on the Life and Ministry of Priests,” Presbetyrorum Ordinis (PO), the Council reaffirmed the priority of the priesthood of Christ and the entire community of the baptized as a priestly people. Rather than limiting the idea of ministerial priesthood to presidency of the Eucharist, the Council has broadened the notion of priestly ministry to include the role of the community’s servant leader (PO 2).

Sharing with the bishop, who embodies the fullness of the priesthood, and in union with the college of priests, the priest participates in the three-fold ministry of the priesthood of Christ: that of the word, of the sacraments, and of pastoral charity (PO 3-13; also CCC 1547). Fundamental to the role of the ordained priest is to minister in the name of Christ to the whole body of the faithful so that it realizes its baptismal priesthood in living as a prophetic people, a priestly people, and servants of the kingdom of God (CCC 1548).

During the Chrism Mass this interplay between the ordained and the baptismal priesthoods are beautifully shown. We all share in the priesthood of Christ through baptism symbolized in the oil of Chrism being blessed. The oils of the Sick and of Catechumens likewise blessed show the active concern of Christ for all the baptized in various life situations and duly ministered by the ordained priests.

In a moving dialogue between the Archbishop, priests and people, the priests renew their vows to priestly service made at ordination before the great High Priest Jesus Christ. Here we see the motto of the Year for Priests liturgically realized: “Faithfulness of Christ, Faithfulness of Priests.”

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Catholics begin observance of the most sacred days of the Christian year The Catholic Church is about to enter into the most sacred days of the Christian year, during which Catholics immerse themselves in the events that 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.

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2010 Holy Week Schedule Holy Thursday Good Friday

7:30 p.m. Mass of Lord’s Supper Adoration until Midnight 12:15 p.m.

Stations of the Cross

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 1:15 1:45 2:30 7:30 Easter Vigil Easter Sunday Masses

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

8:00 p.m.

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

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 city. Gradually this custom spread to other places, so our worship on this day combines the practices of Rome and MOST SACRED DAYS, page EL4

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At the beginning of the Palm Sunday liturgy we re-enact become truly present. When Jews celebrate the Passover, they the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. We then listen to the are not simply remembering the deliverance from Egypt, they Gospel of the Passion, proclaimed in a dramatic way by three are participating in the experience. At the Last Supper Jesus readers. These departures from our customary celebration of intentionally and irrevocably linked the Eucharist to the great the Eucharist usher us into the great events of Holy Week. We Passover event of His death and resurrection: “This is my are invited to experience the final, climactic days of Jesus’ body which is given for you” and “This cup which is poured life: the Last Supper, His arrest, passion and death, and His out for you is the New Covenant in my blood.” It is His body glorious resurrection. Over the centuries many Catholic which He offered on the cross and the blood which He shed cultures, inspired by the drama of the Holy Week liturgies, that we receive in the Eucharist. (CCC #1365) To be present for this have developed colorful and offering is a great privimoving ceremonies to comlege. To receive the Body memorate these events.

We are not spectators watching and Blood of Christ is a Might we think of the tremendous honor. But God Mass itself as a kind of the drama of the passion, we goes even further in His Passion Play? People in the generosity, and invites us to Middle Ages did. They could offer ourselves together with not hear or did not under- are plunged into Christ’s death His Son. We are not simply stand many of the prayers; witnesses of the sacrifice, gestures which had lost and resurrection. We are near nor are we only recipients their practical purpose had of the Holy Gifts: we are become mysterious. What the cross, not like the soldiers truly members of the Body did it all mean? What they of Christ, and we unite our knew was that the Eucharist observing the tragedy unfold, but imperfect, limited offerings was intimately connected to His perfect sacrifice. with the death of Jesus, so like Mary, uniting ourselves to (CCC 1368) they interpreted the mystifyAs we enter into this ing words and actions as a dramatic re-enactment of the Christ’s sacrificial offering of love. Holy Week, by all means we should let ourselves be passion, death and resurrecmoved by the great events tion of Jesus. For example, at the Offertory the priest washes his hands. Originally, we celebrate. It is fitting to meditate on Our Lord’s Passion, this was a functional action: after handling all the produce and to participate in the various pious traditions which which had been brought to the altar along with the bread and make these events so vivid to us. But let us also pray for wine, the priest had to wash his hands. The gesture remained the grace of a deeper understanding of the Holy Sacrifice after the procession was discontinued, and was interpreted of the Mass. spiritually as an expression of the desire to approach the Liturgical Commission of Eucharistic sacrifice in purity of heart. But for the medieval the Archdiocese of San Francisco. churchgoer it symbolized Pilate washing his hands, one of many details in the Passion Play of the Mass.

HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH 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 reConfessions presents them. That is, it makes those realities present here and Sunday, March 14, 21 & 28 now sacramentally, so that we can enter into them. We are not 7:15 AM, 9:15 AM & 11:15 AM spectators watching the drama of the passion, we are plunged into Christ’s death and resurrection. We are near the cross, not Saturday, March 27 like the soldiers observing the tragedy unfold, but like Mary, 9:30 AM- 2:00 PM - Parish Retreat uniting ourselves to Christ’s sacrificial offering of love.

2:00 PM - Penitential Service and Confession Does this re-presentation mean that Jesus is being 4:30-5:00 PM Confession sacrificed again? That was what the Protestant Reformers Mass and Blessing of Palms believed, and they rejected the doctrine of the Mass as a Vigil Masses, Saturday, March 27 sacrifice because it implied that the self-offering of Jesus on 3:00 PM (Chinese) the cross was insufficient. They were right to reject such an 5:00 PM understanding of the death of Jesus; but they were wrong to think that this is the teaching of the Catholic Church. The Palm Sunday Masses, March 28 sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one 7:30 AM single sacrifice; Christ offered His life once on the cross, but 9:30 AM with procession from the schoolyard He continues to make that same offering in an unbloody way 11:30 AM through the ministry of His priests. (CCC 1367) 5:15 PM (Vietnamese) The Eucharist is the “memorial” of the death of Christ in Monday, March 29 & Tuesday, March 30 a very specific way. It is not a drama which calls those events 7:30 & 9:00 AM Masses in the Chapel to mind, but a sacramental celebration in which those events

2010 Holy Week Services

Wednesday, March 31

St. Gabriel Church • 2559 - 40th Avenue San Francisco, CA. 94116

Holy Week Schedule Sacrament of Reconciliation Monday, March 29 - 7:00 PM

Holy Thursday - April 1 6:30 pm Parish soup supper - Bedford Hall 8:00 pm Mass of The Lord’s Supper Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the School Library until 10:00 PM

Good Friday - April 2 Noon - 12:45 pm Stations of the Cross (Presented by St. Gabriel School Students) 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM - Good Friday Reflections 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion ******************* 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion

Holy Saturday - April 3 8:00 PM - Celebration of the Easter Vigil

7:30 & 9:00 AM - Masses in the Chapel Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament after the 9:00 AM Mass 7:15 PM – Solemn Benediction and Reposition 7:00 PM - Passover Meal (Chinese Ministry), Flanagan Center

Holy Thursday, April 1 (No Mass in the morning) 7:30 PM - Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the Church Solemn Procession to the Chapel follows the Mass and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 11:00 PM

Good Friday, April 2 (No morning Services) 12:00-1:00 PM - Stations of the Cross led by the 8th graders, Holy Name School 1:15 to 2:00 PM - Meditations on the Seven Last Words 2:00 PM - Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion Good Friday Service in Vietnamese 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Holy Saturday, April 3 10:00 AM – Seven Sorrows of our Lady (Mater Dolorosa) in the Schoolyard 4:00-5:00 PM – Confessions (No 5:00 PM Mass) 8:15 PM - Solemn Easter Vigil Mass (with Rite of Christian Initiation)

Easter Sunday, April 4

Easter Sunday Masses 7:00 am, 8:30 am, 10:00 am, 10:05 am - (Bedford Hall), 11:30 am & 5:30 pm

7:30 AM 9:30 AM (Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by the Holy Name Youth Group after the Mass) & 11:30 AM Masses 4:00 PM (Vietnamese)

There will be a 5:30 pm mass on Easter Sunday.

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Passion of Christ: more than a play

Mary holding the crucified Jesus is depicted in a contemporary enamel work by German artist Egino Weinert.

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The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption Holy Week & Easter Triduum Schedule 2010 Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion Vigil Mass Saturday, March 27 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 28 7:30 a.m. , 9:00 a.m. , 11:00 a.m., Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant 1:00 p.m. en espanol Chrism Mass Tuesday, March 30 5:30 p.m.

(Annual Archdiocesan Celebration of Renewal of Priestly Ministry by the Clergy, Blessing of Oils of Catechumens, Sick and Sacred Chrism by the Archbishop) Lent ends at Sundown on Holy Thursday and begins the Celebration of the Easter Triduum Confessions will not be heard during the Easter Triduum Holy Thursday April 1 7:30 p.m.

Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Washing of Feet, followed by Vigiling and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Francis Hall (Lower Level) until 11:45 p.m.

11:45 p.m. – Night Prayer in St. Francis Hall Good Friday We continue our Vigiling . . . .

April 2 12:00 p.m.

Stations of the Cross led by the students of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City, CA followed by Music in the Cathedral 1:00 p.m.

Liturgy of the Passion and Death of the Lord Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant NO CONFESSIONS TODAY Via Crucis/Stations of the Cross in Spanish 7:00 p.m.

Holy Saturday Our Paschal Vigil continues throughout the day and night . . .

April 3 The Easter Vigil 8:00 p.m.

Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant Blessing of the New fire and Paschal Candle, Liturgy of the Word, The Celebration of the Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion of our Elect.

Easter Sunday April 4 Masses 7:30 a.m.

9:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m. en Español 3:30 p.m. Easter Concert Organ Recital 4:15 p.m.

Easter Vespers and conclusion of the Easter Triduum

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March 26, 2010 The 1648 painting of “The Last Supper” by Philippe de Champaigne on display at the Musée Du Louvre, Paris, France.

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■ Continued from page EL2 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 aside his vestments and

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Regular Sunday Mass Schedule with procession of palms

Holy Wednesday, March 31 at 7:00 PM Penitential Ceremony and Confessions

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 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

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GOOD FRIDAY 8:00 a.m.

11:30 a.m.

12:30 p.m.

1:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.

Morning Prayer Confessions Stations of the Cross Seven Last Words Solemn Liturgy and Holy Communion with dramatization of the Passion by our eighth grade students.

NO FURTH LITURGIES HOLY SATURDAY 8:00 a.m.

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

EASTER SUNDAY, April 4th 8:00 AM Brazilian Mass 10:00 AM English Mass for all communities*, followed by children’s Easter Egg Hunt by the Peace Statue on Brotherhood Way* 8:00 PM Mass (English)

*Parents must accompany their children. **No Arabic Mass on Easter Sunday

Good Friday, April 2 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

Holy Saturday, April 3 Confessions 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m. Easter Vigil – Spanish 10:00 p.m.1st Mass of Easter – English

Easter Sunday, April 4

EASTER VIGIL 8:00 p.m.

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

7:30 a.m. – English 9:30 a.m. – Spanish 12:30 p.m. – Bi-lingual

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Good Friday, April 2nd

7:00 PM Easter Vigil (English) 10:00 PM Easter Vigil (Arabic), followed by Alleluia greetings in Carroll Hall

Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 p.m. Bi-Lingual Adoration until 12:00 Midnight

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.

7:00 PM Mass of the Lord’s Supper (English) 9:00 PM Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Arabic)

Holy Saturday, April 3rd

Holy Thursday, April 1

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.

Holy Thursday, April 1st

9:00 AM Way of the Cross (in city: starts at Coit Tower, winds down the hill to the National Shrine of St. Francis, 610 Vallejo & Columbus. Ends at 11 AM.) 12 Noon Outdoor Live Stations of the Cross (@ STM) 1:00 PM Liturgy of the Lord’ Passion (English) 9:00 PM Liturgy of the Lord’ Passion (Arabic)

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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. MOST SACRED DAYS, page EL5

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PALM SUNDAY: Saturday, March 27th 4:00 pm: (Vigil) All Hallows Chapel 6:00 pm: (Español) All Hallows Chapel Sunday March 28th 8:30 am: All Hallows Chapel (with Samoan Choir) 10:30 am: Lourdes Parish (with Gospel Choir) **Palms will be blessed at all Masses Monday-Wednesday: 8:00 am: All Hallows Chapel

Holy Thursday: (No 8:00 am Mass) 7:00 pm: All Hallows Chapel (with Samoan Choir) Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament after the Mass Good Friday Service: (All Hallows Chapel) 12 Noon – 3:00 pm Holy Saturday: Easter Vigil 8:00 pm All Hallows Chapel (with Samoan Choir) Tri Lingual Mass: Samoan, Spanish, English Easter Sunday: 8:30 am: All Hallows (with Samoan Choir) 10:30 am: Lourdes Parish (with Gospel Choir)

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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 St. 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

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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.

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Christ crowned with thorns is depicted in a fresco detail from the Collegiata in San Gimignano, Italy.

■ Continued from page EL4 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 Church and our world. While it is always fit-

ting 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 St. 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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2010 Easter Week Schedule: RECONCILIATION SERVICE: March 29, 7:00pm, SACRED TRIDUUM HOLY THURSDAY: April 1, 7:00pm, Vigil with Eucharist until 11:00pm GOOD FRIDAY: April 2, Noon to 3:00, 7:30pm Stations of the Cross HOLY SATURDAY: April 3, 9:00am Morning Prayer, 11:00-12:00pm Confession, 8:00pm Easter Vigil E ASTER S UNDAY : April 4, 8:00, 9:30, 11:15am

St. Monica Parish Geary Boulevard at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco

Easter 2010 Holy Week Schedule Palm Sunday, March 28

Saturday Evening Vigil - 5pm Sunday - 8am, 9am (Cantonese) 10:30am (Choir) (Palms will be blessed and distributed at all Masses) 4pm Evening Prayer and Benediction

Holy Thursday, April 1

Mass of the Lord’s Supper; Procession and stripping of the altars - 7:30pm (Veneration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10pm)

Good Friday, April 2

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion with Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion - 12 noon Confessions - 1:30pm to 3pm Prayer Around the Cross - 7:30pm

Holy Saturday, April 3

Confessions - 3:30pm to 5pm No 5pm Mass The Great Vigil of Easter Mass - 7:30pm

Easter Sunday, April 4 Sunday - 8am, 9am (Cantonese) 10:30am (Choir), 12 noon No Evening Mass

2010 HOLY WEEK & EASTER SCHEDULE Palm Sunday – March 28, 2010

Good Friday – April 2, 2010 Confessions - 10:00am to 10:45am Youth Group Stations of the Cross - 12 noon Good Friday Service - 1:00pm to 3:00pm Youth Group Stations of the Cross - 7:00pm

Vigil - Saturday at 5:00pm Masses at 7:00am, 9:00am, 11am Palms distributed at each Mass

Holy Saturday – April 3, 2010

Holy Thursday – April 1, 2010

Easter Sunday – April 4, 2010

Agape Dinner - 5:30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper - 7:30pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00pm in the Hall

Masses at 7:00am, 9:00am & 11:00am 9:00am & 11:00am in the Hall also Easter Egg Hunt for children following the 9:00am Mass.

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Easter Vigil

Proclaiming the Light of Christ

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Knowing more about the Easter Vigil helps us to bright cloud but by the glorious light that shines on in churches brightened understand it, appreciate it, and live the Paschal Mystery every person coming into the world (Jn 1:9). This rite is with sunlight and a on a deeper level. most solemn in the context of the great night illuminated barely perceptible flame From the outset the Easter Vigil, originally and by the resurrected Christ. This is eloquently explained on the Easter Candle, more appropriately called the Paschal Vigil, has been in the solemn proclamation of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resurrection the celebrant sang, â&#x20AC;&#x153;O night truly blessed!â&#x20AC;? In celebrated at night. In the beginning it was a very plain that we now call the Exsultet. ceremony â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an assembly that ended with the breaking Because all lights were extinguished on Holy addition very few people of the bread and an agape. One or more days of fasting Thursday evening, it is necessary to light a new flame were able to attend this Brother John preceded the Easter Vigil. in order to celebrate a liturgy at night. And so the ritual long liturgy on Holy Later, as the Easter Vigil developed in Rome and in developed: the blessing of a new fire and the proces- Saturday morning. This Samaha, S.M. places where the Roman rite was followed, this tradition sion into the church led by the Paschal Candle as the added to its diminished added a baptismal rite, the ceremony of the lucernarium, celebrant intoned â&#x20AC;&#x153;Light of Christ!â&#x20AC;? and the faithful appreciation.

The Biblical, patrisblessing of the new fire, and a candlelight procession. responded â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thanks be to God!â&#x20AC;?

As it developed the Easter Vigil became more and Over the centuries this celebration underwent some tic, theological, and liturgical renewal that began to more meaningful and focused. From the very first the problems and waned in significance. As late as the swell in the 1920s indicated the unacceptability of this condition and the impoverishment of the celebration took place at night like Easter celebration. In 1951 Pope Pius XII the weekly Eucharist, because most of authorized the celebration of the Easter the faithful could not assemble during Vigil during the evening hours of Holy the day.

Saturday, and revised the rite to foster The evangelists already situated greater congregational participation. the discovery of the tomb â&#x20AC;&#x153;as the first Then in 1955 he decreed that the Easter day of the week was dawningâ&#x20AC;? (Mt Vigil must take place at night. In our 28:1), â&#x20AC;&#x153;very earlyâ&#x20AC;? (Mk 16:2; Jn 20:1), day we follow the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Missal of Pope Paul â&#x20AC;&#x153;at dawnâ&#x20AC;? (Lk 24:1). The thrust is that VIâ&#x20AC;? promulgated in 1969 following the Jesus is the â&#x20AC;&#x153;light of the worldâ&#x20AC;? that Second Vatican Council. came into the world as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;revelation to Today the Easter Vigil has four parts: the Gentilesâ&#x20AC;? (Lk 2:32).

1) the blessing of the fire, procession of In baptism the believer passes from the Easter Candle, and the chanting of death to life (Col 2:12). Ritually and the Exsultet; 2) the Liturgy of the Word; really the neophyte, the newly baptized 3) the baptismal liturgy, which includes person, is plunged with Christ into at least the blessing of the water and the death so as to come to new life with the renewal of baptismal vows; 4) culminates one who â&#x20AC;&#x153;was raised from the dead by in the Eucharistic liturgy. the glory of the Fatherâ&#x20AC;? (Rom 6:4). For This solemn celebration of the this reason baptism is called â&#x20AC;&#x153;illuminaLordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resurrection is the zenith of the tionâ&#x20AC;? (in Biblical Greek, photismos) liturgical year, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the solemnity of solemand the baptized, â&#x20AC;&#x153;illuminated.â&#x20AC;? Light nities.â&#x20AC;? is the dominant theme.

Chinese Catholics hold candles during the 2009 Easter Vigil Mass While the spoken word is very In our day, thanks to electricity, at a church in Xiaohan village of Tianjin, China. important in the liturgy, we are called we can have as much light as we want to be more alert to the symbolism, both whenever we want it. This was not in things and in actions. We are asked to the case in the past, when lighting the lamps in the evening was a rite. This was generally a thirteenth century the liturgy was still not entirely struc- approach with a receptive attitude, ready to be engaged happy occasion, when many lamps were lit as for a tured. Since the seventh century there had been a general in a way that appeals both to the mind and to the heart, banquet at the beginning of the Sabbath on a Friday eve- decline, and this event was celebrated early in the day to oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whole being. We are invited to look attentively ning. Christians understood that this light which drives on Holy Saturday. When Pope St. Pius V reformed the on the realities present in signs that cannot be fully capaway the darkness is a symbol of the Christ-light.

Missal in the sixteenth century following the Council tured in words. This is how we are called to participate The procession led by the Paschal Candle repre- of Trent, he forbade the celebration of the Eucharist fully in the Easter Vigil.

The Easter Vigil invites us to action â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to go forth sents the journey of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people no longer led by a after midday. Consequently on Holy Saturday morning and reflect the light of the resurrected Christ to the world around us.

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One Notre Dame Avenue San Mateo, CA (650) 344-7622 HOLY THURSDAY - April 1 Masses: 12:05 p.m.

7:00 p.m.Tri-Lingual Mass of the Last Supper Procession to the Altar of Repose Adoration until Midnight

Holy Thursday, April 1: 7:30 p.m.

Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper (Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Chapel ending with Night Prayer at 10:55 p.m.)

GOOD FRIDAY - April 2 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seven Last Wordsâ&#x20AC;?

1:30 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (English) 7:00 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (Spanish)

Good Friday, April 2: 12 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1 p.m. Family Stations of the Cross 1:15 p.m.

Celebration of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Passion 7 p.m.

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Holy Saturday, April 3:

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whose Body and Blood we share in Holy Communion.

EASTER SEASON The fifty days of the Easter Season — from Easter 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 Hendrick ter Brugghen’s painting “The Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John” is seen in photo.

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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.

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A 15th-century fresco depicts Christ’s appearance to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection. Easter, the feast of the Resurrection, is April 4 in the Latin rite this year.

EASTER LITURGIES

Lent and Holy Week Weekday Masses during Lent 8:00 am & 12:10 pm

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, March 28th 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, April 1st 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, April 2nd 12:00-1:30 p.m. – “Celebrating the Passion of Christ” reflections by Rev. Msgr. Terrence J. Sullivan 12:00-1:30 p.m. – Children’s Stations of the Cross in Lower Church Led by our Pastoral Year Seminarian, Armando Gutierréz 1:45-3:00 p.m. – Solemn Liturgy – Fr. Joseph Landi (The eighth graders will act out the chanted Passion, Holy Communion and Veneration)

Holy Saturday, April 3rd 3:30-4:30 p.m. – Sacrament of Penance 8:00 p.m.

– Easter Vigil Mass – Msgr. Michael Harriman and Priests (with Choir & Orchestra)

Easter Sunday, April 4th 7:30 a.m. Mass – Fr. Dan Keohane 9:30 a.m. Mass – Msgr. Mickey McCormick (Family Mass) 11:30 a.m. Mass – Fr. Joseph Landi (with Choir and Orchestra)

Palm Sunday Mass Reconciliation, Saturday 3:30-4:30 pm Vigil Mass, Saturday 4:30 pm 8:00, 9:30, 11:30 am & 6:45 pm Reconciliation Service Monday, 7:30 pm Holy Thursday (No morning Mass) Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30 pm Good Friday (No morning Mass) Afternoon Vigil/Liturgy, Noon-3:00 pm Prayer around the Cross, 7:30 pm Holy Saturday (No morning Mass) Reconciliation, 3:30-4:30 pm Easter Vigil Mass, 8:00 pm Easter Sunday Mass 8:00, 9:30, 11:30 am & 6:45 pm

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E ASTER L ITURGIES Easter Season Journey The gospel story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus that we read during the 50-day Easter season is one of my favorites. I often wonder if I would have recognized the Lord walking the path with me.

Hopefully I would but, like the disciples, I may not have recognized Jesus.

During the Sundays after Easter the Scripture readings tell of several appearances Jesus made to the disciples after his resurrection and how the faith of his followers (like Thomas) was challenged and deepened.

Today the resurrected Jesus is all around us in our daily lives. He is present in the people we encounter. It is up to us to recognize him.

Usually it is not too hard to see Christ in those we like and who attract us. We can easily recognize him in those kind, compassionate, likeable people who touch our lives.

It is more difficult to see the Lord in the less attractive or unpleasant people we meet. Many times we consciously

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Recognizing Jesus The risen Christ walks with two of his disciples in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Road to Emmaus,â&#x20AC;? a painting by contemporary Chinese Christian artist He Qi. His artwork blends Chinese folk customs and traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western painting methods.

or unconsciously ignore Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence in the street people, in the addicted and those who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live up to how we think a â&#x20AC;&#x153;goodâ&#x20AC;? person should act.

A still vivid example in my life happened recently. I was with a group of very good, wonderful Catholics and a poor person who had one too many drinks wandered into the room where we were meeting. It was a cold, bitter night and he was obviously walking. He asked for some directions to where he could get a newspaper to check out the job openings. After we sent him back in the cold, several people made jokes and other not so kind remarks about him. I still feel bad that I did not do something concrete for him. Ironically, the talk that night was about Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; unconditional love for each person. Somehow we seemed to forget that his love included that man as well.

In the Gospel of Matthew Jesus preaches about the

St. Patrick Church 756 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 421-3730 April 1, Holy Thursday â&#x20AC;˘ 8:00 am Morning Prayers â&#x20AC;˘ 5:15 pm Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper Transfer of the Blessed Sacrament with Benediction â&#x20AC;˘ Adoration until 10:00 pm â&#x20AC;˘ 9:00 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 10:00 pm Parish Family Holy Hour April 2, Good Friday â&#x20AC;˘ 8:00 am Community Morning Prayer â&#x20AC;˘ 12:00 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2:00 pm Seven Last Words and Confessions â&#x20AC;˘ 2:00 pm Stations of the Cross â&#x20AC;˘ 3:00 pm Celebration of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Passion and Veneration of the Cross with Communion Service April 3, Holy Saturday â&#x20AC;˘ 8:00 am Community Morning Prayer â&#x20AC;˘ 4:00 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5:00 pm Confessions â&#x20AC;˘ 8:00 pm Easter Vigil Mass Salubong immediately follows the Liturgy April 4, Easter Sunday â&#x20AC;˘ 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:30 am (Latin Mass), 12:15 pm, 5:15 pm Masses

Palm Sunday, March 28th Vigil Mass: Saturday, March 27 at 5pm Sunday Masses at 8am, 10am & 12 Noon Palms will be distributed after all the Masses

Holy Monday, March 29th Seder Meal at 7pm in the Parish Hall

Holy Thursday, April 1st Pot Luck Dinner at 6pm in the Parish Hall Mass of the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper at 7:30pm Visit the Blessed Sacrament in the Parish Hall until 10pm

Good Friday, April 2nd Reflections from 12 Noon to 1pm Stations of the Cross by the Youth Group at 1pm Soup Supper at 6pm followed by Stations of the Cross at 7pm Liturgical Service at 2pm & 7:45pm

Holy Saturday, April 3rd Easter Vigil Mass at 8pm

Easter Sunday, April 4th 8am, 10am & 12 Noon (Easter Egg Drawing for all the children in the Parish Hall after the 10am Mass).

Traditional Latin Mass at 5:30pm

2nd Sunday of Easter â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Divine Mercy Sunday, April 11th Mass at 8am, 10am & 12 Noon Light refeshments and movie on Divine Mercy at 1pm; Confessions and Rosary with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at 2pm Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Special Divine Mercy Mass at 3pm

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last judgment when he tells us that whatever we do for the least of our brothers and sisters we do for him. And it works the other way too. When we ignore any of our brothers and sisters, we also Sister Margie ignore him.

When I drive around Lavonis the city and see people with signs that read, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Will work for food,â&#x20AC;? I feel very guilty when I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop or try to help them. It is so easy to be swayed by those who say things like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a lot of con artists out there,â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is too dangerous, you may get robbed or hurt.â&#x20AC;? I can rationalize, but down deep it causes a dilemma for me and I can just hear the words of the Lord saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was hungry and you did not feed me.â&#x20AC;?

Recognizing Jesus in the poor and needy is crucial, but we are also challenged to see him in the people in our everyday lives; in the fellow student it seems nobody likes; in the co-worker who never stops complaining; or in the neighbor who keeps loud music on late into the night.

It seems to me that a good practice during this Easter season is to try to really see Jesus in those we encounter and to treat everyone with the same respect we would give Jesus if we saw him in person, and remind ourselves that Christ loves them just as much as he loves us. Imagine what the world would be like if each one of us would really do this?

Sister of the Holy Cross Margie Lavonis is a freelance writer living in Notre Dame, IN.

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before the 10:30 a.m. Mass, with procession into the church. (Masses: Saturday: 5:00 p.m., Sunday 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.) Palms distributed at all Masses.

Holy Thursday, April 1: Soup Supper 6:00 p.m. in the hall.

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Holy Saturday, April 3: Easter Vigil begins at 8:00 p.m. with the blessing of the Easter fire and lighting of Easter Candle.

Easter Sunday, April 4: Masses: 8:00 and 10:30 a.m.

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

Catholic San Francisco

March 26, 2010

Ministry of listening . . .

her sense of loss and anger at God. The spiritual director listened to her story and helped her to reflect on the many ways that her faith and ■ Continued from cover family had supported her through her suffercall like this one.” (Note: This personal story ing. She again began to see God’s action in her life. The director gently guided her back to the was used with the man’s permission.)

One of the graces Sister Scofield brings comfort of prayer.

Sister Scofield began teaching others to to her work is intense listening and gentle questioning. This focused and delicate work become spiritual directors in the 1980s, as more is the art of spiritual direction, or spiritual and more lay people came to Mercy Center and other retreat centers askcompanioning, an art which ing for this companioning. she has practiced and taught The organization she helped for 30 years at Mercy Center found, Spiritual Directors and all over the world. She International, is celebrathas trained others to listen ing its 20th anniversary at a deeply as spiritual directors conference, “Gratefulness: to help people at key points in The Heart of Spiritual Care,” their faith lives. Some people in San Francisco April 8-12. come for spiritual direction Sister Scofield will be a keyon a regular on-going basis note speaker alongside other as “directees.” They feel notables such as Alexander these human conversations Shaia; Brother David Steindlare a part of developing their Rast, OSB; Brian Schwimme; relationship with God. Sister Mary Ann Scofield and Rev. Jane Vannard.

Sister Scofield points out Her work has its roots in years of teaching that spiritual direction is not therapy. Spiritual directors can recommend therapy if it is needed. when she entered the Mercy community in “But what spiritual directors are looking for,” Burlingame in 1947. She was formation director she said, “is to help you answer questions such from 1964-1974, guiding young Mercy sisters as, how do you pray from an experience of in their prayer and reading, helping them to loss? How do you move from anger at God become part of the Sisters of Mercy community. Along the way, she received a doctorate in to trust?

Another woman came to Mercy Center in theology at St. Mary’s College at Notre Dame deep grief following the death of two family University in Indiana which prepared her for members, unable to pray or be comforted in what became her true vocation.

Sister Scofield began the practice of spiritual direction at the newly opened Mercy Center after receiving a master’s degree at Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass., in 1980. This skill of listening deeply to others has its roots in Ignatian spirituality, but she and others opened the door to a variety of faith traditions. She began working with spiritual directors in a Mercy Center program, the Internship of the Art of Spiritual Direction, which has now trained over 1,500 Catholics, Protestant and Jews to accompany others on their spiritual journeys.

“The heart of the spiritual accompaniment is listening to the story,” she has said. “Everyone has a story to tell. It takes patience, discipline, and can make us feel vulnerable, to listen to the whole story.” A person needs to feel a call from God to become a spiritual director, but also needs a solid theological and intellectual foundation. Spiritual directors in training also have intensive formation which includes supervised practice with directees.

Sandra Lommasson, now the director of Bread of Life Center in Sacramento, met Sister Scofield in 1989 when Sandra entered the program for spiritual directors. “She was – and is - a gifted teacher,” Lommasson said, “grounded, articulate, passionate about serving God, a woman with a penetrating intellect and deep personal integrity.”

That integrity prompted her to help begin a support network for other spiritual directors.

In 1990 ninety spiritual directors from all over the U.S. came to Mercy Center to consider the

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Online resources Find more information about spiritual direction programs at www.mercy-center. org and www.sdiworld.org.

View a one-minute audio slideshow on Sister Mary Ann Scofield and her ministry at http://bit.ly/bQ6RdB. shape and direction of an organization. The group prayed for guidance.

“We were honoring the movement of the spirit in our midst and acknowledging that present times call for new responses. We had an attitude of service,” said Mercy Sister Janet Ruffing, who had discovered her own vocation in spirituality during a 30-day Ignatian Retreat.

The result had changed her life, and she was a long time member of the faculty at Fordham University and is now professor in the practice of spirituality and ministerial leadership at Yale Divinity School, the first to hold this position.

Sister Scofield became the executive director of the fledgling Spiritual Directors International, and Sister Ruffing was on the first coordinating council. The group drew together people from training programs all over the world.

Sister Scofield felt the international dimension was especially important. “We wanted to be of service to spiritual directors wherever they were,” she said.

People from many countries have attended the Mercy Center programs.

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Archbishop’s Journal

‘Nor do I condemn you’ “Let the one among you who has no sin be the first to cast a stone at her.” That’s one of the most famous sayings of Jesus. One writer has described it as “words we have grown to love and failed to live by.” This story in John’s Gospel shows Jesus on trial: He is teaching one morning in the temple in Jerusalem and a group of scribes and Pharisees – religious officials who have come to hate him – try to trap him into a no-win situation: if he says that the woman captured in adultery should not be stoned to death, he will discredit himself by seeming to contradict the Law of Moses; if Jesus says that she should be stoned to death, he will go against his reputation for mercy and compassion, and he will also defy the Roman officials, who have forbidden the Jewish people to condemn anyone to death without Roman approval.

Let’s not miss the contrast here between the heartlessness of the Pharisees and the compassion of Jesus. To the Pharisees, the woman is not a person, she is merely a weapon to be used against Jesus, to be used and humiliated publicly. She is a “case in point,” convenient for starting an argument they feel they can win. Jesus, however, doesn’t want to condemn her; instead, he wishes to understand and reclaim a sinner. For that reason, she stands for every person who is in need of compassion, and that is how Catholics have always understood the story: it’s not a story about adultery; it’s a story about sin and forgiveness.

Once Jesus has shamed her accusers into slinking away, one by one, he savors the irony of the situation when he asks the woman, standing alone beside him: “Woman, where did they all disappear to? Has no one condemned you?” She answers, “No one, sir.” Then Jesus speaks those words which are the perfect illustration of the ancient advice to Christians, “Hate the sin, but love the sinner.”

He says to her: “Nor do I condemn you. You may go. But from now on, avoid this sin.” Jesus forgives the sinner without denying the sin; he doesn’t want to let her off the hook – instead, he asks her for conversion of her heart and her life. He doesn’t engage in the fuzzy thinking and psychobabble so common in our conversations today: “Now,

my dear. . . .” Jesus gives her a second chance, because he believes in her, he believes that she can do it. With faith in Jesus, she can let his love change her life. ”Let the one without sin cast the first stone.”

Remember, these are words we have grown to love, but failed to live by. God, the giver of repentance, is never the problem – we are. We get discouraged in our pride and tell ourselves that we cannot change, cannot do better. Just as often we cast stones of thought and word and judgment against others. We turn the subject to others’ sins because it helps us feel better about our own. How we enjoy gathering with others to deplore the behavior of someone who’s not around! Sometimes we toss pebbles and sometimes we hurl boulders, but the action is the same.

This habit is so strong, and so deeply ingrained in us and in society’s behavior, that we had better not tell ourselves “Oh, I can stop that whenever I want to – or at least cut back a bit from my worst harsh judgments.”

It’s probably easier to quit smoking than it is to quit this habit “cold turkey.”

But our first two readings today are so important and so encouraging. We cannot change ourselves by ourselves, but God can change us, if we ask him to, and let him do so. As Jesus says elsewhere, “For people it is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

In fact, that is his promise to us. The prophet Isaiah in the first reading speaks for God, saying what a difference he wants to make in our lives: “I am doing something new.

I will make the same difference that water makes in the desert. Remember not the events of the past – I am doing something new.”

How does God work this wonder in our lives, if we let him? Jesus Christ makes the difference. For the Catholic, Jesus is the most significant other in life, and everything is held up to the light of Christ to test its place in our lives. If we do something bad, there are people in our lives about whom we say: “I hope she doesn’t find out.” “I hope no one tells him.” And if we accomplish something good, they are the first people with whom we wish to share it.

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Church and society As a native San Francisco Catholic who loves his Catholic faith, and believes that human life starts at the moment of conception, I have great difficulty with publication of Denver Archbishop’s Charles J. Chaput’s critique of presidential candidate John F. Kennedy’s “public life” speech. (Guest Commentary, March 12) The Archbishop asserted that the first Catholic to be elected President has caused “damage that profoundly undermined the place …of all religious believers in America’s public life.”

Not true. Kennedy’s election was a breakthrough moment for American Catholics in the same way as President Obama’s election was in 2008. While not perfect, the Kennedy family became an exemplary witness of Catholic values, especially in regards to family life and public service. We were reminded of this last year with the end-of- life events of Senator Edward Kennedy.

It may be that Archbishop Chaput’s concern relates to the tensions our nation

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has experienced with the debate over the legislative difficulties of passing a vital health care bill that contains much of what Catholics can support. This is particularly true in regards to the abortion issue. The legislation meets some tests of not allowing Federal funding of abortion and is backed up by the president’s executive order, while at the same time it extends insurance coverage to millions of people without access to reasonable levels of health care.

It is not difficult to appreciate both our Catholic and democratic values. This is one of those historical moments when, as Catholics, we are called to preach, teach, and witness our values, and allow other citizens and legislators to follow their conscientious disagreements. We then count the votes, and live with the outcome.

Our hope is that most religious citizens would agree with Archbishop Chaput’s appropriate quote of St. Hilary’s prayer, which ends with “… so we might work together in renewing the nation that has served human freedom so well.”

Pat Cannon Marina, CA

Clear abortion expansion President Obama and Speaker Pelosi are the most pro-abortion president and speaker in U.S history. Both have unblemished careers supporting the abortion industry. They dutifully led the passage of a health care reform bill that creates the largest expansion of taxpayer-funded abortion in U.S. history.

Speaker Pelosi has said that she will “do what’s necessary to pass the bill”– and she did. The pro-abortion speaker knows an executive order by the pro-abortion

That’s who Jesus wants to be for us, his followers. That’s what Paul is saying about himself in that second reading, when he says that he has come to rate all else as loss in the light of his Lord Jesus Christ.

Archbishop He says: “I give no George H. thought to what lies behind but push on to Niederauer what is ahead.” What is Paul’s goal in life?

“I wish to know Christ and the power flowing from his resurrection.” Does Paul think he has it made? “Not that I have reached it yet. . . but I am racing to grasp the prize if possible, since I have been grasped by Christ Jesus. I do not think of myself as having reached the finish line. My entire attention is on the finish line as I run toward the prize to which God calls me – life on high in Christ Jesus.”

That’s who Jesus wants to be for each believer, for each Christian: the goal and the means. The goal: Easter resurrection, through a sharing in all that goes before (Lent and Holy Week). The means: the one we turn to; the one we imagine there (because he is); the one with whom we do everything and in front of whom we say everything – not as a policeman or bodyguard but a loving companion, our guide and savior. Jesus Christ stands by us in all our moments; and in the worst and weakest and most sinful of those moments we hear him say: “Nor do I condemn you.”

Archbishop George Niederauer delivered the homily above on the Fifth Sunday of Lent at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, March 21, 2010.

president was a calculated ploy to flip the votes necessary to pass the bill; it cannot change sections for taxpayer-funded abortion. They both know in 1952 the Supreme Court ruled an executive order cannot change the law (Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer, 33 US 579 (1952). The courts will uphold the abortion provisions in the bill as passed by Congress.

“Good job Nancy.”

Mike DeNunzio San Francisco

Fissure within Church

60s and 70s – a tired feminism that distorts the role of women and has at its center the freedom of women to “choose” to kill the infants in their womb if they so desire.

This view rightly offers deep concern for justice for the poor and vulnerable, but like so many in this age-group, minimizes or trivializes the unborn. “Network,” the Washington, D.C. lobbying arm of the LCWR does not include pro-life legislation as part of its work. If it does at all, it distorts the term “pro-life” to be so ambiguous and far-reaching that it includes everything.

Thus, the sisters can say with a straight face that the current health care legislation is “life-affirming.” They ignore or claim as “false” what the bishops and every pro-life institution in the country has recognized as a flawed bill that will advance abortion.

Some have said that the sisters are taking this position because they have deep economic interests because of their hospitals. I disagree.

Their rationale is ideological. I believe that they truly believe in health care reform…so much so that they are willing to trivialize the abortion issue and throw in their lot with the Obama administration.

There is a value in having this private tension now public. Like an angry boil, it is better to break open than to keep festering and growing.

Fortunately, as pointed out

by Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh, Director of Media Relations for the USCCB, the group of sisters making these statements is relatively small in comparison to the number of sisters and communities of women religious in the U.S. Read Sister Walsh’s comments here: http://usccbmedia.blogspot.com/2010/03/ and-then-there-were-nun.html.

The 103 other sister communities came out with a statement in alliance with the bishops: http://o.b5z.net/i/ u/10060511/f/march_19.pdf.

George Wesolek Director, Office of Public Policy & Social Concerns Archdiocese of San Francisco

L E T T E R S

The American Catholic Church is fractured and splintering with a deep ideological divide separating the camps. This is not news. But what had been common knowledge in Church circles in private conversations is now in the headlines of the New York Times and the Washington Post.

This has come about because of the intense national debate about health care reform. The American Catholic bishops don’t like the bill (the Senate version) in its present form because it expands abortion coverage, does not cover immigrants, and does not offer enough conscience protections.

Recently, the Catholic Health Association (CHA) and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) both came out publicly in support of the Senate version of the bill. Some of their comments even went so far as to characterize the bishops’ stand, especially on abortion, as “false.” So now we have some nuns accusing the bishops of lying about abortion. Are you shocked? Don’t be because this has been going on for a long time.

For years, most of the leadership of the LCWR and the Catholic hospitals (most of which are owned by these very same LCWR leaders) have been advancing a view of Catholic social teaching that reflects a vision that they learned in the

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Lenten Journey

We learn about hope from Easter and Passover Why do we have to suffer the Lenten seasons and the Good Fridays?

We all have to go on the clues we get from our traditions, like Passover and Easter, events in which all the mysteries of life are contained.

But most of the time, because we are mere human beings, we see through a glass darkly. We stumble along trying to understand the mysteries of pain with no noonday vision of eternity to help us along.

Uncomfortable, annoying, miserable, traumatic and tragic things happen. They are built into human existence. And we protest because our human nature expects and desires that the self and the ego are never put out.

Yet the clear message of Lent and Easter is that the self and the ego have to be jolted or we never come fully alive. That’s the hard truth and the mystery.

Seeking an explanation for this, the writer Oscar Wilde once wrote, “How else but through a broken heart can the good Lord enter in?”

I remember a message given by Moorhead Kennedy Jr., who was held hostage in Iran for 444 days, about the spiritual transformation he and his wife had experienced as a result of the traumatic experience. Kennedy compared his personal crisis to Lent and Easter, Christ’s

suffering, death and resurrection. Lent was the personal crisis, the “burning,” but Easter was the proof that “we matter and we live” forever, he stated.

Considering the power of the Easter Antoinette and Passover events – both of which are, in a Bosco sense, a cosmic answer for why we must know such pain and death on this earth – it is no coincidence that both are celebrated in spring, when nature itself is “escaping” from its dormant, seed stage and breaking out into the freedom of flowering.

Nature puts the drama of rebirth right before our eyes so we can see the truth: Freedom wins and life endures, validating the hope expressed in the religious traditions of Passover and Easter.

I completely forgot to plant bulbs last fall. In the craIt’s a lovely kind of gardening, planting bulbs and ziness of my working-mom life, it never even entered my seeds. You do the work up front, and then you forget about mind. The annual October trip to the nursery, the patient it. Later, you are rewarded with color and new life, often digging in the earth: I missed it all. just when you need it most.

This hit home to me a few weeks ago, when flowOn one of my morning jogs, I realized that this is a ers started to bloom in my neighborhood. Daffodils the pretty good parallel to my faith life. Bits of Catholicism color of sunshine, calla that were planted years ago lilies that seem made out – prayers, rituals, images of porcelain, perfect tulips – lie deep inside me. At Their journey may end up that seem made out of wax: various points in my past, I see them all on my jogs. when I did absolutely resembling mine: the pulling away, even And I wish I’d had my nothing to nurture it, that act together last October, Catholicism would surprise the questioning and even anger, planting some lovely little me, a small green shoot tulips of my own. breaking through the hard then the gradual reengagement.

Luckily, though, my soil of my resistance. yard is not completely When I was a lapsed bare. In the fabulous way Catholic, this happened of bulbs, the daffodils that I planted in years past have often. Living in Paris in my early twenties, I adored bloomed again. Every winter I see green spears poking visiting churches. I didn’t go to Mass, but I would walk unmistakably through the dirt. They grow taller, slowly, quietly down the hushed aisles on weekday afternoons. until they finally burst into vivid flower.

These sacred spaces intrigued me with their beauty and It’s true of seeds, too. In a supreme example of irony, comforted me with their familiarity. In no small way, they I totally forgot about the forget-me-not seeds that I pressed brought me back. into the soil last summer. Now they are coming back, a Now, twelve years later, I often think about my boys, field of blue the color of Mary’s robe. and their spiritual lives. When I take them to Mass, when

we visit the statue of Mary, when we say evening prayers, I’m planting faith. I’m not naïve enough to think that my boys will be happy Catholics their entire lives. Their journey may end up resemGinny bling mine: the pulling Kubitz Moyer away, the questioning and even anger, then the gradual reengagement.

Perhaps, for them as for me, it will be a richer faith for having lived outside it for a time. But you can’t come back to something it if was never there in the first place.

And so I drop seeds into the soil of their days and nights. Whatever journey my boys take in life, I hope that this faith keeps blossoming for them. I hope it keeps coming up out of the hard cold ground, unexpected but comforting, a vivid bit of beauty whenever they need it most.

Soon people of faith will be celebrating two very important events: Easter and Passover.

Passover celebrates the “pesach” – the “sparing” – of the Israelites’ first-born sons in the death plague God visited upon the Egyptians who had kept the Israelites in miserable captivity.

Then, for Christians, there is Easter.

While Passover and Easter are different, they have a common theme, for both are tremendous expressions of hope that God has created a world of freedom – which people on this earth can aspire to “escape” and be “resurrected” to new life.

But, oh, the trials and pains along the way!

For Christians, scripted into this scenario is a price, spelled out in the season of Lent and Good Friday, that comes before the glory of Easter. There is no rebirth without first the dying, no resurrection – no Easter – without first the trauma of death.

That may sound dramatic, but whose life is spent without a lot of mourning? Consider the child felled by an illness; the innocent killed in political Holocausts and bloody wars; the parent degenerating into senility; the loss of a job; the breakup of a relationship; the drying up of faith; the death of ideals, innocence, of hopes and dreams.

Antoinette Bosco writes a regular column for Catholic News Service.

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Ginny Kubitz Moyer is the author of Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God.” Contact Moyer at www.blog.maryandme.org.

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Our wounded spiritual warriors Ordinarily the term wounded warriors applies to our fighting men who have borne the scars and heartbreak of war. Those heroes know firsthand the success and defeat of conflicts during which so many lose their lives in sacrifice for their country and for others. Unlike the wars of old, when our fighting men were lauded by all in appreciation for their bravery and selflessness, today often as not along with the flag they cherish and the United States they honor, they sometimes are held in contempt by those for whom they battle and die.

Not too long ago, we were shocked and sickened by the picture of several members of our military tormenting and mocking the captured terrorists under their guard.

Those few sadistic bullies were presented as the prototype of the American service men or women putting their lives in danger so that we might live in peace.

The same unjust depiction has found its parallel in the priestly scandals that have rocked the bark of Peter, most recently in Ireland. This has caused intense suffering to many, including a group of valiant men to whom the term, wounded warriors, can be applied – our good and holy priests. These good men, through no fault of their own and despite their service to others, find themselves to be the same victims of bias, intolerance and

yes, even cruelty. Like the soldiers of our country who have fought to protect our freedom and peace, these men are soldiers of Christ. They have dedicated their lives teaching us how to love God, and assisting us in attaining eternal salvation. They are spiritual warriors. They are our beloved priests.

In his recent sincere apology for the abuse of Ireland’s children by priests, Benedict XVI also stated that reflection “should be made upon the generous, often heroic, contributions made by past generations of Irish men and women to the Church and to humanity as a whole.”

This reiterates his 2008 statement in Washington D. C in which he said, “Sadly, because of the sins of a few, shame and contempt have been unfairly heaped on our many good and holy priests who have lived exemplary lives.”

Certainly, we can never know the depth of suffering that is borne by victims of abuse, and our hearts and prayers go out to them. To the victims of abuse and their families, Pope Benedict said, “You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured.”

We also cannot begin to fathom the emotional and spiritual sufferings that our wounded shepherds have

endured because of the reprehensible misdeeds of a small number of their brothers and the resulting contempt of the world because of it. What we can do is pray for the good men who baptize us, give Jane L. Sears us Christ in the Holy Eucharist, hear our sins and in the name of Christ forgive them, comfort us when we’re sick, and bury us when we die.

Along with our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, we can seek to help heal the pain and damage by letting our good priests know how we love, honor and respect their priestly office. By so doing with the Pope, we continue to pray for and encourage each one to be what he strives to be, and what Jesus wants him to be – another Himself.

Jane L. Sears is a freelance writer and a parishioner at Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH IS 50:4-7 The Lord God has given me a welltrained 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 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 GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE LK 22:14–23:56 When the hour came, Jesus took his place at table with the apostles. He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, for, I tell you, I shall not eat it again until there is fulfillment in the kingdom of God.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and said, “Take this and share it among yourselves; for I tell you that from this time on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” Then he took the bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you.

“And yet behold, the hand of the one who is to betray me is with me on the table; for the Son of Man indeed goes as it has been determined; but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed.” And they began to debate among themselves who among them would do such a deed.

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Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24; Philippians 2:6-11; Luke 22:14 - 23:56 Then an argument broke out among them about which of them should be regarded as the greatest. He said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them and those in authority over them are addressed as ‘Benefactors;’ but among you it shall not be so. Rather, let the greatest among you be as the youngest, and the leader as the servant. For who is greater: the one seated at table or the one who serves? Is it not the one seated at table? I am among you as the one who serves. It is you who have stood by me in my trials; and I confer a kingdom on you, just as my Father has conferred one on me, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

“Simon, Simon, behold Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail; and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers.” He said to him, “Lord, I am prepared to go to prison and to die with you.” But he replied, “I tell you, Peter, before the cock crows this day, you will deny three times that you know me.”

He said to them, “When I sent you forth without a money bag or a sack or sandals, were you in need of anything?”

“No, nothing, “ they replied. He said to them, “But now one who has a money bag should take it, and likewise a sack, and one who does not have a sword should sell his cloak and buy one. For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in me, namely, He was counted among the wicked; and indeed what is written about me is coming to fulfillment.” Then they said, “Lord, look, there are two swords here.” But he replied, “It is enough!” Then going out, he went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. When he arrived at the place he said to them, “Pray that you may not undergo the test.”

After withdrawing about a stone’s throw from them and kneeling, he prayed, saying, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, not my will but yours be done.” And to strengthen him an angel from heaven appeared to him.

He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground.

When he rose from prayer and returned to his disciples, he found them sleeping from grief. He said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not undergo the test.”

While he was still speaking, a crowd approached and in front was one of the Twelve, a man named Judas. He went up to Jesus to kiss him. Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?” His disciples realized what was about to happen, and they asked, “Lord, shall we strike with a sword?”

And one of them struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear.

But Jesus said in reply, “Stop, no more of this!” Then he touched the servant’s ear and healed him. And Jesus said to the chief priests and temple guards and elders who had come for him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? Day after day I was with you in the temple area, and you did not seize me; but this is your hour, the time for the power of darkness.”

After arresting him they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest; Peter was following at a distance.

They lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter sat down with them. When a maid saw him seated

in the light, she looked intently at him and said, “This man too was with him.” But he denied it saying, “Woman, I do not know him.” A short while later someone else saw him and said, “You too are one of them;” but Peter answered, “My friend, I am not.” About an hour later, still another insisted, “Assuredly, this man too was with him, for he also is a Galilean.” But Peter said, “My friend, I do not know what you are talking about.” Just as he was saying this, the cock crowed, and the Lord turned and looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the cock crows today, you will deny me three times.”

He went out and began to weep bitterly.

The men who held Jesus in custody were ridiculing and beating him. They blindfolded him and questioned him, saying, “Prophesy! Who is it that struck you?”

And they reviled him in saying many other things against him.

When day came the council of elders of the people met, both chief priests and scribes, and they brought him before their Sanhedrin. They said, “If you are the Christ, tell us,“ but he replied to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe, and if I question, you will not respond. But from this time on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.” They all asked, “Are you then the Son of God?” He replied to them, “You say that I am.” Then they said, “What further need have we for testimony? We have heard it from his own mouth.”

Then the whole assembly of them arose and brought him before Pilate.

They brought charges against him, saying, “We found this man misleading our people; he opposes the payment of taxes to Caesar and maintains that he is the Christ, a king.” Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He said to him in reply, “You say so.” Pilate then addressed the chief priests and the crowds, “I find this man not guilty.”

But they were adamant and said, “He is inciting the people with his teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee where he began even to here.”

On hearing this Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean; and upon learning that he was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod who was in Jerusalem at that time. Herod was very glad to see Jesus; he had been wanting to see him for a long time, for he had heard about him and had been hoping to see him perform some sign. He questioned him at length, but he gave him no answer. The chief priests and scribes, meanwhile, stood by accusing him harshly. Herod and his soldiers treated him contemptuously and mocked him, and after clothing him in resplendent garb, he sent him back to Pilate. Herod and Pilate became friends that very day, even though they had been enemies formerly. Pilate then summoned the chief priests, the rulers, and the people and said to them, “You brought this man to me and accused him of inciting the people to revolt. I have conducted my investigation in your presence and have not found this man guilty of the charges you have brought against him, nor did Herod, for he sent him back to us. So no capital crime has been committed by him. Therefore I shall have him flogged and then release him.”

But all together they shouted out, “Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us.” — Now Barabbas had been imprisoned for a rebellion that had taken place in the city and for murder. — Again Pilate addressed them, still wishing to release Jesus, but they continued their shout-

ing, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate addressed them a third time, “What evil has this man done? I found him guilty of no capital crime. Therefore I shall have him flogged and then release him.” With loud shouts, however, they persisted in calling for his crucifixion, and their voices prevailed. The verdict of Pilate was that their demand should be granted. So he released the man who had been imprisoned for rebellion and murder, for whom they asked, and he handed Jesus over to them to deal with as they wished.

As they led him away they took hold of a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country; and after laying the cross on him, they made him carry it behind Jesus. A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him.

Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children for indeed, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.’ At that time people will say to the mountains, ‘Fall upon us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ for if these things are done when the wood is green what will happen when it is dry?” Now two others, both criminals, were led away with him to be executed.

When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him and the criminals there, one on his right, the other on his left. Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” They divided his garments by casting lots. The people stood by and watched; the rulers, meanwhile, sneered at him and said, “He saved others, let him save himself if he is the chosen one, the Christ of God.” Even the soldiers jeered at him. As they approached to offer him wine they called out, “If you are King of the Jews, save yourself.” Above him there was an inscription that read, “This is the King of the Jews.”

Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us.” The other, however, rebuking him, said in reply, “Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation? And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” He replied to him, “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

It was now about noon and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon because of an eclipse of the sun. Then the veil of the temple was torn down the middle. Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit,” and when he had said this he breathed his last.

Here all kneel and pause for a short time.

The centurion who witnessed what had happened glorified God and said, “This man was innocent beyond doubt.” When all the people who had gathered for this spectacle saw what had happened, they returned home beating their breasts; but all his acquaintances stood at a distance, including the women who had followed him from Galilee and saw these events.

Now there was a virtuous and righteous man named Joseph who, though he was a member of the council, had not consented to their plan of action. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea and was awaiting the kingdom of God. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

After he had taken the body down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth and laid him in a rock-hewn tomb in which no one had yet been buried. It was the day of preparation, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

The women who had come from Galilee with him followed behind, and when they had seen the tomb and the way in which his body was laid in it, they returned and prepared spices and perfumed oils. Then they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.

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Scripture reflection SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT

‘It is you who have stood by me in my trials’ I

remember one Palm Sunday in Jerusalem in the early 1980’s when we multi-national graduate students gathered along the road descending in moderately winding turns from the Mount of Olives, Jewish graves to the left, down through the Kidron Valley, toward the eastern wall of the Old City. At one bend we joined a somewhat disorganized five-abreast line of children, clergy and adults ambling along the paved street. Those carrying palms created a festive visual mood, but the noisy, chatty walk was not exactly liturgical or particularly prayerful. Far ahead someone was carrying a brass cross atop an ornate wooden pole. Near him, a couple of surpliced acolytes walked in the bright afternoon sun with glass-enclosed vigil-sized candles. Some boy scout troops marched, along with clumps of Franciscans in brown habits, Benedictines in black, and Sisters in white habits who taught in Catholic girls’ schools, staffed the local orphanage and the hospital. A cassocked cleric carried the yellow and white Papal flag.

Then there were smaller trios and quartets of un-veiled women from various Catholic rites— Latin, Melchite and Maronite—with their banners. That’s how you knew they were Catholic, not Muslim—the women didn’t cover their heads. Various language groups, too—French, Italian, German, Arabic—illustrated the polyglot character of Jerusalem’s Catholics.

Men’s service organizations dotted the line with their identifying satin sashes. Student musicians played trumpets and drums at intervals.

Even the Palestine Liberation Organization had its representatives, heads in black- and- whitechecked keffiyahs, toting a ten-foot horizontal banner, and several black and green flags.

This conglomeration of groups seemed more a political parade than a liturgical procession. I

can’t recall if there was an ending, whether my friends and I just dropped out along the way, or what we did with our palm fronds.

That sense of the growing politicization of religious activities may have been the reason the event was canceled in the years after. But on reflection, the mix of religious, social and political interests is probably true to the historical moment of Jesus’ own day, in that week that so quickly turned from his triumphant welcome to his tragic, violent death.

Why is Jesus described as riding a donkey colt? One likely historical reason is that this was the domesticated, sure-footed animal, like the western burro, that hauled produce and goods and provided most people a means of transportation over unpaved roads and rocky terrain from village to village. This is true in many parts of the world, even today. Camels, on the other hand, were transport for vendors across vast stretches of desert. Horses, which required more space and were expensive to feed, were the privilege of Roman troops, the occupiers. So, a donkey meant that Jesus was “one of the people,” one of their own.

The scene of Jesus riding on a gentle donkey also alludes to the Davidic era in Israel’s history, a thousand years before the time of Luke. At the end of David’s life, there was a fight over which of several sons by several wives would succeed him. This violent, bloody period is intellectualized by scholars as “the Succession Narrative.”

An older brother of Solomon, Adonijah, had already proclaimed himself successor to David, even before his father’s death. Bathsheba and the prophet Nathan cajole David into formally naming Solomon, son of Bathsheba, as his successor. As a sign of that approval, Solomon mounts his father’s own donkey. He is led by the priest Zadok and the prophet Nathan to

“Entry of Christ into Jerusalem” by Pietro Lorenzetti, c. 1320.

the Gihon spring, which flowed from rocks at the base of the mount of Jerusalem. There, Solomon is anointed King, and all the people loyal to Bathsheba and Nathan shout their acclamation, “Long live King Solomon!” (I Kings 1:38-40).

Luke describes the crowd acclaiming Jesus, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” By this, Luke captures the sense of Jesus as the chosen and anointed King, just as Solomon, known as the wisest of rulers, was picked as David’s successor.

Luke’s crowd also sounds like the angels earlier in his gospel who were summoning the shepherds to seek Jesus.

Luke’s entire Passion Narrative is read at Mass. In grade school, we were encouraged to stand very still while the entire narrative was read in Latin by three Redemptorists. There was a suggestion that we could get a 300 days’ indulgence if we behaved. So I stood very still and probably still have enough indulgences in my cache to give away if anyone needs an extra.

Luke’s Last Supper scene has several touches that appear only in his gospel. One of them is the longing of Jesus, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you.”

In Luke alone, Jesus blesses the cup first, and the bread second. The noted scholar David

Daube has pointed out that the Last Supper in the gospels follows the traditional order of the Jewish Seder or Passover meal. At the beginning of the Jewish ritual, the cup is blessed first, then the “ha-motzi” or blessing of the bread takes place. Luke underscores how the Last Supper is linked with the opening of the Seder ritual—cup blessed first, then the bread.

By contrast, Mark, Matthew, and Paul ( I Cor 11:23-25) show Jesus blessing the bread first, then the wine. This also alludes to the order of the Seder, but a beginning-end structure, in which the blessing of the bread begins the Seder meal proper, and then the blessing of the fourth cup of wine concludes the Seder.

Jesus, only in Luke’s gospel, assures his disciples that he recognizes their loyalty. It is reassuring to his followers today, “It is you who have stood by me in my trials.”

Luke alone also records the prayer of Jesus for Peter, “I have prayed that your own faith may not fail, and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers.” It is a prayer we can make during this Holy Week for the Church’s clergy and hierarchy in troubled times.

Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt is a theologian and an attorney in private practice in San Jose.

Contact: info@eloiserosenblatt.com.

Spirituality for Life

Tortured complexity “I was born into this world with a tortured complexity. For a long time I have puzzled over the causes of my psychological anguish.” Ruth Burrows, the renowned Carmelite writer, begins her autobiography with those words and, like the famous words with which St. Augustine opens his Confessions, they too set the tone for a very mature spiritual reflection.

I was browsing in a bookstore one day, glancing at titles and examining whatever looked interesting, when I read that line in Burrows’ book. Instantly, I was drawn to the book and a number of thoughts ran through me: This will be someone who understands life, who won’t be so simplistic and pious so as to require me to step outside of my own skin in order to be spiritual and religious! This will be someone who helps me accept the complexity of my own life and yet shows me how I might still will the one thing! I wasn’t disappointed. Burrows is an exceptional spiritual and religious writer.

I had already sensed the same motif in Henri Nouwen.

He too was honest in admitting his own tortured experience and in naming the near-contradictory proclivities that pull us in different directions inside our own hearts.

Life isn’t simple: We want the right things, but we want the wrong things too. We are drawn towards generosity but drawn towards selfishness too. We like to be honest, but we find it easy to rationalize and not tell the truth. One part of us wants to be humble and not stand out, even as another part of us is prideful and wants to be recognized. We would like to pray but are drawn towards entertainment instead. We crave depth of soul but crave too the pleasure of sensuality. We want to give ourselves away in sacrifice, but we want too to experience the pleasures of life. A deep part of us wants to kneel in reverence even as another part of us is cynical and resistant. We crave

both purity and promiscuity. We are drawn both towards the things of God and towards the things of earth. It is not easy, as Kierkegaard once said, to will the one thing.

We create difficulties for ourselves when we admit this, but even more difficulties when we don’t.

How do we live our spiritual and religious lives as if things were simple when, like Burrows, what we are experiencing is a tortured complexity? How do we make ourselves feel the right things when we are, in honesty, feeling a lot of other things?

How do we make ourselves feel pious when so much inside of us wants to rise up in rebellion? How do we deny the fact that our sexuality frequently colors the purity of our relationships?

How do we assert that we feel loving when what we are feeling is anger and resentment? How do we honestly say that what we are doing for others is really other-centered when much of it is coming out of our own ambition? How do we deny that we are frequently jealous of others? How do we deny that we sometimes have near-blasphemous feelings of irreverence?

How do we deny that so many of our actions arise out of our own stubborn and wounded pride? And how do we pretend that, right at the heart of where we should feel faith and prayer, we often feel boredom, disinterest, and an inner deadness?

But to feel this way does not, of itself, make us unspiritual or non-religious. Feelings of impiety, anger, ambition, greed, jealousy, sexual temptation, irreverence, and boredom only prove that we are human and emotionally healthy. The very essence of a good spirituality is that it must meet us precisely within this complexity. Serving God in this world does not require that we step outside of ourselves or that we deny our own experience. It only asks that we integrate our experience in a way so as to make it life-giving for others and for ourselves.

Thomas Aquinas once wrote that the adequate object of the intellect and will is all being. I first read that when I was a 19-year-old seminarian studying philosophy and I remember how liberating it was when I Father first understood what this meant. I was being introRon Rolheiser duced to myself, to my own tortured complexity.

What, Thomas Aquinas asks, would it take to fully satisfy the longings inside us? His answer: Everything! So we need not be surprised that we are sometimes pathologically restless and out-of-sorts during our lifetime here.

And there’s a sad irony in all this: So many people who want to be honest to their own experience distance themselves from religion precisely because they feel that religion makes things too simple, that it doesn’t understand, and especially that it can’t honor their experience. For many people, religion, all of it, is too simplistic to respect human experience because it doesn’t take into account our tortured complexity. But the irony is that, ultimately, it is the only place where we are fully understood.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX. Visit his website at www.ronrolheiser.com.

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Amish Grace: A time for forgiveness Reviewed by Sr. Rose Pacatte, FSP On Palm Sunday, March 28, the Lifetime Movie Network will premiere a made-for-television film about the October 2, 2006 shootings of ten Amish schoolgirls in Nickel Mines, PA: “Amish Grace”. Five of the girls, aged 6-13, died at the hand of an “English” milkman, that is, non-Amish, known to all the children.

Charles Carl Roberts, 32, took his own life as state troopers prepared to storm the school. Then, in the immediate aftermath of such tragedy, the Amish parents and community forgave Roberts, astounding the media and people around the world who watched the story unfold on their televisions.

The film respects the facts of the event, but takes some artistic license in order to explore the Amish belief in unconditional forgiveness as well as their practice of shunning, which seems to contradict the act of forgiving. When the Amish community extends forgiveness to Roberts and then visits his wife Amy (Tammy Blanchard) to console her and her children for their loss, Amy is astounded. But one Amish mother, Ida Graber (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), tells her husband, Gideon (Matt Letscher) that she cannot forgive the man who murdered her daughter, Mary Beth.

Ida accuses Gideon of making Mary Beth’s life and death cheap by his “easy forgiveness.” He replies by telling her that the Lord does not ask them to follow an easy path: “… faith when everything is the way you want it is not true faith. It is only when our lives fall apart that we have the chance to make our faith real....”

This fictionalized account of those events takes its name from the 2007 non-fiction book “Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy”, by three Amish scholars, Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher. Executive producer Larry A. Thompson said in an interview

that even before he obtained rights for the book Kraybill had explained that the authors would not be able to consult on the film. This was due to their close relationship to and respect for the Amish community that lives “plain” and does not seek notoriety nor approve of film and photography.

Thompson, a television and film professional, is a life-long Catholic and member of St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Los Angeles. He explained that his reasons for making the film emerged from his reflection on the words of Jesus in the Our Father. “When I heard about what happened to these Amish children, I recalled that I have prayed these words all my life, ‘Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us’.

I don’t think I really understood what they meant until I heard of this astonishing and powerful story of how the Amish people forgave. Their actions made me realize what God has really asked us to do as Christians. I talk the talk; these people walk the talk.”

Two documentaries made by Catholic filmmakers take the events at Nickel Mines as their point of departure to explore forgiveness. The Big Question: A Film about Forgiveness (2009), directed by Vince DiPersio, was produced by Paulist Productions (www.

BigQuestionTheMovie.com) and The Power of Forgiveness (2008) by Martin Doblmeier, Journey Films (www.

JourneyFilms.com). Both films look at forgiveness from various religious, spiritual, and philosophical perspectives and are available from Amazon.com.

“Amish Grace” is a powerful television production that belies its simplicity. The performances are strong, unadorned, and credible. The filmmakers avoid explicit violence by suggesting it instead. They chose to make a movie about and with grace and they have succeeded. As I watched the film, I just let the story wash over me and I could not stop crying.

“Amish Grace” airs on Palm Sunday,

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March 28, at 9:00pm on LMN. Check local listings for reruns during April and May.

EWTN to televise Holy Week and Easter Liturgies EWTN, the Catholic television network, will bring to viewers Holy Week and Easter liturgies originating from St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican and the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. A Solemn Mass of Palm Sunday will be televised live from the Vatican with Pope Benedict XVI, March 28 at 12:30 a.m., and an encore (rebroadcast) March 28 at 5 p.m.

Solemn Mass of Palm Sunday will be televised live from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., March 28 at 9 a.m.

Pope Benedict offers the Chrism Mass April 1 at 12:30 a.m. The pope also will celebrate the Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper live from the Basilica of St. John Lateran, April 1 at 8:30 a.m., with an encore April 2 at 9 p.m.

Choral Meditations and Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper comes live from the National Shrine in Washington, April 1 at 2:30 p.m.

Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion will be televised live with Pope Benedict, April 2 at 8 a.m., encore April 3 at 9 p.m.

Choral Meditations and the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion airs from the National Shrine in Washington, April 2 at 2:30 p.m.

EWTN will televise the Holy Father presiding at the Way of the Cross at the Coliseum in Rome, April 2 at 5 p.m.

Pope Benedict offers the Easter Vigil Mass live from the Vatican, April 3 at 12 Noon.

Easter Vigil Mass will be televised from the National Shrine in Washington, April 3 at 5 p.m.

Pope Benedict celebrates the Solemn Mass of Easter Sunday at St. Peter’s Basilica April 4 at 1 a.m., encore April 4 at 9 a.m.

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Lenten Opportunities March 28, 1 p.m.: St. Mary’s Annual Palm Sunday Brunch, Druid’s Hall on the square in Nicasio, Marin County. Features full menu of eggs, hash browns, ham, fresh fruit, coffee, tea and milk. No-host bar offers additional beverages for sale. Tickets are $15 adults/$5 children 5 – 12. Day also includes a raffle and silent auction. Call (415) 662-2077. Proceeds benefit church preservation.

March 28, 10:30 a.m.: Annual Mass honoring Father Peter Yorke in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma. Capuchin Father Donal Burke will preside. Pearse and Connolly Fife and Drum Bands will play. Sponsored by United Irish Societies of San Francisco.

March 30, 5:30 p.m.: Chrism Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough St. at Geary Blvd. in San Francisco.

Archbishop George Niederauer is principal celebrant joined by priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and Religious Order priests. All members of the Archdiocesan family are invited. A choir comprised of singers from parishes throughout the Archdiocese will lead song.

Interested choristers can contact Joseph Murphy at (415) 614-5505 or murphyj@sfarchdiocese.org.

Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Christian Meditation, as taught by Benedictine Father John Main at St. Dominic’s Catholic Church, 2390 Bush St. (Siena Room). More information at: www.christianmeditation.us” Daily through March 28, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.: “40 Days for Life,” a campaign of fasting and prayer to end abortion during at Planned Parenthood, 815 Eddy St., San Francisco. (between Van Ness & Franklin). A peaceful prayerful presence will be there every day. Call (415) 6689800 or visit www.40daysforlife.com/sanfrancisco Daily through March 28, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.: A “40 Days for Life” prayer vigil will be at Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave, San Mateo. Sign up at www.40daysforlife. com/sanmateo or by calling (650) 572-1468.

Lenten Soup and Substance, various dates and locations through April 1: Experience and Reflect on the Good Works of Catholic Charities CYO at a series of open houses during the Lenten Season. See the actual work of CCCYO. Each visit includes a simple meal and tour as well as reflection with program staff and, when appropriate, the people served. There is no charge to attend the series, but a response is requested for planning purposes. For specific dates and locations, contact CCCYO Parish Partnerships Director Jane Ferguson at (415) 972-1227 or e-mail jferguson@cccyo.org. You may also visit www.cccyo.org/soupandsubstance.

Locations to be visited in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties include Homelessness Prevention Programs, Assisted Housing and Health Programs, Refugee and Immigrant Services; Canal Family Support Program; San Mateo Counseling Services; Family and Youth Programs; Derek Silva Community, Housing and Support for people with disabling HIV/AIDS. April 2, noon: Live outdoor enactment of the Stations of the Cross at St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. off Brotherhood Way in San Francisco. Call (415) 452-9634 or visit www.stmchurch.com.

April 2, 9 a.m.: Coit Tower Stations of the Cross process from that San Francisco landmark to the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in North Beach. Call (415) 452-9634 or visit www.stmchurch.com.

May 15: Parish Family Day 2010, sponsored

by San Francisco Parochial School Baseball League at AT&T Park. Tailgate in Parking Lot D 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $14 per person with advance ticket sales only. “Long Toss” competition takes place prior to the tailgate party. All raffle items sponsored by the Giants to benefit “Parish Family Day” and the “Parish League Scholarship Fund”.

Prizes include Dodger tickets, Red Sox tickets, autographed balls, jerseys and much more. We are also soliciting donations for a scholarship fund to benefit eighth grade players in our league. This money will go to the high school of their choice in order to give them and their parents a head start on their high school careers. All donations are tax deductible as allowed by law and we are hoping that at some point this fund can be endowed.

The amount and number of scholarships given will depend on the amount raised. The three part application can be found on our website and is due March 31. It should be noted that the award has no relationship to athletic ability, but to need and scholastic achievement. Visit www.sfpsbl.org for further details and raffle tickets.

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April 8, noon: Serra Club of San Francisco lunch at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia Ave., off Mission Street. Notre Dame Sister Roseanne Murphy, author of “Martyr of the Amazons, The Story of Sister Dorothy Stang” will talk about Notre Dame Sister Dorothy Stang who was murdered in 2005 in Brazil. Tickets are $16 for lunch. Contact Paul Crudo at (415) 566-8224 or e-mail pecrudodds@aol.com,

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Eighth grade students from South San Francisco’s All Souls Elementary School visited Sacramento and its famous sites including the State Capitol and Old Town in February.

“The class learned a lot about the history of California and our state’s government,” said teacher, Dianne Villanueva. State Senator Leland Yee (center) who represents SSF, posed with the class for this picture at the Statehouse.

April 3, 11 a.m.: Hope for the Bereaved: A Prayer Service at Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. Msgr. Harry Schlitt will preside. Call (650) 756-2060.

Returning Catholics Home Program at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church in San Francisco begins April 13.

Call Loretta Chatmon at (415) 468-3434.

TV/Radio March 31, 7 p.m.: Women in the Media: What’s Next? at Ralston Hall of Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Ave. in Belmont. Panelists include Ysabel Duron, KRON-Channel 4, Rosy Chu, Bay Area People, Renee Batti, The Almanac, and Staci Slaughter, vice-president of communications for the San Francisco Giants. Admission is free. Call (650) 740-4824. A Women’s History Month presentation.

Fridays at 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger Church. Program is rerun Fridays and Mondays at 9 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m. e-mail info@sfarchdiocese.org with comments and questions about faith. 1260 AM also offers daily Mass, rosary and talk on the faith. Visit www.ihradio.org Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding.

Sunday, 7 a.m.: TV Mass on The Filipino Channel (TFC) (Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese.

1st Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues.

3rd Sunday, 5:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: “For Heaven’s Sake,” featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality.

EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming details, visit www. ewtn.com.

St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 Stations of the Cross, Fridays at 12:40 p.m. in the Cathedral, following the 12:10 Mass.

Lecture Series, “Penitence: The Call for Us to Change, The Call for Us to be Transformed by Christ,” 10:15 – 10:45am in the Msgr. Bowe Room.

Strength for the Journey, a ministry of support for people diagnosed with life-threatening illness and the families, friends and caregivers, is in its inaugural stage at the cathedral. Deacon Christoph Sandoval is director. Cal (415) 567-2020, ext. 203, or e-mail Rcs7777@comcast.net.

Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698.

April 16 – 18: A San Jose Beginning Experience weekend for widowed, separated or divorced men and women at Vallombrosa Retreat Center in Menlo Park. Contact Cathy at (408) 263-3718, Helen at (415) 388-9651. You may also e-mail SJBeginExp@ aol.com or visit www.beginningexperience.org Catholics 55 and over interested in meeting others of the faith in that age group are invited to contact Mary at mpecci@sbcglobal.net. A core group who will organize events for this age group is being formed. Minimum effort required.

Arts and Entertainment The Drama Club of St. Monica School, 5920 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, presents “The Princess and the Pea”, a short comedy adapted by John O’Hara from the story by Hans Christian Andersen March 26 and 27, at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for ticket sales.

Suggested donations are: Adults: $3.00, Children 4th Grade and Up: $2.00, and Younger Children: $1.00.

March 26, 27, 7:30 p.m.: The St. Catherine of Siena School Drama Club presents Newsies, a musical of the 1899 New York newspaper boy strike! Cast includes over 50 St. Catherine’s junior high students, parents, school alumni, and teachers! General admission is $9. Students/ Seniors are $6. For more information, contact Michael Miller at grade8@stcos.org or call (650) 344-7176.

Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life Survivor of the Rwandan genocide Immaculee Ilibagiza, whose story is described in Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, will speak April 16, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. All proceeds benefit Catholic Charities programs for children and families.

Tickets available at www.littlechildrensaid.com.

March 26, 27, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Rummage sale benefiting the Little Sisters of the Poor’s St. Anne’s Home, 300 Lake St. in San Francisco. Huge sale includes art, jewelry, furniture, books, clothing, collectibles, and items for the home. Call Sandra Gulli at (415) 776-8664.

March 27, 10 a.m. – noon: Mercy High School Alumnae Council Presents Eggstravaganza on Mercy’s Campus, 3250 19th Ave. in San Francisco. Tickets: $5 per child (ages 2-12), Adults – Free. For more information, events@mercyhs.org or (415) 334-7941.

April 9, 7 a.m.: Monthly meeting of Catholic Marin Breakfast Club at Marin Catholic High School, Pope John Paul II Center Chapel. Father Tom Daly, Marin Catholic President and Vocations Director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, will be principal celebrant and breakfast speaker. Members’ breakfast is $7 and non-members’ $10. Call 461-0704 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. or e-mail Sugaremy@aol.com. Membership dues are $20 per year or $30/couple and can be paid at the door.

April 30, 11:30 a.m.: Epiphany Center’s Celebrating Mothers Luncheon at St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco. Tickets: $75 per person, RSVP deadline April 21. For more information, call (415) 351-4055 or visit www.theepiphanycenter.org The event will feature a Songbirds Chorale performance, an inspiring testimony from a client, and great gifts for sale for mothers and other special women in our lives. Proceeds benefit the Epiphany Center, a ministry of Mount St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth and the Daughters of Charity, to provide lifechanging and life-saving services for women, children, and families in San Francisco.

Consolation Ministry Grief support groups meet at the following parishes: San Mateo County: Good Shepherd, Pacifica; call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593. Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; call parish at (650) 755-2727. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 366-3802.

St. Bartholomew, San Mateo; Barbara Syme (650) 3436156. St. Peter, Pacifica; call parish at (650) 359-6313.

St. Pius, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 361-0655.

St. Robert, San Bruno; call Sr. Patricia O’Sullivan at (650) 589-0104.

Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo; call Brenda MacLean at (415) 454-7650. St. Anthony, Novato; call parish (415) 883-2177. St. Hilary, Tiburon; call Helen Kelly at (415) 388-9651. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato; call Sr. Jeanette at (415) 897-2171.

San Francisco County: St. Dominic; call Deacon Chuck McNeil at (415) 567-7824. St. Gabriel; call Monica Williams at (650) 756-2060. St. Mary’s Cathedral; call Sister Esther McEgan at (415) 567-2020 ext. 218. Alma Via; contact Mercy Feeney at (650) 756-4500.

Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo; call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Ministry to Grieving Parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame; call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

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Catholic San Francisco

We are looking for full or part time

RNs, LVNs, CNAs, Caregivers

FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION visit us at www.catholic-sf.org or Call: 415-614-5642 Fax: 415-614-5641 Email: penaj@sfarchdiocese.org

In-home care in San Francisco, Marin County, peninsula Nursing care for children in San Francisco schools

Live In Companion Needed

Room for Rent

If you are generous, honest, compassionate, respectful, and want to make a difference, send us your resume:

Seeking mature, healthy, sincere, honest, single woman for a live-in companion. Free room and private bath.

For more information, please call (415) 921-8337

Master bedroom w/private bath, $650/month plus utilities.

Non-smoking/drinking.

PLEASE CALL (415) 341-5427

Caregiver Available Reliable, trustworthy, experienced caregiver.

References available, has car.

Vickie (415) 587-3992

Automotive

Hilltop Buick Pontiac GMC Truck

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Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Fax: 415-435-0421 Email: info@sncsllc.com Voice: 415-435-1262

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Reliable, trustworthy, experienced caregiver.

References available, has car.

Vickie (415) 587-3992 PSA FOR GOSPEL CHOIR DIRECTOR St. Paul of the Shipwreck Catholic Church is looking for a Gospel Choir Director to direct its choir and musicians at the 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Gospel Mass.

Shipwreck has a rich tradition of Gospel music as a main component of its Gospel Mass, which strives to preserve and promote the African American spirituality within the Catholic Church as a gift to enrich and unite all people. Desired qualifications include basic music skills with one year or more academic training or experience as choir director. Salary negotiable within range of Archdiocese of San Francisco established guidelines.

Email Resume/ Application to spswoffice@aol.com, or FAX to 415.468.1400.

For more details, call Fr. Paul Gawlowski, Pastor, at (415) 468-3434.

OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE Approximately 2,000 to 10,000 square feet first floor office space available (additional space available if needed) at One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco (between Gough & Franklin), is being offered for lease to a non-profit entity. Space available includes enclosed offices, open work area with several cubicles, large work room, and storage rooms on the lower level of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chancery / Pastoral Center. We also have mail and copy services available, as well as meeting rooms (based on availability). Reception services available.

Space has access to kitchen area and restroom facilities. Parking spaces negotiable. Ready for immediate occupancy with competitive terms.

Come view the space.

For more information, contact

Katie Haley, (415) 614-5556 email haleyk@sfarchdiocese.org.

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Catholic San Francisco

March 26, 2010