March 30, 2007

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Nearly 250 high school students from across the Archdiocese took part in the day-long MyFaith Youth Rally March 24 in San Francisco on the campus of Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep and at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Sponsored by the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry, the event included sessions on spirituality, social justice and other topics, and concluded with Mass at the Cathedral.

‘Reinvigorate’ lay leadership, urge convocation planners SAN FRANCISCO — A gathering focused on “challenging the Church to reinvigorate both its ancient tradition and its Second Vatican Council call to authentic lay leadership” has been scheduled for June 2 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.

Titled “Coming of Age: The First Annual Northern California Lay Convocation,” the day-long meeting will encourage Catholics of all spectrums to participate in “increasing the voice and the presence of the laity in Church decision-making,” states a Web site established for the event (www.NorCalLayConvocation.org).

Although the convocation does not carry sponsorship

by any official Church entities, Archbishop George H. Niederauer said he plans to attend. “It is good for me to have an opportunity to be able to hear what Catholic laity have to say,” he told Catholic San Francisco.

“We want to offer a venue where Catholics of a progressive or traditional bent, both clerical and lay, can have the opportunity to talk with one another, share their vision of Church in a reconciliatory, non-confrontational way,” said Rob Grant, a member-at-large of the steering committee organizing the event.

The group includes Catholics from the Archdiocese as well as the dioceses of Oakland, Santa

Rosa, San Jose, Monterey and Sacramento.

Two morning addresses are scheduled. Burlingame Sister of Mercy Eloise Rosenblatt, who holds doctorate and law degrees, will present a talk titled “Lay Leadership in the Third Millennium: Reviving An Ancient Tradition.”

Father Brian Joyce, pastor of Christ the King Parish, Pleasant Hill, and a prolific author, will follow with a lecture titled “Vatican II: Shared Baptism/Shared Leadership.”

Afternoon “break-out sessions” will center on “lay concerns and practical suggestions for improving dialogue and lay participation,” according to the Web site which also includes a mission statement and registration information.

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Marin Catholic High School juniors, Sophia Gonzalez and Jake Bloom, with prized art class quilt.

Hats off for John Celedon and Joan Leehane on being recognized as this year’s Anchor Parishioners at St. Stephen Parish in San Francisco. The honorees were in the spotlight at St. Stephen’s annual auction March 24. John is a Sacred Heart High School and USF alum as well as the UCSF School of Pharmacy. He is the owner of Preuss Pharmacy in Menlo Park.

He and his wife, Rochelle, have been St. Stephen parishioners since 1986. Joan is a fourth generation San Franciscan and alumna of Star of the Sea, the now much-missed Presentation High School and San Francisco State University where she earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in education. She currently serves as special education teacher at St. Stephen Elementary School. Joan and her husband, Dan, have been parishioners of St. Stephen since shortly after their marriage in 1971. Way to go, you two!!!… March

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Archbishop George H. Niederauer joined parish young adult leaders and members of the Archdiocesan Young Adult Visioning Team for dinner in San Francisco. “There was lots of food and it was a very fun evening,” said Mary Jansen, who snapped the picture and additionally serves as director of Young Adult Ministry for the Archdiocese. Sitting from left: Maria Meneses, Sally Huchingson, Ann Belera, Archbishop Niederauer, Greg Hornby. Standing from left: Kalon Gutierrez, John Brust, Ailene Estalilla, John Estalilla and Colin Barceloux.

is Arts Month and students at Marin Catholic High School have really put their hands to the wheel with a recent quilting project. “Our Art II class made two quilts for seriously ill patients at Oakland Children’s Hospital,” said Tim Navone, who handles communications at the school. The idea came

sophisticated quilting style based on traditional American and African American quilts but with the geometric simplicity reminiscent of Amish quilts.” The students prepared the squares for the quilt in one class period… Emily Dickinson would be proud!! Hats off a couplet of times for Daniella Labat and Andrea Bumbaca of Notre Dame High School On Jan. 20 St. Stephen Elementary School’s Class of in Belmont whose poems will 1956 celebrated the 50 years that have passed since be published in the upcoming then. Father Joseph Walsh, pastor, and Sharon McCarthy Allen, principal, presented golden diplomas to “A Celebration of Young the group including Tom Brady, back left, Jesuit Brother Poets.”. Andrea mused about Daniella’s Charles Jackson, Joe Kane, Dr. Jack Irvine with Phil “Happiness.” verse, “Everything Adds Scully, middle left, Patricia McDonald Granucci, Charlie Up”, also had sum-thing to Nelson, Joe Tinney, Diane Munkner Julien, Bob Rauh, say, I’m sure!…Remember Karen Madsen Hulsy, Shirley Canepa Nathan, and this is an empty space withPatricia Cronin Farber. Seated is Bob Schwarz. out ya’!! The e-mail address from school parent and accomplished quilter, Victoria for Street is burket@sfarchdiocese.org. Mailed items Gonzalez, who also coordinated the sewing and fabric pro- should be sent to “Street,” One Peter Yorke Way, SF curement. Art teacher Joan Ciabattari piqued the class’s 94109. Pix should be hard copy or electronic jpeg at 300 interest with a video about the people of Gee’s Bend, Ala., dpi. Don’t forget to include a follow-up phone number. Call where the town’s quilters “have developed a distinctive, bold, me at (415) 614-5634 and I’ll walk you through it.

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CCCYO suing for immigrant crime victim help

By Dan Morris-Young SAN FRANCISCO — Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco earlier this month joined a coalition of civil rights groups and individuals nationwide to file suit in federal court here against the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.

The suit demands compliance with what are said to be congressional requirements for those federal agencies to establish access to special visas for undocumented immigrants who have been victims of serious crime and who have cooperated in investigation and prosecution of those crimes.

According to the filing, provisions of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (“Crime Victims Act”) permit such undocumented immigrants to apply for “U visas” which provide holders legal status which can eventually lead to lawful permanent residence for them and their children on humanitarian grounds.

However, the suit charges, no application regulations have been released and not a single special visa for crime victims has been granted, even after Congress granted an extension to July of last year for development of regulations and forms for the U visa.

“The failure to implement the law has detrimentally affected thousands of crime victims while giving aid and comfort to violent criminals,” stated a March 7 press release from the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law (CHRCL) based in Los Angeles.

The organization is the lead counsel in the suit. It filed a similar suit in 2005 which led to the congressional deadline extension.

The archdiocesan CCCYO’s Refugee and Immigrant Services Program has a caseload of about 150 individuals who officials feel qualify for U visas. “We have to explain to each and every client what a U visa is and then explain

how although they meet the requirements, it is not possible to obtain one,” according to a press statement prepared and read by Becky Bogyo, lead immigration counselor at CCCYO. Both press statements were made public at a March 7 news conference at the Refugee and Immigrant Services office, 98 Bosworth St., San Francisco. During the press conference, representatives from CCCYO, International Institute of the East Bay (Oakland) and an attorney from CHRCL made statements as did immigrant individuals who had been victims of crimes ranging from domestic abuse to vigilante violence Local potential U visa applicants include “victims of rape, sexual abuse, child abuse, domestic violence, felonious assault, attempted murder and a host of other violent crimes,” Bogyo said, adding: “They have bravely come forward to assist the law enforcement community despite their

own fears of deportation and in the face of threats of retaliation from the perpetrator of the crimes. Their assistance … has often led to the incarceration of extremely violent individuals…. They have followed all the rules and complied with all requests for assistance. Now it is time for the government to do its part by granting them the U visa they promised them six years ago.”

Law enforcement organizations, including San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris’ office, have called U visas a significant asset in fighting crime in immigrant communities.

Meanwhile, supporters of tighter immigration policies claim that various categories of special visas created by Congress cause more harm than good. Others contend that a comprehensive overhaul of immigration policy should trump focus on “loophole” visas.

DHS has allowed some immigrant crime victims to seek “interim relief,” according to

Immigration and Irish April 1 Mosaic topics Father Brendan McBride, coordinator of the Irish Immigration Pastoral Center in San Francisco, will be the guest on Mosaic, April 1 at 5 a.m. on KPIX – CBS 5. Maurice Healy, director of communications for the Archdiocese of San Francisco is host.

The conversation will address immigration reform and the Church’s role. Father McBride met with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office March 7. Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony met with the Speaker herself March 6, he said.

The message from both meetings

was that Congress is not hearing enough from Father Brendan priests or bishMcBride ops about the need for immigration reform, Father McBride said. “They are hearing from individual groups about the issue but not from enough bishops or priests.”

Of the presumed 12 million undocumented immigrants in the country, 50,000 are from Ireland with about 3,500 in the Bay Area, according to Father McBride.

Bogyo. However, that process has drained “an inordinate amount of time, energy and resources,” she said, and produces “a quasilegal status that can be terminated by the government at will.”

According to a New York Times report, approximately 5,800 potential U visa applicants have achieved the “deferred action” status which provides a one-year work permit and interim protection from deportation.

“The hardships that our program has suffered pale in comparison to what our clients have had to endure over the past six years,” Bogyo said.

Plaintiffs are asking the federal court to issue an injunction requiring DHS to immediately promulgate application forms and regulations for U visas, and to grant relief to children who might have aged out of benefits under U visa provisions.

In addition to Catholic Charities CYO and CHRCL, plaintiffs include the International Institute of the East Bay; the Voces Unidas Project of Los Angeles; the Central American Resource Center of Los Angeles; Hermandad Mexicana Nacional of Los Angeles; Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services of Texas; Friendly House of Arizona; and Sanctuary for Families of New York.

The “Crime Victims Act” signed by thenPresident Bill Clinton allowed for 10,000 U visas per year.

A March 7 press conference on the steps of New York City Hall, organized by Sanctuary for Families, was held simultaneously with the San Francisco event to announce the lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filed in the California Northern District Federal Court. According to a CHRCL spokesperson, Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton has been assigned to the case.

“The government has at least two months to file a response,” she added, “so, the earliest we might expect another development would be about May. We will await their response before determining the next steps in the litigation.”

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Assisted-suicide bill dies MONTPELIER, Vt. (CNS) — The Vermont House of Representatives March 21 defeated a bill that would have allowed a terminally ill patient with a prognosis of six months or less to live to ask a physician for a prescription that would end his or her life. The medication would have been administered by the patient. The bill, known as H. 44, was defeated 82-63. A similar bill, AB 374, has been introduced in the California Assembly.

Pope: medical care imperative VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christians are called to offer medical care to the sick in imitation of Jesus, who chose physical healings as the way to demonstrate “the nearness of God and his merciful love,” Pope Benedict XVI said. The dignity of the human person, who has a right to health and medical assistance, “is confirmed and strengthened by the commandment of love, the center of the Christian message,” the pope told members of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry.

‘Public correction’ given professor WASHINGTON (CNS) — “Mistaken views” on contraception, abortion, same-sex marriage and other Church teachings in two 2006 pamphlets by Marquette University theology professor Daniel C. Maguire “should not be confused with the faith and moral teaching of the Catholic Church,” the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine has declared..

The doctrine committee’s “Statement Concerning Two Pamphlets Published by Professor Daniel Maguire” was approved for publication by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Administrative Committee during a March 20-21 meeting in Washington.

The pamphlets — titled “The Moderate Roman Catholic Position on Contraception and Abortion” and “A Catholic Defense of Same-Sex Marriage” — were sent by Maguire to all U.S. bishops June 19 last year, the doctrine committee said.

“Since it is apparent that considerable efforts have been made to give these views the widest possible distribution as if they were a valid alternative to the teaching of the Catholic Church,” the USCCB doctrine committee “considers it important to offer a public correction of the erroneous views proposed in these pamphlets,” the statement said.

Maguire, a faculty member at the Milwaukee university since the early 1970s, said the bishops “stuck to their obsession with sexual and reproductive matters” in the committee statement and ignored his call in a letter accompanying the pamphlets for greater episcopal attention to issues such as the war in Iraq, the environment, poverty, racism and sexism.

In the pamphlet on abortion and contraception, Maguire claimed the Church “has a strong ‘pro-choice’ tradition and a conservative anti-choice tradition” and added, “Neither is official and neither is more Catholic than the other.”

Similarly, on same-sex marriage, he said, “Catholic teaching is in transition on this subject and Catholics are free to let their consciences decide either for or against same-sex marriages.”

The doctrine committee said the pamphlets misrepresent Church teaching, the relationship between bishops and theologians and the teaching authority of the bishops.

Urges Vatican to dialogue CHENNAI, India (CNS) — A leading Asian theologian has urged the Vatican to initiate dialogue with theologians to resolve doctrinal differences. “The Vatican should engage in dialogue with theologians when there is a conflict … not silence them,” said Father Felix Wilfred in the wake of the recent Vatican notification concerning Jesuit Father Jon Sobrino, a Latin American theologian.

After an extended review, the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith issued a warning that some works by the Jesuit priest from El Salvador contain ideas “erroneous or dangerous propositions.” The Vatican did not take action against him.

Father Wilfred — who has worked with Father Sobrino in various theological publications, including Concilium, an international theological journal published in seven European languages — called the Vatican notification “highly regrettable.”

The priest has served on theological advisory bodies to the Vatican, the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India. The Indian priest is a professor of Christian studies at the University of Madras. He served on the Vatican’s International Theological Commission when Pope Benedict XVI — then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — served as head of the doctrinal congregation.

Bishop, victims have exchange WASHINGTON (CNS) — In a spirited exchange with

victims of child sex abuse, the head of the U.S. bishops’ child protection committee said March 20 bishops must work together to prevent cover-ups of clergy child sex abuse.

Cover-ups cannot be condoned and several bishops and priests have resigned over cover-ups, some after being told to do so by the Vatican, said Bishop Gregory M. Aymond of Austin, Texas.

Bishop Aymond, chairman of the bishops’ Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People, spoke at Jesuit-run Georgetown University in Washington to assess the progress made since the bishops adopted sex abuse prevention policies in 2002.

“Where there was a cover-up, we need to apologize as individuals and as a church,” said Bishop Aymond. (To hear Bishop Aymond’s address, Internet users may access www.ccc-tv.org.)

Priest dismissed, then re-upped NAPLES, Fla. (CNS) — A day after he was asked to resign his post as provost and leave the campus, Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio agreed to continue to have a role at Ave Maria University, including teaching and serving as a theologian in residence.

A statement sent the evening of March 22 by the university’s public relations firm said Father Fessio accepted the school’s offer that he continue his relation- Father Joseph Fessio, SJ ship with Ave Maria in a non-administrative capacity.

The day before the university’s announcement Father Fessio had been asked to resign as provost, citing “irreconcilable differences over administrative policies and practices.”

Father Fessio, 66, had served as chancellor or provost of the Catholic university in Florida since its founding was announced in 2002. He also has continued to serve as editor of Ignatius Press, a San Francisco-based publishing company he founded in 1978.

Father Fessio told reporters from various publications he was not given a reason for his dismissal. The university’s statement said, “There has never been any difference in our commitment to our mission or to the magisterium of the Church. Nor is there any diminishment of our commitment to maintaining the highest quality of scholarship.”

The March 22 said Father Fessio will be designated a theologian in residence and maintain a room on campus.

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‘Irish’ win state hoop title In the battle for the state Division III girls high school basketball title between two highly-rated Catholic teams, the Fightin’ Irish of San Francisco’s Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory slipped past two-time defending state champions Bishop Amat Memorial of La Peunte in overtime, 60-54. The March 24 game was played at Arco Arena in Sacramento. Coached

by Brian Harrigan, the team members are, left to right standing: Monique Calvello, Ashley Boggs, Tierra Rogers, Kamilah Jackson; kneeling: Kiki Moore, Lauren Bell, Jazmine Jackson; seated: Rosslyn Beard, Fahiza Hill, Noelani Gi and Melissa Koike.

Last year the girls’ program won the Division IV championship, giving the school three state titles, having captured the 1998 Division III trophy.

Memorial April 2 for kindergartener A memorial service for a kindergarten student of Megan Furth Academy who died as a result of spinal meningitis on March 24 will be held April 2 at 11 a.m. at at Jerusalem Church of God and Christ, 1660 McAllister St., San Francisco.

School administrators were alerted of the diagnosis on March 23, a Friday, and made the decision to call all parents and guardians of students of both Academy campuses, inform them, and suggest “they call their physicians further information” about the bacterial disease. As a precaution, the school was closed Monday and Tuesday. Classes were to resume Wednesday.

Health officials have said risk of the disease having been spread is slight.

Meningitis is an inflammation of the membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord.

According to Jesuit Father Charles Gagan, pastor of St. Ignatius Parish and a member of the school’s board of regents, grief counselors from Catholic Charities met with faculty members and “grief counseling for our kindergarten students will continue as long as is needed.”

Father Gagan said Dominican Father Xavier Lavagetto, pastor of San Francisco’s St. Dominic Parish, and San Rafael Dominican Sisters Anne Bertain and Gloria Montanez were with the family of To-Mmi Jones at the time of her death, and that ToMmi had received the sacrament of baptism in the presence of her family.

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Tumultuous time for religious life, says scholar

By Sharon Abercrombie Even though Catholics are regularly reminded that the average age of religious order priests, Sisters and Brothers serving in the United States is increasing – and their numbers are declining – don’t conclude religious communities are dying out, a well-known scholar said during a recent national meeting held at Vallombrosa Center, Menlo Park.

Think of consecrated life as an “ongoing history” being written by the Holy Spirit, advised Oblate of Mary Immaculate Father Frank Morrisey, adding that the divine author’s last chapter is “yet to come.”

A professor of canon law at St. Paul University in Ottawa, the priest presented an overview of the history of religious life – with a view to the future – in a series of talks during the 40th Annual Assembly of the National Conference of Vicars for Religious, March 14-18.

Vicars for religious serve as liaisons between their bishops and those in consecrated life in their dioceses.

More than 50 vicars from across the country attended the meeting, themed “Seasons of Hope: Remembering the Past, Celebrating the Present, Claiming the Future.” Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang, religious vicar for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, was homilist and celebrant at the conference’s opening liturgy.

San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer was presider and homilist of the group’s March 17 vigil Mass, joining participants afterward for a dinner that included entertainment by Irish dancers in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. In his talks Father Morrisey reminded the vicars declining numbers in religious life mirror a “breakdown” of secular society, which, he said, “is at a crucial breaking-point.” He cited a widening gulf between the “haves and the have-nots” as a primary example.

At the same time, he conjectured, within the Church there are varying schools of theology operating at the same time in various parts of the world. This is not dissent, nor a lack of submission to authority, the speaker said, but “different ways of looking at the same reality.”

Surges in immigration, for example, mean individuals bring their cultural values to a new culture which can, in turn, lead to a “subsequent clash of values, for instance the situation of women, or authority, or violence.”

The U.S. bishops have faced a parallel dilemma in the sexual abuse crisis, Father Morrisey said, noting it seemed no matter what they did, it was wrong. “If they observed canon laws, they were accused of ignoring civil law. If they protected priests, they were accused of ignoring victims.”

These conflicts have not been lost on the Catholic laity, he said. “For many of them, it is becoming more evident that many Church stands and policies are either irrelevant or simply wrong. …they seem to be addressed to another world, not the one we live in.”

In addition, he stated, “Church authorities who are often operating out of a different model, are having recourse too often to ‘the will of God’ to justify decisions that are most certainly politically inspired.”

“Matters which are often opinions are being presented as the only possible Catholic teaching,” he said. “But we should keep in mind that in the late 19th century, the Church condemned vaccination for the same reasons it is condemning

Speakers at the National Vicars for Religious Conference held at Vallombrosa Center included, from left: Father Henry Lemoncelli, OMI, of the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life who is liaison between the Vatican and the vicars for religious; Sister Anne Munley, IHM, executive director of African Sisters Education Collaborative; and Father Frank Morrisey, OMI.

certain medical practices today. It would be good to have a sense of doubt….”

Progressive and traditional Catholics are becoming more polarized, he feels, and too frequently questioning of authority “is immediately branded as dissident or immoral.”

“Not surprisingly, then, this has repercussions on vocations to consecrated life as we have known it,” Father Morrisey told the vicars for religious. “We often hear it asked: who would want to spend his or her life in structures which are no longer considered to be life-giving, at least by those who reflect on them? Religious institutes are rapidly diminishing in numbers and are not attracting new vocations in significant numbers.”

At the same time, he said, “we also see many signs of new life.”

He paid tribute to “thousands and thousands of Church members who are seeking deeper spirituality.” Among them, he said, are the “martyrs” – anywhere from 50 to 100 each year — who lose their lives in mission countries and elsewhere.

“If people are willing to give their lives for something, there must be something worthwhile there. It is up to us to try and discover what it is,” he said.

Father Morrisey noted that roughly 150,000 persons in the U.S. take part in the Rite of Christian Initiation ofAdults and similar programs each year. He also lauded the number of lay people involved in full-time ministry, and the presence of the Church in health care.

The Catholic Church is the largest provider of health care in the world, he pointed out, treating 80 million people in the U.S. alone. Another seven million receive assistance from Catholic Charities, a clear signal “the message of humanity is being heard.”

Father Morrisey advised his listeners to be pro-active about the future. “Proclaim the good news to the world, as it exists today, not as religious institutes imagined it to be some 50 or so years ago.”

Religious institutes of tomorrow must be based on the person or Jesus, not on structures, he counseled. “We must ask

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One model being tried is reconfigurations through intercongregational or inter-diocesan systems, he explained.

Forms of inter-congregational sharing include moving into the same building, with distinct wings for each institute.

Different communities also share infirmaries and cemeteries.

Other ways include preparing core constitutions.

Other means are the creation of core documents regarding spirituality, formation, financial administration, and intercongregational novitiates and formation programs, and shared membership in general councils.

Renewed interest in federations and associations is also attracting lay participation in religious life, he said.

During a telephone interview with Catholic San Francisco, Father Morrisey said Vatican II’s focus on the laity has sparked a fresh interest in religious associations, which are somewhat different than traditional religious communities. Today, they number 600 in the United States. Some have their genesis in the charismatic movement. Many draw young people, including a significant number who want to experience religious life, but might not feel comfortable living in communities with a preponderance of 70-year-olds Many new associations are dedicated to specialized ministries, he said, noting Catholic parents in St. Louis who banded together to share experiences as teachers and to develop curriculum for families wanting to home-school children.

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Catechists to be honored at May 3 Pius X Awards Catechists and parish catechetical leaders leaders are very deserving of this recognition will be honored at annual Pius X Awards cere- and I am very happy to be part of it,” Sister monies May 3 at an evening prayer service at Celeste said.

The awards are given for St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough St. length of service. Scheduled to be and Geary Blvd in San Francisco honored for 50 years as a volunat 7 p.m. Father John Talesfore, teer religious education teacher is Cathedral rector, will preside.

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Maria Lumas, a professor of theology and catechetics at the More than 27,000 students take Franciscan School of Theology in part in religious education proBerkeley will offer a reflection. grams throughout the Archdiocese. More than 4,500 vol“Sister Eva is a dynamic and inspiring speaker,” said Social Sister Eva Lumas, unteer catechists teach in the proSSS grams directed by more than 150 Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of Religious Education and Youth catechetical leaders serving in staff positions.

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Catholic Lobby Day April 24: legislators to hear from faithful

By Tom Burke With the theme “Hope, Healing and Restoration,” Catholic Lobby Day will bring clergy, religious and faithful from throughout the state to Sacramento April 24.

“This is the ninth annual Lobby Day,” said Sarah Nolan, coordinator of parish organizing for the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

For Nolan, it’s Lobby Day number three.

Lobby Day, she said, “collectively demonstrates our power as a faith community to effectively move public policy that is just and peace driven.”

Lobby Day is not an attempt to thwart or ignore any separation of church and state, she noted. “There’s still a separation, but we are commanded to work against the powers that be and speak truth to that power. We are borrowing from the history that Jesus taught us to knock over the tables at the temple and that’s how I see this fitting in.”

The tone of the day, however, is rarely adversarial, Nolan said. “We try to work in collaboration with our elected officials to build relationships and not just cause tension.

What we seek are no permanent enemies, no permanent allies, just permanent interests.”

That permanent interest is in the creation of just state policies, Nolan said.

Nolan said many participants get on the Lobby Day bus as political novices, but step back off the bus at the end of the day as more polished advocates. “People begin to be more politically savvy through Lobby Day,” she said. “For years, legislators have pigeonholed us as Catholics and we have pigeonholed them. We’re trying to get past that. I have found politicians in Sacramento care

about California and its people. That’s the one thing we go in agreeing on – that we care about the state and so do they.”

Nolan said the day is well planned with the help of the California Catholic Conference, the lobbying arm of the state’s two archdioceses and 10 dioceses. “The CCC helps us focus our efforts and this year we’re working against assisted suicide legislation and working for expanding children’s health care — and the Dream Act which helps children of undocumented immigrants get to college.”

Successes in past years include placing an affordable housing bond issue on the ballot and the defeat of a previous assisted-suicide measure.

“We get all ages and cultures and political backgrounds,” Nolan said. “It’s a very interesting group we take every year. We had about 60 people participate last year and we’re hoping for as many this year.”

The statewide force prays together at a morning Mass in Sacramento, reviews materials and has lunch together before making assigned Capitol rounds.

A free Legislative Training Day is scheduled for April 21 from 9 a.m. – noon at St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, Judah and Funston St., San Francisco.

“This is our second annual training day, a time for anyone to learn about lobbying and having an effect on elected officials,” said Nolan, who will help facilitate the morning.

To download a Catholic Lobby Day registration form, go to www.sflifeandjustice.org.

For more information, contact the Office of Public Policy and Social Concern at (415) 699-9238 or e-mail Sarah Nolan at sarah@sfop.org. A $20 fee includes transportation to Sacramento and a box lunch.

Deadline to register is April 10.

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Local students take part in national New Orleans ‘teach-in’ NEW ORLEANS (CNS) — More than 500 students from Jesuit colleges, universities and high schools – including contingents from both the University of San Francisco and San Francisco’s St. Ignatius College Preparatory — gathered in New Orleans March 9-11 to discuss racism and poverty and engage in spring-break service work.

They were among approximately 2,000 Jesuit-affiliated students who descended on New Orleans for a 10-day period to aid in the city’s ongoing recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The teach-in, “Rebuilding Our Communities: Facing Racism and Poverty,” featured discussions on institutional racism, economic development and poverty, environmental racism, fair housing and employment.

Sponsored by the Ignatian Solidarity Network in San Francisco and the New Orleans province of the Society of Jesus, the event also featured spiritual reflection and a March 11 Mass presided over by Jesuit Father Fernando Franco, a personal representative of Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, Jesuit superior general.

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Young people attend a March 11 outdoor Mass on the campus of Loyola University in New Orleans. The school was host to a weekend teach-in called “Rebuilding Communities: Facing Racism and Poverty.”

formed to enhance collaboration among students and parishioners from Jesuit universities, high schools and parishes on common social justice issues and campaigns,” according to Executive Director Ann Magovern from the group’s national office at USF. The organization had its beginnings, she told Catholic San Francisco, in the annual

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demonstrations at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga. where Jesuits and many students of Jesuit schools took part.

Protestors claimed the Fort Benning facility trained military personnel from other nations who took part in oppressive campaigns on their return home.

“Our model is the teach-in,” Magovern

said, noting that the School of the Americas provided an opportunity to look at international issues and the New Orleans gathering was the first to examine domestic issues.

“Our goal going in, and I think we achieved it, was to deepen in our students the understanding of what it is to be in solidarity with one another and especially with those on the margins of our community,” said Magovern, who attended the teach-in with 20 USF students.

“Our biggest message is that we are acting with the community, not doing for the community.”

Shannon Vanderpol agreed. A graduate of the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, Vanderpol coordinated a group of 11 students from St. Ignatius College Preparatory.

The “New Orleans experience” will provide SI students “a lens as we have conversations about racism and poverty at St. Ignatius,” she said. “It afforded us curriculum pieces for social analysis. The teach-in equipped our students with the skills to have difficult conversations about controversial issues like racism and poverty.” Vanderpol teaches liturgy and serves in campus ministry at St. Ignatius.

More than 30 Jesuit schools were represented at the New Orleans teach-in. Jesuits sponsor 28 universities, 45 high schools and serve at 100 parishes throughout the United States.

Tom Burke contributed to this story.

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Bishop John C. Wester installed bishop of Salt Lake City

By Barbara Stinson Lee SALT LAKE CITY — In a joy-filled afternoon rite March 14, that included more than 50 bishops from across the country, five archbishops, including Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States, and two cardinals – Cardinal Roger Mahony, archbishop of Los Angeles, and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., Bishop John C. Wester was officially installed as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City.

Ecclesial guests included, among others, Archbishop George H. Niederauer, metropolitan Archbishop of the San Francisco Province, the eighth bishop of Salt Lake City and the installing archbishop; Archbishop Alexander J. Brunett of Seattle; Archbishop John R. Quinn, archbishop emeritus of San Francisco; Archbishop John G. Vlazny of Portland, Ore.; Bishop William K. Weigand of Sacramento, Calif., the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, and Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Bishop Wester was ordained a bishop in 1988, and served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco until being named to the Salt Lake City Diocese in January.

In a ceremonial jesture dating back centuries, Bishop Wester, accompanied by Archbishop Niederauer, knocked on the front door of the Cathedral of the Madeleine. His knock was answered and the doors opened by Msgr. J. Terrence Fitzgerald, who has served

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Celebrated in English and in Spanish, the Mass centered on the readings – from Exodus and the First Letter of John, and the Gospel (John 20: 11-18), the story of Mary Magdalene’s discovery of the empty tomb and of her encounter with the risen Jesus. Emphasis was also placed on Bishop Wester’s episcopal motto: “Abide in Christ.”

Prayers of the faithful were proclaimed in Spanish, Sudanese, Korean, Tongan, English, Vietnamese and Tagolog.

In his homily, Bishop Wester spoke of the many people who helped prepare him for this day, including his father, the late Charles Wester.

Bishop Wester said the ceremony was not just for him.

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After he was officially received, Bishop Wester sprinkled the congregation with holy water while two choirs sang Cristobal Morales’ “Asperges me Domine.”

Archbishop Sambi read from the pulpit the mandate from the Apostolic See naming Bishop Wester to the See of Salt Lake City. Bishop Niederauer then led Bishop Wester to the bishop’s chair, seated him, and handed him the crozier, a symbol of his new office as shepherd of the Catholics of Salt Lake City.

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The Dance Club of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco, performed Hawaiian movement pieces at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress which drew 40,000 attendants from the United States and several other nations in early March. The group also performed at the closing liturgy of the March 24 MyFaith Youth Rally in San Francisco.

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Northern California groups forming for World Youth Day with their faith. There is a lot of catechesis and it’s pretty high-level learning. We’d really want people who have matured in their faith and that’s why they are coming.”

Two pilgrimage options will be offered through the local planning process, one of 11 days and a second of 16 days. Registration deadline is May 1, although applications might be accepted after that date on a space-available basis, Jansen said.

“It’s definitely a pilgrimage and not a vacation,” she said. “We do have fun but we are there to learn something more about ourselves and more about our faith lives in the environment of another country.”

Opportunities to stay with families in the event locations will be available, Jansen noted.

“We want to learn from the other culture.”

“It’s always a great time,” she said. “It’s about coming together as a universal Church and that is so powerful.”

Meetings leading up to the trip will look at the cultures of the countries to be visited. “This is how we prepare people,” Jansen said. “We also do a lot of prayer and fellowship. It also gives a chance to get to know one another.”

By Tom Burke An informational meeting to provide background and details about World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney, Australia will be held April 17 at the archdiocesan Pastoral Center, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, at 7 p.m., according to Mary Jansen, director of Young Adult and Campus Ministry for the Archdiocese.

Scheduled July 15-20 of 2008, WYD will draw youth and young adults from around the world. The event will be the largest event in Sydney since the 2000 Olympics and will feature Pope Benedict XVI’s first papal visit to Australia.

Numbers at the closing outdoor Mass could be as high as 500,000 worshippers, planners have said.

“I’m going on the trip,” said Jansen. “We’re hoping to get 50 to 100 people to go from northern California.” The dioceses of San Jose, Sacramento, Monterey, and Reno will also take part, she said.

While the event is named World Youth Day, it is primarily for young adults aged 18 - 35, Jansen noted. “This is for people who have really developed their faith life and lived on their own

Information is available at (415) 614-5596 or www.sfyam.org; Jansen may be e-mailed at jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org.

Mark Vaile, Australian deputy prime minister and a Catholic, extended his government’s welcome to Pope Benedict on March 2 in Sydney at an event announcing the world-wide convocation.

Vaile confirmed the Australian government would waive the visa application charge for WYD pilgrims and issue three-month visas to all registered visitors.

World Youth Day organizers have released a new DVD “Sydney: Witness the Spirit,” which is available online. The DVD features testimonials from young Australians and imagery of the Australian landscape. The World Youth Day Web site is www.wyd2008.org.

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Notre Dame des Victoires School Decathlon team: Back from left: Cameron Heller, Georgia Gillan, Maida Paxton, Nina Potepan, Calvin Keith. Middle from left: Taylor Stenberg, Stephanie Donahue, Claire Fahy, Payton Carrol, Lily Marx, Stacy Ward, Richard Wong, Evan Lindsey. Front from left: Angela Garcia Giovanni Briggs.

St. Gabriel School was represented at the Decathlon by Evania Liu,back left, Paige Cheung, Delaney Woo, Kaitlyn Crawley, Nicole Lam, Nicole Trierweiler, Maxine Hamilton and Jessica Moy with Marina Baumann,front left,and Griffin Ong.

Nativity School Decathlon team: Front from left: Colton Huynh, Ethan Williams, Bhaven Patel. Sitting from left: Chantal Guegler, Adriana Zuno, Veronique Filloux. Back from left: Matthew Ferranti, William Morgan, Tyler Arnold, Emma Thordsen, Lauren Ferrando, Joel Baile.

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15 schools take part in annual Academic Decathlon Junior high students from 15 elementary schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco competed in an Academic Decathlon March 10 at St. Pius School in Redwood City.

San Francisco’s Notre Dame des Victoires won the overall competition and will represent the Archdiocese of San Francisco in a state contest in Sacramento in May. San Francisco’s St. Gabriel School placed second in the overall with Nativity School of Menlo Park placing third.

Other results: Logic: First place, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School; second place, Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires; third place, St. Gabriel School.

Current events: First place, St. Gabriel School, Paige Cheung; second place, Ecole Notre Dames des Victoires, Giovanni Briggs; third place, Sts. Peter and Paul School, Edmond Quan.

English: First place, Nativity School, Veronique Filloux; second place, St. Gabriel School, Evania Liu; third place, School of the Epiphany, Andreana Lazo.

Mathematics: First place, Nativity School, Matthew Ferranti; second place, Sts. Peter and Paul School, Jolina Lau; third place, St. Gabriel School, Delaney Woo. Religion: First place, St. Matthew School, Alexandra Gasparini; second place, Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, Angela Garcia; third place, St. Anthony/Immaculate Conception, Sofia Aquilar.

Literature: First Place, Nativity School, Chantal Gueglar; second place, Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, Lily Marx; third place, St. Pius School, Kaile Krauss.

Fine arts: First place, Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, Georgia Gillan; second place, St. Gabriel School, Marina Baumann; third place, St. Anthony/Immaculate Conception, Michele Phung.

Science: First place, Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, Cameron Hewer; second place, St. Pius School, Casey Sheehan; third place, Our Lady of Mercy School, Jessica Yap. Social studies: First place, Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, Maida Paxton; second place, St. Gabriel School, Nicole Trierweiler; third place, Our Lady of

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Holy Week: beauty, pathos, depth and joy On Good Friday, the readings are profound and powerful, made even more so by the veneration of the Cross, when all may come forward to kiss, to touch, or to revere the cross in some other way. We fast on Good Friday (and on Holy Saturday if we are up to it) as we make the passage with Christ through death to new life.

By Patrick Vallez-Kelly Since I was a child I have loved the liturgies of Holy Week. I still remember my father reading the Exodus reading at the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night. The music of the repeated text —- “Pharaoh’s chariots and charioteers� – would ring in my ears as we walked home late that evening. I remember the entrance of the Paschal Candle into the darkened church and the way the “Light of Christ� spread so quickly as it was shared from one vigil candle to another. I remember chants, the Litany of the Saints, deeply reverent processions to the cross on Good Friday, the washing of the feet, the procession with the Holy Eucharist and the Pange lingua of Holy Thursday. I remember, and it all comes back to me.

THE TRIDUUM: The three days from Holy Thursday evening until Easter Sunday evening are our “high holy days,� worth whatever sacrifices we might make in order to celebrate them. With the washing of the feet, the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday eases us into the mystery of Christ’s passion, death and resurrection, also known as the “paschal mystery.� Unless we are ready to have our feet washed (metaphorically, at least) and to do the same for others, we are not ready to enter into the paschal mystery or into the mystery of the Eucharist.

Unless we are ready to have our feet washed ‌and do the same for others, we are not ready to enter into the paschal mystery ‌.

In the Easter Vigil of Holy Saturday night, the Church stays awake to keep watch for the return of the HOLY WEEK, page 14

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

Pope Benedict XVI takes part in Holy Thursday rite.

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ST.MONICA PARISH Geary Boulevard at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco

Easter 2007 Holy Week Schedule PALM SUNDAY, April 1 Saturday Evening Vigil - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday - 8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. (Cantonese) 10:30 a.m. (Choir) (Palms will be blessed and distributed at all Masses) 4:00 p.m. Evening Prayer & Benediction HOLY THURSDAY, April 5 Mass of the Lord’s Supper; Procession and stripping of the altars - 7:30 p.m.

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

GOOD FRIDAY, April 6 Celebration of the Lord’s Passion with Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion 12:00 noon Confessions - 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

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

HOLY SATURDAY, April 7 Confessions - 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.

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

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

St. Thomas More Church

corner of 39 Ave. and Lawton St., San Francisco, California

1300 Junipero Serra Blvd.

2007 Holy Week Services

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Saturday, March 31 Penance Services – 3:00-4:30 PM April 2-4, 2007 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 7:30 & 9:00 AM MASSES in the Chapel Wednesday, April 4 Tenebrae Service of Light in the Church – 8:00 PM Holy Thursday, April 5 7:30 PM – Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the Church 9:00-11:00 PM Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Chapel Good Friday, April 6 No morning Service 12 to 1:00 PM – Meditations on the Seven Last Words 1:15 to 2 PM – Stations of the Cross Performed by the 8th graders of Holy Name School 2 PM – Solemn Liturgical Service includes Veneration of the Cross and Communion Good Friday Service in Vietnamese 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM

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

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

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

Holy Saturday 7:00 PM Easter Vigil (English) 9:00 PM Easter Vigil (Arabic)

EASTER SUNDAY

Holy Saturday, April 7 No morning service.

4:00-5:00 PM – Confessions (No 5:00 PM Mass) 8:15 PM Solemn Easter Vigil Mass Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults

8:00 AM Portugueses-Brazilian Mass 10:00 AM Mass for all people followed by children’s Easter Egg Hunt by the Peace Statue on Brotherhood Way* 8:00 PM Mass in English

Easter Sunday, April 8 Masses in the Church 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM

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

OF THE LORD’S PASSION Vigil Mass Saturday, March 31 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 1 7:30 am, 9:00 a.m, 11:00 a.m., Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant 1:00 p.m. en EspaĂąol

CHRISM MASS Tuesday, April 3 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 TENEBRAE Wednesday, April 4 8:00 p.m.

Musical setting by Francois Couperin HOLY THURSDAY April 5 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 6 12:00 p.m.

Stations of the Cross led by the students of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City, CA 12:30 p.m.

Music in the Cathedral 1:00 p.m.

Liturgy of the Passion and Death of the Lord Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant Reconciliation (confession) 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Via Crucis/Stations of the Cross in Spanish 7:00 p.m.

HOLY SATURDAY Our Paschal Vigil continues throughout the day and night...

April 7 The Easter Vigil 9:00 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 8 Masses 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m. - Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant 1:00 p.m. en EspaĂąol Easter Organ Concert 3:30 p.m.

Easter Vespers and conclusion of the Easter Triduum 4:15 P.M.

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March 30, 2007 into Jerusalem, the poignancy of the Palm Sunday readings becomes even more pronounced. The passion and death of Christ are our central focus at this Mass; the palm fronds we take home remind us that, yes, we were there.

Holy Week . . .

■ Continued from page 13 risen Christ. We light and bless the new fire of the Paschal Candle. Christ’s light always breaks through the darkness. This is our Passover feast, when Christ passes through death to eternal and glorious life. In no way is it shown more clearly than with those who are baptized into Christ on this night. To be present as the Church gives birth to new members is a wonderful thing. This is what we will remember.

PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION: My fondest memories of Palm Sunday – the gateway to Holy Week — are recent. A few years ago in San Bruno, the Catholic community of St. Robert Parish and the Episcopal community of St. Andrew began a new custom of meeting together in San Bruno Park to share in the Gospel reading of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem and to begin our Palm Sunday processions together. Beside the admirable ecumenical element of this new custom, I came to appreciate the value of a good procession. With singing and palm branches waving, we wove our way through the park to the entrance of our church. All the people in the procession and the people who were waiting for us in church knew that something significant was beginning.

When we have first remembered Jesus’ heralded entry

CHRISM MASS: I remember the sweet aroma of the sacred chrism on my forehead after I celebrated confirmation in sixth grade. Ask any priest if he remembers the anointing of his hands when he was ordained. Ask a friend or relative who has received the sacrament of the anointing of the sick to tell you what it meant to them. Ask someone who was baptized as an adult about being anointed as a catechumen. In a way, all of these stories begin at the Chrism Mass, when the oils are blessed and priests renew the promises they made at their ordinations.

Many are unfamiliar with this Holy Week Mass because it usually takes place at the Cathedral, away from their parishes, but to attend is worth the effort. There are few other opportunities to celebrate so prayerfully as a diocesan Church. Remember, this year’s Chrism Mass is celebrated bilingually in English and in Spanish on Tuesday, April 2, 5:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral (Gough St. at Geary Blvd.).

When I remember liturgies of Holy Weeks past, all of their beauty, pathos, depth and joy come right back to me. This is what Holy Week and Easter are about: as we remember Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection, those HOLY WEEK, page 15

Holy Week . . .

■ Continued from page 14 realities come to us in our own day. We need not pretend that we have returned to first century Jerusalem to witness these events. Their beauty, pathos, depth and joy – indeed, salvation itself – come to us in these liturgies

I remember the sweet aroma of the sacred chrism on my forehead after I celebrated confirmation in sixth grade. because Christ is with us in our day. It helps to remember that! Let the Holy Spirit burn some new, everlasting memories into your heart next week. You will treasure them for years.

Vessels containing holy oils (chrism) for sacraments of baptism, confirmation and holy orders, as well as the Oil of the Catechumens, and the Oil of the Sick.

(Patrick Vallez-Kelly is director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Office of Worship.)

EAST ER MOST HOLY REDEEMER HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE Saturday, Mar 31 Palm Sunday, Apr 1 Wednesday, Apr 4 Holy Thursday, Apr 5

Good Friday, Apr 6

Holy Saturday, Apr 7 Easter Sunday, Apr 8

Holy Saturday, April 7 – 8:30 pm Vigil of Easter

San Rafael, California 94903

(415) 479-1560

Vigil Mass: 5:00 p.m.

Sunday Masses: 7:30, 9, 11 a.m. & 5 p.m.

Holy Thrusday: April 5, 2007

No morning services

Mass of the Last Supper: 7:30 p.m.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10 p.m.

April 6, 2007

No morning services 12 Noon – 3 p.m.

3 – 5 p.m.

8 p.m.

Holy Saturday: April 7, 2007

2:30 – 4:30 p.m.

8 p.m.

Easter Sunday: April 8, 2007

Masses:

Holy Week 2007 Palm Sunday Vigil Mass, Saturday 4:30 pm Palm Sunday Masses 8:00, 9:30, 11:30 am & 6:45 pm Daily Weekday Masses during Lent 8:00 am & 12:10 pm Holy Thursday (No morning Mass) Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30 pm Good Friday (No morning Mass) Good Friday Services, 12 noon-3:00 pm Prayer around the Cross, 7:30 pm Holy Saturday (No morning/afternoon Mass) Reconciliation, 3:30-4:30 pm Easter Vigil, 7:30 pm Easter Sunday Mass 8:00, 9:30, 11:30 am & 6:45 pm

HOLY SATURDAY - April 7 8:00 p.m. Bilingual Celebration of Easter Vigil EASTER SUNDAY - April 8 5:45 a.m. In front of Church, Salubong: Meeting of Jesus and Mary Masses: 6:30, 7:30, 9:00 (Spanish), 10:30 a.m., and 12:30 p.m.

Easter Sunday –April 8 8:00 am & 10:00 am Mass

April 1, 2007

Good Friday:

GOOD FRIDAY - April 6 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. “Seven Last Words” 1:30 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (English) 7:00 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (Spanish)

Good Friday, April 6 – 12:00 noon -3:00 pm

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Palm Sunday:

HOLY THURSDAY - April 5 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 5 – 7:30 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Church of St. Isabella P.O. Box 6166

One Notre Dame Avenue San Mateo, CA (650) 344-7622

Reconciliation Service (Confession) Monday, April 2 – 7:30pm

God’s Inclusive Love Proclaimed Here!

Stations of the Cross, Devotions, Liturgical Service with Holy Communion, Confessions His Incredible Love – Live Stations of the Cross presented by our Parish Youth Council

Holy Week Schedule Palm Sunday 12:15 PM Holy Thursday 7:00 PM Good Friday 12:00–3:00 PM Easter Vigil Holy Saturday 8:00 PM Easter Sunday: Easter Concert 11:30 AM Mass 12:15 PM THE NATIONAL SHRINE

OF SAINT. FRANCIS OF ASSISI 610 Vallejo Street San Francisco, CA 94133 Tel 415.983-0405

Confessions Mass of the Easter Vigil 7:30, 9, 11 a.m.

No Evening Masses A Parish that Welcomes & Reaches Out A Parish that Prays & Worships Together A Parish that Celebrates & Reconciles

Eucalyptus Drive @ 23rd Avenue near Stonestown

415.681.2444

Saint Stephen Catholic Church

850 Judah Street (bet. Funston & 14th Ave.) (415) 665-1600

2007 EASTER SERVICES

St. Matthew Catholic Church

2007 Holy Week Schedule

5 p.m. Palm Sunday Vigil Mass 8 a.m. & 10 a.m. Palm Sunday Mass 7:30 p.m. Taize Prayer 8 a.m. Sung Morning Prayer 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Adoration following) 8 a.m. Sung Morning Prayer Noon – 3 p.m. Church will be open for private devotion 7:30 p.m. The Lord’s Passion 8 a.m. Sung Morning Prayer 8 p.m. Easter Vigil (Reception following) 8 a.m. & 10 a.m. Easter Sunday Mass (Reception following)

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St. Raymond Catholic Church 1100 Santa Cruz Avenue Menlo Park, CA (650) 323-1755

100 Diamond St, SF, CA 94114 Tel. (415) 863-6259 • www.mhr.org

Catholic Church

Holy Week at Cecilia Holy Week at Saint Saint Cecilia Vicente St. & 17th Avenue, San Francisco 415.664.8481

HOLY THURSDAY, April 5 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 11 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY, April 6 12 noon The Seven Last Words (Reflections) 1:30 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 3:00-4:00 p.m. & 6:30-7:30 p.m. Confessions 7:30 p.m. Community Stations of the Cross HOLY SATURDAY, April 7 8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer (Sung) 9:15-10:00 a.m. Confessions EASTER VIGIL 8:00 p.m.

EASTER SUNDAY, April 8 7:30, 9:00(Parish Family Mass), & 10:30 a.m. Sung Masses (English) 12 Noon in Cantonese DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY, April 15 7:30, 9:00 & 10:30 a.m. Masses and 12 Noon in Cantonese 2:00 p.m. Devotion to the Divine Mercy (Adoration, Confessions, Chaplet & Benediction)

Traditional Way of the Cross procession slated Good Friday A traditional Way of the Cross procession will be held Good Friday beginning at San Francisco’s Coit Tower at 9:30 a.m. and arriving at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St., at about 11:30 a.m., according to organizers.

Sponsored by local members of the lay international movement Communion and Liberation, the procession will wind through North Beach to Washington Square en route to the shrine. Along the way participants will pause at four “designated Stations of the Cross” for prayer, readings and song, said a group spokesperson.

On March 24 before a crowd of more than 80,000 at St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI praised Communion and Liberation for seeking to pay witness to the beauty of being Christian in an age of skepticism.

He said the late Pope John Paul II commended the movement for presenting the Christian faith as a source of “new values” to guide a person’s life in a manner “captivating and in harmony with modern-day culture.”

The papal comments commemorated the 25th anniversary of pontifical recognition of the movement’s Fraternity of Communion and Liberation.

ST. EMYDIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH

ST. PHILIP THE APOSTLE PARISH

ST. ANNE OF THE SUNSET

at Diamond Street and Elizabeth Street, (415)282-0141

Cordially invites you to join us for . . .

286 Ashton Ave. / 415-587-7066

HOLY WEEK SERVICES 2007

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

Palm Sunday April 1: The Blessing of the palms (outside) 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.

THE TRIDUUM April 5 Holy Thursday Dinner in the Fr. O’Reilly Center

Holy Thursday April 5: Soup Supper 6:30 p.m. in the hall. Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 p.m., concludes with Eucharistic Procession and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m.

Good Friday

April 6: Good Friday service begins at Noon, which includes Good Friday Liturgical celebration of the Lord’s Passion. the blessing of the Easter fire and lighting of the Easter Candle. The Vigil Mass also includes the blessing of the Easter Water, the celebration of adult baptisms and the renewal of baptismal promises.

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

April 6 Good Friday Morning Prayer

6:30 a.m.

Masses

8:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

Happy

Easter

We gather to worship in the Easter Season:

April 8th, Sunday, 8:00, 9:30, 11:15am (No 5:30pm Mass)

8:00 p.m.

ST. BRENDAN THE NAVIGATOR H OLY W EEK S CHEDULE

Corner of Crystal Springs and Alameda de las Pulgas San Mateo, Ca. 94402 (650) 347-0701 www.barts.org

EASTER MORNING:

8:30 a.m.

Easter Vigil

ST. BARTHOLOMEW PARISH COMMUNITY

April 7th, Saturday, 8:00pm

1:00 p.m.

April 7 Holy Saturday Morning Prayer

Celebrate Easter with us at

EASTER VIGIL:

8:30 a.m.

Liturgical Service Preceded by quiet prayer

The Priests and Parish Community of Saint Philip the Apostle Parish Wish you a Happy and Blessed Easter!

April 3rd, Tuesday, 7:30pm

7:00 p.m. til midnight

April 8 Easter Sunday Salubong Mass

COME AND JOIN US FOR EASTER

RECONCILIATION SERVICE:

6:00 p.m.

Mass of the Lord’s Supper Adoration

Holy Saturday April 7: The Easter Vigil begins at 8:00 p.m. with

EASTER LITURGY

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RECONCILIATION (CONFESSIONS) Saturdays: Wednesdays:

4:00 PM 7:15 PM

– –

4:45 PM 7:45 PM

HOLY THURSDAY, APRIL 5 Mass of the Lord’s Supper:

7:00 PM

Live Church Broadcast: www.stcecilia.com

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, April 1st Saturday Vigil Mass - 5:00 p.m. (Solemn Procession) Sunday Masses - 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. ( Palms will be blessed at the beginning of every Mass.)

Holy Thursday, April 5th 7:30 p.m. - Mass of the Lord’s Supper with Mandatum and Eucharistic Exposition until 11:00 p.m.

Good Friday, April 6th 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. - Sacrament of Penance (Confession) 12:00 - 1:45 p.m. - “Witnesses to Christ” led by Fr. Joe Landi 1:45 – 3:00 p.m. - Solemn Liturgy - Msgr. Michael Harriman (The Passion will be chanted and acted out by Eighth graders, General Intercessions, Holy Communion and Veneration of the Cross)

Holy Saturday, April 7th 8:30 p.m. - Easter Vigil Mass - Msgr. Michael Harriman (with Choir and Orchestra)

Easter Sunday, April 8th 7:30 a.m. - Fr. William Nicholas 9:30 a.m. - Msgr. Michael Harriman (Family Mass) 11:30 a.m. - Fr. Joe Landi (with Choir & Orchestra)

Saint Agnes Parish Welcomes You! Wednesday, April 4, 9am - 7pm - All Day Reconciliation Various Confessors will be available throughout the day for those wishing to celebrate this Sacrament.

Holy Thursday, April 5 Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30pm with choir, strings & woodwinds Good Friday, April 6 Stations of the Cross: Noon - Outdoors along Haight Street and 2:00pm in the Church Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, 7:30pm with choir, woodwinds & timpani Saturday, April 7 Great Vigil of Easter, 8:00 pm (no 4pm Liturgy) with choir, brass & woodwinds Easter Sunday, April 8 Liturgies 8:30am & 10:30am (no 6pm Liturgy) with choir, brass & woodwinds

1025 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco (415) 487-8560 www.saintagnessf.com Parking is available in our lots on Oak Street between Ashbury & Masonic.

Inclusive + Diverse + Jesuit

GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 6 Stations of the Cross: Seven Last words: Liturgical Services:

11:15 AM 12:00 Noon 2:00 PM

HOLY SATURDAY, APRIL 7 Easter Vigil Mass:

8:00 PM

EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 8 Schedule of Masses:

7:00 8:00 9:30 11:30

AM AM AM AM

29 ROCKAWAY AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127 TEL. NO. (415) 681-4225

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“Journey of the Heart: the Life of Henri Nouwen” will air on KQED (Channel 9) Easter Sunday, April 8, at 1:30 p.m., station officials announced.

“This is a unique documentary on one of Christianity’s most significant spiritual thinkers,” said Sheeree Dela Pena, assistant to filmmaker Resa Pearson in a letter to Catholic media outlets. “Augmented by excerpts from interviews with family members, close friends and prominent colleagues, this one-hour documentary feaFather Henri Nouwen tures Father Nouwen’s own thoughts and spiritual insights generated from videotaped conversations shot just a year before his death in 1996.”

The film’s “uplifting message” is perfectly timed for audiences at Easter, she said. Academy Award-winner Susan Sarandon narrates the documentary.

Father Henri Nouwen was a Dutch Catholic priest and author of more than 40 books. He taught at schools including University of Notre Dame, Harvard University and Yale University. At the time of his death he was serving as pastor to a community in Canada called Daybreak which was part of the L’Arche movement where people with developmental disabilities live and share life with those who care for them.

Father Nouwen’s books have remained top-sellers in the decade following his death. In January of 2005 three of his books and one about him were listed in the top 10 best-selling Catholic paperbacks in the United States — “Life of the Beloved,” “In the Name of Jesus,” “Advent and Christmas Wisdom from Henri J.M. Nouwen,” and “Return of the Prodigal Son.” Inn 2004 The Henri Nouwen Society launched a Web site at ww.henrinouwen.org that offers daily meditations, weekly reflections and discussion guides based on the writings of the priest-author.

EASTER LITURGY ST. FRANCIS

OF

ASSISI CHURCH

1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: (650) 322-2152; FAX (650) 322-7319 Email: sfofassisi@sbcglobal.net

HOLY THURSDAY, APRIL 5 Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 PM Bi-Lingual Adoration until 12:00 Midnight

GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 6 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 7 8:00 PM Easter Vigil – Spanish 10:00 PM 1st Mass of Easter – English

EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 8 7:30 AM – English 9:30 AM – Spanish 12:30 PM – Bi-lingual

HOLY WEEK 2007 GOSPEL MASS SCHEDULE ST. PAUL OF THE SHIPWRECK CATHOLIC CHURCH 1122 Jamestown Avenue, San Francisco (415) 469-3434 Palm Sunday - April 1, 10:30 am Christ’s Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem Holy Thursday - April 5, 7:30 pm Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper; washing of feet Good Friday - April 6, 12 – 3 pm The Lord’s Passion and Death; Holy Communion Easter Vigil - Saturday, April 7, 8:00 pm Christ our Light!

Benedict XVI offering Holy Week and Easter Masses, leading The Way of the Cross on Good Friday, and delivering his Easter message and blessing will be among “special programming from Rome” next week, according to a spokesperson for the Eternal Word Television Network.

Airings (Pacific Time) will include Palm Sunday Mass, April 1 at 12:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.; the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, April 5 at 8:30 a.m. and 9 p.m.; the commemoration of the Lord’s Passion, April 6 at 8 Pope Benedict XVI delivers his “urbi et orbi” blessing from the a.m. and 9 p.m.; and main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican last Easter.

The Way of the Cross at the Roman Coliseum, April 6 at 5 p.m.

Additional telecasts will feature the pope offering and the Mass of the Lord’s Supper will be aired April the Easter Vigil Mass, April 7 at 1 p.m. and 9 p.m.; 5 at 2:30 p.m., and the Easter Vigil Mass, April 7 at presiding at the Easter Sunday Mass of the 5 p.m.

EWTN is carried 24-hours a day on Comcast Resurrection, April 8 at 1:30 a.m. and 9 a.m.; and delivering his “Urbi et Orbi” (“to the city – Rome – Digital Channel 229; RCN Channel 80; DISH and the world”) Easter Message and blessing to the Satellite Channel 261; and Direct TV Channel 422.

Comcast airs EWTN on Channel 70 in Half Moon world, April 8 at 3 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

EWTN also will provide live telecasts from the Bay and on Channel 74 in southern San Mateo Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate County. Visit Web site www.ewtn.com for more proConception in Washington, D.C. Choral meditations gramming notes.

Mater Dolorosa Church 307 Willow Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080 EASTER SCHEDULE MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK:

“Worship in Westlake”

Our Lady of Mercy Parish 5 Elmwood Drive, Daly City Between Southgate & South Mayfair Avenues ~ with plenty of free parking ~

Mass at 8:30 a.m.

Paschal Triduum Schedule: ❖ Holy Thursday

HOLY THURSDAY, APRIL 5TH:

9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer 7:30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Pot Luck Dinner in the Hall – 6:00 p.m.

Mass of the Lord’s Supper – 7:30 p.m.

Visit the Blessed Sacrament in the Convent Chapel until 10:00 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 6TH: Stations of the Cross at 1:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

Liturgical Service at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 8TH: Vigil Mass – Saturday, April 7th at 8:00 p.m.

Sunday Masses: 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and 12:00 Noon (No Evening Mass)

ST. DUNSTAN CHURCH

1133 BROADWAY, MILLBRAE HOLY WEEK 2007 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 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.

GOOD FRIDAY 8:00 a.m.

12:30 p.m.

1:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.

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

4:00-5:00 p.m.Confessions CONCLUSION OF ALL COMMUNAL LITURGIES HOLY SATURDAY 8:00 a.m.

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

Easter Sunday - April 8, 10:30 am The Lord has indeed Risen!

EASTER VIGIL 8:00 p.m.

All are welcome at Shipwreck; our doors are always open!

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

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Life of Father Nouwen Holy Week telecasts from Rome scheduled to be aired Easter day Telecasts of Pope

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HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE HOLY THURSDAY - APRIL 5 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 P.M.)

GOOD FRIDAY - APRIL 6 NOON - 12:45 PM Stations of the Cross (Presented by St. Gabriel School Students) 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM - Reflections on the Last Words of Christ 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 7 3:30 PM - SACRAMENT OF PENANCE 8:00 PM - CELEBRATON OF THE EASTER VIGIL EASTER SUNDAY - APRIL 8 EASTER SUNDAY MASSES 7:00 AM, 8:30 AM, 10:00 AM, 10:05 AM (BEDFORD HALL), 11:30 AM & 5:30 PM THERE WILL BE A 5:30 PM MASS ON EASTER SUNDAY

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(PHOTO BY STEVE GRIFFIN/SALT LAKE CITY TRIBUNE)

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(PHOTO BY BARBARA STINSON LEE/INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC)

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(PHOTO BY STEVE GRIFFIN/SALT LAKE CITY TRIBUNE)

Bishop John C. Wester installed as Salt Lake bishop Counter clockwise, from top left: ● In a long-standing custom, Bishop John C. Wester knocks on the door of Salt Lake’s Cathedral of the Madeleine at opening rites of his installation as ninth bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City March 14. ● “Do this in memory of me,” Bishop Wester shows the chalice of the Precious Blood to the faithful.

See story on Page 9. ● San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang, second from left, and to his left, Sacramento Bishop William Weigand, a former bishop of Salt Lake City, were among more than 50 bishops to join Bishop Wester for the installation Mass. ● Bishop Wester and concelebrants pray over gifts of bread and wine. ● Concluding the Eucharistic Prayer, Bishop Wester and concelebrants pray, “Through him, with him, in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours, almighty Father, forever and ever.”

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Peace and justice in the Holy Land As the world enters Holy Week 2007, thoughts of the Holy Land – the scene of the Passion of Christ – readily come to mind. Today in the Old City of Jerusalem, pilgrims can visit the Upper Room, traditionally viewed as the site of the Last Supper; walk to the Mount of Olives and Garden of Gethsemane; and then follow the Via Dolorosa through narrow passageways to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site of the crucifixion and death of Jesus.

In addition to having a profound religious experience, Catholics visiting the Holy Land today also are witnesses to a conflict that has embroiled the Middle East for decades. If they travel to the autonomous Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Gaza, pilgrims quickly become aware of a great injustice. Archbishop Fouad Twal, coadjutor to the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, told Catholic San Francisco earlier this month, “Palestinians are living, often in desperate circumstances, under an Israeli occupation.”

Perhaps no other symbol captures this description of life for the Palestinians better than the “security wall” constructed by the Israeli government in the past several years. The wall restricts access to Palestinian territories, placing burdens on — or eliminating entirely — the ability of Palestinians to go to work, visit families, attend school, and obtain medical care. The wall is a scar upon the land, but even more, it is an open wound upon the Palestinian people. It has taken even more land from the Palestinians – often arable farmland – and incorporated into the State of Israel many Jewish settlements that have been built on Palestinian land.

Two months ago, a contingent of U.S bishops visited the Holy Land and called for an end to restrictions on family reunifications and an end to humiliating treatment at security checkpoints In a statement, the bishops said “bold gestures” are needed to break the cycle of “fear and anger” engulfing the Holy Land.

They acknowledged the “profound suffering” of both sides of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. “Clearly something new is needed to achieve justice and peace so that Israelis can move beyond fear, which drives counterproductive security policies that oppress the Palestinian people, and so that Palestinians can move beyond anger and despair, which drive violence that terrifies the Israeli people,” the bishops said. They called for the establishment of a “viable Palestinian state.”

The Palestinian state and the end of the Israeli occupation, the U.S. bishops said, requires contiguous lands and calls into question the route of the Israeli security barrier and the expansion and establishment of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. In the meantime, they said, Palestinians need freedom of movement. They called for an end to restrictions on family reunifications and an end to humiliating treatment at checkpoints.

These sentiments were echoed last week at an international conference in Rome sponsored by the U.N. Committee for the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The Vatican undersecretary for relations with states, Msgr. Piero Parolin, said the Vatican recognizes the right of the Palestinians to set up a “free, independent and sovereign state” of their own.

Quoting from Pope Benedict XVI’s Christmas 2006 letter to Christians in the Holy Land, the Vatican official highlighted religious attitudes that could make a “constructive contribution” to bringing peace to the region.

He said religious leaders must help their members give up thoughts of revenge and avoid the temptation of cataloguing past wrongs to see who has suffered most. Instead they must see that all are suffering the effects of violence and insecurity, listen to one another and promote patient dialogue.

In difficult circumstances, that is the task of the Latin Patriarchy.

Recognizing both the pastoral and political aspects of his responsibility, Archbishop Twal views himself as a bishop of all the people – both Christian and non-Christian. His focus is on the wellbeing of all the people of the region, regardless of religion, Arab or Jew. He says, “There cannot be peace and security for one people and not for the other.”

During the March 7 interview with Catholic San Francisco in Jerusalem, Archbishop Twal also expressed gratitude to the universal Church for support of the Christian presence in the Holy Land. He drew particular attention to the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher and the Knights of Columbus in the United States. Looking ahead to Holy Week and Easter, he urged Catholics to come to the Holy Land to see the holy sites and meet with the living Christian communities. He also urged prayer for peace in the region; support for projects that address the needs of the people; and continued pressure on governments to bring about the conditions for a just peace.

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Not so abstruse after all A thousand thanks for your support of our presentation of Dr. Alyssa Lyra Pitstick here on March 21 in her Lenten reflection on Christ’s descent into hell. We were pleased with the strong turnout – for such an abstruse subject – and attribute it in large part to your feature in Catholic San Francisco.

It was a very good talk, indeed. Our friend, parishioner and renowned historian Kevin Starr pronounced himself “thrilled” with the presentation. Many others were provoked into pondering a topic – and ancillary ones, such as “the limbo of the fathers” – that they had previously given little or no thought.

Still others were perhaps expecting a continuation of the Balthasar/First Things “imbroglio.” But all, I think, were engaged.

Again, many thanks.

Stedman F. Matthew Administrator St. Dominic Parish, San Francisco

Important distinctions Thank you very much for your handling of the March 23 story on the Vatican notification on the works of Father Jon Sobrino, SJ. Two things made a big impression on me. You gave the reader complete coverage to allow us to grapple with the issue and trusted us with that. Secondly, your coverage allowed us to see that the Vatican handled the notification with great grace, distinguishing between the man and his work. Even as they found areas for criticism in the work, they praised him for his integrity and effort. Indeed, they allowed the books to continue to be used in seminaries, with the reminder to be conscious of the points raised by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. That suggests trusting the seminarians to be responsible readers. Perhaps this is Cardinal Levada’s deft hand.

Whatever the reason, it is a welcome step forward.

John W. Weiser Kentfield

‘Aid in dying’ unmasked

L E T T E R S

When is a health maintenance organization not a health maintenance organization? When instead of working to maintain the health of its patients, it promotes causing their deaths through legalization of physician-assisted suicide. “This is one medical endorsement for assisted suicide that I welcome,” says Wesley Smith on his Web site, Secondhand Smoke, “because it reflects an important truth about the whole movement: It is about money and ‘treating’ the most expensive patients with a lethal overdose. Talk about cost containment!”

On March 22, managed care corporations represented by California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG), including Kaiser Permanente, Sutter and Sharp Medical Groups, announced their support for AB 374, a bill to legalize assisted suicide currently making its way through the

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California Assembly. CAPG also includes pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer and Amgen. Politics does make for strange bedfellows when left-leaning Assembly sponsors Patty Berg and Lloyd Levine team up with HMOs and pharmaceuticals in an attempt to force legislation on the state for the second time in two years.

The California Disability Alliance points out this is as a desperate attempt to pass assisted suicide in California after its recent crushing defeat in the progressive state of Vermont. By going public with its support of legislation that would bring assisted suicide to millions of uninsured and underinsured Californians, this HMO lobbying group is promoting a low-cost alternative to quality medical care for those with chronic or terminal disease or disability. Is this really what we want from our medical community?

Vicki Evans Respect Life Coordinator Office of Public Policy & Social Concerns Archdiocese of San Francisco

Abused Beatitude

I’m writing to suggest some answers to the questions posed by Richard Morasci’s March 23 letter (“False analogies”). First, he wondered when pacifism became a bad word among some Christians. A short answer: when pacifism began to mean never being willing to fight for a just cause. Pacifism in this extreme sense is immoral, because it allows innocent people to be victimized by stronger, evil people when something could be done to stop it.

Next, he asks why we are in Iraq. This one is a bit harder, but I would suggest that since we cannot change the past, the better question is whether more harm will result from the U.S. simply packing up and leaving?

Finally, he expresses confusion over how Catholics could criticize pacifists. He wonders whether he missed a Beatitude extolling warmongering. No, what he missed is the rest of the Bible and centuries of tradition.

He might start by studying “just war” doctrine, and the distinction between what we, as individuals, are commanded to do, and what legitimate governments can, and in some cases, must do. After all, governments bear the sword “to bring punishment on the wrongdoer”. (Romans 13) He might ponder what Christ was doing when he used force to cast out the money changers, or when he failed to condemn the Roman Centurion for being a soldier. He might spend time studying the many wars sanctioned by God in the Old Testament.

In short, though this may surprise some Christian “pacifists,” Christianity cannot be reduced to one line from the Sermon on the Mount. Whether the war in Iraq is a just war is a different question.

But if we are to engage in this debate in a meaningful way, using a Beatitude as a trump card to end discussion is not particularly useful.

Albert Serrato Millbrae

Mark teen auto deaths I am wondering if readers would help me in an effort to set aside June 6 in memory of teen-agers who have lost their lives in car accidents. Over the last few years, the state of California has lost many teen-age lives. I propose setting aside June 6 every year to remember these young people.

While it is true that speeding or alcohol play a role in these deaths, the day would not be judgmental. However, bringing the problems to our awareness may help save lives. I envision June 6 as a special day of prayer and reflection.

I suggest June 6 because that is the day Javier, a 15-year-old from Southern California, died in a horrendous car accident last year.

Tom Cook San Francisco

March 30, 2007

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Family Life

Lent and breaking, making habits What is the difference between a good habit and a bad habit? Generally speaking, if it’s hard to make it is a good one, and if it’s hard to break, well, that is a bad one.

There is no doubt that from youth to old age we humans are habitual. We easily fall into patterns from the time we wake up in the morning — and hit the snooze button the same number of times then stumble to the bathroom and take care of face, teeth and hair in the same sequence.

From there we move on from one routine to another through the day.

Of course, our habits are not limited to our activities.

They come into play with our thinking, too — how we deal with a cranky co-worker, how we parent; even how we think about ourselves.

More than 15 years ago Steven R. Covey penned “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” His research and advice hold strong. According to Covey, folks who are better at getting the job done: 1. Are pro-active.

2. Begin with the end in mind.

3. Put first things first.

4. Think win/win.

5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

6. Synergize (which has to do with cooperation).

7. Sharpen the saw (referring to self-renewal).

What does all this mean for us during Lent? Most likely a routine (face/teeth/hair) just happens and the order does not really matter much. But it takes some planning and some work to establish a good habit and even more planning and more work to have a good one replace one that is not so good.

Good intentions which began Ash Wednesday will not alone carry us through to Easter Sunday. Wishing will not change family behaviors or attitudes and it will not make much of a dent in personal attitudes either.

It helps to remember that no saint started out as a saint.

And even when one was well on his or her way, progress could have been slow and the setbacks could have been many. It was St. Paul who confessed: “What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate” (Rom 7:15).

The philosopher Aristotle on habits: “Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

St. Augustine on habits: “Habits of any kind are so

strong in their possession of the minds of men that, even in the case of those that are evil (and these usually come from the dominant passions), we can more quickly condemn and detest them than we can abanBill and Monica don or change them.”

Dodds Taking a cue from Elmo: Sesame Street offers parents “Healthy Habits for Life” to encourage youngsters to eat right (sorry, Cookie Monster), exercise and practice sound personal hygiene. To find out more go to: www.sesameworkshop.org.

Bill and Monica Dodds are the founders of the Friends of St. John the Caregiver and editors of My Daily Visitor magazine. Their Web site is www.FSJC.org. They can be contacted at MonicaDodds@YourAgingParent.com.

Spirituality for Life

On fame, contemplation and the timeless We are besotted by celebrity. For most of us, the rich and famous take on a god-like status and our own lives seem small, empty, and hardly worth living in comparison to what we imagine theirs to be.

Fame, we believe, gives someone a life bigger than our own. We live in just one place, anonymous, domestic, unknown, but someone who is famous, whose face is recognized everywhere and whose name is a household word, it would seem, is everywhere, omnipresent like God. No wonder we view them as gods and give them worship.

But there’s more: We also believe that fame gives immortality. Famous people may die, but they live on - Marilyn, Elvis, Diana, we don’t even need last names. Something about them stays, more than a gravestone. Fame leaves an indelible mark. Our fear is that our small lives won’t leave that.

But does fame really make one’s life larger? If someone’s face appears on billboards and magazine covers is he or she in some real way everywhere? Does a celebrity’s larger-than-life status indeed make their lives larger than ours? Does fame accord some kind of immortality?

At a superficial level, yes. To be a household name and to leave a legacy ingrained inside peoples’ consciousness does, in a manner of speaking, make one omnipresent and does give one a certain kind of immortality.

But, being larger-than-life and having immortality, are very ambiguous concepts. There’s something very vaporous and unreal in the kind of omnipresence and immortality fame brings. You can’t eat it and you aren’t present just because your name is. At the end of the day, fame doesn’t really enlarge you, nor give you the kind of immortality for which you really long. There’s enough loneliness, paranoia, fearfulness, breakdown, bitterness, drug abuse, and flat-out emptiness in the lives of celebrities to more than vouch for this. It’s no accident the three celebrities mentioned above - Marilyn, Elvis, and Diana - died as they did. Celebrity, of itself, doesn’t make one larger than life nor accord immortality.

What does enlarge our lives and give immortality?

Compassion and contemplation.

Compassion: All the great religious traditions, from Hinduism to Christianity, teach that what makes our lives small is not place, anonymity, and occupation, but selfishness, selfpreoccupation, ego and narcissism. My life is small and petty precisely when it’s centered upon myself. However, when I can, through empathy, break a little the casings of my own selfishness and connect myself to the feelings and thoughts of others, by that very connection, my life becomes larger.

I know a hermit who has lived by himself for more than 35 years. He lives alone and his existence is known to few people.

Yet, paradoxically, his life is really larger-than-life.

He’s the most connected man I know. When he prays at night, alone, by his own description, he “feels the very heartbeat of the planet, and feels the joys and sufferings of Father everyone.”

Ron Rolheiser That’s the very opposite of an experience we so commonly have when, inside the very buzz of social life, we feel nothing but our own obsessive restlessness and the smallness of our lives.

Contemplation works in the same paradoxical way: We connect ourselves most deeply to the world and we taste immortality when we are in solitude, in contemplation. What is that?

Contemplation is not a state of mind where we don’t think of anything, a blankness beyond distraction. Nor is it necessarily thinking lofty, sublime, or holy thoughts.

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The Catholic Difference In late December 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy was annoyed by a news report he was committed to running for president. Which, of course, he was – as everyone knew.

The point is Kennedy thought it bad form to announce so early. So his staff (as one headline writer put it) pulled back “a hat prematurely thrown into the ring.”

Those were the days.

The 2008 presidential campaign began, formally, in January 2007. Informally, it began before sundown last Nov. 7, the day of the mid-term congressional elections and a full two years before the 2008 presidential balloting. This is, frankly, ridiculous. But given the fund-raising imperatives of running for president these days, it’s also probably inevitable. So let’s try to make lemonade out of lemons and raise the level of the “discourse:” which, to date, has been rather down-market, if occasionally entertaining.

Herewith, questions to be put to any presidential candidate with whom you’re in contact: Iran: Iran is, at most, a few years away from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability. The Iranian government today is led by an apocalyptic who seems quite serious in his belief that incinerating the State of Israel – even if that would involve the retaliatory incineration of Iran – would be worthwhile, because it would hasten the coming of the messianic age. Iran with nuclear weapons would be an unprecedented danger: a nuclear power with a passion for martyrdom. What do you propose to do to forestall Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s doomsday scenario?

Iraq: Is the war in Iraq a singularity, or is it part of the

fabric of the global struggle against Islamic jihadism? If you believe it’s a singular situation, why do so many jihadists think otherwise? If Iraq is one front in a global contest, how do you imagine the U.S. end-game in Iraq shaping the rest of the struggle?

Defunding jihadism: One reason why Wahhabism and other jihadist ideologies have traction in the 21st century is that the West has transferred trillions of dollars to people who have exported radical Islamism around the globe. This is suicidal. What can be done about our dependency on Middle East oil – not in the next 20 or 30 years, but in the next 10?

Hearts and minds: Do you think it’s a good idea for U.S.funded Arab-language radio to broadcast Britney Spears, J. Lo., and Eminem throughout the Arab world? Is this the best story we can tell about our culture and its values?

The Life Issues: Are you aware that embryonic stemcell research has yet to produce a single clinical application, while dozens of cures have been effected with adult stem-cell therapies? Do you agree the oversell of embryonic stem-cell research is cruel? What should the U.S. government do to accelerate the development of therapies based on non-embryo-destructive stem cells?

Do you believe that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided?

Would you nominate Supreme Court justices who think that Roe v. Wade was rightly decided? Would you ask potential Supreme Court nominees whether they agreed with Justice Byron White (a Kennedy appointee) that Roe was an act of “raw judicial usurpation”?

Europe’s experience demonstrates that, where euthana-

sia is permitted, euthanasia will soon be required.

What will you do, in health care policy and federal judicial nominations, to prevent America from becoming inhospitable to the so-called George Weigel “burdensome” elderly?

Education: Why does the United States do such a poor job in its elementary and secondary schools, measured by the standards of other information-age societies? Are you “pro-choice” when it comes to parents being empowered to choose the best education for their children?

If so, do you support vouchers, tax credits, or some other form of financial aid that “follows the child,” irrespective of whether the school the child attends is religious? Is something awry when colleges and universities accumulate multi-billion-dollar tax-free endowments but charge their undergraduates $50,000 (at least) per year?

Partisanship: Do you agree there is “partisan division” in Washington because there are real disagreements about serious issues?

Roots: Is the presidency, for you, an ambition, a job, or a vocation?

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

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Some questions for our presidential aspirants

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PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION Luke 19:28-40; Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24; Philippians 2:6-11; Luke 22:14-23:56 or 23:1-49 (AT THE PROCESSION WITH PALMS) A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE LK 19:28-40 Jesus proceeded on his journey up to Jerusalem. As he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples.

He said, “Go into the village opposite you, and as you enter it you will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here. And if anyone should ask you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you will answer, ‘The Master has need of it.’”

So those who had been sent went off and found everything just as he had told them.

And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying this colt?”

They answered, “The Master has need of it.”

So they brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks over the colt, and helped Jesus to mount. As he rode along, the people were spreading their cloaks on the road; and now as he was approaching the slope of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of his disciples began to praise God aloud with joy for all the mighty deeds they had seen.

They proclaimed: “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest.”

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”

He said in reply, “I tell you, if they keep silent, the stones will cry out!”

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.

Scripture reflection FATHER PAUL GAWLOWSKI, OFM CONV.

Palm Sunday: an overture to the events of Holy Week

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 evil doers 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?

Just as an opera begins with an overture, so Palm Sunday is the overture of the saving work of Christ celebrated during Holy Week. The Palm Sunday liturgy includes all the major themes of the week to come: that divine providence is guiding the unfolding of God’s saving work in Christ; that Christ is the fulfillment of the Messianic prophecy; Christ is a suffering messiah/king not a worldly power; and that the new kingdom is a new temple, the recreation of humanity in the body of Christ, the Church.

The reading before the procession, Lk19:28-40, describes God’s plan unfolding as Jesus sends his two disciples into the village and predicts exactly the scene as it will happen. Then we hear that even if the people do not proclaim Christ as king and messiah, the very rocks would. The Christ event has commenced and no power on earth will prevent God’s will from unfolding.

That Jesus is the fulfillment of all the prophecies of old is the next unmistakable theme presented in the overture to Holy Week. The very act of Christ entering Jerusalem on a colt is the fulfillment of the prophecy of Zechariah (9:9-10). This fulfillment theme continues in the responsorial Psalm (Ps 22), a very description of the crucifixion, and in Is 50:4-7 describing the suffering servant whose identity Christ fulfills.

That this messiah however, is not a worldly king, but a suffering servant, is central to the Christ event, emphasized not only in the Isaiah passage, but also throughout the Gospels, and in the very event of the passion. Why must the Christ suffer? The Christ had to suffer because he opposed sin, yet he himself was sinless and innocent of any wrong doing (proclaimed by Pilot himself in today’s passion).

Christ came to save us from sin. In a sinful world, one who is good will encounter sin, and have a choice of how to respond.

One can respond to sin with sin, returning evil for evil, or one can respond to sin by refusing to sin in return. When sin encounters goodness, there is a conflict, and because of the very real consequences of evil, this will cause suffering. The one who chooses good over evil, will have to endure suffering and refuse to succumb to the temptation to sin amidst that suffering. Christ bears in himself this suffering as he sets himself against the evil of this world most present in his passion and crucifixion. He does not retaliate, but rather is faithful to God and forgives those who persecute him.

This is the only way Good can fight evil.

There is no other choice, because the ways of the world (represented by money and the sword in Lk 22:35-39) are not an option.

A READING FROM ST. PAUL’S LETTER TO THE PHILLIPIANS 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,

(AT THE MASS) A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH IS 50:4-7 The Lord God has given me a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back.

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

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

One must enter this “fight” only by the way of the cross as Jesus did. Having remained faithful, Christ was vindicated and raised up.

Good has overcome evil, and all evildoers are invited to turn to that Good.

The Passion read today ends with, “Then they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.” In Genesis, God created the world in one week, and rested on the Sabbath. In Holy Week, God recreated the world in Christ. The temple veil is torn in two (Lk 23:45), the first step of the destruction of the temple predicted by Jesus (Lk 23:29-31). The temple is no longer the dwelling of God on earth, Jesus was, and now it is those with whom the risen Jesus shares his Spirit (Jn 20:19-23, Acts 2:1-4).

Christ is the new Adam. We his disciples are recreated by becoming members of his body, the new temple, the Church.

Our life then is fundamentally a choice of good versus evil pictured in Luke’s scene of the crucifixion; Christ crucified in the center with the “good thief” and the “bad” on either side. We can choose the way of the world, or the way of the suffering Christ already victorious in his resurrection. Like Peter, having for part of our life failed to stand by Christ and share in his ministry, we can encounter the risen Christ, repent and become a disciple, a member of Christ’s body, by dying to self and rising with Christ in our baptism.

As members of his Body, we share in his ministry of opposing sin without sinning and accept the suffering this involves. Our sufferings then become a sharing in Christ’s sufferings and therefore salvific. They are our share in the work of transforming a sinful world according to the pattern of Christ, as we bear in our lives the pain of good overcoming evil. (Rom 8:22, Phil 1:29-30, Col 1:24). Hence our fallen world is not “evolving” but rather is being drawn by the Spirit, toward its completion, a new creation in the pattern of the Risen Christ. The Kingdom is present now, and will come in its fullness, when sin is no more, and we share in the heavenly Palm Sunday Liturgy described in Revelation (7:9-12). We could not make this choice for good without Christ’s incarnation, passion, death, victory over sin in the resurrection, and the sending of the Spirit. But thank God, Christ is Lord!

(Phil 2:11) This reality is present to us now, in Eucharist, instituted on Holy Thursday, making perpetually present Good Friday and Easter Sunday, our invitation to share in the Paschal Mystery of Christ.

Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski is pastor at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco. becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

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A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE LK 22:14-23:56 OR 23:1-49 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.

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 12 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.”

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■ Continued from page 20 en 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.”

Good Friday meditation The view from Golgotha: what did Christ see?

By Lisa Garono One of the eternal, enduring images of Christianity is Golgotha. We see the image of three crosses on a hill; or, if we zoom in, the crucifix with every nail and every thorn displayed in excruciating detail. Regardless, the view is always from the foot of the cross looking up. The same position we occupy today.

I have been wondering about the view from the cross? As Christ looked down from the cross, at the crowd, at us, I wonder what he saw and more importantly—for what (or whom) he was looking. We know from the Gospels that Christ often sought solitude, but not during his Passion. During his Passion we see him again and again seeking out his companions. At every turn Christ kept his companions close. Even in Gethsemane at that most private moment between Christ and the Father, he kept his companions near him. Their presence must have been important to him; and so I wonder if Christ was searching the crowd on Golgotha, looking for those companions. I suspect this was the moment for which he had requested their presence, the moment he would most need the comfort and support of resolute and loving friends.

But what companionship and comfort did he find?

Was Christ searching the faces in the crowd, looking for the ones he knew, the ones he loved? I wonder if he found them. What did he see? My guess is that crowds have not changed much in 2000 years. There were probably people using the event to further political agendas on both ends of the spectrum; people who were simply curious; “rubberneckers” who were horribly and entertainingly fascinated; tired Roman soldiers, far from home, trying to keep order among people they did not understand and did not much like; innocent bystanders, caught up in the crowd, who would rather have been anywhere else and who could only turn their faces away.

Angry faces, frightened faces, my guess is that Christ looked down and saw all of these; but he had seen them all before — the hopeless, the angry, the frightened, the disenfranchised. This day, I think he was looking first and foremost for the faces he knew, for the companions he had called to him. But did he find them? The Gospels do not give us much information.

Where were the Apostles? Were they there? Could they have abandoned Christ?

We know Peter followed Christ to the high priest’s house after his arrest. Did someone follow Christ to the meeting place of the Sanhedrin? To the Praetorium? Or after Peter’s identification in the courtyard of the high priest’s house, were the Eleven laying low, fearing their own arrest? Is it possible that none of them (or only one of them) were there for Christ?

But really, who can blame them if they were not there? They had given up homes, families, and jobs for a man and an idea. The man was now condemned and it was being borne in upon them that this was a dangerous idea. Exactly how dangerous, and the price that would ultimately be required of them, was being graphically demonstrated on Golgotha that morning. Who can blame them if they were elsewhere, unable to bear the spectacle of Christ’s death, trying to muffle the sounds of the mob?

I wonder if they were trying to talk themselves into braving the climb up Golgotha or trying to talk themselves out of it.

I hate to think Christ climbed the hill of Golgotha surrounded by a mob with no familiar face in the crowd. No one taking care to stay in Christ’s line of sight, and when the walk was over keeping his voice pitched for Christ’s ears, between the hammer thuds. Luke’s Gospel notes that at the end, Jesus’ acquaintances on Golgotha “stood at a distance.” How far is “a distance”? Were they close enough for Christ to see their faces? Hear their voices? If so, I hope he was not forced to hear them deny him. I hope he was not forced to bear the spectacle of his followers turning to hatred, muttering violence against the Roman occupation or against the Sanhedrin. Mostly, I hope he did not have to watch his mother age a lifetime in three hours.

I like to think that when Christ looked out across the crowd, at least one familiar pair of eyes could meet and hold his; that there was, at least, one face he knew; that there was someone who could see beyond the blood and the pain, the agony and the humiliation, and offer strength and hope. That, at least, one disciple could stand in the crowd, while the world fell apart and remind Christ that he was human, that he was loved, and that he was right. I like to think, at least, one witness was there to testify that Christ’s suffering and sacrifice were not in vain, that his ministry would continue and that his words would live on. I like to think that a silent covenant – a deathbed promise, as it were - was made on Golgotha between Christ and those who loved him and bore witness there; that a commitment was made to embrace Christ’s teachings — in full view of the terrible price that that commitment might exact and would exact. Finally, I like to think that the last human face Christ saw was one that loved him.

However, regardless of what covenants were made on that Friday, today it is our turn to stand on Golgotha, to testify and to bear witness. And if Christ seeks out our faces and asks the silent question of us, will we be able to hold his gaze and say: “Yes, I believe”; “Yes, I understand”; “Yes, I will ensure your words do not die”; and “Yes, I will offer the sum total of my life as a testament that your sacrifice was not in vain.” And today, if my face is the last face that Christ sees, will he be comforted knowing that he is loved?

It is a long walk up the hill, but if we persevere and shoulder this burden perhaps we, too, will be rewarded by an early morning meeting in the garden with a beloved stranger.

A graduate of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, and Ohio State University College of Law, Lisa Garono is a member of Nativity Parish in Menlo Park where she is co-chair of the lector and extraordinary minister program.

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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 shouting, “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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Nearly 700 persons attended the March 16 Hibernian-Newman Club’s 43rd Annual St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, a major event supporting archdiocesan campus ministry. Composed of persons of Irish descent, the organization presented the Archdiocese a gift of $10,000. From left: Archbishop George H. Niederauer was keynote speaker; San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White was honored as Hibernian of the Year; among dignitaries attending were San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris; Father Joseph Walsh, pastor of St. Stephen Parish, San Francisco; San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey; and San Francisco Chief of Police Heather Fong. Entertainment featured dancers from Whelan Academy of Irish Dance, including Claire Casey (right), a third grader at St. Stephen School, daughter of Dan and Mary Casey. To view the text of the Archbishop’s keynote, visit www.sfarchdiocese.org, click on "Archbishop," then "Index of writings."

Rolheiser . . . â– Continued from page 19 Contemplation is, as Thomas Merton so aptly defined it, a state within which we are present to what is actually going on in our lives, and to the timeless, eternal dimensions inside of that. We are in solitude and contemplation when we are really aware that we are drinking water when we are drinking water.

Here’s how he, Merton, describes a graced moment of contemplation: “[Today] it is enough to be, in an ordinary human mode, with one’s hunger and one’s sleep, one’s cold and warmth, rising and going to bed. Putting on blankets and taking them off, making coffee and then drinking it.

Defrosting the refrigerator, reading, meditating, working, praying. I live as my ancestors have lived on this earth, until eventually I die.

Amen. There is no need to make an assertion of my life, especially about it as mine, though doubtless it is not somebody else’s. I must learn to gradually forget program and artifice.�

We are so besotted by celebrities because we are always looking outside of ourselves to find what is timeless, what can enlarge us, and give us immortality.

But what we are looking for is already inside us, something we must awaken ourselves to, namely, our union through compassion with everything that is and our tasting of what’s immortal and eternal through being aware of the cold and the warmth inside our own lives.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and awardwinning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.. He can be contacted through his Web site: www.ronrolheiser.com.

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Burlingame address set by former Vatican Ambassador Former ambassador to the Vatican and three-time mayor of Boston, Raymond Flynn will be the keynote speaker at the sixth annual national conference of the Catholic Professional and Business Clubs (CPBC) scheduled April 20-21 in Burlingame.

Author of “John Paul II: A Personal Portrait of the Pope and the Man” based on his years in Rome (1993-97), Flynn will address “the challenge of living the Catholic faith in the public square,” event organizers said.

To be held at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt, the conference will draw participants from CPBC’s 2,300 members in 12 chapters nationwide. The event is also open to nonmembers, according to Bill Applegate, a member of San Francisco’s St. Stephen Parish and current national CPBC president.

The first Catholic Professional and Business Club was founded in 1990 in Santa Rosa. Bay Area chapters now include

the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and the Dioceses of San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento and Santa Rosa.. CPBC chapters are also in Indiana, Montana and Nevada.

Clubs host monthly breakfast and/or lunch meetings with a speaker who shares a message of faith values and ethics in the workplace.

With the theme “Leadership and Living the Faith,” based on Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical “Deus Caritas Est” (God Is Love), the conference will begin on April 20 at 5:30 p.m. with a welcome reception followed by dinner with San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer and keynote speaker Flynn.

April 21 will be a day-long conference “with accomplished professional and business leaders who will speak to the living of Christian faith values in their respective areas of work,” Applegate said. The presenters will include:

Religious life . . .

ing and orphanages to the poor. Today, the government offers similar services via Medicare, public schools and foster care.

“I’m not saying this is ideal, but just that a lot of the same needs are not there for religious communities anymore,” he observed.

Yet in developing areas of Asia and Africa, “there are needs crying out to be met,” he said, pointing out that religious communities are thriving on both continents, championing the dignity of women as well as providing education, job training and health care.

■ Continued from page 6 community as Companions of the Cross to support one another in various ministries, and to escape “the isolation which so many parish priests have to endure,” Father Morrisey said.

These are responses to new needs and situations, he said, something religious communities have always done. In 19th century America, they provided health care, school-

Greeted by the late Pope John Paul II, Raymond Flynn was the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican from 1993-97.

● Mark Brumley, president of Ignatius Press, the primary publisher in the United States of Pope Benedict XVI’s writings as well as other Catholic books; ● Noel Irwin Hentschel, a mother of seven, philanthropist and cofounder of the largest Visit USA travel organization, American Tours International; ● Pat Lencioni, president of the Table Group, a best-selling author and highly sought corporate team builder for Fortune 500 companies.

The conference will conclude Saturday with Mass and dinner. President of the California Catholic Conference of Bishops, Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton will preside. Bishop Blaire is the CPBC national chaplain.

For on-line registration, visit www.cpbclubs.org.

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Former Episcopalian to be Los Angeles’ first married priest LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The first married Roman Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles will be ordained May 6, the culmination of a pilgrimage of faith that — in the couple’s words — has been full of adventure and welcome surprises.

A special papal provision will enable Bill Lowe, a former Episcopal priest, to be ordained a Catholic priest.

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles will preside at the ordination in Camarillo at Blessed Junipero Serra Church, where Bill Lowe and his wife of 44 years, Linda, are members.

The couple joined the Catholic Church after Lowe retired from ministry in 2001. They have served and will continue to serve at their parish in a variety of ministries — not unlike their work in the Episcopal Church.

An Episcopal priest for 27 years at Parish of the Messiah in Newton, Mass., then-Rev. Lowe was known as the “burying parson” because of his special call to bereavement ministry.

The Lowes also raised a son and two daughters, and Linda Lowe worked for more than two decades as an administrator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

After retirement in 2001, the Lowes started doing something they never had had time to do — visiting the Catholic churches of friends and colleagues.

“We were amazed at the vigor and life in those parishes. We were surprised by the joy,” Bill Lowe, 68, told The Tidings, newspaper of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. The Catholic churches were full, he added, with as many men participating as women and scores of children.

The Lowes also were inspired by Catholic outreach to low-income communities, which had long been one of their priority concerns. “We always had a strong feeling that Catholicism was the church for the poor,” said Bill Lowe. “It was the Church that cared the most for the poor — Jesus’ people.”

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From left, Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Curry, Rev. Mr. Bill Lowe

and Linda Lowe following Bill Lowe’s ordination to the transitional diaconate at Blessed Juipero Serra Parish, Camarillo.

Church because we were angry or upset,” he said. “We were drawn to Catholicism for positive reasons. But we are deeply grateful for everything we had in the Episcopal Church.”

The two were received into the Church in Massachusetts. Then Bill Lowe discovered he missed being fully engaged in the work of ministry and pastoral counseling; he believed he could still be of service to his new Catholic Church.

He also knew a papal provision had allowed several dozen married and former Episcopal priests to become Catholic priests. He started talking with some of them and looking into the possibility.

Linda Lowe, 66, said she raised numerous concerns during her husband’s discernment process. But she told him, “If you really want to do this, I’m with you.”

Four years ago the Lowes, who are originally from Southern California, decided to move back. Once they settled into Camarillo, their parish welcomed

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them with open arms, said Bill Lowe, and the two became actively engaged in parish life.

Linda Lowe co-chairs the parish outreach commission, including its justice ministries and charitable activities. She and several others also have started the Ventura County Interfaith Community which has brought together Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Mormon, Muslim, Hindu and Bahai faithful to engage in dialogue about one another’s faith traditions.

Bill Lowe has continued in bereavement ministry and is being sought out for pastoral and marital counseling. He also enjoys working with parish youth.

“I did not like retirement,” he said.

“I’m very happy to be back at work. I come home whistling and singing.”

As they began to settle into their new neighborhood and parish ministry, Bill Lowe again looked into the process by which former Episcopal ministers can be ordained in the Catholic Church. After acceptance as a candidate, he began two years of guided theological, spiritual and pastoral preparation for ministry in the Catholic Church.

Throughout the long process, Bill Lowe counted on the five married deacons at his parish for support and stayed in contact with other married, former Episcopal and now Catholic priests, including Father Gregory Elder in the Diocese of San Bernardino.

Last October, Bill Lowe and four other men from the archdioceses of Denver and Newark, N.J., and the dioceses of Charleston, S.C., and Scranton, Pa., passed oral certification examinations at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Orange, N.J. The exam marked the final milestone preceding ordination as a transitional deacon, then as a priest.

“The whole news of his ordination to the diaconate and to the priesthood has created a sense of excitement here at the parish,” said Father Jarlath Dolan, pastor of Blessed Junipero Serra. “It’s a parish that’s open to new ideas.”

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Blood Drives April 12: University of San Francisco, sponsored

by Omicron Theta Chi, in donor bus at Harney Plaza on campus, 2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

April 16: Dominican University, 100 Magnolia Ave., San Rafael; Creakside Room in Caleruega Hall, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

April 22: Holy Angels Parish, 107 San Pedro Rd., Colma; from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in parish hall.

April 22: St. Patrick Parish, 114 King St., Larkspur; from 7:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. in parish hall.

April 29: All Souls Parish, 315 Walnut Ave., South San Francisco, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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Taize/Chanted Prayer 3rd Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.: Sisters of Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave, Belmont. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 277 or visit www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan.

Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

Father Raymund Reyes, administrator, St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, says thanks to altar servers who helped with St. Anne’s annual Crab Bash in January.

John Hirten within the context of a traditional Tenebrae service at 8 p.m.

Holy Thursday: Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7:30 p.m., with Archbishop Niederauer presiding.

Good Friday: Service of the Lord’s Passion at 1 p.m. Archbishop Niederauer presides.

April 7: Easter Vigil begins at 9 p.m. Archbishop Niederauer presides.

April 8: Easter Sunday. Archbishop Niederauer presides at 11 a.m. Mass.

Through April 22: The Cathedral hosts an exhibition, “Bringing Health and Hope to the World,” featuring photographs of Peter Lemieux.

The exhibit in the Event Center hallways documents efforts of the Daughters of Charity to serve the poor in Africa , Asia and Latin America.

Viewing hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sponsors are St. Vincent de Paul Society and Cathedral Pastoral Council.

April 19: Persons 55 and older are invited to a Cathedral Autumn Group International Luncheon, 1-3 p.m., co-sponsored by the senior health institute, OnLok. Reservations required.

Cost: $22, early registration. Call (415) 5672020, ext. 218.

Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco, with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113.

2nd Friday at 8 p.m.: Our Lady of the Pillar, 400 Church St., Half Moon Bay. Call Cheryl Fuller at (650) 726-2249.

Sundays: Gregorian Chant at the National Shrine of Saint Francis at 12:15 p.m. Mass. All are welcome to worship at this intimate historical treasure in the heart of San Francisco’s North Beach, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus Ave. Call (415) 983-0405.

St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 for more information.

April 1: Palm Sunday. Archbishop George H. Niederauer presides at the 11 a.m. Mass.

April 3: The annual Chrism Mass will be celebrated at 5:30p.m. Archbishop Niederauer presides with priests of the Archdiocese concelebrating.

April 4: Couperin’s “Trois Lecons de Tenebres,” performed by Britt La Gatta, Kaneez Munjee, and

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March 30: St Charles Parish, 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos, offers Lenten music and meditations at 7:30 p.m. For information, call (650) 591-7349, ext. 32.

March 30: Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, will offer the final Lenten Soup & Scripture Agape gathering – a meal of soup and bread begins at 6 p.m. in the school auditorium; includes readings from Scripture.

Stations of the Cross follow in the church at 7 p.m., concluding with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Free parking. Children are welcome.

Call (415) 751-0450.

March 31: Come to the Table, a healing retreat from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Mater Dolorosa Parish, 307 Willow Dr., South San Francisco. An opportunity to prepare for Easter and experience spiritual healing. Free admission and free lunch. Pre-registration required. Call (650) 583-4131 or e-mail lidwellf@mdssf.org.

April 2: Soup and Bread Dinner in parish auditorium of Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St., San Francisco. Presentation about Raphael House for at-risk children follows. Free will collection for Raphael House will be taken. Call (415) 288-3800.

April 1: The annual Mass in honor of Father Peter C. Yorke will be celebrated on Palm Sunday at 10:30 a.m. in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma. Father Gerard O’Rourke will be the celebrant. This Mass is sponsored by the United Irish Societies of San Francisco. The Pearse & Connelly Fife and Drum Corps will lead the procession from the chapel to Father Yorke’s sarcophagus.

April 6: San Francisco will confirm its Catholic roots with a Good Friday Way of the Cross procession in historic North Beach. Sponsored by Communion and Liberation, the procession begins at 9:30 a.m. at Coit Tower and ends at the National Shrine of St. Francis. Contact Martin Ford at (415) 333-5442 for further information or visit www.CLCalifornia.com.

April 7: “Hope for the Bereaved” — a time to pray, remember, reflect and find hope on the journey of grief. Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery invites the public to a prayer service on Holy Saturday at 11 a.m. in all Saints Mausoleum Chapel. Msgr.

Harry G. Schlitt will officiate. Mass will not be offered.

Wednesdays in Lent: Most Holy Redeemer, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco, is having a different speaker weekly for its 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Vespers. Call (415) 863-6259.

Thursdays: St. Stephen Church, San Francisco, is offering a Chinese Bible Study group to anyone interested in knowing more about Scripture. The group meets Thursdays, 7:30 – 8:45 p.m. at the O’Reilly Parish Center, 451 Eucalyptus Dr., San Francisco. Call Veronica Wong at (415) 681-2444, ext. 33 for details.

Sts. Peter and Paul parishioner Christine Leung donates one of a dozen units of blood collected March 11 during the San Francisco parish’s blood drive. Local blood bank officials including nurse Chuck Stephanski (left) say blood centers throughout the area are running low on stocks. For information on donor centers and hours, or setting up a blood drive, visit www.bloodcenters.org or call (888) 393-GIVE. Recent blood drives have also taken place at St. Rita Parish, Fairfax; Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco; and St. Augustine Parish, South San Francisco.

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April 1: Palm Sunday Brunch at St. Mary Church, Nicasio. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Tickets are $15 adults/$5 children 5-12. Raffle and silent auction, too. Proceeds benefit the church preservation fund. Call (415) 662-2077.

April 8: Star of the Sea’s Chinese American Association Easter Bake Sale, 4420 Geary Blvd. and 8th Ave. An assortment of cakes will be available, beautifully wrapped. Sale is in schoolyard from 8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Call (415) 751-0450 for information.

April 21: St. Matthias Pre-School celebrates its 30th anniversary with Spring is in the Air Faire from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. on the parish campus, Cordilleras Rd. at Canyon Rd., Redwood City. Enjoy arts and crafts vendors, bake booth, food, silent auction, children’s game area and more.

April 24: Hawaiian Highlights, Annual Luncheon and Games Day benefiting Rosalie House at Olympic Club Lakeside with cocktails at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at 12:30. Rosalie House is the St. Vincent De Paul Society’s shelter for victims of domestic violence. Tickets are $55. For reservations, call Trilla Jentzsch at (415) 333-5819.

May 5: St. Brendan School, 234 Ulloa St., San Francisco, will hold its annual dinner-dance auction, “Fiesta Elegante.” Evening begins at 6 p.m.with a silent auction, followed by dinner, live auction, dancing. Tickets are $85 per person. Proceeds benefit school programs. For information, call (415) 6814225 or visit www.stbrendansf.com.

May 5: Our Lady of Angels Dinner Dance and Auction at The Olympic Club, Lakeside. This years theme “Stairway to Heaven.....Prom 2007” leads to an enthusiastic, reminiscent evening filled with Dining, Dancing, Auctioning (both Live and Silent).

Proceeds benefit Our Lady of Angels Parish and School. For ticket information please contact Libby @ (650) 558-0805 or Moe Summa (650) 558-1522.

May 12: St. Sebastian Parish is taking reservations for its annual “Whale of a Sale” to be held May 12, from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Spaces are $35 early bird, $50 after April 15. Reserve early to guarantee space. Participants sell crafts or household items and keep all proceeds. Benefits the St. Vincent DePaul Conference. Take a space and raise money for your group or club. For information or reservations contact Kathie Meier, (415) 4614133 or e-mail whaleofasale@comcast.net or visit http://www.sswhaleofasale.com.

Reunions April 14: The San Francisco Chapter of Notre Dame Alumnae will hold its annual Mass and luncheon beginning at 10 a.m. at Mission Dolores Basilica, 3321 16th St., San Francisco, followed by lunch at the Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. at Sloat Blvd. Honorees will be the Golden Belles of 57, and 75, 70, 60, 40 and 30 year anniversary classes! Call Debbie Calgaro at (650) 583-1102 for information and reservations.

Young Adults Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry: Connecting late teens, 20s and 30s, single and married to the Catholic Church.

Contact Mary Jansen, (415) 614-5596, e-mail jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Web site lists events around the Bay Area and offers download of quarterly newsletter: www.sfyam.

April 17: Information meeting on World Youth Day to take place in July 2008 in New Zealand and Australia. Contact above numbers or Web site for more information.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of February HOLY CROSS COLMA Rustica I. Acevedo Pedro B. Aguilar Helene Altasserre Marie A. Alvarez Walter O. Alvizures Christino P. Andino Paulina A. Andres Ray M. Anunciacion Nick Deleon Aquino Frank R. Balestreri Irene Harrison Balibrera Monica A. Barsana Leo R. Beaudreau Telesforo G. Belza Lori Bertolini Irma K. Blackwell Julia L. Bongiovanni Emmanuel Borg Edward James Borsi Catherine W. Boyle Gary G. Branch Ronald Gene Brugioni Carolyn R. Brusco Frank X. Burri, Sr. Ruth Bustos Benjamin J. Calica, Sr. Rose Campana Ralph Casem Dorothy Marie Casper Robert E. Cass Tyeise Lavon Chelossi Ann Shuster Chittenden Sr. M. Norinne Clifford Josephine D. Coffey Antonio A. Corpuz Roman E. Crnich Louise M. Daly Camillo De Jesus Anacleto Del Rosario Marie R. Del Rosso

Albert Dell’ Amico Dorothy M. Dellepiane Barbara A. Doig Grace Louise Doyle Nick J. Favale Leon Llaguno Gaerlan Constancia R. Gamez Crisanta G. Garabilez Manuel Miguel (Mike) Garcia Phyllis H. Gasparre Charles F. Gerughty, Jr. Sr. Josephine Gilbert, PBVM Robert V. Giuliani Angel Gabriel Gomez Fausta C. Gregorio Albert J. Griffin, Jr. Nelson D. Gustin Josephine C. Heckert Leonard V. Heinz Wenceslao Huerta Veronica Hughes Janet C. Jordan Concha Kartohvel Joseph P. King Emma L. King Verne A. Knapp Robert E. Krause Vicente B. Lagapa Alma Delia Lara Virginia Lazzarini Inez Leon Anne M. Logan Mary L. Lonati John J. Lubey Antoinette Malerbi Mary Jeanne Mangan Frank Manzano Anthony D. Massimino Leo Tarcisius McCarthy Mary A. McGuire James M. McLennan

Frances M. McSweeney Dante Angelo Meneguzzi Raul O. Montalvo Joseph Moreno Flora Dolores Muhlebach Thomas J. Murray, Jr. Sr. M. Assumpta Murray, RSM John Nagy Albert A. Nathan Susie M. Natucci-Caturegli Roque P. Navarro Andrew D. O’Brien Elaine A. O’Connor James Alan O’Neil Thomas Richard Olszewski Mario G. Paolini, Sr. Rev. John P. Penebsky Carmen Perez Mary A. Pfeifer James F. Phillips Carmela E. Raffo Peter A. Ratto Michael Regan Jennie J. Register Andrea Joseph Rissotto Mary A. Rivas Rosalia B. Rivera Pete J. Rodondi Josephine Sacco Peter A. Santiago Mary E. Sartori Mary E. Sartori Emily G. Scasso Joseph L. Schweitzer Attilio C. Segali Patricia A. Segali Eugene T. Solano Josephine M. Solden Maria A. Solis Harry F. Stagnaro Catherine W. Sullivan Deogracias R. Tanyag

Ronald J. Tehaney Betty Boone Thomas Amelia De Peralta Tolentino Humberto A. Toruno Bernice M. Tricoli Nicholas Uchacz Robert James Vallo Reynaldo R. Vargas Frank W. Vercellino Oliva Viloria Eugene H. White Evelyn M. Zamlich Genevieve A. Zeising

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Jose Luis Figueroa Sabina Herrera Monia F. Sekona Florence “Flo” Tafoya

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Veronica (Vera) Brown Raymond L. Camgros Edward F. Charbonneau Stanley R. Frederick Katherine Leal Frank J. Silvestri James W. Stinchcomb, Jr. Mary P. Vessa Elizabeth Welsh

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA 82nd Annual Mass Honoring Father Peter Yorke (1864-1925) Palm Sunday, April 1, 2007 – 10:30 am. - Rev. P. Gerard O’Rourke, Celebrant All Saints Mausoleum Chapel

“Hope for the Bereaved” Easter Remembrance Prayer Service Saturday – April 7, 2007 – 11:00 a.m. – Msgr. Harry G. Schlitt, Officiate All Saints Mausoleum Chapel Mass will not be offered

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014 650-756-2060

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

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

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.