April 2, 2004

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between noon and three p.m.; and the Easter Vigil after The liturgical season of Lent, the 40 days preceding nightfall on Holy Saturday.

Easter, ends Thursday afternoon, April 8, when Roman Preparation for the Triduum is usually a parish-wide event Catholics begin the Triduum (trid-ooh-um), a three-day involving clergy, parish staff and the laity. In addition to the commemoration of Christ’s evolving church environment final time on earth. The peri- Members of the faithful are invited of the season, which expands od is marked by the Last from the more austere Lenten Supper, the Crucifixion, and to join with Archbishop Levada and accessories to the almost blindthe Son of God’s rising from ing light of the risen Christ, the priests of the Archdiocese at the liturgies of the three days are the dead. The rites are considered the central and preemiChrism Mass Tuesday, April 6 at beautiful and compelling. nent liturgies of the Church.

Holy Thursday rites often Spanning the 72 hours 5:30 p.m. in St. Mary’s Cathedral. include a reenactment of from the evening of Holy Christ’s washing his 12 disciples’ Thursday until the evening of feet. At many parishes, Good Easter Sunday, the Triduum relives specific moments in Friday services are enhanced by the portrayal of Christ’s walk to Christ’s life but is taught and considered as one continuing Calvary, often by a cast of youth from the local community. Holy act of worship.

Saturday is when new adult members of the Church are welThe principal events of the Triduum are the Mass of the comed through the sacrament of Baptism and sealed in the faith Lord’s Supper after sundown on Holy Thursday; the celebra- through the sacraments of Eucharist and Confirmation. tion of Christ’s Passion and Death on Good Friday, usually CENTRAL LITURGIES, page 22

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WASHINGTON — Passage of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act by the U.S. Senate drew praise from pro-life groups and criticism from advocates of keeping abortion legal.

“We applaud the Senate for voting for justice for women and their children,” said Cathy Cleaver Ruse, director of planning and information for the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities.

“No woman should ever be told she lost nothing when she loses her child to a brutal attacker,” Ruse added.

The Senate approved the bill by a vote of 61-38 March 25. It had passed in the House Feb. 26 by a vote of 254-163.

President Bush said he looked forward to signing it into law. “Pregnant women who have been harmed by violence, and their families, know that there are two vicAbove, a priest hears confession in the reconciliation room at Sacred Heart Oratory tims — the mother and the unborn child — and both victims should be protected by federal law,” he said. in Wilmington, Del. Pope John Paul II said the sacrament of penance deserves Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive rediscovery as a moment of purification and spiritual enlightenment. See Page 5.

Democratic candidate for president this fall, voted against the bill.

The Unborn Victims of Violence Act is also known as Archbishop Levada invites all of the faithful to join with him and priests of the Archdiocese at the Chrism Mass, Tuesday, April 6, at 5:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The Chrism Mass is a major litur- “Laci and Conner’s Law” after Laci Peterson and her gical event, which most priests will attend. The Archbishop especially invites those who are to be ini- unborn son, Conner, whose disappearance and death tiated into the Church and those who are to be confirmed. The Chrism Mass prepares the holy oils drew national attention. The California woman was that will be used in the sacraments of the Church. It usually is connected to the Mass of the Lord’s nearly eight months pregnant when she disappeared in UNBORN VICTIMS ACT, page 22 Supper on Holy Thursday, but is separated from that liturgy so more priests are able to attend.

Fragrant balsam is poured into a carafe of olive oil during Holy Week’s annual Chrism Mass.

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by Tom Burke Class of ’54 from St. Peter’s Academy is looking for classmates “from our freshman year through our senior year,” said reunion organizer, Diane Morger. The gathering will take place in May in downtown San Francisco. “We want to have as many of our classmates present as possible,” Diane said. Also helping out the soiree together are Joanne Milane and Marilyn Smith.

(See Datebook)…Also celebrating 50 years is Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Daly City. A bevy of activities begins May 16th with a Mass of Thanksgiving and Bishop John C. Wester, who grew up in the parish, presiding. At the helm of the various eating and ecclesial events are Margaret Connolly, John Torres, Roberto Marques, Kathy Perotti, Margie Villalobos, Angela Marques, Joy Junatado, Paz Dizon, Beaulah Connolly. Pastor is Father Bill Brown. (See Datebook)…Hats off to new scouting award recipients Charlotte Benz, Nora Beth Griffin, Lily Shouldice on earning Family of God medals, and Shane Holtzer, who earned a Light of Christ honor. Proud folks are Gerald and Janay Griffin; Miriam and Ronan Shouldice; Fred Benz and Nancy McAllister; Rick Holtzer and Jeanne Schlotz. Leading the cheer is Marge Patane, 3rd grade Religious Education teacher at St. Stephen Parish, where the scouts are her students. She calls her entire class “a very caring group of children.” Marge and her husband, Leo, have been married 22 years, and the proud parents of recently confirmed, Andrea, a student at A.P. Giannini Middle School…. The annual Hibernian Newman

Sue Thompson, recently honored as a distinguished graduate of St. Charles school, San Carlos, with her children, from left, Kaitlin, Jack, Laurel.

Having helped raise a serious sum for Catholic campus ministry, Hibernian Newman supporters gathered for “an after lunch pint.”

From left, Brendan Macaulay, St. Agnes Parish; Siobhan McDonagh, 2003 Rose of Tralee and a parishioner of St. Anne of the Sunset; Ciaran O’Sullivan of the Emerald Isle; Vonnie McGee, St. Dunstan Parish, Millbrae; Joan Finucane, Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame.

Luncheon benefiting college campus ministry at schools St. Finn Barr kindergarten teacher, Karen O’Reilly, took 3rd including San Francisco State drew 530 revelers March 17th. place with a tempered glass project. Other participants includ“The Hibernian Newman Club gave us a donation of $10,000,” ed Alex Esparza, Eric Rodriquez, Amy Koehler, Sarah said Dominican Sister Christine Wilcox, director of Young Dominguez, Luna Gomez, Jonathan Chung, Kirsten Avilla.

Adult Ministry for the Archdiocese. Hibernian Newman Thanks to Denise McEvoy for the good news….Looking at prez is Maureen McLaughlin. This was the 40th annual St. bugs all the way from the Land of Lincoln were 2nd graders Patrick’s Day celebration. The Hibernian Newman Club was from Noe Valley’s St. Paul Elementary School. “Bugscope” the idea of late and former San Francisco Archbishop Joseph T. came to the school courtesy of alum and now early grade sciMcGucken in 1964….Congrats to Sue Thompson, a ence teacher, Lorri Ferguson. The computer hook-up lets kids 2004 Distinguished Graduate look at creepy crawlies from of St. Charles Elementary under a microscope in Illinois.

School, San Carlos. The 1976 They even sent their own insects alum was recognized for her for viewing, including a moth “unflagging dedication” to her and butterfly. A big help were alma mater, as well as “her school moms, Janet Rivilla, efforts to promote Catholic eduFrances Orpozo, Ann Powell, cation” and membership on the Teresa Daly; and 8th graders, St. Charles school board, said Danny Curtine and Felicia Arlene Weidner, principal.

Turner. Lorri and her husband, “For me, growing up Catholic David Kinney, married 23 years served as the basis for a foundaago at St. Paul’s and are the partion I have called upon throughents of Brendan and Rory out my entire life,” Sue said.

Kinney, 5th and 6th graders at “Bugscoping” is Natalie Powell.

“It’s a deep sense of belonging St. Paul’s…. Remember, this is to a community, being an active participant, and being account- an empty space without ya’!!! Send items and a follow up able to others.” Sue and her husband, Dennis, have been mar- phone number to On the Street Where You Live, ried 16 years and are the parents of Kaitlin, Laurel and One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Fax (415) 614-5641; Jack…Showing their stuff in the Randall Museum Science e-mail tburke@catholic-sf.org. Do not send attachments Fair were junior high students from St. Finn Barr Elementary except photos and those in jpeg, please. You can reach School. Seventh grader Liam O’Reilly, son of Desmond, and Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634….

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By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service JERUSALEM — Palestinian parishioners of St. James Church in Jerusalem have learned to adapt to the unpredictability of Israeliimposed checkpoints.

But for several weeks in March, the seemingly random rules of the checkpoint in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina have affected some parishioners’ ability to return home after Mass.

The church, part of the Terra Sancta Center complex, is located on the northbound side of the Jerusalem-Ramallah road on which the Israeli checkpoint is set up. A median divides the northbound and southbound lanes. Until recently, Israeli border police allowed parishioners to make U-turns in front of the checkpoint in order to return to their homes in Jerusalem on the southbound lanes.

Recently, parishioners sometimes have been forced to drive through the checkpoint and take a 22-mile detour to return to Jerusalem, or to pass through the checkpoint, then turn around and return southbound through it, which often takes more than an hour, parishioners said.

“Last week it was very bad,” said Nina Bathish, 42.

Bathish told Catholic News Service that she had to follow the 22-mile detour in order to return home.

Despite the recent difficulties, she said, she attended Mass because “it is Sunday and we have to pray.”

Being allowed to make the U-turn “depends on the mood of the soldiers,” said Mubarak Bathish, 63, her husband.

Some drivers, he said, risk damaging their cars or drawing the ire of the police by driving over the median, but he said he cannot afford the risk.

Israeli police said recent suicide bombings

at various checkpoints caused the heightened security situation.

“There is no intention whatsoever on the part of the Israeli police to stop good people from going to church. But in the situation we are living in, sometimes there are states of high alert,” said Gil Kleiman, Israeli police spokesman.

Kleiman said he was not sure of specific days that parishioners were unable to make the U-turns but noted that over the past weeks there have been specific security warnings concerning suicide bombers attempting to cross into Jerusalem.

“Terrorists time and again have used innocent people as human shields,” he said.

Sohad Dahdal, 38, said that at the checkpoint “the rules change by the hour.”

Franciscan Father Feras Hejazin said parishioners are concerned about the change, but most still come to Mass.

He said many Christians from other denominations are among the 200 people who attend his Sunday Mass. About half of his parishioners live north of the checkpoint and often face long delays to get through, he said.

“Sometimes they call to say they were not able to come because of problems at the checkpoint, but most people go out of their way to come to Mass,” he said.

Janet Karborni, 62, waited an hour March 21 to cross the checkpoint on foot because she thought walking would be faster. It would have taken her five minutes to drive to the church without the disruptions, she said.

“It is very tiring, but I have to come to pray,” she said. “Sometimes it takes more time, sometimes it takes less time.”

Her children, who attend the Terra Sancta School, cross the checkpoint every day, she said.

Parish representatives tried to work out a solution with Israeli authorities,

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Parish life disrupted for Palestinians by Israeli-imposed checkpoints

An Israeli border guard monitors Palestinians as they enter Jerusalem through the Beit Hanina checkpoint March 20. Palestinian Christians who attend the nearby St. James Church say that rules arbitrarily applied by border guards hamper their crossings, adding more than an hour to a five-minute trip for Sunday Mass.

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But the soldiers continue to be very selective on who can make the U-turn and who cannot, he said.

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Supporters of traditional marriage hold rally at Minnesota Capitol

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WASHINGTON — A Massachusetts constitutional convention took a first step March 29 toward legalizing same-sex unions while declaring that “marriage” can apply only to heterosexual couples. The stage for the debate in Massachusetts was set last year by the Supreme Judicial Court when it ruled that the state constitution requires legalization of same-sex marriages. The state House and Senate convened jointly as a constitutional convention for the third time March 29 to draft a constitutional amendment that would address the issue. At their previous constitutional convention March 11, the legislators stopped just short of adopting a two-pronged constitutional amendment that would reaffirm the traditional definition of marriage but also grant equivalent legal status to same-sex unions.

In a swift 116-81 vote shortly after the March 29 session opened, the legislators approved a slightly revised version of the March 11 amendment. The current Legislature must approve it two more times to complete the first phase of adoption. The proposed language declares “the unique relationship of marriage” between a man and a woman but says that “two persons of the same sex shall have the right to form a civil union if they otherwise meet the requirements set forth by law for marriage.”

Three federal courts hear cases on partial-birth abortion ban WASHINGTON — Federal judges in New York, San Francisco and Lincoln, Neb., began hearing cases March 29 about whether the law banning partial-birth abortion is constitutional. The federal law signed by President Bush in November was being challenged for several reasons, including its lack of a clause providing an exception when a pregnant woman’s health would be endangered by using a different type of abortion.

Supporters of the ban say that a health provision would have rendered the legislation virtually meaningless because of the broad definition of maternal health given by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 in its decisions to legalize abortion. Ending partial-birth abortion has been a major priority for the U.S. bishops for almost a decade. In his opening statement in U.S. District Court in New York, A. Stephen Hut, attorney for the groups suing to block the law, said it should be overturned because it is vague and “unconstitutionally compromises a woman’s right to reproductive choice and it is designed to remove the abortion alternatives.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean H. Lane described the law as an attempt to end an “inhumane and gruesome pro-

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cedure that causes pain to the fetus.” He said evidence “will illuminate that partial-birth abortion is never medically necessary and is an inhumane procedure that should be banned.”

Bishop O’Brien sentenced PHOENIX — Retired Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. O’Brien was sentenced March 26 to four years of supervised probation and 1,000 hours of community service for fleeing the scene of a fatal accident last June. Bishop O’Brien, 68, was found guilty Feb. 17 of a felony for leaving the scene of the accident in which Jim Reed, 43, was killed June 14 after being struck by a car as he staggered while drunk across a dark street in mid-block. Two days after the accident Bishop O’Brien was arrested. His resignation as head of the Phoenix Diocese, a post he had held for more than 20 years, was accepted by the pope June 18. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Stephen A. Gerst specified that the bishop’s community service include hospital visits to severely injured and dying people, and required that the bishop provide a way for the public to request such visits. Bishop O’Brien’s driver’s license was suspended for five years.

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St. Paul, Minn. — A bishop told a St. Paul rally for traditional marriage that Catholics oppose any attempt by the courts or lawmakers on the state or federal level to grant same-sex unions the equivalent status and rights of marriage. Auxiliary Bishop Frederick F. Campbell of St. Paul-Minneapolis said the church’s position is that marriage is a sacred covenant between one man and one woman. “I’d like to reaffirm the profound importance of marriage and family life in our society, and I want to give you, as both a Catholic bishop and a citizen, an urgent call to defend the healing of an institution that is essential to the well-being of the human community,” he said. The March 22 rally drew 3,000 people to the front of the Minnesota Capitol to support an amendment to the state constitution that would ban same-sex marriage. On March 25 a crowd of about the same size gathered to oppose such an amendment. Minnesota already bans same-sex marriage, but supporters of the amendment say it is necessary because the state Supreme Court could overturn the existing ban.

Globalization erodes Catholic Culture, church official says WASHINGTON — Cultural and political globalization is eating into Latin America’s Catholic identity, said Father Sidney Fones Infante, associate secretary-general of the Latin American bishops’ council. “Issues like gay marriage in the United States influence our political elites,” he told Catholic News Service. In the process, many cultural and moral values — such as the concept of the family — are put into doubt, he said March 24 while in Washington for meetings with U.S. church officials. “At stake is the Catholic identity of Latin America,” said Father Fones, a Chilean. The Vatican and the bishops’ council, known by its Spanish acronym as CELAM, are organizing a 2006 meeting of about 300 Latin American bishops to deal with issues raised by globalization, he said. The meeting will unite bishops from the 22 national bishops’ conferences belonging to CELAM, a service organization for the Latin American bishops.

Survey shows more consultation with laity among bishops WASHINGTON — U.S. Catholic bishops are making greater use of consultative bodies that include laity and are more supportive of diocesan pastoral councils and parish councils than they were six years ago, according to a new survey of bishops. The bishops’ Committee on the Laity released its “Report on Diocesan and Parish Pastoral Councils” March 23 in Washington, based on a survey conducted in December among the 195 heads of U.S. dioceses or eparchies. The response rate was 57 percent, with 107 responses from Latin-rite dioceses and five from Eastern-rite eparchies. Results showed that 60 percent of dioceses or eparchies have a diocesan pastoral council, up from the 44 percent reported in a 1997 study conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate and co-sponsored by the laity committee and the bishops’ Committee on Pastoral Practices. Several other dioceses said they were “actively considering” setting up a diocesan council, according to an executive summary of the report. Other respondents “reported

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Christians in particular should respond with “courageous action” to help children in distress, especially during Lent, the pope said at his noon blessing March 28. The pope, who made children the focus of his Lenten message this year, said he was worried about the many young people who suffer from serious diseases like tuberculosis and AIDS, as well as hunger and lack of education.

“Undernourishment and malnutrition, aggravated by worrisome deficiencies in health care, continue to be the daily cause of death for a great number of these small ones, who are deprived even of the minimum necessary for survival,” he said. In some of the poorest countries, children and adolescents have been enrolled as soldiers in many of the world’s “forgotten wars,” the pope said. According to the Vatican’s missionary news agency, Fides, more than 300,000 child-soldiers ages 7-17 are fighting in 36 conflicts around the world; 12 of the conflicts are in Africa.

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Pope says path to holiness passes through confessional

The body of Khaled Walwil, 6, killed by gunfire, is carried by his relatives in Nablus, West Bank, March 27.

Israel and Palestine blame each other for the killing. His family claims the youth was shot by Israeli soldiers who opened fire on a nearby refugee camp. An Israeli commander, who said he witnessed the incident, claims the boy was killed by a Palestinian gunman firing wildly at a military vehicle.

that prior attempts at such bodies had proven ineffective, were difficult to conduct given large or rural geographic areas nonconducive to travel, or had temporarily lapsed because of a change in episcopal leadership,” the summary said.

Theologians, historian explore decline in confessions WASHINGTON — “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.

It’s been two weeks since my last confession. ...” With that ritual formula once familiar to all Catholics, Boston College historian James O’Toole opened a daylong symposium on how the sacrament of penance has changed and how its chief form, individual auricular confession, has almost disappeared from American Catholic consciousness in the last 40 years. The symposium was held March 19 at The Catholic University of America. Historian Leslie Tentler of the university’s Center for American Catholic Studies coordinated and moderated the event. O’Toole contrasted a New York City parish in 1896-97, where the seven priests on staff heard 78,000 confessions a year, with the typical parish today, where the bulletin may list a half-hour or 15-minute weekly time for confessions, or perhaps offer them “anytime by appointment.”

against church law were reserved to the pope if the accusations involved bishops, patriarchs or cardinals, said Msgr. Charles Scicluna, an official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. But Pope John Paul II is delegating the handling of those cases to the doctrinal congregation, Msgr. Scicluna told Catholic News Service March 29. The reason is that in 2001 the doctrinal congregation was given competency over sex abuse cases against clerics and has the organizational resources and experience to deal with similar cases involving bishops, he said. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the doctrinal congregation, informed other Vatican agencies of the change in a letter dated March 16.

VATICAN CITY — The path to holiness passes through the confessional, Pope John Paul II said. Addressing participants of a Vatican-sponsored study seminar March 27, the pope said the sacrament of penance deserves rediscovery as a moment of purification and spiritual enlightenment. It’s not something Catholics can do without, he said. “It would be an illusion to want to become holy, which is the vocation everyone receives from God, without approaching with frequency and fervor this sacrament of conversion and sanctification,” he said. The pope said going to confession by its very nature brings purification, as the penitent bares his conscience and feels the deep need for forgiveness and spiritual regeneration. “We will never be holy enough not to need this sacramental purification. A humble confession, carried out with love, induces an increasingly delicate purity in the service of God,” he said.

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St. Anthony’s farm brings forth good products and changed lives St. Anthony’s farm was begun by Franciscan Father Alfred Boeddeker in 1954 as a men’s shelter. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary year, St. Anthony Farm today provides a free residential drug and alcohol recovery program for 29 men and 14 women. The farm of 315 acres is located near Petaluma, where residents experience physical, emotional, and spiritual healing while working in

the organic dairy and garden. Through a program of work, recreation, education, solitude, and peer feedback, residents are challenged and helped to take personal responsibility for their lives. The goods produced at the farm are used in providing meals to guests at St. Anthony’s dining room in San Francisco. Both the farm and the dining room are part of St. Anthony Foundation.

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Pope to lead Holy Week, Easter celebrations Schedule of papal services: April 4, Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square; April 8, Holy Thursday: Chrism Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica; Mass of the Lord’s Supper; April 9, Good Friday liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in St. Peter’s Basilica and Stations of the Cross at Rome’s Colosseum; April 10: Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica; April 11: Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square followed by the papal blessing “urbi et orbi” (“to the city and to the world”).

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II is set to lead the full slate of Holy Week and Easter celebrations starting with Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square.

Despite the pontiff’s declining health, he will preside over a full schedule of Holy Week events, including two Masses on Holy Thursday, a prayer service and the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil followed by Mass on Easter, April 11.

Pope John Paul II celebrates Mass with three Rome parishes at the Vatican March 27.

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April 2, 2004

Vatican Library begins using computer chips to identify volumes

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Home to almost 2 million books and manuscripts, the Vatican Library has begun a different way of tracking and identifying its massive and precious collections.

Starting last year, the library began inserting so-called Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, computer chips in books available on its open shelves as a way to find misplaced tomes.

More than 120,000 volumes line the library’s public reading rooms, and “when one book gets put in the wrong place, it’s as if it’s gone for good,” said the library’s vice prefect, Ambrogio Piazzoni.

With this new technology, a library worker can pass a wand-like antenna over the shelves and “if a book is missing or in the wrong place, the antenna will sound an alarm to signal there’s a problem,” he said.

The library closes for a month every year just to go through inventory the old-fashioned way: visually corre-

sponding what is on the shelf with a list of the library’s collection.

When the project is complete, doing inventory with the RFID system “will take just half a day,” said Piazzoni. So far, 50,000 books have been tagged with the RFID chips.

The radio frequency tracking and identification technology first appeared in the 1980s as a substitute for the more well-known bar code label in tracking inventories. As opposed to the bar code, which requires manually scanning an item with a laser, RFID can identify many items at once, swiftly and up to 90 feet away. It is based on the same technology that allows cars to pay highway tolls without stopping.

A reading device sends out through its antenna a lowpower radio signal that the chip — in this case, inside a book — receives. The chip can briefly “talk” to the reading device and verify “I am here and this is what my name is,” said Piazzoni.

“We will also be able to tell how often a book gets taken off the shelf to be consulted. This way a book that rarely ever gets looked at can be put in the back rooms to free up

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space for a more requested item,” he told Catholic News Service.

According to the Public Libraries Association, RFID systems are relatively new in libraries. A Jan. 23 article on the association’s Web site said that as of the third quarter of 2001 fewer than 50 systems had been installed in U.S. public libraries, and most of those were branch libraries.

The article said the University of Connecticut Library and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Library are the only sites labeling more than 1 million items each.

Although some U.S. libraries see RFID technology as a way to make book checkout easier and faster, the application will take on a different dimension at the Vatican since no books can be removed from the Vatican Library — except by the pope.

“We’re the first to merge our extensive cataloging system with this technology,” Piazzoni said.

That means each book or document’s catalog data — such as its title, author, number of pages, date published — will be inserted into the book’s chip. This way even readers at the library can aim their handheld computer at a book and get its catalog information without having to reach up and take it down.

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Holy Week Services 2004 Palm Sunday April 4th: Blessing of the Palms in the Parish Hall 10:00 a.m. Mass.

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Holy Thursday April 8th: Pascal Supper at 6:00 p.m. Eucharistic

One Notre Dame Avenue San Mateo, California 94402-2398 (650) 344-7622

Liturgy at 7:30 p.m. with the Washing of the Feet Ceremony. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

HOLY THURSDAY - April 8 Masses: 12:05 p.m.

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

Good Friday

Holy Saturday April 10th: The Easter Vigil Service at 8:00 p.m. with the Blessing of the Fire and Lighting of the Pascal Candle, the Blessing of the Easter Water, the Celebration of Baptism, and the Renewal of Baptismal promises.

Eucharist Celebration follows.

The Sacrament of Reconciliation 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment.

GOOD FRIDAY - April 9 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. “Meditations on the Passion” Fr. Gerald Coleman, S.S., Rector, St. Patrick’s Seminary 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday Distribution of Holy Communion 6:00 p.m. Liturgia de la Pasión de Señor y Via Crucis (Spanish)

Easter Sunday April 11th: Masses are at 8:00 a.m.. 10:00 a.m.

HOLY SATURDAY - April 10 8:00 p.m. Vigil Service, (Spanish & English)

and 12:00 Noon. Spanish Mass in the Convent Chapel at 11:15 a.m. (No Evening Mass today).

EASTER SUNDAY - April 11 Masses: 6:30, 7:30, 9:00 (Spanish), 10:30 a.m., and 12:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, April 7, 9:00 am - 7:00 pm - All Day Reconciliation Various Jesuit Confessors will be available throughout the day for those wishing to celebrate this Sacrament.

HOLY THURSDAY “PABASA” (Passion) @ Piro Center (Parish Hall) Mass of the Lord’s Supper Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament GOOD FRIDAY Morning Prayers (Chapel) “PABASA” (Passion) @ Piro Center (Parish Hall) Station of the Cross (around the Neighborhood) Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, Liturgy of the Word, Veneration of the Cross and Communion 5:00 pm Stations of the Cross (Inside the Main Church) 6:00 pm Divine Mercy Novena (Chapel) 8:00 pm Evening Prayers/TAIZE (Chapel) April 10, Saturday HOLY SATURDAY 9:00 am Divine Mercy Novena (Chapel) 8:00 pm EASTER VIGIL MASS April 11, Sunday, 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 am & 12:30 pm EASTER SUNDAY 9:00 am Divine Mercy Novena (Chapel) After all Masses Easter Egg Hunt

1133 BROADWAY, MILLBRAE HOLY WEEK 2004 PALM SUNDAY Masses: Saturday 5:00 p.m. with Blessing of the Palms and Solemn Procession Sunday Masses: 7:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m.

11:30 a.m., 5:00 p.m. Dramatization of the Passion by our eighth grade students at the 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. masses.

HOLY THURSDAY 8:00 a.m.

Morning Prayer 7:30 p.m.

Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper with the Commissioning of All Parish Ministries.

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

GOOD FRIDAY 8:00 a.m.

1:00-2:00 p.m.

2:00-3:00 p.m.

4:00-5:00 p.m.

HOLY SATURDAY 8:00 a.m.

11:00-Noon 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Morning Prayer Seven Last Words Solemn Liturgy and Holy Communion (With dramatization of the Passion by our eighth grade students.)

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Holy Thursday, April 8 Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30 pm Good Friday, April 9 Stations of the Cross: Noon - Outdoors along Haight Street and 2:00pm in the Church Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, 7:30 pm Saturday, April 10 Great Vigil of Easter, 8:00 pm Easter Sunday, April 11 Liturgies 8:30 am & 10:30 am; no 6:00 pm Liturgy

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Holy Week Mass Schedule 2004 Saturday April 3:

5:00 pm Vigil 6:30 pm Passover Service & Seder Meal in the New Hall 7:00 pm Vigilia de Palmas

Palm Sunday April 4:

7:45 am, 9:00 am, 11:15 am 12:45 pm Misa de Palmas

Monday April 5:

7:30 pm Parish Reconciliation

Holy Thursday April 8:

7:30 pm Tri-lingual Mass, Washing of Feet, Adoration at the Altar of Repose until 10:00 pm

Good Friday April 9:

12:00 noon Stations of the Cross 3:00 pm Liturgy 7:00 pm Liturgia de Viernes Santo

Saturday April 10:

8:00 pm Vigil

Easter Sunday April 11:

7:45 am, 9:00 am, 11:15 am 12:45 pm Misa de Resurrecciûn

Morning Prayer Confessions Confessions

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April 9th: Scriptual Readings and The Stations of the Cross at 12:00 Noon; Good Friday Liturgy to follow. The Sacrament of Reconciliation will be available from 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

ST. ANTHONY’S, PESCADERO Saturday April 3: 5:00 pm Vigilia de Palmas Palm Sunday April 4: 9:00 am Holy Thursday April 8: 8:00 pm Bilingual Mass – Misa Bilingueüe Saturday April 10: 8:00 pm Vigilia Pascual Easter Sunday April 11: 9:00 am

OUR LADY OF REFUGE, LA HONDA Palm Sunday April 4: 10:45 am, 7:00 pm Pascal (Seder) Meal Holy Thursday April 8: 7:30 pm, Washing of Feet Good Friday April 9: 12:00 noon Stations of the Cross 7:30 pm Liturgy Saturday April 10: 8:00 pm Vigil Easter Sunday April 11: 10:45 am (Breakfast will follow)

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Big business, slow economy threaten convents’ bread-making livelihood

By Andrew Walther Catholic News Service BURBANK, Calif. — Bread has kept convents around the country financially solvent for nearly a century. But in the face of increasing competition some nuns are beginning to discover that they cannot survive on bread alone.

For decades convents have supplied U.S. parishes with the altar bread that in the consecration becomes the Eucharist. The nuns see the ministry as part of their contemplative mission.

However, with a slow economy and increased competition from more organized corporate bread manufacturers, some convents have seen their revenue decrease and their way of life threatened.

“People don’t think of the nuns. We rely on this one source of income, and it’s slipping away,” a Carmelite nun said in a telephone interview with the National Catholic Register.

The Carmelite nuns in Alhambra began making their own altar bread in 1913, but 20 or 30 years ago financial considerations forced them to switch to repackaging readymade altar bread for local distribution.

Now even that is a tenuous moneymaker. Competition from religious goods stores and direct marketing by larger,

secular groups has cut into what was once a market almost totally held by nuns, explained the Carmelite sister, who in the spirit of “monastic obscurity” asked that her name not be used.

And the nuns do not always know how to compete.

“Nuns live a very simple life and can’t be bothered about business,” she said.

But she said they also realize that if parishes have tight budgets, they will look at less expensive outlets where they can buy the bread they need.

The nun stressed that the women religious trust in God and don’t worry, but she also noted that a few years ago her convent only survived because it received a few grants.

The Alhambra Carmelites currently have about 150 parishes that use the bread they repackage, but they need to pick up another 75 parishes to be financially secure. If things worsen, the nuns might have to relocate their convent to a smaller area with fewer competitors.

Many of the convents that repackage altar breads get some or all of their hosts from the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in Clyde, Mo. There, Sister Rita Dohn, head of the altar-bread division, sees the current decline in requests for such bread as part of larger struggles in the Catholic Church. With increased competition,

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EASTER MASS Saturday 10:30 p.m. – English Sunday 7:30 a.m. – English 9:30 a.m. – Spanish; 12:00 p.m. – Bi-lingual

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Holy Thursday, April 8 Paschal Meal 5:30 PM Mass of the Last Supper 7:30 PM Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 PM in the Parish Hall

Good Friday Afternoon, April 9 12:00 Noon Quiet Prayer 12:15 Living Stations-St. Anthony Youth 1:00 Celebration the Lord’s Passion 7:30 PM Living Stations-St. Anthony Youth

Holy Saturday, April 10 8:00 PM Easter Vigil and Mass

Easter Sunday, April 11 7:00 AM, 9:00 AM & 11:00 AM

CONFESSIONS Two Parish Penance Services Tuesday, March 30, 10:30 AM & 7:30 PM At Our Lady of Loretto Church Sat April 3 4:00 to 4:45PM Fri April 9 2:00 to 3:00 PM Sat April 10 11:00 AM to Noon 3:00 to 4:00 PM

fewer priests and parish consolidations, she said, it is little wonder that orders for altar bread aren’t as abundant as they could be.

She said she wishes that their ministry as contemplatives had more support from the church at large. “We don’t ask for charity. We ask for the support of our ministry,” she said.

Msgr. Francis Weber, who runs the historic San Fernando Mission in Mission Hills, just outside of Los Angeles, has heeded the call to support the contemplative nuns by buying his altar bread from the Alhambra Carmelites.

“I think I should support their ministry,” he said. “You can imagine how difficult things would be for the church without their prayers.”

At the Dominican Convent in Menlo Park, near San Francisco, the situation is better, explained Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart. The nuns there repackage and sell bread to local parishes. They recently stopped baking it themselves because of the heavy lifting involved in the process.

“Some of the larger parishes have gone to church goods stores, but many find they can get exactly what they need from us. They can pick it up or have overnight delivery,” she said.

Unlike the convent in Alhambra, her convent has had few parishes cancel their orders and it has recently added some new orders, she said.

All of the nuns agreed that contemplative life is important to the church and that the sale of altar bread is one of the few moneymakers that coincides well with their lifestyle.

“It is very important to us to have an income-producing work that allows us to stay in the monastery,” said Sister Rita. “It is the balance of our life: work and prayer.”

Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart agreed: “It is a beautiful contemplative work in the spirit of silence and prayer,” she said. “You can pray for all of those who will use it, the people, the priests who will consecrate it: Your prayers go out to them with the hosts.”

The Carmelite sister who asked not to be identified also agreed: “Our charism and contribution to the church is prayer, and there is a true connection with this work because of our prayer life.”

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2004 Holy Week Schedule Reconciliation Service (Confession) March 29 - 7:30 pm Holy Thursday Mass of the Last Supper Good Friday 12 noon Holy Saturday Vigil of Easter Easter Sunday

April 8 7:30 pm April 9 3:00 pm April 10 8:00 pm April 11

Masses 8:00 and 10:00 am

Vigil Mass – Saturday, April 3 – 5:30 pm Sunday, April 4 – 7:30 am, 9:00 am 11:00 am Archbishop William Levada, Principal Celebrant 1:00 pm en Español.

Chrism Mass, April 6 5:30 pm (Annual Archdiocesan Celebration of Renewal of Priestly Ministry by the Clergy, Blessing of Oils of Catechumens, Sick and Sacred Chrism by the Archbishop) Lent ends at Sundown on Holy Thursday and begins the Celebration of the Easter Triduum

Holy Thursday, April 8 7:30 pm Archbishop William Levada, Principal Celebrant Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Washing of the feet followed by Vigiling and Adoration of the Blesssed Sacrament in St. Francis Hall (Lower Level) until 11:45 pm 11:45 pm - Night Prayer in St. Francis Hall

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Good Friday, April 9

HOLY WEEK SERVICES 2004

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LENTEN PENANCE SERVICE Saturday, April 3, 12:00 Noon (Daylight Saving Time begins) 2004 Holy Week Services Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 6:25, 7:30 & 9:00 A.M. Masses Holy Thursday, April 8 7:30 P.M. - Mass of the Lord’s Supper Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Until 11:00 P.M. in the Flanagan Center Good Friday, April 9 No morning service 12:00 to 1:30 P.M. Mediation on the Suffering and Death of Jesus 1:30 to 2:15 P.M. Stations of the Cross performed by the 8th Graders of Holy Name School 2:15 P.M. Solemn Liturgical Service includes Veneration of the Cross and Communion Good Friday Service in Vietnamese 4:30 - 7:00 P.M. Holy Saturday, April 10 No morning service – No 5:00 P.M. Mass 3:00 - 5:00 P.M. - Confessions 8:00 P.M. Solemn Easter Vigil Mass Rites of Christian Initiation of Adults Parish Choir & Instrumental Accompaniment Easter Sunday, April 11 7:30 A.M. – Cantor & Organ Accompaniment 9:30 A.M. – Family Mass with Children’s Choir 11:30 A.M. – Solemn Mass with Parish Choir & Instrumental Accompaniment

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

Holy Saturday, April 10 Our Paschal Vigil continues throughout the day and night Reconciliation (Confession) – 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm The Easter Vigil – 9:00 pm Archbishop William Levada, Principal Celebrant Blessing of the New fire and Paschal Candle, Liturgy of the Word, The Celebration of the Baptism, Confirmation, Reception into Full Communion with the Catholic Church of our Elect and Candidates and Their First Communion

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

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April 2, 2004

Vatican official says religions can help fight racism by example

By Catholic News Service GENEVA (CNS) — The Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations in Geneva said religions help combat discrimination and promote tolerance through teaching by example.

Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said eliminating racism and discrimination starts “from an attitude of acceptance of the ‘other’ and of a genuine appreciation of the multiplicity of gifts that human groups and cultures contribute to the whole human family.”

His remarks came during a debate March 22 on racism and discrimination as part of the 60th session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission under way until April 23 in Geneva.

An important way to foster this attitude of acceptance and mutual respect is through education, he said. But human

rights education “must go beyond the external expressions of a culture and reach out to the value system and the spiritual belief that sustain the identity of a people,” he said.

Just as dialogue helps in the battle against prejudice, “all major religions strive to inculcate this inner rooting of tolerant behavior, and at the same time they provide encouragement to teach by example first of all,” the archbishop said.

The fight against racism and intolerance “stands a chance of success when human dignity and equality are recognized as the true foundation of social relations,” he said.

People who are denied “the full participation in society” because of race, color, creed, gender or origin often suffer “the additional burden of poverty,” said Archbishop Tomasi.

The world community must implement the many inter-

ST. EMYDIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH

EWTN television coverage of Holy Week and Easter liturgies

286 Ashton Ave.

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

April 4: April 8:

Palm Sunday Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Basilica at 5:00 p.m. (taped); Holy Thursday Mass from the national Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D. C. at 3:00 p.m. (Rebroadcast April 9 at 9:00 a.m.); April 9: The Way of the Cross with the Holy Father from Rome on Good Friday 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

April 10: Easter Vigil Mass from the National Shrine 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. (taped); April 11: Rebroadcast of Easter Sunday Mass from St. Peter’s Square at 4:00 p.m. and the Holy Father’ “Urbi et Orbi’ Easter message and blessing at 5:30 p.m.

EWTN is available via Comcast Digital Channel 229; RCN Channel 80; DISH Satellite Channel 261; and DirecTV Channel 422.

EASTER SERVICES ST. GABRIEL 2559 40th Ave. SF, CA 415-731-6161

HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE 3:30 P.M.. Saturday, April 3 HOLY THURSDAY, APRIL 8 6:30 P.M. Parish Soup Supper – Bedford Hall 8:00 P.M. Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the School Library until 10:00 P.M.)

GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 9 Noon – 12:45 P.M. Quiet Reflection 12:45 – 1:15 P.M. Stations of the Cross (Presented

by St. Gabriel School Students) 1:30 – 3:00 P.M. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 7:30 – 8:45 P.M. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion HOLY SATURDAY, APRIL 10 8:00 P.M. Celebration of the Easter Vigil

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

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

Holy Week Schedule 2004 HOLY THURSDAY There is no morning Mass.

7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper Veneration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY

12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m. Good Friday Devotions 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 7:30 p.m. Prayer Around the Cross

EASTER SUNDAY

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

THE TRIDUUM (APRIL 8 – APRIL 11) April 8 Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper Fr. O’Reilly Center Dinner 6:00 p.m.

Mass and Procession to Church 7:00 p.m.

For Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament till 12 midnight April 9 Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion Morning Prayer 8:30 a.m.

Liturgical Service 1:00 p.m.

Time for Silent Prayer will precede the Service April 10 Holy Saturday Morning Prayer 8:30 a.m.

Easter Vigil 8:00 p.m. where our elect will be initiated into our Church as we renew our own commitment.

April 11 Easter Sunday Salubong Mass 6:30 a.m.

Easter Masses 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Evening Prayer and Benediction 4:00 p.m.

St. Thomas More Church

St. Dominic’s

1300 Junipero Serra Blvd.

Catholic Church

at Brotherhood & Thomas More Ways

staffed by the Dominican Friars

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

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

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

GOOD FRIDAY – 7:30 a.m. – Tenebrae 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. – Stations of the Cross 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. – Preaching of Jesus’ Seven Last Words 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. – Confessions 7:30 p.m. – Celebration of the Lord’s Passion and Death HOLY SATURDAY – 8:00 a.m. – Tenebrae 4:00 - 5:00 – Confessions

8:30 P.M. EASTER VIGIL MASS EASTER SUNDAY – Masses: 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., 1:30 (en Español) and 5:30 p.m. – No 9:00 p.m. Mass

PENITENTIAL SERVICE 7:00 p.m., April 7, Wednesday of Holy Week

PASCHAL TRIDUUM Holy Thursday 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Good Friday 9:30 a.m. Morning Prayer led by Newman Club 12:00 p.m. Way of the Cross 1:30 p.m. Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in English 9:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in Arabic

Holy Saturday 9:30 a.m. Morning Prayer led by Newman Club 7:30 p.m. Easter Vigil in English 10:00 p.m. Easter Vigil in Arabic

no confessions on Easter Sunday

EASTER SUNDAY

2390 BUSH STREET (at Steiner) San Francisco 415.567.7824 www.stdominics.org parking available

10:00 a.m. Mass for people, followed by children’s Easter egg hunt at Bufano, Peace Statue on Brotherhood Way. Parents must accompany their children.

ST. ANNE OF THE SUNSET CATHOLIC CHURCH

ST.MONICA PARISH

850 Judah St. (b/t Funston & 14th Ave) (415) 665-1600

Easter 2004 Holy Week Schedule

Geary Boulevard at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco

PALM SUNDAY, April 4

2004 EASTER SCHEDULE HOLY THURDAY, APRIL 8 8:45 a.m. Mass 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until Midnight

GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 9 12 noon: Reflections 1:30 p.m.: Liturgy of Good Friday Confession follows

HOLY SATURDAY, APRIL 10 HOLY SATURDAY 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Reconciliation 7:30 p.m. Easter Vigil (no afternoon Mass)

national conventions aimed at eliminating discrimination and continue to search for “concrete ways and means to achieve” these objectives, he said.

In a speech during the March 24 debate in Geneva on the right to development, Archbishop Tomasi said the implementation of human rights would result in greater human development.

“Civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights are mutually reinforcing, and development is the fruit of their implementation,” he said.

He said economic growth that “adds to the material well-being of society and individuals” must be accompanied by a concern for “the growth of the whole human person and her/his rights.”

Therefore, the “convergence of human rights and economic policies becomes self-evident” and “indispensable,” he said.

8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer – Sung Easter Vigili Mass – 8:00 p.m.

Saturday Evening Vigil - 5:00 p.m.

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

HOLY THURSDAY, April 8 Morning Mass - 8:30 a.m.

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

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

GOOD FRIDAY, April 9 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 10 Confessions - 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.

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

EASTER SUNDAY MASSES, APRIL 11

EASTER SUNDAY, April 11

7:30, 9:00, 10:30 a.m. in English 12 noon in Cantonese

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

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Woman creates medallion to honor caregivers

(CNS PHOTO BY NANCY WIECHEC)

Baker, she met artist John Czernocky, who handcarved VanWye’s design for casting in sterling silver or 14-karat gold. The front of the medallion features Mother Teresa, and the back features a special cross.

“The vertical line of the cross symbolizes strength — strength of faith, health, spirit. The horizontal line is bent, apparently leaning on the stronger; it symbolizes sickness, weakness, and those in need,” VanWye explained. “All of us have been strong and weak in our lives. We’ve needed and we have been needed.”

“People draw strength from this medal,” VanWye said. Her own medal is a permanent fixture around her neck, and she is often stopped by people in the hallway at Vanderbilt inquiring about it. In addition to offering the medal, VanWye has also created a Web site, www.invocaremedallion.com, where caregivers can share their stories.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) — Inspired by Blessed Mother Teresa’s compassion in caring for the poor and suffering, Lisa Baker VanWye has created a special medallion for caregivers bearing the image of the recently beatified nun. With many of her friends starting to take a greater role in caring for their parents, VanWye became more aware of the many Americans who need continuous care, and those who provide it.

“It’s hard, emotionally and physically, to be a caregiver, and this medal helps honor that work,” she told the Tennessee Register, Nashville’s diocesan newspaper. “This is a job that most of the time only faith and love get us through and many times it is thankless.”

VanWye, a nurse at Vanderbilt Hospital who paints and draws as a hobby, combined her talents to create the design for the new Invocare Medallion.

Through her brother in Kentucky, Father Jerry

EASTER SERVICES ST. TERESA’S CHURCH

OUR LADY

390 Missouri Street, San Francisco, (415) 285-5272 An Invitation to take part in the Church Services of Holy Week and Easter

Lenten Reconciliation Service Tuesday March 30, 7:30 p.m.

MOST HOLY REDEEMER

Holy Thusday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.

Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Washing of Feet Good Friday, April 9, 12:15 - 3:00 p.m.

Liturgy of Good Friday (Communion Service) Scripture and Prayer, Stations of the Cross Holy Saturday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.

Easter Vigil Liturgy, Light Service, Eucharist Easter Sunday, April 11, 10 a.m.

Easter Mass

MATER DOLOROSA CHURCH 307 Willow Ave., So. San Francisco

2004 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, April 7, 2004 7:30 p.m.

– Lenten Penance Service Individual Confessions HOLY THURSDAY, April 8, 2004 No 8:00 a.m. Mass – No 5:00 p.m. Mass 7:30 p.m.

– MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER – Visit to Repository until 10:00 p.m.

100 Diamond Street San Francisco, CA 94114 Tel. (415) 863-6259

God’s Inclusive Love Proclaimed Here !

Good Friday:

April 9, 2004

San Rafael, California 94903

(415) 479-1560

No morning services Mass of the Last Supper: 7:30 p.m.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10 p.m.

No morning services 12 Noon – 3 p.m. Stations of the Cross, Devotions, Liturgical Service with Holy Communion, 3 – 5 p.m.

Confessions His Incredible Love 8 p.m.

– Live Stations of the Cross 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.

8 p.m.

Easter Sunday: April 11, 2004

Masses:

Holy Saturday

Confessions: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Easter Vigil:

8:00 p.m.

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

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

Holy Week at Saint Cecilia Vicente and 17th Avenue , San Francisco Live Church Broadcast : www.stcecilia.com

Holy Saturday, April 10th

Vigil Mass: 5:00 p.m. Sunday Masses: 7:30, 9, 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Holy Saturday: April 10, 2004

12:00 noon 1:00 p.m.

1:30 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

12:00 - 1:30 p.m. - Sacrament of Penance (Confession) 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. -“Witnesses to Christ” Fr. Joe Landi 1:45 - 3:00 p.m. - Solemn Liturgy (The Passion, Holy Communion and Veneration of the Cross) - Fr. Vito Perrone

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

Holy Thrusday: April 8, 2004

Good Friday

Good Friday, April 9th

Church of St. Isabella April 4, 2004

Confessions: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

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

Adoration until Midnight

7:30 p.m. - Mass of the Lord’s Supper with Mandatum and Eucharistic Exposition until 11 p.m.

EASTER SUNDAY, April 11, 2004 Masses: 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and 12:00 noon. No Evening Mass

Palm Sunday:

Holy Thursday

Holy Thursday, April 8th

HOLY SATURDAY, April 10, 2004 No 8:00 a.m. Mass – No 5:00 p.m. Mass 8:00 p.m.

– Easter Vigil Mass

P.O. Box 6166

ANGELS CHURCH

Reconciliation Service - April 5 - 7:30 p.m. (St. Catherine’s)

HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE Holy Thursday, April 8 9 a.m. Morning Prayer 6 p.m. Soup and Bread 7:30 p.m. Lord’s Supper Adoration until 10 p.m.

Good Friday, April 9 9 a.m. Morning Prayer 12 p.m. Stations of the Cross with Holy Communion Service 7:30 p.m. Lord’s Passion with Holy Communion Service Holy Saturday, April 10 9 a.m. Morning Prayer 3-4:30 p.m. Reconciliation 8:30 p.m. Easter Vigil Easter Sunday, April 11 8 a.m. Easter Mass 10 am. Easter Mass with Choir

GOOD FRIDAY, April 9, 2004 INRI 12:00 noon – Stations of the Cross 1:15 p.m.

– Solemn Liturgical Service of the Lord’s Passion & Death 7:30 p.m.

– Stations of the Cross

One Trinity Way

OF

1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame Capuchin Franciscans 2004 Holy Week Schedule

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

No Evening Masses

Church of the Good Shepherd 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica

2004 Holy Week Schedule

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Sacrament of Penance 8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil Mass (with Choir and Orchestra) Msgr. Michael Harriman

Easter Sunday, April 11th 7:30 a.m. Fr.Vito Perrone 9:30 a.m. (Family Mass) - Msgr. Michael Harriman 11:00 a.m. (With Choir and Orchestra) Fr. Joe Landi 12:30 p.m. (With Gospel Jubilation Singers) Fr. Joe Landi

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

(415) 983-0405

Holy Week 2004 Palm Sunday - April 4 12:15 pm - Blessing of Palms and Solemn Mass* 3:15 pm - Solemn Vespers* 4:00 pm - Concert - Music for Holy Week*

Holy Thursday - April 8 7:15 pm - Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Good Friday - April 9 Reconciliation (Confessions) April 3 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Holy Thursday, April 8

7:30 p.m. Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper Adoration follows until 11:00 p.m.

Good Friday, April 9

12:15 p.m. Last Seven Words of Christ 1:45 p.m. Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion

Holy Saturday, April 10

8:00 p.m. Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday, April 11

Masses at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. & 12 Noon

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

Holy Saturday - April 10 8:15 pm - Easter Vigil* Most Reverend Ignatius Wang presiding

Easter Sunday - April 11 12:15 pm - Solemn Mass* Most Reverend John Wester presiding 3:15 pm - Solemn Vespers* 4:00 pm - Concert - Golden Gate Wind Quintet *The Shrine’s Schola Cantorum sings at all of the above liturgies

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FIRST STATION Jesus Is Condemned to Death: Jesus, the most innocent of beings, is condemned to death, the shameful death of the cross.

SECOND STATION Jesus Carries His Cross: Our Redeemer beheld the Cross, lovingly, carring it joyfully.

THIRD STATION Jesus Falls the First Time: The Cross was light and sweet to Him, but our sins made it so heavy and hard to carry.

The Way

SEVENTH STATION Jesus Falls the Second Time: The executioners do not permit Him to rest a moment. With thrusts and blows they urge Him onward. Remember, your sins caused Jesus this painful fall.

NINTH STATION Jesus Falls the Third Time: How enormous must my sins be, to cause Jesus to fall so painfully.

EIGHTH STATION Jesus Speaks to the Women of Jerusalem: “Weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves and your children. Weep for your sins and those of your children; for they are the cause of My suffering.”

TENTH STATION Jesus Is Stripped of His Garments: Jesus is deprived of His garments that He may die possessed of nothing.

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took along Peter and the and began to feel sorrow and distress. Then he said to them, “My soul death. Remain here and keep watch with me.” He advanced a little prayer, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; y as you will.” When he returned to his disciples he found them asleep. you could not keep watch with me for one hour? Watch and pray that go the test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Matthew 25:36 Then, while [Jesus] was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrive crowd with swords and clubs, who had come from the chief priests, the sc His betrayer had arranged a signal with them, saying, “the man I shall him and lead him away securely.” He came and immediately went ov “Rabbi.” And he kissed him. At this they laid hands on him and arrested When day came the council of elders of the people met, both chief priests brought him before their Sanhedrin. They said, “If you are the Messiah, t to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe, and if I question, you will not r time on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God you then the Son of God?” He replied to them, “You say that I am.” Then ther need have we for testimony? We have heard it from his own mouth.”

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. One of the maids ca said, “You too were with Jesus the Galilean.” But he denied it in front “I do not know what you are talking about!” As he went out to the ga him and said to those who were there, “This man was with Jesus the N denied it with an oath, “I do not know the man!” A little later the b

ELEVENTH STATION Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross: Jesus remains silent, pleasing His heavenly Father. He suffers patiently, because He suffers for you.

April 2, 2004

FOURTH STATION Jesus Meets His Blessed Mother: How earnestly did she desire to die instead of Jesus, or at least with Him!

FIFITH STATION

said to his disciples, two sons of Zebedee, l is sorrowful even to and fell prostrate in yet, not as I will, but He said to Peter, “So you may not under6-41 ed, accompanied by a cribes, and the elders. kiss is the one; arrest ver to him and said, him. Mark 14: 43-46 s and scribes, and they tell us,” but he replied respond. But from this .” They all asked, “Are n they said, “What furLuke 22: 66-71 ame over to him and t of everyone, saying, ate, another girl saw Nazorean.” Again he ystanders came over

and said to Peter, “Surely you too are one of them; even your speech gives you away.” At that he began to curse and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately a cock crowed. Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken: “Before the cock crows you will deny me three times.” He went out and began to weep bitterly. Matthew 26: 69-75 The chief priests with the elders and the scribes, that is, the whole Sanhedrin, held a council.

They bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate. Pilate questioned him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He said to him in reply, “You say so.” The chief priests accused him of many things. Again Pilate questioned him, “Have you no answer? See how many things they accuse you of.” Jesus gave him no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed.... Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barrabas... [and] handed [Jesus] over to be crucified. Mark 15: 1-5, 15 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. And the soldiers wove a crown out of thorns and placed it on his head, and clothed him in a purple cloak, and they came to him and said,”Hail, King of the Jews!” And they struck him repeatedly. John 19: 1-3 When the chief priests and the guards saw [Jesus] they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him. I find no guilt in him.” ...

They cried out, “Take him away, take him away! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your king?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and carrying the cross himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha. John 19: 6, 15-17 They pressed into service a passer-by, Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. Mark 15: 21 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

TWELFTH STATION Jesus Dies on the Cross: His head is bent to kiss you. His arms are extended to embrace you. His heart is open to receive you.

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SIXTH STATION

Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry His Cross: “Take up your cross and follow Me.”

of the Cross

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Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus: “What you have done to the least of My brethren, you have done to Me.”

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?” Luke 23: 27-31 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.”] Luke 23: 33-34 Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, “Are you not the Messiah?

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.” Luke 23: 39-43 Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. John 19: 25-27 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. Luke 23: 44-46 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who was himself a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be handed over. Taking the body, Joseph wrapped it [in] clean linen and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the tomb and departed. Matthew 27: 57-60 Scripture excerpts are taken from the New American Bible with Revised New Testament Copyright © 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC. Via Crucis images are produced by Cromo N. B. Srl, a foremost publisher of Fine Religious Art based in Italy. Distributed in San Francisco by Kaufer’s Religious Supplies 800-874-6987. Copyright in U.S.A 1938 by N.G. Basevi.

THIRTEENTH STATION Jesus Is Taken Down From the Cross: When taken down, He rested on the bosom of His beloved Mother as He had so often done in life.

FOURTEENTH STATION Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb: The body of Jesus is laid in a stranger’s tomb.

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

For the unborn, for us all “Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad,” the ancient Greeks said. Today, that adage could be rephrased to describe the strategy of the abortion movement, “Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first dehumanize.” That is the top priority of the hard-eyed promoters of abortion: to strip unborn children of their humanity – and then destroy them.

Thirty years ago, abortionists claimed that science was on their side.

The unborn child was not human, they said, just “a blob of matter.”

Overwhelming scientific evidence quickly forced them to abandon that claim. Science showed that from the moment of conception, human life is growing in the womb, developing so quickly that the baby’s heart can be heard beating 22 days after conception.

Reluctantly, the anti-life forces stopped trying to use science to deny the humanity of the unborn child – because the facts were against them.

So they turned to manipulating language. Unable to deny the humanity of unborn children, they decided to try to ignore their victims. They began to chant the mantra of the “woman’s right to choose,” without ever mentioning that she was choosing to end the life of a child.

Then, abortion’s most ardent supporters dropped the word abortion from their vocabulary. The high point of this retreat from reality came when the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League took the word abortion out of its name last year and became NARAL Pro Choice America. The only choice they are offering America is abortion, but they dare not speak its name.

Abortion is not the only word that is seldom heard from the lips of antilife activists. They are terrified of two other little words: baby and child.

They insist on calling their victims “fetuses.” That’s not a simple difference of opinion over language. It is a calculated effort to create the impression that abortion doesn’t take the life of a child but of some nonhuman creature known as a fetus.

Only abortionists call an unborn child a fetus. Does any woman tell her husband to put his hand on her stomach and “Feel the fetus kicking?” Who asks a pregnant woman, “How’s the fetus doing?” Or “What are you going to name the fetus?” But in the anti-life lexicon the child is always a fetus.

Even in the last few seconds before birth, the baby is still a fetus who can be killed in the birth canal with the unspeakable brutality of partial birth abortion. In the propaganda of the anti-life movement, the fetus magically becomes a child only after being fully removed from the mother’s body.

Last week, the abortionists’ obsession with manipulating language collided with Sharon Rocha’s plain spoken love for her grandson Conner.

Sharon Rocha and the unborn children of America won that battle. By a vote of 61 to 38, the U.S. Senate passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, also commonly referred to as “Laci and Conner’s Law.” The House of Representatives passed the bill last month on a 254-163 vote.

Sharon Rocha never got to see little Conner. He was still inside the womb of her daughter, Laci Peterson, when mother and child were murdered. Scott Peterson is charged under California law with the murder of his son as well as his wife. Ms. Rocha wants to ensure that federal law, as well as state law, recognizes that the murderer of a pregnant woman is also guilty of the murder of an unborn child.

From the beginning, Sharon Rocha was clear about her belief in the humanity of the unborn child. “Laci was my only daughter. She was my best friend,” she said. “Soon after Laci went missing, I made a promise to her, that if she has been harmed, we will seek justice for her and Conner and make sure the person responsible for their deaths will be punished.”

Sharon Rocha and other members of Laci Peterson’s family carried out that pledge in a letter supporting the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. “As the family of Laci Peterson and her unborn son, Conner, this bill is very close to our hearts,” the family said. “We have not only lost our future with our daughter and sister, but with our grandson and nephew as well.”

“Two people, Laci and Conner, would be here with us today if they had not been murdered,” Sharon Rocha said in a tape supporting the bill.

“There were two victims in this crime, not one.”

Abortionists hate to hear that kind of talk. They have dedicated their lives and their promotional campaigns to stripping away the humanity of the unborn child. Now, Sharon Rocha is ruining their well-laid plans by proclaiming her love for little Conner.

Sharon Rocha is not alone in her beliefs. A national poll last year found that 84 percent of Americans agreed that the killer of Laci and Conner Peterson should be charged with two murders. President Bush agrees with Ms. Rocha, too. He is expected to sign the bill into law.

When he does, this country will have taken one small but important step toward once again honoring the human dignity of the smallest and most vulnerable among us.

PJ

Thank you Mel

Pardon me, George

Thanks to Mel Gibson for making very clear the enormous suffering of our Lord on the day of His passion. On reflection, we must question why the traditional Latin rite of the Mass is not used universally. In my opinion, it befits more respect to our Lord. But the key is not in language. We should kneel before we receive our Lord in the Eucharist. Our Lord was truly humiliated on the day of His death. Surely, we mere human beings must be humiliated before His divinity.

Kneeling signifies our honor and respect, and a recognition that as sinners we are subject to His justice, but hope for His mercy.

Virginia Enrico South San Francisco

George Weigel’s spin on the National Review Board report (“The National Review Board and authentic Catholic reform,” March 12) is every bit as innovative as his revision of Vatican Council II. (Forget aggiornamento, it was about evangelization.) In my reading, the report states clearly that celibacy is not the cause of the crisis, but also that “while it is a gift for some, celibacy is a terrible burden for others, resulting in loneliness, alcohol and drug abuse, and improper sexual conduct.” Certainly, priests who preyed upon children and bishops who enabled further abuse reflect a “crisis of fidelity and spirituality.” Indeed the report calls for “far more fraternal challenge and correction within the body of bishops,” because in fact there has been none and there is no mechanism for such correction.

The fact that “a diverse group of accomplished lay Catholics can agree on an analysis of the crisis and an agenda of reform that is authentically Catholic,” in no way presents a challenge to Voice of the Faithful, but rather affirms its long-held positions.

The report lists as one of the causes of the crisis, “failure to hold themselves and other bishops accountable for mistakes, including a failure to make use of lay consultative bodies.” Among the recommendations is: “Lay diocesan consultative bodies should be considered as a means of providing greater accountability on the part of bishops and other church leaders.” The report notes, “It in no way diminishes this (apostolic) authority to require that bishops must be accountable to the Holy Father, to other bishops and to the Catholic faithful.”

A key recommendation of the Review Board is for “meaningful participation by the Christian faithful in the Church. Bishops and other Church leaders must listen to and be responsive to the concerns of the laity. To accomplish this, the hierarchy must act with less secrecy, more transparency, and greater openness to the gifts that all members of the Church bring to her.”

Robert M. Rowden San Rafael

Undocumented workers A serious flaw in Dr. Michele Waslin’s discourse (“Quinn Colloquium,” March 19) is her claim that 9.3 million undocumented workers in the U.S. are “here to work, not eligible for welfare, and have a greater participation in the workforce than either established ‘AfricanAmerican or European-American communities.’” More than $1 billion of welfare payments and Food Stamps in 1995 went to illegal immigrant families because some of their children are U.S. citizens, according to a new government report. Payments to citizen children of illegal immigrants accounted for about three percent, or $700 million, of all benefits paid in fiscal 1995 under the welfare program known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, said the GAO report.

Almost all AFDC recipients also receive Medicaid, which on average provides more than $1,000 a child each year for health care expenses, the auditors said. For Food Stamps, the GAO found two percent, $430 million worth, went to the citizen children of illegal immigrants in fiscal 1995.

Immigration attorney Lisa Ramirez recounted several stories putting “flesh” on the perils and challenges faced by illegal aliens and broader “communities” by current immigration policy, without addressing the core of the issue: the root cause of illegal immigration is the culture of corruption, feudalism, and dependency in many of the countries of origin of these immigrants. These factors deny people their basic rights to a decent education, adequate healthcare, paved roads, access to water, electricity, and in the long run, economic opportunities which might enable them to become productive citizens in their own countries.

Palmer E. Chan San Francisco

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Protecting unborn Evil grows when the good do nothing. Will you endorse a culture of Life supported by President George W. Bush?

He said, “We will not stand for the treatment of any life as a commodity to be experimented upon or cloned. We stand for the confirmation of judges who strictly and faithfully interpret the law.” Our President signed the ban on partial birth abortion and he is opposed to paying for any abortions with your tax dollars.

John Kerry is in the pocket of Planned Parenthood. Although he claims to be a Catholic he has voted for abortion 100 percent. “By their fruits you shall know them.” Sen. Kerry voted to keep partial-birth abortions legal. Kerry supports cloning of embryos to be used in experiments that will kill them. He believes that some other adult should be able to take the place of parents when a very young girl wants an abortion. This senator told us that he will only appoint judges who will uphold Roe vs. Wade.

John Kerry is committed to unlimited abortion on demand and wants your tax dollars to pay for them.

As Catholics who are not hypocritical and who pray to God to deliver us from evil; it is time to take action and support God’s will for protecting the unborn. To those who believe this is only one small issue in electing a leader, please recall the words of scripture, “when you put God first all things will be given you besides.”

Claire Rogus San Mateo

April 2, 2004

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The Catholic Difference What do Chartres Cathedral and St. Mary’s Church in Greenville, South Carolina, have in common? Or the Sistine Chapel and Chesterton’s favorite pub? Or Baltimore’s “Old Cathedral” and John Henry Newman’s rooms in the Birmingham Oratory?

They’re all places where you can experience the truth of Catholicism in a tangible way — places where you can feel “the faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). They’re also some of the tour stops I take my readers to visit in Letters to a Young Catholic, just published by Basic Books.

There are lots of ways you can answer a young person’s question, “What does it mean to be a Catholic today?” You could read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church together. You could explore the lives of the saints, discussing what “heroic virtue” means today.

You could try different forms of prayer, or take your young inquirer to different kinds of liturgies. You could introduce a youngster to a shelter run by the Missionaries of Charity.

I decided to take my readers on a global tour of the Catholic world — or at least those parts of the Catholic world that have made a deep impression on my understanding of the Church, its teaching, its people, and its way of life.

Catholicism, I try to suggest, is a very gritty business: it’s about things we can touch and taste and feel and smell, just as much as it’s about ideas and arguments. Going to intensely Catholic places reminds us of that. And by “intensely Catholic places,”

I don’t mean just churches, cathedrals, and shrines. I mean pubs and bedrooms, graveyards and libraries, monastic cells and concert halls — places that are “borders” between the ordinary and the extraordinary, between what calls itself “the real world” and the really real world of transcendent truth and love.

Catholicism, I try to suggest to my young readers (and indeed to readers of any age), is a way of seeing the world, a distinctive optic on reality. Flannery O’Connor, whose Georgia farm is one of the first stops on my tour, knew this; that’s why her wonderful letters are called The Habit of Being.

As Miss O’Connor’s stories graphically illustrate, Catholic faith helps us to experience the world, not just as one damn thing after another, but as the dramatic arena of creation, sin, redemption, and sanctification. Catholic faith helps us see the world in technicolor. In the Catholic way of looking at things, everyone is of consequence and nothing is a mere coincidence because the world and its story have been redeemed by Christ.

That’s the Catholic “habit of being,” the “Catholic difference.”

And it’s a sensibility, not just a set of propositions.

It’s a way of seeing things that frankly challenges the dumbing-down that surrounds us. You count, I count, stuff counts, it all counts; why? Because the whole sad, mad, noble, degraded, endlessly fascinating, often humorous, sometimes tragic business we call “history” is really His-story (to borrow from Peter Kreeft): it’s Christ’s story, because Christ is the center, the axis, on which “history” turns. And because “history” is His-story, it’s super-

charged with that fullness of truth and love that can only come from Truth itself and Love itself — that can only come from God. That’s what a lot of the world around us has forgotten: it’s forgotten that its George Weigel story, its history, is Hisstory. That’s what the Church is for — the Church exists to tell the world its true story, to propose a way of looking at things that invites us into the heart of the human drama, which is God’s radical love for the world he created. And in proposing that true story, Catholicism helps us climb the sometimes steep steps of the ladder of love, in which we grow through our lesser loves into the richest love of all: love for God in Christ.

Modern culture teaches us that stuff doesn’t count, that everything is plastic and manipulable. Catholicism teaches us that the world is sacramental — that it’s through the gritty stuff of this world that we meet God’s saving grace.

Letters to a Young Catholic, a celebration of Catholic true grit, is an invitation to live in the real world.

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

Evangelization

The Power of the Passion The written word has a profound effect on our lives and how we behave. We all know this. That is why we write letters, or, now-a-days emails, to let people know we are thinking about them and also to let them know what we want.

Who was it that said, “the pen is mightier than the sword”?

When we read the written word we are in some way changed because what we read influences us for better or for worse.

The Gospels were written with this in mind. The Evangelists wanted to pass on the story of Christ’s life on earth to influence all people for all time to come. What a marvelous job they did! People have been reading the Gospels for two thousand years and will continue to do so until the end of time.

For some the written word is not enough. The Church in the Middle Ages understood this and that is why we have the glorious cathedrals of Europe with stained glass works of art depicting the life of Jesus Christ. We also have the early morality plays through which people learned how to behave and live out the Gospel message. It is believed that these plays marked the beginnings of our modern theater. In our digitized world of film and camera we have gone one step further in bringing the story of Christ to light for all peoples. It is somewhat amazing that a group of persons can take a scene from the life of Jesus and make it come alive before our eyes so that we can gain a better insight into what really happened so many years ago. As time has progressed the movie producers have become more and more proficient at this. Think back to your experience of the movies about the life of Christ. Some of

them were very convincing and in some cases even called people to conversion by reason of what was portrayed on the screen. While many producers made movies with the intent to entertain I would venture to say that most of them had little or no intention of causing a religious conversion to result in the viewers. However, grace builds on nature. God uses the ordinary and the extraordinary to create change in us if we “only have eyes to see and ears to hear”. This is to say that we will only reach conversion if we are willing to go there.

Over the past several weeks much has been said about Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ. Mel Gibson used his extraordinary talent to produce an extraordinary movie depicting the last days of Christ’s physical life on earth. In a very short time millions of people flocked to view the movie. Many went out of curiosity, many went because of their interest in cinematography, and many went because of their belief in Jesus Christ. Regardless of their motives all who viewed the movie were changed in one way or another. At the end of the movie the profound silence in the audience spoke loudly of the effect the movie had on its viewers. This movie can prove to be an unbelievable tool for evangelization if the viewers have “eyes to see and ears to hear”.

Every year we “witness” the Passion of Christ during the Good Friday Services. Perhaps this year we will be able to come to a fuller realization of what it is that Christ suffered for each of us individually. Each year we hear the story and in some cases see the story re-enacted. Somehow, some of us have become so familiar with the script that we seem to have

lost the true meaning of this horrific yet glorious event in the life of Jesus.

I urge you to spend time reading and reflecting on the Gospel accounts of the Last Supper and Jesus’ Passion as we approach Holy Week. It Sister is in the Word of God internalized that we find Antonio Heaphy the true meaning of our Redemption.

The only reason Christ suffered and died was because of His profound love for humanity, for you and for me. In His discourse with the Apostles at the Last Supper Jesus said, “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friend. You are my friends if you do what I command you… This I command you: love one another.” (John 15:12-14,17) This was Jesus’ message to us before He went out to prove his love for us. If we take the time to internalize this we will be profoundly changed and we will go out and enthusiastically change the whole world.

Presentation Sister Antonio Heaphy is director of the Office of Evangelization for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Spirituality

The place to ready ourselves for ordeals Luke’s account of Gethsemane says this of Jesus: “And being in a certain agony (agonia), he prayed more earnestly.” This word, agonia, doesn’t just describe the intensity of Jesus’ suffering, but also his readying of himself for the painful task that awaits. How? An athlete doesn’t enter the arena of competition without first properly warming up and, at the time this text was written, a serious athlete would warm up for a competition by first working himself or herself into a certain intense sweat, a lather, an agonia, so that he or she wouldn’t enter the competition with cold muscles.

Gethsemane teaches that to enter the spiritual arena, one too must first be properly warmed up. Cold muscles are a hazard here, as well. We cannot walk from self-pampering to self-sacrifice, from living in fear to acting in courage, and from cringing before the unknown to taking the leap of faith, without first, like Jesus in Gethsemane, readying ourselves through a certain agonia, that is, without undergoing a painful sweat that comes from facing what will be asked of us if we continue to live the truth.

Mary Jo Leddy once commented that in order to live in real courage we must die before we die. In any situation that is dominated by fear, she asserts, we need to be living the resurrection already before we die. This means that

choosing not to die is not always the same thing as choosing to live. Rather, we need to choose truth, integrity, and duty even if it means pain and death; otherwise, the deep instinct for self-preservation will forever cause us to be more concerned about our own safety and comfort than about anything else, and fear will always dominate our lives.

In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus dies before he dies and in that way readies himself for what awaits him.

The next day, when Pilate threatens him with death, Jesus stands in a freedom and courage that can only be understood if we understand what happened to him in the garden.

When Pilate says to him: “Don’t you know that I have power over you, power to take your life or to save it,” Jesus answers: “You have no power over me whatsoever. Nobody takes my life; I give it over freely.” In essence, Pilate is threatening a man already dead. No big threat. Jesus had already undergone the agonia. In great anguish he had given his life over freely the night before, and so he is ready for whatever awaits him.

We see something similar in Oscar Romero, martyred in 1980. When Romero was first named an archbishop, he was a good, sincere man, but also someone who lived in timidity and fear. However, as he met with the poor and let

them baptize him with the truth, he began to experience a certain agonia; namely, it became clearer and clearer to him that he was on a collision course which would eventually force him to Father choose between backRon Rolheiser ing away from the truth so as to save his own life, or speaking the truth and being killed for it.

Understandably, he began to sweat a certain blood; a certain spiritual and emotional lather began to warm his spiritual muscles. At a point, he had to speak the truth and, in doing so, assured his own death. But he had readied himself. He had already suffered his agonia in Gethsemane and could now act with courage because he had already given his life away and thus no longer lived in the paralyzing fear that someone might take it from him.

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PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION Luke 19:28-40; Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22; Philipians 2:6-11; Luke 22:14-23 AT THE PROCESSION WITH PALMS (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!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF ST. PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS (PHIL 2:6-11) Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

THE PASSION OF THE LORD (LK 22:14—23:56) When the hour came, Jesus took his place at table with the apostles. He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, for, I tell you, I shall not eat it again until there is fulfillment in the kingdom of God.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and said, “Take this and share it among yourselves; for I tell you that from this time on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

Then he took the bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me.”

And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you.

“And yet behold, the hand of the one who is to betray me is with me on the table; for the Son of Man indeed goes as it has been determined; but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed.”

And they began to debate among themselves who among them would do such a deed. Then an argument broke out among them about which of them should be regarded as the greatest.

He said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them and those in authority over them are addressed as ‘Benefactors’; but among you it shall not be so. Rather, let the greatest among you be as the youngest, and the leader as the servant.

For who is greater: the one seated at table or the one who serves? Is it not the one seated at table? I am among you as the one who serves. It is you who have stood by me in my trials; and I confer a kingdom on you, just as my Father has conferred one on me, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

“Simon, Simon, behold Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail; and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers.”

He said to him, “Lord, I am prepared to go to prison and to die with you.”

But he replied, “I tell you, Peter, before the cock crows this day, you will deny three times that you know me.”

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

“No, nothing,” they replied.

He said to them, “But now one who has a money bag should take it, and likewise a sack, and one who does not have a sword should sell his cloak and buy one. For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in me, namely, He was counted among the wicked; and indeed what is written about me is coming to fulfillment.”

Then they said, “Lord, look, there are two swords here.”

But he replied, “It is enough!”

Then going out, he went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. When he arrived at the place he said to them, “Pray that you may not undergo the test.”

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

And to strengthen him an angel from heaven appeared to him. He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground.

When he rose from prayer and returned to his disciples, he found them sleeping from grief.

He said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not undergo the test.”

While he was still speaking, a crowd approached and in front was one of the Twelve, a man named Judas. He went up to Jesus to kiss him. Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”

His disciples realized what was about to happen, and they asked, “Lord, shall we strike with a sword?” And one of them struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear.

But Jesus said in reply, “Stop, no more of this!”

Then he touched the servant’s ear and healed him. And Jesus said to the chief priests and temple guards and elders who had come for him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? Day after day I was with you in the temple area, and you did not seize me; but this is your hour, the time for the power of darkness.”

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

They lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter sat down with them. When a maid saw him seated in the light, she looked intently at him and said, “This man too was with him.” But he denied it saying “Woman, I do not know him.”

A short while later someone else saw him and said, “You too are one of them,” but Peter answered, “My friend, I am not.”

About an hour later, still another insisted,

“Assuredly, this man too was with him, for he also is a Galilean.” But Peter said, “My friend, I do not know what you are talking about.”

Just as he was saying this, the cock crowed, and the Lord turned and looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the cock crows today, you will deny me three times.” He went out and began to weep bitterly.

The men who held Jesus in custody were ridiculing and beating him. They blindfolded him and questioned him, saying, “Prophesy!

Who is it that struck you?” And they reviled him in saying many other things against him.

When day came the council of elders of the people met, both chief priests and scribes, and they brought him before their Sanhedrin.

They said, “If you are the Christ, tell us,” but he replied to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe, and if I question, you will not respond. But from this time on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.” They all asked, “Are you then the Son of God?” He replied to them, “You say that I am.”

Then they said, “What further need have we for testimony? We have heard it from his own mouth.”

Then the whole assembly of them arose and brought him before Pilate. They brought charges against him, saying, “We found this man misleading our people; he opposes the payment of taxes to Caesar and maintains that he is the Christ, a king.”

Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

He said to him in reply, “You say so.”

Pilate then addressed the chief priests and the crowds, “I find this man not guilty.”

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

On hearing this Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean; and upon learning that he was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod who was in Jerusalem at that time.

Herod was very glad to see Jesus; he had been wanting to see him for a long time, for he had heard about him and had been hoping to see him perform some sign. He questioned him at length, but he gave him no answer. The chief priests and scribes, meanwhile, stood by accusing him harshly.

Herod and his soldiers treated him contemptuously and mocked him, and after clothing him in resplendent garb, he sent him back to Pilate. Herod and Pilate became friends that very day, even though they had been enemies formerly.

Pilate then summoned the chief priests, the rulers, and the people and said to them, “You brought this man to me and accused him of inciting the people to revolt. I have conducted my investigation in your presence and have not found this man guilty of the charges you have brought against him, nor did Herod, for he sent him back to us. So no capital crime has been committed by him. Therefore I shall have him flogged and then release him.”

But all together they shouted out, “Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us.” — Now Barabbas had been imprisoned for a

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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

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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.

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.

FINANCE

Palm Sunday initiates our solemn yet joyous celebration of the Paschal Mystery. This is a profound invitation to reflect more deeply on the final events of Jesus’ life and how those events can speak to our hearts today.

Throughout Luke’s Gospel Jesus is inextricably drawn toward the Holy City of Jerusalem, a city fraught with unrest. In this city, a dramatic tension plays out in Jesus’ life that reverberates through history – a tension tugging at our very human desire for power, honor, and glory.

Jesus farcically enters Jerusalem riding a cloakcovered colt amidst great acclaim for his many “mighty deeds.” The crowd can hardly contain its praise as they throw their cloaks on the road as Jesus passes. Notice that in Luke’s account there are no palm branches. A possible indication that such a practice was alien to his Greek and Gentile-turned-Christian audience.

Ironically, this scene takes place barely a stone’s throw from where Jesus will find himself abandoned a few days later, surrounded instead by a crowd of priests, guards, and his betrayer. In this place, the Mount of Olives, then he receives indictment, not praise.

Upon this mount, Jesus confronts a temptation far more subtle that the ones told earlier in Luke 4:1-13. We see power, temporal power - that kind of power we crave - being heaped upon Jesus. With all the right moves, Jesus could just be that kind of king who will instantly gratify the crowd’s myopic longings.

He would need swords; lots of swords, and those swords appear twice in Luke’s Passion account (22:36, 49). Of course this kind of power viewed before the cross event has all the appeal and illusion of ultimate fulfillment.

This is the allure of temporal power and it is Jesus’ for the taking if only he would cooperate. The roaring crowd and the shouting stones (19:40, cf Hb 2:11) have one thing right: Jesus is the blessed king who comes in God’s name, even though their joy and acclaim fall mute when the cross inevitably appears.

Jesus “rebuked” (19:39) the sword, not the people; he didn’t conspire with temporal powers like the Pharisees in the crowd who demanded he rebuke his disciples. In fact, he eschewed militant aggression and countered with nonviolent compassion. His is a justice worthy of the love he lived. A love that enabled him to enter fully into the human condition and heal it. Power such as

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this is divine and forever vindicated by the post-cross reality of the Resurrection.

This kind of tension plays itself out in all men and women who dare to seek truth and do justice. They are the Christ-like ones who do not shield their faces from buffets and spitting (Isaiah 50:6) and who shine with the exalted One. Their names run the gamut of the famous to the obscure: Francis and Clare of Assisi, Mohandas Gandhi, Archbishop Oscar Romero, Martin Luther King, Jr. to Franz Jaegerstaetter, Dorothea Dix, Steven Bikko, Jean Donovan and many more.

As we contemplate the Paschal Mystery during Holy Week, perhaps it would help to remember the many witnesses to that mystery who make our lives richer by bringing God’s kingdom nearer. In this age of increasing terror and endless wars, we are starved for men and women who embody God’s spirit like Jesus did. Let us be those people. One way to begin is to allow our mind’s eye to engage the scriptures by what St. Ignatius of Loyola (14911556) in The Spiritual Exercises called “a composition of place.” This prayer method encourages us to use our five senses to bring the story to life and to witness or play a role in the imagined drama. This is not fantasy but prayer. As such, it is a deliberate meditative reading that employs the imagination and personally appropriates the story as we ask God for the grace we most desire. This is a far more sacred and meaningful exercise than a viewing of this sacred story through another’s interpretation be that of some medieval Passion Play or most recently of Mel Gibson.

The Paschal Mystery always envelops us.

Most of us at some point realize that for something new to be born, something else has to die.

This is what Jesus did. He gave birth to the fullest possible expression of God’s compassionate Spirit in human history and we did not grasp it then. We struggle to grasp it now. He died bearing witness to the radical unity of the human and Divine but, vindicated by God’s truth, he lives now to call humanity to complete that unity. What crowd could be silent when such joy and authenticity passes by? Indeed, what stones would not shout!

Raymond O’Connor, teaches Social Justice and directs the Community Service Program at Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco.

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Gibson’s ‘Passion’ is devastating, uplifting

By Chris Weinkopf The atmosphere inside the movie theater Wednesday night — immediately following “The Passion of the Christ� — was unlike any I had seen before. No one was munching popcorn. There was no idle chit-chat. A sullen, stunned crowd stumbled for the exits, faces pale and anguished. Patrons headed toward their homes or some other quiet place to think or pray.

This was no angry mob out to launch a pogrom. Hardly.

It was an audience of ordinary people who, after a year of hearing the accusations and the praise, were finally able to judge Mel Gibson’s instant classic for themselves.

As a practicing Catholic and the grandson of Austrian Jews who narrowly escaped the Holocaust in 1938, I have both a yearning for a positive Hollywood portrayal of my faith and a revulsion for anti-Semitism. I bought my ticket in advance, then crammed into that packed theater on Ash Wednesday, curious and suspicious — wondering whether the film would live up to the hype.

It did, and it didn’t.

As a production, “The Passion� is an artistic masterpiece. It conveys with beauty and agony one of Christianity’s greatest paradoxes — that an event so excruciating, so cruel

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Choosing self-preservation is not necessarily choosing life. Sometimes we need to accept opposition to choose community; sometimes we need to accept bitter pain to choose health; sometimes we need to accept a fearful free fall to choose safety; and sometimes we need to accept death in order to choose life. If we let fear stop us from doing that, our lives will never be whole again.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself; easily said, but mostly our lives are dominated by it. We may be sincere and good, but we’re also fearful. Fearful of pain, of losing loved

and so wrong could ultimately be so liberating, so generous, so right. That the worst imaginable Friday could forever be known as Good, by the grace of a God whose love for the people he created is as infinite as himself.

Artistically and spiritually, the film is all that supporters said it would be and more.

The tender flashbacks of a young Jesus and his mother, the moment Christ prays for his tormentors while hanging on the cross, the converts he wins in his final hours, all bear triumphant testament to the “no greater love� of which he preaches.

What’s utterly overrated are the two aspects of the film that detractors attacked before they even saw it — the alleged anti-Semitism and the complaints of excessive violence.

Yes, angry Jewish mobs repeatedly and successfully clamor for Jesus’ death — just as they do throughout the Gospels. But these are hardly the only Jews we see.

They share the stage with Jesus himself, a Jew whose disciples — also Jews — fittingly call him “rabbi.� The story is told largely through the eyes of the Virgin Mary, depicted as a faithful and devoted Jewish mother, who happens to be played by a Jewish actress, Maia Morgenstern. When Christ first goes before the Sanhedrin, two priests step in and denounce the show trial as a “travesty.�

And along Jesus’ journey to Calvary are ones, of misunderstanding, of opposition, of sickness, of shame, of discomfort of all kinds, and ultimately of death. Deep inside us is a powerful pressure to do whatever it takes to ensure our own lives, safety, and security.

And so it’s not on the basis of nature that we give our lives away or move toward real courage. Like an athlete preparing for a tough contest, we must train for this. Like Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, we must die before we die, we must experience a courageinducing agonia so that, already having given it all away, we no longer live in the paralyzing fear that someone might take it from us.

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About a Movie and a Book “What are you doing for Lent?” I’ve heard it in community, in meetings and at gatherings of Young Adult Catholics in the past weeks. Invariably, the answer is something like, “I’m not eating sweets; not watching so much TV; not drinking beer on weeknights, etc.” Me? I’m not eating sugar or it’s substitutes. But, I digress; the question was “What are you DOING for Lent?” not what are you NOT doing for Lent.

Among other more spiritual things, this Lent I felt challenged and invited to do two things I wouldn’t have chosen myself, but which seemed necessary given my ministry, generation and “miss-a-phobic” tendencies. I went to see the movie, The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson and I read the novel, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Jesus, one way or another, is the hero of each of these works.

I read Brown’s book primarily because many young adults were reading it. Several had asked me if it was “true.” I had recently finished reading Tobias Wolfe’s Old School and was looking forward to another good novel. Alas, that’s not what Brown’s book offered. I found the writing simple, tedious and predictable. Brown claims inclusion of scholarly research and objectivity in the novel, but the anti-Catholic,

anti-Christian tone of the novel caught me by surprise. Friends of mine read it and enjoyed it for the novel it was: I had to keep reminding myself “this is fiction,” in order not to be offended. This was, I think, a good exercise. Not only for my reading of this book, but also for the viewing of the movie.

If you are a Christian, it’s worth it to see the movie for a variety of reasons. The movie is an opportunity to engage with others about the events and meaning of Christ’s last hours on Earth in his human form. It also offers, should you choose to engage in it, conversation with family, friends and others who are not Christian about your own faith and theirs too.

What struck me most powerfully about the movie related to its violence. Not that there was too much of it or that it was too graphic, but that violence like this is still a part of our world.

While Gibson’s unrelenting violent depiction may be accurate (and we can’t know for sure,) it certainly is effective in helping one imagine the scourging and death of Jesus. And the point of the depiction, Gibson says, is to help us avoid more violence.

Asked by Reader’s Digest the headline he’d like to see the day after his movie’s release, the director responded, “War Ends.”

As the movie indicates, we are culpable for the murder of Bishop Kenneth E. Untener of Saginaw, Mich., celebrates Mass at Bay City's Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in this 1992 file photo. Bishop Untener died March 27, six weeks after his announcement that he would begin treatment for myelodysplasic syndrome, a form of leukemia. As bishop of Saginaw since 1980, he was an outspoken advocate for equality and social justice.

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Jesus. Most Christians acknowledge this. What the Passion of Jesus really offers is a glimpse into our culpability for all murders: that each victim of murder is as innocent as Jesus was. Did Jesus deserve to have his life Sister ended so violently? Does anyone? If Jesus’ death Christine Wilcox showed anything (and it showed plenty,) it showed most clearly how humans who sacrifice other humans for the sake of their own or the community’s welfare are certainly misguided. “Better that one should die for the many?”

Each time we put the death penalty into play; kill an innocent accidentally, or God forbid, on purpose; each time we scapegoat one villain or another, even in our daily lives those who disagree with us, those who are different, those who live differently, those painful to be around or just plain annoying - each of these times we are re-enacting the sacrifice of Christ. While perhaps technically guilty, the victims are still innocent, still children of the same God, still children.

As I said, I wouldn’t have seen the movie or read the book except for Lent. While I didn’t really like either of them, I am, now, glad to have absorbed them. One because it was a reminder of God’s love and challenge to us as humans and one because it most certainly wasn’t. What I appreciate most, however, is the conversations I’ve been able to have with others — Catholics, Protestant Christians and Jews — about the nature and meaning of the life of Jesus Christ and the movement of God in our lives. Good conversation for Lent and, ultimately, the conversation worth having.

Dominican Sister Christine Wilcox is director of Young Adult Ministry and coordinator for university and college campus ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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April 2, 3: Cinderella with music by Rodgers and Hammerstein and featuring the talent of students from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in the school’s De Paul Auditorium, corner Ellis and Gough St., SF. Tickets $10/$5 students. Curtain at 7:30 all nights with additional matinee performances Saturdays at 2 p.m. Call (415) 775-6626, ext. 784.

April 21: St. Anthony Farm celebrates its 50th year with a Golden Anniversary Luncheon at 11205 Valley Ford Rd., Petaluma. A work of the St. Anthony Foundation, the farm is an organic dairy facility, is the base of a work/recovery program for men and women troubled by drug and alcohol use. Tickets $15. Reservations necessary. Call (707) 778-8584.

April 23: Annual Luncheon and Games Day benefiting Rosalie House, a St. Vincent de Paul Society shelter for victims of Domestic violence.

Begins with cocktails at 11 a.m. at Olympic Club, Lakeside. Lunch at noon. Tickets $45. Call Marie mahoney at (415) 333-9348.

April 23, 24, 30, May 2: Once Upon a Mattress featuring the talents of students from Mercy High School, San Francisco, in the school’s theater, 3250 19th Ave. Tickets $7 advance/ $8 at door except for April 23rd Opening Night Gala when seats are $15 and include post-shop reception.

Curtain at 7:30 p.m. except May 2 matinee at 3 p.m. Call Dora Cortez at (415) 334-0525, ext. 242.

April 24: Jesse Manibusan in concert at St. Brendan’s Parish Center, Laguna at Portola Dr., SF, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $10/$5 students. Group reservations available. Contact Kelly Scandalios at kelscan2@yahoo.com.

April 24: An Evening in Tuscany, annual auction and dinner benefiting St. Isabella Elementary School, San Rafael beginning at 5 p.m. in the Marin Civic Center Exhibition Hall. All alumni especially encouraged to attend. Evening includes gourmet dinner, dancing, silent and live auctions. Tickets $70. Call (415) 898-1742 or wendycal@marincounty.net.

May 1: Under the Big Top, an annual auction, dinner and show benefiting St. Brendan School from 6 p.m. to midnight in the Sister Diane Erbacher Parish Center, 255 Ulloa off Laguna, SF. Tickets $85 per person. Evening begins with cocktails and appetizers during silent auction followed by dinner and entertainment. Next is live auction, raffle and dancing. Raffle tickets – features $10,000 prize – are $50/3 for $100. Call Dawn Hahn at (415) 661-6530.

Our Lady of Mercy Parish celebrates its 50th anniversary with a week of commemorative events. Bishop John C. Wester, who grew up in the parish and attended its school, will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving May 16th. Subsequent activities include a video history presentation, a multi-cultural gathering, a music concert by OLM school, BINGO, a cocktail party for present and former parishioners, a dinner dance, and a pancake breakfast. For more information, call Barbara Cantwell at (650) 755-2727.

May 15: 9th Annual Whale of a Sale benefiting St. Vincent de Paul Conference of St. Sebastian Parish, Greenbrae from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Spaces

Lenten Soup and Scripture Agape, this evening April 2nd at Star of the Sea school auditorium, 4420 Geary Blvd. at 8th Ave., SF beginning with simple meatless meal accompanied by Scripture readings at 6 p.m. Stations of the Cross follow at 7 p.m. concluding with benediction. The parish also announces an Easter Sunday Bake Sale following the 9:30 a.m. Mass and benefiting its Chinese American Association.

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Reunions April 17: Annual Mass and Luncheon of SF Chapter of Notre Dame Alumnae begiing at 11 a.m. at Mission Dolores Basilica followed by lunch at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd. SF. Golden Belles of ’54 and Silver Belles of ’79 will be specially honored. Call Debbie Calgaro at (415) 776-1900.

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2nd Sat.: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur offer Saturday Morning Prayer 9:30 – 11:30 each 2nd Sat. of the month at their Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave. across from Ralston Hall on their university campus in Belmont. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350.

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

St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame. Call Elaine Yastishock at (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Louise Nelson at (650) 343-8457 or Barbara Arena at (650) 3443579. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City.

Call (650) 366-3802; Good Shepherd, Pacifica.

Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call (650) 589-2800.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont. Call Ann Ponty at (650) 598-0658 or Mary Wagner at (650) 591-3850. St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171. St. Gabriel, SF. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Finn Barr, SF in English and Spanish. Call Carmen Solis at (415) 5840823; St. Cecilia, SF. Call Peggy Abdo at (415) 564-7882 ext. 3; Epiphany, SF in Spanish. Call Kathryn Keenan at (415) 564-7882.

Ministry for parents who have lost a child is available from Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

Young Widow/Widower group meets at St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

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

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Sept. 18: St. Paul High School, San Francisco, class of ’64, 1 p.m. at the Terrace Room of El Rancho Motel, Millbrae. Contact classmate, Liz Hannan, at lizhannan3@yahoo.com.

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—— VALLOMBROSA CENTER —— 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and details about these and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, Program Director.

April 25: Take Time to Nurture Your Relationships, a Family Retreat, sponsored by Peninsula parishes of Deanery 11, 1:30 – 5 p.m. at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Let team speakers Eileen and Bill Healy help you uncover “the four barriers and four builders of relationships.” Geared toward parents and their junior high and older children.

Activities provided for younger children. Free admission. Register by April 15th with Laurie Coulter of Sabina Spence at (650) 366-7085;

Rudy Ruettiger, model for the hit film, Rudy, will speak at the Performing Arts Center of San Mateo, May 22nd at 7 p.m. The well known underdog and “the only player to be carried off the field on his teammates shoulders” in the history of Notre Dame University “rose from valleys of discouragement and despair to the pinnacles of success.” Hear him “share his experience and insight on living your dreams and making them a reality.” The evening is sponsored by the Rotary Club of San Mateo. Proceeds benefit Rotary International’s, Polio Plus, an effort to eradicate the disease around the world and which with similar campaigns has greatly reduced the number of polio cases worldwide. Adult tickets range from $30 to $45. Youth tickets are $15. Call (650) 579-5568, ext. 205. Local parishioners Jim Casey, Brian Sullivan, Greg Miller and Mike Peterson are among those coordinating Rudy’s appearance.

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Sundays, April 25 – June 6: Divorce Recovery Course providing a chance to understand the emotional journey begun with the loss of a marriage.

Takes place at O’Reilly Parish Center of St. Stephen’s, 451 Eucalyptus Dr., SF beginning at 7 p.m. $45 fee includes materials. Call Susan at (415) 752-1308 or Jerry at (415) 810-1603. Next Cathedral Pot Luck is set for May 15th.

April 30 – May 2: Beginning Experience: A Widowed, Separated, Divorced weekend at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Come together, reevaluate, move on to future with new hope. Call Alan at (415) 821-3390; Joanie at (650) 588-1288.

Separated and Divorced support groups meet 3rd Sat. at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, call Pat at (415) 492-3331; and 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452.

Catholic Adult Singles Assoc. of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for information.

St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco needs your help at its Help Desk.

Service includes sorting donations and helping clients. If anyone would like to volunteer - also small groups of volunteers one Saturday a month - they should call (415) 202-9955.

St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County needs Spanish/English-speaking volunteers to answer phones in 2 – 3 hour shifts between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Calls are logged and entered into Access-based computer data system. Call (650) 373-0622.

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‘Today I Made My First Communion’ Reviewed by Jayme George From the publishing house that brought you “Today I Was Baptized” and “Today We Became Engaged” comes “Today I Made My First Communion” — the latest installment of books designed to teach children about the sacraments of the Catholic Church.

The story centers on two young friends, Maria and Riley, who enter into their First Communion classes with a sense of reverent wonder. Although they have been to Mass many times with their families, during their first solo trip to church Maria and Riley become self-appointed detectives out to solve the “Mystery of the Eucharist.”

Through the eyes of Maria, Riley, and the rest of the First Communion class, the reader discovers the many mysteries that are abound in every Catholic Church around the world: the Stations of the Cross, the rosary, the stained glass windows, the Liturgy of the Word— everything is a clue that helps the children solve the mystery and understand the sacred ritual in which that they are about to partake.

In the end, Maria and Riley are visited in a dream by Jesus who tells them not to worry about understanding all things about the mystery of the Eucharist. The next morning Maria and Riley realize that the answer to the mystery is faith itself. The faith that comes from God and rests in their hearts. As Riley tells Father Hugo, “The more we study and the more we pray, the bigger its gets.

The grace we receive from the Holy Communion will make our faith grow bigger and better.”

In addition to the story, the book includes helpful teaching guides that will enhance a child’s comprehension of the Eucharist. Among the reference materials is a map of the church with a key explaining the importance of certain areas in the celebration of Mass and special ceremonies. There are also self -explanatory sections entitled “Prayers I Should Know,” “The Commandments,” and “Parts of the Mass.” At the very back of the book there are blank pages for the child to fill with memories of their own First Communion.

Even though this book teaches more than it entertains,

the lessons that it imparts are valuable and important not just for children embarking on their journey as Catholics, but also for adults who may have forgotten the intricacies of Catholic symbolism and the way it seeps from every part of the Church into our collective subconscious. What Maria and Riley come to understand as young children is something that all non-fictional people need a little reminding of sometimes—faith is the key to understanding God. With the season of First Communions almost underway, this book makes a great gift for children who are getting ready to participate in the Eucharist for the first time. “Today I Made My First Communion” is available primarily through Catholic/Christian bookstores and amazon.com. For more information call Aunt Dee’s Attic at 1-734-996-9323 or log on to auntdeesattic.com.

TODAY I MADE MY FIRST COMMUNION, written by Dianne Ahern and illustrated by Katherine Larson. (Aunt Dee’s Attic, Ann Arbor, MI., 56 pages, $19.95.) uses the setting of a First Communion class to teach children (and adults) that the things found in Catholic churches along with the Mass, the songs that are sung, and the prayers that are said, all point to the Eucharist. The book is a combination storybook, reference book and keepsake. In the storybook section, the author mixes drama with traditional religious education to uncover the mystery of faith. The reference section includes things children should know when making their First Communion. The last section of the book provides space for the First Communicant and his or her family to record the events of the special day.

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Unborn Victims Act . . .

■ Continued from cover December 2002; Laci and Conner’s bodies were found the following April.

Under the law, anyone who harms a woman’s unborn child while committing a federal crime, such as assaulting the woman on federal property, commits a distinct federal crime against the child in addition to the crime against the woman.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., lost by a 50-49 vote on her attempt to replace the measure with a “single victim” substitute bill which would have eliminated language defining an unborn child as “a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb.”

Her substitute proposal would have increased penalties for an

Central liturgies . . .

■ Continued from cover On Tuesday evening, April 6, the priests, deacons and lay men and women of the Archdiocese gather at St. Mary’s Cathedral for the annual Chrism Mass, which is said to be one of the most solemn and significant liturgies of the Church.

At the Mass, Archbishop William J. Levada blesses oil used in the anointing of the sick, oil used in the anointing of adults joining the Church, and Chrism, the oil used for

Weinkopf . . .

■ Continued from page 18 Semitic, its fans might be. Bigots will misinterpret “The Passion” and be emboldened by it, they say.

But bigots will misinterpret anything to support their prejudices — that’s what makes them bigots. If all entertainment and art must be sterilized so as to prevent extremists from misinterpreting it, then neither art nor entertainment can ever seriously touch on religion again.

Yet more curious than the charges of anti-Semitism, which stem from a real history of real suffering, is the hand-wringing over Gibson’s violent depiction of Christ’s final 12 hours. Newsweek describes the film as “relentlessly savage.” The New York Times says it “seems to arise less

attack on a pregnant woman by adding a second charge of harm to the pregnancy, avoiding any mention of a second victim.

Although the legislation adopted specifically excludes any application to voluntary abortion, Feinstein called it “the first strike against all abortion in the United States.”

The week before the Senate vote Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, urged passage of the bill. “This bill simply ensures that both mother and child are protected from violent assault and murder,” he said.

Ruse, responding to attacks on the legislation by supporters of legal abortion, said, “We are grateful to the Senate for ignoring the offensive claims of the abortion lobby and its allies in Congress. Abortion activists may recoil from the acknowledgment of a child’s existence before birth, but their efforts to erase the child as a second

victim in a violent crime are an insult to all women and families who have lost a loved one to violence.”

Maggie Gray, president of the National Council of Catholic Women, said passage of the new legislation “closes a ‘justice gap’ for unborn children by recognizing their injuries and providing legal redress.”

Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said the Senate vote “is another sign that our legal system is experiencing a new moment of awareness in regard to the unborn child.”

The American Life League said it was encouraged that 61 senators were “willing to publicly state that a preborn baby is a human being.” But the league said it could not support the language of the new legislation because “this law has a clearly stated exception for abortion,” perpetuating “the lie that some preborn babies’ rights are worth defending and others are not.”

anointing at Baptism, Confirmation, ordination of priests and the consecration of altars. All are usually olive oil.

Chrism is scented, most often with balsam.

Also central to the occasion of the Chrism Mass is remembrance of the bishop’s bond with his priests and deacons, and the lay men and women of the diocese he leads. The bishop does not baptize or confirm everyone in the diocese but the oils’ being sent to the parishes from the Mass keep him symbolically present in the sacraments administered by the priests and deacons and witnessed by the faithful.

Priests also renew their commitment to the Church at

the Chrism Mass. Lay women and men at the Mass represent all members of the local Church and from the Mass are sent forth to celebrate the love of God in all churches throughout the year.

In addition to Tuesday’s Chrism Mass at 5:30 p.m., Archbishop Levada will preside at these other Holy Week liturgies at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough St. and Geary Blvd., San Francisco: Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30 p.m.; Good Friday Liturgy of the Passion of Our Lord 1 p.m.; The Vigil of Easter at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday; and Easter Sunday Mass at 11 a.m.

from love than from wrath.” The New Yorker calls it “one the cruelest movies in the history of cinema. “ Yes, “The Passion of the Christ” is a violent film, but certainly not more so than, say, “Reservoir Dogs,” “Gangs of New York,” “Kill Bill” or any number of movies that have won the praise of some of the very critics now denouncing Gibson’s gore. It contains cruelty, but it’s not itself cruel, like, say the wretched and critically acclaimed “Seven.”

And its violence, while intense, is never gratuitous. Unlike any number of bloody films that have made millions in recent years, the depiction of pain and brutality in “The Passion” isn’t meant to appeal to our morbid fascinations, but to horrify us with the ugliness and the brutality of the sins we commit every day.

That, I suspect, is the real reason why “The Passion of the Christ” has aroused such consternation.

In an age when deriding faith passes for intellectual sophis-

tication, where truth is considered relative and the very notion of sin is dismissed, the film offers an honest, unapologetic portrayal of Christianity. It explicitly documents the evilness of men in this, a culture that often denies the existence of evil. “The Passion of the Christ” tramples on all the rules and hypocrisies of political correctness. It says there is a God, and it names him.

Gibson has created a work that’s both devastating and uplifting, making the abstraction of an infinitely loving God seem tangible in a way that only the big screen can.

“The Passion” isn’t about the Jews or the Romans. Nor is it about guts and gore. It’s about each and every one of us, and our role in the greatest love story of all time.

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$11.95 plus $2.00 S+H to NEW WORLD PRESS P.O. Box 640432 SF, CA 94164 Tel: (415) 292-7008

Piano Lessons Piano Lessons

By a Conservatory Graduate

Adult Beginners Children of all levels

Yearly Recitals At Clarion Hotel $50 mo. once a week lesson

650-869-5479

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Email: jpena@catholic-sf.org

Exciting opportunity to serve as on-campus leader to students on beautiful university campus with well established campus ministry presence.

A ten month/year position. Housing and utilities provided. Position organizes faith formation and liturgical & worship opportunities; coordinates pastoral plan for evangelization; develops Catholic educational programs, including lectures and retreats.

Min. Qual: MA in Theology or equivalent, competence in nurturing a Catholic faith community; successful work experience with young adults; commitment to ecumenical relationships.

Qualified layperson or priest encouraged to apply. Exc benefits.

Contact Hedy Yurong-Olaso at (209) 546-7653 or holaso@stocktondiocese.org for application.

Dealine to apply: Monday, April 12, 2004 4pm

Help Wanted Bookkeeper / Office Manager Jesuit Volunteer Corps, a Catholic lay volunteer corps working for justice and peace, seeks a responsible individual for bookkeeping, data-entry and office operations for SF office supporting 90 full-time volunteers in the Southwest. Requires excellent organizational skills, keen attention to detail, proficiency in Quickbooks, MSWord, Excel. F/T; $27K + benefits.

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