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Pope Benedict XVI arrives for the closing Mass of World Youth Day at Marienfeld, near Cologne, Germany, Aug. 21. The Mass in the former mining area was attended by more than 1 million pilgrims.

Pope, in world spotlight, outlines his priorities, style of emerging papacy

By John Thavis COLOGNE, Germany (CNS) — On a trip he inherited from his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI stepped into the world spotlight and outlined the priorities and the style of his emerging papacy.

To young people gathered for World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, the pope brought an intensely spiritual message during his Aug. 18-21 visit, telling them that living their faith and imitating the saints were the only ways to transform the world.

That seemed to make a connection with many young people in Cologne. In the words of one young U.S. pilgrim, youths came for religious inspiration, and they got it.

To bishops in his native country, where secularism has put down deep roots, he called for new efforts to stem the decline in church influence, but said it must be done without “watering down” the Gospel.

That was a point he echoed in remarks to civil authorities, reminding them that Germany, in the heart of Europe, remained “indelibly” marked by Christian traditions that are still valid today. The pope’s com-

ments underscored what is shaping up as a primary goal of his papacy, re-evangelizing Europe.

On the dialogue front, Pope Benedict made Pope John Paul II’s agenda his own — but with a few different points of emphasis.

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In a historic visit to Cologne’s synagogue, the pope eloquently highlighted the common religious heritage shared by Christians and Jews. He also condemned the Holocaust, but without revisiting the church’s self-criticism on the issue; he blamed Nazi ideology on “neopaganism” and stayed away from the question of the moral failures of German Christians.

To Muslims, he delivered an unusually tough condemnation of terrorism, stressing the need for Islamic leaders to educate their own youths in tolerance.

Pope John Paul condemned terrorism many times, too. But the late pope also said it should “never be forgotten that situations of oppression and exclusion are often at the source of violence and terrorism” — something not mentioned in Pope Benedict’s speech.

In the land that gave birth to the Reformation, the pope’s comments to Protestant and Orthodox leaders were highly anticipated. His audience was pleased at three things he said: openness to a “unity in multiplicity” approach, flexibility on the future of papal ministry and, above all, his renewed pledge to make ecumenism a real priority of his papacy.

But the pope also used language to indicate that an ecumenical leap was not imminent. He counseled patience and realism and emphasized that “there can be no dialogue at the expense of truth.”

And he introduced a theme he is likely to develop further in his pontificate: that Christian churches today need to offer a much more united voice on modern ethical issues.

Beyond the finely tuned positions in his speeches, Pope Benedict’s way of being pope also took shape more clearly in Germany. Most striking was his determination to avoid personalizing the papacy — in contrast, many would say, with his predecessor.

The examples were obvious. In his meeting with Jews, he never once spoke about his personal experiences in EMERGING PAPACY, page 6

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Hats off to this year’s Parishioners of the Year recently honored by the Young Men’s Institute of South San Francisco Council #32. South San Francisco Mayor Ray Green and State Assemblyman Gene Mullin presented the awards. From left: George Wong – All Souls; Deacon Juan and Martha Ruiz – Holy Angels; Barbara Lozar – St. Veronica’s; and Nicomedes and Guina Tablante – Mater Dolorosa.

Celebrating their happiest years on earth at the “Happiest place on earth” were Rose and Jerry Forbes married 50 years July 2nd. The Disneyland entourage included 27 loved ones including their six children, 12 grandchildren and Rose’s two brothers, Father Kieran McCormick and Msgr. Mickey McCormick. Memorable moments included being evacuated from the famed Splash Mountain. Congrats and thanks to Rose and Jerry who have been very active in ministries including Cursillo, San Quentin detention ministry, Stanford Hospital and Samaritan House shelter program….Home from Stanford and the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth program is Frank Kaniewski, a soon-to-be 6th grader at Star of the Sea Elementary School. The lad’s favorite subjects are Math and Social Studies and his career goal at the moment is to enter politics after retiring from Major League Baseball, said his mom, Christine Sellai. Proud dad is Joe Kaniewski. On the diamond, it’s hats off to Frank, his cousin and fellow Star of the Sea student,

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Eric Sellai, and, Joey Cibotti of St. Philip Elementary mother” Rose Ruggiero, a 60-year member of St. School, who played on the San Francisco Little League Greg’s, for the good news….Happy birthday to team that won District 3 titles in July…. Johnny Rojo who celebrated his 80th year July 2nd.

Commemorating 50 years married are Pat and “Johnny is well known in the Bay Area for his music Wally Mooney of St. Robert’s Parish in San Bruno. and performing with his popular family band since the Married July 9, 1955 in “old” St. Cecilia’s Church , early 1970s,” said the octogenarian’s daughter-in-law, they are recently home from a cruise to Mexico, said Janet Rojo, speaking for the “whole Rojo clan,” that daughter, Lisa Mooney-DeLuca. The couple also includes 13 children, 35 grandchildren and 20 greatmarked the occasion with a trip to Chicago’s Wrigley’s grandchildren. Johnny and his wife, Julia, longtime Field for a match-up of the Cubs and the parishioners of San Francisco’s St. Patrick’s Parish, Giants….Much celebration in the Langenhan celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary household of St. Isabella Parish in San June 26th…. Congrats to winners of this Rafael. Hats off to Joanna year’s Msgr. Bedford Service Awards Langenhan who graduated magna presented by the Sodality of Our cum laude in English Literature Lady at St. Gabriel’s Parish. from Southern Oregon Tuition grants of $750 went to University in June and to her 8th graders Cara McLaughlin sister, Dr. Jessica Langenhan, and Hannah Joy Wirshing who just completed her medwith $100 prizes to Leighton ical degree “with distinction” Giannini, Amara Kellogg, at George Washington Claire McCartney and Alyson University School of Murphy. The award is named Medicine in Washington, D.C. for the Sunset District parish’s Also hittin’ the books is brother, first pastor, Msgr. George James Langenhan, now in his Bedford who led St. Gabriel’s fourth year at University of from 1941 – 70…. Remember Nevada in Las Vegas. Proud this is an empty space without Rose and Jerry Forbes folks are Adrienne and Robert ya’!! The email address for Langenhan….Congrats of the scholastic kind for Street is burket@sfarchdiocese.org. Mailed items Ben Taft, Megan O’Neil and Patrick McDevitt, all should be sent to “Street,” One Peter Yorke Way, SF 2005 graduates of Santa Clara University and in their 94109. Pix should be hard copy or electronic jpeg at earlier years classmates at St. Gregory Elementary 300 dpi. Don’t forget to include a follow-up phone School in San Mateo. Thanks to Ben’s “proud grand- number. You can reach me at (415) 614-5634.

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By Catholic San Francisco Staff Nearly 2,300 people filled the San Francisco Marriott Hotel’s huge ballroom Aug. 13 for a gala farewell dinner honoring Archbishop William J. Levada for his decade-long tenure as Archbishop of San Francisco — and celebrating his appointment as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – the highest Vatican post ever held by an American.

The diverse and lively assemblage included strong representation from parishes within the Archdiocese of San Francisco, many Catholic organizations and institutions, and business, civic and community leaders from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Local political figures attending the event were San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, former California Governor and current Mayor of Oakland Jerry Brown, Assemblyman Leland Yee, President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Aaron Peskin and San Francisco Supervisors Michela AliotoPier, Jake McGoldrick and Sean Elsbernd.

Religious leaders in attendance included representatives of the northern California interfaith community.

Los Angeles’ Cardinal Roger Mahony and Catholic bishops from other dioceses in California, Portland and Salt Lake City joined in the celebration.

At the request of Archbishop Levada, all proceeds of the farewell gala dinner event beyond costs were to be donated to the newly formed Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools.

During the evening, Catholic Charities CYO President Clint Reilly praised the generosity of individuals, parishes, and

organizations present at the event, and announced that a check for $250,000 would be given to the Alliance for Mission District Catholic Schools in the name of Archbishop Levada.

When Archbishop Levada entered the vast ballroom, he was greeted with a standing ovation.

San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester, now Apostolic Administrator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, gave the invocation.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom presented Archbishop Levada with a Cable Car Bell, noting, “With all the bells you hear in Rome, I hope this bell will remind you of San Francisco.”

State Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Leland Yee presented a resolution signed by every member of the California Assembly, “honoring Archbishop Levada and thanking you for your leadership and service to California.”

In video presentations, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi paid tribute to Archbishop Levada.

President George Bush and Laura Bush sent a letter of tribute and congratulations, which was read to the audience.

Ray Flynn, former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican and former mayor of Boston, paid tribute to Archbishop Levada in person. He expressed gratitude to Archbishop Levada for his “courageous action” on Catholic positions, and called for support of the principles of the Catholic faith.

In his comments, Cardinal Mahony said, “Archbishop Levada brings many gifts and talents” to his new job in Rome, including “a deep personal faith in God and the Church. [He is] a man of deep learning . . . an Archbishop of extraordinary generosity.”

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Archbishop William J. Levada received a standing ovation when he arrived in the Marriott Ballroom. Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles is at left.

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OAKLAND — The Diocese of Oakland in early August announced a $56.4 million agreement to settle 56 civil lawsuits against it involving clergy sex abuse of minors. The diocese said the suits involved 13 priests, seven of whom are dead, and the settlement includes all the suits filed against the diocese. Paying the settlement will require a loan and the sale of diocesan property that does not include parish assets. Of the settlement amount, $25.3 million will be paid by the diocese and the rest by insurers. The Oakland agreement follows a pattern of multimillion dollar settlements by California dioceses this year in which the average payment per plaintiff has been more than $1 million. The Diocese of Orange announced in January a $100 million agreement involving 90 claimants. In late June, the Diocese of Sacramento agreed to pay $35 million to 33 alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse. The agreement resolves all pending claims against the diocese alleging sexual abuse by priests against children over the past four decades. Also in June, the Diocese of Santa Rosa announced it had reached a $7.3 million settlement in eight of the nine pending cases against the diocese. In two separate agreements, the Archdiocese of San Francisco and its insurance carriers will pay approximately $37 million to 27 claimants, resolving about half of the 60 cases in which it is named as primary defendant. The settlements came after California enacted a law establishing a one-year window in 2003 during which victims of childhood sexual abuse could file civil suits previously barred by the statute of limitations.

About 800 suits were filed against California dioceses during that year. Still to be settled are more than 550 suits filed against the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

Apostolic visitation of all U.S. seminaries to start this fall WASHINGTON — The Vatican-run apostolic visitation of U.S. Catholic seminaries and houses of priestly formation will begin late this September. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, who will coordinate the visits, announced details of the plan Aug. 19. Sparked by the sexual abuse crisis that hit the U.S. church in 2002, the visitations will pay special attention to areas such as the quality of the seminarians’ human and spiritual formation for living chastely and of their intellectual formation for faithfulness to church teachings, especially in the area of moral theology. The Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, which oversees seminary formation around the world, has appointed 117 bishops and seminary personnel as visitors. They are to visit each college- or theology-level institution, working in teams of three for smaller programs or four for the larger ones.

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Oakland diocese reaches $56.4 million settlement in child sex abuse suits

Demonstrators Mimi Evans and Juan Torres embrace after a morning prayer service at an anti-war protest camp near U.S. President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, Aug. 21. Protesters were continuing their vigil near the ranch until Bush returns to Washington in September.

Catholic colleges receive top rankings in annual magazine survey WASHINGTON — Catholic colleges and universities across the country once again placed high in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of the nation’s best colleges. In national rankings, three Catholic colleges made the top 50: the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Boston College. Six of the top 15 ranked regional universities in the West are Catholic: Santa Clara University, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash., University of Portland, Oregon, St. Mary’s College of California in Moraga and Seattle University. In the North regional rankings, Catholic colleges took the top four spots and seven of the top 15. Catholic colleges held four spots in the Midwest top 15, and two spots in the South top 15. The rankings were based on a wide range of factors used by the magazine in conducting the survey: peer assessment, academic reputation, retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving.

Develop special youth programs for Hispanics, says report STOCKTON — Special Catholic youth programs need to be developed to attract Hispanic teens and young adults, said a new report by a research center and publishing house specializing in Hispanic Catholic issues. Traditional parish-based and high-school-based programs aimed at English-speaking white youths are not working with Hispanics, said the report prepared by Instituto Fe y Vida (Faith and Life Institute), based in Stockton. Hispanic and white Catholic youths come mostly from opposite ends of the economic, social and educational scale, said the report released Aug. 18. The

report added that whites tend to participate in groupbased religious activities, while Hispanics prefer religious activities done at a personal or family level. The 24-page report was based on the Catholic responses to a 2002-2003 national study of the religious attitudes of 3,370 English-speaking and Spanish-speaking youths between 13 and 17 years old.

Ugandan archbishop lauds AIDS fight, says women’s status improving SAN DIEGO — The Catholic Church in Uganda is making huge strides in combating the AIDS epidemic, while dissuading reliance on condoms, and improving the status of women, said a Ugandan archbishop during a brief visit to the Diocese of San Diego. Archbishop Paul Bakyenga of Mbarara said the church has played an active role in his country’s controversial “ABC policy,� because the policy allowed the church to focus its energies on abstinence and fidelity. He said the program has successfully slowed the spread of AIDS. The policy’s name is an acronym for a three-pronged approach to AIDS prevention, which includes abstinence, being faithful to one’s spouse and, as a last resort, condom use. While the Catholic Church recognizes the immorality of using artificial means of contraception, including condoms, Archbishop Bakyenga said the church has had no difficulty working alongside government agencies and nongovernmental organizations that promote their use.

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In an Order of the Knights of Peter Claver ceremony Aug. 5 at the San Francisco Archdiocese Chancery, Archbishop William J. Levada was invested with the Meritorious Order of the Fourth Degree and declared a Sir Knight. Shown with Archbishop Levada is Father Ken Westray (front right), pastor of St. Sebastian Parish in Marin. Other participants from the Archdiocese of San Francisco were Wesley Arceneaux, Elmon Goodson. James Ned, James Simon, Sam Washington and Darrell Washington. Also participating were Father James Matthew, Father John Maxwell, Jesuit Father Gregory Chisholm and Deacon Eugene Stelly of the Oakland Diocese, Rufus Fisher, James Simon, Ronald Tutson, Clifford Young and Gregory Warner. The Order of the Knights of Peter Claver was founded in 1909 in Mobile, Alabama and is headquartered in New Orleans. Active in more than 60 U.S. dioceses, the Order of the Knights of Peter Claver is a national Catholic fraternal organization comprised of a men, women, young men and young ladies. For more information visit www.knightsofpeterclaver.com.

darkest period of German and European history.� The pope warned of new signs of anti-Semitism today and said the Catholic Church has a duty to remember the Holocaust and to teach its lessons to younger generations who did not witness the “terrible events� that took place before and during World War II. Toward the end of his Aug. 19 speech, he said Christians and Jews have to respect each other and added, off-the-cuff, “and love each other.� The pope spoke to some 500 Jewish representatives in Cologne, in a synagogue destroyed during the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom and rebuilt in 1959. The Jewish community in Cologne is

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Pope Benedict XVI pledges ecumenical progress COLOGNE, Germany — Meeting with Protestant and Orthodox leaders in Germany, Pope Benedict XVI pledged to move ecumenism forward during his pontificate, saying he realized that many Christians expect “concrete steps to bring us closer together.� While he reaffirmed the church’s belief that unity already subsists

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Emerging papacy . . . wartime Germany. His own influence at the Second Vatican Council went unmentioned by the pope — though not by his dialogue partners in Cologne.

With seminarians and priests, he listened carefully to personal stories of their vocational calling, without describing his own.

In none of his appearances with young people did he reminisce about his own youth. When one girl asked him if he had any dreams as a child, he reflected and said he probably did not analyze his feelings much at that age.

The 78-year-old pope also took a serious approach to the World Youth Day encounters. Gone were the foot-tapping, the arm-waving and the ironic one-liners that Pope John Paul would employ to delight his younger crowds.

Instead, Pope Benedict protected the religious tone of each meeting, putting his fingers to his lips when the inevitable chanting of his name would begin. By the end of the weekend, the chanting had lessened considerably.

The young people seemed to respect his wishes and accept him on his terms, recognizing that public charisma is not everything. The dozen who had lunch with him were unanimously impressed with his kindness, his intelligence and, above all, his personal interest in their lives.

The pope’s spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, said during the trip that if Pope John Paul often expressed himself in gestures Pope Benedict is giving the church “a pontificate of concepts and of words.”

The words were not always easy in Cologne. At his closing sermon, for example, the pope spoke about the different nuances of the word “adoration” in Greek and Latin — an explication that may have escaped all but the gifted listener.

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Pope Benedict XVI walks with youths from Latin America and Africa during World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, Aug. 18.

In another passage, he creatively described the series of transformations set off by the Eucharist as an “intimate explosion” akin to nuclear fission.

The pope’s talks were challenging minilessons in the basics of the faith. Did his young audience get it?

“I think young people are underestimated these days,” said Jim Nolan, president of a U.S. Catholic student group, Crossroads, which sponsored a pro-life walk by 40 young people to World Youth Day. “I think they’re more than capable of handling (the pope’s message), and I think they need those foundational aspects of our faith to be reaffirmed. I believe they welcome it,” he said.

The pope seemed to feel the same way. Shortly before

leaving Germany, he told the country’s bishops that young people “are not looking for a church that panders to youth” but one that challenges them to be completely open to Christ.

He said the bishops should channel the enthusiasm generated by the events and find new ways to reach out to young people. Above all, he said, they should recognize that young people are indeed open to the Gospel.

In effect, the pope said, young people are giving a healthy stimulus to their own pastors, asking them to be “consistent, united and courageous.”

“We, for our part, must train them in patience, in discernment, in healthy realism. Yet there can be no false compromise, no watering down of the Gospel,” he said.

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Fall Fest set for September 24 Fall Fest 2005, a gathering for prayer reflection and fun for Catholic couples and singles in their late teens, 20s, and 30s will be held Saturday, September 24 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.

The theme for the 9th annual Fall Fest is “Step Out and Trust,” and the goal is to connect young adults to Jesus, the Church, the mission of the Church, and to a peer community of young Catholics.

The day begins with registration and a coffee social at 9:00 a.m. This is followed by exhibits, a welcome, prayer, and keynote address by Deacon Nate Bacon. Deacon Bacon and his wife Jenny are San Francisco Directors of “InnerChange,” an ecumenical missionary order among the marginalized. They helped found the St. Dimas Community in 1992, a ministry with young people caught up in gangs and drugs. He has two sons and a daughter and lives and ministers as a Deacon in the Mission District. The theme of his talk will be “Living the Gospel Adventure: Reflections on our Eucharistic Vocation.”

Lunch is at Noon followed by breakout sessions in both English and Spanish tracks. They include sections on marriage, healing and sexuality, men’s spirituality, the Eucharist, justice, ecumenism and others.

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Noel Irwin Hentschel, CEO and co-founder of AmericanTours International (ATI) will be speaker at the next meeting of the Catholic Professional and Business Club of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. ATI is the second largest woman owned business in Los Angeles County and each year brings nearly $3 billion into the U.S. economy through its service to more than 1 million customers from 70 countries. Hentschel is also Vice-Chair of the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board and Chair of a committee established

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Pope shocked at slaying of Brother Roger, ecumenical leader

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI said he was shocked and saddened at the slaying of Brother Roger Schutz, founder of the Taizé community and one of the world’s leading ecumenical figures.

Brother Roger, 90, was stabbed three times in the neck by a Romanian woman during an evening prayer service at the Taizé community’s headquarters in eastern France Aug. 16. He died soon afterward. Authorities arrested the woman, 36, who was said to show signs of mental instability.

A visibly moved Pope Benedict, in impromptu remarks during his weekly general audience Aug. 17 at the papal summer villa in Castel Gandolfo, said he had been given the sad and “terrifying” news that morning.

It was all the more shocking, the pope said, because he had received a “very moving and very friendly” letter from Brother Roger the previous day.

The pope said Brother Roger had written to explain that for health reasons he could not join the pope for World Youth Day celebrations in Cologne, Germany, but would be there spiritually.

“He writes that from the bottom of his heart he wants to tell me: ‘We are in communion with you and with those gathered in Cologne,’” the pope said, quoting from the letter in French.

“In his own hand, he writes that ‘our community of Taizé wants to walk in communion with the Holy Father,’” the pope said.

In a telegram sent Aug. 18 to the current head of the community, Brother Alois, the pope prayed that God would give community members the strength to continue the work begun by their founder — fostering peace and reconciliation. Brother Alois, a 51-year-old German, returned from World Youth Day in Cologne to take up his new duties.

The papal telegram said Brother Roger was a “man of faith passionately in love with the church” whose community helped “numerous generations of Christians” deepen their own faith and meet Christ through prayer and friendship.

Brother Roger had met several times with Pope John Paul II, who briefly visited Taizé in 1986. Pope Benedict personal-

Taizé and the local church Taizé has become an extremely popular form of prayer at both Catholic and Protestant sites throughout California. The prayer involves a chant-like song offered in candlelit dark.

It was first brought to the West Coast at Burlingame’s Mercy Center by Sisters Jean Evans and Judy Carle. Taizé is regularly held at Mercy Center on the first Friday of every month led by Sister Suzanne Toolan and musicians.

The brothers of Taizé had visited Mercy Center regularly from 1983 until 2002. Their message proclaims that Taizé is a “parable of communion, a simple reflection of that unique communion which is the Body of Christ, his Church, and therefore a ferment in the human family.”

Several parishes throughout the Archdiocese also host Taizé prayer particularly as part of their Lenten observances.

A monthly Taizé service is also held at San Quentin State Prison in the Catholic Chapel on First Friday evenings. Jesuit Father Stephen Barber, Catholic Chaplain at San Quentin, said, “it is easily the most popular devotion and the most popular ecumenical devotion we have at San Quentin.”

The Sisters of Mercy will hold a special memorial Taizé in honor of Brother Roger on Friday September 2 at 8:00 p.m. All are invited. Mercy Center is located at 2300 Adeline Road in Burlingame.

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ly greeted Brother Roger when, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he celebrated Pope John Paul’s funeral Mass in Rome in April.

For many of the pilgrims attending the Aug. 17 papal audience, the news also came as a shock. Hundreds of thousands of people, especially youths, have visited the ecumenical monastic community of Taizé or participated in its activities.

The pope did his best to comfort them.

“In this moment of sadness, we can only entrust to the Lord’s goodness the soul of his faithful servant. We know that from sadness ... will be reborn joy,” the pope said.

“Brother Roger is in the hands of eternal goodness and eternal love and has arrived at eternal joy,” he said.

Some 10,000 Christians of various denominations traveled to the Church of the Reconciliation in the village of Taizé for the funeral of Brother Roger on Aug. 23. Cardinal Walter Kaspar led a funeral Mass.

Over the years, rumors have circulated that Brother Roger converted to Catholicism. His reception of Communion from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the funeral of Pope John Paul II helped fuel speculation.

Roger Schutz was born May 12, 1915, the son of a Swiss Calvinist pastor and a French Protestant mother, in Provence, a small town in Switzerland. He was a minister of the Swiss Reformed Church.

He founded the Taizé community in 1940 with three companions. It grew to eventually include more than 100 Anglicans, Lutherans, evangelicals and Catholics from more than 20 countries.

After first arriving in Taizé, the group asked the local Catholic bishop for permission to use the village church. It was such an unusual request that the bishop referred it to the papal nuncio in Paris, Archbishop Angelo Roncalli, later Pope John XXIII. The archbishop gave his consent and later became a friend of the fledgling community.

Some 20 years later, with tens of thousands of young people

Brother Roger Schutz

coming to Taizé annually, the community built the much bigger Church of the Reconciliation. That was the church where Brother Roger was slain as he prayed with about 2,500 people.

Brother Roger wrote numerous books and journals. He won a number of prestigious international prizes and awards, including the 1974 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

He was thought to be one of the most fervent advocates of reconciliation among the Christian churches since their division during the Reformation. His work and dedication helped earn him the respect and admiration of church leaders around the world.

Pope John Paul first met Brother Roger at the Second Vatican Council, where Brother Roger was invited as a non-Catholic expert. As a Polish archbishop, the future pope visited Taizé twice.

During his 1986 stop in Taizé, Pope John Paul said: “Like you, pilgrims and friends of the community, the pope is only passing through. But one passes through Taizé as one passes close to a spring of water.”

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Year of the Eucharist

Feasting at the table of the Word Among its directives for the reform of the liturgy, the Second Vatican Council urged that “the treasures of the bible should be opened up more lavishly so that richer fare might be provided for the faithful at the table of God’s word”. After the Council, the Catholic Church adopted a new, more expanded Lectionary containing the Scriptural selections to be used at Mass. A similar Lectionary is used by several Protestant Churches.

The Lectionary is part of our inheritance from Judaism; at the time of Jesus, and still today, certain readings from the Hebrew Scriptures (our Old Testament) are proclaimed on various Jewish feasts. Along with these passages, the early Christians listened to readings from The Gospels and other New Testament works. Only the writings contained in the Bible are recognized by Catholics as the inspired Word of God, and only these texts are proclaimed in the liturgy of the word. In part, the selections in our Lectionary are shaped by the pattern of the Church year, which invites us to contemplate various aspects of the mystery of Christ throughout the liturgical seasons of Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter.

The Gospel is the principal reading at every Mass, for the Gospels are the heart of all the Scriptures (CCC 125). We stand in reverence as the Gospel is proclaimed, for it is Christ Himself who speaks to us. Other signs of respect accompany this event: the Gospel Book is often carried in procession, greeted with the acclamation “Alleluia!”, and incensed and kissed by the deacon. On Sundays of ordinary time we have a three-year cycle devoted to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke; these are known as the “synoptic Gospels” (“one eye”) because they are very similar. The Gospel of John is heard during Lent, Easter, and on some Sundays in ordinary time.

The Old Testament reading is chosen to complement the Gospel. In this way we experience what St. Augustine observed long ago: the New Testament is hidden in the Old, the Old Testament is revealed in the New (CCC 129).

Following an early Roman tradition, the Old Testament is not read in the Easter season; instead, we listen to the Acts of the Apostles, which chronicles the presence of the risen Christ at work in His Body, the Church.

The Responsorial Psalm usually echoes a theme found in the Gospel and/or first reading. By means of the psalms we use inspired texts to offer praise to God for the work of our salvation, prepared in the Old Covenant and perfected in Christ (CCC 2585-2589). By meditating on the relationship between the Gospel, the Old Testament reading and the Psalm we experience one of the hallmarks of our Catholic approach to the Bible: an attentiveness to the content and the unity of the whole Scripture (CCC 112).

The “Apostle”, or second reading, is not thematically connected to the others. Instead, from week to week we listen to the principal parts of New Testament writings written by, or in the name of, the Apostles.

The Homily offers a reflection on the meaning of the readings we have heard, or an aspect of the mystery we are celebrating. Having heard what God has done for us in Christ, we respond with our communal Profession of Faith (Creed) and conclude the liturgy of the word by confidently presenting our needs to God in the General Intercessions. The Scriptures proclaim the great acts of God in human history, and in our

Intercessions we seek to broaden our horizons beyond our own concerns to pray for the needs of the whole world.

The Lectionary for weekdays provides two readings: a selection from the Gospels, and a passage taken from the Old or New Testament. Over the course of the liturgical year, from Sunday to Sunday and all through the week the Church “never ceases to present to the faithful the bread of life, taken from the one table of God’s Word and Christ’s Body.” (CCC 103) Our appreciation for the nourishment of the Scriptures is deepened by our own personal prayer and Bible study with others. The Church repeats the exhortation of the great biblical scholar, St. Jerome: “Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.”

(CCC 133) As we adore Christ present in the Eucharist, let us also listen attentively as Christ Himself speaks to us in His Word.

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■ Continued from page 10 Levada said, “The City is always reinventing itself. We have an example in how to go about reinventing ourselves in the example of our patron St. Francis. Look at his love for the poor. How he spared nothing to be

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Only from God does true revolution come Pope Benedict XVI’s address at World Youth Day Vigil

divine. Adoration has a content and it involves giving. Through change the world. In the last century we experienced revoluDear young friends, In our pilgrimage with the mysterious Magi from the East, we this act of adoration, these men from the East wished to recognize tions with a common programme – expecting nothing more have arrived at the moment which Saint Matthew describes in his the child as their King and to place their own power and potential from God, they assumed total responsibility for the cause of the Gospel with these words: “Going into the house (over which the at his disposal, and in this they were certainly on the right path. world in order to change it. And this, as we saw, meant that a star had halted), they saw the child with Mary his mother, and By serving and following him, they wanted, together with him, to human and partial point of view was always taken as an they fell down and worshipped him” (Mt 2:11). Outwardly, their serve the cause of good and the cause of justice in the world. In absolute guiding principle. Absolutizing what is not absolute journey was now over. They had reached their goal. But at this this they were right. Now, though, they have to learn that this can- but relative is called totalitarianism. It does not liberate man, but point a new journey began for them, an inner pilgrimage which not be achieved simply through issuing commands from a throne takes away his dignity and enslaves him. It is not ideologies that changed their whole lives. Their mental picture of the infant on high. Now they have to learn to give themselves – no lesser gift save the world, but only a return to the living God, our Creator, King they were expecting to find must have been very different. would be sufficient for this King. Now they have to learn that their the guarantor of our freedom, the guarantor of what is really They had stopped at Jerusalem specifically in order to ask the lives must be conformed to this divine way of exercising power, good and true. True revolution consists in simply turning to God King who lived there for news of the promised King who had to God’s own way of being. They must become men of truth, of who is the measure of what is right and who at the same time is been born. They knew that the world was in disorder, and for that justice, of goodness, of forgiveness, of mercy. They will no longer everlasting love. And what could ever save us apart from love?

Dear friends! Allow me to add just two brief thoughts. There reason their hearts were troubled. They were sure that God exist- ask: how can this serve me? Instead they will have to ask: How ed and that he was a just and gentle God. And perhaps they also can I serve God’s presence in the world? They must learn to lose are many who speak of God; some even preach hatred and pertheir life and in this way to find it. petrate violence in God’s name. So it is important to discover knew of the great prophecies of Having left Jerusalem behind, the true face of God. The Magi from the East found it, when Israel foretelling a King who would be intimately united with Absolutizing what is not absolute but they must not deviate from the they knelt down before the child of Bethlehem. “Anyone who path marked out by the true King, has seen me has seen the Father”, said Jesus to Philip (Jn 14:9).

God, a King who would restore In Jesus Christ, who allowed his heart to be pierced for us, the as they follow Jesus. order to the world, acting for God relative is called totalitarianism. It and in his name. It was in order to Dear friends, what does all true face of God is seen. We will follow him together with the seek this King that they had set does not liberate man, but takes this mean for us? What we have great multitude of those who went before us. Then we will be off on their journey: deep within just been saying about the nature travelling along the right path.

This means that we are not constructing a private God, a prithemselves they felt prompted to away his dignity and enslaves him. of God being different, and about go in search of the true justice that the way our lives must be shaped vate Jesus, but that we believe and worship the Jesus who is can only come from God, and accordingly, sounds very fine, but manifested to us by the Sacred Scriptures and who reveals himthey wanted to serve this King, to fall prostrate at his feet and so remains rather vague and unfocussed. That is why God has given self to be alive in the great procession of the faithful called the play their part in the renewal of the world. They were among us examples. The Magi from the East are just the first in a long Church, always alongside us and always before us. There is those “who hunger and thirst for justice” (Mt 5:6). This hunger procession of men and women who have constantly tried to gaze much that could be criticized in the Church. We know this and and thirst had spurred them on in their pilgrimage – they had upon God’s star in their lives, going in search of the God who has the Lord himself told us so: it is a net with good fish and bad become pilgrims in search of the justice that they expected from drawn close to us and shows us the way. It is the great multitude fish, a field with wheat and darnel. Pope John Paul II, as well as God, intending to devote themselves to its service. of the saints – both known and unknown – in whose lives the revealing the true face of the Church in the many saints that he Even if those who had stayed at home may have considered Lord has opened up the Gospel before us and turned over the canonized, also asked pardon for the wrong that was done in the them Utopian dream¬ers, they were actually people with their pages; he has done this throughout history and he still does so course of history through the words and deeds of members of feet on the ground, and they knew that in order to change the today. In their lives, as if in a great picture-book, the riches of the the Church. In this way he showed us our own true image and world it is necessary to have power. Hence they were hardly Gospel are revealed. They are the shining path which God him- urged us to take our place, with all our faults and weaknesses, likely to seek the promised child anywhere but in the King’s self has traced throughout history and is still tracing today. My in the procession of the saints that began with the Magi from the palace. Yet now they were bowing down before the child of venerable predecessor Pope John Paul II beatified and canonized East. It is actually consoling to realize that there is darnel in the poor people, and they soon came to realize that Herod, the King a great many people from both the distant and the recent past. Church. In this way, despite all our defects, we can still hope to they had consulted, intended to use his power to lay a trap for Through these individuals he wanted to show us how to be be counted among the disciples of Jesus, who came to call sinners. The Church is like a human him, forcing the family to flee into exile. The new King, to Christian; how to live life as it family, but at the same time it is whom they now paid homage, was quite unlike what they were should be lived – according to also the great family of God, expecting. In this way they had to learn that God is not as we God’s way. The saints and the True revolution consists in simply through which he establishes an usually imagine him to be. This was where their inner journey blesseds did not doggedly seek their began. It started at the very moment when they knelt down own happiness, but simply wanted turning to God who is the measure overarching communion and unity that embraces every continent, culbefore this child and recognized him as the promised King. But to give themselves, because the ture and nation. So we are glad to light of Christ had shone upon of what is right and who at the they still had to assimilate these joyful gestures internally. belong to this great family; we are They had to change their ideas about power, about God and them. They show us the way to glad to have brothers and friends all about man, and in so doing, they also had to change themselves. attain happiness, they show us how same time is everlasting love. over the world. Here in Cologne we Now they were able to see that God’s power is not like that of to be truly human. Through all the discover the joy of belonging to a the powerful of this world. God’s ways are not as we imagine ups and downs of history, they were them or as we might wish to them to be. God does not enter into the true reformers who constantly rescued it from plunging into family as vast as the world, including heaven and earth, the past, competition with earthly powers in this world. He does not mar- the valley of darkness; it was they who constantly shed upon it the present, the future and every part of the earth. In this great shal his divisions alongside other divisions. God did not send the light that was needed to make sense – even in the midst of band of pilgrims we walk side by side with Christ, we walk with twelve legions of angels to assist Jesus in the Garden of Olives suffering – of God’s words spoken at the end of the work of cre- the star that enlightens our history.

“Going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his (cf. Mt 26:53). He contrasts the noisy and ostentatious power of ation: “It is very good”. One need only think of such figures as this world with the defenceless power of love, which succumbs Saint Benedict, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Teresa of Avila, mother, and they fell down and worshipped him” (Mt 2:11). to death on the Cross, and dies ever anew throughout history; Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Charles Borromeo, the founders Dear friends, this is not a distant story that took place long ago. yet it is this same love which constitutes the new divine inter- of nineteenth-century religious orders who inspired and guided It is with us now. Here in the sacred Host he is present before vention that opposes injustice and ushers in the Kingdom of the social movement, or the saints of our own day – Maximilian us and in our midst. As at that time, so now he is mysteriously God. God is different – this is what they now come to realize. Kolbe, Edith Stein, Mother Teresa, Padre Pio. In contemplating veiled in a sacred silence; as at that time, it is here that the true And it means that they themselves must now become different, these figures we learn what it means “to adore” and what it face of God is revealed. For us he became a grain of wheat that means to live according to the measure of the child of falls on the ground and dies and bears fruit until the end of the they must learn God’s ways.

They had come to place themselves at the service of this King, Bethlehem, by the measure of Jesus Christ and of God himself. world (cf. Jn 12:24). He is present now as he was then in The saints, as we said, are the true reformers. Now I want to Bethlehem. He invites us to that inner pilgrimage which is to model their own kingship on his. That was the meaning of their act of homage, their adoration. Included in this were their gifts – express this in an even more radical way: only from the saints, called adoration. Let us set off on this pilgrimage of the spirit gold, frankincense and myrrh – gifts offered to a King held to be only from God does true revolution come, the definitive way to and let us ask him to be our guide. Amen.

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The Catholic Difference Dear Senator Leahy: Because you’re the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, your performance during the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge John Roberts will tell the country a lot about the constitutional and moral priorities of the Democratic Party and the party’s sense of fair play.

As one Catholic to another, permit me to suggest that you also have an opportunity, indeed a responsibility, to insure that Catholic-bashing, overt or subtle, does not spill over into the Judiciary Committee’s deliberations from the activists’ battle-of-the-blogs and the food fights on cable TV. Shortly after Judge Roberts’ nomination, President Bush was accused of “playing the Catholic card” in an opinion piece widely circulated in the blogosphere. “Playing the Catholic card” is, to be frank, either a vulgar appeal to ancient prejudices or code-language for “someone who can’t be trusted to take Planned Parenthood’s position on abortion.” In a news story chronicling Roberts’ work as deputy solicitor general, the Associated Press went out of its way to describe the nominee as a Catholic. Referring to Judge Roberts’ Catholicism in a news story in which that fact is wholly irrelevant is yet another example of barely disguised prejudice or warning-shot-by-code-language.

An overreaction? I think not. Consider what would have happened if, after nominating Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer to the Supreme Court, President Clinton had been accused of “playing the Jewish card”?

Suppose the Associated Press had run a news story in these

terms: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Jew, once wrote an ACLU legal brief on the constitutional status of Roe v. Wade”?

There would have been outrage, and it would have been wholly justified. American civil society simply will not permit public displays of thinly veiled anti-Semitism. In your work before and during the Roberts confirmation hearings, perhaps you could challenge America to rid itself of vestigial anti-Catholicism - which, as historian Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., once observed, is the most deeply rooted prejudice in the history of the United States.

Permit me to raise another concern. In late July, you told a Vermont radio show that you wouldn’t vote to confirm a nominee who “didn’t consider Roe v. Wade settled law.” You then compared Roe to Brown v. Board of Education, the epic civil rights case that rejected “separate but equal” public education as unconstitutional. I suggest that you have the wrong analogy here. The correct analogy is between Roe and Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 decision that created the “separate but equal” doctrine. Now there was “unsettled law;” there was a decision that cut across the grain of basic principles of justice; there was a decision that roiled our politics for generations, until Brown effectively reversed Plessy in 1954. Plessy, in a word, was the Roe of its time: a case wrongly-decided on a fundamental issue.

There is nothing “settled” about Roe v. Wade, which liberal constitutional scholars like Archibald Cox and Alexander Bickel deplored as judicial overreach in 1973.

Roe ignited the most divisive debate in our national politics - just as Plessy eventually did. Because Roe got it so wrong

on such a basic point of justice - does innocent human life deserve the protection of the law? - it has endlessly distorted other aspects of our law and our politics: again, just like Plessy did. Roe George Weigel no more “settled” the abortion debate than Plessy settled the question of racial justice in America. To suggest otherwise ignores the evidence all around us.

One final thought: in these hearings, I trust that you (and Senators Biden, Durbin, and Kennedy) will not reinforce the Kerryesque canard that the Catholic opposition to abortion is a sectarian matter, analogous to Mormons trying to “impose” a ban on caffeinated beverages throughout the United States. The Catholic argument is not complicated: the product of conception is a genetically unique human being; that human being never will be anything other than a human being; as innocent human life, it is inviolable and deserves the protection of the law. That’s it. You don’t have to believe in seven sacraments or papal primacy to engage that argument.

Please remember that in the weeks ahead.

one of them appeared in need of dialysis.

Then I remembered another one of the usual suspects, one who has a particular penchant for chewing: the dog.

His penitent expression when I called his name confirmed my suspicions. The “Bad mommy” chant turned to “Bad doggy” and I was relieved. Sort of.

Twenty minutes later found me sitting on the front steps with my furry friend dutifully following the veterinarian’s instructions. Every five minutes I pried open the dog’s stubborn jaws and forcibly fed him a tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide. Then I waited patiently for him to vomit. When he refused to vomit, I tried again. And again.

And again.

Between doses of the repulsive remedy, I sat on the gravel walkway. It was then that I had the following profound thought: What on earth am I doing?

I was sitting in the dirt waiting in hopeful suspense for a dog to vomit so that I could get back to laundry, dinner, and other not-so-momentous duties. Pathetic, right?

Before I had a chance to plunge into the bout of selfpity I was planning, though, God intervened. He turned my gaze toward the expectant faces of my children—the ones who depend on me to feed them, to clean them, to teach them, to love them, and to attend to their dog’s health care needs.

The true worth of a mother’s work is not readily identifiable in any one of the menial tasks she performs, I real-

ized. Its value is evident, though, in the precious bodies and souls of the children in her care. A mother’s duties challenge her to say “yes” to God’s call, one small task at time, even when it seems there Danielle Bean must be some loftier goal she could be pursuing.

The significance of a woman’s self-giving was a subject Pope John Paul II spoke of frequently. In Mulieris Dignitatem he told us, “A woman’s dignity is closely connected with the love which she receives by the very reason of her femininity; it is likewise connected with the love which she gives in return… Woman can only find herself by giving love to others.”

It just so happens that a mother “finds herself” in unusual and sometimes humbling ways. Some days I “find myself” holding out my hands to receive a toddler’s choked-on banana, wiping messy noses, and playing nursemaid to a naughty dog.

And after giving up on the dog, I found something else as well: the missing Tylenol tablets under Eamon’s bed.

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

Spirituality

A mother’s worth Did you know that some first aid kits have drugs in them? Neither did I. That was why I didn’t pay too much attention when I first noticed that one of the kids had brought our kit in from the van and left it—opened and nearly empty—on the kitchen floor. I threw away the assorted band aid wrappers and then quickly forgot about it… until I found the rest of the mess.

It was on 8 year old Eamon’s bed: the still-damp, chewed-up remains of some kind of paper wrapper. I pieced the bits together until I could read the label: Acetaminophen.

I froze. The gutted first aid kit came racing back to my mind. I struggled to recall the details of a television show I once saw about small children who had overdosed on Tylenol. Was it permanent liver or kidney damage they had suffered? Maybe it was both.

I searched the bed but found no pills. As I stared at the masticated bits if paper in my hands, a tiny voice from somewhere in the back of my head began to chant: Bad mommy, bad mommy, bad mommy…

I hurried downstairs and rounded up the usual suspects: the 5 year old, the 3 year old, and the 2 year old.

They lined up before me, wide-eyed and innocent-looking.

“Did one of you chew on this paper?” I demanded.

They shook their heads in unison.

I narrowed my eyes and looked them over. To my surprise, not one of them looked even the least bit guilty. Not

Danielle Bean is author of My Cup of Tea: Musings of a Catholic Mom.

Spirituality

From depression to delight It’s not easy to be grown-up and not live in a certain depression. Depression is the disease of the normal person.

But what afflicts most of us is not clinical depression, an illness requiring professional attention, but a certain chronic joylessness. There’s too little delight in our lives.

When we’re not at our best, and many times we aren’t, our mood is almost always coloured by irritation, frustration, jealousy, anger, pettiness, bitterness, and a sense that life isn’t fair. Many is the day when there isn’t a lot of joy in our lives.

However even at our best, our lives still often feel dour, duty-bound, heavy, pressured, sad, and lacking in delight. How often, on any given day, do we suddenly fill with joy at the feel of our own bodies, at the feel of the world, at the feel of friendship, at the feel of faith, at the feel of just being alive, and spontaneously say: “God, it feels good to be alive!” At such a moment we wouldn’t be depressed.

But we can go on for years, be hard working, honest, church going, duty-fulfilling folks, and never experience such a burst of joy. We see this kind of joy mostly in the very young; we need only to walk past a small child who’s just been fed or a kindergarten playground to hear bursts of spontaneous delight and to hear someone shouting to the effect that: “It feels good to be alive!”

How do we recover that?

Too often, as adults, we try to do it by working hard at creating pleasure, enjoyment, and delight in our own lives.

We try to crank up joy and delight, meeting life with the attitude: “I’m going to have a good time, whatever the cost!” But what we produce is seldom joy. That’s why, so often, we go home from a party feeling more empty than before going. Many of our attempts at creating joy and delight are really only attempts at keeping depression at bay. Our socializing tends to be forced and compulsive rather than spontaneous and fulfilling. For most adults,

excess is a functional substitute for delight.

But, here’s the secret: No matter how hard we try to find delight or joy, we can’t find them. They have to find us, catch us by surprise, blind-side us.

Father Every spirituality or Ron Rolheiser psychology worth its name tells us that joy and delight are always a by-product of something else. What?

They’re by-product of acting like God acts, strange though that sounds. Simply put, when we act like God, we get to feel like God; and when we act petty, we get to feel ROLHEISER, page 17

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TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Jeremiah 20:7-9; Psalm 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9; Romans 12:1-2; Matthew 16:21-27 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH (JER 20:7-9) You duped me, O Lord, and I let myself be duped; you were too strong for me, and you triumphed.

All the day I am an object of laughter; everyone mocks me.

Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage is my message; the word of the Lord has brought me derision and reproach all the day.

I say to myself, I will not mention him, I will speak in his name no more.

But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9) R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. O God, you are my God whom I seek; for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water.

R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Thus have I gazed toward you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory, for your kindness is a greater good than life; my lips shall glorify you.

R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Thus will I bless you while I live; lifting up my hands, I will call upon your name.

As with the riches of a banquet shall my soul be satisfied, and with exultant lips my mouth shall praise you.

R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. You are my help, and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy.

My soul clings fast to you; your right hand upholds me.

R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE ROMANS (ROM 12:1-2) I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (MT 16:21-27) Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. Then Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him, “God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.” He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay all according to his conduct.”

Scripture FATHER PHILLIP BLOOM

Mater Sí, Magistra No? Last Sunday we heard how Jesus pupil straight. The job of correcting is raised Peter to primacy among the not an easy one. I admit I often shy away Twelve Apostles: “You are Peter and from it - especially if the subject appears upon this rock I will build my Church.” explosive. To accept correction is hard.

But like many of us Peter is not ready to It involves the cross, a willingness to accept the full implications of following suffer.

Let me tell you about someone who Jesus: “he must suffer greatly...” (Mt 16:21) Peter tried to find a way around it did respond to this challenge. I know a (“God forbid, Lord. No such thing shall Catholic doctor who experienced a proever happen...”). Jesus, however, rejects found spiritual renewal. He realized his those words as a Satanic temptation. He faith needed to affect not only his role as talks point blank about the most grue- husband and father, but his entire life. In some reality in the Roman world - the his medical practice he had been precross. Then Jesus concludes with some- scribing the pill and other forms of conthing about profit and loss. “What profit traception. After studying the effects of would there be to gain the whole world these contraceptives, he concluded many of them not only prevented conception, and lose ones soul?”

Before saying what this means to us but caused the destruction of a newly today, let me back up almost forty years. conceived human life. Even though the In 1961 Pope John XXIII wrote an embryo might be very tiny, still what he prescribed could encyclical called destroy the child.

Mater et Magistra.

This serious It described the The job of correcting is reflection led him Church’s beautiful to review Catholic role as mother of not an easy one. I admit teaching regarding the faithful, but also her awesome I often shy away from it - contraception. He made the bold duty as teacher of decision to stop mankind. In the especially if the subject prescribing artifiencyclical he cial contraception applied the teachand instead to ings of Jesus to appears explosive. To teach natural some very specific means. issues.

One accept correction is hard.

This doctor’s Catholic columdecision involved nist who was upset It involves the cross, the cross. He natuby what the pope rally lost many of had to say, wrote a willingness to suffer. his patients; his an essay entitled colleagues treated Mater sí, Magistra no! For him it was fine that the Church him like he had a communicable disbe a tender, loving mother, but he closed ease. They kept their distance. His famhis ears when she pronounced teachings ily suffered and there was some fear.

But, you know, along with the cross God he did not like.

We might shake our heads that a gives blessings. It brought his family Catholic writing in the secular press together like they never were previously. could be so openly disloyal, yet he sums And eventually, he built up a practice up the sad state of many contemporary based exclusively on natural methods.

Christians. This December I will have He now has so many patients he cannot been a priest for twenty-eight years. I take new ones.

For us as well it can involve a kind of have noticed that many want the church as a mother. When a loved one dies - or martyrdom to accept the Church as not some other crisis - people instinctively only our mother, but our teacher. St. turn to the Church like an injured child Paul tells us this Sunday to be transseeking his mom. And God forbid that formed by a renewal of your mind. That we be irritable or impatient or distracted is such a beautiful and powerful phrase. when hurting people come to us. We Following Jesus is not just a matter of must represent some of the tenderness of some pious feelings. Our very minds God which as the Catechism says, “can must be renewed so we can resist the also be expressed by the image of moth- destructive power of the culture that surerhood.” (# 239) And whereas God is rounds us constantly. Only by a humble first and foremost “Father,” his church submission to the Church as our teacher can we, as St. Paul says, “discern what is must always be as a mother.

There is the rub to this tender image. the will of God, what is good and pleasA true mother must also instruct. A ing and perfect.” (Rom 12:2) teacher cannot simply pat a student on Fr. Phillip Bloom is pastor of the head and say, “keep up the good Holy Family Parish in Seattle. work.” At times she will have to set a

Prayer of St. Ignatius Jeremiah – Michelangelo Buonarroti, c. 1511, from the Sistine Chapel.

Lord give me the strength to serve you as you deserve; To give, and not to count the cost; To fight, and not to heed the wounds; To toil, and not to seek for rest; To labor, and not to seek reward, save that of knowing that I do your will.

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Walk for Life fundraiser set for Sept. 10 will be a continuing effort, Evans said. More than 7,000 people took part in the day that like the upcoming January 21, 2006 event includes an 8 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral as well as organized speaking events at Justin Herman Plaza and a march from there to San Francisco’s Marina Green. Archbishop William J. Levada addressed the crowd and led the march.

“The Walk for Life West Coast with similar events in Washington D.C and Sacramento will mark the thirty-third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s legalizing abortion in its Rose v. Wade decision of1973,” Evans said.

Tickets to the Sept. 10 gala are $75 each and sponsorships are available at $10,000, $5,000 and $1,500 levels. Please make reservations by September 2 to Vicki Evans at (415) 945-0180 or Dolores Meehan at (415) 586-1576 who can also answer questions about the Walk for Life West Coast.

“The San Francisco Archdiocesan Respect Life Program and Walk for Life West Coast extend a warm invitation to their joint fundraiser, a Gala Auction Evening for Life,” said Vicki Evans, Respect Life Coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The event takes place in the Julia Morgan Ballroom at the Merchant’s Exchange Building, 465 California Street, 15th floor, San Francisco, September 10, beginning at 7 p.m.

Festivities include live and silent auctions, a buffet dinner, wine and champagne and musical entertainment. Among live auction items is an all-expense paid trip for two to Rome that will be scheduled to coincide with the anticipated appointment of former San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada to the College of Cardinals.

This year’s Walk for Life West Coast was held in January 2005 and was the first of what organizers hope

Vicki Evans and Eva Muntean at Walk for Life West Coast 2005.

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

Call (415) 567-2020 for more information.

Sept. 2: Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament every First Friday after the 8:00 a.m.

Mass Friday and continuing throughout the day and night until 7:45 a.m. Saturday with Morning Prayer and Benediction. (Exposition is suspended during scheduled Masses at 12:10 noon, 7:00 p.m. and 6:45 a.m. according to liturgical norms.) Join us as we pray for world peace, a culture of life, priests and the special intentions commended to our prayers.

For more information or to volunteer please call (415) 567-2020 x224.

Cathedral Autumn Group: All people 55 and over are cordially invited. Call (415) 567-2020, ext.

218. September 15: Sonoma by Coach. Sonoma Mission & Square, Historic Buena Vista Winery.

Reservations Required to (415) 567-2020 ext. 218.

Food & Fun Aug. 26, 27, 28: Fall Festival benefiting Epiphany Elementary School, on Vienna St. one block from Geneva. Fri.: noon – 6 p.m.; Sat.: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Sun.: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. “Come one, come all and join the fun,” said Phyllis Tonna, president of the school Parents’ Association. “Only through your participation can this event be successful.” Call (415) 3374030, ext. 240.

Aug. 30: Internationally acclaimed author and speaker, Matthew Kelly, speaks at St. Peter and Paul Church on Washington Square at 7 p.m. “The evening will build upon the message that our essential purpose is to be ourselves and everything in life makes sense when one keeps that essential purpose in mind,” said information promoting the event.

Call (415) 290-8401. Kelly, 31, is author of the New York Times bestseller, The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose.

Sept. 2: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club gathers for Mass at 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield. Breakfast and presentation follow in parish hall. Today’s speaker is Father Kenneth Weare, pastor, St. Rita Parish in Fairfax and much sought after speaker on ethics issues. Members Breakfast: $7. Visitors Breakfast: $10 . Call 461-0704 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. or contact Sugaremy@aol.com!

Sept. 17, 18: Palmdale Spectacular VIII benefiting the Sisters of the Holy Family. Features silent and live auction, dinner, raffle and strolling musicians.

Sat. 1 – 4 p.m. with auction preview and Mass at 4:40 p.m. Sun.: 1 – 5 p.m. Call Linda Micciche at (510) 624-4581.

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

Sept. 29 – Oct. 7: Novena for Peace at St. Anthony’s Church 3215 Cesar Chavez St. at Folsom, San Francisco. Rites include Mass, Scriptural Rosary, sung Chaplet of Divine Mercy, and a sermon on peace. Guest speakers include Wayne Weible, author of “Medjugorje the Message”. Father Anthony Rosevear and Father John O’Brien will preside. “Don’t miss this chance to make a vital difference by praying for peace and divine protection for our city and our world,” said Christine Watkins, an organizer of the novena.

Sept. 29: 7-9 p.m./Sept 30: 4-6:45 p.m./Oct. 1: 79:30 p.m./Oct. 2: 1-3 p.m./Oct. 3 through 6: 7-9 p.m./Oct. 7: 5-7 p.m. Contact Christine Watkins at (415) 931-5517, or christinew@runbox.com.

Oct. 4: Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont is pleased to announce that the first speaker of their Catholic Scholars Series is Sulpician Father Gerald Coleman who will offer a talk “Addressing the Stem Cell Issue” at 7 p.m. in Ralston Hall on the University campus. The free lecture is open to the public. For more information call Sister Roseanne Murphy at (650) 508-3551.

August 26, 2005

Datebook Franciscan Brother Kelly Cullen, right, accepts a check for $7,500 from Gene Payne of the Order of Malta at ceremonies June 15. The money will further the work of the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, where Brother Kelly is executive director.

TNDC serves the poor of the downtown district in areas of affordable housing and supportive services.

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

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

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

The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers free adoption information meetings twice a month. Singles and married couples are invited to learn more about adopting a child from foster care.

Call (415) 406-2387 for information.

TV/Radio Sunday 6 a.m., WB Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr.

Harry Schlitt presiding.

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

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

Reunions Sept. 17: St. Paul’s Grammar School reunion for class of 1960, 6 p.m. at Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco. Call Liz Hinds Hannan at (650) 342-1759.

Sept. 21: Class ’45 Presentation Academy at Sinbad’s Pier 2 Restaurant on the Embarcadero in San Francisco.

Contact Peggy Sweeney Volponi at (925) 447-0569/ pegneye@pacbell.net or Marian Fallon Sweeney at (650) 583-3679/doorbells6@sanbrunocable.com .

Oct. 1: Golden Diploma ceremony for 1955 graduates from Marin Catholic High School beginning with Mass at 4 p.m. in MC’s St. Francis Chapel. Father Tom Daly, school president, will preside. Dinner and dancing follows at Marin Art & Garden Center. Call Tracy Hogan at (415) 464-3800, ext. 3843.

Oct. 1: Calling all Stars who graduated in 1965 from Star of the Sea Academy - a 40th Reunion. Contact Teri Baldocchi at 650-592-6763 or xbaxter11@comcast.net.

Oct. 8: Class of ’50, Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School. Contact Joe Murray at jdmsail1@cs.com or www.holynamesf.com/alumni. The school is searching for class members from’65.

Contact Helen Sigmund Fisicaro at (415) 973-1022.

Oct. 29: Class of ’55, Immaculate Conception Academy at Embassy Suites in Burlingame. Contact Anne Nolan Dowd at (650) 359-2601 or andown@aol.com.

Sept. 30: San Francisco Giants game with pre-game party for Catholic Singles beginning at 5:15 p.m. The evening begins at 5:15 p.m. The Catholic Singles Network has reserved a block of tickets in the third base side (section 326) so that you will able to sit with other Catholic Singles. Cost of event (which includes pre-game party and the game) is $36 for CSN members and $46 for non-members. For more information, contact Paul at paul@csnca.com or 888-208-9555 x 83 Nov. 4 – 6: Widowed, Separated, Divorced Weekend at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, Menlo Park. The weekend is designed to be a time of closure on the past and new beginning in the present.

For more information, call La Verne (650) 355-3978, Ward (415) 821-3390, or Nicole (408) 578-5654, or see the website: www.beginningexperience.org.

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Nov. 12: Class of ’64 Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School. Contact Kevin Brady at kbrady2626@msn.com or www.holynamesf.com/alumni.

April 21-23: Reunion for class of 1956 -Notre Dame High School, San Francisco. Call Rose Doonan O’Leary at (415) 821-6512.

Holy Angels Elementary School in Colma is looking for graduates of its class of ’56 with a reunion in mind. Call (65) 755-0220 or email Holyangls@aol.com.

Class of ’65, Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City. “We are in the process of planning our 40th reunion and are looking for lost classmates,” said Michael Thompson. The reunion will be in September 2005.

Contact Pat Lucido Davisson at (415) 457-6544.

Email is patdavisson@ctt.com.

Class of ’75 from St. John Ursuline High School is planning a 30th reunion for this fall! Classmates should contact Kathy Grimley at (650) 342-7633 or kathygbnp@aol.com. Archbishop Riordan High School is in search of alumni moms! Call (415) 586-8200, ext. 217.

SF/East Bay Chapter of Kappa Gamma Pi is seeking members with whom it’s lost touch. Call Betty at (925) 284-2028.

We are on a Star Search for graduates of Star of the Sea Academy, Class of ‘55. A 50th Reunion is in the planning stage. Let us know where you are.

Contact Patricia Lawless Sack at 415-472-5732.You won’t want to miss this one!

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Oct. 7, 8, 9: Mark your calendar for the Catholic Charismatic Conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough & Geary Sts. SF. All are welcome. Friday: Praise Night at 7 p.m. Free admission. Doors open at 8 a.m. Sat & Sun. $20 per day/$30 for the weekend.

Lunch available for $5.Youth $10 for weekend. Lunch included. Call (800) 700-1849 or (415) 753-3732.

St. Hilary Church: Prayer meeting, 761 Hilary Dr. Tiburon, each Saturday, Father James Tarantino 9:30 a.m. Hospitality follows All are welcome. Call Moriah at (415) 756-5505 Bible Study: St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr. Tiburon, each Saturday 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. All are welcome. Call Moriah (415) 756-5505

Single, Divorced, Separated Aug. 28: CASA Monthly Mass at 11 a.m. at St. Anthony Church, 1000 Cambridge, Novato. Lunch follows at Viansa Winery. Get out, have fun and meet new friends. All are welcome. Call Joanne 927-4951 by Aug 24. Up-coming events include dancing, movies, planning meeting, picnics, the Big Game and more!

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

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame. Call (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Louise Nelson at (650) 343-8457 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City. Call (650) 366-3802; Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call (650) 589-2800.

Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont. Call Ann Ponty at (650) 598-0658 or Mary Wagner at (650) 591-3850.

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

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

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

Ministry for parents who have lost a child is available from Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Young Widow/Widower group meets at St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

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

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

San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, (415) 664-8590.

San Mateo County: St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Dorothy Heinrichs or Maria Cianci at (650) 347-7768; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Sylvia Miles at (650) 355-6650, Jerry Trecroci at (650) 355-1799, Frank Erbacher at (650) 355-4355; St. Matthew, San Mateo. Jim Shea at (650) 344-7622.

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

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■ Continued from page 13 petty! When we do big-hearted things, we get to feel bighearted; and when we do small-hearted things, we get to feel small.

Whenever we, in our own small ways, begin to imitate God’s selflessness and graciousness we will begin to feel like God. But how do we do that?

We act like God when we are selfless without resentment, when we give without counting the cost, when we give out of our sustenance rather than out of what we have in excess, and when we give our own lives away so that others, particularly the young, can live.

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man, goes to bless the young Marius at the barricades. This young man in fact poses a huge threat in that he will soon take Jean’s adopted daughter away from him. Yet Jean, the prototype of an Elder, goes to bless him. When he arrives at the barricades he finds young Marius asleep, but he also finds him in a situation where his youthful idealism and naiveté are likely to lead to his death. And so, as he blesses him, he addresses these words to God: “God on high, hear my prayer ... Look at this boy, he is young, he is afraid. ... So take my life, let him live! Let me die, let him live!”

This is what it means to act like God. To offer one’s life for another, particularly when the cost is high, and particularly too when that other might not even know what you are doing for him or her and might not be grateful for it.

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The air we breathe out into the universe is the air we will inhale. That’s the law of karma. When we act like God, we get to feel like God. And God is never depressed.

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While offering glimpses of a man blessed with abundant intellectual and personal gifts, the book’s focus is on Cardinal Ratzinger, a “decided Augustinian,” as a church leader. In striking ways he recapitulates Augustine’s experience of early speculative theological work “interrupted by his nomination as a bishop, and for the rest of his career his thought was formed on an ad hoc basis by the practical need to fight various heresies.”

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You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted. M.M.

in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin counties seeks a Director of CYO Athletics. The director of CYO Athletics will focus on organized sports programs and assist in the development of CYO Community Centers. The Director of CYO Athletics will also build and ensure connectivity with Parish and Community groups for services provided through Catholic Charities CYO programs. Some of the duties and responsibilities of the position will include supervising CYO Athletic Coordinators in San Francisco, Marin and northern San Mateo Counties; management of gyms; facilitate training of coaches and referees; development of effective communication and recognition programs for CYO Advisory Boards, Athletic Directors, coaches, program development, fund raising and communication through the CYO newsletter. A master’s degree in a related field is preferred; a bachelor’s degree is required as well as ten years experience in sports and recreational backround in a leadership role. The successful candidate will have an understanding of Parish community life, strong written and oral skills, and strong organizational, interpersonal and networking skills, among other skills. This is a full time exempt position with benefits. The pay range for the position is $70,000 to $80,000 per year.

For consideration, please submit your resume to jobshr@cccyo.org

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Full time benefited position available for Sisters of Mercy Administration. Duties include assisting the Leadership Team in overall administration of the Burlingame Community and the completion of specific projects. AA degree or equivalent certification from technical school in office or business management required. Bachelor’s degree preferred. Minimum of 5 yrs administrative assistant experience with at least 3 yrs of executive experience reporting to a senior executive preferred. Must be able to demonstrate a commitment to the mission and values of the Sisters of Mercy. Must possess the following abilities/qualities: ability to make day to day decisions in absence of Leadership Team; strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact effectively with many people with different work styles; ability to maintain confidentiality of employee and Sisters of Mercy records and information; excellent problem-solving/organizational skills; ability to manage multiple priorities and tasks simultaneously; ability to work independently and part of a team; ability to draft and edit written material; excellent written (correct grammar, punctuation, spelling) and oral communications skills, and computer proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Deadline for submission is September 15. Interested and qualified applicants may send their resumes to : Cherie J. Thibodeaux Sisters of Mercy Human Resources Department 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010 CThibodeaux@mercyburl.org FAX 650.373.4509

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Catholic San Francisco

August 26, 2005

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of July HOLY CROSS COLMA

Evelyn M. DiGiacomo George V. Donohue Alphonse A. Dubon Shirley E. Ergina Thomas R. Faenzi Jennie C. Fama Mat Frantin Lois M. Fredericks Agnes Frizzell Theresa M. Galaza Jesusa C. De La Cruz Gepila Barbara A. Gracey Marian K. Grey Mary Pontier Griffiths Bertina M. Guillory Walter J. Hawkins Francis B. Hayden Michael J. Healy Helen M. Helin Baby Herrera Larry F. Hissner Pauline M. Hodges Pamela Hofmann Shirley McDonald Hudson Ganix Iriartborde Lena Isacotti Bernadette L. Kurpinsky Josephine E. Lambert David Lao Robert D. Laurent Joan R. Lenfest Rafael M. Llaguno Henry A. Lopez Angelito P. Macapinlac Rev. Edward A. Maher, C.S.P. Francisco A. Malbas, Sr. Joseph Warren Maloney Rose Mangano Juanita Martinez Mary C. Martinez Andrea F. McGuirk Regina Ann Meisel

Transito Abadie Rita S. Alvaro Crispina G. Araullo Jorge G. Avila Lolita Lee Baclay Henry M. Baria Teresita Tanedo Barrantes Joaquin Samson Barrios Mike J. Begovich Bernadette J. Belmonte Geraldine Grace Benoist Gloria L. Bernovich Lena Bessette Carolyn L. Bezzi Cristina Gonzalez Bolanos Emanuel Borg Merlyn L. Bou Carmel J. Boyajan Maria Brown Donna Maria Brown John B. Canepa Andriah Zoleta Canlas Patricia A. Caramazza Vincy D. Caroli John J. Caselli Margaret M. Cassidy Helen M. Cebull Louise Chalmers Lolita R. Charlton Ernest P. Cheader Fred Ciolino Ann Cronin Marie A. Crossland Maureen E. Crowe George Cruny Clarence Eric Dahlberg Joseph Dalpogetto John De Francesco Santo F. DeGrandi Olga DelCurto Isabel M. Dickson

Nabeeh “Ted” Mogannam Greg Morini Pauline L. Morris Joseph J. Mulhall Anne Marie Muller Jack Dale Novak Margaret E. Nuhn Jose M. (Joe) Ocegueda Agnes S. Pahimulin Benigno S. Palaganas Carl Palisca David R. Palma Margarita Portillo Richard P. Portillo Angelica Prieto Joyce E. Quadrelli Irene M. Rainey James Earl Reed Antonio A. Reginato Lucy M. Ribera Roger J. Robles, Sr. Margaret M. Robson Humberto Rodriguez Lenor Garcia Ross Donald P. Saisi Amelia Salazar Teresita M. Salonga Lillian Scanlan Josephine Lee Schultz Richard M. Secondari Ruben D. Sigua Rita P. Smith James T. Sobeck Amanda Soto Catherine Stafford Micheline O. Steacy Maria Stefani Theresa L. Still Leonardo E. Tinaliga Edward N. Tostanoski Vang Thi Tran Josephine C. Valente Marilyn F. Valerga

Gaspar C. Velasco Lydia Venus Viado Margaret Vigil Belinda S. Villacorta Mary E. Volpatti Pauline R. Woodall Rodolfo B. Yambao Mario Yuen

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Rosa Vargas Gomez Patrick James Hilferty Emile “Frenchy” Pommes Francisco “Pancho” Rodriguez Helen Sophia Romani Thomas P. Shine Eileen B. Skrabo

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL William H. Behre Pietro Bornia John V. (Bud) Campi Clorinda (Babe) Crottogini Lucile M. (Cindy) Dunney Rose M. Guelfi Delia M. Joseph Agnese Kenilvort Alice Soares Shaeffer Esther M. Smith Mary C. Sugrue Arthur W. Todt Cecelia Ann Ward Margaret Keating Wood

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY – COLMA First Saturday Mass – Saturday, September 3, 2005 11:00 a.m. – All Saints Mausoleum Chapel Rev. Rene Iturbe – Celebrant Pastor, Notre Dame des Victoires Parish

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

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

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

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.