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St. Patrick Seminary honors Auxiliary Bishop William Justice with ‘Four Pillars’ award By Laura Bertone St Patrick’s Seminary and University honors one of its own graduates, San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William Justice, with the “Four Pillars” award at a gala tonight, Sept. 18, at St Mary’s Cathedral Event Center. The Four Pillars award recognizes individuals who have contributed to the excellence of seminary formation by embodying and promoting the four pillars of formation. The mission of St. Patrick’s Seminary and University is to prepare priests according to the mind of Christ and the needs of the Church in our present day using the four pillars as a guide. The four pillars originate from the teachings of Pope John Paul II in his Apostolic Exhortation, Pastores Dabo Vobis (I Will Give You Shepherds, 1992) and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Program of Priestly Formation (5th ed., 2005). The four pillars of formation are: Human, Spiritual, Pastoral, and Academic. Human formation seeks to help men become healthy and mature adults in the faith who can serve as bridges to others seeking Christ. Spiritual formation directs our hearts to God by fostering a deep, intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, faithful priestly discipleship, and clarity in one’s vocation. Intellectual formation looks to

San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William Justice stands in front of the altar at historic Mission Dolores.

open young minds and hearts to the wisdom found in the bringing together of faith and reason. Pastoral formation unifies and gives direction to the whole formation process. Pastoral formation directs young men to see Christ in those to whom he ministers and come to see Christ at work in himself. Following his graduation from Serra High School and St. Joseph’s College in Mountain View, Bishop Justice entered St Patrick Seminary in 1962 with 25 other men to prepare for priesthood under the Tridentine liturgical rite and a strict hierarchy of clergy. Seminary formation was fairly austere and static: seminarians wore cassocks and birettas to class, were taught and took exams in Latin, observed the Grand Silence daily, and could be expelled for leaving the Menlo Park grounds without permission. But with Vatican II underway in Rome, the young priest-to-be William Justice was able to experience the changes at the seminary and in the Church at large while still learning. Bishop Justice has said that he felt fortunate to be in the seminary while everything was developing: “The changes that were happening were easier to understand – we saw how it was rooted in the liturgy and scripture.” Although he says their scripture JUSTICE AWARD, page 11

Catholics, others give perspectives on new health insurance data By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) – New statistics on health insurance, poverty and income released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau “affirmed the economic and moral arguments President Obama made about our nation’s need for good, meaningful health reform,” according to the president of the Catholic Health Association. “As 46.3 million people went without any health insurance last year, median household income dropped 3.6 percent between 2007 and 2008, creating greater challenges for hardworking families. This explains clearly why the president and many in Congress have been highlighting how middle-class families so urgently need reform,” said Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity who is the CHA’s president and CEO, in a statement released one day after President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress. “As we know too well by now, losing health insurance – especially during a recession – comes with an enormous financial and human cost for families, communities and our nation as a whole,” she added. According to the census report, “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008,” the 46.3 million without health insurance represented an increase from 45.7 million the year before. Americans who had health insurance at any point during the year were counted as having health insurance.

INCOME, POVERTY AND HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE in the U.S. have all worsened from 2007 to 2008. While the number of uninsured has increased by 600,000 people, the percentage of those who are uninsured remains unchanged 15.4 percent. median household income $52,163

number living in poverty

-3.6%

number without health insurance

+0.7%

0% 39.8 million

$50,303

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2008

45.7 million

37.3 million

2007

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46.3 million

2007

2008

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

The number of Americans with health insurance also increased. Part of that was due to the U.S. population increasing, according to David Johnson, chief of the Census Bureau’s Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, who led a Sept. 10 briefing on the figures, compiled from information collected in early spring for the bureau’s 2009 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Also, “the number of people with private insurance fell while the number with government insurance rose,” he said,

including an estimated 3 million children who got health insurance through Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The number of uninsured children declined from 8.1 million (11 percent) in 2007 to 7.3 million (9.9 percent) in 2008, according to the Census Bureau, the lowest figure since data on children started being collected in 1987. Children were the only age group where the rate of the uninsured went down, although Johnson said HEALTH INSURANCE, page 11

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Vincentians’ outreach . . . . . . 3 Youth Mass Sept. 26 . . . . . . . 5 Single parent challenges . . . 10 Wedding guide . . . . . . . 12-16 New missal translation . . . . 17

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Members of music program at Mater Dolorosa Parish include, back from left, Rey Moscardon, Bill Bosque, Audi de Gener, Bernie de Guzman, Kit Pasamba, George Grivas, Glen Grivas, Gerry David, Caloi Lacambra, and, front from left, Dina Grivas, Chris Moscardon, Mayette de Gener, Angie Pasamba, Beth de Guzman, Vangie de Guzman, Marlene Pinzon, Dodo Diaz, Liza Lacambra with daughter Erin.

Where You Live By Tom Burke Happy 50 years married Sept. 12 to Angie and Kit Pasamba. The milestone was commemorated Aug. 16 at Mater Dolorosa Parish, where Angie is music director. To their surprise, Father Brian Costello, pastor, called the couple to the sanctuary, witnessed their renewal of vows and led prayer for them. Receptions followed in the parish hall and music room. Angie and Kit are now in the Philippines celebrating their golden jubilee with family. “We wish them many more years to come,” Father Brian told me….Mercy Sister Pauline Borghello, principal of St. Gabriel Elementary School, will be honored in her 50th year of religious life Sept. 27. The milestone celebration begins with a Mass of Thanksgiving in the parish church at 11:30 a.m. with reception after in Bedford Hall. Everyone is invited….. Congrats and keep up the good work to Mike Carey, new head coach of the women’s varsity basketball team at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory where he has served as head coach of the women’s JV team for 12 years and led the team to almost 200 wins and two

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league titles. “My goal is to continue the success of the Rafael September 21 at 11 a.m. for the 5th annual ‘fightin’ Irish’ women’s basketball,” the 1978 SHCP observance of the International Day of Peace. The graduate said. Mike’s four brothers are also SHCP alums United Nations established the International Day of – Jim ’67, Pat ’69, Terry ’72, John ’81 – as are his Peace in 1982 and officially made it September 21 in children, Chris ’01 and Christina ’04. His son, Joe, is 2002,” Kate Martin, communications director for the now a senior at the school. Mike, who Dominican Sister of San Rafael, said also coached championship teams at in a note to this column. Kate said Mercy High School, San Francisco, religious congregations throughout completed his undergraduate work at the country have installed peace San Francisco State. Thanks to Jeff poles at their motherhouses and Sutton, SHCP Sports Communication Dominicans worldwide observe the Coordinator, for fillin’ us in!... San day as they have representatives at Mateo Pro Life spread the word the UN in New York, and in Geneva. at the San Mateo County Fair in “Ours has four sides with the message August. “The pro life booth has been `May peace prevail in our world.’” at the fair for the past 30 years due The good wish is in four languages, mostly to the efforts of past chair, Kate said – “French because our Gloria Gillogley,” said current chair, foundress - Mother Mary Goemaere Jessica Munn. “The whole gamut of - came from France, Spanish because ages come by but especially young that was a dominant language in people and pregnant mothers,” she California when she arrived, Arabic noted, pointing out that the presence because of the history of unrest and of the message has drawn people conflict in that region, and English.” to join the group as well as moved Those attending should gather at many to make cash donations and the Peace Pole in the front of the Mike Carey show verbal support. The feast of Dominican Sisters Center at 1520 the Assumption brought special gifts that included a Grand Avenue at Acacia in San Rafael. For more $500 check from the Knights of Columbus of Holy information call (415) 453 8303….This is an empty Angels Parish in Colma. Ted Cordano, a member of space without you. Send items via e-mail to burket@ the group, and his wife, Kim, brought the donation and sfarchdiocese.org and by ground to “Street,” One Peter stayed to staff the station for three hours, Jessica said. Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. Electronic photos “The Knights deserve recognition for their generosity should be jpegs at 300 dpi. No zip files, please. Hard and prolife attitude,” she told me to be sure to say…. copy photos are also welcome sent to the Peter Yorke All are invited to join the Dominican Sisters of San Way address. I can be reached at (415) 614-5634.

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Health and hospitality form a new model for Vincentians’ detox center conferences, the general community – play a greater role in all the society’s programs. The St. Vincent de Paul Society’s Ozanam The society has been able to preserve its core Center in San Francisco is a short-term shelter government-backed services despite the threat for people dealing with substance abuse, many of city funding cuts, but amid the recession and of them homeless. For those in the community in the aftermath of the budget wars of 2009 who have fallen the hardest, it has long served Executive Director Chris Cody is looking for a as a place of relief. But Jesuit Father Frank broader support base. Buckley thinks this hard-edged refuge on “I need to reduce the reliance on government Howard Street could be a place of rest and and make it a more sustainable mix of parish recovery as well. and community support, both financially and Father Buckley, along with Sister of St. physically. Whatever your talents are, share them.” Joseph of Carondelet Katie O’Shea, is leading Sister Katie, who is the society’s chaplain, was an effort to transform the Ozanam environment the original spark for the Wellness Center. She into one of peace, nourishment and hospitality envisioned Ozanam as a place of hospitality rather than chaos where clients and and survival. Their volunteers could idea is to create a form relationships to We don’t give the Wellness Center that benefit one another. At keeps Ozanam’s basic Ozanam, volunteers homeless the least services in place while could “take the bringing in physical mandate of Jesus we’ve got but we give and program changes very seriously and to promote clients’ be comfortable with long-term health them the best we’ve got. people they don’t and invite a deeper know ... learn how to humanity. the stranger.” – Jesuit Father be with The Wellness Sister Katie said her Center is a significant for the Wellness Frank Buckley idea initiative for SVDP, Center is simply to whose 150th greet the men and anniversary in San women seeking refuge Francisco this year will be honored Sunday at with a smile and an offer of dignity. a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral to be celebrated “They come in that door usually and they’re by Archbishop George H. Niederauer. The so sad...They come through the door simply center, scheduled to open in November and asking for a bed, for a mat,” she said.” They to be built up as grants and donations are come in and they’re told to take a chair. This is secured, is a two-part effort designed to improve the last stop. This is known as the last stop.” services for clients and broaden opportunities Father Buckley enlarged on Sister Katie’s for volunteers. It emerged from soul-searching idea. In residence at St. Agnes Parish in San by the society’s leadership earlier this year as Francisco, he has worked in homelessness the organization coped with fiscal crisis and and addiction in San Francisco, Chicago and threatened program cuts. Los Angeles. The Jesuit also has studied The center points to a future in which interreligious dialogue in Nepal and yoga in volunteers – students from Jesuit-run colleges India. and high schools, members of Vincentian parish Drawing on Ignatian spirituality, he was

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Jesuit Father Frank Buckley and Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Katie O’Shea share a vision of transforming the St. Vincent de Paul Society Ozanam Center into an oasis of hospitality and spirituality.

interested in integrating mind, body and spirit. He developed a vision for the Wellness Center that began with nutrition as the first requirement for health. He wondered why the homeless should eat baloney and mayonnaise sandwiches rather than fresh food from local farmer’s markets. He asked why they should not have green tea instead of just coffee. From diet he turned to the physical environment. He proposed replacing the center’s metal doors with glass ones and, at the entrances, installing Asian-themed planters with bamboo and decorative stone. The clients at Ozanam are no different than anyone else, he said: they would welcome sunlight, brightly painted rooms and conversation, and some

might enjoy making music, painting and poetry as well. “We don’t give the homeless the least we’ve got,” Father Buckley said, “but we give them the best we’ve got.” From the physical environment Father Buckley went, in the spirit of St. Ignatius, to the interior environment. Ozanam clients sleep on mattresses on the floor, and looking at this classic scene of a flop for alcoholics and drug users, one wonders what they dream. Father Buckley would offer these men – they are mostly men in the 38-bed center, with some beds reserved for women – the opportunity to experience inner calm through yoga and massage. WELLNESS CENTER, page 8

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‘Sacrifice of enduring love’ WASHINGTON – Hundreds of people poured into the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Sept. 11 and 12 for a eucharistic congress sponsored by the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious. Pilgrims from across the country came to worship Jesus in the Eucharist, hear talks by the head of the Knights of Columbus and the daughter of St. Gianna Molla, and attend workshops. The theme of the gathering was “Sacrifice of Enduring Love.” Before the opening Mass, hundreds of sisters in many different colored habits filled a large portion of the center pews in the basilica’s Upper Church. Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, who delivered the homily at the Mass, said the key to understanding the Eucharist is to understand how Jesus was “motivated by a great love for his Father.” There is an “explicit connection between Calvary and Christ’s love for his Father,” the cardinal said. “We are here to acknowledge the power of his blood, ... the sacrifice our Lord, Jesus Christ offered for us on Calvary.”

Web site promotes peace WASHINGTON – The Catholic Task Force on Africa has launched a new Web site, www.yesafricamatters.org, to spread

the word on conditions in Africa prior to the Oct. 4-25 Synod of Bishops for Africa at the Vatican. The theme of the synod is “The Church in Africa in Service to Reconciliation, Justice and Peace.” In March, during a visit to Yaounde, Cameroon, Pope Benedict XVI released the synod’s working document, which called for a united effort among Catholics to help end the rampant injustices fueling conflicts on the continent and to usher in an era of peace. The new Web site provides background on the connections between the Catholic Church in the United States and Africa. It lists many of the partnerships and twinning relationships as well as the missionary communities from the United States in Africa. The site also contains a section specifically on the synod with resources and links to universities and other advocacy groups that can help readers better understand Africa’s current challenges.

Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general of the United Nations, chats with Archbishop Celestino Migliore, center, apostolic nuncio to the U.N., and Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York following an interreligious prayer service at the Church of the Holy Family in New York Sept. 14. on the eve of the opening of the U.N. General Assembly.

Inaction led to deaths LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria’s bishops said government inaction led to the untimely death of more than 2,000 people during the recent uprising by an extremist Islamic group, Boko Haram. Despite government knowledge of plans for the violence “and despite reports made to appropriate authorities, inaction of government allowed the sect to destroy more than 2,000 lives before the insurrection was brought down,” the bishops said in a statement at the end of their Sept 7-12 plenary meeting in Kafanchan. “We have no democracy worth the name if government cannot protect life and property of the citizen,” the bishops said. The Boko Haram sect opposes Western education and NEWS IN BRIEF, page 5

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Youth of the Archdiocese will gather for Mass at St. Anne’s Sept. 26 By Tom Burke Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice will be principal celebrant of an Archdiocesan Youth Mass Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, Judah at Funston in San Francisco. The Mass is a joint effort of the Office of Youth Ministry and Religious Education and Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “This liturgy is the first step to bring our youth together,” said Janet Suzio, assistant superintendent of faith formation and religious instruction. “Next we hope to have a youth representative for each deanery in the Archdiocese.” The need to “spiritually feed teens” has been discerned by campus ministers as well as par-

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ish youth ministers, Suzio said, adding “We all met with Bishop Justice and saw that we could approach it together.” More than a half-dozen meetings have led up to the Mass and Bishop Justice attended them all, Suzio said saying “He has been great.” Representatives from all of the Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese and many parish youth programs also took part. “All youth of the Archdiocese are invited to the Mass,” Vivian Clausing, associate director of youth ministry and catechesis, told Catholic San Francisco. “It is a time for them to be together to express their faith, connect with one another, and see that there are other Catholic young people who love their faith.” “The purpose of the Mass,” Clausing said, “is to bring youth together to celebrate their

faith and to let them know there is a place for them in the Church. We need their voices, gifts and talents.” Clausing said 500 youth are expected for the liturgy and ministers of the Mass will come from the young assembly, many of them recently trained as extraordinary ministers in classes at Mercy High School, San Francisco led by faculty member, Rita Cutarelli. A youth choir, coordinated by Katie Mojica, campus minister, St. Ignatius College Preparatory, will lead song. Both Clausing and Suzio noted that St. Anne’s is a large church and there is room for as many youth as want to attend. Adults who may be transporting youth to the Mass are also welcome. “This is the first Mass for youth and we hope to have more,” Clausing said. “Youth ministry

is growing the Archdiocese. Our young people hunger for God. Those who work with youth, no matter what the context – parish, school, community – are passionate about meeting the spiritual needs of young people today. We – parish and school youth ministers – hope to collaborate on many more projects in the future.” Ideas that have been raised, Clausing said, include a youth advisory council, providing leadership training, youth Masses, retreats, and opportunities for service. Clausing put the number of parish youth ministry programs in the Archdiocese at 40 adding “that number is growing.” For more information, call Janet Suzio at (415) 614-5663, suzioj@sfarchdiocese.org; or Vivian Clausing at (415) 614-5654, clausingv@ sfarchdiocese.org.

on our roads, killing in the name of religion, to name but these.” “We condemn violence on whatever excuse or disguise, and from whatever direction. We condemn it, above all, when its perpetrators blasphemously and fraudulently claim religious justifications,” the bishops said. “We wish to note that those who claim that they love God while hating their fellow human beings, even to the extent of killing them, are liars,” they said.

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services for Vatican City. In an article that appeared Sept. 11 in the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, Cuscianna said the new solar collectors are on three different rooftops inside Vatican City. Two-inch-wide tubes snake across 110 solar collectors, which cover 3,767 square feet, he said. Through a process called absorption cooling, the hot thermal energy produced can be used to cool buildings in the summer, he said. Using the sun’s intense heat in the summer to produce cool air inside a building is “a very valuable application” available with today’s new technologies, he said.

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On the eighth anniversary of 9/11, Marta Waisman holds a photo of her daughter Gabriela, who was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the attacks in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pa. Memorial services were held at these sites and at Catholic churches throughout the nation.

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Priests don’t stop ministering when retired By Michael O’Leary Can you think of another group of people who stay active into their 90s, doing what they have been doing since they were in their 20s – and enjoying it still? Our retired priests continue to celebrate Mass and undertake other sacramental ministry, serving the Church until they are forced by poor health to slow down. And even then, they continue to offer their prayers for the many people they have served in this Archdiocese, and people in need around the world. There are now 77 retired priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. 20 men live in assisted care in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties. The remaining 57 live in parish rectories, or independently in their own homes, or with family members who assist with their care. Almost all stay active to the degree they can. Many of these men

cook, clean and take care of their personal needs themselves, without outside help. Our retired priests are regularly asked to celebrate Mass, perform baptisms, witness marriages, hold funeral services, mentor younger priests, and hear confessions. Many of them celebrate important dates during their retirement years, reaching a 60th anniversary of ordination and beyond. These priests often gather together to enjoy each other’s company, and to provide fraternal support to each other in retirement. They remain in close contact with nearby parishes, and with parishioners they have known for many years. Their years of experience in ministry provide a rich resource for our younger priests, who have developed lasting friendships with the retired men, and who often come to them for spiritual direction. Archbishop George H. Niederauer, Auxiliary Bishop Bill Justice, and retired Bishop Ignatius Wang visit

From left, Father Jim O’Malley; Father Wilt Smith; Father Bill Knapp and Msgr. Dick Knapp.

as often as their schedules allow, enjoying the opportunity to listen and learn from each of these men, and the opportunity to converse with them about their shared experiences. These are the exemplary priests who have served you and thousands of others over the decades. Once a year the special collection for the Priests’ Retirement Fund is held at all of the parishes of the Archdiocese of San

Francisco. This year, please consider a generous gift to assist these men who still serve you. And please keep them in your prayers, knowing that you can count on their ongoing prayers for you and your intentions. Michael O’Leary is director of the Office of Development, Archdiocese of San Francisco.

True faith in God also requires loving, serving others, pope says CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) – Being a true believer in God requires living a life of love and concrete service toward others, said Pope Benedict XVI. It is not enough to believe Jesus is God, he said; a true Christian must also follow in Christ’s footsteps and take up his cross out of love. The pope made his remarks during his Sunday Angelus address Sept. 13 at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. “Jesus did not come to teach us philosophy, but to show

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Cathedral’s ‘Festival of Flowers’ features international floral designers Event highlights include a 30-foot asymmetrical composition of curved copper enhanced with a massive white flower cascade and sparkling glass globes flowing skyward above the baptismal font; a display of the Cathedral’s sacred treasures comprising of an 1883 Parisian gold chalice, a custom-made vestment worn by Pope John Paul II and California missions’ and historic churches’ artifacts; The Little Flower Festival incorporating floral arrangements designed by liturgical art and environment ministers; artist demonstrations focused on both American and European floral design techniques. Parishes and churches participating in the Little Flower event include St. Monica, San Francisco; Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park; St. Bruno, San Bruno; Our Lady of

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new for people in detox who are homeless. “For the last 30 years substance abuse treatment has focused on, ‘We have to break through the denial, be confrontational,’” he said. “This really asks a different question. It puts it straight on the client. They’re the persons who are changing. A little of them wants to change, a little wants to keep using. It asks a different question. Instead of, ‘Why don’t you stop using today,’ it asks, ‘Why don’t you keep using.’ Then they say, ‘My life has hit rock bottom. “Just by talking like that, they become their own motivation for change,” Father Buckley said. “It’s a different approach all the way from intake to treatment program.” During a recent visit to the center Father Buckley greeted Rosemary McLeod, Ozanam’s program director, and Waheema Shabazz, a program aide. Asked how she felt about the Wellness Center, McLeod said: “I think it’s fine if it’s done properly and everyone agrees to it.” Shabazz said the detox program plays an

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Father Buckley believes healthful food, rest and surroundings would have two practical effects. First, the changes would improve clients’ physical health: Father Buckley quotes a University of California at San Francisco study that found that a group of angioplasty patients who could not afford surgery and who instead underwent a program of prayer, nutrition and exercise lived longer than a control group that had the surgery. Second, he believes the environment would support clients in their work to break free of addiction. The Jesuit is strong on a therapeutic technique called motivational interviewing and is convinced that a more nurturing environment would give clients more of a chance to succeed. The technique, pioneered by Dr. William Miller at the University of Mexico, has been used largely in affluent drug and alcohol programs and would be something

Fatima Russian Catholic, San Francisco; St. John Vianney, San Jose; Our Lady of Lourdes, San Francisco; St. Bartholomew, San Mateo; Church of the Good Shepherd, Pacifica; Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Redwood City; St. Joseph Cathedral, San Jose, and Lakeside Presbyterian Church, San Francisco “Showcasing international floral artists during the Cathedral Festival of Flowers is an outstanding complement to the Cathedral’s overall mission as we approach its 40th anniversary,” said the Most Reverend George H. Niederauer, Archbishop of San Francisco. “It’s with great pride that we welcome visitors from far and wide to the Cathedral Festival of Flowers during the Feast of St. Francis weekend.” Ron Morgan, and Rev. William McMillan

of the Presbyterian Church, are among the notable designers participating in the Cathedral Festival of Flowers. Morgan is considered a master designer, and his book, “The Center of Attention,” has become an important component to tablescape design. Additionally, Rev. McMillan is an Albert Schweitzer Award winner and a native of Belfast, Ireland. His innovative creations have garnered him extensive recognition including Best in Show at the World Association of Flower Arrangers. To view a complete schedule and times, visit www.cathedralflowers.org/index.htm or call (415) 567-2020. A gala preview and reception open the festival the evening of Oct. 1. Tickets are $50 per person. Visit the website for more information. (PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO\CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption will host its Third Annual Festival of Flowers Oct. 1 to 4, bringing together renowned floral designers from the Bay Area and Europe. The event includes an opening night gala, unique floral elements, distinctive exhibits and creative demonstrations by the artists. For nearly four decades, flowers have been used to decorate and augment the beauty of the Cathedral, a 19-story-high architectural masterpiece atop Cathedral Hill in San Francisco. This year’s free Cathedral Festival of Flowers includes more than 20 floral artists from San Francisco, San Jose, Calif., Northern Ireland Group of Flower Arranging Societies, National Association of Floral Arrangement Societies of England and Association of Irish Flower Arrangers.

In the kitchen at Ozanam Center are Jesuit Father Frank Buckley, Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet Katie O’Shea, program aide Waheema Shabazz, at left, and program director Rosemary McLeod. McLeod likes the idea of the Wellness Center “if it’s done properly and everyone agrees to it.”

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Plans for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;state-of-the-artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; science center generating excitement at USF By Michael Vick Preparatory work has begun at the University of San Francisco for a multimillion dollar addition to the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Harney science building. Fund raising for the Center for Science and Innovation has reached the half-way mark, with a projected completion date of 2012. The center will expand the space for science education on campus and upgrade the existing building, built in 1966, with state-of-the-art lab and teaching space. The project also includes expansive informal study spaces for students and an outdoor campus center with space for seating and gatherings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The design gives a real sense of science on display,â&#x20AC;? said Brandon Brown, associate professor of physics and the lead professor on the project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can see the students working in labs. It could be lit up at night and be a real beacon on campus.â&#x20AC;? Brown said the building will be LEED Gold certified, a measure of environmentally sustainable construction. John Callaway, associate professor of environmental science at USF, said his department was among those pushing for the certification, and the faculty, administration and designers got on board with the sustainability argument. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Early on there was debate whether we should go for the actual LEED certification

or just go for many of the same features,â&#x20AC;? said Callaway, who coordinates the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduate program in environmental management. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the end people realized that the certification is valuable to show that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making a commitment. People wanted to be sure the university was mindful of those kinds of issues in these major projects.â&#x20AC;? Callawayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s department will be among those most impacted by the upgraded facility, with two new lab facilities. The department is the newest science department on campus, and presently has mostly makeshift lab facilities which Callaway said are not ideal for the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will give us the opportunity to train students on much more current instruments, giving them much better training and allowing us to do more in-depth work in the class,â&#x20AC;? Callaway said. Callaway said his students will also benefit from the interdisciplinary focus of the new building, with departments meshing together to share ideas. He said the ability to draw on the strengths of other departments, particularly the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new computer facilities, will greatly help his department and its students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Especially for the computer facilities, people have been really aware of designing those classrooms so that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not just for the computer science department, but for everyone who would be using them,â&#x20AC;? Callaway said.

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Greg Benson, outgoing department chair of computer science department, said the interaction between the sciences in the new building is among the most exciting parts of the project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of the sciences will be intermixed,â&#x20AC;? Benson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all excited about the interdisciplinary potential of having faculty, students and staff near each other.â&#x20AC;? Benson said he looks forward to the new buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to change the way the science departments are perceived on campus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will have a lot of potential to exhibit science in a way that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been done before,â&#x20AC;? Benson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see students coming out of their labs. It will increase studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; awareness of science at USF.â&#x20AC;? Kara Scanlon, a junior at USF double majoring in Physics and Math, said the new building will allow all the students at USF to get a better idea of what the science depart-

ments are doing, and to interact with their peers who are science majors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people are welcoming, but the building is not,â&#x20AC;? Scanlon said of the current facility in Harney. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No one gets to see all the cool lab space. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to see all the amazing equipment we have. The new building will be more user-friendly and open-air.â&#x20AC;? And, like the science professors, Scanlon said she is happy the building will facilitate interaction between the science departments, a development she said will not only be beneficial to USF, but to the community at large. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now in Harney the sciences are very separate,â&#x20AC;? Scanlon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What scientists want is to be able to cross fields and reach a higher level of understanding together. A lot of new fields are opening up that are mixing the sciences together to make great breakthroughs that really affect peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day-to-day lives.â&#x20AC;?

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Sociologists, educators see challenges for children of single parents By Jessie Abrams WASHINGTON (CNS) – This fall, the student body across the United States includes almost 17 million children raised by single mothers, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Another 2.6 million school-age children are being raised by single fathers, while 2.8 million more have neither mother nor father in the household where they live. Children raised without the presence of both parents can face greater academic challenges, according to reports from the U.S. Department of Education. One study, for example, says children of single mothers without involvement by the nonresident father are much more likely to have disciplinary issues and repeat grade levels. “The broad statement of course would be: the more stable home, the stronger marriage, the student will be better at everything,” said Karen Ristau, president of the National Catholic Educational Association. A study on “Working Single Mothers and Children’s Literacy Achievement: A Study of 18 Countries,” by Gillian Hampden-Thompson and Jamie Johnston of the University of York in England found “a dramatic shift in the number of mother-only families,” attributing the shift to a variety of factors, including “no-fault divorce, the decline in the dominance of the Christian church, female labor force participation, and changing attitudes toward divorce and unmarried mothers.” Brad Wilcox, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, agreed that “declines in churchgoing are linked to the increase in single parenthood” and that many other factors contribute to single motherhood. Wilcox, a Catholic, also directs the branch of the National Marriage Project at the university, a program initiated at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., to track the health of marriage in America, analyze social

and cultural influences on the institution, and develop strategies to increase marital quality and stability. Wilcox called marriage a “pro-child function” of society and said many children with only one parent do not receive the same amount of emotional and financial support as those children with two involved parents. Children are more likely to attend college if their parents stay together, he said. “Success in school depends in no small part on a successful family life,” he said. “Clearly marriage is a key ingredient on average to successful family life.” Susan Terbay, a single mother and regular columnist for http://catholicmom.com, disagreed. “Basically single parenthood is tough but no tougher than just being a parent,” Terbay wrote in one of her columns. “Family can come together and be a strong unit. ... It’s really up to the mother and to the children to make it happen.” At the time of her divorce, Terbay was left to raise alone six children between the ages of 9 and 19. She said many in the Church do not understand divorce, but she had a very supportive pastor who helped her deal with the guilt of breaking her vow to remain married until death and “letting God down.” She said she is “not sure the Church itself is equipped (to help single mothers) but I know there are women within the Church who are.” Terbay said she found trouble not in her everyday involvement with her children’s schoolwork but when one of her kids was struggling. “I think one of the hardest aspects of being a single parent is having no one to ‘sound off’ on regarding the children. As a couple, mother and father, you have the opportunity to talk together about the children’s issues, how to address them and share in the responsibility of their future,” she wrote in an e-mail to Catholic News Service. The founder and editor of catholicmom.com, Lisa Hendey, said there is very little outreach for single moth-

ers from the Catholic Church. She said she is working to better reach out to single mothers through her Web site and the Catholic Church needs to show support for women in this situation. Regarding her own children, Hendey said they often need specific help from her husband with subjects like math or science but come to her for questions about writing or religion. To help fill in missing parts of the parental “skill set,” she recommended single mothers maintain regular contact with their children’s teachers. She also suggested spending time volunteering in the classroom to better understand how to reinforce learning at home or filling in as a chaperone on a school field trip, although she said she recognizes many single mothers spend most of their days at work. She encouraged single mothers to foster a relationship with their child’s teacher as soon as possible and to establish regular communication with him or her through monthly conferences. Christian Brother William Carriere said Catholic schools should consider the culture of each child in their school when developing their curricula. After 17 years as the superintendent of schools in the Diocese of Orange, Calif., Brother William took on the role of executive director of the Western Catholic Educational Association, which accredits Catholic elementary and high schools in numerous Western states. He said he kept track of children coming from singleparent homes as superintendent, but never with the idea that it would factor into a student’s academic success. Many studies show children of single parents “do have some disconnect with school,” Brother William said, but to link single parenthood to academic success in children is “dangerous.” Many schools associated with the Western educational organization offer preschool and after-school programs where all children can get additional help with homework, if needed, he said.

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professor was “horribly boring” he is grateful to him for giving the students the concepts of biblical interpretation and opening the Word in new ways – something that would not have been done just a few years earlier. Reverend Frank Norris, SS, who was Bishop Justice’s second year theology professor, had just returned from Rome where he had observed the Vatican Council. The class used the documents from the Council as their textbooks, studying and absorbing the documents as they were published. “We were lucky” says the former seminarian of his time at St Patrick’s preparing to minister in a Church that was radically different from the one he had been expecting to be ministering in. But life at the seminary was not all classes and rules. One thing that “kept us sane” was putting on plays at the seminary, recalls Bishop Justice. Originally performed only for the other students, eventually they were able to convince the administration to allow the men to perform their theatrics for family on visitors’ days. Bishop Justice acted as the costume manager for such productions as “Oklahoma,” “My Fair Laddie,” and “Hello Dolly”, all performed from scripts rewritten by the talented seminarians to avoid the fact that there were no women at hand to play the female roles. By the end of his time at St Patrick’s, Bishop Justice now recognizes that the seminary was “more balanced” due to the changes brought about by Vatican II; there technically had been no major alterations to the rules that governed seminary life, but there were “so many little changes that overall our lives were different.” There was more interaction and communication with

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they were still “less likely to be insured” than adults. The percentage of Americans who get health insurance as a job benefit has declined each year this decade, from 64.2 percent in 2000 to 58.5 percent last year. The numbers are likely to get worse before they get better. The

Bishop William Justice is shown in photos as a young seminarian (left) and as a young priest.

what was going on outside the walls of the seminary, English was being used in the classroom and the liturgy, and seminarians were able to leave the grounds more often to work in parishes. In his final year, having been ordained a deacon, Bishop Justice went to a parish on the weekends where he taught CCD and learned along with members of the parish new hymns and music that were being published in English. Following his graduation from St Patrick’s Seminary with a Masters in Divinity and ordination to the priesthood in 1968, Bishop Justice spent the next 39 years in pastoral assignments throughout the Archdiocese. And although the four pillars had not been developed when Mr. William Justice entered St Patrick’s Seminary, Bishop William Justice sees them at work in his life today and when looking back on the last four decades of priestly affordability of health care may become more of an issue as median U.S. household income dropped 3.6 percent from 2007 levels, the first drop since 2004, the biggest since 1991, and what Lawrence Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute called the steepest drop for the first year of a recession since World War II. Further, last year’s average unemployment rate was 5.8 percent, Mishel said during a Sept. 10 conference call with reporters. This year, he said, unemployment will average about 9 percent. “The Census Bureau findings and the president’s speech

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Wedding Guide Americans believe in lifelong marriage, but don’t live it, author says College-educated couples are more likely to marry in the first place, to be happily married and to have low divorce rates, she said. ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) – Although the majority of The majority of the growth in divorce rates has come Americans want to get married and believe marriage should from the segment of the population that does not have collast a lifetime, the American dream often doesn’t match the lege degrees, Whitehead said. This same group is also more reality, social scientist Barbara Dafoe Whitehead told an likely to forego marriage completely. audience of family life ministers in St. Paul. Whitehead attributes this divide between those she calls “You might say that Americans are enchanted with the “the marriage haves” – the college-educated population idea of marriage and the aspiration to marriage, but disen– and “the marriage have-nots” – those without a college chanted with being married, particularly to one person for degree – to several factors, including a decrease in higha lifetime,” she said. wage blue-collar jobs. And Catholics are showing tendencies more like the “Young men, if they can’t find steady, reliable work, are general population than in previous generations, she said not considered good marriage material by women in an address to attendees at the annual conference and even by themselves; they don’t feel prepared to of the National Association of Catholic Family Life Even after decades of rising rates of support a family,” Whitehead said. Ministers. Marriage itself has undergone reorganization Titled “Becoming a Marriage-Building Church: cohabitation and divorce, research shows over the past five decades, she said. Implementing the U.S. Bishops’ Pastoral Initiative “(It) used to be the first stop on the road to on Marriage,” the conference offered a range independent adulthood,” defining separation from of workshops and featured national speakers on Americans deeply believe in marriage. one’s parents, she said. “Now marriage has been marriage-related issues. redefined in the sequence of adulthood as the very The U.S. bishops have named marriage a top priority and in five years ago launched the multiyear National However, despite this conclusion, trends within the last thing you do” after finding a job, paying back debt and Pastoral Initiative for Marriage. The U.S. bishops also plan broader culture are moving away from marriage as the main buying a house, she said. The population without a college education has a more to release a pastoral letter on marriage. childbearing and child-raising institution, she said. Nearly difficult time achieving these road markers than those with Whitehead is an author and co-director of the National four out of 10 children are born outside of marriage. Marriage Project at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Research shows that children who are born outside of a college education, Whitehead said, leading them to put off Whitehead identified three troubling trends threatening marriage are exposed to more economic and emotional hard- marriage, but not necessarily parenthood. “And when they do marry, their marriages are extremely marriage today: the split between marriage and parenthood, ship and often lose connection to their fathers. By age 15, the the statistical divide between marriages of college-educated “overwhelming majority” of children born to cohabitating precarious,” she added. One in four marriages among noncollege-educated and noncollege-educated couples, and a shift from a public parents will not be living with both parents, although they to private understanding of the relationship. may be living with another live-in partner of one of their couples fails within the first four years, she said. In addition to its reorganization in early adulthood, marEven after decades of rising rates of cohabitation and parents, Whitehead said. divorce, research shows Americans deeply believe in marStatistics also show that marriage is becoming another riage has also shifted from a public, legal and religious instiriage, Whitehead said. Most Americans want to marry; 90 form of privilege, Whitehead said. The well-educated and tution to a private couple’s relationship, Whitehead said. It used to govern sex, procreation, family life, kinship percent do marry. And, when they marry, they expect their well-employed are more likely to get married and have sucmarriages to last for a lifetime. cessful marriages, even though marriage is a goal that most relationships and social lives, but today, marriage is widely understood as a “private, soul-mate relationship” that exists to However, “Americans break up at astonishingly high rates,” Americans have, Whitehead said. promote personal growth, happiness and intimacy, she said. Those are good things, Whitehead said, “but without the broader, religious institutional support for marriage, a “’soulmate’ relationship is very, very fragile,” she said, because it always leaves the question of whether or not the person one is married to is indeed his or her soul mate.

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Wedding Guide Catholic attitudes about marriage differ by generation, says survey “There’s a body of social science evidence that is largely consistent with Catholic teaching that somehow goes down ST. PAUL, Minn. – Catholic attitudes on marriage in the more easily with people,” she said. “It opens their minds church are different among generational groups, accordand it changes their minds.” ing to results of a survey of U.S. Catholics by the Center She also urged her listeners to find ways to support for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown young adults who aren’t on college campuses and who are University in Washington. scattered in the community. These young Catholics need a Social scientist Barbara Dafoe Whitehead talked about welcoming parish, especially as they think about preparing the survey results in an address this summer in St. Paul at for marriage, she said. the annual conference of the National Association Last, she asked the ministers to help young married of Catholic Family Life Ministers. couples deal with practical issues, such as money. The survey showed that older Catholics – those “This does not mean a retreat, or watering down These young Catholics need a welcoming who were adults before the Second Vatican Council or anything close to it for Catholic teachings on – are more likely to look to the church as the source marriage; in fact, it might call for more intense parish, especially as they think about for meaning and expectations for marriage than are catechesis on marriage,” Whitehead said. baby boomers or members of Generation X or the “What it does mean, in these times when we have preparing for marriage. millennial generation. a culture that is so really difficult for people to remain Older Catholics also are more likely to be familiar faithful in their marriages, there must be a polar recogniwith the church’s teaching on marriage, to believe tion of the circumstances of life and the need of support in marriage as a lifelong commitment between a man and “The youngest Catholics ... look a lot more like the pre-Vatican to help people live out the teachings of their faith,” she said. woman, and to think of marriage as a sacrament that extends II, Vatican II or post-Vatican II cohorts,” she said. “Huge majoriEditor’s note: The Center for Applied Research in beyond the wedding day, it said. ties – 80 percent or more – of these youngest Catholics believe the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University in Whitehead attributed this attitude to being raised in a time that marriage is a lifelong commitment and that people don’t take Washington, D.C. is a national, non-profit, research center of a distinct Catholic identity that included an emphasis on marriage seriously enough when divorce is readily available.” that conducts social scientific studies about the Catholic the church’s teachings on sex, procreation and marriage. Many children of this generation have experienced Church. Founded in 1964, CARA has three major dimenGeneration Xers – ages 25 to 35 – and millennial Catholics – divorce in their own families, and they are determined not sions to its mission: to increase the Church’s self underages 18 to 24 – are confused about marriage, and their attitudes to divorce themselves, Whitehead said. standing; to serve the applied research needs of Church are closer to those of the general population, Whitehead said. decision-makers; to advance scholarly research on religion, “This is a hopeful change,” she said. “Younger Catholics want to marry a soul mate, and Whitehead urged family ministers to share the social particularly Catholicism. CARA has been affiliated with they’re much less likely to see marriage in these broader, science evidence to dispel misconceptions, she said. Georgetown University since 1989. institutional terms,” she said. Sixty-nine percent of young Catholics believe that marriage is whatever two people want it to be, and the sacramental understanding does not figure as prominently into their understanding, she said. At Wedding and ocassion store we More than half of unmarried young Catholics do not find today it is all about the Bride. think it is important to marry someone of the same faith, she Wedding and ocassion store has added. Forty-one percent of young Catholics have married non-Catholics, she said. “In this, they’re very much like their peers,” she said. “More and more people are marrying outside their faith (and) marrying people of no faith.” However distant Catholics in Generation X seem from the oldest Catholics in their beliefs about marriage, the youngest generation – the millennial generation – is showing a swing toward traditional ideas.

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Wedding Guide Quick quizzes can stimulate conversations by married, engaged couples “PMAT: THE PERFECT MARRIAGE APTITUDE TEST” by Mary T. Carty. Glitterati Incorporated (New York, 2009). 144 pp., $18.95.

Reviewed by Regina Linksey Mary Carty’s book, “PMAT: The Perfect Marriage Aptitude Test,” should not be read alone and placed on the bookshelf to collect dust. Instead, it should be shared with a loved one and kept readily available for later reference. Written for engaged and married couples, the book is divided into several chapters dedicated to different aspects of life that might present obstacles to marital bliss. Within each chapter is a short opening and a list of multiple-choice questions related to real-life scenarios: Think GMAT, MCAT or SAT but without the timer and the calculator. Carty actually encourages readers to take their time to read and answer the questions. And although there is an answer sheet (No. 2 pencils optional), answer D is open for the readers to fill in their own responses. The scenarios are not only fun and enjoyable to read, they also can spark meaningful conversations between a couple.

Perhaps a particular circumstance – such as a partner mowing over a prized iris bed – never happens in the readers’ lives, but the situation might encourage a discussion that is realistic. Reading the book together also can be a good way to connect with a spouse. It is a joint activity that forces a couple to take a moment and focus just on themselves and their relationship. Carty’s book is unique in that it is an activity book for two people. It does not preach but it does encourage conversation and offer suggestions. Carty illustrates each chapter with a snapshot of a wedding-cake topper staged amid life’ss situations. Among other lighthearted scenes, thee plastic couple is placed in front of a bed (the he chapter on balancing sex, intimacy and personal boundaries), a Christmas tree (the chapter on family and friends) and a carnival scene (the chapter on food, fitness and health.) The photographs are a nice break from those awkwardly staged model-like snap-

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Wedding Guide A life not taken for granted and a particularly joyous wedding By Father Ron Rolheiser, O.M.I. This summer I presided at a wedding ceremony. All weddings are special, but this one was particularly joyous. The young woman getting married, who I have mentioned before, was wonderfully radiant and healthy. Not unimportant, she is a cancer survivor. For twenty-five summers, I taught a course at Seattle University. One of the rituals I developed during those summers was to spend the July Fourth holiday with some family friends on Bainbridge Island, a short ferry ride from Seattle. This family has its own rituals and one of these is to watch the Fourth of July parade off the front-lawn of one of their friends’ houses. Ten years ago, sitting on that lawn, waiting for the parade, I was introduced to the youngest daughter in that family. She was a senior in high school and a member of their state-winning basketball team, but she was also suffering from cancer and the debilitating chemotherapy treatments that were being used to combat it. Just 18 years old, weighing less than 80 pounds, she sat wrapped in a blanket on a warm summer day, quiet and melancholy, while her friends, healthy and robust, drank beer and celebrated life. Things didn’t look good then. The long-range prognosis was iffy, at best, and her body and spirit didn’t belie that, though friends and family did. She was surrounded on every side by attention, affection, and concern. She was very ill, but she was loved. I got to know her that day and more in the months and years that followed. Her family and others prayed hard for her, storming heaven for a cure. Those prayers, along with the medical treatments, eventually did their work. She hung on against

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the odds, slowly improved, and after many months emerged healthy, whole again, back to normal, except once you’ve stared death in the face “normal” is never quite the same again. When she eventually picked up the pieces of her former life, she knew that while things were the same again they were also very, very different. In the wake of such an experience, ordinary life is no longer something you take for granted, there’s a deeper joy in all things ordinary and a new horizon, wisdom, maturity, and purpose that wasn’t there before. God writes straight with crooked lines and sometimes cancer, terrible as it is, gives more than it takes. Her new health is more than physical. It’s also a thing of the soul, a moral tan, a depth, a wisdom. Asked in a public interview if, given the choice, she would give the illness back so as to have the life she could have had without it, she replied: “No, I wouldn’t give it back. Through it I learned about love.” The love she experienced when she was ill taught her that there are worse tragedies in life than getting cancer. John Powell once wrote a remarkable little book entitled, “Unconditional Love,” the story of Tommy, a former student of his who died of cancer at age twenty-four. Shortly before he died, Tommy came to Powell and thanked him for a precious insight he had once drawn from one of his classes. Powell had told the class: There are only two potential tragedies in life and dying young isn’t one of them. It’s tragic to die and not have loved and it’s just as tragic to die and not have expressed your love to those around you. Doctors who research on the human brain tell us that we only use about 10 percent of our radical brain capacity. Most of our brain cells never get activated, both because we don’t need

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and understanding can be forgotten in the heat of an argument or in the day-to-day nuances of married life. To be understanding, Carty says, “try to put yourself in your partner’s shoes and see his/her side of the issue.” In this chapter, Carty stresses the importance of knowing that a person cannot change another person and that body language matters. Carty also offers interesting solutions. When there is a

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USCCB launches Web site to educate Catholics about missal translation By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – A new Web site recently launched by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was produced to educate Catholics about the forthcoming English translation of the new Roman Missal, the book of prayers used for Mass. The site, www.usccb.org/romanmissal, has background material on the process of development of liturgical texts, sample texts from the missal, a glossary of terms and answers to frequently asked questions. The bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship hopes the site will be a central resource for those preparing to implement the new text. In the years since the Second Vatican Council, “we have learned a lot about the use of the vernacular in the liturgy and the new texts reflect this new understanding,” said the committee’s chairman, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson, N.J., in a video that welcomes visitors to the site. “The new texts are understandable, dignified and accurate,” he said. “They not only strive to make the meaning of the text accessible for the listener, but they also strive to unearth the biblical and theological richness of the Latin text.” After more than five years of consultation, study and reflection, the U.S. bishops are expected to conclude their review and approval of the final portion of the translated texts at the end of this year. Final approval, or “recognitio,” of the text from the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments will be the last step before the publication of the texts for use in the liturgy. Bishop Serratelli called the period between now and the final approval “a great opportunity” not only to learn about the changes and the revised texts, “but also to deepen our own understanding of the liturgy itself.” He said, “We encourage priests, deacons, religious, liturgical ministers (and) all the faithful to avail themselves of the information that we are making available.” The new Latin edition of the Roman Missal was released at the Vatican in March 2002. Since 2003 the bishops of the English-speaking world have been preparing an English translation of the missal. Translations prepared by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy are submitted to each participating bishops’ conference, which is free to adopt or reject any text ICEL proposes. Once a bishops’ conference adopts a text, it is submitted to the Vatican for approval. In June 2006, the U.S. bishops meeting in Los Angeles

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approved the first section of the missal translation that involves the penitential rite, Gloria, creed, eucharistic prayers, eucharistic acclamations, Our Father and other prayers and responses used daily. In 2008, the Vatican gave final approval of those texts. In July of this year the USCCB announced that the bishops had approved four more liturgical texts – prefaces for the Mass for various occasions; votive Masses and Masses for the dead; solemn blessings for the end of Mass; and prayers over the people and eucharistic prayers for particular occasions, such as for evangelization or ordinations. The next step is Vatican approval. The bishops’ vote on the texts was completed in mail-

in ballots nearly a month after their spring meeting in San Antonio. In the fall the bishops will consider the Proper of the Saints Gray Book, the commons Gray Book, U.S. propers for the Roman Missal, U.S. adaptations for the Roman Missal and the Roman Missal supplement Gray Book. Gray Books are revised translations proposed to the International Commission on English in the Liturgy. Last November during the bishops’ fall general meeting, Bishop Serratelli said that, with the time needed for publishers to produce the new edition of the missal and for Catholics to receive proper catechesis about the changes in the Mass, the use of the new missal is not expected before Advent of 2012.

New English translation of Roman Missal nearing implementation Priests and deacons as well as lay parish and school leadership have been invited to attend “Deepening the Renewal: The New English Translation of the Mass and Sunday Worship” at St. Mary Patrick Vallez-Kelly Cathedral Sept. 18 and 19. Paul Ford, a professor of Systematic Theology and Liturgy at St. John Seminary in Camarillo, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, is facilitator for the sessions. Patrick Vallez-Kelly, director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, planned the meetings in light of upcoming changes in the language of the Mass. He provided Catholic San Francisco with the following perspective. What is happening in the area of Church texts for the Mass? Vallez-Kelly: The English version of the Mass is being revised as we speak. We should remember that the English Mass that we are used to is a translation of the official Latin version. The work of revising the English translation has been in process since 2003 or 2004. But now, the process is nearing completion, and there is a very good chance that the Holy See will issue official recognitio for a completely revised English language Roman Missal in the first half of 2010. After that recognitio is given, we will have about a year until we can expect to begin praying with these revised texts in our churches and chapels. Why? Vallez-Kelly: The revision is taking place now for two main reasons. First, the Holy See released a third edition of the Missale Romanum in 2002, so a matching English third edition would normally be in order. Just prior to that, the Holy See also issued a new instruction on how translations of the official rites of the Church are to be done. This new instruction requires that vernacular versions of the Church’s liturgical books match the word order and syntax of the official Latin version very closely. The expectation is that translations will reflect the Latin texts with greater theological accuracy.

Who will it affect? Vallez-Kelly: The new translation will most directly affect all who celebrate Mass in English. It will affect not only the Church in the United States, but also Roman Catholics in about a dozen other English-speaking countries and bishops’ conferences throughout the world that will also use this new English translation. (No longer will there be separate Sacramentaries for the various English-speaking countries.) The new translation will significantly affect priests because they are responsible for voicing the Eucharistic Prayers and other presidential prayers of the Mass, all of which are being retranslated. Anyone who prays the Creed in English will notice some differences. The new English translation may indirectly affect Catholics who speak other languages if, by chance, they use the English editions for reference in making their own translations or if they are trying to learn the English prayers of the Mass. Because this new instruction on vernacular translations applies globally, other language groups may also need to revise their current translations. How? Vallez-Kelly: How the changes will affect us largely depends upon the attitude each of us brings to this time of change. Hopefully most of us will be open to accepting the new texts, even if the change might be a challenge or we might be critical of the choice of some words in the new texts. If one is not willing to give the new texts a chance, then the changes could be a tough pill to swallow. But I’m confident that if we take these upcoming months to prepare ourselves well, we will make the transition gracefully. In the long run the new translation will give us new words to express Christian mysteries that transcend words. It may reinvigorate one’s Catholic imagination. In the short run it will demand some extra work from all of us to let go freely of some expressions in Mass that have become second nature to us (for example, “And also with you.”) and to accept new phrases that echo ancient expressions (“And with your spirit.”) When will this take place? Vallez-Kelly: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, along with the other English-speaking conferences of the world, has been working through draft texts

of the Roman Missal for several years now. The USCCB is scheduled to vote on three final sections of the Missal at their November 2009 meeting. If these drafts are approved, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments will take the texts approved by the USCCB as well as those approved by other Englishspeaking conferences and produce a single English language edition of the Roman Missal, potentially in early 2010. After that text is formally recognized, it will take a number of months (possibly up to a year) for publishers to produce new ritual books. In that time, there will be a national effort to provide catechesis and preparation for the new texts. If all voting and production were to take place without a hitch, the new translation could be put to use in our parishes as early as Advent of 2010, but there’s a very good chance that the “must-use-by” date could be set in 2011 as well. And, of course, if unexpected obstacles pop up, it might take longer. Do we need to be anxious about these updates? Vallez-Kelly: I don’t think we need to be nervous about these updates for a few reasons. a) The new translations have been developed, critiqued and revised in an extremely thorough process. That isn’t to say that everyone’s going to fall in love with them at first hearing, but in time we may find much to like about them. b) I don’t think we should be nervous that this development is a “turning back the clock” or an attempt to undo the Second Vatican Council. The English translation of the Mass from 1970 that we are accustomed to was completed quickly under a different set of guidelines. It’s not such a bad thing that the matter of vernacular translations is being revisited at this point of forty years following the Council. c) By no means is this the first time that the Church has dealt with changes in its Liturgy. This new translation is certainly more significant than a cosmetic change, but it doesn’t radically change the form or structure of the Mass either. Whose idea was this? Vallez-Kelly: I don’t think that the idea for these revisions can be attributed to any one person. This development can be traced back to the Second Vatican Council. With a little bit of research one can see how NEW MISSAL, page 23

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September 18, 2009

Archbishop’s Journal

In the daylight of God’s grace At a Mass celebrating the 100-year anniversary of act. When it comes to spiritual and moral values, the person to us in each person, Star of the Sea School in San Francisco, Archbishop who stands for nothing will fall for anything. By contrast, not just in our favorites. George H. Niederauer delivered the following homily Star of the Sea School teaches its students about everything Jesus Christ was born in under the sun, but it teaches all of it in the light of the Son, a borrowed stable and Sept. 6 at Star of the Sea Church. buried in a borrowed Our Jewish sisters and brothers have a story about a young the Son of God, Jesus Christ the Lord. The way we treat people expresses the values we live by. tomb. He lived and student who asked his rabbi, “Teacher, how do we know the exact moment when night has ended and day has begun? Is Notice the way Jesus Christ treats the deaf and mute man in died a poor man, and he it when we can no longer see the stars?” The rabbi answered, the gospel story today. Jesus is sensitive to the man’s self- commanded us to serve “No, my son, we know that night has ended and day has begun consciousness, to his fear and embarrassment, so he takes the him in the neediest of when we can look into the face of a stranger and see that he man off by himself, away from the crowd. Our Lord touches our neighbors. Archbishop James is explicit or she is a brother or sister.” In that sense, then, when Jesus the man: he puts his fingers in his ears; he uses saliva, which, George H. tells us that feeding the hungry is the same as feeding him, in those days, was thought to have healing powers (probably about this as a lesson he is describing the “daytime” of grace—when we look at the deaf man thought that); Jesus looks up to heaven and for the Church. He Neiderauer prays; then, he speaks—“Ephpheta—be thou opened!” Jesus describes the negative the stranger and see our sister or brother. In our gospel story today Jesus is in pagan territory. His fel- treats the man as an individual, not as just another case. You example of a leader low Israelites would say that he is among strangers, or worse. and I know the meaning of that distinction: if someone in in the Church who gives a special place of honor to a rich But Jesus did not see a Gentile or pagan deaf man, he saw a authority treats you with respect and concern, you feel dealt man and then tells a poor man to sit anywhere he can. In the brother in need, and he healed him. Jesus Christ teaches all with as an individual; on the other hand, if someone treats you early Church, masters and their slaves sometimes worshipped his followers, all Christians, that they are to see and serve him as just another case to be processed, you feel it and you know together, a situation that challenged Church leaders. That challenge of impartiality and even-handedness continues in one another and in all those they meet. Thinking about the it. For Jesus Christ, no one is “just another case.” in different ways for leaders in the Church story of the rabbi, we can say that now, in the today, and sometimes we can fail. daylight of God’s grace we see everything and At its best, the Catholic Church weleveryone in the light of Christ, in the light of Star of the Sea School teaches its students about comes and gathers together all her children. his example and his teaching. When Jesus says, In New York City in the last century, Dorothy “I am the Light of the World,” he is not talking everything under the sun, but it teaches all of Day spent her life in service to the poorest of vague poetry; he wants to be the light of your the poor. In her autobiography she described world and mine, the light by which we see and it in the light of the Son, the Son of God, Jesus her spiritual journey from the Communist respond to everything and everyone. Party to the Catholic Church. When she That is the difference Star of the Sea School Christ the Lord. first started to visit Catholic churches in has been making for 100 years. Faith and New York, she was surprised to see such a hope and charity are not just for religion class. wide variety of people all praying together in Generation after generation of schoolchildren Jesus uses signs and symbolic actions in his healing of the church: rich and poor, the educated and the uneducated, here has learned language, science, literature, history, the arts, and so much more. Everything they learned, though, was the deaf man, and that is an example the Catholic Church has young and old, people of different races who spoke dozens taught to them in the light of faith. Those students didn’t just taken to heart. In our seven sacraments we use symbol and of different languages and came from countries all around the hear about water and air and land and sea; they learned about gesture, we use water, oil, bread and wine, as well as words, globe. Ms. Day said she had never before seen such a mix of the loving Father who made all those things for them to share to express this holy meeting between God and us that is a different people in one place except in a railway station! In with others. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, the priests sacrament. In the Rite of Baptism, the priest or deacon touches Greek, the word “Catholic” means “universal” and our Church and the lay people who taught here gave of their talents and the ears of the one to be baptized, saying the word that Jesus is most truly herself when she is most welcoming. We give thanks today for all the teachers, students, their lives so that all those children could become witnesses used in the gospel story today, praying that the person’s ears will be open to hear the Word of God, and to embrace it and administrators, parents, and employees who have made posto, and followers of, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. sible so many years of service to Catholic education at Star The world around us tries to teach children its own lessons; live it with joy. In our second reading, the Apostle James gives us a prac- of the Sea School. We give special thanks for the priests and it always has. Lessons like, “Take care of Number One— Yourself—because no one else will” Or “Trust no one—that tical application, in our own lives, of the example of Jesus. religious who have served her down the years. The profile way you’re safe” or “Greed is good.” Those can often be the James says to the members of the Church that each person, of the students in this school has changed, especially with values of the world around us, but they are not gospel values. rich or poor, should be treated impartially. We should not regard to language and race and nationality. But the mission Star of the Sea School does not offer a value-free education. show favoritism to someone because of status, or power, or of the school remains the same: to move young people from Ultimately, there is no such thing as a value-free education. If wealth or fame. That is a strong challenge to us as human information, through knowledge and understanding, toward we do not choose our values carefully, we will choose them beings. We can be greatly tempted to play favorites, so we wisdom and service to others, guided by faith in Jesus Christ, carelessly or automatically. But we will choose and we will have to be on guard against doing so, because Jesus comes the Light of the World.

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Strange religion Recent stories in Catholic San Francisco include “opposition forms to abortion funding in proposed health care reform bills” and “Cardinal criticizes abortion provisions in House health care reform bill.” Catholicism has become a strange and unusual religion. We are against abortion but vote for pro-abortion political candidates. In the recent presidential election the majority of Catholics, 54 percent, voted for a pro-abortion president along with his political party’s pro-abortion platform. Now we in the Archdiocese of St. Francis and the United States Bishops are concerned and worried that the health

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reform bills will probably advance the evolution of abortion. With the help of the Catholic vote, I believe the most dreadful and dangerous place for many humans, in the United States, will continue to be in the womb. In the days to come the shadow of the culture of death will cover our earth more and more. For what shall we pray? Roy Petri San Anselmo

Stained glass ceiling With the shortage of priests these days, I ask the question, “What would Jesus Christ think about ordaining women to the priesthood?” For years I accepted that it was logical that men serve as priests for a number of reasons, but I no longer think that way. Indeed, as the vocation cross is a focal point in parishes these days, I pray that in my lifetime women will be ordained priests. Just as Vatican II recognized a shift emerging in the 1960s, we are shifting yet again, with many of our protestant brothers and sisters converting to Catholicism. As members of Episcopal, Presbyterian and Methodist churches dwindle; some of these people are converting to Catholicism, because they recognize the similarities of the faiths and want to be members of the body of Christ.

There is also a group of people yearning for a spiritual dimension having not been raised in any particular faith who are converting. Many see the Catholic Church committed to social justice and honor the good works that are done in the name of Christ. Still, all of the people I know who have converted ponder and question why women aren’t allowed to be priests. My explanation has always been that it’s a global institution with many layers and it takes awhile for things to change. But I sense that indeed things are changing, and it will happen sooner than we think. If for no other reason, the church is having a wake-up call and realizing that need must outweigh tradition, and it’s time for the stained glass ceiling to crack. Carol McMackin San Francisco

‘Don’t tread on me’

No sophistries, please It is gratifying to read that so many Bishops supported Bishop John D’Arcy in his stand against Notre Dame’s conferring its highest honor on President Obama. The president’s anti-life philosophy (proven by his voting record) is the antithesis of our Christian values. “Dialogue,” “cordiality,” and “building bridges” are all good things but in this case the honor was bestowed without prior dialogue and instead of building bridges it was more like jumping off the bridge. It was a mistake and it sent the wrong message. No amount of semantic sophistries can change it. Thanks to our bishops for standing up for what is right. Daphne de Riette Lagunitas

L E T T E R S

Unfortunately, Michael Diliberto’s letter in the Sept. 4 issue presumes to monitor my reading choices, though he and I have never been acquainted. Though I am not a fan of George Weigel’s column and have several times over the years objected in letters to Catholic San Francisco about certain of Weigel’s judgments I considered erroneous or unfair, I respect his right to express them. Mr. Diliberto and I are both lucky to have this opportunity in a country that is not yet like the Third Reich under Hitler, where simply listening to the BBC radio was a crime punishable by execution! R.K. Ring Kentfield

Helping the hungry

Fasting can motivate us to help the hungry people in our community and elsewhere who can’t afford to feed themselves. Let’s take the San Francisco Food Bank’s Hunger Challenge Sept. 20 to Sept. 26 and for a day or that whole week spend just $4 a day or $28 per week (per person) for our entire food and beverage budget. This is the average amount that food stamp recipients have to spend. Let’s reflect on our experience and share our thoughts. See www. HungerChallenge.com for information. Since we’re following Jesus who fed the multitudes, let’s also donate what we save from our normal budget to any of the many programs that help the poor and hungry. Carolyn M. Daniel San Francisco

September 18, 2009

Catholic San Francisco

The Catholic Difference

The death of Edward Kennedy and the end of an era The public accomplishments of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who died Aug. 25, will be discussed and debated for years, and perhaps decades. He was the only one of the Kennedy brothers who took the United States Senate seriously, and if one is hard put to name specific pieces of major legislation on which his imprint was writ large, he was nonetheless a “Senate man” in a way that neither Jack nor Bobby ever was – and thus a popular figure in insider Washington. As for his shift from critic of Roe v. Wade to pro-choice paladin, that has been commented on sufficiently by others. Let me only add to the public record that the late Henry Hyde, a pro-lifer to the core, told me that he had once said to Kennedy, “Ted, if you’d take leadership of our movement, we’d sweep the country.” Given the confusions of our moral culture and our law, that might have been too optimistic. But we’ll never know, as Kennedy took a different path, and among other things, ended up committing calumny against Robert Bork. Ted Kennedy’s death does, however, mark the end of an era, and in several ways. It marks – or should mark – the end of an era in which Catholics in the United States identity “concern for the poor” with big-government-funded and big-government-managed welfare programs. That the well-intentioned initiatives of the Great Society, which Ted Kennedy supported, ended up destroying urban neighborhoods and families while creating massive welfare dependency was acknowledged by many, including liberals, during the welfare reform debates

of the mid-1990s – but not by the senior senator from Massachusetts, who was, to put it gently, nowhere near the forefront of the reform movement. John Paul II’s critique of welfare dependency in the 1991 encyclical, Centesimus Annus, and the late Pope’s proposal that true care for the poor means the empowerment of poor people through their incorporation into networks of productivity and exchange, never made much of a dent on Ted Kennedy, who was not very helpful in helping poor children to obtain vouchers that allowed them to attend Catholic schools that worked rather than public schools that didn’t. In the aftermath of Kennedy’s death, many of those critical of the late senator’s record on the life issues nevertheless praised him as an advocate for the poor. Surely, though, it’s past time to consider just what advocacy for the poor means, in a Catholic context. No one does the urban poor a favor by supporting programs that maintain the welfare plantation. Ted Kennedy’s death also marks the symbolic end of an era of tribal Irish Catholicism in America, although perhaps not in the way some eulogists imagined. Kennedy was said by one commentator to have been the pivotal figure in transforming rote Catholic obedience to hierarchical authority into critical Catholic discernment of one’s moral obligations, especially in terms of contraception, abortion, and euthanasia. It’s arguably much more faithful to the truth of that transformation, however, to describe it as one from a culturallytransmitted Catholicism, in which the teaching authority of the Church was given the benefit of the doubt, to a do-it-yourself

Catholicism in which claims of conscience, however ill-formed, trump all. Ted Kennedy was no theologian, but the role played by dissident theologians like Robert Drinan and Charles Curran in Kennedy’s becoming the George Weigel public embodiment of the latter Catholic style will bear close examination by historians of theology in late-20th century America. Finally, the death of Senator Kennedy ought to end the infatuation of many American Catholics (and others) with the Kennedy family. Camelot’s last living major figure has died. The successor generation is simply not of the same heft as Jack, Bobby, and Ted. From Jack Kennedy’s election to the House of Representatives in 1946 until Ted Kennedy’s death in 2009 was a sixty-three year run – thirteen years longer than that of the Virginia dynasty among the founders (figured from Washington’s taking command of the Continental Army in 1775 to Monroe’s leaving the presidency in 1825). It’s over. We would do the next generation of Kennedys a favor by acknowledging that. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Of Grace and Sippy Cups

Rejoice and be glad It makes a horrible sound: jarring, repetitive, insistent. Its sole purpose is to yank me rudely out of blissful oblivion. It’s an excruciating daily reminder that I am at the mercy of someone else’s schedule. It’s my alarm clock, the battery-run tyrant that has seen me through many years of grumpy groggy mornings. I slam down the button, trying to forget what I just heard. But within minutes, my husband’s clock radio begins. I swing my legs over the bed and, with a feeling of complete and utter aversion, I get up to start the day. As you’ve probably guessed, I am not a morning person. Actually, let me amend that statement: I’m not an early morning person. There’s nothing nicer than weekend mornings fueled by leisurely cups of coffee, mornings when my boys tumble around in their sleepers and sunlight drenches the kitchen. Getting up then is a real pleasure. But workdays are another matter. It’s brutal to rise in the still-darkness and pull myself sufficiently together to drive to school and teach a group of teenagers who arrive

looking even worse than I do. Most mornings, I run on nothing more than caffeine and sheer willpower. I envy those who bounce out of bed eager to greet the day. “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24). I’ve always loved that verse, perhaps because it’s so not me. Don’t get me wrong; the day invariably improves as it goes on. I actually enjoy my job very much. But in the morning, rejoicing is about the last thing I’d ever think to do. Being a parent, though, I’ve found a way to address this problem. I returned to work when my first child was three months old – an extremely difficult thing to do. I’d wake up early, get him out of his crib and feed him, hating the fact that I had to go to work, resisting it with every fiber of my being. And as I sat there in the quiet house, I came up with a little ritual: I’d think of five things I was thankful for, and one thing that I was looking forward to in the day ahead. The five things varied widely. I might think of my son, or my car, or blue hydrangeas, or black tea. Sometimes I thought of current events: thankfulness for freedom, say. But I always came up with five. It was remarkably easy to do so.

And you know what? It really worked. Being grateful helped take the teeth out of my morning dread. The ritual made me remember that even though I’d rather be asleep, there were actually many good things about Ginny being awake. And I’d Kubitz Moyer put Matthew back in his crib, and get dressed, and somehow the day would be a bit less daunting. Sometimes, it was even enticing. No, I don’t think I’ll ever be the kind of person who rejoices when the alarm clock sounds. But I’ve definitely learned a thing or two about being glad. Ginny Kubitz Moyer is the author of “Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God.” Contact Moyer at www.maryandme.org.

Consider This

A moral obligation demands respect Let’s make a distinction between sports talk radio and the debate on a vital moral issue – health care reform – before Congress resumes consideration of a myriad of health reform bills later this month. There is room for vigorous debate on the topic, both sides agree, but what’s been happening through the summer months is not vigorous debate. It has been a time full of hyperbole, namecalling, and a time when volume seemed to replace logic. There has been too much talk of Nazis, “death panels” and demonizing of insurance companies by radio talk show blowhards whose interest is to incite listeners to unreasoned anger rather than reasoned understanding. The gravity of the topic deserves a much higher level of discourse. “This is, quite literally, a life-and-death issue, about human pain and suffering, and about the proliferation of immoral practices carried out by insurance companies,” wrote Michael Jeffries, a columnist for the Manchester Guardian. “Just as it is important to speak about quality control and efficiency, it is critical to frame health care reform as a moral obligation – as something that we owe to each other as Americans and as parents of future generations.” And that is exactly what the Catholic bishops of the United States are doing. “Genuine health care reform that protects the life and dignity of all is a moral imperative and a vital national obligation,”

said the chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., in a July 17 letter to Congress. Accepting as fact that adequate health care in support of human dignity is a moral question, it is important to insist that it be treated with the respect a grave matter deserves. There should be valid concern about end-of-life issues, but not the caricatures of “death panels.” Those who equate health care reform with Nazism show an appalling lack of understanding both of history and of rhetoric. “We are in danger of turning evil itself into a triviality when we draw on the images of Hitler’s Germany to make political points in debates that are in no way comparable to the terrors of Nazism,” Pulitzer Prize historian Jon Meacham wrote recently in Newsweek. Those demonizing health insurers are no less guilty of a lack of charity. A free and vigorous debate is not name-calling, angry shouts and incendiary signs. It should be a reasoned discussion as proponents of an issue use logic under an assumption of good faith. Health care reform is complex, with terminology more common to insurance policies and medical texts. For that reason, it is imperative to understand our Catholic position. Equally important is knowing what is not the Catholic Church’s position.

For example, the Church’s position on stemcell research has been misrepresented as opposition to all stem-cell research, thus denying assistance to thousands of suffering people. But the Church is Stephen Kent not against all stem-cell research. It is in opposition to embryonic stem-cell research, which requires the destruction of life. It favors research involving the use of adult stem cells and umbilical cord cells. The bishops established four criteria for comprehensive health care reform: respect for human life and dignity, access for all, pluralism and equitable costs. An acceptable bill must exclude mandated coverage for abortion and require continuance of existing laws that restrict abortion funding. The heat of the summer sniping and name-calling should give way to cooler temperatures and temperaments of the fall and a vigorous presentation of positions conducted well within the bounds of rhetoric and the spirit of charity. Stephen Kent, a former editor of archdiocesan newspapers in Omaha and Seattle, writes a column for Catholic News Service.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF WISDOM WIS 2:12, 17-20 The wicked say: Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings, reproaches us for transgressions of the law and charges us with violations of our training. Let us see whether his words be true; let us find out what will happen to him. For if the just one be the son of God, God will defend him and deliver him from the hand of his foes. With revilement and torture let us put the just one to the test that we may have proof of his gentleness and try his patience. Let us condemn him to a shameful death; for according to his own words, God will take care of him. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 54:3-4, 5, 6 AND 8 R. The Lord upholds my life. O God, by your name save me, and by your might defend my cause. O God, hear my prayer; hearken to the words of my mouth. R. The Lord upholds my life. For the haughty men have risen up against me, the ruthless seek my life; they set not God before their eyes. R. The Lord upholds my life. Behold, God is my helper; the Lord sustains my life. The first reading from the Book of Wisdom, or Book of Solomon, is a sobering dramatization of the conflict between a complacent, selfinterested, resistant majority and a spokesperson for an unpopular cause who has arisen in their midst. It’s not a war against invaders from the outside; rather, it’s the “culture-war” within a society against its own members over morality and public policy. The original writers, in the last half of the first century, B.C., were looking to encourage their own members, “the just” against the opposition, characterized as “the wicked.” The passage is applied by Christians to Jesus, a wise and just man, who was also beset by religious and political opposition, subjected to persecution, and unable to prevent his condemnation to a shameful death. The Wisdom writers, speaking to public figures of their own day, predict another aspect of persecution: The just can expect to be mocked for their religious belief by the wicked. “For if the just one be the son of god, God will defend him and deliver him from the hand of his foes.” The writers are sober realists: Even if you do good deeds, act from spiritual motivation and maintain a close relationship with God (are a “son of God”), you will not be spared suffering and persecution. It is a perspective that shatters magical, karmic thinking, that if you do good, you will side-step disaster and be spared public humiliation. This is a counsel—though not much comfort—for those who dedicate themselves to do social justice. I read recently about a Philippine priest, an activist for human rights, who was gunned down on his way home, even though he had a body-guard with him. His story is one of a succession of “fulfillments” of this Wisdom passage. We remember Archbishop Romero, assassinated as he said Mass. The four

September 18, 2009

Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Wisdom 2:12, 17-20; Psalm 54:3-4, 5, 6, 8; James 3:16-4:3; Mark 9:30-37 Freely will I offer you sacrifice; I will praise your name, O Lord, for its goodness. R. The Lord upholds my life. A READING FROM THE LETTER OF JAMES JAS 3:16-4:3 Beloved: Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every foul practice. But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without inconstancy or insincerity. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace. Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your

Scripture reflection SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT

Getting beyond ourselves women, nuns and a lay-woman, murdered in El Salvador. Precious Blood nuns in Liberia. A Notre Dame Sister in the Amazon. Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, John and Robert Kennedy, a succession of catechists in Central and South America, judges in Europe, law enforcement officers in Mexico, and journalists in Russia have all met with violent deaths in the middle of their public lives. They were not murdered because they were criminals, but because they tried to “do justice” by being spokespersons for the politically weak, publicizing “transgressions of the law,” defending the rights of minorities and indigenous populations, exposing governmental corruption, or prosecuting criminal gangs under state law. The Responsorial Psalm is the voice of the person who lives with his or her name on a death list, who doesn’t expect to die of old age. This is living faith, the voice of activists and martyrs, those who have become truly wise. Justice is worth dying for. Ultimately, God sustains my

life, whether or not I die in devoting myself to this cause. The second reading from James turns to an analysis of what causes conflict in Church, society and family. For those engaged in the spirituality of non-violence, this is a key reading. Ambition is the blind impulse for power and control over others. It starts from internal conflict within the heart and soul of the individual. Thus, the first step in bringing peace and quelling external conflict is personal conversion and internal, spiritual work, to address one’s own passions and to bring peace to those forces “that make war within your members.” The passage from Mark’s gospel candidly reveals–yet again–that the disciples are typically not on the same page as Jesus. It is encouragement that living by faith doesn’t require perfection all at once, even for us. Mark’s narrative embodies the problem that James deals with: Ambition among the disciples to establish “who is the greatest” is a distraction from the

members? You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but you cannot obtain; you fight and wage war. You do not possess because you do not ask. You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK MK 9:30-37 Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.” But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him. They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they remained silent. They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest. Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.” Taking a child, he placed it in the their midst, and putting his arms around it, he said to them, “Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.” mission of Jesus. The disciples ignore the reality that Jesus is predicting, like the pastors of the Book of Wisdom, that suffering lies ahead and it is inevitable. Instead of rallying one another’s courage and commitment, or strategizing with Jesus about how they can support his work, despite the dangers he faces, they get sidetracked by a minor issue: Who is entitled to boss the others and on what basis? Jesus cautions his disciples, “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.” Taking a child, he placed it in the their midst, and putting his arms around the child, he said to them, “Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.” The answer of Jesus—to political risk, to the inevitability of death, to the desire for control over others, to fear of the future itself—is to be softened by relationship to a child. I presume that mothers of cranky, misbehaving children would have their own wisdom to offer. To welcome a child, even a “terrible-two’s” child, means to suspend one’s focus on self-advancement; this child cannot return political favors. To welcome a child is to let go of fear; what life-threatening harm can a child really wreak on an adult? To welcome a child is to forget the risk of persecution and death; for the child lives in the present moment. Editor’s note: Sister Eloise Rosenblatt will give a talk on the Apostolic Visitation of U.S. women religious congregations at the Palo Alto Art Club, 1313 Newell Road, on Sept. 20 at 3 p.m. Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, R.S.M., Ph.D., is a theologian and attorney in private practice in San Jose.

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On being happy with God In the past, the Church put an emphasis on “not offending God.” Today’s spiritual leaders agree with that, but now they also emphasize the importance of trying to be happy with God. The idea is that we not only want to avoid offending God, we also want to be happy with him in this world and forever in the next. The Little Flower, also known as St. Therese of the Child Jesus, was like a little child herself in her dealings with the Lord. She knew that God wanted to be happy with all his children, and so she decided to spend her days trying to make God happy. This simple insight was prophetic. She introduced a new kind of ascetical theology. In the book “The Happiness of God: Holiness in Therese of Lisieux,” author Susan Leslie states: “Therese insists that to be happy is an important way of showing our love for God, for he loves a happy soul, one perfectly attuned to

him, content with all he wills or permits. The happy soul has faith in the loving providence of God, even in times of darkness and perplexity.” In order to attain this state of being, she taught us that joy is a choice. Living joyfully in the presence of God takes training of the will. For instance, when bad things happen in life, it’s important to turn to the Lord quickly, remembering that it’s not what happens to you in life that matters so much as how you react to it. At every stage of our development we possess the spiritual freedom to choose joy as our basic spiritual attitude. This choice will determine our destiny. Choose happiness every day in spite of the bad things that happen, and try to avoid drifting into gloom and discouragement. Grace builds on nature. Unconscious forces and unruly emotions may knock you around from time to time, but you

do not have to become morbid forever because of them. The will is the center of the personality. The will says yes or no. St. Thomas said, “If you want to be a saint, will it.” Father By God’s grace, John Catoir you have the power to pull yourself up to new heights. That means you can become a joyful person if you choose to. You must first decide to will it. Will it because God wants you to become a creature of love and joy. SPIRITUALITY FOR TODAY, page 21

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The Kennedy Catholic legacy I have conflicting feelings about the death of Ted Kennedy. Like most Catholics, I was proud of Jack and Bobby and, as a young man, was pulled into the Kennedy world of hope and their elite and elegant lives that was so different from my humble and poor Polish Catholic background. I was also very much on the same wavelength in terms of social justice, especially with Bobby and his work and advocacy for the United Farm workers Union and Cesar Chavez. Their assassinations were a time of great sorrow for me personally. Ted Kennedy began his Senate career being against abortion, fully convinced that life began at conception. In an August 3, 1971 letter explaining his pro-life position, he wrote: “When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception.” In this one, brief sentence, he captures the heart of Catholic social teaching. Any Catholic bishop could have written it. Then everything changed. Somewhere, somehow, the pervasive and distorted logic of the times caused him to become a vehement supporter of abortion rights. He not only supported the legal right to abortion at any time during a pregnancy for any reason, but also voted against any moderation of these laws such as parental notification or a ban on partial birth abortion. He consistently received a 100 percent rating by pro abortion lobbying groups. And so, it was with conflicting emotions that I watched the funeral and heard the soaring eulogies that praised him. He did much good work for social causes that fall well within the parameters of Catholic social

teaching. His positions on immigration reform and health care, for example, were consistent with the U.S. bishops and universal Catholic teaching. As I watched the spectacle however, it was what was not being said by the ever-present bishops and clerics that rankled me. I realize that bishops have a sensitive and difficult role in these fractious times. They must first be pastors, conciliating, unifying and forgiving. They must not judge a person, as we must not. But they must also uphold the truth. The truth did not emerge during that weeklong spectacular. Edward Kennedy was a powerful and influential leader of the Democratic Party, from a family which is iconic and highly symbolic for Democrats and all Americans. With this kind of powerful platform, I can’t help but think that Ted Kennedy could have changed, or at the very least, moderated, his party’s extreme position on abortion. He did not. For me, this was a grave misuse of his capacity as a leader and, perhaps, a major failure in his Catholic, public life. His death and his position on abortion as a Catholic politician highlight the great divide in American Catholicism and underscored the great tension and conflict that the bishops have on their shoulders. On the one hand, bishops must unify the Church. Their first job is to be pastors of their people, signs of compassion and forgiveness. I believe, contrary to some, that it would have been a tragic mistake to deny him a Catholic funeral – a harsh judgment out of keeping with that mercy and compassion that all of us, sinners that we are, look toward at the time of our deaths. On the other hand, without any clear, public message from the bishops about the truth of his very public life and position, the status quo in American Catholicism

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striving to remain happy in order to please God. She remembered how she could please her own natural father when she was a little child and simply applied the same technique to her heavenly Father. The theory of theistic evolution is the belief that all men and women are works in progress. They are all part of the colossal struggle to advance human history to its ultimate purpose, namely, to be happy with God forever. In his spiritual classic “Abandonment to Divine Providence,” Father Jean Pierre de Caussade wrote, “The secret of happiness and sanctity rests in our fidelity to the will of God as it is manifested in the duty of the present moment.” He continued, “The great and solid foundation of the spiritual life is to give oneself to God ... in such a way that the good pleasure of God and his happiness becomes our sole joy and good.”

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New Missal . . . ■ Continued from page 17 it’s been just a series of steps from the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of 1964 to the first vernacular editions of the Mass (see the timeline posted at www. usccb.org/romanmissal/). Time has allowed for perspective (and differences of opinion) on how vernacular translations best express the truths contained in the Church’s official Latin liturgy. The 2001 instruction (entitled “Liturgiam authenticam on the Use of Vernacular Languages in the Publication of the books of the Roman Liturgy”) from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments was what finally set the process of revising our translation in motion, but this new instruction was mandated by Pope John Paul II way back in 1997. Aren’t the texts we sing and pray now okay? Vallez-Kelly: Many of us have become very comfortable with the words of the Mass that we currently hear, sing, say and pray. The current translation has been approved by our bishops in the United States and confirmed by the Holy See, so the Sacraments have been completely valid. But as these current translations were in use over a span of a generation, many came to believe that they could be improved “through correction or through a new draft.” (Liturgiam authenticam no. 6). Those who have prepared the new translation have worked to make sure that

the translation of the Latin is more accurate and very rich theologically and biblically. I believe that most will notice more than anything else a change in the style of English that will become our liturgical prayer language. It is being referred to as a “heightened” or “sacred” style with its own rhythms and vocabulary. Will songs be affected or only the parts of the Mass? Vallez-Kelly: For the most part, it will be sung dialogues, acclamations, litanies and hymns that make up the ordinary part of the Mass that will be affected. The huge body of processional songs and hymns currently in use in the United States may be refined over time as composers and musicians are affected by the new translation and deeper study of the norms of the Roman Missal, but in the short term I don’t think we will face much change in the body of commonly known hymns and songs. We may experience more of the dialogues and prayers of the Mass being sung if priests choose to embrace the new texts by chanting them. Time will tell on that point. Is new music being written? Vallez-Kelly: Yes. The revised Order of Mass has been released already (available for study only at www.usccb.org/ romanmissal/), and many composers have already created new musical settings of the “Glory to God” and “Holy, Holy, Holy”, for example. I imagine we will be inundated with new musical settings of the Mass in the transitional months ahead. Our parish and school music directors will do well to

be selective in choosing a new setting of the highest quality when the time for that comes. Additionally, I think there will be much encouragement for all of us to learn the English chant versions that will be included in the new Roman Missal. What do we do with the music we know now? Vallez-Kelly: We’ll be able to continue using some of it, such as settings of the “Lamb of God” or “Our Father” whose texts are not changing. But we will need to bid adieu to some musical settings of parts of the Mass that we know and love because their texts will no longer be approved for liturgical use. But I imagine that many composers are stretching their wings and coming up with completely new music. What will happen at the meetings Sept 18 and 19? Vallez-Kelly: The meetings of the weekend of September 18-19 are introductory. We’re going to give attendees a sampling of the revised texts that are already confirmed by Rome. We’ll also tell them where they can look online (www.usccb.org/romanmissal/) to see more of the new texts. We hope to offer a forum where our clergy and lay leaders will be able to ask questions and voice their ideas about the new translation. And finally we will let people know as much as we know at this point about what the national and archdiocesan plans are for introducing all of the new texts to the Church and facilitating the changeover, whenever that may be. The archdiocesan Worship Commission invited Dr. Paul Ford, a nationally recog-

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Reunions Class of ’60 from Holy Angels Elementary School in Colma is planning a reunion. Classmates should be in touch with Linda Brewer at brewer@sbcglobal.net. Oct. 3, 11 a.m.: Members of the eighth grade graduating class of 1954 from San Francisco’s Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School will gather at Caesar’s Restaurant, Powell and Bay Street at 11 a.m. with lunch is at 12:30. If interested, please call Claire Cook Norton (916) 791-2215 or email clairelvstns@surewest.net Oct. 10, 7 p.m.: Class of ’69, Most Holy Redeemer Elementary School, is having its 40th reunion in Burlingame coordinated by Tiger Beat Cheerleaders, Patricia Dowling, Terri Kahle (Preziosi), Frances Ertola (Callaghan) and DeeDee Papalexopoulos (Canepa). Call Patricia Dowling at (650) 697-5762 or email pdowling@sftc.org for more information. Oct. 31: San Francisco’s St. Philip Elementary School class of ’59 is planning a 50th reunion. For more information, contact Jeanne Newland at 650 755-9789 or geannenn@aol.com Nov. 14, noon: St. Emydius Elementary School, class of ’57 at Caesar’s Restaurant, Powell at Bay in San Francisco. Valet parking will be available. Tickets including four-course lunch, coffee, tax and tip are $40 per person. Please register by Nov. 1 with Bob Perry at perryr@sbcglobal.net, or Margene Fanucchi Brignetti at margenebrignetti@ sbcglobal.net. You may also send a check made payable to Sue Eckberg, 93 Rockaway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94127, along with names of attendees, your telephone number and email address.

St. Thomas More Society Club is oldest fellowship of Catholic lawyers, law students, paralegals and judges in the West. Sept. 24, noon: Monthly luncheon of St. Thomas More Society at the Family Club, 545 Powell Street, San Francisco, honoring all past St. Thomas More Award recipients and past presidents of the group. Jesuit Father Stephen Privett, president, University of San Francisco, will speak on Catholic education and the USF mission. For more information about the Society, our luncheons and other events, and how to become a member, please visit our website: www. stthomasmore-sf.org, or contact Society President Greg Schopf, gschopf@nixonpeabody.com.

Graduates of classes ’76, ‘77, ’78, and ’79 from San Francisco’s now-closed and much missed St. John Ursuline High School got together for an “informal reunion” Aug. 9 said ’77 classmate, Theresa Keane. The barbecue, which drew more than 30 people, was birthed on Facebook, Theresa said. “A group of us discovered each other there in the spring and summer so we had a reunion,” she said. “So much fun was had we plan on making it an annual event.”

Special Liturgies Sept. 20 – 28: San Lorenzo Ruiz Novena at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, Judah at Funston in San Francisco. Monday – Friday: Novena prayers at 6:30 p.m. with Mass at 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday: 4 p.m.: Novena prayers. Call Cely Zapanta at (415) 753-5154 or Joe Laguda at (415) 661-1608. Sept, 22, 29 and Oct 6, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.: Sept. 22: Prayer Before the Blessed Sacrament; Sept. 29: Stations of the Cross; Oct.6: Faith Sharing with Scripture. All at Motherhouse Chapel of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, 43326 Mission Blvd. off Mission Tierra in Fremont. Contact Sister Frances Mary Pierson at (5100 9336335 or e-mail sfmpeace3@msjdominicans.org. Sept. 23, 7 p.m.: Mass on the Feast of St. Pio of Pietrelcina at Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. Oct. 2, 7 p.m.: Domestic Violence Awareness Mass at Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th St. at Dolores in San Francisco. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William Justice will preside. Music features Mission Dolores Choir with Anna Maria Mendieta on harp. Sponsored by Ministers of Light. Call (415) 625-2710. Oct. 3, 1 – 4 p.m.: Have you ever considered if God is calling you to live a particular Christian lifestyle? Women are invited to join the Sisters of the Presentation for an afternoon of reflection and prayer at St. Christopher convent, 2304 Booksin Ave. in San Jose. The afternoon will help you explore what you are going to do with your life. The afternoon includes time to reflect on personal gifts, as well as which lifestyle – single, married or religious – to which you may be called. For more information, call Presentation Sister Stephanie Still at (415) 422-5020 or e-mail sstill@pbvmsf.org Oct. 3, 7 p.m.: Transitus of St. Francis of Assisi hosted by the Secular Franciscan Order at Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. Mass will be celebrated following the commemoration of the passing – Transitus - of St. Francis into Eternal Life. Call (650) 312-1815 for more information. All are welcome to celebrate the feast of the patron saint of the San Francisco archdiocese

Simbang Gabi Events Simbang Gabi or Mass at Dawn is a novena to the Blessed Mother beginning December 16 as early as 4 in the morning and culminating with the “Misa de Gallo” on Christmas Eve to welcome Jesus’ birth.

October 17, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Parol Making Workshops on the lower level of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Hall A. Learn to craft Christmas lanterns linked to Filipino Christmas tradition. Sponsored by participating parish Simbang Gabi communities with the Parol Lantern Festival and Parade sponsored by the Filipino American Development Foundation. Donations accepted to cover cost of materials and supplies. Contact: (415) 348-8042 or e-mail bernadette@bayanihancc.org. October 23, 7:30 p.m.: “A Night of Chorale Harmony” with the world renowned Philippine Madrigal Singers at Holy Name Church, 39th Ave. at Lawton in San Francisco. The ensemble is UNESCO Artist for Peace, and winner of the 2007 Grand Prix de la Ville de Tours Award. Proceeds benefit upcoming Simbang Gabi Advent gatherings. Tickets: $25. For inquiries, call: (415) 6997927, (415) 564-0323, or e-mail paribolmusic@ yahoo.com Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m.: Simbang Gabi commissioning Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough St. at Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Bishop William J. Justice will preside. For more information e-mail nelliehizon@yahoo.com

Young Adults Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m.: Young adults seeking direction or support in strengthening their spiritual relationship with Christ, come join us on our next Christian Life Program. This 10-week program is brought to you by the Singles for Christ Ministry and will be held at Corpus Cristi Church, Santa Rosa between Mission and Alemany in San Francisco. Orientation begins on September 18 at 7:30pm. For more information please contact JC at (650) 892-8892 or e-mail sfcsfclp@gmail.com.

Food & Fun Sept. 18, 19, 20: “San Francisco - City by the Bay,” annual St. Robert Parish festival, Fri. 6 – 11 p.m.; Sat. 1 – 11 p.m.; Sun. 12:30 – 6 p.m. Come enjoy festive entertainment all weekend long. A variety of delicious foods, games, rides for kids, raffle prizes and bingo. Valet parking available. Located at 1380 Crystal Springs Road in San Bruno. Call (650) 589-2800. September 19, 3 – 6 p.m.: Annual Wine Tasting benefiting Redwood City’s St. Francis Center. Taste wines from a dozen different wineries and appetizers from various restaurants while strolling the lovely grounds of an Atherton estate. Contact Lynda Connolly on (650) 592-7714 or email lyn-

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Three books focus on teaching, contemplating and meeting Jesus “JESUS IN THE GOSPELS AND ACTS: INTRODUCING THE NEW TESTAMENT” by Daniel Scholz. St. Mary’s Press (Winona, Minn., 2009). 272 pp., $23.99. “THE WISDOM OF HIS COMPASSION: MEDITATIONS ON THE WORDS AND ACTIONS OF JESUS” by Joseph Girzone. Doubleday (New York, 2009). 199 pp., $21.95. “MEETING JESUS IN THE GOSPELS” by George Martin. Servant Books (Cincinnati, 2009). 142 pp., $13.99.

Reviewed by Allan F. Wright For those interested in a scholarly analysis of Jesus in the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles, Daniel Scholz, who chairs the philosophy and religious studies department at Cardinal Stritch University, provides an excellent survey which is accessible to the student and layperson alike. Pulling from more than 20 years of experience in teaching at the collegiate level, Scholz offers an authentic academic study of Jesus Christ in his book, “Jesus in the Gospels and Acts: Introducing the New Testament.” He opens the book with an explanation of the “historical world of Jesus” and introduces the reader to the realm of biblical studies. The synopsis and further study of Jesus in the Gospels and Acts is certain to both educate and intrigue. With numerous sidebars, charts and questions, the book will keep the reader interested in the topic. Scholz provides an excellent resource for teachers and students that will spur the reader on to further study. Father Joseph Girzone, author of some 18 books, including the popular “Joshua” series, offers 44 meditations on the actions and words of Jesus in his book, “The Wisdom of His Compassion: Meditations on the Words and Actions of Jesus.” Father Girzone weaves in stories from his own life experiences to highlight the compassionate and emphatic actions of Jesus as found in the Gospels. Using the Gospels as a starting point, the focus of the meditations is undoubtedly geared toward

In “Meeting Jesus in the Gospels,” George Martin, author and commentator on Scripture, offers 55 concise reflections on events and encounters people had with Jesus as we find them in the Gospels. Each chapter begins with a verse from Scripture followed by one or two teaching points to illustrate the meaning for the believer today. Each chapter ends with a reflection question such as: “What is the next step Jesus is inviting me to take in order to follow him more closely?” Martin’s chapters faithfully carry out his intention to have the reader meet Jesus in the Scriptures as well as in the providence of living their daily lives. This book is recommended for any devout Christian seeking a closer walk with Jesus, one small step at a time.

our thoughts and actions regarding others, but also includes the call to be compassionate toward yourself as well. While Father Girzone uses Gospel passages to explore an aspect of Jesus’ teaching, he fails to draw out the background, meaning and original intent of the story as used by the Gospel writers – and Jesus himself – which can minimize the importance of the Gospel story. Drawing from his ministry experience, the retired Catholic priest does reveal that individuals both need and want a relationship with Jesus Christ and that the relationship with Jesus is the source of what compassion is. He concludes that people “want to meet the real Jesus and learn what he is really like. They want to be part of him and follow him like all the people in that Gospel passage.” This book provides insights into the inner life of Jesus and encourages thoughtful, prayerful reflections on the way Jesus related to the people we encounter in the Gospels so that we might bring that compassion to a world that desperately needs it.

Wright is author of “Silent Witnesses in the Gospels” and “Jesus in the House: Gospel Reflections of Christ’s Presence in the Home.”

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

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

heaven can’t wait Serra for Priestly Vocations Please call Archdiocese of San Francisco Fr. Tom Daly (415) 614-5683

Catholic San Francisco

Home Care Geriatric Lessons Needed Home Aide Piano

PIANO LESSONS BY

CAROL FERRANDO. Conservatory training, masters degree, all levels of students. CALL (415) 921-8337.

Help needed with groceries, laundry, light housekeeping, 1-2 times per month, references required.

(415) 931-3146

CERTIFIED GERIATRIC HOME AIDE, native San Franciscan, 19 yrs. exp. seeks employment with elderly woman exc. ref. 415-252-8312

Help Wanted

WEEKEND CUSTODIAN Mercy High School, San Francisco, is currently seeking a part time weekend custodian. This is an 8 hour flexible weekend position. Custodial duties will include event/furniture set-up, clean-up, restroom and general use area cleaning, empty trash/recycling and event monitoring. Salary will be commensurate with experience for this part time position. Qualified applicants please email resume to Lorelei Zermani / Business Manager, Mercy High School, San Francisco at lzermani@mercyhs.org We are looking for full or part time

RNs, LVNs, CNAs, Caregivers In-home care in San Francisco, Marin County, peninsula Nursing care for children in San Francisco schools

To place a

Help Wanted Ad in Catholic San Francisco please call 415.614.5642 or email

If you are generous, honest, compassionate, respectful, and want to make a difference, send us your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Fax: 415-435-0421 Email: info@sncsllc.com Voice: 415-435-1262

penaj@sfarchdiocese.org

CYO TRANSPORTATION Catholic Charities CYO

CYO Transportation Services of Daly City, a program of Catholic Charities CYO, has employment opportunities for individuals who wish to be a school bus driver.

CHP-Certified School Bus Driver Training provided at no cost Must have a clean driving record; DMV H-6 printout required Drug testing, fingerprinting and background check required Must be at least 18 years old Must be responsible, punctual, and team-oriented Full & part-time positions available We offer excellent benefits package and competitive pay Please contact Bill Avalos, Operations Manager, at bavalos@cccyo.org or (650) 757-2117.

Chimney Cleaning

Catholic San Francisco

September 18, 2009

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

Pauline Duran Matilda Elsa Zola E. Elsenpeter Maria Cuaresma Eugenio Peter Farrell Jean A. Ferrari Mary Rita Fetherston Lucy Fidichiero Joseph E. Flores Jeanne Fontana Dorothy E. Frey Irene Furtado Mary E. Gallagher Marta Lillian Gallardo Mary Gerbich Lois Marie Giovannetti Hilda M. Giovannetti Philip Gladstein Oscar Guerrero Helene Harrington Steven Gregory Hart Bryan Devine Hegedus Ermalinda G. Helgeson Santiago M. Hermoso Alberta Heuring Rene Lee Ing Julie Diane Inocencio Edmundo A. Irag Yvette Codis Kelly Sr. Sharon Krenn, RSM Elmer Paul W. Kurth Mary Irene Kurth Giovanni Lauretta Kaumavae Lualala Lavulo Jessie Joyce Lee Norma M. Lewis Rosa Francisca Lopez Santina Lucas Marijan Lukanovic Serafina V. Matote Norma McCann Jeanne Marie McHale

James Leo Adams Remedios A. Arcia Edilberto Vega Arroyo Gloria S. Baltazar Gloria T. Barretto Donald A. Bellina Luz Beltran Alicia Berlanga Vondella Blayney Robert L. Bonomi Ruth A. Boyd Robert E. Buckley Peter Burns Josephine G. Calica Joseph M. Carabello Angelita R. Cardenas Alice Marie Casey Judith A. Chalkley Nellie L. Chao Lupe Dolores Chiappari Olga Chiappe Lupe G. Colin Manuel Colin Mary Jane Collins Richard M. Collopy John Joseph Conneely, Jr. Ricardo Contreras Edward J. Cosgrove Mary E. Cridland Margaret G. Cullinan Nancy C. Curtis William M. Curtis Daniel James DeCamp Lorraine DeMartini Hugh J. Devlin Duilio Di Giulio Joann Porter DiGrande Manuel Escobar Dizon, Sr. Claire R. Donohue Msgr. Bruce A. Dreier

Laura L. Michael Paulino Molinas Gregory R. Morris May E. Morris Alejandro Mostasia Manawel B. Nazzal Bienvenido R. “Benny” Nievera, Sr. Martin Patrick O’Connor Daniel J. O’Keefe Betty Jean O’Shei Victoria G. Orantes Dorothy M. Pelletier Jose Pineda Tevita Pita Luz Baires Prado Rose Giannini Quinn Isauro Ramirez Emily Rego Alice Rodriguez Zenaida Rodriguez Ada Roman Ines R. Rossi Guillermo Ruiz Richard J. Santana Jerome P. Satele Laila Teresa Sciarretta Anthony Serrano Eugene T. Smith Giulio Sodini Matilda “Tillie” Squires Carl A. Tapella Victor G. Totah William Trujillo Alice E. Tucker Frances Turner Louis Valdez Ricardo Valdivia Cecelia C. Wade Judy Lee Webber Lola Jane Wilbur Gertrude M. Winters

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Eleanor Hayes Allen Logan Richard Bloomquist Frances Meade Corby Marie T. Harpster John W. Harpster Edward Patrick Kevin Robert James Marsh Felipe Martinez Sutherland Robert Simonds Carolyn Jean Simonds Francis G. Spillane Siaosi Kale Vehikite Wha Ka Zee

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Paul A. Fraire Veronica T. Frizzell William C. Haley Evelyn M. Handley Xina Y. Speeg

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR HALF MOON BAY Lizuarte Belo Adriana Maria Hernandez-Diaz

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMTERY, COLMA First Saturday Mass – Saturday, October 3, 2009 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am

Cemetery Tour Sunday, October 11, 2009 – 11:00 am In association with the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco History Association Special Guest, Author Doug Dorst “Alive in Necropolis” Gather in front of Cemetery Please call 650.756.2060 for more information and to reserve your spot

All Saints Day Mass – Todos Los Santos Celebration Saturday, October 31, 2009 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Monsignor Fred Bitanga, Celebrant Refreshments in the courtyard following Mass

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375

MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020

PILARCITOS CEMETERY Hwy. 92 @ Main, Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1676

ST. ANTHONY CEMETERY Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.