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Winifred Downing, Name parishioner, Holy Winifred, too, walks the talk as a longtime lector at Holy Lincoln links. Roy Dufrain made a hole-in-one, and thanks to Name....C5F colleague, Mary Podesta, really enjoyed the chair, Paula Collopy, co-chair Jim Preble and all who helped recent Icon Workshop she attended at SF's St Dominic Parish. put the day together....Also earlier to the year, the Catholic The experience included learning the icon making process and scouting award, Parvuli Dei, was presented at a special Mass creating one of your own. Participants, in addition to Mary, an at Our Lady of Angels to Peter Damon, Shane McCracken, Immaculate Heart of Mary parishioner and longtime San Kenneth Dowling, Danny Schoknecht, Chris McNutt, Nick Mateo Serra Club member, included Tom Ward, Doric Poggetti, Matthew Kurose. Presiding was Capuchin Father Crystle, Sister Lucia-lam Nguyen, Kathy La Roque, Sacred John De La Riva, parochial vicar at the Burlingame parish.

Heart Sister Anne Davidson, Lucia Dugliss, Rosemary OLA school principal, Carol Meshinsky, fifth grade teacher, Donna McMorrow, sixth grade teacher Davidson... .Dominican Father David Kathy Ruggiero, and Jim Delfino were Orique, who was ordained and said his First among die assembly....St. Benedict Parish Mass at St. Dominic 's in June, said thanks to for the Deaf said "So long" and thank you to members of the parish in a recent bulintern Julie Anderson Love "for sharing her letin....To the rescue to lead song at St. many talents." Father Craig Forner, who's Dominic's while the choir was on break was sittin ' in as administrator here until a new pasthe Gregorian chant group, Exaudi Nos under tor with American Sign Language abilities Alcides the direction of parishioner, is named, is grateful for the warm welcome Rodriguez-Nieto....thanks for the hospihe has received. The Japanese community of tality to St. Sebastian's part-time secretary St. Ben 's says farewell to Father Domtoum Irene Plata, and volunteer bookkeeper Brian Petrum Hiroshi Kanda, who helped out Whitty who received me warmly and let me over the summer... Welcomed at St. use the phone when I was in their part of Matthias, Redwood City is Laurie Coulter, town....Happy 62nd anniversary to coordinator of adult faith formation....Sts. Dorothy and Al Maggio of St Stephen Congrats to Steven R. Peter and Paul has happily received new Parish, San Francisco. The couple are active Fuentes, newly elected pastor Saksian Father John J. Malloy. with groups including Catholic Charities, Grand President of the Father Malloy, bom in Berkeley on St. Little Children's Aid , and the Serra Italian Catholic Federation. A Patrick's Day and a Salesian since 1950, has Club....Art Green, who is married to Al and member of ICF Branch 163, Dorothy's daughter, Nancy, and works for served at his community 's schools and parishSan Mateo, Steve earned vocations as a Serran, let us know of the es, most recently in Canada. Saying "So club's annual golf tournament and Prime Rib undergraduate and graduate long" at tire North Beach parish is former degrees from Notre Dame Dinner in August. Teeing off at Sharp 's Park pastor, Salesian Father David Purdy.

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'Let our national purpose and resolve be for peace' Following is the text of Archbishop William Levada 's homily September 16 at a Memorial Mass in St. Mary 's Cathedral for the Victims of Terrorists.

The three parables in today 's Gospel, including the supremely beautiful parable of the Prodigal Son , form a triptych in which the teaching of Jesus opens up for us the contrast between our often petty all-too-human way of looking at life, and God's perspective. While we are prone to judge others as worse sinners than ourselves — a sort of ritual of self-justification , God shows us the heart of a father and friend who loves us, who takes his own initiative to find us when we are lost , who waits with a loving welcome when finally we "come to our senses," like the Prodigal Son. In this memorial service commemorating the great tragedy of this past week, I want to look with you at the terrorist attacks on innocent lives, and on our individual and collective response, and try to imagine how they look from God's perspective.

Let us turn first to those who died as victims of a wellp lanned terrorist attack. They were incidental to those who master-minded these attacks. Innocent bystanders to someone else 's mad purpose. Here is one aspect of the great tragedy: the terrorists could not care less about the lives of these thousands of brothers and sisters in the human family. Or perhaps because of some warp in mind and conscience, they had already declared them no brother or sister to them. No, they were Americans, and some of them our friends and neighbors here in the Bay Area.

If we survived Oklahoma City 's home-grown terrorists , and the Beirut Marine barracks, Nairobi embassy, and USS Cole terrorists, with a prayer of thanks th at they were far away, God knows we will scarcely ever again take wing on a plane without the memory of this week in our minds and on our hearts. There but for the grace of God go we. If terrorism in Israel and northern Ireland, at Olympics games and in the air, has seemed blessedl y remote in the past, I am confident that our nation — and we may hope nations throughout the world — will strive with ever more purpose for zero tolerance of terrorism anywhere in the world. We must hold those who commit these terrorist acts as the outlaws they are, and bring them to justice and hold them accountable to the laws of God and humankind.

For this lo happen our world leaders in political , educational and religious fields , must take the initiative to condemn terrorism and terrorist acts for the evil they are. In particular, we must encourage political and religious leaders in Muslim countries to be clear about the sacred will of God, who has condemned the spilling of innocent blood with the mark of Cain, the murderer, from the very beginning of the human race. Let us not dignify such acts of murder by calling them acts of war or Political strategy.

We thank God for the many stories of heroism among those who fell victim this past week. In their reaching out to loved ones to 'say good-bye , to try to foil the terrorists' plans , to be first in to fight fires and to rescue victims , they have g iven us examp les of a God-given generosity of heart. Are these examples not glimpses of the perspective of God himself, shown to us in the parables of today 's Gospel?

It is true that in these tragic deaths, so many no doubt instantaneous , we are saddened to think that in the midst of busy lives they may not have had the grace to "come to their senses," like the Prodi gal Son — to make their peace

with God. But God knows the depths of our hearts better than we do, he can interpret our best and deepest desires.

For these brothers and sisters who have died , we will lament our loss; but we need not fear that God will abandon them. Instead he has asked us to stand in solidarity with them , to pray for them , to present them here today at this Mass in union with the perfect sacrifice of Christ on the Cross , who gave himself as a sin-offering for the sake of each one of us , and for the salvation of the world.

No wonder that he left us this memorial of his sacrifice on Calvary in every Mass we celebrate. Just as original sin continues to take its myriad shapes and forms in the evil we have seen thi s week, so too the forgiveness , healing, reconciliation and peace that Christ was sent into the world to make possible needs to be rendered visible in this sacrament of our salvation again and again.

To those among us who mourn the loss of those they love, our hearts ache with you. To those whose injuries will be a lasting testimony of this cruelty, we stand with you and will do our best to support you. To the children who can hardly begin to comprehend how the world of laughter and life has become a world of tears and death , we pledge our best to protect you and to help you grow up to a world without terrorism.

But what about us, dear friends? As we sort out our emotions, do we not feel a righteous anger, perhaps even a desire for revenge? Of course we do. Otherwise our hearts would be made of stone! Are we then to think of ourselves as the instruments of God's own vengeance for these terrorist acts?

We remember St. Paul's Letter to the Romans, where he reminds us too "Beloved, do not look for revenge, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord' ." (Rom 12:19) By vengeance we repeat the cycle of violence and hatred. By vengeance we open the flood gates to hatred and intolerance, which spills over so easily to demonize whole classes and tribes of peoples.

In a meeting at City Hall this week, we religious leaders present with Mayor Brown and city officials heard the fear expressed by our Muslim brothers and sisters, who have joined us in their shock and dismay at this week's terrorist acts, but who had already seen evidence of an escalation of words of hate and intolerance. Dear friends , let us not walk down this path of jud gment , hatre d and intolerance , especially toward the followers of Islam. Let us remember the perspective of God that we heard in the Gospel today, spoken by Jesus precisely to redirect our too easy jud gments of condemnation of others.

What then should we do? We have seen the outpouring of solidarity we share as Americans in the face of this traged y. We should take new resolve in our unity as a nation to call for justice — God' s own justice — for these terrorists. But this will require of us great patience , and peace in our hearts , for justice cannot be rushed without risking unjust injury to the innocent. And it is precisel y the death of so many innocent people that cries for justice.

We have many examples of internation al justice to rely upon. I think of the Nuremberg trials after World War II , which brought many of those responsible for the Holocaust to justice. Even in these day s we see the World Court in the Hague calling to justice those who committed crimes against humanity in the Balkan wars.

But should our collective response be spoken of in terms of war, I think not. These terrorist acts are not "acts of war." To call them such is to give them standing they should not be awarded. Whatever their misguided political motivation , they are criminal, outlaw acts. This is not the time for words of war. ¦

September 11, 2001, has been compared to December 7, 1941, Japan 's att ack on Pearl Harbor, whose 60th anniversary is just a few months away. A day of infamy, it was called , and so it was. And so was last Tuesday. But these terrorists do not represent a nation alread y at war with our allies, attacking this country to defeat and conquer us, like the Axis powers who forced us into the Second World War. If we have learned anything from this last and bloodiest of centuries — from the bloodshed of two world wars and countless other conflicts waged by ever more powerfu l and rapid weapons of destruction , we must take the lesson that war and words of war should be our last resort , not our first threat. Perhaps it would be good for someone as old as I to recall for our younger generations the dramatic words of Pope Paul VI , in his 1965 address to the United Nation s, 20 years after the end of the second world war, and in the height of the "Cold War": "lamais plus la guerre!"

"Never again war!"

That call resounded throughout the world as hope and prayer, And how we need to let it echo in our hearts each time there is a new crisis in our world. To call these terrorists to justice will require patience on the part of us all, and especially of our government leaders. It may well require the use of force , and the use of such force may be morally justified.

But I ask you, my brothers and sisters, to join with me today in urging our President, our Congress, our government officials not to lead us and our world down the path of war. I urge them not to speak quickly the words of war, which too easily ignite the flames of hatred and vengeance, when calm and patience are the chosen tools of tru e justice.

I ask the media, which have provided so much information to us this week, to exercise greater care in fomenting talk of war. Thomas Friedman's syndicated column on Thursday calling this the beginning of World War III, the Los Angeles Times, Friday editorial calling the present situation "quasi-war ", play not to our reason but to our collective emotions. We need rather to be able to rel y on the media, such a powerful element in our society, for perspective and balance in a time of such uncertainty.

At the beginning of this new century — and the new millennium — let our national purpose and resolve be for peace. Let us defend the peace against attack. And let us work for peace in those p laces where it is most elusive : in the Holy Land , the Balkans, central Africa and central America. As we ask God to bless America, let us pray fervently for the blessing of peace for our world.

Finally, dear sisters and brothers, as we celebrate this memorial service for our fellow citizens who were victims of this week's terrorist attacks , let us pledge to construct a lasting memorial by setting in our hearts the very perspective of God, so beautifull y captured in prayer by our City 's patron, St. Francis of Assisi: Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred , let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt , faith ; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness , light; Where there is sadness , joy. ' 0 divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled , as to console, To be understood, as to understand, To be loved, as to love, For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; It is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

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WASHINGTON — Catholic and other reli gious groups have joined with secular organizations that promote famil y farming and wildlife conservation to put the brakes on a new 10-year farm bill that passed the House Agriculture Committee earlier this summer.

The length of time covered by the bill and the speed with which it sailed through the committee are just two of the points which have angere d rural life advocates. Holy Cross Brother David Andrews, head of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, called it "a disaster of a farm bill" during a Sept. 10 press briefing.

The Catholic rural life organization was joined in its opposition by leaders from its counterparts sponsored by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church USA and United Methodist Church.

"We need a farm policy that is also a food policy, th at provides food for the hungry, from family farms, which respects and defends God's creation. The current House bill fails to do this ," said Brother Andrews.

As currentl y written, the bill would distribute $80 billion in federal money over the next 10 years. Critics say most of it will go to agribusiness companies and "factory farming" concerns, with little going to independent family farmers. The bill earmarks $3.4 billion for food stamps.

Immigrants who pick many of the crops for low wages will continue to be ineligible to receive food stamps.

Vatican confirms suspension of controversial Fatima pri est

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has confirmed the suspension of a priest who spreads a controversial interpretation of the message of Our Lady of Fatima.

The Congregation for Clergy, in a Sept. 12 note, said the suspension of Father Nicholas Gruner, head of the Fatima Center in Fort Erie, Ontario, and of The Fatima Crusader Magazine, was "confirmed by a definitive sentence of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature. " Father Gruner, contacted by telephone in Fatima, Portugal, said the timing of the Vatican publication, the day after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, "is very strange ."

"We have been saying all along that acts of war will take lace if Our Lady 's request for the consecration of Russia p does not happen. This is the only weapon that can stop these kinds of things front happening ," Father Gruner said.

Pope John Paul II, Vatican officials and Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, the surviving Fatima visionary, all have said the consecration was performed March 25, 1984.

Father Gruner continues to maintain the consecration was not performed correctly. In addition, he does not believe that the so-called third secret of Fatima published on the pope 's orders in June 2000 is the complete text.

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"One of the most shocking evidences that we are threatened by a culture of death ," Father Ashley said, "is the blindness of so many contemporary scientists to the fact that their own brilliant intelli gences are the light of the Creator who is light and truth guiding them to understand his creation and thus recognize its origin.

"No wonder that in this blindness, some scientists see nothing monstrous in the proposal to clone human beings and to produce them, mislabeled as unused 'pre-embryos,' for research."

Respect Life theme focuses on God as source of human life

WASHINGTON — "Every Human Life Has Its Origin in the Heart of God" has been selected as the theme for Respect Life Sunday, observed Oct. 7 this year.

Materials distributed for the observance includes "Rachel Goes to College," a campus outreach offering post-abortion healing - The campus outreach for the Project Rachel program, which is offered at more than 140 diocesan offices around the country, is highlighted this year because "the highest rate of abortion in the United States is among college-aged women," the program materials note. "Most (college women) do not know where to turn for help," the materials added. "Many have no idea that help and healing are even available anywhere."

The six articles included with the program materials for 2001-02 addressed such topics as spiritual care for the dying, the death penalty from the perspective of a prison chaplain, raising children with Catholic values, and emergency contraception.

In an article called "Moving Toward a Culture of Life," Cathleen Cleaver, director of information and planning for the pro-life secretariat, looks at the state of abortion in America today and cites evidence that "we are moving in the right direction" toward achieving a culture of life in U.S. society.

An article by Carl A. Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus and vice president of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, titled "Teach Your Children Well," deals with the importance of the family in the development of morals and values.

Vatican Library loans ancient text to Jewish Museum

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican Library has loaned an ancient text documenting the fourth-century presence of Jews in Germany to Berlin's newly inaugurated Jewish Museum. The text, a 10th-century copy of a Roman document describing a Jewish settlement in Cologne in 321 A.D., demonstrates that Jews were long a part of the history of present-day Germany, museum officials said.

The $60 million Jewish Museum was inaugurated Sept.

9. Unlike the country 's three other Jewish museums, which focus on the Holocaust or Jewish art, the new center hopes to tell the story of everyday Jewish life in Germany over nearly two millennia.

In addition to the Vatican Library 's text, the exhibit features a Roman-era Jewish oil lamp depicting a menorah found in Trier, in western Germany.

English church leaders urge Christians to abandon prejudices

MANCHESTER, England — Church leaders in northwest England have urged Christians to examine their prejudices and create friendships with other faith communities following a series of riots in the summer.

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Catholic Charities conference told to keep Christian vision

' NEWARK, N.J. —Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum," challenged Catholic Charities officials to consider "what it is that makes charity specifically Christian."

Catholic Charities directors and staff members gathered in Newark Sept. 6-10 for the organization 's annual national convention. The conference, hosted by the Archdiocese of Newark and its Catholic Community Services, had as its theme "Gateways to Hope and Dignity," a reference to the region ' s role as an entry point for millions of immigrants to the United States.

"In every comer of our world is a great desire and often eager readiness to help those in need," said Archbishop Cordes, whose office is the Vatican's charity promotion and coordinating agency. He cited various non-Christian charitable agencies and groups that have rallied to help other people, particularly in times of disaster, as a sign of social concern.

Charity is rooted in Christ 's call to love God above all and to love one's neighbor as oneself , Archbishop Cordes said. "These two great commandments can be distinguished but they belong to each other and are included in each other," he said. "It is the first of the two great commandments which makes our 'charity Christian," he added.

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Pope condemns terror attack , promises p rayers for U.S. "You are beginning your mission at a moment of immense tragedy for your country," the pope told Jim Nicholson, a 63-year-old Catholic, during a 25-minute VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II said mas- meeting Sept. 13 at the papal summer residence outside sive terror attacks in the United States marked "a dark day Rome. in the history of humanity" and asked pil grims during a The pope said he prayed "that this inhuman act will somber general audience to join him in prayer. awaken in the hearts of all the world's peoples" a firm Dropping ordinary audience procedure , the pope devot- resolve to reject violence, combat causes of hatred, and ed his entire text Sept. 12 to the attacks less than 24 hours work for a new era of intern ational cooperation and earlier, in which hijacked planes destroyed New York's peace.

World Trade Center towers and damaged the Pentagon.

Outside the papal residence , Nicholson 's motorcade Initial casualty estimates was greeted by townspeosuggested that thousands of ple of Castel Gandolfo , "The human heart has dep ths f r o m who waved and held up people were killed.

"The human heart has signs expressing solidarity depths from which schemes which schemes of unheard-of with the United States in of unheard-of ferocity its time of suffering. sometimes emerge, capable fe rocity sometimes emerge " Nicholson said he of destroying in a moment thanked the pope for his the normal daily life of a strong condemnation of people," the pope told 25,000 pilgrims who hung on his the terrorist attacks and told him his prayers and support words in an eerily quiet St. Peter 's Square. were "a comfort for all Americans."

"But faith comes to our aid when words seem to fail," The ambassador spoke to Catholic News Service in an he said. "Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, interview at his Rome residence , which was guarded by those who believe in God know that evil and death do not double the usual number of Italian police in the wake of have the final say." the attacks.

The pope said he had offered his morning Mass for Nicholson said he and the pope prayed a Hail Mary "the helpless victims of this tragedy." He assured his together for the United States. spiritual closeness to the "beloved people of the United In his prepared remarks to Nicholson, the pope urged States in this moment of distress and consternation , when the United States to take moral leadership in the world, a the courage of so many men and women of good will is responsibility he said "depends on her fidelity to her foundbeing sorely tested." ing principles. " Though he usually addresses pilgrims in at least a dozen He urged the U.S. government to continue working for languages, the pope spoke onl y in Italian and English. His peace in the Middle East by promoting a "realistic dialogue comments were summarized by aides in French, German, which will enable the parties involved to achieve security, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish. justice and peace, in full respect for human rights and interThe following day, the pope met the new U.S. ambassa- national law. " dor to the Vatican and promised prayers for Americans "at On the domestic front , the pope told Nicholson that this time of national mourning."

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Nicholson, former head of the Republican National Committee, was accompanied by his wife, Suzanne, and one of his three children , Nicholas , along with U.S. Embassy staff. Other family members, including his two other children and four siblings , were unable to fly to Rome as planned because of the flight ban imposed following the terrorist attacks.

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The rescue force of fire fighters , doctors, nurses, and structural engineers will be at the disaster site for 10 days or more.

"The team will be facing a disaster 100 times worse than the Oklahoma bombing, " said Fire Captain Mike Sweeney who volunteered to assist in Oklahoma City after the bombing of the Murtaug h Federal Building there in 1995. The former rescue member and parishioner of Redwood City 's St. Pius Parish indicated the devastation in New York is immense and the challenge will surpass anything the team has ever seen before . "It 's a very sad week," he said.

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Many individuals in the USF assembly room were themselves afraid , said Barbara Thomas , director of the university 's counseling center. "On Tuesday and Wednesday every body was pretty numb , but by Thursday more peop le were feeling anxious and sad," said Ms. Thomas.

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Echoing their president ' s urg ings that "the world needs more than ever leaders who will fashion a more humane and just world ," 150 students , faculty and staff at the University of San Francisco have launched a series of letter writing campaigns and petition drives asking U.S. leaders that their immediate reactions to Sept 11 's terrorist attacks be those of non-violent dialogue and problem solving instead of military retaliation.

A day after terrorists killed thousands in attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon , Jesuit Father Step hen Privett urged the government to "pursue a common good that transcends other interests of particular individuals or groups. " "Persuasion rather than coercion and violence are the best tools for creating a world of justice and peace , " said Father Privett.

He reiterated some of those same thoughts Sept. 13 during an impromptu open forum at USF, "I Will Not Raise My Hand in Violence ," organized by the College of Rick Champion , a graduate student in environmental Arts and Sciences ,. studies who also works for the student radio station Participants crafted concrete positive actions to pre- KUSF, echoed the feelings of many in acknowled ging vent more violence while sharing their grief and fears the horror which had transp ired. He emp hasized , howthrough words and art. Giant poster paper and paint ever, that the acts not be seen as an "act of war," but , were available , so that people could leave their hand- rather "a crime against humanity. " Using retaliatory prints as a visible testimony to not raising them in vio- language will onl y make the situation worse, he indilence. cated.

Victoria Leon Guerrero , a sophomore media studies Barbara Thomas said the forum gave individuals the major and an assistant editor of the school newspaper opportunity to admit their anger, and fear, but at the told Catholic San Francisco that the group agreed to same time to channel it into creative methods of peacewrite letters to their senators and representatives asking making such as writing to the president and to their repthem to refrain from violent solutions to the terrorist resentatives and senators. crisis.

On personal levels , a number of students shared their One woman suggested that students also send letters concerns that the stock market closure sparked by the to Palestinian and Af ghani children , throug h Muslim crisis mi g ht cause financial hardshi p to their families ,

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Christine Stole Rasher , associate director in the School of Business , reported a fellow faculty member 's distress over the United States ' immediate closing of the U.S. border, to Mexico. "It sent a message that their country was to be mistrusted ," said Ms. Rasher.

One faculty member told how sad she was when the U.S. referred to the current traged y as another Pearl Harbor. Her mother, a U.S. citizen of Japanese descent , was one of the people gathered and sent to an internment camp during World War II. Another teacher read an e-mail from a student who said his embassy had called and advised him to stay at home because of backlash. The student asked the professor to keep him posted of his assignments because he did not want to miss class but felt that for his safety, he had to.

Added Ms. Thomas "For me, this was a call for us to continue to be creative peop le."

The ability to be creative and think outside the box, is what the United States needs desperately to become , asserted two individuals attending the forum.

Frederick Jacobs , a sophomore international student representative , called for the U.S. to "look back on what it has done to other countries ," especiall y in light of what happened Sept. 11.

Gay Breuler, a member of the career services staff , said the U.S. "has to wipe its slate clean and start over.

We have to do more than pray. There is so much that happened before Tuesday that made this happen. " During a follow-up meeting sponsored by a school coalition of peace and justice groups , students agreed to join forces with 27 other Jesuit colleges and universities asking them for collective letter writing support .

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By Tom Burke Personal reactions to the Sept. 11 attacks in Washington and New York may include anger and fear but both are normal and healthy according to Barbara Elordi, director, Grief Care Ministry for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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One myth that Ms. Elord i tries to dispel is that the grief process ends or that closure is an appropri ate aim. "I don't think that closure ever-comes to it," she said. "In our grief support groups, I never want people to think that the point is to forget. We never forget but can learn to integrate the loss into our lives and we need to learn how to integrate this tragedy into our lives as a country and as individuals. " "You can't block out the anger, the sadness, the shock," Ms, Elordi said . "People need to let their feelings come.

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This prayer was written by Jessie Flynn, member of the board, National Catholic Ministry to the Bereaved Help us, God. Help us make sense out of this senseless destruction.

Fill our minds, our numbed souls, our torn hearts with your love.

Guide us in chasing any hateful ideas of revenge from our thoughts.

Keep us focused on the ways of Jesus, who preached compassion, who said that love heals every hurt.

May we not fall into the eye-for-an-eye mentality, for then, we will all be blind.

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By Patrick Joyce kJi ati Francisco religious and political leaders on Monday led a Day of Remembrance service to mourn the victims of last week's terrorist murders and to promote unify in a city that prides itself on its diversity.

Mayor Willie Brown told a crowd that nearly filled the Bill Graham Auditorium that elected city officials called on religious leaders for help in the aftermath of the attacks that killed thousands —- in New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania. . While people throughout the city were grieving and shaken, Mr. Brown said, city officials had also received reports of acts of intolerance. As a result, government officials realized, "We needed more than elected and appointed ' officials making decisions — we needed the guidance and the assistance, in every way, of the faith community;' Mr. Brown said.

Former Secretary of State George Shultz read from President George W. Bush's speech at the National Cathedral last week and called for a strong response to the attacks. "The best defense is a great offense " Shultz said, to a burst of applause.

"We will fight terrorism but we will never forget what we are for—our way of life, our values, our diversity," Mr. Schuitz said.

Governor Gray Davis said that in addition to "inflicting massive damage" on America, the terrorists wanted "to divide us as a people and turn us against each other." While the terrorists achieved their first goal, Davis said, the large and diverse crowd at the ceremony showed that "our enemies have failed to divide us. " "We will never forget the severe violence" of the attacks, the Rev. Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial Church said,but he called for a peaceful response.

"Violence only begs for more violence, " Rev. Williams said.

Archbishop William Levada reminded the audience that St. Francis of Assisi is the patron of "this beautiful spot we call home" and then prayed the saint 's prayer . "Lord make me an instrument of your peace . .. " "Today as I lead us in the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, I invite us to commend to God the victims, the innocent victims, whose lives were taken by terrorist acts.... those who remain wounded, in need of healing. To pray for our president, the leaders of our government and those who are destined to keep the peace, the military, thepolice officers, and to pray for us, for the unity of our nation, for peace in our hearts."

Amatullah al-Marwani of the San Francisco Islamic Society, fought back tears as she spoke. She said the tmorists would not receive a "holy reward for theseacts of violence," and she called the victims of foe attacks "our fallen heroes." "Islam does not encompass or embrace acts of terrorism at any place, anytime."

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I n addition to the general mourning felt by people around the world for vicI tims of last week's terrorist attacks , local Catholics are feeling specific losses I ' 1 close to home.

Two of the heroes who possibly diverted a hijacked airplane from its intended target are being mourned by members of local Catholic communities, as are several missing firefighters , police officers, and office workers in the World Trade Center.

Parishioners and priests throug hout the Bay Area are offering special prayers for friends and family ¦ members who either perished or are missing after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the crash of a hijacked fourth p lane in a Pennsylvania field.

Among those from the Bay Area killed in the attach were a 20-year-old tutor at a Catholic elementary school , a new father and grandfather. At least three of the passengers aboard United Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco that crashed into rural southwest Pennsylvania had local Catholic ties.

One passenger was Deora Bodley, a volunteer at Santa Clara 's St. Clare Catholic elemental}' school Principal Kathy Almazol described Bodley as " a bright ¦ young woman " who remained "a dedicated and committed person for our school. " "She was a very calm person by nature ," Ms. Almazol said. "She wanted to be a psychologist and had a double major in French. She was kind, compassionate and verysmart."

Ms. Almazol said "it will be very hard" when the 20-year-old doesn't return for a third year with the other students from foe Jesuit-run Santa Clara University.

"The fourth graders , who were second graders when Deora started here, are very sad and quiet , " Ms. Almazol continued . "If it's hard for me, what's it like for the little fines?"

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Andrew Garcia, parishioner of Our Lady of the Wayside in San Mateo County's Portola Valley, was another passenger on board Flight 93. Father George Thomas, pastor emeritus, described Mr. Garcia as "very solid, a man of great principle."

Father Thomas said Mr. Garcia 's wife had just had a bab y and his daughter was expecting a baby. "Where the Lord has taken away, we have two new young lives coming, " the pastor commented.

He said that he believed Mr. Garcia would have played a part in a possible heroic plan by several passengers to divert the hijac ked plane. Flight 93 is the only plane of the four that did not hit its target. News reports have stated that cell phone conversations to family members during the flight indicated foe captive passengers planned a counterattack , possibly causing the plane to crash.

Father Thomas described Mr. Garcia as being in "excellent physical shape ," and added, "He would have said, 'Let 's do something about this. '" The priest is providing ongoing counsel to Mr. Garcia 's widow, Dorothy, and their children Kelly, Audrey Olive and Andrew. Mrs . Garcia "is doing veiy well, " he said, but "is still in shock. " Father Thomas conducted a prayer service at the Garcia home shortly after the tragedy occurred.

Another of the Flight 93 passengerswas Thomas Burnett, 38, parishioner of St. Lsadore Parish in Danville.

He also ranks among the reported heroes. Father Frank Colacicco, the priest who was ministering to Deena , Mr. Burnett's widow, was not available to comment. Mrs. Burnett reportedly had several cell phone conversations with her captive husband during the ordeal.

Dominican Father Dominic Briese, head of the St. Jude Shrine inside San Francisco's St. Dominic church, lost several friends. Father Briese hails from Lake Ronkonkoma on Long Island and still has many family members in New York. While evervone in his immediate familv is okav.

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hCATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO Dark day in history of humanity The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. are permanently etched in our memories. The images of that "dark day in the history of humanity," as Pope John Paul II described it, will live with us forever.

As we begin to comprehend the full extent of the loss of life suffered in these evil and senseless acts of violence, the indescribable shock and pain of the hour of destruction is giving way to the dull ache of difficult questions.

How do we deal with this great sadness? How should we respond, individually and as a community, to the evil of these terrorist attacks? How should the nation and the world respond to these attacks? How will these devastating events change us?

We know that the devastation of these terrorist attacks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; so evident in the pictures on our television screens - has reached into the hearts of people across the nation and around the world. There is a great sense of loss - for the people who died in the attacks and for the families and friends who ate missing loved ones. The nation also suffered loss - the events brought further losses in our sense of security and innocence.

But in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks there were signs that the nation had regained something too - signs that the nation had found something that had been lost or diminished. What was found was a reliance on God. To deal with the great sadness that enveloped our hearts, Catholics throughout the nation and the Archdiocese of San Francisco filled churches and came together in prayer.

Father Robert Cipriano, pastor of St. Rita Parish in Fairfax, at a Mass for the school that Tuesday morning, asked the silent and frightened children, "Have you cried this morning?" He told the children, "Me too," and offered the reassurance that "We are together and God is protecting us. " Later that evening at a hastily planned Mass, he celebrated Mass for the people who filled the church, many weeping openly.

Father Bill Brown, pastor of Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Daly City, initially thought of canceling the first meeting of a new Parent Teachers Organization scheduled for the Wednesday evening after the attacks. But he decided to proceed with the evening, which brought together in prayer 630 students of the parish school, them families and the school staff in a powerful and moving ceremony.

Father Jack O'Neill, pastor of St. James Parish in San Francisco, said peole p were numb as they came to church for prayer and community, and he spoke of a call to Gospel values in the wake of the tragedy. "Now that people are getting over the shock, the question of 'why ' is being raised," he said.

Father James Garcia, pastor of St. Anthony Parish in Menlo Park, noted the heavy attendance at Masses and said Catholics might be surprised at the outpouring of prayer and concern for Americans on the part of the newly arrived immigrants. ÂŤ Father Mario Farana, pastor of St. Paul Parish in San Francisco, said the church has been open throughout the day for prayer and consolation. He said there was a need for people to come together as a community. Father Farana celebrated Mass last Friday at noon, joining with many other parishes in the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance.

Father Randy Calvo, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Redwood City, had the common experience of an overflow church for a memorial Mass on Friday evening.

Americans have seen many instances of great courage and unselfishness and the worldwide sympathy for those killed and injured in the attacks has been extraordinary. In the' response to incidents of great evil, we have glimpsed the living expression of Christ's teaching: to love God with our whole heart, mind and strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

But because our human nature is frail and prone to vengeance, our initial reaction to the tragedies also has been a desire for revenge. Certainly, those who planned, supported and helped to carry out the attacks must be brought to justice. However, we must get beyond our outrage, real as it is, and look to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who alone can heal the wounds inflicted by hatred and terrorism.

While feelings of anger are a natural response to the tragedies, it is important that the American people not rush to judgment, and direct this anger toward members of any religious or ethnic group. Arab-Americans - both Christian and Muslim - are as horrified and saddened as other Americans are at what has happened. The ten-orist attacks represent a total alienation from moral values and the teachings of eveiy major religion in the world.

As a nation, our response to the terrorist attacks should be one that does not put us in the position of returning evil for evil received. The nation should act with prudence and concern for truth and justice. What we do to punish those who participated in the attacks or harbored terrorists must not betray the nation 's values, nor put America on the same level as those who take innocent life.

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Congratulations to the Sisters of the Presentation! For 86 years they foug ht on for justice while teaching and performing many works of mercy, even to the homeless after the 1906 earthquake. that too, Thank God , Archbishop John R. Quinn helped the Sisters regain the property which was rightfully theirs.

May the majesty of God bring the Sisters blessings.

John De Martini San Francisco

Demonizing f oes

Fundamentalism, of any creed, is born in fear and too often feeds on hate and intolerance.

So my brothers and sisters, let us not so readily call those we disagree with on social, moral, political and religious issues evil, or devils, or demons, or satans. These are very, very heavy words. Potent words. Often misused words. These are the words that paved the path to the World Trade Center.

Hennie Wisniewski San Francisco

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Missile test is hoax

The recent article by George Weigel (CSF, Sept. 7)that argues in favor of President Bush' s multibillion-dollar defense ideas doesn 't explain 'The Catholic Difference ' whatsoever.

Not only that , when he cites the July 24 missile intercept test in the mid-Pacific as a success , he is wrong. The missile only found its target because it was carrying a homing device to electronicall y guide its interception with the target missile. This is serious fraud and deception.

This hoax was intended so as to get $5 billion worth of pork for campaign contributors to add to the existing $30 billion National Security Administration budget. That 's lots of money, so why do Weigel and Bush seek more?

And after the Sept. 11 disaster, why don ' t they both stop promoting their hate list of nations so the honest living U.S. public won 't have more suicide pilots?

Randolph Montalvo San Francisco

Heed Our Lady

The time has trul y come for us all to heed the words of Our Blessed Mother. She has begged us on numerous occasions to pray for peace. Let us consider the wisdom of Father Peyton 's Rosary Crusades in the '50s. With the retaliation and counter-retaliation that is inevitable in the future , our only hope for our children is to pay attention and remind ourselves of what Our Blessed Mother has been saying all along.'

I used to be devoted to the Rosary, and then became complacent and comfortable.

Our lives will never be the same after the events of this week. If our Rosaries cannot turn back the tide of destiny, at least they will give us courage for whatever is to come and keep us focused on the peace, love and forg iveness that only come through Jesus Christ.

Karen Aranas San Francisco

Arab-Americans as family Commentary By Kamille Nixon We sat around a campfire at a Catholic church community weekend on Friday night two weeks ago. One half of us came from a small parish in San Francisco; the other half hailed from the Arab American Catholic Community which is based in a larger parish a few blocks away. Corncobs, marshmallows, and hot dogs roasted on long sticks. Kids led songs that I grew up singing. Grown-ups sang Arabic songs that sounded new and beautiful to me.

Arabic women on one side of the campfire led call-and-response chants with men on the other side. I couldn 't understand the words but I didn 't need to. The smiles, laughter, and flirtation of the exchanges indicated a universal feeling, not specific to ethnic lines.

After a few songs, I piped in with my flute to play improvised harmonies to their Arabic rhythms while my daughter played her ukulele next to me. As the saying goes, "We made beautiful music together."

Midnight card games, early morning basketball games, rowdy water volleyball matches, traditions of fathers taking care of young ones so mothers could sleep in . .. all of this struck me about the small Arabic community with whom we were sharing a slice of life.

Square dancing proved strange for some, not having grown up on country and western beats as I had. But they joined in the dance with light hearts and heads tipped in laughter.

By Sunday morning's Mass, we all felt more familiar ... familial-, as in family-like.

We are a family, Our pastor, whom we share, tells us so on a regular basis. We share a campsite once a year, we share a faith, we share a comer of American soil. We felt the bonds strengthen as the weekend unfolded.

Then came Sept. 11, when I awoke to a friend telling my answering machine to turn

on the television, where I saw nearly immediate anti-Arab sentiment developing. One could see a jetliner crashing into our nation's profile as an erroneous message flashed across the screen: "The Democratic Party for Palestinian Liberation claims responsibility for the attacks." But it hadn 't, and had actually denounced the terrorism.

An often-replayed segment of television footage showed a handful of people who appeared to be Arabs dancing in streets, presumabl y to celebrate the terrorist attacks. Commentators decried the image with statements that bordered on grave anti-Arab sentiment.

Now reports are coming from all parts of the nation about attacks and even murders of Arabs - and people mistaken for Arabs.

At one moment, I asked a friend , "Have we declared war?" The response: "Against whom?"

That is precisely the point. A horrible act of terrorism of tragic proportion was perpetrated against our citi zens. May be supporters of Osana bin Laden or some other faction of misguided Arabs launched the attack.

However, in our national grief and heretofore unfocused anger, we must guard our hearts from widespread , wholesale anti-Arab hatred.

1 spent a few days with Palestinians, with Arabs, with folks some people might now see as "the enemy." We ate s 'mores. We played music. We worshipped Jesus together as family.

1reach out my hand to them in the aftermath of this tragedy, amid rumblings of anti-Arab sentiment that would be all too easy to embrace.

"Kumbaya ," was one of the songs we played at Sunday's Mass. The Arabs had also grown up with this song, and sang in thennative tongue the words I learned as a child : Someone 's praying Lord, Kumbaya.

Someone's crying, Lord. Kumbaya.

Oh, Lord, Kumbaya.

Sp irituality

'God Underneath: A Priest's Diary' Several months ago, the religious editor at Doubleday sent me a pre-release copy of a book by a young priest from New York named Edward Beck. Entitled , "God Underneath: Spiritual Memoirs of a Catholic Priest," the book is an autobiography of sorts.

This is a wonderful book and the breakthrough , I hope, of an important new, religious voice in North America.

Reading the first coup le of chapters , I didn 't much like the book. Beck seemed a bit too young to be offering this kind of a memoir and seemed too clever b y far to be wise. That impression changed as I kept reading. Beck is clever, but he's also wise, beyond his years .

His reflections center veiy much on his life as a priest , but the book is for every kind of reader. If you are a parent, snuggling to explain your faith to your own children in a credible way, this book can help you; or, more basically, if you are a person who sometimes wonders why you yourself still believe in God and go to church, this can be a good book for you.

What Beck does is take ordinary incidents from his life, beginning when he was a child and progressing through his years of training for the priesthood into his present life and ministry, and hold them up in light of the Gospel so that , through that prism, we are given a deeper insight into the human condition as a whole. It 's a technique Henri Nouwen utilized , a taking seriously of Carl Rogers' suggestion that what is most personal is often, too, most universal. And, like Nouwen , Beck isn ' t afraid to share some of the more humbling things.

For instance, he has a chapter in which he describes his

experience of being bullied at school. Now, years later, much more secure in his person , he can-write : "Some of the insecurity I battle today is undoubtedl y rooted in those earl y experiences. I sometimes wonder had (hey not occurred , would I feel more liberated from sentiments of inadequacy, self-doubt , and inexplicable fear? Though perhaps those feelings originate from many places, they are surely tied to being made to feel that 1 was never good enough."

Beyond his insi ghts , there 's his language. Kathleen Norris , in her book , "Amazing Grace ," suggests that today we are searching for a new vocabulary for the faith . This book makes a modest contribution to that quest. Beck speaks of his faith , directl y and from the stand point of a committed Catholic priest , but the language he uses is personal without being undul y exhibitionist , simple without being simp listic , descriptive of faith without being churchy.

Not to be forgotten is that this is also a book about the priesthood. Beck is young and talented with other option s in life. But he has chosen to be a vowed religious, a Passionist priest. He has found and retained meaning, happiness, peace, and good humor within a vocation that is today much mali gned. He shows that the priesthood , even the celibate priesthood , can offer a rare fulfillment. But he doesn ' t over-romanticize it. He writes too, with brutal honesty, about its pains and pitfalls.

Perhaps what I like best is the sanity and balance that permeate its pages. This is not the memoir of a man who cashed in his faith and good humpr the first time he was bruised.

Faith , as the book demonstrates , is about resiliency, picking up one 's couch and walking. It 's also about walking on a razor 's edge and never falling off into the selective sympathies of the right or the left. Beck walks this tightrope well. Rare. Especially today.

As a boy, wanting to be an athlete and never being quite good enough, I used to envy some of my peers who did have the knack. It seemed as if they didn 't have to work at it, but that it simply came naturally. The right instincts, coordination, a certain vision, correct anticipation, the uncanny ability to make the right moves can 't be taught, it would seem. Some have it, others don't.

Edward Beck, by every indication, has that kind of feel for the spiritual life.

Father Ron Rolheiser

Obla te Father Ron Rolheiser, a theolog ian,teacher and award-winning author, serves in Rome as general councilor for Canada f o r the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

The CatholicDiff erence

Righteous rabbi's defense of Pope Pius XII Rabbi David Dalin has been a friend for years, but I'll risk the charge of special pleading by saying that he 's got a lot of guts. That was first evident a decade ago when he challenged the view, widespread in the American Jewish community, that a secularized America is best for democracy and best for Jews. Now Rabbi Dalin has dropped a bombshell in the middle of the most neuralgic debate on the JewishCatholic agenda by arguing that "the Jewish people had no greater friend in the 20th century" than Pope Pius XII. In a recent interview in Italy, Dalin argues that Pius XII has been the victim of a "revisionist" history inspired in part

by Rolf Hochhuth 's notorious play, "The Deputy," which depicted the pope as a craven weakling, paranoid about the communist threat and indifferent to Jewish suffering . The play, Dalin flatly asserted, "has no historical value. " Hochhuth, and many who have followed his revisionist path, ignored the study made by Pinchas Lapide, Israel's consul general in Milan, whose research among Jewish survivors of the Holocaust led him to conclude that Pope Pius saved "at least 700,000" Jews from the Nazis. Other estimates of Jews saved because of Pius 's interventions come to 860,000, Dalin said.

As Rabbi Dalin reminds us, everyone at the time understood that Pius XQ was a determined foe of Nazism â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including the Nazis: "The Nazis themselves interpreted Pius XII's 1942 Christmas address as a clem' condemnation of their regime and a demand in favor of Europe 's Jews." And his opposition had measurable effects , at least closest to home.

"During the German occupation of Rome," Dalin said, "Pius XII secretly instructed the Catholic clergy to use all

means to save as many lives as possible. In this way, he saved thousands of Italian Jews from deportation. While 80 percent of European Jews died during those years, 80 percent of Italian Jews were saved. In Rome alone, 155 convents and monasteries gave refuge to Jews. At any given moment, at least 3,000 were [beingl saved in the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo." (Dozens of Jewish children were born in what had been the pope 's bedroom at Castel Gandolfo; the boys were all named "Eugenio," Pius 's baptismal name.)

Rabbi Dalin even takes on the charge of the pope's "silence." When the interviewer noted that Pius XII had "never publicl y denounced anti-Semitic laws and persecution of the Jews," Dalin replied, "His silence was an effective strategy directed at protecting the greatest possible number of Jews from deportation. An explicit and severe denunciation of the Nazis by the pope would have been an invitation to reprisals...

"Of course one can ask: 'What could be worse than the extermination of six million Jews?' The answer is simple and terribly honest : 'the killing of hundreds of thousands of other Jews.' The revisionist critics of Pius XII know mat both Jewish leaders as well as Catholic bishops from occupied countries advised Pacelli [i.e., Pope Pius XII] not to protest publicly against the attocities committed by the Nazis. " In short, Rabbi Dalin concludes , "Pius XJI saved more Jewish lives during the Second World War than any other person, including Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler....Pope Pius XII was 'righteous among the nations'."

David Dalin 's bold challenge to what has become the

conventional wisdom on Pius XII and the o Holocaust comes at an o Q. opportune moment. The joint commission of Jewish and Catholic Iz scholars that had been o working together in Rome on these questions has declared itself at an impasse, with hard words being exchanged in both directions.

Despite the remarkable advances in Jewish-Catholic dialogue since Vatican II, a thick fog of suspicion and mistrust continues to obscure discussion of Pius Xil and the Jews â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the situation is not improved when Catholic writers like John Cornwell and James Carroll adopt the worst of the revisionists' historiography in order to advance their case for "progressive" Catholic causes today. Tempers- are getting frayed on all sides, and no one should imagine that either good scholarship or clear historical jud gment will be born of anger.

Let 's hope that David Dalin's courage encourages others to take the risk of examining their own premises and prejudices.

George Weigel

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

Family Life

Time to weep for sinfulness that leads to death

A couple of weeks ago, our cat, Peter, brought us a surprise - a dove he had caught and killed in our backyard . The children all had a different reaction to the dead bird lying on the kitchen floor; two were curious, one was pensive , and the other was downright indignant.

My oldest child was upset because Peter 's victim was one of a pah- of doves that had been visiting our bird feeder all summer. He wanted to suike the cat so that it would not kill again, but 1 intervened. Cats are hunters by nature, 1 tried to explain , punishing Peter for killing a bird is like punishing him for being a cat. Besides, the very instincts that enable him to catch birds allow him to fend off the rodents in the neighborhood , a job I would like him to continue.

Funny how unsatisfying to a child the facts of life can be. My son looked unconvinced and more than a little hurt that I was so unsympathetic. Even to myself , my words seemed cold and unfeeling. Was there nothing I could say or do to comfort my son? Or would that be coddling him?

I was still sweeping up the feathers and wondering about it

all when a friend telephoned. In an amazing coincidence, she was calling for help with a dead bird .

Their cockateel had died during the night, she said, and her daughter was quite broken up over it. "Is there something we can pray as we bury this bird?" my friend wanted to know. "What can I say to help my daugh ter feel better?"

It was as if God was giving me a second chance to see something I had missed before.

Some years ago I read a newspaper article about a "death museum" being launched in some city back East. The purpose of this educational establishment, according to the report , is to teach children that death is merely natural; it's no big deal.

But perhaps the child who cries over finding his goldfish belly up is not the one needing a lesson. Maybe he sees better than many of us that life was not meant for death, that something, therefore, is askew around here.

A few little critters dying of natural causes are nothing, I realize, in comparison with the horrific murder of thousands of human beings that we all witnessed last week. But the pre-

ciousness of life and the evil of death are there for us to contemplate in either ease. In tragedies both small and large we are given a chance to weep for the sinfulness that has brought death into the world.

"Blessed are they who mourn," our Savior said, "for they shall be comforted." They shall feel at home in that place where the living go on living forever.

Vivian W. Dudro

Vivian Dudro is the mother of four (ages four to 13) and a member of St. Mary 's Cathedral Parish.

SCRIPTURE & LITURGY Checking how we spend our time and money 1still remember the insightful comment of Father Milton Walsh which appeared in this very newspaper: if you wish to find out where your heart is, what you genuinely treasure, simp ly look at your appointment calendar and your checkbook. There before your eyes stand revealed both where you spend your time and where you spend your money. The scripture, chosen for this Sunday 's liturgy of the Word, suggests new appointments for us and new recipients of our checks, and it takes an angry prophet , an author pretending to be Paul, and an arrant crook to get us to that new place.

The prophet Amos addressed an audience not unlike us.

During a time of economic prosperity where the gap between rich and poor ever widened, where the rich glutted themselves on what their ill-got gains afforded them , and where the rich endured religious feast days only to get back to the work of turning a profit, the angry man of God had this to say: "Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land ! 'When will the new moon be over,' you ask, 'that we may display the wheat? ' " During the actual celebrations, they are plotting to cheat the poor: " We w i l l . . . . fix our scales for cheating ! We will buy the lowly for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals; even the refuse of the wheat we will sell! " But the prophet asserts with all the passion of his being: "The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Nev er will I forget a thing they have done!" Amos considers the worship at Bethel (a northern shrine) corrupt because it does not affect the way the worshippers live, content as they are to leave the poor go unrelieved. "Gauduim et Spes" (The Church in the Modem World) of the Second Vatican Council makes the same assertion: celebration of the Eucharist which does not lead its participants into social action on behalf of the world's poor is corrupt and ineffective.

Our second reading, I Timothy, comes from an author who pretends to be Paul, addressing present issues the way he thinks Paul would have done. In the original letters of Paul, the Apostle focuses his attention on the order within

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Amos8:4-7; Psahn113; / Timothy 2:1-8; Luke 16:1-13.

Father David M. Pettingill the communities he founded or to whom he wrote. He seems unfocused about their relationships to the civil government.

Here, however, we find an admirer of Paul reacting in what he considers the Pauline party line. First, God has acted in Jesus Christ for the benefit of all: "For there is one God. There is also one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all."

Second , it is this action of God in Christ that sent Paul to preach to the nations: "For this I was appointed preacher and apostle. . ., teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth."

Third, Christians must have an impact on civil life beginning with prayer backed up by deeds: "I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions and thanksgivings be offered for everyone, for kings and for all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all devotion and dignity. This is good and p leasing to God our savior, who wills everyone to be saved.... " Having heard from angry Amos, and a Paul think-alike,

Enduring and Endearing Music

We have all heard the critique: "church music today has no substance." Yes, we have heard it, but do we agree with it? What sort of music today is that which lacks substance?

There are many opinions of course and in a very impassioned article in the recent issue of "Pastoral Musician", Dr. Joseph P. Swain, associate professor of music at Colgate University, says, "Praise music has' the freshness of cut flowers: so attractive for a time, only to wither and finally be cast out. One fashionable song after another fades into oblivion as newcomers arrive, a revolving door that condemns parishioners to an eternity at the bottom of the learning curve, never to taste the spiritual security of music known by generations." Joseph Swain, "Creativity and Tradition," Pastoral Music 25, (August-September 2001): 10.

He goes on to argue that "praise music" is that music which is not open to a variety of creative approaches including improvisation. This variation he says, causes the music to fall apart and into disuse. He says that musicians today need to rediscover classic composition and improvisation as the key to creating enduring music as evidenced in the music of the past. Although we may see. this "tough love" approach as a little heavy handed , there is a principle that he raises, usefully, to our attention.

Music that lasts is music that establishes a tradition and that which evokes universal symbols through time. Church music of this sort is rooted in the creativity and energy of

Father Jim McKearney music such as chant. Chant, for example is so rooted in our tradition that just to hear it evokes images of church at prayer, and yet it is open to further development and creativity.

Chant as we know, has served as the basis for countless musical scores such as requiem Masses, symphonies and even popular music throughout history. For our purposes, it has also

we now allow Luke to hold up a crook for our imitation.

When faced with being fired by his "rich " employer, the steward feathers his nest by reducing the debts owed his employer so that those cultivated by his dishonesty will take care of him after the ax falls. "And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. . . . I tell you make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that when it fails , you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. • "Dishonest wealth," that can be used in selfish, harmful ways, can also be used to benefit sisters and brothers in need and so bring us to "eternal dwellings," nests feathered by no less than God. In the power of this Sunday 's assembly for Word and Eucharist, we may consider responsibly where we spend our time and money; alter patterns of selfish , exploitive behavior; vote our informed Catholic conscience; and attack systemic evil that concentrates enormous wealth in the hands of one percent of the population and has beggars at almost every significant cross-street in our City. "Never will I forget a thing they have done!"

Questions for Small communities How do we connect Mass and Mission, the celebrating of Eucharist and Social Justice?

What small beginnings can we make?

Father David M. Petting ill is assistant to the moderator of the curia and parochial vica r at St. Emydius Parish, San Francisco.

been used as the source for organ and p iano improvisation. It is "open" music. It is music that started as a servant to the text and to the religious sentiments of the heart. These sentiments led to florid additions to the chant as inserted by the skill and fervor of a tried and true cantor. The principle? Good melody.

Good melodies are open to creative harmonizations, improvisations and even textual adaptations. I think of Beethoven's tune from the ninth symphony as one such enduring melody. This tune has inspired numerous adaptations both within the secular as well as the sacred realms and within the -realms of vocal as well as instrumental music. It is a tune that is here to stay!

What is the lesson to be learned? What is the principle for us to follow as musicians and composers? Create, use and improvise on classic melodies that are useful for the church.

Melodies that are open to adaptation without losing their basic, enduring integrity are much more likely to be melodies that will last. These melodies are much more likely to be liturgical because they, like all good religious art will inspire the classic sentiments of the religious heart: faith, hope and love.

Father McKearney is a Sulp ician candidate from the Archdiocese of Har tford, Conn., and director of music for St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

Lectionary volumes renumbered; two volumes to become four Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — When the new weekday Lectionary for the United States comes out, the traditional numbering of the entire set of Lectionary books will be changed.

The Lectionary contains the Scripture readings for Masses throughout the year, The August newsletter of the U.S, bishops' Committee on Liturgy reported that the bishops' conference has issued publishing licenses for the recently approved weekday Lectionary "and publication is anticipated before the first-use date of Ash Wednesday, 2002."

The newsletter noted that traditionally the Lectionary has been published in two volumes. The readings for ':

Sundays and major feasts were in Volume 1, and the readings for all other Masses in Volume 2.

"Due to the large amount of text, what was previously referred to as Volume 2 will be published in three separate books, bringing to four the total number of volumes in the Lectionary for Mass," the newsletter said.

It said the revised edition of Volume 1 — confirmed by the Vatican in November 1997 and available for use in U.S. churches since Advent 1998 — will continue to be called Volume 1 in the new numbering. That volume includes the full three-year cycle of readings for Sundays and those major feasts which replace the Sunday liturgy when they fall on Sunday.

The old Volume 2 included everything else. Under the new system, the newsletter said:

— Volume 2 will include the Year 1 cycle of readings for weekdays plus the complete set of proper and common readings for saints' feasts.

— Volume 3 will include the Year 2 cycle of readings for weekdays and repeat all the readings for saints' feasts found in Volume 2.

—Volume4 will include the readings for ritual Masses, Masses for various needs and occasions, the commons of the saints, votive Masses and Masses for the dead. hi the two-year cycle of readings for weekday Masses, Year 1 readings are used in odd-numbered years and Year 2 in even-numbered years.

Father James P.Moroney, executive director of the bishops' uturgy secretariat, said ease of use was the guiding principle in determining how to divide up die Lxxtionary.

Star Spangled Banner My wife and I lived in the D.C. area for a couple of years and my folks took a vacation to visit us for about a week. They got the grand tour of all the big sights; the Lincoln , Washington and Jefferson monuments , the Vietnam and Korean War Memorials, the Mint , and the F.B.I. building. At the National Archives, they saw a foot from their faces the Declaration of Independence , the Constitution , the Magna Carta, General MacArthur 's com cob pipe and sung lasses and the Japanese WWII surrender document.

But their tour was going to be better than the regular tourist 's. I was going to impress them with my connections on Capitol Hill and bring them places few people are allowed. They stood on the floor of the House and walked up to the podium where so many Presidents have addressed the nation on the State of the Union and in times of crisis. We walked around, all by ourselves, on the floor of the Senate and could see and touch the desks and chairs of so many famous Senators. We walked through the Speaker 's office, the office of the Chairman of Ways and Means and the private House lobby from which we derive the term lobbyist.

Well that was fun , but the thing my mother was most impressed with was something anybody can see when they go to Washington; the Star Spangled Banner. It's a huge (30' x 42') worn, faded, patched up flag with 15 white stars on blue and 15 red and white stripes, representing the number of states at the time. It's hung behind a moveable wall at the National Museum of American History in the Smithsonian complex. On regular intervals, the wall is removed and tourists can view the flag as an early recording of our national anthem is played.

My mother got choked up and she talks about her experience of seeing the actual Star Spangled Banner to this day. I was sort of bored waiting for the wall to open on the thing that I'd already seen at least a dozen times in my life.

I was also surprised that seeing this mass tourist attraction was a bigger deal to her than the special exclusive tour of the Capitol I arranged.

The sight of the Star Spangled Banner was the inspiration for Francis Scott Key to write our national anthem. It flew at Fort McHenry guarding Baltimore harbor during

the War of 1812. He could see it at ni ght from afar in the light "of the rocket 's red glare " and bombs "bursting in ah." These were British rockets and British bombs. The Redcoat s were bombing us to take over Baltimore . To Scott Key, the sight of the flag meant that the Fort hadn 't fallen to the British and that 's when he penned his poem "The Star Spangled Banner." Ironically, it was later set to a British tune as our national anthem.

The anthem celebrates American forbearance against foreign enemies but at last and foremost it honors the bravery of those who died in the defense of liberty and the freedom of their fellow man.

The flag looks patched and incomplete today not because of war damage, but intentionally. The commander of Fort McHenry, Lieutenant Colonel George Armistead, cut pieces of the flag to give to the widows of the fallen soldiers.

Last week, after the bombings in New York and at the Pentagon , we learned that more than 300 brave men and women; firefighters, police and the fire department 's Catholic chaplain, died to save then fellow man. We also learned that several passengers onboard flight 93 to San Francisco planned and likely did sacrifice then lives in an effort to save the lives of others.

This is all still a shock to America and the reality of it is still settling in.

Yesterday, on my way to work, the Star Spangled Banner was playing on my regular news station. An apple grew in my throat when the announcer said it was being broadcast from Buckingham Palace. The Queen had ordered a change in the famous ceremony of the changing of Her guards. The guard band, marching in their red coats, p layed the Star Spangled Banner.

I had to call my friend in London , an incredibly sarcas-

'Dark day'

U.S. bishop s ' leader Condemns attacks

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza of GalvestonHouston called the Sept. II terrorism attacks against Americans "a dark day for humanity" during the daily noon Mass Sept. 12 at the U.S. bishops ' headquarters in Washington.

"We have witnessed the degree to which evil can rise," the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops president told USCCB staff who packed the building 's chapel.

"Violence just between two persons is an affront to human dignity," he said, but in the attacks on thousands of lives in New York and "Washington "we saw violence rise to one of its highest points."

Bishop Fiorenza was in Washington for the meeting of the USCCB Administrative Committee, a group of about 50 cardinals, archbishops and bishop s who form the conference leadership.

Originally scheduled for Sept. 1113, the meeting was compressed into one day in the wake of the terrorist attacks and ended the afternoon of Sept. 11 after dealing with only the most essential business on the agenda.

USCCB headquarters in Northeast Washington is about five miles from the Pentagon, and the dark smoke billowing from the nation 's military nerve center could be seen clearly from the USCCB roof.

Bishop Fiorenza opened his homily with the words of Pope John Paul II earlier that day at his general audience in Rome, "Yesterday was a dark

day in the history of humanity, a terrible affront to human dignity."

He said the pope 's comment "sums up the feelings across the world today. Indeed it was a dark day for humanity."

But the USCCB head expressed a hope that the sheer magnitude of the tragedy might bring people to see that "violence in any form is an evil attack on the dignity of the human person. " He asked the congregation to "do what people of faith do when faced with such violence, what people of faith should do: We turn to God." "Honefnilv he added, j - >" — 3 "neonle rr—J— nf "

faith will know that in God's prov idence those who suffer, those who weep, will be consoled. ... It is a time for healing."

He reiterated from the just-read Gospel passage on the Beatitudes , "Blessed are the poor."

In the face of the previous day's tragedy, he said, "we all sense a poverty — not a lack of material things, but a poverty of weakness ... a sense of not being able to do anything in the face of this great evil, a poverty of helplessness."

At such times, he said , "our thoughts must go to the cross" and to Jesus Christ, "who suffered so much violence."

"It was from the cross, that terrible instrument of torture, that redemption came into our lives," he said.

He prayed that Christ's redemption would come to all those killed, injured or suffering from the loss of loved ones.

tic critic of Americans and American culture and history, to get her reaction to this incredibly ironic event. The British, in their most regular , visible public display of Royal ceremony honored Americans who died by the hands of foreign terrorists with an anthem commemorating a British act of terror against America. What was her reaction? 1 was waiting for a snap wisecrack. None came. She didn 't think it was funny.

"What song would we play, Jack!" she said angri ly, "It is your national anthem and all EngLnd is shocked and behind you ."

She is a school principal. She said that her school and all schools stopped for three minutes at 11:00 a.m. the morning of Sept. 13 to pray for the dead and for the heroes in America. The government , BBC broadcasting and businesses stopped. Drivers even pulled over on the road to pray. Following the moment of prayer, the Star Spangled Banner was played in St. Paul' s Cathedral in the presence of the Queen, Prince Charles, the Prime Minister and the Archbishop of Canterbury. 15,000 people traveled to central London for the memorial service, according to the BBC. 4,000 gathered in a square in Edinburgh.

This morning in New York, President Bush was handed a folded , tattered , dirty American flag, now with 50 stars, which was blown off the World Trade Center when it collapsed. It was handed to him by the rescue workers who two days earlier watched their brave brothers perish and who now are picking up the pieces of then bodies.

The President was so effected by this gesture that he didn 't even want to touch the flag. He didn 't know what to do with it, the news reported.

Perhaps tike Colonel Armistead he could give pieces to the widows of the heroes of the day so their spouses can be buried with a piece of the flag they served and died under.

I've got a lot of my mom's sentiment now.

O say does that Star Spang led Banner yet wave ?

Look at England. Look at all the flags fl ying in your neighborhood.

America and much of the world thanks God that our banner still waves O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave .

'Horrif ying acts'

Vatican, Islamic offic ials exp ress sorrow

cable and heinous act that is not accepted by religion or human sensibility," he said. Such terrorism should be condemned, "whatever the VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Vatican and source," he said.

The president of al-Azhar University, Islamic dialogue officials joined in condemning the terrorist attacks in New York and Muslim cleric Ahmed Omar Hashem, said Washington and said they go against religious Islam was a "religion of peace, stability and conviction. tolerance that does not approve aggression and "We condemn the horrifying acts of terror- injustice. Those who describe Islam as cruel ism committed Sept. 11 in the United States. and violent are making a mistake."

Condemnation of the terrorist attacks came We express our great sorrow at the number of victims, and we offer our condolences to their from several predominantl y Muslim states that families," said a statement by the Islamic- often have criticized the United States, including Libya, Iran and Sudan.

Catholic Liaison Committee.

In some Palestinian refugee camps and "Such acts of violence are not the way to bring peace to the world. As religious lead- cities, however, residents were shown in TV ers we wish to emphasize that the true basis reports rejoicing at the first news of the attacks for peace is justice and mutual respect ," it against U.S. targets.

The Rev. Riad Jarjour, general secretary of said.

The statement was signed by Hamid the Middle East Council of Churches in Ahmad ai-Rifaie, president of the International Jerusalem, said those celebrations "do not in Islamic Forum for Dialogue, and Bishop any way express the sentiments of the Michael Fitzgerald, secretary of the Pontifical Palestinian people." The reaction of most Arabs is one of condemnation of the terrorists Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

In a statement to Vatican Radio Sept. 12, and sympathy with the victims, he said.

Father David Jaeger, an Israeli Franciscan Bishop Fitzgerald said he was heartened by the fact that most Muslim leaders have expressed who has closel y followed the political situation revulsion at the terrorist hijackings, which left in the Middle East, said the attacks underscored the need to fi ght terrorism globally. But thousands of people dead or injured.

It is good to nouce that some leaders m he warned against the danger of "Islam-phomany Muslim countries have condemned bia, " which he said "could become the antithese attacks, for instance the president of Semitism of our day."

'The fact that a terrorist or killer calls himPakistan, the prime minister of Lebanon, the Afghan ambassador in Pakistan ," Bishop self Muslim says nothing about Islam as a reliFitzgerald said. gion or its more than 1 billion followers. We He noted that Palestinian leader Yasser must remember that some of the worst crimiArafat had sent his condolences to the presi- nals in the Balkans claimed to be defending Christianity," he said in a statement to Fides, a dent and people of the United States.

"Unfortunatel y, not all the voices have Vatican missionary news agency.

At a conference on "Christians and been in condemnation of these acts. Some people have rejoiced at this blow to the United Muslims in Europe" in Sarajevo Sept. 12, repStates, But the general mood would seem to be resentatives of both faiths unconditionally condemned the terrorist attacks and held a minute one of revulsion," he said.

In Egypt, Grand Sheik Mohammed Sayyid of silent prayer for the victims. Many particiTantawi of al-Azhar University, who is seen as pants expressed sorrow for the dead and Sunni Islam's highest religious authority, wounded, according to a statement from the Conference of European Churches, which costrongly condemned the attacks.

"The killing of innocent people is a despi- sponsored the event.

By John Thavis Catholic News Service

Retreats/Days of Recollection VALLGMBROSA CENTER 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and details about these and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto , Program Director.

Parables 2001: Stories Jesus Told, a monthly revisiting of the scripture stories with well known retreat leaders, scholars and people of faith. What about these tales? Are they true? Did they really happen? What implications do they have for the Christian in the 21st century? Oct. 14: Elizabeth Lily with the Parable of the Lost Coin; Nov. 11: Father Wayne Campbell with the Parable of Ihe Wedding Feast.

— MERCY CENTER — 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. For fees, times and other offerings , call (650) 340-7474 or www.mercy-center.org .

Sept. 29: Interior Skills for Later Life, a look at how one embraces and learns fro m changes in body, mind and spirit through aging plus a look al the many methods of prayer.

Oct. 14: Mercy Center celebrates its 20th year with a Taize Prayer Service and picnic supper on the lawn of Ihe Burlingame retreat. Dinner is at 5:30 p.m. with the prayer service at 7 p.m.

Oct. 19-21: Women invited to Vocations Weekend. Do you want to deepen your spirituality and serve people in need as a Sister of Mercy? Are you a woman age 18 - 45? Come talk at a wekend of discernment, Contact Mercy Sister Lenore Greene at (650) 340-7434 or lenorersm@aol.com.

3rd Sun: Salon, a monthly gathering of people in the second half of life to explore opportunities and challenges facing them using arts, literature and conversation. Facilitated by Nancy Deutsch.

Women's Spirituality : God's Work of Art in Progress, a retreat for Catholic women between the ages of 22 and 50, Oct. 12 - 14 at Presentation Center, Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz mountains.

Facilitated by a ream of Presentation Sisters the experience will name, discuss , reflect and pray about the various stages through which women come to know God as they develop their spirituality.

No fee. Donations accepted. For more details, contact Presentation Sister Monica Miler at (415) 7510406, ext. 22ormmiller@pbvmsf.org by Oct. 5.

Young Adults The Young Adult Ministry office of the Archdiocese can be contacted by phone at (415) 614-5595 or 5596 and by e-mail at wilcoxc@sfarchdiocese.org or jansenm @sfarchdiocese.org.

Oct. 15: Join Two Tribes, young adults from the Catholic and Jewish tradition who meet to dialogue about their journeys of faith at 7 p.m. at American Jewish Committee building at 121 Steuart St., SF. Call Eric Suba at (415) 922-2364 or eric.suba@kp.org.

Oct. 27: Fall Fest 2001, 5th annual Young Adult Conference with keynote , workshops , Mass , dinner and dance. Contact Eric Suba at (415) 922-2364 or eric.suba@kp.org. Wed.: Help children learn at St. Dominic Elementary School, Pine and Steiner St., SF. 7:15 - 8:15 a.m. in school library. Call Kathleen Reilly at (415) 387-5692 .

Various dates: Read with youth ages 5 - 14 as part of the Tenderloin Reading Program , 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. at 570 Ellis St. between Hyde and Leavenworth, SF. Contact Marie Borges at (415) 401-0925 or marieborges@yahoo.com.

Help at St. Joseph's Village Homeless Shelter.

Bi-monthly Sat. from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Village is at 220 10th St., SF on site of former St. Joseph Parish. Call susangsf@yahoo.com; (415) 584-5587; anne.petrides@centresolutions.com; (415) 440-3598.

San Francisco 's St. Agnes Parish , 1025 Masonic, SF and St. Agnes Spiritual Life Center, 1611 Oak St., SF announces talks and prayer opportunities. Call Chad Evans at (415) 487-8560 .

Synergy Yoga at St. Agnes/SF, Mon. and Wed.

Datebook 7:30 - 9 p.m. in Lower Gym Hall, $5 per class. Call Chad Evans at (415) 487-8560, ext. 226.

Prayer/Devotions Sept. 29: New Life in the Spirit Seminar from 9 a.m.

- 4:30 p.m. with Healing Mass at 7:30 p.m. at St, Cecilia Church, 17th and Vicente, SF. Jesuit Fathei Robert Faricy, professor at Rome 's Gregorian University will preside as well as lead the day's talks.

Registration by Sept. 15 required. Call (415) 472-1567, Sept. 22-26: Parish Mission at St. Rita's, 10C Marinda Dr., Fairfax with Father Bill McCarthy of the Holy Apostles Community, a noted author, retreat leader and East Coast television host. Topics will include "Five Keys to Have a Personal Relationship with Jesus," "The ABCs of Relationships," "Healing, Reconciliation and Evangelization." Begins with Sunday Masses at 7, 9, 11 a.m. and continues evenings at 7:30 p.m. Call (415) 456-4815

Family Life introductory instruction far married or engaged couples about Natural Family Planning, Billings Ovulation Method , is available by appointment fro m NFP consultant Gloria Gillogley. Call (650) 3459076. Introductory presentations on the Billings Ovulation Method of NFP are scheduled for Oct. 17, Nov. 14, Dec. 12 at St. Brendan Parish Center, Ulloa and Laguna Honda Blvd., SF. Call (415) 681-4225.

Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages.

The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heal and renew their families. Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or edgleason@webtv.net.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a dynamic marriage enrichment experience designed to deepen the joy a couple shares . Call (888) 568-3018.

The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers two free information meetings on adoption and foster care on the 2nd Tues. of each month in San Francisco and on 1st Mon. in San Mateo at 7 p.m. Call (415) 406-2387.

Consolation Ministry Our Lady of Angels, 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame, 1st Mon. 7:30-9 p.m.; Ist Thurs., 9:30-11 a.m. Call Sarah DiMare at (650) 697-7582; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel , James St. between Fulton and Grand, Redwood City, Thurs. 6 - 7:30 p.m. Call (650) 3663802; St. Andrew, 1571 Southgate Ave., Daly City, 3rd Mon. 7:30 - 9 p.m. Call Eleanor and Nick Fesunoff at (650) 878-9743; Good Shepherd, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; St. Hilary, 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon, 1st and 3rd Wed., 3 4:30 p.m. Call Sister Colette at (415) 435-7659; St. Gabriel, 2559 40th Ave., SF, 1st and 3rd Tues., 7 - 9 p.m. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882; St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, 2nd and 4th Wed., 2:30 - 4 p.m. Call Sister Esther at (415) 5672020, ext. 218; St. Finn Barr, 415 Edna St., SF in English and Spanish, one Sat. per month. Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823; St. Cecilia, 2555 17th Ave., SF, 2nd and 4th Tues., 2 - 4 p.m. Call (415) 664-8481.

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

with host Father Tom Daly, Tune your radio to KEST 1450 AM. Sept . 10: Hear Capuchin Father Gerald Barron on prayer. Sept. 17: Father William Worner, retired pastor, SI. Gregory Parish, San Mateo, talks about faith today and yesterday. Sept. 24: Msgr. James Keane, retired pastor, Our Lady of Loretto Parish, Novate, talks about Mary and devotions. "Mosaic ", a public affairs program featuring discussions about the Catholic Church today. 1st Sundays 6:00 a.m., KPIXChannel 5. Sept. 23: Guest is Ned Dolejsi, chief Sacramento lobbyist for the Catholic bishops of California. "For Heaven 's Sake", a public affairs program featuring discussions and guests, 5 a.m. 3rd Sunday of the month, KRON-Channel 4. Both shows are sometimes preempted or run at other times , please check listings. Produced by the Communications Office of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Food & Fun Sept . 22, 23: Annual Festival at St. Kevin Parish, 704 Cortland Ave., SF. Food and fun guaranteed.

Opens at noon both days.

Sept. 23: Mercy High School, San Francisco dedicates its Catherine McAuley Pavilion beginning with Mass at 11 a.m. at the 3250 19th Ave. school. SF Auxiliary Bishop John Wester will preside. Contact Terri Driscoll at (415) 337-7218.

Sept. 23: Retreat and Fun Day for children with special needs and their families from 1 - 4 p.m. at St. Mark Parish, 325 Marine View, Belmont. Call Lynn Zupan at (415) 614-5655.

Sept. 24: Our Lady of the Pillar Golf Classic at Half Moon Bay Golf Links. Fee of $150 includes cart , lunch, dinner, tee prizes , dinner and awards.

Proceeds benefit Coastside Youth Programs. Call (650) 726-4674.

Sept. 24: Hanna Boys Center's Annual Golf Classic and Tennis Tournament to be held at Sonoma Mission' Inn Golf and Country Club and Napa's Silverado Golf Club. Fees for both events include play and an evening reception with dinner and silent and live auctions at Hanna Boys Center, 17000 Arnold Dr., Sonoma. Golf Classic tickets are $195. Tennis registration fee is $100.

Call Scott Singer or Codie Holroyd at (707) 996-6767.

Sept. 26: Catholic Charities Auxiliary meets at the San Mateo Garden Center, 605 Parkside Way, off Alameda. Guest speaker will be Brian Cahill, executive director, Catholic Charities. Lunch $10. Call (650) 349-1162.

Sept. 28, 29, 30: "Tropical Paradise" , parish festival of St. Robert Parish, San Bruno. It's a family affair with games , prizes , rides, entertainment , food and more. Oak St. and Crystal Springs Road, San Bruno. Call (650) 589-2800.

Sept. 28, 29: Oktoberfest OLA 2001 , an annual fun festival with food , games and prizes on the parish grounds at Hillside Rd. just off El Camino Real, Burlingame. Fri. 6- 1 0 p.m.; Sat. noon - 11 p.m. Call Gail Diserens at (650) 344-4117 or Heidi Leupp at (650) 342-0602.

Sept. 29, 30: Annual Festival of St. Philip Parish , 24th St. and Diamond St., SF. Enjoy great food, live entertainment , fun games, prizes. Meet lots of friendly people. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. both days.

Sept. 29: Celebration of St. Sebastian Parish 50th anniversary begins with Mass at 5 p.m. with a reception following. Parish picnic Sept. 30 after 11 a.m. Mass,

Lectures/ Classes/Radio-TV

Sept. 29: St. Thomas More Church annual golf tournament at Poplar Creek (formerly Coyote Point), San Mateo. Call Lito Mendoza at (650) 355-4063.

Mon - Fri. at 7 p.m.: Catholic Radio Hour featuring recitation of the Rosary and motivating talks and music

Sept. 30: Retired Sacramento Bishop Francis Quinn is the guest speaker at the United Irish

Cultural Cente r. Evening includes reception at 5 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m. followed by Bishop Quinn's presentation. The retired prelate is a former priest ol the Archdiocese of San Francisco and pastor of the Sunset District' s St. Gabriel Parish. Since retiring in 1994, he has been ministering among the Native American population ol Southwest Arizona. Tickets $40/$15. Call Kathleen Loftus at (415) 731-4915 or Leo Walsh at (650) 365-6184.

Sept. 30: Our Lady of the Pillar Fall Festival, 400 Church St., Half Moon Bay. Fun for the whole family. Entertainment from Bobby Hutcherson and Mike Rossi plus food , arts and crafts and more . Call (650) 726-4674.

Oct. 11: Annual Sisters of the Presentation Goll Tournament at Presidion Golf Course. $200 entrance fee includes greens fee , cart , lunch, dinner, fabulous prizes, and great lun. Call (415) 422-5022.

Reunions Sept. 28: Redwood City 's Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School hosts a celebration for all pre-1941 graduates. Lunch and tour included. Call Julia Tollafield at (650) 366-8817.

Sept. 29: Class of 71, Notre Dame High School , Belmont at the school. Call Joan LeBlanc at (650) 726-2398.

Oct. 5-8: Class of '61 of Notre Dame High School, Belmont in Arlington, Vermont. Contact Pat Lewis at (206) 322-9211 or Psistyone@aol.com or Liz Stafford Thomsen at (650) 591 -8535 or lizjwposd @aol.com.

Oct. 5: Class of '86 , Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Contact Kathy Green Hemmenway at (925) 933-5266 or Khemenway@aol.com.

Oct. 7: Class of 76 of Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Contact Ellen Schwinger Roy at (650) 548-0723 or elroy@raiser.com or Martha Kudlacik at (650) 32201222 or Marthak15@earthlink.net.

Oct. 13: Class of 76, St. John Ursuline High School , SF. Call Eileen Hermelo-Schoening at (650) 363-8272 or SJU76@aol.com.

Oct. 21: Class of '51 of San Francisco's College for Women will gather at Lone Mountain. Call Anstell Daini Ricossa at (415) 921-8846 or Toni Hines Buckley at (415) 681-5789.

Nov. 3: Class of '51 of St. Cecilia Elementary will gather at the Forest Hill Clubhouse. Call Phil and Helen Murphy at (415) 731-0127; Berie Davey at (650) 593-8768; Charles Corsiglia (650) 589-8410.

Graduates and former students of San Francisco's Notre Dame Elementary, Notre Dame High School or Mission Dolores Elementary should call Sally Casazza at (415) 566-2820.

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St. Mary 's Cathedral Boys Choir is recruiting for the 2001/2002 season. Now in its 10th year , the ensemble is open to boys in grades 3 - 8 . The group has traveled to seven states and Italy. Prior musical experience is not necessary. Call Christoph Tietze at (415) 567-2020 , ext. 213 or ctietze@compuserve.com.

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People should be with their families and others they want to be with. They should do things they like doing and that tire good for them whether it 's exercising, being in nature , going to church , gardening, taking care of grandchildren or some other activity."

Ms. Elordi said learning "to walk" with what happened on Sept. 11 may take time and that , too. is all right. "We will begin to move into a new space with this ," she said.

"You will become able to walk with it and somehow, someplace inside of you , you realize that you are part of all those people who died and that we're all a part of each other."

How can people minister to one another? "The bottomline thing we need to do is listen ," Ms. Elordi said.

Consolation ministry came to the forefron t in response to America's loss of neighborliness, Ms. Elordi said, 'The last 50 years have seen much spiral out of control for people," Ms. Elordi said. "Things have moved too fast. We don't know our neighbors like we used to and this ministry in the person of the priest, deacon and lay man or woman is trying to fill that void.

All. the things that we're attempting to do in this ministry in comforting and being with people are things that were naturally done before."

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If you find that some of the items above apply to you , you are not alone. Thousands of people feel the same as you following a catastrophic or traumatic event. These reactions are a natural aftermath of traumatic experience and are called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

If they persist, get some professional hel p for yourself.

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were in then late 20s and early 30s, Father Briese said. Thennames are Jude Sail, Greg Reda , Robert Tapaldi and Richard Cangiano.

"I don't think they ever had a chance," Father Briese said.

"They were pretty young in life and full of energy."

A family friend of the priest is a firefighter in the Bronx who remains missing. Additionall y, the mission preacher 's cousin, Joseph McConnel , worked next door to the twin towers. He got out in time before his building collapsed, but , like thousands of other New Yorkers, he lost his job.

Msgr. John O'Connor, pastor of the Cathedra] of St. Mary of the Assumption , is also directing prayers toward specific souls.

Passengers aboard doomed American Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles, David and Linda Angell, are being mourned by Msgr. O'Connor because they were close friends of people dear to the priest, Peter and Rosemary Casey. Mr. Angell, 54, and Mr. Casey partnered with David Lee to produce the television sitcoms "Frasier" and "Wings."

Msgr. O'Connor also has several friends on the New York Fire Department who remain missing. "It makes it very real and very present to me," he said.

Two of the commandeered jetliners were part of the United Airlines fleet. Donna Pfeifer, a member of the choir of San Carlos' St. Charles Parish, and her husband, retired United

All Souls School shows the flag In response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, students at All Souls Elementary drew and decorated American flags that now adorn the windows of the South San Francisco school 's classrooms.

The flags are "a tribute to the missing firefighters, police officers and workers at the Pentagon and World Trade Center," said a letter to South San Francisco Fire Chief Russell Lee and the firefi ghters of the city 's five fire stations.

Principal Eileen Gorman said that while students were being readied for an early dismissal on Sept. 11, counselor Dennis Dau l, spent time with each of the classes. Father Bill Justice , pastor, presided at a prayer service when the school reopened on Wednesday and at a Mass on Friday. In addition , guidelines to assist children , teenagers and adults in dealing with the tragedy were sent home to school families. The guidelines are from a Crisis Response Manual prepared by the Department of Catholic Schools and Catholic Charities in 1998.

Ms. Gorman said the participation by school staff and parents in helping implement the unannounced early dismissal was "outstanding."

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Captain Richard "Butch" Pfeifer awaited news of the names of United crewmembers who perished on the ill-fated flights.

Mrs. Pfeifer breathed sig hs of relief as a reporter read names from a published list of victims, realizing she didn 't personally know any of them. Capt. Pfeifer characterized some of his former colleagues as being "of no particular religious faith but some of the most religious people I knew."

Thomas Swift , friend of a St. Isabella parishioner, is missing. No other details were available.

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A St. Dominic parishioner nearly lost her brother, accord ing to Pastoral Associate San Rafael Dominican Sister Anne Bertain. He escaped from the office building next to the World Trade Center moments before the smaller building collapsed, she said.

"We're all affected in different ways," said San Rafael Dominican Sister Gervaise Valpey who organizes San Domenico School's alumni relations. In one family of the San Ansehno school, an uncle died in the attack, hi that same family, the students ' mother is undergoing multiple surgeries at Marin General and UCSF. 'They are so desperate ly sad," Sister Valpey said. She declined to name the family.

The son of one alumnus lost three friends in the World Trade Center, and a member of the Dominican sisjters lost her grandnephew, a firefighter who hasn't been found , Sister Valpey said.

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"Soul Survivors " Listless horror film in which a coed (Melissa Sagemiller) mourning the car-wreck death of her boyfriend is beset by hallucinations and becomes paranoid when her friends act suspiciously, Writer-director Steve Carpenter 's formula horror film employs familiar cliches up to a twist ending mat too patly resolves everything. Implied sexual encounters, brief violence and substance abuse. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-BI—adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 — parents are strongly cautioned.

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

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spirit in the world through all the effort (paid and unpaid) we exert to make the world a better place, a little closer to the way God would have things. " Pierce also examines many concrete ways to integrate spirituality and work, recommending particular work-related "disciplines." He gives tips on jugg ling work with the rest of life, dealing with co-workers, and transforming unjust systems. He suggests ways to surround yourself with physical reminders of the sacred without drawing attention to yourself or coining across as a religious fanatic.

Among this book's many positive attributes is the use of language that the general working public can readily grasp.

One need not be a spiritual guru to understand the concepts of living with imperfections and deciding what is enough (saying no!), while still striving for quality performance.

Having worked a number of jobs in my life, I found myself deeply admiring this book for its creative yet practical approach. My only critique is that I still have unanswered questions. Is it enough to pray on the run at the workplace, or should every Christian also have a specific , intentional prayer time at home? Are monastic spiritualities really that removed from the experience of those in the world? Might cloistered nuns or monks learn something from this book?

The author readily acknowledges that this book is only a beginning at formulating the spirituality of work. He invites others to enter the conversation, contributing their own insights on seeking holiness in the work environment.

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Have you ever tried to integrate your spiritual life with the work you do Monday through Friday? In the midst of difficult co-workers, phone interruptions, crashing computer systems, or lou d construction noise, recalling the loving presence of God is no easy task.

Gregory Pierce tackles this challenge with ingenuity in "Spirituality @Work : 10 Ways to Balance Your Life on the Job." Coining from a wealth of experience in business, publishing, community involvement and family-raising, the author is well aware of the difficulties encountered in trying to follow Christ in the marketplace.

Pierce reminds us that traditional spiritualities were often wntten in view of the religious life, particularly that of a cloistered monk. Trying to apply monastic advice to the vocation of business sometimes produces difficulties. For example, some classic spiritualities appear to encourage one to flee the world rather than engage creatively in making the world a better place.

On the other hand, Pierce cautions us about spiritualities that might not challenge us enough. He writes that corporate culture sometimes promotes worker-spirituality that risks becoming a "soft, individualistic, emotional 'fix' used merely to make people feel better about the status quo or work harder for less money. " In "Spirituality @ Work" Pierce seeks to develop a genuine spirituality of work that is grounded in the actual task of work itself. As Christians, we must seek awareness of God throughout the day, whatever our personal situation. We are called to bring God's presence more fully into the here-andnow, and that includes the workplace. The author defines the spirituality of work as "a disciplined attempt to align our- A former teacher and director of relig ious education, McCarty selves and our environment with God and to incarnate God's is a free-lance writer with a master 's degree in theology.

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575 Religious Articles 580 Travel/Entertainment 600 Wanted to Buy 625 Real Estate 650 Automotive

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Rita M. Dorsey Jacqueline Estella Ann M. Evets Arnold W. Evje James B. Fee Catherine C. Feeney Frank J. Filipp i Olive Fitzpatrick John J - Flaherty Gemma M. Fleitz Rose F. Freeby Federico S. Gabon Frances T Gaffigan John J- Garvey, Jr. Paul J. Gaspar Hilaria M. Geronimo Victor J. Giannini Violet L. Glatt Margaret A. Gl ynn Diane Goodman Frank R. Grgurich Peter J. Guerrero Randall C. Guerrero Angela A. Guglielmoni Anne Hagan Rose C. Heckenkemper Helen D. Hendricks Joann Hernandez Lupe Hernandez Victoria Hoppe Amelia Hurtado Velma Ivanetich Dolores C. Jacob Dana Jelenich Julia A. Kane Angele A. Khougaz Richard Kucirek ' Dominic F La Torre Catherine H. Lagan Ramon L. Lasirona Cleo S. Laski Lillian M. Lavorini Peggy Sue Lee Robert M. Lertora Paul Felix Lestrohan Irene Lew Margaret C. Ling Julio C. Lopez

COLIVIA Carlos Altamirano Delia C. Alvarado Celerina C. Ancheta George Andino Charles J. Anzore Virginia A. Apostolou-Molinari Ernest V. Arceo Armando A. Azinheira Nicholas J. Bandur Alejandro I. Barillas Phillip N. Bartholomew , Jr. ' Virginia C. (Jean) Beck Georgia Bencharsky Giulia B. Besozzi Carlota Blakey Manuel G. Bravo Mary Burke Bernice A. Burns Dan Burns Michael V. Calderon Gilda G. Canilao Betty J. Capizano John P. Cardinale Enzo Casanova Constance Chisholm Virginia R. Clark Leona M. Clarke Sr. Mary Peter Claver, PBVM William Coleman Kevin Thomas Collins Gino Frank Colombo Alfrieda M. Cordes Vincent Corradi Marian Cotov, Jr. George P. Coulter Helen M. Cresto Daniel P. Crilly Pacita F. De Dios Lawrence P. Delmas Anna K. DeMartini ' Artemio D. Descallar Margaret C. Dillon Emilio A. Dominguez Richard David Dooley

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Anna M. Lucchesi Rosa R. Mariona .

Augustin R. Marquez Elvira Martinez Christina Maskevich Stella E. McCarty Edward McCormick Delore s McDermott William A. McDonald , Jr. Charles J. McMichael Martin Allen McVeigh Teresa Meneghetti Eva Molinari Rene L. Momas Christian Isaiyah Morales Maria E. Morales G. Ronald A. Moreno Marie J. Morris Louis A. Mumaugh Peter Murray Carmela G. Muscat Susan Navarro Patricia A. Nelson Frank M. Neto Donald A. Nolan Rosa M. Nolasco Lawrence Francis O'Connor Alan Frank Olcese Donald M. Pagani Paul J. Palma Erlinda G. Parangan Melvin Anthony Pastega Lola M. Patane Teodolinda Pineda Barbara Jean Pipia Ellen A. Pors Adrian S. Puppo Josephine B. Ramus Dorothy J. Reardon Rosetta Pargas Respicio Maria. Reyes Laurel A. Rider • Rita M. Rinaldi Dominic E. Romani, Sr. Ernestina Rosales Vasco Rossi Evelyn V Rowland Abed Y. Salem

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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma

1st Saturday Mass - Saturday, October 6th , 2001 Rev. Lawrence C. Goode — Celebrant — St. Finn Barr Parish All Saints Mausoleum Chapel — 11:00 a.m.

Celebrate Todos Los Santos Mass - Saturday, October 27th , 20Q1 Rev. Alex Legaspi — Celebrant — St. Andrew Parish Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel - 11:00 a.m.

Refreshments following Mass

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The Cath olic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014 650-756-2060

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 94903

650-323-6375

415479-9020