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Parish organizers of the Simbang Gabi Christmas novena carry colorful paper lanterns signifying the light of Christ, at the Commissioning Mass for the novena Dec. 3 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations, Archbishop Bernadito C. Auza, blessed the lanterns.

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The Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations made a special appearance in San Francisco Dec. 3 to celebrate the Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass, a recognition that the traditional Filipino Christmas novena has become a fixture at nearly half of the parishes in the archdiocese.

“Our souls proclaim the greatness of the Lord,” said Archbishop Bernadito C. Auza, who was appointed July 1 by Pope Francis to represent the Vatican at the United Nations. At the evening Mass, he blessed the parish organizers of the Christmas novena, and blessed the colorful paper lanterns or paroles that each carried that symbolize “Christ the light.”

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The Simbang Gabi novena is “for us Filipinos, a gift for the church of the United States,” Archbishop Auza said, commenting that the novena only recently appeared in the Bay Area, although it is a more than 300-year-old tradition that the Spanish originally brought to the Philippines in the late 16th century.

He noted that when he was ordained a priest here in 1985 for his Diocese of Tagbilaran in the Philippines, Simbang Gabi was not celebrated in the archdiocese.

“Thanks for all the priests and all the faithful who have made this harmonious implementation possible in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. They have been evangelizers, they have been missionaries,” said Archbishop Auza.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is creating a new Office of Catholic Identity Assessment for Catholic high schools starting Jan. 1 – an initiative that may be the first in the country.

The office will not only work with the four archdiocesan high schools which fall directly under the archdiocesan Department of Catholic Schools, but with the 10 Catholic high schools which are owned by Melanie Morey religious communities as well.

The office will be led by Melanie Morey, who has spent the 20 years since she received her doctorate in education from Harvard writing, teaching, and working to more effectively address issues related to Catholic institutional life, culture, and identity.

For the past 3½ years she served as provost at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University where she has led three separate accreditation self-studies and visits.

“How do we create an excellent Catholic culture in our time? In our archdiocese?” asked Morey.

“Right now, the archbishop wants to focus on the high schools,” said Morey. “They are a tremendously important set of institutions in the life of the church. They are educating the future of the church: young men and women who are coming to know better what being Catholic means and what it means for their own lives.”

Certainly Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco are committed to being Catholic and trying to find ways to support and sustain their unique Catholic identity, Morey said. Being able to do that over time however, requires that the schools get better at measuring Catholic identity and managing it, a process that can be summed up in one word – assessment.

Morey said the new office will focus on two main areas: assessment and formation.

The assessment component will concentrate on three priorities at Catholic high schools: – Catholic content: Across the disciplines, in classrooms, in sports, music, drama, art.

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The Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum in 1854, located on Market Street in San Francisco. A girls school and the orphanage were the first ministries of the Daughters of Charity in San Francisco.

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Over the years, the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum was located in three different sites. In 1977, it merged with the infant hospital and renamed Mount St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth. Today, it is known as the Epiphany Center located at 100 Masonic Ave.

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Undaunted by the challenges before them, the Daughters of Charity, who followed in the footsteps of the pioneer sisters, shook off their own fears and headed into the streets to nurse the injured and support their San Francisco community. Sister Eugenia Garvey; Sister Estelle Murphy; Sister Caroline Collins; Sister Alexis Kuhn; and Sister Mary Alice McGinnis, who taught at St. Vincent School and St. Patrick’s School for Boys, scoured the city looking for their students. These five sisters became known

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as the “steel frame,” a reference to the remaining twisted steel frames of the charred city buildings.

Within four months of the earthquake, the sisters helped rebuild a school located at Fifth and Clementina streets. Their sister companions missioned to Mount St. Joseph in Silver Terrace, the second location of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum originally located at Market and Montgomery streets, continued to feed the hungry and offer a place of refuge to those in need.

From their austere California arrival on Aug. 18, 1852, to the present day, the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul have made their mark on the city by the Bay. Their commitment and dedication to serving those living in poverty can be witnessed from every corner of the diverse city.

First summoned from their Emmitsburg, Maryland, roots by Joseph Alemany, later archbishop of San Francisco, the Daughters arrived in San Francisco on Aug. 18, 1852, in the early morning hours

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DAUGHTERS: Congregation’s ‘blessed partnership’ with San Francisco adaptability, the “miserable” place grew into a city known for its diversity and commitment to those in need.

“Our relationship with the people of San Francisco can only be described as a blessed partnership,” says Sister Marjory Ann Baez, DC, Visitatrix, Province of the West. “Throughout our years of service to the archdiocese, we have worked side by side with so many collaborators and benefactors, whose generosity has allowed us to create and maintain ministries in health care, education, and social services, and to give loving service to those in greatest need in San Francisco.”

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aboard the steamship “Golden Gate.”

A cholera epidemic was raging in Panama, killing thousands as they traveled on their pioneer path. The original seven Daughters who traveled from the East Coast, had dwindled to five when two of the sisters lost their fight against the disease marching across the Isthmus of Panama on mules.

Their leader, Sister Frances McEnnis, reflected on their new beginnings when she wrote, “This is a strange place, a real bad place, immorality seems to be the favorite virtue here.

God pity us, we need prayers and good fervent ones, for we see nothing good in this miserable place.”

But with the sisters’ dedication and

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DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL WHEN AND WHERE FOUNDED: Founded Nov. 29, 1633, in Paris, France,

by Vincent de Paul, a country priest, and Louise de Marillac, a widow. In 1809, Elizabeth Ann Seton, the American foundress of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph, adapted the rule of the French Daughters of Charity in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

In 1850, almost 30 years following the death of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the Sisters of Charity in Emmitsburg united with the Daughters of Charity in Paris, France.

FIRST ARRIVED IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: On Aug. 18, 1852, five Daughters of Charity set foot on San Francisco soil after a harrowing journey from Emmitsburg, Maryland.

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Left, the original St. Vincent School in 1859, located on Jessie Street. Right, today St. Vincent School is known as Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, located at 1055 Ellis St.

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ORIGINAL MINISTRIES: The pioneer Sisters opened the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum and a girls’ school within weeks of their arrival. Today, both ministries continue to serve the community: the original orphanage is now known as the Epiphany Center at 100 Masonic Ave.; the school is Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory located at 1055 Ellis St. CURRENT MINISTRIES: Today the Daughters of Charity co-sponsor with the De La Salle Christian Brothers: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory and De Marillac Academy; they sponsor Our Lady of the Visitacion School; St. Elizabeth Seton School; and Epiphany Center.

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Leadership comes in all sizes as shown by the recent donation of time and treasure by fifth graders at St. Raphael School, San Rafael. The 17 middle school students partnered up with business leadership students from nearby Dominican University Kayli De Leon to design a project to Rodas raise awareness for a philanthropic cause.

Teacher Sarah Jensen now in her ninth year at St. Raphael’s started the partnership with Dominican last year. Sarah told me via email that it is never too early to start Igor Costa leadership training.

“At St. Raphael School we call all students, regardless of age, to be leaders in our community,” Sarah said.

The early exposure to leadership skills helps students’ self-confidence, she said and “translates to success across the curriculum.”

Dominican University representatives came into Sarah’s class for several weeks to discuss leadership skills including innovation, adaptability, critical thinking, and teamwork. As the instruction evolved, the class, inspired by a St. Raphael student battling a brain tumor, decided to take up fundraising for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.

They led the school in a coin war where each class had a jar to fill with donations. At campaign end more than $1,700 had been collected. The fifth graders then held a sale of new and used books they had gathered. Every book was a buck and the inventory was organized according to the school’s Accelerated Reader Level program for easy pickings. The sale raised another $500 for the hospital.

“The students learned so much about giving back and developing leadership skills through this project,” Sarah said.

“The fact that it was a project run by 17 fifth graders just goes to show you that

CAN DO IT: The Student Council at San Francisco’s St. Stephen School took the helm of the school’s annual canned food drive for the St. Vincent de Paul Society. School families and friends donated almost 4,000 items. Pictured are student council members and SVdP representatives loading up the good work.

IT ALL ADDS UP: St. Mary’s Medical Center Auxiliary Holiday Boutique was again a success bringing totals raised over the years to more than $200,000. Guests clamored for handmade gifts, baked treats and an autographed Willie Mays baseball. Pictured from left are committee members Mary Perata, Anita Fernandes, Pauline McArdle, Arlene Fife, Victoria Murphy, Anne Hoehner, Linda LaCampagne and Louise Luchessi. Cecilia Bermudez and Doris Gibson were not available for the photo. at any age anyone can make a difference. This is truly putting our faith into action!”

Sarah is grateful to the Women’s Leadership Philanthropic Council, the group that connected her with Dominican.

“We were excited about this partnership because we look for any opportunity to promote and develop leadership skills within our students,” she said.

The Dominican University teacher on the project was Tom Cavanaugh with student helpers Nicole Alvarez, Alvin Macale, and Juli Dau. Will the project see a third year? “Absolutely,” Sarah said.

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Adult Day Services a home away from home care is not affordable for many of the low-income families we serve. Thankfully, with your help, we can provide respectful and compassionate care and continue to celebrate the dignity, worth and independence of seniors like Sharon.

This is the second of three Advent stories focusing on clients served

by Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The theme of this installment is dignity.

The client stories are actual but the names have been changed for publication.

BIALIK is executive director of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Dignity for the value and worth of every human being, including the unborn and the aged, is a pillar of Catholic Charities’ programs.

Sharon never wanted to be a burden to anyone.

She lived independently well into her 80s, only reluctantly moving in with her son, Mark, after a downturn in the economy forced some difficult choices. Sharon enjoyed the time with her son and two young grandchildren, and she knew that, in order for Mark to work and support the family, she needed a place to stay and receive care during the day.

That is when Sharon met her new “daytime family” at Catholic Charities Adult Day Services San Mateo County. Sharon quickly became a fixture of the program, charming staff and fellow participants alike. She drew great joy from the rosary group and pet therapy – her favorite service animal was a Bernese mountain dog, the breed she had always wanted to own.

Catholic Charities Adult Day Services in San Mateo County is a licensed adult day program that provides a safe, therapeutic and caring environment for frail seniors. Catholic Charities provides services that help seniors maintain a life of dignity and independence while also preventing their premature placement into a residential facility. Our home-like community environment is particularly effective for seniors with hard-to-manage forms of dementia who

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With the services provided by Catholic Charities, families receive relief and support that not only provides socialization for the senior and time for the caregiver, but also improves their health. In the most recent 2014 Family Satisfaction Survey, 97 percent of participants felt that their loved one had benefited from the program, while 94 percent of caregivers reported that their own stress was reduced.

Sharon spent the last four years of a very full and fulfilling life with Catholic Charities, passing away last December at the age of 95. The staff and participants held a memorial service in her honor that included sharing fond memories, a slideshow tribute, and the rosary that she had so enjoyed during her time there. Mark and his family were deeply moved by the memorial service, realizing that Catholic Charities Adult Day Services had been a true home away from home for Sharon, and they were so touched to witness the outpouring of support from a community that had meant so much to her.

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ANCHORAGE ATTORNEY ENTERS MENLO PARK CLOISTER

Anchorage attorney and convert to Catholicism Tara Clemens has finally been able to enter the Corpus Christi Monastery, a Dominican religious cloister in Menlo Park. The mission of the cloistered Dominican nuns is to honor and promote devotion to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

Writing in the Anchorage Holy Family Cathedral’s November Tara Clemens issue of the Glad Tidings newsletter, Clemens said: “This summer, with the prayers and generous support of The Labouré Society and friends to resolve my student loans, I am now free to enter formation with the Dominican nuns at Corpus Christi.”

On her blog “Truth in Love: My Journey to Becoming a Dominican Contemplative Nun,” Clemens wrote Oct. 31, the day before she was to enter the monastery Nov. 1. “My heart is full of peace and joy, so much so that this post will be relatively short – some things cannot be expressed in words. After this post, I will not be able to update or check comments to this blog for a long time, if ever.”

Clemens had long felt called to the religious life but the order could not accept her with her outstanding student debt. Over the past several years she worked to pay down the debt and coordinated with the Labouré Society, a nonprofit organization that assists aspirants in resolving educational debt so they are free to enter the priesthood or religious life.

Clemens’ recent entrance into the monastery in November is the start of an eight-year discernment process toward taking final, lifelong vows.

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Parish pilgrims, archbishop meet in Rome Holy Angels pastor Father Alex Legaspi and 87 pilgrims from the Colma parish met San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone in Rome Nov. 19. This photo was taken in St. Peter’s Square after the general audience with Pope Francis. The Holy Angels pilgrims were on the last leg of a 12-day Marian pilgrimage to Fatima and Santarem in Portugal, Our Lady of Penafrancia in Salamanca, Spain, Lourdes in France, Assisi and Rome in Italy and Vatican City, said Father Legaspi. “Before I left I talked with the archbishop and he was hoping that we could meet up in Rome since he would also be there. We, the pilgrims and I were very happy and so was the archbishop, when the plan materialized,” Father Legaspi said.

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Cruzada Guadalupana marchers stopped at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma Dec. 6, the second stop on their annual Marian pilgrimage from All Souls Church in South San Francisco to St. Mary’s Cathedral. Every year they are welcomed by cemetery staff and pray the second decade of the rosary.

Thousands process for Our Lady of Guadalupe Thousands of people walked 12 miles from All Souls Church in South San Francisco to St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 6.

“Our Lady of Guadalupe likes the number 12, because she did appear to Juan Diego on Dec. 12, 1531,” said Pedro Garcia, organizer of the Cruzada Guadalupana de San Francisco, which celebrated its 21st anniversary this year. The group’s first stop after All Souls is at Holy Cross

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About 4,000 people began the pilgrimage at All Souls, said Garcia, with others joining all along the route until organizers counted 27,000 at Van Ness Avenue and Market Street.

The walk ended with 2 p.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.

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Archbishop visits School of the Visitacion VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

On Dec. 5, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone visited School of the Visitacion in San Francisco and spoke with each of the nine grades at the school. Below are the archbishop’s answers to some of the students’ questions.

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WERE YOU NERVOUS MEETING POPE FRANCIS? I was a little nervous but not a lot because he is so normal and down-to-earth.

DO YOU HAVE A BODYGUARD? No, I don’t. We have security at the cathedral and the chancery office.

If there is a big deal, like the Walk for Life, then they’ll arrange for security around me and the other dignitaries but that’s just on special occasions.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DO IN YOUR FREE TIME? I like music a lot.

I like to hike and to read and to cook.

DID YOU EVER HAVE A VISION OF GOD? Not like a mystical vision but God has given me understandings, insights into situations. I’m not that advanced.

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO BE A BISHOP? The real question is what inspired me to be a priest. Once we give our life to the church then we don’t make choices, we are called to serve. The church names bishops.

The most important thing is what is God calling you to do in your life.

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE SAINT? Growing up in my family, we had a great devotion to St. Joseph. The other saint is St. Peter Claver. He was a Spanish Jesuit missionary and he served the slaves, he became the slave to the slaves. He cared for their bodies first, as a way to care for their souls. He did not stop at the physical. Another one, he’s not a saint yet, would be (El Salvador) Archbishop Oscar Romero.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone answered questions and exchanged a spontaneous “air hug” with the fourth grade of the School of the Visitacion during his visit to the San Francisco parish Dec. 5. The archbishop visited all the classrooms, answered questions from the students, and ate lunch with the faculty. The day began with celebration of Mass at Church of the Visitacion.

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Marketing campaign tells story of Catholic schools’ academics, values CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

OMAHA, Neb. – It’s just four words, designed to carry a powerful message: “Catholic School. Awaken Greatness.”

Combined with the image of a schoolhouse with windows lit to form a cross and topped by an American flag, the words are part a $2 million marketing effort designed to draw parents and students to Catholic schools.

Launched at a Dec. 2 news conference with Archbishop George J. Lucas of Omaha at All Saints School in Omaha, the marketing includes newspaper and television advertisements across the archdiocese and a voiceover carrying the same message in radio ads in English and Spanish. Social media including Facebook also are being used.

Catholic schools offer a faith-based education that leads students into a relationship with Jesus and teaches morals,

discipline, confidence and values, Archbishop Lucas said.

Those schools partner with parents – and they want to work with still more parents who are not sending their children to Catholic schools.

And Catholics across the archdiocese are playing a role in the marketing campaign, because funding for the effort comes out of a two-year, $40 million Ignite the Faith capital campaign drawing to a close this month in a third wave of parish fundraising, said Shannan Brommer, director of the Office Stewardship and Development.

In scale and scope, integration of message and mediums used, it is the biggest marketing campaign for schools in the 127-year history of the archdiocese, said Deacon Tim McNeil, chancellor.

“We took it for granted people know how effective our schools are,” Deacon McNeil said. “But you just can’t assume.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | DECEMBER 12, 2014

Court hears arguments in mandate appeals

Court stays execution of Texas inmate argued to be too mentally ill

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DENVER – The Little Sisters of the Poor aren’t seeking special privileges – they just want the same exemption from the federal contraceptive mandate offered to others, the order’s mother provincial said Dec. 8.

Sister Loraine Marie Maguire spoke publicly for the first time after the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver heard oral arguments in an appeal filed by the Little Sisters and in two related cases, Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma, and Reaching Souls International, an Oklahoma nonprofit.

Colorado and Oklahoma are two of the six states under the court’s jurisdiction.

“The government exempts huge corporations, small businesses and other religious ministries from what they are imposing on us – we are simply asking to carry out our mission to serve the elderly poor as we have always done for 175 years,” said Sister Maguire, surrounded by four other sisters, all clad in black habits and gray veils, outside the courthouse.

The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Denver-based religious order that cares for the elderly poor in several facilities around the U.S., has been steadfast in its refusal to provide contraceptive coverage to its employees.

The religious order first filed suit against the HHS mandate in September 2013 and lost.

The order appealed to the 10th Circuit. Last December, the U.S. Supreme Court suspended enforcement of the mandate and now the order seeks to make that protection permanent.

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AUSTIN, Texas – The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Dec. 3 stayed the execution of Scott Louis Panetti to “fully consider the late arriving and complex legal questions at issue” in response to appeals citing his severe mental illness.

The brief order from the New Orleans-based court came hours before Panetti was due to be exScott Louis ecuted for the 1992 murders of his Panetti in-laws.

The court added that a schedule for briefs and oral argument would follow.

The Texas Catholic Conference had been among those urging Texas Gov. Rick Perry to act in according with his “deep Christian values” and commute Panetti’s sentence to ensure that the inmate receives proper medical treatment for mental illness.

“Our request for mercy in this case is motivated not only by the Catholic Church’s active opposition to the death penalty as a desecration of human life, but also in part by Mr. Panetti’s circumstances,” said the conference, which is the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops.

The Associated Press reported that Panetti has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. For several years leading up to the 1992 murders he was convicted of committing, he was hospitalized several times for mental illness. At times, he believed he was in a spiritual war with the devil.

Panetti was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to death by a jury in 1995 for the brutal slaying of his mother-in-law and father-in-law.

AP said he never denied that he had entered their home in Fredericksburg heavily armed and shot them multiple times. At his trial, Panetti wore a cowboy costume and defended himself.

His attorneys have fought to at least get his execution postponed so he could be tested further to see if he is competent to be executed. Prosecutors claimed Panetti is faking his mental problems.

The Catholic bishops and other opponents of his execution argued that it is especially heinous to put to death someone in his mental state.

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mental health professionals confirming his severe mental illness, provide even more reason to stop his execution,” the Texas Catholic Conference said in its Nov. 21 letter to Perry.

“While government has an obligation to protect the community from violent offenders, it also bears a responsibility to ensure justice and proper treatment for our brothers and sisters suffering from mental illness,” it said. “Putting to death anyone whose faculties are so severely debilitated by mental illness as to not comprehend nor be responsible for his actions is not merely unjust, but immoral.”

Abby Johnson, a former director for Planned Parenthood in Texas who quit her job in 2009 and became pro-life, is among those who have called on Perry to stop Panetti’s execution.

“The execution of Panetti would be more than an embarrassment to our state. It would undermine our commitment to protecting life, especially the most vulnerable, by extinguishing the life of someone clearly suffering from mental illness,” she wrote in an opinion piece in The Dallas Morning News.

The planned execution “shows a troubling disregard toward the reality of mental illness and protecting those who suffer from it,” she said.

The effort to see Panetti’s death sentence commuted has brought together people from both ends of the political spectrum who agree he is too mentally ill to be executed. An online petition has drawn 93,000 signatures.

Perry’s office did respond to pleas he stay Panetti’s sentence. As governor, he cannot act alone to commute the death sentence. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles would have to vote to recommend Perry grant clemency. However, the board recently voted unanimously to let the execution be carried out.

In its letter to Perry, the Texas Catholic Conference said the church “has tremendous sympathy” for the family of Panetti’s victims. “In no way do we wish to diminish their suffering and loss.”

“However, as you know, it is the parable of the good Samaritan where Jesus teaches that a true neighbor is one who shows mercy. ... Showing mercy does not mean neglecting to administer justice or punish people for their crimes,” it said. “Showing mercy does mean exhibiting compassion toward all of our brothers and sisters, and providing them with an opportunity for atonement and rehabilitation.”

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Washington art exhibit shows both sides of Mary CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – If the saints, because of their sheer holiness, can sometimes seem hard to relate to, the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus, can seem even more distant.

But a new exhibition of Western European artwork portraying Mary during the 14th through the 17th centuries shows her in another light and reminds viewers that she was indeed human. Artists portrayed her holding a squirming son, resting during a long journey, visiting her cousin and watching her grown son die.

The exhibition, “Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea� at Washington’s National Museum of Women in the Arts Dec. 5-April 12, includes more than 60 works of art from well-known Renaissance and Baroque artists, including Botticelli, Michelangelo, Durer, Titian, Rembrandt and Caravaggio. It also features the work of four women artists: Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Orsola Maddalena Caccia and Elisabetta Sirani.

The works – primarily paintings but also some sculptures, textiles and etchings – are predominantly from Italian museums, churches and private collections, and many have never been on display in the United States. “Religious visitors will be deeply moved� by the exhibit, but it will also “speak to nonbelievers� about our universal experience and the importance of a mother’s embrace, said the exhibit’s curator, Msgr. Timothy Verdon, an art historian who was born in New Jersey but lives in Florence, Italy, where he directs the archdiocese’s Office of Sacred Art and Church Cultural Heritage and the Cathedral Foundation Museum.

The priest, who led a group of reporters on a tour of the exhibit Dec. 3, did not hesitate to point out works of art that particularly highlighted Mary’s humanity.

In some of the typical Madonna and Child poses, Jesus is either playing with Mary’s hands or her veil. One marble relief from 1340, originally on the bell tower of a church in Florence,

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A woman reads a press packet during a Dec. 3 preview tour of the “Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea� exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. shows a smiling Mary tickling a laughing baby Jesus. “It’s a miracle in its ordinariness,�

Msgr. Verdon told reporters.

Mary is shown barefooted, sleeping and about to breast-feed. She is often looking down at Jesus and in some works she is sad and contemplative.

She sits on a throne, is approached by angels and sits on the ground in the two renditions of the Holy Family’s ight into Egypt, including one by Caravaggio where Joseph holds the sheet music for an angel playing the violin for the family.

The works are also full of religious symbols. In a Botticelli painting, Mary is reading from Scripture or a book of prayers while holding the infant Jesus, or the “word made eshâ€? as Msgr.

Verdon noted. The infant is holding gold nails in one hand and wearing a gold crown of thorns on his wrist. The priest said the symbolic items were likely added later by another artist.

Another painting, with Mary holding Jesus with one hand and supporting a wooden cross with the other, also includes an angel holding a crown of owers and a crown of thorns, depicting the “sweetnessâ€? of religious life and also the suffering that goes along with it, the priest noted.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | DECEMBER 12, 2014

For nun, football coaching about passing on mission, values SARAH MCCARTHY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Sister Lisa Maurer is a Benedictine nun who lives at the St. Scholastica Monastery, which shares a campus of the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota.

She works as director of mission for the Benedictine Health Center, based in Duluth. She prays, studies and ministers at local parishes.

She also happens to coach a men’s football team.

“I was never involved in coaching football ... until this year,” Sister Lisa said in an interview with Catholic News Service. “I was around football only because my dad was a football coach, obviously my brothers played and, you know, football is a staple in America. So I’m a lover of football but never played or coached it until this year.”

Sister Lisa joined the monastery at St. Scholastica seven years ago, one year before the school established a football program. When the team be-

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Benedictine Sister Lisa Maurer, who coaches kickers and punters for The College of St. Scholastica Saints football team in Duluth, Minnesota, is pictured during a game in late September.

Sister Lisa joined the monastery at St. Scholastica seven years ago, one year before the school established a football program. gan practicing in 2008 at a field right behind her residence, she said she would often go outside and watch.

“I would just wander out to the football field if I had a free afternoon, if they were practicing, maybe walk around our grounds and say my ro-

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The Saints’ head coach, Kurt Ramler, who joined the team in March 2014, approached Sister Lisa and asked her if she would be interested in a coaching position. She agreed, feeling the com-

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mitment would allow her to establish “that special relationship with the student-athletes” that she had experienced in her previous years of coaching girls’ volleyball, basketball and softball.

“Entering religious life, you have to think about all the things you give up and you have to go through that discernment, and leaving coaching was one of the things that I had to take along with the discerning, recognizing that that ... would not be my top priority anymore,” she said. “When I ... entered the monastery and the football team started practicing right in my backyard, it was an easy way for me to still feel connected to sports.”

Now, as the designated coach of the team’s kickers and punters and with a 10-1 record in her pocket, Sister Lisa said she hopes her work as a sister and football coach will focus attention on the presence of God in our everyday lives.

“If this gets one young person to think about a religious vocation or service to the church, that would just be outstanding,” she said. “That is very near and dear to my heart because, you know, in our day and age, with all the different voices and all the different influences that young people have, it saddens me to think that the voice of God and the call of God could be getting drowned out.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | DECEMBER 12, 2014

Restorative justice aimed at ending the streets-to-prison loop MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – “Damn, Father, I knew you were comin’.”

That was the starting point to one story of restorative justice.

The concept has been slow to catch on in a legal system that features capital punishment, life sentences without parole, mandatory minimum sentences, “three strikes” laws, private prisons and the abolition in some places of time off for good behavior. But it may be the next big thing in criminal justice.

So what’s the rest of that story? How did that startling quote come to be uttered?

The story started at Kolbe House in Chicago, a former convent one block from an open-air drug market.

Precious Blood Father David Kelly, director of the of his order’s Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation, shelters at-risk teens there.

One such teen was at “home” there when the doorbell rang. He answered the door and was stabbed repeatedly. An ambulance was called, which rushed the teen – with Father Kelly as a passenger at his side – to the hospital.

The teenager’s life was saved. When he felt strong enough, police visited him with a book of mug shots

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A priest prays with a death-row inmate in 2008 at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana. in hopes that the boy could identify his attacker. He did. The police moved in to arrest the suspect. The issue that prompted the knifing wasn’t drugs. “It was a boy-girl thing,” Father Kelly said.

Upon leaving the hospital, Father Kelly went to the Chicago jail, where the young suspect was already in custody. Upon seeing the priest, the lad uttered the words that began this story. It turned out Father Kelly knew him as well. And making things right between victims and perpetrators of crimes – or at

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least better – regardless of the judicial outcome is a key aim in restorative justice.

Most work in restorative justice is done within the private sector. The state of Vermont is one of the rare governments with a restorative justice system, although its work is limited to after a convict is released from prison.

About 60 participants focused on restorative justice at a Nov. 21 conference in Washington at The Catholic University of America. It was sponsored by the Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty; the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development; the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at Catholic University; Mount St. Mary’s University; and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

The situation is only going to grow more acute, as the nation’s prison population peaked earlier this year at 2.4 million, said Father Michael Bryant, a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington who helped SEE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, PAGE 14

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STM Advent -ChristmasMORE Schedule 2014-2015 SAINT THOMAS CHURCH 15-23: Interna onal Novena (Simbang 1300December Junipero Serra Blvd.,Christmas San Francisco, CA Gabi), 94132 at 7:00pm except Sat. Dec. 20 -5pm and Sun. Dec. 21 -8pm (415) 452-9634 | www.stmchurch.com

DecemberDecember 15-23: Interna onal Christmas Novena (Simbang Wednesday, 17: Confessions at 6:30pm & during the Gabi), at 7:00pm except Sat. Dec. Mass 20 -5pm and Sun. Dec. 21 -8pm Novena Wednesday, Confessions at 6:30pm & during the Friday, December 19: NoDecember 3rd Friday17: Adora on Sunday, December 21: Annual Cable CarNovena CarolingMass -2pm With distribu on HolyAdora on Communion to the sick, Friday, December 19: No 3rd of Friday homebound and singing Christmas carols.

Sunday, December 21: Annual Cable Car Caroling -2pm Wednesday, December 24:distribu on Christmas Eve With of Holy Communion to the sick, 6:00pm:homebound Parish Massand andsinging Christmas Pageantcarols.

Christmas 9:00pm: Arabic Mass with Sweets and Santa Wednesday, December 24: Christmas Eve in Carroll Hall a er Mass

6:00pm: Parish Mass and Christmas Pageant

Advent 2014 Family Pageant & Las Posadas, Sunday, December 14, 3:15 p.m., Church Annual Christmas Concert, Monday, December 15, 7:30 p.m., Church, St. Dominic’s Schola Cantorum with The Festival Orchestra Advent Reconciliation Service, Thursday, December 18, with individual confessions available, 11:45 a.m.-2:00 p.m. & 7:00-9:00 p.m., Church

12:00am: Midnight Mass

9:00pm: Arabic Mass with Sweets and Santa preceded by Christmas Carols at 11:30pm

in Carroll Hall a er Mass

Thursday, December 25: Christmas Day

12:00am: Midnight Mass 10:00am: English Mass

preceded by Christmas Carols at 11:30pm 4:00pm Brazilian Mass

Thursday, December 25: Christmas Day

8:00pm: English Mass

10:00am: English Mass

Wednesday, December 31: New Year’s Eve

4:00pm Brazilian Mass

5:30pm: Mass

English Mass Thursday, January 1: New Years 8:00pm: Day Solemnity Mary Mother of God Wednesday, December 31:Day New Eve (Holy ofYear’s Obliga on) 5:30pm: English Mass Mass 10:00am: Thursday, January 1: New12:00pm: Years DayArabic Solemnity Mass Mary Mother of God (Holy DayBrazilian of Obliga on) 4:00pm Mass 8:00pm: English MassMass 10:00am: English Sunday, January 4: Feast of the 12:00pm: Epiphany Arabic Mass

Christmas 2014 Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24 Advent Mass: 8:00 a.m.

Christmas Eve Vigil Masses: 4:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. Family Mass, 11:15 p.m. Carol service, 12:00 a.m. Midnight Mass (Solemn Mass with choral music, strings and brass) (No confessions today) Christmas Day, Thursday, December 25 Masses at 8:30 a.m. (Parish Mass with Carols), 11:00 a.m. (Solemn Mass with Choral Music), (No confessions today and no Masses at 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. or 9:00 p.m.)

Solemnity of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph Sunday, December 28, Our regular weekend schedule

Regular4:00pm Sunday Mass schedule Brazilian Mass

8:00pm: English Mass Sunday, January 4: Feast of the Epiphany Regular Sunday Mass schedule

New Year’s Eve Prayer Vigil, Wednesday, December 31, 10:30 p.m., Church Solemnity of Mary the Holy Mother of God, Thursday, January 1, 2015 (A Holy Day of Obligation) Parish Mass at 9:30 a.m.

Vigil Mass on Wednesday, December 31, 5:30 p.m.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | DECEMBER 12, 2014

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: Aimed at ending the streets-to-prison loop

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a negative economic effect on the small towns that often have been the sites of recent prison building.

The challenges are daunting.

But Heather Rice-Minus, a senior policy adviser for Justice Fellowship, the advocacy arm of Prison Fellowship Ministries, called prison reform one of ďŹ ve issues that could be achieved by the next Congress working in a bipartisan spirit.

Catholics were called upon during the conference to practice restorative justice.

Anthony Granado, a domestic policy adviser for the U.S. bishops, noted that the Latin word “pontifex� means bridge-builder. “I want you to continue to be bridge-builders, pontifexes,� he said. “We have 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of its imprisoned,� said Karen Clifton, executive director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network. She reminded conference participants of the model set

by Pope Francis, “a pope with his powerful words� – and deeds, as last year on Holy Thursday he went to an Italian prison to wash the feet of both male and female inmates. “Maybe at the end of the conference we will all agree to do something uncomfortable,� Clifton said. “Justice doesn’t work when people only do the comfortable thing, the conventional thing.�

Ford Rowan, an Episcopalian and a volunteer for 15 years in the ecumenical Kairos Prison Ministry, admitted as much. “We’re in the healing business, and it’s not an easy task,� he said.

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in the preparation of the U.S. bishops’ 2000 document “Responsibility, Rehabilitation and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice.�

The priest also founded a “welcome home� program for released prisoners.

Retired Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, called for an updating of the 2000 document during the conference.

SigniďŹ cant questions need to be addressed on how the country can absorb an inux of “returning citizens,â€? as released prisoners are called by some activists in the ďŹ eld, without them getting a return trip to jail because they’ve received no life skills while in prison and have little recourse but to go back to the street life that got them in jail in the ďŹ rst place.

States are ďŹ nding out they simply can’t afford to keep so many prisoners locked up and are looking for ways to thin out the prison population, possibly starting with nonviolent drug offenders.

Private prisons have not done as much as expected in terms of cutting state costs. They also tend to be farther from the inmates’ homes, increasing convicts’ sense of isolation as it becomes too difficult for family to visit. But if states shut down prisons, that will have

Dec. 22 Dec. 17 – 23

7PM 5PM

Advent Penance Service Christmas Novena

The Parish of St. Catherine of Siena 1310 Bayswater Ave. Burlingame CA 94010

650/322-2152

Mass Schedule For Christmas and New Year Confessions

Christmas Eve 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 11:15 PM 12:00 AM

1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto

Even starting prison ministry proved difficult.

He recalled that when he was in a group setting, he prayed to himself, “Lord, whatever you want me to do, just tell me.� “That’s a pretty dangerous prayer,� he noted. The woman next to him then turned to him and told him, ‘You ought to do Kairos.’� “Wow! That’s the fastest discernment ever,� Rowan said he thought, before asking the woman, “What’s Kairos?� “Prison ministry,� she answered.

John Sage, founder of the Bridges to Life program, which has “graduated� 22,000 inmates since 2000, said he found a payoff in one prison prayer circle he led.

One inmate was a devoted participant, yet he refused to recite aloud that part of the Our Father that says, “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.� Why? The inmate told Sage he had promised his dying brother he would kill the man who had murdered him.

This inmate’s cellmate got a sudden transfer notice, a practice common in prisons. As the cellmate left the cell for processing, he had left behind some documents. Among the documents were papers registering the cellmate’s conviction for the murder of the inmate’s brother.

The inmate, deprived of this knowledge for all the time he shared a cell with his brother’s killer, was now confronted with the opportunity to make good on his promise. But he ultimately chose to not kill the man. His reason, Sage said: “I didn’t want to disappoint the guys� in the prayer circle.

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Confessions Vigil Mass Christmas Carols Midnight Mass

10:30 am to 12:00 pm and 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Christmas Eve & Day Masses Wednesday, December 24, 2014 6:00 pm Bi-lingual Children’s Mass Followed by Pastorela Midnight Bi-lingual Mass

Christmas Day Masses 7:30 AM In English 8:45 AM In English 10:15 AM In Cantonese/English 11:45 AM In Italian 1:00 PM In English No 5:00 PM Mass on Christmas Day

660 Filbert Street ™ San Francisco ™ 415.421.0809

Thursday, December 25, 2014 7:30 am English 9:30 am Spanish 11:30 am English 1:30 pm Spanish

New Year’s Eve & Day Masses Wednesday, December 31, 2014 6:00 pm Spanish

Midnight Bi-lingual Mass

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Christmas Masses:

Christmas Eve (Wednesday, December 24) 4:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m.

12 Midnight

Christmas Vigil Mass Christmas Family Mass Christmas Midnight Mass 11:30 p.m. - Christmas Concert

Christmas Day (Thursday, December 25) Masses: 8 a.m., 10:30 a.m., and 12 noon

7:30 am English 9:30 am Spanish 11:30 am English 1:30 pm Spanish

ST. MONICA PARISH Geary Boulevard at 23rd Ave, San Francisco (415) 751-5275

Simbang Gabi/Las Posadas December 21st, 22nd, 23rd @ 6:30 pm

CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2014 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 Confessions 4:00 - 4:45 p.m. * Mass 5:00 p.m.

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21 Masses: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Cantonese) 10:30 a.m.

CHRISTMAS EVE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24 5:00 p.m. Family Christmas Eve Mass with Saint Monica Honors Choir and Nativity Play 11:30 p.m.

The Saint Monica Choir will present festive music of the season 12:00 a.m. Solemn Midnight Mass

CHRISTMAS DAY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25 Masses: 8:00 a.m. -10:30 a.m. with Choir No Cantonese Mass and no evening Mass

NEW YEAR’S EVE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31 Mass: 8:30 a.m.

NEW YEAR’S DAY THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 2015 Holy Day of Obligation Mass: 10:30 a.m.

FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 Masses, 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Cantonese) 10:30 a.m. with Choir,

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | DECEMBER 12, 2014

Vatican sends bishops questionnaire for 2015 family synod FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – To help set the agenda for the 2015 Synod of Bishops on the family, the Vatican is sending the world’s Catholic bishops’ conferences a list of questions on a range of topics, including matters of marriage and sexuality that proved especially controversial at the 2014 family synod.

Together with the final report of the 2014 assembly, the 46 questions published by the Vatican Dec. 9 comprise a preparatory document, known as a “lineamenta,” for the Oct. 4-25 synod, which will have the theme: “The vocation and mission of the family in the church and the modern world.”

Bishops’ conferences are being asked to consult with “academic institutions, organizations, lay movements and other ecclesial associations” in preparing their responses, which are due at the Vatican by April 15. The bishops’ responses will serve as the basis for the synod’s working document, to be published by summer.

A list of 38 questions, sent to the world’s bishops in October 2013, was widely circulated on the Internet and helped generate advance interest in the 2014 synod.

The questionnaire for 2015 instructs bishops’ conferences to “avoid, in their responses, a formulation of pastoral care based simply on an application of doctrine,” in favor of what it describes as Pope Francis’ call to “pastoral activity that is characterized by a ‘culture of encounter’ and capable of recognizing the Lord’s gratuitous work, even outside customary models.”

Yet the questions echo the relatively conservative

Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame Capuchin Franciscans 650-347-7768

2014 Christmas Schedule

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Pope Francis delivers his blessing while praying at a statue of Mary overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome Dec. 8. Consistent with the pope’s emphasis on social justice, the Vatican has issued a questionnaire for the 2015 Synod of Bishops that zsolicits thoughts on the external stresses facing the family. tone of the 2014 synod’s final report, which emphasized traditional Catholic teaching by comparison with the same assembly’s midterm report. The earlier document had stirred controversy with remarkably conciliatory language toward people with ways of life contrary to church doctrine, including the divorced and civilly remarried and those in same-sex unions and other nonmarital relationships.

Regarding the pastoral care of “persons with homosexual tendencies,” the questionnaire repeats the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s admonition against “unjust discrimination” and asks: “How can the demands of God’s will be proposed to them in their situation?”

Referring to a controversial proposal to make it

St. Bruno’s Church (650) 588-2121

555 W. San Bruno Avenue, San Bruno, CA

2014 CHRISTMAS WEEK SCHEDULE

Christmas Eve, Wednesday Dec. 24th 4:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m. (Children’s Mass) and 10 p.m.

(No Mass at Midnight) Christmas Day, Thursday Dec. 25th 8:00, 10:00 and 12 noon New Year’s Day Masses Vigil Mass Wednesday, Dec. 31-5:00 p.m.

Thursday, January 1, 2015 8:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. and 11:30 a.m. at Marian Convent The Capuchin Franciscans & Parish Staff wish our Parishioners and Friends Peace, Love and Hope for Christmas and the New Year.

December 15-23 Posadas. Please look at listing in the church for locations and times DECEMBER 19 7 PM Christmas Play Street Drama December 21-23 5 AM Misa de Gallo DECEMBER 24 – CHRISTMAS EVE 7 PM Vigil Mass in Spanish 9 PM Christmas Carol 10 PM Midnight Mass DECEMBER 25, CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES 8 AM 10 AM Spanish 12 PM MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

ST. TERESA OF AVILA CATHOLIC CHURCH 19

Street at Connecticut

8:30am 6:15pm

Christmas Masses Vigil, December 24th

Unto Us A Child Is Born

December 25th New Year’s Day

ST. BARTHOLOMEW

PARISH COMMUNITY Corner of Alameda & Crystal Springs Rd. San Mateo, CA 94402 (650) 347-0701 stbarts@barts.org CHRISTMAS LITURGIES

Sacrament of Reconciliation, Wednesday December 17th at 7 pm

Christmas Eve, December 24th Children’s Mass 4:00 & 6:00 pm Caroling at 11:15 pm followed by Midnight Mass 12:00 am Christmas Day December 25th 8:00, 9:30 & 11:15 am No evening Mass.

New Year's Eve, December 31st 5:30 pm New Year's Day, January 1st 10:00 am

Welcome to the celebration of our faith at

PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR ADVENT & CHRISTMAS MASSES Tuesdays & Fridays Wednesdays in Advent

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LET GRATEFUL HEARTS NOW SING, A SONG OF JOY AND HOLY PRAISE TO CHRIST, THE NEWBORN KING.

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easier for a divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion, even without an annulment of his or her first, sacramental marriage, the questionnaire asks: “What is possible? What suggestions can be offered to resolve forms of undue or unnecessary impediments?”

A related question asks how the marriage annulment process can be made “more accessible, streamlined and possibly free of charge” – the mandate of a commission that Pope Francis established in August.

While acknowledging that positive elements can be present in a civil marriage or in nonmarital cohabitation between a man and a woman, the questionnaire asks how such a couple can be encouraged to marry in the church.

Consistent with Pope Francis’ emphasis on social justice, the questionnaire repeatedly solicits thoughts on the social, economic and political causes of stress on the family. But it also asks how the church should respond to the “diffusion of cultural relativism in secularized society and to the consequent rejection, on the part of many, of the model of family formed by a man and woman united in marriage and open to life.”

The questionnaire alludes to in-vitro fertilization, which was not a prominent topic at the 2014 synod, asking how the church can uphold the “human ecology of reproduction” in its dialogue with the “sciences and biomedical technologies.” It also asks how to “combat the scourge of abortion and foster an effective culture of life.”

4:15 Children’s Mass 9:00 pm Choir Mass 8:30 & 10:00 am 9:00am

For more information: Call: 415-285-5272 · E-mail: info@stteresasf.org · www.stteresasf.org

St. Thomas Apostle Catholic Church 3835 Balboa Street San Francisco, CA 94121 415-387-5545

Christmas Eve, December 24 4:00 p.m. Children's Mass 8:30 p.m. Carols 9:00 p.m. Midnight Mass

Christmas Day, December 25 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Masses

New Year's Day, January 1, 2015 8:30 a.m. Mass

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | DECEMBER 12, 2014

Spend time in silence and service before Christmas, pope suggests CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME – In the heart of Rome’s high-end shopping district, sparkling with Christmas lights and shiny baubles in the windows of famous designers, Pope Francis prayed that people would spend time in silence and in service as they prepare to celebrate Jesus’ birth.

Celebrating the feast of the Immaculate Conception Dec. 8, Pope Francis prayed for Mary’s intercession so that, “in us, your children, grace also will prevail over pride, and we can become merciful like our heavenly Father is merciful.”

Pope Francis said Mary being conceived without sin should give all Christians hope and strength “in the daily battle that we must conduct against the threats of evil,” because her immaculate conception is proof that evil does not have power over love.

“In this struggle we are not alone, we are not orphans,” he said, because Jesus gave his mother to be our mother.

“Today we invoke her maternal protection on us, our families, this city and the world,” the pope said,

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A girl holds baby Jesus figurines for Pope Francis to bless during his Angelus delivered from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Dec. 15, 2013.

While the days leading to Christmas are filled with shopping and other holiday preparations, the pope recommended that people also find time for silence so they can listen to God. praying that God would “free humanity from every spiritual and material slavery.”

“In this time that leads up to the feast of Jesus’ birth, teach us how to go against the current,” Pope Francis prayed to Mary. Teach people how to be unencumbered, “to give ourselves, to listen, to be silent, to not

SAINT EMYDIUS CHURCH 286 Ashton Avenue San Francisco, CA 94112 (415) 587-7066 Fax (415) 587-6690

ADVENT / CHRISTMAS / EPIPHANY SEASONS PARISH CELEBRATIONS 2014 – 2015

Christmas Masses

Christmas Masses

Wednesday, December 24

December 24 4:00 pmTuesday, Family Vigil Mass with Children’s choir 6:00 pm Vigil Mass with choir and brass Midnight Solemn Vigil with choir and strings

Thursday, December 18 Joy of Advent - Joy of the Gospel – 7:00 - 8:30 pm Saturday, December 20 Fourth Sunday of Advent 10:00 am Mass only Wednesday, December 24 Christmas Vigil Mass – 8:00 pm Thursday, December 25 Christmas Midnight Mass – 12:00 midnight Christmas Morning Mass – 10:00 am

Caroling begins 20 minutes before each Mass

Sunday, December 28 Feast of the Holy Family – Regular Schedule

Thursday, December 25

Thursday, January 1, 2015 Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (Holy Day) and Octave of Christmas – 10:00 am

Wednesday, December 25

8:00 am Mass with organ and cantor 9:30 am Mass with choir and brass 11:00 am Mass with choir and brass FREE PARKING AVAILABLE IN ALL UNIVERSITY LOTS 650 Parker @ Fulton, San Francisco, CA 94118

Sunday, January 4, 2015 Solemnity of the Epiphany – Regular Schedule Saturday, January 10, 2015 Anointing of the Sick Mass (no 8:00 am Mass) 10:00 am

STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH San Francisco | and Oratorian Community of Saint Philip Neri 8th Avenue at Geary Boulevard | (415) 751-0450

ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2014 Confessions Saturday, Dec 20th 2:15 to 4:15 pm Monday, Dec 22nd 6:30 to 8:00 pm and 15 minutes before every Mass Advent Confessions — every Wednesday of December from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Christmas Day (Dec. 25) 8:00 am Quiet Mass 9:30 am Choir and Organ 11:00 am Latin High Mass with Choir 1:00 pm Contemporary Music with David Lorentz and Singers

Dec 24th Daily Masses 7:30 am (Latin) & Noon (English)

New Year’s Day (Jan 1) Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God (A Holy Day of Obligation) 7:30am Latin Mass 12 Noon English Mass 6pm English Mass

Christmas Eve Masses (Dec 24) 4:30 pm Children’s Mass 10:00 pm Christmas Caroling 10:30 pm English Midnight Mass 12 midnight Latin High Mass with Choir

The Parish of Star of the Sea and the Community of Saint Philip Neri wishes you a very Blessed and Merry Christmas and our promise of prayers for all of you in the New Year.

focus on ourselves, but to leave space for the beauty of God, the source of true joy.”

Earlier in the day, with thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis led the recitation of the Angelus, a Marian prayer.

Commenting on the feast day’s Gospel reading – Luke’s story of the annunciation to Mary that she would be Jesus’ mother – the pope said it was important that Mary did not respond, “I will do what you say,” but “May it be done unto me.”

“The attitude of Mary of Nazareth,” he said, “shows us that being comes before doing, and that we must let God do in order to be truly as he wants us to be. He will accomplish marvels in us.”

“We, too, are asked to listen to God, who speaks to us and accept his will,” the pope said. “According to Gospel logic, nothing is more effective and fruitful than listening and accepting the word of the Lord.”

The pope also said the Gospel story shows how Mary “is receptive, but not passive.” She agrees to God’s will, receives the power of the Holy Spirit and gives “flesh and blood” to the son of God. And while Mary was conceived without sin – a special and unique privilege – “we, too, always have been ‘blessed,’ that is loved, and therefore ‘chosen before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him,’” as the day’s reading from Ephesians said.

SIMBANG GABI AND CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE

Our Lady of Mercy Parish 5 Elmwood Drive, Daly City

Between South Mayfair ad South Avenues with plenty of free parking!

Monday, December 15, to Tuesday Dec. 23: 7:00pm Rosary and Confession (except Saturday, 2:30pm) 7:30pm Simbang Gabi Masses (except Saturday, 5:30pm), followed by a Reception downstairs in our Church Hall.

Wednesday, December 24: 4:00pm Christmas Eve Mass with our Children’s Choir.

5:30pm Christmas Eve Mass 11:30pm Sing-Along Christmas Carols with our Parish Choir.

12:00am Midnight Mass with our Choir

Thursday, December 25: Christmas Day Masses at 7:30am and 9:00am 10:30am with our Children’s Choir 12:00pm with our Parish Choir

Wednesday, December 31: 7:00am and 9:00am 6:00pm Vigil Mass for New Year - Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

Thursday, January 1, 2015 - Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 9:00am & 12:00pm

St. Dunstan Church 1133 Broadway Millbrae, CA 94030 (650) 697-4730

One of the pleasures of the Christmas Season is the opportunity to send our thoughts and prayers to those whose friendship and good will we value so highly.

The priests and staff of St. Dunstan Parish join in wishing you a very blessed Christmas. May the gift of faith, the blessing of hope, and the peace of God’s love be with you and yours throughout the New Year.

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS AT ST. DUNSTAN 2014 CHRISTMAS EVE MASSES 4:30 pm Children’s Mass with Pageant 11:00 pm Christmas Carols 11:30 pm Christmas Mass CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES 7:00 am, 8:30 am, 10:00 am, and 11:30 am

NO 5:00 pm Mass on Christmas Day

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | DECEMBER 12, 2014

Pope calls for more ‘integration’ of divorced Catholics, gays FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said that the Catholic Church must consider various ways to integrate the divorced and civilly remarried in the life of the church – not merely allowing them to receive Communion, but letting them serve as eucharistic ministers and godparents – and to make it easier for Catholic families to accept their homosexual members.

The pope also said he would travel to three Latin American countries and several African countries in 2015, and that major reforms of the Vatican bureaucracy, including the possible appointment of a married couple to head a new office, will not be ready before 2016.

Pope Francis made his remarks in an interview published Dec. 7 in the Argentine newspaper “La Nacion.” The interview, with journalist Elisabetta Pique, was conducted Dec. 4 in the pope’s suite at the Vatican guesthouse, where he lives.

The pope answered several questions about the October 2014 Synod of Bishops on the family, which considered a controversial proposal to allow some di-

vorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion even without an annulment of their first, sacramental marriages. By church law, such Catholics may not receive Communion unless they abstain from sexual relations, living as “brother and sister” with their new partners.

Regarding such Catholics, “we posed the question, what do we do with them?

What door can be opened for them?”

Pope Francis said. “Communion alone is no solution. The solution is integration.”

The pope noted several currently prohibited activities, including teaching Sunday school and distributing Communion, that he said amounted to the de facto excommunication of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.

“Let us open the doors a bit more.

Why can’t they be godfathers and godmothers?” Pope Francis said, dismissing the objection that they would set a poor example for the baptized.

Divorced and civilly remarried godparents offer their godchild the “testimony of a man and a woman saying, ‘My dear, I made a mistake, I was wrong here, but I believe the Lord loves me, I want to follow God, I was not defeated

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by sin, I want to move on.’ Is anything more Christian than that?”

Such godparents are more worthy of their role than “political crooks” who happen to be properly wedded, the pope said.

“We must go back and change things a bit, in terms of standards,” he said.

Referring to the synod’s controversial midterm report, which used remarkably favorable language toward people with ways of life contrary to Catholic teaching, including those in same-sex

unions, Pope Francis said, “nobody mentioned homosexual marriage at the synod, it did not cross our minds.”

“The synod addressed the family and homosexual persons in relation to their families,” the pope said. “We have to find a way to help that father or that mother stand by their (homosexual) son or daughter. That’s what the synod addressed. That’s why someone mentioned positive factors (of same-sex unions) in the first draft. But that was just a draft.”

Saint Stephen Catholic Church 4th Sunday of Advent 12/20-21 Regular Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday 3:30pm Confessions 4:30pm (Sunday Vigil) Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:30am, 6:45pm Christmas Eve 3:30pm Confessions 4:30pm Family Mass 10:00pm Mass (Prelude music 9:30pm)

Eucalyptus Drive @ 23rd Avenue (near Stonestown Mall) 415.681.2444 www.SaintStephenSF.org

Christmas 2014

Christmas Day 9:00 & 11:00am Mass No evening Mass on Christmas Day Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph 12/27-28 Regular Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday 3:30pm Confessions 4:30pm (Sunday Vigil) Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:30am, 6:45pm

60 Wellington Avenue, Daly City, CA 94014 UPCOMING PARISH CELEBRATIONS & SERVICES Parish Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe Saturday, December 13 @ 5:30 a.m. (Bilingual) Advent Recollection – Thursday December 11 @ 7:00 p.m.

Advent Penance Service – Friday, December 12 @ 7:00 p.m.

SIMBANG GABI – NOVENA AND MASSES From Tuesday, December 16 to Wednesday, December 24 @ 5:30 p.m.

SCHEDULE OF CHRISTMAS MASSES: Wednesday, December 24 – Christmas Eve 5:30 p.m.: Children's Mass | 11:00-11:45 p.m.: Christmas Carols 12:00 a.m.: Midnight Mass Thursday, December 25 – Christmas Day 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 a.m. (English) | 1:00 p.m. (Spanish)

ST. MATTHEW CATHOLIC CHURCH 1853

2014

1 NOTRE DAME AVENUE SAN MATEO, CA 94404

CHRISTMAS 2014 Christ Yesterday, Today and Forever Devotedly in Christ Rev. Anthony E. McGuire Rev. Armando Gutierrez Rev. Dominic S. Lee Rev. Tony Vallecillo

CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE

St. Patrick Church

156 Mission Street, San Francisco CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE Saturdays, December 13 and 20 4:00-5:00 p.m. Advent Confessions (all priests)

December 16 - 24 6:00 a.m.

Misa de Gallo, followed by hot breakfast in the Parish Hall

Wednesday, December 24 6:00 a.m.

Misa de Gallo, followed by hot breakfast in the Parish Hall 7:30 a.m. Mass 12:10 p.m. Mass - Please note: There will be no Mass at 5:15 p.m.

7:00 p.m. Christmas Carols 8:00 p.m. Traditional “Mass at Midnight”

Glory to God in the highest: and on earth

Thursday, December 25

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Saturday. December 20: Main Church 11:30am-12Noon and 4:30pm-5:00pm

Christmas Day ~ Holy Day of Obligation 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 a.m. (Latin) and 12:15 p.m.

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Please note: There will be no Mass 5:15 p.m.

Monday, December 22 and Tuesday, December 23 Chapel 5:00pm-5:30pm

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Wednesday, December 31

Wednesday, December 24: Main Church 11:00am-12Noon

Thursday, January 1, 2015

CONFESSIONS

MASSES Wednesday, Christmas Eve, December 24: 5:00pm Family Mass, 7pm (Spanish) Thursday, Christmas Day, December 25: 7:00am, 8:45am, (Spanish), 10:45am, 12:30pm, 3:00pm (Cantonese Mass – Chapel) Wednesday, New Year’s Eve, December 31: 7:00pm Spanish

NEW YEARS’ DAY –THURS. JAN. 1, 2015 A Holy Day of Obligation, The Feast of Mary, the Mother of God Masses: 6:30am, 10:30am (English), 12.05pm

7:30 a.m., 12:15 and 5:15 p.m.

New Year’s Day ~ Holy Day of Obligation 7:30 a.m., 12:10 and 5:15 p.m.

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CHRISTMAS LITURGIES Holy Name of Jesus Parish

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39th Ave.& Lawton St.

San Francisco, California

2014 Christmas Schedule CHRISTMAS EVE MASSES Wednesday, December 24, 2014 5:00 PM (Family/Children’s Mass) 11:30 PM Christmas Carols (Holy Name Choral Ministry) 12:00 Midnight Concelebrated Mass CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES Thursday, December 25, 2014 7:30 AM 9:30 AM 11:30 AM NEW YEAR’S DAY MASSES Thursday, January 1, 2014 The Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God 7:30 AM 9:00 AM 7:30 PM

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Kenya’s Christians ‘living in fear’ after latest attack Wilson Kabwoya, Helen Akani, Agnes Khasandi and Margaret Naishorua wait for the bodies of their loved ones to arrive at a mortuary in Nairobi, Kenya, Dec. 2. Since Somali militants killed 36 non-Muslim quarry workers in early December, Christians in Kenya “are living in fear, wondering where the next attack will be,” said Bishop Emanuel Barbara of Malindi.

St. John of God Church 1290 5th Ave. San Francisco 1555 39th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94122 (415) 664-8590 www.holynamesf.org

Christmas Schedule Vigil of Christmas Wednesday, Tuesday, December 24 4:15 PM: Christmas Eve Family Mass with Children’s Pageant 10:00 PM: Carols followed by Christmas Eve Night Mass at 10:30 PM The Nativity of The Lord Wed., December 25 Thursday, Masses at 9:30 AM and 11:30 AM

Christmas Blessings!

St. Gabriel Church 2559-40th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116 (415) 731-6161

Advent / Christmas 2014 Christmas Masses Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24 4:00 PM Christmas Vigil Mass. Guitar Accompanist.

5:30 PM Christmas Carols with Children’s Choir.

6:00 PM Family Mass. Children’s Choir 11:30 PM Christmas Carols with Adult Choir.

12:00 AM Christmas Midnight Mass.

Adult Choir & Brass Ensemble.

Christmas Day, Thursday, December 25 8:00 AM Cantor.

10:00 AM Cantor.

12:00 PM Adult Choir & Brass Ensemble.

MERRY CHRISTMAS Catholic San Francisco

THERE WILL BE NO EVENING MASS ON CHRISTMAS DAY.

Mission Dolores Basilica Christmas Season Schedule / Horario de la Temporada Navideña 2014 - 2015

ST. TIMOTHY PARISH 1515 Dolan Avenue San Mateo, CA 94401

2014 CHRISTMAS WEEK LITURGIES

Christmas Blessings Rejoice in the Birth of Christ our Savior!

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Wednesday December 24 4:30 pm Mass/Carols 5:00 pm Family Mass 10 pm Mass/Carols 10:30 pm Bilingual Thursday December 25

9:00 & 10:30 am English 12:00 pm Bilingual

Friday / Viernes 12 Dec 2014

Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe 4:45 a.m. Mañanitas y Misa Solemne

Sunday / Domingo 14 Dec 2014

Basilica Choir 23rd Annual Candlelight Christmas Concert Concierto Navideño del Coro de la Basilica 5:00 p.m.

Monday / Lunes 15 Dec 2014

Communal Penance Service 7:00 p.m. (Basilica)

Tues./Martes - Tues./Martes 16 Dec - 23 Dec 2013

Las Posadas (en el Auditorio) 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday/Miercoles 24 Dec 2014

Christmas Eve / Víspera de Navidad 5:00 p.m.

Family Christmas Mass - Children’s Choir 11:30 p.m.

Christmas Carol Sing - Basilica Choirs 12:00 Midnight Solemn Mass / Misa Solemne (bilingüe)

Thursday/Jueves 25 Dec 2014

Christmas Day / Día de Navidad 10:00 a.m.

Mass in English 12:00 noon Misa en Español

Thursday/Jueves 1 Jan 2015

New Year’s Day Mass: Feast of Mary the Mother of God Misa del Año Nuevo: Fiesta de la Madre de Dios 9:00 a.m.

Mass in English 12:00 Misa en Español con Procesión

Sunday / Domingo 4 Jan 2015

Epiphany / Día de los Reyes 5:00 pm.

Vigil Mass (Sat. 3 Jan) 8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m.

Mass in English 12:00 Misa en Español

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Viva Nuestra de Señora de Guadalupe!

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here is the famous line at the beginning of the Charles Dickens book “A Tale of Two Cities”: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ….” Though Dickens was referring to London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution, it could easily describe the situation in the area that is now Mexico City. Hernán BISHOP WILLIAM Cortés had led J. JUSTICE the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521. For the local people, the old order collapsed and a new order controlled by the European Spaniards began to be created. The Spaniards brought European civilization, including the Catholic faith. But they also brought diseases and ways of living that began to cause depression and fatal illnesses to the conquered Aztecs. It may have been the best of times for the Spaniards, but it was becoming the worst of times for the conquered people. There was serious concern that the native people would die out, or be so reduced in population that they would not be a factor in the future.

The story begins to change. On Dec. 9, 1531, on Tepeyac Hill near the City of Mexico, Juan Diego, one of the conquered people, was on his way to church when he heard chirping birds and beautiful music. Then a beautiful lady appeared to him. She calmed him down and introduced herself as “the ever Virgin Mother of the true God” and wished that a church be built on Tepeyac to bear witness to her love, her compassion, and her protection.

She sent him to the bishop of Mexico City to request her desire.

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Perspectives from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers Two times, at Mary’s request, Juan Diego went back to the bishop, who finally asked for a sign. On Dec. 12, Our Lady appeared to Juan and told him to gather fresh roses from Tepeyac, which she arranged in his tilma, or cloak. Juan Diego again went to the bishop. When Juan Diego opened his tilma, there were the roses, along with a beautiful image of Our Lady as she had appeared to him at Tepeyac.

There is seemingly an extraordinary reality about the image. The facial features of Mary are basically European, but the color of her skin is the color of the local people. The rays coming from behind her are like the rays of the sun, an Aztec God. Yet Mary is standing in front of where the sun should be. And Mary is wearing the cincture, which was the Aztec symbol of motherhood, pregnancy.

The conquered people now saw in this image of Our Lady that the true God loved them; that this Lady was European and Aztec; that she talked to one of them, Juan Diego. She had promised love, compassion and protection. She had asked for a church to be built in her honor.

What is amazing is that the decline in the local population began to decrease in the years after Mary’s appearances. And as intermarriage between the locals and the Europeans increased, the unique combination

began to be understood as “La Raza.”

Something new in God’s creation.

There is further effect of Mary’s message to Juan Diego, as we have come to realize the depth of the Letter to the Ephesians 2:19-22: “So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow

citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets,with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone. Through him the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord; in him you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.”

Through baptism we are part of the great temple or church of the Lord.

Jesus is the capstone that holds us all together as the temple of the Lord. So when we hear the story of the apparitions of Mary and her request for a church, a temple, to be built in her name where we can sense her compassion, love and protection, we are invited to remember that we are part of that temple or church in her Son, Jesus Christ.

She is challenging us, in this present age of the best of times, but also the worst of times, to not just build a constructed church, but a living church that is alive in the world around us, that calls forth the love, compassion and protection of Mary here and now for the poor, the marginalized, the homeless, the single parent, the end to violence, and the mercy and forgiveness of her Son that brings true peace. Mary pleads with us: Build my Church! Bring Tepeyac to the world!

Bring hope to a fearful people.

Mary came in 1531 to bring hope to a people who were beginning to believe there was no hope. Mary comes on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe to tell us, the witnesses to so much violence in our world, that there is hope; namely, in being the living church with her Son as the capstone, the fullness of love, compassion and protection.

Viva Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe!

BISHOP JUSTICE is auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Kowtowing to Moscow = bad ecumenism

n his tireless work for Christian unity, St. John Paul II often expressed the hope that Christianity in its third millennium might “breathe again” with its “two lungs:” West and East, Latin and Byzantine. It was a noble aspiration.

And when he first visited Orthodoxy’s ecumenical GEORGE WEIGEL patriarchate of Constantinople in 1979, perhaps the successor of Peter imagined that his heartfelt desire to concelebrate the Eucharist with the successor of Andrew would be realized in his lifetime.

It wasn’t to be, but not for lack of trying on John Paul’s part. Contentions within Orthodoxy; Russian Orthodox resentments (and worse) over John Paul II’s pivotal role in the Revolution of 1989; and a deeply engrained sense among some Orthodox Christians that not-beingin-full-communion-with-the-bishopof-Rome is a defining element in Orthodox identity – all these conspired to frustrate John Paul’s desire that the East/West fracture formalized

at the beginning of the second millennium (in 1054), could be healed by the Great Jubilee of 2000, so that Rome and Constantinople might undertake the new evangelization in the third millennium, together.

Those frustrations have been compounded in the post-John Paul II era by the increasingly aggressive actions of the Russian Orthodox patriarchate of Moscow, within the Orthodox community of churches and on the global stage. Not to put too fine a point on it, Moscow, which has long imagined itself the “Third Rome,” seems less interested in unity within the family of Orthodoxy, and between East and West, than with asserting itself over-against the “Second Rome,” Constantinople, and with supporting Russian foreign policy. Those obstacles to a church “breathing again with both its lungs” are not going to be resolved by kowtowing to the patriarchate of Moscow and tacitly accepting its dubious “narrative” about the history of Christianity among the eastern Slavs: a distortion that, by privileging Moscow and subordinating Kyiv, buttresses the revanchist aggression of Vladimir Putin’s Russia – not coincidentally, one assumes.

Herewith, then, what seems a self-evident ecumenical axiom: For

so long as the leaders of Russian Orthodoxy aspire to hegemony within Orthodoxy, claim to be the sole legitimate heirs of the baptism of Rus’ in 988, and act as agents of Russian state power in world politics, for just that long will Russian Orthodoxy be a serious obstacle to a more unified Orthodox world and to reconciliation and full communion between Catholicism and Orthodoxy.

Yet what seems so clear to others is, somehow, not self-evident in the halls of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. In a recent interview with Vatican Radio, the pontifical council’s president, Cardinal Kurt Koch, said that “the changes in 1989 (that is, the collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe) were not advantageous for ecumenical relations” because “the Eastern Catholic churches banned by Stalin re-emerged” from underground – and that made life difficult for Roman ecumenists, given Russian Orthodox phobias about “Uniate churches” like the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Byzantine in liturgy and polity but in full communion with Rome.

What is going on here? No local Church in modern times suffered more for its fidelity to Rome than the Greek Catholic Church

in Ukraine – the world’s largest underground religious community between 1946 and 1989. Was Cardinal Koch suggesting that it would have been better for “ecumenical relations” if the communist crackup in 1989 hadn’t occurred and if the Soviet Union had remained intact? It’s bad enough to be subjected to ex-KGB officer Vladimir Putin’s laments about the Soviet crack-up being the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century; it’s even worse when the Catholic Church’s top ecumenical officer expresses what seem, at first blush, to be ominously parallel sentiments.

Now I don’t really think that Cardinal Koch wishes the Berlin Wall, or the Soviet Union, back. But his unfortunate formulation, which reflected certain institutionalized notions in the Roman Curia, confirmed that the Vatican’s ecumenical default positions badly need re-setting. And that re-set must begin with a clear-eyed view of recent Russian Orthodox prevarications and aggressions. Nothing will be gained, ecumenically speaking, from further kowtowing to the selfstyled “Third Rome.”

WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

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A Christmas gift for suffering South Sudan

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he world’s newest nation is in big trouble.

After more than 20 years of civil war between the southern and northern areas of Sudan, the southern part of that country on July 9, 2011, became the independent nation of the Republic of South Sudan.

But the situation on the ground soon looked like South Sudan had not been born, but instead was still suffering intense labor pains.

The many years of war brought not only much death, but also drained South Sudan of valuable resources TONY MAGLIANO leaving it an extremely poor nation.

According to South Sudan’s National Bureau of Statistics 51 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, 73 percent are illiterate and 45 percent do not have access to improved sources of drinking water.

But if conditions weren’t bad enough, last year – 10 days before Christmas – civil war broke out in South Sudan amid a struggle for power between President Salva Kiir and former vice president Riek Machar who was dismissed months earlier by Kiir.

According to the International Crisis Group the civil war has claimed over 10,000 lives, and more than 1 million have been displaced. And it warns that the current humanitarian crisis threatens many more.

According to “The Sudd Institute: Research for a peaceful, just and prosperous South Sudan,” 4 million people are facing a serious risk of famine and

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A boy fetches water in an internally displaced person camp in Juba, South Sudan, Feb. 24. South Sudan’s bishops reiterated their call for an end to fighting in their country and warned that people faced a humanitarian disaster. starvation. And that approximately 100,000 people are already experiencing desperate, humiliating circumstances in U.N. camps.

The United Nations Children’s Fund warns that without greatly increased emergency international assistance, over 50,000 children under the age of 5 will soon die of starvation.

But long-term development aid is also indispensible. John Ashworth, who serves as an advisor to the Catholic bishops of South Sudan, wrote in an email to me that many international donors are reducing their development aid to South Sudan due to a lack of progress in the peace talks among the warring parties.

The Catholic call to celebrate

race Osterbauer was a 24-year-old bride-tobe when she took her first cake-decorating class, and the impulse compelling the Texas beauty to make that $35 investment remains today, now a 40-year-old mother of eight.

“I wanted to make the Catholic events of our lives super special,” she said.

Grace and her husband, Paul, are both frugal, raised in homes where “celebrating was minimal,” she says. There’s a widely circulated story CHRISTINA in Paul’s family about a CAPPECCHI grandpa who didn’t want to light the candles at his daughter’s wedding reception until she and the groom arrived, hesitating to burn them longer than necessary, a Great Depression mentality he couldn’t shake.

An exasperated protest from the groom’s mother became a punch line and a call to action: “Light the candles!”

Some occasions warrant celebration, even if it costs a bit more, like the Costco bottled root beer Grace splurged on for her son’s first Communion party, which made for a nice decorative touch and well-received root-beer floats.

She has filled a hutch with merry-making contents: crystal glassware, gold candlesticks, festive tablecloths, hand-cut banners, pedestal cake stands. And for the past six years, the home-schooling mama has made a business of sweetening others’ celebrations, taking orders for customized sugar cookies that mark baptisms and birthdays, first Communions and confirmations, graduations, promotions and retirements.

She waits until the kids are in bed to whip up her royal icing and retrieve her piping tips, squeezing out scallops as her iPad sounds a mix of Dixie Chicks and Bob Marley.

“It may be just a cookie,” Grace said, “but it can help people realize how special they are. It makes them feel worth and love.”

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Ashworth said that 7 of the 10 states in South Sudan are not directly affected by the conflict, and it is both unfair and counterproductive to deny development aid to those people.

The heroic Bishop Emeritus Paride Taban often says that development is peace, and there is thus a fear that reducing development aid will create the conditions for insecurity to spread.

A U.S. State Department official, who wanted to remain anonymous, told me how important it is for us to contact our congressional delegation urging them to increase funding for both emergency and development assistance that would support critical programs aimed at justice and reconciliation, education, infrastructure and food security.

Ashworth said, “I would highly recommend making a donation to Catholic Relief Services which is very active in South Sudan. I work closely with them.”

During this Advent season, as we prepare to celebrate the birth of our savior, Christ the Lord, let us also remember the birth and infancy of the world’s youngest nation.

As the wise men brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to Jesus, let us bring Christmas gifts of prayer, money and advocacy to suffering South Sudan.

And let’s not forget, that by giving gifts to the South Sudanese, we are ultimately giving Christmas gifts to Jesus who said, “Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.”

Give to CRS South Sudan at www.crs.org; (877) 435-7277.

MAGLIANO is a syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

LETTERS Bishops compassionate on immigration

Grace, people who make a point to celebrate blessings in their lives – both the neon and the pastel.

I spoke to Greg Arrigoni, a certified balloon artist who first developed an understanding of “sharing and caring” as a boy at Sacred Heart parish, where he and his dad brewed huge pots of coffee for social gatherings. By 22 Greg was dressing up as Santa Claus at Christmas.

His grandma bought the most expensive white fur at the fabric store – $15 a yard – and made the Santa suit he still wears today, 37 years later.

The balloon art came about in response to an annual tradition at a Mississippi River marina: to share a bottle of champagne each spring when your boat is launched. One year Greg decided to up the ante, surprising fellow boaters by filling his houseboat with balloons and releasing them at the river. There was something about balloons – bright, cheery and nostalgic – that kept beckoning to Greg. Soon he was buying them in wholesale and flipping through the pages of a magazine called Balloon Images, astounded by the intricate creations.

“I had to be part of this,” said Greg, who has since created the world’s largest balloon arch, the product of 65 helium tanks and 140,004 three-foot balloons.

Despite its reputation for deprivation, our Catholic faith is a celebratory one. We are drawn into thanksgiving with incense and bells, candles and wine. We mark feast days and holy days. We celebrate the Mass.

Every act of celebration, however simple, can be a spiritual exercise, affirming life and honoring the Creator. When we pause and applaud the occasions that have meaning but no traditional link to invitations or toasts – the creation of a Bible study, the loss of five pounds, the mastery of a junk drawer – our hearts expand. We can catch a whiff of heaven, a world that is whole, healed and joyous, where the celebration never ends.

Re “Church and immigration,” letter to editor, Dec. 5: To put it bluntly, one does not have to be an expert in law or on the economy, to express their stance and feelings on illegal immigration. All they need is to be fairminded, understanding and acknowledge fault or guilt.

I agree we should not be asked to look the other way while others break our laws and then ask to support them. But we did. For years we ignored the problems of illegal immigration and were relatively at ease as long as the economy was doing well – employers wanted cheap labor and willingly hired illegal immigrants. We closed our eyes and looked the other way, and did not implement the law. The fault was not of the illegal immigrants. They would not have been here if we did not hire them and need them.

We welcomed them – we derived high benefits from their labor in such demand like construction and agriculture. We needed them to pick our produce, clean our homes and offices, mow our lawn, care for our children and elderly – paying them low wages and having them work long hours, while they lived in squalor that would horrify fair-minded Americans.

Two Harvard economists – George Borgas and Lawrence Katz state that certain businesses would not exist in the United States without cheap immigrant labor and without illegal immigrants some products now made in the United States would likely be imported. Most immigrants are hardworking.

Many illegal immigrants served in the military in Iraq and Afghanistan and many parents with sons and daughters have died and are disabled – and after their return we appreciate their service and want them deported. Illegal immigrants do pay property taxes and gasoline taxes.

I applaud the U.S. bishops’ position on immigration reform and for their fairmindedness, understanding, fairness and compassion.

Lenny Barretto Daly City

CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, and editor of SisterStory.org, the official website of National Catholic Sisters Week.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Third Sunday of Advent John answered them, ‘I baptize with water; but there is one among you whom you do not recognize, the one who is coming after me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to untie.’

JOHN 1:6-8, 19-28 ISAIAH 61:1-2A, 10-11 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners, to announce a year of favor from the Lord and a day of vindication by our God. I rejoice heartily in the Lord, in my God is the joy of my soul; for he has clothed me with a robe of salvation and wrapped me in a mantle of justice, like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem, like a bride bedecked with her jewels. As the earth brings forth its plants, and a garden makes its growth spring up, so will the Lord God make justice and praise spring up before all the nations.

PSALM LUKE 1:46-48, 49-50, 53-54 My soul rejoices in my God. My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked upon his lowly servant. From this day all generations will call me blessed: My soul rejoices in my God. The Almighty has done great things for me, and

holy is his Name. He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation.

My soul rejoices in my God. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty. He has come to the help of his servant Israel for he has remembered his promise of mercy, My soul rejoices in my God. 1 THESSALONIANS 5:16-24 Brothers and sisters: Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophetic utterances. Test everything; retain what is good. Refrain from every kind of evil. May the God of peace make you perfectly holy and may you entirely, spirit, soul, and body, be preserved blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will also accomplish it.

JOHN 1:6-8, 19-28 A man named John was sent from God. He

came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to testify to the light. And this is the testimony of John. When the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to him to ask him: “Who are you?” He admitted and did not deny it, but admitted, “I am not the Christ.” So they asked him, “What are you then? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.” So they said to him, “Who are you, so we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you have to say for yourself ?” He said: “I am the voice of one crying out in the desert, ‘make straight the way of the Lord,’” as Isaiah the prophet said.” Some Pharisees were also sent. They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ or Elijah or the Prophet?” John answered them, “I baptize with water; but there is one among you whom you do not recognize, the one who is coming after me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to untie.”

This happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

We are all children of God

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f I’ve learned anything as a teacher, it’s that teenagers are very creative. Just check out their online names. Some I’ve seen recently include Dizzy Lizzy, Roxie Surfer Chick and Jumping Flamingo.

I’m not sure what they mean, I’m not sure I want to know, but these names are one way for them to say who they are while letting people know what’s really important to them.

Of course, this is nothing new. Along with telling people our names, we often offer other information as well.

What we do for a living, where we’re from, whether we’re Giants fans or, heaven forbid, Dodgers fans. These descriptions help us get to know and connect to each other. It also DEACON MICHAEL helps people understand how we view ourselves and our MURPHY place in the world.

A drawback, though, of labeling ourselves like this is that it can also separate and isolate us. Pride and arrogance enter the picture. If I’m liberal and you’re conservative, our

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political differences might make for some uncomfortable conversation. If I’m pro-life and you’re pro-choice, there might not be any conversation at all. How we see and label ourselves greatly impacts the way we live our lives and how we interact with each other.

Yet how important are these labels? They’re superficial at best. I could begin a new career, move to a different country, switch political parties … but the essential part of who I am remains untouched.

So is there any way we can identify ourselves that hits on what’s essential in our lives, but that brings us together instead of pushing us apart?

In this week’s Gospel, John the Baptist shows us the way. As we’re often guilty of doing, people tried to figure out who John was by attaching labels to him. Was he the Christ, Elijah or the prophet? John rejects all those titles, even though they might have brought him respect and security. Instead, he identifies himself only in terms of his relationship to God. A child of God crying in the wilderness, making straight the way of the Lord. Not the light, but there to testify to the light. Nothing more, and nothing less.

John’s claim today should be ours as well. Instead of attaching ourselves to temporary and divisive labels, we should follow John’s example. What difference does it really make what our jobs are, where we went to school, who we vote for? We get

so caught up in the trivial. That which makes us special and brings us together is that we are all children of God, here to prepare the way of the Lord. Nothing more, and nothing less.

When we realize this, all other labels become irrelevant. We come together as a community and rediscover our own worth as we understand our relationship to each other and our common father. We willingly serve each other and seek the best for each other when we understand that the things connecting us are far stronger then those separating us.

No longer having to meet superficial expectations, we’re freed to be the people God created us to be.

When we really begin to live this way, we, like John, begin to testify to the light. We can rejoice as Isaiah’s first reading springs to life. We bring glad tidings to the poor when our lives show others that true wealth is found in how we care for each other.

We heal the brokenhearted when we reach out to all who might be in pain. We proclaim liberty to captives as we convince ourselves and others to drop the burdens and labels society lays on us. Instead of always competing, we celebrate together our common and rightful heritage as beloved children of God! DEACON MURPHY serves at St. Charles Parish, San Carlos, and teaches religion at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.

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POPE FRANCIS CHURCH IS ‘MOTHER’ WHEN IT OFFERS MERCY, TENDERNESS

As his international Council of Cardinals began a three-day meeting to discuss the reform of the Roman Curia, Pope Francis said having a perfect organizational chart for the church won’t guarantee that the church fulfills its mission of bringing people to Christ.

Celebrating an early morning Mass in the chapel of his residence inVatican City Dec. 9, Pope Francis prayed that “the Lord would give us the grace to work, to be joyful Christians,” who generate and raise new members, and “help us not fall into the attitude of those sad, impatient, distrusting, anxious Christians who have everything perfect in the church, but don’t have ‘children.’”

Commenting on the Gospel story from Matthew 18:12-14 about the shepherd who leaves his 99 sheep to go in search of the one lost sheep, Pope Francis said the shepherd could have

approached the situation like a “good businessman: ‘Well, there’s still 99, if one is lost, it’s not a problem.’ The final balance, earnings and losses” are what counts.

But instead of having a businessman’s head, the Gospel protagonist “has a shepherd’s heart.

He goes out looking until he finds the one lost and celebrates; he’s joyful,” the pope said, according to Vatican Radio.

“The joy of going out to search for our brothers and sisters who are far off, this is the joy of the church,” the pope said. “That is when the church becomes a mother, becomes fruitful.”

The perfect, closed-up church “is useless, it’s a museum church,” the pope said. “The joy of the church is to give birth; the joy of the church is to go out of itself to give life; the joy of the church is to go in search of lost sheep.”

MONDAY, DECEMBER 15: Monday of the Third Week of Advent. NM 24:2-7, 15-17a. PS 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9. PS 85:8. MT 21:23-27.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16: Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent. ZEP 3:1-2, 9-13. PS 34:2-3, 6-7, 1718, 19 and 23. MT 21:28-32.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17: GN 49:2, 8-10. PS 72:1-2, 3-4ab, 7-8, 17. MT 1:1-17.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18: Thursday of the Third Week of Advent. JER 23:5-8. PS 72:1-2, 12-13, 1819. MT 1:18-25.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19: Friday of the Third Week of Advent. JGS 13:2-7, 24-25a. PS 71:3-4a, 5-6ab, 16-17. LK 1:5-25.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20: Saturday of the Third Week of Advent. IS 7:10-14. PS 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6.

LK 1:26-38.

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Honoring talent and grace – Jean Beliveau RIP

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or those of you who aren’t Canadian, perhaps this name might not mean much, but, this past week, Canada lost one of its great cultural icons, Jean Beliveau, a famed athlete.

He died and all Canadians, including this Canadian in exile, mourn his passing.

Jean Beliveau was FATHER RON more than ROLHEISER an athlete, though certainly he was a one-in-a-million athlete. The record of his achievements almost defies belief. He played in the National Hockey League for 20 seasons and ended up with 10 championship rings. Later, as an executive, he was part of another seven championships. Imagine anyone, in any sport, at the highest level, winning 17 championships!

But that wasn’t what defined his greatness, nor the reason why a country fell in love with him and made him a national icon. It was his grace, the exceptional way that he carried himself both on and off the ice. Seventeen championships are remarkable, but his real achievement was the respect that he drew from everyone, both inside the athletic arena and outside of it.

I don’t know of any pro athlete, in any sport, who has garnered this type of respect. Indeed, long after his professional career was over, the Canadian Prime Minister, asked him to become the governor-gener-

Statue de Jean Béliveau, Centre Bell, Montréal. al of Canada, an office offered only to someone who is, for an entire country, a symbol of unity, dignity, and grace. He graciously declined.

What made him so unique? There have been other great athletes and pop stars who were humble and gracious. What sets him apart?

Greatness is somewhat of an intangible; it’s hard to nail down what precisely sets someone apart in this way. Why Jean Beliveau? He was just a hockey player after all. What made him so singular in drawing respect?

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Kasmir Dabrowski, had a thoughtprovoking theory about human maturity and what it takes to get here. For him, we grow by breaking down, by being driven to our knees through various crises which force us to move beyond our mediocre habits and immaturities. Richard Rohr calls this falling upwards: We mature through failure, grow arrogant through success. Mostly that’s true. Success, more than failure, destroys lives.

But is that logical? Isn’t it more logical to grow through success?

Shouldn’t success induce gratitude within us and make us more generous and big-hearted? Someone asked Dabrowski that question in class one day. This was his answer: “You’re right, success should make us more grateful and big-hearted; that’s the ideal way to grow … except, in more than 40 years of clinical experience, have never seen it work that way. It only works that way in rare, exceptional cases … and that, I believe, is what makes for a great person.” A great person is someone in whom success enlarges the soul rather than swells the ego.

When Jean Beliveau broke into

the National Hockey League he was, at that time, the tallest, most graceful, and handsomest player in the league. No small gifts to carry. He was a little like the young King Saul in the Bible who when he was initially crowned king was described this way: Among the men of Benjamin was a man called Saul, a handsome man in the prime of life. Of all the Israelites there was no one more handsome than he; he stood head and shoulders taller than anyone else. But, sadly, all of that giftedness and success did not make Saul a good king. Rather it destroyed him. Clinging falsely to his giftedness, his life became a tragedy. His height and grace and handsomeness left him jealous before the gifts of others and he became paranoid and spiteful and eventually ended up taking his own life. Saul’s story is one of the great tragedies ever written; and sadly it keeps getting written too many times in the lives of the hugely talented. Giftedness comes with its own perils. Giftedness and success just as easily swell the ego as enlarge the soul.

Sadly we see a lot of that today, not least in the sports world where ego and self-promotion is legitimized and is often even seen as a desired quality inside an athlete, a virtue rather than a vice, because bravado and arrogant strut can help intimidate opponents, win games, and make the world watch.

It makes for color, for hype, brings fans to the park, and awards a certain notoriety and fame. Character gets trumped by color and hype, but arrogance can be a help win games.

Even so, I’m glad I once knew a different time, a time when athletes and most everyone else still had to be apologetic about ego and selfpromotion. I’m glad that when I was a boy, obsessed with sports and looking for a hero among athletes, there was a superstar, Jean Beliveau, who eschewed arrogance, bravado, strut, the taunting of opponents and crass self-promotion, and played the game with such grace and humility that it invoked the right kind of admiration, even as it won games.

OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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The Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations, Archbishop Bernadito C. Auza, blesses organizers of the Simbang Gabi Christmas novena and the colorful lanterns they created to signify the light of Christ. The Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass was held Dec. 3 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

SIMBANG GABI: Pope Francis’ UN emissary kicks off novena FROM PAGE 1

This year, 45 parishes in San Mateo, San Francisco and Marin counties will participate in the novena, he said. In some parishes the novena is in the morning while in others it will be evenings. It runs nine days, from Dec. 15-23 or Dec. 16-24.

“These lanterns are only an external manifestation of Christ the light who is already in our hearts,” the archbishop said, stressing Catholics

are commissioned to bring Christ’s light in their hearts to others. “One point two billion Catholics –all of us are commissioned to preach the Gospel,” the Filipino Vatican diplomat said.

For Archbishop Auza, the visit was also a chance to connect with old friends. Retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh had ordained Archbishop Auza to the priesthood 30 years earlier on behalf of his diocese in the Philippines, he said. Bishop Walsh was on the altar with the archbishop and San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William Justice.

Father Eugene Tungol, the archdiocesan vicar for Filipinos, invited the archbishop and was his formator when he was enrolled at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, Archbishop Auza said.

In addition to being tasked with representing the pope at the United Nations, Archbishop Auza was also appointed July 16 as permanent representative of the Holy See to the Organization of American States. He was previously apostolic nuncio to Haiti and has served in the Vatican diplomatic corps since 1990.

CATHOLIC IDENTITY: Focusing on high schools, new office starts Jan. 1

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– Catholic witness: “There has to be a significant number of Catholic faculty in the schools who integrate the faith in their own lives and are willing to talk about it with their students,” Morey said.

– Catholic practices: An essential and intricate network of small acts or behaviors that remind students again and again of the Catholic faith.

Morey will work with a board of still-to-be-appointed Catholic academics and education experts to develop more particularized criteria related to the Western Catholic Education Association standards and principles of Catholic identity. These more specific expectations will guide teams of Catholic school teachers and administrators fielded by the Office of Catholic Identity Assessment who will visit each school every three years, Morey said.

The second focus of the Office of Catholic Identity Assessment will be formation for faculty and administrators. It will sponsor in-service days during the academic school year and summer immersion seminars for faculty, Morey said.

The first official activity of the new office will be a meeting with all of the high school presidents and principals, sometime in January or February 2015, Morey said.

The new archdiocesan Office of Catholic Identity Assessment will work not only with the four archdiocesan high schools that fall directly under the archdiocesan Department of Catholic Schools, but also with the 10 Catholic high schools which are owned by religious communities.

THE ARCHDIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOLS ARE: Marin Catholic High School, Archbishop Riordan High School, Sacred Heart Cathedral, Junipero Serra High School

(PHOTO BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Students at Immaculate Conception Academy in San Francisco receive Communion during a back-to-school Mass in August. One of 10 high schools in the archdiocese owned by religious communities, the school will come within the scope of the new archdiocesan Office of Catholic Identity Assessment.

“Leading a Catholic school is complicated. There are lots of stakeholders, there are lots of pressures,” Morey said. “Catholic education in its heyday relied on many nuns and brothers and priests who had an extensive formation and shared a common perspective about its ends and purpose. These educators

had a strong support system they relied on in their ministry. They also enjoyed an ambient culture far more supportive of religion and its aims.

Now we are in an entirely different place.”

“We hope the work of the Office of Catholic Identity Assessment will contribute to Catholic high school

THE HIGH SCHOOLS OWNED BY RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES ARE: San Domenico School, St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Stuart Hall High School, Mercy San Francisco, Immaculate Conception Academy, Mercy Burlingame, Notre Dame High School Belmont, Sacred Heart Atherton, Woodside Priory. education that is more faithful and more faith-filled, but also more intellectually compelling. Emphasizing Catholic identity will make schools better schools in every way,” Morey said. “It will be exciting to work with the Catholic high schools of the archdiocese in this endeavor.”

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Authors explore roots of Christmas traditions REVIEWED BY MITCH FINLEY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“JOY TO THE WORLD: HOW CHRIST’S COMING CHANGED EVERYTHING (AND STILL DOES)” BY SCOTT HAHN. Image (New York, 2014). 192 pp., $23.

“CHRISTMAS: THE SACRED TO SANTA” BY TARA MOORE. Reaktion Books (London, 2014). 224 pp., $30.

In his slim volume, “Joy to the World,” Scott Hahn – a former Presbyterian who has become one of today’s most prominent Catholic authors, professor of theology and Scripture at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, and McEssy distinguished visiting professor in biblical theology at Mundelein Seminary – reflects on the meaning of Christmas.

Masterfully leaving behind the academic theologian’s technical language and tendency to ask questions the average person is likely to find boring, Hahn speaks from his own experience and to the experience of the average person. At the same time, in everyday English he shares with readers insights from his many years of study – biblical and theological.

“Joy to the World” explores the personages who populate the Gospels’ narratives about the birth and meaning of Jesus. These include, of course, Joseph, Mary, Herod, angels and the Magi. But Hahn also draws on insights from the letters of St. Paul and the Johannine literature. He helps the reader see that the entire New Testament, not just the infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke, is about the meaning of Christmas. Hahn also draws upon and quotes the works of other Scripture scholars, theologians, preachers and popes including Pope Leo XIII, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis and, yes, the Rev. Billy Graham.

Hahn even reminds us of the original meanings of such common Christmas traditions as baking Christmas cookies (“because the Messiah has come to lead us into a land flowing with milk and honey.”); decorating a Christmas tree (“to recover the tree of paradise, which was restored by the tree of Calvary”); and giving gifts (“because God has given himself to us as a gift, wrapping his divinity in true humanity.”)

“Joy to the World” is a fine and insightful book, one of the best to read if you want to deepen and enrich your understanding of Christmas, whose religious meaning can easily get lost in the dominant commercial culture.

SCRIPTURE SEARCH Gospel for December 14, 2014 John 1:6-8; 19-28

FROM GOD JEWS ELIJAH ANSWER THE LORD WATER UNTIE

Christmas has histories both sacred and secular, and you can learn a great deal about both from Tara Moore’s “Christmas: The Sacred to Santa.”

In fact, priests and deacons looking for material to liven up a Christmas homily would be wise indeed to read this book.

Moore teaches in the writing program at Penn State York, and her academic credentials are evident in this book. Still, this isn’t a book written only for academics. Most reasonably well-educated readers will find it an informative and intriguing page-turner. If there is anything to be known about Christmas you will find it here.

Moore writes that her book explores “how past generations have felt about Christmas, how people in the same neighborhood might look at it in different ways, and how a simple birth in

Bethlehem continues to make waves across the continents.”

Topics the author addresses include how Christmas came to be dated on Dec. 25; what the earliest Christmas celebrations looked like; how Christmas has been portrayed in art and in various cultures; historical settings in which Christmas was outlawed; and how Christmas has been celebrated by those away from home, from immigrants to astronauts.

She also discusses the commercialization of Christmas; the central characters of Christmas, from St. Nicholas to Santa Claus to a European personage named “Wild Man;” how other countries have imported, in particular, the English and German Christmases; how Christmas became a public holiday; and how churches respond, and have responded, to secular understandings of Christmas.

This last discussion begins with an attention grabber, for sure: “On Christmas Eve in 1951, (French Catholic) clergymen hanged and burned an effigy of Father Christmas on the railings of Dijon cathedral. Furthermore, the priests carried out their efforts in the sight of 250 Sunday school children.”

At the risk of being redundant: Read this book to learn a lot about Christmas. Then if you want to hear a better Christmas homily than you heard last year, give your copy to a priest or deacon.

FINLEY is the author of more than 30 books including “The True Meaning of Christmas” by Santa Claus with Mitch Finley (Crossroad) and “The Rosary Handbook” (The Word Among Us Press).

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OBITUARIES FATHER FRANK PIRO – LONGTIME ST. ANDREW PASTOR

Father Frank Piro, retired pastor St. Andrew Parish, Daly City died Nov. 16. Funeral rites took place in Merced where Father Piro had made his home since retiring in 2000. A memorial Mass was celebrated Dec. 5 at St. Andrew Parish.

Father Piro was pastor of St. Andrew’s from 1983-2000. He also served as a parochial vicar at San Francisco’s St. Vincent de Paul Church, St. Agnes Church and St. Stephen Church; San Mateo’s St. Bartholomew Church, and Redwood City’s St. Matthias Church.

Father Piro was born in San Francisco and ordained from St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park in 1962. For many years he was active with the St. Vincent de Paul Society. After retiring to Merced, he served as a chaplain with the Italian Catholic Federation, and is remembered there for his Advent and Lenten presentations.

Father Piro is survived by a sister-in-law Millicent Piro as well as nieces, nephews and their families.

Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

FATHER LEN CALEGARI – PRIEST FOR 51 YEARS

Father Leonard Calegari, retired pastor of St. Peter Parish, Pacifica, died Nov. 27.

Father Calegari was 79 years old and a priest for 51 years.

Born in San Mateo, Father Calegari attended Our Lady of Angels School, Burlingame and Junipero Serra High School completing undergraduate work at the University of San Francisco in 1956. He Father Len left a graduate program at Santa Calegari Clara University in 1958 to enter St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park from where he was ordained by Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken March 30, 1963.

Father Calegari served at parishes including San Francisco’s St. Emydius; Our Lady of Loretto, Novato; Our Lady of the Wayside, Portola Valley; and St. Sebastian, Kentfield and served on the faculty of Junipero Serra High School prior to his appointment as pastor of St. Peter’s in 1981. He retired from there in 2004.

For the past 10 years, Father Calegari has resided in retirement at St. Stephen Church, San Francisco.

In a note to Father Raymund Reyes, archdiocesan vicar for clergy, the Calegari family called Father Calegari “a man for all seasons” as well as a “spectacular brother, and modest to a fault.”

Father Calegari is survived by his brothers Gregoire and wife, Kathy, Michel and wife, Tudy, and his sister, Marianne Calegari.

A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Peter’s Dec. 9.

Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

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SATURDAY, DEC. 13 OL GUADALUPE: St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 40th Avenue at Balboa, Mass with mariachi music, 4 p.m., followed by fiesta with food and music in the school auditorium. (415) 387-5545.

SUNDAY, DEC. 14 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 7 p.m., Cookies and Carols with the Cathedral Choir, the Archdiocesan Children’s Choir, St. Brigid School Honor Choir plus dessert service; $20/$10 students/seniors in St. Francis Hall, lower level of the cathedral; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

PHOTO EXHIBIT: “Therefore I Have Hope” through December 31, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, weekdays 8:30-5 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday 10-3 p.m. in Cathedral Event Center, Charlene Dorman’s black and white photographs, johnmdmd@gmail.com.

CONCERT: St. Patrick Church, 114 King St. at Magnolia, Larkspur, 4:30 p.m., celebration of carols with music of the season by church choirs from throughout Marin County, (415) 924-0600.

CONCERT: Mission Dolores Basilica Choir, candlelight Christmas concert conducted by Jerome Lenk. Program features work of women composers throughout the ages, 16th Street and Dolores, San Francisco, 5 p.m., free parking, $25 reserved, $18 general, (415) 621-8203, www.missiondolores. org.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Church on Nicasio Square Christmas concert, 2 p.m. followed by a food and wine reception at Druids Hall. Program includes Christmas and secular pieces performed by artists including Nicasio

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CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS EVE: Mass at 5:30 p.m. with carol prelude at 5 p.m.

by Archdiocesan Children’s Choir and St. Brigid School Honor Choir; Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal Archbishop celebrant and Salvatore J. homilist of Mass Cordileone at midnight, with carol prelude at 11:30 p.m. by the Cathedral Choir and Golden Gate Brass Quintet; St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

SATURDAY, DEC. 20 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Father Kirk Ullery, retired pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, San Francisco is principal celebrant and homilist at Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, in lower halls of St. Mary’s Father Kirk Cathedral, Gough Ullery Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited.

Volunteers always welcome. Call Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.

Handicables marks its 50th anniversary Jan. 17 at the cathedral.

Creek Singers, Antonia Van Becker and Greg Lee, $50 adults/$10 children under 12. Proceeds benefit operation and maintenance of historic church built in 1867, Kathy Drady (415) 662-2057.

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support, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, third Wednesday of each month, 10:30- noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, on west side of parking lot level of the cathedral. Sessions provide information on grief process, and tips on coping with loss of a loved one; Deacon Christoph Sandoval leads the group; Mercy Sister Esther, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

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Children, Men Women (by: Henry)

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Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT San Francisco: 415.337.9474 Complimentary phone consultation

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | DECEMBER 12, 2014

SATURDAY, JAN. 3

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28

‘LOOKING EAST’: Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, Divine Liturgy 10 a.m.; luncheon noon, talk by Father Kevin Kennedy, pastor 1 p.m. All are welcome throughout the day. Series continues first Saturdays of the month. Parking is in St. Monica Church lot; www. byzantinecatholic.org; (415) 752-2052; OLFatimaSF@gmail.com.

PEACE MASS: Immaculate Conception Chapel, 3255 Folsom St., San Francisco, 9 a.m. Franciscan Father Wiliam, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist; (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail. com.

SUNDAY, JAN. 4 LESSONS AND CAROLS: Epiphany Lessons and Carols, Golden Gate Boys Choir and Bellringers, Archdiocesan Children’s Choir, St. Brigid School Honor Choir, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., (415) 567-2020, ext.

213; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

TUESDAY, JAN. 13 WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY: Understanding the journey of Jesus with Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher, Tuesday 9 a.m. through Feb. 17, Marian Room inside St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue San Francisco; Veronica Wong at (415)

PRIORY TALKS: “Water: A Sacred Trust,” explore both the beauty of God’s sacred gift of water and the senseless degradation of this precious Dr. Mary E. resource in McGann, RSCJ today’s world with Dr. Mary E. McGann, RSCJ, 7-9 p.m., Woodside Priory School, 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley, Founders Hall, admission is free, refreshments provided, Carrie Rehak crehak@prioryca. org, (650) 851-8221; www.prioryca.org/life/campus-spirituallife/insight-speakers-series/.

Mass at 8 a.m. followed by Divine Office, rosary, conferences, and talks by Dominican nuns and friars.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring various artists; freewill offerings accepted at door; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213; www. stmarycathedralsf.org.

TUESDAY, JAN. 20 WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY: Understanding the journey of Jesus with Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher, Tuesday 9 a.m. through Feb. 17, Marian Room inside St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue San Francisco; Veronica Wong at (415) 681-2444 ext. 27; Peggy Teshara (415) 334-0653.

SATURDAY, JAN. 24

DISCERNMENT DAY: During the Year of Consecrated Life, the Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park host a discernment day for young women; RSVP by Jan. 12 or for more information contact Sister Joseph Marie, vocations@nunsmenlo.org; visit www. nunsmenlo.org/vocation-discernmentday-january-2015. Day begins with

2-DAY ENGAGED RETREAT: San Francisco Catholic Engaged Encounter weekend, Vallombrosa Retreat Center, Menlo Park. Take time to prepare for your marriage; scholarships available; www.sfcee.org, catholicsfee@gmail. com; Dave and Lorraine Hayes (650) 619-0689.

WALK FOR LIFE WEST COAST: 11th year for this pro-life effort that has been attracting crowds of as many

Lic. #742961

• Retaining Walls • Stairs • Gates • Dry Rot • Senior & Parishioner Discounts

TUESDAY, JAN. 27 WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY: Understanding the journey of Jesus with Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher, Tuesday 9 a.m. through Feb. 17, Marian Room inside St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue San Francisco; Veronica Wong at (415) 681-2444 ext. 27; Peggy Teshara (415) 334-0653.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25 PRIORY TALKS: “God, Grace of the World,” with Camaldolese Benedictine Brother Ivan Nicoletto. In a world in which humanity can create and destroy life, what grace may God have for our lives and our communities? 7-9 p.m., Woodside Priory School, 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley, Founders Hall, admission is free, refreshments provided, Carrie Rehak crehak@prioryca. org, (650) 851-8221; www.prioryca. org/life/campus-spiritual-life/insightspeakers-series/.

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CONSTRUCTION CAHALAN CONSTRUCTION

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CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring various artists; freewill offerings accepted at door; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213; www. stmarycathedralsf.org.

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HOME SERVICES FENCES & DECKS

SUNDAY, JAN. 25

SUNDAY, JAN. 18

681-2444 ext. 27; Peggy Teshara (415) 334-0653.

SATURDAY, JAN. 17

as 50,000 people. Visit www.walkforlifewc.com.

650.291.4303

ELECTRICAL

ALL ELECTRIC SERVICE 650.322.9288 Service Changes Solar Installation Lighting/Power Fire Alarm/Data Green Energy Fully licensed • State Certified • Locally Trained • Experienced • On Call 24/7

Painting & Waterproofing Remodels & Repairs Window & Siding Lic#582766

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O’DONOGHUE CONSTRUCTION Kitchen/Bath Remodel Dry Rot Repair • Decks /Stairs Plumbing Repair/Replacement

Call: 650.580.2769 Lic. # 505353B-C36

COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION CA License #965268

• Design - Build • Retail - Fixtures • Industrial • Service/Maintenance • Casework Installation Serving Marin, San Francisco & San Mateo Counties

All Purpose Cell (415) 517-5977 Grant (650) 757-1946 NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR

Discount to CSF Readers

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M.K. Painting Interior-Exterior Residential – Commercial Insured/Bonded – Free Estimates License# 974682

Tel: (650) 630-1835

S.O.S. PAINTING CO. Interior-Exterior • wallpaper • hanging & removal Lic # 526818 • Senior Discount

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If you would like to add your tax-deductible contribution, please mail a check, payable to Catholic San Francisco, to: Catholic San Francisco, Dept. W, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco CA 94109

ROOFING

John V. Rissanen Cell: (916) 517-7952 Office: (916) 408-2102 Fax: (916) 408-2086 john@newmarketsinc.com 2190 Mt. Errigal Lane Lincoln, CA 95648

HANDYMAN Quality interior and exterior painting, demolition , fence (repairs), roof repairs, cutter (cleaning and repairs), landscaping, gardening, hauling, moving, welding

IRISH Eoin PAINTING Lehane

DINING

(415) 786-0121 • (650) 871-9227

Italian American Social Club of San Francisco Lunch & Dinner, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Weddings, Banquets, Special Occasions 25 RUSSIA AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO

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10% Discount to Seniors & Parishioners Serving the Residential Bay Area for Commercial over 30 Years

PLUMBING

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NOVENAS St. Jude Novena May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved & preserved throughout the world now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us.

St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days.

Thank You St. Jude.

Never known to fail.

You may publish.

D.O.

PUBLISH A NOVENA New! Personal prayer option added Pre-payment required Mastercard or Visa accepted

Cost $26

If you wish to publish a Novena in the Catholic San Francisco You may use the form below or call (415) 614-5640 Your prayer will be published in our newspaper

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days.

T&L

Name Address Phone MC/VISA # Exp. SELECT ONE PRAYER:

â?‘ St. Jude Novena to SH â?‘ Prayer to the Blessed Virgin â?‘ Prayer to St. Jude â?‘ Prayer to the Holy Spirit â?‘ Personal Prayer, 50 words or less Please return form with check or money order for $26 Payable to: Catholic San Francisco Advertising Dept., Catholic San Francisco 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

NEW YEAR’S RETREAT

HELP WANTED St. Denis Parish’s Religious Education & Youth Ministry Office is seeking a part-time assistant.

The assistant will support the Director of Religious Ed & Youth Ministry. The position is 10-15 hours per week and includes some nights and weekends. Responsibilities are mostly administrative, some ministry experience preferred; this position could grow in hours and into ministry coordinator role in the future.

Resumes should be sent to the Pastor AND Director of Religious Ed & Youth Ministry: joseshaji.62@gmail.com AND lwest@stdenisparish.org.

St. Denis Parish, 2250 Avy Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025.

We will accept applications through December 5th.

Archdiocese of SAN FRANCISCO

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS The Archdiocese of San Francisco seeks a well-qualified Director of Communications. The Director develops and executes a pro-active media strategy for the Archdiocese. This strategy is nuanced to embrace three spheres of influence: the Archdiocese, covering the three counties of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin; a national audience; and an international audience focused on the Vatican. Located in the Archdiocese are over 400,000 Catholics, with over 300 priests and 700 religious. Among the Catholic institutions in the Archdiocese are 75 elementary and high schools, 3 colleges/universities, one seminary, and seven Catholic cemeteries.

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