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Dominican Father Michael Sweeney brings an evangelizing spirit and academic credentials to his new role as director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s revamped diaconate formation program. The preparation to be ordained a deacon was altered beginning last fall and now includes more academic rigor, including five hours Dominican of biweekly Saturday courses at Father Michael St. Patrick Seminary & University Sweeney taught by seminary professors and another 2 ½ hours “to process it, focus it” each month at the archdiocesan pastoral center, Father Sweeney said. “Jesus shows us things we wouldn’t know SEE DIACONATE, PAGE 18
Pope Francis arrives at the Vatican Feb. 1 for an audience with religious, marking the end of the Year of Consecrated Life Feb. 2.
Most Holy Redeemer helps bring ‘mobile hygiene’ to homeless CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
A hot shower can’t wash away their troubles, but the homeless men and women who took one inside a big blue bus at Most Holy Redeemer Parish on Jan. 28 told Catholic San Francisco it can help them feel human again. Being clean changes everything said a 24-yearold man named Ricky as he exited the pristine bus parked at the front doors of the Castro neighborhood church with wet hair and a weary smile. “Yeah, it’s a blessing,” he said. “It helps my confidence,” he said. The unemployed painter said it had been “a couple weeks” since his last shower. “That was the first time I relaxed in weeks,” said Ashley, a soft-spoken middle-aged woman who said she preferred not to give her last name or be photographed. She said she’d been homeless for about a year after the rent on her San Francisco apartment doubled. Her days now revolve around finding food, warmth and work.
Last fall, Most Holy Redeemer became a partner with a local nonprofit called Lava Mae (loosely translated to “wash me” in Spanish), whose founders transformed a fleet of decommissioned transit buses donated by the city into mobile showers and toilets for the city’s homeless. The parish is one of five regular host locations in San Francisco. Access to sanitation and water is a basic human right according to the United Nations and World Health Organization, but Lava Mae founders saw that huge numbers of people in one of the world’s most sophisticated cities lived without it. The inability to take care of one’s personal hygiene carries huge personal consequences including social isolation, unemployment and illness. Lava Mae knows that showers on wheels won’t solve homelessness or the reasons behind it, but they do fill a massive gap in available services. According to the Lava Mae website, San Francisco’s homeless population of 6,500, half of whom sleep on the streets, are underserved by the availability of SEE LAVA MAE, PAGE 3
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NDV hosts benefit concert for Syrian refugees
NEED TO KNOW WATTSON LECTURE: John Borrelli is featured speaker for the “Paul Wattson Christian Unity Lecture” Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m, at the University of San Francisco, McLaren John Borrelli Conference Center, Room 252. Borelli serves in an interreligious role at Georgetown University and as associate director, Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He will “draw upon the insights of the Second Vatican Council and the strategy used by the Catholic Church to create programs of dialogue during the past 50 years,” organizers said in a statement. The lecture honors the memory of Atonement Father Paul Wattson who founded the Church Unity Octave, the forerunner of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Contact Anne Marie Devine at (415) 422-2697 or abdevine@ usfca.edu.
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Notre Dame des Victoires Church was the site for “Movements for Migrants,” a concert Jan. 13 benefiting Syrian refugees. The evening featured musicians from the Notre Dame Parish music program, the Alden Trio, Chamber Music Society of San Francisco, Pacific Boychoir, as well as soloists. “We’ve raised $1,600 to date toward our goal of $2,500,” Camellia Rodriguez-SackByrne, a member of the NDV music program and principal organizer of the benefit, told Catholic San Francisco. Partner organizations included Neighborhood Performance Project, a music nonprofit, and Pacific Boychoir Academy. The concert grew out of concern for “the dire situation of Syrian families fleeing violence and forced to resettle in other countries,” Rodriguez-SackByrne said. “Music is something beautiful that brings people together; expresses emotion and aspects of our shared humanity; and crosses boundaries and borders.” Singer Diana Gameros was among those on the concert marquee. “Being an immigrant myself, I know of the importance of feeling welcomed, supported and loved in the journey toward a brighter and safer home. Singing songs that give hope and raise awareness about migration issues is the least I can do, it’s my way of saying to the migrants: ‘Welcome, I support you, I love you.’” The title of the event, “Movements for Migrants” reflects both
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Flutist Camellia Rodriguez-SackByrne from the Notre Dame des Victoires music program and guitarist and synagogue cantor Achi Ben Shalom perform at “Movements for Migrants” Jan. 13. the “movements” in musical pieces as well as people coming together in social justice “movements” and the “movement” of refugees in flight, Rodriguez-SackByrne said. Musicians presented a variety of repertoire from classical to original compositions. Rodriguez-SackByrne’s professional background is in human rights and immigration. She is also a professional flutist and performs frequently in the community at churches and synagogues, senior centers, and hospitals. When she floated the idea of the concert on social media “there was an immediate response from numerous Bay Area musicians who care about this issue and wanted to donate their time performing a piece,” Rodriguez-
SackByrne said. Marist Father Rene Iturbe, Notre Dame des Victoires pastor, and Mary Ghisolfo, principal at the parish school were “incredibly supportive of this event” with the church donating the performance space, RodriguezSackByrne said, pointing out the parish’s service to the French immigrant community many years ago. The cast of “Movements for Migrants,” included Marco Rozzano, Natasha Makhijani, Rob Grant, Camellia Rodriguez-SackByrne, Caroluna Michelson, Jennifer Lee, Sarah Lee, Diana Gameros, Yuri Kye, Jon Lee, Ed Baskerville and Clio Tilton. Donations may be given online at http:// diy.rescue.org/concert_for_refugees.
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only 16 possible shower stalls spread throughout the city. Lava Mae was founded on the vision of one woman, Doniece Sandoval, and crowdfunding campaigns that brought in contributions from private citizens as small as $10 to make her dream a reality. Bay Area tech giant Google kicked in $100,000. What really keeps Lava Mae rolling is collaboration with government agencies and other nonprofits who share the founders’ belief that “everyone has a right to be clean” and that with “hygiene comes dignity, and with dignity comes opportunity.” It relies heavily on grants, financial and in-kind donations, and volunteers from smaller benefactors like Most Holy Redeemer. Each Wednesday, the almost blocklong bus glides up to the church curb just before 2 p.m. where it is hooked up to the parish’s water line. The bus features two private but supervised toilet and shower compartments for men, women and children or the disabled with clean towels and toiletries until 5 p.m. Parish manager Mike Poma felt Lava Mae was a perfect adjunct to the parish’s well-known Wednesday Night Suppers, a parish ministry that serves up to 100 homeless men, women and
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Above, John Baum, born a Lutheran, said he has started attending Mass at Most Holy Redeemer since showering, eating and enjoying the “kindness” of the parish community. Right, Ricky, a 24-year-old unemployed painter, talks to parish volunteer Jim Duffy, after his shower on the bus. children in the community, and went to work to make it happen. Pastoral leaders agreed and presented the idea to the parish whose St. Vincent de Paul Society donated $10,000 for Lava Mae. The Missionaries of the Precious Blood, the religious community of Father Matthew Link, pastor, donated another $10,000. Parish volunteers greet the guests and facilitate the process, but they are the only “labor” the parish provides.
Parish volunteer Jim Duffy hands out towels, cleans the bus between showers and soothes frazzled nerves during his weekly service. A bus driver for the city of San Mateo, he now spends his day off on the Lava Mae bus after seeing what the homeless people on his routes really go through. “I can see that they carry themselves differently after a shower,” he said. They walk more upright, head up. “That’s so nice to see.”
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Students at Notre Dame High School are making a choice to let mercy more into their lives, Kay Dinglasan told me via email. Kay has been at Notre Dame, Belmont for nine years, the last five as Kay Dinglasan director of campus ministry. She is also a former young adult minister at the Newman Center at San Jose State University where she completed her undergraduate degree. She holds a graduate degree from Holy Names University. “Living out mercy is embedded into the fabric of the Notre Dame, Belmont culture,” Kay told me. Notre Dame kicked off the school year with Mass and a “United in Diversity” theme. “The message from that liturgy was a call for us to love one another because of the beauty that is within each person, even if that beauty looks different from our own,” Kay said. She called it a “great launching point to point out Pope Francis’ call to love one another, especially the poor and marginalized, in our everyday life.” Offering mercy is a daily experience for students at Notre Dame, Kay said, and no more evident than in older students desire to help younger students at the school. “When you ask a Link Crew leader or a retreat leader why they choose to go out for these roles, the majority will state it is because they want to help and support freshmen and sophomores because they recognize how hard those two years can be.”
PEACEMAKERS: St. James School recently celebrated its Mass for peace and justice, a liturgy always prayed on a day near the January date honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Students from primary, middle and junior high are acknowledged at the Mass with Peacemaker Awards. “Qualities like including others in play, coming to school with a positive attitude, working hard and never giving up,” are the basis for the recognition, the school said. From left: Sixth grader Katherine Vilchez; fourth grader Francesa Garcia Madria; second grader Aliyah McCarver. ANNIVERSARY: Jean and Paul Flanagan celebrated 60 years married Nov. 7 with Mass and a renewal of vows in the chapel of the Capuchin Franciscan Friary in Burlingame. The couple have been parishioners of Our Lady of Angels Parish, where the Capuchins have served since OLA’s founding, for 55 years. Capuchin Father Flavian Welstead, pictured here with Jean and Paul, presided. A dinner with children, grandchildren and a great grandchild completed the day. Jean and Paul were married Oct. 22, 1955 at St. Mary of the Hills Church, Milton, Massachusetts. Students also live out mercy by filling needs within their community with more than 20,000 service hours annually. A Students in Action club researches volunteer
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‘24 Hours for the Lord’: St. Peter in Mission to open doors for pope’s Lenten request VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
St. Peter Church in San Francisco’s Mission District is opening its doors for 24 hours of confessions and eucharistic adoration March 4-5, bringing to life Pope Francis’ Lenten request for the Year of Mercy. “We are opening the doors of the church to the people of our neighborhood to invite God’s loving touch,” said Father Mark Doherty, parochial vicar of the bilingual Spanish and English parish. “The initiative of ‘24 Hours for the Lord,’ to be celebrated on the Friday and Saturday preceding the Fourth Week of Lent, should be implemented in every diocese,” Pope Francis wrote in his Bull of Indiction declaring the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy April 11, 2015. He reiterated its importance in his 2016 message for Lent, stressing “attentive listening to the word of God.” “So many people, including young people, are returning to the sacrament of reconciliation; through this experience they are rediscovering a path back to the Lord, living a moment of intense prayer and finding meaning in their lives,” wrote Pope Francis in the letter declaring the Year of Mercy. The pope will lead a penance service March 4 at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. “Let us place the sacrament of reconciliation at the center once more in such a way that it will enable people to touch the grandeur of God’s mercy with their own hands. For every penitent, it will be a source of true interior peace,” Pope Francis wrote. “I will never tire of insisting that confessors be authentic signs of the Father’s mercy.” In 2014, Pope Francis heard confessions at St. Peter’s Basilica as part of the Pontifical Council for the Promoting of the New Evangelization initiative. In 2015, Pope Francis presided at a “24 Hours for the Lord” penitential celebration at St. Peter’s Basilica in March 2015 “in order to place the sacrament of reconciliation at the center of the church’s mission of the new evangelization,” according to the council’s website. St. Peter parish is led by Father Moises Agudo, archdiocesan vicar for Spanish-speaking. Confessions and Masses are offered in Spanish and English. At least four priests in residence at
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Pro-life law firm defends center in Planned Parenthood suit MIKE NELSON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
LOS ANGELES – A Chicago-based law firm known for supporting pro-life causes will defend the Center for Medical Progress in a federal racketeering lawsuit filed Jan. 14 by Planned Parenthood against the center. Last year, the Irvine-based center released undercover videos alleging Planned Parenthood affiliate officials committed improprieties regarding fetal tissue and organs. Thomas More Society, a nonprofit public interest law firm, said Jan. 20 that Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against the center’s founder, David Daleiden, and his fellow undercover investigators is tied to the National Abortion Federation’s existing attempts “to shut down free speech and to cover up evidence of the abortion industry’s crimes in aborted baby parts trafficking.” “The true aim of these lawsuits brought by Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation ... is not justice, but rather the obstruction of justice,” said Tom Brejcha, Thomas More Society president and chief counsel. The National Abortion Federation last August filed suit against the center and received a temporary restraining order against its release of additional videos.
Last year, the Center for Medical Progress released videos in which its reporters – armed with video cameras – posed as representatives of a mythical fetal tissue procurement firm who met at public restaurants with the doctors. Over lunch, the center’s reporters pretended to solicit fetal tissue from the doctors, who discussed possible price points of various body organs gleaned from abortions. The National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 expressly forbids the sale of such tissue, though it notes that “research on the transplantation of human fetal tissue for therapeutic purposes,” including that obtained from “spontaneous or induced” abortions, is legal. Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, released an official video response at the time saying that “allegations that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true.” In its civil lawsuit filed in San Francisco, Planned Parenthood charges that the defendants – including Daleiden – “engaged in a complex criminal enterprise to defraud Planned Parenthood and prevent the health care organization from providing preventive and reproductive health services to millions of women and men,” according to a statement accompanying the lawsuit. SEE SUIT, PAGE 19
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WASHINGTON – Religious freedom is being challenged in fundamental ways, according to speakers at a panel discussion on “Religious Liberty and the Future: Faith, Skepticism, Culture and Hope” at the Heritage Foundation in Washington Jan. 21. Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore said the fundamental problems include “the decoupling of our basic freedoms from the search for truth.” He noted that 50 years ago, the Second Vatican Council issued a document on religious freedom known as “Dignitatis Humanae” (“Of Human Dignity”). Some of those debating the document wanted it to focus only on the freedom from coercion, which is important. “Indeed, no government and no social force should coerce individuals or groups in religious matters, and that made its way into the document,” said Archbishop Lori, who is chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty. However, the archbishop added, other Vatican II fathers, including then-Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II, argued that religious freedom is linked to the search for truth – truth about the human person made in God’s image and endowed with free will, made for the search for truth. The archbishop said the decoupling of freedom to choose from responsibility also is a problem, because choice does not mean the ability to do anything. The current state of our society de-emphasizes that this freedom must be properly linked to “the freedom to choose what is good and true.” The third fundamental cultural problem is the view that our freedoms are given to us by the state and not God, he said. “I think the challenges we see to religious freedom today stem from roots like these, whether it’s Christians being beheaded in the Middle East or the tendencies of so-called liberal democracies to manage religion,” he said.
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Pope’s challenge is to expand vision of mercy during year, says speaker RHINA GUIDOS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – During this Year of Mercy, one of the biggest challenges Pope Francis has thrown at us is to expand our vision of mercy. That’s the message Father David Garcia delivered during a Jan. 24 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering presentation about how to actively live out the Year of Mercy and what that means. Father Garcia, a senior adviser for clergy outreach with Catholic Relief Services, said the pope “doesn’t want us to sit around the church and look at each other and say, ‘OK, let’s have mercy on each other inside the church.’” Instead, the pope is saying that “he wants this mercy taken out” of the church, and diffused among those who need it most, in our midst, but especially around the world. In particular, the pope wants to combat two things: the culture of waste and the culture of indifference, Father Garcia said. Both go back to Scripture and to Jewish roots. In a holy year, or jubilee year, the Bible says in Leviticus 25, that the land shall rest and its fruits given to the poor, debts are to be forgiven, slaves liberated, neighbors dealt with fairly and family members cared for. In other words, Father Garcia said, God tells us: “The way you will show me you love me is the way you treat
each other and the way you love creation.” Father Garcia showed a cartoon of a man watching TV, falling asleep as news of over 4,000 dead in Africa is announced over the television, but later the same person is alarmed and in panic over one person dying in Dallas.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama cited Pope Francis in issuing an executive order banning the use of solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons. “We believe, in the words of Pope Francis, that ‘every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes,’” he wrote in The Washington Post Jan. 26, the day after signing the order. “We believe that when people make mistakes, they deserve the opportunity to remake their lives,” Obama said. “And if we can give them the hope of a better future, and a way to get back on their feet, then we will leave our children with a country that is safer, stronger and worthy of our highest ideals.” Precious Blood Father David Kelly, director of Kolbe House in Chicago, a former convent that serves as a shelter for at-risk teens in the city, said he hoped the order would “hopefully serve as a model for state and local corrections systems.” “What we are doing is further harming our young people when we isolate them, even for a little bit of time,” Father Kelly said. “Most of the kids who were in a juvenile detention center or in the Department of Juvenile Justice have a background of trauma, and when you give them trauma, you give them further harm. The thing we are doing with isolation is trying to get them to conform to our rules and our way of seeing things. It does just the opposite.” There are about 10,000 prisoners in solitary in the U.S., with just
13 juveniles is isolation – often for protection from dangerous adult inmates – between September 2014 and September 2015. The executive order also will apply to adults in federal prisons for lowlevel crimes.
SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENTS IN HHS MANDATE CASES
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments March 23 in seven pending appeals in lawsuits brought by several Catholic and other faith-based entities against the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate. Among the plaintiffs are the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Archdiocese of Washington, the Pittsburgh and Erie dioceses, Priests for Life, Southern Nazarene University and Texas Baptist University. The cases are being referred to collectively as Zubik v. Burwell. Bishop David A. Zubik heads the Diocese of Pittsburgh and Sylvia Mathews Burwell is the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Under the federal Affordable Care Act, most employers, including religious ones, are required to cover employees’ artificial birth control, sterilization and abortifacients, even if employers are morally opposed. Various appellate court rulings said the religious entities’ freedom of religion was not burdened by having to comply with the mandate as they have argued, because the federal government has in place an accommodation, or “work around,” for a third party to provide the contested coverage. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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ITALY’S ‘FAMILY DAY’ DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
ROME – Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Rome’s Circus Maximus to protest against a proposed bill that would grant legal recognition to non-married heterosexual and homosexual couples and give them the right to adopt children. Although not officially sponsored by the Catholic Church or any other religious group, the rally Jan. 30 did include men and women religious and at least one Italian bishop. Most of the participants were families, many carrying signs defending the rights of children to be raised by both a mother and a father. The legislation, known in Italy as the “Cirinna” bill, includes a proposed clause that would allow for a nonbiological parent in a homosexual union to adopt a child conceived by his or her partner, either through
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POPE: VOCATIONS CRISIS NEEDS PRAYER, NOT DESPAIR
VATICAN CITY – Respond to the crisis of vocations with intensified prayer, not despair or a lax admissions process, Pope Francis told women and men religious. He said he is tempted to lose hope, too, asking God, “What is happening? Why is the womb of consecrated life sterile?” But he warned against fast fixes, saying some religious “congregations experiment with ‘artificial insemination,’” in which they accept anybody, leading to a host of problems. The vocations process must be done “with seriousness, and one must discern well that this is a true vocation and help it grow,” he told members of religious orders, secular institutes and consecrated virgins Feb. 1 in the Vatican audience hall as he marked the close of the Year of Consecrated Life.
HUMILIATION, HUMILITY GO TOGETHER, POPE SAYS
VATICAN CITY – The connection between humiliation and humility is “mathematical,” Pope Francis said; being put in one’s place is the only path to being humble. “When someone says something awful about us, I think every one of us” immediately wants to react by saying, “That’s not true” or even by giving “a response that’s even more cutting,” the pope said Feb. 1 in his homily at Mass in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae. But, “if you are not able to bear humiliation in your life, you are not humble,” the pope said. “It’s mathematical.”
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Citing the day’s first reading of the story of King David suffering jeers and the insult of his son trying to take his throne, Pope Francis said, “David’s destiny, which is holiness, comes through humiliation.” David had committed adultery with Bathsheba and tried to cover it up by having Bathsheba’s husband killed. In the end, the pope said, David recognizes he is a sinner and repents.
CARDINAL: SOME PRIESTS DECLINE MITER
VATICAN CITY – Although the number is not high, it is no longer “exceptional” to have priests turn down an appointment as bishop, said Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. Speaking Feb. 1 about the annual course his office sponsors for new bishops, the cardinal was asked about rumors that more and more priests are saying they do not want to be a bishop and declining an appointment even when the pope, has chosen them. “Yes, that’s true. Nowadays you have people who do not accept the appointment,” he said, adding that he would not provide statistics on how often it happens, although he insisted the number was not huge. Priests decline for a variety of reasons, Cardinal Ouellet said, pointing to the example of a priest who was chosen, but then informed the congregation that he had cancer and had not told others of his illness. As for the type of priests Pope Francis and the congregation are looking for, Cardinal Ouellet said the pope “has insisted on the pastoral quality of the bishops. That’s very clear. It does not mean that they do not have to be masters of the faith because a bishop is, first and foremost, the first teacher of the faith in his diocese.” CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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Christianity ‘running on fumes,’ US bishop tells eucharistic congress wrong way,” turning away from God as everyone does, since people are all sinners. And that made it hard to recognize Jesus in their midst. But once they heard his words and were compelled by the power of his life, then begged him to stay, he shared a meal with them and gave the same command he had given the night before he died, “Do this in memory of me.” People ignore Jesus’ commands all the time, said Bishop Barron, but “over the centuries that one dominical command has been massively obeyed.” That revelation of the pattern of Jesus’ life in the breaking of the bread is the moment the faithful “get it” and are no longer walking the wrong way, he added. The bishop highlighted the Eucharist as a sacrifice, a theme that he said was the least-known and leastdeveloped. Bishop Barron emphasized that God does not need the sacrifices of the faithful because he “doesn’t need anything,” but by returning something to God, they “are united to him.” “The little we bring, if offered to God in the right spirit, breaks against the rock of the divine self-sufficiency and comes back elevated and multiplied for our benefit,” he said.
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CEBU, Philippines – Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron said popular culture’s message of individuals being “infinitely right” is “repugnant to (Catholics’) eucharistic faith.” But he also said Christianity is “running on fumes” as it tries to counter the trend of people leaving the church or staying away from the Eucharist. “To stretch out like someone dying of hunger is the right attitude toward the Eucharist,” Bishop Barron said at the 51st International Eucharistic Congress. “What’s sad today is so many in the Catholic world have become blase about the Eucharist.” The bishop said only 30 percent of Catholics in the United States actually receive Communion, calling this a “disaster.” At a news briefing after his presentation at the congress, he said that, unlike the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideology of self-invention, Catholic faithful “did not invent (their) own story, we belong to a story” and that is “God’s drama.” Bishop Barron – author of numerous books and a longtime faculty member, then president of Mundelein Seminary, major seminary of the Archdiocese of Chicago – said the call of the church today is to retain Catholics and attract new ones. “If the church can’t find a way to tell that story in a theo-dramatic way, people will drift away to this easy self-invention philosophy,” he said. “So it is a real challenge to the church. ... We’ve got to be bold. We’ve got to be confident. We’ve got to be smart.” Patrician Brother Peter John Hayes of Ballyfin, Ireland, was in the crowd of about 12,000 who listened,
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VATICAN CITY – Lent is a time of conversion and a time to deepen one’s faith, demonstrating and sharing it through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, Pope Francis said. “Faith finds expression in concrete everyday actions meant to help our neighbors in body and spirit,” the pope said in his message for Lent, which begins Feb. 10 for Latin-rite Catholics. Feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, welcoming strangers, offering instruction, giving comfort – “on such things will we be judged,” the pope wrote in the message, which was released at the Vatican Jan. 26. Particularly during the Year of Mercy, he said, Catholics are called to recognize their own need for God’s mercy, the greatness of God’s love seen in the death and resurrection of Christ and the obligation to assist others by communicating God’s love and mercy through words and deeds. “The root of all sin” is thinking that one is god, something often expressed in a total preoccupation for accumulating money and power, the pope wrote. And just as individuals can be tempted to think they have no need of God, social and political systems can run the same risk, ignoring both God and the real needs of human beings. “Love alone is the answer to that yearning for infinite happiness,” Pope Francis wrote. It is the only response to the longings “that we think we can satisfy with the idols of knowledge, power and riches.” “The danger always remains that by a constant refusal to open the doors of their hearts to Christ
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like the Bible, “does not stop simply at reaffirming that God is merciful, but clearly indicates that his children must be merciful, too, by living a greater love, especially by taking care of the little ones, the poor and defenseless.” The cardinal said that from his own experience as archbishop of Agrigento, he has seen how people’s faith and joy have grown and become contagious when they not only go to Mass, but also volunteer to assist the thousands of migrants who land on Lampedusa’s shore seeking safety and a better life for their families. Msgr. Giampietro Dal Toso, secretary of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, the office that promotes and coordinates Catholic charity, told reporters that Pope Francis wants to help Catholics rediscover the traditional corporal and spiritual works of mercy, which seemed to have been left on the shelf with dusty old books. Maybe, he said, “it was no longer fashionable” to preach about the daily actions of believers or maybe “our ecclesial practice has become quite institutionalized and politicized.” “The works of mercy are a very simple, concrete, direct, alive, daily, easy, accessible-to-all way of living the Jubilee of Mercy,” he said. “The works of mercy describe what we as Christians can actually do every day, and that is why I find them so fascinating.” As part of Cor Unum’s celebration of the Year of Mercy, he said, it has developed materials for a retreat day for people engaged in church charitable activity. The materials are online – www.corunumjubilaeum.va – and can be adapted for use by a group, a parish or a diocese.
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A paradigm of Christian living
o see Lent only as a period of spiritual practices, penances and self-imposed deprivations would be distorted and limited. Some understand Lent solely as a time of painful spiritual exercises accepted more or less willingly. But with reflection and by following attentively the Lenten BROTHER JOHN celebrations brought to us M. SAMAHA, SM by the church and its liturgy, we come to recognize that Lent is a paradigm of Christian life. We come to recognize the wisdom of St. Benedict’s admonition that the lives of Christians and of the church “ought to be a continuous Lent.” Lent is a reminder of our baptismal consecration to live as Christ in our circumstances. Lent is an important time of the liturgical year aimed at redressing Christian life. The works of Lent – prayer, almsgiving, fasting -- do not have their value in themselves, as the Scriptures proclaim on Ash Wednesday and the following Thursday and Friday. All actions have a God-centered motive and aim. In encouraging us to a greater emphasis on private and liturgical prayer, the church does so to help us to recapture during Lent their rightful place in Christian life at all times. Almsgiving and sharing practiced
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A cross decorated with silk flowers is seen inside the sanctuary of the mission at Tumacacori National Historic Park in southern Arizona. Ash Wednesday, observed Feb. 10 this year, marks the start of the penitential season of Lent, a time of reflection, prayer, fasting and charity before Easter. during Lent are part of a movement of conversion regarding the use of goods. Far from jealously and selfishly keeping material goods for themselves, Christians learn to possess them not as possessing them. They manage their possessions as good stewards, with constant concern for those less fortunate. This is not an occasional practice either. The ideal continues to be relevant at any time there is a need. Primarily, fasting concerns restricting our bodily intake of food and drink. Whatever value is assigned to seasonal or even habitual
fasting, fasting is essentially an attack on uncontrolled appetite for earthly goods of all kinds. We are called to learn to restrain our greed for earthly goods, and to have concern for the needs of others (Isaiah 58: 6-9). People yield easily to such an appetite, especially in countries where over-consumption is a matter of course. Not to curb the search for bodily and material satisfactions is pagan. Christians seek to rectify their behavior in order to balance their everyday lifestyle in harmony with their faith and hope. The pagans think we should eat and
drink, for tomorrow we die. But the dead are raised, and now we know that Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of all who have fallen asleep (1Corinthians 15). The lessons from Scripture proclaimed during Lent help us raise our eyes to God and his plan of salvation, to Christ and his mystery that brings this plan to realization, to its fulfillment here and now in the church and in the world. Of course, this can be said of all seasons of the liturgical year. What characterize Lenten liturgies are the density, the wealth, and the strength of the texts. Especially challenging are the Gospel readings for Christian initiation, the selected apostolic catecheses, and the remembrance of the most significant steps of salvation history. In this way Lent proves to be catechumenal for all baptized persons and not only for those preparing for baptism. With special insistence Lent repeats the never-ceasing call: “Become what you are.” Lent is a paschal journey because it leads us to the Easter celebrations. It has a fixed place in the liturgical calendar, beginning with Ash Wednesday and ending on Holy Thursday before the evening Mass. But Christian life is wholly paschal because it is an exodus toward our eternal Father. From this point of view, Lent is a parable of the lives of Christians and a paradigm of the church. What is experienced intensely for 40 days must give new and enduring dynamism to our lives in all the days of the Lord. MARIANIST BROTHER SAMAHA lives in Cupertino.
A shirt of flame
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hey say that the book you most need to read finds you when you most need to read it. I’ve had that experience many times, most recently with Heather King’s book, “Shirt of Flame, A Year with Saint Therese of Lisieux.” The title of the book is borrowed from T. S. Eliot’s, “Four QuarFATHER RON tets,” where he ROLHEISER famously suggests that love itself, God, is behind the torment we often feel in our fiery desires and that the burning we feel there is an “intolerable shirt of flame.” King writes this book from a fiery context within her own life: She is a freelance journalist and writer, single, divorced, an alcoholic in recovery, reconciling some darkness in her past, dealing with a paralyzing obsession because the man she is in love with will not respond to her, risking the financial stability of a career in law for the insecurity of being a freelance writer, and struggling with the sense of being an outsider to normal family, marriage, and community, an orphan at all the banquets of life. And so she sets off
King recognizes in Therese’s soul, inside the soul of a saint, inside someone who could seemingly give up everything for God, the same fiery desires that she feels within her own soul. for a year to immerse herself in one of the most intriguing saints of all time, Therese of Lisieux, in an attempt to see whether Therese might be a moral and spiritual compass by which to sort out her own life. The result is a powerful, deeply insightful, adult, book. King recognizes in Therese’s soul, inside the soul of a saint, inside someone who could seemingly give up everything for God, the same fiery desires that she feels within her own soul. And King recognizes too that those fires can both purify or destroy, redeem or torment, turn someone into a great saint or a great sinner. So she lets Therese’s fire shed light on her own fires. And since what is most personal and private inside of us, if revealed, is also the most universal, by revealing her own deep, private struggles, her book sheds light on the universal human struggle. However, the book is self-revealing but never exhibitionist, a tricky formula that she handles well. For example, drawing upon a famous incident in Therese’s life when as a little girl, asked by her older sister who presented her with a velvet sewing basket full of color
balls to pick one thing from a basket, Therese said: “I choose all!” and took the entire basket and walked away. King reflects upon her own struggle to, as Kierkegaard said, will the one thing: Here’s the parallel she draws to her own life”: “‘I choose all!’ said Therese, and the further I progressed, the more I saw that the human dilemma is to want it all. I wanted to be celibate, and I wanted wantonly to give myself to a spouse, I wanted dark secrets, noise, lights, mania, and the stimulation of a city, and I wanted to plant a garden, tend animals, and live on a farm. I wanted to live in the same place all my life, and I wanted to travel every inch of the globe before I died. I wanted to sit utterly still, and I was also driven to be constantly on the move. I wanted to be hidden and anonymous, and I wanted to be famous. I wanted to be close to my family, and I wanted to leave my family behind. I wanted to devote my life to activism, and I wanted to devote my life to contemplation. I wanted to give everything to God, and I didn’t know how! I longed to give my undivided self, and I couldn’t!” Reflecting on Therese’s vow of poverty, King writes: “Poverty is never,
never voluntary. Poverty consists precisely in all the ways you absolutely don’t want to be poor.” Drawing upon the German poet, Gertrud von le Fort who wrote that when her soul was most in anguish everything around her in effect said: “But you are nothing!” King writes: “At last someone had told my story. For the last 10 years especially, I had been in anguish and ‘they’ – my husband, the person I loved, the legal profession, the medical profession when I had cancer, the publishing industry – had said in so many words: ‘But you are nothing.’ Everywhere I turned: a blank wall. Everything I had hoped for: ashes. Everything I had worked for: ‘But you are nothing’. … One morning in the shower, I wept to Christ: ‘I don’t love you and you don’t love me either!’” We’ve all been there. If you are struggling with faith, with brokenness in your life, with an obsession, with an addiction, with a gnawing sense that your life is not what it should be, with the sense of being the outsider, an orphan at all the banquets of life, and, most of all, with the sense you don’t love Jesus and he doesn’t love you either, that you are nothing, then let this book find you. It’s a book for those who think they might be too sick to be helped by a doctor. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
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SUNDAY READINGS
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jesus said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.’ When they brought their boats to the shore, they left everything and followed him. LUKE 5:1-11 ISAIAH 6:1-2A, 3-8 In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple. Seraphim were stationed above. They cried one to the other, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts! All the earth is filled with his glory!” At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shook and the house was filled with smoke. Then I said, “Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember that he had taken with tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with it, and said, “See, now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged.” Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” “Here I am,” I said; “send me!” PSALM 138:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 7-8 In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with all my heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth; in the pres-
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man dies and goes to heaven. At the Pearly Gates, St. Peter says to him, “We have a point system. You tell me the good things you have done. I’ll assign points to each of those. If you get 100 points, you can make it into heaven.” The man says: “I was married to the same woman for 60 years and was always faithful to her.” St. Peter says, “Wonderful, I give you three points.” FATHER CHARLES The man says, PUTHOTA “Three points? Okay, I never missed church on Sundays and always tithed and volunteered.” St. Peter says, “Fabulous, I give you two points.” The man says, “What, only two points? I started a soup kitchen in the neigh-
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ence of the angels I will sing your praise; I will worship at your holy temple and give thanks to your name. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. Because of your kindness and your truth; for you have made great above all things your name and your promise. When I called, you answered me; you built up strength within me. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. All the kings of the earth shall give thanks to you, O Lord, when they hear the words of your mouth; and they shall sing of the ways of the Lord: “Great is the glory of the Lord.” In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. Your right hand saves me. The Lord will complete what he has done for me; your kindness, O Lord, endures forever; forsake not the work of your hands. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord.
are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures; that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. After that, Christ appeared to more than 500 brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. After that he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me. For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been ineffective. Indeed, I have toiled harder than all of them; not I, however, but the grace of God that is with me. Therefore, whether it be I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-11 I am reminding you, brothers and sisters, of the gospel I preached to you, which you indeed received and in which you also stand. Through it you
LUKE 5:1-11 While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there
alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. After he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.” Simon said in reply, “Master, we have worked hard all night and have caught nothing, but at your command I will lower the nets.” When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish and their nets were tearing. They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come to help them. They came and filled both boats so that the boats were in danger of sinking. When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at the knees of Jesus and said, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.” For astonishment at the catch of fish they had made seized him and all those with him, and likewise James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners of Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.” When they brought their boats to the shore, they left everything and followed him.
God’s saving grace borhood and worked in the homeless shelters.” St. Peter says, “Fantastic, that’s good for two more points.” The man in disbelief says, “At this rate, I can get into heaven only by the grace of God.” St. Peter says, “Bingo, 100 points, come on in.” The familiar charming story highlights the profound religious truth that we are all touched and redeemed by God’s grace, not by the merits of our deeds. Our unworthiness notwithstanding, God’s grace shines brightly. Despite our sinfulness, God calls us and sends us out. He wants us – and he needs us. All three readings this Sunday in a rare alignment dramatize God’s love and generosity toward us. Isaiah has an awesome vision of God in the temple which leads him to the deep realization of his sinfulness. The angel of God purifies him. God’s grace has now claimed him to be his prophet, and Isaiah says: “Here I am, send me.” Paul includes himself among those who met the risen Christ. Acknowledging that he persecuted the church, Paul calls himself “the least
of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle.” He quickly adds though: “But by the grace of God I am who I am, and his grace to me has not been ineffective.” Where is Paul the fierce persecutor of the church? He is now the most ardent promoter of the same church. At Jesus’ word, Peter puts out into the deep, after a night’s failed effort. The abundance of fish fills him with the divine presence of Jesus. Deeply aware of his unworthiness, he says, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.” But Jesus has other plans for him. Peter now has to become the catcher of people for the kingdom of God. A pattern emerges in these accounts. With a personal experience of God in Jesus, we become acutely aware of our sinfulness, but God calls us all the same, graces us, and uses us for his work. Charles C. Morrison says, “The Christian Church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world in which membership is based upon a single qualification: that the candidate be unworthy of membership.”
The word of God this Sunday is a perfect vocation promotion material. The church needs young women and men for God’s service in religious life and priesthood. In the wake of their personal encounter of Jesus, their rising sense of sinfulness will be of no consequence to Jesus. He has the power to purify and grace them. But they have to rise to the occasion and say, “Here I am, Lord. Send me.” With Ash Wednesday just around the corner, let us enter Lent joyfully, not mournfully. We acknowledge we are sinners, not to be laden with guilt and shame, but to celebrate the liberating grace of God in Jesus who loves us and delights in us. His mercy is everlasting. This Year of Mercy, proclaimed by Pope Francis who calls himself a sinner, let God’s grace penetrate our patterns of sin and cycles of addictions. True, we are sinners, but we are graced and treasured. FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Veronica Church in South San Francisco.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8: Monday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Jerome Emiliani, priest; St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin. 1 KGS 8:1-7, 9-13. PS 132:6-7, 8-10. SEE MT 4:23. MK 6:53-56. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9: Tuesday
of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 8:22-23, 27-30. PS 84:3, 4, 5 and 10, 11. PS 119:36, 29b. MK 7:1-13. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10: Ash Wednesday. Jl 2:12-18. PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17. 2 COR 5:20— 6:2. SEE PS 95:8. MT 6:1-6, 16-18.
Our Lady of Lourdes
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11: Thursday after Ash Wednesday. Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. DT 30:1520. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. MT 4:17. LK 9:22-25.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12: Friday after Ash Wednesday. IS 58:1-9a. PS 51:34, 5-6ab, 18-19. SEE AM 5:14. MT 9:14-15. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13: Saturday after Ash Wednesday. IS 58:9b-14. PS 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. EZ 33:11. LK 5:27-32.
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Abortion: Out of sight, out of mind
ue to the blizzard that hit the mid-Atlantic, my bus never made it to the 43rd March for Life in Washington, D.C. But thousands of others were able to brave the snow and wind to witness to the dignity of unborn human life, and to protest the gravely immoral practice of legal abortion in the TONY MAGLIANO United States. The following day, Jan. 23, thousands of people from western states participated in the 12th Annual Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco. And throughout the U.S. various other events to protest abortion and defend preborn life were held on, or shortly after, Jan 22 – the infamous anniversary of the Jan. 22, 1973 Supreme Court dual decisions of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton which effectively legalized abortion on demand for all nine months of pregnancy.
As reported by National Right to Life (http://bit.ly/1DqDLKz), “surgical abortions” kill over 1 million unborn babies in the U.S. every year according to the Guttmacher Institute – a former affiliate of the abortion chain Planned Parenthood. And when the widespread use of birth control pills is considered, the number of estimated abortions increases tremendously. This is because birth control pills not only act to keep sperm and egg from uniting, but when that mechanism fails, they also have an abortive capability which produces a “hostile endometrium, which presumably prevents or disrupts implantation of the developing baby,” according to clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Dr. William F. Colliton Jr., (see http://bit.ly/1ZTRqPA). The American Life League states, “Using formulas based on the way the birth control pill works, pharmacy experts project that about 14 million chemical abortions occur in the United States each year (www. all.org/learn/abortion/abortionstatistics). And worldwide, approximately 1.4
billion abortions have occurred since 1980 (see www.numberofabortions. com). I am convinced the intentional killing of any human being is not part of God’s plan. Killing runs contrary to the Gospel portrayals of the nonviolent Jesus, as well as the nonviolent witness of the early church during the first 300 years of Christianity. And the intentional killing of innocent human life – which direct abortion does – is especially evil. Brutally dismembering unborn babies during suction abortions, and fatally burning these smallest members of the human family during saline solution abortions, is nothing short of barbaric. No matter how difficult a pregnancy may indeed be, abortion is never the answer. There are many caring people ready to help both mother and unborn child (e.g. crisis pregnancy centers www.care-net.org/find-apregnancy-center). And for those who regret their involvement in abortion, Silent No More (www.silentnomoreawareness. org) and Project Rachel http://hopeafterabortion.com) can help.
Years ago, while attending a prolife conference sponsored by Americans United for Life (www.aul.org), I asked the late world-renowned French geneticist Dr. Jerome Lejeune when human life begins. He instantly replied, “At conception of course.” I then asked him if any of his colleagues disagreed with him. He said, “No, we all know when life begins. Where we disagree, is at what stage life should be protected.” For Lejeune conception – when life begins – was logically and morally where full protection should begin (see http://bit.ly/1JGuPUN). Because for most people the evil of abortion is not something they regularly encounter, it is a classic case of “out of sight, out of mind.” But a very effective organization to help us keep the dignity of the unborn and the horrors of abortion within eyesight is the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (www.abortionno.org). What is the God of life calling you to do? MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.
YEAR OF MERCY: Pope’s challenge is to expand vision of mercy FROM PAGE 9
Though we should be generous with those around us, we have to be brothers and sisters to people in Latin America, Asia, Africa, in all parts of the world, Father Garcia said, and not just be concerned with those we consider “our own.” “Otherwise, you’re not Catholic,” said Father Garcia, a San Antonio archdiocesan priest. “He’s just asking us to be Catholic. That’s about as simple as it can be.” To heed that call in Philadelphia, the city’s St. Aquinas Center is hosting “days of encounter and mercy,” said Bethany Welch, its director, who attended the Jan. 23-26 social ministry gathering in Washington. Recently, the center hosted an event in which a woman, a refugee from Eritrea, was invited to cook and to share her story with others. She was paid for her services, providing her
with the dignity of work. In turn, the event also provided others the experience of learning about the plight of refugees from that part of the world, Welch said. “Mercy is relational,” Welch said, adding that there’s spiritual beauty in the pope’s challenge. Another attendee offered the story of his parish, home to one of the country’s holy doors, which the pope has encouraged Catholics to walk through, symbolizing leaving behind sin and walking into grace to encounter God. Father Garcia said there are three ways of showing mercy this year: sacramentally – through the sacrament of reconciliation; an extra sacramental way – through our works of mercy; and by making a pilgrimage. Melissa Wheeler, of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend in Indiana, attended Father Garcia’s presentation and said that at the Catholic high
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‘Simple, not silly’: Children’s questions become book by Pope Francis CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Children may say the darnedest things, but when it comes to questions about faith they can make even the most learned parents and priests pause. “These are tough,” Pope Francis said when presented with questions from 30 children from around the world. Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, who went through the questions with the pope, said half the time he personally was stumped when thinking about how he would have responded. But the pope wasn’t. The questions, illustrated with the drawings of the children aged 6-13, and the pope’s answers will be published March 1 as the book “Dear Pope Francis.” “What did God do before the world was made?” one child asked. “Do bad people have a guardian angel, too?” asked another. In the book, coordinated and published by the U.S.-based Loyola Press, Pope Francis responds to those and 28 other queries; some of the questions are theological, others are practical and a few are about the pope personally, including what he wanted to be when he grew up. To the question about what God was doing before creation, the heart of the pope’s answer is, “Think of it this way: Before creating anything, God loved. That’s what God was doing: God was loving.” Questions about Jesus, war and peace and about heaven also are included, though Father Spadaro was
keeping those exact questions and answers under wraps during a late January interview. Some of the personal questions made Pope Francis laugh and the pope’s answers to those questions made Father Spadaro laugh, the Jesuit said. The pope admits in the book that when he was small he wanted to be a butcher because the butcher his grandmother bought meat from had an apron with a big pocket that seemed to be full of money. The children’s questions are “simple, but not silly,” said Father Spadaro, who discussed them with Pope Francis and recorded his answers. Father Spadaro heads La Civilta Cattolica, a Jesuit journal filled with articles on philosophy, theology, literary criticism and political theory. He has never worked with young children and said he was in awe of how the pope handled the questions – taking them seriously and responding to them honestly and clearly. Some of the pope’s answers, he said, are “inspired.” “This is important,” Father Spadaro said. “It says a lot about the magisterium of Pope Francis; he knows his ministry can reach children.” At the request of Loyola Press, Father Spadaro asked Pope Francis last May if he would be willing to do the book. The Jesuit publishing house had asked Father Spadaro to approach the pope since he had conducted the first big interview with Pope Francis in 2013. “The pope said yes immediately and with enthusiasm,” Father Spadaro said.
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This is one of many drawings by children ages 6-13 that appear in the book “Dear Pope Francis,” which will be published March 1.
Loyola Press then reached out to dozens of Jesuits and collaborators around the globe, asking them to solicit questions and drawings from children. Sometimes Loyola had to ship off crayons, markers and paper because the children had none. In the end, 259 children in 26 countries submitted questions. The big batch of letters are in 14 languages and come from children in wealthy cities, poor rural areas and even refugee centers. Choosing which letters the pope would answer in the book was done with input from the children, parents, grandparents, teachers and Jesuits, Father Spadaro said. But he went into the reserve pile and pulled out a few more as well. In August, Father Spadaro read the letters out loud to the pope in Italian, but the pope also scrutinized the drawings, the Jesuit said. He com-
mented on the scenes and colors and often had a good laugh over the way the kids drew the pope. For the answers, “I was not just taking dictation,” Father Spadaro said. The pope enjoys a conversation; for the book, that meant the pope would sometimes discuss the questions and potential answers with the Jesuit scribe and, often, would return to add something to an answer after they had already moved on to other letters. “He’s a volcano,” Father Spadaro said. The pope would look off into space as if picturing the children and responding to them in person, usually in Spanish, but sometimes in Italian, the Jesuit said. The questions stayed with the pope, who later referred to some of them in speeches and homilies, he said. The most noticeable example was the question from 8-year-old Ryan in Canada about what God was doing before creation. In the pope’s unscripted talk at the Festival of Families in Philadelphia in September, Pope Francis told the crowd, “A young person once asked me – you know how young people ask hard questions! – ‘Father, what did God do before he created the world?’” “Believe me, I had a hard time answering that one,” the pope admitted in Philadelphia. “I told him what I am going to tell you now. Before he created the world, God loved, because God is love.” Although it might not be “theologically precise,” the pope said that night, God’s love was so great that “he had to go out from himself, in order to have someone to love outside of himself. So God created the world. ... But the most beautiful thing God made – so the Bible tells us – was the family.” Pope Francis will have a chance to meet nine or 10 of the children in late February when he has promised a private audience for some of the people who took part in the project.
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Sisters, volunteers team up to stop Super Bowl human trafficking CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Human traffickers expected to flow into the Bay Area this week for Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara may be sidelined if the efforts of Catholic sisters from a dozen different religious communities in Northern California and the volunteers they trained are successful. The Northern California Coalition of Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking, also known as the Stop Slavery Coalition, and a team of trained volunteers from San Francisco, the Peninsula, the East Bay and Marin, made visits to almost 300 South Bay hotels over the last six months to educate managers, housekeeping staff, security teams and others how to recognize and report the signs of human trafficking on their premises, accord-
ing to Sister Therese Randolph, RSM. The sisters and their associates left printed material and posters with information about telltale signs of human trafficking victims which can include submissive or fearful behaviors such as avoiding eye contact with others, poor physical health and seemingly scripted responses to questions. Sister Therese said the hospitality industry was more receptive than in previous years. “The hospitality industry here has grown in its willingness to monitor activity that might point to the abuse of children and adults through trafficking,” she told Catholic San Francisco by email Feb. 1. According to UNANIMA International, a non-governmental organization advocating on behalf
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The suit charges that the center, its leaders and co-conspirators engaged in “illegal conduct that includes violating the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO Act) and engaging in wire fraud, mail fraud, invasion of privacy, illegal secret recording and trespassing.” “The express aim of the enterprise,” the BE CELEBRATED DAILY leaving it “on fire with a great love of God.” After complaint stated, heart, “was demonize Planned her death,to when her body was examined, she was found to have hadintimidate a perforation of the heart. It was in this way Parenthood, harass and its dedicated ber 9, 2016, USA / LISBON that science confirmed one of her greatest mystical exlcomed this evening at an internaand interrupt its operations, all as with thethrough periences. Our journey continues we travel departing flightstaff, to Lisbon, arriving the picturesque countryside to the lovely access 12th century ultimate goal of interfering with women’s walled city of Avila. Upon our arrival in Avila, we proto legal abortion.”ceed to the hotel to check in for dinner and an overnight. 0, LISBON / SANTAREM / FATIMA [B,D] rival in Lisbon, weThis visit the birthaction, the complaint said, “is brought to of Padua, the Lisbon Cathedral, Day 5:illegality Thursday 10/13, / SEGOVIA / BURGOS astery, and Belem Tower.the From expose falsity and of AVILA defendants’ This morning we visit the Monastery of the Incarnantarem to visit the Church of St. methods forSt.the ongoing tion anddamages the convent of Teresa, where the saint he 13th century a Eucharistic and Mir- to recover experienced her remarkable vision offrom the angel. This afen a woman attempted to steal a harm to Planned Parenthood emanating the ternoon we travel to Segovia, where the sacred relic of St m Mass, the host turned into flesh John of the Cross is enshrined. St John was the confessor video smear To this day the precious relic re- campaign.” of St Teresa and often conferred with her on their expeto see. The church has since been The National Abortion a state- foreriences inFederation the spiritual life; heissued is one of Christianity’s of the Holy Miracle. We continue most authorities on spiritual and mystical theology. We Jan.for16a in support of Planned Parenthood’s suit. ma to check inment at our hotel visit the convent near the Vera Cruz church, constructed overnight. [D] “These perpetrators held accountable by the must Templars,be where the mortal remains of Saintfor John of the Cross are buried. Inside the city wallsput we also see the ways in which they committed fraud and the best-conserved aqueduct of the Imperial Roman Empire. In additionsaid to viewing this 2000-year-old our members’ safety at risk,” Vicki Saporta, engineering marvel, we visit Alcazar castle, the last in the the federation’s president and Spanish gothic styleCEO. to be constructed. Time permitting; we enter the famous castle, which was an inspiration for In a Jan. 14 statement, the Center for Medical Walt Disney when he created his Cinderella castle. We Progress called Planned Parenthood’s “a[B,D] continue to Burgos for dinner andfiling overnight. frivolous lawsuit in retaliation for CMP’s First Basilica in Amendment investigative journalism that has done Loyola 11, FATIMA nothing more than tell the truth about Planned tima. One of the greatest events of lawless operations.” Parenthood’s e in the village of Fatima, Portugal, f God appeared to“Planned three shepherdParenthood is under investigation by hem to bring the message of the the United States Congress and multiple law enld that was slipping away from it. “I desire that a forcement chapel be built here agencies, while their business is drying e Lady of the Rosary. I have come up and and the public is turning against their barbaric amend their lives to ask parple must pray the rosary everyfor day baby parts trade,” the center said. abortion erings that God sends them.” We Brejcha: “Planned Parenthood and NAF a Iria, where we Added visit the Chapel he Basilica that houses the tombs Day 6: FridayDaleiden’s 10/14, BURGOS investigation / LOYOLA / PAMPLONA are working down nta, and the Perpetual Adoration to shut Our first stop today is the Cathedral in Burgos, one e to Aljustrel, of where weabortion visit the the groups’ involvement inarchitecture baby parts of the finest examples of Gothic in Europe. family (the birthplace of Jacinta Then, weas travel to Loyola, where we visit the birthplace trafficking. any other investigative en the home of Lucia. In AljustrelBut equally of St Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). of the apparitions of St Michael we will see the magnificent basilica journalist workingThere, for ABC, NBC, CBS, 17th Foxcentury News, iew Valinhos, the site of Our Lady’s dedicated to the saint. Behind the sanctuary is the Santa or part your or electronic media outlet may s evening we take in thelocal Can- print Casa, the three story 14th century family home of St Ig-
Dinner and overnight at our hotel 10/12, FATIMA / ALBA DE
natius. Pilgrims are invited to tour the rooms and visit the chamber where the saint was born. The most venerated place in this building is the room where Ignatius, at the age of 30, was brought following his serious wounding at the Battle of Pamplona. To pass the time as his leg healed, he read the lives of the saints and a book on the life of Christ. At this time a great conversion took place in Ignatius; approximately 13 years later he founded the Society of Jesus. The place of his conversion is indicat-
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regularly resort to undercover journalism tactics to ferret out hidden crime, so too David Daleiden should have the right to penetrate the criminal underworld of America’s abortion providers and report all the evidence he has uncovered of criminal wrongdoing to law enforcement and to members of the public.” Thomas More Society describes itself as “dedicated to restoring respect in law for life, family, and ed by a statue depicting the saint with a leg bandaged, prayer. The rosary and Candlelight Procession occur religious Society support for a book liberty. in one handThe and the other handfosters outstretched, every evening for those who wish to participate again. while the face is turned heavenward. From there, we Dinner and overnight in Lourdes. [B,D] these causes by providing high quality pro bono continue to Pamplona to check in at our hotel for dinner legaland services from Day up 9: Monday 10/17, LOURDES / train to Paris / an overnight. [B,D] local trial courts all the way MASSLISIEUX WILL BE CELEBRATED DAILY heart, leaving it “on fire with a great love of God.” After to theDay United States Supreme Court.” her Our journey from Lourdes to Paris will be traveled by raildeath, when her body was examined, she was found 7: Saturday 10/15, PAMPLONA / SANGUESA / have had a perforation of the heart. It was in this way Day 1: Sunday, 2016, USAtrain / LISBON LOURDES More Society remains committed onOctober the TGV 9, high speed (non-stop, first class).toWe “Thomas to that science confirmed one of her greatest mystical exTour membersdepart are welcomed this evening at an We depart Pamplona this morning and travel to Javier at 10:30AM and arrive in internaParis at 4:30PM. Upon periences. Our journey continues as we travel through defending Daleiden the abortion tional industry’s airport for departing to Lisbon, arriving in the region of Navarra against to visit the family castle and ourour arrival in Paris,flight we board our motor coach for Lisieux, the picturesque countryside to the lovely 12th century the next day. where we check in at our hotel for dinner and overnight. birthplace of St at Francis Xavier. As a close personlawsuits aimed obstructing truth and justice,” walled city of Avila. Upon our arrival in Avila, we proal friend of St Ignatius and one of the original seven [B,D] ceed to the hotel to check in for dinner and an overnight. Day 2: Monday 10/10, LISBON / SANTAREM / FATIMA said Brejcha, “just we defended and won the members of the Societyas of Jesus, St Francis performed [B,D] Upon our morning arrival in Lisbon, we visit the birthmiracles, was granted the gift of tongues, foretold NOWmany v. Scheidler ‘RICO’ case after 28place years of St.and Anthony of Padua, the Lisbon Cathedral, the future, healed countless people, and baptized over Day 5: Thursday 10/13, AVILA / SEGOVIA / BURGOS Jeronimo’s Monastery, and Belem Tower. From 10,000 people in just one month’s time. St Francis Xavier three trips to the U.S. Supreme Court.St The of to visit the Church of St. This morning we visit the Monastery of the Incarnathere, werights stop in Santarem is regarded as one of the most zealous missionaries of tion and the convent of St. Teresa, where the saint in the freedom ofFrom speech and theStephen, presswhere hang in13th century a Eucharistic Mirall times. there, we crossfreedom the spectacularof Pyrenees experienced her remarkable vision of the angel. This afacle took place. When a woman attempted to steal a Mountains and continue to Lourdes, where the Blessed ternoon we travel to Segovia, where the sacred relic of St the balance and must be protected.” consecrated host from Mass, the host turned into flesh Virgin Mary appeared to St Bernadette in 1858. Upon John of the Cross is enshrined. St John was the confessor and began to bleed. To this day the precious relic reIn Houston, a grand juryforthat investigating our arrival, we check in at the hotel dinner.was After dinof St Teresa and often conferred with her on their expemains incorrupt for all to see. The church has since been riences in the spiritual life; he is one of Christianity’s forener, weaparticipate in the Candlelight Procession and renamed the Church of the Holy We events continuein Normandy Scenes from the Miracle. historical whether local Planned Parenthood clinic had sold most authorities on spiritual and mystical theology. We rosary with pilgrims from all over the world. Overnight our journey into Fatima to check in at our hotel for a visit the convent near the Vera Cruz church, constructed Lourdes. [B,D] fetal inorgans cleared the clinic Jan. 25,welcome according dinner andto overnight. [D]10/18, LISIEUX / NORMANDY Day 10: Tuesday / Templars, where the mortal remains of Saint John by the LISIEUX prosecutors in Harris County. of the Cross are buried. Inside the city walls we also see We take a day trip to the Normandy area to spend Fatima the best-conserved aqueduct of the Imperial Roman Instead, the grand jury indicted Daleiden and timehis at the Military Cemetery, Omaha Beach, Omaha Empire. In addition to viewing this 2000-year-old engiMuseum and other sites associated with World War II. marvel, we visit Alcazar castle, the last in the neering colleague Sandra Merritt on second-degree felony Our journey today concludes as we return to our hotel in gothic style to be constructed. Time permitting; Spanish charges of tampering with a government record – for dinner and overnight. [B,D] Lisieux we enter the famous castle, which was an inspiration for Walt Disney when he created his Cinderella castle. We they presented fake driver’s licenses as ID in the Day 11: Wednesday 10/19, LISIEUX / PARIS continue to Burgos for dinner and overnight. [B,D] Most of today course of filming the videos. will be spent Basilica in The grand jury also charged Daleiden with a in Lisieux, Loyola home of St. misdemeanor regarding the sale of human organs Day 3: Tuesday 10/11, Therese of FATIMA the We spend today in Fatima. One of the greatest events of because when he was posing as an executive of a Jesus. Child this century took the village of Fatima, Portugal, Sheplace is theinone Grotto Massabielle firm engaged inofthe collection and selling fetal in 1917. of The Mother appeared to three shepherd whomof God Pope children, instructing them bring the message of the Pius X called organs to researchers he offered to buy tissue. a world thatto was Gospel back to slipping away from it. “the greatest Dayrespect 8: Sunday 10/16, LOURDES She told the children, desire that a chapel be built here “We the processes of the Harris County saint of“I modBetween February 11, 1858 and July 16, 1858, Our Lady in my honor. Iern amtimes. the Lady of the Rosary. I have come We (Texas) district noteBernathat buying to warn the faithful to amend their lives and to ask parappeared 18 timesattorney, to a 14-year-oldand girl named visitPeople Les Buidon for their sins. must pray the rosary every day dette Soubirous. The young saint described Our Lady as in Lisieux fetal atissue requires a seller as well,”andDaleiden sonnets, thethat God sends them.”Basilica bear all the sufferings We “girl in white, the same height as myself, who greeted family home begin in the Cova da Iria, where we visit the Chapel said me inwith a statement. Parenthood still a nod of her head. “Planned This girl was beautiful beyond where Therese spent the early years of her life before of the Apparitions, the Basilica that houses the tombs description. She had a blue sash around her white dress entering Carmelite Convent at the age of fifteen.Day We6: Friday 10/14, BURGOS / LOYOLA / PAMPLONA cannot deny the admissions from leadership of Francisco and Jacinta,the and the Perpetual Adoration and yellow roses on her shoes. A long rosary hungtheir from Ouroffirst stop today is the Cathedral in Burgos, one next visit the convent which houses the sacred relic Chapel. We continue to Aljustrel, where we visit the her arm, and she seemed to invite me to pray with her.” of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in Europe. about fetal organ sales captured on video forMarto all body. From there, we spend time at the beautiful home of theher family (the birthplace of Jacinta Then, Our Lady gave Bernadette secret messages for herself giftofshop. we make our way to we travel to Loyola, where we visit the birthplace and Francisco)basilica and thenand thethe home Lucia.Next, In Aljustrel the world see.”for the world to hear. She described of St Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). and otherto messages
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Da Bet app det a“ me des and Paris enjoy a bus of the sites that make we also see the sitewhere of thewe apparitions oftour St Michael her There, we will see the magnificent 17th century basilica herself as the “Immaculate Conception”, revealed a miParis so famous, including: The Eiffel Tour, Arc d’Trito the children. We view Valinhos, the site of Our Lady’s Ou dedicated to the saint. Behind the sanctuary is the Santa raculous spring, and asked that a chapel be built as a omphe, and thewe Champs-Elysées. We check in atCasa, our the three story 14th century family home of St Igfourth apparition. This evening take part in the Canand site for pilgrimage. During our stay in Lourdes, we celhotel forDinner dinnerand andovernight overnight. [B,D] dlelight Procession. at our hotel her natius. Pilgrims are invited to tour the rooms and visit the ebrate Mass at the Grotto of Massabielle. We visit in Fatima. [B,D] rac chamber where the saint was born. The most venerated the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, the Boly Day 12: Thursday, October 20, 2016, PARIS / USA site place in this building is the room where Ignatius, at the $heavenly WILLand BE CELEBRATED DAILY Mill where St BernadetteMASS was born, the “Cachot,” of aFATIMA The Blessed Mother, St Joseph, St Day 4: Wednesday 10/12, /apparition. ALBA DE Today, we transfer to the airport to$begin our journey ebr age of 30, was brought following his serious wounding an abandoned prison where Bernadette’s family lived TORMES in John States. the Evangelist, and anus altar with a Lamb upon it were / AVILA back to the United We take with new friendMASS WILL BE CELEBRATED DAILY the Battleno of mesPamplona. To pass the time as his leg ofUSA a heavenly apparition. The Blessed Mother, St Joseph, St The saints at Day 9:theW poverty. We haveDay an opportunity bathe in18, the miracseen by 15 townspeople. were 1: Tuesday,to October 2016, / DUBLIN Today we depart Fatima Alba de Tormes and thethe love forhealed, ships and afor firm resolution to emulate our silent; OUGHMi /D John the Evangelist, and an altar with a Lamb upon it were he read the lives of the saints and a book on the ulous waters at Pilgrims the Grotto, spend at time in personal sage was given to the people, only an[B] example of prayer are and welcomed an international airport forGod our shown Carmelite convent to see the body St Teuspreserved through the holiness of the saints. Glendalou an seen by 15 townspeople. Theto saints were silent; noofmesDay 1: Tuesday, October 18, 2016, USA / DUBLIN life of Christ. At this andan agreatest rich symbolism in We visit thetime a great conversion took place flight to the Isle aboard a wide-bodresawas of Avila, ofpeople, the Church’s mystics. Wetheir appearances. mile drive po sage given one to the only example of prayer Pilgrims are welcomed at andeparting international airport for Emerald our in Ignatius; approximately 13 years later he founded the location of We the visit apparition, of Our Lady, and ied Isle jet, aboard arrivingathe next morning. Meals on in their also seeserved her incorrupt heart. In her autobiography, tlement and a are rich symbolism appearances. the St the Basilica uloe departing flight to the Emerald wide-bodSociety of Jesus. The place of his conversion is indicathave theofan opportunity toher explore the grounds. From there, board the aircraft. Teresa of spoke of the angelthe who thrust arrow into was born location the apparition, Basilica Our Lady, and ied jet, arriving the next morning. Meals are served on westFrom intothere, Westport to check in at our hotel for privilege t have the opportunity to explore we the head grounds. board the aircraft. Day 2: Wednesday 10/19, DUBLIN /we DOWNPATRICK and [B,D] the mona head west into /Westport to dinner check in at overnight. our hotel for BELFAST Gad learning Day 2: Wednesday 10/19, DUBLIN / DOWNPATRICK / dinner and overnight. [B,D] Upon our arrival in Dublin, we BELFAST Day 5: Saturday 10/22, WESTPORT / CROAGH PATing and ill Gallarus Oratory Downpatrick RICK //KYLEMORE / CONNEMARA / WESTPORT Upon our arrival in Dublin, we meet our full-time tour escort, Day 5: Saturday 10/22, WESTPORT CROAGH PATcan feel th Downpatrick Day 7: Monday 10/24, LIMERICK G RICK / KYLEMORE WESTPORT meet our full-time tour escort, After /breakfast we drive to Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s Holy return/to board our private coach, and/ CONNEMARA Day 7:forty Monday 10/24, LIMERICK /RY GALLARUS ORATO/ SLEA HEAD / DINGLE /es LIMERIC After we drive to Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s board our private coach, and combin Mountain. Here St.Holy Patrick spent the days of Lent in proceed north tobreakfast Downpatrick. RY / SLEA HEAD / DINGLE / LIMERICK Our day begins with the journey sous Mountain. theyear forty441 days ofin Lent in and fasting. proceed north to Downpatrick. Elegant AD prayer journey We stop in for a visit atHere the St. St.Patrick spentthe Our day Our begins with conthe journey southwest to the which Din- thrusts stunning gle Peninsula out intov the year where 441 AD in We stop in for a visit at the St. tinues toOur thejourney shoresconof Kylemoregle Lough to visit which Kylemore, Patrick's Centre, Dr.prayer and fasting. Peninsula thrusts out into the Atlantic Ocean to claim Ireland’s most westerly point. tinues to the shores of Kylemore Lough to visit Kylemore, Patrick's Centre, where Dr. every stree a gothic castle, now a Benedictine We enjoy Tim Campbell will speak on to Abbey. claim Ireland’s mosttime westerly point. majestic hills and purple gothic castle, Abbey. the We Abbey, enjoy time soarHere, in hues of green Tim Campbell will speak on whereove we exploring gardens, and theinwalk the lake St. Patrick's aexploring vision. Then,now wea Benedictine soar huesalong of green and purple over vast valleys. bowls of Mountain unthe Abbey, gardens, and the along thechapel. lake St. Patrick's vision. Then, we spoiled streams tum Squares, P to walk the beautiful We spoiled enjoy sites of the Conne-streams tumble visit the Down thechapel. We up valleys. Mountain down to lakes, up toCathedral, the beautiful enjoy sites of the Connevisit the Down Cathedral, the Dublin' hedgerows blaze with fuchiasof and gold mara, characterized by peat bogs, rugged, mountainous historical burial place of Saint hedgerows blaze with fuchias and golden beaches stretch mara, characterized by peat bogs, rugged, mountainous historical burial place of Saint will beplac ou for miles. The Dingle Peninsula is a countryside thatfor is home a great miles. to The Dinglevariety Peninsula is a place of intense, shifting Patrick and terrain visit his grave. We and lush countryside thatterrain is homeand to alush great variety Patrick and visit his grave. We ing that ais Wedry visit Gallarus Oratory, beauty. Gallarus Oratory,beauty. an ancient stone of wildlife. Weremainder return to Westport whereWe thevisit remainder continue to Belfast andWe proceed of wildlife. return to Westport where the continue to Belfast and proceed natural ba whose to construction whose longevity testifiesconstruction to the skill of its build-longevity testifies of the day isThis free to explore independently. This evening, to Mass atofSaint Malachy's the day is free to explore independently. evening, to Mass at Saint Malachy's Heldoftogether completelytemporary by the w ers. sample Held together completely weight stones (no wander theauthentic streets ofIrish Westport and authentic Irish by theers. Church (subject wandertotheconfirmastreets of Westport and sample Church (subject to confirmachandise p mortar) the building has withstood win the building has withstood wind and rain for more the restaurant your choice as dinner is tion), the 3rd Catholic or pub of fare fare oldest at the restaurant youratchoice as dinner or is pub ofmortar) tion), the 3rd oldest Catholic i thanof1000 years. It is typical ofevening, the type than from 1000 the years. It is typical church in which on your Afteropdinner, choose endless op- of the type oncity your own. After from own. the endless Church in the of Belfast. It's dinner, choose Church in the city of Belfast. It's pub or res St. Patrick himselfand worshipped. Then,St.we wind around Patrick himselfthe worshipped.own. Then, tions of pubs occupying every other and enjoy every other tionsstorefront of pubs occupying storefront enjoy ecclesiastical style was inspired by the Tudor period but ecclesiastical style was inspired by the Tudor period but Ovew coast Slea Head and Dingle, returning to Limpicturesque coast Slea Head and Ding a glass ofadaptation Guinness or a mug ofaIrish ale.of The city boasts its fan vaulted ceilings are its an fan architectural adaptation glass Guinness or a mug ofpicturesque Irish ale. The city boasts vaulted ceilings are an architectural for dinner and overnight. [B,D]erick for dinner and overnight.Day [B,D] one of the most well-known and one visited around, Matt 10: T from the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster The in Westminster of pubs the most well-known anderick visited pubs around, Matt from the HenryAbbey. VII Chapel Abbey. The Malloy's. of at the pubs, including MattMany Malloy's, have Dublin is church boasts the largest bell in Belfast which Malloy's. of the pubs, including Malloy's, have church boasts thesounds largestatbell in Belfast which Many sounds Day 8:Matt Tuesday 10/25, LIMERICK /Day ROCK CASHEL / 8: OF Tuesday 10/25, LIMERICK as well. Trinity/ R least three times daily. After Mass, we times check daily. in at our traditional IrishOvernight music and/or dancing as well. Overnight least three After Mass, traditional we check Irish in atmusic our and/or dancing KILKENNY / DUBLIN KILKENNY / DUBLIN in Westport. [B] which ho hotel for a welcome dinner and overnight. [D] in Westport. [B] hotel for a welcome dinner and overnight. [D] The Rock of Cashel is an impressive Themedieval Rock ofcomplex Cashel is an impressive 9th-centu called “The Acropolis of called “The Acropolis of Day 3: Thursday 10/20, BELFAST / GIANT'S CAUSEof Kells”. Ancient Ireland" and is one Day 3: Thursday 10/20, BELFAST / GIANT'S CAUSEWAY / BELFAST Ancient Ireland" and is one it there a WAY / BELFAST of the most spectacular Our morning begins as we travel 60 miles north to see to see St of the most spectacular archeological sites in the morning begins as we travel 60 miles north to see the see Giant’s Causeway,Our a unique geological landC archeological sites in the Pro country. Dating from the theplace see else Giant’s Causeway, scape that is truly unlike any on earth. The a unique geological landThe re country. Dating from the 4th century, it was originally scape that is trulyresulting unlike any place else on earth. The causeway’s interlocking hexagonal columns, 4th century, it was originally of the da used as a fortress. Mighty causeway’s interlocking hexagonal columns, resulting from the basaltic lava of an ancient volcanic eruption used as a fortress. Mighty to explo stone walls encircle a comthe basaltic of an ancient volcanic eruption 6 million years ago, foreverfrom changed County lava Antrim’s stone walls encircle a com- pendently plete round tower, a roofmillion years forever changed County Antrim’s northern coast, earning it 6the prestige of ago, a “Unesco less abbey, a 12th century plete round tower, a roof- interested World Heritage Site” title. northern Reading and hearing aboutit the prestige of a “Unesco coast, earning s Romanesque chapel, and less abbey, a 12th century venir the causeway does not begin offer any realistic WorldtoHeritage Site” title. Reading and hearing about should ch numerous other buildings Romanesque chapel, and Carroll's glimpse into this natural phenomenon. Only seeing the causeway does notis begin to offer any realistic Kylemore Abbey and high crosses. Northnumerous other buildings stores off believing! Therefore, we shall “see”. into Then,this we natural return tophenomenon. Only seeing is glimpse east ofKylemore the Rock ofAbbey Cashel is and high crosses. North- selection Belfast for a city tour and time at the Titanic Museum. believing! Therefore, we shall “see”. Then, we return to Kilkenny, a charming inland east of the Rock of Cashel is chandise The museum was master-planned over 185 acres of the 6: Sunday 10/23, WESTPORT / CLIFFS OF MOHER / Belfast for a city tour and time at theDay Titanic Museum. city. Overlooking the River heritage site where the Titanic designed built. Kilkenny, ADARE / BUNRATTY Rock of Cashel a charming inland reasonabl Thewas museum wasand master-planned over 185 acres of the / LIMERICK Nore is a famous fortress, Dayfor6:the Sunday 10/23, WESTPORT / CLIFFS OF MOHER / Our day concludes as we return to the hotel for dinner This morning we depart Westport incredible and city. Overlooking the River This even heritage site where the Titanic was designed and built. BUNRATTY Kilkenny Castle, which was and overnight. [B,D] dramatic Cliffs of Moher, whereADARE nearly 5/miles of layered/ LIMERICK Nore a famous fortress, Rock meet of in Our day concludes as we return to the hotel dinner occupied upincredible until 1935 and when the exorbitantiscost of upkeep Thisdefiantly morning we almost depart Westport for the black shalefor and sandstone cliff rock soars Kilkenny Castle, resulted in the 1967 donation of the castlewhich to was tel lobby and overnight. dramatic ofOcean. Moher, whereeventually nearly 5 miles of layered Day 4: Friday 10/21, BELFAST / SLIGO /[B,D] KNOCK / 700 feet above the aggressive might of theCliffs Atlantic transporta occupied up until 1935 when the exorb the country Ireland. We visit the castle and also one of WESTPORT black shalephenomenon and sandstone cliff rock defiantlyofsoars almost The grandeur of this natural Thedonat Merr resulted in the 1967 4: Friday 10/21, BELFAST / SLIGO / KNOCK / breathtaking the country's medieval treasures, St.eventually Canice’s Cathedral, We bid farewell to Belfast Day and drive southwest to Sli700 country feet above the aggressive might of the Atlantic Ocean. makes it a "must see" for locals and guests. The nerthe to the countrywe of spend Ireland. We visit ca that natural dominates the city skyline. Timethe permitting, go, birthplace of WB Yeats,WESTPORT Ireland’s best known poet. The grandeur this breathtaking phenomenon best vantage point (weather permitting) is fromofO’Briens in Dublin. the country's treasures, St. C time at guests. the Kilkenny which has medieval boastWe bid farewell to Belfast southwest Sligo is best known for its spectacular countryside and and drive it atravel "must see" for locals some and country TheDesign Center Tower locatedto on Slithe highest cliff.makes Next, we to Adare, that dominates the city skyline. Time ing rights to some of the most magnificent retail goods, go, birthplace ofSligo WB Yeats, knownmanicured poet. the town’s only surviving medieval structure, Ab- Ireland’sa best vantage point (weather permitting) is from O’Briens beautifully village best of thatch-roof cottages. Day 11:pF china, crystal, knitwear, Irish jewelry, timepottery at theand Kilkenny Design Cent bey. We visit there before continue to Knock, a humble Sligo is best known for its spectacular and Church and Wecountryside visit Holy Trinity thenlocated continue BunThis morn Tower ontothe highest cliff.including Next, wemore. travelContinuing to Adare, through some so much the midland counties, ing rights to some of the most magn village whose shrine attracts pilgrims over themedieval structure, the town’sfrom onlyall surviving Sligo Abratty to explore Bunratty CasStates. W a beautifully manicured village our of journey thatch-roof th the grounds and $attend $ todaycottages. ends in Dublin, Ireland’s capital city. crystal, We knitwear, including china, Irish world, including John Paul IIbey. (1979) Teresa continue tle's Weand visitMother there before to Knock, a humble festive Medieval Banquet,We a traditional-Irish dinner saints and visit Holy Trinity Church and then tofor Buncheck in continue at our hotel dinner and overnight. [B,D] Continuing through (1993). On August 21, 1879,village the evewhose of the Octave the pilgrims so much more. shrine of attracts from all over the experience with story-telling and song. Afterwards, we majesticthla ratty to explore the grounds and attend Bunratty CasAssumption, the parish church of Knock was John the scene our journey today ends in Dublin, Irelan to Limerick. Limerick. world, including Paul II (1979) proceed and Mother Teresa Overnight in tle's festive[B,D] Medieval Banquet, a traditional-Irish dinner check in at our hotel for dinner and ove (1993). On August 21, 1879, the eve of the Octave of the experience with story-telling and song. Afterwards, we Assumption, the parish church of Knock was the scene proceed to Limerick. Overnight in Limerick. [B,D]
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Novena to St. Jude Thaddeus St. Jude, glorious apostle, faithful servant & friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor has caused you to be forgotten by many. But the Church honors & invokes you universally as the patron of difficult and desperate cases. Pray for me who am so miserable. Make use, I implore you, of that particular privilege accorded to you to bring visible & speedy help where help was almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation & help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations & sufferings, particularly (here make your request) & that I may bless God with you & all the elect throughout all eternity. I promise you, O blessed Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, & I will never cease to honor you as my special & powerful patron & do all in my power to encourage devotion to you. St. Jude, pray for us & for all who honor & invoke thy aid. (Say the Our Father, Hail Mary, & Glory be to the Father 3 times) – M&LP
PRAYER TO ST. PEREGRINE
(Patron Saint of Cancer Patients) O great St.Peregrine, you have been called “The Wonder Worker” because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you. For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fiber of our being, & who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favored with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our Lady the cure of the sick whom we entrust to you. (mention names of those you are praying for ) Aided in this way by your powerful intercession, we shall sing to God, now & for all eternity, a song of gratitude for His great goodness & mercy. Amen. (Say the Our Father, Hail Mary, & Glory be to the Father). – M&LP
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HOLY ANGELS PARISH AND SCHOOL, COLMA: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone visited the school Jan. 18 as part of a weekend visit to the parish. Pictured with the archbishop are Father Alex Legaspi, pastor; and Dominican Sister of the Most Holy Rosary Leonarda Montealto, school principal.
Yu; Father John Kocolas, associate pastor, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church, Belmont. Front: Father Stephen H. Howell, pastor, IHM; Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone; Metropolitian Gerasimos, Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco; Father Peter Salmas, pastor, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church.
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WORLD DAY OF THE SICK: Bishop William J. Justice anoints Nadine Calliguri Jan. 30 at a Mass commemorating the World Day of the Sick at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was principal celebrant and homilist of the Mass attended by some 200 people. “Archbishop Cordileone gave a wonderful homily,” Calliguri told Catholic San Francisco. “The Knights of Malta were also very helpful to us all.” Calliguri is founder of The Handicapables, an organization bringing faith and fellowship to the disabled for 51 years. At Calliguri’s left are Nazareth Sister Fintan, who traveled to the Mass with Calliguri and other residents of the sisters’ Nazareth House, and Nazareth House resident Laverne Dolan.
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SOLEMN VESPERS ECUMENICAL SERVICE: Attending the service at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Belmont to close the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity were, back row: Ian Quito; Cameron Pollette; Ben Rosado; Michael Rocha; Kyle Faller; Father Samuel Weber, OSB, director, Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Worship at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University; Rev. Mr. Andrew Ginter; Rev. Mr. E.J. Resinto; Father Jerome Murphy, parochial vicar, IHM; Michael Sullivan; Jerald Geronimo; Alvin
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FRIDAY, FEB. 5 BREAKFAST TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake and Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, Mass, 7 a.m. followed by breakfast and talk from Father Cameron Faller, a Marin Catholic High School graduate, ordained in 2015 and now a parochial vicar at Church of the Epiphany, San Francisco, breakfast $10 members, $15 others, (415) 4610704, 9- 3p.m. or Sugaremy@aol.com.
SATURDAY, FEB. 6 ‘LOOKING EAST’: Lecture on Eastern Catholicism, 1 p.m., Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, (415) 752-2052; www.ByzantineCatholic.org. CONCERT: Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco, 7 p.m. with composer Dan Schutte and the MHR Choir, freewill donation of $15 accepted with no one turned away for lack of funds; gcm@ mhr.org.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10 MINDFULNESS: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Center for Education & Spirituality present Mindfulness Meditation for Healing and Wholeness, 10:30am-noon, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont, http://bit.ly/CESMindfulness2; (510) 933-6360. 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: Supporters meet daily through March 20, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Palm Sunday outside Planned Parenthood, 1650 Valencia St., two blocks South of Cesar Chavez, Ron Konopaski, (360) 460-9194, konopaski@yahoo. com; register/ sign in on electronic calendar, www.40daysforlife.com/sanfrancisco.
THURSDAY, FEB. 11 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets
SATURDAY, FEB. 6 CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Bill Brady, pastor, St. Emydius Father Bill Brady Parish, San Francisco, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060, www.holycrosscemeteries.com.
second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo, new members welcome; Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@ yahoo.com.
SUNDAY, FEB 14 RECITAL: Hans U. Hielscher, organist, 4 p.m., Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th and Dolores streets, San Francisco, free admission, freewill donations accepted.
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SUNDAY, FEB. 21 MERCY SERIES: “Feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty,” Barry Stenger, executive director, St. Anthony Foundation: The archdiocesan Office for Consecrated Life hosts a series of Sunday afternoon talks commemorating the Year of Mercy, Presentation Sisters’ convent, 2340 Turk Blvd., San Francisco, 2-4:15 p.m. with talk, refreshments, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the final hour. Registration required, conrottor@ sfarch.org, (415) 614-5535, no fee for these events but a freewill offering is accepted and later will be donated to St. Anthony’s Dining Room, Catherine’s Place, Mercy Housing and St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County. ARTIST PERSPECTIVE: Janet McKenzie on challenges of racism and sexism at Mercy Center in Burlingame, 2-4 p.m. McKenzie’s work features inclusive images of sacred figures; free admission but reservations required, mriley@mercywmw.org; www.mercy-center.org/ Flyers_2016/0221JanetMcKenzie/ event.html.
MONDAY, FEB. 22 GRIEF SUPPORT: Eight-session “First Step” grief support group, 7 p.m., St. Pius Parish Center, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, 7 p.m., Mondays, Feb. 22 through April 11, register (650) 361-0655; griefministry@pius.org; walk-ins welcome.
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