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By Lorene Hanley Duquin Amid your preparations for Easter, be sure to keep the most sacred time of the church’s calendar holy and spiritually satisfying. What are you doing for Holy Week? It’s OK if your Holy Week list includes coloring eggs, cleaning and baking for Easter, shopping for new outfits, traveling to a relative’s home or going on a spring vacation. There’s nothing wrong with secular Easter activities. But it’s important to keep in mind that there is also a profound spiritual basis for the holiday celebration. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday and ends at sundown on Easter. Our remembrance of the events surrounding the death and resurrection of Jesus makes Holy Week the most sacred time of the year for Catholics. How will you balance the sacred part of Holy Week with all of the other things you will be doing? All of it is important in your life and in the lives of your family members. But keeping a balance between the spiritual and the secular will require a little planning on your part. Start by making a list of everything that needs to be done during Holy Week. Then block out time in your busy calendar for attending Holy Week liturgies. Be sure to set aside specific times every day during the week for Lenten devotions, quiet prayer, Scripture reading and meditation.
Your greatest temptation will be scrimping on your spiritual needs because there is so much going on! If you let that happen, your Easter celebration may look perfect on the surface, but will feel spiritually unsatisfying. Consider these 12 ways to make Holy Week more meaningful: THINK PRAYER. If you have to work or go to school during Holy Week, think about how you can incorporate prayer breaks into each day. M A K E A N A D D I T I O NA L SACRIFICE by fasting and abstaining from meat on Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday in addition to Good Friday. DON’T WATCH TELEVISION from sundown on Holy Thursday until Easter morning. GO to confession. SET ASIDE 10 minutes every day to read Passion accounts in the Gospels. Make it a point to FORGIVE someone on Good Friday. PRAY the sorrowful mysteries of the rosary. OFFER UP any pain or difficulties you experience during Holy Week and unite your sufferings with the pain of Christ. PRAY the Stations of the Cross. ATTEND all of the triduum liturgies. INVITE family members, friends and neighbors – especially people who have strayed from the church – to come to church with you. GUIDE TO HOLY WEEK, page EL2
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A guide to Holy Week: Balancing the sacred and secular in celebration
Christ’s ascent to heaven is depicted in a stained glass window at St. Mary’s Basilica in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Toward the end of the Easter liturgical cycle, the church marks the feast of the Ascension, June 5 this year, commemorating the completion of Christ’s mission on earth and his entry into heaven.
Easter Vigil to welcome hundreds of new Catholics in archdiocese By Valerie Schmalz
St. Charles parishioner Stan Ramirez with his wife and children.
Stan Ramirez was always the guy at the back of the church. This year during Easter Vigil, he will be among those who are front and center. Ramirez, a catechumen, will be baptized, confirmed and receive his first holy Communion at St. Charles Church in San Carlos on April 23 during Easter Vigil as more than 200 people throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco and thousands throughout the U.S. enter the church. “I find myself at home,” said Ramirez, 45, who said that for 20 years he was always the guy who sat in the back of the church. “I wrote an e-mail to a friend, ‘I have really found peace in myself.’”
Ramirez said he found himself drawn more urgently to the faith with the birth of his daughter three years ago. “I always didn’t want to be the person who is over religious and I find myself being that person,” he said. Entering the church during Easter Vigil Mass is an ancient rite that was restored to the Catholic liturgy after the Second Vatican Council to signify that the newly baptized are received into a community of faith. There are two different rituals and processes of preparation in the faith that may culminate at Easter Vigil. The catechumens are those who have never been baptized. They participate in the Rite of Christian Initiation, a process that may take a year or longer. At Easter Vigil, catechumens
are baptized, confirmed and receive first Eucharist. During Easter Vigil parishes might also witness Christians who have been baptized, “come into the full communion” of the Catholic Church. They have also gone through a special catechetical program. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, a total of 178 catechumens will be baptized, with another 62 candidates being received into the full communion of the Catholic Church. In addition, 155 adult Catholics who were baptized but never received the other sacraments of initiation will be confirmed and receive first Communion at Easter Vigil or later during the Easter season, said Patrick Vallez-Kelly, director of the archdiocesan office of worship. NEW CATHOLICS, page EL7
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Guide to Holy Week . . .
Visiting churches: The custom of visiting several churches to say a prayer on Holy Thursday was a tradition that evolved from the practice of making pilgrimages to holy places. Sweet breads: In many cultures, Holy Week was traditionally a time for baking sweet breads, cakes and pastries that would be served on Easter. Blessing of Easter baskets: In many cultures, families bring food that will be eaten on Easter to church in a basket for a special blessing on Holy Saturday. New clothes: From the time of the early Christians, the newly baptized wore white garments made from new linen. In medieval times, it became a tradition for people to wear new clothes on Easter, symbolizing the “new life” that comes with the Resurrection. In some places it was believed that bad luck would come to those who could afford new Easter clothes but refused to buy them. Holy Water blessings: Some families bring holy water containers to Mass on Easter so they can bring home some Easter water, which is blessed during the Easter Vigil, to bless their homes. Finally, these answers to frequently asked questions about Holy Week may enrich your celebration of the church’s holiest season:
■ Continued from EL cover VOLUNTEER to help decorate your parish on Holy Saturday for Easter. And consider this guide to Holy Week customs, some familiar and others less so: Palm crosses: From medieval times, people have believed that blessed palms formed into the shape of a cross would protect them from danger. The easiest way to make a cross from blessed palms is to cut two pieces of the palm, arrange in the shape of a cross, put a thumbtack in the middle, and attach the cross to a doorway or a bulletin board. Check the Internet for directions on how to braid or weave palms into more decorative crosses. Housecleaning: In many cultures the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week are designated as days for vigorous housecleaning in preparation for Easter. This custom probably evolved from the Jewish custom of ritual cleaning before Passover. Coloring eggs: Decorating eggs was a pagan symbol of rebirth at springtime for the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Persians and even the Chinese. Christians adopted the colored egg as a symbol of new life which comes with the Resurrection. Easter lilies: The tradition of buying Easter lilies during Holy Week for use as decorations in homes and churches came into practice in the 1800s. The white flower is a symbol of purity and new life that heralds the resurrection of Jesus.
Why do we use the word “Passion” to describe the suffering of Jesus? The word “Passion” comes from the Latin word for suffering. When referring to the events leading up to the death of Jesus, we capitalize the word Passion to differenti-
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Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament Until Midnight Friday, April 22 ◆ GOOD FRIDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION Morning Prayer 8:30 a.m. Quiet Prayer in Church 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. Liturgical Service 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Saturday, April 23 ◆ HOLY SATURDAY Morning Prayer 8:30 a.m. Easter Vigil 8:00 p.m. Sunday, April 24 ◆ EASTER SUNDAY Salubong Mass 6:30 a.m. Masses 8: 30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. (The Triduum ends with Evening Prayer)
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ate from the modern meaning of the word with its romantic overtones. Why do some parishes cover the cross and statues during Holy Week? Before 1970 it was customary to cover crosses and statues during the last two weeks of Lent. After 1970, the practice was left up to the discretion of each diocese. In 1995, the United States Bishop’s Committee on Liturgy gave individual parishes permission to reinstate the practice on their own. Why do we call it “Good Friday?” In the English language the term “Good Friday” probably evolved from “God’s Friday” in the same way that “Good-bye” evolved from “God be with you.” Why do some parishes celebrate the Good Friday liturgy in the afternoon and others in the evening? Ideally, the liturgy should take place at 3 p.m. However, in order to encourage more people to attend, the liturgy can take place later in the evening, but never after 9 p.m.
A boy prepares for baptism during the Easter Vigil at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Hammond, Ind., last year. The vigil is the time the Catholic Church welcomes new members who receive the sacraments of initiation. Easter is April 24 this year in the Latin-rite church.
Who decides the date of Easter? In 325, the Council of Nicaea decreed that Easter would be celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox. It can occur as early as March 22 or as late as April 25. What are the church’s regulations for Good Friday? Only one full meal is permitted Good Friday for Catholics between 18 and 59. Two smaller meals are allowed, but they should not equal a second full meal. Drinking coffee, tea and water between meals is allowed, but eating snacks between meals is not. All Catholics who have reached the age of 14 must abstain from meat on Good Friday. Lorene Hanley Duquin is a writer in Buffalo, N.Y. Reprinted with permission from the author and Our Sunday Visitor, where the article originally appeared.
The National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi The Heart of San Francisco – Columbus and Vallejo
2011 EASTER WEEK SCHEDULE Holy Thursday 7 p.m. Mass, Adoration until 10 p.m.
Good Friday Noon til 3 p.m.
Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass at 8 p.m.
Annual Divine Mercy Novena and Celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday May 1st Annual Divine Mercy Novena begins on Good Friday April 22nd right after our Good Friday Services (about 3pm). All Novenas will be led by the Holy Name Society members in the Chapel at 3pm EXCEPT for Good Friday which will be held in the church....May 1st, Divine Mercy Sunday, will have devotional services at 3pm in the Church with a formal Veneration of Divine Mercy Image and concluding the Novena as instituted by our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II
STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94118 • (415) 751-0450
Easter Sunday 10 a.m. Mass (Church will be closed after Mass) 610 Vallejo Street, San Francisco 415.986.4557
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Guide to the triduum, Catholicism’s holiest celebration By Lorene Hanley Duquin The word “triduum” comes from the Latin word meaning “three days,” and encompasses the three most sacred days in the church year. It begins at sundown on Holy Thursday, reaches a high point at the Easter Vigil and concludes with evening prayer at sundown on Easter. The liturgical celebrations during the triduum on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil and Easter are rich with symbolism and flow from one to another in a seamless way. While it may appear as if these liturgies are separate and distinct, they are actually intended to be one continuous celebration that commemorates the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. For this reason, Catholics are encouraged to observe the entire triduum by attending all of the liturgies. Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, the Sixth Sunday of Lent, marks the beginning of Holy Week. The Mass on this day commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem when people waved palm branches and shouted “Hosanna.” Before Mass begins, palms are blessed, and there is a procession that symbolizes the beginning of the spiritual journey into the Paschal Mystery that will unfold throughout Holy Week. During the Mass, the full Gospel account of the passion and death of Jesus is read. The priest usually takes the lines attributed to Jesus. Several lectors take other parts. The people in the pews read the lines attributed to the crowd. The Mass continues with the celebration of the Eucharist. Wednesday of Holy Week This day is traditionally referred to as “Spy Wednesday” because it recalls the decision of Judas to betray Jesus for thirty pieces of silver.
Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper The Mass of the Lord’s Supper commemorates the Passover meal that Jesus shared in the Upper Room with the apostles on the night before he died. Before the meal, he washed their feet to impress upon them the call to serve others. The church recognizes the Last Supper as the institution of the sacrament of holy orders. During the meal, Jesus also instituted the Eucharist by transforming bread and wine into his own body and blood. After the meal, Jesus went to Gethsemane where he suffered the agony in the garden, the betrayal of Judas and the brutality of being arrested. The Mass of the Last Supper is a dramatic liturgy with the priest washing the feet of 12 individuals, often parishioners and those representing service in the community. Good Friday The celebration of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday is a somber service that commemorates the crucifixion, death and burial of Jesus. Because it is considered a continuation from the night before, the liturgy begins in silence. The priest enters and lies prostrate at the foot of the altar. The service begins with the Liturgy of the Word, which includes a reading about the suffering servant in Isaiah, a psalm, a reading from the book of Hebrews, and the account of the Passion and death of Jesus from the Gospel of John. During this part of the liturgy there are special prayers for all the people in the world. The second part of the liturgy is the veneration of the cross, an ancient practice that allows each person to touch or kiss the instrument of torture that leads to salvation. The third part of the liturgy is a Communion service with hosts that were consecrated the night before. Afterward, the tabernacle is left empty and open. The lamp or candle usually situated next to the tabernacle, denoting the presence of Christ, is extinguished. People leave the church in silence, but continue to keep
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a vigil with Jesus, who has entered the tomb and will rise on the third day. Easter Vigil Once again the celebration begins in silence with people waiting in darkness. The first part of the vigil is the light service, which begins outdoors with the Easter fire and the lighting of the paschal candle. The candle is carried into the dark church as a symbol of the light of Christ, a powerful reminder that Jesus is light in the darkness. The individual candles, held by people in the pews, are lit from the paschal candle. By the time the procession reaches the altar, the church is bathed in candlelight. The “Exultet,” an ancient song of proclamation that gives thanks and praise to God, is sung. During the Liturgy of the Word, Scripture readings and psalms help people reflect on all of the wonderful things God has done throughout salvation history. Then the baptismal water is blessed, the candidates and catechumens receive the sacraments of initiation, and the congregation renews baptismal vows. During the Liturgy of the Eucharist, people share in the body and blood of Christ. The mystery and ritual of the Easter Vigil touch the deepest part of people’s souls with elements of darkness, light, silence, music, fire, water and oil, along with bread and wine that become the body and bood of the risen Lord. Easter For the early Christians, the celebration of Masses on Easter morning developed as a way to accommodate people who were unable to attend the Easter Vigil. Today, Easter Masses are joy-filled celebrations of the risen Lord with the singing of the Gloria and alleluias, the renewal of baptismal vows, and a sprinkling with Easter water. After sharing in the Eucharist, people go forth strengthened in faith to serve the Lord and one another. GUIDE TRIDUUM, page EL4
CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION 1111 Gough St., San Francisco • Tel: (415) 567-2020
www.starofthesea.us We invite you to join us as we celebrate Holy Week & Easter Palm Sunday - 5:00 pm Vigil (Sat) & 9:30 am Sunday. Mass, Blessing & distribution of Palms, Reading of the Passion Holy Thursday - celebrating the institution of the Eucharist. 7:00 pm Mass followed by Exposition until 9:30 pm Good Friday - 11:30 am The Stations of the Cross 12:00 - 2pm The Last Seven Words of Jesus on the Cross. We are privilaged to have Fr. Christopher Renz, OP from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley with us to give this presentation. Do not miss this opportunity! 2:00 pm - Reading of the Passion, Adoration of the Cross & Holy Communion Holy Saturday - 8:30 pm The Ceremonies of the Easter Vigil & Lighting of the Paschal Candle Easter Sunday - 9:30 am Mass - The Faith Community joins as one in celebrating Our Lord’s Resurrection.
HOLY WEEK & EASTER TRIDUUM SCHEDULE 2011 PALM SUNDAY
OF THE LORD’S Vigil Mass Saturday, April 16 - 5:30 p.m.
PASSION
Sunday, April 17 - 7:30 a.m.; 9:00 a.m.; 11:00 a.m. Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant; 1:00 p.m. en español
CHRISM MASS Tuesday, April 19 - 5:30 p.m. (Annual Archdiocesan Celebration of Renewal of Priestly Ministry by the Clergy, Blessing of Oils of Catechumens, Sick and Sacred Chrism by the Archbishop) Lent ends at Sundown on Holy Thursday and begins the Celebration of the Easter Triduum Confessions will not be heard during the Easter Triduum
HOLY THURSDAY April 21 - 7:30 p.m. Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Washing of Feet, followed by Vigiling and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Francis Hall (Lower Level) until 11:45 p.m. 11:45 p.m. – Night Prayer in St. Francis Hall
Palm Sunday Masses: 5:30 p.m. Saturday (Vigil Mass); 7:30 a.m. (Quiet Mass); 9:30 a.m. (Family Mass); 11:30 a.m. (Solemn Mass); 1:30 p.m. (St. Jude Pilgrim Mass in Spanish); 5:30 p.m. (Contemporary Choir); 9:00 p.m. (Taizé music by candlelight) Holy Thursday 7:30 a.m. – Tenebrae; 7:30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Night Prayer Good Friday 7:30 a.m. – Tenebrae; 12:15 – 12:45 p.m. – Stations of the Cross; 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. – Preaching of Jesus’ Seven Last Words; 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. – Confessions; 7:30 p.m. – Celebration of the Lord’s Passion Holy Saturday 8:00 a.m. – Tenebrae; 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Confessions; 8:30 p.m. – EASTER VIGIL MASS Easter Sunday 7:30 a.m. (Mass with Easter Hymns); 9:30 a.m. (Family Mass); 11:30 a.m. (Solemn Mass); 1:30 p.m. (St. Jude Pilgrim Mass in Spanish); 5:30 p.m. (Contemporary Choir); 9:00 p.m. (Taizé music by candlelight). No confessions on Easter Sunday. 2390 BUSH STREET (AT STEINER), SAN FRANCISCO (PARKING (415) 567-7824; WWW.STDOMINICS.ORG
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GOOD FRIDAY We continue our Vigiling . . . . April 22 - 1:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Passion and Death of the Lord Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant Las Siete Palabras de Jesus en La Cruz - 7:00 p.m. NO CONFESSIONS TODAY
HOLY SATURDAY Our Paschal Vigil continues throughout the day and night . . . April 23, The Easter Vigil - 8:30 p.m. Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant Blessing of the New fire and Paschal Candle, Liturgy of the Word, The Celebration of the Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion of our Elect. EASTER SUNDAY April 24 - Masses: 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. en Español 3:30 p.m. Easter Concert Organ Recital 4:15 p.m. Easter Vespers and conclusion of the Easter Triduum
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How much do you remember about the people and events of Holy Week? Here’s a little quiz to test your knowledge.
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Holy Week quiz 8. Who helped Jesus carry his cross? 9. Who wiped the face of Jesus? 1. Where did the Agony in the Garden take place? 10. What did the sign on the cross say? 2. Who betrayed Jesus? 11. Who made arrangements for the burial of Jesus? 3. Who denied Jesus three times? 12. Who was the first to discover that Jesus had risen? 4. Who ordered Jesus to be scourged? 5. What criminal was released instead of Jesus? 6. How many Stations of the Cross are there? 7. How many times does Jesus fall on the way to Calvary?
Answers to quiz: 1) Gethsemane or the Mount of Olives; 2) Judas; 3) Peter; 4) Pontius Pilate; 5) Barabbas; 6) 14; 7.) three; 8) Simon of Cyrene; 9) Veronica; 10) King of the Jews; 11) Joseph of Arimathea; 12) Mary Magdalene. – Lorene Hanley Duquin
All Hallows Chapel Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Community 1715 Oakdale Ave. San Francisco, CA 94124 415.285.3377 Fax 415.285.2191
Bievenido, Talofa, Welcome! Please join us as we celebrate Christ’s Victory!
PALM SUNDAY: Saturday, April 16th 4:00 pm: (Vigil) All Hallows Chapel 6:00 pm: (Español) All Hallows Chapel Sunday April 17th 8:30 am: All Hallows Chapel (with Samoan Choir) 10:30 am: Lourdes Parish (with Gospel Choir) **Palms will be blessed at all Masses Monday-Wednesday: 8:00 am: All Hallows Chapel
St. Philip’s Church 725 Diamond Street At Elizabeth Street (415) 282-0141 Cordially invites you to join us for
Holy Week Services 2011 Palm Sunday, April 17:
The blessing of the palms (outside) before the 10:30 a.m. Mass, with procession into the church. (Masses: Saturday: 5:00 p.m., Sunday: 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.) Palms distributed at all Masses.
Holy Thursday, April 21: Soup Supper 6:00 p.m. in the hall. Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 p.m. concludes with Eucharistic Procession and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m.
Good Friday, April 22:
Noon: “The Crucifixion” by John Stainer—a music meditation presented by the choir. 1:00 p.m.: “The Stations of the Cross” - a dramatic presentation 2:00 p.m.: Celebration of the Lord’s Passion (includes the reading of the Passion, Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion).
Holy Saturday, April 23:
Easter Vigil begins at 8:00 p.m. with the blessing of the Easter fire and lighting of Easter Candle. This solemn celebration includes baptism and confirmation of adults and the blessing of the Easter Water.
Easter Sunday, April 24: Masses: 8:00 and 10:30 a.m. COME AND JOIN US FOR EASTER The Priests and Parish Community of Saint Philip the Apostle Parish wish you a Happy and Blessed Easter!
St. Monica Parish Geary Boulevard at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco
Easter 2011 Holy Week Schedule Palm Sunday, April 17
Saturday Evening Vigil - 5pm Sunday - 8am, 9am (Cantonese) 10:30am (Choir) (Palms will be blessed and distributed at all Masses) 4pm Evening Prayer and Benediction
Holy Thursday, April 21
Mass of the Lord’s Supper; Procession and stripping of the altars - 7:30pm (Veneration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10pm)
Good Friday, April 22
Celebration of the Lord’s Passion with Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion - 12 noon Confessions - 1:30pm to 3pm Prayer Around the Cross - 7:30pm
Holy Saturday, April 23
Confessions - 3:30pm to 5pm No 5pm Mass The Great Vigil of Easter Mass - 7:30pm
Easter Sunday, April 24 Sunday - 8am, 9am (Cantonese) 10:30am (Choir), 12 noon No Evening Mass
Holy Thursday: (No 8:00 am Mass) 7:00 pm: All Hallows Chapel (with Samoan Choir) Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament after the Mass Good Friday Service: (All Hallows Chapel) 12 Noon – 3:00 pm Holy Saturday: Easter Vigil 8:00 pm All Hallows Chapel (with Samoan Choir) Tri Lingual Mass: Samoan, Spanish, English Easter Sunday: 8:30 am: All Hallows (with Samoan Choir) 10:30 am: Lourdes Parish (with Gospel Choir) ST. ANNE OF THE SUNSET 850 Judah Street (bet. Funston & 14th Ave.) (415) 665-1600 www.stanne-sf.org
2011 EASTER SERVICES HOLY THURSDAY, April 21st 8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer/Lauds 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 12 Midnight GOOD FRIDAY, April 22nd 8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer/Lauds 12 noon The Seven Last Words (Reflections) 2:00 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 3:00-4:00 p.m. & 6:30-7:30 p.m. Confessions 7:30 p.m. Community Stations of the Cross HOLY SATURDAY, April 23rd 8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer/Lauds 9:15-10:00 a.m. Confessions EASTER VIGIL at 8 p.m. EASTER SUNDAY, April 24th 7:30, 9:00 & 10:30 (Family Mass) a.m. Sung Masses (English) 12 Noon in Cantonese DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY, May 1st 7:30, 9:00 & 10:30 a.m. Masses and 12 Noon in Cantonese 2:00 p.m. Devotion to the Divine Mercy (Confessions, Rosary & Chaplet) 3:00 p.m. Concelebrated MASS (Beatification of Pope John Paul II)
An angel and three women are shown at the empty tomb of Christ in this depiction of Easter morning by German painter Peter von Cornelius. Easter, the feast of the Resurrection, is April 24 in the Latin-rite Catholic Church this year.
Guide to triduum . . . ■ Continued from page EL3 Easter marks the beginning of the Easter season, which will last the next 50 days and include the celebration of Jesus’ ascension and the descent of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. Lorene Hanley Duquin is a writer in Buffalo, N.Y. Reprinted with permission from the author and Our Sunday Visitor, where the article originally appeared.
St. Raymond Church 1100 Santa Cruz Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-1755 www.straymondsparish.org
EASTER SERVICES:
April 14th (Thursday) Parish Penance Service at 7pm Palm Sunday (April 17th) - Blessing of Palms before the 10am Mass Holy Thursday (April 21st) Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7pm Good Friday (April 22nd) Three-hour devotion begins at 12 noon; Celebration of the Lord’s Passsion at 1:30pm Easter Vigil (April 23rd) Mass at 8:30pm Easter Sunday Masses (April 24th) 8am & 10am Easter Egg Hunt - following Easter Sunday 10am Mass
St. Bruno’s Church (650) 588-2121
555 W. San Bruno Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066 www.saintbruno.org Fax (650) 588-6087
2011 H W S Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:30 pm – Chrism Mass: St. Mary’s Cathedral No 6 pm Mass
Mission Dolores Basilica
Holy T hursday, April 21, 2011
2011 Easter Week Liturgies
No morning Mass 7 pm – Bilingual Mass of the Lord’s Supper Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 12 mindnight
16th & Dolores St., San Francisco 415-621-8203 www.missiondolores.org
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion - April 17th Masses: 5 p.m. (Sat. Vig.), 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 12 noon (Span.) Blessing of Palms and Procession from Auditorium to Basilica at 10 a.m. & 12 noon Masses
Holy Thursday - April 21st 6:30 p.m. - Seder Supper (tickets required - $5) 8:00 p.m. - Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper [Bilingual] followed by procession and adoration until 11 p.m. Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion - April 22nd 12:00 noon - Stations of the Cross and Passion Play 6:30 p.m. - Liturgy of Good Friday [Bilingual] followed by Santo Entierro
Holy Saturday - April 23rd 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. - Sacrament of Reconciliation 8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil Liturgy [Bilingual]
Easter Sunday - April 24th 8:00 a.m. - Mass [cantor and organ] 10:00 a.m. - Mass [Basilica Choir, brass and organ] 12:00 noon - Mass [Spanish] [Coro y organo]
Good Friday, April 22, 2011 1 pm – Stations of the Cross (English) 3 pm – Liturgy of Our Lord’s Passion and Death 5 pm – Via Crucis 6 pm – Liturgia de la Pasión y muerte de Nuestro Señor
Holy Saturday, April 23, 2011 8 pm – Easter Vigil Mass
Easter Sunday, April 24, 2011 8 am, 10 am (Spanish), 12 pm, 6 pm Blessing with Holy water at all the Masses
Happy Easter to everyone!
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Italian Police and Coast Guard officers carry an injured refugee as he arrives on the Italian island of Lampedusa April 6. Pope Benedict XVI offered prayers for at least 150 refugees, including women and children, whose boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa after they fled Libya. The political and military standoff in Libya continued as the Transitional National Council, made up of insurgents in Bhengazi, rejected a truce offered by the African Union because it did not provide for a political exit for dictator Moammar Gadhafi and his sons.
Eco-spirituality a growing cause among faithful By Sharon Abercrombie Combine the Japanese nuclear disaster with the ongoing destruction of South American rain forests. Add the deaths of thousands of birds and animals from last year’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Agonizing over these environmental disasters can trigger despair or even resignation. After all, what can one person do? “A lot,” says Sister Patricia Ryan, a Burlingame Sister of Mercy.
Earth Day reflection, Page 9 For the past year, Sister Patricia and two Mercy associates – Catherine Regan, a spiritual director at Mercy Center Burlingame – and Marie Brown, a staff member at the St. Vincent De Paul Society of San Mateo County’s Catherine Center – have offered hope to Bay Area residents through a new environmental symposium called “Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream.” Its premise: Industrial society must be awakened from our dream of ever-greater consumption and wealth because our habits are causing a living nightmare for most of the planet’s inhabitants. Dreamer is the creation of Bill and Lynn Twist,
cofounders of the Pachamama Alliance, a San Franciscobased nongovernmental organization that assists the Achuar, Ecuador’s indigenous rain-forest people. The project has inspired the Mercy community nationally with its weaving of environmental sustainability, social justice and spirituality. “It puts everything together that we’ve been studying and supporting separately for years,” Sister Patricia said. Mercy Institute’s Extended Justice Team took part in their first Dreamer symposium a year ago. Since then meetings have taken place in Rhode Island, Maine, Maryland and California, and the sisters are expanding the effort to parishes, schools, colleges and interfaith groups. Dreamer sessions begin with guided meditations honoring the indigenous ancestors of participants’ ecological regions. They continue with videos of environmental thinkers such as the late Passionist Father Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, Joanna Macy, Wangari Maathai, Julia Butterfly Hill and Maude Barlow. Participants then listen to indigenous leaders and are warned, “If you are coming to help us, you are wasting your time. If you are coming because you know your liberation is bound up with ours, then let us work together.” Next the group is shown nature scenes followed by footage of the destruction of mountaintops and forests for economic production. ECO-SPIRITUALITY, page 7
ROME (CNS) – Top Renaissance scientists and scholars gathered on a grassy hill overlooking Rome one starry spring night 400 years ago to gaze into a unique innovation by Galileo Galilei: the telescope. “This was really an exciting event. This was the first time that Galileo showed off his telescope in public to the educated people of Rome, which was the center of culture in Italy at that time,” said Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, Vatican astronomer, as he stood on the same knoll. The original gathering U.S. Jesuit Brother on the Janiculum hill April Guy Consolmagno 14, 1611, was sponsored by the world’s oldest scientific academy – the National Academy of Lincei – of which Galileo was a member. Today, the hill is part of the American Academy in Rome, which wanted to celebrate its connection to Galileo with a number of events that included an April 7 discussion of faith and science with Brother Consolmagno. Christopher Celenza, the director of the American Academy, told Catholic News Service that the Renaissance scholars “gathered here to celebrate Galileo and the invention of what they termed at this meeting, the telescope. It was the first time the word telescope was used” to refer to the device Galileo had perfected in 1609 and started using to study the heavens. GALILEO, page 6
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Church culture must change after scandal, Dublin archbishop says MILWAUKEE (CNS) – The Archdiocese of Dublin “got it spectacularly wrong” in not assuming responsibility for the harm done through the clergy abuse crisis, the head of the archdiocese told an international conference on the clergy sex abuse scandal April 4. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, the opening speaker at a two-day conference at Marquette University Law School, said he “cannot accept a situation where no one need assume responsibility in the face of terrible damage done to children in the church.” The official number of child abuse victims in the Dublin archdiocese from 1940 to 2010, with 90 diocesan priests and 60 religious priests implicated, is 570 “but it’s generally accepted that the number of victims must run into the thousands,” Archbishop Martin said. Most of the 10 serial abusers in the archdiocese victimized hundreds of children each, he said. Archbishop Martin said his dominant emotion CHURCH CULTURE, page 8
INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Clergy appointments . . . . . . 5 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 George Weigel. . . . . . . . . . . 10 Palm Sunday readings . . . . 11 Father Rolheiser . . . . . . . . . 12
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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Thanks to Father Ed Murray, chaplain at St. Mary’s Medical Center and retired pastor of San Francisco’s St. Teresa Parish, for fillin’ us in on what he called “some of the best communications advice” he’s ever received. “Never pass up the opportunity to keep your mouth shut,” the Navy captain Pantea Zakeri told me with a laugh on the way down from a taping at KPIX CBS 5…. Thanks to everyone who has checked in with a memory of St. Mary’s Cathedral celebrating its 40th year in 2011. Ken Hansell remembers going door-to-door to raise money for its construction. The campaign spread to all parishes, he said. “At St. Cecilia’s, we were paired two men to a team and given five names with addresses to visit and ask for donations to help rebuild the cathedral,” Ken said. He said his
first stop was to a woman who had just hit a quasi-jackpot in Reno. “She’d just won $500. We introduced ourselves and she told us about her winnings saying she’d donate half but when we looked at the check it was for all of the $500.” Ken and his wife, Alyce, celebrate 66 years married July 28 and have been regular participants in the annual wedding anniversary Mass at the cathedral. They have been parishioners at St. Cecilia’s since 1962…. Schools have taken the Japan crisis under wings. Totals and events include an ongoing collection with “Heart of Giving” theme at Nativity School in Menlo Park; $212 from a bake sale at Megan Furth Catholic Academy; $176 from a bake sale at San Domenico School in San Anselmo; $740 from a “Free Dress for Japan” fundraiser at St. Thomas the Apostle School; Schools of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco raised $1,760 from a bake sale and will split the money between Catholic Charities and the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, as well as $150 from a dodge ball tourney at Stuart Hall High School; music students at Notre Dame de Namur University raised their voices and instruments for two concerts in March that sent $1,504 to Japan relief…. Congratulations to Pantea Zakeri, a sophomore at Notre Dame High School in Belmont and newly elected Youth Commissioner for Belmont’s Parks and Recreation Department. “As a youth commissioner, she will serve as a voice on behalf of the young people of Belmont,” the school said. The new commish said she was nervous during and interview but is glad the panel saw her “commitment and passion about getting more young people involved in city functions.” Pantea said she’d like to start talks about “creating movie nights or a carnival event for kids.”…A reunion of a musical type is in the works. Jay Jordan and his wife, June, are calling all alums from Tri-School Productions - Mercy High School in Burlingame, Notre Dame High School in Belmont and Junipero Serra High School. This would
Elvina T. and William J. Armento celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary at St. Gregory Church in San Mateo where they have been parishioners since 1963. Bill has served as an usher at St, Greg’s for 45 years. Pictured are St. Greg’s pastor, Bishop Robert McElroy and Elvina and William at a recent Sunday Mass. The couple took their vows March 17, 1946 at Holy Cross Church in New York City.
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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – Most U.S. dioceses are in compliance with the U.S. bishops’ “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” but annual audits are uncovering problem areas and reports of boundary violations short of abuse, such as inappropriate hugging. An audit report released April 11 and covering the period from July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010, showed that “management letters” had been issued to 55 of the 188 dioceses or eparchies participating in the annual compliance assessments by the Gavin Group. Those letters “offered guidance for performance improvement or highlighted potential problem areas,” said William A. Gavin, president of the Gavin Group, in a letter to Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Diane Knight, who chairs the National Review Board. The issues cited, “though not at a level to categorize the diocese/eparchy as noncompliant in a particular area, were identified as possibly doing so if not sufficiently addressed,” said an introduction to the audit summary, which was released in conjunction with a report by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate on abuse-related statistics and costs in 2010. Two dioceses and five Eastern-rite eparchies declined to participate in the audits. Those seven were the only church jurisdictions judged not in compliance with the charter. The Archdiocese of San Francisco is in full compliance, said Deacon John Norris, the director of the archdiocesan office of child and youth protection. “We’ve had three consecutive years where we met the requirements of the audit,” Norris said. In addition, the archdiocese, with the help of its ally, Shield the Vulnerable, has created an online compliance management system that allows individuals to meet all the requirements for background evaluation and training in one
sitting, he said. Norris added that parishes and schools can now manage their compliance via their own online access to their data. According to the U.S. bishops’ latest report, during the 2010 audit period, 653 people who alleged that they had been abused in the past came forward for the first time and another 30 people who were currently minors made such allegations. Of the 30 cases involving current minors, “eight were considered credible by law enforcement, seven were determined to be false, 12 were determined to be boundary violations and three are still under investigation,” the report said. The new allegations during the audit period involved 574 priests and eight deacons, according to the report. Of these, 253 were deceased, 67 had already been laicized and 172 had already been removed from ministry. More than half – 275 – had been named in previous audits. The report also evaluated how successful dioceses and eparchies have been in providing safe environment training and evaluating the backgrounds of clergy, employees and volunteers who work with children. It found that more than 99 percent of clergy members and 98 percent of employees and volunteers had undergone safe environment training. Background evaluations were conducted for more than 99 percent of priests and deacons, 99.8 percent of educators, 99.5 percent of employees and 99.2 percent of volunteers, the report said. “Boundary violations continue to be reported, and though initially this may be seen as a negative, it is also an indicator of the increased knowledge that comes from the tremendous amount of safe environment training conducted in the dioceses,” the report said. “With this increase in information comes an increase in reporting of inappropriate behavior.” It cited as examples of such inappropriate behavior “kissing girls on the top of the head, inappropriate hugging, and an adult patting a minor on the knee.”
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In each case, “civil authorities were called and an investigation was conducted,” but no sexual misconduct was found. The report said that despite problems with record-keeping and staff turnover, 96.8 percent of children in Catholic schools and parish religious education programs received safe environment training. About 1.4 percent of children eligible for the training were opted out of the programs by their parents. The dioceses of Lincoln, Neb., and Baker, Ore., and the eparchies of St. Peter the Apostle for Chaldeans, Newton for Melkites, Our Lady of Nareg in New York for Armenian Catholics, St. Josaphat of Parma for Ukrainians and Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark for Syriacs declined to participate in the 2010 audits. “Based on that refusal, they are all found not to be in compliance with the charter,” said Diane M. Knight, who chairs the National Review Board, in a letter to Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The letter was part of the report. “It is my hope and prayer that, with time and persistence, one day the bishops in the United States will have 100 percent compliance with the audit process,” Knight said. “For the sake of our young people, their well-being, their safety and their faith, we can do no less.” There was no immediate response to
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Catholic News Service requests for comment from the dioceses of Lincoln and Baker on why they did not participate. Under canon law, dioceses and eparchies cannot be required to participate in the audit, but it is strongly recommended. The Diocese of Lincoln said in a 2008 statement that after participating in the initial USCCB audit the diocese “has exercised its option to refrain from participation in the audit, as its application, though perhaps helpful in some dioceses, has not proven to be so in the Diocese of Lincoln.” The Diocese of Baker was listed as noncompliant in the 2009 audit because it did not provide the charter-mandated safe environment training for children and youths. It noted that Bishop Robert F. Vasa, then bishop of Baker, “feels it’s inappropriate to provide any type of sex education to any prepubescent child.” Bishop Vasa has since been named coadjutor bishop of Santa Rosa. The report found that diocese and eparchies bore $123.7 million in allegation-related costs last year, up from $104.4 million the year before. Total costs from 2004 to 2010 were about $2 billion. Costs for religious institutes were $25.9 million in 2010 and about $323 million over the six-year period. – Catholic San Francisco contributed to this story.
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Resurrection broke through ‘wall of death,’ pope says VATICAN CITY – The resurrection of Lazarus showed Christ’s victory over physical death, but Jesus’ crucifixion defeated the “spiritual death” of sin, Pope Benedict XVI said April 10. Death is like “a wall” that impedes man from seeing what lies beyond, he said. The resurrected Christ destroyed this “wall of death,” he told those gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
Oct. 22 feast day for John Paul VATICAN CITY – The feast day of Blessed John Paul II will be marked Oct. 22 each year in Rome and the dioceses of Poland. When the Vatican made the announcement April 11, it also said Catholics throughout the world will have a year to celebrate a Mass in thanksgiving for his beatification.
Church near Fukushima: ‘Now only four are left’ MINAMISOMA CITY, Japan – More than 20 people usually attended Haramachi Church before the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the ongoing disaster at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Now, only four are left, though the church building itself is unharmed, the Union of Catholic Asian News reported April 11 in quot-
ing interviews with victims in the national Catholic weekly newspaper Katorikku Shimbun. “Now, danger feels so close we can taste it,” said Ikuko Takano, 58. “We humans were the ones that developed the technology, but here we’ve created something we can’t stop. That’s human arrogance for you, I’m afraid. There were a lot of people in this area who worked at that power plant, and a lot of people who were connected to it in other ways.”
Virginia bans abortion coverage in state exchanges RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia became the seventh state to bar abortion coverage from being offered by private insurance companies through the new state-run health insurance exchanges that were mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A deadlocked Senate vote required a tiebreaking vote to be cast by Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling April 6.
Chaput notes lack of common voice on abortion sanctions NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput gave a frank response when asked why there is so much disunity among Catholics on the question of Catholics in political life standing clearly with the church on major moral issues such as abortion, Catholic News Service reported. “The reason ... is that there is no unity among the bishops about it,” said the Denver archbishop, who was asked the question after his April 8 keynote address for the University of Notre Dame Right to Life Club’s spring lecture series. “There is unity among the bishops about abortion always being wrong, and that you can’t be a Catholic and be in favor of abortion – the bishops all agree to that – but there’s just an inability among the bishops together to speak clearly on this matter and even to say that if you’re Catholic and you’re pro-choice, you can’t receive holy Communion,” Archbishop Chaput said. Archbishop Chaput said he and others have been trying to move the U.S. bishops’ conference to speak clearly on this
This artwork titled “The Story of Jonah” is from artist Fritz Eichenberg’s portfolio “Ten Wood Engravings for the Old Testament.” It is one of many pieces by the German-born artist on display in the Arcade Gallery at the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., through July 30. Born in 1901 to a Jewish family, Eichenberg saw the widespread destruction caused by war and wondered what good was coming of it. It was then that lifelong anti-war sentiments took root. “His fearlessness is what stands out,” said Karen Kaiser, the museum’s assistant curator for education.
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issue for a number of years. However, there is a fear, he said, that if they do so, the bishops might somehow disenfranchise the Catholic community from political life, making it difficult to get elected if a Catholic politician has to hold the church’s position on issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.
California bishops oppose bill that highlights sexuality of historical figures By Valerie Schmalz The California Catholic Conference is opposing a state bill that would require social studies texts to specifically include the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. The bill would also prohibit the state Board of Education from adopting instructional materials that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill, SB 48, is “unnecessary and overly intrusive” conference Executive Director Ned Dolejsi testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee April 5. Teaching acceptance and tolerance is laudable but “making the characteristic of an historical actor preeminent in
the study of her or his accomplishment, contribution and/or historical significance potentially diminishes the individual and the subject matter being taught,” the conference said in a letter to the committee. “We ask that you oppose this mandate on the already overworked school teachers in our state who perform the invaluable task of molding the next generation and the already overtaxed budgets of our public schools,” the conference said. Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, introduced the bill, called the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful Education Act. Its primary backers are Equality California and the Gay Straight Alliance Network. Other legislative co-sponsors include Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco;
Assemblyman Rich Gordon, D-San Mateo; Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco; and Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-Marin and Sonoma. In a press release when the bill was introduced last December, Sen. Leno said, “Most textbooks don’t include any historical information about the LGBT movement, which has great significance to both California and U.S. history. Our collective silence on this issue perpetuates negative stereotypes of LGBT people and leads to increased bullying of young people. We can’t simultaneously tell youth that it’s OK to be yourself and live an honest, open life when we aren’t even teaching students about historical LGBT figures or the LGBT equal rights movement.”
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Theologians’ group questions bishops’ stance on professor’s book By Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON (CNS) – The board of directors of the Catholic Theological Society of America has raised concerns about the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine’s critical assessment of a Fordham University theology professor’s popular book. The 10-member board April 8 questioned the process used by the bishops to assess the 2007 book written by St. Joseph Sister Elizabeth Johnson, suggested that the bishops misread the book’s premise and expressed concern that the bishops’ criticism “seems to reflect a very narrow understanding of the theological task.” The doctrinal committee, chaired by Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, said March 30 the book, “Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God,” contained “misrepresentations, ambiguities and errors” related to the Catholic faith. The committee said Sister Elizabeth’s book failed to take the Catholic faith as its starting point and used standards outside the faith to “criticize and to revise in a radical fashion
Archdiocese announces July 1 clergy appointments At the request of Archbishop George Niederauer, the following Archdiocese of San Francisco clergy appointments were announced April 12 by Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, vicar for clergy. All are effective July 1, 2011, except as noted. Pastors: Father Paul A. Arnoult, St. Gregory Church, San Mateo; Father Craig W. Forner, St. Matthias Church, Redwood City; Father Paul J. Rossi, St. Pius Church, Redwood City; Father Augusto E. Villote, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Daly City; Father Kenneth W. Westray, St. Vincent de Paul Church, San Francisco. Administrator: Father Shouraiah Pudota, Church of the Assumption, Tomales, and St. Helen Mission, Marshall. Pastors reappointed to a second six-year term: Father David A. Ghiorso, St. Charles Church, San Carlos; Father Kenneth M. Weare, St. Rita Church, Fairfax. Pastor/Rector reappointed to a second six-year term: Msgr. John J. Talesfore, St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. Pastors continued: Father John L. Greene, St. Monica Church, San Francisco; Father William H. McCain, Our Lady of Loretto Church, Novato. Retiring: Father Victorio R. Balagapo, Father John K. Coleman, Father Lawrence J. Finegan, Father John F. Glogowski, Father James W. Livingstone. Father James H. MacDonald, Father Joseph Hung Pham, Father Antonio Petilla, Father John K. Ring, Father Kevin White. Special ministries: Father Craig David, chaplain, Veterans Administration Hospital, Menlo Park, March 29, 2011 with residence through June 30, 2011at Mater Dolorosa Parish, South San Francisco; Father David A. Ghiorso, Director of Vocations, May 25, 2011, with second term as pastor, St. Charles Church, San Carlos; Father Francis T. Htun, chaplain, Burmese community, Feb. 15, 2011; Father Bruce J. Lery, S.M., chaplain, San Francisco General Hospital with residence at Marist Center of the West in San Francisco. To Diocese of San Jose, May 25, 2011: Bishop-elect Thomas A. Daly, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Jose.
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the conception of God revealed in Scripture and taught by the magisterium.” But Sister Mary Ann Hinsdale, associate professor of systematic theology at Boston College and CTSA president, told Catholic News Service April 11 that the doctrinal responsibilities document offers the steps bishops and theologians can take to resolve questions about theological issues and that process was not followed, “There is a concern about the process here,” said Sister Mary Ann, a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Capuchin Franciscan Father Thomas G. Weinandy, executive director of the Secretariat for Doctrine of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, however, said the doctrinal responsibilities document was written for diocesan bishops who wanted to talk with theologians in their respective dioceses. “It was never intended to apply to the Committee on Doctrine,” he said. “At the time it was merely envisioned to give guidelines to individual bishops and theologians if some sort of problem arose.” The CTSA statement also said the doctrine committee’s assessment “is deficient in the way it presents Professor
Johnson’s work.” The bishops made a “surprising leap in logic” in faulting Sister Elizabeth for holding that God is “unknowable” on grounds that she maintains that human words cannot completely capture divine reality, the statement said. Sister Elizabeth’s claim that human words “cannot capture the divine reality,” the theologians said, is “quite traditionally Catholic.” “It is difficult for us to imagine that Professor Johnson, who has written so elegantly and movingly about the divine mystery throughout her career, lacks a heartfelt intention to say something modestly truthful about God based on God’s revelation in Scripture and tradition,” they said. Father Weinandy disagreed, telling CNS that committee members feel her meaning is clear. “She’s trying to take different notions of God that come from various settings or cultures,” he said. “The bishops are not concerned about God in popular piety or God in popular Latino culture. What concerned the bishops is the content of her understanding of God as portrayed in the various settings she talked about.”
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Galileo . . . ■ Continued from cover Brother Consolmagno told CNS that the unveiling of the telescope was so significant because “this is the first time that science is done with an instrument. It’s not something that just any philosopher could look at. You had to have the right tool to be able to be able to see it,” because one’s own eyes were no longer enough. “People then wanted to look for themselves and see if they were seeing the same things Galileo was seeing,” he said. People often don’t realize that Galileo was in very good standing with the church and with many church leaders for decades before his trial in 1633, he said. A few weeks after he demonstrated his telescope, he was “feted at the Roman College by the Jesuits, who were really impressed with the work he had done. At this point, he had burst onto the scene as one of the great intellectual lights of the 17th century,” Brother Consolmagno said. “Even at his biggest point of trouble, Galileo was always a faithful son of the church – his two daughters were nuns – and he was friends with many of the people of Rome, including future popes,” he said. Brother Consolmagno said the real reason that Galileo was eventually brought before the Inquisition and found guilty of suspected heresy is still a mystery. Numerous authors have proposed different findings and the trial is still “a great puzzle for historians,” he said. Thanks to having many friends in high places, Galileo for years managed to evade
April 15, 2011 any problems for maintaining that the earth revolves around the sun, the Jesuit said. Galileo received permission, including from the pope’s personal censor, to publish his book, “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems,” he said. “He’s done everything right, he’s followed all the rules and suddenly out of nowhere he’s called to trial,” he said. Galileo was willing and eager to make any corrections to the text, he said, but the inquisitors would not allow it. They were unable to find him guilty of heresy, however, “so they changed the verdict at the last minute to found guilty of vehement suspicion of heresy,” Brother Consolmagno said. “All of which makes me suspect that the trial was a political setup that had nothing to do with philosophy,” he said. “The Spanish ambassador to the Holy See had accused Pope Urban VIII in public of being a closet Protestant because he wasn’t vigorously enough supporting the Spanish” side in their fight against the socalled Protestant side, he said. Punishing Galileo was a way to “pay off some people who were mad at Galileo anyway; to send a message to the Medici (the ruling family of Tuscany) to stay out of the war; and to show the Spanish that ‘look, I really am not a closet Protestant,’” he said. Whatever the political reasons were behind the trial and its verdict, he said the “terrible mistake” was that the church had used its religious authority for political ends. Galileo’s reputation was restored in 1992 by a special Vatican commission established by Pope John Paul II.
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Eco-spirituality . . . ■Continued from cover Environmentalists challenge participants to rethink six assumptions of what makes for success: “More is better. We are separate from everything else in nature. Poverty is inevitable. Technology will save us. Growth equals progress. I can’t make a difference.� The presentation also provides background on the environmental and spiritual impact of the last 200 years of the Industrial Revolution. “There is a lot of time to allow participants to get into the level of feelings for both the beauty and suffering of the planet and its creatures,� Regan said. Frequently, anger and tears surface, said Gail Chastain, a high school teacher in San Francisco. Chastain participated in one of the Mercy trio’s meetings last month with 60 faculty members from Mercy High School Burlingame, Mercy High School San Francisco and Salesian High School in Richmond. Her group learned that feeling anguish is healthy and that our love for the earth will pull us through the crisis. Pachamama’s Bill Twist appears in the video with the assurance that “we are not flawed, evil people. We are misinformed. Now we have the opportunity to merge the genius of the human mind with the wisdom of the human heart.� This merging is beginning to take shape, said Sister Patricia, who has learned that more than two million groups worldwide are working for environmental and social justice. Catholicism is well-represented among those groups, from the Vatican to dioceses to religious orders.
Both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have issued major statements on the environment. In 1990 Pope John Paul II wrote, “World peace is threatened ... by a lack of due respect for nature, by the plundering of natural resources and a progressive decline in the quality of life. We cannot continue to use the goods of the earth as we have in the past.� In 2010 Pope Benedict said that the world’s economic, food-related, environmental and social problems are related and “require us to rethink the path which we are travelling together.� A 2001 letter by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called for “dialogue, prudence and the common good regarding climate change.� Letters from individual bishops’ groups have discussed such concerns as the Columbia River watershed and sustainable communities in Appalachia. Sisters of Earth, a coalition of environmentally committed women religious, includes
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all – people, animals, plants, soil, air, water, past, present and future.� Gail Chastain includes ecological consciousness in her Contemporary World Issues class at Mercy High in San Francisco. Students are now using metal water bottles instead of plastic ones. Chastain’s activism doesn’t stop at the classroom door. One Christmas she gift-wrapped individual rolls of toilet paper made from recycled fiber. She presented them to family members, thanking them for saving lots of trees. A few months ago, in a burst of chutzpah, Chastain took on a San Diego hotel for its use of Fiji water bottles. “I spoke with the manager and told her that since the hotel was billing itself as going green, they should get rid of the water-bad carbon footprint. I received a letter about 10 days later saying that they were ordering no more of it after the stock on hand was gone. I was there a few months later and they were true to their word.� Mercy Center in Burlingame will offer an “Awakening the Dreamer� symposium on June 10 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For reservations contact Sister Patricia Ryan at PRyan@mercywmw.org.
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the Irish church. ”You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry,” the pope said in addressing victims. “I know that nothing can ■ Continued from cover undo the wrong you have endured.” The Irish archbishop said a Feb. 20 was anger as investigations by the church and civil authorities revealed the scale of “liturgy of lament and repentance” at the the disaster. He said he spoke at the confer- Dublin cathedral “was a truly restorative ence not to reopen history “but to illustrate moment” for many abuse survivors. “But just how difficult it is to bring an institution there are so many survivors who have not around to the conviction that the truth must yet had that experience of being surrounded by a church in lament, rather be told. than a church still wanting to “All institutions have an be in charge,” he said. innate tendency to protect Archbishop Martin said themselves,” he said. “We the church must analyze have to learn that the truth whether “the culture of clerihas a power to set free which calism” might have “somehalf-truths do not have.” how facilitated disastrous All parties must be willing abusive behavior to continue to tell the truth, and take ownfor so long” and must repent ership of it, for restorative for the “false understanding justice to prevail, he said. of mercy and human nature” Other speakers at the Dublin Archbishop that allows offenders to conconference, “Harm, Hope Diarmuid Martin tinue to abuse children. and Healing: International “Serial sexual abusers Dialogue on the Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal,” included Bishop Blase J. manipulatively weaved their way in and out Cupich of Spokane, Wash., chairman of the of the net of mercy for years, when what U.S. bishops’ Committee on the Protection of they really needed was that they be firmly Children and Young People, as well as a group blocked in their path,” he said. The archbishop said his first decision of abuse victims, priests and various experts. Bishop Cupich called the conference a on being assigned to Dublin was to make “much-needed effort to bring healing in what sure all abuse files were re-examined by an is a historically challenging but also decisive outside expert. He also re-established use of canonical trials for abusers. moment for our church.” “There was a culture where the church Archbishop Martin was harsh in his assessment of most of the priest abusers he had met dealt with their own things in their own way,” since becoming archbishop of Dublin in 2004. he said. “We had this mixture – avoid scandal “I can honestly say that with perhaps two at all costs, but also, be merciful (saying): exceptions, I have not encountered a real and ‘Poor Father, he really was very good.’” Archbishop Martin said that as he learned unconditional admission of guilt and responsibility on the part of priest offenders in my more and met with victims, parents, spouses diocese,” the archbishop said. “Survivors have and children, he became further convinced repeatedly told me that one of the greatest the investigation was the right thing to do. insults and hurts they have experienced is to see “With all my personal failings, when I the lack of real remorse on the part of offenders arrive to St. Peter, he’ll weigh my case against even when they plead guilty in court.” the 70,000 documents on the other side of the The Dublin prelate’s remarks directed scale,” he said, referring to the number of docuboth to victims and perpetrators echoed Pope ments he provided to the government Murphy Benedict XVI’s May 2010 pastoral letter to Commission investigating clergy abuse.
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The commission reported to the government Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in November 2009, saying it had no doubt that abuse was concealed and the coverup was facilitated by church “structures and rules” and government inaction. “The welfare of children, which should have been the first priority, was not even a factor to be considered in the early stages,” the commission said. “Instead the focus was on the avoidance of scandal and the preservation of the good name, status and assets of the institution and of what the institution regarded as its most important members – the priests.” Archbishop Martin said in his talk that the report catalogued “indisputable horrors” and was met with “ritualistic expressions of regret” from a “church of silence” where “no one was accountable. No one was saying anything anymore.” “One chapter of the Murphy Report has not been published in its entirety,” he said. “There is still more to come about another Irish diocese where the Murphy Report has been finalized but not yet published. But the story does not stop there. Since the Murphy Report has been published the diocese has been receiving more and more complaints
especially about a number of serial pedophiles who had been ministering in the diocese over a long period of time.” The archbishop urged greater attention to seminary formation and warned against accepting candidates for priesthood who “may be looking not to serve but for some form of personal security or status which priesthood may seem to offer them.” He said he planned to require all future priests to “carry out some part of their formation together with laypeople so that they can establish mature relationships with men and women and do not develop any sense of their priesthood giving them a special social position.” “There are signs of renewed clericalism, which may even at times be ably veiled behind appeals for deeper spirituality or for more orthodox theological positions,” he said. Read the text of Archbishop Martin’s talk at http://dublindiocese.ie – click on Archbishop’s Talks and Addresses. A video of his talk can be accessed from http://law. marquette.edu/rji – follow the link under conference materials. – Catholic San Francisco contributed to this report.
Chilean bishops publicly seek forgiveness for clergy sexual abuse SANTIAGO, Chile (CNS) – Chile’s bishops publicly asked forgiveness for clergy sexual abuse and pledged to handle such cases differently in the future. In a statement issued April 8, after its annual plenary assembly, the Chilean bishops’ conference said it had not “always reacted quickly and efficiently to accusations” of sexual abuse. “We express our closeness and solidarity with the victims of these abuses and their families and make their suffering ours,” the bishops wrote. “We humbly offer them our request for forgiveness, the support we can provide and our prayers.” The statement explicitly refers to the case of Father Fernando Karadima, 80, whom the Vatican ordered in February to “retire to a life of prayer and penitence” for sexually abusing minors. The bishops said the sanction imposed on Father Karadima by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith “will encourage us to persevere in the way of transparency, truth and justice.” To address what they called “this type of aberrant crime,” the bishops said they were revising their procedures for handling abuse cases and pledged to establish a commission to “guide and direct our policies for prevention of sexual abuse and assistance to victims.” The bishops said children “must also be taught to recognize situations of possible abuse.”
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Earth Day reflections By Sister Dolores Barling, SNJM Beginning on Sunday, April 17, the church enters into its holiest week, reliving the death and resurrection of Our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Death and life struggle in mortal combat even today in so many ways – “Mors et vita duello” – in the midst of which we remember the centuriesold admonition: Choose life! On Good Friday, April 22, we enter into the mystery of Christ’s death, while people of varied religious persuasions around the globe focus on Earth Day, grappling with forces that threaten the earth: global warming, lack of water, nuclear disaster. They, and we with them, try to choose life for our beloved planet. Recently the eyes of the world have been riveted on the horrors of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan. Heartbroken for the people there and concerned about
worldwide consequences we, each in our own way, reach out to heal wounded humanity, to save the earth. Scientists, heroic workers at the reactors, rescue teams, those making donations, governments seeking to avoid similar events in the future – all realize what’s at stake. In contrast to the bleakness of the situation in Japan, TV viewers in the Bay Area have recently been treated by PBS to the documentary “Save the Bay,” a historical account of the successful decades-long campaign by ordinary people, environmentalists and politicians to restore the beauty and viability of San Francisco Bay. The documentary even mentions a waitress in Bodega Bay who campaigned against a proposal to build a nuclear power plant in her neighborhood right above the San Andreas Fault! All these people cared about the earth and worked to save the environment. The effort needs to be ongoing. The question is: How can each of us do our part to preserve the goodness and beauty of planet Earth? Some
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Readers respond to Bishop McElroy’s essay on morality of war Thank you for printing “War without end,” by Bishop Robert W. McElroy (Guest Commentary, April 1.) His intelligent, informative and moral evaluation of the U.S. war situation should be a call to action for all followers of the nonviolent Jesus. The suffering we have caused the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Libya is morally wrong. The money spent to finance the wars is taken from services that help people. The example of our government to try to solve problems with weapons is copied by violence in our streets. Violence begets violence. Jesus taught us to turn the other cheek and to love our enemies. Let us urge our government to give diplomacy a chance. Jean Mont-Eton San Francisco After reading the articles by Bishop McElroy and Tony Magliano (Making a Difference, “Afghanistan, Iraq and now Libya,” April 1) one could almost despair of ever living in a peaceful world. Every day for 10 years we hear and see pictures of what destruction our war machines are doing to the people of the Arab countries. We continue praying for peace, but please tell us what practical things we can do to change this military-industrial complex. President Eisenhower warned us of this so long ago. Agnes DePatta Nazareth House San Rafael Congratulations on reprinting Bishop McElroy’s America piece. It is very heartening to have a Catholic bishop speak out on this issue which should have high priority among church concerns. The presentation is theologically sound, clearly expressed, and evidence of the ability of a churchman to make a clear connection between politi-
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cal reality and Christian moral demands. Both as Catholics and Americans we are in Bishop McElroy’s debt. Father Basil De Pinto Piedmont You do not ordinarily reprint full articles from magazines, but I am delighted that you broke with precedent and gave us Bishop McElroy’s article. It was a breath of fresh air – a thoughtful, reasoned and compelling discussion of a key moral issue. I’m grateful to you for making it available to your other readers. John W. Weiser Kentfield Bishop Robert Mc Elroy’s call for a national dialogue on the role of war in the identity of our nation is timely, wise and necessary. A rational dialogue will affirm that government has a moral obligation to protect life, property and national interests with diplomacy. A dialogue also will illustrate when diplomacy fails it can be immoral to exclude appropriate military response. An informed dialogue will help the nation understand 21st century warfare probably will not see uniformed armies invading nations or American conscripts landing on beachheads to stop them. It will be protracted warfare with multiple tactics by nonuniformed suicidal fanatics who will target civilians, schools, hospitals, transportation and religious sites with crude and advanced weapons including chemical, biological and nuclear devices. America needs a dialogue recommended by Bishop Mc Elroy. It will disclose the moral hazard of blaming the victims – especially the United States – for failing to end a war that will not end until one side destroys the will of the other to continue. A national dialogue can help determine the outcome; at present it seems uncertain. This uncertainty should trouble every American – Christians, Jews and Muslims. Mike DeNunzio San Francisco
The pro-choice logic of ‘seamless garment’ Robert Graffio (Letters, April 1) most likely thinks that he is promoting a pro-life, anti-abortion message when he denigrates the “seamless garment” approach by saying “it confuses the faithful.” Eileen Egan headed Catholic Relief, was the foundress of Pax Christi in the U.SA. after World War II and was a long-time ally of Mother Teresa. She first coined “seamless garment” years ago, in order to broaden life issues into a popular
will abandon an addiction to plastic bags or save paper by sending e-cards. Others will devote themselves to promoting wind and solar as sustainable sources of power. Some may gather in study groups or teach, while others will commit themselves to political advocacy. Whether great or small, all these actions count. What will I do? How will I be part of the contemporary challenge to save the earth? As we celebrate the Easter triduum, hearts overflowing with gratitude and joy, let us enter into the great mystery of Christ’s victory over death. May we find ways, at the personal and at the societal level, to be one with Christ who came that we may have life and have it more abundantly. Holy Names Sister Dolores Barling lives in Daly City, is a member of the archdiocesan Council of Women Religious and does ministry in spirituality, justice and liturgical music.
consensus against abortion, nuclear war, euthanasia and capital punishment. At that time there was no popular consensus for a pro-choice abortion position. She wanted to bundle pro-life in order to reach more and more people. Much later, and when it was used by Cardinal Bernardin, (he and Egan) had no intention of arguing which of these anti-life positions were worse, nor did they ever want to start an augment about a pecking order. Mr. Graffio’s denigration of “seamless garment” breaks that intention to have a broader consensus for all pro-life. Making abortion a single-issue cause by insisting that it stand alone has been a failed political policy since Roe v. Wade, and for what purpose? Ed Gleason San Francisco
Suggestions on better discourse in this column Establishing a meaningful dialogue in a Letters column of a weekly publication is admittedly difficult. The problem – and one solution – is apparent in your April 1 issue. The problem is obvious: An opinion voiced in one issue cannot be addressed by others for a week or more. By that time most readers will have forgotten arguments advanced a week or so earlier. A good example: Dr. Alex Saunders offers interesting rebuttal or amplification to letters written earlier by three others. But how many readers can recall the views offered in those earlier columns? On the other hand, Bruce Levandoski’s rather intemperate letter commenting on Susan Sarandon appearing at a St. Vincent de Paul function is followed immediately by a thoughtful reply by an official of St. Vincent de Paul. I suspect the editors requested the rebuttal before publishing the original letter. That may be impractical in most situations. But perhaps a brief editor’s note could be included when a rebuttal letter is published, explaining briefly the argument made in the original. That, too, may be impractical. Maybe the burden is on the letter writer who could do two things. First, be a bit more explicit in referring to the letter on which you are commenting. Second, all of us would do well to acknowledge that the most effective letter is courteous, thoughtful and temperate. Ted Weber Jr. San Francisco
time, Father Wester was a theology teacher, chaplain and head of campus ministry and was then appointed president. How fortunate for a small Catholic high school in Marin County to produce two school presidents and two bishops. Way to go, MC! George Grandemange Novato The writer is a retired Marin Catholic teacher, vice principal and co-principal.
Says child-protection section timely, useful Catholic San Francisco is to be commended for the 2011 child protection wrap on April 1. The supplement makes clear that the proper procedure for reporting suspected abuse is to first notify the appropriate law-enforcement agency, and identifies the agencies in each county concerned with child protection. This edition also serves as a reminder that sexual abuse of children still occurs widely in society and that perpetrators operate from positions of trust within families and among clergy. Robert M. Rowden San Rafael
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New and all past MC presidents, duly noted Your article by George Raine “Fundraising, faith key to new Marin Catholic leader’s vision for school,” April 1), giving praise to the newly appointed Marin Catholic High School President Tim Navone, is welldeserved. However, the article mistakenly omitted the name of the very first president of Marin Catholic, Bishop John Wester. At that
Comment on canonical warning to Fr. Bourgeois
We are saddened by the warning issued to Father Roy Bourgeois. We understand the severe pressure that Maryknoll must be undergoing from the Vatican to dismiss Father Roy from the priesthood for speaking in favor of Roman Catholic women priests. However, the Vatican’s threatened laicization of Father Roy is so out of proportion to its treatment of pedophile priests. We have met so many good women, including sisters, who have said that they had a call to the priesthood. Do we continue to disregard the right of women to become priests? We know that someday the church will change its position. Father Roy could have picked another issue, say immigration rights, but he, in conscience, was drawn to speak out on women’s right to be ordained. The quiet support of priests for women’s ordination has not proven very useful. Roberta and Jim McLaughlin San Francisco The writers are former Maryknoll Lay Missioners and current Maryknoll Affiliates. Editor’s note: The superior general of the Maryknoll order warned Father Bourgeois that he will proceed under canon law to seek the priest’s removal from the order and request that he be laicized unless he recants his belief that women should be ordained as Catholic priests, Catholic News Service reported March 30. Father Bourgeois told CNS April 11 that he will not recant. With his decision, Maryknoll was set to issue a second canonical warning, CNS reported.
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The church and the unions Judging by the impassioned commentary from some Catholic quarters during recent confrontations between unionized public sector workers and state governments, you’d think we were back in 1919, with the church defending the rights of wage slaves laboring in sweat shops under draconian working conditions. That would hardly seem to be the circumstances of, say, unionized American public school teachers who make decent salaries with good health and pension benefits, often work nine months of the year, and are sometimes difficult to fire even if they commit crimes. I don’t think those were the kinds of workers Leo XIII had in mind in “Rerum Novarum,” or John Paul II in “Laborem Exercens.” The right of workers to organize to advance their interests is not in question. What is in question is the claim of organized government employees to be immunized against the sacrifices necessary to rescue America from fiscal disaster: a disaster created in no small part by irresponsible politicians pandering to public sector workers’ unions. A union that does not defend its own is, of course, an absurdity. A union that defends only its own, with no concern for the common good, is something else altogether. That kind of unionized selfishness smacks of organized greed, just like the pyramid schemes of Bernie Madoff and his ilk. Tens of thousands of inner-city children are being denied a quality education today because of the intransigence of the teachers’ unions in conceding the effectiveness – and moral imperative – of voucher programs that allow underprivileged and at-risk kids to get the kind of decent, disciplined education that
is unavailable in too many government-run schools: Not because of lack of funding, and not because government schools “have to take everyone,” but because of union rules that protect failed teachers, reward incompetence, and make it virtually impossible for dedicated teachers to conduct the kind of classrooms that work. This is, in a word, selfishness – cruel selfishness. It ill befits Catholic activists and commentators to support it. A related moral question is raised by public sector workers’ unions and their recent clashes with governors and legislators determined to prevent their states from going over the fiscal cliff. It’s the same moral question that is posed to all of us by the impending crisis of federal entitlements like Social Security and Medicare: what is our responsibility, in this generation, to future generations? Is it morally worthy of us to leave our children and grandchildren with mountains of debt because we cannot bring ourselves to reform unsustainable entitlement programs that were enacted when life expectancy was far lower than it is today? Is it morally worthy of today’s public sector workers’ unions to defend what one columnist described as “massive promissory notes issued to government unions when state coffers were full and no one was looking?” Is it worthy of citizens of the world’s leading democracy to mortgage the country’s future security interests and diplomatic options to the fact that the People’s Republic of China owns vast amounts of American governmental debt in the form of Treasury bonds – and may well call our financial bluff one
day when freedom’s cause is on the line? My family benefited, once, from American trade unionism. My grandfather and uncle were members of the United Steelworkers, back when America had George Weigel a steel industry. There are many reasons why there’s little left of the once-great enterprises for which they worked: the inevitable shifts of comparative advantage in a dynamic global economy are perhaps the most important reasons. But the stupidities of both management and labor in refusing to face the facts of a rapidly changing economic environment also played their role. And the wreckage you see in once-great steel towns across the American Rust Belt bears mute witness to the human suffering that results when people can’t see beyond their own immediate and narrow interest. Rather than acting as if this were 1919, Catholic leaders in America might begin to assert that selfishness is selfishness, with or without a union label, and that the common good requires sacrifices from all. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Making Sense Out of Bioethics
The courage to refuse to cooperate in evil An electrician by trade, Tim Roach is married with two children and lives about an hour outside Minneapolis. He was laid off his job in July 2009. After looking for work for more than a year and a half, he got a call from his local union in February 2011 with the news anyone who is unemployed longs for – not just a job offer but one with responsibility and a good salary of almost $70,000 a year. He ultimately turned the offer down, however, because he discovered that he was being asked to oversee the electrical work at a new Planned Parenthood facility under construction in St. Paul on University Avenue. Aware that abortions would be performed there, he knew his work would involve him in “cooperation with evil,” and he courageously declined the offer. Significant moral issues can arise if we knowingly cooperate in another’s evil actions, even though we don’t perform those evil actions ourselves. Some helpful “principles of cooperation” have been developed over the centuries in the Catholic moral tradition as a way of discerning how properly to avoid, limit, or distance ourselves from evil, especially intrinsically evil actions. In particular, these principles enable us to recognize that there are certain real-life situations when we must refuse to cooperate. A simple example can be helpful to illustrate some of these principles. Suppose a nurse were to hand the instruments to a physician performing a direct abortion, or turn on the suction machine used to dismember the unborn baby. If the nurse intended the abortion, she would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil. Yet even if she personally opposed the abortion and did not share the intention of the physician performing the procedure, there would still be grave moral objections to her cooperation. Because she would be participating in circumstances essential to the performance of that particular act of abortion, like handing instruments or turning on the suction machine, her cooperation would be morally unacceptable, and would be known as immediate material cooperation.
The key point, then, is that both types of cooperation (formal and immediate material) are morally unacceptable. Whenever we are faced with the temptation to cooperate in intrinsically evil actions like abortion, destruction of embryos for stem cell research, euthanasia, assisted suicide, or direct sterilization, morally we must refuse. This is different, for example, from what theologians call “remote cooperation” in another’s evil, as, for example, is done by the postal carrier who delivers letters to an abortion facility; although what occurs there might sicken the carrier’s stomach, delivering the mail would not constitute an essential ingredient to the wrongful destruction of human life that occurs there. On the other hand, driving someone to an abortion clinic so she can undergo an abortion, assisting as a nurse in the operating room during a tubal ligation, or thawing out human embryos from the deep freeze so that a researcher might vivisect them for their stem cells – even if we opposed the practices – all would constitute unacceptable forms of immediate material cooperation with evil. Real-world decisions about cooperation can be daunting and complex. Pharmacists, for example, cannot in good conscience provide the morning-after pill for use by a woman who has had consensual sex and wishes to avoid a pregnancy. The morning-after pill has a contraceptive effect, and may sometimes also work by altering the uterine environment and preventing implantation of an embryo (causing a pregnancy loss/abortion). Even if the pharmacist personally opposed both contraception and abortion, by providing the pill and knowing the purposes to which it would be put, he would cooperate in wrongdoing in an immediate and material way. In fact, a pharmacist in these circumstances would not even be able to refer the woman to a co-worker, because
if he were to do so, he would still be cooperating in an essential way in the causal chain leading to the prevention or ending of a pregnancy. He would rather have to decline to assist her, forcing the Father Tadeusz woman herself to initiate a new sequence of choices Pacholczyk, Ph.D. and actions that would not involve him – approaching a different pharmacist, for example, who might then provide the drug. For a pharmacist to choose the morally correct course of action in this situation not only requires fortitude, but also could cause significant tension with his supervisor, the pharmacy owner and with others who work there, particularly if such a scenario had not been discussed ahead of time. Modern health care is replete with situations that tempt us to cooperate immorally in evil. Clearly, certain activities like abortion are not authentic medicine at all, but rather, acts of immorality veiled behind the professionalism of white coats and institutional protocols. Great care, discretion, and courage are required as we seek to avoid cooperation in medical situations where immoral practices may not only be tolerated, but even at times almost imposed on us. Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D., is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Mass., and serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.
Visions of man: Huxley vs. Dante This is an excerpt from a talk by French philosopher Fabrice Hadjadj March 24 in Paris at an event that was part of a Vatican-sponsored initiative to create dialogue among Catholics and atheists and agnostics in Europe, called the Courtyard of the Gentiles after a section of the ancient Jewish Temple that was accessible to non-Jews. He contrasts the “trasumanar,” or openness of heaven, of Dante’s Paradiso and the “transhumanism” of the first director general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Julian Huxley. Rome journalist Sandro Magister published an English translation of highlights of the talk on his website, chiesa.espressonline.it. “Transhumanism” was coined in 1957 by the biologist Julian Huxley, the first director general of UNESCO. What is interesting is that this first director general of UNESCO did not at all mean what Dante did by “transhumanism.” His thought, in fact, goes radically against that of the “Divina Commedia.” But it has the advantage of making manifest the only alternative that is posed today in the modern world.
Brother of Aldous Huxley, the author of “Brave New World,” Julian Huxley might have been expected to be inoculated against any temptation to eugenics. Instead the opposite is true. Not that Julian Huxley was inconsistent; no, he was consistent in the extreme. In 1941, at the very time when the Nazis were gassing the mentally ill, Julian Huxley wrote with a certain audacity: “Once the full implications of evolutionary biology are grasped, eugenics will inevitably become part of the religion of the future, or of whatever complex of sentiments may in the future take the place of organized religion.” These statements were written in 1941. But it was in 1947 that they were published in French, when he was already director general of UNESCO. Not one line was changed on that occasion. Of course, Huxley was anti-Nazi, social democratic, and above all anti-racist. But he presumed to replace the traditional religions with biotechnology. Of course, Julian Huxley is not on trial here. I would only like to highlight an ideology so widespread that it did not spare
this place, and that it even had its first director general as an illustrious representative. If, in 1957, this first director general of UNESCO invented the substantive “transhumanism,” he did it in order to avoid talking further about “eugenics,” a word that had become difficult to use after Nazi eugenics. Nonetheless, the same thing is intended: the redemption of man through technology. I cite the 1957 text that invented the term; it presents this “new principle”: “(The) quality of people, not mere quantity, is what we must aim at, and therefore that a concerted policy is required to prevent the present flood of population-increase from wrecking all our hopes for a better world.” Julian’s “better world” is not so far from the “New world” of Aldous. It is precisely a matter of improving the “quality” of individuals, as one improves the “quality” of products, and therefore, probably, of eliminating or preventing the birth of everything that would appear as abnormal or deficient. You understand that it is the very definition of man that VISIONS OF MAN, page 12
April 15, 2011 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH IS 50:4-7 The Lord God has given me a welltrained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting. The Lord God is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? All who see me scoff at me; they mock me with parted lips, they wag their heads: “He relied on the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, if he loves him.” R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Indeed, many dogs surround me, a pack of evildoers closes in upon me; They have pierced my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones. R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? They divide my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots. But you, O Lord, be not far from me; O my help, hasten to aid me. R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I will proclaim your name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you: “You who fear the Lord, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him; revere him, all you descendants of Israel!” R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS PHIL 2:6-11 Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 26:14-27:66 One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over. On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples approached Jesus and said, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, ‘The teacher says, my appointed time draws near; in your house I shall celebrate the Passover with my disciples.’” The disciples then did as Jesus had ordered, and prepared the Passover. When it was evening, he reclined at table with the Twelve. And while they were eating, he said, “Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” Deeply distressed at this, they began to say to him one after another, “Surely it is not I, Lord?” He said in reply, “He who has dipped his hand into the dish with me is the one who will betray me. The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born.” Then Judas, his betrayer, said in reply, “Surely it is not I, Rabbi?” He answered, “You have said so.” While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples said, “Take and
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24; Philippians 2:6-11; Matthew 26:14-27:66 eat; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, from now on I shall not drink this fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it with you new in the kingdom of my Father.” Then, after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Then Jesus said to them, “This night all of you will have your faith in me shaken, for it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be dispersed; but after I have been raised up, I shall go before you to Galilee.” Peter said to him in reply, “Though all may have their faith in you shaken, mine will never be.” Jesus said to him, “Amen, I say to you, this very night before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.” Peter said to him, “Even though I should have to die with you, I will not deny you.” And all the disciples spoke likewise. Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to feel sorrow and distress. Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch with me.” He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will.” When he returned to his disciples he found them asleep. He said to Peter, “So you could not keep watch with me for one hour? Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Withdrawing a second time, he prayed again, “My Father, if it is not possible that this cup pass without my drinking it, your will be done!” Then he returned once more and found them asleep, for they could not keep their eyes open. He left them and withdrew again and prayed a third time, saying the same thing again. Then he returned to his disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Behold, the hour is at hand when the Son of Man is to be handed over to sinners. Get up, let us go. Look, my betrayer is at hand.” While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived, accompanied by a large crowd, with swords and clubs, who had come from the chief priests and the elders of the people. His betrayer had arranged a sign with them, saying, “The man I shall kiss is the one; arrest him.” Immediately he went over to Jesus and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and he kissed him. Jesus answered him, “Friend, do what you have come for.” Then stepping forward they laid hands on Jesus and arrested him. And behold, one of those who accompanied Jesus put his hand to his sword, drew it, and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his ear. Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its sheath, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot call upon my Father and he will not provide me at this moment with more than twelve legions of angels? But then how would the Scriptures be fulfilled which say that it must come to pass in this way?” At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple area, yet you did not arrest me. But all this has come to pass that the writings of the prophets may be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled. Those who had arrested Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. Peter was following him at a distance as far as the high priest’s courtyard, and going inside he sat down with the servants to see the outcome. The chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward who stated, “This man said, ‘I can
destroy the temple of God and within three days rebuild it.’” The high priest rose and addressed him, “Have you no answer? What are these men testifying against you?” But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I order you to tell us under oath before the living God whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said to him in reply, “You have said so. But I tell you: From now on you will see ‘the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power’ and ‘coming on the clouds of heaven.’” Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has blasphemed! What further need have we of witnesses? You have now heard the blasphemy; what is your opinion?” They said in reply, “He deserves to die!” Then they spat in his face and struck him, while some slapped him, saying, “Prophesy for us, Christ: who is it that struck you?” Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. One of the maids came over to him and said, “You too were with Jesus the Galilean.” But he denied it in front of everyone, saying, “I do not know what you are talking about!” As he went out to the gate, another girl saw him and said to those who were there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazorean.” Again he denied it with an oath, “I do not know the man!” A little later the bystanders came over and said to Peter, “Surely you too are one of them; even your speech gives you away.” At that he began to curse and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately a cock crowed. Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken: “Before the cock crows you will deny me three times.” He went out and began to weep bitterly. When it was morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. They bound him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the governor. Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, deeply regretted what he had done. He returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? Look to it yourself.” Flinging the money into the temple, he departed and went off and hanged himself. The chief priests gathered up the money, but said, “It is not lawful to deposit this in the temple treasury, for it is the price of blood.” After consultation, they used it to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. That is why that field even today is called the Field of Blood. Then was fulfilled what had been said through Jeremiah the prophet, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of a man with a price on his head, a price set by some of the Israelites, and they paid it out for the potter’s field just as the Lord had commanded me. Now Jesus stood before the governor, and he questioned him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus said, “You say so.” And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he made no answer. Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?” But he did not answer him one word, so that the governor was greatly amazed. Now on the occasion of the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the crowd one prisoner whom they wished. And at that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had assembled, Pilate said to them, “Which one do you want me to release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had handed him over. While he was still seated on the bench, his wife sent him a message, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man. I suffered much in a dream today because of him.” The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas but to destroy Jesus. The governor said to them in reply, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They answered, Barabbas!” Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” But he
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said, “Why? What evil has he done?” They only shouted the louder, “Let him be crucified!” When Pilate saw that he was not succeeding at all, but that a riot was breaking out instead, he took water and washed his hands in the sight of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. Look to it yourselves.” And the whole people said in reply, “His blood be upon us and upon our children.” Then he released Barabbas to them, but after he had Jesus scourged, he handed him over to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the praetorium and gathered the whole cohort around him. They stripped off his clothes and threw a scarlet military cloak about him. Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head, and a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” They spat upon him and took the reed and kept striking him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him off to crucify him. As they were going out, they met a Cyrenian named Simon; this man they pressed into service to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha —which means Place of the Skull — they gave Jesus wine to drink mixed with gall. But when he had tasted it, he refused to drink. After they had crucified him, they divided his garments by casting lots; then they sat down and kept watch over him there. And they placed over his head the written charge against him: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. Two revolutionaries were crucified with him, one on his right and the other on his left. Those passing by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself, if you are the Son of God, and come down from the cross!” Likewise the chief priests with the scribes and elders mocked him and said, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. So he is the king of Israel! Let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now if he wants him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” The revolutionaries who were crucified with him also kept abusing him in the same way. From noon onward, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And about three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”Some of the bystanders who heard it said, “This one is calling for Elijah.” Immediately one of them ran to get a sponge; he soaked it in wine, and putting it on a reed, gave it to him to drink. But the rest said, “Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to save him.” But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice, and gave up his spirit. And behold, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, rocks were split, tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised. And coming forth from their tombs after his resurrection, they entered the holy city and appeared to many. The centurion and the men with him who were keeping watch over Jesus feared greatly when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, and they said, “Truly, this was the Son of God!” There were many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him. Among them were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who was himself a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be handed over. Taking the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the tomb and departed. But Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained sitting there, facing the tomb. The next day, the one following the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate and said, “Sir, we remember that this impostor while still alive said, ‘After three days I will be raised up.’ Give orders, then, that the grave be secured until the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead.’ This last imposture would be worse than the first.” Pilate said to them, “The guard is yours; go, secure it as best you can.” So they went and secured the tomb by fixing a seal to the stone and setting the guard.
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The roots of forgiveness In one of James Carroll’s early novels, he offers this poignant image: A young man is in the delivery room watching his wife give birth to their baby. The delivery is a difficult one and she is in danger of dying. As he stands watching, he is deeply conflicted: He loves his wife, is holding her hand and is frantically praying that she not die. Yet the impending birth of their child and the danger of his wife’s death conspire to make him acutely aware that, deep in his heart, he has not forgiven her for once being unfaithful to him. He has expressed his forgiveness to her but he realizes now, at this moment of extreme crisis, that in his heart he still has not been able to let go of the hurt and that he has not truly forgiven her. As his wife hovers between life and death, he sees in her face a great tension, a struggle to give birth to someone even as she desperately struggles not to die. Her agony accentuates the deeper lines in her face and he sees there a dual struggle, to give birth and to not die. Seeing this, he is able to forgive her in his heart. What moves him is not simple pity but an empathy born of special insight. His wife’s struggle to give birth, while wrestling to stay alive, highlighted by the agony of her situation, is like a light shining on her whole life helping to explain everything – including her infidelity. And it’s the same for all of us: The deepest instinct inside each of us is the instinct to stay alive, to not petrify, to not unravel, to struggle against every obstacle so as to stay alive. Closely tied to that is a congenital pressure, at every level of body and soul, to give birth, to perpetuate our own seed, to leave behind some child that’s ours, to create an
artifact, to co-create something with God. That dual pressure ultimately undergirds most everything we do, inchoately coloring our every motivation and forming the deep context out of which we act. It’s what invites us to virtue and tempts us to sin. The struggle to stay alive and to give birth is at the base of both our heroism and our infidelities. And it shows in our faces. It shapes the deeper contours of our countenance. Our faces ultimately reveal who we are, both at the surface and at our depth. That can be a frightening thought: It’s not consoling to know that, in the end, we cannot hide our pettiness, greed, lust, self-centeredness, anger, bitterness, nor even how dull and bland we are. It shows through, physically. As Jean-Paul Sartre once affirmed, we create our own faces and, after age 40, what we are underneath, our virtue and sin, begin to trump our genetic endowment in terms of what people see in our faces. People begin to see who we are. And it isn’t the fat cells or the wrinkles that are the most telling. Selfishness, conceit, and bitterness are no longer cute, after forty! Oscar Wilde, in “A Picture of Dorian Gray,” makes this point very powerfully. His hero, Dorian, a young man of stunning good looks, has his portrait painted by a master artist who produces a masterpiece. Everyone is taken by its beauty. But, and this is the catch, the portrait is painted when Dorian is young, innocent and of gentle and good heart. His face in the portrait is beautiful because of these qualities, not just because of his extraordinary good looks. This becomes clear later, when Wilde, in a twist that smacks of something between magic and a bargain with the devil, has the portrait of Dorian’s face change so that as Dorian grows
vain, lustful, arrogant and cruel the painting changes and begins to show his vanity, lust, arrogance and cruelty. Dorian hides the painting and only occasionally, in either a fit of remorse or of utter Father Ronald cynicism, looks at it. And he sees in his changing Rolheiser face the state of his soul. And this is true for all of us. Our changing faces reveal the state of our souls. But this is not as frightening as it may seem. Unless through long years of dishonesty we have so perverted ourselves so as to commit what the Gospels call the unforgiveable sin against the Holy Spirit, our deepest beauty-lines remain intact. Beneath our aging genetics, beneath our fat cells and wrinkles, beneath the greed and self-preoccupation that sin has painted into our faces, beneath the bitterness put there by every rejection we’ve endured, beneath the facade that tries to hide our weaknesses and infidelities, and underneath even our virtues and quiet martyrdom, there lies the tension that James Carroll’s young man saw in his wife as she struggled to give birth to their child even as she struggled not to die. That struggle forms the deepest contour of the human face. Seeing it can give birth to forgiveness. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
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n Palm Sunday we are reminded of the prophetic voice of both our Messiah and his church in the words of Isaiah. Paul briefly theologizes about the mystery and ultimate purpose of the Incarnation. Then everything comes together with the reading of the passion according to Matthew, whose telling of the death of Christ includes such particulars as the suicide of Judas, Pilate’s hand-washing, foreboding dreams and warnings by Pilate’s wife, threats of riots and a final earthquake as Jesus breathes his last. It is an appropriate beginning to the busiest and most spiritually charged week of the year! Many events of the Passion according to Matthew are repeated or celebrated during the course of the week that follows. As we enter the holiest week of our liturgical year, all the liturgical celebrations of the next six days are anticipated in Palm Sunday’s Gospel reading. On Tuesday, in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, priests, deacons and laity gather with the archbishop, our shepherd, as he blesses the holy oils to be used for this Easter Vigil’s rites of initiation and for sacramental anointing throughout the coming year. Priests from around our archdiocese gather to concelebrate the Mass with our archbishop, and to renew our commitment to priestly service. Wednesday’s Gospel revisits Judas’ plot to betray Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. On Thursday we come together in our parishes for the Mass of the Lord’s Supper (read as part of this Sunday’s Gospel) celebrating the institution of the holy Eucharist and Jesus’ final gathering with his disciples before being led off to be crucified. At the end of the Mass the Eucharist vacates our parish churches, removed to another location, leaving them devoid of the eucharistic presence of Christ for the following two days.
Scripture reflection FATHER BILL NICHOLAS
The holiest week At the altar where the Eucharist is reposed, parishioners attend in prayer on into Holy Thursday night. At such time John 13-17 could be appropriate reading as it directly follows the Gospel of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, and precedes the passion of John, which will be read the next day for the liturgy of the Lord’s passion. On Good Friday, the one day of the year when Mass is not celebrated, we again participate in an extended Gospel reading, recalling Christ’s death and burial in the Passion according to John. The Eucharist returns briefly as we conclude our celebration of Christ’s death on the cross by receiving Communion consecrated on Holy Thursday. Many gather in prayer and song, in liturgy and devotion, before the church throughout the world takes one final day of rest. On Holy Saturday, the church is silent, except in prayer, waiting with bated breath for the moment when the church launches its celebration of the Resurrection with the
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Easter Vigil, the climax of the liturgical year. The vigil begins in silence and in darkness, broken only by the light of the paschal candle. We are reminded through multiple readings of God’s ongoing process toward the redemption of his people. For the first time since Ash Wednesday the church sings acclamations set side during our 40 days of penance. For the first time since Holy
Visions of man . . . ■ Continued from page 10 is at stake in our encounter. And therefore the very future of man. Man is seeking something beyond. He is transhuman by nature. But how is the “trans” of the transhuman realized? With culture and openness to the transcendent? Or with technology and genetic manipulation? Of course, UNESCO is a global organization devoted to the protection and development of cultures. But like every contemporary organization, it is also overrun by technocratic logic, the desire to solve problems instead of recognizing the mystery. Proof of this is the ambiguity to which its first director general gives witness.
Thursday Mass is celebrated, and Christ’s eucharistic presence returns to tabernacles throughout the world – but not before new members are welcomed into the Catholic community through the waters of baptism and the anointing of confirmation. Thus the 50-day celebration begins! But THIS Sunday, this Palm Sunday, all of these liturgical celebrations are anticipated, and we enter the holiest week of our liturgical year almost as if the church can barely contain its passion for the Resurrection. We celebrate Passion/Palm Sunday with shouts of “Hosanna to the Son of David!” We get a head start on the celebrations of the week in the solemn reading of Matthew’s account of the passion. We prepare for our holiest week by joining in the proclamation of the Lord’s death on the cross amid songs of praise and thanksgiving – a suitable finale to our 40 days of Lent and an appropriate prelude to our 50-day celebration of Easter! Father William Nicholas is parochial vicar at Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato. Visit his website at www.frwcnicholas.com.
So then, here is my simple question: should we take Julian Huxley as our guide, or should we take Dante? Is the greatness of man in the technical facility to live? Or is it in this laceration, in this openness that is like a cry to heaven, in this appeal to what really transcends us? This is the opportunity of the Courtyard of the Gentiles: to take note of this new situation. This is not a matter only of “dialogue between believers and nonbelievers.” It is a matter of asking the question of man, of recognizing that what gives him his specificity is not being a super animal more powerful than the others, but being this receptacle that receives every creature with love, in order to send it, with words, with prayer, with poetry, toward its mysterious source.
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April 16, 2:30 p.m.: During its visit to San Francisco, the choir of Kentwood (WA) High School, near Seattle, will perform a concert in the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi. The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi is at the corner of Columbus and Vallejo in North Beach. April 20, 7:30 p.m.: Special Holy Week speaker, Alice A. Hoagland, retired flight attendant, writer and researcher on the topic of aviation security, at Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St. in San Francisco. Her son, Mark Bingham died fighting alongside a handful of other passengers aboard Flight 93 in the 9/11 tragedies of 2001. Her reflection is based on John 12: 23 – 26 (Losing One’s Life). Visit www.mhr.org. April 24: Msgr. Harry Schlitt celebrates the TV Mass on Easter, April 24, and all Sundays of the year! Now produced by the retired priest’s God Squad Productions, the TV Mass is broadcast throughout Northern California and also distributed to hospitals, retirement communities, assisted living and senior centers as well as San Quentin State Prison. The Mass is for anyone who cannot get to Church on Sunday. The TV Mass, taped at the Porziuncola Nuova in North Beach, can be seen on KTXL FOX40 Sacramento (Comcast CH 8), Sundays at 5:30 a.m.; KTSF- CH 26 San Francisco (Comcast CH 8), Sundays at 6 a.m.; KOFY – CH 20 San Francisco (Comcast CH 13), Sundays at 6 a.m. Contact, TV Mass, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109 or call (415) 614-5643. May 11: Bioethics Seminars, 2580 McAllister St. in San Francisco, and sponsored by the San Francisco Catholic Medical Guild. “The Dying Experience” will be presented by Catherine Conway and Mary Ann Schwab with Raymond Dennehy, Ph.D. Refreshments provided. Donation is $15. Call (415) 282-0773 or e-mail gemaloof2003@yahoo.com. Daily through April 17, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.: “40 Days for Life” campaign of fasting and of prayer for an end to abortion at Planned Parenthood, 1650 Valencia St. near St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco. Call (415) 668-9800 or visit www.40daysforlife.com/sanfrancisco. Daily through April 17, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.: Join the “40 Days for Life” campaign in San Mateo in a peaceful, non-violent prayer vigil on the sidewalk at 2890 El Camino Real in Redwood City, corner Renato Court. Signs and pamphlets will be provided. Visit www.40daysforlife.com/sanmateo. Wednesdays through April 20, 7:30 p.m.: The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose offer a “Lenten Journey” to reexamine minds and hearts to enter deeply into the Paschal Mystery during Holy Week. Series includes faith sharing with a Scriptural base, time to share and explore what the scripture has to share. Takes place at Dominican Sisters of MSJ motherhouse, main parlor, 43326 Mission Boulevard, entrance on Mission Tierra Place, in Fremont. E-mail blessings@msjdominicans.org or call Sister Beth Quire, OP at (510) 449-7554. Fridays, through April 22, 6:00 p.m.: Soup Suppers followed by Stations of the Cross in Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave. South San Francisco. Call (650)-583-4131 or visit www.mdssf.org.
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May 2: 52nd Annual Catholic Charities CYO Golf Day at Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club. As the longest-running charitable golf tournament in the Bay Area, CCCYO Golf Day provides scholarship opportunities for summer programming at CYO Camp and CYO Athletics Summer Camps. Presented by honorary chair – former 49ers head coach – George Seifert, tournament chair Jim McCabe and CCCYO Golf Day committee, the day includes lunch, an afternoon of golf followed by dinner, a live auction and raffle. For tickets and information about sponsorships, contact Ana Ayala at (415) 972-1213 or e-mail aayala@cccyo.org or visit www.cyogolfday.org. for the coming year. A choir leads song. Singers are invited to call Joseph Murphy at (415) 614-5505 or e-mail murphyj@sfarchdiocese.org to register with name, phone number, voice part and parish. Attendance at three rehearsals is necessary. The dates are April 16, 10 a.m. – noon; April 18, 7 – 9 p.m.; and April 19, 4 p.m. Christoph Tietze, the cathedral’s director of music, will conduct.
Food and Fun April 16, 10 a.m. - noon: “Eggstravaganza” at Mercy High School, San Francisco, 3250 19th Ave. Rain or shine activities include Easter Egg hunt for children 2 – 10, games, arts and crafts, silent auction and more for adults, too. Advance tickets are $5 per child ($10 at the door) ages 2 – 10. Adult admission is free. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Proceeds benefit the school. Call Sally O’Connell at (415) 3340525 or e-mail soconnell@mercyhs.org. April 16, 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.: God Squad Productions holds its annual Bocce Tournament and Picnic April 16 from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at Marin Federation Bocce Courts in San Rafael. Day includes tournament, barbecue lunch, plus beverages and snacks all day. For ticket information, contact Jan Schachern at janschachern@aol.com. April 16, 5 – 9 p.m.: St. Dunstan School International Food Festival at St. Dunstan’s, 1133 Broadway in Millbrae. Tickets included food from many lands including the USA, Italy, Ireland, Latin America and Asia. Tickets are $35 for adults, $20 for seniors and $15 for children 5 – 14. Proceeds benefit the school. Call (650) 697-8119. April 29 - May 1: Our Lady of Mount Carmel School Redwood City Annual Spring Festival. It’s three days of safe family fun including carnival rides, games, great food and live local entertainment. Buy carnival ride tickets in advance and save big by contacting the school at (650) 366-8817 or visiting www.mountcarmel.org.
St. Mary’s Cathedral – Celebrating 40 years Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco (415) 567-2020. Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org April 19, 5:30 p.m.: “2011 Chrism Mass” at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Archbishop George Niederauer presides with priests from throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco concelebrating. At this annual liturgy, always prayed during Holy Week, the archbishop blesses oils for sacramental use in the archdiocese
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April 29: “Queen of Hearts Bridge Party and Luncheon” at St. Charles Parish Hall, 880 Tamarack Ave. in San Carlos. Check in at 9:30 a.m. Games begin at 10 a.m. Tickets at $50 per person include lunch. Al proceeds benefit St. Francis Center in Redwood City. Four rotating rounds will be played before lunch and and four rounds after lunch with prizes for top three highest scoring pairs. Contact Lynda Connolly at (650) 592-7714 or lyndaconnolly@c2usa.net. Leave your name and partner’s name with telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. May 2: 52nd Annual Catholic Charities CYO Golf Day at Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club. As the longest-running charitable golf tournament in the Bay Area, CCCYO Golf Day provides scholarship opportunities for summer programming at CYO Camp and CYO Athletics Summer Camps. Presented by honorary chair – former 49ers head coach – George Seifert, tournament chair Jim McCabe and CCCYO Golf Day committee, the day includes lunch, an afternoon of golf followed by dinner, a live auction and raffle. For tickets and information about sponsorships, contact Ana Ayala at (415) 972-1213 or e-mail aayala@cccyo. org or visit www.cyogolfday.org.
Fridays at 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger Church. Program is rerun Friday at 9 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m. E-mail info@sfarchdiocese.org with comments and questions about faith. Visit www.ihradio.org Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding. Sunday, 7 a.m.: TV Mass on the Filipino Channel (TFC) Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. First Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues. EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming details, visit www. ewtn.com
Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698. Would you like support while you travel the road through separation and divorce? The Archdiocese of San Francisco offers support for the journey. The Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (SDCASF) offer two ongoing support groups at St. Bartholomew Parish, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, on the first and third Tuesdays, at 7 p.m. in the spirituality center, and in O’Reilly hall of St. Stephen Parish near Stonestown, San Francisco, on the first and third Wednesdays, at 7:30 p.m. Call Gail (650) 591-8452, or Joanne (650) 347-0701 for more information. Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin County: We are Catholics, single or single again, who are interested in making new friends, taking part in social activities, sharing opportunities for spiritual growth, and becoming involved in volunteer activities that will benefit parishes, community, and one another. We welcome those who would share in this with us. For information, call Bob at (415) 897-0639.
Reunion May 1, 9 a.m.: The Catholic Alumni Club of the San Francisco Bay Area invites current and former members, married and single, guests and friends for a reunion at Mass and buffet breakfast at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 150 Anza Blvd., Burlingame at SFO. Reservations are required by April 15 and the breakfast cost is $30. Contact Elinor Tanck at (408) 738-2511 or e-mail tancke@sbcglobal.net. May 15: St. Gabriel School Alumni Association hosts a Golden Diploma Reunion for the Class of 1961 beginning with Mass at 11:30 a.m. followed by a reception for alumni and guests. Contact Sue Phelps at (415) 566-0314 or e-mail sphelps@stgabrielsf.com. Aug. 13 or Nov. 26: All alumni of St. Anne of the
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Sunset School, class of 1981 are invited to a reunion. Location/date are undecided. E-mail George Rehmet at georgerehmet@yahoo.com or call (650) 438-9589. Oct. 22: Presentation High School, San Francisco class of ’66. Contact Martha Kunz Willis at (650) 763-1202 or e-mail mwwmtw@comcast.net or Marilyn Mathers at (51) 232-4848 or mmathers@ deloitte.com.
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April 15, 2011
In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of March HOLY CROSS COLMA
Eleanor B. Giorgi Thomas Dennis Gonzales Esteban O. Gonzalez Albert F. Griffin, Sr. Carmen Abarca Evelyn A. Grossman Lindamina E. Alves Catherine Hand Joseph “Joe” Ambrose Robert G. Heim Bailey Victor Anderson Mama Tila Henriquez Donald “Ozzie” Ashbrook Joan Barry Herlihy Maria De La Luz William P. Hernan, Jr. Ramirez Ayala Mary L. Isola Yolanda I. Bangot Margaret A. Klobucar Angelina A. Barbitta Rev. William L. Knapp Barbara Joy Barnes Lambert Kremsreiter Marie Rose Bell Edward M. Kurtela Rev. Robert Beltrami, OFM William L’Heureux Lillian Bozzini Mary Ellen Lanthier Omar Brubaker Tillie LaRocca Elsa G. Cagigal Jesus Carreno Lechuga Vera Cecchi Michael Vincent Leddy Rosalina Bayani Chanco Renee B. Louhoo Albert John Chelone Catherine Lubicich Gloria M. Clark Sr. Cirila Aguilar Cortes, OCD Patricia J. Madison Primo D. Madrid Mary Agnes Costello Sr. Mary Georgina Maher, RSM Corina Cruz William Marshall Ivan Cukar Michelina Martella Rev. Phillip J. Cunningham Macedonio P. Matias Thomas Cushen Joseph E. Mazzaferri Carlo S. D’Acquisto Peter Melodia John E. Dake, Jr. Henry A. Miller Donna Dal Colletto Dolores Marie Miranda Ella M. (Maureen) Dalton Oscar E. Miranda, Jr. James Michael Devine Elena Mohs Walton W. Dickhoff Michael Anthony DiGuiseppi Geraldine Molina Noemi Payongayong Mullins Carol B. Dillon Harold W. Muniz, Sr. Mary Elizabeth O’Boyle Regina Murphy Hale Dolan Susan C. Negueloua Anthony J. Duffy Lena M. Neubecker Rona “Redd” Dusuau Eligio N. Noguera Rico V. Eleazar Lillian M. Ottoboni Josefa Espinosa Florita Paderes George L. Ferris Grace M. “Dolly” Pallari Eileen Flaherty Massimo Petri Rodolfo Flores Margaret Philpott Elba Maria Fonseca Jesus Pineda Josefina R. Ford Serafin Zavala Pizano Leon G. Franchisteguy Dieter H. Poppenhausen Consuelo Freire Guillermo Pulido John R. Gaehwiler Louis Thomas Rebollini Oscar Galeno
Maria R. Reichmuth Homer J. Reina Sr. Rena Ricci, RSM Victoria Riveral Richard P. Rost Phyllis M. Rubio Rosemarie J Sanchez Ilar B. Schoenstein John E. Schultz Mary E. Shea Lucille R. Silva Florentino A. Solis Charles R. Springer Daniel J. Stoyko Frances A. Surina Sr. Mary Regina Sutton, RSM Marlene G. Tannehill Claire M. Tehaney Josie K. Tengco Clarisse L. Tom Mary K. Torpey Juliette J. Totah Martha M. Trujillo Arthur Thomas Turiello, Jr. Elida Saldana Valadez Jesus Vega, Jr. Geraldine Velasquez Thomas R. Winter Nancy Liu Zolan
HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Joseph George Bowman Leona Buyle Gabriel Gonzalez Catherine Joseph Habeeb James R. Mason Moore “Mike” Moran Anne Brown O’Donnell Leonie Emma Schmidt Arthur J. Sullivan Zoe Anastasia Szczerba Efren Ochoa Valencia
ST. ANTHONY’S, PESCADERO Jesse Manell Gomes
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA 86th Annual Mass Honoring Father Peter Yorke Palm Sunday – April 17, 2011 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 10:30 am
1st Saturday Mass Saturday, May 7, 2011 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. William Brady, Celebrant St. Emydius Parish
The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060 PILARCITOS CEMETERY Hwy. 92 @ Main, Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1676
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375 ST. ANTHONY CEMETERY Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679
MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020 OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.
April 15, 2011
Catholic San Francisco
EL5
Guest Commentary
The consolation of Easter
(CNS/ERIC LESSING/ART RESOURCE)
Grieving – the painful physical, father’s name. Within the span of emotional and spiritual journey that seven hours there was a baptism, we go through to come to terms with another death, and a birth. the loss of someone through death, It is difficult at such times to separation or divorce – is among the find words. In the midst of our joy most sacred and the most human thing at the baptism and the birth, there one will ever undergo. It plummets us was a deep sadness at the loss of into the mysteries of life. the twins and a concern for their On a weekend during this season parents. Sixteen months earlier of Lent, members of my family expethey had lost triplets in a similar rienced an emotional roller coaster, premature birth. marked by both death and new life. Their parents and friends had On Friday, we gathered in prayer and journeyed with them in their grief. remembrance to honor the life of our People who are grieving may look mother on the first anniversary of her okay, but when you get underneath death. One of my brothers was not the surface with them, you find out able to be with us because he was at they’re not sleeping or they’re angry the hospital with his son and daughterat co-workers or they’re fighting in-law, who had a few days earlier with family. Some get very active prematurely given birth at the fiveand help those around them, while month mark to twins, a boy and a girl. others withdraw into seclusion. The tiny girl died on the afternoon of Some want to talk about it a great mom’s anniversary. The boy seemed deal and others don’t even want you to be doing better, but on Saturday his to bring it up. It can be confusing, kidneys ceased to function. The Resurrection of Christ is depicted in even frustrating, for friends and Late Sunday morning we baptized a 16th-century painting. Easter, the feast family. a different baby boy born to a second At the same time, there are of the Resurrection, is April 24 in the brother’s son and wife. And in the styles of grief – like getting overly Latin-rite Catholic Church this year. afternoon we received word that the busy or rationalizing away the sense surviving twin had just died. At 6 of loss and the need to grieve – that, that evening came yet more news: The daughter of a third while numbing the pain, do not favor the healing within. brother had just given birth to a healthy son to whom she and her husband chose to give the name Francis, my deceased
The Parish of St. Catherine of Siena 1310 Bayswater Ave., Burlingame CA 94010
We Welcome and Celebrate the Mystery of our Faith at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church 3835 Balboa Street San Francisco, CA 94121 (415) 387-5545 HOLY THURSDAY: 7:30 p.m. Mass Good Friday: 12:00 Noon Living Stations of the Cross by STA Students 1:00 p.m. Reflections on the 7 Last Words 2:00 p.m. Communion Service Easter Vigil: 7:30 p.m. Easter Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Mass & 11:00 a.m. Mass
Saint Veronica Church 434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080 (650) 588-1455 Fax: 650-1481 www.stveronicassf.com
2011 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2011 Chrism Mass St. Mary’s Cathedral – 5:30 p.m.
HOLY THURSDAY, APRIL 21 No Morning Masses 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer 6:30 p.m.: Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m.
GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 22 No Morning Masses 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Morning Prayer 11:30 a.m. Stations of the Cross 12:15 p.m. – Reflections of the Cross 1:00 p.m. – Cantata 1:30 p.m. – Good Friday Liturgy
HOLY SATURDAY, APRIL 23 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer Confessions: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Easter Vigil Mass 8:30 p.m.
EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 24 Masses: 6:45, 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.
Holy Thursday, April 21: 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Chapel ending with Night Prayer at 10:55 p.m.)
Good Friday, April 22: 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Family Stations of the Cross 1:15 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 7 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
Holy Saturday, April 23: 8:30 p.m.
Celebration of the Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday, April 24: Easter Sunday Massses 7:30, 9, 10:30 a.m. & 12 noon
St. Thomas More Church 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. at Brotherhood & Thomas More Ways
San Francisco (415) 452-9634 www.stmchurch.com
Stations of the Cross every Friday after Ash Wednesday, 7 PM Penitential Ceremony and Confessions, April 8, 6:30 PM. Before and during the Stations of the Cross
Live Stations of the Cross Indoor (Church): April 15, 7:00 PM. Outdoors (around Church): April 22, Good Friday, 12 Noon
Palm Sunday, April 17 Regular Sunday Mass Schedule with procession of palms
PASCHAL TRIDUUM
Holy Thursday, April 21st 7:00 PM Mass of the Lord’s Supper (English) 9:00 PM Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Arabic)
Good Friday, April 22nd 9:00 AM Way of the Cross (in city: starts at Coit Tower, winds down the hill to the National Shrine of St. Francis, 610 Vallejo & Columbus. Ends at 11 AM.) 12 Noon Outdoor Live Stations of the Cross (@ STM) 1:00 PM Liturgy of the Lord’ Passion (English) 9:00 PM Liturgy of the Lord’ Passion (Arabic)
Holy Saturday, April 23rd 7:00 PM Ceremony of Light followed by Vigil Mass (English) 10:00 PM Ceremony of Light followed by Vigil Mass (Arabic), and Alleluia greetings in Carroll Hall
EASTER SUNDAY, April 24th 8:00 AM Brazilian Mass 10:00 AM English Mass for all communities, followed by children’s Easter Egg Hunt by the Peace Statue on Brotherhood Way* 8:00 PM Mass (English) *Parents must accompany their children. **No Arabic Mass on Easter Sunday
Grief is a loss of connection, a connection that gave meaning to our lives. Now I have to decide: What am I living for? What gives me a reason to get up in the morning? Where’s the meaning in Father Thomas my life? Experts say the best way to help the grievRyan, CSP ing is to spend time being with and listening to them rather than talking to them. Grief is best healed in community. When we are supported by a circle of love it is easier to let go of what is over, to harvest the experience for its wisdom, to tell the story until we do not have to tell it anymore. Grieving is more a matter of the heart than of the head. There is no set pattern of “normal” grief responses. Some CONSOLATION OF EASTER, page EL8
St. Matthew Catholic Church One Notre Dame Avenue San Mateo, CA (650) 344-7622 HOLY THURSDAY - April 21 Masses: 12:05 p.m. 7:00 p.m.Tri-Lingual Mass of the Last Supper Procession to the Altar of Repose Adoration until Midnight GOOD FRIDAY - April 22 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. “Seven Last Words” 1:30 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (English) 7:00 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (Spanish) HOLY SATURDAY - April 23 8:00 p.m. Bilingual Celebration of Easter Vigil EASTER SUNDAY - April 24 5:45 a.m. In front of Church, Salubong: Meeting of Jesus and Mary Masses: 6:30, 7:30, 8:45 (Spanish), 10:45 a.m., and 12:30 p.m.
HOLY NAME OF JESUS CHURCH corner 39th Ave. & Lawton St. San Francisco, CA (415) 664-8590 www.HolyName-SF.org
2011 Holy Week Services Mass and Blessing of Palm Vigil Mass, Saturday, April 16 3:00 PM (Chinese) 5:00 PM Palm Sunday Masses, April 17 7:30 AM 9:30 AM with procession from the One Body Statue 11:30 AM 5:15 PM (Vietnamese) April 18 & 19 Monday & Tuesday 7:30 & 9:00 AM Masses in the Chapel Wednesday, April 20 7:30 & 9:00 AM - Masses in the Chapel Eucharistic Adoration after the 9:00 AM Mass 7:00 PM - Passover Meal (Chinese Ministry), Flanagan Center 7:15 PM – Solemn Benediction and Reposition 7:30 PM—Penitential Service (with individual Confessions) in the Church Holy Thursday, April 21 (No Mass in the morning) 7:30 PM - Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the Church Solemn Procession to the chapel follows after the Mass and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 11:00 PM Good Friday, April 22 (No morning Service) 12:00-1:00 PM - Stations of the Cross led by Holy Name School 1:15 to 2:00 PM - Meditations on the Seven Last Words 2:00 PM - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM—Good Friday Service in Vietnamese 7 PM—All Night Vigil with Our Lady of Sorrows (Flanagan Center) Holy Saturday, April 23 10:00 AM – Seven Sorrows of our Lady (Mater Dolorosa) in the Flanagan Center 4:00-5:00 PM – Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions) (No 5:00 PM Mass) 8:30 PM - Solemn Easter Vigil Mass (with Rite of Christian Initiation) Easter Sunday, April 24 7:30 AM 9:30 AM (Easter Egg Hunt after the Mass) 11:30 AM 2:30 PM (Vietnamese)
Serving the Outer Sunset for 86 years
EL6
Catholic San Francisco
April 15, 2011
EWTN to air Easter liturgies from Rome and Washington Special EWTN programming from Rome will include telecasts of Pope Benedict XVI offering Holy Week and Easter Masses, presiding at the Way of the Cross on Good Friday, and giving his Easter message and blessing. Programming includes the Mass of the Lord’s Supper from the Basilica of St. John Lateran, April 21 at 8:30 a.m., with a rebroadcast April 21 at 9 p.m.; the commemoration of the Lord’s passion, April 22 at 8 a.m., with an encore April 22 at 9 p.m.; the pope presiding over the Stations of the Cross at the Roman Colosseum April 22 at 5:30 p.m. Additional telecasts will focus on the pope offering the Easter Vigil Mass, April 23 at 12 p.m., with an encore April 23 at 9 p.m.; celebrating the Mass of Easter Sunday, April 24 at 1 a.m., with an encore April 24 at 4 p.m.; and giving his “Urbi et Orbi” message and blessing to Rome and the world, April 24 at 3 a.m., with encores April 24 at 2 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m., April 25 at 6 a.m. and April 30 at 2 p.m.
EWTN also will air live Holy Week and Easter telecasts from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. These include choral meditations and the Mass of the Lord’s Supper with Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, April 21 at 2:30 p.m.; choral meditations and the liturgy of the Lord’s passion, April 22 at 3 p.m., with Archbishop Sambi presiding and Msgr. Walter Rossi as the celebrant and homilist; the Easter Vigil Mass, April 23 at 5 p.m.; the Easter Mass, April 24 at 9 a.m., with Washington, D.C., Cardinal Donald Wuerl. All times mentioned are Pacific Time. EWTN is carried 24 hours a day on Comcast Ch. 229, AT&T Ch. 562, Astound Ch. 80, San Bruno Cable Ch. 143, DISH Satellite Ch. 261 & Direct TV Ch. 370. Comcast airs EWTN on Ch.70 in Half Moon Bay & on Ch. 74 in southern San Mateo County. Visit www.ewtn.com for more TV programming.
(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)
ST. BRENDAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 29 ROCKAWAY AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127 (415) 681-4225 WWW.STBRENDANPARISH.ORG
2011 H OLY W EEK S CHEDULE Reconciliation (Confessions): April 20 (Wed.) 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. April 22 (Friday) 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Holy Thursday April 21 7:00 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Exposition & Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m.
Good Friday April 22
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12:00 p.m. Jesus’ Last Seven Words 1:30 p.m. Veneration of the Cross 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Confession 7:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross (Led by the Youth)
Holy Saturday April 23 8:30 a.m. Morning Prayer (Journey With Our Lady of Sorrows) 8:00 p.m. Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday April 24 Masses: 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. Easter Egg Hunt follows after the 9:30 a.m. Mass
Celebrate Easter with us at St. Bartholomew Parish Community Corner of Crystal Springs and Alameda de las Pulgas San Mateo, Ca. 94402 (650) 347-0701
www.barts.org
stbarts@barts.org
2011 Easter Week Schedule: RECONCILIATION SERVICE: April 18, 7:00pm, SACRED TRIDUUM HOLY THURSDAY: April 21, 7:00pm, Vigil with Eucharist until 11:00pm GOOD FRIDAY: April 22, Noon to 3:00, 7:30pm Stations of the Cross, CONFESSIONS 3:00 - 4:00PM HOLY SATURDAY: April 23, 9:00am Morning Prayer, 8:00pm Easter Vigil E ASTER S UNDAY : April 24, 8:00, 9:30, 11:15am, No Evening Mass
Holy Week at saint Cecilia Vicente St. & 17th Avenue, San Francisco 415.664.8481 Live Church Broadcast: www.stcecilia.com
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, April 17th Saturday Vigil Mass - 5:00 p.m. with the solemn Procession Sunday Masses - 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Palms will be blessed at the beginning of every Mass.
Holy Thursday, April 21st 7:30 p.m. - Mass of the Lord’s Supper with Mandatum and Eucharistic Exposition until 11:00 p.m.
Good Friday, April 22nd 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. - Children’s Stations of the Cross in the Lower Church 12:00—1:30 p.m. - “Witnesses to Christ” led by Fr. Joseph Landi 1:45 – 3:00 p.m. - Solemn Liturgy - (The eighth graders will act out the chanted Passion; General Intercessions; Holy Communion and Veneration of the Cross)
Holy Saturday, April 23rd 8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil Mass - Msgr. Michael Harriman (with Choir and Orchestra)
Easter Sunday, April 24th 7:30 a.m. - Fr. Joseph Landi (with Anna Maria Mendieta, Harpist) 9:30 a.m. - Msgr. Michael Harriman (Family Mass with Holy Spirit Music Ministry) 11:30 a.m. - Fr. Joseph Landi (with Choir & Orchestra)
Servers uncover an image of Jesus to symbolize the Resurrection at the start of Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican last year. Easter, in the Latin-rite church, is marked April 24 this year. Lent and Holy Week 2011 Weekday Masses 8:00 am & 12:10 pm Palm Sunday Reconciliation, Saturday 3:30-4:30 pm Vigil Mass, Saturday 4:30 pm 8:00, 9:30, 11:30 am & 6:45 pm Parish Reconciliation Service Monday, 7:30 pm
A Parish that Welcomes & Reaches Out A Parish that Prays & Worships Together A Parish that Celebrates & Reconciles
Eucalyptus Drive @ 23rd Avenue (near Stonestown) www.SaintStephenSF.org
415.681.2444
Saint Stephen Catholic Church
Holy Thursday (No morning Mass) Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30 pm Good Friday (No morning Mass) Afternoon Vigil/Liturgy, Noon-3:00 pm Prayer around the Cross, 7:30 pm Holy Saturday (No morning Mass) Reconciliation, 3:30-4:30 pm Easter Vigil Mass, 8:30 pm Easter Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:30 am & 6:45 pm
STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO
8th Avenue at Geary Boulevard (415) 751 0450
HOLY WEEK & EASTER SCHEDULE PALM SUNDAY, APRIL 17TH Saturday, April 16th – Vigil Mass at 4:30 p.m. Sunday April 17th – 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. HOLY THURSDAY, APRIL 21ST Mass of the Lords Supper – 7:00 p.m. GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 22ND 2:00, 7:00p.m. HOLY SATURDAY, APRIL 22ND Easter Vigil – 7:30 p.m. EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 23ND 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.
April 15, 2011
Catholic San Francisco
EL7
New Catholics . . . Among those being received into the church are James and Michelle House, who will be confirmed and receive their first Communion at St. Catherine of Siena Church during Easter Vigil. A month later, on May 22, their five children will be received into the faith when 2-month-old David is baptized. For the Houses, who just moved to Northern California, this is an opportunity to join a church where they always felt at home, said James House. “The church we went to before was pretty much based on Catholic belief,� but was a charismatic Protestant church in Southern California, House said. His parents were raised Catholic but left. House said that whenever he traveled he always attended Catholic Mass, including during college in Spain. “We wanted to go back to our roots,� he said, adding that the family chose their home in Burlingame partly because it is close to the parish church and school of St. Catherine of Siena. Father Ulysses D’Aquila of St. Kevin Parish says the way candidates enter the RCIA and other catechetical programs is almost mysterious. “Of course it’s a topic all the time� during the months of formation, he said. “Many people say, I stopped in a Catholic church. I was raised with no faith. It began to occur to me that this might be right for me.� Seeing the growth of new Catholics in faith “is very rewarding,� said Father D’Aquila. The Holy Saturday liturgy of Easter Vigil begins with the Service of Light, which includes the blessing of the new fire and the paschal candle which symbolizes Jesus, the light of the world, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops explains on its website. The second part consists of the Liturgy of the Word with a number of Scripture readings. After the Liturgy of the Word, the candidates are presented to the community, who pray for them and join in the litany of the saints. Next, the presider blesses the water, placing the Easter or Paschal candle into the baptismal water. Those seeking baptism
Catholic San Francisco wishes you a
(PHOTO COURTESY THE HOUSE FAMILY)
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James and Michelle House will enter the Catholic Church during the Easter Vigil at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Burlingame. Their five children will enter the church May 22 when David, 2 months old, is baptized. The other children are Kristina, 7, James, 6, Alexandra, 4, and Joseph, 2.
then renounce sin and profess their faith after which they are immersed into the baptismal water three times with the words, “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.� In some situations the water may be poured over the head of each candidate. After the baptism the newly baptized are dressed in white garments and presented with a candle lighted from the paschal candle. They are then confirmed by the priest or bishop who imposes hands on their heads, and invokes the gift of the Holy Spirit. He then anoints them
with the oil called sacred chrism. The Mass continues with the newly baptized participating in the general intercessions and in bringing gifts to the altar. At Communion, the newly baptized receive the Eucharist, Christ’s body and blood, for the first time. “Each year the baptism of adults at Easter Vigil is cause for great celebration,� said Vallez-Kelly. “It’s a joy and a blessing to be at a parish vigil and to witness these baptisms. Of course, the testimony of those baptized in years past tells us that it’s a profound experience for them, too!�
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Happy and Blessed Easter!
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FRIDAY APRIL 22, 2011 The Paschal Tridiuum in Westlake
Our Lady of Mercy Parish 5 Elmwood Drive, Daly City Between South Mayfair and Southgate Avenues, with plenty of free parking! www.OLMCATH.ORG April 21 – Holy Thursday 9:00a.m. - Morning Prayer 7:30p.m. - Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Eucharistic Adoration until 11p.m.
April 22 – Good Friday 9:00a.m. - Morning Prayer 12:30p.m. - Stations of the Cross 1:30p.m. & 7:30p.m. - Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion with Veneration of the Cross.
April 23 – Holy Saturday 9:00a.m. - Morning Prayer 8:30p.m. - Easter Vigil Service
April 24 – Easter Sunday 7:30a.m., 9a.m., 10:30a.m. (Children’s Choir), 12 noon (Parish Choir)
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: (650) 322-2152; FAX (650) 322-7319 Email: sfofassisi@sbcglobal.net
Holy Thursday, April 21 Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:00pm Bi-Lingual Adoration until 12:00 Midnight
Good Friday, April 22 12:00 to 2:00pm Three Hours English 2:00pm Solemn Liturgy English 5:30pm The carrying of the Cross re-enacted on University Ave. in East Palo Alto 7:00pm Solemn Liturgy Spanish
Holy Saturday, April 23 Confessions 10:30am to 12:00pm and 3:30 to 5:00pm 8:00pm Easter Vigil, Bilingual
Easter Sunday, April 24 7:30am English 9:30am Spanish 12:30pm Bi-Lingual
Mater Dolorosa 307 Willow Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080
Easter Schedule Deanery – Wide Lent Penance Service, April 12th Mater Dolorosa Church, 7 p.m.
Palm Sunday, April 17th Vigil Mass: Saturday, April 16th at 5:00 p.m. Sunday Masses at 8 a.m., 10 a.m., & 12 Noon Palms will be blessed at all the Masses
Holy Monday, April 18th Traditional Seder Meal at 7 p.m. in the Parish Hall
Holy Thursday, April 21st Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7:30 p.m. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Parish Hall until 11 p.m.
Good Friday, April 22nd Reflections by Father Vito Perrone from 12 Noon to 1 p.m. Living Stations of the Cross by the Youth of our Parish at 1 p.m. Liturgical Service at 2 p.m. Soup Supper at 6 p.m. Living Stations of the Cross by the Youth of our Parish at 7 p.m. Liturgical Service at 7:45 p.m.
Holy Saturday, April 23rd Easter Vigil Mass at 8:30 p.m.
Easter Sunday, April 24th Masses at 8 a.m., 10 a.m. and 12 Noon Traditional Latin Mass at 5:30 p.m.
2nd Sunday of Easter – Divine Mercy Sunday, May 1st Mass at 8 a.m.; 10 a.m. & 12 Noon Light refreshments and movie on Divine Mercy at 1 p.m. Confessions and Rosary with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at 2 p.m. Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Special Divine Mercy Mass at 3 p.m.
EL8
Catholic San Francisco
April 15, 2011
The seven last words of Jesus Taking time to meditate on the seven last words of Jesus is a traditional devotion during Holy Week. Here are the last words spoken by Jesus with their Scripture citations. You might want to read the passages from your Bible and then ask the Holy Spirit to help you understand what meaning these words have in your life today: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34) “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” (Luke 23:43) “Behold, your mother!” (John 19:26-27) “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46) “I thirst!” (John 19:28) “It is finished!” (John 19:30) “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” (Luke 23:46) – Lorene Hanley Duquin
Consolation of Easter . . . ■ Continued from page EL5 people eat a lot; others eat very little; some sleep a lot; others do not. Some people look mad. Some look sad. Some look distant. Whatever form it takes is “normal” for that person. Grief is a roller coaster; there’s nothing sane or predictable about it. The average time frame given to people who grieve is several months in the case of an expected death and a year when it was unexpected, but grieving in actuality can take years. And there’s no pushing the river. It will take the time it takes. Grief is a process and it is hard work, but worth the effort because we and our lives are worth the effort. How we recover from grief depends upon our inner resources and on the support we receive from others. Grief is the price we pay for love, and it can be the source of much growth and gain. Some widows and widowers, once greatly dependent on their spouses, find themselves growing as they are forced to discover inner strength, acquire new skills and play unfamiliar roles. The person who is lost can never be replaced, but that doesn’t mean we can never love again.
The Easter triduum sends us an important message. Jesus’ death on the cross lets us know that God does not preserve us from pain and suffering. But the witness of the Resurrection is that God is present with us in it to sustain us and is at work to bring us through it into a new and richer experience of life. The consolation of Easter is that it is life, not death, that has the final word. Paulist Father Thomas Ryan is director of ecumenical and interfaith relations for the North American Paulist Center in Washington, D.C. He can be reached at tomryan@paulist.org.
ST. DUNSTAN CHURCH
PALM SUNDAY 5:00 p.m. Saturday Palm Sunday Masses: 7:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and 5:00 p.m. Blessing of palms at all masses. HOLY THURSDAY 8:00 a.m. Morning Prayer 7:00 p.m. Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper with washing of feet. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 11:00 p.m.
EASTER TRIDUUM Church of the Epiphany
827 Vienna Street. San Francisco. California. 94112 Parish Missions: Monday, April 18 thru Wednesday, April 20 , 2011: Each evening at 7:00pm except on Wednesday it will begin at 7:30pm Confessions on Wednesday, April 20 at 10:00am & 6:00pm Holy Thursday (Mass of the Lord’s Supper): Thursday, April 21 , 2011 Mass at 7:30pm Good Friday (Celebration of the Lord’s Passion): Friday, April 22 , 2011 English Reflection from Noon to 3:00pm Children’s Liturgy from Noon to 1:00pm (O’Keefe Hall) Spanish Reflection at 7:30pm Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil): Saturday, April 23 , 2011 Mass at 8:00pm Easter Sunday (Resurrection Sunday): Sunday, April 24 , 2011 Masses at 5:00am (Salubong), 6:30am, 8:30am, 10:00am, 11:30am (Spanish) and 1:00pm th
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1490 19TH STREET (AT CONNECTICUT) SAN FRANCISCO (415)285-5272
GOOD FRIDAY 8:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
Morning Prayer Confessions Stations of the Cross Seven Last Words Solemn Liturgy and Holy Communion with dramatization of the Passion by our eighth grade students. NO FURTH LITURGIES HOLY SATURDAY 8:00 a.m. Morning Prayer 11:00-Noon Confessions 3:30-5:00 p.m. Confessions
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If you have any questions, please call the Parish Office (415) 333-7630.
www.stteresasf.org
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Genuine love for others is the cornerstone of charity, but it needs to be backed up by concrete action to be a complete expression of God’s love for humanity, the papal preacher said. In a Lenten meditation released by the Vatican April 8, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa explained that Christian charity should be characterized by “a love that is both sincere and active; a love from the heart and a love, so to speak, of the hands.” Citing St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans on the need for charity without hypocrisy, Father Cantalamessa warned that those who perform charitable acts without a heartfelt desire to help others may be merely hiding less virtuous motivations such as selfishness and guilt. It would be a “fatal error” to “hide within one’s inner charity, using it as a sort of alibi to avoid charitable actions,” he said. Referring to Jesus’ exhortation to “judge not and you shall not be judged,” Father Cantalamessa warned against making negative judgments about others. Men and women are not the only ones in need of the selfless love for one another, Father Cantalamessa said. The church, too, “has urgent need of a wave of charity that will heal its fractures,” he said, without mentioning any specific problems.
1133 BROADWAY, MILLBRAE HOLY WEEK 2011
ST TERESA OF AVILA CHURCH Holy Thursday: 7:30pm Good Friday: 12:15pm Holy Saturday, Easter Vigil: 9:00pm Easter Sunday: 8:30 & 10:00am
Inner love, outer action keys to true charity, says papal preacher
Celebrating Our Centennial: “Guided by the Star. 100 years and Beyond!”
Saint Agnes Parish Welcomes You!
EASTER VIGIL 8:00 p.m. EASTER SUNDAY MASSES 7:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., & 11:30 a.m. NO 5:00 p.m. Mass.
Saints Peter and Paul Church
2011 Holy Week Schedule
Wednesday, April 20th, 9am-11am 5pm- 7pm - Reconciliation Various Confessors will be available for those wishing to celebrate this Sacrament.
Holy Thursday, April 21st Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30pm with strings & woodwinds
Palm Sunday Masses: English: Saturday Vigil 5:00PM, Sunday 7:30 & 8:45AM, 1 & 5:00PM. Cantonese: 10:15AM. Italian: 11:45AM. Lenten Weekday Masses: 7:30 AM, 9:00AM & 12:15PM.
Good Friday, April 22nd Stations of the Cross: Noon - Outdoors along Haight Street and 2:00pm in the Church Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, 7:30pm with choir, woodwinds and timpani
Saturday, April 23rd Great Vigil of Easter, 8:00 pm (no 4pm Liturgy) with choir, brass & woodwinds
Holy Thursday: Morning Prayer: 8:00AM; Mass of the Lord’s Supper: 7:30PM. Good Friday: Morning Prayer: 8:00AM. Stations of the Cross: In Italian: 12:00PM; In English: 1:00PM. Liturgy of the Word & Communion: In English: 2:00PM In Cantonese: 6:30PM. Holy Saturday: Morning Prayer: 8:00AM; Solemn Easter Vigil: 8:30PM.
Easter Sunday, April 24th Liturgies 8:30am & 10:30am (no 6pm Liturgy) with choir, brass & woodwinds
Easter Sunday Masses: In English: 7:30AM, 8:45AM, & 1:00PM. In Cantonese/English: 10:15AM In Italian: 11:45AM.
1025 Masonic Avenue, San Francisco (415) 487-8560 www.saintagnessf.com Parking is available in our lots on Oak Street between Ashbury & Masonic.
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Confessions: Saturday, April 23 from 3 - 5PM; or by appointment: 421-0809.
666 Filbert Street at Washington Square in San Francisco
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St. Augustine Church
Reconciliation Service: Communal Penance, April 18 at 7:00 p.m. SACRED TRIDUUM Holy Thursday Morning Prayer – 8:40 a.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper – 7:30 p.m. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until midnight Good Friday Morning Prayer – 8:40 a.m. Liturgical Services – 12 noon to 3p.m. Evening Service – 7 p.m.
Holy Saturday Morning Prayer – 8:40 a.m. Easter Vigil Mass – 8 p.m. Easter Sunday Masses: 5 a.m. (Salubong) Sunrise Mass, 7:45 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m NO 5:30 p.m. Mass on Easter Sunday
ANGELS CHURCH
1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame
3700 Callan Blvd. S. San Francisco, CA 94080
2011 EASTER WEEK SCHEDULE
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Capuchin Franciscans
2011 Holy Week Schedule Holy Thursday Good Friday
7:30 p.m. Mass of Lord’s Supper Adoration until Midnight 12:15 p.m.
Stations of the Cross
Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 1:15 1:45 2:30 7:30 Easter Vigil Easter Sunday Masses
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Liturgy of the Word Veneration of the Cross Communion Service Stations of the Cross
8:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m., 8:30a.m, 10:00 a.m. & 12 noon