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VATICAN CITY – The tears shed by men, women and children around the world each day cry out for mercy, compassion and consolation, Pope Francis said during a special Year of Mercy prayer service for those who weep. “How many tears are shed every second in our world; each is different but together they form, as it were, an ocean of desolation that cries out for mercy, compassion and consolation,” the pope said May 5 as he led the prayer service in St. Peter’s Basilica. Before the pope spoke, he and the congregation listened to three testimonies. Giovanna Astarita and Domenico Pellegrino and their son Raffaele spoke about the suicide of Antonio, the couple’s first son. He was only 15. “Antonio dragged my life, my soul and my mind into that tomb, too,” his mother said. Faith in God and an experience of God drying her tears was and is the only thing “that prevents me from going crazy,” she said. Maurizio Fratamico spoke about how he worked, traveled, made a lot of money, “used and threw away” a lot of young women, but felt empty and alone. His twin brother had a conversion experience and shared it. Thanks to the tears of his parents and his own tears of remorse, Fratamico said he has set out on a
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him to flee and to try to start life over in Italy. “To know persecution and the fear of death is a terrible experience, especially when I think of my children,” he said.
VATICAN CITY – Without letting the Holy Spirit lead his or her life, a person risks being just an “armchair Christian” who recites “a cold morality” without actually living out the Gospel, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass. Do not keep the Holy Spirit a prisoner, locked inside your heart; rather let him “push” and “move” you to boldly bring Jesus to others and to be able to be patient under pressure, the pope said May 9 during the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. The pope’s homily looked at the day’s first reading from the Acts of the Apostles (19:1-8), in which St. Paul meets a group of disciples who were baptized by St. John the Baptist and had never heard of the Holy Sprit. After Paul baptizes them in Jesus’ name and lays his hands on them, they are filled with the Holy Spirit and receive his gifts. There are still many Christians today who are unaware of how the Holy Spirit “moves the church,” the pope said.
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Members of the Pellegrino family walk forward to present a candle during a prayer vigil led by Pope Francis “to dry the tears” of the suffering in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican May 5. The family lost a son and brother. Pictured are siblings Chiara and Raffaele, and parents Domenico Pellegrino and Giovanna Astarita. journey of faith and has found “the joy I was always seeking.” Qaiser Felix, a Catholic journalist from Pakistan, spoke about how his reporting on anti-Christian discrimination led to threats against him and against his family, eventually forcing
Retired nurse, priest team up for health care in Nigerian village CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
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Retired nurse Angela Testani accepts a gift of coconuts after providing health care to patients in the Diocese of Abakaliki, Nigeria.
A retired Catholic nurse and a Nigerian pastor are teaming up to improve basic health care services in the priest’s rural diocese where people suffer because of a lack of quality, accessible care and basic health education. Angela Testani of Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco returned from an April trip to the Diocese of Abakaliki, Nigeria, to visit Father Edward Inyanwachi, pastor of St. Patrick Parish. Father Inyanwachi is well-known
in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, having served at a number of local parishes for more than a decade while he pursued his doctorate in Catholic educational leadership at the University of San Francisco. He returned to his native diocese in 2013 to take leadership of a newly formed parish. “Father Ed,” as Testani calls him, is now the pastor of a largely rural parish in Ebonyi state in southeast Nigeria that includes St. Patrick Parish and two mission churches. Parish families, most of whom farm yams and other sustaining crops, walk miles on dirt roads carrying
their own chairs to arrive for a dawn Mass before they set out for the fields. Testani described witnessing a “humbling” liturgy that combined Catholic and native traditions and “lasted no less than two-and-a-half hours.” In what Testani called a pastoralmercy partnership, she and Father Inyanwachi are working together to raise the money to ship a container of refurbished medical equipment to the local Catholic hospital later this year. The pair will seek to raise the $25,000
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Novato native Andrew Ginter to be ordained June 4
NEED TO KNOW IGNATIAN COMPANIONS PROGRAM SEEKS APPLICANTS: Companions in Ignatian Service and Spirituality engages women and men who have a desire to serve those most marginalized in our communities while deepening their spiritual foundations. As an endorsed work of the California Province of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), the 10-month program operates from September-June. Applications are being accepted for the 2016-2017 program year and new participants will be welcomed until the program is filled to capacity. You are invited to attend an upcoming information session: June 4, 10:30 a.m., St. Agnes Ignatian Spiritual Life Center; June 5, St. Ignatius Parish during and after all morning liturgies. Jenny Girard Malley at ignatiancompanions@gmail.com or www.ignatiancompanions.org. ST. PIUS 65TH ANNIVERSARY MASS: The Mass will be held May 22, 10 a.m., at St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. The day begins a six-month anniversary celebration, with an event each month through a closing Mass Nov. 20. All past pastors, associates, school alumni and parishioners are welcome. Call (650) 361-1411. REMEMBRANCE FOR MARINERS AND PEOPLE OF THE SEA: The National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Mariners and People of the Sea will be celebrated May 23. The Apostleship of the Sea ministry is active in 48 dioceses in the country, providing pastoral outreach in nearly 53 maritime ports in 26 states. ARCHBISHOP TO GIVE COMMENCEMENT SPEECH: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will give the commencement speech to a graduating class of 79 students at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula on May 14 and will receive the school’s highest award, the St. Thomas Aquinas Medallion, in recognition of his lifelong fidelity and service to the Catholic Church, the school announced. “We are honored and delighted that our longtime friend, Archbishop Cordileone, will be with us for commencement, especially as this visit comes so soon after the publication of Pope Francis’ recent exhortation on marriage, ‘Amoris Laetitia,’” said Michael F. McLean, president of the four-year, Catholic college. McClean said Archbishop Cordileone is nationally known “for the clarity of his teaching about marriage, the family, and the unborn, and the courageous witness he gives in their defense.”
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Deacon Andrew Ginter will be ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone on June 4 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. He has been assigned as parochial vicar at St. Hilary Parish. Catholic San Francisco interviewed the Novato native archdiocese’s newest priest.
Catholic San Francisco: What do you most look ahead to as a priest?
As a priest, I am most looking forward to celebrating the sacraments. I was drawn to the priesthood because of the sacrament of reconciliation. This sacrament has shown me the love and mercy of God and there need to be priests so that people can receive the sacrament of mercy. I am very much looking forward to celebrating Mass.
CSF: Who most inspired your vocation and why?
There were many people but Father Kevin Gaffey, the longtime pastor of St. Anthony’s in Novato, most inspired my vocation. He was a man that loved the priesthood, loved life, and loved his family. He showed me that priesthood was worth sacrificing for and it brought him great joy. He made the priesthood desirable.
CSF: What do you like to do in your free time? In my free time, I enjoy going to the gym, going camping, spending time with family and friends.
CSF: What is one of your favorite Bible passages?
My favorite Bible passage is John
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Deacon Andrew Ginter is pictured with his parents Kurt and Sandra and sister Chelsey.
DEACON ANDREW GINTER BORN: May 5, 1987
WORK: Program director at a Boys and Girls Club and as the youth minister and confirmation coordinator at St. Anthony Parish in Novato during college.
PARISH: St. Anthony of Padua, Novato PARENTS: Kurt and Sandra Ginter
ASSIGNMENTS DURING SEMINARY: Pastoral Year at Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont and at Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco (20132014); deacon assignment at St. Raphael, San Rafael (20152016); attended Notre Dame de Namur during summers for MA in education.
SIBLING: Chelsey Ginter SCHOOLS: Novato High School; Sonoma State University, BA, American Multicultural Studies, 2009; St. Patrick Seminary & University, 2016; Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, MA in Education: curriculum and instruction.
3:30, “He must increase and I must decrease.” As a priest, I will bring Christ to people through the sacraments and most especially in the
holy Eucharist. In my prayer life, I continually pray that I may become more like Christ in my thoughts, actions, and prayer.
MAY 20: Papal nuncio farewell dinner, Washington, D.C.
MAY 21-23: Parish, school visit and confirmation, St. Isabella.
MAY 21: Missionaries of Charities profession of vows, Mass, Mission Dolores.
MAY 25-26: Staff meetings, chancery.
MAY 21: Knights of Columbus convention, Mass, Santa Clara.
MAY 27: California Catholic Conference executive committee call.
ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE’S SCHEDULE MAY 13-14: Mass, commencement address and board meeting, Thomas Aquinas College. MAY 15: Adult confirmation, cathedral; confirmation, St. Gabriel. MAY 18: Staff meetings, chancery.
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Marin churches push for year-round homeless shelter LIDIA WASOWICZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Eight years ago, as frost covered the ground and hypothermia cases crowded the emergency room, the now defunct Vineyard Christian Fellowship of San Rafael set up a makeshift sanctuary to bring some of Marin County’s homeless in from the cold. Tired of waiting for that stopgap to gain a fixed footing, a network of faith communities that over the years expanded the effort is pushing for a permanent shelter for men and women who have none. Under the auspices of the nonprofit Marin Organizing Committee, five Catholic parishes and other churches, synagogues and nonprofits are gathering signatures to sway political will in favor of a year-round, single location for the Rotating Emergency Shelter Team known as REST, which currently offers 40 men and 20 women dinner, conversation and overnight accommodation Nov. 1 to May 1. While the women eat and sleep at the county-owned Health and Wellness Campus in San Rafael, the men hop aboard buses that carry them – along with bedding and other paraphernalia – to a different site every night and pick them up early the next morning. Last season, the stops included 17 fellowship halls spread throughout the county. The nightly rotations and daily storage of equipment present a logistical nightmare, said Suzanne Walker, deputy director of St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County, which transports the guests after screening them for safety and sobriety.
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Sophie Siepman, a fifth grader at St. Hilary School, hands recent convert Sandra Clifford a signature card in support of a homeless shelter as her dad Gregg Siepman looks on. In addition to the 17 host congregations, 40 assisted by sending volunteers. Ruth Ann Cowley, program head at St. Hilary in Tiburon, recalled the “joyful” overflow of helpers even on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. “The Holy Father’s focus on being of service to the most vulnerable has helped galvanize people here into reaching beyond their comfort zone,” said pastor, Father William Brown. In total, 2,000 adults and students from St. Hilary, St. Anselm in Ross, St. Rita in Fairfax, St. Raphael in San Rafael, Our Lady of Loretto in Novato and 52 other groups presented 20,000 meals plus their companionship to 102 women and 294 men.
At last count, 2015 figures showed 1,300 homeless in one of America’s most affluent counties. The 60 emergency beds sought by supporters would increase by a third the 179 now available through Homeward Bound, which operates Marin’s two homeless shelters. “I think a permanent center is long overdue,” said Leticia Fish, director of the Monday night shelter and dinner program for four years and parishioner for 39 at St. Rita, a participant from the early days of REST, when it operated
Dec. 15 to March 15. “We are one of the last counties and the richest that does not have a center in the Bay Area. It is shameful!” The advocates hope to collect 6,000 signatures before the June 7 elections when three of five Board of Supervisors seats are up for grabs. While it does not endorse candidates, “we do support issues,” said Gail Dorph, a MOC leader and member of Congregation Kol Shofar in Tiburon. The petitions will demonstrate to those in and running for office the public’s support for a permanent shelter, said Anna Eng, lead organizer with MOC and its parent, the Bay Area chapter of the Industrial Areas Foundation, the nation’s oldest and largest network of community organizers. “I think it is a matter of justice that there is a permanent, yearlong home for REST,” said Pat Langley, a leader in REST, MOC and St. Anselm, where she has been a parishioner for 35 years. The affluence and generosity of many residents provide Marin with “the perfect opportunity to create a model program of care and rehabilitation services for those most in need,” said Beth Haran, in charge of feeding the hungry at St. Raphael, her parish since 1952, which sends volunteers each Friday to cook for and eat with the REST women. Parochial vicar Father Roger Gustafson said he launched the signature drive at St. Hilary as a concrete example of social justice, which many Catholics fail to differentiate from charity even though the church calls for both.
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Mercy Sisters’ ‘caring presence lives on’ TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Thanks to Liz Dossa of the Mercy Sisters front office for this take on the work of the sisters and their St. Mary’s Hospital and Medical Center. I was born in a Mercy Sisters hospital in suburban Philadelphia returning many times during my Sister Freda Milke, RSM youth for stitches always tenderly applied. Thanks to all nurses as we close Nurses Week for 2016 on May 12. The mission continues at St. Mary’s, founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1857 as the first Catholic hospital on the West Coast. Mercy Sisters are present at the hospital to carry on the Mercy tradition. Surgical nurse Sister Freda Milke provides expert care and presence essential to healing at St. Mary’s Medical Center. Sister Marcia Kinces, a nurse, is at St. Mary’s patients’ bedsides. Sister Mary Kilgariff brings the hospital presence into the community as community liaison. The Sisters of Mercy have been nurses since their founder Catherine McAuley identified caring for the sick as a major focus of the new community in Dublin, Ireland in 1831. The only trained nurses in the American Civil War were women religious, 100 of them Sisters of Mercy. They built hospitals across the U.S. beginning in 1847 with the founding of the first Mercy hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The sisters have served in every capacity from scrub nurses and doctors to CEOs, CFOs and trustees in hospitals and health systems as well as in public health and community-based settings. As health care technology becomes more complex and drugs more expensive, the basic art of healing through the compassionate touch and caring presence lives on through these sisters and the mission they have inspired. SPORTS SCHOLAR: City College sophomore Kelly Wong has dribbled and studied her way to the 2015 Female Scholar Athlete Award presented March 30 by the California Community College Athletic Association. Kelly is a computer science major with a 3.92 GPA, and is the first
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Filipino devotions honored in special sections at Holy Cross Cemetery VALERIE SCHMALZ
‘When we dedicate a section to a particular saint we are entrusting all those people who are buried here to their protection and their prayer.’
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Every May, thousands of pilgrims travel to the town of Antipolo outside Manila to venerate Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage, an image of Mary which was brought to the Philippines in the 1600s, and is believed by many to protect travelers. The specifically Filipino devotion is also honored at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C, where a 125-year-old replica of Our Lady of Antipolo is enshrined in the Oratory of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage where it was dedicated in 1997. Thus it was a natural fit for Holy Cross Cemetery administrators, seeking ways to bring the warmth of immigrants’ Catholic culture to the Colma cemetery, to create a special section dedicated to Our Lady of Antipolo. It is just one of several sections that honor saints, Mary and the Christ Child, who are objects of specifically cultural devotions, said Monica Williams, archdiocesan director of cemeteries. For Filipinos, Holy Cross Cemetery has special sections dedicated to Our Lady of Antipolo and San Lorenzo Ruiz. A corridor in the mausoleum is dedicated to Santo Niño or the Christ Child whose image was brought to Cebu by explorer Ferdinand Magellan and given as a baptismal gift to the queen. “When we dedicate a section to a particular saint we are entrusting all
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Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma has special sections dedicated to Our Lady of Antipolo – also known as Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage and venerated in Manila by thousands of pilgrims each May – and San Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino saint. those people who are buried here to their protection and their prayer,” Williams said. “The reason we chose Our Lady of Antipolo so many years ago was to really connect with our Filipino community and their culture, their community and something that is important to tie them back to home.” Holy Cross also hosts Todos los Santos or All Saints’ Day at the cemetery, she said. The original section developed was for San Lorenzo Ruiz, the first
Filipino saint who was canonized in 1987 by Pope St. John Paul. Conceived by then-cemeteries director Kathy Atkinson, the San Lorenzo section was dedicated in 1997, Williams said. San Lorenzo and 15 companions were imprisoned, tortured and martyred in Japan in 1637. “I would rather die a thousand deaths than renounce my faith,” says the plaque below his statue at Holy Cross Cemetery. The Our Lady of Antipolo section was dedicated in 2004 by then – Auxiliary Bishop John Wester.
The original statue of Our Lady of Antipolo was carved and blessed in Mexico and taken to Manila by the governor general of the Philippines, who survived a treacherous ocean voyage with it. Later it was moved from a Jesuit church, and disappeared twice, found each time in the branches of a tipulo tree. A church was built near the site and the tree was cut down and made into a pedestal for “The Brown Virgin.” Holy Cross Cemetery is beginning the design process for a section placed under the protection of Our Lady of Guadalupe, slated to open by 2019, which Williams expects will appeal to many Latino Catholics. Interestingly, Williams said, it is the second generation of a family that looks to be buried in the U.S. Frequently immigrants will have their bodies shipped back to their native country for interment. For the generation that stays, “It is even more important for them to have a piece of home that feels comfortable, that connects them back to their country and their culture,” she said.
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Sister Incarnata Gephart, BVM, 95, died April 21 at the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Marian Hall in Dubuque, Iowa. Funeral rites were held there with interment in the sisters’ Mount Carmel cemetery. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Sister Incarnata taught first grade at Most Holy Redeemer School in San Francisco. Born in Colorado, she entered Sister Incarnata the BVM congregation Feb. 2, 1939, professed first vows Aug. 15, 1941, and final vows Aug. 15, 1946. Memorials may be given to the Sisters of Charity, BVM Support Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52003.
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Notre Dame Sister Alberta Marie Karp died March 27 at age 96. She was a Sister of Notre Dame for 78 years. The San Francisco native grew up in St. Anthony Parish and attended Notre Dame High School, San Francisco. She taught in three states and in 12 elementary schools over 60 years, including Immaculate Heart in Belmont and Mission Dolores in San Francisco. She later volunteered at Our Lady of Sister Alberta Mount Carmel in Redwood City. A funeral Mass was celebrated April 23 at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Memorial contributions: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont 94002.
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Scientists and faith leaders: Time to scale back nuclear arms CNA/EWTN NEWS
WASHINGTON – A coalition of scientists and faith leaders has called on President Barack Obama to take “meaningful” steps to reduce the threat of “nuclear catastrophe” in light of his likely upcoming trip to Japan. “Nuclear weapons remain a real and urgent threat to humanity and our planet. If there is even a limited nuclear exchange, millions – if not billions – of people could perish; large swaths of the planet could be contaminated; and the global economy could collapse,” a May 4 letter stated. The statement was released by Bishop Oscar Cantu, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace; Ken Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists; Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals; and Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition. The group cited President Obama’s 2009 Prague address, during which he said the United States had a responsibility to lead the world in reducing nuclear arms. Now is the time, they urged, for Obama “to take meaningful, practical nuclear risk-reduction steps” during his expected visit to Hiroshima for the G7 summit later this month. “Heightened tensions between the United States and Russia, and the growing risk of nuclear use worldwide, are all the more reason for the president to take these meaningful steps to strengthen national and international security,” the letter said. Instead of adding to the number of nuclear weapons in the world, the group suggested that Obama end his proposal to spend upward of $1 trillion on modernizing the U.S.’s nuclear weapons arsenal over the next several years.
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HEALTH: SF nurse, Nigerian priest team up to improve care in rural village FROM PAGE 1
needed in a series of fundraisers this August when the Nigerian priest comes for a summer visit. Testani, who retired from nursing at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco in 2012, had been making annual shipments of basic medical supplies to Father Inyanwachi but said she felt “called to do more” since returning from an independent humanitarian nursing mission in Sudan in 2007. She told Father Inyanwachi that she would like to come to his parish, survey the state of health care in the region and assess the obstacles to improving it. He agreed. Early in her visit the priest introduced her as a visiting nurse from America during Mass. When she walked out the door, she found 16 people lined up to see her. During her 10-day trip Testani learned that a combination of poverty, poor nutrition, native superstitions and inadequate health care cause suffering, illness and death for villagers of all ages. The average lifespan is 60.
“In this diocese, people think you go to the hospital to die,” she said. An ambulance is nothing short of a hearse, she said, so Father Inyanwachi is the de facto ambulance driver for those who do go to the local Catholic health center, Mater Misercordiae Hospital. The hospital has an excellent nursing program but operates with barely basic medical equipment. More commonly used for regular health care are isolated, unregulated dispensaries run by inadequately trained people who often Father Edward can’t and don’t properly diagnose Inyanwachi or treat a patient, Testani said. During her visit Testani met with a Catholic women’s group and listened to their concerns and questions. She also talked to them about health from the perspective of body, mind and soul. “There is no way I would address anyone about their health without asking about all those things,” she said. “I didn’t want to be seen as an American trying to impose my ideas on them.”
She talked to the women about stress, nutrition and rest and learned that no one had ever told them about basic self-care. She said she was humbled by one woman who asked her: “Who am I that you should even want to listen to me?” “I said to her, ‘You are I are children of God, no more, no less,” Testani said. Testani’s long-term goal is to provide a traveling medical van staffed by the nurses at Mater Misercordiae and to empower local women. In an email to Catholic San Francisco, Father Inyanwachi said, “My hope is that this collaborative work with Angela will provide an opportunity for an outreach in the proclamation of the good news. It will serve as a way in which the church in San Francisco will bear witness to the love of Christ toward our brothers and sisters in the Diocese of Abakaliki. “It is my hope that in the long term it will lead to a solid partnership and friendship not only between a San Francisco parishioner and a Nigerian pastor to improve health care, but also between the church in San Francisco and in Abakaliki in areas of evangelization, catechesis, education and health care.”
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Archbishop joins Chicago parish to promote neighborhood peace JOYCE DURIGA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
CHICAGO – The city of Chicago’s Austin neighborhood leads a noteworthy list, but one its residents would rather not be on. “As of April 25, the Austin community – our community, our immediate community – led Chicago in 23 homicides and 101 people being shot. This is insane. This is wrong,” Father Tom Walsh, pastor of St. Martin de Porres Parish told those gathered for Mass May 1 celebrated by Archbishop Blase J. Cupich. As of May 2, 1,135 people had been shot in Chicago during 2016, according to the Chicago Tribune. “The truth of the matter is, a person is shot in Chicago every two and a half hours. Unfortunately, if the odds work, it could have happened while we were here this morning,” the priest said. The parish is located about nine miles west of downtown Chicago. Four of the top five communities that have seen
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Deacon William Pouncy encourages drivers in passing cars to “Honk for Jesus” outside St. Martin de Porres Church in Chicago May 1. Parishioners took to the streets to witness for peace in their neighborhood, which has experienced rising violence, after a Mass celebrated by Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich.
the most violence this year are within walking distance of the West Side church, Father Walsh said. “That’s why we as a church – this is the tallest building in this entire community, if not one of the tallest church buildings in the city of Chicago – need to continue to be a beacon of hope and of light to our world,” Father Walsh told the congregation at the end of Mass. Immediately following Mass, the congregation poured out onto the street in front of the church and held up signs to passing drivers that said “Honk for Jesus,” “Prayer changes things,” and “Unity in the community.” Archbishop Cupich said he recently sent a letter to pastors of city parishes encouraging them to participate in the city’s One Summer Chicago youth employment program. Through the program parishes and churches could offer summer employment to teens and have it subsidized by the city. “Part of the issue, in addition to guns being available, is the hopelessness in the hearts of our youth,” the archbishop said. “We have to do something to give them hope and to give them opportunities.”
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ANGOLA, Louisiana – Because he’s incarcerated, Ricky Krummel feels he has a glaring “X” on his back. Such a perception not only dehumanizes people who are imprisoned in the eyes of those outside of prison walls, he said, but it also subjects him to endless taunts on the inside, he said. To his credit, Krummel, has found support (CNS PHOTO/KYLE ENCAR, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY) and acceptance among Herman Tureaud shows off his a group of fellow Loyola Institute for Ministry Catholic inmates who certificate in pastoral studies dedicate themselves to at the Louisiana State Penitenspreading Jesus’ mestiary on April 29.
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WASHINGTON – The Eternal Word Television Network has asked for a rehearing of its case by the full 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in its case regarding the federal Health and Human Services contraceptive mandate. Attorneys for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, in a May 4 filing with the court, said federal government briefs filed in the ongoing Supreme Court case of Zubik v. Burwell involving the Little Sisters of the Poor and six other religious employers admit the government could use a less restrictive manner of providing contraceptive coverage to women working for these organizations should they so choose. The case originated after the government determined that all employers must provide contraceptive coverage to women in health insurance plans or the employer must check a box on a form stating that, as a religious employer, they are not required to provide such coverage. The religious employers argued that even checking the box would violate their religious freedom. A three-judge panel from the 11th Circuit issued a 2-1 decision against EWTN while the Supreme Court was preparing to listen to initial arguments in Zubik v. Burwell. The circuit court, headquartered in Atlanta, hears federal cases ema-
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nating from Florida, Georgia and Alabama, where EWTN is headquartered. Calling the HHS mandate case a “sensitive issue of national importance,” EWTN, in its May 4 brief, said the three-judge panel’s ruling was “at a minimum, outdated. Since the opinion was issued, the Supreme Court has heard oral argument in seven related cases and ordered supplemental briefing from the parties. That briefing reveals that several of the assumptions underlying the panel opinion are incorrect – even according to the government’s view of the case.”
FATHER BERRIGAN HAILED AS VISIONARY WHO WAS RULED BY FAITH
NEW YORK – Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan, whose protests against government policies earned him multiple jail and prison sentences, was remembered as a “fierce, mischievous visionary,” a “Beatnik Jesuit Father Daniel friend,” a priest who Berrigan “taught the sacrament of resistance,” and a loving uncle ruled by faith, not fear, during his funeral Mass. More than 800 people packed the Church of St. Francis Xavier to cheer the life of the Jesuit at a festive service May 6. Father Berrigan, a poet,
author and longtime peace activist, died April 30 at age 94. The Mass was concelebrated by more than two dozen priests, including retired Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit. Jesuit Father Stephen M. Kelly prefaced his homily with a tonguein-cheek welcome to members of the FBI, which was met with laughter and applause. During his life, Father Berrigan’s anti-war demonstrations and meetings were routinely monitored by the FBI. Father Kelly recalled Father Berrigan and his late brother and fellow activist Philip as men who lived the Resurrection and challenged religious leaders to know “bomb-blessing has no place in Jesus’ self-giving.” He suggested their lives of radical witness made them candidates to be doctors of the church.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WORLDWIDE HAS ‘SPIRALED DOWNWARD’
WASHINGTON – The state of religious freedom worldwide saw more decline than improvement in the last year, said Robert George, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
“Regrettably, things have not improved, and in some places, things have gotten worse,” said George, a Princeton University law professor and director of the university’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, during a May 2 telephone news conference coinciding with the release of the commission’s annual report. “At best, in most of the countries we covered, religious conditions have failed to improve in any demonstrable way. In most cases, they have spiraled downward,” he added. The 2016 report, covering the year from March 1, 2015, to Feb. 29, 2016, notes the nations labeled by the State Department to be “countries of particular concern” for their treatment of its citizens’ religious rights: China, Eritrea, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Four of the countries – China, Iran, Myanmar and Sudan – have had the designation since it was first issued in 1999. An 11th nation, Tajikistan, was added by the State Department in April. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut – The future of Christianity in the Middle East remains uncertain, and it is critical that the international community remain engaged, said a Melkite Catholic archbishop from Syria. Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart of Aleppo delivered these comments during a two-day visit to Connecticut that culminated with meetings at the international headquarters of the Knights of Columbus in New Haven. The visit began Sunday night with a talk by the archbishop at St. Mary’s Church, where he recounted Syria’s deep Christian history, including as the place where St. Paul was transformed from being a major persecutor of the Christians to becoming one of the church’s first great missionaries. “Even from the beginning, these Christians – then called Nazarenes – remained faithful to Christ,” said Archbishop Jeanbart, who urged his listeners to feel united with “my people,” by sharing the ancient faith that comes from his part of the world, and recalling this unity in the Eucharist. Speaking to an audience of nearly 400 at the historic New Haven church, the archbishop recalled that persecution has also long been a part of Syrian Catholic history. But now the wealthy city of Aleppo has been left in “very bad shape,” as a result of genocide and civil war. “Pray that the Lord may give us a civic state like yours,” said Archbishop Jeanbart. “We need to be like America … free to be Christian, free to be Muslim, free to choose (our faith).” The archbishop voiced particular thanks to the Knights of Columbus. The Catholic fraternal group has raised $10.5 million to provide housing, food, medical aid, education and general relief for persecuted Christians and other religious minorities through its Christians at Risk website.
RELIGION CAN HUMANIZE SOCIETY, CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM LEADERS SAY
VATICAN CITY – Catholic and Muslim leaders meeting in Rome said religion can humanize and civilize communities when followers actually adhere to their faith’s teachings about loving God and neighbor. The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Amman-based Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies held their fourth colloquium May 3-4 and examined “shared values in social and political life” from the perspective of Christians and Muslims. Pope Francis met with participants May 4 and said his visit to Jordan in 2014 was “a beautiful memory that I carry with me.” He praised participants’ dedication to the constructive path of dialogue, especially at a time when “we have become used to the destruction caused by wars,” he said in brief, off-the-cuff remarks. Dialogue involves stepping outside oneself and listening to the other, he said. “It is the first step of a journey. Following this meeting of the word, hearts meet and begin a dialogue of friendship,
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POPE CHALLENGES EUROPE TO EMBRACE MIGRANTS, FAMILY
VATICAN CITY – As Europe faces an unprecedented influx of immigrants and refugees while struggling to counter continued economic woes, Pope Francis urged the continent to step up to its responsibilities with renewed hope, not cower behind walls and treaties. The pope – a South American son of Italian immigrants – evoked U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., telling European heads-of-state and top-level representatives that he had a dream of a divisive Europe coming together to protect the rights of everyone, especially families and migrants. “I dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime, but a summons to greater commitment” to help those in need and, he said, “I dream of a Europe where young people” can lead a simple life and see that marriage and children are a joy, not a burden because there are no stable, wellpaying jobs. The pope’s dream of a rejuvenated and united Europe came as he received the prestigious Charlemagne Prize May 6. The award is traditionally conferred on the feast of the Ascension in the German city of Aachen. The award is presented every year by the citizens of Aachen to commemorate Charlemagne – the first Holy Roman Emperor – and to honor a public figure for his or her commitment in promoting European unity.
Pope Francis kisses a disabled young man during a special audience with members of Doctors with Africa at the Vatican May 7. The Catholic Church is not a fancy medical clinic for the rich, but a “field hospital” that – often literally – provides the only medical care some people will ever receive, the pope said. “Health is not a consumer good but a universal right, so access to health services cannot be a privilege,” he said.
WHAT ‘ADORATION OF THE MAGI’ COULD REVEAL ABOUT DA VINCI
FLORENCE, Italy – Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece “Adoration of the Magi” will soon undergo testing that could help digitally reconstruct the artist’s face and offer clues about his life and health, CNA/EWTN News reported May 8. According to the U.K. outlet Sky News, researchers with California’s J Craig Venter Institute, the pioneer behind human genome sequencing, will be searching for hairs and flakes of skin on Da Vinci’s paintings and notebooks. Genetic analysis will be performed, and DNA will be compared to Da Vinci’s known living relatives, and that taken from his parents’ graves. Scientists hope to determine the eye color, hair color, skin tone, and face shape of the Renaissance master. These details could add to the evidence in existence about his appearance. Health information could also be discovered. Ultimately, Fox News reported, the hope is to evaluate the unproven claim of whether Da Vinci is actually buried in a chapel of the Château d’Amboise. CNS, CNA/EWTN NEWS
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30,000 MARCH FOR LIFE IN ROME
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EDMONTON, Alberta – The gang at EnviroClean Drycleaners in downtown Fort McMurray sticks together. Not only do they run the dry-cleaning business, they provide the music ministry at 11:30 Mass every Sunday at St. John the Baptist Church. So when the wildfire disaster struck Fort McMurray, it was no surprise that they hung together. Cindy Julapton, who runs the dry cleaner, heard the news the afternoon of May 3 that Fort McMurray’s downtown was to be evacuated. Her co-workers’ neighborhood had already been evacuated, and so in their own car with their families, they followed Julapton to her home, where they picked up her two daughters – Christine, 27, and Nikka, 22 – and her sister. Then they all set out on their meandering exodus that ended in Lac La Biche 27 hours later. En route, two of the cars ran out of gas. “The fire and the smoke were terrifying,” Julapton said. “My focus was to get out of there.” Throughout the journey, they prayed prayers of desperation: “Oh God! Please help us. Please save us.” By 1 a.m., Julapton was too tired to drive, so she pulled into the ditch to get a couple of hours of fitful sleep. The normal half-hour drive to Anzac to get breakfast and some gas took hours. At one point, they pulled over because Julapton needed to rest for 15 minutes. A man from Lac La Biche stopped and offered them sandwiches, granola bars, orange juice, water and gasoline. Near Conklin, their way was blocked by a car crash. Then they heard that a friend had been hurt in another car
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POPE: Beware ‘cold morality’ FROM PAGE 1
“He’s the one who works in the church, in our hearts, he is the one who makes each Christian” unique, but united together as one family of God, he said. It’s the Holy Spirit who “opens the doors and invites us to bear witness to Jesus,” as well as inspiring people to pray and to see God as father, liberating individuals from feeling like an “orphan,” which is what the devil would like to see, he said. However, Christians risk reducing the faith to a code of ethics when they do not live out the mission of the Holy Spirit, the pope said. Christians, he said, can’t limit themselves just to following the Ten Commandments “and nothing more,” which leads to “casuistry and a cold morality.”
The Christian life “isn’t ethics. It is an encounter with Jesus Christ,” he said. And it’s the Holy Spirit who “brings me to this encounter with Jesus Christ.” The pope asked people reflect on whether they are keeping the Holy Spirit, which they received at baptism, locked inside their hearts – like in a “luxury” prison – where he is not free to incite, inspire and explain Jesus’ word to the outside world. The Holy Spirit “does not know how to make one thing: armchair Christians,” the pope said. “The Holy Spirit cannot make us ‘virtual’ Christians who are not virtuous. The Holy Spirit makes real Christians. The Spirit takes life as it is and prophetically reads the signs of the times pushing us forward.” The pope asked people reflect on how the Holy Spirit dwells in them and to pray for the grace to be “docile” to him.
TEARS: Pope calls for compassion FROM PAGE 1
The service included special prayers for persecuted Christians; those in imminent danger of death; people enslaved; victims of war and terrorism; abused children; the seriously ill and their caregivers; the unjustly accused and prisoners; those who feel abandoned, depressed and desperate; people suffering from addictions; families who have experienced a miscarriage or the death of a child; and those who have lost or been forced to leave their homes, families or jobs. But before the formal prayers were read, ushers went through the basilica with baskets, collecting the prayer requests of the congregation. At the beginning of his homily, Pope Francis asked people to join him in asking for the Holy Spirit’s presence. “May he enlighten our minds to find the right words capable of bringing comfort. May he open our hearts to the certainty that God is always present and never abandons us in times of trouble.” Everyone has experienced the sadness or suffering that makes them yearn for a comforting presence and a word of consolation, he said. “The
bitterest tears are those caused by human evil,” especially when a loved one is violently killed. When one is in pain or mourning, he said, God offers consolation and “in his tenderness comes to wipe the tears from our eyes.” For centuries, the pope said, Christians have drawn consolation from knowing they are not alone in their pain and that Jesus, too, knew what it meant to weep for the loss of a loved one. “In one of the most moving pages of the Gospel, Jesus sees Mary weeping for the death of her brother Lazarus” and he, too, begins to weep, the pope said. “If God could weep, then I too can weep, in the knowledge that he understands me.” But in addition to offering consolation to believers, Jesus’ tears encourage believers to open themselves to compassion for others, he said. “The tears of Jesus serve as an antidote to my indifference before the suffering of my brothers and sisters. His tears teach me to make my own the pain of others, to share in the discouragement and sufferings of those experiencing painful situations,” particularly the death of a loved one.
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Nothing can keep God from seeking those who stray, pope says CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – There is no such thing as a soul that is lost forever, only people who are waiting to be found, Pope Francis said. God is not part of humanity’s “throwaway culture” and does not shut out the sinner and those most in need, the pope said May 4 during his weekly general audience. Because of his immense love for everyone, God takes the illogical step of leaving his faithful flock behind in the harsh desert to seek out the one who has gone missing, he told those gathered in St. Peter’s Square. The pope reflected on the Gospel parable of the good shepherd, which, he said, reflects Jesus’ concern for sinners and God’s commitment to never give up on anyone. Jesus uses the parable to explain how “his closeness to sinners must not scandalize, but, on the contrary, encourage everyone to seriously reflect on how we live our faith,” the pope said.
‘We are all forewarned – mercy toward sinners is the way God works.’ POPE FRANCIS The parable, he said, responds to the doctors of the law and the Pharisees, who “were proud, arrogant, believed themselves just,” and, therefore, became suspicious or shocked seeing Jesus welcome and eat with sinners. The parable according to the Gospel of Luke begins, “What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the 99 in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?” The query, the pope said, introduces a paradox that questions how smart this shepherd could be when he abandons his precious flock, not in
a safe pen, but in the dangerous desert just for one sheep. “He could have reasoned, ‘Well, let’s look at the numbers: I have 99, I lost one, oh well,’” the pope said. But, “no. He goes looking for it because everyone is very important to him and that (sheep) is the one most in need, the most abandoned, the most rejected and he goes out to find it.” The story might make people think that the good shepherd doesn’t care about the ones he leaves behind, the pope said, “But in actuality it’s not like that. The lesson Jesus wants to give us instead is that no sheep can be lost. The Lord cannot resign himself to the fact that even one single person may be lost.” God’s desire to save all his children is so “unstoppable, not even 99 sheep can hold the shepherd back and keep him locked up in the pen.” “We are all forewarned – mercy toward sinners is the way God works” and “nothing and no one will be able to take away his will of salvation” for all of humanity, the pope said.
Pope: Wandering, halting on Jesus’ path turns Christians into ‘spiritual mummies’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Christians distracted from the path set out by Jesus can turn into decrepit “spiritual mummies,” Pope Francis said at his morning Mass. Spiritual mummies stray from the path of Christian life by choosing to stand still “not doing evil, but
not doing good” either, the pope said May 3 in his homily during Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae. “A Christian who doesn’t walk, who doesn’t move on the path, is a ‘non-Christian’ Christian. No one knows what he is. He is a bit of a ‘paganized’ Christian; he’s there, he’s still, but he doesn’t go forward in Christian life. The Beatitudes do not flourish in his life; he does not do the works of mercy; he is still,” the pope said. The day’s Gospel reading was Jesus’ discourse during the Last Supper in which he tells his disciples that he is “the way, the truth and the life.” “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father,” Jesus said.
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How Swiss Guards are bringing the Vatican to your kitchen CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
VATICAN CITY – A native of Zurich, Switzerland, David Geisser was a chef prodigy. He compiled his first best-selling cookbook at age 18, produced his second cookbook before he was 23, and was working under masters such as Antonio Colaianni of the Gault Millau restaurant in Switzerland. Amidst his rising stardom in the culinary world, he decided to join the Pontifical Swiss Guard – a historically elite body of Swiss soldiers who have served as guardians to the pope in Vatican City since the 1500s. “I volunteered for the Pontifical Swiss Guard because that was my dream – to be like my father and serve in the Swiss Guard. It is a great honor for young Swiss men,” Geisser told CNA. He was officially sworn in as a Swiss Guard in May 2013. Once he was serving a higher cause, Geisser would hang up his apron and lay his acclaimed chef days to rest. But during the same time, the Swiss Guard was working on a promotional pamphlet encouraging Swiss Guard prospectives to apply for the position of papal guardian. Geisser jumped on the opportunity to turn the recruit document into a high-quality cookbook, filled with pictures, recipes, and stories. “The commander (Daniel Anrig) decided the Swiss Guard should do a cookbook and assigned me to lead the project,” Geisser explained, saying Anrig had always been interested in Geisser’s culinary background. Geisser collaborated with Anrig and fellow Swiss Guard Erwin Niederberger, a former pastry chef who produced most of the cookbook’s text. Together, they transformed the recruit brochure into “Buon Appetito” – a culinary masterpiece, carefully crafted with 76 hand-picked recipes, including papal favorites.
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“Buon Appetito” was released in Switzerland in 2014 and critics hailed it as “an instant classic.” In 2015, international publishing rights were acquired through the Archangel Company in Cleveland, Ohio and “Buon Appetito” was transformed into “The Vatican Cookbook,” released by Sophia Institute Press in April 2016. “The Vatican Cookbook” includes additional photos and updated information, as well as an appeal to raise awareness of the Pope Francisapproved campaign, “One Human Family, Food For All.” Caritas International is sponsoring the endeavor in an effort to eradicate worldwide
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hunger, promote improved food production, and reduce food waste across the globe. The recipes found in “The Vatican Cookbook” reflect the diverse heritage of both the popes and the guards, ranging from Polish, German, French, Bavarian, Italian and Argentine cuisine. According to Geisser, “The Vatican Cookbook” was ultimately a collaborative effort of the Swiss Guard with contributions from many ranking officers. “We searched for the best of the truly classic recipes – the ones that had endured and were served at Vatican tables for centuries,” Geisser stated. “Most importantly, we asked the guardsmen about the popes they had served ... they know what each pope likes to eat better than anyone else. So, we were able to include the favorite dishes of the modern popes – Francis, Benedict XVI, and St. John Paul II,” he continued. Although Geisser was reluctant to pick a favorite recipe, he did say that “every meal has its place. There are recipes for all occasions and simple fare for every day – so, I favor them all.”
VATICAN CITY – Lead guitarist The Edge from Irish rock band sensation U2 played “the most beautiful parish hall in the world”– the Sistine Chapel. The April 30 performance, the first-ever rock concert in the historic chapel, was given for about 200 doctors and researchers who attended a conference at the Vatican last week on regenerative medicine. The conference discussed the use of adult stem cells to cure difficult and rare diseases such as cancer. The Edge, whose real name is David Evans, sang a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “If It Be Your Will,” and renditions of U2 songs “Yahweh,” “Ordinary Love” and “Walk On.” The rock star, who has experienced the effects of cancer in his own life – his father died from cancer last month and his daughter once had leukemia – peppered his performance with references to some technical cancer terms. The Edge, who was accompanied by a choir of seven Irish teenagers during his performance, thanked Pope Francis and Vatican officials for allowing him to play in “the most beautiful parish hall in the world.” “Being Irish you learn very early that if you want to be asked to come back it’s very important to thank the local parish priest for the loan of the hall,” he said. CNA/EWTN NEWS
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Pope blasts clericalism in Latin American Church CNA/EWTN NEWS
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis issued strong words to the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, calling clericalism “one of the greatest distortions” facing the local church. “(W)e’d do well to recall that the church is not an elite priests, of consecrated people, of bishops but all of us make up the faithful and Holy People of God,” he said in an April 26 letter, recalling that everyone starts out their life as laity, Vatican Radio reported. His letter was addressed to Cardinal Marc Ouellet, president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America as a follow-up to commission’s recent Plenary Assembly focused on the role of the laity. The Holy Father said that clericalism seems to be the result of “a mistaken way of living out the ecclesiology proposed by the Second Vatican Council,” calling it, “one of the greatest distortions of the Church in Latin America.” Clericalism, he said has proved to have a wideranging impact on the church and seems to disregard the grace of the Holy Spirit bestowed on each Christian at baptism. It “forgets that the visibility and the sacramentality of the church belong to all the people of God and not just to an illuminated and elected few.” He discouraged clergy from relying on trite phrases concerning their people, such as “it’s time for the laity.” While well-intentioned, the phrase has little meaning when stacked against actions. The clergy should focus on encouraging the laity,
The clergy should focus on encouraging the laity, especially those who work in the public square, but ‘it is not the job of the pastor to tell the lay people what they must do and say.’ POPE FRANCIS especially those who work in public square, but emphasized that, “it is not the job of the pastor to tell the lay people what they must do and say.” “It is illogical and even impossible for us as pastors to believe that we have the monopoly on solutions for the numerous challenges thrown up by contemporary life.” However, he praised the church in Latin America for its openness to ministry and public devotions driven mainly by the laity. However, he said that even this “has its limits” and should be “steered properly” to cultivate values such as sacrifice and openness to others. He closed by saying that the role of the clergy is in service to the laity, not the other way around.“(We) are called to serve them, not to make use of them,” Pope Francis said.
CHINA: PASTOR’S WIFE BULLDOZED IN ‘CRUEL, MURDEROUS ACT’
BEIJING – Two members of a Chinese church demolition crew have been detained by police after they allegedly bulldozed the wife of a Christian pastor who had attempted to halt the destruction of her church. Bob Fu, president of the NGO China Aid, said that Christianity has become a “major target” in culture and is treated as “a political and security threat to the regime,” he told CNA April 25. “Bulldozing and burying alive Ding Cuimei, a peaceful and devout Christian woman, was a cruel, murderous act,” Fu said in a previous statement from China Aid. Ding Cumei and her husband Li Jiangong were pushed into a ditch and buried alive by the bulldozer as congregants watched. Her husband, who headed Beitou Church in the city of Zhumadian in central China’s Hena province, was able to dig his way out, but she was not. Fu told CNA that the situation for Christians in China has changed under President Xi Jinping, who took office in 2013. He likened the situation to a “new Cultural Revolution” and noted that now even registered churches have faced increased scrutiny and persecution.
POPE: KNOWLEDGE EMPTY UNLESS IT LEADS TO LOVE
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said that just because someone is an expert in God’s law and a strict adherent to the rules doesn’t necessarily mean they know how to love and serve others. “It’s not automatic that whoever frequents the House of God and knows his mercy knows how to love their neighbor. It’s not automatic,” the pope said April 27 to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday general audience. “You can know the Bible, you can know all the liturgical norms, you can know theology, but ‘to know’ is not automatically ‘to love,’” he said, explaining that “to love has another path, with intelligence, but it has something more.” While knowledge and worship are good, they are false unless they are “translated into service of others,” Francis stressed in recounting the parable of “the despised Samaritan” who stops for the wounded man while the priest and Levite walk by. “That is the difference,” Pope Francis said. “The other two saw, but their hearts remained closed, cold.”
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UNITED NATIONS – A petition signed by more than 400,000 people called on the United Nations to act to stop the Islamic State group in its endless attacks on Christians and other religious minorities. Presented to U.N. officials April 29 by Ignacio Arsuga, president of CitizenGo, an advocacy organization that works to defend and promote life, family and liberty around the world, the ceremony was part of three days of programming that examined the plight of religious minorities in the Middle East. With signatures gathered online, the effort seeks to have the U.N. declare the Islamic State’s actions as genocide and for the world body to pursue legal action in international courts. The presentation took place a day after a Holy See-sponsored event at the U.N. in which victims of atrocities spoke of their experiences while being held by the militant organization. Bishop Joseph Danlami Bagobiri of Kafanchan, Nigeria, said, “Christians (in parts of Nigeria and the Middle East) are becoming an endangered species.” CNA/EWTN
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SUNDAY READINGS
Pentecost Sunday ACTS 2:1-11 When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim. Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem. At this sound, they gathered in a large crowd, but they were confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language. They were astounded, and in amazement they asked, “Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans? Then how does each of us hear them in his native language? We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene, as well as travelers from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.”
PSALM 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth. Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord, my God, you are great indeed! How manifold are your works, O Lord! the earth is full of your creatures; Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth. May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord be glad in his works! Pleasing to him be my theme; I will be glad in the Lord. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth. If you take away their breath, they perish and return to their dust. When you send forth your spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth. 1 CORINTHIANS 12:3B-7, 12-13 Brothers and sisters: No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but
the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit. As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit. JOHN 20:19-23 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.”
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n our observance of the Ascension and Pentecost the Lord asks us: “what is it that you fear?” You may have noticed that in the Gospel of the Sunday before Ascension Thursday (Jn. 14: 23-29) Jesus tells his apostles that he is leaving them for a while and that they should not as a result be seized with fear. “Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid,” he says. What is it that the apostles fear? What is it that I fear when I hear Jesus tell me that he has to return to the Father for a time? In the depths of our heart we harbor the fear of abandonment. Because God FATHER MARK made us for communion DOHERTY our happiness depends on strengthening the bonds that unite us to God and our fellow man. We fear being abandoned by others because the loss of relationship leads to misery, to hell. C. S. Lewis sketches a vivid description of this in his tale “The Great Divorce.” Hell is the place of a million kingdoms. Each inhabitant has his own kingdom in which no one is allowed. For some the fear of abandonment is especially sharp and gut wrenching. Those among us who have been abandoned or neglect-
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Jesus’ words of reassurance are meant for me precisely in these moments: ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.’ Jesus never abandons us. He is always with us in the touch of the Holy Spirit. ed by their parents or family members may be especially shaken by Jesus’ declaration that he must return to the Father. The question arises: Have I ever felt abandoned or neglected by God? Has there been a time when I felt that my prayers and shouts fell on deaf ears? Do I bear with me the scar of not having been protected by God in a moment of great vulnerability? Jesus’ words of reassurance are meant for me precisely in these moments: “Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.” Jesus never abandons us. He is always with us in the touch of the Holy Spirit. But isn’t there another fear that lurks deep in our hearts? As we celebrate the solemnity of Pentecost doesn’t it behoove us to recognize that we fear the love of God? Am I not worried that God loves me more than I want him to? That he wants to be in deeper relationship with me than I am ready for? As he walks through the door of my inner room to offer me his peace, as he sends down the fire of the Holy Spirit upon my little house and shakes the foundation, do I not cower
in the corner because I fear that I will lose my identity. Don’t I find myself protesting and saying that I have to keep hold of this or that part of my life without his meddling? What parts of my life do I want him to stay out of ? What territory do I consider mine, only mine? Aren’t these fears contradictory? How can I fear being abandoned by God at the same time as I fear God’s excessive intimacy? I wonder if one of the reasons isn’t that I fear being disappointed again. To the extent that I have experienced the pain of abandonment, neglect, or lack of appreciation, I tend to fear that it will happen again. So I put up my guard and am afraid to get my hopes up. As I fear abandonment or neglect I also fear intimacy because I fear that the intimacy will not last. Just as I begin opening myself up again, just as I make an effort to trust God again, I fear that he will let me down yet again. So I would rather keep him at arms’ length. As a result, my life may be lonelier and grayer, but at least I will not feel so sharply the pain of disappointment. Jesus knows all these fears and he wants to extend his peace to me in answer to them. He comes before me to show me the signs of his own passion, and as he does so he breathes on me the Spirit of peace and reassures me that he is always with me as he sends me out into the world to preach the good news. FATHER DOHERTY, parochial vicar at St. Peter Parish, San Francisco and chaplain for Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, begins moral theology studies in September at Fribourg University in Switzerland.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MAY 16: Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. JAS 3:13-18. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 15. SEE 2 TM 1:10. MK 9:14-29. TUESDAY, MAY 17: Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time. JAS 4:1-10. PS 55:7-8, 9-10a, 10b11a, 23. GAL 6:14. MK 9:30-37. WEDNESDAY, MAY 18: Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. John I, pope and martyr. JAS 4:13-17. PS 49:2-3, 6-7, 8-10, 11. JN 14:6. MK 9:38-40. THURSDAY, MAY 19: Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. JAS 5:1-6. PS 49:14-15ab, 15cd16, 17-18, 19-20. SEE 1 THES 2:13. MK 9:41-50. FRIDAY, MAY 20: Friday of the Seventh Week in
Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Bernardine of Siena, priest. JAS 5:9-12. PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 8-9, 1112. SEE JN 17:17b, 17a. MK 10:1-12. SATURDAY, MAY 21: Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Christopher Magallanes, priest and martyr, and his companions, martyrs; Optional Memorial of St. Eugene de Mazenod, bishop. JAS 5:13-20. PS 141:1-2, 3 and 8. SEE MT 11:25. MK 10:13-16. SUNDAY, MAY 22: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. PRV 8:22-31. PS 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9. ROM 5:1-5. CF. RV 1:8. JN 16:12-15. MONDAY, MAY 23: Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 PT 1:3-9. PS 111:1-2, 5-6, 9 and 10c. 2 COR 8:9. MK 10:17-27.
TUESDAY, MAY 24: Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 PT 1:10-16. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. SEE MT 11:25. MK 10:28-31. WEDNESDAY, MAY 25: Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Bede the Venerable, priest and doctor; St. Gregory VII, pope; St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, virgin. 1 PT 1:18-25. PS 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20. MK 10:45. MK 10:32-45. THURSDAY, MAY 26: Memorial of St. Philip Neri, priest. 1 PT 2:2-5, 9-12. PS 100:2, 3, 4, 5. JN 8:12. MK 10:46-52. FRIDAY, MAY 27: Friday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury, bishop. 1 PT 4:7-13. PS 96:10, 11-12, 13. SEE JN 15:16. MK 11:11-26.
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Why you should read C.S. Lewis’ ‘The Great Divorce’
n my capacity as regional bishop of the Santa Barbara pastoral region, which covers two entire counties north of Los Angeles, I am obliged to spend a good deal of time in the car. To make the long trips a bit easier, I have gotten back into the habit of listening to audio books. Just recently, I followed, with rapt attention, a book that I had read many years ago but which I had, I confess, largely forgotten: C.S. Lewis’ “The Great Divorce”: The inspiration for this theological fantasy is the medieval idea of the “refrigerium,” the refreshment or vacation from BISHOP ROBERT hell granted to some of the BARRON souls abiding there. So Lewis’ narrator leaves the dreary streets of the underworld and, with a coterie of other ghosts, journeys by flying bus to a lovely land that he comes to realize is the forecourt of heaven. In that enchanted place, the ghosts meet a number of denizens from the heavenly world, who attempt to lure the poor souls out of their misery. Lewis was that rare sort of genius, able to combine high theological insight with vivid imagination, and it is precisely this coming-together that makes his writing so memorable. I would like to rehearse a number of motifs from this story that struck me as being of particular spiritual significance. The first has to do with the paradox of the grandeur and nothingness of hell. Lewis’s narrator tells us that the streets and residences of hell stretch out so far that it requires centuries of travel to get from one end of the city to the other. This immensity is due to the fact that the citizens of that awful place just want to get as far away
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from one another as possible. Further, when the bus travels from hell to heaven, it seems to go far up into the air and to cover an enormous distance. However, when the narrator, in dialogue with a heavenly spirit, wonders where precisely hell is in relation to the heavenly realm, the spirit bends down, pulls a single blade of grass and uses its tip to indicate a tiny, barely perceptible, fissure in the ground. “That’s where you came in,” he explains. All of hell, which seemed so immense to the narrator, would fit into a practically microscopic space in heaven. Lewis is illustrating here the Augustinian principle that sin is the state of being “incurvatus in se” (curved in around oneself). It is the reduction of reality to the infinitely small space of the ego’s concerns and preoccupations. Love, on the contrary, which is the very life of heaven, is the opening to reality in its fullness; it amounts to a breaking through of the buffered and claustrophobic self; it is the activity of the magna anima (the great soul). We think our own little egocentric worlds are so impressive, but to those who are truly open to reality, they are less than nothing. One of the sad ghosts that Lewis describes carries on his shoulder a rather loathsome reptile who whispers suggestions in companion’s ear. It is eminently clear – even to the ghost himself – that this creature is doing nothing but harm. An angel approaches and places his hands around the lizard and calmly asks the ghost, “May I kill it?” At this, the fallen spirit recoils and commences to make excuses for the thing on his shoulder. “May I kill it?” the angel solemnly asks once again. The ghost balks and becomes uneasy. “May I kill it?” inquires the angel. Finally, the ghost acquiesces and the angel crushes the life out of the reptile, at which point the ghost begins to harden into something greater and more substantial. And the lizard, thought to be dead, begins to metamorphose into
Now what?
wo days after that circular firing-squad known as the “Republican primaries” came to a de facto conclusion on the banks of the Wabash, The Wall Street Journal had this to say: “A plurality of GOP voters has rejected the strongest presidential field in memory to elevate a businessman with few fixed convictions and little policy knowledge” to Republican nominee-presumptive, a man “who has the highest disapproval ratings in the history of presidential polling. ... Mr. Trump wasn’t our GEORGE WEIGEL first choice, or even the 15th, but the reality is that more GOP voters preferred him to the alternatives. Dozens of miscalculations made his hostile takeover possible, not least the decisions by other candidates in the early primary states to attack each other instead of Mr. Trump. ...Yet GOP voters made the ultimate decision, and that deserves some respect unless we’re going to give up on democracy.” No, I think not. Would it be “giving up on democracy” to suggest that those who voted for Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats in 1948 made a serious error? Or those who voted for George Wallace in 1968 and 1972? Or those who voted for Huey Long when the Kingfish, a Trumpian precursor, was riding high in Depression-era Louisiana? No. It wouldn’t be “giving up on democracy.” It would be a matter of recognizing that democracy is an ongoing experiment in selfgovernance; that democracy’s success in building humane societies is an accomplishment, not a given; and that the people can and do get it very wrong on occasion. With all respect, this is one of those occasions. And the mistakes are not all on the Republican side of the ledger. What about the Democrats who have never demanded an alternative to a septuagenarian crank who specializes in recycling the leftist bunkum of the 20th century, and a failed secretary of state who almost certainly committed felonies by breaching security regulations with her personal communications network? At least some Republicans of conscience tried to urge their political brethren to choose a plausible, competent alternative to a narcissistic vulgarian; I haven’t
heard anything analogous on the other side of the aisle, and the seemingly tongue-tied Catholic Democrats in the blogosphere are no exception to that default. It’s become a cliche to say that “no candidate and no party fully embraces the vision of Catholic social doctrine.” True enough. But previous election cycles gave Catholic voters a prudential choice between candidates who embodied at least some of the major themes of the social doctrine. What is the thoughtful Catholic voter to do when neither of the presidential candidates is even minimally committed to human dignity, the common good, subsidiarity, and solidarity, as the social doctrine understands those concepts? When one party has elevated lifestyle libertinism to the first of constitutional principles (and is prepared to kill unborn children, jettison free speech, and traduce religious freedom in service to hedonism), while the other is prepared to nominate a fantasist who spun grotesque fairy tales about an alleged connection between an opponent’s family and Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before he closed the deal? That will be a question to ponder carefully in the next six months. The immediate take-away that the American democratic experiment is in deep trouble – and that trouble has something to do with moral judgment. The reduction of voting to a visceral exercise in anger-management, identity politics, or class resentment (cf. “Trump campaign,” “Hillary campaign,” and “Bernie campaign”) tells us that our political culture is sick. And if the political culture is sick, that must have something to do with the state of the culture as a whole. Did we really imagine that a culture of self-absorption and vulgarity, taking its cues from the passions of adolescence, was not going to cash out in our politics? If so, let’s hope that we’ve been disabused of that fallacy. Such a sobering-up would be one, modest silver lining in the ominous storm clouds now gathering. The reconstruction of a morally serious political culture is essential, if American democracy is not to descend into incoherence and what an eminent churchman once called the “dictatorship of relativism.” That reconstruction could start with U.S. Catholics leavening our politics – and the culture as a whole – with Catholic social doctrine. WEIGEL is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
a stately stallion. When both ghost and reptile have been thoroughly transformed, the man mounts the horse and the two ride off together with brio and purpose. The creepy and insinuating reptile is symbolic, it becomes clear, of lust, that vice which continually suggests self-destructive courses of action. Yet not even an angel of God can kill it without the conscious permission of the will. Once killed, however, it can rise into what it originally was meant to be: the erotic desire which is a source of tremendous energy, indeed a stallion which the soul can gleefully ride. A final image is one of the most beautiful in the book. The narrator spots a stately procession making its way toward him. A woman is being carried, in the manner of a queen, with great reverence, and all around her people are offering tokens of respect and admiration. So impressed is he that the narrator turns to one of the heavenly citizens and wonders whether this might be the Blessed Virgin Mary. “No,” says his interlocutor, “It’s someone ye’ll never have heard of. Her name on earth was Sarah Smith.” It turns out that this one so highly honored in heaven was a very ordinary person during her earthly life. But through her love, she became a spiritual mother to hundreds, indeed to every person she met. Even the lowly animals were embraced by her affection and came more to life. The point is that what is honored on earth is by no means the same as what is honored by God and the saints. Here below, we hold up achievements in education, business, finance, entertainment, the military, etc. But none of this matters in the grand scheme of things. What matters, what, in St. Paul’s language, lasts, is love. BISHOP BARRON is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
LETTERS Extolling marital lovemaking
Re “Porn and the curse of total sexual freedom,” Bishop Robert Barron, April 28: The bishop’s opinion piece is very well written. I would like to add that porn use and addiction is also a problem for some married men in our society. Some men turn to porn because of sexual frustration or lack of sexual fulfillment in their marriage. The church can help here by making sure that it speaks out against the sin of sexual refusal within marriage. As distasteful as that may be for the clergy, it is necessary. Looking at the larger issue: “Sex is, on the biblical reading, good indeed, but its goodness is a function of its subordination to the demand of love.” Indeed, yet the church does not like to use the term lovemaking! A wife is not “objectified” within a loving marriage when there is frequent lovemaking outside of the fertile days of the month. The unitive aspect of married sexual relations is the sexual love and bonding the spouses feel for each other; and this is not dependent upon procreation as the sexual love exists even in marriages where one spouse is naturally infertile. In the Gospels, Christ called us to live moral, human lives, not ascetic lives. Can the Catholic Church achieve a positive view of married lovemaking? Larry Burdoin San Francisco The writer is a member of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish.
What would we do if we were refugees?
I am always struck by how easy it is for us, Americans, to brush aside the plight of the Middle Eastern refugees in Europe when (1) this country meddled in the Middle East, completely destabilizing the area and helping to usher in the present chaotic violence in Iraq and Syria; and when (2) most of us, ourselves, are the descendents of immigrants who fled wars, economic woes or religious persecution. It was suggested in these pages that the refugees seek safety in countries closer to their own homelands. I am reminded of a ship filled with Jews (the MS St. Louis) that was not allowed to dock in the U.S. in 1939. Perhaps the Jews were supposed to find safety in a country closer to Germany. Let’s look at our own ancestors. How long were the journeys they took? Life in the nearby countries for Syrians and Iraqis amounts to life in poverty, misery and filth. The refugee camps are more like concentration camps than safety zones. Here we sit in the richest country the world has ever experienced, but we are content not to share the great abundance we have. We should ask ourselves what would we do if we were those refugees. Richard Morasci San Francisco
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Recovering Mary
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ne of the marvelous treasures Catholics possess is their understanding of and devotion to Mary, mother of the Lord. While many other Christians also claim and share this treasure, how unfortunate that some believing, Godfearing people do not cherish and value the BROTHER JOHN magnificent M. SAMAHA, SM gift of Mary in their lives. To know and love the Blessed Virgin Mary and to give her prominence in our faith-life is a special gift of God. Jesus Christ himself has given us the example of how to cherish this gift of his mother and ours. And he invites our cooperation with her to present him, our redeemer, to all people. What a waste that some believers carelessly overlook this great gift of God, or brush it aside. We should be reaching out to her to help put us in closer touch with her son.
The testimony of the New Testament
All Christians, not only Catholics, know and revere the Virgin Mary in the New Testament. How can she be overlooked in Scripture? Here we encounter the appearance of an angel to tell her she is to be the mother of Jesus, the savior; the birth of Jesus in a stable; the fretful mother looking for her child during a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem; her intervention at the wedding feast at Cana; her deep sorrow at the foot of the cross; her calming presence waiting Pentecost. Theologian Lawrence
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Permanent artwork showing Mary is seen on a wall at Palmasola prison, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Cunningham has observed: “The New Testament portrait of Mary is, like everything in the biblical text, artlessly simple, tantalizingly enigmatic, and religiously inexhaustible.” To appreciate how inexhaustible the New Testament verbal portrait is, simply trace the development of Marian theology and devotion since her earthly life. From Christianity’s origin, both its leaders and its followers have engaged in frequent, passionate, and thoughtful consideration of Mary’s role in the mystery of Christ and of the church. Cunningham reminds us that the pursuit of deeper and more complete understanding of Mary “helps to explode the oft-repeated charge that Mariological beliefs are late accretions to Christianity.” The universal acclaim of Mary
throughout history is nothing short of phenomenal. The greatest painters, sculptors, composers, poets, authors, and scholars repeatedly paid tribute to her, and did so rhapsodically. To name but a few, consider the inspiring poetry of Dante, the stirring music of Bach and Schubert, and the soulful art of Fra Angelico, Giotto, Murillo, Raphael and Michelangelo. They and others have consistently sung Mary’s praises in the media of their expertise.
Deviations in the history of the faithful
Historically we may cite two reactions that adversely affected our appreciation of and devotion to Mary. The Protestant Reformation is the first. In the words of Lawrence Cunningham, “Despite a lingering devotionalism in the writings of Martin
In this month of mothers
e celebrated Mother’s Day on May 8, and as Catholics we dedicate the whole month to our heavenly mother, Mary. And so, May is a natural time to reflect on the irreplaceable role of mothers and all women in our lives. In the weeks following our appearance at the Supreme Court, several women who write about SISTER Catholic spirituCONSTANCE ality mentioned VEIT, LSP prophetic words of Pope Paul VI to women in reference to our case – words uttered over 50 years ago, but which are, perhaps, more relevant today than ever. “At this moment when the human race is undergoing so deep a transformation, women impregnated with the spirit of the Gospel can do so much to aid mankind in not falling,” Paul VI said at the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. He continued with this urgent plea: “Women of the entire universe, whether Christian or non-believing, you to whom life is entrusted at this grave moment in history, it is for you to save the peace of the world.”
The fact that several women who have no obvious connection to each other, and who are too young to have assimilated Paul VI’s words when they were uttered Dec. 8, 1965, mentioned these words to me, is worth pondering. As I do so, the faces of countless women and girls pass before my mind’s eye, and myriad prayers arise in my heart. I think of the elderly women in our homes around the world – women who have borne children and labored at tasks both great and small – and who now spend their days praying for others’ needs even as their own strength wanes. I think of our female staff members, who spend themselves so generously in the care of the aged and then return home to serve their families, churches and communities. I think of my nieces and other young women who are grappling with so many competing choices and pressures as they strive to define the priorities and values that will guide their adult lives. I pray for women around the world who have been displaced by war, economic hardships and situations of religious persecution, who struggle mightily to provide their children with the most basic human needs and comforts. I also pray for the brave women who advocate for educational and workplace equality, for victims of trafficking, sexual exploitation and the plague of illegal drugs.
Luther, veneration of the Blessed Virgin was swept away with the same vigor and finality as monastic institutions, a celibate clergy, the Mass in Latin, and devotion to other saints. For the Reformation, devotion to Mary derogated from the worship of Christ.” The Catholic Counter-Reformation was the second reaction, and also proved unfortunate by swinging to the opposite extreme. In the effort to combat the Protestant errors, it “protested too much.” Some made Marian devotion a litmus test of Catholic orthodoxy. They pushed devotion to Mary to the limit, almost seating her on a throne next to God, or promoting bizarre devotional practices. The consequent reaction was damaging. Some devout Catholics who mistook the extremism as authentic were turned off and turned away from the genuine devotion that is part and parcel of the glory and beauty of Catholicism. Paradoxically some of the extremists were theologically educated.
Restoring the proper balance
Then came the Second Vatican Council to restore the balance and set Marian devotion in proper order. The council fathers exhorted “theologians and preachers of the divine word to abstain from all gross exaggerations as well as petty narrow-mindedness in considering the singular dignity of the Mother of God.” After rejecting “sterile or transitory affection,” and “a certain vain credulity,” Vatican II situated Mary and Marian devotion firmly in the total context of Catholic faith. Christian life without Mary is inconceivable! MARIANIST BROTHER JOHN SAMAHA lives in Cupertino.
POPE’S MAY PRAYER INTENTION: HONOR THE DIGNITY OF WOMEN
As I ponder Paul VI’s call for women to save the peace of the world, I also think of the religious sisters and Catholic laywomen – full of enthusiasm and impregnated with the spirit of the Gospel – who joined us in prayer and walked with us as we prepared for our day in Court, and who gave a stunning public witness to the beauty of the gospel of life at the rally outside the Supreme Court. Finally, I pray for the women who protested against us on March 23rd, that they may come to understand that openness to life – most often expressed through physical motherhood, but also manifest in spiritual, affective and cultural maternity – does not deprive women of their dignity, their potential, or their possibilities, but enables them to flourish through the sincere gift of self to God and to others. In this month dedicated to Our Lady, the greatest expression of the “feminine genius,” let us turn to Mary and ask her to intercede for all women. May we cherish our vocation as guardians of life and nurturers of peace. May we step out as unapologetic prophets of a more human culture where each person is seen as the child of God they were created to be and those who are weakest receive the greatest share of our love.
In his May prayer video Pope Francis issued a global petition that women in all countries would be respected and valued, asking rhetorically if the mere recognition of their role is enough, or if more can be done. “The contribution of women in all areas of human activity is undeniable, beginning with the family. But only to recognize it – is that enough?” the pope asked in the video, published May 3. “We have done little for women who are in very difficult situations: Despised, marginalized, and even reduced to slavery,” he said, stressing that “we must condemn sexual violence against women and remove the barriers that prevent their full integration into social, political and economic life.” The pope speaks in Spanish as images of women working in various fields, including science, teaching, and medicine flash across the screen. However, women in desperate, marginalized circumstances also appear next to phrases such as “I do my job as well as a man,” “I will never be a slave,” “no gender violence,” and “enough of discrimination at work.”
SISTER CONSTANCE VEIT is director of communications for the Little Sisters of the Poor.
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Daniel Berrigan, RIP
efore you get serious about Jesus, first consider how good you’re going to look on wood! Daniel Berrigan wrote those words and they express a lot about who he was and what he believed in. He died May 1at age 94. No short tribute can do justice to Dan Berrigan. He defies quick definition and facile description. He was, at once, the single-minded, obsessed activist, even as he was one of the most complex spiritual figures of our generation. He exhibited both the fierceness of John the Baptist and the gentleness of Jesus. An internationally FATHER RON known social justice advocate, ROLHEISER an anti-war priest, a poet, a first-rate spiritual writer, a maverick Jesuit, he, along with his close friend, Dorothy Day, was one of our generation’s foremost advocates for non-violence. Like Dorothy Day, he believed that all violence, no matter how merited it seems in a given situation, always begets further violence. For him, violence can never justify itself by claiming moral superiority over the violence it is trying to stop. Non-violence, he uncompromisingly advocated, is the only road to peace. Like Dorothy Day, he couldn’t imagine Jesus with a gun. Berrigan lived by the principle of non-violence and spent his life trying to convince others of its truth. This got him into a lot of trouble, both in society at large and in the church. It also landed him to prison. In 1968, along with his brother, Philip, he entered a federal building in Catonsville, Maryland, removed a number of draft records and burned them in garbage cans. For this, he was given three and a half years in prison. But this also indelibly stamped him into the consciousness of a whole generation. He was forever after known as a member of the Catonsville Nine and once appeared on the cover of Time magazine. I was in the seminary during those tumultuous years in the late 1960s, when anti-war protests in the U.S. were drawing such huge crowds and Daniel Berrigan was one of their poster boys. Moreover, I was in a seminary where most everything in our ethos was asking us to distrust Berrigan and the anti-war movement. In our view at that time, this was not what a Catholic priest was supposed to be doing. I wasn’t a fan of his then; I’m a late convert. That conversion began when, as a graduate student, I began to read Berrigan’s books. I was gripped by
three things: First, by the gospel challenge he was spelling out so clearly; next, by his spiritual depth; and, finally, not least, by the brilliance and poetry of his language. He was, flat-out, a very good writer and a very challenging Christian. I envied his vocabulary, his turn of phrase, his intelligence, his wit, his depth and his radical commitment. I began to read everything he’d written and he began to have a growing influence on my life and ministry. I had never before seen how non-negotiable is Jesus’ challenge to act not just with charity about also with justice. Father Larry Rosebaugh, an Oblate colleague who also went to prison for anti-war protests and who was later shot to death in Guatemala, shares in his autobiography how, the night before he performed his first act of civil disobedience that landed him in prison, he spent the entire night in prayer with Daniel Berrigan. Berrigan’s advice to him then was this: If you can’t do this without becoming bitter and angry at those who arrest you, don’t do it! Prophecy is about making a vow of love, not of alienation. There’s a thin line here, too often crossed when we are trying to be prophetic. Ironically, for all his critical counsel on this, Berrigan, by his own admission, struggled mightily with exactly this, namely, to have his protest issue forth from a center of love and not from a center of anger. At age 62, he wrote an autobiography, “To Dwell in Peace,” within which he candidly shared that he had never enjoyed a healthy relationship with his own father and that his father had never blessed him or his brother, Philip. Rather his father was always more threatened by his sons’ energies and talents than proud of them. With this admission, Berrigan went on to ask whether it was any wonder that he, Daniel, had forever been a thorn in the side of every authorityfigure he ever encountered: presidents, popes, bishops, religious superiors, politicians, policemen. It took him 60 years to make peace with the absence of his father’s blessing; but, God writes straight with crooked lines, the radicalness this fired in him helped challenge a generation. In his later years, Berrigan began to work in a hospice, finding among the dying a depth that grounded him against what he so feared in our culture, shallowness. His own generation will give him a mixed judgment: loved by some, hated by others. But history will speak well of him. He was always on the side of God, peace and the poor. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
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MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Captain David Lazar from SFPD Central Station visited the school with four other San Francisco police officers to speak about the department’s cadet program and career opportunities. More than 300 Mercy alumnae of Mercy are first responders in the Bay Area, the school said.
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ST. DUNSTAN SCHOOL, MILLBRAE: Junior high students, from left, Justin Condevillamar, Ernesto Rojas-Martinez, Elyssa Eidson and Angela Dimaano took third place April 23 at St. Gabriel School in the annual Junior High Quiz Bowl sponsored by Archbishop Riordan High School’s Quiz Bowl Club. St. Gabriel’s team placed first and Notre Dame des Victoires School came in second. A high school Quiz Bowl took place April 9 at Riordan whose team placed second behind the Diocese of Oakland’s Moreau High School.
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Day 9: Monday 10/17, LOURDES / train to Paris / heart, leaving it “on fire with a great love of God.” After her Our journey from Lourdes to Paris will be traveled by raildeath, when her body was examined, she was found have had a perforation of the heart. It was in this way nday, 2016, USAtrain / LISBON onOctober the TGV 9, high speed (non-stop, first class).toWe that science confirmed one of her greatest mystical exbersdepart are welcomed this evening at an at 10:30AM and arrive in internaParis at 4:30PM. Upon periences. Our journey continues as we travel through ort for departing to Lisbon, arriving ourour arrival in Paris,flight we board our motor coach for Lisieux, the picturesque countryside to the lovely 12th century ay. where we check in at our hotel for dinner and overnight. walled city of Avila. Upon our arrival in Avila, we pro[B,D] ceed to the hotel to check in for dinner and an overnight. nday 10/10, LISBON / SANTAREM / FATIMA [B,D] morning arrival in Lisbon, we visit the birtht. Anthony of Padua, the Lisbon Cathedral, Day 5: Thursday 10/13, AVILA / SEGOVIA / BURGOS mo’s Monastery, and Belem Tower. From This morning we visit the Monastery of the Incarnastop in Santarem to visit the Church of St. tion and the convent of St. Teresa, where the saint where in the 13th century a Eucharistic Mirexperienced her remarkable vision of the angel. This afplace. When a woman attempted to steal a ternoon we travel to Segovia, where the sacred relic of St d host from Mass, the host turned into flesh John of the Cross is enshrined. St John was the confessor n to bleed. To this day the precious relic reof St Teresa and often conferred with her on their experrupt for all to see. The church has since been riences in the spiritual life; he is one of Christianity’s forehe Church the Holy We events continuein Normandy Scenesof from the Miracle. historical most authorities on spiritual and mystical theology. We y into Fatima to check in at our hotel for a visit the convent near the Vera Cruz church, constructed dinner and10: overnight. [D]10/18, LISIEUX / NORMANDY Day Tuesday / Templars, where the mortal remains of Saint John by the LISIEUX of the Cross are buried. Inside the city walls we also see We take a day trip to the Normandy area to spend the best-conserved aqueduct of the Imperial Roman time at the Military Cemetery, Omaha Beach, Omaha Empire. In addition to viewing this 2000-year-old engiMuseum and other sites associated with World War II. marvel, we visit Alcazar castle, the last in the neering Our journey today concludes as we return to our hotel in gothic style to be constructed. Time permitting; Spanish Lisieux for dinner and overnight. [B,D] we enter the famous castle, which was an inspiration for Walt Disney when he created his Cinderella castle. We Day 11: Wednesday 10/19, LISIEUX / PARIS continue to Burgos for dinner and overnight. [B,D] Most of today will be spent Basilica in in Lisieux, Loyola home of St. esday 10/11, Therese of FATIMA the today in Fatima. One of the greatest events of Child Jesus. y took the village of Fatima, Portugal, Sheplace is theinone e Mother appeared to three shepherd whomof God Pope nstructing to bring the message of the Pius Xthem called ck to a world that “the greatest was slipping away from it. e children, desire that a chapel be built here saint of“I modor. Iern amtimes. the Lady Weof the Rosary. I have come e faithful to amend visit Les Bui- their lives and to ask pareir sins. People must pray the rosary everyBasilica day in Lisieux sonnets, thethat God sends them.” We all the sufferings familyda home he Cova Iria, where we visit the Chapel where Therese spent the early years of her life before paritions, the Basilica that houses the tombs entering Carmelite Convent at the age of fifteen.Day We6: Friday 10/14, BURGOS / LOYOLA / PAMPLONA o and Jacinta,the and the Perpetual Adoration Ouroffirst stop today is the Cathedral in Burgos, one next visit the convent which houses the sacred relic We continue to Aljustrel, where we visit the of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in Europe. body. From there, we spend time at the beautiful theher Marto family (the birthplace of Jacinta Then, giftofshop. we make our way to we travel to Loyola, where we visit the birthplace sco)basilica and thenand thethe home Lucia.Next, In Aljustrel of St Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). Paris enjoy a bus of the sites that make e the sitewhere of thewe apparitions oftour St Michael There, we will see the magnificent 17th century basilica Paris famous, including: dren. Weso view Valinhos, the site ofThe Our Eiffel Lady’sTour, Arc d’Tridedicated to the saint. Behind the sanctuary is the Santa omphe, and the Champs-Elysées. We check in atCasa, our the three story 14th century family home of St Igarition. This evening we take part in the Canhotel forDinner dinnerand andovernight overnight. [B,D] rocession. at our hotel natius. Pilgrims are invited to tour the rooms and visit the [B,D] chamber where the saint was born. The most venerated Day 12: Thursday, October 20, 2016, PARIS / USA place in this building $heavenly of aFATIMA The Blessed Mother, St Joseph, St is the room where Ignatius, at the Wednesday 10/12, /apparition. ALBA DE Today, we transfer to the airport to$begin our journey age of 30, wasitbrought John States. the Evangelist, and anus altar with a Lamb upon were following his serious wounding / AVILA back to the United We take with new friendthesilent; Battleno of mesPamplona. To pass the time as his leg yBLIN apparition. The Blessed Mother, St Joseph, St The saints at seen by 15 townspeople. were depart Fatima Alba de Tormes and ships and afor firm resolution to emulate the lovetaxes forhealed, ourand ngelist, an altar with a* Lamb upon werethe he read thesurcharges lives of the saints and a book on the Estimated airline final subject sage was given toit the people, only an example of prayer forGod ourand convent to see the body St Teshown uspreserved through the holiness of the saints. [B] ownspeople. Theto saints were silent; noofmeslife of Christ. At this and a rich symbolism in their appearances. We visit thetime a great conversion took place de-bodila, one of the Church’s greatest mystics. We en to the people, only an example ofto prayer in Ignatius; approximately 13 years later he founded the increase/decrease at 30 days prior location of We the visit apparition, of Our Lady, and rved on in their er incorrupt heart. In her autobiography, mbolism appearances. the St the Basilica Society of Jesus. The place of his conversion is indicathave theofan opportunity toher explore the grounds. From there, ke apparition, of the angelthe who thrust arrow into he Basilica Our Lady, and westFrom intothere, Westport to check in at our hotel for portunity to explore we the head grounds. TRICK and [B,D] st into /Westport to dinner check in at overnight. our hotel for
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ed by a statue depicting the saint with a leg bandaged, a book in one hand and the other hand outstretched, while the face is turned heavenward. From there, we continue to Pamplona to check in at our hotel for dinner and an overnight. [B,D] Day 7: Saturday 10/15, PAMPLONA / SANGUESA / LOURDES We depart Pamplona this morning and travel to Javier in the region of Navarra to visit the family castle and birthplace of St Francis Xavier. As a close personal friend of St Ignatius and one of the original seven members of the Society of Jesus, St Francis performed many miracles, was granted the gift of tongues, foretold the future, healed countless people, and baptized over 10,000 people in just one month’s time. St Francis Xavier is regarded as one of the most zealous missionaries of all times. From there, we cross the spectacular Pyrenees Mountains and continue to Lourdes, where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St Bernadette in 1858. Upon our arrival, we check in at the hotel for dinner. After dinner, we participate in the Candlelight Procession and rosary with pilgrims from all over the world. Overnight in Lourdes. [B,D]
prayer. The rosary and Candlelight Procession occur every evening for those who wish to participate again. Dinner and overnight in Lourdes. [B,D] Day 9: Monday 10/17, LOURDES / train to Paris / LISIEUX Our journey from Lourdes to Paris will be traveled by rail on the TGV high speed train (non-stop, first class). We depart at 10:30AM and arrive in Paris at 4:30PM. Upon our arrival in Paris, we board our motor coach for Lisieux, (PHOTO BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO) where we check in at our hotel for dinner and overnight. [B,D]
Archbishop visits SF French Catholic school, parish
The first grade French class greeted Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone with a song in French, during the archbishop’s April 29 visit Day 10: Tuesday 10/18,Dame LISIEUX / NORMANDY / to Notre des Victoires School where French is taught from LISIEUX We take a daykindergarten trip to the Normandy areagrade. to spend to eighth The school visit was part of his April time at the Military Cemetery, Omaha Beach, Omaha 29-May visit towith theWorld French parish founded in 1856 to Museum and other sites 1 associated Warnational II. Our journey today concludes as we return to our hotel in serve the French Lisieux for dinner and overnight. [B,D]Catholic immigrants who came to San Francisco during the Gold Rush. The visit included a tour of the school, which Day 11: Wednesday 10/19, LISIEUX / PARIS Most of today was founded in 1924. Above, the third grade class, with teacher will be spent in Lisieux, Stephanie Bergland and the archbishop. Left, eighth grade triplets home of St. Jourdaine, Anais and Cece Gonzalez, who were confirmed by the Therese of the (PHOTO COURTESY GONZALEZ FAMILY)Jesus. archbishop May 1. Child
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She is the one whom Pope Pius X called “the greatest saint of modern times. We visit Les BuiBasilica in Lisieux sonnets, the family home where Therese spent the early years of her life before entering the Carmelite Convent at the age of fifteen. We next visit the convent which houses the sacred relic of her body. From there, we spend time at the beautiful basilica and the gift shop. Next, we make our way to Paris where we enjoy a bus tour of the sites that make Paris so famous, including: The Eiffel Tour, Arc d’Triomphe, and the Champs-Elysées. We check in at our hotel for /dinner and overnight. [B,D] 10/26, DUBLIN GLENDAL-
Day 8: Sunday 10/16, LOURDES Between February 11, 1858 and July 16, 1858, Our Lady appeared 18 times to a 14-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous. The young saint described Our Lady as a “girl in white, the same height as myself, who greeted me with a nod of her head. This girl was beautiful beyond description. She had a blue sash around her white dress and yellow roses on her shoes. A long rosary hung from her arm, and she seemed to invite me to pray with her.” Our Lady gave Bernadette secret messages for herself and other messages for the world to hear. She described herself as the “Immaculate Conception”, revealed a miraculous spring, and asked that a chapel be built as a site for pilgrimage. During our stay we celDayin Lourdes, 9: Wednesday ebrate Mass at the Grotto of Massabielle. We visit OUGH / DUBLIN the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, the Boly Day 9: Wednesday 10/26, DUBLIN Glendalough / GLENDAL-(pronounced Day 12: Thursday, October 20, 2016, PARIS / USA Glen-dole-lock) is a brief 30OUGHMill / DUBLIN where St Bernadette was born, and thesouth “Cachot,” Today, transfersetto the airport to begin our journey mile drive of Dublin. We visit thewe monastic Glendalough (pronounced Glen-dole-lock) is a brief 30- lived in an abandoned prison where Bernadette’s family back to the Unitedwho States. We take with us new friendtlement established in the 6th century by St. Kevin, mile drive southWe of have Dublin. We visit the to monastic setpoverty. an opportunity bathe miracshipsrejected and a firm resolution to emulate the love for our was bornin inthe 498 of royal blood but his life of tlement established century St. Kevin, ulous watersinatthe the6th Grotto, andbyspend timewho personal Godthere. shownHe to founded us through the holiness of the saints. [B] privilege toin live as a hermit in a cave was born in 498 of royal blood but rejected his life of theHemonastery privilege to live as a hermit in a cave there. founded and also went on to create a center of learning devoted to the care of the sick and the copythe monastery and also went on to create a center of of manuscripts. Amid the ruins, one Gallarus learning devoted Oratory to the care of the sick ing andand the illumination copyvernight. [B,D] blin, we Day 5: Saturday 10/22, WESTPORT / CROAGH PATthe powerful sense of peace and tranquility. We ing and illumination of manuscripts. Amidcan thefeel ruins, one Gallarus Oratory RICK //KYLEMORE / CONNEMARA / WESTPORT escort, rday 10/22, WESTPORT CROAGH PATcan feel the powerful sense of peace and tranquility. We return to Dublin, a city known for its modern influencDay 7: Monday 10/24, LIMERICK GALLARUS ORATOMORE WESTPORT After /breakfast we drive to Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s Holy return/to Dublin, a city known for its modern influenc- with the beauty and heritage of the past. ch, and/ CONNEMARA es combined Day Monday /RY GALLARUS ORATO/ SLEA HEAD / DINGLE /es LIMERICK st we drive to Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s combined with the beauty and heritage of the shops, past. hotels, galleries, coffee houses and a Mountain. Here St.Holy Patrick spent the7:forty days 10/24, of LentLIMERICK in npatrick. Elegant RY / SLEA HEAD / DINGLE / LIMERICK Our day begins with the journey southwest to the DinHere St. Patrick spent the forty days of Lent in Elegant shops, hotels, galleries, coffee houses a of restaurants have sprung up on almost the year 441 AD in prayer and fasting. Our journey conthe St. stunningand variety Our day begins with the journey southwest to the which Din- thrusts stunning gle Peninsula out intovariety the Atlantic Oceanhave sprungevery AD in of restaurants up on almost tinues toOur thejourney shoresconof Kylemoregle Lough to visit Kylemore, ere Dr.prayer and fasting. street in the capital. The group will enjoy a city tour, Peninsula which thrusts out into the Atlantic Ocean to claim Ireland’s most westerly point. Here, majestic hills shores of Kylemore Lough to visit Kylemore, every street in the capital. The group will enjoy a city tour, a gothic castle, now a Benedictine We enjoy eak on where we see the statue-lined O’Connell Street, Georgian to Abbey. claim Ireland’s mosttime westerly point. majestic hills and purple le, now Abbey. the We Abbey, enjoy time soarHere, in hues of green vast of un-O’Connell Street, whereover we see thebowls statue-lined Georgian exploring gardens, and theinwalk the lake hen, wea Benedictine Squares, Phoenix Park, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. One soar huesalong of green and purple over vast valleys. bowls of Mountain une Abbey, gardens, and the along thechapel. lake spoiled streams tumble down lakes, Squares, Phoenix Park,toand St. Patrick’s Cathedral. One to walk the beautiful We spoiled enjoy sites of the Conne-streams tumble ral, thechapel. We up of Dublin's top tourist attractions, the Guinness Brewery valleys. Mountain down to lakes, autiful enjoy sites of the ConneDublin's topbeaches tourist attractions, Brewery hedgerows blaze with fuchiasof and golden stretch the Guinness mara, characterized by peat bogs, rugged, mountainous of Saint hedgerows blaze with fuchias and golden beaches stretch will be our last stop. We tour the historical 7-floor buildterized by peat bogs, rugged, mountainous will beplace our last stop. We tour the historical 7-floor buildfor miles. The Dingle Peninsula is a of intense, shifting countryside thatfor is home a great miles. to The Dinglevariety Peninsula is a place of intense, shifting ave.countryside We ing thatwith is continually updated to present guests with a ush thatterrain is homeand to alush great variety ing that is continually updated to present guests a Wedry visit Gallarus Oratory, an ancient dry stone beauty. Gallarus Oratory,beauty. an ancient stone of wildlife. Weremainder return to Westport whereWe thevisit remainder proceed natural We return to Westport where the natural balance of industrial tradition coupled with balance a con- of industrial tradition coupled with a conwhose to the skill of its buildconstruction whose longevity testifiesconstruction to the skill of its build-longevity testifies of the day isThis free to explore independently. This evening, alachy's temporary flare. The Storehouse also boasts unique merfree to explore independently. evening, temporary flare. The Storehouse also boasts unique merHeldoftogether completely by the weight of stones (no ers. sample Held together completely weight stones (no wander theauthentic streets ofIrish Westport and authentic Irish by theers. nfirmachandise its global, world-famous brand. This treets of Westport and sample chandise promoting global, brand. promoting This mortar) wind and rainitsfor moreworld-famous the building has withstood wind and the rain building for more has withstood the restaurant your choice as dinner is Catholic or pub of fare estaurant youratchoice as dinner or is pub ofmortar) evening, indulge in theinculinary Ireland atindulge the in the culinary delights of Ireland at the than 1000 years. It is typical ofevening, the type of church which delights ofpub than 1000 years. It is typical of the type of church in which on your Afteropdinner, choose from the endless opn. from own. the endless ast.After It's dinner, choose restaurant of your choosing as dinner is on your pub or restaurant of your choosing as dinner isoron your St. Patrick himselfand worshipped. Then,St.we wind around Patrick himselfthe worshipped.own. Then, we wind the siod occupying every other and enjoy every other tionsstorefront of pubs occupying storefront enjoy but Overnight in around Dublin. [B] own. Overnight in Dublin. [B] coast Slea Head and Dingle, returning to Limpicturesque coast Slea Head and Dingle, returning to Limuinness or a mug ofaIrish ale.of The city boasts glass Guinness or a mug ofpicturesque Irish ale. The city boasts aptation for dinner and overnight. [B,D]erick for dinner and overnight.Day [B,D] ost well-known and one visited around, Matt 10: Thursday 10/27, DUBLIN of pubs the most well-known anderick visited pubs around, Matt Day 10: Thursday 10/27, DUBLIN ey. The any of at the pubs, including MattMany Malloy's, have Dublin is home to Malloy's. of the pubs, including Malloy's, have Dublin is home to unds Day 8:Matt Tuesday 10/25, LIMERICK /Day ROCK CASHEL / 8: OF Tuesday 10/25, LIMERICK OF CASHEL / as well. Trinity/ ROCK College traditional IrishOvernight music and/or dancing as well. Overnight Trinity College nshatmusic our and/or dancing KILKENNY / DUBLIN KILKENNY / DUBLIN [B] which houses the in Westport. [B] which houses the The Rock of Cashel is an impressive medieval complex The Rock of Cashel is an impressive 9th-centurymedieval “Book complex called “The Acropolis of 9th-century “Book called “The Acropolis of of Kells”. We visAncient Ireland" and is one CAUSEof Kells”. We visAncient Ireland" and is one it there and stop of the most spectacular it there and stop of the most spectacular to see St. Mary's archeological sites in the h to see to see St. Mary's Cathedral. archeological sites in the Pro country. Dating from the al landPro Cathedral. The remainder country. Dating from the 4th century, it was originally th. The The remainder 4th century, it was originally of the day is free used as a fortress. Mighty esulting of the day is free to explore indeused as a fortress. Mighty stone walls encircle a comruption explore indestone walls encircle a com- pendently. Those Trinity College to plete round tower, a roofLibrary Antrim’s pendently. Those less abbey, a 12th century plete round tower, a roof- interested in sou- The Merry Ploughboy Unesco venir shopping interested in sou- Trinity College Library Romanesque chapel, and less abbey, a 12th century should check out The Merry Ploughboy g about venir shopping numerous other buildings Romanesque chapel, and Carroll's as the realistic should check out Kylemore Abbey and high crosses. Northnumerous other buildings stores offer a wide eeing is Carroll's as the east ofKylemore the Rock ofAbbey Cashel is and high crosses. North- selection of mereturn to stores offer a wide Kilkenny, a charming inland east of the Rock of Cashel is chandise at quite ay 10/23, WESTPORT / CLIFFS OF MOHER / useum. selection of mercity. Overlooking the River Kilkenny, UNRATTY Rock of Cashel a charming inland reasonable prices. s of the / LIMERICK Nore is a famous fortress, Dayfor6:the Sunday 10/23, WESTPORT / CLIFFS OF MOHER / chandise at quite g we depart Westport incredible and city. Overlooking the River This evening, we nd built. ADARE / BUNRATTY / LIMERICK Kilkenny Castle, which was reasonable prices. fs of Moher, where nearly 5 miles of layered Nore iscost a famous fortress, Rock meet of in Cashel the hornd dinner occupied upincredible until 1935 and when the exorbitant of upkeep Thisdefiantly morning we almost depart Westport for the This evening, we sandstone cliff rock soars tel lobby for our Kilkenny Castle, which was (Airline surcharges included- land and air included) eventually resulted in the 1967 donation of the castle to dramatic Cliffs of Moher, where nearly 5 miles of layered meet in the taxes/fuel hove the aggressive might of the Atlantic Ocean. transportation to of upkeep occupied exorbitant cost the country Ireland. We visit the castle and up alsountil one1935 of when the black shalephenomenon and sandstone cliff rock defiantlyofsoars almost telfarewell lobby dinfor our ur of this breathtaking natural The Merry Ploughboy Pub for a festive eventually resulted in the 1967 donation of the castle to NOCK / the country's medieval treasures, St. Canice’s Cathedral, 700 feet above the aggressive might of the Atlantic Ocean. transportation must see" for locals and country guests. The nerthe to the sounds of traditional Overnight to countrywe of spend Ireland. We visit castle and also one of Irish music. that natural dominates the city skyline. Timethe permitting, The grandeur this breathtaking phenomenon The Merry Ploughboy Pub for a festive farewell dine point (weather permitting) is fromofO’Briens in Dublin. [B,D] Cathedral, the country's treasures, St. Canice’s time at guests. the Kilkenny which has medieval boasttdto it atravel "must see" for locals some and country TheDesign Center on Slithe highest cliff.makes Next, we to Adare, ner to the sounds of traditional Irish music. Overnight that dominates the city skyline. Time permitting, we spend ing rights to some of the most magnificent retail goods, nmanicured poet. vantage point (weather permitting) is from O’Briens village best of thatch-roof cottages. Day 11: Friday, October 28, 2016, DUBLIN / USA [B,D] in Dublin. china, crystal, knitwear, Irish jewelry, timepottery at theand Kilkenny Design Center which has boastide and Church and y Trinity thenlocated continue BunThis morning we begin our journey back to the United Tower ontothe highest cliff.including wemore. travelContinuing to Adare, through some soNext, much the midland ing rights tocounties, some of the most magnificent retailhome goods, go loreAbthe grounds and attend Bunratty CasStates. We take arrive inspired by holiness the October 28, 2016, DUBLIN / USA a beautifully manicured village of thatch-roof cottages. Day 11:ofFriday, $visit Holy Trinity $Church and our journey today ends in Dublin, Ireland’s capital city. crystal, We knitwear, including china, Irish pottery humble Medieval Banquet,We a traditional-Irish dinner saints andjewelry, mesmerized by and the pristine beauty of God’s we begin our journey back to the United then tofor BunThis morning check in continue at our hotel dinner and overnight. [B,D] Continuing through so much more. midland[B] counties, over the with story-telling and song. Afterwards, majesticthe landscape. ratty to explore thewe grounds and attend Bunratty CasStates. We take arrive home inspired by holiness of the our journey today ends in Dublin, Ireland’s capital city. We imerick. Limerick. Teresa Overnight in tle's festive[B,D] Medieval Banquet, a traditional-Irish dinner saints and mesmerized by the pristine beauty of God’s check in at our hotel for dinner and overnight. [B,D] e of the experience with story-telling and song. Afterwards, we majestic landscape. 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Parishioners pitch in for cistern for sister parish JIM CLIFFORD
Think the California drought is bad? At least we don’t have to carry buckets of water on our head for miles. They do in Tanzania where drought is chronic. Now villagers near famed Mount Kilimanjaro are getting help from members of their sister parish, Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City. The Peninsula parishioners, who earlier raised funds to put a roof on the sister parish church of St. Francis Xavier, hope to finance a water cistern to store rainwater that flows from that same roof during infrequent downpours. During Lent about $2,000 was raised for the underground cistern planned for the church in Kiraeni, a village of 5,000 people who live on an average of $1 per day, said Lucinda Dei Rossi of the Sister Parish Committee at Mount Carmel. She placed the total cost of the 150,000 gallon cistern at $18,000. Children at the Mount Carmel School are contributing toward that goal by recycling plastic bottles. “Our brothers and sisters in Kiraeni still suffer from severe drought,” said Dei Rossi, who is leading the drive dubbed “Buckets of Water for Tanzania.” She said a donation of $3 will buy five buckets of water.
Dei Rossi and other Mount Carmel members visited the sister parish and witnessed how the villagers lug containers of water for miles. “During periods of drought, the family must spend five or more hours per day to collect water,” she said. “While food and water are scarce, people survive because they share and encourage each other through small Christian communities.” At a recent gathering of supporters in Redwood City, Dei Rossi showed a video of people in Kiraeni hauling containers of precious water. They included a man straining to pedal a bike loaded down with barrels of water. While the sister parish group concentrates on water and spiritual solidarity, some Mount Carmel members help Tanzania with medical and education supplies. They belong to T.H.E. Mission, which stands for Tanzania Health & Education Mission. They include Jehane Jones, who has made 10 trips to Tanzania. “Our goals are the same,” Jones said. “That is to help the people of Tanzania, but our projects are different.” She quickly added that members of both groups are “truly blessed.” CLIFFORD is a member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Redwood City.
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ST. BARTHOLOMEW PARISH, SAN MATEO St. Bartholomew Parish is seeking a full-time Director of Parish Music to start after 5/31/16. St Bartholomew Music Ministry is designed to contribute to and enhance the prayerful worship of the parish community as it assembles to offer praise and thanks to the living God. Music Ministry shares in the overall parish mission to “provide for the spiritual and human welfare of God’s people.” Within this mission, the Director of Parish Music is responsible for planning and directing a comprehensive parish music program, which includes several choirs and musicians. In this capacity, the Director is responsible for the supervision and training of musicians and singers providing music at various liturgies and specially designated para-liturgical events throughout the liturgical year. The Director is also responsible for the recruiting, training, and on-going development of the various members of the ministry. The Director provides Music Ministry leadership through active membership on the parish staff and Liturgy Committee. Additionally, the Director supervises all paid and volunteer musicians.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Direct the music at Sunday worship, including Saturday vigil, using piano, organ, guitar, voice. • Plan and prepare music for all liturgical seasons and occasions. • Train choirs, singers, musicians in liturgical and musical knowledge; rehearse same for ministry at Mass. • Plan and execute music for funeral and wedding liturgies. • Plan and execute Christmas concert. • Create worship aids (songsheets and slides) for the participation of the worshipping assembly. • Control the sound and video system in the church. REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE • Knowledge of Church documents on music • Deep knowledge of Catholic doctrine and liturgy • Training in classical and contemporary musical styles • Excellent keyboard player (pipe organ, acoustic and electronic pianos) • Excellent teacher/director of choirs and instrumental ensembles • Competent vocal coach • Competent singer • Strong computer skills including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, ParishSoft, music-writing software • Experience with sound mixing (mixer, microphones, instruments, amps) Salary commensurate with experience. Full benefits. Send resume to frmike@barts.org.
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St. Matthew Catholic School Faith - Knowledge - Community School Principal Our School
St. Matthew Catholic School is a coed parish school of approximately 600 kindergarten through eighth grade students. At St. Matthew, the core values of faith, knowledge, and community are intertwined. Since our founding in 1931, we have been committed to keeping the Catholic faith alive and to building a strong, integrated academic curriculum focused on the whole child: spiritual, academic, physical, social, and emotional. We commit ourselves to live the “PEARL” of the Holy Spirit. • Person with Strong Character • Effective Communicator • Active Christian with Catholic Vision • Responsible Citizen • Life Long Learner
Our Parish
St. Matthew’s Parish has gathered the people of San Mateo in worship and in service since 1863. Through our strong Catholic grammar school and catechetical program, we provide a deep and lasting foundation in Christ. All are welcome, here, as we embrace and celebrate our diverse community by honoring unique cultural traditions that nourish us as Catholics. Our Principal - Position Summary Reporting to the parish pastor, the Principal is the educational leader of the school, responsible for the administration, operation, and development of the academic, co-curricular, athletic, and formational programs of the school. She/he will lead and mentor a team of experienced educators. The Principal will work closely with the Pastor, the faculty, staff, students, and parents to develop a community of faith and bears the responsibility for the integration of faith and opportunities for spiritual growth within the school. She/He provides day-to-day leadership serving the mission and vision of St. Matthew Catholic School with integrity, energy, and balance.
Candidate Profile
Our ideal candidate will be a gifted teacher and a passionate leader with both demonstrated experience as a school leader, and a deep familiarity with Catholic education. She/He is a collaborative and relational leader who also possesses strong managerial skills. As a servant leader dedicated to service of the community, she/he will have an ability and willingness to lead a high profile Catholic community. A demonstrated ability to confidently, articulately, and persuasively communicate to a wide variety of stakeholders across the school community is important. Additionally, she/he will have a commitment to the pursuit of excellence through evaluation and accountability across the community.
Qualifications
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A practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church A valid teaching credential A Master’s degree in educational leadership (preferred) An administrative credential (preferred) Five years successful teaching experience at the K-8 level (at least three in Catholic schools) Five years successful administrative and/or leadership experience at the K-8 level (preferred, at least three in Catholic schools)
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
DIRECTOR OF FAMILY & YOUTH MINISTRIES at St. Dominic’s Catholic Church, SF. A full-time position, the director will be responsible for the evangelization and faith formation of children and youth (from birth through early teen years) and their parents, including implementing and evaluating programs, developing curricula within Church teaching and diocesan guidelines, scheduling classes and events, and training and coordinating volunteers. A successful candidate will passionately share in our Dominican parish’s mission “to radiate the joy of the Gospel in the heart of the City.” Candidates should be well organized, exhibit strong communication skills (including word, spreadsheets, email, and public speaking), and be able to lead prayer and direct and collaborate with the volunteers, parents, and parish staff of our growing program. An undergraduate degree is required (M.A. preferred) in religious education or a related field, or equivalent experience. Bilingual candidates are encouraged to apply. Must successfully complete background screening and safe environment training.
Please send cover letter and resume to Michael O’Smith at dre@stdominics.org. St. Dominic’s Church is a vibrant, diverse Dominican parish that serves approximately 2000 households in the Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.
See www.stdominics.org for more information and a link to the job description.
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Supports, promotes and implements the principles of Catholic education as set forth in Archdiocese of San Francisco Recruits, interviews, develops, supervises, and evaluates faculty Directs faculty development and curriculum planning and oversees scheduling procedures and teacher assignments In consultation with appropriate school staff, assists in the preparation of the annual budget for the school and monitors budgets for consistency with school goals, educational priorities and good practice Develops a shared educational vision for the school which is reflected in the curriculum, methods of instruction and assessment, utilization of technology, and in professional development programs Administers the contract, the salary schedule, and maintains personnel records for faculty and school staff Maintains effective communications and cultivates positive relationships with parents and other stakeholders of the school. Oversees the timely communication of school information to faculty, staff, students and parents Maintains overall responsibility for enrollment including the recruitment, admission, and retention of students Ensures policies and procedures for a safe school environment and verifies that planned fire, disaster, and lockdown drills are conducted Works with the Pastor to ensure that the operation of school facilities supports the school’s program Ensures compliance with State and Diocesan policy, where applicable, in the operation of the school Engages in personal, spiritual, and professional development programs
APPLICATION AND INTERVIEW
Applicants must complete an application and establish a personnel file with the Department of Catholic Schools. The application packet may be obtained by calling (415) 614-5668 (please ask for Ofa). Materials may also be downloaded from the Department of Catholic Schools website, www.sfarchdiocese. org/catholicschools. The requested material plus a letter of interest should be returned to:
Bret E. Allen Associate Superintendent for Educational and Professional Leadership Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 Applicants with personnel files already established with the Department of Catholic Schools should send a letter indicating an interest in applying for the position and contact Bret Allen by phoning (415) 614-5665 or by e-mailing at allenb@sfarch.org to update files.
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Around the archdiocese SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY, SAN FRANCISCO: Father Mark Doherty with De Marillac Academy and Sacred Heart Cathedral altar servers is pictured at the conclusion of the Founders Mass on May 3 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Father Doherty, who is stepping down from his role as chaplain of SHC to continue studies at Fribourg University in Switzerland next year, was recognized by Gary Cannon, principal, at the end of Mass with a special going-away gift.
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alumnus class of 2007. Geronimo attends St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park. Members of the Knights and pastor Father Alex Legaspi presented him with a check during the 11:30 Mass on Sunday, April 24. Pictured are: Greg Marracq, Ted Cordano, Grand Knight Daniel Estrada, Jerald Geronimo, Father Alex Legaspi.
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HELPING A SEMINARIAN: Knights of Columbus Holy Angels Council 10948 of Colma held a pancake fundraiser to assist seminarian Jerald Geronimo, a parishioner, member of the Knights of Columbus and Holy Angels Elementary School
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OUR LADY OF LORETTO, NOVATO: The second in a series of four talks on the family and the Year of Mercy was held April 10, led by Carlos Alaya, a former professor of the Jesuit University UCA in El Salvador. Parishioners from Our Lady of Loretto and Sacred Heart Parish in Olema attended. The event was
HISPANIC VOCATIONAL RETREAT: Young men from the archdiocese participated in a vocational retreat April 23 at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto, with 70 gathering from St. Anthony de Padua Parish, Menlo Park; St. Raphael, San Rafael; and St. Anthony de Padua, St. Peter, St. Paul of the Shipwreck and St. Charles Borromeo in San Francisco, among other parishes. The retreat was led by the archdiocesan vocational committee, joined by vocations director Father David Schunk; Hispanic vocations coordinator Father Juan Manuel López; Sister Guadalupe López, Congregation of Oblates of Jesus; and Sister Isabel Ake, Missionaries of Mother of God.
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THURSDAY, MAY 12 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 28th Avenue at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.
FRIDAY, MAY 13 OUR LADY OF FATIMA: “Pray for the world, pray for the children: A Morning with Mary,” 9:30 a.m., Sisters of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. RSVP Sister Jean, (650) 373-4508, jevans@ mercywmw.org; bring bag lunch; beverages available, donation.
SATURDAY, MAY 14 ST. ANSELM FESTIVAL: Festival of Fun, St. Anselm Parish, Ross, 10 a.m.8 p.m., 25 attractions including carnival rides, prize games, Panther Cafe, strolling entertainers including whipcracking Karen Quest and her vaudeville comedy at 5 p.m,; admission is free and tickets are purchased for the rides and games, www.stanselmschool.org; (415) 454-8867. PILGRIMAGE TALK: Most Holy Redeemer Contemplative Speakers Series, 10 a.m.-12:30, 100 Diamond St. at 18th Street, Ellard Hall, Benedictine Father Michael Fish on his walking the Spanish Camino de Santiago de Compostela and how to make life a pilgrimage. All are welcome. Freewill donation. Registration 9:30.
SUNDAY, MAY 15 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www. stmarycathedralsf.org.
SUNDAY, MAY 15 MERCY SERIES: “To visit the sick, to comfort the afflicted” with Mercy Sisters Judy Cannon and Diane Clyne, Presentation Sisters’ convent, 2340 Sister Judy Turk Blvd., Cannon, RSM San Francisco, 2-4:15 p.m. with talk, refreshments, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the final hour. Registration required, conrottor@sfarch.org, Sister Diane (415) 614-5535, Clyne, RSM no fee for these events but a freewill offering is accepted and later will be donated to St. Anthony’s Dining Room, Catherine’s Place, Mercy Housing and St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco, Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese, drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu STORYTELLING: St. Anselm, Centennial Hall, 97 Shady Lane, Ross, 7 p.m., Don Leach, teacher, storyteller, St. Anselm parishioner makes scripture come alive through the people who walk its pages, (415) 453-2342; www.saintanselm.org. GRIEF SUPORT: Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 10:30
a.m., for anyone who is experiencing grief of the loss of a loved one, free. Deacon Christoph Sandoval leads. Sister Elaine, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.
THURSDAY, MAY 19 GRIEF SUPPORT: Drop-in grief support group, Most Holy Redeemer Church, Parish Library, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco, meets third Thursdays, 7:30-8:45 p.m.; inclusive, nondenominational, and not restricted to type of loss; email gcm@mhr.org with any questions.
SATURDAY, MAY 21 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome, Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865; www.Handicapables.com. REUNION: Class of 1956, St. Cecilia School, San Francisco, Mass 4 p.m., Our Lady’s Chapel, followed by cocktails and dinner, Gold Mirror Restaurant, 800 Taraval at 17th Avenue, $75. Bernadette Lang Webb, (415) 924-5196; Peggy Niland Cooney, (650) 878-8260. RSVP by May 10. ‘DAY AT RACES’: Golden Gate Fields, Berkeley, racing starts 11:45 a.m. benefiting Dominican Sisters Vision of Hope and inner-city Catholic elementary schools. Event includes admission to Turf Club, valet parking, breakfast and prime rib buffets, raffles, silent and live auctions. Purchase tickets online at www.visionofhope.org or by calling Vision of Hope in Oakland, (510) 5335768.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 3 BREAKFAST TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake and Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, Mass, 7 a.m. followed by breakfast and talk about annual “Get on the Bus” campaign. Breakfast $10 members, $15 others. (415) 461-0704, 9- 3 p.m. or Sugaremy@aol.com.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4 PEACE MASS: Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1555 39th Ave. at Lawton, San Francisco, 9 a.m. Father Arnold E. Zamora, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist; (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.
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Memorial Day Mass
Please join with us on Monday, May 30, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel Rev. Charles Puthota, Ph.D., Celebrant Commemorating our nation’s honored dead and offered for the souls of all the faithful departed. Shuttle available at main gate 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
A special prayer box will be presented during Mass at Holy Cross in Colma. The names of those you wish to remember and a personal message may be written on Memorial Day Tribute Cards available at All Saints Mausoleum or the cemetery office. Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Half Moon Bay at 9:30 a.m. Rev. Joseph Previtali, Celebrant
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Menlo Park at 11:00 a.m. Rev. Augustine Highlander, OP Celebrant Rev. Lawrence Goode, Con-Celebrant
Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery San Rafael at 11:00 a.m. Rev. Paul E. Perry, Celebrant
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060
Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020
Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021
St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679
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