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Christ rises from his tomb in this depiction of the Easter story by Teresa Wo Ye at St. Ignatius Cathedral in Shanghai, China. Easter, the feast of the Resurrection, is April 12 in the Latin rite this year.

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By Tom Burke Happy 93rd birthday to Frances Cervelli! Frances shares her March 19 natal day with St. Joseph, of course, and she spent it sending out the Easter mailing from St. Vincent de Paul Parish in San Francisco, an event she has helped with for the last 65 years. “Frances started when Father James Long was pastor,” said Anstell Ricossa who was also on the job. “She has continued with Father Thomas O’Kane, Msgr. William Clasby, and now, Father John K. Ring. “Frances is a very holy follower of Christ,” Father Ring told me. “She has suffered with many sicknesses and sorrows over the last 10 years and has accepted all with faith. Actions do speak louder than words and Frances speaks very loudly with her action in her faithfulness to Mass and her involvement in so many parish activities. Many people in the parish treat her with the respect they have for their own grandmothers. She has been adopted by many.”… Happy 55 years married March 21 to Connie and Chuck Mertes, longtime members of Holy Name of Jesus Parish. Connie and Chuck are also pillars of local Serra Club work. Army Capt.

Kevin Chan, an alumnus of Holy Name, St. Ignatius and Cal is now serving in Iraq with his wife, Army Capt. Marla Ward Chan. “Please pray for their safe return to home and family next year,” Holy Name Parish asked in a recent bulletin…. Prayers, too, please for Army Major Monnica Felix who is also serving in Iraq. Monnica is a graduate of Notre Dame High School in

Belmont. Her sister is Sabrina a presentation by one of the men, Spence, coordinator of child faith and end with the ‘Hail Mary.’ It’s formation, at St. Matthias Parish incredible,” the younger brother in Redwood City. Sabrina is one of of late author and White House a number of St. Matthias staffers press secretary, Pierre Salinger, ‘spotlighted’ in recent bulletins. said. George raves about St. She especially enjoys working Matthias and its people. “It is an with teens, children and families. incredible parish. We are small but “I am so grateful for the comwarm and welcoming. I love it at munity and spirit at St. Matthias St. Matthias and the people, too.” and the many opportunities for Please let me lead a ‘Congrats’ to developing and strengthening the George on two upcoming milegift of faith,” Sabrina said. Sabrina stones - he is 80 years old June 2 and Monnica’s folks are Marie and 10 years a deacon June 27…. and Mike Felix of Our Lady of St. Matthew Elementary School Mt. Carmel Parish in Redwood took audiences back to musical City…. St. Matthias also put theater’s heyday with Rogers the light on Deacon George and Hammerstein’s ‘Oklahoma’ Salinger, a parishioner since 1991 featuring talent from the student and ordained in 1999. What the ranks as well as parish and San Francisco native likes best school leadership. Father Tony about the diaconate is “being of McGuire, pastor, strayed notservice” saying, “God gave me too-far from real life as the town a gift I wouldn’t have expected preacher and principal, Kenneth in a million years.” George has Boegel joined the ensemble as Looking quite ready to hear the winds of helped lead the RCIA program a farmer. More than 40 students Oklahoma “come whistlin’ down the plain” at St. Matthias for the last five hoofed and sang in the show. are Father Tony McGuire, James Donohue, years and served for 14 years as School music teacher, Barbara left, who played grumpy ranch-hand ‘Jud’, and an assistant Catholic chaplain at Barrett, directed the producSan Quentin. He holds a graduate Matthew Cook who played leading-man, ‘Curly.’ tion… This is an empty space degree in psychology. “My thesis without you! E-mail items and was done on addiction in people age 55 and up,” George said, pictures to burket@sfarchdiocese.org. Mail items and pictures noting he draws much to help others from his own recovery. to “Street”, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109.Pix should be George meets every Wednesday morning with a men’s prayer hard copy or electronic jpeg at 300 dpi. Don’t forget to include group. “They are an awesome bunch. Usually 35 to 40 guys show a follow-up phone number. Call me at (415) 614-5634 and I’ll up. We sing a song, check-in with our week, listen and consider walk you through it.

St. Vincent de Paul Parish volunteers, back from left, Dorothy Sabini, Dorothy Sabene, Anstell Ricossa, Mimi YsturizDougherty, and front from left, Frances Scatena and Frances Cervelli who was 93 years old March 19. Not available for photo was Elsie Gaspari. “They are my mail crew.

I couldn’t do without them,” parish secretary, Kathleen Mulhern said.

Holy Names Sister Margaret Kinzie speaks at Mass commemorating her 50th year as a religious March 22. At left is Msgr. Michael Harriman, pastor of St. Cecilia’s where Sister Peggy has taught in the parish school for more than 30 years. “Msgr. Harriman presented Sister Peggy with a plaque in appreciation of her dedication and Sister Peggy also renewed her vows,” eighth grade teacher, Kathy Kays said.

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Easter Message: ‘The good news, Jesus has been raised up!’

Pope’s Holy Land visit plans set VATICAN CITY (CNS) – On his first trip to the Holy Land, Pope Benedict XVI will meet with Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders, stop at the Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and visit a refugee camp in Bethlehem, West Bank, the Vatican said.

The May 8-15 visit will take the pope to holy sites in Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories. The pope will visit the new King Hussein Mosque in Amman, Jordan, visit Jesus’ baptism site at the Jordan River, and make a pilgrimage to Mount Nebo, where Moses once looked out at the Promised Land.

Pope Benedict will depart from Rome May 8 and arrive in Amman, Jordan in the afternoon. He departs from Jordan on May

11 and heads for Jerusalem.

On the afternoon of May 15, the pope will leave Israel and head home to Rome.

The pope’s itinerary calls for encounters with Israeli political leaders, Christian leaders, Jerusalem’s most prominent rabbis and the city’s leading Muslim cleric, the grand mufti.

Pope Benedict also will visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem and celebrate public Masses in Amman, Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Nazareth, Israel.

The pope’s schedule also calls for a visit to the Latin Patriarchate’s co-cathedral, and lunch with the Catholic ordinaries of the Holy Land at the Latin Patriarchate. He will also meet with Greek Orthodox and additional Catholic leaders.

St. Mary Magdalene is depicted in a church window. She was the first to see the risen Christ and thus the first one committed to proclaim the Good News.

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It’s very hard for us to keep news to ourselves, especially good news. We tell our bad news to others so they will console us, but we tell good news because we cannot contain our happiness. This is especially true of the news of new life, for example a mother expecting a child.

All around us, all the time, there is good news and bad news about life: 1) soldiers and civilians dying violently every day in a war; 2) a new medical breakthrough; 3) a friend or neighbor losing his or her job; 4) a young boy scout found alive after being lost in the woods for several days; 5) millions of people without adequate health care. Good news and bad news.

We all know personally that good news can change lives and save them, spiritually. That is most true of the good news of the life, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

This transforming power of Christ’s rising has been the experience for Catholic Christians from the beginning of Christianity, from the first Easter Sunday onward: the women came to the tomb early in the morning to prepare properly the body of the dead Jesus. They were worried about the size of the stone at the tomb’s entrance, and how they will roll it back. Instead, the angel greeted them and proclaimed the good news for the very first time: “Jesus of Nazareth has been raised up!” That kept on happening: there was fear in the

upper chamber, and a lack of recognition on the road to Emmaus; there was Mary Magdalene’s meeting the risen Jesus and thinking at first he was the gardener. It keeps on happening now: we can be preoccupied with our own version of the stone in our lives, too heavy for us to move, and miss the good news of the empty tomb and the presence of the risen Christ with us.

This good news fills the empty places of our spirit with meaning and joy, and a destiny, now and forever – if we let him, this Risen, Jesus, Our Good News, will be the Sun in our lives: the light who shows us how to see – and how to respond to – each moment he gives us. With the Church we proclaim: “This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it. Alleluia.”

Most Reverend George H. Niederauer Archbishop of San Francisco

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Thousands to join Church WASHINGTON – As many as 150,000 new or returning Catholics are expected to join the Catholic Church in 2009 in the United States. Many of them will do so during the Easter Vigil April 11 in parishes across the country. Only partial figures from a sample of U.S. dioceses were available so far for 2009, according to a March 31 news release from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The numbers do not include infant baptisms, which are recorded separately. In some cases the numbers of new or returning Catholics show growth in the church in places where it has traditionally been a minority, like Georgia.

The Archdiocese of Atlanta estimated that 513 catechumens and 2,195 candidates will join the ranks of the archdiocese in 2009. About 1,800 of them will do so at Easter. Catechumens, or people not yet baptized, receive the sacraments of initiation – baptism, confirmation and first Communion. Candidates, who are already baptized Christians, enter full communion with the church by receiving confirmation and first Communion. The Archdiocese of San Francisco has 198 catechumens and another 231 candidates who will join archdiocese this year.

Iowa bishops decry ruling DAVENPORT, Iowa – Iowa’s Catholic bishops vigorously disagreed with the Iowa Supreme Court’s unanimous decision April 3 that strikes down state law defining marriage as a union of one man and one woman. “This decision rejects the wisdom

of thousands of years of human history. It implements a novel understanding of marriage, which will grievously harm families and children,” the bishops said in a statement prepared by the Iowa Catholic Conference. The bishops vowed to continue to protect and promote marriage as a union between a man and a woman and asked Catholics and other citizens of Iowa to call for a constitutional amendment on marriage. With the high court’s ruling, Iowa becomes the third state in the nation to recognize marriages for gay and lesbian couples, after Massachusetts and Connecticut. In its 7-0 decision, the court in Des Moines ruled that “limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the Iowa Constitution.” The decision further allows gay and lesbian couples full access to the institution of civil marriage. The ruling resolves an action brought by six same-sex couples who were denied marriage licenses in Polk County because of the 1998 Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH Immigration reform work urged SAN FRANCISCO

MASON, Ohio – Organizers for a comprehensive immigration reform effort gathered on a regional basis for the first time in Greater Cincinnati to develop strategies, target lawmakers and help area Catholics keep the issue at the forefront. “Most of us aren’t impacted by immigration,” said Chris West, director of field operations for the Justice for Immigrants campaign of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “It is small groups who can get together to change things. There is that power. Immigration is bigger than us,” he told the audience during his presentation. “We encourage others to pray about the issue. When you lift it up to God, you engage people.” The Justice for Immigrants campaign convened a regional Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform conference March 26-28 at a conference center in the northern Cincinnati suburb of Mason. About 130 people, mostly from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois and West Virginia, attended to exchange ideas and learn skills such

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The coffin containing the body of U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers is carried by a transfer team at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., April 5. Myers, of Hopewell, Va., died April 4 in Afghanistan of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device blew up.

This was the first time in almost 20 years the media was allowed to record the return of a fallen U.S. service member.

as participating in a letter campaign to their representatives in Congress to push for immigration reform.

Diocese bans Mexico travel ORANGE, California – Border violence has made travel to Mexico too dangerous for church groups, the risk manager for the Diocese of Orange said in a memo to diocesan ministries, parishes and schools. The March 3 memo by Michael Shaffer cited a Feb. 20 U.S. State Department travel alert warning of a high level of violence that could result in serious risk of injury or death. Bishop Tod Brown “has decided to prohibit parish or other diocesan groups, whether for adults or youth and adults, to travel into Mexico” until the travel alert is lifted, the memo said. Although the decision applies only to official groups of the diocese, the bishop encourages clergy, employees, and others to seriously consider the situation and not travel into Mexico at this time, according to the notice.

Obama at Notre Dame hot topic WASHINGTON – Bishops from across the country continued to express their disapproval of the University of Notre Dame’s choice of President Barack Obama as the May 17 commencement speaker. Their comments, in publicly released letters to Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, president of the Indiana university, have used words such as “travesty,” “disappointment” and “scandal” that Obama would not only address graduates but would also be given an honorary degree. Critics of Obama said his support of legal abortion and embryonic stem-cell research make him an inappropriate choice to be commencement speaker at a Catholic university. In criticizing Notre Dame’s decision, announced March 20, most of the bishops referred to their 2004 document, “Catholics in Political Life,” which states in part that “the Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral NEWS IN BRIEF, page 9

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Bay Area faith leaders to Congress: Boost aid to world’s poorest

By Catholic San Francisco staff As Congress responds to the economic crisis it must redesign U.S. foreign aid policy to direct more resources to the world’s poorest people.

That was the call April 1 at the University of San Francisco at an interfaith luncheon on the Point 7 Now campaign to urge Congress to allot seven-tenths of a percent of the nation’s income to the cause of easing the worst of global poverty by the middle of the next decade.

The Point 7 campaign (http://point7now.org) supports the U.N.’s nearly decade-old Millennium Development Goals to improve health, education and economic conditions for the world’s extreme poor by 2015. It was formed in San Francisco in 2006 by Catholic organizations, including the Archdiocese of San Francisco and USF’s Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought. It was expanded as an interfaith effort the following year with the Point 7 Now Action Conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Last year the campaign formed the Interfaith MDG Coalition, made up of 26 congregations and organizations. The group meets every other month to collaborate on educational and lobbying efforts under way to bring U.S foreign aid in line with the U.N. goals. In the past year faith leaders have met with eight congressional representatives and organized educational programs on the U.N. goals throughout the Bay Area.

The April 1 meeting, hosted by the Lane Center, brought together campaign leaders for their second annual gathering to assess their progress and set goals for the coming year, which include helping build local coalitions in Los Angeles, Boston and Washington and

organizing a national leadership conference for April next year at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Attending were Archbishop George H. Neiderauer, USF President Stephen Privett and representatives of other Christian and non-Christian groups.

in Congress asking that a redesign of Foreign Assistance Act, which places poverty alleviation at the top of our national priorities along with diplomacy and defense, be passed by both houses with the approval of the president.”

She asked the faith leaders to sign the coalition’s Interfaith Statement to End Global Poverty and write to members of Congress about the Foreign Assistance Act.

“This spring lawmakers are reviewing foreign aid programs, and assessing where and how changes might be made,” Rev. Young said. “Voices of constituents, particularly in letters, are valued and taken into consideration by Congress.”

She said the coalition is scheduling visits with local Congress members and urged faith leaders to send representatives. A meeting with House Speaker FAITH LEADERS, page 6

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Passion Play A company of 45 volunteers from parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco staged the Passion play on Palm Sunday at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco. The group scheduled a second performance for Good Friday at noon at Mission Dolores Basilica. Juan Madriz, a St. Dominic parishioner, plays the role of Jesus in the drama focusing on the suffering, death and resurrection of Christ. Above, Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, carries the cross to Calvary, and is crucified.

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“We are not originating this,” Rev. Young said. “There is already great momentum in Congress and in the activist community. We are part of the tide. We, among others, are gathering the faith community to speak with a loud voice. Our global financial and economic crises

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Technology in youth ministry is focus of upcoming workshop

By Michael Vick To educate parents, teachers and ministers involved in faith formation, the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry will sponsor a workshop on technology and its influence on ministry April 20.

Daughter of St. Paul Sister Rose Pacatte, director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles, will lead the workshop.

Vivian Clausing, OREYM’s associate director for youth ministry and catechesis, said the workshop is part of a broader conversation on technology prompted by questions the office receives about its use in ministry.

“We are all still trying to figure out the best ways to use technology,” Clausing said. “Many youth ministers find themselves in situations where the youth are more versed in technology than they are.

So our first response is this workshop.”

Clausing said as a parent, she has had to navigate her daughter’s use of technology as well. Keeping as up-to-date as possible on technological trends has helped her to do so.

“I tell her, ‘When you’re online, make good judgments,’” Clausing said. “If you wouldn’t say it to a person face-to-face, you shouldn’t say it online.”

Clausing said that while technology may pose dangers to young people, when used with some caution and planning, its

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benefits outweigh these problems.

“It’s incredible what we can do,” Clausing said. “Technology has the potential to help us build relationships, especially when working with young people, and relating to them more in their context.”

The workshop, entitled “The Influence of the Digital Age on Faith Formation,” will be held at the Pastoral Center at One Peter Yorke Way in San Francisco. Two sessions are available, the first from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., and the second from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Cost for the workshop is $10.

For more information, contact Vivian Clausing at (415) 614-5654 or email clausingv@sfarchdiocese.org. Registration

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Education initiative topic of ‘For Heaven’s Sake’ Channel 4 TV program April 19 An innovative educational program that has gained the attention of the “60 Minutes” television program and national media, as well as support from prestigious foundations is the topic on the local TV program, “For Heaven’s Sake,” which airs Sunday, April 19 at 5:30 a.m. on KRONChannel 4.

S a n F r a n c i s c o ’s I m m a c u l a t e Conception Academy (ICA) – a Catholic college preparatory Dominican high school for girls – has joined the Christo Rey Network. Christo Rey is an innovative educational program in which students work one day a week in a business or corporate setting, where they gain confidence and experience, while earning part of their tuition. Started in

1996 in Chicago and named for Christo Rey Jesuit High School, which initiated the concept to help lower income urban students gain a quality education, the Christo Rey Network now includes 22 schools, three of them in California.

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Annual junior high academic decathlon draws 17 Catholic schools Seventeen schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco participated in the thirteenth Annual Academic Junior High Decathlon held March 14 at St. Pius School in Redwood City.

Participating schools included, Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Corpus Christi, St/ Anthony-Immaculate Conception, De Marillac Academy, Saint Charles, Good Shepherd, Saint Gabriel, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Saint John, Mission Dolores, Saint Pius, Nativity, Saint Raymond, Our Lady of Mercy, Saints Peter and Paul, and Epiphany.

St. Gabriel School won in overall competition and will represent the Archdiocese of San Francisco on May 2, 2009 at the state event in Redwood City. Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires took second place and Our Lady of Mercy was third.

St. Pius School principal, Rita Carroll, chaired and coordinated the event.

In the Logic competition, first place went to Our Lady of Mercy; second to School of the Epiphany, and third to St. Gabriel.

In the Religion category, St. Gabriel student Sophia Cannata-Bowman took first place; second went to Jocelyn Lim of Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires; and third place went to Mikaela McKay of Good Shepherd.

Current Events category winner was Francesco Trogu of Sts. Peter and Paul; second went to Malaya Sadler of Ecole Notre Dames des Victoires; and Kevin Tsai of St. Gabriel took third.

In the English competition, first place went to Kylie Young of Our Lady of Mercy; second place was won by Isabella Mello of Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires; and third went to Juliette Hackett of St. Gabriel.

In the Mathmatics competition, Brian Wuerstle of Good Shepherd took first place; second went to

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St. Gabriel Elementary School: Back from left: Kelly Graber, Kristen Zachariah, Juliette Hackett, Kevin Tsai, Sophia CannataBowman, Anna Yuschenkoff, Adrian Diaz de Rivera and Jacob Blumenfeld.

Front from left: Krystal Karunungan and Michelle Li. Coaches included Charlene McDonnell, Rick Moseley, Mara Hill, Patricia and Dave Tucker, Lynn Grier, Bernice Tonegato-Jarrell, Donna Bruno.

Kristen Zachariah of St. Gabriel and Marjorie Morales of Epiphany; and Marc Anthony Isidro of Mission Dolores took third.

In Literature, first place was won by Adrian Diaz de Rivera of St. Gabriel; second went to Edwin Garcia of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel; and third was won by Zoe Firth of Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires.

In the Fine Arts category, Jacob Blumenfeld of St. Gabriel School won first place; second went to Claire

Fahy of Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires; and third went to Amy Gendotti of St. Charles.

The Science category winner was Charlie Liu of Good Shepherd School; Anna Yuschenkoff of St. Gabriel placed second; and taking third was Daniel Meaghen of Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires.

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rescue workers were still trying to free another of the nuns, he told SIR, the news agency of the Italian bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; conference.

Italyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior minister, Roberto Maroni, said at least 50 people died, including several children, throughout the region.

principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.â&#x20AC;?

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;the adoption of adequate humanitarian measures so that these migrants do not turn to unscrupulous traffickers,â&#x20AC;? who charge hundreds of dollars for places on overcrowded, unsafe boats.

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VATICAN CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Just hours after an earthquake hit the city and province of Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aquila in central Italy, causing dozens of deaths and major damage to churches and other buildings, Pope Benedict XVI offered his prayers for the dead, their loved ones and rescue workers. The quake struck April 6 at 3:30 a.m. local time and was felt strongly even in Rome, about 70 miles west of Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aquila. Among the victims was Abbess Gemma Antonucci, head of the Poor Claresâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cloister of St. Clare in Paganica, outside Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aquila. Father Dionisio Rodriguez Cuartas, the pastor in Paganica and director of Caritas Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aquila, said the roof of the Poor Clares convent caved in. As of midday April 6

VATICAN CITY (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Too many people fleeing extreme poverty and war die crossing the Mediterranean from Africa in search of a better life in Europe, Pope Benedict XVI said.

During his midday recitation of the Angelus prayer April 5, the pope remembered the estimated 200-300 people who drowned a week earlier in the sea off the coast of Libya when stormy weather caused the sinking of the boats attempting to transport them to Italy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We cannot resign ourselves to such tragedies, which unfortunately keep occurring,â&#x20AC;? the pope said. The problem of the poor and oppressed trying to enter Europe through Italy and other Mediterranean countries is so large that it â&#x20AC;&#x153;makes ever more urgent coordinated strategies between the European Union and African states,â&#x20AC;? the pope said. Pope Benedict also called for

VATICAN CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A Vatican researcher has found evidence that the Knights Templar, the medieval crusading order, held secret custody of the Shroud of Turin during the 13th and 14th centuries. The shroud, which bears the image of a man and is believed by many to have been the burial cloth of Jesus, was probably used in a secret Templar ritual to underline Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s humanity in the face of popular heresies of the time, the expert said. The researcher, Barbara Frale, made the comments in an article published April 5 by the Vatican newspaper, Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Osservatore Romano. The article anticipated evidence the author presents in an upcoming book on the Templars and the shroud. Frale, who works in the Vatican Secret Archives, said documents that came to light during research on the 14th-century trial of the Templars contained a description of a Templar initiation ceremony.

Ecole Notre Dames des Victoires: Back from left: Adair Rosen, Grace Newman, Rose Paxton, Daniel Meafher, Jonathon Wong, and Shawn Sie. Middle from left: JoJo Barrios, Jocelyn Lim, Micah Park, Rebecca Harvey, Claire Fahy, Malaya Sadler, and Zoe Firth. Front from left: Madeline Schieber, Claudia Rodriguez, Isabella Mello, and Natalie Keohane. Coaches included Judith Shilstone, Jennifer Lake, Saber Khan, Brendan Barth, Aileen Albertson, Megan Mulcahy, Sharon Hupf, Paul Briggs.

Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School: Members of the Decathlon Team included Natalie Yap, Adrian Peneyra, Kylie Young, Julie Canta, Elisa Basa, Justine Velarde, Chantel Tumang, Eljay Velasco, Jeffrey Reyes, Lauren Tom, Ramneet Bajwa, Lauren Padron, Leeza Oro, Michelle Kong, Alanna Aquino, Leila Lagandaon, Miguel Llemos, Tricia Ventenilla, Riya Patel, Kristine Legaspi.

Coaches included Jean Anderson, Sue Anderson, Beth Gorman, Elizabeth McCarthy, Gina Beal.

Good Shepherd Elementary School: Front from left: John McGhee, Charlie Liu, Conner Finsness, Peter Tarka, Ix Chel Mendieta. Back from left: Andrew Murphy, Emily Russell, Aidan Tribble, Donovan Stewart, Jesse Kvarna, Mikaela McKay, Dante Kibblewhite, Brian Wuerstle, Michael Sucher.

Coaches included Brenda Johe, Alicia Carley, Rosemarie Thompson, Stephanie Quinlan, Barbara Norman, Yvonne Aurich.

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The Super Quiz category was won by Good Shepherd School; with Nativity School taking second; and Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires placing third.

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Franciscans ready to celebrate 800th anniversary of order’s founding spiritually and collaborate on a number of projects around the world.

Instead of considering the orders as VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Some divided, he said they represent the diver1,800 Franciscan friars from all over sity and plurality in the world. the world were expected to converge on “The Franciscan order flows from a the Umbrian hill town of Assisi, Italy, to very rich charism” that can find exprescelebrate the 800th anniversary of papal sion in many people and places, he approval of the Franciscan rule. said.

For the first time, representatives There are also countless groups, from the four main Franciscan branches including Anglicans, Lutherans and were to meet in Assisi – the birthplace Presbyterians, who find inspiration in of their founder, St. Francis – to take St. Francis and live according to his part in an International Chapter of Mats rule, he said.

April 15-18.

Even some Buddhists and Muslims A Chapter of Mats gets its name have a special devotion to the Franciscan from the time in 1221 St. Francis St. Anthony of Padua, Capuchin Father called more than 3,000 friars to the Mariano Steffan said at the April 7 press Porziuncola chapel in Assisi for a genconference. eral meeting or chapter.

The Franciscan charism “is very open; Because the small town could not it doesn’t make distinctions, create barriaccommodate the large number of visiers or segregate,” he said. tors, the friars lived in huts made out of However, this causes some difficulty reeds and slept on mats, said Father Jose Assisi, Italy, where Franciscans will gather to celebrate 800 years. in discernment “because when there is Rodriguez Carballo, minister general of such a diversity of expression it’s hard the Order of Friars Minor.

The three other Franciscan groups participating are meet with Pope Benedict XVI April 18 during a special to tell when you have the right balance and when you’ve gone too far,” he said. the Capuchins, the Conventual Franciscans and the Third audience at Castel Gandolfo, he said.

Order Regular Franciscans.

St. Francis, who was born to a wealthy family in Assisi The chapter falls on the 800th anniversary of the for- sometime around 1181, dedicated himself to the poor and mal founding of the Franciscan order when St. Francis preached living a way of peace. He founded three religious presented his rule to Pope Innocent III for approval in orders – the Friars Minor, the Poor Clares, and the Brothers Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care 1209. and Sisters of Penance – giving each one a special rule.

During a press conference April 7 at Vatican Radio, The orders evolved over time and today include: Even with the devastating diagnosis Father Rodriguez underlined the spiritual nature of the – The first order, which is made up of three separate of dementia and the sadness it brings, gathering and said organizers hope it will be an occasion bodies – the Friars Minor, the Conventual Franciscans and there is a place of warmth and caring… for “coming together as a family, offering the church and the Capuchins. a staff that believes there’s a lot of the world our witness of brotherhood and celebrating our – The second order, the Poor Clares, which includes all beginnings.” monasteries of cloistered nuns professing the Rule of St. living to do….a place where With days dedicated to testimonials, penance, fasting, Clare as well as the Sisters of the Annunciation and the prayer and pilgrimage, the gathering will also be a call to Conceptionists. conversion and to live the Gospel as St. Francis asked his – The third order, which is made up of the Third Order disciples to, the minister general said.

Regular Franciscans, a secular order and new foundations.

Men and women religious will have an occasion to Father Rodriguez said while the Franciscan branches profess their continued fidelity to the pope when they are juridically separate from one another they are united (CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ)

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Present at the creation: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School, Daly City

By Father Joseph Gordon

completed in 1947. Father James Bergin, the second pastor, and Sister Mary Clarice Doyle, the fourth principal, oversaw the construction. Until the early 1960s the sisters not only taught for five full days each week – 50 students per class with no aides – but also gave after-school piano lessons, tutoring sessions, and CCD classes to public school youngsters on Saturday mornings. At least two graduates of the school are: football commentator John Madden, and former NFL coach John Robinson, both from the class of 1950.

With the 1970s decline in the number of teaching sisters, OLPH eventually adjusted to few, if any, women religious on its faculty. Sister Mary Patricia Clancy was the last of the Sisters of St. Joseph to serve as principal, retiring in 1984, also for health reasons. She was succeeded by OLPH’s first lay principal, James Costello, who carried on the sisters’ work for 19 years. Their community withdrew the remaining sisters in 1987. In 2003 Costello announced his retirement, and the present principal, William Kovacich, was selected.

“This school has always served the parish community with pride,” said Mr. Kovacich. “From European immigrant families in the 20th century to the Filipino and Hispanic immigrants of today, OLPH has always provided quality education.

Students, teachers and staff of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School in Daly City pay homage to the school’s 75th anniversary.

(SISTER ADELE MARIE KORHUMMEL, CSJO)

Since the 1925 establishment of Daly City’s first parish, Our Lady of Perpetual Help – commonly known as OLPH and originally founded as St. Maximums – Father James Donohue, the first pastor, had dreamed of opening a parish school. Against overwhelming financial odds, he placed several small, cold and leaky shanties on the premises, including an outhouse that would serve as classrooms for the new school in addition to using the church vestibule and work sacristy.

Once assured of sufficient space and a suitable nearby home for an order of women religious who might accept Father Donohue’s invitation to staff the school, Archbishop Edward Hanna gave Donohue

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In January 1933, Superior General Mother Francis Loretta agreed to assign six Sisters to open the school with 80 students in grades one through six. Sister Thomas Hallicy was named first principal and superior, accompanied by Sister Benedict Collier, assistant superior, Sister Mary Pius White, Sister Grace Marie Schubert, Sister Cellist Merisel, and Sister Stanislaus Mondor. Daly City’s cold foggy climate was not kind to Sister Thomas, however, and she barely completed her first year when she was hospitalized in San Francisco and soon returned to Orange where she died several months later.

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Father Joseph Gordon is a 1959 graduate of OLPH. Many of the students of the 1933 OLPH first grade went on to graduate in 1940, the first class to complete all eight grades at the school.

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Palm Sunday: The principle of love, identical with the mystery of the cross, defines man’s journey

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esus went up to Jerusalem for Passover along with a growing crowd of pilgrims. . . When, at the gates of Jerusalem, Jesus mounts a donkey, the animal symbol of Davidic royalty, joyous certainty erupts among the pilgrims: It is he, the Son of David! Thus they greet Jesus with the messianic acclamation:

Jesus went up to Jerusalem for Passover along with a growing crowd of pilgrims. . . When, at the gates of Jerusalem, Jesus mounts a donkey, the animal symbol of Davidic royalty, joyous certainty erupts among the pilgrims: It is he, the Son of David! Thus they greet Jesus with the messianic acclamation: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,” and add: “Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is to come! Hosanna in the highest!” (Mark 11:9). We do not know exactly what the enthusiastic pilgrims imagined the coming kingdom of David to be. But we, have we truly understood the message of the Jesus, Son of David? Have we understood what the kingdom is that he spoke of when he was interrogated by Pilate? Do we understand what it means that this kingdom is not of this world? . . .

Through the resurrection Jesus passes beyond the limits of space and time. As the Risen One, he is on a journey toward the vastness of the world and history. . . his word will be carried forward in a new way and understood in a new way – his kingdom comes. We can thus recognize two essential characteristics of this kingdom. The first is that this kingdom passes through the cross. Because Jesus gives himself totally, he can as the Risen One belong to everyone and make himself present

to all. In the Holy Eucharist we receive the fruit of the dead grain of wheat, the multiplication of the loaves that continues to the end of the world and in all times.

the prophet Zachariah says (9:10) – that is, it embraces the whole world. This, however, is only possible because it is not a political kingdom, but is based solely on the free adhesion of love – a love that, for its part, answers to the love of Jesus Christ that has given itself for all. I think that we must always be learning both things – first the universality, the catholicity. It means that no one can posit himself as absolute, his culture, his time and his world.

This means that we all welcome each other, renouncing something of ourselves. Universality includes the mystery of the cross – the overcoming of ourselves, obedience toward the universal word of Jesus Christ in the universal Church. . . .

Only in abandoning ourselves, only in the disinterested gift of the “I” in favor of the “Thou,” only in the “Yes” to the greater life, precisely the life of God, our life too becomes full and more spacious. Thus, this fundamental principle that the Lord establishes is, in the final analysis, simply identical with the principle of love. Love, in fact, means leaving yourself behind, giving yourself, not wanting to hold on to yourself, but becoming free from yourself: not getting preoccupied with yourself – what will become of me – but looking ahead, toward the other - toward God and the people whom he sends to me. It is this principle of love that defines man’s journey, it is once again identical with the mystery of the cross, with the mystery of death and resurrection that we encounter in Christ.

The second characteristic is that his kingdom is universal. It fulfills the ancient hope of Israel: this reign of David knows no more borders. It extends “from sea to sea” – as

Palm Sunday Masses, Mission Dolores Basilica, April 5, 2009.

Photos by Arne Folkedal / Catholic San Francisco

Pope Benedict XVI, St. Peter’s Basilica, Palm Sunday 2009

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Chrism Mass

‘As the Father has sent me, so also I send you’ “Lord, it is good for us to be here!” Just four weeks ago, on the second Sunday in Lent, we heard St. Peter say those words to Jesus on the mountain of the Transfiguration. It’s also true for us here today. We who belong to the Catholic Church in San Francisco, and seek to serve her life, gather here in our Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption to celebrate our Chrism Mass.

We give thanks for Christ’s saving action in the Church through all the generations who have gone before us and who have handed on to us the faith and worship we celebrate and prize. We commit ourselves to continue to proclaim, to celebrate and to share with all peoples this good news and kingdom life. We pray that we, in imitation of Jesus Christ, may ourselves become witnesses for others to faith and life in him. That is the most powerful and genuine evangelization of all, and it is what we pray for as we go on pilgrimage this holy year to this church and the other churches as well.

In a special way tonight in this Chrism Mass we celebrate Jesus Christ as our High Priest, as well as our own priestliness, for Christ has made us a “royal nation of priests.” We Catholics believe that Jesus continues to teach us and make us holy and shepherd us in his Church, through the service of his ministers and the power of his sacraments. All the baptized have been given the gift of sharing in the priestly identity of Jesus who offered himself for us on the Cross. Some from among the baptized have been called to share also in his ministerial priesthood through the Sacrament of Holy Orders, as deacons and priests and bishops.

The oils we bless and consecrate this evening will be used during the coming year to celebrate the sacraments, the lifegiving and life-sustaining signs of Christ the Priest within us and among us, making us holy, precious and sacred to him as his Church. The Oil of Chrism we will use to anoint all the baptized, to seal those who are confirmed, to anoint a priest’s hands and a bishop’s head, to anoint altars and churches when they are consecrated or dedicated. All those preparing for baptism are anointed with the oil of catechumens. The Catholic Church seeks the healing of all her daughters and sons who are sick with the oil specially blessed for that purpose.

In the gospel passage this evening from Luke, Jesus, reading from Isaiah in the synagogue, claims that his Father anointed him, and for a purpose: “The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, to comfort all who mourn…”

When Jesus anoints us sacramentally in his Church, it is for this mission of salvation and service. On the first Easter Sunday night, he told the earliest disciples, “As the Father has sent me, so also I send you.”

The sacraments commit us, and equip us, to spend our lives in loving service to God and to one another, in particular to those in greatest need. We are strengthened most of all through this sacrifice and sacrament at this altar, the Body and Blood of Christ, so that we can share his life with all we meet. There are so many ways to comfort, to heal, and to free the captives, just as there are so many kinds of captivity which don’t involve iron bars or barbed wire. Men and women can imprison themselves in anger, resentment, prejudice, depression, addiction and despair; they can imprison others in racism, bigotry, rejection and contempt. Our faith in Christ can free us, and help us to free others, from such captivity. The proper rhythm of Catholic life leads us from prayer and worship and celebration to the relationships of our lives and the needs of the marketplace, and back again to prayer and worship and celebration.

At this time, in this city, this state, this nation and this world, the bleak and frightening specter of having no job, no home, no food, no security and no dignity, haunts many of our sisters and brothers, many of us. In our schools, our homes and our parishes, and across the Archdiocese in the many programs of Catholic Charities/CYO, the need for services increases even as the resources for serving decrease. Jesus calls us together as Church to stretch ourselves in faith, hope and love, to reach out as generously as we can, to find and serve him in the ones who need us most. We look at the dismaying statistics and we feel like saying, “What can one person do?” The answer, of course, is “Whatever one person can do!” Remember the Lord praised the poor widow who donated “two small coins worth a few cents,” and he declared, “Whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple . . . will surely not lose his reward.”

In each generation since Christ, and now in our own time, the Spirit of Jesus Christ calls forth candidates for service to the Church by the laying on of hands. You all know of the great need

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Science is a tool In a letter to the editor (CSF March 27), Peter Mandell applauded the President’s recent actions on embryonic stem-cell research, claiming that reversing the ban on federal funding allows for “true” science to occur. “Scientific research should never be controlled by personal convictions or based on even one group’s religious beliefs,” he argued. He concluded that “intelligent thinking people know good science,” by which he apparently means unrestricted science, “when they see it.”

Actually, intelligent people recognize that science is simply a tool, used to obtain knowledge or to apply it to a particular end. Science says nothing about whether

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the end is a just one – or whether the means employed are moral. After all, the “scientists” at Auschwitz were still guilty of genocide regardless of the sophistication of their technique. Similarly, even researchers with the legitimate goal of eradicating cancer cannot use immoral means, such as conducting human experimentation on unsuspecting people.

By urging Catholics to keep their personal convictions to themselves, Mr. Mandell tries to elevate science as somehow above politics or faith. In this he is wrong, for science is ultimately the tool of people motivated by politics or faith. The only way to gauge the proper use of science, then, is to first have a belief system that informs such decision making. For Catholics, the Bible and the traditions of the Church teach us that all human life is precious as it bears the imago dei. Since embryos are, without question, “human” and “living,” it remains for people like Mr. Mandell to first explain why they are not entitled to the same protection as other living humans, regardless of their level of development.

In the meantime, Catholics must continue to bring light to a fallen world. Just as a Christian is justified in protesting an unjust war, regardless of the soundness of the military tactics employed, so too must the faithful Catholic speak against the destruction of human life, regardless of the scientific

we have for priests and religious in this diocese.

We did not invent the vocation crisis, though we do experience it.

The first words about the need for vocations were spoken by the greatest authority, Jesus himself.

In Matthew’s Gospel, Archbishop just before choosing the George H. Twelve, Jesus said to his followers: “The harvest Neiderauer is good but laborers are scarce. Beg the harvest master to send out laborers to gather his harvest.”

In the Jerome Biblical Commentary a scholar makes three insightful remarks about these words of Christ: 1) Jesus turns the problem into an opportunity; 2) the scarcity is likely to be permanent, not a phase, because of the challenging difficulty of the work to be done; 3) without prayer and yearning for harvest hands, none are likely to respond. It is not enough for us to prepare and bless this oil of Chrism for anointing; we must also pray for, call forth and support candidates to be anointed with the Chrism at ordination.

Thanks be to God, we will use this Chrism to ordain three men to priesthood for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and in the same ceremony we will ordain two young men to diaconate, in preparation for ordination to the priesthood next year. We still have too few men preparing for ordination to priesthood. A good number express an interest, but in this culture it is a strong challenge to make a decision to enter the seminary. That is why the prayerful support and encouragement of all of us is so important. Calling forth church vocations is the task of each of us in the Catholic Church in this Archdiocese. I ask you to take that task to heart in a moment, when you stand to rededicate yourself to the life of the Catholic Church in this diocese. Take it to heart all year long, and in the years to come.

“It is good for us to be here,” but, like the three disciples on the mountain top, we now must follow Jesus back down to the crowds who wait for our ministry, who wait for Christ ministering through us. If this is the intent and direction of our prayer and of our lives, then Christ will continue to make us a “royal nation of priests in the service of his God and Father.”

San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer delivered this homily at the Chrism Mass, April 7, at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

technique, or goal, that has impelled that destruction.

Trying to silence dissent by creating a false dichotomy between science and faith is neither intelligent nor effective.

Al Serrato Millbrae

Dangerous deference It’s hard to believe the letter from Peter Mandell in the March 27 issue isn’t satire. While his absolute support for the ‘principle’ of science is superficially admirable, the depth of ignorance it reveals is frightening. He claims that “anything less that [sic] complete scientific research examining all forms of stem cell research is indefensible.” I suppose if a researcher found indications that an especially potent form of stem cell could be found in the heart of Peter’s hippocampus, it would be ‘indefensible’ not to remove Peter’s brain to perform “complete scientific research” on that cell.

This sort of blind deference to the sanctity of “science” is the callingcard of eugenicists, not humanitarians. What is truly indefensible here is the taking of life in the name of scientific progress. Peter points out that frozen embryos are destined to be discarded, anyway, and cites this as a supporting argument for research that entails the killing of those embryos. In reality, though, it’s one of the best arguments against in-vitro fertilization – the practice that creates those ‘surplus’ embryos in the first place.

Defending legal abortion and/or embryonic stem-cell research because there is disagreement over whether embryos or fetuses

are fully human is reminiscent of the days when some people defended slavery and/ or lynching because there was disagreement over whether darker-skinned individuals were fully persons. Every human life deserves to be protected from people who, for prejudicial zeal, expedience, or misguided “compassion,” might wish to end it.

While offering one’s own life in the effort to save someone else’s life is holy and heroic, taking an innocent life in the effort to save someone else’s life is wholly contrary to the teaching and example of Christ.

Rev. Michael Konopik St. Gabriel Church San Francisco

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Clarification to letter

In a March 27 Catholic San Francisco letter to the editor headlined “Parishioner Dismayed,” I recounted an incident at a San Francisco church where a priest criticized the new bishop of Oakland as part of his homily. For clarification, the incident did not take place at my parish of St. Gabriel but at another parish. My experience is that St. Gabriel’s priests are always very respectful of their fellow priests and bishops, both now with our new pastor, Rev. Tom Hamilton, and with Father John Ryan, who is now the pastor of St. Catherine of Siena. Thanks for helping me clarify my point and thanks for printing my previous letter.

Valerie Schmalz San Francisco Ed. Note: Catholic San Francisco’s Letters Editor takes responsibility for the confusion.

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Spirituality for Life

The Church’s economic-social teachings Most of us have been raised to believe that we have a right to possess whatever comes to us honestly, either through our own work or through legitimate inheritance. No matter how large that wealth might be, it’s ours as long as we didn’t cheat anyone along the way. By and large, this belief has been enshrined in the laws of democratic countries and we generally believe that it is morally sanctioned by Christianity.

Partly this is all true, but it needs a lot of qualification.

From scripture, through Jesus, through the social teachings of the churches, through papal encyclicals from Leo XIII through John Paul II, the right to private ownership and private wealth is mitigated by a number of moral principles. Let me list a number of those principles (which are taught with the weight of Ordinary Magisterium within Roman Catholicism and the ecclesial equivalent of that in most Protestant churches). For Roman Catholics, I will list the major references to church documents: • God intended the earth and everything in it for the sake of all human beings. Thus, in justice, created goods should flow fairly to all. All other rights are subordinated to this principle. (Gaudium et Spes 69, Popularum Progressio 22).We do have a right to private ownership and no one may ever deny us of this right (Rerum Novarum 3-5, 14, Quadregesima Anno 44-56, Mater et Magistra 109), but that right is subordinated to the common good, to the fact that goods are intended for everyone (Laborem Exercens 14).

Wealth and possessions must be understood as ours to steward rather than to possess absolutely (Rerum Novarum 18-19) • No person (or nation) may have a surplus if others do not have the basic necessities (Rerum Novarum 19, Quadregesimo Anno 50-51, Mater et Magistra 119-121 & 157-165, Popularum Progressio 230). Thus, no one may appropriate surplus goods solely for his own private use when others lack the bare necessities for life (Popularum Progressio 23). People are obliged to come to the relief of the poor and if a person is in extreme necessity he has the right to take from the riches of others what he needs (Gaudium et Spes 69).

• The present economic situation in the world must be redressed (Popularum Progressio 6,26,32, Gaudium et Spes 66, Octogesimus Adveniens 43, Sollectitudo Rei Socialis 43). Thus the law of supply and demand, free enterprise, competition, the profit motive, and the private ownership of the means of production may not be given complete free reign. They are not absolute rights and are only good within certain limits (Popularum Progressio 26, Quadragesimo Anno 88, 110).

• In regards to the private ownership of industry and the means of production, two extremes are to be avoided: Unbridled capitalism on the one hand, and complete socialism on the other (Quadregesimo Anno 46, 55, 111-126).

Governments must respect the principle of sub-

sidiarity and intervene only when necessary (Rerum Novarum 28-29, Quadragesimo Anno 79-80, Mater et Magistra 117-152). However when the common good demands it they not only may step in, they Father are obliged to do so.

Ron Rolheiser (Popularum Progressio 24, 33, Mater et Magistra 53, Gaudium et Spes 71).

As well certain forms of property should be reserved for the state since they carry with them an opportunity of domination too great to be left to private individuals (Quadragesimo Anno 114, Mater et Magistra 116).

• Governments may never sacrifice the individual to the collectivity because the individual is prior to civil society and society must be directed towards him or her. (Mater et Magistra 109, Quadragesimo Anno 26) • Employers must pay wages which allow the worker to live in a “reasonable and frugal comfort” (Rerum Novarum 34) and ROLHEISER, page 22

Twenty Something

No second thoughts: the Easter promise of a fresh start Some days life feels grey and predictable: moving in the same direction, making the same turns, waiting at the same lights. Dirty dishes, unfolded laundry, nothing good on TV. Some days the notion of house swapping seems like just the ticket.

Which is why every day hundreds of people stuff messages in bottles and cast them into the cyber sea, hoping their homes will appeal to others far away because of the hot tub, the gas stove, the nearby golf course…or simply because of the novelty.

There’s something for everyone on house-swapping sites like HomeExchange.com and Craigslist.org – whether you’re trading for a weekend or a lifetime, moving in or out of the city, upsizing or downsizing, seeking sun or snow, pines or plains, East or West.

Some swaps are easy to understand. An Omaha, Neb., resident hopes for Honolulu. Charleston, W. Va., requests Istanbul, Turkey.

The incredible thing is that these desires go both ways.

On one site 1,328 Italians are looking to leave. Alfombra, Costa Rica, asks for Allentown, Pa. Alta Gracia, Argentina, yearns for Boston.

Other bids are broader, “open to all offers” – whoever emails first, any city they’ve never seen, any name they can’t pronounce.

When you peek online, one picture will catch your eye and tickle your imagination as you take out the trash, teasing out some long-ago dream. Maybe you can write the Great American Novel under the Tuscan sun or take a cooking class in Paris or learn to salsa in Puerto Rico. Maybe you can get away, get a tan, get rich, get over him, get a life.

Maybe you can render the seemingly impossible possible with the swift click of a keystroke.

It’s a heady antidote to an economy that can easily depress, instilling a sense of limitation, of blocked avenues and restricted paths.

The beauty of our Christian faith is that it offers us a fresh start every day. There is no such thing as a dead end for believers, no rut that can’t be scaled, no sin that can’t be forgiven. Every muddied slate can be wiped blank.

We can leave bad jobs, bad relationships and bad decisions far, far behind with the saving power of our risen Lord.

We are Easter people; we believe in the ultimate triumph of life over death. Old made new. Sin turned into grace.

Darkness shattered by light.

The resurrection is not a one-time miracle. It’s a lifestyle, something we can experience every day, an ongoing adventure.

This year we remember St. Paul, the ultimate house swapper. He traded homes, names and religions. Friends and neighbors hardly recognized him. The man who had killed

Christians was suddenly defending Christianity.

He traveled through Asia Minor, sailed for Europe and preached in Philippi – a tireless apostle, a changed man.

I love how Pope Benedict XVI chronicles this conversion.

Christina “Dazzled by the divine Capecchi light on the road to Damascus,” he wrote, “[Paul] did not hesitate to change sides to the Crucified One and followed him without second thoughts.”

It sounds like a resolute house swapper: a swift click and no second thoughts. We are each called to follow Christ with that alacrity and authority, to be decisive disciples like St. Paul. “How timely his example is today!” the pope wrote.

No matter how dark your days or sinful your ways, don’t despair. When you cling to Christ, you can make a swap.

Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. Email her at christina@readchristina.com.

The Catholic Difference

Freed to be images of God Four distinguished American theologians have died in the past four months (or since the beginning of Advent): Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Father Richard John Neuhaus, Msgr. William B. Smith, and Father Francis Canavan, S.J. Each of these men enriched both Church and country with a noble idea of freedom. That idea has much to do with the events of salvation history we recall at this sacred season.

After receiving his vocation from God, Moses tried to tell the Israelites the good news of their impending liberation: they would be freed from the power of the Egyptians and brought into the land that God had given to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their offspring. It sounds like a very good deal: Israel comes into the possession of its ancestral land; Israel is brought into communion with God, who is truly the Lord.

But Israel isn’t buying: “Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel bondage” (Exodus 6:9). After centuries of slavery, Israel could not imagine itself free.

Israel had lost the image of God within itself.

As Father Dominique Barthelemy, O.P., puts it in a wonderful book, God and His Image (Ignatius Press), mankind after the Fall had “become wild; (man) flies in terror toward death, in terror because he can no longer bear the gaze of the Father, whose love he has in fact disowned and flouted.” Israel, trapped in the bondage of Egypt, had forgotten the loving gaze of the

Father who had called Abraham and spared Isaac. So Israel would have to be tamed anew; Israel could only recover the truth about its freedom by casting off the bad habits of slavery.

“Jacob’s descendants in Egypt are a people in winter,” Father Barthelemy writes, “a people ready to die, who see death staring them in the face. God will be able to tame a people in conditions like these. It is not immediately that he will be able to take them by the hand on Sinai. He must begin by saving them from death in a wholly unexpected manner – hence the exodus from Egypt . . . He will not expect this people to start calling him God, a name that evokes terrifying almighty power, immediately. He asks them to call him . . . Yahweh, which for Israel means ‘Savior.’

“And Israel will grasp the hand of this Savior as their guide, since it is he who has saved them from death.

Afterward, they will allow this saving hand to fashion them anew. It is very necessary that God should fashion man once more in his own divine image. For man was made in the image of God. But this same man has fled ... and has fashioned in himself a caricature of God’s image. God cannot therefore make himself recognized by man unless he first fashions in him (once again) the true image of God . . .”

This is God’s fatherhood, reaching out to refashion us in true freedom: which, as St. Paul writes, is the freedom of the children of God – the freedom to be the images of

God that we were created to be, and thus the freedom to bring into the world the healing power of God’s fatherly love.

God begins the definitive work of refashioning his image in us in the Exodus.

George Weigel He completes that work in raising Jesus, Son of God and Son of Mary, from the dead, so that Jesus the Christ might be the first of many brothers – brothers who live true freedom in the communion of the Church, which is the Son’s mystical body, extended in time and space.

This is the truth about freedom that Cardinal Dulles, Father Neuhaus, Msgr. Smith, and Father Canavan tried to teach us: that true freedom consists in looking up, not looking down – in casting off our broken spirit and living according to the image of God within us. That is the truth of both Exodus and Easter. We learn it crossing the Red Seas of our own life-journeys, where we meet the Risen Lord.

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

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The Resurrection of the Lord –The Mass of Easter Sunday

Scripture reflection

Acts 10:34a; Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-9

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever.

Let the house of Israel say, “His mercy endures forever.”

R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

“The right hand of the Lord has struck with power; the right hand of the Lord is exalted.

I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.”

R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

By the Lord has this been done; it is wonderful in our eyes.

R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE COLOSSIANS COL 3:1-4 Brothers and sisters: If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ

your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 20:1-9 On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.”

So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that

Where is He? – The great cliffhanger After spending what is traditionally regarded as a three-year period preaching a daring message, performing astonishing miracles which transformed and multiplied, expelled and liberated, cured the ill and raised the dead; after being transfigured before three of his closest associates; after challenging and antagonizing the self-righteous to no end, all the while lifting up the downtrodden with a message of hope; after surrendering himself to betrayal, not by an enemy, but by a friend; after condemnation and ultimately death, Jesus of Nazareth performed the most daring, most unexpected act of his entire ministry. . . . . .

He disappeared!

(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ACTS ACTS 10:34A, 37-43 Peter proceeded to speak and said: “You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.

They put him to death by hanging him on a tree. This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible, not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commissioned us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead. To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”

FATHER BILL NICHOLAS

The resurrection of Christ is depicted in a mosaic at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.

Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead.

Not one of the four Gospels gives a firsthand account of Jesus emerging from the tomb in Resurrected glory. The closest we get is the account in Matthew in which the women, as they approach the tomb, experience an earthquake as the angel descends, pushes back the stone and rests upon it. But when they rush forward to look inside, He is gone (Matt 28:1-6).

The other three Gospels simply tell of the tomb being found empty and an angelic being reminding them of Jesus’ promise.

Even the stories of Jesus’ post Resurrection appearances found in the Gospels are products of testimony from only a handful of His dis-

ciples. For the majority of those who personally knew Jesus, the last image they had of their “messiah” was of Him being led away under arrest; or for some, a corpse on a cross. As regards the Resurrection, however, all that is left to us is the empty tomb, and the testimony of a few that they had seen Him raised from the dead – almost as if the sacred authors of the Gospels are continually looking at us as if to ask, “What do you think happened to Him?” Our response to that question is delineated in St. Paul’s letter to the Colossians. In believing that Jesus has Risen from the Dead, we believe that we too have been raised. Therefore, we too will appear in glory with Christ – and Paul speaks of our resurrection with Christ in the present tense, not the future. In his letter to the Romans, Paul associates our death and resurrection with Christ to the Sacrament of Baptism, celebrated each year, during the Easter Vigil, in which we do not enter into our Easter festivities before first receiving in Baptism the new members of our faith community.

In light of all this, how do we manifest our faith – despite the cliffhanger – in the Resurrection of Christ by the manner in which we live our lives? As people of the Resurrection where does our focus lie – on heavenly things or on things of the earth? What kind of people ought we to be if we have been raised with Christ and await the Kingdom where we will be glorified with Him? To people of faith, the Empty Tomb is not a cliffhanger. We do not need a first-hand account of Jesus coming forth from the Tomb. For those who remember Christ’s promises and live the Gospel He preached, the “disappearance” from the tomb does not leave us brooding over what has happened, wondering where He has gone.

We, like the early Christians who first read these Gospel accounts, already know where He is.

Therefore, the manner in which we live as people of the Resurrection, people of Salvation, gives an appropriate response to the implied question left us by the evangelists. We do not ask, “Where is He?” – rather we declare, “He is Risen!”

Father William Nicholas is parochial vicar at Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato. His website is www.frwnicholas.com.

The Easter Vigil From the outset the Easter Vigil, originally and more appropriately called the Paschal Vigil, has been celebrated at night. In the beginning it was a very plain ceremony – an assembly that ended with the breaking of the bread and a feast. One or more days of fasting preceded the Easter Vigil.

As the Easter Vigil developed in Rome and in places where the Roman rite was followed, this tradition added a baptismal rite, the ceremony of the lucernarium, a blessing of the new fire, and a candlelight procession.

As it developed, the Vigil became more and more meaningful. At first the celebration took place at night like the weekly Eucharist, because most of the faithful could not assemble during the day. However, the evangelists situate the discovery of the tomb “as the first day of the week was dawning” (Mt 28:1), “very early” (Mk 16:2; Jn 20:1), and “at dawn” (Lk 24:1). The Scriptures emphasize that Jesus is the “light of the world” that came into the world as a “revelation to the Gentiles” (Lk 2:32).

In baptism the believer passes from death to life (Col 2:12).

Ritually and really the neophyte is plunged with Christ into death so as to come to new life with the one who “was raised from

(CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ)

Proclaiming the light of Christ

A cross draped with a white cloth is illuminated outside a Catholic Church prior to the Easter Vigil.

the dead by the glory of the Father” (Rom 6:4). For this reason, baptism is called “illumination” (in biblical Greek, photismos) and the baptized, “illuminated.”

In our day, thanks to electricity, we can have as much light as we want whenever we want it. This was not the case in the past, when lighting the lamps in the evening was a rite. This was generally a happy occasion, when Brother John many lamps were lit as for Samaha a banquet at the beginning of the sabbath on Friday evening. Christians understood this light that drives away the darkness as a symbol of the Christ-light. The procession led by the Paschal Candle represents the journey of God’s people no longer led by a bright cloud but by the glorious light that shines on every person coming into the world (Jn 1:9). This rite is most solemn in the context of the great night illuminated by the resurrected Christ. This was eloquently SAMAHA, page 22

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Year of St. Paul

The cross, ‘Christ crucified,’ and St. Paul For Paul’s hearers and readers, “Christ crucified,” had an anti-imperial undertone. Jesus did not just die or was killed, but he was crucified, executed by the Romans. Crucifixion was the imperial mode of execution intended for people who challenged the Roman rule and the persistently defiant subjects. It was a state-sponsored torture and terrorism to showcase the message: “Don’t you dare go against imperial domination, or this will happen to you.”

By proclaiming “Christ crucified,” Paul showed that Jesus was an antiimperial personality and that the Apostle’s gospel was an anti-imperial gospel.

St. Paul illustrates this point with a series of contrasts in First Corinthians: “The cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” (18). “Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (22-24).

In the mind of Paul, the Roman Empire was an example of a system of domination, present during his time and in different ages like ours. These are run by the elite, “rulers of this age,” who used their “wisdom of this age,” ideology, wealth, and violence to mold the society according to their self-interests and to perpetuate their power. Paul charges

By Father Thaddeus Noel G. Laput, CSM The cross is so common a Christian symbol that it can at times, unfortunately, be seen as just another meaningless decor. It often is detached from its historical association as an instrument of violence in service of Roman imperial domination such that it can be impossible to imagine a miniature modern gallows or electric chair to adorn a gold necklace.

The means by which our Lord was killed can end up simply as an image or idea rather an object of devotion.

Today, Good Friday, as the passion and death of the Lord is commemorated during this Jubilee Year of St. Paul, the cross as experienced and preached by the Apostle merits a special consideration. In the letters of St. Paul, there is a dominant flow of thought that shows why the Apostle strongly felt about the crucifixion. “Christ crucified,” crystallizes in two words the gospel according to Paul.

In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul summarizes his teaching to them: “We proclaim Christ crucified” (1 Cor 1:23). A few verses later he repeats with a stronger emphasis: “When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (1 Cor 2:1-2). To the Galatians, the Apostle stresses the centrality of the cross: “May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Gal 6:14).

In his teaching, Paul does not only dwell on the mode of the Lord’s death but he expounds on its meaning. For him, the cross and resurrection of Jesus go together. In searching for the meaning of one necessarily implies the meaning of the other. Easter gives meaning to Good Friday – and Good Friday gives meaning to Easter. In Paul’s thought and message, the crucifixion of the Lord is no longer just another execution, but a revelation.

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For St. Paul, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ revealed the nature and intensity of God’s love for us. He points out: “God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8). God’s love is binding and lasting. In answering the question: “Who will separate us from the love of Christ?” Paul says, “No one and nothing,” because, “God is for us.” The proof of this is shown in the cross: God “did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us” (Rom 8:31-39).

Christ crucified and risen, according to Paul, revealed for all the way to a new life “in Christ.” This gift of personal transformation offered to all entails dying to an old identity and rising to a new way of life.

By way of a model, the Apostle teaches that by identifying with and participating in the death and resurrection of Jesus, the old Paul had died and a new Paul had been born “in Christ.” He declares: “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me” (Gal 2:19-20).

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Irish Columban priest devotes life to ‘greening’ the earth Two years later, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos their way to the mangrove forests along the shore, depositing declared martial law and became the de facto dictator of the silt which smothered the multitude of plant life.

What sediment the mangrove forests failed to stop continued ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CNS) – In the 40 years he has worked country. Father McDonagh and his fellow Columban missionarfor justice, Columban Father Sean McDonagh has never seen a ies quickly saw their role change. They turned to documenting to the sea where it settled on the ocean floor, causing the brightly challenge like the one facing the earth today. human-rights abuses as government forces colored coral reefs to become bleached as they lost their source He believes environmental degradation, attacked people, forcing people from land they of nutrients. With the coral dying, the rich sea life departed, the excessive use of fossil fuels that results had inhabited for generations and saying they leaving behind vast dead zones.

“I saw the soil erosion. I saw it impacting the coral reefs in ever higher levels of carbon dioxide in the had no claim to it. atmosphere, and the drive for short-term prof“So many of the things you were doing and the mangrove forest. I am not a marine biologist. I’m not its at the expense of long-term planning and as a Catholic, backed by the social teaching an expert on the rain forest. You could have 10,000 degrees in preservation are leading to a global disaster that of the church, now became actually illegal,” (biology), you wouldn’t convince me one iota (that clear-cutting wasn’t the problem) because I actually saw it happening with may prove impossible to reverse if the world he recalled. fails to act soon.

Shortly thereafter he returned to school my own eyes,” he said.

The experience led him to take the message of the T’boli “We are not the last generation to live on to earn master’s degrees in linguistics and this planet,” he told Catholic News Service anthropology from Jesuit-run Georgetown to the world.

During his presentations Father McDonagh often returns to during a break March 14 at the seventh annual University and The Catholic University of Ecumenical Advocacy Days conference.

America in Washington. Then it was back to words in Chapter 10, Verse 10, of the Gospel of John: “I came “We’re living as if we are.” the Philippines where he taught anthropology so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” But Often blunt and to the point, Father at a state-run university in a predominantly he told CNS that that promise of Christ is not possible on a “sick planet.”

McDonagh travels the world as the justice and Muslim area on the island of Mindanao.

Columban Father “So taking seriously that Gospel means we take seriously the peace coordinator for the Columbans. Based in Soon Father McDonagh realized he could Sean McDonagh Ireland, but rarely staying anywhere for very benefit his students by learning more about well-being of the planet,” he said.

The author of several books on ecology and climate change, long, the 64-year-old former missionary priest in the Philippines the culture of tribal people. He found his way to the southern is a global citizen, spreading a green Gospel message.

Mindanao rain forest where the indigenous T’boli live. It was Father McDonagh spares no emotion when saying the church must take a stronger, more prophetic stance on the important “Ecology should be at the heart of pastoral ministry, not on the there in 1980 that he found his life’s work. periphery,” he said. “And it flows exactly from our understanding During visits to the T’boli he saw the devastation left by log- role of Catholics in protecting the environment. of a God who creates and continues to create, a God who reveals ging companies whose only interest, Over the years he has been himself in the face of Jesus Christ as part of the natural world he discovered, was harvesting hardcritical of individual bishops, and a God whom we experience in the natural world through woods of the rain forest. Their prac- “Ecology should be at the bishops’ conferences and even the sacramental realities.” tice of clear-cutting all vegetation to the Vatican for what he considers It was in the Philippines where a young Father McDonagh get at the valuable trees stripped the heart of pastoral ministry, their far too passive approach to had what he considers his great awakening nearly 30 years T’boli of a vital resource. the earth’s environmental future. ago.

Father McDonagh’s studies led not on the periphery.”

“Our responsibility as people After his ordination in 1969, he was sent to the island nation him to see that the consequences of of faith is to know our place and as a missionary. He called it an exciting time because the church clear-cutting extended far beyond adequately to it. We – Father Sean McDonagh toarerespond was implementing the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the rain forest. Without trees to cappart of the community of life, and as a priest he felt empowered to engage the world in a new ture the monsoon rains, water would of which Jesus became part. We way by working side by side with poor Filipinos for social rush over the barren land, flooding are part of the community of life justice. villages and croplands. The sediment-carrying torrents made where the spirit of God exercises the lordship of life in the feminine,” he said.

“How do we structure that? We structure it to work for justice,” he said. “We structure it to have an equitable world. But also through ensuring we don’t do irreversible damage.”

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Food & Fun April 16, noon: Meeting of St. Thomas More Society at the Banker’s Club, Bank of America Building, 555 California Street.

Speaker is Jesuit Father John Coleman, Ph. D. The priest is author or editor of 19 books including One Hundred Years of Catholic Social Teaching and Christian Political Ethics. He holds a doctorate in Sociology Father John with subsequent study in Theological Social Coleman, Ph. D. Ethics, and has taught at schools including the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley and Princeton University. For more information, visit www.stthomasmore-sf.org, or contact Society President Greg Schopf, gschopf@nixonpeabody.com. MCLE credit will be provided.

April 17, 5:30 p.m.: Discarded to Divine Free Sneak Preview Night unites fashion with compassion at the de Young Museum. Donated clothing transformed into original couture creations will be showcased. Auction and fashion show follow May 7 with proceeds benefiting the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco. For more information visit www.discardedtodivine.org.

April 17, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and April 18, 9 a.m.

– 2 p.m.: Annual Rummage Sale at Church of the Visitacion Parish Hall, 701 Sunnydale at Rutland in San Francisco. Choose among clothes, furniture, jewelry, books and a new items booth. Call (415) 239-5950 for more information. MUNI Buses #9, 56 and the “T” Line will get you there.

April 18, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., free: Open house at CYO Camp Occidental, a program of Catholic Charities CYO. Day includes BBQ lunch 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Activities include swimming, canoeing, hiking, arts and crafts, dancing, skits, and ‘smores’ around a campfire. The day is preview to summer camp.

Registration is happening right now. All are welcome whether or not attending camp. Visit www.cyocamp. org or call (707) 874-0240.

April 19, 9 a.m.: Communion/breakfast Mass, the Young Men’s Institute Council 32 and its Family Auxiliary will be honoring Parishioners of the Year from six neighboring churches including All Souls; Mater Dolorosa; St. Veronica; St. Augustine; St. Bruno; Holy Angels; at All Soul’s Church in South San Francisco.

Price for Breakfast with reservations is $10. Call Bob at (650) 871-7878 or Al (650) 583-2510.

April 30, 11:30 a.m.: Megan Furth Academy is hosting its 8th Annual Benefit Luncheon, this year honoring Angela and Christopher Cohan of the Golden State Warriors and Warriors Foundation with the Golden Apple Award. Kate Kelly of KPIX CBS 5 serves as emcee. “Invest in our community’s future,” the school said in information promoting the event. “Now more than ever we need your help sponsoring our children

April 18, 6:30 p.m.: San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong and the late Fay Wong, known for her work in the Pro-Life Movement, will be honored by St. Mary’s Chinese Schools and Center at its annual Alumni, Friends, Parents and Benefactor Banquet at the Far East Café, 631 Grant Ave. across from Old St. Mary’s Paulist Bookstore. A Mass of Thanksgiving precedes the banquet at OSM at 5 p.m. Chief Fong, who will receive the Father Charles A. Donovan, CSP Outstanding Service Award, is a 1970 graduate of the school. Wong, who will be honored posthumously with the Pope John XXIII Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service to the Church, is a 1950 alumna. For ticket information, call (415) 929-4696.

Anne O’Dea appears with host Maury Healy on “For Heaven’s Sake” Sunday, April 19 at 5:30 a.m. on KRON Channel 4. O’Dea discusses the Cristo Rey model and is accompanied by a graduate of a Cristo Rey school in Chicago who is now an undergraduate at the University of San Francisco. in need in San Francisco.” Proceeds benefit students and their families in the Western Addition. Takes place at the Fairmont Hotel, Venetian Room, 950 Mason St. in San Francisco. Tickets are $125. For tickets, more information or to donate, please call (415) 346-0143 or visit meganfurthacademy.org.

Reunions Class of 1959, Presentation High School, San Francisco is planning its 50th reunion.

Contact Joanne Camozzi Alkazin at (415) 454-7550 or jalkazin@aol.com.

Class of ’59 from San Francisco’s Star of the Sea Academy is planning its 50th reunion. Contact Maria Elena Keizer at (415) 924-9756 or Keizerm@ sutterhealth.org April 18, with Mass at 10:30 a.m.: “Life is Like a Box of Chocolates,” annual liturgy and luncheon for Notre Dame San Francisco Alumnae Association at Mission Dolores Basilica and later at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd near Geneva in San Francisco. Classes of’34, ’39, ’49, ’59, ’69, and ’79 will be specially honored.

Luncheon tickets are $40. Contact Katie O’Leary at nuttydames@aol.com for more information.

April 26, 11:30 a.m.: The St. Gabriel Alumni Association is hosting a Golden Diploma Reunion for the Class of 1959 beginning with Mass followed by a reception. Alumni from the class of ‘59 should contact Sue Phelps at (415) 566-0314 or sphelps@ stgabrielsf.com.

Sept. 20 with Mass at noon: Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School, class of ’68. Contact Jean Anderson at (650) 756-3395 or jeananders@aol.com.

Sept. 26, 27: St. Elizabeth School in San Francisco marks its 60th anniversary. Graduates, former students, staff and friends of St. Elizabeth Elementary School please mark their calendars for a weekend celebration and e-mail your contact information to stelizabethalumni@yahoo.com to receive detailed information regarding the weekend’s events.

San Francisco’s Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School is ramping up to an all-school reunion in 2011. Alumni, former students, friends should visit www.holyname-sf.org or www.holynamesf.com. Holy

May 1, 7 a.m.: The Catholic Marin Breakfast Club meets at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd. in Greenbrae for Mass.

Breakfast and talk follow. Guest speaker is Anne O’Dea, director of marketing for Immaculate Conception Academy in San Francisco. O’Dea will explain the Cristo Rey model of education which ICA will incorporate into its operations in the next school year. Students in Cristo Rey schools spend one day a week working and earnings from the job are used to help pay student tuition costs with experience from the workplace benefiting them now and later. O’Dea, a graduate of Indiana University, sees her work with Cristo Rey as an opportunity to “profoundly change the lives of kids.”

ICA is currently seeking job sponsors for the Corporate Work Study Program.

Information is available from O’Dea at (415) 824-2052, ext. 32 or anneodea@ icacademy.org. Members breakfast $7/ visitors $10. Call (415) 461-0704 weekdays or email sugaremy@aol.com Name’s class of ’83 will hold a reunion in December.

Classmates should contact Julie at Julie_popovic@ yahoo.com or Anne at annecarew@yahoo.com The class of ’72 is also planning an event. Contact Donna at smardypants@comcast.net

Consolation Ministry Grief support groups meet at the following parishes.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame; call Debbie Simmons at (650) 558-1015. St. Dunstan, Millbrae; call Barbara Cappel at (650) 692-7543.

Good Shepherd, Pacifica; call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593. Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; call Barbara Cantwell at (650) 755-0478. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 366-3802. St. Robert, San Bruno; call Sister Patricia at (650) 589-2800.

Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo; call Brenda MacLean at (415) 454-7650. St. Isabella, San Rafael; call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato; call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171.

San Francisco: St. Dominic; call Deacon Chuck McNeil at (415) 567-7824; St. Finn Barr (bilingual); call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823. St. Gabriel; call Monica Williams at (415) 350-9464.

Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo; call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Ministry to Parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame; call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

Children’s Grief Group: St. Catherine, Burlingame; call Debbie Simmons at (650) 558-1015.

Information regarding grief ministry in general: call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698.

May 1 – 3: Widowed, Divorced, Separated Weekend at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, in Menlo Park. Contact LaVerne at (650) 355-3978 or Helen at (415) 388-9651 or e-mail SJBeginExp@aol.com Weekend is designed

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as time of closure on past and hope for the future.

Those attending should be beyond initial feelings of anger and despair and want a new beginning.

Ongoing support groups for the separated and divorced take place at St. Bartholomew Parish, 300 Columbia Drive at Alameda de las Pulgas, in San Mateo, first and third Tuesdays of the month at 7 p.m. in the Spiritual Center and first and third Wednesdays of the month at St. Stephen parish hall, Eucalyptus and 23rd Ave. in San Francisco next to Stonestown Mall at 7:30 p.m. Call Gail at (650) 5918452 or Joanne at (650) 347-0701.

Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 897-0639 for information.

Special Liturgies April 19, 9 a.m.: Communion/breakfast Mass, the Young Men’s Institute Council 32 and its Family Auxiliary will be honoring Parishioners of the Year from six neighboring churches including All Souls; Mater Dolorosa; St. Veronica; St. Augustine; St. Bruno; Holy Angels; at All Soul’s Church in South San Francisco.

Price for Breakfast with reservations is $10. Call Bob at (650) 871-7878 or Al (650) 583-2510.

Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life April 16, 23, 30, 3 – 4:30 p.m.: Catholic Charities CYO San Carlos Adult Day Services is offering a Family Caregiver Mini-Sabbatical. This four part series is for family members helping an older spouse, parent or sibling, especially someone with increasing memory loss or confusion. It is an opportunity to get some respite and relaxation while refreshing care-giving skills. Topics include creating/preserving a support system for the caregiver; stress reduction techniques; communicating more effectively; improving care-giving skills and handling more challenging behaviors. $25 registration fee covers four sessions. A sliding scale and free respite care can be arranged in advance on a space available basis. For more information or to obtain a registration brochure please contact Michael Vargas by calling 650.592.9325 or email mvargas@cccyo.org.

April 18, 1- 4 p.m.: “Our Family: Healthy! Peaceful!

Solid!,” a workshop specifically for members of the Filipino community about the issue of domestic violence. The afternoon will feature speakers and information about available resources from the Church as well as non-Catholic and civic providers. Presentations will include the Catholic Church perspective on domestic violence as well as its effects on children. “While the focus of the event will be to serve the Filipino community, if you would like to learn more about the issue of domestic violence, please join us,” said a letter about the conference from Christopher Martinez, a senior program director with Catholic Charities CYO, a sponsor of the day. Coordinators request registration as soon as possible by calling (415) 972-1308. The workshop takes place at St. Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Ave. at 9th Ave. in San Mateo.

April 18, 8:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.: Centering Prayer Introductory Workshop at Lakeside Presbyterian Church, 201 Eucalyptus Way corner of 19th Ave in San Francisco for anyone interested in beginning to practice Centering Prayer, a simple method of contemplation developed by Father Thomas Keating. There is adequate parking available near the church. Childcare and refreshments will be available during the workshop. Cost is $25.00 but no one turned away. There will be several 1-2 hour followup sessions on the following Saturdays to help deepen your practice of the prayer. Contact: George Biniek at gbshalem128@gmail.com or (415) 824-8358. The event is sponsored by Lakeside Presbyterian Church and Contemplative Outreach of Northern California.

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Reviewed by Sister Mona Castelazo, CSJ “God Seekers: Twenty Centuries of Christian Spiritualities,” by Richard H. Schmidt, and “Touched

by God: Ten Monastic Journeys,” by Benedictine Sister Laurentia Johns, both present accounts and insights of diverse spiritual quests. Schmidt offers short biographies, quotations and questions for reflection from early Christianity to the present. Sister Johns has gathered autobiographical writings from 10 contemporary Benedictines who describe their life experience and the call to religious life.

Schmidt’s book not only offers information and inspiration, but also shows the development of Christian consciousness from the fluid, open thought of early Christian theologians to the solidifying of structures, concepts and traditions, to postmodern spirituality – each period reflecting the worldview and theology of its particular era.

We see the early Fathers of the Church, from Irenaeus on, presenting Christ as the logos or word of God, the cosmic eternal mirror of the Father. Gregory of Nyssa sees God as eternal relationship, eventually drawing all things to himself, while Antony emphasizes silence, simplicity and self-knowledge as ways to God. The author begins the section on Western Christianity with Augustine’s idea of the universality of sin and the necessity of grace, but also includes Patrick and the Celts, who stressed relationship to the earth and to one another.

Benedict’s monastic ideal of a balance of study, work, prayer and rest appears in the same period as Symeon, who focuses on personal experience and wisdom as an antidote to the church’s becoming too hierarchical, formal and lifeless. The Orthodox Church followed Symeon’s belief in human divinization as the purpose

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In the medieval period, Anselm is shown attempting to prove the existence of God from reason.

By way of contrast, Bernard of Clairvaux suggests that the Bible be read through the lens of metaphor and symbol in the way of the ancients.

Schmidt includes three major mystics. Julian of Norwich writes that sin results from ignorance and blindness, calling for a mother’s mercy rather than for punishment. Teresa of Avila’s garden metaphor describes the spiritual development as beginning with hard personal work, but as ending with the acceptance of God-given rain. Trappist Father Thomas Merton stresses the necessity of silent contemplation for transformation from the false to the true self.

In the Eastern tradition, Gregory Palamas practices the “prayer of the heart,” which contrasts with the intellectual, philosophical approach of set teachings. Jean-Pierre de Caussade, who sees Christ in every atom of matter and the present moment as a sacrament, is likened to Soren Kierkegaard, who holds that Christianity is “an ordered grasping toward a truth that is ever present,” not depending on religious authority or outward forms – “a leap to exist in the fullest sense.”

Schmidt truly provides the reader with an inspiring kaleidoscope of eclectic spiritual insights.

“Touched by God” shows the diversity of ways in which specific men and women live the Benedictine life.

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Sister Castelazo, a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet, has taught English for many years in Los Angeles.

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By John Mulderig NEW YORK (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The tragic story of the interaction between the American Indians of what would one day become the United States and the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s European settlers has been told many times and interpreted in many ways, but rarely from the native peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perspective.

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Episode one, â&#x20AC;&#x153;After the Mayflower,â&#x20AC;? uses interviews with experts, re-enactments of events like the first Thanksgiving and sweeping footage of unspoiled New England landscapes to trace the half-century from the arrival of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1620 to the end of King Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s War, the first large-scale conflict between the two communities.

As the script makes clear, the Pilgrimsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; desire to practice their version of Christianity in peace was one of their primary motives for venturing to the New World, though they were also driven by economic and social factors. Their efforts to convert the Indians, not only to their faith but to what they regarded as civilized customs, met with some initial success, and led to the establishment of several settlements for native Christians, the so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;praying towns.â&#x20AC;?

The documentary also explains some Indian religious practices, such as an annual harvest-time rite in which the various Algonquin tribes, who were often at war with each other, would forgive the offenses committed by their enemies during the past year.

Filmmakers Chris Eyre and Cathleen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell profile a number of intriguing figures, especially the Wampanoag leader Massasoit, who could have slaughtered the Pilgrims soon after their arrival, but instead helped them in hopes of establishing an alliance that would strengthen him against rival tribes.

Edward Winslow, who eventually served three terms as governor of the Plymouth colony, befriended Massasoit and, for a time at least, showed surprising open-mindedness toward the Indians generally. Massasoitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interpreter, Squanto, learned to speak English after being captured by British explorers and taken to Europe in captivity.

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n Continued from page 15 wages may not simply be a question of what contract a worker will accept. Conversely, workers may not claim that the produce and profits which are not required to repair and replace invested capital belong by right to them (Quadragesimo Anno 55, 114) and they must negotiate their wages with the common good in mind. (Quadragesimo Anno 119, Mater et Magistra 112) As is

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n Continued from page 16 explained in the solemn proclamation of the Lord’s resurrection that we now call the “Exultet.”

Because all lights are extinguished on Holy Thursday evening, it is necessary to light a new flame in order to celebrate a liturgy at night. And so the ritual developed; the blessing of a new fire and the procession into the church led by the Paschal Candle as the celebrant intoned “Light of Christ!” and the faithful responded “Thanks be to God!” Over the centuries this celebration underwent some problems and waned in significance. As late as the thirteenth century the

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• Both the workers and the employers have an equal duty to be concerned for the common good (Laborem Exercens 20).

• And, the condemnation of injustice is part of the ministry of evangelization and is an integral aspect of the Church’s prophetic role (Sollectitudo Rei Socialis 42).

The Church has history on its side in teaching these principles. The failure of Marxism in Eastern Europe highlights precisely that an attempt to create justice for everyone without

sufficiently factoring in the place of private profit and private wealth (not to mention God or love) doesn’t lead to prosperity and justice, just as our present economic crisis highlights that an unregulated profit motive doesn’t lead to prosperity and justice either. There is a middle road, and the Church’s social teachings are that road-map.

liturgy was still not entirely structured. Since the seventh century there had been a general decline, and this event was celebrated early in the day on Holy Saturday. When Pope Pius V reformed the Missal in the sixteenth century following the Council of Trent, he forbade the celebration of the Eucharist after midday.

Consequently on Holy Saturday morning in churches brightened with sunlight and a barely perceptible flame on the Easter Candle, the celebrant sang “Oh night truly blessed!” In addition very few people were able to attend this long liturgy on Holy Saturday morning. This added to its diminished significance.

The biblical, patristic, theological, and liturgical renewal that began to swell in the 1920s indicated the unacceptability of this condition and the impoverishment of the Easter celebration. In 1951, Pope Pius XII authorized the celebration of the Easter Vigil

during the evening hours of Holy Saturday, and revised the rites to foster greater congregational participation. Then, in 1955, he decreed that the Easter Vigil must take place at night.

In our day we follow the “Missal of Pope Paul VI” – promulgated in 1969 following the Second Vatican Council. The Easter Vigil celebration has four parts: the blessing of the fire, and procession of the Easter Candle, and the chanting of the Exultet; the Liturgy of the Word; the baptismal liturgy, which includes at least the blessing of the water and a renewal of baptismal vows; and culminates in the Eucharistic liturgy. This solemn celebration of the Lord’s resuurection is the zenith of the liturgical year, “the solemnity of solemnities.”

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