November 7, 2014

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Priests called to be community’s keepers of memory

In inaugural column, musings on Giants, feast of All Saints

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VATICAN CITY – A month after closing a Synod of Bishops on the family stirred by controversy over divorce, same-sex unions and other nonmarital relationships, Pope Francis will open an interreligious conference dedicated to traditional marriage.

The Vatican-sponsored gathering, on the “Complementarity of Man and Woman,” will take place Nov. 17-19 and feature more than 30 speakers representing 23 countries and various Christian churches, as well SEE CONFERENCE, PAGE 19

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St. Peter School students gather around the altar at the parish church in San Francisco’s Mission District at a memorial Mass honoring teachers past and present, including volunteer instructor and scholarship benefactor Frederick Clark, pictured with his wife Peggy.

St. Peter School in Mission honors teachers past and present CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

St. Peter School in San Francisco Mission’s District celebrated a memorial Mass Nov. 2 recognizing graduates from the classes of 1964 and 1989 and teachers past and present.

The 136-year-old Catholic school gave special recognition to Toni Ortenzo, who retired in June after 42 years of service as middle school teacher, and Frederick Clark, who prepares students for life by teaching “Life 101.”

Clark also started the school’s Inner City Scholarship for parents who are unable to finance their children’s ongoing Catholic education.

Hundres of 150 students have benefited since the program started 18 years ago.

Lilli Beth Fernandez, a St. Peter alumna who benefited from Clark’s support and now attends college, thanked the philanthropist.

Auxiliary Bishop Wiliam J. Justice celebrated the annual Mass, with concelebrants Father Tom Seagrave and Father Dan Maguire – all former St. Peter pastors – as well as current pastor Father Moises Agudo and parochial vicar Father Mark Doherty, assisted by seminarian Michael Lilliedahl. Also Toni Ortenzo present on the altar was Deacon David Gamarra from the parish.

The principal of St. Peter School is Gloria Galarsa, with Karen Hammen vice principal and Mercy Sister Marian Rose Power director of development.

Young adult ministry is coming to a parish near you ANGELA POLLOCK

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a large number of young adults – and the Archdiocese of San Francisco is reaching out to them with a new and improved approach that emphasizes parish communities.

It’s working.

We are attracting many more young adults to participate in their Catholic faith at their parish and beyond.

When I arrived in the Archdiocese of San Francisco a year ago to assume the newly created position of director of young adult and campus ministry, there were five active young adult groups. We have added five more and we have another five who are beginning to form. By spring 2015 we should have at least 14 young adult groups in 14 different parishes.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014

‘Good and faithful servants’ 4th Annual St. John Vianney Luncheon honors 95 retired priests CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Perhaps the greatest gift the 95 retired priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco have given and still share is to be “wisdom,” the keepers of the memory of the community, Bishop William J. Justice told the nearly 600 guests at a gala luncheon in their honor on Oct. 24.

“The wisdom they share with the younger generation of priests and seminarians gives courage to this new generation to walk on, walk forward with hope in their hearts because these retired men now are guides on the road to come and see where Jesus lives,” he said in prepared remarks for the Fourth Annual St. John Vianney Luncheon at St. Mary’s Cathedral’s Patrons Hall. The event, a fundraiser for the Priests’ Retirement Fund, netted $208,000.

“As Pope Francis has said, seniors must be recognized that they are ‘wisdom’ people and with them – these men – one can move closer to the embrace of God,” he said.

Bishop Justice acknowledged the religious, social, cultural and economic upheavals the priests have seen in the course of their vocations.

“Their lives are witness to the Christian community, that the lifetime response to coming to know Jesus with its ups and downs, successes and failures, brings hope and mercy to all,” he said.

“You have been the good and faithful servant,” he said in conclusion, ending with a quote from Ephesians 1:15-18: “May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened that you may know what is the hope that belongs to this call.”

Msgr. Harry Schlitt, the event’s emcee, then introduced archdiocesan development director Basilian Father Anthony Giampietro, whose department coordinated the event. Father Giampietro listed the characteristics so common to priests: quiet service, prepared to help in any way they can, always present in prayer to those who are suffering in any way and willing to lay down their lives for others.

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Archbishop Cordileone addresses the Fourth Annual St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests and supporting the priests’ retirement fund.

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“Often, usually, they don’t know how wonderful they really are,” he said.

Father Raymund M. Reyes, archdiocesan vicar for clergy, introduced

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Each received an apostolic blessing from Pope Francis.

“They no longer refer to them as retired priests but simply as senior priests because they never retire,” Father Reyes said. “They are here still ministering to us, inspiring us in a special way and there is no doubt, today’s attendance and celebrating is a great testament to how much they are loved and appreciated.”

Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy closed the luncheon by thanking the retired priests for the example they have set for priests facing the challenges of aging. He said they give us a “shining example now of what it means to be a priest fully in our lives.”

“They embrace the priesthood in their senior years with meaning and dignity and grace and sacrifice, and understanding the meaning of suffering and embracing it and surrounding it all with a deep sense of the gratitude of God,” Bishop McElroy said. “For that example particularly, I and the other priests in the archdiocese give thanks to all of you in your retirement.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Men called to hear Jesus’ words of hope and mercy Here is Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice’s keynote talk Oct. 24 at St. Mary’s Cathedral at the Fourth Annual St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring the retired priests who served in the archdiocese.

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cripture scholars tell us that the first part of St. Mark’s Gospel is an attempt to answer the question, “Who is this person?�; “Who is this Jesus of Nazareth?� It is a question that Jesus proposes to his disciples in the Gospels. “Who do people say that I am?� And it is a question he attempts to answer in St. BISHOP WILLIAM Luke’s Gospel J. JUSTICE when he takes the scroll of Isaiah the prophet in the synagogue of his small village of Nazareth and proclaims, “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord� (Luke 4: 18-19).

Today we honor men who have devoted their lives to answering the above question: “Who is this Jesus of Nazareth?� and, “Who do people say that I am?� They have done so because somewhere in their lives they have come to hear Jesus’ words of hope and mercy. They have asked as the two disciples in St. John’s Gospel did, “Where do you live?� And they have accepted Jesus’ answer, “Come and see.� Their lives have been dedicated to deepening their desire to share the Jesus they have come to know with those with whom they minister: To bring liberation to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, glad tidings to the poor, to let the oppressed go free.

On this day of honor and appreciation we ourselves might wonder who are these men? What can we say

Today we honor men who have devoted their lives to answering the question: ‘Who is this Jesus of Nazareth?’ and, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ about them? A quick way to find out a bit more about them is to check out their living quarters, whether it is Nazareth House, St. Anne’s, Serra Clergy House, an assisted-living facility, or a private residence. We might find family pictures: siblings, deceased or living parents, grandparents, nieces or nephews, close friends.

There also might be photos of couples the priest has married, children he has baptized, special parishioners who have become lifelong friends.

There may also be books in the room – read over the years, professional magazines, homily hints and the Liturgy of the Hours (breviary), and books on prayer, as well as a great novel currently being read. All these items would reveal a man of faith and prayer, a man of concern for his parishioners and a man of gratitude.

Yet not seen in his arrangement of his living space but seen in his face, in his spirit of service, and in his love for God in God’s holy people are the challenges these men have faced in the Lord’s service.

A. For a few, their first assignment as a newly ordained priest might have been in the pre-1962 boundaries of the archdiocese, where he could have been assigned far from the Bay Area and his family and friends. He could have been an associate in Gilroy, or Turlock or Cloverdale – far away in those days. Yet he would have shared with parishioners who this person Jesus is, and to love his parishioners and walk with them as they grew in their love of the Lord.

B. For many, the challenge to respond to the Second Vatican Council and share its hopes and dreams with parishioners became a real source of tension in the parish, and maybe in their own lives. How do you learn to say Mass facing the people and in the local language? What do you say to the people confused over the change?

C. Then there were the social upheavals of the ‘60s, ’70s and early ‘80s: civil rights, divided congregations, the Vietnam War, priest friends leaving the priesthood to marry and have a family, people calling you by your first name when for many years, “Father� had almost been your first name.

D. The population shifts in the parishes, the challenge to learn another language and customs, and how to guide and live with lay leadership.

E. New regulations from the chancery and the civil authorities that called forth managerial skills priests did not know they had, or new skills that they had to learn.

F. The challenges of the Catholic schools as they turned to lay adminis-

tration and faculties, which resulted in increasing expenditures.

G. The changes in administration as new archbishops arrived and later retired.

H. The reduction in the number of priests in the archdiocese despite the growing complexity of parish life and responsibility.

Yet through all of this, these men – because they continued deepening their love for Jesus and knowing who he is – were more than able to survive.

As pastors they helped to build vibrant communities in their parishes: parish Pastoral Councils, Finance Councils, leadership development, Youth Ministries, prayer groups, Renew Groups.

Now perhaps the greatest gift they have given and still share, is to be “wisdom,� the keeper of the memory of the community. Their lives are witness to the Christian community that the lifetime response to coming to know Jesus with its ups and downs, successes and failures brings hope and mercy to all.

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St. Greg’s 8th grader hits grand slam for kids on coast TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Many of us help others but rarely know from experience the real situation of those we assist. One can’t say that about Brendan Callagy who before putting his good deed in place went to meet the people he went to bat for.

“My mom and I went to Pescadero to meet the community and participate in a 5K run to Brendan Callagy help raise money for the farmworkers and their families,” Brendan told me via email. “I saw firsthand the needs of the community and dedicated myself to help.”

Brendan then collected more than 200 sports items for poor children in Pescadero. His effort is now a springboard for organized sports there with the help of La Puente, a community resource center serving residents of the San Mateo County south coast.

Brendan took up the collection at St. Gregory School in San Mateo where he is student council vice president. He said the school community was very generous. “I had to have my mom come in and pick up the sports equipment three times. We collected so many things and everyone thought it was a great idea.”

Onboard were principal Tom Dooher and student council adviser Cindy Stuart who allowed Brendan to promote the campaign in talks to students and write-ups in the school newsletter.

Brendan’s folks are Laura and Mark Callagy.

St. Robert’s parishioner Paul Scannell is his grandfather. “My grandfather told me about this community and how close they are to us and how much they need our help,” Brendan said. “He is a role model for many but has a special place in my life.”

In addition, Brendan said his parents have taught him and his four siblings “how important it is to give back to those who need it.”

Brendan is still at the plate for his new friends on the coast. Next will be a drive to collect warm clothes for farmworkers there.

“The weather on the coast is misty and the workers get wet but do not have the money to buy a lot of clothes so often have to work in wet clothes,” Brendan said. Brendan is also helping plan an effort to “adopt families” for the holidays.

I asked Brendan about the future: “Right now I am concentrating on eighth grade, graduating and getting into high school,” he told me. “I may want to be an architect and build low income housing for those that need it the most.”

CONSECRATED LIVES: Notre Dame Sister Barbara Thiella was honored Oct. 11 by Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire for her “Lifetime of Religious Ministerial Service.” Raised in San Francisco, Sister Barbara entered the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur after high school. She has taught at the sisters’ now closed school in San Francisco as well as at Notre Dame High School, Belmont.

For the last 15 years Sister Barbara has served as chancellor of the Diocese of Stockton. At left is Msgr. Larry McGovern, pastor of a parish there.

St. Thomas More School’s 60th anniversary celebration Nov. 9. It all takes place on campus with Mass at 10 a.m. praying in a special way for the more than 2,000 students who have graduated from the school during its 60 years.

Following the liturgy, brunch will be served in the gym with a welcome to all to walk the familiar halls and classrooms again.

Natalia Tischenko Girlich, vice Natalia Tischprincipal, is a 1974 graduate of enko Girlich the school. The day is hosted by the Alumni Committee and Friends of STM. Visit www.stthomasmoreschool.org; call (415) 337-0100; email alumni@stmsf.org.

DISCIPLES: Barbara Beaulieu, here accepting the John Diego Award from the man it is named for, was honored Oct. 18 at St. Raphael Parish, San Rafael, during “a community celebration of all those who share their time, talents and treasure” at St Raphael’s. “Barbara has been a dedicated leader and participant in numerous parish ministries,” the parish said. John Diego as model for the award has been a nonstop volunteer at St. Raphael’s for decades.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Advice to lawyers: Witness the Gospel with courage VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Call upon the Holy Spirit for guidance and courage to uphold the important truths of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, a Washington, D.C., lawyer and priest told those gathered for the annual Mass for lawyers in San Francisco.

“Our perennial challenge, a challenge for this Red Mass, is to help this nation see again more clearly, according to reason if not from revelation, that certain unalienable rights do exist – the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” said Msgr. Peter Vaghi, who delivered the homily at the invitation of his friend Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who celebrated the Oct. 23 Mass.

The Red Mass is named for the red vestments worn at the annual Mass where the legal profession prays for inspiration from the Holy Spirit.

“These rights are immutable and universal, not ‘values’ created by the passing electoral plebiscite of any particular moment in time and history,” Msgr. Vaghi said in his homily at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, stressing the importance of defending religious liberty at a time when it is under attack in the United States and the world.

The St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco honored Justice Peter J. Siggins of the California Court of Appeal with the St.

“If someone is really empowered by faith, they’ll move mountains,” Msgr. Peter Vaghi said.

The St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco honored Justice Peter J. Siggins of the California Court of Appeal with the St. Thomas More Award.

Thomas More Award as part of the evening’s festivities.

Msgr. Vaghi is an attorney and pastor of Church of the Little Flower parish in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. A graduate of University of Virginia Law School who practiced law for five years

Archbishop Cordileone is pictured at the annual archdiocesan Red Mass for the legal profession Oct. 23. before entering the seminary, he remains a member of the Virginia State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar. His friendship with Archbishop Cordileone dates to the period when he attended the Pontifical North American College and Gregorian University in Rome

for his seminary and theological training.

Msgr. Vaghi is also chaplain of the John Carroll Society, a Catholic organization of professionals who support the archbishop of Washington, D.C., and author of a number of books on faith that grew out of a catechetical lecture series he conducts for the John Carroll Society.

In a separate interview with Catholic San Francisco, Msgr. Vaghi noted that prayer and continuing education in the Catholic faith is critical to living as a committed Catholic professional. In Washington, education and regular prayer opportunities are offered by the John Carroll Society where he has been chaplain for 28 years, he said.

The John Carroll Society sponsors the Red Mass in the nation’s capital, which is attended by much of the nation’s legal elite, including U.S. Supreme Court justices.

“If someone is really empowered by their faith, they’ll move mountains,” Msgr. Vaghi said. “We have a special vocation as lawyers, as those who serve the cause of justice, to represent those who don’t have anyone to represent them.”

“We are called to a life of holiness, which means a regular prayer life.

Then when concrete questions come, whether religious freedom, the life issues – we don’t approach them as politicians or even just as jurists but as men and women of the Lord and we draw inspiration from the Lord,” Msgr. Vaghi said. “That’s how we are called to live our lives.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 7, 2014

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Left, the archbishop speaks with confirmands during his Oct. 18-20 pastoral visit to All Souls Parish, South Francisco, where he celebrated Mass with the school community. Right, the archbishop meets with preschoolers at Star of the Sea, San Francisco.

Archbishop Cordileone chats with children Sept. 14 following the extraordinary form of the Mass on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross at Star of the Sea Church, San Francisco.

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At All Souls Parish in South San Francisco, the archbishop confirmed 47 school and religious education students, celebrated the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mass and the Spanish language Mass on Sunday, and visited the school. The visit, which spanned Oct. 18-20, also included celebrating a Monday school Mass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was gratifying to him to meet the lay leadership and he got a sense of the commitment and the consistent work the people do in the parish,â&#x20AC;? said All Souls pastor Father Agnel de Heredia. Archbishop Cordileone commented that the young men and women to be confirmed were well prepared, Father de Heredia said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He liked the school children,â&#x20AC;? Father de Heredia said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was delighted with them asking him questions.â&#x20AC;?

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Father Jimenez: Vocation sparked by his students’ slaying in Oakland VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

When two of his middle school science students were killed “hanging out on a Friday night” in Oakland, John Jimenez made a radical decision. He decided to become a priest.

“I was going to get married. I wanted to teach and coach sports,” the new pastor of St. Charles Borromeo, told the eighth grade math class he teaches at the parish school in San Francisco’s Mission District. He also teaches seventh grade mathematics.

“I wasn’t even thinking of a vocation until that happened,” Father Jimenez, 53, said in an interview. He was seriously involved with a Catholic girl who shared his values. But losing those two students shook him up. “Why is there violence? Why is there family breakdown?”

Those deep questions, asked by a young man whose own parents had separated, was answered

by God calling him to the priesthood.

Born and raised in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Father Jimenez lives his vocation today in the streets, in his parishioners’ homes, in the church, the school and the city’s hospitals.

“The only way this violence will end is if we give ourselves to Jesus,” Father Jimenez told the students on a sunny October Monday as they clustered noisily at tables in the basement classroom, boxes of World’s Finest Chocolate for the school’s primary fundraiser stacked against one wall.

He went on to explain how to use a number line to help determine if the answer to an equation was a positive or negative number.

“As a teacher, I teach them math and help them to succeed,” he said.

“You get to know them personally and help them see Christ’s outlook to their lives, that’s where the vocations will come,” said Father Jimenez. “I’m hoping that they will see their lives as wanting to help others. A natural way to do that is through the church.”

A product of San Mateo public schools who attended City College of San Francisco and San Francisco State University, Father Jimenez also taught sixth, seventh and eighth grade mathematics at St. Peter School, where he was in residence

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Father John Jimenez, the new pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in San Francisco, teaches at the parish school. at the parish for five years as parochial vicar and as chaplain to San Francisco General Hospital. He learned Spanish while studying for the priesthood at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University.

“I’ve been through many hard things with my students. It is a ministry to reach the family, reach the parents especially in times of trouble,” Father Jimenez said.

“Another reason I teach in the school is the school needs help financially. We’re one of the few inner city schools that reach out to low income and so we need help to keep the tuition lower,” the priest said. “Families want their children in a safe place with good values,” he said.

The Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage and on the sanctity of life are necessary for peace, said Father Jimenez, who prays at street corner murder sites and at 40 Days for Life vigils outside the local abortion clinic as well as saying Mass in Spanish each week at Laguna Honda Hospital. He began volunteering at Laguna Honda as a youth when his grandfather was a resident.

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of life or whether it’s not treating what’s sacred as sacred,” said Father Jimenez.

“It’s tough to be a single parent. I grew up with separated parents also. I thought deeply about these marriage breakups because I experienced it myself,” said Father Jimenez.

“It is what the archbishop is saying about marriage. What’s sacred about intimate relations belongs in marriage to keep it sacred,” Father Jimenez said. “When we break that, the result is the taking of human life, treating people as objects to manipulate. You can see that economically or even in the violence we have.”

At St. Charles Borromeo, the parish’s Neocatechumenate movement promotes marriage on a person-to-person basis, Father Jimenez said. “They really have this Catholic culture here. The apostolic groups, the prayer groups encourage people to get married who might be living together. People really want to do that,” Father Jimenez said.

“The parishioners see God in their life. They are able to touch the people around them,” Father Jimenez said.

“We are always, every day, evangelizers,” said St. Charles principal Sister Nelia Pernica, a Dominican of the Most Holy Rosary. Six Dominicans teach at St. Charles, and their white and black habits and veils model religious life, as does a daily life of prayer embedded into the school’s schedule, Sister Nelia said. In the spring, the sisters talk to the students about the possibility of vocation to religious life and the priesthood, she said.

During 16 years as a priest, Father Jimenez says he has learned from the priests and people he has worked with and served. “Catholicism enables people to work together,” Father Jimenez said.

“The Catholic way and the ritual of the Mass in particular unify people.”

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Young woman trades one vocation for another of a higher order CHRISTINA GRAY

On the mystery of her vocation, Kovalik said, ‘It wasn’t my doing, I can assure you. God chose this.’

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Laryn Kovalik, a skilled medical artist who spends her weekdays designing ocular prosthetics for the blind or partially blind, saw her own life through new eyes after a chance encounter brought her to the doors of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity residence in San Francisco where she hopes to one day live as a consecrated woman.

Verbum Dei is a Catholic missionary community founded in 1963 and approved as an Institute of Consecrated Life by Pope John Paul II in 2000. It consists of nearly 1,000 sisters, priests, brothers and married couples worldwide.

In San Francisco, the community’s first U.S. location, consecrated women live out the Verbum Dei charism of contemplative prayer, witness of life and apostolic ministry through prayer groups, weekend retreats and scriptural study.

Giving up a promising career and the possibility of marriage and family to live a celibate, communal life of prayer and poverty was an unexpected choice, Kovalik, 29, said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco at the community’s Mission District house.

She talked about the mystery of her vocation.

“Well, it wasn’t my doing, I can assure you that,” she said from a comfortable downstairs corner of the house where the songs of a nighttime prayer group could be heard. “It wasn’t me who chose this, God chose me,” she said.

Fresh-faced and dressed simply in a skirt, Tshirt and sandals, Kovalik was virtually indistinguishable from the order’s professed sisters who gathered to greet her, except for the band on their left hands symbolizing a lifetime vow.

Kovalik moved to the Bay Area in early 2013, intent on a career as a medical artist after years of specialized training. She had only been here a week when after a Sunday Mass in Oakland a young woman in the congregation bicycled

Eager to make new friends, she said yes, but was confused when she rang the bell at what looked more like a church than a home. A young woman greeted the bewildered guest, introduced herself as a Verbum Dei sister and welcomed her to join the community’s prayer group. Kovalik’s apprehension fell away during lectio divina, a meditative form of prayer she had learned with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps after college.

“During prayer that night I felt like I had come home,” she said. It was after that evening,

God, our Father, In Your providential Love, You call each of us to a more holy and abundant life. We pray for our young people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Open their hearts and minds to know the vocation You have planned for them from all eternity.

If they are being invited to follow You as a Priest, Brother, or Sister, give them a generous heart to respond to Your challenging call and the strength to follow wherever You lead them. May families desire to please You by encouraging and supporting vocations within their homes. We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Good Shepherd. Amen

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Father John Jimenez celebrates Mass at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco. He began volunteering at Laguna Honda as a youth when his grandfather was a resident.

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2) Sacrament of reconciliation. Anyone who has ever been lost knows that you will never find your way unless someone admits to making a wrong turn. Only when we admit that we have made wrong turns can we be open to hearing from the Lord the correct direction to take.

3) Read the Gospels. Pope Francis told pilgrims this past year, “Follow Jesus in order to listen to him. But also let us listen to Jesus in his written word, in the Gospel.” While you should not expect to read a Gospel passage and immediately find an answer to your question, the words of the savior reveal to us knowledge that does not come from this world.

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VERBUM DEI: Woman trades one vocation for another of a higher order FROM PAGE 9

she said, that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;seeds that my parents planted were watered and began to germinate.â&#x20AC;?

Raised in a loving Catholic family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kovalik said she had approached her faith like a â&#x20AC;&#x153;sacramental punch card,â&#x20AC;? checking off each step from baptism to confirmation without really encountering God. When invited by a high school friend to a Kairos weekend, a three-day Christian retreat, the application asked her, â&#x20AC;&#x153;How do you talk about God?,â&#x20AC;? and she answered: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;?

She returned to pray with the community on weekends and on Good Friday, she said an unexpected desire swept across her heart. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to be their sister,â&#x20AC;? she heard herself say. She dismissed the thought but in prayer the next day she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;my heart burned with it.â&#x20AC;?

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Laryn Kovalik, second from right, and women of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity sing together Oct. 28 at the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house in San Francisco. friends, questioned why she would want to leave a profession that

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I do is to restore wholeness in physical form. But now I desire to bring people a deeper wholeness by inviting them to rest in Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loving gaze,â&#x20AC;? she said.

During a pilgrimage to El Salvador with the community, she said she â&#x20AC;&#x153;placed my life on the altar before Godâ&#x20AC;? and upon her return she began â&#x20AC;&#x153;living the questionâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; working weekdays and spending weekends at the discernment house.

Though she has been accepted by the Verbum Dei community, Kovalik must resolve outstanding student loans before she can begin formation. The dilemma is not uncommon.

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Two Mercy Burlingame students took part in the victory parade.

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He also taped a congratulatory message for the champions, posted on the archdiocesan website and Facebook page. “Into every life, God gives blessings and he gives crosses,” the archbishop said. “Right now here in San Francisco, God has given us a very special blessing. Congratulations to Bruce Bochy and the San Francisco Giants.

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Jesuit Father Paul J. Fitzgerald was installed as the 28th president of the University of San Francisco Nov. 1 at St. Ignatius Church.

In an inaugural Mass Oct. 31, the incoming president said he looks to Christ as the model for the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continuing mission as a Catholic institution. â&#x20AC;&#x153;USF is a Catholic university for many reasons; let the chief one be that Christ is the norm of our way of proceeding,â&#x20AC;? he said in his ďŹ rst homily as president in a church ďŹ lled to capacity with students, faculty and staff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This means we will continue to be a socially engaged university, a university where academic freedom is respected and where engaged scholarship is prized, a university where every member of our community is cherished and where learning is based on a global vision of the human family and a holistic appreciation of the human person,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As we do so, God will continue to work through us, to our great joy.â&#x20AC;?

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Jesuit Father Paul J. Fitzgerald was inaugurated 28th president of the University of San Francisco Nov. 1. Right, Father Fitzgerald is pictured with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at the inaugural Mass Oct. 31 at St. Ignatius Church.

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Washed clean by blood “Miter and Voice” is a new feature in Catholic San Francisco, in which Archbishop Cordileone speaks about important issues confronting the church and society. For the inaugural column of “Miter and Voice” the archbishop muses about the Giants’ victory and the feast of All Saints. His thoughts are based on a homily he gave on Nov. 1 to 1,200 people gathered in the Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma for Mass celebrating All Saints.

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s great as the Giants’ third World Series victory in five years was, we celebrate today something even greater: the victory of the saints over death and evil. Recently all of San Francisco basked in the glory of the triumphant Giants. Today we are just as excited to contemplate the saints, not processing down Market Street, but reigning with Our Lord in heaven.

What we Giants fans love most about the Giants is that they play as a team. It’s not a group of superstars who win the game; it takes a team, ARCHBISHOP they have to play like a team, SALVATORE J. not superstars. That’s the CORDILEONE approach of the Giants: all for one and one for all. That is a bit like the Church. Of course, Christ is more exalted than any baseball player. But what the Church is known for is the willingness of many Catholics to play their role and give their all to Christ.

Today we honor the saints in heaven, which is the Church triumphant. Tomorrow, Nov. 2, we pray for those members of the Church in Purgatory, the Church suffering. And all of us here on earth are members of the Church militant.

Just as we San Franciscans shared in the glory of the Giants, the saints share in the glory of the Lord: “These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress; they have washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb” (Revelation 7:14). The saints were once part of the Church militant. We, the Church militant, are still in the period of “great distress.” We have to fight against sin and evil and temptations. But we fight together, as a team, as members of the Church.

And the saints are with us still. In fact, part of the mystery and glory of the Eucharist is that all three parts of the Church are present as we celebrate the Mass. The medieval commentators on the Mass saw

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The archbishop celebrates All Saints’ Day Mass Nov. 1 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. this symbolized in the breaking of the host after the Our Father. The priest first breaks the host in two and then breaks a small particle off from the corner of one of the two halves. There are then three pieces of the host, representing the three parts of the Church. The small particle of the host is placed in the chalice containing the Blood of Christ. This piece, now mixed with the Blood of the Lamb, represents the Church triumphant, those who have been washed clean by the Blood of the Lamb.

The Church has people from all walks of life, each with a variety of gifts and talents. Holiness comes in many different shapes and colors, vocations and walks of life. Our talents and projects reflect God’s glory and we are to use them to give glory to God. In the canonized saints the variety of gifts is obvious. They are apostles, martyrs, virgins, spouses, teachers, doctors, monks, missionaries, parents,

widows, poor people, wealthy people, people of great or little learning, and people who renounce wealth, marriage, and advancement in the world. All these people are part of our Church, they are our brothers and sisters in Christ; they are united to Christ.

This diversity of holiness is reflected in the first Eucharistic Prayer, known as the Roman Canon. It is the longest Eucharistic Prayer, containing two long lists of saints. But the point of it is precisely to celebrate this diversity, particularly in the talents and the striving of the saints across centuries.

These saints are our heroes, and, just as many people have memorized the names of all the players on the Giants, so these names are etched in the memory of the Church.

In the vision depicted in the reading from the Book of Revelation, John sees a great multitude, “which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands” (Revelation 7:9).

The image here should startle anyone accustomed to doing laundry. St. John says the robes of the martyrs are made white in the Blood of the Lamb. Although a martyr dies by shedding his or her blood for Christ, the martyrs appear before Christ not in bloodstained clothes, but in spotless white robes.

A martyr makes the final commitment to Christ in a very clear manner. (The root of the word “martyr” means to give witness.) Each surrender to Christ in this life is a participation in the life of Christ. Indeed, when we receive Communion, we unite ourselves to Christ – body and blood, soul and divinity. This means we also unite ourselves to his Will. We mingle our blood and our will with His Blood and His Will.

A final commitment to Christ of each Christian at death is preceded by many prior acts of surrender. Just as in baseball one counts runs scored, the number of base hits, and errors, so each of us should do this, at least for ourselves. As a personal discipline each Catholic should keep “score” of not what wins baseball games, but rather of which deeds help or hinder the entire Church. In fact, we should keep score daily of runs, hits, and errors.

Errors are sins, hits are regular individual acts of surrender, and runs are acts of surrender made powerful by doing them together with others. Like the Giants, we score runs by many individual surrenders to the will of Christ. The surrender of one Catholic to Christ advances another Catholic who surrenders to Christ. We Catholics are a good team.

Newly beatified pope championed justice and peace

ith numerous armed conflicts raging in various parts of the world, and the Vietnam War worsening, Pope Paul VI on Oct. 4, 1965, proclaimed before the U.N. General Assembly: “No more war, war never again.

It is peace, peace which must guide the destinies of peoples and of all mankind.”

Unfortunately, in 1965 the world did not heed Blessed Paul VI’s prophetic words.

And sadly, it has not heeded them since.

From Mexico to South Sudan, from Syria to Ukraine, from Russian and U.S. nuclear TONY MAGLIANO weapons threatening each other to the endless “war on terrorism,” today more than ever the world needs to heed Blessed Paul’s plea: “No more war, war never again. It is peace, peace which must guide the destinies of peoples and of all mankind.”

Since Pope Paul had tremendous respect for all human life – starting at conception – it is providential that the miracle granted by God through his prayerful intercession involved the healing of an unborn child.

According to Vatican Insider, in California an unborn child in 2001 was diagnosed with liquid in the abdomen and an absence of fluid in the amniotic sac.

When every corrective attempt failed, the doctors said the baby would die before birth or be born with dangerous renal impairment.

When abortion was offered as an option, the

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Pope Paul VI greets the crowd as he visits the parish of Jesus the Divine Master in Rome April 2, 1972. mother refused. Instead, she prayed for a miracle asking Pope Paul’s intercession to God. Ten weeks later test results revealed that the unborn child had significantly improved, and was born by Caesarean section.

The boy is now a healthy adolescent considered completely healed. The Vatican’s medical consultation team headed by Patrizio Polisca confirmed that it was impossible to explain the healing scientifically.

Over 40 years ago Blessed Paul VI foresaw the impending environmental disaster facing humanity today. In his apostolic letter “A Call to Action” he warned: “Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks

destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation.”

In his day, and even more so today, in a world where great economic inequality exists – where the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer – Blessed Paul VI in his prophetic encyclical letter “On the Development of Peoples” clearly challenged this grave injustice.

He wrote, “God intended the earth and everything in it for the use of all human beings and peoples.

Thus, under the leadership of justice and in the company of charity, created goods should flow fairly to all. …

“Extreme disparity between nations in economic, social and educational levels provokes jealousy and discord, often putting peace in jeopardy.”

Instead of largely ignoring the reasonable and just demands of countless oppressed people, and then going to war against them when they rise up, we should tirelessly work for social justice for all people.

For as Blessed Paul VI continued to teach: “When we fight poverty and oppose the unfair conditions of the present, we are not just promoting human well being; we are also furthering man’s spiritual and moral development, and hence we are benefiting the whole human race. For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day toward the establishment of the ordered universe willed by God, with a more perfect form of justice among men.”

MAGLIANO is a syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

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Hermits, monks and Benedictines

ope Francis has declared 2015 as the Year of Consecrated Life.

It marks the 50th anniversary of “Perfectae Caritatis,” the Second Vatican Council document calling for renewal in religious life. “Consecrated life” is the broad designation the church uses to describe the men and BROTHER women in a life JOSEPH MURPHY of vows (typically poverty, celibacy and obedience) alone or as members of religious orders, congregations, and secular institutes. The many forms of consecrated life today trace their origins back to the earliest centuries of the church with the development of monasticism.

Monasticism and its place in Catholicism are widely misunderstood. Few Catholics have contact with monks or monastic nuns and these limited perceptions are further clouded by urban legends and faulty images presented in films and on television.

Following the conversion of Constantine (A.D. 272-337), who was the first Christian Roman emperor, Christianity became legal and went mainstream. Christians were no longer being put to death in the empire, so martyrdom became a less likely path to heroic sanctity. At the same time, a less intense commitment to the faith unfortunately became widespread.

In reaction to this weakened fervor, some people, led by the Holy Spirit, became “white martyrs,” by retreating into the wilderness in order to pursue a solitary life of asceticism and constant prayer as anchorites or hermits (they were called “white martyrs” because they did not shed blood.) These men and women sought

Perspectives from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers the “perfect” life offered by Jesus to the rich man in the Gospel (Matthew 19:21). Their life was defined by renouncing marriage, property, and social status while observing an orderly sequence of work, prayer (daily recitation of the Psalms), spiritual reading and fasting. These anchorites were the first monastic men and women.

The term “monastic” derives from the Greek word “monos,” meaning “alone.” However, living completely alone with little or no support and without the company of others proved to be extremely difficult for most people. In time, monks (and separately, nuns) formed independent communities under the guidance of an abbot (or abbess), and attempted to develop and maintain a degree of solitude or “aloneness” with God. These monasteries established their own customs, traditions, and regulations, often based on practices handed down or borrowed from other monasteries. The emergence of the monastic community (“cenobium” in Greek) brought two forms of monastic life into being: that of the anchorite (hermit), or the cenobite (monastic life in community).

St. Benedict of Nursia (480-547) is said to have established several monasteries by the time he wrote his “Rule for Monasteries” toward the end of his life. Besides its teachings on humility, obedience, simplicity, and prayer, Benedict’s rule also lays out a model structure of life sur-

rounding the “work of God” (Liturgy of the Hours and Eucharist), meditative and contemplative reading of sacred Scripture and other spiritually inspired literature (“lectio divina”), manual labor, and fraternal charity.

As Emperor Charlemagne (died in 814) attempted to unite Europe, the “Rule of Saint Benedict” emerged as the most popular monastic rule in the Empire. It was the founding of the Abbey of Cluny (910) and its daughter houses that gave birth to the “Order of Saint Benedict” we know today.

Subsequent reforms in monastic observance resulted in the formation of newer monastic orders, such as the Cistercians in 1098.

Throughout history, some Benedictine monasteries maintained a “contemplative” or cloistered lifestyle apart from the world, in contrast to those houses that engaged in “active” apostolates such as education, parochial ministry, and missionary work. Among the Benedictine reform efforts was the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation (formed in 1867), a worldwide federation of autonomous monasteries of monks and associated monasteries of nuns, that adheres to a contemplative observance of Benedictine monasticism.

A first reading of the rule may puzzle some people because of its recommendation of corporal punishment for wayward monks, because it forbids the telling of jokes and laughter, and also teaches what may seem to be a rather severe concept

Courageous witness

Reflection uplifting

I too want to congratulate Catholic San Francisco for publishing the three-part series exposing the money behind the organization calling itself “faith something or other.”

Just putting faith in its title is a breach of truth.

Next, I want to congratulate your publication for supporting Archbishop Cordileone for his speaking out on traditional marriage despite all the opposition and threats he had.

Then I read about the priest in Sicily, Italy, who stood up against the Mafia and was killed for it. I realized there is no end to the spiritual battle we are all waging.

Someone said that all evil needs to prevail is for Christians to remain silent or be indifferent.

I thank you for your courage in writing and publishing such articles.

Be assured all of you involved in the publication are in my prayers daily and I hope others who feel the way I do will pray diligently for you also.

God bless you all.

Juanita Douglass Redwood City The writer is a member of St. Pius Parish.

Re “The answer is right in front of us,” Deacon Michael Murphy, Sunday Scripture reflection, Oct. 24: I was uplifted by Deacon Murphy’s reflection. There is no more powerful evangelization than love. Jesus’ radical and inclusive love is what attracted followers, and healed and changed lives. Deacon Murphy’s words are the heart of the Christian message that the world needs as much today as it did 2,000 years ago. Thank you, Deacon Murphy, for bringing us back to our source – a well of living water in a parched land!

Catherine Regan San Francisco

at Vatican ll had returned.” There was open controversy in the early and medieval church, he reminds us.

There was “theological confusion” at the synod.

No legitimate reporter would expect the synod to embrace same-sex marriage.

Most of bishops and theologians who set the agenda for Vatican II are dead. Notable exceptions include Benedict XVI and Hans Kung.

There certainly was theological controversy at the synod, and that in itself is extraordinary in view of the tightly controlled, scripted and buttoned-down versions of synod we have seen since Vatican II. The confusion however belongs to Mr. Weigel who overlooks some extraordinary facts: 1) This synod was called by a pope

of humility. But a closer look demonstrates that Benedict also holds a surprisingly profound respect of the human person.

The rule says that monks should pay obedience to one another as well as to the abbot. Hospitality should be extended to guests as if Christ himself is being received in them. It encourages the development and employment of talents, crafts and other skills on their own merit – not just as a means for making money! The rule also allows superiors of individual houses to use their own discretion in modifying or adapting certain customs according to the local situation.

The second to last chapter (#72) of the rule speaks eloquently of the “good zeal” that monks ought to have. In effect, even for monks “attitude is everything!” The rule recognizes that all of us are “works in progress” and that the hand of God is at work in the mundane and ordinary: work, prayer, and spiritual reading. The rule states that the “Divine Presence is everywhere” and that an attitude of joyful trust and dependence upon God creates the “good zeal” which transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

For 1,500 years, the church has been enriched by the ancient monastic tradition represented by “The Rule of Saint Benedict.” Communities of nuns as well as monks have also identified themselves as Benedictine, and laypepeople – men and women – have enhanced their spiritual lives by associating themselves to monasteries as “Benedictine oblates.” From the sixth century A.D. down to our own day, Benedict’s rule and the Benedictine monastic tradition continue to thrive and inspire the lives of men and women everywhere.

BROTHER JOSEPH is a monk in vows to the Archbishop of San Francisco and is on a mission to establish a contemplative Benedictine monastery in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information about this new foundation, please visit: www.saintgregorymonastery.org.

LETTERS

Synod’s extraordinary facts Re “An extraordinary synod, indeed,” George Weigel, Oct. 24: George Weigel decries the “massmedia misperception” that the church was about to “cave in”on the nature of marriage at the recent Synod on the Family. Then he rants about “many Northern European bishops and theologians (who) acted as if the blissful years when they set the agenda for the world church

who required open transparent and honest dialogue among participants.

2) Input was sought and obtained not only from hierarchy but from laity.

3) Dialogue, discussions and discernment will continue through the next year and through the next synod.

Smells like collegiality to me.

Robert M. Rowden San Rafael

Apologies to Browning I trust George Weigel knows now that he owes his “apologies” to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, not Shakespeare, for quoting “Let me count the ways” in his Oct. 24 column on the synod.

John Ahlbach Pacifica The writer teaches theology at Archbishop Riordan High School.

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What psalm will I sing?

Here is Presentation Sister Stephanie Still’s reflection at vespers Oct. 20 at St. Mary’s Cathedral – in a prayer service inaugurating activities in the archdiocese for Pope Francis’ Year of Consecrated Life, honoring religious women and men. Sister Stephanie is president of the Sisters of the Presentation in San Francisco, a community of Catholic women religious committed to living and transmitting the message of Jesus Christ through prayer and service.

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t always surprises me to remember that the psalms were sung and according to Scripture were actually dance music, as we hear that David danced before the Lord singing psalms.

This tradition of singing the psalms is observed in liturgies such as this evening and preserved in monastic observances SISTER yet often the STEPHANIE psalms are STILL, PBVM intoned seriously and that dance beat, the psalms heartbeat, is lost.

As I reflected upon the psalms chosen for this evening, I wondered for myself what psalm would I sing based on my more than 30 years of living consecrated life? When it comes to dancing, I always say my people have no rhythm so I started to write that option off.

Yet in the depth of my heart, I have asked myself over the last few weeks, what is the beat to which I

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Members of religious communities gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 20 for evening prayer in honor of the opening of the Year of Consecrated Life, with a reflection by Presentation Sister Stephanie Still and remarks by Archbishop Cordileone. have lived this life as a sister, what is that dance rhythm that would witness to my call of being chosen by God as we hear in the reading from Ephesians?

What is the psalm I would sing?

How could I sing my consecrated life?

Would it be a song of lament for things that haven’t gone my way or for the diminishing future of religious life as I have lived it?

Would it be a song of thanksgiving for all the opportunities I have been given to serve God and God’s people in my years of ministry?

Would it be a song of hope and trust because I know that God has brought me too far to let me go or let me down now?

Would it be a song of freedom and possibility for vows lived and God’s promises kept to me?

Would it be a song of joy because I have been gifted with a sense of purpose, with a life in a faith-filled community, and a congregation that continues to teach me a spirit-filled charism and how to be a woman of justice?

Would it be a love song because I fell in love with a God who loved me

first and who holds me tenderly all the days of my life?

Would it be a song with all these musical life themes? If so, it would be a real song and a long song.

And, so it should be because today I stand here, you stand here, not just expressing our own vocation and call, but as witnesses to a rich tradition of all our brothers and sisters who have lived this life before us.

And our song, although long has no end, because others will come in other generations to sing the song and keep the beat going.

What a blessing, what a gift. We are often praised for what we have done for others and that is certainly part of our life. Tonight let us praise the God we trust and take refuge in the gift each one of us was given in this extraordinary life.

Our Scripture tonight tells us and I hope we believe it in our hearts, that we have been chosen for this life and every day we have the opportunity to sing a new song or revel in an old song, to take up a new beat or tap along with a familiar one, to learn a new dance step or just be glad we can sway in place.

As we celebrate consecrated life tonight and throughout this year, let’s break out to sing our lives and to dance before the Lord. As we give expression to the fullness and many facets of our lives, may we lead others to do so, also.

And, when we see each other in our ministries, in our community life, in the many meetings we participate in, let’s be sure to ask “What song are you singing today?”

And, who knows we may even dance together.

As IS approached, seminarian saved the Blessed Sacrament JOHN PONTIFEX

Bombs are falling and the sound of the explosion is sending shock and fear into the hearts of the people. Amid the sound of crying and frenzied activity, people pack up what belongings they can carry and make off into the night.

In the midst of it all stands Martin Baani, a 24-year-old seminarian. It’s dawning on him that this is Karamlesh’s last stand.

For 1,800 years, Christianity has had a home in the hearts and minds of the people of this village, so full of antiquity, located near Mosul in northern Iraq. Now that era is about to be brought to a calamitous end – Islamic State are advancing.

Martin’s mobile phone rings: A friend stammers out the news that the nearby town of Telkaif has fallen to “Da’ash” – the Arabic name for Islamic State. Karamlesh would surely be next.

Martin dashes out of his aunt’s house, where he is staying, and heads for the nearby St Addai’s Church. He takes the Blessed Sacrament, a bundle of official papers and walks out of the church. Outside a car awaits – his parish priest, Father Thabet, and three other priests are inside.

Martin gets in and the car speeds off. They leave Karamlesh and the last remnants of the village’s Christian presence go with them.

Speaking to Martin in the calm of St Peter’s Seminary, Ankawa – a suburb of the Kurdish regional capital of Erbil – it is difficult to imagine he is describing anything except a bad dream.

But there is nothing dreamy in Martin’s expression. “Until the very last minute, the Pashmerga (the Kurdish armed forces protecting the villages) were telling us it was safe.

“I could easily go,” says Martin Baani, a seminarian who lives in Islamic State-besieged northern Iraq and has family in California. “But I want to stay. I don’t want to run away from the problem.”

“But then we heard that they were setting up big guns on St Barbara’s Hill (on the edge of

the village) and we knew then the situation had become very dangerous.”

Taking stock of that terrible night of Aug. 6, Martin’s confidence is bolstered by the presence of 27 other seminarians at St Peter’s, many with their own stories of escape from the clutches of the Islamic militants.

Martin and his fellow students for the priesthood know that the future is bleak as regards Christianity in Iraq. A community of 1.5 million Christians before 2003 has dwindled to less than 300,000. And of those who remain, more than a third are displaced. Many, if not most, want a new life in a new country.

Martin, however, is not one of them. “I could easily go,” he explains calmly. “My family now live in California. I already have been given a visa to go to America and visit them.

“But I want to stay. I don’t want to run away from the problem.”

Martin has already made the choice that marks out the priests who have decided to stay in Iraq; his vocation is to serve the people – come what may.

“We must stand up for our rights; we must not be afraid,” he explains. Describing in detail the emergency relief work that has occupied so much of his time, it is plain to see that he feels his place is to be with the people.

Martin is already a subdeacon. Now in his final year of theology, ordination to the priesthood is but a few months away.

“Thank you for your prayers,” says Martin, as I take my leave of him. “We count on your support.”

PONTIFEX is a senior journalist for Aid to the Church in Need, an international Catholic charity under the guidance of the Holy See, providing assistance to the suffering and persecuted church in more than 140 countries.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome He spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, ‘Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.’

JOHN 2:13-22 EZEKIEL 47:1-2, 8-9, 12 The angel brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing out from beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the façade of the temple was toward the east; the water flowed down from the southern side of the temple, south of the altar. He led me outside by the north gate, and around to the outer gate facing the east, where I saw water trickling from the southern side.

He said to me, “This water flows into the eastern district down upon the Arabah, and empties into the sea, the salt waters, which it makes fresh.

Wherever the river flows, every sort of living creature that can multiply shall live, and there shall be abundant fish, for wherever this water comes the sea shall be made fresh. Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of every kind shall grow; their leaves shall not fade, nor their fruit fail. Every month they shall bear fresh fruit, for they shall be watered by the flow from the sanctuary. Their fruit shall serve for food, and their leaves for medicine.”

PSALM 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 The waters of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!

God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-pres-

ent help in distress. Therefore, we fear not, though the earth be shaken and mountains plunge into the depths of the sea.

The waters of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!

There is a stream whose runlets gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High. God is in its midst; it shall not be disturbed; God will help it at the break of dawn.

The waters of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!

The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. Come! behold the deeds of the Lord, the astounding things he has wrought on earth.

The waters of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!

1 CORINTHIANS 3:9C-11, 16-17 Brothers and sisters: You are God’s building.

According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon it. But each one must be careful how he builds upon it, for no one can lay a foundation other than the one that is there, namely, Jesus Christ. Do you not know that you are the temple

of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy.

JOHN 2:13-22 Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money-changers seated there. He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.” His disciples recalled the words of Scripture, Zeal for your house will consume me. At this the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?” Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for 46 years, and you will raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his Body. Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.

What is church?

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hey demolished the cozy church and put up a school building. The Redemptorists had to replace it because baby boomer children strained its 400 person-capacity. I made my first Communion and confirmation there. We stood in line, floor creaking as we waited our turn, outside the thick-velvetcurtained confessionals on Fridays. There I sang in the sixth, seventh and eighth grade girls choir for daily high Mass during the school year, and learned Gregorian chants for all liturgical seasons. A grand replacement, the present St. Mary’s of the Assumption in Whittier, California, was erected SISTER ELOISE the end of the block, with ROSENBLATT, RSM at Rouault-influenced stained glass windows, airy interior and modern bell tower. But I always missed the church of my grade-school devotional life – the building that disappeared.

Perhaps some readers can still visit the churches of their youth in this archdiocese. But in many places churches aren’t there anymore. In post-World War II Europe – how many churches bombed and

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS PRAISE GOD, PROCLAIM SALVATION

Prayer and mission are the very breath of the Christian life, the pope said Oct. 31.

“When we inhale, by prayer, we receive the fresh air of the Holy Spirit. When exhaling this air, we announce Jesus Christ risen by the same spirit,” he told the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowships in Vatican City. The pope also urged intercessory prayers, “for our Christian brothers and sisters who are persecuted and murdered” and for world peace.

rebuilt? In Nigeria recently, more than 200 Christian churches were burned and destroyed by Boko Haram, a radical Islamic sect.

So a church still in use after 1,600 years, and still standing in the same place, is something of a modern miracle. It’s the building we celebrate today, the Lateran Basilica in Rome. It was dedicated in 324 A.D. and hosted several early ecumenical councils.

The church survived the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Barbarian invasions, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and two world wars.

St. Peter’s Basilica long ago replaced it in importance, but the Lateran Basilica is a “mother church” which signals continuity of God’s presence and endurance of the believing community.

Yes, “the church” is a building. It’s a sacred place, even if only in one’s imagination or memory. At the time Ezekiel wrote his vision of a gloriously erected temple, the actual Temple built by Solomon had long been gutted, the southern kingdom had fallen to the Assyrians, and the Jerusalem congregation decimated and exiled. Yet the prophet’s vision, arising from hopelessness, presents an image of what the temple means – an architectural wonder with fountains of fresh water flowing from each of its sides toward the seas and rivers. The temple waters bring abundant fruitfulness wherever they flow. This image reappears at the end of the Book of Revelation. The temple is not just a beautiful

building to impress people, but it makes food and healing available to everyone along the river banks – whether they actually find their way to the temple structure or not.

Psalm 46 celebrates the constant flow of God’s fidelity in social upheaval. No matter what disasters happen in a believer’s life, “there is a stream whose runlets gladden the city of God.” St. Paul speaks of “church” in two senses. He considers himself the architect of new congregations – persons related by faith, founded on belief in Jesus Christ. Paul also thinks of church as “indwelling.”

Each believer’s body is a holy temple where the Spirit of God abides. This should inspire profound respect for the other, no matter a person’s religious background, gender, ethnicity or social class.

John’s account of Jesus driving the sellers out of the temple precincts seems discordant, given the tone of the other readings. However, the motive of Jesus makes sense in light of Ezekiel’s vision.

The temple is not a marketplace where religion and capitalism meet. It’s supposed to be a place where God’s beautiful, orderly design is carried out, where, no matter which side you view, abundance of water, fruit, and leaves for healing are available to all people.

MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT is a Ph.D. theologian and an attorney in private practice in areas of family law and wills and trusts. She lives in San Jose.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10: Memorial of St. Leo the Great, pope and doctor. TI 1:1-9. PS 24:1b-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. LK 17:1-6.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13: Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin. PHLM 7-20. PS 146:7, 8-9a, 9bc-10. LK 17:20-25.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11: Memorial of St. Martin of Tours, bishop. TI 2:1-8, 11-14. PS 37:3-4, 18 and 23, 27 and 29. LK 17:7-10.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14: Friday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time. 2 JN 4-9. PS 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18. LK 17:26-37.

Josaphat

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12: Memorial of St. Josaphat, bishop and martyr. TI 3:1-7. PS 23:1b-3a, 3bc-4, 5, 6. LK 17:11-19.

Frances Xavier Cabrini

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15: Saturday of the Thirtysecond Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great, bishop, confessor and doctor. 3 JN 5-8. PS 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. LK 18:1-8.

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Cardinal says mergers tough to take, but address shifts in population BETH GRIFFIN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK – In a long-awaited but nonetheless stunning announcement, the Archdiocese of New York said Nov. 2 it would merge 112 of its 368 parishes into 55, effectively shuttering at least 31 churches by Aug. 1, 2015.

Twenty-four of the merged parishes will continue to celebrate scheduled Masses and sacraments at two sites.

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York said the painful reorganization is a necessary adjustment to historic parish infrastructure that will strengthen the Catholic Church in the archdiocese. “The parish is the people and the people have to be cared for.

What’s most important is the faith continues, the Eucharist continues and the sacraments continue,” he said.

The cardinal spoke to Catholic News Service and Catholic New York together after the mergers were announced. He said All Souls’ Day was a fitting time to break the news because the feast and the decisions are not about dying, but rising.

“It’s about what Pope Benedict said, ‘The vine has to be pruned once in a while if it’s going to grow,’” the cardinal said, “and it’s about what Pope St. John Paul II said, ‘We’re into mission and not maintenance’ and it’s about what Pope Francis said, ‘The church is not about building structures. It’s about welcome, love, mercy, service,

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Jesuit Father Mark Hallinan greets a young girl following a Spanish-language Mass at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in the Staten Island borough of New York Nov. 2. Founded in 1877, St. Mary is one of more than 30 churches the New York archdiocese will close by August 2015 as part of a reorganization initiative that will merge 112 parishes into 55. embracing and inviting.’ It’s about going ahead and not getting bogged down in the past.”

The cardinal said the math shows an awkward, lopsided distribution of parishes that is inconsistent with Catholic population, especially in Manhattan. He said 25 percent of the parishes of the archdiocese are located in that borough, yet only 12 percent

COMPANIES CRITICIZED FOR OFFERING TO PAY TO FREEZE FEMALE WORKERS’ EGGS

LEVITTOWN, Pa. – The recent announcements by Facebook and Apple that they would include among employee health benefits the option for young women to freeze their eggs for future use at a cost of up to $20,000 has been greeted with numerous objections by bioethicists and pro-life leaders.

Unlike normal medical procedures intended to restore health to a person with an illness, this proposal offers “risky technology” to otherwise healthy young women, noted Jennifer Lahl, president of the California-based Center for Bioethics and Culture. “This is still an enterprise that has a very high failure rate,” she said, and no one yet knows the long-term health effects of the medications and other chemical agents that are used in the processes of retrieving and freezing eggs. It’s amazing to her, Lahl said, how little attention “these very smart people” at the tech companies are paying to “human biology 101,” which knows that advancing maternal age always carries risks, and she said she wonders what benefits will be offered to women and children who suffer adverse effects.

“It’s very hard on women’s bodies to retrieve eggs to freeze,” and very unnatural, Jeanne F. Monahan, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, told Catholic News Service. The Catholic Church views in vitro fertilization as immoral and contrary to natural law.

INSTITUTE OFFICIALS OUTLINE ALTERNATIVES TO IN VITRO FOR INFERTILE COUPLES

DAVENPORT, Iowa – For couples struggling to conceive a child, in vitro fertilization has been a medical standard for the past 30 years. The Catholic Church has long opposed the process as immoral, because it separates conception from the marital act and it destroys embryos. With the procedure’s prevalence in the medical world, some Catholic couples are led to believe they are out of medical options after a doctor recommends it. However, officials from the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction in Omaha, Nebraska, say that in vitro fer-

of the Catholic population is there. In Manhattan, 28 parishes will merge to form 13 and nine sites will no longer hold weekly Mass, although they may be used on special occasions.

Cardinal Dolan said the process was not an easy one and the announcement caused understandable anger and hurt. “We know there’s going to be a lot of tears, a lot of shouts, a lot

tilization, or IVF, is not a miracle procedure and they report that more effective options exist.

Dr. Kristina Pakiz, associate medical consultant, said couples “do not have to feel trapped in a corner where they are told they will never have a child without in vitro fertilization. The truth is that there is superior gynecologic health care available to them.” She said IVF has a success rate of about 30 percent and increases the risk of high-risk pregnancy and birth defects. About five in six embryos created in the process will die. IVF does not address root causes of infertility; only a detailed workup that helps doctors diagnose and treat infertility as the product of an underlying condition can do that. When infertility is seen as an underlying medical condition and treated accordingly, success rates for conceiving increase.

WOMAN’S SUICIDE CALLED TRAGEDY, SYMBOL OF ‘CULTURE OF DEATH’ IN US

PORTLAND, Ore. – Brittany Maynard, a young California woman who was suffering from terminal brain cancer and gained national attention for her plan to use Oregon’s assisted suicide law, ended her life Nov. 1. She was 29 years old.

“We are saddened by the fact that this young woman gave up hope, and now our concern is for other people with terminal illnesses who may contemplate following her example,” said Janet Morana, executive director of Priests for Life, in a Nov. 2 statement. “Our prayer is that these people will find the courage to live every day to the fullest until God calls them home,” she said.

“Brittany’s death was not a victory for a political cause. It was a tragedy, hastened by despair and aided by the culture of death invading our country.” Several days before Maynard’s suicide, Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample urged Maynard and others in similar situations: “Don’t give up hope! We are with you. As friends, families and neighbors we pledge to surround you with our love and compassion until the sacred moment when God calls you home,” he said in a statement issued just before the feasts of All Saints on Nov. 1 and All Souls on Nov. 2. He said assisted suicide offers the illusion that humans can control death.

of cussing and we need to be patient with people and listen to them, but there’s a lot of trust and growth and strength that come out of this.”

The mergers are the culmination of a five-year pastoral planning process known as Making All Things New, which sought input from 368 parishes clustered into 75 groups, as well as a 40-person advisory committee, the archdiocesan priests’ council and archdiocesan staff.

Cardinal Dolan said the restructuring is not the result of a shortage of priests, but from a shortage of the faithful. “They’re not coming anymore and we have to get them back.”

He said a Catholics Come Home program planned several years ago was canceled because some pastors “are so oppressed by bills and maintenance that we can’t do mission.

We’ve got to be talking about how to fill the buildings and not how to keep them up, insure them and tuck-point them.”

“We have to turn from being shepherds to being fishermen and (the mergers) will free us up to do that. We will have better utilization of priests, trained lay ministers, religious women and men who are involved in leadership who aren’t going to have to spend all their time propping up places and are going to be better used at, granted, fewer, but much more vigorous and solid parishes,” he explained.

Cardinal says pope’s steady focus on poverty emphasizes body, soul CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Pope Francis has worked to keep in the public discourse the issue of poverty understood in its widest possible sense, said the prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

“Going well beyond a merely economic conception of poverty, Pope Francis has tried to indicate to the world the true poverty of the human condition in (CNS PHOTO/JOE RAYMOND, our times: the povCOURTESY UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME) erty of body and soul, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prepointing out all the fect of the Vatican Congregaforces at work in the tion for the Doctrine of the world further impoverFaith, speaks Oct. 31 during ishing mankind,” Cara conference on poverty at dinal Gerhard Muller the University of Notre Dame said at a conference Center for Ethics and Culture on poverty sponsored in Notre Dame, Ind. by the University of Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. Cardinal Muller was asked to speak about his 2014 book, “Poor for the Poor: The Mission of the Church,” released by the Vatican Publishing House. Pope Francis wrote the preface to the book. “The mission of the church is to free mankind from the poverty of our fallen condition and constantly remind us that we are created in the image and likeness of God; we are the object of his divine love; we are called to the richness of eternal life with him,” the cardinal said.

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CONFERENCE: Pope to open Vatican meeting on traditional marriage FROM PAGE 1

as Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism and Sikhism.

The conference will aim to “examine and propose anew the beauty of the relationship between the man and the woman, in order to support and reinvigorate marriage and family life for the flourishing of human society,” according to organizers.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia and the Rev. Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church in California, will be among the participants.

Other Americans at the conference will include Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Henry B. Eyring, president and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and Mercy Sister Prudence Allen, former chair of the philosophy department at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, whom Pope Francis named to the International Theological Commission in September.

Other notable speakers will include Lord Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of Great Britain, and Anglican Bishops N.T. Wright and Michael Nazir-Ali. Pope Francis will address the conference and preside over its first morning session Nov. 17, following remarks by Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The conference was an initiative of Cardinal Muller, who proposed it to Pope Francis in November 2013, according to Helen Alvare, a professor at George Mason University School of Law in Virginia, who is handling press relations for the event.

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Pope Francis arrives in procession to celebrate a Mass for deceased cardinals and bishops in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Nov. 3. The pope announced that he will open an interreligious conference dedicated to traditional marriage Nov. 17-19.

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput told an audience in New York Oct. 20 that he had been ‘very disturbed’ by press reports of last month’s synod, saying, ‘I think confusion is of the devil, and I think the public image that came across was of confusion,’ though he added: ‘I don’t think that was the real thing there.’

The conference is officially sponsored by the doctrinal congregation, and co-sponsored by the pontifical councils for Promoting Christian Unity, for Interreligious Dialogue and for the Family. The heads of all four Curia offices are scheduled to address the assembly.

Vatican official: Syria’s humanitarian crisis ‘worse than I thought’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BEIRUT, Lebanon – A Vatican official who just returned from a visit to Syria said “the humanitarian situation is worse than I thought.” Msgr. Giampietro Dal Toso, secretary of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, told U.S. journalists in Beirut Nov. 1 that he had seen “the concrete face of suffering” as a result of war. He also said the humanitarian crisis in Iraq is tied to the crisis in Syria.

“We should begin to look at this crisis as one crisis,” he said. “We have people crossing borders,” so humanitarian agencies must look at the bigger picture, he said. His remarks echoed those of Christian aid officials who work in the region. Msgr. Dal Toso, the secondhighest official at Cor Unum, which coordinates Vatican charitable agencies, said Syria’s middle class has disappeared, but noted, “The whole population is a victim of this war.”

Syria, which had a population of 22 million people before violence began in 2011, has at least 10

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A child receives polio vaccination at an informal settlement of Syrian refugees in Bekaa, Lebanon, Oct. 16. million people who are refugees or who are displaced within their own country, according to U.N statistics. The effect of such a shift in demographics has driven up the cost of living, including rent, medicine and even school fees, Msgr.

Dal Toso said.

Topics of lectures and videos will include “The Cradle of Life and Love: A Mother and Father for the World’s Children” and “The Sacramentality of Human Love According to St. John Paul II.” Given its timing and subject matter, the conference is likely to invite

BAN OF GENDER-BASED ABORTION PASSES FIRST VOTE IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT

MANCHESTER, England – British parliamentarians overwhelmingly approved a bill to criminalize the abortions of baby girls simply because of their gender. The Abortion (Sex-Selection) Bill was approved 181-1 on first reading in a Nov. 4 vote in the House of Commons.

The bill was introduced by Fiona Bruce, a Conservative Party Member of Parliament, after abortion providers and the British Medical Association – the doctors’ union – both insisted that sex-selective abortions were permitted under the terms of the 1967 Abortion Act. Because the government has argued that such abortions are illegal, the bill has the purpose of ending the ambiguity by stating explicitly that such abortions are illegal.

The huge level of support for the bill was welcomed by Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury, England, within whose diocese Bruce’s Congleton district is located. “It takes courage for a politician to oppose the culture of death in its many forms,” Bishop Davies said in a Nov. 4 email to Catholic News Service. He added: “Congleton’s MP, Fiona Bruce, deserves the support of all who uphold the sanctity of human life in her efforts to protect the lives of the unborn in gender-based abortions.”

In a Nov. 4 statement, Bruce said the 1967 law was being interpreted too liberally and that “today Parliament agreed that more legislation is needed to silence those claiming that

comparisons with the Oct. 5-19 synod on the family. Several conference participants have already commented publicly on the earlier event.

One of the synod’s most discussed topics was a proposal by German Cardinal Walter Kasper to make it easier for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion. Cardinal Muller was a leading opponent of that proposal.

Archbishop Chaput told an audience in New York Oct. 20 that he had been “very disturbed” by press reports of last month’s synod, saying, “I think confusion is of the devil, and I think the public image that came across was of confusion,” though he added: “I don’t think that was the real thing there.” The archbishop will play host to the September 2015 World Meeting of Families, which Pope Francis is widely expected to attend.

Rev. Warren was one of 48 Christian ministers and scholars who signed an open letter to Pope Francis and the synod fathers in September, urging the assembly to defend traditional marriage, among other ways, by supporting efforts to “restore legal provisions that protect marriage as a conjugal union of one man and one woman.”

Moore, of the Southern Baptist Convention, wrote a blog post in response to the synod’s controversial midterm report, which used remarkably conciliatory language toward people with ways of life contrary to Catholic teaching, including those in same-sex unions and other non-marital relationships.

Moore praised the document for suggesting that “we should not drive sinners away, but that we should receive them and nurture them toward Christ,” but said that the “church is not itself, though, to be made up of unrepentant people.”

sex-selective abortion can be legal.

“Never would Parliamentarians in 1967 have imagined that 47 years on, there would be dispute about whether their act permitted abortion where the baby was the a boy or a girl.”

The outcry in Britain over genderbased abortions follows investigations by national newspapers, which found that women who did not want to have baby girls were offered abortions.

LEGIONARIES REFORMS APPROVED

VATICAN CITY – Marking a significant step in an extensive process of the reform of the Legionaries of Christ, the Vatican approved the congregation’s amended constitutions.

The approval of the final constitutional text Oct. 16 by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life was part of a Vatican-led effort to help the religious community clarify and better define its fundamental norms and charism. The Legionaries published news of the approval and the new constitutions on their website Nov. 1.

The new and amended constitutions “describe the specific way each of us should live religious life in the Legion,” and they are part of “the path that will guide us to holiness and apostolic fruitfulness in serving the church and men and women,” Father Eduardo Robles Gil, general director of the Legionaries, said in a letter to members.

“The constitutions contain the fundamental norms to preserve the charism of the congregation and help it thrive,” the order announced.

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YOUNG ADULTS: Ministry for 18-40 Catholics coming to parish near you FROM PAGE 1

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Re-establishing young adult ministry

Several years ago Deacon John Norris, director of the archdiocesan Office of Pastoral Ministry, gathered a group of young adult leaders from across the archdiocese. These leaders worked with the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council and Archbishop George Niederauer and decided to form a task force to be led by Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy.

Angela Pollock The task force gathered more than 50 young adult leaders who worked for over six months on a report which listed five goals to re-establish young adult ministry.

In the midst of their extensive work it became clear to them that they needed to recommend hiring a director of young adult ministry. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone approved my hiring October 2013. One of my first tasks on the job was to present the task force report with Bishop McElroy to Archbishop Cordileone and the council of priests. They approved the plan, which focused on building up young adult community within the parishes, in December 2013.

As a young adult minister in other parts of the country in the past, I worked on a number of largescale events for young adults – including a film festival in Idaho – which drew a lot of interest, but when they were over, the young adults found very little support at the parish level and found it difficult to enter into the faith community for which they were searching.

Our approach

At the archdiocese, we are taking the opposite approach and building the small faith communities for young adults at the parish level so when the big events attract young adults, we can point them to parish communities that will welcome them and meet their specific needs.

For the purposes of the Catholic Church, a young adult is anyone 18-40. That 20-plus age span means young adults come in a lot of different forms: single, married, with children, and without. The interests vary so much, this is not like a lot of other ministries where we find a great program and plug it in.

Each parish is so unique and the young adults who live there have their own unique needs.

For example, we are trying to put together a team at St. Charles in San Carlos. Leaders within the parish have already done surveys and listening sessions and they know that they need to make sure that the team they put together can focus on the needs of young families since they had discovered through the surveys and listening that the majority of their young adult population are young couples with children. In response to the feedback received

COMING EVENTS FOR YOUNG ADULTS HOSPITALITY TRAINING: The archdiocesan Department of Pastoral Ministry will offer a hospitality training. With the holidays just around the corner, many people come back to church who may not have been around for the past year. This is a wonderful opportunity to welcome everyone, including young adults, home to your parish community. The training will share best practices and ideas for creating a more welcoming environment in our parishes. Open to all, three sessions offered, one in each county, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.: Nov. 17, Archdiocesan Pastoral Center, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco; Nov. 18, St. Matthew Parish, One Notre Dame Ave., San Mateo; Nov. 19, St. Sebastian Parish, 373 Bon Air Road, Kentfield. To sign up call Angela Pollock, director of Young Adult and Campus Ministry, at (415) 614-5595.

YOUNG ADULT TEAM LEADERS RETREAT: Feb. 20-22, 2015.

SMALL FAITH SHARING FACILITATOR TRAINING: Will occur in January. Those interested should be selected by their parish young adult team and approved by their pastor. Call Angela Pollock at (415) 614-5595 to sign up.

WHO HAS GOD CALLED ME TO BE: A day-long retreat exploring the unique gifts and ways God has called each of us and how these help us to know and live out our vocations will be April 18, 2015. This retreat will be limited to 40 people. Call Angela Pollock at (415) 614-5595 to sign up.

THE FIRST ANNUAL ARCHDIOCESAN YOUNG ADULT RETREAT: Will be Oct. 24, 2015, with up to 800 participants. The retreat will feature tracks focusing on married life, single life, spirituality and service, with a children’s track for the children of young adults.

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The only thing that almost all of our parish young adult teams have in common is the desire for small Scripture-based faith sharing groups.

We have just completed our first training of young adult facilitators in order to address this great need.

The entire area of young adult ministry is still very new – there are very few young adult ministers in the Catholic Church in the U.S. The ministry began in 1997 when the U.S. bishops issued the document “Sons and Daughters of Light,” in which they said many adults 18-40 had been neglected by the church.

As part of our effort to build a sustaining structure for young adults, we have required that each parish young adult team have a team member sit on the Young Adult Council. The council consists of 13 people from existing or emerging parish teams. The members are: Bill Hull, St. Dominic, San Francisco; Kim Ambayec, St. Gregory, San Mateo; Jazmin Sacchi, St. Matthew, San Mateo; Jennifer Wack, St. Raphael Parish, San Rafael; Bertina Cannizzaro, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Mill Valley; Patricia Campos, St. Charles Borromeo, San Francisco; Sarah Murphy, St. Charles, San Carlos; Jonathan Raval, St. Andrew, South San Francisco; Brea Aguas, St. Thomas More, San Francisco; Jessica Li, who represents the Chinese Young Adult Group.

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Father O’Brien, 69, is from The Bronx, New York, and the Archdiocese of New York.

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YOUTH RALLY AND MASS, SAN FRANCISCO: More than 100 people attended the archdiocesan Youth Rally & Youth Mass Nov. 1 at St. Anne of the Sunset Parish in San Francisco, with Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice. The event was a one-day experience of prayer, learning, community and evangelization for Catholic teenagers in grades seven-12 and their adult chaperones. The program included prayer, teen witness talks and community building activities.

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ALL SAINTS’ MASS, HOLY CROSS CEMETERY, COLMA: Florine Konkle brings the gifts to Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at the annual Mass at the archdiocesan Catholic cemetery, attended by 1,200 worshippers.

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MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME: The school’s class of 1964 celebrated its 50th reunion at Mercy in conjunction with homecoming festivities Sept. 21. Mercy Sister Celeste Nuttman is a member of the class and pictured in the back row fifth from left. The 1964 graduates were among “more than 140 alumnae

who returned to Mercy to enjoy the homecoming day,” the school said.

of songs from the ‘60s, said Virginia Yanke, a principal organizer of the day. “The CDs have a lot of Motown and a lot of Beatles,” Virginia said.

Classmates Ann Lund and Patty Walsh produced the CDs.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 7 FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal.

TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé prayer around the cross, Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 8 p.m. Taizé prayer has been sung on first Fridays at Mercy Center since 1983; Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan, (650) 340-7452.

MARRIAGE HELP: Are you frustrated or angry with each other? Do you argue? Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi with a long i) helps couples through difficult times in their marriages. For confidential information about or to register for the program call (415) 893-1005; email SF@RetroCA.com; visit www.HelpOurMarriage.com.

SATURDAY, NOV. 8 GRIEF SUPPORT: All Saints Day Mass of remembrance, Good Shepherd Parish, 901 Oceana Blvd, Pacifica, 1 p.m., light reception follows; suzannechinn1@sbcglobal.net; tonilyng@ aol.com; visit www.sfarchdiocese.org/ home/ministries/grief-consolation. No charge.

BOUTIQUE: Women’s Club, All Souls Catholic School, South San Francisco Christmas Fair, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. both days. Email allsoulswomenscub@yahoo.com.

ACCW: San Francisco Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women convention, St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue at Vicente, San Francisco, beginning with Mass at 11 a.m. followed by lunch and program featuring speaker

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MASS AND BREAKFAST: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, 7 a.m.

Mass followed by breakfast, St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Road at Sir Francis Drake BouleBarry Stenger vard, Greenbrae. Guest speaker is Barry Stenger, executive director, St. Anthony Foundation; breakfast $8 members/$10 visitors; (415) 461-0704, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sugaremy@aol. com.

JUSTICE TALK: “Catholic Social Teaching 101,” St. Dominic parish Hall, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, 6:30 p.m., (415) 567-7824; soSister Colleen cialjustice@ McDermott, OP stdominics. org. Dominican Sister Colleen McDermott is new director of community service and justice ministries at St. Dominic’s. She has been involved in community service and justice education for more than 25 years.

Margaret Turek, director of evangelization, Diocese of Oakland, with “Be the Voice of Catholic Women; Catholic Women United in Truth,” $25 ticket includes lunch. Diana Heafy, (415) 731-6379, Cathy Mibach (415) 753-0234.

GRIEF SUPPORT: All Saints Day ritual of remembrance, Good Shepherd Parish, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica, 1011:30 a.m., suzannechinn1@sbcglobal. net or tonilyng@aol.com. No charge. www.sfarchdiocese.org/grief.

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SUNDAY, NOV. 9 OUR LADY MASS: Visiting Archbishop Paciano B. Aniceto, retired from San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines is principal celebrant at Mass commemorating the Virgen de los Remedios, patron of Pampanga, 1 p.m., St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St. at Funston, San Francisco. www.facebook.com/VirgenDeLosRemediosInNorCal.

REUNION: St. Thomas More School 60th anniversary celebration, Thomas More Way, San Francisco, beginning with Mass at 10 a.m. in parish church, followed by brunch in gym. (415) 337-0100; alumni@stmsf. org.

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CONCERT: Program celebrates 25th anniversary of the San Francisco Interfaith Council, 7:30 p.m., First Unitarian Church, 1187 Franklin St. at Geary, San Francisco; an ensemble from San Francisco’s St. Dominic Church choir and cantor Rosalyn Barak of Congregation Emanu-El are among the performers. http://conta. cc/1sRa2mt.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 15 2-DAY BOUTIQUE: St. Charles Parish Women’s Group, Saturday, 2-7 p.m.; Sunday, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; Tamarack and Belle Avenues, San Carlos; rrourick@gmail.com.

HANDICAPABLES MASS: Bishop William J. Justice is principal celebrant and homilist at a Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited.

Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.

MISSION TRIP: One-day pilgrimage to Mission Santa Cruz and Mission Santa Clara from St. Veronica Church, South San Francisco, $100 fee includes transportation, lunch and mission entrance fees; June Heise (650) 871-7738.

SUNDAY, NOV. 16 FASHION SHOW: San Francisco Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians fashion show, luncheon and raffle; 11 a.m., no host cocktails, with lunch at noon, San Francisco United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45th Ave.; $55 adults, $15 children. RSVP by Nov. 10 to Pam Naughton, (415) 566-1936.

MONDAY, NOV. 17 GRIEF SUPPORT: Holiday Grief and

7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

MONDAY, NOV 17 3-DAY MISSION: A Pope Francis Retreat with fellow Jesuit Father Tom Allender, Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Drive off El Camino Real, Burlingame; Monday, TuesFather Tom day, WednesAllender, SJ day 8:30-9:30 a.m.; 7:15-8:15 p.m.; (650) 3477768; www.olaparish.org.

Healing Myself; St. Pius Parish, Redwood City; griefministry@pius.org for more information; www.sfarchdiocese. org/grief.

TUESDAY, NOV. 18 3-DAY BOUTIQUE: St. Mary’s Medical Center auxiliary holiday boutique, Tuesday, 4-7 p.m. with refreshments and free parking for $10 entrance fee, Wednesday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Proceeds help purchase new dialysis equipment. (415) 750-5646.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19

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

GRIEF SUPPORT: The Nature of Grief, St. Peter Parish, 700 Oddstad Blvd, Pacifica, 10 a.m.-noon, tonilyng@aol. com; www.sfarchdiocese.org/grief.

FRIDAY, NOV. 21 FAITH CONFERENCE: Faith Formation Conference, Santa Clara Convention Center, liturgy, workshops, and exhibits for catechists, parish leaders, parents, youth and young adults. Registration: www.faithformationconference.com.

SATURDAY, NOV. 22

DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays,

TURKEY DRIVE: Annual Turkey Drive at St. Emydius Church, 260 Ashton

PAINTING

ELECTRICAL

Bill Hefferon Painting

ALL ELECTRIC SERVICE

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

IRISH Eoin PAINTING Lehane Discount to CSF Readers

415.368.8589 Lic.#942181

eoin_lehane@yahoo.com

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

Tel: (650) 630-1835

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

415-269-0446 • 650-738-9295 www.sospainting.net F REE E STIMATES

PLUMBING

HOLLAND Plumbing Works San Francisco ALL PLUMBING WORK PAT HOLLAND

CA LIC #817607

BONDED & INSURED

415-205-1235

Service Changes Solar Installation Lighting/Power Fire Alarm/Data Green Energy

COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION CA License #965268

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

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

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

Kitchen/Bath Remodel Dry Rot Repair • Decks /Stairs Plumbing Repair/Replacement

Call: 650.580.2769

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

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

415.279.1266

mikecahalan@gmail.com Support CSF

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

ROOFING

DINING

FENCES & DECKS

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

650.291.4303

SIMBANG GABI: Mass opening novena of prayer anticipating birth of Christ, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m. Archbishop Bernardito Auza, permanent observer of the Vatican at the U.N., is principal celebrant. Nelliehizon01@gmail.com; (415) 699-7927

Lic. # 505353B-C36

Fully licensed • State Certified • Locally Trained • Experienced • On Call 24/7

John Spillane

KOHL CHRISTMAS: Mercy High School, Burlingame Alumnae Association’s Christmas at Kohl 2014, 5-9 p.m., Kohl Mansion on the Mercy campus 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. More than 60 vendors plus docent presentations of the mansion at 6:30 and 7. Musical entertainment, and light refreshments will be available for purchase. Tickets, $10 adults/children free, at the door. Visit www.mercyhsb. com for information on the event and parking/shuttles.

O’DONOGHUE CONSTRUCTION

650.322.9288

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

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3

CONSTRUCTION

Lic. #742961

CA License 819191

Cell 415-710-0584 BHEFFPAINTING@sbcglobal.net Office 415-731-8065

KNIGHTS FUNDRAISER: Knights of Columbus and Marin Network for Life benefiting Chaldean Catholic victims of ISIS; Knights of Columbus Hall, 167 Tunstead Ave., San Anselmo beginning 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:30 p.m. evening is free with guests asked to donate to the Chaldean cause, a refugee family and clergy from St. Mary Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Church in Campbell will attend, national Knights of Columbus will match donations raised. Joe Tassone, (415) 215-8571.

TO ADVERTISE IN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO VISIT www.catholic-sf.org | CALL (415) 614-5642 EMAIL advertising.csf@sfarchdiocese.org

HOME SERVICES

Bonded & Insured

Ave., San Francisco, benefiting St. Anthony’s Dining Room, 9 a.m.-noon, Pierre Smit sfpierre@aol.com.

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

www.iasf.com

415-585-8059

(415) 786-0121 • (650) 871-9227

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HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA

VETERANSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; DAY MEMORIAL SERVICES ~ STAR OF THE SEA SECTION - OUTDOOR SERVICE ~ PLEASE JOIN WITH US ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014 AT 11:00 A.M. TO HONOR OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM....

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Chaplain C. Michael Padazinski Col., USAF, Chancellor, Archdiocese of San Francisco Chaplains from the Archdiocese of San Francisco in uniform will conduct the memorial ceremony along with the Travis Air Force Base Military Honor Guard with Taps.

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020

Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679

Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679