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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO Newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
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March 23, 2017
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Pope: Lent is an opportunity to draw near to Christ Vatican Radio
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Pope Francis uses incense during a Lenten penance service in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican March 17. The pope was one of 95 priests and bishops listening to confessions and granting absolution. After the reading of a Gospel passage, the pope did not give a homily. Instead, he and the thousands of people gathered in the basilica prayed in absolute silence for 10 minutes. The pope spent about four minutes kneeling before a priest in one of the wooden confessionals before he walked to one nearby, put on a purple stole and waited for the first penitent to approach.
VATICAN CITY – “Perhaps we have not yet encountered Jesus personally,” Pope Francis said in his angelus address March 19 in St. Peter’s Square. “Perhaps we have not recognized him as our savior.” The pope was commenting on the day’s Gospel, which relates the “dialogue” between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. Because of the great respect Jesus shows her — despite her being a Samaritan, and despite her disordered life — she is open to the words of Christ, when he speaks to her about the true faith. She recognizes him as a prophet, and intuits that he could be the messiah, and Jesus tells her plainly that ne is, in fact, the messiah — something that happens very rarely in the Gospels, the pope said. “Dear brothers,” Pope Francis continued, “the water that gives eternal life was poured out in our hearts on the day of our baptism.” On that day, he said, “God transformed us and filled us with his grace.” However, the pope said, we sometimes forget about the grace of our baptism, or treat it merely as a piece see pope, page 20
700 gather with archbishop for special immigration Mass Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated a special immigration Mass before 700 congregants at St. Peter Church in the Mission District on March 11 in response to requests from community members for his pastoral presence during a time of uncertainty. More than a dozen priests from parishes throughout the archdiocese took part in the bilingual Mass honoring the dignity of immigrants and refugees. St. Peter pastor Father Moises Agudo concelebrated. After the Mass, a team of volunteers from eight local nonprofits offered a “know your rights” forum in the parish school gym.
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Archbishop Cordileone blesses a baby March 11 after a special immigration Mass at St. Peter Church in San Francisco.
In his homily on the day’s readings, the archbishop referred to Moses’ words to the Israelites in their exodus out of Egypt to the Promised Land. “Moses tells them to follow the law of the Lord and to obey his commandments,” he said. “Because whoever follows the law of the Lord will have nothing to fear. The people then had lots to fear. They were in the desert for 40 years.” Lorena Melgarejo, parish organizer for the archdiocese’s Office of Human Life and Dignity, said that when she asked the anxious community what people needed most from the local church, the archbishop’s presence was at the top of the list. see immigration mass, page 10
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