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VATICAN CITY – God calls all Christians to be saints – not plastic statues of saints, but real people who make time for prayer and who show loving care for others in the simplest gestures, Pope Francis said in his new document on holiness.

“Do not be afraid of holiness. It will take away none of your energy, vitality or joy,” the pope wrote in “Gaudete et Exsultate” (“Rejoice and Be Glad”), his apostolic exhortation on “the call to holiness in today’s world.”

Pope Francis signed the exhortation March 19, the feast of St. Joseph, and the Vatican released it April 9.

Much of the document was written in the second person, speaking directly to the individual reading it. “With this exhortation I would like to insist primarily on the call to holiness that the Lord addresses to each of us, the call that he also addresses, personally, to you,” he wrote near the beginning.

Saying he was not writing a theological treatise on holiness, Pope Francis focused mainly on how the call to holiness is a personal call, something God asks of each Christian and which requires a personal response given one’s state in life, talents and circumstances.

“We are frequently tempted to think that holiness see pope, page 17

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Bishop-designate Robert F. Christian, OP, appointed auxiliary bishop of San Francisco by Pope Francis on March 28, greeted employees at the archdiocesan Pastoral Center later that day.

Pope Francis has appointed Dominican Father Robert F. Christian as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Bishop-designate Christian, 69, is a native of San Francisco. He entered the Dominicans at St. Albert Priory in Oakland in 1970 and made his solemn profession as a Dominican in 1974. He was ordained a priest in Oakland June 4, 1976.

The appointment was announced in Washington March 28 by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Since 2015, he has been master of students for the Dominican’s Western province. Earlier he was a college teacher, a professor and vice dean at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelicum, and a lecturer at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone welcomed the new auxiliary bishop to his hometown, saying in a statement released by the archdiocese that the two had met while studying in Rome in the 1970s. “We are now all blessed that Bishop-elect Christian joins us to serve our priests, religious, deacons and all the people of the archdiocese,” he said.

Introducing Bishop-designate Christian to employees at the archdiocesan Pastoral Center, Archbishop Cordileone said he was “absolutely delighted” with the appointment.

Bishop-designate Christian said he was pleased to be returning home to minister among the people of San Francisco including many relatives and friends. see auxiliary, page 2

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People gather for a rally on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, April 4, in observance of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

WASHINGTON – Fifty years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. – he was gunned down April 4, 1968 – the great civil rights advocate continues to be an outstanding example of how to live the Gospel message, according to Catholic clergy and others.

“This tragic loss (of Rev. King) did not still his voice – it continues to ring out and inspire new generations in confronting the challenges of prejudice, injustice and division today,” Cardinal

Donald W. Wuerl of Washington wrote in an April 4 blog.

At dawn, several people gathered at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial near the National Mall in Washington for a silent prayer to remember the life and legacy of Rev. King.

Various faith leaders, including Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell, led a rally on the Mall prior to prayer at the memorial. The Archdiocese of Washington sponsored a “Catholics Against Racism” banner at the rally with local Catholics

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Archbishop cordileone’s schedule April 13: Cabinet meeting, 9 a.m., chancery; confirmation, 5 p.m., St. Ignatius Parish April 14: Alemany Mass and Dinner, 5:30 p.m., cathedral April 15: St. Teresa Parish visit; Mass and confirmation, 10 a.m.

April 16: Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep Board meeting April 18: Chancery meetings April 19: Chancery meetings; confirmation, 5:15 p.m., Our Lady of Mercy Parish April 20: Independent Review Board April 21: Confirmations, Marin Catholic (9:30 a.m., St. Mary Star of the Sea); St. Brigid (5:30 p.m., cathedral) April 22-23: St. Robert Parish and School visit April 24: Seminary meetings April 25-26: California Catholic Conference meeting, Visalia April 27-29: Regional V Encuentro, Visalia April 28: Mass at V Encuentro (Spanish), Visalia Convention Center

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Auxiliary: Dominican named to San Francisco post FROM PAGE 1

“I know I can count on the prayers of many people, and I am eager to serve the people of the city and archdiocese that I call home,” he said in a statement.

Bishop-designate Christian expressed that having to leave religious life to take up his new office was bittersweet, according to an article on the website of Western Dominican Province.

“I thrive in Dominican community with its rhythms of prayer, recreation, shared decision-making, and shared commitment to preaching the truth,” he said. “Being a bishop means giving up many dimensions of community life, (Photo Courtesy Paul Totah/SI Prep) even though it also makes possible a Above, brothers Jim Christian, Tom Chrisdeeper engagement in preaching and in tian, Bishop-designate Robert Christian, being an agent of mercy. This last point OP, and John Christian joined together at was made to me by the Dominican masthe Pastoral Center to celebrate the apter of the order himself.” pointment. The four, like their father, are Father Mark Padrez, OP, Prior Provingraduates of St. Ignatius College Preparacial of the Western Dominican Province, tory. Left, introducing Bishop-designate said the appointment “is a recognition of Robert F. Christian, OP, to Pastoral Center Father Robert’s deep love for Christ and employees on March 28, Archbishop Salvathe Church, and also a recognition of the tore J. Cordileone said he was “absolutely order’s deep roots in the church in the delighted” with the appointment.

(Photo by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco) Bay Area.”

College Preparatory quarterly magadesignate Christian started his teachSpeaking to Pastoral Center employzine, Genesis. ing career at Dominican College in San ees, Bishop-designate Christian said he “Ecumenical dialogue requires paRafael. He later joined parish ministry at wants to work collaboratively with the Blessed Sacrament Church in Seattle and tience, candor, charity and a willingness faithful. to see one’s own position through the was director of the Newman Center at “We’re in this together,” he said. “I eyes of others, along with a willingness the University of Washington. want to make collaboration the hallmark He received a master of divinity degree to hazard opinions provisionally in the of my service,” including identifying hope of being able to express the truth from the Dominican School of Philosoproblems. in a common language,” he wrote. “Full phy and Theology in Oakland in 1977.

He noted that issues in the archdiocunity is a long-term project. It is a priviFour years later, he earned a licentiate of esan territory at large include poverty, lege to try to nudge our communities a sacred theology from theReligious Angelicum fol-& Books development Church pressure, secularism and Goods & Candles Gifts little closer to that goal, and it is spiritumaterialism. He vowed to go to work with lowed by a doctorate in sacred theology ally rewarding to learn the timeless lesfrom the same institution in 1984. “sleeves rolled up.”

Bishop-designate Christian returned to son that failures and dying to established “I’m convinced that the church is as ways of doing things are often God’s way teaching in 1985 as professor of sacrarelevant as Christ is,” Bishop-designate of bringing about his design.” ments and ecclesiology at the Angelicum Christian said.

Bishop-designate Christian “has been Rome.

For two years beginning in 1997, His episcopal ordination is planned for 5in locations in California faithful to his call as a zealous and efhe served as “socius,” similar to chief of June 5 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. fective preacher of the Gospel. His role staff,Local and vicarStore: of the Dominicans’ WestIn a statement, Oakland Bishop Mi- Your of preaching has been nourished by his ern province while lecturing in theology chael C. Barber, SJ, said he has known 369 Grand Ave., S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 at the Graduate Theological Union. From study, prayer and community life,” the Bishop-designate Christian for more - 2014, Exit he 101 Frwy Grand Dominican Western Province website 1999 to was vice@ dean and profesthan 30 years. “He is a very kindNear and SF Airport article stated. sor at the Angelicum. generous man, an excellent theologian, www.cotters.com cotters@cotters.com “As a faithful Dominican,” the article Other appointments include peritus, or and a man with a worldwide vision of the continued, “he has committed himself expert, at the 1990 Synod of Bishops on church,” Bishop Barber said. to Christ and his church – knowing priestly formation, prior of the 75-memBishop-designate Christian said his that clarity in doctrine and teaching is ber resident community of friars at the roots in San Francisco go back to the absolutely necessary in proclaiming Angelicum, member of the Anglicanmid-19th century. His father, who owned truth, especially in our confused age of Roman Catholic International Coman engineering company, attended West spiritual and intellectual poverty. This mission and since 2013 as a consultor Portal School and then St. Ignatius truth is rooted in the love of Christ for to the Pontifical Council for Promoting College Preparatory. Bishop-designate the salvation of souls.”

Christian followed his father at SI, gradu- Christian Unity.

He wrote of his work on the commisating in 1966. sion in a 2012 article in the St. Ignatius After ordination in 1976, BishopCatholic News Service contributed.

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The St. Brendan community believes it takes a faithful village to raise a Catholic child.

Over the past year, the parish has ramped up programs aimed at forming and fostering faith in the young.

The process starts in the womb and ends in the tomb, said Sister Angela Furia, who organized more than a dozen small discussion groups as part of the “Year of Prayer,” launched last September to improve communications and relations with the Almighty.

“Parishioners can talk about important issues, pray and just do life together in a relaxed, informal and safe environment,” said Father Roger Gustafson, the pastor.

The format provides tools for jump-starting and sustaining belief among future generations of Catholics, said Mary Giorgis, the mother of a 6-year-old who leads monthly exchanges on sharing the faith with younger children.

“We are really discussing the basic tenets of how to know God at a very young age,” she said, “to know he loves us and what a relationship with him feels like, how to keep God present in our homes and how to answer the very innocent and sincere questions and observations that our children have as they grow.”

Melissa Begeda put the tenets to work at her children’s birth.

Orion, 2, and Theo, 5, begin each day thanking the Lord for their blessings and seeking solace for an ill aunt, sad friend or needy stranger.

Both boys look forward to holidays, birthdays and other family get-togethers when they get to “show off” their favorite ways of talking with Jesus.

Bidding him good-night is their last ritual before bedtime.

“We end the day in a calm way,” Begeda shared.

“It’s a good way to settle down and to think of who they care about so they can pray about them.”

Such routines are reinforced each Sunday during the 9:30 a.m. Mass when the brothers join a dozen preschoolers for “Liturgy With Children,” conducted

by Manolito Jaldon Jr., director of evangelization and faith formation.

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Left, catechist Christina Bui instructs fourth and fifth graders after the 9:30 a.m. Sunday Mass at St. Brendan Church in San Francisco. This day’s lesson was on Christ’s Passion and the triduum. The pupils, starting from Bui’s left, are: Mary Zubrzycki, 10, grade five; Carlota Suarez Davila, 10, grade four; Chloe Wolfert, 10, grade four; Marguerite Oshea, 10, grade five; and Kayli Lesh, 9, grade four. Right, Manolito Jaldon Jr., director of evangelization and faith formation at St. Brendan, shares the liturgy with children with preschoolers younger than 6 who receive a blessing before the homily and are then dismissed for their own religious instruction. as the food Jesus prefers to share with his friends.

“The special bread is Jesus, so whenever we gather for this very special meal, we have to prepare our hearts to receive Jesus,” Jaldon explains, handing out crayons and coloring sheets with a heart to be filled in with “the things you most love.”

Forming a circle, the youngsters stand, sit, skip, sing and sign during a prayer that concludes, “Lord, help me to love.”

They return to church in time for the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

Following Mass, the older public school children get their turn to explore the faith at their level.

“I want them to have God to go to when they’re scared or need help, to understand the extraordinary power of prayer, to know the undeniable force of faith,” said Christina Bui, a volunteer catechist for nine years.

For St. Brendan students, such lessons fall within the school curriculum, which includes training sixth graders as altar servers.

Ethan Kwan, a seventh grader, is grateful for the preparation.

“Assisting at Mass makes it a lot more interesting,” said the 12-year-old. “It’s like talking to God, close-up.”

To encourage open dialogue with the divine at an age when such conversations often cease, St. Brendan offers special Sunday sessions for adolescents.

“Teens look for a sense of belonging, and it is the responsibility of the entire parish to help them find

their place in the community during those delicate formation years,” Jaldon said.

The responsibility intensifies as they go off to college and seek a spiritual base in their new home, he said.

“The primary teachers and promoters of faith are the parents and family members, but we are all in it together,” Sister Angela concluded, “teachers, catechists, priests, religious and the Christian community at large.”

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Tom Lippi told me in an email interview that he has “probably been thinking about becoming a teacher for most of my life.” In just a few weeks, Tom retires after 43 years at Marin Catholic High School, and that doesn’t count the four years he was a student there long ago. Fully from Marin, Tom graduated from St. Rita School, Fairfax in 1965 and Marin Catholic in 1969. He then Tom Lippi left his home county to complete undergraduate work in English at the University of San Francisco in 1973 and a graduate degree in English and American Literature at the University of Washington two years later.

“I have been a teacher at Marin Catholic since 1975, my entire professional career,” Tom said.

“Lucky.”

While Tom has filled his share of posts at Marin Catholic “most importantly, I have been a classroom teacher, an English teacher,” he said. “That is really all I have ever wanted to be.”

Tom said he “always loved going to school” admitting too that he “was not a perfect student.”

His parents, he said, instilled in him “that teachers were doing vitally important work.”

As far back as grade school and continuing today Tom has “been making mental notes about those teachers I loved. I was, and I am still, truly inspired by great teachers, and until I pack up and move out I will be learning, and stealing freely, from their good work.”

Tom said he has had many models and mentors in the profession noting the best were teachers at Marin Catholic. “Among my best moments: Taking my place alongside those models and mentors, and being welcomed into their company. And then working hard to prove that I was, in fact, worthy. I honor their commitment and discipline and insistence upon excellence, along with the great joy they took in their work. They were, are, scholars, deeply invested and expert in their fields of study, and teachers, passionately devoted to their students, virtuosos at their craft.”

Tom said “generous colleagues” have been gracing him with tributes including “kind and funny letters, surprise visits, some of my favorite foods!”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: More than 400 Convent & Stuart Hall alumni gathered March 3 to honor Sacred Heart Sister Mary Mardel on her 100th birthday. The party took place in the Mary Mardel, RSCJ, Chapel at Convent’s Broadway campus named for Sister Mary in 2014. An overflow audience attended by livestream in the school’s Little Theater. “There is so much love in this room that it’s tangible,” Sister Mary told the crowd. Students led singing throughout the celebration. Sister Mary, who now lives at the congregation’s Oakwood Retirement facility in Atherton, entered the Society of the Sacred Heart at age 19. She served at the sisters’ San Francisco schools for more than 50 years and has been called “the heart and soul of Broadway,” the sisters’ said. was called to it. I know this. I’m not trying to brag here. In fact, I find the whole idea pretty humbling.

It’s been a great joy”

CURTAIN UP: It was golden tickets for everyone as youngsters from the Salesian Theatre Program, a part of the Salesian Boys and Girls Club, took roles in the well-known “Willy Wonka” at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, San Francisco in March. Mary Powelson directed. Matthew Grandy was music director. The program has been providing theatre arts education since 2006 and Willy Wonka is its 25th production in 12 years, Mary said. The cast featured 50 children from more than 10 neighborhood schools including Sts. Peter and Paul and St. Vincent de Paul schools. during his now countdown to retirement. “It’s kind of like getting to attend your own funeral, but under the best of circumstances. I have been deeply moved by it all,” Tom said.

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DIFFICULT HARMONIES: St. Mary’s Cathedral Choir will sing April 22, 4 p.m., in honor of Stephen Walsh, cathedral cantor for 25 years who died Jan. 8. Joining the 40-voice ensemble is guest soloist Tom Manguem, who preceded Stephen as cathedral cantor and today sings in Boston.

Many will remember Tom as cantor at the papal Mass at Candlestick Park in 1987 where Mercy Sister Stephen Walsh Suzanne Toolan’s “Jesus Christ, Yesterday, Today and Forever” Mass-setting made its debut. Ash Walker who recently joined the cathedral music team will also sing. “I love to lead the music, to sing the Psalms, to be at the liturgies, to be a part of the team that keeps the liturgy flowing smoothly and effortlessly,” Stephen told me in an interview for Catholic San Francisco last year. He will be missed.

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Parish foot soldiers combat human trafficking in city hotels Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

On March 24, the same day that downtown San Francisco swelled with thousands of protesters marching in support of victims of gun violence, nearly 50 St. Ignatius parishioners quietly fanned out on the same streets in solidarity with a less visible group of victims – the victims of human trafficking.

Effective Jan. 1, 2018, Senate Bill 1193 added California Civil Code 52.6 to the law requiring a list of 13 business sectors to post a prominent bilingual poster with a hotline number for victims of human trafficking seeking help or for others to report suspicious or unlawful activity. Failure to do so carries a fine of up to $1,000. Included on the list are hotels, motels and bed and breakfast inns which are often hubs for human trafficking.

California defines human trafficking, also known as trafficking in persons or modern-day slavery, as a crime that involves compelling or coercing a person to provide labor or services, or to engage in commercial sex acts. The coercion can be subtle or overt, physical or psychological, and may involve the use of violence, threats, lies, or debt bondage.

Traveling on foot from fleabag flophouses to fourstar hotels and everything in between, the trained parishioners knocked on doors with the goal of educating owners or managers about the new law, improving its enforcement and reducing the incidence of trafficked human beings. They came armed with the required poster, a copy of Civil Code 52.6, a letter from interim San Francisco Mayor Mark Ferrell, and a list of “victim indicators” that can help front desk, concierge, bellmen, housekeeping staff and others recognize possible trafficking activity.

The FBI has identified California as one of the top four states for trafficked persons according to the mayor’s office, and the Bay Area in general is a national hotspot.

(Photo by Christina Gray/Catholic San Francisco)

St. Ignatius parishioner Sam Gabrielli holds a copy of a poster parish volunteers handed out to San Francisco businesses to raise awareness of human trafficking. The bilingual poster, mandated for display in 13 business sectors under a new state law, includes a hotline number for victims of human trafficking seeking help or for others to report suspicious or unlawful activity.

According to parishioner Mary Yanish, the parish’s advocacy committee targeted human trafficking – an umbrella that includes sex trade trafficking and labor trafficking – after a long period of discernment with Jesuit Father John Coleman, associate pastor.

The advocacy project had the enthusiastic support of Jesuit Father Greg Bonfiglio, pastor, as well.

Since the beginning of this year, the parish committee has hosted well-attended educational movies and speaker events on human trafficking, organized letter

writing campaigns and joined the San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking, an interfaith collaborative that includes the Northern California Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking and the Jewish Coalition to End Human Trafficking.

Advocacy committee members and participants in the hotel outreach day met after Mass at St. Ignatius on April 8 to share their experience with Catholic San Francisco and discuss next steps.

Annette Lamont said that few of the managers at the establishments she visited on Nob Hill knew about the legislation.

“They were startled when they found out they could be fined if they did not have the poster up,” she said. Though they were grateful for the visit and were eager to support the crackdown, none of them knew or believed it was a big problem in San Francisco. “I think that was really an eye-opener for them.”

Martha Keller visited 10 different hotels in the Castro neighborhood, many of them supposedly bed and breakfasts. She shoved the poster and information packet through the mail slot when one proprietor refused to come to the door.

“I don’t know what they are running here, but it’s not a bed and breakfast,” she said. “On my notes I wrote that the place merits further inquiry.”

According to Gail Priestly, the San Francisco Police Department has been candid with the faith community about lacking the resources to do this work. “So we are collaborating with them and also this larger body of people of faith,” she said.

“The police chief said we need your help,” Yanish said. “We need churches to help us enforce these laws.”

Priestly said the poster can be a sign of hope for someone who is being trafficked.

“It might also be to a desk clerk, a reminder to be aware of this awful thing that could be happening right under your nose,” she said. “I really feel like what we are doing at this point is simply sowing the seeds of justice, compassion and love.”

Sculpture exhibit reflects ‘burning’ faith of St. Ignatius

(Photo by Christina Gray/Catholic San Francisco)

Basque artist Santos Bregaña’s sacred installation centers around an arrangement of five wax candles, each molded in the shape of the head of St. Ignatius. The installation is on exhibit at St. Ignatius Church through May 20.

His name, Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus, translates to “he who burns.” His incendiary proclamation to the first Jesuits was to “go, set fire and burn the whole world.”

Fittingly, fire is the defining element of “Ignite!”, a new art installation launched Easter Sunday at Manresa Gallery inside St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. Basque artist Santos Bregaña’s sacred installation centers around an arrangement of five wax candles, each molded in the shape of the head of St. Ignatius of Loyola. To

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The exhibit space is lit only by the candles on metal stands, reflecting wall texts about the saint’s spiritual journey. “His insignia, the emblem of the Jesuits, is a burning sphere with a monogram of Jesus inside,” reads one poetically written by Bregaña.

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Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus and is part of the triduum, the three-day period which begins with the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday evening and ends with evening prayer on Easter. Mass is not celebrated on Good Friday but Eucharist is reserved from the Holy Thursday Mass for distribution during the celebration of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday. The Good Friday celebration consists of three parts: Liturgy of the Word, Adoration of the Cross (shown in the pictures on the right) and Holy Communion. At left, worshippers take time for prayer on Good Friday.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral in the opening stages of the Easter Vigil, the high point of the church’s liturgical year held between sundown Holy Saturday and dawn Easter morning. The Easter Vigil is arranged in four parts: A service of light, seen here, and the Easter Proclamation or Exsultet; Liturgy of the Word; celebration of baptism; and Liturgy of the Eucharist. The lighting of the fire is held outside with worshippers then processing into the church led by the newly lit Paschal Candle.

The Resurrection of Jesus marks Christians’ ultimate victory over death, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said in his homily at the Easter Vigil, March 31 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

“In ancient times, and actually even up to relatively recently in history, that is, before the invention of wireless means of communication, the trumpet was used to give signals on the battlefield,” he said. “One such signal was the trumpet call of victory. And so it came to represent for Christians a symbol of the ultimate victory, Christ’s victory over death by his Resurrection from the tomb. So tonight we sound aloud the trumpet of salvation that signals our mighty King’s triumph.

“Such is the message of Easter: unexpected victory from what seemed certain defeat,” the archbishop said.

“The symbols we use in this Easter Vigil service also speak of this unexpected victory. In the opening rites, the Paschal Candle was adorned with five grains of incense, to represent the five wounds of Christ. His wounded, dead body, seemed a definitive defeat. A candle is lit using flint to make a spark.

Flint is rock, to remind us of Christ’s tomb hewn from rock, and covered with a huge boulder. That certainly gives a sense of finality to the defeat.

“But is this only according to human wisdom, our limited human way of seeing things,” the archbishop said. “ And so it was back then: Jesus was abandoned by his closest followers; only his Mother and a faithful few remained by his side to the end, and saw to his burial. Everyone else fled in the spirit of defeat. But the power of God transcends human reasoning, and His wisdom defeats our human powers of destruction. So what seemed like an ultimate defeat God turned into the ultimate victory: Death destroyed, and the possibility of living forever held out to us.”

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Youths take Holy Week to the streets with mission outreach Catholic San Francisco

A Holy Week Mission organized by the archdiocesan Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries drew more than 200 participants over the eight days. “It was great,” Amanda George, office director, told Catholic San Francisco. The mix of missionaries included youth, young adults, adults of all ages and families, George said.

Headquarters were set up at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in North Beach and The Seamen’s Chapel, an ecumenical space on Fisherman’s Wharf. The week began with a Palm Sunday 5-and-a-half mile walk of 50 missionaries over the Golden Gate Bridge to St. Mary’s Cathedral. Activities through the next several days included making sandwiches for the homeless and eating and speaking with those helped, and passing out challenge cards with exhortations to be kind, give a compliment, pay for coffee of person behind you in line and to make room for someone in traffic while driving. On Good Friday missionaries presented a living Stations of the Cross from noon-2, praying the first 10 Stations at sites between Pier 39 and Marina Green and the final four at Marina Green. George said the service included “a police escort, a live band and all the necessary permissions. The police were so great and very helpful.” On Easter Sunday, about 25 missionaries joined Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone for Mass at the cathedral and a special blessing by the Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine. George said the mission will happen again next year. Visit www.mission.love.

(Photos by Debra Greenblat/Catholic San Francisco)

A Holy Week mission organized by the archdiocesan Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministries included such activities as making sandwiches for the homeless and eating and speaking with those helped, and passing out challenge cards with exhortations to be kind, give a compliment, pay for coffee of person behind you in line and to make room for someone in traffic while driving. Young missioners are pictured here outside the National Shrine of St. Francis in San Francisco’s North Beach.

Goddaughter stands as sponsor for coming-home godfather I knew I wasn’t going to be confirmed, having done that in grade school. So, I was surprised when I learned I needed a sponsor. I had to ponder that for some time before thinking of my goddaughter. Here is a young woman that I had the honor of being asked to stand for as her godfather.

Asking her to stand this Easter as my sponsor, and having her accept, is like the icing on the cake of my whole coming home experience. When Rose stands by me at the Easter Vigil, I will be home.

It feels like my journey has come full circle. I will now get to share the beauty of our Catholic faith with my goddaughter in a way that I could never have imagined.

God is good!

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Almost 20 years ago, my friends Richard and Elizabeth Murphy asked me to be godfather to their daughter, Rose. I felt very honored. In my family, the godparent role routinely went to a cousin, aunt or uncle.

Around that time, I had become more involved in the parish I grew up in. The pastor had asked that I join the parish council, and I taught the confirmation preparation class for the CCD. But it was also around the time I drifted away from the church.

Over the years, I would try a new parish, return to my home parish, but always struggled to feel at home.

So, I wasn’t really a part of Rose’s religious education journey. What a journey it has been! Turns out, Elizabeth and Richard’s daughter not only enjoyed her religious education, she excelled in it in her home parish of St. Gabriel, San Francisco, and at St. Ignatius College Preparatory. Upon her graduation from SI last year, Rose received an award for her work in the campus ministry program. She also served as an archdiocesan youth minister, assisting other schools with confirmation retreats. Rose is a freshman at the University of Seattle, where she looks to major in theology and political science, and, of course, is active in campus ministry.

After many years away from church, I was blessed to find a new home parish. I consider myself a “coming home” Catholic, and I couldn’t be happier about it. The community of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church welcomed me with open arms, a stranger made to feel right at home. From reading at Mass, or carrying the cross, even help serving Mass (I must be the oldest acolyte-in-training!), or participating in service project, everything feels right about it, and being here.

When Deacon Larry Chatmon suggested I join the Right of Christian Initiation for Adults this year, I had to think about that.

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Two of my dad’s sisters were St. Joseph of Orange nuns. My mom was raised under the care of the Daughters of Charity at Mount St. Joseph’s Home for Girls. I was a novice in the Christian Brothers for a time after graduating from Sacred Heart High School. I did not think I was the target audience for participation in RCIA. Initiation?

Deacon Larry knew that I felt at home coming to church. Lucky for me, he could also see my hunger to deepen my faith and my need to grow into daily walking with the Lord. Saying “yes” to his invitation has changed my life. For me, it has enlivened

(Photo courtesy Debra Greenblat)

Father Dan Carter, pastor of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, and Dennis McLaughlin, who initiated into the church at the Easter Vigil.

and deepened my faith and brought alive the promises of Jesus in a tangible way, healing not only my spirit, but all of me.

Dennis McLaughlin is a member of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, San Francisco.

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Pope appoints auxiliary bishop for Los Angeles

WASHINGTON – Pope Francis has named Msgr.

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Ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Aug. 6, 1991, Bishop-designate Trudeau, 60, is currently rector of St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California, a post he has held since 2014. He joined the semiMsgr. Marc V. nary’s faculty as vice rector and Trudeau assistant director of pastoral formation in 2013.

The appointment was announced in Washington April 5 by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Two days earlier, the pope accepted the resignation of Bishop Thomas J. Curry, 75, as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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Bishop-designate Trudeau will be ordained a bishop by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez June 7 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Archbishop Gomez called the appointment of a new auxiliary “a great day of joy for the family of God here in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.”

“Our bishop-elect is a very fine priest. He is a man of prayer and he is a man of service,” the archbishop said. “I know he is going to be, as Pope Francis likes to say, ‘a shepherd who knows the smell of his sheep.’”

As a priest, Bishop-designate Trudeau “has always had a heart for his people,” he added. “He is close to them in their joys and sorrows and in the challenges they face in their everyday lives. So, I know that he is going to be a great bishop.”

“As you will discover, our new auxiliary bishop has a great personal story,” Archbishop Gomez added.

In Angelus News, the archdiocesan online news outlet, reporter Pablo Kay noted that Bishop-designate Trudeau “is a twin, a former dentist, and he is proud to say he put himself through school working long hours as a stock clerk and box boy for a local Vons grocery store.”

University says Facebook rejected ad because it shows Jesus on cross

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio – The Franciscan University of Steubenville said March 30 in a blog post that an administrator of its Facebook page noticed one of its ads had been rejected because it contained “shocking content, sensational content, excessively violent content.”

“What was the offending image?” the blog post asked. “The San Damiano Cross. Jesus in glory, reigning from his cruciform throne. This is what the monitors at Facebook consider excessively violent, sensational and shocking.”

The blog post at https://bit.ly/2GAGlRj includes a screen capture of the message of rejection from Facebook: “Your image, video thumbnail or video can’t contain shocking, sensational, or excessively violent content.”

The university said the San Damiano Cross image was one in a series of ads it posted to Facebook March 29 to promote two of the school’s online master’s degree programs – in theology and in catechetics and evangelization.

The San Damiano Cross is the large Romanesque rood cross that St. Francis of Assisi was praying before when he is said to have received the commission from the Lord to rebuild the Catholic Church. The original cross hangs in the Basilica of St. Clare in Assisi, Italy. Franciscans cherish this cross as the symbol of their mission from God. “Indeed, the crucifixion of Christ was all of those things,” the blog post said. “It was the most sensational action in history: man executed his God. It was shocking, yes: God deigned to take on flesh and was “obedient unto death, even death on a cross.” (Philippians 2:8) Catholic News Service

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WASHINGTON – The Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage, abortion, human sexuality and contraception is rooted in the same respect for human dignity that guides its work for social justice and care for poor people, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput told a Catholic University of America audience.

It is imperative that the church make known why it upholds its teaching, as reiterated in Blessed Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae” (“Of Human Life”), so that Catholics and the world understand God’s plan for humanity, the archbishop said during the April 4 opening session of a symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the papal teaching.

The encyclical is notably known for upholding church renouncement of contraception. It followed by eight years the 1960 U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the first birth control pill.

Blessed Paul convened a commission to examine whether the historic Christian rejection of contraceptives would apply to the new technology. Most commission members advised the pope that it would not, but Blessed Paul eventually disagreed, saying in the encyclical that the new technology was prohibited birth control.

Blessed Paul’s decision has been widely criticized, Archbishop Chaput acknowledged, with some Catholic clergy, theologians and laypeople refusing to accept it. “That resistance continues in our own day,” said the archbishop, who chairs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth. He made the comments in a 35-minute presentation to about 200 people. “’Humanae Vitae’ revealed deep wounds in the church about our understanding of the human person, the nature of sexuality and marriage as God created it,” he explained. “We still seek the cure for those wounds. But thanks to the witness of St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict, Pope Francis and many other faithful shepherds, the church has continued to preach the truth of Jesus Christ about who we are and what God desires for us.

“People willing to open their eyes and their hearts to the truth will see the hope that Catholic teaching represents and the power that comes when that truth makes us free,” he said.

The archbishop challenged widespread denunciation of the teaching on contraception by those who say church leaders spend too much time on see contraception, page 19

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US bishops’ president praises pope’s ‘powerful words’

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The cardinal encouraged all Christians, in celebrating the joy of Easter and Christ’s resurrection, to “rekindle their baptismal call” by reading “Gaudete et Exsultate,” especially “the beautiful section on the beatitudes.”

By exploring the Eight Beatitudes and “offering examples of how to live out our call to holiness in everyday life, the Holy Father has given us a wonderful tool for renewing our love for God and for each other,” Cardinal DiNardo added.

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WASHINGTON – The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said he is grateful to Pope Francis for “his powerful, straightforward words” in “Gaudete et Exsultate” (“Rejoice and Be Glad”), his apostolic exhortation on “the call to holiness in today’s world.”

“Pope Francis is very clear,” said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston. “He is doing his duty as the vicar of Christ, by strongly urging each and every Christian to freely, and without any qualifications, acknowledge and be open to what God wants them to be – that is ‘to be holy, as he is holy’ (1 Pet 1:15).

“The mission entrusted to each of us in the waters of baptism was simple – by God’s grace and power, we are called to become saints,” the cardinal added in a statement April 9, the day the Vatican released the document.

All Christians are called to be saints, not “plastic statues of saints,” the pope wrote, but real people who make time for prayer and who show loving care for others in the simplest gestures.

“Do not be afraid of holiness. It will take away none of your energy, vitality or joy,” the pope said in his apostolic exhortation, which

he signed March 19, the feast of St. Joseph.

Pope Francis is calling each Christian to “acknowledge and be open to what God wants them to be,” Cardinal DiNardo said.

He said the words from the document that jumped out at him when he first read them were: “Do not be afraid of holiness.”

“In a way, each one of us has a fear of striving for holiness – a fear that we would be mocked, ignored, or even hated by others because we would stand out,” Cardinal DiNardo said in his statement. “Yet that is what the Lord has called each and every person to! Pope Francis calls us out: A Christian cannot think of his or her mission on earth without seeing it as a path of holiness, for ‘this is the will of God, your sanctification.’”

Pope Francis “describes how holiness comes through the daily struggles each of us face,” the cardinal said. “In the ordinary course of each day, the pope reminds us, ‘We need to recognize and combat our aggressive and selfish inclinations, and not let them take root.’

Yet, he says, this ‘battle is sweet, for it allows us to rejoice each time the Lord triumphs in our lives.’”

Cardinal DiNardo also pointed in particular to a paragraph that discusses “the continuing need we

WASHINGTON – Catholic leaders in Texas criticized President Donald Trump’s April 4 announcement that he would be deploying National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.

In an April 5 tweet, San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller said Trump’s move was a “senseless action and a disgrace on the administration.” He also said the decision to send troops to the border demonstrated “repression, fear, a perception that everyone is an enemy, and a very clear message: We don’t care about anybody else. This is not the American spirit.”

The Diocese of El Paso’s Commission on Migration similarly criticized Trump’s decision, saying in an April 4 statement that the plan was “morally irresponsible and dangerously ineffective.”

The statement, signed by Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso and co-chairs of the committee, Lily Limon and Dylan Corbett, also said the action was “a hurtful attack on migrants, our welcoming border culture and our shared values as Americans.”

The next day, Bishop Seitz issued his own statement on Trump’s announcement, calling it a “rash and ill-informed action” which he asked the president to reconsider.

“It is time for Mr. Trump to stop playing on people’s unfounded fears,” he added, noting that he lives on the border and his city is “one of the safest in the country.”

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With new document, pope shows holiness is for everyone, speakers say Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ new document, “Gaudete et Exsultate,” shows that holiness is not an impossible task nor is it something to be pursued far removed from today’s world, said the papal vicar for the Diocese of Rome.

“The pope wants to tell us that holiness is not something else apart from our everyday life, but it is exactly our ordinary existence lived in an extraordinary way,” said Archbishop Angelo De Donatis, the papal vicar.

The archbishop was one of several guests invited to attend a Vatican news conference April 9 for the presentation of Pope Francis’ new apostolic exhortation on the call to holiness in today’s world, titled in English, “Rejoice and Be Glad.”

Many people in today’s secularized world may think holiness is “antiquated,” but the new document seeks to demonstrate its timeless relevance for everyone, the archbishop said.

Pope Francis is reminding Christians that the desired goal of their journey is true life, joy, meaning and

fullness found in Jesus with the help of divine grace and the action of the Holy Spirit received in baptism, he said.

“To be Christians means to receive from God the gift of a beautiful life, a life rich in meaning and flavor,” he said.

Officials of the Vatican press office invited individuals from different nations who reside in Rome to offer their impressions of the document.

Deacon Adam Hincks, a Canadian Jesuit continuing his theological studies for the priesthood in Rome, told Catholic News Service that some features of Ignatian spirituality – referring to St. Ignatius, the Jesuit founder – shine through in the document.

“For example, there’s the idea of being contemplatives in action, which is very Jesuit, finding God in the midst of your daily life, making your daily activity a place of sanctification,” he said, as well as a call to do a “daily examen” to reflect at the end of each day to see “where was God and how did I respond?”

“It’s something that’s very simple that any Christian can do and that really helps you to grow in holiness,” he said.

Hincks, who is an astrophysicist

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Archbishop Angelo De Donatis, papal vicar for the Diocese of Rome, holds a copy of Pope Francis’ exhortation, “Gaudete et Exsultate” (“Rejoice and Be Glad”), during a news conference on the exhortation at the Vatican April 9. ” specializing in the history of the universe, said he finds “Gaudete et Exsultate” to be “very inspiring because this isn’t just for people wearing a collar or a habit, it’s for scien-

Catholic faithful must object if pope misuses authority, cardinal says

ROME – While the pope has the fullness of authority and power in the Catholic Church, he can exercise that authority only in obedience to Christ, and if he does not, it is up to the Catholic faithful to object, said U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke.

The pope’s power “was given by Christ himself and not by any human authority or popular constitution and, therefore, can be exercised only in obedience to Christ,” said the cardinal, a canon lawyer and former head of the Vatican’s supreme court.

The cardinal spoke April 7 to several hundred Catholics concerned about what they see as growing confusion in the Catholic Church, particularly because of the way Pope Francis opened the possibility for some divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion.

tists, too, it’s for people who are doing whatever job, anyone can be holy” by doing what they do with love: love for the truth, for God and one’s neighbor.

Sister Josepha, a sister of the Monastic Fraternity of Jerusalem, told CNS that the document seeks to show people holiness is attainable and satisfies that hunger many people, especially young people, feel “to live a relevant life, to give themselves, to improve the world.”

She said the document says, “Go on!

You can. You will! Start today with the small things around you. Holiness is not perfection,” but building the kingdom of God with joy and in communion with others.

Mohammad Jawad Haidari, a Muslim and ethnic Hazara who fled from Afghanistan because of violent persecution and discrimination against this minority group, said holiness is common to both Muslims and Christians.

Holiness is “as a path toward God” with saints and prophets acting as signposts indicating the right way for the faithful to go, said Haidari, who earned a master’s degree in religion and cultural mediation while in Rome.

The pope’s document, he said, shows people that the path toward holiness is wide – meant for all people to journey, not just scholars or clerics.

At the end of the afternoon meeting in Rome, organizers released a statement saying, “Amidst the grave danger to the faith and unity of the church that has arisen, we baptized and confirmed members of the people of God are called to reaffirm our Catholic faith.”

The statement went on to affirm their belief that under no circumstance can divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receive the Eucharist unless they first obtain an annulment of their sacramental marriage or promise to abstain from sexual relations with their new partner.

Cardinal Burke and German Cardinal Walter Brandmuller, a church historian, headlined the conference. Along with two cardinals now deceased, in 2016 they released a set of “dubia” or questions on which they asked Pope Francis for clarification.

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Family planning in the 21st century Elisa Yao, MD

This is a fourth in a series on the 50th anniversary of the papal encyclical “Humanae Vitae.”

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odern natural family planning methods are very effective, and are safer alternatives to hormonal birth controls. By observing physical signs and symptoms that change with hormonal changes throughout a woman’s menstrual cycle, modern NFP methods can be used fairly accurately to predict a woman’s fertility. In essence, women can choose to abstain from intercourse during predicted time of fertility and choose to have intercourse during predicted time of infertility to avoid pregnancy. elisa yao, md Unfortunately, most people and most physicians are not familiar with modern NFP methods as medical schools do not teach about these methods. Thus most physicians associate NFP with the calendar or rhythm method, which was introduced nearly 100 years ago (and superseded in the late 1950s). How-

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‘HV 50’ series: Monthly schedule February 8: “The science of fertility,” Dr. Mary Davenport March 8: “One couple’s path into the Catholic Church,” Mariana Lopez and Carlos de la Torre March 29: “The great good of NFP for marriage,” Deacon Bill Turrentine April 12: “Family planning in the 21st century,” Dr. Elisa Yao Additional articles are scheduled May through July. ever, it should be noted that the rhythm method was the most effective means of birth control at

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that time, as hormonal birth controls were not yet available.

The modern NFP methods include Billings Ovulation Method, Creighton Model and Symptothermal Method. Briefly, the first two methods involve noting the presence or absence of cervical secretions, and to further characterize the secretions’ color, texture and stretch. STM, on the other hand, combines basal body temperature, cervical methods, cervical position and/ or historical data to identify the fertile period.

With BOM and CrM, the unintended pregnancy rates within one year of perfect use are both only 0.5 percent, whereas with typical use, the rates are 3-22 percent. With no planning, the rate of unplanned pregnancy rate is 85 percent. A World Health Organization study of nearly 200 typical use pregnancies, found that 70 percent of these unintended pregnancies were caused by a purposeful departure from method rules, and another 17 percent due to inaccurate application of the rules.

Interesting, a randomized trial involving nearly 1,000 women in China (where there was a strict one-child policy and with severe repercussion if policy was violated) reported that even the typical-use pregnancy rate with the BOM was 0.5 percent and it enjoyed a higher adherence than the copper IUD to which it was see dr. yao, page 18

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St. Isabella Parish: 1 Trinity Way, San Rafael 94903; 1-415-479-1560. 1st Friday: 9:30 am-12noon

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St. Peter Parish: 1200 Florida St., San Francisco 94110; 1-415-282-1652. 1st Friday: 10 am-7 pm.

St. Peter Parish: 700 Oddstad Blvd. (at Linda Mar), Pacifica 94044; 1-650-361-1411. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-5:30 pm.

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St. Thomas More Parish: 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco 94132, (Thomas More Way off Brotherhood Way) ; 1-415-452-9634. 1st & 3rd Friday: 7-8 pm St. Veronica Parish: 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-588-1455. Monday-Friday: 9am-4pm (except holidays and special events in the church).

Star of the Sea Parish: 4420 Geary Blvd. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.), San Francisco; 1-415-751-0460. Tuesday: 7-8 pm, in Church: Parish Holy Hour, concluding with Benediction; Tuesday: 8 am-Saturday 4 pm, in Chapel, Adoration concluding with Benediction 2nd Sunday: 3:15-4:15 pm

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Sunday readings

Third Sunday of Easter ACTS 3:13-15, 17-19 Peter said to the people: “The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in Pilate’s presence when he had decided to release him. You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses. Now I know, brothers, that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did; but God has thus brought to fulfillment what he had announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer. Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away.”

PSALM 4:2, 4, 7-8, 9 Lord, let your face shine on us.

When I call, answer me, O my just God, you who relieve me when I am in distress; have pity on me, and hear my prayer!

Lord, let your face shine on us.

Know that the Lord does wonders for his faithful one; the Lord will hear me when I call upon him.

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Lord, let your face shine on us.

O Lord, let the light of your countenance shine upon us! You put gladness into my heart.

Lord, let your face shine on us.

As soon as I lie down, I fall peacefully asleep, for you alone, O Lord, bring security to my dwelling.

Lord, let your face shine on us.

1 JOHN 2:1-5A My children, I am writing this to you so that you may not commit sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one. He is expiation for our sins, and not for our sins only but for those of the whole world. The way we may be sure that we know him is to keep his commandments. Those who say, “I know him,” but do not keep his commandments are liars, and the truth is not in them. But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him.

LUKE 24:35-48 The two disciples recounted what had taken place on the way, and how Jesus was made known to them in the breaking of bread. While they were

still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts?

Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.

Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them. He said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And he said to them, “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.”

The gift of understanding

ave you ever woken up famished from a good, hard sleep? On at least one other occasion when Jesus raised someone from the dead, Christ asks that she be given something to eat (Mark 5:43), and so he, himself, eats here. What a human thing to do, to attend to the needs of the body!

Jesus’ actions point towards a truth that not only proves that he is divine (he does not need doors to enter a room) but that he is also human, with a body and soul that needs nourishment. When some argue that Jesus was just a really good person, or an exceptional teacher, or prophet, this passage is one of the places that illuminates the truth of his sister maria two-fold nature. catherine Jesus Christ is entirely toon, op unique. He is the “Divine face of man and the human face of God,” as “Gaudium et spes” mentions. First, he is the second person of the Trinity, who existed with God the Father

scripture reflection

and the Holy Spirit, before time began, and shares the same nature. This means as a Divine Person, he was present and participated in the beginning of the universe, as John tells us, “He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:2-3).

Second, he is human. Jesus Christ possesses a human body and soul, with a human intellect and human emotions. Throughout Scripture, we witness Christ get angry (Luke 19:45-48), he cries (John 11:35), and he rejoices (Luke 10:21, 15:5-6). Not only that but he eats, sleeps, travels, and bears the heat of the sun. Thomas Aquinas explains that Jesus, as the Second Divine Person of the Trinity, assumed human nature, and fully takes it on in all its parts (except sin), without diminishing, undercutting, or interfering with his divinity. When Jesus is born in time, his divine and human nature manifest that he is truly Emmanuel, God present in our midst (Matthew 1:23).

So why does he appear to his disciples after he resurrects in this way: walking through walls and eating fish? Jesus’ coming to his disciples is meant not only to manifest that his glorified body still retains that same twofold nature, but also to reach out to his friends and “open their minds to understand the scriptures”. What does Luke mean

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, April 16: Monday of the Third Week of Easter. Acts 6:8-15. Ps 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30. Mt 4:4b. Jn 6:22-29.

Tuesday, April 17: Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter. Acts 7:51—8:1a. Ps 31:3cd-4, 6 and 7b and 8a, 17 and 21ab. Jn 6:35ab. Jn 6:30-35.

Wednesday, April 18: Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter. Acts 8:1b-8. Ps 66:1-3a, 4-5, 6-7a.

See Jn 6:40. Jn 6:35-40.

Thursday, April 19: Thursday of the Third Week of Easter. Acts 8:26-40. Ps 66:8-9, 16-17, 20. Jn 6:51. Jn 6:44-51.

Friday, April 20: Friday of the Third Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Beuno. Acts 9:1-20. Ps 117:1bc, 2. Jn 6:56. Jn 6:52-59.

Saturday, April 21: Saturday of the Third Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Anselm, bishop & doctor. Acts 9:31-42. Ps 116:12-13, 14-15, 16-17.

Jn 6:63c, 68c. Jn 6:60-69.

Sunday, April 22: Fourth Sunday of Easter. Acts 4:8-12. Ps 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 28, 29. 1 Jn 3:1-2.

Jn 10:14. Jn 10:11-18.

by this? How is it that they are disbelieving one moment and certain in the next?

In another rendering of this episode in the Gospel of John, Jesus “breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’” (John 20:22) When Jesus is “opening their minds” he is working with the Third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.

One of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that we receive at Baptism and which is increased at Confirmation is the gift of Understanding. In one of Pope Francis’ early Wednesday audiences, he explains how the gift of Understanding works: “It is a grace which only the Holy Spirit can infuse and which awakens in a Christian the ability to go beyond the outward appearance of reality and to probe the depths of the thoughts of God and his plan of salvation.”

The gift of understanding helps a person to think with the mind of Christ. We all need this gift to better contemplate Christ’s twofold nature and to grasp the all the truths of the faith. As we bask in the graces of the Easter season, let’s beg the Lord for more of it!

Sister Maria Catherine is a perpetually professed member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. She has a master’s in theology from Ave Maria University and teaches high school theology in Chicago.

pope francis Monday, April 23: Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. George, martyr and St. Adalbert, bishop and martyr. Acts 11:1-18. Ps 42:2-3; 43:3, 4. Jn 10:14. Jn 10:1-10.

Tuesday, April 24: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, priest and martyr. Acts 11:19-26. Ps 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7. Jn 10:27. Jn 10:22-30.

Wednesday, April 25: Feast of St. Mark, evangelist. 1 Pt 5:5b-14. Ps 89:2-3, 6-7, 16-17. 1 Cor 1:23a-24b. Mk 16:15-20.

Thursday, April 26: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Good Counsel; St. Raphael Arnaiz Baron, monk. Acts 13:13-25. Ps 89:2-3, 21-22, 25 and 27. See Rv 1:5ab. Jn 13:16-20.

Friday, April 27: Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Acts 13:26-33. Ps 2:6-7, 8-9, 10-11ab. Jn 14:6. Jn 14:1-6.

Saturday, April 28: Saturday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chanel, priest and martyr; Optional Memorial of St. Louis Mary de Montfort, priest; Gianna Molla, mother. Acts 13:44-52.

Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. Jn 8:31b-32. Jn 14:7-14.

‘Seeing’ Christ through his wounds

In his homily during the celebration of the Divine Mercy Sunday liturgy in Vatican City on April 8, Pope Francis pointed out that the verb “to see” is repeated over and over in the Gospel text (John 20:19-31). Although the disciples see the Lord, the Gospel “does not describe how they saw him,” the pope said. By mentioning the detail “he showed them his hands and his side” (v. 20), the Gospel seems “to tell us that that is how the disciples,” and Thomas, “recognized Jesus: through his wounds.”

Thomas wanted to “see inside,” Pope Francis continued. He wanted to touch “with his hand the Lord’s wounds, the signs of his love.” This is how Thomas is our twin, because so often we need to know for ourselves that God exists rather than taking others’ word for it. “No, we too need to ‘see God,’ to touch him with our hands and to know that he is risen for us,” the pope said.

Pope Francis tells us that it is by seeing Jesus’ wounds that the disciples of all time know that we have been forgiven. www.vaticannews.va.

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When time stands still

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he theory of relativity tells us that space and time are not what they appear to be. They’re relative, meaning they don’t always function in the same way and they aren’t always experienced in the same way. Time can stand still.

Or can it? This side of eternity, it would seem not. Ever since the universe started with a mammoth explosion some 13.8 billion years ago the clock has been running nonstop, like a merciless meter, moving relentlessly forward.

However, our faith suggests FATHER ron that time will be different in rolheiser eternity, so different in fact that we cannot now even imagine how it will be in heaven. As St. Paul tells us in his letter to the Corinthians: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him. How will time be experienced in heaven? As we’ve just affirmed, that cannot be imagined now.

Or can it? In a wonderful new book on the resurrection and eternal life, “Is This All There Is,” the renowned German Scripture scholar Gerhard Lohfink suggests that we can and sometimes do have an experience of time as it will be experienced in eternity. For Lohfink, we experience this whenever we’re in adoration.

For him, the highest form of prayer is adoration.

But what does it mean to “adore” God and why is that the highest form of prayer? Lohfink answers:

“In adoration we ask nothing more of God. When I lament before God it is usually my own suffering that is the starting point. Even when I petition God, the occasion is often my own problem. I need something from God. And even when I thank God, unfortunately I am usually thankful for something I have received. But when I adore, I let go of myself and look only to God.” Admittedly, lament, petition and thanksgiving are high forms of prayer. An old, classical, and very good, definition of prayer defines prayer as “lifting mind and heart to God,” and what’s in our hearts virtually at all times is some form of lament, petition, or thanksgiving. Moreover, Jesus invites us to ask God for whatever is in our heart at a given moment: “Ask and you will receive.” Lament, petition, and thanksgiving are good forms of prayer; but, in praying them, we’re still focused in some manner on ourselves, on our needs and our joys.

However in adoration we look to God or at some attribute of God (beauty, goodness, truth, or oneness) so strongly that everything else drops away.

We stand in pure wonder, pure admiration, ecstatic awe, entirely stripped of our own heartaches, headaches, and idiosyncratic focus. God’s person, beauty, goodness, and truth overwhelm us so as to take our minds off of ourselves and leave us standing outside of ourselves.

And being free of our own selves is the very definition of ecstasy. Thus, to be in adoration is to be in ecstasy – though, admittedly, that’s generally not how we imagine ecstasy today. For us, ecstasy is commonly imagined as an earthshaking standing inside of ourselves, idiosyncrasy in its peak expression. But true ecstasy is the opposite. It’s adoration.

Moreover, for Lohfink, not only is adoration the

only true form of ecstasy, it’s also a way of being in heaven already right now and of experiencing time as it will be in heaven. Here’s how he puts it: “In the miracle of adoration we are already with God, entirely with God, and the boundary between time and eternity is removed. It is true that we cannot now comprehend that adoring God will be endless bliss. We always want to be doing something.

We want to criticize, intervene, change, improve, shape. And rightly so! That is our duty. But in death, when we come to God, that all ceases. Then our existence will be pure astonishment, pure looking, pure praise, pure adoration – and unimaginable happiness. That is why there is also a form of adoration that uses no words. In it I hold out my own life to God, in silence, and with it the whole world, knowing God as Creator, as Lord, as the one to whom belongs all honor and praise. Adoration is the oblation of one’s life to God. Adoration is surrender. Adoration means entrusting oneself entirely to God. As we dwell in adoration, eternity begins – an eternity that does not withdraw from the world but opens to it utterly.”

Time can stand still! And it stands still when we’re in pure admiration, in awe, in wonder, in adoration. In those moments we stand outside of ourselves, in the purest form of love that exists.

At that moment too we are in heaven, not having a foretaste of heaven, but actually being in heaven.

Eternity will be like that, one moment like a thousand years and a thousand years like one moment.

When we adore, time stands still – and we’re in heaven!

What geographical area of the United States was polled and who exactly were asked to participate?

This, and more, affects the outcome of a poll.

In addition, it states that 1,503 adults were surveyed, but only 316 were Catholics. This is preposterous! How does a journalist lead with that title when there are only 316 Catholic opinions out of 1,503? Furthermore, a one-line paragraph states, “The survey introduced new questions not asked in past polls,” which puts in to question the comparative results of the survey. Statistics can be manipulated easily in favor of whoever is using them for their publications, speeches or homilies. The SF Catholic seems to lean toward conservative Catholics. Many of your readers know this and even further understand that a balance in reporting is necessary, especially in today’s political climate.

The Pew Survey seems to be a bit out of balance.

I am a lifelong Catholic and educator and have a personal sense that today I have a Pope who gets it … more than any other in my lifetime. Many believe he is a pope for the people. In the end, as Luke states in chapter 12:34, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

Many of us are aware of the discomfort some of the princes of the church in Rome (locally as well) currently have with Pope Francis but I have only this to say, “Let he who is without sin throw the first stone.”

Margaret Franz-Costello Novato

The Indian is not fallen but in repose, as in many figures portrayed by the Renaissance masters. The padre, perhaps Junipero Serra, reaches down with one hand to raise him into the fold of Christianity; the other hand points toward heaven. The vaquero gazes on the horizon, perhaps toward distant cattle.

The statue’s detractors have no right to arrogantly and self-righteously judge people of so long ago when they didn’t walk in their footsteps. We can’t apply today’s standards to 18th-century life, which was far more difficult.

And two things need to be clarified: The “decimation” of Native peoples by Europeans was, in large part, unintentional: The Indians had no resistance to introduced smallpox and measles. Further, there are two sides to every coin: Both sides were not perfect toward each other.

If the “Early Days” statue is taken down, it will set a dangerous precedent and will only be a symbolic gesture and will not change history. The appellate hearing to save the statue will be held April 18 at 5 p.m. at City Hall, Room 416.

The Missions, the Indians and the Franciscans are a rich part of San Francisco’s heritage.

Patricia Briggs San Francisco Editor’s note: On March 5, the San Francisco Arts Commission unanimously approved a resolution to remove and place in storage the “Early Days” sculptural group from the Pioneer Monument (James Lick Monument), located on Fulton Street between Larkin and Hyde streets. The action, which has been appealed to the city’s Board of Appeals, was taken upon determination that removal of the artwork is appropriate under the criterion of “significant adverse public reaction over an extended period of time,” according to commission minutes. As the Pioneer Monument is sited within the Landmarked Civic Center Historic District, removal of the artwork requires the approval of the Historic Preservation Commission. On Feb. 21, the Historic Preservation Commission authorized the statue’s removal with the condition that a plaque be placed at the site describing why the sculpture was removed. The Oct. 26, 2017, edition of Catholic San Francisco featured an article on the “Early Days” statue.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology,San Antonio, Texas.

Letters Clarifying the Second Amendment

Re “Common sense on gun control,” Letters, March 15: I am replying to Bob Gugliemi’s letter. Actually, the right to keep and bear arms is a constitutional right confirmed on the “people” (i.e., all citizens). It is not a conditional right, no more than any of the other rights secured in the Bill of Rights is conditional. This is the understanding not only of constitutional historians but also of the Supreme Court, read their Heller and McDonald rulings. The framers understood the amendment to provide for an armed citizenry as a hedge against tyranny, not just against foreign invasion, but also domestic tyranny.

Regarding actual “weapons of war,” it has been practically impossible to purchase assault rifles since the National Firearms Act of 1934. Mr. Guglielmi confuses AR-15 style rifles with actual assault rifles. I can understand his confusion: The media continually refers to the AR-15 as a military-style assault weapon, conflating the term with actual assault rifles. Nevertheless, the AR-15 is functionally quite different. Unlike an automatic or assault rifle, which you can fire like a machine gun, the AR-15 is only semi- automatic; every time you want to fire a round you have to pull the trigger. Yes, the AR-15 looks similar to an assault rifle, but this is all cosmetic.

According to the latest FBI homicide data, 13,246 murders occurred annually between 2012 and 2016.

Only 2 percent were killed with rifles, (including bolt- and level-action rifles). 48 percent were killed with handguns; 12 percent were killed by knives; while 5 percent were killed by hitting, kicking, and pushing. It is a tragedy when even one person is murdered. However, why spend so much emotional outrage on a subcategory of semi-automatic rifle, when handguns, knives, and other weapons actually account for most homicides (98 percent).

Given the above facts, I hope Mr. Guglielmi reconsiders his assumptions regarding the Second Amendment and the use of so-called military-style assault weapons.

Matt McClintock Brentwood

Save the ‘Early Days’ statue

Thankfully, a lawsuit has been filed to counter removal of the “Early Days” statue of the Pioneer Monument at Civic Center, which survived the 1906 earthquake and has endured for more than 100 years. If removal goes through, the sad irony is that the thousands of indigenous people who built the 21 endearing Missions, one which San Francisco calls its own, Mission Dolores, will be sooner forgotten.

Art interpretation is in the eye of beholder. We are residents of Star of the Sea Parish for 57 years and have long admired that beautiful monument.

Finally, a pope for the people

Re “US Catholics’ political leanings affect their approval ratings of pope,” March 15: Upon reading Mark Pattinson’s article, I was dismayed by Pattinson’s lead-in which contained overwhelmingly negative statistics and his ending with only a few positives buried in the last paragraphs.

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The healing ritual of confession Father Ed Dougherty, MM

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he sacrament of reconciliation is a divinely instituted encounter with the mercy of God that we should avail ourselves of on a regular basis. In John 20:20-23, an account of Christ’s appearance to the Apostles after the resurrection reads: “Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’”

By partaking in the sacrament that Christ instituted,

we gain the certainty of knowing we are forgiven so that we can move forward with our lives. We have discussed our sins with a priest of the church, demonstrating humility and opening ourselves up for counsel and guidance in reconciling ourselves to God through prayer and acts of penance.

A few years ago, Northwest Catholic, the official news site for the Archdiocese of Seattle, Washington, published an article written by Kevin Birnbaum titled “The Power of Confession.” Birnbaum recounted the story of Christopher Barajas, who had been raised

by Catholic parents but strayed in his teenage years and began, as he said, “down the path into darkness.”

Birnbaum writes of Barajas: “He was drinking, smok-

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Praying the Rosary The rosary is prayed at the following locations on days and times specified.

St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco, Monday through Friday, 8:35 a.m.

Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Saturday 3:20 p.m.; second Sundays 3:15 p.m. for priests and vocations; Holy Rosary Society third Sundays 1 p.m., St. Joseph Perpetual Adoration Chapel; 2,000 Hail Mary Devotion, second Saturday after 8:30 a.m. Mass; Tuesdays 7:30 p.m. before the Blessed Sacrament in the church. (415) 751-0450; www.starparish.com admin@starparish.com Facebook: starparishsf.

St. Monica Church, 24th Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. before 8:30 a.m. Mass.

St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue at Ulloa, San Francisco, Monday through Friday after the 8:30 a.m. Mass.

Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. across from Washington Square, San Francisco, second Sunday of the month in Cantonese, parish pastoral center, 11:30 a.m., Kelly Kong (510) 794-6117; Wednesday, 7 p.m., English, http://salesiansspp.org/.

Porziuncola Nuova Chapel, 624 Vallejo St. at Columbus, San Francisco, Saturdays, 2:30 p.m., followed by Chaplet of Divine Mercy, http://knightsofsaintfrancis.org/.

St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf at St. Francis Xavier Church, 1801 Octavia Street, San Francisco, rosary in sign language, all Sundays except June, July and August, 9:45-10:15 a.m.; stbenz1801@ gmail.com; www.sfdeafcatholics.org. Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/stbenedictparish.

Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, Monday through Friday following 8 a.m.

Mass, Saturday following 8:30 a.m. Mass; Sunday 7 p.m.

St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco. Monday through Saturday 7:50 a.m.

St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, rosary in Spanish Sundays before 9:30 a.m. Spanish Mass; (650) 322-2152.

Holy Angels Church, 107 San Pedro Road, Colma, Monday through Saturday approximately 8 a.m. following 7:30 a.m. Mass, (650) 755-0478.

St Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, Monday through Saturday, 7:40 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass.

St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, Monday through Saturday 7:30 a.m., Monday and Wednesday 4:40 p.m.; mary246barry@sbcglobal.net.

St. Luke Church, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, Monday through Saturday following the 8:30 a.m. Mass.

St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, Monday, 5 p.m. includes four mysteries, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, adoration; (415) 479-1560.

St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1000 Cambridge St., Novato, Monday through Saturday after 9 a.m. Mass.

Porziuncola Nuova Chapel, 624 Vallejo St. at Columbus, San Francisco, Saturdays, 2:30 p.m., followed by Chaplet of Divine Mercy, http://knightsofsaintfrancis.org/.

Is your parish praying the rosary?

Catholic San Francisco would like to let its readers know.

If your parish has a regular praying of the rosary to which all are invited, just send the day, time, location and contact information to Tom Burke, burket@sfarch.org.

The information should come from a person in authority in the parish who can be emailed for follow up and who would be responsible for contacting CSF with changes to the parish rosary schedule.

Questions? Contact Tom Burke, burket@sfarch.org.

ing marijuana, sneaking out late and skipping enough classes that he ended up not graduating high school on schedule. But when he saw his younger brother starting down the same path, he realized he had to change.”

Barajas found his way back to the sacrament of reconciliation and credits it with giving him the freedom to choose the right path. He says, “There’s that choice I have, to choose God or to continue on the path I was on before, where if I didn’t have that sacrament, I know that I wouldn’t have that choice. I still would be chained down to those vices.”

What a powerful reminder of the important reasons we have for making regular confessions. Like Barajas, many of us can think of loved ones for whom we want to set a good example. Confession helps us to remain pure of heart so that we can be there for those who need us most. Many of us also have had the experience of feeling like a weight has been lifted from our shoulders after we’ve made a good confession. This is that sense of freedom that Barajas is talking about. Christ instituted the sacrament of reconciliation to awaken us to the mercy of God, and when we take the steps to make a good confession, we internalize that mercy within our souls.

The sacrament of reconciliation contains within itself all the elements we need to put our faults behind us and live a life of hope. We get a chance to tell our stories and talk through the issues that are burdening us. We receive counsel in regard to the spiritual dimensions of our actions. And we encounter the forgiveness of God made possible by Christ’s redemptive sacrifice.

What an ingenious combination of healing elements rolled into this ritual of the Catholic faith.

So avail yourself of the sacrament of reconciliation, and the mercy of God will overflow within your soul; and you will remain a beacon of light to your loved ones, who look to you for inspiration as they search for the right path in their own lives.

Maryknoll Father Ed Dougherty is a member of The Christophers’ board of directors.

For free copies of the Christopher News Note, write: The Christophers, Five Hanover Square, New York, NY 10004; e-mail: mail@christophers.org.

The art of slow living: When calligraphy becomes prayer

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rica Tighe was 26 when she made the leap: She would set out on her own to be a calligrapher.

Full time. In order to pay her $800 rent and cellphone bill and $1,000 college loan payment and also hopefully afford some food.

She had a sociology degree and lingering burn-out from teaching in Brooklyn, her latest stint. She’d recently moved to Los Angeles, but after a few months of looking for a nonprofit job, she couldn’t find one that would cover her rent and college debt.

Several people who had seen Erica’s work online had Christina asked her to make their wedCapecchi ding invitations. She thought maybe that could suffice. She planned to refine her selftaught method, which was eliciting periodic orders for $20 commissions via Etsy.

“I got on my knees and asked God for work,” Erica told me. “I was in complete fear. My spiritual director said to me: ‘God is your boss, so ask for work!’”

Eventually, a $100 gig came in.

She reached out to a fellow Phoenix native who had launched an online ministry for Catholic women called “Blessed is She” offering to make one Instagram quote. The two 20-somethings forged a close partnership on a shoestring budget, granting Erica total creative license to design products – posters, prints, journals, mugs.

The first journal sold 700. The latest one sold 9,000.

Their hunch proved right: If they poured in the see capecchi, page 17

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The wrong-headedness of ‘wrongful birth’ lawsuits

t its core, the idea of a “wrongful birth” claim is unreasonable and ethically incoherent. Parents who bring these lawsuits against obstetricians and hospitals claim that medical professionals should have detected a particular disease or defect in their unborn baby through prenatal testing and informed them about it. Had they been given this information, their argument continues, they would have chosen to abort father tadeusz their baby, pacholczyk rather than spending years of their lives caring for a less-thanperfect, possibly infirm child. Wrongful birth lawsuits enable the parents to seek legal redress, often in the form of multi-million dollar settlements.

In 2013, for example, a jury in Washington State awarded a $50 million payout to a couple who claimed they would have aborted their 5-year-old son Oliver if they had known he had an “unbalanced chromosomal translocation.” Because of the mismatched chromosomes he received from his parents, he has an IQ of less than 70 and is unable to walk.

Rachelle Harz, a malpractice lawyer who spearheaded one of these lawsuits

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in New Jersey in 1999, expressed some of the tortuous thinking that goes into these cases during an interview for “60 Minutes.” She noted that although the physician in this case, “didn’t cause the child’s retardation, what he caused was not giving the proper information to the parents to allow them the choice to abort the child.” She concluded that the doctor “caused the birth of this very, very neurologically impaired child.”

The fundamental flaw in her argument, of course, is the claim that the doctor “caused the birth” of the baby, when, in fact, the birth was caused by an activity that took place nine months prior between the husband and wife. That action of the mom and dad, not an action by the doctor, resulted in the birth.

What the doctor actually “caused” by not discovering and sharing specific medical information with the parents was the preservation of the child’s life.

These lawsuits rely on fundamentally flawed logic: first, that it is wrong and illegal for a doctor not to know or to withhold medical information such that a life that would have been ended is saved; second, that a doctor is somehow obligated to facilitate or cooperate in harmful or lethal actions that parents intend to carry out against their own offspring. The medical profession, however, has long professed allegiance to the creed of “do no harm,” so that doctors can serve uniquely as healers, not killers. For obstetricians in particular, the unborn children they track and follow during pregnancy count as that see pacholczyk, page 18

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Our ‘garden party’ at Most Holy Redeemer

n Saturday morning around 11:30, March 10, I drove up Diamond Street and found a “young” man who welcomed me into the parish/school parking lot. This is a good beginning, I thought. Then spotting smoke coming from a very large barbecue, I knew I was in the right place for a party.

Inside the very spacious parish hall, there were round tables with tablecloths and flowers, chairs, a welcome sign-in desk, and some sisters standing at tables where the “invited Sister jean guests” for the day could evans, rsm pick up a pair of socks, some toiletries, a sweatshirt, a knitted scarf and possibly some pet snacks for their companions.

Over near the stage were about five tables endto-end where plates, cutlery and serving dishes of burgers, hot dogs, rolls, potato salad, onions and condiments were ready for the day’s guests.

Around the room, there were buckets of iced cold drinks and a dessert table of cookies and sweets.

All in all, it was a room prepared with love and care for our homeless brothers and sisters.

Invitations were sent around to homeless shelters, food kitchens and churches announcing the garden party, which, because of inclement weather, was held indoors. Our first guests arrived and began to make themselves comfortable and to mingle with the sisters, brothers and priests from religious congregations in the archdiocese, as well as parishioners from Most Holy Redeemer who graciously hosted the event.

I sat for quite a while with a homeless man, Steve, who did painting and plumbing repairs.

He has found it hard to get a permanent job, and has been homeless in San Francisco for a good number of years. An absence of teeth in strategic locations made it hard for him to eat and swallow without difficulty. A gentle soul, Steve told me that sleeping on the streets is made very difficult these days due to the number of used syringes that seem

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Women religious share a table with guests at Most Holy Redeemer parish hall in San Francisco during a March 10 “garden party” outreach to homeless men and women. to be everywhere. Though he has his tools and his paintbrushes, he finds it hard to get day jobs as they go to younger men. Steve manages to get a shower five out of seven days a week. He follows the Lava Mae bus through the city and makes himself a place to stay nearby.

The volunteers had a chance to sit down for lunch with the guests and this is when I had the privilege of meeting a woman who was originally from New Orleans, had attended college here in the Bay Area, and for some reason found herself poor and living on the streets. Dressed neatly and very well spoken, she impressed me by her perceptions of herself and others, of our world. One of the MHR parishioners engaged her for a few

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“I need to think differently.” And, all I could think of was how she had managed to live on the streets for what seemed to be a long time and retain her dignity.

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is only for those who can withdraw from ordinary affairs to spend much time in prayer,” he wrote.

But “that is not the case.”

“We are all called to be holy by living our lives with love and by bearing witness in everything we do, wherever we find ourselves,” he said.

He wrote about “the saints next door” and said he likes “to contemplate the holiness present in the patience of God’s people: in those parents who raise their children with immense love, in those men and women who work hard to support their families, in the sick, in elderly religious who never lose their smile.”

The path to holiness, he wrote, is almost always gradual, made up of small steps in prayer, in sacrifice and in service to others.

Being part of a parish community and receiving the sacraments, especially the Eucharist and reconciliation, are essential supports for living a holy life, the pope wrote. And so is finding time for silent prayer.

“I do not believe in holiness without prayer,” he said, “even though that prayer need not be lengthy or involve intense emotion.”

“The holiness to which the Lord calls you will grow through small gestures,” he said, before citing the

example of a woman who refuses to gossip with a neighbor, returns home and listens patiently to her child even though she is tired, prays the rosary and later meets a poor person and offers him a kind word.

The title of the document was taken from Matthew 5:12 when Jesus says “rejoice and be glad” to those who are persecuted or humiliated for his sake.

The line concludes the Beatitudes, in which, Pope Francis said, “Jesus explained with great simplicity what it means to be holy”: living simply, putting God first, trusting him and not earthly wealth or power, being humble, mourning with and consoling others, being merciful and forgiving, working for justice and seeking peace with all.

The example of the saints officially recognized by the church can be helpful, he said, but no one else’s path can be duplicated exactly.

Each person, he said, needs “to embrace that unique plan that God willed for each of us from eternity.”

The exhortation ends with a section on “discernment,” which is a gift to be requested of the Holy Spirit and developed through prayer, reflection, reading Scripture and seeking counsel from a trusted spiritual guide.

“A sincere daily ‘examination of conscience’” will help, he said, because holiness involves striving each day for “all that is great, better and more beautiful,

while at the same time being concerned for the little things, for each day’s responsibilities and commitments.”

Being holy is not easy, the pope said, but if the attempt makes a person judgmental, always frustrated and surly, something is not right.

“The saints are not odd and aloof, unbearable because of their vanity, negativity and bitterness,” he said. “The apostles of Christ were not like that.”

In fact, the pope said, “Christian joy is usually accompanied by a sense of humor.”

Holiness is holistic, the pope said, and while each person has a special mission, no one should claim that their particular call or path is the only worthy one.

“Our defense of the innocent unborn, for example, needs to be clear, firm and passionate for at stake is the dignity of a human life, which is always sacred,” the pope wrote. “Equally sacred, however, are the lives of the poor, those already born, the destitute, the abandoned and the underprivileged, the vulnerable infirm and elderly exposed to covert euthanasia....”

And, he said, one cannot claim that defending the life of a migrant is a “secondary issue” when compared to abortion or other bioethical questions.

“That a politician looking for votes might say such a thing is understandable, but not a Christian,” he said.

Capecchi: The art of slow living effort and supplied something that was beautiful and original, demand would follow.

Today – three years later – Erica makes “a really nice living” running her design business called “Be A Heart,” which employs two women. She built off the random commissions for website logos and expanded her wheelhouse, learning to paint watercolor, digitize prints and design books. “Blessed Is She” occupies half her time, allowing her to pursue other projects, including celebrity weddings, calligraphy workshops, a Catholic journaling Bible published last year by Our Sunday Visitor and a lettering book called “Written By Hand” published last

year by Rock Point Press. Barnes & Noble picked it up this spring, and it is being translated into four other languages.

Erica invited her 13,000 Instagram followers to work through the book together as a nine-week project using the hashtag “writtenbyhandchallenge.”

Participants shared snapshots of their slow-butsteady progress: Addressing Christmas cards, making pretty gift tags, working alongside their children.

Calligraphy invites you to use your hands, which young adults are itching to do in response to the iPhone era of thumb tapping, Erica says. It helps explain the resurgence of the antiquated art.

Calligraphy also forces you to slow down, dipping the nib of the pen into ink – the old-school method

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doctor’s patients in the same way that the mothers do.

Whenever a couple sets out with the intention of aborting an imperfect child and requests that prenatal testing be performed for this purpose, the process of testing itself becomes immoral. In the same way, any physician or health care professional who arranges for such tests, if they have prudential certainty that a couple intends to abort an imperfect child, would be guilty of cooperating in evil when that abortion takes place.

To consider a parallel example, if a physician believed that a child arriving to the hospital emergency room had been physically abused or severely beaten by his parents, he would be duty-bound, not to mention legally obligated, to report that abuse to authorities. He would not be permitted to turn

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a blind eye, or otherwise cooperate in the ongoing harm to that child by his or her parents. Similarly, obstetricians who work with pregnant couples should not be expected to turn a blind eye and provide diagnostic information to parents that will encourage them fatally to assault their unborn child.

None of us is perfect. None of us is born into this world completely free of defects, whether physical or psychological. Those limitations, however, never entitle others to place our lives in the crosshairs and pull the trigger –especially our own parents! In sum, these wrongful birth cases promote catastrophic misunderstandings about parental duties and about the physician’s obligations toward mothers and their children in prenatal care settings.

Recognizing that some parents will face considerable expense, labor and difficulty in raising a child who requires special care and attention due to disabilities, it seems reasonable to promote a pro-life and supportive response on behalf of these families, rather than encouraging the corrosive practice of wrongful birth lawsuits. That supportive response should include the expectation of everyone chipping in and helping out, whether through insurance, taxes or crowdfunding, or through other forms of civic, societal or ecclesial outreach.

Father Tad Pacholczyk is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves as the director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center.

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She held an undergraduate degree in music and a graduate degree in early childhood education.

In 1979, Sister Kay’s work Sister Kay Mcshifted from teaching to advoMullen, SNDdeN cacy work on social justice and women’s issues in both Washington, DC and San Francisco, including working for the Commission on Social Justice for the San Francisco archdiocese.

In 2009, she celebrated her 50th year as a sister by serving for three months in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

“In the past four months, the courage and grace Sister Kay showed in dealing with glioblastoma, an especially aggressive form of cancer, was an inspiration to everyone who knew her,” the sisters said.

A funeral service will be celebrated April 13, 11 a.m. at the Province Center in Belmont.

Remembrances may be made to Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont 94002.

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Learning these modern NFP methods does not require a high level of education. In fact, studies conducted by the WHO indicate that 93 percent of women, regardless of their education level, are capable of identifying and distinguishing fertile and infertile cervical secretions. And with the China study mentioned earlier that exhibited extremely high effectiveness of the BOM, 63 percent were peasants and 22 percent were laborers (largely illiterate).

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That call to continue the work of the late civil rights leader was echoed by Bishop Campbell in an interview ahead of the anniversary.

“His (Rev. King’s) legacy has to be carried forth.

It is the only way to realize that we are all God’s children and we need to treat each other the way we would treat our own brothers and sisters,” Bishop Campbell told the Catholic Standard, the archdiocesan newspaper.

Rev. King tried “to end injustice and discrimination against all God’s people,” he said, adding that his message was “to judge people by who they are, and not by their superficial bearing, how they look, their height, their sex, their culture, their color.”

In Memphis, Bishop Martin D. Holley, a former Washington auxiliary bishop who now heads that diocese, celebrated Mass in that city’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and then joined Catholic and other religious leaders in a march to the National Civil Rights Museum. The museum includes the Lorraine Motel where Rev. King was shot, and the nearby boarding house from which Ray fired the fatal shots.

Across the country, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said that as the nation marks this 50th anniversary, “we recognize that too much of our present reality is not so different from that of 1968. Many in our country continue to suffer from racism, violence and discord – accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and dismay.”

“We can make an invaluable contribution simply by living the civility that is within is,” the archbishop said in a statement. “Our times are plagued by rancor, name-calling, detraction and polarization.

“Let us draw strength, guidance and inspiration from Dr. King by being civil with each other, especially with those we dislike and with whom we disagree.

This is how we live his witness to nonviolence in everyday life, and so prove ourselves worthy of his legacy.”

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“pelvic issues,” thus obscuring, they argue, the Gospel message of caring for poor people.

“As a bishop for 30 years in the dioceses where I served, that’s three of them, the church has put far more money, time and personnel into the care and education of the underprivileged than into programs related to sex,” he said.

“And it’s not that the critics don’t know this. Many don’t want to know it because facts interfere with their story line of a sexually repressed, body-denying institution locked in the past.”

Church teaching on contraception can be traced to the early days of Christianity, particularly in ancient Rome, where Christians emphasized upholding human dignity, he said.

Citing the work of Kyle Harper, provost at the University of Oklahoma and an expert in Roman history, the archbishop said the Romans “presumed that sex was just sex, one instinctual need among others” and that prostitutes and slaves were “safety valves” to satisfy such needs. But it was the early Christians who “welcomed all new life as something holy and a blessing,” teaching that each person was created in the image and likeness of God, he explained.

Christians also preached that God gave all people free will to act in accordance with God’s commands or against them, he said, continuing to cite Harper.

“Christianity embedded that notion of free will in human culture for the first time. Christian sexual morality was a key part of this understanding of free will.

The body was a ‘consecrated space’ in which we could choose or reject God,” he said.

As a result, Christians began demanding “care for vulnerable bodies,” speaking out against slavery and supporting the needs of poor people, and that concern included opposition to contraception, he said.

marching behind it. Some participants carried small signs with the same message.

Toward evening churches across the country planned to toll their bells 39 times, symbolizing the civil rights leader’s age when he was killed in Memphis, Tennessee.

Numerous U.S. Catholic churches and schools planned to participate in the tolling of bells. The Chicago Archdiocese asked all its churches and schools to ring their bells 39 times, and Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich was to preside at an evening ecumenical service at a Catholic church.

Other churches ringing their bells included St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. Near the shrine are the headquarters of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which announced it joined in solidarity in the shrine’s tribute to Rev. King’s “legacy and his many contributions including the principle of nonviolent resistance.”

“The moment is also an opportunity for us to pause and reflect individually on what we are doing to build the culture of love, respect and peace to which the Gospel calls us and to also ask ourselves how we seek to help our brothers and sisters still suffering under the weight of racism,” the USCCB said.

In a statement issued March 28, the U.S. bishops’ Administrative Committee said that on this King anniversary, “we need to ask ourselves if we are doing all we can to build the culture of love, respect and peace to which the Gospel calls us.”

Rev. King was “a man of God who, like a modern-day Moses had led people on a journey of hope toward freedom,” Cardinal Wuerl wrote in his blog. “It was Dr. King’s steadfast faith which saw him through many dark nights, and it is that faith that calls us to continue his work and see that his unfulfilled dream is more fully realized.”

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St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, San Francisco: Some Mass attendees, including the Inspirational Voices of Shipwreck Gospel Choir who ministered in song, gathered for a group photo after the parish celebrated a special Gospel Mass for Restorative Justice on March 24.

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CYO ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME: Catholic Charities CEO Jilma Meneses, Robert Taylor, Linda Barnard, Joe Hallisy, and Kevin Finn, CYO Athletics program director. Catholic Charities honored Linda Barnard, Joe Hallisy and Robert Taylor with induction into CYO Athletics Hall of Fame in ceremonies March 24. “Our three Hall of Fame inductees join a prestigious group – champions of our children both on the field and off,” said Jilma Meneses, Catholic Charities chief executive officer. Barnard served on the athletic boards of St. Gabriel Parish, San Francisco and CYO Athletics during the 1980s and 1990s. Hallisy has coached at St. Anne, St. Cecilia and St. Stephen parishes and taught physical education at St. Thomas the Apostle School for 46 years. Taylor served as a referee, mentor, motivator, and coach with St. Emydius and St. Gabriel parishes. “Coaches in the Spotlight” were also honored: Tim Jensen from St. Gabriel Parish, Lissette Lopez from St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, Nelson Malolot from Epiphany Parish, and James Pagan from Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Daly City. All showed exemplary commitment to their program and team(s) and serves as a model for other coaches, Catholic Charities said. The CYO Athletics Hall of Fame Dinner began in 2008 to recognize individuals who have made an extraordinary impact on the community and championed the virtues and values of CYO Athletics.

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OUR LADY OF ANGELS PARISH, BURLINGAME: Palm Sunday’s 10 a.m. Mass always welcomes a full church at OLA. Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney, pastor, leads a procession complete with donkey from the parish’s upper property that passes by parishioners lined on both sides of the street commemorating Jesus entry into Jerusalem. Boy Scouts with altar servers and other ministers of the Mass also march in procession.

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ST. MARK PARISH, BELMONT: The parish held its first Lenten retreat March 10 with a focus on prayer and more than 100 people in attendance.

Speakers included Vincentian Father Martin Njoalu on conversing with God; deacon candidate Richard Dizon on Liturgy of the Hours; Deacon Gerard Quinn on P always.

U B types of prayer; and Rose Pa’yan on praying Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, pictured here with Father Martin and parishioner Barbara Kuehn,

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was welcomed during the retreat and “shared with the attendees and speakers how pleased he was that St. Mark held the Lenten retreat on the topic of prayer,” the parish said. Msgr. James Tarantino is St. Mark’s pastor. Retreatants all received a copy of “We Have Come to Adore Him: An Introduction to Prayer at the School of Benedict XVI,” by Father Andreas Schmidt.

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40 DAYS FOR LIFE: Claire Herrick and Ron Konopaski smiling after a successful 40 Days for Life in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “It was an active season with more attendees than last year,” a statement to volunteers from the group said. “We’ll see you all next year. Please consider joining us as we plan for next year.” 40 Days for Life is an annual campaign during Lent to help end abortion.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 14 ALEMANY AWARDS: Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology honors retired San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 5:30 p.m. Mass, 6:30 p.m. dinner. Tickets $200, table of 10, $1900. Sponsorship opportunities available. www.dspt.edu/alemany2018.

HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch, both in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Please RSVP by contacting Diane Prell, activities coordinator, (415) 452-3500; www.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 15 ACCW RETREAT DAY: Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women day of recollection, Holy Name of Jesus convent chapel, 1555 - 39th Ave. near Lawton St., San Francisco. Begins with Mass 1pm then lunch and reflection by Father Cameron Faller, Epiphany Parish. $25, (415) 753-0234; dcmibach@ aol.com.

TUESDAY, APRIL 17 ‘LIFE IN SPIRIT’ SEMINAR: All are invited to this six-week series, Tuesdays through May 22, 7-8:45 p.m., St. Dominic Church, parish hall, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco. Evenings will Father Raymund include praise and Reyes worship music, small group discussions, and refreshments. Come explore a deeper relationship with Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Speakers include Father Ray Reyes, vicar for clergy, Archdiocese of San Francisco; Deacon William Brennan, Salesian Father Thomas Thodukulam. Sponsored by the SF Catholic Charismatic Renewal. For more information or

‘MARRIAGE TRUTH CHAIN’: Part of an effort to reintroduce the reality of marriage, 2-4 p.m., Park Presidio Boulevard between Geary and Clement. Stimulate thought about marriage reality by holding positive, educational roadside signs that will be provided. Ted Kirk theodorekirk1957@gmail.com; www.takebackmarriage.org.

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THURSDAY, MAY 24 ‘LOAVES AND FISHES’ GALA: Catholic Charities Loaves & Fishes Dinner and Gala celebrating the power of extraordinary charity and justice to change lives every day.

Recipient of the Loaves & Fishes Kathleen Award for Faith in Cardinal Action is Kathleen “Katie” Cardinal with entertainment by celebrated musical virtuoso Ethan Bortnick. Contact us: events@CatholicCharitiesSF.org; (415) 972-1273; visit CatholicCharitiesSF.org/LoavesAndFishes.

THURSDAY, APRIL 19 SHROUD OF TURIN: Paul Wingard with “The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin and the Face of Jesus,” St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, 7-8:30 p.m., ample free off street parking. A full size replica of the burial cloth is part of the presentation. Wingard will present the case for authenticity of the much discussed garment. What message does the shroud have for each of us? (415) 567-7824; https://stdominics.org/event?id=67741.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of March HOLY CROSS, COLMA

Diane S. Achermann Nancy Ahern Nancy M. Ambrose Jennie Beatrice Anderson Marlene Patricia Annuzzi Josephine J. Argo Zenaida Soliman Austria Dora D. Bacigalupi Rocky Barbanica David G. Barry, III Juan Reyes Bautista Rosalina Bennett Mary E. Bent-Rooney Carmelita J. Bloise Elisabeth Goertler Brady Louis Mortimer Brizzolara, Jr. Beverly P. Burke Vera Burns Donna Joyce Burns Robert Cardelli Eva Castro Vincent J. Centanni Charles S. Cerini John F. Corry Dorothy A. Coxum Andrea Maria Cross Sulpicio Dacpano Bernice D’Arcy Virginia M. Davey Melvin Alvaro De Mesa Julie Dean Lena Louise Degliantoni Henry T. Della Rosemarie A. Dineen Dolores P. Domenden Donna Donigan Helen Marie Doyle Rita C. Dunn Betty Lorraine Everson Caridad Fernandez Vincent Paul Finigan, Jr. Christopher George Follner Marie Frances Furnanz James L. Furnanz Erlinda Gabriel Martin A. Gaehwiler Lorna T. Gaite Michael H. Gallagher Juanita M. Gallagher Consolacion M. Gambing Carmen Moran Garcia Paul Garrard Margaret K. Giles Marjorie J. Giubbini Ernestina L. Gomez Maria Isabel Gomez Jose Manuel Guatemala Juanita Harm Frances P. “Trish” Harrington

Louis C. Haughney Odette Hauscarriague Alexander M. Herrera Luis V. Herrera Fermina Barandino Hidalgo John L. Huber Joseph David Hurley, Jr. Jose L. Javier Karen Jean Jenkins Marcos Antony Jimenez (Arocho) John Phillip Joyce Steven Lee Kelley Judy K. King Luisa P. Lacayanga Clara Q. Lagasca Felipe L. Lamento Angel D. Lansangan Jean Lau Carrie Lazaro-Pescador Dorys C. Ledet Tessy Spiteri Lencioni Eloise C. (Diepenbrock) Libby Elsie Lo Ann Elizabeth Lund Kevin Allan Malley Ernesto B. Manalo Richard Alexander Mangan Carol A. Marchi Marta Martinelli Melecio Martinez Diana Martinez Giovanna Matiasic Ruth Wakefield McClure Virginia Mehegan Catherine Stagnaro Messersmith Peggy (Mary Margaret) Miller Fiona Magdalene Mitsuoka Ivania A. Molina De Mora Joseph O. Njoku-Obi, Sr. Walter Paul Oberg Duja Omran Josefina Luna Ornelas Carmen Ortega Gertrudis Paniagua John Busine Parangan Thomas P. Pierce Betty J. Puccini Edna M. Ramos Ann Marie Ravara-Naidus Henry E. Ravetto Jose L. Reyes Renato O. Reyes Miguel F. Ribeiro Milita T. Ribeiro Rita Claire Robbert Lino Rodriguez Belen C. Rodriguez Maria Teresa Rodriguez Antoinette Marie Rossi Liberato “Chico” Salazar Michael Isaac Garcia Salem, Jr. Pablo Antonio Sanchez

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