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Pope: Like the Magi, venture from your comfort zones to find Jesus

Archbishop joins celebration of ‘Russian Christmas’

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As discarded Christmas trees lay in heaps on city sidewalks surrounding Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church in San Francisco, parishioners of the Eastern-rite parish observed Christmas Day which they call The Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was a special guest and participant in this year’s Divine Liturgy celebrated

by Father Kevin Kennedy, pastor, with Deacon Kyrill Pagacz and three altar servers. Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church is a parish of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Divine Liturgy is the name for the Mass in the Russian Byzantine Church. Congregants are separated from celebrants by a curtained altar see byzantine nativity, page 8

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis marked the Feast of the Epiphany by encouraging faithful to imitate the actions of the Magi, who weren’t attached to worldly comforts, but were willing to go out and take risks in order to find Jesus.

“Setting out, the second thing the Magi do, is essential if we are to find Jesus,” the pope said Jan. 6, on the Feast of the Epiphany.

“His star demands a decision to take up the journey and to advance tirelessly on our way,” he said. “It demands that we free ourselves from useless burdens and unnecessary extras that only prove a hindrance, and accept unforeseen obstacles along the map of life.”

Jesus, the pope said, allows himself to be found by those who are looking for him, however, in order to find him

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A little girl stares up during the Divine Liturgy of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (Christmas Day) on Jan. 7 at Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church.

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Retired priest brings smiles to recovering residents Lidia Wasowicz Catholic San Francisco

True to the vocation his parents chose for him 80 years ago, Father Michele Raimondi drives more than an hour each month to spread the word of God and turn scowls into smiles at a nursing home for residents recovering from surFather Michele gery or illness. Father Raimondi Raimondi, ordained in 1950 in Italy, was incardinated into

the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1970 and retired in 1993.

The 91-year-old priest, who entered the seminary in his native Italy at the age of 11, fights crawling traffic between his home in Petaluma and the Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation facility in Greenbrae the first Thursday of every month to celebrate Mass, cheer the sick and offer Communion to the bedridden.

He has been making the tiring trip for 16 years.

“The patients may be feeling poorly, suffering pain, battling depression, but they light up when he enters the room,” said Imelda Moeslein, a

parishioner at St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae who has been volunteering at the center for 20 years.

No matter how early she arrives to help set up for the service, she finds Father Raimondi already waiting.

“What a privilege to have him come all this way with his wonderful stories, calm demeanor, sweet disposition, eternal optimism,” Moeslein said.

His life-affirming sermons encourage finding beauty in such daily gifts as awaking, having breakfast, coming together in prayer.

“Stay positive,” he advises his aged, ailing audience in a lilting Italian accent. “Always remember to love God,

love yourself, love your neighbor and never, never lose the smile on your face.”

The message resonates with the residents.

“Some priests use difficult words, but he’s very simple and easy to understand when he tells us how to get along with others,” said Ilisoni Nick Raikuna, a heart patient undergoing therapy for swollen knees. “He’s a real blessing to us.”

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Need to know LITURGICAL YEAR UPDATE: Holy Days of Obligation: Assumption of Mary, Aug. 15, 2018; Solemnity of All Saints, Nov. 1, 2018; Mary’s Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8, 2018; Christmas. Dec. 25, 2018. The Ascension of the Lord is observed May 13, 2018, the Seventh Sunday of Easter, in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and other dioceses in its Metropolitan Province. The following dates have been designated as Special Days of Prayer for intentions noted in the Archdiocese of San Francisco: Jan. 22, 2018: Penance and Life; Feb. 18, 2018: General Needs of Humankind; Sept. 3, 2018: Human Rights and Labor; Nov. 22, 2018: Fruits of the Earth. Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018; Easter, April 1, 2018; Pentecost, May 20, 2018; First Sunday of Advent, Dec. 2, 2018.

Mercy Faith and culture dialogue: The Sisters of Mercy have announced a year of outreach and solidarity with focus on “education about Islam, prayer for peace in our global village, and conversations for relationship building.” The sisters said in their announcement that the gatherings are a response to America today where “our differences rather than our values define us.” The Sunday afternoon series begins Jan. 21 and will take place at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame.

“People are invited to come together to understand each other’s perspectives,” the sisters said. “The goal is to listen respectfully across the divides of faith and culture.” Small groups will be led through a structured process by a guide. Ground rules include being curious and open to learning; showing respect and suspending judgment; looking for common ground and appreciating differences; being authentic, and welcoming that from others; being purposeful and to the point. The program includes an Interfaith Prayer for Peace on Jan. 28 and May 20, a session on Islamic art on April 15.

For more information, visit www.mercy-center.org/ Flyers_2017/1105Solidarity/events.html.

Archbishop cordileone’s schedule Jan. 14: Parish visit, Nativity Parish, San Francisco Jan. 17: Chancery meetings Jan. 18: Priest Personnel Board and chancery meetings Jan. 19: Independent Review Board meeting Jan. 21: Parish visit, St. Charles Borromeo Jan. 24: Chancery meetings Jan. 25: Chancery meetings Jan. 26: Walk for Life reception, 6 p.m.

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National Migration Week: A reminder of our duty to welcome the stranger

n 2003, the Catholic bishops of the United States and Mexico issued a historic binational pastoral letter on immigration, “Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope.” The title takes its inspiration from St. Paul, who, in the second chapter of his letter to the Ephesians, states: “ … you are strangers and aliens no longer. No, you are fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God.” He is writing here to the gentile Christians at Ephesus who had been “excluded” from the people of God, since they were not members of the Archbishop chosen people of Israel. But Salvatore J. now God has revealed Himself Cordileone to all people and given all nations access to membership in the people of God through the sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ on the Cross. Therefore, whereas before the Ephesians had been “far off” from the people of God, now they have been “brought near” because they have accepted this revelation and regulated their lives accordingly.

That was 15 years ago. I was a new bishop at the time, and felt very inspired by the bold and creative pastoral vision of my elders in the episcopacy, a vision whose impetus came from a meeting of the Catholic bishops of the dioceses along the border between Mexico and Texas. In the year 2000 they wrote a letter to the presidents of the Mexican and U.S. Conferences of Catholic Bishops expressing their concern for the loss of life and destruction of family life resulting from existing immigration policies and practices.

For myself, ministering in another border diocese at the time, San Diego, I saw up close the need for immigration reform, and the human tragedy that results from our failure to achieve it. In fact, one of the first pastoral invitations I received as an auxiliary bishop was to celebrate Mass in a cemetery in the Imperial Valley for those buried there. The graves were unmarked. They had to be. The cemetery was for those who had died trying to enter the United States through the desert. Their bodies were found, unidentified. There were over 200 such victims buried in that cemetery at the time.

I had hoped at that time that, by now, our nation would have arrived at a workable solution to the plight of those seeking asylum, refuge or immigration to our land in a way that achieves justice for all involved. Instead, sadly, the problem continues to grow, and seemingly to have exacerbated especially in this last year, with many of our friends, neighbors, relatives, coworkers and fellow parishioners

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living in fear of being separated from their families at any given moment, afraid that any little misstep or untimely encounter could result in deprivation of livelihood and loved ones. People should not have to live in the shadows and in fear, nor should they have to risk their lives to come to a place where they can find honest work to provide for their loved ones.

For almost 50 years now the Catholic Church in the United States has celebrated National Migration Week, which is being celebrated Jan. 7-14 this year.

This week is an opportunity the church gives us to reflect on the harsh circumstances faced by migrants of all types, such as immigrants, refugees, unaccompanied minors and other children, and victims and survivors of human trafficking. It is a reminder to all of us of the duty incumbent upon us as Christians to take responsibility for those suffering from our broken immigration system for, as St. John Paul II reminds us in his encyclical “The Gospel of Life,” yes, we are all our brother’s and sister’s keeper. I would therefore ask our Catholic people to do two things to honor National Migration week – that is, two things to do not for or during National Migration Week, but to do in order to apply the meaning of this week to their lives throughout the year.

First of all, for those not already well versed in the church’s teaching on migration, I would ask that they become so. While it is true that some policy decisions fall within the area of prudential judgments, there are also basic moral principles that must always be respected if justice for migrants, and the countries they are seeking to enter, is to be attained. It is important that our people understand what our church teaches on this critical and timely topic, which provides the rationale for the sorts of policies for which we advocate. A good starting point would be to obtain a copy of “Strangers No Longer” itself and give it a thorough reading. Other information is available at the immigration section on the USCCB website: https://justiceforimmigrants.org.

Secondly, this important body of church teaching must not remain in the head. Behind every immigrant story is a very real and moving, and sometimes tragic, human experience. Immigration is an issue which, perhaps more than any other, looks very different when one can put a human face to it. As Pope Francis has stated, “Each migrant has a name, a face and a story.” It is imperative that all people native to our country get to know immigrants and migrants, and listen to their stories. Every one of us in this country has an immigration story somewhere in our families’ lineage, and so in justice we must not see the newly arrived immigrant in our midst as “the other” or, even worse, a statistic, but rather pay attention see archbishop, page 6

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14th Walk for Life continues pro-life, pro-woman message Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

When 50,000 or so pro-life supporters fill San Francisco’s downtown Jan. 27, they will continue to publicly share a message of pro-life, pro-woman, pro-family values in a city where it is a matter of course that all elected officials support legal abortion. They will walk for life in a state where the governor and most of the state legislators actively support taxpayer-funded abortion, including for minors.

“Our job is clear: to calmly and peacefully spread our message of hope to the people of California and beyond, and always to reach out with hands offering love and hope to those women who have been so hurt by abortion. We are always there for them and with them,” said Walk for Life co-chair Eva Muntean, saying “the motto Walk from day one has been: “‘Abortion Hurts Women.’”

Muntean said the statement which sums up the second part of Walk for Life’s position was wellarticulated by Dr. Vansen Wong, once a doctor who performed abortions and who spoke at the 2012 Walk: “Abortion is barbaric, abortion is intolerable, and abortion has no place in any civilized society.”

The day’s events on Jan. 27 begin with 9:30 a.m.

Mass celebrated by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral, with all priests invited to concelebrate. The Walk rally with speakers is 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Civic Center Plaza, preceded by a Silent No More Rally at 11 a.m. The Walk itself begins at Civic Center and proceeds along Market Street to the Embarcadero.

There are a number of associated events throughout the day, most listed at walkforlifewc.com.

(Photo courtesy Walk for Life West Coast/Jose Aguirre)

The 14th annual Walk for Life will draw thousands to downtown San Francisco on Jan. 27 with a pro-life, pro-woman message.

Here, participants fill Market Street during last year’s Walk.

Tepeyac and other similar life-affirming medical practices. Divine Mercy Care’s additional missions involve educating medical students in, and broadening community awareness of, pro-life medicine.

Rev. Clenard Childress Jr., a New Jersey Baptist pastor, founder of Blackgenocide.org, with a long list of social activism and charitable works among his achievements, is a member of the National Pro-Life Religious Council of Washington, D.C. He

has spoken at almost every Walk since the Walk was founded in 2005.

Joseph Scheidler, founder of the ProLife Action League will receive the Walk’s St. Gianna Molla Award.

Scheidler founded the League in 1980 to serve the need he saw for pro-life Americans to take bold, direct action to save babies from abortion in their own communities. His 1985 pro-life activists’ manual is titled “CLOSED: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion.”

The speakers this year are:

Terry Beatley, who carries on the mantle of the deceased former abortionist turned prolife activist Dr. Bernard Nathanson. Beatley founded Hosea Initiative, a nonprofit organization which teaches the impact of worldview through the pro-life conversion story of Dr. Nathanson. Hosea Initiative teaches a broader understanding of the abortion industry’s exploitation of women and children.

Dr. John Bruchalski, MD, FACOG, who performed abortions during his residency but returned to the Catholic faith of his youth and in 1994 founded Tepeyac in Fairfax, Virginia, offering faith-based prolife ob/gyn medicine to women regardless of financial situation, belief or background. In 2000, he founded Divine Mercy Care, a non-profit organization, to assist

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In about a week, Lorraine Moriarty will leave her post as executive director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County, a job she’s held for well over 20 of her 29 years with SVdP. I have known Lorraine for about all of Lorraine that time and it was Moriarty a privilege to speak with her via email about what the experience has meant to her.

“My most cherished moments with SVdP stretched me to grow in wholeness and holiness, and believe you me, there have been too many to recount,” she told me.

Together with “wonderful and dedicated staff” Lorraine’s role has been “serving and supporting the Vincentians in personal growth in their Vincentian vocations, which includes spiritual growth, the building of fellowship within the society and serving as foot-washers, neighbors in need.”

Lorraine has not let herself get too tied to her desk, though, and remains a disciple in the field: “I have also been blessed to encounter and accompany many who have reached out for services as well. Hands have been held, tears of joy and sorrow have been wiped away, screams for help have been listened to, crosses too heavy for one to carry have been lightened, hugs have been exchanged, bread has been blessed, broken and shared and the Spirit within has given me the deepest sense of awe and wonder about it all!”

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Father Raimondi: Retired priest brings smiles to nursing residents FROM PAGE 1

counts the days until Father Raimondi’s visit to his bedside.

“I’ve been a Catholic all my life and receiving Communion is extremely important to me, but I can no longer attend Mass,” Dimarucut said. “I cannot tell you how much I look forward to seeing him and how much he comforts me.”

Having watched Father Raimondi in action over the past two years, St. Sebastian parishioner and volunteer Anne Marie Schlesselmann views him as a “saint.”

“He’s the most faithful, loyal, unselfish, holy priest I know,” she said. “He brings so many graces to the people here, he’s an inspiration.”

One of five Milestone Priest Honorees presented with a plaque by Archbishop Cordileone last September, Father Raimondi has touched countless lives during his service at parishes in the San Francisco archdiocese and churches in Brazil and Italy.

His religious roots reach to his pious parents who sent their only son to the seminary in Amelia, Italy, when he turned 11.

His eyes cloud and his mouth droops as he recalls the “very difficult” five years his family kept away so he could discern whether the priesthood was truly his calling.

Moments later the trademark sparkle and smile return with the recounting of his eight years as a seminarian in St. Francis’ hometown of Assisi where he earned a degree in philosophical theology.

“By the time I was 16, I knew I wanted to be a priest,” he said.

The bishop who ordained him in 1950 was his father’s brother. His

A Kindred resident, Ilisoni Nick Raikuna, often unable to leave his room, takes Communion from Father Raimondi.

While a stroke has left Arturo Dimarucut partially paralyzed, his spirit is lifted from this visit from Father Raimondi. maternal uncle served as pastor of the family’s hometown parish for 58 years.

Following ordination, Father Raimondi taught at an Italian seminary, public school and college before leaving for Rome to prepare for life on a mission field.

In Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he helped shepherd 60,000 parishioners in a diocese that saw 10 to 15 weddings and 30 to 50 baptisms each week plus two to three funerals a day.

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Residents of Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation Center pray the Mass with Father Raimondi each month. rounds, helped at various churches, visited the sick and cruised Europe as a ship chaplain.

“I enjoy myself every minute,” he said. “The secret is be positive, always spread the good news.”

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Clergy appointments announced Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone through the Office of the Vicar for Clergy announced clergy appointments Dec. 20.

el, effective Jan. 1, 2018; Father Michael Konopik, St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, effective Feb. 1, 2018.

Vicar General:

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Father Stephen H. Howell while continuing as pastor of St. Philip Parish, effective Dec. 1, 2017.

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St. Paul’s teaching in his Letter to the Ephesians is of one people, reconciled to each other in Christ, and through Christ reconciled to God the Father. It is a vision of disparate peoples who find a new peace and unity with each other through the revelation of God’s saving action. They are, then, no longer strangers to each other, nor to those who went before them in faith and now share the fullness of life in God’s Kingdom.

This means, therefore, that if we are to be people of God, we cannot allow differences to be causes of division and hostility. Rather, we are to welcome persons of all cultures and languages as brothers and sisters.

In closing, in addition to everything else, I would ask us all to remember, above all, to pray: to pray for those suffering hardship in seeking a new home whether as immigrants or refugees; to pray especially for victims of human trafficking; and to pray for a permanent solution leading to a just, equitable and comprehensive reform of our nation’s immigration system.

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Presentation Sister Rita Jovick, a member of the Stop Slavery Coalition – Northern California Sisters Against Human Trafficking, said labor traffickers mostly exploit young girls.

“The scenario is they go to these extremely poor countries and say give us your daughter and we’ll send money back to the country, which never happens,” she told Catholic San Francisco.

But Sister Rita said it is a fallacy that such exploitation originates only outside the U.S. “Unfortunately for some, they’re abused in their own home and they go to a bus and land here,” she said.

Hunger is the biggest reason that victims fall prey to exploitation, Sister Rita said, adding that victims may feel trapped in abusive situations because “they’re seen others be punished.”

“They also do not have marketable skills and are afraid of becoming homeless,” she said.

The International Labor Organization estimates human trafficking grosses $150 billion a year and is rapidly growing, with profits beginning to match those made in the illegal drug and arms trades.

Human beings are highly lucrative, because a drug sold on the street can only be used once, while a person can be used and sold over and over again.

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during the liturgy and remain active and standing throughout it.

In his homily, Father Kennedy said the Byzantine liturgy is very specific with very exalted language for God. “God is incomprehensible, almighty, omnipotent, eternal,” he said. “And he is all those things.”

But God created us for a “transforming union” with himself by becoming one with his own creation and human realities, he said.

“God enters into that reality as a baby, as a child.

And there is no room for him,” Father Kennedy said.

“That’s the first reality.”

Christ experiences all our vulnerabilities except for sin, he said. “That vulnerability is God’s Christmas gift to us so that the omnipotent one might also be the one who can be touched and seen. We are not alone. He journeys with us and is part of us, sharing with us all that it is to be human.”

After the Divine Liturgy, guests and visitors were invited to a sit-down Nativity feast. Christmas Day marks the end of the 40-day Nativity fast which started Nov. 15. It is not an obligatory fast, but for faithful in the Russian Byzantine church it is a time to purify both body and soul to partake of the great spiritual reality of Christ’s coming, much like the preparation for the celebration of his resurrection.

According to its website, the mission of Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church is to preach the Gospel, celebrate the mysteries of Christ and to serve those in need. Roman-rite Catholics are welcome to attend Byzantine Catholic liturgies.

(Photos by Debra Greenblat/Catholic San Francisco)

Top, Deacon Kyrill Pagacz incenses an icon of the Nativity at Our Lady of Fatima Byzantine Catholic Church in San Francisco Jan. 7. The Eastern-rite parish follows the Julian Calendar and celebrated Christmas 12 days after the Roman Catholic celebration on Dec. 25. Bottom left, Father Kevin Kennedy waits at the door to the church with gifts for Archbishop Cordileone, who attended the liturgy. Bottom right, parishioners and guests at the Divine Liturgy for the Nativity of Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior.

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Nguyen, 64, became the second priest born in Vietnam to become a bishop in the United States as he was ordained Dec. 19 to serve as an auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Orange.

The first Vietnamese native priest to become a bishop, Bishop Dominic M. Luong – an auxiliary bishop of the Orange Diocese Bishop Thanh from 2003 until his reThai Nguyen tirement in 2015 – died days before, on Dec. 6, at age 77.

As a young man, Bishop Nguyen had part of his religious journey interrupted when he was forced to flee his native country as a seminarian, spending 18 days at sea without food or water in a boat with others trying to flee the violence of the war. He and his family became part of a statistic of 3 million Vietnamese refugees who survived but were displaced from their native land, and were among the 2 million refugees from Vietnam resettled in the United States. In his adopted home, he continued his education, which included religious formation.

SINSINAWA, Wis. – A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 2 for Dominican Sister John Eudes Courtney, who spent 68 years in religious life. Sister Courtney died Dec. 22 at age 95 at the Sinsinawa Dominicans’ motherhouse in Sinsinawa. She Dominican served as inspiration Sister John for the character of Eudes Courtney Mary Clancy in the book “Life With Mother Superior” by Jane Trahey, which was turned into the movie “The Trouble with Angels,” starring Hayley Mills as Mary Clancy and Rosalind Russell as the mother superior.

Trahey was best friends with young Mary Courtney when both were students at Providence High School in Chicago. Also featured as a nun in the movie’s fictional convent was Marge Redmond, who parlayed the role into a two-season stint as Sister Jacqueline in the television series “The Flying Nun.”

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VATICAN CITY – A lifestyle that is environmentally ethical cannot be “schizophrenic” – for example, by showing more care for animals and forests, than for the plight of people, Pope Francis said.

A green lifestyle must be consistent and complete, driven by a love for God the creator and all of his creation, the pope said in a speech Jan. 5 to the Italian Association of Catholic Teachers, which held its national congress in Rome in early January.

The elementary school teachers must help children from a young age understand and practice an environmentally ethical lifestyle that must not be “schizophrenic,” that is, a kind of disconnected concern for, as an example, “taking care of animals in extinction, but ignoring problems facing the elderly. No. Or defending the Amazon rainforest, but neglecting the

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This approach demands teaching the importance of personal responsibility, not bombarding the children with slogans or catchy commands that someone else will have to carry out, he said. Teach children to have an enthusiastic appetite for “experiencing an environmental ethics that stem from the choices and behaviors in daily life,” he said.

Don’t confess other’s faults, own up to sins, pope says at audience

VATICAN CITY – Fear and the shame of admitting one’s own sins leads to pointing fingers and accusing others rather than recognizing one’s own faults, Pope Francis said.

“It’s difficult to admit being guilty, but it does so much good to confess with sincerity. But you must confess your own sins,” the pope said Jan. 3 at his first general audience of the new year as he continued his series of audience talks on the Mass, reflecting on the penitential rite.

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Postulator: Religious killed in Algeria will be recognized as martyrs

VATICAN CITY – A bishop, seven Trappist monks and 11 other religious men and women killed by extremists in Algeria in the 1990s will soon be recognized as martyrs, the postulator for their causes said.

The decree for their beatification should be published sometime in January, Trappist Father Thomas Georgeon said Jan. 1 in an interview with Mondo e Missione, a monthly magazine and website run by the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.

A 10-year-long armed conflict between government forces and extremist Islamic rebel groups left tens of thousands of people dead, making the deaths of the 19 religious “a martyrdom in the midst of a sea of violence that devastated Algeria,” he said. “To pay homage to these 19 Christian martyrs means also paying homage to the memory of all those who gave their life in Algeria those dark years” as they were killed “for their country and for their faith,” the priest said.

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Second Sunday of Ordinary Time 1 SAMUEL 3:3B-10, 19 Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was. The Lord called to Samuel, who answered, “Here I am.” Samuel ran to Eli and said, “Here I am. You called me.”

“I did not call you, “ Eli said. “Go back to sleep.”

So he went back to sleep. Again the Lord called Samuel, who rose and went to Eli. “Here I am,” he said. “You called me.” But Eli answered, “I did not call you, my son. Go back to sleep.” At that time Samuel was not familiar with the Lord, because the Lord had not revealed anything to him as yet. The Lord called Samuel again, for the third time.

Getting up and going to Eli, he said, “Here I am.

You called me.” Then Eli understood that the Lord was calling the youth. So he said to Samuel, “Go to sleep, and if you are called, reply, Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” When Samuel went to sleep in his place, the Lord came and revealed his presence, calling out as before, “Samuel, Samuel!”

Samuel answered, “Speak, for your servant is listening.” Samuel grew up, and the Lord was with him, not permitting any word of his to be without effect.

PSALM 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

I have waited, waited for the Lord, and he stooped toward me and heard my cry. And he put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

Sacrifice or offering you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me. Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not; then said I, “Behold I come.”

Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.

“In the written scroll it is prescribed for me, to do your will, O my God, is my delight, and your law is within my heart!”

Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

I announced your justice in the vast assembly; I did not restrain my lips, as you, O Lord, know.

Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

1 CORINTHIANS 6:13C-15A, 17-20 Brothers and sisters: The body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body; God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one Spirit with him. Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own

body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

JOHN 1:35-42 John was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” — which translated means Teacher —, “where are you staying?” He said to them, “Come, and you will see.”

So they went and saw where Jesus was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four in the afternoon. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus. He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” — which is translated Christ. Then he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Cephas” — which is translated Peter.

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e can romanticize the response of Samuel.

He hears a call in the night and responds, “Here I am.” The standard spiritual reflection is, “How can I respond to the call of God? How can I be obedient like Samuel?”

If we review the first part of the Samuel story, two chapters earlier, the picture is less romantic. Hannah, Samuel’s mother, was once humiliated by Eli the priest for appearing like a drunken woman in the Temple as she prayed for a child. She did get pregnant. After her son was weaned, she presented him to Eli and dedicated him to God. The sons of Eli turn out to be predators, sexually assaulting women sister Eloise who come to the Temple. It’s Rosenblatt, RSM a public scandal. Poor little Samuel, with all this swirling around him.

He’s dedicated to God, without knowing what that means. I imagine him living a dark night experience. He’s got no mom around. Eli is not his dad, but his feeble, aging mentor who is shamed by his own sons’ behavior. Samuel is living in an odd place, not a home or family setting. His mom and dad come to offer sacrifices at the Temple

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regularly, and see their little boy. But wouldn’t he wonder why his mom doesn’t want to stay with him? Why can’t he go home with his dad?

It’s in the midst of these feelings that the Lord calls out to Samuel, who is “not familiar with the Lord, because the Lord had not revealed anything to him as yet.” What spiritual confusion this child suffers! He must feel that he doesn’t belong to anyone and no one loves him. He is powerless, living in the shadow of shame, ignorant, and cast off, plunged into depression.

This is the context in which Samuel is called to his vocation, to walk closely with God, to redeem corruption in the Temple, to be the servant of God who anoints David as king. But what a torturous beginning of a difficult life. The lesson of Samuel can be read as a magical moment of being called by God. He gives the ideal answer, “Speak, for your servant is listening.” Or, Samuel’s experience of his vocation can be read within the larger narrative in Scripture. His nuclear family relationships are disconnected. His future tasks cannot be foreseen. His path is unpredictable. That prayer as a child must have been his lifelong prayer in the middle of many dark nights: “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

John’s Gospel features several men responding to Jesus: John the Baptist points out the “Lamb of God” to Andrew and a friend, and Andrew goes to tell his brother Simon Peter. Again, we can read this as a mystical, serene scene in which the men spontaneously take the Baptist’s advice

to ask the Rabbi where he is staying. They follow after Jesus when he says, “Come and you will see.”

What lies behind this scene is likely a long process of men “changing careers.” “We have found the Messiah” is a recognition that most likely took a long time. We know Peter had a wife, because he had a mother-in-law, whom he restores to health in the synoptic Gospels. Did Andrew and the other disciples have wives and families?

What was the reaction of mothers, wives, sisters and daughters to the career change of their husbands, fathers, brothers, sons? They could not escape the risk and changes of the men in their lives. Where did financial support come from?

An annunciation, an invitation from God, can happen in the middle of the night or at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Our own response to God implicates our family members and friends. We are not lonely men or women of faith. It can shake our relationships and redesign our prior careers. The importance of my work may not be clear either to me or to others right now. But there is, in Scripture, always a future that will be opened by God as we ask, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

And there is a future in the company of Jesus as we wordlessly follow his invitation, “Come and you will see.”

Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt is a Ph.D. theologian and family law attorney in private practice. She lives in San Jose.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, January 15: Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Sm 15:16-23. Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23. Hb 4:12. Mk 2:18-22.

Tuesday, January 16: Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Sm 16:1-13. Ps 89:20, 2122, 27-28. See Eph 1:17-18. Mk 2:23-28.

Wednesday, January 17: Memorial of St. Anthony, abbot. 1 Sm 17:32-33, 37, 40-51. Ps 144:1b, 2, 9-10. See Mt 4:23. Mk 3:1-6 Thursday, January 18: Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Sm 18:6-9; 19:1-7. ps 56:23, 9-10a, 10b-11, 12-13. See 2 Tm 1:10. Mk 3:7-12.

Friday, January 19: Friday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Sm 24:3-21. PS 57:2, 3-4, 6 and 11.

2 Cor 5:19. Mk 3:13-19.

Saturday, January 20: Saturday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Fabian, pope and martyr; St. Sebastian, martyr. 2 Sm 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27. PS 80:2-3, 5-7. SEE ACTS 16:14B. Mk 3:20-21.

Sunday, January 21: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jon 3:1-5, 10. Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9. 1 Cor 7:29-31. Mk 1:15.

Monday, January 22: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. 2 Sm 5:1-7, 10. PS 89:20, 21-22, 25-26. SEE 2 TM 1:10. Mk 3:22-30.

Tuesday, January 23: Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Vincent of Saragossa, deacon & martyr; St. Marianne Cope.

2 Sm 6:12b-15, 17-19. PS 24:7, 8, 9, 10. SEE MT 11:25. Mk 3:31-35.

Wednesday, January 24: Memorial of St. Francis de Sales, bishop and doctor. Optional memorial of Our Lady of Peace. 2 Sm 7:4-17. PS 89:4-5, 27-28, 29-30. Mk 4:1-20.

Thursday, January 25: Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle. Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22. PS 117:1bc, 2. See Jn 15:16. Mk 16:1518.

Friday, January 26: Memorial of Sts. Timothy and Titus, bishops. 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5. PS 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10. SEE MT 11:25. mk 4:2634.

Saturday, January 27: Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Angela Merici, virgin. 2 Sm 12:1-7a, 10-17. PS 51:12-13, 14-15, 16-17. JN 3:16. Mk 4:35-41.

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Letters Pot is fair crop

With regard to San Mateo approving cannabis farming, concern was expressed regarding becoming the “Napa Valley of pot.” I am not sure what the problem is with being regarded as the home of product that is known worldwide for its superior qualities.

With the well documented damage alcohol continues to bring on our communities, I assume there would be the same concern if the Christian Brothers decided to start making wine and brandy again and planted large swaths of grapes or perhaps the Trappists moved and started making beer.

To those who are concerned about the “message we are sending to our youth and children”; the message we are sending is that like alcohol, the industry will be regulated by a government agency and the product is to be used by adults.

To those immigrants that thought they were “getting away from the drug cartels.” Guess what? Welcome to America. You did get away from the cartels. This industry will not be run by lawless thugs and sociopaths.

Mike Gunn San Francisco

Temptation and the Lord’s Prayer

Re “God does not lead us into temptation, Satan does, pope says,” Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service, Dec. 14, 2017: The Holy Father’s comments in response to a question about a line in the Lord’s Prayer have gotten much attention and perhaps left some confusion. He rightly rejects a reading that God needs to be implored not to cause us to sin or set traps for us. However, avoiding such a bizarre interpretation has not generally been a problem for Catholics.

Linguistically, “lead us not into temptation” is actually an excellent translation of the official Latin biblical text, which properly translates the underlying original Greek, which we must assume captures the meaning of Jesus’ presumably Aramaic words.

Being in temptation is not a falling; it’s a testing. Of course, we all experience (are led into) temptations. This is not the same as and must not be confused with yielding to them, i.e., falling into sin. God allows us all to be tested, some more than others. Abraham and Job were tested in the Old Testament. After his baptism, God led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted. The devil did the tempting, but the leading is clearly attributed to the Holy Spirit.

If we acknowledge divine providence playing a role in the course of our lives, the petition is seen as asking God not to subject us to excessive testing, but rather to help us steer clear of temptations, i.e. avoid occasions of sin. We pray that the temptations he does allow/lead us to encounter in life are not beyond our capacity, with the help of his grace, to resist.

Christopher Nantista Redwood City

A simple change

With reference to Pope Francis’ idea for more focusing the Lord’s Prayer, my preference would be: “… and lead us away from temptation and deliver us from evil,” a simple change.

Patricia Hageman South San Francisco

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My top 10 books for 2017

aste is subjective. Keep that in mind as I share with you the ten books that most touched me this past year. That isn’t necessarily a recommendation that you read them. They may leave you cold, or angry at me that I praised them.

Be your own critic here and one who isn’t afraid to be critical of my FATHER ron taste. Nobody rolheiser buys everything that’s advertised in a store.

So, what ten books most touched me this year?

First, I single out some wonderful religious biographies: • Kate Hennessey’s “Dorothy Day, The World Will be Saved by Beauty.”

To my mind, this book is a treasure.

As Dorothy Day’s granddaughter, Kate Hennessey had a privileged, intimate relationship with Dorothy, but that relationship also had its headaches and heartaches. Dorothy was a complex person who when called a saint, reacted by saying: “I don’t want to be dismissed that lightly!” This book captures both the saint and the woman resistant to that label.

• Jim Forest, “At Play in the Lion’s Den – A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan.” A great insight as to who Daniel Berrigan was as a man, as Jesuit, as a friend, and as a prophet.

There will be numerous biographies still written on Berrigan, but none, I venture to say, will surpass this one.

Forest knows his subject well.

• Suzanne M. Wolfe, “The Confessions of X, A Novel.” This is fictional biography, a story of St. Augustine’s mistress, Augustine’s love for her, their child, and St. Monica’s role in breaking up that relationship. Not

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historical, but researched well-enough to make it credible.

Next, some religious autobiographies: • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, “Coach Wooden and Me, Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court.” You may wonder why I list this book as religious autobiography, but it only needs to be read to answer that question.

This isn’t a sports book, but a book that reflects deeply on life, meaning, friendship, race and religion. Raised a Roman Catholic, Kareem AbdulJabbar shares very candidly on what prompted his religious move to Islam.

There are lessons to be learned here.

This is a wonderfully warm story amidst all the pain it shares.

• Macy Halford, “My Utmost, A Devotional Memoir.” As an Evangelical Christian, Halford grew up with a deep faith, but one that wasn’t strongly challenged in her youth. As a young woman she moved to New York and then later to Paris to become a writer. Surrounded now mostly by friends and colleagues who consider faith a naiveté, she struggled to root her childhood faith more deeply so as to withstand the challenge of the new world she lives in. Her struggle and her eventual solid landing within the faith of her childhood can be a help to all us, regardless of denomination, as we struggle to keep our faith in an overly-adult world.

• Bryan Stevenson, “Just Mercy, A Story of Justice and Redemption.”

Bryan Stevenson is a Harvard-educated lawyer who has chosen to put his talents to work in helping the poor, in this case, prisoners on death row who don’t have any means of helping themselves. The issues of racism, poverty, inequality, and how we blind ourselves to them, are front and center in this powerful book.

• Nina Riggs, “The Bright Hour – A Memoir of Living and Dying.” Nina Riggs died in February and this book shares her blogs as she, a young mother with two preteen children, journeys

through terminal cancer, alongside her best friend, also a young mother, who is dying of cancer as well. They died a week apart. While Riggs doesn’t write out of an explicit faith, she faces both life and death with a courage, buoyancy, and wit that will make a saint envious. A delightful, deep book: you’ll laugh, you’ll cry – and you’ll learn how death can be faced.

A fine book in the area of existentialism: • “Sarah Blackwell, At the Existentialist Café, Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails.” This is one of the best books written on Existentialism that’s accessible to a non-professional reader. It will introduce you to the giants of Existential philosophy: Sartre, Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Camus, Husserl, and Jaspers. Bakewell believes you will understand a thinker’s philosophy much more accurately if you also have a picture of his or her life: “Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.” Those without a background in philosophy will get lost occasionally but if you continue reading you will soon find yourselves again fascinated by the lives of these famous, colorful thinkers.

Finally, two books in spirituality, where the author’s pedigree is sufficient recommendation: • Tomas Halik, “I Want You to Be – On The God of Love.” Halik, a Czechoslovakian priest, is a renowned spiritual writer, winner of the Templeton Prize. This is a book of rare insight and depth.

• Henri Nouwen, “Beyond the Mirror, Reflections on Death and Life.” Nouwen needs no introduction, though this is a unique book within his corpus, chronicling his near-death experience after a serious accident.

Taste may be subjective, but these are good books!

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

How the ‘Star Wars’ franchise lost its way

fell sound asleep for about 10 minutes during the most recent installment in the “Star Wars” franchise, “The Last Jedi.” This was not only because the narrative had wandered down a very tedious alleyway, but because “Star Wars” in general has lost its way.

What began as a thrilling BISHOP Robert exploration of Barron the philosophia perennis has devolved into a vehicle for the latest trendy ideology— and that is really a shame.

Like so many others in my generation (I was seventeen when the first film in the series came out), I was captivated by George Lucas’ vision. We all loved the explosions, the spaceships, and the special effects (corny now, but groundbreaking at the time), but we also sensed that there was something else going on in these films, something that excited the soul as much as it dazzled the eyes.

Lucas was a devotee of Joseph Campbell, a scholar of comparative

religion and mythology at Sarah Lawrence College, who had spent his career exploring what he called “the monomyth.” This is the great story which, despite all sorts of different accents and emphases from culture to culture, remains fundamentally the same and which conveys some pretty basic truths about nature, the psyche, human development, and God. It customarily unfolds as a “hero’s quest.”

A young man (typically) is summoned out of the comfort of his domestic life and compelled to go on a dangerous adventure, either to secure a prize or protect the innocent, or subdue the forces of nature. In the process, he comes to realize and conquer his weakness, to face down enemies, and finally to commune with the deep spiritual powers that are at play in the cosmos. Usually, as a preparation for his mission, he is trained by a spiritual master who will put him quite vigorously through his paces. Campbell was particularly intrigued by the manner in which this story is concretely acted out in the initiation rituals among primal peoples. Lucas’ mentor was Campbell, and Campbell’s teacher was the great Swiss psychologist, C.G. Jung, who had spent his career exploring the archetypes of the collective unconscious that play themselves out in our dreams and our myths.

Now one would have to be blind not to see these motifs in the original “Star Wars”films. Luke Skywalker is compelled to leave his mundane home life (remember Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru?), and under the tutelage of Obi-Wan and Yoda, he overcomes his fears, discovers his inner strength, faces down the darkness, and learns to act in communion with the Force.

Attentive “Star Wars” fans will notice, by the way, that Yoda pronounces a number of the well-known sayings of C.G. Jung. I referenced the philosophia perennis (the perennial philosophy) above. This is a standard set of philosophical and psychological insights shared by most of the great spiritual traditions of the world, and it provided the inspiration for Jung, Campbell, Lucas and hence the “Star Wars” films.

Certain elements of all of this remain, of course, in the most recent episodes, but the mythic and archetypal dimensions are all but overwhelmed by an aggressively feminist ideology. The overriding preoccupation of the makers of the most recent Star Wars seems to be, not the hero’s spiritual journey, but the elevation of the all-conquering female.

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On cracked knuckles and self-care: A resolution for 2018

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he themes emerge predictably. When it comes to New Year’s resolutions, we gravitate toward the biggies: Get healthy, get organized, get a life.

We vow to travel more, read more, save more and volunteer more. We conjure visions of the expansive, to live life to the fullest.

Scan Twitter and you’ll find a multitude of plans.

“In 2018, I will skydive. No exceptions.”

“Put myself out there. Don’t be afraid of making a mistake.”

“No more plastic bags!!”

“I’d like my life to be as on point as my eyebrows in 2018.”

Christina “I resolve to use my cookCapecchi books more often!”

“2018 is the year we say goodbye to my auto loan.”

“I’m just going to leave the past in the past.”

My inspiration sprang from three cracked knuckles on my right hand – the casualty of a biting winter and dry skin. At first I ignored them. But I nicked them enough that I finally took the time to bandage them. The simple relief that provided gave me pause.

This year I’m resolving to practice the art of selfcare – and to do so within a faith-based framework, as a spiritual exercise. I want to take better care of myself so I can grow more fully into the person God designed me to be.

This year I’m resolving to practice the art of self-care – and to do so within a faithbased framework, as a spiritual exercise.

I want to take better care of myself so I can grow more fully into the person God designed me to be.

St. Francis de Sales, the great 16th-century bishop and doctor of the church, is guiding my way. He was a prolific writer whose achievement was paved by patience and perspective.

“Be gentle with yourself,” he wrote. “It is unjust to demand something of yourself that is not in you.”

It might sound like the mantra for an anti-resolution, a permission slip to try less, but it contains the seeds for a more loving, creative way, an abundance made possible when you put on your own oxygen mask first.

I’m also entering into conversation with Catholics I admire to deepen my thinking and help my goal stick.

I like to hear the details of what self-care looks like in action.

My pastor connects with friends or picks up a good novel. My sister-in-law pours a tall glass of Fairlife chocolate milk.

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Jedi” is either bumbling, incompetent, arrogant, or morally compromised; and every female character is wise, good, prudent, and courageous. Even Luke has become embittered and afraid, bearing the stigma of a profound moral failure. The female figures in “The Last Jedi” typically correct, demote, control and roll their eyes at the males, who stumble about when not provided with feminine instruction. I laughed out loud when Rey, the young woman who has come to Luke for instruction in the ways of the Jedi, shows herself already in full possession of spiritual power.

No Yoda or Obi-Wan required, thank you very much.

The movie ends (spoiler alert) with all of the men off the stage and Leia taking the hand of Rey and saying, “We have all we need.”

Contrast this overbearing and ham-handed treatment of men and women with the far subtler handling of the same motif in the earlier Star Wars films.

In accord with Jungian instincts, the twins Luke and Leia – both smart, strong, and spiritually alert – rep-

For my mom, a full-time granny nanny, self-care happens on Wednesday evenings when she joins fellow 60-somethings at a nearby grade school for tapdance class. They dance to Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop The Feeling” – “I got that sunshine in my pocket, got that good soul in my feet” – and for an hour, their movement becomes music, heel to toe, toe to heel.

Wednesdays are when my friend Roxane doubles down on self-care: Hitting the treadmill at the YMCA by day and heading to an hour of Adoration by night.

My aunt Jan also combines prayer and exercise, often walking as she prays the rosary. Reconciliation is another gift she embraces.

“I like to have something on the horizon to look forward to,” she added. Her dream of walking the Camino del Santiago, for instance, requires that she stay fit, ready for the opportunity. “And I like to practice the art of having fun!”

As we settle into 2018, I’m paying attention to the little forms of self-care that renew me: a citrus-scented face scrub that makes me feel squeaky clean, writing thank-you notes with a gel pen on cardstock paper, a pretty stamp, a morning prayer, a brisk walk, a hot bath.

I know it is pleasing to God when we care for ourselves, recognizing his great love for each of us and acting on it. It may not be as dramatic as skydiving, but it can be just as profound.

Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.

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Leia didn’t have to dominate Han in order to find her identity; quite the contrary, she became more fully herself as he pushed back against her. Whereas a sort of zero-sum game obtains in the present ideology – the male has to be put down in order for the female to rise – nothing of the kind existed in the wonderfully Tracy and Hepburn rapport between Leia and Han. Now don’t get me wrong: I fully understand why, in our cultural context today, women are feeling the need to assert themselves and to put powerful men in their place. I even see why a certain exaggeration is inevitable. It’s just disappointing that this concern has hijacked a film series that used to trade in more abiding truths.

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The bitter pill of ‘false liberation’

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major study published on Dec. 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that hormonal contraception increases the risk of breast cancer for women. The research used all of Denmark as its sample, following nearly 1.8 million Danish women of childbearing age for over a decade. The study, as described by The New York Times, “upends widely held assumptions about modern contraceptives for younger father tadeusz generations pacholczyk of women,” especially the view that “newer hormonal contraceptives are much safer than those taken by their mothers or grandmothers.” It also establishes that the risk to women increases with longer periods of use.

Major media outlets have done their best to minimize the implications of the study and “soften the blow” for the millions who, for decades, have faithfully embraced a “contraceptive mentality.”

This mentality has promoted contraception, especially the pill, as a path for

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women to move toward equality with men by enabling them to reap the “benefits” of the sexual revolution.

But attorney Mary Rice Hasson, director of the Catholic Women’s Forum at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., notes that the reality for women is very different, and “our lived experience has shown that this is a false promise.” Countless women, she emphasizes, have ended up being vulnerable to, and harmed by, the sexual revolution and its promotion of contraception as “the solution.”

They have been given a “bitter pill” in the form of the pill.

In a remarkably prescient passage dating back to July, 1968, Pope Paul VI already foresaw this in his encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” the momentous and beautiful document explaining not only the moral problems with contraception, but also its devastating effects on men, families and women in particular.

Contraception, he writes, opens a wide and easy road “toward conjugal infidelity and the general lowering of morality. Not much experience is needed in order to know human weakness, and to understand that men – especially the young, who are so vulnerable on this point – have need of encouragement to be faithful to the moral law, so that they must not be offered some easy means of eluding its observance. It is also to be feared that the man, growing used to the employment of anti-conceptive practices, may finally lose respect for

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The church’s ageless but countercultural teaching on contraception respects and uplifts women. It supports them in an authentic feminism that affirms their uniquely important maternal role in family and society, and esteems their fruitfulness in marriage not as a defect, but as a real gift.

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Paul VI offers a profound, but unpopular, observation — that contraception is harmful to women, and is, in fact, antiwoman. The widespread adoption of the “contraceptive mentality” has led inexorably to a new perspective on women, namely, that they should be more like men, and therefore they should, like men, become impregnable, through the ongoing practice of contraception. Very young women, sometimes just entering puberty, are now placed onto regimens of hormonal contraception that can continue for years or even decades. From this perspective, their ability to conceive life becomes tantamount to a malady needing to be remedied, a “defect” that renders them “unequal” to men. Strikingly, though, ever greater numbers of women are discovering an authentic and liberating form of feminism as they come to the awareness that, in the words of Hasson, “we don’t have a design flaw.

Being a woman is good … and it’s a wonderful thing.”

Wonderful, too, is that confident feminism and liberating sense of self-control that enables a woman to choose abstinence before marriage, rather than contraception, and, once married, to choose periodic abstinence in agreement with her husband if their circumstances indicate they ought to avoid a pregnancy.

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ourselves, “we need to get up and go, not sit around but take risks, not stand still, but set out.”

“Jesus makes demands: he tells those who seek him to leave behind the armchair of worldly comforts and the reassuring warmth of hearth and home.”

Francis noted that “setting out” isn’t always easy, as can be seen by various characters in the Gospel, including Herod, who organized meetings and sent people to gather information about the royal birth that had been prophesied, but himself “does not budge; he stays locked up in his palace.”

Even the priests and scribes, who had the ancient texts and knew the prophesy, were able to tell Herod exactly where to go, yet made no move themselves.

Their temptation, Francis said, is the same as those who have grown accustomed to being believers: “They can talk at length about the faith they know so well, but will not take a personal risk for the Lord.”

“The Magi, on the other hand, talk little and journey much,” he said. “Ignorant of the truths of faith, they are filled with longing and set out. So the Gospel tells us: they ‘came to worship him,’ ‘they set out; they went in, and fell down and worshiped him; they went back.’ They kept moving.”

Pope Francis spoke during Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany, which he celebrated inside St. Peter’s Basilica. In his homily, the pope focused on three key actions carried out by the Magi in the day’s Gospel: they first saw the star, they set out to follow it, and they then bring gifts to the infant Jesus.

Questioning whether anyone else saw the star that night, Francis observed that “few people raised their eyes to heaven.”

“We often make do with looking at the ground: it’s enough to have our health, a little money and a bit of entertainment,” he said, and wondered aloud if people still dream or long for God and the newness that he brings.

He also asked why, if the star was so bright, no one else had followed it. “Perhaps because the star was not eye-catching, did not shine any brighter than other stars,” he said, noting that Jesus’ star “does not dazzle or overwhelm, but gently invites.”

Asking those present which star they have chosen to follow, Francis noted that some of the stars we choose are bright, but don’t point the way.

“So it is with success, money, career, honors and pleasures when these become our life,” he said, calling them meteors that “blaze momentarily,” but quickly burn out and fade away.

“The Lord’s star, however, may not always overwhelm by its brightness, but it is always there: it takes you by the hand in life and accompanies you.”

It does not promise material reward, but ensures peace and grants, as it did to the Magi, ‘exceedingly great joy.’”

After seeing the star, the Magi then set out and follow it to Bethlehem, he said, explaining that to do so meant taking a risk, which we are all required to do if we want to find Jesus.

If you’re searching for a New Year’s resolution, why not avail yourself of the revelations that shape our destiny and purpose in life? All our spiritual knowledge is grounded in the wisdom of Jesus Christ. He said: “In this world you will have many troubles, but take heart, and be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world,” (John 16:33).

St. Paul wrote: “All of you, who are believers, have the same divine calling: To turn your minds to Jesus, the high priest, and be faithful, as he was faithful, to the one who appointed him; namely, his heavenly Father” (Hebrews 3:1).

Here is a plan worth adopting. Jesus urged you to brush aside your fears by focusing on him, and his power to carry you through the storms of life. His teachings, handed down to us from the Apostles, contain a body of knowledge, which we need today.

By reciting the Apostles Creed once a day, you will strengthen your faith immensely.

I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his

only begotten Son, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.

He descended to the dead, and on the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, is seated at the right hand of the Father, and will come again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

Your decision, to recite this creed once a day, will help you to trust the Lord in all circumstance. Your gradual transformation in Christ will bring blessings to those whom you love, and earn you a higher place in heaven. Why not trust the Lord? He will do for you what you are not yet able to do for yourself: Be not afraid.

May the Lord be your strength and your joy.

Father John Catoir is a canon lawyer and a priest of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey.

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Sister Noella Cavallero, 98, died Dec. 26, at Caritas Center in Dubuque, Iowa.

Born in San Francisco, Sister Noella entered the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary congregation Sept. 8, Heritage Site” title. Reading and St. hearing 1936, from Brigidabout Parish.the She auseway does not begin professed to offer any firstrealistic vows onglimpse March nto this natural phenomenon. seeing is on believ19, 1939,Only and final vows Aug. ng! Therefore, we shall “see”.

Sister Noella 15, 1944.From there, we travel outheast to DerryBVM (or Londonderry), a city steeped Cavallero, Sister Noella taught at San in istory. Between 1613 andFrancisco’s 1618, 400 workers built what at St. Thomas More would become theand lastSt. ofVincent Ireland’sdewalled cities. where We will School Paul School she walk the walls we proceed impressive later before volunteered for almostto 15the years. t. Columb’sACathedral that dates back between funeral Mass was celebrated Dec. 28 in1628 the

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Survivors include brother-in-law, Joseph Saccone of San Rafael.

Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of Charity, BVM Support Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52003.

Oakwood chapel, followed by burial in the Oakwood Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, Missouri 63108.

Msgr. Bruno Peschiera

Msgr. Bruno Peschiera, who had served the way city. is a vibrant Aran population sweaters, Irish crystal and of the SisterGalway Anita Lapeyre, RSCJ cultural experience packed Italian Catholic withofstreet artists,Heart magicians musicians, restaurants, Archdiocese celtic gifts.

From there, of San Francisco and we proc Religious the Sacred Sister and Anita shops, and more.

Next, weDec. make most populated city following dioceses for several (Tita) Lapeyre died 4 atour herway to the incred- surrounding ible Cliffs of Moher, one of Ireland’s most stunning lo- decades, died CityDec. is 29. a 6th-century monast He was congregation’s Oakwood in Athercations where you in awe natural beauty of 87 years oldsometime between and a priest of the 915-922 w ton. She wasstand 79 years old. of Shethe progiant ramparts against founded byItaly, the Vikings, has a of Lucca, for 63 fessed first vows the as a aggressive religious in might of the At- Archdiocese lantic Ocean.

In final somevows places the cliffs seaport. Today, the city boasts 1959 and in 1964.

Sisterrise over 700 feet years. and stretch for almost 5 miles.

We in visit O’Briens Tower “(Msgr. Peschiera) house, thecreated Englishan Market, and Anita held a graduate degree (weathereducation permitting), vantage CollegeCenter Cork. in We check in at o Paciwithaaviewing counseling focuspoint located on Italian American the highest This evening,New we will attend and overnight.

[B,D] fica for first-generation Italians fromcliff.

Loyola University, Msgr.Bunratty Bruno Castle’sOrleans. festive Medieval Banquet, a traditional-Irish from Lucca, and with permission Peschiera dinner experience with and song. We from Archbishop R.) Quinn, Sister Anita heldstory-telling posts in pastoSister Anita Day 10:(John Wednesday 10/17, CO at care our hotel in Limerick for an overnight.

[B,D] following the norms of canon law and regulaand teaching throughout Lapeyre, check RSCJ inral DUBLIN tions from the Sacred Congregation on Liturgy the nation and in 1986 became We bid farewell to Cork today a in Rome, he established anof Oratory to provide coordinator for the United States Catholic ConCashel, an impressive m spiritual help to the Italian people with whom he ference commission on certification and accredi“The Acropolis of Ancient Irel worked,” the archdiocese said in aof statement.

The tation in clinical pastoral education preparing is one the most spectacu late priest maintained a home in the boundaries the standards for certification of chaplains and Ireland.

Dating from the 4th of Good Shepherd Parish, used Pacifica.

John Mighty sto accreditation of Catholic training programs. as aPope fortress.

Paul II named him monsignor Arch-a roofles In 1987, Sister Anita was assigned to her pletethrough roundthe tower, diocese of Lucca in 2004. Romanesque chapel, and nu congregation’s St. Madeleine Sophie Center A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan.crosses.

6 at Church for adults with developmental disabilities in and high From ther of the Good Shepherd with interment in Holy Southern California where she began first CPE Cliffs of Moher Bunratty the midland counties to Dub Cross Cemetery, Colma. program outside a hospital setting. She retired Dublin has all the attractions Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ in 2009 becoming the director of pastoral care at bined with the beauty and h Day Monday 10/15, LIMERICK / DINGLERetirement / GALLARUS Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Oakwood in8: 2010. gant shops, hotels, galleries, c ORATORY / LIMERICK Francisco 94109.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Dec. 16 in the

ning variety of restaurants ha Mass this morning will be at St. John’s Cathedral (subevery street in the capital. Th ject to confirmation). The cathedral is the tallest church tour by bus, where we see th in Ireland. Then, be prepared today to see some of the Street, Georgian Squares, Ph most spectacular scenery in Ireland. While the metCathedral. the seminary general support toWe the will stop a Seminary completes land sale aphorical battle still rages over which is preferred, theand provide rick’s dral (subject to confirmation upkeep of the seminary, the statement said. to Fire Protection District Ring of Kerry or the Dingle Peninsula, the Dingle PenatUniversity our hotelisinfortuDublin for dinn Patrick’s Seminary & St. Patrick’s & University an- to see the“St. insula isSeminary shorter and allows visitors unspoiled nate to be able to assist our neighboring fire first nounced Dec. 19 completion of the $6.6 million beauty along winding Slea Head Drive. We proceed 11:sale Thursday responders at Station One Day with the of this 10/18, D sale of south a 1-acre parcel to the Park toland Dingle, a city onMenlo the peninsula that thrusts out land,”westerly said Jesuit Father George E. Schultze, / DUBLIN Fire Protection The sale fire most GLENDALOUGH into the District.

Atlantic Ocean toallows claim the Ireland’s president-rector protection district to expand training Glenda point.

We pass through Sleafacilities Head on the southwest- of the seminary.

Glendalough Menlostone Park Fire Protection District Chief and its ern hub extremity fire station, saidSee in a the ancient doll-loc ofthe theseminary peninsula.

Harold Schapelhouman said: “We are extremely statement.

The land of 83 acres donated tery es beehive hutsisofpart pre-historic settlers and extensive pangrateful to the to the archdiocese in 1891 to glimpses establish the semi- majestic the 6th oramas giving mere of God’s hand in seminary for the strategic purof this property adjacent to our Fire Station today. nary and remained of undeveloped as open thehas landscapes the Emerald Isle. Next,chase we proceed which directly provides essential fire and space since then. Oratory, an ancient dry stoneOne of royal to Gallarus construction critical services to areas in the town Fundswhose from the sale will be added to St. Patof privi longevity testifies to the skill of its builders. emergency Held of(no Atherton, rick’s endowment fund for use seen fit to of stones together completely byasthe weight mortar)cities of East Palo Alto, Menlo Park live as a andover unincorporated areas of San Mateo County.” daloug supportthe religious andhas educational activities at rain for building withstood wind and 1300 in conjunction with Santours tery and years. It is typical of the type of church in which St. Patcenter o rick himself worshipped. Today’s traveling concludes as care of Captivate a rich living we return to Limerick for dinner and overnight. [B,D] history and culture, savor and illu GALAPAGOS traditional exotic cuisine Amid t DayECUADOR, 9: Tuesday 10/16, LIMERICK / GOUGANE BARRA A favorite haven of nastic PARK / BLARNEY CASTLE / CORK photographers and cinema the pow ISLANDS, MACHU PICHU - where towGougane Barra Park offers a scenic backdrop settings like Gladiators, tranqui in conjunction with Santours ering hills collide with the tranquil beauty of Gougane Casablanca to Game of January 24 February 9, 2018 and celebrate Mass at St. Kev Thrones ... passing thru Barra Lake on the shores of the River Lee. St. Finbarr’s ject to confirmation).

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OUR LADY OF ANGELS PARISH, BURLINGAME: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone visited Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame Dec. 10, 11 presiding at Masses Sunday and with the parish school on Monday.

Sunday evening the archbishop dined with Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney, pastor, pictured here with the archbishop at the Dec. 10 Mass, priests of the parish and parish staff.

In his Sunday homily, Archbishop Cordileone remembered Capuchin Father Flavian Welstead who had served in the Burlingame community for more than 30 years before his death Dec. 4. “Father Flavian was beloved in the parish, I know,” the archbishop said. “We pray for him as he goes to his eternal reward for his good and faithful service.” Archbishop Cordileone greeted and met parishioners as they came to attend the Sunday liturgy and later at a reception following Mass. Pictured at the ambo is Jay Leupp. He and his wife Heidi were the day’s readers.

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ST. MATTHEW SCHOOL, SAN MATEO: Students, faculty and staff celebrated the birthday of St. Matt’s pastor, Msgr. John Talesfore, Dec. 8 with balloons, fun and music, principal, Adrian Peterson told Catholic San Francisco. While she remains mum about his age, “I bought 100 balloons so we say he is a hundred,” the P principal said.

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SUNDAY, JAN. 14 SOLIDARITY MASS: Martin Luther King Solidarity Mass, 10:45 a.m. St. Paul of the Shipwreck, 1122 Jamestown Ave. at Third Street, San FranciscoSt. Paul of the Shipwreck invites you to its annual celebration, the 33rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. Solidarity Mass.

Father Donald Sterling, pastor, New All Saints Church, Baltimore, Maryland presider and homilist at this Gospel Mass.

Deborah Estell, coordinator, Alive & Free Leadership Academy, San Francisco will be presented with the annual MLK Community Service Award. Parking lot entrance on Jennings Street. . Loretta Chatmon (415) 468-3434, www.stpauloftheshipwreck.org.

ONGOING PODCASTS: Fans of podcasts are now able to listen to Archbishop Cordileone’s homilies, as well as talks by other notable speakers in the archdiocese. Search for “Archdiocese of San Francisco” in iTunes, Google Play, or your preferred podcasting platform. This makes it possible to attend Mass in one’s own parish, and later listen to the Archbishop’s homily as delivered by him in St. Mary’s Cathedral. Upcoming soon are the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Christmas liturgies. Most recently uploaded: homily for the First Sunday of Advent.

These are also available on our website at sfarch.org/homilies.

SATURDAY, JAN. 20 VOCATIONS: Single, Catholic women between the ages of 18 and 38 are invited to experience a taste of the life of a cloistered Dominican nun. Contact Dominican Sister Joseph Marie, vocation directress, vocations@nunsmenlo. org, visit http://nunsmenlo.org/discernment-days/, to learn more and to register for this upcoming “Come and See Day,” Corpus Christi Monastery 215

Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Event is free and all meals will be provided

THURSDAY, JAN. 25 PEACE AND JUSTICE: Dominican Sister Margaret Mayce, a religious representative to the UN speaks, 7-8:30 p.m., Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael. Evening includes light refreshments and time for questions. RSVP CommunityRelations@sanrafaelop.org; (415) 453-8303.

SATURDAY, JAN. 27 SISTERS SPEAK: Star Speaker Series welcomes the Sisters of Life, Star of the Sea Parish, 4420 Geary Blvd. at Eighth Avenue, San Francisco, following the Walk for Life West Coast, 5 p.m. Free barbecue in auditorium. 6 p.m., Sisters of Life talk in the church on their experiences of pro-life work in the streets; 7 p.m., Taize Holy Hour. starparish.com; claire@starparish.com.

DOMINICAN STUDY DAY: Dominican Sister Margaret Mayce on “Think Globally, Act Locally: Leave No One Behind, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., $20 includes lunch, Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. RSVP by Jan. 19, http://bit. ly/2018StudyDay; (510) 933-6360.

MARDI GRAS DANCE: Zydeco theme at St. Finn Barr Parish, 415 Edna St., San Francisco, 8-midnight. $20 in advance, $25 at door. Food available for purchase. alguidry@comcast.net, (415) 760-1454.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 27 ‘WALK FOR LIFE WEST COAST’: The event steps off for the 14th time from a 9:30 a.m. opening Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral with Archbishop Salvatore J. Archbishop Cordileone, Cordileone principal celebrant and homilist. Walk for Life West Coast rally with speakers is 12:30-1:30 p.m. at Civic Center Plaza, preceded by a Silent No More Rally at 11 a.m. The event has drawn more than 50,000 pro-life supporters in years past.

Associated events throughout the day are listed at www.walkforlifewc.com. Speakers for the day include Dr. John Bruchalski, who performed abortions during his residency but returned to the Catholic faith of his youth; Terry Beatley, founder of Hosea Initiative, a non-profit organization which teaches a broader understanding of the abortion industry’s exploitation of women and children; Rev. Clenard Childress Jr. who has spoken at almost every Walk for Life West Coast; Joseph Scheidler, founder of the ProLife Action League will receive the day’s St. Gianna Molla Award.

SATURDAY, FEB. 3 ANNIVERSARY MASS: Couples celebrating anniversaries on the ‘fives’ – 5, 10, 15, 20, and so forth – are welcome to celebrate Mass with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, 10 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, $20 suggested donation per family, registration required www.anniversarymass. net, (415) 614-5680 by: Jan. 26. Questions/information: (415) 614-5680.

SATURDAY, FEB. 10 SI SPEAKERS: Friends of St. Ignatius series, St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, 6 p.m., Fromm Hall, dinner and speaker, Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno. fgargiulo@usfca. edu; http://stignatiussf.org/event/jesuit-connections; (415) 564-2600.

SUNDAY, FEB. 18 HARP CONCERT: Anna Maria Mendieta, world renowned harpist, 2-4 p.m., $25 reception following, Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Chapel, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. RSVP by Feb. 8, http:// bit.ly/2018Anna_Harp; (510) 933-6360.

SUNDAY, FEB. 26 Pope Francis’ four year tenure. What’s behind his thinking? What motivates his choice of bishops? What have we learned about the man Francis? Come, bring your questions and observations.

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

Jose Cruz Aguero Miguel Antonio Arana Bruce Donald Bach Marjorie Ann Balliett Francis O. Banducci Mary J. Bettini Maryrose Bianchi Sr. Gregoria Cabrera-Diaz, OCD William R. Callas Jacqueline Aline Caro Joseph Trainor Cassidy Dell B. Clemena Arleen Connolly Maria Carmen Tapia Coronado Rita I. Crowley Katherine E. Cuff Margaret J. Currivan-Tang Addison Daigle Rosario B. Daquioag John Orville Dempsey Barbara A. Doherty Jesus H. Domingo, Jr. Giuseppe Duchi John J. Duchi Celestine Faenzi Ruth M. Farias Rita Jane Farr Sharon Fauss Sister Joseph Eugene Fogarty, OP Robert A. Gamba Octavio L. Garcia Janine M. Granucci-Carrig Jose S. Guaman Rocco Gulli Maria Ofelia Guzman Patricia A. Harriman Mary Elisabeth Hayes Helen Casias Alires Hernandez Frances A. Hughes Richard Brandt Huisman Gerald George Johnson Bernard Kelly Diane Kelly Charles H. Keyser Etivise A. Mafi Rose Mallia Maria De Jesus Marquez De Ibarra James McCarthy Leonardo G. Mendoza Maura Alicia Menendez Paolina Menicucci Josefina C. Momongan Kathleen Moran Barbara L. Motroni Edmund J. Murphy, Jr.

Frances Y. Norris Jean O’Neill Rosa Emilia Ortiz John Ray Padua Silvestre Partida-Pulido Maurice Ragusa Helen Edith Rajewski Victorina S. Ramos Joan A. Redlick Ana Margarita Rodezno Eusebio Castillo Rosillo Salwa Saadeh Olga H. Saadeh Joseph T. Saitz Jr. Maria Santos-Cucalon Georgina A. Sarrazola Mary D. Scheidegger Joseph Ernest Segarini Jacqueline T. Seike Maria R. Serchia Flora Sierra Bernice E. Smith George Staniotes Marie Rosa Tavares Patricia Fraher Tognetti Daniel Allen Venegas II Mario Vincenzini, Jr. Victorina C. Vitug Jane C. Waal Mary Jane Wallace Gabriel Whooley Mei Won Shum Wong Norman Z. Wong Angelina R. Yabut Joyce M. Petterson (September)

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