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‘Survival mode’ north as archdiocese opens arms Special collection for wildfire relief set as faithful bring aid, prepare room and spiritual care Rick DelVecchio, Christina Gray and Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Marin Catholic High School students delivered bottled water, Catholic Charities fed first responders and Marin County parishes organized to provide shelter and spiritual care, as organizations and individuals throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco responded with aid and comfort to those affected by the devastating Wine Country wildfires.

The mobilization developed as Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone announced a special collection on the weekend of Oct. 28-29 to help the hard-hit Diocese of Santa Rosa. “Please ask your faithful to be generous because the need in the Diocese of Santa Rosa is great,” Jesuit Father John Piderit, vicar for administration and moderator of the curia, said in a message to pastors Oct. 13.

The Santa Rosa diocese, which was struck by some of the most devastating of the 17 wildfires that ripped through eight Northern California counties see wildfires, page 9

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Area residents walk through a neighborhood destroyed by wildfire in Santa Rosa. The city of 175,000 lost about 5 percent of its housing stock in the Tubbs Fire Oct. 9 and 10, with 22 fatalities overall in Sonoma County and 99 people missing as of Oct. 16.

Six people were dead in Napa County and eight in Mendocino County, areas also part of a hard-hit Diocese of Santa Rosa “still in survival mode rather than recovery mode,” Bishop Robert F. Vasa said in an Oct. 14 blog post.

Culture Project brings virtue into the center for Catholic dating – and life Team of 5 in archdiocese for 7 weeks beginning mid-October

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The term “hookup culture” has entered the lexicon for just about anyone out in the dating world.

That’s because hookups, which skip dating and forego the values of chastity and commitment, are so accepted that an advice book for young girls explains how to “be a lady” after a third-date hookup.

“Something is not functioning right. People really don’t know how to date anymore,” said Megan Harrington, co-producer of a soon-to-be-released documentary, “The Dating Project,” which premiered at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival Sept.

24 and is a selection of the Heartland Film Festival Oct. 19 in Indianapolis. Harrington found the “advice” book while browsing for something to read in a local bookstore. The film follows five adults, from college to a 40-something single man, and is scheduled for general release on Valentine’s Day 2018.

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Five young adults from the Culture Project arrived in the Archdiocese of San Francisco in mid-October for a seven-week evangelizing mission initiated by the archdiocesan marriage and family life and youth and young adult ministries. The organization founded by young adults takes an approach of personal encounter in engaging peers on such topics as dating in an over-sexualized culture.

The Culture Project was founded to address those questions, and five Culture Project missionaries will be in the Archdiocese of San Francisco for seven weeks beginning in mid-October. It is an initiative of the marriage and family life and the youth and young adult ministries.

“The Culture Project missionaries bring a message of affirmation and encouragement to our young people, who are surrounded by a culture that can be toxic,” said Ed Hopfner, archdiocesan director of marriage and family life. “They invite young people to become more fully alive, reminding each of their human dignity as children of God and extolling the richness of a life of virtue.”

The organization founded by young adults takes an approach of personal encounter.

“It’s definitely tough in our culture,” says Lindsay Fay, leader of the five Culture Project missionaries, ages 22-27, who will be here. “Pope Francis says the best way to evangelize a young person is through another young person. We go in there and share our own stories of living in that same culture.”

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Need to know SPIRITUALITY SESSION: Dominican Sister Rose Marie Hennessy speaks on “Spirituality of the Harvest,” Nov. 4, 1-3 p.m., Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Chapel, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. $10 donation. Registration required by Oct. 31, http://bit. ly/2017HarvestSpirituality; (510) 933-6334. A work of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Center for Education & Spirituality.

Black Catholic History Month: Celebrate Black Catholic History Month at Mission Dolores Basilica on Nov. 11 with a 4 p.m. praise and worship concert with multiple gospel choirs followed by 5 p.m. Holy Mass with a gospel choir. A reception follows in the parish hall. Free and open to the public. Free secure parking in church lot (enter on Church between 16th and 17th). The event is sponsored by the Sacred Heart Gospel Choir at St. Boniface Parish in San Francisco. In 1990, the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus of the United States designated November as Black Catholic History Month to celebrate the long history and proud heritage of black Catholics.

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Mourners mingle on the plaza at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Oct. 12 after funeral services for Stacee Rodrigues Etcheber, who was a victim of the Oct. 1 mass shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas while attending the event with her husband, San Francisco police officer Vincent Etcheber.

Las Vegas shooting victim mourned at cathedral funeral Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Stacee Rodrigues Etcheber of Novato was remembered Oct. 12 at her funeral Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral as a woman who, like her her police officer husband, “ran toward danger, not away from it,” and likely lost her life in the process.

Etcheber, 50, died Oct. 2 after a gunman opened fire at a Las Vegas country music concert she was attending with her husband, San Francisco police officer Vincent Etcheber. The massacre killed 57 others and injured more than 520 in the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s modern history.

“She left us with an undying message,” said Father Mike Quinn, pastor of Sausalito’s St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish and homilist to the hundreds who packed the church. “Don’t let the opportunity to help escape us.”

Etcheber was considered a member of the San Francisco Police Department family, police officials said, and her funeral was typical of those for fallen officers.

The department’s mounted unit stood at attention outside the cathedral as dozens of officers from police de-

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Archbishop’s schedule Oct. 19: Marriage and tribunal talk, seminary; Institute of Christ the King Sovereign priest talk and dinner Oct. 20: Province meeting Oct. 20-21: Seminary board retreat Oct. 22: Installation of pastor Mass, Father Juan Gonzalez, Notre Dame des Victoires, 12:15 p.m.

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partments around the Bay Area filled the cathedral plaza. A bagpiper playing “Amazing Grace” led the processional out of the church after the Mass and a long police motorcade escorted loved ones to the burial grounds in Novato.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone processed in with five priests including St. Bartholomew pastor and San Francisco police chaplain Father Michael Healy, principal celebrant. The archbishop was present in the sanctuary.

Moments after the shooting began, Etcheber’s husband of 13 years told her to run as he assisted the wounded.

While no one knows exactly what happened after the couple became separated, her loved ones said that she wasn’t the type to leave while others needed help.

“They had an understanding between themselves – we help people.

That’s what we do,” Father Quinn said of the couple.

The acrid smoke and ash from the devastating Wine Country wildfires still burning 45 miles north clouded the air but served to underscore Etcheber’s legacy of an irrepressible woman of action who would have been leading the charge in helping those affected by the fires.

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The Etcheber family – Stacee, Vincent and their two children, Alivia and Vincent Jr. – are parishioners of Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato.

Many at the funeral wore orange ribbons or some orange article of clothing – Stacee Etcheber’s favorite color. But a sea of blue police uniforms stood out in the church.

Several members of the department had rushed to Las Vegas in the hours after the shooting, searching hospitals with the family in hopes that she was among the missing, not the dead.

Within 24 hours, they confirmed the worst.

Father Quinn said few words of the shooter other than calling him someone “personifying evil who did a terrible thing to many people.” He instead shone a light on his local victims.

“The kind of people that you would want in times of tragedy are the Etchebers,” he said. Helping others is “automatic” for them, no questions asked. “Because of that sense of selflessness, we are here today.”

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Mercy sister awarded $1 million to help empower women and girls in impoverished nations Tom Burke Catholic San Francisco

San Francisco native and Burlingame-based Mercy Sister Marilyn Lacey was awarded the $1 million Opus Prize for 2017 in ceremonies Oct. 11 at the Jesuits’ Regis University in Denver. Sister Marilyn, a member of the sisters’ West Midwest Community, was honored for her work with Mercy Beyond Borders, an organization she founded in 2008 after a visit to Sudan, at the time calling the African nation “by far the most devastated place I’d ever seen in my decades of doing refugee work.”

Sister Marilyn spoke from experience. She has been deeply involved in work with refugees and immigrants, including time ministering in a Laotian refugee camp, since 1981.

“After a global search for heroic humanitarian nonprofits, The Opus Foundation, in collaboration with Regis University, has awarded its annual Opus Prize to Mercy Beyond Borders,” Sister Marilyn said in a statement released by Mercy Beyond Borders Oct. 12. “The extensive 18-month vetting process included a site visit to MBB Haiti projects by foundation board members and Regis faculty and students. We thank you, our wonderful donors, for believing in our mission and supporting us in so many ways over these past 10 years. With the generous gift from the Opus Foundation, as well as your continuing and very crucial support, we will work together to do even greater things in the next 10 years.”

In a statement on its website, Regis University said: “The $1 million Opus Prize, funded by the Opus Prize Foundation and given in partnership with Regis University, will allow (Sister Marilyn) Lacey to endow more scholarships for her students, expand the reach of her programs and grow her staff to help even more women and girls in these impoverished and war-torn nations.”

“With operations in South Sudan and Haiti, Mercy Beyond Borders brings hope to more than 1,400 women and girls annually by providing educational, economic and empowerment opportunities where there are few options to escape extreme poverty,” Mercy High School, Burlingame said in a statement.

Sister Marilyn is a 1966 graduate of the school.

Sister Marilyn celebrated 50 years as a Sister of Mercy in 2016. She was born in San Francisco and is a graduate of St. Dunstan School in Millbrae.

(Photo courtesy Mercy High School, Burlingame)

Mercy Sister Marilyn Lacey with young women of a South Sudan village earlier this year. Sister Marilyn sent this picture and caption for publication in the spring 2017 issue of Mercy High School, Burlingame’s “The Oaks” in a section noting what alumnae are presently doing: “Sister Marilyn Lacey, ’66, is still working full time, forging ways for women and girls in South Sudan and Haiti to learn, connect and lead.”

“I feel only gratitude and joy for this vocation to Mercy and the great blessing of meeting God in the poor,” she said in 2016 in a reflection about her time as a Sister of Mercy.

Sister Marilyn holds a graduate degree in social work from UC Berkeley and is the author of “This Flowing Toward Me: A Story of God Arriving in Strangers” (Ave Maria Press, 2009).

Honored with Opus Foundation prizes of $100,000 were Sister Stan Terese Mumuni of the Marian Sisters of Eucharistic Love for her work with the Nazareth Home for God’s Children in Ghana, and Dr. Jason Reinking and Dr. Noha Aboelata for their work with Roots Community Health Clinic in Oakland.

Information available from the Opus Prize website said: The Opus Prize is given not only to expand the humanitarian efforts of the recipient, but to inspire others to pursue lives of service. The $1 million award and two $100,000 prizes make up one of the world’s largest faith-based awards for social entrepreneurship.

Opus Prize laureates combine the spirit of innovation with amazing faith to inspire long-term, local solutions to address poverty and injustice. Opus Prize laureates prove change is possible, empowering and inspiring us all.

Opus Prize finalists are leaders who carry an unshakable faith, believing the problems they see around them not only can be resolved – they will.

The award was established in 2004.

Visit www.mercyborders.org. For a video on Sister Marilyn’s work, visit www.opusprize.org/sister-marilynlacey.

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Riordan alum joins staff; former reporter onboard at Mercy, SF Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

Two Catholic high schools in the archdiocese have welcomed new people to their outreach teams: Paul Cronin, new director of alumni and donor relations at Archbishop Riordan, and Joel Danoy, new director of marketing and communications at Mercy, San Francisco.

Paul is a Riordan alumnus graduating in 1993. “For the past 20 years Cronin has worked in Joel Danoy technology sales and sales leadership positions at several Bay Area companies including CoStar Group and LoopNet,” Riordan said in an announcement of his having been hired. Paul has been an active member of Riordan’s Alumni Board, and says he wanted to get involved at a deeper level at the school. “I’m excited to be back at Paul Cronin my alma mater and help build on the momentum that Riordan has created over the past few years,” he said. “Riordan is certainly part of the fabric of San Francisco. It is a one-of-a-kind school on many levels, but most significantly in the way that it helps students grow and development into fine young men.”

Paul played football and soccer at Riordan and earned an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Nevada-Reno. He, his wife Danielle and their three children live in San Mateo.

“Paul has been a great addition to Riordan,” the school said. “He is a great Crusader.”

Joel is a graduate of West Virginia University where he earned an undergraduate degree in journalism. “Before coming to Mercy San Francisco, I worked nearly three years for Oakland Unified School District managing internal communications for 5,000 employees and web communications for the district’s 89 school websites,” Joel told me via email. He also served six months as interim communications director for the district managing media events involving people including Rev. Jesse Jackson, White House officials and the Oakland mayor’s office. He is a former managing editor of The Tracy Press, and was a crime and courts reporter for The Winchester Star in Winchester, Virginia, and The Dominion Post in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Joel is glad to be aboard at Mercy. “Storytelling

ASPERGES: San Mateo’s St. Matthew School celebrated the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Oct. 4, with a blessing of animals. Father Tom Parenti, retired pastor of St. Brendan Parish, San Francisco, and in residence at St. Matthew, presided, with his dog Lucca among the blessed guests. Adrian Peterson, St. Matt’s principal, fourth from left, also took part. leader is D.J. Bernal who was also presented at Steubenville NorCal, http://ymyaretreat.eventbrite.com.

STAYING IN THE KNOW: It happens every year and is always on target: “Santa Clara Faith Formation Conference: God is Always With Us,” Nov. 3, 4, workshops in English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Chinese on the word, worship and witness as key components to our ongoing faith. www.SCFFC.org.

If parishes are paying for parishioners’ attendance, they must register their parishioners and staff prior to Nov. 3. On-site registration will only be available for cash, check or credit card.

OUTFITS: SVdP’s Catherine Center held its Twilight Fashion Show Aug. 22 at Trinity Church in Menlo Park with more than 250 supporters in attendance. Center residents, graduates, volunteers and staff stepped in to model the couture selected from SVdP Thrift Stores. Pictured on the runway are Deacon Martin Schurr, SVdP’s restorative justice chaplain, Mercy Sister Marguerite Buchanan, a founder of the center, and Deacon Abel Mejia, SVdP’s San Mateo Homeless Help Center manager. The center helps women leaving incarceration in rebuilding their lives. is my passion and it’s a true blessing to have this opportunity to shape the narrative of Mercy High School, San Francisco by highlighting the incredible stories and successes of our amazing students, families, employees, and alumnae who love to call Mercy home,” he said.

YOUNG ADULTS INVITED: St. Cecilia’s Collins Center is the site for a Young Adult Retreat, Nov. 4, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. with a focus on balancing work and life and for youth ministers, core team members, and all young adults. $12 ticket includes lunch. Retreat

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RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER: The season is already sending its greetings so mark your calendar for “Christmas at Kohl,” Nov. 29, 5-9 p.m. at the mansion on the Mercy High School campus in Burlingame. More than 65 vendors will display unique holiday treasures, jewelry, clothing and holiday decorations. Docent tours of Kohl at 6:30 and 7 p.m. Adults $10, children under 12 free, www. mercyhsb.com.

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St. Mary’s Medical Center Auxiliary Presents its Annual 2017 (and Final*) Holiday Boutique Featuring: Handcrafted Items – Decorated Christmas Trees – Silent Auction – Holiday Gifts and More!

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by Medical and Security Staff. This project will provide a safer environment with more privacy and comfortable space for all physically and emotionally distressed patients.

Students submitted more than 500 entries to the archdiocesan art and writing contest in connection with the consecration of the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the centenary of the apparitions at Fatima, Portugal. Archbishop Cordileone honored the first-place winners with plaques after the Mass of consecration on Oct. 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

The number and quality of the entries was impressive, and Catholic San Francisco selected three among many worthy examples to present here and on Page 13. Thank you to the 21 Catholic schools and six parish religious education programs, as well as individual parishes, that participated. The Oct. 12 issue of Catholic San Francisco also featured winning entries.

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News from the Archdiocese of San Francisco Restorative Justice Ministry, October 2017.

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22 panels presented discussions affecting both Crime Survivors as well as Formerly Incarcerated people.

A Healing Space offered 24 tables for Crime Survivors to create a memorial for loved ones killed in violence.

The Reentry Conference included 4 panels where Crime Survivors from across the Bay Area shared their stories.

80 volunteers supported the Reentry and Conference Fair on Friday September 8, 2017. Thank you!

Restorative Responses to Adversity and Trauma training, group discussion. September 26-29, 2017.

This past September the Restorative Justice Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco invited Crime Survivors and Formerly Incarcerated leaders and organizations from across the bay area to share the challenges and opportunities of our time. There were two events that took place, a Reentry Conference and Resource Fair on Friday, September 8, 2017 at Saint Mary of the Assumption Event Center followed by a 4-day Crime Survivors Leadership Training September 26 through 29. Both events created new relationships among people affected by crime in each side. We all were empowered by their time united and they hope to continue working together for Justice and Peace.

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More than 50 organizations tabled at the Reentry Resource Fair offering various services & opportunities.

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Catholic group will accept Scouts’ decision to allow girls to join

IRVING, Texas – The leaders of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting, which has its headquarters in the Dallas suburb of Irving, said they “accept and work with the new membership policy of the Boy Scouts of America” to admit girls.

“We were informed this morning” of the policy change, said an Oct. 11 statement by George Sparks, the national chairman of the group, and the committee’s national chaplain, Father Kevin Smith, a priest of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York. “Once we have had more time to review the policy and a chance to consult our national membership, we will be able to comment further about how this new policy will reflect changes in the makeup of Catholic-chartered units,” they said.

The Boy Scouts currently have 2.3 million members, less than half than the 5 million they reached in the 1970s, at the peak of the post-World War II baby boom. The vote to accept girls as members was unanimous, according to a spokeswoman for the Boy Scouts.

Pope Francis names Peru native as auxiliary bishop in Miami

WASHINGTON – Pope Francis has appointed Father Enrique Delgado, a priest of the Archdiocese of Miami, to be an auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese. The appointment was announced in Washington Oct. 12 by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to the United States.

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Kenyatta Hardison, choir director at Cardinal Shehan School in Baltimore, Kai Young, choir fan Mel Ledbetter, Jalen Henderson and John Paige pose for a photo following an Oct. 12 surprise pizza party paid for by Ledbetter in recognition of the group’s viral video rendition of “Rise Up.” The video has been clicked on 8.5 million times and will likely hit 10 million.

ignate Delgado, 61, is pastor of St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Weston, Florida. He was ordained a priest for the archdiocese in 1996 in his home country. He worked in private business managing a company before immigrating to the United States.

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be the first U.S. bishop born in Peru, began studying for the priesthood in 1991. He served in parish ministry in the archdiocese for virtually all his priesthood.

US bishop concerned about impact of health care order on poor

WASHINGTON – A part of President Donald Trump’s Oct. 13 executive order on health care that would

end subsidies to health insurance companies aimed at helping individuals with low to modest incomes is of “grave concern,” a U.S. bishop said.

“The Affordable Care Act is by no means perfect,” said Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, but he warned that attempts to improve it “must not use people’s health care as leverage or as a bargaining chip.”

“To do so would be to strike at the heart of human dignity and the fundamental right to health care. The poor and vulnerable will bear the brunt of such an approach,” he said in an Oct. 14 statement.

Bishop Dewane, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said the USCCB “will closely monitor the implementation and impacts of this executive order by the relevant administrative agencies.”

He said flexible options for people to obtain health coverage are important strategies but he also cautioned that “great care must be taken to avoid risk of additional harm to those who now receive health care coverage through exchanges formed under the Affordable Care Act.” He also noted that the order “ignores many more significant problems in the nation’s health care system,” stressing that Congress must still act on comprehensive reform that would provide a framework for health care as well as solutions for conscience, immigrant access, market stability and underlying affordability problems which he said continue to be unaddressed.

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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. 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/.

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.

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

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Wildfires: Archdiocese opens arms to displaced, distressed FROM PAGE 1

beginning Oct. 9, and where Cardinal Newman High School and a Catholic elementary school in the city of Santa Rosa were damaged, was “still in survival mode rather than recovery mode,” Bishop Robert F. Vasa said in an Oct. 14 blog post.

“But plans are already underway, especially for our impacted schools, to provide a path forward. The impact on the cities is enormous and this likewise impacts on our parishes,” Bishop Vasa said. “Once our office is available discussions will begin in earnest with the affected pastors to see what relief is needed to support the recovery in those locations and ways to provide some resources for that recovery. Persevere!”

The outreach at Marin Catholic includes many school families offering their homes to Cardinal Newman students, firefighters and/or evacuees; offering on-campus workshops and counseling support to Cardinal Newman seniors to aid in meeting their college application deadlines; and offering computers and classroom furniture to Cardinal Newman. In addition, principal Chris Valdez is in conversation with Cardinal Newman principal Graham Rutherford about students potentially attending Marin Catholic.

The Tubbs Fire destroyed more than 2,800 homes in the city of Santa Rosa alone, about 5 percent of the housing stock in the suburban city of 175,000.

Fires elsewhere in Sonoma County destroyed 600 homes. The Tubbs Fire was the deadliest among four fires claiming 22 lives in Sonoma as of Oct. 16, with 99 people still unaccounted for. The death toll in other wildfires statewide climbed to 18, including eight in Mendocino County and six in Napa County, both of which are in the limits of the Santa Rosa diocese.

All four fires burning in Sonoma County were expected to be contained Oct. 20.

Pope Francis, in a message to Archbishop Cordileone and Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, sent his “heartfelt solidarity and prayers” for those affected by the disaster and his encouragement for civil authorities and first responders.

In the archdiocese, three student members of the Marin Catholic High School St. Vincent de Paul Club helped truck 30 cases of donated water to the Vincentian organization at St. Leo Parish in Sonoma. The students, led by

Resources Here is a partial list of fire-related resources for those interested in volunteering or donating.

Volunteer Center of Sonoma County: Visit online at volunteernow.org for volunteer opportunities and on Facebook for updates on immediate needs. Email info@ volunteernow.org; (707) 5733399.

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Marin Catholic High School teacher Joe Tassone and three members of the student St. Vincent de Paul Club delivered 30 cases of bottled water and $500 in gift cards to the SVdP organization at St. Leo Parish in the city of Sonoma, in an Oct. 13 disaster relief mission. teacher Joe Tassone, also brought $500 in gift cards on their Oct. 13 mission through a smoke-covered landscape of devastated neighborhoods, ranches and vineyards.

In the immediate aftermath of the devastation in northern Santa Rosa on Oct. 9 and 10, the church kitchen at Our Lady of Loretto Parish made 400 meals in a two-day period for delivery to local shelters. Parish religious education students are being asked to donate to the relief effort, with contributions sent to Catholic Charities of Santa Rosa. Our Lady of Loretto School students also will be collecting donations in the coming weeks.

The archdiocese’s Catholic Charities CYO Camp in Occidental in rural Sonoma County joined in as a relief station for first responders, with camp staff delivering banana and zucchini bread from the camp kitchen for frontline forces including over 400 fire crew members from throughout California and beyond.

“Our Catholic Charities staff has reached out to the evacuation sites and will prepare to house evacuees for the short term if needed,” spokesperson Cailan Franz told Catholic San Francisco. “In the meantime, staff members are working at the evacuation centers, including doing fire crew laundry at Alliance Redwoods starting Sunday. We have offered our camp facility to emergency responders if needed.”

To mention a few among many

other responses in the archdiocese, the preschool at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco, in response to requests from the San Francisco Police Department, pitched in with carloads of supplies; the Gabriel Project in San Mateo County delivered supplies to the disaster area; and Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco invited donations to the Redwood Empire Food Bank providing critical food to shelters.

In a weekend appeal that will be repeated next week, St. Isabella Parish in San Rafael asked parishioners to contribute food and blankets. In addition, the parish is seeking parishioners willing to house a family in their home.

The 10 Catholic parishes in Marin County that do not have schools were organizing to serve as backup resources, in a joint effort between the archdiocesan Pastoral Center and Deaneries 6 and 7 in Marin. The parishes are being see wildfires, page 17

City of Santa Rosa: For information on how to volunteer or donate, visit https://srcity. org/2624/Volunteer-Donate. For updates on relief and recovery, visit www.srcity.org/2620/ Emergency-Information.

Redwood Empire Food Bank: If you would like to volunteer with the food bank, visit www.refb.org or call volunteer services coordinator Helen Myers at (707) 523-7900, ext. 143.

Diocese of Santa Rosa: For blog posts by Bishop Robert F. Vasa and updates on Catholic schools and parishes affected by the fires, visit http:// srdiocese.org/signofhope.

An open Google document at http://bit. ly/2yOs0Rb has information on relief and recovery needs in Sonoma County. The information is also available at http:// sonomafireinfo.com/#/.

GoFundMe lists fire-related crowdfunding campaigns at www.gofundme.com/raisefunds/CAfirerelief.

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New saints inspire Christians to build peaceful world, bishop says

Service in an Oct. 10 interview in Liverpool that the widespread loss of Christian faith in the West was “absolutely” among the causes of the diminishing influence of the Catholic Church in his own country.

“From my own experience, I find that the British high commissioner, the ambassadors from European countries, the American ambassador – they are pandering more to Islam than to Christianity, because most of them have turned their backs on Christianity,” Bishop Kukah said.

VATICAN CITY – The church’s newest saints represent a diverse group of people who offer encouragement and hope to Christians today through their example, a Brazilian bishop said.

Saints like the “Martyrs of Natal,” Brazil, offer a “new opportunity, hope and a renewal of faith” that can bring peace to a world battered by injustice, war and violence, Archbishop Jaime Vieira Rocha of Natal told journalists Oct. 13 during a press briefing.

“The grace of their canonization will certainly help create a society that is less vengeful, less violent, more fraternal,” and encourage Catholics to stand up “for the dignity of the people,” he said.

Ornate tapestries depicting each of the soon-to-be canonized saints – who hail from Brazil, Italy, Mexico and Spain – draped the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica as workers busily prepared the square for the Oct. 15 Mass presided over by Pope Francis. The “Martyrs of Natal” – Blessed Andre de Soveral, a Jesuit priest; Blessed Ambrosio Francisco Ferro, a diocesan priest; Blessed Mateus Moreira, a layman; and 27 others – were killed in 1645 in a wave of anti-Catholic persecution carried out by Dutch Calvinists in Natal, Brazil.

Find ways to keep migrant families together, Vatican official says

VATICAN CITY – Overly strict immigration laws do not discourage migration, and more must be done to keep migrant families together, a Vatican representative told a U.N. session Oct. 20.

“The migrant family is a crucial component of our globalized world, but in too many countries the presence of the families of migrant workers is often legally impeded,” said Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva. “If we truly wish to leave no one behind, we must devise frameworks that help keep families together, including migrant families. The human vacuum left behind when a father or a mother migrates alone is a stark reminder of the toughness of the choice to migrate and of the fundamental right to be able to stay at home in dignity,” he said.

Bishop says decline of faith in West hurts Nigerian church

LIVERPOOL, England – A Nigerian bishop said the Catholic Church in his country is beginning to lose its public influence partly because of the decline of religious faith in the West.

Bishop Matthew Kukah of Sokoto accused European and American politicians and diplomats of publicly “pandering” to Islam at the expense of Christianity. The result, he said, was the ascendancy of Islam and evangelical Christianity in Nigeria and the decline of Catholicism. He told Catholic News

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of nine men and women, including a Franciscan priest who championed the land rights of farmers in Guatemala.

During an Oct. 10 audience with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, the pope recognized the martyrdom of Italian Father Tullio Merluzzo, a Franciscan priest who died alongside Luis Obdulio Arroyo Navarro, a Guatemalan layman who belonged to the Third Order of St. Francis.

A recognition of martyrdom means the two can be beatified, a step toward sainthood, without a miracle attributed to their intercession.

Born in Vicenza, Italy, in 1929, Father Merluzzo was ordained in 1953 by Cardinal Giuseppe Roncalli, the future St. John XXIII. Seven years after his ordination, Father Merluzzo was sent to the Guatemalan department of Izabal, where he helped run several schools and hospitals as well as served as pastor in several parishes.

Many priests and religious in Guatemala became targets during the country’s 1960-1996 civil war as government forces cracked down on leftist rebels supported by the rural poor.

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Fatima: A call to spiritual arms for the salvation and peace of the world This is the archbishop’s homily for the Mass of Consecration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Oct. 7, 2017

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t this significant moment in world history, as we mark the 100th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima, understandably, much attention has been given to this supernatural phenomenon. I believe, though, that it is easy for us to get distracted by the sensational elements of this apparition: predictions of wars and disasters, a dancing sun, a vision of hell. We are easily intrigued with that part of the story, perhaps so much so that we miss the whole point of it, which, of course, is the message itself.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone

A vision of hell and the last 100 years

The vision of hell is a well-known moment in the story of the Fatima apparitions: The three shepherd children saw souls tormented there with agony beyond description, a vision so horrible and gruesome that they shrieked out loud with fear. It was immediately after this vision that Our Lady asked for the spreading of devotion to her Immaculate Heart. Now, there are some, I’m sure, who might want to dismiss all of this as fanciful; there are even some who deny the very existence of hell. But if we think about what has transpired over these last 100 years since the revelation of this message, coupled with our failure to heed it, does it not tell us that the century through which we have just passed was nothing other than an experience of hell?

To be sure, in many ways there has been great progress over the past century: One thinks immediately of improvements in technology that have increased ease and speed of communication, commerce and travel; progress in the treatment and alleviation of physical and mental illness; progress in civil rights. Yet, there have also been horrendous setbacks in other areas, and even in those very areas where progress had been made.

If we think about the century we are now concluding, does it not show itself to be one that in so many ways has been a living reflection of hell, one that on so many fronts has roundly mocked God? The examples are too numerous to list here, but many come to mind immediately, beginning with two great wars that enveloped the entire world in violence and bloodshed. There have been the death camps and the genocides – not genocide, but genocides – most notoriously, the one perpetrated against the people God first chose to be His own.

Who would dare to say that such barbarity is not a mocking of God? It is a century that produced the most brutal regimes in world history, and all over the face of the earth. And then there is the persecution of the Church in every decade of this century and all over the world, and now the oppression and extermination of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East and elsewhere, whose pleas for protection and justice from the international community fall on deaf ears.

But we do not have to look so far away in time and space. Still fresh in our minds and heavy on our hearts are victims of the atrocity in Las Vegas just a few days ago, which tragically is only the latest and most devastating mass shooting in a whole string of such senseless violence in our country for many years now. And then there is the attack on innocent human life: Our own land has been soiled by the blood of innocent children in what has become a deadly epidemic tantamount to a genocide on life in the womb; and now we are increasingly witnessing the abandonment of our suffering brothers and sisters at the other end of life’s journey. And even in our own city of St. Francis, we see in our streets

people suffering from the ravages of addiction and mental illness, as well as the celebration and even exaltation of the vulgar and the blasphemous, mocking God’s beautiful plan in how He created us, in our very bodies, for communion with one another and Himself. God is roundly mocked in our very streets, and it is met with approval and applause in our community – and yet, we remain silent.

What is happening to our world? In so many different ways, what was once unthinkable has become routine. The century since the Fatima apparitions now ending has mocked God, but God will not be mocked: Not because He delights in wreaking vengeance on us, but because turning our backs on God only bounces back to us, leading to our own self-destruction.

Now, one might argue that all this has happened, not because people are more morally depraved in our time than in times past, but rather because modern means of perpetrating violence, destruction and moral depravity are much more sophisticated and massive now than in times past.

This may well be true, but if so, it points all the more to our need to heed the message of Fatima in imploring God for mercy.

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So we turn to Our Lady, for at the root of all of this suffering and devastation is a spiritual disease, which, contrary to the physical and mental kind, has grown in our time and been largely left untreated. It is the disease that dethrones God and replaces Him with the “autonomous self,” making the self out to be God, creating one’s own reality for oneself. It is a disease that refuses to recognize God’s Son, Jesus Christ, as the ultimate truth and perfect icon of love.

So, yes, we turn to our Lady. Now, we don’t need Mary to point the way to Christ for us. We know where he is: He’s in the tabernacle, in the sacraments, in his word, he is present in the Church. Rather, what we need is someone to pick us up and carry us to Him, because we are too weak to get there on our own. And so as Mary had a special role in mothering God’s Son, so she has a special role in mothering us into life in her Son. This twofold ministry of the maternity of Our Lady – in the life of her Son and in the life of his believers – was explained insightfully

by Pope St. John Paul II in his Encyclical letter “Mother of the Redeemer” (n. 24): “… there is a unique correspondence between the moment of the Incarnation of the Word and the moment of the birth of the Church. The person who links these two moments is Mary: Mary at Nazareth and Mary in the Upper Room at Jerusalem… Thus she who is present in the mystery of Christ as Mother becomes – by the will of the Son and the power of the Holy Spirit – present in the mystery of the Church. In the Church too she continues to be a maternal presence, as is shown by the words spoken from the Cross: ‘Woman, behold your son!’; ‘Behold, your mother.’”

In her maternal presence, Mary is there to advocate for us. We see this in a subtle depiction in the image of Our Lady of Fatima. At the bottom of her robe is a star. The star can be seen as a reference to Esther in the Old Testament, whose name means “star.” Esther is the one who pleaded with the Persian king to spare the life of her people, and at great risk to her own life.

The king, who had taken her as his queen, was deceived into issuing a decree ordering a massacre of the Jewish people, and in order to ask him to spare her people she had to reveal to him her Jewish identity. By her pleading with the king she saved her people. Our Lady, Star of the New Evangelization, likewise does not cease to plead for us to our King, just as she did for the poor newly married couple at Cana. This is not because we would be treated harshly by her Son if we were to approach him directly. No; rather, we must recognize that God will deal with us in strict justice unless we ask for mercy. God wants us to ask for mercy, and He wants us to ask the Mother of His Son to help us, just as she helped that couple at Cana.

Heeding the requests and the next 100 years

For 100 years we ignored the message of Fatima; or, perhaps, it is not so much the message we ignored, for we are well aware of the warnings and the history that resulted. Rather, it is the requests we ignored. But we cannot afford to do so any longer. We have to pay attention. We have to do what she told the waiters at Cana: Do whatever he tells you. And what does Christ tell us to do?

He reveals this in the requests our Lady made at Fatima. It is now time to heed those requests. We might not have the power to change world history, but we can change what happens in our own families and communities if we heed the message.

This next century can be radically different from the last one, but only if we heed the message and respond to the requests.

Which means that what we are doing today cannot be relegated to being simply a moving event and pleasant memory in the history of our archdiocese. Far from being something we check off on a to-do list, what we are about today is nothing less than a call to arms: To spiritual arms. We are living in a time and place of intense spiritual battle, and only in taking up spiritual arms will we alleviate the spiritual disease that is at the root of so much of the physical and mental suffering in the world today. It is time to leave the sensational aside, and respond to the requests of Our Lady at Fatima.

What did she ask us to do? It should come as no surprise, because it is the central part of her message wherever and whenever she appears: prayer, penance and adoration. And she was very clear at Fatima about the twofold purpose of this request: To save souls from hell, and to establish peace in the world. The message of Fatima was not only about the temporal order but, above all, the eternal order. In both orders, the stakes could not be higher: world peace and eternal salvation! I therefore call on all of the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to take to heart this threefold recipe for peace and salvation, as Our Lady has asked us.

A program of action

First of all prayer: Our Lady has asked us specifically to pray the rosary daily. I ask every Catholic in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, if you are not doing so already, to pray the rosary every day. And I ask all families to pray the rosary together at least once a week. Appropriately enough, we celebrate this Mass of Consecration of our Archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, a poignant reminder to us of the power of the rosary to bring about peace and even to change the course of world history. It can certainly, then, change the course of history in our own families and communities.

Penance: Most especially we must take up the spiritual arm of penance, for it is a powerful weapon in our spiritual arsenal that we have woefully ignored for far too long. The reform of the discipline of penitential practice in the Church, far from denying the importance of it, was meant to instill a more mature spirit of appropriating this hallmark of Christian life in the life of the individual believer. In particular, Fridays are still days of penance, as they always have been in the Church, going back to apostolic times. The faithful, though, may now choose to do some other form of fasting in place of the traditional practice of abstaining from eating meat if such a penance would be for them a greater sacrifice. I ask every Catholic in the Archdiocese of San Francisco to dedicate Friday as a day of penance in honor of the day that our Lord died for us, selecting one concrete form of bodily fasting to observe on this day, whether that be abstaining from meat or another type of food or from some type of drink they normally enjoy, or omitting a meal altogether. Our penitential practices, too, are meant to lead us to have more serious and frequent recourse to the sacrament of Penance. There can be no spiritual revival, and especially a revival of Eucharistic devotion, without a renewal in our practice of the sacrament of Reconciliation. I call on all of see fatima, page 12

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Fatima: A call to spiritual arms for the salvation and peace of the world us God’s mercy, the mercy that is world peace and eternal salvation.

There is one more very important thing Our Lady told the children after their vision of hell, not a request, but a promise: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.” Let us heed her message, let us grant her requests, in order to hasten that triumph, that triumph which is that of her Son over death, for she is inseparably linked to her Son, who came to win for us our eternal salvation. Her Immaculate Heart is the door that opens up for us entrance into that triumph. It is through that door that we walk from the darkness of sin and death to the light of Christ’s truth and mercy. There it is, on the other side of that door, a glorious, vast, light-filled paradise that is heaven. Her heart is the gate of heaven.

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the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to increase the sincerity and frequency with which they avail themselves of this sacrament, and, as a minimum, to confess their sins in the sacrament at least once a month.

Adoration: our Lady advocates for us, she picks us up, in order to bring us to her Son. All of our devotion, just as all of our penitential practices, must lead to adoration of God. The adoration Our Lady asks for is meant to purify us of our inclinations to worship the false gods of contemporary society, and to give ourselves over to singlehearted worship of the one, true God. As Lucia said in reflecting back on her childhood experiences of receiving the revelations at Fatima: “… our adoration must be a hymn of perfect praise, because, even before we came into being, God was already loving us, and was moved by this love to give us our being.” Our consecration must therefore also bring about a renewal of our love for, and devotion to, our Lord in the most Blessed Sacrament. I ask every Catholic in the Archdiocese of San Francisco to dedicate some time each week to pray before the Blessed Sacrament.

If it is not possible during the week, take some time before or after Sunday Mass to pray on your knees before our Lord present in the tabernacle.

At least some time every week praying before the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament – Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity – will fulfill his desire that we ask him for mercy. And of course, Our Lady also asked us to observe the devotion of the First Five Saturdays, precisely right after the children received the vision of hell, when she also asked for devotion to her Immaculate Heart. The devotion consists of attending Mass and receiving Communion in reparation for sins on five consecutive first Saturdays of the month shortly after or before going to Confession, and spending a quarter of an hour praying five decades of the rosary. Again we see our Lady’s concern to assist us in attaining eternal salvation: The point of the devotion is to make reparation for sins, especially the sin of blasphemy. I ask all of our faithful to make the First Five Saturdays a priority in their devotional life by observing it once a year.

From darkness to light

In the first reading for our Mass today, the prophet Isaiah speaks of the people who walked

Conclusion

And so, appropriately, we will conclude our prayer today, after Mass, procession and the Act of Consecration, with adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Mary is always there to pick us up and carry us to her Son; she wants to take us through her maternal heart from the darkness in which we walk to the light of her Son, and her Son wants us to allow her to do so. Let us then do that, by obeying her request to do whatever he tells us. That is, let us grant her requests, so that we may always keep our eyes fixed on him, her Son, the Son of God and Savior of the world. And so let us conclude these reflections today by making our own the words of St. Thomas Aquinas, as cited by Pope St. John Paul II in his conclusion to his Encyclical on the Eucharist, turning, as the saintly pope exhorts us, “in hope to the contemplation of that goal to which our hearts aspire in their thirst for joy and peace”: (Photo by Debra Greenblat/Catholic San Francisco)

in darkness seeing a great light, the light that is the joy of God’s salvation. God came to the aid of His people by destroying the instruments of Assyrian oppression and sending them a king to free them. Praying the rosary, bodily fasting, and adoration of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament: These are the spiritual arms of God that will destroy the spiritual oppression that has marred the last 100 years of world history, and that will bring

Come then, good Shepherd, bread divine, Still show to us thy mercy sign; Oh, feed us, still keep us thine; So we may see thy glories shine in fields of immortality.

O thou, the wisest, mightiest, best, Our present food, our future rest, Come, make us each thy chosen guest, Co-heirs of thine, and comrades blest With saints whose dwelling is with thee.

[Amen.]

Archbishop: Making the consecration real in our lives is what matters Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Less than a week after Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone consecrated the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, he sat down with Catholic San Francisco to talk about what comes next.

Ideally the consecration will “intensify our commitment to sharing a life of prayer, of faith, of the truth and mercy of Christ and of our time, talent and treasure,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

At the Oct. 7 consecration, Archbishop Cordileone called upon the people of the archdiocese to pray the rosary, do penance and go to eucharistic adoration. Our Lady of Fatima requested 100 years ago that we spread devotion to her Immaculate Heart, pray the rosary and do penance.

Today, if we do that, we can transform the world, he said in his homily, saying the last century has been a “living reflection of hell” with wars, genocides, and such now common horrors as abortion.

“This last century we see hints of hell in the world in which we live. Just as we see hints of heaven. Hell is when we turn our backs on God. Denying the goodness and order of creation is a way we turn our backs on him,” Archbishop Cordileone said in the interview.

“If this becomes a treasured memory, I don’t know if it will make a difference,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “I am convinced it will make a difference if people begin to heed the request, ap-

Living the Marian consecration In an interview with Catholic San Francisco following the consecration of the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Archbishop Cordileone invited the faithful to continue to bring the Blessed Virgin into their lives in “very concrete ways,” including the following.

Individuals praying the rosary daily Families praying the rosary weekly Frequently making a good confession Frequently participating in adoration Fasting and abstinence Accompaniment of immigrants

propriate this in their daily lives in very concrete ways.”

While the archdiocese will likely develop some programs to encourage those practices, all are ones that individuals and families can do on their own – and many already do, Archbishop Cordileone said. “There are discussions that can take place on how we do this on a more programmatic way, which I hope we can roll out,” he said. “But it doesn’t need to be a program.”

Already many parishes pray the rosary before or after weekday Mass and many parishes have adoration, he noted. “People pray the rosary every day. I encourage families to pray the rosary

at least once a week. We don’t need a program to do that.”

On the penitential side, Friday fasting or abstaining from meat or fasting in another way does not require anything but a personal commitment.

Going to confession is another way to develop the penitential side – and to experience and offer God’s mercy, he said.

“Generous availability of confession is one way of extending God’s mercy,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “Our accompaniment of immigrants.

That is a perfect way of how mercy needs to dull the sharp edge of justice. Strict justice sometimes ends up being overly harsh. So mercy helps mitigate that. And the most merciful thing we can do for people is to help them know the truth and help them to live in accordance with the truth.”

While the world has already been consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, it makes sense to call upon Mary in her Immaculate Heart “the gate to heaven” specifically for the archdiocese, he said.

“It is on the diocesan level that the work of the church is really sustained and coordinated. It takes place in the parishes and is sustained and coordinated at the diocesan level,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

The idea of the consecration “came from the people. It was discerned by the leadership and guided by the leadership and the committee I appointed. This is a very good example of communion operating at the level of the local church, all of us having a role in this,” he said.

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Language as opening or closing our minds

hirty years ago, the American educator, Allan Bloom, wrote a book titled “The Closing of the American Mind.” This was his thesis: In our secularized world today our language is becoming ever more empirical, one dimensional, and devoid of depth and this is closing our minds by stripping us of the deeper meanings inside our own experience. For Bloom, how we name an experience determines to a large extent its meaning.

Twenty years earlier, in a rather provocative essay, “The Triumph of the Therapeutic,” Philip Rieff had already sugFATHER ron gested something similar. For rolheiser Rieff, we live our lives under a certain “symbolic hedge,” namely, a language and set of symbols within which we interpret our experience.

And that hedge can be high or low and consequently so too will be the meaning we derive from any experience. Experience can be rich or shallow, depending on the language by which we interpret it.

Take this example: A man has a backache and sees his doctor. The doctor tells him that he’s suffering from arthritis. This brings the man some initial calm.

But he isn’t satisfied and sees a psychologist. The psychologist tells him that his symptoms are not just physical but that he is also suffering from midlife crisis. This names his pain at a deeper level and affords him a richer understanding of what he is undergoing.

But he’s still dissatisfied and sees a spiritual director.

The spiritual director, while not denying him arthritis

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and midlife crisis, tells him that he should understand this pain as his Gethsemane, as his cross to carry.

Notice all three diagnoses speak of the same pain but that each places that pain under a different symbolic hedge. Language speaks at different levels and only a certain language speaks at the level of the soul. Recently we have been helped to understand this through the work of Carl Jung and a number of his disciples, notably James Hillman and Thomas Moore, who have helped us to understand more explicitly the language of the soul and how that language uncovers deep archetypes within us.

We see the language of soul, among other places, in some of our great myths and fairy tales, many of them centuries old. Their seeming simplicity can fool you. They may be simple, but they’re not simplistic.

To offer one example, the story of Cinderella: The first thing to notice in this story is that the name, Cinderella, is not a real name but a composite of two words: Cinder, meaning ashes; and Puella, meaning the eternal girl. This is not a simple fairy tale about a lonely, beaten-down young girl. It’s a myth that highlights a deep structure within the human soul, namely, that before our souls are ready to wear the glass slipper, be the belle of the ball, to marry the prince, and to live happily ever after we must first spend some necessary time sitting in the ashes, suffering humiliation, and being purified by a time in the dust.

Notice how this story speaks in its own way of our spirituality of “Lent”, a season of penance, wherein we mark ourselves with ashes in order to enter a desert of our own making.

Cinderella is a story that shines a tiny light into the depth of our souls. Many of our famous myths do that, though nothing shines a light into the soul

Whose bourgeois morality?

n the latest round of debate over “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family, a fervent defender of the document sniffed at some of its critics that “the magisterium doesn’t bow to middle-class lobbies” and cited “Humanae Vitae” as an example of papal tough-mindedness in the face of bourgeois cultural pressures. It was a clever move, rhetorically, and we may hope that it’s right about the magisterial kowtow. But I fear it also misses the point – or, better, several points.

At the synods of 2014 and george weigel 2015, to which “Amoris Laetitia” is a response, the most intense lobbying for a change in the church’s traditional practice in the matter of holy Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried – a proposal the great majority of synod fathers thought an unwarranted break with truths taught by divine revelation – came from the German-speaking bishops: Prelates who represent perhaps the most thoroughly bourgeois countries on the planet. Thus one does not strain against veracity or charity by describing the German-speaking bishops as something of a lobby for middle-class preoccupations.

Passionate defenders of “Amoris Laetitia” might thus be a bit more careful when dismissing as a middleclass lobby those who raise legitimate concerns about the ambiguities in the document; what goes around, comes around.

There was, of course, far more going on in the 20142015 German campaign to permit holy Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried than lobbying on behalf of the bourgeois morality of secular, middle-class societies. There was, for example, the ongoing, two-front German war against “Humanae Vitae” (Blessed Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical on the morally appropriate means of family planning) and “Veritatis Splendor” (St. John Paul II’s 1993 encyclical on the reform of Catholic moral theology). We are told, now, that a commission is examining the full range of documentation involved in the preparation of “Humanae Vitae.” One hopes that that study will bring to the fore what Paul VI realized when he rejected the counsel of many and reaffirmed the church’s commitment to natural family planning as the humanly and morally appropriate means of regulating fertility.

For what Pope Paul realized – and what he had the

courage to stand against, despite fierce pressures – was that a deeper game was going on beneath the agitations of various “middle-class lobbies” for a change in the church’s position on artificial means of contraception. What was afoot was an attempt, reflecting currents in the German-speaking world of Catholic theology, to enshrine the moral method known as “proportionalism” as Catholicism’s official moral theology. And according to proportionalists, there is no such thing as an intrinsically evil act: Every moral action must be judged, not only in itself, but by a person’s intentions and the action’s consequences.

This, Paul VI realized, would be a disastrous concession to the spirit of the age. But the proportionalists didn’t quit the field after their defeat in “Humanae Vitae,” and that brings us to “Veritatis Splendor.” John Paul II had spent the greater part of his academic and intellectual life trying to reconstitute the foundations of the moral life in a confused age dominated by (if you’ll pardon the phrase) a bourgeois culture and its laissez-faire concept of morality.

He knew that the triumph of proportionalism and the vindication of its denial that some things are simply wrong, period, would gut the moral life of both its tether to reality and its human drama. And that, inevitably, would lead to unhappiness, misery, and social chaos. So in “Veritatis Splendor,” the most intellectually sophisticated and pastorally experienced pope in centuries reaffirmed, as the settled and unchangeable teaching of the church, that there are intrinsically evil acts: That some things are just wrong, without exception, no matter the calculus of intentions and consequences.

And still the proportionalists wouldn’t quit; one German commentary critical of “Veritatis Splendor” went so far as to claim that the German-speaking world had a special, privileged responsibility for Catholic theology. It was a statement of breathtaking arrogance, not least because it was made by theologians whose local churches were largely empty of congregants, thanks in no small part to the bourgeois lifestyle of postwar Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

There are, indeed, “middle-class lobbies” in the church, but they’re primarily the by-product of Catholic lite and its destruction of Catholic life and practice. The sorry condition of German-speaking Catholicism is a case in point.

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

as deeply as does Scripture, the Bible. Its language and symbols name our experience in a way that both honors the soul and helps us plumb the genuine depth inside our experiences.

For example: We can be confused, or we can be inside the belly of the whale. We can be helpless before an addiction, or we can be possessed by a demon. We can vacillate in our prayer lives between fervor and dark nights, or we can vacillate between being with Jesus “in Galilee” or with him in “Jerusalem.” We can be paralyzed as we stand before a globalization that’s overwhelming, or we can be standing with Jesus on the borders of Samaria in a first conversation with a Syro-Phoenician woman. We can be struggling with fidelity and with keeping our commitments in relationships, or we can be standing with Joshua before God, receiving instructions to kill off the Canaanites if we are to sustain ourselves in the Promised Land. We can be suffering from arthritis, or we can be sweating blood in the garden of Gethsemane.

The language we use to understand an experience makes a huge, huge difference in what that experience means to us. In “The Closing of the American Mind,” Allan Bloom uses a rather earthy, but highly illustrative, example to explain this. He quotes Plato who tells us that during their breaks his students sit around and tell wonderful stories about the meaning of their immortal longings. My students, Bloom laments, sit around during their breaks and tell stories about being horny.

We are losing the language of the soul and we are poorer for it.

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

Letters Pray to Mary in trying times

Perhaps I am in the minority but I did not feel Catholic San Francisco did a “hatchet job” on Sen. (Dianne) Feinstein (“Defending Sen. Feinstein,” Letters, Sept. 28). If so, then couldn’t the same be said of her intense grilling of Amy Coney Barrett? It was obvious Barrett’s religion was held against her. Also, in this case, I think because our president is so disliked by many, anyone connected to him tends to be rejected by them.

We are living in very trying times and our country needs our support. We should try to be fair and patient with one another and, of course, we must pray, pray, pray for guidance especially to Mary our mother. Mothers know best, especially Mary!

Mary Louise Zgraggen San Francisco

‘Immaculate Mary’ “Immaculate Mary,” a pencil drawing by St. Brigid School, San Francisco, eighth graders Ariane Vidal, Ariana Zhao, Lucas Woon and Robin Tsai won first place in the group category for Special Art Projects in the student art and writing contest held in connection with the Oct. 7 consecration of the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

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Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time ISAIAH 45:1, 4-6 Thus says the Lord to his anointed, Cyrus, whose right hand I grasp, subduing nations before him, and making kings run in his service, opening doors before him and leaving the gates unbarred: For the sake of Jacob, my servant, of Israel, my chosen one, I have called you by your name, giving you a title, though you knew me not. I am the Lord and there is no other, there is no God besides me. It is I who arm you, though you know me not, so that toward the rising and the setting of the sun people may know that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, there is no other.

PSALM 96:1, 3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10 Give the Lord glory and honor.

Sing to the Lord a new song; sing

to the Lord, all you lands. Tell his glory among the nations; among all peoples, his wondrous deeds.

Give the Lord glory and honor.

For great is the Lord and highly to be praised; awesome is he, beyond all gods.

For all the gods of the nations are things of nought, but the Lord made the heavens.

Give the Lord glory and honor.

Give to the Lord, you families of nations, give to the Lord glory and praise; give to the Lord the glory due his name! Bring gifts, and enter his courts.

Give the Lord glory and honor.

Worship the Lord, in holy attire; tremble before him, all the earth; say among the nations: The Lord is king, he governs the peoples with equity.

Give the Lord glory and honor.

THESSALONIANS 1:1-5B Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for all of you, remembering you in our prayers, unceasingly calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father, knowing, brothers and sisters loved

by God, how you were chosen. For our gospel did not come to you in word alone, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with much conviction.

MATTHEW 22:15-21 The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus

in speech. They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.

And you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion, for you do not regard a person’s status. Tell us, then, what is your opinion: Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?”

Knowing their malice, Jesus said, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites? Show me the coin that pays the census tax.” Then they handed him the Roman coin. He said to them, “Whose image is this and whose inscription?” They replied, “Caesar’s.”

At that he said to them, “Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings The sunday scripture reflection will return in the Oct. 26 issue.

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Events prove the scary truth of evil’s deceptive power

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The Las Vegas massacre cannot be explained as a mental health issue. It was pure evil that manifested itself as demonic madness. Those who deny the existence of satanic malice have a lot to learn.

The Vatican has for centuries maintained archival records of diabolical possessions. A special school exists in the Holy See to train priests to be exorcists.

FATHER JOHN To regard demonic behavCATOIR ior merely as a person’s disconnection from reality is spiritual blindness.

Those who deny the existence of the devil need to realize that if you cut out all the sections of the Bible that mention the activity of Satan and the forces of darkness, the book would be left in shreds.

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The serpent is a liar, more crafty than any of the wild animals. God said, “You must not eat fruit from this tree or you will die.” Later, Satan said, “You will certainly not die” (Genesis 3:1-5).

“But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:3).

“The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work” (1 John 3:8). And, “I came that your joy may be full” (John 15:11).

Before the local leaders picked up stones to throw at Jesus, he said to them, “You belong to the devil; he is your father, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth.

When Satan lies, he speaks his native tongue, for he is a liar and the father of lies…then Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple” (John 8:44, 59).

“Submit yourself to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James, 4:7).

“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing in the faith” (1 Peter 5:8).

“Then Peter said, ‘Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have kept for

yourself some of the money you received for the land?’” (Acts 5:3).

“Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the powers of darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:11-16).

Jesus said, “Fear is useless what you need is trust” (Luke 8:50).

It is because I care that I present these truths to you. A good father wants to protect his children from all danger, visible and invisible. Yes, it’s scary; it’s upsetting I know, but it is the truth.

I worry about all the high school kids who were taught by their science teacher never to believe anything you can’t prove scientifically. To that I say, just look at the slaughters that took place in Las Vegas. There is evidence from all over the world, where Muslim jihadist terrorists have mercilessly massacred thousands, even while they are at worship. Is that evidence enough for you? Tell it like it is.

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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A bench in downtown Sonoma was decorated with messages of hope and good will as the Nuns Fire continued to threaten the town Oct. 13. Members of the Marin Catholic High School St. Vincent de Paul Club took the picture on a mission to deliver bottled water to nearby St. Leo Parish.

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asked to assess their capacity to provide spiritual counseling, access to churches for prayer and meditation, resources for information and goods, and temporary facilities for shelter, feeding and family reunification. The backup support would be put in place if needed by the Santa Rosa Emergency Operations Center, which is coordinating the relief effort.

With 20 shelters open in Sonoma County and a declining number of evacuees as of Oct, 16, there was no immediate call for additional shelter space.

But archdiocesan director of safety and security Derek Gaskin said there will be a growing need for spiritual and emotional care as those affected absorb the impact of the disaster.

Gaskin told Catholic San Francisco that trained spiritual counselors should call pastors at the designated parishes in Marin. They are St. Rita, St. Sebastian, St. Cecilia, St. Helen Mission, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, St. Anthony of Padua, Sacred Heart, St. Mary Star of the Sea and Church of the Assumption.

“There is going to be a big need for spiritual counseling, No. 1,” Gaskin said. “No. 2 would be most likely any kind of human-to-human connection, just being there for people.”

Archbishop Cordileone commented on the Marin effort in an interview

with Catholic San Francisco during a pastoral visit to St. Thomas More Parish in San Francisco on Oct. 13.

“Our hearts go out to all those affected by the terrible wildfires in Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino – all those areas – and know our prayers are with you,” the archbishop said. “I’m very grateful to our own pastors in Marin County who are opening up their facilities for people who are taking refuge from the danger of the fires. Thank you, my dear fathers, for your generosity and your response to those in need and extending Christian hospitality.”

At St. Rita Parish in Fairfax, pastor Father Ken Weare said the parish hall and church are ready to receive those in need of housing, especially for overnight accommodations, with two parishioners who are trained Red Cross managers overseeing the facilities when they are occupied by evacuees.

“Additionally, since we are a sanctuary church, any undocumented immigrant evacuees will be safe since the ICE police are forbidden,” Father Weare said an Oct. 13 email to Marin priests.

All victims and evacuees are invited to take whatever clothing and household items they need from the St. Rita Thrift Store, at no cost, and a significant amount and variety of non-perishable food items and water are available from the parish food pantry for any victims or evacuees in need, Father Weare said.

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Culture Project: Team of young adults brings virtue to the center FROM PAGE 1

Dating an endangered practice

The whole world of dating has gone a bit askew, Harrington said, noting “The Dating Project” was inspired by real life. She and her friend Catherine Fowler Sample pitched the concept to Mpower films. “We had been at a dinner party with 14 women. Two were married and the rest were single. And most hadn’t been on a date in a long time,” said Harrington.

On its Facebook page, “The Dating Project” producers state: “Fifty percent of America is single. The way people seek and find love has radically changed. The trends of hanging out, hooking up, texting and social media have created a dating deficit. Dating is now ... outdated.”

That appears to be close to true – but not inevitable.

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Ken Staal, 27, who lives in San Gregorio, outside Half Moon Bay, and his wife Yesenia

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‘A lot of people would like to go on a date and not have a lot of pressure.’

Megan Harrington, Producer, ‘The Dating Project’ among Catholic young adults, said Amanda George, youth and young adult ministry director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “They’re not hooking up, but they’re also not asking people out,” said George. Young adults at times seem to have trouble moving from friendship to dating.

“I would say in general for people my age, millennials, I guess, connectivity is really hard,” said Kiley Sheehy, 26, who moved to the Bay Area two years ago after graduating from the University of Kansas.

But, Sheehy said there are advantages to living in the Bay Area.

Sheehy joined St. Dominic’s young adults group last Christmas, and she said the fact so many young adults are transients and professionals actually makes it easier to connect in the Bay Area because very few of those she’s met are entrenched in a way of life.

“Just showing up and being active and letting people know you want to

be involved is the best way to make friends,” said Sheehy.

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While finding the right person to marry has always seemed impossible, until he or she suddenly appears – the current cultural milieu in the U.S., and the San Francisco Bay Area, do make it harder, observers say. The statistics bear that out.

Nationally half of all U.S. adults are married today, down significantly from 72 percent in 1960, according to the Pew Research Center in a Sept. 14 article based on newly released U.S. census data. Marriages are down 9 percent over the past 25 years, Pew reports.

In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the number of sacramental marriages declined by 57 percent from 1996 to 2016, while the number of people registering in a parish as Catholic

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But the hookup culture is not as prevalent as news reports would indicate, said Fay. Researchers found just 15 percent of undergraduates enjoy the hookup culture and a third of undergraduates never participate in it, Fay said in a September Culture Project YouTube video “Avoiding Peer Pressure in College.”

rose slightly. The 2016 Official Catholic Directory, published by P.J. Kenedy & Sons, lists 877 sacramental marriages for a population of 451,579 Catholics. In 1996, there were 2,068 Catholic marriages in a population of 420,567 Catholics.

“It’s not like when you go to a bar all the Catholic guys and girls are wearing a badge that says, ‘Hey I’m into my faith,’” said Ken Staal, 27, who lives in San Gregorio, outside Half Moon Bay, and just married his wife Yesenia a year ago. He runs a small excavation business. “You have to try a lot of trial and error, awkward conversations. I would say our age group in this area are pretty hostile to living out the Catholic faith. Polite – but when it comes down to it, pretty hostile.”

“A friend, she got advice from a priest: ‘If you want to get married, you should not be living in San Francisco,’” said Claire Herrick, who is from the Bay Area. Still, said Herrick, despite the odds, she has met someone special who shares her values.

“A year in, I realized I needed to establish roots,” said Eric Jackson, 26, who works in marketing and came to the Bay Area from Sacramento after earning two degrees at Boston College – and is dating Claire Herrick. “I started joining young adults groups around town.”

“The difficulty is the culture in general overall is not a faithful one,” said Jackson. “It is little harder to find maybe a suitable person to date but on the other hand, if you do, it’s likely to be a stronger partnership.”

And Harrington said marriage is still happening. During the movie research on online dating sites, her co-producer Catherine Fowler Sample met her husband and now is pregnant and living in the Southeast, Harrington said.

“We hope this film inspires a movement. Let’s bring back dating,” Harrington said.

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Bowe room. Sessions provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. No charge. Facilitator: Deacon Christoph Sandoval. For further details, please call Sister Elaine at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

ST. JUDE NOVENA: St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, Oct. 20-28, with Dominican Father Emmerich Vogt preaching. St. Jude Pilgrimage Oct. 28. (415) 9315919; www.stjude-shrine.org.

SATURDAY, OCT. 21 ACCW FALL CONFERENCE: Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., St. Brendan Parish Hall, San Francisco. Speakers include Sacred Heart Sister Fran Tobin and Presentation Sister Rita Jovick, Northern California Sisters against Human Trafficking; EWTN’s Barbara McGuigan; San Quentin volunteer Jean Ann Hostetter Ramirez. Cathy Mibach, (415) 753-0234. dcmibach@aol.com.

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.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 4 YOUNG ADULT RETREAT: Youth ministers and young adults work/life balance retreat.

For all youth ministers, core team members, and all young adults in the Archdiocese of D.J. Bernal San Francisco, Collins Center at St. Cecilia Parish, 17th Avenue at Vicente, San Francisco. $12 ticket includes lunch. Retreat leader is D.J. Bernal, who also presented at Steubenville NorCal. http:// ymyaretreat.eventbrite.com.

SUNDAY, NOV. 5 ST. PETER SCHOOL MASS: Annual memorial Mass for graduates and friends of St. Peter School, 24th and Alabama streets, San Francisco, 2:30 p.m., in parish church, Father Agudo reception follows, Father Moises Agudo, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. (415) 647-8662.

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PALLIATIVE CARE: Dr. Dawn Gross, a palliative care physician at UCSF, on creating a safe space to transform the experience of end-of-life conversations from dread to discovery, 11 a.m., St. Anselm Church, Centennial Hall, 97 Shady Lane, Ross. Register with Sissy Ratto, (415) 453-2342; St.anselmoffice@att.net.

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