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‘Death does not have the last word’ Street vigils for homicide victims reclaim peace from a place of violence Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

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VATICAN CITY – Marriage and family life are blessings for individuals and for society, but both are filled with difficult choices that Catholic couples must be helped to face prayerfully and in the light of their consciences, Pope Francis said.

Unfortunately, too many people today confuse a rightly formed conscience with personal preferences dominated by selfishness, the pope said in a video message to an Italian meeting on “Amoris Laetitia,” his exhortation on the family.

“The contemporary world risks confusing the primacy of conscience, which is always to be respected, with the exclusive autonomy of the individual” even when the individual’s decisions impact his or her marriage and family life, the pope said.

Repeating a remark he had made to the Pontifical Academy for Life, Pope Francis said, “There are those who even speak of ‘egolatry,’ that is, the true worship of the ego on whose altar everything, including the dearest affections, are sacrificed.”

Confusing conscience with selfishness “is not harmless,” the pope said. “This is a ‘pollution’ that corrodes souls and confounds minds and hearts, producing false illusions.”

The conference sponsored by the Italian bishops’ see marriage, page 8

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Father Piers Lahey prays at a street memorial for Anthony Torres, killed in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. The pastor at St. Andrew Parish in Daly City regularly leads prayer vigils to reclaim peace at homicide scenes in San Francisco.

Film industry location scout Edward French was robbed of his camera and his life at dawn on July 16 while photographing the sunrise from popular Twin Peaks overlook in San Francisco. His obituary said he had a “keen eye for capturing the obvious and hidden beauty” of the city where he had been born and raised.

“He was ‘San Francisco,’” it read. “When you look to the city skyline – he will be there smiling with his camera.”

Ten days later, with visitors behind him posing for selfies against that storied vista, an unassuming priest in street clothes stood on the red dirt where French drew his last breath, and bowed his head.

“We come together in this space, at this time of grief, acknowledging the violent act committed against our brother Ed French,” Father Piers Lahey said to the circle of some 30 people who joined him in prayer, including a group of visiting Catholic high school students and their adult chaperones.

None knew the 71-year-old victim, but all came to bear witness.

“When somebody’s life is taken away, especially by gun violence, all of us feel that outrage, all of us feel that pain,” Father Lahey said. “Any violent act on someone is a violent act on us all.”

A tall votive candle draped with a rosary and labeled with French’s name flickered on the ground as hilltop winds lashed at the pages of Father Lahey’s prayer book. In a closing ritual he reclaimed the spot with a sprinkling of holy water.

“Come, Holy Spirit, and redeem this space and see vigils, page 12

Pope puts John Paul I on path to sainthood, saying he lived the Christian virtues heroically Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis recognized that Pope John Paul I, who served only 33 days as pope, lived the Christian virtues in a heroic way.

The Vatican announced Pope Francis’ decision Nov. 9. It marks the first major step on the path to sainthood for the pope who died in 1978 at the age of 65, shocking the world and a church that had just mourned the death of Blessed Paul VI. Pope Francis would have to recognize a miracle

attributed to the late pope’s intercession in order for him to be beatified, the next step toward sainthood.

A second miracle would be needed for canonization.

Stefania Falasca, vice postulator of Pope John Paul’s sainthood cause, said one “presumed extraordinary healing” had already been investigated by a diocese and a second possibility is being studied, but the Vatican does not begin its investigations until a sainthood candidate is declared venerable.

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LAYETTE LUNCH: A holiday lunch benefitting Alpha Pregnancy Center, San Francisco, will be held Dec 3, noon, at Flanagan Center, Holy Name of Jesus Parish, 39th Avenue at Lawton, San Francisco. Tickets are $35. Bring wrapped Christmas ornament for ornament exchange and unwrapped item for baby layette. Contact Christine DelCarlo, (415) 648-4522.

FIRE BENEFIT CONCERT: “An Afternoon of Music” benefiting Cardinal Newman High School in light of damage from the recent wildfires will be Nov. 19, 3 p.m., at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St. at Funston, San Francisco, featuring voices from Mercy High School, San Francisco, Archbishop Riordan High School and St. Anne School and the musicianship of the Riordan jazz band. Admission is free but freewill offerings will be accepted for the benefit purpose. Contact Laura Flaviani, lflavianimusic@gmail.com.

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Father Brendan McGuire speaks on school liturgy at the Santa Clara Faith Formation Conference on Nov. 3. Every school Mass “should be brilliant every single time,” he said.

CHRISTMAS CONCERT: St. Mary Parish, Nicasio, will hold a Christmas Concert on Dec. 10, 2 p.m., at the church with reception after at Druid’s Hall. Tickets are $50 for adults, $10 children under 13. The event features Christmas and other pieces by a variety of artists.

Reservations can be made by mailing a check, payable to St. Mary, to Dan and Sue Curran, 345 Ironstone Court, San Rafael, CA 94903. For more information,call (415) 491-4420.

TURKEY DRIVE: Benefiting St. Anthony Foundation, Nov. 18, Dec. 16, St. Emydius Parish, DeMontfort and Jules avenues, San Francisco, 9 a.m.-noon. Contact Pierre Smit, sfpierre@aol.com.

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“We have to go to the Lord and pray and talk to “Every single time, there should be music, there God. And then listen to Christ in our hearts,” he said. should be preaching as if tomorrow is the last day.

Bringing in the parish so that both parish and This is the day the Lord has made! Wouldn’t it be great if you had to settle your kids down after Mass?” school are involved, and making actions, such as helping feed the homeless are also important, he Father McGuire asked. “What makes great liturgy? said. In today’s world, with so many parents not Great hymns, great homilies, great hospitality.” practicing the Catholic faith, schools need to walk The central piece of the Catholic faith, the celwith parents and families, and show the warmth and ebration of the Eucharist, where bread and wine caring that should be part of every Christian’s apare transformed into the body and blood of Christ, proach, Father McGuire said. is often treated as a ho-hum event, “just the school “What Jesus is saying is love him first,” Father Mass,” Father McGuire said.

McGuire said. “To love others, you must do so by Changing that means teaching children hymns in loving me first.” the classroom, bringing them into church to learn The two-day conference attracted hundreds of the hymns before Mass, he said “So they are not sitparticipants. The mission of the Santa Clara Faith ting like a bump on a log waiting for someone to sing Formation Conference is to help ministers and leadto them.” ers connect Christian faith with their daily lives in And teachers must have a living faith themselves the culturally diverse dioceses in Northern Califorto be able to share it, he said.

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Mass of Remembrance for Father Tom Seagrave set Dec. 18 Archbishop Riordan High School invites friends of Father Thomas Seagrave to a Mass of Remembrance on Dec. 18, marking the two-year anniversary of his death.

The Mass will take place at 5 p.m. at the Father Seagrave school at 175 Phelan Ave., San Francisco, followed by a reception at 6 p.m. Riordan chaplain Father John Jimenez will celebrate.

“Even two years after Father Seagrave’s death, his followers continue to share stories, many on social media, about his remarkable life of service and his ability to help those around him develop a deep faith in God,” the school said.

Father Seagrave was “the hardestworking priest I have known,” his

friend John Moriarty said. “We can be proud of Father Seagrave for many reasons, and especially for his generosity in paying from his own resources tuition for many students in Catholic schools through the years.”

In a 2011 interview with Catholic San Francisco, Father Seagrave shared his desire to help others.

“In Catholic schools you think about God and Jesus Christ every day and Christian values are taught and modeled every day,” he said.

“I have always regarded that as a blessing in my life that not everyone has. People sacrificed to make it available to me; I have tried over the years to do the same.”

Inspired by Father Seagrave’s vision, Riordan has also launched The Father Thomas Seagrave Fund – Saber es Poder (Knowledge is Power). The fund is modeled after

director John Ring. “We are hoping that The Seagrave Fund will help continue his important work of supporting San Francisco students and their families who desire a Catholic education.”

The school previously honored Father Seagrave, a 1960 graduate of Riordan, with the 2011 Chaminade Award, the school’s highest honor.

The school’s Chapel of the Assumption of The Blessed Virgin was renovated and renamed in Father Seagrave’s honor that same year.

a scholarship currently offered at University of San Francisco, and will support students with a demonstrated financial need who exemplify academic achievement, leadership, and the desire to impact their community through service.

Although the fund is designed to support Riordan’s strong Latino population, which currently stands at 25 percent, it will be open to all deserving students who need tuition assistance.

“We have heard countless stories that Father Tom made the difference for so many students at St. Paul, St. Peter, Church of the Visitacion, St. John of God, and elsewhere,” said Riordan development

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Good Shepherd Sisters ‘witness miracles every day’ with women helped at Gracenter Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

The Good Shepherd Sisters are celebrating 85 years of service to San Francisco in 2017. Sister Marguerite Bartling is executive director of the congregation’s Good Shepherd Gracenter, “a unique program to help women without resources during the critical period when they are first coming out of primary treatment” for addiction and alcoholism, Sister Marguerite said. “The Good ShepSister Marguerite Bartling, RGS herd Sisters’ primary charism is to bring the merciful love of Jesus, the Good Shepherd, to all, awakening in them their sense of worth and dignity as children of God.” Gracenter is a path to recovery from addiction and to community reintegration that addresses the major barriers to success including homelessness, lack of employment, inadequate education, and involvement with the criminal justice system.

It offers a home to approximately 33 women every year while providing recovery support to women who have taken the program, and referral services to women who call for help.

“The positive impact of Good Shepherd Gracenter on the city of San Francisco is significant,” Sister Marguerite said. “Becoming productive citizens once more, the women no longer represent a drain on taxpayers. A sustainable, long-term recovery from drug and alcohol addiction empowers the women to move from homelessness to stable housing, improve their overall health, achieve employment and an income, reduce their recidivism, and obtain higher education.”

The program emphasizes mentoring, strong community bonds, and health and wellness in assisting women to shape new horizons for themselves.

A true spirit of family pervades Gracenter especially at the holidays. “It is a time for the women to cook their favorite dishes, get together in a familylike atmosphere, enjoy decorating the residence for Christmas and, of course, having a tree with brightly colored packages under it – just for them!” Sister Marguerite said.

The first thing others can do for Gracenter is pray, Sister Marguerite said. Next, monetary support is greatly welcomed.

Donors can sponsor a resident for a month for $1,000 or donate items such towels, twin-bed sheets,

PRIZE WINNING: Mercy High School, San Francisco has been named a 2017 National Yearbook Program of Excellence by yearbook publishers Jostens. Jostens said in a statement that the yearbook team created “an exceptional yearbook for their school and community.” Pictured from left: sophomore Elise Lieva, junior Kamille Fernando, senior Emily Lee; yearbook adviser Karen Vanuska, juniors Shakira Garcia and Nyla Moore, freshmen Esmy Ramirez, Jordan Whitecrane, and Alisson Bones, and sophomore Angelica Colmenares.

Sister Marguerite said “We witness miracles every day of courage, determination, strength and resiliency, through the workings of those graces as these women achieve remarkable success that continues long after they leave Gracenter.”

Sister Marguerite holds a graduate degree in social work from San Francisco State University and is a credentialed and certified addiction treatment counselor. Gracenter is a Licensed Recovery Residence. www.gsgracenter.org.

GIANT SALES: Aviannah White, seen here with the San Francisco Giants’ Lou Seal, is a first grader at Immaculate ConceptionSt. Anthony School and top seller in its chocolate sale that raised $34,000 for the San Francisco school. “Lou visited our top sellers for a pizza lunch and for photos,” the school said. “He seems to like bling - look at the size of those World Series rings!” and gift cards to Target or Payless Shoes. The third way a person can make a difference in the lives of the women at Gracenter is volunteering in areas including computer help, hair-stylist, and facility repairs.

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St. Anne Parish, school organize against proposed marijuana store Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

St. Anne of the Sunset Parish and school are organizing against a cannabis dispensary that was approved by the San Francisco Planning Commission on Irving Street, in the heart of the local shopping district. The appeal of the Barbary Coast dispensary at 2161 and 2165 Irving is scheduled to be heard by the San Francisco Father Dan Board of Supervisors on Dec. 5.

Nascimento “We’re not in favor of more dispensaries, especially in family neighborhoods,” said St. Anne pastor Father Dan Nascimento, who along with Holy Name of Jesus pastor Father Arnold Zamora is opposing the marijuana dispensary in their Sunset neighborhood on Irving between 22nd and 23rd avenues.

St. Anne parish is also mobilizing opposition to the citywide legislation proposed that would

open up more of the city to adult use cannabis dispensaries when California’s new law legalizing recreational marijuana takes effect Jan. 1.

The citywide law was scheduled to be discussed and perhaps voted on Nov. 14 at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors regular meeting. The state law leaves it to the local cities and counties to regulate the cannabis dispensaries primarily through land use and public health laws. The proposed legislation would give medical marijuana dispensaries first priority to convert to adult use.

“As it is now, the mayor and some supervisors, want to set up ‘reasonable’ cannabis use in the city,” Father Nascimento said in a letter, saying it is important to get the word out “to let our parents and parishioners know so they can let the supervisors know.”

He said neighborhood opposition convinced the board of supervisors to overturn Planning Commission approvals of a dispensary at Taraval Street and most recently the Apothecarium at 32nd Avenue and Noriega Street. The Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 to uphold an appeal against the Apothecarium Oct. 3, a chain partly owned by former Oakland mayor Jean Quan and her husband.

St. Anne principal Thomas White and parent association president Beverly Perea in a letter sent home to parents urged them to sign a

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“These locations lie within proximity to commute routes and schools for the children in the neighborhood. While the applicants claim their facilities will take a low-key approach, nonetheless, the children in the community will know of the facilities and be elevated in their awareness of pot use in the area,” White and Perea state.

White and Perea also note that Barbary Coast, which now has a smoking lounge and medical marijuana dispensary on Mission Street near Sixth Street, hopes to add a cannabis smoking lounge on Irving.

The St. Anne parish council at its last meeting voted to contact the board of supervisors with its opposition. Father Nascimento placed a notice in the Sunday bulletin alerting parishioners and asking them to contact their district supervisor.

The dispensary lies in District 4, represented by Supervisor Katie Tang, and the parish is within District 5, represented by board of supervisors president London Breed.

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‘Spiritual but not religious’: What does it mean? Survey offers clues Mark Pattison Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – It’s almost reached the level of cliche in American society: You ask someone why they don’t go to church, and they reply, “Oh, I’m spiritual but not religious.”

But what does that mean? A survey conducted jointly by the Public Religion Research Institute and Florida State University does not provide hardand-fast answers, but it offers clues.

Without asking respondents directly whether they considered themselves spiritual but not religious – or at any other spot on the spiritualityreligiosity spectrum – the survey tried to tease out what made them different from their fellow Americans.

“We tried eight different measures to get a spiritual analysis,” said Dan Cox, PRRI research director. “Three (measures) really held together: They felt particularly connected to the world around them, they felt a part of something larger than just themselves, and they found a larger purpose in life.”

To determine whether survey respondents were religious, “we took a more conventional approach: frequency of worship attendance and salience – how important people said religion was in their life,” Cox said.

Despite the near-ubiquity of the “spiritual but not religious” comment, this group was the smallest of the four designations, at 18 percent. Those who are neither spiritual nor religious constitute 31 percent, those who are both spiritual and religious make up 29 percent, and those who are not spiritual but religious account for 22 percent.

“We didn’t really look at the actual practices,” Cox told Catholic News Service in a Nov. 8 telephone interview, although that may be part of a future survey involving the same respondents. “We looked at yoga and meditation. The spiritual folks are more likely to meditate but not to participate in yoga. Those are the only two behaviors that we looked at.”

One intent of the study was to “look at what difference, if any, that spirituality makes in people’s behavior and life satisfaction. According to our definition of spirituality, it has a discernible impact,” Cox said. “How they treat other people, pro-social behaviors, holding the door open for someone, letting others cut in line.”

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St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Capitol Hill is seen in Washington Nov. 8. Public Religion Research Institute and Florida State University conducted a survey to try to get at what people mean by being “spiritual but not religious.” about a problem in the past week; 49 percent reported they were moved, touched or inspired while watching television in the last week – double that of the 24 percent of nonspiritual Americans; and 72 percent said the statement “if I had to list everything I felt grateful for, it would be a very long list” describes them either exactly or very well.

“No activity is a greater source of inspiration than listening to music,” the survey report said.

“Roughly seven in 10 (71 percent) spiritual Americans – including 69 percent of the spiritual but not religious – say they have been touched, moved or inspired within the last week while listening to a song or piece of music.”

“Spirituality is obviously a concept that can be difficult to pin down. The GSS – the General Social Survey (by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago) – is a large data set.

And it asks, ‘Do you consider yourself a religious person, do you consider yourself a spiritual person?’ That’s not the approach that we took,” Cox said.

The Pew Research Center, he added, also asks respondents to identify themselves as spiritual or religious or not, and comes up with a higher percentage than did PRRI. Therefore, the 18 percent figure can’t be compared to a number arrived by a different survey using different measuring methods.

“Are they growing, are they shrinking? We don’t know,” Cox said. One thing is for sure, he noted:

“Interest in spirituality is increasing. There’s some signs of that.”

“Most Americans who are spiritual but not religious still identify with a religious tradition,” said the survey report, released Nov. 6.

Among Catholics, who made up 18 percent of the 2,016 subjects in the phone and online interview pool this spring, 32 percent are both spiritual and religious, 31 percent are not spiritual but religious, 22 percent are neither spiritual nor religious, and 15 percent are spiritual but not religious.

When split according to religious affiliation, unaffiliated respondents were highest in being neither spiritual nor religious (65 percent) and being spiritual but not religious (29 percent, with nonChristians at 28 percent), and lowest on being both spiritual and religious (1 percent).

Black Protestants were highest at being not spiritual but religious (39 percent) and lowest at being neither spiritual nor religious (8 percent) and being spiritual but not religious (tied at 5 percent with white evangelicals). White evangelicals were highest at being both spiritual and religious at 54 percent, and non-Christians were lowest at being not spiritual but religious, at 9 percent.

The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent.

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The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael have determined that San Domenico School in San Anselmo “will no longer be a Catholic school, and will not be recognized by the Archdiocese of San Francisco as such.”

The sisters made the announcement Nov. 13, noting that during the past several months the community’s leadership team “has prayed, reflected, studied, and consulted on the best way forward for San Domenico School’s accreditation.”

Founded by the sisters in 1850, the school will no longer be accredited by the Western Catholic Educational Association but will remain an independent school with accreditation by the California Association of Independent Schools and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the sisters announced. The school will continue to be a member of the National Association of Independent Schools.

“San Domenico School has, and will continue to honor, its Catholic and Dominican heritage,” the sisters said. “The Dominican Sisters and San Domenico School are deeply committed to remaining in relationship with

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one another and to the mission of the school. The sisters also explained their decision to San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and remain deeply committed to their relationship with the archdiocese.

“While this decision was a difficult one for us to make, we feel confident it is the right one at this time for the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael and San Domenico School,” the sisters said.

An Aug. 24 story in the Marin Independent Journal reporting the concerns of some school parents over the school’s decision to reduce the Catholic statuary on campus sparked international media attention and debate over the school’s Catholic identity.

The decision to remove some statues before the start of this school year reflected the school’s strategic plan to become “more inclusive” to a largely non-Catholic student body.

The school includes “families of many faiths including Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, etc., as well as families who do not follow any particular faith but appreciate the value of discovering a sense of the sacred in its many manifestations.”

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conference was focused on “conscience and norm” in Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation.

Diagnosing problems in the church’s outreach to married couples and families, Pope Francis had written, “We have long thought that simply by stressing doctrinal, bioethical and moral issues, without encouraging openness to grace, we were providing sufficient support to families, strengthening the marriage bond and giving meaning to marital life.”

“We also find it hard to make room for the consciences of the faithful, who very often respond as best they can to the Gospel amid their limitations, and are capable of carrying out their own discernment in complex situations,” he wrote in “Amoris Laetitia.” “We have been called to form consciences, not to replace them.”

In his message to the meeting Nov. 11 in Rome, Pope Francis said the Catholic Church must strengthen its programs “to respond to the desire for family that emerges in the soul of the young generations” and to help couples once they are married.

“Love between a man and a woman is obviously among the most generative human experiences; it is the leaven of a culture of encounter, and

introduces to the present world an injection of sociality,” he said.

Marriage and family life are “the most effective antidote against the individualism that currently runs rampant,” he said, but it does not do one any good to pretend that marriage and family life are free from situations requiring difficult choices.

“In the domestic reality, sometimes there are concrete knots to be addressed with prudent conscience on the part of each,” he said. “It is important that spouses, parents, not be left alone, but accompanied in their commitment to applying the Gospel to the concreteness of life.”

Conscience, he said, always has God’s desire for the human person as its ultimate reference point.

“In the very depths of each one of us, there is a place wherein the ‘Mystery’ reveals itself, and illuminates the person, making the person the protagonist of his story,” he said. “Conscience, as the Second Vatican Council recalls, is this ‘most secret core and sanctuary of a man. There he is alone with God, whose voice echoes in his depths.’”

Each Christian, the pope said, must be “vigilant so that in this kind of tabernacle there is no lack of divine grace, which illuminates and strengthens married love and the parental mission.”

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Civility must guide debate on social challenges, USCCB president says Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service

BALTIMORE – Acknowledging wide divisions in the country over issues such as health care, immigration reform, taxes and abortion, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called for civility to return to the public debate.

Contemporary challenges are great, but that they can be addressed without anger and with love Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston said in his first address as USCCB president during the bishops’ fall general assembly.

“We are facing a time that seems more divided than ever,” Cardinal DiNardo said. “Divisions over health care, conscience protections, immigration and refugees, abortion, physicianassisted suicide, gender ideologies, the meaning of marriage and all the other headlines continue to be hotly debated. But our role continues to be witnessing the Gospel.”

He explained that the National Catholic War Council, created by the U.S. bishops in 1917 in the response to the world refugee crisis that emerged from World War I and the forerunner to the USCCB, was formed to address great national and international needs at a time not unlike today.

He said the history of the American Catholic Church is full of examples of the work of “holy men and women” responding to social challenges.

He particularly mentioned Capuchin Franciscan Father Solanus Casey, who ministered alongside homeless and poor people in Detroit and who will be beatified Nov. 18.

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Speakers prompt young adults to help heal injustices of racism

ARLINGTON, Va. – Calling racism the country’s “national disease” and “our greatest injustice,” Catholic speakers at an annual gathering of young adults asked the group to call out injustice in order to heal the hurt and damage it has caused, not just in the country but in humanity.

“Racism in the U.S. is our greatest injustice, it has crippled all of us in the human community,” said Sister Patricia Chappell, executive director of Pax Christi USA, and one of two keynote speakers at the Ignatian Family Teachin for Justice event that took place on the outskirts of Washington Nov. 4-6.

The annual event, attended by approximately 2,000 students from Jesuit-run high schools and universities in the U.S., focuses on social justice issues.

“It is our national disease and in our collective DNA,” said Sister Chappell, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur.

“While getting sick was not our fault, getting well and healing together is our responsibility. Dismantling racism

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Bishop Christopher J. Coyne of Burlington, Vt., looks on as Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, responds to a reporter’s question during a Nov. 13 news conference at the bishops’ fall general assembly in Baltimore.

of painful division, it stands as a journey toward healing, from conflict to communion,” Cardinal DiNardo said.

He continued, “Civility begins in the womb. If we cannot come to love and protect innocent life from the moment God creates it, how can we properly care for each other as we come of age? Or when we come to old age?”

The cardinal lamented that abortion continues despite the existence of alternatives to save the life of unborn children.

Cardinal DiNardo also laid out several policy stances for the country to pursue.

is something we must do together.

Peacebuilding is something we must do together. We build two-way bridges to form the beloved community, not walls.”

Sister Chappell urged the young adults to learn about and analyze unjust systems and practices in the U.S. that too often and for too long have dealt an unfair hand to communities of color.

“There has never been an equal playing field in the legal system, the political system, the religious systems, the educational systems, the social service systems, the economic systems” in the country, said Sister Chappell.

She urged those in attendance to educate themselves about such injustices, past and present, analyze them and do something to bring about peace and justice.

The past couple of years have shown, she said, that “we have lived with myths and lies that had led us thinking that we were no longer a racist society.”

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He said hospitals and health care workers “deserve conscience protections so they never have to participate in the taking of a human life.”

The cardinal called for “good and affordable health care” for poor people and action to address the country’s opioid abuse epidemic.

To applause, Cardinal DiNardo urged lawmakers to enact comprehensive immigration reform and protections for the country’s 800,000 young adults who have been protected from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

President Donald Trump in September called for an end to the program, handing off the solution to the immigration status of young adults brought to this country illegally as children to Congress and giving the lawmakers a six-month window to act.

Acknowledging that a country has the right to defend its borders, Cardinal DiNardo reminded the country’s leaders that it should be done in a humane way.

“We join our Holy Father in declaring that a pro-life immigration policy is one that does not tear families apart, it protects families,” he said.

Racism, too, has risen to become a major challenge for the country, the USCCB president said.

“In our towns and in our cities, as civility ebbs, we have seen bolder expressions of racism, with some taking pride in this grave sin. Sometimes it is shocking and violent, such as in Charlottesville (Virginia, in August). More often it is subtle and systematic. But racism always destroys lives and it has no place in the Christian heart,” he said.

The cardinal called for a “bold national dialogue ... a frank and honest commitment to address the root causes of racism.”

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Forgotten Catholics: French author speaks on single people, celibacy Philippe Vaillancourt Catholic News Service

QUEBEC CITY – Single people are the forgotten members of the Catholic Church, said a Catholic journalist who has developed expertise on this issue over the past 20 years.

“There are more and more single people, yet they are almost never mentioned in the church. They are completely forgotten,” said Claire Lesegretain, 58, a religion reporter for French Catholic newspaper La Croix.

Since she published a book about the reality of single people in the church in 1998, she has constantly been asked to speak on the issue.

She recently wrote a document on single people for the French bishops’ conference.

“This is the church’s blind spot.

It’s there, very present, but nobody talks about it. We don’t see them,” she explained while touring French Canada in October for a series of conferences.

Over the years, Lesegretain estimates, she has met at least 2,000 single laypeople looking for a Christian meaning to their celibacy and a place in the church. Her interest in this issue comes from her personal experience, since she also struggled with her faith and her own celibacy in her mid-30s.

“I did not see the meaning of celibacy as a Christian. What does the Lord want from me?” she wondered

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Claire Lesegretain, a journalist for Catholic French newspaper La Croix, is pictured in Quebec City Oct. 26. Lesegretain wrote the new document by the French bishops’ conference about celibacy and single laypeople. then. She felt both social and personal pressures. For many, she said, these pressures become sufferings.

“There is the question of fertility: who am I serving, who am I useful for? As a Christian, we were raised in the idea of giving ourselves, of loving one’s life. And to whom am I giving my life?” she recalled wondering.

“As a single person, you hear some not-so-good things. One feels a dis-

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It’s humiliating,” she detailed, adding it’s as if singles “don’t count.”

“On top of that, we often end up feeling guilty. We say it’s our fault, we live it as a failure. I am not enough this or that. We always think it’s our fault.”

She said every single person must be lucid and look at his or her life story and work on openness or selfconfidence. She also said she believes the relationship between the church and single people should be looked at through what it means to have a vocation.

“For centuries, we heard that there are basically two vocations: the majority, called to marriage, and a minority, called to the priestly or religious life. When we are neither, we are led to believe that we have no vocation. And that’s terrible, completely wrong and extremely devaluing. As soon as we are baptized, we have a vocation. This vocation is not related to your status. This status is a means to live this vocation,” she said.

She said the church must reject the temptation to divide the baptized into “classes” that are “contrary to Vatican II and the life of the Holy Spirit.”

She also argues that it is time for the church to get into solution mode.

“At a time when priestly or religious vocations are falling, lay singles can be a chance for the church,” said Lesegretain, adding that, to do that, all must tackle the spiritual struggles implied.

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singles might be upset with God. Am I forgotten by God? We have anger toward God, and sometimes we do not dare to say it because we say that he loves us ... So we are caught in a paradox.”

“Do I accept to be looked at by God as I am, in this poverty? Because celibacy is a fragility, a poverty: It is not written on your forehead, but almost,” she said.

“We appear in our vulnerability in the eyes of all. But when we recognize ourselves as poor, there is something that is given. The Lord says in the Gospel: Blessed are the poor in heart, they are filled by God from now on. Since the person does not have a partner, as promised in Genesis, then he has the Lord who becomes his helper, his partner.

Spiritually, there can be something very strong. It does not happen right away; it can be built over the years.

Something fills us up: I feel loved by the Lord, and I can love through him.”

Lesegretain said Mary Magdalene, who poured perfume on the feet of Jesus, can even become an inspiring example for singles.

“For a single person who suffers from not being able to love, the most precious perfume is his heart and his capacity to love. Rather than moping into sadness, what the Lord is proposing is to come and lay down that capacity to love on his body, in the intimacy of the relationship with Christ,” she added. “To be single is to have a very pure, very expensive perfume, which has a lot of value.

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Mass and lunch: Pope to lead celebration of World Day of the Poor Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will celebrate the Catholic Church’s first World Day of the Poor Nov. 19 by celebrating a morning Mass with people in need and those who assist them. After Mass, he will offer lunch to 500 people in the Vatican audience hall.

As the Year of Mercy was ending in November 2016, Pope Francis told people he wanted to set one day aside each year to underline everyone’s responsibility “to care for the true riches, which are the poor.”

The result was the World Day of the Poor, which is to be marked annually on the 33rd Sunday of ordinary time on the church’s liturgical calendar.

An admonition from St. John Chrysostom “remains ever timely,” Pope Francis said in a message for the 2017 celebration. He quoted the fifthcentury theologian: “If you want to honor the body of Christ, do not scorn it when it is naked; do not honor the eucharistic Christ with silk vestments and then, leaving the church, neglect the other Christ suffering from cold and nakedness.”

The pope chose “Love not in word, but in deed” as the theme for 2017.

The Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization is coordinating the celebration and issued a resource book – available online at www.pcpne.va

POpe: Keep lamp of faith alive with oil of charity

VATICAN CITY – Acts of charity and kindness make a person’s faith shine in this world and help ensure that it will shine forever in the afterlife, Pope Francis said.

“Faith inspires charity, and charity safeguards faith,” the pope said Nov. 12 during his Angelus address.

Before leading the Angelus prayer with thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis discussed the day’s Gospel reading, which was St. Matthew’s account of “The Parable of the 10 Virgins.”

In the story, 10 bridesmaids are waiting for a bridegroom to arrive. They all have lamps, but only five of the bridesmaids have extra oil with them.

The groom is delayed and the 10 fall asleep. When he finally arrives, only five of them have enough oil for their lamps.

The parable, the pope said, teaches that keeping

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A woman in Delhi, India, reacts amid the rubble of her home destroyed by local authorities in a bid to relocate the residents in this Nov. 2 photo. Pope Francis will celebrate the Catholic Church’s first World Day of the Poor Nov. 19.

– that includes Scripture meditations, sample prayer services and suggestions for parishes and dioceses.

An obvious starting place, the council said, is to reach out “to places such as soup kitchens, shelters, prisons, hospitals, nursing homes, treatment watch is not so much about never resting, but about being prepared.

“This is what it means to be wise and prudent: It is a matter of not waiting until the last minute of our lives to collaborate with God’s grace, but to start doing so now,” he said. “It would do us good to consider a bit that one day will be the last. If it were today, am I prepared?”

“To prepare as if today were the last day – this is good for us,” the pope said.

And the symbolism in the parable offers some practical tips, he said. “The lamp is the symbol of the faith that lights our life, while the oil is the symbol of the charity that nourishes and makes fruitful and credible the light of faith.”

Being ready for the Lord, he said, requires not just faith, “but a Christian life rich in love and charity toward our neighbors.”

centers, etc., so that the words of the pope could arrive to everyone at the same time on this day.”

Every parish and Catholic group, it said, should organize at least one practical initiative, such as “taking groceries to a needy family, offering a meal for the poor, purchasing equipment for elderly persons who are not self-sufficient, donating a vehicle to a family, or making a contribution to the Caritas fund for families.”

One of the primary goals of the day, the council said, is to help Catholics answer the question, “Who are ‘the poor’ today, and where are they around me, in the area in which I live?” and then to find ways to share and create relationships with them.

The resource book also offered 18 “saints and blesseds of charity of the 20th and 21st centuries” as examples. The list is led by St. Teresa of Kolkata, but also includes Blessed Oscar Romero.

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Father Piers Lahey leads a prayer vigil on the hillside where Ed French was killed at dawn July 16, sprinkling holy water to reclaim the popular Twin Peaks overlook as a place of “love and life.”

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Above, Father Piers Lahey blesses the spot on a San Francisco side street where Susana Robles was fatally shot on Sept. 30. Center, a rosary-draped votive candle marks the Twin Peaks overlook where an attacker took the life of Ed French on July 16. Right, visiting Catholic high school students participating in a restorative justice service-learning project hug one another July 26 at a memorial for French. Father Lahey is seen in the background.

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people from the pain and death that occurred here.

Return it as a safe place, a place of love, a place of life, a place of hope,” he said.

French is one of more than 200 homicide victims who have been memorialized over the last five years in public vigils organized by the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s restorative justice ministry. The deaths of a few, like French, make headlines. Most do not.

Ministry coordinator Julio Escobar initiated the vigils in 2012 as a “Christian response” to a violent crime. The vigils, he said, aim to prayerfully reclaim the place where a violent death has occurred as a “place of peace, a place of life.”

In 2016, there were 61 people murdered in Marin, San Mateo and San Francisco counties combined, Escobar said. The services offer prayer for the victims and the families and loved ones they leave behind. Prayers are often also said for the person who committed the murder, including those who died in a murder-suicide.

Early on, pastors of parishes nearest a crime scene were called upon to officiate street vigils, and they still sometimes do. In 2015, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone led one for a young man shot on a Mission District street corner and he stayed to comfort his parents.

For the last few years though, it has been Father Lahey, pastor of St. Andrew Parish in Daly City. Particularly during the summer months, the San Francisco-born priest crosses town as often as six times a month in between his pastoral responsibilities to pray with Escobar – and less often family members and other loved ones – for the city’s homicide victims.

“I just thought about this as a way that as a priest in the church I could help,” said Father Lahey, who was ordained 35 years ago and has been a longtime archdiocesan pastor.

Interviewed at St. Andrew earlier this month,

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Father Piers Lahey is pictured in the parking lot of St. Andrew Church in Daly City where he is pastor. A small statue of St. Francis, he said, inspires him daily to be “an instrument of God’s peace.”

Father Lahey pointed to a statue of St. Francis in the church parking lot.

“We have this statue of St. Francis, a small one, right here next to where we park our staff cars,” he said as he tossed seed to a congregation of birds. “Every time I see this statue I think about the Prayer of St. Francis: ‘Make me an instrument of your peace.’”

Father Lahey credits his brother Denis, a local Buddhist abbot dedicated to nonviolence and works of mercy, for influencing him to “do something” to stand up against violence – particularly gun violence. He asked Escobar if he could regularly lead the prayer services.

“We are not going to overlook this violence,” Father Lahey said. “We are going to come and speak words of faith and prayer and to oppose in Christian love, what has happened here. In this ministry what we are trying to say is that we choose life.”

His prayer book for the service is somewhat self-styled, combining Catholic prayers of remembrance with language from Street Psalms, a nonprofit resource center for urban faith leaders.

Mostly, though, Father Lahey speaks from his heart, sometimes directly to the crime victims.

On Oct. 10, he prayed over two crime scene memorials separated by a few feet. First for 20-yearold Susana Robles who was shot by her boyfriend, and then for Angel Raygoza who then shot himself as the two sat in a car on a quiet side street in an affluent section of the city.

“This is not the Garden of Eden, we know that,” he said. “We know there is suffering, but we are praying that peace will be restored and that God will be present somehow to both these families.”

The church teaches us that every human life has dignity, Father Lahey said, and we are reminded at prayer vigils that, “this was a human being with a human face and a human life and a story as a unique person who was created in God’s image and likeness.”

Public street vigils attract varying responses. Curious passersby sometimes stop and join a gathering, said Father Lahey. But he has also had people spit out of car windows as a sign of disrespect. One time, he said, a menacing-looking driver in a black car revved up his engine as much as possible to “drown out the sound of people praying.”

As Catholics, we affirm the culture of life, not the culture of death, Father Lahey said.

“What we are saying at these prayer vigils is that God’s love is stronger than death,” he said. “The cross tells us that in more ways than anything else could ever tell us.”

Death does not have the last word.

“The power of God’s love is ultimately going to defeat this stuff,” said Father Lahey, “but it sure is a struggle.”

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Sunday readings

Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time PROVERBS 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 When one finds a worthy wife, her value is far beyond pearls. Her husband, entrusting his heart to her, has an unfailing prize. She brings him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. She obtains wool and flax and works with loving hands. She puts her hands to the distaff, and her fingers ply the spindle. She reaches out her hands to the poor, and extends her arms to the needy. Charm is deceptive and beauty fleeting; the woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her a reward for her labors, and let her works praise her at the city gates.

PSALM 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

Blessed are you who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways! For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; blessed shall you be, and favored.

Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the re-

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cesses of your home; your children like olive plants around your table.

Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the Lord. The Lord bless you from Zion: may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Blessed are those who fear the Lord.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:1-6 Concerning times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.

When people are saying, “Peace and security, “then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief. For all of you are children of the light and children of the

day. We are not of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober.

MATTHEW 25:14-15, 19-21 Jesus told his disciples this parable: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one – to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them. The one who had received five talents came forward bringing the additional five. He said, ‘Master, you gave me five talents. See, I have made five more.’

His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant.

Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.’”

Making the most of our gifts servants represent “the Gospel doctrine, to one more, to another less, not as of His own bounty or scanting, but as meeting the capacity of the receivers.”

Our Catholic tradition interprets the fruitful servants as those who use well the gift of the Catholic faith by living holy lives and by teaching the Catholic faith to others to help them live holy lives. This is possible even for simple believers. “There are also some,” says St. Gregory the Great, “who though they cannot pierce to things inward and mystical, yet for their measure of view of their heavenly country they teach rightly such things as they can, what they have gathered from things without, and while they keep themselves from wantonness of the flesh, and from ambition of earthly things, and from the delights of the things that are seen, they restrain others also from the same by their admonitions.”

Then there is the sad case of the servant who hides his gift in the ground. St. Gregory tells us that “to hide one’s talent in the earth is to devote the ability we have received to worldly business.” Origen goes further, warning us, “When you see one who has the power of teaching, and of benefiting souls, hiding this power, though he may have a certain religiousness of life, doubt not of such a one that he has received one talent and hides it in the earth.” To hide our talent means to waste our lives on things other than the love of God. This usually means that we make ourselves - our pleasure, our honor, our comfort, our plans - to be the god of our lives. We try to make ourselves the master and we forget that all that we have is a gift of

the Master.

Then what happens? “Note here,” says Origen, “that the servants do not come to the Lord to be judged, but the Lord shall come to them when the time shall be accomplished.”

At the judgment, the fruitful servants are commended with joy by the Master and Judge. “Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” St. Augustine tells us that the reward for fruitfulness with the goods of the Master is the perfect happiness of heaven. “This will be our perfect joy, than which is none greater, to have fruition of that Divine Trinity in whose image we were made.”

The lazy servant, who did not preach the Gospel, who buried the gift of the Master, is punished with darkness. “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” “And thus for punishment,” Gregory explains, “he shall be cast into outer darkness who has of his own free will fallen into inward darkness.”

This choice between heaven and hell is made in every moment of my life. I will not live on this earth forever. I have been given gifts by Jesus Christ. He wants me to be fruitful with his gifts so that I can be like Him and share Life with Him, entering into his joy. “Jesus, I trust in You.”

Monday, November 20: Monday of the Thirtythird Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Mc 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63. Ps 119:53, 61, 134, 150, 155, 158. Jn 8:12. Lk 18:35-43.

Sunday, November 26: The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. Ez 34:11-12, 15-17. Ps 23:1-2, 2-3, 5-6. 1 Cor 15:20-26, 28. Mk 11:9, 10. Mt 25:31-46.

Sunday, December 3: First Sunday of Advent. Is 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7. Ps 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19. 1 Cor 1:3-9. Ps 85:8. Mk 13:33-37.

Tuesday, November 21: Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 2 Mc 6:18-31. PS 3:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. 1 Jn 4:10b. Lk 19:1-10.

Monday, November 27: Monday of the Thirtyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. Dn 1:1-6, 8-20. Dn 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56. Mt 24:42a, 44. Lk 21:1-4.

Monday, December 4: Monday of the First Week of Advent. Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, priest and doctor. Is 2:1-5. Ps 122:1-2, 3-4b, 4cd-5, 6-7, 8-9. See Ps 80:4. Mt 8:5-11.

Wednesday, November 22: Memorial of St. Cecilia, virgin and martyr. 2 Mc 7:1, 20-31. Ps 17:1bcd, 5-6, 8b and 15. See Jn 15:16. Lk 19:11-28.

Tuesday, November 28: Tuesday of the Thirtyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. Dn 2:31-45. Dn 3:57, 58, 59, 60, 61. Rev 2:10c. Lk 21:5-11.

Tuesday, December 5: Tuesday of the First Week of Advent. Is 11:1-10. Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17. Lk 10:21-24.

Thursday, November 23: Thursday of the Thirtythird Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Clement I, pope & martyr; St. Columban, abbot; Bl. Miguel Pro, priest and martyr; Thanksgiving Day. 1 Mc 2:15-29. Ps 50:1b-2, 5-6, 14-15. Ps 95:8. Lk 19:41-44.

Wednesday, November 29: Wednesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Dn 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28. Dn 3:62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67. Rev 2:10c.

Lk 21:12-19.

Wednesday, December 6: Wednesday of the First Week of Advent. Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas, bishop. Is 25:6-10a. Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. Mt 15:29-37.

editation on the Last Things is the spirituality of the Church’s Liturgy in the month of November. In the liturgical year’s final month, we are confronted by the sometimes-stark reality of the Last Things: That we will die one day, that this death will be followed by our particular judgment by Jesus Christ, and that each human person will be forever be either in heaven or in hell.

In our Gospel this Sunday, Our Lord compares the judgment we will receive to a final accounting of servants entrusted with the goods of their Master. The Fathers of the Church, commenting on this passage, remind us that we all have been entrusted with spiritual gifts from Father Joseph Jesus Christ, some with more Previtali and some with less. They also teach us that the Master expects us to be fruitful with what we have been given. St. John Chrysostom explains that the gifts we have been given are meant to be shared: “This parable is delivered against those who will not assist their neighbors either with money, or words, or in any other way, but hide all that they have.” St. Jerome says that the goods given to the

scripture reflection

Father Joseph Previtali is currently studying at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings

Friday, November 24: Memorial of St. Andrew Dung-Lac, priest and martyr, and Companions, martyrs. 1 Mc 4:36-37, 52-59. 1 Chr 29:10bcd, 11abc, 11d-12a, 12bcd. Jn 10:27. Lk 19:45-48.

Saturday, November 25: Saturday of the Thirtythird Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Catherine of Alexandria, virgin and martyr. 1 Mc 6:1-13. Ps 9:2-3, 4 and 6, 16 and 19. See 2 Tm 1:10.

Lk 20:27-40.

Thursday, November 30: Feast of St. Andrew, apostle. Rom 10:9-18. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. Mt 4:19.

Mt 4:19.

Friday, December 1: Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Bl. Charles de Foucauld. Dn 7:2-14. Dn 3:75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81. Lk 21:28. Lk 21:29-33.

Saturday, December 2: Saturday of the Thirtyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. Dn 7:15-27. Dn 3:82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87. Lk 21:36. Lk 21:34-36.

Thursday, December 7: Memorial of St. Ambrose, bishop and doctor. Is 26:1-6. Ps 118:1 and 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a. Is 55:6. Mt 7:21, 24-27.

Friday, December 8: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Gn 3:9-15, 20. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. Eph 1:3-6, 11-12. See Lk 1:28. Lk 1:26-38.

Saturday, December 9: Saturday of the First Week of Advent. Optional Memorial of St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. Is 30:19-21, 23-26. Ps 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. Is 33:22. Mt 9:35–10:1, 5a, 6-8.

14 opinion Letters St. Catherine’s papal correction

Re “Private conscience and the church,” Father John Catoir, Nov. 9: Father Catoir appears to take offense at recent criticisms of Pope Francis, citing the now-popular, but quoted out of context, statement of Francis: “Who am I to judge?”

St. Catherine of Siena wrote the following to Pope Gregory XI: “Since (Christ) has given you authority and you have accepted it, you ought to be using the power and strength that is yours. If you don’t intend to use it, it would be better and more to God’s honor and the good of your soul to resign. …

If I were in your place, I would be afraid of incurring divine judgment.” Later in her letter she continued, “Cursed be you, for time and power were entrusted to you and you did not use them!”

Was Catherine judging the pope’s soul? No, his actions or lack of appropriate actions.

Father Catoir states that we must be merciful. Yes, but it is not merciful to allow the wolf to savage the flock.

Laurette Elsberry Sacramento

Catholic Radio nourishes the faith

Re “Radio commentary disappoints,” Letters, Oct. 26: In support of Catholic Radio, I can speak for myself and have heard from many others that listening to Catholic Radio has helped us learn much about the Catholic faith including what the Catholic Church actually teaches, how to examine these teachings and how to defend these teachings.

Also, listening to Catholic Radio has helped me and many others learn how to live the faith better, how to apply the faith better, and how to apply the faith to daily life and the culture of the day.

As one Catholic Radio broadcaster said: “It helps us not to be low-information Catholics.”

As for Catholic Radio being very pro-life and very strong in opposing abortion, I believe this is a very good thing.

I am sure the critical letter writer could call the radio open lines and discuss his ideas. I am sure too that he would be treated with respect and charity and that they could explain their positions with faith and good reason.

Ted Kirk San Francisco

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Paralysis, exasperation and helplessness as prayer

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everal years ago I received an email that literally stopped my breath. A man who had been for many years an intellectual and faith mentor to me, a man whom I thoroughly trusted, and a man with whom I had developed a life-giving friendship, had killed both his wife and himself in a murder-suicide.

The news left me gasping for FATHER ron air, paralyzed in rolheiser terms of how to understand and accept this as well as how to pray in the face of this.

I had neither words of explanation nor words for prayer. My heart and my head were like two water pumps working a dry well, useless and frustrated. Whatever consolation I had was drawn from an assurance from persons who knew him more intimately that there had been major signs of mental deterioration in the time leading up to this horrible event and they were morally certain that this was the result of an organic dysfunction in his brain, not an indication of his person. Yet … how does one pray in a situation like this? There aren’t any words.

And we have all experienced situations like this: the tragic death of someone we love by murder, suicide, overdose, or accident. Or, the exasperation and helplessness we feel in the face of the many seemingly senseless events we see daily in our world: Terrorists killing thousands of innocent people; natural disasters leaving countless persons dead or homeless; mass killings by deranged

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individuals in New York, Paris, Las Vegas, Florida, San Bernardino, Sandy Hook, among other places; and millions of refugees having to flee their homelands because of war or poverty. And we all we know people who have received terminal sentences in medical clinics and had to face what seems as an unfair death: Young children whose lives are just starting and who shouldn’t be asked at so tender an age to have to process mortality and young mothers dying whose children still desperately need them.

In the face of these things, we aren’t just exasperated by the senselessness of the situation we struggle too to find both heart and words with which to pray.

How do we pray when we are paralyzed by senselessness and tragedy? How do we pray when we no longer have the heart for it?

St. Paul tells us that when we don’t know how to pray, the Spirit in groans too deep for words prays through us.

What an extraordinary text! Paul tells us that when we can still find the words with which to pray this is not our deepest prayer. Likewise when we still have the heart to pray, this too is not our deepest prayer. Our deepest prayer is when we are rendered mute and groaning in exasperation, in frustration, in helplessness. Wordless exasperation is often our deepest prayer. We pray most deeply when we are so driven to our knees so as to be unable to do anything except surrender to helplessness. Our groaning, wordless, seemingly the antithesis of prayer, is indeed our prayer. It is the Spirit praying through us. How so?

The Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, is, as scripture assures us, the spirit of love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, long-suffering, fidelity, mildness, faith, and chas-

tity. And that Spirit lives deep within us, placed there by God in our very makeup and put into us even more deeply by our baptism. When we are exasperated and driven to our knees by a tragedy which is too painful and senseless to accept and absorb our groans of helplessness are in fact the Spirit of God groaning in us, suffering all that it isn’t, yearning for goodness, beseeching God in a language beyond words.

Sometimes we can find the heart and the words with which to pray, but there are other times when, in the words of the Book of Lamentation, all we can do is put our mouths to the dust and wait.

The poet, Rainer Marie Rilke, once gave this advice to a person who had written him, lamenting that in the face of a devastating loss he was so paralyzed that he did not know what he could possibly do with the pain he was experiencing.

Rilke’s advice: Give that heaviness back to the earth itself, the earth is heavy, mountains are heavy, the seas are heavy.

In effect: Let your groaning be your prayer!

When we don’t know how to pray, the Spirit in groans too deep for words prays through us. So every time we are face-toface with a tragic situation that leaves us stuttering, mute, and so without heart that all we can do is say, I can’t explain this! I can’t accept this! I can’t deal with this! This is senseless! I am paralyzed in my emotions! I am paralyzed in my faith!

I no longer have the heart to pray, it can be consoling to know that this paralyzing exasperation is our prayer – and perhaps the deepest and most sincere prayer we have ever offered.

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

As the Bard might say….

our centuries after his death, Shakespeare remains a peerless playwright because of his remarkable insight into the human condition. Love, ambition, fear, guilt, nobility, pomposity, patriotism, absurdity, sheer wickedness – you name it, Will grasped something of its essence. His work continues to help us understand ourselves better george weigel because, whatever the changing of times and seasons, human nature changes very little.

Take, for example, the human propensity to dodge disagreeable arguments by way of evasion.

In “As You Like It,” the Bard neatly dissected the anatomy of evasion through the words of a clown, Touchstone, who outlines “the degrees of the lie.”

“The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.”

Some 20 years ago, Father David Beauregard, a literarily inclined Oblate of the Virgin Mary, used Touchstone’s taxonomy to challenge critics of John Paul II’s 1993 encyclical on the reform of Catholic moral theology, “Veritatis Splendor.”

Reading Father Beauregard’s Shakespearean take on theological controversy recently, I was struck by how closely Touchstone’s catalogue of evasion tracks the dodgeball played by those who criti-

cize the critics of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on marriage, “Amoris Laetitia,” but who never engage the substance of the critics’ criticisms.

The Retort Courteous has come a little late to the game, but we now hear it from some of the shrewder and less edgy protagonists of “Amoris Laetitia”: The critics of the exhortation are well-meaning people, but a tad behind the curve theologically and pastorally.

As for the Quip Modest, well, that’s been in play for months: The critics, or so the line goes, misrepresent what the Holy Father was actually saying and what we, his defenders, have been saying the Holy Father’s been saying; there’s nobody here but us doctrinally solid, pastorally sensitive folk.

The Reply Churlish has not been lacking, as evidenced by several recent academic seminars: Why should we proponents of “Amoris Laetitia” engage its critics? We’re the future; the wind is in our sails; get used to it.

As for the Reproof Valiant, it comes in the familiar form of academic snark: “Amoris Laetitia,” its protagonists insist, is the Catholic tradition, and anyone who even suggests that elements of the exhortation may be in conflict with seeminglysettled matters in the tradition, or in conflict with revelation itself, is a dolt who doesn’t understand how to interpret Scripture or tradition.

The Countercheck Quarrelsome is rare in Rome, where bella figura remains prized. But one senior Vatican official, in an unguarded moment, has let it be known that there are those who agree with and understand Pope Francis, and there are those who are stupid. Quarrelsome, indeed.

Then there are protagonists of the ex-

hortation, including bishops, who claim that “Amoris Laetitia” leads the Catholic Church into a bright future because it jettisons the notion of intrinsically evil acts: Actions that are always wrong, irrespective of the circumstances. How would Touchstone categorize them?

Here we are through the looking glass, for the claim itself might seem a defense, however porous, against the suggestion of an indulgence here in the Lie Circumstantial or the Lie Direct. Perhaps Shakespeare fails us at this point. I certainly hope so.

No doubt some criticisms of “Amoris Laetitia” have been crude and ill-tempered, assuming a malign intention on the pope’s part that no serious Catholic should assume. But to hint, suggest, or assert that virtually all criticisms of the exhortation are stupid, or malicious or pastorally insensitive is a very strange position for the Party of Dialogue in the church to take. In the debate over “Amoris Laetitia,” we are dealing with matters of considerable doctrinal and pastoral importance. And what is at stake are not just arguments and academic egos but the happiness and beatitude that are the goal of the moral life. Surely sorting that out requires a spirit of tolerance.

Tolerance comes from the Latin verb tolerare, which means “to bear with.”

So genuine tolerance does not avoid or evade or dismiss differences; it engages differences with charity and civility.

Perhaps revisiting “As You Like It” will encourage those protagonists of “Amoris Laetitia” who’ve been avoiding a real debate to reconsider.

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

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Keep peace during holiday gatherings Lisa M. Petsche

The holiday season is a hectic time for many people, due to the preparations and festivities that typically take place. Staying sane, not to mention enjoying this time of the year, is even more of a challenge for those who don’t get along well with their extended family.

Every family has dysfunction, of course, because no member is perfect. But some families are prone to more interpersonal tension than others, due to diverse personalities, circumstances, values and lifestyles among members.

Read on for some tips on how to cope with the almost inevitable stress inherent when relatives get together for the holidays.

Preparation

Make it a point to practice selfcare at this time of the year. Eat healthy foods, make time for exercise and get adequate sleep. Allow plenty of time to get ready for a family event, so you’re relaxed and feel your best.

Conjure up compassion for relatives who emanate negativity, bearing in mind that they are unhappy individuals. Set realistic expectations about family members’ behavior. The narcissist, non-stop talker or chronic complainer is not going to change. Plan to steer clear of them if possible, otherwise limit the amount of time you spend

The narcissist, non-stop talker or chronic complainer is not going to change. Plan to steer clear of them if possible, otherwise limit the amount of time you spend with them. with them. Give yourself a pep talk in advance. Reassure yourself that you are up to the challenge of gracefully handling a few hours with anyone. If necessary, approach things as if you have a role in a play and, of course, must stay in character.

If you are particularly anxious about a gathering, invite a friend along for support. Aim to cut your visit short as a last resort. Plan something to look forward to afterward – for example, visiting your favorite café or watching a holiday movie.

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Avoid consuming alcohol; otherwise, limit yourself to one or two drinks. Disinhibition can cause you to say things you may regret.

Practice good listening skills: Pay attention, don’t interrupt and ask open-ended questions.

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Global cooperation needed on climate, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Global problems associated with climate change demand global cooperation, Pope Francis told a group of heads of state from the Pacific Islands.

The planet Earth, when viewed from space, is a world without borders, he said, and “it reminds us of the need for a global outlook, international cooperation and solidarity, and a shared strategy” when it comes to caring for the environment.

Such a shared approach “can prevent us from remaining indifferent in the face of grave problems such as the deterioration of the environment and of the health of the oceans, which is itself linked to the human and social deterioration experienced by humanity today,” he said Nov. 11 during an audience with leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum.

Pope bans cigarette sales at Vatican

VATICAN CITY – Concerned by the damage caused by smoking, Pope Francis has banned the sale of cigarettes in Vatican City State.

Starting in 2018, the Vatican “will cease to sell cigarettes to employees,” Greg Burke, Vatican spokesman, said in a Nov. 9 statement.

“The reason is very simple: The Holy See cannot contribute to an activity that clearly damages the health of people,” he said. “According to the World Health Organization, every year smoking is the cause of more than 7 million deaths throughout the world.”

The Vatican used to be known as a safe haven for cigarette smokers. That changed dramatically in 2002, when Vatican City prohibited smoking in offices and public places.

However, cigarettes continued to be sold to current and retired personnel at the Vatican. Even after the cigarette ban goes into effect, the Vatican will continue discount sales of gasoline, groceries and other goods to employees and retirees.

Pope: ‘Shepherds’ who seek money, power cause scandal

VATICAN CITY – Church leaders who are attached to money and try to climb the ladder of success wound the church and destroy people’s hope, Pope Francis said.

Shepherds and those in positions of authority within the church who say one thing and do another “drive people away with their example, with their incoherency, with their own inconsistency,” the pope said Nov. 13 during his morning Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae.

“The inconsistency of Christians is one of the easiest weapons the devil has to weaken the people of God and to drive the people of God away from the Lord,” he said.

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Catholic faithful in San Salvador, El Salvador, participate in a procession Nov. 11 commemorating the 28th anniversary of the murder of six Jesuit priests and two employees, who were killed by government military forces during the Salvadoran civil war.

In his homily, the pope reflected on the day’s Gospel reading from St. Luke in which Jesus warns of those who cause scandal through sin.

“It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin,” Jesus said.

Vietnamese diocese begins rebuilding church ruined in ‘67 U.S. air raid

HAI DUONG, Vietnam – A diocese in northern Vietnam has begun construction of a church dedicated to Dominican martyrs, replacing the ruins of an earlier one destroyed during a U.S. air raid in 1967.

Bishop Joseph Vu Van Thien of Hai Phong celebrated a special Mass Nov. 6 to begin the construction of the new church at the Hai Duong Martyrs Shrine, about 35 miles southeast of Hanoi.

Bishop Joseph Vu Van Thien of Hai Phong said the shrine was a place where many Catholics and missionaries were executed for their faith, including four of the 117 Vietnamese martyrs, killed in 1861. The diocese observes their feast Nov. 6.

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Pope sends letter to blind veteran he met

BOGOTA, Colombia – Pope Francis sent a handwritten letter to a Colombian soldier who lost his sight during the country’s civil war.

The pope met Edwin Restrepo, a retired marine, during his September visit to Colombia. On Nov. 9, Restrepo received the letter, in which the pope thanked him for his sacrifice during Colombia’s armed conflict. The pope also told the veteran he was still holding on to his “touching” gift.

When Pope Francis visited a Colombian airbase in September, he greeted soldiers and police officers maimed during the war. When the pope walked by Restrepo and shook his hand, the marine bent his head forward, asked for the pope’s blessing and asked him to take his military cap. Their conversation lasted only a minute.

“He gave me a rosary,” Restrepo recalled. “So I told him I wanted to give him something that represents our military forces, and there was nothing better I could think of than my cap.”

In his letter, Pope Francis said he held on to the cap during his trip to Colombia because it reminded him of the “sacrifice” and “patriotism” of Colombian soldiers who have fought in the country’s recently finished war with Marxist guerrillas.

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Pope John Paul I’s speeches showed warmth, sense of history Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – During his brief pontificate in 1978, Pope John Paul I delivered 19 speeches – many of which included folksy stories and examples from his own life.

Here is a sampling of quotes from those talks, as presented in a story published by Catholic News Service at the time: On Christian community: “Rome will be a true Christian community if God is honored not only with an influx of faithful in churches and not only when private life is lived morally, but also through love of the poor.

These people, said the Roman Deacon Lawrence, are the real treasures of the church.”

On papal primacy: “To my left and my right are seated cardinals and bishops, my brothers in the episcopacy. I am only their older brother.”

On faith: “My mother told me when I had grown up a bit, ‘As a child you were very sick. I had to carry you from one doctor to another and often stay up all night with you. Do you believe me?’ How could I have said, ‘Mamma, I don’t believe you’? – ‘Yes, I believe what you said, but I believe especially in you,’ and so it is with faith.

It is not a matter of believing only the things God reveals, but also of believing in him who loved us so much.”

On nonbelievers: “As a bishop I was very near those who do not believe in God. I got the idea that these people fight not against God but against the mistaken idea they have of God.”

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On humility: “The Lord counseled us to be humble. Even if we’ve done great things, say ‘We are useless servants.’ Our tendency, however, is quite the opposite – to put ourselves on display.”

On the elderly: “As bishop of Venice, now and then I went to nursing homes. Once I came upon an elderly sick lady.

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‘Well, I eat alright and it’s warm enough.’

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On the Middle East: “May the (Camp David) meetings open the way toward a just and complete peace. Just, that is, satisfactory to all involved. Complete, that is, without leaving unresolved any issues: the problem of the Palestinians, the security of Israel, the Holy City of Jerusalem.”

On defects in the church: “If a mother is sick, or if my mamma becomes lame, I love her all the same.

The same goes for the church. If there are – and there are – defects and shortcomings, our affection for the church must never lessen.”

On redemption: “A woman, who confessed to me many years ago, was discouraged because she had led a morally stormy life.

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On doctrine: “The truths are what they are. We must walk along that road, understanding them always more deeply, updating them, and presenting them in a form adapted to new times.”

On Christian pilgrimage: “When I was a boy, I was in ecstasy reading the voyages described by Jules Verne in ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,’ ‘Around the World in 80 Days,’ etc., but our voyages of love toward God are much more interesting.”

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JP1: Francis puts ‘smiling pope’ on sainthood path, declares him ‘venerable’ FROM PAGE 1

history, Pope John Paul left a lasting impression on the church that fondly remembers him as “the smiling pope.”

“He smiled for only 33 days,” read the front page of the Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, while the Catholic Telegraph of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati reported: “Saddened church seeking another Pope John Paul.”

The surprise of his death after just over a month in office opened a floodgate of rumors and conspiracy theories, running the gamut from murder to culpable neglect. The Vatican doctor insisted then, as the Vatican continues to insist, that Pope John Paul died of a heart attack.

His papal motto, “Humilitas” (“Humility”) not only emphasized a Christian virtue but also reflected his down-to-earth personality and humble beginnings.

“The Lord recommended it so much: Be humble. Even if you have done great things, say: ‘We are useless servants.’ On the contrary, the

tendency in all of us is rather the opposite: to show off. Lowly, lowly: This is the Christian virtue which concerns us,” he said Sept. 6, 1978.

Born Albino Luciani in the small Italian mountain town of Canale D’Agordo Oct. 17, 1912, the future pope and his two brothers and one sister lived in poverty and Pope John Paul I sometimes went to bed hungry.

His father, a bricklayer by trade, would often travel to Switzerland and Germany in search of work.

During a general audience Sept.

13, 1978, the pope told pilgrims he was sickly as a child and his mother would take him “from one doctor to another” and watch over him “whole nights.” He also said he had been hospitalized eight times and operated on four times throughout his life.

Despite his weak health and poverty, his father encouraged him to enter the minor seminary. He did so,

After Blessed Paul VI’s death, his name was hardly at the top of anyone’s list of potential popes, least of all his own.

When asked if he might be elected pope, he quoted a Venetian proverb: “You don’t make gnocchi out of this dough.”

His surprise election, nevertheless, did not sway him from continuing his humble manner of living, such as rejecting the use of the traditional papal tiara and preferring to call his first Mass as pope the “inauguration” of his papal ministry rather than a coronation.

His humility also was reflected in the 19 speeches and talks he gave as pope, especially the four Wednesday general audience talks before his untimely death.

“Let us try to improve the church by becoming better ourselves,” he said Sept. 13, 1978. “Each of us and the whole church could recite the prayer I am accustomed to reciting: ‘Lord, take me as I am, with my defects, with my shortcomings, but make me become as you want me to be.’”

but would return to his hometown in the summers and often was seen working in the fields in his black cassock.

He was ordained a priest in 1935 and was appointed bishop of Vittorio Veneto in December 1958 by St. John XXIII. More than 10 years later, he was named patriarch of Venice by Blessed Paul VI and was created a cardinal in 1973.

During his time as patriarch of Venice, then-Cardinal Luciani was known for his dedication to the poor and the disabled.

In February 1976, he called on all priests in his diocese to sell gold and silver objects for the Don Orione Day Center for people with disabilities.

Leading by example, he started the fund drive by putting up for auction a pectoral cross and gold chain – given to him by St. John XXIII – that had once belonged to Pope Pius XII. His contribution, he wrote, “is a small thing compared to the use it will have. Perhaps it is worth something if it helps people understand that the real treasures of the church are the poor.”

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political, social and economic liberation coincides with salvation in Jesus Christ, or that the kingdom of God is the same as the kingdom of man, that where Lenin is, there is Jerusalem.”

On free will: “Once a man went to the car dealer to buy a car. The dealer told him, ‘Look, the car is well equipped. Treat it well with premium

gas and oil.’ But the buyer said, ‘ No, I can’t even stand the smell of gas and oil. I’ll lubricate the engine with marmalade.’ ‘Do as you please,’ said the dealer. ‘But don’t complain to me if you wind up in a ditch.’ The Lord does something similar with us. He gave us these bodies enlivened with a soul and free will. He said, ‘This mechanism is worth something, treat it well.’”

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On liturgy: “I would like to see Rome give a good example with liturgies celebrated piously and without jarring ‘creativity.’ Such abuses have favored reactionary attitudes which have led to positions untenable in themselves and in contrast with the Gospel. ... I would like to assure you that every liturgical irregularity will be diligently avoided.”

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Archbishop celebrates Mass of remembrance for priests Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was principal celebrant of a Mass Nov. 3 at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, remembering the more than 500 priests interred there. Mass was celebrated in the rotunda of the historic Holy Cross Mausoleum where archbishops and bishops who have led the Archdiocese of San Francisco are entombed. The Mass now in its third year was especially poignant this year given the deaths of Archbishop John R. Quinn and Archbishop George Niederauer their remains now resting in rotunda vaults.

“The day gives the priests an opportunity to come together in prayer for their brother priests, remembers friendships, honors those who have gone before them,” Monica Williams, cemeteries director, told Catholic San Francisco.

“They process from the mausoleum to the Priest Plot while chanting the Litany of the Saints; the archbishop leads a prayer for the deceased, blesses with holy water, uses incense and the service concludes with the priests singing ‘Salve Regina.’”

City’s Star of the Sea to bless new church organ Dec. 3

A 19th-century organ is being installed at Star of the Sea Church, replacing a 1981 Shoenstein with an 1889 Woodberry & Harris tracker organ.

The new organ is smaller and will open up the choir loft to reveal the stained-glass rose window that had been obscured by the larger organ for nearly a century.

“Not only am I very excited about this historic organ for its own sake, but I’m also very excited to allow our church to be re-illuminated by the stained glass win-

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presides at memorial services Nov. 3 for priests interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. dow which has been hidden for so many decades,” Star of the Sea administrator Father Joseph Illo said.

The heirloom organ, donated by Star of the Sea’s music director Lynn Kraehling, is set to be blessed Dec. 3, the first Sunday of Advent.

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Petsche: Keep peace during holiday gatherings FROM PAGE 15

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Sister Romona Nowak, formerly known as Sister Jane Lucian Nowak, died Nov. 8 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 72 years of age Sister Romona and in the 51st Nowak, OP year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sister Romona held a graduate degree in biology from the University of Chicago and spent a decade teaching in Illinois Catholic schools. She was also certified as a chaplain by the National Association of Catholic Chaplains and served in that capacity for several years at Seton Medical Center in Daly City.

Sister Romona is also a former associate director of field education at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park.

A memorial Mass was celebrated Nov. 10 in the sisters’ St. Catherine’s Chapel with interment in the congregation cemetery.

Remembrances may be made to the Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, Mich. 49221.

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VETERANS DAY: Services remembering those who have served in the armed forces were held Nov. 11 at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma in the Star of the Sea section reserved for members of the military and their families.

Pictured from left are priest military chaplains Air Force Capt. Joseph Tran, Diocese of Oakland; Navy Cmdr. Alex Legaspi, pastor, Holy Angels Parish, Colma; Air Force Col. C. Michael Padazinski, pastor, St. Patrick Parish, Larkspur; Army Capt. Alner Nambatac, pastor, St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

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THURSDAY, NOV. 16

SUNDAY, NOV. 19

LITTLE SISTERS’ HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE: Preview Party for Little Sisters of the Poor Holiday Boutique, St. Anne’s Home, 300 Lake St., San Francisco, 6-9 p.m. with dinner, drinks, holiday entertainment, games and shopping, $125 per person. Boutique is Nov. 18, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. with free admission at the same location. https://2017lspboutique. eventbrite.com.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

FRIDAY, NOV. 17 GRIEF SUPPORT: Monthly Grief Support Program, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Msgr. 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.

SATURDAY, NOV. 18 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome, Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865; www.Handicapables.com.

HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE: St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway Ave., Millbrae, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., with more than 30 local vendors offering unique, artistic, and handmade goods. Beverages and delicious holiday treats available for purchase, parking. Ann at (650) 697-4730; secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org, ‘GUIDED MEDITATION’: An Ignatian contemplation, make some time and space to see and listen, with Jesuit Father Gregory Bonfiglio, pastor, St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, 6:15-7:15 p.m., parking free in all USF lots.

TUESDAY, NOV. 21 NOON MUSIC: Free classical concert 12:30 p.m., Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, www. noontimeconcerts.org, (415) 777-3211.

Freewill donations accepted.

SATURDAY, NOV. 25

2-DAY CHRISTMAS BAZAAR: Mount Carmel Shop, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, 17 Buena Vista Ave. at Blithedale, Mill Valley, Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-noon, many booths with items for purchase, lunch available Saturday and breakfast Sunday. (415) 388-4332.

CHRISTMAS BOUTIQUE: Holy Angels Parish Hall, 107 San Pedro Road, Colma, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Admission is free. Handmade articles for sale from many vendors as well as snacks will be sold and pictures with Santa. (650) 755-0478; croller@pacbell.net.

TURKEY DRIVE: Thanksgiving Turkey Drive, St. Emydius Parish, DeMontfort and Jules avenues, 9 a.m.-noon, all donations benefit St. Anthony Dining Room to feed the hungry. Donate online, www.SFTurkeyDrive.com, Pierre Smit, sfpierre@aol.com.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 29 KOHL CHRISTMAS: Holiday Boutique at Kohl Mansion. 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 5-9 p.m., with musical entertainment, and light refreshments

available for purchase. 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.

SATURDAY, DEC. 2 PEACE MASS: Mission Dolores Basilica (Chapel), 3321 16th Str., San Francisco, 9 a.m., Father Francis Garbo, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

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HOLIDAY MEMORIES: Msgr, John Talesfore, pastor, St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo, presides over this annual remembrance service welcoming all to pray for and remember those they have lost, 11 a.m., All Saints Mausoleum, Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma; (650) 756-2060; www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

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We invite you to gather with us on Saturday, December 9th at 11:00 a.m.

We invite you to gather with us on Saturday, December 9th at 11:00 a.m. in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma Msgr.

John Talesfore will facilitate our Christmas Remembrance Service as Msgr. will facilitate Remembrance Service as . you joinJohn with Talesfore others to remember and our shareChristmas grief’s journey and be comforted you join with others to remember and share grief’s journey and be comforted.

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If you are unable to attend the service, please stop by the If you are unable attend theornament service, please stopyour by the Cemetery Office totopick up an and write greetings.

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There is always a staff member available in There is always a staff on member available in All Saints Mausoleum weekends and holidays to All Saints Mausoleum on weekends and holidays to assist you. They will also have memory tree ornaments assist you.forThey also have memory tree ornaments available yourwill messages through December 31st. available for your messages through December 31st.

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