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Keep calm and follow Jesus, US bishops say after the election Matt Hadro Catholic News Agency
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Archbishop Cordileone visits St. Brendan
Tony Eiras instructs the kindergarten in music during Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s visit to St. Brendan School. More on parish visits to St. Brendan, page 21, Good Shepherd, page 2.
BALTIMORE – As the country recovers from a divisive election and many in the U.S. are living in uncertainty, the Catholic Church must offer everyone hope, the outgoing president of the U.S. bishops’ conference said at the start of the national bishops conference. “The church at her best has always been a beacon of hope,” Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville stated Nov. 14 at a press conference during the bishops’ fall general assembly in Baltimore. He added that the church “advocates for people who feel that they’re disenfranchised or are filled with fear,” and pointed to statements he made earlier in the morning to migrants and refugees, who might be fearful after the recent presidential election. Just as Christ said in the Gospels “I am with you,” he exhorted his fellow bishops to repeat to these persons who have fled violence and persecution: “We are with you.” see election, page 15
Hundreds mourn beloved homeless man at Star of the Sea parish Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
Thomas Myron Hooker lived the last 20 years of his life without a roof over his head, but his death Oct. 26 proved he was hardly without a home. Hundreds of people – church families, neighbors, shopkeepers and perhaps even strangers touched by the cheerful kindness and generosity of the man who for years had made camp under a tarp at Funston and Clement streets in San Francisco’s Richmond District – streamed into Star of the Sea Church on Geary Boulevard Nov. 7 to express their respect and affection. Hooker had endeared himself to the parish and surrounding community with his gentle spirit. He spent a part of each day praying in the back pews, said Star of the Sea pastor Father Joseph Illo, who eulogized him as “a kind of patron saint of the homeless.”
“The meaning of being homeless beyond shelter is when you lack a home, lack a family who understands you. You are homeless when you don’t feel you belong anywhere,” said Father Illo. “Many of us who live in more comfort are more homeless than Thomas was. He had a home with us.” Thomas had “overcome his homelessness,” said Father Illo, who claimed Hooker’s body and planned the funeral Mass and reception that followed. McAvoy O’Hara Co., the Evergreen Mortuary, donated a casket and prepared the body for burial. A special collection was taken during the Mass so that Hooker might be laid to rest with dignity and a headstone at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. According to a Richmond District blog, Hooker was originally from Trinidad and had spent time in Chicago before coming to San Francisco. “This was a man who never asked for anything,” said see mourn, page 22
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need to know CATHEDRAL SPEAKER SERIES: Archbishop Cordileone, 10:30 a.m.– noon, Nov. 19, St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center. “Reflections on the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.” More info, Father Patrick J. Driscoll (415) 5672020, ext. 208; frdriscoll@stmarycathedralsf.org or www.stmarycathedralsf. org. Free of charge. The chaplet of Divine Mercy begins at 10:15 a.m., also in the event center below the cathedral. CHRIST THE KING SUNDAY: Archbishop Cordileone celebrates 11 a.m. Nov. 20, Mass at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco (415) 986-4557; info@shrinesf. org shrinesf.org. Liturgy concludes the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy. FAMILY LIFE IN SPANISH: Family Life Day in Spanish, Nov. 19, 9 a.m.- 3:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral Conference Center, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco; Cecilia Arias-Rivas, (415) 614-5573; Delia Herrera, (415) 6145650; Ed Hopfner, hopfnere@sfarch.org. FAITH FORMATION CONFERENCE: Dec. 2, 3 at San Jose Convention Center, 150 West San Carlos in San Jose. Keynote speakers include Bridgeport Connecticut Bishop Frank J. Caggiano and Chris Stefanick noted outreach speaker and regular voice on Catholic radio; www.faithformationconference.com.
Archbishop Cordileone’s schedule Nov. 16-17: USCCB annual meeting, Baltimore Nov. 18: Independent Review Board meeting Nov. 19: Spanish Family Life talk, cathedral; Year of Mercy talk, cathedral Nov. 20: Closing of the Year of Mercy, 11 a.m. Mass, National Shrine of St. Francis Nov. 21: Seminary board meeting Nov. 22: Priest Day at the Seminary talk, Mass, dinner Nov 23: SF County Jail Mass; Chancery meetings; St. Anthony’s Dining Room service Nov. 27: Mass, 11 a.m., cathedral Nov. 30: Chancery meetings
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Archbishop Cordileone posed with Good Shepherd School’s eighth grade class after a wide-ranging discussion.
Archbishop, 8th graders discuss happiness Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s visit to the eighth grade classroom at Good Shepherd School turned into an unusually wide-ranging discussion on the nature of happiness, faith, and “recruiting more Catholics.” “What is the meaning of happiness to you?” asked one girl. “Happiness is the human vocation. God created us all to be happy. Happiness means living in accordance with God’s will for us,” Archbishop Cordileone replied. The visit to the Pacifica parish grade school Oct. 27 was part of the archbishop’s official visits to parishes. Good Shepherd parish and school was the 49th stop of about 90 parishes in the archdiocese. The archbishop estimates it will take him at least five years for the official visitation of all the parishes, which includes meetings with parish councils and finance committees, school boards, celebrating Mass at the parish, and meeting parishioners. He returned to the parish Oct. 29-30 and installed as pastor, Father Luello N. Palacpac. “What can we do to recruit more Catholics and what can I do to be a better Catholic?” one eighth grade boy asked the archbishop, who sat on a desk at the front of the classroom. “We are always trying strategies for what we call evangelization. That’s recruiting more Catholics,” Archbishop
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Left, Father Luello N. Palacpac who was installed as pastor Oct. 30. Right, Archbishop Cordileone was presented with a pumpkin-themed poster compiled of welcoming letters from the second grade. Cordileone said, saying getting news to websites and social media can “pique” interest. “They can learn things and find out about what’s going on. But for them to really receive the invitation from Christ to follow him, Christ always uses a human agent. So we need to set up opportunities so we can encounter each other. Pope Francis emphasizes this a lot, the culture of encounter.” The exchange between the archbishop and the students continued for three-quarters of an hour, covering favorite music, sports, God and faith. Several returned later to ask the archbishop if he would play racquetball with them – he agreed, but was still visiting other classrooms when their gym class ended. The day began with a school Mass,
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and included visits to each of the classrooms where the archbishop answered questions and was presented with specially created class gifts, including a placemat and a special poster. He was serenaded with songs in several classes. In answering the eighth grader’s question, Archbishop Cordileone said bringing others to Christ “means you have to understand your faith” and study in school. However, he said it is a lifelong process and there are “2,000 years of really smart people” to learn from. “Then of course, prayer has to be the heart of it, never stop praying,” he said, urging praying the rosary, and noting the parish has eucharistic adoration every day and all day on Friday, “That’s a beautiful opportunity you have.”
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Workshop offers tools to navigate grief during Christmas season Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
Grief can seem even more intense during the holiday season, as the person who is gone is missed even more at Thanksgiving and continuing through Christmas. So each year St. Mary’s Cathedral offers the “Hope for the Holiday Grief Seminar” to help. This year it will be Nov. 19, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. It is open to the public, includes light refreshments, and is free of charge, with ample parking in the cathedral parking lot. “This is a witness of being present,” said Deacon Christoph Sandoval of his ministry at the cathedral to those who are grieving, noting he brings Jesus
are wounded healers on some level,” Deacon Sandoval said. “We are able to stand in solidarity with people.” The Hope for the Holiday Grief Seminar includes a presentation on advance directives, a tool kit for navigating grief through the holidays, and the third part, “Welcoming heaven on the last day of our lives.” While “suffering is the separation between you and the beloved,” Deacon Sandoval said, in the forum of the church, he can bring God into the discussion. “In our world, we can proclaim the Gospel. We have answers to all those universal questions.” “Sometimes you don’t want to fix things, you just want to let people cry.”
with him to each encounter. “The questions are so huge” when someone dies, he said. The two-hour presentation by Deacon Sandoval and Mercy Sister Elaine Stahl is a tool kit for various aspects of grief, death and dying. Deacon Sandoval also facilitates an ongoing drop-in grief session in the cathedral’s Msgr. Bowe Room on the third Wednesday of every month from 10:30 a.m. until noon or later. “All are welcome,” he said. Coffee, tea, little cookies and Kleenex are offered. “God is the genesis, journey and destination for all of us,” Deacon Sandoval said. He and Sister Elaine “bring our own stories, our own brokenness. We
Advent Liturgy Highlights Nov 27: First Sunday of Advent. Dec. 6: Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass, 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral. Bishop William Justice celebrating. Traditional Filipino Christmas novena begins Dec. 15/16 in parishes. See ad, page 3. Dec. 8: Feast of the Immaculate Conception, holy day of obligation. Dec. 10: Guadalupana Pilgrimage to St. Mary’s Cathedral from All Souls Church in South San Francisco. 6 a.m. at All Souls. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 2 p.m. Transportation from St. Mary’s begins at 4 a.m., and returning to All Souls 2:30 – 5 p.m. Info at cruzadaguadalupana.org. Dec. 12: Memorial of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The Filipino Ministry Consultative Board of the Archdiocese of San Francisco invites you to its 9th Annual
Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass Tuesday, December 6, 2016 7:30pm at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption 1111 Gough St, San Francisco, CA 94109 Principal Celebrant: Most Reverend William J. Justice, Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco Reception & Fellowship immediately after the Mass Come join us as the Archdiocese sends us forth on a mission to be the light of Christ.
The Archdiocese’s Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass heralds the beginning of Simbang Gabi Masses celebrated in its various parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Below are the 2016 schedules of masses submitted. Please double check the times of the mass, and check the schedule of your local church if it is not listed below: SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY: Church of the Epiphany Church of the Visitation Corpus Christi Holy Name of Jesus St. Anne of the Sunset St. Boniface St. Elizabeth St. John the Evangelist St. Monica(1) St. Patrick St. Paul of the Shipwreck St. Stephen(2) St. Thomas More SAN MATEO COUNTY: All Souls Holy Angels Mater Dolorosa Our Lady of Mercy Our Lady of Perpetual Help
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Table of Plenty serves in ‘irreplaceable atmosphere,’ volunteer says Tom Burke catholic San Francisco
Help, for those in need and those who assist in meeting those needs, seems to be an active ingredient of so many good works in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Table of Plenty in Half Moon Bay is no stranger to the recipe. TOP, established in 2012, will serve almost 8,000 meals this year to struggling people, young and old. Andrew Hu has Andrew Hu been a volunteer at the Thursday night suppers since March 2015. Via email he told me his TOP takeaways include “human connections to people I would have otherwise never have met” and being made to feel “useful, a feeling that is not necessarily common for a kid who spent most of his downtime in his room playing video games.” And that is only the beginning of what the current student teacher at El Camino High School has gained as a TOP volunteer. “It isn’t just the people and the atmosphere they create,” he told me. The “sense of community” at TOP resonated with Andrew. He called it “the key” to his wanting to be there each week. “Everyone pours their heart and soul into their work, and while things here and there may get frustrating, we work through and always pull off a fantastic meal every Thursday. From the welcoming and gracious greeters, who will try their hardest to make sure everyone who wants to have dinner with us can, to the rambunctious kitchen staff, to the fantastic servers who go above and beyond. The people create an irreplaceable atmosphere that is warm, welcoming, and, quite simply, wonderful.” Andrew says volunteer work has benefits on many levels. “Do you want to try and break out of that awkward or shy shell of yours?” he said. “Things like TOP can provide a step to help you push past that. I can say from personal experience, I was severely uncomfortable interacting with other people, especially when I started at TOP.” Notre Dame Sister Jeanette Braun is TOP executive director. “Andrew is an exceptional volunteer who is willing to respond wherever he is needed,” she told me. “His ready smile, boundless energy and attentiveness to our guests, makes him a great role model for student and adult servers alike.” Debbe Kennedy has been with TOP since its start. “Andrew puts ‘love into his doing’ whatever the task at hand,” she said. “He is full of joy and yet, amazingly focused on never forgetting a step. His light shines at TOP.”
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REUNION: Members of the class of 1951 from San Francisco College for Women gathered Oct. 16 on the Lone Mountain campus. Pictured from left are alumnae: Barbara McTighe, Anne Kirkbride, Claire O’Sullivan, Toni Buckley, Lorraine Urban, Virginia Slevin and Dorothy Shelloe. Not available for the picture was classmate Anstell Daini Ricossa. ties, lead Riordan’s Marianist Integration Team and teach sophomore theology. Catherine holds an undergraduate degree in communications from the University of San Francisco and a graduate degree in theology from Boston College. Catherine most recently served as dean of students at her alma mater, Notre Dame High School, Salinas. She is also a former member of the Catherine faculty at St. Francis High School, Mifsud Mountain View and a former associate director of university ministry at USF.
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CONGRATULATIONS: Karen Hanrahan, head of school, Mercy High School, Burlingame, with seniors, Julianna A. Bencze of Half Moon Bay and Sin Ting “Abby” Hui of Millbrae, recently named Commended Students in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program. About 34,000 commended students throughout the nation are recognized and place among the top 5 percent of more than 1.6 million students entered in the 2017 competition. TOP holds its annual Wine Tasting Nov. 19, 5 p.m., IDES Hall 735 Main St., Half Moon Bay. Tickets $25, must be at least 21 to attend; winetasting5.eventbrite.com.
WELCOME ABOARD: New Dean of Community Life at Archbishop Riordan High School is Catherine Mifsud. She will oversee all aspects of student life, including campus ministry and student activi-
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Sharing faith, learning mercy: From left, Verbum Dei Sister Yolanda Barajas spoke on mercy in the tradition of the church; Father Moises Agudo spoke at the sixth Hispanic Day Oct. 29; attendees in St. Mary’s Cathedral; one of the child dancers who participated.
Mercy ‘like a river’: Hispanic Day reflects on Year of Mercy Lorena Rojas San Francisco Catolico
Latino Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco celebrated the sixth consecutive Hispanic Day at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Oct. 29, focusing on the Year of Mercy. The event, which took place three weeks before the end of the jubilee year, included prayers, confessions, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Mass, along with Latin-American food and art. “This is a day of mercy,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said before celebrating Mass. During the homily, the archbishop referred to the Gospel and preached about God’s covenant with his people and the obedience of Jesus who followed God’s plans of creation. The archbishop invited the faithful to continue praying the rosary, reading and reflecting on the Bible, worshiping the Blessed Sacrament, and studying the Catholic faith. The archbishop thanked Father Moisés Agudo, vicar for Hispanics in the archdiocese, for founding the “Escuela
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Monica J. Williams, director of cemeteries for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, has been elected to the board of directors of the Catholic Cemetery Conference, an international Roman Catholic faith network of cemetery Monica Williams professionals and suppliers. The election took place at the group’s yearly convention in Orlando, Florida. Williams took her seat Oct. 14. In her post with the archdiocese Williams over-
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St. Emydius volunteers talking turkey - hams too Tom Burke Catholic San Francisco
The St. Emydius holiday turkey drive is once again in gear. The event accepts donations each year for Thanksgiving and Christmas with all collected going to San Francisco’s St. Anthony’s Dinig Room for use in its iconic service to the poor with meals every day of the year. It began in 2012 with 19 turkeys coming from neighbors and friends. “In 2013, I asked Father Bill Brady, pastor of St. Emydius, to join us in our effort so we could reach out to the parishioners of our church and to a larger neighborhood,” parishioner Pierre Smit told Catholic San Francisco. Smit began the effort with a now deceased friend. “We collected 289 turkeys.” In 2014, 325 turkeys were donated. Last year the campaign added social media alerts and passing out 3,000 fliers to its publicity efforts. “We collected an incredible 429 turkeys,” Smit said. “So we have collected now over 1000 turkeys in the last three years thanks to the generosity of so many people and with the great input from the St. Emydius Parish. Father Bill Brady and Father Dave Pettingill have been an incredible support.” The drive takes place on Saturdays before each of the big holidays: This year it is Nov. 19 and Dec. 17, both days 9 a.m.-noon. More than a dozen volunteers are onsite to help. Keeping track of the gifts and making sure all reach St. Anthony’s in good condition is no simple task. “We rent a U Haul truck where we stock the turkeys and we prefer to receive frozen turkeys,” Smit said. “We keep the fresh turkeys squeezed between frozen ones. Right after it’s off to St. Anthony’s to deliver the turkeys and the checks from those who donate that way. Thanks to an email effort, the drive has expanded its reach and cash donations now come from all parts of the United States, Smit said. A website has also been established: www.sfturkeydrive.com.
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Volunteers await last year’s donations for the St. Emydius Turkey Drive. While turkeys – “frozen, please,” Smit affirmed – are the mainstay. All donations are gratefully
accepted and put to good use. “From vegetarian donors who rather not purchase turkeys, we welcome boxes of fresh vegetables,” Smit said. For Christmas, hams are also recommended to be dropped off. Each of the collection days is busy, Smit said. “It’s pretty much lined up cars at peak time. Neighbors are walking with their turkeys, driving their car or bicycle, and even come with a hand truck. We get hugs, we get laughter and lots of thank you’s. It’s like an annual event for the neighborhood when everyone wants to join in and participate.” “This event made me feel so humble to see many people wanting to join in,” Smit said. “A simple idea has become a great event for our neighborhood, for our parish, and so many people who care about feeding the ones who are poor, hungry and simply need a help to get back onto a new direction. I was an undocumented immigrant myself and I always have been very lucky in this country. I just like to share with the ones that have not been as lucky as I have been.”
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why go to mass: Five reasons
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The holy sacrifice of the Mass is at the center of our belief and practice in the Catholic Church. St. Mary’s Cathedral is the mother church of our archdiocese.
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s a husband, a father of five, a fitness advocate, an avid reader, and a man who is continually searching for mental, physical, and spiritual growth, the eucharistic sacrifice of the Mass has become an indispensable charge of focused action toward my end goal of becoming a saint. We all have our own reasons as to why we persistently join in this heavenly celebration, however, as a man I want to offer my modest considerations as to what draws me back to the sanctuary day in and day out. As created, loved beings we are given the opportujared nity to feast on the body and zimmerer blood of God himself and these five reasons to go to Mass are in direct relationship with that connection to the divine.
STRENGTH: “The Lord gives strength to his people.” - Psalm 29:11
In the many walks of life there are few characteristics as desirable as that of strength. It seems that every day we come across a new challenge or a difficulty which requires the plateau-busting push to meet new heights of strength, holiness and power. Whether this is a practice in mental fortitude, physical tenacity or spiritual mettle, becoming a stronger individual is what life, and our creator, desires for us to nurture. As a weightlifter I understand that what I put into my body will propagate the output my body is willing to give. If I eat cheeseburgers and milkshakes every day it would be nonsensical for me to expect my muscles to push beyond their normal limits. So, as a person who aspires to become strong in every area of my life, attending Mass is of utmost importance. When receiving the body, blood, (Photo by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco)
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five reasons: Strength, honor, loyalty, wonder and mission FROM PAGE 9
soul and divinity of Christ, our metaphysical muscles are enhanced which increases the power of our soul, building within us a divine intensity which spills over to strengthen our evangelization efforts, our intellectual proficiencies and sets
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When going to Mass there are several incidences which shower the attendee with honor and grace. It is an honor to hear the word of God proclaimed before believers. It is an honor to hear the sacred words spoken which change normal bread and wine into the food even angels are jealous of. It is an honor to sit
next to another believer in the presence of God and his priests. And most importantly, it is an honor to take part in the celebration of the sacrifice of Christ and partake of his body and blood. So often we become haughty and arrogant in our thinking and feel that we are blessing everyone around us with our presence. We forget about the fact that the real honor bestowed see five reasons, page 11
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five reasons: Strength, honor, loyalty, wonder and mission FROM PAGE 10
comes when a believer truly lets go and allows God to shower him with virtue.
LOYALTY: “As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord” - Joshua 24:15
I am very proud of my Catholic heritage, and when I go to Mass, I am reminded of all those who came before me. Those blessed saints who spilt their blood so that the future generations could attend Mass without persecution. They suffered and many died so that I might continue the traditions and beliefs of this breathtaking faith. The blood, sweat and tears of 2,000 years reside within every single Catholic, and our heavenly intercessors the saints are cheering us on to continue the work for which they gave their lives. Out of loyalty to us, Christ overcame sin and death. For the sake of loyalty to Christ I give my life over to him.
WONDER: “The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
I am a shameless fan of J.R.R. Tolkien. Tracing back to the beginnings of my serious contemplation of the faith, Tolkien’s work opened my mind not only to the beauty of the written word but the overwhelming splendor of the fantastic. Wonder is the first step in effective philosophy and through the incredible beauty of the Catholic faith we get to experience, in the here and now, that which inspired Tolkien, which is the experience of transcendence through a human nature redeemed by Christ’s divine nature. When going to Mass, it is easy to get lost in the faces of others and fail to recall that a channel is opening between the heavens and the earth. We are surrounded by angels and saints each time the Blessed Sacrament is held up see five reasons, page 12
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five reasons: Strength, honor, loyalty, wonder and mission FROM PAGE 11
by the priest. I am surrounded by a meeting of heaven and earth, where God takes on our flesh and beckons us to embark on an unexpected adventure.
MISSION: “The world offers you comfort, you were not made for comfort, but for greatness.” – Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
We Catholics are made for mission. Whatever that mission might be, it is direly important in the eyes of God and his church. What we must remember is that the holy Mass is the event and place where we are given a reason for our hope and the gumption to die for it. Nowhere else in this world can we be guaranteed life-giving victory and spotless purity of the cause we fight for. The Mass begins the mission Christ gave to his church to prepare the followers to be participants in his own divine nature, and in becoming ever more like Christ we labor not just to change the world, but to bring it to share in the gift of Christ’s divine life.
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What does the Catholic Church teach about going to Mass? ever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
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The command of God. The third of the Ten Commandments given to Moses by God is, “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day” (Exodus 20:8). The command of Christ. Why should we keep the Sabbath holy by going to Mass? The Mass was instituted at the Last Supper by Jesus before his crucifixion. The Last Supper was the first Mass. “When the hour came, he [Jesus] took his place at the table with the Apostles . . . Then he took the bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which will be given for you. Do this in memory of me” (Luke 22:14,19). The command of the Catholic Church. The church teaches that we must fulfill the command of Jesus (“Do this in memory of me”) by attending Sunday Mass (or the vigil Mass the night before). The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994, pp. 493-94) explains that Mass attendance on Sundays and holy days of obligation is the first of the six commandments of the church. The Catholic Church speaks with the authority of Jesus. Why should we obey these teachings of the church? Where does the church get its authority? From Jesus. In Matthew 16:18-19, Jesus made Peter the head of his church
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What we do at Mass. The Mass is the perfect sacrifice, created by Jesus. Through the priest we offer Jesus, body and blood, to the Father, just as Jesus offered himself to the Father on the cross. In an unbloody way, we repeat — make present — Christ’s death and resurrection. Through this memorial of Jesus, we offer God our praise, sorrow for our sins, and deepest thanks. The Mass is also a meal. At the consecration, the bread and wine, through the power of the Holy Spirit, become the body and blood of Christ. Not a mere symbol, but Jesus’s real flesh and real blood, under the appearance of bread and wine. When we receive Holy Communion, we receive Jesus himself. He is real food for our soul. He said this very plainly: ”I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.” (John 6:55-56). Abbreviated version of an article published by Catholic Education Resource Center. Reprinted with permission of Thomas Lickona and Catholic Education Resource Center.
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election: Keep calm and follow Jesus, US bishops say FROM PAGE 1
The bishops are meeting for their annual general assembly Nov. 14-16 in Baltimore. Nov. 14 they heard the final presidential address of outgoing president Archbishop Kurtz, as well as an address by the apostolic nuncio to the U.S., Archbishop Christophe Pierre. Regarding the recent presidential election, Archbishop Kurtz said earlier in the day he had written to President-elect Donald Trump expressing a “willingness to work together” for the “protection of life” and the “promotion of human dignity.” The bishops “have been very clear for the right to life of the child in the womb,” Archbishop Kurtz insisted, adding that the Catholic Church is defending human dignity by opposing the legalization of assisted suicide, which was recently approved by voters in Colorado and by the city government of Washington, D.C. Trump’s victory has been met with protests in cities across the country, capping what was already a polarizing election cycle. Bishops responded to the protests by stating their respect for freedom of speech while insisting that a “peaceful transition of power” take place. “I think that these can be reconciled,” said Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami, chair of the bishops’ domestic justice and human development committee, of the protests and peace. There is nothing “more American than a peaceful transition of power,” he stated. The bishops were also asked about the fear of immigrants and refugees. Trump ran on a strong immigration platform that called for, among other things, a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison for those deported from the U.S. who try to illegally re-enter. Last year he called for a halt on Muslims being able to enter the country, for national security reasons. He expanded that policy this past summer by saying that the U.S. should not accept refugees from countries “compromised by terrorism.” He said on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that he plans to deport 2 to 3 million undocumented persons “that are
criminal and have criminal records” after he is sworn in as president. Archbishop Wenski recognized the validity of fears many in the U.S. have of being deported, but exhorted them to stay calm. In 1980, when President Ronald Reagan was elected, the archbishop recalled he met with Haitian detainees who were crying in fear. He recalled telling them, “don’t worry, nothing’s changed,” pointing to other countries where violent riots might take place during a transition of power. “We have a rule of law,” Archbishop Wenski said. “Nobody can arbitrarily try to send out of the country, in one fell swoop, 11 million people.” “Those people [Haitians] are still here,” he added, saying that “it’s time to take a deep breath” and to “continue our advocacy.” “If they build a wall, we have to make sure they put some doors in that wall,” he said, referring to Trump’s campaign promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Catholics should also support those who have been helping immigrants all along, Archbishop Kurtz added. Many Catholic Charities workers have been serving immigrants for a long time, and we must “encourage and even salute in some ways” these workers, he said. Plus, there is public support for immigration reform which would include a “path to permanent residency” and “eventual citizenship,” Archbishop Wenski said. The bishops were also asked about the implementation of “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on love in the family, and if it would uphold Pope St. John Paul II’s teaching in “Familiaris consortio” that the divorced-and-remarried may receive reconciliation in the sacrament of penance only if they have repented of having broken the sign of the covenant and, if for serious reasons they cannot separate, they agree to live in complete continence, living as brother and sister. Archbishop Kurtz instructed Catholics to “read first chapter four and five” of the letter, and pointed to what “our Holy Father has said,” that “very clearly that there is no desire on his part to make any canonical changes or any new doctrine.”
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Voters reject nearly all ballot measures on issues of Catholic concern Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In this year’s election, voters went against nearly all of the ballot initiatives backed by Catholic leaders and advocates, except the referendums on minimum wage increases and gun control measures. Voters passed an assisted suicide measure in Colorado and voted in favor of the death penalty in three states and in favor Bishop Thomas of legalized recreational marijuaJ. Olmsted na in four states and against it in one. They also voted for minimum wage increases and gun control measures in four states. In Colorado, the only state with an initiative to legalize assisted suicide, voters passed the measure, making the state the sixth in the nation with a so-called “right-to-die law,” joining Washington, Oregon, California, Vermont and Montana. “The decision the voters of Colorado have made to legalize physician-assisted suicide via the passage of Proposition 106 is a great travesty of compassion and choice for the sick, the poor, the elderly and our most vulnerable residents,” said Jenny Kraska, executive director of the Colorado Catholic Conference. The three death penalty referendums before voters this year all ended in favor of capital punishment. Bishops and Catholic conferences in these states had engaged in efforts to educate Catholics in particular on this issue and urge them to vote against it. Oklahoma voters re-approved the use of the death penalty after the state’s attorney general had suspended executions last year. Nebraska voters also reinstated the death penalty, which had been banned by state lawmakers last year; the vote was 60.9 percent for the death penalty and 39.1 percent against it. In California, voters defeated a ballot measure to repeal death penalty in the state and narrowly
passed an initiative aiming to speed up executions of death row convictions. Karen Clifton, executive director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network, the national Catholic organization working to end the death penalty, said in a Nov. 9 statement that “despite referendum losses” in the three states, she was hopeful “the country will continue to move away from the death penalty and toward a greater respect for life.” She also praised the work of Catholics on the state level to end the death penalty. Voters in California, Massachusetts, Nevada and Maine approved recreational marijuana initiatives, while Arizona voters rejected it. California, Massachusetts and Arizona bishops spoke out against the initiatives. The Boston Archdiocese spent $850,000 in a last-minute effort to defeat the ballot measure, saying increased drug use was a threat to those served by the Catholic Church’s health and social-service programs. A Boston Globe report on the campaign quoted an archdiocesan spokesman who said the money was from a discretionary, unrestricted central ministry fund. In a statement opposing the ballot measure, the Massachusetts Catholic bishops referenced a report from the National Institute of Drug Abuse that said marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States. “Its widespread use and abuse, particularly by young people under the age of 18, is steadily increasing while scientific evidence clearly links its long-term damaging effects on brain development,” the bishops said. In Arizona, Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted said in a postelection statement: “I give thanks to God that Arizona voters rejected the measure to legalize recreational marijuana, thereby safeguarding many, especially children and young people, from the falsehood that drug use is socially and morally acceptable. Our state will be a safer place for kids and families because this measure was defeated.” On minimum wage ballots, voters in Maine, Arizona and Colorado voted to increase the minimum wage to at least $12 an hour by 2020 and in
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Pope’s U.S. representative: Bring in youth from periphery Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE – Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the new apostolic nuncio to the United States, urged U.S. bishops to pay close attention to young Catholics to both learn from them and help them to deepen their faith. “Many young people are not allergic to the truths of the faith or to the church, but they simply don’t know anything or know very little about the faith,” he said Nov. 14, urging bishops to take steps needed to help them. The archbishop, who addressed the bishops at the start of their fall general assembly in Baltimore, also noted that it is difficult for today’s young people to live out their faith in today’s modern world and they need to know they are welcome in the church. His remarks were geared to encouraging bishops to prepare for the October 2018 Synod of Bishops, which has the theme of accompanying young people on the path of faith and in discerning their vocation, announced by the Vatican this October. “We know that youth are critical to the life of the church,” he stressed, adding that they often “find themselves at the peripheries of both the church and society. We must go out to them.” This was the archbishop’s first address to an assembly of the U.S. bishops since his appointment
earlier this year. He said Catholics in the U.S. were still benefiting from the pope’s visit last year and from experiences from the Year of Mercy. The archbishop, who has spent 40 years in the Vatican diplomatic corps, spent most of his 30-minute address pleading with the bishops to come to understand the young people in their dioceses, noting that they “tend to place everything in the present moment” and are often in a state of constant flux and unable to make a permanent choice. He also noted the impact of modern technology on today’s youths, saying it has made them change their ways of showing their feelings and communicating, trading “virtual closeness” for real encounters. To truly understand where young people are not only a way to reach out to them but a way to help them discern their next steps, particularly regarding vocations, he added. Archbishop Pierre stressed that in general they are “open, available and generous” and want authentic relationships and seek the truth. They want to be heard, he added, saying church leaders need to listen to them, following the example of Pope Francis. The archbishop also stressed the bishops alone do not have the responsibility to help young people connect with their faith, because it is up to the whole church “to go to and walk with our young people.”
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VATICAN CITY – Nearing the end of the Year of Mercy, Pope Francis paid a visit to seven families formed by men who left the priesthood to marry. The Vatican said the visit was a sign that God loves and is merciful to everyone experiencing difficulty. “The Holy Father wanted to offer a sign of closeness and affection to these young men who made a choice that often was not shared by their fellow priests and families,” the Vatican said in a statement about the pope’s visit Nov. 11. The visit was part of the “Mercy Friday” initiative Pope Francis began in December for the Holy Year, which ends Nov. 20. Almost every month throughout the year, the pope visited a group of people – people recovering from addiction, women rescued from prostitution, infants in a hospital neonatal unit – as his own expression of the corporal works of mercy. The destinations were not announced in advance and journalists were not invited. Traveling to an apartment in the Ponte di Nona area on the far eastern edge of Rome, the pope met the families of the former priests. Four of the men had been priests in Rome. A former priest from Madrid and a former priest from Latin America, both now living with their new families in Rome, also were in attendance as was a visiting former priest from Sicily. After serving in parishes, the Vatican said, “solitude, incomprehension and tiredness because of the great requirement of pastoral responsibility put in crisis their initial choice of priesthood.” The crises were followed by “months and years of uncertainty and doubts that in many cases led them to believe they had made the wrong choice with priesthood. So they decided to leave the priesthood and form a family.” Pope Francis entered the apartment and was greeted by the priests’ children, who embraced him. The adults, the Vatican said, “could not hide their emotion.” The former priests and their families did not feel judged by the pope, the Vatican statement said, but felt his closeness and affection. He listened to their stories and paid particular attention to the concerns they raised about “juridical procedures,” apparently in reference to the process of releasing a priest from his priestly promises. Pope Francis’ “paternal words reassured every one,” the Vatican said. “In this way, once again, Pope Francis intended to give a sign of mercy to those who live in a situation of spiritual and material difficulty, showing the obligation to ensure no one feels deprived of the love and solidarity” of the church’s pastors.
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Thanksgiving is one of the most loved and honored American holidays. Some travel considerable distances to spend this day with family. Spending time with family is surely a special blessing. But it is important to remember that Thanksgiving is much more than turkey, stuffing, and football. Unlike other secular holidays like Labor Day and the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving is a national holiday that is clearly religious in nature. As a nation of faith with Christian foundation, we set aside this day to thank God for his many blessings. During his first year in office, 1789, President George Washington called for a day of Thanksgiving because “it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.” In 1815 President James Madison issued a proclamation for “a day of thanksgiving and of devout acknowledgements to Almighty God for his great goodness.” But after Madison, Thanksgiving reverted to a regional celebration in the New England states for 48 years. During the Civil War a concerned magazine editor, Sarah Josepha Hales, petitioned the Lincoln administration in 1863 that a day of Thanksgiving “now needs national recognition and official fixation to become permanently an American custom and institution.” That year President Abraham Lincoln called on Americans to “fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.”
t. Paul urged us to give thanks to God always. Our forebears and our founding fathers, active Christians, often followed this sage counsel. And eventually our national day of Thanksgiving evolved. The very first Thanksgiving was celebrated on Sept. 8, 1565, in what is now St. Augustine, Florida, by Spanish settlers and Timucua Indians. On that day the first Mass, an act of thanksgiving, was celebrated on American soil, and it was followed by a feast of bean soup. Another Thanksgiving was observed in El Paso, brother john Texas, under the leaderm. samaha, sm ship of Spanish explorer Don Juan de Onate, who declared: “In the name of the most holy Trinity … I take possession of this whole land this April 30, 1598, in honor of our Lord Jesus Christ, on this day of the Ascension of our Lord ….” Mass was celebrated and a feast of geese, cranes, and ducks was enjoyed by the colonists, followed by a play organized by the Franciscan missionaries honoring the Native American converts. Another interesting note concerns Squanto, the Native American who helped the Puritan pilgrims and Native Americans arrange at Plymouth Rock what is the historical forerunner of our Thanksgiving in 1621. Squanto had previously been captured and enslaved by the English, but was freed by the Spanish Franciscans, and was baptized a Catholic. Thus, a Catholic contributed to arranging our Thanksgiving Day.
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theism is a parasite that feeds on bad religion. That’s why, in the end, atheistic critics are our friends. They hold our feet to the fire. Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Karl Marx, for example, submit that all religious experience is ultimately psychological projection. For them, the God we believe in and who undergirds our churches is, at the end of the day, simply a fantasy we have created for ourselves to serve our own needs. We have created God as opium for comfort and to give ourselves divine permission to do what FATHER ron we want to do. They’re largely correct, rolheiser but partially wrong, and it’s in where they’re wrong that true religion takes it root. Admittedly, they’re right in that a lot of religious experience and church life is far from pure, as is evident in our lives. It’s hard to deny that we are forever getting our own ambitions and energies mixed up with what we call religious experience. That’s why, so often, we, you and I, sincere religious people, don’t look like Jesus at all: We’re arrogant where we should be humble, judgmental where we should be forgiving, hateful where we should be loving, self-concerned where we should be altruistic, and, not least, spiteful and vicious where we should be understanding and merciful. Our lives and our churches often don’t radiate Jesus. Atheism is a needed challenge because far too often
we have our own life force confused with God and our own ideologies confused with the Gospel. Fortunately, God doesn’t let us get away with it for long. Rather, as the mystics teach, God inflicts us with a confusing, painful grace called a dark night of the soul. What happens in a dark night of the soul is that we run out of gas religiously in that the religious experiences that once sustained us and gave us fervor dry up or get crucified in a way that leaves us with no imaginative, affective, or emotional sense of either God’s love or of God’s existence. No effort on our part can again conjure up the feelings and images we once had about God and the security we once felt within ourselves about our faith and religious beliefs. The heavens empty and inside of ourselves we feel agnostic, as if God didn’t exist, and we are no longer able to create an image of God that feels real to us. We become helpless inside of ourselves to generate a sense of God. But that’s precisely the beginning of real faith. In that darkness, when we have nothing left, when we feel there is no God, God can begin to flow into us in a pure way. Because our interior religious faculties are paralyzed we can no longer manipulate our experience of God, fudge it, project ourselves into it, or use it to rationalize divine permission for our own actions. Real faith begins at the exact point where our atheistic critics think it ends, in darkness and emptiness, in religious impotence, in our powerlessness to influence how God flows into us. We see this clearly in the life of Mother Teresa. As seen in her diaries, for the first 27 years of her life she had a deep, felt, imaginative, affective sense of God in her life. She lived with a rock-like certainty about
Catholicism embodied: ‘The pivotal layers’
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ooking for some uplift after this tawdry election cycle? Some inspiration for tackling what lies ahead? A good way to enrich Advent? Examples of sanctity to help you be the missionary disciple you were baptized to be? Then let me recommend Bishop Robert Barron’s new DVD series, “Catholicism: The Pivotal Players.” “Pivotal Players” is a follow-up to Bishop Barron’s immensely successful, 10-part mega-series, “Catholicism,” the most compelling presentation george weigel of the symphony of Catholic truth ever created for modern media. Key figures in Catholic history appeared throughout the original series to illustrate this truth of the faith or that facet of the Catholic experience. Now, with “Pivotal Players,” six of the most striking personalities in Catholic history take center stage, the adventure of their lives serving to deepen our understanding of the “faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3). The six are Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, Thomas Aquinas, John Henry Newman, G.K. Chesterton, and Michelangelo Buonarroti: the reformer, the mystic, the theologian, the convert, the evangelist, and the artist. Two are doctors of the church – and a third may be one day. Several of them inspired successors of St. Peter; another told a pope off in no uncertain terms. Two were Englishmen and converts from Anglicanism: One, will-o-the-wisp slight and the other gargantuan; one the quintessential Oxford don, the other, the quintessential Anglo-eccentric genius. One grew up a wannabe knight errant before his abrupt turn into radical evangelicalism. Still another was arguably the greatest genius in human history, his extraordinary talents ranging across sculpture, painting, architecture, poetry and other fields. Four were Italians (if you’ll permit the anachronism for an Umbrian, a Sienese, a sortof Neapolitan, and a devout Florentine). Each of them was the human analogue to what astrophysicists call a “singularity,” someone to whom the old rules of spiritual gravitation didn’t apply. And they shared something else in common besides the passionate intensity of their Catholic faith: Each lived at a time of crisis for the church, and each helped the church address that crisis creatively while remaining true to itself.
Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena lived at times when institutional Catholicism had become complacent, losing its evangelical edge. By creating something utterly new in Catholic life – the mendicant religious order dedicated to evangelization – Francis inspired in the church a new Gospel radicalism centered on the joyful experience of salvation. By persuading (perhaps better, shaming) Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome from his political exile in Avignon, Catherine of Siena made it possible for the papacy to be again the center of unity for the entire Catholic world, as Christ intended it to be. Thomas Aquinas, for his part, grafted the “new learning” of Aristotle into Catholic theology in a creative synthesis that gave the church conceptual tools that remain powerful today. In doing so, he helped create what we know in the West as higher education, even as he showed the church how to incorporate the best of the “modernity” of his time into its intellectual and spiritual life without losing touch with the truths it had long possessed as a bequest from the Lord. Michelangelo lived during that moment of sometimes-brash human assertiveness we call the Renaissance; his theologically-driven art (which Bishop Barron explains in perhaps the most scintillating part of “Pivotal Players”) enriched the classically-inspired humanism of his day by marrying it to the biblical account of the human person. Newman and Chesterton, closer to our moment, were key figures in crafting a Catholic response to the scientific revolution and the other dramatic changes that were reshaping how we think about things – and imagine our place in the scheme of things – during the 19th and 20th centuries. That each of them did so in wonderfully winsome prose helped demonstrate the continuing vitality of the Catholic mind and spirit in an increasingly skeptical age, even as they bequeathed to the 21stcentury church models of apologetics that remain cogent at a time like ours, when skepticism has often hardened into cynicism, or just plain boredom. There are important things to be learned from each of these God-touched human personalities for the challenges Catholicism faces in the postmodern world of the 21st century. Kudos to Bishop Barron for bringing those things to our attention in a gripping way. Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
God’s existence and God’s love. But at age 27, praying on a train one day, it was as if someone turned off some switch that connected her to God. In her imagination and her feelings, the heavens emptied. God, as she had known him in her mind and feelings, disappeared. But we know the rest of the story: She lived out the next 60 years of her life in a faith that truly was rock-solid and she lived out a dedicated, selfless commitment that would disempower even the strongest atheistic critic from making the accusation that her religious experience was selfish projection and that her practice of religion was not essentially pure. In her religious darkness, God was able to flow into her in essential purity; unlike for so many of us where a faith-life that’s clearly self-serving belies a belief that we are listening to God and not to ourselves. Even Jesus, in his humanity, had to undergo this darkness, as is evident in Gethsemane and his cry of abandonment on the cross. After his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, we are told that an angel came and strengthened him. Why, we might ask, didn’t the angel come earlier when seemingly he most needed the help? God’s assistance couldn’t come until he was completely spent in terms of his own strength; his humanity wouldn’t have let the divine flow in purely but would have inserted itself into the experience. He had to be completely spent of his own strength before the divine could truly and purely flow in. So too for us. Dark nights of faith are needed to wash us clean because only then can the angel come to help us. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas; www.ronrolheiser.com.
pacholczyk: Orphans in liquid nitrogen FROM PAGE 18
or fed, but they can be afforded a measure of protection in their frozen state, with fresh liquid nitrogen continuing to be provided, at least for a time. Arranging to cover this expense of a few hundred dollars a year is one of the few ways that parents can concretely indicate their concern for their orphaned children. The suggestion to set up a trust fund sometimes results in an awkward moment of surprise where parents may ask: “Well, how long would I do that for? Obviously, I can’t do it forever.” Parents will have to decide for themselves whether setting up a trust fund in the first place makes sense as a kind of good faith sign of their love and care for their own offspring, and if so, for how long to maintain the arrangement. If they make provisions for a more extended period, say several decades, there is a greater likelihood that their embryonic children might be “rescued” if new scientific technologies for growing embryos outside the body end up being developed in the future. This may indeed become possible one day, even though there are real questions about whether such an “artificial womb” or “baby in a bottle” approach to gestation would be ethical, even with the praiseworthy intentions of saving lives and releasing orphaned embryos from their perpetual hibernation. Others hope that one day “embryo adoption” – the transfer of “spare” embryos to another woman who implants, gestates, and raises them as her own – might end up being recognized as morally allowable by the church. This unusual form of adoption is still morally debated, and “Dignitas Personae,” the most recent church document addressing the matter, raises serious concerns about the idea, as have a number of philosophers and bioethicists, myself included. A few years ago, I had a conversation with a divorced woman who had seven frozen children in storage. She described how she agonized daily over the plight of her babies, and how it felt like an open wound that could never quite heal. She shared how each year, on the anniversary of the embryos’ creation – their “birthday” of sorts – she would place a call to the fertility clinic and inquire about their status. She would ask the staff to look up and verify how many were stored at the facility. Father Pacholczyk is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts.
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Sunday readings
The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe 2 SAMUEL 5:1-3 In those days, all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said: “Here we are, your bone and your flesh. In days past, when Saul was our king, it was you who led the Israelites out and brought them back. And the Lord said to you, ‘You shall shepherd my people Israel and shall be commander of Israel.’” When all the elders of Israel came to David in Hebron, King David made an agreement with them there before the Lord, and they anointed him king of Israel. PSALM 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5 Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord. I rejoiced because they said to me, “We will go up to the house of the Lord.” And now we have set foot within your gates, O Jerusalem.
Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord. Jerusalem, built as a city with compact unity. To it the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord. According to the decree for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. In it are set up judgment seats, seats for the house of David. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord. COLOSSIANS 1:12-20 Brothers and sisters: Let us give thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy ones in light. He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have
redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he himself might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile all things for him, making peace by the blood of his cross through him, whether those on earth or those in heaven. LUKE 23:35-43 The rulers sneered at Jesus and said,
“He saved others, let him save himself if he is the chosen one, the Christ of God.” Even the soldiers jeered at him. As they approached to offer him wine they called out, “If you are King of the Jews, save yourself.” Above him there was an inscription that read, “This is the King of the Jews.” Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us.” The other, however, rebuking him, said in reply, “Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation? And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” He replied to him, “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
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n this last Sunday of the liturgical year of the church, we focus our attention on Jesus Christ as the king of the universe. What a divine irony there was on Calvary when the cross became his instrument of victory, and a condemned thief was the first to be assured of a place in his kingdom. In our fantasies, the possibility of being a king might seem pretty appealDeacon ing. We would faiva Po’oi be the center of attention. Everyone would wait on us. We would have everything we want in life. We mistakenly think that living this way would bring us the fullness of life. Jesus, however, shows us otherwise. The fullness of life that Jesus offers is not found in wealth or power, but only in giving ourselves over for the good of others. Jesus himself modeled such self-giving when, on the cross, he
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responded to the good thief’s cry for compassion and mercy. This Sunday we celebrate the reign of Jesus Christ and in so doing, we identify him as the one who offers us the fullness of life in his kingdom both now and forever. Even though Jesus’ kingdom is established from the very beginning of creation, as mentioned in the second reading, and through the Davidic kingship in the first reading, his reign is one of mercy, not power, one of selfgiving, not self-service, one of eternal salvation, not material wealth. His throne is the cross. Such a king the world has never seen. Yet this is how God’s kingdom is established and precisely where our discipleship begins: Allowing ourselves to be crucified on the cross of self-giving. Jesus reveals his kingship to us not by power, but by his loving reassurance that paradise awaits the faithful disciples. Only by starting here, with our embrace of the cross, will our discipleship be rewarded by hearing Jesus say to us – as he said to the good thief: “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.” Jesus’ kingdom has come. We are living in God’s kingdom now. Living the paschal mystery means living the cross. As the cross is the means to Jesus’ exaltation, so is the cross the means to our own entry into paradise.
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It is unlikely we will encounter someone dying on a cross who begs for our compassion and mercy, and yet we daily encounter our king in the face of others in need. Our embracing of the cross challenges us to reach across boundaries of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, and disabling conditions. Be inclusive of others, most especially those who are different than ourselves. Serve those who are poor and vulner-
able, and give generously of time and talent. Volunteer at a soup kitchen or a shelter for the homeless. Work with Habitat for Humanity or visit a nursing home. Give generously to those in need at home and abroad. Be an advocate for public policies that protect human life, promote human dignity, preserve God’s creation, and build peace in the world,
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Archbishop Cordileone visits St. Brendan Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone visited St. Brendan Parish and School Nov. 4-6, visiting classrooms Nov.4, confirming the eighth grade students Nov. 5, and installing as pastor Father Roger Gustafson on Nov. 6. Photo, top right, shows the archbishop reading from the Bible as part of blessing the refurbished library. He is shown shaking hands with fourth grader Padma Ignatius, middle right. Over the course of several weeks, Padma read 2009 minutes in the reading contest, the most in the school, and won the honor of cutting the ribbon on the upgraded library. Before touring the school, after the school Mass, Archbishop Cordileone greeted parents and parishioners, including a mother and child, bottom right. The visit to St. Brendan’s was the 50th parish the archbishop has visited of the approximately 90 parishes. The official visits are in addition to separate visits for special events. The visits are part of his canonical responsibility and a way for him to get to know Catholics of the archdiocese.
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Archbishop Cordileone distributed leadership pins to each of the St. Brendan eighth graders, assisted by principal Carol Grewal and pastor Father Roger Gustafson.
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Lea Grey Dimond, the owner of Thidwick Books on Clement Street. Every day, Hooker worked his way along Clement Street with his shopping cart, and would stand at the corner of Ninth Avenue near Walgreens, usually talking to himself. Hooker was one of three individuals profiled in a documentary about mental illness called “Voices.” In the trailer for the documentary Hooker says with a huge grin: “I suffer a lot, you know, and when you suffer you must know to be kind.” At a reception in the school gym following the Mass, the community took turns sharing memories of Hooker and offering parting thoughts. “Voices” was shown afterward. “Thomas had a gift for loving generously and unconditionally,” said one speaker. “He brought our community something rare and special.” A man in tears said he was overcome by the overflowing crowd who had come out to honor Hooker. The tears turned to laughter when he confessed he often “gave my money to Thomas instead of the church.” Star of the Sea parishioners Arnold and Jean Low had brought food to Hooker for more than 20 years and were the ones to find him unresponsive on the morning of his death. “Thomas was a kind and friendly soul, always had a smile on his face, always had something complimentary to say to you,” said Arnold Low. “There are other homeless souls for you to reach out to. Also keep this in mind he said, “When I am thirsty, you gave me to drink, when I was hungry, you gave me to eat, when I was cold you gave me clothes. Whatever you do for others, you do for me your Lord our God.”
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Mourners line the altar rail to receive Communion from Father Joseph Illo, pastor, who eulogized Thomas Myron Hooker, a beloved homeless man at a funeral Mass on Nov. 7.
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Red Mass: Ninety-six-year-old Salesian Father Armand Oliveri, shown right after the Red Mass Oct. 25 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church. Springfield, Illinois, Bishop Thomas Paprocki delivered the homily for the annual Red Mass for those in the legal profession. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated the Mass for the St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco. Pictured are Father Oliveri, Archbishop Cordil-
eone, and to his left, Oakland Bishop Michael Barber, SJ and Bishop Paprocki. This year’s recipient of the St. Thomas More Award was Stephen T. Lanctot, who was profiled in the Sept. 22 Catholic San Francisco.
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ST. TIMOTHY SCHOOL, SAN MATEO: Students celebrated Halloween with the school’s annual parade in the schoolyard. Helping to celebrate are, about-to-be-eaten-sixth grader, Monique Samson, and Tyrannosaurus rex, sixth grader Jillian Yujuico.
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Marin County 40 Days for Life: Prayed outside the San Rafael Planned Parenthood Sept. 28-Nov. 8.
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Despite a full-court press by California’s bishops, the Golden State’s voters opted to keep the death penalty and streamline the appeals process for death row inmates which could lead to more executions. However, Prop. 57, a restorative justice measure backed by the bishops, was approved. Voters also approved Prop. 64, legalizing marijuana for entertainment. Proposition 62, 66: “The California Catholic Conference of Bishops is extremely disappointed that Proposition 62, which would have ended the use of the death penalty in the state, was not successful. In this Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, it would have been the fitting culmination of a yearlong call to live out the Works of Mercy,” said Edward Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference of Bishops in a statement. The conference had urged voters to vote for Prop. 62 and against Prop. 66 streamlining the appeals process for death row felons, which frequently takes decades. Voters rejected Prop 62, 54 percent to 46 percent. Voters approved Prop. 66 by a slimmer margin, 51 percent to 49 percent. Proposition 57: Was approved by 64 percent of voters. The California bishops urged passage of this combination law and state constitutional amendment which supported increasing parole and good behavior opportunities for felons convicted of nonviolent
San Mateo Proposition Q, Burlingame Proposition R: Were defeated. The measures would have imposed some rent controls and increased tenant protection from evictions. In San Mateo, Prop. Q was rejected 61 percent to 39 percent. In Burlingame, 67 percent of voters rebuffed Prop. R. While the local Catholic archdiocese did not take an official position on these measures, local pastors and Catholics worked closely with faith-based political action organizations for their passage.
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San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice and Father Tony Vallecillo were among about 100 people who prayed and protested high rents and evictions in San Mateo County outside St. Matthew Church Aug. 20, 2015. The protest was one of many organized by San Francisco Organizing Project/Peninsula Interfaith Action, an interfaith political coalition. Most of San Mateo has no rent control, unlike San Francisco to the north. Despite heavy campaigning by advocates, tenant protection measures in both San Mateo City and Burlingame were resoundingly defeated by voters. Bishop William Justice, former San Francisco archbishop Cardinal William Levada and Oakland Bishop Michael Barber, SJ.
crimes and allow judges, not prosecutors, to decide whether to try certain juveniles as adults. Proposition 64: Was approved by 56 percent of the voters and will legalize marijuana for adult recreational use, going well beyond the state’s medical marijuana law. The California Catholic Conference did not take a position on Prop.64, but the bishops of the Bay Area spoke out strongly against it, in four separate essays by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Auxiliary
San Francisco Proposition I: Was approved by 66.3 percent of voters. Backed by Catholic Charities and a range of social service agencies including Meals on Wheels, Prop. I establishes a fund to support seniors and adults with disabilities, paid for with an annual setaside from property taxes. The Dignity Fund will set aside at least $38 million a
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SATURDAY, NOV. 19 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. ‘WHAT’S NEXT’: Where is Mercy Leading Us?–A Year of Mercy Event with Mercy Sister Mary Trainor, 1:30-3:30 p.m., all are welcome, no fee. Sister Mary established Mercy International Center in Dublin, Ireland, and Cranaleith Spirituality Center in Philadelphia; Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. Please reserve. https:// marytrainorwhatsnext.eventbrite.com; (650) 340-7474. BOUTIQUE: St. Dunstan Parish “Holiday Boutique & Raffle,” 11 a.m.-7 p.m., 1133 Broadway Ave., Millbrae, with 25 local vendors offering unique, artistic, and handmade goods, plus a Mimosa Bar, eggnog, cocoa, coffee and delicious holiday treats for purchase, ample parking; tickets for raffle with $4,000 prize, $40; (650) 697-4730; secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org. 2-DAY CRAFTS: “Amazing and Magnificent Crafts 2016” benefiting Sisters of the Good Shepherd and the Children’s Medi-Fund, Nov. 19, 20, noon-6 p.m. both days, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, 1310 Bacon St., San Francisco, (415) 586-2822; phyllis4hope@ mac.com. MEN’S ADVENT RETREAT: St. Mary Star of the Sea Men’s Club in Sausalito retreat for Catholic men, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; Marin Catholic High School, Bon Air Road and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Kentfield; Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly, former Marin Catholic president, will lead “Advent Through The Eyes of Mary”; $50 fee includes continental breakfast and lunch; staroftheseamensclub@gmail.com. ADVENT RETREAT: Father Dave Pettingill with “We Don’t Get the Trinity – It Gets Us,” free admission, St. Matthias Parish, Father Lacey Hall, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City, 1-4:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, NOV. 19 MERCY REFLECTIONS: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone looks back at the Year of Mercy ending Nov. 20, feast of Christ the King, St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center, Archbishop Gough Street Cordileone at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 10:30 a.m.noon, free of charge, the chaplet of Divine Mercy prayed at 10:15 a.m., (415) 567-2020; www. stmarycathedralsf.org. HOLIDAY GRIEF SEMINAR: St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center, St. Francis Hall, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 2-4 p.m., open to the public and free of charge, free parking; (415) 567-2020, ext. 218, www.stmarycathedralsf.org; Deacon Christoph Sandoval, Mercy Sister Elaine Stahl presenters.
followed by Mass at 5 p.m. with Father Dave as principal celebrant, homilist; Liz Vugrinecz, liz@stmatthiasparish.org; (650) 366-9544, ext. 12. 2-DAY BOUTIQUE: All Souls Women’s Club Christmas fair complete with Santa, Nov. 19, 20 10 a.m.-6 p.m. both days, All Souls parish hall, 315 Walnut St, South San Francisco; allsoulswomensclub@yahoo.com; (650) 871-8944.
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SUNDAY, NOV. 20 ‘A MUSICAL FEAST’: St. Cecilia Church Centennial Concert Series, 18th Avenue at Vicente, San Francisco, 4 p.m.; Cecilia Cardenas, Justin Nash, piano; Russell Ferreira, trumpet; Beatrice Martin, organ; Frances Peterson, soprano, Anna Maria Mendietta, harp and St. Cecilia Children’s Choir, under the direction of Sister Margaret Kinzie, will perform works by Bach, Handel, Purcell, Mozart, Debussy and others; all invited, free admission. PEDRO TOURNEY: ICF Branch 173, Our Lady of Angels gym, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame, 12:30 p.m. registration; games at 1 p.m.; dinner follows; $40 dinner and games, $15 dinner only, RSVP Beatrice Tomasello, (650) 344-5276. CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough, 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.
WEDNESDAY NOV. 30 4-WEEK ADVENT SERIES: St. Patrick Church, 114 King St., Larkspur, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., Nov. 30, Norbertine Father Claude Williams; Dec. 7, Father David Pettingill; Dec 14, Father Paul Warren; Dec. 21, Dominican Sister Patricia Bruno; candlelit meditative prayer time from 6:30 p.m.; wine and cheese reception follows the one hour talks; (415) 924-0600.
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Catholic san francisco | November 17, 2016
In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of October HOLY CROSS, COLMA
Rufina Adame Anthony L. Adiego Aida N. Adriano Mary B. Agonoy David Alcantar Richard Lingad Alota Fidel Amezcua, Jr. Juanita Bautista Dorothy L. Begin Dionisio “Dennis” Berrios Santiago Raymond Bidondo Brian Philip Boland Joseph Bonilla Alicia P. Bulos Joanne J. Burik Carlos Calderon Jose Armando Canizales Hubert “Butch” Carpenter Joseph J. Caselli Patricia Casey Bertha Chacon Sandra Marie Chiesa Aida D. Cocjin Raymond Joseph Colman George B. Contreras Agnes Gloria Contreras Louis Coscarelli Denise Costello Nabeel S. Dabai Thomas O. Donohoe Joseph G. Dumlao Jr. Ethel Rose Ferro Tina Finley Paul Warren Flanagan Remedios “Reme” B. Floresca Giacomo Franco Richard J. Garcia, Jr. Stephen Garibaldi Albert W. Gonzales Rosemary Hobson Anna Ingebretsen
Emma Cantong Jabile Louis Kastl Isabel Kattengill Jonathan Ko Mary L. Lacabanne Ray A. Landi Barbara Larkin Thomas W. Y. Lee Demetrio Ung Leon Michael Levand Jr. Johanna M. Lion Byron David Lott Gerardo “Lalo” Madrigal Jhun San Miguel Mangundayao Ralph L. Mattie Alina Noreen Becerra Mays Ida M. Miller Mariana Morales Maury Trent Moseley, Jr. Rev. Francis Kevin Murray Edward J. O’Neill Eugenia O’Sullivan Maria Monica Olivar Rudolph F. Orfino Carmen Padilla Carlos Padilla Diaz Arlene V. Palomares Lita Joy Peralta Trang T. Phan Michel Pisani Sarah Adeline Prandini Jeanne E. Proctor Josephine O. Queja Jose M. Ramirez Carlos Ramirez, Sr. Marianne I. Reardon Alicia A. Reis Angelo D. Rios Phillip L. Rogers Jesus M. Rosario Allan G. Rowbury Jo Anne Ruckstuhl Malvina Salem Epifania F. Salinas James Schembri
Michelle H. Sekara Lenora G. Semien Lita Jane Smith Henry Malcolm Steiner Eleanor Roth Sterling Jaime A. Suliguin Damien W. Toney, Jr. John A. Toulze Lester C. Vaccari Joseph Van De Weghe Gloria Varni Mao Tang Chang Wong Norma M. Yerman Josephine L. Zaragoza Agnes Morrison Zarate Patricia Zuniga, Jr.
Mt. olivet, san rafael
Sean Stephen Bourke Evelyn Dal Santo Lusila (Maria) Farias Marilyn A. Liston Dorothy “Dottie” Lucas Juan Munoz Rodrigues Edwin Seltner
HOLY CROSS, menlo Park
Doris M. Bonino Aurelio L. Ceccotti John J. Diskon III Edmund Gayny Olga E. Tapia Gutierrez Tristan Siegfried Haussecker Michael George Hinds Carline Marie Hinds Ruth J. Nardone
Our Lady of the PIllar John G. Donovan Jr.
HOLY CROSS Catholic Cemetery, Colma first saturday mass – Saturday, December 3, 2016 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Daniel E. Carter, Celebrant Christmas Remembrance Service – Saturday, December 10 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Msgr. John Talesfore, Officiate Holy Cross proudly announces the publication “Roll Call – Reveille” – By author Jean Bartlett A book honoring the stories of Veterans buried at Holy Cross Books are available through the cemetery office.
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, CA 650-756-2060
Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020
Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021
St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1675
Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.