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Assisted suicide law repeal sought VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
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People mourn terrorist victims in Republique square in Paris Nov. 15. Coordinated attacks the evening of Nov. 13 claimed the lives of 129 people. The Islamic State claimed responsibility. More on Pages 9, 11.
The bishops of California are supporting a signature-gathering campaign to place on the November 2016 ballot a referendum to overturn the state’s physician-assisted suicide law. “The California bishops as a group are supporting the signature-gathering campaign to place the referendum on the ballot,” said Steve Pehanich, director of communication and advocacy for the California Catholic Conference. The Knights of Columbus are coordinating the parish-based effort in California. “This is the Roe v. Wade of our time,” SEE ASSISTED SUICIDE, PAGE 12
Grand reopening of ‘landmark’ Salesian Boys and Girls Club VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Friendships that last a lifetime. A home away from home. A lifeline for a single mother. Kept me on the straight and narrow. Whether 18 or 80, those gathered for the Nov. 6 ribbon cutting of the $11 million renovation of the Salesian Boys and Girls Club at Sts. Peter and Paul Church exuded a spirit of joy and happiness that was almost palpable. The event was a celebration of a great achievement – starting with $5 million in bequests when planning for the renovation began five years ago; the club raised all of the $11 million final construction cost and has money in the bank to pay operating costs for several years going forward. “I’ve been a member since I was about 4 or 5 years old. I am 60 years
old,” said Dave Mana at the North Beach grand reopening. “There are so many great things about the club. The fact it kept us on the straight and narrow is one thing.” “It’s been like a second home to me,” said Christian Mata, 21, one of the many teenagers and young adults volunteering at the event. “This is my childhood right here.” “It’s a good place to come. I’m still friends with the same friends from third grade,” said Mata’s Sts. Peter and Paul classmate Gino Ragusa, 20, who said the club pays 20 percent of his tuition at the University of San Francisco. “I just give back. I coach and do all that stuff.” The club is “an environment that is safe. My mom was a single mom. To raise four of us, the boys club and the
The Salesian Boys and Girls Club at Sts. Peter and Paul Church has been a North Beach institution since it was founded in 1918. The club serves the underprivileged as its primary mission but is ethnically and socioeconomically diverse.
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Sisters of Mercy celebrate ‘Opening Doors of Mercy’
NEED TO KNOW CATHOLIC CHARITIES VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Thanksgiving arts and crafts, OMI Senior Center, Nov. 20, 8:30-11 a.m.; deliver a Thanksgiving meal, Rita da Cascia, Nov. 23, flexible; Thanksgiving baking, Star Community Home, Nov. 23, 4-6:30 p.m.; Thanksgiving feast, Star community home, 4-8:30 p.m.; Thanksgiving luncheon, OMI Senior Center, Thursday, Nov. 24, 9-1 p.m.; Thanksgiving dinner, 10th and Mission Family Housing, Nov. 25, 4-7:30 p.m.; Thanksgiving luncheon, Adult Day Service San Mateo County, Nov. 25, 11-2:30 p.m.; Thanksgiving luncheon, Edith Witt Senior Community, Nov. 25, 11-1:30 p.m.; Thanksgiving dinner, Leland House, Nov. 26, 2-5 p.m.
The Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame are planning a special “Opening Doors of Mercy” ritual to begin the Year of Mercy proclaimed by Pope Francis. The public is invited to participate on Saturday, Dec. 12, at 7 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. For free tickets see www. mercy-center.org. The Year has special meaning to the Sisters of Mercy Community. “The Sisters of Mercy wanted to invite others into the grounds to emphasize that the Mercy of God is huge,” said Sister Mary Waskowiak, former president of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy. “The Year of Mercy is about igniting Mercy in everyone. It’s about giving language to Mercy, to the world’s need for Mercy.” Fourteen Mercy ministries in the Bay Area will come together to reflect and celebrate on this day that the Mercy Congregation was founded in 1831. “We have always been grateful that Catherine McAuley chose Mercy as the name of our Congregation when it was founded in Dublin,” said Sister Suzanne Toolan. “We want to join with Pope Francis who, in proclaiming the Year of Mercy, said, ‘Mercy is the beating heart of the Gospel.’ He has emphasized practicing the spiritual and corporal works of mercy that are the core of the mission of the Sisters of Mercy.” Sister Suzanne Toolan, well-known
VOLUNTEERING AT ST. ANTHONY’S PADUA DINING ROOM: The Dining Room, at 3500 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, serves a hot meal to all who come Monday-Saturday year-round. Everyone who works at the Dining Room must be at least 16, able to follow instructions and be responsible. School holidays and breaks, including summer, are good times for students to help out. For more information, visit www.paduadiningroom.com/. WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP FORUM: The Catholic Young Women’s Leadership Forum is a first-of-its-kind event that will help unleash the gifts of young women within the Catholic Church and the world. Sponsored by the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious in collaboration with the Hilton Foundation, GIVEN will bring 300 rising leaders, ages 2030, selected by application, together with religious and lay leaders from various disciplines for a full scholarship, weeklong immersion in faith formation, leadership skills training and networking June 7-12, 2016, at The Catholic University of America. For more information, to apply, or to discover sponsorship opportunities, visit givenforum.org.
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The chapel doors at Mercy Center in Burlingame will open Dec. 12 in a ritual inauguration of the Year of Mercy proclaimed by Pope Francis. composer of “I Am the Bread of Life,” has written a new song to be sung for this jubilee year with a text taken from Lamentations, “Your Mercies Are Never Spent” that will be sung for the first time at the service. “With Pope Francis we pray that during this year as our God renews in all of us the gift of mercy, we, in
turn will become better instruments of mercy to our brothers and sisters here and throughout the world,” said Sister Suzanne. Further events are planned throughout the Year of Mercy and will be announced. For more information: www. mercy-center.org
Help San Rafael’s Free Dining Room feed the lonely, hungry During November and December, San Rafael’s Free Dining Room, a work of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County, will serve more than 40,000 hot meals to individuals and families struggling to make ends meet. This is the 34th year the Free Dining Room will provide complete Thanksgiving and Christmas meals to Marin’s low-income, elderly, disabled and homeless citizens. The dining room is in need of turkey and other meats for the holiday meals. Donations of ground beef, fish, canned tuna, chicken and turkey are
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Advent opportunities in the archdiocese NOV. 21: ADVENT TALK: Mary Romo, professor of theology at University of San Francisco, 9:30 a.m., St. Anselm Church, 97 Shady Lane, Ross; (415) 4569732; www.saintanselm.com. NOV. 21: REMEMBRANCE SERVICE: Mount Olivet Cemetery, 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, 10 a.m., no charge, open to all, tonilyn928@att.net; (415) 681-6153. NOV. 23: GRIEF SUPPORT: St Pius Parish Center, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, 7-8:30 p.m., open to all, RSVP griefministry@pius.org; tonilyn928@ att.net. NOV. 25: GRIEF SUPPORT: Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 10:30 a.m., for anyone who is experiencing grief of the loss of a loved one, free, Deacon Christoph Sandoval leads, Sister Elaine at (415) 5672020, ex. 218. DEC. 5: YOUNG ADULTS: Twilight Retreat, 5-9:30 p.m., ages 18-35, personally encounter Jesus through the lens of Advent and Year of Mercy, $15 gratitude offering, Dominican Sisters Motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont, RSVP by Nov. 30, http://bit. ly/2015YATwilightRetreat, (510) 933-6360.
DEC. 5: ‘LOOKING EAST’: Lecture on Eastern Catholicism, 1 p.m., Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, (415) 752-2052; www.ByzantineCatholic.org. DEC. 5: CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Charito Suan, pastor, St. Elizabeth Parish, San Francisco, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060, www.holycrosscemeteries. com. DEC. 9: SIMBANG GABI: Commissioning and opening rites, 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, principal celebrant, reception follows; email Deacon Ven Garcia for entire Simbang Gabi schedule, vengarcia@ yahoo.com. DEC. 12: CHRISTMAS REMEMBRANCE: Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 11 a.m., Msgr. John Talesfore presides, (650) 756-2060, www.holycrosscemeteries.com. DEC. 12: OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE: Mass, mariachi music and reception honoring the feast, 4
ADVENT: A TIME OF PREPARATION Beginning the church’s liturgical year, Advent (from, “ad-venire” in Latin or “to come to”) is the season encompassing the four Sundays (and weekdays) leading up to the celebration of Christmas. The first Sunday of Advent this year is Nov. 29. The Advent season is a time of preparation that directs our hearts and minds to Christ’s second coming at the end of time and also to the anniversary of the Lord’s birth on Christmas. The final days of Advent, from Dec. 17 to Dec. 24, focus particularly on our preparation for the celebrations of the Nativity of our Lord (Christmas). Advent devotions including the Advent wreath, remind us of the meaning of the season. The Advent calendar on the U.S. bishops’ website can help you fully enter in to the season with daily activity and prayer suggestions to prepare you spiritually for the birth of Jesus Christ.
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DEC. 12: OUR LADY GUADALUPE: Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd. at Eighth Avenue, San Francisco, 8:30 a.m., English/Spanish bilingual Mass, procession, mariachi music, free Mexican, Filipino and American brunch, (415) 751-0450; facebook. com/starparishsf. DEC. 12: OPEN DOORS OF MERCY: Sisters of Mercy, 7 p.m., The ritual will celebrate the Year of Mercy, Mercy Foundation Day and Our Lady of Guadalupe. Refreshments will follow. All are welcome. Please RSVP for this free event, www. eventbrite.com/e/opening-doors-of-mercy-tickets-19304053945. DEC. 13: PRO-LIFE WALK: San Mateo pro-life rosary procession, 2 p.m., St. Matthew Parish, El Camino Real and Ninth Avenue, to Planned Parenthood. 35 Baywood Ave. and back, rain or shine, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com. DEC. 15: ADVENT TALK: Divine Word Father Stephen Bevans, 7 p.m., Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, RSVP CommunityRelations@ sanrafaelop.org; (415) 453-8303.
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The Filipino Ministry Consultative Board (FMCB) invites everyone to the 8th Annual Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass & Parol-Lighting Ceremony. Reception & Fellowship immediately follow after Mass. This event heralds the beginning of Simbang Gabi Masses in various parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Below is the 2015 schedule. This schedule was based on the information submitted to FMCB as of this publication.
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December 16-24
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St. Bruno
December 22-24
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St. Stephen
December 16-24
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help
December 16-24
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St. Timothy
December 16-19; 21-24
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St. Boniface
December 15-23
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Church of Epiphany
December 15-23
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Church of Visitacion
December 15-23
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Corpus Christi
All Souls
December 20
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December 15-18; 21-23
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December 19-20
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Mater Dolorosa
December 15-23
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December 15-23
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December 15-19; 21-23
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December 15-23
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December 21-23
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December 20
4:45 p.m.
St. Robert
December 15-23
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St. Monica
December 21-23
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Holy Angels
December 15-23
7:00 p.m.
St. Thomas More
December 15-18
7:00 p.m.
Our Lady of Mercy
December 15-18; 20-23
7:30 p.m.
December 19
5:30 p.m.
December 19
5:0o p.m.
December 20
8:00 p.m.
St. Augustine
December 15-23
7:30 p.m.
December 21-23
7:00 p.m.
Our Lady of Angels*
Dec. 15-16; 18-19; 21-23
7:00 p.m.
St. Patrick
December 16-24
6:00 a.m.
December 20
7:30 p.m.
St. John the Evangelist
December 16-18
6:00 a.m.
St. Mark Church*
December 17
7:00 p.m.
December 19
9:00 a.m.
St. Pius**
December 15 & 23
7 00 p.m.
December 20
7:30 a.m.
Church of the Nativity**
December 17 & 22
7:00 p.m.
December 21-24
6:00 a.m.
St. Matthias**
December 21
7:00 p.m.
St. Charles**
December 16
7:00 p.m.
December 20
5:00 p.m.
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel**
December 19
5:00 p.m.
St. Raymond**
December 18
7:00 p.m.
Marin County: St. Isabella
December 17-21
7:00 p.m.
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St. Anthony’s ‘a life force,’ new media coordinator says TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Talk about coming to the plate with the bases loaded: Among first assignments for Jessie Brierley, the new communications person for San Francisco’s long-loved and effective St. Anthony’s, is the Franciscanfounded organization’s Thanksgiving Day dinner where about 3,000 people will be served in St. Anthony’s Dining Room. The Idaho native is ready for the task. Jessie Brierley “I must say I am excited to take on the challenge of getting the organization in the spotlight to show the San Francisco community the good things that are happening in our dining room,” Jessie told me via email. “At St. Anthony’s, the guests, volunteers, donors and staff are a life force, a family, so people who are lonely will always have a place to come to enjoy a hot nutritious meal in community with people who care about and support them,” Jessie said. “This message is what I’m excited to share with the rest of the Bay Area, and it’s not hard to do since we have so many wonderful people working together to create a place where all people flourish.” At St. Anthony’s on Thanksgiving Day the team will include180 volunteers including an advance squad who carve the 600 turkeys that will be served. Jessie holds a graduate degree in International Business with a focus on corporate social responsibility and has worked previously in the private sector. “My hope is that I can utilize my experiences in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors to help bridge the gap between companies with money and organizations who need their support to better the world we live in,” Jessie said. “My main goal in life is to use the blessings I have been afforded to help others. At St. Anthony’s, we don’t just provide essential services to people living in poverty, we do it with dignity and respect, because we believe that all people have a rightful place in our society, just as all people have a place in God’s heart. This resonates with me to my core. I could not be more grateful to work for such a wonderful organization.” Jessie pledges “to ensure the Bay Area community knows who we are, what we do, and why we do it.” Jessie has her peers - “young professionals
THEY GO ‘LEGO’: Students from San Francisco’s St. James School, St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School and St. Peter School take part in a First Lego League robot competition Nov. 21 at St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception. Pictured from left are St. James sixth graders Yamil Leon, Julian Vega and James Muolic with Lego robots “designed and programmed to help solve the real-world problem of trash, including collection, sorting, recycling and composting,” said technology coordinator, Albert Bricker. St. Anthony’s serves seven days a week, 365 days a year. “That being said, remember us on the days after the big holidays when volunteers are harder to come by and many other organizations are closed,” Jessie exhorted. “Our doors are always open to serve hot meals and friendly smiles to San Franciscans living in poverty.” For volunteer opportunities visit www.stanthonysf.org/holidayvolunteering/.
TOUCHDOWN: Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Bono presented Notre Dame High School senior Yasmine Davis with the team’s Community Quarterback Award Oct. 17. Yasmine founded “Make A Birthday Wish” when she was 12 and so far has helped more than 3,500 underprivileged youngsters celebrate their special days. “My overall goal is to provide these children with the self-esteem that is necessary for their happiness and success, and my ultimate goal is to expand the organization and make it a national charity,” Yasmine said. Four high schools have branches of MABW with some 300 volunteers assisting in the work. who are taking root in our city” - in her sights. She plans also to foster ongoing relationships with St. Anthony’s longtime supporters as well as city officials and the media.
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Little Sisters: Serving the elderly poor Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious congregation from the archdiocese in each installment of this periodic column marking the Vatican’s Year of Consecrated Life. SISTER ROSE VERONICA, LSP AND MARIA CUNNINGHAM, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Although life now is different than that of the first Little Sisters of the Poor who arrived in San Francisco in 1901, some things never change – the elderly poor still need a home and we continue to be blessed WAKE UP THE WORLD ! by the kindness of people 2015 Year of Consecrated Life who support our mission. The traditions passed down to us from our Mother Foundress, St. Jeanne Jugan, remain alive and present in our mission and in our daily lives. St. Jeanne Jugan supported her work for the elderly by begging for food and supplies for their care. This tradition remains at the core of our congregation and each of our homes has a Little Sister assigned to the task of begging. Little Sisters go out daily to produce markets, fish markets and even Safeway to ask for donations of food and other necessities for the residents in our homes. The charism of our congregation is to rely on God’s divine providence as manifested through the generosity of the good people in our communities, and divine providence has never failed us. As calls to vocation have lessened in recent years, we have been blessed with collaborators who understand our ongoing needs, whether it be our benefactors, devoted staff, auxiliary volunteers, Association Jeanne Jugan members or our board of advisors. These special partners have joined us in our journey of caring for the elderly during the last stages of life by sharing talents that range from hands-on assistance to fundraising to building maintenance. Our first home for the elderly in the United States was established in Brooklyn, New York, in 1868. Thirty-three years later, Archbishop Riordan prepared for the Little Sisters’ arrival in San Francisco and leased
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LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR FOUNDED: Brittany, France in 1839 by St. Jeanne Jugan, whose work began when she took an elderly, blind and paralyzed woman into her home, placed her in her own bed and cared for her with love and respect. ARRIVAL IN ARCHDIOCESE: 1901 MISSION: To offer the neediest elderly of every race and religion a home where they will be welcomed as Christ, cared for as family and accompanied with dignity until God calls them to himself. CURRENT SERVICE: Caring for the marginalized elderly in 31 countries. At St. Anne’s Home eight Little Sisters care for the elderly of the San Francisco Bay Area fulltime. a three-story building at 2030 Howard St. for the first home on the West Coast. Within the first year, this residence became too small and a larger building was needed. In 1904, through the generosity of friend and benefactor, Edward Joseph Le Breton, St. Anne’s Home opened at its current location on Lake Street. Since then, thousands of elderly men and women of all faiths, nationalities and backgrounds have been welcomed through the doors of St. Anne’s Home.
The needs of the Little Sisters of the Poor in San Francisco in the early 20th century centered around helping many of the elderly left homeless as the result of the 1906 earthquake, as well as providing shelter to others who sought refuge, often with only the clothes on their back. In the 21st century, the needs of the Little Sisters still center around our elderly who without St. Anne’s Home might also find themselves homeless. However, today it is not because of a natural disaster, it is because San Francisco, as one of America’s most expensive cities, makes it very difficult for many of our elderly poor to continue to support themselves. That, in addition to lovingly assisting with the needs associated with aging, is where St. Anne’s Home is grateful to be able to fill a void, providing a home where the elderly in need join us as family and are cared for with dignity and respect. Much has changed since the birth of our congregation, when St. Jeanne Jugan helped the needy elderly in the streets of St. Servan, France, during the French Revolution. We have survived earthquakes, world wars and the Great Depression, welcomed the automobile and the airplane, and entered the computer era, which changed how we all live, making our world so much smaller. For us, however, these are simply all common denominators in confirming the reality in the words of St. Jeanne Jugan: “If God is with us it will be accomplished ... God will help us, the work is his.”
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Mercy Volunteer Corps members return to San Francisco LIZ DOSSA
Mercy Volunteer Corps members have returned to San Francisco. First year MVC member Lauren Mifsud and Bianca Huerta, a second-year member, are learning to be at home here in a city known for a deep divide between rich and poor. Mifsud caught the “Mercy bug” when she was a math education intern last year at Mercy Vocational High School in Philadelphia. Inspired by the staff at the Mercysponsored school, she signed on with Mercy Volunteer Corps which places volunteers for a year of service with people who are poor and marginalized in the U.S. and South America. MVC placed her on staff at St. Peter School in San Francisco’s Mission district, a school established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1878. Mifsud teaches fifth grade math, middle school math and after school sports. She’s mentored by Karen Hammen, vice principal, who picked her up at the airport when she arrived in August. “She’s a fantastic support,” Mifsud said. “She took into account my strengths and figured out the best way to utilize my skills.” Bianca is on staff at Faithful Fools, an organization founded to be a presence to those living in poverty on the streets. Her first task was to become familiar with other similar agencies in San Francisco, so she ate with people at St. Anthony’s and Glide Memorial. She’s part of the Faithful Fools’ street retreats,
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Left, Mercy Volunteer Corps member Bianca Huerta at Faithful Fools where she assists. Right, Lauren Mifsud at St. Peter School, where she teaches math and coaches sports. an essential part of their mission. She “shadowed” students from Julia Morgan School on their street retreats last week, giving them support and guidance when needed. She will be part of The Healing Well at the Faithful Fools site on Hyde Street, taking part in their yoga, meditation and substance abuse support groups. Huerta became a part of the MVC
program for a second year after serving at Mary Howard Health Center in Philadelphia. “Working with those experiencing homelessness taught me so much,” she said. “The people I interacted with – those living on the streets – had a huge impact in my life. I adored
especially those professionals who worked with their whole hearts to take care of the patients.” MVC stresses simple living, core values and community. The two share rooms at St. Mary’s Hall, housing donated by St Mary’s Medical Center. They have regular community, eating together and exploring San Francisco’s neighborhoods. MVC asks them to have a spirituality night. “One night we went to the beach and did a meditation for 30 minutes. That’s something Bianca does at Faithful Fools regularly, but for me it was hard. It was cool,” Mifsud said. “We sometimes sit at home and read a Bible passage and reflection. Our spirituality night has been nurturing.” The two women are supported by sisters and associates of the Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community, who invite them to events, visit with them and answer questions. Mercy Sisters Joan Marie O’Donnell, Mary Kilgariff, Eileen Pazmino, Sheila Devereux, Martha Larsen, Marian Rose Power and Judy Carle helped bring the two to San Francisco and continue to mentor them. For more information about Mercy Volunteer Corps, visit www.mercyvolunteers.org DOSSA is communications manager for the Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community.
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ST. ANNE OF THE SUNSET PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO: Father Dan Nascimento, pastor, takes a shot at poverty, hunger and a few other world problems at a “Knock, knock” booth sponsored by the Missionary Childhood Association, Propagation of the Faith, Archdiocese of San Francisco, at St. Anne’s parish festival Oct. 23. “His first throw knocked off all six cans,” propagation’s Michael Guataco said. At right is mission office director Genevieve Elizondo.
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What is the relationship between Catholics and the state? Acton Institute research fellow Michael
Matheson Miller addressed the age-old issue of how to apply Catholic values to politics in a talk at the Knights of Columbus Hall in San Anselmo. “What does Christianity bring to the table? How do Christians think about government?” Miller asked those gathered for his talk Oct. 24. Michael “Christianity does not give us Matheson Miller policy prescriptions. It does give us a way of thinking,” Miller said. “I’m not saying that to think like a Christian everyone will think alike.” “It is important if we are going to think like Christians that we not attach a political agenda
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US Catholics offer prayers for Paris CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – An outpouring of grief, condolences and prayers came from Catholics across the United States in reaction to Nov. 13 evening attacks in Paris, attacks the French government said were carried out by three teams of Islamic State terrorists. The U.S. Catholic bishops Nov. 14 pledged their prayers for those killed and injured at three sites in France’s capital and voiced their support for those “working to build just and peaceful societies.” “Terror always seeks to separate us from those we most love,” said a statement issued by the Administrative Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “Through their suffering, courage and compassion, Parisians are reminding us that the common bond of humanity is strongest when the need is greatest.”
‘FAITHFUL CITIZENSHIP’ REVISIONS REFLECT BENEDICT, FRANCIS
BALTIMORE – Revisions in the U.S. bishops’ quadrennial document on political responsibility draw on the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis and take into account developments in U.S. foreign and domestic policy over the past four years. The document, revised by a working group of bishops comprised of the chairmen of several committees whose work is affected by public policy, was set for a vote Nov. 17, the second day of public sessions during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall general assembly. The revised document is longer than its predecessors of 2007 and 2011, which garnered much public attention during the two previous presidential election years. The working group has been working on the revision since March 2014. The document reflects on longheld concerns related to abortion and the needs of poor people. It also references emerging issues related to court decisions on same-sex marriage, public policies that impact religious freedom and a rising concern for the environment as climate change affects more people around the world.
USCCB PRESIDENT CALLS FOR ‘PASTOR’S PRESENCE’
BALTIMORE – In the face of “the heartbreaking crises and challenges in our world,” Archbishop Joseph E.
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A man walks past flags flying at half-staff at the Washington Monument in Washington Nov. 16. In Boston, a Sunday morning Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross Nov. 15 brought together residents of the greater Boston area to pray for
and remember the victims in Paris, and to pray for peace. Father Kevin O’Leary, the cathedral’s rector, read a message of condo-
Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, called on his fellow bishops Nov. 16 to imitate the “pastor’s presence” exhibited by Pope Francis during his recent U.S. visit, “touching the hearts of the most influential, the forgotten and all of us in between.” The talk by the president of the U.S. ConArchbishop ference of Catholic Kurtz Bishops opened the annual USCCB fall general assembly in Baltimore, which was to include discussion of political responsibility, religious freedom, pornography and other topics. Noting the upcoming Year of Mercy that begins Dec. 8, Archbishop Kurtz said a ministry of “presence means making time and never letting administration come between me and the person. It’s seeing the person first. Our hearts respond to (the pope’s) call to be pastors who are present, welcoming and eager to walk with our people.”
it. “Producing or using pornography is a mortal sin that needs to be confessed in order for the person to receive God’s forgiveness,” says the draft version of “Create in Me a Clean Heart: A Pastoral Response to Pornography.” “Those who produce and distribute pornography harm the common good by encouraging and even causing others to sin,” says the proposed statement, prepared by the bishops’
BISHOPS, IN DRAFT STATEMENT, CALL PORNOGRAPHY ‘MORTAL SIN’
WASHINGTON – A draft statement on pornography to be considered for approval by the U.S. bishops at their Nov. 16-19 fall general meeting in Baltimore calls pornography “mortal sin” and urges Catholics to turn away from
lence from Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, who had already left for this month’s bishops’ meeting in Baltimore. “May those who would strike out against others turn their hearts and minds to the peaceful resolution of disputes and embrace respect for the dignity and sanctity of the lives of all people,” Cardinal O’Malley said. “We call upon the grace and strength given by Jesus Christ, trusting that those who perished in the attacks are welcomed into his blessed presence,” he added. In San Francisco, Notre Dame des Victoires Parish pastor Marist Father Rene Iturbe said in a message on behalf of the community, “We pray for the people of Paris and France during this difficult time. We especially pray for the families who have lost loved ones and that the hearts of the terrorists may be open to the love of God.” CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO CONTRIBUTED
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Back to the catacombs: New emphasis on V2 simplicity pact CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – At nearly 92 years of age, Italian Bishop Luigi Bettazzi says his long life is due to constant changes. To live is to change, said the retired bishop of Ivrea, and that goes for the church as well as for individuals. “Too often we think upholding tradition is standing firmly on what we have done in the past, when tradition really is to keep moving,” the bishop told reporters Nov. 12 at a Vatican news conference. The Second Vatican Council, he said, challenged bishops to change with the aim of living a modern evangelical lifestyle. Bishop Bettazzi is the last surviving bishop of the 42 members of the Second Vatican Council who celebrated a Mass Nov. 16, 1965, in the Catacombs of Domitilla and signed a pact promising to live simply and close to the poor. The international unions of superior generals of men’s and women’s religious orders and the Society of the Divine Word, which staffs the catacombs, were to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the “The Pact of the Catacombs” Nov. 14 at Rome’s Pontifical Urbanian University.
FREELANCING THE RELIGIOUS LIFE: AN ‘URBAN HERMIT’ TELLS HER STORY
FLORENCE, Italy – Julia Bolton Holloway, a Dante scholar with a doctorate in medieval studies, lives among some of the greatest monuments of the Renaissance. She is also a Catholic “urban hermit,” who practices contemplative solitude when not tending the grounds of a Florence cemetery or assisting families of the migrant Roma population. Julia Bolton What the 78-year-old EnglishHolloway woman called her “crazy life” journey has included volunteer work in the U.S. civil rights movement, an unhappy marriage followed by divorce and a period as an Anglican nun. After her convent was closed following a financial dispute with Anglican bishops, she moved to Italy to find a new way of living her vocation. Holloway attributes her decision to become
‘Too often we think upholding tradition is standing firmly on what we have done in the past, when tradition really is to keep moving.’ BISHOP LUIGI BETTAZZI The bishops who signed the pact in the catacombs shared it with other members of the Second Vatican Council and soon collected 500 signatures, which they entrusted to Blessed Paul VI. Bishop Bettazzi said the commitments were personal and individual, not the start of some organized movement. In “housing, food and means of transportation,” the signatories promised to try “to live in accordance with the ordinary manner of our people.” The pact also said, “We renounce forever wealth and the appearance thereof,” especially in clothing and insignia. Bishop Bettazzi said that he “was not as strong as Catholic to her favorite saint, the mystic St. Julian of Norwich, as well as to St. John XXIII, who took the first steps toward reconciling the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church. Holloway said because she was raised Anglo-Catholic, she never felt the division between the two churches. “I always felt my work should be an ecumenical ministry,” she told Catholic News Service.
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Lombardi said. Noting that the themes of the meeting were scheduled in advance, Father Lombardi told journalists that the plight of migrants and the problems facing refugees and the countries that receive them were discussed.
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VATICAN CITY – The difficulties facing migrants coming into Europe and the continuing dialogues with Muslims were among the topics discussed during Pope Francis’ meeting with the heads of the Roman Curia offices, the Vatican spokesman said. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said the Nov.16 meeting did not deal with the pope’s reform of the Curia or with further changes to the existing offices. The pope had announced Oct. 22 the establishment of a new office for laity, family and life, which combines the responsibilities of two pontifical councils. “It is one of the normal dicastery meetings that are scheduled every six months,” Father
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Pope Francis” when it came to housing; when told by the vicar general of Ivrea that he had to live in the bishops’ residence, he did. The bishop also said he has kept the gold ring Pope Paul gave bishops at the end of the council, but he does not wear it because it is “ostentatious.” Signing the pact, the bishops vowed not to have personal bank accounts and to find qualified laypeople to handle their dioceses’ temporal affairs so they and their priests could devote themselves to ministry. They pledged to enhance charitable activities with advocacy for justice. “There was no coordination” or follow-up, Bishop Bettazzi said, “and slowly over time, it was a bit forgotten.” The bishop blames part of the pact’s low profile on what he describes as a reaction of fear and closure following the 1968 social upheaval in Europe. “1968 frightened everyone and everything closed down,” he said. “You could say they threw the baby out with the bathwater.” The approach of the 50th anniversary of the pact led to new research and interest, he said, “and God with his grace gave us a pope like Francis, who without having signed the pact, already led this kind of life and had experience of a simple church, a poor church, a church very close to the poor.”
VATICAN CITY – Rounding out the membership of the council that will coordinate the follow-up to the Synod of Bishops on the family and help prepare the next synod assembly, Pope Francis named the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, the new archbishop of Madrid and the archbishop of Brazil’s capital city. The papal nominees join the 12 members of the synod council elected by members of the Synod of Bishops on the family; the Vatican released the list of new council members Nov. 14. Those elected at the end of the Oct. 4-25 synod, included several cardinals and bishops who had expressed concerns over synod procedures, as well as members who took strongly divergent positions at the synod, particularly on the question of a possible process for admitting some divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to the Eucharist. Those elected to the synod council included: Cardinal Wilfrid F. Napier of Durban, South Africa; Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments; and Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia. Pope Francis nominated Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad; Archbishop Carlos Osoro of Madrid; and Archbishop Sergio Da Rocha of Brasilia, Brazil. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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Nothing can justify terror attacks, pope says CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Using God’s name to try to justify violence and murder is “blasphemy,” Pope Francis said Nov. 15, speaking about the terrorist attacks on Paris. “Such barbarity leaves us dismayed, and we ask ourselves how the human heart can plan and carry out such horrible events,” the pope said after reciting the Angelus prayer with visitors in St. Peter’s Square. The attacks in Paris Nov. 13 – attacks the French government said were carried out by three teams of Islamic State terrorists – caused the deaths of at least 129 people and left more than 350 injured, many of them critically. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a soccer stadium, gunmen attacked customers at cafes and restaurants and a team of terrorists gunned down dozens of people at a concert. The attacks, Pope Francis said, were an “unspeakable affront to the dignity of the human person.” “The path of violence and hatred cannot resolve the problems of humanity, and using the name of God to justify this path is blasphemy,” he said. Pope Francis asked the thousands of people who gathered at St. Peter’s for the Sunday midday prayer to observe a moment of silence and to join him in reciting a Hail Mary. “May the Virgin Mary, mother of mercy, give rise in the hearts of everyone thoughts of wisdom and proposals for peace,” he said. “We ask her to protect and watch over the dear French nation, the first daughter of the church, over Europe and the whole world.” “Let us entrust to the mercy of God the innocent victims of this tragedy,” the pope said. Speaking Nov. 14, the day after the terrorist attacks, Pope Francis had told the television station of the Italian bishops’ conference, “I am shaken and pained.”
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A memorial is seen at the Place de la Republique in Paris Nov. 15. “I don’t understand, but these things are difficult to understand, how human beings can do this,” the pope said. “That is why I am shaken, pained and am praying.” The director of the television station recalled how the pope has spoken many times about a “third world war being fought in pieces.” “This is a piece,” the pope responded. “There are no justifications for these things.” On social media, Islamic State militants claimed responsibility, but Pope Francis insisted there can be no “religious or human” excuse for killing innocent people and sowing terror. “This is not human.” Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris
issued a statement calling for calm and for prayers, not only for the Paris victims, but also for the victims of recent terrorist attacks in Lebanon and in Africa. “May no one allow himself to be defeated by panic and hatred,” the cardinal said. “Let us ask for the grace of being peacemakers. We must never lose our hope for peace if we work for justice.” With some 1,500 inside Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral and hundreds more gathered outside Nov. 15, Cardinal Vingt-Trois celebrated a special Mass in memory of the victims. As the cathedral bells tolled a death knell, police patrolled the square in front of the cathedral and checked people as they entered the Paris landmark for Mass.
The cardinal told the assembly – which included government officials and ambassadors from a variety of nations – that the Mass was intended as a sign of sharing the pain of the victims and of praying for them, their families, for Paris and for France. The only Christian response, he said, is to be “messengers of hope in the heart of human suffering.” The terrorists succeed if their actions shake Christians’ hope founded on faith in Christ and on a belief that all of history, including moments of suffering, is in God’s hands, he said. The appropriate response to the “barbaric savagery” of the terrorists, he said, is “to demonstrate additional trust in our fellowmen and their dignity.”
Cardinal: Catholic identity is caring witness, not defensive ideology CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN – Strong Catholic identity for Catholic schools and educational institutes depends on fostering proactive, creative and charitable witnesses of God’s love and Gospel values, not defending abstract ideologies, said the head of the Congregation for Catholic Education. Catholic identity must recognize the major mission of evangelization is “salvation and not conflict,” said Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, the congregation’s prefect. “If one uses an abstract rationality, one heads for an ideological battle that does not take into account the essence of the proclamation of the Gospel, which is for people, not for ideas,” he said at a Vatican news conference Nov. 13. The cardinal and others were giving a preview of a world congress sponsored by the congregation titled, “Educating Today and Tomorrow. A Renewing Passion.” Some 2,500 people had signed up for the gathering scheduled for Nov. 1821 at the Vatican and Castel Gandolfo. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration On Christian Education and the 25th anniversary of the apostolic constitution “Ex Corde Ecclesiae,” the world congress was meant to reinvigorate the church’s commitment to education and
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Philippine students inside an all-girl Catholic school in Manila, Philippines, demand an end to violence against women and girls Feb. 13. Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, head of the Congregation for Catholic Education, said Catholic schools need to boldly proclaim values. respond to the many challenges facing its mission. Some of those challenges, gleaned from a three-year-long process of input from experts, seminars and a questionnaire sent to church leaders involved in education worldwide, included greater study and reflection on the identity and mission of Catholic schools and universities. Italian Archbishop Angelo Zani, secretary of the Congregation for
Catholic Education, told reporters that a growing number of students at many Catholic schools are not Catholic or baptized Christians. In some parts of the world, 98 percent of the student body may belong to another religion. The question of “who are we, what are we doing?” then arises, when it comes to the responsibility to evangelize and promote Christian values, he said. When asked about how gender theory
and greater acceptance of homosexual persons in the larger culture would impact discussions of Catholic identity during the congress, Cardinal Versaldi said Christian identity “cannot be separated from dialogue.” Proclaiming the Gospel is an invitation, a proposal, which necessitates understanding who the other person is, which in turn requires listening, engaging them with explanations of the Christian faith and guiding them along a path of seeking the truth, he said. If, on the other hand, the approach is “defensive,” he said, the brandishing of truth “from above, from afar,” then that “becomes ideology or at least perceived as such,” he said. What is more successful in many educational institutions, he said, is an identity based on “witnessing charity” in which Catholic administrators, faculty and students “are able to witness charity in dialogue, in respect for the other, in making the faith intelligent and not provocative. Then you see the ice melt, the walls come down.” “Instead, when one begins with the idea of defending concepts,” he said, one “reinforces conflict and, on our part, one isn’t able to seem credible,” missing the opportunity to keep evangelizing. “Identity, in a defensive sense brings conflict,” he said, but identity as being loving witnesses “seems to me to be the identity that wins out.”
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SALESIAN CLUB: Updated North Beach landmark city’s ‘best kept secret’ FROM PAGE 1
girls club was like a lifeline to us,” said Cathy Busalacchi who travels decades later from Santa Cruz for the club cioppino dinners with her friends. Membership was $2 when Mana joined. Today, the year-round club charges $10 for a year’s membership for children ages 8-18. Founded in 1918 by Salesian Father Oreste Trincheri as a boys’ club in response to juvenile delinquency among the Italian boys in North Beach, the club was incorporated with a board of directors in 1952. In 1994, the boys and girls clubs were merged. Before the ribbon cutting, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone blessed the building, calling the club “a real landmark here in San Francisco.” Thanks to the Salesians, “the spirit and gift that is John Bosco is alive and flourishing,” he said. As a young priest St. John Bosco foresaw the unsettling influence that the industrial revolution was having SALESIAN CLUB on youth. He inaugurated a WEBSITE society of priests, brothers and sisters to work with children of the poor and laboring classes in Italy. He chose as patron St. Francis de Sales, who was noted for having conquered a fiery temper to achieve a gentle character. That family name “Sales” gave title to the Salesians of St. John Bosco. “Our primary mission is working with the underprivileged, but we are very diversified ethnically and socioeconomically,” said Russ Gumina, executive director, noting the club has many children from the public housing projects as well as from middle class and wealthy families. “I told the archbishop we are the best kept secret in San Francisco.” The archdiocese is leasing the land to the club for $1 a year for 70 years – which the club paid upfront. “The club is a place where you learn; a place where you learn about God. It’s a place where you feel at home; where you’re accepted and where you’re known by name and it’s a place where you can have fun and meet friends,” said Salesian Father John Itzaina, pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul. “We try to do things to keep the kids occupied and off the streets and still instill Christian values,” said Gumina, who is handing over the leadership to longtime assistant Randy DeMartini. Gumina start-
‘There is no pessimism about the modern youth at the Salesian Boys’ and Girls’ Club. Young ideals stand tall as ever.’
Salesian Club board member Frank Lavin shoots pools with a teen.
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Executive director Russ Gumina is handing over the leadership to longtime assistant Randy DeMartini Jan. 1.
Phillip Lee, Christian Mata and Gino Ragusa are pictured at the club ribbon-cutting.
ed coming to the club when he was 6, and was hired in 1969 by former director Fred Scolari. Gumina will stay on as part-time development director. The Salesian club is a drop-in club and has scheduled activities. It also serves as an after-school program for Sts. Peter and Paul School and staff and volunteers walk children from a number of local public schools after school. Others come on school buses.
The renovated building, located on the edge of the school yard and church parking lot, adds 7,500 square feet of space, and includes a martial arts dance studio, a culinary and arts and crafts room, a learning center, black box theater, conference room, new gym, and game room. The building was gutted and built from the inside out, said Gumina, “The only thing left is the walls.”
ASSISTED SUICIDE: California bishops back drive to repeal law FROM PAGE 1
said Mark Padilla, chairman of Culture of Life for Knights of Columbus in California. Kick off of the parish signature-gathering efforts varied by diocese, with the Diocese of Orange and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in Southern California beginning signature gathering on Christ the King Sunday while the Diocese of Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco, was to begin collecting signatures at the parishes the first two weekends in December. The Archdiocese of San Francisco was planning to start in December, said Vicki Evans, respect life coordinator. The petition to collect signatures for a referendum to repeal the law was filed with the California secretary of state by a non-sectarian group founded by psychologist Mark Hoffman, Seniors Against Assisted Suicide, on Oct. 6 the day after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the assisted-suicide bill (ABx2-15) into law. If successful, the referendum would be on the November 2016 ballot. In general the California bishops wait until a petition has qualified for the ballot before taking action, but have made an exception in this case, said Kathleen Buckley Domingo, associate director of the Office of Life, Justice and Peace for the Los Angeles archdiocese. “A lot of people are underinsured or uninsured
in California,” Domingo said, saying poor people will be victimized by this law and could be coerced. “For them assisted suicide is always going to be the cheapest option.” The number of verified signatures required to be submitted to the secretary of state by Jan. 4 is 365,880, said Stephanie Packer, who became a spokesperson for the campaign against assisted suicide after hearing about the legislation last January. Packer is terminally ill with scleroderma, on oxygen 24 hours a day and receiving nutrition through a PICC line because the scarring disease affects her lungs. She is married with four young children and received her terminal diagnosis in 2012. “It’s easy to become consumed when you first become sick and when you first realize you are dying. It is really easy to become depressed,” said Packer, who is in her early 30s. “Once you get that new normal then you can start to find beauty in every single day in every moment. You start to appreciate everything. You go beyond happiness and you become joyful. Even on those awful days when you triple your pain medicine and you are still in pain.” Measures to legalize physician-assisted suicide have been attempted more than 100 times but have succeed in only four states, Washington, Oregon, Vermont and now California. In Montana, the
state Supreme Court ruled that physician “aid in dying” is not against public policy, a ruling that protects doctors against litigation. The California End of Life Options Act allows a physician to prescribe a lethal dose of narcotics to someone who is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given a prognosis of six months to live. It was introduced in an August special legislative session called to address health care costs after a similar bill, SB 128, stalled in Assembly committee during the regular session. Under California’s law, after the required twoweek waiting period following a terminal diagnosis, the patient can write or phone to get the assisted suicide prescription and the dose can be sent via mail to the patient. There are no safeguards as to who accepts the package or whether the ill or disabled person ingests the medication through his or her own will or is given it by someone else. The two witnesses can be an employee of the nursing home and an heir or relative, under the law. The cause of death is listed as the underlying illness, not assisted suicide. The coalition opposing physician-assisted suicide includes a variety of religious and non-religious organizations, including the American College of Pediatricians, the American Nursing Association, Not Dead Yet and ARC of California. Some opponents are listed at stopassistedsuicide.com.
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Origin of our Thanksgiving Day
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 BROTHER JOHN is now St. Augustine, M. SAMAHA, SM 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, Texas, under the leadership 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 colo-
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nists, 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 in 1621 what is the historical forerunner of our Thanksgiving. 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. 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 Thanksgiv-
ing 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.” Thoughts to ponder this Thanksgiving. Thanks be to God! MARIANIST BROTHER SAMAHA lives in Cupertino.
Faith, doubt, dark nights and maturity
n one of his books on contemplative prayer, Thomas Keating shares a line he occasionally uses in spiritual direction. People, sharing how they used to have a warm and solid sense of God, now complain that all that warmth and confidence have disappeared and they’re FATHER RON left strugROLHEISER gling with belief and struggling to pray as they used to: “What’s wrong with me?” they ask. “God is wrong with you!” Keating answers. His answer says this: Despite your pain, there is something very right with you. You have moved past being a religious neophyte and are now being led into a deeper faith and you have been brought you to a deeper maturity. You’re asking: I used to be quite sure of myself religiously and was probably somewhat arrogant and judgmental. I felt I understood God and religion and looked with some disdain at the world. Then the bottom fell out of my faith and certainty. I’m finding myself less sure of myself, more humble and empathetic, and less judgmental. What’s wrong with me? Clearly that person is growing, not regressing. Lost is a place too! To be saved, we have to first realize that we’re lost, and usually some kind of bottom has to fall out of our lives for us to come to that realization. Sometimes there’s no other cure
To be saved, we have to first realize that we’re lost, and usually some kind of bottom has to fall out of our lives for us to come to that realization. for arrogance and presumption than a painful loss of certitude about our own ideas about God, faith, and religion. John of the Cross suggests that a deeper religious faith begins when we are forced to understand more by not understanding than by understanding. A curious, paradoxical dynamic lies behind this: We tend to confuse faith with our capacity on any given day to conjure up a concept of God and imagine God’s existence. Moreover we think our faith is strongest at those times when we have affective and emotive feelings attached to our imaginations about God. Our faith feels strongest when bolstered by and inflamed by feelings of fervor. Great spiritual writers will tell us that this stage of fervor is a good stage in our faith but one more commonly experienced when we are neophytes. In the earlier stages of a religious journey it is common to possess strong, affective images and feelings about God. At this stage, our relationship with God parallels the relationship between a couple on their honeymoon with strong emotions and certainty about your love, but it’s a place you come home from. A honeymoon is not a marriage, though often confused with one. It’s the same with faith;
strong imaginative images of God are not faith, though they’re often confused with it. Strong imaginative images and strong feelings about God are just that, images. An image is not the reality. An icon can be beautiful and helpful and point us in the right direction, but when mistaken for the reality it becomes an idol. For this reason, the great spiritual writers tell us that God at certain moments of our spiritual journey “takes away” our certainty and deprives us of all warm, felt feelings in faith. God does this precisely so that we cannot turn our icons into idols, so that we cannot let the experience of faith get in the way of the end of faith itself, namely, an encounter the reality and person of God. Mystics call this “a dark night of the soul.” This describes the experience where we used to feel God’s presence with a certain warmth and solidity, but now we feel like God is nonexistent and we are left in doubt. This is what Jesus experienced on the cross and this is what Mother Teresa wrote about in her journals. And while that darkness can be confusing, it can also be maturing: It can help move us from being arrogant, judgmental, religious neophytes to being humble, empathic men and women, living inside a cloud of unknowing, understanding more by not understanding than by understanding, helpfully lost in a darkness we cannot manipulate or control, so as to finally be pushed into genuine faith, hope and charity. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
LETTERS Foudy family remembrance
On Nov. 7 Bishop William Justice was principal celebrant of a funeral Mass for Mary Foudy at St. Gabriel Church in San Francisco. Bishop Ignatius Wang and Bishop Daniel Walsh, along with priests of the archdiocese, were present to attest to the remarkable life of not only of Mary but of her late beloved brothers, Msgr. John Foudy and Father Denis Foudy. Mary Foudy and her brothers represented the very best of our Catholic faith for the past 100 years. Mary was beloved at St. Gabriel’s.She could be counted on in her support for the Legion of Mary as well as the Ladies Sodality and helping countless parishioners and priests over the decades of her being herself a parishioner there. Those of us who were privileged to know these exemplary members of the Catholic Church have suffered an enormous loss.It is in knowing how they conducted their lives through their faith that will endure long past their earthly departure. Mary, John, and Denis Foudy were true to their faith, their church, and their friends. They represented all that is good.We are blessed to have known them. Peter J. Fatooh San Francisco
California bishops must oppose death penalty
Yesterday (Nov. 12) the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a legal challenge to the death penalty. Now, the bishops of the California Catholic Conference need to do three actions to support a culture of life: 1) Urge Gov. Brown to commute the death sentences of prisoners in California to life imprisonment. 2) Urge the California Legislature to abolish the death penalty in favor of life imprisonment. 3) Educate Catholics on the Christian reasons to abolish the death penalty. In his message to the U.S. Congress, Pope Francis said that he advocated the global abolition of the death penalty: “Every life is sacred” and “A just and necessary punishment must never exclude the dimension of hope and the goal of rehabilitation.” Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, a former auxiliary bishop in San Francisco, stated: “By taking life, in whatever form the death penalty is carried out, the state is usurping the role of God. Execution does violence to God’s time, eliminating the opportunity for God’s redemptive and forgiving grace to work in the life of a prisoner.” It is the Year of Mercy. The bishops of the CCC have opposed the recently passed physician-assisted suicide law, the latest manifestation of the culture of death in California. Now is the time for the bishops to oppose the death penalty in California. It is the time to be bold. Stuart MacKenzie San Bruno
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Eye-opening experience at Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant Services MARY PODESTA CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
The teenage boy sitting across the table from me at Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant Services office in San Mateo talked calmly about his chilling experience fleeing gang violence in his home country of Honduras and strapping himself by his belt to the top of a train to escape through Mexico. His younger sister, sitting next to him and his stepbrother, recounted her own daunting escape from violence, her voice trembling as she remembered the trauma and threat of being separated from her mother. Nearby, their mother listened, her eyes welling with tears. This was something I had read about in newspapers, the heartbreaking tales of thousands of unaccompanied minors who have flocked from Central America to U.S. southern borders seeking refuge – and now I was hearing about it firsthand from the children themselves who had survived their harrowing journey to be welcomed without judgment and treated with respect at Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant Services, which provides minor refugees with guidance and legal assistance at their offices in San Francisco and San Mateo. I was among a group of parishioners who had accepted the invitation extended by Catholic Charities in September to all parishioners in the
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Attending a program tour at Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant Services office in San Mateo were, from left: sitting, mother of unaccompanied minors; standing, Lea Rosen, staff attorney, Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant Services; sitting, two brothers and their sister who were unaccompanied minors and are now resettled; standing, Diana Otero, director of Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant Services in San Mateo; Sandra Becerra, program coordinator of Refugee and Immigrant Services. Archdiocese of San Francisco to tour six of their programs and witness the positive impact of our donations provided during the Catholic Charities Sunday annual parish appeal to support the work of Catholic Charities programs like Refugee and Immigrant Services, where I was now on tour. It was a visit I will never forget, hearing these children talk so openly
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The grittiness of Christian faith
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ERUSALEM – Walking through the narrow, winding streets of Jerusalem’s Old City on my first visit here in 15 years, I was powerfully struck once again by the grittiness of Christianity, the palpable connection between the faith and the quotidian realities of life. For here, as in no other place, the believer, the skeptic, and the “searcher” are confronted with a fact: Christianity began, not with a pious story or “narrative,” but with the reality of transformed lives. Real things happened to real people at real places in real time – and the transformation wrought in GEORGE WEIGEL those real people by those “real things” transformed the world. The most transformative of those “real things” was the encounter with the risen Lord Jesus, the one those real people had first known in this real place as the young rabbi Jesus from Nazareth. That encounter, and the radical transformation
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Yet none of that matters. For if the Son of God came into the world, to redeem and glorify us in it, then the places most closely associated with the redemption should reflect the grubby diversity of the human condition. And so it is here, as pilgrims from all over the world hustle, bustle, and jostle their way toward the 12th station, the site of the crucifixion, and the Aedicule that surrounds the empty tomb. The distractions don’t distract, though; the 12th station remains the easiest place in the world to pray, in Brother Lawrence’s sense of prayer as “practicing the presence.” The dowager Empress Helena, mother of Constantine, came here to find the true cross. What you find here in 2015 has little to do with what Helena found. It takes an extraordinary act of imagination to conjure up Golgotha and the rocky tomb in today’s ramshackle church. But the basilica is here because she came here and became a special witness to the fact that Christianity begins and continues with lives transformed by an encounter with the one, who makes all things new. WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
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The Solemnity Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Jesus answered, ‘You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.’ JOHN 18:33b-37 DANIEL 7:13-14 As the visions during the night continued, I saw one like a Son of man coming, on the clouds of heaven; when he reached the Ancient One and was presented before him, the one like a Son of man received dominion, glory, and kingship; all peoples, nations, and languages serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not be taken away, his kingship shall not be destroyed. PSALM 93:1, 1-2, 5 The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty. The Lord is king, in splendor robed; robed is the Lord and girt about with strength. The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty. And he has made the world firm, not to be moved.
Your throne stands firm from of old; from everlasting you are, O Lord. The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty. Your decrees are worthy of trust indeed; holiness befits your house, O Lord, for length of days. The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty. REVELATION 1:5-8 Jesus Christ is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, who has made us into a kingdom, priests for his God and Father, to him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen. Behold, he is coming amid the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him. All the peoples of the earth will lament him. Yes. Amen. “I am the Alpha and the
Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.” JOHN 18:33B-37 Pilate said to Jesus, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you say this on your own or have others told you about me?” Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?” Jesus answered, “My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not here.” So Pilate said to him, “Then you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”
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n this last Sunday of the church’s liturgical year, we focus our attention on Jesus 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. The day when Jesus rode a donkey down the Mount of Olives into the Kidron Valley, people ran out to meet him. “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” This was the traditional way a triumphant king was greeted when returning home. When it had become clear to them that Jesus had no intention of driving the Roman occupation forces out, or in becoming the new king David DEACON that even his disciples thought FAIVA PO’OI he would be, they had assumed that they were wrong in looking upon him as their king. In today’s Gospel, we hear Jesus being asked by
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POPE FRANCIS CONVIVIALITY A MEASURE OF FAMILY HEALTH
Pope Francis dedicated his Nov. 11 catechesis to conviviality, a typical characteristic of family life. This attitude of sharing the goods of life and of being happy to do so is, he said, “a precious virtue.” Speaking before thousands at his Wednesday general audience in Vatican City, he continued, “Its symbol, its icon, is the family gathered around the table, partaking of a meal together – and therefore not merely food, but also sentiments, stories, and events. It is a fundamental experience. When there is a celebration – a birthday, an anniversary – the family gathers around the table. In some cultures it is customary to do so also following bereavement, to stay close to those who suffer for the loss of a family member.” The pope added, “Conviviality is a sure thermometer for measuring the health of relations: if in the family there is a problem or a hidden trouble, you understand immediately at the table. A family that almost never eats together, or in does not talk at the table but instead watches the television, or smartphones, is not a close family.”
Pilate: “Are you the king of the Jews?” We hear Jesus’ response: “My kingdom is not of this world.” Not of this world? At the top of Jerusalem’s value system was a king, and at the bottom was an alien. But here, in an unthinkable turn of events, the king was revealed to be an alien. Despite the better informed views that we may bring to church today, Christ remains an alien king. He is alien to many of the values that we cherish the most: the idolatry of success that oftentimes makes our goal more important than our relationships and our standards more quantitative than qualitative; the false assumptions about what constitutes the “good life”; and the self-serving ways that cloud our view of the world, other people, and even God. Jesus is the king of God’s kingdom. He does not come to rule over our doomed or petty little kingdoms. Instead, he comes to invite us day by day, step by step, to enter a kingdom that is not of this world at all. In celebrating the feast of Christ the King, we acknowledge Jesus to be the one who offers us the fullness of life in his kingdom, both now and forever. His reign is not one of power but of mercy, not one of self-service but of self-giving, not one of material wealth but of eternal salvation. His throne is the cross. Such a king the world has never seen! Such a king the
world has never known! And yet, this is how God’s kingdom is established and where our discipleship begins. We are to allow ourselves to be crucified on the cross of self-giving. We are called not simply to pay homage to our exalted king, but to do as he did. This means that every day we must give of ourselves and reach out to others, for it is in the face of those in need that we encounter our king! We serve our king when we reach out across boundaries of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, and status to touch the lives of those who have less than ourselves. Our king challenges us to be inclusive of others, and most especially of those who are different than us. He challenges us to serve the poor and the vulnerable, sharing our time, talents and possessions. He challenges us to be advocates for public policies that protect human life and promote human dignity. Christ is king, the alpha and the omega, the meaning and endpoint of all existence. Christ our king continues to rule through the cry of the poor for justice, the cry of the oppressed for freedom, the cry of the despised for acceptance. Christ our king rules in the struggle for dignity and opportunity. May the holy Eucharist empower and strengthen us to do the same. DEACON PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23: Monday of the Thirtyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Clement I, pope & martyr; St. Columban, abbot; Bl. Miguel Pro, priest and martyr. DN 1:1-6, 8-20. DANIEL 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56. MT 24:42a, 44. LK 21:1-4. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24: Memorial of St. Andrew Dung-Lac, priest and martyr, and Companions, martyrs. DN 2:31-45. DANIEL 3:57, 58, 59, 60, 61. RV 2:10c. LK 21:5-11. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25: Wednesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Catherine of Alexandria, virgin and martyr. DN 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28. DANIEL 3:62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67. RV 2:10c. LK 21:12-19. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26: Thursday of the Thirtyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. DN 6:12-28. DANIEL 3:68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74. LK 21:28. LK 21:20-28.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29: First Sunday of Advent. JER 33:14-16. PS 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14. 1 THES 3:12— 4:2. PS 85:8. LK 21:25-28, 34-36. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30: Feast of St. Andrew, apostle. ROM 10:9-18. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. MT 4:19. MT 4:18-22. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1: Tuesday of the First Week of Advent. IS 11:1-10. PS 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17. LK 10:21-24. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2: Wednesday of the First Week of Advent. IS 25:6-10a. PS 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. MT 15:29-37. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3: Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier, priest. IS 26:1-6. PS 118:1 and 8-9, 19-21, 2527a. Is 55:6. MT 7:21, 24-27.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27: Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. DN 7:2-14. DANIEL 3:75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81. LK 21:28. LK 21:29-33.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4: Friday of the First Week of Advent. Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, priest and doctor. IS 29:17-24. PS 27:1, 4, 13-14. MT 9:27-31.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28: Saturday of the Thirtyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. DN 7:15-27. DANIEL 3:82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87. LK 21:36. LK 21:34-36.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5: Saturday of the First Week of Advent. 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.
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Mary’s story: A lifeline from the SVdP Society of San Mateo County CINDY KILPATRICK
Mary Monroe spent her early childhood on a small farm in Texas, the daughter of a geology professor and a Barnardeducated housewife. When she was 7 years old her family moved to California, first to a Hollywood home two blocks above the Sunset Strip, then to the San Fernando Valley. Her parents’ marriage fell apart and her father moved back to Texas, Mary Monroe taking one of her siblings with him while she and her sister remained in the care of their mother who struggled emotionally and had difficulties caring for her daughters. Mary remembers feeling alone, completely unsupervised and walking dogs for her neighbors to earn spending money. She moved again and again, over 13 times before she graduated from high school. She also remembers loving nature, climbing trees on the farm in Texas, and becoming friends with neighbors when she picked up their dogs for a walk and marveling at how “normal” families lived and related to each other. Even though her mother was not religious Mary had her own childlike faith in God who she sensed was real and loved her. As an adult Mary wanted a fresh start, far away from her painful childhood. She moved to Hawaii, met and married a wonderful man and had two beautiful daughters. She felt settled for the first time in her life. After many years together the couple amicably decided to divorce and Mary moved with her daughters back to California. With a strong work ethic and an enterprising spirit, she soon built a successful career in real estate and was financially able to support her family.
Every day the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County, through its Peninsula Family Resource Center, helps families and individuals like Mary who are in need of targeted, compassionate assistance to help them through a desperate economic crisis. SVdP provides approximately $45,000 monthly in rent and utility assistance to the precariously housed, over $500,000 on an annual basis. Last year SVdP helped 740 families in San Mateo County. Approximately 3,000 people including 1,500 children were able to remain safe and housed because SVdP helped when they had nowhere else to turn. With the escalating housing crisis in the Bay Area SVdP is challenged to raise funds to meet the increased demand and costs of this assistance. Donations may be made online at www.svdpsm. org or by sending a check to SVdP, 50 North B St. San Mateo, CA 94401. Also, Catholic San Francisco readers may use the envelope in the current issue and the Dec. 18 issue.
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That all changed when another side of him emerged. He began to be at first verbally, then physically abusive. Her daughters tried to convince her to break off the relationship but instead she rationalized and excused his behavior and stayed with him. The next few months became “a blur” as he introduced her to crack cocaine and she fell into a downward spiral of relationship abuse and emotional trauma which she medicated with drugs. “I went from earning $200,000 a year to living in my car,” she said. “All I wanted was to feel okay and be loyal to my man. I was going ‘to ride or die.’” Finally she sought treatment at a local residential rehabilitation center and has been in active recovery from childhood neglect and trauma, depression, relationship abuse, drug misuse, self-deprivation and self-degradation since April 2014. “Recovery is not about just one thing,” she said. One of her counselors along the way introduced her to Deacon Martin Schurr, SVdP’s Restorative Justice Ministry chaplain, who suggested she contact SVdP’s Peninsula Family Resource Center when she needed her power and lights turned on but didn’t have the money to bring her old PG&E account out of arrears. From there she said “miraculous things started to happen.” SVdP stepped in to pay her PG& E bill so she could have her utilities turned on and offered compassionate support as she got back on her feet. Recently Mary returned to her real estate career and full-time studies at College of San Mateo. On her first day back at work her coworkers stood up and applauded when she walked in. She was overcome with gratitude for second chances. “I love God so much and he has blessed me beyond belief ! I made it. I didn’t lose my life. I am still here!”
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 19, 2015
SATURDAY, NOV. 21 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon followed by lunch in lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome, Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865; www. Handicapables.com. PORZIUNCOLA ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality, Saturdays, 2:30 p.m., Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Chaplet of Divine Mercy, 3 p.m., all welcome; www. knightsofsaintfrancis.com. 2-DAY BOUTIQUE: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. both days; http://bit.ly/ShopwithSisters; Sister Rose Marie Hennessy (510) 933-6334; rosemarie@msjdominicans. org; www.msjdominicans.org. TURKEY DRIVE: St. Emydius Church, DeMontfort and Jules avenues, San Francisco, 9 a.m.-noon, bring a turkey to benefit the St. Anthony Dining Room; SFPierre@aol.com. ADVENT TALK: Mary Romo, professor of theology at University of San Francisco, presents “The Gifts of Advent: Reflection, Introspection, Surrender and Gratitude,” 9:30 a.m., St. Anselm Church, 97 Shady Lane, Ross; (415) 456-9732; www.saintanselm.com. 2-DAY CRAFTS SALE: Handmade crafts sale, noon-7 p.m., Saturday, Sunday, Sisters of the Good Shepherd, 1310 Bacon St. San Francisco 94134, phyllis4hope@mac.com; (415) 5862822. Parking available on site. REMEMBRANCE SERVICE: Mount Olivet Cemetery, 270 Los Ranchitos
Road, San Rafael, 10 a.m., no charge, open to all, followed by reception, Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher tonilyn928@att.net; (415) 681-6153. 2-DAY BOUTIQUE: All Souls Women’s Club Christmas Fair, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. both days, 315 Walnut Ave., South San Francisco, many vendors, breakfast with Santa $10 adults/$7 children, allsoulswomensclub@yahoo.com, (650) 871-8944.
SUNDAY, NOV. 22 FAITH FORMATION: Fromm Hall, north of St. Ignatius Church, Parker and Golden Gate avenues, 10:50 a.m., poetic vision of Gerard Manly Hopkins with Jesuit Father Thomas Lucas; free and open to the public; free parking in all USF lots; jacoleman@usfca.edu; faloon@usfca.edu; (415) 422-2195.
MONDAY, NOV. 23 GRIEF SUPPORT: St Pius Parish Center, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, 7-8:30 p.m., ways to survive loss at holidays, no charge, open to all, RSVP griefministry@pius.org; questions to tonilyn928@att.net.
SATURDAY, NOV. 28 2-DAY BOUTIQUE: Holy Angels Parish, 107 San Padro Road, Colma, Saturday 11 a.m.–6:30 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m., free admission, handmade articles for sale from many vendors, snacks available for purchase,pictures with Santa, (650) 755-0478, croller@pacbell.net.
SUNDAY, NOV. 29 FAITH FORMATION: Fromm Hall, north of St. Ignatius Church, Parker and Golden Gate avenues 10:50 a.m., theology of Luke with USF biblical scholar Vincent Pizzuto; free and open to the public; free parking in all USF lots; jacoleman@usfca. edu; faloon@usfca.edu; (415) 422-2195.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2 ‘KOHL CHRISTMAS’: Visit Christmas at Kohl, 5-9 p.m., 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame with more than 60 vendors, great place to start Christmas shopping, docent presentations at 6:30 and 7 plus musical entertainment, and light refreshments for purchase. Tickets at the door $10/adults, children under 12 are free, visit www.mercyhsb.com/alumnae/christmas-at-kohlError! Hyperlink reference not valid. for parking and shuttle information.
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GRIEF SUPORT: Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Gough Street at RIORDAN ALUMNI: Downtown lunGeary Boulevard, San Francisco, alumniLand friends of ArchP cheon U forB I C A T 10:30 a.m., for anyone who is expebishop Riordan High School with speaker riencing grief of the loss of a loved Brian Murphy, host of KNBR’s ‘Murph one, free, Deacon Christoph Sandoval and Mac,’ 11 a.m. cocktails, lunch 12:30, leads, Sister Elaine at (415) 567-2020, Sir Francis Drake Hotel, $65, www.riorex. 218. danhs.org; (415) 586-8200, ext. 357.
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SATURDAY, DEC. 5 ‘SKYBALL’: St. Stephen Women’s Guild silent and live auction, threecourse dinner and dancing, 5 p.m.midnight, Olympic Club Lakeside, $150, Michelle Furnanz or Natalie Ocampo ststephenauction2015@ gmail.com, (415) 640-0646, www. skyball2015.com. PEACE MASS: Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco, Father Francis Garbo, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist; (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@ gmail.com. YOUNG ADULT RETREAT: Twilight Retreat, 5-9:30 p.m., ages 18-35, personally encounter Jesus through the lens Advent I ofO Nand Year S of Mercy, $15 gratitude offering, Dominican Sisters Motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont, RSVP by Nov. 30, http://bit. ly/2015YATwilightRetreat, (510) 9336360.
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CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Charito Suan, pastor, Father Charito St. Elizabeth Suan Parish, San Francisco, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060, www. holycrosscemeteries.com.
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of October
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 19, 2015
HOLY CROSS COLMA Susan Abbate Sophie Gale Adams Encarnacion Javier Addad Thomas Joseph Baldisseri Ursula Koepf Becker Alma A. Beviacqua Mary E. Bocchi Charles Brunette Ernest Cadelago Fred C. Carelli Dalia Carrillo James S. Cassin Mary Cawley Sr. Barbara Checkhart, RSM Billy Chen Joseph F. Chess Rosemary Ann Chetcuti Roger Chetcuti Nicholas Joseph Ciardella Raymond Cinti Magechtien Coenraad Theresa G. Coleiro Pauline C. Cunningham Kevin R. Daly Cresincia Dardar Edwin M. Dardar Meneleo Trinidad De Castro Kirk Del Prete Refugio Delgado Encarnacion V. Derpo Venus Carillo Dioso Paul Francis Doherty Federico C. Elazegui, Sr. Aurea Potente Espina Richard Estrada Cinderella Rosalina Faulve Justine C. Ferem Ann M. Foley Donald Andrew Fox Evelyn Freij Ann M. Fry Eleanor E. Fry Thomas Galiata Joan Eileen Gallagher Guillermo Gamch Ernesto Ganzon
Frank A. Garese Craig Anthony Gigli Robert J. Gilbert John Gilland Yvonne J. Giuseponi Mamerto I. Gonzales Luisa Del Prado Gratuito Victorina L. Guerrero Roy C. Hansen Mary Rose Harmon Helen Hart Helen Marie Hicks Rev. Terence J. Horan Robert Ivor Hughes Araceli M. Jennings Clotilde M. Jobe Estella J. Jobe Patricia M. Jones Patrick Joseph Kenny Kathleen M. King Alice Patricia Klemens Opal E. Larson Susan J. Lombardi Estella Nancy Loza Prima C. Magante Richard Owen Martin Antonio Timo Matuu Leo J. McAllister Theresa McCarthy Harold V. McCarthy, Jr. Frances B. McVeigh Lynn Marie Miles Clelia B. Molinelli Manuel H. Morales Richard P. Muratore William P. Murphy Najla I. Musallam Leanes Mustin Fernanda Napoletano Bahjat Nazzal Maurene P. Nunes Brendan M. O’Brien Patricia D. Oertli Anna M. Ortega Rose Marie Ozenne Lucy Padilla Danilo Enierga Parangan Joseph Gene Park Julia McSweeney Petrilli Mary Anne Leahy Philpott Audrey M. Piznal
Robert Michael Powers Thomas Prendiville Daniel Warren Ramirez Deacon Tom Reardon Amy J. Reece Whitney Neal Robinson, III Gladys C. Rodriguez Epifanio Ruiz Lesbia J. Silva Linda L. Smith Luciano Tabong Antonio Takapu Jason Tolentino Alda Tomera Malae Totua Shirley P. Van Tricht Genoveva A. Vigil Jacqueline J. Vinje Ronald L. Vinje Loraine N. Walitsch Rev. John J. Ward Barbara E. West Mary Tenge Witzig Luis D. Wong Charlotte A. Xavier
HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Maria Jesus Garcia Ayala Martha Barragan Rosalie M. Becker Katheryn Ellen Burke Joseph Flipp, Jr. Elena Robbins
MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Lena M. Bacigalupi Norma J. Cattaneo James William Kirk Edward (Ed) Linsin Gerald James McCarthy Elliott Ernesto Garcia Sandoval Etta Soldavini Roger Torresan
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 ALL SAINTS MAUSOLEUM CHAPEL – 11:00 AM Rev. Charito Suan, Celebrant CHRISTMAS REMEMBRANCE SERVICE Saturday, December 12, 2015 – 11:00 am Msgr. John Talesfore, Officiant 1ST ANNUAL HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY CAR AND MOTORCYCLE SHOW Sunday, December 13, 2015 • 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Celebrating and Showcasing Classic Vehicles that have brought families to visit over the years
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060
Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchos 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
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