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‘Reflect, rejoice, renew’ is parish jubilee theme

Memorial tribute to nation’s servicemen, women

Archbishop salutes San Mateo group’s work to end abortion

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Pope: Open your hearts to the poor as ‘beggars before God’ CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - The poor are the church’s treasure because they give every Christian a chance to “speak the same language as Jesus, that of love,” Pope Francis said, celebrating Mass for the World Day of the Poor.

“The poor facilitate our access to heaven,” the pope said in his homily Nov. 17. “In fact, they open up the treasure that never ages, that which joins earth and heaven and for which life is truly worth living: love.”

Thousands of poor people and volunteers who assist them joined Pope Francis for the Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. After the liturgy and the recitation of the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis hosted a luncheon for 1,500 of them while thousands more throughout the city enjoyed a festive meal at soup kitchens, parish halls and seminaries.

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USF remembers El Salvador’s martyred Jesuits

A Mass and candelight procession at the University of San Francisco Nov. 17 marked the 30th anniversary of the political massacre of six Jesuit priests, their household cook and her teenage daughter during El Salvador’s civil war, their names inscribed here on white crosses at a newly inaugurated campus memorial. In El Salvador and elsewhere, the martyrs’ writings and legacy as men of action who remained close to the people continue to inspire those serving the poor and vulnerable. More on Page 9.

‘I just wanted to be a priest’: LA’s Gomez elected USCCB president JD FLYNN CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C. - When he became a priest four decades ago, Archbishop Jose Archbishop Gomez did not expect that he would one day lead the largest archdiocese in the U.S., or the country’s bishops’ conference.

“I just wanted to be a priest,” Archbishop Gomez told CNA with a laugh, speaking about his election.

“Somehow God wanted me to do what I am doing, and I’m just counting on the grace of God to be able to be faithful to what God is asking me to do.”

“And also on intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe,” he added, explaining that he has entrusted all of his ministry as a bishop to the prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Archbishop Gomez, 67, was elected Nov. 12 as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The archbishop, born in Monterey, Mexico, and ordained a priest in Spain, is the first

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Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez holds his rosary Nov. 10, 2019, in a Baltimore hotel where he attended the U.S. bishops’ fall general assembly.

Latino to lead the bishops’ conference. He is also the first immigrant to head the conference.

His election is historic, but it was no surprise.

Archbishop Gomez became vice president of the conference, a central organizing body of almost 200 Catholic bishops with more than 300 employees, in 2016. The vice president is traditionally elected to the top job, so Archbishop Gomez knew his election was likely.

But, he told CNA, the real surprise was becoming vice president three years ago.

“I was not expecting to be the president. Some people put my name forward for election as vice president in 2016.”

“To my surprise I was elected vice president, then once you are the vice president, it is more likely that they elect you president. The whole process was a surprise to me, but I see that God is asking me to do it, and I just pray that with the grace of God I can do a good job.”

Archbishop Gomez laughed, noting that he had never expected to become a Denver auxiliary bishop

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2 ARCHDIOCESE NEED TO KNOW PRAYER REQUESTS: During November, traditionally the month to remember those who have gone before us in faith, the archdiocesan communication office staff invites you to send in your prayer requests for your own beloved dead.

These names will be included in the Prayers of the Faithful at Chancery daily Masses during the month. Names may be emailed to comms@sfarch.org.

MASS FOR THE HOMELESS DEAD: Join Archbishop Cordileone for the second annual Mass for the Faithful Departed Homeless, 11 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 23, Church of the Visitacion, 655 Sunnydale Ave., San Francisco. More information at sfarch.org/homelessmass. Free parking.

ARCHBISHOP’S HOMILY: The Blessed Virgin feeds souls hungering for beauty in a world suffering from “spiritual misery,” Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily at the Mass of the Americas Nov. 16 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Read it at https://catholic-sf.org/news/the-power-of-marysbeauty-to-unite-all-gods-children.

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‘The hope of the poor shall not perish forever’ Pope Francis cited Psalm 9:19 (“The hope of the poor will not perish forever”) in his message for the third World Day of the Poor, observed Nov. 17. “These words of the Psalm remain timely,” the pope said.

“They express a profound truth that faith Pope Francis impresses above all on the hearts of the poor, restoring lost hope in the face of injustice, sufferings and the uncertainties of life.” Speaking in Rome Nov. 9 to open a special week dedicated to serving the poor, the pope said to approach the outreach “with a spiritual lightness” focusing on God’s presence “instead of getting caught up in anxieties of performance.”

Here is information on seasonal and ongoing opportunities to serve the poor through volunteering at St. Vincent de Paul ministries in the archdiocese.

SVdP San Mateo seeks winter volunteers

ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE’S SCHEDULE NOV. 20-21: Chancery meetings NOV. 23: Mass for Homeless Deceased, cathedral, 11 a.m., adult confirmations, cathedral, 5:30 p.m.

NOV. 25: Mass and dinner, Jesuit community of St. Ignatius High School NOV. 26: SF Interfaith Council Thanksgiving breakfast; seminary meetings, Mass and dinner NOV. 27: Chancery Thanksgiving Mass and potluck; chancery meetings DEC. 1: Mass, cathedral 11, a.m.

DEC. 2: Presbyteral Council executive committee DEC. 3-4: Advent retreat and dinners, Laguna Hills DEC. 5: Chancery meetings DEC. 6: Cabinet meeting, chancery; St. Nicholas Day celebration, seminary DEC. 7: Archbishop’s Circle Advent retreat; Guadalupana Mass, cathedral, 2 p.m.

The St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County’s Homeless Help Centers are in need of volunteers at the new Clothing Closet location in Redwood City.

SVdP’s Homeless Help Centers also operate locations in South San

Francisco and San Mateo, offering basic survival necessities such as hot meals, clothing, sleeping bags, bus tokens, ID cards, laundry and mail services.

Volunteer opportunities are available for adults, youth and groups.

Contact arangel@svdpsm.org or (650) 588-5734.

Also visit the society’s website to learn how to make a gift toward the purchase of warm winter basics for the homeless.

SVdP San Francisco, Marin volunteer opportunities

St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco’s programs serve over 1,000 people each day. Services include: Multi-Service Center South Homeless Shelter, 525 Fifth St., San Francisco, covering basic needs, such as food and a place to sleep, and medical, employment, education, mental health, and housing assistance. Visit https://svdp-sf.org/get-involved/ volunteer/ for more information. To schedule group and corporate volunteer projects, please contact Michael Alvarenga at malvarenga@svdp-sf. org or (415) 757-6493.

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Services include case management, medical care, mental health and substance abuse screening, access to appropriate treatment, public benefits and employment resources, and most important, assistance to finding appropriate and available housing.

The Riley Center for Survivors of Domestic Violence, 1175 Howard St., San Francisco. The Riley Center consists of several offices and living facilities aimed at providing a safe, secure place for victims of domestic abuse and their children. Programs include counseling, legal aid, safety planning and assistance in securing permanent housing. Note that in order to volunteer at the Riley Center, you must participate in a mandatory 40-hour domestic violence training program. Upon successful completion of the program, volunteers commit to a minimum of four hours per week and/or a consistent schedule for a period of one year. Please contact the Riley Center’s volunteer coordinator, Paméla Tate-Roger at ptate@svdp-sf.org or (415) 757-6500 for volunteer opportunities and information.

The St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin is also in need of volunteers.

Contact vinnies.org or call (415) 4543303.

Shipwreck celebrates Black Catholic History Month St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco marked the beginning of national Black Catholic History month with a Mass Nov. 3.

As guest presider and homilist, Father Kenneth Westray, pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in San Francisco, encouraged Massgoers to read Scripture daily and learn more about black Catholic sainthood at the National Black Catholic Conference website, nbccongress.org.

At the Mass, the parish displayed photos of all six six black Catholics on the road to canonization: Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman (1937-1990); Venerable Henriette DeLille (1812-1862); Venerable

Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853); Servant of God Mother Mary Lange (1794-1882); Venerable Father Augustus Tolton (1854-1897); Servant of God Julia Greely (1833-1918).

Guest presiders/homilists for the remainder of November at the 10:45 am Gospel Mass include Father Bart Landry, CSP (Nov. 17) and Father Timothy Godfrey, SJ (Nov. 24).

For more information on Catholics of African descent on the road to sainthood, visit www.usccb.org/ issues-and-action/cultural-diversity/ african-american/resources/on-theroad-to-sainthood-leaders-of-africandescent.cfm.

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Father Kenneth Westray was guest presider and homilist Nov. 3 at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco at a Mass marking the start of National Black Catholic History Month.

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‘Reflect, rejoice, renew’ mark St. Augustine’s jubilee year NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A parish’s golden jubilee celebration is not just for “fiestas and carnivals” but is a time for each person to renew the church and help position it for the next halfcentury, the pastor of South San Francisco’s St. Augustine Father Reyes Parish said.

“We’re trying to be relevant, trying to make a difference, and we can do that by understanding our role and what it means to be Catholic,” Father Raymund Reyes said.

“There’s an important role each of you play.”

In his homily during Nov. 9-10 weekend Masses that opened the year of celebration, Father Reyes discussed the theme that the parish chose for the jubilee: “reflect, rejoice, renew.”

Reflection is important in order to see where the parish has succeeded and failed, the pastor said. Over 50 years, “sometimes we miss things and make mistakes. We go back so we can be better in the coming days.”

Father Reyes quoted Philippines’ national hero Jose Rizal, who said, “He who does not know how to look back where he came from will not reach his destination.”

Looking backward, Father Reyes said, is for the sake of journeying to “the place God wants us to be.”

Father Reyes said St. Augustine has much to be grateful for and added that rejoicing is also a way to acknowledge the need for God. “The opposite of gratitude is entitlement,” he said. “For this jubilee year, we are going to be grateful people, we are going to be more dependent on God, who can fully satisfy us and rest in our souls and our hearts.”

He also called their attention to another “serious crisis” in the church, the growth of religiously unaffiliated adults, or “nones,” as the U.S. Catholic Church membership continues to drop.

About 20 percent of American adults identify as Catholic, compared to 23 percent in 2009, the Pew Research Center said in an October report. At the same time, those who say they are atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular” now make up 26 percent of the U.S. population.

“For every person received in the Catholic Church, through conversion or babies being baptized, seven Catholics leave their faith,” Father Reyes said. “This is a great invitation for all of us, that we need to renew our baptismal call, show why coming to church and being Catholics is relevant today.”

St. Augustine is the largest parish SEE ST. AUGUSTINE, PAGE 22

Our Lady of Loretto welcomes decree on patron’s feast LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

The pastor and faithful at Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato welcomed the news that Pope Francis has decreed a new optional feast, Dec. 10, to honor their patron saint.

A decree published Oct. 31 by the Congregation for Divine Worship set the optional December feast day for Our Lady of Loreto, who since the Middle Ages has symbolized the holy family and the sacredness of all families and has heard the prayers of millions seeking solace, intercession and guidance in their vocation.

The readings and prayers for the new feast day will be added to the general Roman calendar and will appear in the Liturgy of the Hours, liturgical prayer books and those used in the celebration of Mass.

“Excellent and very ‘new’ news!” said Our Lady of Loretto parochial vicar Father Tony Vallecillo, who thinks the decree will be an opportunity to get to know more about Our Lady of Loreto. “We are going to have to do something with the community that day.”

Among parishioners expressing gratitude and surprise was Alma Pech.

“I am very happy because I have always fought to give more recognition to the Virgin of Loreto,” she said.

“I hope that at least we can do a Mass and a rosary in her honor on December 10.”

Our Lady of Loreto is considered

in many countries the patron saint of aviation, airmen, pilots and flight attendants.

“Many parishioners want to know more about her,” Pech said.

Natalia García, an immigrant from Mexico who actively attends and participates in the parish rosary prayer group, welcomed the decree.

“I always carry a holy card with the Virgin of Loreto surrounded by many angels,” she said. “She is asking for more from our community and to be celebrated. We have to love her like a mother, respect her and venerate her.”

Catholic pilgrims travel to the small Italian town of Loreto to stand inside the Holy House of Mary, preserved in a basilica, in which tradition holds the Virgin Mary was born, raised, and greeted by the Angel Gabriel at the Annunciation.

“This shrine recalls the mystery of the Incarnation, leading all those who visit it to consider ‘the fullness of time,’ when God sent his Son, born of a woman, as well as to meditate both on the words of the Angel announcing the Good News and on the words of the Virgin in response to the divine call,” states the decree.

The Holy House of Mary in Loreto, Italy, has been a popular pilgrimage site since the Middle Ages with Galileo, Mozart, Descartes, Cervantes, St. Therese of Lisieux and many popes and saints visiting throughout history.

Historic documentation shows that the Holy House of Mary was brought

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Catholic pilgrims travel to the small Italian town of Loreto to stand inside the Holy House of Mary, preserved in a basilica, in which traditional holds the Virgin Mary was born, raised, and greeted by the Angel Gabriel at the Annunciation.

from Palestine to Italy in the 13th century.

“In the Holy House, before the image of the Mother of the Redeemer and of the Church, saints and blesseds have responded to their vocation, the sick have invoked consolation in suffering, the people of

God have begun to praise and plead with Mary using the Litany of Loreto, which is known throughout the world,” the decree states.

Pope Francis visited the Holy House in Loreto earlier this year on the Solemnity of the Annunciation, during which he called Loreto “a privileged place where young people can come in search of their vocation.”

“It is necessary to rediscover the plan drawn by God for the family, to reaffirm its greatness and irreplaceability in the service of life and society,” Pope Francis said in Loreto March 25.

“The Holy House of Mary is the ‘home of the family,’” he said during his visit, noting that “in the delicate situation of today’s world, the family founded on marriage between a man and a woman takes on an importance and an essential mission.”

In a homily in 1995, St. Pope John Paul II called the Holy House of Loreto, “the house of all God’s adopted children.” He continued: “The threads of the history of the whole of humankind are tied anew in that house. It is the Shrine of the House of Nazareth, to which the Church that is in Italy is tied by providence, that the latter rediscovers a quickening reminder of the mystery of the Incarnation, thanks to which each man is called to the dignity of the Son of God.” CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY CONTRIBUTED.

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First graders study and pray for the rainforest

AUCTION ACTION: In a Nov. 4 post to a Facebook page created for the Menlo Park’s St. Raymond Parish auction Nov. 16, Dominican Father Jerome Cudden announced his donation of a “skydive for two from 14,000 feet.”

Father Jerome cheekily invited brave parishioners to join his “2 3/4 Mile High Club,” which includes “pre-jump confessions” and a video of the jump with a trained jump instructor. No word yet from the parish on who or even if anyone was brave enough to take up the challenge. Other auction items included surf lessons, a bottle of locally produced “Crows” Philippine craft gin and a four-month-old Dutch bunny named Jerome, after the pastor.

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The Amazon rainforest and its value to the lives both inside the endangered territory and beyond it is barely understood by many adults. But after a two-week immersion study on the rainforest in October, the first graders of Mission Dolores Academy definitely get it.

“What are some of the sad things that are happening in the rainforest?” asked teacher Rochelle Reid during an Oct. 25 lesson observed by Catholic San Francisco.

Little hands shot up: Animals are in danger!

Gigantic fires! Trees are cut down!

“And what happens when trees are cut down?” asked Reid.

“The birds and animals and the people, their homes go away,” said a boy named Joshua.

The rainforest, they learned, which includes parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana covers more than two million square miles. It hosts the largest collection of living plant and animal species in the world and generates approximately 20 percent of the planet’s oxygen.

But climate change, deforestation, fires, pollution and the displacement of native human, animal and plant species is threatening to change it forever, according to scientists.

Reid is the longtime first grade teacher at Mission Dolores Academy. This summer’s massive fires in the Amazon followed by the Synod of Bishops of the Pan-Amazon region in Rome Oct. 6-27, offered an opportunity to explore the crossroads of science and faith.

On a field trip to the California Academy of Sciences rainforest exhibit in Golden Gate Park, the students saw with their own eyes the four “layers” of the rainforest and the interdependency of the human, plant and animal life.

“We actually had a student who cried because he felt so bad for the animals and humans,” said Reid.

Back in the classroom, she drew a triangle to demonstrate what the pope and bishops are trying to do for the rainforest region, and what ordinary Catholics can do.

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Mission Dolores Academy first graders Madison Douglas, left, and Fernanda Serna, right, show off the card they made for Pope Francis to thank him for helping protect the Amazon rainforest from deforestation, fires, pollution and the displacement of the people and animals that call it home.

“Remember the pope is up here,” said Reid, pointing to the top of the triangle. The other two points represented the Catholic bishops (“the pope’s helpers,” Reid said) and Catholics themselves.

“The pope can guide us, but we too can do things,” she said. “What can we do?”

After a handful of inventive ideas from students that involved blockbuster movie-style feats of superhero rescue, Reid offered another idea.

“We can pray,” she said.

Reid wanted students’ first prayer to be of thanksgiving, or a prayer of concern for the rainforest.

She distributed colorful plastic rosary beads to the students blessed by “Father Charlie,” school administrator Jesuit Father Charles Gagan. She then paired off students to design a card for the pope with markers and colored pencils.

The front of the cards produced in the exercise featured bright parrots, slinky jaguars, monkeys, snakes and butterflies. Inside, the students filled in their own ending to the sentence; “Dear Pope Francis, thank you for saving the rainforest. It is important because ….”

“I actually plan to send them to the Vatican,” Reid said.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE: Knights of Columbus Assembly 3412 (Mater Dolorosa and St. Augustine Parishes in South San Francisco) assisted the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4103 in serving lunch to veterans and “wounded warriors” at Palo Alto Veterans Hospital on Nov. 11. Also present were South San Francisco Mayor Karyl Matsumoto, and councilwoman Flor Nicolas.

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WOMEN WARRIORS: The eighth grade CYO girls basketball team of St. Anselm School in San Anselmo took over the court at halftime during the Nov. 1 Golden State Warriors game against the San Antonio Spurs at Chase Center in San Francisco.

In an email to Catholic San Francisco, CYO athletic director Patrick Stallone said the school has been playing halftime at Warrior games for about five years, trading off between the girls and boys teams.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of October HOLY CROSS, COLMA Sam C. Abdilla Gloria Almeida Demetrio Alonso Maria P. Altamirano Remedios Mino Baes Jesus Angel Barcenas Moreno Robert Bariuan S. Dolores Berdeja Carlos A. Berrios Victoria P. Biscarra Barbara J. Bonanno Frank Bonsignori Marcia M. Bourne Miriam Bustamante Eduardo C. Caacoy Ernesto A. Cabahug Alice Marie Johnson Callagy Sila J. Calvert Lily Lanzona Cardenas Dolores Marie Carlin Melchor C. Casuga Linda S. Caviglia Gino Conciatori Sadie M. Coyne Mary E. De La Mora Diane M. DeLosada Dells Samuel C. Dionicio Patricia Angelique Duryee Caridad Esperante Estrella M. Evans Klaudio Faraguna Domingo Ferrer Elsie E. Gallegos Carmen Gallegos Jeannette Bacho Ganem Carolyn Jeanne Gaul Fred Grafelman Patricia Jane Griffin Frances A. Grimstad Maria Antonieta Hannon Lillian Heselton Anita M. Honnert Gunther L. Horn Ellenann A. Hughes

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Veterans honored at Holy Cross memorial Service Veterans of all generations and their loved ones gathered at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma on Nov. 11 for the cemetery’s annual Veterans Day Memorial Service. Msgr. Michael Padazinksi, chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Larkspur and a retired Air Force colonel, presided.

Assisting in the prayerful day for Msgr. Padazinski veterans living and deceased were chaplains Father Alex Legaspi, pastor of Holy Angels Church in Colma and a naval commander; Father Alner Nambatac, pastor of St. Timothy Church in San Mateo and an Army captain; and Father Joseph Tran of the Diocese of Oakland, an Air Force captain. John Capobianco played “Taps,” the traditional bugle call for military funerals. Also in uniform were members of Cub Scout Pack 347, Girl Scout Troop 31971 and Boy Scout Troop 343. With help from cemetery staff, the Scouts did the hard work of placing flags on graves in the cemetery’s veterans section before the service.

Veterans of all generations and their loved ones gathered for the service.

(PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

A loved one’s tribute to a remembered Marine.

Left, a woman is seated on the grass in the cemetery’s veterans section. Right, members of Cub Scout Pack 347, Girl Scout Troop 31971 and Boy Scout Troop 343 paid tribute.

(PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Holy Hour for vocations at St. Pius Archbishop Cordileone joined pastor Father Tom Martin and Redwood City’s St. Pius Parish community in a Holy Hour for vocations, Sunday, Nov. 3 from 3-4 p.m. It was one of three concurrent hours of reverence taking place at churches in each of the three counties in the archdiocese, with Star of the Sea in San Francisco and St. Sebastian in Greenbrae also participating in the effort to increase and strengthen vocations to the priesthood, the diaconate and consecrated life. The archbishop blessed and dedicated the images in the St. Pius vocations chapel (in the baptistery), the parish said in a Facebook post, also inviting visitors to view the original paintings of the baptism of our Lord and St. John Vianney, patron of priests, and to spend time in quiet prayer.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Archbishop praises San Mateo Pro Life at annual dinner The annual fundraiser for San Mateo Pro Life, a nonprofit pro-life organization, was held Nov. 3 at St. Mark Parish in Belmont. There were more than 100 attendees, many of whom participated in the 40 Days for Life fall campaign which ended the same day. The 40 Days for Life campaign is a worldwide event where participants pray outside an abortion clinic, peaceably holding signs, for 40 consecutive days to end abortion.

In an article shared with Catholic San Francisco, the organization said Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone delivered a keynote talk on the importance of the defense of human life and encouraged those in attendance to keep up the work promoting a culture of life amid the prevailing culture of death. He praised San Mateo Pro Life for its efforts “on the front lines and in the trenches.”

The archbishop noted how those pushing abortion are “panicking” as there is change taking place favoring a culture of life. The number of abortion clinics is diminishing throughout the country. He pointed out that in Santa Clara County for every abortion clinic present, there is a prolife center on the other side of the street that will provide the support a woman needs to help her choose life for her baby.

He praised RealOptions Obria Medical Clinics, which provide compassionate, comprehensive and high-quality reproductive health care, including access to free ultrasounds.

Helping women choose life whether it is in raising their baby as a single mother or choosing adoption as an option is “really pro-choice,” the archbishop said.

The pro-choice option that Planned Parenthood offers is “one choice – namely, abortion,” he said, a point demonstrated in the recent movie, “Unplanned,” based on the life story of former abortion director Abby Johnson.

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The annual Retirement Fund for Religious collection will be held Dec. 7-8 in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The parish-based appeal is coordinated by the National Religious Retirement Office, and proceeds help hundreds of U.S. religious communities to care for aging members.

Some 30,000 senior Catholic sisters, brothers and religious order priests benefit.

Last year, the Archdiocese of San Francisco donated $133,074.36 to the collection. In 2019, the Capuchin Franciscan Order, Holy Ghost Fathers of Ireland, Salesian Society of Don Bosco and the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity received financial support made possible by the Retirement Fund for Religious.

The 2018 appeal raised $27.7 million, and 360 religious congregations across the nation received funding.

Distributions are sent to each eligible congregation’s central house. Communities combine this assistance with their own income and savings and apply it toward various retirement expenses, such as medications and nursing care.

Proceeds from the annual collection allow the NRRO to offer assessment tools, educational programming, services and resources that enable communities to evaluate and prepare

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From left, Finola Glassmoyer, Claudie and Jerry Heckert, Archbishop Cordileone, San Mateo Pro Life director Jessica Munn, Susan Arms, Elena Alejandre, Dave Arms.

The archbishop noted that crisis pregnancy centers offer tangible help in many ways to the woman facing a crisis pregnancy, including providing the basic needs for her baby such as diapers and formula.

He also praised the efforts of Project Rachel in helping the post-abortive woman find healing and peace.

The archbishop also spoke about the need for strong Catholic families with parents who practice and teach their children the faith and how to be virtuous, which in turn helps them to choose good spouses and remain chaste and postpone sexual intimacy until marriage. He recommended monthly confession for the grace needed to live lives of virtue in today’s society.

The archbishop mentioned that plans are currently underway for the opening of a new abortion clinic on Bush Street in San Francisco.

“Now is the time for us to be out there praying ... and I will join you,” he said.

The archbishop emphasized: “Our goal is not to make abortion illegal and rare. Our goal is to end abortion and make it unthinkable.”

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The Mission Dolores Basilica Choir presents the 28th annual Candlelight Christmas Concert on Sunday, Dec. 15, 5 p.m., in Mission Dolores Basilica Church, San Francisco. Under the direction of conductor, Jerome Lenk, the concert will feature music “Known and Unknown,” sourced from anonymous composers around the world. The featured work will be “Mass of the Shepherds,” an unpublished work by Brazilian classical composer, José Mauricio Nuñes Garcia. Featured musicians will be soloists, Julia Mulholland, Mary Rauh, Chester Pidduck and Greg Poirier, along with David Hatt, organist and chamber orchestra. The concert will conclude with the traditional audience sing-along.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Theologian: Bishops’ text on racism spiritual but too ‘abstract’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The U.S. bishops’ 2018 pastoral letter against racism did not go far enough, a professor of theology and ethics told a Black Catholic History Month gathering at the University of San Francisco Nov. 14.

Shawnee M. Daniels-Sykes, a professor of theology and ethics at Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, Wis., said she found the letter to be “very spiritual, morally and theologically sound, engaging and reflective.”

But while she applauded the letter’s historical synopsis of various racial groups that have been hurt by racism, Daniels-Sykes said “abstract topics and principles” permeate the document.

“When documents are written strictly abstractly and/or passively, as this letter is written, I find that they facilitate or allow for audience comfortability and passivity,” she said. “I would argue this serves to sustain the white supremacist narrative that propels forward the cycle of oppression and prejudice.”

The 32-page letter, “Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love – A Pastoral Letter Against Racism,” has been the topic of outreach by the U.S. bishops’ conference at many local churches. All offices and committees of the conference are committed to ending racism, Bishop Shelton T. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, said in a presentation earlier this month to the bishops’ fall meeting in Baltimore, Md.

(PHOTOS BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Marie Little, a retired middle school teacher, speaks at a USF discussion Nov. 14 on the U.S. bishops’ pastoral letter against racism. “I’m thinking, OK, we’ve been saying this since the 1960s,” she said. “I’m not seeing, for a lack of a better word, an action plan.”

Daniels-Sykes, who has taught at Mt. Mary University for 13 years and also teaches a graduate course at Xavier University in New Orleans on “Moral Questions in the Black Community,” was invited to Jesuit-run USF to speak on the “Black Lives Matter” movement and what the Catholic Church has done and has yet to do in moving it forward.

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She commented that the pastoral letter “clearly lacks a strong exposition on systemic or institutional racism,” which she argued remains deeply embedded in social structures.

“We must stop the cycle of white supremacist narrative,” she said.

Daniels-Sykes pointed to the entrenched image of God as a white, bearded male dressed in white.

“White is still the standard and normative position,” she said, arguing that the church can do much more to combat historical racism.

Catholic social teaching is the “best-kept secret in the Catholic Church” and provides a faith-based framework to move forward, she said.

She said the principles of Catholic social teaching “point to the mystery and ministry of Jesus” as a model “for us to grasp and to follow.”

During a comment period after Daniels-Sykes’ presentation, Marie Little, a retired middle school teacher and former president of the San MateoFoster City School District Teachers Association, said that after reading the bishops’ letter all the way through, she was also concerned about its generality.

“I’m thinking, OK, we’ve been saying this since the 1960s,” she said. “I’m not seeing, for a lack of a better word, an action plan.”

Father Aidan McAleenan, pastor of St. Columba Parish in Oakland, said clergy and staff at the parish level are in a position to move the document forward, but few are doing that.

“There is something really wrong that this document wasn’t given the full authority that every seminarian in the U.S., whether they are Jesuit or Franciscan, should be mandatory reading,” he said.

“This topic should be the very heart of the church, and it’s not.”

Thelma Bible, a parishioner at St. Paul of the Shipwreck in San Francisco, had a simpler idea.

“What I don’t understand is why I would think she is somebody different than me,” Bible said after the lecture. “She is a person, I am a person. She looks like she looks like and I look like I look. In our society with animals, plants, flowers, we love them all, most of us. We don’t take the tulip and rose and don’t make any distinction between them.

We just enjoy the flowers.”

In his presentation to the U.S. bishops’ fall meeting, Bishop Fabre said his ad hoc committee has addressed several national Catholic organizations about their possible use of the pastoral letter. It also is working on developing catechetical resources for schools and supporting or developing Catholic college programs, seminary training and ecumenical efforts.

He said the “single cry” committee members hear most often at listening sessions is that “the laity never seems to hear homilies on racism.”

“I would ask you to work with me to change that perception,” he told the bishops, “so that we all will come to hear regularly, and with one voice, that racism is opposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that the Catholic Church in the United States is committed to standing against the evil and sin of racism with all its strength.”

To this end, he said his committee would seek to provide more homily resources to bishops and priests.

He also stressed that the committee’s work “goes beyond simply calling out the evil of racism” but involves urging “all people to see the deeper reality of God’s purpose and the in creating all of us with unique and unrepeatable value.”

The bishop didn’t say the work was easy, but he finished his presentation by saying: “With God’s grace our efforts will bear fruit in these challenging times.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 21, 2019

USF remembers El Salvador’s Jesuit martyrs, blesses new shrine CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Members of the University of San Francisco community gathered at St. Ignatius Church Nov. 17 to remember the lives and take inspiration from the legacy of the six Jesuit priests and their two companions assassinated in El Salvador in 1989.

A Mass marking the 30th anniversary of the massacre at the Jesuit university in San Salvador was followed by a candlelight procession with white wooden crosses inscribed with the victims’ names, the dedication of a new campus memorial to the 1989 victims and remembrance of St. Oscar Romero and four church women who were also victims of El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war.

With a prayerful planting of crosses at the UCA Martyr Memorial – named for the University of Central America, where the atrocity took place – the gathering celebrated the lives of extraordinary men and women “who made a conscious choice to be a voice for the poor and the oppressed.”

El Salvador’s consul general, Ana Valenzuela, spoke briefly about the need to remember the martyrs, said Jesuit Father Donal Godfrey, who presided at the Mass.

In his homily, Father Godfrey remembered a trip 27 years ago from San Francisco to Las Vueltas, a small town in El Salvador.

“I shall always remember the amazing hospitality and warmth of the people, then living without paved roads, running water or electricity,” he said.

He recalled “children playing with joy, and the very many young adults missing limbs which they had lost in the civil war just ended. At times in my prayer I have found myself drawn to wonder whatever happened to them.”

Father Godfrey, who later took two immersion trips to El Salvador with USF students, staff and faculty, said the martyred Jesuits “were dragged out of their home in the middle of the night to be massacred by Salvadoran soldiers trained and supported indeed by the United States. We now know their main target was the rector of the Jesuit university, Father Ignacio Ellacuria, and it was important there be no witnesses to his murder.”

Father Godfrey said one of the soldiers ordering the killings was a graduate of the local Jesuit high school. “That day he ordered the killing of his former Jesuit principal,” he said.

(PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 7:30pm at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption 1111 Gough St, San Francisco, CA 94109 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 2019 schedules of masses submitted to the Filipino Ministry. Please double check the times of the mass, or contact 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. Peter St. Patrick St. Paul of the Shipwreck St. Stephen(1) St. Thomas More

Cathedral Deanery:  Most Holy Redeemer  Most Holy Redeemer  St. Ignatius  St. Monica/St. Thomas(2)  Cathedral of St. Mary  Star of the Sea  St. Dominic  St. Vincent de Paul  Star of the Sea

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Jesuit Father Donal Godfrey presided at a Mass at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco Nov. 17 on the 30th anniversary of the massacre of six Jesuit priests, their household cook and her teenage daughter during El Salvador’s 1980-1992 civil war. Father Godfrey, who with USF students, faculty and staff, has made immersion trips to El Salvador, said in his homily that the killers’ main target was the rector of the Jesuit university in San Salvador, Father Ignacio Ellacuria, “and it was important there be no witnesses to his murder.” Right, in this file photo in the aftermath of the Nov. 15, 1989, killings, then-Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador is seen praying over the bodies of the victims.

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All Souls

Holy Angels Mater Dolorosa Our Lady of Mercy

Dec 15‐23 Dec 16‐24 Dec 15, 21‐22 Dec 16‐20, 23 Dec 16‐24 Dec 15, 21‐22 Dec 16‐20, 23 Dec 15‐23 Dec 15‐23 Dec 22 Dec 16‐21, 23‐24 Dec 16‐24 Dec 16‐24 Dec 21, 22, 23 Dec 16‐24 Dec 15, 22 Dec 16‐21, 23

Dec 15 Dec 16 Dec 17 Dec 18 Dec 19 Dec 20 Dec 21 Dec 22 Dec 23

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6:30pm 8:00am 5:00pm 7:00pm 7:30am 6:30pm 5:30pm 5:15pm 6:30pm

Dec 16‐20 Dec 15, 21‐22 Dec 15‐23 Dec 15‐23 Dec 15‐23

6:00pm 5:15pm 7:00pm 7:00pm 7:00pm

Our Lady of Perpetual Help St. Andrew

St. Augustine St. Bruno (call 650‐588‐2121) St. Robert St. Timothy

St. Veronica

Central San Mateo Deanery:  St. Luke  St. Mark  St. Gregory  St. Catherine of Siena  St. Matthew  St. Bartholomew  Immaculate Heart of Mary  Our Lady of Angels  St. Luke South San Mateo Deanery:  St. Pius  Nativity  St. Matthias  Vallombrosa Retreat Ctr  St. Charles  St. Raymond  Our Lady of Mount Carmel  TBD (call 650‐323‐7914)  St. Denis

MARIN COUNTY: St. Isabella

Dec 16‐24 Dec 15, 22 Dec 16‐21, 23 Dec 15‐23 TBD Dec 15‐23 Dec 15, 22 Dec 16‐20, 23 Dec 15, 22 Dec 21 Dec 16‐20

Dec 15 Dec 16 Dec 17 Dec 18 Dec 19 Dec 20 Dec 21 Dec 22 Dec 23

Dec 15 Dec 16 Dec 17 Dec 18 Dec 19 Dec 20 Dec 21 Dec 22 Dec 23

5:30am 4:45pm 7:00pm 7:00pm TBD 7:00pm 7:30am 6:00am 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:30pm

7:00pm 7:00pm 7:00pm 7:00pm 7:00pm 7:00pm 5:00pm 7:30pm 7:00pm

5:00pm 7:00pm 7:00pm 7:00pm 7:00pm 5:00pm 5:00pm TBD 7:00pm

Dec 16‐20

7:00pm

TBD – Indicates location, and/or date, and/or time has not yet been determined as of the date of this writing. Check with the respective parish or deanery to determine their schedule for this year.

(1) Joint celebration with St. Brendan, St. Cecilia, St. Finn Barr, and St. Gabriel (2) Celebrated at St. Monica

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Bishops affirm ‘preeminent priority’ of abortion After Bishop McElroy spoke, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas said, “I absolutely think ‘preeminent’ needs to stay.”

Archbishop Charles Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia rose to say that he did not oppose the inclusion of the full statement of Pope Francis, but added that teaching that abortion is a “preeminent” issue is not contrary to the magisterium of Pope Francis.

“I am certainly not against quoting the Holy Father’s full statement, I think it’s a beautiful statement, I believe it,” he said.

“But I am against anyone stating that our stating it (abortion) is ‘preeminent’ is contrary to the teaching of the pope. That isn’t true. That sets up an artificial battle between the bishops’ conference of the United States and the Holy Father, which isn’t true,” Archbishop Chaput said.

“I think it’s been a very clearly articulated opinion of the bishops’ conference for many years that pro-life is still the pre-eminent issue. It doesn’t mean the others aren’t equal in dignity,” he said.

Many bishops in the audience applauded after Archbishop Chaput finished his statement.

On the second day of the meeting, the bishops

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BALTIMORE, Md. – The U.S. Catholic bishops approved a letter to supplement their voting document on Tuesday – but not without controversy during debate on the “preeminent priority” of abortion.

During discussion at the bishops’ annual fall meeting Nov. 11-14 in Baltimore on a letter to accompany the bishops’ document on voting, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” the bishops considered whether to include an entire paragraph from Pope Francis’ 2018 apostolic exhortation on holiness, “Gaudete et Exsultate.”

Bishop Robert Bishop McElroy of San Diego said that paragraph should be included to make clear that Pope Francis prioritizes other issues at the same level as abortion.

The U.S. bishops’ inclusion of the word “preeminent” before mention of abortion in another part of the letter, he said, “is a statement that I believe is at least discordant with the Pope’s teaching, if not inconsistent,” and one that “will be used to, in fact, undermine the point Pope Francis is making.”

“It is not Catholic teaching that abortion is the preeminent issue that we face in the world of Catho-

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A 40 Days for Life vigil participant holds a rosary during the closing day of prayerful protests against abortion in Green Bay, Wis., Nov. 3, 2019.

lic social teaching. It is not,” Bishop McElroy said, adding that to teach otherwise would provide “a grave disservice” to the faithful.

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Daleiden to appeal judgment in Planned Parenthood lawsuit CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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“thrilled with today’s verdict.”

“The jury recognized today that those behind the (undercover video) campaign broke the law in order to advance their goals of banning safe, legal abortion in this country, and to prevent Planned Parenthood from serving the patients who depend on us,” she said.

A number of pro-life leaders around the country decried the verdict against Daleiden, including the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, Marjorie Dannenfelser.

She called it. a “profoundly unjust verdict” in “a trial stacked from day one by a pro-abortion activist judge.”

“Still, the testimony heard – including stunning admissions that Planned Parenthood’s baby parts buyer sold the beating hearts and fully intact heads of innocent children killed in potentially illegal abortions – has further exposed the truth about abortion industry brutality and greed,” Dannenfelser added.

Attorneys from the Thomas More Society continue to defend Daleiden in an ongoing California state criminal trial over the same video exposes.

People of the State of California v. David Robert Daleiden and Sandra Susan Merritt is being heard in San Francisco Superior Court by Judge Christopher Hite. Daleiden is being prosecuted by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, after the case was initiated by his predecessor, current Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

fictitious fetal tissue procurement firm.

“This lawsuit is payback for David Daleiden exposing Planned Parenthood’s dirty business of buying and selling fetal parts and organs,” said Peter Breen, lead defense attorney of the Thomas More Society in Chicago.

“We intend to seek vindication for David on appeal. His investigation into criminal activity by America’s largest abortion provider utilized standard investigative journalism techniques, those applied regularly by news outlets across the country,” Breen added.

Orrick limited the trial to evidence about the defendants’ methods and ruled that the jury was not to consider the content of the secret recordings.

Planned Parenthood claimed, among other things fraud, invasion of privacy and trespassing in its suit.

The organization said monies it received were standard reimbursement fees charged to researchers and that any allegations it profited “in any way from tissue donation is not true.” But in the fall of 2015, Planned Parenthood said would no longer accept the reimbursements.

“Rather than face up to its heinous doings, Planned Parenthood chose to persecute the person who exposed it,” Breen added in a statement. “I am fully confident that when this case has run its course, justice will prevail, and David will be vindicated.”

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in 2001, the archbishop of San Antonio in 2004, or in 2010 head of the Los Angeles archdiocese, the largest local church in the country.

The archbishop told CNA that his goal is to “try to live what I preach, and then, also, my ministry to the people – that’s the most important thing.”

His ministry, he said, includes serving “my brother bishops, priests, deacons, and also the lay faithful. Because really my vocation started with ministry to lay faithful.”

Archbishop Gomez is the first bishop elected to lead the conference to be associated with Opus Dei, a church group founded in Spain and supported by Pope St. John Paul, that focuses on finding holiness in everyday life, and on the call to holiness of lay Catholics. The archbishop became affiliated with Opus Dei as a college student, and was a priest in the organization, formally called a personal prelature.

The archbishop’s vision of the church, focused on collaboration

abuse on the part of former cardinal The archbishop said that in his own ministry as a bishop, he looks to Theodore McCarrick, have preoccuthe example of Pope St. John Paul II, pied bishops and lay Catholics.

The ecclesiastical landscape has and, that among American bishops, shifted too; the pontificate of Pope he has been influenced and inspired Francis is different in emphasis, tone, by a number of bishops. and style from those of his predeces“Obviously in the United States I had the blessing of working together sors. Some U.S. bishops have been accused of resistance to Francis, and with Archbishop Chaput because I bishops have responded to his leaderwas his auxiliary bishop, so he has ship in different ways. been a wonderful example to me.

“The reality of the bishops in the But I have been influenced by many United States is that we all are faithother bishops: Archbishop Joseph ful to Pope Francis,” Archbishop Fiorenza, Archbishop Patrick Gomez told CNA. Flores, and then Cardinal William (CNS PHOTO/BOB ROLLER) “I think we all are united. There is Levada, who just passed away, he Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galvestonsome perception that we are not. But was a good friend.”

Houston, president of the U.S. Conference the reality – what I see – is that we Levada, Archbishop Gomez told of Catholic Bishops, and Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, vice president, concel- CNA, “asked me, when I was a young are united in our ministry and in our church.” auxiliary bishop, to be a member ebrate Mass at the fall general assembly of “Every pope brings some differof the doctrine committee of the the USCCB in Baltimore Nov. 11, 2019. ent aspects in the life of the church USCCB. So that helped me to get to that he, by the grace of God, believes know the workings of the USCCB.” and friendship between laity and Archbishop Gomez takes the helm clerics, and on the idea that everyBAY AREA LOCATION are important. And we, the bishops of the United States, are trying to of the bishops’ conference in a difone should be a saint, is informed by Religous Gifts & Books, Church Goodsbe& Candles more aware of what those things ficult time. his experience in Opus Dei. The sexual scandals that emerged “The spirituality of Opus Dei,” he in June 2018, with revelations of told CNA, “basically is to strive for SEE GOMEZ, PAGE 23 holiness – personal sanctification – and ministry. Sharing our faith with everybody else.”

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BALTIMORE, Md. – The apostolic nuncio to the United States told the nation’s bishops that their commitment to evangelization is the measure of their communion with Pope Francis.

Archbishop Christoph Pierre addressed the bishops during the opening session of the USCCB general assembly in Baltimore Monday morning.

In what one Vatican watcher called a “bomb-drop” by the pope’s representative and sign of impatience on communion with Pope Francis, Pierre told the bishops Nov. 11 that he would propose “some topics for reflection” which he hoped would inform the conference sessions. The central theme of his reflections was the commitment of the bishops to a state of constant missionary engagement.

“As often as we speak of the ‘new evangelization,’ serious reflection is necessary on the outcomes of our efforts,” Pierre said.

“Do you feel that we and our collaborators have been far-sighted and proactive in efforts at evangelization, anticipating cultural, philosophical, and political trends,” Pierre asked, “or do we find ourselves in the position of having been reactive?”

“Do pastoral priorities we have chosen truly touch the reality of the life of our people?”

The nuncio said that the extent to which the bishops themselves received and were able to transmit Pope Francis’ missionary and pastoral priorities, especially in the apostolic exhortation “Evangelii gaudium,” was the barometer of their own communion with the pope.

Pierre said that adopting the missionary impulse of the pope’s own writings “and being in a permanent state of mission might represent tangible signs of communion with the Holy Father, for it would show the reception and implementation of his teaching.”

“The pope has emphasized certain themes: mercy, closeness to the people, discernment, accompaniment, a spirit of hospitality towards migrants, and dialogue with those

(CNS PHOTO/BOB ROLLER)

Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, speaks during the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore Nov. 11, 2019.

of other cultures and religions,” Pierre said, while asking bishops to consider if these themes were reflected in their clergy and people.

“It is an interesting question to ask,” Pierre said, “because while there has been a strong emphasis on mercy by the Holy Father, at times – paradoxically – people are becoming more and more judgmental and less willing to forgive, as witnessed by the polarization gripping this nation.”

“The pastoral thrust of this pontificate must reach the American people,” the nuncio insisted, “especially as families continue to demand of dioceses and parishes the accompaniment envisioned by ‘Amoris laetitia.’”

“Amoris laetitia,” Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on love in the family, called for better pastoral provision and accompaniment for families and couples in irregular marriages. Whether the document can be interpreted as authorizing a change in Church teaching, or permitting the admittance of the divorced-and-civilly-remarried to Holy Communion, has been the subject of debate in dioceses and countries across the world.

The nuncio did point to some positive signs of life in American dioceses, specifically singling out the defense of human life and religious liberty and the generosity of Catholics in welcoming migrants to the country.

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. – U.S. Catholics “have to be prepared for another wave of traumatic narrative” regarding the clergy sex abuse crisis, Archbishop Charles Scicluna said Nov. 13 at the University of Notre Dame.

Archbishop Scicluna of Malta is adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Archbishop the Faith and the Vatican’s chief Charles Scicluna investigator on clergy sexual abuse. He spoke at the University of Notre Dame as part of the school’s 2019-2020 forum titled “‘Rebuild My Church’: Crisis and Response.”

The archbishop’s remarks were made in a conversational format, in which he first answered questions from moderator John Allen, longtime Vatican reporter and editor of Crux, an online Catholic news outlet. He then fielded questions from the mostly student audience.

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Walking With Purpose, based in Greenwich, is a women’s Bible study founded in 2008 for women to deepen their relationships with Jesus Christ, and becoming an official parish with that designation comes with training and support to run parishbased ongoing studies.

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“another wave of traumatic narrative” in response to a question from Allen, who alluded to the 2018 abuse revelations surrounding now-disgraced former U.S. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick.

Dismissed from the clerical state by the Vatican in February, he has been accused of abusing seminarians as a bishop and abusing children early on in his career of more than 60 years as a cleric.

At the forum, Allen acknowledged Archbishop Scicluna could not comment on the McCarrick case, but he noted that many Catholics wonder if anything really has changed since the U.S. bishops issued their “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” in 2002.

Archbishop Scicluna responded that “it is not the case that the church in the United States has not done what it should do,” he said, but “the deficit” of the 2002 charter was that the bishops did not include themselves as possible perpetrators.

He added that the church in United States has done a good job since 2002, “and was a prophetic church in doing so,” but, as happened in Pennsylvania, specific reports of past abuse will continue to be revealed. an official Walking With Purpose Parish. By the fall of 2018, the church had nearly 70 participants.

The program “has deepened the faith of thousands of women who have attended its courses,” Bridgeport Bishop Frank J. Caggiano said. “Through its authentic catechesis and by its commitment to accompany women in their daily lives, the study has helped its participants to deepen their personal relationships with the Lord and their commitment to the church and has also brought new energy and hope throughout the diocese.”

According to Walking With Purpose, the program has helped more than 42,000 women deepen their relationship with Jesus Christ in the last year alone.

“Most of us walk around believing the lie we are all alone,” said Lisa Brenninkmeyer, founder of Walking With Purpose. “This is accompanied by believing, ‘This is all up to me.’ As women get to know each other in small groups, they support and pray for each other as they walk through trials and joys. These faith-based friendships are life-changing.”

Editor’s note: More information Walking With Purpose can be found online at https://walkingwithpurpose. com.

In that state, after a months-long investigation, a grand jury in Pennsylvania released a report in August 2018 alleging abuse by church workers and claims of a church cover-up in six Catholic dioceses over a 70-year period starting in 1947.

In his job at the doctrinal congregation, Archbishop Scicluna reviews incoming cases that include the testimonies of the victim survivors of clergy sexual abuse.

“Nothing prepares you for the hurt and the shame you feel, being a priest, when you read the narrative,” he said, and this trauma will be shared by the faithful as more information is released about the abuse.

“I tell you from experience, it is not easy reading,” Archbishop Scicluna continued, “and we have to help each other manage the anger, the frustration, the shame one feels on two levels: when we realize how innocent people have been hurt and the effect on the families and communities; but also, at times, the dysfunctional way in which we, the leaders of the church, have reacted to cases.”

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‘Mary said yes. It changed the course of history. It will not be easy for us to do God’s will, but it is when we begin to do it that we will truly be on the path to peace and fulfillment.’

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5. SERVICE: Visitation to Elizabeth helps us understand Mary as a woman of service. Faith and love have to become fruitful in In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel “The Blithedale Romance,” service. Unless we are ready to serve self-sacrificially our faith and the protagonist and narrator Miles Coverdale says: “I have love may be limited to words. Jesus washing the feet is the image always envied the Catholics their faith in that sweet, sacred always before us.

Mother Virgin, who stands between them and the Deity, intercepting somewhat of his awful splendor, but permitting his 6. LIFE MATTERS: Mary and Elizabeth, two pregnant women, love to stream upon the worshipper more intelligibly to human brought about life that saved the world and prepared for the Savior comprehension through the medium of a woman’s tenderness.” respectively. Protecting, preserving, and promoting life from the God’s majesty and transcendence, his awesome omniscience womb to the tomb, in all stages of human life, is a Christian imand omnipotence, his infinity and sovereignty, are all brought perative for the simple reason that God is the author of all life and intimately home to us through Jesus Christ our Lord who was life is sacred. born of the Virgin Mary. Mary brought God to become one with us in Christ the Emmanuel. It is to this tender Mother that we 7. SOCIAL JUSTICE: In her Magnificat, Mary sings owe our eternal gratitude for bringing the savior of moral, social and economic revolution. The poor, into the world, on account of which we have life, lowly and the hungry will be filled, but the mighty and love and light forever. It is through Mary our the rich will go empty. Mary calls us to lift up the lowly powerful advocate that we desire to draw closer and work for the dignity and justice for all. to Christ her Son who is our way to the Father.

The image of the Madonna and the Divine Child, 8. COMMUNITY: Mary with the Apostles in the a favorite theme in the world of art, religion, and upper room at Pentecost speaks eloquently of her culture, has the power to move hearts across being with others through anxieties and fears while religions and nations to make God seem almost waiting to be empowered to become free and feartangible. It is to this gentle Madonna who offers less. Mary is with the disciples, leading them to JeChrist to the world that we consecrated the Archsus and urging us to form families and communities diocese of San Francisco on Oct. 7, 2017, on the of love and service. occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Fatima Father Charles Puthota apparitions. It was a significant spiritual mile9. MARY, AN ALIEN: Along with Jesus and Joseph, Mary became stone in the history of the Archdiocese. an alien in Egypt, a migrant, a stranger, fleeing from danger and We are familiar with the meaning of consecration: to make death and taking shelter in a foreign land. “I was a stranger and you sacred. Our archdiocese was offered to God as seeking holiness welcomed me,” says Jesus. God in the Old Testament repeatedly under the protection of Mary whose Immaculate Heart is a required people to be kind to “the orphan, widow, and stranger.” symbol of the fire of love, a heart pierced by the sword of sufMary urges us to welcome the strangers, vulnerable, and the powfering. Consecration was to dedicate and hallow the archdiocese erless as our sisters and brothers. to the honor and praise of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Since then, for more than two years we have been living the life of this 10. DAILY LIFE OF GRACE: Mary is full of grace. Grace means consecration in the archdiocese. It is not a one-time event, but a the presence of God. Touched by God’s presence, she was filled process of faith and love. It is a continuous journey of our Exowith unique blessings from Conception to Assumption. A sense of dus, a life of freedom from bondage, a yearning for the “promGod’s presence daily will keep us rooted and grounded, joyful and ised land” that God wants us to move forward to – way from grateful, despite the setbacks, sorrows and struggles. various forms of our “exile.” Consecration is about God making us holy over a lifetime, thanks to God’s grace shining through the Virgin Mother’s fond affections for us. As we hear her words 10 liturgical-devotional practices “Do whatever he tells you,” we are impelled to be with Jesus As a way of living our consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and energized to follow his be-attitudes. we could consider practicing some or most of the following spiritual As we continue this life of consecration to the Immaculate practices from this incomplete list.

Heart of Mary, I would like to humbly propose 10 scriptural1. MASS: It is at the heart of Catholic-Christian identity and faith as spiritual perspectives from the life of the Virgin Mother, 10 we place our life as individuals and community within the mystery liturgical-devotional practices, and 50 service possibilities. It is of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. not that everything I suggest here might be appealing to everyone immediately, but we could experiment and try some or 2. WORD OF GOD (LECTIO DIVINA): Let’s start with the four many of these proposals because these are rooted in the convicGospels; read them prayerfully and reflectively to hear God adtions and practices of the universal church. For centuries the dressing our situations now with light and peace.

Catholic family all over the world has been responding deeply to many of these invitations and traditions.

3. ROSARY: Repetitive prayer, common to most religions, can deepen the silence and prayerfulness in our hearts. Centered on Mary as we meditate on the divine mysteries, it can grow to be our 10 scriptural-spiritual perspectives act of fond affection and honor for her.

1. YES TO GOD: It is to fall in line with what God wants us to be and do. Mary said yes. It changed the course of history. It will not 4. CONTEMPLATION: Praying with our minds, hearts, imagination be easy for us to do yes to God’s will, but it is when we begin to do – and even the senses, all for the purpose of an intentional relationit that we will truly be on the path to peace and fulfillment. It’s what ship with a loving, merciful God in Christ.

Jesus himself did: “Not my will but yours be done.”

2. AMBIGUITIES: Mary did not have a black-and-white life. She had to navigate ambiguities when she was saying yes to God, be it in being accepted by Joseph or fleeing to Egypt or living through the darkness of her son being rejected and killed. She learned to trust and proceed. That could be our way as well: to trust in God through the ambiguities of life.

5. FIRST FRIDAYS AND FIRST SATURDAYS: Traditionally with an eye on reparation, attending nine consecutive First Friday Masses and five consecutive First Saturday Masses and receiving Communion; an opportunity to focus on the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary, symbols of the love of Jesus and his mother.

3. OVERSHADOWED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT: Mary is the new tent and her womb is the ark. Filled with the Holy Spirit, she gives birth to the Savior of the world. Spirit-filled, we could bring forth Jesus into our neighborhoods and the world at large.

6. PENANCE AND FASTING: Traditionally for mourning, turning away from sin, and for accompanying intense prayer for favors from God. Recall penance (often prayers) in the context of sacrament of reconciliation. Penance can be practiced to counter tendencies to stray from God’s grace and fasting as a way of selfcontrol and empathy for the poor and hungry.

4. SUFFERING: Mary suffered. The Pieta is a powerful image. The devotion to the seven sorrows of Mary dwells on her sufferings. Her only son was opposed and killed. She suffered redemptively by uniting her sufferings with those of her Son through love and faith. Let’s embrace our sufferings, especially those over which we have no control or power, and unite them with those of Christ. Why did Jesus have to suffer and die? The mystery of suffering is a constant in life.

Isn’t it true that there is more suffering in the world than joy?

7. ADORATION: Traditionally a visit to the Blessed Sacrament in a church, adoration is now more popularly practiced in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament exposed in a monstrance.

8. THE WAY OF THE CROSS: Though practiced in the season of Lent, the Way of the Cross, scripturally based, could be efficacious

(PHOTO BY DEBRA GREENBLAT/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Archbishop Cordileone joined the faithful at St. Pius Church in Redwood City Nov. 3 in a Holy Hour of prayer for vocations to the priesthood. In a message earlier this year reaffirming his Oct. 7, 2017, consecration of the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart, the archbishop encouraged regular observation of adoration to the Blessed Sacrament, as well prayer and penance.

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CONFESSION: Father Lawrence Goode hears confession May 8, 2019, at St. Francis of Assisi Church in East Palo Alto.

ADORATION: Traditionally a visit to the Blessed Sacrament in a church, adoration is now more popularly practiced in the presence of a monstrance.

ROSARY: In praying the rosary, as we center on Mary in meditation on the divine mysteries, it can grow to be our act of fond affection and honor for her.

any season of the year, to enter deeply the mystery of the love of Christ expressed in his suffering and death.

of our love and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and as a way of deepening our commitment to the life of consecration, we might like to volunteer for service opportunities in our parishes, the archdiocese, and even outside the Catholic circles.

We can pick and choose these opportunities as available to and applicable for us. Here is an incomplete list:

29. Catholic Worker.

30. Church environment.

31. Liturgy committee.

32. IT and communications service.

33. Summer Bible School.

34. Parish social events.

35. School volunteers.

36. Remedial tutoring.

37. Special needs.

38. Prayer/faith-sharing groups.

39. Catholic Relief Services.

9. EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE: An act of looking into our lives prayerfully for the moments/events of loving relationships with God and others and also for those occasions when we may have hurt those relationships.

10. JESUS PRAYER: Popularized by “The Way of a Pilgrim,” a poor Russian pilgrim’s story, it’s based solidly in the Gospels. It’s to repeat the name of Jesus, shortened from “Lord Jesus, have mercy on me a sinner.” It’s a simple repetitive prayer easy to pray at any moment of the day or night, with a loving focus on Jesus, with the result of a consciousness of God’s presence in our lives. One’s own personal “mantra” can be found, such as my own “Jesus, I love you.”

50 service possibilities

Love shows itself in deeds, not words. Faith impels us to justice, and love leads us to service. “It’s in giving that we truly receive,” said St. Francis. Going out of themselves and serving others humbly is what disciples of Jesus do. As a demonstration

1. Lector 2. Eucharistic minister 3. Parish hospitality 4. Ushers 5. Youth ministry 6. Young adult ministry 7. St. Vincent de Paul 8. St. Anthony’s Dining Room 9. Second Harvest 10. Prison ministry 11. Grief ministry 12. Homebound ministry 13. Legion of Mary 14. Faith formation catechist

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Sacristan Stewardship committee Hospital ministry Ladies’ Guild Bible study Social justice committee Mental health ministry Men’s Club Altar society Life committee Catholic Charities.

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Young Men’s Institute.

40. Adult literacy.

41. Red Cross.

42. Retirement homes.

43. YMCA/YWCA. 44. Local libraries.

45. Art museums.

46. Habitat for Humanity.

47. Girl/Boy Scouts.

48. Food pantries/Soup kitchens.

49. Salvation Army.

50. Athletic coaching.

May our tender affection for and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary bind us all together in love and lead us to Jesus Christ who calls us irresistibly to be his disciples and apostles for the present world.

FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA, PH.D., is Pastor of St. Veronica Church, South San Francisco, and Director of the Department of Pastoral Ministries in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

16 FAITH

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 21, 2019

SUNDAY READINGS

The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe 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.

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.

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

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.

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.”

Jesus, King of Hearts

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absolutely convinced that there is no greater love for him, as well as for his followers, than to give one’s life away for others. It is this reality and mystery that we celebrate this Christ the King Sunday.

The gospel from Luke shows how this eternal King reigns. His throne is the Cross. The cross is a stumbling block and scandal to those who seek worldly wisdom and power, but to Jesus it is the only way he can ultimately love, forgive, and save.

At the foot of the cross, the rulers sneer at Jesus and mock his title of the Messiah. They have contempt for Jesus’ powerlessness to save himself even though he is “the chosen one, the Christ of God.” The anointed one, the Messiah, is to be the mighty one, and yet Jesus in their view is utterly devoid of glory and power.

The reading from Samuel sets the context for the Jewish understanding of Messiahship. Now all the tribes anoint David as king. Claiming themselves to be of David’s bone and flesh, they assign his qualities: shepherd and commander. It was Israelites’ absolute conviction and expectation that the Messiah, in the line of David, would be a mighty commander and shepherd, vanquishing enemies and ushering them to safety, security, and prosperity. The cross of Christ dashes all those expectations of the Messiah and hence the mockery. The Roman soldiers, too, jeered at Jesus in their utter contempt for him and, by extension, for the people of Israel. Even one of the criminals taunts Jesus: “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us.”

However, Christ the King on the cross quietly exercises his kingly power. He takes on the sin of the world and sacrifices himself to save us. On the

throne and altar of the cross, Jesus is humiliated and reviled. The King is completely stripped of his power and dignity. Yet, no one can take away his kingly powers. There is nothing this King would shy away from if he could only love and save. Amazingly, the thief is able to discern beyond the terrible situation of this King to the time when he will “come into your kingdom.” Jesus hastens to assure the thief that he is saved, offering him the fullness of life in his Kingdom. The King’s ministry of welcoming, embracing, loving, forgiving, and saving is accomplished not from the diamond-studded throne of worldly power and pomp but from the cross.

It is this that Paul celebrates in Colossians: “He [God] 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.” In Paul’s lofty hymn, God has willed “to reconcile all things …, making peace by the blood of his cross .…”

Next Sunday Advent begins. As we prepare to welcome the King through the heart-warming season of Advent giving way to the joy-filled season of Christmas, let us enter the mystery of the kingly presence and power of Jesus in our lives. A baby will be born, but he is the King. We are to embrace and further his Kingdom. Goodness and kindness, selflessness and sacrifice, love and service, faith and forgiveness, peace and justice – all these for every human being is what the King wants. You are the King of Hearts! Come, Lord Jesus!

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25: Monday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Catherine of Alexandria, virgin and martyr. DN 1:1-6, 8-20.

DANIEL 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56. MT 24:42a, 44. LK 21:1-4.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29: Friday of the Thirtyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. DN 7:2-14. DANIEL 3:75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81. LK 21:28. LK 21:2933.

priest. IS 11:1-10. PS 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17. LK 10:21-24.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26: Tuesday of the Thirtyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. DN 2:31-45. DANIEL 3:57, 58, 59, 60, 61. RV 2:10c. Lk 21:5-11.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30: Feast of St. Andrew, apostle. ROM 10:9-18. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. MT 4:19.

MT 4:18-22.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27: Wednesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. 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.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1: First Sunday of Advent. IS 2:1-5. PS 122: 1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9. ROM 13:11-14.

CF. PS 85:8. MT 24:37-44.

omparing the 52 Sundays of the liturgical year to a full deck of 52 playing cards, a priest said that on the last Sunday, the Feast of the solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of the Universe, the last card of the deck, the King of Hearts, is held up. He went on to explain that Jesus is not the King of Clubs. A club could be a symbol of force and violence, to which Jesus’ values are diametrically opposed.

He is meek and humble of heart. Jesus is not the King of Spades. A spade could be used to throw dirt on others or bury the questionable past. Always looking for others’ happiness and peace, Jesus always upholds and uplifts. Even enemies FATHER CHARLES are included in his offer of PUTHOTA forgiveness. Jesus’ life is an open book with nothing to hide, illumined resplendently by the love of his Father. Jesus is not the King of Diamonds. Diamonds stand for wealth, greed, and attachment to material possessions.

Jesus embraces poverty and simplicity, calling his disciples to detachment and renunciation.

Who then is Jesus? He is the King of Hearts. He dwells in the human hearts and rules over us with supreme love and sacrifice, in total humility and surrender. This King throws his life away so we can have life and abundant life. A king who dies for his citizens is unthinkable. Yet our King is

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA, PH.D., is pastor of St. Veronica Church, South San Francisco, and director of pastoral ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28: Thursday of the Thirtyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. Thanksgiving Day. DN 6:12-28. DANIEL 3:68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74. LK 21:28. LK 21:20-28.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 2: Monday of the First Week of Advent. IS 4:2-6. PS 122:1-2, 3-4b, 4cd-5, 6-7, 8-9. SEE PS 80:4. MT 8:5-11.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3: Memorial of St. Francis Xavier,

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4: Wednesday of the First Week of Advent. Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, priest and doctor. IS 25:6-10a. PS 23:13a, 3b-4, 5, 6. MT 15:29-37.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5: Thursday of the First Week of Advent. IS 26:1-6. PS 118:1 and 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a. IS 55:6. MT 7:21, 24-27.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6: Friday of the First Week of Advent. Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas, bishop. IS 29:17-24. PS 27:1, 4, 13-14. MT 9:27-31.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7: Memorial of St. Ambrose, bishop and doctor. 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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Faith and dying

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e tend to nurse a certain naiveté about what faith means in the face of death. The common notion among us as Christians is that if someone has a genuine faith she should be able to face death without fear or doubt. The implication then of course is that having fear and doubt when one is dying is an indication of a weak faith. While it’s true that many people with a strong faith do face death calmly and without fear, that’s not always the case, nor necessarily the norm.

We can begin with Jesus.

FATHER RON Surely he had real faith and ROLHEISER yet, in the moments just before his death, he called out in both fear and doubt.

His cry of anguish, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me”, came from a genuine anguish that was not, as we sometimes piously postulate, uttered for divine effect, not really meant, but something for us to hear. Moments before he died, Jesus suffered real fear and real doubt. Where was his faith? Well, that depends upon how we understand faith and the specific modality it can take on in our dying.

In her famous study of the stages of dying, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross suggests there are five stages we undergo in the dying process: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. Our first response to receiving a terminal diagnosis is denial – This is not happening! Then when we have to accept that it is happening our reaction is anger – Why me! Eventually anger gives way to bargaining – How much time can I still draw out of this? This is followed by depression and finally, when nothing serves us any longer, there’s acceptance – I’m going to die. This is all very true.

Sometimes people with a deep faith face death in calm and peace. But sometimes they don’t and the fear and doubt that threatens them then is not necessarily a sign of a weak or faltering faith. It can be the opposite, as we see in Jesus.

But in a deeply insightful book, “The Grace in Dying,” Kathleen Dowling Singh, basing her insights upon the experience of sitting at the bedside of many dying people, suggests there are additional stages: Doubt, Resignation and Ecstasy.

Those stages help shed light on how Jesus faced his death.

The night before he died, in Gethsemane, Jesus accepted his death, clearly. But that acceptance was not yet full resignation. That only took place the next day on the cross in a final surrender when, as the Gospels put it, he bowed his head and gave over his spirit. And, just before that, he experienced an awful fear that what he had always believed in and taught about God was perhaps not so. Maybe the heavens were empty and maybe what we deem as God’s promises amount only to wishful thinking.

But, as we know, he didn’t give into that doubt, but rather, inside of its darkness, gave himself over in trust. Jesus died in faith – though not in what we often naively believe faith to be. To die in faith does not always mean that we die calmly, without fear and doubt.

For instance, the renowned biblical scholar, Raymond E. Brown, commenting on the fear of death inside the community of the Beloved disciple, writes: “The finality of death and the uncer-

tainties it creates causes trembling among those who have spent their lives professing Christ. Indeed, among the small community of Johannine disciples, it was not unusual for people to confess that doubts had come into their minds as they encountered death. …The Lazarus story is placed at the end of Jesus’ public ministry in John to teach us that when confronted with the visible reality of the grave, all need to hear and embrace the bold message that Jesus proclaimed: ‘I am the life.’ … For John, no matter how often we renew our faith, there is the supreme testing by death.

Whether the death of a loved one or one’s own death, it is the moment when one realizes that it all depends on God. During our lives we have been able to shield ourselves from having to face this in a raw way. Confronted by death, mortality, all defenses fall away.”

Sometimes people with a deep faith face death in calm and peace. But sometimes they don’t and the fear and doubt that threatens them then is not necessarily a sign of a weak or faltering faith.

It can be the opposite, as we see in Jesus. Inside a person of faith, fear and doubt in the face of death is what the mystics call ‘the dark night of the spirit” … and this is what’s going on inside that experience: The raw fear and doubt we are experiencing at that time make it impossible for us to mistake our own selves and our own lifeforce for God. When we have to accept to die in trust inside of what seems like absolute negation and can only cry out in anguish to an apparent emptiness then it is no longer possible to confuse God with our own feelings and ego. In that, we experience the ultimate purification of soul. We can have a deep faith and still find ourselves with doubt and fear in the face of death. Just look at Jesus.

OBLATE FATHER RON ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

The ‘synodality’ masquerade

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uring the 2001 Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who’d suffered through a lot of synodal speechifying and small-group discussions over the years, made a trenchant observation: “Jesus Christ didn’t intend his Church to be governed by a committee.”

Indeed.

The mechanisms of consultation that exist in the church – from parish councils through diocesan pastoral councils to the Synod of Bishops — exist to strengthen the governance GEORGE WEIGEL of the Church by its pastors: priests in their parishes, bishops in their dioceses, the bishop of Rome in terms of the universal church. The Synods of 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019, however, suggest that the committee model deplored by Cardinal George has morphed into something arguably even worse: the masquerade model, in which a “synodal process” of “walking together” provides cover for effecting serious changes in Catholic self-understanding and practice for which there is little or no doctrinal, theological, or pastoral warrant.

In the Final Report of the recent Amazonian Synod, this masquerade model was described in language sodden with cliches: “To walk together the church today needs a conversion to the synodal experience. It is necessary to strengthen a culture of dialogue, reciprocal listening, spiritual discernment, consensus and communion to find spaces and modes of joint decision and respond to pastoral challenges.

This will foster joint responsibility in the life of the Church in a spirit of service. It is urgent to work, propose, and assume the responsibilities to overcome clericalism and arbitrary impositions.

Synodality is a constitutive dimension of the church. You cannot be a Church without acknowl-

And how was it that 87,000 Amazonians spoke in progressive German Catholic accents, emphasizing ‘issues’ that may be agitated in the Biergärten of Munich but that seem somewhat removed from the real-world pastoral challenges of the Brazilian rainforest? edging an effective exercise of the sensus fidei of the entire People of God.” Leaving aside the question of how an “effective…. sense of the faithful” involving 1.2 billion Catholics could be measured, much less “exercised,” what does this gobbledygook mean? Confusions on that front were amplified by a prominent celebrant of the cult of synodality, whose prose parses but whose grasp of the reality of recent synods seems deficient. Thus Villanova’s Massimo Faggioli, writing in La Croix International, recently made several claims about synodality, none of which stands up to what the courts would call “strict scrutiny” by those actually present in Rome during recent synods: “… Francis has turned the synods into real events.” Baloney. The synods led by Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, chosen by the Holy Father as secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, have been at least as orchestrated as their predecessors. And after there was serious pushback to the manipulation of Synod-2014 by the Synod general secretariat, care was taken at the Synods of 2015 and 2018, and at the recent Amazonian regional synod, to ensure that voices potentially disruptive of the Synod-managers’ plans were not prominent among the invited.

“They [the recent synods] have been prefaced by a serious consultation of the faithful at the

local level.” Really? Can you, gentle reader, name anyone in your circle of Catholic friends who was seriously consulted about the issues at Synods 2014 and 2015 (the nature of marriage and sacramental discipline)? Leaders of some of the most evangelically successful youth ministries in the United States were noticeably absent from the preparations for Synod-2018. According to several Amazonian Synod spin-doctors, 87,000 people were consulted prior to the development of that synod’s working document. But how can a local Church unable to tell us how many Catholics there are in Amazonia credibly count the precise number of people “consulted” (much less tell us how well-catechized those people are)? And how was it that 87,000 Amazonians spoke in progressive German Catholic accents, emphasizing “issues” that may be agitated in the Biergärten of Munich but that seem somewhat removed from the real-world pastoral challenges of the Brazilian rainforest?

“The actual Synod gatherings …. in Rome have featured genuine freedom of expression.” This, I’m sure, would come as news to the African bishops warned against consorting with American bishops at Synod-2018, as it would to the members of the final-report drafting committees at Synod-2015 and Synod-2018, who complained about the manipulation of the process by the Synod general secretariat.

Serious consultation and collaboration are essential to effective pastoral leadership, including the leadership of the Bishop of Rome. But over the 50-plus years of its existence, no one has figured out how to make the Synod of Bishops really work. Propaganda about “synodality” that functions as rhetorical cover for the imposition of the progressive Catholic agenda on the whole church is not an improvement on that track record; it’s a masquerade, behind which is an agenda.

GEORGE WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Pushing back against evil

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uring a recent speech in Texas, I mentioned that “Drag Queen Story Hours” are being sponsored by local public libraries across the country. Toddlers and kids are brought in and placed in front of crossdressing men who read children’s stories to them, stories that encourage them to reject fundamental gender differences between males and females. The LGBTQ agenda, I also noted, is being energetically promoted to upend and rewrite public school curricula even for kindergarten and pre-school-aged children.

During the Q-and-A after the talk, one of the parents in attendance, with a measure of frustration in his voice, asked what the average person can do to push FATHER TADEUSZ back against the seemingly PACHOLCZYK endless expansion of error and evil in our society.

His question is a common one.

I usually reply by saying that we cannot yield to discouragement over the apparently widespread moral decline around us, nor dissipate our personal energy in worry and anxiety about the state of the world. Instead, we need to recognize how God has entrusted to each of us a small garden that he asks us to tend. If we tend that plot well, he will extend the reach of his grace in ways we cannot foresee or imagine, and we will actually contribute to stemming the tide of error and evil well beyond the limited confines of our particular plot.

MAKING SENSE OUT OF BIOETHICS

Any time we try to do what is right and push back against evil, the air changes around us and we contribute to renewing our world.

This implies that each of us has different responsibilities, depending upon our particular state in life, our commitments, and our employment and family situations. By attending carefully to those responsibilities and conscientiously tending our gardens, the air around us can indeed begin to change.

A true story I recently heard brought this lesson home in a powerful way.

A woman, facing complex health issues, felt a strong impulse one morning to pray for her oldest son while she was confined to her bed.

He lived far away in a large metropolitan area and worked in his spare time for a ride-sharing company.

Later that day, her son called home, and she mentioned that she had felt the need to pray for him earlier. “That’s interesting,” he replied, “because I had something unusual happen today.”

He then told her about picking up a pregnant woman with two young children. After greeting them, he looked at his phone and started driving.

The address on his screen subconsciously caught his attention; meanwhile the woman was speaking to someone on her phone in the back seat.

After several minutes of thinking about the address, the young driver suddenly realized where they were headed: the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic.

He decided to make a couple of wrong turns to buy some time so the woman would finish up her

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phone conversation. When she kept on talking, he pulled the car over and brought it to a complete stop. As she paused her conversation, he turned and said to her, “I’m sorry but I have to let you know that because of my religious beliefs, I simply cannot take you where you are going.

I will return you to where I picked you up and refund your fee.” The woman was surprised, but seemed to understand, and he drove her and her three children back to the pickup point.

That young driver made an intentional decision, within the confines of the particular garden God had given him to cultivate, to push back against a present evil he became aware of.

Another person of lesser determination might have said, “Who am I to get involved in this person’s choices?” Am I my brother’s keeper?”

He recognized, however, that he was already unwittingly involved, and that each of us, in fact, is our brother’s keeper. He was concerned about a neighbor and her little family gathered in the back seat of his car. He knew he could not be party to the wrongdoing she seemed poised to carry out against her unborn child.

We don’t know what happened after he dropped her off. Maybe, sadly, she just ordered another ride. Maybe, however, she reconsidered her choice. Any time we try to do what is right and push back against evil, any time we seek to act with resolve on behalf of what is good and true, new options open up, the air changes around us, and we contribute to renewing our world.

That’s what each of us can do as we take care of our own garden.

FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK, PH.D., is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Mass., and serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

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He said the lives of these martyrs “make barbarity personal. They interpret for us the Gospel.”

Father Godfrey noted that some words of Father Ellacuria are inscribed on a stone on the new USF memorial: “The struggle against injustice and the pursuit of truth cannot be separated nor can one work for one independent of the other.”

“These martyrs remind us of our need to work against injustice and seek the truth at the same time,” Father Godfrey said.

Father Ellacuria had been the most vocal of the group and had urged for years a peaceful end to a war that had dragged on for more than a decade thanks to U.S. aid that was only leading to more civilian deaths in El Salvador, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern McGovern, a

Democrat who represents Massachusetts’ 2nd Congressional District, told Catholic News Service. They would total more than 70,000 in the end.

Father Ellacuria often took to the radio to urge negotiations, at great risk debated on television with Maj. Roberto D’Aubuisson, who commanded death squads in the country, and often met with U.S. delegations urging a stop to military aid. He also visited the U.S. on several occasions, trying to sway public opinion, and thanked organizations trying to get U.S. lawmakers to understand the damage military aid was causing.

“Some churches and religious groups, such as the Catholic bishops of the United States, have exerted themselves on our behalf,” Father Ellacuria said during a June 1982 commencement speech at Santa Clara University. “They have pressed the present administration not to intensify our conflicts through

military reinforcement, but to facilitate a just, negotiated solution.”

He also traveled to the United States to testify on behalf of migrants who were leaving El Salvador because of the violence, recalled McGovern, who would later lead a commission investigating the murders.

Though the Jesuits’ deaths helped put an end to U.S. aid, justice for their murders has been elusive through the decades, he told CNS in a Nov. 1 interview.

“The intellectual authors of the murders were members of the high command of the Salvadoran armed forces and nothing happened to them. They had a trial and a couple of them were to be convicted, but then there was an amnesty that followed. So, everybody essentially skipped justice,” he said.

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Served by 50 volunteer waiters in white jackets, the pope and his guests in the Vatican audience hall enjoyed a three-course meal of lasagna, chicken in a mushroom cream sauce with potatoes, followed by dessert, fruit and coffee.

To speak Jesus’ language, the pope had said in his homily, one must not speak of oneself or follow one’s own interests but put the needs of others first.

“How many times, even when doing good, the hypocrisy of ‘I’ reigns: I do good, but so people will think I’m good; I help, but to attract the attention of someone important,” Pope Francis said.

Instead, he said, the Gospel encourages charity, not hypocrisy; “giving to someone who cannot pay you back, serving without seeking a reward or something in exchange.”

In order to excel at that, the pope said, each Christian must have at least one friend who is poor.

“The poor are precious in the eyes of God,” he said, because they know they are not self-sufficient and know they need help. “They remind us that that’s how you live the Gospel, like beggars before God.” “So,” the pope said, “instead of being annoyed when they knock on our doors, we can welcome their cry for help as a call to go out of ourselves, to welcome them with the same loving gaze God has for them.”

“How beautiful it would be if the poor occupied the same place in our hearts that they have in God’s heart,” Pope Francis said.

In the day’s Gospel reading from St. Luke, the crowds ask Jesus when the world will end and how they will know. They want immediate answers, but Jesus tells them to persevere in faith.

Wanting to know or to have everything right now “is not of God,” the pope said. Breathlessly seeking things that will pass takes one’s mind off the things that last; “we follow the clouds that pass and lose sight of the sky.”

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Pope Francis embraces a woman as he inaugurates a new shelter, day center and soup kitchen for the poor in Palazzo Migliori across the street from St. Peter’s Square Nov. 15, 2019. The shelter, funded by the papal almoner’s office, will be staffed by volunteers from the Community of Sant’Egidio and was inaugurated in time for the World Day of the Poor.

Worse, he said, “attracted by the latest ruckus, we no longer find time for God and for our brother or sister living alongside us.”

“This is so true today!” the pope said. “In yearning to run, to conquer everything and do it immediately, those who lag behind annoy us. And they are judged as disposable. How many elderly people, how many unborn babies, how many persons with disabilities and poor people are judged useless. One rushes ahead without worrying that the distances are increasing, that the lust of a few increases the poverty of many.”

The pope’s celebration of the World Day of the Poor concluded a week of special events and services for the homeless, the poor and immigrants in Rome.

The poor served by the city’s Catholic soup kitchens and Vatican charities were invited Nov. 9 to a free concert in the Vatican audience hall featuring Nicola

Piovani, the Oscar-winning composer, and the Italian Cinema Orchestra.

From Nov. 10-17 dozens of physicians, nurses and other volunteers staffed a large medical clinic set up in St. Peter’s Square. The clinic offered flu shots, physical exams, routine lab tests and many specialty services often needed by people who live and sleep on the streets, including podiatry, diabetes and cardiology.

As rain beat down on the square Nov. 15, Pope Francis paid a surprise visit to the clinic and spent about an hour visiting with the clients and volunteers.

Afterward, the pope went across the street to inaugurate a new shelter, day center and soup kitchen for the poor in the Palazzo Migliori, a four-story, Vatican-owned building that had housed a community of women religious. When the community moved out, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, began renovating it.

The building now can accommodate 50 overnight guests as well as offering a drop-in center for the poor and housing a large commercial kitchen. Meals will be served at the building, but also will be cooked there for distribution to the homeless who live around two Rome train stations.

The Community of Sant’Edigio, a Rome-based lay movement that already runs soup kitchens and a variety of programs for the city’s poor, will manage and staff the shelter.

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BISHOPS: Affirm ‘preeminent priority’ of abortion FROM PAGE 10

elected standing vice president Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles as the conference’s first Hispanic president. Archbishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit was elected as the vice president on the third ballot.

Later that day, the bishops voted to approve both a script for a short video on their voting document “Faithful Citizenship,” as well as a short letter to accompany the document, amendments to which were considered by the U.S. bishops’ Working Group on “Forming Consciences on Faithful Citizenship.”

Cardinal Blase Archbishop Chaput had proposed an amendment to add the whole paragraph 101 from “Gaudete et Exsultate” into the letter.

The amendment had been accepted by the working committee with the changes that some, but not all, of the language of the paragraph would be included.

The reason the entire paragraph was not included was the need for brevity in the letter, Archbishop Gomez - the incoming president of the

conference – later said, in the discussions on the language.

A footnote to the exhortation was included to draw attention to the Holy Father’s message, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco later said.

While the original discussion centered upon the inclusion of Archbishop Chaput’s amendment, it triggered a debate over the inclusion of the word “preeminent” in mentioning abortion among other issues. Archbishop Joseph Naumann, chair of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee, had successfully included an amendment inserting the word “preeminent” before the mention of the abortion in the letter, to recognize its special gravity when considered with other issues voters are considering.

Archbishop Chaput said that Pope Francis, in his exhortation on holiness, “makes sure that we do not make one issue that a political party or a group puts forward to the point where we’re going to ignore all the rest.”

The pope’s warning against the coexistence of consumerism with poverty, for instance, was not included in the voting letter, Archbishop Chaput

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Bishop Frank Dewane, who led the working group on “Faithful Citizenship,” proposed a compromise to include more language recognizing those issues Pope Francis mentioned in his exhortation, but Archbishop Chaput said that he wanted the entire paragraph included.

“This is the magisterial teaching of Pope Francis put in a very succinct way, and I think we can all benefit from it as we speak to our people about the issues,” Archbishop Chaput said.

Bishop Robert Bishop McElroy of San Diego then made his intervention, with Bishop Strickland and Archbishop Chaput responding.

The bishops then voted to keep the letter as is – without Archbishop Chaput’s amendment to insert the entire paragraph into the text – with 143 members of the conference in support. Sixty-nine members voted in favor of Archbishop Chaput’s motion, with four abstentions.

After that vote, the bishops voted on the final text of the letter, with 207 conference members voting in favor, 24 voting against, and five abstaining.

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Mater Dolorosa Parish: 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-583-4131. 1st Friday: 8:30-10 am Mission Dolores Basilica: 3321 16th St. (at Dolores St.), San Francisco; 1-415-621-8203. 1st Friday: 6 pm (Adoration) (Old Mission, bilingual English/ Spanish).

National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi: 610 Vallejo Street, San Francisco 94133; (415) 986-4557; First Saturday Holy Hour: 10:50AM, concluding at 11:50AM with Benediction (part of Saint Padre Pio Prayer Group).

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish: 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley 94941; 1-415-388-4190. Tuesday: 8:30 am; Wednesday: 7:30 am.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish: 60 Wellington Ave., Daly City 94014; 1-650-756-9786. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-6:30 pm; Wednesday: 8:30 am-6:15 pm.

St. Andrew Parish: 1571 Southgate Ave., Daly City 94015; 1-650-756-3223. 1st Friday: after the 7 pm Mass.

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St. Anthony of Padua Parish: 1000 Cambridge St., Novato 94947; 1-415-883-2177. 1st Friday: 9:30 am to 5 pm; Tuesday: 8:30 to 9 am.

St. Bartholomew Parish: 300 Alameda de las Pulgas (at Crystal Springs), San Mateo 94402; 1-650-347-0701.

St. Brendan Parish: 29 Rockaway Ave., San Francisco 94127; 1-415-681-4225. Wednesday: 7-8 pm; Saturday: 4-4:45 pm.

St. Bruno Parish: 555 San Bruno Ave. West, San Bruno 94066; 1-650-588-2121. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

St. Cecilia Parish: 2555 17th Ave., San Francisco 94116; 1-415-664-8481. 1st Friday (24 hours): 7 am Friday-7 am Saturday.

St. Cecilia Parish, Lagunitas: 450 W. Cintura Ave., Lagunitas 94938; 1-415-488-9799. Monday: After 8 am Mass.

St. Charles Parish: 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos 94070; 1-650-591-7349. 1st Friday: 9 am-10 pm.

St. Dominic Parish: 2390 Bush St., San Francisco 94115; 1-415-567-7824. 1st Friday: 2-4:30 pm; 9 pm-7:30 am (Saturday).

St. Elizabeth Parish: 459 Somerset St., San Francisco 94134; 1-415-468-0820. 1st Friday: after 8 am Mass (Holy Hour in the church). 3rd Saturday 8:45 am-3:30pm Rectory Chapel, 449 Holyoke St. St. Finn Barr Parish: 415 Edna St., San Francisco 94112; 1-415-333-3627. Monday-Thursday: 8:30 am-4 pm; Friday: 8:30 am-6 pm (Closed on holidays).

St. Francis of Assisi Parish: 1425 Bay Rd., East Palo Alto 94303; 1-650-322-2152. 1st Friday: 7:30 pm-8 am (Saturday); 1st Saturday: 7:30 pm-7 am (Sunday).

St. Gregory Parish: 2715 Hacienda St., San Mateo 94403; 1-650-345-8506. 1st Friday: after 8:30 am Mass.

St. Hilary Parish: 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon 94920; 1-415-4351122. Monday-Friday: 9 am-6 pm; Saturday: 9:30 am-5 pm (in the side chapel).

St. Isabella Parish: 1 Trinity Way, San Rafael 94903; 1-415479-1560. 1st Friday: 9:30 am-12noon St. John the Evangelist: 19 Saint Mary’s Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112: First Fridays after 9:00 am Mass (9:30 am to 10:30 am. Rosary after Adoration.

St. Kevin Parish: 704 Cortland Ave., San Francisco, CA 94110; 1-415.648.4441; First Friday after 9 am Mass; Benediction at noon.

St. Luke Parish: 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City 94404; 1-650-345-6660. Thursday & 1st Friday: after 8:30 am Mass-7:30 pm.

St. Matthew Parish: One Notre Dame Ave., San Mateo 94402; 1-650-344-7622. Monday-Friday: 7 am-9 pm (in the chapel).

St. Patrick Parish: 114 King St., Larkspur 94939; 1-415-9240600. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-3 pm St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish: 1122 Jamestown Ave., San Francisco 94124; 1-415-468-3434. 1st Friday: after 7 pm Communion Service.

St. Peter Parish: 1200 Florida St., San Francisco 94110; 1-415-282-1652. 1st Friday: 10 am-7 pm.

St. Peter Parish: 700 Oddstad Blvd. (at Linda Mar), Pacifica 94044; 1-650-361-1411. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-5:30 pm.

St. Philip the Apostle: 725 Diamond St., San Francisco 94114; 1-415.282.0141; Mon-Sat 8:30-9:30 am (except Tues), Sunday 11:30 am-12:30 pm.

St. Pius Parish: 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City 94061; 1-650-361-1411. 1st Friday: Friday 8:30 am to 9 pm St. Raymond Parish: 1100 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park 94025; 1-650-323-1755. Saturday: Following 8:15 am Mass.

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by Healing Mass at 8 pm; 9 pm Silent adoration until Midnight.

Closing with Benediction. Fri 8 pm-12 midnight Silent adoration.

Closing with Benediction.

St. Veronica Parish: 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-588-1455. Monday-Friday: 9am-4pm (except holidays and special events in the church).

Star of the Sea Parish: 4420 Geary Blvd. (between 8th & 9th Ave), San Francisco. 1-415-751-0450; www. starparish.com; Perpetual Adoration (24/7) except Sat, 4 pm thru Sunday 9 pm.

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Pope: Eco sins will be added to updated catechism

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VATICAN CITY – Following through on a proposal made at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, Pope Francis said there are plans to include a definition of ecological sins in the church’s official teaching.

“We should be introducing – we were thinking – in the Catechism of the Catholic Church the sin against ecology, ecological sin against the common home,” he told participants at a conference on criminal justice Nov. 15.

Members of the International Association of Penal Law were in Rome Nov. 13-16 for the conference, which centered on the theme, “Criminal Justice and Corporate Business.”

Pope Francis also denounced the abuse of law and legislation to justify acts of violence and hatred.

Today’s throwaway culture, as well as other “psycho-social phenomenon” pose threats to the common good while insidiously promoting a “culture of hate,” he said. These threats, he added, often take the form of “symbols and actions that are typical of Nazism.”

“I must confess,” the pope said, departing from his prepared remarks, “that when I hear some speeches, some person in charge of order or the government, I am reminded of Hitler’s speeches in 1934 and 1936.”

“They are actions typical of Nazism that, with its persecution of Jews, gypsies and people of homosexual orientation, represent a negative model par excellence of a throwaway culture and hate,” the pope said. “That is what happened in that time and today, these things are reappearing.”

Today’s “current of punitivism, which claims to solve social problems through the penal system,” has not worked, the pope said. Instead, an “elementary sense of justice” must be applied so that “certain conduct for which corporations are usually responsible, does not go unpunished.”

Chief among those crimes, he added, are acts that “can be considered as ‘ecocide’: the massive contamination of air, land and water resources, the large-scale destruction of flora and fauna, and any action capable of producing an ecological disaster or destroying an ecosystem.”

Pope Francis also called on the international community to recognize ecocide as a “fifth category of crime against peace.”

According to the Rome Statute, which was adopted by the International Criminal Court in 1998, the four core international crimes currently established are: crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes and crimes of aggression.

“On this occasion, and through you,” the pope told conference participants, “I would like to appeal to all the leaders and representatives in this sector to help with efforts in order to ensure the adequate legal protection of our common home.”

In the synod’s final document, bishops defined ecological sin as a sin against God and future generations that “manifests itself in acts and habits of pollution and destruction of the harmony of the environment.”

A true model of justice, the pope said, can find “its perfect incarnation in the life of Jesus” who, after being treated violently and put to death, brought “a message of peace, forgiveness and reconciliation.”

“These are values that are difficult to achieve but necessary for the good life of all,” the pope said. “I don’t think it’s a utopia, but it’s a big challenge. A challenge that we must all address if we are to treat the problems of our civilized coexistence in a way that is rational, peaceful and democratic.”

Pope Francis also called on the international community to recognize ecocide as a ‘fifth category of crime against peace.’

St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1000 Cambridge St., Novato, Mon-Sat after 9 a.m. Mass, 415.883.2177.

St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, Mon, 5 p.m. includes four mysteries, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, adoration; (415) 479-1560.

St. Patrick Church, 114 King St., Larkspur, Tues-Fri at 7:30 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass. (415) 924 0600.

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Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1555 39th Avenue, weekdays and Sat, 8:35 a.m. before the 9 a.m. Mass in the chapel; (415) 664-8590.

National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 624 Vallejo St. at Columbus, Porziuncola Chapel, Sat, 2:30 p.m. followed by Chaplet of Divine Mercy; www.ShrineSF.org, info@shrinesf.org, (415) 986-4557.

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Sundays except June/July /August, 9:45-10:15 a.m.; stbenz1801@gmail.com; www.sfdeafcatholics.org. 415.350.9527.

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St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue and Vicente, Mon-Sat, 8:35 a.m., 415.664.8481.

St. Elizabeth Church, 459 Somerset St., Mon-Sat after 8 a.m. Mass; (415) 468-0820, www.stelizabethsf.org.

St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue at Ulloa, Mon-Fri after the 8:30 a.m. Mass, 415.731.6161.

St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., Mon-Fri, following the 12:05 p.m. Mass; Sat, before the 8 a.m.

Mass, (415) 422-2188.

St. John the Evangelist Church, 19 St. Mary’s Ave., (415) 334-4646; every day after the 9:00 a.m. Mass. www.

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St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave., Fridays after 9 a.m. Mass, (415) 648-5751.

St. Monica Church, 24th Avenue at Geary Blvd., Mon-Fri, 8 a.m. before 8:30 a.m. Mass. 415.751.5275 Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. across from Washington Square, second Sunday of the month in Cantonese,

parish pastoral center, 11:30 a.m., Kelly Kong (510) 794-6117; Wednesday, 7 p.m., English, http://salesiansspp.org/.

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SaintStephenSF.org (415) 681.2444.

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Tuesdays at Holy Hour (7-8 p.m.); Sats after the 8:30 a.m. Mass (9 a.m.); Sats at 3:20 p.m.; Sundays after the 8 a.m. Mass (9 a.m.); every second Sunday for Priests and Vocations at 3:00 p.m., all rosary prayers in church.

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(650) 755-0478.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 300 Fulton St., Redwood City, Mon-Sat, 7:50 a.m. before 8:15 a.m. Mass; (650) 366-3802; www.mountcarmel.org.

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St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, rosary in Spanish Sundays before

9:30 a.m. Spanish Mass; (650) 322-2152.

St. Luke Church, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, Mon-Sat following the 8:30 a.m. Mass 650.345.6660 St. Mark Church, 325 Marine View Ave., Belmont, Mon/Tue/Wed, 7:30 p.m.; (650) 591-5937; www.saintmarksparish.com.

St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City, Rosary for Peace in the Merry Room of Fr. Lacey Hall, Friday mornings at 9:15 am. www.stmatthiasparish.org 650.366.9544 St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, Mon-Sat 7:30 a.m., Mon and Wed 4:40 p.m.; mary246barry@sbcglobal.net, 650.361.1411

St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, So. San Francisco. Mon-Sat 7:50 a.m. (650) 588.1455.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 21, 2019

ST. AUGUSTINE: ‘Reflect, rejoice, renew’ mark jubilee year FROM PAGE 3

in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, with more than 30 ministries, several choirs and 3,000 registered families.

Because the parish has continued to grow, the “alarming” numbers around Mass attendance can be missed, Father Reyes said. About 30 percent of registered families attend Mass weekly, Father Reyes said, which is in line with the national average.

The key challenge facing the parish is “how we can extend this great news of what we have received to the needs of the community, especially the faithful who have stopped coming to Mass,” he said.

One request Father Reyes has made of parishioners is to become involved in serving the impoverished in their community. An initial step the parish has taken is a collaboration with the city of South San Francisco on volunteer projects, Father Reyes said.

Thirty-eight volunteer spots will be covered by the parish on projects to

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Parishioners leave St. Augustine Church after Mass Nov. 17. The parish will use the theme of “reflect, rejoice, renew” to guide celebrations during its 50th anniversary year. benefit the poor, including the city food drive.

“It’s a good way to start, and I’m seeing the fruit of it already,” he said.

“There’s so much potential for this parish to do.”

Father Reyes said propagating missionary service organizations could be another important response to evangelize those outside the church. People’s eyes “could be opened more” to the church through work such as medical missions, he said.

Another response will be enhancing religious education. St. Augustine has the largest religious education program in the archdiocese, with 540 students. Next year the parish will begin using “Catechesis of the Good Shepherd,” a Montessori-based approach, with the youngest class of children.

Father Reyes said he will also be working to build more support for youth ministry in the parish.

“I don’t want kids to go through the rhythm of finishing up six years of religious education, getting confirmed and then gone,” he said. “We want them to feel they have a place here,” he said.

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A lay missionary, an apostle of lepers, moves toward beatification AGENZIA FIDES

HARARE, Zimbabwe - The cause for the beatification of British-born John Bradburne, a Franciscan secular missionary, has started in Zimbabwe.

His life and his testimony of faith in the midst of lepers will be examined first at a diocesan level and then at the Congregation for the Cause of Saints in Rome. If his virtues are recognized, he could become Zimbabwe’s first saint.

In September, the news of the cause for beatification created great attention. Father Brian MacGarry, a Jesuit, who knew Bradburne at the time of the Rhodesia war of independence, noted to Fides: “I knew him well. I can say with certainty: he was a Catholic of profound spirituality and the work he did together with the lepers was of great medical and human value.”

The son of an English vicar, Bradburne converted to Catholicism after serving in the British army in Malaysia and Burma, where he was also wounded in combat.

“His religious faith was very profound,” Father MacGarry recalled.

“He tried to become a Carthusian, then a Benedictine and, finally, a member of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion. None of the three orders, while acknowledging his profound spirituality, welcomed him. He then became Tertiary Franciscan. He always remained a layman, but from the moment he entered the Third Order he always wore a habit.”

In 1971 he arrived in Rhodesia to look for “a cave in which to pray.”

In 1964 he joined a leper colony in Mutemwa. That would become his community. The Jesuit remembered:

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The Vatican has allowed the bishops of Zimbabwe to open the sainthood cause of British missionary John Bradburne, a lay member of the Order of St. Francis. The cause will formally open Sept. 5, the 40th anniversary of his death. He is pictured in an undated photo.

“The colony was dirty and the people were dirty. There was no medicine, no clothes and people were hungry. He took care of everyone’s needs: He fed people, cleaned and bandaged their wounds.”

Every day for a decade, his routine was the same. He got up at 3 a.m. to bathe leprous patients. He helped them to eat and accompanied them to prayer. His only leisure was fivekilometer jogging.

In 1979, controversies began with the inhabitants of the nearby village.

The lepers accused them of leaving the animals to graze on their fields, destroying the crops. Bradburne offered to mediate.

“He was then brought by the villagers to the local commander Zanla

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are, and try to make it happen in our ministry.”

Archbishop Gomez acknowledged that Pope Francis’ leadership is not similar to that of his predecessors.

“I think it takes time for people to really understand the spirituality of Pope Francis.”

“I think there are many, many aspects that are different,” he said.

“They are cultural and spiritual; it’s the first time in the history of the church that there is a pope from Latin America. And some of us, who have that experience, know that it is different from the culture in Europe, or in the United States, or in Asia.”

“It’s also the first time there is a Jesuit who is the pope,” he said. “So every religious community, and the diocesan priesthood, have different spiritualties.”

“So I think we the bishops of the United States, and I personally, are learning how to appreciate the different aspects of the spirituality and the culture of Pope Francis.”

Archbishop Gomez noted that Pope Francis insists on respecting “the cultures of people, different ways of

worshipping. People in Peru, or in Mexico, or people from Vietnam have different ways of worshipping and living. So the Church in the United States is learning how to address the needs of people from around the world.”

As he begins his term as president, he said he hopes to help the church “to really understand the cultural realities of the people in the United States. I think it’s important for all of us to be more open to that.”

In a Nov. 12 America Magazine article, senior editor J.D. Long-Garcia detailed his interview with Archbishop Archbishop Gomez in Los Angeles last month.

“The main issue (the church is facing) is the New Evangelization and how to continue what Pope Francis is asking us to do in ‘The Joy of the Gospel,’” Archbishop Archbishop Gomez said in the article, referring to the pope’s 2013 apostolic exhortation.

Evangelization needs to be “more attractive to people and more realistic,” he said. “The challenge we have in our society is how to make it clear to the people of our time.”

He said the church “has to be more up to date with our evangelization programs” and lead by example.

did his daily reflections ... absolutely spiritual.”

Karen: “I met him. Someone had given him a bottle of Coke. A bee drowned in the Coke as the top was off. He was very upset and blamed himself for his negligence.”

Bernadette: “A good decent man a man of great faith love and kindness for the forgotten people with leprosy.

If I remember correctly during his funeral a swarm of bees settled on his coffin.”

Lisa: “My mother met this amazing man at the mission and always had this very picture as a book marker in her Bible. Several years after she died I woke up one morning and the picture was on my bedside table. I hadn’t seen it for years and had moved house twice. I have no idea how it got there.

I treasured it as a book marker for many years.”

Joe: “My late sister and I met him at the mission in the mid-70s. We asked him what help he needed and all he wanted was A4 typing pads.”

Gedion: “He was more or less a hermit, praying long and regularly, writing religious verse, bathing in a pool on Chigona, living completely without money … Throughout this period, the war got worse. Bradburne was utterly uninterested in politics, and was only concerned with the welfare of the lepers. Friends tried to persuade him to leave, but he refused.”

(Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the military wing of Zanu, a movement that fought the segregationist regime),” recalled Father MacGarry.

“The villagers accused him of being a spy, because he had defended the lepers,” he said. “The commander was convinced that John was innocent, but he had enemies in the village. The commander himself could not offer him protection if he remained there, so he offered to send him to Mozambique for security reasons. John refused, saying that his place was with the lepers. Zanla could not assign him men to protect him, so the villagers took him and killed him along the way.”

The priest does not agree with those who intend to make Bradburne an icon to be venerated and prefers to give a more concrete image of him.

“John was a good man, attentive towards others, according to the evangelical spirit of Francis of Assisi,” he said.

Bradburne lived with the lepers who were then “the last of the last,” Father MacGarry said.

Catholic San Francisco shared this post on Facebook with Facebook users in Zimbabwe and received back numerous testimonials about Bradburne.

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The name of the complex, Mayer Family Field at The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Athletic Complex, honors the Mayer Family and Gellert Foundation, who have both loyally supported Riordan and Catholic education in San Francisco for decades.

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More must be done to include women in church bodies, pope says CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Although people may have different ways of praying or of serving their parish or the poor, the Catholic Church needs laity, priests, religious, parishes and lay movements to collaborate in order to be truly “catholic,” Pope Francis said.

More also must be done to include women in roles of advising and governance, but without reducing them to having just a “functional” role, he said, speaking Nov. 16 to members and consultants of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, which was holding its first plenary assembly since its creation in 2016.

The task of dicastery members and consultants, he said, is to see the world around them with “the heart of the church,” that is, to go beyond one’s personal, local interests to seeing the wider, “catholic” view of the universal church and the whole world.

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POPE: ‘FUNDAMENTALISM IS A PLAGUE’

VATICAN CITY – Interreligious dialogue is an important way to counter fundamentalist groups as well as the unjust accusation that religions sow division, Pope Francis said.

Meeting with members of the Argentine Institute for Interreligious Dialogue Nov. 18, the pope said that in “today’s precarious world, dialogue among religions is not a weakness. It finds its reason for being in the dialogue of God with humanity.”

Recalling a scene from the 11th-century poem, “The Song of Roland,” in which Christians threatened Muslims “to choose between baptism or death,” the pope denounced the fundamentalist mentality which “we cannot accept nor understand and cannot function anymore.”

“We must beware of fundamentalist groups; each (religion) has their own. In Argentina, there are

among all her children and does not engage in favoritism or partiality,” he said.

“Therefore, it is important also for (the dicastery) to always propose positive models of collaboration among laity, priests and consecrated men and women, among priests and faithful, among diocesan and parish organizations, and lay movements and associations, among young and old, to avoid sterile comparisons and rivalries and always to encourage fraternal collaboration with the aim of the common good of the one family which is the church.”

The identity and mission of the lay faithful involves being able to look upon others as a fellow brother or sister. “You are not ‘social engineers’ or ‘ecclesiastics’ who draw up strategies to apply in the whole world to spread a certain religious ideology among laity,” the pope said.

“You are called to think and act like ‘brothers and sisters in the faith,’” rooted in a personal encounter with God, nourished by the sacraments, he said. They

must have a life of prayer and closeness to God, he added.

The pope warned against the “clericalization” of the laity, pointing specifically to problems he has seen with permanent deacons. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, he said, there was a common tendency to want to turn excellent laymen into deacons or when someone became a permanent deacon he would end up as a “wannabe” priest.

Deacons are “custodians of service” in a diocese, not “first-class altar boys or second-class priests. This (issue of) clericalization is an important point,” he said.

The second important point, he said, is not to be afraid to do more in putting women in advisory and governance roles.

Women can be the head of a Vatican dicastery, he said. In fact, two women were on the final list of candidates for leading the Secretariat for the Economy – a position filled Nov. 15 when Pope Francis named Jesuit Father Juan Antonio Guerrero.

some fundamentalist corners there,” he said. “Fundamentalism is a plague and all religions have some fundamentalist first cousin,” he said.

In the video, the pope said that the “strong instinct, which resonates in our hearts, to defend the value and dignity of every human person acquires particular importance in the face of the threats to peaceful coexistence that the world faces today, especially in armed conflicts.”

Japan knows “the suffering caused by war,” he said.

“Together with you, I pray that the destructive power of nuclear weapons will never again be unleashed in human history. Using nuclear weapons is immoral.”

The people of Japan also know how important it is to promote a “culture of dialogue and fraternity, especially among the different religious traditions,” the pope said, adding that he hoped his visit would encourage people “on the path of mutual respect and encounter.”

PRO-LIFE EFFORTS INCLUDING DISARMAMENT, POPE SAYS

VATICAN CITY – A commitment to defending and protecting human life requires a commitment to ending wars and to promoting nuclear disarmament, Pope Francis said.

“Using nuclear weapons is immoral,” the pope said in a video message released Nov. 18. The video was a greeting to the people of Japan in advance of the pope’s arrival there Nov. 23.

“The theme chosen for my visit is ‘Protect All Life,’” the pope said in the video. The bishops of Japan chose the theme from the prayer Pope Francis wrote to conclude his encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”

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Application materials may be downloaded from the official DCS website by clicking on the following link: www.sfarchdiocese.org/employment The requested material plus a letter of interest should be submitted before February 15 to: Christine Escobar Human Resources Manager

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco adheres to the following policy: “All school staff of Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin and will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories.” (Administrative Handbook #4111.4)

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Purchase tickets in advance at littlesistersofthepoor.org, or call (650) 756-5554.

FRIDAY, NOV. 22 THANKSGIVING BINGO: 6 p.m., St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School, 299 Precita Ave., San Francisco. Music, food and fun. Adult plate $5, kids $3. Hosted by sixth and eighth grades. (415) 648-2008.

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Home for needy elderly. 10 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Anne’s Home, 300 Lake St., San Francisco. Free admission.

Optional luncheon tickets can be purchased in advance at littlesistersofthepoor.org. Norma Libby at (650) 756-5554 or normal49@sbcglobal. net.

SATURDAY, NOV. 23 PAROL WORKSHOP: Do you need a parol for the Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass?

Or does your parol need repair? The Filipino Consultative Board is hosting a workshop from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Monica Parish social hall, 470 24th Ave., San Francisco. $8 or $10 for materials depending on size. Estelle.Oloresisimo@ gmail.com.

SUNDAY, NOV. 24 ART RETREAT: “Find God in All Things,” an artistic retreat with Katie Wolf, MFA. Vallombrosa Retreat Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. vallombrosa.org/calendar.

CATHEDRAL RECITAL CONCERT: Free, 4 p.m. recital at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Jin Kyung Lim, organist, with Amabilis Ensemble. Freewill offering. smcsf.org.

SATURDAY, NOV. 23 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Monthly Mass, lunch and fellowship for the disabled and their caregivers. Noon in St. Mary’s Cathedral lower hall, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Date subject to change. RSVP to Diane Prell, (415) 452-3500. www.handicapables. com.

MASS FOR HOMELESS DEAD: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will celebrate the second annual Requiem Mass for the Homeless Faithful Departed, 11 a.m., Church of the Visitacion, 655 Sunnydale Ave., San Francisco. sfarch.org/homelessmass or Martin Ford, fordm@sfarch.org.

OLIVE OIL BOUTIQUE: The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose annual holiday boutique with locally produced Christmas gifts and goodies. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 44326 Mission Circle, Fremont. Ninety percent of proceeds support motherhouse and senior sisters; 10% goes to victims of natural disasters. msjdominicans. org.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27

PAROL: Symbolizing Filipino Christmas spirit Parol, star-shaped, colorful lanterns, symbolize shared faith and hope to Filipino Catholics during the Christmas season.

The lanterns represent the star of Bethlehem that guided the wise men to the infant Jesus.

Parol are still used to light churches during the annual Simbang Gabi novena that begins Dec. 16, a devotion for petition of special favors.

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CHRISTMAS AT KOHL: Mercy High School’s Christmas boutique and craft fair, 5-9 p.m., Kohl Mansion, 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. More than 60 vendors. Sales benefit school’s alumni association. mercyhsb.org.

Mercy High School Burlingame is located at Kohl Mansion, a 63-room estate built in 1914 on 40 acres in the Burlingame hills.

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ILLNESS SUPPORT GROUP: Free spiritual support group for people with life-threatening illnesses. Session will also provide guidance on Catholic teaching and the preparation of Health Care Directives. First Fridays, 1-3 p.m., Msgr. Bowe room, St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. (415) 567-2020 ext. 218 or estahl@stmarycathedralsf.org.

‘O ANTIPHONS’: Archbishop Cordileone leads a St. Nicholas Day prayer service featuring the Benedict XVI Choir, 6 p.m., St. Patrick’s Seminary chapel, 320 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park. Focus on “O Antiphons,” ancient prayers sung at vespers during the last week of Advent. Free, but registration required. Eventbrite.com.

SATURDAY, DEC. 7 THURSDAY-SATURDAY, DEC. 5-7 MINISTRY CONFERENCE: The California Catholic Ministry Conference is the annual conference for catechists, liturgists, lay ministers, religious education directors and other interested Catholics statewide. San Jose Convention Center, 408 Almaden Blvd., San Jose. Register at cacmc.net.

FRIDAY, DEC. 6 CHARISMATIC RENEWAL: First Friday evening Mass each month at different parishes around the archdiocese. This month at Corpus Christi Parish, 62 Santa Rosa Ave., San

CRUZADA GUADALUPANA: Cruzada Guadalupana procession in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, begins at 5 a.m., All Souls Church, 315 Walnut Ave., South San Francisco, ends with 2 p.m. cathedral Mass. cruzadaguadalupana.org, or Pedro Garcia, (415) 333-4868, (415) 203-2418, pedro@ losninosinc.org.

PEACE MASS: First Saturday Mass for Reparation & for Peace in the world at 9 a.m., Mission Dolores Chapel, 3321 16th St., San Francisco. Father Francis Garbo, pastor and celebrant. missiondolores.org.

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TUESDAY, DEC. 10 SIMBANG GABI: The archdiocesan Filipino ministry hosts the annual Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass, 7:30 p.m., cathedral. The Mass heralds the beginning of parish Simbang Gabi novenas throughout the archdiocese. See ad on Page 9 for a detailed schedule.

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