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Pope: Year of Mercy initiatives must continue Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

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Pope Francis presents his apostolic letter, “Misericordia et Misera,” (Mercy and Misery) to a woman in a wheelchair at the conclusion of the closing Mass of the jubilee Year of Mercy in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Nov. 20. In the letter the pope called for several special initiatives begun during the Year of Mercy to continue on a permanent basis.

Prison pen pal program goes beyond Year of Mercy Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Locally incarcerated men and women will continue to receive handmade cards with messages of hope this Christmas and next year from young Catholic students and others as a prison pen pal program launched by the archdiocese earlier this year is extended into 2017. The Pen Pal Jr. program introduced by the archdiocese’s office of restorative justice for the Year of Mercy connects adolescent Catholic school and religious education students to prisoners in San Francisco County Jail and San Quentin State Prison. The program is active at Holy Angels School in Colma, Sacred Heart School in Atherton and St. Finn Barr and St. Stephen’s parishes in San Francisco. Julio Escobar, who organized the program and serves as a liaison between schools and parishes and local prisons, said the program helps young people embrace the concept of restorative justice

VATICAN CITY – Acknowledging and sharing God’s mercy is a permanent part of the Christian life, so initiatives undertaken during the special Year of Mercy must continue, Pope Francis said. “Mercy cannot become a mere parenthesis in the life of the church,” the pope wrote in an apostolic letter, “Misericordia et Misera,” (“Mercy and Misery”), which he signed Nov. 20 at the end of the Year of Mercy. The Vatican released the text the next day. The Catholic Church’s focus on God’s mercy must continue with individual acts of kindness, assistance to the poor and, particularly, with encouraging Catholics to participate in the sacrament of reconciliation and making it easier for them to do so, the pope wrote. In his letter, Pope Francis said he formally was giving all priests permanent permission to grant absolution to those who confess to having procured an abortion. While many bishops around the world, and almost all bishops in the United States, routinely grant that faculty to all their priests, Pope Francis had made it universal during the Holy Year. According to canon law, procuring an abortion brings automatic excommunication to those who know of the penalty, but procure the abortion anyway. Without formal permission, priests had been required to refer the case to their bishops before the excommunication could be lifted and sacramental absolution could be granted to a woman who had an abortion or those directly involved in the procedure. “I wish to restate as firmly as I can that abortion is see pope, page 16

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early in their lives while participating in a corporal work of mercy. Visiting the imprisoned is one the seven corporal acts of mercy. Students create handmade cards from colored construction paper, addressing the inmate as “Dear Friend” or “Dear Brother or Sister in Christ” and close the greeting with something like, “A friend in faith” and without using their own names. The cards are sent to Escobar, who brings them to the prisoners. Mary Molly Mullaney, director of religious education for St. Stephen Parish in San Francisco told Catholic San Francisco that her students have been working on Christmas cards for prisoners due to Escobar by Dec. 15. “We’ve been talking about the Year of Mercy and how it was about to end,” she said. “But it never ends – we have to continue to go out and use what we’ve learned.”

BALTIMORE – Like many others, the U.S. Catholic bishops are trying to figure out how to deal with a president-elect who’s different from anyone they’ve dealt with in the past and one involved in one of the most rancorous elections in modern times. As a candidate, Republican Donald Trump, said some things that proved hurtful and worrisome to groups of Latino and black Catholics, but also gave hope to Catholics concerned about religious freedom and abortion. At the fall general assembly of the U.S.

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Need to know Prayers for Archbishop Quinn: Your prayers are requested for Archbishop John Quinn, who fell ill while visiting Rome last week. He was recovering in the hospital from emergency surgery, and was conscious but remained in serious condition early this week. The archbishop emeritus, 87, was archbishop of San Francisco from 1977-1995. Immaculate Conception Mass: Archbishop Cordileone will celebrate Mass on Dec. 8 at 5:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St. at Geary, San Francisco, on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. The day is a holy day of obligation. There will be no vigil Mass at the cathedral on Dec. 7. Masses on Dec. 8 are set for 7:30 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. as usual, with a special 5:30 p.m. Mass. At the 5:30 Mass, seven Missionaries of Charity (St. Mother Teresa’s sisters) will make their first vows. All are welcome to attend all liturgies. Call (415) 5672020. Mañanitas Mass: The annual Mass at Mission Dolores Basilica celebrating appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego is scheduled for Dec. 12 at 4:45 a.m., auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice presiding, followed by a reception. The event will feature Knights of Columbus color corps and mariachi singers. Sponsored by the Guadalupe Society of Mission Dolores. SEASONAL EWTN: Advent and Christmas programming is available from EWTN. Watch Mass in Vatican City with Pope Francis, enjoy concerts from Europe, travel to sacred sites of the Holy Land. EWTN is available on Comcast 229, ATT 562, Astound 80, San Bruno Cable 143, Dish Satellite 261 and Direct TV 370. Marin SVdP asks assistance: Faced again with serving thousands meals from now through Christmas at its free dining room in San Rafael, the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County seeks help in increasing its food inventory. This season marks the 35th year that the Free Dining Room will provide complete Christmas meals to Marin’s low-income, elderly, disabled and homeless citizens. “We’re also extending an invitation to residents who are worried about feeding themselves or their families for the holidays. We’d like them to come here rather than be alone or hungry,” SVdP said. Donations of ground beef, fish, canned tuna, chicken and turkey are especially welcome and are accepted at 820 B St., San Rafael, from 6:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., seven days a week. Drivers may drive to the front of the Free Dining Room and hand off their donations to a volunteer. Last year, the Free Dining Room served more than 500 meals per day to local people in need; www. vinnies.org; (415) 454-3303, ext.16.

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Mission San Rafael celebrating bicentennial Tom Burke Catholic San Francisco

It is going to take a year but in those 12 months, the beauty, strength, hope, and most of all, faith brought over the last 200 years to the Bay Area and wider regions by Misión San Rafael Arcangel will be celebrated. The Marin community of faith begins the bicentennial of the mission’s foundation with Mass Dec. 17 at 5 p.m. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant. Msgr. Romulo A. Vergara, pastor, will be among the concelebrants. “On Dec. 17, 2016, Misión San Rafael Arcangel will be launching a yearlong bicentennial celebration,” Msgr. Vergara said. “In preparation for this event we will be highlighting the role that our Misión San Rafael has played through these 200 years. Culminating with a festivity that will encompass the multicultural diversity English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Brazilian that has been serving this community of faith, the city of San Rafael, and county of Marin.” Teri Brunner, mission curator from 2005-2015, is helping in the planning of the yearlong effort. The year “marks a milestone in serving a multicultural community,” Brunner told Catholic San Francisco. The mission served from 1817 until 1822 as a hospital then becoming what Brunner called a “fullfledged” mission until becoming “secularized” in 1834. “It was made an outpost for Gen. Fremont and Kit Carson in 1846/1847 and then by 1861 the old adobe walls were torn down. Sadly, in 1863 President Lincoln tried to save all of the missions but two years too late for Mission San Rafael,” Brunner said. A prelude to the Mass Dec. 17 includes Archbishop Cordileone initiating the ringing of the mission bells calling worshippers to prayer, then a procession into the church led by the archbishop, clergy, and invited dignitaries. After opening rites of the Mass, the names of those first baptized at the mission will be read by a representative of the Graton Rancheria tribe. Languages in the Mass, in addition to English, will include Spanish, Vietnamese and Portuguese as spoken by natives of Brazil. Recognized for their histories with the mission, Franciscan Friars, Dominican Sisters, and Native Americans will be part of the presentation of the gifts. The parish and mission have more than 300

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Prayer in Commemoration of the 200-year Anniversary of Misión San Rafael Arcángel Loving God, Two hundred years ago you moved hearts and minds to establish a mission in this place, under the patronage of St. Raphael, Angel of Healing. Today, in the city named for the angel, you continue to bless this multi-cultural community, enriching it through sacraments, education, and compassionate care of those seeking help. Please guide us on our journey into future years. Teach us to know you clearly, love you deeply, serve you generously, and trust joyfully that one day, in the company of St. Raphael and all those gone before us, we may live with you forever in heaven. Amen. volunteers assisting in its work. More than 3,000 families call it home. Some 400 visitors stop by each week. Organizers are now planning what hopes to be an activity a month during the bicentennial year including concerts and lectures. Visit www.saintraphael.com or call (415) 454-8141.

Archbishop Cordileone’s schedule Dec. 1: Chancery and Priest Personnel Board meetings Dec. 2: St. Nicholas Day celebration, seminary Dec. 3-5: St. Finn Barr parish and school visit

Dec. 8: Chancery Advent Day of Reflection, 12:10 p.m. Mass, cathedral; First Profession of Vows, Missionaries of Charity, 5:30 Mass, cathedral Dec. 9: Priests’ Prayer and Dialogue

Dec. 5: Catholic Charities board meeting

Dec. 10: Guadalupana Pilgrimage Mass, 2 p.m., cathedral

Dec. 7: Cabinet and chancery meetings

Dec. 10-11: St. Andrew Parish visit

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Holy Name School inaugurates Advent curriculum Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Holy Name of Jesus grade school students began “an Advent journey of daily reflections and intercessions” this week as the San Francisco school inaugurated a new Advent curriculum. Each classroom prays and reflects for about 10 minutes over the classroom Advent wreath each day, said principal Natalie Cirigliano said. The new Advent curriculum has roles for the students so they can participate in various ways, said Kristin Sullivan, the kindergarten teacher who suggested the new approach. “It just helps center the students,” Cirigliano said, who is in her second year as principal at Holy Name School. The daily prayer and readings remind students of the meaning of Advent, she said. Traditionally, Advent wreathes are constructed of a circle of evergreen branches into which four candles are inserted, representing the four weeks of Advent. The progressive lighting of the candles symbolizes the expectation and hope surrounding our Lord’s first coming into the world and the anticipation of his second coming to judge the living and the dead, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops explains on its website. Prayer, penance and almsgiving are all emphasized during Advent. Holy Name continues its long standing tradition of collecting newborn clothing for single mothers in need to be placed in baskets near a crèche. The school has named the project the Christ Child Layette. All year round, the

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Children collected infant clothing, here adorning the manger, in honor of Christ’s birth. The Advent wreath is central to the new curriculum. school of 332 K-8 students attends Mass on Thursdays, and the students and teachers will continue that through Advent, in addition to the special classroom Advent prayers each day. The school enjoys preparing for Christmas in all its aspects, Cirigliano said. “We have fun with Santa. We hide elves for the kids,” the principal said. However, she said, “We want them to remember what the real meaning of Christmas is and it is a time to be thankful for everything we have.” Kindergarten teacher Sullivan,

who is leading the schoolwide curriculum initiative, said it is based on an Advent Reflection exercise she learned at an archdiocesan religious certification workshop. The students also write in a prayer journal as part of the daily Advent reflection time. The “Team of Light” is responsible for turning off the classroom lights and lighting the candle or wreath at the beginning of each prayer time, reciting the opening call to prayer to accompany the lighting of the candle or wreath; and extinguishing the candle or wreath and turning on the

classroom light at the end of each prayer time. The “lectors” are responsible for finding the daily reading in the Bible so that it may be read from the book and are also responsible for reading aloud the daily reading from Sacred Scripture for the benefit of the class. The “timekeepers” are responsible for placing the stopwatch or other device and the chime in their appointed places before prayer, determining from the daily prayer script how much time will be taken for silence each day, serving as class timekeepers during silent meditation and during journaling by sounding the chime and keeping the time, and returning the chime and timekeeping device to their appointed places at the conclusion of each daily prayer. The “prophets” are readers who offer the daily meditation recalling the times leading up to the birth of Christ. They are responsible for reading the brief meditation assigned for each day. They are also classroom student leaders for any schoolwide Advent/ Christmas pageant or prayer service. The “ministers” offer the daily prayer intention and read the brief meditation assigned for each day. With the teacher, the “ministers,” with the teacher, lead class discussion to decide on 15 prayer intentions for Advent. They are also responsible for the cards to be signed and sent for each day’s prayer intention. The “apostles” offer the daily thought for building up the Reign of God, looking ahead to Christ’s second coming in glory. They read a brief meditation assigned for each day and are student leaders for a holiday service project.

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SPECIAL DAY: Mercy High School, Burlingame celebrated Homecoming Sept. 18 with more than 150 alumnae representing 40 years of graduations - 1946 through 2006 – honored. Father Stephen Howell, pastor, St. Philip Parish, San Francisco and longtime friend of the school, was principal celebrant of the Mass with music led by the Mercy chorale and Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. “Alumnae loved being together – many not having been back to Mercy since their graduation,” the school said. Pictured, from left, are members of the class of 2006 and1946 alumna Margaret Trembly Wyman: Maeve O’Reilly, Nicole (Tweed) Hudson, Jessica Farr, Angela DiMartino, Margaret Wyman, Samantha Schwerin, Sarah Derakhshandeh, Molly (Klase) Vasquez, Carmen (Kestekyan) Antonian.

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Believe in love and ‘tikkun olam’ This is the first of three Advent stories focusing on clients and volunteers served by Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Walking into a modular classroom in the parking lot at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in East Palo Alto, you hear the sounds of children winding down from a long day at school and getting out their books and papers to begin after-school literacy class at Catholic Charities Youth Club at St. Francis of Assisi. “Who wants to read to Ms. Herman?” Alicia, the after-school group leader yells out. A hand shoots into the air and Arlene Herman walks over to Chris, a third grader with a big smile on his face. Arlene sits down next to him and he starts reading aloud in a confident voice, eager to please. Arlene worked as a teacher for nearly 35 years at an affluent school in Palo Alto prior to her retirement five years ago. In retirement, Arlene felt a calling to work with children who did not have

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Arlene Herman helps a student at Catholic Charities Youth Club at St. Francis of Assisi with his after-school reading assignments. as many advantages as the students who had previously filled her classrooms; children, like Chris, who come from low-income, non-English speaking households in East Palo Alto.

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Thousands expected for Guadalupana pilgrimage Dec. 10 calls all Christians to pray and act in support of needy people. In Organizers expect thousands of pilgrims on this case, the inDec. 10 at the annual Guadalupana march venertention of the pilating Our Lady of Guadalupe in the archdiocese. grimage is offered The event, celebrating Our Lady’s miraculous apfor undocumented pearance to St. Juan Diego near Mexico City on immigrants, and Dec. 9, 1531, attracts pilgrims from the Bay Area, for those who other states and even Mexico, suffer abuse in Guadalupana founder Pedro García Méndez the workplace, said he believes that the event will draw about organizers said. 30,000 people. The march The pilgrims will walk on the streets of San starts at 6 a.m. at Francisco with the image of Our Lady of GuaAll Souls Church. dalupe, “La Morenita,” praying for her intervenAt 5:30 the piltion for fair immigration reform, less employee grims will receive abuse at work and peace in the world, Garcia (Photo by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco) a blessing by said. The Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine Auxiliary Bishop The purpose of the pilgrimage is implicit in at St. Mary’s Cathedral was William J. Justice the social doctrine of the Catholic Church; which covered with roses during the 2011 and will pray the Guadalupana celebration. first mystery of Franciscan Missionary the rosary, with All Souls pastor Father Briccio Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows St Clare’s Retreat R. Tamoro and archdiocesan vicar for adminisLorena Rojas

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tration Jesuit Father John Piderit expected to participate. At 6, participants will begin the 12-mile pilgrimage, stopping first at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. María Lupita Hernández will make her first appearance portraying Our Lady of Guadalupe and pilgrims will pray the second mystery of the rosary. Holy Angels Church is the second stop, where the interpreter of Our Lady will make her second presentation in English and Spanish and the pilgrims will pray the third mystery of the rosary. The pilgrims will continue their walk on Mission Street to St. John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco, with a third presentation by the interpreter of Our Lady and the praying of the fourth mystery of the rosary. At 10:30, the Azteca dancers will perform at 24th and Mission streets. The dancing will continue until the pilgrimage reaches St. Mary’s Cathedral, where another group of dancers will perform. The pilgrimage is scheduled to reach the cathedral plaza at 1:45 p.m., where the last and fifth mystery of the rosary will be prayed. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate Mass in honor of Our Lady at 2 p.m.

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She said she talked to her students about forgiveness not being about “forgive and forget,” but about working together to “make things right.” She described the message of one student who seemed wise beyond his years. “Listen up pal, I’ve only been on this planet so long and I’ve learned one important thing: determination ... Practically every tough situation I’ve been in I’ve gotten through by being determined (except my hopes of being a pensmith). Stay determined, Keep looking forward. When it rains, look for rainbows.” He signed it: “A silent over-watcher that cares.” Escobar said that the Pen Pal Jr. program is not just for kids but is a ministry that parishes could embrace as well. Handmade Christmas cards delivered to his office by Dec. 15 will get to prisoners in time for Christmas. Send cards to Julio Escobar, Restorative Justice Ministry, Attn: Pen Pal Jr. Project, Archdiocese of San Francisco, 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, 94109. Email escobarj@sfarch.org.

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ST. DUNSTAN SCHOOL, MILlBRAE: Students raised almost $1,200 for the Missionary Childhood Association for children in need around the world. Pictured at the school’s Oct. 27 Mass for MCA with Holy Ghost Father Diarmuid Casey, pastor, is the sixth grade class and principal Bruce Colville.

Prayer Breakfast: More than 400 interfaith leaders and civic officials gathered for the annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Prayer Breakfast, Nov. 22 at San Francisco’s Hotel Kabuki. Faith and social justice in San Francisco were the day’s themes. The event is organized by the San Francisco Interfaith Council. Attendees included Bishop William J. Justice, pictured with his right hand raised, with Father Raymund Reyes, vicar for clergy, to his right, and Father P. Gerard O’Rourke, retired director of interreligious affairs for the archdiocese, to his left.

USF food drive: More than 100 University of San Francisco volunteers delivered Thanksgiving baskets to 200 San Francisco families Nov. 19, the 20th year for the USF event. Supplies are purchased with money donated by USF faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Lucky/SaveMart and the San Francisco Food Bank are among others assisting in the day.

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL, BELMONT: Congratulations to seniors Eden Grown-Haeberli, Brooke Badgett, and Cailyn Olson, Commended Students in 2017 National Merit Scholarship competitions. The young women are among the top 5 percent of the more than 1.6 million students who took part in the competitions.

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SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY: In honor of Veterans Day, the Sacred Heart Cathedral community collected 4,048 pieces of candy. All donations are headed to Operation Gratitude and will be sent to deployed troops. Pictured, from left, are SHC seniors Connor Claros, Vita Solorio-Fielder, Jack Bajek and Enzo Anastasio.

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For Cuban exiles, painful memories mix with relief at Castro’s death Ana Rodriguez-Soto Catholic News Service

MIAMI – While many celebrated loudly on the streets, the death of Fidel Castro triggered a more subdued reaction among the Cuban exiles who attended the noon Mass Nov. 26 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Charity. “Today is a day like any other,” Luis Gutierrez told the Florida Catholic, Miami’s archdiocesan newspaper. “The fact that ‘el caballo’ has died means nothing.” Gutierrez used the Cuban slang – “caballo,” or horse – for Castro, whose death had been announced earlier that morning. The 90-year-old reportedly died late at night Nov. 25. But his 57-year-old regime continues

to rule Cuba, with his younger brother, Raul Castro, now at the helm. That is why, despite the joy on the streets of Little Havana, Westchester and Hialeah, the death of Fidel Castro in 2016 means much less than it would have in 1976 or even 2006. An oppressive regime still shackles basic freedoms on the island, keeping a stranglehold on a beleaguered economy. In 1976, Cuba’s Communist Party approved a new socialist constitution and Fidel was elected president. Before that, starting in 1959, he was prime minister following the successful revolution he led to overturn the Batista regime. In 2006, while he underwent intestinal surgery, Fidel temporarily turned over power to younger brother Raul. He resigned in 2008 and Cuba’s National Assembly named Raul the

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Cuban faith and patriotism, and also a place where exiles and immigrants from all the nations of Latin America come to give thanks or seek Mary’s intercession. “I pray the rosary every day,” Gutierrez said, adding that his prayers that day remained the same. “I pray for my family and for freedom in Cuba.” His feelings were echoed by Marizol and Alfredo Mendez, who also come to the shrine every Saturday, out of devotion to Mary and to spend some time “in peace,” as he put it. “It’s a relief, a new dawn,” said Alfredo of Castro’s passing. He and Marizol left Cuba for Spain and arrived in the U.S. five years later, in 1978. They have never gone back. As for Fidel’s death, Marizol noted, “We got rid of the horse but the saddle remains.” For the Mendezes and all the others celebrating on the streets or marking the day quietly at home, Castro’s death caused memories to surface: of lives interrupted or ended, of courage and sacrifices made, of parents and grandparents who longed to see this day but died before doing so. Alfredo Mendez recalled the violent, early days of Castro’s revolution, when priests and religious were persecuted. He personally sheltered one of them: Father Feliciano del Vals of the church of San Juan de Letran in Havana’s El Vedado neighborhood. The priest was among thousands see castro, page 15

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Detroit synod: ‘Total mobilization’

DETROIT – A Nov. 18 procession in downtown Detroit from the Westin Book Cadillac hotel to St. Aloysius Church was the start of a new day for the Catholic Church in southeast Michigan, a day in which the local church would strive, as Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron had repeatedly said, “to shift from maintenance to mission.” “The world is waiting for the good news of Jesus Christ,” Archbishop Vigneron proclaimed as he officially opened Synod 16, the 11th general synod of the archdiocese of Detroit and the first in southeast Michigan in 47 years. “We made a big deal about this in our planning: we need to be patiently urgent. We need to have the patience that comes from waiting and trusting in God, but we need to be urgent about it,” Archbishop Vigneron said. The “it” to which the archbishop referred was the work of evangelization, or, as he told the more than 400 synod members, experts, facilitators and observers gathered at the Westin, “what will make the church in southeast Michigan a joyful band of missionary disciples.” In their first official act, the 358 synod members – including laypeople, priests, religious and bishops from all corners and ministries of the archdiocese – solemnly professed the Nicene Creed and an oath of fidelity during the opening Mass, processing up individually to

place their right hand on the book of the Gospels. The purpose of the synod is to provide advice and counsel to the archbishop about the future direction of the archdiocese. “This is about a total mobilization; that’s what the synod does. It’s different even from a kind of massive strategic planning event, because it engages the whole diocese,” Archbishop Vigneron told The Michigan Catholic, Detroit’s archdiocesan newspaper. After the Mass and the archbishop’s address, the synod members gathered to begin their task of discussing, debating and deliberating on the synod’s 46 themes over the weekend, broken into four sessions on individuals, families, parishes and Archdiocesan Central Services, which includes administrative offices and ministry offices.

Academy of Sciences Nov. 25-29 to discuss the impact of scientific knowledge and technology on people and the planet. People in the modern world have grown up “thinking we are the owners and masters of nature, authorized to plunder it without any consideration for its secret potential and evolutionary laws, as if it were an inert substance at our disposal, causing, among other things, a very serious loss of biodiversity,” he said. An “ecological conversion” is needed in which people recognize their responsibility for caring for creation and its resources, for trying to bring about social justice and for overcoming “an unfair system that produces misery, inequality and exclusion,” the pope said. In fact, with sustainable development, the tasks of taking care of both people and the planet are inseparable, he said.

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VATICAN CITY – Humanity does not own God’s gift of creation and has no right to pillage it, Pope Francis said. “We are not custodians of a museum and its masterpieces that we have to dust off every morning, but rather collaborators in the conservation and development of the existence and biodiversity of the planet and human life,” he said Nov. 28. The pope addressed experts attending a plenary session of the Pontifical

MONTREAL – The Catholic bishops of Rwanda asked forgiveness for Catholics’ role in the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 people – mostly ethnic Tutsis – were killed. The letter was published to coincide with the end of the Jubilee of Mercy. All the bishops in the country signed the three-page document, which was read in every church Nov. 20. Written in Kinyarwanda, it should soon be translated in English and French, Rwanda’s other official languages. In 14 points, the bishops ask forgiveness for the role that some members of the Catholic Church played during

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VATICAN CITY – Visiting young women rescued from forced prostitution and meeting with a mother inconsolable over the loss of one of her newborn triplets are images from the Year of Mercy that Pope Francis said remain impressed on his heart. Reviewing the Holy Year in a 40-minute interview aired Nov. 20 on TV2000, a television station owned by the Italian bishops’ conference, Pope Francis also spoke about handling stress, his upcoming 80th birthday and a sense of humor, among other topics. Asked about the Mercy Friday visits he made once a month during the Holy Year, the pope said the visit with women rescued from human trafficking and his visit to the neonatal ward of a Rome hospital were the visits that stand out. Visiting Rome’s San Giovanni Hospital in September, he said, “there was a woman who cried and cried and cried standing by her two infants – tiny, but beautiful. The third had died.” “She cried for that dead child while she caressed the other two,” the pope said. “It’s the gift of life.” “And I thought of the practice of getting rid of babies before they are born – this horrible crime. They get rid of them because ‘it’s better that way,’ because it is easier, ‘it is a big responsibility.’ That is a serious sin,” the pope said. “This woman had three children and wept for the one who died; she was unable to console herself with the two remaining.” The other Mercy Friday event that was powerful, he said, was visiting a community of 15 young women who had been rescued from the traffickers who had forced them into prostitution. One from Africa, “very beautiful, very young,” was pregnant. And she told the pope that her traffickers had beat and tortured her, even when she was pregnant. In a previous pregnancy, they made her work the streets the whole time. “She told me, ‘Father, I gave birth on the street

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in winter. Alone. All alone. My daughter died,’” the pope said, clutching his heart. Each of the young women told horror stories, he said, and he kept thinking not only about the traffickers, but about the men who went to the young women. “Don’t they know that with the money they paid for sexual satisfaction they were helping the traffickers?” Pope Francis said he believes God used the Year of Mercy to plant seeds and “I believe the Lord will make grow good, simple, daily things in the life of the people – nothing spectacular.” The pope has told interviewers before that he prays a prayer of St. Thomas More that includes the request, “Grant me, O Lord, a sense of good humor. Allow me the grace to be able to take a joke to discover in life a bit of joy, and to be able to share it with others.” The TV2000 interviewers said that sounded

strange coming from a pope and asked him why. “A sense of humor gives you relief, it helps you see what is temporary in life and take things with the spirit of a soul who has been redeemed,” the pope said. “It’s a human attitude, but it is very close to the grace of God.” Having a sense of humor, he said, helps one be like a child before God and “to praise the Lord with a smile, but also a joke well told.” The interviewers began a question, “Holy Father, in a month you will be 80 ...” but he cut them off, “Who me?” Insisting, they asked the pope how he manages to do all he does. The pope joked that he has “magic tea,” but then said what helps most is prayer. “That helps me a lot. I pray. Prayer is a help; it is being with the Lord. I celebrate Mass, pray the breviary, speak to the Lord, pray the rosary.” Another thing, he said, is “I sleep well, which is a gift from the Lord. I sleep like a log” six hours each night. Is it easier to put up with “detractors” or with “the false admiration” of sycophants, he was asked. “The second!” he responded. “I’m allergic to flatterers,” the pope said. In Argentina, he said, they would be referred to as “sock-lickers” – like bootlickers – “which is a really good name.” As for critics, the pope said that he knows he deserves criticism because he is a sinner, so even if a specific critique is not fair, he still deserves it.

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VATICAN CITY – Death and final judgment before the Lord are not frightening if you live being faithful to God, Pope Francis said. “It will do us good to think about this: ‘Well, what will that day be like when I am before Jesus? When he

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will ask me about the talents he gave me, what I did with them,’” the pope said Nov. 22 during morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives. Reflecting on the day’s readings, including the responsorial psalm, the pope looked at the call of God: “Remain faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.” The Lord will come to judge the earth, Pope Francis said. However, some people don’t recognize that fact, deceiving themselves into thinking the end is nowhere in sight, and how they live on earth has no consequences after death, he said. “I remember when I was a boy, when I’d go to catechism they taught us four things: death, judgment, hell or glory – that after judgment there’s this possibility” of going to hell or sharing in God’s glory, the pope said. But the kids were incredulous, he said, telling

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Sunday readings

Second Sunday of Advent ISAIAH 11:1-10 On that day, a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, a spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit of knowledge and of fear of the Lord, and his delight shall be the fear of the Lord. Not by appearance shall he judge, nor by hearsay shall he decide, but he shall judge the poor with justice, and decide aright for the land’s afflicted. He shall strike the ruthless with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. Justice shall be the band around his waist, and faithfulness a belt upon his hips. Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; the calf and the young lion shall browse together, with a little child to guide them. The cow and the bear shall be neighbors, together their young shall rest; the lion shall eat hay like the ox. The baby shall play by the cobra’s den, and the child lay his hand on the adder’s lair. There shall be no harm or ruin on all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the Lord, as water covers the sea. On that day, the root of Jesse, set up as a signal for the nations, the Gentiles shall seek out, for his dwelling shall be glorious. PSALM 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace forever. O God, with your judgment endow the king, and with your justice, the king’s son; he shall govern your people with justice and your afflicted ones with judgment.

Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace forever. Justice shall flower in his days, and profound peace, till the moon be no more. May he rule from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace forever. For he shall rescue the poor when he cries out, and the afflicted when he has no one to help him. He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor; the lives of the poor he shall save. Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace forever. May his name be blessed forever; as long as the sun his name shall remain. In him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed; all the nations shall proclaim his happiness. Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace forever. ROMANS 15:4-9 Brothers and sisters: Whatever was written previously was written for our instruction, that by endurance and by the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to think in harmony with one another in keeping with Christ Jesus, that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Welcome one another, then, as Christ welcomed you, for the glory of God. For I say that Christ became a minister of the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, to confirm the promises to the patriarchs, but so that the Gentiles might glorify God for his

mercy. As it is written: Therefore, I will praise you among the Gentiles and sing praises to your name. MATTHEW 3:1-12 John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” It was of him that the prophet Isaiah had spoken when he said: A voice of one crying out in the desert, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. John wore clothing made of camel’s hair and had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. At that time Jerusalem, all Judea, and the whole region around the Jordan were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they acknowledged their sins. When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones. Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. I am baptizing you with water, for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I. I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in his hand. He will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Two stories for Advent

an we feel both terror and consolation at the same time? How can such completely opposite feelings co-exist? How can we endure Isaiah’s consoling vision of concord, anticipating the peace of the King’s rule, where the wolf lies down with the lamb – and moments later, abide John the Baptist’s condemnation of his visitors, “You brood of vipers ...” who will “burn with unquenchable fire”? We sense we are living two stories at once – one of peace, one of war, one of remembering wounds, one of healing. As a family historian, I discovered, in a collection of my deceased grandmother’s photos, a black and sister Eloise white glossy dated April Rosenblatt, RSM 1945. I view this group of 16 well-dressed adults mostly single women in their 20s, with one blond-haired baby girl in a mother’s arms. This is a celebration so elated, the photographer didn’t have to say, “Smile!” because they already are. I immediately understand the moment: The war is over. By this time, Germany has been bombed into retreat, its Luftwaffe air power broken, Russians moving onto Berlin, Hitler trapped, and the major battles against Japan in the Pacific theatre won, assur-

scripture reflection

These Advent readings help us navigate between stories which set off competing emotions – dread and joy, anxiety and hope, paralyzing anger and energized action. ing a victory for the Allies. So this chapter of the story begins with a promise of peace, like Isaiah. Yet there has to be anxiety. WWII is over, but still not done. There are five men, 11 women. Most of the brothers, fiances, husbands, and boyfriends are still at the front, at sea, on maneuvers – still in danger. Will the end of war see their return? So there are two stories – the joyful smiles and collective relief mask a dread for which this moment is a balm of distraction. These Advent readings help us navigate between stories which set off competing emotions – dread and joy, anxiety and hope, paralyzing anger and energized action. Isaiah’s consoling poetry is an ecological vision of peace among human beings reproduced in the harmony of nature. No more war. No more enemies or predators, only neighbors in calm co-existence. But Isaiah’s poetry of peace is only one story. John the Baptist, son of the honorable priest Zachary and well-born Elizabeth, has proved to be a renegade. He shouts out a different story – the religious institution is corrupt, society is

compromised and people’s personal lives are crooked and misdirected. He calls for interior war, an ax laid to the root of the trees. He’s a turn-coat to his parents’ complacency, damning his generation’s values as corrupt and unredeemable. “You brood of vipers” must have shocked his hearers who were neighbors of his parents. His story is one of fundamental protest – he’s traded the desert for a house. He’s become a vegan. Locusts are not tended and wild honey is not cultivated and neither is ever a Temple offering. He’s even rejected clothes, making himself naked like an animal. He rejects theological platitudes – don’t presume salvation is yours because you call yourself children of Abraham! It’s a non-stop rant, a diatribe, a castigation, a threat, a summons. The beginning of this new story is “Repent!” Change yourselves. Change what you have been doing, thinking, feeling, and expecting. The end of the story of Isaiah is a world at peace because it is filled with the knowledge of the true God. The story of John the Baptist is an interior, personal war against tradition and corrupt institutions. He foretells the end of the story – a baptizing, winnowing, threshing, sorting and clearing led by Jesus. Which story is mine this Advent? How does it begin, and what end do I hope for? Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, RSM, is a Sister of Mercy and Ph.D. theologian. She is an attorney in private practice in family law and works in San Jose.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, December 5: Monday of the Second Week in Advent. Is 35:1-10. Ps 85:9ab and 10, 1112, 13-14. Lk 5:17-26.

Wednesday, December 7: Memorial of St. Ambrose, bishop and doctor. Is 40:25-31. Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 8 and 10. Mt 11:28-30.

Tuesday, December 6: Tuesday of the Second Week in Advent. Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas, bishop. Is 40:1-11. Ps 96:1-2, 3 and 10ac, 11-12, 13. Mt 18:12-14.

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

Friday, December 9: Friday of the Second Week in Advent. Optional Memorial of St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. Is 48:17-19. Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. Mt 11:16-19. Saturday, December 10: Saturday of the Second Week in Advent. Sir 48:1-4, 9-11. Ps 80:2ac and 3b, 15-16, 18-19. Lk 3:4, 6. Mt 17:9a, 10-13.

12 opinion Letters A perfect Mass

It was brought to our attention during a prayer meeting this week that Catholics are exiting the church this year in the largest numbers ever, many of whom consider the Mass totally boring, irrelevant, and uninspiring. However, this Thanksgiving Day I attended a Mass so perfect that I said to the presiding priest, “Why can’t all Masses be like this one? What made it so special? It began with an examination of conscience. We were directed to examine our conscience in accordance with the Lord’s precepts to determine what areas we pledge to work on to become more and more like Christ so we can evolve spiritually each week as we attend Mass - which in time is a transforming experience. Being uplifted by the glorious music that accompanied each portion of the Mass, we were inspired by the sacred readings from the Bible. During the Gospel, it was as though Christ were present right there speaking directly to us with his story about the 10 lepers. The priest then commented “briefly” on the Gospel, covering the salient points, more of which was unnecessary because parishioners are more than capable of filling in the blanks. The priest then spoke “brief” words of praise and petition (avoiding all endless lists of saints’ names in a sonorous monotone which would have put half the community to sleep) before offering the Communion. There were no screaming babies or young children writhing in pain as their distracted parents tried to appease them in an effort to participate in their essential weekly spiritual boost. Then it happened! Through the miracle that only our dearest precious Lord Jesus Christ could ever conceive of, we were invited to receive his body and blood – remembering his explanation to the Apostles when everyone else walked away: “It is the spirit that gives life, while there is no life in the body. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life” (John 6:63). What makes a family? The same blood. We were now united at the Mass as one family with the blood of Christ. What a miracle is the Mass? God living in us – as he unites us together – as we evolve from glory to glory as he leads us along his narrow path. What better way to bring peace on earth? This was all accomplished in 45 minutes, leaving time for those who wished to remain for personal prayer. No one was exhausted or anxious to leave. There were just smiles of an energized community. And so I ask, “Why can’t all Masses be like this one? Maybe fewer people would be leaving the church – and it may even bring back a few wayfarers. Mary Pecci San Francisco

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The dangers in being a warrior prophet

prophet makes a vow of love, not of alienation. Daniel Berrigan wrote those words and they need to be highlighted today when a lot of very sincere, committed, religious people self-define as cultural warriors, as prophets at war with secular culture. This is the stance of many seminarians, clergy, bishFATHER ron ops, and whole rolheiser denominations of Christians today. It is a virtual mantra within in the “religious right” and in many Roman Catholic seminaries. In this outlook, secular culture is seen as a negative force that’s threatening our faith, morals, religious liberties, and churches. Secular culture is viewed as, for the main part, being anti-Christian, anti-ecclesial, and anti-clerical and its political correctness is seen to protect everyone except Christians. More worrisome for these cultural warriors is what they see as the “slippery slope” wherein they see our culture as sliding ever further away from our Judeo-Christian roots. In the face of this, they believe, the churches must be highly vigilant, defensive, and in a warrior stance. Partly they’re correct. There are voices and movements within secular culture that do threaten some essentials within our faith and moral lives, as is seen in the issue of abortion, and there is the danger of the “slippery slope.” But the real picture is far more nuanced than this defensiveness merits. Secularity, for all its narcissism, false freedoms,

and superficiality, also carries many key Christian values that challenge to us to live more deeply our own principles. Moreover the issues on which they challenge us are not minor ones. Secular culture, in its best expressions, is a powerful challenge to everyone in the world to be more sensitive and more moral in the face of economic inequality, human rights violations, war, racism, sexism, and the ravaging of Mother Nature for short-term gain. The voice of God is also inside secular culture. Christian prophecy must account for that. Secular culture is not anti-Christ. It ultimately comes out of JudeoChristian roots and has inextricably embedded within its core many central values of Judeo-Christianity. We need then to be careful, to not blindly be fighting truth, justice, the poor, equality, and the integrity of creation. Too often, in a black-and-white approach, we end up having God fighting God. A prophet has to be characterized first of all by love, by empathy for the very persons he or she is challenging. Moreover, as Gustavo Gutierrez teaches, our words of challenge must come more out of our gratitude than out of our anger, no matter how justified the anger. Being angry, being in someone else’s face, shredding those who don’t agree with us with hate-filled rhetoric, and winning bitter arguments, admittedly, might be politically effective sometimes. But all of these are counterproductive long term because they harden hearts rather than soften them. True conversion can never come about by coercion, physical or intellectual. Hearts only change when they’re touched by love. All of us know this from experience. We can only truly accept a strong challenge to clean up something in our lives if we first know that this challenge is coming to us because someone loves

us, and loves us enough to care for us in this deep way. This alone can soften our hearts. Every other kind of challenge only works to harden hearts. So before we can effectively speak a prophetic challenge to our culture we must first let the people we are trying to win over know that we love them, and love them enough to care about them in this deep way. Too often this is not the case. Our culture doesn’t sense or believe that we love it, which, I believe, more than any other factor renders so much of our prophetic challenge useless and even counterproductive today. Our prophecy must mirror that of Jesus: As he approached the city of Jerusalem shortly before his death, knowing that its inhabitants, in all good conscience, were going to kill him, he wept over it. But his tears were not for himself, that he was right and they were wrong and that his death would make that clear. His tears were for them, for the very ones who opposed him, who would kill him and then fall flat on their faces. Father Larry Rosebaugh one of my Oblate confreres who spent his priesthood fighting for the peace and justice and was shot to death in Guatemala, shares in his autobiography how on the night before his first arrest for civil disobedience he spent the entire night in prayer and in the morning as he walked out to do the nonviolent act that would lead to his arrest, was told by Daniel Berrigan: “If you can’t do this without getting angry at the people who oppose you, don’t do it! This has to be an act of love.” Prophecy has to be an act of love; otherwise it’s merely alienation. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

On our need for the real Thomas More

ext month marks the 50th anniversary of the film, “A Man for All Seasons.” And if it’s impossible to imagine such a picture on such a theme winning Oscars today, then let’s be grateful that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences got it right by giving Fred Zinnemann’s splendid movie six of its awards in 1967 – when, george weigel reputedly, Audrey Hepburn lifted her eyes to heaven before announcing with obvious pleasure that this cinematic celebration of the witness and martyrdom of Sir Thomas More had beaten “The Sand Pebbles,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?” “Alfie,” and “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” for best picture. Intriguingly, though, “A Man for All Seasons” is a magnificent religious film – perhaps the best ever – despite its author’s stated intentions. Robert Bolt’s introduction to his play, which led to the movie, makes it rather clear that author Bolt saw More less as a Catholic martyr than as an existential hero, an approach befitting the hot philosophical movement of the day (which was, of course, the ‘60s). As Bolt put it: “Thomas More…became for me a man with an adamantine sense of his own self. He knew where he began and left off, what areas of himself he could yield to the encroachments of his en-

emies, and what to the encroachments of those he loved. It was a substantial area in both cases, for he had a proper sense of fear and was a busy lover. Since he was a clever man and a great lawyer he was able to retire from those areas in wonderfully good order, but at last he was asked to retreat from that final area where he located his self. And there this supple, humorous, unassuming, and sophisticated person set like metal, was overtaken by an absolutely primitive rigor, and could no more be budged than a cliff… “What attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.” Yet this portrait of Thomas-More-asTudor-era-existentialist doesn’t quite convince, because Bolt, perhaps in spite of himself, gave us a different More in his drama and later in his screenplay – a More who “grasps” his death, not as an existential stalwart, a courageously autonomous “self,” but as a Catholic willing to die for the truth, which has grasped him as the love of God in Christ. Thus when More’s intellectually gifted daughter Margaret, having failed to argue him out of his refusal to countenance Henry VIII’s divorce and subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn, plays her final card and cries, “But in reason! Haven’t you done as much as God can reasonably want?” More replies, haltingly, “Well…finally…it isn’t a matter of reason; finally it’s a matter of love.”

And not love of self, but love of God and love of the truth. For the God who is truth all the way through is also, St. John the Evangelist teaches us, love itself. And to be transformed by that love is to live in the truth – the truth that sets us free in the deepest and noblest meaning of human liberation. There was something worthy and inspiring about certain aspects of existentialism: Not the soured existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, which quickly decomposed into nihilism, but the heroic existentialism of a Camus, who could not abide the anti-clerical Catholic progressives of his day and who sought a world in which we could be, as he put it, “neither victims nor executioners.” But it was Sartrean existentialism that won the day, at least insofar as one can trace a line from Sartre to contemporary narcissism, displayed today in everything from temper tantrums on university campuses by over-privileged and undereducated barbarians to voters across the Western world who seek relief from their grievances – some quite legitimate – in adherence to some pretty dreadful characters. In this unhappy situation, we need the real Thomas More: The Thomas More who bore witness and ultimately “grasped his death,” not to vindicate his sense of self, but as the final and ultimate act of thanks for his having been grasped, and saved, by truth itself, the thrice-holy God. Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

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A pilgrim, a bishop and his iPhone

’m in the process of re-reading a spiritual classic from the Russian Orthodox tradition: “The Way of a Pilgrim.” This little text, whose author is unknown to us, concerns a man from mid-19th century Russia who found himself deeply puzzled by St. Paul’s comment in First Thessalonians that we should “pray unceasingly.” How, he wondered, BISHOP Robert amidst all of Barron the demands of life, is this even possible? How could the apostle command something so patently absurd? His botheration led him, finally, to a monastery and a conversation with an elderly spiritual teacher who revealed the secret. He taught the man the simple prayer that stands at the heart of the Eastern Christian mystical tradition, the so-called “Jesus prayer.” “As you breathe in,” he told him, say, ‘Lord Jesus Christ,’ and as you breathe out, say, ‘Have mercy on me.’” When the searcher looked at him with some

puzzlement, the elder instructed him to go back to his room and pray these words a thousand times. When the younger man returned and announced his successful completion of the task, he was told, “Now go pray it ten thousand times!” This was the manner in which the spiritual master was placing this prayer on the student’s lips so that it might enter his heart and into the rhythm of his breathing in and out, and finally become so second nature to him that he was, consciously or unconsciously, praying it all the time, indeed praying just as St. Paul had instructed the Thessalonians. In the power of the Spirit, the young man then set out to wander through the Russian forests and plains, the Jesus prayer perpetually on his lips. The only object of value that he had in his rucksack was the Bible, and with the last two rubles in his possession, he purchased a beat-up copy of the Philokalia, a collection of prayers and sayings from the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Sleeping outdoors, fending largely for himself, relying occasionally on the kindness of strangers, reading his books and praying his prayer, he made his way. One day, two deserters from the Russian army accosted him on the road, beat him unconscious and stole his two treasures. When he

came around and discovered his loss, the man was devastated and wept openly: how could he go on without food for his soul? Through a fortuitous set of circumstances, he managed to recover his lost possessions, and when he had them once again, he hugged them to his chest, gripping them so hard that his fingers practically locked in place around them. I would invite you to stay with that image for a moment. We see a man with no wealth, no power, no influence in society, no fame to speak of, practically no physical possessions – but clinging with all of him might and with fierce protectiveness to two things whose sole purpose is to feed his soul. Here’s my question for you: What would you cling to in such a way? What precisely is it, the loss of which would produce in you a kind of panic? What would make you cry, once you realized that you no longer had it? And to make the questions more pointed, let’s assume that you were on a desert island or that you, like the Russian pilgrim, had no resources to go out and buy a replacement. Would it be your car? Your home? Your golf clubs? Your computer? To be honest, I think for me it might be my iPhone. If suddenly I lost my ability to make a call, my contacts, my music, my

GPS, my maps, my email, etc., I would panic – and I would probably cry for sheer joy once I had the phone back, and my fingers would close around it like a claw. What makes this confession more than a little troubling is that, ten years ago, I didn’t even own a cell phone. I lived my life perfectly well without it, and if you had told me then that I would never have one, it wouldn’t have bothered me a bit. What I particularly love about the pilgrim is that he was preoccupied, not about any of the passing, evanescent goods of the world, but rather about prayer, about a sustained contact with the eternal God. He didn’t care about the things that obsess most of us most of the time: money, power, fame, success. And the only possessions that concerned him were those simple books that fed his relationship to God. Or to turn it around, he wasn’t frightened by the loss of any finite good; but he was frightened to death at the prospect of losing his contact with the living God. So, what would you cling to like a desperate animal? What loss would you fear? What do you ultimately love? Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron is the founder of the global media ministry Word on Fire.

Prayer box taps into spiritual hunger

he box went up on a Monday evening in August, a plain white box nestled inside a little wooden tent, mounted atop a fence and beneath the outermost reach of a maple. “Prayer requests,” reads the side of the tent in black, all-caps lettering. The box has a slot, like one awaiting Valentines, Christina and the mesCappecchi sage: “Please write down any prayer requests. We would love to be praying for you!” Keanu Krech didn’t know what to expect when he set up the prayer box, tucking in a pen and a rock to hold down scraps of paper. The college senior, 22, positioned the box at the edge of his childhood home, which is

on a busy residential road between a highway and a gas station in South St. Paul, Minnesota. But Keanu knew he wanted to extend the power of prayer as broadly as he could, with a quiet anonymity. He was putting a twist on the Little Free Library concept that began just 20 miles east, in Hudson, Wisconsin, and now exceeds 50,000 locations worldwide, knitting together neighborhoods with a warm and fuzzy literary fiber. He planned to share the prayer requests, if they came, with his Monday night Bible study, a small group of college-age students. The next day Keanu peeked inside the box and discovered a handwritten note: “For those who are walking not knowing God, heal those with addictions, and for the men and women overseas fighting for our freedom.” It was a heavy start, covering so much in such little space. The prayer box was off and running. Keanu and his friends began to pray. In three months, the box has

Looking East

First-Saturday “Looking East” Lecture on Eastern Catholicism Topic: “The Breath of the Father’s Life and the Gift of His Love: A reflection on the Holy Spirit within the Byzantine Christian Tradition” December 3, 2016, 1 p.m. Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church

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amassed about 100 prayer requests. Never a week has passed without someone slipping a note inside. “Please pray for my marriage,” someone wrote. “Please pray for us that we get a roof over our family’s heads before winter comes,” a note stated in round, puffy lettering. “I’m here in town with the show ‘Cabaret.’ I just ran my first half-

marathon and have lost 270 pounds. Continue to pray for me on my health journey,” a passerby wrote last month. “Pray for me,” someone wrote with a left-handed slope. “I picked up a bad drug problem and I’ve lost my family and everyone I love and I don’t know what to do. ...Please pray that God will help me with my troubles.” see cappecchi, page 14

GUADALUPE SOCIETY OF MISSION DOLORES The Guadalupe Society of Mission Dolores proudly invites one and all to our Virgin of Guadalupe’s 485th Anniversary “Mañanitas” Mass on Monday, December 12th at 4:45 a.m. We will assemble in the school auditorium; proceed with the Mariachi Singers, Knights of Columbus Color Corps, and early risers to the door of the Basilica. Auxiliary Bishop William Justice will preside the Solemn Mass with our Pastor Francis Garbo and visiting priests. This Mexican tradition has been a very beautiful event to share with San Franciscans and visitor for over 40 years. The Mass will be followed by a reception with hot tamales, Mexican pastries and hot beverages in the auditorium. Plan to attend and rejoice God's loving presences in Mary. All are invited to come! Parking is available in the school yard located on Church and 17th Street. For more information, please call one of the following Kati/Bob Huerta at (415) 239-9107; Gloria De Leon at (415) 334-3549; or Julisa Cruz at (415) 613-8135.

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Obituary Father Tom Moran

Father Tom Moran died Nov. 11 at Nazareth House in San Rafael where he had lived since 2015. Ordained April 9, 1988, he was 78 years old. Father Moran is a former pastor of St. Charles Parish, San Carlos, as well Father Tom as former director Moran of vocations for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He also served at parishes including San Francisco’s St. Gabriel and Epiphany, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Redwood City; and St. Bartholomew, San Mateo. “Parishioners regularly noted throughout his years of ministry that he had the ability to make others feel at

ease; was hardworking, sincere and cheerful; had a compassionate attitude; enriched liturgies with his homilies; and was highly involved in parish activities,” the archdiocese said in announcing his death. “Because of his strong one-on-one communication skills, his humility and transparency, and his heartfelt concern for others, Tom spoke often and effectively of his early struggles with alcohol. He joined Alcoholics Anonymous in 1980, a decision that had lasting effects on his life, and on the lives of the many, many men and women for whom he served as a sponsor over the years.” A funeral Mass was celebrated Nov. 18 at St. Bartholomew Church. Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

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Others are shorter. “Arleen’s foot to heal.” “Amber’s eye surgery.” “For God to place good people in Kelly’s life.” Now Keanu and his friends are praying for Arleen and Amber and Kelly, for the faces they will never see whose hearts have been revealed. “I’m surprised how deep the prayer requests are, how vulnerable they are,” he told me. “I’ve read some and just cried.” As a teen Keanu felt the weight of depression and the tug of life’s big questions. He didn’t attend church, but he’d stay up late, laptop in bed, pouring over YouTube videos from Christians and responses from athe-

ists in an endless loop. His head was spinning and his heart was aching. Finally, his mom called a youth minister at her parents’ Methodist church to field Keanu’s questions. They met at a coffee shop and struck up a friendship over hot chocolate. Soon Keanu was attending Sunday night worship services. Something changed in his heart: For the first time in a long time, he felt hope. As Keanu completes his bachelor’s degree in pastoral ministry, he’s letting his faith guide the next chapter. The goal, he says, plain and simple: To love God and love others. And as long as people keep submitting prayer requests, he’ll keep praying for them. Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, and editor of SisterStory.org.

The Filipino Ministry Consultative Board of the Archdiocese of S an Francisco invites you to its 9th Annual The Filipino Ministry Consultative Board of the Archdiocese of San Francisco invites you to its 9th Annual

Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass Tuesday, December 6, 2016 7:30pm at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption Tuesday, December 6, 2016 1111 Gough St, San Francisco, CA 94109 7:30pm at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption Principal Celebrant: Most Reverend William J. Justice, Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco 1111 Gough St, San Francisco, CA 94109 Reception & Fellowship immediately after the Mass Principal Celebrant: Most Reverend William J. Justice, Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco Come join us as the Archdiocese sends us forth on a mission to be the light of Christ. 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 The Archdiocese’s Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass heralds the beginning of Simbang Gabi Masses celebrated in its various parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Below are the 2016 schedules of masses submitted. Please its various parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Below are the 2016 schedules of masses submitted. Please double check the times of the mass, and check the schedule of your local church if it is not listed below: double check the times of the mass, and check the schedule of your local church if it is not listed below: SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY: SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY: Church of the Epiphany Church of the Epiphany Church of the Visitation Church of the Visitation Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Holy Holy Name of Jesus Name of Jesus St. ASt. Anne of the Sunset nne of the Sunset St. BSt. Boniface oniface St. Elizabeth St. Elizabeth St. John the Evangelist St. John the Evangelist (1)

Dec 1 5-‐19, 2 1-‐23 7:00pm Dec 15‐19, 21‐23 7:00pm Dec 20 7:30pm Dec 20 7:30pm Dec 16-‐24 6:00am Dec 16‐24 6:00am Dec 15-‐16, 19-‐23 7:00pm Dec 15‐16, 19‐23 7:00pm Dec 17-‐18 5:00pm Dec 17‐18 5:00pm Dec 16‐24 5:30am Dec 16-‐24 5:30am Dec 15‐23 7:00pm Dec 15-‐23 7:00pm Dec 15‐23 5:30pm Dec 15-‐23 5:30pm Dec 15‐23 7:00pm Dec 15-‐23 7:00pm Dec 16, 17, 19‐24 9:00am Dec 16, 19-‐23 6:00am Dec 18 7:30am Dec 17, 24 9:00am Dec 21‐23 7:00pm St. Monica Dec 18 7:30am St. Patrick Dec 16‐24 6:00am (1) St. Monica Dec 21-‐23 7:00pm St. Paul of the Shipwreck Dec 21‐23 7:00pm St. Patrick Dec 1 6-‐24 6:00am Dec 16‐24 6:00am St. Stephen(2) St. Paul of the Shipwreck Dec 21-‐23 7:00pm St. Thomas More Dec 15‐17, 19‐23 7:00pm (2) St. Stephen Dec 16-‐24 6:00am Dec 18 8:00pm St. Thomas More Dec 7:00pm 15-‐17, 19-‐23 Dec 8:00pm SAN MATEO COUNTY: 18 Dec 15‐16, 17‐23 6:00pm All Souls SAN MATEO COUNTY: Dec 17‐18 5:15pm All Souls Dec 15-‐16, 17-‐23 6:00pm Holy Angels Dec 15‐23 7:00pm Mater Dolorosa Dec 15‐23 7:00pm Dec 17-‐18 5:15pm Dec 15‐16, 18‐23 7:30pm Holy Our Lady of Mercy Angels Dec 15-‐23 7:00pm Dolorosa Dec 17 5:30pm Mater Dec 15-‐23 7:00pm Dec 16‐24 5:30am Our LOur Lady of Perpetual Help ady of Mercy Dec 15-‐16, 18-‐23 7:30pm Dec 17 5:30pm Our Lady of PJoint celebration with Star of the Sea, St. Thomas Apostle erpetual Help Dec 16-‐24 5:30am (1)

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SAN MATEO COUNTY (Continued): St. Andrew Dec 15-‐16, 19-‐23 7:00pm 7:00pm St. Andrew Dec 15‐16, 19‐23 Dec 17 4:45pm Dec 17 4:45pm Dec 18 7:00pm Dec 18 7:00pm St. Augustine Dec 15-‐23 7:30pm St. Augustine Dec 15‐23 7:30pm St. Bruno Dec 16-‐21 6:00pm St. Bruno Dec 16‐21 6:00pm Dec 17 7:00pm Dec 17 7:00pm Dec 22‐24 5:00am Dec 22-‐24 5:00am (3)(3) Dec 15‐23 7:00pm St. Gregory St. Gregory Dec 15-‐23 7:00pm St. Robert Dec 15‐23 7:00pm St. Robert Dec 15-‐23 7:00pm St. Timothy Dec 16‐17, 19‐24 St. Timothy Dec 16-‐17, 19-‐24 6:00am 6:00am Dec 18 7:30am Dec 18 7:30am St. Veronica Dec 15‐16, 19‐23 St. Veronica Dec 15-‐16, 19-‐23 6:30pm 6:30pm Dec 17 5:00pm Dec 18 4:00pm Dec 17 5:00pm Deanery 11 Joint Celebration: Dec 18 4:00pm Dec 15, 21 7:00pm  St. Charles Deanery 11 Joint Celebration: Dec 16 7:00pm  St. Raymond Dec 1 5, 2 1 7:00pm • St. C harles Dec 17 5:00pm  Our Lady of Mount Carmel Dec 16 7:00pm St. Raymond Dec 18 5:00pm •St. Charles Dec 17 5:00pm Our Lady of Mount Carmel Dec 19 7:00pm •Church of the Nativity Dec 18 5:00pm St. Charles Dec 20, 23 7:00pm •St. Pius Dec 19 7:00pm Church of the Nativity Dec 22 7:00pm •St. Matthias 7:00pm Dec 20, 23 • St. Pius MARIN COUNTY: Dec 22 7:00pm • St. Matthias St. Isabella Dec 16‐20 7:00pm MARIN COUNTY: Dec 16-‐20 St. Isabella 7:00pm

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(1) Joint celebration with Star of the Sea, St. Thomas Apostle (3) Joint celebration with St. Bartholomew, St. Catherine, Immaculate Heart of Mary, St. Luke, St. Mark, St. Matthew, and (2) Joint celebration with St. Brendan, St. Cecilia, St. Finn Barr, St. Gabriel, and Star of the Sea Our Lady of Angels. (3) Joint celebration with St. Bartholomew, St. Catherine, Immaculate Heart of Mary, St. Luke, St. Mark, St. Matthew, and Our Lady of Angels.

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Election: US bishops urge calm, caution, unity Castro: Exiles remember FROM PAGE 1

Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore in mid-November, church leaders tried to urge calm, caution and promote unity following an election season fueled by vitriol, name-calling and fear. “The dust hasn’t settled on the election yet,” said Bishop Christopher J. Coyne of Burlington, Vermont, during a Nov. 14 news conference, adding that as a group of bishops, “we’ve just begun a conversation about how we’re going to move forward.” This election, Bishop Coyne said, “it’s so beyond the pale of what we’ve faced before.” “We knew the lay of the land when we approached a Democratic presidency or a Republican presidency, you’d go into Congress and approach them in (certain) ways,” he said. “This election has thrown all that out the window.” “I think we need to talk about how we as bishops maintain the good news, maintain the things that we stand for as Catholics, seeking always the common good, in ways that serve the best way forward for all of us,” he said. At the fall general meeting, bishops were peppered with questions about how they’ll work with or approach a Trump administration that made promises to anti-abortion Catholic constituencies yet insulted ethnic groups and threatened mass deportations, which some bishops have publicly opposed. In a Nov. 15 news conference, Jesuit Father Thomas Reese asked Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, who had just been elected president of the conference, whether, as USCCB president, he saw opportunities for dealing with a new Trump administration on pro-life issues and religious freedom issues, such as the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act. “I have to admit at this point I’m not sure where the new administration is coming from,” he said.”My hope would be that we can sit down with the administration or meet with them in some fashion, perhaps even in terms of Congress, relative to some pro-life things. I would certainly think some aspects of the Affordable Care Act would be great if we could sit down and see them worked out, relative to, let’s say, the Little Sisters of the Poor, and analogous things.” The Little Sisters of the Poor have been in the

forefront of several Catholic entities fighting a mandate that would require them as employers to cover contraceptives in their employee health plans over their moral objections to such coverage. Cardinal DiNardo added: “We would like to see the Hyde Amendment extended, as it has always been every year and not with the difficulties that were apparently attached earlier this year to its passage ... appointments of judges are important.” The Hyde Amendment prevents federal funds from being used to pay for abortion except in cases of rape or to save the life of the mother. The day before, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta, addressing a question about Trump’s campaign promise to repeal the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits certain tax-exempt organizations from endorsing and opposing political candidates, said there was an important distinction to make. “There’s a big difference between political promises and political action,” he said. “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” What concerns him most, said Archbishop Gregory, is finding a peaceful way forward, not just for Catholics divided over the elections, but for the nation. “One of the things we’re grappling with now is not just bringing Catholics together, but bringing America together,” he said. “We, in the life of the church, are united by our faith, by our religious conviction in liturgical life. This past election was so unusual in its hostility that it lay the foundation for this kind of unusual reaction.” In any election, he said, there are winners and losers, but when the climate has been so inflamed, there were bound to be protests, no matter who won “because of the animus that marked the entire election,” he said. “I would hope that we, as Catholics, no matter who you voted for, or (where you) are in the political spectrum, would be able to come together in Eucharist and say, ‘There is one Lord, there is one Eucharist, there is one church, and it’s big enough to embrace all of us,’” said Archbishop Gregory. “I am more worried about the nature of our society that seems to have taken in such violence and venom. ... If we’re going to survive as a nation, we have to treat one another much more civilly.”

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MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Members of the Imperials of 1971 returned for a 45th reunion afternoon in Mercy’s Rist Hall Oct. 15. The day was organized by Donna Hill Labagh, Moira Kavanaugh, Monica Fama Payne, Cathy Fadhl Sagun, Rose Scudder Curry, Lorraine Cronin Altamirano, Maryann Fried Davis and Marilyn Berto Brenk.

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MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: The school’s class of 1961 enjoyed a day of memories celebrating their 55th reunion at San Francisco’s Delancey Street Restaurant Sept. 24. Event organizers included Linda Frei Phelan and Sue LaRocco Scheppler.

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FRIDAY, DEC. 2

TUESDAY, DEC. 6

MASS AND TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club beginning with Mass at 7 a.m. at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Bob Air Road, Greenbrae followed by breakfast and talk by Jesuit Father John Coleman; members breakfast $10, visitors $15; (415) 461-0704, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sugaremy@aol.com.

‘O CHRISTMAS TEA’: Epiphany Center, 100 Masonic Ave., San Francisco, 1 p.m., a holiday inspired afternoon tea party raising funds for the women and Rosalina Randall children of Epiphany Center, includes holiday boutique, good cheer, afternoon tea and an inspiring guest speaker, Rosalina Randall, author of “Don’t Burp in the Boardroom,” $55; TheEpiphanyCenter.org; (415) 351-4055.

FAITH CONFERENCE: A two-day Faith Formation Conference takes place Dec. 2, 3 at San Jose Convention Center, 150 West San Carlos in San Jose. The event opens with Mass at San Jose’s Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph, Dec. 2 at 7:30 a.m. Talks and workshops throughout the two days cover topics including prayer, family ministry, youth ministry, evangelization, music in liturgy, and Scripture. Keynote speakers include Bridgeport Connecticut Bishop Frank J. Caggiano and Chris Stefanick noted outreach speaker and regular voice on Catholic radio; www.faithformationconference.com.

PEACE MASS: Old Mission Dolores chapel, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco, 9 a.m., San Francisco, Father Francis Garbo, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com. HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon, Marin Catholic High School, Sir. Francis Drake Boulevard at Bon Air Road, Kentfield then lunch in school cafeteria. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome, Cheryl Giurlani, (415) 308-4608; www. Handicapables.com. ADVENT ART: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Preparing Our Hearts, Advent through art,

MORNING REFLECTION: Advent morning of reflection on corporal works of mercy; parish hall and Lady Chapel; St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco; 9 a.m.-noon; michaelosmith@stdominics.org; (415) 674-0422.

HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome, Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865; I www.Handicapables.com. O N S OL GUADAUPE: St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 3835 Balboa St., San Francisco, 4 p.m. Mass with music led by Mariachi singers and followed by a fiesta with free food and raffle.

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OL GUADALUPE: St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m., Luis Fernando Castañeda, an expert on the Guadalupe story, speaks on the apparition in a talk arranged by the parish young adults; free admission, parking.

TUESDAY, DEC. 13 VOCATIONS: Dominican Sisters San Rafael, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, 7 p.m., on the sisters, vocation ambassadors team, pray and brainstorm new ways to extend a joyful invitation to women who may have a vocation to life as a Dominican sister; (415) 257-4939; vocations@sanrafaelop. org.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14 MINDFULNESS: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Meditation for Healing and Wholeness; 10:30 a.m.noon, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont; http://bit.ly/CESMindfulness2; (510) 933-6360.

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CONCERT: St. Mary Church, on Nicasio Town Square, 2 p.m., followed by a wine and food reception at Druid’s Hall. Concert features Christmas and secular pieces performed by Mike Duke, Zav de la Prade, Tessa Rubin, and others; $50/adult, children 12 years and under/$10. Mailing check, payable to St. Mary’s, to Dan and Sue Curran, 345 Ironstone Court, San Rafael 94903; (415) 491-4420.

SATURDAY, DEC. 10

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

OL GUADALUPE: St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, 180 Harrison St., Sausalito, 6 p.m. Mariachi Mass honoring Patroness of the Americas. Following the liturgy a fiesta dinner, $20 adults, &10 children, with music by Trio Sol de Mexico. RSVP requested (415) 332-1765; mamarapp@adilabs. com.

OL GUADALUPE: Mass for the feast with Bishop William Justice, principal celebrant and homilist, Mater Dolorosa Church, South San Francisco with Mexican supper following.

9-noon, Dominican Center Art Room, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont, $25, RSVP by Nov. 28; http://bit. ly/2016PreparingRHearts.org; (510) 933-6360.

SIMBANG GABI: A commissioning Mass anticipating the Filipino Advent tradition of Simbang Gabi will be celebrated Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. “By commissioning, we Filipinos are sent forth to be the light of our communities,” said Nellie Hizon, who helps organize the now annual event that takes place at parishes throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco; nelliehizon01@gmail.com; .

DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco, Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese, drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

ADVENT SERIES: St. Patrick Church, 114 King St., Larkspur, 7 p.m., Father David Pettingill, candlelit meditative prayer time from 6:30 p.m.; wine and cheese recepFather Pettingill tion follows the one hour talks; RSVP (415) 924-0600.

CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Daniel Carter, pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, San Francisco, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060, www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

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We invite you to gather with us on Saturday, December 10th at 11:00 a.m. in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma Msgr. John Talesfore will facilitate our Christmas Remembrance Service as you join with others to remember and share griefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey and be comforted. During this Christmas service, the names of those you wish to remember and your message of love may be written on ornaments decorated by Our Lady of Mercy School students and Girl Scout Troop #31971. You will be invited to place your ornament on our Memory Trees during the service. These Chistmas Trees represent the ongoing hope of life and will remain in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel from December 10th until January 9th. If you are unable to attend the service, please stop by the Cemetery Office to pick up an ornament and write your greetings. We will be happy to hang the ornament for you. There is always a staff member available in All Saints Mausoleum on weekends and holidays to assist you. They will also have memory tree ornaments available for your messages through December 31st.

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375

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Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020

Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1675

Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679