December 8, 2016

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Patriarch ‘horrified’ after seeing Iraqi ‘ghost towns’ Doreen Abi Raad Catholic News Service

BEIRUT – The Syriac Catholic patriarch said he was horrified to see widespread devastation and what he called “ghost towns” during a recent visit to northern Iraq.

Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan wrote in an email to Catholic News Service that there was little left in some of the communities that he toured Nov. 27-29 and that “the emptiness of the streets except for military people ... the devastation and burned-out houses and churches” was shocking.

About 100,000 Christians – among them more than 60,000 Syriac Catholics – were expelled from the Ninevah Plain by the Islamic State group in the summer of 2014 as the militants campaigned to expand their reach into Iraq.

Patriarch Younan also called for understanding from the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump about the plight and ordeal of all minorities, including Christians affected by violence in the region.

The patriarch told CNS about “walking through the Christian towns of Qaraqosh, Bartella and Karamles and witnessing the extent of devastation as if we had entered ghost towns!”

Graffiti and inscriptions “expressing hatred toward Christian symbols and doctrine were seen everywhere” on walls near streets, outside and inside houses and churches, he wrote.

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A Christian woman inspects a home in Bartella, Iraq, after it was liberated from Islamic State militants Nov. 23.

“Aside from the looting, destruction of and damage to buildings, we discovered that the terrorists, out of hatred to the Christian faith, set fire to most of the

buildings, including churches, schools, kindergartens and hospitals,” the patriarch’s message said, noting that only Christian properties were targeted.

In Qaraqosh – once inhabited by more than 50,000 Christians – the patriarch celebrated the Eucharist Nov. 28 “on an improvised small altar” in the incinerated sanctuary of the vandalized Church of the Immaculate Conception. That church, which had 2,200 seats before its desecration by Islamic State, was built by parishioners in the 1930s.

Few people could attend the liturgy, among them a few clergy and some armed youth and media representatives, the patriarch said.

“In my short homily, I just wanted to strengthen their faith in the redeemer’s altar and cross, although both were half broken behind us. I reminded them that we Christians are the descendants of martyrs and confessors, with a long history dating back to the evangelization of the apostles,” he wrote.

“I had the intention after its restoration five years ago, and still have it, to ask the Holy Father, the pope, to name this church as a minor basilica,” the patriarch added.

In addition to the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh, all of the churches the patriarch’s delegation visited, including St. Behnam and St. Sarah Monastery, which dates to the fourth century, sustained significant damage or were destroyed.

In opening the trip Nov. 27 in Irbil, which escaped being occupied by the militants, Patriarch Younan celebrated see patriarch, page 9

Speaker details little-known facts about why Our Lady of Guadalupe converted 9 million Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Four years after the 1531 appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego on a hillside near what is now Mexico City, 9 million Native Americans were converted to Christianity and the widely practiced ritual of human sacrifice disappeared.

“What she brings that changes their concept of God and their relationship with God is love, absolute and unconditional love. And the mercy of God.

Everything in Our Lady of Guadalupe’s clothing and actions communicated with the Native Americans, who never developed a written language but relied on poetic spoken language and symbols.

They had no concept of God having any concept of mercy,” said Luis Fernando Castañeda, an expert on the Guadalupe story and member of the Institute of Higher Studies of Our

Lady of Guadalupe, who will speak on the apparition in a 7:30 p.m. Dec. 12 talk at St. Dominic Parish arranged by the parish young adults. Admission is free.

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Castañeda will also speak at a number of venues around the Bay Area during his visit here including a Spanish lecture Dec. 9 at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto where he has been speaking regularly for the past decade, he said.

Everything in Our Lady of Guadalupe’s clothing and actions communicated with the Native Americans, who never developed a written language but relied on poetic spoken see guadalupe, page 2

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language and symbols, said the Mexican expert on the Guadalupe story.

When Our Lady first appeared to St. Juan Diego Dec. 9, 1531, she asked him to have the bishop build a chapel at the site. “I am truly your merciful Mother, the Mother of all who live united in this land and of all mankind, of all those who love me, of those who cry to me, of those who search for me, of those who have Luis Fernando confidence in me. There I will Castañeda listen to their cry, to their sadness, so as to cure all their different pains, their miseries and sorrows, to remedy and alleviate their sufferings,” Our Lady of Guadalupe said, as recounted at swfranciscans.org.

When the bishop asks St. Juan Diego for proof, Our Lady sends him up to the hill to pick Castilian roses, native to the bishop’s home, unknown in Mexico, and then she arranges the flowers in his cloak or tilma and sends him back to the bishop. When he opens the tilma, her image is on the tilma and it remains virtually unchanged today.

Dec. 12, the date St. Juan Diego opened his tilma to reveal the image to the bishop is the date the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Dec. 9 is St. Juan Diego’s feast day.

In the lecture at St. Dominic’s, attendees will learn the significance of the iconography of the apparition set in the pre-Columbian culture of the region.

For instance, the lace of the cloak that covers Our Lady’s mantel has many flowers but just one four-petal flower that rests above her midsection which shows early signs of pregnancy. “The four petal flower is the most important image in the entire Lady of Guadalupe image. The four petal flower with the circle in the middle–that represents to them the dwelling place of God. And that is over her womb. She is pregnant with the God of all creation, the source of all life. The origin of the entire universe. It is the source giver of life and that is what she brings to it,” said Castañeda.

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Pope Francis venerates an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe after the celebration of Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe on February 13, 2016.

WASHINGTON – A Day of Prayer with a focus on the plight of refugees and migrants will take place across the United States on Dec. 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

It will be a time to place before a merciful God the hopes, fears, and needs of all those families who have come to the United States seeking a better life.

“As Christmas approaches and especially on this feast of Our Lady, we are reminded of how our savior Jesus Christ was not born in the comfort of his own home, but rather in an unfamiliar manger,” said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of GalvestonHouston and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “To all those families separated and far from home in uncertain times, we join with you in a prayer for comfort and joy this Advent season.”

Prayer services and special Masses will be held in many dioceses across the country as the Catholic Church continues to accompany migrants and refugees seeking an opportunity to provide for their families.

If you are unable to attend or there is not one near you, Catholics are invited to offer prayers wherever they may be. For example, the bishops’ office of Migrant and Refugee Services (MRS) has also developed a scriptural rosary entitled “Unity in Diversity” that includes prayers for migrants and refugees at www.justiceforimmigrants.org/ documents/Scriptural-Rosary-Eng.pdf.

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vinity, but does not touch her skin, which shows she is protected by God but not divine, Castañeda said.

“She also speaks to the Western world. Because when you see her you recognize her immediately, identify her perfectly in European iconography as well as the Immaculate Conception,” Castañeda said, noting St. John Paul in the apostolic exhortation “Ecclesia in America” called her the “’great evangelizer,’ taking the seeds of the truth

of the Gospels and bringing them to the fullness of faith in Jesus Christ.”

At the time, mestizos or children born of Native American women and Spaniard soldiers were rejected by both Spaniards and Native Americans.

But Our Lady appeared as a Mexican and “calls Juan Diego my son,” said Castañeda. “She brings together both. She brings the peace and love to both.”

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Bridgeport bishop: Walk with young adults as Jesus would Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Jesus Christ’s example of friendship with his apostles is the model for “the start of ministry to young adults in the 21st century,” Bridgeport, Connecticut, Bishop Frank J. Caggiano told the more than 1,000 members of The National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry gathered in San Jose Dec. 2.

Bishop Caggiano is the episcopal advisor for the Catholic Youth Ministry federation, a post he has held since 2013. He has an extensive history of outreach to youth and young adults. He was invited

by Pope Benedict XVI to deliver World Youth Day

talks in Sydney in 2008, Madrid in 2011, and by Pope Francis to serve as a catechist at World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, 2013. He also preached at the Youth 2000 Summer Festival in Tipperary, Ireland.

He is a member of the subcommittee on the catechism of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis.

Bishop Caggiano presently serves on four USCCB committees: Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis; Subcommittee on the Catechism; Orthodox Union Catholic Dialogue; Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth.

The National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry met Dec. 1-3 at the San Jose Convention Center, in a national meeting held simultaneously

with the Northern California Faith Formation Conference.

“Knowing he was to go to the cross, knowing that he was going to see his apostles at their ugliest – as they left the upper room, he turned to them and said, ‘I no longer call you my servants, I call you my friends,’” Bishop Caggiano told the crowded ballroom. “And that, I believe, is the start of ministry to young adults in the 21st century. It begins in that love that is accepting, loving, caring and walking with them as friends of one mind and heart, one person at a time.” see bridgeport bishop, page 16

Catholic Charities Advent stories: Believe in blessings for low-income, at-risk families and individuals in San Francisco.

People like Cecilia, a single mother with a fulltime job who found herself suddenly owing thousands of dollars in back rent. Given two weeks until she was evicted, Celia came to Catholic Charities where case managers helped connect her to programs to take care of her back rent and help her get back on her feet.

“I felt overwhelmed. I thought me and my son were going to be out on the streets,” Cecilia said.

“I’m glad I found out about Catholic Charities, it has been a blessing.”

“We believe that if we provide homeless families with a safe and supportive place to live, then we can rebuild lives and break the cycle of homelessness,” said Bialik. “Thank you to everyone in the archdiocese whose gifts of time, talent and treasure have made our work possible.”

This is the second of three Advent stories focusing on clients and volunteers served by Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

An estimated 7,539 San Franciscans lack stable housing. The lack of permanent housing often compounds numerous challenges: medical, social, psychological and vocational. Thankfully, for many struggling families, there is hope when they need it most.

“At Catholic Charities, our residential care facilities, distribution of housing subsidies and wrap-around case management services provide vulnerable individuals and families with the freedom to focus on restoring stability and hope that comes with stable housing,” said Jeff Bialik, Catholic Charities executive director.

Catholic Charities serves as a lead agency in the Family Eviction Prevention Collaborative (FEPCo) of San Francisco, which represents a cohesive community of service providers that streamline the rental assistance intake process

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Poor seek ‘to be seen and heard,’ Marin SVdP deputy director says Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

“While people approach us with many different needs, often the greatest need is to really be seen and heard, and just treated as a human being,” Suzanne Walker, deputy director of St. Vincent de Paul Society of Suzanne Walker Marin County, told me via email. “We are not in a hurry to get to the next person; we sit with each person for just as long as the conversation takes.”

As we ramp up to Christmas, Suzanne and I discussed SVdP’s outreach to the poor during the holidays and beyond. Suzanne has been with SVdP for 15 years, three as deputy director.

She called the work “heartbreaking, uplifting, challenging and rewarding” and said every day brings “the opportunity to transform lives.” For Suzanne “helping others is a deeply spiritual act” and she is “honored to be able to come to work and do this work every day alongside others who feel the same way. The society has been a stabilizing force for Marin households since we started doing home visits here in 1946.”

Principal among SVdP’s work is “preventing homelessness” in ways as varied as “helping a family pay their rent to avoid eviction or helping homeless people find another place to live,” Suzanne said. In addition Vincentians “work tirelessly to ensure that no one in Marin County should ever go hungry, not even for a day.”

SVdP’s Free Dining Room is open every day and serves 200,000 meals every year. “Hunger never takes a day off,” Suzanne said.

“I think living in poverty is a pres-

LEARNING: Eighth graders from St. Anselm School, Ross, took a big step with The Big Read, a program designed to teach students about the Holocaust and the causes and consequences of hatred, anti-Semitism, and indifference. The curriculum is based on “The Children of Willesden Lane,” a memoir on a young girl’s escape from Nazi Germany and the generous spirit of the people who gave her refuge, by Mona Golabek, real-life daughter of the girl in the story. Teacher Allison Skinner said “it is imperative to teach our youth how to identify and confront prejudice, while simultaneously working toward acceptance of all cultures and people.” The class attended a play by Mona Nov. 8 at Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. Allison said students “were awestruck” and “Mona Golabek’s powerful performance in her one-woman show inspired the 33 eighth graders.”

‘FEED MY SHEEP’: Students at St. Pius School, Redwood City collected food for those assisted now and in the future by the St. Vincent de Paul Society parish conference.

“Kindergarten did all the publicity for the drive,” the school said. “By the end of the drive there were two pickup trucks overflowing with food.” Seventh graders helped get the food to the storage garage.

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Speaker’s peaceful seasonal message from different spiritual traditions Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Though almost 50 people were assembled in the St. Anselm parish hall in Ross on Nov. 30 for a unique Advent presentation that blended seasonal stories from Christian, Buddhist, Islamic and Jewish traditions with poetry, music and song, the room was as still and peaceful as snowfall.

As Mirza Khan described the bitterly cold night in which the Virgin Mary traveled with Joseph through the darkness “holding onto the light inside of her,” the audience wrapped fingers around steaming mugs of hot tea and coffee and listened in rapt silence.

Khan, the middle school religious studies director of San Domenico School in San Anselmo, concluded the parish’s three-part “Storytelling and Sacred Scripture” series which launched in May. His students know him as a spiritual storyteller who draws from Christian, Jewish and Islamic texts to provide answers to the challenges of modern day life. The free series featuring three different local storytellers was put together by the parish’s Spiritual Life Committee to show how our spiritual tradition began with the passing down of stories before the Hebrew Bible and how they continued through the parables of Jesus.

San Rafael resident Don Leach, the series’ first storyteller introduced Khan with a paraphrased quote from Sunni Muslim poet Rumi.

“Out beyond ideas about right religion and wrong religion, Mirza will meet us in a field of acceptance where our goal is simply to lie down in that

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Mirza Khan, seated at right, gave a presentation at St. Anselm parish hall on Nov. 30 on an Advent theme blending seasonal stories from many faith traditions. Between stories, San Domenico School eighth grader Grace Miskovsky played the ukelele and sang two songs while her father Mike played the guitar and sang. grass and the world of faith is so full that we don’t have to talk.”

The relationship of darkness to light emerged as a theme in Khan’s tales.

Khan recalled an evening spent with some young rabbis in Jerusalem who by tradition, would stay up all night together in a meadow on the eve of the winter solstice, looking up at the stars and telling stories.

They shared a Garden of Eden-like story where darkness prevailed before light appeared and life sprang from it, from plant to animal to human. When the days got shorter and the leaves fell and the plants began to die, Adam, the first human, fretted that the world would fall into everlasting darkness.

“On that longest night, Adam spent the night in a vigil, praying for the light to return to the world. In the

middle of the night he suddenly realized the light was there, but it inside his own heart,” Khan said.

There’s a promise in the seasons that darkness will never fully take over, that there is always a light that will return, he said. “But we have to be the ones to hold that light and carry it through the world.”

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eighth grader Grace Miskovsky played the ukelele and sang two songs while her father Mike played the guitar and sang.

Khan’s stories revealed that wherever something new is formed or born, “it is always incubated in darkness.”

Seedlings need to be planted deep down into the darkness of the soil to emerge as it needs to, he said, and “a human embryo needs that pregnant, sheltering darkness of the womb to grow.”

“In some way we also need light and darkness for our hearts to grow,” he said.

He described visiting San Quentin State Prison, where he saw a lotus blossom painted in the chapel and listened to a choir of men who were finding redemption in the darkness of confinement. The lotus is a symbol of purity and rebirth in Buddhist and Hindu traditions and emerges out of the “murky darkness” of stagnant water.

We will all encounter dark times in our own personal lives, in our families, in our country and in our planet, Kahn said: “It’s up to us to journey through the dark times holding onto that light, that light that is not ready to be born yet.”

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St. Cecilia Parish 100 years old Tom Burke Catholic San Francisco

St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco has been striking the bell for its 100th anniversary since an opening centennial year Mass Aug. 28. The celebration schedule has been full, and continues through June 4 when a time capsule with mementos of recent and longer years will be buried in front of the church for opening at a later date.

Msgr. Michael Harriman has been pastor of St. Cecilia’s for 22 years and said in a letter to the parish that he “had never experienced a liturgy” like the opening Mass Aug. 28 calling it “a wonderful moment in the history of our parish.” He spoke, too, in the letter about the day’s assembly growing to “standing room only” how “the music of our combined choirs was extraordinary” and how “our assembly sang like I have never heard them sing before.” Flowers in the church were beautiful, he said, noting students from the parish school were “involved in all aspects” of the Mass.

A reception welcomed parishioners old and new where he saw “friends and families visit and reconnect.”

Just drawing a few items from the upcoming centennial schedule, parishioners and others can look forward to

St. Cecilia celebrations

A seasonal program of “Lessons and Carols for Advent” with the adult choir takes place Dec. 18, 4 p.m.; Feb. 26 an organ recital is at 4 p.m.; an evening of Irish music is featured March 19, 4 p.m.; and an evening of chamber music will be presented April 23, 4 p.m.

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St. Cecilia pastor Msgr. Michael Harriman is pictured with the parish choir last Easter Sunday.

Behind and to his right is Russell Ferreira, music director. events including the Official 100 Year Anniversary Mass and Gala Jan. 7; an alumni Mass Jan. 29, plus docent tours and service projects on various dates.

Music, too, is a centerpiece of the centennial.

Russell Ferreira has been music director at St. Cecilia since 1987.

“Music is an essential part of par-

ish life at St. Cecilia’s,” Ferreira told Catholic San Francisco. Accompanists and song leaders at liturgies include, with Ferreira, Frances Peterson, Beatrice Martin, Cecilia Cardenas, Valerie Nicolson, Cliff Shaw and Steve Tocchini, and the Celebration Singers.

Holy Names Sister Margaret Kenzie directs a children’s choir.

“God has given us the gift of music,” Ferreira said. “It is our great joy and duty to share this gift.”

The music element of the centennial is well under way and has already featured a choral festival Oct 23 with a 65 voice ensemble from St. Cecilia’s, St. Mary’s Cathedral, St. Teresa Parish, San Francisco, and St. Thomas More Parish, San Francisco.

A “musical feast” Nov. 20 featured soloists and choirs from St. Cecilia’s as well as music faculty from the parish school.

“As ministers of music, we are workers in the field,” Ferreira said, “like so many that came before us and so many that will follow.”

Visit the parish website: http:// stcecilia100.com/.

St. Dominic hosting ‘pilgrimage tours’ to conclude Dominican anniversary summer to celebrate the Dominican jubilee. The visit coincided with the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy proclaimed by Pope Francis and ofTo conclude the 800th anniversary ficially concluded on Nov. 20. Upon of the Order of Preachers, St. Domitheir return they decided to offer nic Church is hosting “pilgrimage” prayer-centered parish tours of the tours of the church for organized church as a way to conclude the Doparish groups. minican anniversary year on Jan. 21.

The approximately 45-minute tour “As we approach the culmination led by parishioner, docent and art of the celebration of 800 years of Dohistorian Elizabeth Skelton will take minican life, this is a fresh opportuplace weekdays between 11 a.m.-3 nity to be renewed by the spirit of St. p.m. through Jan. 21, 2017. ReservaDominic which led him to radiate the tions must be made in advance.

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St. Dominic docent Elizabeth Skelton will lead parish groups in a “prayerful pilgrimage” tour of St. Dominic through Jan. 21, the closing of the eighth centenary celebration of the Dominican order. entrance to the church and process through the doors and down the main aisle in prayer and song, stopping at the high altar crucifix which shows St. Dominic at the foot of the cross.

The tour will make stops at the Holy Rosary and Pieta altars and the shrines to St. Jude and Our Lady of Guadalupe and will conclude with a visit to the Divine Mercy Chapel and recitation of the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy.

Father Hurley said that at the conclusion of the 5:30 p.m. Mass on Jan. 21, the entire St. Dominic community will pass through the “Porta Sancta” of St. Dominic Church.

Under a 2015 papal mandate, pilgrims participating in Dominican jubilee celebrations both internationally and in each Dominican province may gain a plenary indulgence under conditions described in the document, which may be viewed at http:// www.op.org/en/content/plenaryindulgence-dominican-jubilee.

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Our peaceful shores have been ruthlessly attacked, and all citizens are called upon to unite their efforts toward that peace for which we have all prayed, that peace which the world cannot give, and that peace which God will surely bring about when mankind has seen its folly and conforms its ways to his.”

Those are the opening words of the front-page editorial of The Catholic Herald, the publication of the Diocese of Honolulu, published Dec. 11, 1941, four days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the attack.

The smallest of editions, a single tabloid sheet printed front and back, the newspaper was a somber reassurance of the faith, resolve and patriotism of Hawaii’s Catholics.

“Our duty is clearly marked out,” the editorial continued, “and will be faithfully executed. The pages of history proclaim the love and loyalty of Catholics for their fatherland in time of war as well as in time of peace. Catholics have been in the front lines at every battle in the history of our nation.

And every wartime president from Washington down to our own beloved President (Franklin) Roosevelt has sung their praises.

“Difficult times may be ahead. But we are ready to face them. There may be many things which others would call sacrifices. But our leader has reminded us that for us they are not sacrifices, but rather privileges. We shall consider them as such, and take them in our stride.”

At the time of the attack, the diocese was only 3 months old. The newly installed Bishop James J.

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Supreme Court agrees to take up church hospitals’ pension dispute

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court agreed Dec. 2 to hear arguments about church hospital pension disputes over whether religious hospitals and schools can be exempt from complying with federal laws covering employee pension benefits.

Lower courts have ruled against three hospital systems, two of which are Catholic, that have claimed an exemption from the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

The hospital systems have argued that the federal government interprets church pension plan exemptions to include church-affiliated organizations, but workers have argued, and courts have sided with them, that their pensions do not qualify as “church plans” exempt from the law.

Billions of dollars in benefits for hospital workers are at stake in the lawsuits.

The cases involve Advocate Health Care of the Chicago area, a merged network of evangelical, Lutheran and United Church of Christ hospitals; and two Catholic networks: St. Peter’s Healthcare System of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Dignity Health of San Francisco.

Workers have won a number of federal appeals court decisions against church-based hospital systems claiming their pension plans were underfunded. The appeals courts have said religious organizations must comply with the law that govern employee benefits and protects retirement plans.

Appeals filed by the three hospital systems said the employees’ lawsuits “seek billions in retroactive liability and a wholesale upheaval in the administration of pension plans affecting religious employers and employees across the country.”

Orthodox patriarch: ‘Amoris Laetitia’ is about God’s mercy

VATICAN CITY – Knowing the debate surrounding Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the family, Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople said the document “first and foremost recalls the mercy and compassion of God and not just moral norms and canonical rules.

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Oakland warehouse fire memorial A woman prays Dec. 5 at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a fatal warehouse fire in Oakland. The Dec. 2 blaze claimed the lives of at least 36 people, with the toll expected to rise. President Barack Obama issued a statement on the tragedy Dec. 5. “Oakland is one of the most diverse and creative cities in our country, and as families and residents pull together in the wake of this awful tragedy, they will have the unwavering support of the American people,” he said.

In the past few months, numerous comments and evaluations of this important document have been made,” the patriarch wrote Dec. 2 in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.

“People have asked how specific doctrine has been developed or defended or if pastoral questions have been modified or resolved and if particular norms have been strengthened or mitigated,” he said. “Whether it regards the challenges of marriage and divorce or sexuality or raising children,” he said, the matters treated in the document “are all delicate and precious fragments of that sacred mystery we call life.”

For too long, he said, people were “suffocated and blocked” from reaching out to God for forgiveness and strength by the notion of a “heavenly Father who in some way dictated human conduct.”

DUBLIN – Fifty percent of Syria’s hospitals and medical centers have been destroyed or looted and their staff kidnapped, tortured or slaughtered, a leading Syrian surgeon told members of the Irish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.

Dr. Bashir Mohammad, a cardiologist, was part of a delegation of high-profile Syrian medical and religious leaders who appealed Dec. 1 for an end to punitive European Union sanctions against his country. Mohammad was accompanied by Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregoire III Laham; Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II; Syria’s grand mufti, Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun; and Dr. Ahmad al Khaddour, a cardiothoracic surgeon.

Khaddour, a professor of medicine at Damascus University, explained that the group had come to Ireland “to pass the message that Syria needs help. The European sanctions have affected our medical system very badly. We have a shortage of medical supplies on a daily basis. We have children dying because there is no medicine and children suffering because there is no fuel for heating.”

Pope: Resisting God is normal, but be honest about it

VATICAN CITY – Struggling against God is normal because following his way toward redemption always comes with some kind of cross to bear, Pope Francis said in a morning homily. When feeling hesitant or unwilling, “don’t be afraid,” just plead with God – “Lord, with great strength come to my aid. May your grace conquer the resistance of sin,” he said Dec. 1.

During morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives, the pope examined the ways people are resistant to God’s will because of their own sinful nature and the work of the devil.

A “good” kind of resistance, he said, is the kind that is misguided but open to God’s grace of conversion. For example, he said, like Saul, who had believed he was doing God’s will by persecuting Christians, but eventually listened to Jesus and did as he told him. However, the more dangerous forms of resistance, the pope said, are the kind that are “hidden” and mask people’s real intention of never embarking on the path of conversion or of not going all the way.

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Mass for more than 800 displaced people at Our Lady of Peace Syriac Catholic Church. Located in the capital of the Kurdish region of Iraq, where many of those uprooted from the Ninevah Plain sought refuge, the church recently opened to serve refugees.

Concelebrating the liturgy were Syriac Catholic Archbishops Yohanna Moshe of Mosul and Ephrem Mansoor Abba of Baghdad and 20 priests.

Patriarch Younan said he felt “mixed feelings” among the worshippers, who were pleased that the Islamic State group had been forced out of the Ninevah Plain during the current Iraqi military campaign, but also were saddened because of the “horrendous state” in which the militants left their communities.

The patriarch also said he met with the faith community, religious leaders and nongovernmental organizations to discuss the future of Christianity in northern Iraq.

Based on “what happened in recent times,” the patriarch noted, “it was the overall opinion that none would dare to return, rebuild and stay in the homeland, unless a safe zone for the Christian communities in the Plain of Ninevah is guaranteed.”

He called for a “stable, law-abiding and strong government” to support the establishment of an eventual selfadministrative province under the central government of Iraq.

“I therefore reiterate what I have been saying for years. We, Christians in Iraq and Syria, feel abandoned, even betrayed, by the Western politicians of recent times,” Patriarch Younan said.

“We have been sold out for oil and forgotten because of our small number compared to the ‘Islamic Ummah’ (Islamic nation) in which we have lived for centuries.”

The patriarch urged the “so-called ‘civilized world’ to uphold its principles and to seriously defend” the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which he described as “vital for our survival.”

“It is time to stand up and condemn those regimes that still discriminate against non-Muslim communities, with (their) excuses such as ... ‘our law, our education and governing system’ are based on our ‘particularities of culture, history and religion,’” the patriarch continued.

Patriarch Younan expressed his “strong hope” that the Trump administration “will understand our plight and the ordeal of all minorities, including Christians.”

Mercy Sister Petra Chavez honored

The Central American Resource Center honored Sister Petra Chavez at the organization’s 30th anniversary party in San Francisco on Nov. 10.

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VATICAN CITY – The morning after screening his film, “Silence,” for about 300 Jesuits, the U.S. director Martin Scorsese had a private audience with Pope Francis.

During the 15-minute audience Nov. 30, Pope Francis told Scorsese that he had read Japanese author Shusaku Endo’s historical novel, “Silence,” which inspired the film. The book and film are a fictionalized account of the persecution of Christians in 17th-century Japan; the central figures are Jesuit missionaries.

Pope Francis spoke to Scorsese, his wife and two daughters, and the film’s producer, about the early Jesuit missions to Japan and about the Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument in Nagasaki, which honors the Japanese martyrs executed on the site in 1597.

The U.S. director screened the film Nov. 29 at the Jesuit-run Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome for an international group of Jesuits and Nov. 30 in the Vatican for specially invited guests.

In the novel, the Jesuit priest and missionary Father Rodrigues is captured; to make him renounce the faith, the Japanese authorities force him to watch as local Christians are martyred. While he believes he would suffer for his faith, he has a difficult time refusing to publicly renounce Christianity when it would end the suffering of the others.

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of Father Stanley Rother of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, making him the first martyr born in the United States.

The Vatican made the announcement Dec. 2. The recognition of his martyrdom clears the way for his beatification.

Father Stanley Father Rother, born March 27, Rother 1935, on his family’s farm near Okarche, Oklahoma, was brutally murdered July 28, 1981, in a Guatemalan village where he ministered to the poor.

He went to Santiago Atitlan in 1968 on assignment from the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.

He helped the people there build a small hospital, school and its first Catholic radio station.

He was beloved by the locals, who called him “Padre Francisco.”

Many priests and religious in Guatemala became targets during the country’s 1960-1996 civil war as government forces cracked down on leftist rebels supported by the rural poor.

The bodies of some of Father Rother’s deacons and parishioners were left in front of his church and soon he received numerous death threats over his opposition to the presence of the Guatemalan military in the area.

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to remain with the people he had grown to love during the more than dozen years he lived there.

He was gunned down at the age 46 in the rectory of his church in Santiago Atitlan. Government officials there put the blame on the Catholic Church for the unrest in the country that they said led to his death. On the day he died, troops also killed 13 townspeople and wounded 24 others in Santiago Atitlan, an isolated village 50 miles west of Guatemala City.

Many priests and religious lost their lives and thousands of civilians were kidnapped and killed during the years of state-sponsored oppression in the country.

While his body was returned to Oklahoma, his family gave permission for his heart and some of his blood to be enshrined in the church of the people he loved and served. A memorial plaque marks the place.

Father Rother was considered a martyr by the church in Guatemala and his name was included on a list of 78 martyrs for the faith killed during Guatemala’s 36-year-long civil war. The list of names to be considered for canonization was submitted by Guatemala’s bishops to St. John Paul II during a pastoral visit to Guatemala in 1996.

Because Father Rother was killed in Guatemala, his cause should have been undertaken there.

But the local church lacked the resources for such an effort. The Guatemalan bishops’ conference agreed to a transfer of jurisdiction to the Oklahoma City Archdiocese.

News of the recognition was welcomed in Oklahoma.

“This comes as a great joy to all of us here not only in Oklahoma, but I think it’s a great blessing to the church in the United States,” Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City told Catholic News Service Dec. 2.

He also called the recognition of the priest’s martyrdom a gift to the Catholic Church in Guatemala.

Archbishop Coakley recalled how both he and Father Rother are alumni of Mount St. Mary Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He remembered a ceremony at the school a few months after the priest’s death in which a plaque was erected in his honor.

“His witness has marked me from my earliest days in priestly formation,” the archbishop said. “It’s a blessing to be the archbishop now who has the opportunity to bring to fruition the work on my predecessor Archbishop (Eusebius J.) Beltran.”

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Despite distance, Iraqi Christians keep the spirit of Christmas alive Oscar Durand Catholic News Service

ISTANBUL – Sami Dankha, his three brothers and their families used to kick off Christmas celebrations by attending a packed Christmas Eve Mass at St. Thomas Church in Baghdad. Wearing brand new clothes and sporting fresh haircuts, they would spend the night chatting, singing and eating pacha, a dish made from sheep’s head that Iraqis consider a delicacy and a staple of Christmas.

But that was 20 years ago. Today, Dankha, 51, his wife, Faten, and their five children live in Turkey as refugees, far away from the rest of their families. They are waiting for an answer to their resettlement application to Australia.

“If you count Christmas and Easter, it has been about 40 times we haven’t gathered,” said Dankha, whose brothers now live in New Zealand, Australia and the Netherlands.

Years of instability, violence and discrimination have forced Iraqi Christian families to leave their homes.

Christmas, traditionally celebrated with loved ones, is a reminder of the exodus of Christians from Iraq and the Middle East to countries all over the world. Despite the distance and across different time zones, families keep the spirit of the holiday alive.

“The last time we were all together was 2005. Maybe 2006. I am not sure,” Habiba Taufiq, 69, told Catholic News Service.

Taufiq was born in Aqrah but has lived most of her life in Ankawa, a Christian enclave in northern Iraq.

She is now a refugee in Turkey, where she lives with one of her 10 children.

The other nine are split among Australia, France, Sweden and Iraq.

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Iraqi refugee Sami Dankha, 51, feeds his son Alin, 1, at his home in Istanbul, Turkey. He lives in Istanbul with his wife and five children; his brothers live in New Zealand, Australia and the Netherlands. of Jesus. Not only us but also with other families,” Taufiq said, remembering Christmas back home. “Now there is a big difference because we are in different countries and that affects the occasion.”

To stay connected, families rely on messaging and calling apps.

“I call them on Viber video,” said Dankha, mentioning one the most popular apps among the Iraqi community in Turkey.

Last year, Dankha spent at least four hours glued to his phone as he virtually celebrated Christmas with family and friends in 10 different countries. At some point he had to connect his phone to a power adapter after running out of charge. But seeing and hearing what is happening on the other side of the call is no replacement for being face to face.

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“I see them celebrating in parties, and I feel sorrowful because I am here and we are separated, in different countries,” Dankha said.

Nearly halfway around the world, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Nesrin Arteen, 42, also uses a messaging app to keep in touch with her family.

“I talk to them often; with the Internet, it is easy. But back when I arrived, it was very different,” she told CNS. Arteen is from Zakho, Iraq, and moved to Canada in 1994 before smartphones became ubiquitous. At the time she had to use a call center and wait in line before she could speak with her family. And when it was her turn, the quality of the connection was not good, and the calls frequently disconnected.

For Arteen, Christmas meant attending the Christmas Eve Mass and staying up all night with her family.

She fondly remembered klecha – a traditional cookie usually filled with nuts, coconuts or dates – which she could not have when she first arrived in Canada. Back then Saskatoon did not even have a Chaldean Catholic church, which made her feel removed from her Christmas traditions.

“It was a different feel, different from home. I didn’t feel the spirit of Christmas,” Arteen said, remembering the first Christmas she spent in Canada.

Over time things changed. Today there is a Chaldean church in her city, and Arteen has started to create her own Christmas traditions.

“I feel that the spirit of Christmas is here,” she said. “My children go to a Christian school and are also part of the choir. There are places where they sing Christmas carols.”

Taufiq hopes to reunite soon with some of her family in Australia.

As she navigates visa procedures, she said she feels at peace that her children continue the traditions she started.

“The circumstances separated us and now we are in different countries. But we still continue living with love,” she said.

Dankha told CNS this Christmas will be special. His younger brother, Yalda, will visit him in Turkey from the Netherlands. They haven’t seen each other since 2000.

That makes one less person on his list of people to call on Christmas.

“There are so many friends I don’t know if I will ever see. Maybe one day when my country’s situation is OK, maybe then we will get together. But I don’t know if that will happen,” he said.

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Sunday readings

Third Sunday of Advent ISAIAH 35:1-6A, 10 The desert and the parched land will exult; the steppe will rejoice and bloom. They will bloom with abundant flowers, and rejoice with joyful song. The glory of Lebanon will be given to them, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the Lord, the splendor of our God. Strengthen the hands that are feeble, make firm the knees that are weak, say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is your God, he comes with vindication; with divine recompense he comes to save you. Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared; then will the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue of the mute will sing. Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return and enter Zion singing, crowned with everlasting joy; they will meet with joy and gladness, sorrow and mourning will flee.

PSALM 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10 Lord, come and save us.

The Lord God keeps faith forever, secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets captives free.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, December 12: Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Zec 2:14-17 or Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab. Jdt 13:18bcde, 19. Lk 1:26-38 or Lk 1:3947.

Tuesday, December 13: Memorial of St. Lucy, virgin and martyr. Zep 3:1-2, 9-13. Ps 34:2-3, 6-7, 17-18, 19 and 23. Mt 21:28-32.

Wednesday, December 14: Memorial of St. John of the Cross, priest and doctor of the church. Is 45:6c-8, 18, 21c-25. Ps 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14.

See Is 40:9-10. Lk 7:18b-23.

Thursday, December 15: Thursday of the Third Week in Advent. Is 54:1-10. Ps 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 1112a and 13b. Lk 3:4, 6. Lk 7:24-30.

Friday, December 16: Friday of the Third Week in Advent. Is 56:1-3a, 6-8. Ps 67:2-3, 5, 7-8. Jn 5:3336.

Saturday, December 17: Saturday of the Third Week in Advent. Gn 49:2, 8-10. Ps 72:1-2, 3-4ab, 7-8, 17. Mt 1:1-17.

Lord, come and save us.

The Lord gives sight to the blind; the Lord raises up those who were bowed down. The Lord loves the just; the Lord protects strangers.

Lord, come and save us.

The fatherless and the widow he sustains, but the way of the wicked he thwarts. The Lord shall reign forever; your God, O Zion, through all generations.

Lord, come and save us.

JAMES 5:7-10 Be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.

You too must be patient. Make your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not complain, brothers and sisters, about one another, that you may not be judged. Behold, the Judge is standing before the gates. Take as an example of hardship and patience, brothers and sisters, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

MATTHEW 11:2-11 When John the Baptist heard in prison of the works of the Christ, he sent his disciples to Jesus with this question, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: The blind regain their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have the good news proclaimed to them. And blessed is the one who takes no offense at me.” As they were going off, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John, “What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? Then what did you go out to see? Someone dressed in fine clothing? Those who wear fine clothing are in royal palaces. Then why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. This is the one about whom it is written: Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way before you. Amen, I say to you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”

Letting go of expectations Father Greg Friedman, OFM

Advent is a time of expectations. Children make their lists for Santa, and we might even as adults pin our hopes on receiving a certain gift as children do, only to be disappointed.

Holidays are also a time when we might expect too much from family and friends. Each Advent I tell myself it’s far better to let go of expectations and allow the heart of Christmas, the truth of Christmas, to inspire me once again.

And today’s Gospel reading can help us.

Matthew tells us that John the Baptist, in prison, wants to know if Jesus is the Messiah.

John, like many of his contemporaries, had high expectations of this savior who was to come. From his prison cell, John sends disciples to put the question to Jesus himself. In response, Jesus sends a report of the work he has been doing – signs of healing and power which mark the breaking in of God’s kingdom.

Hopefully, this account gave John some comfort before he was killed by Herod. But then

Jesus turns to the crowd to ask them what they expected when they went to hear John the Baptist preaching. In describing John, Jesus does two things. First, he puts John in the context of the messenger who prepares the way. Then, Jesus says something surprising: John was pretty great, yet the least in the kingdom of heaven was greater than he. Now, there’s a statement to challenge our expectations.

How do you and I see ourselves and our response to Jesus in the light of this statement? And even more, how do we judge others, especially the kind of people with whom Jesus associates in Matthew’s Gospel? Sinners, tax collectors, prostitutes, those on the margins of society. Who, in the final analysis, meets Jesus’ expectations for greatness in the kingdom of heaven?

Transcribed from Father Friedman’s video reflection for Dec. 11, 2016, retrieved from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ website at www. usccb.org/bible/reflections/.

Pope: Can’t whitewash sin away Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Jesus truly transforms and heals hearts when people let him, which means recognizing and being ashamed of one’s sins, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass.

Jesus helped people by showing them a new way and the possibility of real change, “and this is why the people followed him,” the pope said Dec. 5 during the Mass in the chapel of the residence, Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives.

The day’s first reading from the prophet Isaiah (35:1-10) talks about God bringing new life to a parched land and healing, strength and joy to a broken people.

This promise and power of complete renewal, the pope said, was fulfilled with the Messiah, whose miracles and ministry were not about making things look better by putting on “makeup, cosmetics. He changed everything from the inside.”

“God created the world, mankind fell into sin, Jesus came to re-create the world,” he said. Jesus comes to touch people’s hearts and forgive their sins, “to re-create that man from sinner to righteous” and make him “totally new.”

But this scandalizes the doctors of the law, who question Jesus’ authority to claim such abilities, the pope said. Those with faith, however, understand like Mary Magdalena, who knew she was

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Pope Francis waves as he leads his Angelus Dec. 4 from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

a sinner and saw Jesus could heal “not her body, but the wound in her soul. He could re-create her.”

This “existential healing” of the soul, being recreated and transformed by Jesus requires “great faith,” trust, courage and honesty about the gravity of one’s sins, he said.

It won’t happen if people say, “Yeah, yeah, I have some sins. I go to confession, say a few sweet

nothings and then I continue on my way” doing the same things as before, the pope said.

“Just two brushstrokes of paint and we believe that with this the whole thing is over. No!” “We are all sinners, but look at the root of your sin and (see) that the Lord goes down there and re-creates it, and that bitter root will bloom,” he said. People must delve deep, fully identify the nature and gravity of their sins, feel ashamed and “open their heart” to let Christ in and make it new.

The need for conversion, particularly during the season of Advent, was also part of Pope Francis’ Angelus address Dec. 4.

Speaking to people gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the pope said that entering into God’s kingdom requires daily conversion – one step each day.

“It’s about leaving behind the easy but deceptive pathways, the idols of this world: success at all costs; power at the expense of the weakest; thirst for riches; pleasure at any price,” the pope said.

Instead, people need to embark on the path Jesus offers, which doesn’t “take away our freedom, but gives us true happiness” and frees people from “selfishness, sin and corruption,” which come from the devil.

Prepare for the journey by examining one’s conscience, “scrutinize our behaviors” in order to let go of the ones that do not come from God, he said.

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The martyrdom of inadequate self-expression

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rt too has its martyrs and perhaps our greatest pain is that of inadequate self-expression. That’s an insight from Iris Murdoch and it holds true, I believe, for most everyone.

Inside of each of us there’s a great symphony, a great novel, a great dance, a great poem, a great painting, a great book of wisdom, FATHER ron a depth that we rolheiser can never adequately express.

No matter our wit or talent, we can never really write that book, do that dance, create that music, or paint that painting. We try, but what we are able to express even in our best moments is but a weak shadow of what’s actually inside us. And so we suffer, in Murdoch’s words, a martyrdom of inadequate self-expression.

What underlies this? Why this inadequacy?

At its root, this is not a struggle with what’s base or deficient inside us, pride, concupiscence, arrogance, or ignorance.

It’s not ignorance, arrogance, or the devil that create this struggle. To the contrary, we struggle with this tension because we carry divinity inside us. We are made in the image and likeness of God. This is fundamental to our Christian self-understanding. But this must be properly understood. We do ourselves a disservice when we understand this in an over pious way, that is, when we imagine it as a holy icon of God stamped inside our souls which we need to honor by living a chaste and moral life. That’s true enough, but there’s more at stake here, particularly as it

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What we are forever dealing with is an immense grandiosity inside us. There’s a divine energy in us which, precisely because it is divine, never makes easy peace with this world. We carry inside of us divine energies, divine appetites, and divine depth. The spiritual task of our lives then, in essence, is that of ordering those energies, disciplining them, channeling them, and directing them so that they are generative rather than destructive. And this is never a simple task. Moreover our struggle to direct these divine energies triggers a whole series of other struggles.

Because we carry divine energy within our very makeup, we should expect that, this side of eternity, to struggle perennially with four things: First, we will struggle, at some level, always, to keep a balance between the pressures inside us pushing toward creativity and other voices inside that are telling us to keep a firm grip on our own sanity. We see this played out large in the lives of many artists in their struggle with normalcy, to keep their feet solidly planted within what’s ordinary and domestic because their push for creativity is also pushing them toward the dark, rich chaos that lies more deeply inside. All of us, according to more or less, struggle in the same way as do great artists. We too are lured toward the rich chaos inside us, even as we fear for what it might do to our sanity.

Second, we will struggle perennially with an overstimulated grandiosity. The divine fires inside of us, like all fires, easily flame out of control.

In a world where everything is shown to us on a screen in our hands and where the successes, beauty, achievements, and talents of others are forever in front of our eyes, we are forever being overstimulated in our grandios-

ity. This is felt in our restlessness, in our sense of missing out on life, in our jealousies, in our anger for not being recognized for our talents and uniqueness, and in our constant dissatisfaction with our own lives.

Third, because there is an innate connection between the energy for creativity and sexuality, we will struggle with sexuality. The algebra is clear: Creativity is inextricably linked with generativity and generativity is inextricably bound up with sexuality. No accident, great artists often struggle with sex, which doesn’t give them an excuse for irresponsibility but helps explain the reason. In sharp contrast, many religious people are in denial about this connection. Unfortunately that only serves to drive the struggle underground and make it more dangerous.

Finally, we all struggle perennially to find that equilibrium between inflation and depression. We are forever finding ourselves either too full of ourselves or too empty of God, that is, either identifying with the divine energies inside of us and becoming pompous or, through false humility, over-sensitivity, and wound, not letting the divine energy flow through us and consequently living in depression because we have stunted our own creativity.

James Hillman suggests that a symptom suffers most when it doesn’t know where it belongs. Divine energy living inside of fallible human beings is a formula for tension, disquiet, and, yes, for martyrdom; but it’s meant to be a creative tension, a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved. Proper naming doesn’t take away the pain and frustration, but at least it affords us a noble, poetic canopy under which to suffer.

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

Are your grandparents lonely?

n the past few weeks I’ve been asked to speak about loneliness in the elderly on numerous occasions. I was even quoted in a recent article by Catholic journalist Mary Rezac, entitled “Our Elders Are Lonely – Do We Care?” As we look forward to Christmas, let’s hope we can all say, “Of course we do!”

The issue of loneliness in the Sister elderly may not constance be as clear-cut as it seems. While veit, lsp one recent study reported that nearly half of people over 60 said they feel lonely on “a regular basis,” another asserted that only 6 percent of American seniors said they “often” feel this way.

Contradictory statistics aside, in our country roughly one third of those over 65 and half of those over 85 live alone.

Sociologists see this trend as a sign of social progress. Improved health care, increased wealth and the emergence of retirement as a relatively long stage of life, they say, have created more choices for seniors and enabled them to live independent of their adult children. This situation, often referred to as “intimacy at a distance,” respects the life choices and autonomy of both older persons and their adult children, fostering more positive and supportive emotional bonds for all.

In his book “Being Mortal,” surgeon and author Atul Gawande wrote, “The lines of power between the generations have been renegotiated … The aged did not lose status and control so much as share it. Modernization did not demote the elderly. It demoted the family. It gave people – the young and the old – a way of life with more liberty and control, including the liberty to be less beholden to other generations. The veneration of elders may be gone, but not because it has been replaced by the veneration of youth. It’s been replaced by veneration of the independent self.”

The problem is that our exultation of personal autonomy over family and community fails to acknowledge that sooner or later, each of us will need the help of others to survive and enjoy a meaningful life. This brings us to Christmas. What is Christmas without family and community? And yet this season can also be a time of stress for those who are estranged from their loved ones, those who cannot afford to fulfill their children’s wishes, those whose holiday joys are but a distant memory, and those who find themselves alone in this world.

Christmas is the perfect time to begin promoting (rather than demoting) family and practicing what our Holy Father asked in his apostolic letter for the closing of the Year of Mercy, “Misericordia et Miseria.” As we gather in our families, social circles and faith communities – even at our office parties – may we look around to see who is standing on the periphery, who is at risk of being excluded from the joys of this season.

Inspired by mercy, let us offer a word of

consolation and begin restoring joy and dignity to those who feel left out. God’s mercy, Pope Francis suggested, finds expression in the closeness, affection and support that we offer our brothers and sisters, and in the strength of family. “The drying of tears is one way to break the vicious circle of solitude in which we often find ourselves trapped,” he wrote.

Mercy leads us to see each person as unique. “We have to remember each of us carries the richness and the burdens of our personal history;” Pope Francis wrote; “this is what makes us different from everyone else. Our life, with its joys and sorrows, is something unique and unrepeatable that takes place under the merciful gaze of God.” If you are young, you can share God’s mercy this Christmas by patiently listening to your grandparents’ stories, or offering them a hand in a way that says, “You are important to me.”

If you are a grandparent, look to see which one of your children or grandchildren is waiting for your affirmation or your words of wisdom.

Even if you are infirm or in need and feel that you have nothing to give, you can still offer your smile, your thanks or a word of kindness to those who help you.

Our Holy Father reminds us that God never tires of welcoming and accompanying us, despite our sins and frailties.

Let our loving presence be the gift we give others this Christmas!

Sister Constance is director of communications for the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Letters Catholics and the election

I’m going to be charitable and chalk it up to clumsy phrasing, but in the article “US bishops address post-election animus” (Dec. 1) the author wrote that 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.”

I can assure you that he also said plenty of things that were “hurtful and worrisome” to this WHITE Catholic too and that very little of his rhetoric gives me hope. I hope the bishops will stand up forcefully for the human rights of immigrants, both legal and illegal, and will speak out against policies that marginalize the poor, such as the proposed elimination of health care coverage. There was also zero mention of environmental issues and Trump’s repeated denial of settled science. The bishops’ silence on Pope Francis’ signature issue – the only one about which he has written an encyclical – has been sadly telling throughout the election season. I hope they follow the pope’s example and find their voice on climate change before it’s too late.

John Kovacevich San Francisco

Cassock considerations

Recently I have met several seminarians, and I must admit that I felt awkward in their presence because they were wearing cassocks. When I was a child three quarters of a century ago, many priests wore cassocks to show that they were the church royalty. However, in the intervening years styles and respect for royalty have changed, and today a cassock is showing a separation between the man and the people. It is doing exactly what Pope Francis has warned against, developing clericalism, a sense of superiority and aloofness. I truly hope that the archbishop becomes aware of this trend and takes steps to eliminate it. I worry about the consequences if such attitudes continue to develop.

Denis Nolan Daly City

Thoughts on Nov. 8

On 9/11 Outsiders wounded U.S. We remained U.S.

On 11/8 Our own people dealt the wound Who are we today?

Taste the bitter cup Do they know the thing they did?

Father, forgive them Carolyn M. Daniel San Francisco

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Why we should address Jesus as ‘thou’ to Raymond, Catherine would often recite the office while walking along a cloister in the company of Jesus, mystically visible to the saint. When she came to the conclusion of a psalm, she would, according to liturgical custom, speak the words of the Glory Be, but her version was as follows, “Glory be to the Father, and to Thee, and to the Holy Ghost!” For her, Christ was not a distant figure, and prayer was not an abstract exercise. Rather, the Lord was at her side, and prayer was conversation between friends.

Archbishop Sartain invited us to muse on Catherine’s use of the intimate form of the pronoun, in her Latin “tibi” (to you), and rightly rendered in English as “to Thee.” As is the case with many other languages, Latin distinguishes between more formal and more informal use of the second person pronoun, and it is the familiar “tu” that Catherine employs when speaking to Jesus. It is an oddity of the evolution of spoken English that today “thou, thine, thy, and thee” seem more rarified, more regal and distant, when in fact just the contrary was the case

n the final morning of the November meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, we were treated to a fine sermon by Archbishop J. Peter Sartain. The leader of the church in Seattle spent a good deal of time discussing Pier Giorgio Frassati, a saint from the early-20th century to whom he and I both have a strong devotion. But what particularly struck me in his homily was a reference to the great St. Catherine of Siena.

One of the most remarkable things about that remarkable woman was the intimacy which she regularly experiBISHOP Robert enced with Mary, the saints, Barron and the Lord Jesus himself.

Archbishop Sartain relayed a story reported by Catherine’s spiritual director, Raymond of Capua. According

up until fairly modern times. These were the words used to address family members, children, and intimate friends, in contradistinction to the more formal “you” and “yours.” How wonderful, Archbishop Sartain reminded us, that this intimate usage is preserved in some of our most beloved prayers. We say, “Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done …” and we pray, “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.” Again, I realize that to our ears, this language sounds less rather than more intimate, but it is in fact meant to convey the same easy familiarity with the Father and the Blessed Mother that Catherine of Siena enjoyed with Christ.

And all of this signals something of crucial significance regarding the nature of biblical Christianity.

Many mysticisms and philosophies of the ancient world – Platonism, Plotinianism, and Gnosticism see barron, page 15

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.

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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

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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

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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)

SAN MATEO COUNTY (Continued):

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

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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

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Barron: Why we should address Jesus as ‘thou’ FROM PAGE 14

come readily to mind – indeed spoke of God or the sacred, but they meant a force or a value or an ontological source, impersonal and at an infinite remove from the world of ordinary experience. These ancient schools find an echo, moreover, in many modern and contemporary theologies. Think of the deism popular in the 18th century and so influential on the founders of the United States; or think of Schleiermacher’s and Emerson’s pantheist mysticisms in the nineteenth century; or consider even the new age philosophy of our time. All of these would speak of a “divine” principle or power, but one would never dream of addressing such a force as “thou,” or of engaging with it in intimate conversation.

Then there is the Bible. The Scriptures obviously present God as overwhelming, transcendent, uncontrollable, inscrutable, the creator of the heavens and the earth, but they insist that this sublime and frightening power is a person who deigns to speak to us, to guide us, and to invite us into his life. They even make bold to speak of the awesome God “pitching his tent among us,” becoming one of us, taking to himself our frail humanity. And this implies that we can speak to God as we speak to an intimate colleague. Conversing with his disciples the night before he died, Jesus said, “I no longer call you slaves, but friends,” and in making that utterance, he turned all of religious philosophy and mysticism on its head.

I believe that one of the major problems we have in evangelizing our culture is that many Christians

don’t walk with Jesus personally. Finally, evangelization is not a sharing of ideas – though this can be very important at the level of pre-evangelization or clearing the ground – but rather the sharing of a relationship. But as the old adage has it, “nemo dat quod non habet” (no one gives what he doesn’t have). If we don’t speak to Jesus as “thou,” we won’t draw others into a real friendship with him, and the establishment of that friendship is the “terminus ad quem” of real evangelizing.

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But the way will be hard, he said. The early Christians, many martyred, “realized that suffering is the privileged path to let Jesus into their lives,” Bishop Caggiano said. “So what’s the challenge? The challenge my friends is that ministry in the 21st century is not for the faint of heart. Ministry in our age and time is going to demand that you and I be willing to suffer for love.”

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It may have been providence that Bishop Sweeney was away because the one news story in that post-attack edition reported that his home on the slopes of Punchbowl Crater in Honolulu, about eight miles from Pearl Harbor, had been “bombed.”

“The home of His Excellency Bishop Sweeney on Thurston Street was considerably damaged when bombs struck the Spencer Street entrance and destroyed the stairway leading to the second floor,” the story said. “The house was unoccupied at the time.”

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Oddly – or perhaps not, considering the large number of Hawaii residents of Japanese ancestry – the Catholic Herald never named the attacking country.

The unsigned front-page editorial, framed by a drawing of a man and woman gazing upward at a flying American flag, pledged prayers and the resolute cooperation of the church for the still unknown sacrifices ahead.

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SI, SHC, ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN: West Catholic Athletic League high schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco took the top three places Nov. 12, in Central Coast Section Boys Division 3 Cross Country Championships: St Ignatius Prep in first; Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in second; Archbishop Riordan in third. All three schools have a strong alumni presence on their coaching staffs. SI coach Nick Alvarado, Riordan coaches Matt Illarina and Benny Willers and SHC coaches Rachel Giovannetti, Sherie Lo Giudice, and Jarrett Moore are graduates of their respective schools.

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WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL: More than 400 students and supporters gathered, prayed and remembered the school’s Benedictine founders at a Mass Nov. 13. Representing the Priory’s mother abbeys were Benedictine Father Mathias Durette, St Anselm Abbey in New Hampshire, and Benedictine Father Keleman Sarai Szabo, St. Martin Abbey in Pannonhalma, Hungary. The Priory monastic community, Benedictine Father Martin Mager, Benedictine Father Pius Horvath and Benedictine Father Maurus Nemeth, joined them on the altar. Anniversary events will continue for the Priory throughout the next two years noting the founding of the monastery in 1956 and Woodside Priory School in 1957. Pictured from left: Father Pius, Father Keleman, Father Mathias, Father Martin, Father Maurus.

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CONVENT AND STUART HALL: Sacred Heart Sister Barbara Dawson, elected Superior General of the

International Society of the Sacred Heart earlier this year, returned Nov. 1 for a visit to her San Francisco alma mater, the Sacred Heart Sisters’ Convent High School and Stuart Hall High School. The visit sparked memories but also served as a start for Sister Barbara’s plan to talk “to high school students about how they see the future,” the school said. Sister Barbara’s day at the schools, in addition to the conversations with students, included Mass, lunch, looking in on club meetings. Sister Barbara is an attorney well established in immigration law.

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DOMINICAN SISTERS OF SAN RAFAEL: The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael were honored Oct. 29 by San Anselmo’s San Domenico School at its annual Veritas Dinner. “The sisters wove the fabric from which San Domenico’s values of study, reflection, community, and service evolved,” the school said. “The Dominican Sisters’ dedication to service has provided the foundation of excellence upon which San Domenico stands. We are grateful for their vision, their spirit, their fearlessness, their action, and their never ending quest for Veritas.”

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NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST. FRANCIS: The feast of Christ the King marked the conclusion of the Jubilee Year of Mercy. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone joined Capuchin Franciscan Father John De la Riva, Rector of the National Shrine of St. Francis and one of the pope’s Missionaries of Mercy for the past year, for a closing Mass at the Shrine.

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SATURDAY, DEC. 10 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; www.Handicapables.com.

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, (415) 387-5545.

SUNDAY, DEC. 11 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) 3321765; mamarapp@adilabs.com.

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.

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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, Tessa Rubin, and others; $50/adult, children 12 years and under/$10; (415) 491-4420.

BOUTIQUE: St. Ignatius Christmas Emporium, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Fromm Hall on University of San Francisco campus near St. Ignatius Church, 30 vendors including fine food and wines, accessories and jewelry, stylish apparel and

sadors 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) 2574939; vocations@sanrafaelop.org.

SATURDAY, DEC. 10 CHRISTMAS REMEMBRANCE: Holy Cross Cemetery, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 1500 Mission Road, Colma, 11 a.m., Msgr.

John Talesfore, pastor, St. Msgr. Talesfore Matthew Parish, presides over rite remembering lost loved ones, www. holycrosscemeteries.com, (650) 756-2060.

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.

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

MONDAY, DEC. 12 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 Luis Fernando on the appariCastañeda tion in a talk arranged by the parish young adults; free admission, parking.

TURKEYS/HAMS: St. Emydius Church, DeMontfort and Jules avenues, San Francisco, 9 a.m.-noon; bring turkeys and hams to the drop off site; all collected donations will be brought to the St. Anthony’s to feed the hungry; Pierre Smit sfpierre@aol.com; www.SFTurkeyDrive.com.

200TH ANNIVERSARY: Mission San Rafael, 1104 Fifth Ave, San Rafael, 5 p.m., opening Mass for site’s yearlong bicentennial anniversary. Founded Dec. 14 1817, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist for the milestone liturgy; (415) 302-4938; www.saintraphael.com.

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‘LESSONS AND CAROLS’: St. Cecilia Church, 18th Avenue at Vicente, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring the parish choir; (415) 664-8481.

ADVENT SERIES: St. Patrick Church, 114 King St., Larkspur, 7 p.m., Dominican Sister Patricia Bruno; candlelit meditative prayer time from 6:30 p.m.; wine and cheese reception follows the one hour talks; (415) 924-0600.

YOUNG ADULTS: Advent Morning Get-away with God! 9-noon, Dominican Sisters main parlor, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont, Father Anthony Huong Le, presenter, 9 a.m. registration and light breakfast; www.msjdominicans. org; www.saintjosephmsj.org; (510) 502-5797, Sister Marcia.

CONCERT: St. Bartholomew Christmas Concert, Alameda de las Pulgas and Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 2 p.m., songs of Mary, peace, Advent and Christmas, (650) 347-0701; www. barts.org.

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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 grief’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.

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