February 28, 2014

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Give up, take up, lift up!

In his Lenten message for 2014, Pope Francis takes inspiration from the words of St. Paul (Corinthians 8:9), and asks us to contemplate Paul’s invitation to live “a life of evangelical poverty.”

We can begin to embrace this call by fasting from or “giving up” material things, including foods, that are superfluous to our basic needs; “taking up” habits that are directed to helping and caring for others; and “lifting up” our brothers and sisters who are in need through prayer and devotional practices.

ALEMANY: First part of a bicentennial series on our first archbishop

For a list of Lenten opportunities in the archdiocese, see Page 2. For an inspirational reflection on the season, see Page 18.

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flourishing and to that of society as a whole,” Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily.

The secret to a happy marriage is “love,” said Dimas Sandoval, who married his wife Blanca nearly 16 years ago and has three children, 15, 11, and 4, who were among the many

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has announced the appointment of Sulpician Father Gladstone H. Stevens as the new president and rector of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park.

“Father Stevens is highly esteemed by many groups in California. Bishops, seminarians and laypeople all respect his preaching and spiritual insights,” Archbishop Cordileone said in making the announcement Feb. 19. “He’s faithful, clear, eloquent, humorous and friendly. What more could a seminarian ask for in the rector of the seminary?”

Father Stevens, 48, will continue the tradition of a Sulpician priest leading the seminary. The Sulpicians, founded in 1641 in France, are a society of diocesan priests who devote themselves to training seminarians. They have administered St. Patrick’s since its founding in 1898.

“I’m super happy and honored to be called to this type of service,” Father Stevens said in an interview. “The challenges of the priests are, to be sure, real and so are the opportunities for service.

That is what the seminary can provide – the resources to meet those challenges and to serve God and his church and people in ways that can be truly lifegiving for everybody.”

There are 93 men enrolled at the seminary, 14 from the Archdiocese of San Francisco. St. Patrick’s prepares priests for ministry in 11 dioceses including

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St. Brendan parishioner Rita Figari smiles at William Figari, after standing to be recognized for 70 years of marriage. They were among many couples honored by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at a wedding anniversary Mass Feb. 22. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Seated to their immediate right were Nato and Narcie Estonina, married 50 years.

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Some married couples have a story, an iconic memory that decades later defines the moment when they met. Others look back on years of sacrifice and struggle, and are proud and happy for the good times and the bad.

On Feb. 22, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated a special wedding anniversary Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral for couples married 5, 10, 15 – many for 50 and several for 70 or more years.

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Lenten opportunities throughout the archdiocese SATURDAY, MARCH 1 CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Michael Brillantes, pastor, St. Bruno Parish, San Bruno principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 7562060, www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

SUNDAY, MARCH 2 SF 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: 40 days of prayer to end abortion with kick-off at Planned Parenthood, 1650 Valencia, San Francisco at 3 p.m. Presence then continues every day from Ash Wednesday, March 5, through Palm Sunday 8 a.m.-8 p.m. at the site. Ron, (415) 668-9800, (360) 460-9194; konopaski@yahoo. com. Visit www.40daysforlife.com/sanfrancisco for vigil calendar and register to reserve times to pray at the vigil site.

SUNDAY, MARCH 2 SAN MATEO 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: 40 days of prayer to end abortion with kick-off at Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave., San Mateo 2-3 p.m. Presence then continues every day from Ash Wednesday, March 5, through Palm Sunday 7 a.m.-7 p.m. at the site. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; email themunns@yahoo.com; visit www.40daysforlife.com/sanmateo for vigil calendar and to reserve times to pray at the vigil site.

NO MEAT ON ASH WEDNESDAY, LENTEN FRIDAYS ASH WEDNESDAY, which this year falls on March 5, is one of two days that the church requires Catholics to both fast and abstain from meat. The other day is Good Friday. In addition, Catholics are required to abstain from meat on each Friday in Lent.

EASTER IS APRIL 20. The 40 days of Lent do not include Sundays or the Easter Triduum which begins with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FAST? When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal. Two smaller meals may also be taken but not enough to equal a full meal.

THOSE FROM AGES 18 UNTIL 59 are required to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. From age 14 on, members of the Latin or Roman Catholic Church are obliged to abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent.

PREGNANT OR NURSING WOMEN are excused from the fast and abstinence as well as physically or mentally ill individuals and people suffering from chronic illnesses such as diabetes.

For more information: www.usccb.org/ prayer-and-worship/liturgical-resources/lent/ catholic-information-on-lenten-fast-andabstinence.cfm

FRIDAY, MARCH 7 HEALING MASS: Archdiocese of San Francisco Charismatic Renewal, St. Anselm Church, Ross, rosary 6:45 p.m. Mass 7:30 p.m. All welcome to fellowship in parish hall following Mass. Father Ray Reyes, liaison charismatic renewal; Father Mike Quinn, pastor, St. Mary Star of the Sea; Father Mark Taheny, pastor, St. Sebastian, Greenbrae are among the concelebrants. www.sfspirit.com/; email queenofpeacemarin@yahoo. com; (415) 302-8982.

SATURDAY, MARCH 8 ‘THEOLOGY OF THE BODY’: Presentation on Pope John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” 9 a.m.-noon at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park,

by Ed Hopfner, director, Office of Marriage and Family Life, Archdiocese of San Francisco. Talk will present Catholic Church teaching on marriage and sexuality in a way attuned to the modern person capable of reaching people in everyday life. Cost is $10 per person and includes coffee and scones. rachel@vallombrosa.org; (650) 325.5614.

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We may also be unaware of the church’s rich tradition of sacraments, prayers, and pastoral care for the dying, whose purpose is to help us or our loved ones spiritually and emotionally prepare for our final journey. Hospice and palliative care, advance healthcare directives, and communicating wishes to loved ones will also be addressed.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 25 ‘WE ARE CHURCH’: Lenten lecture series, St. Rita Church, 100 Marinda Drive, Fairfax beginning with soup supper at 6:15 p.m. followed by talk from Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Edward Clark, “The New Evangelization: The Perspectives of 3 Popes.” (415) 456-4815.

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LENTEN EVENING: Carmelite Father David Simpson leads “Praying with St. Teresa of Avila,” 7 p.m., St. Teresa of Avila Church, 1490 19th St. at Connecticut, San Francisco. (415) 285-5272; email info@stteresasf. org; www.stteresasf.org.

‘WE ARE CHURCH’: Lenten lecture series, St. Rita Church, 100 Marinda Drive, Fairfax beginning with soup supper at 6:15 p.m. followed by talk from Kristin Heyer, “Immigration and Family Values: Catholic Moral Perspectives.” (415) 456-4815.

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‘WE ARE CHURCH’: Lenten lecture series, St. Rita Church, 100 Marinda Drive, Fairfax beginning with soup supper at 6:15 p.m. followed by talk from retired Spokane Bishop William Skylstad, “A Reflection on Stewardship of the Earth in Light of Pope Francis and Church Teaching.” (415) 456-4815.

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A vocation to ‘explore the world and then improve it’ TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Steven Zhu is a long way from home and right at home at the same time. The Archbishop Riordan High School senior was born in Suzhou, China, about a two-hour drive from Shanghai. Until becoming part of Riordan’s first class of boarding students as a sophomore in 2011, he had never been to the United States. Long range, he wants to “explore the world and then improve it.” Steven’s parents are Maliang Zhu and Juping Li. Steven met leadership from Riordan at an open house for potential international students in Shanghai in 2011. “I did not know about Archbishop Riordan High School before this conversation,” Steven told Catholic San Francisco in an email interview. “But after that I saw myself on the campus in San Francisco and believed I would learn a lot of new things and become successful in the future by attending Riordan.”

CSF LOOKING FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND MEMORIES OF 2 POPES Blessed John XXIII and Blessed John Paul II will be canonized on April 27. For this unusual canonization of popes who lived in our own times, Catholic San Francisco would like to publish our readers’ memories and photos of the popes. While we would love photos of you with the popes, and also your memories of any exchanges with them, we are also looking for your thoughts on what Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII meant to you. Comments of 100-150 words or less are most likely to be published. Send photos and thoughts to schmalzv@sfarchdiocese.org.

SENIOR STORIES We asked the Catholic high schools of the archdiocese to share profiles of noteworthy seniors. This week’s story is about Steven Zhu, Class of 2014, Archbishop Riordan, San Francisco.

Steven returns to China during school breaks but sees himself continuing in U.S. schools and eventually establishing a career here. He has applied to colleges including Harvard, Duke, Notre Dame and UCLA. Areas of study will probably include engineering, science, and music.

“I fell in love with astronomy when my parents bought me a telescope for my 10th birthday,” Steven said. He said science classes at Riordan unlocked a passion and aptitude for understanding nature. “It is this curiosity that drives me to explore the world,” he said. “I believe engineering is the most direct way of improving our quality of life. I’d like to build a bridge or invent a new device that can make our work more convenient.” Steven said he loses himself in music. “It can cheer me up when I am sad, calm me down when I am scared, remind me of the beauty of this world, and make me even happier when I have a good day,” he said.

Riordan has helped Steven mature, he said. “At

Riordan I learned to become a responsible person.

I have to be responsible for my health, grades, and friendships. By taking leadership roles in various activities, I learned to be responsible for my group.

On a greater scale, I need to be responsible for our world, to serve the community, to tackle poverty, and to make this earth a better place.”

Steven has served as captain of Riordan’s speech and debate team, secretary of the Asian Student Association, and been a liaison between the boarding students and the school. He is a flute section leader with the school marching band. “Among all these events, band affects me the most,” Steven said. Steven also plays the piano and has composed a symphony the band will include in its spring concert.

“I call it ‘Breaking Stone,’” Steven said. The young composer based it on a Chinese story about moving a mountain and how perseverance and God got the job done. A flute/clarinet solo at the opening creates an image of Chinese village. “Then different instruments come in to tell the story.”

Steven said he is not Catholic but has embraced the values of Riordan and Marianist education: friendship, taking care of your brothers, and caring about the world around you.

Steven traveled to New Orleans with other students from Riordan to help rebuild homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He initially viewed the trip as a way to make a dent in the school’s 100hour service requirement.

“Later on, it became my aspiration to help those people in pain and with need,” Steven said. “It was heartwarming when the people expressed their thanks to us. This trip confirmed my desire to have a positive influence on others’ lives. It is now something I firmly believe in, and will continue doing whenever I have the opportunity.”

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‘Service to people of God’ motivates new deacon office head TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Deacon Mike Ghiorso is the new director of Diaconate Ministry and Life for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He admits he is still learning what that means.

“I took on this position because I believe in the importance of priests and deacons working together for the people of God,” Mike told me in an email. “If we can see ourselves at the service Deacon Mike of the community, then we will Ghiorso approach their concerns from the correct perspective.”

Mike was born in San Francisco and is a 1965 graduate of St. Paul of the Shipwreck School.

He holds a graduate degree in history from the University of San Francisco. At Mike’s 2005 ordination Mass, his wife Carolynn and their adult children John, Tiffany, Jessica and Kathryn helped him vest.

Mike is the brother of Father David Ghiorso, pastor of St. Charles Parish, San Carlos. “Dave is younger but he has always been an inspiration to me even before his ordination,” Mike said.

Mike said his diaconate vocation began as a call to do more. “It was a vague and ambiguous call to do something more with my life,” he said, noting many examples of service from priests and deacons informed his decision to pursue ordination.

Mike and Carolynn’s work preparing couples for marriage is at the top of his list among deacon ministry opportunities. “Carolynn is my wife of 38 years and a source of strength and wisdom for me,” Mike said. He also enjoys visiting the sick and leading retreats for inmates in San Mateo County jail.

Baptism preparation is another favorite. “I absolutely become enthralled with a family bringing a child into the faith,” Mike said.

There are 66 deacons in ministry in the archdiocese. A class of 14 will be ordained on May 31, at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Sixteen men are currently in formation and a new class begins studies in August.

The scope of diaconal ministry is vast, Mike said, and includes in addition to already named ministries preaching, assisting at liturgy, baptisms, funeral vigils, graveside committals, hospital services, RCIA, counseling. “This list too is incomplete,” Mike said. Mike will continue his ministry at Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Daly City.

“I preach and baptize, help with baptism preparation, RCIA and our Pastoral Council,” Mike said.

WHO’S COUNTING? WE ARE! No word on how many left to go but students at St. Raphael School counted off the first 100 days of school and commemorated the occasion with a food drive for the poor. The Jan. 31 event gathered more than 900 items to be used in the outreach of the St. Vincent de Paul Society food pantry at St. Raphael Parish. Pictured is an assembly of the good Samaritans and the donations soon to be assigned very good use.

MORE LATER: Marc Worrall’s work to get everyday necessities to the poor of Tanzania was highlighted in Catholic San Francisco (“Just think of how this can change someone’s life,” Jan. 31, 2014). Marc accepted donations to the effort over two weekends at Our Lady of Angels Church in Burlingame where he, his wife Sue and their children are parishioners. Items will be sent by Marc Worrall freighter from Oakland to Africa in a shipping container used previously in Marc’s family business New England Lobster Co. “We have loaded the container. We cannot put another paper clip in,” Marc told me in a Feb. 14 note to Catholic San Francisco. The container’s content includes clothes, shoes, sport supplies, sewing machines, computers and toaster ovens.

This will not be the last time Marc, his family and volunteers reach out to Capuchin Father Mark Mmbando and his parish in Tanzania. “We are going to see how this container goes and then see what we can do better for the next one,” Marc said. “I would love to see the look on the kids’ faces when they see all those new soccer balls or a

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NUN, TWO ACTIVISTS GO TO PRISON FOR PROTEST AT NUCLEAR WEAPONS FACILITY

WASHINGTON – A woman religious and two Catholic peace activists were sentenced to prison for several years for breaking into a Tennessee nuclear weapons facility and defacing its walls in July 2012.

Sister Megan Rice, 84, of Washington, a member of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, was sentenced Sister Megan Feb. 18 to 35 months Rice in prison on each of two counts – one count of depredation of property and one count of sabotage.

Michael Walli, 65, also of Washington, and Greg Boertje-Obed, 58, of Duluth, Minn., were sentenced to 62 months in prison each on the same counts.

All of the sentences were to be served concurrently and the three were to be credited for the nine months they have been held in prison since their conviction in May. The defendants were part of the group “Transform Now Plowshares.”

In announcing the sentences in a courtroom overflowing with supporters of the protesters, U.S. District Judge Amul R. Thapar said he respected the trio’s commitment to peacemaking but that he settled on the sentences, in part, to act as a deterrent to future actions by the defendants or by others at the country’s nuclear weapons facilities.

All three faced sentences of about six to 10 years on each count under federal sentencing guidelines. They have participated in similar protests prior to their 2012 action.

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Tears for Ukraine A woman weeps during a candlelight vigil at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in the Manhattan borough of New York Feb. 23. The service was held to pray for peace in Ukraine. The three months of protests in Ukraine that ended with government snipers killing dozens of people strengthened the commitment to democracy of many Ukrainians, but also left the country vulnerable to further violence and division, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, told reporters in Rome Feb. 25.

NEW YORK BISHOPS URGE ‘LOVE, RESPECT’ FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS

ALBANY, N.Y. – The Catholic bishops of New York urged compassion and acceptance for people suffering from mental illness in a new pastoral statement, and the state Catholic conference, their public policy arm, issued specific policy recommendations related to those with mental illness.

The bishops’ statement, “‘For I Am Lonely and Afflicted’: Toward a Just Response to the Needs of Mentally Ill Persons,” cited the example of Jesus in the Gospels in demonstrating how society should respond to those with mental illness.

“We must reject the twin temptations of stereotype and fear, which can cause us to see mentally ill people as something other than children of God, made in his image and likeness, deserving of our love and respect,” they said.

WASHINGTON –The Catholic Relief Services Collection will take place in U.S. parishes the weekend of March 29-30.

This year’s collection theme is “Help Jesus in Disguise.” The collection provides an opportunity to change the lives of more than 100 million people at home and abroad, particularly families affected by persecution, war and natural disasters.

“The Catholic Relief Services Collection gives us an opportunity for charity. We show our love of God through caring for the poorest of the poor, by providing humanitarian aid and funding projects that develop ongoing resources,” said Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr of Cincinnati, chairman of the Committee on National Collections of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “This collection continues to alleviate suffering around the world in very concrete ways.”

The bishops noted that fewer than 5 percent of violent acts are committed by people with mental illness, adding that “persons with mental illness are more often victims than perpetrators of violent acts, and they also are more likely to be victims of sexual abuse.”

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Former Planned Parenthood nurse: Abortion clinic ‘evil, sad place’ NATALIE HOEFER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

INDIANAPOLIS – For two-anda-half years, Marianne Anderson worked at a place she now describes as “a money-grubbing, evil, sad, sad place to work.”

From early 2010 through July 2012, Anderson was a nurse who, among other duties, dispersed sedatives intravenously to clients at the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Indianapolis. That center is the state’s largest provider of abortions.

When she started working there, Anderson said she was “on the fence about abortion.”

“I think a lot of it came from working at Wishard (Hospital in Indianapolis) and seeing girls that had attempted abortion themselves,” she said. She thought women should have a “safe place” to go for abortion.

In an interview with The Criterion, newspaper of the Indianapolis archdiocese, Anderson said she started to feel uneasy about her job when women from the Planned Parenthood headquarters came to teach the “conscious sedation” process.

“They had this chant they would do: ‘Abortion all the time!’ They acted like an abortion was a rite of passage,” said Anderson.

And the “safe place” she envisioned for women to have abortions turned out to be not so safe.

“Several times there were difficul-

ties with abortions while I worked there, where they had to call the hospital to come pick the woman up. One girl almost bled out. She was passing clots, her blood pressure was dropping,” Anderson recalled.

She told of another incident when a man brought in a Korean girl.

“I had no doubt in my mind this girl was a sex slave,” said Anderson.

“This guy would not leave her side.

They could barely communicate.”

“Girls would start crying on the table, and Dr. (Michael) King would say, ‘Now you chose to be here. Sit still. I don’t have time for this,’” said Anderson, referring to the abortion doctor.

She ultimately found Planned Parenthood to be “a money-grubbing, evil, sad, sad place to work.”

“We would get yelled at if we didn’t answer the phone by the third ring.

They would tell us we’d be fired (if we didn’t), because they needed the money,” Anderson recalled.

“They would remind us in our weekly staff meeting that we need to tell (the clients) to avoid (the sidewalk counselors) because we need the money.”

Anderson was sickened by what she saw in the center’s “POC” room – which stands for “products of conception.”

“He would pour the (products of conception) through a strainer, then flush the remains down the toilet.

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aborted baby while looking for all the parts. ‘Come on, little arm, I know you’re here! Now you stop hiding from me!’ It just made me sick to my stomach.

“The sound the suction machine made when it turned on still haunts me,” Anderson said.

She saw an ad for the book “Unplanned” by Abby Johnson, a former director for Planned Parenthood in Texas who quit her job in 2009 and became pro-life.

Anderson read the book and contacted Johnson, who eventually put her in touch with Eileen Hartman, a local pro-life advocate who runs the Great Lakes Gabriel Project, a Christian-based network of church volunteers who help women facing difficult or unplanned pregnancies.

Anderson, who was fired from Planned Parenthood in 2012, recently attended a retreat put on by And Then There Were None, an organization Johnson created to help former Planned Parenthood employees heal.

“They wanted us to pick out a name every day for one of the babies whose abortions we were a part of, and pray for that child,” said Anderson, who spoke publicly for the first time about her Planned Parenthood experiences at a dinner for Great Lakes Gabriel Project on Feb. 6.

“I still do that. I can’t remember the number (of abortions) I came up with, but I figure it will take me several years before I get through the list.”

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace urged the United States to sign and ratify a treaty to ban the use of land mines.

Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, said in a letter Feb. 12 to National Bishop Pates Security Advisor Susan E. Rice that signing and ratifying the accord – called the Convention on the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and Their Destruction – would further demonstrate the United States’ commitment to ending the use of mines worldwide.

A copy of his letter was released Feb. 20 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The bishop wrote that the Catholic Church has long called for a ban on land mines on moral grounds because they indiscriminately kill and maim innocent civilians, even after hostilities end.

“There is a legacy of devastation in places such as Iraq, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Angola, Colombia and Lebanon while land mines appear to have been used in more recent conflicts such as Syria,” Bishop Pates said. “The Holy See has noted the ‘deplorable humanitarian consequences of antipersonnel land mines.’”

Bishop Pates called upon Rice to urge President Barack Obama to sign the treaty, also known as the Ottawa Convention or the Mine Ban Treaty, and seek its ratification in the U.S. Senate.

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US marriage measure is ‘needed remedy’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A marriage amendment to the U.S. Constitution “would secure in law throughout the country the basic truth known to reason that marriage is the union of one man and one woman,” said San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.

In a Feb. 19 letter, he urged the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Marriage Protection Amendment, a joint resolution sponsored by Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., and introduced last August.

The archbishop, who is chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, urged other House members to co-sponsor the measure.

To amend the U.S. Constitution, it must be approved by two-thirds of the House and the U.S. Senate and then be ratified by three-fourths of the states.

“An amendment to the U.S. Constitution is the only remedy in law against this judicial activism that may ultimately end with federal judges declaring that the

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U.S. Constitution requires states, and consequently the federal government, to redefine marriage,” the archbishop wrote in the letter, which was addressed to Huelskamp.

Archbishop Cordileone was referring to recent federal court decisions striking down a number of state marriage laws.

One of the most recent was a Feb. 13 ruling by a federal judge that struck down Virginia’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Arenda Wright Allen stayed her ruling to allow an appeal to be filed, so same-sex marriage licenses will not be granted immediately.

In recent months, decisions similar to Wright Allen’s have been handed down by federal judges in Utah and Oklahoma. On Feb. 12, a federal judge ruled that Kentucky must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states or other countries; a Kentucky couple sued the state Feb. 14 to force the state to issue samesex marriage licenses.

Catholic and other opponents of same-sex marriage point to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor that found the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional but also required the federal government to respect the primacy of the states in defining marriage.

Archbishop Cordileone wrote that “just as Roe v.

Wade mandated a constitutional right to abortion throughout the country, we now have the possibility of another bad decision mandating a constitutional change in the meaning of marriage in order to promote (at least to begin with) ‘marriages’ between two people of the same sex throughout the country.”

He told Huelskamp the proposed Marriage Protection Amendment is “a needed remedy.”

‘RESTORATIVE JUSTICE,’ NOT DEATH PENALTY, URGED FOR ACCUSED BOMBER

WASHINGTON – In light of the proposed death penalty for 20-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, “Jesus weeps ... again” at the injustice, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men said in a Feb. 19 statement.

“Christ calls us to love our enemies and travel the long, difficult, but humanizing and liberating road to reconciliation,” said the conference, which is made up of the leaders of men’s religious orders who represent more 17,000 U.S. Catholic religious brothers and priests.

The statement came in response to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announcing the federal government will seek the death penalty against Tsarnaev, currently being held in federal prison for his alleged role in the Boston Marathon attacks last April.

The Catholic Church opposes the death penalty in nearly all cases, saying that “the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity are very rare, if not practically nonexistent.”

“The death penalty is sort of an illusion (that) we can protect life by taking it,” said Catherine Jarboe, director for Catholic State Networks and Organizations at the Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty.

“We’re perpetuating the cycle of violence,” she said.

CMSM said it weeps for “all the harm done” in the attacks but maintained that “our political leadership continues to deepen the harm and wounds by advancing the use of the death penalty.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 28, 2014

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Brooklyn bishop calls church to unite in faith with immigrants DENNIS SADOWSKI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Catholic parishes are called to build communion with immigrants and newcomers so people unite in faith rather than solely because of their cultural backgrounds, said the bishop of Brooklyn, N.Y., who has worked for 38 years to improve immigrant relations.

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, former executive director of Migration and Refugee Services for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told a Feb. 24 conference on the integration of immigrants into the Catholic Church that in U.S. parishes, immigrants and longtime members can learn from each other if they are open to doing so.

“Migration really is not a problem to be solved, but rather something we must naturally grow into understanding ourselves better,” Bishop DiMarzio said.

He said the “idea of welcome is what’s important.”

“Our church has been one that has, with struggle, unified many cultures,” he explained. “We’ve seen this unity based on faith with many different struggles over the years, but the immigration perhaps presented the church with an opportunity to build communion between culturally diverse peoples, both natives and newcomers.

“It was not easy. And it’s not complete.

But we’ve learned a lot over these two centuries that we have been an immi-

grant church in the United States,” said Bishop DiMarzio, who once served on the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, now known as the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers.

The bishop acknowledged that the integration of diverse cultures “is not just a matter of assimilation into the dominant U.S. culture, or even our Catholic Bishop DiMarzio culture, but poses challenges to longexisting communities.” He suggested that parishes “draw from the gifts and the strengths and the contribution all the cultures bring us.”

Today, the U.S. church is called to continue its tradition of welcoming new people despite the numerous conflicts portrayed in the broader society, Bishop DiMarzio said.

“Institutions do not integrate immigrants,” he explained. “They can facilitate it, but immigrants integrate, not institutions. And Catholic institutions cannot effectively contribute to immigrant immigration if they lose sight of the agency of the immigrants themselves and do not model themselves on openness and inclusion.”

Bishop DiMarzio cited examples in his diocese, often referred to as the “Diocese of Immigrants,” where parishes have melded two, three, four, even five different cultures into one commu-

nity through prayer, Mass in different languages and cultural events.

Nearly 100 attendees of the conference organized by the New York-based Center for Migration Studies at Casa Italiana at Holy Rosary Parish heard Bishop DiMarzio describe his family’s challenges as members of an Irish parish in his native Newark, N.J. He said his grandparents, natives of Italy, did not attend Mass at the parish because they did not feel welcome.

The bishop also recalled the day as a child when a priest stopped to talk as he worked in the yard with his grandfather. After hearing the priest and his grandfather talk in Italian, Bishop DiMarzio said he felt confident that he could indeed become a priest. Until that point, he explained, he felt that that was not possible.

It is important for parishes to welcome immigrants so that the newcomers do not feel that they must give up their cultural identity in order to fit in, he said.

He urged parishes and dioceses to develop pastoral education programs, charitable and job services and other ministries to help people become one with the church community.

“If (immigrants) feel welcome, if they feel strong, we will accomplish our task,” said Bishop DiMarzio.

CHICAGO – The University of Notre Dame must provide free coverage of contraceptives as required by the federal health care law despite its moral objections to doing so, a panel of the 7th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Feb. 21.

The decision was handed down in the university’s appeal of a Dec. 20 ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana denying it a preliminary injunction. Notre Dame then appealed for emergency relief before the Jan. 1 deadline for the mandate to take effect and was denied.

In its lawsuit, Notre Dame argued that the mandate’s purpose “is to discriminate against religious institutions and organizations that oppose abortion and contraception.”

Judge Richard Posner, joined by Judge David Hamilton, wrote the majority opinion in the 2-1 ruling, saying the university has the option of following a so-called accommodation in the mandate that says employers who object to the coverage on moral grounds can direct a third party to provide the coverage to their employees.

But Notre Dame spokesman Paul J. Browne said the university remains concerned “that if government is allowed to entangle a religious institution of higher education like Notre Dame in one area contrary to conscience, it’s given license to do so in others.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 28, 2014

New panel, with lay members, to oversee Vatican finances FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – In a move reflecting both his drive to reform the Vatican bureaucracy and his oftstated desire to include laypeople in the leadership of the church, Pope Francis established a new panel, to include almost as many lay members as clerics, to oversee the finances of the Holy See and Vatican City State.

Another new office, to be headed by Cardinal George Pell of Sydney, will implement the panel’s policies.

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The Vatican announced the changes in a statement Feb. 24, explaining they would “enable more formal involvement of senior and experienced experts in financial administration, planning and reporting, and will ensure better use of resources,” particularly for “our works with the poor and marginalized.”

The Council for the Economy will include “eight cardinals and bishops to reflect the universality of Cardinal Pell the church” and “seven lay experts of different nationalities with strong professional financial experience,” the Vatican said. They will “meet on a regular basis and to consider policies and practices and to prepare and analyze reports on the economic-administrative activities of the Holy See.” The lay members of the new council will exercise an unprecedented level of responsibility for nonclerics in the Vatican, where the highest offices have always been reserved for cardinals and bishops.

The Vatican did not release any names of council members.

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“I have always recognized the need for the church to be guided by experts in this area and will be pleased to be working with the members of the new Council for the Economy as we approach these tasks,” Cardinal Pell said in a statement released by the Archdiocese of Sydney, which said he would take up his new position at the Vatican “by the end of March.”

Cardinal Pell is a “man who’s got financial things at his fingertips, and he’s a man who’s very decisive, and I think he’s a got a good understanding of how Roman affairs work,” South African Cardinal Wilfred F. Napier of Durban, who sat on one of the advisory panels that reviewed the arrangements before the pope’s decision, told Catholic News Service.

The pope acted on recommendations from the Pontifical Commission for Reference on the EconomicAdministrative Structure of the Holy See, which he established in July to review accounting practices in Vatican offices and devise strategies for greater fiscal responsibility and transparency.

According to the Vatican, the commission “recommended changes to simplify and consolidate existing management structures and improve coordination and oversight across” the Vatican bureaucracy, and called for a “more formal commitment to adopting accounting standards and generally accepted financial management and reporting practices as well as enhanced internal controls, transparency and governance.”

“Something really needed to be done,” Cardinal Napier said of the pope’s actions. “For instance, there was no serious budgeting that you could call budgeting. ... It was quite clear that some of the procedures and processes that were in place were not adequate for today’s world.”

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Most Rev. William J. Justice and Rev. Lawrence C. Goode and other faith clergy will lead the Prayer Walk for Peace to Stop the Violence with Families of murdered victims. The event will include a Memorial Service and Remembrance of Life reception which will take place after the Prayer Walk at St. Francis of Assisi Church in East Palo.

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Pope tells cardinals they are servants

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Gospel for March 2, 2014 Matthew 6:24-34

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VATICAN CITY – Celebrating Mass with the newest members of the College of Cardinals one day after their elevation, Pope Francis urged them to regard their new role not as one of worldly honor but of humble service and sacrifice.

“A cardinal enters the church of Rome, not a royal court,” the pope said in his homily Feb. 23, during morning Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. “May all of us avoid, and help others to avoid, habits and ways of acting typical of a court: intrigue, gossip, cliques, favoritism and preferences.”

“May our language be that of the Gospel: ‘yes when we mean yes; no when we mean no,’” he said.

“May our attitudes be those of the beatitudes and our way be that of holiness.”

Pope Francis celebrated the Mass with 18 of the 19 men he had raised to the rank of cardinal the previous day in the same basilica. Cardinal Loris Capovilla, who at age 98 is now the oldest member of the college, was absent on both occasions for reasons of health.

The 18 new cardinals, clad in the green vestments of the liturgical season of ordinary time, sat in a near semicircle around the main altar. More than a hundred of their fellow cardinals, also serving as concelebrants, sat in rows at the front of the congregation.

Retired Pope Benedict, whose appearance at the previous day’s consistory had surprised practically all the participants, did not return to the basilica for the Mass.

Pope Francis’ call for humility echoed a letter he had sent the new cardinals shortly after the announcement of their elevation in January, telling them that a red hat “does not signify a promotion, an honor or a decoration; it is simply a form of service that requires expanding your vision and enlarging your heart,” and that they should celebrate their new distinction only in an “evangelical spirit of austerity, sobriety and poverty.”

In his homily, the pope said that “Jesus did not come to teach us good manners, how to behave

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Italian Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio greets Cardinal Chibly Langlois of Les Cayes, Haiti, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican during a Feb. 22 consistory. well at the table. To do that, he would not have had to come down from heaven and die on the cross.

Christ came to save us, to show us the way, the only way out of the quicksand of sin, and this is mercy.”

“To be a saint is not a luxury,” he said. “It is necessary for the salvation of the world.”

Quoting from the day’s reading from the Gospel according to St. Matthew, in which Jesus enjoins his disciples to love their enemies and pray for their persecutors, the pope said cardinals are called to live out that injunction with even “greater zeal and ardor” than other Christians.

“We love, therefore, those who are hostile to us; we bless those who speak ill of us; we greet with a smile those who may not deserve it,” he said. “We do not aim to assert ourselves; we oppose arrogance with meekness; we forget the humiliations that we have endured.”

The pope’s words recalled his previous day’s talk to the cardinals – whose traditional scarlet garb is said to symbolize the blood of martyrs – when he called on them to pray for “all Christians suffering from discrimination and persecution” and “every man and woman suffering injustice on account of his or her religious convictions.”

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Vatican family life survey shows ‘much suffering’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The responses to the Vatican questionnaire about Catholics’ family life reflect a great amount of suffering around the world, said the general secretary of the synod.

As of Feb. 19, about 80 percent of the world’s bishops’ conferences and 60 percent of the Vatican congregations and councils had turned in formal responses to a questionnaire distributed by the synod office in October.

Cardinal-designate Lorenzo Baldisseri, general secretary of the synod, told the Vatican newspaper Feb. 21 that the responses show “much suffering, especially by those who feel excluded or abandoned by the church because they find themselves in a state of life that does not correspond to the church’s doctrine and discipline.”

The volume of responses, which also include about 700 submissions from Catholic groups and individuals, demonstrates great interest in the synod’s plans to discuss the family when it

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meets at the Vatican Oct. 5-19, said the general secretary.

By urging bishops around the world to conduct the broadest consultation possible given the brief amount of time allotted, synod officials “sparked a spontaneous reaction that may seem surprising, but is actually proof of how necessary it is to go out of our offices” to where people really live, he said.

The results compiled by the bishops’ conferences, he said, show “the urgency of recognizing the lived reality of the people and of beginning a pastoral dialogue with those who have distanced themselves from the church for various reasons.”

Simply by distributing the questionnaire so widely and inviting everyone to respond, he said, “a process has been opened for restoring the trust many have lost.”

Pope Francis, he said, “shows, day after day, a new human and Christian approach that stimulates people and prepares them to listen and to accept what is good for them, even if there is suffering.”

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Pope: By taking care of elders, families show world all life has value CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said the worst thing about growing old is not becoming weaker or infirm, but the “abandonment, the exclusion, the deprivation of love” in today’s “throwaway culture.”

The pope’s remarks came in a written message sent to bioethicists, scientists, healthcare professionals, religious, theologians and other experts attending the Pontifical Academy for Life’s Feb. 20-21 workshop on “Aging and Disability.”

The pope thanked the academy for its “often tiring work, because it demands going against the tide” in a world facing the “tyrannical domination of an economic logic that excludes and sometimes kills.”

“We have created a ‘throwaway’ culture” that is no longer about exploitation or oppression, but about treating people as “the outcasts, the ‘leftovers,’” he wrote, citing his apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the Gospel”).

The elderly are particularly affected by this trend of exclusion, especially if they are ill, disabled or vulnerable in other ways, he wrote.

People forget that human relationships “are always relationships of reciprocal dependence” in which the degree of dependence changes over the course of a person’s life, especially at its early and later stages and during periods of illness or suffering.

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“The loss of health and having a disability are never a good reason for exclusion or, worse, eliminating a person,” he wrote in the message.

The best place to learn the real value of human life and the duty of solidarity is the family, he wrote.

“In the family you can learn that the loss of health is not a reason to discriminate against some human lives; the family teaches not to succumb to individualism and to strike a balance between the ‘I’ and the ‘we.’”

It’s in the family that people learn that taking care of others is “a foundation of human existence,” the pope wrote. How families treat and care for their elders “becomes critical in order to reconfirm before all of society the importance of older people” and the active role they should play in the community.

Though older people may seem to “take without anything to give,” he wrote, their experience “warns us not to foolishly repeat our past mistakes.”

Pope Francis noted the academy was celebrating 20 years since Blessed John Paul II established it to promote the dignity of life and study current challenges to life in the fields of medicine and law.

The academy’s work is meant to “let people of goodwill know that science and technology, when put at the service of the human person and his or her fundamental rights, contribute to the integral well-being of the person,” Pope Francis said.

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Pope’s Valentine: Forgiveness key to wedded bliss PAPAL WISDOM ON MARRIAGE

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VATICAN CITY – Greeting thousands of engaged couples on the feast of St. Valentine, Pope Francis told them not to be afraid of building a permanent and loving relationship in a culture where everything is disposable and fleeting.

The secrets to a loving and lasting union, he said, include treating each other with respect, kindness and gratitude, and never letting daily struggles and squabbles sabotage making peace and saying, “I’m sorry.”

“The perfect family doesn’t exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let’s not talk about the perfect mother-in-law!” he said to laughter and applause.

“It’s just us sinners,” he said. But “if we learn to say we’re sorry and ask forgiveness, the marriage will last.”

After a week of heavy rains, bright sunshine warmed St. Peter’s Square and the 30,000 people who gathered for an audience Feb. 14 dedicated to couples completing their marriage preparation courses and planning to be married in the church this year.

The initiative, “The Joy of ‘Yes’ Forever,” was organized by the Pontifical Council for the Family. The council president, Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, is a former bishop of Terni and successor to St. Valentine – the third-century martyred bishop of Terni.

The archbishop told the pope that the young couples in the square were evidence of how many people do want to “go against the tide” by having a love that lasts forever and is blessed by God. Engaged couples attending the audience received a small white pillow with Pope Francis’ signature and his papal crest; the cushion has two satin ribbons for securing wedding rings during the marriage ceremony.

Three of the couples shared with the pope their thoughts and concerns about living a Christian marriage and asked for his advice.

While the pope confessed he had the questions in advance and wrote out his answers, that didn’t stop him from straying from the text to give further emphasis and examples.

“Living together is an art, a patient, beautiful and amazing journey” that “doesn’t end when you’ve won over each others’ hearts,” he said.

Rather “that’s exactly when it begins!”

A healthy family life, he said, absolutely requires frequent use of three phrases: “May I? Thank you, and I’m sorry.”

People need to be more attentive to how they treat each other, he said. They must trade in their heavy “mountain boots” for greater delicacy when walking into someone else’s life.

Love isn’t tough or aggressive, he said, it’s courteous and kind, and in a world that is “often violent and aggressive, we need much more courtesy.”

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Couples also need the strength to recognize when they’ve done wrong and ask forgiveness.

The “instinct” to accuse someone else “is at the heart of so many disasters,” starting with Adam, who ate the forbidden fruit. When God asked him if he did it, the pope said, Adam immediately passes the blame saying, “’Uh, no, it was that one over there who gave it to me!’ Accusing the other to get out of saying ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘Pardon me.’”

Obviously, couples will make mistakes and fight, but “never, never, never end the day without making peace,” the pope said.

An eloquent speech isn’t necessary, he said, but things must be set right because if they aren’t, the bad feelings inside will become “cold and hard and it will be more difficult to make peace” as time goes on.

Many people can’t imagine or are afraid of a love and marriage that lasts forever because they think love is an emotional-physical feeling or state-of-being, he said. But “love is a relationship, it’s something that grows.”

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Like his miracle of multiplying the loaves, Jesus will do the same “also for you,” he said, “multiplying your love and giving it to you good and fresh every day.”

The pope also urged couples to keep their wedding ceremonies low-key, focusing more on Christ than on the dress, decorations and photographers.

A Christian marriage is a celebration, but it must highlight “what’s really important,” and “the true reason for your joy: the blessing of your love by the Lord.”

Manuela Franchini, 29, and Armando Perasole, 30, who are getting married Dec. 12, attended the event. They moved from Naples to Milan for work, and told Catholic News Service that economic and political problems in Italy make it “really hard for families. But with the church there is more hope in being able to make it.”

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The two 25-year-olds became Catholics as adults and Duncan said, “The fact that we’re able to begin our marriage in the presence of the pope is a culmination of a process that has been the story of our love.”

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Cardinals confer on family ministry

Pope calls for ‘intelligent, courageous’ approach to family CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Opening a two-day meeting of the world’s cardinals, Pope Francis said the church’s pastoral approach to helping couples must be “intelligent, courageous and full of love” because the family today is “looked down upon and mistreated.”

“Our reflection must keep before us the beauty of the family and marriage, the greatness of this human reality, which is so simple, yet so rich, made up of joys and hopes, of struggles and sufferings,” the pope told the cardinals Feb. 20 as they began meeting in the Vatican synod hall.

Pope Francis arrived in the synod hall before many of the approximately 150 cardinals and cardinals-designate in attendance. He stood in the narrow entryway, greeting those who arrived after him, while the others renewed old friendships, met the new cardinals or sat quietly praying or reading.

After a prayer service, led by the Sistine Chapel choir, Pope Francis thanked the cardinals for coming and told them their two days of discussions would focus on the family, “which is the basic cell of human society. From the beginning, the Creator blessed man and woman so that they might be fruitful and multiply,” being a reflection of God, one and triune, in the world.

The cardinals should try to avoid “falling into casuistry,” the pope said, and instead attempt “to deepen the theology of the family and discern the pastoral practices, which our present situation requires.”

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said his understanding of the pope’s warning about “casuistry” was that it was a plea to “avoid a fragmentation of the discussion by focusing on too many particular cases” and never getting to the point of discerning a general approach that should guide the church’s pastoral activity. “I think he is saying that our discussion should not be too fragmented by listing specifically difficult situations or cases that have touched us.”

While many in the world today look down on and even mistreat the family, Pope Francis said, the church must help people recognize “how beautiful, true and good it is to start a family,” and must find better ways to help Catholic couples live God’s “magnificent plan for the family.”

The cardinals’ two-day discussion with Pope Francis was introduced by retired German Cardinal Walter Kasper, a theologian who has written a book Pope Francis admired on mercy as one of the most basic traits of God and as the key to living a Christian life, both individually and as the church.

In the early 1990s, while he was a diocesan bishop, he and two other German bishops tried to institute a policy that in certain circumstances would allow divorced and civilly remarried couples to return to the sacraments even without an annulment. The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith forced the bishops to drop the plan.

According to the Vatican spokesman, Cardinal Kasper dedicated one section of his talk to the theme of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, a topic Father Lombardi said obviously was on the minds of many participants.

The spokesman said Cardinal Kasper treated the topic “broadly,” insisting that the church’s response had to show both “fidelity to the words of Jesus” and an understanding of the “mercy of God in the lives of people and, therefore, in the pastoral work of the church.”

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The Vatican spokesman described Cardinal Kasper’s presentation, which he said the Vatican had no plans to publish, as a broad overview of the theology and reality of the family.

Father Lombardi said Cardinal Kasper’s talk was an attempt to be realistic about the family today, in the context of its place in God’s plan “for the good of all persons and humanity itself.”

The text also discussed problems the church faces in pastoral work, he said, “but it did not focus exclusively on these problems.”

“We must have a positive point of departure and rediscover and proclaim the Gospel of the family in all its beauty,” Cardinal Kasper said, according to Father Lombardi. “The truth convinces through its beauty, (and) we must contribute with words and actions to making sure that people find happiness in the family and, in that way, they can witness their joy to others.”

Cardinal Kasper said it was essential for the church to develop more fully its teaching that the family is the “domestic church, making it the privileged pathway of the new evangelization and church renewal.”

The German cardinal also told his confreres that “in families, the church encounters the reality of life; for this reason, families are the proving ground of our pastoral work and an urgent point for the new evangelization. The family is the future, including for the church.”

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VATICAN CITY – As some 150 cardinals from around the world gathered with Pope Francis to talk about the family, their two days of discussion focused particularly on three points: the Christian vision of people and family life; essential pastoral programs to support families; and ministry to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.

Although the discussions during the Feb. 20-21 meeting were closed to the press, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, gave reporters an overview of the discussions.

Retired German Cardinal Walter Kasper gave a two-hour opening presentation, laying out the biblical and theological basis of church teaching on marriage. He also emphasized the challenge of finding ways to always fulfill two basic obligations: remaining faithful to Jesus’ words about the indissolubility of marriage and embodying the mercy God always shows to those who have sinned or fallen short.

The cardinals held two morning and two afternoon sessions. In the first three sessions, Father Lombardi said, 43 cardinals spoke; many others had signed up to speak the final afternoon or had decided to make their contributions in writing.

Father Lombardi said many of the cardinals spoke broadly about Christian anthropology – the biblically based vision of people – and the challenge of living that out in the “context of a secularized society that promotes visions of the human person, the family and sexuality that are very different.”

“The climate wasn’t one of complaining, but of realism,” the spokesman said.

The second focus, he said, was on the kinds of pastoral programs offered to families and the forms of support available to them in parishes and dioceses. Several cardinals insisted on the importance of mandatory marriage preparation programs.

A third group of talks, Father Lombardi said, focused on divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.

Several cardinals spoke about the church’s process for granting annulments and possible ideas for improving the process or simplifying it.

Other cardinals, he said, spoke about the desire of some divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to be able to receive Communion even though they have not received an annulment.

“The discussion was very interesting, very broad, very serene,” he said. “No decisions were made,” but there was “a clear commitment to finding the best way to keep together fidelity to Christ’s words and mercy in the life of the church.”

The cardinals were not expected to make any decisions or vote on proposals during their meeting, he said. Rather, they were holding a discussion in preparation for October’s extraordinary synod on the family and a 2015 world Synod of Bishops on the same theme.

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Truth in one’s heart is a step toward holiness, pope says CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME – Being truthful about what is in one’s heart isn’t always easy, but it is an essential step to living a good and holy life, Pope Francis told members of a parish on the western outskirts of Rome.

“I think it would do us good today to think about not whether our souls are clean or soiled, but to ask, ‘What is in my heart? What do I hold inside that I know and no one else does?’” the pope said Feb. 16 during an evening Mass at the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle.

“Facing the truth about ourselves is not easy,” he said at the Mass, after having met parish youngsters preparing for first Communion and

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Pope Francis kisses a baby as he visits St. Thomas the Apostle Parish on the outskirts of Rome Feb. 16. confirmation, the parents of babies recently baptized, and members of a group for families with children who have disabilities. The pope also heard confessions before the Mass.

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fifth chapter of Matthew, Pope Francis talked about Jesus’ warning that speaking ill of someone is like killing them in one’s heart and lusting after someone is like committing adultery in one’s heart.

“What is in our hearts?” the pope asked parishioners. Is there love or hatred? Is there forgiveness or a desire for revenge?

“We must ask ourselves what is inside because what is inside will come out and does harm if it is evil and if it is good, it comes out and does good,” he said.

While it is natural to try to hide one’s weaknesses from others, the pope said, “it’s very good to tell ourselves the truth and to feel shame when we find ourselves in a situation that is not pleasing to God.” As he did during his Angelus address at the Vatican earlier in the day, the pope also spoke forcefully about the sin of gossip and speaking ill of others. “Whoever insults his brother, kills him in his heart; whoever hates his brother, kills him in his heart; whoever gossips against his brother, kills him in his heart.”

At the Angelus, the pope said that gossiping is like eating a candy – it begins as something pleasurable, “but in the end it fills our hearts with bitterness, and poisons us, too.”

“I’ll tell you the truth,” he told the crowd in St. Peter’s Square, “I am convinced that if each one of us would make a resolution to avoid gossip, in the end we’ll become saints!”

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Pope: Go directly to confession, don’t wait CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – If you haven’t been to confession recently, don’t wait, Pope Francis told people at his weekly general audience. One may walk into the confessional with a heavy heart, but forgiveness brings freedom and lightness.

“If a lot of time has passed, don’t lose even one more day. Go,” the pope said Feb. 19, promising that “the priest will be good. Jesus will be there and he’s even nicer than the priest.”

“Be courageous. Go to confession,” the pope told an estimated 20,000 people at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square.

“Even just on a human level in order to vent, it’s good to speak to a brother, confessing to the priest these

things that weigh so heavily on your heart,” the pope said. “Don’t be afraid of confession.”

Pope Francis said he wanted to follow up on his previous audience talks about baptism, Communion and confirmation.

Those sacraments give new life, he said, but sin eats away at that new life and can destroy it, which is why Jesus gave his disciples the power to forgive sins in the name of God and the Christian community.

“Some say, ‘I confess only to God.’ Yes, you can say, ‘God forgive me,’ but our sins are also against our brothers and sisters, against the church,” which is called to be holy, he said.

“This is why it is necessary to ask forgiveness from our brothers and sisters and from the church in the person of the priest.”

Pope Francis said he knows some might say to him, “’but, Father, I’m ashamed.’ Shame is good, it’s healthy to have a bit of shame,” because “shame makes us more humble.”

“Sometimes when you’re in line for confession, you feel all sorts of things, especially shame, but when your confession is over, you’ll leave free, great, beautiful, forgiven, clean, happy – this is what’s beautiful about confession,” he said.

The pope asked people at the audience to think about how long it’s been since they have been to confes-

sion. “Don’t say it out loud, OK? but respond in your heart: When was the last time you confessed. Two days? Two weeks? Two years? 20 years? 40 years?”

Citing the “beautiful, beautiful” Gospel story of the prodigal son who returned home after squandering his father’s inheritance, Pope Francis said the father didn’t even wait for the son to finish asking forgiveness. “He hugged him, kissed him and threw a party.”

“I tell you,” the pope said, “every time we go to confession, God embraces us and celebrates.”

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Face of mercy: A prison wedding CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Even a jailed inmate can have a fairy-tale, Catholic wedding.

The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, ran a lovely story of one couple’s journey of preparation for the sacrament of marriage.

It’s not your typical scenario: The couple had been together for 27 years, had children and grandchildren, and now, the groom was serving time in a prison in Catania, in southern Italy.

The story is told by the prison chaplain, Father Francesco Ventorino, who, while not identifying the couple, talks about the groom’s spiritual awakening.

The man wanted a Catholic wedding, even if it meant holding the ceremony in jail, because he wanted to “give spousal dignity” to his wife, give their children “the sense of belonging to a true family” and to abide by “his Christian conscience,” the priest said.

“Rarely have I found myself in front of people with so much curiosity and desire to understand the mystery that they were going to celebrate in the faith and what this added to the love they had already lived, faithfully and fruitfully,” Father Ventorino said.

The priest said the inmates were doubtful the church would even allow the couple to have a Catholic wedding, and the townsfolk believed the only people who got married in the church were families who could afford a lavish ceremony.

Both communities — inside and outside the prison walls — were about to see things could be different.

Father Ventorino hit the streets, calling friends and finding ways people could pitch in to help; the groom had no money, the priest said, “not even to buy a tie.”

A goldsmith in town donated the wedding rings, the notary gave the groom one of his best suits and others contributed money, baked desserts, made party favors and got the flowers to decorate a makeshift altar set up in a room in the prison where the ceremony would take place.

The whole saga of getting everything ready “was followed closely by his cellmates and the inmates in his ward — like a shared adventure.”

The couple were married in the detention facility in the presence of their family, prison staff and police, and “an improvised choir made up of volunteers.”

When it was time to exchange their vows, the chaplain said, the couple were so choked up, they could barely get the words out. Such a moving, emotional moment is “something that rarely happens today, even with young people,” he said.

“The two newlyweds had understood that with the sacrament, their love entered into Christ’s love for his church, and required, from then on, the same kind of fidelity and selflessness, an absolute giving up until death.”

Getting married in the church made the things the couple believed and expressed about God “more credible,” the priest said.

After the wedding, the priest said everyone told him the ceremony had “rendered, even more glorious, the face of Christ” inside the prison — that face of mercy and forgiveness that Pope Francis says makes life in any situation more human.

And if that weren’t enough of a happy ending: Father Ventorino said the number of detainees asking to get married in the church “have multiplied!”

When it was time to exchange their vows, the couple were so choked up, they could barely get the words out.

Lent: An opportunity to grow

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ecently I was looking up the date of Ash Wednesday this year and it was hard to believe that Lent will be here in no time.

The season of Lent is a very important time for Catholic Christians.

Every year our church, in her wisdom, gives us 40 days as an annual SISTER MARGIE retreat to LAVONIS reflect on our spiritual lives and our relationship with God. Lent is a yearly opportunity to slow down and take stock of how we are living our baptismal commitment; and how well our actions are in line with the Gospel message of Jesus.

Our Catholic tradition suggests that we use the disciplines of prayer, fasting and almsgiving to renew our spiritual lives during Lent – actually not just in Lent but throughout our lives.

Take prayer. We might take a look at how much quality time we give the Lord. Maybe our prayer life is limited to Mass on Sunday and a quick prayer before meals, when we remember. Perhaps we pray only when we need a favor like asking God to heal a loved one or that one of our children becomes a priest or religious. Let this Lent be different.

No relationship can deepen and grow unless we are willing to listen and share ourselves with the

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other person. God is no exception.

During Lent, if you don’t already, set aside at least fifteen minutes of your time each day to be with God. Go to a quiet place, if you can find one, slow down and let God love you. Read and reflect upon some scripture each day and get to know the one who loves you unconditionally and who has given you all you have. I suggest using the Mass readings for each day and reflect on what God is saying to you. In fact, it would be good to try to go to Mass more than just on Sunday if you can.

Now what about fasting? The first thing most of us think when it comes to fasting is to give up some kind of food, like candy or ice cream. Abstaining from food is a way to fast, but there are other, and sometimes more helpful, ways.

It depends on what type of fasting would best benefit our spiritual lives, not just our waistlines. Maybe it would be more beneficial for you to fast from gossip or negative words about others, or perhaps you could try to talk less and become a better listener, especially to people who could use your attention. It can be a real discipline to stop and focus on the other person and re-

ally hear what he or she is saying especially when we are in a hurry.

The third traditional Lenten discipline is to give alms. Many people think of almsgiving as giving money to some charitable cause. That is part of it, but it is much easier to give our loose change to the needy than give the precious gifts of our time and talents to others. Lent calls us to give of ourselves, not just our financial and material resources.

You might think about with whom you could spend more quality time.

There might be a person or a group that could benefit from your gifts and talents.

Besides our time, another thing one may be called to give during Lent is forgiveness and reconciliation. You might ask yourself who in your life, whether living or dead, do you need to forgive for some hurt done to you. Or from whom do you need to ask forgiveness? I think that is one very important way to give alms and a sacrifice pleasing to our God. Reconciliation is not easy, but it brings a lot of peace to our hearts and homes.

During this Lent let us try to slow down, get to know God better and be more reflective and conscious of the needs of others. Don’t let this opportunity to deepen your spiritual life slip by you. Material things and other concerns may pass away, but our relationship with God is forever. Get to know and serve God better during these days when we prepare for Easter. Don’t let this be just another 40 days of the year.

HOLY CROSS SISTER MARGIE LAVONIS is a freelance writer in Notre Dame, Ind.

LETTERS Father Barron’s attack counterproductive

Father Barron’s attack on secular mentality (“Extreme demand, extreme mercy in love and war,” Feb. 14) is counterproductive and the exact opposite to the approach to evangelization Pope Francis recommends, i.e., to persuade rather than condemn. In a false analogy to the just war principle, he implies that anything other than blind obedience to the church’s formal teaching on sexuality is an obstacle to our call to sanctity.

Father Barron is counterproductive on two levels. First, in responsible discernment by adults, it is necessary to understand principles as adults, rather than as children who lack the ability to reason in depth. It is the responsibility of pastors to appreciate the way people learn so as to evangelize them. To propose formal doctrine as absolute and unchangeable is simply misleading and unacceptable to thinking people.

On the second level, Father Barron denigrates the resistance of most Catholics to the implied infallibility of “Humanae Vitae.”

This encyclical was opposed by Pope Paul VI’s own theological

commission as too broad to be convincing.

According to Vatican II’s “Constitution on the Church in the Modern World,” the church must be in dialogue with the laity, especially secular professionals who can make discoveries that throw light on doctrinal issues so that they can be expressed more convincingly. One example is stem cell research where scientists have demonstrated that adult stem cells rather than embryonic cells can be made to produce life-giving tissue.

I agree that it is the church’s fundamental responsibility to equip people to become apostles. Hence the responsibility of parishes is sensitive catechesis not only to children but also to adults on the adult level. The seminarians Father Barron trains should be prepared to do that.

Peggy G. Saunders San Carlos Editor’s note: A March 16, 2011, CNA/EWTN article quoted Germain Grisez, professor emeritus of philosophy and moral theology at Mount St. Mary’s College in Maryland, as saying Pope Paul VI heard both sides in the 1963-66 birth control commission debate but ultimately decided in

“Humanae Vitae” to stand on church teaching. “He was not at all imagining that he could delegate to a committee, the power to decide what the church’s teaching is going to be,” Grisez was quoted as saying.

Pope article not responsible journalism

Catholic San Francisco and Patricia Zapor of Catholic News Service should be publicly reprimanded for printing the term used to describe Pope Francis as a troublemaker (“‘Troublemaker’ pope reshapes church,” Feb. 14).

Disagreement with the pope’s decisions is acceptable but making it the headline on Page 1 where many readers will form an opinion without even reading the article is not, I believe, responsible journalism.

At this point my regard for the paper and the news service is at a low ebb. Even if a retraction or apology was printed it would not reach all who formed a negative opinion. What do you intend to do about it or are you just going to let things ride along with no attempt to correct the impression?

Sister Estelle Small, RSM Burlingame

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 28, 2014

‘You must really go to California’ BROTHER LARRY SCRIVANI, SM

First part of an occasional series marking the birth bicentennial of Joseph Sadoc Alemany, the Spanishborn Dominican missionary priest who served as the first archbishop of San Francisco (1853-1884).

It came as a total surprise. Weeks earlier he had sailed from New York to attend a general convocation of his Dominican order in Rome. Upon arriving he learned the gathering had been cancelled.

But all was not wasted. The cardinal in charge of foreign missions had news for him. So Jose Alemany, a missionary from the Tennessee frontier, presented his short and wiry self to Cardinal Franzoni, the Prefect of Propaganda Fide.

He left Franzoni’s salon a shaken man. The “news” was that the bishops of the United States had nominated him to be Bishop of Monterey in the New Territories out West. Worse, Pope Pius IX had appointed him to that post and he was to have an interview with the pope five days hence.

Panic-stricken, Alemany poured out his heart to his Dominican superior who approved for him to decline the office. But when Alemany arrived for his papal interview, the pope spoke first. As if reading Alemany’s mind he said, “You really must go to California; there is no alternative.” And he added: “Where others are drawn by gold, you must go to carry the cross. Do not ponder over what to say or do for the Lord will direct you at the proper time.”

Alemany’s response? “I shut my mouth.”

In retrospect, Alemany’s career seems to have prepared him for this mission as if providence had written the script for his life.

It had begun in his youth when the Bonapartist revolution in his native Spain forced him to accept exile as the price for becoming a priest. Anti-clericalism in Europe had made Alemany cosmopolitan.

It continued during his ten years in the frontier diocese of Nashville where he observed the best and the worst of Yankee attitudes toward the Catholic faith. He learned English and he took the oath of citizenship in Memphis.

He recalled how President Andrew Jackson had invited him and a French Dominican to dinner at his estate called the Hermitage. Jackson showed the two priests his private chapel and told them:

Archbishop Joseph Sadoc BICENTENNIAL 1814-2014

JOSEPH SADOC ALEMANY JULY 13, 1814: Born in Vich, Catalonia, Spain MARCH 27, 1837: Ordained to the priesthood in Viterbo, Italy 1840-1845: Missionary priest on the Ohio and Tennessee frontier OCT. 27, 1845: Takes oath of citizenship in Memphis, Tenn.

JUNE 30, 1850: Ordained bishop for the Diocese of Monterey in California JULY 29, 1853: Transferred to the new Archdiocese of San Francisco DEC. 21, 1884: Resignation from the see of San Francisco accepted by Pope Leo XIII APRIL 14, 1888: Dies in Valencia, Catalonia, Spain 1935: Alemany Boulevard in San Francisco named for him

(PHOTO COURTESY ARCHIVES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO)

St. Francis of Assisi Church in San Francisco’s North Beach as pictured in 1851. The church was one of the earliest, if not the earliest, churches in California after the Spanish missions and initially served as the pro-cathedral of Joseph Sadoc Alemany, first archbishop of San Francisco.

“Gentlemen, we shall always be happy that you or any other clergymen come here to preach to us the lessons of religion.”

From this experience Alemany concluded: “I prefer to adhere to the fearless old patriot of the Hermitage, and to the humane and noble sentiments of the Constitution, engraved in the breast of every American, which secures all the free exercise of their religion, and opens its ports and glorious blessings to the oppressed of all nations.”

So Alemany left Rome as a man on a mission. In France he arranged funding from the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. He obtained three Dominican men and three Dominican women to

1965: Alemany’s remains reinterred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma accompany him to California. In Paris, he arranged for the Daughters of Charity to follow in 1852.

Then in Ireland he began the long association of his diocese with the Missionary College of All Hallows which was to send many priests to California. Finally, he visited John Henry Newman at the Birmingham Oratory in England.

His little band of seven took ship in Liverpool in September 1850 bound for New York; thence to Panama and finally to San Francisco. The voyage took 68 days. The party landed at Yerba Buena Cove on Dec. 7, 1850. The very next day was the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Nine days later, Alemany wrote John Henry Newman, “The Providence of God will, no doubt, be good to us.”

MARIANIST BROTHER LAWRENCE Scrivani lives in Cupertino.

The real challenge in creativity

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here are three kinds of performers: The first, while singing a song or doing a dance, are making love to themselves. The second, while performing, are making love to the audience. The third, while on stage, are making love to the song, to the dance, to the drama itself.

Of course it’s not difficult to discern who the better performer is. The one making love to the song, of course, best honors the song and draws energy from some deeper place. And he or she does this by enterFATHER RON ing into and channeling the ROLHEISER energy of the song rather than by entering into and channeling their own energy or the energy of the audience. What a good artist does, whether that be a singer, a writer, a painter, a dancer, a craftsperson, a carpenter or a gardener is tap into the deep energies at the heart of things and draw on them to create something that is of God, namely, something that is one, true, good and beautiful. In the end, and this is true of all good art and all good performance, creativity is not about the person doing the creation. It’s about oneness, truth, goodness and beauty.

This holds true for all creativity and art, and it holds true too for all good teaching, catechesis, preaching, and evangelization. At the end of the day, it has to be about truth, goodness, beauty and God, not about oneself or one’s audience.

This is important for many reasons. Not least

among those reasons is the fact that many of us hesitate to express our creativity for fear that we will be too amateur and too unskilled to measure up. And so we don’t write poetry, write music, write novels, paint pictures, do sculpture, take up dancing, do carpentry, raise flowers or do gardening because we fear that what we will produce will be too unprofessional to stand out in any way or to measure up in a way that it can be published or exhibited publicly so as to receive recognition and honor. And so, mostly, we mute and hide our creative talents because we cannot do what the great ones do. We punish ourselves by thinking this way: If no one will publish it, no sense writing it. If nobody will buy it, no sense painting it. If nobody will admire it, no sense doing it.

But that’s the wrong idea of creativity. We are meant to create things, not because we might get them published and receive honor and money for them. We are meant to create things because creativity, of all kinds, has us enter into the deep center of energy at the heart of things. In creativity we join ourselves to God’s energy and help channel God’s transcendental qualities: oneness, truth, goodness and beauty. Ultimately, it isn’t important that what we do gets publicly recognized, gets published, or earns us a monetary reward. Creativity is its own reward. When you act like God, you get to feel like God – or, at least, you get to feel some wonderful divine energy.

Moreover, the energy we feel in creativity, no matter how amateur and private the effort, helps still the fires of envy and hostility inside of us.

For example, Michael Ondaatje, the author of “The English Patient,” in his recent novel “Anil’s Ghost,” puts it this way: He describes an artist,

Ananda, who has just refurbished a statue. Finishing his work, Ananda looks with a certain pride and satisfaction on what he has just done and, though a nonbeliever, fills with a godly energy: “As an artificer now he did not celebrate the greatness of a faith. But he knew if he did not remain an artificer he would become a demon. The war around him was to do with demons.” Envy and hostility have to do with frustrated creativity. If we aren’t creating something, we’re hurting something. If we aren’t creative, we soon become bitter. So how do we become creative?

The poet William Stafford, sharing something he himself did on a daily basis, used to give his students this challenge: Get up every morning and, before you do anything else, write a poem. More often than not, the students would protest: How can you do that? A person can’t always be creative?

Stafford’s answer: Lower your standards!

He’s right! We shouldn’t muzzle our creative energies because we don’t feel particularly inspired, or because on one will ever take our efforts seriously, or because we cannot get anyone to publish our work, or because what we produce seems amateur and second-rate in comparison to what professionals do. We don’t write, make music, paint, dance, make crafts, do carpentry or garden to have our efforts published and critically admired. We do it for our souls, to enter a divine dance, to connect ourselves to the heart of things.

Sometimes we cannot save the world, but we can save our own sanity and help bring God into the world by nurturing our own souls.

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

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 28, 2014

SUNDAY READINGS

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.’

MATTHEW 6:24-34 ISAIAH 49:14-15 Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.” Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.

PSALM 62:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 Rest in God alone, my soul.

Only in God is my soul at rest; from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be disturbed at all.

Rest in God alone, my soul.

Only in God be at rest, my soul, for from him comes my hope. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be disturbed.

Rest in God alone, my soul.

With God is my safety and my glory, he is the rock of my strength; my refuge is in God. Trust in him at all times, O my people! Pour out your hearts before him.

Rest in God alone, my soul.

1 CORINTHIANS 4:1-5 Brothers and sisters: Thus should one regard us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Now it is of course required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. It does not concern me in the least that I be judged by you or any human tribunal; I do not even pass judgment on myself; I am not conscious of anything against me, but I do not thereby stand acquitted; the one who judges me is the Lord.

Therefore do not make any judgment before the appointed time, until the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will manifest the motives of our hearts, and then everyone will receive praise from God. MATTHEW 6:24-34 Jesus said to his disciples: “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.

You cannot serve God and mammon. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you

will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

Are not you more important than they? Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span? Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’or ‘What are we to wear?’ All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”

Facing worry wisely – even in hellish situations

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ere’s a delightful saying: “There are only two things to worry about – either you are well or you are ill. If you are well, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you are ill, there are only two things to worry about– either you will get well or you will die. If you get well, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you die, there are only two things to worry about – either you will go to heaven or you will go to hell. If you go to heaven, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you go to hell, you’ll be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends you won’t have time to worry!”

Humorously, the saying offers us wisdom about facing FATHER CHARLES worry – even in hellish situPUTHOTA ations. The word of God this Sunday speaks soothingly to our worry-laden minds and hearts. God promises that his TLC, tender loving care, shines through our anguish and suffering, though we may not see it because of our tear-filled eyes.

Isn’t it true that all our technological and eco-

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS JESUS LEAVES NO ONE BY THE ROADSIDE

In his Feb. 25 homily in his chapel of the Casa Santa Marta residence in the Vatican, Pope Francis spoke of Christian discipleship as an abiding in Christ – in his church, to which Christ calls us and brings us to return – even those who are far away, Vatican Radio reported.

The healing of the demoniac boy in the Gospel according to St Mark was the main focus of the homily. Amid the noise and excitement of a crowd that had failed to liberate the boy, Jesus lowers himself and takes him up.

Jesus is not a traveling wizard or sorcerer, the pope said: “He leaves no one by the side of the road.”

nomic advancements have not erased our worries?

Is it possible that the more we have and the easier our communication tools are, the more our anxiety levels have become? Is it also possible that our contemporary culture and society condition us to worry and fret unduly?

There are occasions when anxiety is part of life. Death, disease, diminishment, poverty, hunger, failure, loss of love, helplessness, breakdown of trust, misunderstanding, opposition, hatred, violence, warfare, terrorism – the list can go on and on. Let’s not even go near the phobias. What about the angst? Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” captures as an “objective correlative” our “trembling with anxiety” and “an infinite scream passing through nature.”

The word of God does not take the worry away, but offers us a way through it, thanks to God’s awesome presence. Henry M. Nouwen rightly points out: “It wasn’t that the Gospel proved useful for my many worries but that the Gospel proved the uselessness of my worries and so refocused my whole attention.”

In Isaiah, God speaks to the exiles in Babylon who feel that the “Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.” In a rare motherly image, God says that even if a mother forgets her baby, he will never forget Israel. Both Isaiah 43rd and 49th chapters are full of tender images of God’s love. Biblical

exile is a metaphor for our many spiritual, social, and psychological exiles in which we are trapped and oppressed, but God will show us the way out.

In the excerpt from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says that we are not to worry about food and clothes. Aren’t the birds fed and flowers clothed?

Will God not take care of us too? We cannot miss the overtones of a consumerist economy piled with superfluous things. We are to seek first “the kingdom of God and his righteousness.” While we work for food, drink, and clothes – all legitimate needs– we cannot be so immersed in them that we cannot seek peace, justice, love, fellowship, service, humility, selflessness and such kingdom values.

Some practical things we could do. Let’s try being not a worrywart! Mark Twain puts it inimitably: “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.” By walking in sympathy, which means suffering with others, we could help lighten others’ burdens. With our engagements for peace and justice, we could ensure blessings for all, thus dramatically lowering anxiety levels in the world. Let’s take courage from Jesus who himself felt anxious and abandoned in Gethsemane and on the cross, but he still surrendered to his father who raised and exalted him.

FATHER PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS BLESSED DANIEL BROTTIER 1876-1936 February 28 Daniel was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Blois, France, in 1899. From 1923 until the end of his life, he helped restore and run an orphanage in a Paris suburb. He was beatified in 1984, and is the patron of orphans and abandoned children. Daniel ministered always under the protection of St. Therese of Lisieux.

TUESDAY, MARCH 4: Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Casimir of Poland. 1 PT 1:10-16. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. MK 10:28-31.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5: Ash Wednesday. JL 2:1218. PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17. 2 COR 5:206:2. MT 6:1-6, 16-18.

THURSDAY, MARCH 6: Thursday after Ash Wednesday. DT 30:15-20. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. LK 9:22-25.

FRIDAY, MARCH 7: Friday after Ash Wednesday.

Memorial of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs. IS 58:1-9a. PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19. MT 9:14-15.

MONDAY, MARCH 3: Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Katharine Drexel, virgin (USA). 1 PT 1:3-9. PS 111:1-2, 5-6, 9 and 10c. MK 10:17-27.

SATURDAY, MARCH 8: Saturday after Ash Wednesday. Optional Memorial of St. John of God, religious.

IS 58:9b-14. PS 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. LK 5:27-32.

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ANNIVERSARIES: Special Mass to ‘thank and honor’ married couples FROM PAGE 1

family members and friends celebrating lifetimes of love and sacrifice at the Mass and reception afterward.

“Communication and having the Lord at the center of our lives, I would say that’s number one,” said All Souls parishioner Rosa Gomez, married for 45 years to Rafael with five children and 10 grandchildren.

Dozens of couples joined Archbishop Cordileone for the anniversary Mass, months in the planning and a February tradition in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Mass included the archbishop walking through the congregation, incensing the couples’ rings as they held up their hands. He also gave them a special blessing. A reception followed the Mass, complete with a wedding-style photographer, a balloon arch, wedding cake and harp music.

The anniversary Mass came just days after the archbishop sent a Feb. 19 letter to Congress urging support for The Federal Marriage Amendment which would define marriage as the union between one man and one woman. Archbishop Cordileone is chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage.

Speaking to the couples at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Archbishop Cordileone said, “In every vocation, it is a matter of giving and forgiving and sacrificing.”

“Believe in God and come to church every Sunday,” said Abel Sandoval, who has been married to Maria 23 years. The St. Mary’s Cathedral parishioners have three children, 21, 20 and almost 3.

St. Bartholomew parishioners Marlon and Patricia Gill celebrated their 50th anniversary, to the day, on Feb. 22.

“Life has its many ups and downs,” Patricia Gill said, noting the couple share a “commitment to the foundation of marriage – through thick and thin.”

“The secret like our bishop says – there is going to be a lot of giving and a lot of forgiving,” said St. Anthony of Padua-Immaculate Conception parishioner Cesar Hernandez, married to Maria Teresa Hernandez for 25 years.

They have three children, 18, 16, and 4 years old.

“Be happy. If there’s a problem, solve it,” said Our Lady of Mercy parishioner Melito Balon, married to Asuncion since 1969.

(PHOTOS COURTESY DENNIS CALLAHAN)

Left, Church of the Epiphany parishioners Vincent and Erma Brogan were the longest married couple registered at the event, married 73 years.

Right, Our Lady of Mercy parishioners Herbert and Lucienne Low with daughter Anita, son-in-law Vincent Powers and two of their six grandchildren.

Left, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is pictured with All Souls parishioners Emilio and Betty Silva and one of their children. Right, Our Lady of Mercy parishioners Melito and Asuncion Balon hold hands as Archbishop Cordileone (not shown) blesses the couples.

“When you’re happy, enjoy it because you’re not always going to be,” said John Garcia, who married Maria in 1963. The Our Lady of Mercy parishioners met at a Catholic club with music and both loved to dance. “It’s going by so fast, it’s a blur,” agreed Maria Garcia.

Nato and Narcie Estonina found each other on what they call “the love boat,” the ship they boarded from the Philippines to immigrate to the United States. They married five years later, in 1964 after Nato finished college, have raised four children and now

have eight grandchildren, many of whom came to the Saturday Mass and reception.

St. Brendan parishioners, William and Rita Figari, were introduced by their best friends in Healdsburg. “I saw this lovely lady sitting there and I came home and said to my mother, ‘I know who I am going to marry,’” said William Figari, now married for 70 years. The couple raised six children, all but one adopted, he said.

Herbert Low first saw Lucienne in 1957 when she threw open the third floor window above a small restaurant

in the French town of Bourges where the immigrant from China stopped on his route as a U.S. Army truck driver.

Low, now 81, still smiling decades later, said. “I kept coming back to see her.

It’s a love story.”

CORRECTION “Special anniversaries to be celebrated with archbishop,” Feb. 14, Page 5: Eduardo and Caridad Esperante were incorrectly named as Eduardo and Esperante Caridad.

SEMINARY: Sulpician Father Gladstone Stevens named to lead St. Patrick’s FROM PAGE 1

the dioceses of Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento and Orange. Last year its enrollment placed it as the eighth-largest seminary in the United States.

Seminarians are chosen by their bishops to be educated at the seminary.

Father Stevens joined St. Patrick’s Seminary in 2008 as associate professor of theology and academic dean, changing positions to dean of men in the fall.

His appointment as rector-president takes effect June 1 and he will be formally installed in the fall.

“I definitely want St. Patrick’s to be perceived as a premier seminary in the West, a place where seminarians receive theological, practical and spiritual training to be effective priests,” Father Stevens said in a news release from the archdiocese.

Sulpician U.S. Provincial Father Thomas R. Ulshafer praised Father Stevens, saying, “He is dedicated to

‘The challenges of the priests are, to be sure, real and so are the opportunities for service.

That is what the seminary can provide – the resources to meet those challenges and to serve God and his church and people in ways that can be truly lifegiving for everybody.’

SULPICIAN FATHER GLADSTONE STEVENS the priesthood and to priestly formation. His theological expertise, his experience in seminary administration and his skills in communication will serve Father Stevens well as a

collaborative leader of St. Patrick’s.”

Father Stevens is regarded as an articulate and engaging professor of dogmatic theology, the archdiocese said in its announcement. “In Califor-

nia and beyond he is a regular retreat master, guides days of recollection and gives talks to priests especially, but also to laypeople seeking to deepen their faith,” the archdiocese said.

San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Daly had served as interim rector since September while a search for a permanent president rector was conducted.

Bishop Daly replaced Sulpician Father James McKearney.

Born in Connecticut and raised in Nashville, Tenn., Father Stevens graduated from Quincy College in Quincy, Ill. in 1989. After graduate Biblical Studies at Vanderbilt University, he obtained his Ph.D. in theology from Marquette University in 1997. Ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Louisville in 2000, Father Stevens served in parishes before he began teaching theology at St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore.

While teaching at St. Mary’s Seminary, he obtained his Licentiate in Sacred Theology in 2007. He joined the Sulpicians in 2004.

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St. Monica Parish hosts archbishop on pastoral visit Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone began a pastoral visit to St. Monica Parish in San Francisco Feb. 6 by celebrating the 8:30 a.m. school Mass and parish daily Mass. “The children’s choir sang along with the strong young voices of the students in the congregation,� pastor Father John Sakowski told Catholic San Francisco. “The children also proclaimed the Scriptures and intercessions. The archbishop was most impressed.�

The archbishop then went to the school and spent 20 minutes in each classroom with a little more time with the second and eighth grades who were preparing for first reconciliation/first Communion and confirmation, respectively, Father Sakowski said.

The archbishop arrived at 3:45 p.m. to visit with the families of those to be confirmed in the basement hall of the church. He then celebrated the 5 p.m. Mass with confirmation. The confirmed had a reception in the hall while a meal was shared with clergy and staff at a local restaurant, Father Sakowski said.

The archbishop returned to the parish at 9 a.m. the following Sunday to start his review of the sacramental documents of the parish office. He celebrated the 10:30 a.m. Mass followed by meeting with the RCIA team in the rectory, then meeting with the combined pas-

Labor secretary visits SI Archbishop Cordileone is pictured with St. Monica Parish pastor Father John Sakowski during a pastoral visit to the San Francisco parish. toral council of both St. Thomas Apostle and St. Monica parishes in the Hall of the Church of St. Monica.

A late lunch buffet was served in the hall, and the last gathering was meeting with the finance council of St. Monica.

The archbishop is scheduled to visit St. Thomas Apostle Parish the weekend of March 28.

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‘Theology of the Body’ talk March 8 at Vallombrosa An overview of Pope John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” earlier presented to priests at Archdiocese of San Francisco clergy study days will be presented for the lay audience at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Ed Hopfner Menlo Park March

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CANOSSIAN SISTER MARIA HSU: Sister Maria is pictured with clergy Feb. 22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral at a banquet in honor of her retirement as archdiocesan director of ethnic ministries. She is returning to her Canossian community in Hong Kong after leaving 30 years ago to establish a Chinese Catholic ministry for the archdiocese. Front from left: Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice; Paulist Father Dan McCotter; Sister Maria; retired Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang. Back from left: Father Toan X. Nguyen; Father Dan Nascimento; Father John Sakowski; Father Peter Zhai, SVD; Msgr. John Talesfore.

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FRIDAY, FEB. 28 ABORTION MEMORIAL: San Francisco’s Interfaith Committee for Life’s memorial service for the victims of abortion will honor Marin Pregnancy Clinic, 7:30 p.m., St. Sebastian Church, Greenbrae. The Father Mark ecumenical Taheny service combines Scripture, singing, prayer, and preaching. Marin Pregnancy Clinic is dedicated to providing medical care and practical solutions to women facing unexpected pregnancies. Reception follows in the church hall. Speakers include Robin Strom from the honored facility as well as Dana Cody, Life Legal Defense Foundation, and Gil Baille, The Cornerstone Foundation. The event is free of charge.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 15 FASHION SHOWS: “Beyond the Blue,” lunch and dinner fashion shows and auctions benefiting Marin Catholic High School, Marin Civic Center Exhibit Hall, San Rafael. Both events will feature Marin Catholic students modeling clothes from local boutiques and stores throughout Marin. Lunch event begins at 10 a.m. and dinner event at 5 p.m. with meals by Il Fornaio.

Tickets for lunch are $70-140; dinner show tickets are $150-300. www. marincatholic.org.

FOOTBALL DINNER: Alumni Football Dinner: Archbishop Riordan High School invites all alumni and guests to celebrate the legacy of Crusader football. 6-9:00 p.m. in Chaminade Hall. Tickets are $50 per person and include hosted bar and dinner.

Reservations requested by March 10. www.riordanhs.org; (415) 586-8200, ext. 217.

CRAB FEED: St. Luke Parish, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City. 6 p.m., no-host social; 6:45, dinner.

Music by Dino, menu includes all you can eat crab or chicken and accompaniments. Tickets $45. (650) 345-6660.

SUNDAY, MARCH 16 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m. Lisa Wallace, harp. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

All recitals open to the public. Freewill offering accepted at the door.

Ample free parking. www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

MONDAY, MARCH 17 HIBERNIAN LUNCH: St. Patrick’s Day Lunch benefiting campus ministry work of the Hibernian Newman Club, Westin St. Francis Hotel, 335 Powell St., San Francisco, 11 a.m. no-host reception with lunch at noon. Television’s Regis Philbin is guest speaker.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 7

SUNDAY, APRIL 6

HEALING MASS: Archdiocese of San Francisco Charismatic Renewal, St. Anselm Church, Ross, rosary 6:45 p.m.

Mass 7:30 p.m. All welcome to fellowship in parish hall following Mass.

Father Ray Father Ray Reyes, Reyes liaison charismatic renewal; Father Mike Quinn, are among the concelebrants. www.sfspirit.com/; queenofpeacemarin@yahoo.com; (415) 302-8982.

CHURCH ANNIVERSARY: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of Mass commemorating 50th anniversary of the dedication of Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Avenue and Archbishop Lawton Street, Salvatore J. San Francisco, Cordileone 10:30 a.m. with reception following in Ryan Hall.

(415) 664-8590; hnchurch50th@ gmail.com; www.holynamesf.org.

wife, Joy, who is joining him on the trip. The longtime talk and game show host is appearing without fee. jring@siprep.org. Traditional Irish music also part of the day. Tickets are $100 per person. www.hiberniannewmanclub.com; (415) 386-3434.

FRIDAY, MARCH 21 3-DAY VOCATION: Monastic immersion weekend with monks of the Abbey of New Clairvaux for Catholic men age 18-36 to experience the ancient yet living monastic tradition this Lent. Participants will join the monks for chanting of the Liturgy of the Hours in the Abbey church; learn about monastic prayer, Trappist spirituality, monastic history and saints as well as hear monks share their vocation stories. Meals and lodging are provided in the monastery guesthouse; the weekend is paid for by the abbey. www.newclairvaux.org; (530) 839-2161.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22 REUNION: St. Cecilia School, San Francisco, 1974 graduates, 6 p.m., Gold Mirror Restaurant on Taraval.

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HANDICAPABLES MASS: All disabled people and their caregivers are invited to a Marin County chapter Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, Marin Catholic High School, Bon Air Road and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Kentfield. Father Mark Taheny, pastor, St. Sebastian Church, principal celebrant and homilist. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this ongoing tradition of more than 40 years.

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CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m. Christoph Tietze, organist. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public. Freewill offering accepted at the door. Ample free parking. www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 LUNCHEON: Mission Dolores Academy Benefit Luncheon, 11:30 a.m., Julia Morgan Ballroom, San Francisco; tickets start at $200. Sponsor packages are also available. Slanted Door chef and owner Charles Phan teams up with other top San Francisco chefs for the event. (415) 638-6212; development@mdasf.org.

THURSDAY, MARCH 27 THEOLOGY CAFÉ: A speaker series at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City featuring topics associated with Vatican II and the church of today.

March 27: Brian Cahill, retired executive director, Catholic Charities CYO, Archdiocese of San Francisco. Sister Norberta, (650) 361-1411, ext. 115; srnorberta@pius.org.

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FASHION SHOW: “Pretty in Pink,” 11 a.m., Olympic Club Lakeside benefiting St. Stephen School, San Francisco. sylviaflores@me.com.

SATURDAY, APRIL 12 CRUSADER COUNTRY: Archbishop Riordan High School’s annual event to support the school’s tuition assistance programs. Western attire or country casual encouraged. Tickets start at $150 per person, and event sponsorships are available. Reservations requested by April 1. www.riordanhs. org; (415)586-8200, ext. 217.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 28, 2014

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of January HOLY CROSS COLMA Melinda B. Agcaoili Wilfredo G. Agcaoili Herminia P. Aguilar Josefina Sarte Gutierrez Ante Perla Gacayan Apana Gladys Assalino Robert H. Beveridge Joy Anne Boehm Arsenio P. Bonifacio Ronald Briscoe Kathleen P. Burke Joseph W. Cain Sidonie Canerot Remedios B. Canlas Mary Jane Carbone June Cawaling Alfred Chiarucci Paul D. Clayburn D.J. Cole Gloria L. Constantini John Corcoran Adrian A. Cortez Diana Marie Costa Marta del Rosario Cuyos Maria V. Dela Cruz Marilyn K. Diaz William Diaz Frank Diaz, Sr. Virginia O. Domingo Annette Morgan Druhet James Duffy Florence Echeverria Ada F. Eshabarr Michael Fahey Walter B. Feir Frank B. Firpo, Jr. Bridget “Breda” Flannery Michelle J. Fontenot Consuelo E. Fontillas Msgr. John T. Foudy Lydia L. Frausto Gary G. Gaddini Lorraine Garibaldi

Lorenzo Gomez Rebecca Anne Goodell Kathy Graham Maria Gulli Rosalina R. Hafalia Roy Lowell Hale Virginia L. Hanes Gene L. Harrison Javier Hernandez Sr. Patricia M. Hoffman, SND Virginia Ingersoll Corazon Ismarin Elaine R. Jackson Jay T. Juntunen Cvita M. Jurjevich Sr. Carol R. Kenning, SND Georgeanne Cannon Kerwin Earl E. Kirsch Lynn L. Kleebauer Marian E. Kotta Mary M. Lee Bernardo “Barney” Liberto Lucy Ky Lim James Longwich Isabel M. Lopez Emma L. Luccini Joseph A. Luccini Evelyn B. Magor Emma V. Marley Grethel G. Martinez Eva E. McColgan Mary Alice McNaughton Olivia Medina Ricardo B. Morales Pauline L. Mosher Yvonne S. Nelson Rosalina C. Nolasco Connie O’Brien Sr. Mary Damien O’Connor John J. O’Connor Dr. Thelma R. Obando Remedios B. Ochosa Tony Oei George Romero Pangan Una C. Patterson Wallace Pazmino Lucille Jeanette Pellandini

Marie Jewell Perada Guido Perotti James S. Petti Andrew Peter Pilara Ana Maria Pons Margaret M. Ponty Shirlee Redman Peter Regan Yvette T. Reyes Carlos Pelayo Romero Gregory Peter Rosko Joseph Jerrold Rubino Fredeswindo San Juan Leo R. Sapienza Teresa Sauer Mary Ellen Shea Maria Leonor Silva Frances Snyder Ming Tse Soong Geraldine E. Stayart Charles Stewart Jan E. Stroth Elizabeth A. Sugrue Raul “Papason”Tamayo, Sr. Anita Terry Thomas J. Terry, Jr. Daina Marie Thomas Henry W. Tom Matt Toman Jean Uhalde Santina Ursini Rose E. Vallecillo Maria Diorina Teresita Vengco Velasco Mario Vincenzini, Sr. Carmela F. Wallace Marie D. Walsh Sr. Mary Leonard Welcer, PBVM Elizabeth Whelan Alfred C. Williams James Clark Wyatt Rana M. Yamini Joseph E. Zaragoza Angelina Zaragoza Juanita Zaragoza

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Dominga A. Azcona Melba H. Doyle Maria Isabel Hernandez Felipa de Jesus Padilla Trevor C. Roberts Louis Colin Sandoval Peter W. Stein Victor M. Wallis

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Louie Tucker, Jr.

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Frank J. Cassidy Diane B. Cordone, OCDS Joseph B. Huwyler Marianette Leonardi Carlo Palombi, Sr. Myrtle M. Rossi Marsha J. Taffi-Diego

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, March 1, 2014 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Michael B. Brillantes, Celebrant Pastor, St. Bruno Church

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.