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February 9, 2017
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Consecrated Life Mass: ‘You are the bonfire’ Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
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Jubilarians gathered after the annual Consecrated Life Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 5. Front from left: Sister Sheila Keane, OP (70 years); Sister Joanne O’Shea, PBVM (70); Sister Janet Harris, PBVM (70); Sister Maria Concepcion, MC (25). Center row, from left: Sister Lucia Lodolo, PBVM (60); Sister Diane Aruda, OP (50); Sister Lois Silva, OP (60); Sister Adele Gerlach, OP (60); Sister Susan Allbritton, OP (40); Sister Joan Hanna, OP (60); Sister Shirley Garibaldi, OSU (50); Sister Patricia Shaffer, RSCJ (60); Sister Clare Pratt, RSCJ (50). Back from left: Sister Angela Furia, FdCC (50); Sister Patricia Ryan, RSM (60); Sister Kathleen Gibson, FMA, (60); Bishop William J. Justice; Sister Dolores Maguire, CHF (50); Sister Dee Myers, BVM (60); Sister Katie O’Shea, CSJ (60); Sister Ann Providence Frassinello, OP (50).
In his homily as celebrant of the annual Consecrated Life Mass on Feb. 5, Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice likened the women and men religious of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to a campground bonfire that illuminates the darkness, dispelling fear and hopelessness and helping others see the path to God. “Today we have corsages as a symbol of light, the light you have been and used in your vocation,” he said in a liturgy filled with messages and song about “light” including the words of Isaiah 58:7-10: “If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.” “When you look back at history, sometimes the religious orders are the real bonfires, they get the rest of us going, challenging us to truly hear the Gospel,” he said. He noted the work of religious in the archdiocese who care for the sick, the homeless and the oppressed, who free victims of the sex trade, teach our children and care for the elderly “as they await their passage to the fullness of Jesus Christ” and much more. “All of that is the light you are for us as a Christian community,” he said. “You are the bonfire. In the bleeding light of your vocation to serve the church which is the body of Christ you have helped us continue toward the mystery of God.” see Consecrated life mass, page 25
Presidential travel ban prompts Catholic outrage Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – President Trump’s executive order temporarily closing the nation’s borders to refugees and people from seven predominantly Muslim countries prompted a wave of outcry, including a letter from more than 2,000 religious leaders representing the Interfaith Immigration Coalition and comments from Catholic organizations and bishops. The religious leaders’ letter said the U.S. has an “urgent moral responsibility to receive refugees and asylum seekers who are in dire need of safety.” The correspondence called on elected officials to “be bold in choosing moral, just policies that provide refuge for vulnerable individuals seeking protection.” The leaders also insisted that the U.S. refugee resettlement program remain open to all nationalities and religions that face persecution. They decried “derogatory language” about Middle Eastern refugees and Muslims in particular, add-
ing that refugees “are an asset to this country,” serving as “powerful ambassadors of the American dream and our nation’s founding principles of equal opportunity, religious freedom and liberty and justice for all.” In an interview with Catholic News Service Jan. 30 from Geneva, Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, secretary general of the International Catholic Migration Commission, recalled church teaching that holds “we should always welcome the stranger” just as “Jesus taught us by his example.” Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore called for prayer as the country responds to the series of immigration- related memorandum signed by the president since Jan. 20. He specifically cited the need for prayers for the nation’s leaders and “the people who call this country their home, including our immigrant sisters and brothers.” Dominican Sister Donna Markham, president
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