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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
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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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Need to know Archbishop Quinn returns home: Retired Archbishop John R. Quinn arrived back in the Bay Area after a long hospital stay in Rome, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced Jan. 28 in a posting on the archdiocese’s website. “As you know, he has been struggling with his health since he underwent emergency surgery in Rome the day before Thanksgiving,” the announcement stated. “His doctors are making every effort to avoid further complications. To that end, visits are restricted at this time. I know you will understand and honor this important directive. God bless our archbishop-emeritus. He has been deeply appreciative of your heartfelt and steady support from the Bay Area, and it is very good to welcome him home.” Diaconate discernment meetings: Men interested in exploring a possible call to the diaconate are invited to information sessions at St. Dominic Church, Aquinas Room, Feb. 18, Session A, 10 a.m.-noon, Session B, 1-3 p.m.; March 4, Session A, 10 a.m.noon, Session B, 1-3 p.m. The archdiocesan diaconate office is informing potential applicants that men and their wives are urged to attend the sessions.
Archbishop Cordileone’s schedule Feb. 10: Independent Review Board meeting Feb. 11-13: St. Matthew Parish and School visit Feb. 13: Bishops and vocation directors meeting, St. Patrick Seminary Feb. 15: Chancery meetings; St. Patrick Seminary Board meeting Feb. 16: Priests Personnel Board and chancery meetings Feb. 18: World Meeting of Popular Movements, Modesto Feb. 19: Mass for Dominican Sisters, Mill Valley Feb. 20: Province meeting, El Retiro Feb. 21-28: Bishops’ retreat, El Retiro
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An informal organizational meeting will be held Feb. 9 for pastors at the Pastoral Center at One Peter Yorke Way in San Francisco, to build ties of hope and action between the archdiocese and parishes at a time of growing fear among immigrants. In a Jan. 27 letter to priests and deacons, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone noted the anxiety many immigrants are feeling as they wonder how immigration policies might affect them. “Indeed, many are finding it hard to sleep at night as they see the growing anti-immigrant hostility that threatens to tear their families apart,” he wrote. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle Jan. 27, the archbishop said the church will ensure that immigrants “know their rights” and will be “protected.” The archdiocese is coordinating with committees of parishioners on concrete ways for both immigrants and non-immigrants to work together for a stronger community. The plan, outlined last week by the archdiocesan Office of Human Life and Dignity, calls for four areas of collective work: 1) Proclaiming hope, solidarity and expanding the circle of human concern; 2) education; 3) community response if ICE raids occur; and 4) accompaniment activities. The first category includes “the church is with you” activities – public, faith-centered events to spread the message of hope and reassure those who are afraid, including processions and prayer walks. Education and community response activities include workshops at key parishes on immigrant rights; parish teams trained on how to stop and fight deportations that will hurt/ separate families in coalition with attorneys and community partners; education to report raids and where to get help; and training a team of U.S. citizens/allies and clergy on how to document violations, observe and report abuses during ICE home visits. Accompaniment activities include a solidarity network of churches and institutions that can be “sanctuaries”; rapid response to raids to support families affected; interfaith dialogues to build relationships; and outreach at schools and other institutions of hope.
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This banner on parish hall at St. Rita Parish in Fairfax reminds everyone that the parish “stands with Jesus Christ in welcoming strangers just as he did,” said Father Kenneth Weare, pastor. “Should the needs increase here, we are prepared to mobilize additional parishioners to meet the needs of those in our local community who may become threatened by family breakups and deportation.”
St. Agnes community responds
Almost 350 people showed up to St. Agnes Parish on Jan. 29 to begin training for San Francisco’s rapidly developing rapid response network, “a team of people of faith” who will serve as “moral and legal observers” during what is believed will become increasing local immigration raids. The team will report to the site of a raid to pray, film the raid with phone cameras and be a presence for the family. The training came two days after President Trump issued an executive order blocking immigrants including refugees from seven countries with predominantly Muslim populations from entering the U.S. “Victims of an immigration raid can’t leave their home or workplace to seek sanctuary in a congregation, so we are bringing the congregation and community to them,” said Lorena Melagarejo, a parish organizer with the archdiocesan Office of Human Life and Dignity. The network is a project of the Faith in Action Bay Area, PICO and the Archdiocese of San Francisco in collaboration with Pangea Legal Services and California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance.
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Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco affirms its commitment to serving refugees and immigrants and welcoming the stranger with love and compassion, despite executive actions taken Jan. 27 in Washington. “The mission of Catholic Charities is strengthening families and reducing poverty and we do that by serving the most vulnerable in our communities. The church has always been a sanctuary for the poor and marginalized and we will continue to be an advocate for protecting the dignity of all,” said Jeff Bialik, Catholic Charities executive director. “Immigrants make our community stronger and more vibrant and we are saddened by the actions taken by President Trump today that target deserving families looking for safety and hope. “ California has more immigrants than any other state with 27 percent of the population being foreign born. Immigrants represent more than 30 percent of the populations of San Francisco and San Mateo counties. “At Catholic Charities, we believe that we should love our neighbor as ourselves and welcome the stranger see welcoming the stranger, page 3
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with open hearts,” Bialik said. “We will continue to serve immigrants and refugees with compassion and are grateful to all in our community who make our work possible.”
Faith in Action offers training
Faith in Action is offering a series of trainings and actions to help congregations and communities in response to executive orders by President Donald Trump. In a Jan. 26 announcement, the San Carlosbased organization said its goal is “to build a rapid response network to resist deportation and discrimination.” Here is a partial list of planned events. Feb. 8: Clergy training, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Congregational Church of San Mateo, 225 Tilton Ave., San Mateo. RSVP to jennifer@faithinactionba.org. Feb. 12: Rapid Response Network (San Mateo countywide), 4- 6 p.m., Congregational Church of San Mateo, 225 Tilton Ave, San Mateo. Feb. 26: Training, Know Your Rights (in Spanish), 2:30-4:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St. San Francisco. Feb. 28: Training, Rapid Response Network (San Francisco citywide), 6:30-8:30 p.m. March 12: San Mateo countywide meeting, 4-6 p.m. March 16: San Francisco clergy meeting, 12:302:30 p.m. March 28: San Francisco citywide meeting, 6:308:30 p.m. Phone (650) 592-9181; email fiaba@faithinactionba.org.
Mercy High School, San Francisco, issues statement
Scott McLarty, head of school at Mercy High School, San Francisco, released a statement Feb. 3 on the president’s travel ban. “There are those who think that Mercy and other Catholic schools should remain neutral in the face of politics and the decisions of our government. If neutral really means ‘silent’ or ‘compliant’ this idea must be rejected outright,” the statement reads in part. “Our Catholicity and Mercy charism demand that we not be neutral in the face of injustice – it means, among many things, speaking and acting on behalf of the poor, the marginalized, the immigrant, and the refugee. Why? Because Jesus was all of those and more. How we treat the refugee is how we treat Christ himself. Whether we like it or not, there are political implications to the Gospels.”
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A book for children about a pair of Muslim carpenters chosen by the Vatican to make a chair for Pope Francis for his visit to war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina in the summer of 2015 will be released in March by San Francisco author and artist Stefan Salinas. “A Muslim Family’s Chair for the Pope” is the true story of Salim Hajderovac and Edin Hajderovac, father and son woodworkers known for the religious carvings including crosses they produce from their shop in the town of Zavidovici in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. Salinas, a convert to Catholicism in 2012, was inspired to write the book, his second, to help readers – children and the adults who may read it to them – appreciate people of other cultures and faiths instead of fear them. “My ear is a little sensitive to when people talk about other religions, cultures or people with generalizations,” Salinas told Catholic San Francisco. The transplanted Texan, now a parishioner at Most Holy Redeemer Parish, says it’s all too easy
to do. “What I’ve heard people say about Texans or Californians is not always true.” Salinas went online to search for examples of both faiths working together and came upon a story in a Bosnian paper about the Hajderovac family, Muslims who hand-carve devotional objects for both Christians and Muslims. The carpenters were among many who vied for an unpaid opportunity offered by the Vatican to make a chair for Pope Francis’ visit to Sarajevo on June 6, 2015. Making contact with and communicating with the carpenters about his idea of a book was itself a story of divine providence and cultural goodwill. Salinas emailed an Islamic community of Bay Area Bosnians in San Jose for help and a woman originally from a neighboring town managed to produce the carpenters’ website and email address. A Facebook contact led to another neighbor now working as a baker in Los Angeles. He helped coordinate and translate a three-way Skype call between Salinas and the carpenters to discuss the book idea and has continued to act as a bridge between them. Through that same translator, the carpenters told Catholic San Francisco that their offer to make a chair for the pope received not just a blessing from Muslim leaders but encouragement. Their proposal was then taken to the Vatican where the pope himself “gave us his blessings.” To preview the book or purchase visit stefansalinas. com/muslimchairpope.html.
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Renewal Friar Isaiah Marie Hoffman was once again among the halls of Marin Catholic High School where he graduated in 2004. He entered the Community of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal in 2008 making fiBrother Isaiah nal vows July 26, 2015. According to Peggy Semling, Marin Catholic’s director of campus ministry, Brother Isaiah and three colleagues from the congregation spent several days in January at Marin Catholic leading mini-retreats involving all of the school’s more than 700 students. On Jan. 21, they led prayer before they and some 60 Marin Catholic representatives took off for the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco. This is the third year members of the congregation have visited Marin Catholic. Brother Isaiah was TR Hoffman when he attended Marin Catholic, Peggy said, and a major part of his ministry now is music. A theme of one of the mini-retreats was “struggle” and Brother Isaiah brought an in-the-works song he is writing on struggle to the group. “Within the first few chords of the song, he had the packed chapel ringing out with the lyrics, ‘Every good thing is born of a struggle,’” Peggy said. Brother Isaiah spoke about how he and the others had witnessed Christ working in their own lives, Peggy said, helping retreatants see that many times the loving fire of God ultimately comes from the crosses of our lives. Brother Elijah spoke about God’s persistent and unconditional loving gaze on each of us and about how we can bring our struggles to God through prayer if we desire to see their fruits. Then, Brother Elijah challenged students to 30 days of
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Retired Jesuit author critiques Pope Francis’ first 4 years Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
Retired Jesuit Father Joe Eagan presented a four-year scorecard of Pope Francis’ achievements and shortfalls Jan. 30 at St. Anselm Parish in Ross. “We have an extraordinary pope and the right person to lead our church and to exercise a strong voice in our very complex world today,” said Father Eagan in summing up an hour-long talk: “Four Years and Counting: The Achievements and Disappointments of Pope Francis.” The 94-year-old priest presented a balanced assessment of the pope’s strengths and weaknesses. But it was clear that both he and his Marin County audience are fans. “He is totally authentic to people and that means a lot,” said Father Eagan, who was inspired by Francis to write a book in retirement. “Vatican II Renewal: Path to the Future of the Church” was published in 2013, a follow up to his 1995 book, “Restoration and Renewal, the Church in the Third Millennium.” Father Eagan entered the Society of Jesus in 1940. Before what he called his “second career as a parish priest” at four archdiocesan parishes, he taught theology at the University of San Francisco and headed campus ministry at Creighton University. He described four broad categories of success for Pope Francis, including the “Francis effect” – a name that’s been used to describe his popularity and esteem among those inside and outside of the faith, his missionary vi-
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The pope has largely failed to elevate the status of women in the church who have ‘rightly called attention to the gap between their huge service to the church and their almost total absence in church decision-making.’
unpopular stands,” said Father Eagan. He took on climate change, immigration, economic inequality and the global market economy in 2015 with his first papal encyclical, “Laudato Si’.” In 2016 his apostolic exhortation on love and marriage, “Amoris Laetitia,” seemed to some to create an opening for divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion. This caused “a tremendous flap,” said Father Eagan, “beyond what it deserved.” Father Eagan admitted that his view of the pope’s failures and shortcoming would be “different for progressive Catholics than for strongly conservative ones.” He said the pope has largely failed to elevate the status of women in
pened” in the synods of 2014 and 2015, sion of the church and his restructursaid Father Eagan. ing of Vatican governance. In 2014 the pope made public “15 “He’s brought joy back to the spiritual ailments” of Vatican buchurch,” said Father Eagan. He dereaucrats and followed it with a catascribed what attracts so many to this log of virtues and values that should pope: his humility and simple lifestyle, guide each office’s sense of mission his genuine love for people, his comwhich is nothing short of “carrying mitment to the poor and marginal the Gospel to the ends of the world.” ized and his living example of Gospel Pope Francis is “unafraid to take values. see eagan, page 9 Pope Francis entered his role “with Saint Brigid School the radical idea of renewing the CathoSaint Brigid School 2250 St. lic Church according to the Gospel of SaintFranklin Brigid School Jesus Christ,” said Father Eagan. The 2250 Franklin St. 2250Francisco, Franklin St. CA 94109 San pope detailed this vision in the 2013 San Francisco, CA94109 94109 San Francisco, 415.673.4523 CA apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gua415.673.4523 415.673.4523 dium,” the “Joy of the Gospel.” Francis made major changes to achieve that vision, including the Choir Scholarships choice of cardinals and bishops that for Incoming Students represent the universality of the church. He deliberately passed over expected choices from traditional “carIncoming grades 5 through 8 may applyfor foraa $2,000 Eligible students students entering in grades 5 through 7 may apply $2,000 dinal cities” like Philadelphia and Los Eligible students in grades 5 through 7 may apply aa $2,000 Eligible students in grades 5 through 7 may apply for afor $2,000 choir scholarship. Students must pass an audition, be accepted as choir scholarship. Students must pass an audition, be accepted as Angeles, and picked “pastoral men,” student at at thethe school, and commit topass being aaudition, member ofofthe choir scholarship. Students must anan be accepted Students mustpass audition, beHonor accepted as student school, and commit to being a member the Hon- as many from countries with relatively choir ascholarship. Choir and Chamber Choir of the school, attending all rehearsals and a student at the school, and commit to being a member of the Honfew Catholics. Eight such cardinals a student or Choir and Chamber Choircommit of the school, attending all rehearsat the school, and to being a member of the Honperformances. More information about the school can beall found at serve as his advisors. or Choir and Chamber Choir of the school, attending rehearsals and performances. More information about the school can and Chamber and Choir of the school, attending allberehearsPope Francis has worked to reform or Choir www.saintbrigidsf.org, about the choir program at www. als found and performances. More information the school can at www.saintbrigidsf.org, and aboutabout the choir program at be the Roman Curia with a new spirit als and performances. More the school can be sfchoirschool.org. To schedule aninformation audition, please about contact Dr. Christoph www.sfchoirschool.org. To schedule anabout audition, please contact Dr. at found at www.saintbrigidsf.org, and the choir program of openness, encouraging bishops to Tietze, tietze@stmarycathedralsf.org,and 415.567.2020 ext 213. at www.saintbrigidsf.org, about the choir program at speak openly and frankly. “That hap- found Christoph Tietze, tietze@stmarycathedralsf.org, 415.567.2020 extDr. www.sfchoirschool.org. To schedule an audition, please contact
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NCEA president: Trump could present ‘huge opportunity’ for Catholic parents In making his remarks, Burnford did not mention President Donald Trump directly, saying in later comments he did not want to politicize the subject of parental choice. The Trump administration’s apparent endorsement The National Catholic Educational Association of parental school choice during the campaign could represents Catholic schools in the U.S. present a “huge opportunity” for Catholic parents, the Since 2006, 20 percent of Catholic schools have president of the National Catholic Educational Asclosed, and while there are bright spots, and innovasociation said in San Francisco Feb. 3. tions that are working such as the Cristo Rey work “This could be a huge opportunity for parents study high schools, the situation is serious, Burnford wanting to choose the right school for their children,” said. There has been a 27 percent decline in Catholic Thomas Burnford, NCEA president and chief execuschool enrollment since 2000, Burnford said. About 1.9 tive officer, told those gathered at the archdiocese’s million of the 55 million school-aged children in the annual high school teachers’ consortium. U.S. attend Catholic schools. “Whatever your politics, the current administration Twenty-nine states have some form of parental proclaims some understanding or belief in support of school choice,” Burnford said in his talk at Archbishop school choice although the programs affect a relatively small percentage of children in total, he said. In areas Riordan High School. with parental choice programs, Catholic school enrollment tends to be stable or on the rise, Burnford said. Franciscan Missionary Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows “The church has been very clear” that it is “parents Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows St Clare’s Retreat who have the primary and inalienable right to educate Valerie Schmalz
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Parishes celebrating Black History Month of Peter Claver and Ladies’ Auxiliary, an historically African-American order of Catholics. “We hope that this year we can reach out to interested persons throughout the archdiocese,” Robinson said, noting African-American priests from parishes in the archdiocese will celebrate Mass at St. Boniface during the month. “This event serves to maintain and enrich the African-American Catholic tradition here in San Francisco, and to bring that tradition to a wider audience,” he said.
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Black History Month has been celebrated each February in the United States for more than 40 years with similar tributes to the African-American heritage going back more than 90 years. Parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, including San Francisco’s Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Boniface and St. Paul of the Shipwreck, keep the time close to their hearts and have announced special events in commemoration of Black History Month. L. Rob Robinson has been a parishioner of St. Boniface Parish for seven years. His first visit to the parish’s Sunday Mass with its Gospel Choir “led me to make it my parish of choice,” Robinson told Catholic San Francisco. For the last year or so Robinson has been director of the Sacred Heart Gospel Choir at St. Boniface, an ensemble originally of the now-closed Sacred Heart Parish in San Francisco’s Western Addition. “The choir started 44 years ago at the former Sacred Heart Parish, and the choir and many of the parishioners from there moved to St. Boniface,” Robinson said.
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At a glance These San Francisco parishes are among those celebrating Black History Month. St. Boniface: Feb. 12, 9 a.m., Gospel Choir followed by luncheon and talk by USF professor Teresa Moore.
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St. Boniface marks Black History Month Feb. 12. Mass with Gospel Choir begins the day at 9 a.m. followed by a soul food luncheon in the school cafeteria with guest speaker Teresa Moore, associate professor of media studies at the University of San Francisco. “Professor Moore specializes in communications,” Robinson said. “Given the current question in our country regarding the veracity of information, we have asked simply that she address the question that Jesus posed to Pilate: ‘What is truth?’” “St. Boniface is possibly the most ethnically diverse parish anywhere,” Robinson said. Masses each Sunday are celebrated in English, Tagalog, Spanish and Vietnamese. Major ethnic holidays and traditions are observed during the year with
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Our Lady of Lourdes: With All Hallows Chapel, Feb. 12, 9:30 a.m., annual revival beginning with Mass and potluck lunch; Feb. 13, 14, 15, Jesuit Father George Quickley, revivalist. St. Paul of the Shipwreck: Celebration began Feb. 5 with the National Day of Prayer for the African-American and African Family. The parish said it is important to contribute to the national conversation on such issues as racism, poverty and violence.
special programs. The Mass with Gospel Choir attracts an amazing diversity of Catholics from around San Francisco, Marin and the East Bay. St. Boniface is also home to a unit of the Knights
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Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, San Francisco and All Hallows Chapel, will celebrate Black History Month with its annual revival beginning with Mass and potluck lunch Feb. 12 at 10:30 a.m., and continuing Feb. 13, 14, 15 at 7 p.m. Jesuit Father George Quickley, pastor, St. Patrick Parish, Oakland, is revivalist. Father Quickley served as a seminarian at Our Lady of Lourdes some 40 years ago and is still remembered by the Our Lady of Lourdes community, Father Dan Carter, pastor, said. Father Carter celebrates his 12th year as Our Lady of Lourdes pastor in February and his 40th year as a priest in 2019.
St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish
In an email to Catholic San Francisco, St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish told Catholic San Francisco, “Honoring and celebrating Black History Month gives an opportunity for African-American parishioners to highlight our story and our song – one that is as fraught with tribulation as it is bright with gifts and promise. … “It is important for the parishioners of St. Paul of the Shipwreck to contribute to the ongoing national conversation about the underlying issues which have existed for too long including racism, poverty and violence,” the parish said. “Utilizing Black History Month as a natural platform for thinking about and praying about these concerns gives us extra opportunities to reflect together on these realities and to commit ourselves to being part of the solutions.”
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Order of Malta, archbishop joining hands for Day of the Sick Mass In continuing commemoration of St. John Paul II’s establishment in 1982 of World Day of the Sick as well as their own ministry to those not well and their caregivers, the Western Association of the Order of Malta is facilitating a Mass Feb. 11 at 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celArchbishop ebrant and homilist. Cordileone The World Day of the Sick liturgy Feb. 11 is the order’s ninth in San Francisco. The Knights and Dames of Malta were originally invited to implement the commemo-
ration by retired San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer. “As members of the order we make two promises: To defend the faith and serve the poor and the sick,” said Ken Ryan, a Knight of Malta since 2005 and a coordinator of events Feb. 11. “Providing this day for all the faithful of the archdiocese fulfills both of our promises.” Ryan said the Mass assembly is usually about 500. “At the beginning of the Mass there is a blessing with water from the spring in Lourdes that Bernadette dug up at the request of Our Lady, an anointing for those who are sick after Archbishop Cordileone’s homily, and a special blessing for each of the caregivers’ hands after Communion,” Ryan said. The Order of Malta has special dedication to Lourdes sponsoring annual pilgrimages to the site
accompanying usually severely sick individuals to the healing waters. While the Mass Feb 11 and the Lourdes charism do not have a direct link “all who participate in these events are drawn closer to the love of our Lord and his mother, Our Lady of Lourdes,” Ryan said. The entire order gathers in Lourdes annually on the first weekend in May, Ryan, who has made the pilgrimage seven times, said. “It is a wonderful opportunity to serve the sick as we sit and visit with them, sharing our support, grace and love,” Ryan said about this dimension of service as a Knight of Malta. “I treasure the one on one moments in communion with the sick and their caregivers.” Email kenmryan@aol.com or call (415) 613-0395.
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the church who have “rightly called attention to the gap between their huge service to the church and their almost total absence in church decisionmaking.” Father Eagan also believes Pope Francis has not strongly enough addressed priest abuse and the harm it has caused to victims and the church itself. The pope’s greatest fault to some, said Father Eagan, is his “alleged compromising of Catholic
doctrine” and the perceived downplay of issues like abortion and contraception. “Many Catholics, although not those who see the bigger picture, feel he has let us down in that regard,” he said. Despite critics who have become bolder and more vocal, Father Eagan says Pope Francis remains serene and peaceful. “He is above all, a man of profound prayer and great trust in the Holy Spirit guiding him and the church,” he said.
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Supreme Court pick wins applause from religious freedom advocates CNA/EWTN News
WASHINGTON Pro-life leaders and religious freedom advocates hailed President Trump’s choice of Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. Gorsuch “has an excellent record on Judge Neil religious freedom,” Gorsuch Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, told CNA. “He has decided many cases that address that issue, and he’s shown that he understands how to read the law,” she added, citing as an example the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was at the heart of the Supreme Court’s recent Hobby Lobby decision and the case of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Professor Michael Moreland, a visiting law professor at the University of Notre Dame, called the judge “a superb nominee to the Supreme Court” and added that “he is a brilliant and careful jurist, and he has an especially strong record in cases involving religious freedom.” President Trump on Jan. 31 announced his selection of Judge Gorsuch, currently on the U.S.
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court which has existed since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia one year ago. “Judge Gorsuch has a superb intellect, an unparalleled legal education, and a commitment to interpreting the Constitution according to its text. He will make an incredible Justice as soon as the Senate confirms him,” Trump stated. Gorsuch is an Episcopalian, and if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he would alter the religious balance of the Court, which currently features five Catholic and three Jewish justices. He attended Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and earned his doctorate at Oxford University, “where he was supervised by the internationally acclaimed philosopher of law and theorist of natural law and natural rights John Finnis,” said Robert George, Princeton law professor and former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. In his time on the Tenth Circuit, Gorsuch presided over major religious freedom cases like the cases of Hobby Lobby and the Little Sisters of the Poor against parts of the Obama administration’s contraception mandate that employers provide cost-free coverage for
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substantial burden on that person’s free exercise of religion.” “All the plaintiffs in this case sincerely believe that they will be violating God’s law if they execute the documents required by the government. And the penalty for refusal to execute the documents may be in the millions of dollars. How can it be any clearer that the law substantially burdens the plaintiffs’ free exercise of religion?” The judge also “rejected a crude separationist view of the Establishment Clause” in his 2009 opinion about a Ten Commandments display outside an Oklahoma courthouse, Professor Moreland added. Pro-life leaders also praised the selection of Gorsuch. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, called him “an exceptional choice” for the Supreme Court. “All too often, our efforts to protect unborn children and other vulnerable humans have been overridden by judges who believe they have a right to impose their own policy preferences,” Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, said in a statement. Knights of Columbus CEO Carl Anderson said in a statement that the Knights applaud the president’s Supreme Court nominee stating: “From his writings and his record, it is clear that he will interpret the Constitution as it was written, including our First Amendment right to religious freedom, and the right to life of every person.” Catholic News Service contributed
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Faith leaders urge communities to show care for their neighbor Kelly Seegers Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – A coalition of interfaith leaders from the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington gathered at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington on Jan. 31 to announce a vision statement for religious communities in the local area. The statement, released a day before the start of the United Nations’ annual World Harmony Faith Week, “arises from (the communities’) trust in God and belief that good government is exercised ‘under God.’” It also called upon their belief in “our responsibility to serve humanity,” which calls them into community. The news conference opened with prayers given by Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde of Washington and Imam Talib Shareef from the Masjid Muhammad, the Nation’s Mosque, who also is the conference’s president. Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington and other faith leaders also were present. Bishop Budde opened by saying, “We gather in the spirit of great friendship. … In a moment of special need for some of our members, especially in the Muslim communities, with whom we stand with great compassion.” “This picture we have up here is a beautiful picture of our city” and of our nation, said Imam Sahreef, refer-
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Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl speaks at a gathering of local faith leaders from the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington Jan. 31 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington. ring to the different religious leaders standing side by side. In his remarks, Rabbi Gerald Serotta, executive director of the conference, noted the interfaith group was founded in 1978 and since then has “advocated for the rights of each religious community to freely practice its faith without fear or intimidation.” The conference includes leaders from several Christian denominations, as well as representatives of the Sikh,
Zoroastrian, Mormon, Jewish, Hindu, Jain, Muslim and Baha’i faith communities. The group’s statement was inspired by a charge led by Cardinal Wuerl last May, when he spoke to the faith leaders, encouraging them to “amplify the voice of the interfaith community speaking to the spiritual welfare of our Washington-area community,” said Rabbi Serotta. Cardinal Wuerl pointed out that the
group had been crafting the statement for several months, and it was not merely a reaction to current events. Nevertheless, the faith leaders did comment on how the values outlined in their statement relate to President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive memorandum keeping refugees hailing from seven majority-Muslim countries – Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia – from coming in to the United States for 90 days. His action suspended the entire U.S. refugee resettlement program for 120 days. “While the statement we present today does not speak to any specific public policy, we firmly insist that the values that we emphasize today must play an important part in our community’s life,” said Rabbi Serotta. Policies being put in place by the new administration affect local faith communities, and “if any of those communities feels threatened, we will continue to stand up for one another,” said Rabbi Serotta. “The dignity and rights of each of our faith communities are as important to us as our own.” Cardinal Wuerl, who recently released a statement commenting on Trump’s executive action, said: “While we are very aware of the need for security, we also very much recognize that cannot be at the cost of a failure to recognize the needs of people being persecuted. We very strongly invite people who are suffering persecution to come and be welcomed by all of us.”
Speaker: Growth of US Hispanic population a blessing for church, says speaker Andrea Acosta Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Hispanics in the Catholic Church are not a problem to be solved, but a blessing and an opportunity, said Hosffman Ospino in a Jan. 31 talk at The Catholic University of America in Washington. The growing number of U.S. Hispanic parishioners puts a new face on the church, forces it to renew itself, pushes it to redefine its commitment and presents dioceses with a challenge, he said. Ospino is a professor of theology and religious education at Boston College and director of graduate programs in Hispanic ministry there. He is well-known as a leading voice in Hispanic ministry and theology. More than 20 million immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean are transforming the U.S. Catholic experience, according to Ospino. He calls this phenomenon a “tsunami.” Hispanics are the fastest-growing community in the U.S. They make up the largest minority group in the country and, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, they will surpass the 132 million mark by 2050. By then, Hispanics will represent 30 percent of the nation’s total population, according to data from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. But the church has not reacted at the same speed
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Clergy differ on bill to repeal the Johnson Amendment Mark Pattison Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – People of goodwill can disagree on matters of public policy – even if they’re ordained clergy, and the public policy under debate has the potential to affect the way they conduct their ministry. The issue is the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 rider inserted by thenSen. Lyndon Johnson into that year’s version of the tax code banning all federally recognized nonprofit organizations – including religious organizations – from endorsing candidates and otherwise participating in partisan political activity at the risk of losing their tax-exempt status. The Republican Party made repeal of the amendment a plank in its 2016 convention platform, and President Donald Trump vowed Feb. 2 at the National Prayer Breakfast to “get rid of and totally destroy” the Johnson Amendment. Rep. Jody Hice, R-Georgia, a secondterm congressman and a co-sponsor of the Free Speech Fairness Act, as the Johnson Amendment repeal bill has been named, is a former Southern
Baptist minister who thinks repeal is a good idea. Rabbi Jack Moline, president of the Interfaith Alliance, believes repeal would create more problems than it tries to solve. Until about a decade ago, “I would receive threatening letters” from the IRS that said “we would lose our taxexempt status if we reviewed political issues,” Hice told Catholic News Service Feb. 3. Those letters, he added, were “very threatening, very chilling.” Then, in 2008, Hice said, he and 32 other clergy issued endorsements from their pulpits, recorded those endorsements, sent them to the IRS and challenged them to do something about it. The IRS never responded, so Hice was part of a group – this time numbering 160 – that did the same thing the next year. Again, no response. Now, every year, the Alliance Defending Freedom coordinates a similar event. “Churches have censored themselves right out of participation, right out of keeping their congregations informed,” Hice said. With the Johnson Amendment repealed, “you could address the issues, in my case, from a biblical perspective, and actually
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endorse a candidate (whose views) that we as a congregation share without fear of losing tax-exempt status or being threatened in any way.” Hice added the bill would not permit churches to conduct political activities outside of “the normal course of your ministry.” “No-full-page ads” in newspapers would be allowed, although putting something in the church bulletin is OK, he said. Rabbi Moline, though, believes the opposite to be true. The bill “would make religious institutions destinations for dark money for political purposes. Since they are 501(c)(3) (shorthand for a federal rule governing nonprofits), they are not only tax-exempt but tax-deductible,” he told CNS Feb. 3. “People who give money to PACs, which have come under attack, will now be able to give money to a 501(c)(3) with less accountability, and the ability to compromise the mission of a house of God,” if the bill became law. Repealing the Johnson Amendment, Rabbi Moline said, would “create a campaign political atmosphere in houses of worship all over the country. It’s important for people of faith to understand their tradition, but to be sheltered from having to express those values in a political way.” Rabbi Moline added that under the bill, “the government would essentially be funding campaign activities through the tax base, actually reducing – twice – the amount of money that would otherwise be collected in taxes. They would be exempt from taxes by the institution and also by the contributor.”
Prelates decry Trump move to keep Obama executive order
WASHINGTON – The chairmen of two bishops’ committees expressed disappointment Feb. 1 over President Donald Trump’s decision to retain a 2014 executive order by his predecessor, Barack Obama, that bans federal discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity against federal employees and workers for federal government contractors. Trump’s action is “troubling and disappointing” said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the USCCB Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty. The executive order, they said in a joint statement, is “deeply flawed.” In a July 21, 2014, statement, Archbishop Lori and Archbishop Chaput’s predecessor as committee chair, Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York, labeled the executive order “unprecedented and extreme and should be opposed.” In the 2014 statement, Archbishop Lori and Bishop Malone said the term “sexual orientation” was “undefined,” and that “gender identity” was “predicated on the false idea that ‘gender’ is nothing more than a social construct or psychological reality that can be chosen at variance from one’s biological sex.” Catholic News Service
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Australian prelate ‘personally shaken’ by abuse statistics “The church is sorry and I am sorry for past failures that left so many so damaged,” the archbishop said in a statement Feb. 6. “I know that many of our priests, religious and lay faithful feel the same: As Catholics, we hang our heads in shame.” The archbishop noted the Royal Commission would focus on two main issues: “what factors caused or contributed to historical child sex abuse cases in the church and failures to respond adequately; and what the church has done or plans to do to address this by way of changes to structures, policies and culture, the discernment of priestly and religious vocations, formation and supervision of those engaged in ministry, and so on.” “The coming weeks will be traumatic for everyone involved, especially the survivors,” he said. “I remain determined to do all we can to assist those who have been harmed by the church and to work toward a culture of greater transparency, accountability and safety for all children.”
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SYDNEY – Considered as an overall percentage of those serving between 1950 and 2010, 7.9 percent of diocesan priests and 5.7 percent of religious priests in Australia have had allegations made against them, making a total of 7 percent of priests overall, the Catholic Weekly, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Sydney, reported as Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse opened hearings Feb. 6. The paper reported that of the 1,880 alleged perpetrators identified, 592 were religious brothers, 572 were priests, 543 were laypeople and 96 were religious sisters. Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher, who is expected to appear before the commission, revelations from the commission’s first day of hearings “harrowing” and said he “personally felt shaken and humiliated by this information.”
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Culture of life the only answer to throwaway logic, pope says Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – A culture that protects life from conception to natural death is the only answer to the idea that some lives are expendable due to inconvenience or population control, Pope Francis said. Following in the path of St. Teresa of Kolkata, Christians are called to stand up and defend the lives of the unborn and the vulnerable, the pope said Feb. 5 in his remarks after the recitation of the Angelus prayer. “We are close to and pray together for the children who are in danger with the termination of pregnancy, as well as for people who are at the end of their lives; every life is sacred,” he said. The pope commemorated the Day for Life celebration promoted by the Italian bishops’ conference. The theme of the 2017 commemoration was “Women and men for life in the footsteps of St. Teresa of Kolkata.” Citing Mother Teresa’s call to fight for life, the pope joined the Italian bishops’ appeal for “courageous educational action in favor of human life.” “Let us remember the words of Mother Teresa: ‘Life is beauty, admire it; life is life, fight for it!’ both for the baby about to be born and the person who is close to death,” he said, repeating again, “Every life is sacred!”
Before reciting the Angelus prayer with pilgrims, the pope reflected on the Sunday Gospel reading in which Jesus tells his disciples they are “the salt of the earth” and “the light of the world.” While Christians are called to be reflection of Christ’s life “not in words, but by our deeds,” they must also take on the characteristics of salt, which gives “flavor to life with the faith and love that Christ has given us.” Another fundamental quality of salt that Christians should adopt, he continued, is its ability to preserve from corruption, keeping away “the polluting germs of selfishness, envy and malicious gossip.” Pope Francis’ call for an authentic witness free from gossip and maliciousness came one day after copies of a poster were plastered around the Rome city center criticizing Pope Francis. Written in Roman dialect and featuring a stern-faced picture of the pope, the poster said: “Ah Francis, you’ve taken over congregations, removed priests, decapitated the Order of Malta and the Franciscans of the Immaculate, ignored cardinals ... but where is your mercy?” The posters, which were placed anonymously, were taken down or covered with a sign that read “illegal posting” by the city of Rome. The Vatican issued no response to them.
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he French novelist and essayist, Leon Bloy, once made this comment about God’s power in our world: “God seems to have condemned himself until the end of time not to exercise any immediate right of a master over a servant or a king over a subject. We can do what FATHER ron we want. He will defend rolheiser himself only by his patience and his beauty.” God defends himself only by his patience and his beauty! How true! And how significant for our understanding of power! The way we understand power is invariably bound up with how we see power exercised in our world. Our world understands power precisely as a force that it can lord over others, a force that can compel others to obey. In our world, power is understood to be real only when it can forcibly assert itself to make others obey it. For us, strong people have power, political rulers have power, economic systems have power, billionaires have power, the rich and the famous have power, muscular bodies have power, and the playground bully has power; power that can make you buckle under, one way or the other. But such a notion of power is adolescent and superficial. Power that can make you buckle under is only one kind of power and ultimately not the most transformative kind. Real power is moral. Real power is the power of truth, beauty, and patience. Paradoxically, real power generally looks helpless. For example: If you put a powerfully muscled athlete, the CEO of a powerful
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corporation, a playground bully, an academy-award winning movie star, and a baby into the same room, who has the most power? Ultimately, it’s the baby. At the end of the day, the baby’s helplessness overpowers physical muscle, economic muscle, and charismatic muscle. Babies cleanse a room morally; they do exorcisms, even the most callous watch their language around a baby. That’s the kind of power God revealed in the incarnation. Against almost all human expectation, God was born into this world, not as Superman or superstar, but as a baby, helpless to care for its own needs. And that’s how God is still essentially present in our lives. Pulitzer prize-winning writer, Annie Dillard, suggests that this is how we forever find God in our lives, as a helpless infant lying in the straw whom we need to pick up, nurture, and provide with human flesh. She’s right, and her insight, like that of Leon Bloy, has huge implications for how we understand God’s power in our lives and for how we understand God’s, seeming, silence in our lives. First, God’s power in our lives: When we examine the biblical account of Adam and Eve and original sin, we see that the primary motivation for eating the apple was their desire to somehow grasp at divinity, to become like God. They wanted God-like power. But they, like us, badly misunderstood what makes for genuine power. St. Paul shows us the antithesis of that in how he describes Jesus in the famous Christological hymn in the epistle to the Philippians. Paul writes there that Jesus did not deem equality with God something to be grasped at, but rather that he emptied himself of that power to become helpless, trusting that this emptying and helplessness would ultimately be the most transformative power of all. Jesus submitted to helplessness
to become truly powerful. That insight can shed light on how we understand God’s apparent absence in our world. How might we comprehend what is often called “the silence of God”? Where was God during the Holocaust? Where is God during natural disasters that kill thousands of people? Where is God when senseless accidents and illnesses take the lives of countless persons? Why doesn’t God forcefully intervene? God is present and intervening in all these situations, but not in the way we ordinarily understand presence, power, and intervention. God is present the way beauty is present, in the way a helpless, innocent newborn is present, and in the way truth as a moral agent is always present. God is never silent because beauty, innocence, helplessness, and truth are never silent. They’re always present and intervening, but unlike ordinary human power, they’re present in a way that is completely non-manipulative and fully respectful of your freedom. God’s power, like that of a new born, like the power of beauty itself, fully respects you. When we look at the struggles within our world and within our private lives, it often seems like divine power is forever being trumped by human power. As the cartoon character, Ziggy, likes to put it: The poor are still getting clobbered in our world. But, like David, standing with a just a boy’s slingshot before Goliath, a giant who looks overpowering in terms of muscle and iron; and just like the apostles being asked to set five little loaves of bread and two tiny fish before a crowd of 5000, God always looks underwhelming in our world. But we know how these stories end. Oblate Father Rolheiser is resident of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
Christ ‘enough to satisfy every heart’
ach of us is called to be a disciple. We’re called to listen like disciples (Isaiah 50:4). “The Lord opened my ears that I may listen like a disciple. Morning after morning he wakes me to hear that I might learn from him how to offer a word of comfort to the weary.” Sister jean This is the evans, rsm call of God’s mercy to each of us: To offer a word of comfort to the weary, to those heavily burdened, to the heart sore. There are people who feel a call to follow Christ for a lifetime. To do this within a religious community where one’s vocation is supported by a common life, by personal and communal prayer, and by the service of Christ in others is a ministry within the church. These three elements – prayer, community and service are essential to the living of a vocation as a
sister, brother or priest within a religious order or congregation. But let’s go more deeply into the call. Pope Francis talks about the “gaze” of Christ, the way that Christ looked at the tax collector, Levi who responded by leaving his post at the Jerusalem version of the IRS and followed Jesus immediately. What was this attraction? What was the magnetism of Jesus that would make Levi stop what he was doing in order to follow Jesus? The gaze of Jesus, its amazing warmth, its energy and its serenity, that’s what he experienced (Psalm 26). One look, one moment in our hearts can change the whole course of a life, perhaps your life. The church needs men and women religious not just as a work force to staff and sponsor institutions, though there is infinite scope for our service. The church needs women and men religious to witness for all to see that Christ is enough. Christ is enough to satisfy the desires of every heart. We don’t marry for a good reason. Religious sisters and brothers witness to the life of heaven, to the reality of a loving God who calls us all to the “table of plenty.” Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner
says that human beings are intrinsic openness to the infinite. That means it’s in our DNA to be open to God, the source of our being. It’s within our life stream to long for the living God whom we now know and possess through faith. As Christians, and as consecrated religious, it is our very nature to be signs pointing beyond ourselves. We can live something that is more than day-to-day routine, more than the security of certain relationships and lifestyle choices. It is our call to risk a radical life-changing response to Christ, to be in him an unequivocal sign of God. Over years of living with Christ at your side, as he informs your choices and encourages you, it’s possible to discover in oneself an unquenchable thirst for God. It is because we have begun to taste and see the sweetness of the Lord (Psalm 34). Our world craves such authenticity even as it busies itself with trifles. Sister Jean is vocation minister for Sisters of Mercy West Midwest and assists Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan with music at first Friday prayer around the cross, Taizé, in Burlingame.
Letters Church should step in on President Trump
I read your article, “Trump presidency receives words of hope, prayers for civility,” (Jan. 26) and I thought, “Isn’t it too late?” During his campaign, Trump made it very clear to anyone who was willing to listen how he treated people and what his policies would be. Here is my question: Where was the church during the election when it was very clear how uncivil Trump was? I understand that there is a separation between church and state in this country, but where was the guidance that the Catholic Church could have provided? When it was clear after Trump insulted Mexican immigrants, a disabled journalist, a Gold Star family, Sen. John McCain, Muslims, women, and the list goes on and on, couldn’t the church have compared the two candidates side-by-side in regard to their behavior without endorsing a candidate? When Trump brought out the worst in his supporters by inciting violence against hecklers at his rallies, where was the church? Ah! But abortion was on the table this time. I got the feeling that the church was willing to put up with anything Trump was willing to throw at the nation as long as he was firmly against abortion. Was the church blinded by the fact that its one most important issue would be addressed by Trump? In doing so, it gave up its leadership role when there were so many other more pressing concerns. So yes, abortion may be more restricted under Trump, but just yesterday the doomsday clock was reset to 2.5 minutes to midnight. This is the closest time since 1953. Nice work! Richard Morasci San Francisco
Murder in the Tenderloin
Just read in the Chronicle about our archbishop conducting a prayer service at a bus stop where a 61-yearold old man was beaten to death by thugs. I applaud and am heartened by this kind of activity and would like to see more of this. I’m not sure how much he wanted to be there, but he could win unbelievable support if he went in this direction. How about speaking out about the homeless situation in San Francisco? Can you imagine Jesus Christ being silent on this issue? Charles Leyes San Francisco
Disappointed in pro-Trump articles
I’m sincerely disappointed to see all of the pro-Trump articles in this week’s issue. I think this is not in keeping with our Catholic Christian values nor is it in keeping with the teachings from our pope. Trump’s message of hate and intolerance is not one that should be promoted. If you continue to publish that kind of support for him I wish to be removed from your mailing list. Clara McKennett San Francisco
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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time SIRACH 15:15-20 If you choose you can keep the commandments, they will save you; if you trust in God, you too shall live; he has set before you fire and water to whichever you choose, stretch forth your hand. Before man are life and death, good and evil, whichever he chooses shall be given him. Immense is the wisdom of the Lord; he is mighty in power, and all-seeing. The eyes of God are on those who fear him; he understands man’s every deed. No one does he command to act unjustly, to none does he give license to sin. PSALM 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34 Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! Blessed are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they who observe his decrees, who seek him with all their heart. Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! You have commanded that your precepts be diligently kept. Oh, that I might be firm in the ways of keeping your statutes!
Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! Be good to your servant, that I may live and keep your words. Open my eyes, that I may consider the wonders of your law. Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! Instruct me, O Lord, in the way of your statutes, that I may exactly observe them. Give me discernment, that I may observe your law and keep it with all my heart. Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! 1 CORINTHIANS 2:6-10 Brothers and sisters: We speak a wisdom to those who are mature, not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away. Rather, we speak God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory, and which none of the rulers of this age knew; for, if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written: What eye has
not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him, this God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God. MATTEW 5:20-22A, 27-28, 33-34A, 37 Jesus said to his disciples: “I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. “You have heard that it was said to your ancestors, You shall not kill; and whoever kills will be liable to judgment. But I say to you, whoever is angry with brother will be liable to judgment. “You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery. But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. “Again you have heard that it was said to your ancestors, Do not take a false oath, but make good to the Lord all that you vow. But I say to you, do not swear at all. Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ Anything more is from the evil one.”
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o you ever stop and wonder sometimes why the Mass is organized the way it is, why this or that “part” is situated as it is relative to the other “parts”? I’m thinking now especially of the ‘kiss of peace,’ that moment in the liturgy before holy Communion when the priest invites those in attendance to share the Lord’s peace with one another. It has been suggested over the years that the sign of peace in the Roman Rite (the rite of the Mass that most of us Catholics in the archdiocese participate in) be moved to the offertory, when the gifts are brought up to the altar in the ‘middle’ of the liturgical celebration. The suggested Father Mark change is not far-fetched. Doherty There are some places in the Catholic world, such as the Archdiocese of Milan in Italy (which celebrates Mass according to the Ambrosian rite) where the sign of peace is at the offertory. One of the reasons for the suggested change is that the exchange of peace is sometimes disruptive as some get ‘carried away’ in their effort to share the sign of peace with those around them. This disruption is especially problematic because it comes right before the reception of holy Communion.
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While there may be merits to this argument, there are other – ultimately persuasive – reasons why the sign of peace is best left where it is. There is, for example, the fact that from time immemorial the Roman rite has situated the sign of peace before the distribution of holy Communion. Most important, however, is the fact that in its structure, the Roman rite of the Mass teaches us that we can only offer peace to one another once the Lord has come among us, given us his peace, and then invited us to share his peace with one another. Notice that the invitation to share the sign of peace comes only after the Lord has become specially present in the Sacred Species on the altar. An ancient custom has the priest kiss the chalice containing the Precious Blood before he extends his hands to the congregation and invites those present to exchange a sign of peace. This custom is intended to communicate that the peace which we can share with one another comes to us specifically from the Lord. Without his peace we have no peace to offer or share. This lesson from the Mass helps us to understand and embrace the commandments that the Lord imparts to us in today’s Gospel. Who among us in reading or hearing these words does not think to him or herself: “There is absolutely no way I can fulfill these commands.” Not only must our external acts conform to the law, the Lord tells us, but our inner dispositions and attitudes must as well. These commandments are impossible to follow through on. On our own, they are indeed impossible to
fulfill. The truth of it was certainly not lost on Jesus. Those around him made it clear to him on numerous occasions that the commandments he dished out were impossible to fulfill. In ourselves, they are impossible to bear; in the Lord, with his life, we can fulfill them and flourish. Have you noticed that in our public discourse (both in the church and in the public square), in our conversations, through the newspapers and media, in our entertainment, such as television shows and movies, a stress is often placed on being “real”? For example, television shows and movies are often rated and praised based on how “real” they are, how “truthfully” they depict the “gritty” and “dark” reality of life. The more “grit,” the more “real,” the more accolades a show or movie receives. So also in the life of the church, it is sometimes said that the church needs to “get with it,” to be “real” when it comes to the realities of life in our age. There’s certainly something to be said about the church’s need to be in touch with and attentive to the difficult and complex realities that characterize the lives of the baptized, but this line of argumentation risks losing sight of the most “real” reality, namely the reality of the Lord and his grace which he is always seeking to offer us so that we might fulfill his commandments and thus find the deepest, truest, most real life there is. On our own we cannot; with God, all things are possible. Father Doherty, who serves at St. Peter and St. Anthony parishes in San Francisco, is studying moral theology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, February 13: Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Gn 4:1-15, 25. Ps 50:1 and 8, 16bc-17, 20-21. Jn 14:6. Mk 8:11-13. Tuesday, February 14: Memorial of Sts. Cyril, monk and St. Methodius, bishop. Gn 6:5-8; 7:15, 10. Ps 29:1a and 2, 3ac-4, 3b and 9c-10. Jn 14:23. Mk 8:14-21. Wednesday, February 15: Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. St. Claude de la Colombiere, priest. Gn 8:6-13, 20-22. Ps 116:12-13, 14-15, 18-19. Eph 1:17-18. Mk 8:22-26. Thursday, February 16: Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Gn 9:1-13. Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23. Jn 6:63c, 68c. Mk 8:27-33. Friday, February 17: Friday of the Sixth Week
in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Seven Founders of the Order of Servites. Gn 11:1-9. Ps 33:10-11, 12-13, 14-15. Jn 15:15b. Mk 8:34—9:1. Saturday February 18: Saturday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Heb 11:1-7. Ps 145:2-3, 4-5, 10-11. Mk 9:6. Mk 9:2-13. Sunday, February 19: Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Lv 19:1-2, 17-18. Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13. 1 Cor 3:16-23. 1 Jn 2:5. Mt 5:38-48. Monday, February 20: Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Bls. Francisco & Jacinta Marto (Portugal). Sir 1:1-10. Ps 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5. 2 Tm 1:10. Mk 9:14-29. Tuesday, February 21: Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Damian, bishop and doctor. Sir 2:1-11.
Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40. Gal 6:14. Mk 9:30-37. Wednesday, February 22: Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, apostle. 1 Pt 5:1-4. Ps 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6. Mt 16:18. Mt 16:13-19. Thursday, February 23: Optional Memorial of St. Polycarp of Smyrna, bishop and martyr. Sir 5:1-8. Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. 1 Thes 2:13. Mk 9:41-50. Friday, February 24: Friday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Sir 6:5-17. Ps 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34, 35. Jn 17:17b, 17a. Mk 10:1-12. Saturday, February 25: Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Sir 17:1-15. Ps 103:13-14, 15-16, 17-18. See Mt 11:25 Mk 10:1316.
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and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, expressed concern for the change in U.S. policy. “I am especially worried about the innocent children and mothers who have fled for their lives without support and are now caught in this regrettable and terribly frightening situation,” she said in a statement. “While I certainly appreciate the importance of vetting to ensure the safety of our country, I also believe we must treat those who are most vulnerable with compassion and mercy and with hearts willing to be opened wide in the face of dire human need.” Officials with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. said the memorandum erodes the U.S. commitment to protect refugees, weakens national security and harms the country’s standing in the international community. “Refugees have enriched our society in countless ways. These newcomers seek protection and the promise of equality, opportunity and liberty that has made our country thrive. When we reject refugees, we negate the welcome that was given to so many of our ancestors,” Bishop Kevin W. Vann of Orange, California, chairman of CLINIC’s board of directors. Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, writing on his blog Jan. 27, raised the 40-year-long concern of the U.S. bishops of the need for comprehensive immigration reform. He wrote that the status of 11 million people who are in the U.S. without documents must be addressed with
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Syrian refugees accepted by US frustrated with Trump action Dale Gavlak Catholic News Service
AMMAN, Jordan – Promised resettlement in the United States after escaping death and destruction in their homeland, many Syrian refugees are frustrated and angry over President Donald Trump’s executive action banning their entry to the U.S. until further notice. “We’re frustrated. We were told that we were accepted for resettlement in the U.S., and now everything is at a standstill,” a Syrian refugee woman told Catholic News Service, wiping away tears as she surveyed her crumbling home in the Jordanian capital. “Neither the U.S. Embassy nor the International Organization for Migration have responded to our repeated telephone calls about our status or what to expect in the future,” said the mother of four young children, whose family fled to Jordan in 2013 after their home was bombed. Rahma provided only her first name for fear of reprisal. “If there is no longer any chance of being resettled in the U.S., then we would like to know whether we can apply somewhere else which will welcome us,” she said. The burden of not being able to work in Jordan over these past years has left Rahma’s family desperate, unable to provide even the basic necessities of food and heating for the winter. Refugee Abdel Hakim, a pharmacist from the southern Syrian town of Daraa, cannot contain his anger at seeing his dreams of starting a new life in the United States dashed. He and his family were far along in the approval process and expected to travel shortly from Jordan to the U.S. He called the measure “discriminatory and racist.” “In the beginning, we didn’t want to leave Syria. But as it’s been plunged deeper in war, we now find
Iraqi patriarch: Fast track for Christian refugees will fuel tensions
VATICAN CITY – Giving priority to Christian refugees for settlement programs would be “a trap” that discriminates and fuels religious tensions in the Middle East, said Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic patriarch. “Every reception policy that discriminates (between) the persecuted and suffering on religious grounds ultimately harms the Christians of the East” and would be “a trap for Christians in the
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Abdul Hakim Kiwan , a Syrian refugee from Daraa, speaks about his immigration issues with a journalist Jan. 30 at his home in Amman, Jordan.
even the door to America has been slammed shut in our faces,” he told CNS. Trump’s Jan. 27 presidential action ended indefinitely the entry of Syrian refugees to the U.S., pending a security review meant to ensure terrorists cannot slip through the vetting process. As well, it suspended the entire U.S. refugee resettlement program for 120 days. The action also slapped a 90-day ban on all entry to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries with terrorism concerns, including Syria. While Jordan is not on that list, the Middle East kingdom hosts more than 1.5 million refugees who have fled conflicts in neighboring Syria and Iraq, including flight from the so-called Islamic State militants. “These dramatic and discriminatory policies will only harm, not help, U.S. interests and our national security,” Jesuit Refugee Service-USA said in a statement criticizing the decision. For the past 15 years, as waves of refugees fleeing Middle East,” said Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad. The patriarch, speaking to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, commented on President Trump’s proposed travel ban. He said any preferential treatment based on religion provides the kind of arguments used by those who propagate “propaganda and prejudice that attack native Christian communities of the Middle East as ‘foreign bodies’” or as groups that are “supported and defended by Western powers.”
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the 2003 Gulf war, the Syrian civil war and those persecuted by Islamic State militants have flooded Jordan in search of a safe haven, Catholic and other churches have provided food, clothing, heating and other items, regardless of the refugees’ religious background. International faith-based aid groups, such as Catholic Relief Service and Caritas, have been at the forefront of efforts helping refugees, mainly from Syria and Iraq, but also those who fled the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011. Resource-poor Jordan has struggled to provide water and electricity, education and health services to hundreds of thousands of refugees as the grinding conflicts in their homelands show little sign of ending. Many Syrian refugees accepted for U.S. resettlement have arrived from Jordan. More than 27,000 Syrian refugees from 11 Middle Eastern host countries were under consideration for resettlement to the U.S. and in various stages of the approval process at the time of Trump’s action, according to the International Organization for Migration, a U.N.-related agency that interviews and prepares refugees for resettlement. Quickly, the measure sparked mass protests at U.S. airports and other venues, where people demanded its repeal. Angry demonstrators criticized the ban as completely contrary to America’s ideals and its storied history of accepting immigrants fleeing persecution in search of a better life. King Abdullah II of Jordan visited Washington Jan. 30, becoming the first Arab leader to meet members of the Trump administration, including Vice President Mike Pence and the secretaries of defense and homeland security. The king raised the controversial bans in his talks, according to an official statement, which said he “emphasized that Muslims are the No. 1 victims” of Islamic terrorists, whom he called religious “outlaws” who “do not represent any faith or nationality.”
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who suffer at the hands of merciless persecutors,” they said. “The refugees fleeing from ISIS (Islamic State) and other extremists are sacrificing all they have in the name of peace and freedom,” they said. “Often, they could be spared if only they surrendered to the violent vision of their tormentors. They stand firm in their faith.” In Chicago, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich said the presidential action “proved to be a dark moment in U.S. history.” “The executive order to turn away refugees and to close our nation to those, particularly Muslims, fleeing violence, oppression and persecution is contrary to both Catholic and American values,” he said. “Have we not repeated the disastrous decisions of those in the past who turned away other people fleeing violence, leaving certain ethnicities and religions marginalized and excluded? We Catholics know that history well, for, like others, we have been on the other side of such decisions. “Their design and implementation have been rushed, chaotic, cruel and oblivious to the realities that will produce enduring security for the United States,” Cardinal Cupich said. “They have left people holding valid visas and other proper documents detained in our airports, sent back to the places some were fleeing or not allowed to board planes headed here. Only at the 11th hour
‘This week the Statue of Liberty lowered its torch.’ San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy did a federal judge intervene to suspend this unjust action.” The cardinal quoted Pope Francis’ remarks to Congress in 2015: “If we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities.” He said Pope Francis “followed with a warning that should haunt us as we come to terms with the events of the weekend: ‘The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.’” Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego said the executive action was “the introduction into law of campaign sloganeering rooted in xenophobia and religious prejudice. Its devastating consequences are already apparent for those suffering most in our world, for our standing among nations, and for the imperative of rebuilding unity within our country rather than tearing us further apart.” “This week the Statue of Liberty lowered its torch in a presidential action which repudiates our national heritage and ignores the reality that Our
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Lord and the Holy Family were themselves Middle Eastern refugees fleeing government oppression. We cannot and will not stand silent,” he said in a statement Jan. 29. Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington said “the legal situation is still fluid and news reports are sometimes confusing.” “The political debate, which is complex and emotionally highly charged, will continue, but we must do our best to remain focused on the pastoral and very real work we undertake every day for the vulnerable and most in need ... for the strangers at our doors,” he said. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, who is Catholic, commended the action, saying “our number one responsibility is to protect the homeland.” “We are a compassionate nation, and I support the refugee resettlement program, but it’s time to re-evaluate and strengthen the visa vetting process. President Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering our country,” Ryan said. Philippe Nassif, who is executive director of In Defense of Christians, a Washington-based advocacy group supporting minority religious groups in Middle East countries, called for a quick end to the ban and said it would be better to focus on creating safe zones for Christians in the Middle East. “It is important to understand,” he said, “that Christians, Yezidis and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria have been victims of genocide perpetrated by ISIS,” which, he noted, has been “formally recognized by the U.S. Congress.” “It is our belief at IDC that these genocide victims who seek asylum should be prioritized and given accommodation on the basis of this status. But that does not mean banning all refugees,” Nassif said.
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novenas Novena to St. Jude Thaddeus St. Jude, glorious apostle, faithful servant & friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor has caused you to be forgotten by many. But the Church honors & invokes you universally as the patron of difficult and desperate cases. Pray for me who am so miserable. Make use, I implore you, of that particular privilege accorded to you to bring visible & speedy help where help was almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation & help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations & sufferings, particularly (here make your request) & that I may bless God with you & all the elect throughout all eternity. I promise you, O blessed Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, & I will never cease to honor you as my special & powerful patron & do all in my power to encourage devotion to you. St. Jude, pray for us & for all who honor & invoke thy aid. (Say the Our Father, Hail Mary, & Glory be to the Father 3 times) – M&LP
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Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen. This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks. L.S.
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Catholic Elementary School Vice Principal Downtown San Francisco
Notre Dame des Victoires School seeks a full-time Vice Principal to begin immediately. Responsibilities include coordinating the following areas of school life: Religious activities planning; Playground Supervision; Discipline; Student Success Team process and Scheduling Requirements: Active and practicing Catholic; Solid understanding of theology and Roman Catholic traditions; minimum 5 years teaching experience in Catholic elementary schools; Strong oral and written communication skills; proficiency with Google apps and Microsoft products; bachelor’s degree or master’s degree (preferred) 40 hours per week. Competitive compensation and generous benefit package. Send resume to office@ndvsf.org.
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Beacon Communities is looking for a Maintenance II for El Bethel Terrace located in San Francisco.
Beacon Communities is looking for a Maintenance I for Frederick Douglas Hayes located in San Francisco.
Description Under limited supervision, the Maintenance II performs work in connection with the operation, maintenance, and security of building, grounds, and facilities in order to ensure efficient plant operation. Plans, schedules, and participates in, and inspects the work of outside contractors engaged in the operation, maintenance, repair, and safeguarding of buildings and Community. Team member may be on call in case of an emergency. As a representative and team member of the company, this position is expected to present oneself in a manner that reflects professionalism and ensures resident satisfaction. Qualifications Education -- • High School graduate or equivalent Experience/Training -- • Minimum of 3 years of experience in maintenance trade fields, of building maintenance or construction; or any equivalent combinations of training and experience which provides the required skills, knowledge and abilities. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations -- • Certification, license or equivalent as required under state and/or local regulation to operate or repair certain equipment in a technical field such as HVAC, building trades or building utilities program preferred • Current Drivers’ License and clean driving record. Primary Location California-San Francisco-El Bethel Terrace Qualified candidates can apply at the following website: https://abhow.taleo.net/careersection/1/jobdetail.ftl?job=160FM Requisition Number: 160FM
Description Under general supervision, the Maintenance I Helper performs a variety of light maintenance and janitorial custodial duties for residents, offices, and common areas and community as a whole. The maintenance work includes daily and preventive care, repair, and maintenance of building systems and equipment; performs plumbing, electrical, roofing, flooring, masonry, painting, mechanical, and carpentry work. Other work involves sweeping, mopping and using vacuum cleaners to clean floors; dusting, cleaning bathroom fixtures and floors and policing building to empty trash receptacle and picking debris. As a representative and team member of the company, this position is expected to present oneself in a manner that reflects professionalism and ensures resident satisfaction. Qualifications Education – • High School Diploma or equivalent. Experience/Training – • Up to one year of experience in a related field of building maintenance or construction, or any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required skills, knowledge and abilities. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations – • Attendance at a technical training institute or program preferred. Primary Location California-San Francisco-Frederick Douglas Haynes Qualified candidates can apply at the following website: https://abhow.taleo.net/careersection/1/jobdetail.ftl?job=1607I Requisition Number: 1607I
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The Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking elementary principals for the 2017-2018 school year. Candidates must be practicing Roman Catholic, possess a valid teaching credential, a Master’s degree in educational leadership, an administrative credential (preferred), and five years of successful teaching experience at the elementary level.
Please send resume and a letter of interest by April 1st, 2017 to: Bret E. Allen Associate Superintendent for Educational & Professional Leadership One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, California 94109 Fax (415) 614-5664 E-mail: allenb@sfarch.org
Director of Music Ministry St. Peter Catholic Church, 700 Oddstad Boulevard, in Pacifica is seeking a Director of Music Ministry. This person of faith is responsible for the effective planning, coordination, and execution of music within the liturgical celebrations of the parish. Effective functioning of this ministry requires that the Director of Music Ministry is a person of prayer, is sensitive to the cultural experience of parishioners, and understands their spirituality and worship life. The Director provides Music Ministry leadership through active membership on the parish staff and Liturgy Committee. Salary commensurate with experience. Competencies The Director is a skilled and competent musician who is familiar with and committed to the vision set forth for liturgy and worship by the Second Vatican Council and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Job Title: Assistant Head of School for Mission Department: Administration SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132 | WWW.MERCYHS.ORG Reports To: Head of School Classification: Administrative Position Contract Duration: 1 year FLSA Status: Full-time 12- month, exempt Mission: The Mission of Mercy High School, San Francisco, a Catholic high school, is to educate young women for their expanding roles in society. This education must be formative, not only imparting fundamental skills and knowledge, but also encouraging the development of values that will guide them in their lives. We strive to provide a Christian environment where the following values can be nurtured: love of God, self-esteem, intellectual integrity, independent thought, respect for human rights, compassion for others, dedication to teach, courage to act, and respect for the goods of the Earth. Mercy San Francisco has been sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy since 1952. Summary: The Assistant Head of School for Mission (AHoSfM) is responsible for the integration of the Sisters of Mercy charism and mission in collaboration with the Head of School and other administrators to foster the mission of the school. The AHoSfM has the following direct reports: Directors of Campus Ministry, Community Service, Athletics, Student Life and Counseling. The AHoSfM is an ex officio member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), Academic Council and Head’s Advisory Council.
Major Responsibilities: Oversight and coordination • Campus ministry • Community Service • Diversity & Inclusion • Discipline • Student Activities • School-wide mission integration and vision alignment • External Relations: Work to create sound working relationships with outside communities and organizations especially other Mercy organizations, the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Schools, Mercy initiatives and other Catholic schools and ministries. Collaboration • Organize with other administrators - orientations of parents, new teachers, board members and other stakeholders as well as faculty/staff retreat. • Work closely with the Assistant Head of School for Academics to provide mission inclusive teacher observation and evaluation processes that include the support and practice of the charism and mission of Mercy. • Work closely with the ELT to identify and mentor new leadership within the school. • Assist in the review of the student handbook and other school policies. • Accreditation: Work closely with the Director of Institutional Research to conduct student surveys to measure data with regard to the understanding of the mission of the school. • Teaching: Maybe required to teach up to one section each semester.
Qualifications and Experience: • Knowledge of Mercy charism preferred. • Experience within a Mercy school preferred, Catholic school a must. • Excellent communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills. • Ability to lead, manage and mentor a group of professional staff. • Demonstrated ability to communicate and work effectively with diverse people and communities. • Knowledge of a variety of educational areas, including teacher observation, evaluation, student activities, and school leadership. • High degree of computer literacy. • MA/MEd. required, Ed.D/Ph.D preferred. • Strong commitment to and understanding of charism and the mission of Mercy.
Physical Demands:
Is proficient in liturgical principles.
• Must be able to hear and speak to exchange information in person and on the telephone. • While performing the duties of the job, must be able to sit, stand and walk. • Must be able to operate office equipment including but not limited to computers, copy machines, and telephones. • Must be able to walk or stand up to 2 hours per day. • The employee is occasionally required to stand, stoop or kneel • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Has a thorough understanding of the musical, liturgical, and pastoral judgments which must be made in selecting music for liturgy.
To apply:
Is knowledgeable of and comfortable with Church music literature in all forms and styles for the congregation, choirs (adult, teen, and children), vocalists, and instrumentalists.
Plan and prepare music for all liturgical seasons and occasions.
Send cover letter answering these two questions: • What do you think we should know about you that your resume doesn’t tell us, that indicates why you would be a good fit for this job? • After reading our Mission Statement: Tell us how you align with Mercy’s mission Send resume/CV Provide three references: • Someone who has reported to you • Peer colleague • A direct supervisor
Oversee the choirs, cantors, musicians in liturgical and musical knowledge; conduct rehearsals for ministry at liturgical celebrations.
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Is proficient in keyboard/piano and organ. The Director must be proficient in the use of computer programs, including Power Point. Responsibilities Direct the music at Sunday worship, including Saturday vigil, using keyboard/piano or organ.
Plan and execute music for funeral and wedding liturgies. Participate as a member of the parish staff and Liturgy Committee.
Contact: Reverend Jerome Foley, Pastor – (650) 359-6313
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Ash Wednesday is March 1, and Easter is April 16. Everyone 14 years of age and older is bound to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday, the Fridays of Lent, and Good Friday. Everyone 18 years of age and older but under the age of 60 is also bound to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. On these two days, the law of fast allows only one full meal a day, but does not prohibit taking some food during the day, so long as this does not constitute another full meal. Drinking liquids during the day is permitted. When health or ability to work would be seriously affected, the law does not oblige. In doubt concerning fast or abstinence, a priest assigned to pastor ministry or confessor should be consulted. In the spirit of penance, the faithful should not lightly excuse themselves from this obligation.
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This new title by archdiocesan Deacon William Turrentine, with a forward by Archbishop Cordileone, is available from the Couple to Couple League. The book is a resource for married couples as well as clergy and lay leaders for use in marriage preparation programs. To order call (800) 745-8252, option 1. Free copy for clergy. Visit www.ccli/yls.
SHCP accepts 3 from Oakland school closing
Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco offered admission to three students from St. Elizabeth High School in Oakland, which announced Sept. 9 it would close in June, The Catholic Voice reported. That decision will make the Class of 2017 the last at the 95-year-old St. Elizabeth. It also left 107 students -- freshmen, sophomores and juniors – to find new high schools for fall 2017. A transition plan was made available to students and their families. At the Sept. 9 announcement, families were told that if students met some conditions, families would pay tuition no greater than what they were paying at St. Elizabeth. More than 90 of the students were accepted at other Catholic high schools. The Oakland diocese plans to reopen the site as a Cristo Rey high school in fall 2018.
NFP courses
The Couple to Couple League is sponsoring natural family planning courses in spring, summer and fall, at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco. The spring course starts Feb. 25; summer, May 20; fall, Aug. 19. All times are 2-4:30 p.m. Register at www.ccli.org. Online courses are also available at the same location. Contact Nicole, (623) 810-8232 or nicolehull@ pergmail.com. person
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Left, Dominican Sister Diane Aruda, a religious for 50 years, receives a corsage from Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, director of the Office of Consecrated Life. Center, Presentation Sister Lucia Lodolo, celebrating a 60-year vocation, and Missionary of Charity Sister Maria Concepcion, celebrating 25, bring up the gifts during the Mass. Right, Dominican Sister Sheila Keane, celebrating 70 years, looks over the program for the Mass with another sister.
Consecrated Life Mass: ‘You are the bonfire’ FROM PAGE 1
The Consecrated Life Mass honors all sisters, brothers and priests but pays special homage to those celebrating milestone anniversaries, or jubilees. In 2017, 38 men and women religious celebrate jubilees from 25-70 years representing a total of 2,125 years of service. Sister Dee Myers, BVM, celebrating 60, offered the reflection after Communion, a personal story of her vocation which she linked back to her infanthood when her parish chose her to represent the Christ child as a “live baby” in the church crèche.
Canossian Sister Angela Furia told Catholic San Francisco that her vocation is a 50-year “love story.” She took her final vows in Rome at 19. “It seems like it was yesterday that I said yes to my God,” she said. “Today I am celebrating his faithfulness to me.” She said it’s been a rewarding life, “more than I expected.” Next to her, Salesian Sister Kathleen Gibson nodded and smiled. “I’m very happy and grateful to our Lord for my many graces and blessings,” she said. “My brother once said he had the best brotherin-law in the world,” said Dominican Sister Ann Providence Frassinello, celebrating 50. Sister Ann
was a teacher and is director of religious education for Mission Dolores Academy. Sister Ann said most summers since 1977 she has walked 250 miles from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border to minister to the poor there. The fundraising walk benefitted the Casa de Los Pobres USA, a nonprofit served by Catholic clergy and lay persons. Bishop Justice concluded the Mass with a message of gratitude. “It is an honor for all of us because your life challenges us to remember that we are all called to be of service in the ministry of the church,” he said.
Choir scholarships offered for St. Brigid students When St. Brigid Parish in San Francisco was closed in 1994, St. Mary’s Cathedral clergy started providing pastoral care at St. Brigid School. The relationship between the cathedral and school soon blossomed, leading to the establishment of a choir school at St. Brigid to support strong music curriculum for all students and a superior extracurricular choir program. Students receive voice-based music instruction three to five times a week, leading to a rich understanding and appreciation of music and musical literacy. This curriculum is supplemented with instrumental instruction in grades three and four recorders, and in grades seven and eight hand bells. The St. Brigid School Honor Choir has 52 members in grades three through eight, roughly a quarter of the student body in those grades. They rehearse after school twice a week under the direction of cathedral
music director Christoph Tietze. The choir prepares repertoire from Gregorian chant to contemporary music and sings once or twice a month at the cathedral, at choir festivals, and for special performances. Choir trips in even years alternate between a tour of California Missions and Rome. A chamber choir of 15 members has one additional rehearsal and sings at some of the more important events at the cathedral and elsewhere, many of them with the archbishop. Choir scholarships were established to help choir members afford school tuition. A new program for this year is choir scholarships for incoming students. Scholarships of $2,000 will be awarded to five incoming fifth through eighth graders who commit to being faithful members of the choir and the chamber choir.
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Chinese New Year, Year of the Rooster: Was commemorated with Mass and all pageantry thereto, as pictured here, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Feb. 4. Bishop Ignatius Wang, now retired but born in China and long a priest and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, was principal celebrant and homilist. “The theme of the liturgy is about joy and happiness based on what Jesus proclaimed in the Beatitudes,” Divine Word Father Peter Zhai, a concelebrant at the Mass and director of Chinese ministry for the archdiocese told Catholic San Francisco. A banquet followed the liturgy in the cathedral’s downstairs halls.
Galvan, Good Shepherd Parish; and Mary Kerrigan, Our Lady of Mercy Parish, are pictured at the council’s annual luncheon Jan. 22 at the Olympic Club Lakeside in San Francisco. Fashions were courtesy of Simi Barjesteh of Simi’s of West Portal. Cathleen Mibach serves as council president and Kathryn Parish Reese is commentator.
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Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont: Archbishop Cordileone presided and Orthodox Metropolitan Gerasimos was homilist for solemn vespers on the vigil of the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Belmont Jan. 23. Vespers has alternated between IHM and neighbor Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, this year Jan. 18-25. Especially remembered in prayer were Christians suffering persecution. Pictured from left are: IHM parochial vicar Father Jerome Murphy, IHM pastor Father Lawrence Vaddakan, Orthodox Metropolitan Gerasimos, Archbishop Cordileone, an unidentified cleric, and Holy Cross pastor Father Peter Salmas.
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Sidewalk memorial service: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone led a prayer service in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District on Jan. 27 for Gabriel Ramirez, 61, who was attacked and killed in the middle of the afternoon Jan. 5. The service took place in a bus shelter at Larkin and O’Farrell streets. The archbishop prayed that the city be free of violence and to “soften the hearts of those who attacked Gabriel.” The archbishop sprinkled holy water on the concrete sidewalk. Pictured from left, Archbishop Cordileone; Alma Zamora, archdiocesan restorative justice office; and Grainne O’Brien, wife of the deceased. O’Brien said Ramirez attended Mass at St. Ignatius Church. Many people from the Irish Castle Shop, where Ramirez had many friends, participated in the service.
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Seminarian shares vocation story: Seminarian Jerald Geronimo shared his vocation story at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Jan. 22. The second-year pre-theology student is one of 18 seminarians at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University studying for the priesthood for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
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THURSDAY, FEB. 9 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 28th Avenue at Hacienda, San Mateo, new members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.
SATURDAY, FEB. 11 ‘DAY OF THE SICK’: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist for Mass commemorating “World Day of the Sick,” 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. The logistics of the day are generously handled by men and women of the Order of Malta. Kenneth Ryan, (415) 613-0395; kenmryan@aol.com. HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome. Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865; www.Handicapables.com. PRO-LIFE DEMONSTRATION: Pro-life advocates gather noon-1:30 p.m., Planned Parenthood, 1650 Valencia St., San Francisco, in alliance with people across the nation in support of the effort to defund Planned Parenthood. (408) 840-3297; www.40daysforlife.com/sanfrancisco.
insurance, minimize unethical conflicts of interest, and promote a return to healthy relationships between Catholic patients and doctors; 6 p.m., Star auditorium, Eighth Avenue and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco;.Claire Herrick, director of evangelization and catechesis, (415) 751-0450, ext. 22; claire@ starparish.com; www.starparish.com.
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Morning event of Mass with Gospel Choir, 9 a.m. followed by soul food luncheon and talk from guest speaker, Teresa Moore, USF associate professor of media studies, St. Boniface Parish, 133 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco. Event is free and open to all. (415) 8637515; www.stbonifacesf.org. BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Our Lady of Lourdes Parish and All Hallows Chapel, 410 Hawes at Innes, San Francisco, revival Mass and potluck lunch 10:30 a.m., continuing Feb. 13, 14, 15, 7 p.m. Jesuit Father George Quickley, pastor, St. Patrick Parish, Oakland, revivalist. (415) 285-3377; www.lourdesbayview.org; OLLSanFran@aol.com.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Separated and divorced Catholic ministry in the archdiocese, a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.
HOPEFUL EVENING: Veronica Fruiht and Jeff Bialik with “Hope: A Practice and a Gift,” Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, 7-8:30 p.m. All are welcome. Light refreshments. RSVP CommunityRelations@ sanrafaelop.org; (415) 453-8303; www. sanrafaelop.org.
SATURDAY, FEB. 25 NFP: Three-session courses in natural family planning, 2-4:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco. Register at www.ccli.org. Nicole, (623) 810-8232; nicolehull87@gmail.com. Courses two and three will take place March 25, April 22. 2-DAY SALE: St. Mary Star of the Sea, 180 Harrison Ave., Sausalito, Feb. 25, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Feb. 26, 8 a.m.noon. Inventory includes distinctive, designer clothing, vintage, ethnic, costume jewelry, furniture, handmade pottery. www.starofthesea.us; (415) 332-1765.
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HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon, Marin Catholic High School, Sir. Francis Drake Boulevard at Bon Air Road, Kentfield then lunch in school cafeteria. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome. Cheryl Giurlani, (415) 308-4608; www. Handicapables.com.
HEALTH CARE TALK: Star of the Sea speaker series continues with “Hope for P U B L I C A Catholic Health Care.” Dr. Michel Accad SUNDAY, FEB. 19 speaks about promising developments in health care that aim to reduce costs, reduce dependence on expensive health CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral,
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of Januray HOLY CROSS, COLMA
Carlo Geraldi Tom S. Germano Constance M. Gherardi Stella F. Giusto Raymon E. Agosti Enriqueta P. Godinez Rosario Pabello Albert Josephine A. Graham Angelina Almeida Robert Griffin Paul G. Ang Blaine Harrington Shannon Marie Antonio Lori Anne Hayden Raul E. Aparacio Mary Elizabeth Hayes Eleanor C. Bachle Timothy Joseph Healey Karl William Becker Kevin John Hendrickson Richard Dionisio Berrios Carlos Mauricio Hernandez Independence “Penny” John Hickey Blondo Frances Holme Mary Rose Borg Sister Mary Loretto Hunt, RSM Virginia R. Briones Lucille B. Jackson Frederick Brown Daniel Dana Jackson, III Claire Buckley Mariam Jajeh Rino Bulgarelli, M.D. Herminia Jarumay Ernesto G. Caridad Arturo Jauregui May Amelia Castrillo Margaret A. Jensen Deborah A. Caughman Robert J. Jensen Norina Caviglia Dora E. Jimenez Sr. Bernice Clifford, PBVM Alicia A. Jones Joyce A. Cline Daniel J. Kennedy Jason Christopher Reyes Jozo Krile Collado Rebecca A. Lapuz George T. Cooke Philip G. Lee Eugene P. Covello Joan A. Lee Colleen D’Alessandro Leandro Lewis Gerald D. Davis Charles R. Loza Constance Keenan Davis Marlene Lucero Helene M. Del Bonta Kim Thu Thi Mai-Nguyen Reynald Del Rosario Josephine Ann Marioni Joseph R. Dela Cruz Emma D. Martin Geraldine Dennin Dr. Richard Proctor Doyle, Sr. Catherine C. Martinez Anthony Marvier Jean Capra Duncan Daniel McCarthy Juanita E. Edejer Irene McCarthy Mary Elkington William McCarthy Donald H. Elliot Dijon L. McNaulty Jason A. Erfe William P. Meier Roger Famero Robert Melendez Agnes B. Fee Carmen Menezes Pacita H. Feliciano Marian Mirkovich Peter Joseph Ford Jr. Victorio Molina Joyceda Bode Francis Gloria (Bunny) Moniz Jose Galamay Raul Moreno Lido Galli Teresita Moya Lucila De Guzman Garcia Leo P. Mullin Suzanne M. Garese
Barbara E. Musante Kam Yoon Ng Charlotte M. O’BrienStensvold Paul Jude O’Neill William C. Olinger Patricia A. Oliver Geralyn M. Paris Filemon L. Pascual Alfred Joseph Pereira RoseMarie Pigott Megan Shenon Powers Maria Veronica Pray Arsenio L. Punla Henry Etienne Raab Margoth C. Ramirez Sally X. Remedios Arthur Rendon Kay Edith Richardson Vilma A. Rovillos Eleonor Sabalvaro Albert Salera Raffaele Salvemini Lydia A. San Pascual Dolores J. Sanders Maria Sandoval Antonio Santos James E. Sawyer Joel Villasis Senoran Luis B. Serpas Janette Seruge Connie M. Silva Dora Simenc Theresa V. Siragusa Carolina A. Soriano Michael George Stamatopoulos Terence Michael Sullivan Marie A. Symington Rolando “Rolly” Talao Steven M. Tonkovich Rev. Efrem Trettel, OFM Joseph C. Vargas Ralph L. Varnum Rosina R. Varnum
Max J. Vella Luz Villaruel Zenaida “Aida” Viray Paulette Marie Volonte Molly T. Walsh Henry Williams Dan L. Williams Michael C. Woulfe Flora M. Yeatrakas Michael R. Young Emma Consuelo Zavala Maxilinda R. Zavaleta Colleen Zeisz Uwe L. Zinck
HOLY CROSS, menlo Park Robert J. Callaghan John Gaffney Mary Joanne Gainer Lorraine Delagnes Peterson Kennedy Theresa May Silva Evelyn L. Sullivan Augusta “Gussie” Tarmann
Mt. olivet, san rafael B. Joseph Doyle Margaret L. Doyle Lena D. Fassi Francis Robert Filippi, Sr. Grace M. Gallagher Leonard F. Humphrey Yvonne B. Silva Carol Ann Van Heusen Dorothy Mae “Dottie” West
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