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Pope’s first year marked by ‘real call’ for more pastoral church CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK – Pope Francis “has taken the world by storm” in the year since his election, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said March 13.

“The eyes of the world are on the church. There’s a real call (by the pope) to make us more pastoral, to be able to reach out and accompany Cardinal Dolan people,” he said. “The pope does it the way Jesus said: ‘Don’t just tell people to do something but do it yourself.’”

Archbishop Kurtz and Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York appeared on “CBS This Morning” to talk about the pope as the Catholic Church around the globe marked the first anniversary of his election.

Later, Archbishop Kurtz and Cardinal Dolan, immediate past president of the USCCB, concelebrated Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral to mark the pope’s anniversary.

It was one of many Masses said around the United States in honor of Pope Francis’ first year as the 265th successor of Peter.

In Washington, Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl was the main celebrant at a Mass where he encouraged the congregation to, like Pope Francis, “walk in the footsteps of St. Francis of Assisi as disciples of Jesus who seek to bring his love and hope to others, particularly the poor and neglected in our world.”

“The invitation of Pope Francis to a fresh way of living the Gospel is a bright beacon of hope in our world. Let us simply offer thanks to God for this pastor of souls,” he said.

In New York, the hosts of “CBS This Morning” asked Cardinal Dolan and Archbishop Kurtz if the Catholic Church had gotten the spiritual leader the cardinals expected SEE POPE, PAGE 20

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Following Jesus ‘without losing hope or humor’ Pope Francis rides in a bus with cardinals and bishops at the and of their weeklong Lenten retreat in Ariccia, Italy, March 14. At the end of the retreat, Pope Francis said he and his closest collaborators at the Vatican "want to follow Jesus more closely, without losing hope in his promises and without losing a sense of humor."

Inspired by Eucharist, prisoner initiated into Catholic faith CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A San Quentin prisoner sentenced to life for his role in a double murder when he was just 17 was one of four inmates confirmed by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone Sunday, March 9, at the prison chapel.

In an interview with Catholic San Francisco following the Mass where he and three other men were confirmed and a fifth received first Communion, Kent Wimberly, 52, talked about coming to faith in a prison environment and finding what he’d been looking for where he least expected it – inside the doors of the Catholic Church. His Catholic sponsor, John Grein, 54, a fellow inmate who is also serving a life sentence for murder, joined him for the conversation in the chapel library.

Both men come from Protestant faith communities. Asked what drew them to the Roman Catholic Church, the pair answered in near-unison: “The Eucharist.”

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“I always felt there was so much more to Communion than a purely symbolic gesture,” said Wimberly, who was raised in a Bible-reading, churchgoing Protestant home in San Diego.

Grein grew up Catholic and became an ordained Protestant minister in prison. He returned to the Catholic Church 10 years ago.

The Eucharist “doesn’t just represent the body and blood of Christ,” he said. “It is the body and blood of Christ.”

In 2005, 26 years after Wimberly’s conviction for participating in the Kent Wimberly murder of his best friend’s parents, he said he experienced the assurance of God’s love for the first time while on a Kairos prison ministry retreat at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. He admits that what he had most wanted from the retreat at the time was the attendance certificate SEE CONFIRMED, PAGE 21

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Seventh graders draw Christ’s face for Lenten art project “I run around that room being a cheerleader,” said Kleinhenz, who teaches art once a week to each class at the San Francisco K-8 school. “Art is a form of prayer. I think it is more than just a little picture,” she said. Many students at the beginning of the year “have never picked up a pencil,” and most need encouragement. People ask her, “How do you get them to do that?” Kleinhenz said. Her answer: “I harass them. They go places they don’t know they can go. I tell the principal, ’I try to stay out of their way.’”

Seventh graders at Holy Name of Jesus School worked with art teacher Babs Kleinhenz to create their interpretations of Jesus in the days before he died, and the Shroud of Turin. The images include freeform depictions of Jesus done in black marker, and the shrouds were created on recycled packaging paper with acrylic paint.

After drawing the images freehand in pencil, the students traced their pencil drawing and added detail with black marker, Kleinhenz said. The fifth grade made the Stations of the Cross, she said.

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Young women today are seeking a calling, whether to religious, married or single life, says Mercy Sister Maria Campos.

Sister Maria is a vocation minister for the Sisters of Mercy WestMidwest Community, splitting her time between Burlingame and Sacramento. The longtime teacher’s projects include a just-completed term leading the Samuel Prayer Group – referring to the Old Testament passage where Samuel is called by God – twice a month to young women at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont.

“I have taught them how to do lectio divina praying style,” Sister Maria told Catholic San Francisco.

“We have discussion questions, and then I’ll talk about one aspect of calling. It’s not only to religious life but it’s also to single life or married life, so they’ll have an idea how God calls us. Where are they being called to service? And that takes a period of discernment.”

Sister Maria believes the movement toward a calling “starts very young,” as was indeed true in her case.

“The first time I thought about being a little sister was when my uncle sent me this little doll in the old-fashioned habit,” said Sister Maria, who grew up in Sacramento. “I was about 7 years old.”

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What drew her closer to her eventual calling was reading the Maryknoll magazine her mother used to keep in the house.

She was intrigued by the possibility of becoming a sister working in mission service.

“Anyway I wrote Sister Maria the Maryknoll Campos missionaries at 12,” she said. “Of course I knew I was too young at that point. They told me what I could do to keep the vocation in my heart.”

In high school she dated a boy with her strict parents’ permission and was to marry after graduation. She chose instead to go to Sacramento State University on a music scholarship, but left in her sophomore year to follow “a call from God to give my life to him in service.”

She entered the novitiate in 1972 at 20 and professed full vows five years later.

Sister Maria was a part of National Catholic Sisters Week March 8-14. She and the Mercy sisters’ new membership director, Sister Anne Murphy, connected with students at Mercy High Schools in Burlingame and San Francisco as well as at the Samuel program at Notre Dame de Namur. The theme of the week was that “sisterhood offers a ‘third way’ – an alternative

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With all that is competing for a young woman’s heart, how is Sister Maria able to break through?

“I think they have to be touched by the Lord in their heart,” she said. “That’s the first step. I think young women today are searching.

“I think it’s not just about them being sisters but about helping them search for the love of God and the service of God. It’s about putting them in touch with who God is, and from there they discover …

It’s about commitment: Whatever they choose they can truly live out the values of that life.”

Sister Maria is walking with six women who are in various stages of discerning a calling. They range from 20 to 45 years old. Most of them stepped forward themselves to learn more about religious life.

“I think they’re looking for another way of living,” Sister Maria said. “They are tired of all the materialism in the world, some of them. They want to be simple and they want to pray. They are really looking for community and prayer.”

Contact Sister Maria Campos at mcampos@mercywmw.org or by phone at (650) 340-7438. Visit the Sisters of Mercy online at sistersofmercy.org.

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Women complete all-city Catholic church pilgrimage TOM BURKE

‘This started as a fun thing to do, and we didn’t realize we would actually go to the 44 churches in the city.’

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The new year and Mass at All Hallows Chapel brought a prayerful and powerful end to the San Francisco church pilgrimage begun by Barbara Mason and Carolyn Eriksson at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in 2009.

“It turned out to be one of the most memorable Masses we had attended and, as such, a very fitting ending to our pilgrimage,” the two said in a joint email to Catholic San Francisco.

The two arrived an hour early at All Hallows just as the pastor, Father Dan Carter, was opening the doors.

“He warmly greeted us and encouraged us to stay, talking to us about the history of the parish,” the women said, noting arriving parishioners also sought them out. “Everyone was so friendly – not just in welcoming us, but in greeting one another – that it felt like a family gathering.”

Catholic San Francisco last spoke with Mason, a parishioner of St. Denis, Menlo Park and Eriksson, a parishioner of St. Matthew, San Mateo, in early 2012 when they were about halfway through attending Mass at the approximately 50 churches in San Francisco. The trek began from stories the women read in Catholic San Francisco about the Nuova Porziuncola at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi and people who had made pilgrimages to the tiny church.

“I’m so proud that we finished our pilgrimage, but not surprised,” Mason said. “I believe it was the highlight of both of our lives.”

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Carolyn Eriksson, left, and Barbara Mason had lunch with pastor Msgr. John Talesfore at St. Mary’s Cathedral Jan. 19 to commemorate their pilgrimage to attend Mass at all of the Catholic churches in San Francisco over the last four years.

I had asked the two if quitting the pilgrimage was ever an option.

“Never!” said Eriksson. “In fact, we both felt a sense of sadness as we approached the end of our journey. It had been such an amazing experience that we didn’t want it to end.”

“We learned a lot along the way, and believe we were truly guided

by God,” Mason said. She spoke of Sundays they were headed for St. Elizabeth Church but were

detoured due to traffic problems and incomplete Internet directions. Their destinations became instead Corpus Christi Church in the Excelsior and Potrero Hill’s St. Teresa of Avila. “It happened to be the feast of Corpus Christi and the Mass was a spectacular one, full of pomp and circumstance,” Mason said. “The second Sunday we some-

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“My relationship with God has been strengthened and made even more personal by sharing in the Mass with all the wonderful people we met along the way,” Eriksson said. “We were greeted with such welcoming friendliness by both parishioners and priests that at times I was overwhelmed. Each parish had its own personality and each one touched my heart.”

“This started as a fun thing to do, and we didn’t realize we would actually go to the 44 churches in the city,” Mason said. “However, we derived so much pleasure from it that we looked forward to our monthly Masses.”

“Barbara and I will find another spiritual journey to take in the future, maybe the California missions,” Eriksson said.

Both said they liked the architecture, music and liturgies offered by the city’s churches: “Most of all, though, it was the warmth and friendliness of the people and priests that had the most impact.”

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‘Treasured memories’ go with deacon into retirement TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Ordained in 1990, Deacon Leon Kortenkamp was assigned in 1993 as director of the diaconate for the Archdiocese of San Francisco by Archbishop John R. Quinn. Leon retired from the post last year. Leon and his wife Ginny have been married 47 years and minister at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Belmont.

In a memo to Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone anticipating reDeacon Leon tirement, Leon said: “I leave with Kortenkamp many treasured memories of the inspirational lay people, sisters, brothers, deacons, deacons’ wives, priests, bishops and archbishops I have come to know over the years. Ginny and I treasure our time in ministry with you all, and we look forward to staying in touch in the years to come.”

Leon grew up in Iowa and graduated from Loras College in Dubuque, later earning a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame.

In 1971 the Kortenkamp family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Leon joined the faculty of Notre Dame High School, Belmont and later Notre Dame de Namur University, where he still teaches in the fine art department part-time.

“I served as diaconate director for just over 20 years,” Leon told me in an email interview. “My predecessor was the dear Sister Hilda McGinnis.”

Sister Hilda was a Daughter of Charity taken by cancer. She is remembered for her tender heart and ministry wisdom.

“During retirement I hope to continue diaconal ministry, painting and writing, as I have for years, and I will be using the immediate months ahead as a time of discernment regarding new involvements and new ministries,” Leon said.

In his note to Archbishop Cordileone, Leon said: “It has been a grace and a privilege to be part of the archdiocesan diaconate community and to serve the archdiocese as diaconate director. For this I am deeply grateful.”

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Easter triduum in extraordinary form to be celebrated at Star of the Sea CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A Canadian priest will travel to California specifically to celebrate the Easter triduum in the extraordinary form at Star of the Sea Parish this year, bringing the traditional Latin Mass liturgies of Holy Week and Easter to San Francisco for the first time in 50 years.

Canadian Father Paul Nicholson was invited to celebrate the Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil liturgies because of his deep knowledge of the extraordinary Father Paul form liturgies for the triduum, Nicholson said Anna Guerra of the Traditional Latin Mass Society.

Father Nicholson will celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 5 p.m. on April 17, the Good Friday liturgy at 6:30 p.m. and Easter Vigil at 11:30 p.m.

At the request of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Star of the Sea pastor Father Mark Mazza recently learned how to celebrate the extraordinary form and celebrates both daily and Sunday Mass in the older form of the Roman rite as well as Mass in English.

During Lent, the Geary Boulevard church will offer confessions every Friday at 6 p.m. followed by traditional Stations of the Cross using the meditations of St. Alphonsus Liguori, Guerra said. A light soup supper will follow stations each Friday, sponsored by different parish organizations.

Father Nicholson was appointed by London, Canada, Bishop Ronald P. Fabbro as the “missionary preacher of the new evangelization” in July

ARCHDIOCESAN RESPECT LIFE COORDINATOR ON NEW CATHOLIC TV SHOW

Archdiocese of San Francisco respect life coordinator Vicki Evans will be one of the inaugural interviews on “Truth & Lies,” a new interview show on the new satellite TV channel Shalom World TV, which launches April 27. She will be interviewed on topics including abortion for fetal disability, assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Based in Edinburg, Texas with studios in Rancho Cordova, “Shalom World TV – God’s Own Channel” is a satellite, commercial free, high definition English language television network with the goal “to reach out to the world with the truth of Christ.”

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2013 he explained in an email and noted he blogs at fatherpaulnicholson.com.

“The rich fruit of the liturgical renewal of the Second Vatican Council springs from a venerable old tree of the extraordinary form of the Mass. The triduum in the extraordinary form is a bit intimidating but by no means alien,” Father Nicholson wrote. “I hope that those who participate in the sacred triduum according to the older books will come to a deeper spirit of contemplation in the

ordinary life, and experience an abiding presence of the timelessness of God.” The renewed presence of the traditional Latin Mass at Star of the Sea and elsewhere in the Archdiocese of San Francisco has drawn the attention of Eternal Word Television Network, according to the Traditional Latin Mass website and EWTN will be interviewing Archbishop Cordileone and Star pastor Father Mark Mazza during a visit to San Francisco March 21-23.

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Marin Knights campaign to replace clinic’s ultrasound machine CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Jim Quinn, a parishioner at Our Lady of Loretto Church in Novato, is leading a Marin County Knights of Columbus fundraising effort to replace Marin Pregnancy Clinic’s aging ultrasound machine this spring with a new one at an estimated cost of $25,000.

Quinn and other pro-life supporters, including the clinic’s director, say the technology is an Jim Quinn effective deterrent to abortion. “Ultrasound is like a ‘window to the womb’ for pregnant women,� said clinic director Robin Strom. “Women almost always change their minds about aborting when they see their child on the ultrasound machine and can see it is alive.�

The clinic performs eight to 10 scans a month at its downtown Novato location and offers free prenatal care to women regardless of ability to pay.

Purchasing a new machine, which Quinn says has a lifespan of five to seven years, is out of the question for a clinic that relies on donations to survive. “It can hardly afford to get a new ultrasound machine,� Quinn said.

Quinn, who is the Deputy Grand Knight of the Our Lady of Loretto Council 3950, has rallied the support of Marin County’s two other Knights councils – St. Raphael’s Council 1292 and St. Michael’s of Marin Council 10530 –- in the fundrais-

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Knight of Columbus Jim Quinn is pictured at St. Hilary School in Tiburon with the school’s “Get Some, Give Some� group, which is raising money to help the Knights purchase a new ultrasound machine for Marin Pregnancy Clinic. ing effort. On April 26 the Marin councils will hold a joint fundraising dinner at Tunstead Hall in San Anselmo.

The Supreme Council of Knights in New Haven, Conn., will match every dollar raised by the Marin councils for the ultrasound purchase.

Quinn said the match makes the goal of $12,500 reachable. “We’re hoping we can make our goal in just one night,� he said.

The Knights of Columbus has helped purchase more than 400 ultrasound machines nationwide through the same matching-funds initiative Quinn is talking up in parishes and schools around Marin County.

On March 12, Quinn visited St. Hilary School in

Tiburon to talk to sixth, seventh and eighth graders involved in the school’s charitable “Get Some, Give Some� program. The “good works� program was conceived five years ago by a former student who wanted to do more than just be grateful for her good fortune. “Being a Christian without putting our faith into action is not really being a follower of Jesus,� he told the 50 or so students, who, like Quinn, will be raising awareness and money for the ultrasound initiative in their own free time.

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Lawmakers invite pope to address Congress CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan invitation to Pope Francis to address a joint session of Congress if he comes to the U.S. in 2015 recognizes “the importance of the qualities” the pontiff embodies that resonate with people around the globe, said Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington.

Those qualities include “a desire for peace, care for the poor, and an ability to bring people together to address the needs of the suffering and marginalized,” the cardinal said in a statement March 13, the first anniversary of the pope’s election.

“These are values that our broken world is so in need of at this moment in history. I am grateful to Congress for acknowledging the universal appeal of Pope Francis’ message with this invitation,” he added.

Earlier in the day House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, issued a formal,

WHITE HOUSE PRESSURED ON DEPORTATIONS

WASHINGTON – As frustration grows over the lack of progress on immigration reform and protests about the high number of deportations become more widespread and dramatic, President Barack Obama March 13 and 14 told activists he would consider ways to ease the effects of strict enforcement.

The announcement came as immigrants facing deportation have been waging hunger strikes in detention centers and religious leaders, immigrants and other activists have been partici-

open invitation to the pontiff to address a joint meeting of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate as a visiting head of state. “(It) would honor our nation in keeping with the best traditions of our democratic institutions,” Boehner said in a statement. “It would also offer an excellent Cardinal Wuerl opportunity for the American people as well as the nations of the world to hear his message in full.”

There has been speculation that Pope Francis will come to the U.S. in September 2015 to attend the last day of the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, but there has been no official confirmation the pope will be there.

Past popes have attended the final day of the gathering.

Boehner, who is Catholic, issued the pating in advocacy campaigns involving fasting, prayer and public actions.

Meanwhile, the House passed two bills aimed at reining in the kind of administrative steps Obama might take.

In a meeting at the White House with congressional Hispanic leaders March 13, Obama said he would ask Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to “do an inventory” of current practices related to deportation and “see how it can conduct enforcement more humanely within the confines of the law,” said a readout on the session from the White House.

formal invitation to the pope as the constitutional officer of Congress. News reports said he sent it to the Vatican.

If he were to agree to address American lawmakers in Congress, Pope Francis would be the first pontiff to ever address from the U.S. Capitol, according to Boehner aides.

Boehner said that in the last year, the pope’s actions and words, especially about human dignity, freedom and social justice, “have prompted careful reflection and vigorous dialogue among people of all ideologies and religious views in the United States and throughout a rapidly changing world.”

On March 7 in Philadelphia, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput led a news conference with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter to announce they planned to lead a delegation March 24-26 to meet with Vatican officials to plan the 2015 international family gathering. They also will have an audience with Pope Francis.

The three leaders vowed to personally convince the pontiff to make his first pastoral visit in North America to the city for the conclusion of what will be the eighth World Meeting of Families.

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In the face of repentance, he said, “the justice of God is transformed into mercy and forgiveness.”

Pope Francis told his small congregation, “It’s true that none of us has killed anyone, but we have done many little things, many daily sins every day,” and when one realizes that every sin is a sin against God, it’s a cause for shame.

“It is simple,” he said, “but very difficult to say, ‘I have sinned.’”

GET A POCKET BIBLE, READ IT DURING YOUR COMMUTE, POPE SAYS

ROME – If you get a seat on a crowded bus, you should use your travel time to read a few lines from the Bible, Pope Francis told members of a suburban parish filled with people who commute to Rome for work.

“A Christian’s first task is to listen to the word of God, to listen to Jesus, because he speaks to us and saves us with his word,” the Pope Francis pope said March 16 during a homily at the parish of Santa Maria dell’Orazione on the northeast outskirts of Rome.

Everyone should carry a small Bible or pocket edition of the Gospels and should find at least a few minutes every day to read the word of God, Pope Francis said.

The pope suggested a bus-ride reading of the Gospels, when possible, “because many times on the bus we’re packed in and have to maintain our balance and defend our pockets” from pickpockets, he said.

“But when you have a seat” on the bus or a minute or so free somewhere else, “pick up the Gospel and read a few words.”

SOME AUSTRALIAN BISHOPS SUGGEST RESTORING YEAR-ROUND FRIDAY ABSTINENCE

PERTH, Australia – Several Australian bishops said they would support re-establishment of yearround Friday abstinence in Australia, following the lead of England and Wales.

Auxiliary Bishop Peter Elliott of Melbourne, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett of Lismore and Bishop

Michael Kennedy of Armidale are among prelates who said they support Friday abstinence from meat – without sanction of sin – almost 30 years after it became noncompulsory in Australia.

In 2011, the Catholic bishops of England and Wales restored Friday abstinence.

Friday penance regulations in England and Wales were relaxed in 1985, as they were in Australia, allowing Catholics to perform an alternative form of penance. U.S. bishops ended obligatory abstinence in 1966.

Looking back at the decision to end Friday abstinence in Australia, Bishop Elliott said it was a “big pastoral and spiritual mistake.”

“I can understand why that happened, in the mood of that era, but I believe it failed to take into account human psychology,” he said.

UNDERGROUND BISHOP OF SHANGHAI DIES AT 96

HONG KONG – Bishop Joseph Fan Zhongliang of Shanghai, a prominent leader of China’s underground Catholic Community, died after a brief illness March 16 at his home. He was 96.

Bishop Fan, like many other Catholic leaders, served in prison after he and other priests were arrested in 1955 during a government crackdown. From 1958 to 1978, Bishop Fan was imprisoned in QinBishop Fan ghai province, where his job was to carry corpses in a cemetery, reported the Asian church news portal ucanews.com.

China’s estimated 10 million-12 million Catholics are divided between two communities: one that, for decades, remained underground because it did not accept compromises and political control after the Chinese communist takeover in the 1950s, and one that the Vatican has acknowledged accepted some compromises and political control in order to continue its existence. Both are faithful to the pope, and both have faced persecution from Chinese authorities.

Anthony Lam Sui-ki, senior researcher at the Holy Spirit Study Center in Hong Kong, said young priests, even those from the so-called open church community, often met with Bishop Fan before they were ordained. Shanghai has lost a “steadfast and persevering” leader in Bishop Fan, he said.

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In Argentine shanties, priests live like the sheep they shepherd DAVID AGREN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

JOSE LEON SUAREZ, Argentina – The doors used to stay shuttered on Our Lady of the Miracle chapel in a shantytown on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, opening only on Saturdays for catechism classes and Sundays for a single, sparsely attended service.

Nowadays, the chapel opens early and stays late, offering everything from a safe place for kids to play soccer to packed Sunday services. It also provides a community center and spiritual home for oftenstigmatized shanty dwellers, whose neighborhoods are known as “Las Villas de Miseria,” or “Misery Villages.”

“It embarrassed me to go to church,” said Sebastiana Solabarrieta, who volunteers in the chapel’s Caritas clothing bank. “Now, everyone is here.”

Churchgoers like Solabarrieta credit Father Jose Maria di Paola, pastor at the chapel, with bringing people back to Catholicism over the past year in Villa La Carcova, where evangelical groups had gained ground and problems like poverty and drugs persist.

But Father di Paola – famous in Buenos Aires as “Padre Pepe” for his work with the downtrodden and drug addicts – and his fellow “curas villeros” (shanty priests) provide an example of the “poor church” of which Pope Francis speaks, in which priests leave their parishes to provide pastoral attention to people on the periphery.

The priests have become an institution in metropolitan Buenos Aires, where former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio made them his foot soldiers in implementing his vision of a church serving society and priests being “shepherds living with the smell of sheep.”

Father di Paola identifies with the pope’s description of pastors being close to the people: He, like others in the area, lives in a wooden home with no water.

“Previously, those working in the villas came from outside. You were in a parish and you would go to the nearby villas for a visit. Now, we live in the villas,” said Father di Paola.

“The reality is that you share experiences with the people like just another neighbor. You do all the

(CNS PHOTO/DAVID AGREN)

Father Jose Maria di Paola, well-known in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as “Padre Pepe,” poses for a photo March 12. church’s work from inside the barrio, not from the outside.”

He attributes his closeness to the community as the reason for renewal at Our Lady of the Miracle, where, during a recent visit, youth goofed off while waiting for their group to gather, catechism instructors sipped mate and lawyers from nearby Buenos Aires offered pro bono legal advice.

Church members seemed to agree with Father di Paola.

“This to me was ...” said Angelica Benitez, who gestured, unable to express her amazement that a priest would live in a house like hers, but without steel security bars.

“People feel more included with Pepe. Previously they felt a little neglected,” said Romina Ledesma, a catechism instructor.

Priests have been in the villas since the first shanties were formed by people from the provinces seeking opportunities in the capital, although they weren’t always well seen by the government, in part because their presence was seen as legitimizing squatters’ activities.

In 1974 Father Carlos Mugica, whom Father di Paola considers an inspiration, was murdered, presumably by an anti-communist group, after celebrating Mass.

Pope Francis acted out of genuine concern for the poor, although the presence of priests in the villas has achieved other objectives, such as slowing the growth of evangelical groups, Father di Paola said.

“He thinks that in the mouths of the poor, you’ll find the Gospel,” Father di Paola said of the pope. “He doesn’t see the poor person as someone who only has to be helped, but someone who can teach you a lot.”

But the pope also had political reasons for putting his priests in the villas. He often clashed with a federal government promoting populist programs to the poor, but whose ministers lived lavishly.

“It was political message to the government: I have my best priests living with the poor. Your ministers live in Puerto Madero,” a wealthy Buenos Aires neighborhood, said Jose Maria Poirier, publisher of Criterio magazine.

“The poor have a lot of faith. It’s beautiful as a pastor to experience,” he said.

The priests in the villas have their parishes, but expand their outreach by opening chapels in as many areas as possible. Many of the chapels are named for patronesses of neighboring countries, and priests adjust their practices as villa residents often arrive in Buenos Aires from places such as Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru.

“Villa residents are often immigrants. (They) find their identities in keeping the cultures of their places of origin,” said Father Carlos “Charly” Olivero, also a priest at Our Lady of Caacupe Parish.

“That culture ... is Catholic, which turns them toward the church,” he said.

Priests also address local problems by running addiction and accompaniment programs and organizing everything from English lessons to food and clothing banks.

The villeros’ model is based in faith, but it makes both spiritual and material improvements in people’s lives, Father di Paola said. “We showed that religion isn’t the opium of the people. It’s a way to transform society.”

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‘I will rest only in heaven’: Retired priests continue to serve long past 70 VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the retirement age for priests is 70—if they are ready to step down from active ministry.

Few – if any – actually stop. “We retire in the coffin,� said 90-year-old Salesian Father Mario Rosso, an Italian who was a priest in Shanghai under both the Japanese occupation and the Communist Chinese takeover, then spent more than 40 years teaching seminarians in Macau and Hong Kong. He came to Sts. Peter and Paul Parish to minister to Chinese parishioners in 2005, his second stint at the parish. “I work and I am happy to work,� said Father Rosso, director of the Chinese apostolate at the North Beach parish in San Francisco.

Father Francis Filice, 91, is in residence at Nazareth House in San Rafael, an assisted living and care facility run by the Sisters of Nazareth. He uses a cane or a walker for balance and has to look closely at his phone to press the numbers because his eyesight is failing.

Nevertheless, the former University of San Francisco biology professor, widowed father of six, and priest in Tijuana, Mexico, for five years, still

Father Jim MacDonald enjoys the blessed quiet of retirement but still says two Masses on Sundays at local parishes.

Father Francis Filice says at 91 he treasures the little things more.

Father Filice still walks to St. Isabella to celebrate Mass.

helps out, saying Mass at nearby St. Isabella Church.

How does he get there? He walks the two-thirds of a mile to the church. “St. John Bosco used to say, ‘I will only rest in heaven,’� said Sts. Peter and Paul pastor Salesian Father John Itzaina, noting that the Salesians, unlike the archdiocesan priests, do not have a set retirement age.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that the sacrament of holy orders confers “an indelible spiritual character� – in other words, a priest is a priest forever.

Msgr. Joseph Sullivan is chaplain at Nazareth House. He says aging brings “a keener appreciation of where you’re going.�

Nevertheless, as priests get older, whether archdiocesan or members of religious orders, most men eventually step back from active ministry, leaving formal positions to be “in residence.� For many that is a blessed time that allows more quiet, more time for reading, prayer and for exploring the outdoors. “As you get older, you get a different focus,� said Msgr. Joseph P. Sullivan, ordained in 1953. He is in residence and the chaplain of Nazareth House. “It’s a very pleasant focus. It creates its own desire.

You have a keener appreciation of

Salesian Father Mario Rosso, 90, is director of the Chinese apostolate at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish.

where you’re going,� said Msgr. Sullivan, 86. “I’m more content with small things,� said Father Filice.

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PRIESTS: Clergy continue to serve long past 70, some into their 90s FROM PAGE 10

freshing it is after 45 years to wake up in the morning and not think of anything,” said Msgr. Arcamo, who is in residence at St. Cecilia Parish, celebrating daily Mass at the Sunset church and Sunday Masses at other parishes in the area.

“We really live in a community,” said Msgr. Arcamo, who appears the picture of health but battles Msgr. Floro a couple of chronic Arcamo health problems.

Msgr. Arcamo is also called upon to officiate at weddings for his numerous nieces and nephews – he was one of 10 children raised in the province of Bohol. He was one of the now disbanded Singing Priests of San Francisco, and still sings on occasion, most recently teaming up with some of his Filipino priest buddies for a fundraiser for earthquake and typhoon relief for the Philippines. “I was always and I still am happy as a priest,” Msgr.

Arcamo said.

Father James MacDonald graduated with a bachelor of arts in history from University of San Francisco in 1961, and now – at almost 75 – he has much more time to read history and theology, to hike, socialize with friends, go to Giants games and finally to travel, he said. “I believe in the idea that spirituality is integration of your prayer, your study, your recreation and also good

(PHOTO COURTESY STS. PETER AND PAUL PARISH)

The Salesian parish of Sts. Peter and Paul has four priests in their 90s among the seven priests at the parish. From left: Salesian Father Armand Oliveri, 93; Father Austin Conterno, 98; Father Mario Rosso, 90; Father Paul Maniscalco, 98.

(PHOTO COURTESY PATRICK GEE/ STS. PETER AND PAUL PARISH)

Salesian Father Austin Conterno blesses Father Thien Nguyen at his ordination as a Salesian priest of Don Bosco May 24, 2012, at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish. exercise,” said Father MacDonald, an enthusiastic hiker who currently is reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer-prize-winning “The Bully

Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.”

Father MacDonald lives alone in an apartment on a courtyard in San Mateo, celebrates Sunday Masses at St. Catherine of Siena in Burlingame and Immaculate Heart of Mary in Belmont. He doesn’t rule out returning to live in a parish or a priests’ retirement home eventually. For now, after decades as pastor of busy parishes including St. Agnes in San Francisco, St. Pius in Redwood City, Immaculate Heart of Mary in Belmont and Mater Dolorosa in South San Francisco, Father MacDonald said that he is happy to leave behind him the stresses of administration and raising money.

He is, he said, enjoying this “third act.”

At 98, Salesian Father Austin Conterno – known as “Father Count” – still hears confessions, “of course.”

He leans on the altar a bit for support to concelebrate the 9 a.m. weekday Mass at Sts. Peter and Paul

Church, and during Sunday Mass.

He doesn’t celebrate the Mass alone anymore, he said, because he has trouble with the steps on the altar.

“Time goes by fast,” said Father Conterno of his days, which include morning prayer with the other priests, Mass, often a short nap around 11 a.m., lunch, an afternoon walk and “helping around.”

One of six children, Father Conterno was raised on a farm in Turin, Italy. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was 15, and he ended up leaving the diocesan seminary to come home, later entering the Salesians at 20. He never looked back, he said. The Salesians sent him to America before World War II broke out. In the U.S., he taught and administered Salesian schools, and was pastor at various parishes.

He retired from active ministry in 1995. As Salesians “our mission is working with the young,” said Father Conterno. Of his vocation to the priesthood, he said: “You just feel called.”

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Today Sister Mary Anita lives a quiet life in a room tucked in a corner of Marian Oaks Life Center, the West Midwest Sisters of Mercy assisted living home in Burlingame. Her comfortable chair with a table piled with dog eared books is its centerpiece. She uses an electric scooter, her “grey jaguar,” when she wants to venture out even on to the corridor. Her 23-year-old knee replacements

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have given out. Arthritis has affected every joint in her body.

The medical traumas didn’t stop her active life.

She was a nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco and began a licensed vocational nurse program there. Seeing the great need for vocational nursing at San Quentin State Prison, she began a program to train licensed vocational nurses at the prison, the first in the state.

She knew the experience of losing a job and being uprooted to a new one. She was transferred from the LVN Program which she established at the prison to fill in as administrator at Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield when the sister administrator was ill.

“It was painful to leave a meaningful experience,” she admits. “I wasn’t in charge. That was a big loss.” In those days, women religious had nothing to say about the ministries they served or where they were to live. Policies changed with Vatican II, and Sister Anita chose to get a degree in counseling from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1983. She began years of counseling at the Women’s Recovery Association in Burlingame, followed by a position as liaison for her own sisters. In that role she helped them make decisions about their lives – what new ministry to begin, whether to go back to school, how to deal with an illness.

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LESSONS: Sister says dealing with loss is aging’s central challenge FROM PAGE 12

Years ago she realized that retirement is a stage that must be planned for. “When we think back to our school years, we know that we had to plan to prepare for high school, college and work we wanted to do,” she said. “When it comes time for retirement (another part of life), where are the plans?”

Financial planning is important, but she points out that that more significant planning rests on accepting loss of all kinds. “Only by learning how to recognize and process losses will the negative feelings associated with loss be converted to the positive realization that every loss is the offering of a gift … No amount of gold will take the place of doing one’s own interior work …”

“This is the most important part of my journey,” she said quietly. “I am perfectly happy. I don’t know what I could need. It is most difficult – losses

associated with aging being irreversible. There’s no going back now. I feel gifted to be able to recognize God’s hand. I love the silence – not just like it – I need it. You know, you can almost hear silence. It is healing. ” In a 2013 article in the journal of the Mercy Association of Spirituality and Theology, she wrote describing her call and the potential call for others: “Old age is a special call and not everyone gets it. Who receives this special call is not for us to decide.

But our part is to prepare for the call, accept it, and live it in its fullness.

Remember old age is a part of life. It is up to each person to prepare and decide how she will answer that call.

You don’t want to be like the lady who died at age 40 years but wasn’t buried until she was 80 years. Old age is meant to be lived.”

Sister Anita recommends “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr (John Wiley, 2011).

When needs change, we’re ready.

Pope reaches out to elderly Editor’s note: A hallmark of Pope Francis’ pontificate has been his inclusion of the elderly in the church’s mandate to protect the dignity and sanctity of life. In Rome Dec. 8, 2013, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, he prayed that people would never be indifferent to the cries of the poor, the suffering of the sick, the loneliness of the elderly and the fragility of children. “May every human life always be loved and venerated by all of us,” he prayed. Here are more recent examples of the pope’s pastoral outreach to the elderly.

ANOINTING BRINGS HEALING PRESENCE

VATICAN CITY – Never hesitate to call a priest to bless and anoint sick or elderly family members, Pope Francis said Feb. 26 during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square.

“Some people worry receiving the sacrament of the anointing of the sick “brings bad luck” and “the hearse will come next,” the pope said.

“This is not true!”

The sacrament brings Jesus closer to those in need, strengthening their faith and hope, he said.

Continuing a series of audience talks on the sacraments, Pope Francis focused on the sacrament of the anointing of the sick, which, along with the prayer of the priest, expresses God’s mercy and presence to those who are sick, suffering and elderly.

Formerly known as extreme unction or “the last rites,” it had once been seen as a ritual only for those who were in danger of or at the point of death. A more expanded use to provide spiritual strength and healing for the sick and elderly was promoted by the Second Vatican Council.

BY TAKING CARE OF ELDERS, FAMILIES SHOW WORLD ALL LIFE HAS VALUE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said the worst thing about growing old is not becoming weaker or infirm, but the “abandonment, the exclusion, the deprivation of love” in today’s “throwaway culture.” His remarks came in a written message sent to bioethicists, scientists, health care professionals, religious, theologians

and other experts attending the Pontifical Academy for Life’s Feb. 20-21 workshop on “Aging and Disability.”

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

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

The elderly are particularly affected by this trend of exclusion, especially if they are ill, disabled or vulnerable in other ways, he wrote: “The loss of health and having a disability are never a good reason for exclusion or, worse, eliminating a person.”

ELDERLY CAN BE FAMILIES’ ‘HIDDEN EXILES’

VATICAN CITY – Just as people must never ignore the plight of today’s immigrants and refugees, they must also remember today’s “hidden exiles” – the elderly and other relatives who are abandoned or forgotten by their own families, Pope Francis said.

“One sign for knowing how a family is doing is to see how they treat children and their elderly” relatives, the pope said at his noon blessing at the Vatican Dec. 29, 2013, the feast of the Holy Family.

Remembering how Jesus, Mary and Joseph had to live in exile, seeking escape in Egypt, Christians must also think about the tragedy of “migrants and refugees who are victims of rejection and exploitation, who are victims of human trafficking and slave labor,” he said before praying the Angelus with visitors gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

“But let us also think about the other ‘exiled,’ I would call them the ‘hidden exiles,’ those exiled by their own family: the elderly, for example, who sometimes are treated as a burden,” he said.

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Ignatian service ministry for retirees expanding to St. Agnes Parish ABOUT COMPANIONS IN IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY

NICK SCALES

Last June, after completing my first year with Ignatian companions, I realized that the experience had added a whole new level of meaning and purpose to my life after retirement. What an incredible opportunity for growth and learning. I know that I am making a difference.

Over the past six years, retired Catholics in Santa Clara County and the East Bay have joined Companions in Ignatian Spirituality and Service, a program that integrates spiritual growth with volunteering with the poor. Next September, the Ignatian Spiritual Life Center at St Agnes Parish in San Francisco will host Ignatian companions for retired San Francisco women and men.

Companions in Ignatian Spirituality and Service was launched six year ago at the University of Santa Clara. It is modeled on the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, which focuses on young men and women just graduated from college who devote one year directly serving the poor and marginalized. Companions, however, is organized over a 10-month period from September to June to integrate with seniors’ lifestyles rather than require a full-time commitment.

A typical companions “class” consists of 10 to 15 people who meet one Saturday morning a month with a facilitator to discuss and share their stories and experiences of spiritual growth and service during the previous month. The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius have been adapted so that companions experience and participate in them over the

The program invites retirees to integrate spiritual growth with volunteering for the poor.

A typical companions ‘class’ consists of 10 to 15 people who meet one Saturday a month, with a facilitator, over a 10-month term from September through June.

Companions commit to at least six hours a week working with the poor and marginalized.

More than 75 senior women and men serve as companions in the Bay Area.

(PHOTO COURTESY NICK SCALES)

For more information, please visit www. ignatiancompanions.org or contact the program director at ignatiancompanions@gmail.com.

Nick Scales, upper right, volunteers at the Missionaries of Charity’s “dinner service” at Cesar Chavez Street and Highway 101 in San Francisco. He is a member of Companions in Ignatian Spirituality and Service, a ministry for retirees who commit to volunteering to serve the poor.

10-month term. Between retreats the companions spend time daily with an assigned portion of the exercise materials as well as developing a personal program of prayer and meditation. A monthly meeting with a spiritual director of their own choosing deepens the opportunity for spiritual growth.

A key element of the companions experience is an individual commitment to devote at least six hours a week working directly with the poor and marginalized. Companions has developed a local list of charities and service organizations to assist participants in finding volunteer opportunities that suit their interests and gifts. Over the years participants have served in prison ministry, provided meals to shut-ins

and homeless, worked in counseling centers, tutored underprivileged children, furnished hospice care and a wide range of other ministries.

Many of these have resulted in ongoing personal association and longterm commitment with the many charitable organizations.

The various elements of Ignatian companions; the spiritual exercises, daily prayer and meditation, working face-to-face with the poor on a regular basis, and the companionship of our monthly retreats, all act to leverage one another. At the end of the first year my companions “class” all knew that we had experienced substantial spiritual growth and were eager to continue.

Companions was originally created as a one-year program for

participants. However, people completing the first year didn’t want to leave, so the groups have continued to meet, pray and serve year after year. There are now over 75 senior women and men actively engaged as companions in the Bay Area.

Pope Francis has said, “Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.” Companions in Ignatian Spirituality and Service is an outstanding platform for retired San Francisco women and men to respond to that call.

SCALES, a parishioner at St. Agnes Parish, San Francisco, volunteers for the Missionaries of Charity and the St. Vincent de Paul Society in San Rafael.

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Volunteer transforms cancer centers into works of art LIDIA WASOWICZ

"One of my most favorite examples of following our Lord is to ‘sweep the path.'

Don’t look for the glory or the accolades, just quietly do what needs to be done."

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Convinced that a spoonful of visual sugar helps the medicine go down, lifelong volunteer Nancy Ballard turns dreary cancer centers into delightful works of art.

The undertaking – the latest of outreach projects spanning more than four decades – got off the ground in May 2011 when Ballard peeked into a depressing chemotherapy room, broke into tears and decided to give it a makeover.

Since then, the 62-year-old botanical artist has spruced up a dozen of clinics, hospitals and doctors’ offices with the pro bono help of hundreds of designers, decorators, painters, muralists, photographers, carpenters and vendors.

To those undergoing exhausting, hours-long treatments “the difference between a gray, dull, tech-oriented room and one with uplifting colors, gentle lighting and thoughtful details can be profound,” said Ballard, founder and executive director of Rooms That Rock 4 Chemo.

The nonprofit’s first overhaul turned the standard-issue hematology-oncology office at 3838 California St. into a standout.

“The before-and-after contrast was amazing,” said Nora Werner, an oncology nurse at the facility. “Just what the doctor ordered to take the edge off the chemo treatment.”

Oncologist Dr. Kevin Knopf, Rooms That Rock 4 Chemo vice president, noted “a complete and total improvement in the healing that happens in our office.”

Once uniformly nondescript, each of the seven revamped rooms bears its decorator’s imprint on color scheme and theme. Stenciled tulips cascade down a sun-yellow façade. Seashells and starfish pop off sea-green backdrops. Metallic dragonflies alight on creamy walls, ledges and a custom made lamp. Leaf-shaped coat hooks shimmer on the door. A book titled “Believe” beckons on the windowsill.

“In my wildest dreams, I had no idea when I started that two and a half years later, these transformations would impact 785,000 patient visits per year!” said Ballard, winner of a 2012 Jefferson Award for outstanding volunteerism.

The group has redecorated 100 rooms at Marin and San Francisco general hospitals, Sequoia

NANCY BALLARD

Lifelong volunteer Nancy Ballard founded Rooms That Rock 4 Chemo, a nonprofit that transforms cancer facilities “into safe, tranquil, lovely and healing environments.” She is shown at the first site she transformed, a hematology/oncology clinic at 3838 California St. Hospital in Redwood City and other U.S. and international centers.

“It’s difficult enough not knowing what to expect from your body, but being stuck in a cold, drab cubicle for five hours didn’t help,” said Julie Dye, who received the first “frightening” round of chemotherapy for her uterine carcinosarcoma last year at Camden Clark Medical Center in Parkersburg, W. Va. By round two, Ballard and team had “worked their magic” on the cancer ward.

“The difference was just unbelievable,” Dye recalled.

The renovations cost as much as $60,000. Ballard asks for an administrative fee of $5,000.

“If it cannot be paid, we do it anyway as we did in San Salvador twice,” she said. “They asked me to come, saying their chemo rooms were worse than a prison. How could we not?”

In 2014, the nonprofit plans to “rock” Seton

Medical Center in Daly City and St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco, among others.

Ballard’s philanthropic passion derives from her faith-filled family and schooling.

The fourth of eight children found inspiration in her maternal grandmother, who joined a convent after her husband’s death and spent years helping the poor in Mexico, and her cousin, the late Bishop Carlos Riu of Cuba, “a true angel.”

Ballard began her nonstop volunteering upon her 1969 graduation from Cathedral High School, now Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.

“My Catholic education has influenced me in giving back throughout my life,” said Ballard, who has served teenage unwed mothers, dementia groups, Alzheimer’s patients, children on dialysis and hospitalized babies.

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Not only Francis but also past popes have lessons for young KATHERINE TALALAS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The producers of Canada’s Catholic TV channel, Salt + Light, visited The Catholic University of America Feb. 27 with a special message for youth and young adult leaders. While Pope Francis has been extraordinarily popular among millennials, past popes also have lessons to share — and their example can help win young souls for Christ.

Basilian Father Thomas M. Rosica, CEO of Salt + Light, and producers Sebastian Gomes and Cheridan Sanders spoke to a group of students on “The Significance of Messages and Contributions of John XXIII, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis to Youth/Young Adult Ministry.”

Each speaker shared four lessons that youth and young adult ministers could take from each pope.

Gomes spoke about Blessed John XXIII, whom many compare to Pope Francis. Born into poverty, he had great compassion for the poor. Most of all, “he sought to be like the saints and care for souls,” Gomes said.

Four lessons from Blessed John XXIII

1. He showed young Catholics the value of slowly progressing in holiness. Blessed John XXIII’s diary, “Journey of a Soul,” documents his daily struggles with pride, gossip, and failure in his prayer life. Said Gomes, “a lot of people are searching, and we give them this idea that Christianity is a light-bulb moment.” Blessed John reminds us that faith is a journey, and that individuals can gradually grow into holiness.

2. He was devoted to dialogue and reconciliation with people of diverse backgrounds and faiths. While serving as an apostolic delegate representing the church in several non-Catholic countries, Blessed John XXIII encountered beliefs and traditions that most Catholics had never heard of. He was eager to engage people of all faiths, and was the first pope to address an encyclical to “all people of goodwill,” rather than specifically to Catholics.

3. Blessed John XXIII had a great love of history.

“History is a gift, but also a reference book,” said Gomes. The pope was passionate about history and was determined to learn from the past. As Catholics, we have tremendous history to draw from, which can guide us and strengthen our witness to others.

4. His example helps us to move beyond political categories. Labels such as “liberal” or “conservative” are limiting for Catholic believers, and can even be

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destructive. Blessed John XXIII did not fit into either category. “It is really only the great conservatives who can make progressive decisions,” Gomes noted.

Father Rosica discussed the legacy of Blessed John Paul II, whom he had known personally through his work for World Youth Day. This pope’s famous love and sympathy for young people made him a champion for youth ministers.

Four lessons from Blessed John Paul II

1. He focused on the centrality of Jesus Christ. According to Father Rosica, his papacy could be summed up with a simple statement: “God is rich in mercy.”

The most important goal of youth and young adult ministry is to guide young people to Christ, and his mercy is available to all.

2. He reaffirmed the meaning of orthodoxy. “Orthodoxy must go hand in hand with orthopraxy,” explained Father Rosica. “Christianity requires corresponding behavior for beliefs.” Youth and young adult ministers must support Catholics in living their faith — even when obeying Catholic doctrine distinguishes them from their peers.

3. He provided an authentic example of individual holiness. Blessed John Paul II is universally remembered as a deeply holy man. He believed that “holiness has many faces from all corners of the world,” says Father Rosica, and deeply respected holiness in others.

4. He was an excellent example of forgiveness.

Famously, he forgave his assassin. Many Catholics remember how Blessed John Paul II visited with and extended compassion to the man who tried to kill him.

Cheridan Sanders spoke about retired Pope Benedict XVI, whose intelligence and reason make him a powerful guide for young people seeking the truth. Sanders unpacked the generalization that Pope Benedict was “the conservative pope,” or “the pope of aesthetics.” “This does not really explain him,” Sanders said.

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

Four lessons from Pope Benedict

1. He had a deep and profound sense of awe.

Though we live in a cynical age, gratitude and wonder open our eyes to God. “Pope Benedict loved created order, the environment, all human life, and beauty,” said Sanders. “Awe puts us in the right relationship with God, which makes us receptive to his revelations.”

2. He was a student of life. “Even though Benedict was one of the most brilliant people in the world, he knew he didn’t have all the answers,” Sanders said.

Pope Benedict respected reason, including the reason of those with whom he disagreed. Most of all, he was a curious person who enjoyed learning from others.

3. He was gentle in correction. While Pope Benedict “was engaging and loved the world, he also wanted what was best for it,” Sanders said. He was unafraid to correct errors in thinking, albeit gently.

4. He had great humility. Sanders reminded youth ministers that Pope Benedict’s goodbye address had a profound lesson for them: “If you are unable to do something anymore, the Holy Spirit will find someone who can.” While not always successful, Pope Benedict had a strong spirit of reconciliation, as shown by his outreach to critics of the church, including the Society of St. Pius X. On April 27, the feast of Divine Mercy, Pope Francis will canonize Blessed John XXIII and Blessed John Paul II in ceremonies in Rome.

This article was posted on the Catholic News Service blog March 10.

The Catholic parish in the 21st century

illanova University’s Center for Church Management and Business Ethics celebrated its 10th anniversary in early March by hosting a oneday seminar on campus in cooperation with CARA (the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate), which marked FATHER WILLIAM its 50th year of J. BYRON, SJ service to the church.

CARA has been in various locations in the Washington, D.C., area over the years; it is now a free-standing entity at (but not of) Georgetown University.

As those familiar with university life know, any academic with a good idea, letterhead and a file cabinet can initiate a center for the study of just about anything. Chuck Zech, a professor of economics at Villanova, saw the need a decade ago for research into what might be called “best practices” that would enable church organizations to function more efficiently, ethically and productively.

He started conducting that research. He also convinced the dean of the Villanova School of Business that there is a market for a master’s de-

gree program (predominantly online) in church management. Both activities – instructional and research – are underway; a year or so ago the center added business ethics to its program.

Full disclosure prompts me to mention that I serve on the Villanova center’s advisory council. In that capacity, I was invited to participate in the joint seminar celebrating the milestones.

Under the heading of “The Catholic Parish in the 21st Century,” these two rather well-kept secrets in the life of the American church provided a stimulating program for about 200 church types, clergy and lay, on the challenges and opportunities facing the church in the immediate future.

Melissa Cidade, of CARA, gave an enlightening presentation on the demographics and diversity associated with the American church today.

Her colleague, Mark Gray, addressed the challenges and opportunities associated with Catholic schools and the sacraments. He prompted me to wonder, in view of the downturn in Catholic elementary school enrollment, whether any Catholics in future years will realize that guardian angels are not citizen patrols but celestial companions who can be relied upon for protection and guidance.

Jesuit Father Thomas Gaunt, CARA’s executive director, outlined CARA’s approach to research design and financial support.

Professor Zech gave specifics about stewardship and the uses and abuses of parish finances. He had predicted, not long after the clergy sexual abuse scandal rocked the church more than a decade ago, that disclosures of financial fraud and embezzlement would soon surface as a troubling issue. He was right.

Keynoting the conference was Father Michael White, a pastor in suburban Baltimore who has tripled weekend attendance at his parish.

He highlighted three keys to growth for the Catholic parish in the years ahead. They are: music, message (the homily) and ministers (welcoming ministers when worshippers arrive and parking-lot facilitators who ease their arrivals). It struck me that a forth “m” needs attention – the meal.

We are there to remember the Lord in the breaking of the bread. We become one in the one loaf and the one cup, which are ours to share. We need more effective catechesis on the meaning of that meal.

There is no question of the need of better music and improved homilies.

But without deeper understanding of the Eucharist, we could wind up with mega-parishes and malnourished parishioners.

JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Email wbyron@sju.edu.

LETTERS Irish-famine curriculum a worthy cause

Re "Parishioner campaigns to include Irish famine in state curriculum," March 14: I was glad to read of John O’Riordan’s goal to include the Irish famine in our state curriculum. This is a worthy cause. If he needs more assistance, please publish that with contact info so we can pitch in.

Many people, even of Irish descent, have only a vague idea from our grandparents of what the penal laws did to their people during British occupation.

If you’ll Google the penal laws, formally the “laws in Ireland for the suppression of popery,” you’ll see blatant genocide, with no attempt to conceal it.

Kathleen (McLaughlin) Asaro Foster City

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 21, 2014

A bishop for all Californians BROTHER LAWRENCE SCRIVANI, SM

An occasional series marking the birth bicentennial of Joseph Sadoc Alemany, the Spanish-born Dominican missionary priest who served as the first archbishop of San Francisco (1853-1884).

Ever wonder why the 49ers football team is called that? The reason dates to the Gold Rush days. In 1848 on Jan. 24 gold was found at Coloma. By the end of 1849, 90,000 people had descended on California. These 90,000 were the original Forty-Niners.

When Joseph Alemany arrived in December 1850 to be Bishop of Monterey, he was late to the party but not the last to arrive. By the end of the Gold Rush in 1852, the newcomers totaled 240,000.

When the Catholics at St. Francis Church in San Francisco greeted Alemany, he addressed them in English, Spanish and French but among them were people from every continent including even China. He described them as a “strange blending of races.”

To assess the situation facing him he embarked one week after his arrival on a pastoral visit that kept him traveling for the next 76 days. During the winter months he covered about 1,700 miles – 700 by land, 1,000 by water.

From Los Angeles to Sacramento he preached, administered the sacraments and learned many things.

At Santa Barbara Mission, the last holdout of the Franciscans, the old missionaries told him that the mission ranches were really the property of the Indians and that the churches, quadrangles, cemeteries, orchards and vineyards were the property of the Catholic Church.

Further, they told him that all these had been seized and sold illegally by the last Mexican governor Pio Pico. But when the American army came, Gen. Stephen W. Kearney had ordered that the churches were to remain in

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A week after his arrival as bishop of Monterey, Joseph Sadoc Alemany embarked on a 76-day pastoral tour, meeting former mission Indians along the way. Above, “Old Gabriel” is documented to have lived more than 120 years and saw Father Junipero Serra as a boy.

the possession of the priests until the federal courts could sort out the matter of Pio Pico’s seizures. But the matter had yet to reach the courts.

Near Santa Barbara, Alemany blessed a chapel for ex-mission Indians at a rancho they used to own called San Xavier. He was surprised when 200 Indians living there in tule huts fell to their knees to receive his blessing.

Alemany saw with sadness the dilapidated condition of the old missions along Camino Real and learned that the falling away from the faith during the 1840s among the old Catholics had resulted from clergy scandals. In Monterey, the nominal seat of the diocese, he discovered that there was no clergy residence. He truly had no bed to call his own.

The scattered miners’ camps in the Sierra beyond Sacramento recalled to him his years of riding circuit in western Tennessee. He devised a plan for reaching these neglected people. He selected central sites from which a resident priest could ride circuit for a 50-mile radius serving the scattered Catholic miners. When spring came he sent the few available priests to the mines.

Alemany consulted legal opinion about the best way to regain title to the ex-mission churches. In July he blessed the new St. Francis Church in San Francisco and designated it his “pro-cathedral.” He now had at least an address.

Gone was his apprehension about what he was to do. The moral vacuum of Gold Rush society led him to see that he must be bishop to all Californians regardless of their religion. He would show them that the Gospel is the only sure basis on which to build a society of lasting value.

What had the pope said to him in Rome? “Do not ponder over what to say or do for the Lord will direct you at the proper time.”

MARIANIST BROTHER LAWRENCE SCRIVANI lives in Cupertino. His email is scrirani@juno.com.

What dark nights do for us

fter Mother Teresa died, her diaries revealed something that shocked many people, namely, during the last 60 years of her life, from age 27 until she died at age 87, she struggled to imagine that God existed and had no affective experience of either the person or the existence of God. Yet, during all those years, everything in her life incarnated and radiated an exceptional, one-in-a-hundred-million, selflessness, altruism and faith commitment.

On the surface this might seem incongruous, even FATHER RON contradictory; but those ROLHEISER two things, her feeling that God was absent and her exceptional selflessness, are not unconnected. The opposite. The latter depends precisely upon the former; her inability to feel God affectively, the dryness of her faith experience, the dark night that enveloped her, were precisely the reason her faith was so pure and her actions were so selfless. In short, with all affective feelings gone and with her imagination helpless to create images of God and a concept of God’s existence, she was no longer able to manipulate her experience of God and reshape it to fit her own needs. She had to receive God on God’s own terms, not on her terms.

The very dryness of her faith was what made it so pure. The seeming absence of God also helped assure the absence of her own ego.

To more fully appreciate what is being said here it can be helpful to contrast Mother Teresa, both in the barrenness of her experience of faith and the effect this had on her life, with countless popular religious figures, past and present, who, sadly, too frequently radiate the

God corrects our proclivity to create a God who works for our self-interest by sending us, as he did to Mother Teresa, crushing dark nights of the soul. exact opposite. They boast of a robust, affective faith, declaring again and again how real God is in their lives and how deeply they sense the presence of Jesus. And indeed there is no reason to doubt their sincerity and honesty; a genuine fervor does flow out of them. But, unlike Mother Teresa, both their preaching and their own lives often exhibit far too much ego, narcissism, projection and manipulation of God and religion for their own benefit. Without being cruel, it is fair to say that we, and indeed the whole world, never much confuse many of our popular religious preachers and writers with Mother Teresa. We see in their religious fervor far too much of themselves and how their religious experience benefit them. The irony is that they, so many popular religious preachers and writers, boast of a much stronger faith than did Mother Teresa, but their experience of God translates far less altruistically into their lives.

Ludwig Feuerbach and Friedrich Nietzsche have written perhaps the most penetrating critique that has yet been written on religion and religious experience. Their theory is that all religious experience is ultimately human projection, that we create God in our own image and likeness, and that we then use that image of God for our own benefit. For them, all religious experience is ultimately self-created for our own benefit. In their view, inside of all religious experience there is always an element of manipulation, rationalization, and dishonesty, although the person having the experience is blind to that

fact. He or she is convinced that God is somehow dictating what is happening inside his or her soul, when in fact it is mostly self-interest that is dictating what is happening inside the soul, and that is why we so commonly see that distressing discrepancy between the religious fervor inside so many of us and the self-interest that is ultimately served by that religiosity.

What’s to be said about this? My guess is that Nietzsche and Feuerbach are 95 percent correct.

However they are 5 percent wrong and that 5 percent makes all the difference. The evidence suggests that 95 percent of the time we do manipulate our experience of God to serve our own interests. However, God arranges things so that we cannot do this all the time. God corrects our proclivity to create a God who works for our self-interest by sending us, as he did to Mother Teresa, crushing dark nights of the soul, namely, periods of imaginative and affective dryness within which we simply are unable to imagine and affectively feel either God’s existence or God’s love for us. While we continue to somehow “know” God at a deeper level, our imaginations and our emotions run out of gas, completely.

And when this happens, we find ourselves powerless to manipulate our experience of God in any way – and certainly not to work it for our own benefit. God can then flow into us purely, with our egos, narcissism, and selfishness now unable to color the experience.

Leonard Cohen coined this now-famous line: “There is a crack in everything, but that’s how the light gets in!” Since we cannot resist habitually manipulating our faith and religious experience to make it work for our own benefit, God eventually puts a stop to it. As he did with Mother Teresa, God sends us crushing dark nights that purify us, in spite of ourselves.

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

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SUNDAY READINGS

Third Sunday of Lent ‘I know that the Messiah is coming, the one called the Christ; when he comes, he will tell us everything.’

JOHN 4:5-15, 19B-26, 39A, 40-42 EXODUS 17:3-7 In those days, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why did you ever make us leave Egypt?

Was it just to have us die here of thirst with our children and our livestock?” So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? a little more and they will stone me!” The Lord answered Moses, “Go over there in front of the people along with some of the elders of Israel, holding in your hand, as you go, the staff with which you struck the river. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for the people to drink.”

This Moses did, in the presence of the elders of Israel. The place was called Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled there and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord in our midst or not?”

PSALM 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord; let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation. Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalms to him.

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the Lord who made us. For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Oh, that today you would hear his voice: “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the desert,

Where your fathers tempted me; they tested me though they had seen my works.”

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

ROMANS 5:1-2, 5-8 Brothers and sisters: Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For Christ, while we were still helpless, died at the appointed time for the ungodly. Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good person one might even find courage to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

JOHN 4:5-15, 19B-26, 39A, 40-42 Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink, ‘you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to

him, “Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where then can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?” Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water. “I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain; but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.” Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him. God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming, the one called the Christ; when he comes, he will tell us everything.”

Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking with you.” Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him. When the Samaritans came to him, they invited him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. Many more began to believe in him because of his word, and they said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of your word; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world.”

At the springs of living water

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better than anything I’ve ever had in my entire life. I’m sure anyone who’s ever worked outside on a hot day knows exactly what I’m talking about. The feel of that fresh, cool liquid going down my throat was unbelievable. It brought me back to life. After drinking my fill, I knew that I was going to make it, no matter how tough it got.

In this week’s Gospel story of the woman at the well, we hear Jesus describe himself so very beautifully as the living water. Just as that water energized me and my fellow soldiers at Fort Benning, Jesus now does the same for all of humanity.

He satisfies our thirst, gives us strength, keeps us going. Truly the living water, Jesus comes into a world which is often empty and parched and fills it with abundance and plenty.

It’s water that many of us desperately need. Life can often seem like that exercise pit back at Fort Benning. No matter how hard we try, we’re frequently left gasping as the world knocks us for a loop. When we look to society to quench our thirst, we often find only more dust and dryness.

But as we see today, right in the middle of this scorched desert, we discover this pool, this spring, of living water. We find Jesus. He revives us with hope, optimism, faith and the truth. He reminds us, as we drink him in, that we’re not a greedy, self-

ish, sinful people, but a good and holy people. He reminds us, as he fills us up, that success is not found in financial statements or won-loss records, but in our hearts and the love we have for God and each other. He reminds us, as he washes over us, that it’s not about domination, control, and power, but humility, forgiveness and courage.

At different times, we’ll find that living water in different places and different ways, but it’s always right there, waiting to renew us. Perhaps we feel all used up, hopeless and drained, but are revitalized as we experience Jesus in the Eucharist. Perhaps we’re overcome with despair at our violent world, then are renewed with hope when we experience Jesus in the truth of Scripture, hearing him tell us that blessed are the peacemakers, that we must love our enemies, that the meek will inherit the earth. Perhaps we’re in pain because we’ve lost someone close to us, but then experience the risen Jesus in family and friends, and rejoice because we now realize that love defeats even death. We drink the living water, we bathe in the living water, and if we let him, he will cure us and heal us and make us whole.

MONDAY, MARCH 24: Monday of the Third Week of Lent. 2 KGS 5:1-15ab. PS 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4. LK 4:2430.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26: Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent. DT 4:1, 5-9. PS 147:12-13, 15-16, 1920. MT 5:17-19.

FRIDAY, MARCH 28: Friday of the Third Week of Lent. HOS 14:2-10. PS 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14 and 17. MK 12:28-34.

TUESDAY, MARCH 25: Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. IS 7:10-14; 8:10. PS 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 11. HEB 10:4-10. LK 1:26-38.

THURSDAY, MARCH 27: Thursday of the Third Week of Lent. JER 7:23-28. PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9. LK 11:1423.

SATURDAY, MARCH 29: Saturday of the Third Week of Lent. HOS 6:1-6. PS 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21ab. LK 18:9-14.

ne of the places where I served in the Army many years ago was Fort Benning, Ga. From the Army’s perspective, it had everything one looks for in an infantry post: dirt, sand, mountains, snakes and swamps. It made for great training, but I wouldn’t want to live there.

What really got to me was the heat. Walk outside, and that wet, oppressive heat just rolled over you and sucked the life out of you. Not wanting to waste this wonderful weather, every afternoon the Army would send us into this big pit, filled with sawdust, to do physical training. After a few minutes of assorted exercises, we’d be covered with sweat and dirt, choking on DEACON MICHAEL the bugs and the dust, hardly able to breathe. My throat got MURPHY so dry and parched I thought I was going to die.

After awhile, the sergeants took pity on us and marched us over to a big tanker truck that dispensed water. That water tasted

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

DEACON MURPHY serves at St. Charles Parish, San Carlos, and teaches religion at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.

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Inner voice: A Lenten spiritual reflection “How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.”

ELISABETH KÜBLER-ROSS, Swiss-born psychiatrist (1926-2004)

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Reflection

n “Saint Joan,” George Bernard Shaw’s play, Joan of Arc insists that she hears “voices.” Those in authority are angry and annoyed by her claim.

At one point, Joan says, “I hear voices telling me what to do. They come from God.” Robert de Baudricourt, a military officer, counters, saying, “They come from your imagination,” to which she replies, “Of course. That is how the messages of God come to us.” At another juncture, King Charles, interrogating her, is exasperated: “Oh, your voices, your voices.

Why don’t the voices come to FATHER CHARLES me? I am king, not you.” Joan PUTHOTA replies, “They do come to you; but you do not hear them. You have not sat in the field in the evening listening for them. When the Angelus rings you cross yourself and have done with it; but if you prayed from your heart, and listened to the thrilling of the bells in the air after they stop ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I do.”

Like Joan, everyone is endowed with not only a voice through which we can speak our words to others but also an inner voice that speaks to us in the depths of our being. No one can deny the reality of this voice. There are many who are not even aware that such a voice is part of their inner self. They are unaware largely because of the many competing and conflicting voices that drown out the still, silent voice. In Joan, the voices from God and the saints spoke in total harmony. She was only a very young woman, unsophisticated in worldly ways, but as the religious and secular powers stood arrayed against her, trying to berate and bully her into silence, she would rather listen to the voices in her heart; she would not be intimidated by the forces she knew clearly wanted to suppress her voices. Branded as a heretic, she was burned at the stake. But the truth

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can never be silenced. Truth always speaks humbly, even silently, but most eloquently and irresistibly.

Many of us are unable to heed the inner voice because of the din constantly distracting us. How can we hear the symphony when there is cacophony?

The soft, soul-uplifting music gets pummeled by the heavy, jarring noise. The tender, gentle inner voice is attacked by other harsh, raucous voices. In the process, it is forcibly silenced with the result that we think mistakenly that there is no voice within us to whisper the truth, breathe hope, and to throw light.

Anxieties and worries are some of those voices that subvert the inner voice. They speak so loudly that the inner voice struggles hard to speak its truth.

They put down the divine voice in us and try to take over our lives, plunging us into further darkness and chaos. If we are able to discern the inner voice in the midst of our anxieties, then we will know the way out. How true it is that, as we go through our daily lives, worries fill our soul, dragging us into a deep dungeon where we cannot possibly hear the subtle voice that speaks clarity and strength! Jesus speaks of the birds of the air and the lilies of the field as he persuades us not to drown in anxieties and worries.

The birds listen to their inner voice. That is why they are able to fly high in the sky, gliding effortlessly on the wind, pouring out their soul in song that makes nature swoon in rapturous adoration. The lilies too listen to their inner voice. That is why they burst forth in such dazzling white, challenging even the sun for splendor.

Many of us are victims of our past. The hurts of our past speak so clamorously that we have become accustomed to not listening to the voice within. The inner voice tries to persuade us that there is nothing to be done about our past, except that we can learn lessons from it. We cannot soar above life’s trifles if the dead weight of the past is tied to our feet. Sometimes, even the good things of the past can speak too loudly for us to hear the inner voice. Because we think our present cannot be as good as our past, we are unable to plunge into what God wants us to do here and now.

The sad and the good of the past can become suppressing voices in us as they blunt the effect of the voice that shows how we must proceed and what to choose if we have to find happiness and peace.

When we do good things, we feel that something clicks inside. Some fragmented part of our self is put back together where it belongs. This is not a superficial feeling that evaporates like some infatuation or

fancy. That crystal clear feeling is the inner voice that says that we are on the right track when we do a good thing. It may be a good, comforting word; a kind, compassionate deed; a loving, non-judgmental thought.

When we are engaged in such life-expanding activities, the inner voice lets us know that we are moving in the direction of love–-and truly on the path toward God.When we do the opposite of these, the inner voice lets us know as well. When we make judgments about others or think of ourselves superior to them or when we impute motives to others’ words and deeds uncharitably or when we wallow in self-pity and pessimism, the inner voice tells us, if we have the sensitivity to listen to it, that something inside of us is fragmenting; that a little part of our inner self has just become sick. Without the aid of this inner voice, we will continue such unhealthy thoughts with impunity. Thanks to this voice, we are jolted to take a good look at our thoughts and see where they lead us.

The inner voice may be called by various names: conscience, truth, still small voice, intuition, God’s voice, the moral compass, interior motivator, inner light (as for Quakers), internal navigation, a welcome “tyrant” (as for Gandhi). Whatever the name, the reality is inside of us, showing us the right path, alerting us to the wrong choices, comforting us when we are in the right direction, disturbing us when we stray from loving and happy ways. If we can listen to this inner voice, we will know when to go forth into the unknown fearlessly, as the geese do, no matter what the risks may be, how dark and dangerous the journey, how oppressive the heat, how strong the winds. The inner voice will ground us in God. What can harm us when we are enfolded in the warm wings of God himself ?

Action

As you go through your day, become sensitive to the inner voice that may console or confront you.

Also, become aware of those other voices that try to strangle the divine voice within. Is it work, wealth, or property? Is it some nagging worry, a debilitating fear, a ghost from the past? Whatever this alien voice may be, try to phase it out, as far as possible, so you can let the divine voice speak clearly and boldly.

You’ll then emerge as a whole new being, full of life and energy. Let the season of Lent be an occasion for you to rediscover your inner voice.

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

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in electing then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to be pope.

“I think we knew what we were getting because we elected him,” Cardinal Dolan said, but the surprise might be how in just one year he has led the church “so successfully, so effectively, so expeditiously,” he added.

“He’s just been a great role model,” Archbishop Kurtz added.

One of the CBS hosts noted that Pope Francis has tried to deflect the media attention being paid to him as some kind of superstar and that he just wants to be seen as “a normal person.”

In response, Cardinal Dolan said: “I think the more simple he wants to be, the more sincere he wants to be, the more natural he wants to be, the more himself he wants to be – and all of that is as genuine as can be – the more his popularity and esteem goes up.”

“Now that shouldn’t surprise us, because that’s the Gospel. Jesus told us when we get rid of pomp and prestige, power and clout, people are going to love you and accept you more and that’s happening with him,” the cardinal continued, “so his very ability to put the attention and the spotlight somewhere else, has only intensified” it on him.

Archbishop Kurtz added: “In many ways he puts the attention on the person in front of him, and people love that. Don’t we all love to be noticed?”

Asked if church doctrine is going to change under Pope Francis, Cardinal Dolan and Archbishop Kurtz both replied that it cannot change, but also urged people to understand there will be a change in pastoral strategy. “(Pope Francis) ... says over and over again, ‘I’m a son of the church,’ and his responsibility is to preserve and hand on timeless teachings of the church,” the archbishop said.

Asked if church doctrine is going to change under Pope Francis, Cardinal Dolan and Archbishop Kurtz both replied that it cannot change, but also urged people to understand there will be a change in pastoral strategy.

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Cardinal Dolan added: “Doctrine itself can’t

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CONFIRMED: Inspired by Eucharist, prisoner initiated into Catholic faith

“Sometimes we are ridiculed by staff and fellow inmates who say ‘you had to go to prison to find Jesus,’” he said. “But they have come across too many phonies and cons in their lives.”

Wimberly said an upright Christian walk is the best way to witness his faith inside the prison or on the outside, where he hopes to be soon.

San Quentin spokesman Lt. Sam Robinson said the California Board of Prison Hearings found Wimberly suitable for parole last year but the governor rejected the board’s decision, “citing several concerns he had with inmate Wimberly's history.” The board declared Wimberly suitable again last week and the governor has 150 days to review.

Wimberly said immediately becoming part of a Catholic community and living a life of discipleship will be critical for his new life outside prison.

“You can’t be a Catholic all by yourself,” he said.

“That’s why they call it the universal church.”

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that could improve his chance of parole. He got the certificate and more.

A Zen Buddhist at the time, Wimberly was nonetheless open to the possibility of an encounter with God. He recalled sitting motionless with his eyes closed and asking God to reveal himself if he was “for real.”

He said he sensed a tiny dot of light near him grow larger and brighter until, he said, “it filled me up so much I literally thought I was about to die.”

“The way I see it, I received a pinhole vision of heaven,” Wimberly said. “I met Christ that day.”

Given his upbringing, Wimberly said his inclination at that point was to connect with a prison community with a “fundamentalist bent.” He finished Bible college, taught Bible classes and thought he was content until he got an impromptu invitation to meet someone at the prison’s chapel and was talked into attending Mass for the first time.

“It just felt like it was where I was supposed to be,” he said.

He was moved to San Quentin last year and credits prison chaplain Jesuit Father George Williams for allowing him to participate in the community even though he knew he wasn’t Catholic. “I had no intention of getting confirmed,” he said.

After checking out some catechism books at the prison library, Wimberly decided to commit to the path of Catholic initiation.

“I had always identified myself as a Protestant,” he said. He finished the catechism and asked himself, “What exactly am I protesting?” He realized he was a “Protestant practicing Catholicism” and decided the Catholic Church is where he wanted to be. Soon after, Grein became his sponsor.

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How Catholicism changed a former white supremacist REVIEWED BY DAVID GIBSON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“RACE WITH THE DEVIL: MY JOURNEY FROM RACIAL HATRED TO RATIONAL LOVE” BY JOSEPH PEARCE. St. Benedict Press (Charlotte, N.C., 2013). 249 pp., $22.95.

“I am not writing a biography but a conversion story,” Joseph Pearce explains in his new book, “Race With the Devil.” His was a Christian conversion in the strict sense that it represented a full turnaround of his life.

A Catholic today, Pearce during his teens became a white supremacist in England, devoting his talents then and in his early 20s to promoting racism.

“I was a leading member of the National Front, a white supremacist organization that demanded the forced removal of all nonwhites from the United Kingdom,” he says.

Pearce was imprisoned twice for publishing material “deemed likely to incite racial hatred.” By the time of his second conviction at age 24, however, the seeds of his conversion were germinating “deep inside” him.

Over the course of three years following his prison release, the journey leading to his 1989 reception into the church slowly unfolded.

While “Race With the Devil” is not a biography per se, much about it is biographical. Before telling of Pearce’s “purgatorial ascent from racial hatred to rational love,” the book follows his “downward path from childhood innocence into the infernal bowels of a hate-filled youth.”

Inescapably, therefore, the book is about his life: his experiences growing up; people who played roles in his life for better and for worse; his goals at various points in time; his assessments of society; his roles now as husband, father and writer.

What I found of considerable interest in “Race

With the Devil” were Pearce’s attempts to give an accounting of the path he gradually discovered that led him to the church.

No doubt, there is an element of mystery in every conversion. It is said, after all, that God can write straight with crooked lines. Pearce affirms that God can mold “the most unpromising of clay.”

Given the mystery of God’s presence, it cannot be easy to give an accounting of the factors that prompt a person to turn away from one consuming way of living and thinking, and instead to take up the ways of Christian faith.

Pearce concluded over time that his powers of reason alone did not explain his conversion. “A process of healing coincided with the engagement with reason, a healing process that was not contrary to reason but was necessary to it,” he says.

Three occasions described in the book reveal that Pearce virtually was startled to attention by the goodness of individuals who acted selflessly on his behalf, individuals who might have disdained him or ignored his needs. In such individuals he noticed a “charm of goodness.”

On one occasion a policeman somewhat surprisingly agreed to lend a bit of money to him, which the youthful Pearce promised to repay. Pearce comments: “How different was the heart of this one good man from my own cankered heart, filled with the hatred of my neighbor and the misery it causes.”

His discovery of G.K. Chesterton’s writings came as “an unexpected surprise” for Pearce. “I can still remember the thrill that I received when reading Chesterton’s political philosophy for the first time,” Pearce informs readers.

In Chesterton, a 20th-century British writer and intellectual who himself became a Catholic, Pearce found “a new friend who would become the most powerful influence (under grace)” on his “personal and intellectual development over the following years.”

Pearce was to publish a biography of Chesterton in 1996. A biography of the British Catholic writer Hilaire Belloc, a contemporary of Chesterton’s, also is counted among Pearce’s numerous writing credits, as is a book on the life and Catholic faith of J.R.R. Tolkien, author of “The Lord of the Rings.”

Conversion stories like Pearce’s do not end with a person’s reception into the church. Entering the church concludes one stage of a faith journey while at once marking a new beginning in a journey that, I assume, lasts a lifetime.

Today Pearce is 53. I cannot help but wonder if, perhaps 10 or 15 years hence, he might write yet again of his conversion and, in the process, continue to cast light on what “conversion” truly means.

Pearce says: “The journey is not yet over. Life is a perilous quest, and I am still very much on it.

I have my dragons to face and my sins to be forgiven.”

His first confession cleansed him of his “numerous past sins,” he says, but it “did not remove” his responsibility “to make amends for all the damage” they caused.

Today, the church’s sacramental life “is at the very heart of my own life,” Pearce states. He acknowledges, though, that reception into the church did not mean becoming “a saint overnight.” He then adds: “I am, however, making progress. My soul, like the soul of every one of life’s pilgrims, is a work in progress.”

GIBSON was the founding editor of Origins, Catholic News Service’s documentary service. He retired in 2007 after holding that post for 36 years.

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OAKLAND MASS, TALK COMMEMORATE ROMERO

The Oakland Catholic Worker will host a liturgy concelebrated by Oakland Bishop Michael Barber in memory of the 34th anniversary of the martyred San Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero. The bilingual Mass will take place Sunday, March 23, at 1:30 p.m. at 4848 International Blvd., Oakland, with concelebrants Father Alexander Castillo, Bishop Barber’s secretary; Jesuit Father Eduardo Fernandez of the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley; and Father George Alengadon of St. Joseph Basilica, Alameda.

On March 21 at 7 p.m., the Oakland Catholic Worker will host an evening discussion on “The Message of Msgr. Romero: A Conversation About its Meaning Today.” The evening will begin with dinner at 6

followed by a discussion facilitated by Chepe Zavala.

Translation into English will be available.

Archbishop Romero was assassinated March 24, 1980, while presiding at a hospital chapel liturgy two days after having delivered a sermon condemning violence against the poor, the church and other organizations by the Salvadoran government. Since his installation in 1978, Archbishop Romero had walked more closely with the persecuted people of El Salvador as they faced growing threats and escalating violence by El Salvador’s U.S.-backed government and the nation’s economic elite.

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A REBEL WITH A CAUSE

As we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and Irish heritage this month, we find a bit of Irish history resting in the green fields of Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma.

Thomas Desmond was an Irish immigrant living in San Francisco in the 1870s when he learned of the story of six Irish prisoners being held in Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Irish supporters in the United States were working to raise money for the purchase of a whaling ship to be used to rescue the prisoners. The whaling ship was called the Catalpa and the story of the escape has been memorialized in books, plays, documentaries and songs.

Tom Desmond sailed to Australia and took part in the daring rescue: securing carriages to transport the men from the prison, coordinating the cutting of telegraph lines to prevent word of the escape from reaching authorities, and ferrying the men to the Catalpa waiting offshore. The men were successfully rescued on Easter Monday (April 17), 1876. Tom Desmond returned to

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“Youth, Wake up!” is the theme of the April 4 Catholic Charismatic Youth Mass and Healing Service at Church of the Epiphany, San Francisco, with a special emphasis on the Filipino teen saint Pedro Calunsgod.

St. Pedro, canonized Oct. 21, 2012, was a catechist from the Philippines who was martyred in Guam in 1672 with Spanish Jesuit Father Diego Luis de San Vitores.

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San Francisco where he was later elected sheriff and continued to be active in support of Irish concerns.

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Catalpa expedition, a memorial was erected at his resting place in Holy Cross.

Cemetery Corner is an occasional feature highlighting notable figures buried at Holy Cross Cemetery. It is compiled by Monica Williams, archdiocesan cemeteries director.

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Among the youth groups participating will be Junior Apostolate for Christ, Youth for Christ, The Lord’s Flock New Generation, and BLD or Bukas Loop sa Diyos Youth Ministry. Also sponsoring the event will be the Epiphany of the Lord prayer group and the Filipino Consultative Board.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 22 REUNION: St. Cecilia School, San Francisco, 1974 graduates, 6 p.m., Gold Mirror Restaurant on Taraval. Christine Gigliotti, gigliottiposta@comcast.net; (650) 513-1065; (415) 860-9071.

WORKSHOP: Filipino Ministry Consultative Board hosts day of recollection with Oblate Father Jose Arong, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco. Lunch will be provided. RSVP required to bcnicolas59@gmail.com; (650) 303-0308.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 5 CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Capuchin Father Brian McKenna, parochial vicar, Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame, principal celebrant and homilist.

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

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

SATURDAY, MARCH 29 MARRIAGE WORKSHOP: Day features talks by Julie and Greg Alexander at St. Bartholomew Church, 300 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and is sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The couple says they have changed their own “lackluster marriage into a vibrant, happy and healthy union.”

Cost of $65 per couple includes morning hospitality and lunch. Register at www.marriageonfire.info. Email hopfnere@sfarchdiocese.org for more information.

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

HOME HEALTH CARE

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A place to gather to find the spirit to keep on growing: Laughing, sighing and maybe a little crying. Connecting.

Yes, you can!

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THURSDAY, MARCH 27

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THE PROFESSIONALS

FAMILY MEDICINE

Brendan, San Francisco; March 28, St. Pius, Redwood City; March 29, St. Bartholomew, San Mateo; March 30: St. Dominic, San Francisco. Talks are 7-9 p.m. except March 30 at 10:4011:30 a.m. and March 29, a daylong retreat from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Talks are free except for retreat day with fee of $65 per couple. www.marriageonfire.info; (415) 614-5680.

A retirees discounted group.

(Sorry, stairs up to the cozy meeting room.)

Call to find out more or to reserve a place: (415) 337-9474 Limited to 8

Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT San Francisco: 415.337.9474 Complimentary phone consultation

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THURSDAY, MARCH 27 ‘SACRED SLEEP’: Martin Sheen is guest speaker at the Gubbio Project’s 10th anniversary event, 6:15 p.m., Kelly Cullen Community, 220 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco. TickMartin Sheen ets are $100. www.thegubbioproject.org.

SATURDAY, APRIL 12 CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO: Loaves & Fishes Gala. Catholic Charities CYO honors Cecilia Herbert, Rita Semel and Maureen O’Brien Sullivan with the 2014 Loaves & Fishes Award for Maureen Faith in Action Sullivan at the St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco. Noted song stylist Andrea Marcovicci will entertain. www.cccyo.org/loavesandfishes.

ets start at $200. Sponsor packages are also available. Slanted Door chef and owner Charles Phan teams up with other top San Francisco chefs for the event. (415) 638-6212; development@ mdasf.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4 FASHION PREVIEW: Discarded to Divine, de Young Museum, a complimentary 5:30-8:30 p.m. sneak peek at more than 50 one-of-a-kind items up-cycled from donated clothing to St. Vincent de Paul Society, San Francisco. Open to the public. Meet designers, enjoy music and no-host refreshments, view fashions, accessories and home decor that will be auctioned to benefit the SVdP-SF’s Wellness Center. www. discardedtodivine.org. Margi English, menglish@svdp-sf.org; (415) 977-1270.

SATURDAY, APRIL 5 PEACE MASS: St. Finn Barr Church, 9 a.m., 415 Edna St. at Hearst, San Francisco, Father William McCain pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. Zonia Fasquelle, zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

SATURDAY, APRIL 12

LUNCHEON: Mission Dolores Academy Benefit Luncheon, 11:30 a.m., Julia Morgan Ballroom, San Francisco. Tick-

CRUSADER COUNTRY: Archbishop Riordan High School’s annual event to support the school’s tuition assistance

programs. Western attire or country casual encouraged. Tickets start at $150 per person, and event sponsorships are available. Reservations requested

by April 1. www.riordanhs.org; (415) 586-8200, ext. 217.

BOCCE BALL: Bocce tournament and silent auction benefiting God Squad Productions and the Catholic TV Mass, Marin Bocce Federation, 550 B St., San Rafael. Gates open 8:30 a.m. for breakfast and practice. For entrance fees and details contact Jan Schachern, janschachern@gmail.com; (415) 244-0771.

THURSDAY, APRIL 24 THEOLOGY CAFÉ: A speaker series at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City featuring topics associated with Vatican II and the church of today. April 23: Retired San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn. Sister Norberta, (650) 361-1411, ext. 115; srnorberta@pius.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 25 MARRIAGE HELP: Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi) has helped tens of thousands of couples at all stages of disillusionment or misery in their marriage. This program can help you too. For confidential information about or to register for September program beginning with weekend April 25-27. (415) 893-1005; SF@RetroCA. com; www.HelpOurMarriage.com.

BRIDGE PARTY: Join bridge players from all parishes on the Peninsula for a fun bridge tournament and luncheon with all proceeds benefiting St. Francis

All Purpose Cell (415) 517-5977 (650) 757-1946 NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR

ROOFING

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DINING Italian American Social Club of San Francisco Lunch & Dinner, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Weddings, Banquets, Special Occasions

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PAINTING

BOCCE BALL: St. Veronica Parish tournament, no experience necessary, Orange Memorial Park bocce ball courts, One W. Orange Avenue, South San Francisco. Check in 8 a.m., games start 9 a.m. Limited to first 64 players. $30 entry includes coffee and donuts, lunch. Mike Dimech ,(650) 922-2667; Mdimech7@gmail.com; www.stveronicassf.com.

THURSDAY, MAY 1 DINNER: The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County’s signature fundraising event “Eat Your Heart Out” dinner and auction, Viognier Restaurant, Draeger’s Market, San Mateo.

Jodie Penner, director of development, 650-373-0622; jpenner@svdpsm.org.

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COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION

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BONDED & INSURED

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Be a part of a growing ministry that connects the faithful in the 90 parishes of the archdiocese. If you would like to add your tax-deductible contribution, please mail a check, payable to Catholic San Francisco, to: Catholic San Francisco, Dept. W, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco CA 94109.

REUNION: Alumnae of Notre Dame de Namur High School, San Francisco beginning with 10:30 a.m. Mass at Mission Dolores Basilica followed by lunch at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd. Honorees are graduates from 1964, 1939, 1944, 1954 and 1974. Theme is 49er faithful so wear 49er gear. Katie O’Leary, (415) 2826588; nuttydames@aol.com.

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HOME SERVICES

HANDYMAN

Center, Redwood City. Six rotating rounds will be played with prizes for the top three highest scoring pairs awarded after lunch, St. Bartholomew’s Parish Hall, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, 9:30 a.m. check-in, 10 a.m. game time, $50 per person includes lunch, register by April 14. Lynda, (650) 592-7714; lyndaconnolly@c2usa.net.

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Our ER offers an unexpected treatment: compassion.

When you check in to the emergency room, you expect a few things: rapid treatment for your injury or illness.

Advanced medical technology. And expert doctors.

At St. Mary’s Medical Center, the only Catholic hospital in San Francisco, we believe in something else you might not expect: doctors and nurses who embody humankindness.

Maybe it’s simply someone to hold your hand so you don’t feel alone. Or a comforting hug after a trying experience. Our staff knows the healing potential of simple human gestures.

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