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Archbishop, Orthodox prelate pray for unity VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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Palm Sunday in Jerusalem A Palestinian boy carries palm branches to sell to Christian pilgrims before the annual Palm Sunday procession on the Mount of Olives overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem April 13. Christian pilgrims walked the path that Jesus took when he rode a donkey into Jerusalem.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone asked that both Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholics join together in praying for the intercession of Mary, the mother of Jesus, to achieve unity between the two churches. “She is our most powerful intercessor before his throne. So let us ask her to intercede for us with her son,” Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross April 8 in Belmont. “She is our mother, whom we both venerate. She wants her children, her son’s disciples, to be one,” Archbishop Cordileone said. On May 25-26 Pope Francis and Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will meet in Jerusalem and issue a joint declaration, following Patriarch Bartholomew’s historic decision to SEE UNITY, PAGE 21

Chrism Mass: Ancient ritual invokes Old Testament’s call to sanctity Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone reminded the faithful of their call to sanctify the world in his homily at the annual chrism Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral April 10. He blessed the oils to be used for anointing in the coming year and led more than 200 priests present in the traditional renewal of their priestly promises. The annual chrism Mass, concelebrated by the archbishop and priests of the archdiocese, is when the archbishop blesses the oils for sacramental and other liturgical use throughout the archdiocese in the coming year. All Catholics – not just priests – are called to holiness and to draw others to God, Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily. “The church then as a priestly people has the mission of sanctifying the world. But the church cannot sanctify unless her members are first sanctified,” Archbishop Cordileone said. Among those joining him on the altar were the members of the

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Archbishop Cordileone presided at the annual chrism Mass. Council of Priests, retired San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh, retired Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang, Auxiliary Bishops William J. Justice and Robert W. McElroy. The chrism Mass is an important part of the church’s sacramental life and is also a ritual that

not only reaches back to the earliest Old Testament prophets and patriarchs but also connects the archbishop as Christ’s anointed shepherd to every person who will be confirmed or baptized in the coming year, said Laura Bertone, director of worship. “Chrism means anointing in Greek and it is the same root as Christ, ‘the anointed One,’” Bertone said. “Only chrism is reserved solely for the bishop to consecrate or make holy. This is especially meaningful since even though the bishop will not baptize every baby or confirm every person in a diocese in the year, using the chrism he consecrated, the bishop is represented and tied to those people in a special way as members of his flock,” she said. While the archbishop blesses two other oils at the chrism Mass, the oil of the catechumens and the oil of the sick, only the bishop of a diocese can consecrate the chrism oil, Bertone said. “It is therefore extremely important as it seals those things it touches.” SEE CHRISM MASS, PAGE 22

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NEED TO KNOW CANONIZATION MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate the 11 a.m. Mass Sunday, April 27, which is also Divine Mercy Sunday as well as the archdiocese’s neophyte Mass for newly baptized Catholics, at St. Mary’s Cathedral to commemorate that day’s canonizations of Blesseds John XXIII and John Paul II. The cathedral will display two original watercolor portraits of the former popes, with an opportunity to offer votives at each of the shrines to the new saints. Coro Brenta, an all-male choral group from Italy, will perform, and the gifts will be presented by representatives from the Bay Area Polish-American community. CARE FOR CREATION: Beginning on Page 7, this week’s issue features articles about Catholic stewardship for all God’s creation. “Cultivating and caring for creation is God’s indication given to each one of us not only at the beginning of history; it is part of his project; it means nurturing the world with responsibility and transforming it into a garden, a habitable place for everyone,” Pope Francis said in his June 5, 2013, general audience in St. Peter’s Square, dedicating the talk to World Environment Day. CONVERTS IN THE PEWS: Converts make up about 7 percent of adult selfidentified Catholics in the U.S. and 11 percent of Massgoing adults, according to an April 11 post on the “Nineteen SixtyFour” blog at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. The post says the rigorous preparation of the Rite of Catholic Initiation of Adults is a key factor in converts’ strong connection to the faith and similar to the impact on Catholics who attend Catholic colleges and universities. Visit http://nineteensixty-four.blogspot.com/. LENT IS A TIME FOR CONFESSION: For a Q&A from the U.S. bishops on what to know for the sacrament of penance, visit http://bit.ly/P0BjBN. MENTAL HEALTH AND THE CHURCH: Bishop Kevin Vann of the Diocese of Orange and Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren held the inaugural “Gathering on Mental Health and the Church” March 28 to address the lack of adequate care and attention for those who suffer from mental illness. For a playlist of 26 video and audio presentations from the conference featuring pastors, academics and psychiatrists hosting panels on a wide variety of topics, visit http://bit.ly/1gWnVFy.

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Meditation tapping the Christian tradition of contemplative prayer may deepen children’s faith formation by teaching young people how to be silent and listen to God’s voice, said the head of religious education in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. A 2013-14 trial project to determine if Christian meditation should be added to the K-12 religious education curriculum in the archdiocese is nearing an end, and the reviews have been positive from catechists and children in the 40 participating parishes, said Social Services Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of the archdiocesan office of religious education and youth ministry. “What we wanted to do was get them more in touch with God,” Sister Celeste said. “We do well with teaching memorized prayer and guided meditation from Scripture, but there isn’t a time we teach them to be quiet and listen to God’s voice.” In an online forum on Christian meditation, a director of religious education at one San Mateo County parish said religious education students have been meditating since October and classes have begun in the parish school as well. The consistent reaction of the students is that they feel calm and at peace after meditation, and children who find it difficult to be quiet also benefit, the director said. The pilot project in the archdiocese is based on a three-step approach to Christian meditation used in religious education in the Diocese of Townsville, Australia, since 2005. The program was developed in collaboration with the World Community of Christian meditation under Canadian Benedictine Father Lawrence Freeman. After a Scripture reading and a song, the children meditate by silently repeating “Maranatha” – Aramaic for “Our Lord has come.” The meditation lasts five to 12 minutes depending on the age of the students.

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School children are shown in Christian meditation in this image from a presentation on a meditation program begun in the Diocese of Townsville, Australia. Catechists in 40 parish religious education programs in the Archdiocese of San Francisco have been teaching the Townsville model in a trial project this school year. Authoritative teaching on vocal prayer, meditation and contemplative prayer is found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church 2700-2724. Paragraph 2706, on meditation, states: “… to the extent that we are humble and faithful, we discover in meditation the movements that stir the heart and we are able to discern them. It is a question of acting truthfully in order to come into the light: ‘Lord, what do you want me to do?”’ Meditation is a universal spiritual wisdom and a practice at the core of all great religious traditions, the Diocese of Townsville says in a presentation on Christian meditation in children. “In Christianity, this tradition has become marginalized and even forgotten and suspect,” the presentation says. “But in recent times a great recovery of the contemplative dimension of Christian faith has been happening.” At the core is the rediscovery of meditative practices in the tradition of the early Christian monks, the presentation says.

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Sister Celeste noted a recent news article reporting that meditation has led to improved academics in some San Francisco public schools where students are stressed because of crime and other social problems. Evidently those who meditate tend to be kinder and more patient. The same principle applies in Catholic faith formation, but with the categorical difference that God is at the center and kindness and patience are gifts of the Spirit. “Meditation is getting us quiet enough to listen to the heart of God, to lay your head on the heart of God,” Sister Celeste said, paraphrasing author Father Robert Barron. “If we’re made in the image and likeness of God, it’s the belief that if you meditate long enough the presence of God keeps coming up no matter where you are.” If the decision is made to go forward with meditation as a regular part of faith formation, it will be added gradually in the parishes over three to four years, Sister Celeste said.

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More than 400 to enter Catholic Church in archdiocese at Easter Vigil VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Just over 400 people are expected to enter the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco at Easter Vigil this year. For many their welcome into full communion with the church comes after spending years looking for a faith that made sense and a church to call home. Catechumens, who have never been baptized, will receive baptism, confirmation and first Communion at the Holy Saturday Easter Vigil. Candidates, who have already been baptized in another Christian tradition whose baptism is recognized by the Catholic Church, will enter the church through a profession of faith and reception of confirmation and Eucharist. All have participated in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, a process of conversion and study in the Catholic faith for catechumens and candidates coming into full communion with the church. In the archdiocese, it begins in September and concludes at Pentecost. Nationwide, thousands will enter the church in just about every diocese in the country – including 2,300 catechumens and candidates in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and 506 in Grand Rapids, Mich. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, 205 catechumens and 199 candidates were expected to enter the church. “I wanted a bigger faith but I wasn’t sure that was Catholicism,” until part way through the weekly Sunday morning classes at St. Ignatius Church, said Becca Shore, a physical therapist who was baptized Episcopalian and raised without a certain faith but with influences from both her Jewish and Protestant background. “The great thing about RCIA is it gives you so much time to learn. It gives you time to really explore.” Shore said she has “always felt intrigued by Mary” and was interested in the rosary, recounting that when she tried to pray the rosary she “felt instantly this feeling of peace.” “I’ve always wanted a faith I just never knew which one,” said Haley Love, who will be baptized and confirmed at Mater Dolorosa Church in South San Francisco, the parish where her sister also entered the church. She moved here from Pennsylvania to help her sister take care of her nephew, who is autistic. For Anne Smith, the death of her mother made taking a good look at the Catholic Church more important. Already baptized, she will be confirmed and receive first Communion at St. Gregory Church in San Mateo. “I felt a need to have a connection with a church and I decided to see what RCIA was like and I love it. I absolutely love it,” Smith said. “I’ve never felt so welcome.” “I think the Catholic Church is so totally different than I thought,” Smith said. “And I love this pope, I think he’s wonderful.” At the Jesuit parish of St. Ignatius Church, the “Pope Francis effect” has been particularly pronounced, said Mary Romo, a University of San Francisco adjunct professor of theology and rhetoric who has taught RCIA at St. Ignatius since 1994. “All have come at this time because of Pope Francis and his modeling of the Gospel – of not only his specific teachings on mercy and compassion, but most importantly because of his actually modeling what it means to be merciful, compassionate, kind and humble,” Romo said.

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Anne Smith, pictured with her husband Jeff and their son Kyle, will be confirmed and receive first Communion at the Easter Vigil at St. Gregory Church in San Mateo. “I’ve never felt so welcome,” Smith said. The road is different for every person, Romo said, and her class of catechumens and candidates is a microcosm of that – some entering the church because of a spouse who is Catholic, others finding the church after a long journey, still

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Teens branch out from Catholic school roots TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

You’d think just getting ready for the rest of their lives would be enough to keep high school seniors Alexa Brand, Joshua Yee and Hunter Mitchell busy full time. They actually fold much more into their days and very unselfishly having all been recognized March 6 with Sequoia Awards for outstanding volunteerism. The three are graduates Alexa Brand of St. Pius School in Redwood City. Alexa attends St. Francis High School, Mountain View. Hunter attends Sequoia High School and Joshua attends Woodside High School, both in Redwood City. Joshua and Alexa received $5,000 scholarships toward their college educations and Hunter received a $7,500 scholarship. I was happy to speak with the award winners via email. Joshua Yee “Gifts from the heart can fill the soul, give someone strength, erase loneliness, and last a lifetime,” Alexa told me. Her volunteer hours have taught her “that gifts from the heart keep on giving.” Alexa has volunteered across the board in nursing homes, as a catechist at St. Pius and in animal shelters. She is grateful to give her “time, caring and help” but always “walks away Hunter Mitchell the recipient of a gift.” Alexa’s years at St. Pius have been a base for her concern about others. “Giving back to others has reaffirmed my Catholic faith and how important it is to treat all people with love and respect. I am comfortable in my faith and expressing it. It’s a part of who I am and in everything I do.” Alexa’s parents are Julie and David Brand. “Volunteering has taught me to serve others without expecting to receive anything in return,” Joshua told me. “Helping others in the community keeps me grounded and helped me grow as a person.” Joshua calls his volunteering a “way of paying it forward because I have been blessed with so much.” Joshua is an altar server, a basketball coach and volunteer in facilities for seniors. The best part of it all he says is “seeing firsthand that you have made a difference in someone’s life.” He recalled a moment precious for him: “My favorite experience was helping a young boy with

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GOLDEN RULE: Students went all out for their day of service Feb. 19 at Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Belmont. All classes took part. Activities included collecting books for the local library; gathering art supplies for donation through Catholic Charities CYO; and using recycling money to buy coloring books and crayons for children in homeless shelters. “All the students really did great service projects and were so excited and energized with the results,” said Julie Britton Kanzaki, IHM’s director of faith formation and youth ministry. Pictured from left are fourth grader, Julia Cilley, Tamara Mickelson, an art therapist who demonstrated how the students’ gifts help those in need; and fourth graders Sofia Christorforidis and Auriel Zhou. learning disabilities during a summer camp, and seeing him laugh and smile at the end of each day.” St. Pius School taught him values of compassion and generosity, he said. “I learned that my mission is to follow in Jesus’ footsteps and make a difference in the world.” Joshua’s parents are Cathy and Rodney Yee. “I volunteer because it’s an opportunity to give back to the community for all that it’s given me,” Hunter told me. “Volunteering has enabled me to meet amazing people, learn incredible skills, and help people that can’t fully help themselves.” Hunter volunteers primarily at Redwood City’s St. Francis Center and Sienna Youth Community Center where he tutors students to “help them to stay on top of their grades.” He also coaches sports teams at Sienna. He said the “best part of volunteering is knowing that I am using my gifts and talents to help people that aren’t so fortunate.” He is grateful to be “part of something far bigger than me” and likes seeing “the impact that volunteering had firsthand.” Hunter’s years at St. Pius years “greatly influenced my outlook on the world” and “taught me the value in volunteering and charity,” he said. “I

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WELCOME ABOARD: St. Timothy Parish welcomes Robin Dewar-O’Leary as new administrative assistant. “Robin brings many years of experience from the health care industry working as an office manager and administrator of a nursing home,” the parish said in a recent bulletin. Robin is a coach and volunteer at St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame and Notre Dame School, Belmont where her children have been students, the parish said. WITHOUT A SONG: As we approach Easter, I am always taken by the lyrics that touch on the season and none more so than from Bob Hurd’s “Behold the Cross” where the toll of the cross is called Christ’s “suffering for crimes of mercy and peace.” Happy Easter! No issue April 25. Email items and electronic pictures – jpegs at no less than 300 dpi to burket@sfarchdiocese.org or mail to Street, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. Include a follow-up phone number. Street is toll-free. My phone number is (415) 614-5634.

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New USF head looks to develop university-church ties CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Jesuit Father Paul J. Fitzgerald, the newly appointed president of the University of San Francisco, said he is looking forward to developing the Jesuit universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with the local church. Father Fitzgerald told Catholic San Francisco that the search committee that selected him after an eightmonth process and the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior leadership â&#x20AC;&#x153;want the university to be recognized as a resource to the Catholic Church and to the archdiocese. In what ways can the university support the archbishop and the chancery?â&#x20AC;? USFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of trustees voted unanimously April 8 to elect Father Fitzgerald as the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 28th president. Now vice president of academic affairs at Jesuit-run Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn., Father Fitzgerald takes office Aug. 1. He succeeds Jesuit Father Jesuit Stephen A. Privett, who has led USF since 2000. At Fairfield, Father Fitzgerald had a working relationship with Bridgeport Bishop William E. Lori, now archbishop of Baltimore. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would go over to his office two or three times a year to keep him up to date on what was happening at the university, and he would bring the whole chancery staff to the university and we would do an in-service day,â&#x20AC;? Father Fitzgerald said in a phone interview. Regarding his new post, Father Fitzgerald said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the record I would be happy to say I am seeking ways in which the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intellec-

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Jesuit Father Paul J. Fitzgerald takes office Aug. 1 as the new president of the University of San Francisco. He plans to reach out to the local church and to the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s technology community. tual resources can be at the service of the archbishop and the archdiocese.â&#x20AC;? The apostolic constitution â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ex Corde Ecclesiae,â&#x20AC;? concerning the importance of Catholic identity in Catholic universities, promotes mutual trust, close and consistent cooperation and continuing dialogue between university and church authorities. Father Fitzgerald said USF as a Catholic and Jesuit institution has â&#x20AC;&#x153;three great giftsâ&#x20AC;? to offer students and the region: the Catholic intellectual tradition, the Catholic imagination in which â&#x20AC;&#x153;the world is charged with grace, the Holy Spirit breathes in the world,â&#x20AC;? and the 120-year-old tradition of Catholic social teaching. Father Fitzgerald sees the technology industry that is rapidly expanding from Silicon Valley to San Francisco as a fertile field to apply the three

strengths. In the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s announcement of his appointment, he said he plans to invest personal time and energy engaging the technology community in the Bay Area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silicon Valley I see coming to San Francisco and moving into the city,â&#x20AC;? he told Catholic San Francisco, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and as the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catholic university, USF can welcome these new workers and ask them what kind of ongoing professional formation they need and also offer them ongoing formation including ethics, spirituality, humanities â&#x20AC;&#x201C; some of the soft skills.â&#x20AC;?

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He said USF could become better known â&#x20AC;&#x153;as a place where companies go to think through difficult ethical choices that they have to make.â&#x20AC;? Father Fitzgerald said he will be working with faculty to develop appropriate new curricula not only for degree programs but also for executive education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Catholic tradition has always said you can approach the truth theistically or philosophically but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re tending toward truth and as you tend toward truth, you tend toward God,â&#x20AC;? he said. A Los Gatos native, Father Fitzgerald has worked in higher education for more than 20 years, including 12 at his alma mater Santa Clara University â&#x20AC;&#x201C; seven in the classroom, where he taught ecclesiology and Catholic social teaching, and five in administration. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1982, two years after graduating from SCU with a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in history. He was ordained at St. Ignatius Church on the USF campus in 1992. Father Fitzgerald said returning to the archdiocese is like a homecoming: He was confirmed in the 1970s at St. Mary Parish in Los Gatos by Auxiliary Bishop Norman F. McFarland when Santa Clara County was part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Seeing science as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;beautiful and exciting,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; not mechanical TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Khristian Monterroso will attend the University of Pennsylvania in the fall on full scholarship. The Marin Catholic High School senior plays the saxophone, runs crosscountry and maintains a GPA above 4.0. He is a graduate of St. Raphael School. His parents are Rebeca Ramirez and Trinidad Monterroso. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I intend to major in biology because I have always loved to learn about living organisms and how they function and interact with their environment,â&#x20AC;? Khristian told Catholic San Francisco in an email interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I definitely will explore my academic options in college though.â&#x20AC;?

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Mercy Center: Contemplative prayer cultivates a care for creation CENTERING PRAYER PRACTICALITIES

CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A contemplative prayer practice can help open one’s eyes, ears and heart to all of creation, according to a longtime spiritual director at Mercy Center, because the ancient Christian practice transforms our relationship with its creator. “For me there is a strong connection between contemplative prayer and being in relationship with creation,” said Catherine Regan, coordinator of the centering prayer program at the conference and retreat center in Burlingame sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy. Contemplative prayer cultivates a sense of union with creation, she said, as opposed to being on the outside of it or on top of it. “You see what’s happening and want to respond and be responsible for it,” she said. Catholic-school educated at Millbrae’s St. Dunstan School, Burlingame’s Mercy High School and Santa Clara University, Regan told Catholic San Francisco in an interview on Mercy Center’s wooded grounds that her adult spiritual formation took shape at the center 23 years ago after a retreat there. Centering prayer, a contemporary form of the ancient Christian tradition of contemplative prayer, was at the heart of it. “When you practice contemplative

Minimum prayer time is 20 minutes. Two prayer periods are recommended daily: morning and afternoon or evening. The principal fruits of centering prayer are experienced in daily life. Centering prayer familiarizes us with God’s first language: silence. (PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Mercy Sister Patricia Ryan, left, is pictured at Mercy Center in Burlingame March 27 with Catherine Regan, a spiritual director and coordinator of the centering prayer program at the center. prayer, for a little while every day, you let go of your own programs for happiness and give your heart to God and all that is of God, is opened,” said Regan, who sat elbow-to-elbow during the interview with her friend and cohort, Mercy Sister Patricia Ryan, a retired Mercy High science teacher. The pair started the “Conscious Evolution” program at Mercy Center “to help people raise the consciousness to make good environmental decisions.” Father Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk and priest considered to be the prime architect of centering prayer, developed the practice as a renewal of the monastic tradition of the Gospel that originated with St. Paul. He describes the effect of centering prayer at www.contemplativeoutreach.org: “A restructuring

of consciousness takes place which empowers one to perceive, relate and respond with increasing sensitivity to the divine presence of God in, through and beyond everything that exists.” Regan described Father Keating’s view of the human condition as “very compassionate.” But the oversized need for security, affection, esteem and control can blind us to the rest of creation. “Without the presence of God in our consciousness, these instinctual needs can become our idols, pursued despite consequence to ourselves or the planet,” she said. “The truth of the matter is, those instinctual needs can become our programs for happiness, whether we are practicing Catholics or not,” Regan said. “We just can’t get enough secu-

Source: Father Thomas Keating’s centering prayer website at http://bit.ly/ Q7iHRD. rity, or approval or esteem, because these things only come through God when we really know his presence.” Regan added that we live in a culture that expects us to “look good,” possess the latest technology, drive new cars and master and manipulate that which is not under our control. “We are trying to control death, nature, aging and other things that can never be controlled,” she said. In the process we distance ourselves from creation and its creator. Contemplative prayer invites us to sit in God’s presence and “take our hands off the wheel,” said Regan. “Until we do, we will struggle to see God in all creation.” Mercy Center: 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010. (650) 340-7474.

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Franciscan scholar: ‘We fail to grasp the full spirit of St. Francis’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Statues of St. Francis surrounded by birds and other creatures represent only one dimension of Franciscan spirituality, Franciscan Brother Keith Warner said during a weekend workshop called “Care for Creation” at San Damiano Retreat Center in Danville Apr. 12. Brother Warner, co-author of a book of the same name, has nothing against the saint’s popularized image as part of a birdbath in the garden or anywhere else. But he said they “fail to grasp the full spirit of St. Francis.” “Humility is a central virtue of Franciscan spirituality,” he said. Francis did not see himself as better than or above other people, other creatures or even the elements; he saw himself as one with them. “His affinity for the natural world comes from this humble understanding.” Francis spent a third to half of each year praying in nature and the wilderness, living in hermitages or on mountainsides, said Brother Warner, and he

Franciscan Brother Keith Warner said St. Francis’ ideal is not environmentalism but changing hearts through encounter with God’s creation.

interspersed this with preaching. “The experience of being intimately related to creation helped him grow more fully into the mystery of God,” Brother Warner said. “And that’s what we are desperately in need of today.” The notion of “brotherhood” with all of God’s creation was expressed by Francis in multiple ways, said Brother Warner, who led the retreat group in a reading of a song the saint wrote in 1224, two years before he died at the age of 44. The “Canticle of the Creatures,” alternately called the “Canticle of the Sun,” or simply “Canticle of St. Francis,” was the first literary work produced in the Italian language. It playfully praises God for the blessings of, for example, “Sister Moon” and “Brother Wind.” The first time it was sung in its entirety was by Francis and two of his original companions, on Francis’ deathbed, the final verse praising “Sister Death.” “He’s not using fancy, theological terms, he’s SEE FRANCISCAN, PAGE 10

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Riordan’s urban garden club connects students to their food CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The plain concrete courtyard sandwiched between classroom walls at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco has been transformed into an organic urban vegetable garden by students in the school’s Heal Our World club. Club members spend their free time turning soil and tending to the radishes, baby bok choy, carrots, artichokes, Swiss chard, lettuce and other vegetables sprouting from raised beds and redwood tubs in the otherwise colorless lot. They share their bounty with each other and hope to share it with the community in need. “It was really important for me to help show kids where their food comes from,” said Joey Klobas, a 2007 Riordan graduate who returned to his alma mater in 2012 to work in the theatre program and in the resource specialist program, for students with learning differences. He volunteered to take over existing plans for an urban garden and created the club to manage it. “The garden helps to make club members more aware of the people that grow their food,” said Klobas, whose degree in agriculture from Chico State University factored into his agreement to oversee the garden upon his return to Riordan as did his role as LIFE Team moderator. LIFE Teams are communitybuilding programs common to Marianist high schools across the country where students learn about social and environmental justice issues. During his time at Riordan, Klobas was influenced by Marianist Brother Pat McMahon, a faculty member at the time. Brother McMahon introduced him to the order’s spirituality, which fosters a respect for all living things. “He easily brought the Marianist charism to life for teenagers,” said Klobas, who said he hopes he’s doing the same for current students with the garden. With donations of time and materials from some enthusiastic parents and volunteers, Klobas and a group of about a dozen interested students created the garden, choosing plants that would flourish in San Francisco’s cool and foggy climate. They shepherded

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Members of Archbishop Riordan High School’s Heal Our World club tend spring greens ready for harvest. the process from seed selection to planting to final harvest, learning organic gardening methods like natural fertilization and pest control, from Klobas. The club is entirely self-funded, according to Klobas. Club members share their bounty among each other after each harvest and sell the rest at farmer’s markets. To date there have been three harvests large enough to be sold. The club’s hope for the garden is to harvest enough produce to supply a local soup kitchen. A sense of community is also part of the garden’s yield. “On harvest day we make and share a big salad,” said Klobas, who believes the garden also facilitates an environment of “faith, food and fun.” Club members unanimously voted to use the $175 from the previous harvest to buy a greenhouse that

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FRANCISCAN: ‘We fail to grasp the full spirit of St. Francis’ FROM PAGE 8

singing a song,” Brother Warner said, adding that the song is a summation of an inclusive worldview that defines Franciscan spirituality. “In the Franciscan tradition, you can’t get left out,” he said. “It’s all connected – human life, animal life, plants, water, air, even death and sorrow.”

Brother Warner is a resident of San Damiano, a hilltop sanctuary run by the Franciscan Friars of the Province of St. Barbara. He is a Santa Clara University professor who teaches coursework designed to link the Catholic imagination with care for the environment. “I talk to people in the church who ask, ‘Religion and the environment? That is when I sigh,” said Brother Warner, who wrote “Care for Cre-

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St. Francis’ “Canticle of the Sun” is displayed on outdoor stations in the garden of San Damiano Retreat Center in Danville. ation” with two other Franciscan scholars, in part, to help Catholic readers see all of creation through pro-life eyes. “The spiritual disconnect is our failure to recognize that we are cocreatures with all of God’s creation,

as Francis did, not just some parts of it,” said Brother Warner. “Hypocrisy is saying God’s creation is good, but then treating some of it poorly,” Brother Warner said. Franciscan spirituality causes no tension between loving God and loving all things made by God, according to Brother Warner. who said the idea that God and nature are separated is “a modern, and largely American, idea.” He said that when Pope John Paul II asked Catholics to “discover their ecological vocations” in his message for World Peace Day in 1990, he was trying to show that there are aspects of the Catholic faith that have a practical application in a modern world. “Environmentalism” is not what John Paul II, Benedict XVI after him and now, Pope Francis are after, said Brother Warner, as much as a change of heart through encounter. “Encounter opens the eyes and the heart, he said. “We allow ourselves to be changed.” Brother Warner told the story about Francis, who “really did love birds,” leaving his companions to run over to a flock and preach at them. What’s important is not what Francis said to the birds, he said, but that an occasion of conversion happened for him. Something in the birds touched him to realize the connection to God. “Our fundamental task is not to fix something out there, but to become aware of God’s creations through encounter,” Brother Warner said.

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Survey: Ongoing dissatisfaction with new missal language PATRICIA ZAPOR

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WASHINGTON – A survey of attitudes among priests and lay parish leaders about the revised Roman Missal found just under half dislike the changes to the Mass introduced in the U.S. in 2011, and 75 percent think the language is “awkward and distracting.” Priests, more strongly than laypeople, dislike the liturgical changes, the survey said, with 52 percent saying they don’t like the new texts. Among the lay leaders, 29 percent said they dislike the texts. Three quarters of the survey participants agreed that the language of the new text is “awkward and distracting,” and half said the translation “urgently needs to be revised.” Just 23 percent said they were confident “that the views of priests will be taken seriously in future decisions about liturgical translation.” Msgr. Richard Hilgartner, executive director of the Secretariat of Divine Worship at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told Catholic News Service that the survey suggests “there are some things that need to be examined, because clearly there is divided opinion.” But he added that there has been no impetus from among the U.S. bishops to change anything and he cautioned that the survey leaves many unanswered questions. For instance, he said, it’s impossible to tell from the data released whether respondents object to the more formal style of the translation overall or to specific words chosen. He also raised questions about whether the number of responses represent a meaningful sample of sentiment about the translation. Msgr. Hilgartner’s office oversaw the

Participants were asked to choose among several responses to questions about their attitude toward the new texts. The five choices were: ‘I haven’t noticed much difference between this text and the previous one,’ chosen by 6 percent overall, by 5 percent of clergy and 13 percent of lay leaders. ‘Before it was introduced I was apprehensive about it and I still don’t like it,’ chosen by 38 percent overall, by 41 percent of clergy and 19 percent of lay respondents. ‘Before it was introduced I was looking forward to it, but I’ve changed my mind and don’t like it,’ chosen by 11 percent overall, including 11 percent of clergy and 10 percent of lay leaders. ‘Before it was introduced I was apprehensive about it, but I’ve changed my mind and I like it,’ chosen by 17 percent overall, including 15 percent of clergy and 26 percent of laity. ‘Before it was introduced I was looking forward to it and I still like it,’ chosen by 28 percent overall, including 27 percent of clergy and 33 percent of laity.

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tee on English in the Liturgy. The survey conducted by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate analyzed responses from 519 people to an invitation sent to 6,000 randomly selected parishes for the center’s National Survey of Catholic Parishes. Participants also were asked whether they agree or disagree with eight statements about the Revised Missal, using a five-point range for how strongly they feel. That’s where 75 percent were counted as agreeing that the text is awkward and distracting and half said it “urgently needs to be revised.” Also among those sliding-scale questions, 46 percent said they approve of the leadership of the Holy See in bringing out the new missal; 42 percent said they like the more formal style of the new text; and 40 percent said they think it’s an improvement on the old one. The questions dealing with the missal were commissioned by St. John’s School of Theology Seminary in Collegeville, Minn., to be included in CARA’s regular survey. A similar survey of priests about the translation released last May found 59 percent of priests who responded disliked the translation. That survey was conducted by the Godfrey Diekmann, OSB Center for Patristics and Liturgical Studies, also at St. John’s. In the 2013 survey, 1,536 priests participated. The invitation to participate in the CARA study was sent to the pastor or parish leader in each parish. CARA estimates the statistical margin of error at 4.6 percentage points for the 444 clergy who participated, and at 11.3 percentage points for the 75 lay leaders who responded.

BISHOP SAYS ASSEMBLY ON SEXUALITY CAUSED ‘GREAT DEAL OF PAIN’

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – In an April 9 statement, Charlotte Bishop Peter J. Jugis called the controversy over a recent presentation on human sexuality at Charlotte Catholic High School “a difficult time” that has caused everyone “a great deal of pain.” The all-school assembly March 21 featured a presentation by Sister Jane Dominic Laurel, a Dominican from Nashville, Tenn., and a frequent speaker in the Diocese of Charlotte. Sister Jane spoke on “Masculinity and Femininity: Difference and Gift,” which explained Catholic teaching about gender using Blessed Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. Sister Jane’s March 21 address to students, which was arranged by Father Matthew Kauth, the school’s chaplain, was based on a series of instructional videos she created for Aquinas College in Nashville where she is an associate professor. She has a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Sister Jane spent about half of her hourlong talk on homosexuality, including attributing a correlation between the decline of fatherhood in America and the rise in homosexuality. That drew the ire of students and parents over the past three weeks, boiling over in a meeting April 2 at the high school with more than 900 parents present. In his statement, Bishop Jugis said, “I am shocked to hear the disturbing reports of a lack of charity and respect at the parents’ meeting, and outside the meeting in conversations and in social media. There simply is no room in the Catholic Church for such displays of uncharitableness and disrespect.” Bishop Jugis also emphasized in his statement, “All of our Catholic schools are committed to hold and teach the Catholic faith in its fullness and with integrity.”

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Priests on front line in Italy’s battle against Mafia JUDITH HARRIS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ dramatic appearance at a March prayer vigil with the families of Mafia victims, where he said he would plead on bended knee with Mafia bosses to “stop doing evil,” has highlighted the Catholic Church’s role in combatting Italian organized crime. “Pope Francis awakens consciences. Many who were a long way from the church are now asking to be baptized,” said Father Luigi Ciotti, founder of the Italian anti-Mafia association Libera, which organized the March 21 vigil in Rome. “The pope brings a moral renewal that touches everyone. Every day I see the results.” Although the Catholic Church has been “tepid and prudent” in the past, the pope’s praying with the families of Mafia victims has become a model for change, Father Ciotti told the Turin daily La Stampa. “His church is no longer closed and inward looking – it’s everyone’s home. Its doors are always open.” Born in 1945, Father Ciotti was only 19 when he founded an association in Turin aimed at helping young people in financial and legal trouble. His work increasingly entailed dealing with drug use among youth. In the 1990s, the association evolved into Libera. Like other priests with similar missions, Father

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Pope Francis receives a stole that belonged to Father Giuseppe Diana, who was killed by the Mafia, from Father Luigi Ciotti during a prayer service with family members of victims of organized crime at the Church of St. Gregory VII in Rome March 21. Father Ciotti is the founder of Libera, an Italian anti-Mafia group. Ciotti draws inspiration from the example of Blessed Pino Puglisi, the first modern Mafia martyr. Born in 1937 in Palermo, Sicily, Puglisi was killed by a Cosa Nostra hit man on his 56th birthday, Sept 15, 1993. Some 100,000 Sicilians gathered in Palermo May 25 for his beatification celebration, led by Palermo’s Cardinal Paolo Romeo, with Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi representing Pope Francis. Other anti-mob priests have received serious threats, particularly in in the southern Campania region, where the local Mafia, known as the Camorra, controls the drug traffic and the massive illegal dumping of toxic waste. At Marano, near Naples, shots were fired Feb. 28 into the automobile of Father Luigi Merola, whose foundation “A voce d’e creature” (The Voice of the Children) works with children in Naples’ Arenaccia slum, encouraging them to stay in school as a way to keep them from crime. “I’ve lived with these threats for years,” Father Merola told the Catholic daily Avvenire. “I’ve gotten used to them.”

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VATICAN CITY – “I feel called to take responsibility for all the evil some priests – large in number, but not in proportion to the total – have committed and to ask forgiveness for the damage they’ve done with the sexual abuse of children,” Pope Francis said. “The church is aware of this damage” and is committed to strengthening child protection programs and punishing offenders, he told members of the International Catholic Child Bureau during a meeting April 11 at the Vatican. The remarks appeared to be the pope’s first apology for the sex abuse scandal, following earlier statements affirming the Vatican’s work investigating and punishing perpetrators, and encouraging bishops to support abuse victims. The pope also has said the church deserves to be forced to make monetary settlements to victims. In December, Pope Francis established a Vatican commission to promote improved child protection policies throughout the church. “We don’t want to take a step backward in dealing with this problem and with the sanctions that must be imposed,” the pope said in a meeting with leaders of the International Catholic Child Bureau. “On the contrary, I believe we must be very strong. You don’t play with children’s lives!”

POPE CALLS FOR INTEGRAL APPROACH TO HEALING

VATICAN CITY – “The experience of pain and suffering concerns not only the bodily dimension but the totality of a person,” Pope Francis said April 12, during a meeting with some 120 Italian surgeons who specialize in treating cancer patients. “Every medical approach to suffering must take into account the unity of the person, body and spirit.” The doctors were in Rome to attend the congress of the Italian Oncological Society. At the audience, the pope stressed the “need for an integral approach to healing, in which the whole person is considered.” For those who are suffering, medical care cannot be divorced from the spiritual dimension, and must be accompanied by the psychological and social support of fellow human beings, and by support from the families, the pope said.

POPE: DURING HOLY WEEK, ASK WHICH GOSPEL CHARACTER YOU RESEMBLE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis began his Holy Week liturgies by encouraging people to ask themselves which personality in the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection they resemble most. Throughout the Holy Week liturgies – Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil and Easter morning Mass – “it would do us good to ask one question: Who am I? Who am I before my Lord?” the pope said April 13, setting aside his prepared Palm Sunday homily to address thousands of young people gathered for World Youth Day. “Am I able to express my joy, to praise him?” the pope asked. “Or do I keep my distance? Who am I before Jesus who is suffering?” Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. “Am I like Judas?” the pope asked. “Am I a traitor?”

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Prayer, openness key for theologians, philosophers, pope says CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – A good theologian or philosopher knows that his or her learning and thinking are always incomplete and that prayer and encounters with other people and cultures will bring deeper understanding, Pope Francis said. “The theologian satisfied that his thought is complete and conclusive is mediocre,” he said. “The theologian who does not pray and does not adore God ends up drowning in the most disgusting narcissism.” “This is an ecclesiastical sickness,” he said. “The narcissism of theologians and thinkers does such harm; it’s disgusting.” Meeting April 10 with 5,000 students, professors and staff members of the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University, Pontifical Biblical Institute and Pontifical Oriental Institute, Pope Francis said theologians must have “an open mind” and a deep life of prayer. “This isn’t something old-fashioned,” the pope said. Study “will be more fruitful and effective to the extent that it is animated by love for Christ and his church.” The church does not need professors who hand out an accumulation of facts, he said, but professors who can help their students understand how their learning is connected to living the Gospel today and can help them respond with the Gospel to the needs and problems of others. Tradition and history must be safeguarded, the pope said, while at the same time acknowledging the present and “looking toward the future with creativity and imagination, trying to have a global vision of the current situation and challenges, and a shared way of facing them by following new paths without fear.” Father Adolfo Nicolas, superior general of the Jesuits, presented the communities of the three institutions to the pope and noted how the students and professors – priests, religious and laity – come from all over the world. “We are in contact with the frontiers of humanity and the world. We want to assure you that as part of our service to the church, we also want to be on the frontiers of theology, ready to risk and to be farsighted. We promise to let the reality of our peoples and cultures into our classrooms in order to bring back to our people the profound nature of the Gospel and the kingdom of God.” Pope Francis encouraged the students to rec-

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“Your institutions are not machines for producing theologians and philosophers,” he said. “They are communities in which one grows, and growth happens in a family.” While some have the task of leading, others have the task of service, the pope said, and the service of the support staff is “indispensable for creating an attitude of humanity and concrete wisdom” that will help the students realize that “without the goodness and beauty of belonging to a work family, one ends up being an intellectual without talent, an ethicist without goodness (and) a thinker lacking the splendor of beauty.”

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Pope: Take up God’s offer to face life’s problems with his love, wisdom CAROL GLATZ

Patience in marital and parental squabbles cannot be learned, Pope Francis said. ‘It is a gift of the Holy Spirit and for this reason we have to ask the Lord to give us the Holy Spirit and give us the gift of wisdom.’

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VATICAN CITY – People can choose either to tackle life’s challenges with the loving and wise heart of God or be driven by their own passions and interests, Pope Francis said. All people, whether they know it or not, have access to the gift of the Holy Spirit, “who teaches us to see with God’s eyes, to feel with God’s heart, to speak with God’s words,” helping people build a peaceful and loving home, church and world, he said. During his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square April 9, the pope began a new series of audience talks on the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord. He started the new series focusing on the gift of wisdom, which is not anything like the human wisdom that comes from study and experience, he said. The spiritual gift of wisdom “is simply this: Seeing the world, situations, circumstance and problems with God’s eyes.” Often people see the world and what goes on around them “according to our own liking or according to where our heart’s at,” colored by personal feelings of love, hate, envy and other emotions, he said. “Let’s think about a mom at home with the kids – like when one kid is going after one thing, another wants something else and the poor mom runs back and forth dealing with the problems,” he said.

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“When moms get exhausted and they scream at their kids, is this wisdom? I’ll ask again: Is this wisdom? What do you say?” asked the pope, coaxing his audience to respond. “No! Instead, when a mom takes the child and scolds him gently and says, ‘You don’t do this for this reason’ and explains with a lot of patience, is this God’s wisdom?” he asked. “Yes! This is what the Holy Spirit gives us in life.” The pope said the same kind of wisdom can be used when couples fight. Often arguments end with one or both spouses ignoring each other or “they give each other dirty looks. Is this God’s wisdom?” he asked. “No. Instead you say, ‘Well, the storm has passed. Let’s make peace, hmm?’ They start over and move forward in peace.” This kind of wisdom cannot be learned from books or from others, and “we can’t wing it, we can’t get hold of it on our own,” Pope Francis said. “It is a gift of the Holy Spirit and for this reason we have to ask the Lord to give us the Holy Spirit and give us the gift of wisdom.” The gift of wisdom also helps people distinguish between what comes from God and what doesn’t, “thus making the Christian a ‘learned’ person,” he said. It doesn’t mean one knows the answer to everything or understands everything, but rather, this person has “a taste” for God, can sense his presence and his love and knows how God works in the world. The gifts come when one keeps a close relationship with God, he said. “When we are in communion with the Lord, it’s like the Spirit transfigures our hearts and makes us perceive everything with his warmth and his liking.” Before the audience, while he was riding in the popemobile greeting people and kissing children, a man from the crowd shouted out to the pope: “Francis! There is nobody like you!” The pope, pointing at him, shouted back: “You, too! No one like you. There are no two people like you!” At the audience, the pope blessed a 9-foot tall, 3-foot wide wooden cross made out of the wreckage of boats carrying migrants from northern Africa to Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island. The 130-pound cross is to be carried around Italy “to bring a message of solidarity and peace between communities, parishes, cultures, cities and faiths,” the Vatican newspaper said April 8.

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Floribeth Mora Diaz will have a special seat at the canonization of Blessed John Paul II April 27 in Rome. Mora’s cure from a brain aneurysm is one of the miracles that moved ahead the late pope’s sainthood cause that culminates in the Divine Mercy Sunday rites in Rome with Pope Francis presiding. Just three years ago, Mora was given no hope, in fact days to live. “They told me to go home and spend time with my family,” Mora, 50, said in a phone interview. “I was very scared.” She turned to the intercession of Pope John Paul II for help. Mora said she began to notice a change in her condition around the time of Blessed John Paul’s beatification in May 2011. Mora said she followed the instructions of a voice telling her to stand up though she was well aware of the possible consequences. Doctors’ directions to the woman were to stay still as even the slightest movement could cause the aneurysm to burst and kill her instantly. “I said ‘Yes, Lord,’ and stood up,” Mora said. According to Mora her husband was amazed that she found her way to her feet.

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he world today really needs the hope that only Easter brings. I do not know about you, but I often feel overwhelmed by the daily media stories of all the pain experienced throughout our world. The cycle of violence never seems to subside. There is still unrest in Iraq and other places like Syria where thousands of people have been killed and many are living in wretched circumstances in refugee camps and the ones still in Syria live in constant danger. People are dying of SISTER MARGIE hunger in the Sudan and LAVONIS in many other countries. Many cannot find work to support their families. Most of us can name other situations. Violence, hatred and revenge are all around us. Suffering runs rampant, and mercy and compassion seem to be scarce commodities these days. Many cry out and ask where God is in all of this. I think that part of the problem starts on a personal level. If we were reconciled with each other and had right relationships, there would be less violence in our families and in the world. There would be more peace. As Christians our faith in the Resurrection, which we celebrate during Holy Week, reminds us that good can and does, come out of suffering and that the only way to conquer sin is to love, even our enemies. Jesus died out of love for us and through his suffering came his resurrection. By his cross and resurrection he set us free. As this season of Lent comes to a close, it would be good to reflect on our own attitudes. Do we feel that people are justified in wanting to punish hatred with more violence? What are our thoughts about the death penalty (which is what Jesus died under)? Do we ever pray for the conversion of our enemies, even terrorists and those people in our lives that have hurt us or do we think they should get what we judge they deserve? On the other hand, do we ask others for forgiveness? As Christians who believe in the resurrection, we must strive to be models of love and

LETTERS How to build eucharistic community I read, with some degree of humor and disdain, your recent article chronicling how eucharistic participation is decreasing in Marin County (“Marin parishes address declining eucharistic participation,” April 4). As the newly appointed pastor of St. Mary, Star of the Sea Parish in Sausalito, I have happily enjoyed the opposite experience – that of increasing eucharistic participation and community-building. As a former “pew person,” I am sensitive to statements that begin with “The people do/don’t … because of … .” My view of church was developed in a practicing Catholic home and in schools from grammar through to postgraduate degrees (all Catholic). I learned that we are all expected to model Christ’s values and share the good news. I believe we are called to invite people to the table of Jesus, just as we have been invited ourselves! I have witnessed the success of those parishes who learn to invite. We, (clerical or lay) develop a certain credibility as ministers of God’s people if we model personally, listen to others and invite all to enjoy belief in God. I applaud the efforts of Father (Cyril) O’Sullivan to make the Mass more meaningful. I was not in attendance at the meeting, rep-

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The glory of Easter is portrayed in “The Resurrection of Christ” by Italian Renaissance painter Mariotto di Cristofano. The painting is in the collection at the Gallery of the Academy of Florence. Easter, the feast of the Resurrection, is marked April 20 this year. hope. Our good works of Lent must continue throughout the rest of the year. We have a mission to make Christ known by our love. We must express our belief that, even in this gloomy, dark time of pain and suffering at home and around the world, God will not abandon us – just like he did not abandon his son, Jesus, even though it may have looked that way at first. Our world needs this Easter message. Go out and proclaim it to all in your world. And if current events make it hard for you to believe that God is somehow in all of this, ask God to deepen your faith and to help you to remember times when he brought you out of difficulties in your life or the life of someone you know. Easter tells us that God never leaves us in our pain and brings good out of evil. We must proclaim that, in spite of the situation of our world, God is with us and that gives us hope. HOLY CROSS SISTER MARGIE LAVONIS is a freelance writer living in Notre Dame, Ind.

resenting my parish, as I was presiding at a Catholic funeral for a woman I knew while still a transitional deacon. I welcome any who wish to witness a growing eucharistic community to visit my most recent priestly privilege, St. Mary, Star of the Sea Parish. Father Mike Quinn Sausalito

Remembering a moral advocate for animals The animal protection community suffered a devastating loss in the untimely passing of Virginia Handley (March 20, 2014, 68 years old, of El Sobrante) who for 40 years led the San Francisco office of The Fund for Animals and lobbied the state Legislature on behalf of animals. In the city of St. Francis she exemplified humility and compassion, both attributes championed by Pope Francis, at their highest levels. She worked only for the heartfelt love of all God’s creation. Animals are as innocent as a newborn child, a senior citizen, an indigent person. Christ taught we must be good stewards for those so at our mercy. Our greatest tribute to Virginia is to embrace all animals within the moral arena. Patricia Briggs San Francisco

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y prayerfully meditating before a crucifix, one can see and begin to understand the ultimate result of sin. The Romans’ sins, the Jews’ sins, our sins nailed our Lord Jesus to the cross. The cost of sin is death. Our sins killed the son of God. Our sins crucified our loving Lord. And our sins continue his suffering passion. God is not the grand watchmaker, who created the world and now sits back and watches from afar as humanity suffers. No, TONY MAGLIANO by his incarnation, life, passion and death he has proven that he is with us – especially in our suffering. It is said that in a deeply loving marriage, when the wife cries the husband tastes the salt. So it is with humanity and God. As the father of all, God continues to suffer when his children hurt themselves and each other. A prayerful meditation before the crucifix should inspire us to be more firmly committed to living out the Ash Wednesday instruction: “Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel.” Let’s turn to God in prayer and ask for divine humility and strength to turn away from our personal sins which not only hurt God and us, but also lead to what Blessed John Paul II called the “structure of sin” in the world. Let us pray. From the personal sins of pride, arrogance, selfishness, greed, indifference, envy, lust, anger, unkindness and violence, save us O Lord. Make us instead men and women whose lives reflect your humility, compassion, selflessness, generosity, justice, kindness, purity, gentleness and nonviolence. From our indifference to the structures of sin so evident in our society and world, save us O Lord. From an abortion industry which profits from the brutal dismembering and murder of unborn babies, save us O Lord. From an insufficient government response to the suffering of our poor and hungry brothers and sisters in this country, and throughout the world, save us O Lord. From the many corporations that reap huge profits from the use of sweatshop labor, that refuse to pay a living wage, that produce unsafe products, that pollute and dangerously warm our earth, save us O Lord. From the military-industrial complex which produces the guns used in many murders committed on our city streets, which manufactures the light arms, tanks, helicopters, fighter jets, warships and drones that fuel the world’s wars and kill far more innocent civilians than combatants, save us O Lord. From the research facilities and factories that produce nuclear weapons of mass destruction, save us O Lord. From a government that is far more committed to astronomical military budgets and tax cuts for the wealthy than it is to funding programs for the poor and the middle class, to fixing the nation’s infrastructure, to helping family farmers, to trading fairly with poor nations, to legalizing our hardworking undocumented population, and to committing adequate funding for clean, renewable energy sources, save us O Lord. Let us remember also that the crucifixion was not only the ultimate sign of the evil of sin, but was also the ultimate sign of the love God has for us. And that death – even the most loving death of Jesus – does not have the final word. Christ’s resurrection does! So let’s live as brothers and sisters of the resurrected Lord Jesus, fully committed to building a just and peaceful world. MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

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Easter with Flannery O’Connor

his coming Aug. 3 will mark the golden anniversary of Flannery O’Connor’s “passover,” to adopt the biblical image John Paul II used to describe the Christian journey through death to eternal life. In the 50 years since lupus erythematosus claimed her at age 39, O’Connor’s literary genius GEORGE WEIGEL has been widely celebrated. Then, with the 1979 publication of “The Habit of Being,” her collected letters, another facet of Miss O’Connor’s genius came into focus: Mary Flannery O’Connor was an exceptionally gifted apologist, an explicator of Catholic faith who combined remarkable insight into the mysteries of the Creed with deep and unsentimental piety, unblinking realism about the church in its human aspect, puckish humor – and a mordant appreciation of the soul-withering acids of modern secularism. Insofar as I’m aware, there’s never been an effort to initiate a beatification cause for Flannery O’Connor. If such a cause should ever be introduced, “The Habit of Being” (and the lectures found in the Library

Miss O’Connor’s sense that ours is an age of nihilism makes her an especially apt apologist for today: Not least because she also understood the evangelical sterility of the smiley-face, cheapgrace, balloons-and-banners Catholicism that would become rampant shortly after her death. of America edition of her collected works) should be the principal documentary evidence for considering her an exemplar of heroic virtue, worthy to be commended to the whole church. Miss O’Connor’s sense that ours is an age of nihilism – an age suffering from a crabbed sourness about the mystery of being itself – makes her an especially apt apologist for today: Not least because she also understood the evangelical sterility of the smiley-face, cheap-grace, balloonsand-banners Catholicism that would become rampant shortly after her death. In a 1955 letter to her friend Betty Hester, Flannery O’Connor looked straight into the dark mystery of Good Friday and, in four sentences explained why the late modern world often finds it hard to believe: “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of

all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.” That darkness is rendered darker still by late modernity’s refusal to recognize its own deepest need. For as Miss O’Connor put it in a 1957 lecture, “Redemption is meaningless unless there is cause for it in the actual life we live, and for the last few centuries there has been operating in our culture the secular belief that there is no such cause.” A world indifferent to its need for redemption is not indifferent to the possibility of redemption; it’s a world hostile to that possibility. Down the centuries, the mockery endured by Christ on the cross may stand as the paradigmatic expression of that hostility. The church meets this hostility by doubling down on its conviction that

The transcript of our trial

he biblical accounts of Jesus’ passion and death focus very much on his trial, describing it in length and in detail. And there is a huge irony in how it is described. Jesus is on trial, but the story is written in such a way that, in effect, everyone is on trial, except Jesus. The Jewish authorities FATHER RON who orchesROLHEISER trated his arrest are on trial for their jealousy and dishonesty. The Roman authorities who wield the final power on the matter are on trial for their religious blindness. Jesus’ friends and contemporaries are on trial for their weakness and betrayal. Those who challenge Jesus to invoke divine power and come off the cross are on trial for their superficial faith. And, not least, each of us is on trial for our own weaknesses, jealousies, religious blindness, and superficial faith. The transcript of the trial of Jesus reads like a record of our own betrayals. Recently the church has tried to help us grasp this by the manner in which it has the Passion proclaimed on Palm Sunday and Good Friday. In many churches today when the Passion is read the narrative is broken up in such a way that one narrator proclaims the overall text, another person takes the part of Jesus, several others take the parts of the various people who spoke during his arrest and trial, and the congregation as a whole is asked to proclaim aloud the parts that were spoken by the crowds. This could

not be more appropriate because a congregation in any Christian church today, and we, as individual members of those congregations, in our actions and in our words, in countless ways, mimic perfectly the actions and words of Jesus’ contemporaries in their weaknesses, betrayals, jealousies, religious blindness and false faith. We too indict Jesus countless times by how we live. For example, here is how we do it in our words: In Matthew’s account of the trial of Jesus, at a certain moment in the trial, Pontus Pilate comes out to the people, the same people who just five days before had chanted for Jesus to be their king, and tells them that according to custom, at Passover time, he is willing to release one Jewish criminal being held in custody. At the time, he had in custody a particularly infamous murderer named, Barabbas. So Pilate asks the crowd: “Whom should I release for you, Jesus of Nazareth or Barabbas?” The crowd roars back: “Barabbas!” Pilate then asks: “Then what should I do with Jesus of Nazareth?” The crowd’s reply: “Away with him. Have him crucified!” We can make this, very obvious, extrapolation: In every moral choice we make, big or small, ultimately the question we are standing in front of is the same question Pilate asked the crowd: Whom should I release for you, Jesus or Barabbas? Graciousness or violence? Selflessness or self-centeredness? It is the same when the crowds say to Pilate: “We have no king, except Caesar!” In saying this, they were abandoning their own messianic hopes in favor of a momentary security. We say the same thing every time when, for our own well-being, we sell out our higher ideals and settle for second best. As well, all too frequently, we mimic the words of the crowds who chal-

lenged Jesus as he was hanging on the cross with these words: “If you are the Son of God, come off the cross, save us, and save yourself.” We do this every time we let our prayers become a test of God’s existence and goodness; if we get a positive answer, God loves us, if not, we begin to doubt. It is the same, of course, with our actions: Like Jesus’ disciples, we tend to stay with Jesus more when things are going well, when temptation is not too strong, and when we are not facing real, personal threat. But, like Jesus’ original followers, we tend to abandon and betray when things get hard and threatening. Moreover, like the authorities who come to arrest Jesus carrying lanterns and torches, we also often prefer artificial light to the Light of Lights; just as, like those who arrested Jesus, we tend to approach the prince of peace carrying clubs and swords, ready for a fight. Generally, on reading the account of Jesus’ Passion and death, our spontaneous inclination is to judge very harshly those who surrounded Jesus at his arrest, trial, and sentencing: How could they not see what they were doing? How could they be so blind and jealous? How could they choose false security over God’s ultimate shelter? A murderer over the messiah? How could his followers so easily abandon him? Not much has changed in 2,000 years. The choices that those around Jesus were making during his trial and sentencing are identical to the choices we are still making today. And most days we are not doing any better than they did because, still, far too often, given blindness and self-interest, we are saying: Away with him! Crucify him! OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

the truths it professes are really true, and in fact reveal the deepest truth of the human condition. Flannery O’Connor again: “… the virgin birth, the incarnation, the resurrection … are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of those laws. … (It) would never have occurred to human consciousness to conceive of purity if we were not to look forward to a resurrection of the body, which will be flesh and spirit united in peace, in the way they were in Christ. The resurrection of Christ seems the high point in the law of nature.” You can’t get much more countercultural than that. Yet what Miss O’Connor wrote speculatively in 1955 was what the fathers of the Second Vatican Council solemnly affirmed a decade later, in the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World: “... in the mystery of the word made flesh … the mystery of man truly becomes clear ... Christ the Lord, Christ the new Adam ... fully reveals man to himself and brings to light his most high calling.” Our age habitually thinks low. Easter bids us to think high: very high. For Christ is risen, and so shall his faithful people be. WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

LETTERS Church silent on struggling middle class I for one am weary of the adulation of our current pope for his drumbeat about preference for the poor, as if no previous pope had emphasized the theme. Since I was a child, decades ago, I have been solicited to help the less fortunate, and I have regularly contributed through the years to those who, because of personal misfortune or living under corrupt leaders, find themselves destitute and who knock on the door of the Catholic Church. What I am not hearing from Rome, is a single sentence, never mind a document, saluting the struggling middle class, backbone of the “givers” who sacrifice to help the poor and all the while trying to keep themselves afloat. As the parent of adult children, I watch in pain as I see those who have entitlements get that “preferential” treatment from our own administration, which opts to give fish rather than teach fishing, and read continuous scolds from Rome about the need to help the “poor.” I recall someone saying something to the effect that the poor you always have with you. So until I read or hear Pope Francis acknowledge the crushing burden carried by the hardworking middle class I would ask that hammering the rich, and ignoring the middle class, cease and desist. Stop the presses, and the endless chatter. Blanche F. Smith Atherton

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SUNDAY READINGS

The Resurrection of the Lord The Mass of Easter Sunday Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. JOHN 20:1-9 ACTS 10:34A, 37-43 Peter proceeded to speak and said: “You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree. This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible, not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commissioned us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead. To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name.” PSALM 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever. Let the house of Israel say, “His mercy endures forever.” This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

“The right hand of the Lord has struck with power; the right hand of the Lord is exalted. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.” This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad. The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. By the Lord has this been done; it is wonderful in our eyes. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad. COLOSSIANS 3:1-4 Brothers and sisters: If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory. Sequence Offer your thankful praises! A Lamb the sheep redeems; Christ, who only is sinless, Reconciles sinners to the Father. Death and life have contended in that combat stupendous: The Prince of life, who died, reigns immortal. Speak, Mary, declaring what you saw, wayfaring. “The tomb of Christ, who

is living, The glory of Jesus’ resurrection; bright angels attesting, The shroud and napkin resting. Yes, Christ my hope is arisen; to Galilee he goes before you.” Christ indeed from death is risen, our new life obtaining. Have mercy, victor King, ever reigning! Amen. Alleluia. JOHN 20:1-9 On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.” So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead.

The best empirical data

When all is said and done, there are still people who believe the Earth is flat, that the moon landing was staged and that pictures of the universe from the Hubble telescope are no more than computer generated artistic masterpieces. In the end, we choose to believe (or not), because we put our faith (or not) in those who have taught us; who have testified from experience or education, that these things are true; who have taken the pictures, made the scientific calculations, who have made the journey to tell us they have “been there,” and “done that.” The great irony of the celebration of Easter is the lack of data. Artistic renditions notwithstanding, not one of the four Gospels offers a firsthand account of Christ rising from the dead. All we have been given is the empty tomb. Even Bill O’Reilly, in his recent historical novel “Killing Jesus,” ominously concludes, “To this day, the body of Jesus of Nazareth has never been found.” So why do we believe in the Resurrection? How do we know that Jesus Christ rose from the tomb, triumphant over death? In an age of scientific verification, how can we be sure of something so central to our faith? We can be sure because we have the best empirical data. Like those who testify to the roundness of the Earth and the walking on the moon, we put our faith in those select few who have given eyewitness testimony that Jesus is risen. The apostles and

other select fathers of our Christian faith testified to a firsthand experience of the risen Jesus. Others, like St. Paul, testified to a firsthand experience of Jesus in and through his church (Acts 22:6-8). Even in the face of persecution that included imprisonment, unspeakable torture and violent execution these eyewitnesses to the risen Jesus went to their graves holding fast to that experience. (This is different from Galileo, who under pressure chose to recant). As we celebrate the central event of our faith, let us resolve to evangelize that faith in the risen Christ, verified by eyewitnesses, handed down by the church, and, as Pope Francis has said is so essential, is personally experienced in and through his presence with the church. When, in an interview, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York was asked who is the most influential person in his life, he answered, without hesitation, “Jesus Christ, of course.” A bit perplexed, the interviewing reporter clarified, “I meant someone who is alive.” To which the cardinal answered, with all the surety of not merely belief, but firsthand experience, “You know? Jesus IS alive.”

MONDAY, APRIL 21: Monday in the Octave of Easter. ACTS 2:14, 22-33. PS 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11. MT 28:8-15.

THURSDAY, APRIL 24: Thursday in the Octave of Easter. ACTS 3:11-26. PS 8:2ab and 5, 6-7, 8-9. LK 24:35-48.

SUNDAY, APRIL 27: Second Sunday of Easter. Sunday of Divine Mercy. ACTS 2:42-47. PS 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24. 1 PT 1:3-9. jn 20:19-31.

TUESDAY, APRIL 22: Tuesday in the Octave of Easter. ACTS 2:36-41. PS 33:4-5, 18-19, 20 and 22. JN 20:11-18.

FRIDAY, APRIL 25: Friday in the Octave of Easter. ACTS 4:1-12. PS 118:1-2 and 4, 22-24, 25-27a. JN 21:1-14.

MONDAY, APRIL 28: Monday of the Second Week of Easter. ACTS 4:23-31. PS 2:1-3, 4-7a, 7b-9. JN 3:1-8.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23: Wednesday in the Octave of Easter. ACTS 3:1-10. PS 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9. LK 24:13-35.

SATURDAY, APRIL 26: Saturday in the Octave of Easter. ACTS 4:13-21. PS 118:1 and 14-15ab, 16-18, 19-21. MK 16:9-15.

TUESDAY, APRIL 29: Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena, virgin and doctor of the church. ACTS 4:32-37. PS 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5. JN 3:7b-15.

hy do we believe the Earth is round? How do we know that man has walked on the moon? These may appear to be rather fundamental, even ludicrous, questions to which we can easily provide an answer: We have seen pictures (that could have been doctored); we have videos (even copies of “Star Wars,” “Star Trek” and “2001: A Space Odyssey”); we have been told (by people who could have lied, especially to obtain funding). All three answers have been given to demonstrate the existence and experience of such things as UFOs, Bigfoot and global warming. So why do we believe? In a modern era that gives much credibility to science, and scientific processes in FATHER WILLIAM which conclusions are based NICHOLAS on observable data, there is no better data than eyewitness accounts, firsthand observations and verifiable calculations. Galileo is among the early fathers of modern science whose personal observations and scientific calculations have helped to influence the way we see and understand our universe.

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FATHER NICHOLAS, a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is on temporary assignment as parochial vicar at St. Rose of Lima Parish, Simi Valley. His website is frwnicholas.com.

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Foundation of retired pitcher, wife, helps kids deal with grief MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The efforts by retired majorleague pitcher Jamie Moyer and his wife, Karen, to help children get through their grief after having lost a loved one is receiving star treatment in April on the HBO pay-cable channel. A short documentary profiling the Moyer Foundation’s work in this regard, called Camp Erin, with more than 40 locations across the United States, debuted April 14 at 8 p.m. EDT. Called “One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp,” the program looks at just a handful of the dozens of children who go to the weekend camp to better understand their feelings of loss, anger and sadness after a parent, sibling or other loved one has died. On the mound, Moyer, a Catholic, may be known for a lot of things, like toiling for 25 years in the majors, being the oldest starter (at age 49) to win a game, winning 269 games in his career and also giving up more home runs (522) than any other bigleague pitcher.

SCRIPTURE SEARCH Gospel for April 19, 2014 Matthew 28:1-10 Following is a word search based on the Gospel reading for the Easter Vigil: Mary Magdalene’s early morning trip to the tomb. The words can be found in all directions in the puzzle. EASTER MARY STILL DARK SIMON PETER THE LORD ROLLED UP HE SAW

FIRST DAY THE TOMB STONE JESUS NOT GO IN PLACE RISE

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Retired major league pitcher Jamie Moyer and his wife, Karen, are pictured in a 2012 photo. The couple runs a foundation that operates camps for children grieving the loss of a loved one. But being known for Camp Erin will suit him just fine, thank you. “We started our foundation, we really didn’t have a direction,” Moyer told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview from Philadelphia, where he is part of the Philadelphia Phillies’ broadcast team, save for the April 7 home-opener rainout. “I had been involved with a grief camp in South Bend, Ind., when we lived there, he said. Karen Moyer went to the University of Notre Dame and met Jamie when he was a Chicago Cubs rookie and she was assisting on TV broadcasts. “I saw how it helped children coping with a loss,” he continued. “We wanted to try to find an organization like that. We couldn’t, so we started one.” They named it Camp Erin after Erin Metcalf, a cancer-stricken Seattle-area teen whose wish was to meet Moyer. “Her family, with their good graces, allowed us to use her name in the camp,” Jamie Moyer said.

For Karen Moyer, “this is what I do. This is my life. I will do this until I die,” she told CNS in a separate telephone interview. This is in addition to going to daily Mass and raising the couple’s eight children – including two adoptees – ranging in age from 7 to 22. “When you can take it to a platform of a documentary that is somebody else’s idea and HBO buys into it, a national audience takes away a lot of things from this documentary. I find there are many adults who when they see it, wish they had it. They want to get involved, they want to volunteer. They know kids who need the camp, they know where to find funding to sustain the camps and establish the camps,” Karen Moyer said, adding, “Our partnership and relationship with New York Life (Insurance Co.) and HBO has been nothing but a blessing to the mission.” Thanks in part to a $1 million donation by the Moyers in 2007, Camp Erin was able to expand to each city where there is a major-league team. Now there are 45 U.S. cities where there is at least one Camp Erin retreat each year. “It grows every year. And that’s what’s so important about what we do. It continues to grow. We have to be able to continue to reach out,” Karen said. Jamie offered one reminder: Even if 3,000 children and teens get helped each year by Camp Erin, “there’s a million and half kids up to age 17 in this country dealing with a loss. So there’s a need.” Karen Moyer said the foundation has a five-year plan in which it hopes to expand the number of cities hosting a Camp Erin by three to five each year, and solidifying partnerships with such youth-serving organizations as the YMCA, YWCA and the Boys and Girls Club. “I like to think about what else I can do for the child. They’re in all kinds of distress,” she added. “One Last Hug,” will receive repeated replays through the Memorial Day weekend on HBO and its affiliated channels, including HBO 2, HBO Family, HBO Signature and HBO Latino.

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UNITY: Archbishop, Orthodox prelate pray to end East-West division FROM PAGE 1

attend Pope Francis’ first Mass as pope a year ago. Partly to pray for that meeting, Archbishop Cordileone joined San Francisco Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Gerasimos at the evening Service of Salutations to the Holy Cross at the invitation of the metropolitan and of Church of the Holy Cross pastor Father Peter Salmas. The church possesses a relic of the true cross and for eight years has held the ecumenical service with neighboring Catholic parish Immaculate Heart of Mary during Lent, IHM pastor Father Steve Howell said. “As St. Paul asked the Corinthians, ‘Is Christ divided?’ (1 Corinthians 1:13), yet in our pride and ego we believe that we can divide Christ so that we can have him all to ourselves,” said Metropolitan Gerasimos in remarks introducing Archbishop Cordileone. The metropolitan and the archbishop both stressed the importance of the cross in the work of salvation and in achieving unity between Christians. “With the relic of the precious and life-giving holy cross before us this evening, we are called to reflect on the lifesaving work of Jesus Christ that was accomplished through it,” said Metropolitan Gerasimos. “For Orthodox, for Roman Catholics, indeed for all Christians, the cross was that instrument of death that became the trophy of life.” “There is no unity without the cross,” Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily. Retired San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, Portland Archbishop Alexander Sample and numerous San Mateo County pastors and priests, the rector of St. Mary’s Cathedral and seminarians joined Orthodox priests and Catholic and Orthodox faithful for the Orthodox service. This year the event took on greater significance as it commemorated the 50th anniversary of the

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone joined San Francisco Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Gerasimos in a prayer service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross in Belmont April 8, calling for Christian unity between East and West. historic meeting of Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras in 1964 and subsequent lifting in 1965 of the two churches’joint excommunications of each others’ faithful. The Great Schism of 1054, largely over the primacy of the pope, divided the two churches for 900 years. The schism gradually hardened because of political divisions, atrocities on both sides and Orthodox

objections to the “filioque” addition to the Nicene Creed which changed the original creed from saying the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father” to the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father and the Son,” the Catholic News Service stylebook states. Both churches recognize the others’ sacraments. “We have traveled so far closer since that moment in 1964,” said Metropolitan Gerasimos, expressing hope for the meeting of pope and patriarch in Jerusalem next month. “Yet there are still miles to go.” “Thus, our hope is that when Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis meet next month in Jerusalem to commemorate a historic meeting they will inaugurate their own historic event,” the metropolitan said. “Not just a celebration of the past, but present to us an icon of the future that our two churches must paint together.” In a sign of the friendship between both the two parishes and between metropolitan and archbishop, the archbishop was asked to preach the homily that concluded the prayer service and in a demonstration of shared belief, the archbishop and the metropolitan together led the congregation in reciting the Nicene Creed as professed by the Orthodox, the prayer which states the core beliefs of both churches. In his homily, Archbishop Cordileone quoted Jesus’ words in the 17th chapter of the Gospel of John: “That they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they may also be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me … and that you loved them even as you loved me.” “This is the wish of a dying man, but not any dying man; it is the last wish of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ,” Archbishop Cordileone said, noting those words were part of Jesus’ farewell address to his Apostles the night before he died. “Our Lord’s dying wish was for the unity of his believers, that their unity would reflect the unity he has with the Father.”

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CHRISM MASS: Ancient ritual invokes Old Testament’s call to sanctity

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Presiding at the annual chrism Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral April 10, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone blesses vessels containing oil of the catechumens, oil of the sick and chrism oil. The oils are used for anointing in the coming year. Right, priests of the archdiocese concelebrated the consecration after the annual rite of renewing their priestly promises earlier in the Mass. FROM PAGE 1

Chrism is used in baptisms, confirmation, ordination and the consecration of altars. The three oils are solemnly processed to the altar in containers called ampullae and there is one each for oil of the catechumens, oil of the sick and the sacred chrism oil, said Msgr. John Talesfore, rector of St. Mary’s Cathedral. Prior to the prayer consecrating the chrism oil, the archbishop pours balsam perfume into the olive oil and mixes them. He then breathes

over the oils. “This is an ancient action that has been in the prayer for centuries and is often tied to the prayer asking the Holy Spirit to come down,” Bertone said. Like the olive oil, the balsam, which makes the chrism so fragrant, is tied to ancient rites of anointing with fragrant oil that occur frequently in the Old Testament and continue from the earliest days of the Catholic Church, Bertone said. “The beautiful fragrance of the balsam evokes an ancient image of the Holy Spirit itself, which, though invisible, is sweetly perceptible.

From this experience of the Holy Spirit’s presence and its manifestation in human holiness, Catholic tradition speaks of ‘the odor of sanctity’ that some more mature Catholics might recall,” Msgr. Talesfore said. In his homily, the archbishop thanked the priests of the archdiocese. “I have seen firsthand the fruits of your labors. The faith is alive here in our archdiocese, especially in our parishes,” Archbishop Cordileone said. The priests are “serving the poor,” “lifting up the oppressed,” working in the day-to-day life of their voca-

tions, attending meetings, working with parishioners, celebrating the sacraments, and immersed in what he called “the practical demanding routine of parish life,” he said. “So much of it goes unseen,” except by God, the archbishop said. The chrism Mass is normally celebrated the morning of Holy Thursday but in many dioceses is celebrated earlier in Holy Week. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the Mass was moved a week earlier to make it easier for many of the priests, busy in their parishes during Holy Week, to attend.

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Local broadcaster writes tribute to Blessed John XXIII you like, of its relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people,â&#x20AC;? the rabbi said. Rothmann said his interest in the Catholic Church was greatly influenced by his relationship with Father Kieran McCormick, whom he met when Father McCormick was an associate pastor at Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco in 1966. Father McCormick oversaw CYO at the parish and Rothmann was dating a young woman who belonged to the group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got to spend more time with her if I also went to the CYO events,â&#x20AC;? he said. He and Father McCormick remain friends today, he said.

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John Rothmann, a familiar voice to Bay Area radio listeners for 16 years on KGO and today on 910 KNEW, has published an article called â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Incomparable Popeâ&#x20AC;? about a pontiff very familiar to contemporary Catholics: Blessed John XXIII. Rothmann, in an April 14 conversation with Catholic San Francisco about the article, said Pope John XXIII as pope and earlier as a cardinal â&#x20AC;&#x153;was a man who changed the relationship between Catholics and their church and restructured the relationship between Catholics and Jews.â&#x20AC;? Rothmann himself is a Jew and his family has â&#x20AC;&#x153;been a pillar of the Jewish communityâ&#x20AC;? here since 1850, he said. Rothmann, who grew up and lives today in San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Laurel Heights neighborhood, said he has been â&#x20AC;&#x153;an information gatherer with his ear to the groundâ&#x20AC;? since he was a boy and that the Catholic Church has interested him since that time. Blessed John XXIII would be the first pope Rothmann, who is 65, and Catholics of his generation would get to know firsthand. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was always impressed by Pope John XXIII,â&#x20AC;? Rothmann said, adding that the popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimate legacy was that â&#x20AC;&#x153;one man can make a difference.â&#x20AC;? Blesseds John XXIII and John Paul II will be canonized April 27 during a Mass at the Vatican. The date is Divine Mercy Sunday and, coincidentally, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Blessed John holds â&#x20AC;&#x153;the copyrightâ&#x20AC;? for the modern Catholic Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s respectful approach to other religions, Rabbi David Rosen, director of interreligious relations for the American Jewish Committee, said in a recent interview with Catholic News Service in Rome.

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A mosaic on the wall of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome shows Blessed John XXIII, who convened the Second Vatican Council in 1962. He said he believes there is much truth in the assertion that â&#x20AC;&#x153;John XXIIIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recognition that the church had to reassess its whole relationship with the Jewish people â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which was the inspiration for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Nostra Aetateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (the Second Vatican Council document on relations with other religions) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was what led the church to begin to look at its relationship with all other religions.â&#x20AC;? The Catholic Church â&#x20AC;&#x153;came to a more universal approach to dialogue out of its â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;rehabilitation,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; if

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HOLY ANGELS SCHOOL, COLMA: Eighth grader Madeline Morales was recognized among more than 2,000 entries as the 2013-2014 International Champion for the Knights of Columbus “Keep Christ in Christmas” poster contest. The ceremonies took place April 2 at Holy Angels School. “This program allows young people to engage their creative talents and imaginations while understanding the true, spiritual meaning of Christmas,” organizers said. Pictured, back from left, are Knight of Columbus Edward C. Dantes, Knight Ruben Nunez, contest chairman; Knights Ted Cordano, Gregg Marracq, Ruperto P. Ubaldo and front from left, Dominican Sister Leonarda Montealto, principal; Madeline, her mom Corazon Morales, Kim Cordano, art teacher and eighth grade teacher

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Pictured from left are conferring officer Knight David H. Olwell; Salesian Father Paul Antao, who was honored with a solidarity coin; and Knight Ruperto R. Ubaldo.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 22 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7 p.m. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698; grosskopf@usfca.edu.

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

FRIDAY, APRIL 18 ‘JUDAS ISCARIOT’: A 45-minute dramatic presentation of Judas Iscariot by Mark Price, 7 p.m., St. Gregory Parish, 2715 Hacienda St. at 28th Avenue, San Mateo, admission is free, Mark Price goodwill donations accepted. There will be time for questions following the presentation. Karen Elmore, (650) 345-8506; kselmore3@comcast.net.

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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. Event benefits the poor and hungry served by SVdP. The society’s Peninsula Family Resource working to keep families housed is highlighted. Jodie Penner, director of development, (650) 373-0622; jpenner@ svdpsm.org.

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SATURDAY, MAY 3 PEACE MASS: All Hallows Church, 1715 Oakdale Ave., San Francisco, 9 a.m. Zonia Fasquelle, zoniafasquelle@ gmail.com. ‘THEOLOGY OF THE BODY’: Presentation on Pope John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” 9 a.m.-noon at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park by Ed Hopfner, director, Office of Marriage and Family Life, Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Talk will present Catholic Church teaching on marriage and sexuality in a way attuned to the modern person capable of reaching people in everyday life. Cost is $10 per person and includes coffee and scones. Email rachel@vallombrosa.org; (650) 325-5614. CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Joseph Walsh, retired pastor, St. Stephen Parish, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 7562060; www.holycrosscemeteries. com.

SUNDAY, MAY 4 YOUNG ADULT LISTENING SESSIONS: St. Andrew Church, 1571 Southgate, Daly City, 6:45-8 p.m.; St. Charles Church, 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos, 6:45-8 p.m. Young adults 18-40 years of age are encouraged to attend. Angela Pollock, (415) 614-5595; Pollock@sfarchdiocese.org. WINTERFAITH WALK: The San Francisco Interfaith Council WinterFaith Shelter Walk, 1 p.m. around Lake Merced, visit www.winterfaithshelterwalk.dojiggy.com; email jahlbach@ riordanhs.org. Proceeds help the SFIC offer dinner, lodging and breakfast to up to 80 men who are homeless. TV MASSES: EWTN airs Mass daily at 5 a.m., 9 a.m., 9 p.m. and at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. EWTN is carried on Comcast 229, AT&T 562, Astound 80, San Bruno Cable 143, DISH Satellite 261 and Direct TV 370. In Half

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 MOTHERS LUNCHEON: Epiphany Center’s Celebrating Mothers Luncheon, 11:30 a.m., St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco, orchid sale, silent auction as well as information from beneficiaries of the Daughters of Charity’s supporting life-changing, holistic services for San Francisco’s most vulnerable children, women, and families at Epiphany Center. Tickets are $80. Reserve online at www.theepiphanycenter.org or call (415) 351-4055. LIVING ROSARY: All Hallows Chapel, Newhall and Palou, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m. Rite is sponsored by All Hallows 182, Young Ladies Institute. Sue Elvander, (415) 467-8872.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4 GOLF: Italian Community Services and Immaculate Conception Academy Golf Tournament, Harding Park Golf Course, 11 a.m., check-in and lunch, 12:30 shotgun start, 6 p.m. no-host cocktails followed by dinner, $250.00 fee includes cart, green fee, lunch and dinner. Hole sponsorship opportunities available. Deadline is May 15. Register at www.italiancs.com. Anna Maria Pierini, ampierini@italiancs.com, (415) 362-6423, ext. 11. Patricia Cavagnaro, ICA pcavagnaro@icacademy.org; (415) 824-2052, ext. 31.

SATURDAY, JUNE 7 PEACE MASS: Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Avenue at Lawton Street, San Francisco, 9 a.m. Father Arnold Zamora, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. Zonia Fasquelle, zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 18, 2014

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of March HOLY CROSS COLMA Herminia B. Alcantara Evelyn Andrighetto Virginia M. Arnold Virginia M. Baker Lennard James D. Barrun Aline Mei-Lian Bau John William Belliveau Christina O. Bishop Madeline M. Blake Michael L. Bliss Kathleen B. Breen Paul Buran Ramon O. Bustos Sr. Marion Loretta Carr, PBVM Silvia Carrillo David Quor Chan Ruth P. Connelly Raquel Cordero Jodell Crain Louis A. Dalcolletto Alexandra De Anda Paula Calles de Guevara Thomas John Dennis Daniel M. Escalona, M.D. Sergio Roberto Estrada, Sr. Sally R. Faccini (Brown) Richard Michael Ferrario Donna J. Ferretti Mary Fiorentini Alice Creighton Fiumara Carmen C. Fraetis Robert B. Franzoia

Richard A. Futrell Lola Gambucci Alicia Lourdes De Anda Garcia Mary B. Garibaldi Mary T. General Dominga A. Gomez Gustavo Leon Raygoza Gomez Norelisa Gonzales Josephine Gonzalez Robert Charles Greening Dolores Ballardo Gudino Aida Guerrero-Durian Theresa M. Hickman Hilda M. Horvat Soolepu C. Maliga Iakopo Milagros Ilagan John Burns Jolley Margarita S. (Peggy) Kamper Albert Kapkin Patricia Keenan Jeriza Kenery Elaine Silveira Kuegeman Elizabeth A. La Macchia Mary Canardo Lapera Lucy Joan Lencioni Jerry P. Lessa Miriam A. Levy Amancio L. Liangco, Sr. Blanca Elena Lopez Hazel Lucio Martha Martinez Jose J. Martinez Marian McCosker Norma McCrellis Emelia G. Mendoza Michael P. Miller

Loretta Miller Apolonia B. Mojica Dena Moore Luis Mario Moran Aloysius H. Nathe Monica Sik Tjen Nee Karin L. Newton Katherine Kee Lee Ng Hugo M. Ocon Amparo R. Ortega Eleanor P. Otterstedt Dorothy Parker Mila Pucheu Victoria A. Raffo Diana E. Raggio Loris Rossi Estrella P. Sabalvaro Kika Saenz Lucien M. Sainte-Marie Patricia Ann Sambuck Elsie L. Schenone Betty Schofield-Miller Joseph C. Seegmiller Jose Q. Sembrana Gerardo M. Serrano Louis B. Serratto Stanley K. Smith Kenneth Smith Ellen Theresa Smith Melvina Soares Natividad Tandoc Ronald V. Thorson Eufrocina P. Valbuena Ryan James Viri Robert L. Vitorelo Vilma G. Wassmer

Huldah M. Williams Corinne Lorraine Wilson Pacita Woodward

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Lillian Lewis Dolan Ada Solbeck Philip D. Taylor

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Bernice Alves Frank V. Vaz, Jr.

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Lawrence J. Callan Francis A. Doc Doyle Tina Ann Griffin Jean E. O’Hara John P. O’Hara Josephine Brunini Pini Doyle Viola “Vi” Ross Ernest A. Zeiter

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, May 3, 2014 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Joseph Walsh, Celebrant Pastor, St. Gabriel Parish

MEMORIAL DAY MASS – Monday, May 26, 2014 Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Most Rev. William J. Justice, Celebrant

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.