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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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