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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – The culture wars of today have nothing on those from Renaissance times. In Florence, Italy, in 1497 – after people had been repeatedly warned that some instruments, books, sculptures, paintings and clothes could lead them away from their faith – thousands of these items were thrown into a huge pile in the center of the city and burned in the famous Bonfire of the Vanities. Among the works of art said to be set afire were some of the paintings of nudes or characters from mythology by Sandro Botticelli, who was a contemporary and friend of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci and who painted a number of religious images and the famous paintings “Birth of Venus” and “Primavera.” A current U.S. exhibition of Botticelli’s works, many of them appearing in this country for the first time, places the modern audience right in the middle of this tumultuous period and also shows how this time of intense spiritual scrutiny impacted the artist. “Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florensee botticelli, page 14
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The “Risen Christ” is depicted in a 15th-century painting by Sandro Botticelli. Easter, the chief feast in the liturgical calendars of all Christian churches, commemorates Christ’s resurrection from the dead. Easter is April 16 this year.
WASHINGTON – The Catholic Church could suffer from millions of people walking away from it unless all of its members, from ordained clergy to laity and everyone in between, take part in leadership to revitalize the church and its parishes, according to author Chris Lowney, the board chair of Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the United States’ largest hospital systems – religious or secular. “I would have to confess to feeling at various times over these years, as a lifelong Catholic myself, that we have some challenges,” Lowney told Catholic News Service. “We’re not coming to grips as forthrightly as we might need. ... We can’t gloss over these things, and we’ll be better off confronting these things squarely, and overcoming some of the challenges.” But rather than write a book that’s 80 percent negative – which is what Lowney had in an early draft – he instead penned a book that he said is 80 percent “hopeful, positive” in “Everyone Leads: How to Revitalize the Catholic Church,” to be published April 4. see author, page 27
Consecrating the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
e Jongleur de Notre Dame” (The Tumbler and the Lady) is a story by Anatole France based on a 12th-century legend about a poor minstrel who becomes a monk in the Cistercian Abbey in Clairvaux, France. With no education or sophistication, the minstrel soon finds himself utterly unsuited for the life of work and prayer in the monastery. Despondent, he stumbles into the crypt one evening where he sees a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary seated on a throne. Her face is suffused with such gentleness and compassion father charles that he feels comforted in his puthota sorrows. He spontaneously takes his cowl off and begins to tumble, leap and dance, the only art he knows, and begs Mary to accept it as his unworthy offering of affection and veneration. This
goes on for days until one day some monks quietly follow him down into the crypt and witness his Prayer of the Archdiocese of San Francisco antics of leaping and dancing in front of the statue. to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Exhausted, the minstrel falls to the ground unconO Most Blessed Virgin Mary, when you apscious. Lo and behold, the Blessed Mother descends peared in Fatima 100 years ago, you desired from her throne and wipes the beads of sweat from that the Church should take refuge in your his brow in a tender gesture of acceptance of his Immaculate Heart as a means that leads to love and devotion. Jesus, who is the way to the Father. Heeding On Oct. 7, 2017, when Archbishop Salvatore J. your call, we entrust ourselves, our families, Cordileone will consecrate the Archdiocese of San and our Archdiocese to the care and protecFrancisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, at tion of your Immaculate Heart. As we preSt. Mary’s Cathedral, as part of the annual Ropare ourselves, through humble expressions sary Rally, he will be spiritually uniting us all in a of devotion, for the Consecration of our Archgesture of love and devotion to the Blessed Virgin diocese to your Immaculate Heart, inspire in Mary. She will accept and embrace us as her chilus the longing to know, love, and follow your dren, comfort us in our sorrows, strengthen us in beloved son Jesus Christ. We seek that you our faith, and lead us to her son Jesus Christ. In his help us imitate your spirit of generosity in letter to priests of the archdiocese, the archbishop doing God’s will and your example of serving says: “In response to numerous requests from the others selflessly so that, having found God’s A personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. faithful I will consecrate our archdiocese to the Imabundant grace here on earth, we may one If you have received a flag honoring your loved one's military service likethe to donate it dayand bewould led to everlasting joys in Heaven. to the cemetery be flown as part of an seetoconsecration, page 23“Avenue of Flags" on Memorial Day, 4th of July and Veterans' Day,
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Lenten spirituality
Need to know Learning about Fatima: The archdiocese has created a special website page for the faithful to learn more about Our Lady of Fatima during this year’s centenary of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, Portugal. In the archdiocese, the special year of Marian veneration concludes on Oct. 7 with Archbishop Cordileone consecrating the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The website page contains the Fatima story told in weekly in chapters, in English and Spanish, to print and share. The page also features links to Marian art and music. Visit www.sfarch.org/ ihm.
Here is a list of selected Lenten events in the archdiocese. A comprehensive, online list is available at sfarchdiocese. org/home/archdiocese/lent-2017.
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Canal Family Support, San Rafael: Program tour, March 30; volunteer opportunity, tutor – ongoing.
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Easter basket in-kind donations: Catholic Charities of San Francisco is seeking the following inkind items for Easter baskets by Friday, April 7. Children’s picture books, Easter baskets for children, Easter crafts for seniors, eggs and egg-dying kits, self-care baskets for women and museum or movie passes. Deliver to 990 Eddy St., San Francisco, CA 94109, or call (415) 972-1200.
Mosaic TV; Show on Holy Week and Easter: The final week in the life of Jesus of Nazareth has been called the “central week in human history.” Laura Bertone, director of the Office of Worship, will discuss the event, themes and liturgies of Holy Week and their culmination in Easter. Sunday, 5 a.m. KPIX Channel 5. If you miss the broadcast, go to sfarch.org to view this and other episodes.
Homelessness and Housing Services, San Francisco: Program tour, April 11 Rita da Cascia Community, San Francisco: Volunteer opportunity, support group co-host, MarchMay; volunteer opportunity, Easter party, April 8.
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Holy Week Retreat at San Damiano: Join Franciscan Father Ken Laverone and the San Damiano community of friars and staff for a celebration of the Triduum, with presentations, prayer and a quiet rhythm for reflection on the meaning, purpose, and challenge of Jesus in our lives. Reservations required. 710 Highland Drive, Danville. (925) 8379141; katerik@sandamiano.org
Additional volunteer opportunities: Are listed at http://catholiccharitiessf.org/all-opportunities/. Contact Diana Contreras, volunteer manager, at (415) 972-1297 or volunteer@ CatholicCharitiesSF.org.
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Palm Sunday Weekend Silent Retreat for men and women at the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos: Spend Palm Sunday Weekend in silent prayer saying “yes” to God. This retreat prepares participants’ hearts and minds for Jesus’ Passion and Resurrection as they reflect on the final week of his
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Refugee and Immigrant Services, San Mateo: Program tour, April 11.
“Penance – Its virtue, practice”: A 10:30 a.m. talk by Father James Garcia, Archdiocese of San Francisco. Father Garcia is the final speaker in the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption’s Lenten Speaker Series. 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. (415) 567-2020; stmarycathedralsf.org.
TAIZE RETREAT: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive Burlingame, welcomes youth and young adults 16-35, for “How Does the Gospel Challenge Me to Move Forward as a Person of Hope?” with registration May 5, 3 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m. continuing through May 6 with closing at 9:30 p.m.; $20 donation for lodging and meals. Brothers from the Ecumenical Community of Taize will lead the two days of prayer, music and sharing with others. RSVP: BSoracco@mercywmw.org or visit http://mercy-center.org/ Flyers_2017/0505TaizeYouth/ retreat.html.
Lenten School Supplies Drive: Most Holy Redeemer Parish is a longtime supporter of St. James School in the Mission district. On the final weekend of its six-week Lenten drive, the parish is collecting standard size printer paper for the school office. Donation of paper or cash to purchase supplies for St. James can be made directly in the collection basket, or delivered to 100 Diamond St., San Francisco, 94114, or call the parish office at (415) 863-6259.
Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of San Francisco invites volunteers to serve during Lent. Here is a sampling of opportunities.
Thursdays of Lent, Taize evening prayer: A 6 p.m. meditative candlelit prayer service centering on contemplative prayer and music at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St., San Francisco. (415) 288-3800.
WOMEN DEACONS IN THE CHURCH: “Women Deacons? A Dialogue” is a panel presentation April 8 by Reno Bishop Randolph Calvo, former pastor and canon lawyer of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, with Dominican Sister Mary Peter Traviss and Dominican Sister Gloria Marie Jones. The event is hosted by the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Center for Education and Spirituality and takes place 10 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Dominican Center in Fremont. Cost is $40 and covers the day and includes presentation, luncheon, and materials (student discounts with valid student card are available). RSVP at http://bit. ly/2017WomenDeacons or call (510) 933-6360. Visit www.msjdominicans.org/education-arts/ center-education-spirituality.
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Lenten activities with Catholic Charities
earthly ministry – from his entry into Jerusalem to his final day on earth. Registration required. 300 Manresa Way, Los Altos. (650) 917-4000; jrclosaltos.org.
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St. Ignatius Church Family Stations of the Cross: 7 p.m. 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco. Fourteen families will participate in this family service. vkazanjian@gmail.com.
Archbishop Cordileone’s schedule April 8: Meetings with deacon candidates
chancery meetings; Holy Thursday Mass, cathedral, 7:30 p.m.
April 9: Palm Sunday Mass, 11 a.m., cathedral; Holy Hour for Missionaries of Charity
April 14: Good Friday service, cathedral, 3 p.m.
April 12: Chancery meetings; Shalom TV interview
April 15: Easter Vigil, cathedral, 9 p.m.
April 13: Presbyteral Council, Priests Personnel Board,
April 16: Easter Sunday Mass, cathedral, 9 a.m.
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A eucharistic procession March 25 from Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco traveled along nearby streets, with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone carrying the Eucharist in a monstrance under a canopy and saying the rosary. The procession at one point was led by a Missionary of Charity with a megaphone and included 14 altar servers and a statue of St. Joseph.
Archbishop dedicates adoration chapel at Star of the Sea Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
Calling the establishment of the St. Joseph Perpetual Adoration Chapel “a holy endeavor,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone dedicated the eucharistic adoration chapel at Star of the Sea Church March 25, the solemnity of the Annunciation, and led a procession of several hundred people through the surrounding San Francisco neighborhood. The dedication of the chapel is “a pivotal moment in the history of the parish and of the archdiocese,” Archbishop Cordileone said in a short talk
after blessing the chapel, speaking to the many gathered in the church who could not crowd into the chapel for the blessing. “I thank you and I pray that this devotion, this holy devotion, may bring forth many graces on the parish and on the archdiocese.” Parents pushing strollers, young adults praying the rosary, longtime parishioners and religious sisters were among the varied crowd of 400-500 people singing hymns and praying the Joyful Mysteries of the rosary, led by their megaphone-armed pastor Father Joseph Illo and then by a Missionary of Charity in her blue trimmed white sari.
The archbishop carried the Eucharist in a monstrance before him under a canopy held by four men. Going before him were 14 altar servers and men carrying a statue of St. Joseph. The procession crossed the busy street of Clement, and went along Eighth Avenue, along California, and back along Ninth Avenue in the Inner Richmond neighborhood. The chapel cost $250,000 to renovate, said Father Illo. Its genesis was in 1958, when an earlier pastor, Msgr. Walter Fleming, began raising money to transform the area, which had been a first grade classroom, into a day chapel.
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Archbishop Joseph McGucken dedicated it in 1970 as the St. Joseph Chapel. The previous pastor, Father Mark Mazza, planned to put in new lighting, but deferred when he knew Father Illo was succeeding him. “The project became much more than new lighting, of course, and we decided we had better do a top to bottom renovation.” Father Illo said. A major benefactor was Father Benedict Chang, who resided at the parish for many years, and left a bequest two years ago of about $300,000 divided see adoration, page 7
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‘Truth centered in Christ,’ St. Tim’s young adult leader says Tom Burke catholic San Francisco
While I remember the good that youth ministry did for me as a teenager 50 years ago in Wildwood, New Jersey, I do not recall young adult ministry as having been available to me in the years subsequent to those. For young adults today that is not the case. I had the privilege to speak by email with one of the reasons why. Her name is Stella Trinidad and she is director of the young Stella Trinidad adult program at St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo. Shas been coordinating the young adult ministry for one year. Stella is a graduate of St. Tim’s, Notre Dame High School, Belmont and Santa ROOTS: A group of 21 faculty and staff from San Francisco’s Convent of the Sacred Heart and Stuart Hall schools traced the steps Clara University. Her day job in of the Religious of the Sacred Heart sisters in Cuba on a February trip to the country. “The goal was to have adults experience the trip the major gifts department for the first, and then design how it might serve an international student experience,” the schools said. For the sisters’ founder St. Philippine Development Office of Stanford Duchesne “Cuba’s shores were the first land she saw in her pursuit to bring Sacred Heart education to the Americas,” the schools said. University. Mark Trinidad Pictured are the travelers. At St. Tim’s Stella works “to build relationships with young adults in and around ‘MAN OF THE YEAR’: More than 650 benefactors young adult community to advertise events and the parish, design and host meetings and events of the Salesian Boys’ and Girls’ happy hours, etc.” As we approach Holy Week Stella specifically targeting young adults in the area.” Her recommends “Rediscover Jesus” by Matthew Kelly. focus is on “building a community of young adults Church Goods & Candles Religous Gifts & Books Club as well as family, friends and well-wishers cheered on George Stella can be reached at sttimsyam@sttims.us. positioned to lead the future of our church.” Lippi March 11 at ceremonies I asked Stella if anyone could join including men honoring him as the boys and girls CURTAIN CALL: A fond farewell to fellow chanand women from parishes without young adult club’s Man of the Year at the Faircery grunt Les McDonald who ministry. “Absolutely! It seems that many parishes mont Hotel in San Francisco. Saleretired Feb. 1. Les has been in the have a small young adult presence in our immediate sian Father John Itzaina, pastor of saddle of5 locations the realinestate division area. We feel like the best way to grow is to partner California Sts. Peter and Paul Church, gave of the archdiocese since 1991. with other parishes and support and learn from the invocation, Frank Lavin, board For 25 years before that he was a each other.” Stella is a volunteer at St. Tim’s and George Lippi Your Local Store: president was evening emcee, and mainstay of the residential and chose to assist in young adult ministry “because 369 Grand Av, S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 Randal De Martini, presented the award. George commercial real estate world of the truth of our faith needs to be shared with othNear SFFrancisco Airport - and Exitthe 101Peninsula. Frwy @ Grand Granelli, a grandson of the honoree, “paid tribute San ers. Today’s culture is leading us down the wrong to his grandfather’s generous spirit, unfaltering Les has seen much take place path. Too many people are getting caught up in the cotters@cotters.com love for his family, and dedication to excellence,” at church properties including ‘anything goes’ and ‘tolerance’ culture. There is a Les McDonaldwww.cotters.com the club said. George personally as well as through sit-ins, shut-outs and much more. truth which is centered in Christ.” Stella and her his business, Fugazi Travel, has been a supporter “It’s been a good ride,” said Les, who can never be husband Mark, who gives her a hand at St. Tim’s, of the club for more than 50 years. found without a can of Diet Coke in his hand. He celebrate their 10th anniversary this month. I held says the zero calorie drink is not just his favorite my breath when I asked Stella how Catholic San Email items and electronic picbeverage but his “only beverage.” Les has drunk Francisco could be a more useful tool for young tures – jpegs at no less than 300 150,000 cans of the bubbly brew while combing adults. “I like that there is an electronic version of dpi to burket@sfarchdiocese.org the acres of the archdiocese these 25 years, he the paper,” she told me. “Maybe if there were some or mail to Street, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco told me. Not gone completely, Les is maintainoptions for Rich Site Summary feeds to get articles 94109. Include a follow-up phone number. Street is ing a presence in the real estate department as a straight into your email box for areas of interest. toll-free. My phone number is (415) 614-5634. consultant. We probably could use more engagement in the
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Violence prevention innovator receives USF’s ‘Common Good’ award Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
Nearly 50 years after graduating from the University of San Francisco where he organized the school’s first Black Student Union, Joseph E. Marshall will receive the university’s 2017 California Prize for Service and the Common Good on April 27. Since 2008, USF has awarded the California Prize for Service and the Common Good to an individual to organization in recognition of significant service to the poor and marginalized as well as for groundbreaking achievements in pursuit of the common good. As this year’s recipient, Marshall is being recognized for his work as co-founder of Alive & Free, an internationally recognized violence prevention program based in San Francisco’s blue collar Dogpatch neighborhood. A 1968 graduate of USF, Marshall is the first alumnus to receive the prize. The Alive & Free “movement,” as Marshall prefers to call it, treats violence as a disease with a “prescriptive” process that helps change the self-defeating mindset that often leads to actions that deprive at-risk youth from fulfilling their true potential. It’s this medical model authored by Marshall 30 years ago which has since helped thousands destined for jail or a violent life – or death – on the streets change their choices and their lives. “You can think of it as an immunization,” Marshall told Catholic San Francisco March 23 during a visit to the historic schoolhouse that serves as Alive & Free headquarters and a safe home-awayfrom-home. “We are building up their immune systems,” to resist peer-pressure and self-destructive, risk-taking behavior. Young people ages 14-24 voluntarily walk through the doors each week to attend a weekly “family meeting” during which Marshall, Alive & Free staff and students openly discuss subjects like domestic violence, black history and anger management in a group setting. Though some come toting guns and gang grudges, violence has never erupted in the cause of violence prevention, Marshall said. Most stay because “they want a home like this,” he said. Education is the cornerstone of Marshall’s approach to violence prevention. Alive & Free offers rigorous college-prep classes each week. To date, 220 young people have graduated from college with scholarships funded from grants and private donations. More than 60 have received graduate degrees. Marshall was a middle school math teacher for the San Francisco Unified School District for more than two decades when he started the Omega Boys Club with a fellow school counselor, Jack Jacqua in 1987. The pair began the “club” after seeing too many
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Joseph E. Marshall Jr. is the recipient of USF’s 2017 California Prize for Service and the Common Good for his work as founder of an international program that treats violence as a disease with a “prescriptive” treatment.
On the wall in Marshall’s office are family photos, including one of his grandmother who told him repeatedly, ‘The more you know, the more you owe.’ of their otherwise promising students – largely young men of color – fall victim to violence and drugs. “We provide the family structure and leadership these kids need, principally fathers,” he said. A statistic in Marshall’s book, “Street Soldier,” states that well over half of America’s black children live without fathers in the household. “I tell them I am their father forever,” he said. Marshall grew up in South Central Los Angeles. Unlike most of his protégé, he benefited from his parents’ commitment to each other and to their children’s education. His ditch-digging father and working mother put all nine children through Catholic schools and college. On the wall in Marshall’s office are family photos, including one of his grandmother who told him repeatedly, “The more you know, the more you owe.” To that end he has shared his prescription with dozens of schools and nonprofits across the United States and in countries including South Africa, Canada, Nigeria, Botswana, Thailand and Haiti. His Sunday evening, nationally syndicated radio show, “Street Soldiers,” reaches up to 60,000 listeners each week and a national bestselling book by the same name is in its fourth edition. “We’re talking here about a couple of underpaid schoolteachers with nothing more than a desire to make a difference,” said Wilbur Jiggetts, an Omega volunteer and grandfather figure. “They have done more than all the poverty programs of the ‘60s. That’s what can happen when someone makes it a high enough priority.”
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Easter liturgies 2017 Holy Week Schedule April 13 Holy Thursday
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April 16 Easter Sunday
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Holy Saturday Morning Prayer – 8:40 a.m. Easter Vigil Mass – 8 p.m. Easter Sunday Masses: 5 a.m. (Salubong) Sunrise Mass, 7:45 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m NO 5:30 p.m. Mass on Easter Sunday
The Parish of St. Catherine of Siena 1310 Bayswater Ave., Burlingame CA 94010 Holy Thursday, April 13
7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Chapel ending with Night Prayer at 10:55 p.m.)
Good Friday, April 14
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Stations of the Cross 1:15 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 7 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
Holy Saturday, April 15 8:00 p.m.
Celebration of the Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday, April 16
Easter Sunday Masses 7:30, 9, 10:30 a.m. & 12 noon
www.OurLadyofthePillar.org
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have aSaturday/Sábado very special Lent Camp all students, Holy de for Gloria – Aprilgrades 15 4-12. At this camp, theRosary/Santo students will learn the spirit of 12:00 noon Holy Rosario the(Our holy Lady seasonofand will have Shrine/ opportunities for deepenGuadalupe ingSanctuario their own preparation Easter.deOn Wednesday, de Nuestrafor Señora Guadalupe) March 29, we will have our Parish Lenten 4:00 pm Confessions / Confesiones Retreat, “The Door of pm Mercy is Still Open!” from 6:30 PM-9:00 PM at 8:30 Easter Vigil/Vigilia Pascual (Bilingual/ Our Lady of the Pillar Church. Fr. Paul Maillet, S.S. and Bilingüe) Easter Sunday/Domingo de Pascua
On March 1, we will begin our Holy Fast with Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting (one normal meal and two Fr. Jaime Robledo, S.S. will be joining us to deliver the 16 on God’s healing Mercy and we will have six snacks for those ages 18-59) and abstinence (no meat for April reflections 8:00 am, 10:00 noonof(Español) those 14 and older). We have Mass on Ash Wednesday at priests available foram, the 12:00 Sacrament Penance. No 6:00 pm Mass/No hay misa de las 6:00 pm. 8:00 AM in English and 7:00 PM in Spanish at Our Lady of the Pillar, in addition to our after-school Liturgy of the The schedule for Holy Week, beginning with the vigil of Word with Ashes for families and seniors at 3:30 PM. Palm Sunday on April 8, can be found on the reverse of Anthony’s, Pescadero We also have bilingual Mass at St.St. Anthony’s at 7:00 PM this letter. Good Friday, April 14, is a day of fasting (one and Mass in English normalFriday/Viernes meal and two snacks for those ages 14 18-59) and Saturday April 8 at Our Lady of Refuge at 7:00 PM. Good Santo – April abstinence meat for those 14 Passion and older). 6:00 pm Misa de Domingo de Ramos 7:00 pm(no Celebration of the of the Lord/ Throughout the Season of Lent, we will gather at Our LetCelebración us pray for each as we together our de laother Pasión delwalk Señor Palm Sunday/Domingo Ramos – April 9 Lady of the Pillar each Fridaydenight for Stations of the Lenten journey of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving! (Biligual/Bilingüe) 9:00(meditations am Mass by St. Alphonsus Liguori) at 7:00 Cross Holy Saturday/Sábado PM, followed by our community supper, Respectfully yours in Christ,de Gloria – April 15 Holy Thursday/Jueves Santo soup – April 13 prepared 8:30 pm Easter Vigil/ by7:00 our various parish groups, at 7:30 PM. During our pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper/Misa Vigilia Pascual (Bilingual/Bilingüe) soup Fernandez will give us a de supper, la Cenaparishioner del Señor Bob (Bilingual/Bilingüe) series of talks on the life and of until St. James the (Adoration at the Altar oflegacy Repose Midnight/ Easter Sunday/Domingo de Pascua – April 16 Greater, the Apostle who received the apparition of Our Father Previtali Adoración del Santísimo Sacramento 9:00Joseph am Mass Lady of la themedianche) Pillar in Spain in the year 42 A.D. Administrator hasta
Our Lady of Refuge, La Honda Palm Sunday – April 9 10:30 am Mass, Confessions following Holy Thursday – April 13 8:00 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Good Friday – April 14 6:00 pm Stations of the Cross 7:00 pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, Confessions following Easter Sunday – April 16 10:30 am Mass
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CHURCH OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CHURCH AND SCHOOL 60 Wellington Avenue, Daly City, CA 94014 2016 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE
March 19—Saturday—PALM SUNDAY of the Lord’s Passion Blessing and Distribution of Palms: Vigil Masses: 4:00 PM; 5:30 PM. March 20—Sunday—All Masses
60 Wellington Avenue Daly City, CA 94014 Phone 650 755 9786 March 21—HOLY MONDAY 7:30 AM—Mass
March 22—HOLY TUESDAY 7:30 AM—Mass
2017 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE March 23—HOLY WEDNESDAY 7:30 AM—Mass Evening Perpetual Help Novena is cancelled
24—HOLY THURSDAY April 8 March - Saturday - PALM SUNDAY of the PASCHAL TRIDUUM BEGINS AM—Morning Praise Lord’s Passion7:30 Distribution of Palms: 7:30Blessing PM—Evening Massand of the Lord’s Supper (Bilingual) Washing5:30 of the Feet Vigil Masses: 4:00 PM; PM. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: 9:00 PM—12:00 Midnight April 9 March - Sunday - All Masses 25—GOOD FRIDAY of the Lord’s Passion 12:00 PM—3:00PM—Family Reflections on April 10 - HOLY MONDAY the Seven Last Words 3:00 PM—Liturgy of the Word, Veneration of the Cross, Communion Service. 7:30 AM - Mass 5:00 PM—Santo Entierro Procession 7:30 PM—Spanish Service 7:00 PMMarch - Recollection 26 —HOLY SATURDAY 7:30 AM—Stations of the Cross (Outdoor) (8:00 AM, 4:00 PM & 5:30 PM MASSES April 11 - HOLY TUESDAY ARE CANCELLED) 8:10 PM—Easter Vigil Liturgy 7:30 AMMarch - Mass 27—EASTER SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULE 5:30 AM—”Salubong” and Mass April 12 - HOLY WEDNESDAY 7:30 AM - Mass 6:30 PM - Mass/Novena April 13 - HOLY THURSDAY PASCHAL TRIDUUM BEGINS 7:30 AM - Morning Praise 7:30 PM - Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Bilingual) Washing of the Feet Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: 9:00 PM - 12:00 Midnight April 14 - GOOD FRIDAY 12:00 PM - 3:00PM - Family Reflections on the Seven Last Words 3:00 PM - Liturgy of the Word, Veneration of the Cross, Communion Service. 5:00 PM - Santo Entierro Procession 7:30 PM - Spanish Service April 15 - HOLY SATURDAY 7:30 AM - Stations of the Cross (Outdoor) (8:00 AM, 4:00 PM & 5:30 PM MASSES ARE CANCELLED) 8:10 PM - Easter Vigil Liturgy April 16 - EASTER SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULE 5:30 AM - ”Salubong” and Mass (7:30 PM MASSES ARE CANCELLED) 8:30 AM; 10:00 AM and 11:30 AM English; 1:00 PM - Spanish (6:30 PM MASSES ARE CANCELLED)
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Adoration: Star chapel dedicated FROM PAGE 3
evenly between Star of the Sea and the archdiocese. Sixty thousand dollars were allocated to the chapel. About $40,000 in birthday gifts and gifts for his 25th jubilee of ordination last year went to the chapel, Father Illo said. The balance of the $220,000 raised so far was made up of individual contributions as well as approximately $30,000 in donations received toward the Oratory of St. Philip Neri., which has been put on hold indefinitely. The chapel renovation was designed by Liz Machado. “The Catholic Church is a eucharistic family, and the more we center our parishes and families around the Eucharist – both the Mass as public worship and quiet, personal prayer in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament – the more we will be who we are,” said Father Illo. “There is no single apostolate that does more for a parish than Eucharistic adoration. Mass attendance increases, men enter the seminary and women religious life, income increases, ministries multiply, the community is built up, people begin serving the poor and caring for each other. Everything good comes from contact with the holy Eucharist. “ Leslie Low, who is overseeing the parish’s adoration project, said volunteers are signed up from all day Thursday through Saturday afternoon. Low, whose father helped initiate Saturday adoration at the parish 20 years ago, said more than 100 people have committed to make at least one Holy Hour a week, so adoration will likely expand to Wednesdays as well soon. “This latest work of your parish is just one, but a great sign of your great love for the church,” said Archbishop Cordileone, who makes a daily Holy Hour and urges all his priests to do the same. “It is a sign of your love of God which flows over… as we see in the corporal and spiritual works of mercy abounding at Star of the Sea.” “I thank you and pray that this devotion, this holy devotion may bring forth many graces on the parish and on the archdiocese,” Archbishop Cordileone said.
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption 1111 Gough Streeet, San Francisco Tel: (415) 567-2020 www.stmarycathedralsf.org
Holy Week and Easter Triduum Schedule 2017 The Chrism Mass Thursday, April 6 • 5:30 pm The Chrism Mass Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Principal Celebrant Annual Archdiocesan Celebration of Renewal of Priestly Ministry by the Clergy, Blessing of Oils of Catechumens, Sick and Sacred Chrism by the Archbishop
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord Saturday and Sunday, April 8 and 9 Regular Weekend Schedule of Masses Saturday 5:30 pm Sunday 7:30 am, 9:00 am (Gregorian chant), 11:00 a.m. Archbishop Cordileone, Principal Celebrant (Cathedral Choir), 1:00 pm (en Español)
Thursday of the Lord’s Supper Thursday, April 13 7:30 pm – Mass of the Lord’s Supper Archbishop Cordileone, Principal Celebrant Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Washing of Feet, followed by Vigiling and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Francis Hall (Lower Level) until 11:45 pm
To sign up for a Holy Hour slot, visit staradoration.com.
11:45 pm – Night Prayer in St. Francis Hall
Easter liturgies
(NO Confessions and NO 7:30 am or 12:10 pm Masses Today)
1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, CA 94947 • 415-897-2171
Saturday, April 8th – Palm Sunday Confessions from 3:00pm to 4:00pm 5:00pm English Vigil Mass—7:00pm Spanish Vigil Mass Sunday, April 9th 8:00 am and 10:00 am Masses in English, 12 Noon in Spanish Blessed Palms will be distributed after all the Masses April 13th – Holy Thursday No 9am Mass today 7:00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper Altar of Repose / Adoration In Parish Hall until 10 pm April 14th –Good Friday No 9am Mass today 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm—School Passion Play 1:00pm—Choir Performance 2pm: Liturgical Service: Veneration of the Cross and Communion 8pm Spanish Liturgical Service: Veneration of the Cross and Communion April 15th – Holy Saturday No 9am Mass. No Confessions 8:00pm - Easter Vigil April 16th– Easter Sunday Masses 8:00am and 10:00am in English , 12 Noon in Spanish
Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday) Friday, April 14 We continue to keep vigil 1:00 pm Stations of the Cross Led by students from St. Brigid’s School 2:00 pm – Music in the Cathedral 2:00-3:00 pm – Confession 3:00 pm – Liturgy of the Passion and Death of the Lord Archbishop Cordileone, Celebrant Liturgy of the Word, the Adoration of the Cross and Holy Communion 7:00 pm – Via Crucis/Stations of the Cross en Español (NO 7:30 am or 12:10 pm Masses Today)
Holy Saturday Saturday, April 15 Our Paschal Vigil continues throughout the day and night 9:00 pm – The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night Archbishop Cordileone, Principal Celebrant Blessing of the New fire and Paschal Candle, Liturgy of the Word, The Celebration of the Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist and the First Communion of our Elect. (NO Confessions and NO 8:00 am or 5:30 pm Masses Today)
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Sunday,April 16 Regular Sunday Schedule of Masses 7:30 am (Cantor and Organ), 9:00 am Archbishop Cordileone, Principal Celebrant (Gregorian Chant), 11:00 am (Cathedral Choir), 1:00 pm (en Español)
4:00 pm – Easter Concert; Organ Recital 4:45 pm – Evening Prayer and conclusion of the Paschal Triduum
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St. Pius Parish expands adoration for school children St. Pius Parish in Redwood City expanded First Friday hours of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in 2016 from a few hours to 24-hours, the parish said in an update for Catholic San Francisco. Although well attended by the adult parishioners, time for adoration was not routinely offered to the children in the parish school. The prayer and worship commission identified the need for the children to be exposed to adoration in order to foster their participation in this means of worshipping Jesus Christ. With support from the parish council, a formal plan was developed to provide the children with both a didactic educational experience on adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, coupled with an interactive experience with the leaders of the educational program subsequent to their adoration experience. The adoration program built on an already exist-
Easter liturgies ST. GABRIEL 2559-40th Ave. SF, CA 415-731-6161 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Monday, April 10 – 7:30 pm HOLY THURSDAY - April 13
6:30 PM PARISH SOUP SUPPER - BEDFORD HALL 8:00 PM MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER (Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Chapel of Repose until 10:00 P.M.)
Both the younger children and the older children gain confidence through their relationships with each other, leading to an environment of trust and enhanced learning, the parish said. ing “buddy system,” which has been in place for many years. The system links older parish school children with younger children to assist the younger children in various school activities. Both the younger children and the older children gain confidence through their relationships with each other, leading to an environment of trust and enhanced learning, the parish said. The program included both didactic and interactive experiences with the program coordinators. The didactic component included explanation of adoration, worship, the Real Presence, benefits of adoration and theology of Jesus as the second person of the Holy Trinity. The interactive component included conjoint participation in adoration with the children’s teachers, the program coordinators and ultimately with the children’s individual “buddies.” Adoration was followed by debriefings to provide the children with an opportunity to articulate their personal experience. All nine grades now participate in adoration, and feedback from the children to the coordinators has been positive, “indicative of the children’s enjoyment of time with their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” the parish said.
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St. Pius Parish in Redwood City has expanded First Friday hours of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in 2016 from a few hours to 24-hours.
GOOD FRIDAY - APRIL 14 NOON - 12:30 PM Stations of the Cross (Presented by St. Gabriel School Students) 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM - Prayerful Reflections & Chant 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
HOLY SATURDAY - APRIL 15 8:00 PM - CELEBRATION OF THE EASTER VIGIL EASTER SUNDAY - APRIL 16
EASTER SUNDAY MASSES 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 10:10 AM - (BEDFORD HALL) 12 Noon NOTE: THERE WILL NOT BE A 5:30 PM EVENING
MASS ON EASTER SUNDAY.
SAINT VERONICA CHURCH
434 Alida Way, So. San Francisco, CA 94080 650-588-1455 www.stveronicassf.com
2017 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE PALM SUNDAY, APRIL 9 Masses: 5:00 p.m. April 8 (English) 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 & 11:30 a.m. (English); 6:00 p.m. (Spanish) Procession prior to 10:00 a.m. Mass Gather in the Parish Center at 9:45 a.m. HOLY THURSDAY, APRIL 13 No Morning Masses 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer 6:30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m. GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 14 No Morning Masses 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer 12:00 – 12:45 p.m. – Stations of the Cross 12:45 – 1:15 p.m. – Adult Choir Performance 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. – Good Friday Liturgy HOLY SATURDAY, APRIL 15 No 8:30 a.m. Mass 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. – Confessions N o 5 : 0 0 p . m . Ma s s 8 : 0 0 p . m. - E a s t e r V i gi l M a s s EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 16 Masses: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, & 11:30 a.m. (English); 1:30 p.m. (Spanish)
St. Paul of the Shipwreck cordially invites you to celebrate Holy Week and Easter with us Palm Sunday Masses 7:00 am • 8:30 am Español 10:45 am Gospel Holy Thursday 7:30 pm • Parishwide Celebration followed by all night Adoration Good Friday Noon-1:15 pm • Stations of the Cross 1:30-3:00 pm • Good Friday Service 7:00 pm • Español Easter Vigil 8:00 pm • Parish-Wide Celebration Easter Sunday Masses 7:00am • 8:30 am Español 10:45 am Gospel 1:00 pm Igbo On Jamestown Ave. between Third Street & Jennings San Francisco Entrance to Parking Lot on Jennings Street 415-468-3434 stpauloftheshipwreck.org facebook.com/SPShipwreck
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Archdiocese begins livestreaming cathedral liturgies
The Archdiocese of San Francisco has begun to livestream liturgies from St. Mary’s Cathedral. Upcoming livestreams include the chrism Mass, Holy Week liturgies and Easter. Archbishop Cordileone will be the main celebrant for the following liturgies: – Thursday, April 6, 5:30 p.m.: Chrism Mass – Sunday, April 9, 11:00 a.m.: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion – Holy Thursday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.: Mass of the Lord’s Supper – Good Friday, April 14, 3:00 p.m.: Liturgy of the Passion and Death of the Lord – Holy Saturday, April 15, 9:00 p.m.: Easter Vigil Mass of the Lord’s Resurrection – Easter Sunday, April 16, 9:00 a.m.: Easter Sunday Mass. The livestream can be viewed on the archdiocese website, sfarch.org. This
requires Internet access and use of a recommended web browser (Chrome, Firefox or Safari). The broadcasts are archived on the archdiocese YouTube channel, also accessible from the home page of the website. Livestreaming Mass is a way for those who cannot be present to remain connected to their parish and archdiocese communities of faith. The Sunday obligation is not satisfied in this way, for those bound by the obligation. Watch Catholic San Francisco for listings of future livestreamed cathedral liturgies, which will include upcoming deaconate and priestly ordinations. As the number of livestream volunteers increases, the archdiocese plans to expand the offerings of broadcasts from the cathedral, including Spanish liturgies. Adults who are interested in learning more about this service opportunity are invited to contact Jan Potts in the communications department, pottsj@ sfarch.org (415) 614-5638.
St. Emydius Catholic Church
‘COME AND SEE’: Sisters of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, April 22, 9:30-12:30. Information morning on religious life. Open to Catholic women between the ages of 18-45. RSVP: vocationministerburl@mercywmw. org or leave a message at (650) 373-4508. SVDP LUNCHEON: Marin St. Vincent de Paul Society luncheon and fashion show, April 26, Marin Country Club, 500 Country Club Drive, Novato. $40. Reservations, Shirley Genetin, (415) 883-6739. ST. PEREGRINE MASS: St. Gregory Church, 28th Avenue
The Sacred Triduum (April 13 - 16)
Thursday, April 13 • Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the Church 7:00 p.m. Vigiling in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament Until midnight Friday, April 14 • Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion Morning Prayer 8:00 a.m. Quiet Prayer in Church 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. Liturgical Service 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Liturgy of the Word, Veneration of the Cross, and Communion)
Saturday, April 15 • Holy Saturday Morning Prayer Easter Vigil
8:00 a.m. 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 16 • Easter Sunday Salubong Mass Easter Mass ONLY
6:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m.
(no 4:00 p.m. Vigil Mass)
(The Sacred Triduum ends with Evening Prayer on Easter Sunday)
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Easter liturgies 2017 Easter Week Schedule HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH corner 39th Ave. & Lawton St, San Francisco, CA ____________________________________________________________________________ (All Services in the Church)
286 Ashton Ave. / 415-587-7066
(De Monfort Ave. / 1 Block from Ocean Ave.)
at Hacienda Street, San Mateo, May 4, 7 p.m. with sacrament of anointing for the infirm. St. Peregrine is patron of all suffering from cancer, AIDS and incurable illness. (650) 345-8506.
Reconciliation Service (Confessions) Holy Saturday, April 15, 2017 : 4:00 PM—5:00 PM Sacred Triduum Holy Thursday, April 13, 2017 Mass of the Lord’s Supper: 7:30 PM Good Friday, April 14, 2017 Stations of the Cross: 1:00 PM Meditation of the Seven Last Words: 2:00 PM Good Friday Service: 3:00 PM Easter Vigil, April 15, 2017 Mass: 8:00 PM Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017 Masses: 7:30 AM 9:30 AM with Easter Egg hunt 11:30 AM
St. Patrick’s Church
756 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103 • (415) 421-3730
Holy Week Liturgical Services April 9 – April 16, 2017
April 9, Palm Sunday • 5:15 pm (Vigil), 7:30 am, 9:30 am 12:005 pm, 5:15 pm Masses
Palm Sunday, April 9
Masses: 5:30 p.m. Saturday Vigil Mass; 7:30 a.m. Quiet Mass; 9:15 a.m. Palm Sunday Procession with donkey. Family Mass follow; 11:30 a.m. Solemn Choral Mass; 1:30 p.m. St. Jude Pilgrim Mass in Spanish; 5:30 p.m. Mass with Contemporary music; 9:00 p.m. Mass by candlelight
The Sacred Triduum Holy Thursday, April 13
7:30 a.m. Tenebrae; 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Good Friday, April 14
7:30 a.m. Tenebrae; 12:00 p.m. Seven Last Words of Christ 1:45 p.m. The Celebration of The Passion of the Lord (Simple version); 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Confessions 5:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross (especially suited for families); 7:30 p.m. The Celebration of The Passion of the Lord (Solemn version)
Holy Saturday, April 15
8:00 a.m. Tenebrae; 8:00 p.m. The Easter Vigil No confessions this day.
Easter Sunday, April 16
7:30 a.m. Mass with Easter Hymns; 9:30 a.m. Family Mass; 11:30 a.m. Solemn Choral Mass; 1:30 p.m. St. Jude Pilgrim Mass in Spanish; 5:30 p.m. Mass with Contemporary Music; No Mass at 9:00 p.m. today. No confessions this day.
2390 Bush Street (at Steiner), San Francisco (parking available) (415) 567-7824; www.stdominics.org
April 10, Holy Monday • 7:30 am & 12:10 pm Masses • 5:15 pm Mass followed by Stations of the Cross April 11, Holy Tuesday † Perpetual Help Devotion only after 12:10 pm Mass † • 7:30 am & 12:10 pm Masses • 5:15 pm Mass followed by Stations of the Cross April 12, Holy Wednesday • 7:30 am & 12:10 pm Masses • 5:15 pm Mass followed by Stations of the Cross • Agape/Seder Supper – Parish Hall at 7:00 pm April 13, Holy Thursday † Only one Mass today - at 5:15 pm † • 9:00 am Community Morning Prayer • 5:15 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper • Transfer of the Blessed Sacrament • Adoration until 10:00 pm • 9:00-10:00 pm Parish Family Holy Hour April 14, Good Friday † No Masses today † • 9:00 am Community Morning Prayer • 12:00 pm-1:45 pm Seven Last Words • Confessions 12-12:45 & 1-1:45 • 2:00 pm Stations of the Cross • 3:00 pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion April 15, Holy Saturday • 9:00 am Community Morning Prayer • 8:00 pm Easter Vigil Mass (vigil candles will be provided) Salubong immediately follows the Liturgy April 16, Easter Sunday • 7:30, 9:30, 12:00 pm (NO Mass at 5:15 pm)
Alleluia! I am the Resurrection and the Life! Alleluia!
John 11:25
A Blessed and Happy Easter to All! The Priests and Rectory Staff St. Patrick Church
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Catholic san francisco | April 6, 2017
Author: Christians need ‘some distance’ between them, ‘chaotic mainstream’ Julie Asher Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Author Rod Dreher’s critics call him an “alarmist” for proposing that Christians today “put some distance” between themselves and “the chaotic mainstream,” or Christianity will not survive. Those critics are right, he said. “I am alarmist about the state of our culture and of our civilization and the condition of the church within it,” Dreher told a Washington audience. “If you’re a faithful Christian and you’re not alarmed, I think you’re failing to pay attention, you’re failing to read the signs of the times. “I do not claim ‘the’ world is coming to an end. ... What I am claiming, though, is that ‘a’ world is
St. Monica Parish Geary Boulevard at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco
Easter 2017 Holy Week Schedule Palm Sunday, April 9
Saturday Evening Vigil - 5pm (April 8) Sunday - 8am, 9am (Cantonese) 10:30am (Choir) (Palms will be blessed and distributed at all Masses)
Holy Thursday, April 13
Mass of the Lord’s Supper; Procession and stripping of the Altars - 7:30pm (Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10pm)
coming to an end,” he explained. “And if believing Christians don’t take radical action right now, the faith that made Western civilization will not survive for long into Western civilization’s postChristian phase.” Dreher, currently senior editor at The American Conservative and author of several books, has written “The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation.” He spoke about his book at the National Press Club at an evening event sponsored by the Trinity Forum Rod Dreher March 15. He said the term “Benedict Option” comes from “the famous final paragraph” in philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 book “After Virtue.” In that book, MacIntyre explains “how Enlightenment modernity overthrew the old traditional source of moral order rooted in Christianity and classical philosophy,” Dreher said. “But it could not produce an authoritative binding replace-
Holy Thursday, April 13, 2017 Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:00PM Bi-Lingual Adoration until 12:00 MidnightGood
Holy Saturday, April 15
8am, 9am (Cantonese) 10:30am (Choir) No Evening Mass
Our Lady of Mercy Church
1 Elmwood Drive,. Daly City, CA 94015
HOLY WEEK & EASTER SERVICES 2017 Our Lady of Mercy Church 1 Elmwood Drive, Daly City, CA 94015
April 8, 2017 - PALM SUNDAY VIGIL MASSES 4:00p.m. & 5:30 p.m. - Blessing of Palms/Mass (with procession)
April 9, 2017 - PALM SUNDAY
Easter liturgies
1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: (650) 322-2152; FAX (650) 322-7319 Email: sfofassisi@sbcglobal.net
Celebration of the Lord’s Passion with Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion - 12 noon Confessions - 1:30pm to 3pm
Easter Sunday, April 16
see author, page 27
St. Francis of Assisi Church
Good Friday, April 14
No 8:30am or 5pm Mass Easter Vigil Mass - 8pm
ment for it. The West, in MacIntyre’s view, has been unraveling for some time now and it’s finally reaching a point of reckoning.” Dreher also quoted a “noted public intellectual” who once said, “It is obligatory to compare today’s situation with the decline of the Roman Empire,” and who lamented “the collapse of the spiritual forces that sustain our civilization.” It was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI. Dreher strongly believes the “reckoning” MacIntyre described is a clarion call that Christians need to “put some distance” between themselves and “the chaotic mainstream,” and what has been a “steady erosion of authentic Christianity by the relentlessness of individualism, hedonism and consumerism” in the culture. “The West is living through a time of unprecedented peace and prosperity, (but) there is a mounting sense of political crisis throughout our civilization,” Dreher said. “The signs also of our spiritual depletion are impossible to deny, and if we are spiritually depleted and morally exhausted, our peace and prosperity will not long last.”
Friday, April 14, 2017
12:00 to 2:00PM Three Hours English 2:00PM Solemn Liturgy English 5:00PM The Way of the Cross re-enacted on Bay Rd, from Jack Farrell Park - Fordham St. & Michigan Ave. to St. Francis Church 7:00PM Solemn Liturgy Spanish
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Holy Saturday, April 15, 2017
Our Lady of Angels Church
1721 Hillside Drive Burlingame Capuchin Franciscans
2017 Holy Week Schedule Holy Thursday
7:30 p.m. Mass of Lord’s Supper Adoration until Midnight
12:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross
Good Friday
Confessions 10:30AM to 12:00PM and 3:30 to 5:00PM 8:30PM Easter Vigil, Bilingual
Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 1:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Word 1:45 p.m. Veneration of the Cross Communion Service 7:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross
Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017
7:30AM English 9:30AM Spanish 12:30PM Bi-Lingual followed by Easter egg hunt.
Easter Vigil
8:00 p.m.
Easter Sunday Masses 7:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m, 10:00 a.m. & 12 noon Want to reconnect with the church? E-mail landings@olaparish.org
7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., & 12:00 p.m. Blessings of Palms/Mass (with procession)
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April 13, 2017 - HOLY THURSDAY 9:00 AM - Morning Prayer 7:30 PM - Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Presentation of the Oils, Washing of the feet, Procession to Altar Repose & Vigil up to 11:00 PM
ST. TERESA OF AVILA CATHOLIC CHURCH
April 14, 2017 - GOOD FRIDAY
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9:00 AM - Morning Prayer 2:00 PM - Stations of the Cross 3:00 PM - Good Friday Liturgy: Word, Veneration 4:30 PM Confessions 7:30 PM - Evening Good Friday Liturgy.
April 15, 2017 - HOLY SATURDAY 9:00 AM - Morning Prayer 2:30 PM Confessions 8:30 PM - Mass : Blessing of Fire, Paschal Candle, Procession, Exultet.
April 16, 2017 - EASTER SUNDAY 5:30 AM - Easter Sunrise Service / Salubong with Mass @ 6:00 AM. Then Regular Sunday Mass schedule follows: 7:30 AM / 9:00 AM / 10:30 AM (Children's Choir) 12 Noon (Parish Choir)
Palm Sunday, April 9 Saturday Vigil: 4:15pm Palm Sunday, 8:30 & 10am EASTER EGG HUNT FOLLOWING THE 10AM MASS ON EASTER SUNDAY ������ ������ �M������ A������� 390 Missouri St, San Francisco, CA 94107
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Holy Thursday, April 13: 7:30pm Good Friday, April 14: 12:15pm Holy Saturday, April 15 Easter Vigil, 8:00pm Easter Sunday, April 16 8:30 & 10:00am Email: info@stteresasf.org
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Catholic san francisco | April 6, 2017
State charges pro-life advocates over videos Catholic News Service
SACRAMENTO – Two California pro-life advocates are facing 15 felonies for making undercover videos of Planned Parenthood affiliate officials alleging they committed improprieties regarding fetal tissue and organs. California prosecutors March 28 charged David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress in Irvine with felonies for filming 14 people without permission between October 2013 and July 2015 in Los Angeles, San Francisco and El Dorado counties. One felony count was filed for each person and the 15th count was for criminal conspiracy to invade privacy, The Associated Press reported. In a statement posted on the website of the Irvine center he founded, Daleiden said the “bogus charges from Planned Parenthood’s political cronies are fake news.” “The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California’s Constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in announcing the charges. “We will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations.”
In the videos, Planned Parenthood officials are shown discussing the illegal marketing and sale of fetal tissue with Daleiden and Merritt, who posed as representatives of a mythical fetal tissue procurement firm. Planned Parenthood said any allegations it “profits in any way from tissue donation is not true” and that any money it received from labs were processing fees. “As we have said from the beginning and as more than a dozen different state investigations have made clear: Planned Parenthood has done nothing wrong, and the only people who broke the law are those behind the fraudulent tapes,” Mary Alice Carter, interim vice president of communications of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement March 28. Daleiden and Merritt’s videos showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing fees related to fetal tissue, but the organization said monies it received were standard reimbursement fees charged to researchers. But in the fall of 2015, Cecile Richards, the CEO of Planned Parenthood, announced the organization would no longer accept the reimbursements. In his statement, Daleiden said the public “knows the real criminals are Planned Parent-
2017 Easter Week Liturgies Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion - April 9th
Masses: 5 p.m. (Sat. Vig.), 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 12 noon (Span.) Blessing of Palms and Procession at 10 a.m. & 12 noon Masses
Holy Thursday - April 13th
6:00 p.m. - Seder Supper (tickets required) 8:00 p.m. - Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper [Bilingual] followed by procession and adoration until 11 p.m.
Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion - April 14th
Mission Dolores Basilica 16th & Dolores St., San Francisco 415-621-8203
12:00 noon - Stations of the Cross and Passion Play 6:30 p.m. - Liturgy of Good Friday [Bilingual] followed by Santo Entierro Procession
Holy Saturday - April 15th
Rev. Francis P. Garbo, Pastor Dcn. Vicente Cervantes, Deacon Dcn. Mario Zuniga, Deacon Jerome Lenk, Director of Music & Liturgy Maria Rosales Uribe, Director of Religious Ed.
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Easter Sunday - April 16th
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Easter liturgies ST. ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH 1571 Southgate Avenue, Daly City, CA 94015 (650) 756-3223
2017Holy Week Schedule April 13, Thursday HOLY THURSDAY 9:00 am – 4:00 pm "P A B A S A" (Passion) 8:00 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper 9:30-11:00 pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (Chapel) April 14, Friday GOOD FRIDAY 10:00 am – 12:00 noon "P A B A S A" (Passion) 1:00 pm Stations of the Cross 3:00 pm
5:00 pm
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. - Sacrament of Reconciliation 8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil Liturgy [Bilingual]
www.missiondolores.org
hood and their business partners like StemExpress and DV Biologics – currently being prosecuted in California – who have harvested and sold aborted baby body parts for profit for years in direct violation of state and federal law.” Last October, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas filed a lawsuit against DV Biologics and its sister company, DaVinci Biosciences, in Orange County Superior Court. The lawsuit accuses the two Yorba Linda medical companies of advertising and selling hundreds of units of fetal tissue and stem cells to research facilities around the world, collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue. Rackauckas, in announcing the lawsuits, said the companies treated human parts as commodities rather than following the law. “We look forward to showing the entire world
8:00 a.m. Mass [cantor and organ] 10:00 a.m. - Mass [Basilica Choir – brass and organ] 12:00 noon - Mass [Spanish – Coro y organo]
(Around the Neighborhood)
Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, Liturgy of the Word, Veneration of the Cross and Communion Stations of the Cross (Inside the Main Church)
April 15, Saturday HOLY SATURDAY 8:00 pm EASTER VIGIL MASS April 16, Sunday EASTER SUNDAY 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 am & 12:30 pm MASSES After all Masses Easter Egg Distribution
SAINT ROBERT’S PARISH
STAR OF THE SEA
1380 Crystal Springs Road San Bruno, CA 94066 (650) 589-2800
HOLY WEEK / EASTER WWW.STARPARISH.COM (415)751-0450
HAPPY EASTER
4420 GEARY BLVD. SAN FRANCISCO
Holy Week Schedule SAINT ROBERT’S PARISH Easter 2017
Palm Sunday - April 9 (Palms will be distributed at all Masses) Saturday evening Vigil Mass, 4:30 pm Sunday Masses 7:30 am, 9:30 am 11:30 am and 5 pm Holy Thursday - April 13 Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 pm Good Friday - April 14 Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, 12 noon – 1:30 pm Confessions 1:30 pm - 3 pm Youth Passion Play, 7:30 pm Holy Saturday - April 15 No Morning or 4:30 pm Masses Confessions 3:00 - 4:30 pm Easter Vigil Mass 8:00 pm Easter Sunday - April 16 7:30 am, 9:30 am 11:30 am and 5 pm Mass
PALM HOLY GOOD HOLY EASTER SUNDAY THURS. FRIDAY SATUR. SUNDAY SATURDAY VIGIL: 4:30 PM SUNDAY MASS: 8AM 9:30 AM (FAMILY) 11:30AM (LATIN) (LATIN) 5PM (L 7:30 PM
MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER: 6:30PM FOLLOWED BY EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT SACRAMEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT
STATIONS OF THE EASTER VIGIL: CROSS: 11:30PM 5PM (LATIN) 8:30PM (ENGLISH) DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET 3PM LITURGY OF PRE-SANCTIFIED GIFTS AND VENERATION OF THE CROSS 6:30PM
EASTER MASS: 8AM 9:30AM (FAMILY) 11:30AM (LATIN)
Y WEDNESDAY 6:30-7:30PM, GOOD FRIDAY 3:00-4:00PM CONFESSIONS 15HOLMINUTES BEFORE ALL MASSES
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Planned Parenthood: State charges pro-life advocates FROM PAGE 11
what is on our yet-unreleased videotapes of Planned Parenthood’s criminal baby body parts enterprise, in vindication of the First Amendment rights of all,” Daleiden added in his statement. A member of his legal defense team, Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel of the Chicago-based pro-life law firm Thomas More Society, said Daleiden and co-defendant Merritt “will be vindicated.” “They will assert robust defenses
to these charges,” Brejcha said in a statement March 28. “Their efforts were in furtherance of First Amendment values and are clothed with the same constitutional protection that all investigative journalists deserve and must enjoy. Undercover journalism has been a vital tool in our politics and self-governance.” Brejcha said Daleiden and Merritt will use the same vigorous defense they did to fight charges they faced in Texas but which were later dropped. “History is on our side,” he added.
Easter liturgies Church of the Good Shepherd 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica
2017 Easter Week Schedule
SACRED TRIDUUM
Holy Thursday 7 PM - Mass of the Lord’s Supper Good Friday 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM – 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM – 8:00 PM –
Confessions Outdoor Stations of the Cross (school) Indoor Stations of the Cross (church) Seven Last Words Veneration of the Cross Holy Saturday/Easter Vigil Easter Vigil
Annual Divine Mercy Novena and Celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday April 23rd
The Holy Name Society of Star of the Sea Church is inviting everyone to join them in the Annual Novena & Celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday:
Novena Starts
April 14th - Good Friday through April 22nd -Easter Saturday Time: 3pm Place: Star of the Sea Church 4420 Geary Blvd, SF, CA 94118
Divine Mercy Sunday
April 23rd we will have Holy Hour at 3pm - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament - Chaplet of the Divine Mercy - Litany of Divine Mercy - Prayer of Entrustment of the world to the Divine Mercy - Veneration of the Divine Mercy Image - Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament ***Light Refreshment will be served right after the Holy Hour on Sunday***
Star of the sea Church 4420 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, CA 94118 (415) 751-0450 • www.starparish.com
Bill passes to direct funds from abortion clinics
WASHINGTON – The Senate voted late March 30 to override a rule change made by in the last days of the Obama administration that prevented states from redirecting Title X family planning funding away from clinics that performed abortions and to community clinics that provide comprehensive health care. “The clear purpose of this Title X rule change was to benefit abortion providers like Planned Parenthood,” said Cardinal Timo-
thy M. Dolan of New York, who is chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities. “Congress has done well to reverse this very bad public policy, and to restore the ability of states to stop one stream of our tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood and redirect it to community health centers that provide comprehensive primary and preventive health care,” he said in a March 31 statement. Catholic News Service
Holy Week at saint Cecilia
əÞOsŘǼs ǢǼʳ ˓ ˠ˦ǼÌ ɚsŘȖsʰ Ǣ Ř ®Nj ŘOÞǣOŸ ˣˠˤʳ˥˥ˣʳ˧ˣ˧ˠ Live Church Broadcast: www.stcecilia.com
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, April 9th Saturday Vigil Mass - 5:00 p.m. Sunday Masses - 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. (Solemn Procession at the 11:30 a.m. Mass) Palms will be blessed at the beginning of every Mass. Holy Thursday, April 13th 7:30 p.m. - Mass of the Lord’s Supper with Mandatum with Msgr. Michael Harriman and Eucharistic Exposition until 10:00 p.m. Good Friday, April 14th Noon to 1:30p.m. – Sacrament of Penance (Confession) Noon to 1:30p.m. – Good Friday Meditations with Father Gladstone Stevens, PSS, President and Rector of St. Patrick’s Seminary with our Adult Choir. 1:45 to 3:00 p.m. - Solemn Liturgy and Holy Communion, including the chanting of the Passion Account from St. John’s Gospel with Eighth Graders acting it out. Communion Service and the Adoration of the Cross follows. Presider is Msgr. Michael Harriman. Holy Saturday, April 15th 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. – Sacrament of Penance (Confession) 8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil Mass - Msgr. Michael Harriman Easter Sunday, April 16th 7:30 a.m. - Msgr. Michael Harriman 9:30 a.m. - Fr. Pepin Dandou 11:30 a.m. - Fr. Patrick Summerhays
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Catholic san francisco | April 6, 2017
Pope: Resentment rooted in the ‘terrible sin’ of sloth Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – People should stop blaming and complaining so they can be filled with God's joy and rise up to life's challenges, Pope Francis said. Forgetting what joy is and languishing in self-pity come with the sin of sloth, the pope said March 28 in his homily during morning Mass at Domus Sanctae Marthae. "It's a terrible disease: 'Well, I'm comfortable as is, I've gotten used to it. Life, of course, has been Pope Francis unfair to me.' You see resentment, bitterness in that heart," he said. The pope's homily was a reflection on the Gospel of St. John reading in which Jesus heals a lame man at the pool of Bethesda. A large number of people who were ill, blind or crippled gathered at the pool because it was believed if a person immersed himself just when
A slothful man is like a tree planted near a stream but he can’t grow because his roots are dried up. the waters were stirred by an angel, he would be healed. Jesus saw a lame man, who had been waiting by the poolside for 38 years, and asked him, "Do you want to be well?" Pope Francis said, "This is beautiful; Jesus always asks us this: Do you want to be healed? Do you want to be happy? Do you want to make your life better? Do you want to be filled with the Holy Spirit?" If Jesus had asked any of the other people there desperate for help, the pope said, "they would have said, 'Yes, Lord, yes.' But this was a strange man" because instead he started complaining about how he had no one to help him into the water and everyone else always managed to get in before him.
We Welcome and Celebrate the Mystery of our Faith at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church 3835 Balboa Street San Francisco, CA 94121 (415) 387-5545
Holy Thursday: Mass of the Lord's Supper 7:30 p.m. at St. Monica's Church Good Friday: 12:00 Noon Living Stations of the Cross by STA Students 1:00 p.m. Reflections on the 7 Last Words 2:00 p.m. Communion Service 7:30 p.m. Vietnamese Service Easter Vigil Mass: St. Monica Church 8:00 p.m. Easter Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Mass & 11:00 a.m. Mass 3 p.m. Vietnamese Mass
The man is like a tree planted near streams of water, but he cannot grow and prosper because his roots are dried up, "those roots don't reach the water, he couldn't take in the well-being of the water," the pope said. "This is a terrible sin, the sin of sloth. This man was ill not so much from paralysis, but from sloth, which is worse than having a lukewarm heart," he said. "It is living, but only because I am alive and have no desire to go on, have no desire to do something in life, to have lost his memory" of what joy is. But Jesus does not scold him, the pope said; he tells him to rise, take his sleeping mat and walk, which he does, disappearing into the crowd, without saying thank you or even asking Jesus his name. "Sloth is a sin that paralyzes, makes us lame. It doesn't let us walk. Even today the Lord looks at each one of us, we have all sinned, we are all sinners," the pope said, but Jesus still looks and "tells us, 'Rise.'"
Celebrate Easter with us at St. Bartholomew Parish Community
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Easter and Holy Week Schedule March 29th—April 16th , 2017 April 9th - Palm Sunday Masses are: Sat. 5:00 PM Sun. 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM April 13th Holy Thursday 6:30 PM - Mass of The Lord’s Supper Procession of the Blessed Sacrament Adoration April 14th Good Friday 12:00 PM - Stations of the Cross 1:00 PM - Guest Speaker 2:00 PM - Liturgy of the Word Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion April 15th Holy Saturday 8:30 PM - Easter Vigil Mass April 16th EASTER SUNDAY Masses are: :30 AM, 9:30 AM and 11:30 AM
Alleluia! Alleluia!
St. Mary Star of the Sea Church 180 Harrison Avenue Sausalito, CA 94965
Corner of Crystal Springs and Alameda de las Pulgas San Mateo, Ca. 94402 (650) 347-0701
2017EasterWeek Schedule: www.barts.org
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Reconciliation Service: April 10, 7:00pm, Sacred Triduum Holy Thursday: April 13, 7:00pm, Mass of the Lord's Supper followed by Adoration until 11:00 pm Good Friday: April 14, Noon to 3:00, 7:00pm Stations of the Cross, Confessions 3pm - 4pm Holy Saturday: April 15, 9:00am Morning Prayer, 8:00pm Easter Vigil Easter Sunday: April 16, 8:00, 9:30, 11:15am, No Evening Mass
Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church 5920 Geary Boulevard/23rd Avenue San Francisco, CA 94121 (415) 752-2052
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/byzantinecatholicsf Website: www.ByzantineCatholic.org We are a parish of the Archdiocese of San Francisco following the Julian Calendar.
Holy Week and Pascha (Easter) Service Schedule
Saturday, April 8th - Lazarus Saturday, Divine Liturgy 10:00 AM Sunday, April 9th - Entrance of our Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday), Divine Liturgy 10:00 AM Great and Holy Wednesday, April 12th - Holy Anointing Service 6:00 PM Great and Holy Thursday, April 13th - Vesper St. Basil Liturgy of the Lord’s Last Supper 1:00 PM, Passion Gospel Service 6:00 PM Great and Holy Friday, April 14th - Burial Service of our Lord 3:30 PM, Lamentations around the Tomb of Christ 6:00 PM Great and Holy Saturday, April 15th - Vesper St. Basil Liturgy 10:00 AM, Nocturns & Procession 11:30 PM Pascha Sunday, April 16th - Matins & Divine Liturgy 12:00 AM *There is no other service on April 16th.
Please join us to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ with your Eastern Catholic Sisters and Brothers. All services are in English. We have free parking in the St. Monica's parking lot for the Saturday, Sunday, and evening services. Everyone is welcome!
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Catholic san francisco | April 6, 2017
Botticelli: Exhibit puts artist’s spiritual journey in historical context FROM PAGE 1
tine Painting Between the Medici and the Bonfire of the Vanities” opened Feb. 11 at Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. After its April 5 closing there, the exhibit heads to its only other venue, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where it will be on display April 18-July 9. The exhibition provides a sense of the artist’s spiritual journey, said its curator, John Spike, assistant director and chief curator at the Williamsburg museum. Spike, a member of St. Bede Catholic Church in Williamsburg, is an art historian, author and lecturer. He also is a permanent consultant to two Italian museums and served on the faculty of Rome’s European University and the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (Queen of Apostles). When he spoke to Catholic News Service and another reporter March 10 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, he lingered in front of some paintings that were obvious favorites.
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Spike was thrilled with the attendance at the exhibition, 30,000 in the first month alone, and he said people wanted to learn more about the artist, which was obvious by the crowds continually gathered around the volunteer docents’ guided tours of the collection. Museumgoers were sure to pick up more than a few facts about Botticelli, whose given name was Alessandro Filipepi. He lived from 1445 to 1510 and spent most of his life in Florence except for the year he spent painting frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. The wealthy ruling Medici family, before they were overthrown, sponsored his works during the height of his career. The 16 Botticelli paintings in the exhibition were primarily loaned from Italian museums and churches. There also were six paintings by Botticelli’s teacher, Filippo Lippi. On two opposite walls, giving a sense of history, was the death mask of Lorenzo the Magnificent, ruler of Florence and patron of the arts during Botticelli’s time, and a portrait of Dominican Father Girolamo Savonarola, the priest who ordered the burning of secular objects. The exhibition’s catalog says the paintings “introduce us to the life and the art of Sandro Botticelli, with emphasis on his lifelong effort to make visible the invisible beauty of the divine.”
Spike said he specifically divided the works into three sections to tell the story of the artist’s journey. The first room centered on Botticelli’s early years and the styles, particularly of the Madonna and Child that he learned from Filippo Lippi. The second room included Botticelli’s top works with paintings of mythology such as “Judgement of Paris” and “Venus,” which is a smaller version – one of only two in existence – featuring the goddess from his famous “Birth of Venus” displayed at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Another Botticelli painting, “Madonna of the Book,” features Mary holding the infant Jesus while looking at a sacred book. The catalog describes this painting as a small panel that “offers a glimpse of heaven as imagined in the mind of Sandro Botticelli.” The exhibition’s catalog, quoting a critic of these later works, described them as “at times painfully intense” with their “pressing even desperate need to convey meaning and to provoke emotion and perhaps destroy beauty.” Editor’s Note: The Williamsburg museum’s brochure on the Botticelli exhibit can be viewed at https://tinyurl. com/maj8fu7. Information about the Boston exhibit can be found at https://tinyurl.com/ld9f8mn
ofSunset the Sunset Church St. AnneSt.ofAnne the Church 850 Judah St., San Francisco
1100 Santa Cruz Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 (650) 323-1755
850 Judah St., San Francisco
2016 Holy Week Schedule
2017 Easter SCHEDULE
Week 2 0 1 2016 7 H oHoly l y We e kSchedule Schedule
Confession:
Wed., March 16 @ 7pm
Monday of Holy Week: Penance Service at 7 p.m. Holy Thursday: 7:30pm w/Adoration in Church Hall until 11pm Holy Thursday: Tenebrae at 8:15 am, & sion: Wed., March @7 Words 7pm of Jesus (Fr. Joseph Homick, COSJ) Good Friday: 12pm16 - Last (by Fr. Tony McGuire ) Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 6 pm 1:30pm - Liturgy with Veneration of the Cross ursday: 7:30pm w/Adoration Good Friday: Tenebrae at 8:15 am, Tre Ore from Noon to 3 pm, & 3pm - Confessionsin Church Hall until 11pm 7pm - Stations of the Cross Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion at 6 pm riday: Holy Saturday: 12pm - Last 7 Words of Jesus (by Fr. Tony McGuire ) Easter Vigil at 8pm Holy Saturday: Tenebrae at 8:15 am & Easter Vigil at 8 pm 1:30pm Liturgy with Veneration of the Cross Easter Sunday: 7:30am, 9am, 10:30am (w/Easter Egg Hunt following) Easter Sunday: Mass at 8 am, 10 am, & 6 pm 12pm (Mass in Chinese)
turday:
Sunday:
3pm - Confessions 7pm - Stations of the Cross
St. Bruno’s Church Easter Vigil at 8pm (650) 588-2121
Mater Dolorosa
555 W. San Bruno Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066 7:30am, 9am,Fax 10:30am (w/Easter www.saintbruno.org (650) 588-6087
12pm (Mass in Chinese)
307 Willow Avenue South San Francisco, CA 94080
Egg HuntHoly following) Week Easter 2017
2017 Holy Week Schedule
April 10, Parish Penance Service
Palm Sunday (April 9)
April 11, Spiritual Recollection Service
Blessing of Palms at all Masses (Including the vigil Masses on Saturday)
Holy Thursday (April 13h)
7:00 PM MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER (bilingual) 9PM-12MN Adoration of the Bl. Sacrament (parish hall)
Good Friday (April 14)
1PM Stations of the Cross (English) 2:00 PM Liturgy of the Passion & Death of the Lord 5:00 PM Via Crucis (Spanish) 6:00 PM Viernes Santo de La Pasión del Señor
Holy Saturday (April 15)
8:00 PM VIGIL MASS OF EASTER (bilingual)
Easter Sunday (April 16)
Sprinkling of Holy Water at all Masses
Happy Easter to everyone!
Church of the Epiphany 827 Vienna Street San Francisco, CA 94112
7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m., by Father Gladstone Stevens
April 13, Holy Thursday
Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7:30 p.m. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Parish Hall until 11:00 p.m.
April 14, Good Friday
Meditation at 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., by Father Gabriel Wankar Stations of the Cross at 2:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion at 2:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross at 7:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion at 7:30 p.m.
April 15, Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass at 8:00 p.m.
April 16, Easter Sunday
Masses at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. (with Children’s Liturgy of the Word), and 12:00 Noon. NB: (There will an Easter Egg Hunt for children after the 10:00 a.m. Mass.)
April 23, Divine Mercy Sunday
Vigil Mass - 5:00 p.m. Masses at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. & 12:00 Noon Video and light refreshments in the parish hall following Noon Mass Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Prayers - 2:00 p.m. Reconciliation - 2:00 to 2:50 p.m. Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at 3:00 p.m.
415-333-7630
2017 Easter Schedule
Holy Thursday April 13th (Mass of the Lord’s Supper):
Mass at 7:30pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament after the 7:30pm Mass until Midnight.
Holy Friday, April 14th (Celebration of the Lord’s Passion): Stations of the Cross at 12:00pm Children’s Liturgy: 12:00pm The Seven last Words: 1:00pm English Reflection: at 2:00pm Spanish Reflection: at 7:30pm
Holy Saturday, April 15th :
Easter Vigil Service at 7:30pm
Easter Sunday, April 16th
Resurrection Sunday Masses: at 5:00am ( Salubong), 6:30am, 8:30am, 10:00am, 11:30am (Spanish) and 1:00pm. (NO 5:30pm Mass)
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Catholic san francisco | April 6, 2017
Pope: Stop prejudice, forgive old sins
VATICAN CITY – Serious research on Martin Luther can help heal relations between Catholics and Protestants, highlight what was legitimate about the Reformation and pinpoint the errors and sins that led to the division of the church, Pope Francis said. “Today, as Christians, all of us are called to put behind us all prejudice toward the faith that others profess with a different emphasis or language, to offer one another forgiveness for the sins committed by those who have gone before us, and together to implore from God the gift of reconciliation and unity,” he said. The pope spoke March 31 to about 150 people taking part in an international congress organized by the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences. The congress, held March 29-31, discussed the theme, “Luther: 500 Years Later. A Rereading of the Lutheran Reformation in the Historical, Ecclesial Context.” The pope told the participants that his first reaction to hearing about “this praiseworthy initiative” was one of gratitude to God and “a certain surprise, since not long ago a meeting like this would have been unthinkable.”
Vatican official hopes trump can be persuaded to change climate policies
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican hopes that U.S. bishops and others will continue to raise their voices in defense of the obligation to fight climate change and, in time, can per-
that there is concern at the Vatican over Trump’s policies, including on the environment. Trump’s position on immigration and his efforts to roll back U.S. commitments on environmental regulations are “a challenge for us,” said the cardinal, whose office works on both questions and is charged with assisting bishops around the world as they promote Catholic social teaching. Still, he said, “we are full of hope that things can change.” The first sign of hope, he said, is the growing number of “dissenting voices,” who are calling attention to the scientific facts surrounding climate change and the ethical obligation to act to protect the environment for current and future generations. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano)
Mercy Friday: Pope visits center for blind Pope Francis greets a girl as he visits the Sant’ Alessio-Margherita di Savoia Regional Center for the Blind March 31 in Rome, continuing a practice he developed during the Year of Mercy of making a Friday-afternoon visit to people in need of or deserving special care. suade U.S. President Donald Trump to change his position, a top Vatican official said. Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, told a group of reporters March 30
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Pope to seminarians: Using church for personal ambition is a ‘plague’
VATICAN CITY – Do not settle for a worry-free, comfortable life with an unhealthy attachment to money and an ambitious heart yearning for honors, Pope Francis told seminarians studying in Rome. “I’m telling you this as a brother, father and friend. Please, shun ecclesial careerism. It is a plague. Avoid it,” he said April 1 during an audience at the Vatican with students, faculty, staff and alumni of the Pontifical Spanish College of St. Joseph in Rome. The college was celebrating the 125th anniversary of its founding.
Everything hinges on loving the Lord with all of one’s heart, soul, mind and strength, he said, citing the Gospel of Mark (12:30). That is what determines whether a person will be able to say “yes” to Jesus or turn one’s back on him like the rich young man did in the Gospels, he said. “You cannot settle for leading an orderly and comfortable life that lets you live without worry unless you feel the need to cultivate a spirit of poverty rooted in the heart of Christ,” the pope said.
Patriarch supports Holy Week peace march in Iraq
IRBIL, Iraq – The Chaldean Catholic patriarch is supporting a more than 80-mile peace march during Holy Week to urge an end to violence in his homeland and throughout the Middle East. The Chaldean Catholic Church has dedicated 2017 as the Year of Peace. For the patriarch, Holy Week culminating in the Easter celebration offers a fresh hope to breathe new life into prayer and reflection, reconciliation and dialogue. “Peace must be achieved by us (religious leaders) as well as politicians, through courageous initiatives and responsible decisions,” said Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad. catholic news service
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The Child and Youth Protection Program in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is part of a much larger program that extends to dioceses, archdioceses, and eparchies across the United States. Every diocese, archdiocese, and eparchy provides annual training for two groups of people: adults, including priests and deacons who interact with children; and the children themselves.
In 2016, the Archdiocese of San Francisco was once again audited by the national firm, Stonebridge Business Partners, which specializes in determining whether compliance is present within the norms for avoiding, detecting, and reporting child abuse. These norms were established by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops 15 years ago and have been updated numerous times in the ensuing years. The Archdiocese of San Francisco did very well in its most recent audit, with more than 95% of the adults and children receiving the appropriate review and training.
Key milestones in
STRENGTHENING CHILD AND YOUTH PROTECTION
Pope Benedict XVI meets with victims of abuse in Washington, D.C.
June 2015
Release of the study, The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, conducted by John Jay College.
March 2014
Safe environment guidelines require all clerics, employees and volunteers who work with children to be trained on how to prevent and report child sexual abuse.
March 2011
An independent audit of all dioceses is conducted to assess implementation of the Charter.
April 2008
The Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People is adopted by the USCCB; canonical Essential Norms are also adopted.
March 2003
The National Review Board, an expert lay advisory board to the bishops, holds its first meeting.
February 2003
June 2002
Belleville Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), issues a formal statement, expressing “profound sorrow that some of our priests were responsible for this abuse under our watch.”
July 2002
within the Church February 2002
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Pope Francis creates a tribunal for bishop negligence in clergy sexual abuse cases.
Since 2002, the bishops of the United States have carried out their ministries to protect and heal in all dioceses, archdioceses, and eparchies through the implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. The Charter directs action on the following matters: • Outreach and healing to victims and survivors • Prompt and effective responses to allegations of abuse • Cooperation with public authorities • Removal of offenders from ministry • Safe environment training programs for clergy, employees, volunteers, and children that include information on prevention, identification, and response and reporting of abuse • Background checks for all clergy, employees, and volunteers that have regular contact with children • Annual audits of dioceses, archdioceses, and eparchies to ensure compliance with Charter guidelines
The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors is formed by Pope Francis.
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“Words cannot fully express my sorrow for the abuse you suffered.”
– Pope Francis
PRAYER A APRAYER FOR HEALING FOR VICTIMS OF ABUSE HEALING Holy Spirit, comforter of hearts, heal your people’s OF wounds VICTIMS ABUSE and transform brokenness into wholeness.
Holy Spirit, comforter Grant the courage and wisdom, ofushearts,
humility and grace, to act justice. healwith your people’s wounds Breathe wisdom into our andprayers transform brokenness and labors.
into Grant that wholeness. all harmed by abuse may find peace in justice.
Grant us through the courage We ask this Christ, our Lord. and wisdom, Amen.
humility and grace, to act with justice.
Copyright © 2014, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC. All rights reserved. To order publication no. 7-493, visit usccbpublishing.org or call 877-978-0757.
begin their ministries with the children and are retrained every three years. If you are an individual who either volunteers with children or are a paid employee of the Archdiocese who works with children and not gone through Safe Environment training, you should consult with your pastor and he will direct you to the correct person. In the Chancery, those with questions about compliance, victim assistance, or the Bishops’ charter are welcome to contact Fr. Charles Puthota, Director of Pastoral Ministry, at (415) 614-5504; Rocio Rodriguez, Victim Assistance Coordinator, at (415) 614-5506; Twyla Powers, Safe Environment Coordinator for Adults (non-clergy), at (415) 614-5576; or Karen Guglielmoni, Safe Environment Coordinator for Children, at (415) 614-5578.
The goal is that all children involved in Archdiocesan programs through Religious Education, Parochial Schools, sports programs, and other programs receive training each year. In addition, the adults who either volunteer or are employed in those programs are trained before they
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Breathe wisdom into our What to do if you suspect abuse
Anyone who has reason to believe or suspects that a child has labors. been, or prayers and is being abused should report their suspicions first to civil authorities and then to the Archdiocese’s Victim Assistance Coordinator, Rodriguez,by Grant thatRocio all harmed at (415) 614-5506. Investigation should be left to duly appointed professionals. may find peaceto State law requires persons in certain positions abuse (called “mandated reporters”) make such reports. Others (called “ethnical reporters”) should do so. in justice. Every allegation will be treated seriously and immediate steps taken to protect the alleged victim(s). These actions will be taken discreetly so as to We ask this through protect the confidentiality and the rights of both and victim and the accused.
Christ, our Lord.
Reporting Instructions Amen. by County
Cases of alleged abuse in which the abuser and the victim are members of the same household are to be reported to Child Protective Services (CPS), © 2014, Unitedshare States Conference of Catholic Bishops, while cases in which the victim and theCopyright accused do not a household Washington, DC. All rights reserved. To order publication should be reported to law enforcement authorities (Sheriff ’s Department or no. 7-493, visit usccbpublishing.org or call 877-978-0757. City Police). If in doubt, just report to the most convenient agency. They will help ensure the message reaches the proper place.
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Child Protective Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (415) 499-7153 Sheriff ’s Department. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (415) 479-2311
San Francisco
Child Protective Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (415) 558-2650 Police Department. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (415) 553-0123
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Child Protective Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (650) 802-7922 Sheriff ’s Department. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (650) 363-4911 Note:You can also report abuse to your local Police Department.
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Letters Seminary questions
The selection of Jesuit Father George Schultze as the new president /rector of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University is a good choice (“Jesuit Father George Schultze to lead seminary at ‘major turning point,’” Feb. 23, 2017, Page 1). He is a longtime faculty member and provides continuity for the transition from Sulpician leadership (“Sulpician order to depart St. Patrick’s Seminary after 118 years,” Nov. 3, 2016, Page 1). This situation leads to some questions: 1) With such a low number of students (about 63, down from 114 a couple of years ago), is the seminary viable academically and financially? 2) What is the vision and the plan of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for the future of the seminary? We are very concerned about the future of the seminary. We who will be pastored by priests need answers. Stuart MacKenzie San Bruno Editor’s note: The referenced Nov. 3, 2016, article reported the following: “The seminary has seen a significant drop in enrollment from 2012 at 114 seminarians to 63 today, but Bishop Daly [Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly, a trustee and graduate of St. Patrick’s] said that is not a reflection of seminary administration rather a function of decisions by some dioceses to send seminarians to other seminaries as well as an overall drop in seminarians.
A million marched
Re “Shocking photo,” letters, March 23: On Jan. 21, Presentation sisters and associates, along with a million men and women across the world, marched against Trump’s positions. He is now under investigation for meddling in the U.S. election and may be impeached. Patricia A. Hageman South San Francisco
March questionable
I applaud Jerry Heckert’s letter in which he pointed out that the Presentation Sisters participated in the Women’s March Jan. 21 despite the fact that pro-life groups were not invited to participate in view of their pro-life stand. Mary Murphy San Francisco
Miracles at Medjugorje
Re “False apparitions,” letters, March 23: I, too, am leery of miracle-hawkers, as well as I should be. However, I know two priests who actually witnessed the “miracle” and I have no reason to disbelieve them. The miracle: Thousands of the faithful in a park in Medjugorje, and the two priests, separately, witness the complete silence of the chirping birds in the park and the lowering of the sun. Gerald Studier San Rafael
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ood Friday was bad long before it was good, at least from outward appearances. God was being crucified by all that can go bad in the world: pride, jealousy, distrust, wound, self-interest, sin. It’s no accident the Gospels tell us that, as Jesus was dying, it grew dark in the middle of the day. Few images are more telling. As Jesus hung FATHER ron upon the cross, rolheiser seemingly, light gave way to darkness, love to hatred, and life to death. How can that be good? Moreover, as he was dying, Jesus no longer seemed divine, powerful, and in control of things, both in terms of what was happening in the world and in what was happening inside of himself. The world was sinking into distrust and, if the Gospels are to be believed, Jesus, the incarnate God, seemed to be sinking into a personal doubt, one so gripping that it triggered the words: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me!” What’s happening here? How can this be good? To understand what happened on Good Friday we need to separate what was happening on the surface from what was happening at some deeper place. The surface event was bad and can never by any imaginary be called good. Sincere religious people, good though weak, out of fear and weakness were selling out what was best in them and either helping incite the execution of Jesus or standing passively by and letting it happen. In effect, other than a few
Good Friday strong women who were not succumbing to fear or group-hysteria but who are too disempowered to practically do anything about it, everyone was aiding in the crucifixion of God, either out of ignorance, jealousy or weakness. In Jesus’ own words, darkness was having its hour. The human, social, and political drama that played out on Good Friday was not good. It showed humanity at its worst before God’s seeming silence. But there was something deeper happening on Good Friday, a drama was playing out inside the recesses of Jesus’ private soul and conscience the result of which was antithetical to all that was happening on the surface, in the crowd. Inside his struggle to accept what was happening in that situation and to accept what was being asked of him, we see the ultimate moral and religious drama: love struggling with and them triumphing over hate, trust struggling with and then triumphing over paranoia, and forgiveness struggling with and then triumphing over bitterness. We see that epic struggle, first, playing itself out in his agony in the garden of Gethsemane where Jesus literally sweats blood in the face of his options, that is, standing before every form of opposition, hatred, ignorance, and misunderstanding he must decide to either give himself over in trust or to flee in self-preservation. He chooses the former and, we are told, he is then strengthened by a divine presence. But acceptance is not exactly full surrender and the next day, on Good Friday, the final test takes place. The angel who strengthened him in Gethsemane seems to disappear when he is on the cross and a crushing dark night of doubt now racks him to the point of making him cry out with what seemingly sounds like despair: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me!” His acceptance, given to his Father the night
before, at this crucial moment, is made infinitely more difficult by the seeming absence of his Father who had, up to now, had been his very breath. In the face of that seeming abandonment, Jesus had to make a choice for faith, love, and trust at the rawest level, in ultimate darkness. What’s the choice? What does Jesus do? In the words of Karl Rahner, Jesus lets himself “sink into the incomprehensibility of God.” He surrenders to God whom he cannot at that moment feel or understand but only trust. Here’s where Good Friday turns from bad to good, Jesus surrenders himself not in bitterness, grasping, or anger, but in trust, gratitude, and forgiveness. In that surrender, the struggle between good and evil, the most epic of all battles, is won. Ultimately, all that’s wrong in our world will not be vanquished by a morally superior violence, no matter how virtuous are those who are doing the vanquishing. Good violence will never rid the world of bad violence. We will rid our world of those powers that perennially crucify God only when each of us, like Jesus, can let our bitterness, grasping, and anger give way to trust, gratitude, and forgiveness. And, barring being extraordinarily gifted by special grace, we will all, like Jesus, have to let ourselves sink into the incomprehensibility of God, that is, by trusting even when we don’t understand, by loving even when we are hated, and by forgiving even when we are being hurt. All of us will have our Good Fridays, not least in our experience of death. By every appearance, they will look bad, but if we give ourselves over in trust they will be good. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
Waugh’s ‘Helena,’ Father General, and the reality of revelation
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velyn Waugh’s slim and critically unappreciated novel “Helena” was something of a literary experiment for a modern master of English literature. The eponymous heroine, mother of the Emperor Constantine, talks in her youth like a flapper from the Roaring Twenties; the storytelling is spare, absent the lush prose george weigel of “Brideshead Revisited”; Waugh’s preference for “the picturesque (over) the plausible” in historically questionable matters is enough to offend a squadron of academics. At bottom, though, the novel, the only one of his books Waugh ever read aloud to his children, is an act of faith in the reality of revelation. Which makes it an especially appropriate read during Lent 2017. Helena, whom Waugh first portrays as the horseback-riding, tomboy daughter of the British King Cole (that “merry old soul”), marries a rising young Roman legionary, Constantius, and with him has a son, Constantine. For political reasons, Constantius trades in Helena for a trophy wife, and while he climbs the greasy pole of Roman military politics, she retires to the rural quiet of the empire’s periphery and eventually becomes a Christian. Reunited with her son after he establishes himself as No. 1 in Rome
and begins to lay plans for a new capital, Constantinople, Helena discovers that post-persecution Christianity in Rome is embroiled in theological controversy, with various forms of Gnosticism threatening to reduce the faith to an arcane “knowledge” (the Greek “gnosis”) accessible only to the elite. So the elderly Helena, a practical British girl and something of a populist despite her status as dowager empress, decides to put paid to that nonsense by going to Jerusalem on pilgrimage and recovering the instruments of the Passion: The physical evidence that Christianity, rather than being an esoteric myth, is founded on real events that happened to real people at a real time in a real place – events that so changed those people and those they taught that the Christian movement converted a considerable part of the Mediterranean world before Constantine (always on the lookout for the main chance) joined the winning side. Helena’s quest, which has its climax during Lent, is rewarded by the discovery of the true cross. “Helena” is full of Waugh’s humor – including a hilarious putdown of Edward Gibbon and the anti-Christian motif in his “Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire” – which makes for easy and amusing reading. The author’s intent, however, was entirely serious. He knew that Gnosticism was a protean heresy that re-occurred across the centuries. And as a convert (like his heroine), Evelyn Waugh chose the best tools at his disposal, his well-honed abilities as a wordsmith, to take a stand against the modernist tendency to reduce revela-
tion to myth – and to make ourselves the judges of revelation, rather than being judged by it. Shortly before Lent-2017, the newly elected General of the Society of Jesus, Father Arturo Sosa, SJ, gave an interview in which he was asked about Cardinal Gerhard Mueller’s recent statement that “no power,” including popes, councils and bishops, could change the words of Jesus on marriage and divorce. Father Sosa brushed that off by saying that “no one had a [tape] recorder,” so that it’s up to us to put Christ’s words in the appropriate context, presumably drawn from contemporary experience. Father Sosa insisted that this was not “relativism”; be that as it may, it certainly is Gnosticism, of a distinctly modern form. In its “Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation,” the fathers of Vatican II wrote that Scripture, and the continuous tradition which lives from it, “are like a mirror, in which the church, during its pilgrim journey here on earth, contemplates God, from whom she receives everything ....” A few paragraphs later, the council fathers affirm that the authors of Scripture “consigned to writing whatever (God) wanted written, and no more.” So, no, no one had a tape recorder; the Gospel writers had something better – the assistance of the Holy Spirit in preparing texts that included “whatever (God) wanted written, and no more.” Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
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Sunday readings
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion At the procession with palms MATTHEW 21:1-11 When Jesus and the disciples drew near Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass tethered, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them here to me. And if anyone should say anything to you, reply, ‘The master has need of them.’ Then he will send them at once.” This happened so that what had been spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled: Say to daughter Zion, “Behold, your king comes to you, meek and riding on an ass, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.” The disciples went and did as Jesus had ordered them. They brought the ass and the colt and laid their cloaks over them, and he sat upon them. The very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and strewed them on the road. The crowds preceding him and those following kept crying out and saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is the he who comes in the name of the Lord; hosanna in the highest.” And when he entered Jerusalem the whole city was shaken and asked, “Who is this?” And the crowds replied, “This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee.”
At the Mass ISAIAH 50:4-7 The Lord God has given me a welltrained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting. The Lord God is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame. PSALM 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? All who see me scoff at me; they mock me with parted lips, they wag their heads: “He relied on the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, if he loves him.” My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Indeed, many dogs surround me, a pack of evildoers closes in upon me; they have pierced my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? They divide my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots. But you, O Lord, be not far from me; O my help, hasten to aid me.
My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I will proclaim your name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you: “You who fear the Lord, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him; revere him, all you descendants of Israel!” My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? PHILIPPIANS 2:6-11 Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. MATTHEW 27:11-54 Jesus stood before the governor, Pontius Pilate, who questioned him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus said, “You say so.” And when he was accused by the chief priests
The power of the cross
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here is a story from William Barclay about a missionary in rural India who had just finished telling the story of Jesus to a crowd of people. Then he began showing the life of Jesus in lantern slides thrown against the whitewashed wall of a house. When the cross appeared on the wall, a man rose from the crowd and ran to the front of the father charles wall. “Come puthota down from that cross, son of God,” he cried. “I, not you, should be hanging there.” As we begin Holy Week this Palm Sunday, we are profoundly moved by what Jesus will face on Good Friday. The cross has the power to cut through our hearts and convict us. All the sin and evil of all time in the world conspired to have Jesus crucified. In his death, we have found life. In his sacrifice, we have been ransomed. In his crucifixion, we have been redeemed from the ancient forces of darkness and evil. Thanks to Jesus’ death on the cross, we are filled with grace; we are free; we can hope; we are at peace; we are now the children of God capable of the fullness of life. Hence the proudest symbol of our faith: the cross.
scripture reflection
We are not spectators of the last days of Jesus. Our lives are intimately connected with these events because they are life-giving mysteries. Aided by prayer, penance, and charity in Lent, we have arrived at Palm Sunday, to journey with Jesus to the cross. The symbols are clear. The palms are held up. Hosannas are shouted, but Jesus rides a donkey, not a warhorse. He is king in a radically different sense. His kingdom is characterized not by pomp and power, servitude and fear, but by love and service, by freedom and peace, by humility and sacrifice. He is the king who refuses to lord it over us. He is the king who would wash the feet of his people, a king who will throw his life away so that we may have life and have it abundantly. The word of God dwells on Jesus’ suffering. The suffering servant in Isaiah prefigures Jesus and speaks for him. The Responsorial Psalm 22 alludes to Jesus being mocked and abandoned, but he will continue to trust in God. Paul in the ancient Christological hymn celebrates Jesus’ self-emptying humility and obedience to the point of dying on the cross, only to be exalted by his father above everyone and everything. The Passion narrative from Matthew shows Jesus, the son of God, suffering silently, fulfilling the prophecies of the Old Testament.
The divine mysteries we enter this Holy Week are pivotal in the life of Jesus as well as in our own. These are the days for which the first days of Jesus existed. His incarnation, his birth, preaching, teaching, healings, driving out the demons, table fellowship with sinners – everything is meant as preparation for these days when he will enter Jerusalem, preach his final message, wash the feet of his disciples, institute the Eucharist and priesthood, will be betrayed, arrested, will die on the cross, and rise from the dead. We are not spectators of the last days of Jesus. Our lives are intimately connected with these events because they are life-giving mysteries. Our salvation, our ability to see redemptive grace in suffering, our battles against evil in the world, our capacity to make sense of human existence, our hope for resurrection after death – all these are possible because of the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Our dying and rising in the midst of life is possible because of Jesus’ dying and rising from the dead. The grace we experience every moment flows from God, thanks to the death and resurrection of Jesus. The abiding grace of the Holy Week, therefore, is for us to be renewed in faith and love as we walk with Jesus through Via Dolorosa, stand with Mary at the foot of the cross, and rejoice with Jesus in his resurrection. Father Puthota is pastor of St. Veronica Church, South San Francisco, and director of pastoral ministry for the archdiocese.
and elders, he made no answer. Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?” But he did not answer him one word, so that the governor was greatly amazed. Now on the occasion of the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the crowd one prisoner whom they wished. And at that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had assembled, Pilate said to them, “Which one do you want me to release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had handed him over. While he was still seated on the bench, his wife sent him a message, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man. I suffered much in a dream today because of him.” The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas but to destroy Jesus. The governor said to them in reply, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They answered, “Barabbas!” Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” But he said, “Why? What evil has he done?” They only shouted the louder, “Let him be crucified!” When Pilate saw that he was not succeeding at all, but that a riot was breaking see palm sunday, page 26
Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, April 10: Monday of Holy Week. Is 42:1-7. Ps 27:1, 2, 3, 13-14. Jn 12:1-11. Tuesday, April 11: Tuesday of Holy Week. Is 49:1-6. Ps 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5ab-6ab, 15 and 17. Jn 13:21-33, 36-38. Wednesday, April 12: Wednesday of Holy Week. Is 50:4-9a. Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31 and 33-34. Mt 26:14-25. Thursday, April 13: Holy Thursday. Is 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9. Ps 89:21-22, 25 and 27. Rv 1:5-8. Is 61:1 (cited in Lk 4:18). Lk 4:16-21. Friday, April 14: Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion. Is 52:13—53:12. Ps 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25. Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9. Phil 2:8-9. Jn 18:1—19:42. Saturday, April 15: Holy Saturday at the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter. Gn 1:1—2:2 or Gn 1:1, 26-31a. Ps 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-14, 24, 35 or Ps 33:4-5, 6-7, 12-13, 20 and 22. Gn 22:1-18 or Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18. Ps 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11. Ex 14:15— 15:1. Ex 15:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 17-18. Is 54:5-14. Ps 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13. Is 55:1-11. Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6. Bar 3:9-15, 32C4:4. Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11. Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28. Ps 42:3, 5; 43:3, 4 or Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 or Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19. Rom 6:3-11. Ps 118:1-2, 1617, 22-23. Mt 28:1-10.
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An Easter blessing
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wish you a Happy Easter, and I send you this blessing with my love and prayers. May the passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merits of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the saints – and whatsoever good you do or suffering you endure - cleanse you of all your sins – bring you an increase of grace, and prepare you for the joys of eternal life with Our Heavenly Father-Amen. The solemn feast of Easter is about joy. You once were lost, and now you are found. It reminds me of the FATHER JOHN sounds I heard when I was CATOIR running Eva’s Village, the drug and alcoholic rehab center in Paterson. This quote from a recovering addict can explain what I mean: “When I first came to the program I was stunned by the constant sound of laughter. Outsiders are shocked when we burst into laughter over a seemingly tragic experience out of the past. But why shouldn’t we laugh? We are in recovery, and we’re helping others
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God’s children do not fret about their worthiness. No one is worthy. Have a blind faith in the promises of Christ, and enjoy your precious life here and now. to recover. What greater cause could there be for rejoicing?” How true! Getting your life back is a great reason for having a celebration. The same man added this pearl of wisdom, “I realize today that cheerfulness and merriment are a necessary part of a healthy life.” Easter is the beginning of our new life. The penitential season of Lent had its place, but now we focus on the future. “He is risen – the Lord Jesus has risen from the dead.” Imagine what that means for you. You’ve been given a personal promise from Jesus Christ that you too will rise and enter paradise, your true and eternal home. God’s children do not fret about their worthiness. No one is worthy. Have a blind faith in the promises of Christ, and enjoy your precious life here and now. May you come to appreciate the value of a good sense of humor. As you plow through the drudg-
ery of life; do it with good cheer. Think of the big picture and rejoice. Laughter is the background music of a life of faith. It bolsters us in times of stress. Think beyond yourself. Isn’t it a bit irreverent to take yourself too seriously? Those who think that God expects perfection from us are simply misinformed. All he asks is that we make a sensible effort to be good. Good is good enough. No one is perfect. No one can ever achieve perfection. So settle down; free yourself of needless worry. Pope Francis wants us to see the church as a field hospital in a combat zone. Do what you can; do your part. The supreme law is threefold: cling to God, think of others, and don’t put yourself down. Keep a keen sense of humor in the process. Be grateful that your savior Jesus Christ is preparing a place for you in heaven right now as you read these words. God bless you, and may the Lord be your strength and your joy. Father Catoir, ordained in 1960, is a priest of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, and founder in 1995 of St. Jude Media formed to spread the good news of the faith to the unchurched.
Evangelization by hitchhiking: How to find an on-ramp
he place infants nod off and teens open up is also where road-weary adults will probe their spirituality: in the car. That’s the secret behind a new religious community, the Little Poor Friars and Poor Nuns of Jesus and Mary, who dress and live like St. Francis of Assisi: in poverty, entirely dependent on God’s providence. They were founded in 1999 by a 25-yearold Sicilian and approved by the Catholic Church in 2014. They are a throwback order, Christina offering something that feels Cappecchi like the original to young adults wary of cheap imitations. More than 30 Catholics already have joined, fulfilling a bold mission: To make
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like the Apostles and spread the good news. So they stand at the edge of a highway in their khaki-colored habits – garb that resembles sack cloth – with Bibles on their backs and sandals on their feet – the women in veils, the men with their St. Francis hairstyles shaved into a crown – and stick out their thumbs. Evangelization by hitchhiking. Sister Effata was 24 when she set out hitchhiking for the first time as a Little Nun, intending to travel with two friars from Sicily to France, their community’s new home. She stepped outside and promptly asked: “OK, do we have to go to the right or the left?” Surrendering to the unknown thrilled her. “I had that radical call in my heart,” she said. “I wanted to be all in.” Born Mirijam, the young German chose the Hebrew name Effata as her religious name because it means “be open.” To hitchhike as a Little Nun was to embrace the open road, she felt, to be born of the Spirit, like the wind: “you do not know where it comes from or where it goes” (John 3:8). “It’s an experience of letting yourself be guided by the Holy Spirit,” Sister Effata said. “It’s amazing to have that freedom, to go in the direction of the highway, stand there and stick out your thumb and wait till someone stops and can give you a ride to the next town.” One morning during her first hitchhike, Sister Ef-
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fata had a premonition that she would meet someone who had attempted suicide. This was close to her heart: As a teen, she had plunged into anorexia and depression and attempted suicide before finding God. Sure enough, the trio soon encountered a young woman who had tried to take her life the day before. Her name was Miriam. “God works mysteriously,” Sister Effata said. “When we pay attention, we can catch those moments when we can really touch people’s hearts.” Now 37 and working toward a master’s of theology from the Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Sister Effata has spent thousands of days hitchhiking. “People will bring up their most profound struggles. When we enter their car and say, ‘Peace to this car and peace to all who enter it,’ sometimes people will respond, ‘I need some peace.’ It can happen quickly. They get emotional or share a struggle.” In turn, Sister Effata has learned to accept the invitation of strangers to join them for a warm meal and to sleep on the couch. “I have seen how God’s providence works through people. God takes care of us all, like the birds of the sky. “There is so much evil in the world, but when we hitchhike, we meet so much goodness. You have to dig for it. You have to make a sacrifice to reach it. It’s why we need to evangelize: To bring that good forth, to make it shine.” Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, and editor of SisterStory.org.
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Evangelizing through the good
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nyone even vaguely acquainted with my work knows that I advocate vigorous argument on behalf of religious truth. I have long called for a revival in what is classically known as apologetics, the defense of the claims of faith against skeptical opponents. And I have repeatedly weighed in against a BISHOP Robert dumbed-down Barron Catholicism. Also, I have, for many years, emphasized the importance of beauty in service of evangelization. The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, the Sainte Chapelle, Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Bach’s “St. Matthew’s Passion,” T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” and the cathedral of Chartres all have an extraordinary convincing power, in many ways surpassing that of formal arguments. So I affirm the path of truth and the path of beauty. But I also recommend, as a means of propagating the faith, the third of the transcendentals, namely, the good. Moral rectitude, the concrete living out of the Christian way, especially when it is done in a heroic manner, can move even the most hardened unbeliever to faith, and the truth of this principle has been proven again and again over the centuries. In the earliest days of the Christian movement, when both Jews and Greeks looked upon the nascent faith as either scandalous or irrational,
We have been passing through one of the darkest chapters in recent church history. The clerical sex abuse scandals have chased countless people away from Catholicism, and a secularist tide continues to rise, especially among the young. it was the moral goodness of the followers of Jesus that brought many to belief. The church father Tertullian conveyed the wondering pagan reaction to the early church in his famous adage: “How these Christians love one another!” At a time when the exposure of malformed infants was commonplace, when the poor and the sick were often left to their own devices, and when murderous revenge was a matter of course, the early Christians cared for unwanted babies, gave succor to the sick and the dying, and endeavored to forgive the persecutors of the faith. And this goodness extended, not simply to their own brothers and sisters, but, astonishingly, to outsiders and to enemies. This peculiarly excessive form of moral decency convinced many people that something strange was afoot among these disciples of Jesus, something splendid and rare. It compelled them to take a deeper look. During the cultural and political chaos following the collapse of the Roman Empire, certain spiritual athletes took to the caves, deserts, and hills in order to live a radical form of the Christian life. From these early ascetics, monasticism emerged, a spiritual movement that led, in time, to the re-civilization of Europe. What so many found fascinating was the sheer intensity of the
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monks’ commitment, their embrace of poverty, and their blithe trust in divine providence. Once again, it was the living out of the Gospel ideal that proved convincing. Something similar unfolded in the 13th century, a time of significant corruption in the church, especially among the clergy. Francis, Dominic and their confreres inaugurated the mendicant orders, which is just a fancy way of saying the begging orders. The trust, simplicity, service to the poor and moral innocence of the Dominicans and Franciscans produced a revolution in the church and effectively re-evangelized armies of Christians who had grown slack and indifferent in their faith. And we find the same dynamic in our time. John Paul II was the second most powerful evangelist of the 20th century, but unquestionably the first was a woman who never wrote a major work of theology or apologetics, who never engaged skeptics in public debate, and who never produced a beautiful work of religious art. I’m speaking, of course, of St. Teresa of Kolkata. No one in the last 100 years propagated the Christian faith more effectively than a simple nun who lived in utter poverty and who dedicated herself to the service of the most neglected people in our society. There is a wonderful story told of
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Message for World Youth Day 2017: No ‘couch potatoes’ The pope’s message for World Youth Day 2017 was released March 21 at the Vatican, centered on a verse of the Magnificat: “The Mighty One has done great things for me.”
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t the conclusion of the Krakow World Youth Day, I announced the next stop in our pilgrimage, which with God’s help will bring us to Panama in 2019. On this journey we will be accompanied by the Virgin Mary, whom all generations call blessed (cf. Luke 1:48). This new leg of our journey picks up from the one that preceded it centered on the Beatitudes and invites us to press forward. I fervently hope that you young people will continue to press forward, not only cherishing the memory of the past but also with courage in the present pope francis and hope for the future. These attitudes were certainly present in the young Mary of Nazareth and are clearly expressed in the themes chosen for the three coming world youth days. This year we will reflect on the faith of Mary, who says in the Magnificat: “The Mighty One has done great things for me” (Luke 1:49). The theme for next year – “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God” (Luke 1:30) – will lead us to meditate on the courageous charity with which the Virgin welcomed the message of the angel. The 2019 World Youth Day will be inspired by the words “I am the servant of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word” (Luke 1:38), Mary’s hope-filled reply to the angel. In October 2018, the church will celebrate the Synod of Bishops on the theme “Youth, Faith and Vocational Discernment.” We will talk about how you, as young people, are experiencing the life of faith amid the challenges of our time. We will also discuss the question of how you can develop a life project by discerning your personal vocation, whether it be to marriage in the secular and professional world or to the consecrated life and priesthood. It is my hope that the journey toward the World Youth Day in Panama and the process of preparation for the synod will move forward in tandem.
No ‘couch potatoes”
According to Luke’s Gospel, once Mary has received the message of the angel and said yes to the call to become the mother of the Savior, she sets out in haste to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who was in the sixth month of her pregnancy. Mary is very young; what she was told is a great gift, but it also entails great challenges. The Lord assured her of his presence and support, yet many things remain obscure in her mind and
heart. Yet Mary does not shut herself up at home or let herself be paralyzed by fear or pride. Mary is not the type that to be comfortable needs a good sofa where she can feel safe and sound. She is no couch potato! (cf. July 30, 2016, vigil address, Krakow). If her elderly cousin needs a hand, she does not hesitate but immediately sets off. It was a long way to the house of Elizabeth, about 150 kilometers. But the young woman from Nazareth, led by the Holy Spirit, knows no obstacles. Surely, those days of journeying helped her to meditate on the marvelous event of which she was a part. So it is with us whenever we set out on pilgrimage. Along the way, the events of our own lives come to mind, we learn to appreciate their meaning and we discern our vocation, which then becomes clear in the encounter with God and in service to others.
The Mighty One has done great things for me
The meeting of the two women, one young and the other elderly, is filled with the presence of the Holy Spirit and charged with joy and wonder (cf. Luke 1:40-45). The two mothers, like the children they bear, practically dance for joy. Elizabeth, impressed by Mary’s faith, cries out, “Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord” (v. 45). One of the great gifts that the Virgin received was certainly that of faith. Belief in God is a priceless gift, but one that has to be received. Elizabeth blesses Mary for this, and she in turn responds with the song of the Magnificat (cf. Luke 1:46-55), in which we find the words, “The Mighty One has done great things for me” (v. 49). Mary’s is a revolutionary prayer, the song of a faith-filled young woman conscious of her limits, yet confident in God’s mercy. She gives thanks to God for looking upon her lowliness and for the work of salvation that he has brought about for the people, the poor and the humble. Faith is at the heart of Mary’s entire story. Her song helps us to understand the mercy of the Lord as the driving force of history, the history of each of us and of all humanity. When God touches the heart of a young man or woman, they become capable of doing tremendous things. The “great things” that the Almighty accomplished in the life of Mary speak also to our own journey in life, which is not a meaningless meandering but a pilgrimage that, for all its uncertainties and sufferings, can find its fulfillment in God (cf. Aug. 15, 2015, Angelus). You may say to me, “But Father, I have my limits, I am a sinner, what can I do?” When the Lord calls us, he doesn’t stop at what we are or what we have done. On the contrary, at the very moment that he calls us, he is looking ahead to everything we can do, all the love we are capable of giving.
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How do you “save” in your memory the events and experiences of your life? What do you do with the facts and the images present in your memory? Some of you, particularly those hurt by certain situations in life, might want to “reset” your own past, to claim the right to forget it all. But I would like to remind you that there is no saint without a past or a sinner without a future. The pearl is born of a wound in the oyster! Jesus, by his love, can heal our hearts and turn our lives into genuine pearls. As St. Paul said, the Lord can show his power through our weakness (cf. 2 Corinthians 12:9). At the end of each day, we can stop for a few minutes to remember the good times and the challenges, the things that went well and those that went wrong. In this way, before God and before ourselves, we can express our gratitude, our regrets and our trust. If you wish, you can also write them down in a notebook as a kind of spiritual journal. This means praying in life, with life and about life, and it will surely help you to recognize the great things that the Lord is doing for each of you. As St. Augustine said, we can find God in the vast fields of our memory (cf. “Confessions,” X, 8, 12). Reading the Magnificat, we realize how well Mary knew the word of God. Every verse of her song has a parallel in the Old Testament. The young mother of Jesus knew the prayers of her people by heart. Surely her parents and her grandparents had taught them to her. Spread your wings and fly, but also realize that you need to rediscover your roots and to take up the torch from those who have gone before. Copyright 2017 by Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Retrieved from originsonline.com, Catholic News Service documentary service. Excerpted by Catholic San Francisco.
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Consecration: Archdiocese sets special year of Marian veneration FROM PAGE 1
10 practical things we can do as preparation for consecration
maculate Heart of Mary. … For this act of consecration to bear fruit, I am convinced that we must prepare ourselves spiritually and with catechesis for this significant day.”
The Context
This year is the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal. We may be familiar that the Blessed Virgin during these apparitions in 1917 invited the church to take refuge in her Immaculate Heart which will be the way for us to Jesus, who leads us to the Father.
Consecration
Many of us are aware of the meaning of consecration. The word comes from the Latin term “consecrare,” which means to make sacred. Consecration is an ancient tradition that goes back to the Old Testament and has always been part of Catholic tradition. We are familiar that consecration takes place at every Mass; that churches, bishops, and religious articles are traditionally consecrated, which means they are dedicated or made holy (hallowed) or set apart for God’s service; and that “Consecrated Life” is an expression we use to refer to those belonging to religious orders. Hence consecrating the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary would mean that the archbishop will solemnly dedicate the archdiocese to Mary, the Mother of God and our Mother. It is a way of consciously, deliberately, wholeheartedly, and ritually placing our archdiocese
2. Attend the First Saturday Masses as a way of devotion and love toward the Blessed Virgin Mary and participate in the Eucharist at weekends.
7. Meditate on the blurbs on the story of Fatima, which will be inserted in our parish bulletins.
4. Make frequent use of the sacrament of penance. We could consider going to confession at least once a month.
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A statue of Our Lady of Fatima in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. The statue is a copy of the original in Fatima, Portugal. in the care and protection of Mary whose heart is on fire for Jesus and the whole humanity. (We may recall Abraham Lincoln’s use of the terms “dedicate,” “consecrate,” and “hallow” in his Gettysburg Address.)
Catechesis
The archbishop is rightly keen that the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary needs to be preceded by spiritual preparation and catechesis. The consecration needs to be placed within the context of the theology of Mary: her role in the salvation history, her closeness to Jesus, her preeminent discipleship, her role in the redemptive sufferings of Jesus, her total submission to the will of God, her longing for liberation in the song of Magnificat, her invitation for us to serve and heal others,
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3. Spend a few minutes each day in silent prayer and read the Scriptures, especially the Gospels. Pope Francis has been inspiring us to do this.
Symbolic significance
The Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary together have become powerful symbols. The Sacred Heart of Jesus is open to manifest God’s love to humanity, inviting everyone to love and fullness of life. The Immaculate Heart of Mary is the symbol of Mary’s love for Jesus and for the church as she invites us to do whatever Jesus tells us to do.
1. Pray the rosary daily in families and churches.
5. Dwell prayerfully on the monthly themes proposed by the Immaculate Heart of Mary Committee as related to Mary and the consecration.
8. Attend the Marian retreat (in English and Spanish) on Saturday, May 6, at the cathedral. 9. Encourage our students in both our Catholic schools and religious education programs to participate in essay, poetry, and art contests on the themes of Mary. 10. Attend the Rosary Rally and the ceremony of consecration with the archbishop presiding, at the cathedral on Oct. 7, the feast of the Holy Rosary. Visit www.sfarch.org/ihm.
6. Recite the proposed prayer to
her presence at the origin of the church at Pentecost, and her continuous role in leading us to discipleship of Jesus. The theology of Mary will necessarily lead us to spirituality and devotion. The tender affection we feel from and toward Mary is expressed in the various apparitions around the world, including at Fatima. The daily rosary (invitation to meditate on the divine mysteries), the five First Saturday Masses (providing more opportunities for participation in the Eucharist), the call and our response to conversion and reparation (“repent and believe in the Gospel”) – all are solidly based on Scripture, theology, spirituality and tradition.
The larger vision of the archbishop
When all the preparation and consecration are completed, the
Father Charles Puthota
hope of the archbishop is that the archdiocese will have been renewed in faith; that our love for Jesus and desire for discipleship will have been rekindled through our love for Mary; that people may grow in their love of and fidelity to the church; that there is greater participation in the Eucharist; that there is a new energy for loving and serving others, especially those who are in need; and that the faithful of the archdiocese may embrace stewardship as a way of life, which is “the grateful response of a Christian disciple who recognizes and receives God’s gifts and shares these gifts in love of God and neighbor.” Father Puthota is director of pastoral ministry for the archdiocese and pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.
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Women religious of the archdiocese celebrate jubilees Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Sister Linda Roby, BVM, who has ties to the Archdiocese of San Francisco, celebrates her golden jubilee on July 30, 2017, with a liturgy and dinner at Mount Carmel, Dubuque, Iowa. Sister Linda attended St. Robert School, San Bruno, and Mercy High School, Burlingame. She entered the BVM congregation July 31, 1967, from St. Robert Parish. She is the daughter of Robert Roby of St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Burlingame. Sister Linda currently ministers as director of Catholic Deaf Ministry for the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon.
Sisters of Mercy
Sisters of Mercy who entered the Mercy Community in Burlingame will celebrate jubilees at a Mass at Mercy Chapel in Burlingame July 30. They are now part of the Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community.
Sister Diane Marie Clyne, 50 Years
Sister Diane’s religious life has been deeply enriched by ministry among the Spanish-speaking community. From the late 1990s to the end of 2000, she lived and ministered in El Salvador and then Honduras. She served 10 years at Dominican Hospital as chaplain and seven at Hospice of Santa Cruz County and today is development director with Caribbean, Central America and South America Community supporting Mercy ministries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.
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San Rafael Dominicans celebrate combined 370 years of service
Pictured from left: Sister Joan Hanna, OP, 60 years, director, St. Raphael Preschool; Sister Adele Gerlach, OP, 60 years, volunteer ministry; Sister Lois Silva, OP, 60 years, volunteer ministry; Sister Susan Allbritton, OP, 40 years, Congregational Leadership; Sister Anne Providence Frassinello, OP, 50 years, director of Religious Education, Mission Dolores Academy. Not available for photo were Sister Sharon Cross, OP, 50 years and Sister Jane Ferdon, OP, 50 years, adjunct faculty, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University.
Sister Charleen Koenig, 60 Years
Sister Charleen has ministered in nursing beginning with her position as head nurse at St. Mary’s Medical Center in 1959 and was the first neurological and neurosurgical supervisor of the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. She also served in supervisorial nursing positions at Mercy Hospital, Bakersfield and St John’s Hospital, Oxnard. Trained in spiritual development, she has been a receptionist at Mercy Center and staff in the Mercy Center bookstore since 1994.
Sister Patricia Ryan, 60 years
Sister Patricia (formerly Sister Mary Gertrude) served for many years as a science and math teacher at Mercy high schools in Burlingame, San Francisco, Imperial Beach and in Maghull, England and is a former Superior General of the Burlingame
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Hibernian Newman Club holds 53rd annual St. Pat’s Luncheon in his role as executive director of the Carl Gellert and Cecilia Berta Gellert Foundation. The keynote speaker at the lunch was Father Matt Foley, whose background includes missionary, parish priest, and Army chaplain. His ministries have included working with gang alternative programs in Chicago, and religious education for adults and children in rural Mexico. Father Foley also served four tours as a chaplain with airborne and special operations troops in Afghanistan and is currently serves as pastor of a parish in Arlington Heights, Illinois. If the name “Matt Foley” sounds familiar, it is because of Father Foley’s close friendship with Saturday Night Live comedian Chris Farley. Farley adopted “Matt Foley” as the name for his iconic “Motivational Speaker” character on the Saturday Night Live show.
On March 17, the Hibernian Newman Club held the 53rd Annual St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon at the Westin St. Francis Hotel with 830 guests in attendance. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was among the dignitaries attending and he gave the invocation. The Hibernian Newman Club was established in 1964 by Archbishop Joseph McGucken for the purpose of providing financial support for the Newman Centers and other worthy charitable organizations in the archdiocese. During the luncheon program, club president Janet Holland presented a donation to the archbishop on behalf of the club’s board of directors. Jack Fitzpatrick, a San Francisco native, was honored as the Hibernian of the Year. Fitzpatrick was recognized for his years of service on many boards, including Catholic Charities, Hanna Boys Center and the Irish Immigration Pastoral Center, and for providing grants of nearly $2 million annually to educational and charitable organizations
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Author: All – clergy, religious, laity – must take church leadership FROM PAGE 1
Lowney, a former Jesuit seminarian, came up with the “EASTeR” acronym – the second “E” is lowercase – to highlight the five areas he sees as imperative for action. The “E” stands for entrepreneurial, being “more creative and innovative in everything we do,” he wrote. The “A” is for accountability. “We will be good stewards who make best use of the talents and resources God has entrusted to the church,” he said. “We will monitor our results, successes Chris Lowney and failures.” The “S” in Lowney’s “EASTeR” acronym is to “serve the world’s poor and marginalized peoples,” he wrote in “Everyone Leads.” The “T” is to “transform the hearts and souls of our members,” Lowney said. And the “R,” he added, is to “reach out to engage and welcome the wider world.” Even something as seemingly simple as greeting people when they come to Mass can take on a new cast when it is part of a comprehensive effort to transform church life, according to Lowney. He admitted, though, to the tension between rushing headlong into change and adopting the “let Father do it” attitude. “That’s the tricky thing here,” Lowney said. “It’s one thing when Father, the parish council, the parish leadership team, say, ‘This is what we need to do and here are the ways you can help do it.’”
Lowney said he was struck by what he called a “horrific” statistic in a study he had read recently about parishes in the 21st century showing that “only a third of people would know how to become more involved and less than half of people feel more invited to do so. ... Those are numbers that need to be in the 90s. Everybody needs to feel invited. “Our challenges are multiplying,” he continued. “Our cohort of priests, religious women and men are all declining. A lot of the communities we traditionally thought of as the leaders or the people who do are declining when our challenges are multiplying. The only way I see us conquering that is when many more of us feel ‘this is my job, too.’ But that means I have some co-responsibility for the life of this parish and the church.” What about for the Catholic who agrees with Lowney’s philosophy but would feel unsure of how to start? “I’m a great believer in easy wins,” Lowney explained. “In any situation, and certainly in our church as well, nothing is as encouraging as getting a little traction.” He added, “Even to see a small number of us in a parish say, ‘Here’s five things we can start tomorrow’ – surely we can find five people to greet, give out the (parish) bulletin, welcome (others), have the pastor invite all of us to invite somebody else to something – maybe not Mass in the first instance, but some kind of activity in church.” In “Everyone Leads,” he quoted one pastor who said from the pulpit, “Last year, when I
Author: ‘Benedict Option’ could strengthen faith FROM PAGE 10
Dreher interviewed the Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy. Their founder, St. Benedict of Nursia, patron saint of Europe, was the fifth-century father of Western monasticism. He founded monasteries as a time when Europe was experiencing a crisis of values and turmoil caused by the fall of the Roman Empire, decadence and the death of traditional customs. “Monks moved all over barbarian-ruled Europe,” Dreher said. “They brought the faith to un-
churched people. They taught them how to pray, but they also taught the peasants how to make things, how to build things, how to grow things, skills that had been lost in Rome’s collapse, and in their rituals and in their libraries, the monks kept alive the cultural memory of Christian Rome.” The Benedict Option calls for “a strategic separation from the everyday world,” he said. “We have to erect some walls, so to speak, between ourselves and our communities and the world for the sake of our own spiritual formation and discipleship.”
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Author offers guidance for those on journeys of spiritual renewal David Gibson Catholic News Service
“Interior Journey: A Spirituality for Contemporary Seekers” by Dolores Leckey. Twenty-Third Publications (New London, Connecticut, 2015). 83 pp., $12.95. A five-month sabbatical after experiencing several key losses in life “was salvific” for Francis, a Jesuit whose story is one of the many told in Dolores Leckey’s “Interior Journey: A Spirituality for Contemporary Seekers.” “The anxieties associated with transition and with accumulated loss dissipated” for Francis during his sabbatical. At the same time it served him as a time of unique insight. The sabbatical “revealed his subconscious attitude of ‘entitlement,’ namely, that somehow he was entitled to have his life move along smoothly.” He explained, “I had lost touch with my creaturehood.” The account of Francis’ sabbatical appears in a chapter of “Interior Journey” devoted to “the power of gratitude.” Today, this Jesuit’s “cup of gratitude overflows because he knows that the Lord is ahead of him, beckoning him onward,” the author writes. Leckey calls attention in this context to medical research indicating that patients “heal much more quickly with an attitude of hope and gratitude, rather than what ... Francis calls ‘entitlement,’ which often carries depression and anger in its wake.” Few people, I am sure, consider themselves strangers to the sense Leckey describes that life sometimes does not “move along smoothly.” Indeed,
a good many of us renew our spiritual journeys precisely when we feel under siege, so to speak. Perhaps this is because of a long illness in the family, or a job loss, or the realization that an important goal of ours will not be achieved, at least not now. It is fascinating how real-life events and developments intersect with Christian spirituality, stimulating its growth and expansion. This book’s great strength is its capacity to illustrate how this happens with stories of spiritual journeys in the lives of people much like me or you. Such stories, the author says, “point to the possibilities for happiness if we trust the surprising path God is pointing us to.” They are stories about people who “went inward to find the courage to act, and to act creatively.” The author’s honest writing and willingness to share personal experiences that pushed her own spiritual journey forward are another of the book’s fine points. Her countless friends and associates know well that spirituality is a driving force in her life, which she shares with them in rewarding ways. In fact, while like many spiritual writers Leckey affirms that measures of solitude and quiet are essential to spirituality, she nonetheless firmly believes that room must be made for friendship and community. A concern otherwise, she writes, is “that one could live only for oneself.” Leckey will be known to many as a former executive director of what is now the Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. She is the author, too, of numerous books, including “Grieving With Grace” (St. Anthony Messenger Press) and “The Ordinary Way: A Family Spirituality” (Crossroad Publishing).
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She hopes readers will view “Interior Journey,” which is part of Twenty-Third Publications’ Adult Faith Formation Library, as an invitation to know themselves by exploring the “inner space” that constitutes the “landscape of the soul.” The book approaches spirituality under four headings: change; simplicity; solitude and friendship; and gratitude. Each of these “reflects an aspect of one’s spirituality, which is the innermost part of a life, where desire and hope and life sparkle.” Individual readers intent on according a larger place to spirituality are sure to benefit from “Interior Journey,” but I can well imagine it serving as a valued resource for parish discussion groups, retreat participants, parish and diocesan staff members, classes and others. “Interior Journey” is a brief book, easily read in a few hours. I hope, though, that readers will not finish it off too quickly, but revisit and reread various passages and paragraphs again and again. “Prayer changes us,” Leckey insists. She mentions this after telling how, many years ago as a young mother, she “joined with other women to explore the world of prayer.” As the group’s members “grew more confident,” they shared their needs and worries. “When we discovered that someone’s alcoholic father had joined AA, or that a depressed spouse was seeking medical help, or that the atmosphere of worry in someone’s life was lightened, we felt the Spirit’s encouragement to stay with it,” Leckey says. A leitmotif of sorts emerges in the book through its occasional quotations drawn from meditations by Jesuit Father Karl Rahner, a major 20th-century theologian. “Let us step forth on the adventurous journey of the heart to God,” Father Rahner advises at the book’s conclusion. He adds: “Let us forget what lies behind us.”
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Temporary Cemetery Caretaker, Colma, CA Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery is currently seeking applications for Temporary Cemetery Caretakers to assist in providing seasonal work assistance during Spring and Summer. Duties: The Temporary Cemetery Caretaker performs jobs requiring mainly manual skills and physical strength. Performs tasks, such as cleaning and clearing cemetery grounds of debris, using power trimmers, shovels, rakes, blowers, weeding, mulching, etc. Work Schedule: You will be required to work 40 hours/week (M-F, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) Qualifications: • You must possess a valid California Driver’s License. • Must have the lawful ability to work in this country. • Must be able to follow written and oral instructions. For inquires please contact: kbonillas@holycrosscemeteries.com If you wish to apply please fill out an application at: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014
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MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: The school’s “Get Ready to Set Sail” gala shoved off March 11. “Gala guests enjoyed true Mercy hospitality while bidding, dining, and dancing at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco Airport!” the school said. Among those enjoying the evening were Mercy alumnae, from left, Dr. Kim Lucas Benton, Mercy Sister Carolyn Krohn, and San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White who served as the evening’s emcee.
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NOTRE DAME DES VICTOIRES SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: The school’s junior high academic decathlon team, pictured here, took second place overall in team competitions at St. Pius School, Redwood City March 4. NDV also earned third place in the Logic Quiz and third place in the Super Quiz. In individual subject competitions Nancy Astabie took first place in literature; Jay Williams took second place in current events; Anna Elgin took third place in English; and Jackie Acosta took third place in social science.
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OUR LADY OF LORETTO PARISH AND SCHOOL, NOVATO: Michael Gotuaco of the Missionary Childhood Association visited with school students and students of the parish religious education program March 7. Michael distributed Lenten Boxes for students to put away as they are able money for the worldwide effort. Pictured are fifth graders with a Lenten Box, a rooster for Year of the Rooster and a prayer card with a picture of children assisted by the program.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 13 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo, new members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo. com.
SATURDAY, APRIL 22 REUNION: San Francisco Notre Dame de Namur Alumnae Mass and Luncheon, Mission Dolores Basilica, 10:30 a.m. with lunch immediately following at Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd., San Francisco. $45. Theme this year is “Let There Be Peace on Earth”! Email martita@ pacbell.net. HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865; www.Handicapables.com. ‘COME AND SEE’: Sisters of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 9:30-12:30. Information morning on religious life. Open to Catholic women between the ages of 18-45. RSVP: vocationministerburl@mercywmw.org or tleave a message at (650) 373-4508.
SUNDAY, APRIL 23 CHAMBER MUSIC: St. Cecilia Church, 18th Avenue at Vicente, San Francisco, 4 p.m. (415) 664-8481. GRIEF SUPPORT: Eight week closed
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CATHEDRAL LENT TALKS: “Penance: Its virtue, practice and role in the Spiritual life,” with Father James Garcia, retired pastor, St. Anthony Parish, Menlo Park; 10:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Father James Gough Street at Garcia Geary Boulevard, San Francisco; (415) 567-2020; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.
DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco, Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese, Father Al drop-in support Grosskopf group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 25 DON BOSCO: Don Bosco Study Group meets 7 p.m., Salesian Boys’ and Girls’ Club, North Beach, parking in the yard. Bishop Robert Barron’s DVD, “The Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Lively Virtues” and Matthew Kelley’s newest book, “Resisting Happiness” to be discussed; books $3 in church bookstore and at meeting. Frank Lavin, (415) 3108551, franklavin@comcast.net.
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