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The many forms of Catholic consecrated life

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Blessed Romero ‘another brilliant star’ belonging to church of Americas RHINA GUIDOS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Some thought this day would never arrive.

Others hoped and some always knew it would.

On May 23, the Catholic Church beatified Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez of El Salvador, who was assassinated in 1980 while celebrating Mass, just a day after pleading and ordering soldiers to stop killing innocent civilians.

“Blessed Romero is another brilliant star that belongs to the sanctity of the church of the Americas,” said Cardinal Angelo Amato, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Saints’ Causes, during the ceremony in San Salvador. “And thanks be to God, there are many.”

While those who persecuted him have died or are in obscurity, “the

Pilgrim prays to Archbishop Oscar Romero during beatification Mass May 23 in the Divine Savior of the World square in San Salvador.

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Archbishop celebrates Mass with charismatics on Pentecost weekend VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Calling it a “stroke of God’s providence,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated the opening Mass of the 28th Annual Northern California Catholic Charismatic Convention on the weekend of Pentecost.

In his May 22 homily, the archbishop drew on the Acts of the Apostles and the martyrdoms of St. Peter and St. Paul. He quoted Pope Francis on the “horrendous” martyrdoms of Christians in the Middle East and elsewhere as well as what the pontiff has termed the “white glove” martyrdoms of being ostracized and shut out for upholding Christian beliefs.

“Every individual Christian is called to repeat the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus in their individual

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Archbishop Cordileone celebrated the opening Mass of the 28th Annual Northern California Catholic Charismatic Convention in Santa Clara May 22.

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lives,” Archbishop Cordileone told the gathering of about 500 people at the Santa Clara Convention Center for the May 22-25 gathering, traditionally held on the Memorial Day weekend. “This pattern of the suffering, death and resurrection of the Lord is repeated in the life of the church” in every era, he said.

The archbishop received a standing ovation, said Deacon Ernie Von Emster.

His anticipated appearance filled the auditorium, which is quite unusual for the first Mass of the annual charismatic conference, said St. Veronica parishioner Norma Guerrero, who noted the first Mass of the convention on Friday evening frequently has poor attendance as participants from the dioceses of Stockton, Monterey, Santa Rosa, San Jose, Sacramento and the Archdiocese

On the occasions when Catholic remains would arrive to Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma for burial without an accompanying member of clergy – or sometimes without anyone at all – the cemetery’s longtime director would grab her own prayer book and offer the prayers of committal at the burial site.

“I brought the urn to the grave and said the committal prayers myself, along with one of our gravediggers,” said Monica Williams, who oversees all six archdiocesan Catholic cemeteries. She was describing the recent

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Priest assignments announced

NEED TO KNOW JOIN THE YOUTH COUNCIL: The Archdiocese of San Francisco is looking for high school students – incoming freshmen to incoming seniors – to serve on the Archdiocesan Youth Council for the 2015-2016 school year. The Youth Council meets once a month at the Pastoral Center and helps to plan archdiocesan youth events such as the Youth Rally/Youth Mass, confirmation retreats, and Food Fast. They are given hands-on training to be leaders in their parishes, schools, and at events. The application is due June 15, 2015, and can be found at http://sforeym.org/node/331. Questions can be directed to Ynez Lizarraga at LizarragaY@sfarch.org or (415) 614-5654.

CHARITIES IN ON LAUNCH OF TWITTER NEIGHBORNEST: Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco has joined social media provider Twitter in a project called NeighborNest, inaugurated May 20 in San Francisco.

“Located in San Francisco’s mid-Market neighborhood, NeighborNest provides a safe space for low-income youth to play and learn through technology,” Catholic Charities said in a statement. Catholic Charities Maureen & Craig Sullivan Youth Services, located next to Twitter headquarters, has been partnering with Twitter during the last year to pilot a program that allows youth to learn more about technology. “We are excited about continuing our collaboration with Twitter to give lowincome youth opportunities they might never have otherwise,” said Jeff Bialik, executive director of Catholic Charities.

POETIC MEDICINE: Vallombrosa Retreat Center in Menlo Park, in collaboration with the Institute of Poetic Medicine, invites you to a one-day experience dedicated to poetry-making, encouraging you to discover your capacity for creative expression and to include poetry in your life as a spiritual practice. IPM believes that the reading and writing of poetry can be a healing experience.

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ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE ISSUES NEW LETTER TO TEACHERS: The letter to archdiocesan high school teachers, along with a draft revision of the high school faculty handbook, may be found at www.sfarchdiocese.org/ home under News & Events.

LIVING TRUSTS WILLS

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has announced the following appointments, effective July 1, 2015, unless otherwise noted. Some of these assignments have already been made known.

INCARDINATIONS, effective March 26, 2015: Father Luello N. Palacpac; Father Arsenio G. Cirera; Father Alner U. Nambatac.

PASTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS:

Father Moises Agudo, administrator, St. Anthony of Padua, San Francisco, while continuing as pastor, St. Peter Church; Father Arturo L. Albano, pastor, Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption; Father Rafael A. de Avila, pastor, Sacred Heart Church, Olema; Father Agnel de Heredia, pastor, St. John the Evangelist Church; Father Marvin P. Felipe, pastor, St. Thomas More Church; Father Francis M. M. P. Garbo, pastor, Mission Dolores Basilica; Father Manuel D. Igrobay, pastor, St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church; Father Felix B. Lim, pastor, St. Anthony of Padua Church, Novato; Father Matthew B. Link, CPPS, pastor, Most Holy Redeemer Church; Father Al-

ner U. Nambatac, pastor, St. Timothy Church; Father Briccio Tamora, SVD, pastor, All Souls Church; Father William H. Thornton, pastor, St. Matthias Church.

PAROCHIAL VICARS:

Father Jerome Bai, SVD, All Souls Church; Father Jack H. McClure, CPPS, Most Holy Redeemer Church.

CONTINUED AS PASTOR AFTER TWO TERMS:

Father Lawrence C. Goode, St. Francis of Assisi Church, East Palo Alto; Msgr. Steven D. Otellini, Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park.

ican Community with residence at St. Thomas More.

RETIREMENTS:

Father Craig W. Forner, independent residence within the boundaries of the Diocese of Santa Rosa; Msgr. Labib Kobti, priest of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, independent residence within the boundaries of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, effective March 25, 2015; Father Clifford A. Martin , independent residence within the boundaries of the Archdiocese of Seattle; Father R. Kevin White.

RESIDENCE CHANGES:

SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT:

Bishop William J. Justice, St. Matthew Church.

CHAPLAINCIES:

Father Lucas N. Chacha, ALCP; Father Daniel F. McCotter, CPS, named pastor/superior, St. Paul the Apostle Church, Los Angeles (Westwood), effective Aug. 1, 2015; Father Calixto A. Pablo; Father Jose Pelagio Padit; Father Elias M. Salomon, effective Sept. 30, 2015; Msgr. Adolfo Valdivia, effective April 30, 2015.

Father Armando J. Gutierrez , canon law studies, Rome.

DEPARTURES:

Father Marvin P. Felipe, chaplain, San Francisco State University Newman Center; Father Vito J. Perrone, chaplain, Star of the Sea School, San Francisco, effective May 1, 2015, while continuing with Contemplatives of St. Joseph; Father Bernard B. Poggi, chaplain to the Arab-Amer-

Daughters elect American sister as superioress general TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul elected Sister Kathleen Appler of the community’s province based in Albany, New York, their Superioress General May 25 at the sisters’ General Assembly in Paris, France. Sister Kathleen entered the Daughters of Charity in April 1973 in Boston, Massachusetts.

“Sister Kathleen has visited our province twice, once in 2011 and again in 2013, and has a good understanding of the joys and challenges of our ministry,” said Sister Chris Maggi, education councillor for the Daughters of Charity Province of the West.

“So happy to have an American,” said Sister Frances Meyer, who celebrates her 62nd year as a Daughter of Charity in September. “This is the first time a major superior has been elected from the United States.”

Sister Frances has served at San Francisco’s Sacred Heart Cathedral

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Local delegates to the general assembly in France were Sister Marjory Ann Baez, superior of the Province of the West of the Daughters of Charity, and Sister Julie Kubasak. The meeting brings Daughters of Charity from around the world together every six years to address major works of the community including election of leadership.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Forms of consecrated life in the church One of the goals of the Year of Consecrated Life is to raise an awareness of the various forms of consecrated life. You’re familiar with the sisters who taught you, nursed you, counseled WAKE UP THE WORLD ! you and 2015 Year of Consecrated Life the brothers who taught and coached you. These women and men religious are all members of apostolic religious institutes. Many of you are aware, as well, of nuns who live a cloistered life including the nuns of Perpetual Adoration in San Francisco, the Carmelite nuns in San Francisco and Marinwood, and the cloistered Dominican nuns in Menlo Park. These women religious are members of contemplative religious institutes. Did you know that there are other forms of consecrated life?

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Religious institutes

“Religious institutes are societies in which members pronounce public vows (perpetual or temporary), live in community and share financial sustainability. Religious render a public witness to Christ and to the church which entails a separation from the world proper to the character and purpose of each institute”.

Religious institutes can be separated into apostolic and contemplative congregations. Apostolic congregations are devoted to apostolic and missionary ac-

diocesan bishop, dedicates her prayer to the mission of the church and the people of God, wears a ring of consecration, and earns her own living.

Private vows in lay movements

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The Carmelite sisters of the Mother of God Monastery in San Rafael were guests of Marin County deaneries 6 and 7 on April 23 for a brief visit to St. Sebastian parish hall in Greenbrae. tivity and to the many different works inspired by Christian charity outside of the cloister. Contemplative congregations live a life of cloister, constant prayer, offering of self, and the daily recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours.

Societies of apostolic life

One of the distinguishing characteristics of these societies is that they are defined by their apostolic goal. They are bound by simple vows, renewed annually, rather than perpetual vows which are professed for life. Societies of apostolic life live in community with their lifestyle and spirituality in support of their apostolic goal. Societies of Apostolic Life in our archdiocese include Paulist Fathers, Daughters of Charity, Sisters of Social Service, Sulpician Fathers.

Secular institutes

A secular institute is an organization of consecrated persons professing the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience while living in the

world, unlike members of a religious institute who live in community. Secular institutes represent a form of consecration in secular life, not religious life.

Consecrated virgins

The call to a life as a consecrated virgin is distinct from other forms of consecrated life in that it is entered by virtue of the prayer of consecration rather than by vows or promises. Characterized by a spousal spirituality with Christ, the consecrated virgin lives individually under the direction of the

Lay associations also known as “ecclesial associations” are relatively new groups in the church. Members profess private vows in the name of the church to a legitimate superior, live in community and put their salaries into the community of goods, i.e., Focolare, Regnum Christi.

The eremitic life – diocesan hermits

An ancient form of consecrated life begun in the third century, a hermit lives under norms prescribed in canon law under the direction of the diocesan bishop. The diocesan hermit publicly professes poverty, chastity and obedience before the bishop, and devote themselves to prayer, penance and solitude and earn their own living (Canon 603).

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Children bring IHM librarian ‘laughter and joy’ TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Books and getting kids to read books have been a foundation of Mary Murphy’s now more than 30-year career as educator, the last 25 or so at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Belmont.

“Over the years, I have worn many hats at IHM, but I have always remained the librarian,” Mary told me via email.

During Mary’s first days as keeper of the stacks she noted the Mary Murphy some 7,000 volumes were highly organized but underused.

“I focus on getting children into the library and library books into the classroom,” Mary said. “I read to children in grades one through four once a week. Often after I read a story, that book is checked out repeatedly.”

Mary buys about 100 new books a year to keep the library current. Talk about homework: She reads all of the primary books and upper grade fiction so to be able “to chat with the students about them.”

CliffsNotes beware: “I summarize all of the books, including upper grade non-fiction and create a binder for the children,” Mary said.

The influx of technology has taken its toll on reading among students, Mary said, noting the pastime is no longer looked at by youngsters as a leisure activity.

“I find that very sad,” Mary said noting that prescribed summer reading is about all students in upper grades get to. Younger primary grade students use the library a great deal, however, Mary said, and are excited about books.

Mary continues on the heels of the less-likely reader, however, even adding technology to her own toolbox in the effort.

“When I started working, none of the students owned a computer,” Mary said admitting that when the school’s first five computers arrived she had not the faintest idea how to operate one.

Charged by the principal with creating a program to teach students about computer use, Mary began with IHM’s junior high students first teaching them how to type.

She then expanded the computer program to younger students.

Mary also served as eighth grade language teacher. “I began each class by reading for about five minutes. By the end of the year the students had listened to three books. I discovered that the more students read, the better they wrote.”

Mary then began helping children struggling with reading in the primary grades. “I discovered

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INSPIRED PASTELS: Chalking up their thoughts on the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County and what it does to help the poor were St. Charles School third graders Julia OliveiraKillmon and Natalie Sheehan as well as third to sixth graders from throughout the county. “SVdP thanks all of the schools and students for their wonderful efforts and participation,” SVdP’s Jodie Penner told me. The artwork will grace the next SVdP calendar. Pictured from left, Lorraine Moriarty, SVdP executive director; Kayte Mariani, president, St. Charles SVdP conference; Julia; Debbie Denton, conference member; Natalie; Theresa Wills, St. Charles School teacher. new approaches that helped bright, learning-different students conquer reading.”

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Archbishop visits St. Denis in Menlo Park DEBRA GREENBLAT CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone visited St. Denis Parish in Menlo Park May 17, celebrating the 9:30 a.m. Mass which was the last one of the religious education school year.

After religious education classes, the children entered the church and went up to the sanctuary where they

surrounded the archbishop during the preparation of the gifts and returned to the pews for the sign of peace.

After Mass, Archbishop Cordileone met with parishioners and visitors.

The visit to St. Denis was a parish visit, part of the archbishop’s planned visits to all of the 90 parishes of the archdiocese over the course of five years.

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Two men from Italy who were visiting St. Denis Parish May 17 were delighted to learn the archbishop could speak with them in Italian. Above, after religious education classes, children entered the church and went up to the sanctuary where they surrounded the archbishop during the preparation of the gifts.

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SPOKANE’S NEW BISHOP STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF FAITH IN ACTION

SPOKANE, Washington – Bishop Thomas A. Daly, installed as bishop of Spokane at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes in Spokane May 20, urged members of the congregation not to get too caught Bishop Daly up in technology.

The bishop warned that technology can be a distraction especially when it interferes with the believer’s need

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He closed his homily with words that reflect his own sense of spirituality and devotion: “Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. St. Vincent de Paul, pray for us. Live, Jesus, in our hearts forever.”

In an interview with the Inland Register, Spokane’s diocesan newspaper, in early May, the bishop spoke about the importance of priests being available for their parishioners.

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In a statement May 28, Archbishop Paglia said he has not done anything illegal. “Obviously, I remain at the disposition of the investigating authorities, trusting completely in earthly justice.”

NEBRASKA BISHOPS WELCOME OVERRIDE OF VETO OF BILL ENDING DEATH PENALTY

LINCOLN, Nebraska – Nebraska state senators overrode Gov. Pete Ricketts’ veto of a bill repealing capital punishment that had been supported by the state’s Catholic bishops.

In a 30-19 vote May 27, the senators supported a bill that replaces the death penalty with a sentence of life in prison without parole.

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Priest: Church should make views on homosexuality more plain CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The Catholic Church not only needs to provide pastoral care for those with same-sex attraction but it should also make its teaching “accessible, understandable and compelling for people,” said the director of a church apostolate that ministers to homosexuals.

Father Paul Check, director of Courage for the past eight years, said Catholics with same-sex attraction would be also more likely to “understand what the church teaches if it became more plain to them that they have a place in the church.”

He aims to get that message across through the work of his apostolate, which particularly focuses on providing clergy training, but he said the message still needs to “get to the ground to people who need it.”

The priest, who considers himself “an advocate for an underserved population,” said the church’s

teachings on chastity and contraception are not well understood, and added that they are “all part of one tapestry and they include the question, obviously, of homosexuality.”

One way to get this across will be through an international conference focusing on the church’s ministry to homosexuals. The conference, taking place near Detroit this August, is a lead-in to the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September and the world Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican in October.

It aims to help those in pastoral care ministries gain a better understanding of the church’s teaching on homosexuality as well as insight on how to put into practice the U.S. bishops’ 2006 document “Ministry to Persons With a Homosexual Inclination: Guidelines for Pastoral Care,” said Father Check.

He said the theme of the Aug. 10-12 gathering is Christian friendship and the importance of building relationships.

The event, sponsored by Courage International, Our Sunday Visitor and the Archdiocese of Detroit, will feature about 30 national and local speakers and will

include Courage members “who will tell their stories,” the priest told Catholic News Service in a May 22 interview in Washington.

Father Check, a diocesan priest from Bridgeport, Connecticut, said the conference will answer some of the questions posed in the “lineamenta,” or outline, for the Oct. 4-25 synod on the family at the Vatican, particularly about the church’s response to homosexuality.

Some of those questions included: “How can the Christian community give pastoral attention to families with persons with homosexual tendencies?” and “What are the responses that, in light of cultural sensitivities, are considered to be most appropriate?”

Last year he said Courage took a small step in spreading the church’s message about homosexuality through a documentary movie, “Desire of the Everlasting Hills,” which tells the stories of three people who transitioned from homosexual lifestyles to chastity in accordance with the church’s teachings.

“It’s an easy introduction to the solicitude and care the church has for people,” Father Check said, adding that the hour-long film “doesn’t sound like sterile teaching from the catechism but a lived reality.”

Father Check said this ministry has “changed my priesthood considerably.”

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Pope meets sick children CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Sometimes, Pope Francis said, the most important thing parents of a seriously ill child can do is to keep asking God, “Why?” A child of 2 or 3 years will torment his or her parents with a continual series of “whys,” the pope said. The little ones are not looking for answers as much as they are seeking the attention of mom or dad.

“We can ask the Lord, ‘Why, Lord?

Why do children suffer? Why this child?’ The Lord will not respond with words, but we will feel his gaze upon us and this will give us strength,” Pope Francis told the parents of 20 seriously ill children.

The pope met the children and their parents the evening of May 29 in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae; the group participated in a Catholic-sponsored pilgrimage to the Marian shrines at Loreto and Lourdes.

Admitting, as he has before, that “many times in my life I’ve been a coward,” he told the parents he is in awe of their courage and “heroism.”

Parenting a seriously ill child, he said, “is a journey of courage, the path of the cross.”

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DUBLIN – Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has said the church needs a “reality check” after Irish voters overwhelmingly supported same-sex marriage.

Ireland was the first country in the world to put same-sex marriage to a popular vote and the May 22 poll was backed by 62 percent of the population. Same-sex marriage is now a constitutional right in Ireland.

Archbishop “I think really that the church Diarmuid Martin needs to do a reality check, a reality check right across the board, to look at the things it’s doing well, to look at the areas where we really have to start and say, ‘Look, have we drifted away completely from young people?’” he told state broadcaster RTE as the result became clear.

He said the referendum result was “an overwhelming vote in one direction,” and he appreciated how gay men and lesbians felt after the endorsement of same-sex marriage – “that they feel this is something which is enriching the way they live,” he said.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said the referendum’s outcome represented not only “a defeat for Christian principles, but a defeat for humanity.”

“I was very saddened by this result. The church must take into account this situation but in the sense of strengthening its efforts in evangelization,” he said in Rome May 26 in response to reporters’ questions.

German Cardinal Walter Kasper said the referendum is “emblematic” of today’s postmodern belief that “everything is equal,” which is in contrast to church doctrine.

“We cannot accept putting (such unions) on the same level with marriage,” he told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera May 27.

The church needs to find new ways and a “new language” to express its fundamental teachings about love, marriage, sexuality and the equal dignity and reciprocal “diversity of man and woman in the order of creation,” he said.

“It’s necessary to be careful about not using expressions that can sound offensive without, however, hiding the truth,” Cardinal Kasper said.

But marriage between a man and a woman is “the fundamental cell of society, the source of life for the future,” and other forms of unions and surrogate pregnancies risk having “enormous consequences,” especially on children, he said.

Regarding the fact that many Catholics in Ireland voted in favor of the same-sex marriage law, the cardinal said it shows the church has been “too quiet on these issues. Now is the time to discuss them.”

The Gospel and church teaching are clear, he said, “but traditional expressions” and explanations “evidently no longer reach people’s hearts and minds.”

He added, “It’s a social revolution that’s been going on, and perhaps in the church people have not been as clear in understanding what that involved.

“It’s very clear that if this referendum is an affirmation of the views of young people, then the church has a huge task in front of it to find the language to be able to talk to and to get its message across to young people, not just on this issue, but in general.”

Archbishop Martin said it was important that the church must not move into denial of the realities.

“We won’t begin again with a sense of renewal by simply denying,” he said.

Referring to the high turnout of younger voters, the archbishop said “most of these young people who voted ‘yes’ are products of our Catholic schools for 12 years ... there’s a big challenge there to see how we get across the message of the church. ... We need to sit down and say ‘Are we reaching out at all to young people?’... We’re becoming a church of the like-minded, and a sort of a safe space for the like-minded,” he warned.

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REPORT: PAPAL ENCYCLICAL NAMED AFTER ST. FRANCIS PRAYER OF PRAISE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment will be titled “Laudato Sii” (Praised Be), a line from St. Francis of Assisi’s “Canticle of Creatures,” and will be released June 16, said the head of the Vatican publishing house.

Salesian Father Giuseppe Costa, speaking at an event in Naples May 30, told reporters that publishers from around the world had been asking for the rights to reprint “Laudato Sii” when it is released in mid-June.

The Vatican press office declined to confirm the title of the document and the release date, although it also declined to say Father Costa was wrong.

“Laudato sii” is the introductory phrase to eight

verses of St. Francis of Assisi’s famous prayer thanking God for the gifts of creation.

“Praised be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day, and through whom you give us light,” one of the first lines says.

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VATICAN STEPS BACK FROM COMMISSION MEMBER’S COMMENTS

VATICAN CITY – The comments of a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors who criticized Australian Cardinal George Pell on an Australian television program do not reflect the opinion of the commission nor its role, the Vatican spokesman said.

The commission “does not have the task of investigating and pronouncing judgment on individual cases,” said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman.

Commission member Peter Saunders, a British survivor of sexual abuse and co-founder of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, appeared in a May 31 “60 Minutes” segment broadcast on Australia’s Channel Nine. The segment focused on ongoing government hearings about clerical sexual abuse in the Diocese of Ballarat, Australia, the diocese in which Cardinal Pell was born and where he ministered until being named an auxiliary bishop of Melbourne in 1987.

Asked about Cardinal Pell and the way he handled allegations about abusive priests, Saunders said, “I personally think his position is untenable, because he has now a catalogue of denials, he has a catalogue of denigrating people, of acting with callousness, cold heartedness, almost sociopathic I would go so far as to say, this lack of care.”

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DUBLIN – The head of the Irish bishops’ conference distanced himself from comments made by U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke concerning Irish voters who backed same-sex marriage.

Reacting to the May 22 poll, in which voters supported same-sex marriage by a margin of 62 percent to 38 percent, Cardinal Burke Archbishop told the Newman Society, Oxford Eamon Martin University’s Catholic Society: “It’s just incredible. ... Pagans may have tolerated homosexual behaviors, they never dared say this was marriage.”

Asked about the comments during an interview with RTE Radio, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, president of the bishops’ conference, said June 2, “I wouldn’t use that language.”

He said: “Throughout the debate and the discussion, we did ask people to try to be respectful and inoffensive in language.”

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Asked whether the church would baptize the children of same-sex couples, the archbishop said, “there’s no difficulty ... whenever someone comes to bring their child for baptism, what we’re interested in is that child able to be raised as a member of the church and of course they are.”

He admitted that the Catholic Church is facing challenging times in the wake of the referendum result.

“The whole debate has helped us understand the great sense of alienation and isolation that many gay people have felt, perhaps even at the hands of the church,” he said. “I think that one of the lessons in the church that we have to learn from this debate is how do we reach out pastorally to people.”

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“It’s about trying to marry this wonderful teaching of the church with the many pastoral challenges we are facing,” he said.

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Referring to the result of the referendum, Archbishop Martin said: “We have to remain courageous with our message. More people than we think do support the church’s understanding of marriage. We have to be strong.”

He said that, despite the referendum result, “The task of witnessing to the family still remains.

“In fact perhaps now it’s more important than ever that we continue to witness strongly, confidently and in a committed manner to what is such a core teaching for society,” the archbishop said.

He said one of the lessons of the referendum was that the church must find a language to express church teaching in a way that is not alienating.

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THEOLOGIAN SEES IGNATIAN APPROACH IN POPE’S REFLECTIONS FOR SYNOD

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is leading the church in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola and trying to help Catholics understand true discernment, especially when dealing with complex moral issues, said a Dominican theologian.

Father Jean-Miguel Garrigues, professor of patristic and dogmatic theology in France, said Pope Francis is using the Ignatian approach to help “believers face the practical – that is, the evangelical and theological – requirements of their faith,” including in the way the church approaches homosexuals, divorced and remarried Catholics, and cohabiting couples.

The Dominican priest, who assisted Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna in drafting the Catechism of the Catholic Church in the 1990s, spoke about Catholic morality, Pope Francis and the Synod of Bishops on the family in an interview with La Civilta Cattolica, the Jesuit

journal reviewed by the Vatican before publication.

“Bending down with compassion to those persons wounded in their family lives, the pope is drawing on the ancient Roman tradition of ecclesial mercy toward sinners,” he said in the interview published in late May. At the end of the second century, Father Garrigues said, the church of Rome began offering penances to those who committed a sin after baptism so that they could return to the path of righteousness and full communion with the church.

The popes always rejected the notion of a church made up only of the “pure,” he said. Instead, they favored a vision of the church composed of the justified and of sinners seeking salvation.

“The church is not a selective and closed club,” he said. “Nor is it a social scene for those who are Catholic by tradition or even just for those capable of virtuous heroism.”

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More than 1,900 graduate from Catholic high schools in archdiocese MAUREEN HUNTINGTON SUPERINTENDENT OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

More than 1,930 students graduated from Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2015. More than 25,100 students attended Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco during school year 201415: 17,086 preschool and elementary school students and 8,094 high school students.

Our Catholic school graduates have accomplished much and received a Maureen great deal of recognition. The entire Huntington Catholic community delights in their accomplishments! I delight in their success!

I join your parents, grandparents, family members, friends, and schoolmates in extending to graduates my sincerest congratulations on a job well done! May God bless you abundantly as you move into the next chapter of your academic career. Congratulations Class of 2015!

Graduates pictured are among those honored by the schools at recent commencement rites.

ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY

St. Ignatius College Prep graduated 357 seniors on May 30 at St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco. Graduates were accepted to more than 120 colleges and universities throughout the world and were offered more than $24 million in scholarships toward their college educations. Jesuit Father Edwin B. Harris, school president, and Patrick Ruff, principal presented diplomas.

ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY

Immaculate Conception Academy graduated 59 seniors on June 5 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. Graduates were accepted to more than 85 colleges and universities throughout the United States, earning $1.8 million in scholarships toward their college educations. Dominican Sister Diane Aruda, president, and Lisa Graham, principal, presented the diplomas.

SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY

Archbishop Riordan High School graduated 136 young men on May 23 in the James Lindland Theatre. Joseph Conti, president, and Vittorio Anastasio, principal, presented diplomas. The Class of 2015 was accepted to more than 140 colleges and universities, earned millions of dollars in scholarships, and will be attending schools in 19 states.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory graduated 292 seniors May 23 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Students were accepted to 320 colleges around the country and internationally. Diplomas were presented by Christian Brother Ronald Gallagher, Ph.D., school president and Gary Cannon, principal.

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO

Stuart Hall High School graduated 47 students on May 22 at 1715 Octavia, San Francisco. Diplomas were conferred by Robb Eklund, vice chair of the board; Dr. Ann Marie Krejcarek, president; and Tony Farrell, head of school.

Mercy High School San Francisco graduated 100 young women on May 30 at Holy Name of Jesus Church, San Francisco. This year’s graduates were accepted to more than 150 colleges and universities throughout the United States winning $2.2 million in scholarships toward their college education. Dorothy McCrea, school principal, presented diplomas.

STUART HALL HIGH SCHOOL

CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL

Convent of the Sacred Heart High School gradu-

ated 48 students on May 22 at 2222 Broadway, San Francisco. Diplomas were conferred by Robb Eklund, vice chair of the board; Dr. Ann Marie Krejcarek, president; and Rachel Simpson, head of school.

JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL

Junipero Serra High School graduated 202 students on May 30 at St Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. This year’s graduates were accepted to more than 200 colleges. They earned $16.5 million in scholarships and completed 37,576 hours of community service. Diplomas were presented by principal, Barry Thornton, Ed.D.

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME

Mercy High School, Burlingame graduated 123 seniors on May 31 at St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco. Graduates were accepted to 300 colleges and universities throughout the United States winning more than $11 million in scholarships toward their college educations. Karen Hanrahan, head of school, presented diplomas.

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​Sacred Heart Preparatory graduated 146 students

Retiring school principals honored MAXIE O’ROURKE Principal, Our Lady of the Visitacion School Maxie has served at OLV for 36 years. As a teacher she taught grades five through eight with her own three daughters as members of the class along the way. She later would be named the first lay principal at OLV. She said: “As the years have passed I have had the privilege of teaching several generations of students. The families at this Daughter of Charity sponsored school are like my own family. I will miss them very much.” Maxie looks forward to spending time traveling and playing with her grandchildren.

JUDY COSMOS Principal, Holy Name of Jesus School Judy has been a member of the Holy Name School community for more than 40 years beginning as fifth grade teacher and then many years as a junior high English and literature teacher.

During this time she earned a graduate degree in educational counseling from the University of San Francisco becoming Holy Name’s school counselor and resource person.

Seven years ago she became principal helping to continue and strengthen “Holy Name’s long traditions of a supportive, loving community and academic excellence,” Judy said. “Through all my years in Catholic schools, I have been supported by people of great faith and have been proud to be a part of the Catholic community.” Judy and her husband are both anxious for the time they’ll have now with their grandchildren.

“I have loved the staff, parents, and students at Holy Name and taken pride in helping all to be their best.”

MERCY SISTER M. PAULINE BORGHELLO Principal, St. Gabriel School Sister Pauline has been principal at St. Gabriel’s

for 34 years and an educator for 51 years.

“Working in Catholic education has meant that I’ve been able to be a part of the growth and development of young students by assisting them as they advance through every area of their elementary lives,” Sister Pauline said. “Each day, I have been enriched by them. Each day, I have been gifted by their parents.

Each day, I have learned from our school staff. St. Gabriel’s is a loving, accepting community and I will hold wonderful memories in my heart as the future unfolds.”

Sister Pauline called it a blessing “to have been able to minister with the many dedicated, generous men and women who have been faculty and staff with me plus by the outstanding pastors and the parish teams I have ministered with: My prayers and blessings to all.”

Sister Pauline looks forward to a less demanding schedule and more time with family, religious community, friends, and assisting the St. Gabriel community as needed.

on May 22 at its 117th commencement ceremony at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton. Graduates from the Class of 2015 will attend 70 different institutions of higher education: 65 in California, 81 out of state. Twenty-five students earned recognition by the National Merit Scholarship program, 22 have committed to play collegiate athletics and four will enroll in colleges based on visual, vocal or culinary arts. Diplomas were presented by Richard A. Dioli, director of schools, Dr. James Everitt, principal, and Eric Lamb, chair of the board.

WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL

Woodside Priory School graduated 65 students on June 6 at the Father Christopher Field on the Priory campus. Priory graduates were accepted to more than 100 colleges and universities throughout the United States and globally. Brian Schlaak, head of the upper school recommended the graduates to head of school, Tim Molak, who presented them with their Priory diplomas.

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL, BELMONT

Notre Dame High School in Belmont celebrated 102 graduates on May 29 at St. Pius Church in Redwood City. Graduates received 475 acceptances covering

140 colleges and universities throughout the United States, winning more than $3.5 million in scholarships toward their college educations. Maryann Osmond, head of school, presented diplomas.

SAN DOMENICO HIGH SCHOOL

San Domenico High School graduated 46 students on June 6 on the school campus. Graduates received more than 250 acceptances to more than 145 colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad, winning more than $7 million in scholarships toward their college educations. John Berry, director, Upper School, and Cecily Stock, head of school, together with Paul P. Spaulding III, school board chair, distributed diplomas.

MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

Marin Catholic presented diplomas to 182 graduates on June 4 at the Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium at the Civic Center in San Rafael. This year, graduates reported to have been accepted to over 215 colleges and universities throughout the United States with students accepted and planning to attend international colleges in Switzerland, Italy, Australia and Scotland. Presenting diplomas were Tim Navone, president and Chris Valdez, principal.

Mission teachers named STEM fellows KATHLEEN M. GARCIA Principal, Our Lady of Mercy School Kathie has been a Catholic elementary school educator for 42 years and has taught kindergarten, third, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. She says becoming a principal in 2000 is “certainly one of the biggest adventures” she has experienced and enjoyed it all. “Each day brings its own challenges, surprises, and joys!” Kathie said.

“As I look back on my career I have learned so much about learning, growing, and expecting the unexpected! Being a Catholic School teacher is an amazing experience because teaching and developing happen in an environment filled with the grace of God and the many gifts of the Holy Spirit. Watching my students discover their own gifts is a treasured memory. The bonds made with families and cherished colleagues fill my heart.”

Kathie looks forward to “finding ways to be useful, to learn new things and to enjoy being without a calendar and bell schedule!”

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If St. Peter School mathematics teacher Lawrence Hargarten has his way, in the not-too-distant future, Latinos will be leading the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

“I want to dispel the notion that Latinos don’t do math,” the middle school teacher told Catholic San Francisco on May 27 after a lively probability classroom exercise that produced more whoops and high-fives than the basketball game on the court outside. In question were the odds the class would not receive homework that night.

“A lot of the kids think that they can’t do math,” Hargarten said. But they can and they do, he said.

Hargarten is one of three middle school math and science teachers from archdiocesan schools chosen to spend two weeks over the next three summers at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana as Trustey Family STEM Teaching Fellows.

The university runs the Center for STEM Education and has designed the fully-funded fellows program to help support Catholic school educators improve student learning in STEM areas. STEM

stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

St. Peter middle school science teacher Ryan Suarez and St. James School technology teacher Albert Bricker were also chosen from among a national pool of Catholic school applicants according to vice principal Karen Hammen. She said the schools, both located in the Mission District of San Francisco, share similar demographics and the three fellows will partner in the creation of a school-wide STEM Impact Plan to span all grade levels at both schools.

Eighty percent of the students who attend St. Peter School in San Francisco’s Mission District come from low-income homes and 95 percent come from Hispanic families. Partnering school St. James has the same school family demographic.

“I’m trying to build human capital,” said Suarez, who, like Hargarten, is ending his first teaching year at St. Peter. Fifteen minutes earlier, the school playground came to a standstill and watched as his students dropped eggs cloaked in handmade parachutes and carefully designed protective shells SEE STEM, PAGE 17

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CHARISMATIC: Archbishop celebrates Mass on Pentecost weekend FROM PAGE 1

of San Francisco slowly make their way to the weekend event.

The Holy Spirit has guided the church from its birth on the first Pentecost Sunday when a rushing wind and tongues of fire entered the locked room where the disciples were waiting for the Spirit the Lord had promised would come after his ascension to heaven, Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily.

“There was so much political turmoil and they were afraid, so they were huddled together in that upper room.

Then under the power of the Holy Spirit they were emboldened to go forth courageously to a hostile world and proclaim the Gospel with great courage, with great determination and tenacity,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

Today, as always, we need the guidance and gifts of the Holy Spirit, said Archbishop Cordileone, noting Pope Francis said two things are needed for the seed of the Word to produce the kingdom of God: the Holy Spirit and Christian witness.

“The good news is not meant to be confined within the walls where we worship, we are to get up and be on our way,” Archbishop Cordileone said, to “show we are people on the move, ready to proclaim the Gospel.”

WHAT ARE CHARISMATICS?

(PHOTOS BY DEBRA GREENBLAT/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Praying at the Friday, May 22, Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at the Northern California Catholic Charismatic Convention.

Archdiocesan vicar for clergy Father Raymund Reyes, St. Paul of the Shipwreck parishioner and convention coordinator Mario Vierneza and Bishop Mylo Vergara of the Diocese of Pasig in the Philippines.

The first group of Pentecostal Catholics experienced the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the manner unique to Pentecostalism – exhibiting such gifts as speaking tongues, prophesying, and healing – at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh in 1967 and at The University of Notre Dame in 1968.

The Catholic charismatic movement was endorsed

by Blessed Pope Paul VI in 1975.

St. John Paul II said of the charismatic movement: “I am convinced that this movement is a very important component of the entire renewal of the church.”

Each U.S. diocese has a liaison to the charismatic community, according to a directive from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, about 70 Catholic charismatic prayer groups meet. More information can be found at sfspirit.com.

CEMETERIES: New lay ministry formed to help complete burial rite FROM PAGE 1

burial of an indigent man with no family except a brother too ill to travel to the cemetery.

Sadly, Williams told Catholic San Francisco, remains arriving to the cemetery without family members, friends or clergy to attend the committal – the third and final part of the Rite of Christian Burial – have increased over the years. The rite includes the vigil, the funeral and at burial, the committal.

“I was heartbroken to think that were people being buried in our own cemeteries without the prayers of the Church being said and without another Christian there as they were laid to rest,” said Laura Bertone, director of the archdiocese’s office of worship. Williams had turned to Bertone earlier in the year to address the trend and together they came up with a plan to ensure that no one would ever be buried without the witness of other Christians or completion of the full rite: a lay committal ministry.

“The Rite of Christian Burial is so beautifully written by the Church,” Bertone said. “The deceased passes with the farewell prayers of the community of believers into the welcoming company of those who need faith no longer but see God face to face,” she said.

Bertone and Williams agreed that the problem presented a wonderful opportunity to lay people to serve their fellow Christians. The Church itself allows for lay people to preside at the committal.

“The Rites specifically say that in the absence of a parish minister, a friend or member of the family should lead those present in the rite of committal,” Bertone said.

In April, 28 deacons and lay people from local parishes took part in a daylong training at Holy Cross Cemetery led by Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher, the ministry of consolation coordinator for the archdiocese, along with Bertone and Williams. The training prepares lay people to officiate at burials when a group arrives without a member of clergy or when unaccompanied remains are delivered to the cemetery.

Cemetery traditions have been impacted by a number of different factors, Williams explained, including the difficulty some parish priests have fitting travel to and from the archdiocese’s cemeteries in to their pastoral duties.

But inactive Catholics separated from their faith communities and a general lack of understanding

Monuments at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. A lay ministry has been formed in the archdiocese to help loved ones complete the Rite of Christian Burial. about Catholic burial rites are major factors, she said.

Sometimes families choose to conclude funeral services at a church or funeral home and do not or cannot come to the cemetery for burial. Other times the remains are shipped from out of the area where no local friends or family reside. And some people die without family or friends or parish communities and their remains are sent to the cemetery by local agencies.

There are many possible scenarios, said Williams.

“The deceased may have moved out of the area and no longer belong to a local parish but have a pre-selected spot at the cemetery,” she said. “They may have become alienated from the Church for any number of reasons, but still want to be interred at the cemetery where their family is placed.”

At the committal ministry training, participants discussed what to say (and not say) to those in mourning. They also shared their own personal stories of grief and loss. Williams gave participants a tour of the cemetery and a lesson in its terminology and the day concluded with instruction on the actual rites, including the structure of the prayers and how to preside at a committal.

Williams said that church needs to do a better job of educating people about the richness of Catholic traditions and the values of its rites, and she hopes the new ministry can help in this way.

“A Christian burial can be a tremendous moment of evangelization, in some cases an introduction our faith for visitors,” Williams said. “In other cases, it’s a reminder to those who have drifted away from the Church of the ministry we offer and the great hope of our faith.”

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(PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Left, St. Peter School science teacher Ryan Suarez talks to one of his students after a successful science experiment May 27.

Right, math teacher Lawrence Hargarten keeps his students on their toes during a probability exercise the same day. Both teachers and St. James technology teacher Albert Bricker were selected from a national pool of applicants for the Trustey Family STEM Teaching Fellows Program at the University of Notre Dame.

STEM: Mission teachers named math-science-tech fellows FROM PAGE 15

from a landing several stories up. All eggs arrived intact.

Hammen said the STEM Teaching Fellows program will not only help math, science and technology teachers increase their knowledge and under-

standing of their own field, but integrate STEM disciplines in class assignments.

She pointed to the egg-drop project as an example of STEM teaching: students must engineer a device to protect their egg, use math to calculate the velocity of the egg based on its weight, use science to understand the forces

involved, and use technology to graph their experiment.

Asked why she believed the teachers were chosen in the rigorous application process she said all three are tremendous educators and exceptionally committed to improving their instruction so they can support their students.

“They are also really committed to our student demographic,” she said.

“Our plan next year is to have these teachers be part of a professional learning community with members of the staff from the elementary grades so we can look at how we can strengthen our program at all grade levels.”

ROMERO: ‘Another brilliant star’ belonging to church of Americas FROM PAGE 1

memory of Romero continues to live in the poor and the marginalized,” Cardinal Amato said.

His homilies often pleaded for better conditions for the poor, for a stop to the escalating violence in the country and for brotherhood among those whose divisions ultimately led to a 12-year conflict.

He’s not a symbol of division but one of peace, Cardinal Amato said.

In a message sent for the beatification, Pope Francis said Archbishop Romero “built the peace with the power of love, gave testimony of the faith with his life.”

Proof of that is the shirt he died in, soaked in blood, after an assassin’s single bullet took his life.

Eight deacons and priests carried the blood-stained shirt, now a relic, to the altar in a glass case. Others decorated it with flowers and candles during the Saturday ceremony. Several priests reached out to touch the case and later made the sign of the cross.

In a time of difficulty in El Salvador, Archbishop Romero knew “how to guide, defend and protect his flock, remaining faithful to the Gospel and in communion with the whole church,” the pope said in his message. “His ministry was distinguished by a particular attention to the poor and marginalized.

And at the time of his death, while celebrating the holy sacrifice, love and reconciliation, he received the grace to be fully identified with the one who gave his life for his sheep.”

The event, at the square of the Divine Savior of the World, saw the attendance of four Latin American presidents and six cardinals including: Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Leopoldo Brenes of Managua, Nicaragua; Jaime Ortega of Havana; Jose Maestrojuan of David, Panama; Roger Mahony of Los Angeles; and Italian Cardinal Amato. Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, postulator of Archbishop Romero’s cause, also attended.

Their excitement couldn’t have been greater than that of those like Father Estefan Turcios, pastor of El Salvador’s St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Soyapango and national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in El Salvador. Before El Salvador’s conflict, Father Turcios was imprisoned for defending the rights of the poor. Archbishop Romero helped free him.

“There have been people inspired by Romero for 35 years. How do you think they feel right now?” asked Father Turcios.

But just as he has devotees, Archbishop Romero has had detractors.

(CNS PHOTO/OSCAR RIVERA, EPA)

Pilgrims gather for Archbishop Oscar Romero’s beatification Mass in the Divine Savior of the World square in San Salvador May 23.

After his death, the Vatican received mounds of letters against Archbishop Romero, Archbishop Paglia has said. And that affected his path toward sainthood, which includes beatification. But three decades after his assassination, Pope Benedict XVI cleared the archbishop’s sainthood cause.

In February Pope Francis signed the decree recognizing Archbishop Romero as a martyr, a person killed “in hatred of the faith,” which meant there is no need to prove a miracle for beatification. In general two miracles are needed for sainthood – one for beatification and the second for canonization.

Father Turcios said by studying Blessed Romero’s life, others will discover all the Gospel truths that led him to defend life, the poor and the church, and do away with untruths surrounding his legacy.

During the country’s civil war that lasted from 1979 until 1992, some Salvadorans hid, buried and sometimes burned photos they had taken with or of Archbishop Romero, because it could mean others would call them communists or rebel sympathizers and put their lives in danger.

Though he still has some detractors, Father Turcios said, the beatification can help others understand the reality and truth that others have known all along: Archbishop Romero “was loyal to God’s will, was loyal to and loved his people and was loyal to and loved the church,” he said.

One of the offertory gifts during the Mass May 23 was the book “De la locura a la esperanza” or “From Madness to Hope.” A document generated during the peace accords that ended the country’s 12-year war.

It chronicles some of the greatest human rights atrocities committed in El Salvador during the conflict, including the killing and rape of four women religious from the U.S., the killing of priests, catechists, as well as massacres of unarmed civilians – more than 70,000 died in all.

Priests, bishops and cardinals wore some form of a red vestment, signifying martyrdom. Their stoles were emblazoned with Archbishop Romero’s episcopal motto: “Sentir con la iglesia,” or “feel with the church,” also translated as “to think with the church.”

The ceremony culminated a week in San Salvador that saw pilgrims, mainly from Latin America, but also from as far away as Singapore and many from the United States, who wanted to celebrate the occasion. Flowers, music, tears and happiness flowed at San Salvador’s Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Savior, where the archbishop is buried.

He is officially Blessed Romero, but to others he already is and has been “San Romero,” or St. Romero of the Americas.

For 81-year-old Salvadoran Gregoria Martinez de Jimenez, the beatification marked the official recognition of something she has known all along: “We finally have a saint who is one of ours,” she said as tears flowed.

“He was a duplicate of Jesus,” added her daughter Maria Elena Jimenez Martinez, 44. Both women attended Archbishop Romero’s funeral, where smoke bombs went off and shots were fired. More than elation, they showed happiness mixed with sorrow that remains from a painful time.

GUIDOS is in El Salvador for Archbishop Romero’s beatification. You can follow her on Twitter: @CNS_Rhina.

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Engagement is a path of preparation Catholic San Francisco will present Vatican Information Service reports on the pope’s catechesis on the family given at his Wednesday general audience in Vatican City, leading up to the Oct. 4-25 Synod of Bishops on the vocation and mission of the family.

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VATICAN CITY – Engagement, the time devoted to laying the groundwork for a project of love taken on in full freedom and awareness, was the theme of Pope Francis’ catechesis during his Wednesday general audience May 27.

“Betrothal is, in other words, the time in which two people are called to work on love, a shared and profound task” as “the alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day; it is a path on which one learns and refines. … It is, I dare say, an artisanal alliance. To make two lives one is almost a miracle of freedom and of the heart, entrusted to faith. We must perhaps work more on this point, as our ‘sentimental coordinates’ have become a little confused. Those who wish to attain everything immediately, also give up on everything straight away at the first hurdle (or at the first opportunity). … Engagement channels the will to preserve something together, something that should never be bought or sold, betrayed or abandoned, however tempting the alternatives may be.”

Francis recalled the Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni’s novel “I promessi sposi,” “The Betrothed,” and invited those present to read it as

it is “an authentic masterpiece which recounts the story of a betrothed couple who suffer greatly, who walk a path full of many difficulties before arriving at the end, at marriage.

Do not forget this masterpiece on betrothal … read it and you will see beauty and suffering, but also the faithfulness of the betrothed couple.”

“The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples – they are not the same – precisely in view of the delicate and profound nature of this fact.

We are careful not to light-heartedly dismiss this wise teaching, nurtured by the experience of happily married life. The powerful symbols of the body hold the keys to the soul: We cannot treat the bonds of the flesh lightly, without opening up lasting wounds to the spirit,” continued the Holy Father, remarking that “today’s culture and

society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage. And on the other hand, they cannot be said to be generous with the young, who seriously intend to maintain a household and start a family. Rather, they set up a thousand obstacles, mental and practical.”

Pre-matrimonial courses are a special expression of preparation that offer engaged couples what may indeed be the sole opportunity to “reflect on their experience in terms that are not banal. Yes, many couples stay together for a long time, also intimately, at times living together, without truly knowing each other,” he observed. “Therefore there is a need to re-evaluate engagement as a time to get to know each other and for sharing a plan. … And focusing also here on the essential point: the Bible, to be rediscovered together, in a conscious

way; prayer, in its liturgical dimension, but also in terms of ‘domestic prayer’ … in the sacraments … in which the Lord comes to reside in the betrothed couple and prepares them to truly accept each other with the grace of Christ; and fraternity with the poor, the needy, which leads us toward sobriety and sharing. Couples who make this commitment both grow, and all this leads to preparing a beautiful marriage celebrated in a different way, not worldly but Christian.”

The pope invited couples to reflect on and repeat to each other the words of the prophet Hosea: “And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness.

And you shall know the Lord.

“May every engaged couple think of this and say to each other, ‘I will make you my spouse.’ Wait for that moment; it is a moment on a path on which one proceeds slowly, a path of ripening.

One must not pass through the different stages too quickly. Ripening takes place in this way, step by step.”

Therefore, “the time of betrothal must truly be a time of initiation … in surprise at the spiritual gifts that the Lord, through the church, enriches the horizon of the new family that he prepares to live in his blessing.”

Pope Francis concluded by asking the thousands of faithful in St. Peter’s Square to pray to the Holy Family of Nazareth so that engaged couples may understand the beauty of the path of preparation for lifelong marriage, and greeted couples in the square by wishing them a happy engagement.

‘Inordinate Attachments’: Moral flaw or struggle with divine energy?

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he renowned spiritual writer Henri Nouwen made no secret about the fact that he was emotionally oversensitive and that he suffered, sometimes to the point of clinical depression, from emotional obsessions. At times, he, a vowed celibate, was simply overpowered by the feeling of being in love with FATHER RON someone who ROLHEISER was hopelessly unavailable that he became psychologically paralyzed and needed professional help.

Yet, given Nouwen’s moral honesty and the transparency of his life, one would hardly ascribe this to him as a moral flaw, however emotionally crippling it was at times. He simply could not help himself sometimes, such was his emotional sensitivity.

Almost all sensitive people suffer something similar, though perhaps not as acute as what afflicted Henri Nouwen. Moreover these kinds of emotional obsessions affect our whole lives, including our moral and religious lives. What we do in the pain and paralysis of obsession rarely does us proud and is often far from a free act. In the grip of an emotional obsession we cannot think freely, pray freely, decide things freely, and we are prone to act out compulsively

We are wild, obsessed, complex creatures, and that complexity does not take its root, first of all, in what is evil inside us.

Rather it is rooted in what is deepest inside us, namely, the image and likeness of God. in ways that are not moral. What is the morality of our actions then?

Classical spiritual writers speak of something they term “inordinate attachments,” and, for them, these “inordinate attachments” are a moral fault, something we need to control by willpower. However what they mean by “inordinate attachments” covers a wide range of things. In their view, we can be inordinately attached to our pride, to our appearance, to money, to power, to pleasure, to comfort, to possessions, to sex, and to an endless list of other things. They saw this as the opposite of the virtue of detachment. And, since its opposite is a virtue, “inordinate attachment” is, for classical spirituality, a vice, a moral and spiritual flaw.

There is a lot to be said positively for this view. Normally, lack of detachment is a moral flaw. But, perhaps there is an exception. An inordinate attachment can also be an emotional obsession with another person and this muddies the moral issue. Obsessions, generally, are not freely-chosen, nor are they often within the power of the will to control, at least inside the emotions. As our old catechisms and moral theology books used to correctly teach: We are responsible for our actions but

we are not responsible for how we feel.

Our emotions are like wild horses; they roam where they will and are not easily domesticated and harnessed.

Hence, I believe, the notion of “inordinate attachments,” as expressed in classical spirituality, needs to be nuanced by series of other concepts which, while still carrying the same warning labels, carry something more.

For example, today we speak of “obsessions,” and we all know how powerful and crippling these can be. You cannot simply wish or will your way free of an obsession. But is that a moral flaw?

Sometimes too we speak of “being possessed by demons” and that also has a variety of meanings. We can be possessed by a power beyond us that overpowers our will, be that the devil himself or some overpowering addiction such as alcohol or drugs. Most of us are not overpowered, but each of us battles with his or her own demons and the line between obsession and possession is sometimes thin.

Moreover, today archetypal psychologists speak of something they call “daimons,” that is, they believe that what explains our actions are not just nature and nurture, but also powerful “angels” and “demons” inside us, that relentlessly haunt our

bodies and minds and leave us chronically obsessed and driven. But these “daimons” are also very often at the root of our creativity and that is why we often see (in the phraseology of Michael Higgins) “tortured genius” in many high-achievers, romantics, people with artistic temperaments, and people like Van Gogh and Nouwen, who, under the pressure of an obsession, cut off an ear or check themselves into a clinic.

What is the point of highlighting this? A deeper understanding of ourselves and others, is the point. We should not be so mystified by what happens sometimes in our world and inside us. We are wild, obsessed, complex creatures, and that complexity does not take its root, first of all, in what is evil inside us. Rather it is rooted in what is deepest inside us, namely, the image and likeness of God. We are infinite spirits journeying in a finite world. Obsessions come with the territory. In ancient myths, gods and goddesses often fell helplessly in love with human beings, but the ancients believed that this was a place where the divine and human met.

And that still happens: The divine in us sometimes too falls hopelessly in love with another human being. This, of course, does not give us an excuse to act out as we would like on those feelings, but it does tell us that this is more an encounter between the divine and the human than it is a moral flaw.

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

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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) ‘Amen, I say to you, I shall not drink again the fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.’ MARK 14:12-16, 22-26

Crosiers EXODUS 24:3-8 When Moses came to the people and related all thetowords r. According Greek and ordinances of the Lord, they all answered with one voice: “We will do everything as the first to bring the that the Lord has told us.” Moses then wrote down the first bishop all theofwords of the Lord and, rising early the next of Egypt and day,ofheVenice, erected at the foot of the mountain an altar n the ninthand century.

12 pillars for the 12 tribes of Israel.

Then, having sent certain young men of the Israelites to offer © 2001 CNS holocausts and sacrifice young bulls as peace offerings to the Lord, Moses took half of the blood and put it in large bowls; the other half he splashed on the altar. Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, “All that the Lord has said, we will heed and do.” Then he took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words of his.”

PSALM 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.

How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me? The cup of salvation I will take up, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.

Precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his faithful ones. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid; you have loosed my bonds.

I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.

To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving, and I will call upon the name of the Lord. My vows to the Lord I will pay in the presence of all his people.

I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.

HEBREWS 9:11-15 Brothers and sisters: When Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come to be, passing through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not belonging to this creation, he entered once for all into the sanctuary, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of a heifer’s ashes can sanctify those who are defiled so that their flesh is cleansed, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God. For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place

for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.

MARK 14:12-16, 22-26 On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city and a man will meet you, carrying a jar of water.

Follow him. Wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’ Then he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there.” The disciples then went off, entered the city, and found it just as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover. While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.”Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many.

Amen, I say to you, I shall not drink again the fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.” Then, after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Preparing to enter God’s presence at Mass

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ark’s Gospel is terribly brief. In fact, it is often tagged “The Passion with an Introduction.” Given that fact, why would the inspired writer take time to talk about how the Apostles prepared for the first Mass? Why does it matter if Jesus gave them driving directions?

Wouldn’t it be safe to presume that anyway?

Part of Mark’s message is that preparing ourselves physically and spiritually for Mass is a key component to receiving the Eucharist. In the church building itself, just like in the upper room, we have a place that is “furnished and ready.” In many of the beautiful churches in San SISTER MARIA Francisco, (like St. DomiCATHERINE, OP nic’s and Mission Dolores, to name a couple) each stained-glass window and statue is steeped in significance. Beautiful exteri-

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

ors help me to turn my mind and heart interiorly from the distracted, technocratic world I live in to the heavens. This is why, as Dominican Father Anselm Ramelow said in one of his lectures on truth, goodness and beauty, Christian churches should look less like pagan temples and more like kings’ audience chambers. The church is where I go to meet the king.

I remember being so edified as a new convert that my parish observed silence the last few minutes before the Mass began. Amid the tittering conversation reverberating throughout the nave, an usher would approach the ambo with all the telltale announcements (i.e. silencing cell phones, opening hymn number, etc.) but then would invite everyone to prepare their hearts to receive the Lord in quiet recollection. All in the pews would fall thoughtfully silent. This example taught me from the beginning of my faith journey that there is something weighty and powerful to preparing my heart before Mass.

When my preparation is so sparse and divided by my chatting in the pews, I am more scattered and more willing to be distracted by all things beyond the Mass, rather than drawn into the beautiful mystery unfolding from my beloved in

SISTER MARIA CATHERINE is a member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, and teaches English at Marin Catholic High School.

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POPE FRANCIS ‘ARMCHAIR’ CHRISTIANS DISTANCE PEOPLE FROM CHRIST

VATICAN CITY – Christians must ask themselves whether they help people in need of salvation or whether they just keep Jesus for themselves and are deaf or indifferent to others, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass.

Three kinds of Christians exist, the pope said May 28 during the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae: those who are so closed up inside themselves, they are not aware of others in need;

the Mass. When I return to my usual practices that foster recollection, I am much more at peace to hear the Mass, and to return to the Lord with my whole heart.

In teaching my students who are entering the church about preparing for Mass, it’s exciting to teach them the Anima Christi, a spiritual Communion prayer, or even just simple meditations, like “My Lord, my God.” These words help their minds to chew on the reality of God’s presence.

These elements of preparation may seem insignificant, but I have found they can actually make or break my openness to the unique and unrepeatable graces God gives me at each Mass.

On the night before he dies, after the Apostles’ preparation, Jesus startlingly offers his followers the total gift of himself. Centuries later, it is St. Thomas Aquinas’ sequence for this feast that is the church’s response to Christ’s self-emptying love. Let us go, too, and, enter the city, and find it, and prepare for the Passover, “just as he had told them.”

those who hear the “clamor” of suffering but choose to do nothing about it; and those who do hear and help bring people healing.

Christians who are indifferent “do not hear. They believe life is there in their little group,” the pope said.

“Armchair Christians” who exploit the church or religion for their own benefit or purposes also distance themselves from Jesus, he said, according to Vatican Radio.

MONDAY, JUNE 8: Monday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 COR 1:1-7. PS 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9. MT 5:12a. MT 5:1-12.

THURSDAY, JUNE 11: Memorial of St. Barnabas, apostle. ACTS 11:21b-26; 12:1-3. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6. JN 13:34. MT 5:20-26.

TUESDAY, JUNE 9: Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, deacon and doctor. 2 COR 1:18-22. PS 119:129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135. MT 5:16. MT 5:13-16.

FRIDAY, JUNE 12: Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. HOS 11:1, 3-4, 8c9. IS 12:2-3, 4, 5-6. EPH 3:8-12, 14-19.

MT 11:29ab or 1 JN 4:10b. JN 19:31-37.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10: Wednesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time.

2 COR 3:4-11. PS 99:5, 6, 7, 8, 9. PS 25:4b, 5a. MT 5:17-19.

SATURDAY, JUNE 13: Saturday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and St. Anthony of Padua, priest and doctor. 2 COR 5:14-21. PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12. PS 119:36a, 29b. MT 5:33-37.

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PARISH SCHOOL PROFILE

SAIC: A proud past, a bright future CONSTANCE DALTON SAIC DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School has always been proud to serve the children of immigrant families. Starting in 1894 with Germans, adding Italians at Immaculate Conception in 1957 and continuing with families from Mexico, Central and South America, Asia and Eastern Europe today, SAIC seeks to empower students from diverse backgrounds to grow as whole persons in the image of Jesus Christ. This is our mission.

From 1894, SAIC has been administered by the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose. Our students experience a rich academic program and become a dynamic community of believers due to the sisters’ dedication and strength. We are extremely fortunate to have two Dominicans presently teaching third grade and junior high at SAIC. Sister Vanda Symanko is beloved for her reading and art lessons, while Sister Mary Virginia lights the spark of the next generation of writers. Both Sisters catechize in religious education.

We are blessed to have as our current principal, Barbara Moodie. Barbara taught at SAIC for 14 years in the 1980s and ‘90s. For 28 years, she has led choirs and served on the Parish Council and Liturgy Committee at St. Anthony of Padua Parish.

We are so grateful that Barbara chose to leave her

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Left, Sister Eusebia Lins and students present flowers to Willie Mays at SAIC on his birthday in 1964. Right, Sister Mary Virginia Leach, OP, fifth grader Juan Carlos Campos, Sister Wanda Szymanko, OP, and third grader Angelica Bonifacio enjoy the SAIC yard at recess. public school teaching position to return as SAIC’s principal.

In her first year, Barbara has accomplished a great deal. SAIC has a balanced budget, a tribute to any

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Active participation in each of the following training modules will help you accomplish these specific learning objectives: Understand the terms "homicide" and "survivors of homicide victims" Emotional and psychological responses to homicide Identify ways victim service providers can cope with stress Describe how to make a compassionate death notification Short-term and long-term intervention process after a homicide What you need to know about surviving the legal system Victim services compensation, advocacy, and survivor-powered social change

And a special presentation about the Archdiocese Restorative Justice Ministry services.

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principal! Barbara is continually recruiting new students and planning new programs. An example that SAIC families are looking forward to is the new Spanish program, beginning in the fall quarter of 2015. Recognizing that students are growing up in a global economy that often requires communicating and collaborating with co-workers of different languages, we are planning classes to teach not only conversation, but reading and writing as well.

The faculty and staff take very seriously their responsibility to give SAIC students a 21st-century set of tools. The students use Google Docs for Education as one tool to teach 21st-century skills of creativity, collaboration, and communication. Each student in grades three through eight is given a school email address to communicate with teachers.

SAIC, thanks to generous grants, has invested in both iPad Minis and Chromebooks to facilitate the incorporation of technology into the curriculum.

Kindergarten through third grade focuses on basic computer use utilizing programs that reinforce classroom concepts while allowing students to practice basic motor skills. Computer-based programs such as Didi and Ditto, as well as online sites such as Starfall and Mathletics, accomplish this.

Middle grades introduce the students to word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software.

Junior high includes presentations, written reports and other projects. Computer classes include GarageBand, iMovie, and iPhoto. In addition to weekly computer classes, teachers make use of open time in the computer lab to complete various project-based learning assignments.

Our students are blessed with a great amount of support from our church and the community at large.

We continue to enjoy the support of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, including mentoring and professional development. Sister Mary Peter Traviss, OP, the co-founder of the ICEL Program at the University of San Francisco, is a constant resource for principal Moodie, as is Sister Carolyn Marie Monahan, OP, coordinator of Dominicans Sisters of Mission San Jose affiliate schools. Our faculty, staff and students enjoy the ability to visit the Dominican Motherhouse in Fremont and Marywood, the Dominican retreat center in Scotts Valley.

Through the efforts of Vision of Hope, a program to assist Dominican inner city schools started 20 years ago by Sister John Martin Fixa, OP, SAIC receives about $90,000 in support each year.

In addition to this, SAIC is a member of the Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools. Maureen Huntington, superintendent, the Alliance board and their development director, Gustavo Torres, support Alliance schools through professional development and fundraising. Last year alone, the Alliance gave each of their schools $30,000 in support.

Perhaps our alumni are best at expressing the value of an SAIC education. According to Gabriela Childree (’08), whose mother also graduated from SAIC, our school is “a family she won’t forget,” Currently working on a zoology major, with an internship in Arizona and a job at the San Francisco Zoo under her belt, Gabriela still makes time to visit the SAIC campus and volunteer with her former second grade teacher, Robin Rockey. “SAIC,” she says, “will always feel like home.”

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MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, KENTFIELD: On Memorial Day, May 25, students, parents and friends packed into St. Patrick Church in Larkspur for the culminating Mass of the newly founded Marin Catholic Sacraments Program where 19 students were confirmed, seven were baptized and three entered into full communion with the church.

“It’s in this program that the larger community can see the fruits of the school’s mission to educate the whole person, spiritually and academically,” said Dominican Sister of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, Sister Miriam.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated the Mass and in his homily explained the happiness that comes from Christ’s self-sacrificing love on the cross. It’s in this gift of self that the faithful find their true selves and purpose in life as opposed to the transitory happiness our culture offers us, Sister Miriam said.

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ST. BONIFACE PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone confirmed 13 teenagers from the parish’s religious education program May 23. The pastor is Franciscan Father Tommy King and parochial vicar is Franciscan Father John Luat.

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ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: The St. Mary’s School Parade Float for Chinese New Year 2015 was a proud achievement.

St. Mary’s participation also included the Drum and Bell Corps celebrating its 75th anniversary and the St. Mary’s School Drill Team.

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ST. ROBERT PARISH, SAN BRUNO: Pictured are committee members behind St. Robert’s Ladies Tea on April 19. The event was a sellout with 116 guests, the committee told Catholic San Francisco.

“We included young ladies as well as adults. The tea featured homemade sandwiches, scones, French pastries and plenty of tea.” A highlight of the afternoon was a “Dolly Walk” where young ladies presented their favorite doll dressed up.

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GOOD SHEPHERD PARISH AND SCHOOL, PACIFICA: Making baskets and winning the Sixth Grade Girls CYO Division 1 championship were Good Shepherd’s Blazers. Pictured back from left Coach Brian Arenson, Nicole Lavorini, Ellie Fentanes, Ava Marcic, Coach Marcus Marcic; middle from left Maya McKinney, Kat Duguay, Sydney Gallant, Iris Ormando, and front, Emma Bradshaw.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone received an unexpected gift from Philadelphia – a first-class relic of St. John Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia and first American male saint.

The archbishop will join Pope Francis and other American bishops in Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families in September.

Ed Hopfner, director of marriage and family life, said the relic is a gift from the director of the National Shrine of St. John Neumann, Redemptorist Father Alfred Bradley, who gave it to Hopfner spontaneously when Hopfner was visiting the shrine where St. John is buried. The two struck up a conversation and Father Bradley sent the relic to Archbishop Cordileone and promised to pray for him.

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Archbishop Cordileone received a first-class relic of St. John Neumann, a gift from the director of the national shrine in Philadelphia. He is pictured at the chancery with Ed Hopfner, archdiocesan director of marriage and family life, glancing at statement of authenticity for the relic.

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St. John Neumann organized the first parochial school system in the U.S., founded the first Italian national parish in the U.S, and established the nation’s first diocesan schedule for Forty Hours devotion in the U.S. He died in 1860 and was canonized in 1977.

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novenas Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted.

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Prayer to St. Jude

Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

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PORZIUNCOLA ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality meets Saturdays for the rosary at 2:30 p.m. in the Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco.

Chaplet of Divine Mercy is prayed at 3 p.m. All are welcome; www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 PASTA LUNCH: Immaculate Conception Church, Folsom at Cesar Chavez, San Francisco, noon, with meal of all you can eat pasta, meatballs, $10; beverages available for purchase, a tradition of the local church for more than 50 years

CONSECRATED LIFE: “Women and Spirit” a documentary on the work of women religious in the United States will be shown in Foudy Hall at St. Monica Parish, 23rd Avenue and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by a panel of men and women religious speaking about religious life. Visit www. stthomasapostlechurchsf.org.

“Women and Spirit” chronicles the history of the thousands of sisters who came to the United States and founded the Catholic school system, hospitals, orphanages, homes for the poor, mental institutions, and many more programs.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 19 2-DAY RUMMAGE SALE: Italian Catholic Federation event in support of the group’s scholarship and charity programs; 716 Newhall Road, Burlingame, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Friday and Saturday; Jean Watterson (650) 343-6225.

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SATURDAY, JULY 5 PEACE MASS: St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, 9 a.m., Father Larry Goode, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist; (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@ gmail.com.

THURSDAY, JULY 9 SATURDAY, JUNE 27

PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. Hacienda, San Mateo. New Members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.

YARD SALE: All Souls School, 479 Miller Ave., South San Francisco, YMI Council 32, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. benefitting Louis P. Guaraldi Food Basket Program; for a table or further details Elmer Madrid (650) 888-3988.

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SVDP SHOW: St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County fashion show and luncheon, 11:30 a.m., Filoli Gardens, benefiting the organization’s Catherine’s Center assisting women back from incarceration, tickets $75, www.svdpsm.org; (650) 373-0622.

ART EXHIBIT: “Mysterious Ireland,” a collection of Elizabeth Wrightman, Mercy Center Art Gallery through June 30, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. Exhibit centers on Irish literature, ancient through contemporary.

Elizabeth Wrightman has had exhibits as the Camaldolese Hermitage in Big Sur, The Del Mesa Carmel Gallery, and Marjorie Evans Gallery in Carmel. She was educated at University of California Santa Barbara and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She is artist in residence at the Community Church of the Monterey Peninsula where she gives classes in drawing and painting open to the public for children and adults; for gallery hours visit www. mercy-center.org.

DISCERNMENT DAY: What am I doing with my life? Am I living to my fullest potential?

Am I becoming the saint that I am called to be? Come to this day of discernment hosted by the Dominican nuns at Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. RSVP

by July 3 or for more information contact Sister Joseph Marie at vocations@nunsmenlo.org or visit http://nunsmenlo.org/ discernment-days/. The day begins with Mass at 8 a.m. and includes Divine Office, rosary, Benediction and conferences.

There is no cost and lunch will be provided.

MARRIAGE PREP: San Francisco Catholic Engaged Encounter; prepare for your marriage by attending a two-day weekend retreat. Information and applications can be found at www.sfcee.org; catholicsfee@ gmail.com.

RAVIOLI DINNER: Italian Catholic Federation event, Our Lady of Angels School gym, Burlingame, with no-host cocktails at 4 p.m. and dinner at 5 p.m.; $22 per person/ family of four for $50; make reservations by June 22; Dorene Campanile, (650) 344-7870.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 MONDAY, JUNE 29

HEALING: Mindfulness meditation, July 15, Oct. 21, 10 a.m., Dominican Sisters of MSJ Center for Education and Spirituality at motherhouse 43326 Mission Blvd. entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont; each session includes a spiritual focus and practice; Dominican Sister Joan Prohaska, facilitator. Freewill offering accepted; www.msjdominicans.org; (510) 933-6335.

POETRY RETREAT: Have you been yearning for a way of deepening your Spirituality by connecting creatively to your inner life? Vallombrosa Retreat Center invites you to a unique one-day experience dedicated to poetry-making, Choose among several workshops, given by knowledgeable poets, and then take time to reflect on

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HANDICAPABLES MASS: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist at Mass commemorating 50 year anniversary of the Archbishop Handicapables Salvatore at noon, in Cordileone lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance with lunch following the liturgy. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865; www.

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SATURDAY, JULY 18 ST. ANNE’S GALA: A formal affair benefiting St. Anne of the Sunset Church, San Francisco, beginning 5:30 p.m. with no-host cocktails in Moriarty Hall on the parish campus followed by appetizers, silent auction and a sit-down dinner. Entertainment begins at 7:30 p.m. and includes songs from Broadway and opera plus songs from Italy and the Philippines performed by San Francisco artists; free parking in church

lot. Tickets at $100 per person must be purchased by July 1. Larger sponsorships opportunities beginning at $300 are also available. Preciosa Agaton, (415) 564-7487; Bernadette Hynson, (415) 420-7925; rbbsfo@comcast.net.

MONDAY, JUNE 29 ‘SACRED IN EVERYDAY’: Dominican Sisters of San Rafael Gather@ Grand series hosts awardwinning poet and author Kathleen Kathleen Norris Norris, 7 p.m. speaking on finding the sacred in our everyday lives. She will share selections from contemporary authors who have found God in moments of daily life. Kathleen’s New York Times bestsellers include “The Cloister Walk,” and “Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith.”

She is a visiting professor at Providence College in Rhode Island. Gather@Grand is open to all. There will be light refreshments and time for questions and answers; the Gathering Space at the Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, between Acacia and Locust. RSVP at (415) 453 8303 or email CommunityRelations@ sanrafaelop.org.

SATURDAY, JULY 25 SERRA TALKS: “Junipero Serra-Saint and Sinner,” 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Center for Education and Spirituality with Ohlone Mission Indians Andrew Galvan and Vincent Medina Jr. Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse Auditorium, 43326 Mission Blvd. (entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont; $25 donation payable at the door; lunch included; RSVP by July 13, rosemarie@msjdominicans.org, http://bit.ly/MSJSerra.

SATURDAY, AUG. 15 REUNION: Holy Name School, all class reunion, 10 a.m. open school, 11:30 a.m. Mass, followed by reunion festivities. Please pass the information on to siblings and classmates; register as a HN alumni, http://holynamesf.org/ holy-name-school-alumni/; join the Facebook page, Holy Name School San Francisco.

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