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Pope calls for month of prayer to renew missionary outreach Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis called for an “extraordinary month of prayer and reflection” to reinvigorate and renew the missionary spirit and action of the Catholic Church.

Welcoming a proposal from the pontifical mission societies and the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the pope said the special concentration on mission during the month of October 2019 would help “renew the love and passion” of proclaiming the Gospel to everyone.

The announcement came in the text of a speech the pope wrote, but did not read, June 3 when he met Cardinal Fernando Filoni, congregation prefect, and people taking part in the pontifical mission societies’ annual meeting in Rome. see pope, page 5

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Pope’s Pentecost prayer: Forgiveness, ‘unity in diversity’

People sing as Pope Francis leads a Pentecost vigil marking the 50th anniversary of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal at the Circus Maximus in Rome June 3. The Holy Spirit continues to give Christians different gifts and to call them to share those gifts with each other in a community marked by forgiveness and “unity in diversity,” Pope Francis said on Pentecost.

Former attorney professes first vows as cloistered Dominican nun Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Tara Clemens was an Anchorage, Alaska, attorney, and an evangelical Christian who converted to Catholicism during her last months of law school – and on May 28 she made first vows as Sister Marie Dominic of the Incarnate Word, a cloistered Dominican nun at Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park.

With first vows, Sister Marie Dominic received the black veil, replacing the white veil of novices.

“The priest says, ‘Accept the sacred veil by which you may be recognized as a house of prayer for your Lord and a temple of intercession for all people,’” Sister Marie Dominic said. “The center of the contemplative life of the Dominican nuns is the love of God.” “As a nun inside the cloister, even though I can never leave, I can embrace the whole world with that love and intercede for the whole world,” Sister Marie Dominic said, in a conversation two days later.

First vows are for three years. Those vows will be followed by two one-year renewals as she and the community continue to discern her vocation. At Corpus Christi Monastery, a nun is in formation for a to-

tal of seven-and-a-half to eight years before professing Solemn vows, that is, vows until death. She has already spent two-and-half years in the monastery, first as a postulant and then as a novice. Dominican friars and nuns profess the vow of obedience to God, to Blessed Mary, to Blessed Dominic, to the Master of the Order of Friars Preachers, and for the nuns, to the prioress and her successors. The vows of chastity and poverty are included in this vow.

It was a sudden change to Catholicism and a relatively quick decision to discern a vocation to the Dominican Monastery of Corpus Christi that caught Tara Clemens by surprise. A visit to a Friday Lenten Mass with a friend during the last months of Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland led to three months of late night studying of Catholicism, while working full time and completing law school. By Pentecost 2007, two or three months later, she was convicted of the truth of Catholicism.

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Old St. Mary’s is home base for senior food program

Need to know ‘Mercy Night’ at National Shrine: On June 23 from 8-10 p.m., the National Shrine of St. Francis, 600 Vallejo St. in San Francisco, will host an evening of quiet prayer and reflection, in a beautiful worship space with contemplative music. Anyone seeking God’s presence is welcome. Confession and adoration are available as well as prayer teams to pray with or for you.

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NFP Friends and Family Picnic: St. Raymond Parish in Menlo Park will host the annual archdiocesan Mass and picnic for those interested in natural family planning, June 24 starting with a 10 a.m. bilingual Mass with Father Larry Goode and followed by a potluck picnic with hot dogs and hamburgers supplied by the archdiocese. Contact Ed Hopfner HopfnerE@ SFArch.org or visit www.bit.ly/picnicsf.

SUPPORT IN ILLNESS: Strength for the Journey ministry, St. Mary’s Cathedral:, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, July 7, 1-2:30 p.m., Msgr. Bowe room. This is a new, monthly support group meeting the first Friday of each month for those with life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, HIV, stroke. Deacon Christoph Sandoval facilitates. Contact Sister Elaine Stahl, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218; estahl@stmarycathedralsf.org.

Archbishop Cordileone’s schedule June 11: Confirmations, Our Lady of the Pillar, 10-2 June 12: Cabinet meeting June 13-16: USCCB spring meeting, Indianapolis June 17, 18: Pastoral visits to St. Peter and St. Anthony parishes, San Francisco June 21, 22: Chancery meetings

correction Jilma Meneses was named chief executive officer of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, effective July 1, the organization announced April 27. Her title was incorrectly reported in the May 11 issue. The error has been corrected in all online editions.

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Thousands of low-income seniors in San Francisco have a redeemed drug addict they will never meet and a Paulist-run parish in Chinatown to thank for the big bag of groceries dropped at their front door each week.

The late John Meehan, a renegade Irishman who found God in prison in 1976, vowed upon his release to spend the rest of his life helping others. And that he did. His legacy is Groceries for Seniors, a nonprofit run out of the basement parish hall of Old St. Mary’s Cathedral Parish since 1999.

Four days a week, hours before the 7:30 a.m. weekday Mass, the hall becomes an organized whirlwind of activity as staff and volunteers sort and divide boxes of donated apples, oranges, vegetables, peanut butter, eggs, rice and other nutrient-rich foods into bags that will be delivered within hours to the doorsteps of more than 1,000 of the city’s neediest senior apartment dwellers.

Associate pastor Paulist Father Tom Tavella told Catholic San Francisco during a visit to the operation May 9 that while Groceries for Seniors is a separate, self-funded and self-run organization, he considers it perhaps the parish’s largest and most active ministry.

“It just amazes me that we are helping to feed that many people,” said Father Tavella.

The parish has made Groceries for Seniors a priority by committing the parish hall to the operation four mornings a week year round, scheduling its own activities around it. The parish promotes the organization from the pulpit and parishioners donate money and volunteer time.

The program “is doing what the Paulists do in a very concrete way,” he said.

According to Andy Burns, program manager for the San Francisco/ Marin Food Bank, which donates the bulk of the food for the Groceries for Seniors program, more than 60,000 San Francisco seniors fall below the federal poverty line and face what he called daily “food insecurity.”

He said more than 25,000 are very low-income and survive on less than

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Hunger was not an abstract social problem for John Meehan, who grew up in an abusive household in an impoverished section of East Orange, N.J. and remembered eating ketchup sandwiches as a child. As an escape, he turned to petty theft, burglary and heroin and spent the better part of his youth in and out of orphanages, reformatories and jails.

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his life on the fringe. But in 1976 while serving time in a California state prison for drug addicts, he beseeched God for help, promising to spend the remainder of his days doing good.

A year later, a clean and sober Meehan enrolled in Project Rebound, a program for ex-offenders at San Francisco State University, and discovered a gift for poetry. He made the dean’s list and eventually became executive director of the program. But after a prolonged illness, he found himself homeless and hungry.

While living on the streets, Meehan co-founded and for 15 years ran the Haight Ashbury Food Program, still in operation today. He completed his bachelor’s degree in creative writing at San Francisco State and later enrolled in USF’s master’s program in nonprofit administration upon the encouragement of his mentor, the late Jesuit Brother Jack Graham. With Brother Graham’s support, Meehan founded an emergency food program for seniors in 1999 which today is known as Groceries for Seniors.

In the last decade of his life, Meehan formed a connection to the former pastor of Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, Paulist Father Charles R. Kullmann, who offered the parish hall to the program as an operations center.

Groceries for Seniors is supported solely by a roster of loyal volunteers, individual donors, foundations, businesses and more recently, the Mayor’s Office of San Francisco. In addition to food from the SF/Marin Food Bank, Groceries for Seniors receives food from Whole Foods, Haight Street Market, Falletti Foods and others.

“John Meehan put this whole network together and that is really quite the story,” said Tom Beaver, program director for Groceries for Seniors, one of the lean organization’s only two paid part-time positions.

After ending a more than 30-year career in the music industry, Beaver oversees daily operations, manages volunteers, coordinates food donations and deliveries, writes fundraising grants and reports to the organization’s board of directors.

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Above, before dawn four mornings a week, a dozen or so Groceries for Seniors volunteers help to sort and divide oranges, peanut butter, rice and other nutritious groceries into bags that will be delivered to apartment buildings housing needy seniors. Right, longtime volunteer and van driver Bob Panelli gets help unloading the Groceries for Seniors van from two residents after it arrives at a Western Addition apartment building May 9.

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coming,” he said of Meehan, whose trademark fedora hangs on the wall of his tiny office in the parish basement.

“But having inherited all this, I am very impressed by what he did. There are a lot of moving pieces.”

The most significant moving piece is the Groceries for Seniors van, loaded and driven by longtime volunteer and Old St. Mary’s parishioner Bob Panelli, to buildings in Chinatown, the Western Addition, South of Market and more.

When he arrived to an apartment building on his route in the Tender-

Priests celebrate jubilees Pictured from left with Archbishop Cordileone at the priest jubilarian vespers and dinner May 18 at St. Mary’s Cathedral are Father James MacDonald, retired pastor, St. Pius, Redwood City (50 years); Father Paul Perry, parochial vicar, St. Sebastian, Greenbrae (50); Holy Ghost Father Brendan Hally, parochial vicar, St. Dunstan, Millbrae (50); Father Jose Shaji, pastor, St. Anselm, Ross (25). Unavailable for the photo were Father Jack O’Neill, retired pastor, Sacred Heart, Olema, (50); Father John Kselman, PSS, St. Patrick’s Seminary (50); Capuchin Father Flavian Welstead, parochial vicar, Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame (50); Jesuit Father John A. Coleman, parochial vicar, St. Ignatius, San Francisco (50); Father Marvin Felipe, pastor, St. Thomas More, San Francisco (25).

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loin on the day of our visit, the lobby is filled with expectant seniors who organized a light hearted “fire brigade” system to help Panelli unload his bounty from the van.

“When Bob rolls in, the anticipation is really high,” said Beaver, who said that he discovered that Groceries for

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Many seniors don’t have a good reason to leave their rooms and can become isolated.

“For many of these people, it’s like the social event of the week,” he said.

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Bishop Bill Justice: 50 years ‘helping people with the message of Jesus’ Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

Bishop Bill Justice turned 75 on May 8, a major age for bishops. “At age 75 bishops must send a letter to the pope offering their resignation,” the St. Gregory School and Serra High School graduate told me in a beautifully handBishop Bill written response to Justice questions I posed to him via email. “I have just recently done that.”

Bishop Bill became a priest “to be able to help people with the message of Jesus, and to empower them to share that message in the way they choose to live.” He was a priest 40 years when named a bishop by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008. “When the call came from the apostolic nuncio in Washington, I was surprised as I had not dwelt on it.”

Responsibilities as an auxiliary bishop have seen him celebrating confirmations, representing the archbishop at functions, working with the chancery Office of Human Life and Dignity and sitting on a number of committees with the California Catholic Conference and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

He has enjoyed it all but “celebrating confirmations at the parishes is one of the highlights.”

As to the future? “Since I have never been retired I will have to experience it to know exactly what I would like to do,” he told me.

For a start he wants “to continue celebrating confirmations and do special things when needed” as well as helping at a parish on weekends.

Why is priesthood a good choice for men? “It enables you to share the word of God, celebrate the sacraments and help people in their

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Coordinated under the jurisdiction of the congregation, the four agencies – the Holy Childhood Association, Missionary Union of Priests and Religious, Society for the Propagation of the Faith and the Society of St. Peter the Apostle – promote missionary awareness and raise funds for the work of the church in mission territories around the globe.

“You know well my worry concerning the pontifical mission societies – very often reduced to an organization that collects and distributes, in the pope’s name, economic aid for the neediest churches,” the pope wrote in the text.

“I know that you are seeking new means and more appropriate, more ecclesial ways to carry out your service to the universal mission of the church” continuing a “process of urgent reform,” he wrote.

Renewal requires conversion, he wrote, adding that he hoped “your spiritual and material assistance to the church” would root people more deeply in the Gospel, encourage all Catholics to be involved in the church’s missionary duty and bring God’s love to all people.

October 2019 was chosen for the month of prayer because it will be the 100th anniversary of Pope Benedict XV’s 1919 apostolic letter, “Maximum Illud” on the propagation of the faith throughout the world.

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necessary a life of holiness is for the effectiveness of the apostolate,” Pope Francis wrote.

Now more than for the church and the world need men and women known for their “zeal and holiness” to proclaim the Gospel and show mercy to everyone, he added.

“The world vitally needs the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” the pope said in his message for World Mission Sunday 2017. The message was released June 4, the day after his meeting with the pontifical mission societies.

“Through the church, Christ continues his mission as the Good Samaritan, caring for the bleeding wounds of humanity, and as the Good Shepherd, constantly seeking out those who wander along winding paths that lead nowhere,” the pope wrote in the message.

World Mission Sunday will be celebrated Oct. 22 in most dioceses.

The church’s mission “is not to spread a religious ideology, much less to propose a lofty ethical teaching,” he wrote. Rather it is sharing the transformative power and joy of Christ and his word, which helps people become free of selfishness, “narrowness, conflict, racism and tribalism.”

“The church’s mission impels us to undertake a constant pilgrimage across the various deserts of life, through the different experiences of hunger and thirst for truth and justice,” and inspires the faithful to be in “constant exodus” toward the peripheries and in “constant exile” toward the kingdom of heaven.

Four Jesuits of the U.S.A Central and Southern Province will be ordained to the priesthood on June 10, in New Orleans.

Deacon Stephen Pitts, SJ, who has served as Deacon Stephen a deacon at St. Pitts, SJ Agnes Catholic Church in San Francisco, is among them. New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond is ordaining prelate.

Deacon Pitts, 33, entered the Society of Jesus in 2006 and holds graduate degrees from Loyola University, Chicago, and the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, Berkeley. His studies continue in the fall toward graduate degrees in theology, again from the Jesuit School of Theology, and in international and development

economics from his order’s University of San Francisco.

“It was wonderful to have Stephen with us and we are very happy that he will be with us again when he returns to his studies in the fall,” St. Agnes Parish told Catholic San Francisco.

Jesuit Father Pitts will spend six weeks in Chiapas, Mexico, this summer doing pastoral work and field research at a Jesuit-sponsored cooperative, Yomol Atel, that serves indigenous coffee growers.

Jesuits Marcus Fryer, Sean Salai and Sylvester Tan will also be ordained to the priesthood in the June 10 rites. They and Deacon Pitts “have undergone extensive formation in the Society of Jesus, training that integrates one’s spiritual, personal and professional development,” the Jesuits said. “A Jesuit’s preparation for ordination can take anywhere from eight to 12 years.” The four are among 31 new Jesuit priests ordained in the United States and Canada this year.

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Archdiocese begins livestreaming cathedral liturgies Tom Burke Catholic San Francisco

Live from St. Mary’s Cathedral debuted April 6 with the livestreaming of the annual chrism Mass from the cathedral. Livestreaming of all liturgies of Holy Week and Mass Easter Sunday followed.

“We will stream all archdiocesan liturgies at which the archbishop presides, and other events from time to time,” said Jan Potts, assistant director of communications for the archdiocese and leader on the streaming project.

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funeral Mass for Archbishop George Niederauer among them.

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Archbishop Cordileone asked that the livestreaming be put into place, Potts said. “Livestreaming is becoming a standard for archdioceses in the United States, and even many dioceses and parishes,” she said.

It has not been without its challenges. “The cathedral is a stunning building; the beautiful sound and sights one experiences in person do not always come through on video,” Potts said. “We are working on improving the lighting and adding some microphones that will not affect the live experience but will improve the taped one.”

All systems remain go on the project and the team is thankful the system works as intended, Potts said.

“One of the benefits is that the archbishop’s cathedral homilies are now recorded and shared as mp3 files, which has been a goal for a long time,” she said. The homilies can be accessed at www.sfarch.org/homilies.

The final product was built from the ground up.

“The cathedral did not have high-speed internet, which is necessary for livestreaming, because it was not offered in the area until recently,” Potts said. “So there was quite a bit of engineering and installation work to do. The cathedral facilities staff and docents worked with us and the vendor to make this a reality. They deserve a lot of thanks.”

All feeds are added to the Archdiocese of San Francisco website, www.sfarch.org, a few days before it takes place, Potts said, such as the link for the June 10 ordination to the priesthood Mass. The ordination of deacons rite was live streamed May 20. People can also subscribe to the YouTube channel and be notified of any livestreaming. Click the YouTube icon at the top of the webpage.

“We are building a team of volunteers to supplement the archdiocesan staff on this project,” Potts said. “Anyone over the age of 18 who has experience as a professional or hobbyist in this arena is welcome to consider this form of service – a wonderful evangelization tool. We’ll be doing training in June.”

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Sven Edward Olbash and Jacqueline Maria Paras are pictured at Star of the Sea Preschool in San Francisco on May 31 giving preschoolers a lesson in Gregorian chant.

Preschoolers learn basics of Gregorian chant Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

When it comes to teaching children sacred music, sooner is better than later. That’s the theory behind a Gregorian chant pilot program for children ages 3-5 at Star of the Sea Preschool in San Francisco that concluded its first year on May 30.

The program is the first of its kind for Catholic preschoolers in the archdiocese and perhaps well beyond it, according to preschool director Jacqueline Maria Paras, a member of Star of the Sea Parish’s Latin Mass choir and a champion of chant.

“I wanted to bring my own love of chant to my students,” she told Catholic San Francisco during a visit to the program’s once-weekly session which is part of the preschool’s religion and enrichment programs.

“We can help them experience music theory in a way that is developmentally appropriate.”

Gregorian chant is the unaccompanied, ancient sacred song of the Roman Catholic Church. According to the Star of the Sea Parish website, the Second Vatican Council called Gregorian chant “the most suited music for the Sacred Liturgy.”

“Music is a language,” said Sven Edward Olbash, a vocal performance

specialist and Gregorian chant recording artist who partnered with Paras to offer the Gregorian chant program. “What’s really cool is that kids up to the age of 5 or 6 can learn two languages at once and don’t even know they are speaking two languages,” he said. “If you learn that language by 5 or 6 you will always know the notes.”

Alternately fidgety and fascinated during the 30-minute lesson, the children executed the simple exercises the instructor offered them. At one point he showed them the difference between a “loud” voice and a “beautiful” one, which produced some giggles as they attempted the same.

Later, students took turns tapping the metal bars on a “metallophone” – a type of xylophone – with mallets to train their ears to the note it produces.

Paras said preschoolers typically learn songs by ear in group sing-alongs. And in other classroom settings at the school, they still do this type of singing, she said.

“The real difference in this program is that lessons are specifically modeled to Gregorian chant,” she said. “If we are all working toward the same goals and using same terminology we will have a greater impact.”

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“When God calls, he is very persistent,” Sister Marie Dominic said.

But with more than $100,000 of student loans, Tara Clemens was at times close to despairing because she could not enter with outstanding student loans. So, the story of her vocation journey is also the story of how the Laboure Society helped Tara Clemens resolve her student loans and become Sister Marie Dominic, OP. “She has a dear place in my heart,” said Laboure Society executive director John Flanagan.

The Laboure Society, based in Minnesota, is devoted to helping those with a priestly or religious vocation resolve their student loans which is a large obstacle to priestly and religious vocations in the United States. The society enrolls a “class”

of a dozen to 25 people who believe they have a vocation to the priesthood or religious life, and puts them through a “boot camp” on fundraising. The aspirants fundraise for their class, not for themselves. For Clemens, she participated in the program for two years. At the end of her last class, it looked like she would be in for another year until two benefactors made large contributions.

“People all around the country know they have done something to help Tara Clemens become Sister Marie Dominic. She didn’t get there alone,” Flanagan said. And Flanagan said Sister Marie Dominic has not forgotten any of those people.

“She has a gift of gratitude.”

“She inspired the heck out of me,” Flanagan said. “She had her own difficulties in her journey but she faced them with great trust in the Lord.”

Dominican sister professes vows as cloistered nun On the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, Sister Mary Isabel of the Angels, OP, professed solemn vows as a cloistered nun in the Order of Preachers at Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park.

“By the profession of her solemn vows, she gave herself as a spouse of Christ to live a life of prayer, work and sacrifice within the enclosure, for the love of God and the salvation of souls,” the community said.

In a message on their Facebook page, the Dominican nuns said, “The JOY of belonging completely to Christ! Join us in praying that many more souls will give their fiat to God for his glory and for the salvation of souls.”

Sister Mary Isabel began thinking she had a vocation as a school girl in Indonesia but went to college and then worked for a number of years as an accountant in Southern California. She researched religious orders on the Internet and first came to visit Corpus Christi Monastery in 2007, entering the monastery in 2009.

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Catholic groups decry president’s climate decision Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – Catholic leaders said President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate change agreement snubs the needs of impoverished people around the world and eschews responsibility to begin addressing the causes of global warming.

They joined a broad cross section of U.S. society and world leaders and organizations in decrying the June 1 announcement.

Trump’s decision sets in motion a long formal process for withdrawal from the agreement, which entered into force Nov. 4. Under rules of the agreement, no nation can withdraw until November 2019 and mandate a one-year notice period. The earlier total withdrawal can be accomplished is in November 2020.

The leaders focused their concerns on the needs of communities around the world that they say contribute least to climate change but suffer the most from it. They pointed to impoverished people who have been forced to migrate to other lands to make a living because of drought, changing weather patterns or rising sea levels.

Many organizations pointed to Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” in which he called all people to respect God’s creation and remember that the welfare of each person is integral to human life and future of the planet.

A statement from the leaders of 11 organizations asked Trump to reconsider his action. The leaders said Catholic teaching maintains that climate change is a “grave moral issue” that threatens commitments to protect human life, health, dignity and security, promote the common good, exercise a preferential option for the poor, living in solidarity with future generations, realize peace and care for creation.

“The international agreement of 2015 demonstrates that all nations will be impacted by a warming world and that all nations have a corresponding responsibility to limit greenhouse gas pollution causing climate change,” said a statement released through the Catholic Climate Covenant soon after Trump’s announcement. “The Catholic Church recognizes that climate change is a global problem that requires global solutions.”

The signers included leaders of Catholic Climate Covenant, Conference of Major Superiors of Men, Franciscan Action Network, Columban Center for

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Left, President Trump at the White House on June 1 announcing that the U.S. will exit from the Paris climate pact. Right, German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on June 2 delivering a statement about the decision.

Advocacy and Outreach, Global Catholic Climate Movement, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, National Council of Catholic Women, Catholic Health Association of the United States, Catholic Charities USA, Carmelite NGO and Sisters of Mercy of the Americas.

Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, called Trump’s decision “deeply troubling.”

“The Scriptures affirm the value of caring for creation and caring for each other in solidarity.

The Paris agreement is an international accord that promotes these values,” Bishop Cantu said in a statement released shortly after the president made his announcement in the White House Rose Garden.

“President Trump’s decision will harm the people of the United States and the world, especially the poorest, most vulnerable communities.”

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Below are excerpts of statements from other Catholic organizations: – Tomas Insua, executive director, Global Catholic Climate Movement: “Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement is a backward and immoral action.

Catholics are saddened and outraged that Trump is not listening to Pope Francis after their meeting last week. Still, the world will continue to accelerate climate action despite the White House’s retrograde stance.”

– Sister Patricia Chappell, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, executive director, Pax Christi USA: “The biblical mandate to care and tend to the earth for its people transcends individual countries and nations.

Today’s decision makes a mockery of democracy and Pax Christi USA pledges to use every nonviolent means in joining with others to resist this decision.”

– General Council, Adrian Dominican Sisters: “It diminishes our standing as a world leader, aligning us with Syria and Nicaragua as the only non-signatories to the landmark accord ... . It blunts our competitive edge in an emerging renewable energy based global economy. And it threatens to condemn earth, our common home, and future generations to potentially catastrophic climate change.”

– Steve Krueger, president, Catholic Democrats: “While representing his only apparent train of thought as a deal maker, President Trump once again ignored Jesus’ exhortation (Luke 12:48) best paraphrased by President John F. Kennedy, that ‘for those to whom much is given, much is required.’ We believe that this applies to nations as well, particularly given the fact that the U.S. is the largest carbon polluter in history.”

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Priest-poet explores mysteries of life, what it means to be fully human Michael Swan Catholic News Service

UPTERGROVE, Ontario – Ordinary lives, however quiet or unnoticed, are a sequence of miracles, tragedies and triumphs. Everyone stumbles into hell and is repeatedly resurrected into ultimate beauty.

But that’s not the language of daily life. Instead, talk focuses on the weather, old times and how things have changed. The news dismays.

There is muttering about a narrow range of acceptable topics. And love, death, the communion of the saints, the body of Christ, transcendence and eternity, redemption and resurrection are uncertain ground for cautious, ordinary pilgrims.

Which is why people need Father Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, priest, poet and essayist. Father Di Cicco lives inside the language of holy mysteries and understands daily life in terms of the common quest for transcendence.

“Before you’re a saint, you have to become a mystic,” Father Di Cicco said over fried eggs in his red brick rectory in the middle of farm country north of Lake Simcoe 85 miles from Toronto.

Father Di Cicco was Toronto’s second poet laureate, holding the post from 2004 to 2009. In addition to at least 20 volumes of poetry, he is the author of “Municipal Mind: Manifestos for the Creative City,” a thin volume of crystallized insights into the challenge of contemporary urban life.

Since the early 2000s he has consulted with municipal and regional governments across Canada and the United States, helping civil servants and politicians think about their juris-

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Canadian Father Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, poet and essayist, is pictured in an undated file photo. Father Di Cicco’s work uses the language of holy mysteries and he understands daily life in terms of the common quest for transcendence.

dictions as more than infrastructure, architecture, markets and regulations. He talks to planners, architects and geographers about what they do as a contribution to the culture of encounter.

He calls himself “a creative cities exponent with a Gospel mandate underneath.”

Father Di Cicco is proud of that bit about a Gospel mandate. With friends such as urban thinker Richard Florida, broadcasting mogul Moses Znaimer and former Toronto mayor David Crombie, Father Di Cicco has snuck his Gospel sensibility into conversations at the highest levels about how people live in cities.

In “Municipal Mind” Father Di Cicco urges civic leaders to fall in love.

“People who are not in love are irresponsible,” he writes. “A town that is not in love with itself is irresponsible, and civically apt for mistakes. Responsibility is a cold duty. It inspires no one. A citizenry is incited to action by the eros of mutual care, by having a common object of love – their city.”

If there’s any irony in an urban thinker and poet living as resident priest at St. Columbkille Church in Uptergrove, Father Di Cicco doesn’t acknowledge it. Surrounded by farm country, he’s more surprised to find that the area’s Irish families have so easily accepted an Italian priest.

Born in Arezzo, an hour south of Florence, Italy, Father Di Cicco arrived in Canada with his family as a 3-year-old in 1952, part of the postWorld War II immigration wave. He grew up in Toronto, Montreal and Baltimore. He tended bar and studied literature at the University of Toronto, publishing poetry in chapbooks available in literary haunts near the campus. By 1978 he was not only an established voice in a generation of emerging poets, he was editor of a significant volume of Italian-Canadian poetry called “Roman Candles.”

Then he went away.

Father Di Cicco vacated his literary career in the 1980s to become an Augustinian monk. But life in the monastery was in flux then and Father Di Cicco found himself out of tune with some of the changes. He left the order, became a priest of the Archdiocese of Toronto and gradually rediscovered his lyric voice.

He also, at 58, started playing trumpet, learning to improvise. In the rectory’s front room are a few of his 13 trumpets along with sheet music, LPs and unpacked boxes of books.

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“I was never in my body, and I drifted through others like wind through sheaves of wheat, in the exoskeleton of faith,” he writes in “Lyric For The Soul’s Confections.”

Father Di Cicco can accept Alzheimer’s disease with more equanimity than the culture’s preference for the Web. “The cyberworld is evacuating the physical world,” he says.

He sees the empty streets of towns, villages and cities after 8 p.m. and wonders how people will ever know or experience the body of Christ if they do not know themselves as real people – humans who can only know themselves by knowing others. “The genius of casual encounters in the incarnate realm,” are the only thing Father Di Cicco knows that can keep people human. As humanity is lost, so is Christ.

People now face “the anti-Christ in the guise of a microchip,” Father Di Cicco said. “We’ve been very naive and stupid about it.

“People still suppose that technology services them,” he added, rolling his eyes. “We no longer access the Web. We are the Web.” His own solution is to offer up his struggles – loneliness, failing memory, a sense of being out of place in this world – to God. “When you offer it up to God, you shorten the grieving process. What you heal in yourself you heal in the body of Christ.”

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Vatican: Safeguarding creation is religious obligation

VATICAN CITY – Christians and Muslims, believers in one God, have an obligation to safeguard the world God created, said the Vatican’s annual message to Muslims for the end of Ramadan.

“Our vocation to be guardians of God’s handiwork is not optional, nor is it tangential to our religious commitment as Christians and Muslims: It is an essential part of it,” said Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran and Bishop Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, respectively president and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

Dated May 19, the message was released at the Vatican June 2, the day after U.S. President Donald Trump an(CNS photo/Peter Nicholls, Reuters) nounced he was withdrawing the United States from the international Paris accords, which are designed to lessen the human impact on climate change.

Each year, the council for interreligious dialogue publishes a message to the world’s Muslims in preparation for Muslims pray at a floral tribute near London the celebration of the end of Ramadan, Bridge June 4, the day after seven people were D I S T I N C andTdozens I V Ewhen L three Y terrorists U N a month of fasting. This year Ramadan killed injured ends June 24. in a van mowed down pedestrians on the bridge The pontifical council chooses a before stabbing a police officer and revelers theme annually to promote dialogue by around Borough Market. “offering insights on current and presswas addressed “to the whole of humaning issues.” The theme chosen for 2017 ity” and drew attention “to the harm was “Caring for Our Common Home,” our lifestyles and decisions are causing which echoes Pope Francis’ encyclical to the environment, to ourselves and to on the environment, “Laudato Si’.” our fellow human beings.”

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The message repeated Pope Francis’ call for “a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet …, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affects us all.”

Pope: Don’t be overly harsh on youth

VATICAN CITY – Young people often are judged too easily, even though with their limitations they are still a much needed and valuable part of the world, Pope Francis said.

Do not forget how God often chose the smallest, because proclaiming the Gospel “is not based on the greatness of human strength, but rather on the willingness to let oneself be guided by the gift of the Spirit,” he said June 1.

The pope was speaking to members, consultants and others who took part in the Congregation for Clergy’s pleD held I S atTtheI nary assembly, which was Vatican May 30-June 1.

The assembly discussed the importance of priests who are the living presence of Jesus, the Good Shepherd, who dwells among his people and posI Q aU E sesses welcoming and compassionate heart, Cardinal Beniamino Stella, congregation prefect, told the pope in his opening remarks.

Young priests in particular need special attention and accompaniment by their bishops, fellow priests and church communities because “the risk of spreading oneself too thin, exhaustion or seeking refuge in spiritual worldliness is high” in today’s culture

of indifference, individualism and secularism, the cardinal said.

Get a ‘spiritual electrocardiogram,’ pope says

VATICAN CITY – Never speak, act or make a decision without first listening to the Holy Spirit, who moves, troubles and inspires the heart, Pope Francis advised.

A cold and calculating heart that is closed to the Holy Spirit results in a faith that is “ideological,” he said May 29 during a morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

Knowing God and his commandments, and being good are not enough, the pope said. One must also receive God’s gift of the Holy Spirit and let him “trouble” the heart.

If people were to get a “spiritual electrocardiogram,” the pope asked, Nwould C Tit beI flatlined V E because L Y theUheart N I is hardened, unmoved and emotionless or would it be pulsating with the prompting and prods of the Spirit?

“Am I able to listen him? Am I able to ask for his inspiration before making a decision or saying something or doing something? Or is my heart serene, without emotion, an immobile heart,” much like the doctors of the law had, he asked.

“They believed in God, they knew all the commandments, but the heart was closed, immobile, they didn’t let it become troubled,” the pope said.

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When does faith disappear?

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hen Friedrich Nietzsche declared that “God is dead” he added a question: What kind of a sponge does it take to wipe away a whole horizon?

I often ask that question because just in my own lifetime there has been an unprecedented decline in the number of people who go to church regularly and, more recently, an equally unprecedented spike in the number of people who claim to have lost their faith completely and are now classified under a religious category called, FATHER ron “None.” rolheiser This latter group (persons who when asked about their religious affiliation on a census form answer with the word, None) has essentially doubled in the last 20 years and today in Canada and the U.S.A. make up over 30 percent of the population. The numbers are much the same for Western Europe and other secularized parts of the world.

But have these individuals really lost their faith?

When they use the word “None” to refer to their religious beliefs they generally explain that with phrases to this effect: I just no longer believe! It doesn’t make sense to me anymore! I’ve lost faith in religion and the church! I can’t pretend any longer!

I’ve lost my faith in those beliefs! I’m not sure whether or not I believe in God! What’s common among all these phrases is the concept of “believing” or “belief”: “I just don’t

believe it anymore!” But is ceasing to believe in something the same thing as losing one’s faith? Not necessarily. It can be one thing to no longer believe in something, but it can be something quite different to lose one’s faith. To cease believing in a set of faith propositions doesn’t necessarily equate with losing one’s faith. Indeed, the loss of one’s belief system is often the condition for a purified faith.

How is belief different from faith? In normal, everyday parlance to say that we believe something to be true means that we are able to square that truth with our imagination, that is, we are able to somehow circumscribe it imaginatively so that it makes sense to us. Conversely, if we cannot picture how something might make sense then it is a short step to say that it isn’t true. Our beliefs are predicated on what we can square with our imagination and our thinking.

But many of the objects of our faith are, in essence and by definition, unimaginable, ineffable, and beyond conceptualization. Hence in the area of faith, to say that I can’t believe this or that is generally more an indication of the limitation of our imagination and our rational powers than it is indicative of the loss of faith. I believe that we are much more agnostic about our beliefs than we are agnostic about God, and this isn’t a loss of faith.

Faith is deeper than belief, and it is not always something we can picture imaginatively inside our minds. Take, for instance, a number of articles in the Apostles’ Creed: It is impossible to imagine them as true in terms of picturing them as real.

They are real, but our images of them are only icons. That is true too of many articles within our Christian creed and many of our written doctrines of faith. As expressed, they are merely images and

Letters Corporal works of mercy

It is all well and good to consecrate the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. However, if Pope Francis has already consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I wonder why the archbishop felt he needed to do this. In any case, if he does not follow it up with action, it remains an empty gesture. He speaks of assisted suicide, gay marriage and abortion but says little of the homeless problem.

How can the Catholic Church help alleviate the suffering of the homeless? St. Boniface Church in the Tenderloin presents a positive example by allowing the homeless to sleep in its pews during the day. Look at all the churches in the archdiocese which remain empty all day. Such wasted space. Why not make it a place of sacred sleep? Of course, parishes would have to run these with volunteers stepping up to spend time in the churches with the homeless, and it would cost money. Look to St. Boniface’s program to see how they do it. Can you imagine how many corporal works of mercy could be performed by members of the parish?

Richard Morasci San Francisco

Burl Toler and USF football

Re “USF renames residence hall for football hero Burl A. Toler,” May 25: Burl Toler is certainly worthy of being honored by any institution with which he was ever affiliated. But when USF talks about the 1951 football team, it always strikes me as more than a little hypocritical. The university dropped the football program after that season. Wasn’t that a bigger snub than their not being invited to a bowl game?

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words that point us toward something which we cannot imagine because it is beyond imagination.

For example: The first thing, always, that needs to be said about God is that God is ineffable, that is, God is beyond all conceptualization, beyond all imaginings, beyond being pictured, and beyond being captured in any adequate way by language. This is also true for our understanding of Christ as the second person in the Trinity. Jesus was God’s son, but how can that be imagined or pictured? It can’t be. How can God, who is one, be three? This isn’t mathematics; it’s mystery, something that cannot be imaginatively circumscribed. Yet, we believe it and millions and millions of people for 2,000 years have risked their lives and their souls on its truth without being able to picture it imaginatively. Faith is a knowing of something which, because of its magnitude and infinity, cannot be adequately pictured in terms of an imaginative construct.

Our words about it express our beliefs and those words point to the reality, but they are not the reality.

To reject a specific piece of art does not mean we reject beauty. So when someone says, I can no longer believe this, he is in effect rejecting a set of propositions, a set of particular icons and a theory of art (a theology), rather than actually rejecting belief in God, and he is rejecting it precisely because he cannot imaginatively picture something which in fact cannot be pictured.

It has been said that atheist is just another name for someone who cannot get metaphor. Perhaps that’s too simple, but it does suggest that rejecting a set of theological propositions is not the same thing as losing one’s faith.

Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

The greatest mission for parents

ast month we watched Pope Francis travel to Fatima for the centenary of Our Lady’s apparitions to the three shepherd children, Lucia dos Santos and Jacinta and Francisco Marto. Much has been said and written about Fatima this year. I’ve learned a great deal about how the Fatima message encapsulates the essential elements of Christian life – prayer, sacrifice, redemptive suffering and holiness of life.

I also discovered that the last apparition at Fatima, which took place on Oct. 13, 1917, is the only approved Sister apparition in the history of constance the church in which the Holy veit, lsp Family appeared together.

While the immense crowd that day witnessed the miracle of the sun, the children saw Our Lady standing with St. Joseph and the Child Jesus, both of whom were blessing the world.

Lucia, the oldest of the visionaries, became a Carmelite and spent her life spreading the message of Fatima. She felt that through the vision of the Holy Family, God wished to remind us of the true purpose of the family in the world.

“In the message of Fatima, God calls us to turn our eyes to the Holy Family of Nazareth, into which he chose to be born and to grow in grace and stature, in order to present to us a model to imitate, as our footsteps tread the path of our pilgrimage to heaven,” Lucia wrote in her book “Calls from the Message of Fatima.”

Lucia wrote that parents’ greatest mission is to instill in their children the knowledge of God and his commandments. “Nothing can dispense parents from this sublime mission,” she wrote, for God has entrusted it to them and they are answerable to God for it. “Parents are the ones who must guide their children’s first steps to the altar of God, teaching them to raise their innocent hands and to pray, helping them to discover how to find God on their way and to follow the echo of his voice.”

What remains most engraved in the hearts of children, Lucia wrote, is what they have received “in their father’s arms and on their mother’s lap.”

These words touched me in a very personal way as I paused to recall the memories of my parents most

deeply engraved in my heart, especially those of my dad. As a stay-at-home mother who was outgoing and talkative by nature, my mom played the more prominent role in the life of my family, but my father was a quiet, strong and faithful presence as well. For this I am very grateful.

My father fulfilled what Pope Francis wrote in his recent apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” (n.

177), “A father helps the child to perceive the limits of life, to be open to the challenges of the wider world, and to see the need for hard work and strenuous effort.” These words remind me of the quiet yet consistent way my father helped me to succeed in math and science, and of the efforts he made to help me explore college and career possibilities.

God sets the father in the family, Pope Francis wrote, “to be close to his children as they grow – when they play and when they work, when they are carefree and when they are distressed, when they are talkative and when they are silent, when they are daring and when they are afraid, when they stray and when they get back on the right path. To be a father who is always present.”

When I read these words I remembered the time my father showed up, silent and stern, at a cast party my sister and I were attending following our high school musical. He had come to bring us home rather than let us ride with another teen in the middle of a blizzard. Although we were quite embarrassed at the time, I later appreciated the fact that my father cared enough to inconvenience himself.

Finally, I thought of my father when I read these words from Pope Francis: “Some fathers feel they are useless or unnecessary, but the fact is that children need to find a father waiting for them when they return home with their problems. They may try hard not to admit it, not to show it, but they need it.”

How often, over the years, my siblings and I tried to assert our independence, trying hard to hide the fact that we needed dad’s help or advice, yet he was always there to share his knowledge, skills and wisdom with us.

As we continue to honor Our Lady during this centenary year of her apparitions at Fatima, let’s also thank God for St. Joseph, and for our own fathers, who faithfully fulfilled their vocation in the heart of our families, whether they are still with us or have already passed on from this life to the Father’s house.

Sister Constance Veit, lsp, is director of communications for the Little Sisters of the Poor.

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Self-help is a choice

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ne of the most important things you can do to improve your mental health, and strengthen your spiritual life is to find a way to fill your mind with uplifting thoughts because the thoughts you wallow in today, will always filter down into your feelings tomorrow. Terminate panic, eliminate selfpity and focus on joy.

Uplifting spiritual thoughts will liberate you from a good bit of mental misery. Toxic thoughts, on the other hand, will always make you feel sad. So much emotional pain is the direct FATHER JOHN result of fear. But Jesus said, CATOIR “Fear is useless, what you need it trust.”

We all know that you can reduce negativity by the simple act of counting your blessings. Make a habit of filling your mind with uplifting ideas. Jesus said, “In this world you will have many troubles, but take heart, and cheer up, for I have overcome the world.”

Everyone has the power to change the bad habit of being gloomy. Dorothy Day called it the “duty of delight.” But how do you do it? Follow me closely on this. The mind only has room for one set of thoughts at a time. If you decide to think good thoughts, the toxic ones will have no room to fester.

Healing can begin the minute you decide to move out of the self-imposed mental swamp that drags you down. You can’t be discouraged if it takes a bit of time. Gaining control is like turning off the furnace of an overheated building. The furnace may be off, but the heat only fades away gradually.

Here’s another mental trick. Do not identify with your thoughts. You are not your thoughts. You are the observer of your thoughts. A suicidal obsession is an evil intruder. Cast it out! When you start slipping into a dark state of mind, stop it. Say “No!” Dis-identify with those negative thoughts.

You are a child of God, destined for an eternity of happiness in heaven. Live your life by faith. Don’t give in to morbid sulking. Terminate that lazy mental discipline, which steals your joy.

Holding on to hurtful thoughts will only perpetuate the pain; therefore reject sad ideas, especially memories that make you cry. Cast them aside. The

will says yes or no. Do not let the past drag you down.

I’ve been writing books on this subject for over 35 years, and I’m still working on it; so I know it won’t be easy. But the need for mental discipline is acknowledged by every religion in the world, and by science as well. Persevere! Faith can make a difference. Turn to the Lord, and ask for help. You are never alone.

God is right there helping you every step of the way Poisonous thoughts will hang around only when you do nothing to dispel them. Pray for the grace to live in the present moment. Instead of wallowing in the past, or worrying about the future, let your eyes, your ears, and all your senses work for you.

Good music can rock you out of a funk. I prefer Dave Brubeck, but I enjoyed the hard rock band Shinedown. Their song “Be a Simple Man” touched me. Here are a few lyrics: “Take your time, be a simple man, don’t live too fast. Find love and don’t forget the one above.” Ah yes, wisdom comes from many sources.

May the Lord be your strength and your joy.

Father Catoir is a priest and canon lawyer of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey.

‘Let your yes mean yes’: Honesty with God and others

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achel Gardner has a bad habit: She says yes when she ought to say no.

A friend will ask to do lunch on Wednesday.

“I say, ‘of course,’” Rachel recounts, “and in my head, I can see my totally squashed schedule.”

The friend asks if noon works.

“I say, ‘Sounds great,’ knowing I have something at 1:30 p.m.,” Rachel confesses.

Then comes the moment she knows she should leave their lunch, but she hesitates to cut the time short – “time I didn’t have in the first place.”

Christina So she stays 10 minutes Capecchi longer, which means, fast as she may drive, she cannot make up that time, she cannot pull off an impossible magic trick, and now she is 10 minutes late to her next commitment. All the while her chest is constricting, stuck in that torture chamber between the odometer and the clock – left, right, left, right, tick, tock, tick tock.

“I’ve been in that place a million times,” said Rachel, a Catholic young adult from Austin, Texas.

That feeling of mounting pressure is so familiar

that it compelled her to blog about it earlier this month.

The truth emerged: “I’m not staying with my friend because I’m being really loving. I’m staying because I’m anxious about saying, ‘Hey, I have to go.’”

The behavior, she determined, stems from a faulty belief that her friend can’t handle a no, that Rachel is that important. “It’s taken me a while to learn that no one benefits when you overbook yourself,” she said.

The crux of her blog post was Matthew 5:37, a Scripture verse she turned into an Instagram doodle with Sharpies and pretty cursive, punctuated with arrows and underlines: “Let your ‘yes’ mean ‘yes,’ and your ‘no’ mean ‘no.’ Anything more is from the evil one.”

“We’re up against a lot right now as young adults,” Rachel said. It’s not just the number of invitations and expectations; it’s the pace at which they arrive.

“In our now-generation, everyone expects an answer immediately.”

Giving herself time to respond helps. Sometimes that means ignoring the ever-urgent ping of a text.

For important decisions, she waits it out “one day and one Mass.”

Rachel was on a retreat in college when she first heard this truism: “When you say yes to one thing, you say no to another.” She says her mind was “blown.”

Now she tries to pause and consider what necessary

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“It was a great decision. Not only did I then have a realistic work load, but that semester became a huge turning point in my faith life. Who knows how much time I would have lost reading really worthy autobiographies while my own living autobiography laid idle?”

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Sunday readings

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity EXODUS 34:4B-6, 8-9 Early in the morning Moses went up Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, taking along the two stone tablets. Having come down in a cloud, the Lord stood with Moses there and proclaimed his name, “Lord.” Thus the Lord passed before him and cried out, “The Lord, the Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity.” Moses at once bowed down to the ground in worship. Then he said, “If I find favor with you, O Lord, do come along in our company.

This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and receive us as your own.”

PSALM: DANIEL 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56 Glory and praise forever!

Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever; and blessed is your holy and glorious name, praiseworthy and exalted above all for all ages.

Glory and praise forever!

Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory, praiseworthy and glorious above all forever.

Glory and praise forever!

Blessed are you on the throne of your king-

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Blessed are you who look into the depths from your throne upon the cherubim, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever.

Glory and praise forever!

2 CORINTHIANS 13:11-13 Brothers and sisters, rejoice. Mend your ways, encourage one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the holy ones greet you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

JOHN 3:16-18 God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

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he Gospel passage from John suggests that being saved means we actively believe in God as proof that we are not condemned: “Whoever does not believe has already been condemned.”

Mothers read about condemnation of unbelievers and get distressed.

They feel anguish about the children they raised Catholic who no longer practice their religion, or profess any formal belief at all. Will they go to heaven?

Parents wonder what they did wrong. They typically argue their children’s case before God. “They don’t go to church, but my children love me. They help me. My children are so fair-minded and attentive, and are raissister Eloise their kids so beautifulRosenblatt, RSM ing ly. They work hard, and are completely unselfish and

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Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, June 12: 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.

Tuesday, June 13: Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, priest and doctor of the Church. 2 Cor 1:18-22. Ps 119:129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135. Mt 5:16. Mt 5:13-16.

Wednesday, June 14: 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.

Thursday, June 15: Thursday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 Cor 3:15—4:1, 3-6. Ps 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14. Jn 13:34. Mt 5:20-26.

Friday, June 16: Friday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 Cor 4:7-15. Ps 116:10-11, 15-16, 17-18. Phil 2:15d, 16a. Mt 5:27-32.

Saturday, June 17: Saturday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 Cor 5:14-21. Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12. Ps 119:36a, 29b. Mt 5:33-37.

Sunday, June 18: Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a. Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20. 1 Cor 10:16-17. Jn 6:51. Jn 6:51-58.

Monday, June 19: Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Romuald, abbot. 2 Cor 6:1-10. Ps 98:1, 2b, 3ab, 3cd-4. Ps 119:105. Mt 5:38-42.

Tuesday, June 20: Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 2 Cor 8:1-9. Ps 146:2, 5-6ab, 6c7, 8-9a. Jn 13:34. Mt 5:43-48.

Wednesday, June 21: Memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, religious. 2 Cor 9:6-11. Ps 112:1bc-2, 3-4, 9. Jn 14:23. Mt 6:1-6, 16-18.

Thursday, June 22: Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Paulinus of Nola, bishop and confessor. Optional Memorial of Sts. John Fisher, bishop and martyr and Thomas More, martyr. 2 Cor 11:1-11. Ps 111:1b-2, 3-4, 7-8. Rom 8:15bc. Mt 6:7-15.

Friday, June 23: Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Dt 7:6-11. Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 10. 1 Jn 4:7-16. Mt 11:29ab. Mt 11:25-30.

Saturday, June 24: Solemnity of the Birth of St. John the Baptist. Immaculate Heart of Mary. Is 49:16. Ps 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15. Acts 13:22-26.

See Lk 1:76. Lk 1:57-66, 80.

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generous, honest and reliable. They volunteer for projects that help the poor and protect the environment.

They help their neighbors whenever they get in a jam.”

This moment in Exodus 34 takes place after people’s earlier, disastrous rejection of God’s commandments. It caused Moses to smash the first set of stone tablets in frustration. But God commands Moses to prepare a second set of stone tablets, and once again ascend Sinai.

God comes down in a cloud, and Moses hears the mysterious revelation that consoles him after his failure: “The Lord, the Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity.” Is God speaking directly to Moses, or is the “voice” coming from the universe? There is a sense of dislocation. Where is the revelation of God’s truest nature coming from? Moses understands that God is not angry at him or at the people for their earlier rejection of God’s directives.

Moses apologizes and makes excuses for his people. “This is indeed a stiff-necked people.” Dominican Father Bernard Couroyer of the École Biblique in Jerusalem, was the original translator of the Book of Exodus for the Jerusalem Bible, and I had the privilege to know this kindly, reverent scholar as a graduate student. Well into his 80s, he did a short article on “stiff-necked,” citing several ancient languages, and concluded the term meant literally “unable to bend one’s ear toward a speaker,” or “unable to hear or listen.”

Did Moses pray to God like a loving parent, unable to criticize his people’s stubbornness? Instead, did he offer a lot of excuses for why they were unable to listen, couldn’t hear and thus couldn’t obey?

They are sad and grieving over all they had to leave behind. They are distracted and burdened by so many cares for their children. Their ears are so ringing with the busy-ness and noise it takes to survive they can’t distinguish your voice. They can’t bend because so many other

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They feel angry at what you seem to have allowed and they aren’t ready for any conversation about it. Or they have forgotten what your voice sounds like and wonder why you would even be thinking of them after so long a time. They feel overwhelmed-- they have done everything they know how to do, and if this isn’t enough, what more could you ask?

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“Think about here in Rome in the midst of war. How many, beginning with Pius XII, took risks to hide Jews so that they wouldn’t be killed, so that they wouldn’t be deported! They risked their skin!

But it was a work of mercy to save the lives of those people!” he said.

The pope’s homily focused on the day’s first reading, from the Book of Tobit, which tells how the author, one of many Israelites in exile, mourns the death of an unknown kinsman who was murdered and buries him, an act forbidden at the time in Assyria.

A work of mercy, like the one performed by Tobit, isn’t just a “good deed so that I can be calmer, so that I can take a weight off,” but it is a way of “sympathizing with the pain of others,” the pope said.

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Hispanic youth vigil: A vigil for Hispanic youth was held May 26 in the convent of the Oblate Sisters of Jesus the Priest at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park. The vigil featured Father Anthony McGuire speaking about V Encuentro, a four-year process of ecclesial reflection and action in Catholic parishes across the U.S. with preliminary organizing under way in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The vigil was coordinated by Cecilia Arias-Rivas of the archdiocesan office of Latino/ Hispanic ministry and the Oblate Sisters of Jesus the Priest. The vigil gathered parishioners from St. Dominic, San Francisco; St. Anthony, Menlo Park; Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Redwood City; Church of the Epiphany, San Francisco; St. Matthew, San Mateo; and St. Paul of the Shipwreck, San Francisco; as well from churches in Gilroy, Modesto and San Jose.

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Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose celebrate jubilees in 2017 75 years

Sister Claudine Hammer, OP, served at San Francisco’s St. James School and ICA Cristo Rey. Since 2007 she has lived at the sisters’ Fremont motherhouse.

Sister Teresa Bauman, OP, served at San Francisco’s St. Boniface School and ICA Cristo Rey. Since 2008 she has lived at the sisters’ Fremont motherhouse.

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Sister Eileen Hinsberger, OP, served at San Francisco’s St. Anthony School and currently is on the pastoral staff of St. Robert Bellarmine Parish in Burbank.

Sister Rose Marie Hennessy, OP, was born in San Francisco and currently serves as administrator of the sisters’ Fremont motherhouse. Sister Rose Marie served as superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Oakland for 15 years and as prioress of her congregation for 10 years.

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Sister Pauline Bouton, OP, served at San Francisco’s ICA Cristo Rey and currently serves on her congregation’s vocation promotion team.

Sister Johnellen Turner, OP, served as principal of San Francisco’s St. Anthony School and currently is principal of St. Catherine’s Academy in Anaheim.

Sister Sandra Rees, OP, served at San Francisco’s St. James School and currently serves at St. Catherine’s Academy in Anaheim.

Sister Celeste Marie Botello, OP, is a former principal of San Francisco’s St. James School and is currently principal of Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy.

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LIVESTREAMING: The communications office of the archdiocese now livestreams many Masses and events from St. Mary’s Cathedral. Dates and times of the live broadcasts will be announced in Catholic San Francisco and the recorded event videos are stored on the archdiocesan YouTube channel available from the ADSF website www.sfarchdiocese.org. Just click the YouTube icon at the top of every page of the website.

LIVESTREAMING: The ordinations to the priesthood of Deacon Michael Liliedahl and Deacon Alvin Yu will be available for viewing live beginning at 10 a.m. from St. Mary’s Cathedral.

The broadcast Rev. Mr. Michael continues the D. Liliedahl livestreaming work of the communications office of the archdiocese which so far has included more than halfdozen liturgies from the cathedral. The recorded Rev. Mr. event videos are Alvin A. Yu stored and can be viewed from the archdiocesan YouTube channel available from the ADSF website www. sfarchdiocese.org. Just click the YouTube icon at the top of every page of the website. More than 1,000 faithful have already shared in the funeral Mass of Archbishop George Niederauer celebrated

THURSDAY, JUNE 8 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo, new members welcome.

Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@ yahoo.com.

SATURDAY, JUNE 17 OPUS DEI MASS: The feast of St Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, will be celebrated with Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11 a.m. All are welcome. Menlough Study Center, (650) 327-1675, www.opusdei.org

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FILIPINO FESTIVAL: KalayaanSF Outdoor Festival U B L andIConcert, C Union A T I OWEDNESDAY, N SJUNE 21 Square, San Francisco, noon-8 p.m. with street and main stage entertainment from different Philippine regions.

DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes Philippine products and cuisine will be place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 available for sale. Visit www.Kalayp.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, aanSF.com; Facebook.com/Kalay23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San FranaanSF; info@kalayaanSF.com. cisco, Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese, drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

MONDAY, JUNE 19 2-NIGHT WINDOWS TOUR: St. Dominic Church beautiful stained glass windows June 19 and June 26, 7 p.m., 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San

FRIDAY, JUNE 23 SHRINE MERCY NIGHT: The National

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 LEGATUS MEETING: The evening begins with Mass at 6 p.m. and the availability of confession from 5:30, St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, 180 Harrison Ave., Sausalito. A cocktail reception Raymond Arroyo at 7 p.m. then dinner and presentation by EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo at 7:30, at The Spinnaker, 100 Spinnaker Drive, Sausalito.

Legatus is looking to establish a San Francisco chapter. Are you a Catholic business leader who is interested in meeting with likeminded peers on a monthly basis to study, live, and spread the faith? Legatus members believe in the teachings of the Catholic Church and are dedicated to supporting the magisterium of the church. Melissa Jagel, mjagel@ legatus.org, (818) 257-3340. Visit www.legatus.org for membership requirements.

Shrine of St Francis, 600 Vallejo St. at Columbus, San Francisco hosts an evening of quiet prayer and reflection, in a beautiful worship space with contemplative music. Anyone seeking God’s presence is welcome. Confession and adoration are available as well as prayer teams to pray with or for you. www.bit.ly/sfmercy.

NFP PICNIC: NFP Friends and Family Picnic, St. Raymond Parish, Menlo Park hosts the annual Mass and picnic for those interested in natural family planning, beginning with 10 a.m. bi-lingual Mass, Father Larry Goode, principal celebrant, followed by potluck

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SUNDAY, JUNE 25 BLOCK PARTY: Come join the neighborhood fun at St. Francis Center “Building Block Party,” 2500-2600 blocks of Marlborough Avenue, Redwood City, noon-5 p.m., food, drinks, and live entertainment by Caravanserai!

THURSDAY, JUNE 29 EXTRAORDINARY FORM: Mass with Gregorian chant commemorating the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Our Lady of the Pillar Church, 400 Church St., Half Moon Bay, 7 p.m.

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SATURDAY, JULY 1 PEACE MASS: St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, east Palo Alto, 9 a.m., Father Lawrence Goode, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@ gmail.com.

SATURDAY, JULY 8 RUMMAGE SALE: St. Matthew School auditorium, Ninth Avenue and El Camino Real, San Mateo, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., benefitting San Mateo Pro-Life.

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HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865; www.Handicapables.com.

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Salary is commensurate with experience and education and is in accordance with Archdiocesan guidelines. English/Spanish bilingual essential; must be able to work with the Spanish speaking community.

Interested candidates should send a resume and cover letter to Music Director Search, 1104 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael, CA 94901 or email frloi@saintraphael.com.

St. Louis University High School seeking applications for the position of: PRESIDENT St. Louis University High is a Jesuit Catholic, college preparatory school with an enrollment of approximately 1050 male students.

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The Part Time Administrative Assistant’s primary responsibility is to provide logistical support and coordination to the Department of Catholic Schools, ensuring the installation of appropriate systems and tools for the team’s success. Specifically, the position is responsible for providing assistance to the associate superintendents, providing general office management, and meeting and event coordination.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Support the Associate Superintendent for Secondary Schools & Student Services • Screen and redirect phone calls for the associate superintendent by passing them on to the appropriate person or taking a message • Meet daily with the associate superintendent to review daily activities and issues • Complete the associate superintendent’s expense reports, arrange travel plans and itineraries • Work with the Associate Superintendent for Secondary Schools & Student Services to manage the I-20 International Student program • Coordinate with the office manager & associate superintendent to ensure all compliance documents are turned in on time • Reserve meeting room space and hospitality for all meetings run by the Associate Superintendent for Secondary Schools & Student Services and the Associate Superintendent for Catholic Identity & Governance • Support the associate superintendent with registration, confirmation emails and materials for workshops such as the High School president & principal meetings, High School Convocation Day, and Secondary WCEA trainings • Maintains discretion and confidentiality at all times • Cover for the Full Time Administrative Assistant & Office Manager in her absence • Other duties as requested by the office manager Qualifications: • A believing and practicing Catholic.

• Ability to organize, plan, think creatively, develop and administer programs.

• Skills in the application of computer software and technologies to support communications.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent relationship skills

PLEASE SUBMIT RESUME, COVER LETTER AND 2 REFERENCES TO: Patrick Schmidt, Associate Director, Office of Human Resources, Archdiocese of San Francisco E-mail: schmidtp@sfarchdiocese.org Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Parish and Parish-School Bookkeeper Part-Time services to be provided by Independent Consultant or Bookkeeping Provider

Responsibilities

• Record and account for all transactions in the general ledger; Disbursements/payments and Cash Receipts • Monthly reconciliation of Bank statements and account reconciliations • Payroll Administration • Some data entry • Gift and donation tracking and reporting • Prepare monthly financial statements for Pastor/ Principal and Finance Council • Cash Flow analysis and projections • Work with Pastor/Principal to prepare annual budget • Prepare annual Parish Financial report for Archdiocese

Qualifications/Attributes:

• Accuracy • Reliability

• Knowledge of internal controls and segregation of duties • Strong working knowledge of Church and Fund accounting • Proficiency with QuickBooks or other similar on-line accounting software • Strong experience with MS Office and Excel • BS in accounting, business or equivalent • Comfortable in a Catholic work environment

Interested, independent applicants should send their qualifications and cover letter to: Rodney Yee, Manager, Parish and School Support, yeer@sfarch.org