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The mercy-filled life: Mother Teresa embodied what Pope Francis teaches Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – If there is one person who immersed herself in the “peripheries” Pope Francis is drawn to, it was Blessed Teresa of Kolkata. If there was one who showed courage and creativity in bringing God’s mercy to the world, like Pope Francis urges, it was the diminutive founder of the Missionaries of Charity. For many people, the Catholic Church’s Year of Mercy will reach its culmination when Pope Francis canonizes Mother Teresa Sept. 4, recognizing the holiness of charity, mercy and courage found in a package just 5-feet tall. Ken Hackett, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, worked closely with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity in his previous positions at the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services. He was at her funeral in 1997, her beatification in 2003 and will attend the Mass where she will be declared a saint. “Where Mother pushed the Missionaries of Charity was to the edge, to the most difficult places,” said the ambassador, who said he visited her houses “all the time, everywhere.” “They were always way out there, see mother teresa, page 12

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Missionaries to bus homeless, youth to canonization Mass Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

When the 13 sisters of the Missionaries of Charity convent in Pacifica arrive by bus at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Sept. 4 for a Mass celebrating the canonization of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, some of the homeless and poor they minister will be on board with them. “We’ve been working on inviting migrant families, young people and others to join us in pilgrimage

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to Holy Doors at the cathedral and attend the thanksgiving Mass,” said Sister Maria Concepcion, local superior of the convent. These include members of Our Lady of Refuge Mission in La Honda and St. Anthony Mission in Pescadero. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is celebrating an 11 a.m. Mass on the morning of the Blessed Teresa’s canonization in Rome. The soon-to-be new saint founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 to care for the “poorest of the poor.”

The Pacifica convent is headquarters for the Western Province of the Missionaries of Charity on the grounds of Good Shepherd parish. The sisters’ outreach includes an AIDS hospice, a home for unwed mothers and the novitiate for all the Americas. The sisters also feed and minister to the homeless in San Francisco. An exhibit on the life of Blessed Teresa will take place in the cathedral’s event center, St. Francis Hall, as follows from Aug. 27-Sept. 3.

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Catholic leaders say they are powerless to stop a growing number of extrajudicial killings that have come with President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. “What I predicted is happening, and the church is powerless to stop the killings,” Redemptorist Father Amado Picardal, head of the Philippine bishops’ Commission for Basic Ecclesial Communities, told ucanews.com. He said the killings are “already unstoppable,” adding that some church leaders are losing hope. Father Picardal, who has linked the president to a death squad allegedly responsible for the killings of more than 1,400 people, warned of “dark prospects” for the Philippines following Duterte’s election in May. During his campaign for the presidency, Duterte vowed to stop criminality, especially the illegal drugs trade, and corruption in the first six months of his term, warning that his administration would be a “bloody” one. Ucanews.com reported estimates of more than 600 people killed since Duterte was elected in May; 211 of those were murdered by unidentified gunmen. Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan, president of the bishops’ conference, appealed to Filipinos’ sense of humanity amid the killings. He said he was “in utter disbelief,” adding that the killings “are too much to swallow.” “There is a little voice of humanity in us that I believe is disturbed by the killings,” the archbishop said in a statement read in churches in his archdiocese in early August. He said the “voice of disturbed humanity is drowned out by the louder voice of revenge or silenced by the sweet privileges of political clout.”

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Need to know CANONIZATION COVERAGE: Ceremonies for the canonization of Mother Teresa in Rome will be broadcast Sept. 4 on EWTN. Consult www.ewtn. com for times and details. Find EWTN at Comcast 229 (English), 659 (Spanish); AT&T 562 (English), 3077 (Spanish); Astound 80, San Bruno; Cable 143; DISH 261; DIRECT TV 370. St. Gabriel 75th anniversary: All friends, alumni, former parishioners, current parishioners and neighbors of St. Gabriel Parish are invited to attend anniversary festivities planned for Sept. 18-25. Festivities start Sunday, Sept. 18, with a parish picnic to be held at Pine Lake Park in San Francisco. The picnic starts at 11 a.m. and the cost is $7 for adults and $2 for children. Saturday evening, Sept. 24, a dinner will be held in Bedford Hall, 41st Avenue and Ulloa Street, at 6 p.m., with dancing to follow, and a silent auction; $75 per person. The dinner ticket order form is on the St. Gabriel website. An anniversary Mass will be celebrated Sunday, Sept. 25, at noon, at St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue and Ulloa Street, with a reception to follow in Bedford Hall. For more information contact the Parish Center at (415) 731-6161. St. Dominic appeals for return of stolen relic: San Dominic Parish in San Francisco is seeking the return of a treasured relic stolen from a glass display case in the church on Aug. 18. The relic is believed to be a fragment of the true cross. “We hope that whoever is responsible has spent enough time with it and will put it in an envelope addressed to Dominican Father Hurley and leave it anywhere in the church,” said parish administrator Michael Rossi. MHR’s Reconnecting Program: The program at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco is open to anyone who wishes to feel more connected to an inclusive spiritual community. Prior participants have been: (1) Young Catholics who may not have a strong religious background; or (2) adults who have been away from the church, but want to renew their Catholic ties; or (3) those who already attend Mass but want to draw closer to their faith. There is an annual Reconnecting Picnic for those who have participated in the program. The fall 2016 program begins on Saturday, Oct. 1. Email reconnecting@mhr.org.

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Acting San Francisco police chief Toney Chaplin endorsed the idea of supplying lists of neighborhood faith leaders for each police station at the San Francisco Interfaith Council on Aug. 11. “I think it’s a fantastic idea,” Chaplin said in response to a suggestion that police stations be supplied with lists of neighborhood churches and congregations. Every captain has a book he gives to the watch commanders, “a ready reference guide,” Chaplin said. “It is who you can go to immediately as soon as there is a crisis. I think it is fantastic idea and quite frankly I don’t think it has ever been done.” “You have always been the rock in these communities,” Chaplin said in his presentation to the crowded room at Calvary Presbyterian Church. He said all groups and coalitions need to work together. “We have all been working but in different spaces and silos. Imagine what we can do if we all linked arms and joined forces and pulled in the same direction.” Chaplin, a 26-year police veteran, was deputy chief of the Professional Standards and Principled Policing Bureau when Mayor Ed Lee appointed him interim chief in May after three fatal police shootings in six months led former police chief, Greg Suhr, to tender his resignation. “There’s a lot of people who stand behind us and support us, contrary to popular belief. But we don’t just work for 96 percent of the city,” he said at the briefing for faith leaders.

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Changes in police policies and training on use of force, including implementing the “time and distance” approach and the roll out of body cameras, have made a difference already, he said. He also said the department has stepped up recruitment among young African Americans, including placing a full-page ad in Black College Monthly, which is distributed to historically black colleges in the country. He encouraged those present to recruit the kind of people they would like to see as police officers. Under prodding from G.L. Hodges, chair of the interfaith council and a member of Providence Baptist Church, Chaplin described how police used the “time and distance” approach to recently successfully defuse a standoff with a man who was waving a loaded gun in the middle of the day at Market and Jones streets, surrounded by a crowd that was egging him on. “They would have been perfectly justified in shooting this individual but they didn’t,” Chaplin said of the officers. “They saved that gentleman’s life.” The officers separated the man from the crowd, creating a barrier, eventually shooting him with bean bags and coming in to surround him with shields, tackling him. His family was very grateful, Chaplin said, saying the situation was unbearably hostile with a crowd that used so much profanity that news cameras were turned off. The man had suffered a brain injury as a child and each year near the anniversary of his brother’s death displayed mental distress, Chaplin said, but police knew none of that at the time.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated Mass for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Korean Catholic Church in San Francisco on Aug. 13 at St. Michael Korean Catholic Church. Bishop Linus Seong Hyo Lee concelebrated the Mass.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated Mass Aug. 13 for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Korean Catholic Church in San Francisco. The San Francisco Korean Catholic community was the first established in the United States, the archbishop noted in his homily at Mass at St. Michael Korean Catholic Church. “What a blessing and a boast for us here in San Francisco that this historical moment took place here in our city, in this archdiocese,” Archbishop Cordileone told the packed church on Broad Street. Bishop Linus Seong Hyo Lee, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Suwon, concelebrated the Mass. The Korean Catholic Church was begun by “a lay Catholic Yi Seunhunm, who went to Beijing in 1784 and was baptized there, and then returned to Korea to spread his new faith and baptize others.” Five years later when the first priest was able to secretly enter the country from China he “found some 4,000 Catholics, none of whom had ever seen a priest,” the archbishop recounted. Within less than a century 10,000 Korean Catholics were martyred, he said. He said Korean Catholics have much to teach the world “about the role and vocation of the laity in spreading the good news of Jesus Christ.” He added, “I am grateful for the presence of so many Korean Catholics and other Asians in our archdiocese. You still understand the importance of family cohesion and unity, a witness we desperately need today.”

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Nickolai, (415) 760-6584; Chris Ronan, (650) 745-6330. LOTSA PASTA: The Knights of Columbus are cooking up a “Spaghetti and Bingo” fundraiser benefiting San Francisco’s Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center Sept. 17 at the Pomeroy facility on Skyline Boulevard. Doors open 11:30 a.m., lunch at noon, games begin a little later. Tickets are $30 and checks can be mailed to KOC Foundation, 2810 Taraval St., 94116. Marian Mann, (415) 810-2957, has details.

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Above the hoopla of a fall gala will be heard the more than 30 years of service put forth by Yvonne Sangiacomo for the Little Sisters of the Poor and the elderly served at St. Anne’s Home in San Francisco. The Sept. 15 event Yvonne honors Yvonne, “a Sangiacomo friend, volunteer and benefactor to St. Anne’s Home since the 1980s,” the sisters said in a note to this column. Yvonne will be presented with the St. Jeanne Jugan award named for the founder of the Little Sisters and recognizing one who “values the solidarity of the human family, the wisdom of age, and with kindness of heart embraces the importance of care for the elderly.” “Yvonne is known to many as the founder of the Little Sisters’ Red Tie Gala, but Yvonne has been so much more than that,” the sisters said. “ She has consistently, for over three decades, worked alongside the Little Sisters to help keep alive their legacy of care for the elderly, started in San Francisco in 1901. Yvonne has understood well that the mission of the Little Sisters was founded with full faith in community - community living, community support, and community prayer. She knows that funds are always needed to help make ends meet, but that it is not funds alone that give breadth to their work. It is the hand lent and the heart opened to daily needs, it is the hospitality shared and the willingness to serve as ambassador to their mission that propels their vision and keeps it vibrant and significant in a changing world.” Visit www.littlesistersofthepoorsf.org for event details. FESTIVAL FUN: ‘Tis the time for

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GENTLE WOMEN: With some 60 years between them as teachers at Notre Dame des Victoires School, Roberta Renzi and Jeanne Mazeris have bid farewell to the San Francisco school. Roberta is retiring after 36 years of teaching kindergarten. “Mrs. Renzi has created a learning program for our earliest learners that challenges and motivates them to explore as they develop a love of reading and learning,” the school said in a note to this column. Jeanne has been kindergarten through third grade French teacher for 23 years. “She provided our children with a strong foundation in the beautiful French language,” the school said. The educators were honored June 5 at a Mass and reception at Notre Dame des Victoires.

MERCY MELODY: All Souls School soon to be eighth grader Olivia Williams turned to Motown to help phrase her “Mercy, mercy me, let’s help SVdP” essay that took first prize in this year’s Youth Essay Contest sponsored by St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County. The late Marvin Gaye’s song of the same name as well as his “What’s Going On” rang a bell with her. “People today seem to forget to look at what’s going on outside their own lives. We see people need our help but we don’t help and we put our needs first always,” she wrote. Deacon Martin Schurr, SVdP restorative justice jail chaplain, presented the award. Our Lady of Angels School festival featuring two days of rides, games, entertainment, prizes food and a silent auction, Sept. 9, 6-10 p.m. and Sept. 10, 2-11 p.m. A “Dine with the Angels” dinner with musical enter-

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RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES: Just a note on what is happening nearby and with us in mind: Sept. 3 and most first Saturdays Mass is celebrated at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m. Newly ordained Father Cameron Faller, is this month’s principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 756-2060, www.holycrosscemeteries. com. The series on Mercy continues Sept, 25 with Vivian Clausing, program director, Catherine’s Place, as presenter, 2340 Turk Blvd., San Francisco, 2-4:15 p.m. with talk, refreshments, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the final hour. Registration required, conrottor@ sfarch.org, (415) 614-5535. Also Sept. 25, Good Shepherd Gracenter’s “A Taste of Autumn,” www.gsgracenter.org. St. Francis of Assisi is honored Oct. 3 with Transitus as Secular Franciscans of Our Lady of Angels Fraternity, Burlingame, commemorate the Transitus of St. Francis of Assisi in his passage from earthly life into everlasting life, 7 p. m. Oct. 15 learn about secular Franciscans at Our Lady of Angels Fraternity, Burlingame, 9-10 a.m., Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Drive, lower hall on Cortez Avenue. See how Secular Franciscans live joyfully in the world and celebrate God’s creation in the spirit of peace, humility, and simplicity. For both events Diane Creedon, (650) 6786449; dianecreedon@sbcglobal.net. Email items and electronic pictures – jpegs at no less than 300 dpi to burket@ sfarchdiocese.org or mail to Street, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. Include a follow-up phone number. Street is toll-free. My phone number is (415) 614-5634.

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Local Catholic grade schools revamp to ‘21st-century’ exams Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Put away those No. 2 pencils. What has been a September ritual for Catholic elementary school students is undergoing a 21stcentury revamp this year in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This year all parish elementary schools will adopt Renaissance STAR 360 for year-round standardized testing. Students will take mathematics and English language arts tests with adaptive computer software, as the Department of Catholic Schools discards the fill-in-the-bubble Iowa Standardized Testing used for decades. St. Brigid and St. Thomas More schools, which report directly to the Department of Catholic Schools, will also make the change. “The biggest help is going to be for our students who struggle,” said Pamela Lyons, assistant superintendent for faith formation and curriculum. “You can really see where they struggle and then get lesson ideas to help those students. I think that’s going to be great.” “In the past all of our schools have done the Iowa test,” Lyons said. “It gave us a snapshot, at that day in September, this is what that student can do. We

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assistant superintendent for faith formation and curriculum got no further consistent data until the following September. What if a student has a bad day that day? We needed to move to something better.” The STAR test is different than the Iowa test because depending on how the student answers a question, the next question will become either harder or easier. The goal is to find out what the student does know. STAR testing is already used by most Catholic dioceses in California, including the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Diocese of Oakland, Lyons said. Instead of once a year testing in September, the schools will test students in September, January and May. The tests will be shorter – about 20 minutes each, she said. The data will inform teachers about what their class grasps and where the class as a whole and individuals are academically. All archdiocesan elementary schools will also adopt SchoolSpeak Lite to track student and teacher

contact information and demographic data. The two systems work hand-in-hand so that STAR results are compiled and shared with the administration using the information provided about students by SchoolSpeak. Some schools are already using the expanded version of SchoolSpeak for attendance, gradebooks and other school tasks, Lyons said. This year the Department of Catholic Schools is mandating that all diocesan elementary schools use SchoolSpeak Lite which will give the Schools Department information on students, contact information and ethnicity and other demographic data, and information on teachers, including their contact information. Until now, the only information the central administration of archdiocesan Catholic schools had were principals’ contact information. All other teacher and any student data was in files in boxes and on handwritten sheets of paper that were intermittently updated and kept in a file room, Lyons said. “It is bringing us into the 21st century,” Lyons said. “We see testing, page 12

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St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco is on a mission to bring “lapsed Catholics” and those outside the faith into a friendly, no-holds-barred conversation with the church through a new outreach program called Emmaus. Emmaus is a series of four evening drop-in sessions facilitated by lay members of the church from Aug. 4-25. It offers Catholics estranged from their faith, the “unchurched” and the simply curious opportunity to learn why Catholics believe the things they do and to ask questions in an open, confidential environment. For some, it could be a “gateway to belief,” said St. Dominic pastor Dominican Father Michael Hurley. “We wanted to find a way to reach out to people without impediments or prerequisites and meet them where they are,” Father Hurley told Catholic San Francisco after a group meeting Aug. 11. Participants at that session in-

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People who identify themselves as “not affiliated” with any church or religion are a fast-rising “denomination,” Father Hurley said. Within that group, he said, non-practicing Catholics make up a significant number. These are not the same people who would seek out Landings, a parish ministry for Catholics who have had a negative experience with the church. More often, Catholics simply “go adrift” in a secular culture or because

their childhood religious education failed to translate in adulthood, Father Hurley said. After discussing the goals of Emmaus earlier this year with a team of four parishioners who would become session leaders, Father Hurley urged Massgoers to invite friends and family members. “We all know someone who is not practicing their faith,” he said. The Christian principles of “spirituality,” “conscience,” “forgiveness” and “prayer” are the cornerstones of Emmaus. The presentation is light on theology and church teaching and meant less to persuade than to invite inquiry of any kind. “Are tarot cards immoral or illegal in the Catholic Church?” asked a man who said he uses them to cultivate his intuition. Dominican Father Augustine Hilander, the clerical liaison for Emmaus, replied that the church view would be that tarot cards can’t explain the mystery of the soul. “Tarot cards work in the opposite direction, which says all the mystery is in the card,” he said. “We say it’s not in the card, but in the person.” The parish plans to repeat the Emmaus series several times although no dates have been set. For more information, email emmaus@stdominics.org.

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Legislation that would have violated the religious freedom of faith-based colleges in California is in the process of being rewritten and the California Catholic Conference expects to remove its opposition, a Catholic Conference official said. In its original language, SB 1146 would have jeopardized California financial aid grants for tens of thousands of Latino, African-American and low-income students because of onerous regulations purporting to protect LGBTQ students and employees from discrimination that would have required colleges to choose between accepting state financial aid or remaining independent. But a compromise reached between bill author Sen. Richard Lara, D-Bell Gardens, and the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, is expected to remove the restrictions and also to remove a newly added disclosure requirement that would also have impinged on the colleges’ independence, said Ray Burnell, education specialist for public policy arm of the California bishops. The added disclosure requirement would have mandated publicizing infractions of religious colleges’ codes of conduct. SB 1146 was co-authored by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, and was sponsored by Equality California and the ACLU. The acceptable language of the bill is expected to include a requirement that the faith-based colleges disclose that they are exempt from provisions of Title IX of federal law regulating higher education and therefore can require students and faculty to comply with campus regulations based on religious principles. Most already do and that was a proposal suggested by the Catholic conference. Existing California law exempts religious schools from nondiscrimination laws in cases where applying these laws “would not be consistent with the religious tenets of that organization.” The conference is waiting to see the language before it withdraws its objection but is optimistic that the new version will be acceptable, Burnell said. Valerie Schmalz, Catholic San Francisco

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Women could earn thousands of dollars for donating their eggs for research under legislation awaiting a vote on the floor of the state Senate – a change which the California Catholic Conference warns would increase exploitation of college students and poor young women looking for extra cash. AB 2531 also has the potential for encouraging abuse of trafficked women and immigrants who could be coerced into donating their oocytes, said Sandra Palacios, associate director for governmental affairs for the California Catholic Conference. The process of egg retrieval can be “very dangerous for women,” said Palacios, with documented cases of loss of fertility, organ failure and even rarely death. AB 2531 has already passed the Assembly and if passed by the state Senate would return to the Assembly for concurrence and then go to the governor for his signature. Two years ago California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a similar bill, writing “Not everything in life is for sale nor should it be.” Eggs extracted for reproductive purposes, to create babies via invitro fertilization, are already sold in a virtually unregulated market in the U.S. But California law and national guidelines prohibit payment beyond reimbursement for direct costs of egg extraction when the oocytes are used for research. The National Academy of Sciences 2010 guidelines state that “no payments, cash or in kind, should be provided for donating oocytes for research purposes.” In California, donor payments are limited by state laws enacted when Proposition 71 created the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, now part of the state constitution, to fund embryonic stem cell research after voters approved it in 2004. Those

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Burke says the bill will compensate women who donate eggs for research, saying, “It’s perfectly legal for a woman to get paid when advertising through Craigslist to provide eggs for infertile couples, but she can’t get paid for a donation in medical research,” said Burke. “It’s insulting to women, and it keeps California’s research institutions in the dark ages.” The use of drugs to hyper-stimulate the ovaries, particularly in the young women who are the prime candidates for egg donation or sale, can cause ovarian rupture, organ damage, renal failure and in rare cases even death, the Center for Genetics and Society’s executive director Marcy Darnovsky stated in a May 3 letter to the California State Senate Committee on Health.

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Pope: ‘Narrow gate’ hard to enter with bloated pride

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“In our dream to wipe out drug addiction, are we not becoming a ‘killing fields’ nation?” he asked. “I don’t have to be a bishop to say this. I do not have to be a Catholic to be disturbed by the killings that jar us every time we hear or watch or read the news,” Archbishop Villegas said. “From a generation of drug addicts, shall we become a generation of street murderers? (Can) the do-ityourself justice system assure us of a safer and better future?” he said. After three drug suspects were found murdered in the city of Tacloban in early August, Father Virgilio

Canete of Palo Archdiocese said the killings are “out of control.” The victims, two of them women, were shot several times. A crude sign that said “I am a pusher, Lord I am sorry” was placed next to the bodies. On Aug. 3, six people linked to a drug syndicate were killed in a police operation in the small town of Albuera in Leyte province. “Only the police and the president can stop the killings by declaring a moratorium,” said Father Canete. “The church cannot do anything now,” said the priest. “It had already warned of the consequences. Only those who started these bloodbaths can stop it.

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VATICAN CITY – The “narrow gate” to salvation described by Jesus isn’t narrow because God is oppressive, but because pride bloats Christians and prevents them from entering God’s merciful embrace, Pope Francis said. Christians “must seize the opportunities of salvation” and not waste time on trivial things before the gate is closed, the pope said before reciting the Angelus prayer Aug. 22. “If God is good and loves us, why does he close the gate at some point?” the pope asked visitors gathered in St. Peter’s Square. The reason, he said, is because “our life is not a video game or a soap opera; our life is serious and the goal to achieve is important: eternal salvation.”

Pakistan jail opens chapel for Christian prisoners

KARACHI, Pakistan – A chapel for Christian inmates has opened at Landhi Jail in this southern Pakistani city. Christian social activists and jail authorities jointly inaugurated the chapel Aug. 5, which was built with the help of a nongovernmental organization. About 100 of the 4,500 inmates in the jail are Christians, reported ucanews.com. Those incarcerated are awaiting trial or serving sentences for various crimes. The chapel was built near the jail mosque. Muhammad Hassan, a senior jail official, said all inmates are free to practice their faith.

Cardinal: Dialogue key in building communion

VATICAN CITY – Christians must never tire of seeking dialogue with others in order to promote mutual respect and forgiveness among people with different experiences and opinions, a Vatican official wrote on behalf of Pope Francis. In a message sent Aug. 19 to the Meeting in Rimini, an annual event sponsored by the Communion and Liberation movement, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, reflected on the importance of dialogue as placing “one’s self in the other’s shoes” while maintaining “the clar-

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CHABROUH, Lebanon – The issue of disability is still somewhat of a taboo in Lebanon, and families often experience shame when they have a child with a disability. Because the Lebanese government does not offer support for people with disabilities, many families resort to putting their family member into an institution, where there is little connection with the outside world. The Order of Malta Lebanon addresses this inadequacy by bringing together disabled people from institutional settings and volunteers to spend a week together at its center in Chabrouh for a camp. Each disabled “guest” is paired with a volunteer for complete care and attention. One of the aims of the Order of Malta Lebanon camp is to give guests “the love and respect they deserve and to give them back their humanity,” Patrick Jabre, project director for the Chabrouh camp, told Catholic News Service.

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SLIPPERY ROCK, Pennsylvania – When it came to championing the faith, G.K. Chesterton fought with “verve and passion, and panache” in his works, said Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles. He reflected a deep attitude of love and joy, the bishop said. “Every page of Chesterton is like a bottle of champagne.” Bishop Barron, an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, lauded the contributions of the English writer and journalist during the 35th Annual Conference of the American Chesterton Society in early August at Slippery Rock University. He addressed the audience of more than 300 via Skype in introducing his new series, “Catholicism: The Pivotal Players.” Catholic News Service

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Pax Christi urges prayer, study, action on abolishing nuclear weapons Tom Webb

This month we recall the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945. The horrific and devastating effects of the bombs encouraged Japan to request terms for surrender to end the four year conflict with the United States. But it also opened the door to the Cold War, and the expansive growth of nuclear stockpiles, especially in the U.S. and Russia. The end of the Cold War in 1989 led to some reduction of these stockpiles but it has not led to the abolition of these weapons. Contrary to the strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction, which has governed relations between nuclear powers since at least the early 1960s, this balance of power has not made the world safer. Rather, it has actually produced greater instability as the number of nuclearowning countries has grown to include North Korea, Pakistan, India and Israel. With the rise of terrorist organizations, grave concerns arise around the distinct possibility that such organizations will gain access to materials for their construction. In the 1980s the Vatican had held a nation could morally justify holding nuclear weapons, but only on the condition that abolition was the end result. In light of the developments since then, a new statement was issued by the U.N. in December 2014. The Vatican now argues that, contrary to its previously conditioned acceptance of these weapons, the state of world affairs requires their abolition. In the Vatican’s view, no nation is any longer morally justified in possessing nuclear weapons. The statement outlined several reasons for this stance. First, the expansion of nuclear-weapon- owning countries creates fundamental instability rather than security. Second, there exists a fundamental inequity between nuclear-weaponowing states and non-nuclear states. Those without nuclear weapons are

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Protesters at a Nagasaki Day demonstration at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore Aug. 9 carry a sign calling attention to the proposed trillion dollar cost of re-modernizing the American nuclear stockpile. The demonstrators were affiliated with Redwood City Catholic Worker/Pacific Life Community, which includes representatives of Catholic Worker communities on the West Coast, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. The event memorialized the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, at the end of World War II. vulnerable to threats and intimidation by nuclear-owning nations, and there is no international law against nuclear blackmail. Third, the conditions of extreme poverty, environmental problems, migration, military conflicts and other related concerns are exacerbated by expenditures in some countries for ongoing research, development and maintenance associated with these weapons. From an American perspective we may want to consider recent decisions by the Obama administration to approve plans to allocate $1 trillion over the next 30 years to modernize our current nuclear weapons stockpile of 15,000 warheads. Further, recent innovations like the tactical “dial-a-yield” bomb increase the likelihood that the threshold to nuclear war will be crossed. Pax Christi Northern California encourages Catholics throughout the seven dioceses where our members live to actually study and discuss the

“Statement by the Holy See at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons,” presented Dec. 9, 2014. Following the directive outlined in the “Challenge of Peace” pastoral letter of 1983 (#294), we also encourage our Catholic brothers and sisters to renew the practice of the Friday fast and abstinence from meat. This return to penance for peace, as the bishops instructed, “... should be accompanied by works of charity and service toward our neighbors. Hence, every Friday should be a day significantly devoted to prayer, penance and almsgiving for peace.” Finally, we also invite interested Catholics to consider joining Pax Christi USA and to make inquiries about joining a local group in Northern California. Webb is the coordinator of Pax Christi Northern California, the local regional council of Pax Christi USA and Pax Christi International. Visit www.paxchristiusa.org.

Talking to kids about porn and human sexuality

growing concern today involves the role of pornography as the next generation’s instructor in human sexuality. For many young people, pornography has become the only guide to sexuality they have ever known. For Catholic parents, this raises the critical challenge of how best to approach these matters with their children, given that kids as young as 8 or 9 may already be acquiring information and viewpoints father tadeusz about human pacholczyk sexual behaviors from Internet pornography. I would like to present six practical suggestions for parents, culled from parental testimonies and insights, from

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other experts in the field, and from exusers of pornography. First, steer away from “The Talk” toward a more integrated approach. Having “The Talk” relies on the misguided notion that parents have educational content or factual knowledge that they are duty-bound to try to deposit into their children’s brains. This approach is not only awkward and paternalistic, but can convey a sense that sexual education is a onetime, get-it-over-with ordeal. Kids require ongoing guidance and support from their parents – an expressed willingness to enter into these important discussions that stress the beauty of sexuality in marriage and what it is really for, rather than just telling them what not to do or scaring them away from sexually transmitted diseases. Second, be attentive to opportune moments to share wisdom and stories. Because we live in a highly pornified culture, opportunities for parents to share and discuss important value assessments regarding human sexuality with their children arise often. Driving by a billboard with a risqué picture or seeing something on TV might, for

example, serve as an opportunity to note how it’s against the love of women to use them as sex objects. Passing through a part of town where prostitutes are plying their trade might spark a discussion about how many women involved in prostitution are victims of human trafficking and the vast majority wish they could break free of it, etc. Third, avoid Internet access in the bedroom. Sometimes parents will say, “The kids have access at school and everywhere else, so I let them have unrestricted access at home – they’ve got to learn how to handle it anyway.” But the home setting needs to differ from the outside world, serving as an oasis and a protected environment for children. If someone offered to install a pipe into your child’s bedroom that could be turned on to pump in raw sewage, you would not agree to it. Yet many parents fail to restrict what is entering their children’s bedrooms through the Internet and TV. Fourth, be wary of Internet access on cellphones. “Due diligence” with cellphones for children might mean see pacholczyk, page 13

n the face of ever-increasing violent attacks all over the globe and the turmoil, confusion and rancor that characterize our national election process at this time, I think we’re called to lift our arms in prayer. “Violence,” writes Jacques Sister jean Ellul “imevans, rsm prisons its practitioners in a circle that cannot be broken by human beings.” And as we know, once violence starts, the cycle of revenge begins. Only by prayer can this cycle of evil be brought to an end. “For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle” (Ephesians 6:12). Truly, the times call us to place ourselves spiritually as a bulwark against the chaos that is now visited upon the Earth. Invoking the power of the Lord’s resurrection, we pray that God dispel wickedness, drive out hatred and, bring down the powerful. May the Spirit of the risen Christ foster concord, restore lost innocence, and grant joy to mourners. United in a common purpose, we can witness to solidarity by humble, sustained prayer for all who are suffering here and abroad. A month ago, we agreed here in our Burlingame community to come together voluntarily on Wednesday evenings in chapel to pray for our world, our country and its elections. Please join us in prayer – families, religious communities, and parishes – for these intentions: – To pray that our political leaders and ordinary citizens recover a sense of the common good. – To pray for victims of violence and their families – To ask the power of God to facilitate the conversion of those planning and committing acts of violence – To offer our prayer and our lives to hold back the chaos afflicting our human family – To pray in reparation for violations of human dignity due to human trafficking and racism Our Father … Let us pray: Jesus, through the power of your death and resurrection touch the hearts and minds of all persons planning violent acts on individuals and communities. Free them and guide them into ways of peace. This we ask in your name and in the power of the Spirit to the glory of God. Amen. Mary, Queen of Peace, pray for us. Mercy Sister Jean Evans is a member of the Mercy Sisters West Midwest Community in Burlingame.

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Catholic san francisco | August 25, 2016

A happy death

n the Roman Catholic culture within which I grew up, we were taught to pray for a happy death. For many Catholics at the time, this was a standard petition within their daily prayer: “I pray for a happy death.” But how can one die happy? Isn’t the death-process itself excruciating? What about the pain involved in dying, in letting go of this life, in saying our last goodbyes? Can one die happy? But the vision here, of course, was religious. A happy death meant that one died in good moral and FATHER ron religious circumstances. That rolheiser meant that you didn’t die in some morally-compromised situation, you didn’t die alienated from your church, you didn’t die bitter or angry at your family, and, not least, you didn’t die from suicide, drug or alcohol overdose, or engaged in some criminal activity. The catechetical picture of a happy death most often was an anecdotal story of some person who grows up in a good Christian family, is an honest, faith-filled, chaste, churchgoing person, but for a period of time drifts from God, from churchgoing, and from observance of the commandments so that, at a point, he no longer thinks much about God, no longer goes to church, and no longer takes Christian morality seriously. But, shortly before his

death, some chance circumstance becomes for him a moment of grace, and he repents of his laxity, his immorality, and his negligence of church practice, returns to church, makes a sincere confession, goes to Communion, and, shortly after, is struck down by a heart attack or an accident. But grace has done its work: After years of moral and religious drifting, he has returned to the fold and dies a happy death. Indeed we all know stories that fit that description; but, sadly, we also all know stories where this is not the case, where the opposite happens, where good people die in very unfortunate, sad, and tragic situations. We have all lost loved ones to suicide, alcoholism and other ways of dying that are far from ideal. We also all know of people, good people, who have died in morally-compromised situations or who died in bitterness, not able to let their hearts soften in forgiveness. Did they die unhappy deaths? Admittedly they died in an unfortunate way, but a happy or unhappy death is not judged by whether death catches us on an up-bounce or a down-bounce. For every person that fits the picture of a happy death, as described above, where death catches us on an up bounce, there are others whose lives were marked by honesty, goodness and love, but who then had the misfortune of being struck down in moment of anger, in a moment of weakness, in a moment of depression, or who ended up dying from an addiction or suicide. Death caught them on a down-bounce. Did they die an unhappy death? Who is to judge? What is a happy death? I like Ruth Burrows’ description: Burrows, a Carmelite nun, shares the story of a fellow-nun with whom she once lived.

This sister, Burrows tells us, was a good-hearted, but weak, woman. She had entered a contemplative convent to pray, but she could never quite muster the discipline for the task. And so she lived for years in that state: good-hearted, but mediocre. Later in life, she was diagnosed with a terminal disease which frightened her enough so that she began to make new efforts at becoming what she was supposed to be her whole life, a woman of prayer. But a half-century of bad habits are not so easily changed. Despite new resolutions, the woman never succeeded in turning her life around. She died in her weakness. But, Burrows asserts, she died a happy death. She died the death of a weak person, asking God to forgive her for a lifetime of weakness. To die a happy death is to die in honesty, irrespective of whether the particular circumstances of our death look good religiously or not. Dying in right circumstances is, of course, a wonderful consolation to our families and loved ones, just as dying in sad circumstances can be heartbreaking for them. But dying in circumstances which don’t look good, humanly or religiously, doesn’t necessarily equate with an unhappy death. We die a happy death when we die in honesty, irrespective of circumstance or weakness. And this truth offers another challenge: The circumstances of someone’s death, when those circumstances are sad or tragic, should not become a prism through which we then see that person’s whole life.

Catholic Church had with that property. In fact, 41 years prior Schuller invited Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen to address his congregation. Archbishop Sheen spoke at least three homilies at the site in 1972. Each homily was given before not only a capacity crowd in the existing church and outside seating, but also a full parking lot of automobiles with their drive-in speakers. If you google “Fulton Sheen glass cathedral” you will enjoy the almost hour-long talks. With due respect to the fine Catholic speakers of today, I doubt I will witness in my lifetime a finer deliverer of the message of life than Fulton J. Sheen. His talks at that Protestant church – more than 40 years ago – ring as real today as they did then. The latter is a true measure of timeless relevance. Peter J. Fatooh San Francisco

sacramental wedding taking place. Since the advent of Obgerfell v. Hodges in 2015, civil, secular marriages are legal. The vice president is in full agreement with the results of this 5-4 Supreme Court decision and, in this case, chose to act as a civil servant, not a Catholic official, performing an action that is fully legal, and which he fully supports. Jim McCrea Piedmont

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

Letters Moral absolutes express love

In a letter Aug. 11 (“Sexuality and grace”) a writer stated that Robert George is wrong about ancient heresy as cause to accept marriage redefinition, abortion, and transgender bathrooms. The letter writer comments that he doesn’t think opponents of marriage redefinition are “nuts,” he thinks they are in willful denial or ignorance. Does the letter writer understand that he is writing to a religious newspaper? That Catholic belief is that theirs is a God that created human beings as male and female? That there is sin? That we are redeemed by Jesus in his sacrifice? That Jesus established a church which he gave authority to preserve the deposit of faith? If what the letter writer speaks of is a natural condition. Then what logically follows is that adultery, fornication, and any kind of sexual behavior is a natural condition. What the letter writer expresses is moral relativism. Contrary to moral relativism, moral absolutes express love. Theodore Kirk San Francisco

Bishop Sheen’s message of life is timeless

Down in Orange County in Anaheim, as you stand in the parking lot to Disneyland and do an “about face,” you will see in the distance a cathedral spire of glass. From the time it was originally conceived in the 1970s to its completion in 1981 it was the achievement of a lifetime for late Dr. Robert H. Schuller its pastor from 1955 until approximately 2007 when he retired. Like many family civilian undertakings, Schuller’s success did not impute to his children. As a result, in 2010 the Crystal Cathedral parish filed for bankruptcy. In its prime, Schuller’s “Hour of Power” could be seen on national television. If you saw a tape or live service from the cathedral in its prime years you would have witnessed a “standing room only” church with a capacity of 2,736 worshippers. Prior to the glass monolith’s construction, Schuller’s was one of the first Sunday service drive-ins where parishioners would pull up and place a nearby speaker in their car to hear the proceedings. There was also outdoor seating for those who preferred a more conventional manner of going to church. An indoor church was constructed in the 1960s before the grand cathedral. Upon declaring bankruptcy in 2010, it was unclear as to the eventual outcome of this magnificent structure. Finally, in 2013, it was our own Catholic Church, Diocese of Orange, which purchased the property. But, 2013 wasn’t the first association the

Civil and sacramental ceremonies

Re “Biden ‘counter-witness’ to church teaching, prelates say,” Aug. 11: The story points out how the three prelates being quoted have failed to differentiate between civil/ secular marriage and sacramental matrimony. The vice president of this country presided at the civil wedding of his two fellow White House staffers who had requested that he do so. Biden had never officiated a wedding before and got a special temporary certification from the District of Columbia to make it legal. Catholic civil servants preside regularly at secular, non-sacramental marriage services in civil license bureaus throughout the country. They are expected to carry out the requirements of their position and if they have moral objections then they usually apply for a transfer to a different form of civil position or resign. That Biden chose to do so should be of no surprise. As stated in your article: “In 2012, Biden said as a Catholic he was ‘absolutely comfortable’ with same-sex couples marrying, adding they should get ‘the same exact rights’ heterosexual married couples receive.” I doubt very seriously that he or the two men being married thought for one minute that there was a

Merciful, or misleading?

So, should the church now attempt to prove how really inclusive and evolved it is today by blessing and celebrating all 71 gender options listed on Facebook? While ultimately only God can judge individual souls, in the meantime would such a teaching on sexuality be truly merciful, or misleading to many? Jay Strickwerda San Francisco

Gnosticism not to blame

I find it absurd that Robert George lumps three complicated issues in one Napa Institute talk (“Does ancient heresy explain transgender bathrooms, abortion?” July 25). Since Peter Albert has eloquently addressed the issue of same-sex marriage in his Aug. 11 letter to CSF, I would like to address the issue of abortion. Here are some facts: Colorado has offered free birth control for the past five years. The results are: (1) unintended pregnancies dropped by 40 percent; (2) abortions fell by 42 percent. So, why isn’t the RCC endorsing birth control since 90 percent of American Catholic women ignore the RCC teaching on this issue? The RCC teaching on birth control became a bad joke 20 years ago. Mr. George offers us a reference from St. Irenaeus (AD 130) who at that time spoke to Gnostic philosophies. And, he makes a claim that the issues of samesex marriage, abortion and transgender bathrooms are a resurgence of Gnostic philosophies as articulated in AD 130? In my opinion, the participants in the Napa Institute conference would have better used their time by taking any one of the great Napa Valley winery tours. Jim Stockholm San Francisco

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Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time SIRACH 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God. What is too sublime for you, seek not, into things beyond your strength search not. The mind of a sage appreciates proverbs, and an attentive ear is the joy of the wise. Water quenches a flaming fire, and alms atone for sins. PSALM 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11 God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor. The just rejoice and exult before God; they are glad and rejoice. Sing to God, chant praise to his name; whose name is the Lord. God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor. The father of orphans and the defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling. God gives a home to the forsaken; he leads forth prisoners to prosperity. God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor. A bountiful rain you showered down, O God,

upon your inheritance; you restored the land when it languished; your flock settled in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the needy. God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor. HEBREWS 12:18-19, 22-24A Brothers and sisters: You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words such that those who heard begged that no message be further addressed to them. No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect, and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently than that of Abel. LUKE 14:1, 7-14 On a Sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. He told a parable to

those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place. Rather, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place so that when the host comes to you he may say, ‘My friend, move up to a higher position.’ Then you will enjoy the esteem of your companions at the table. For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Then he said to the host who invited him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

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n today’s readings, our ideas of success, honor and greatness are challenged. In the first reading, the author of Sirach stresses the importance of humility in the spiritual life: the more you humble yourself, the greater you will appear in the eyes of God and others. In the second reading for this weekend, St. Paul compares our lives to a heavenly city – a new Jerusalem – in which God is at the center. In today’s Gospel, this theme of true greatness continues! T.S. Elliot wrote a play entitled “The Cocktail Party,” in which one of the characters says: “Half the harm that is done in the world is due to people Deacon who want to feel imporfaiva Po’oi tant. They don’t mean to do harm – but the harm does not interest them or they do not see it, or they justify it, because they are absorbed in an endless struggle to think well of themselves.” All of us, to some extent, are engaged in an

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Jesus saw this and understood. He did not rebuke the other guests for their desire to feel important, for he knew this to be a basic part of human nature. endless struggle to think well of ourselves. Today’s Gospel reading speaks to us concerning this struggle. Jesus had been invited to a dinner party at the home of a prominent Pharisee. The other guests were watching him, and he, in turn, was watching them. When it was time to eat, the guests gently elbowed their way through the crowd, each determined to secure a place of honor at the table. Jesus saw this and understood. He did not rebuke the other guests for their desire to feel important, for he knew this to be a basic part of human nature. Instead, Jesus encouraged the people to change their idea of true greatness. Those dinner guests were making the same mistake that you and I so often make. We may not scramble for the places of honor at the dinner table, but we do have ways of promoting ourselves. We do it with the clothes we wear and the cars we drive. We do it with the places we go and the people we know. The basic problem

with each of these methods of self-promotion is that they simply do not work, at least not for long! Usually, we do not succeed in fooling many people! But most of all, we do not fool ourselves. The best way to deal with this basic need is to forget about appearances and simply accept the truth that we are important, not for what we have accomplished, but for who we are. No matter what kind of car we drive, no matter what our station and rank in life may be, no matter where we are seated at the table, in the eyes of God, we are important. We are his treasures. We do not have to accomplish this. We do not have to prove it. All we need do is accept it. Each of us is important to God. This is the message that Jesus continually sought to communicate throughout his ministry. He said: “You are the light of the world and the salt of the earth.” “The hairs of your head are numbered.” “Not one sparrow falls to the ground without the awareness of God. You are more valued than many sparrows.” Jesus said all this to ordinary people – people like you and me. Each of us is invited to God’s banquet table. At this table, we are nourished at the same time that we are called to share the abundance of God’s life by reaching out to others in need. Deacon Po’oi serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, August 29: Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist. 1 Cor 2:1-5. Ps 119:97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102. Mt 5:10. Mk 6:17-29. Tuesday, August 30: Tuesday of the TwentySecond Week in Ordinary Time. St. Jeanne Jugan. 1 Cor 2:10b-16. Ps 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13ab, 13cd-14. Lk 7:16. Lk 4:31-37. Wednesday, August 31: Wednesday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 3:1-9. Ps 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21. Lk 4:18. Lk 4:38-44. Thursday, September 1: Thursday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 3:1823. Ps 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. Mt 4:19. Lk 5:1-11. Friday, September 2: Friday of the TwentySecond Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 4:1-5. 1 Cor 4:1-5. Jn 8:12. Lk 5:33-39. Saturday, September 3: Memorial of St. Gregory the Great, pope and doctor of the church.

1 Cor 4:6b-15. Ps 145:17-18, 19-20, 21. Jn 14:6. Lk 6:1-5. Sunday, September 4: Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Wis 9:13-18b. Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17. Phmn 9-10, 12-17. Ps 119:135. Lk 14:25-33. Monday, September 5: Monday of the Twentythird Week in Ordinary Time. St. Teresa of Calcutta. 1 Cor 5:1-8. Ps 5:5-6, 7, 12. Jn 10:27. Lk 6:6-11. Tuesday, September 6: Tuesday of the TwentyThird Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 6:1-11. Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b. See Jn 15:16. Lk 6:1219. Wednesday, September 7: Wednesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 7:25-31. Ps 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17. Lk 6:23ab. Lk 6:20-26. Thursday, September 8: Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mic 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28-30. Ps 13:6ab, 6c. Mt 1:1-16, 18-23 or Mt 1:18-23.

Friday, September 9: Memorial of St. Peter Claver, priest. 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22b-27. Ps 84:3, 4, 5-6, 12. See Jn 17:17b, 17a. Lk 6:39-42. Saturday, September 10: Saturday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 10:14-22. Ps 116:12-13, 17-18. Jn 14:23. Lk 6:43-49. Sunday, September 11: Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Ex 32:7-11, 13-14. Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19. 1 Tm 1:12-17. 2 Cor 5:19. Lk 15:132. Monday, September 12: Monday of the Twentyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 1 Cor 11:17-26, 33. Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17. Jn 3:16. Lk 7:1-10. Tuesday, September 13: Memorial of St. John Chrysostom, bishop and doctor of the church. 1 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31a. Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5. Lk 7:16. Lk 7:11-17.

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are coming a long way from having pretty much nothing. Yes, this is a huge change.” The National Catholic Education Association requests student demographic data every year, and in the past it has been a labor intensive job using Excel spread sheets to compile information provided by the individual schools to the Department of Catholic Schools. From now on, compiling the data will be done quickly by pressing a few buttons because all the information will be entered at the beginning of the year in SchoolSpeak, Lyons said. Adapting to using the increased student information provided by the Star testing program will require some training for teachers and thus additional cost the first year, Lyons said. There will be nine training days for teachers and administrators, she said.

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both geographically and with the people who absolutely fell through the cracks,” he said. Mother Teresa opened homes in Ethiopia during the communist military dictatorship, in the most destitute neighborhoods of Haiti’s capital, in Rwanda after the genocide and in Yemen, where four Missionaries of Charity were murdered in March. “When there was war, when there was fighting, there they were,” Hackett said. “They stayed.” Mother Teresa demonstrated that living a life committed to mercy took “selflessness and courage,” he said. Her courage also was demonstrated in her ability to “speak truth to power,” he said. Mother Teresa visited the United States regularly, speaking to Catholic groups, opening homes and meeting with presidents, including Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton. “She was straight out against abortion,” the ambassador said. “From conception to death – she was the whole thing and didn’t pull any punches.” Like Pope Francis, he said, Mother Teresa drew energy from personal, one-on-one contact with people and consciously chose to live as simply as the poor she befriended and tended. In life and after her death, Mother Teresa faced criticism for not using her fame and contacts to advocate more directly for social and political change to improve the lives of the poor she served. “You can find all the things she wasn’t,” the ambassador said, “but what she was was much more important than what she wasn’t. She was a model and now she will be a saint.” Valeria Martano, Asia coordinator for the Com-

munity of Sant’Egidio, said, “We are talking about a woman who broke out of the existing framework of what was expected of a Catholic woman in the 1940s. And, like Pope Francis, she chose to make her life a denunciation” of injustice. “Her witness was testimony that things can change. She did not speak of justice so much as do justice.” “Mother Teresa chose to understand the world through the eyes of the least of the least, what Pope Francis would call the periphery,” said Martano, who also leads Sant’Egidio programs in the poorest neighborhoods on the southern edge of Rome. But it is not just about “going out,” Martano said. For both Pope Francis and Mother Teresa, she said, everything starts with prayer. The founder of the Missionaries of Charity insisted that she and her sisters were “contemplatives in the midst of the world,” she said. “It was not just about doing.” Mother Teresa’s prayer took her to the periphery and the peripheries were key to her prayer. “What Mother Teresa lived, Pope Francis teaches constantly: compassion in the face of pain and never accepting indifference in the face of suffering,” said Archbishop Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, Italy. For the archbishop, Mother Teresa modeled “a church close to the poor, a church that is mother to the poor and that lives the joy of serving the poor.” Revelations after her death that she suffered a “dark night of the soul,” decades of feeling abandoned by God, are for Archbishop Zuppi a further sign of her deep immersion in the lives of the poor and forgotten. “Her spiritual director would say that thirst is knowing there is water and longing for it,” he said. “She was a woman who made the thirst of Christ on the cross her own. She lived that thirst.”

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looking for handsets that function strictly as phones without Internet access, or maybe the kids should be given a phone only at those times when they are dropped off at events like piano practice, soccer, etc. As children grow older and show signs of maturing, restrictions and limitations can be scaled back. Fifth, monitor Internet usage. Check browser history, and make use of monitoring software, even though a particular child may be an angel. Keep the family computer in a shared space like the living room with the screen visible so family members can be aware of each other’s online activities. Laptops and tablets can pose an inadvertent temptation in this respect as teens sit cuddled up on the couch with screens not visible to others. In family life, we are called to serve as our brother’s keeper. Set limits on “screen time” for children, and maintain password/access control over devices. Have the neighbor’s kids deposit their electronic devices on the kitchen table during visits to diminish the temptation to slip away to a private part

of the house and surf the net, perhaps with younger siblings in tow. Such practices may also serve to indirectly evangelize other families in the neighborhood regarding the serious threats from Internet porn. Sixth, set appropriate rules regarding relationships, and be involved in the kids’ dating practices. Too often parents are tempted to take a “hands-off” approach to this area of their children’s lives. When I was growing up, we knew (and eventually appreciated) my father’s rule that we couldn’t date until we were 18. Setting appropriate rules for kids serves as a sign of a parent’s love and concern for them. Whenever parents determine that dating should begin, it offers further opportunities and occasions to discuss problems and scenarios that can help teens set moral boundaries. Talking to kids and helping them to become good

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Anyone enduring the journey into the final chapters will be ready for the probing statements and questions DeGroat poses, e.g., What are your stories of disappointment and division? How do you think they’ve affected your spiritual life? among others, a would-be shoplifter, professional wrestling, the music of Joan Baez and dust bunnies. That might appear to be scattered, but Sister Hill concludes every chapter with a paragraph titled, “And You.” This is the serious conversation during the stroll, often leading to thoughtprovoking questions, e.g., “How do you deal with a God who is set in his ways?” and “Do you think anyone will find in you a Catholic role model?” The strollers continue in silence as they contemplate answers. Take the stroll. Enter the conversation. The “crabby mystic” provides the stressed-to-blessed workout your heart and soul will appreciate.

While Sister Hill notes that hers is not a “scholarly treatment,” the same cannot be said for Chuck DeGroat’s “Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion and Healing the Divided Self.” It is laden with poetry and psychological and theological references. For the reader not used to plodding through St. Augustine, Trappist Father Thomas Merton, C.S. Lewis and dozens of others, the exhaustion about which he writes might set in before one reaches the final part of the book. In that section, DeGroat provides exercises and asks questions that may help the immersed reader find “the elusive wholeness and freedom for which we so desperately long.” As a counselor and pastor, DeGroat provides a perspective that lends itself to a pastoral approach readers may welcome throughout this process. Anyone enduring the journey into the final chapters will be ready for the probing statements and questions DeGroat poses, e.g., What are your stories of disappointment and division? How do you think they’ve affected your spiritual life? DeGroat opens the seventh chapter by stating, “You’re not here to find a quick fix. You’ve embarked on a journey.” Readers should know that, but the caution would have been better positioned in the early stages of the book so they could determine whether they wanted to embark upon a journey so deep, involved, intense and – yes, exhausting. Also of interest: “Don’t Panic: How to Keep Going When the Going Gets Tough” by Maureen Pratt. Franciscan Media (Cincinnati, 2016). 155 pp., $14.99 “Sacred Stress: A Radically Different Approach to Using Life’s Challenges for Positive Change” by George R. Faller and the Rev. Heather Wright. SkyLight Paths (Woodstock, Vermont, 2016). 176 pp., $16.99. Olszewski is the general manager of the Catholic Herald, a publication serving the Catholic Church in southeastern Wisconsin.

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Obituaries Sister Patricia McGlinn, SND

Sister Patricia McGlinn, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur for 62 years, died Aug. 8 at Mercy Retirement and Care Center in Oakland. Sister Patricia was 81 years old. “She related in a special way with her therapists, care center staff and residents,” the Notre Dame Sisters said in a statement. “She watched the recent Republican and Democratic conventions, and voted in the Sister Patricia primary. Always the global citizen, McGlinn, SND she reached out in her prayers to refugees and the troubled spots in our wounded world.” Sister Pat attended Notre Dame High School in San Jose and entered religious life in 1954. She taught in Notre Dame elementary schools in Redwood City, Yuba City, Santa Barbara and Watsonville and high schools in San Francisco, San Jose and Marysville. She also served in Sacramento where she saw firsthand the challenges and dangers that women had to endure when working in the fields, the sisters said. Sister Pat was a faculty member at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont for 25 years. She served six years on the San Francisco Archdiocesan Faith and Justice Commission, two years as chair. A funeral Mass was celebrated Aug. 22 at the sis-

ters’ Cunningham Chapel at NDNU with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Memorial contributions may be made to the Sisters of Notre Dame, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont 94002.

Father George Thomas

Father George Thomas died Aug. 18 at Sutter Amador Hospital in Jackson. He was a priest for 67 years and 91 years old. Born in San Francisco, Father Thomas attended St. Teresa School in Portrero Hill and later St. Joseph College Seminary in Mountain View and St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park. He was ordained Dec. 18, 1948, by ArchbishFather George op John J. Mitty. Thomas In ministry for many years before the establishment of the dioceses of

Santa Rosa, Oakland and Stockton in 1962 and the Diocese of San Jose in 1981 from territory once part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Father Thomas served in parishes in Oakland, Modesto, and Los Altos. In 1972, Father Thomas was named pastor of Our Lady of the Wayside Church in Portola Valley, where he served for 33 years retiring in 2006. Father Gary Thomas, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, Saratoga is Father Thomas’ nephew. “My keenest recollection of my Uncle George was his fidelity to his priesthood, his very blue collar approach to his ministry, his well-known hobbies of fishing and hunting, and his appreciation of nature and the people of God,” Father Gary said. A funeral Mass will be celebrated Aug. 26 at Our Lady of the Wayside Church, 930 Portola Road, Portola Valley at 11 a.m. preceded by a vigil service at 10 a.m. Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

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Jesuits welcome new advancement director

Siobhan Lawlor has been named provincial assistant for advancement and communication for the California and Oregon provinces of the Society of Jesus. Jesuit Father Michael Weiler, California Provincial, and Jesuit Father Scott Santarosa, Oregon Provincial, made the announcement jointly. “I am honored and excited to Siobhan Lawlor begin this mission of advancement for an institution I care deeply about and that has long shaped my worldview,” said Lawlor, a Boston College alumna with a law degree from Santa Clara University, both Jesuit schools, in a statement. Lawlor, a graduate of St. Francis High School in Mountain View and her husband Joe McCarthy, a graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep are longtime members of St. Nicholas Parish, Los Altos. They have three sons: a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame; a soon to be a freshman at University of

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Oregon; and a rising sophomore at Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose. Lawlor has served since 2005 as campaign director and the last four years development director at Woodside Priory School in Portola Valley. She also worked as an associate at law firms specializing in insurance defense, business litigation, and bankruptcy. In addition, she served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Seattle. She assumed her duties with the provinces Aug. 8. “Siobhan wants to help us raise the funds we need so we can continue to care for our elderly Jesuits, to form our growing number of scholastics for mission, and to help us continue to go to those places where the church most needs us,” Fathers Santarosa and Weiler said. Father Santarosa will become provincial of the new U.S. West Province when the California and Oregon provinces come together in July 2017.

Maryknoll Lay Missioners offers student loan repayment

Maryknoll Lay Missioners has announced a Student Loan Repayment Program available to all active Maryknoll lay missioners during the time they are under contract with the organization. During the missioner’s time in service, Maryknoll will pay the monthly student loan payment, freeing individuals of this financial burden as they minister to the poor and marginalized in Asia, Africa and the Americas. “This

program will assist MKLM in attracting and retaining committed, service-minded individuals who want to make a difference in the world,” the Maryknoll, New York-based organization said Aug. 10. “The number of students borrowing for their education is increasing, as is the amount an average student owes,” said Joanne Blaney, MKLM mission services director. “We are delighted to offer the Student Loan Repayment Program so that our lay missioners can focus on the most important thing, sharing Christ’s compassion and love with those in need and working to change unjust structures around the world.” MKLM invites Catholics who are 21 or older to join for an initial three-and-a-half year commitment, and welcomes single people, married couples or families to apply. The orientation program offered to new lay missioner candidates is rich in authenticity, designed to address both practical and spiritual preparation for overseas mission work. Maryknoll Lay Missioners was initiated in 1975 to recognize and celebrate lay people (non-religious) as active participants in global mission. The organization, which became an independent entity in 1995, emerged from the Maryknoll tradition that was started more than 100 years ago. Visit www.mklm.org and facebook.com/MaryknollLayMissioners.

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Most Holy Redeemer Parish, San Francisco: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone presided at Mass on Sunday, Aug. 7, at the church in San Francisco’s Castro District, as part of a weekend pastoral visit by the archbishop to the parish led by pastor Precious Blood Father Matthew Link. The archbishop greeted parishioners after Mass and met with parish ministry groups. In his homily, the archbishop thanked the congregation “for all you do to serve the poor and needy in our community, for the care you give to each other, for the welcome you extend to me.” View a transcript of the homily at www.sfarchdiocese.org/home/archbishop/homilies.

St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco: The theme is “Repair my Church” where the $185,000 Phase I church renovation was just completed. The improvements included refurbished pews and new kneelers; paint throughout the interior of the church, including accent colors; hardwood floors in the sanctuary; new carpet throughout the rest of the church; new hardwood baseboards; new lighting in the sanctuary and choir areas; and new vinyl flooring under pew areas. More improvements should be forthcoming when the parish completes fundraising for Phase II.

Serra alum coaches Olympic medalist: Junipero Serra High School grad Ray Looze ‘86 with Olympic swimming gold medalist Lilly King. Ray is Lilly’s coach for Team USA and at Indiana University. King won the gold medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics for the 100-yard breast stroke.

Assisi pilgrimage: Deacon Christoph Sandoval, who serves at St. Mary’s Cathedral, has returned from leading pilgrimage groups to Rome and Assisi and shares that he shook hands with Pope Francis during the pope’s recent visit to Assisi marking the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ Pardon of Assisi. “I was doubly blessed by being the only American cleric at the 800th anniversary Mass of the Pardon of Assisi and the Jubiliee Year of Mercy 2016 with Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Perugia; Bishop Domenico Sorrentino, Assisi; and Father Michael Perry, Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor” (pictured, from left), Deacon Sandoval said in an email to Catholic San Francisco. “And if that were not enough I was triply blessed to proclaim the Gospel and preach the homily in the Porziuncola of the Papal Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels for the celebration of my birthday on July 31 with Father Massimo Lelli, OFM, rector of the basilica.”

St. Junipero Serra pilgrimage: On Aug. 2-4, a group of 30 pilgrims from the Diocese of Las Vegas and beyond followed in the footsteps of St. Junipero Serra (1713-1784), who was canonized by Pope Francis in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 23, 2015. Father John McShane (SI ‘61, USF ‘67), pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Ely, Nevada, was the pilgrimage chaplain and Christian Clifford, a teacher at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo and author of two books about the saint, was resident scholar.

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FRIDAY, AUG. 26 CONCERT: Amanda Vernon in concert 7 p.m., St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City near Edgewood Road; tickets, $10, 5 years and under free, at church office, (650) 366-9544) or amandavernon.com/ matthias; Amanda will play her original music and share the faith-filled stories behind the songs, Ice cream social follows.

SATURDAY, AUG. 27 SPIRITUAL LIFE: “Conversions in the Spiritual Life,” with Paulist Father Terry Ryan, 9-11:30 a.m., Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave., San Francisco, coffee will be available, freewill offerings welcome, (415) 288-3845. 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) 2394865; www.Handicapables.com. MOTHER TERESA DISPLAY: An exhibit on Blessed Teresa of Calcutta in anticipation of her Sept. 4 canonization will be available at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Cathedral Hall, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., Aug. 27, 28 and Sept. 3; the exhibit is open 3-5:30 p.m. Aug. 29 through Sept. 2. A Mass of thanksgiving with Archbishop Salvatore J. Codileone as principal celebrant and homilist will e celebrated Sept. 4 at 11 a.m. at the cathedral; (415) 567-2020.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 3 PEACE MASS: Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd. at Eighth Avenue, San Francisco, 8:30 a.m., Father P Joseph Illo, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com. CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road,

Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., newly ordained Father Cameron Faller, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060, www.holycrosscemeteries. com.

St. Mary’s Cathedral to present the first St. Jeanne Jugan Award in San Francisco to Yvonne Sangiacomo. Award is presented by the Little Sisters of the Poor to an individual who, honoring the legacy of their foundress, St. Jeanne Jugan, values the solidarity of the human family, the wisdom of age, and with kindness of heart embraces the importance of care for the elderly. For more information, please visit our website www.littlesistersofthepoorsf.org.

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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.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 9 2-DAY FESTIVAL: Our Lady of Angels School, 1328 Cabrillo Ave., Burlingame, Sept. 9 6-10 p.m.; Sept. 10 2-11 p.m.; rides, games, entertainment, prizes food and a silent auction; “Dine with the Angels” dinner Saturday with musical entertainment, two seatings, reservations Tricia Mason at (650) 5330121; olafunfaire@gmail.com.

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Catholic san francisco | August 25, 2016

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of July HOLY CROSS, COLMA

Jim Panganiban Aguirre Dennis Arreola Lloyd P. Arriola John Attard Dionisio Ayap Baby Aydan Soledad Molinas Baarde Tula Balbuena Adoracion R. Banzon Josita Biagas John Bracco James Thomas Breslin Baby Adriel Angel Cabral Gertrude Cadigan Robert James Cadigan Josephine B. Cancilla Ronald S. Cancilla Esmeralda C. Capacite Carolyn Marie Carr Vilma D. Castillo Rizaldy San Juan Castro Luis D. Catuar Alex Chavarria Sam C. Y. Chi Patrick H. J. Conway Maria E. Couto Marion Del Castillo, Jr. Ariadne V. Del Rosario John Patrick Donohoe Noel J. Dyer Francisco Adolfo Escobar Nancy C. Ferdon Kuk F. Fong Rena M. Fonteno Josephine E. Giampaoli James Phillip Gilleran Rita L. Gilmore James Paul Giovannoni Carolyn Agnes Gizdich John George Gizdich, Sr. Juana R. Gomez Roberto Antonio Aguilar Gonzalez Ricardo Granados Shirley H. Gregory Deann Grossman Dennis Halac Judith Kay Harwell

Jesus Hierro Michael J. Higueret Margaret D. Holl Mrs. Theadus Howell Joseph J. Hurley Conor Kerns Hunter Michael Kerrigan Shin Ja Kim Linda Ann Labanowski Thomas Learned Bruce A. Leppanen Mary Jane Letourneau Joe B. Lopez Eleanor Loveland Neal J. Lucett Mila A. Mangan Constantino Marenco Linda McCarthy Jimmie W. McCoy Susan E. Montalvo Jose A Morales Brother Ernest Morasci Joseph T. Moreno Mae Myers Armando Barahona Osorio Martinha L.V. Paes Tomasina Passalacqua Eleonora Pauletto Hildelisa Perez Meanana Fuapopo Perez Guerrino P. Pettinari Ashley A. Phero Nanette Ramos Marilyn Joy Roberts Rogelio Rodriguez Margarita Olivia Romero De Tellez Amanda Sanchez Rubio Francisco Sanchez Pilar Santiago Adan Alfredo Sarmiento James Jesus Serrata

Mt. olivet, san rafael

Alfredo C. Severino Maria Rosa Sonza Alex Streber Ricardo Streber Narciso M. Sumaylo Kathleen B. Taylor Nicole Tomasello Cristobal Valle Sam Watso Rudolph G. Woodford Dominic Wu Elliott B. Yorke Dolores “Dolly” Zulueta

James Richard Fern Col. Paul R. Henderson Julia M. Jenkins George Lyman Mary Esther Madden Ellen M. Mulcahy Daniel G. Powers John W. (Jack) Ward John A. Zamberlin

HOLY CROSS, menlo Park “Pachen” Raymond W. Basso Mateo Jesus Cordero Harry B. Morey, Jr. Paul Covert Murphy Dawn Lenore Rast Carmen Villavicencio

Our Lady of the PIllar Joseph Daniel Rocha

St. Mary magdalene Richard Blaine Madden

HOLY CROSS Catholic Cemetery, Colma first saturday mass Saturday, September 3, 2016 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Cameron F. Faller, Celebrant Parochial Vicar Church of the Epiphany

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020

Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1675

Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.