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od’s revelation in Jesus Christ is the foundation of all Christian faith. As followers of His, He calls us to be “Church,” that is, a people assembled to worship Him and give Him honor and glory. The distress of the restrictions on worship all throughout the COVID-19 pandemic made it more evident than ever just how important this aspect of our faith is in our lives. The pandemic revealed a truth – the importance of communication as a crucial aspect of relationship. It was never clearer how important it is for us to be connected as a community, worshipping God and supporting each other. It’s never been clearer that communication is at the heart of any positive relationship. With this in mind, I directed some of my advisors to work during the past six months toward achieving a couple of goals: • Assist our parishes with communications resources that help them foster greater community

• Establish better channels so we can inspire, assist, and help our community to grow spiritually I am delighted by the steps we’ve taken to do both while reducing our overall costs significantly. The Catholic San Francisco Magazine you hold in your hands, the updated archdiocesan website, a weekly Catholic San Francisco e-newsletter, and our parish support initiative are all first fruits of a new communications approach for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This magazine is designed to inform and inspire. The new website, still at sfarch.org, is attractive with more video and photos to draw in the casual web browser and the Catholic seeking specific information. Now we also have a second website that offers specific information on and about parishes, ministries – news you can use. It links from the sfarch.org website. Catholic San Francisco Magazine, with its feature-length articles, will come to you 6-8 times a year, including Advent/Christmas and Lent/Easter. The magazine, our website, and

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Friday e-newsletter are successors to a long line of archdiocesan publications dating to the 19th century when the first San Francisco Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany founded The Monitor in frontier California. I am so proud and grateful for the faith, hope in God, and charity so many demonstrate daily and particularly in the past months. Through the pandemic, our ministries stayed alive and our parishes, priests, religious men and women, and dedicated lay people continued to pray and work for the Lord, helping each other and those in need. My hope is this magazine, and all of our new and updated communications tools, will help us fulfill Jesus’ injunction found in Matthew 5:14-16: “You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.” As we move forward together, the great Church Father, St. Augustine of Hippo offers pithy advice: “God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.” Let us continue together, raising the sail in our beautiful home. You are in my prayers always, and I ask you to pray for me as we continue in faith, hope in God, and love of God and our neighbor. ■ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 2021

ETH N IC M I N I STR I ES

MAKING DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS

Ethnic ministries keep the faith alive in local immigrant cultures

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t is like when you walk into a garden with so many unique flowers and plants and so many vibrant colors. You stand for a moment in awe of the full beauty of it.” Those are the words of Deacon Fred Totah describing the Catholic ethnic ministries in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, 20 in all: African-American, Arab, Brazilian, Chinese, Filipino, Hispanic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Myanmar, Native American, Polish/ Croatian/Slovenian, Samoan, Tongan and Vietnamese. The ministries connect members of a shared native heritage to the Catholic faith and each other through the Mass and sacraments, liturgical traditions, common prayers, seasonal and saintly devotions, food, music and song. “The way I look at it, the beauty of our Church, even though we come from different parts of the world with our own expressions of faith, we are still one family under God,” said Deacon Fred (Fuad), an Arab-American Catholic who emigrated to San Francisco in his teens from the West Bank town of Ramallah outside Jerusalem. He oversees the archdiocese’s ethnic ministries as director of the department of pastoral ministry, a “Catholic support system,” as he calls it, for parishes and parishioners. Ethnic ministries oversee the pastoral and sacramental care of the Catholic ethnic groups that live in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties. “These ministries are very important to me, very important to the archdiocese, very important to us as a local church,” said Deacon Totah. “That’s, in fact, who we are.” The meaning of the word “catholic,” he emphasized, is “universal” or literally, “embracing the whole universe.” Deacon Totah personally understands the value of ethnic ministry. The Arab-American Catholic community in San Francisco was quick to embrace him after his arrival in 1976, he said. They helped him adjust to a new culture and stay connected to his roots of faith. Ordained into the permanent diaconate in 2014 after a career in the legal profession, Deacon Totah was tapped to oversee ethnic ministries in 2020. He has been slowly getting to know the ethnic groups with which he is not familiar. “In order for me to build a

bridge, I need to understand more about that culture,” he said. “We all do.” One of his goals is cultivating greater Catholic unity between individual cultural groups. Creating opportunities for collective, communal worship is one idea. “When I first came here, the archdiocese hosted something it called ‘Thanksgiving around the World’,” he said. Catholic ethnic groups came together for a shared Mass at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. Hundreds would participate in the Mass and international potluck in the conference center downstairs afterward. “My vision is to resurrect that idea.” ETHNIC MINISTRIES: A GOSPEL IMPERATIVE The goal of ethnic ministries is nothing short of the command heard in Matthew 28:19-20, according to Deacon Totah. In speaking to his early followers, Jesus made clear the scope of spreading his Good News: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you,” he told them. Pope Pius XII, in his 1952 apostolic constitution, Exsul Familia Nazarethana (The Exiled Holy Family), presents the Holy Family as archetypes of immigrants and refugees. He prescribed Church policies and guidelines for the care of foreign nationals within Catholic dioceses. Speaking of the work the Church had done to offer refugees and migrants comfort and hope in their trials, Pope Pius commented, “…the Church had to look after them with a special care and unremitting aid.” He then went on to quote the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, a significant ecumenical papal assembly during the Middle Ages under Pope Innocent III: “We find in most countries, cities and dioceses, people of diverse languages who, though bound by one Faith, have varied rites and customs. Therefore we strictly enjoin that the Bishops of these cities or dioceses provide the proper men, who will celebrate the Liturgical Functions according to their rites and languages. They will administer the Sacraments of the Church and instruct their people both by word and by deed.” › SEPTEMBER 2021 | CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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Twenty distinct ethnic communities form a rich tapestry of Catholic faith and cultural traditions within the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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“Welcoming the Stranger Among Us: Unity in Diversity.” “For the Church in the United States, to walk in solidarity with newcomers to our country is to live out our catholicity as a Church,” the bishops wrote.

Referencing the benefits of ministry to foreign-born Catholics and non-Catholics, it added that it is “a source of great benefit to both dioceses and souls.” “Cultural pluralism” is the common heritage of all Americans, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). In 2000, its subcommittee on the Pastoral Care of Migrants, Refugees and Travelers issued a pastoral statement entitled,

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SAN FRANCISCO: AN IMMIGRANT CHURCH San Francisco has always been shaped by newcomers, and newcomers were often shaped by the local church. Spanish colonial explorers brought missionaries with them to teach Native American Indians the new faith. During and after the California Gold Rush, Catholic immigrants, primarily those from Ireland, Italy and Germany, arrived in San Francisco with priests and nuns to establish the new city’s churches, schools, hospitals and orphanages. Filipinos, Portuguese, Japanese, Koreans, Polish, French Canadians and the Chinese were among those who followed their path in smaller numbers. In the first of his three-part book series entitled, “The History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco,” historian and former archivist for the archdiocese Jeffrey M. Burns used the words of a

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priest in 1857 to describe San Francisco as a melting pot like no other. “The Catholics here are of all nationalities, even Chinese and Indians from the old missions,” he observed. In 1853, Spanish-born Dominican Father Joseph Sadoc Alemany was sent to San Francisco to serve as its first archbishop. He appealed to Pope Pius IX to send someone else to the bustling pioneer town but was told: “You must go to California. Where others are drawn by gold, you must carry the cross.” The wild diversity of the outpost presented a pastoral challenge for the archbishop: how to best serve his flock, a challenge that continues for the Church today.

political strife, climate change and new immigration laws have all fueled the new migration. A 2014 report by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University entitled, “Cultural Diversity in the Catholic Church in the United States” commissioned by the U.S. bishops revealed the ethnic mix of U.S. Catholics in 2010. Leading the list was non-Hispanic/white at 54 percent of the Catholic population; Hispanic/Latino, 38 percent; Asian/Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, four percent; American Indian/Alaskan Native, one percent. LOCAL ETHNIC MINISTRIES Of the archdiocese’s 20 ethnic ministries, the Filipino, Hispanic and Chinese ministries are the largest.

THE NEW IMMIGRANTS The changing composition of immigrants to San Francisco has demanded shifts in Catholic ministry. “In the past 35 years the number and variety of immigrants coming to the United States have provided a great challenge for us as pastors,” U.S. bishops wrote in “Welcoming the Stranger.” They noted that while previous immigrants had come predominantly from Europe or as slaves from Africa, many of the new immigrants come from Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific Islands, the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Poverty, violence, religious and ethnic persecution,

Filipino On July 31, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral marking 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines. The homily was delivered by Salt Lake City Bishop Oscar Solis, the first Filipino bishop in the U.S. In a short Facebook video after the Mass, the archbishop called Filipinos “joyful exporters of the faith,” who are truly “modern day missionary disciples.” “We are very proud how we have influenced the Catholic faith,” said Edgar Estonina, president of the ›

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Filipino Ministry Consultative Board and St. Gabriel parishioner. He said the ministry has an outward purpose: to evangelize using the gifts and talents and energies of the Filipino community. “We are Catholics first, not Filipino Catholics,” he said. Estelle Oloresisimo, a St. Augustine parishioner who serves the ministry’s communications needs, said Filipinos like liturgical “pageantry” and blend cultural celebrations with religious ones. “That is another heritage of the Spanish,” she said. Father Eugene Tungol, pastor of Church of the Epiphany, is vicar for the Filipino ministry. Estonina said that Simbang Gabi (Early Morning Mass), a traditional Filipino nine-day novena leading up to Christmas Eve has caught on in “mainstream” parishes. Simbang Gabi originated in the early days of Spanish rule over the Philippines as an early morning compromise for farmers, Estonina said. The cherished Filipino custom is being celebrated at Christmas by more non-Filipino parishes. In 2019, Pope Francis celebrated Simbang Gabi at the Vatican for the first time, he said. Hispanic The Hispanic ministry is active in 33 parishes in the archdiocese. Hispanic Pastoral Ministry is led by Father Moises Agudo, vicar for Spanish-speaking Catholics. Several parish groups almost entirely minister to Hispanics. Among them are the San Francisco Mission parishes, with 3,800 parishioners total in St. Anthony, St. Peter, and St. Charles Borromeo; St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Menlo Park and its mission of St. Joseph the Worker in Redwood City, with a combined 2,500 parishioners; and the rural coastal missions of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish in Half Moon Bay, i.e., St. Anthony Parish in Pescadero and Our Lady of the Refuge Parish in La Honda. In addition, many other parishes like St. Francis of Assisi in East Palo Alto serve large Hispanic populations by offering Masses in Spanish throughout the archdiocese. St. Anthony (Menlo Park), one of several hubs for Spanish-speakers, offers four Masses in Spanish on the weekends and one in English, four charismatic groups, and a formation program for first Communion that before the pandemic brought in some 300 children, along with 120 young people for confirmation. Our Lady of the Pillar, in

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Ethnic Ministries These are 20 distinct ethnic ministries active in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Please visit sfarch.org/ethnicministries for more details about each ministry. African-American Ministry Christopher Major 415-879-2127

Arab American Ministry Rev. Richard Van De Water 1-415-452-9634 Brazilian Ministry Glaucia Ajisaka 1-650-458-1982

Indonesian Ministry Iwan Soegiharto 1-415-359-4843 Irish Ministry Rev. Brendan McBride 1-415-752-6006 Italian Ministry Rev. Al Mengon SDB 1-415-421-0809 Japanese Ministry Mako Rova 1-415-928-1532 Korean Ministry Rev. Jeong Gon Kim 1-415-333-1194 Myanmar Ministry John Lee 1-415-308-1307 Native American Ministry Andy Galvan 1-415-621-8203

Burmese Catholic Ministry Elizabeth Law 415-971-5721

Polish / Croatian / Slovenian Ministry Rev. Kazimierz Abrahamczk 1-650-871-8944

Chinese Ministry Rev. Peter Zhai, SVD 1-415-614-5575

Samoan Ministry Rev. Daniel Carter 1-415-285-3377

Filipino Ministry Vicar Rev. Eugene Tungol 1-415-333-7630

Tongan Ministry Rev. Kapiolani Kakala 1-650-342-2470

Hispanic Ministry Rev. Moises Agudo 1-415-282-1652

Vietnamese Ministry Rev. Te Van Nguyen 1-415-200-9359

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Half Moon Bay, attracts young people “who want to come to the church,” said Father Jose Corral, pastor. During the pandemic 123 young people were confirmed. The parish also supports the charismatic group Fishers of Men. The Hispanic ministry has organized the Día de la Hispanidad, or Hispanic Day, since 2011. The annual event for the Spanish-speaking faithful is scheduled for Sept. 11 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The ministry also directs the Pastoral School of Hispanic Leadership, offering a basic five-year program with two additional years of specialized courses. In addition, the Quinto Encuentro is a national Catholic organization with a strong program in the archdiocese. Created by the Catholic bishops of the United States to accompany Hispanics on their faith journey, the Quinto Encuentro is a model of evangelization with the objective of Catholics being missionary disciples. Chinese The large Chinese population in San Francisco and the Bay Area offers “great potential for evangelization,” according to Father Peter Zhai, coordinator of the archdiocese’s thriving Chinese Ministry. Father Zhai was born in Chinese Inner Mongolia into a faithful Catholic family who practiced their faith in secret out of fear of persecution. He said Chinese culture is “a collective culture rather than individualistic one,” where members “long to be together.” Even during the pandemic, he said, the Chinese community gathered on Zoom every night to pray the rosary. The ministry’s retreats, faith formation programs, workshops, Bible studies and religious education classes are normally held at one of eight parishes that offer a Chinese language Mass: St. Monica, St. Anne, Sts. Peter and Paul, Old St. Mary in Chinatown, St. Gregory, St. Mark, St. Dunstan and St. Cecilia. The lack of priests who speak Chinese is a challenge to the ministry, said Father Zhai, who celebrates most of those Masses. So is the “scattered” nature of the Chinese Catholic community across San Francisco and San Mateo counties. “As I have witnessed in different Chinese communities in the U.S., it’s much better for evangelization if everyone gathers together, makes the sacrifice to travel a little bit and to be together,” he said. “Once you have a bigger Chinese community, the energy is high, the liturgy is better, and it attracts the young people.” ■

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Lorena Rojas contributed.

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eagan Montanari’s wild ride to redemption has taken her from troubled teen to mature mom, from the abyss of suffering, strife and sorrow to the apex of healing, harmony and hope. Having survived addictions, homelessness, depression and other torments from the age of 13, Montanari, now a sober 36-year-old single parent, looks forward to graduating with a Theology degree in the fall and her son’s first Communion next May. She attributes her transformative turnaround to God’s guidance toward earthly “angels” who took her under their wing at the Missionaries of Charity’s Queen of Peace Shelter for pregnant women and at the local Gabriel Project, a parish based ministry dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of struggling moms-to-be by connecting them with “angels” within parishes. “Without all the help I received in those first few years, none of this would be possible,” said Montanari, who earned nearly simultaneous bachelor and master degrees at Christendom College in Virginia in May and July and now aims for the Sacred Theology doctorate at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. “God uses us all as instruments of His grace — what an incredible gift this is!” She remembers clearly the day she first glimpsed the gift. It was May 2014. Hooked on heroin, penniless, pregnant, without a place to stay, she was considering another attempt at suicide when she felt a pull to a Protestant church she was passing in downtown San Francisco. She entered and asked for help. Queen of Peace Shelter topped the local resource options she obtained. “I would have called — and ultimately gone to — SEPTEMBER 2021 | CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

ggling mom o light whichever shelter was listed first,” she recalled, “so I know God directed me to the Missionaries of Charity.” Those who welcomed her also recognized signs of divine intervention. “Our foundress Mother Teresa taught us to seek and find Jesus in His ‘distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor,’” said Sister John Marie, a member of the congregation for 26 years. “We come to learn through experiences such as Meagan’s that there is no such thing as a ‘hopeless case.’” Montanari stood out among the 66 women and children Queen of Peace Shelter served that year. She arrived as “one who was sincerely searching for and open to being helped with her issues of homelessness and addiction,” Sister John Marie said. Montanari similarly impressed Rose Lo, logistics coordinator for the Gabriel Project at the Archdiocese of San Francisco and at Holy Name of Jesus Parish, one of 18 parishes in the archdiocese participating in the program. “Meagan had an exceptionally strong belief in faith and trusted that God would lead her … in her pregnancy journey,” said Lo, a liaison to the Queen of Peace Shelter and trained as a Gabriel “angel.” “At the initial meeting with her, she indicated that God referred her to call.” Reasons for the referral started to reveal themselves over the next four months. As Montanari attended daily afternoon prayers, cleaned and prepared and served meals with the sisters, she witnessed and wished for their “simplicity and joy.” As she received maternity outfits, baby clothes, newborn supplies and even some luxuries from Gabriel angels, she began to experience and emulate their unconditional love. “The sisters at the Missionaries of Charity and Gabriel Project volunteers played a big role in Meagan’s life at that time,” Lo related. “We were her family that she could trust and rely on.” Curious about the faith underlying the ongoing outreach, Montanari expressed an interest in learning more. The sisters invited her to Mass and, when she was ready, introduced her to a Queen of Peace Shelter and Gabriel Project volunteer who facilitated her conversion. Angela Testani, a Holy Name parishioner, drove her to Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) classes for catechetical instruction at St. Brendan Church in San Francisco, delved into discussions on Catholic teachings and traditions and stayed by her side even as a relapse led to rehab. › CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 2021

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THE GABRIEL PROJECT is a confidential and compassionate outreach to pregnant women. Women can call or text the Gabriel Project number 1-800-910-2848. Based in local parishes, Gabriel Project works with “angels” (those who volunteer to participate in this ministry) within the local community to support women spiritually, emotionally and materially. These angels may work with women directly, walking with them through their pregnancy and beyond, or volunteer to support the women through various means including transportation, translating services, or running a “closet” or facility that gives out donated items to women in need. The Gabriel Project is an active ministry within the Archdiocese of San Francisco. There are seven parishes in San Francisco, four parishes in Marin County and 12 parishes participating in San Mateo County. The number of angels per parish varies. Many angels speak Spanish. Gabriel Project advertising traditionally includes permanent signs outside parishes, in church vestibules and notices in church bulletins. That outreach stepped up exponentially in June when the Gabriel Project launched a billboard, bus ad and social media advertising campaign within the archdiocese. The campaign was designed by a group of advertising professionals via Random Acts of Catholics who donated their talents. They obtained free ad space and negotiated a social media campaign. The campaign includes 300 ads on San Francisco Muni buses, digital ads in view of highways US 101 and 280 and ads and swipe to text ads on the social media platforms of Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. The costs of the printing and other production costs were paid by another generous grant from a local family trust. Interested in helping? Find more information at sfarch.org/calledtobeanangel.The Gabriel Project website is sfarch.org/gabrielproject. If you are a pregnant woman who is interested in finding help and support through the Gabriel Project, the phone number to text or call is 1-800-910-2848.

“Prior to meeting Meagan, I had zero contact with a homeless, pregnant woman,” said Testani, who became godmother to both Montanari and her son Judah at their respective formal entries into the Church. “Yet, there was something about her, when I looked into her eyes and heard her story from her, that (showed) she is for sure one of God’s chosen ones.” Montanari believes her plunge into the darkness of drug and alcohol abuse, pornography, promiscuity, occult practices, felony convictions, a near-fatal overdose and even demonic visions served a holy purpose that brought her to the Light of Christ. “I cannot be certain why God has tested me in such a severe way, but I think for some of us, it takes an immense amount of suffering to break our self-will so that God’s grace can be allowed to enter,” she surmised. By September 2014, she realized her suffering had not quite ended. She asked Sister John Marie to place her in a drug treatment plan. “I told her I needed help, and I couldn’t stop on my own,” Montanari said. The “angels” continued to watch over her as she recovered at the Mount St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth Epiphany Center. The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul, who operate the residential facility, set up a crib in anticipation of Judah’s arrival. In addition, Lo and fellow Gabriel volunteer Eloisa Andres, brought bundles of donations for the bundle of joy who arrived at San Francisco General Hospital Nov. 18, 2014. And Testani paid weekly visits to catechize and prepare the catechumen for her full integration into the Catholic fold at the Easter Vigil in 2015 at St. Brendan parish. ›

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Montanari received the sacraments of Baptism, Holy Eucharist and Confirmation at the Easter Vigil in 2015 at St. Brendan parish with the Missionaries of Charity and other “angels” in attendance. Her reception into the Catholic Church finally brought Montanari the healing that she had long sought. Despite the valiant efforts of her parents, teachers, counselors and friends, she shared, “without the transformation that only Christ Himself can bring, I quickly lost it all. God has written His law on my heart and given my life meaning. He has done this through the sacraments.” She is not certain where she will end up pursuing her dream of teaching theology at the collegiate level, “but wherever God wants me is where I will go.” “My life,” she vowed, “is at the service of the Church.” ■ More information about the GABRIEL PROJECT is available at sfarch.org/gabrielproject.

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oom is a not a word Msgr. Michael Harriman would have connected to his retirement after 53 years as a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Not as a verb or a noun. That was before he put his well-earned days of leisure aside for a year to shepherd a group of Catholics hungry for communal worship in the darkest days of the pandemic. Every Sunday afternoon between Palm Sunday 2020 and Pentecost Sunday 2021, Msgr. Harriman, 79, set up an altar in the leafy backyard of his childhood home in Burlingame and logged on to celebrate a Mass via Zoom. During its 65-week run, as many as 80 people beamed in from their own computer screens in far flung parts of the state and country. Zoom video-conferencing, a corporate staple for a decade now, allows multiple users in different locations to see and talk to each other in real time on a shared computer or mobile screen. The application became a virtual substitute for in-person meetings, parties, classes and more when the coronavirus public health crisis shuttered offices, schools and churches. Participants said that in Msgr. Harriman’s hands with a core team of lay organizers, the Zoom Mass was not just a betterthan-nothing compromise for the loss of public Mass, nor an

alternative to live-streamed liturgies. It was a unique oasis of Catholic faith and fellowship in a very difficult year. “It brought so much love and hope to us,” said Mary Scanlon, a parishioner of St. Cecilia Parish San Francisco, who worked in the rectory with Msgr. Harriman during the SEPTEMBER 2021 | CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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23 years he served there as pastor before his retirement in 2017. She called the Zoom Mass, “a miracle Mass.” “All week long we couldn’t go anywhere, but we looked forward to the next Mass,” she said. “Father Mike was the glue that held us together.” Stephanie Lowe and her husband Tom Vo, CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 2021

also longtime St. Cecilia parishioners who participated in the Mass were reluctant to see it end. But Lowe said it helped fortify their faith in trying times. “The Mass provided a new foundation in hope that things would get better,” said Lowe. The shepherd himself marveled at the spiritual richness of the experiment. ›

All week long we couldn’t go anywhere, but we looked forward to the next Mass. Father Mike was the glue that held us together.” “I found it to be a very moving experience,” said Msgr. Harriman. A UNIQUE PASTORAL OPPORTUNITY In the spring of 2020, three years into his retirement, Msgr. Harriman got a phone call from an old friend. He was “social distancing” at home, the same suburban, corner lot bungalow where his devout Catholic mother and hardworking father raised him and his three sisters. The lockdown had halted Msgr. Harriman’s activities – outings to Giants’ games and get-togethers with family, friends and fellow priests – a

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Sammon, a regular Zoom user at work, wondered aloud whether a Mass could be done that way. He quickly asked if Msgr. Harriman would be willing try it, at least through Easter. “It took some convincing on my part,” Sammon said with a laugh, but the priest eventually said yes. The work of the Holy Spirit, he agreed, but added: “I also think we just trusted each other.” DOING GOD’S WORK OR SERVING THE LORD? After being ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1968, Father Michael Harriman was assigned to St. Isabella Parish in San Rafael as parochial vicar. After almost a decade at the Marin County parish, he took leadership of youth ministry activities for Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), a pivotal role he held for another decade which included running its summer camp and retreat center in the town of Occidental. Later he would serve as pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, and then an unprecedented 23 years as pastor of St. Cecilia Parish. Msgr. Harriman told a short story from his earliest days as a priest when asked why

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The first ‘Zoom Mass’ celebrated by Msgr. Michael Harriman was held on Palm Sunday 2020. Here, Paula Pardini holds a branch symbolizing a palm in her own home.

he agreed to the rather foreign concept of a Zoom Mass. Only a year after his ordination, the young priest had despaired that he was already “drying up.” “I figured I was not putting enough time into my homily because there was so much else to do at St. Isabella,” he said. His spiritual director’s response guides him to this day. “Mike, you have to decide whether you are doing God’s work, or serving the Lord,” he told him. “If you’re doing God’s work you’re

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deciding what that work is. If you are really allowing the Lord to work through you, then you ask, ‘Lord, what is your will for me today?’” “THE MASS BUILT COMMUNITY” The Zoom Mass came with priestly provisions. “I did not want to take away from parishes,” said Msgr. Harriman. “That’s why I agreed to 1 p.m., a very difficult time in a person’s Sunday. I was not going to compete.” He also requested a core team of lay leaders willing to spend one night a week together over Zoom to plan each Mass. Sammon recruited Jamie McClone, of Sea Ranch, to co-chair a team of six people. The two had worked together as CYO camp counselors and like Sammon, she had remained in lifelong contact with Msgr. Harriman. Each Monday, the priest gave the team the Scripture readings, a theme, and ideas for music and songs. With upmost care and consideration, the team planned the liturgy. Separately, one person would work with Msgr. Harriman one-on-one each week to do an exegesis of the scripture readings and found a way to incorporate their personal reflection into the weekly virtual gathering. In all, 35 people were able to participate in that way. “They were central because it was their own pastoral experience, their own lived experience as a son, wife,

husband or daughter,” he said. “(Sacred Scripture) really came alive for everyone, you could see it in the faces.” Promoting or publicizing the Zoom Mass was never the intention, he said. Invitations were made person to person, through three streams connected to Msgr. Harriman’s pastoral life: St. Cecilia parishioners and staff, former CYO youth ministry counselors and campers, and friends, family members and acquaintances of those people. Week by week, participation grew through word of mouth, and the Zoom Mass continued on. The beauty of the format was its surprising intimacy, said Sammon. “It was different than being in the middle of a church, far away from who is speaking. We had that two-way connection.” In this context, the Prayers of the Faithful could be achingly earnest and humble. “A lot of times there was not a dry eye on the screen,” said McClone. “We heard things that some people had never told a soul.” Some of the participants were not active Catholics or had not been able to “find their place in the church,” said Msgr. Harriman. “There was a lot of catechesis going on,” he said. McClone’s adult son Casidhe had not practiced his childhood faith in some time but was drawn in by the engaging community. ›

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“Msgr. Harriman made Mass feel like an invitation to be part of a family,” he said, and it was. Participants began to log in 20-30 minutes early just to talk to each other, and often stayed on after the Mass ended. Susana Lapeyrade-Drummond, a lifelong CYO camper, counselor and supporter, who lives in Brentwood, was among those logging in. Msgr. Harriman’s commitment to the faith and Zoom Mass community “inspired our commitment,” she said. “I am clear that I want to be a lector in my own parish.” “Father Mike managed to create this amazing experience where we all came together as one celebrating God and Christ,” McClone said of his pastoral genius.

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“We sang, we held hands, and everyone was welcome to the table. It was really quite beautiful.” The Zoom Mass ended as intentionally as it had started more than a year earlier. On June 12, about 60 Zoom Mass-goers gathered in person for the first time for a communal Mass and meal among the redwoods at the CYO camp in Occidental. Msgr. Harriman was gifted with two personalized stoles as tokens of thanksgiving. “To be really honest with you, they hated to see it end,” he admitted. “But I was always clear that it would.” Msgr. Harriman chose a meaningful date for the final Mass: May 23, Pentecost Sunday. Parishes were starting to open up again, in the month and a half or so before the last Zoom Mass, and Pentecost was symbolic of the need for members to “go forth,” he said. “Father Mike was adamant that we not use this experience as a crutch,” said McClone. “It is now time to take what we learned from this back to our parishes.” ■

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t. Francis holds a special place in the heart of the city of San Francisco and Mission Dolores. A stained glass window adorns the entrance to Mission Dolores Basilica and reminds visitors of the importance of this saint whose feast day is Oct. 4. Mission San Francisco de Asís, more commonly known as Mission Dolores, was founded on October 9, 1776. The mission was named after St. Francis, founder of the Franciscan Order, and also after Our Lady of Sorrows, taken from the name of a nearby lake, Laguna de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. “Beyond its age, it has great symbolic significance,” commented Andrew Galvan, Mission Dolores Museum curator. “Its Franciscan founders were motivated by the example of St. Francis to bring the message of God’s love and salvation to the peoples of the ‘so-called’ New World. The spirit of generosity and tolerance that marks San Francisco today can be traced in no small part to the ideals

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The Mass: Our greatest treasure BY FATHER KEVIN KENNEDY This article is the first of the Know the Mass series. Father Kevin Kennedy is pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, administrator at St. Monica-St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in San Francisco and formation advisor and spiritual director at St. Patrick’ Seminary & University.

n the Gospel according to Matthew, Jesus says to His disciples: “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it” (Matthew 13: 44-46). Each and every individual could be asked to locate and identify the treasure, or the pearl of great price, in his or her own life. What is invaluable? What takes priority? What is most important for me? If asked this same question, what would be the answer of the universal Church? The answer is found in the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, promulgated on December

4, 1963, and the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, promulgated on November 21, 1964. These major documents of the Second Vatican Council state that “the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the font from which all her power flows” (Sacrosanctum Concilium, no. 10). And again, the Eucharist is the “source and summit of the Christian life” (Lumen Gentium, no. 11). The Catechism of the Catholic Church (no. 1324) reiterated this solemn teaching. Founded upon the words and deeds of the Lord Himself, this has been the constant belief of the Church (East and West) from the very beginning. The Eucharist is truly a priceless treasure because within it is contained the entire mystery of Christ. From this mystery flows all of Christian SEPTEMBER 2021 | CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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spirituality and all of the life and mission of the Church. At the same time, the life and mission of the Church reaches its apex, or highest point, in the Holy Eucharist. It is therefore catastrophic for the spiritual health of the Church that nearly 70 percent of Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence of the Lord (the pearl of great price) in the Eucharist. In response to this grave crisis the bishops of the Church seek to initiate a Eucharistic revival in catechesis and worship (theology and praxis). It is hoped that this series on the Mass will contribute towards a renewal in Eucharistic faith and devotion throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Vatican II called for fully conscious participation in the Mass: “Mother Church earnestly desires that all the faithful should be led to that fully conscious, and active ›

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participation in liturgical celebrations which is demanded by the very nature of the liturgy” (Sacrosanctum Concilium, no. 14). Often misunderstood, this participation should not be just external, but primarily internal as well. This pertains also to our preparation for celebrating the Eucharist. In this regard our depth of faith, our understanding, our intentions and motivations are paramount. Perhaps the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican (Luke 18: 9-14) can guide us. In this story the Pharisee and the tax collector both go to the temple to pray. Outwardly, their intentions and actions seem the same, but inwardly there is a vast difference in their hearts. The point of this parable is sometimes lost because

of a focus on the symptoms (self-righteous arrogance), rather than the root cause (lack of faith), of the Pharisee’s spiritual sickness. To enter the temple is to be in the presence of God. If I am in the house of God, I am not in my own living room. If I truly believe I am in God’s presence, then I will not act as if I am completely alone. And therefore my point of reference in self-evaluation will no longer be myself, but rather God’s truth and God’s holiness. The Pharisee stands by himself and is not praying to God, but essentially talking to himself, focused on himself, celebrating himself. His arrogance and contempt for others is simply a consequence of his inward alienation from God. By contrast, because the tax collector is intensely aware that he is in a holy place, indeed God’s own presence, he sees and judges himself in relation to God rather than in a self-referential way. He is genuinely heartbroken for his sins and, trusting in God’s mercy, seeks to be reconciled with the Lord. This man, who leaves the temple justified rather than empty and alone, will be our model of authentic worship as we examine next time the Introductory Rite of the Mass. ■

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his year, 2021, is the 130th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical letter Rerum Novarum (The Rights and Duties of Labor), the foundational document of modern Catholic teaching on the relations of employers and employees. Pope Leo wrote: “Some opportune remedy must be found quickly for the misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class: for the ancient workingmen’s guilds were abolished in the last century, and no other protective organization took their place.” Rerum Novarum criticized the errors and excesses of two diametrically opposed economic forces of the time—an unchecked capitalism and a totalizing socialism—and the letter went on to re-assert the natural right of humans to hold private property; then, it delineated the moral and ethical

responsibilities that the right to property entails for the owner. The agrarian age was giving way abruptly to the machine age, and the pope was urgently concerned for the welfare of workers in this new, rugged, and volatile epoch. (We are accustomed to calling this the “Industrial Revolution,” but in Pope Leo’s day it was a new name—coined in 1884, by a British historian—for the mechanical production processes that were rapidly reshaping nations and cultures.) In this unprecedented new economy, replete with what Joseph Schumpeter would in 1942 call “creative destruction,” workers were seeking to find stability and equity, trying to resist being treated as commodities that were useful but disposable. The pope’s letter encouraged the formation of “societies for mutual help.” “The most important of all,” he wrote, “are workingmen’s unions.” Instrumental in bringing Pope Leo’s social teaching to San Francisco in the 1890s was an archdiocesan priest named Peter Yorke. In confronting a local association of SEPTEMBER 2021 | CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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employers that had been formed explicitly to deny jobs to the Bay Area’s Catholics (who were an “inferior population” of unwelcome Irish and Italians), Father Yorke recognized that this cabal of the wealthy had a still deeper purpose: to disrupt any and all labor solidarity. Father Yorke put it simply and forcefully: “The Pope says that the principle of unionism is good. The Employers’ Association says the principle of unionism is bad.” Through struggles that included historic strikes (some suppressed violently), Father Yorke and later Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna preached the principles of Rerum Novarum and helped to establish the right of employees to organize in unions and to bargain collectively with employers. Trade and labor unions in the San Francisco Bay Area have a long history. Many stretch back to the days of Pope Leo XIII and Father Yorke, and some are older still: The Carpenters Union Local 2236 (in Oakland) claims an institutional life of more than 160 years; the Bricklayers, Tilesetters and Allied Craftworkers Union Local 3 (in San Leandro) traces its ›

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Workers not only want fair pay, they also want to share in the responsibility and creativity of the very work process.” POPE JOHN PAUL II 1981 letterconstruction Laborem Exercens (On Human Work) Laborers’ Local 261 - union workers - and their contractors build the schools that Rerumthat Novarum in 1891, Catholic educate our children, theSince hospitals care for teachingwhere on labor us, the offices and buildings werelations work andhas been enriched by Pope Leosystems XIII’s successors, live. They build transportation - from who have issued encyclicals inspired by their- predecessor’s highways and subways to airports and bridges seminaland document: On the 40th anniversary that help businesses succeed keep California of provide Rerum Novarum Pius XI wrote on the move. Laborers the safe,Pope efficient Quadragesimo Anno; onMarin the 90th anniversary infrastructure San Francisco, San Mateo and Pope John Paul II issued Laborem Exercens; Counties need to grow and prosper. and for its centenary in 1991 Pope John Paul II published Centesimus They have professional training, skills Annus. and experience to do these jobs right, on time popes Through the generations, and within budget. They build the projects Californians’ need.

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share in the responsibility and creativity of the very work process.” • “We must remember the priority of labor over capital: labor is the cause of production; capital, or the means of production, is its mere instrument or tool.” That last statement is striking and suggestive. It reverses the priority that we might instinctively accord to capital (capital as master, labor as servant, or capital as leader, labor as follower). The pope declares bluntly that without labor, capital is merely inert matter. It’s a revelatory inversion. This dictum of the pope’s also suggests that labor, which we tend to think of as a commodity (sellable by the hour) is more accurately thought of as an art. The responsible worker, using the skills appropriate to the task at hand—and even so-called ‘unskilled labor’ always involves skills—transforms an inert block of capital into a finished, useful, saleable, perhaps even admirable work of human ingenuity. The pope suggests that even the most obscure laborer should be considered an artisan, an artist, and an indispensable contributor. In his poem “Pied Beauty,” the Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889), thanking God for the beauties of creation, has a single ›

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Work is in the first place ‘for the worker’ and not the worker ‘for work.’ Work itself can have greater or lesser objective value, but all work should be judged by the measure of dignity given to the person who carries it out.” POPE JOHN PAUL II 1981 letter Laborem Exercens (On Human Work)

line encapsulating the universal beauty of labor and of hard work done well. He writes, ‘Glory be to God for… All trades, their gear and tackle and trim.’ To which let the Church say, Amen. But if there is poetry in labor, there is also prayer, as we Catholics should be well aware. Let us remember always what St. Benedict told his monks 15 centuries ago, that “To work is to pray; to pray is to work”: Laborare est orare, orare est laborare. ■

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Archdiocese ordains two new priests Nicholas Case and Cameron Pollette were ordained to the priesthood June 19 at St. Mary’s Cathedral by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who in his homily said that the two young priests enter a “dark and unbelieving world” like the one Jesus and his apostles confronted when they set out to spread the Good News, “a world that hated them.” “This is the world for which our brothers Nick and Cameron are being ordained,” the archbishop said to those gathered together for a public ordination at the cathedral for the first time in two years. It’s a world to which they don’t belong, he said, echoing Jesus’ own words, but a “vocation to which God called them from even before He formed them in the womb.” The morning Mass was concelebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus William J. Justice, members of the College of Consultors, Father Mark Doherty, rector of St. Patrick Seminary & University, and six guests of the newly

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ordained men: Father Mark Mazza, Father Joseph Illo, Father Patrick Driscoll, Father Benjamin Rosado, Father Kevin Kennedy and Father Neil Healy. Father Nicholas Case is serving as parochial vicar at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Burlingame and part time as chaplain at Serra High School in San Mateo. Father Cameron Pollette is parochial vicar at St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco.

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During the year of the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Dominic, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone ordained three new Dominican priests and three transitional deacons. Father Chrysostom Mijinke, O.P., Father Martin Maria Nguyen, O.P. and Father John Winkowitsch, O.P., were ordained priests. Joshua Gatus, O.P., Joseph Selinger, O.P. and Mathew Heynon, O.P. were raised to the transitional diaconate at the June 5 Mass at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco. Father Winkowitsch was assigned as parochial vicar at St. Raymond Parish in Menlo Park. The transitional deacons will continue with their studies and the other two priests were assigned outside the archdiocese.

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Sept. 11: Hispanic Day at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Mass at 1 p.m. Celebrated by Archbishop Cordileone.

Sept. 17: Reentry Conference & Resource Fair, St. Mary’s Cathedral event center, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sept. 19: Police/Firefighters Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 11 a.m. Sept. 25: Legion of Mary 100th Anniversary Mass, 11 a.m. Celebrated by Archbishop Cordileone.

Oct. 2: Rosary Rally, Mass at 12:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Celebrated by Archbishop Cordileone. Oct. 3: Faith and Blue Mass, St. Mary’s Cathedral, 11 a.m. Celebrated by Archbishop Cordileone. Oct. 3: Respect Life Sunday, nationwide.

Oct. 6: Red Mass, Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 5:30 p.m. Sponsored by Thomas More Society. Celebrated by Archbishop Cordileone. Oct. 22: St. John Vianney Priests Retirement Luncheon, St. Mary’s Cathedral event center.

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