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Oakland bishop: ‘Get the government out of our church’ (PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
By Valerie Schmalz
Demonstrators in San Francisco March 23 are pictured holding signs protesting a federal mandate they say violates freedom of religion by requiring most religious employers to provide no-cost contraceptive coverage even if it is contrary to their beliefs. The action was among 143 simultaneous rallies in front of U.S. courthouses, state capitols and historic sites. The nationwide demonstration for the principle of religious freedom was organized by the Pro-Life Action League in Chicago and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, based in Michigan.
Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone led a lineup of speakers protesting the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate in a rally at the San Francisco federal courthouse that drew close to 500 people. The rally was part of the “National Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally” held in more than 100 cities and towns March 23. “Yes, get the government out of our church,” Bishop Cordileone said to loud cheers. “How dare the government tell us our religion requires we only serve people of our faith.” “This time it’s Catholics, but it won’t stop there,” Bishop Cordileone said. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regulation requires Catholic schools, universities, hospitals and charities to provide free sterilization and contraceptives, including abortion-inducing drugs in their health plans. The only exempt Catholic institutions will be those that only employ and serve Catholics. The U.S. bishops are urging Catholics and “all people of faith” across the nation to join them in prayer and fasting for religious freedom and conscience protection. Prayer and other resources have been posted on the USCCB website, www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/ religious-liberty/conscience-protection/resources-onconscience-protection.cfm. “Prayer is the ultimate source of our strength – for RALLY, page 7
At Mass, pope recognizes Cubans’ struggles, calls freedom a necessity By Francis X. Rocca SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (CNS) – Celebrating an outdoor Mass on his first day in Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged the struggles of the country’s Catholics after half a century of communism and described human freedom as a necessity for both salvation and social justice. The pope spoke March 26 in Antonio Maceo Revolution Square, in Cuba’s second-largest city. He had arrived in the country a few hours earlier, after spending three days in Mexico. The Vatican had said the square would hold 200,000 people and it was full; several thousand also filled the streets leading to the square. Cuban President Raul Castro, who welcomed the pope at the airport, sat in the front row for Mass. Tens of thousands of those at the Mass were wearing white T-shirts welcoming the pope as the “pilgrim of charity”; many wore baseball caps to protect them from the hot sun. Before the pope arrived in the popemobile, the original statue of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, Cuba’s patroness, was driven atop a white truck through the cheering crowd. The statue then was enthroned near the papal altar.
In his homily, Pope Benedict recognized the “effort, daring and self-sacrifice” required of Cuban Catholics “in the concrete circumstances of your country and at this moment in history.” Though now more tolerant of religious practice than in earlier decades, the communist state continues to prevent the construction of new churches and strictly limits Catholic access to state media. In a possible allusion to reports that the regime had prevented political opponents from attending the Mass, Pope Benedict extended his customary mention of those absent for reasons of age or health to include people who, “for other motives, are not able to join us.” Before the pope arrived, a man in the crowd shouted an anti-communist slogan and was immediately taken away. The pope painted a dire picture of a society without faith. “When God is set aside, the world becomes an inhospitable place for man,” he said. “Apart from God, we are alienated from ourselves and are hurled into the void. “Obedience to God is what opens the doors of the world to the truth, to salvation,” the pope said. CUBAN STRUGGLES, page 16
Cuba’s President Raul Castro greets Pope Benedict XVI as the pope arrives in Santiago de Cuba from Mexico March 26.
INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION On the Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Called to volunteer? . . . . . . . 9 Question Corner . . . . . . . . . 21 Palm Sunday readings . 22-23 Sisters celebrate jubilees . . 25
Artist paints to bring viewers closer to God ~ Page 3 ~ March 30, 2012
Parish, YMCA combine to help Bayview youth ~ Page 8 ~
Scholar urges faithful to review council documents ~ Page 20 ~
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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Congrats to Andrew Murphy, a senior at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, who finished second out of 16 actors in an English-Speaking Union Shakespeare Competition on March 3. “Romeo and Juliet” was his script of choice. “Shakespeare’s language is understandable,” Andrew said in an email. “Archaic, but the words have clear meaning. I made sure that I felt comfortable with the language and then I worked on my voice and Andrew presentation. I planted my feet firmly Murphy and presented,” he said, borrowing from advice James Cagney was known to give to actors seeking his counsel: “Plant your feet firmly, look them in the eye and tell the truth.” Jesuit Father Cornelius Buckley was honored by friends, family, and former students on the occasion of his 50th year as a priest March 14 at the Olympic Club, Lakeside. Father Buckley, who has taught at the University of San Francisco and Santa Clara University, now serves as chaplain and assistant dean for religious affairs at Thomas Aquinas College in Southern California. In honor of Father Buckley, the priest’s niece Jesuit Father Maureen Buckley and her husband, Cornelius Steve Albertolle, established a Buckley Buckley Scholarship Fund at Thomas Aquinas College. “We are humbled by Maureen and Steve, as well as the many other generous friends of Father Buckley who have already contributed to his scholarship fund,” said Paul O’Reilly, development director at the school. Dominican Father Gerald A. Buckley, Father Buckley’s brother, led an opening prayer. Knights of Columbus councils from throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco presented Archbishop George Niederauer with a check for $3,650 March 8. “We collected the money as our gift to the San Francisco archdiocese to be used where it is needed most,” said Gil Eliares, president, St. Francis chapter. The money was collected at a Clergy Night and Dinner sponsored by the Knights of Columbus in January. At the event, Holy Ghost Father Alwyn Furtado, pastor, St. Mark Parish, Belmont, and Deacon James Haug, Good Shepherd Parish, Pacifica, were honored as priest and deacon of the year by the knights.
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Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame returns to RENEW faith-sharing during Lent. Pictured are members of a group that has met since 1998. Top from left, are Ralph Catalano, Dennis Creedon, Ron Daher, Clarence Cravalho, and bottom from left, Anne Danet, Barbara Daher, Deanna O’Regan, Lois Fragomeni, Diane Creedon, Linda Catalano and Dorothy Golding.
Winners of Pro-life Speech Contest sponsored by San Mateo Pro-life after the contest March 8. Pictured from left are Jessica Munn, San Mateo Pro Life chairwoman; second place winner, Mary Casey, sophomore, Hillsdale High School; third place winner, Regina Fitzpatrick, senior, Mercy High School, Burlingame; and first place winner, Stephen Glassmoyer, junior, Sacred Heart Prep, Atherton, who will go on to state competitions in Sacramento at a date yet to be announced.
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Local devotional artist paints to bring viewers closer to God By Dana Perrigan Lisa Andrews not only paints what she preaches – she practices it as well. The Bay Area artist, who may devote months of research to her subject before applying paint to canvas, invariably begins a project the same way: “I always start with a prayer,” she said. Judging from the response to her portrait of Pope John Paul II as a young university student, the Assumption of Mary, and one of the two together (“Totus Tuus”), Andrews’ prayers have been answered. The life-size portrait of the 26-year-old Karol Wojtyla, unveiled at the Franciscan University of Steubenville on the very day of the pope’s funeral in 2005 has, according to one group, “had an amazing impact on young men discerning the priesthood.” “I believe the purpose of all art should be to move us toward God,” said Andrews, who lives in San Mateo with her husband and attends Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park. “Artists have a particular way of doing that.” During the past decade, Andrews’ way has been to create beauty – as Pope John Paul II once encouraged artists to do – by marrying the good and the true. She also follows the advice Pope Benedict XVI gave last year to a gathering of artists on the 60th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood: To create works “capable of awakening admiration, wonder and true joy in men’s hearts.” Religious art, said Andrews, has always been “a huge tool for catechesis.” Through much of the church’s history, it has supported great painters in their quest to create works that would not only promote the faith, but provoke a sense of awe and wonder at its mystery. During the past decade, said Andrews, that is exactly what she feels she has been called to do. “It can be a bit scary,” she said. “There is a responsibility when you create religious art. I don’t call my art sacred because sacred
Lisa Andrews’ painting of Pope John Paul II and Mary together (“Totus Tuus”)
Andrews’ depiction of “The Assumption”
art is used in liturgical services. I call my art devotional.” It took a while for Andrews to discern her calling. After leaving UCLA in 1977 with a master’s degree in finance, the Southern California native moved to New York and went to work for American Airlines. A few years later, she
moved to the Bay Area to pursue a corporate career. It was only with the birth of her son that she began to think seriously about pursuing art. “My first vocation was as a mom,” she said. Shortly after the birth of her son in 1985, a friend asked her to paint a portrait of the friend’s recently deceased husband. Her friend later revealed that the portrait had been a tremendous help in navigating her way through the grieving process, toward healing. A portrait Andrews painted of her husband’s brother – who had been killed in a car accident – had a similar effect. After years of painting secular still life and portraits, Andrews – due to a combination of circumstances and deepening faith – felt called to paint religious art. While her son was a student at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, Andrews offered to do a painting for the school. At first, it was to be a painting of St. Francis, but a decision to paint a life-size portrait of Pope John Paul II was later made. “Everybody knows him as an older man,” said Andrews. “I wanted to paint him when he was a young student.” The painting, which hangs in the lobby of
the Pope John Paul II Library at the university, is, Andrews said, “a testament to the heights to which one can rise in the service of the Lord, even during times of great tribulation.” Karol Wojtyla is depicted holding a book titled “King-Spirit,” a mystical poem written by Juliusz Slowacki, one of the leading Polish romantic poets of the 19th century and a great favorite of the pope. He holds a rosary in his left hand, the sign of his great devotion to the Blessed Mother. In the background, to the right, stands the façade of Jagellonian University in Krakow. Opposite is the Zakrzowek limestone quarry Wojtyla worked at during World War II to avoid being sent by the Nazis to a prison camp. “When I do a painting, I research it to death,” said Andrews, who spent six months researching the life of Pope John Paul II, and studied hundreds of photographs before she arrived at the concept she wanted. Coincidentally, the model she hired turned out to be Polish. When she finally started to work, said Andrews, the painting seemed to paint itself. “The definition of art is that art happens in the inspiration,” said Andrews, “in that moment the artist is inspired to convey something about the subject.” Then, the craftsperson takes over, and the most pedestrian matter, such as linseed oil and paint, “can become sublime.” Andrews’ “The Assumption” has been installed at Father of Mercy Chapel of the Franciscan Sisters, in Toronto, Ohio. Her painting of Pope John Paul II and Mary together (“Totus Tuus”) hangs at the Church of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Hopedale, Ohio. Currently, Andrews is nearing the end of the research phase on a painting of the parable of the prodigal son. “I think it’s going to work out very well,” said Andrews, whose plans include depicting the prodigal son’s face at the very moment he realizes that he is forgiven by his father. As with everything, it all started with a prayer.
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Pope names once-accused bishop to Vatican’s health care council VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has appointed a German bishop who had been accused of financial irregularities and hitting children to the Vatican’s health care council. Retired Bishop Walter Mixa of Augsburg was named a member of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry March 21. It is the 70-year-old bishop’s first appointment as a member of a Vatican dicastery. He served as the bishop of Augsburg and the German Military Ordinariate until he resigned in 2010. Bishop Mixa’s resignation was accepted a few weeks after he offered it, after accusations surfaced that he had hit children during his time as a priest in charge of a children’s home near Augsburg. He originally denied the claims, then admitted that he had perhaps “boxed the ears” of some of his wards. Bishop Mixa also faced accusations of misappropriation of funds from the children’s home. German prosecutors also investigated Bishop Mixa for alleged sexual abuse of a minor when he was bishop of Eichstatt from 1996 to 2005, but dropped the investigation for lack of evidence. Pope Benedict met with Bishop Mixa after his resignation, in a private audience at the Vatican in 2010. After the closed-door meeting, the Vatican said the bishop would “retreat for a period of silence, contemplation and prayer.” After a period of “treatment and reconciliation,” the Vatican had said the bishop would be available for pastoral work authorized by his successor, Bishop Konrad Zdarsa.
Polish abuse victim questions bishops’ zero-tolerance stance WARSAW, Poland – A prominent victim of clerical sex abuse has rejected the Polish church’s stance that it is following a zero-tolerance policy toward priests and offers moral support for victims. Ewa Orlowska, whose book about her ordeal, “I Accused a Priest,” was published in 2008, charged that the church is holding “victims up to ridicule” while “behaving as if nothing has happened.” “No one in the church has made the slightest gesture.
Bishops approve Haiti church rebuilding aid WASHINGTON – One of the iconic symbols of the Catholic Church in Haiti’s earthquake-battered capital will be rebuilt starting this year under a program administering millions of dollars in donations. Construction on Sacred Heart Church in the middle-class community of Turgeau in Port-au-Prince will receive $1.8 million in funding under a joint program involving the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services and the Haitian bishops. The project’s total cost is estimated at $2.5 million. The funding for the church was approved March 21 by the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America. The grants were announced in conjunction with Pope Benedict XVI’s March 23-28 pastoral visit to Mexico and Cuba. Sacred Heart Church was destroyed in the magnitude 7 earthquake that claimed more than 300,000 lives in a matter of seconds in January 2010. The project and four others in Haiti received a total of $3.1 million from the subcommittee. Another three dozen projects in Latin America and the Caribbean received an additional $2.7 million.
No one has expressed regret, visited or written to me. But now the bishops’ conference head talks about surrounding victims of pedophilia with help and moral compensation,” Orlowska said after the Polish bishops adopted guidelines – in line with May 2011 Vatican instructions – for handling accusations. The mother of nine, Orlowska told Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza daily that her abuser, Msgr. Michal Moskwa, had been moved from his parish in Tylawa to another church eight miles away after his 2004 conviction for sexual abuse and two-year jail sentence. At his new assignment, she said, Msgr. Moskwa continued celebrating Mass and preparing children for first Communion after being defended in a pastoral letter by his ordinary, Archbishop Jozef Michalik of Przemysl, bishops’ conference president. Archbishop Michalik said the guidelines approved during the bishops’ March 13-14 meeting would oblige all Catholic institutions to “defend the weakest.”
Dutch church to cooperate in review of castration claims OXFORD, England – The Dutch church has pledged to fully cooperate with investigations into reported claims that Catholic institutions castrated boys and young men in their care to rid them of homosexuality. Bert Elbertse, spokesman for the Dutch Catholic bishops’ conference, said the bishops found the reports “shocking and appalling” and that they “condemn and regret such practices in the strongest possible terms.” “Our church has been badly damaged by accusations of sexual abuse. The fact that people were unsurprised by these latest claims suggests our image couldn’t get any worse,” he said.
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Ruins of Sacred Heart Church in Port-au-Prince after the January 2010 earthquake
Elbertse’s comments followed a March 17 report by the NRC Handelsblad daily that as many as 11 boys were castrated at church-run schools and psychiatric institutions in the 1950s after being suspected of homosexuality. Security and Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten described the castration claims March 20 as “very serious and shocking,” and said he would investigate the role of the Netherlands government at the time.
Chinese officials take bishop, chancellor for ‘learning classes’ HONG KONG – Coadjutor Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin of Wenzhou and his chancellor, Father Paul Jiang Sunian, were taken into custody by government officials in mid-March to attend “learning classes,” sources told the Asian church news agency, UCA News. Bishop Shao, 49, was appointed by the Holy See to lead Wenzhou’s unregistered, or underground, Catholic community in 2007 and is not recognized by the government. He and Father Jiang were taken March 19. If Bishop Shao and Father Jiang are “intelligent enough in their learning,” they will be allowed back soon; if not, they will be detained longer, local church sources quoted government officials as saying. “This implies their release depends on whether they accept the government’s religious policies,” one of the sources told UCA News. Sources also said a few of Wenzhou diocese’s 17 underground priests were summoned to meet with religious officials in mid-March. Some were told to remain behind while others were allowed to return home the same day, the sources added. – Catholic News Service
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Landmark clergy sex abuse trial begins in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA (CNS) – State prosecutors and defense lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn and Father James J. Brennan all decried the issue of sexual abuse of children at the start of a criminal trial March 26 in Philadelphia. Despite that apparent agreement, the attorneys embarked on sharply divergent paths as they made opening arguments before presiding Judge M. Teresa Sarmina and jurors at the beginning of the trial for Msgr. Lynn, 61, former secretary for clergy of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and Father Brennan, an archdiocesan priest. Msgr. Lynn is the highest-ranking diocesan official ever charged with alleged crimes in connection with the scandal of sexual abuse of children by clergy that has roiled the Catholic Church in the United States for the past decade. He faces two charges of endangering the welfare of a child. Father Brennan, 48, is accused of attempting to rape a 14-year-old boy in 1996. Both priests remain free on bail and on administrative leave from the archdiocese, so they may not function publicly as priests. A third defendant in the trial, former priest Edward Avery, 69, pleaded guilty March 23 to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a boy in 1999, as well as to a charge of conspiracy. Assistant District Attorney Jacqueline Coelho in her opening argument emphasized the alleged conspiracy of archdiocesan officials, especially Msgr. Lynn. Coelho repeatedly referred to the “secrets� and the archdiocese’s “secret archive files� of priests accused of sexual assault or misconduct dating to the 1940s, and to Msgr. Lynn as the keeper of those secrets. As archdiocesan secretary for clergy from 1992 to 2004, his role, Coelho said, was as a “human resources manager� charged with “investigating crimes committed against children by priests� and to “protect the church, protect children and protect priests’ privacy.� “You can’t protect children without bringing allegations (of misconduct) to light,� she said. “(Msgr.) Lynn kept secrets in the dark, in the secret archives; he kept parishioners in the dark.� Coelho cited the cases of 12 archdiocesan priests and their alleged sexual abuse of minors. The cases were all part of the 2005 grand jury report that widely exposed the crisis of sexual
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Msgr. William Lynn, with his attorney at his right, and Father James Brennan are pictured before the opening of a criminal trial in Philadelphia March 26.
abuse by priests in the Philadelphia archdiocese over more than 60 years. The cases have become notorious and underscored what Coelho termed a conspiracy to endanger children in a “concerted effort to protect the church from scandal.� Msgr. Lynn’s defense attorney, Thomas Bergstrom, echoed Sarmina’s opening injunction to the jurors that the defendants are presumed innocent during the trial, and that the jury must find his client guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Bergstrom acknowledged that sex abuse occurred in the archdiocese, but said he does not represent the church or the archdiocese, but only Msgr. Lynn. His client, Bergstrom said, “knows (sexual abuse of a child) is awful, but he and perhaps he alone is the one who tried to correct it.� Bergstrom said Msgr. Lynn met with victims and priests accused of abuse, and documented everything in memorandums and letters. Msgr. Lynn forwarded that information and recommendations on priestly assignments “to the chain of command,� but had no authority to assign priests as secretary for clergy. “The only man in the archdiocese that can assign priests is Cardinal (Anthony J.) Bevilacqua,� Bergstrom said. The late cardinal led the archdiocese from 1988 to 2003. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is the current head of the Philadelphia archdiocese.
Bergstrom said evidence in the trial would show that Cardinal Bevilacqua rejected Msgr. Lynn’s recommendation for assignment of thenFather Avery. The cardinal instead assigned him to hospital ministry and residence in a parish where Avery would later be accused of sexual assault of a boy, in the incident to which he pleaded guilty. “Some have the theory that there is a massive conspiracy to harm children in the archdiocese,� Bergstrom said. “But that’s not this case, not his (Msgr. Lynn’s) case.� Bergstrom then described how his client tried to address the issue of priest misconduct. More than a year after Msgr. Lynn took the helm of the clergy office, reports started to surface about allegations of priest sex abuse from past decades. The priest and an aide began an investigation of priest personnel files and locked document archives at the archdiocesan headquarters in Philadelphia. They wanted to assess, Bergstrom said, “how bad is this problem?�
Their result, he said, were 323 files from which they compiled 35 names of priests with accusations or credible evidence of sexual abuse. Their memo of Feb. 18, 1994, attached a list with the names, which was sent up through the archdiocesan administration of the time to Msgr. Lynn’s superiors, including Cardinal Bevilacqua. Although the cardinal ordered the memo shredded, a copy was placed in a locked box not discovered until 2006 and not produced for the court in the trial until recently. William Brennan, the defense lawyer for Father James Brennan, said evidence will cast doubt on the veracity of the attempted rape claim and perhaps on the character of the person making it. Coelho’s vivid descriptions of alleged sexual abuse by priests going back to 1948 through the 1990s gave a preview of the kind of details that are likely to emerge in the trial.
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A Catholic schools marching band with students from St. Gregory, St. Timothy, St. Robert, Good Shepherd and Holy Angels schools is pictured performing in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade March 17 in San Francisco. The grades four through eight musicians were directed by Bill McLanahan, the schools’ band instructor. Left, St. Robert School fourth graders Logan Dias, Cesar Madrigal, Thomas Brugnara, Cameron Kalagayan and Rachel Halili are pictured practicing before the start of the parade. Among the parade-goers were, below left, Fergal and Susan Mulally with their fourmonth-old son Patrick (father and son are Irish); and Faith Conroy, a third grader at Pacifica’s Good Shepherd School.
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Jasmin Grammatico, 6, is pictured holding an American flag during the singing of the national anthem at the March 23 rally. Her mother, Elizabeth, is with her.
Rally . . . ■ Continued from cover without God, we can do nothing; but with God, all things are possible,” the bishops said in a March 14 statement titled “United for Religious Freedom.” Walter Hoye, a Protestant minister in Oakland and president of the California Civil Rights Foundation, organized San Francisco’s rally. The national rally was organized by the Pro-Life Action League, based in Chicago, and Citizens for a ProLife Society, based in Michigan. “The battle lines have been drawn,” Hoye said, urging voter registration tables in every church lobby every Sunday. “All it requires is for people to vote. We can change this America and it starts today,” said Hoye. “Repeat after me, Vote God 2012,” the minister said to loud chants of support.
Marjorie Campbell, a parishioner at St. Dominic in San Francisco and founder of a pro-life feminist blog, told the crowd, “Susan B. Anthony fought for the right of women to vote because God gave women dignity.” The turnout at the U.S. Courthouse included a half dozen Dominican priests and brothers; St. Raphael Parish pastor Father John Balleza; St. Sebastian pastor Father Mark Taheny; a busload of 54 people from St. Edward Parish in Newark; and parishioners from around the archdiocese, including St. Gabriel, St. Thomas More and Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Two Catholic OB/GYNs from Omaha, Neb., visiting San Francisco to learn techniques of microsurgery to repair fallopian tubes to restore fertility, were at the rally. “We’re here as Catholic OB/GYNS. This affects us directly, professionally and personally,” said Dr. Kathryn Karges.
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“We know there is better health care available that doesn’t involve abortion and contraception because we practice it daily,” said Dr. Christine Cimo-Hemphill. “I am here because this is going to influence my life and my future and my children if I have some,” said eighth grader Mary Lovejoy, 14, of San Ramon Valley Christian Academy, who attended with two friends and the girls’ mothers. “I believe this is a war against women,” said Rosemary Wood of St. Raymond Parish in Dublin. “The fact that we have to be here today – in this day and age – fighting for our rights is unbelievable,” said George Wesolek, director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, who spoke at the rally. “We are not going to be confined to the walls of our church. Our faith tells us to go out and serve others, no matter what.”
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St. Paul of the Shipwreck partners with YMCA to help Bayview youth Church offers education, recreation in neighborhood without a Catholic school St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish is partnering with the Bayview YMCA to bring an expanded after-school program to children in grades five through 12, continuing a parish initiative that combines CYO sports and after-school enrichment with academic tutoring in the parish gym on Third Street in San Francisco. “The initial goal was just to utilize the facility to keep the kids off the street. In so doing, we recognized the power that this facility and a good program would have to transform and shape lives, build character and assist families,” said Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, who has been pastor for six years but has worked at the parish since before his ordination in 1999. “The Y is nondenominational but the program is here at our church. The program is our program being run by the Y,” said Father Gawlowski, noting that each year the parish programs start without enough money, and somehow they squeak through the year. Father Gawlowski said he applies for grants and other funding to pay for the program. The Y partnership also opens up the programs at the Bayview Y to the children participating in the Shipwreck gym program and the Y children can also come to Shipwreck, he said. A total of 146 children are participating now, said Donald Harper, YMCA program director at St. Paul of the Shipwreck. Daily activities include academic support and leadership, with sports teams by season including baseball, basketball, volleyball and flag football. Music, art, drama, and cooking clubs meet weekly as do the boys and girls groups and leadership council. The program includes a snack and requires the children to participate in homework help to play sports. The parish-YMCA partnership goal is to create “a place of community strength, safety and beauty where every young person is cared for, nurtured and challenged to do their best,” said Harper. The Y is committed to working with area churches to help the community so is very happy about the relationship with Shipwreck, he said. “Youth, staff, and community members come together to turn back the tides of social injustice, by embracing hope, compassion and the reality of a better community.” The after-school program was started by Father Gawlowski and built around the core of CYO Athletics but it kept expanding and the pastor said he realized he wanted it run by an organization that had a primary goal of providing this kind of service, with the contacts and ability to draw in other community groups. A big factor was years of observing Bayview YMCA Executive Director Gina Frommer, a
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Shaela Carsen, 11, left, a fifth grader, and seventh grader Marjari Gilford, 13, work on math homework in the after-school program.
Frank Hanis, 12, gets ready to throw the ball to the basket while other participants in the basketball program have a conversation with the coach and assistant coach.
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“The youth are robbed of having a childhood. They have to become street smart, they have to deal with so many problems,” said Father Gawlowski, who was born in Detroit and joined the Franciscans in 1991 after spending 10 years as an electrical engineer. “They need to have people be involved in their lives, encouraging them, giving them hope,” the priest said. “So the gym provides a place where they can be involved with more adult role models, more people to keep them on track or if you will, show them the path to maturity.” St. Paul of the Shipwreck’s parish elementary school closed in 2003 and the parish leased the school building to KIPP Bayview Academy, a charter school focused on preparing at-risk students to go to college. “Since there are no Catholic schools in the Bayview, our non-Catholic kids in our neighborhood have little or no baySoundPediatrics0311.eps 1 2/21/11 11:47 AM exposure to the Catholic Church,” Father Gawlowski said, so the program has yet another possible benefit. “I am hoping that our program can be a vehicle where the kids in our neighborhood see the Catholic Church in a positive light and a vehicle by which they can enter into Catholic education either middle school or high school.”
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Let mutual love continue: Volunteering for a future without poverty A basic moral test of any community can be made by looking at how its most vulnerable members are faring. All individuals have crucial social needs and, for someone living in poverty, those needs are often compounded by growing waiting lists for services, lost job opportunities and limited resources. Can you help create a future without poverty? By giving of your time and talent through volunteering, you can provide valuable support for your neighbors in need. Volunteering is ultimately about helping others, learning about and better understanding their needs, and having an impact on their well-being. Across all three counties of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, more than 1,000 individuals volunteer annually for Catholic Charities CYO’s services for families, children and the aging. In Marin County, volunteers at Canal Family Support spend time each day helping young children – some of whom live in monolingual households or do not have someone at home to help them – with homework and tutoring.
“Every Lent, it was always about what I could give up, but I wanted to do something good as well. I saw the need for a volunteer and thought, this is the answer,” said a parishioner from St. Patrick Church in Larkspur. She found the volunteer opportunity at Canal in her church bulletin during Lent last year. She has since volunteered one day a week to help third graders with their reading and writing. Because of this volunteer support, the children are able to make progress in school. Judith Brooks of St. Paul the Shipwreck Church also found a volunteer opportunity in the bulletin. Last Christmas, she volunteered at Leland House – a residential center for individuals living with disabling HIV/AIDS – for their annual holiday party. “Volunteering is about respect. It’s a chance to bring some joy to others,” Brooks said. “You’d be surprised how rewarding it is to hand someone a drink with care and receive a smile back.” Brooks is looking at upcoming volunteer opportunities to give of her time each season. Michael Perkins, a parishioner at St. Charles
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Warmly met pope thanks Mexican Catholics for ‘unforgettable’ visit SILAO, Mexico (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI bade Mexico a warm “adios,” emphasizing he meant, “Remain with God,” concluding a trip marked by outpourings of faith and affection from people in the world’s second-most populous Catholic country. “I leave full of unforgettable experiences, not the least of which are the innumerable courtesies and signs of affection that I’ve received,” Pope Benedict said March 26 in his closing remarks before departing for Cuba. The pope used his departure remarks to exhort Mexicans “to be good citizens, conscious of their responsibility to be concerned for the good of all, both in their personal lives and throughout society.” “In the name of millions of Mexicans, thank you for a visit we will never forget,” Mexican President Felipe Calderon said at the departure ceremony. During his four-day trip, Pope Benedict received the keys to the cities of Leon and Guanajuato, met with Calderon and celebrated Mass for a crowd that the Guanajuato state government estimated at 640,000. He also greeted Mexicans who lost loved ones to violence. Pope Benedict recognized the outpourings of affection. The evening of March 25, he emerged from Leon’s Miraflores
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“Never have I been received with such enthusiasm. Now I can say that Mexico is going to always stay in my heart,” Pope Benedict said in comments translated by his ambassador to Mexico, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, and broadcast on national TV. Enthusiastic crowds lined streets in the municipalities of Leon, Silao and Guanajuato for all of Pope Benedict’s movements. Many chanted, “Benedict, brother, you’re now Mexican,” reflecting the grand affection shown for the pope, who Mexican and foreign media outlets surmised in stories was less beloved in the country than his predecessor, Blessed John Paul II. “This could be the only opportunity” to see the pope, said Benito Urrutia, an engineer working in the footwear industry underpinning the Leon economy. “It’s an important event, being close to the representative of Christ.” “We came here for the love of the pope and to receive his blessing,” added artisan Irma Palomino, who began traveling at 4 a.m. and walked more than three miles uphill to attend the March 25 Mass. The visit came as Mexico’s Catholic population continues a gradual decline, measuring 84 percent in the 2010 survey. Auxiliary Bishop Victor Rodriguez Gomez of Texcoco expressed concern with the trend, but said the nearly 5 percent of Mexicans declaring no religious affiliation should be alarming to all Christians.
Victims unheard as Father Maciel’s legacy – good and bad – lives on in Mexico By David Agren LEON, Mexico (CNS) – Priests from the Legionaries of Christ celebrate Mass every Sunday at the cathedral in this conservative Catholic city, which Pope Benedict XVI visited March 23-26. Youths belonging to the Legionaries’ lay movement, Regnum Christi, planned to participate in welcoming the pope to Mexico and volunteer at the papal Mass in neighboring Silao. Businessmen who donated heavily to Legionaries’ schools for children in impoverished barrios also attended the Mass. Absent from the papal itinerary in Guanajuato state: victims abused by the founder of the Legionaries, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado. Father Maciel died in 2008, having been told by Pope Benedict to stop practicing his ministry in public and live a life of prayer and penance. The order he founded in 1941 was placed under new leadership by the Vatican in 2010 after an apostolic visitation. It was to be founded anew with a different charism, in repudiation of Father Maciel and his life’s work, which is marred by accusations of him sexually abusing seminarians and fathering children. The priest’s legacy and influence lives on in Mexico, serv-
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‘The point is to be restored to a relationship of holiness with God’ 500 SHCP students pray, reflect in annual Lenten reconciliation service A reconciliation service for Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory students took place March 20 at St. Francis Hall and Patrons Hall at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Some 500 students attended the annual service, reading the Gospel, praying and listening as instructors explained the sacrament of reconciliation. The students were given handouts, including one instructing them on the examination of conscience for high school youths. The guidance centered on relationships – toward God, toward other people and toward the penitent himself or herself. The students were reminded that “the point of the sacrament is to be restored to a relationship of holiness with this God who loves you.” Archbishop George Niederauer was among 12 priests hearing confessions.
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By Valerie Schmalz Five students at Good Shepherd School are among the more than 170 people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco who will be baptized into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil. “I want to become baptized because I want to become part of the Catholic community,” said Sarah Bonomi, 12, who will be baptized, confirmed and receive her first Communion on April 7 at the Church of the Good Shepherd. Five Good Shepherd students will be baptized at Easter Vigil with a sixth baptized the following Sunday. A seventh elementary school child, a student at Holy Angels School, will also enter the church at the Pacifica parish’s Easter Vigil. In addition to those being baptized, more than 275 people who were baptized in another Christian faith will be welcomed into the Catholic Church, and receive first Eucharist and confirmation, said Laura Bertone, interim director of the archdiocesan Office of Worship. Several hundred more Catholics, who were baptized but never completed their initiation, will celebrate their first Eucharist and confirmation and become full members of the Catholic faith, Bertone said. Nationwide, tens of thousands of people
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2012 Easter Week Schedule: RECONCILIATION SERVICE: April 3, 7:00pm, SACRED TRIDUUM HOLY THURSDAY: April 5, 7:00pm, Vigil with Eucharist followed by Adoration until 11:00 pm GOOD FRIDAY: April 6, Noon to 3:00, 7:30pm Stations of the Cross, CONFESSIONS 3:00 - 4:00PM HOLY SATURDAY: April 7, 9:00am Morning Prayer, 8:00pm Easter Vigil E ASTER S UNDAY : April 8, 8:00, 9:30, 11:15am, No Evening Mass
Annual Divine Mercy Novena and Celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday April 15th Annual Divine Mercy Novena begins on Good Friday April 6 right after our Good Friday Services (about 3pm). All Novenas will be led by the Holy Name Society members in the Chapel. April 15, Divine Mercy Sunday, we will have Mass and Devotional services at 3pm in the church with a formal Veneration of Divine Mercy Image and concluding the Novena as instituted by Blessed Pope John Paul II.
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Pacifica school youngsters among 170 archdiocesan catechumens entering faith
Six students at Good Shepherd School will enter the Catholic Church this Easter season. Pictured in front of the school are, standing, Michael Allen; parish RCIA director Holy Names Sister Carol Fleitz; Katelyn Quon; Laura Bonomi. Sitting are Evan Quon, Sarah Bonomi, Emily Liu.
to Catholic school when he first came to this country, but he did not belong to any specific religion. “I just believed in God,” he said. Going through the RCIA process since September, Mao said he respects the RCIA
team. “I see the passion in their eyes,” he said. “They truly believe in Jesus.” While the largest number of people enters the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil around GOOD SHEPHERD, page 14
CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION 1111 Gough St., San Francisco • Tel: (415) 567-2020
HOLY WEEK & SACRED PASCHAL TRIDUUM SCHEDULE 2012 PALM SUNDAY
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Vigil Mass Saturday, March 31 – 5:30 p.m. Sunday, April 1 – Masses: 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant 1:00 p.m. en español
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April 5 – Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 p.m. – Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant Night Prayer following the Mass in St. Francis Hall until 11:45 p.m. NO CONFESSIONS TODAY
FRIDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD (GOOD FRIDAY) We continue our Vigiling . . . . April 6 – 12 noon Music in the Cathedral 1:00 p.m. – Liturgy of the Passion and Death of the Lord Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant 7:00 p.m. – Las Siete Palabras de Jesus en la Cruz NO CONFESSIONS TODAY
HOLY SATURDAY Our Paschal Vigil continues throughout the day and night . . . April 7 – The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night 8:00 p.m. – Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant NO CONFESSIONS TODAY
SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD (EASTER) April 8 – Masses: 7:30 a.m.; 9:00 a.m. ; 11:00 a.m. ; 1:00 p.m. en Espanol; 3:30 p.m. Easter Concert; 4:15 p.m. Evening Prayer and conclusion of the Sacred Paschal Triduum
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the world, being baptized Catholic can occur whenever the presiding priest decides the catechumen is ready to make the act of faith. For instance, Good Shepherd second grader Michael Allen will be baptized Sunday, April 15, due to family wishes and for the opportunity to be baptized by the former pastor. “People say, why do you drink blood?” referring to the sacrifice of the Mass, said Good Shepherd seventh grader Sarah Bonomi, who is very excited about becoming Catholic. She answered that the Mass is about Jesus and the “sacrifice he has given up for us so we can go to heaven.” The children at Good Shepherd School who will be baptized range in age from 7 to 12, and include Sarah and her sister Laura, 11. A younger brother, 3, will also be baptized during the Easter season. At the Church of the Good Shepherd, there is a baptismal pool that the brown-robed catechumens and the priest stand in, while the priest pours water over their heads. The children then go out the back door, change into their good clothes and return to the church where their sponsors cloth them in the traditional white robes, symbolizing being clothed in Jesus Christ. They stand at the front for the remainder of the administration of the sacrament of baptism and to be confirmed. They receive their first Communion during Communion. “It just kind of happened,” said Sister Carol Fleitz, a Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and RCIA director, of the unusually high number of school children being baptized. Good Shepherd School Principal Andi Gualco said she believes the close-knit Pacifica Catholic community and the Catholic culture of the school contribute to the children’s and in some cases their parents’ desire that they become Catholic. “I think it is just something the kids get from other kids. We have a high percentage of Catholics,” Gualco said. “We are really a parish school.” Most choose the small school of a little more than 200 students because of its culture of faith, Gualco said. “I think parents here made the choice because it is a Catholic school,” she said. Each morning the school children gather in the gym for prayer, which includes a Scripture reading. During Lent the children pray specifically for one or more of the school families. Each family is represented by a homemade and decorated stick cross. By Lent’s end, each school family will have been prayed for specifically, the principal said. Good Shepherd third grader Evan Quon, 8, and his second grade sister, Katelyn Quon, 7, will enter the church at the Easter Vigil partly because of their father’s desire that they be baptized, Evan said. “I’m in a Catholic school. My dad sent me here because he wants me to learn about Jesus,” said Evan. Seventh grader Emily Liu said, “I like the church’s history and I think it is nice to have a role model in Jesus.”
The six Good Shepherd School students who will be baptized this Easter season are pictured at the baptismal pool at Church of the Good Shepherd in Pacifica. Jimmy Mao will be baptized at Church of the Visitacion in San Francisco, drawn to the faith because of his fiance, Teresa Sedano. “She’s Catholic, so she wanted me to have the same kind of train of thought that she does as far as raising our kids in the future and building a family together,” Mao said.
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Sta ons of the Cross every Friday at 7:00 PM followed by Movie & Scripture Live Sta ons of the Cross Indoor on March 30 Confessions before & during Sunday Masses; Peniten al Rite: Friday, March 23rd @ 6:30 PM (con nues during the Sta ons) Lenten Retreats: March 31 Parish Lenten Day Retreat, Scanlan Hall; 10:00 AM to 5 PM, ends with Vigil Mass.
Paschal Triduum PALM SUNDAY, April 1: Regular Sunday Mass Schedule with procession of palms HOLY THURSDAY, April 5: “Caena Domini” Washing of the Feet 7: 00 PM English; 9:00 PM Arabic GOOD FRIDAY, April 6: 12:00 NOON: Outdoor Sta ons of the Cross 1:00 PM, Passion of Christ, ENGLISH 9:00 PM, Passion of Christ, ARABIC HOLY SATURDAY, April 7: 7:30 PM Ceremony of the Light & Mass of the Resurrec on, ENGLISH 10:30 PM Ceremony of the Light & Mass of the Resurrec on, ARABIC EASTER SUNDAY, April 8: 8:00 AM Brazilian Mass 10:00 AM English Mass followed by children’s Easter Egg Hunt by the Peace Statue on Brotherhood Way* 2:00PM Burmese Mass 8:00 PM English Mass “Salubong” April 15: 8:00 PM *Parents must accompany their children. **No Arabic Mass on Easter Sunday.
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A Lenten mini-retreat at St. Anne of the Sunset Church in San Francisco March 18, with Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, drew about 120 teens for youth-led Stations of the Cross and a reconciliation service with an opportunity for individual confession. Immaculate Heart of Mary pastor Father Steve Howell spoke on how to make a good confession. The teens also made a Lenten quilt.
(PHOTO COURTESY ST. PETER PARISH, PACIFICA)
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Archdiocesan youth experience Lent through prayer, service
About 100 Catholic teens met March 10 at St. Peter Parish in Pacifica to fast, pray and learn about causes of hunger and poverty in developing countries. This was the third food fast sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry in conjunction with Catholic Relief Services. Salesian Father Jose Lucero, parochial vicar at Corpus Christi Parish in San Francisco, concelebrated Mass with St. Peter pastor Father Mark Mazza. St. Ignatius College Preparatory religious studies teacher Chad Evans shared his recent experience on a trip to El Salvador.
Spend a day in the country at West Marin parish’s Palm Sunday brunch A tradition of more than 50 years continues Palm Sunday, April 1, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m: The Annual Palm Sunday brunch benefiting Old St. Mary’s Church in Nicasio in Marin County. “You can smell the cooking as you approach,” Grace Farley told Catholic San Francisco. Farley has been a St. Mary’s parishioner for 62 years and has been helping at the brunch since its start.
The Parish of St. Catherine of Siena 1310 Bayswater Ave., Burlingame CA 94010 Holy Thursday, April 5: 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Chapel ending with Night Prayer at 10:55 p.m.)
Good Friday, April 6: 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Stations of the Cross 1:15 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 7 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
Holy Saturday, April 7: 8:00 p.m.
Celebration of the Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday, April 8: Easter Sunday Masses 7:30, 9, 10:30 a.m. & 12 noon
The “country breakfast” includes farm fresh eggs, hash brown potatoes, ham, muffins, pastries, fresh fruit, coffee and tea. Other beverages are available for purchase. A silent auction, seeded by “many generous donors,” and a raffle are additional highlights of the event, Farley said. “Spend a day in the country and join our country com-
munity for this wonderful event,” Farley said. It all takes place in Druids Hall, 4499 Nicasio Valley Road at Nicasio Square. Tickets – $15 for adults, $5 for children 5-12 – are available at the door. Palm Sunday Mass at St. Mary’s is at 11:15 a.m.
St. Matthew Catholic Church One Notre Dame Avenue San Mateo, CA (650) 344-7622 HOLY THURSDAY - April 5 Masses: 12:05 p.m. 7:00 p.m.Tri-Lingual Mass of the Last Supper Procession to the Altar of Repose Adoration until Midnight GOOD FRIDAY - April 6 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. “reflections on The Passion” 1:30 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (English) 3:00 p.m. Chinese Liturgy (Chapel) 7:00 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (Spanish) HOLY SATURDAY - April 7 8:00 p.m. Bilingual Celebration of Easter Vigil EASTER SUNDAY - April 8 6:00 a.m. In front of Church, Salubong: Meeting of Jesus and Mary Masses: 6:30, 7:30, 8:45 (Spanish), 10:45 a.m., and 12:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Cantonese Mass (chapel)
St. Mary’s Church ladies serving the Palm Sunday brunch are, from left, Mary Lafranchi, Grace Farley, Ellen Hall. Lafranchi and Farley have been serving the brunch at the Marin County rural church for 63 years.
Mater Dolorosa 307 Willow Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080
Easter 2012
April 1st, Palm Sunday: Vigil Mass: Saturday, March 31st at 5:00 p.m. Sunday Masses at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., & 12 Noon Palms will be blessed at all the Masses April 2nd, Holy Monday: Seder Meal at 7:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall April 5th , Holy Thursday: Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7:30 p.m. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Parish Hall until 11:00 p.m. April 6th, Good Friday: Reflections by Father Angel Quitalig from 12:00 Noon to 1:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross at 1:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion at 2:00 p.m. Soup Supper at 6:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross at 7:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion at 7:45 p.m. April 7th, Holy Saturday: Easter Vigil Mass at 8:00 p.m. April 8th, Easter Sunday: Masses at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 Noon April 15th, Second Sunday of Easter - Divine Mercy Sunday: Mass at 8:00 a.m.; 10:00 a.m. & 12:00 Noon Light refreshments and movie on Divine Mercy at 1:00 p.m. Confessions and Rosary with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at 2:00 p.m. Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Special Divine Mercy Mass at 3:00 p.m.
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Cuban struggles. . .
People pray as Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass at Antonio Maceo Revolution Square in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, March 26. Right, a young man holds a crucifix during the Mass.
64 in 2009. The country’s parliament is scheduled later this year to consider the legal recognition of same-sex marriage, in response to a campaign led by Mariela Castro, daughter of President Raul Castro. Despite his challenges to Cuban society, Pope Benedict concluded his homily by repeating an earlier call for patience with the Catholic Church’s policy of dialogue and cooperation with the communist regime, a process initiated by Blessed John Paul II during his 1998 visit to Cuba.
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2012 H OLY W EEK S CHEDULE Reconciliation (Confessions): March 28 (Wed.) 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. April 6 (Friday) 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Holy Thursday April 5 7:00 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Exposition & Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m.
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“Redemption is always this process of the lifting up of the human will to full communion with the divine will.” Taking his theme from the day’s liturgical feast of the Annunciation, when Mary learned that she would conceive and bear the Son of God, the pope emphasized that fulfillment of the divine plan involved Mary’s free acceptance of her role. “Our God, coming into the world, wished to depend on the free consent of one of his creatures,” Pope Benedict said. “It is touching to see how God not only respects human freedom: He almost seems to require it.” The most specific advice in the pope’s homily regarded a topic familiar to his listeners in the prosperous capitalist countries of Western Europe and North America: the sanctity of the “family founded on matrimony” as the “fundamental cell of society and an authentic domestic church.” “You, dear husbands and wives, are called to be, especially for your children, a real and visible sign of the love of Christ for the church,” Pope Benedict said. “Cuba needs the witness of your fidelity, your unity, your capacity to welcome human life, especially that of the weakest and most needy.” According to the Center for Demographic Studies at the University of Havana, Cuba’s divorce rate has almost tripled in four decades, rising from 22 divorces per 100 marriages in 1970 to
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“May we accept with patience and faith whatever opposition may come,” the pope said. “Armed with peace, forgiveness and understanding ... strive to build a renewed and open society, a better society, one more worthy of humanity, and which better reflects the goodness of God.” After the Mass, the pope paid homage to Our Lady of Charity by placing at the statue a gold rose weighing more than a pound and standing almost a foot tall. A 30-year-old woman in a baseball cap who identified herself only as Xichel told Catholic News Service she and about 100 others traveled about 165 miles from Camaguey for the Mass, and she hoped to see the pope in Havana. Older pilgrims traveled by train or bus, she said. “I came to see the pope because I
am Catholic and he is the successor of Peter, who was the first pope,” she said, adding that she saw Blessed John Paul in Camaguey in 1998. She also expressed pride that a member of her parish was to read the second reading. After the first reading, hundreds of people began leaving the Mass. Unlike large-scale papal Masses in other cities, this one had no Jumbotron screens and, to many, the pope looked like a small figure on the distant altar. Many who had been praying and singing seemed not to focus on the homily and began chatting or moving about. Contributing to this story was Cindy Wooden in Havana.
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Holy Saturday April 7 8:30 a.m. Morning Prayer (Journey With Our Lady of Sorrows) 8:00 p.m. Easter Vigil
Easter Sunday April 8 Masses: 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. Easter Egg Hunt follows after the 9:30 a.m. Mass
Palm Sunday – 4:30 pm: Vigil (Sat) 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 am (Chinese) and 12:15 pm Blessing and distribution of Palms. Holy Thursday – 7:00 pm: Mass of the Lord’s Supper Exposition of the Eucharist until 10:00 pm in the Chapel Good Friday – 12 Noon: The Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross 1:15 pm: The Stations of the Cross 2:00 pm: Reading of the Passion, Adoration of the Cross, and Holy Communion 7:00 pm: The Stations of the Cross 7:45 pm: Reading of the Passion, Adoration of the Cross, and Holy Communion Holy Saturday – 12 Noon to 1:30 pm: Reconciliation Easter Vigil: Lighting of the Paschal Candle Easter Sunday – 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 am (Chinese) and 12:15 pm: We celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection. Alleluia! He is Risen!
Holy Week 2012 Masses during Holy Week (Mon., Tue., Wed.) 8:00am & 12:10pm Palm Sunday Holy Week Reconciliation, Saturday 3:30-4:30pm Vigil Mass, Saturday 4:30pm 8:00, 9:30, 11:30am & 6:45pm Holy Thursday (No morning Mass) Lord’s Supper at Evening Mass, 7:30pm Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament ‘til 10pm Good Friday (No morning Mass) Liturgy of the Passion of the Lord, 1:30pm Stations of the Cross, 12:15pm Prayer Service in the style of Taizé, 7:30pm The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night (No morning Mass or Reconciliation) Easter Vigil Mass, 8:00pm Easter Sunday 8:00, 9:30, & 11:30 am (No 6:45pm Mass)
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What is the Easter triduum? The Easter triduum is the high point of all liturgical celebrations of the Catholic year. It begins with the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil on Saturday night and closes with evening prayer on Easter. The liturgical services that take place during the triduum are the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion, and Mass of the Resurrection of Our Lord. Is there Mass on Good Friday or Holy Saturday? Because this is the period that commemorates the time from Jesus’ death until his resurrection, on Good Friday and Holy Saturday only the sacraments of the anointing of the sick and penance are celebrated. What happens on Holy Thursday and why is it important? The Mass of the Lord’s Supper on the evening of Holy Thursday should be the only Mass of the day unless there are reasons that people cannot get to Mass otherwise. The Mass, which can include but is not required to include the washing of the feet, commemorates specifically the Last Supper of the Lord with his apostles before his passion and death. What is the main liturgical celebration of Good Friday? May a deacon officiate since it is not a Mass? Although the celebration of the Lord’s Passion appears to be a service of the word with the distribution of holy Communion, the Roman Missal does not permit a deacon to officiate at the celebration. Historically, even though the Eucharist is not celebrated on this day, the liturgy of Good Friday resembles a Mass. At one time it was called the “Mass of the Presanctified” (referring to the pre-consecrated hosts from the Holy Thursday Mass used at Communion). This is also reflected in the prescribed vesture for the priest: stole and chasuble. The liturgy of Good Friday, as an integral part of the triduum, is linked to the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday. Passion plays and other popular expres-
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Questions and answers about Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter
In praying the Stations of the Cross, a common devotion on Fridays during Lent and especially Good Friday, Catholics experience in spirit the chief scenes of Christ’s suffering and death. The stations began as the practice of pious pilgrims to Jerusalem who would retrace the final journey of Jesus Christ to Calvary. Later, for the many who wanted to pass along the same route, but could not make the trip to Jerusalem, a practice developed that eventually took the form of the 14 stations currently found in almost every church. Pictured are sculptures of the stations at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco.
sions of piety should never substitute for the liturgical celebration of the Lord’s Passion, which brings the Lord’s presence in a special way. Good Friday services normally occur in the afternoon, at about 3 p.m. but can also be held shortly after noon or later in the evening but never later than 9 p.m. Veneration of the cross is a core part of the Good Friday liturgy. The Catholic Church specifies that “personal adoration of the cross is an important feature of this celebration and every effort should be made to achieve it.” The cross is elevated for adoration by the priest and then clergy, lay ministers and faithful may pray silently and can come forward to venerate and kiss the cross. What happens on Holy Saturday? The only sacraments celebrated on Holy
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Saturday are the sacraments of penance and the anointing of the sick. Holy Saturday ends at sunset. What is the Easter Vigil and why is there not a regular vigil Mass on the Saturday before Easter? The vigil, by its very nature, must take place at night. It is the first celebration of Easter and must begin after the sun goes down and should end before daybreak. As a nocturnal vigil, it retains its ancient character of vigilance and expectation, as the Christian people await the resurrection of the Lord during the night. Fire is blessed
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2012 Holy Week Schedule Holy Thursday Good Friday
Holy Thursday, April 5th
Stations of the Cross: Noon - Outdoors along Haight Street and 2:00pm in the Church Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, 7:30pm with choir, woodwinds, timpani & strings
Easter Sunday, April 8th
12:00 Noon 1:00 p.m. 1:45 p.m. 2:15 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Good Friday, April 6th
Great Vigil of Easter, 8:00 pm (no 4pm Liturgy) with choir, brass, woodwinds & strings
7:30 p.m. Mass of Lord’s Supper Adoration until Midnight Stations of the Cross
Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30pm with strings & woodwinds
Saturday, April 7th
and the paschal candle is lighted to illumine the night so that all may hear the Easter proclamation and listen to the word of God proclaimed in the Scriptures. The Easter Vigil is a special Mass that has seven Old Testament readings and two New Testament readings which recount the outstanding moments in the history of salvation. The vigil includes the baptism of any new Catholics, as well as first Communion and confirmation. All Catholics should be able to receive holy Communion under both forms during the vigil. QUESTIONS, page 18
Easter Vigil Easter Sunday Masses
Liturgy of the Word Veneration of the Cross Communion Service Stations of the Cross
8:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m, 10:00 a.m. & 12 noon
Liturgies 8:30am & 10:30am (no 6pm Liturgy) with choir, brass, woodwinds & strings
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Holy Week at saint Cecilia Vicente St. & 17th Avenue, San Francisco 415.664.8481 Live Church Broadcast: www.stcecilia.com Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, April 1st Saturday Vigil Mass - 5:00 p.m. with the Solemn Procession Sunday Masses - 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Palms will be blessed at the beginning of every Mass. Holy Thursday, April 5th 7:30 p.m. - Mass of the Lord’s Supper with Mandatum and Eucharistic Exposition until 11:00 p.m. Good Friday, April 6th 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. - Children’s Stations of the Cross in the Lower Church with Sean Farrell 12:00—1:30 p.m. - Reflections on “The Passion of Jesus in the four Gospels” by Reverend Gerald Coleman, S.S. with our adult choir 1:45 – 3:00 p.m. - Solemn Liturgy - (The eighth graders will act out the chanted Passion; General Intercessions; Holy Communion and Veneration of the Cross) - Fr. Joseph Landi Holy Saturday, April 7th 8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil Mass - Msgr. Michael Harriman (with Choir and Orchestra) Easter Sunday, April 8th 7:30 a.m. - Fr. Joseph Landi 9:30 a.m. - Msgr. Michael Harriman (Family Mass with Cecilia Cardenas) 11:30 a.m. - Fr. Joseph Landi (with Choir & Orchestra)
Palm Sunday, April 1 Masses: 5:30 p.m. Saturday (Vigil Mass); 7:30 a.m. (Quiet Mass); 9:30 a.m. (Family Mass); 11:30 a.m.; 1:30 p.m. (St. Jude Pilgrim Mass in Spanish); 5:30 p.m. (Contemporary Choir); 9:00 p.m. (Taizé music by candlelight) Twilight Retreat, Tuesday, April 3 7:30 p.m., Lady Chapel. Prepare for sacrament of reconciliation Sacrament of Reconciliation, Wednesday, April 4 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Holy Thursday, April 5 7:30 a.m. – Tenebrae; 7:30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper Good Friday, April 6 7:30 a.m. – Tenebrae ; 12:15 – 12:45 p.m. – Stations of the Cross; 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. – Seven Last Words; 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. – Confessions; 7:30 p.m. – The Passion of the Lord Holy Saturday, April 7 8:00 a.m. – Tenebrae ; 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. – Confessions; 8:00 p.m. – The EASTER VIGIL Easter Sunday, April 8 7:30 a.m. (Mass with Easter Hymns); 9:30 a.m. (Family Mass); 11:30 a.m. (Solemn Mass); 1:30 p.m. (St. Jude Pilgrim Mass in Spanish); 5:30 p.m. (Contemporary Choir); 9:00 p.m. (Taizé music by candlelight). No confessions on Easter Sunday 2390 BUSH STREET (AT STEINER), SAN FRANCISCO (PARKING (415) 567-7824; WWW.STDOMINICS.ORG
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We Welcome and Celebrate the Mystery of our Faith at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church 3835 Balboa Street San Francisco, CA 94121 (415) 387-5545 HOLY THURSDAY: 7:30 p.m. Mass Good Friday: 12:00 Noon Living Stations of the Cross by STA Students 1:00 p.m. Reflections on the 7 Last Words 2:00 p.m. Communion Service Easter Vigil: 7:30 p.m. Easter Sunday: 8:30 a.m. Mass & 11:00 a.m. Mass
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Easter 2012 Holy Week Schedule Palm Sunday, April 1
Saturday Evening Vigil - 5pm Sunday - 8am, 9am (Cantonese) 10:30am (Choir) (Palms will be blessed and distributed at all Masses) 4pm Evening Prayer and Benediction
Holy Thursday, April 5
Mass of the Lord’s Supper; Procession and stripping of the altars - 7:30pm (Veneration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10pm)
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Why is Easter Sunday Mass always so full of pomp, music and other celebration? The church’s liturgical rules call for Mass to be celebrated on Easter with great solemnity. A full complement of ministers and the use of liturgical music should be evident in all celebrations. In the dioceses of the United States, on Easter Sunday, the rite of the renewal of baptismal promises takes place after the homily, followed by the sprinkling with water blessed at the vigil, during which the antiphon “vidi aquam,� or some other song of baptismal character should be sung. The holy water fonts at the entrance to the church should also be filled with the same water. On the subsequent Fourteenth Station: Jesus Sundays of Easter time, is placed in the tomb. it is appropriate that “This man went to Pilate the rite of blessing and and asked for the body sprinkling holy water of Jesus. Then he took it take the place of the act down and wrapped it in a of penitence. Why is there a large linen shroud and laid him candle on the altar from in a rock-hewn tomb, Easter until Pentecost where no one had ever Sunday? yet been laid. It was The paschal candle is the day of Preparation lit during the Easter Vigil and the Sabbath was and indicates Christ’s beginning� Luke 23:50-54. undying presence, his victory over sin and death and the promise of sharing in Christ’s victory by virtue of being part of the body of Christ. During Easter time the paschal candle is lit during all solemn liturgical celebrations, including Mass, morning and evening prayer. After the 50 days following Easter, the paschal candle is kept with honor in the baptistery and used to light baptismal candles and is placed near the coffin during funerals to indicate Christ’s promise of eternal life. The paschal candle should not otherwise be lit nor placed in the sanctuary outside Easter time. – USCCB
Father Claudio Diaz Jr. lights a fire outside outside Mission St. Juan Diego in Arlington Heights, Ill., during the Easter Vigil last year.
St. Philip’s Church Church of theof Epiphany 725 Diamond Street Church the Epiphany  Vienna 827 Vienna Street.Street San Francisco. California. 94112 at Elizabeth Street
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Holy Week Services 2012
Palm Sunday, April 1: The blessing of the palms (outside) before the 10:30 a.m. Mass, with procession into the church. (Masses: Saturday: 5:00 p.m., Sunday: 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.) Palms distributed at all Masses.
Holy Thursday, April 5: Soup Supper 6:00 p.m. in the hall. GOOD FRIDAY: Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 p.m.. Concludes with Eucharistic Procession English Reflection 12:00pm Spanish Reflection 7:30pm and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m. (in the daily Mass Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil): chapel) HOLY SATURDAY: Good Friday, April 6: Easter8:00pm Sunday (Resurrection Sunday): Noon: our choir will present: “Love Unknown� a festival of Passion Readings and Hymns by Michael Burkhart. EASTER SUNDAY: 1:00 p.m.: We will pray the traditional Stations of the Cross, immediately No 5:30pm Mass. 6:30am, 8:30am, 10:00am, 11:30am in Spanish, and 1:00pm followed by the celebration of the Lord’s Passion, which includes the If you have any questions, please call the Parish Office (415) 333-7630. Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion Holy Saturday, Celebrating Our Centennial: “Guided by the Star. 100 years and Beyond!� April 7: Easter Vigil begins at 8:00 p.m. with
St. Bruno’s Church (650) 588-2121
the blessing of the Easter fire and lighting of Easter Candle.
Easter Sunday, April 8: Masses: 8:00 and 10:30 a.m.
555 W. San Bruno Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066 www.saintbruno.org Fax (650) 588-6087
2012 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE
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Good Friday, April 6, 2012 1 pm – Stations of the Cross (English) 3 pm – Liturgy of Our Lord’s Passion and Death 5 pm – Via Crucis 6 pm – Liturgia de la Pasión y muerte de Nuestro Seùor
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Holy Saturday, April 7, 2012 8 pm – Easter Vigil Mass
Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012 8 am, 10 am (Spanish), 12 pm, 6 pm Blessing with Holy water at all the Masses
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Holy Saturday, April 7
Confessions - 3:30pm to 5pm No 5pm Mass The Great Vigil of Easter Mass - 7:30pm
Easter Sunday, April 8 Sunday - 8am, 9am (Cantonese) 10:30am (Choir) No Evening Mass
Cordially invites you to join us for
Confessions on Wednesday, April 20 at 10:00am & 6:00pm
RECONCILIATION SERVICE: Holy Thursday (Mass of the Lord’s Supper):
Good Friday, April 6
Celebration of the Lord’s Passion with Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion - 12 noon Confessions - 1:30pm to 3pm Prayer Around the Cross - 7:30pm
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Bringing good out of evil Most people would find it difficult to get through a day without are our thoughts about the death penalty (which is what Jesus died reading or hearing about some violent or painful situation. It can under)? Do we ever pray for the conversion of our enemies, even be about people being beaten or killed for protesting an unjust cruel dictators and terrorists? Sometimes it can be easier to forgive situation in their countries, or about the threat of nuclear bombs people “out there,” rather than those who have hurt us personally. being used by an unstable ruler. There are stories about homes and We must be willing to go deeper and discover the roots of evil lives being destroyed by natural disasters or of a company who and then use love to conquer it. Easter celebrates that we believe has to lay off many of its employees due to the poor economy. A and proclaim that, like in the case of Jesus, God can and does bring friend’s only child is killed or good out of suffering and that our brother gets a brain tumor his life conquered sin and evil. in the prime of his life. We all We must be willing to go deeper Just imagine what our could probably give many other lives would be like if every examples. and discover the roots of evil and Christian in the world would Often people wonder why really live the commandment there is so much needless suf- then use love to conquer it. of love. There would be much fering and why a merciful God less war, hatred and violence. does not intervene, especially People would ask for and offer in a case like the innocent victims who were allegedly gunned forgiveness. No one would be hungry because people would share down by an American soldier in Afghanistan. with one another. The only news to report would be good news. Our faith in the Resurrection means that we believe God As Christians who believe in the Resurrection, we must brings good out of suffering and evil and that the way to conquer strive to be models of love and hope. Our good works during sin is by love. This, of course, is not a popular stance in today’s Lent must continue throughout the rest of the year. We have a environment where there is so much hatred and violence in our mission to make Christ known by our love. We must express world and, sadly, sometimes in our homes. our belief that, even in this gloomy, dark time, God will not As we wrap up this season of Lent and celebrate the feast of abandon us – just like he did not abandon his son, Jesus. Each Easter, it may be good to reflect on our own attitudes. Do we feel of us is called to go out to all the people in our own little world justified in wanting to punish hatred with more violence? What and proclaim this good news.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH
St. Anthony of Padua
1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: (650) 322-2152; FAX (650) 322-7319 Email: sfofassisi@sbcglobal.net
2012 Holy Week and Easter Schedule
Holy Thursday, April 5
1000 Cambridge St., Novato 415.883.2177
HOLY THURSDAY April 5, 2012
Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:00pm Bi-Lingual Adoration until 12:00 Midnight
Mass of the Lord’s Supper – 7:00 pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 pm in the Hall
Good Friday, April 6
Confessions – 10:00 am to 10:45 am Youth Group Stations of the Cross – 12:00 noon Good Friday Service – 1:30 pm Stations of the Cross – 7:00 pm
12:00 to 2:00pm Three Hours English 2:00pm Solemn Liturgy English 5:30PM The Way of the Cross re-enacted on University Ave. in East Palo Alto 7:00pm Solemn Liturgy Spanish
Holy Saturday, April 7 Confessions 10:30am to 12:00pm and 3:30 to 5:00pm 8:00pm Easter Vigil, Bilingual
Easter Sunday, April 8 7:30am English 9:30am Spanish 12:30pm Bi-Lingual followed by Easter egg hunt The Paschal Triduum in Westlake
Our Lady of Mercy Parish 5 Elmwood Drive,. Daly City Between South Mayfair and Southgate Avenues, with plenty of free parking! Every Friday in Lent Stations of the Cross at 6 p.m. and Confession.
April 5th - Holy Thursday 9:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer 7-30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Eucharistic Adoration until 11 p.m.
April 6th - Good Friday 9:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer 12:30 p.m. - Stations of the Cross 1:30 pm, and 7:30 p.m. Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion and Veneration of the Cross
April 7 - Holy Saturday 9:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer 8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil Service
April 8 - Easter Sunday 5-30 am. - Easter Sunrise Service (Salubong) 6:00 a.m. Mass 7:30 a.m , 9a.m., Mass 10:30 am. (Children’s Choir) 12 noon (Parish Choir)
GOOD FRIDAY April 6, 2012
HOLY SATURDAY April 7, 2012 Confessions – 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Easter Vigil – 8:00 pm
EASTER SUNDAY April 8, 2012 Masses at 7:00 am, 9:00 am and 11:00 am 9:00 am and 11:00 am Masses in the Hall also. Easter Egg Hunt for children following the 9:00 am Mass
DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY April 15, 2012 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm – Confessions 3:00 pm – Recitation of the Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet 3:30 pm – Veneration and Benediction
Saint Veronica Church 434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080 (650) 588-1455 Fax: 650 588-1481 www.stveronicassf.com
2012 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE PALM SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 2012 Masses: 6:45, 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. Procession prior to 11:00 a.m. Mass at 10:45 a.m. Gather in the Parish Center 6:00 p.m. - Spanish Mass HOLY THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2012 No Morning Masses 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer 6:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m. G O O D F R I D AY , A P R I L 6 , 2 0 1 2 No Morning Masses 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Morning Prayer 12:00 – 12:45 p.m. Stations of the Cross 12:45 – 1:15 p.m. - Cantata 1:15 – 1:30 p.m. - Meditation 1:30 p.m. – Good Friday Liturgy H O LY S AT U R D AY , A P R I L 7 , 2 0 1 2 No 8:30 a.m. Mass 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – M o r n i n g P r a ye r C o n f e s s i o n s 3 : 0 0 – 5 : 0 0 p . m. No 5:00 p.m. Mass E a s t e r V i gi l M a s s 8:00 p.m. EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 2012 Masses: 6:45, 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.m.& 12:30 p.m.
And if current events sometimes make it hard for you to believe that God is still present in all of this, ask God to deepen your faith and to help you to remember times when he brought you out of difficulties in your life Sister Margie or the life of someone Lavonis you know. Easter tells us that God never leaves us in our pain and often brings good out of evil. Happy Easter season. Holy Cross Sister Margie Lavonis is a freelance writer living in Notre Dame, Ind.
St. Robert’s Church 1380 Crystal Springs Rd San Bruno Holy Thursday 7:30 pm: Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Holy Thursday 7:30 pm: Mass of the Lord’s Supper, followed by adoration until 10 pm followed by adoration until 10 pm Good Friday 12:15 pm: Stations of the Cross Good Friday 12:15 pm: Stations of the Cross in the church and in the park in the church and in the park 1:30 pm: Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion 1:30 pm: Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion 7:30 pm: Youth Passion Play 7:30 pm: Youth Passion Play Holy Saturday 8:30pm Easter Vigil Holy Saturday 8:30pm Easter Vigil Easter Sunday 7:30 amam Mass Easter Sunday 7:30 Mass 9:30 amam Mass with Children’s Choir 9:30 Mass with Children’s Choir 11:30 am Mass 11:30 am Mass NoNo 5 pm Mass 5 pm Mass
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Scholar urges Catholics take time to revisit Vatican II documents GARRISON, N.Y. (CNS) – The 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council is an opportunity to revisit the clear teaching of its documents and reject distortions and false interpretations that have gained traction in the Catholic Church, according to a council scholar. Alan Schreck, professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, spoke at the Graymoor Spiritual Life Center in Garrison March 13 on “Vatican II: World Church or Church of the Little Flock?” Vatican II is still a sure compass for the church today, Schreck said, and each pope since the council reaffirmed its teachings as “God’s teachings in our time.” Nonetheless, he said, there has been tumult as the postconciliar church sought to understand what the council meant and how to implement it. Schreck said extreme responses vary from those who thought the council did not go far enough to create a democratic church to those who thought it wrought too many changes and opened the door to secularism and modernist heresy. “The documents of Vatican II are among the great unread documents of our time,” said Schreck, a theologian, author and scholar of the council. “People are not sure what it said. A lot of things that are blamed on Vatican II are not in the documents.” Vatican II consisted of four sessions, each approximately three months long, in the years 1962-65. Although the Catholic Church was clearly present worldwide long before Vatican II, Schreck said the council promoted a concept of “world church,” which he described as a mentality that redefined ecumenism. “Rather than expect all Christians to simply return to the Catholic Church, there’s more of an attitude of reconciliation and reunion, where the Catholic Church joins with other Christians seeking that unity for which Christ prayed,” he said. “In the relationship of the church to other religions, there is a focus on what we have in common and what causes we can promote to overcome the obstacles that divide us,” he
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The presidents of the Second Vatican Council are pictured during a council meeting inside St. Peter’s Basilica in this undated file photo.
added. “World church teaches respect for other paths to God.” Schreck said some people misinterpreted the new understanding of ecumenism as a rebuke to evangelization. “None of the documents of Vatican II put limits on whom we preach the Gospel to. Our Gospel is for all people,” he said. Schreck said distortions of the council teaching dismissed anything European or Western as being intrinsically paternalistic, colonial or oppressive. He said this is akin to a teen rebelling against a white, middle-class upbringing because that is what the teen knows. “Being open to all includes respecting one’s own history and cultural heritage,” he said.
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Conscience and the mandate Wow! I sure am glad that letter writers like Michael C. Busk and Peter Mandell (March 16) took the time to explain that whole Obama mandate thing to me. These specialists in keen insight tell us it’s only individuals, and not institutions, who have moral responsibility. Now that I understand that transcendent truth, well, I’ll worry a lot less about what Obama is doing. Mandated contraception coverage? Hey, no problem: Only the bishops are being mandated, not the individual. Mandated abortifacient coverage? (This is already contained in the mandate.) Hey, no big deal: My conscience is still as free as Robinson Crusoe – and all the compulsion is over on the mainland. Mandated surgical abortion coverage? (This is certainly on its way.) Hey, why complain? My conscience is still free, free, free! It’s absolutely free – and the only cost is my conscience. Of course, it is the teaching of the “pro-
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choice” movement that such decisions are entirely private and individual. The teaching of the Catholic Church – and of historical Christianity in general – has been that such decisions are matters of objective right and wrong, and moreover fraught with social consequences. So the Obama mandate does compel Catholic institutions to give up that silly old teaching and substitute the cool, contemporary “pro-choice” teaching. But that’s not really compulsion – since it’s only the bishops that are being compelled. My conscience is still unfettered. Yay for my conscience! Tom Riley Napa
Archdiocesan faith program gives hope I would like to say thank you to the San Francisco archdiocese for the “Forward in Faith” program. With many of us feeling discouraged by the institutional Catholic Church, it has been a ray of sun to attend these weekly sessions. In particular, I was impressed that Auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy came to speak to our gathering at St. Isabella Church in San Rafael. His pastoral demeanor, especially during question and answers, gave me hope for the future of the institutional church. It would breathe life into many of our churches if the bishops could come and meet and speak
One significant misinterpretation of the documents held that non-Christians would win salvation solely through the goodness and truth of their religions and not through Jesus Christ, Schreck said. “People asked, ‘If non-Christians can be saved, why preach the Gospel?’ It’s little wonder that Catholics rejected this false universalism,” he said. “In the name of being a world church, people began to see things in the documents that were not there,” he said. The magisterium of the church responded by “underscoring that Jesus is the savior of the world,” Schreck said. This does not exclude non-Christians and nonbelievers from salvation, he added, but affirms that Jesus is the source of saving grace. informally and pastorally with the people of our churches. It would probably be good for the bishops’ spiritual lives as well! Laurie Joyce San Anselmo
Awaiting bishops’ next move on mandate When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued its first mandate, it dealt with Catholic organizations with insured plans. The bishops protested, and HHS amended the plan by ordering insurance companies to provide contraceptives free to all plan participants. The bishops said “No.” This won’t solve the problem of freedom of religion. The latest ploy out of Washington is that the mandate applies even to uninsured plans. Now the screws are getting tighter. I’m anxious to see how the bishops respond. When (thenArchbishop) Levada confronted San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano on the issue of domestic partners and marriage partners, the archbishop simply skirted the issue by broadening the definition of participant. That sleight of hand won’t work this time. We all anxiously await the next move of the bishops. Frank Tallarida St. Anthony Parish Novato
“If they are saved, it’s by the grace of Christ, even if they do not know him.” “The concept of world church as portrayed by the Second Vatican Council is a church that is truly Catholic, truly universal, reaching out to include all people through the proclamation of the Gospel, willing to adapt the practice of the faith to other cultures besides Western ones, respecting all people, defending human life and dignity, even those who do not yet believe in Christ or who consider themselves enemies of the church and Christ,” Schreck said. He said the rights and dignity of all people were articulated in the council documents. These were reflected in the growing voice of non-European bishops within the church and the option of celebrating liturgy in the vernacular, with music that reflects the richness of individual cultures. They also were included in the council’s focus on the church’s mission to care for the poor and afflicted, as Jesus did. Schreck said it is a false interpretation to think the church is called only to fight injustice. In contrast to the world church, Schreck said Vatican II documents also include an image of the people of God as a little flock who may appear as a small, illegal, persecuted minority. “With the rise of secularism and irreligion, the Catholic Church may appear as a small flock, yet it is most surely a seed of hope and salvation for the whole human race,” he said. He said the Catholic Church might correctly be seen as out of step with the modern world as it seeks to be faithful to its charism. “To follow Vatican II faithfully is to experience what it means to be a minority, the church of the little flock,” Schreck said. “It would be an easy mistake for Catholics to retreat and withdraw, but that is not in keeping with Vatican II’s call for engagement with the culture.” “We can’t afford to sit in our shell and lament the new paganism,” he said. “We must evangelize and win new Christians.” Schreck said contemporary Catholics can access the teachings of Vatican II by discussing the council documents in study groups with reliable guides or by concentrating on the Catechism of the Catholic Church. “If you read the whole catechism, you have Vatican II.” he said. Washington administration on the subject of contraception, I must speak out. First, there is nothing in either the Old Testament or the New Testament on artificial contraception. Nor has research revealed a mention of it in the early documents relating to the formation of the church and unanimity of its precepts. The first significant mention of it comes from a 13th-century French monk named Thomas Aquinas. He declared from the celibacy of his cell that sexual celibacy between husband and wife was a critical moral issue and that for a husband to love his wife in sexual intimacy, with the intention not to procreate, was a sin. This rule has been carried into the 21st century. It is ridiculous on its face. The notion that a husband and wife should refrain from normal matrimonial sexual intimacy for the sheer joy of it, without the intention to procreate, is patent nonsense. Indeed, recently publishing knowledge has stated that a vast majority of Catholics do practice artificial contraception in their sexual relations. The bishops are going to lose this fight as their position is not supported in either practice or church history. Or common sense. Jerome F. Downs San Francisco Editor’s note: “United States Catechism for Adults” (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2006) states on Page 408: “The bond between husband and wife is both conjugal and procreative. Conjugal mutual love and fidelity is the unitive aspect of marriage. The procreative aspect of marriage concerns the conception, birth and education of children. The bond between the unitive and the procreative may not be broken.”
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The Catholic Difference
Cardinal Dolan and the new evangelization The irrepressibly effervescent personality of Cardinal Timothy Dolan may tempt some to think of the archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as the latest in a line of gladhanding Irish-American prelates, long on blarney and short on depth. Succumbing to that temptation would be a very serious mistake. For Cardinal Dolan is a man of formidable intelligence, a historian trained in the school of the late John Tracy Ellis, dean of the classic historians of Catholicism in the United States. That historian’s-eye view of the contemporary scene and its antecedents in the immediate past, linked to a deep insight into the meaning of Vatican II and the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, produced a remarkable speech to the College of Cardinals on Feb. 17, the day before Dolan received his red hat. Like everything else Cardinal Dolan does, his speech that day was delivered with brio, and it was that bubbling energy that got most of the press attention. Yet Dolan’s key proposal – that the church is entering a new phase of its history – was a bold one, and may set the terms of discussion for the church of the future: “As John Paul II taught in ‘Redemptoris Missio,’ the church does not ‘have a mission,’ as if ‘mission’ were one of many things the church does. “No, the church is a mission, and each us of who names
Jesus as Lord and Savior should measure ourselves by our mission-effectiveness. Over the 50 years since the convocation of the Council, we have seen the church pass through the last stages of the counter-Reformation and rediscover itself as a missionary enterprise. In some venues, this has meant a new discovery of the Gospel. In once-catechized lands, it has meant a re-evangelization that sets out from the shallow waters of institutional maintenance, and as John Paul II instructed us in ‘Novo Millennio Ineunte,’ puts out ‘into the deep’ for a catch. In many of the countries represented in this college, the ambient public culture once transmitted the Gospel, but does so no more. In those circumstances, the proclamation of the Gospel – the deliberate invitation to enter into friendship with the Lord Jesus – must be at the very center of the Catholic life of all of our people. But in all circumstances, the Second Vatican Council and the two great popes who have given it an authoritative interpretation are calling us to call our people to think of themselves as missionaries and evangelists.” As we approach the 50th anniversary of the convocation of Vatican II, which will be marked on Oct. 11, the church should remember that Blessed John XXIII wanted the Second Vatican Council to be a new Pentecost. Blessed John Paul II, a man of the council, called the church to a similar encounter with the fire of the Holy Spirit: he led the church through the Pentecostal experi-
ence of the Great Jubilee of 2000 so that we might come to know ourselves again as a church in mission, a church for mission. By inviting us into friendship with Jesus Christ, who is always our contemporary, Benedict George Weigel XVI, another man of the council, has given that mission a personal and holy face: the face of the Lord, who reveals to us both the countenance of the merciful father and the truth about our humanity. The Second Vatican Council, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI have invited us to Galilee, that we might go out from there to the ends of the earth, bringing the Gospel of God’s passionate love for humanity to a world yearning for truth. Cardinal Dolan’s address to the college of cardinals was an extended and moving reminder that everyone in the church must ask for the grace and strength to accept that invitation to Galilee: to be the witnesses to Christ that all of us were baptized to be. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Making a Difference
The challenge of Lent As the end of Lent draws near, let us never forget its commanding start: “Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel!” We could spend most of our lives reflecting and acting on this single powerful sentence. And indeed we should. For in turning away from all that hurts our relationship with God – sin – and being faithful to the essential foundation which nurtures that relationship – the Gospel – we discover ever more fully the beauty, peace, joy and meaning of this life, and prepare well for the incomprehensible wonders of eternal life! Lent is also the ideal time for the nation as a whole to turn away from sin. What evil has our country committed? What good has our country failed to do? As a nation we are selective as to whose lives we respect and protect. In many cases the vulnerable and poor are attacked or ignored. Blessed John Paul II in his prophetic encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”) wrote that this immoral reality can truly be described as a “structure of sin.” He continued, “This reality is characterized by the emergence of a culture which denies solidarity and in many cases takes the form of a veritable ‘culture of death.’ This culture
is actively fostered by powerful cultural, economic and political currents which encourage an idea of society excessively concerned with efficiency. Looking at the situation from this point of view, it is possible to speak in a certain sense of a war of the powerful against the weak. …” The legal killing of unborn babies through abortion is a prime example of the weak being crushed by those who hold power over them – the government, abortion mills, and even mothers. The legalized mass murder of war is another clear example of the powerful brutalizing the weak. Even though it is a fact that modern warfare kills many more innocent civilians than combatants, that immoral reality doesn’t stop our government and the military-industrial complex from jumping from one war to the next. The United States is the world’s largest arms merchant. Weapons made in America are fueling wars across the globe. Financial deregulation, corporate greed and huge tax breaks for the rich have unjustly allowed corporations and wealthy individuals to amass huge profits while the rest of the nation struggles through the Great Recession. It is a national sin that our wealthy nation gives less than 1 percent of its federal budget to help the world’s poorest people. And as a nation, we continue to keep the millions of undocu-
mented workers who pick our vegetables, landscape our communities and fix our roads, in the underground shadows of society. There is for sure “a war of the powerful against the weak.” Tony Magliano But Catholic social teaching instructs the powerful, and all of us, to give a special preference to the weak, poor and vulnerable. And in the Gospel, Jesus warns that when we fail to feed the hungry, and refuse to welcome the foreigner, we fail to feed and welcome him. He instructs us to put down the sword, to be nonviolent, and to even love our enemies. Jesus says the father’s kingdom is all about love. So let’s strive to be lovers. Let’s strive as individuals, and as a nation, to “Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel.” Tony Magliano is a nationally syndicated Catholic social justice columnist.
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Do marriage and sex exist in heaven? Question: After decades of a really good marriage, my partner has passed away, and I have some questions. Is there marriage in heaven? Does the one who is in heaven have a special link with the one who is still alive? When both of them have died, will there be a particular relationship between them in the context of perfect happiness? (A small town in upstate New York) Question: In a recent column, when asked whether pets go to heaven, you said that if you need your pet to be happy in heaven, you can be sure they will be there. That begs this question: If the physical body gets resurrected and spouses meet in heaven, will sex continue to be a part of their life? (I know this might be a delicate question to handle in print, but I would really like an answer.) (Virginia Beach, Va.) Answer: As to what life will be like in heaven, a preliminary disclaimer is proper: We don’t know. We have been cautioned by Paul that “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Cor 2:9). We are reduced, then, to speculation. But our speculation must begin with what we know, which is that a similar question was once asked of Jesus. In Matthew 22:23-30, some Sadducees, in an attempt to ridicule the belief of the Pharisees in an afterlife, posed to Christ the problem of seven brothers who had been married successively to the same woman – the issue being whose wife she would be in heaven. Jesus said, “At the resurrection they neither marry nor
are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.” Resurrection means not just resuscitation, a return to the bodies we currently experience. In heaven, our bodies will no longer be mortal or vulnerable, nor will we need to worry about the survival of the species or the continuation of a family name. But at the same time, it seems logical that a special relationship would continue into eternity between a man and woman married on earth. There is, in the marriage relationship, a quality of transcendence that points beyond itself to a reality that is divine. We are made in the image of the Trinitarian God, a divine whirlwind of self-giving love, and I can well imagine that a couple will find their ultimate fulfillment in rejoicing together before the face of God, which is the ecstasy hinted at in all earthly intercourse. Question: I am 94 years old and live in a nursing home with the meals furnished. Must I abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent, or may I eat what the home is serving? (Marion, Ohio) Answer: Canon No. 1253 of the Code of Canon Law gives national conferences of bishops wide latitude in determining the observance of fasting and abstinence. In the United States, the bishops have “preserved for our dioceses the tradition of abstinence from meat on each of the Fridays of Lent, confident that no Catholic Christian will hold himself lightly excused from this penitential practice.” Whereas the discipline of fasting (one full meal a day, no eat-
ing between meals – applicable on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday) binds only those between the ages of 18 and 59, abstinence (refraining from meat) covers those who are 14 or older. Father All commentators would agree that sickness or frailty Kenneth Doyle excuses a person from such penitential disciplines. In your case, it would be reasonable to ask yourself what you think God might want from someone in your situation. It might be difficult for the food service at your nursing home to provide a substitute meal every Friday in Lent, so you needn’t request that. Perhaps on Good Friday only – if you feel comfortable doing this and it would not burden you physically – you might ask for a meatless meal. That would be a good way of reminding the staff of the value you attach to Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. Father Doyle’s column is carried by Catholic News Service. Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY 12208.
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PASSION SUNDAY / PALM SUNDAY ‘Truly this man was the Son of God!’ AT THE PROCESSION OF PALMS A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK MK 11:1-10 When Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately on entering it, you will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone should say to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ reply, ‘The Master has need of it and will send it back here at once.’” So they went off and found a colt tethered at a gate outside on the street, and they untied it. Some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” They answered them just as Jesus had told them to, and they permitted them to do it. So they brought the colt to Jesus and put their cloaks over it. And he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. Those preceding him as well as those following kept crying out: “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is to come! Hosanna in the highest!” AT THE MASS A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH IS 50:4-7 The Lord God has given me a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting. The Lord God is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? All who see me scoff at me; they mock me with parted lips, they wag their heads: “He relied on the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, if he loves him.” R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Indeed, many dogs surround me, a pack of evildoers closes in upon me; They have pierced my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones. R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? They divide my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots. But you, O Lord, be not far from me; O my help, hasten to aid me. R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I will proclaim your name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you: “You who fear the Lord, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him; revere him, all you descendants of Israel!” R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS PHIL 2:6-11 Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. THE PASSION OF THE LORD ACCORDING TO MARK MK 14:1-15:47 The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were to take place in two days’ time. So the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to arrest him by treachery and put him to death. They said, “Not during the festival, for fear that there may be a riot among the people.” When he was in Bethany reclining at table in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil, costly genuine spikenard. She broke the alabaster jar and poured it on his head. There were some who were indignant. “Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil? It could have been sold for
He returned a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is to be handed over to sinners. Get up, let us go. See, my betrayer is at hand.” Then, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived, accompanied by a crowd with swords and clubs who had come from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders. His betrayer had arranged a signal with them, saying, “The man I shall kiss is the one; arrest him and lead him away more than three hundred days’ wages and the money given securely.” He came and immediately went over to him and to the poor.” They were infuriated with her. Jesus said, “Let said, “Rabbi.” And he kissed him. At this they laid hands her alone. Why do you make trouble for her? She has done on him and arrested him. One of the bystanders drew his a good thing for me. The poor you will always have with sword, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his ear. you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them, but • you will not always have me. She has done what she could. Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you come out as She has anticipated anointing my body for burial. Amen, I against a robber, with swords and clubs, to seize me? Day say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed to the whole after day I was with you teaching in the temple area, yet you world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.” did not arrest me; but that the Scriptures may be fulfilled.” Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went off to the chief And they all left him and fled. Now a young man followed priests to hand him over to them. When they heard him him wearing nothing but a linen cloth about his body. They they were pleased and promised to pay him money. Then seized him, but he left the cloth behind and ran off naked. he looked for an opportunity to hand him over. On the first They led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed priests and the elders and the scribes came together. Peter the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where do you followed him at a distance into the high priest’s courtyard want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He and was seated with the guards, warming himself at the fire. sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city The chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin kept trying to and a man will meet you, carrying a jar of water. Follow obtain testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, him. Wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The but they found none. Many gave false witness against him, Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat but their testimony did not agree. Some took the stand and the Passover with my disciples?”’ Then he will show you a testified falsely against him, alleging, “We heard him say, ‘I large upper room furnished and ready. Make the preparations will destroy this temple made with hands and within three for us there.” The disciples then went off, entered the city, days I will build another not made with hands.’” Even so and found it just as he had told them; and they prepared the their testimony did not agree. The high priest rose before Passover. When it was evening, he came with the Twelve. the assembly and questioned Jesus, saying, “Have you no And as they reclined at table and were eating, Jesus said, answer? What are these men testifying against you?” But “Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who he was silent and answered nothing. Again the high priest is eating with me.” asked him and said to him, “Are you the Christ, the son of • the Blessed One?” Then Jesus answered, “I am; and ‘you They began to be distressed and to say to him, one by one, will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power “Surely it is not I?” He said to them, “One of the Twelve, and coming with the clouds of heaven.’” At that the high the one who dips with me into the dish. For the Son of Man priest tore his garments and said, “What further need have indeed goes, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by we of witnesses? You have heard the blasphemy. What do whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that you think?” They all condemned him as deserving to die. man if he had never been born.” While they were eating, he Some began to spit on him. They blindfolded him and struck took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, him and said to him, “Prophesy!” And the guards greeted and said, “Take it; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, him with blows. gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. • He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high which will be shed for priest’s maids came along. many. Amen, I say to you, Seeing Peter warming himI shall not drink again the self, she looked intently at Those preceding fruit of the vine until the him and said, “You too were day when I drink it new in with the Nazarene, Jesus.” Jesus as well as the kingdom of God.” Then, But he denied it saying, “I after singing a hymn, they neither know nor understand those following went out to the Mount of what you are talking about.” Olives. Then Jesus said to So he went out into the kept crying out: them, “All of you will have outer court. Then the cock your faith shaken, for it is crowed. The maid saw him ‘Hosanna! Blessed written: I will strike the and began again to say to shepherd, and the sheep the bystanders, “This man is he who comes will be dispersed. But is one of them.” Once again after I have been raised he denied it. A little later up, I shall go before you to the bystanders said to Peter in the name of the Lord! Blessed Galilee.” Peter said to him, once more, “Surely you are “Even though all should one of them; for you too is the kingdom of our father have their faith shaken, are a Galilean.” He began mine will not be.” Then to curse and to swear, “I do David that is to come! Hosanna Jesus said to him, “Amen, not know this man about I say to you, this very night whom you are talking.” And in the highest!’ before the cock crows twice immediately a cock crowed you will deny me three a second time. Then Peter times.” But he vehemently remembered the word that replied, “Even though I should have to die with you, I will Jesus had said to him, “Before the cock crows twice you will not deny you.” And they all spoke similarly. Then they deny me three times.” He broke down and wept. As soon came to a place named Gethsemane, and he said to his as morning came, the chief priests with the elders and the disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” He took with him Peter, scribes, that is, the whole Sanhedrin held a council. They James, and John, and began to be troubled and distressed. bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate. Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Pilate questioned him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He Remain here and keep watch.” He advanced a little and said to him in reply, “You say so.” The chief priests accused fell to the ground and prayed that if it were possible the him of many things. Again Pilate questioned him, “Have hour might pass by him; he said, “Abba, Father, all things you no answer? See how many things they accuse you are possible to you. Take this cup away from me, but not of.” Jesus gave him no further answer, so that Pilate was what I will but what you will.” amazed. Now on the occasion of the feast he used to release • to them one prisoner whom they requested. A man called When he returned he found them asleep. He said to Peter, Barabbas was then in prison along with the rebels who had “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one committed murder in a rebellion. The crowd came forward hour? Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test. The and began to ask him to do for them as he was accustomed. spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.” Withdrawing again, Pilate answered, “Do you want me to release to you the he prayed, saying the same thing. Then he returned once king of the Jews?” For he knew that it was out of envy that more and found them asleep, for they could not keep their the chief priests had handed him over. But the chief priests eyes open and did not know what to answer him. PALM SUNDAY, page 23
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Palm Sunday . . . ■ Continued from page 22 stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas for them instead. Pilate again said to them in reply, “Then what do you want me to do with the man you call the king of the Jews?” They shouted again, “Crucify him.” Pilate said to them, “Why? What evil has he done?” They only shouted the louder, “Crucify him.” So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them and, after he had Jesus scourged, handed him over to be crucified. The soldiers led him away inside the palace, that is, the praetorium, and assembled the whole cohort. They clothed him in purple and, weaving a crown of thorns, placed it on him. They began to salute him with, All Hail, King of the Jews!” and kept striking his head with a reed and spitting upon him. They knelt before him in homage. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him out to crucify him. They pressed into service a passer-by, Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. They brought him to the place of Golgotha — which is translated Place of the Skull — They gave him wine drugged with myrrh, but he did not take it. Then they crucified him and divided his garments by casting lots for them to see what each should take. It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him. The inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.” With him they crucified two revolutionaries, one on his right and one on his left. Those passing by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself by coming down from the cross.” Likewise the chief priests, with the scribes, mocked him among themselves and said, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also kept abusing him. At noon darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And at three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Some of the bystanders who heard it said, “Look, he is calling Elijah.” One of them ran, soaked a sponge with wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink saying, “Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to take him down.” Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last. • The veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. When the centurion who stood facing him saw how he breathed his last he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!” There were also women looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of the younger James and of Joses, and Salome. These women had followed him when he was in Galilee and ministered to him. There were also many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem. When it was already evening, since it was the day of preparation, the day before the sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a distinguished member of the council, who was himself awaiting the kingdom of God, came and courageously went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Pilate was amazed that he was already dead. He summoned the centurion and asked him if Jesus had already died. And
Some of my work as a lawyer involves cases in family court. I was in line to file a motion at the clerk’s window a couple of weeks ago. I heard a man pouring out his confusion. His wife had left him, taken their three children, and he didn’t know where they’d gone or how to find them. A woman, her bent neck and sloped back emanating sadness, was standing near the self-help area, waiting for an adviser. I felt surrounded by human misery. Yet here were four women clerks, unfailingly patient and kind, calmly imparting information to one person after another. I heard the way they spoke to each person, and what manner they had. I felt how soothing and comforting this expression of simple human courtesy must be. Perhaps it was just for a moment that this person’s misery was relieved. The beginning of the Passion narrative for Palm Sunday begins with a scene that occurs in each of the four Gospels: A woman anoints Jesus, shows tenderness toward him, and he experiences her kindness as an easing of the misery he feels as death draws near. In Mark’s inauguration of Jesus’ Passion, a nameless woman comes with expensive perfumed oil and pours it over his head. Jesus says, “She has anticipated anointing my body for burial.” The evangelist then adds his own judgment, putting it on the lips of Jesus: “Wherever the Gospel is proclaimed to the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
The Crucifixion is depicted in a modern painting by Stephen B Whatley, an expressionist artist based in London. The title is “Father, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me ...?” Good Friday, April 6 in the Latin-rite church this year, commemorates the passion and death of Jesus Christ.
when he learned of it from the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. Having bought a linen cloth, he took him down, wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that
had been hewn out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses watched where he was laid.
Scripture reflection SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT
The anointing woman What this woman did, and when she did it, must have held enormous significance for the first generation of Jesus’ followers. What she did was set a counter-tone for the horrific sequence of miseries that becomes the Passion narrative. Jesus fell victim to betrayal by Judas, one of his closest companions. But this nameless woman showed loyalty to him even when she was reviled and criticized for her tender act. Peter boasted he would never abandon his Master. Shortly after, he publicly denied knowing Jesus to avoid getting in trouble. But this woman knew who Jesus was, acknowledged how much he meant to her, and purpose-
fully approached him even when she was maligned by Jesus’ companions. Jesus was troubled and distressed in the garden of Gethsemane, but Peter, James and John seemed unaware of his need for companionship and fell asleep. By contrast, the anointing woman was alert, seized the moment, and acted courageously. She got close to Jesus, embracing his head and comforting him with the fragrance of the oil. Jesus was betrayed with a false kiss, and jostled and grabbed by the guards who arrested him. The anointing woman’s touch of Jesus was tender, and her expression of love was simple and direct. At hearings before the Sanhedrin, Jesus
was subjected to false testimony, lies and insults, but the anointing woman’s wordless witness expressed her love and respect for him. When Jesus was in custody, the guards spit with disgust on his face, but the woman honored him by anointing his head with oil. Jesus was rejected by the crowd who called for his death, but the anointing woman acknowledged him as her beloved master. Jesus was crucified and mocked by passersby, but the anointing woman touched him with tenderness and spent an enormous sum on perfumed oil. Other women stood from afar as Jesus died. The anointing woman made her way so close to Jesus she could be near enough to embrace his head and physically soothe him. The tradition of the anointing woman is so strong, that like the perfumed oil, it permeates the entire Passion narrative. The anointing woman represents the person who responds to the cruelties of the Passion narrative by acting out a counter-narrative. The follower of Jesus during the Passion follows the events of the Way of the Cross, redeeming each act of cruelty with one of tenderness, respect, affection, courage, loyalty, truthfulness and nearness – in memory of her. Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt is a theologian and practices law in San Jose.
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‘Italian cathedral of the West’
Sts. Peter and Paul Church is known for its majestic twin towers, beautiful architecture and art. It has served as the backdrop for numerous Hollywood movies and is a favorite stop for tourists.
Priest, parishioners recall history of Sts. Peter and Paul Church By Jim Graves Sts. Peter and Paul Church in North Beach is today home to a variety of ethnic communities, but a century ago it was a center of life for the city’s Italian-American community. Established in 1884, the parish church is known for its majestic twin towers, beautiful architecture and art: It has served as the backdrop for numerous Hollywood movies and is a favorite stop for tourists. Poverty and political turmoil in Italy brought waves of Italian immigrants to the United States in the late-19th and early-20th century. North Beach became San First of two parts Francisco’s “Little Italy” as large numbers of Italians came and put down roots, established businesses, built homes and raised families. In the early 20th century, as much as 80 percent of the North Beach population was of Italian heritage, and walking down the streets Italian could be heard spoken as often as English. In 1897, San Francisco Archbishop Patrick Riordan turned over care of the parish to the Salesians of Don Bosco, a religious institute founded in Italy by St. John Bosco a few decades before. The church became known as “La cattedrale d’Italia ovest,” the Italian Cathedral of the West. While the ethnic character of the community has changed – Masses today are celebrated in English, Italian, Latin and Chinese – the Salesians still serve the parish and many of its parishioners still proudly celebrate its Italian heritage. Salesian Father Armand Oliveri, 92, grew up in the parish. Father Armand was born in Italy, and came to North Beach in 1929. “My father wanted to avoid both Benito Mussolini and the fascists and the communists that were active in Italy,” Father Armand said. Sts. Peter and Paul became a spiritual home and social center for Italians, he said. Father Armand remembers the early days of such groups as the Italian Catholic Federation and the Salesian Boys and Girls Clubs. Most of the priests who served the parish were Italian. Father Armand attended the parish school, at that time staffed by Presentation Sisters. By the time he graduated the eighth grade, he knew he wanted to be a priest. But Sts. Peter and Paul was not popular with all the members of the community, he recalled. Several attempts were made to plant bombs to destroy the church, and one would-be bomber was shot to death by police on the front steps of the church in 1927. The bombers were not motivated by anti-Italian sentiments, Father Armand noted, but by a revolutionary, anti-clerical and anti-Catholic spirit that some in the community held. Father Armand was ordained a priest in Turin, Italy in 1950. He celebrated one of his first Masses at Sts. Peter and Paul, and served as pastor of the parish from 1980-88. He took up permanent residence there seven years ago. While Italians still return to the church in large numbers for special celebrations, it has become home to a significant number of Chinese Catholics since the 1970s, Father Armand
Salesian Father Armand Oliveri, who is in residence at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in San Francisco’s North Beach, is pictured in front of the church March 12 with students from the parish school.
By the time he graduated from the eighth grade at the parish school, Father Armand Oliveri knew he wanted to be a priest.
noted. More Chinese live and work in the area, so the parish has now become their home. Guido “Gig” Ghiglieri, 88, has lived in North Beach and been a Sts. Peter and Paul parishioner since he was an infant. A retired laborer and driver, he volunteers in the parish as a lector, extraordinary minister of holy Communion, and preparing food for the needy. As a boy, he took part in Sts. Peter and Paul’s Salesian Boys Club activities. He remembers younger priests – most who serve the parish today are in their 80s and 90s – and churches packed for Mass. Those who couldn’t fit inside would stand on the street and follow along with the aid of loudspeakers, he said. After Mass, children would attend Sunday school.
With the strong Catholic character of the Italian North Beach community, attending Sunday Mass was expected. “If you weren’t there, they’d come looking for you,” Ghiglieri said. Alessandro Baccari, 83, was born and raised in North Beach. Like Father Armand, he attended the parish school. He’s worked as a businessman, teacher and writer. In 1984, he collaborated on the writing of “The Italian Cathedral of the West,” a book that helped celebrate the 100th anniversary of Sts. Peter and Paul. He has fond memories of the tightknit Italian community: “You really got to know your neighbor, and everyone looked out for each other.” His memories of Catholic school were positive as well. “The nuns cared about me, and about all their students,” he said. He served as an altar boy, and remembers serving in a nuptial Mass of baseball legend Joe DiMaggio. His memory of the Yankee slugger: “Joe was shy.” Times were tough in the streets of San Francisco during the Great Depression, but, Baccari, said, “When there was poverty and despair, it was the church who offered hope.” While Baccari loves his Italian heritage, he is quick to add that he is pleased to welcome Catholics of different ethnicities to Sts. Peter and Paul. He said, “The Italians built that parish. But, I’m proud and celebrate the fact that it is now welcoming a new wave of Chinese immigrants.” Next week: Sts. Peter and Paul celebrates 40th anniversary of Chinese apostolate. Jim Graves is a Catholic writer living in Newport Beach, with roots in San Francisco. jimgraves@hotmail.com.
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Archdiocesan women religious celebrate jubilees Sisters of Notre Dame 75 years Sister Julie Bellefeuille taught at Mission Dolores School, San Francisco; Notre Dame School, Belmont, and St. Charles School, San Carlos. She also taught theology at the Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont and now resides at the Province Center in Belmont. 60 years Sister Geraldine (Geraldine Marie) Harris taught at Mission Dolores School, San Francisco later spending 25 years living and working with developmentally disabled women. Sister Patricia (Raymond Francis) Hoffman has taught at St. Charles School, San Carlos, Notre Dame School, Belmont, and Mission Dolores School, San Francisco. Today Sister Pat entertains as “Bodelia” the clown at Mercy Center in Oakland where she lives. Sister Mary (Mary Bernard) Laxague served at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont for three decades, Later she became part of the Leadership Team for the California Province and now lives at the Province Center. Sister Theresa (Helen Marie) Reis has served as cook at ministry locations including the sisters’ novitiate in Saratoga. She now lives in Santa Barbara. 50 years Sister Carolyn (Mary Charles) Buhs has taught locally and also in Kenya and Sudan for more than 30 years including three years in a refugee camp. Sister Carolyn looks forward to returning to Southern Sudan. Sister Margaret (Joseph Louise) Lederer taught at the now closed Notre Dame School in San Francisco and today works in educational outreach for the Humane Society of Cowlitz County in Washington. Sister Andrea (Teresita) Mendoza taught at St. Charles School in San Carlos and served as the administrator of the
Pictured are Notre Dame Sisters who celebrated jubilees in 2011: Seated from left are Sister Liz Tiernan, SNDN; Sister Theresa Reis, SNDN; Sister Julie Bellefeuille, SNDN; Sister Geraldine Harris, SNDN; and standing from left are Sister Nancy O’Shea, SNDN; Sister Carolyn Buhs, SNDN; Sister Andrea Mendoza, SNDN; Sister Margaret Lederer, SNDN; Sister Susan Olson, SNDN; Sister Pat Hoffman, SNDN; Sister Peter Joseph Navone, SNDN; Sister Bernadette Garcia, SNDN; and Sister Mary Laxague, SNDN.
Notre Dame Villa Infirmary for five years. Today she serves as a pastoral associate at St. Lucy Parish, Campbell. Sister Peter Joseph Navone taught at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Redwood City. For the last 23 years she has served at St. Joseph of Cupertino School. Sister Susan (Ann Joachim) Olson taught at Immaculate Heart School in Belmont. Today she is executive director for Pajaro Valley Shelter in Watsonville which she helped found. Sister Nancy (Anne Jerome) O’Shea is a member of the International Leadership Team for the Sisters of Notre Dame
and has taught at Immaculate Heart School in Belmont. Sister Bernadette (Bernadette Marie) Garcia has taught every grade, but finds kindergarten to be a particular joy. Since 2006, she has taught at Moreland Notre Dame School in Watsonville. Sister Elisabeth (Elisabeth Marie) Tiernan admits it is her years as a religion teacher and religious education consultant that have energized her the most. She has lived in Seattle for over 20 years and is currently completing a book of catechesis for Native Americans.
Sisters of Mercy 70 years Sister Alice Montgomery holds a nursing degree from St. Mary’s College of Nursing in San Francisco. In her nursing career, Sister Alice served at locations including St. Joseph’s Hospital, Arizona, where she pioneered prenatal and postnatal care programs to Native American women and their children. 60 years Sister Barbara Checkhart has served as teacher and hospital chaplain. She now lives at Mercy Retirement and Care Center in Oakland. Sister Mary Lois Corporandy was taught by the Sisters of Mercy at St. Catherine School and Mercy High School, Burlingame and taught and served as administrator at Mercy High School, San Francisco for 29 years. Today she serves at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco. Sister Sheila Murphy taught in grade schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco including Holy Name and St. Gabriel. She moved to Marian Oaks in Burlingame in December 2010. Sister Mary Estelle Small served as teacher at St. Catherine School in Burlingame and Mercy High School and Holy Name School in San Francisco. In 2003 she formally retired to Marian Convent in Burlingame. 50 years Sister Patricia Harney has earned a reputation as “cyber-nun” for her knowledge of computers and the ease with which she teaches the skill. Today, she works with students in the Sunnydale neighborhood of San Francisco. Sister Mary Ann Hills has taught at St. Peter, St. Bartholomew and Our Lady of Angels schools in the San
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Francisco archdiocese. Since 1997, she has been a pastoral counselor in Stockton. Sister Phyllis Hughes is a former vice president of Catholic Healthcare West and president of the Mercy Burlingame Regional Community. She has also served at Catholic Relief Services. Sister Rosanne McGrath taught at St. Gabriel School in San Francisco and since 2004 she has been a massage therapist in Oceanside and a teacher of English as a Second Language in Vista. Sister Susan Vickers taught at St. Gabriel, Holy Name, St. Stephen, and St. Catherine School in the San Francisco
archdiocese and is a former principal at Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame. Sister Deborah Watson has served at St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo and St. Stephen in San Francisco. She currently is pastoral minister and co-director of a women´s center in Clorinda, Argentina. 25 years Sister Genemarie Beegan has taught at St. Peter School, San Francisco, and Mercy High School, Burlingame. She now serves at Misericordia Home in Chicago.
Saints called role models for religious freedom, care of the poor and sick By Mark Zimmermann BETHESDA, Md. (CNS) – Today’s Catholics can look to the saints as role models as they stand up for religious freedom, and as they care for the poor and sick in the healing professions, participants at the Archdiocese of Washington’s March 18 Rose Mass were told. The annual Mass – held to seek God’s blessings on those in the health professions – and the luncheon that followed were sponsored by the John Carroll Society, and held at the Church of the Little Flower in Bethesda. Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl was the principal celebrant of the Mass and Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., was the homilist. At the luncheon, Cardinal Wuerl asked attendees who they
would choose to be the patron saint of religious freedom. After mentioning several possible candidates throughout history, the cardinal asked consideration of St. Patrick, the fifth-century bishop and apostle of Ireland. The cardinal mentioned several other saints throughout history who could be regarded as patron saints for religious freedom, all of whom remained faithful to the Gospel and to church teaching, remaining true to their consciences even to the point of being martyred for their faith. Among those he mentioned were St. Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury executed in 1170 after opposing, as a matter of faith, the policies of King Henry II; St. Thomas More, lord chancellor of England, executed in 1535 after opposing King Henry VIII’s illicit marriage; Blessed Miguel Pro, a
Jesuit priest executed by firing squad in 1927 after opposing the Mexican government’s policy of religious persecution; and St. Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan priest executed at the Auschwitz death camp. Those who work in the health professions today can look to a saint canonized 25 years ago – St. Giuseppe Moscati, an early 20th-century Italian doctor, medical school professor and pioneer researcher in the field of biochemistry who had a deep devotion to his faith – as a special patron saint, Bishop Rhoades said in his homily. He noted how the doctor, during his years in medical school and later as a teacher, kept his faith in an antagonistic environment, and he said that today’s Catholic medical students can draw strength from his example.
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Searching for God among many voices We are surrounded by many voices. There’s rarely a So too with us: Among all the voices that surround and moment within our waking lives that someone or something beckon us, how do we discern the unique cadence of God’s isn’t calling out to us. Even in our sleep, dreams and nightmares voice? ask for our attention. Each voice has its own particular cadence There’s no easy answer and sometimes the best we can do and message. Some voices invite us in, promising us life if we is to trust our gut-feeling about right and wrong. But we have a do this or that or buy a certain product or idea; others threaten number of principles that come to us from Jesus, from scripture, us. Some voices beckon us toward hatred, bitterness and anger, and from the deep wells of our Christian tradition that can help us. while others challenge is toward love, graciousness and forgiveWhat follows is a series of principles to help us discern ness. Some voices tell us that they God’s voice among the multitude are playful and humorous, even of voices that beckon us. What is as others trumpet that they are Among all the voices that the unique cadence of the voice of urgent and weighty, the voice of the Good Shepherd? nonnegotiable truth, God’s voice. – The voice of God is recogsurround and beckon us, Which is the voice of God? nized both in whispers and in soft How do we recognize God’s voice tones, even as it is recognized in among and within all of these how do we discern the unique thunder and in storm. voices? – The voice of God is recogGod, as the Scriptures tell us, cadence of God’s voice? nized wherever one sees life, joy, is the author of everything that’s health, color, and humor, even as good, whether it bears a religious it is recognized wherever one sees label or not. Hence, God’s voice is inside of many things that dying, suffering, poverty and a beaten-down spirit. are not explicitly connected to faith and religion, just as God’s – The voice of God is recognized in what calls us to what’s voice is also not in everything that masquerades as religious. But higher, sets us apart, and invites us to holiness, even as it is rechow do we discern that? ognized in what calls us to humility, submergence into humanity, Jesus leaves us a wonderful metaphor to work with, but and in that which refuses to denigrate our humanity. it’s precisely only a metaphor: He tells us that he is the Good – The voice of God is recognized in what appears in our Shepherd and that his sheep will recognize his voice among all lives as “foreign,” as other, as “stranger,” even as it is recognized other voices. in the voice that beckons us home. The Leading Catholic Funeral Directors of the San Francisco Archdiocese
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‘October Baby’: Honorable if flawed drama with pro-life message Reviewed by John Mulderig NEW YORK (CNS) – “Every life is beautiful.� That’s the tagline – as well as the underlying theme – of the thoroughly honorable, if not always fully effective, drama “October Baby� (Provident/Samuel Goldwyn). After she collapses on stage during the opening night of a college play, freshman Hannah Lawson (Rachel Hendrix) winds up in the hospital and on the receiving end of two pieces of staggering news: She learns first, that her devoted parents – mom Grace (Jennifer Price) and dad Jacob (John Schneider) – adopted her as an infant. And second, that she’s the survivor of an attempted abortion. As her doctor explains, the latter fact accounts for the chronic medical problems that have long plagued Hannah and that culminated in her blackout. Devastated and bewildered by this sudden revelation, Hannah sets out in search of her birth mother, Cindy (Shari Rigby). She’s accompanied on her journey by Jason (Jason Burkey), her best friend since childhood. He’s arranged for them to hitch a ride with a group of fellow students who are off to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. In their feature debut, brothers Andrew and Jon Erwin helm a strongly pro-life message movie whose import viewers dedicated to the dignity of all human beings will welcome unanimously. Opinions about the aesthetic package in which they wrap their point, however, may be more divided. The spring break-style odyssey on which Hannah and Jason
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tag along is obviously intended to provide some much needed light relief. But only some of the comedy centering on the expedition’s leader, disheveled but good-hearted B-Mac (Chris Sligh), works. Instead of being kept in sharp focus, Hannah’s potentially poignant vulnerability on discovering that she was unwanted – and that her very existence was treated as disposable by her own mother – gets diffused amid more conventional expressions of teen angst and confusion. Hannah’s admirable adherence to Christian sexual morality, moreover – she and Jason share an unspoken but unmistakable mutual attraction – becomes the occasion for a mumbled apology rather than an explanation as resolute as her actions. But the Erwins’ project does have some undeniable cinematic assets: The first part of their story, for instance, plays out against
Canonization set for second Filipino martyr saint By Father Jose Arong, OMI April 2 is the feast day of an 18-year-old Filipino martyr who will be canonized later this year. Blessed Pedro Calungsod will be among seven new saints canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on Oct. 21. Blessed Pedro will be the second Filipino saint. The first is St. Lorenzo Ruiz. It is interesting that both men were laypeople and foreign missionaries and died as martyrs in a foreign land. St. Lorenzo gave his life for the faith in Japan. Pedro Calungsod was a 17th-century teenage catechist of the Jesuit missions in the Marianas Islands. He may only have been about 15 years old when he went to Guam with Jesuit missionary Father Diego San Luis Vitores, who was named blessed in 1985. A few years after their arrival in 1668, opposition to Jesuit missionary activities became increasingly violent among some of the local people. On April 2, 1672, Pedro Calungsod together with Blessed Diego San Luis Vitores were killed for their faith and their bodies thrown into the sea, never to be found. Little is known of Blessed Pedro’s origin in the Philippines. His baptismal record cannot be found. Most, if not all baptismal records of the 17th century in the Visayas were destroyed by fire, typhoons or termites. Existing documents refer to him by names including Pedro Calungsod, Bisaya and Indio. Calungsod is a common Filipino name in the Philippines.
Calungsod families are most numerous in the Visayan towns of Ginatilan in Cebu, Hinundayan and Hinunangan in southern Leyte, in the Molo district of Iloilo City in Panay and in many places in the province of Bohol. The canonization process for Blessed Pedro Calungsod started on June 25, 1998. On March 5, 2000, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. On Dec. 19, 2011, a miracle through his intercession was approved clearing the way for his canonization. During the beatification ceremony in 2000, Blessed John Paul praised Blessed Pedro, saying: “From his childhood, Pedro Calungsod declared himself unwaveringly for Christ and responded generously to his call. Young people today can draw encouragement and strength from the example of Pedro, whose love of Jesus inspired him to devote his teenage years to teaching the faith as a lay catechist ‌. Today, Blessed Pedro Calungsod intercedes for the young, in particular those of his native Philippines, and he challenges them.â€? The Philippines has the world’s third-largest Catholic population after Brazil and Mexico. The church has declared only one Filipino saint after more than 400 years as a Catholic nation. Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Father Jose Arong is associate pastor at Sacred Heart Parish in Oakland. Information about Blessed Pedro is available from “Pedro Calungsod Bisaya, Prospects of a Teenage Filipinoâ€? by Archdiocese of Cebu, Philippines, Msgr. Ildebrando Jesus Alino Leyso, a principal in the Calungsod sainthood cause. Visit www.pedrocalungsod.net.
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Milestone work offers Jewish perspectives on New Testament I know personally and have worked with in dialogue a number of the Jews involved in this masterful project. I am not surprised by the depth of scholarship apparent in this volume though I am most pleasantly at its breadth, with over 40 Jewish scholars participating in the respectful study of a sacred text which, given the all too often tragic nature of ChristianJewish relations up to and culminating in the Holocaust, was considered by most Jews something to be avoided. The existence and high quality of this volume is strong evidence that the dialogue between the Catholic Church and God’s people, the Jews, by the Second
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Vatican Council is, in its second generation, producing significant and fruitful results in understanding for both communities. Fresh insights will abound here for Catholic readers and, as the editors state, for Jewish readers as well. For the New Testament is not only the foundational text of Christianity it is also a major accomplishment and record of Jewish thought, of importance for Jews who wish to understand their own history. The notes do not shirk from taking on the problematic passages of the New Testament such as Matthew’s historically inaccurate depiction of the Pharisees, which they do not inveigh against so much as seek to explain, and put
them into the context of the time and place in which the Gospels were written. The authors likewise deal in constructive fashion with pejorative phrases such as “the synagogue of Satan” and the generic use of the term, “the Jews,” in John’s Gospel. The volume makes full use of rabbinic sources, as appropriate, which helps one understand nuances and depths of many of Jesus’ sayings and other New Testament teachings. It includes helpful tables on timelines, calendars, parallel texts and relevant ancient literature, a glossary of terms, and even weights and measures. It includes 30 concise and incisive essays on the history, beliefs, literature and practices of Jews of the centuries surrounding the writing of the New Testament, and Jewish responses to Jesus, Paul and the New Testament in general over the centuries and especially in recent times. Though such a work never existed before, Catholics who use it will wonder how we ever got along without it.
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Service, Barba also noted that Father Maciel and Blessed John Paul shared similar histories of church persecution in their home countries. Papal biographer George Weigel has said Father Maciel convinced then-Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo to meet Blessed John Paul when he arrived in Mexico for the first of his five trips to the country in 1979. Father Maciel was born in Cotija. St. Rafael Guizar Valencia was his great-uncle. Father Maciel later founded the Legionaries of Christ in the southern part of Mexico City, where, according to a 2009 story in the magazine Milenio Semanal, he focused his efforts on serving a group largely ignored by existing orders of the day: the rich. He opened elite academies and universities along with schools for the poor. Many joined his order out of conviction, but Milenio Semanal alleged others became affiliated with the Legionaries out of the need to make social connections with the rich and powerful – something important in a country where relationships can matter as much as talent and ability. To this day, this reputation persists, leading in large part to the onslaught of such unfavorable media attention, says political science professor Federico Estevez of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. “It’s just a Tiger Woods story with an institution,” he said in 2010.
■ Continued from page 10 whom he called “damaged” by Father Maciel’s actions. The book, which the authors said is based on previously secret Vatican documents from 1944 to 2001, alleges the Vatican knew details of Father Maciel’s sins for decades, but failed to take action. The allegations in the book appear to contradict comments from Pope Benedict published in his 2010 book, “Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times,” in which he called Father Maciel “a mysterious figure” and “a false prophet.” The pope told German journalist Peter Seewald: “Unfortunately, we addressed these things very slowly and late. Somehow, they were concealed very well and only around 2000 did we have any concrete clues.” Pope Benedict was the one who ultimately took action against Father Maciel. The relationship between his predecessor, Blessed John Paul II, and Father Maciel was considered close. Father Maciel moved easily through the Vatican, Bishop Vera said, adding, “He had ... a skill for handling money.” Barba attributed Father Maciel’s favor to charm and charisma. During a 2010 interview with Catholic News
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SATURDAY, MARCH 31 YOUTH INVITED: “Dining with God,” an evening of reflection, music and food to prepare for Easter for teens, grade eight and older, 4:30-7:30 p.m. including Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, South San Francisco. RSVP to mscepeda@mdssf.org or (650) 588-8175. CANTONESE SPEAKERS: “Catholic Marriage – Biblical, Historical and Moral Perspectives,” in Cantonese, at St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center from 2-5 p.m. Jesuit Father Lucas Chan, visiting professor at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley facilitates the session. Event is sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. For more information, call Sister Maria Hsu at (415) 614-5574. RELIGIOUS LIFE TODAY AND TOMORROW: “Sharing the New Wine: Vowed Religious in a Postmodern Age,” a day of communal reflection and dialogue on the present reality and future of religious life, at Santa Clara University, Locatelli Hall, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, 8:30 a.m.5:15 p.m. Visit www.sharingthenewwine.blogspot. com and www.scu.edu/jst/religiouslife. Day is sponsored by California Province of the Society of Jesus, Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity and others.
SUNDAY, APRIL 1 FATHER PETER YORKE: Palm Sunday Mass at 10 a.m. at Holy Cross Cemetery’s All Saints Mausoleum in Colma. Father Yorke, a premier preacher and pro-labor priest, died on Palm Sunday 1925. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice presides. Call (650) 756-2060. CATHOLIC SCHOOLERS: Catholic Alumni Club meets at 2 p.m. at Douce France Cafe, Town and Country Village Shopping Center, 855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. CAC is for Catholic men and women college graduates or registered nurses to meet and share their faith at a variety of enjoyable, interesting and fulfilling activities. Contact Gregg Rose (408) 242-3603 or email RoseGreg7A@hotmail.com. Visit http://catholicsingles-bayarea.org.
SATURDAY, APRIL 7 PRAYER SERVICE: Msgr. Harry Schlitt presides at the Holy Saturday rite – not Mass – at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Cemetery’s All Saints Mausoleum in Colma. Call (650) 756-2060.
FRIDAY, APRIL 13 SEW: St. Vincent de Paul Society-San Francisco’s “Discarded to Divine” with unique fashions and home décor from recycled clothes, benefitting homelessness and domestic violence programs. Complimentary public preview 6-8 p.m., de Young Museum. Visit www.discardedtodivine. org/.
SATURDAY, APRIL 14 CYO CAMP: Come learn more about this awe-inspiring Catholic community that enables campers to experience a positive, meaningful and challenging summer adventure. The 11 a.m.-4 p.m. open house includes a barbecue lunch and tour opportunities as well as swimming, canoeing, archery, hikes and arts and crafts. CYO Camp welcomes children of all religious backgrounds in youth-centered programming with value-based themes of community, stewardship and friendship. Registration is now open for CYO Camp Summer 2012 sessions. Location is CYO Camp and Retreat Center, 2136 Bohemian Highway, Occidental. Visit www.cyocamp.org. REUNION: Notre Dame de Namur alumnae of San Francisco Mass and luncheon with a theme “Try to Remember.” Event begins with Mass at 10:30 a.m. at Mission Dolores Basilica followed by lunch at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd., San Francisco. Belles of 1942, 1952, 1962 and 1972 are special guests. Contact Katie O’Leary at (415) 282-6588 or email nuttydames@aol.com.
THURSDAY, APRIL 19 VATICAN II: Father David Pettingill speaks April 19, 26, May 3, 10 at St. Emydius Church, 286 Ashton Ave. off Ocean Avenue, San Francisco.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 20 BRIDGE PLAYERS: Queen of Hearts tourney at St. Charles Parish hall, 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos, with check-in at 9:30 a.m. and games at 10 a.m. Entry fee for the six-round contest is $50 per person. Lunch included in fee. Register for the event by April 17 with Lynda at (650) 592-7714. Proceeds benefit St. Francis Center, Redwood City.
SATURDAY, APRIL 21 REUNION: Immaculate Conception Academy honors all graduates with special attention to classes of 1952, 1962, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, and 2007. Event begins at 11 a.m. at Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave., South San Francisco. Contact Patty Cavagnaro at pcavagnaro@icacademy.org. REUNION: “St. Rose Academy All School Reunion” begins with an alumnae memorial Mass at St. Dominic Church, Steiner and Bush Street, San Francisco at 10 a.m. No host cocktail reception is at 11 a.m. and luncheon at noon at the Hilton Hotel Union Square, 333 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco. Event marks 150th anniversary of the school’s founding. “Though St. Rose closed in 1990, the alumnae are still going strong,” organizers said. Email srareunion@gmail.com. SPRING FLING: Riordan High School Spring Fling, a festive evening of dining, dancing, live and silent auctions benefiting the school’s Tuition Assistance Program. Be the highest bidder on vacation homes, theme baskets, wines and more! A new feature this year is wine tasting courtesy of Ravenswood, Nicholson and Taft Street wineries. Event will be held on campus at 175 Phelan Ave. just off Ocean Avenue. Ticket and sponsorship information contact Sharon Ghilardi-Udovich, director of special events, at (415) 586-8200 ext.*217 or email sudovich@riordanhs.org.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26 SEW: St. Vincent de Paul Society-San Francisco’s “Discarded to Divine” with unique fashions and home décor from recycled clothes, benefitting homelessness and domestic violence programs. Gala reception, live show, auctions from 6-10 p.m., San Francisco Design Center Galleria. Tickets are VIP $195 and general admission $95. Visit www.discardedtodivine.org/.
FRIDAY, APRIL 27 REUNION: Sacred Heart High School, class of 1952, at St. Francis Yacht Club, noon-2:30 p.m. Call Frank Noonan at (415) 454-0243.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 29 REUNION: St. John Ursuline High School alumnae association luncheon at Irish Cultural Center, following Mass at 9:30 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church. Golden diplomas will be distributed to the class of 1962. Contact Diane Gragnani at (415) 564-2077. HIGH TEA: Time for Tea with St. Robert Parish, San Bruno, 1-4 p.m. It is an afternoon of fun and friendship, a chance to visit with old friends and to meet new ones. Tickets are $23/adults/$11 children under 10. A special menu will be available for children. For tickets or more information, call (650) 589-2800 or email PPCC5@SaintRoberts.org. WALK: San Francisco Interfaith Council’s Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty Walk around Lake Merced, 1:30 p.m. registration and 2 p.m. start time at parking circle at Sunset and Lake Merced Boulevard. Proceeds from the walk will help fight homelessness in San Francisco. Visit www.cropwalksf.org.
GOLDEN JUBILEE MASS: Archbishop George Niederauer celebrates Mass commemorating his 50th year as a priest at 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco.
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NEW PRIESTS: Rev. Mr. Armando J. Gutierrez, Rev. Mr. Felix B. Lim, Rev. Mr. Jerome M. Murphy are ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of San Francisco at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. REUNION: Class of ’51 from Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City at the 16 Mile House in Millbrae. Search for classmates continues. Call Janet Cirimele at (650) 490-0731.
SATURDAY, JUNE 9 BOCCE BALL: Riordan Bocce Ball Tournament at Orange Park in South San Francisco. Contact Sharon Ghilardi-Udovich, director of special events at (415) 586-8200 ext.*217 or email sudovich@ riordanhs.org. ALUMNAE DAY: “Notre Dame High School Legacy Luncheon” at Notre Dame High School, 1540 Ralston Ave., Belmont. Contact Denise Severi at Dseveri@ndhsb.org. Reunions for class of ’87, Aug. 5, contact Heather Oda at moda@ co.sanmateo.ca.us; class of ’67 Oct. 27, contact Susan Angle at susanangle@comcast.net or (925) 680-4917.
SUNDAY, JUNE 24 NEW DEACONS: Archbishop George Niederauer will ordain candidates to the permanent diaconate at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco at 3:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 REUNION: Class of 1972, Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Contact Notre Dame alumnae office at (650) 595 1913 ext. 446 or email dseveri@ ndhsb.org or eileen_browning@yahoo.com.
SATURDAY, OCT. 6 REUNION: Marin Catholic High School, class of ’62 at Jason’s Restaurant, Greenbrae. Visit www. marincatholic62.com or call Jeannie at (415) 4793838 or Mergie, at (415) 453-7714.
REUNION: St. Paul High School class of 1972 at the Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco. Email sphs1972reunion@gmail.com by April 30 for catering head count. Include your contact information with your maiden name for details. Spread the word to our fellow graduates!
SUNDAY, MAY 6 GRADS’ MOMS: Riordan High School Alumni Moms Brunch, “Hats Off To Moms,” at the Lake Merced Golf Club. All alumni moms and their guests are welcome. Contact Sharon GhilardiUdovich, director of special events at (415) 5868200 ext.*217 or email sudovich@riordanhs.org. CONCERT: St. Elizabeth Church, 459 Somerset St. at Wayland, San Francisco concert celebrating 25th anniversary of the church’s Schoenstein Pipe Organ at 3 p.m. David Schofield will play. Choirs will sing including the parish choir and Light of
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SATURDAY, MAY 19 Father Dave’s topic is Vatican II: 50 years later. Father Dave is a former seminary professor and pastor and a nationally known authority on the church council of the 1960s. Talks are from 7-8:30 p.m. Donation of $20 requested for entire series. Call (415) 587-7066.
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Victim Assistance Coordinator Needed Archdiocese of San Francisco The Archdiocese is seeking a qualified candidate to work directly with the Archbishop, Auxiliary Bishops and the Office of Child and Youth Protection in the role of Victim Assistance Coordinator. Responsibilities include: • On-going help for survivors • Process any new allegations • Communicate with the Independent Review Board • Assist with education programs to prevent child abuse This important position is an exempt position with excellent benefits. Requirements: Position description available on our Web site at: www.sfarchdiocese.org
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