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50 Years Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption

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Archbishop: St. Mary’s turns 50

From the ruins: A new concept, a new cathedral

Her Heart is the Gate of Heaven Spirit of Vatican II expressed “perfectly” at St. Mary’s Cathedral

Pilgrim’s Tour: A visual guide through St. Mary’s Cathedral

Seven monuments to Mary

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St. Mary’s turns

BY ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE JOSEPH CORDILEONE

n the lifespan of an average person, 50 years would be well along life’s journey, but still well within what we call “middle age.” At this age, those who live life well have been able to learn from their life experiences and yet still have much of life ahead of them to benefit from these lessons. In Church time, though, 50 years is quite young, almost comparable to a newborn baby! We have the great grace this year of celebrating the 50th birthday of our Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption (delayed one year due to the COVID pandemic). This jubilee year celebration brings together both perspectives of time: our cathedral is still new, yet it is already beginning to show that it can stand the test of time with its design, concept and art. It is at once contemporary and timeless. This is the mark of all true great works of art: reflecting the contemporary culture in which it was created and yet transcending that culture to inspire all future generations with its beauty. We have a unique cathedral, literally: the first church built to be a cathedral after the Second Vatican Council. The newly arrived Archbishop at the time, Joseph T. McGucken, advised his architects that he wanted “a cathedral that would accommodate large numbers of people; one that would enable even large crowds to surround the altar; and a structure that would be a statement that God is present in beauty in the earthly city.” In building this edifice, then, the fifth Archbishop of San Francisco was building on his predecessor of a century earlier, the first Archbishop of San Francisco, the Dominican Joseph Sadoc Alemany. ›

“Sanctify those who love the beauty of Your house." PRAYER FROM THE DIVINE LITURGY

I extend my greetings to the faithful of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, and to my brother in Christ, His Excellency Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, as you celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption. May this community continue to stand as a beacon of God’s love, and may the intercessions of the Blessed Virgin Mary protect you under the shelter of her motherly arms. With Love in Christ,

From Bishop Oscar A. Solis

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In building the first St. Mary’s Cathedral, Archbishop Alemany constructed the tallest building in San Francisco at the time, not only to minister to the spiritual needs of the city’s inhabitants but also to serve as a major educational and cultural center, including hosting sacred music programs with full orchestra. From the start, our cathedral has fulfilled her vocation of being a center and focal point of the life of her community.

In this jubilee year, we give thanks that St. Mary’s Cathedral has been true to her vocation of service, teaching, hospitality, and – the ultimate purpose of it all – sanctification.” The cathedral, of course, is the bishop’s church, as it houses the “cathedra,” the bishop’s chair which symbolizes his teaching authority. More completely, as chief shepherd of his local church and successor to the apostles, the bishop serves as pastor, teacher and priest in the midst of his people. This is his vocation, and so it is also the vocation of his cathedral, a vocation that centers on unity. As the bishop is the focal point of unity for the many parishes and communities making up his diocese and linking them with the universal Church by virtue of his communion with other bishops and the successor of St. Peter, the bishop of Rome, so the cathedral is to serve as a central gathering place for the local community for prayer, formation, fellowship and service. This points to another call of the cathedral especially pertinent to the modern age, and in particular here in the United States: the vocation of hospitality, that is, to be a place of gathering for people of all backgrounds and all faiths, to come together in prayer and solidarity at times of crisis and at times of rejoicing, a common gathering space for the entire community. Every cathedral, however modest, has this vocation. But it has been customary whenever possible to embellish cathedrals with beautiful art and make them centers of the finest liturgical music. This is wholly fitting to their purpose as places of worship. According to the Second Vatican Council, the liturgy is celebrated to glorify God and sanctify his people (SC 10), and music and art play an essential role in this regard. Our Catholic faith is inherently incarnational: a sacramental vision of reality has always inspired us to build beautiful churches and fill them with solemn and joyful music. We do not neglect the needs of the poor to do this, and cathedrals have also been traditionally centers of social service. But uplifting places of prayer are themselves a notable gift to the poor.

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We are blessed to inherit the legacy of a cathedral that lives up to this vocation: a place of beauty in sight and motion and sound (including the Sunday concert series which continues the original vision of Archbishop Alemany, as well as the bright and gifted St. Brigid school choir), a sacred space which by its design takes the soul up to heaven while reminding us that we are in the world to sanctify the world, a place for the wider community to gather to collaborate on issues of common concern, a place of service to the poor and homeless (exemplified especially in our cathedral’s participation in the San Francisco Interfaith Council’s winter homeless shelter program). In this jubilee year, we give thanks that St. Mary’s Cathedral has been true to her vocation of service, teaching, hospitality and – the ultimate purpose of it all – sanctification. And she even gives us a reminder of this last point when we leave her sacred space. It is seen, yes, as one exits from the main doors, serving as a reminder to the worshippers of who they are called to be as they go back out into the world. For as they finally turn to leave, the panel above the doors, now seen from inside, reveals something unexpected: the side figures are no longer men and women climbing a hill, as is seen from the outside of the cathedral. Instead, with light streaming through the glass, one now clearly sees a golden chalice, the embodiment of the Eucharist, and in the cup of the chalice, there appears the ascended Christ, returning to his Father in glory. May the Blessed Virgin Mary, our mother gloriously assumed into heaven, intercede for us, that, helped by the grace of her divine Son, we may, like her, live lives pleasing to him, and one day come to share the fullness of his glory. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ST. MARY’S! ■ MAY 2022 | CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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FROM THE RUINS A new concept, a new cathedral

tanding in the charred ruins of the church in which he had recently been installed as the fifth archbishop of San Francisco on the morning of Sept. 8, 1962, Joseph T. McGucken announced that we would build a new cathedral. The moment was providential. There was a spirit of confident optimism in the air: parishes and schools were being built, seminaries and novitiates were overflowing, “Good Pope John” was admired and loved by the whole world, and for the first time in history a Catholic was living in the White House. One month after this announcement, the new archbishop went to Rome for the opening of the Second Vatican Council. The first document approved by the council fathers was the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, and the Catholic Church of San Francisco had the opportunity to build the first cathedral in the United States inspired by the liturgical vision of the council. Three local architects were appointed to undertake the design of the new St. Mary’s Cathedral. Paul Ryan, Angus McSweeney and John Michael Lee went to work, but their plans (constrained by the long, narrow site of the old cathedral) were rather tame. Voices were raised (both within and outside the Catholic community) that the times called for something more daring. The archbishop listened to these voices and invited Pietro Belluschi in as a consulting architect. Belluschi was reluctant to accept. He had designed small churches and synagogues, but never a cathedral for a major city … and a city prone to earthquakes. He acquiesced, and Archbishop McGucken asked him for three things: 1. The cathedral should accommodate a large number of people; 2. It should be designed in such a way that this large community would feel closely connected to Eucharistic celebration at the altar; 3. The building should proclaim the presence of a living Christian community worshipping in the midst of the modern city. ›

1962, Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken gives an address in the ruins of the old cathedral building at Van Ness Avenue and O’Farrell Street.

Most Reverend Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone Bishop Robert F. Vasa, Bishop Daniel F. Walsh, the Priests, Deacons, Religious and Laity of the Diocese of Santa Rosa express to you, a warm note of sincere congratulations on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Dedication of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Other providential movements were at work: the neighborhood around the old cathedral was being cleared for redevelopment. Could the church obtain two city blocks in the middle of San Francisco to make the dream a reality? The pastor responsible for the actual building of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Msgr. Thomas J. Bowe, planted a medal of Our Lady of Guadalupe on the desired property and vowed that her shrine would have an honored place in the new church. This property provided the space needed for the cathedral, and for a large conference center, a new high school and parking for 250 automobiles. Belluschi’s plans took shape. He envisioned the new St. Mary’s as “a luminous tent” (a fitting image for the pilgrim people of God), which would rise up 20 stories to form a cross over the people gathered for worship. He in turn enlisted the assistance of a genius in the art of designing with reinforced

3 1. Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken at groundbreaking of new cathedral, 1965. 2. Aerial view of the cathedral under construction 3. Construction picture. 4. The cathedral completed. 5. Professor Enrico Manfrini from Milan Italy,working on the bronze sculptural window over the main entry.

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modern world, praying for the city around us and inviting it to join our praise of God. It was a historic moment when the new archbishop made his bold pronouncement. But history has a way of changing. If 1962 could be considered a high-water mark of American Catholic optimism, very soon “the ’60s” unfolded: an era of assassinations, war protests and unrest here and abroad. And so by the time the new St. Mary’s opened at the end of 1970, it was floating in a tempestuous sea of controversy. Conservative Catholics were uncomfortable with a building so unlike a traditional Gothic or Spanish colonial design; liberal Catholics were uncomfortable with the idea of building a church at all. Over the past 50 years St. Mary’s has found its place as the heart of Catholic life in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, as well as serving as a venue for countless civic and cultural events, and has provided food for the hungry and shelter for the homeless. Our cathedral has welcomed celebrated figures – Pope St. John Paul, Mother Teresa and Archbishop Fulton Sheen among them – but it also has offered spiritual refreshment and charitable assistance to thousands who have crossed its threshold. The world today can sometimes seem a darker place than it was in 1962, the time of Kennedy’s “Camelot” and the excitement felt at the calling of an ecumenical council. All the more needed, then, is our cathedral’s message of confidence in the Church’s ability to speak to the modern world of courage, imagination and hope for the future. ■

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Her Heart is the Gate of Heaven ‘All generations shall call me blessed.’ BY J. A. GRAY J. A. Gray is a writer and editor, and most recently served as communication manager for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

uke the Evangelist tells us that young Mary of Nazareth gave her fiat without reserve when she learned from an angelic messenger that God intended to favor her as the mother of the Messiah. But as she “pondered what sort of greeting this might be,” the angel added some welcome family news: “Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son, in her old age,” he said, “for nothing is impossible with God.” “May it be done to me according to your word,” Mary replied, and then set out “in haste” to visit Elizabeth. When Elizabeth welcomed her with a chant of praise for the “mother of my Lord,” Mary in reply sang out her Canticle, rejoicing poetically that God had “looked upon his handmaid’s lowliness,” and “All generations shall call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me.” Mary was prophetic: For 2,000 years, all generations have indeed called her blessed. She may not have foreseen, at this early moment, the other part of her destiny – that all generations would be calling upon her for help, healing and guidance, petitioning her ceaselessly to be our mother, too, to accompany us and nurture us as she had her son.

Fra Angelico’s fresco “Annunciation” (ca. 1440–1445) in the Convent of San Marco in Florence, Italy.

“DO WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU.” “Woman, behold your son; son, behold your mother,” said Jesus to Mary and John, just before he died. Mary’s motherliness doubtless encompassed the whole community of followers in Jerusalem; and we’re told that when the apostle James, in about A.D. 40, was fruitlessly preaching in Spain, his courage was restored by the appearance to him of Mary, who became known there as Our Lady of the Pillar. Her vocation as mother of the Church began early, tradition tells us, and a prayer to Mary survives on a papyrus scrap from Syria, dated to about A.D. 250, invoking Mary as “theotokos,” the mother of God. Pope St. Paul VI in his encyclical “Marialis Cultus”, declared, “Mary of Nazareth … was far from being a timidly submissive woman.” The reminder is hardly needed. We know her, from the Gospels alone, to be a woman of intellectual power and spiritual integrity - her prime characteristic, shown repeatedly, is that she ponders things thoroughly and reflects on them deeply. Mary is with Jesus and his disciples through every phase: his life, ministry, death, resurrection, ascension and the “tongues MAY 2022 | CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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All generations shall call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me.”

of fire” visitation of the Spirit. She reliably demonstrates authority (Jesus himself “was obedient” to her), persistence, insight and selfpossession. To the wine-short wedding staff in Cana she said serenely, “Do whatever he tells you,” placing the outcome in her son’s capable hands. On her visits to her children throughout the world, she calmly, indeed regally, but with motherly gentleness, issues instructions for our welfare, as she did at Tepeyac in 1531, at Laus in 1664, at La Salette in 1846, at Lourdes in 1858 and at Fatima in 1917. › CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 2022 CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 2022

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MOTHER MARY IN SAN FRANCISCO The Archdiocese of San Francisco, founded in 1853, has always seen itself as a child of Mary. Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany was a Spanish Dominican priest with a deep devotion to and dependence upon the Blessed Mother, as expressed in the Dominican prayer: “Mother Mary, preacher of the Word, fill the hearts of your daughters and sons with the same zeal which you possessed in bringing the Word into the world.”

Mother Mary, Preacher of the Word, fill the hearts of your daughters and sons with the same zeal which you possessed in bringing the Word into the world.” In 1854, Archbishop Alemany built a large red brick Gothic cathedral and named it St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, and in 1863 he founded a college that he also named for St. Mary (it is now in Moraga). Decades later, when a larger cathedral was needed, Archbishop Patrick Riordan built it at Van Ness Avenue and O’Farrell Street and named it in honor of St. Mary of the Assumption. This cathedral served from 1891 until its tragic destruction by fire in 1962, and its loss led to a decade of planning and constructing a new cathedral. This striking building – unprecedented, unique and commanding – sits at the corner of Geary Boulevard and Gough Street, and in 1971 was blessed as the new St. Mary of the Assumption. This new St. Mary’s Cathedral, now celebrating a half century of service, was described biblically by Archbishop William J. Levada (1995–2005), as evoking “the tent which housed the Ark of the Covenant” during Israel’s journey from slavery into freedom. The building, he said, signals that “God has pitched his tent” among us. And God’s mother is with us: within St. Mary’s Cathedral, sculptures guide the worshipper or visitor through her life from childhood to her assumption into heaven. THE BLESSED VIRGIN AT WORK IN THE ARCHDIOCESE Archdiocesan history is rich with Marian observances. In 1962, Father Patrick Peyton’s Rosary Rally filled Golden Gate Park with ›

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prayer, and in 2011 the Rosary Rally was revived as an annual October event. Since 1994, the Cruzada Guadalupana has been a December tradition, with thousands processing to the cathedral for Mass, rosary and communal gathering. In recent years, our engagement with Mary has achieved a new depth and intensity, inspired and guided by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. Highlights of this eventful period include: 2017: Consecration to the Immaculate Heart. The archbishop consecrated the archdiocese to Mary’s Immaculate Heart, and urged us to “live the consecration” by praying the rosary, penance, fasting and Eucharistic adoration.

Her Immaculate Heart is the door … through [which] we walk from the darkness of sin and death into the light of Christ’s truth and mercy…. Her heart is the gate of heaven.”

2018: Mass of the Americas. This acclaimed Mass, honoring Mary as patroness of the Americas, was first celebrated on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8, and was a simultaneous tribute to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (the patroness of the United States) and Our Lady of Guadalupe (the patroness of both Mexico and all the Americas). The Mass, composed by Frank LaRocca under the aegis of the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship, continues to be celebrated nationally and internationally. 2020: Pandemic lockdown and social struggle. In a toxic time – of contagion, death, economic distress, fierce contention in politics and bans on social activity and religious worship – we had frequent recourse to Mary, with rosaries prayed online, as well as rallies and processions and petitions to “free the Mass.”

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“HER HEART IS THE GATE OF HEAVEN.” On Aug. 15, 2021, the solemnity of the Assumption, Archbishop Cordileone celebrated a special Mass for the 50th anniversary, and in his homily – on “The Vocation of a Cathedral” – he explained that a cathedral has one preeminent purpose. Yes, it is the mother church of the diocese, it contains the bishop’s “cathedra” and it is a pastoral center. But above all, he said, the cathedral is “constructed and adorned with art and beauty for one purpose: to celebrate the holy sacrifice of the Mass, when our Lord once again becomes the Bread of Life, and to reserve His Presence in the tabernacle. We invest huge resources and great love and devotion for the truth about the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.” He continued, “The beauty and holiness of this majestic structure, which has stood here for 50 years, reflects well this vocation, as have her predecessors throughout the history of our archdiocese.” As all generations have done, we come to Mary in order to be with Jesus. On the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary in October 2017, when he first consecrated the archdiocese to Mary, Archbishop Cordileone concluded his homily with this lovely image, drawn from the Litany of Loreto: “Her Immaculate Heart is the door ... through (which) we walk from the darkness of sin and death into the light of Christ’s truth and mercy. ... Her heart is the gate of heaven.” ■

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COUNCIL CREATION Spirit of Vatican II expressed “perfectly” at St. Mary’s Cathedral

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ooking up into the modern “rafters” of St. Mary’s Cathedral 50 years after it was dedicated, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone marveled at the structure designed and constructed by chance in the years following the meeting of the Second Vatican Council from 1962-65. “It’s bold, it’s imaginative and it perfectly expresses what the Church has been discerning for a long time now, since the world moved into this modern era,” the archbishop said in the video produced by the cathedral in 2021, its anniversary year. “How can the Church better communicate the timeless eternal truth of the Gospel in the world that we are living in today?” St. Mary’s Cathedral is the first cathedral in the world built after Vatican II. It is a monument of sorts to the vision of council fathers, who called for a renewal of certain church traditions and liturgical practices in order to help the Church better maintain relevance to the increasingly secular world around it. The cathedral’s dramatic vertical ceiling “encapsulates that vision,” said Archbishop Cordileone. He noted that the architecture “sweeps us up into heaven,” but is also horizontal, with windows offering a clear-eyed union with the urban landscape outside. “This is how the Church needs to live and evangelize in the world today,” he said. “Keeping always our vision fixed on heaven, but looking around, reading the signs of the times. The council told us to do to this in order to better engage the world and draw people into encounter with Christ.”

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR “GREATNESS” The 1960s began as a period of unprecedented tranquility and growth in the Catholic Church, according to a self-published book on St. Mary’s Cathedral sold in the downstairs gift shop. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic schools were fully enrolled. Nationally, convents and seminaries were full and the first Catholic president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected. During this same decade, the Second Vatican Council brought about remarkable changes in Catholic life and worship. After the destruction of the cathedral on Van Ness Avenue in 1962, newly installed Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken began unfolding plans for a new St. Mary’s Cathedral. Three local architects were chosen. Angus › CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 2022

Keeping always our vision fixed on heaven, but looking around, reading the signs of the times.” ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE

McSweeney, Paul A. Ryan and John Michael Lee produced traditional designs that ranged from traditional Romanesque to California mission-style. The designs were critiqued by some as missing the mark in embodying the liturgical changes wrought by Vatican II. Even the secular media made note of the missed opportunity for “greatness.” “The cathedral must belong to its own people and

place, but also to the world,” wrote Alan Temko, prizewinning architectural critic for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1963. “It must express the oneness of things, as well as their ineffable mystery.” Msgr. John Talesfore is pastor of St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo. As rector of the cathedral from 20052015 and a former architecture student himself, he said that during this same period of time, fortuitously, a very influential international liturgical organization was meeting in Berkeley. “These were people who were looking at all the art and architecture that serves worship to really call forth excellence and what is true and good and beautiful,” he said. “Not to just do a poor imitation of old things, but really bring out the genius of living artists and architects to provide what the liturgy truly needs now.” Among that society was a Benedictine monk named Father Godfrey Diekmann, who agreed with Temko’s article and requested a meeting with Archbishop McGucken. “He advised him to go back to square one,” said Msgr. Talesfore, and create a cathedral in the spirit of Vatican II. Archbishop McGucken seized the day. At his advisers’ recommendation, he approached the innovative Pietro Belluschi, dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture, to lead the team.

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Belluschi was reluctant to accept the commission but did. “From the beginning, we were aware that this is not an age of cathedral building,” he wrote. “Yet the yearning for spiritual goals is still a powerful force seeking expression.” Architects, he said, are too often engaged in “building symbols of commerce.” Belluschi acknowledged that the design and construction of a 20th-century cathedral, fully expressive of modern times, in one of the most earthquake-prone, architecturally conscious cities in the world was a daunting prospect. Archbishop McGucken encouraged Belluschi to design the cathedral with three major considerations: That the church would stand tall as a beacon to the modern world on the San Francisco skyline; that it should seat a large number of people, since it would function as the center of archdiocesan and civic events; and that it should wrap the congregation around the altar to help them become an integral part of the liturgy. Belluschi based his designs on the belief that there should be a strong structural concept and an engineering form expressive of the modern age and comparable in size and scale to cathedrals of the past but using contemporary technologies. He recommended that Pier Luigi Nervi be retained as an engineering design consultant.

Nervi, an expert in reinforced and pre-stressed concrete, found the structural resolution to Belluschi’s hyperbolic paraboloid design, a creative use of curves and lines that did not obstruct from the altar. “The legend is that Nervi’s wife was bedridden,” Msgr. Talesfore said. “While sitting with her, he felt the cross of her rosary under the bedsheet, the cross laying horizontally on the sheet much like how the ceiling of St. Mary’s Cathedral falls.” NOT WITHOUT CONTROVERSY According to an account in Volume 3 of the History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, written by former archdiocesan archivist Jeffrey M. Burns, Archbishop McGucken was in Rome participating in the Second Vatican Council meeting when the first model of the new cathedral was brought to him. “As soon as I saw it, I was startled, I never imagined anything like that,” the archbishop later recalled. “My first thought was, ‘How am I going to talk them out of this?’” As a testament to his convictions and confidence in this design team, the archbishop “began to see it differently” as the plans evolved, and then grew enthusiastic. A series of press conferences, held in 1964, presented the strikingly modern design. It was met (mostly) by praise. ›

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“This is the first cathedral truly of our time and in harmony with the liturgical reforms of the council,” said Nervi at the time. Ground was broken in August 1965.

My first thought was, ‘How am I going to talk them out of this?’” ARCHBISHOP JOSEPH T. MCGUCKEN Some Catholics indeed expressed discomfort with the ultramodern design of the cathedral. It earned some humorous nicknames, including Our Lady of Maytag, from those who thought it resembled a washing machine agitator. The ‘60s civil rights movement and President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty coincided with the beginning of construction, and many Catholics expressed concern that too much money was being spent that could otherwise go to the poor. In June 1966, the Mid-Peninsula Catholic Interracial Council picketed Archbishop McGucken at the annual ordination of priests, criticizing the erection of “a lavish cathedral” overlooking “some of the worst slums of San

Francisco.” A year later, 27 archdiocesan priests staged a public protest urging the archbishop to redirect the money to the poor. CATHEDRAL “SINGS A SONG OF PRAISE” Construction continued nonetheless. St. Mary’s Cathedral opened its marvelous bronze doors in 1971 at a cost of $9 million. The full cathedral complex includes a massive Event Center downstairs, with a wealth of meeting rooms and halls for rent, and a gift shop. The building also includes the archbishop’s residence and rectory. When the cathedral was dedicated on Dec. 10, 1996, nearly 25 years later, many more Catholics had come to appreciate the extraordinary grace and beauty of St. Mary’s Cathedral. The entire building “sings a song of praise,” according to Sister Michaela O’Connor, a Sister of the Holy Family who served all three St. Mary’s Cathedrals. She was the current cathedral’s first sacristan. “This whole building is an act of worship,” she said in the same anniversary video. The concrete pylons are held upward, like the arms of the priest as he raises his arms to pray with the community. “It’s a cry of joy from creation for anyone that comes in the door.” ■

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athedral architect Pietro Belluschi visualized his San Francisco project as an all-encompassing work of faith, integrating the fine arts and architectural elements to achieve a unifying and uplifting structure of contemporary splendor. Architectural Digest magazine recognized this in 2017 by naming the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption one of the 10 most beautiful churches in America. Covering two city blocks at the top of a windswept hill not far from San Francisco’s urban center, St. Mary’s Cathedral is a distinctive city landmark with a substantial physical and historical footprint. It is four times the size of the cathedral it replaced. The massive structure was designed to seat 2,400 ›

people, with standing room for 1,500 more. The reinforced concrete cathedral rising 191 feet above the interior floor is supported by four pylons that extend 75-85 feet into bedrock, each designed and engineered to withstand 10 million pounds of pressure. A gilded aluminum cross rises an additional 54 feet above the unique cupola for a total height of 244 feet. The seventh archbishop of San Francisco, Cardinal William Levada, described the cathedral’s striking yet controversial form as evocative of the meeting tent that housed the Ark of the Covenant during Israel’s 40-year desert journey from slavery into freedom.

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through the glass, one now clearly sees a golden chalice, the embodiment of the Eucharist, and in the cup of the chalice, there appears the ascended Christ, returning to his Father in glory.” ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE “The tent was a reminder for the people of Israel, as well as a sign to the nations that God had definitely ‘pitched his tent’ with his people, traveling with them on their pilgrim journey,” Cardinal Levada wrote in the April 22, 2011, Catholic San Francisco edition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the cathedral. There is no substitute for a visit to St. Mary’s Cathedral, or better yet, a Eucharistic celebration there. This tour highlighting its most significant features is an invitation to experience for yourself this cathedral like no other. DOORS AND OVER PANEL Entering a church is a practical experience with a built-in allegory for the Christian journey. The main entrance to

The Risen Christ glass window that hovers over the baptistry is a backlit interpretation of the front entrance over panel. It serves as a riveting focal point for the faithful as they exit the church. Courtesy of St. Mary’s Cathedral Archives

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St. Mary’s reflects that. Italian artist Enrico Manfrini of Milan designed the cathedral’s bronze doors and the distinctive panel above them. The detailed panel depicts the triumph of Christ through the ages, his extended arms welcoming all into the kingdom of heaven. Ascending a hill to his left are warriors, travelers, laborers and mothers with young children. Seen are St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of San Francisco; St. Clare, the patroness of Santa Clara Valley (once a part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco); and Pope St. Paul VI, the pope at the time of the cathedral’s construction. On the right, people from many nations come to God through works of charity; a family representing the church family is presented to Christ by Mary. Manfrini’s tanglewood church doors signal the obstacles encountered in our journey toward God; gargoyles and dragons on the handles represent the earthly reality of evil and death. BAPTISMAL FONT Located directly inside the entryway, the baptismal font reminds visitors that it is through baptism we enter the community of the church. Three descending steps reach a font with a gem-cut appearance, surrounded by marble railings. The paschal candle is here, where it is lit at the Easter Vigil as a reminder to the newly baptized to be “lights of the world.” RISEN CHRIST WINDOW Hungarian artist GyÖrgy Kepes’ stunning glass window is a blazing point of focus as one leaves the cathedral. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone called the window “a reminder to worshippers of who they are called to be” in his homily celebrating the cathedral’s 50-year anniversary on the Aug. 15, 2021, feast of the Assumption. “The panel above the front doors, now seen from the inside, reveals something unexpected: the side figures are no longer men and women climbing a hill, as is seen on the outside of the cathedral,” he said. “Instead, with light streaming through the glass, one now clearly sees a golden chalice, the embodiment of the Eucharist, and in the cup of the chalice, there appears the ascended Christ, returning to his Father in glory.” ›

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I’ve never found anything that competes with it in terms of the awe it evokes and the multiplicity of intepretations among the faithful and tourists.” JST congratulates St. Mary’s Cathedral on its 50th anniversary!

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The four colored-glass windows rise 190 feet above the floor to form a cross at the cathedral’s ceiling.

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COLORED GLASS WINDOWS Kepes also designed the cathedral’s multicolored glass windows: four brilliant lines of color that stretch 39 feet up to meet in a prismatic cross at the apex of the cathedral. Ancient Greeks believed that four elements — earth, air, water and fire — composed all of creation. Kepes used green in varying shades to represent earth, red for fire, blue for water and yellow for air in the faceted windows. As the sun moves from east to west over the course of a day, the colored glass casts continually changing light down into the cathedral. BALDACCHINO Arguably the most defining visual element of the cathedral, the baldacchino is a 150-foot-high suspended sculpture by American artist Richard Lippold. Traditionally, a baldacchino is a canopy placed over an altar as a protective feature for Mass celebrated outdoors. Here, it is an architectural element accenting the sacredness of the altar that draws one’s eyes up toward heaven. Over 4,000 aluminum rods in 14 tiers are attached to gilded wires forming an ethereal shower of shimmering light. That light appears ascending or descending, depending on the angle from which it is viewed. A simple cross is suspended from the sculpture over the altar. Former cathedral rector Msgr. John Talesfore said this about Lippold’s baldacchino: “I’ve never found anything that competes with it in terms of the awe it evokes and the multiplicity of intepretations among the faithful and tourists.” › CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 2022

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The cathedral interior as viewed from the front entrance shows a sweeping view of pews built to seat 2,400. The grand Ruffatti organ and the music it produces floats above the faithful from a custom-designed pedestal.

THE SANCTUARY The simplicity of the sanctuary underscores the focal point of the cathedral: the altar, around which the celebrant and the congregation gather to celebrate the Eucharist. The altar, ambo and bishop’s chair are all of the same white Botticino marble, as are the floor and steps. The use of identical materials is a statement that they function together for one purpose: the worship of one God and the salvation of his people. Incidentally, the baptismal font at the front of the church is also carved from the same marble for the same reason. ALTAR The altar is carved from a single piece of marble weighing 10 tons. Within the altar are relics from eight saints: St. Patrick, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Peter Chanel, St. Maria Goretti, St. Pius X, St. John Bosco, St. Francis Xavier and St. Therese of Lisieux. The custom of placing

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relics within a church altar comes from the ancient tradition of building churches over the graves of martyrs. BISHOP’S CHAIR The bishop’s chair, “cathedra” in Latin from which the word “cathedral” is derived, was designed by local artist Joseph Aspell and installed for Pope St. John Paul II’s visit in 1987. Above the chair are the coat of arms of Archbishop Cordileone, also by Aspell. RUFFATTI ORGAN The magnificent organ, considered one of the finest in the world, was designed specifically for St. Mary’s by Fratelli Ruffatti in Padua, Italy. Dramatically displayed on a soaring pedestal, it has 5,042 pipes, 66 stops and 92 ranks. The electropneumatic console has solid state circuitry and can be moved to other locations in the cathedral. The organ took three years to build and six months to install. ■ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 2022

Blessed Sacrament Shrine To the east of the sanctuary outside the sacristy is one of the most sacred spaces in the cathedral. Here is where the tabernacle of the Holy Eucharist is kept. A lamp above the tabernacle is always lit, a sign of Christ’s constant presence. A local artist, Peter Traphagen, designed the wood-inlaid bronze doors that bear the words of St. John the Baptist in Latin: “Ecce Agnus Dei,” meaning, “Behold the Lamb of God.” Designer Kathleen Kilgore designed the tapestry covering the tabernacle doors while local weaver Jean Pierre Larochette completed it. The bronze angel candelabras standing guard at either side of the shrine are the work of sculptor Rosario Rugierio, a student of Manfrini. The cathedral also pays homage to the Blessed Mother in seven Marian shrines, detailed on 33 pages 35-41.

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Seven Monuments to Mary Cathedral shrines offer artistic reflection on her model of discipleship BY CHRISTINA GRAY Lead writer, Catholic San Francisco grayc@sfarch.org

ike many great cathedrals throughout the world, San Francisco’s was built to honor Mary’s unique role in God’s plan for human salvation. Her model of discipleship as expressed in Scripture offers inspiration to all Christians and is the unifying theme of the seven Marian shrines of St. Mary’s Cathedral. While older churches were built with devotional alcoves and side chapels and altars, St. Mary’s Marian shrines are set like jewels around the perimeter of the cathedral interior, inviting visitors into public reflection and prayer. The openness of the shrines in the sanctuary reflects the communal spirit of prayer established by Vatican II. Archbishop John R. Quinn, Archbishop McGucken’s successor, turned to the Italian artist who had created the majestic sculpture over the entrance to the cathedral, and commissioned Enrico Manfrini to design the first of the 1.5-ton bronze sculptures, each depicting scriptural passages in which Mary played a central role. The shrine sculptures were completed and installed, one at a time, between 1981 and 1996. They are anchored to the walls of the niches by custom-designed structural supports that create an ethereal, “free-floating” effect over simple kneelers.

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OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE This is the most prominent, and undoubtedly the most visited, shrine at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Pilgrims from around the globe, especially those with origins in the Americas (Our Lady of Guadalupe is known as the patroness of the Americas) pray to the “Queen of the New World” and lay flowers at her feet year-round. According to sacred tradition, Mary appeared to Aztec Christian peasant St. Juan Diego in 1531, 10 years after Mexico’s conquest by Spain. She appeared as an expectant mother of mixed race, signaling her protection for subjugated people. She is venerated by the large Latino-Hispanic population of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and others, who process together through the city to the shrine during the annual Cruzada Guadalupana (Guadalupe Crusade). The sculpture’s central panel is a traditional Mexican mosaic by artist Jorge Rodriguez Moreno surrounded by a bronze frame designed by Manfrini. The sculpture depicts the “burning bush” encountered by Moses on Mount Sinai, a foretelling of Mary, who was able to carry God incarnate within her without being consumed by his glory. From the plaque: “Listen, my son, to what I tell you now. Do not be troubled or disturbed by anything. Do not fear illness, nor any other distressing occurrence, or pain. Am I not your mother?” ›

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THE VISITATION LK 1: 39-56 This shrine depicts the three months Mary spent at the home of her cousin, Elizabeth, who was with child at an advanced age. Her son is St. John the Baptist. Manfrini’s depiction is different than other common scenes of the Visitation, which simply portray the meeting of the two women. Here, Mary is seen serving the household of Elizabeth and her husband, Zechariah. She waits on the elderly couple while she herself is with child. From the plaque: “Mary is carrying the King of Kings in her womb, but Jesus has come not to be served, but to serve. This shrine invites us to find Christ and to bring Christ into every aspect of daily life.”

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THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT MT 2: 1-23 No sooner is Christ born than the shadow of the cross falls. The Holy Family is forced to flee their home in Bethlehem to Egypt in order to escape a plot by King Herod to kill the child. In Manfrini’s sculpture, an angel holds a mantle over the exiled family, a symbol of God’s protection, while Mary cradles her child. Joseph follows behind the donkey, a statement by the artist to show that it is God, not he, who leads them on their journey. This scene from the infancy of Christ was considered especially appropriate for a new cathedral in the United States, where many have found safe refuge from violence, persecution and poverty in their home countries. From the plaque: “Trusting in God’s providence, symbolized here by the angel, Mary and Joseph follow where God leads.” ›

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THE WEDDING FEAST AT CANA JN 2: 1-23 This shrine is one of two sculptures at the back of the cathedral designed by Mario Rudelli, a protégé of Manfrini. Rudelli’s bold, energetic style is a complement to the more delicate, ethereal lines in Manfrini’s work. The shrine depicts the first miracle by Jesus in his public ministry. As wedding guests in Cana, Mary calls Jesus’ attention to the fact the wine has run out. Jesus initially declines his mother’s entreaty, telling her that his time had not yet come. He is ultimately moved to act by his mother’s faith as his disciple. From the plaque: “Christ responds to her deep faith and changes the water into wine. By this first miraculous sign, he reveals his glory and his disciples believe in him.”

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THE CRUCIFIXION JN 19: 25-37 This shrine sculpture, also by Rudelli, is a reflection of St. John’s theology linking Jesus’ death and resurrection with the birth of the Church. He captures this by portraying the death of Jesus in the context of victory through resurrection. No nails hold the feet of Jesus to the cross, and no crown of thorns appear on his head, a hint that liberation from death has already begun. A soldier is poised on horseback, ready to pierce the side of Jesus, from which blood and water will pour forth, a symbol of the sacramental life of the Church. From the plaque: “At the foot of the cross stand Mary and the beloved disciple. The dying Jesus brings into existence a new family.” ›

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After Jesus’ ascension to heaven, Mary and others of the first Christian community receive the promised gift of the Holy Spirit at the Pentecost. Flames dart out from the Holy Spirit, symbolized by a dove, and rest upon the heads of Mary and the Twelve Apostles, thus commissioning them to preach the Gospel to all nations. Built into this sculpture is a glass case that holds the holy oils blessed in the cathedral at the annual chrism Mass. The oils are used throughout the archdiocese to anoint candidates for baptism, confirmation, holy orders and in the anointing the sick. Interesting note: the angels seen on either side of the holy oils are modeled on Manfrini’s grandchildren. From the plaque: “The holy oils contained here, when used in sacramental anointing, are visible signs of the strengthening, healing and sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit.” MAY 2022 | CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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THE ASSUMPTION Though last in this sequence of shrines, the Assumption shrine was the first shrine for which Manfrini was commissioned for the new cathedral of the same name. While not recorded in Scripture, the tradition that Mary shares in the victory of her son in both body and soul is found indirectly in the First Letter to the Corinthians (15: 22-24) and other Scripture passages. In this shrine, the artist conveys the rewards of Mary’s discipleship as angels carry her bodily into the glory of heaven. Mary’s Assumption offers a sign of hope to the pilgrim Church on earth. From the plaque: “We believe that by taking up our cross and following Jesus, we too will receive from him the crown of eternal life.” ■ www.heckerfiduciary.com iris@heckerfiduciary.com

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n a letter to the local church community at Smyrna penned in the year before his death, the early second-century martyr St. Ignatius of Antioch writes, “Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude (of the people) also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.” The public practice of Christianity was not legal in the Roman Empire until Constantine’s Edict of Milan in the year A.D. 313, more than 200 years after St. Ignatius faced the wild beasts of the Flavian Amphitheater, now known as the Colosseum. There were no cathedrals or basilicas for the first few centuries of Christianity. The Roman skyline was not dotted with the steeples and domes of Christian places of worship such as we are used to seeing today in modern cities. How to know, then, that the Church had a presence in a particular place? How to identify the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic faith in one’s backyard? For the earliest Christians, it was the presence of the bishop that was the sign of the presence of the Catholic (universal) Church

in their midst. In fact, the above-quoted letter of St. Ignatius to the church at Smyrna is the first recorded use of the term “catholic,” from the Greek “katholikos,” meaning universal or “through the whole,” to describe the Church. The bishop as successor to the apostles was a community’s link to the apostles and therefore the local church’s only guarantee of apostolic authenticity, of right worship in the sacraments and, therefore, of its link to Jesus Christ. What, we might ask, connects this or any particular church community to the universal Catholic Church? The presence of the bishop. When cathedrals were built in the fourth century following the edict, they were built as visible signs of the presence of the bishop and so were called “cathedra,” from the Latin for “seat” or “throne,” because they were literally where the bishop sat when presiding over the liturgy. As such, each diocese and each bishop has only one cathedral church. The image of the chair as an image of authority is an ancient one and even Jesus makes reference to the “chair (authority) of MAY 2022 | CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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Moses” in chapter 23 of St. Matthew’s Gospel. On Feb. 22 each year, the Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter. The point of the feast, of course, is not to celebrate a piece of furniture, but to observe the unity of the universal Church through Our Lord’s institution of the Petrine office. To quote St. Ambrose of Milan (339-397), “Ubi Petrus, ibi ergo ecclesia” (“where Peter is, there is the Church”). Each cathedral, like the bishop whose seat it is, is a link in a chain to the apostles themselves and therefore to Jesus Christ. By and throughout the Middle Ages (what some modern skeptics erroneously call “the Dark Ages”), cathedrals were the beating heart of culture, tradition and civic life. Indeed, they were what Pope Benedict XVI called “the loftiest expressions of universal civilization … the true glory of the Christian Middle Ages.” Their construction was a work and prayer of the entire local church. The centers of learning that sprang up in cathedrals gave rise to what we know today as universities. To return to St. Ignatius, his point is not › CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 2022

really about the bishop. The church is not reducible to the local bishop, to be sure. He is not the church. Even less so is the church reducible to a particular building or structure (let alone a chair). However, the Catholic faith is an incarnational faith. The redeeming action of God happens in and through time. “Tradition,” writes the Dominican theologian Aidan Nichols in The Shape of Catholic Theology: An Introduction to its Sources, Principles and History, “only comes to us in some form of concrete mediation.”1 In the case of cathedrals, like our own Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, it comes via literal concrete–”heaven in glass and stone” (also the title of Bishop Robert Barron’s excellent book on the architecture of cathedrals, Heaven in Glass and Stone: The Spirituality of Gothic Cathedrals). “The proliferation of buildings,” continues Nichols, “should convey to us a vital point: the enormous theological importance of the historicity of the Gospel story. Jesus Christ is not an idea, a concept, an ideal, or simply a symbol of what God is like. He was and is a living person.”2 Even today, Jesus Christ at his first coming is not only linked to His Church by the accident of time or in some vague ethereal way. He is able to be present to His Church in every time and place in the sacraments–especially in the most Holy Eucharist–and in His people as a living body through the local bishop who carries in his episcopal office the guarantee of this link to the universal Church and to the apostles. The cathedral is the beating heart of the local church. It is a guarantee of the very presence of right worship and of the

The cathedral is the beating heart of the local church. It is a guarantee of the very presence of right worship and of the unbroken line of authority and apostolic succession linking our Archbishop – and therefore each of us as the people of God– to the Twelve Apostles chosen by the Lord Himself.”

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unbroken line of authority and apostolic succession linking our Archbishop–and therefore each of us as the people of God– to the Twelve Apostles chosen by the Lord himself. The cathedral is the sign and seat of the real presence of Jesus, right in our backyard. Wherever the cathedral is, to paraphrase St. Ignatius, there is the heart of the church. “The upward thrust [of medieval cathedrals]” said Pope Benedict XVI in a 2009 general audience, “was intended as an invitation to prayer and at the same time was itself a prayer.”3 Whenever our eyes are drawn to the heavens by the upward thrust of our own cathedral at 1111 Gough Street, may we pause in prayer and thanksgiving to God for the guarantee of the presence of his one, holy, catholic and apostolic church made concrete in the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. “Passerby, who is stirred to praise the beauty of these doors, do not let yourself be dazzled by the gold or by the magnificence, but rather by the painstaking work. Here a famous work shines out, but may heaven deign that this famous work that shines make spirits resplendent so that, with the luminous truth, they may walk toward the true light, where Christ is the true door.” (From an inscription on the doors of the basilica church of Saint-Denis in Paris) ■ 1

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ather Arturo Albano’s responsibilities as rector of St. Mary’s Cathedral seem as towering as the holy dwelling for which he was chosen caretaker. He manages the cathedral’s daily operations, its staff, maintenance and security, and the money that pays for it all. But he’s also a pastor, supporting the spiritual care of not only members of the parish, but those on its periphery – the homeless, tourists, downtown office workers and the sick and homebound living nearby. “It’s a big responsibility to me to project and protect the mother church of the archdiocese,” said Father Albano. Appointed rector seven years ago after serving Mission Dolores in the same capacity, he is the ninth rector in the last 50 years of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. The first rector of the “new” St. Mary’s was Msgr. Thomas J. Bowe, from 1962-1981. Other past rectors have included Father Patrick McGrath (retired bishop of San Jose) and Msgr. John Talesfore, now pastor of St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo. Like many an attentive father, Father Albano spends the final minutes of each day double-checking the locks on the doors of his cathedral home — despite a full-time security detail. The beloved cathedral is a strikingly public symbol of the Catholic Church in San Francisco. Over the years it has weathered repeated acts of protest and vandalism.

At his installation Mass homily in 2015, he broadly defined his priorities with the letter L. “Lights, locks, leaks, liturgy and love for the people of God,” he said. “This church built on a hill is very symbolic of the faith of the people. It rises up.” THE PARISH COMMUNITY — THEN, AND NOW The cathedral parish population has utterly changed over the past 50 years, according to Deacon R. Christoph Sandoval, one of two deacons along with Deacon Juan M. Michel. White Catholics, primarily of Irish, Italian and German descent, were the largest Catholic ethnic groups in San Francisco when the cathedral broke ground in 1965. “Today, our cathedral is a multicultural parish,” he said. “The diversity of the people here is huge.” In terms of active, registered parishioners, the 2021 Mass count determined a population of about 700 for St. Mary’s Cathedral. But the MAY 2022 | CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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number is not an accurate picture of those seated in the pews on any given day. Some Massgoers live nearby, within traditional parish boundaries. But many, if not most, do not. They come from other San Francisco neighborhoods, like the Tenderloin or Mission District, or from across the Bay. Catholics registered as parishioners at other parishes in the archdiocese can make up a portion of the congregation, too. The Latino-Hispanic (Mexican American and Central American) community is by far the largest and fastest-growing parishioner base at the cathedral, according to parish staff. Asian Pacific Islanders, primarily Filipino, Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese Catholics, make up the second largest group of parishioners, along with a smaller, but sizeable number of Africans, African Americans and Native Americans. › CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 2022

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It’s a big responsibility to me to project and protect the mother church of the archdiocese.” FATHER ARTURO ALBANO, RECTOR OF ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL “The 11 a.m. Sunday Mass used to be our biggest Mass, hands down, for years,” said Deacon Sandoval. “No more. Now, it’s the 1 p.m. Spanish-language Mass.” It attracts 400 people and more each Sunday. The multicultural parish is reflected in its hosting of major archdiocesan annual events, including the annual Chinese New Year Mass of Ancestors; the Filipino Advent novena, Simbang Gabi; and the African American Gospel Jazz Mass. The largest of these is the “Pilgrimage of Love” organized by La Cruzada Guadalupana de San Francisco (which was founded at the cathedral). The annual procession dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe started in 1994. Thousands process 12 miles from All Souls Parish in South San Francisco to the Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine at St. Mary’s Cathedral, while praying the rosary. There they lay flowers at her feet. The Latino-Hispanic community is “very vibrant here,” with a large music ministry and children’s religious education program, according to Father Albano.

Among his other duties as assistant pastor, Father William Nicholas is in charge of adult faith formation. The program has been conducted mostly online since his arrival to the cathedral at the onset of the pandemic. “As a parish, the cathedral is different than any other parish out there,” he said. It functions as a cathedral, and “is not really a regular parish.” Father Albano said a young adult program has been hard to get off the ground in recent years. Much of his outreach to this age group has been on an individual basis inside the cathedral. “They wander up here from their high-tech jobs downtown,” he said, seeking something they don’t find there. PARISH COMMUNITY GOES “BEYOND THE PEWS” “It’s not just about 1111 Gough St.,” said Deacon Sandoval about the parish community. It goes “beyond the pews,” he said. Every week, he and cathedral priests alternate responsibility for bringing the Mass, sacraments and their presence to the sick and homebound residents of more than 20 nearby nursing homes and senior care facilities. Among them are those who may have once come regularly to Mass at the cathedral or other local parishes, but are no longer able to. They range from San Francisco Towers on Pine Street, which serves wealthier residents, to Palm Residential Care Home in Hayes Valley, serving the poor. “As far as I’m concerned, all the people to whom we minister are our parishioners,” he said. The deacon described a visit two years ago to the MAY 2022 | CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

memory care unit of Coventry Place, a senior care facility on Sutter Street. He arrived to a room full of residents, listing in their wheelchairs in varying stages of diminishment from the ravages of dementia. “When I started to chant, ‘Our Father, Who Art in Heaven,’” he said, “all of a sudden they came to life, slowly rising up like flowers responding to the warmth of the sun.” Some started chanting the prayer themselves. Deacon Sandoval leads the cathedral’s four other unique spiritual care support ministries, which are free and open to anyone. They include a monthly spiritual support group for people facing life-threatening illness, a monthly grief support group, and a healing ministry. He is also coordinator for the cathedral’s Traditional Latin Mass, appointed by the Archbishop. During the coronavirus pandemic, the cathedral started a cathedral crisis prayer help

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More than 6,000 mourners gathered inside and outside St. Mary’s Cathedral on Nov. 30, 1978 for the funeral of slain San Francisco Mayor George Moscone.

San Francisco is proud to thank the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption for serving the wider community at the funerals of those struck down in the line of duty, including Mayor George Moscone and many police officers and firefighters with its bishops, priests and deacons offering spiritual comfort and consolation to civic leaders, families and friends in their time of grief and bereavement.” SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR LONDON BREED

A PARISH TO SAN FRANCISCO In recognition of the cathedral’s 50th anniversary, San Francisco Mayor London Breed issued a proclamation on Oct. 1, 2021, recognizing St. Mary’s long legacy of contribution to the city itself. “San Francisco is proud to thank the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption for serving the wider community at the funerals of those struck down in the line of duty, including Mayor George Moscone and many police officers and firefighters with its bishops, priests and deacons offering spiritual comfort and consolation to civic leaders, families and friends in their time of grief and bereavement,” it read, in part. The eight-point proclamation also recognized the cathedral’s designation by the Department of Emergency Management as a Red Cross disaster center place of

sanctuary and support. It also recognized the cathedral’s lower-level Event Center meeting and banquet rooms as a major municipal center for “critical meetings of government, dialogue sessions for policymakers and training seminars,” among others. San Francisco is renowned for its homelessness problems. During the colder winter months, the cathedral’s lower level is converted each night into a refuge for unhoused men the San Francisco Interfaith Winter Shelter. The cathedral’s St. Vincent de Paul conference joins with other parishes and people from other denominations to support the shelter which houses and feeds shelter guests. In the proclamation closing, the city recognized the cathedral for “offering spiritual refreshment and charitable assistance to the thousands who have crossed its threshold from nations around the world.” ■ MAY 2022 | CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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“This whole building is an act of worship. … The whole building sings a song of praise. That is what I hope that anyone that enters the cathedral feels.”

— Sister Michaela O’Connor, SHF, former cathedral sacristan

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— Michael G. Pappas, executive director, and Rita R. Semel, founder and past chair

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y father, William, and his friend, Will Doyle, visited the homes of other Holy Name parishioners to solicit donations for the construction of the new cathedral. They were a part of the army of volunteers in the parish and throughout the archdiocese who worked to raise funds for the cathedral. I remember hearing them tell humorous stories of the successes and failures of their efforts.”

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Cathedral’s multi-faceted choir program BY CHRISTINA GRAY Lead writer, Catholic San Francisco grayc@ sfarch.org

ongtime director of music and cathedral choir director Christoph Tietze arranged a special Jubilee Concert April 3 to commemorate five decades of sacred music at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The event spotlighted two of the cathedral music program’s four distinct choirs: the cathedral adult choir and the children’s choir. The cathedral also boasts a men’s ensemble and a Spanish language choir. “Ours is a multi-faceted music program that tries to incorporate all age groups and nationalities,” said Tietze, who has served as the cathedral’s music director for 30 years and brings a deep knowledge to the role. A native of Germany, he holds a bachelor of arts in music

from San Jose State University, a master of music and a master of musical arts from Yale University Institute of Sacred Music, and a Doctor of Sacred Music from the Graduate Theological Foundation. The Cathedral Choir is a semiprofessional adult ensemble of about 15 singers. Eight of the singers are professionals. “It’s beneficial to the volunteers because they get to do music that in a regular parish choir they wouldn’t get to,” he said. The Cathedral Schola Cantorum is a semiprofessional men’s ensemble specializing in the interpretation of Gregorian Chant. The St. Brigid School Honor Choir is a program of the Cathedral Choir School. The program is a comprehensive choral music program for children, encompassing instruction at the elementary school. Members sing for school and cathedral functions and also participate in other archdiocesan and private events. The Coro Hispano provides music for the cathedral’s Spanish language Mass. Tietze said he is working to build up Coro Hispano.

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A special Jubilee Concert April 3 recognized the contributions of the combined cathedral choirs over the past 50 years. Left, director of music and cathedral choir director Christoph Tietze.

“We would like to emulate what goes on in Latin American cathedrals,” he said. The commemorative concert consisted of works dedicated to the Blessed Mother, including the world premiere of “Ave mundi spes, Maria,” by Hungarian composer Barna Szabo, scored for choir, children’s choir, organ and strings. This work was especially commissioned for the occasion. The concert was part of the cathedral’s longrunning weekly concert series, held each Sunday at 4 p.m. “The flagship of the music program is the organ,” said Tietze of the Italian-made Fratelli Ruffatti organ. It has been acclaimed as one of the finest in the world. “It is certainly one of the most photographed instruments in the country,” he said. With 5,042 pipes, 66 stops and 92 ranks — organ-speak for its incredible musical capacity — the organ was built in 1971. A five-year renovation project on the instrument was just completed, according to Tietze, including the addition of some new pipes. “It’s in pretty good shape for the next 50 years,” he said. ■

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CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION

50 YEARS

September 7: Fire destroys the first Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. October 11: Pope St. John XXIII convenes the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).

August: Ground is broken for new cathedral.

November 27: Archdiocesan priests protest new cathedral, say funds should go to poor instead.

The cathedral is completed. October 15: First Mass at cathedral.

May 5: Cathedral is formally blessed by the Apostolic Delegate Cardinal Luigi Raimondi May 29: 1st Priesthood ordination.

1962 1965 1967 1970 1971 1989 1990 1993 1996 2002 October 17: Cathedral undamaged after 7.1 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Winter Shelter program inaugurated by San Francisco Interfaith Council with homeless staying at cathedral.

December 12: First Cruzada Guadalupa, a 12-mile Marian pilgrimage from All Souls Parish to Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

October 5: Solemn final dedication of the cathedral by Archbishop William J. Levada follows the installation of all seven Marian shrines.

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September 11: Interfaith service on the first anniversary of the 9/11 attack is held at the cathedral.

November 30: 3,000 pack cathedral for funeral of assassinated SF Mayor George R. Moscone with 3,000 more outside.

Archbishop Fulton Sheen visits cathedral

October 4: Archbishop John Quinn denounces arms race in a sermon at the cathedral, later helps write the U.S. bishops’ 1983 pastoral letter, “The Challenge of Peace.”

Mother Teresa, St. Teresa of Kolkata visits to open first AIDS shelter, Gift of Love and home for pregnant women, Queen of Peace.

September 17-18: Pope St. John Paul II visits.

1978 1979 1981 1982 1987 2003 2005 2007 2017 2020 January 30: Archbishop Levada ordains Bishop Ignatius C .Wang as first Asian bishop in the U.S.

January 22: First Walk for Life West Coast Mass celebrated by Archbishop Levada.

December 30: First Annual Simbang Gabi Commissioning Mass and ParolLighting Ceremony.

October 7: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone consecrates the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

August 15 October 7: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone launches “Free the Mass” movement (Aug. 15 - October) on the feast of the Assumption with priests celebrating multiple outdoor Masses on the cathedral plaza, to counter government shutdown of houses of worship.

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San Francisco cathedrals through time The original Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception was dedicated in 1854 by the first Archbishop of San Francisco, Joseph Sadoc Alemany (1853-1884). Known today as Old St. Mary’s Church, it is located on the corner of California Street and Grant Avenue. The second cathedral was named the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, and was located at Van Ness Avenue and O’Farrell Street. It replaced the first cathedral

because the surrounding area became the notorious Barbary Coast. Archbishop Patrick Riordan dedicated the second cathedral Jan. 11, 1892 and it served as the cathedral until its destruction by fire Sept. 7, 1962, five months after Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken was installed as archbishop. On May 5, 1971, the existing cathedral was blessed and on October 5, 1996, it was formally dedicated. ■

As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of our own founding in San Francisco, the Sisters of the Holy Family recognize, with gratitude, the “new” Cathedral of St. Mary.

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ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE J. CORDILEONE with Auxiliary Bishops Emeriti William J. Justice and Ignatius C. Wang, and the Clergy, Religious and Laity of THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO

Congratulates

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on it’s 50th anniversary.

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May the Lord continue to bless your ministry as you courageously build up the Church and lead many to eternal life.

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Articles inside

SF cathedrals through time

Cathedral choir program

Reflections

Boundless Faith

The cathedral as guarantee ...

Seven Monuments to Mary

Pilgrim's Tour

Council Creation

Her Heart is the Gate of Heaven

A new concept, a new cathedral

St. Mary's turns 50