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where he began playing the trumpet around sixth grade.

“I always liked music, so I played it probably through high school,” he said. “My first musical instrument was percussion drums. I continued to play at church and at weddings, then I went to college and focused on athletics.”

Tuszynski attended Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he played football and ran track. He graduated with a degree in business administration/accounting in 1981.

He also met his wife, Tanya, at Carthage and they were married in 1982. They have five adult children: Jason, Rachel, Kelly, Louis and Machelle.

In addition to playing the trumpet, Tuszynski’s musical background includes singing in the Dudley Birder Chorale and cantoring at Holy Cross Church. “I’ve cantored at the diocese and sung in the diocesan choir,” he said.

As a manager of financial advisers for Thrivent financial services in Appleton, Wisconsin, Tuszynski has been working from home during the pandemic. He’s not sure when he will return to his office or how that will change his trumpeting schedule. However, he does plan to continue the practice as long as possible.

“I plan to keep playing at least until Nov. 9,” the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, he said. “But I may continue after that.”

He also intends to join other trumpeters around the country for the second “Taps Across America” on Memorial Day, May 31.

“I think it’s somewhere around 960,” he said in estimating the number of times he’s played “Taps” in the last year. “So by Memorial Day of this year, it will be over 1,000 times playing.” C

OPPORTUNITIES FOR FAITH-FILLED SUMMER VACATIONS ABOUND LOCALLY, STATEWIDE, AND NATIONALLY

BY CATHI DOUGLAS

FOLLOWING THE ISOLATION wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, many families are planning summer getaways as restrictions loosen, vacation deals become abundant, and domestic travel is possible.

For Catholic families, a number of faith-based vacations are available in Orange County, in California, throughout the United States and abroad. From cruises to on-foot pilgrimages, a plethora of shrines, missions, and cathedrals beckon to Catholic tourists.

A number of Catholic vacation spots welcome families from throughout the U.S. Catholic-link.org offers a guide to 11 of the best U.S. destinations for Catholic families, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City to St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, also in the nation’s capital. Other sites of interest are the National Center for Padre Pio in Barto, Pennsylvania and the National Shrine of the Cross in the Woods in Gaylord, Michigan, where you can see a cross that is 28 feet tall and weighs seven tons.

Faith-based explorations offer activities for families. At Bethlehem Farm in Talcott, West Virginia, families spend the week serving in the local community, learning about sustainable living, and in reflective prayer.

Here in California, the 21 Missions welcome families for day visits and pilgrimages. The missions form a continuous line from San Diego to Sonoma, with some missions little more than ruins and others extensively restored. The California Mission Walk is an 800-mile route that roughly follows El Camino Real, the trail that once connected the missions statewide. At 206tours.com, you can find guided pilgrimage tours to the missions. Several missions are within a day’s drive from Orange County. As children, my two sons and daughter studied the California Missions and we visited Mission San Juan Capistrano and Mission San Luis Rey so that they could take tours and photographs to use in their reports. My mother always wanted to visit every mission, as she has a keen interest in California history.

Catholiccruisesandtours.com offers cruise packages to the Holy Land, Fatima, Lourdes, and Italy, as well as tours of the Camino de Santiago. Dynamic Catholic offers several pilgrimages, including

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ones to Oberammergau, Medjugorje, and Poland, among others. My parents loved seeing the historic passion play at Oberammergau, which is performed only once every 10 years; the next play is scheduled for 2022.

Globusfaith.com offers a number of religious vacations, including pilgrimages to Germany, France, Spain and Portugal, Italy, and the Holy Land.

I’ve found spiritual refreshment in many national parks, such as Yosemite, and in my favorite green, quiet, and majestic spot, Muir Woods in the Bay Area. Many naturally beautiful areas exist both locally and statewide, offering stunning hiking, fishing, and camping. Our family took a wonderful vacation years ago to Big Bear Lake, we spent one memorable Christmas at Lake Tahoe, and we routinely hike on trails throughout Orange County.

Because the Sisters of Providence grew close to my heart when I studied at now-closed Marywood High School, I’ve always wanted to visit St. Mary-ofthe-Woods in Indiana, their home base. There’s a shrine to recent saint, Mother Theodore Guerin, who founded the sisters, and opportunities for guided and self-guided tours, spiritual retreats, and Taize prayer.

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The Maria Ferrucci Catholic Family Living feature is intended to inspire families to live their faith in the way Maria Ferrucci did throughout her earthly life.

HIGH COURT TO HEAR MAJOR ABORTION CASE FROM MISSISSIPPI IN ITS NEXT TERM

BY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT said in a May 17 order that it will hear oral arguments during its next term on a 2018 Mississippi abortion law banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The case is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The court’s term opens in October and a decision is expected by June 2022.

Just after then-Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed the law March 19, 2018, a federal judge blocked it temporarily from taking effect after the state’s only abortion clinic filed suit, saying it is unconstitutional. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the block on the law.

In commending Bryant for his signature, the state’s Catholic bishops, Bishop Joseph R. Kopacz of Jackson and Bishop Louis F. Kihneman III of Biloxi, said: “(We) wish to reaffirm the sacredness of human life from conception until natural death. With Pope St. John Paul II, we recognize abortion as ‘a most serious wound inflicted on society and its culture by the very people who ought to be society’s promoters and defenders.’”

In 2020, the Jackson and Biloxi dioceses filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s petition to the Supreme Court asking it to review the 5th Circuit’s ruling prohibiting the state from enforcing the law.

The high court should clarify current law on abortion “in light of a state’s interests in protecting the sanctity of life,” the dioceses’ brief said.

A number of states have passed laws restricting abortion that have been challenged in court by supporters of legal abortion. Pro-life advocates have been hoping one or more of those laws would

PRO-LIFE DEMONSTRATORS ARGUE WITH SUPPORTERS OF LEGAL ABORTION OUTSIDE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT IN WASHINGTON MARCH 4, 2020. PHOTO: TOM BRENNER, REUTERS / CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

be taken up by the Supreme Court as a way to challenge 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.

The Mississippi case will be the first abortion case the court will consider since the Oct. 26, 2020, confirmation of now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s third pick for the court. His first two picks, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, were on the court when it took up its first major abortion decision since they were confirmed.

The case was a Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. The court struck it down as unconstitutional in a 5-4 ruling. Chief Justice John Roberts joined Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in knocking down the law. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch joined Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas in upholding the law. The upcoming Mississippi case -- it has been on the Supreme Court’s docket as a potential case since last fall -- will examine the question of viability, specifically if a fetus can survive on its own at 15 weeks. Pro-life advocates were pleased with the court’s decision to take this case. “We applaud the U.S. Supreme Court for examining the Mississippi law,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, who stressed that so much more is known now about viability with advanced technology. Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League based in Chicago, said many activists see this as “an opportunity for the high court to overturn Roe v. Wade” or at the very least to “bring abortion policy in the United States in line with rest of the world, where abortion is strictly limited after 12-15 weeks.”

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When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. (Acts 2:1) Come Holy Spirit and make all things new. As we gather back in our parish communities, make us a light to the nations, a people set apart, so we may be missionary disciples of Jesus. We give thanks for the graces we have received during this novena and ask that they continue to bear fruit in our lives.

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Similarly, Jeanne Mancini, president of March for Life, said the United States “is one of only seven countries -- including China and North Korea -- that allows abortions through all nine months of pregnancy.”

“An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that this goes way too far,” she said. “In fact 70% think abortion should be limited to -- at most -- the first three months of pregnancy.”

In a May 17 statement she added: “States should be allowed to craft laws that are in line with both public opinion on this issue as well as basic human compassion, instead of the extreme policy that Roe imposed.”

Thomas Olp, vice president and senior counsel for the Thomas More Society, a nonprofit national public interest law firm, said his firm, on behalf of Illinois Right to Life, has “argued against the now long-outdated science behind Roe v. Wade and urged the court to uphold the subsequent 14th Amendment rights due the preborn.”

Activists were not the only ones to respond in favor of the court taking the case.

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., chair of the new Senate pro-life caucus, tweeted May 17 that he was encouraged the court decided to hear it.

“There is no constitutional right to abortion, yet for nearly 50 years since Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided, more than 62 million children have been the tragic victims of abortion. It is long past time for the Supreme Court to right this wrong,” he said.

O. Carter Snead, law school professor at the University of Notre Dame, said the court agreeing to take this case “signals the possibility that it may finally end its failed and constitutionally unjustified experiment as the nation’s ad hoc abortion regulatory body of last resort.”

He said the court’s “tortured reading of the Constitution has undermined the rule of law, broken our electoral politics and resulted in a staggering number of lives lost. It is time once and for all for the Supreme Court to return to its role as faithful interpreter of the Constitution and to repair the damage it caused years ago.” C

BISHOP VANN WELCOMES NEW ORDER WITH BLESSING

A NEW RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY TO CALL DIOCESE OF ORANGE HOME

BY BRADLEY ZINT

ON MAY 11, IN THIS Year of St. Joseph, Bishop Kevin Vann gave thanks to the Lord for the Missionaries of Charity Contemplative, a new religious community that moved to the Diocese of Orange. Bishop Vann celebrated Mass and blessed their new convent in Santa Ana alongside several attending priests, consecrated men and women, and benefactors of the religious sisters.

While most people are familiar with St. Teresa of Calcutta’s active missionary work to the “poorest of the poor” all over the world, it might not be common knowledge that she also founded several other branches of the religious order, including religious priests, brothers and contemplative sisters. The Missionaries of Charity Contemplative serves the spiritually poor through dedicated prayer and spiritual works of mercy.

Four sisters will live in the Santa Ana convent, where they will offer their prayer and spiritual works for the Church, especially for the Diocese of Orange. This fulfills a specific desire of Bishop Vann, as stated in the Diocesan Strategic Plan: “Identify and invite a religious community, with a charism of intercessory prayer, to make their home in the Diocese of Orange in support of evangelization efforts, the pastoral life of the Diocese and vocations.”

The convent was obtained and re-

MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY CONTEMPLATIVE, A NEW RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, HAS MOVED TO THE DIOCESE OF ORANGE. BISHOP VANN BLESSED THEIR NEW HOME. PHOTOS: STEVEN GEORGES

FOUR SISTERS WILL LIVE IN THE SANTA ANA CONVENT, WHERE THEY WILL OFFER THEIR PRAYER AND SPIRITUAL WORKS FOR THE CHURCH, ESPECIALLY FOR THE DIOCESE OF ORANGE.

modeled through the providence of God and the generous work of volunteers and benefactors. The sisters live quite simply. They have converted the bedrooms into hermitages, which are narrow rooms, each with a bed and table. The convent also has a private chapel for the sisters, a common dining room called a refectory, and an enclosed garden in the backyard. Since the sisters do not own a car, they are making plans to convert the garage on the property into a public chapel where people may join them in prayer.

The Missionaries of Charity Contemplative will be offering the great gift of a “powerhouse of prayer” in the heart of our Diocese on Santa Ana. C