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OK, did I say good news? Bad news comes in devastating waves. Some
For several years, my friends Tim and Ruth have been loyal to a man Ruth met while visiting the detained as part of her ministry. A Somali, he had fled his country because of life-threat ening violence. He languished in a jail two years here in Omaha, Nebraska, visited by Ruth and warehoused by the government while seeking asylum.
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Three times, the local immigration judge ruled his plea credible, and he was finally freed from jail. Under sur veillance, with nowhere to go and no employment, he was taken in by Tim and Ruth, who made their home his for months as his petition wound its way through a hostile system.
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With our first cup of coffee one morning, we learned about the mur derous earthquake in Haiti. There’s the grim U.N. Climate Report. The Taliban has overtaken Kabul, Afghanistan, and the terror felt there, especially by women and girls, is palpable. Fires rage on in California, the heat wave strikes the Pacific Northwest again, and the COVID-19 pandemic surges.
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N THE LATE 10TH CENTURY, Guy was born to a very poor family in a rural area near Brussels. He embraced his poverty with faith. And he generously shared the little he had with others. Guy was homeless for a while. Then a parish priest -- struck with his simple, devout life — made him a sacristan at his church. Thinking he might gain more money to share with the poor, Guy invested much of his sparse livelihood in a business scheme which soon failed. To repent of his unwise behavior, he made a seven-year pilgrimage on foot, first to Rome, then to Jerusalem. Sick and exhausted from his journey, Guy returned to Anderlicht in Belgium where he died in 1012. C
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James says that faith without works is dead. Ouch! That is really a direct message! One way to look at this, as well as the part about losing our life to find it, is that faith is a process of more and more openness to God’s direction of our lives. It is very hard for us to give up control, but perhaps what we are being asked to do is not to become passive and babyish, but to allow God to direct where our self-mastery will lead and what it will accomplish. We are asked to relinquish the need to control the results of our efforts; to risk, as Jesus did, the loss of everything we are working to achieve. We are asked to let God take the lead and to control the results, even though we may never see those
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ROM TODDLERHOOD TO OLD AGE, we grow in mastery of our own lives, our bodies, and our destiny. This mastery is hard won, and we don’t let go of autonomy easily. Much of this self-mas tery involves the avoidance of pain or discomfort, so when we hear things like “take up your cross” and “lose your life,” we tend to resist the message.
In honor of this special month, the Diocese of Orange will recognize the many Hispanic priests within the diocese through a variety of platforms, including YouTube videos and social
THE DIOCESE OF ORANGE CELEBRATES HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
“It’s just a very lively place,” said Mar quez. “There’s literally activities going on daily.”Marquez explained that coming from a predominantly Catholic country, which most if not all Spanish speaking countries are, Catholicism is engrained in the culture.And the church cultivates that culture through many parish groups and activities that bring the community together.
The Blessed Heart of Mary Church offers Spanish Baptism every Saturday which is capped off at 25 children – and any on given week there are exactly that number of children being baptized.
If you come to any one of our Masses, even our weekday Masses, you’ll see a
“With parents who are bringing up their kids in a different country and new culture, since faith was so important to them in their childhood, many parents make a big effort to help transmit that faith and to practice that faith at home,” he Marquezsaid. thinks this effort by parents is why his parish is so active – with so many groups and volunteers.
ISPANIC HERITAGE Month, which begins on Sept. 15 and extends through Oct. 15, celebrates the cultures and positive contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans.
big number of altar servers,” he said.
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of times you know the priest at your parish, but you don’t know all the priests who are in the diocese,” said Ar mando Cervantes, director of Hispanic Ministry at the Diocese of Orange.
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“These are just examples,” said Mar quez. “So many people want to be a part of it [parish life] and we’re doing things to help foster that even it’s just having benches set up outside so that people
The kickoff date of Sept. 15 coincides with the anniversary of political inde pendence for Latin American countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on Sept. 16 and Sept. 18.
The featured priests will talk a bit about their cultural backgrounds and speak on faith and why living faith, especially during the pandemic, is so important.Cervantes shared his excitement about the project and said he can’t wait to see what “spiritual nuggets” each priest will Accordingshare.toCervantes, approxi mately 40 percent of active Catholics within the Diocese of Orange are Hispanic. Father Greg Marquez, pastor of The Blessed Heart of Mary Church in Santa Anna, said that faith is a vital part of Hispanic culture -- something his vi brant, predominantly Spanish-speaking
In the same spirit, we can commune with Him at unusual times, such as offering a prayer of thanks as we finish a difficult elliptical routine or attain a new, best time during our morning jog.
“I think people like that because it’s an easy way to transmit and share the culture and faith that they were brought up with in their home coun try, with their children here in this country,” Marquez said.
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And while Hispanic Heritage Month is a great time for everyone to join in the celebration of Hispanic Americans, this recognition should not be confined to one month of the year.Cervantes explained that the His panic Ministry continuously collabo rates to provide cultural and religious events for members of the Hispanic faith community to engage with each other and live their faith.
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can just come sit and relax under the shade of a tree,” he said.
During the pandemic when the church was allowed to open its doors, many people came in for private prayer and continue to do so. People come by and bring their families; they visit the Blessed Sacrament for a while or pray the rosary in front of the Immaculate Heart of Mary statue.
The truth is, we are probably praying a lot more often than we realize.
“We partner with the parishes, Catholic Charities and different or ganizations to support anything from immigration to homeless to young people and adults in jail, a variety of things,” said Cervantes.
Is it important to explore different spiritual practices to deepen our faith?
For many religious, walking medi tation and prayer mazes offer sublime moments of spiritual communion. I find that my daily walks undertaken for fit
When I was a frantic young mother trying to squeeze some prayer time into my day, a spiritual adviser told me to think creatively. “I can pray a decade of the rosary as I drive my kids’ carpool to
As important as offering our bless ings before meals and saying our prayers before bed are the moments we spend serving our loved ones – especially when they are tired or behaving badly.
St. Francis famously communed with nature. His statue is often found in garden nooks, many times depicted with birds, bunnies and other animals. I find in him a kindred spirit; since working from home full-time I’ve made sure to spend more time gardening. It is a calm ing, nurturing and spiritual time.
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“Our job is to work throughout the year to celebrate Hispanic heritage,” he Thesaid.Diocese of Orange will launch its video project in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month on Sept. 15. To view, please visit the Diocese of Orange YouTube video page at com/user/DioceseOrange/videos.www.youtube. C
are nothing more than a moment of silence or a series of deep, centering breaths.
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Making a home-cooked dinner for a hungry family, changing a dirty diaper for a fussy baby and having the patience to explain math homework to an impatient elementary school child are opportunities for sacrificial prayer.
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school in the morning,” she noted. Since that time, I’ve sought out mo ments when praise to God is appropri ate [I just got a new client] or a plea for mercy is called for [please let me make the next green light so I’m not late], as well as times when a prayer of inten tion is meeting].Iclientin[pleasenecessaryassistmemakingthebestpresentationcanduringthisOftentheseprayers
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Part of the mission of the Hispanic Ministry at the Diocese of Orange is also to foster Hispanic culture by working with local parishes to expand their ministries, as well as providing leadership opportunities and social services to the growing Hispanic population within the diocese.
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HE WILD DANCING RITUALS of the Sufi Muslim whirling dervishes, flowing meditations of Tai Chi masters and the grace of Christian liturgical dancers prove that prayer needn’t mean sitting still.
As I head into the twilight years, I’m pondering the ways in which we invite the Holy Trinity into our lives. And I’ve come to believe that our spiritual lives especially are nurtured when we busy Catholics incorporate moving medita tion, mindful sacrifices and active prayer into our packed schedules.
When we were in Catholic grade school, the sisters often instructed us to “offer it up” when we complained about an unpleasant assignment. The idea is that God gives us grace for doing things we don’t want to do without complaint.
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1922, Father Fleming, who was both a parish priest and a carpenter, began the construction of a new church on property purchased in Seal Beach. With the support of local
BY BARRY A. KUNZ, PAT KEARNS AND DONALD MILLER
BISHOP KEVIN W. VANN CELEBRATES THE SEAL BEACH CENTENNIALPARISH’SMASS
When the new Archdiocese of Los Angeles was established in May of 1936, Father Christopher Bradley was appointed pastor of St. Anne’s. When the parish began to outgrow its little church, Father Bradley traded the two lots on which the church stood on 10th Street for two lots across the street, where the present church stands today.
Father William Diamond’s 10-year tenure began in 1962. A year later, as
The building was completed at the cost of $6,000, and on August 22, 1937, Archbishop Cantwell dedicated the new St. Anne Catholic Church at 340 10th Street.Nearing the end of World War II, Father Thomas O’Sullivan became pas tor of the parish. During his 15 years in that role, he bought five more lots south of the church, providing the only private parking lot of any size in town.
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HISTORY OF ST. ANNE’S
parishioners, plus a generous Chicago woman who donated $1,000 and asked that the parish be dedicated to Saint Anne, the small church was erected at 317-319 10th Street. In time, the parish grew to 97 members, 38 of which were under 18 years old.
In 1959, Father Louis Pick arrived at St. Anne’s. As a seasoned Navy chap lain, he continued with more parish improvements, including the instal lation of the bell tower. And with the increasing demand for pastoral ser vices, the old rectory was remodeled to double its size.
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BISHOP KEVIN VANN CELEBRATED A CENTENNIAL MASS AT ST. ANNE CHURCH IN JULY. PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. ANNE CHURCH
St. Anne Catholic Church began one hundred years ago when a small mission church was established in Seal Beach in 1921 by Father Thomas Morris, pastor of St. Matthew’s in Long Beach. Mass was first celebrated there in a temporary building, a grain ware house, on Electric Avenue near Main Street. Bishop John Cantwell, the bish op of Monterey-Los Angeles, appointed the Reverend Austin Fleming as its first pastor in Throughout1921.
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N SUNDAY, JULY 25, Bishop Kevin W. Vann celebrated Mass at St. Anne Church in Seal Beach in commemora tion of the parish’s centennial. Bishop Vann was joined at Mass by Monsi gnor Michael Heher, pastor, Father John Shimotsu, parochial vicar, Father Edward Jablonski, retired from the Philadelphia Archdiocese, Father Rob ert Vidal, pastor emeritus and Deacon GaryAfterMuncho.Mass, Bishop Vann and the other clergy members joined 160 St. Anne’s parishioners for a 5 p.m. fish dinner in the parish hall. There was a second fish dinner seating at 7 p.m. for an additional 160 parishioners. The two dinner seatings raised more than $5,000 for the benefit of Diocesan Seminarians.
Father Dominic Daly arrived at St. Anne’s in 1958, Seal Beach and nearby Huntington Beach were home to major aerospace installations, causing sub stantial residential development.
By July of 1944, with the establish ment of what was then known as the Naval Ammunition and Net Depot, crops of new homes and a shopping plaza were built in Seal Beach. When
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construction began on the nearby community of Huntington Harbour, St. Anne’s experienced an ever-in creasing pace of growth. Seven adja cent lots were purchased, and a new parish hall was built in 1966, expand ing the parking lot to 60 spaces.
The Diocese of Orange was estab lished in 1976, with William Johnson its first Bishop. When Monsignor Michael Collins arrived at St. Anne’s in 1980, he emphasized religious education and assigned Sister Sam Settar to the new program. In 1987, he sponsored the start of the Knights of Columbus at St. Anne’s. Monsignor Collins retired in 1987 but stayed on in retirement to assist the subsequent two pastors, Father Patrick Doherty (1987-1993) and Father Robert Vidal, who arrived in 1993.
“Father Bob,” as he is fondly known, has always cared deeply for his growing flock. As the parish grew to about 700 families in 2007, he continued the improvements of the parish, including the renovation and earthquake retrofit of the parish hall
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(2002) and church (2007). During his stewardship, he implemented the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program, increased the community involvement of the Knights of Colum bus and started a new Woman’s Guild.
His was the longest service of all the parish priests, and still leaves a deep spiritual and temporal mark on St. Anne’s.In2011,
Monsignor Michael Heher was appointed by Bishop Tod Brown as the 17th and current pastor of St. Anne’s, where he fosters the spiritual, pastoral and working operations of the parish. Father Bob continues to be of service to the church as Pastor Emeritus.Withhis upcoming retirement on December 31, 2021, Monsignor Mike will complete the tenure of 17 pastors during one hundred years. The parish has grown to 830 registered parishio ners, and this dynamic, engaged and generous parish community looks forward to the designation by Bishop Vann of the next pastor to serve at St. Anne’s as it begins the start of its second 100-year history. C
FATHER CHRISTOPHER BRADLEY WAS APPOINTED ST. ANNE’S SECOND PASTOR IN 1936, FOLLOWING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LOS ANGELES ARCHDIOCESE ARCHIVIST
DEACON TONY BUBE OF LA
He spent his retirement volunteering in the classroom and sharing his faith with families at La Purisima Catholic Church. He became a deacon for the Di ocese of Orange and served La Purisima parish for over 30 years. Continuously inspired by his faith, he learned Hebrew at the age of 96.
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A teacher and school principal, Bube wrote a daily column for grade-school parents and published his columns for future parents once he retired. He also taught and mentored many future teachers at Chapman University in Orange.
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Bishop Kevin W. Vann presided at Bube’s funeral Mass on Saturday, Aug. 28 at La Purisima Church. Several stu dents, past cantors and choir members participated in the Mass. Many others took the opportunity to speak fondly of Bube during a vigil held the night prior to his Bubefuneral.wasbeloved by the La Purisima community. Just last year a birthday parade was held in his honor outside his Orange home, with over 200 cars in attendance.According to his obituary, Bube was born on Oct. 14, 1922, in Athens, Wisconsin. He was the oldest of 10 children. He served in the US Marine Corps, retiring as a Master Gunnery Sargent, E9, having served in both WWII and the Korean War.
He is survived by sons Terrence (Joyce) and John (Becky); daughters Cecelia (Peter) and Mary (Tim); many grandchildren and great grandchil
Bube of Orange, died peace fully at home on Sunday, Aug. 15 at the age of 98. Up until the pandemic, Bube was still preaching at the 6:30 a.m. Mass each morning at La Purisima Church in Orange and greeting students as they arrived at school.
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Bube left school after the eighth grade to help on the family farm but continued his education throughout his life, earning his high school diploma with the Marines and eventually earn ing a bachelor’s degree, two master’s degrees and a PhD from USC.
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dren. Tony is also survived by sisters Marie (Pat) Seubert, Peggy Burgess and his brother Bodo (Connie).
Bube was preceded in death by his wife Marion, son Michael, brothers Peter and Ronald and sisters Edna, Ursula, Dorothy and Agnes.
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OR THE FIRST TIME IN TWO years, back to school also means back to sports as Dio cese of Orange Catholic high schools return to a regular schedule of athletic competition during the 202122 academic year.
our kids to be in front of a larger crowd,” saidIndoorGarrett.sports, such as girls volleyball, are still limited to less than 1000 spec tators, and those on the sidelines must wear masks. Direction from the Cen ters for Disease Control (CDC) and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is still continually in flux, but with everyone from coaches and staff to parents and student athletes all on the same page, flexibility remains key.
“We’re trying to be as normal as we possibly can, but also as safe as we’re supposed to be,” said Servite High School Athletic Director, Alan Clinton.
Servite also juggles the use of mul tiple venues, such as playing football at both the Santa Ana Bowl and Lebard Stadium at Orange Coast College. With varying requirements, Clinton said that cooperation and teamwork are keeping the athletic contests safe and successful.
“It was an amazing environment for
“We’re very well prepared for that, and we are used to it because we don’t have our own venue for [football],” said Clinton. “Everyone is willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that we have what we could call a normal season and normal year.”
SERVITE PILES ON THE BALL IN A GAME AGAINST EDISON HIGH SCHOOL. PHOTO: HESTON QUAN
Clinton stated that the experience of returning to sports last spring has been crucial as the coaches and staff pre pare for the start of the fall season. The wearing of masks during team bus rides and in film rooms, as well as sanitation practices for water distribution, are just a few of the protocols the Friars are continuing to use.
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“I think everyone is so excited for all events, whether it’s sports activities or other social events that we are providing on campus,” said Garrett. “All the kids starting to feel normal again.”
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School is also keeping up athletics protocols from last spring, including social distancing where possible, prac tice cohorts and virtual meetings, all in the name of mitigating any quarantine situations.“We’readapting to any changes that arise,” said Santa Margarita Athletic Director, Annie Garrett. “We’re doing whatever we need to do to keep every oneSantasafe.”Margarita opened their foot ball season on August 20 at the brand new Saddleback College Stadium, where 5,000 fans were on hand as the Eagles defeated San Juan Hills 38-14.
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THE RETURN TO SPORTS
“Everyone is working really well together and doing what we can to provide a safe environment for our kids so these activities can still go on and we can keep moving forward,” said Garrett.
Athletes who compete in fall sports, including football, boys water polo, girls volleyball, girls golf, cross country and girls tennis, are excited to be back in action during their standard time frame. With the spread of Covid-19 still a top-of-mind concern, school athletics staff members are adhering to many similar protocols they put in place last year in an effort to keep the seasons progressing safely.
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Both athletic directors cite strong participation numbers across all sports, which is bringing school spirit back to the high school campuses.
“Every day is a new day and some thing could pop up, but that’s okay,” said Clinton. “We will take those challenges on. We’re here to create memories for these student athletes, and we’re able to do that. We’re getting some normalness back to our lives, and I think that’s huge.” C
They are a lovely family, and Canada is blessed to have them.
We can’t solve the climate crisis on our own, but we can put up a clothesline in the backyard and turn off the dryer. We can compost andIt’srecycle.easyto
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Each time the local judge reit erated that his asylum request was legitimate, the Virginia appeals court sent his request back to the Omaha courts on repetitive and flimsyFinally,technicalities.someimmigration lead ers suggested he was never going to make progress in our system, and they assisted him in reaching Canada. (Don’t ask how.)
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We can’t send millions of dollars to Haiti, but we can donate some thing to Catholic Relief Services to help. We can’t grant security to all the young people waiting for citizenship through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals pro gram (DACA), but we can write our legislators and let them know we care about those young folks.
Before COVID-19, Ruth and Tim drove their two cars to Canada and left one for him. They decided they could get by with just one. Their commitment to him has been
You won’t see this family men tioned in any headlines this week.
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There’s a saying, “Yard by yard life is hard, inch by inch life’s a cinch.” The good that we do as indi viduals is often inch by inch, while headlines are yards of sorrow.
I’ll never be as generous as Tim and Ruth, opening my home to a stranger and walking with him through years of struggle and exile. But their example challenges me to stretch those inches out a little. C
Today,unwavering.thegood news: His family made it to Uganda, where they were retested for COVID-19 and will await the next leg of their journey to Canada, where they’ve been accepted as permanent res idents. Through Ruth and Tim’s family, friends and members of our faith-sharing community, Ignatian Associates, money has been raised
be disheartened by headlines with their yards of bad news. Maybe we should focus on walking that inch each day to bring good news to someone.
In Canada, he was welcomed. His intelligence and credibility were recognized, and he was pro vided with housing, training and the possibility that his wife and children, who had fled to South Africa, could eventually join him.
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site, hoping to rescue survivors but in creasingly resigned to the fact that the mission would be more of recovering the remains of those who had died.
For each of them, their faith is interwoven with their work as first responders, which they experience as a kind of vocation. Seeing their service as firefighters through the eyes of faith helped them cope with the challenges
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years, Baughman has learned from his children of their fears for him 20 years ago that they kept to themselves that day.
“It started to hit you more -- the realism and severity,” Glesing said. “We knew we were in for a big job here.”
“We didn’t rescue anyone,” said Baughman. “We went to the biggest (search and rescue) incident that has ever happened to date in this country. But we didn’t rescue anyone. That was tough. It was tough.”
There were thousands of people from across the country working at the
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INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — Sept. 11, 2001, started as an ordinary day for Charles Glesing, a firefighter in India napolis.Hewas off duty and had dropped off his children at school when he heard news on his car radio about the terror ist attacks on the World Trade Center in NewReturningYork.
Two other Catholic members of the task force at that time recently spoke with The Criterion, archdiocesan news paper of Indianapolis, about their expe rience at ground zero. Of the three, one is still a member of the Indianapolis Fire Department and two have retired.
of working in New York after 9/11 and leads them to find meaning in the trag edies of that day 20 years ago.
Saving the lives of people in danger is at the heart of the mission of a fire
Traveling on a bus overnight to New York, Glesing and 64 other task force members approached Manhattan at dawn on Sept. 12, a plume of smoke still rising from the site of the World Trade Center.
“I probably wouldn’t have gone if I had known how they felt at the time,” he said. “Sometimes, I reflect back on that and you think it’s kind of selfish. These little kids were afraid and their dad just said, ‘Hey, I’m going.’”
“Later, the phone rang and I was told that we were activating the task force and we’d be heading to New York. I got my stuff and gear ready to go,” said Glesing, a member of Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis.
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home, Glesing watched coverage of the attacks on TV and knew that he might be called into action as a member of Indiana Task Force 1, an elite unit of people from various fields of work specially trained in urban search and rescue.
Tim Baughman was on duty as a firefighter in Indianapolis on Sept. 11, 2001.Amember of the task force, he learned later that day that he was going to New York and met his wife as she was picking up their children from school. “She just looked at me and said, ‘I’ve got this. Go,’” recalled Baughman, a member of Holy Spirit Parish in Indi
NEW YORK CITY FIREFIGHTERS AND OTHER EMERGENCY PERSONNEL SURVEY THE WORLD TRADE CENTER COLLAPSE SEPT. 11, 2001. NEARLY 3,000 PEOPLE DIED IN THE COLLAPSE OF THE TOWERS, AT THE PENTAGON AND IN RURAL PENNSYLVANIA WHEN TERRORISTS ATTACKED THE UNITED STATES USING COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES ON 9/11.
anapolis.Inrecent
CATHOLIC FIREFIGHTERS SAY SEPTEMBER 11 GROUND ZERO WORK LINKED FAITH, SERVICE
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FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE VICTIMS OF THE 9/11 ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER GATHER AT “GROUND ZERO,” THE SITE OF THE FORMER CENTER, IN NEW YORK CITY SEPT. 11, 2002, THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE TERRORIST ATTACKS. MIKE SEGAR, POOL VIA REUTERS / CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
“You begin to think, ‘What if this was
and that was the last time they saw him. It begins to affect you that way, because then I thought about my own family.
They’d call the firefighters to line up and bring the remains out on a stretch er. There was an immediate reverence that would take place. That happened several times while we were there.”
fighter. That mission takes on greater urgency when it’s the lives of other firefighters that are threatened.
me?’” said Cook, a member of St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis now serving as a battalion chief with the Indianapolis Fire“YouDepartment.thinkabout their families and the children. Their dad went to work
These men also see their Catholic faith and their work as deeply intermin gled.Before becoming a firefighter, Glesing considered a vocation to the priesthood.“Ialways knew, even when I was contemplating a (priestly) vocation, that a career or a vocation of service to others was one of the best and highest ways that you can live your life,” Gles ing said. “You’re there to help others, whether it’s as a firefighter, police offi cer, priest, nun, doctor --whatever. If you’re there because you want to help others, that is the ultimate calling there is.” C
As this kept happening, it led Dave Cook, a member of Indiana Task Force 1, to reflect on the meaning of sacrifice in his life and work.
On Sept. 11, 2001, 343 members of the Fire Department of the New York died after rushing to the World Trade Center when so many other were flee ing.When the remains of a firefighter were found at ground zero, Baughman said work would stop.
“To this day, every time that (my family and I) see each other or say goodbye, we’re all hugging each other.”
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St. John the Baptist, Costa Mesa, welcomed back school students, parents, and alumni on Sunday, Aug. 22 with a traditional ice cream social filled with warm greetings and stories of summer adventures. The new school year officially kicked off the next day with the morning assembly in the school grotto. Pastor Fr. Augustine Puchner, along with school rector Fr. Damien Giap, and principal Mrs. Paula Viles, greeted students and parents, and introduced everyone to the Norbertine Sisters who will be helping in the school.
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