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FRIDAY NIGHT FEVER

Lighting the way to Christ is the whole idea behind Nightfever, a ministry at St. Augustine Church in Gainesville that approaches passersby on the street to come in, light a candle and pray.

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THE MEANING OF RELICS

What are relics and what is their significance to the practice of our faith? Discover the answers to these questions and read about the first-class relic of Saint Augustine of Hippo on loan to the diocese from the Vatican through Sept. 30.

SCOTT SMITH

ZACH THOMAS

BY TONIA BORSELLINO

BY FATHER TERRY MORGAN

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WOUNDED SOULS

Many of you have heard of PTSD among military veterans but have you heard about a condition called moral injury? Few have and more is being learned about the trauma experienced by many of our military in combat.

BY JEFF BRUMLEY

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POPE FRANCIS COMES TO AMERICA

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The Holy Father’s travel plans are set and his agenda is full. Pope Francis will be coming to the United States in September where he will make stops in Washington, D.C., New York City and Philadelphia.

BY LILLA ROSS

what else is inside 4 EDITOR'S NOTES l PAPAL VISITS TO THE UNITED STATES BY KATHLEEN BAGG

5 SAINT l ST. BENEDICT OF NURSIA

BY LILLA ROSS

6 BISHOP’S MESSAGE l SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES BY BISHOP FELIPE J. ESTÉVEZ

7 BIBLE QUIZ l SCRIPTURE IQ COMPILED BY LILLA ROSS

10 FAITH MATTERS

l GOD IS MY PILOT

BY ELENA CASTELLO

22 APPETITE FOR FAITH l VEGETABLE GUMBO BY KELLI BREW

30 AROUND THE DIOCESE l COMMUNITY 33 CALENDAR l WHAT’S HAPPENING 34 SAN AGUSTÍN CATÓLICO

8 WHY DO CATHOLICS? l GET ANSWERS

BY FATHER TERRY MORGAN

Cover Image: Pope Francis greets crowd from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, 2014. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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THE YEAR OF CONSECRATED LIFE

In this issue we profile the Sisters of Mercy and the Stigmatine Fathers as part of our ongoing series for the Year of Consecrated Life.

BY TRACY JONES

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FLORIDA’S SECRET STONE CHURCH

Archaeologists will return to Mission Nombre de Dios this fall as part of the 450th anniversary celebration of the city of St. Augustine to uncover building foundations that were a big “secret” for more than 300.

BY MARGO C. POPE

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The St. Augustine Catholic is the official magazine of the Diocese of St. Augustine, which embraces 17 counties spanning Northeast and North Central Florida from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. The diocese covers 11,032 square miles and serves more than 171,000 registered Catholics.

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editor’s notes l Papal Visits DID YOU KNOW…

Papal Visits to the U.S.

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Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Detroit • 1993 (Aug. 12-15) Denver for World Youth Day • 1995 (Oct. 4-8) Newark, N.J., New York, Baltimore • 1999 (Jan. 26-27) St. Louis In October 1965, Paul VI became the first pope to meet with a U.S. president during a visit to the United States. His trip included a first time papal visit to the United Nations.

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Compiled from usccb.org and vatican.va, here are some interesting facts about visits to the United States from various popes.

Pope Francis is the fourth pope to visit the United States. His apostolic journey to the United States is scheduled to take place Sept. 22-27, and he will visit Washington, D.C., New York and Philadelphia. Pope Francis’ visit will be the tenth time a pope has made an apostolic journey to the U.S. Other pastoral visits from previous popes are: Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States in 2008. His apostolic visit, April 1520, took him to Washington and New York.

Pope John Paul II visited the United States seven times: • 1979 (Oct. 1-7) Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington and Des Moines, Iowa.

• 1981 (Feb. 27) Anchorage, Alaska – stopover/several hours • 1984 (May 2) Fairbanks, Alaska – stopover/several hours • 1987 (Sept. 10-19) Miami, Columbia, S.C., New Orleans, San Antonio,

• April 16, 2008, on the occasion of Pope Benedict XVI’s 81st birthday, President George W. Bush welcomed Pope Benedict to the White House.

This was the second time in history that a pope visited the White House.

Pope John Paul II met with a U.S. president during each of the following visits to the United States: • 1979 – President Jimmy Carter (The White House) • 1984 – President Ronald Reagan (Fairbanks, Alaska: first time a U.S. president and pope met outside of the White House or Vatican) • 1987 – President Ronald Reagan (Los Angeles) • 1983 – President Bill Clinton (Denver) • 1995 – President Bill Clinton (Newark, N.J.) • 1999 – President Bill Clinton (St. Louis) Pope Francis’ visit to the United Nations will be the fourth time a pope addresses the U.N. while visiting the United States.

Popes Benedict XVI in 2008; John Paul II in 1979 and 1995; and Pope Paul VI in 1965 addressed the U.N.

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DURING THE YEAR OF CONSECRATED LIFE, we’re focusing on the lives of saints who established religious orders.

As saints go, Benedict of Nursia is a saint, recognized by Catholics, Anglicans and Orthodox as the founder of modern monasticism.

The Rule of St. Benedict not only governs the lives of Benedictines and Cistercians, the two orders that are his legacy, but also has influenced religious orders formed all over the world.

The details of his life are rather sketchy and come mostly from St. Gregory, who never knew him.

Benedict was born about 480 to a distinguished Italian family. St. Scholastica is believed to be his twin sister. He would have led a socially distinguished life but he was repulsed by the depressing circumstances he saw around him – immorality, war and religious conflict.

Sound familiar?

He fled to a mountain cave where he devoted himself to a life of austerity and prayer for three years. Nearby monks were drawn

to his holiness and wanted to live under his leadership. But the early style of Benedict’s religious life was quite strict and the monks resisted it. After they tried to poison him, he returned to his cave.

But the experience gave him the idea for a Grand Monastery, governed by a rule that focused on a communal life balanced between liturgical practice and manual labor under the guidance of an abbot.

He described it as “a little rule for beginners” with “nothing harsh, nothing burdensome.”

The rule was meant to help Christians find God in the ordinary circumstances of their lives.

In the sixth century this was revolutionary.

At that time, anyone with spiritual aspirations led the life of a hermit. But Benedict saw the spiritual benefit that could come with believers living in community where they could support each other.

In addition to the vows of poverty and chastity, Benedictines take vows of stability, fidelity to the monastic way of life and obedience.

Benedictines also are renowned for hospitality, where “everyone that comes is received as Christ.”

Benedict founded 12 monasteries in a valley north of Naples, Italy including the most famous, Monte Cassino.

After Benedict’s death, barbarian hordes overran Europe, threatening Western civilization. The monasteries were credited with helping preserve the culture, which is why Benedict is the patron saint of Europe.

In addition, Benedictines accept lay people as oblates who are associated with a monastery and live out the Rule of St. Benedict in their secular lives.

Whether monastic or secular, those who follow St. Benedict’s rule seek spiritual lives of moderation and balance.

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bishop’s message l Support for Families

The Beauty of Marriage

BY BISHOP FELIPE J. ESTÉVEZ

With the World Meeting of Families taking place in Philadelphia, Sept. 22-25, I encourage you to pay close attention to the many testimonials on marriage and family life that will be shared during this world gathering – a historic event and blessing for it is the first time it has occurred in the United States!

Pope Francis has long supported families. Most recently, he called for two synods on the family. During his first visit to the United States he will preside at a meeting where families from all over the world will participate.

Holy matrimony and the ongoing support for married couples is a top priority for Pope Francis and the U.S. Bishops. A few years ago, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops launched a website www.foryourmarriage.org and its Spanish companion, www. portumatrimonio.org, providing many helpful resources for couples and pastoral ministers working with engaged and married couples in parishes and diocesan ministries.

Holy matrimony is a human institution regardless of the changing sociological trends. It is rooted in the belief that there is a sacred love between a man and a woman – and that they are open to procreation and a life-long commitment to mutual fidelity.

This kind of love is also a sacrament for the natural union of the couple for it is blessed and elevated to the dimension of signifying the sacrificial love of Christ for his people.

Our Church wants to help strengthen marriages by providing support and resources for couples who have experienced devastating ordeals such as infidelity, domestic abuse, separation and divorce. We want to help couples save and enrich their marriage.

Artificial contraception is contrary to God’s will for marriage for there is an inseparable bond between the unitive and the creative dimensions of marriage. A couple needs not desire to conceive a child in every act of intercourse but suppressing life-giving love should be avoided.

Couples are fortunate there are so many options now available through Natural Family Planning. Our diocese is blessed to have

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two outstanding pastoral letters written by Bishop Victor Galeone: Marriage: A Communion of Life and Love (2003) and The Power of Love (2009), which are readily available on our diocesan website (www. dosafl.com) and in print. Both of these pastorals are must reads especially for young people and couples thinking about marriage.

One of Pope Francis’ initiatives for the Church is to bring hope and healing to divorced Catholics and to warmly welcome them back to full and active participation in our parishes.

A fruit of this huge pastoral effort is for our young adults to gain confidence that happy and healthy marriages are indeed possible.

But good communication skills, actively listening to others, being in touch with ones feelings, and the ability to solve conflicts smoothly are indispensable to any healthy relationship.

Common values and a strong commitment to their marriage vows enable couples to hold deep within their hearts the voice of the eternal Father over his recent creation especially of the original and first couple “and behold it was very good.” (Gen. 1, 31a) Bishop’s Message was written prior to the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage. For a copy of his statement, visit: www.dosafl.com/scotus

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I know that as often as not, people who ask this question – especially after the death of a loved one – are asking primarily to make up for the absence of their loved one. The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed in a German prison camp in 1945, no doubt struggled with the cruel death of many loved ones before his own unjust martyrdom, came up with this brief consoling answer to the “question behind the question” of our writer: “Nothing can make up for the absence of someone we love.

And it would be wrong to try to find a substitute. We must simply hold out and see it through. That sounds very hard at first but at the same time it is a great consolation. For the gap – as long as it remains unfilled – preserves the bond between us. It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap. God does not fill it. But to the contrary keeps it empty and so helps keep alive our former communion with each other even at the cost of pain.” (Letters and Papers from Prison) Q. How old was St. John the Apostle when he was banished to Patmos? And how old was he after he wrote The Book of revelation before he died? And where is buried today?

A. We don’t know, exactly, but if the author of the Book of

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A. We don’t know what heaven will be like, exactly, but we have a few

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Revelation was St. John the Apostle, then his exile to Patmos (cf. Revelation 1:9) was most likely in the mid-90s A.D. This would place it in the great persecution of the Roman emperor Domitian (who was assassinated in 96 A.D.). How old would John have been? Since, there is no indicator, either in Scripture or in the tradition, as to the exact date of John’s birth; we can’t really answer that question precisely. And we have to settle for the same “we wish we knew, but” for his age when he wrote it (if, in fact, it was the Beloved Disciple who was indeed the author of Revelation).

An ancient tradition – especially vibrant among the Eastern Fathers – holds that John the Apostle was buried in Ephesus.

If you’re tired of “We don’t really know,” go to the website of the Orthodox Churches in America – www.oca.org – and read the article “Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian.” It fleshes out “the ancient tradition” with wonderful clarity.

The ancient tradition – that the apostle John is the author of the Gospel of John and of the Book of Revelation – is borne out by the witness of St. Justin Martyr, St. Irenaeus, Origen, Hippolytus, and virtually all the ancients. While carefully weighing this witness, most contemporary scholars – Catholic and Protestant – see a radically different style of Greek and theology (among other things) indicating there were probably different authors for the “Gospel of John” and the Book of Revelation, and the real possibility that the Beloved Disciple did not directly “write” either one of these biblical books. Of course, when all is said and done, these books’ ultimate author, as with all books of the Bible, is the Holy Spirit: that is what guarantees their truthfulness.

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THE BACKSEAT DISCIPLES

Growing in Faith through Music

BY ELENA CASTELLO

BILL SPAIGHT

Backseat Disciples, from left, Jake Martin, Gary Hartge, Jen Powell, Chris Richter, Jason Powell and Ed Bonahue.

What happens when a group of talented musicians come together to lead people in worship, knowing that they’re in the backseat and God is the pilot?

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They form a group called Backseat Disciples. And that’s exactly what happened six years ago with the original members of this band. They all met at Queen of Peace Parish in Gainesville and have been on a journey ever since. As a result they say they have seen their faith, music and talent grow.

The six-member band include: Gary Hartge on electric guitar, Jake Martin on acoustic guitar, Jen Powell as the lead vocalist, Jason Powell on drums and background vocals, Chris Richter on bass guitar, and Ed Bonahue on piano and he also performs background vocals.

In addition to their musical talents, The Backseat Disciples have day jobs that pay the bills! From careers in pharmacy to nursing,

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The Backseat Disciples lead music at Mass at Queen of Peace Parish in Gainesville.

agricultural engineering, and serving on the faculty at Santa Fe College, they have learned to balance their busy schedules in order to practice and improve their music. They rehearse one to three times a week, and most of the group attends Mass at the same time on Sundays.

When they come together to praise God through music, the group knows their purpose and calling.

“The name of the band comes from the Gospel of Luke, with the boats and traveling. God is the pilot and we’re the backseat disciples,” Hartge said.

Hartge noted that the band doesn’t necessarily have a “goal” in mind. They play together and pray together, and are more than

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willing to play at local events with other churches. They recently performed at the Santa Fe College Spring Arts Festival.

Bonahue is the newest member of the group, and he joined about a year ago. “We like to keep it fresh, doing new songs and having the opportunity to do new things,” Bonahue said.

The faith of the group was readily apparent as they shared some personal stories. Jake Martin shared that he left the Church for about 10 years, but came back because of the music. From there, he began to really grow in his faith. “Music is about God. We hope to inspire others,” Martin said.

Jason Powell explained the evolution of the band. “There are lots of influences. Ed loves jazz. Jake likes bluegrass. We started with a certain sound, but we mold our style to fit the needs of our group, and eventually we morph into our own,” Powell said.

Jen Powell focused on praying, not performing what she sings.

“We agreed to make our music faith-based,” she said. And her husband, Jason, added, “It’s not about who’s out there; the music isn’t about what’s outside, but about the individual.”

The music this group plays, and their growth together has created a bridge of faith and talent that the Backseat Disciples can share with others. They hope to play at a big venue one day, but always keeping at the forefront that God is the driver of their lives.

One of the struggles the group expressed was trying to schedule practices. With jobs, family commitments and other obligations, it’s not always easy finding time to practice. But Richter added that even if the group misses a practice, they get it in the next week.

The Backseat Disciples hope to release their Christmas album in November this year. This will be their third album together.

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NIGHTFEVER LIGHTING THE WAY TO CHRIST

BY TONIA BORSELLINO

On the corner of University Avenue and NW 18th Street – across from the University of Florida in Gainesville – is St. Augustine Church and Catholic Student Center.

With coffee shops and bars lining the street, most people walk by the church not knowing Christ is inside waiting.

But on certain Friday nights, the church is hard to ignore when passing by.

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t’s called Nightfever. After the 9:30 evening Mass, the church is immediately transformed. The front doors are opened and candles are positioned to light a path from the sidewalk to the altar where the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for Eucharistic Adoration. Volunteers stand outside the church to invite passersby to come inside to light a candle or say a prayer.

People who come in are given the opportunity to light a candle and place it on the floor in front of Our Lord on the altar. They are invited to remain as long as they like – in prayer – or however they feel called to respond to Jesus.

Praise and worship music fill the church dispersed with times of silence, and scripture is available for people to read, Compline (prayers at the end of the day), and there is a prayer box for intentions available. This continues until 1 a.m.

Nightfever is a movement that began in Cologne, Germany after World Youth Day in 2005.

“The idea of Nightfever is very simple, basically the goal is to invite people from the streets into the church in order to have an intimate encounter with Our Lord,” said Marie Pashkevich one of the coordinators of Nightfever in Gainesville. She said it’s a simple invitation for people to be captured by the beauty of the church and Our Lord, and hopefully to have an intimate encounter with him.

Marie heard about the movement from a friend who was attending a seminary in London and volunteering with a Nightfever ministry there.

Pashkevich shared the idea with members of the “Upper Room” – the church’s young professional and graduate student ministry – and their response was positive.

Vincent Herzog, coordinator of the young adult ministry and a core team member of Nightfever, organized an evening of Eucharistic Adoration with both silent prayer and adoration prior to hearing Pashkevich’s idea.

“It was organized for Sursum Corda, the original name for the Upper Room – but everyone was welcome. Shortly afterward at a social, Marie presented the idea. She showed us a YouTube video of Nightfever and shared her vision of making it happen at St. Augustine’s. We all worked on the planning and setting up of the space. And the rest is history,” Herzog explained.

After trying one ‘Friday NightFever’ event in March last year and seeing its success, Pashkevich contacted the headquarters of Nightfever in Germany to be a part of the international movement. Since then, St. Augustine’s has held 10 Nightfever events and they have been very successful.

“It [Nightfever] allows everybody to share their own individual talents and to come together as the body of Christ,” Pashkevich explained.

The priests of the parish assist the students by hearing confessions both in the church and on the street. But Nightfever impacts more than just those who organize it.

“The most special part is the people who enter,” said Veronica Celis, a third-year UF student and Catholic Gator.

Coordinators of Friday NightFever at St. Augustine Church, from left, Kevin Guilg, Marie Pashkevich and Vincent Herzog.

Among those are people are who have never stepped foot in a Catholic church or others who haven’t been to church in years.

“While the answer was all too often, “sorry I don’t have time,” there was a few that made the entire experience worthwhile. Several individuals were hesitant at first but, after entering, they were amazed. Not only did they light a candle, they were so grateful for the experience. And I was so grateful for being there to witness God shining a light in

their lives – even in a small way that night,” Celis shared.

The volunteers may never know how Nightfever has impacted the lives of those who come in to light a candle, but their simple invitation has certainly planted a seed in their hearts.

The next three Friday Nightfever events are Aug. 28, Oct. 23 and Dec. 4. To learn more or to volunteer, call the Catholic Gators at (352) 372-3533.

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s part of the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the city of St. Augustine and the founding of America’s first Catholic parish, the Diocese of St. Augustine has been granted the privilege by the Vatican of hosting a first-class relic of our patron saint, Augustine of Hippo.

The body of Augustine’s mother, Saint Monica, is preserved whole under an altar of the Church of St. Augustine in Rome. The body of her son, Augustine, suffered the fate of the “holy ones” of his times. The early Church Fathers in the Middle Ages were often fragmented into hundreds or perhaps even thousands of smaller bones.

In the days before air travel made it possible for pilgrims to visit the (entire) remains of, say, Saint Francis of Assisi or Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, “fragmenting” was the way the saints came to the Universal Church. And we would have to call Augustine the champion of “fragmented saints.” Tiny fragments of his remains lie under dozens, if not, hundreds of altar-stones in every corner of the world.

To have a first-class relic, which is a body part of a saint, is quite a “privilege.” A finger of the Bishop of Hippo, preserved in an exquisite reliquary (relic display case) from the Vatican Treasury is now available for the faithful to see and venerate in North Florida through Sept. 30.

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BY FATHER TERRY MORGAN

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The veneration of relics is as old as the Bible. In 2 Kings 13, the Moabites venerate the bones of the dead prophet Elisha (touching them even raises one of their own from the dead). In St. Paul’s travels, “when face cloths or aprons that touched his [Paul’s] skin were applied to the sick, their diseases left them and spirits came out of them” (Acts 19:12).

So, are relics magical? Does the use of a relic force God’s hand?

Absolutely not. Here’s where Martin Luther misinterpreted the practice or in some cases correctly read the superstitious misuse of the veneration of relics by some Catholics in the early Church.

The Church says there is no magical power in relics.

There is nothing in the relic itself that cures or gives grace or even forgives sin.

So what do relics do? Where do they fit with the practice of our faith? The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1667-1679) reminds us that relics are another instance of “sacramentals.” Like the seven sacraments, they are reminders that we are thing-creatures, and that we connect with God not by running away from things, but precisely in the things that are at the core of our lives. In the seven sacraments, Christ uses gritty, everyday “things” – water, oil, bread, wine, vows, imposing hands – as well as prayers and intentions to guarantee the gift of grace in his Church.

Unlike the seven sacraments, sacramentals don’t “give grace.” Rather “by the Churches prayer, they prepare us to receive grace and dispose us to cooperate with it.” (CCC 1670) So, are the skeletons of those 3,700 bodies thought to be Capuchin friars pinned up on the walls in the Capuchin Crypt on the Via Veneto in Rome (“the bone church”) relics? Here, the “disposition for grace” is in the soul of the beholder. As a ghost-tourist, this could be one more macabre sight to brag about when you get home. The Capuchin order says the bones are not meant to be macabre, but a silent reminder of the swift passage of life on Earth and our own mortality. These skeletons are a graphic reminder of the fate of every human. Like the cross smudged on our foreheads on Ash Wednesday.

Less than a mile from the “bone church” is a relic that could strike you as being similarly macabre, until you take a closer look.

The Church of the Gesù contains the entire body of the founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), Saint Ignatius of Loyola. But a side chapel contains the right arm (only) of his confrère, Saint Francis Xavier. Ignatius and Francis, happily, died after the age of the relicfragmenting – almost. However, while most of Francis Xavier’s body is interred in Goa, India (where he evangelized for more than a dozen years) the Jesuit fathers desired to venerate his right arm in their “mother church,” in the center of the Universal Church, as a reminder of the apostolic zeal to which each disciple is called, since that arm was the instrument by which he personally baptized 300,000 souls.

I think that takes some of the gruesomeness out of “the finger” which we will venerate this autumn. To be sure, Saint Augustine baptized his fair share of new Christians. But with this finger, he wrote and wrote and wrote like a prodigy – perhaps with more influence than any of the early Church Fathers.

And he taught from the pulpit. With that finger he was a RomanAfrican, after all, and have you ever seen an Italian talk without using his hands?

He used such great words. He gave so many moving sermons from that little finger.

We’re not venerating a body part. We’re not venerating a saint, really.

In the end, we are venerating the God who gifted us with the saint, and all that grace.

SCOTT SMITH

BRANDON DUNCAN

Saint Augustine Among Us After more than four years of planning and coordination with officials in Italy and at the Vatican, the Diocese of St. Augustine, has acquired a first-class relic of Saint Augustine of Hippo. It is on loan to the diocese through Sept. 30.

The relic is a finger of Saint Augustine, which dates back to 430 A.D., and is encased in a reliquary in the form of a crucifix made of silver and adorned with precious stones. The reliquary dates back to 1904 and has the name of Pope Pius X inscribed on it. The relic of Saint Augustine is part of the Vatican Treasury and this is the first time this relic has ever left Italy!

“To have this significant relic on loan to the diocese and the Cathedral Basilica during our Jubilee Year, celebrating the 450th anniversary of the founding of America’s first Catholic parish, is, indeed, a blessing,” said Father Tom Willis, rector of the Cathedral. “I hope that many people will come and make a pilgrimage to the Cathedral, ask our patron for his intercession and be renewed in the beauty of the Catholic faith that Augustine taught so well.”

Bishop Felipe Estévez, left, and Father Sal Di Fazio unpack the relic that arrived from the Vatican on June 25.

A close-up view of a finger of Saint Augustine of Hippo.

The following is a schedule of when the relic will be available for veneration and viewing by the public: July 20-22 – Join the Cathedral Parish community for an Augustinian Mission on the “Life and Teachings of Saint Augustine of Hippo.” Augustinian Father Art Purcaro will lead a mission service in the Cathedral each morning, July 20-22, at 9 a.m. and again at 7 p.m. Opportunities will be available for prayer, confession and veneration of the relic.

amazing story of Augustine – the sinner turned saint – along with time for veneration of the relic.

Confession will also be available. For details, call Mike Sylvester, director of diocesan youth and young adult ministry at (904) 262-3200, ext. 189 or email msylvester@dosafl.com.

August 28 is the patronal feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Vespers will be celebrated at 6 p.m. in the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine with Bishop Felipe J. Estevez as the presider and homilist.

Dr. Michael Francis will deliver the 16th Annual Augustinian Address at 7 p.m. at the Bishop Baker Parish Center, 257 St. George Street, St. Augustine.

Wednesdays with Saint Augustine During the time the relic is in the diocese, each Wednesday at 7 p.m. (see schedule below) there will be time for veneration of the relic, a teaching about Saint Augustine of Hippo, and intercessory prayer.

July 15 and 29 August 5, 12, 19 and 26 September 2, 9, 16 and 23

August 29 is Young Adult Night! All adults (ages 21-35) are invited to a special evening designed just for them beginning with Mass at 5 p.m. Fathers Lawrence Peck and Richard Pagano will lead those present in praise and worship of the Lord, tell the

Parish and Group Pilgrimages If your parish or group would like to plan a pilgrimage to the Cathedral Basilica during the time the relic is here, contact the parish office at (904) 824-2806 or email cathparish@gmail.com.

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SOLDIERS CAN FIND FORGIVENESS AND HEALING FOR MORAL WOUNDS. THEY DON’T HAVE TO BE MORTAL WOUNDS.

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here was a young man Father James O’Neal, an Army chaplain, who remembers ministering to a soldier.

Father O’Neal remembered how disturbed the combat veteran was, and that he kept saying he simply needed someone to listen to him. A priest of the Diocese of St. Augustine currently serving at Fort Sill, Okla., Father O’Neil just listened.

And so he listened for some time to the Catholic soldier’s experiences in war and that he had turned to drugs in an attempt to erase painful memories of terrible things he had seen – and done.

“He was scarred by what he saw and what he had to deal with,” he said.

But it was more than that. It was a case of what experts are increasingly calling moral trauma or moral injury.

“It’s not always visible,” he said.

Military Chaplains like Father O’Neal are alone in observing this new – or seemingly new – wartime condition in returning soldiers, said Edward Tick, an expert who works with emotionally and spiritually injured veterans. He is the author of Warrior’s Return: Restoring the Soul After War. Tick said he has been working in these fields since the Vietnam War, and since that time has repeatedly encountered combat veterans whose apparent Posttraumatic Stress Disorder cases seemed to have an additional element.

Moral trauma, or moral injury, may look like PTSD at first, but eventually becomes about more than the disorder resulting from witnessing or experiencing life-threatening events. Tick said it has to do with an individual shock at their own actions in war.

“Troops have been telling us they are in terrible anguish about this,” Tick said in a telephone interview from Troy, N.Y. where he heads Soldier’s Heart, a nonprofit organization that offers training and workshops for care providers and also for veterans and families. The organization also leads healing trips to Vietnam for veterans of that and other wars.

The classic definition of moral trauma or injury is to act against one’s own beliefs of right and wrong, Tick said. The condition usually does not manifest until after the

Psychotherapist Edward Tick discusses the effects of moral injury and ways our soldiers can seek help.

veteran is home from the war or otherwise had time away from combat.

During combat operations victims of the condition are usually too busy and focused on survival, he said.

“It’s difficult to question your actions in the middle of a firefight,” he said, or “to question immoral actions you were ordered to do.”

Tick recalled a soldier who was a tank crew member in Iraq. Over his own protests, he was ordered to destroy an apartment building from which an enemy sniper had been operating. So he fired into the structure filled with residents.

“It was when he came home and could reflect on that … that he suffered terribly,” Tick said. “He had horrible nightmares and couldn’t forgive himself for doing that.”

That, Tick added, is moral trauma.

And it’s nothing new. He said there are references to it in literature dating to biblical times. It’s just that the term is relatively new.

“Our soldiers and veterans have been telling us this for decades and centuries,” he said.

But the treatment of moral trauma involves the “moral and spiritual dimension,” he said.

“Atonement, reconciliation, rectification – these are actions to put the world back together after the harm we have done to it.”

Sufferers begin to experience healing by finding ways to give back to the people or

communities that they harmed. If they cannot return to those areas, they volunteer locally or find other ways to give back.

“This transforms their identity from ‘I became a destroyer’ to … becoming a creator and a preserver again,” Tick said.

For veterans who are open to them, faith communities can be very helpful in facilitating that healing. Tick said there is a growing movement of congregation-based veteran ministries that are partnering with the VA to provide moral trauma care.

Tick said he also knows of moral injury groups run by Catholic priests and Catholic chaplains.

In fact, the Catholic Church has built-in processes to facilitate the kind of atonement that Tick described, Father O’Neal said.

“We are blessed in the Roman Catholic Church to have the rite of reconciliation,” he said.

Confession along with other sacraments can direct one through the amends process with others. Father O’Neal said it also leads to self-forgiveness.

“It’s one thing to know Jesus forgives, but the hardest is for the person to forgive themselves,” he said. “Catholics have a leg up on that in terms of the Mass and the sacraments.”

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BY LILLA ROSS

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Pope Francis knows how to get people talking.

Have you heard? He’s just published an encyclical on the environment. And you can bet that he’ll have people talking about all kinds of things in September when he comes to the United States to meet the president, and address Congress, the United Nations and the World Meeting of Families.

So, we decided to take a look at some of the issues that might be addressed while he’s here.

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he Environment The release of his second encyclical, Laudato Si (Praise be to you) has seized the attention of Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

In it the Holy Father reframes climate change in moral and spiritual terms, calling the Earth “our common home.”

The encyclical calls Catholics to think of our environmental responsibilities in terms of stewardship, respect for life and protection for the poor. “We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family,” he wrote.

“The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth,” Pope Francis said.

“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last 200 years. … We have come to see ourselves as her lords and masters, entitled to plunder her at will. … We are not God. The Earth was here before us and was given to us.”

He calls for an ecological conversion.

“Yet all is not lost. Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start.”

Few encyclicals are noticed outside the church but Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home was being debated in the public arena months before its release. The pope was criticized for

straying into the realm of science by those unaware he studied as a chemical technician in his native Buenos Aires.

In January Pope Francis told reporters accompanying him on his visit to the Philippines that he wanted the encyclical to come out this summer so it could influence the United Nations’ summit on climate change in November in Paris.

Pope Francis said humans have “slapped nature around,” and he hoped the U.N. would make “more courageous” choices. So you can be sure it’s on the list of things he will bring up when he addresses Congress and the United Nations.

Economic Justice Pope Francis made headlines in April when he declared that the lack of equal pay for equal work is “pure scandal.” While that is music to the ears of American women, we can expect to hear a critique of our way of life that will be harder to hear.

The Holy Father has forcefully denounced unfettered capitalism as a system that has failed the poor.

In his apostolic exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel, he says “trickle-down” economics is a system that “expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power.” It’s a view that “has never been confirmed by the

The Pope’s U.S. Schedule in September Sept. 22: Arrives in Washington, D.C. from Cuba Sept. 23: Visits the White House, Mass of Canonization of Junipero Serra at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Sept. 24: Addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress, leaves for New York Sept. 25: Addresses the United Nations General Assembly; a multi-religious service is planned at 9/11 Memorial and Museum, World Trade Center and a Mass at Madison Square Garden.

Sept. 26: Leaves for Philadelphia. Mass at Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, a visit to Independence Mall before visiting the Festival of Families at Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Sept. 27: Mass with World Meeting of Families MAX ROSSI - REUTERS

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facts” and has created “a globalization of indifference.”

“The promise was that when the glass was full, it would overflow, benefiting the poor,” he observed. But what happens instead, is that when the glass is full, it magically gets bigger nothing ever comes out for the poor.”

But for Pope Francis economic justice is not just a public policy issue, it is a fundamental element of Christian life, so expect to be challenged to take a hard look at your lifestyle.

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Marriage and Family Pope Francis concludes his American visit with two days in Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families. The pope has spoken passionately about the crisis in the family, which he describes as a “crisis of human ecology.”

“Although the human race has come to understand the need to address conditions that menace our natural environments, we have been slower to recognize that our fragile social environments are under threat as well, slower in our culture, and also in our Catholic Church.

It is therefore essential that we foster a new human ecology and advance it.”

Those are just a few of the issues we’re likely to hear about during Francis’ visit. And you know this pope loves surprises. So people will be talking – but will they be listening?

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Immigration Since the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis has spoken out on behalf of immigrants, especially children, who have flooded into Europe from Africa and into the United States from Latin America.

On his first official trip outside of Rome after becoming pope, Francis visited a refugee center on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa where he denounced the exploitation of migrants as “slavery” and said those who did nothing to help them were complicit by their silence.

A year later in Mexico he called for a compassionate response to the thousands of unaccompanied children being sent across the border to the United States.

Although many doubt that Congress will tackle immigration reform in the waning years of the Obama presidency, expect the pope to raise the issue in Washington, as well as the U.N., which is attempting to grapple with the prospect of 500,000 migrants arriving illegally in Europe this summer.

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appetite for faith l Vegetable Gumbo

A LESSON IN PERSEVERANCE

The Parable of the Okra Seed

BY KELLI BREW PHOTOS BY SCOTT SMITH

OKRA IS ONE OF THE FEW PLANTS STILL STANDING IN THE MID-SUMMER GARDEN. A cousin of cotton and cocoa – the plant’s origins has been traced to Africa or possibly Asia. It made its way to the Americas via the slave trade. Southerners here borrowed its Bantu name, “ngombo” to describe a stew that makes good use of its mucilaginous texture.

The sliminess of okra takes some getting used to, but southerners learn to enjoy it like we do other summer foods with a similar quality: the gel between the seeds in tomatoes, the sweet slippery pulp of the muscadine grape, the soft interior of the boiled peanut. Perhaps okra’s texture, which may protect its seeds in the summer heat, offers some health benefit to us as well.

Or maybe we learn to love it because it is both hardy and ephemeral, popping up when everything else is shriveling from the heat and then dying back at the first frost.

In any case, okra is a traditional summer visitor to southern tables. We roll it in cornmeal and fry it, boil it sliced with a can of tomatoes, and use it to thicken soup, where the wheel-like shape of sliced okra adds visual interest as well as texture. Interestingly, in the stew below, this African native meets three native Americans – corn, tomatoes and lima beans, all of which grow in the late spring and early summer, but are also readily available frozen and canned if you are too late to freeze or can your own. Gumbo is as American as any of us are – hailing from diverse places before landing in the melting pot.

The early Israelites spoke of the power of the mustard seed. We north central Floridians, here in mid-summer in the 21st century, can tell the story of the perseverance of the okra pod. Imagine the seeds dried and saved for a long ocean voyage, bringing with them the memory and goodness of the land of our ancestors. Easily grown from seed, the plants grow tall and burst forth with hibiscuslike flowers (another close relative). Then day after day, throughout the heat of the summer, they produce velvety, edible pods. Leave them on the plant and they quickly grow long and fibrous, developing seeds for the next year. This African plant, nurtured with love and hope, beautified a new land and helped nurture the bodies of a new people. It’s a wonder.

My grandmother would serve this with cornbread or biscuits to soak up the broth. She would also add a hambone.

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consecrated life l wake up the world Wake up the World is the theme for the yearlong focus on consecrated life called on by Pope Francis. The year, which began on Nov. 30 – the first Sunday of Advent and closes on the World Day of Consecrated Life on Feb. 2, 2016 – asks the church’s religious sisters, brothers and priests to “wake up the world” with their testimony of faith, holiness and hope.

The Year of Consecrated Life will provide great opportunities for families and adults to look at the many ways men and women serve Christ and the church while answering the call to live in consecrated life.

During the yearlong celebration, the St. Augustine Catholic magazine will feature profiles of religious orders, congregations and societies for men and women serving in the Diocese of St. Augustine.

Individual profiles of several consecrated women and men serving in the diocese will be posted throughout the year to the diocesan website, www.dosafl.com.

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The Sisters of Mercy

BRANDON DUNCAN

Nearly 200 years ago, an Irish woman with a calling “to help those in need” opened a house of mercy on Lower Baggot Street in Dublin, Ireland.

That woman was Catherine McAuley, who became the founder of one of the largest religious orders of sisters in the world.

McAuley founded the Sisters of Mercy, an order that aspires to improve education, health care, pastoral and social services around the world.

McAuley, who was once poor herself, drew from her personal experience to help others.

“Catherine McAuley was a woman of prayer, understanding, compassion, love, sympathy, tolerance, understanding, encouragement, forgiveness – and she had a great love for the poor and the sick,” says Sister Enda Egan, a Sister of Mercy living in St. Augustine.

The Baggot Street home served as a refuge for area Irish women. McAuley and her colleagues educated these women, despite social expectations.

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Sisters of Mercy serving in the diocese, from left, Sisters Eithne Lowther, Enda Egan, Anne Campbell and Ambrose Cruise.

The Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata of Our Lord Jesus Christ Founded on the outskirts of war and civil unrest, the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata of Our Lord Jesus Christ has roots that trace back to the early 1800s, but one of their priests just recently arrived to the Diocese of St. Augustine.

The order, also known as the Stigmatine Fathers, was founded in 1816 by St. Gaspar Bertoni in Verona City, located in Northern Italy.

“At that time, Verona was under the control of Napoleon Bonaparte after a war between the French and the Austrian troops,” says Father Antonio Luiz Medeiros dos Santos, a member of the order assigned by Bishop Felipe Estévez to Santa Maria del Mar Parish in Flagler Beach. “The situation was really, really bad in Verona.”

Father Bertoni helped those injured or left orphaned by the war. The bishop soon asked Bertoni to restore the clergy in the area to help combat the diminishing morality in Verona.

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“Many people in Ireland were not allowed to be educated [at the time],” says Sister of Mercy Eithne Lowther of Jacksonville.

“She took up educating and protecting women – many of those women would have worked in the big houses, and very often they were used and abused.”

Word soon spread of McAuley’s work and reputation and it reached the Archbishop of Dublin, who advised McAuley to establish a religious congregation. But she was hesitant, because most of the sisters McAuley knew lived a cloistered life, and she wanted to continue her work one-on-one with the poor.

McAuley and two of her colleagues pursued religious life when they were assured they would still be able to interact directly with the people. After taking her vows, McAuley and her fellow sisters became known as the “Walking Nuns” because of their continual work with the public.

Once established, the mission of the Sisters of Mercy is, “to be God’s merciful presence to every person we meet and all the different situations in which we find ourselves,” says Sister Ambrose Cruise who serves in Jacksonville.

Before McAuley’s death, there were 14 foundations established in Ireland and England. Soon, at the request of the American Bishops, the Sisters of Mercy made their way to the United States.

“The Sisters of Mercy developed a reputation for responding to need,” says Sister Anne Campbell who also serves in Jacksonville.

In fact, many of the first Catholic schools in Florida were established by the Sisters of Mercy, says Sister Eithne.

In 1961, the Sisters of Mercy came to establish San José Catholic School in Jacksonville, which still serves as the site of the majority of the area’s Sisters of Mercy. Today, three sisters are based out of that convent – Sisters Eithne Lowther, Ambrose Cruise and Anne Campbell – all from Ireland. Sister Enda, who was one of the original sisters to come to San José Catholic Church, is now located at nearby St. Anastasia Catholic Church in St. Augustine. Like McAuley, much of their day is spent serving in the community, helping those who typically have the most need.

In particular, the sisters’ work here includes teaching, visiting the sick, and helping those who need the most help. Today, the order also works to combat prevalent social justice issues, such as human trafficking.

Stigmatine Father Antonio dos Santos serves at Santa Maria del Mar, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Joseph parishes.

After formation, the Stigmatine Fathers drew from their origins, and even today work with instructing youth, preaching and assisting in clergy formation.

“They [the fathers] formed a religious community dedicated to study, prayer and tending to the needs of the people,” says Father Antonio. “It was like an oasis of peace in the middle of the revolution.”

By 1905, the Stigmatines came to North America, landing first in Scranton, Penn. They soon spread throughout the United States, serving under the motto, “Apostolic missionaries at the service of Bishops.”

Father Antonio, a native of Brazil, is the sole representative of his congregation in the Diocese of St. Augustine. He moved here last September and serves in three area parishes – Santa Maria del Mar in Flagler Beach, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Palm Coast, and St. Joseph in Jacksonville. He ministers to the Portuguese and Brazilian communities, as well as English-speaking parishioners.

Although he says each day is different, he spends most of his time saying Mass and traveling to different parts of the diocese ministering to the Portuguese Catholic community. Father Antonio works with fathers from various orders and says it doesn’t matter the order, each one serves a crucial role in the church.

“In the church, we have a lot of different congregations with different charisms, all of them are very important to the church,” he says. “In religious life, we are prepared to work as a team and to discover and develop our personal charism and put it at the service of the people of God,” says Father Antonio.

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HONORING OUR PAST

CELEBRATING OUR FUTURE

DISCOVERING FLORIDA’S OLDEST STONE CHURCH

Archeologist Gifford Waters, Ph.D., shown inspecting one of the artifacts uncovered in the original digs of the stone church at Mission Nombre de Dios.

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BY MARGO C. POPE

ZACH THOMAS

As part of the 450th anniversary activities in St. Augustine, Sept. 4-8, archeologists will open a dig at Mission Nombre de Dios – the site where they discovered Florida’s oldest stone church for the public to see and experience.

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Archaeologists and volunteers will return to Mission Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine to uncover building foundations that were a big “secret” for more than 300 years except for a brief time 60 years ago.

Though temporarily covered by dirt, the foundations of what is believed to be the first stone church in all of Florida, built in 1677, and the convento, where the Franciscan Friars lived and taught Catholicism to the Native Americans, will be reopened. This is timed to the celebration of the 450th anniversary of America’s first Catholic Parish and the founding of the City of St. Augustine in what is today’s United States of America.

The dig is scheduled for August 24 through at least September 8, the 450th anniversary date.

Gifford Waters, Ph.D., is collections manager for Historical Archaeology for The Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

“We really want to be part of the community’s anniversary,” said Waters as he outlined the goals for the dig. Waters expects the dig site at the mission to attract visitors Sept. 4-6. (A Mass will be celebrated there on Sept. 5 by Bishop Felipe Estévez at 11 a.m.)

The official landing of Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés will take place at 9 a.m. on Sept. 8.

Throughout the excavation, social media, including Facebook and other public relations means will be used, Waters said, “to generate a lot of interest in the public archaeology aspect.”

The goal is public participation. “There’s always the chance that people might be able to come out and volunteer to screen artifacts when they visit,” Waters said. “Our goal is to get them involved (the day they are here) or to get their information for volunteering at a later time.”

The church was 90 feet by 40 feet, and the adjacent convento had several rooms including a kitchen and rooms for overnight pilgrims. Waters expects a lot of artifacts to be generated. Those found in 2011 and in 2014 are being curated at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. Plans are for a future display at Mission Nombre de Dios Museum. Among items found are Spanish pottery, musket balls, and some pieces of murals that decorated the stone church.

The stone church is significant because its completion predates the city’s best-known

coquina stone landmark, the Castillo de San Marcos by almost 20 years. The stone church construction was ordered in 1677 by Spanish Governor Pablo de Hita y Salazar. The Castillo, though it started in 1672, it was not completed until 1695.

The stone church burned in 1702 during a British raid and was rebuilt. In 1728, the rebuilt church was taken over by the British in a battle with the Spanish. Later, to prevent the British from occupying the church in future raids, the Spanish government ordered it to be blown up.

Mission Director Eric Johnson is still awed by the 2011 find. “Standing on a rather extensive portion of the grounds of Mission Nombre de Dios, one never suspected that they were walking over what is most likely the foundation of the earliest stone church in the U.S. – a structure built by the Spanish in 1677,” Johnson said. “The peaceful grounds of Mission Nombre de Dios kept a secret under dirt and grass for close to 300 years, from 1677 to the 1950s.”

The first discovery of the stone church was in 1951 when Father Charles Spellman, Mission director, located some foundations and artifacts near the present-day Our Lady of La Leche Shrine Chapel. Spellman’s notes and some artifacts were put in the Diocesan Archives.

In 2011, Kathleen Deagan, Ph.D., distinguished research curator emeritus, at the Florida Museum of Natural History, was reviewing Spanish documents regarding buildings on the Mission grounds. Sister of St. Joseph Catherine Bitzer, archivist for the Diocese of St. Augustine, had found Spellman’s notes and loaned them to Deagan, who, with Waters, led the dig. The coquina foundations were discovered along with the tabby foundations of the convento.

Waters is now working on the sections of the dig that will be reopened in August. “I am not 100 percent decided yet, but it will likely be either the room I think was the Friars room, the one room we found with a prepared tabby floor or a portion of the interior of the church,” he said. “I will likely excavate two of these areas.”

The fall field season will be supported by the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Lastinger Family Foundation and the Lockwood Endowment.

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HERE IS YOUR PLANNING GUIDE FOR THE 450TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE CITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE AND THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA’S FIRST PARISH.

ALL DIOCESAN EVENTS ARE TUESDAY, SEPT. 8 IN ST. AUGUSTINE:

Celebrate 450! is a fiveday, community-focused event Sept. 4 to 8, at various locations throughout downtown St. Augustine. The diocese has worked collaboratively with city officials in planning this special commemorative event. Some of the events featured include a street and music festival, fireworks show, historical re-enactment, grand procession, Mass of Thanksgiving, cake cutting ceremony, Solemn Vespers and many other events that honor St. Augustine’s history and commemorate the permanent establishment of our Catholic faith in the United States. Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend these FREE events.

For details on citysponsored events, including where to park and how to get around town, visit www.staugustine-450.com/ celebrate450.

Thanks to our partners, News4JAX, the morning events from the historical re-enactment through the Mass of Thanksgiving will be aired lived on Channel 4. The Mass will be available on ETWN and CatholicTV of Boston and all diocesan-sponsored events will live stream on the diocesan website www.dosafl.com.

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9:00 a.m. – Historical Re-enactment of the Landing of St. Augustine’s Founder Pedro Menéndez, Mission Nombre de Dios, 27 Ocean Avenue – Open to the public

10:00 a.m. – Grand Procession to the Cathedral Basilica Route is 1.03 miles from Mission Nombre de Dios down San Marco Avenue to Avenida Menendez to 38 Cathedral Place – Open to the public

11:00 a.m. – Mass of Thanksgiving with Cardinal Sean O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, as the principal celebrant – Due to limited seating, by invitation only. There will be a large video screen located in the west courtyard of the Cathedral to view the Mass. Communion will be available. Seating will also be available at the Flagler College Auditorium but Communion will not be provided.

1:00 p.m. – Luncheon at The Treasury on the Plaza – By invitation only.

5:30 p.m. – Solemn Vespers with Cardinal Sean O’Malley as the principal celebrant at the Cathedral Basilica – Open to the public

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around the diocese l community CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

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Deacon Scott Conway Appointed New Superintendent

BISHOP FELIPE ESTÉVEZ APPOINTED DEACON SCOTT CONWAY, M.Ed., of Spring Hill, Fla., as the Superintendent of Catholic Schools of the diocese, effective July 1. The diocese encompasses 17 counties of north Florida and has 30 highperforming schools with a total Catholic school enrollment of 10,710.

Here are a few facts about Deacon Conway: • He was born and raised on Long Island, N.Y. • Studied as a seminarian for the Diocese of Rockville Centre for five years.

• Left the seminary to pursue a teaching career in Oyster Bay, Long Island where he met his wife, Kristen. Two years later they were married and now have two children, Emma and Owen.

• He has a master’s in education degree with an emphasis in Administration and Supervision; attended Fordham University for graduate studies and studied at The Principals’ Academy of the University of Notre Dame.

• Served as a principal and on committees for the Diocese of Rockville Centre before deciding to follow the Yankees to Tampa for Spring Training.

• Once in Florida he served as assistant principal for Christ the King in Tampa, Bishop McLaughlin Catholic High School in Spring Hill and principal of Notre Dame School in Spring Hill of the Diocese of St. Petersburg.

• He was ordained to the permanent diaconate in 2011.

Deacon Conway, what do you see as some challenges facing Catholic schools today?

— The educational needs of today’s students are a challenge and constantly evolving. It is important our Catholic schools continue to be forward thinkers in advancing

the mission. We need to continue to keep up with advancing technology in our world if we are going to educate students for the future. Part of this educational evolution is to educate the entire student: mind, body and spirit. Students need to have the opportunity to excel in multiple disciplines all within the dogmas and teachings of the church.

We also need to help our parents who are lacking in their religious education. They are a generation that for some just didn’t get it.

We need to re-teach it.

— Enrollment is always a concern because we are getting to a point where it is becoming very expensive to send our kids to Catholic schools. Fortunately, there are many scholarship programs out there today that help us like Step Up for Students and many other programs.

— I bring an understanding of vision – of Catholic identity that will infuse evangelization into our schools. We must always keep in mind that it’s not changing our focus it’s interwoven into the focus of academic excellence, which our schools have always stood for. We have never wavered from working toward academic excellence for all students but it is really holding on to the understanding that we are institutions of evangelization. I hope to be one of those tools to assist the many administrators and teachers throughout the diocese in continuing to evangelize and to bring more and more people closer to Christ through their academic pursuit.

CELEBRATING 265 YEARS OF SERVICE

The community of faithful gathered on June 6 at San Sebastian Catholic Church in St. Augustine to honor five women who have devoted their lives in faithful service to God and his people.

Sponsored by the Commission for Religious, the following women religious celebrated Golden Jubilees this year. From left are: Sisters of St. Joseph Suzan Foster (50 years), Eileen Therese Fichtner (55 years), Ann Raymond Wood (55 years), Bishop Felipe Estévez, Sister of Notre Dame Darlene Mary Siebeneck (50 years) and Sister of St. Joseph Rita Baum (55 years).

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Consecrated Life

around the diocese l community CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR GRADUATES LAY MINISTERS COMPLETE MINISTRY PROGRAM

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In Service of Others

Class of 2015

The Diocese of St. Augustine is very proud of all its high school and college graduates from the class of 2015. The following are the valedictorians of our Catholic High Schools:

The Ministry Formation Program Class of 2015, back row-from left, Peter Casella, Vincent Herzog, Charlie Amos, William Deitenbeck, Karen Bray and David Allen. Front row-from left, Bleu Hilburn, Jesus Garcia, Nancy Hilburn, Bishop Estévez, Linda Miranda, Peg De Curtins and Erin McGeever, program director.

In June, Bishop Felipe Estévez presided at a special ceremony that celebrated the accomplishments of 11 lay leaders in the Diocese of St. Augustine who completed the Ministry Formation Program.

Bishop Estévez also recognized Carol Shircliff with an honorary certificate for her support of lay ministry and for participating in the early classes of the Ministry Formation Program.

The Ministry Formation Program is a three-year intensive program of study that prepares lay people who are called to serve as parish ministers. To learn more about the program, call Erin McGeever at (904) 262-3200 or email emcgeever@dosafl.com.

FIAT FESTIVAL

Youth Celebrate the Good News

D I O C E S E O F S T. AU G U S T I N E

The Diocese of St. Augustine’s Office of Vocations and Commission for Religious is sponsoring a FIAT Festival for youth and young adults on Saturday, Nov. 21, from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the school campuses of Bishop Kenny High School and Assumption in Jacksonville. It is in celebration of the Year of Consecrated Life.

The word FIAT is Latin for “Be it done,” referring to Mary’s “yes” at the Annunciation – “Be it done unto me according to Thy word.”

This high-energy event will feature national speakers, break-out sessions run by religious communities, the highly anticipated Students vs. Religious Men’s Basketball game, adoration, confession, an evening Mass and the nighttime “Ignite the Fire” fest with live music, inspirational films and touching testimonials.

To register and learn more about this inspirational event, visit www.dosafl.com/fiat or email fiat@dosafl.com.

Daniel Thomas Foley St. Joseph Academy Parish: Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine College: University of Florida Major: Engineering What do you cherish most about your Catholic education?

“Being exposed to faith! Without attending a Catholic school, I would never have had a chance to explore the spiritual side of my life.”

Lindsey Harrison Bishop Kenny High School Parish: Our Lady Star of the Sea, Ponte Vedra Beach College: University of Florida Major: Biology How do you plan to give back to the community as a practicing Catholic?

“In my parish, I hope to get involved as an Extraordinary Minister because I trained and served as one this past year at Bishop Kenny and really enjoyed the ministry and involvement at Mass. In college I hope to get involved in Catholic student organizations and meet people who will help me continue to grow my faith.”

Victoria Roe St. Francis Catholic High School Parish: Holy Faith, Gainesville College: University of Florida Major: Biology and Business What are some positive impacts you experienced at SFCHS? “My time at St. Francis has helped me to grow as a person. Our small school community gave me the opportunity to participate in many activities that I would not have had the chance to do at a larger school.”

Sean Yumul Bishop Snyder High School Parish: Sacred Heart, Jacksonville College: Florida Southern College Major: Biology What do you cherish most about your Catholic education?

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around the diocese l community BISHOP ESTÉVEZ ACCEPTS NEW SEMINARIANS

There are four men who have been accepted as candidates for the priesthood for the Diocese of St. Augustine. Please welcome our new seminarians and keep them in your prayers as they begin their studies and formation this fall. Attending St. John XIII Seminary in Weston, Mass. are Bob Hoffman and Don Ballish and Jonah Wilamowski and Martin Ibeh will be attending St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Fla. If you are considering a vocation to the priesthood contact the Vocations Office at (904) 262-3200, ext. 101 or email vocations@dosafl.com.

SISTER GRACE FORD OF THE SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH

From Postulant to Novitiate

SPECIAL

On Sunday, June 7, Sister Grace Ford was received into the Novitiate of the Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Augustine.

She entered the postulancy at the Motherhouse on August 1, 2014 and for the next two years she will be studying Church and congregational documents more intensely and learning more about the mission and charisms of the Sisters of St. Joseph.

Sister Grace does have adult children thriving on their own providing her an opportunity to answer Gods call to consecrated life.

In 2016, the Sisters of St. Joseph will celebrate their 150th Sister Grace Ford anniversary of service in Florida. Jacksonville’s WJCT-TV, under the leadership of CEO Michael Boylan, is producing an in-depth documentary chronicling the role the sisters played in Florida in the 19th century. The documentary will debut next year with a viewing at Flagler Auditorium in St. Augustine followed by several air dates on public broadcasting stations throughout Florida in 2016.

SCOTT SMITH

New Candidates for Priesthood

Father Joseph Kuhlman, left, Bishop Felipe Estévez and Father Lawrence Peck are all smiles after the ordination on June 20 at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine.

TWO MEN ORDAINED TO PRIESTHOOD

Priestly Ordinations On June 20, the community rejoiced as Bishop Felipe Estévez ordained two men to the priesthood at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine. The church was full with clergy, family, friends and the faithful as Bishop Estévez conferred the sacrament of holy orders on Joseph Kuhlman and Lawrence Peck.

Our two new priests began working right away on July 1, with Father Kuhlman assigned to St. Matthew Parish in Jacksonville and Father Lawrence Peck assigned to the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine.

Congratulations faithful servants!

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH

Yulee Mission Construction

PRIESTS CELEBRATE GOLDEN AND SILVER JUBILEES

BRANDON DUNCAN

Bishop Felipe Estévez is joined by project leaders, from left, Jose Miranda, church architect; Tim Young of Tim Young Construction and Father Daniel Guindon, mission administrator.

The priest jubilarians, from left, Father Kaz Ligeza (25 years), Bishop Felipe Estévez, Father Roland Julien (50 years) and Father Ron Camarda (25 years).

Not pictured are Father Gerald Pincince (50 years), Father Mark Waters (25 years) and the late Father Robert Napier (25 years).

The faithful of the Diocese of St. Augustine would like to thank the following priests celebrating their Golden and Silver Jubilees for their service to the people of God. A Mass honoring the jubilarians was celebrated May 5 at San Juan del Rio Catholic Church during the week of the priest convocation at Marywood Retreat & Conference Center. Father Roland Julien, celebrating his 50th anniversary, gave the homily.

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Bishop Felipe J. Estévez joined the faith community of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Mission May 16 for a groundbreaking ceremony on the church’s property located at A1A and Gene Lasserre Blvd. in Yulee.

St. Francis of Assisi was established May 14, 2014 as a mission of St. Michael Parish in Fernandina Beach. They celebrated their first Mass in 2007 at the Yulee United Methodist Church where they continue to have Mass on Saturdays at 4 p.m. and Sundays at 8 a.m. The mission is designated a “quasiparish” without territorial boundaries and will serve the faithful in the general area of Nassau County west of the Intracoastal Waterway and east of I-95.

On March 1, Bishop Estévez appointed Father Daniel Guindon administrator of the mission. Construction on the 12,000 squarefoot church began in June and is expected to be completed in February 2016. The church will seat about 350 people and cost $2.2 million.

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Honoring Faithful Servants

calendar l what’s happening JULY/AUGUST 2015 July 25 Fiesta ng Kawit 2015 Feast of St. Mary Magdalene A Filipino feast celebration 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Most Holy Redeemer Parish, Jacksonville.

For details, email astrildmae@yahoo.com July 26 Multicultural Celebration Begins with Mass at noon followed by cultural celebration at 1 p.m., Assumption Parish, Jacksonville. Adults/$5; Children/$2; Under 3/free. Proceeds benefit Catholic Charities’ Refugee Resettlement Program. For details, call Sarah Maley at (904) 354-4846, ext. 268 July 29 Wednesdays with Augustine 7 p.m. Veneration of the relic of Saint Augustine of Hippo, a teaching about Augustine and intercessory prayer.

Open to the public. For details, call (904) 824-2806 or email cathparish@gmail.com July 31-August 2 High School Peer Ministry Training Leader: Frank Mercadante with an emphasis on student leadership. Friday, 7 p.m. to 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

Marywood Retreat Center, St. Johns For details, call Mike Sylvester at (904) 262-3200, ext. 189 or email msylvester@dosafl.com August 1 Dedication Mass for the Expansion of St. Michael Church Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon Bishop Estévez will preside For details, call (904) 261-3472 August 2 Day of the Portiuncula Indulgence – Jubilee Year Event Catholics are encouraged to make a Pilgrimage to the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine to gain a Plenary indulgence. For details, visit www.dosafl.com/450th August 5, 12, 19 and 26 Wednesdays with Augustine 7 p.m. Veneration of the relic of Saint Augustine of Hippo, a teaching about Augustine and intercessory prayer.

Open to the public. For details, call (904) 824-2806 or email cathparish@gmail.com

August 8 Groundbreaking Ceremony for St. John Paul II Mission Center 11 a.m. to noon, 859 Palm Valley Road, Ponte Vedra Beach. For details, email simonsays109@hotmail.com August 15 Catholic Women’s Conference Open to women of all ages featuring amazing speakers, prayer, confession, fellowship and Mass with Bishop Estévez.

To register/tickets, visit www.floridacatholicwomen.org or call (904) 551-2619 August 21-23 Hispanic Youth Retreat Open to students in grades 9-12.

Friday, 7 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Camp St. John, St. Johns Call Mike Sylvester at (904) 262-3200, 189 or email: msylvester@dosafl.com August 23 Blessing of Frassati Newman Housing 5 to 7 p.m., 11291 Alumni Way, Jacksonville. Bishop Estévez will bless the newly constructed faith-based student housing center at UNF. For leasing information visit www.frassatihall.com August 26 EXALT Opportunity for teens to gather with their family for praise and worship, adoration and reflection talks. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. at Queen of Peace Parish, Gainesville.

For details, call Mike Sylvester at (904) 262-3200, ext. 189 Email: msylvester@dosafl.com August 28 16th Annual Augustinian Address 6 p.m. Vespers for feast of Saint Augustine with Bishop Estévez presiding, Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine. Address by Dr. Michael Francis is at 7 p.m., Bishop Baker Parish Center. For details, call (904) 824-2806 August 29 High School Dodgeball Tournament It’s a parish against parish event!

Holy Family Parish, Jacksonville For details, call Mike Sylvester at (904) 262-3200, ext. 189 Email: msylvester@dosafl.com

August 29 Young Adult Evening of Reflection Begins with Mass at 5 p.m. followed by a praise and worship and veneration of the relic of Saint Augustine. (See page 15) Call Mike Sylvester at (904) 262-3200, ext. 189

SAVE THE DATE SEPTEMBER 5

Mass Honoring the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (normal feast day Sept. 8) 11 a.m., Rustic Altar, Mission Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine. Bishop Felipe Estévez will preside. For details, email bishopsoffice@dosafl.com.

SEPTEMBER 8

450th Anniversary of the City of St. Augustine and the founding of America’s First Catholic Parish See page 28 for full schedule of events. For those unable to attend in person, visit the diocesan website www.dosafl.com for live streaming from 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

SEPTEMBER 13

Spanish Mass for Feast of Our Lady of Charity 2 p.m., Blessed Trinity Parish, Jacksonville Bishop Felipe Estévez will preside.

For details, call (904) 641-1414.

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Catalina Cabrera, de origen guatemalteco llegó a la Clínica El Camino con presión alta y su problema preexistente de tiroides. Ella, al igual que los cinco mil pacientes que se atienden cada año en este centro de salud, encontró la atención médica que necesitaba.

“Estoy muy contenta y agradecida por los cuidados que he recibido. La doctora, la enfermera y la traductora que me atendieron fueron muy serviciales y amorosas. Que Dios los bendiga por su labor”, expresa con lágrimas en los ojos Catalina, quien por el momento no tiene trabajo, seguro médico, transportación y no sabe hablar inglés.

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El Matrimonio Hermoso POR EL OBISPO MONS. FELIPE J. ESTÉVEZ

Los animo a prestar atención a los muchos testimonios sobre el matrimonio y la vida familiar que serán compartidos durante el próximo Encuentro Mundial de las Familias, el cual tendrá lugar en Filadelfia desde el 22 al 25 de septiembre - un acontecimiento histórico y una bendición, porque es la primera vez que ocurrirá en los Estados Unidos.

El Papa Francisco ha apoyado durante mucho tiempo a las familias. Durante su primera visita a este país, el Pontífice presidirá una reunión en la que participarán familias de todo el mundo.

El santo matrimonio y el apoyo continuo a las parejas casadas son una prioridad para el Papa Francisco y los obispos estadounidenses. Hace unos años, la Conferencia Episcopal de Estados Unidos puso en marcha una página web www.foryourmarriage.org y su versión en español, www.portumatrimonio.org, proporcionando muchos recursos útiles para parejas y ministros pastorales que trabajan con parejas comprometidas y casadas en parroquias y ministerios diocesanos.

El matrimonio es una institución humana y obra de Dios, independientemente de las tendencias sociológicas cambiantes.

Tiene sus raíces en la creencia de que hay un amor sagrado entre un hombre y una mujer - y que están abiertos a la procreación, y a un compromiso de por vida a la fidelidad mutua.

Este tipo de amor es también un sacramento: la unión natural de la pareja está bendecida y elevada a la dimensión de lo que significa el amor de Cristo por su pueblo.

Nuestra Iglesia quiere ayudar a fortalecer los matrimonios dándole apoyo y recursos para las parejas que han experimentado pruebas devastadoras como la infidelidad, el abuso doméstico, la separación y el divorcio. Queremos ayudar a las parejas a salvar y enriquecer su matrimonio.

La anticoncepción artificial es contraria a la voluntad de Dios sobre el matrimonio porque hay un vínculo inseparable entre la unión intima de las parejas y las dimensiones procreativas del matrimonio. Una pareja no tiene que concebir un hijo en cada acto sexual, pero siempre ha de estar abierta al don de la vida humana.

Las parejas son afortunadas porque hoy hay tantas opciones disponibles a través de la planificación familiar natural. Nuestra diócesis tiene la bendición de tener dos cartas pastorales escritas por el obispo emérito Víctor Galeone: Matrimonio: una

comunión de vida y amor (2003) y El poder del amor (2009), que son fácilmente disponibles en nuestra página web diocesana (www.dosafl.com) y en forma de folleto. Ambas pastorales son buenas lecturas para estos tiempos difíciles de tanto relativismo moral. Ojala sean leídas especialmente por los jóvenes y las parejas que se preparan para el matrimonio.

Una de las iniciativas del Papa de Francisco para la Iglesia es incluir y dar bienvenida a los católicos divorciados con el anhelo de una participación más activa en nuestras parroquias.

El fruto de este gran esfuerzo pastoral es para que nuestros adultos jóvenes confíen en que los matrimonios felices son posibles. El arte de comunicación, de escucha activa a los demás, el comprender los sentimientos del otro, y la capacidad de resolver conflictos por el dialogo son indispensables para cualquier relación matrimonial exitosa.

Los valores comunes y un fuerte compromiso de parte de los esposos permiten a las parejas sentí en lo profundo de su corazón la voz del Padre eterno comentando sobre su reciente creación, especialmente la de la primera pareja “y he aquí que era muy bueno”. (Gen 1, 31a) Bishop’s Message was written prior to the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage. For a copy of his statement, visit: www.dosafl.com/scotus

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RICA:

referido de mamografía, pediatría, cuidados prenatales, atención mental, educación de salud y servicio de visión. Todo, a cero costos.

“Lo que hacemos no lo podemos hacer solos. Hoy, contamos con más de 200 voluntarios, entre ellos médicos, enfermeras, traductores y personal de oficina. Además de 28 patrocinadores públicos y privados, quienes con su trabajo o aporte económico hacen posible que la clínica trabaje”, comenta Norma Scott, Asistente Ejecutiva del centro.

Patricia Fernández es una de esos voluntarios. Ella ha donado su tiempo y talento a esta clínica desde sus comienzos.

Patricia trabajó como profesora de español y ahora ya retirada, se dedica tiempo completo a esta labor altruista. Ella se encarga de traducir a los pacientes como Catalina, que no hablan inglés.

Si usted tiene más de 7 años y aún no ha recibido los sacramentos de iniciación: Bautismo, Primera Comunión y Confirmación, el Rito de Iniciación Católica para Adultos de la Diócesis de San Agustín (RICA), le ofrece la oportunidad de prepararse durante un año y recibir la gracia de estos sacramentos, completamente en español.

RICA a nivel diocesano”, nos explica Elia Vega, quien representa a la comunidad hispana en RICA en la Diócesis de San Agustín.

El programa comprende 10 temas básicos y 11 reflexiones que se van desarrollando a lo largo del año. La preparación inicia en el mes de septiembre y culminan en Pentecostés.

“Las sesiones están diseñadas de tal manera que si el aspirante no puede asistir a su reunión regular, lo puede hacer en cualquiera de las otras dos parroquias. Este “La misión del RICA es ayudar a las año sólo se aceptaran tres faltas en todo el personas en su relación con Jesucristo y darle ciclo”, agrega Vega la oportunidad a los aspirantes de convertirse RICA abarca cuatro etapas: preen un miembro de la Iglesia Católica mediante catacumenado, catacumedado, rito de varias actividades: la adoración, la oración, el elección y rito de salida. En el último Rito de estudio y el servicio”, comenta Erin McGeever, Elección, 600 personas, entre catecúmenos Directora de Formación de la Diócesis de San y candidatos, firmaron el libro y fueron Agustín. presentados ante el Obispo Felipe Estévez.

Desde el año pasado, RICA en español se “Estamos muy contentos con el programa, es dicta en la Iglesia de San José, los domingos maravilloso. Yo diría que más que un programa a las 11 de la mañana; en Blessed Trinity, los es un proceso, porque podemos ver como la martes a las 7 de la noche y en St. Catherine, persona va creciendo y su relación con Jesús se los miércoles a las 7 de la noche. Todo parece va fortaleciendo”, afirma Elia. indicar que este año se sumarán dos iglesias a Este año el RICA iniciará sus sesiones en el este proyecto.

“Anteriormente, se brindaba RICA en español mes de septiembre. Para mayor información en la Iglesia St. Catherine, pero las sesiones eran sobre las sesiones de RICA puede contactarse a nivel parroquial. Ahora, con la aprobación del con el coordinador en su comunidad o con Elia Vega al (904) 704 8074. También puede visitar Obispo Estévez y la Directora de Formación de la diócesis, se ha rediseñado el programa de la página web www.dosaformation.org 36

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La enfermera Lynn Kettell, la paciente Catalina Cabrera y la traductora Patricia Fernández, durante la cita médica en la Clínica El Camino.

Con amabilidad, el personal de oficina atiende en inglés y en español.

Para cuidados médicos primarios, este centro de salud atiende de lunes a jueves con previa cita. Y el primer y tercer sábado del mes abre desde las 8 de la mañana hasta las 12 de la tarde y los pacientes son atendidos en el orden de llegada. Los cuidados ginecológicos se ofrecen de lunes a jueves desde las 9 de la mañana a la 1 de la tarde, también con previa cita. Los exámenes de visión se realizan cada tres meses.

La clínica El Camino abrió sus puertas en abril de 2006 y desde entonces ha cambiado la vida de los miles de pacientes que han llegado a esa pequeña casita, en búsqueda de cuidados médicos y amor.

Clínica El Camino 419 Houston St. Green Cove Springs, FL 32043 Teléfono: (904) 531 9504 www.thewayclinic.org

WOODY HUBAND

POR LORENA ESPINOZA

WOODY HUBAND

Rito de Iniciación Católico para Adultos ahora en español

Las Nuevas Tendencias de la Familia POR P. JHON GUARNIZO

La familia, base de la sociedad a través de los años ha sufrido transformaciones en su esfera estructural. Estas variaciones se comenzaron a vivenciar en la mitad del siglo XX donde la industrialización, lleva a la nueva generación rápidamente al mercado del trabajo que se encontraba en expansión, se ponen de manifiesto las opresiones familiares y se deplora el excesivo individualismo. A partir de estos años se comenzaron a vivenciar los siguientes aspectos:

7. Adopción de niños(as) de un hogar homoparental.

Aunque las formas del matrimonio varían considerablemente según el contexto cultural, el matrimonio está presente desde el principio de la historia, 1. Retraso del matrimonio (no desear pero se puede ver la notoria tendencia establecer una relación sería ya sea civil o a la disolución del matrimonio nuclear religiosa). Retraso en el pensar de concebir constituido por padre y madre. un hijo o empleo de medios artificiales para En resumen, esta generación, es un generación que siente no ser tenerlo. generación. Habla de ella misma como 2. Aumento en la cohabitación (que era de un conjunto de personas que viven presente desde la mitad de los años 70’s) una condición histórica, privada de 3. Aumento de los hijos nacidos fuera de un generatividad: sienten no estar y no ser matrimonio nuclear. verdaderamente generados, y sienten 4. Aumento del Monoparentalismo (entendiendo monoparentalismo como no conseguir generar nada o casi nada hogares formados por una sola persona. La significativo en su vida (Donati.2003. familia monoparental puede definirse como 194). Piensan que no pertenecen a ningún grupo, sociedad y que ésta misma los aquella constituida por un padre o madre rechaza constantemente manifestando que no vive en pareja (entendiendo pareja su individualidad como expresión de su casada o cohabitada)… vive al menos con propia libertad. un hijo menor de dieciocho años.

Donati, Pierpaolo. Manual de Sociología 5. Aumento del número de divorcios.

6. Aparición de nuevas formas de familia de la Familia. Eunsa. Pamplona. Capts IV y como es el Homoparentalismo.

VII, 2003, pp. 194

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Temas: “Un Hogar para los que Sufre” y “Elegir la Vida” Presentadores: P. Jhon Guarnizo y P. Heriberto Vergara En la Iglesia Blessed Trinity desde las 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Misa de Clausura Celebrada por el Obispo Mons.

Felipe Estévez Santuario de la Virgen de la Leche (Altar de Piedra) a las 10:30 a.m.

Adoración al Santísimo

Sacramento

Parroquias con Misas en Español

“La Eucaristía es un tesoro inestimable; no sólo su celebración, sino también estar ante ella fuera de la Misa, nos da la posibilidad de llegar al manantial mismo de la gracia”.

San Juan Pablo II, Encíclica Ecclesia de Eucharistia Catedral Basílica de St. Augustine: De lunes a viernes 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

JACKSONVILLE Inmaculada Concepción: De martes a viernes 8-9 a.m.

San José: Primer viernes 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sacred Heart: Primer viernes después de la misa de 7 p.m.

Blessed Trinity: Los miércoles después de la misa de 7 p.m. Los viernes después de la misa de 8:30 a.m. y los sábados 8-10 a.m.

GAINESVILLE St. Augustine: Los miércoles y el primer viernes 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Queen of Peace: Adoración Perpetua St. Catherine, Orange Park: Adoración Perpetua St. Francis Xavier, Live Oak: Los jueves 4-6 p.m.

St. John Baptist, Crescent City: Primer viernes después de misa. Segundo jueves 5- 8 p.m.

St. John the Evangelist, Interlachen: Primer viernes 8:30 a.m.

San Sebastian, St. Augustine: Los viernes 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

Epiphany, Lake City: De lunes y martes. Los miércoles 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Los jueves 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

St. John the Evangelist, Chiefland: Primer viernes después de las misa de 9 a.m.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Palm Coast: Adoración Perpetua

Nos gustaría escuchar su voz. Envíe sus opiniones y sugerencias al correo electrónico lespinoza@ dosafl.com o escribanos a la Revista San Agustín Católico, 11625 Old St. Augustine Road Jacksonville, Florida 32258. Atención: Lorena Espinoza.

St. Michael, Fernandina Beach: Los jueves 9- 9:30 a.m.

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el santo del mes l Santa Rosa de Lima

Santa Rosa de Lima Religiosa peruana de la orden de los dominicos que fue la primera santa de América. Tras haber dado signos de una intensa espiritualidad, a los veinte años tomó el hábito de terciaria dominica, y consagró su vida a la atención de los enfermos y niños y a las prácticas ascéticas, extendiéndose pronto la fama de su santidad.

Venerada ya en vida por sus visiones místicas y por los milagros que se le atribuyeron, en poco más de medio siglo fue canonizada por la Iglesia católica, que la declaró patrona de Lima y Perú, y poco después de América, Filipinas e Indias Orientales.

Isabel Flores de Oliva nació en Lima, Perú el 30 de abril de 1586, hija de Gaspar Flores y de María de Oliva.

Todos la llamaban Rosa porque según la tradición cuando era apenas un bebé su rostro se transformó en una rosa. Más adelante ella quiso llamarse Rosa de Santa María.

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PORTRAIT ARTIST TRACY L. CHRISTIANSON/PORTRAITSOFSAINTS.COM

PATRONA DEL PERÚ, AMÉRICA Y LAS FILIPINAS:

Rosa resistió por más de diez años la intención de sus padres de casarla y finalmente consagró su virginidad al Señor Jesús. Al cabo de unos años ingresó a la Tercera orden de Santo Domingo a imitación de Catalina de Siena.

A partir de entonces, se recluyó prácticamente en una cabaña que había construido en el huerto. Sólo salía para visitar al Templo de Nuestra Señora del Rosario y atender las necesidades espirituales de los más necesitados. También atendía a muchos enfermos, creando una especie de enfermería en su casa y luego ayudaba a fray Martín de Porres que ahora también es santo.

Llevaba sobre la cabeza una cinta de plata, cuyo interior era lleno de puntas sirviendo así como una corona de espinas.

Su amor de Dios era tan ardiente que, cuando hablaba de Él, cambiaba el tono de su voz y su rostro se encendía como un reflejo del sentimiento que embargaba su alma. Ese fenómeno se manifestaba, sobre todo, cuando la santa se hallaba en presencia del Santísimo Sacramento o cuando en la comunión unía su corazón a la Fuente del Amor.

Ya cerca del final de su vida, cayó gravemente enferma. Murió a los treinta y un años de edad en las primeras horas del 24 de agosto de 1617.

Hoy sus restos se veneran en la Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Lima en Santo Domingo, con notable devoción del pueblo peruano y de América que visita la Capilla dedicada a su culto en el Crucero del Templo dominicano. El Papa Clemente X la canonizó en 1671.

calendario 11 de julio Renovación Carismática Católica Hispana invitan al: Congreso Carismático Diocesano Tema: Sanando las Heridas en la Familia Invitado especial: Padre Fernando Echeverri de la Arquidiócesis de New York En la Parroquia Sacred Heart desde las 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sección Jóvenes: Retiro para los Jóvenes Tema: Jóvenes Diferentes Presentador: Roberto Ramírez Parroquia Sacred Heart desde las 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Más información al (904) 520 1421 Liliana Sinti 12 de julio Concierto para Jóvenes en la Parroquia Most Holy Redeemer, Jacksonville Invitado: Roberto Ramírez Más información al (904) 859 9347 25 de julio Clase de Formación Cristiana de la Fe en la Iglesia St. Augustine, Gainesville.

Tema: Luz en la Oscuridad del Mundo: Adoración, Veneración y Superstición.

Facilitador: P. Manny López.

Hora: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Celebración de Nuestra Señora Chiquinquira 5 de julio en la Iglesia S. Elizabeth A. Seton, Palm Coast a las 7 p.m.

9 de julio en la Iglesia Blessed Trinity, Jacksonville a las 7 p.m.

12 de julio en la Iglesia San José, Jacksonville a las 12:30 p.m.

12 de julio en la Iglesia San Sebastián, St. Augustine a las 12 p.m.

21-23 de agosto Retiro Espiritual para Jóvenes de 13 - 17 años Experiencia en Cristo # 25 Marywood Retreat Center Para mayor información comunicarse con Norma de García al (904) 716 1571 Fecha límite de inscripción el 14 de agosto 22 de agosto Clase de Formación Cristiana de la Fe en Iglesia Holy Family, Williston Tema: Amor Fructífero y Responsable: Visión de San Juan Pablo II Facilitador: P. Manny López Hora: 10 a.m-12 p.m.

28 de agosto Noche de Oración y Alabanza Parroquia Sacred Heart, Fleming Island desde las 7:30-9:30 p.m. (904) 699 9188

Fiesta: 30 de agosto Nacimiento: 30 de abril de 1586 Muerte: 24 de agosto de 1617 Canonizada: 12 de abril de 1671

Sábado 13 de septiembre Celebración de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad presidida por el Obispo Felipe Estévez. En la Iglesia Blessed Trinity a las 2 p.m.

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