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Diocese of Fall River, Mass.

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Deacon Jack Schrader to be ordained by bishop July 11

By Kenneth J. Souza Anchor Staff

FALL RIVER — In the days leading up to his priestly ordination, Deacon Jack Schrader seemed surprisingly calm and collected.

Despite a whirlwind schedule that included finalizing plans for his first Mass celebration, several days at the Quo Vadis discernment retreat, and making last-minute arrangements to greet the many guests who were arriving for his ordination weekend, he seemed at peace with himself.

“I was just reflecting on how long of a journey it’s been,” Deacon Schrader told The Anchor. “I was trying to count how many final exams I had to take and all the evaluations from the faculty, from my peers, and my self-evaluations. But in the end, what is about to happen is not the result of any personal achievement. It has required a lot work, but there’s nothing I can do to

make the ordination happen. It’s a total gift from God through the bishop that doesn’t depend upon what I’ve done.”

“It’s easy to be tricked into thinking it’s the end achievement of many other achievements, but it’s really not that,” he added. “It’s God’s call and choice of someone and it’s kind of hard to believe it’s about to happen.”

Deacon Schrader will be ordained a priest for the diocese tomorrow at 11 a.m. inside the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in Fall River by Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V. Although it won’t be Bishop da Cunha’s first ordination, it does mark the first time he’s ordaining someone

Dominican Sister starts new chapter after 26 years at Marian Manor

By Becky Aubut Anchor Staff

TAUNTON — There is a bittersweet moment happening at Marian Manor in Taunton. Originally staffed by the Dominican Sisters of the Order of the Pre-

Sister Paulina Cardenas, O.P. is saying goodbye after spending 26 years at the Marian Manor in Taunton, part of the Diocesan Healthcare Facilities family, and is being assigned to Washington, D.C. to help staff a boarding house for female college students. (Photo by Becky Aubut)

sentation, the skilled nursing center is saying goodbye to one of the original Sisters who is leaving a legacy that is beyond compare.

Sister Paulina Cardenas, O.P., grew up with 10 sisters and one brother in Abejorral, Antioquia, Colombia.

The Catholic faith was an ingrained part of her youth, she said: “It was the family life — such good memories — my father and mother would get up, and my mother would have opening prayers to the guardian angel, just when we would wake up. We grew up in a very religious atmosphere. I come from a town, not a big city, and we had a beautiful Christmas. We would have a Novena, the kids from the neighborhood would come and do the Novena; we don’t believe in Santa, it’s Baby Jesus Who brings the gifts. My mother raised us to really believe it was Baby Jesus Who brought us the gifts.”

Still speaking with a strong accent, Sister Cardenas shared how three of her sisters entered a religious order, but when it came time for Sister Cardenas to make a choice, she was torn until “a moment comes when God is more powerful” and she entered the Dominican Sisters of the Order of the Presentation in 1965.

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as the Eighth Bishop of Fall River, which is a point of pride for Deacon Schrader.

“I think there’s a good number that he’s done already, but this is the first for the Fall River Diocese,” Deacon Schrader said.

“The great thing about an ordination is the one who is going to be ordained in some ways just has to show up,” he added. “What happens on that day is not the result of an examination, it’s not a test, it’s a matter of being present before God and the Church and saying ‘yes’ and receiving the Sacrament from the bishop.”

For Deacon Schrader, the defining moment of the Liturgy for him will be

the laying on of hands.

“You’re kneeling there in utter faith, believing that the Holy Spirit is being poured out upon you,” he said. “Although you can’t see it, you can’t feel it — you might have some emotions in the moment, but God in that moment will call me and will call the Church around to believe that He is doing something powerful to make me into His instrument.”

When considering the detours and divergent paths Deacon Schrader has taken along the way to becoming a priest for the Fall River Diocese, it’s something that only could have been accomplished through the grace of God. The son of Steven Schrader, a career military man who served at the beckoning of Uncle Sam, Jack Schrader was born on a U.S. Air Force base in Misawa, Japan.

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Seekonk parishioner, PC grad heeds the call to join the Dominican order

By Dave Jolivet Anchor Editor

REHOBOTH — As a young lad, Joseph Day used to tell his parents he wanted to become a priest. Day, a member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Seekonk and a recent valedictorian at his graduation from Providence College doesn’t remember that. But years later, as a freshman at PC he “began to sense something deep in my soul, a pull,” he told The Anchor. “It would come over me strongest during Mass sometimes. I tried to ignore it for a while. I was dating a great girl and planning on a future as a husband and father. I wanted to go to grad school, get a doctorate, and become a college professor. I didn’t want this other life.”

“He used to say as a young child of about four that he wanted to be a priest, but I don’t recall hearing it from him after seven or eight,” his mother, Elizabeth Day told The Anchor. “I always felt like God was calling him, but would say to him and all my kids that I only wanted them to be whatever God made them to be.”

Throughout his four years at PC, the draw of God’s call never went away. “For the next few years I wrestled with discernment,” he said. “Discernment is a hard process of wrestling with God and wrestling with yourself. There is no way

around that. There are no thunderbolts, no St. Paul on the road to Damascus moments. I think it is so hard because you are trying to decide between two very good things, the good of married vocation and the good of the priestly voTurn to page 14

Joseph Day, a parishioner of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Seekonk, poses with a statue of St. Dominic following his recent graduation from Providence College. Later this month, Day begins his first year as a novice with the Dominican order.

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News From the Vatican

July 10, 2015

Receiving awards, Benedict XVI credits witness of St. John Paul II

Vatican City (CNA/ EWTN News) — After receiving an honorary doctorate from the Pontifical John Paul II University of Krakow and the Krakow Academy of Music, retired pontiff Benedict XVI credited the saintly example of his predecessor for his Spiritual and theological achievements.

The pope emeritus said he received a “special joy” in receiving the doctorates, because “in this way my bond with Poland, with Krakow, with the home of our great St. John Paul II, has become even deeper.”

“Without him my Spiritual and theological journey would not be imaginable.”

The retired pontiff — who now goes by “Father Benedict” — made his comments at the recent conferral of his two honorary doctorates in Sacred Music, one from the Pontifical John Paul II University of Krakow and one from the Krakow Academy of Music.

Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, archbishop of Krakow and former secretary of St. John Paul II, conferred the degrees. The ceremony took place in the Italian city of Castel Gandolfo, where Pope Emeritus Benedict is currently on a two-week stay at the papal summer residence.

The doctorates were conferred due to the great contributions the retired pope has made to knowledge and culture, specifically his attention to truth, beauty, faith and the presence of Sacred music in the Liturgy.

St. John Paul II was a “living example” of how “the joy of Sacred music and the task of common participation in the Sacred Liturgy, the solemn joy and the simplicity of the humble celebration of the faith” can go hand-inhand, the retired pope said.

He noted how even though it might not be felt that strongly, “little by little” a certain tension has developed between active participation in the Liturgy and solemn, Sacred music.

He pointed to how the Second Vatican Council’s constitution on the Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, mentions both.

It says that “the treasure of Sacred music is to be preserved and fostered with great care,” while at the same time emphasizing that the active participation of the faithful is “a fundamental Liturgical category,” he noted.

“Those two things, which in the text of the constitution remain together and at peace with each other, were in the implementation of the council, often in a rela-

tionship of dramatic tension,” the former pontiff observed.

Asking how the two can be reconciled and how the council can be implemented in its entirety, Pope Emeritus Benedict said that a deeper and more fundamental question is “What is music really?

Where does it come from and toward what does it tend?”

He then pointed to the origins of music itself, saying that it first of all stems from one’s personal experience of love, sadness and death, and a true encounter with God. One of music’s first expressions “is the experience of love,” Children participate in the arrival ceremony for Pope Francis at Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, he said. “When men were seized Ecuador. The pope is making an eight-day trip to Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) by love, another dimension of being burst within them, another greatness and another breadth of reality. And it also led them to express themselves in new ways.”

QUITO, Ecuador (CNS) nomic life “so that the growth encyclical, “Laudato Si’.”

Poetry, song and music in genCorrea said Ecuador’s was — Although still thousands in progress and development eral were all born “from this being the “first constitution in the affected, from this unfolding of a of miles from his birthplace in already registered will ensure a Argentina, Pope Francis made better future for everyone, with history of humanity to grant new dimension of life,” he said.

Another origin he pointed to a homecoming of sorts July 5 particular concern for the most rights to nature.” Twenty perwas the experience of sadness, when he landed in Ecuador, vulnerable of our brothers and cent of the country is protectdeath, pain and “the abyss of ex- greeted by cheering crowds sisters to whom Latin America ed in parks and reserves, Correa told the pope. istence,” which the former pope and the sights and sounds of still owes a debt.”

Some environmental and The program for the pope’s South America. said also opens up, in the opposite human rights organizations in July 5-12 tour of Ecuador, BoAfter a 12-hour flight from way, “new dimensions of reality” Ecuador have questioned Corwhich can “no longer find an an- Rome, the pope participated livia and Paraguay was puncin a brief welcoming ceremony tuated with formal meetings rea’s commitment to environswer in mere speeches.”

The third origin he indicated at Quito’s Mariscal Sucre Air- with government officials and mental safeguards, as conflicts was “the encounter with the Di- port, telling government dig- with large public Masses, but it have erupted over plans for vine, which from the beginning is nitaries, bishops and special also was filled with visits to the open-pit mining and expandguests that his pastoral work poor, the sick and the elderly, ed oil and gas exploration and part of what defines man.” production.

A major reason for this, he before becoming pope had and prisoners.

Walking the red carpet at Pope Francis demonstrated taken him to Ecuador many said, “is that it is here where the the airport, Pope Francis was his knowledge of Ecuador and totally-other and totally-great times.

“Today, too, I have come as a the country’s geography when greeted by dozens of children arouses in man new ways of exwitness of God’s mercy and of expressing his hope for the na- and young people dressed in pressing himself. Perhaps we can tion. “From the peak of Chim- a wide variety of traditional faith in Jesus Christ,” he said. say that actually in the other two borazo to the Pacific coast, clothes. Correa told the pope Mercy and faith, he said, areas — love and death — the from the Amazon rainforest that his country is culturally have shaped Latin American mystery of the Divine touches to the Galapagos Islands, may diverse, with a mixed-race maculture for centuries, contribus and, in this sense, it is being you never lose the ability to jority, as well as 14 indigenous uting to democracy and imtouched by God which together proving the lives of countless thank God for what He has peoples, including two nomadconstitutes the origin of music.” done and is doing for you,” the ic groups that continue to shun He said that the quality of millions of people. contact with the outside world. pope said.

“In our own time, too, we music depends on “the purity and Correa said that “the great “May you never lose the can find in the Gospel a key to greatness” of one’s encounter with social sin of our America is inability to protect what is small meeting contemporary chalthe Divine, with their experience justice.

How can we call ourand simple,” he continued, “to lenges,” the pope said, includof love and of pain. selves the most Christian concare for your children and your ing respecting national, ethnic, “The more pure and true that tinent in the world if we are elderly, to have confidence in religious and cultural differexperience is, the more pure and also the most unequal, when the young and to be constantly great will be the music from ences and fostering dialogue.

The pope’s visit followed a struck by the nobility of your one of the most repeated signs which it was born and developed.” period of public protests over people and the singular beauty of the Gospel is sharing bread?”

The retired pope then turned During the flight from Ecuadorean government poli- of your country.” to the types of music found in Rome, Pope Francis only “Ecuador loves life,” Corcies.

Initially triggered by prodifferent cultures, saying that briefly addressed the 70 memrea told the pope at the airport posed inheritance and capital music from the West in particular bers of the media traveling ceremony, noting that the congains taxes, the protests also has the ability to go beyond the with him.

He thanked them stitution protects life from the have targeted what even some religious and ecclesial domain, for their work, which “can do moment of conception.

“It esmentioning Bach as an example of Ecuadorean President Rafaof where for him, the glory of el Correa’s supporters describe tablishes recognizing and pro- so much good.” Instead of anas his heavy-handed approach. tecting the family as the basic swering their questions — his God is represented.

Christian values, the pope core of society and commits us practice usually only on flights Whenever music is develsaid, should motivate citizens deeply to caring for ‘our com- back to Rome — he walked oped based on an encounter with to promote the full participa- mon home,’” referring to the down one aisle of the Alitalia God, he said, “you encounter the tion of all people in their na- environment with the same plane and up the other, greettruth, with the true Creator of the tion’s social, political and eco- words Pope Francis used in his ing each person. world.”

Returning to South America, pope says countries owe debt to their poor

July 10, 2015

The International Church

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Chaplain team prepares for Pan Am Games in Toronto this summer

TORONTO (CNS) — Growing up in Venezuela, Jesuit Father Eduardo Soto fell in love with the Pan Am Games when his home country hosted the quadrennial event in Caracas in 1983.

“I was only 11 years old and I remember all of the excitement surrounding the call for us to be there as the country that hosted the Pan Am Games,” Father Soto said. “And I still follow the Pan Am Games. Team sports are my favorite but also track and field and swimming are great as well.”

A step for athletes looking to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics, this year’s Pan Am Games, hosted by Toronto, will draw more than 5,000 athletes from across the Americas.

What captivated Father Soto St. Therese of Lisieux, left, and her sister Leonia Martin Guerin. (Public domain photos) as a youngster about the games was the way in which the athletes from the different sports came together as one team to represent their nation. Now, 32 years later, Vatican City (CNA/ Congregation for the Causes ask her for favors and they Father Soto will be spending most EWTN News) — With a of the Saints, which as of Feb- find Spiritual help in her. Their of his summer not only soaking in sister who is a Doctor of the ruary was still being waited on. faith is strengthened by the ex- the spirit of sport, but also workChurch and parents set to be Leonia is the sister of St. ample of this humble Sister of ing the games as a member of the canonized in October, Leonia Therese of Lisieux and the the Visitation, and many let- Catholic chaplaincy team.

Martin could be the fourth third daughter of Blessed Lou- ters testify to graces received,” “I feel like this is an opportunimember of her family declared is and Zelia Martin, who are the priest said. ty to be part of the team,” he said.

Leonia, who took the name “To be part of the chaplaincy team as a saint after her own cause set to be the first couple ever for canonization was recently to be canonized at the same Sister Francisca-Teresa, also at the Pan Am Games will be an launched. ceremony, which will be held suffered from physical prob- opportunity, like a lab, to bestow lems as a child.

Leonia’s cause was officially October 18 in the Vatican. and develop all of my skills, all of “She did not have the hu- my intercultural training, all of my opened recently by Bishop The event will take place Jean-Claude Boulanger of fewer than three weeks after the man qualities of her other tools as a priest and as a counselor Bayeux-Lisieux in the chapel October 1 feast of their daugh- Sisters, but she knew how to with very special people.” of the Visitation Monastery ter, and doctor of the Church, abandon herself to God, Who Father Soto, currently in mincalls us all regardless of our istry in Winnipeg, Manitoba, will at Caen, France, where Leonia St. Therese of the Child Jesus. spent the majority of her life In statements made to CNA qualities. No one is excluded be one of three full-time chapand where she died. Mass was in February, Carmelite Father from the call to holiness,” Fa- lains at the games. The team will celebrated following the cause Antonio Sangalli, Leonia’s ther Sangalli said. be available from 7 a.m. to 11 Leonia also had a close re- p.m., July 1 to August 18, and will opening. postulator, said the fact that St. The intention to open Therese’s “difficult” sister is on lationship with St. Therese, work in two shifts. The chaplains her cause was originally an- the path toward sainthood is a and the two often exchanged will be supported by six part-time nounced January 24, according reminder that holiness is call letters. After her saintly sister members. The games take place in died, Leonia decided to try to two stages: the Pan Am Games to French daily La Croix. On for everyone.

April 25, a “recognition” of her “Although she was expelled enter the convent again, fol- July 10-26 and the Parapan Am body was made — a process three times from the con- lowing the “little way” traced Games August 7-18. which included opening her vent, she achieved her goal of out by St. Therese, with trust The team will work primartomb to check the state of her becoming a religious, which and abandonment to God. ily in the athletes’ village located Father Sangalli said she ul- in the east end of downtown remains. shows that if we persevere, it With the opening of her is possible to do God’s Will,” timately was admitted to the Toronto. The Catholic chaplains convent, which “shows that cause, Leonia has now received he said. the title “Servant of God” and “Leonia’s difficulties were Therese’s doctrine is not only is on the path toward beatifi- primarily due to her order’s meant for the Carmelites but cation, the step in the saint- strict rules, which were very for everyone — with the little hood process which precedes difficult to follow in those way, Leonia became a better canonization. times. However, this did not Sister of the Visitation, always The most recent step comes lead her to bury the one talent remaining in the Spiritualat the conclusion of the initial she received and that she used ity of St. Francis de Sales and phase of gathering all the his- fruitfully to fully live out her St. Frances de Chantal, the founders of the Order of the torical documents related to vocation.” her life.

He noted that even before Visitation.”

Leonia died June 17, 1941, The official opening of her her cause was opened, Leonia cause signals that Bishop Bou- was revered for her holiness at the age of 78 in the monaslanger has obtained the need- and that her crypt at the Mon- tery where she lived. Her tomb ed nihil obstat, the official ap- astery of the Visitation in Caen has become a refuge for parproval of the Catholic Church is frequently visited by pilgrims ents concerned about raising their children, who find in her from the moral and doctrinal from all over the world. point of view granted by the “They come to pray. They an example and an inspiration.

A fourth saint for the Little Flower family?

Cause for Leonia Martin officially opens

will celebrate daily Mass, provide Spiritual counseling and simply lend an ear to participants.

“What the volunteers, the coaches and the athletes will need I think will primarily be Mass and Confessions,” said Deacon Stephen Pitre, coordinator of the permanent diaconate for the Archdiocese of Toronto and head of the Catholic Pan Am chaplain team.

“That will be of course very important to (athletes) leading up to their events. The rest of it as far as their needs that we can handle would primarily revolve around just talking and listening because these athletes, especially when you think of Central and South America, this is a big opportunity for them.”

Not only will the chaplains’ presence be important leading to their competitions, Deacon Pitre said he expects many athletes will turn to the chaplains from all faiths following their events as well.

“Someone is going to lose,” he said. “So we are going to be dealing with that on an ongoing basis.”

Father Soto, who spent several years working in Venezuela and other South American countries, knows exactly how he will console the inevitable losers.

“The reality is you have 20 athletes or 30, and only three of them are going to have medals,” he said.

“The rest won’t. They will be disappointed and frustrated, but the point is to help them to see this is a process for them as an athlete.”

Having spent most of his life following the Pan Am Games, and as an amateur athlete himself, Father Soto said there is one other task he expects to be called upon during the event — one of the duties he looks forward to most.

“Athletes in South America and Central America, they like their equipment and all their things to be blessed before going to competition,” he said.

“For them, it is a sign that God is with them. I feel like in that I can give back to the athletes.”

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July 10, 2015 The Church in the U.S. Catholic economist: Pope has ‘measured’ critique of U.S. economy

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Harsh criticisms meted out

by Pope Francis on free-market capitalism have sparked backlash from some fiscal conservatives and have led some people to call him “anti-capitalist” or even Marxist.

Ahead of his apostolic visit to the United States in September, some are bracing themselves for more criticisms from the pope, this time directed specifically at the U.S. culture and economy.

Joseph Kaboski, a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and president of CREDO, an international organization of Catholic economists, said, “As an individual, the pope probably views redistribution programs as a more effective way of tackling poverty than economic growth,” though “most mainstream economists would disagree.”

In addition, he said, the pope would probably “like more government involvement in the economy than many Americans would be comfortable with.”

However, Kaboski said he views the pope “as neither pronor anti-capitalist, but instead a measured critic.”

Kaboski said he is “confident Pope Francis finds much to commend” in U.S. economic life, such as private property, the entrepreneurial spirit, human creativity, technological advances, the way it creates jobs, income and products, and the way charities, government and the private sector pitch in to provide services to those in need.

At the same time, the pope “would also criticize the vast disparities in income and wealth, point to the poor in the inner cities, and argue that they are not fully participating in society,” Kaboski said. In addition, the pope would “point to the fact that the global economic crisis started in the U.S. financial sector and wound up shaking economies of many

poor nations,” he said.

Kaboski said he is “very excited” about the pope “emphasizing the needs of the poor, but then if he talks about the roots of the financial crisis, it’s hard for me to fully go along with his confidence because academic economists are still debating the root causes of the Great Depression.”

“There are some statements (he makes) that can leave people scratching their heads,” he conceded.

However, it is important to keep in mind that the pope is “never teaching economics,” added Kaboski, who is also a consultant for the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.

Rather, the pope is “catechizing on how our Christian view ought to impact our view of a good economy and society.”

Christians are called to evaluate economic activity through the lens of their relationship with God and others, which must be central to their lives, he added.

In homilies and at various audiences throughout his twoyear pontificate, Pope Francis has sought to raise awareness and inspire action that would narrow the imbalances between the world’s rich and poor. He has criticized the current global economy, which he says is based on a “throwaway culture” that encourages consumption and waste, and marginalizes or even discards people seen as economically unproductive.

His main criticisms of “unregulated capitalism” are spelled out in his apostolic exhortation, “The Joy of the Gospel,” which calls people to turn from the idolatry of money and indifference to the needs of the poor.

The economy must be based on the primacy of the person, honor human dignity and care for the poor, especially by including them in the economy, he said.

Pope Francis’ encyclical on

the environment, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” took up the same themes and extended his reflection to the devastating impact of the throwaway culture on the environment and on the poor who live closest to nature and rely most heavily on the land for their livelihood.

“This is related to what the pope has been talking about long before the environment: lifestyle,” said Greg Burke, senior communications adviser to the Vatican’s Secretariat of State. “This encyclical is as much about wealth and poverty as it is about the environment.”

The call to action in “Laudato Si’” is “not just taking out your trash,” Burke told Catholic News Service, “but how much trash you produce because of rampant consumerism.”

Carolyn Woo, president of Catholic Relief Services and a former business professor, told CNS that the encyclical also includes a call to action for the business sector.

“Pope Francis actually invites business to be a part of the solution,” she said. “But it cannot be business as usual.” Rather, businesses need to shift out of “the same short-term thinking or the same obsession with short-term profits and disregard for people,” she said.

Practically, it means businesses would need to adopt the values of “solidarity and sustainability, oriented toward the common good and the true development of all peoples” and engage in more environmental

impact assessments of their activities, she said at the Vatican’s official launch of the recent encyclical.

Ralph McCloud, director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, said cooperatives and other community-based businesses already operate according to the values of sustainability, solidarity and subsidiarity. He said they also are well-positioned to implement green initiatives and “look for green opportunities” that answer the needs of their local communities.

Pope Francis has praised cooperatives as a viable model that fights exclusion and puts people before profit.

“To speak of an economy that we can all share in is not very popular,” said McCloud.

But CCHD shares the pope’s concern about how “a broken economy breaks families, communities and the human spirit,” he said. Furthermore, he said, the pope’s comments have been “an inspiration for low-income Americans.”

CCHD, an organization of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, educates for community-based development and funds community start-ups and cooperatives. Since its founding, CCHD has supported 99 cooperatives, including Golden Steps in Brooklyn, N.Y., which provides assistance to the elderly, and Opportunity Threads, a textile manufacturing co-op in Morganton, N.C. Co-ops are increasingly understood as “a viable option in

a capitalist economy,” he said.

In addition to benefitting the families of co-op members, McCloud said co-ops in the U.S. promote the type of personal and community development the pope has called for, including greater participation in education and in the political process.

Kaboski pointed out that recent popes have often used the term “unbridled capitalism” to refer to an economy that is “indifferent to the poor and ideologically rejects any need to circumscribe the economy within a legal, political and cultural framework.”

“A market without rules and morals doesn’t remain free,” he continued. “What (the popes) are really arguing for is an economy that is truly free in the Catholic sense of the word free: an economy that more fully enables people to attain their own perfection.”

In line with the Catholic understanding of freedom, which involves discernment, Kaboski said, the economy requires “reflection and guidance” in order to “best fulfill its proper function, serving all the members of society.”

“The pope is not an economist and his job is not to (propose) concrete economic policies,” he said. “But he is called to be a prophetic voice in the world, praising the work of God and the collaboration of mankind where he sees it” and calling for repentance “where he sees serious social problems.”

A homeless man searches a trash can for bottles and cans to redeem for money in New York City. Ahead of Pope Francis’ apostolic visit to the United States in September, some are bracing themselves for more criticisms from the pope, this time directed specifically at the U.S. culture and economy. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

July 10, 2015

The Church in the U.S.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia greets inmates of Curran-Fromhold correctional facility in Philadelphia during a visit in mid-January. Pope Francis has a planned visit to the prison September 27 during his two-day visit to the city. (CNS photo/ Sarah Webb, CatholicPhilly.com)

Mass for archdiocese, visit to prison top pope’s Philadelphia itinerary PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — The first stop for Pope Francis when he visits Philadelphia the morning of September 26 will be the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul to celebrate a special Mass for the people of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

The previously unannounced Mass is part of the pope’s itinerary for his Philadelphia visit announced by the Vatican.

The announcement also included news of the pope’s planned visit with prison inmates of Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in northeast Philadelphia.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput greeted news of the papal schedule “with great joy and I’m certain that countless individuals in our city, our commonwealth, and our country share that emotion with me.”

“As the birthplace of religious freedom, Philadelphia is a city rich in history and diversity. This itinerary recognizes the importance of those qualities and the pope’s desire to witness them firsthand,” said Philadelphia’s archbishop.

Another stop on the pope’s visit to the city includes an afternoon address September 26 at Independence Hall, birthplace of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The pope is expected

to speak about religious freedom and immigration, among other possible topics.

The visit with incarcerated men and women at the sprawling 25-acre Curran-Fromhold facility, the largest in the Philadelphia prison system with 30,000 inmates, underscores Pope Francis’ commitment to extend mercy to the marginalized, including the poor, the sick and, in this case, the imprisoned.

The pope has declared a Year of Mercy in the Catholic Church to begin December 8.

It will emphasize the Church’s healing ministry to all people “as a field hospital after battle,” as the pope has said.

The morale of the Catholic community in Philadelphia has itself been battered from the past few years of crises including the sexual abuse scandal, financial troubles for the archdiocese and the merger or closing of dozens of parishes and schools.

Msgr. William Lynn, former secretary for clergy of the Philadelphia Archdiocese from 1992 to 2004, is currently serving time at the CurranFromhold facility while he appeals a 2012 conviction on a child endangerment charge for his mishandling of clergy sex abuse complaints.

A recent Associated Press story said it was not clear if

he would still be there when the pope visits, or if he would be chosen to be in the group of prisoners who will meet the pontiff, but AP said Msgr.

Lynn’s lawyer said his client would welcome the opportunity.

The visit of Pope Francis to the city and especially his celebration of a Mass in the archdiocese’s mother church, the cathedral, “is one of faith and charity, and his words and his presence will be a source of encouragement,” said Auxiliary Bishop John J. McIntyre during a recent interview at the cathedral.

The iconic brownstone cathedral dating to 1864 only has a capacity of less than 1,500 for the Mass, plus seating for another 500 utilizing video monitors in an adjoining chapel.

Bishop McIntyre said all priests in the archdiocese will be invited to concelebrate the Mass and deacons will be invited as well. As of 2014, the archdiocesan Catholic Directory indicated there are 524 diocesan priests and 288 permanent deacons, plus 293 religious priests, though not all may be able to participate.

He said that because of the great number of men and women religious in the archdiocese as well as lay people from the archdiocese’s 219 parishes, representative groups from

each will be selected to attend the Mass, though the process for doing so was not yet available.

“We hope and pray (the Mass) will be a boost to morale, (and) that it will be an instrument of God’s gift of faith and hope that we’ve been given,” Bishop McIntyre told CatholicPhilly.com, the archdiocesan news website.

The Mass at the cathedral, the prison visit and the address at Independence Hall join other papal events already announced for Philadelphia, including his attendance at an evening Festival of Families cultural celebration September 26 and the public Mass he will celebrate on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway the afternoon of September 27.

That evening there will be a celebration of the World Meeting of Families for supporters and volunteers at Philadelphia International Airport, followed by an official papal departure ceremony there.

“Pope Francis’ plans for his visit to Philadelphia seamlessly integrate powerful public moments with more intimate gatherings that are deeply

5 grace filled,” Archbishop Chaput said. “It is an itinerary that says, ‘I walk with you — and so does the Lord.’ It says, ‘Embrace your faith and embrace one another as children of God.’ It says, ‘God forgives.’

And it says ‘Come together in celebration.’”

The archbishop called Pope Francis’ visit “a true gift for all regardless of faith tradition.”

The World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, being held September 22-25 in advance of the pope’s visit, is expected to draw some 15,000 participants from 150 countries. Pope Francis has called the congress “the central reason for his visit to the United States,” Archbishop Chaput said.

The archbishop predicted “the many pilgrims present in September will experience a moment unlike any in the history of our city. The presence of the Holy Father will be electric and charismatic. It has the power to transform all of us in deeply positive ways. It will be our shared responsibility to take that gift and use all that we learn from it to build a better Church and a stronger society.”

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Message to the newly-ordained

Tomorrow (Saturday) Deacon Jack Schrader will be ordained a priest at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in Fall River (you can read about him in this Anchor). Please pray for him, that he always responds to the many graces that each day God will give him to carry out his ministry (if you have time and you receive The Anchor today — Friday — please head over to a Holy Hour at St. Patrick’s Church in Wareham at 7 p.m. to ask God’s blessings upon him).

Looking over what Pope Francis has said about newly-ordained clergy, it is interesting to read his own memories of when he was a young priest and what he has to say to those recently ordained.

“Once, newly-ordained,” the pope recalled on Nov. 21, 2014, “I was with a group from the university and a couple who wanted to get married. And the parish secretary there, said: ‘No, no, you can’t.’” She told them that they could not have a nuptial Mass, “because you can’t take more than 20 minutes,” the pope remembered the secretary saying. She told the couple that if they wanted a Mass, they needed to pay twice the regular wedding donation. Pope Francis said that this was scandalous and warned that “there are two things that the people of God cannot forgive: a priest attached to money and a priest who mistreats people.”

On March 28, 2014 the Holy Father gave a speech to newly-ordained clerics at a workshop which he described as offered “in order to contribute to the formation of good confessors who are mindful of the importance of this ministry.”

He reminded the young priests that “the protagonist of the ministry of Reconciliation is the Holy Spirit. The forgiveness which the Sacrament confers is the new life transmitted by the Risen Lord by means of His Spirit: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained’ ( Jn 20:22-23). Therefore, you are called always to be ‘men of the Holy Spirit,’ joyous and strong witnesses and proclaimers of the Lord’s Resurrection. This witness is seen on the face, is heard in the voice of the priest who administers the Sacrament of Reconciliation with faith and ‘anointing.’ He receives penitents not with the attitude of a judge, nor with that of a simple friend, but with the charity of God, with the love of a Father Who sees his son returning and goes out to meet him, of the Shepherd Who has found His lost sheep. The heart of a priest is a heart capable of being moved by compassion, not through sentimentalism or mere emotion, but through the ‘bowels of mercy’ of the Lord! If it is true that tradition points us to the dual role of physician and judge for confessors, let us never forget how the physician is called to heal and how the judge is called to absolve.”

What a thing to mull over in prayer — either for a priest confessor or for a penitent!

The pope then offered the new confessors a “second aspect: if Reconciliation transmits the new life of the Risen One and renews Baptismal grace, then your task is to bestow it generously upon the brethren. To bestow this grace. A priest who does not foster this aspect of his ministry, both in terms of the amount of time he dedicates to it and in terms of its Spiritual quality, is like a shepherd who does not take care of lost sheep; he is like a father who forgets his lost son and

neglects to wait for him. But mercy is the heart of the Gospel! Do not forget this: mercy is the heart of the Gospel! It is the Good News that God loves us, that He always loves the sinner, and with this love He attracts him to Himself and invites him to conversion. Let us not forget that the faithful often find it difficult to approach this Sacrament, both for practical reasons and for the natural reticence in confessing their sins to another man. For this reason it is essential to prepare ourselves, our humanity, in order never to be an obstacle, but rather always to foster their drawing near to mercy and forgiveness. However, it happens so many times that a person comes and says: ‘I have not confessed for many years, I had this problem, I stopped going to Confession because I encountered a priest and he told me this,’ and one perceives the imprudence, the lack of pastoral love in what the person recounts. And they turn away because of a bad experience in Confession. Were there this attitude of a father, which comes from the goodness of God, this problem would never occur.”

The parallelism that that pope used above is reminiscent of what Jesus said in describing the separation of the sheep from the goats (Mt 25: 31-46).

The pope also said that priests need to avoid “two opposite extremes: rigorism and laxism. Neither of the two are beneficial, because in reality they do not take care of the penitent. Mercy instead truly listens with the heart of God and wants to accompany the soul along the path of Reconciliation. Confession is not a tribunal of condemnation, but an experience of forgiveness and mercy!”

Speaking about the availability of the Sacrament, the Holy Father said, “It is good that in each parish the faithful know when they can find priests available: when there is faithfulness, we see the fruits.”

On June 2, 2014 the pope told the bishops of Zimbabwe, “Accompany your newly-ordained priests attentively, that they may live wholesome and upright lives. Exhort them to continue preaching and living — in season and out of season — the Gospel values of truth and integrity, and the beauty of a life lived in faith, in love of God, and in selfless service of their neighbor, in prophetic hope for justice in the land.”

This year, on April 26, the Holy Father conducted an ordination at St. Peter’s Basilica. He told the men who were about to be ordained, “When you celebrate the Mass, understand, therefore, what you do. Do not do it in haste! Imitate what you celebrate — it is not an artificial rite, an artificial ritual — so that, participating in the Mystery of the Lord’s death and Resurrection, you may bear the death of Christ in your members and walk with Him in the newness of life.”

He concluded, “Remembering that you have been chosen from among men and constituted on their behalf to attend to the things of God, exercise the priestly ministry of Christ with joy and genuine love, with the sole intention of pleasing God and not yourselves. It is unseemly when a priest lives for his own pleasure and ‘struts like a peacock!’ Always keep before your eyes the example of the Good Shepherd Who came not to be served but to serve, not to rest in His own comforts but to go forth, and Who came to find and save those who were lost.”

Pope Francis’ homily of July 6 Editor’s note: Since the pope was on a plane crossing the Atlantic at noon, he did not give an Angelus address. Instead, we offer you the homily he preached on Monday at Samanes Park in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

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so often. I entrusted to her the fruits of this visit, and I prayed that all of us might learn from her example. Her sacrifice and her heroic virtue are usually represented by a flower, a lily. Yet, at St. Peter’s she holds a whole bouquet of flowers. Along with her own flower, she offers the Lord, in the heart of the Church, your flowers, and the flowers of all the people of Ecuador.

The saints call us to imitate them and to learn from them. This was the case with St. Narcisa de Jesús and Blessed Mercedes de Jesús Molina, who were challenged

by St. Mariana’s example.

How many of you here today have known what it is to be orphaned? How many of you have had to assume the responsibility of looking after younger brothers or

sisters, despite being young yourselves? How many of you care daily with great patience for the sick or the elderly? Mariana did just this, and Narcisa and Mercedes followed her example.

It is not difficult if God is with us. They accomplished no great feats in the eyes of the world. They simply loved much, and they showed this love in their daily lives, touching the suffering flesh of Christ in others, in His people (cf. Evangelii Gaudium 24).

Nor did they do this alone, they did it “side by side” with others. All the work that went into the building of this cathedral was done that same way, our way, the way of the native peoples, quietly and unassumingly working alongside one another for the good of the community,

without seeking credit or applause. God grant that, just as the stones of this cathedral were carried by those who went before us, we may carry one another’s burdens, and thus help to build up or heal the lives of so many of our brothers and sisters incapable of doing it by themselves.

Today I am here with you, and you have shared with me the joy which fills your hearts: “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of Him who brings good tidings” (Is 52:7). This is the beauty we are called to spread, like an aroma of Christ: our prayer, our good works, and our sacrifices for those most in need. This is the joy of evangelizing and “blessed are you if you do these things” ( Jn 13:17).

God bless you all!

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n this series on the plan of life until now, we have considered practices that ought to happen at a certain frequency, daily (various prayers), weekly (Marian Saturdays), biweekly (Confession), monthly (a Day of Recollection) and annually (a retreat).

Beginning this week, we are going to shift focus to practices that are meant to be ongoing Spiritual priorities that we should seek to do as much as we can. Some of them may be able to be done several times a day — like acts of faith, hope, and love — and other things may be done more episodically, as time permits, even though our desire for them should be constant.

We begin today with one of those episodic, constant practices of the plan of life: study.

Jesus tells us that we are to love the Lord our God “with all [our] mind” (Mt 22:37).

He beckons us, “Learn from Me” (Mt 11:29). He calls us to convert and become like little children, and we know that kids are always hungry to learn, to ask why, to seek answers (Mt 18:3). He wants us to be as amazed and as astonished at His teaching as those who heard Him in the synagogues, on the mountainsides and plains, and from the pulpit of Peter’s boat (Mk 1:22). He came to set us free and told us it is through the truth that that liberation will

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rom the very beginning, the Almighty has chosen certain people to fulfill His wishes for humanity.

Adam and Eve were chosen to begin what has become humankind.

Noah was chosen to ride out the storm of all storms to help humankind begin anew, with God as the focus.

Moses was selected to lead the chosen people out of exile to the Promised Land.

It was Mary whom God graced with being the mother of the Savior, and Joseph who was to be His earthly dad and mentor.

Each of these Biblical heroes had a choice to accept or reject God’s request to be part of His Master plan.

Each of these people said yes.

And each of these people did wonderful things, the benefits

Anchor Columnist Sacred, professional and apostolic study

happen ( Jn 8:32). The mind Him redeem the world. God He has given us is a talent gave us our brain for a reason that faithful Catholics should and wants us to develop that never bury but one that gift. Our fidelity as disciples should bear dividends, five for and our fruitfulness as aposfive, two for two, according tles depend not just on our to the intellectual gifts God prayer and sacrifice but on has given us (Mt 25:14-30). our competence. Ignorance is He wants us to respond to a real enemy of the faith and the truth not with hardened, the mission of the Church. superficial or distracted soil, Study helps us to know God but good soil that is receptive and hugely fruitful to the seeds Putting Into He implants (Mt the Deep 13:3-23).

Jesus calls us, in short, to be His disBy Father ciples, and the word Roger J. Landry disciple comes from the Greek for student.

To be Jesus’ student is our better and to be able to serve life-time vocation. And the Him capably. word student comes from the Many of us, unfortunately, Latin for “zealous” or “hunhave never learned how to gry” to the point of starving study without extrinsic moto learn. Study is not meant tivation, like to pass school to be a dry exercise in which exams. As Christians, we’re we just read something for a supposed to be intrinsically given period of time. Worse, motivated to study out of love it’s not supposed to be apfor God, for the truth, and proached as if we were giving for those whom we will help blood. When we learn the through what we learn. Study faith, we’re supposed to be on is more than just reading: fire, the way the most arit’s aimed not just at being dent fan of a sports team, or taught but trained and transauthor, or band looks forward formed, at being “formed” to going to a game, or readand not just “informed.” ing the next book, or attendThere’s a two-fold applicaing a concert. tion to this importance of The opposite of zeal is study. laziness. We’re not faithThe first is with regard to ful disciples of the Master if our work. God doesn’t want we’re doodling through life, us to be mediocre students, blowing off serious study, and teachers, parents, managers, wasting the gifts He’s given employees, nurses, lawyers, or us to serve Him and help priests. Our work is not only

a means for our sanctification through doing it well for God but also a path by which we can be salt, light and leaven.

We will have far greater influence if through study, diligence and integrity we rise to the top of our profession than if we’re unexceptional or below average.

The second is with regard to our knowledge of the faith. Since our faith concerns the things that matter most, we ought to know our faith better than we know everything else. Far too many Catholics, however, have remained at an elementary understanding of the faith, inadequate to the many challenges the modern world poses to faith. They barely know the Bible, have a limited understanding of the Sacraments, have never studied an adult catechism, and never read papal documents applying the truths of faith to modern issues. Not only does this lack of zealous study leave them vulnerable to doubts and drifting, but it hampers their ability to defend and spread the faith.

In today’s culture, Christians need to know how to give reasons for the hope within them (1 Pet 3:15) against secularists who think religious faith is evil and who are trying to suppress our freedom to exercise it; against challenges from the

new brave world of bioethics; against criticisms from those influenced by the distorted love of the sexual revolution or whose hearts have been seduced by the false gods worshipped in materialism, consumerism, individualism, emotivism, and radical feminism. Christians also need to know how to carry out the New Evangelization: how to propose the real “yes” of the faith to those persons and cultures who have perhaps been baptized but who have never been captured by the faith’s beauty.

It’s an enormous task and our minds are finite. We’re never going to know everything we need. The Holy Spirit is present to help us, just like He helped the first Apostles, who certainly didn’t have PhDs. But it all begins with a hunger to learn and making the time and studious effort to learn things profoundly and well.

The Holy Spirit — with His gifts of wisdom, knowledge, understanding, prudence, and courage — wants to help us all to become zealous disciples of the Master, learning and living off every Word. He also stands ready to assist us through our work and apostolate to draw others to discover that same Teacher and join us in His joyfilled, life-saving, never-ending classroom.

Anchor columnist Father Landry can be contacted at fatherlandry@ catholicpreaching.com.

And being a parent of the Savior? I can’t even respond to that one.

What prompted me to pursue this topic was a phenomenon that occurred a few weeks back on June 30.

For the first time in 2,000 years the planets Jupiter and Venus lined up to form a “super star” if you will. It’s believed that this celestial formation was the same one that created the Star of Bethlehem announcing the birth of the Baby Jesus in Nazareth — the star the Magi followed to find the Christ Child and pay Him and His parents homage.

I knew this rare, once-ina-lifetime vision was going to happen. The skies were clear

that night, so it was the perfect opportunity to see what few have ever seen.

I forgot and fell asleep. It was press day, and I’m usually pretty tired on Tuesday evenings, but I slept through a sighting of the Star of Bethlehem! I missed something that last occurred two millennia ago!

Can you imagine if I were one of the Magi? Today’s Bible narrative of the Nativity would have told of the Two Wise Men, and the gift of myrrh would have to have arrived late, delivered by the third not-so-wise man, who didn’t have a star to follow because he slept in.

Yep, thankfully God has everything under control.

But I still wonder what plans of His I’m messing up. davejolivet@anchornews.org.

The Two Wise Men, and one not-so-much

As far as my being Noah, of which we still experience the biggest thing I ever built today. was a Lincoln Log cabin, and “Where’s he going with that didn’t turn out so well. this?” you’re probably wonAnd bringing two of each dering. “Since when have I taken a conventional route to get my point across?” is my response.

I bring up these scenarios because I often wonder why God put me on this

By Dave Jolivet big blue marble. Everyone has a purpose and a mission. I’m still animal aboard the ark? Igor trying to figure out mine. tells me what to do at home, But I do know why the so it would have been a zoo Good Lord didn’t choose me aboard the ark, in more ways to be any of the great Biblical than one. characters.

Leading people out of the Had I been Adam, I would have messed up right from the desert? I can’t stand heat, so I would have been swimming in start. Snakes freak me out, so the Red Sea instead of partGod knows what would have ing it. happened in Eden.

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n June, I was attending an enrichment day for diocesan leadership on the topic of Spirituality and ministry. The presenter for the day made this observation: “There is a difference between a trip and a journey.

A trip is planned and designed to go from one place to another with the necessary clothes, items, etc., that are packed to meet our expected needs. A journey begins when you lose the luggage!”

This is the insight that Jesus is sharing with His disciples. If you want to go on a real journey, get rid of the baggage. It might be of value or even necessary for your own version of how to follow God’s dream, but it won’t get you very far if you want to follow Jesus into the Kingdom. In fact, it may very well be an obstacle.

I have often wondered how the Twelve so quickly and easily left their families,

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Trip or Spiritual journey?

work, and security to follow getics, or strategies to do so. a Man with such a radical You can just move forward new way of seeing the world. with the confidence that the After all, this was a Prophet Christ you have experienced Who had been thrown out of is reliable and makes His His own hometown. dream possible through you What convinced them was and the people you touch. seeing a Man Who could touch people, heal them, and set Homily of the Week them free. He had Fifteenth Sunday authority over those in Ordinary Time demons and unclean spirits that possessed

By Deacon and trapped people Bruce J. Bonneau inside of their own broken situations. He touches people in the Ultimately, what attracts places of their disease and people to Jesus and His vulnerability. He frees them disciples is that He heals from their impossible situathem and sets them free. In a tions, which might be one of modern, post-enlightenment, the best possible descriptions and sophisticated world we of sin. don’t use language like posThis week’s Gospel tells us session or demons; yet we that once you meet and exhave expressions like “facing perience Jesus’ power “hands our demons” or the “diseases on” you are able to give up of addictions,” which have your baggage. It doesn’t take powers beyond our control. If a lot of time, theology, apolobeing possessed is something

which is unhealthy and takes over our lives; the places and times when we are held captive by our own agendas, systems, and ways of thinking that are self-destructive, then there are many who are possessed. In our own American culture, this is best illustrated when we become aware of the fact that our possessions have come to own us, not that we own possessions. What Jesus shows is the only cure for demonic possession is to “repossess” people with the power of grace.

Pope Francis, in his apostolic exhortation, “The Joy of the Gospel,” writes, “We act as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met.” What he refers to as “a thousand conditions” might well be what Jesus means when He talks about unclean spirits; conditions that prom-

ise everything, but which accomplish very little when it comes to true happiness.

Pope Francis goes on to say, “The most beautiful and natural expressions of pure joy, which I have seen in my life, were in poor people who had little to hold on to.” In other words, leave the conditions and the baggage behind.

Like the disciples, we too are people who have authority to heal others, while at the same time, need to be touched and healed as well.

Either way, we are not on a trip, but a journey and an adventure that leads to joy from an encounter with Christ and the less taken, the better.

Deacon Bonneau is the assistant director of Adult Evangelization and Spirituality in the diocesan Faith Formation Office and ministers at St. Mary’s Parish in Fairhaven.

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat. July 11, Gn 49:29-32,50:15-26a; Ps 105:1-4,6-7; Mt 10:24-33. Sun. July 12, Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Am 7:12-15; Ps 85:9-14; Eph 1:3-14 or 1:3-10; Mk 6:7-13. Mon. July 13, Ex 1:8-14,22; Ps 124:1-8; Mt 10:34–11:1. Tues. July 14, Ex 2:1-15a; Ps 69:3,14,3031,33-34; Mt 11:20-24. Wed. July 15, Ex 3:1-6,9-12; Ps 103:1b-4,6-7; Mt 11:25-27. Thurs. July 16, Ex 3:13-20; Ps 105:1,5,8-9,24-27; Mt 11:28-30. Fri. July 17, Ex 11:10–12:14; Ps 116:12-13,15,16bc,17-18; Mt 12:1-8.

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or the past two weeks the phrase “amazing grace” has reverberated through my consciousness.

I heard the refrain during a litany of news reports about the horrific shootings in Charleston, S.C. I listened as our president sung those words at the conclusion of his remarks honoring the Reverend Clement Pinckney at his recent funeral, and was reminded again of those words this past Friday when we closed the books on the final results for the 2015 Catholic Charities Appeal with a remarkable outpouring of generosity.

More personally, I am reminded of those words each night when I return home to greet a remarkable 12-yearold who is on the cusp of adolescence and embodies an extraordinary degree of character that befits her given name and provides me with a daily dose of gratitude for having given her that name and valuing its meaning.

I fell in love with the word grace because of a Jesuit priest I met in Philadelphia

Amazing grace tive grace that comes from in 1978. He impressed upon the thousands of gifts that me the extraordinary power of the concept of grace. It is a flow through my office on construct that requires one to behalf of the Catholic Charities Appeal and our scholarallow for the possibility that we can be gifted from beyond ship program. Next week we will launch a name change our control, if we remain open to messages that require for that program. What has been the St. Mary’s Educaus to delve deep for meaning and purpose. We must search throughout each day for the clues that God gives us to find meaning, significance and

By James A. beauty in our lives.

Campbell Sometimes this is easy to discover. Who would not be moved by the families of the tion Fund will be renamed victims in Charleston when officially as The Foundation they offered forgiveness to to Advance Catholic Educathe assassin of their loved tion or FACE. This has been ones? That is grace in the undertaken to clarify the misextreme. sion and instill a renewed foThe president’s decision to cus on helping our schools to sing the hymn was a galvanizing moment. It brought people thrive. I am so grateful to the to their feet in a mix of revelry, volunteer directors who have served St. Mary’s for many mourning and celebration of years and for the new board a good man taken by hate but that will carry forward the uplifted through grace.

I consider myself very for- mandate to make our schools tunate that part of my work is the best they can be. Their efforts and their advocacy are a to give witness to the collec-

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true grace within our midst.

Due to the extraordinary efforts of so many of pastors and parish staffs, the Catholic Charities Appeal has set a new record of more than $4.5 million dollars. This will provide more than $300,000 in additional funds for the diocese to address poverty, homelessness and the Spiritual needs of thousands throughout Southeastern Massachusetts. I speak on a regular basis with pastors who work diligently to inspire their faithful to share some of their resources in this annual effort. I have the privilege to talk with hundreds of donors and I usually ask them about their reasons for giving. Invariably the answers revolve around a sense of responsibility to care, a desire to help and an appreciation that through giving, they are “paying forward” for some of the graces in their life.

I could not conclude an essay on grace without a personal aside to my daughter.

Her mother and I chose her name because of our extreme joy about her birth. She has three much older brothers who were teen-agers when she came along. She embodies the word in her actions and her viewpoints. She is caring for others, joyful and boundless in her enthusiasm for her friends and family and as with any child, a gift from God to us.

So, to the people of Charleston, thank you for your example of grace. To the women and men of FACE, thank you for your leadership and love for our schools. To the pastors who have led our efforts to help the poor, may your work be recognized for the grace it is. To the thousands of donors who make the personal decision each year to contribute to a collective grace, thank you. And to a certain 12-year-old, thanks for living out your name.

Grace, it’s amazing.

Anchor columnist James Campbell is director of the diocesan Development Off ice/ Catholic Charities Appeal/ The Foundation to Advance Catholic Education.

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Sunday 5 July 2015 — Homeport: Falmouth Harbor — Cape Verde Independence Day (40th anniversary) oday the other shoe drops. Summer visitors are here in full force. My task is to provide pastorally for the increased numbers of faithful Catholics in town. This involves getting a grasp on how many souls there are and what the parish is able to provide for their pastoral care.

In 30 years, things have changed. We priests on Cape Cod were once able to rely on many retired and vacationing priests who were willing and able to help with Masses. Not anymore.

It was common to have two or three resident priests in any given parish. Not anymore.

Thirty years ago we had more churches, missions, and chapels to accommodate the crowds.

Not anymore. Parishes have closed or merged. Parishes have been downscaled to missions and missions have been downscaled to seasonal chapels. The crowds seeking Mass, however, have only increased.

For some time, Mass attendance has been regularly monitored throughout the diocese. Here on Cape Cod, we have two “headcounts” every

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his weekend’s Gospel will feature Jesus sending out the disciples two-by-two (Mk 6: 7-13). Earlier in the week the Gospel reading was Jesus’ words: “Do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you” (Mt 10: 19-20). The first image that came to my mind combining these two readings was someone speaking authoritatively to a large crowd. I smiled as this picture was immediately updated with images of immense audiences instantaneously reached by various social media.

I finally rejected those images as the words of Dominican priest Father Pierre E. LaChance came to mind. He said, “Always remember, you evangelize one person at a time.”

The fine print, so to speak, of Jesus’ directions to those disciples was that they were to remain with one family for the entire visit. There was to be substantial interaction and time being together in the presence of God.

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year. The each counting lasts one at the chapel during the summer months. The council and I full month. looked at today’s reality.

I was especially surprised One fact is that the church by the “off-season” headcount has a capacity for almost 700 here at St. Patrick Church. It worshippers. Another fact is that indicates that weekend Mass attendance has increased by 151 we have never had a total of 700 percent over a three-year period. worshipers at daily Masses. A third fact is that although we Praise God! still have two priests assigned The Parish Pastoral Council and I spent many hours considering the situation. What a gift The Ship’s Log the parish council has Reflections of a been to me. They get it.

Parish Priest All I had to do was to provide them with the

By Father Tim facts and suggest posGoldrick sible future scenarios.

We went with the model of having one here, that situation cannot last pastor with one other priest much longer. available (either in residence in Even with two assigned the rectory or living indepenpriests, we are actually here dently). In the end, although together only one day during the the ultimate decision was mine, week and on weekends. all members of the council were Given the facts, in the end, unanimous. You have no idea we went to one parish Mass, how much I appreciated this Monday through Saturday. Our support. weekday Mass is the earliest in There was the matter of town. Our Saturday morning weekday Masses. Thirty years Mass is the only one in town. ago, we had two weekday Having one daily Mass (as Masses in the church and, durdoes the overwhelming majority ing the summer months, a third of the other parishes in the diodaily Mass at our chapel. None of the Masses were even a quar- cese), we had the added benefit of more time and space for our ter filled. Then we went to two many weddings and funerals. daily Masses, the second being

What about the chapel, now that the daily Mass was in the main church? People have been gathering daily at the chapel for prayer for generations. Being on the harbor, it’s a lovely place to assemble for prayer on a summer morning.

The pastoral council came up with a solution I thought was brilliant. Let the daily Liturgy at the chapel not be a Eucharistic Liturgy but rather the Church’s other major Liturgy — the Liturgy of the Hours. Morning Prayer can be appropriately led by one of our deacons, or by a qualified layperson. No priest is required.

But wait, there’s more. The former St. Joseph’s Parish in Woods Hole, before it became a summer chapel of North Falmouth, had been a place of daily Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

Unfortunately, the welcoming parish was unable to provide this. People missed Adoration and Benediction.

We are now willing and able to have during the summer not only Morning Prayer, but also Adoration and Benediction twice a week (led by one of our deacons).

As for weekend Masses, we mostly looked at the attendance numbers. After careful and prayerful consideration, we let go of two Masses, thus going from eight weekend Masses to six. We decided to keep the Sunday Mass at 7 a.m. because it’s the earliest in town. It’s a convenience for the people of Falmouth.

We decided to open the chapel for weekend Masses in July and August rather than from May through October. The overflow crowds are in July and August, otherwise the church is able to accommodate the worshipers.

We also published a flier listing the summer worship schedule for all three Falmouth parishes on one handy sheet of paper. Neighboring parishes must not see themselves to be in competition, but rather serve pastoral needs collaboratively.

Everyone (including me) was disappointed at the necessity to cut back, but it was long expected and people were very understanding. And so we continue to be able to meet the Spiritual needs of the people with the clergy and facilities we have.

The Lord provides.

Anchor columnist Father Tim Goldrick is pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Falmouth.

an opportunity for me to observe Those important characteristics and learn. Her calm “what brings broaden our understanding of you here today?” accompanied by people and situations where her welcoming smile allowed any today we each are called to allow hurt child to immediately open the Father to speak through our up and share his/her trouble. words and/or actions. That personal interaction to bring Jesus to Whether the remedy was a Band-Aid, Kleenex, an ice pack, another is called the Ministry of Presence. Qualities such as being open, accepting, respecting, and sharing Wrestling with God are important in this. This Holding on for Ministry of Presence is His blessing an important one for lay people. It is essentially sharing by word and exBy Dr. Helen J. Flavin ample the love of God. With that underor a brief chat, her words of standing, I now had a strikingly different image of someone encouragement and bright smile assured each child he/she had present to the world who truly been heard and that things would remains open to the promptsoon be better. Her ability to difings of the Holy Spirit and who evangelizes one person at a time. fuse angry parents and calmly get them to refocus their energy on One example I found from my addressing the issue with which life experiences is a colleague their child was struggling has who works in the office at our aided many a child and educator. elementary/middle school. I Though all the ramifications was a new teacher at the school and differences such actions so this year I spent a significant make in the life of another are amount of time in the office truly known only to God, there finding my way. Each time a child or parent would visit, it was are instances where the ripples of

change due to one small kindness are still happening hundreds of years later.

One example of this is Veronica wiping the face of Christ during His Passion. In 2006 Pope Benedict XVI visited the Veil of Veronica (http://www. catholicnewsagency. com/news/pope_visits_ veronicas_veil_tells_ crowd_to_search_for_ the_face_of_christ_in_ their_lives/). “The Way of The Cross for Young Christians” by Reverend William J. McLaughlin provides a moving image for a follower of Jesus open to promptings of the Holy Spirit.

His prayer for children states, “O God, teach me to give a little of myself to someone who needs me. Teach me to go out of my way to help even when I’m not asked. It takes a lot of strength to be like Veronica — to offer help when you will be laughed at by the others in the crowd. But help me to be like her — that is what it means to be a Christian.”

My colleague from school has walked with the Holy Spirit for

so long that her extraordinary gift of presence for others just seems to her to be simply the way to live.

Where and how do the rest of us make a start with this? Amazingly it seems it is as simple as handing something over to the Holy Spirit and awaiting the answer.

Many years ago I was a volunteer with teen-agers. My readings that week said to turn things over to the Lord. God sent a challenge my way as one day I had no answer for a child. I told God that this one was His. Immediately, I had an answer. The part that amazed me was the fact that although I later did much research, utilizing all the intellectual gifts God had given me, I did not find anything to add to that initial answer. The second I had asked, the Holy Spirit had whispered the truth to my heart.

Have you ever known the peace of being given the idea for what to say or do? If so, continue that walk. If not, perhaps this week is time to begin your walk with the Holy Spirit.

Anchor columnist Helen Flavin is a Catholic scientist, educator and writer. biochemwz@hotmail.com.

Wiping the Face of Christ

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July 10, 2015

All lives matter to local marchers

By Christine M. Williams Anchor Correspondent

BOSTON — Rain, sometimes called the water of life, soaked the feet of those recently marching for the unborn in Boston. Hundreds turned out for the March for Life, organized by Massachusetts Citizens for Life, despite the rain and forecast of possible thunderstorms. The rain may have lessened the crowd but could not dampen its spirit.

“It’s raining; that’s horrible, but it kinda shows how important it is to be here,” said Caterina Franks, a young ProLife advocate and daughter of MCFL’s chairman of the board, J. David Franks.

She said that she understood the importance of defending the unborn when she first learned about abortion.

“We have to defend the defenseless,” she said. “They can’t defend themselves. They can’t save themselves from being killed.”

Father Matt Williams, director of the Archdiocese of Boston’s Faith Formation of Youth and Young Adults Office, led the opening prayer and offered up the inconvenience of marching in the rain to God for the conversion of hearts and lives spared from abortion.

“For every raindrop that we receive today, may a heart be converted for the Gospel of Life,” he prayed. “We pray that God’s mercy would be poured forth. God’s mercy is like an ocean.”

Later, Father Williams gave the crowd their “marching orders” — a set of prayers, chants and songs to be recited during the march. This and other changes were implemented this year to give the event a greater emphasis to Pro-Life witness, much like the March for Life in Washington D.C. In past years, the Boston march was termed the Walk to Aid Mothers and Children. An important aspect of the event continues to be raising money for crisis pregnancy centers and other Pro-Life organizations.

Another change this year was in the route taken by marchers. The new route took them directly past the Statehouse and gave them the opportunity to pause and pray for political leaders.

When Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley, OFM. Cap., of Boston spoke, he urged people to pray for their legislators and to pray for women considering abortion.

“We know that we will save babies only by saving

the mothers by making them feel loved and cared for rather than judged and dismissed.

While we must never abandon the struggle to change the unjust laws imposed on us by an activist court, we must never cease to try to change people’s hearts. That will only happen by caring about the very ones we disagree with,” he said, adding that people of faith should be the “compassionate face of God.” Cori Connor-Morse, a Pro-Life speaker and postabortive woman, said that the compassion of Pro-Lifers helped her come to terms with the death of her unborn child.

She thanked them for marching, donating and contacting their legislators on behalf of Pro-Life causes.

“You have prayed for me when I despaired,” she said. “I cannot thank you enough.”

Several speakers who addressed the crowd at the pre-march rally, held at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common, referenced the recent United States Supreme Court ruling that struck down state laws defining Marriage as the union of one man and one woman. They compared the case to Roe v. Wade, another controversial 5-4 decision that many predicted would settle the issue it addressed.

State Rep. Jim Lyons of Andover said, “It is no coincidence today that we are holding this event with cloudy skies because, as everybody knows, this was a difficult week for those in the profamily, Pro-Life movement.”

He added that the Supreme Court was wrong about abor-

tion in Roe v. Wade and is wrong about same-sex marriage now.

He spoke directly to the young people in the crowd, urging them to fight for Christian values and never, ever give up. “We are on the side of truth. We are on the side of God, and we need you to carry that fight.”

Danielle Olsen, member of the MCFL march committee,

said that it is obvious that the country is growing more hostile toward Christian values.

She added, “The more hostile this environment gets, the more courageous we have the opportunity to be because Jesus told us that the light would not be overcome by the darkness, and we are to be the light in this state so that we can be light for this country so that we can be light for the world.”

Despite rainy, windy conditions in Boston, the recent Mass. Citizens for Life’s March for Life went on as planned. Many diocesan pilgrims made the journey, including Marian Desrosiers, director of the diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate and Project Rachel, right, and Pro-Life mainstay, Maddy Lavoie, left, who manned the Diocese of Fall River booth at the Boston Common.

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July 10, 2015

Young Vietnamese nuns thrive at local convent American Embassy in Vietnam.

“Only so many can come to NORTH EASTON — Twelve Poor Sisters of Jesus America,” said Sister Valliere.

Crucified reside at their moth- “They must prove that someerhouse with six young Viet- body is supporting them.”

In their native country, the namese Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, who fill the Convent nuns work hard planting rice of the Sorrowful Mother with and vegetables, sewing and selling clothing, and teachprayers, laughter and song.

“They love to sing,” said Sis- ing kindergarten. The governter Mary Valliere, general supe- ment does not allow them to rior of the Passionist communi- teach higher grades. Catholic ty; and the young Dominicans children learn about their faith from their families and attend giggled.

For the past five years, aspir- parish catechism classes in the ing Stonehill College students villages.

The Vietnamese nuns shared from Vietnam have been tutored in the English language stories about how they were by the Passionist nuns at the called to religious life.

Sister Quyen Thi Ta, 30, convent. traces her vocation back to the Originally, there were two day when some nuns brought Vietnamese Sisters studying at Stonehill when Father Bau, a medicine to her family and Jesuit priest, began looking for asked her if she wanted to become a Sister. a place for them to stay.

“I was very young, about “We were the closest convent that could house them,” said six or seven years old, and I Sister Valliere of the Brockton just smiled,” she said. “But my mother told me to answer them. community.

A second set of Sisters So I told them: ‘Yes, I want to would follow, spending the next become a nun.’”

“I like this country’s freedom two years with their Passionist teachers, and ultimately attend- about religion and the lives the Sisters live,” she added. “The ing Stonehill.

“This new group will also Sisters are generous with us.”

Sister Thoa Thi Phan, 29, will live with us for two years, learntake her final vows next year. ing English, then moving on to “My father encouraged me,” different Catholic colleges that will offer scholarships to them,” she said. “He wanted me to beexplained Sister Valliere. “Fa- come a Sister.”

But she wasn’t sure about her ther Bau hopes that when this group is ready to move on to vocation until a nun at her parthe college level, some of them ish helped her understand their will receive scholarships to way of life.

“Then I wanted to follow my Stonehill.” father’s wishes,” she added.

Since most of the Passionist Sister Thuy Thi Thu Tran, Sisters are retired teachers, they felt the ministry was a good fit 32, received her calling in high and a wonderful opportunity to school.

“When I was looking back help the Universal Church.

“They are still under Com- at my life, I felt I was a lucky munist rule and cannot practice person,” she said. “I wanted to their faith openly in Vietnam,” become a nun. God helped me said Sister Valliere. “Hopefully, in my life, and I wanted to give we will help to broaden their back to God.” One of her siblings also enminds, and they can help their own Sisters. The previous group tered religious life and serves as didn’t even know what Vatican a Dominican at another convent.

II was.”

One of nine children, Lanh But the younger Sisters also Thi Hoang, 33, said that she have been a blessing to them, thought long and hard about according to the general supelife in the convent versus marrior.

“They bring youth, and I ried life and made the right dethink we see what we were like cision.

“I love God and wanted to when we were young and why we entered the convent,” she give my life to Him,” she said.

A sickly child in a family of said. “Their Spirit touches our seven children, Ngoc Thi Doan, hearts, and reflected in these 30, grew up destitute and hunSisters is the zeal we came into gry. She met some Sisters at her the convent with.”

The nuns from Bui Chu Di- parish and asked her mother ocese were interviewed at the if she could become a nun like

By Linda Andrade Rodrigues Anchor Correspondent

them.

“My family was very poor,” she said (her eyes filling with tears). “Because I was sick, my mother didn’t want me to go to the convent.”

But then her mother changed her mind.

“If God was calling me to follow Him, then God would help me,” she said, smiling.

Sister Yen Thitlai Pham, 32, said that she received a lot of blessings from God through her family.

“I wanted to become a holy nun, but I am still a human being. I will need a lot of prayers to become a holy nun,” she said, laughing.

At the Brockton convent, the Vietnamese nuns rise early to pray and meditate, say the Divine Hours and attend Mass.

English classes begin after breakfast.

“They would like some free time in the afternoon to sleep, but they found out that in America we don’t nap,” said Sister Valliere. “They volunteer at the nursing home in the afternoon. In the evening we get together for prayer. They have a

Six Vietnamese Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena surround Sister Mary Valliere, general superior of the Poor Sisters of Jesus Crucified, in the chapel of the Convent of the Sorrowful Mother. (Photo

by Linda Andrade Rodrigues)

little leisure time after supper.

They like to listen to music and go swimming. We have a pool on the grounds.”

While her charges travelled around the world to get here, Sister Valliere is deeply rooted in New England soil. A Brockton native, she was raised a mile down the road from the convent and attended Catholic schools.

“When I entered high school, I got to know the Sis-

ters and saw them at work; and I wanted to serve God’s people.

But my reason for staying in the convent changed through the years. It was because I wanted to give my life totally to God.” The Poor Sisters of Jesus Crucified and the Sorrowful Mother welcome Catholic women between the ages of 20-55 of diverse cultures and life experiences. For more information, visit their website at www.cjcbrockton.org.

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July 10, 2015

Pakistani Christians attacked; Lebanese Christians unite

LAHORE, PAKISTAN (CNA & CNS) — Attacks on Christians continued in the Middle East over the past week, while Christians meeting in Lebanon met to discuss the root causes.

Pakistani police last week saved a Christian couple from a mob that attempted to kill them for allegedly committing blasphemy, the latest such violent incident in the country.

“Muslims of the town gathered there and dragged the poor couple who didn’t know what they had done. They were being beaten to death,” local police chief Sohail Zafar Chattha said, according to Agence France Presse.

The attack took place in the village of Makki in Punjab province. The couple, who are both illiterate, used as a sleeping mat an advertisement awning that bore college slogans. These slogans allegedly included Arabic inscriptions from the Quran. A local barber and two clerics accused the couple of committing blasphemy, and a mob gathered in an attempt to lynch them.

After the couple was rescued from the mob, the two were moved to Lahore and placed with a Christian community. One of the Moslem clerics has been arrested. Some residents told police that the barber may have been interested in acquiring the accused couple’s house, Agence France Presse reports.

Human rights lawyer Nadeem Anthony praised the police intervention, saying continued enforcement would discourage “the elements who take the law into their own hands.”

The Legal Evangelical Association Department, an interdenominational Pakistan-based Christian human rights NGO, described Pakistan’s anti-blasphemy laws as “continually misused” against “the poor and defenseless Christians of Pakistan.”

Blasphemy accusations have prompted several other violent incidents. More than 100 people have been charged for the November 2014 murders of a Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan, a city nearly 40 miles southwest of Lahore. The couple was accused of desecrating the Quran and angry villagers detained them at the brick kiln where they worked. The villagers reportedly told them to convert to Islam to make amends for their alleged crime. The couple was killed and their burned bodies were discovered in the kiln. Reports differed over whether they had been burned alive.

In Lahore in May a mob attempted to attack a young mentally-ill Christian man following

claims he burned newspapers with pages containing verses of the Koran. Police protected him, but the mob then attacked Christian homes and places of worship, including a church.

The Pakistani blasphemy laws are said to be often used to settle scores or to persecute religious minorities; while non-Muslims constitute only three percent of the Pakistani population, 14 percent of blasphemy cases have been levied against them. Many of those accused of blasphemy are murdered, and advocates of changing the law are also targeted by violence.

In 2011 the Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, a Muslim critic of the blasphemy laws, was assassinated. Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic and the only Christian in Pakistan’s cabinet, was also assassinated the same year by militant supporters of the blasphemy laws.

Meanwhile, in Lebanon Cardinal Bechara Rai denounced the “immorality of international politics,” which he said provides the opportunity for terrorist groups to reproduce the genocide committed in the last century against the Christian minorities of the Ottoman Empire.

Speaking at a recent “Faith and Martyrdom” conference at Holy Spirit University in Kaslik, Lebanon, Cardinal Rai, patriarch of Maronite Catholics, referred to the “fundamentalist-terrorist organizations” currently operating as “instruments in the hands of great powers who provide weapons and money for political, economic and strategic” gain.

The conference, spearheaded by the Syriac Catholic and Orthodox patriarchates, focused on the parallels of the 1915 genocide — which affected hundreds of thousands of Armenians, Syriacs, Chaldeans and Assyrians — and the ongoing conflict in the region today, particularly in Syria.

“What happened in 1915 is not a simple persecution, but genocide in the fullest sense,” stressed Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of Antioch. “Here we are, a hundred years later, we remember, in the hope that this time memory contains a lesson,” Patriarch Aphrem said.

“We believe that forgiveness is the way of peace. But forgiving does not mean forgetting.

This is why we ask our brothers in Turkey to recognize this heinous crime to allow us to link ourselves to them by the bonds of love and cordiality.” If such a recognition had occurred, then perhaps there would not be “the genocide being committed today,” he added.

Emilia Clarke and Arnold Schwarzenegger star in a scene from the movie “Terminator: Genisys.” For a brief review of this film, see CNS Movie Capsules below. (CNS photo/Paramount)

CNS Movie Capsules NEW YORK (CNS) — The following are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by Catholic News Service.

“Magic Mike XXL” (Warner Bros.)

Life is skin-deep in this preposterous male-stripper sequel in which the titular star (Channing Tatum) reunites with the Tampa-based trou-dropping group he once headlined, and together they hit the road for an annual convention of clothes shedders in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Director Gregory Jacobs pads out the boys’ lewd routines — one of which uses the trappings of a wedding ceremony to degrading effect — with vacuous reflections on the Zen of masculine burlesque.

A debased view of human sexuality, including implicit approval of an off-screen casual encounter, brief but nasty irreverence, drug use, frequent scenes of publicly simulated sex acts, some of them aberrant, rear male nudity, a couple of uses of profanity, pervasive rough and crude language. The Catholic News Service classification is O — morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R — restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

“Terminator: Genisys” (Paramount) Ruminations on the riddles of time travel fill the gaps between explosions as director Alan Taylor adds an easily forgotten chapter to the action franchise that began with 1984’s “The Terminator.” The Messiah-like figure ( Jason Clarke) at the head of humanity’s future struggle against a race of murderous machines is threatened by a cyborg (Byung-hun Lee) who has traveled into the past to eliminate the hero’s mother (Emilia Clarke) before she can give birth. So he dispatches his most trusted lieutenant ( Jai Courtney) to follow the assassin back in time and protect mom. To his confusion, though, the would-be bodyguard finds that his protege is already being shielded by another chronology-defying robot (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who

seems to be fighting on the wrong side. Though there’s mayhem aplenty, little blood is seen to flow, and the fact that time machine passengers must journey in the buff is also treated more as an occasion for smirking jokes than visual exploitation. Together with the relative absence of obscenity in the dialogue, this restrained approach may lead at least some parents to judge the film acceptable for mature teens. Pervasive action violence with minimal gore, several scenes of partial nudity, a few uses of profanity, at least one rough term, occasional crude and crass language. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III — adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 — parents strongly cautioned.

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

Diocese of Fall River TV Mass on WLNE Channel 6 Sunday, July 12 at 11:00 a.m.

Celebrant is Father James J. Doherty, C.S.C., pastor of St. Mary’s Parish in Taunton

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July 10, 2015

Want to put the pope’s encyclical into practice?

Protect religious freedom, archbishop says

Washington D.C. (CNA/ EWTN News) — Religious freedom is absolutely necessary to implement the teachings of Pope Francis’ recent encyclical Laudato Si’, said the U.S. bishops’ domestic justice spokesman recently.

The pope’s recent encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’, demands that Catholics “engage the world and witness to our teachings,” Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami said in a homily for the closing Mass of the Fortnight for Freedom. However, he added, this public action can only be accomplished with true religious freedom.

“Religious freedom is the human right that guarantees all other rights — peace and creative living together will only be possible if freedom of religion is fully respected,” the archbishop said.

Archbishop Wenski is the chair of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. He gave the homily at the Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. More than 1,000 people were estimated to be in attendance.

The Fortnight for Freedom is an initiative started by the U.S. bishops in 2012 to educate Catholics about the importance of religious liberty and to bring awareness to current threats to the practice of religion in the U.S. The first Fortnight was held amidst deep concerns about the state of religious freedom relating to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act. Other concerns since then have included small business owners being forced to serve same-sex weddings against their religious beliefs, adoption agencies having to close rather than place children with same-sex couples, and churches being prevented by states from ministering to undocumented immigrants.

More recently, the bishops expressed serious concerns about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Obergefell v.

Hodges that made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states.

The majority opinion in Obergefell did not guarantee sufficient protections for the religious liberty of persons and organizations who believe Marriage to be the union of one man and one woman, said Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore in a recent conference call with reporters following the decision. Archbishop Lori chairs the U.S. Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty.

The theme of the 2015 Fortnight for Freedom was “Freedom to Bear Witness.”

Archbishop Lori explained in his homily at the opening Mass for the Fortnight, that “we seek the freedom to bear witness to Christ’s love, not just in church but in our service to the wider community through works of justice and charity, education, social services, and health care.”

One of the key threats to religious freedom in Western countries is the privatization of religion, Archbishop Wenski

said in his homily for the closing Mass, because religion is inherently public in practice.

In Western countries, “we see the courts chipping away at the original understanding of religious freedom,” he said.

“In order to fit new political agendas, religious freedom is being reinterpreted narrowly to mean merely ‘freedom to worship’ but excluding the freedom to serve and the freedom to witness.”

This is already manifested in a “soft despotism,” he explained, where “ridicule, ostracism, and denial of employment opportunities of advancement are being used to marginalize us.”

“We see this when butchers, and bakers and candlestick makers are being put into the legal dock for refusing to renounce their religious beliefs,” he added.

For example, Christian owners of an Oregon bakery have been forced by the state to pay a lesbian couple $135,000 in damages for refusing to serve their same-sex wedding.

In addition, the owners were told not to publicly discuss their faith-based refusal to serve the wedding, as reported by the Daily Signal.

The recent encyclical Laudato Si’ gives Catholics a mandate to practice their faith publicly, Archbishop Wenski said, by promoting an “integral ecology” of care for the human person and for creation. Yet Catholics can only do this if their freedom to practice their religion publicly is

protected, he added.

“An integral ecology demands that rain forests be protected — because of what they do potentially and actually for the flourishing of the human species on this earth,” the archbishop explained of the recent encyclical.

“Likewise, an integral ecology tells us that Marriage, understood for millennia as a union of one man and one woman, ought to be respected and protected.”

If Catholic institutions that care for the environment and the human person are shut down because they cannot in good conscience comply with new laws and mandates, then Catholics cannot promote the common good of an “integral ecology.”

The Supreme Court’s recent redefinition of Marriage has threatened this human ecology, he said, and the “radical autonomy” promoted by this decision was condemned in Laudato Si’.

“Today, some hold for a radical autonomy by which truth is determined not by the nature of things but by one’s own individual will,” he said, stressing that the court’s redefinition of Marriage does not change the nature of Marriage no matter how much humans may desire to do so.

“As Pope Francis has written so eloquently in Laudato Si’, such thinking has also brought about the degradation of both our natural and our human or social ecologies,” he continued.

Like freedom of speech, religion is

expressed publicly and not just privately, Archbishop Wenski said.

Freedom of speech is expressed through public institutions like media outlets, political parties, and libraries, he said, and not only through one individual stating his opinion.

Similarly, religion is practiced publicly as well, not just through one’s personal beliefs but “those institutions that nourish the individual’s free exercise of religion,” he said. These institutions include not just churches but Catholic schools, hospitals, adoption agencies, and other charities and ministries.

Religious practice holds a proud tradition in the U.S., Archbishop Wenski added, especially when religious leaders marched at the forefront of the civil rights movement with Dr. Martin Luther King as they pushed for equal rights for black people.

“Some today resent the public advocacy of religious people and communities.

They accuse us of trying to impose our views on others,” Archbishop Wenski acknowledged.

“Yet, as St. John Paul II explained, the Church does not impose, she proposes.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his movement for racial justice could not impose their views on the American people. They understood this — and, for this reason, they opted for non-violence. But they made a proposition that touched the conscience of a nation.”

Alliances needed to fight global warming, poverty, say Vatican speakers

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Democracy must return to politics and unusual alliances must form in order to get the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle poverty, said a panel of speakers attending a Vatican conference.

But as people band together for change, world leaders will have to commit to real binding action at upcoming global summits on climate change and development because “there is zero tolerance for yet another failure being dressed up as a success for the cameras,” said Naomi Klein, a Canadian social activist, author and filmmaker, who was invited to speak at the Vatican.

The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, together with the international alliance of Catholic development agencies, CIDSE, presented the aims of a jointly sponsored meeting at a recent news conference.

Titled “People and Planet First: the Imperative to Change Course,” the recent meeting sought to offer alternatives to current economic models that damage creation by bringing together 200 active leaders in the Church, science and society for debate.

The gathering used Pope Francis’ recent encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” to guide reflection and a plan of action, the panel at the news conference said.

The papal document is “courageous,”

said Klein, because it challenges the “dominance-based world view” in an age that “lacks political courage.”

“We’re all used to politicians just backing down at the first sign of controversy,” but there will be controversy when there are such powerful interests supporting the status quo, said Klein, who has been outspoken against unregulated capitalism and worker exploitation.

Describing herself as a “secular Jewish feminist,” she said the encyclical deeply resonated with her, yet “it was a complete surprise” the Vatican invited her to speak at its gathering Seeking to engage activists and experts who agree with the Church on certain aspects of social justice, but not on other key life issues, the Vatican made “a particularly courageous decision to invite me here.”

“I think it indicates that the Holy See is not being intimidated and knows that when you say powerful truths, you make some powerful enemies,” she said.

Responding to concerns the Vatican would invite a speaker who opposed the Catholic Church in her support of artificial birth control, Klein said her speaking at a conference targeting poverty and climate change was “an alliance on a specific issue, not a merger.”

“When you are faced with a crisis of this magnitude,” concerning poverty and global warming, “people have to get out

of their comfort zones” to join forces, she said.

Bernd Nilles, secretary-general of CIDSE, said “we need to build these unusual alliances” in order to unite the broadest base around “one very important question to humankind.”

“We as Catholics alone, the Catholic Church, we cannot stop climate change, we cannot protect all people alone, we need to collaborate with all faiths, with all kinds of people who really want to make a difference,” he said.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the pontifical council, wrote in his introductory remarks that democracy needed to be re-established in today’s “political dimension” in order to let the people, rather than special interests, have “control over the economy and finance.”

His remarks, which were read aloud at the news conference since he was unable to attend, said the biggest obstacle to change was not a lack of economic, scientific or technological progress or knowhow, “but rather (something) within our minds and hearts.”

Klein said everyone, especially world leaders, should read the pope’s entire encyclical, not just summaries and “listicles.”

“Read it and let it into your hearts” because “today we have only two roads in front of us: difficult yet humane and easy yet reprehensible,” she said.

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cation. And although it is God Who decides which one you are called to, you still have to make the choice to follow His will, to give up one good thing and accept that what God has made you for is infinitely better.”

While he felt the tugging at his heart during his freshman year, Day continued that “wrestling” match with the Lord until just before his senior year, when he decided “to stop fooling around and get serious about discerning God’s Will.”

If the name Joseph Day sounds familiar it may be because The Anchor featured him in November of 2013 when a picture of him handing a new zucchetto (the skull cap worn by the Holy Father) to Pope Francis, who in turn re-gifted it back to Day went viral.

Even in that 2013 Anchor feature on Day, he never referenced a calling to the priesthood. He then told The Anchor, “I’m not sure about what I’ll do when I graduate from Providence College. I’m still trying to discern what the Lord is calling me to do, but I would like to pursue a graduate degree and possibly teach at either the high school or collegiate level.”

Day said while the time spent in Rome, part of a studyabroad program called “Providence College in Rome,” didn’t provide him with any certainty about a priestly calling, “It did deepen my love for Christ’s Church. I saw how old, how deep, how rooted in beautiful traditions the Church is while being at the same time alive and universal. This was exemplified by my experience of the Papal Mass for the end of the Year of Faith. For the Mass, Pope Francis brought out the bones

of St. Peter for public veneration for the first time ever. I saw the bones of the first pope held by his 266th successor while I stood with Europeans, North and South Americans, Asians, and Africans, peoples from all the corners of the world and the Church gathered together to worship our one Lord.”

It wasn’t until November of his senior year that Day sensed he was indeed being called by God to a priestly vocation. “I attended a vocations weekend at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.,” he told The Anchor. “While I was there I saw all that I loved about the Dominicans. When I returned, I prayed and pondered about the weekend and God’s Will. Even when I wasn’t praying about it, my thoughts would drift back to the House of Studies. I realized that I missed it, I missed living the Dominican life, I missed the Brothers. At last, I saw that my will had finally been conformed to God’s.

I finally wanted what I felt for so long that God wanted, for me to become a Dominican.”

Day began the process of applying to the Province of St. Joseph shortly after and received a phone call in April that he had been accepted.

Day explained that he had never met a Dominican Father or Brother before he attended PC, and knew practically nothing about them. “It was definitely part of God’s providential plan that I attend PC and have the opportunity to meet and get to know many friars,” he said. “I fell in love with their charism, their Spirituality, their way of life. Their dedication to study and the intellectual life, but not just for itself, but for the Salva-

This week in 50 years ago — The first graduation exercises were held at Holy Name Parish School in Fall River. Msgr. William H. Harrington, pastor, presided over the ceremonies.

25 years ago — Father Stephen B. Salvador, diocesan chaplain for Catholic Scouting and a member of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting, was honored with the Golden Ad Altare Dei Award, presented in recognition of service to youth through Catholic Scouting.

tion of souls appealed to me.”

He credits several professors and priests at the college for molding his intellect and Spirituality. “I was blessed to have wonderful professors during my four years at Providence College who helped me grow in knowledge and wisdom,” said Day. “Dr. Tony Esolen, who was my Western Civilization professor freshman year, first taught me how intellectually rich and beautiful our faith is and what a heritage of literature we have.

Dr. Richard Grace with whom I took five or six classes was also very influential, teaching me to love history and art. Along with many others, they helped foster a love of study and the pursuit of the truth.

“The Spiritual guidance of Father James Cuddy, O.P. (chaplain) and Father Justin Brophy, O.P. (associate chaplain) were invaluable. It was the example of these two and other Dominicans that first instilled in me a desire to become a friar and a priest. They showed me the beauty and sacrifice of the priestly and Dominican life.

They also helped guide me during my long and difficult discernment process.”

Day also credits the friends he made at PC; some he had for the full four years and others “God threw into my life at different stages along the way.” He said they all helped him and he enjoyed their company on the four-year ride. “As St. Thomas Aquinas says, ‘There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.’ At PC I made many true friendships.”

And of course, Day is grateful for the love and support of his family, his mom, dad and five siblings. “My mom is over-

Diocesan history

10 years ago — Stonehill College in North Easton hosted its first-ever Northeast Catholic Family Conference to provide families with the weapons necessary to combat the daily destructive forces they encounter.

One year ago — The Vatican announced that Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, N.J., would become the next Bishop of Fall River, taking over the reins from the retiring Bishop George W. Coleman.

Joseph Day, left, is shown handing a zucchetto to Pope Francis in this 2013 encounter. Day, a parishioner of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Seekonk, has recently entered the Dominican Order, the first step in his priestly calling. (CNS file photo)

joyed with my decision,” Day told The Anchor. “When I told her, she cried and told me she always knew I was going to be a priest. She has been very supportive and I know that her prayers will help sustain me during my novitiate.”

“None of us were surprised

by Joe’s announcement in December that he was joining the Dominicans, he had been discerning for several years,” said his mom Elizabeth. “We are all very happy and excited for him.

He found his true home at PC with the Dominicans.

“As a convert, personally, I am greatly humbled. I spent my early years floundering around looking for ‘it,’ that elusive ‘thing’ that would make me happy, then I met my husband Fred, who happened to be Catholic and was instrumental in helping me enter the Church, and the rest is history. God is amazing and does work in mysterious ways! I never thought I would be Catholic, homeschooling (all of the Day children were home-schooled), or a mother of six children.”

Day’s home parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Seekonk is equally proud and pleased with his decision.

“Our parish is thrilled with Joe’s vocation as well: he has a lot of support there where he served for years as an altarserver and has been asked many times to witness to Confirmation classes,” added his mother.

“Everyone at my parish has been very happy for me and very supportive,” said Day. “They’ve already put my name in our adoration chapel on a sign that says ‘Pray for our parish seminarians!’”

Day said he will be leaving for Cincinnati on July 25 where he will spend one year as a novice while continuing to discern God’s Will. On August 8 he will receive the habit of St. Dominic and his new religious name, and “God willing, next

August 15, I will profess simple vows as a Dominican,” he said.

“Then I will spend six years at the House of Studies in Washington, D.C., studying philosophy for two years and then theology for four.

“I definitely think it is a Godincidence and an immense blessing that I will begin my novitiate during the Year of the Consecrated Life, which is also the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Dominican Order. It is a beautiful and fitting time!”

Day’s discernment process is ongoing, but he encourages other young men and women to follow their hearts should they feel that “tugging.”

“You will never arrive at 100 percent certainty about your vocation,” he advised. “Do not fall into the cycle of perpetual discernment where you spend years ‘discerning’ but never take the next step. One of the best pieces of advice I received was when a Dominican told me, ‘Don’t deprive the Lord of the best years of your life.’ The decision is not an easy one.

“You must wrestle with it and pray about it much. But if that pull does not go away, then take the plunge, take the risk.

Trust God. If you are meant to be a priest or a religious God will reveal it to you more and more during your first year of postulancy or novitiate or seminary. And if you discern out, that time was not wasted, but a time to grow closer to God and to learn His Will.”

Just as Elizabeth Day was brought to tears when her oldest son had a close encounter with Pope Francis in 2013, she cried tears of joy at the announcement of his decision to join the Dominican order.

“Joe has a great love for the Lord and will do great things, she said. “He is very personable, what you see is what you get, i.e. genuine, compassionate, here to serve.”

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“I don’t remember anything about Japan, because we moved when I was three to Alaska,” Schrader said. “That’s where I went to kindergarten and preschool. And then we moved to Alabama for one year.”

For a child who rarely had time to get too comfortable in any given school, that year in Alabama stood out because it was the first time Deacon Schrader was exposed to a Catholic education.

“I always went to public school or to the American schools that were on the military bases,” he explained. “But in Alabama there was a Catholic school that was affordable and so my dad decided to send me. As I reflect on my own calling and discernment of God’s Will, I think that year was really important.”

Although he only attended first grade at Our Lady Queen of Mercy School, it was a pivotal time during which he learned all his prayers and was introduced to many tenets of the faith.

“I think it really did form me in a way that would not have been possible anywhere else, or in any school that was not Catholic,” he said. “Just having that daily life of prayer and learning how to be faithful, learning about God at a young age, is important. So I’m very thankful for that one year in Alabama.”

From Alabama, the Schrader Family — consisting of Jack, his younger sister Anna, younger brother Samuel, his father Steven and mother Diane — moved to northern Virginia for three years; then to northern Italy for three years; then back to Virginia for three years; and then back to Italy again for another two years, during which time Deacon Schrader attended Aviano High School, a school run by the U.S. Department of Defense on the Air Force Base in Aviano, Italy.

That’s where Deacon Schrader met Father Dennis Hanley, the military chaplain serving on the base who would become instrumental in his discernment.

“He was the first to ever flat-out ask me if I had ever considered the priesthood,” Deacon Schrader said. “I had never considered being a priest because I had never known a priest person-

lowing day, July 12 at 3 p.m.

“I’ll be looking forward to celebrating with my pastor, Father George Harally. But the community at the military rison, and the new parochial vicar there, base was small enough where the priest Father Riley Williams, who is also a could get to know everyone, and so he great friend,” Deacon Schrader said. knew me well enough to, at first, tease “So far, 20 priests have responded to my me and jokingly suggest the priesthood invitation to concelebrate as well. I have to me, which was quite a strategy. It was a couple of classmates coming from the not intimidating, but it helped to plant seminary in Rome, some friends from the seed.” college, too.”

About a year later, Deacon Schrader Since Deacon Schrader will be rehad an opportunity to attend World turning to Rome to complete his studYouth Day in Germany where he met ies in the fall, he won’t have an immediseveral seminarians, which got him to ate assignment within the diocese. But think a bit more seriously about Father he’ll be spending the rest of the summer Hanley’s casual comments. visiting several parishes.

“I approached Father Hanley and “I’ll be living with Father Harsaid: ‘Hey, can we talk about this?’ All rison at Corpus Christi Parish and of a sudden he became very serious in I’ll be visiting a different church evhis office, after having known me for a ery weekend around the diocese to preach and to promote vocations,” he he great thing about an ordination is the one who is going said. “Some of the priests who have to be ordained in some ways just has to show up,” he added. studied in Rome have done some“What happens on that day is not the result of an examination, it’s not thing similar — I think Father Ron Floyd did that when he was ordained a test, it’s a matter of being present before God and the Church and and had to go back to Rome. Since saying ‘yes’ and receiving the Sacrament from the bishop.” it’s not possible to give you a permanent assignment, the idea is to share the new priest with the diocese and while and joking around with me, he challenge and experience, learning the- hopefully inspire some young people started talking seriously to me about ology from priests, religious Sisters, and to foster vocations. the priesthood and the gravity of this and lay people from all over the world,” “Then when I come home next year I call,” Deacon Schrader said. “I think he he said. “And the seminary is about a look forward to whatever the bishop has wanted to make sure that I just wasn’t 10-minute walk from St. Peter’s Basil- in mind for me. I know there are many responding to his jokes, that this was a ica. From the rooftop, you can even see places in our diocese where priests are call from God.” the basilica and the window where the being stretched a lot and working hard, Upon graduating from Aviano High pope comes out for his Sunday Angelus.” so I hope I can relieve some of the burSchool, Deacon Schrader would enroll Deacon Schrader said his parents, den that’s been put on our hard-workin the Franciscan University of Steu- siblings, both grandmothers and many ing priests.” benville [Ohio], which is where he first other family members and friends will As eager as he is to begin his priestly met another key figure in his vocation be attending tomorrow’s ordination. ministry, Deacon Schrader is also lookjourney: fellow seminarian Chris Pe“One of the benefits of being or- ing forward to finally having some staschel, who just celebrated his first an- dained alone is that I can pretty much bility in his life. niversary of ordination.

“For most of my life I’ve moved invite everyone,” he said.

“We were only together one year around, and even the last few years I’ve Father David Pignato, a priest of at school, and then again at St. John’s the diocese and a faculty member at been back and forth to Rome, and so I Seminary briefly, but we’ve been good St. John’s Seminary, will be vesting him look forward to being in a place where I friends along the way and he was very during the Mass. can get to know people, grow with peoencouraging to me and introduced me “He has become a mentor to me ple, and grow up with people,” he said. to a lot of priests in Fall River, includ- through the years — supporting me, “I hope to be a more stable presence for ing some of the seminarians, and he encouraging me, teaching me a lot,” he others, and I look forward to being in brought me to my first-ever Portuguese said. “In the summer time we often go a town for a while and getting to know festa at St. Michael’s Parish, which was hiking together. I think I first met him people.” great,” he said.

A Vigil Holy Hour in preparation for at Quo Vadis Days years ago.”

Making that initial connection with The newly-ordained Father Jack the priestly ordination of Deacon Jack Father Peschel would prove to be fortu- Schrader will be celebrating his first Schrader will take place tonight at 7 p.m. itous when Deacon Schrader’s dad, who Mass at his home parish of Corpus at St. Patrick’s Parish in Wareham. All would soon retire from the Air Force, Christi in East Sandwich on the fol- are invited.

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was looking to relocate somewhere for his new job as a pilot with Southwest Airlines.

“That’s why we came here, because he had that job and he had to pick an east coast city to be near and we ended up in Sagamore Beach on Cape Cod, of all places, which I’m very thankful for,” he said. “That’s why I’m in the Fall River Diocese now. His domicile airport is Baltimore, actually, but he can commute from Boston to Baltimore every few days a week.”

In addition to earning his bachelor’s degree from Franciscan University and a brief stint at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Deacon Schrader has completed the bulk of his studies at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

“Studying there has been a great

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Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth recently celebrated its closing Mass along with a reception for the school’s 2015-2016 scholarships winners, along with their donors.

Nurse Anna Manny, right, from St. James-St. John School in New Bedford was recently awarded the Eleanor Donato School and Youth Achievement Award for helping the Pennies for Patients fund-raiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The school ranked third nationwide in the fund-raising event. With Manny is Eleanor Donato, also a nurse at the school.

The two kindergarten classes from St. Mary-Sacred Heart School in North Attleboro are shown adorned with their graduation caps on the church steps, accompanied by their teachers Elizabeth Moura and Maria Stathakis, and principal Denise Peixoto. As is tradition at the school, the two classes gathered in the church and sang songs about moving ahead to first grade. The school music teacher, Andrew Soleberg, accompanied the graduates on guitar.

The Class of 2016 at Holy Name School in Fall River began its fund-raising projects for its class trip to Washington D.C. with a car wash. The proceeds from the car wash were the highest in recent years.

Sister Margretta Sol with pre-kindergarten students from Our Lady of Lourdes School in Taunton recently enjoyed bubble day.

​ t. Michael School in Fall River recently hosted the Mad Science Guy who proS vided an upbeat, fun science presentation.

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Pope to Guides: Educate girls for big responsibilities in Church, world

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Girls must be educated in preparation for great responsibilities in the Church and the world, said Pope Francis.

“Today, it is very important that women are sufficiently valued and can take their rightful place in the Church and in society,” he said during a recent audience with a delegation of the International Catholic Conference of Guiding.

Girl Scouts of the USA leaders Anna Maria Chavez and Kathy Hopinkah Hannan were among the delegation.

While faith has been a part of Girl Guiding, called Girl Scouting in the United States, since its inception more than 100 years ago, the international Catholic conference was only formed in 1965. It marked its 50th anniversary in Rome, with a recent international conference, under the theme “Live as a Guide the joy of the Gospel.”

More than 200 women attended.

In a world where ideologies contrary to God’s design for Marriage and family are spreading, the pope said, “It is not only about educating young girls in the beauty and greatness of their vocation as women” in a right relationship with men and respecting the differences between men and women. But it is also to educate them “to take on important responsibilities in the Church and in society,” he said.

The pope said Guiding has a “notable role” to play in the promotion and education of

women in countries where women “are still in a position of inferiority, even exploited and treated badly.”

He noted the importance the movement places on the environment and on being in contact with nature. He said his recent encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” speaks of how “education is essential in transforming mentalities and habits in order to overcome the worrying challenges facing humanity regarding the environment.”

The Guiding program is “well-armed” to contribute to this goal, he said. He urged Guiding members to continue to be “awakened to the presence and the goodness of the Creator in the beauty of the world.”

“It is a new lifestyle, more in line with the Gospel,” which they can then convey to others, he said.

He also asked the movement “not to forget” to include the possible vocation to consecrated life in its program, noting that many vocations to religious life came through Guiding in the past.

He also urged leaders to consider meetings with the wider international Guiding movement, comprised of women of different faiths and cultures, as valuable opportunities for “sincere and true dialogue, with respect for each other’s convictions” and “in the serene affirmation” of their Catholic faith and identity.

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The Coyle and Cassidy High School Food Pantry recently began its 23rd summer season by welcoming approximately 250 families to its last Saturday distribution in the school’s foyer. The school’s food pantry, a recent recipient of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Community Spirit Award, has been actively engaged in serving the Taunton community since 1992. In its ongoing outreach, the Coyle and Cassidy High School Food Pantry, a school-sponsored and student-led program, simply hopes to help feed families with compassion and respect by living the CC motto “Enter to Learn — Leave to Serve.”

Father Salvatore, the young priest whose life moved the pope Trani, Italy (CNA/ EWTN News) — The life of Father Salvatore Mellone, who died June 29, was moving to thousands of people. He was to have at least two more years of seminary when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, but by special permission and the blessing of Pope Francis, he was ordained nevertheless.

Father Mellone, who died at the age of 38, had been a priest of the Archdiocese of TraniBarletta-Bisceglie for two-anda-half months. With his failing health, he was able to say Mass daily, baptize a child, and console the other sick persons at his hospital.

Two days before his April 16 ordination Father Mellone received a phone call from Pope Francis. “The first blessing that

you’ll give as a priest, you’ll give to me. Salvatore, I’m with you.

You’ll be ordained and you’ll celebrate Mass,” the pope assured him over the phone.

At his ordination, Father Mellone said, “Today I feel myself carried on the shoulders of Christ; and as a priest I’ll wear the stole with Christ, for the Salvation of the world.

Moreover, to celebrate just one Eucharist, for me will be a real participation in the priesthood of Christ.”

Father Mellone’s funeral Mass was celebrated by Archbishop Giovanni Battista Pichierri of Trani at Most Holy Cross Parish, where the priest was ordained.

A statement from the Trani Archdiocese shortly after the priest’s death noted that he had

a recurrent expression for “the many people who came to visit him over the last few months: ‘to be a priest is beautiful.’”

“Despite his illness, he always warmly embraced everyone who came to see him. He listened to what everyone had to say. He consoled everyone.”

According to the archdiocese’s statement, Father Mellone was born in Barletta, fewer than nine miles from Trani, on March 9, 1977. Both are located in Italy’s Apulia province, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. He came from an observant family, and was deeply involved in the life of the Church as a youth, entering seminary in 2011.

“Within the community he became a man of prayer, of deep Spirituality, and of great cultural openness,” the archdiocese recounted. “During the last year Father Salvatore spent a lot of time in hospitals and despite his heartbreaking pain, he always found the time and the right words to encourage and inspire hope.”

“During the last days of his life, when his sight was going bad, he said that he had learned to pray with nature. With his weak voice, he constantly prayed to the rhythm of life that came into his room from the balcony,” the statement concluded.

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States,” due to the Sisters sending girls on foreign visits, said Sister Cardenas.

When she was chosen, Sister Cardenas was excited but humbled: “For so many nice people, I was chosen to come. Being in Colombia, everyone dreams of coming to the United States, and I never dreamed I would come.”

She landed in Washington, D.C. in September of 1965 and then headed to Dighton, the convent of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation.

“I like new things and when I came here in Dighton, there were different nationalities,” of Sisters at the convent, including from

Lebanon and France, she said.

“For me, I had never been with others of different nationalities, so that was my first experience.”

During her formation, she studied English and did her first profession in 1968. After profession, she was in temporary vows and “my English wasn’t that good but Madonna Manor in North Attleboro had just started. The Sisters were the ones who started there,” she said.

She recalled while growing up in Colombia, the Order of the Presentation was very big and the Sisters helped run the schools, hospitals, “even Sisters working with the policeman to

Around the Diocese St. Anthony of the Desert Parish will hold its first Annual Clamboil at Lepage’s Seafood Restaurant on Martine Street in Fall River on July 19.

Serving will start at 4 p.m. and continue until 8 p.m. You can eat in or take it out. Tickets are $25 per person and can be purchased by emailing terrygalib@comcast.net. While you are enjoying your meal you can also purchase a raffle ticket for a money tree and lottery ticket basket as well as a 50/50 raffle. All proceeds will benefit St. Anthony of the Desert Parish.

A summer twilight concert on the patio featuring Gregory Norbet will be held on July 19 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at St. John Neumann Church in East Freetown. Attendees are asked to bring their own picnic lunch, lawn chairs and/or blankets. Gregory Norbet is a respected Spiritual leader, composer, singer and retreat director. He has published 12 music collections and has also released several prayer books. He is director of the Hosea Foundation, a non-profit ministry dedicated to the renewal of the Church and Spiritual development in individuals. All are welcome and a freewill offering will be accepted.

St. Pius X Parish in South Yarmouth will be hosting a Summer Parish Mission. In anticipation of Pope Francis’ declared Year of Mercy starting in the fall, the theme of the mission will be “The Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy.” The mission preacher will be Bishop Herbert A. Bevard of the Diocese of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Mission talks will be given at the 9 a.m. Mass and 7 p.m. Mission Presentation on July 23 and July 24. All are most welcome to attend.

The newly-installed pipe organ in the loft of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River is to be celebrated with a Dedication Recital on July 26 at 4 p.m., with David Carrier as guest organist. All are welcome to attend. Pipes from the instruments at the former Sacred Heart and St. Louis churches form the core of the new instrument. Fund raising continues and donations in any amount will be recognized in the recital program and on the parish website. Donations may be sent to: St. Mary’s Cathedral Pipe Organ Fund, 327 Second Street, Fall River, Mass. 02721. For more information about the organ, visit the parish website at www.cathedralfallriver.com.

The Diocesan Health Facilities will be hosting its Eighth Annual Golf Classic to benefit the more than 900 adults serviced in its skilled nursing and rehab care facilities and community programs on August 24 at the LeBaron Hills Country Club in Lakeville.

Participation opportunities include corporate sponsorships, golf foursomes, prize donations for raffles and advertising on tee signs and in the event program book. For additional information on the various levels of participation, a member of the golf committee will be happy to assist when you call the Diocesan Health Facilities Office at 508-679-8154. Printable registration forms are also available at www.dhfo.org.

A Healing Mass and Blessing with St. André’s Relic and Anointing with St. Joseph Oil will be held at St. Joseph Chapel, 500 Washington Street, at Holy Cross Family Ministries in North Easton on September 13 with Rosary at 1:30 p.m. and Mass at 2 p.m.

All are welcome to join either or both. St. André was known as the “Miracle Man of Montrèal” for healing thousands of the faithful at the St. Joseph Oratory in Montreal.

More than two million people visit his shrine each year. St. André’s relic will be available for blessing and veneration. For more information call Holy Cross Family Ministries at 508-238-4095, x. 2027 or visit www.familyrosary.org/events.

help educate the children; we had everything.”

Marian Manor had opened in 1962, and Sister Cardenas helped get Madonna Manor ready to open its doors in 1966.

“Our Sisters were chosen to be the first administrators to open Marian Manor and Madonna Manor by invitation of the bishop,” said Sister Cardenas.

She went to be a nurse’s aid at Madonna Manor “and for me, it was wonderful. At that time, the residents were not too sick. At that time, Madonna Manor had two parts — the residential area and the infirmary. All this experience was new to me, and I was so attached to the residents. It was a good experience to be able to help the people.”

Sister Cardenas increased her education and became a licensed practical nurse, becoming a charge nurse at Madonna Manor, then Marian Manor.

Eleven Sisters worked at Marian Manor while living at Bethany House before it was transformed into an adult daycare facility in 1995.

“We were always here. It was wonderful,” she said of living less than a block away from Marian Manor. “I was a charge nurse, would come at 6:30 a.m., get a report and start working.”

By the early 90s, Sister Cardenas left nursing, became certified through clinical pastoral education at a hospital, and took over the Spiritual and pastoral care at Marian Manor “and that was wonderful. I learned how to do Spiritual visits and Spiritual care.

You learn how listen, to go with your feelings.”

She worked the first two units at Marian Manor, and with the added bonus of her nursing experience, created a holistic approach to her visits. Sister Cardenas began to choke up and become emotional when talking about the residents: “They are holy people. They know to pray, have Mass; we have holy people here. The families are happy with the Spiritual care. It has been wonderful for me.”

But Sister Cardenas has also been wonderful to the staff at Marian Manor.

She had a list of volunteers she has recruited and trained, and has done a fabulous job, said Raymond McAndrews, administrator at Marian Manor: “She’s not just here, but goes across the street and administers to the clients at Bethany House twice a week.”

“She treats them [volunteers and staff ] like they’re her own children,” said McAndrews.

“During pastoral care week in

Sister Paulina Cardenas, O.P., lights a candle in preparation for the weekly Mass held in the chapel at Marian Manor in Taunton. (Photo

by Becky Aubut)

October of every year — we call it ‘Sister’s Big Week’ — she takes care of all kinds of things.

It’s really about staff, and she has events every single day. Like on Fridays, she serves ice cream to all the staff. On Thursdays she has her tea and snacks for the staff. The mayor comes every year; he won’t miss it.”

Sister Cardenas has spent the last three years collecting money at Christmas to help buy gifts for the children of staff members who struggle during the holiday season.

“There are some staff who have difficult lives,” said McAndrews, “and need someone to talk to, and along with encouraging staff to go into the chapel, Sister has a good relationship with them.”

He added, “To me, personally, Sister has been a blessing. When I got here, it was one of my first jobs as an administrator, and she has been a support to me. We pray together. That chapel has been a refuge. We respect the chapel and it’s not used for meetings. She has been a support to the staff and me.”

Sister Cardenas has been assigned to the Rosary House of Studies that is run by the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation in Washington, D.C. Based on the Sisters’ vows that family and community life is very important, the Rosary House of Studies offers 20 single rooms to female students attending area colleges and universities, and mainly caters to international students. Sister Cardenas will live with two other Sisters and help provide a homey environ-

ment for the students, including breakfast and dinner on a weekly basis, and Spiritual care and support to the residents.

McAndrews said they will maintain the traditions that Sister Cardenas started at Marian Manor, like holding Mass oncea-month for the families of residents who have passed away.

“Our goal is we’re going to continue to have Mass six days a week, the chaplain is staying, and that we continue to have the pastoral care presence,” he said.

“When people come into this facility, they expect to see pastoral care addressed. Sister has set a good foundation and we’re going to continue it for a long, long time.”

To celebrate Sister Cardenas’ 26 years at Marian Manor, there will be an Open House for her on July 23 from 2-4 p.m. and everyone is invited to attend.

Sister Cardenas’ replacement is still to be determined, but there is one thing that is abundantly clear — though Sister may have physically left the building, her spirit will always be felt: “Sister has laid a beautiful foundation,” said McAndrews.

“We are absolutely keeping this going, no question about it. We hope to have a religious person here shortly so they can pick up as Sister is going.”

McAndrews acknowledged the silver lining by adding that he was happy that Sister Cardenas wasn’t going back to Colombia and that Washington, D.C. was only a short plane ride away: “We’re going to buy a lot of plane tickets so she can come back,” he said.

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July 10, 2015

Eucharistic Adoration in the Diocese Acushnet — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Francis Xavier Parish on Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Evening prayer and Benediction is held Monday through Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

ATTLEBORO — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the Adoration Chapel at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, 71 Linden Street, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

ATTLEBORO — The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette holds Eucharistic Adoration in the Shrine Church every Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. through November 17.

ATTLEBORO — There is a weekly Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration Thursdays from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at St. John the Evangelist Church on N. Main St. Brewster — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the La Salette Chapel in the lower level of Our Lady of the Cape Church, 468 Stony Brook Road, on First Fridays beginning at noon until 7:45 a.m. First Saturday, concluding with Benediction and concluding with Mass at 8 a.m. buzzards Bay — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Margaret Church, 141 Main Street, Monday through Saturday, from 6:30 to 8 a.m.; and every first Friday from noon to 8 a.m. on Saturday.

East Freetown — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. John Neumann Church every Monday (excluding legal holidays) 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady, Mother of All Nations Chapel. (The base of the bell tower).

EAST TAUNTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the chapel at Holy Family Parish Center, 438 Middleboro Avenue, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. On First Fridays, Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Holy Family Church, 370 Middleboro Avenue, from 8:30 a.m. until 7:45 p.m.

FAIRHAVEN — St. Mary’s Church, Main St., has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Chapel of Reconciliation, with Benediction at 11:30 a.m. Also, there is a First Friday Mass each month at 7 p.m., followed by a Holy Hour with Eucharistic Adoration. Refreshments follow.

Fall River — Espirito Santo Parish, 311 Alden Street, Fall River. Eucharistic Adoration on Mondays following the 8 a.m. Mass until Rosary and Benediction at 6:30 p.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Bernadette’s Church, 529 Eastern Ave., has continuous Eucharistic Adoration from 8 a.m. on Thursday until 8 a.m. on Saturday.

FALL RIVER — St. Anthony of the Desert Church, 300 North Eastern Avenue, has Eucharistic Adoration Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

FALL RIVER — Holy Name Church, 709 Hanover Street, has Eucharistic Adoration Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady of Grace Chapel.

FALL RIVER — Good Shepherd Parish has Eucharistic Adoration every Friday following the 8 a.m. Mass and concluding with 3 p.m. Benediction in the Daily Mass Chapel. A bilingual holy hour takes place from 2 to 3 p.m. Park behind the church and enter the back door of the connector between the church and the rectory.

Falmouth — For July and August St. Patrick’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration on Wednesday and Friday 9 a.m. to noon Benediction at St. Thomas Chapel, Falmouth Heights.

MANSFIELD — St. Mary’s Parish, 330 Pratt Street, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Benediction at 5:45 p.m.

MASHPEE — Christ the King Parish, Route 151 and Job’s Fishing Road has 8:30 a.m. Mass every First Friday with special intentions for Respect Life, followed by 24 hours of Eucharistic Adoration in the Chapel, concluding with Benediction Saturday morning followed immediately by an 8:30 Mass.

NEW BEDFORD — Eucharistic Adoration takes place 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 233 County Street, with night prayer and Benediction at 8:45 p.m., and Confessions offered during the evening. Please use the side entrance.

NEW BEDFORD — There is a daily holy hour from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1359 Acushnet Avenue. It includes Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Liturgy of the Hours, recitation of the Rosary, and the opportunity for Confession.

NEW BEDFORD — St. Lawrence Martyr Parish, 565 County Street, holds Eucharistic Adoration in the side chapel Fridays from 7:30-11:45 a.m. ending with a simple Benediction NORTH DARTMOUTH — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Julie Billiart Church, 494 Slocum Road, every Tuesday from 7 to 8 p.m., ending with Benediction.

The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available at this time.

NORTH DIGHTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Wednesday following 8:00 a.m. Mass and concludes with Benediction at 5 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration also takes place every First Friday at St. Nicholas of Myra Church, 499 Spring Street following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending with Benediction at 6 p.m. The Rosary is recited Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 8 a.m.

NORTH EASTON — A Holy Hour for Families including Eucharistic Adoration is held every Friday from 3-4 p.m. at The Father Peyton Center, 518 Washington Street.

ORLEANS — St. Joan of Arc Parish, 61 Canal Road, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday starting after the 8 a.m. Mass and ending with Benediction at 11:45 a.m. The Sacrament of the Sick is also available immediately after the 8 a.m. Mass.

OSTERVILLE — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Our Lady of the Assumption Church, 76 Wianno Avenue on First Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to noon.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

Taunton — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Tuesday at St. Anthony Church, 126 School Street, following the 8 a.m. Mass with prayers including the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for vocations, concluding at 6 p.m. with Chaplet of St. Anthony and Benediction. Recitation of the Rosary for peace is prayed Monday through Saturday at 7:30 a.m. prior to the 8 a.m. Mass.

Taunton — Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament takes place every First Friday at Annunciation of the Lord, 31 First Street. Exposition begins following the 8 a.m. Mass. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed, and Adoration will continue throughout the day. Confessions are heard from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. Rosary and Benediction begin at 6:30 p.m.

WAREHAM — Eucharistic Adoration at St. Patrick’s Church begins each Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. and ends on Friday night at midnight. Adoration is held in our Adoration Chapel in the lower Parish Hall. ~ PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ~ East Sandwich — The Corpus Christi Parish Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 324 Quaker Meeting House Road, East Sandwich. Use the Chapel entrance on the side of the church.

NEW BEDFORD — Our Lady’s Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street, offers Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day. For information call 508-996-8274.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

WEST HARWICH — Our Lady of Life Perpetual Adoration Chapel at Holy Trinity Parish, 246 Main Street (Rte. 28), holds perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. We are a regional chapel serving all of the surrounding parishes. All are invited to sign up to cover open hours. For open hours, or to sign up call 508-430-4716.

CENTERVILLE — Father Patrick Tarrant died on June 28, at the age of 86.

He was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1929, the first of eight children born to hard-working parents, Nicholas and Hannah Tarrant.

By his own account, Father Tarrant knew he wanted to be a priest when he was five years old.

That vocational dream became a reality when he graduated from and was ordained at St. Patrick’s College, Thurles, County Tipperary in 1953.

To many people on Cape Cod, Father Tarrant was “our priest,” but in reality, he was a priest of the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, Mont. for 40 years. His destination from Ireland to Montana happened shortly after his ordination when a bishop from Montana met with the newlyordained priests and asked for volunteers to serve his diocese in the U.S. Three priests volunteered, one of whom was Father Tarrant (who immediately went to the library to find Montana).

Father Tarrant’s assignments in Montana included parishes in Forsyth, Hysham, Sumatra, Pompey’s Pillar, Custer, Billings, Great Falls, and Plentywood.

Additionally, he was diocesan director of Education in Billings, Mont., and developed an adult education center in Billings with Gonzaga University of Spokane, Wash. During these years Father managed to earn three masters’ degrees from the University of San Francisco: in theology, catechetics, and educational admin-

In Your Prayers Please pray for these priests during the coming weeks July 12 Most Rev. Joseph P. Delaney, 2005 July 13 Rev. Arthur P. Deneault, M.S., La Salette Father, 1979 July 14 Rev. Nicholas Fett, SS.CC., Pastor, St. Boniface, New Bedford, 1938 Rev. Edmund J. Neenan, Assistant, Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs, 1949 Rev. Vincent F. Diaferio, Pastor, Holy Rosary, Fall River, 1998 July 16 Rev. Bernard Percot, O.P., Founder, St. Dominic, Swansea, 1937 Rev. Matthew F. Sullivan, SS.CC., Retired Chaplain Bristol County House of Correction, Former Pastor, St. Mary, Fairhaven, 2002 July 17 Rev. William J. Smith, Pastor, St. Jacques, Taunton, 1960 Rev. Edmond Rego, Assistant, Espirito Santo, Fall River, 1981 Rev. Ernest N. Bessette, Retired Pastor, St. Joseph, Attleboro, 1997

Father Patrick Tarrant istration.

With retirement in mind, Father Tarrant became certified in Clinical Pastoral Education, preparing him for pastoral care to the sick. He completed a program at Interfaith, Providence, R.I. and was hired by the Grey Nuns of Montreal to serve one of their healthcare sites in Cambridge, ( Yo u v i l l e Hospital). He served for five years and retired due to health concerns.

Since Father Tarrant was very familiar with Cape Cod, having used it as a resting point on his way home to Ireland for family visits, he settled here, recuperated and soon made acquaintances with local pastors who were eager for his involvement.

He assisted in a number of churches, including Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster; St. Pius X, South Yarmouth; Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket; Our Lady of Victory, Centerville; Our Lady of Assumption, Osterville; and most notably at Our Lady of Hope, West Barnstable (mission Church of Our Lady of Victory).

In addition, he helped with two programs he respected as examples of wonderful layperson volunteering, namely the Cape Cod prison ministry and St. Clare’s House in Hyannis. He also left

us with a beautiful hymn which he wrote in 1985 while in Montana: “The One Who Owns the Water.” Our Lady of Victory assisted Father Tarrant in preparing it for recording. It is now in the form of a CD, and has been donated to the cancer support program at Our Lady of Victory.

Proceeds from the sale of the CD are used to support this cancer support program.

Father Patrick was predeceased by his parents Nicholas and Hannah, his brothers Nicholas and Billy and brother-inlaw Timothy Daly. He presently leaves behind his sisters: Rita Daly, Ann McAuliffe and her husband Jerry, Betty O’Connor and her husband Thomas; and his brothers John Tarrant and his wife Bernadette, Aiden Tarrant and his wife Sheila, his sister-inlaw Kittie Tarrant (all living in Ireland); and his devout friend and care-taker, June McLaughlin. There are many nieces and nephews in Ireland, other countries and the United States all of whom love their “Uncle Paddy.”

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated July 2 at Our Lady of Victory Church. Internment followed at St. Francis Xavier Cemetery.

Donations in Father Tarrant’s name may be made to Our Lady of Victory Parish, 230 South Main Street, Centerville, Mass.

02632, for its cancer support program and/or to Hope Hospice, 765 Attucks Lane, Hyannis, Mass. 02601.

Augustine F. ‘Augie’ Viveiros, brother of Father Joseph Viveiros

WESTPORT — Augustine F. “Augie” Viveiros, 71, of Westport died June 28 at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford following a long illness. He was the husband of Mary M. (Costa) Viveiros to whom he was married for 48 years.

Born in San Antonio, Azores, he was a son of Mary (Pacheco) Viveiros of Fall River and the late Antonio F. Viveiros. He was employed as a supervisor for Gilbane Building Company of Providence, R.I., for 30 years before retiring in 2007.

He was a Third Degree Knight with the Knights of Columbus Father J. Boehr Council 4753 of Tiverton, R.I., and was a member of the VFW Post 5392 Fishing Club. Fishing and gardening were his favorite past times along with large family gatherings.

Along with his wife and mother, survivors include four sons: Augustine Viveiros Jr. of

Westport, Richard Viveiros of Westport, Daniel J. Viveiros and his wife Shannon of French Lick, Ind., and Steven A. Viveiros and his wife Theresa of Westport; five sisters: Philomena Barboza and her husband Manuel, Marie Silva and her husband Richard, Cecilia Carney, Ann Marie Rider and her husband Donald, and Elaine Durfee; four brothers: John Viveiros and his wife Maria Helena, Father Joseph Viveiros, Antonio Viveiros Jr., and Edward Viveiros and his wife Donna; his two beloved grandchildren: Kane Anthony Viveiros and Ivy Rain Viveiros, three godsons, two goddaughters, and many nieces and nephews.

He was father of the late Cynthia Maria Viveiros and brother of the late Antonio Viveiros.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated July 2 at Our Lady of Grace Church, Westport. Interment was in Notre Dame Cemetery, Fall River.

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Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., top and right photos, recently ventured to Cathedral Camp in East Freetown to meet and greet participants in the 28th annual Christian Leadership Institute, a six-day long leadership training experience for high school-aged youth. CLI seeks to foster the leadership potential of the young Church by heightening each person’s gifts and talents for various ministerial roles and responsibilities in their parishes, schools and greater communities. This year’s CLI consisted of 30 young people from parishes across the Fall River Diocese. This was Bishop da Cunha’s first time attending CLI and he said it was a joy to witness. “I’m so glad to see you all here taking the time to be Spiritually nourished, to be with people your own age sharing your faith,” he told the group. “It gives me great hope for the future of our Church.” (Photos by Kenneth J. Souza)

July 10, 2015

Day of Recollection to take place in Dighton July 25 for area faithful Date correction

DIGHTON — The grounds of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation will be the site of a Day of Recollection on July 25.

Last week’s Anchor reported it as July 22.

Themed “God’s Love and Mercy,” the event begins with registration at 9:30 a.m., with the conference beginning at 10 a.m.

The day is an opportunity to make time for God and one’s self, meeting Him in a new and unexpected way while enjoying the beauty and peace of the grounds located at 3012 Elm Street in

Dighton.

All are invited to share good food, good company and hear the Word of God fresh and ever new as participants find a quiet place to appreciate the love God has for everyone.

Father Edward A. Murphy will celebrate Mass, followed by a healing service and then the Divine Mercy Chaplet will be prayed at 3 p.m.

Lunch will be provided. The day’s events are free. To register call Donna, Lay Associate of the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation, at 774-644-5878.

Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., along with Deacon Alan Thadeu and members of the Knights of Columbus recently visited Provincetown to take part in the annual blessing of the fleet, a centuries-old tradition to ensure a safe and bountiful season for area fishermen.

(Photo courtesy of Steve Haines/Cape Cod Times)